The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 151 - Keepin’ It Real： The Modern Minstrel Show

00:00:00.000 Emmy, Grammy, and Golden Globe Award-winning millionaire, actor, comedian, writer, director, producer, singer, songwriter, rapper, and DJ Donald Glover, also known as Childish Gambino, has a new song out about how terrible America is.

00:00:13.940 What incredible luck.

00:00:16.420 Ta-Nehisi Coates slams Kanye West for pushing white freedom and allying with slaveholders just a week after TMZ producer Van Lathan slams Kanye for morphing into something that is not real.

00:00:27.900 They must have been lucky, too, to be so successful.

00:00:30.000 But who's really keeping it real in 2018?

00:00:33.020 What is real?

00:00:33.760 What is really, really real?

00:00:35.120 Then there's a lot in the news.

00:00:36.220 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:44.800 What luck those guys have.

00:00:46.180 They've been so successful for such a terrible place that just keeps people who look like them down. 1.00

00:00:51.460 What incredible luck.

00:00:53.120 We will analyze that.

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00:03:05.700 So, Childish Gambino has this new song out.

00:03:08.480 It is being hailed, mostly by white liberals, as a great work of genius.

00:03:13.880 The guy opens up, if you don't know Childish Gambino, that's the alter ego of Donald Glover.

00:03:20.240 He's a TV writer.

00:03:21.200 He's won Emmys.

00:03:21.980 He's a really talented guy.

00:03:23.660 And so, this is the guy who opened up his song, Redbone, with the words,

00:03:27.360 but stay woke, just to give you an idea of his politics.

00:03:30.260 This new song is called This Is America, and Democrats love it because this song,

00:03:35.520 it's supposed to be a searing indictment of the U.S. and the Second Amendment and police brutality

00:03:41.120 and I don't know, whatever other lefty things you want to throw in there.

00:03:43.480 America's the worst place ever.

00:03:46.200 Man, do Democrats love it.

00:03:48.160 And the reason it's interesting culturally, the reason we have to talk about it,

00:03:51.760 and everyone is missing what they should be taking away as the point of this song,

00:03:55.580 is it's supposed to be, in part, a satire of old minstrel shows, 0.60

00:03:59.600 shows of black men, you know, mocking black men and all of this. 0.63

00:04:02.820 In reality, this type of entertainment is the modern-day minstrel show. 0.97

00:04:07.000 We'll get to that later.

00:04:08.100 First, let's take a look at the video.

00:04:37.000 You get the idea.

00:04:47.800 So, for those who couldn't see, for those who were just listening,

00:04:50.820 Donald Glover comes on in, and he's dancing, and it's all fun and happy,

00:04:54.500 and it's a nice little beat, you know, and then he goes up to a hooded guy 0.97

00:04:57.760 and just pulls out a gun and blasts him right in the head. 0.81

00:05:00.380 Then he comes in, there's a nice black choir singing, and they're in sort of regalia, 0.99

00:05:04.780 and it's all nice and happy.

00:05:06.060 Donald Glover comes in dancing and then just mows them all down with an AK-47.

00:05:10.200 And this is America, right? 0.96

00:05:12.180 They're singing all this nice stuff, and then when you start shooting people,

00:05:14.840 this is America, that's what they're saying.

00:05:16.480 It's a searing indictment.

00:05:17.980 Comes in, cars on fire in the background, gang crime,

00:05:22.040 and it just reminds you of Democrat-run cities.

00:05:24.820 That's what it'll look at.

00:05:25.500 This is supposed to be, this is America, this is Democrat-run cities.

00:05:28.080 It's supposed to look like Detroit, all of the cars, you know, on fire being broken down.

00:05:32.000 The last time a Republican ran Detroit, Pericles was running Athens.

00:05:35.280 But listen to the lyrics.

00:05:37.280 So for those who couldn't make out quite what's being said, I think you could,

00:05:40.980 it's just the lyrics are awful.

00:05:42.680 The lyrics begin, this is the first stanza.

00:05:45.700 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away.

00:05:50.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go away.

00:05:55.540 Okay, not exactly Shelley or John Keats or anything, not even Isaiah Berlin.

00:06:04.540 This is the lyrical content, but we'll get to why this is terrible artwork later.

00:06:11.360 First, let's just talk about the politics.

00:06:13.260 So it opens up, we just want a party party just for you.

00:06:17.460 We just want the money, money just for you.

00:06:20.260 I know you want a party party just for me.

00:06:23.860 Yes, this is America.

00:06:25.920 Guns in my area.

00:06:27.380 I got the strap.

00:06:28.820 I got to carry them.

00:06:30.360 And by the way, what he should say is, I get to carry them.

00:06:32.560 Because in all of the other countries in the world, when there are guns and knives in their area,

00:06:36.040 you don't get to carry them and then you get killed.

00:06:37.880 And you don't get to protect yourself.

00:06:39.120 The lyrics goes on, America, I just checked my following list and you go tell somebody,

00:06:46.960 you mother effas owe me. 0.62

00:06:49.560 So before we go on here, that's the crucial part. 0.88

00:06:54.060 You owe me.

00:06:54.840 Things are terrible.

00:06:56.100 People are getting shot.

00:06:57.700 Everything's bad.

00:06:58.760 All of the nice things, all of the nice dancing, that's just a facade.

00:07:01.940 And really, we're just getting gunned down.

00:07:04.420 There is actually one interesting political line he says here, which is,

00:07:08.260 this is a celly, that's a tool.

00:07:10.200 And what he's referring to is this is a cell phone. 0.80

00:07:12.180 And there have been instances of black men being shot dead because they pull out a cell phone

00:07:17.160 and the cops think it's a gun and it's a tense situation.

00:07:19.660 And it's the difference between guns and cell phones, right?

00:07:21.920 Guns are a tool.

00:07:22.560 Cell phones are a tool because they can't actually protect against overreach by the government.

00:07:27.440 The whole song is just terrible political commentary.

00:07:31.340 It is, but it's, importantly, it's just political commentary.

00:07:35.260 Without the political commentary, the phone is, or the, I'm sorry, the phone, the song

00:07:41.360 is dreadful.

00:07:42.420 It's not good art.

00:07:43.440 Even with the political commentary, it's not very good.

00:07:45.660 But this is the evidence of a bad work of art.

00:07:48.060 If the work of art only stands on its politics, it isn't good art.

00:07:51.900 It's why, it's what comedians have to do.

00:07:53.740 It's why Jimmy Kimmel has to just give political monologues and cry is because he's not telling,

00:07:57.900 he can't tell good jokes.

00:07:59.080 So it's a crutch.

00:08:00.200 But why the crazy dance?

00:08:01.800 Why is Donald Glover doing this crazy dance?

00:08:03.380 One of the theories suggested here is he's doing exaggerated poses like in minstrel shows,

00:08:09.040 like in the Jim Crow South. 0.95

00:08:10.900 The lyric he says is, Grandma told me, get your money, black man. 0.99

00:08:15.280 Get your money. 0.99

00:08:15.920 Go out there and get your money.

00:08:17.840 And what critics are suggesting is this is a little bit of a distraction.

00:08:22.780 So you're not seeing all the bad stuff that's going on in the background.

00:08:25.400 He's showing how we get distracted by popular entertainment.

00:08:28.460 We get distracted by modern minstrel shows.

00:08:30.540 This is supposed to be a satire of a minstrel show.

00:08:33.480 All of the big crazy faces, all of the wild dancing and happy-go-lucky singing and jumping around.

00:08:39.280 We'll get back to that because that's the whole key.

00:08:41.880 Race hustlers from Hollywood to New York, from these music videos to the pages of The Atlantic, 0.73

00:08:46.940 they are providing the new minstrel show.

00:08:49.960 It's the same old audience of white Democrats, but it's the new minstrel show. 0.78

00:08:53.140 All of that later.

00:08:54.060 First, keeping it real.

00:08:55.540 Kanye West is extolling the virtues of free thought and speaking his mind.

00:08:59.660 And according to TMZ producer Van Latham, that is most certainly not keeping it real.

00:09:05.620 If you say what you think and you're explaining the world as you see it, that is not keeping it real.

00:09:11.380 But then if you just do automatically what other people tell you to do, even if it's not a true narrative,

00:09:16.180 that is keeping it real.

00:09:17.480 I understand why you're confused.

00:09:19.300 Keeping it real is another leftist euphemism.

00:09:21.780 I did this Prager video that's gotten a lot of play from last week,

00:09:26.180 and it's about how the left morphs language, transforms and perverts language to mean the opposite of what it says it means.

00:09:33.460 Keeping it real is a great example of this because keeping it real is the opposite of what it said.

00:09:37.580 Keeping it real is really keeping it unreal.

00:09:40.280 Van Latham said,

00:09:41.380 I'm disappointed, I'm appalled, and brother, I'm unbelievably hurt by the fact that to me,

00:09:47.600 you, Kanye West, have morphed into something that is not real.

00:09:52.420 What is real?

00:09:53.100 Chris Rock, the comedian Chris Rock, gives some guidance on what real is.

00:09:57.660 Nothing make a n*** happier than not knowing the answer to your question. 1.00

00:10:02.540 Just ask a n*** question. 0.99

00:10:04.020 Any n***. 0.86

00:10:04.520 Hey, what's the capital is out here?

00:10:06.760 I don't know that.

00:10:09.000 Keeping it real.

00:10:10.060 I'd love to keep it real. 0.99

00:10:16.960 Real dumb. 1.00

00:10:20.440 Keeping it real, keeping it dumb. 1.00

00:10:22.740 That's what it is. 0.96

00:10:23.580 Chris Rock, this is a good example of, you know, funny because it's true.

00:10:27.280 The people are laughing at this because it is true. 1.00

00:10:29.240 And Chris Rock is really good at this kind of social commentary.

00:10:32.120 He's using this expression, this leftist euphemism,

00:10:34.560 which is primarily a stereotype of a black saying, keeping it real.

00:10:39.140 And he's saying, what keeping it real means is not keeping it real. 0.99

00:10:42.240 It means keeping it dumb. 0.97

00:10:43.680 It means, you know, this being proud to say, no, I don't want education. 0.98

00:10:47.460 No, I don't want to better myself.

00:10:48.680 I don't want to better my circumstances in my family life and my personal life.

00:10:53.340 I want to keep it real.

00:10:54.860 As if to say reality is the opposite of improvement.

00:10:57.680 And keeping it real, keeping it dumb brings us to Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is trending on Twitter. 0.65

00:11:02.860 Last time I checked, Ta-Nehisi Coates is every white liberal's favorite magazine writer. 0.94

00:11:07.640 All of your pseudo-sophisticate white liberal friends will love Ta-Nehisi Coates.

00:11:12.280 And I'll explain why in a minute.

00:11:13.700 Ta-Nehisi Coates is the MacArthur Genius Grant winner, National Book Award winner.

00:11:18.220 He's won a ton of awards.

00:11:19.500 He just wrote a piece attacking Kanye West for speaking his mind and embracing Donald Trump.

00:11:23.620 The title of that piece is, I'm not black, I'm Kanye.

00:11:29.020 I'm not black, I'm Kanye.

00:11:30.200 What he's referring to is the old expression from O.J. Simpson, I'm not black, I'm O.J.

00:11:35.120 O.J. saying, I transcend my race.

00:11:37.080 I'm not just going to be ghettoized into this one particular characteristic and demographic.

00:11:41.820 You want to put me in, I'm bigger than that.

00:11:44.220 So just from the title, now we know Ta-Nehisi Coates is comparing Kanye to a wife-beating double murderer.

00:11:49.920 The piece only gets worse from here.

00:11:51.940 Ta-Nehisi Coates opens up using these phrases like the yawning whiteness.

00:11:56.900 This is why white liberals love it so much.

00:11:58.380 They say, oh yes, we are boring.

00:12:00.080 Yes, we do.

00:12:00.680 Oh, we're yawning.

00:12:01.820 Yes.

00:12:02.420 Keep talking.

00:12:03.340 Yeah, that's right.

00:12:04.000 Of course, you couldn't use that phrase about any other racial group or ethnic group.

00:12:08.100 You couldn't talk about the bellowing Italian-ness or something. 0.95

00:12:12.440 You know, you couldn't.

00:12:13.520 But you can use it when Ta-Nehisi Coates uses it in the Atlantic.

00:12:16.920 They say, oh yes, wow, how brave, how strong.

00:12:18.900 So then Ta-Nehisi Coates compares Kanye West to Michael Jackson, the black god dying to be white, you know, because Michael Jackson bleached his skin. 0.97

00:12:27.540 So first, this is within a few paragraphs, Ta-Nehisi Coates compares Kanye West to a double murderer wife-beater. 0.98

00:12:35.180 And then he compares him to a child-molesting drug addict.

00:12:37.460 But this is the great, erudite, serious thinker.

00:12:41.320 He opens up with these two outrageous comparisons. 1.00

00:12:43.780 Coates then makes a series of stupid points. 1.00

00:12:45.580 And I think he's being obtuse here. 1.00

00:12:47.640 Because he's either being obtuse or he is genuinely dumb. 0.99

00:12:50.840 And I don't think he's genuinely dumb. 0.99

00:12:52.360 I tend to think it's the former.

00:12:53.960 So Coates takes issue that Kanye said that Donald Trump, not Barack Obama, proved that Kanye could be president.

00:13:01.180 Kanye said this.

00:13:01.780 He said, yeah, when Donald Trump became president, I realized I could become president.

00:13:05.840 This is obviously true.

00:13:08.220 But all Ta-Nehisi Coates sees is color.

00:13:10.880 All Ta-Nehisi Coates sees is, oh, Barack Obama's black and Kanye's black.

00:13:14.180 That should be the inspiration.

00:13:15.820 But what Kanye West is seeing is Barack Obama is this Harvard-educated lawyer, political activist guy.

00:13:22.660 And Donald Trump is a pop culture figure.

00:13:25.780 I'm a pop culture figure.

00:13:27.040 I'm not a lawyer.

00:13:27.820 I'm not a political activist.

00:13:29.200 I'm just a pop culture guy.

00:13:30.420 If the big, outrageous pop culture guy can become president, so can I.

00:13:34.280 That is the much truer comparison.

00:13:37.100 But all Coates sees is color and all he writes about is color.

00:13:39.820 So Coates then takes issue with Kanye West calling Chicago the murder capital of the world.

00:13:45.860 So last year, Chicago had a 59.4% increase in murders over 2015.

00:13:52.140 This is the highest level of murders since the mid-1990s, which was a huge high in gun murders.

00:13:58.020 Chicago has this shocking number of murders.

00:14:02.120 But Ta-Nehisi Coates wants to point out the rate, the per capita murder rate, is lower than St. Louis and Detroit and a few other terrible cities.

00:14:10.820 So, you know, Kanye lied.

00:14:12.860 So what Kanye said is not true.

00:14:14.360 Because, you know, Chicago has some really nice neighborhoods, so that brings down the per capita murder rate.

00:14:19.720 You know, there's a lot of business that happens there.

00:14:21.260 So what Kanye West said is not true.

00:14:23.660 This is totally dishonest criticism.

00:14:25.580 Is that really what you're saying?

00:14:28.020 You're saying Chicago had a 59% increase in the murder rate.

00:14:31.740 More than one person on average can die every day and be murdered every day in Chicago.

00:14:37.820 But to call it the murder capital of the world, it's really only the third murder capital.

00:14:42.540 Obviously, by the way, when you call something the murder capital of the world in America, you're obviously speaking hyperbolically.

00:14:47.780 It's not like people don't know that Fallujah exists, that these awful war-torn cities, Raqqa exists, cities that are at war in the Middle East.

00:14:57.400 No one's suggesting that those places aren't awful and don't have higher murder rates.

00:15:01.240 You're speaking hyperbolically.

00:15:02.720 Obviously, Chicago has a very high murder rate.

00:15:05.160 And Kanye West made the right criticism.

00:15:06.680 He said Barack Obama came up on race hustling.

00:15:09.700 He's from Chicago.

00:15:11.040 And Chicago didn't improve.

00:15:12.220 It got worse during his tenure.

00:15:13.640 Maybe that says something about his policies.

00:15:15.660 So, totally dishonest from Coates.

00:15:18.160 Coates then criticizes West, very tellingly, because West never fell into the bitterness of his peers.

00:15:25.200 That's a quote.

00:15:26.560 He never grew up and became bitter.

00:15:29.380 The criticism is that he never got bitter, that he didn't.

00:15:33.220 Kanye, you never decided to start dividing and falling into a victimhood and aggrievement culture.

00:15:39.720 Even though, Kanye, by the way, because you haven't done that, you've succeeded beyond your wildest dreams.

00:15:43.580 Coates becomes hysterical at this point. 0.99

00:15:45.980 He then says, Michael Jackson endorsed the destruction of all black people. 0.98

00:15:49.480 That's actually a claim in this absurd Atlantic article. 0.98

00:15:53.280 And then Coates concludes, quote,

00:15:54.740 And so, for Kanye West, I wonder what he might be if he could find himself back into connection, back to that place where he sought not a disconnected freedom of I, but a black freedom that called him back, back to the bone and drum, back to Chicago, back to home.

00:16:13.980 If a white writer had written this article, he would be run out of town on a rail for its absurd, blatant racism.

00:16:22.160 Because what Coates is saying to West is, come back.

00:16:25.320 He literally says, come back to the bone and drum.

00:16:28.280 Come back to your inescapable, immutable, irrational racial roots. 1.00

00:16:33.420 Come back. 0.98

00:16:34.260 Keep it parochial.

00:16:35.340 Keep it divided.

00:16:36.220 Keep it tribal.

00:16:37.240 Keep it bitter.

00:16:38.200 Keep it real.

00:16:39.160 That's what he's saying.

00:16:40.080 What is real?

00:16:41.480 What is real?

00:16:42.140 What would it mean to really keep it real, to keep it really, really real?

00:16:46.320 Ta-Nehisi Coates has won the Hillman Prize, the National Magazine Award, the George Polk Award, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Award, the American Library Fellowship, American Library in Paris Fellowship, the National Book Award, and the MacArthur Genius Grant, probably the most sought after award in the world.

00:17:03.140 What about Donald Glover, Childish Gambino?

00:17:05.120 Donald Glover has won multiple Emmy Awards, a Grammy, Critics' Choice Award, multiple Writers Guild Awards, and the NAACP Award.

00:17:13.840 The list goes on and on.

00:17:15.020 Multi-millionaire.

00:17:16.080 I think at last check he's got well over $12 million.

00:17:20.300 What do they have in common?

00:17:21.900 What do these two guys have in common?

00:17:23.120 They push a grievance narrative to a largely white audience.

00:17:27.620 They push this narrative that blacks are necessarily kept down. 0.97

00:17:31.820 They can't succeed. 0.98

00:17:32.960 Hard work won't cut it.

00:17:34.260 Got to keep it divided.

00:17:35.240 Got to keep it real.

00:17:36.060 Stop pretending that you can make it in America. 1.00

00:17:38.220 Kanye, shut up. 0.96

00:17:39.080 Stop saying that people can make it in America if they just better themselves and educate themselves and follow certain social mores that will ensure success for their children or make it far more likely that their children will succeed and that they will succeed. 0.97

00:17:54.180 Simple social mores that are open to everybody.

00:17:56.600 Stop telling them that.

00:17:57.720 Tell them that they can't succeed, that they've got to stay down.

00:18:00.620 And yet, ironically, Donald Glover and Ta-Nehisi Coates are proof in themselves that this narrative isn't true.

00:18:07.180 How many awards have they won?

00:18:08.260 How many millions of dollars have they made combined?

00:18:10.860 What social and cultural influence do they have combined?

00:18:14.540 But then they don't preach what they practice because the narrative sells.

00:18:18.900 Their own lives, their testament, that doesn't sell.

00:18:21.660 The Kanye true narrative doesn't sell.

00:18:23.860 But this narrative sells.

00:18:25.280 This is the modern minstrel show.

00:18:27.100 That's what it is.

00:18:28.040 The critics are calling this Donald Glover video an assault on minstrel shows.

00:18:32.280 It is in reality, it is the complete opposite.

00:18:34.700 It is the modern minstrel show.

00:18:36.200 For those who don't know what a minstrel show is, for the 16-year-olds in the audience who haven't studied this or seen this, 0.93

00:18:43.640 in the old days, minstrel shows portrayed black people as inept and frivolous and unable to better themselves. 0.94

00:18:50.200 Here's an example of one. 0.92

00:18:51.300 My friends, it is indeed a financial pleasure to have so many of you resemble here today on this suspicious occasion.

00:19:10.240 See, so it's the white person puts on the black face and the big white lips and then mispronounces words.

00:19:18.340 So it says resemble instead of assemble and suspicious instead of auspicious. 0.99

00:19:22.660 Ha ha, he's a dimwit who can't really better himself and ha ha ha. 0.99

00:19:26.220 And then the white audience laughs and the white audience applauds. 0.98

00:19:29.500 And this didn't just exist in the 19th century and the early 20th.

00:19:32.400 This happened in the 70s a little bit, too.

00:19:34.760 Television shows like Good Times come to mind.

00:19:37.800 Good Times was created by white lefties. 0.75

00:19:40.180 A show was created by Norman Lear, that kind of thing.

00:19:42.600 And they pretend that they're attacking problems.

00:19:44.520 In some ways, they're offering social commentary.

00:19:46.480 But it's also the same effect. 0.98

00:19:47.980 You know, you have the wild, crazy black character saying the catchphrase. 0.99

00:19:51.820 And then the mostly white liberal audience laughs and applauds. 0.87

00:19:55.040 So what is the minstrel show today?

00:19:56.580 Because at the time, they didn't realize that those were modern-day minstrel shows in the 1970s.

00:20:00.680 What's their minstrel show today?

00:20:02.500 The left is totally delusional.

00:20:04.200 They're looking for another Amos and Andy.

00:20:05.960 They're looking for this with the big black face and the big white lips and everything.

00:20:09.980 The modern-day minstrel show doesn't look like that.

00:20:12.060 The modern-day minstrel show on the pages of The Atlantic in music videos

00:20:16.600 portray precisely the same thing, though, don't they?

00:20:20.440 The old minstrel shows played primarily to white Democrat audience.

00:20:25.020 The new minstrel shows, precisely the same audience.

00:20:28.040 They play to exactly the same group of people.

00:20:30.980 Kanye West is rejecting that ridiculous narrative that he and Glover and Coates

00:20:36.180 prove by their very lives and careers is untrue.

00:20:39.160 So what do the race hustlers do?

00:20:41.160 What do these guys do?

00:20:42.360 They do the same thing that they did to Candace Owens and to Thomas Sowell and to Clarence Thomas,

00:20:48.180 to every other black person who has ever had the temerity, the abject audacity, 1.00

00:20:53.520 to question the enfeebling Democrat narrative of grievance.

00:20:57.420 They pilloried them as Uncle Toms.

00:20:59.060 That's all they ever heard of Uncle Toms. 0.97

00:21:00.860 They're inauthentically black. 1.00

00:21:02.580 They're race traitors. 1.00

00:21:03.900 They're the worst kind of evil. 1.00

00:21:05.620 They say, how dare you?

00:21:07.060 Speak for yourself.

00:21:08.280 How dare you?

00:21:08.820 We have a narrative.

00:21:09.720 Here's the script.

00:21:10.600 Here's the script.

00:21:11.200 You have to...

00:21:11.660 We gave you the script.

00:21:13.380 You have...

00:21:14.000 Listen, I know that I've won the MacArthur Genius Award,

00:21:16.300 and I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams because this is the land of opportunity.

00:21:19.940 And obviously, if you work hard over enough time, you can better yourself.

00:21:23.780 That's not the script.

00:21:24.600 You've got to...

00:21:24.900 Here, take the script and dance.

00:21:26.760 Play your part and dance.

00:21:28.100 That's what they tell them to do.

00:21:29.260 And it's despicable.

00:21:30.820 And by the way, it shows what courage it takes to contradict that entrenched, prevailing interest

00:21:36.840 that's been around for a very long time.

00:21:39.180 What courage it takes for a guy like Kanye West. 0.79

00:21:41.560 We kind of joke about him because Kanye West is an eccentric, crazy character.

00:21:44.900 Takes a lot of guts to do what he did.

00:21:46.640 Takes a lot of guts for that guy to tweet out Thomas Sowell quotes and to say,

00:21:50.600 I like Candace Owens, and to say, I enjoy listening to Jordan Peterson.

00:21:54.380 Takes a lot of guts because then he'll be a cute...

00:21:57.100 Because the minute he describes reality as it really is, as he sees it,

00:22:01.420 they'll say, no, you're not keeping it real.

00:22:03.000 How dare you?

00:22:03.880 We're going to come after you. 0.99

00:22:05.020 We're going to pillory you. 0.98

00:22:06.000 And it isn't just racial issues that you see this on.

00:22:09.700 Because conservatives should be pretty careful here.

00:22:11.920 There are actually racial issues in the country.

00:22:14.360 We like to say there aren't racial issues at all.

00:22:16.420 But then, obviously, we know that there are racial issues in the United States.

00:22:20.060 There are different rates of earning, different rates of marriage, out of wedlock, birth, abortion, crime, education.

00:22:26.940 The majority of black babies in New York City are aborted rather than born.

00:22:31.540 That is a major racial issue. 0.71

00:22:33.340 And you can't blame all of that on the legacy of slavery.

00:22:36.500 That's what the left wants to do.

00:22:37.540 They say, oh, it's all the legacy of slavery.

00:22:39.800 You can't blame it all on that.

00:22:41.560 You can, in part, blame it on the legacy of Democrats and the great society.

00:22:45.840 You can, in part, blame it on the good intentions policies of affirmative action and the good intentions, allegedly, policies of the great society.

00:22:54.960 You can, in part, blame it on exclusion.

00:22:56.880 You can, in part, blame it on a legacy of division.

00:22:58.960 But they're clearly, regardless of if you're going to blame it on historical ills or modern policies or Democrats or mostly just Democrats, I guess you would blame it on.

00:23:09.080 Clearly, there are issues.

00:23:10.700 There's no question about that.

00:23:12.320 And I've never really liked, sometimes on the right, we see this issue so clearly and then we really want to explain it.

00:23:19.640 So we use that, the Democrat plantation language.

00:23:22.860 We say, the Democrats are keeping blacks on the plantation because it's evocative language. 0.87

00:23:27.260 I don't really like that.

00:23:28.300 I find it kind of condescending.

00:23:30.060 I don't, I just, I don't think it achieves anything.

00:23:32.480 I think that people listen to that.

00:23:33.720 They say, are you kidding me?

00:23:34.620 Who are you to tell me?

00:23:36.080 But we shouldn't be reactionary.

00:23:38.220 That plays into the left's hands, too.

00:23:40.980 And speaking of the left's hand, the minstrelsy, the minstrel show of keeping it real extends way beyond a rapper and an essayist.

00:23:49.240 It extends way beyond Donald Glover and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

00:23:52.900 It is all over the place.

00:23:54.640 It is all over the academy, the universities, the mainstream media.

00:23:58.660 It's everywhere.

00:23:59.420 It is beyond racial issues.

00:24:01.680 Forty percent of colleges have no Republican professors.

00:24:05.880 Forty percent have none.

00:24:08.220 It's not to say 60 percent of professors are Democrats.

00:24:11.880 Forty percent of colleges have no Republican professors.

00:24:14.880 That's according to a National Association of Scholars article.

00:24:18.040 They lack even one Republican professor.

00:24:20.480 Mitchell Langbert, who's an associate professor of business at Brooklyn College,

00:24:23.860 shows that 78.2 percent of academic departments sampled had zero Republicans,

00:24:30.200 or so few, quote, as to make no difference.

00:24:34.180 So what happens in that case?

00:24:35.440 What happens when your college has not a single person who contradicts the politically correct perspective?

00:24:44.000 Well, then you don't get any perspective.

00:24:45.600 You don't get any other ideas.

00:24:47.320 It's a ghettoizing experience.

00:24:49.820 This is an example of that euphemism.

00:24:52.160 How keeping it real is the opposite of real.

00:24:54.480 It is the opposite.

00:24:55.420 The university is the opposite of that.

00:24:57.160 The place that is supposed to promote intellectual curiosity and freedom and the relentless pursuit of truth,

00:25:03.840 it does the opposite of that.

00:25:05.180 The same is true of the mainstream media.

00:25:07.080 After the 2016 election, the executive editor of the New York Times, Dean Beckett, said, quote,

00:25:12.180 If I have a mea culpa for journalists and journalism, it's that we've got to do a much better job of being on the road,

00:25:19.720 out in the country, talking to different kinds of people than we talk to,

00:25:24.100 especially if you happen to be a New York-based news organization and remind ourselves that New York is not the real world.

00:25:31.320 That is true.

00:25:32.140 I can promise you that, having spent a lot of time in New York.

00:25:35.580 It's not the real world.

00:25:36.560 There's a new study in the Journal of Expertise.

00:25:40.200 I have to say, how many of these journals are there?

00:25:42.040 They have all of these.

00:25:42.920 I'm going to start at the Journal of Covfefe or something.

00:25:45.360 They have the Journal of this and the Journal of that.

00:25:47.040 I don't know how reliable they are.

00:25:48.700 But the Journal of Expertise shows a majority of staff writers and editors at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal

00:25:54.640 come from elite universities.

00:25:57.300 Harvard, Yale, Princeton, all the universities.

00:25:59.760 They have a measure based on median SAT score or something.

00:26:02.880 52% of Times staff writers and editors, 54% of Wall Street Journal staff writers and editors.

00:26:11.020 Now, you might say, well, those are prestigious places.

00:26:14.020 It's not surprising that they come from prestigious universities.

00:26:17.480 This actually is a fairly new thing that the journalism, that reporting the news is for the elites,

00:26:25.100 the very, very highly educated and specifically educated.

00:26:28.100 In the old days, the elite grads, they wouldn't go to the Wall Street Journal.

00:26:31.300 They would go to Wall Street and make a ton of money or they would go to industry and make a ton of money.

00:26:36.840 They wouldn't go to report the news.

00:26:39.560 Newspaper reporting was more of a trade.

00:26:41.260 It was a specialty.

00:26:42.420 You had to have a relentless, dogged pursuit of a story.

00:26:45.700 There was sort of something wrong with you.

00:26:47.600 Same thing with artists.

00:26:48.760 There had to be something wrong with you to say, well, I don't want to make a lot of money.

00:26:52.320 I want to put myself in a lot of danger.

00:26:53.740 I want to work really, really hard, but I want to pursue the truth.

00:26:56.260 I want to pursue these stories.

00:26:58.880 Reporting wasn't really meant for these big ego elite types because those guys, they want to prescribe or proscribe rather than describe what they're seeing.

00:27:09.680 They want to give their commentary.

00:27:11.180 They want to offer what they think the society should look like or why it's looking this way rather than just reporting the events as they see them.

00:27:18.280 And in part, it's because to actually do good investigative reporting is very hard and very hard work, and you don't get a lot of accolades and glamour for it.

00:27:27.020 So all of the big ego people, they want to prescribe.

00:27:30.100 You know, they've read Thucydides, so they say, oh, I can explain this to you.

00:27:34.040 And by the way, that's what we're seeing now.

00:27:36.000 At all of these places that used to do good investigative work, we're now seeing a proliferation of commentary masquerading as reporting.

00:27:43.180 What is real?

00:27:44.320 What's really real?

00:27:45.100 Well, it's the commentary of these people, but is it the reporting?

00:27:49.140 This is why they get it so, so wrong.

00:27:52.700 Because, look, on this show, at the Daily Wire, on the Ben Shapiro show, the Andrew Klavan show, whatever, Matt Walsh show, we say this is commentary.

00:28:01.800 This is our perspective.

00:28:02.720 This is cultural commentary.

00:28:04.780 The New York Times doesn't do that.

00:28:05.820 The New York Times says this is the news, but they give exactly the same amount of commentary, the exact amount of political opinion as any other commentary network does.

00:28:15.680 They say, but these are the facts.

00:28:17.080 CNN, just the facts.

00:28:18.820 The Washington Post, democracy dies in darkness, just the facts.

00:28:22.080 I'm a banana.

00:28:22.920 But that's nonsense, which is why they're dishonest, which is why they're fake news.

00:28:26.600 And that's why they get it so wrong.

00:28:27.720 It creates a totally parochial point of view that has delusions of cosmopolitanism or universality or any of this.

00:28:34.540 But they're not.

00:28:35.000 They come from the same little schools.

00:28:36.400 They come from the same little cities.

00:28:37.740 They go to the same little dinner clubs.

00:28:39.460 They read the same Ta-Nehisi Coates essay.

00:28:41.760 They give it the same applause.

00:28:43.760 The left is right about one thing.

00:28:46.520 They don't know that they're right, but they're right about one thing.

00:28:48.800 Bigotry is insidious.

00:28:50.860 It's very hard to detect.

00:28:52.640 They're right about that.

00:28:53.460 They're not detecting it.

00:28:54.660 You know, they're certainly not.

00:28:55.820 They talk about the unconscious biases.

00:28:57.880 Yeah, they're not conscious of them because they are demanding.

00:29:01.640 The left demands and pushes a false narrative that blacks specifically, but racial minorities more broadly, cannot succeed.

00:29:11.080 They just can't. 1.00

00:29:11.680 They're just inept. 1.00

00:29:12.920 They're just as inept and helpless as the minstrel shows of the days gone by. 1.00

00:29:18.180 Never mind that this narrative is demonstrably false. 0.99

00:29:21.460 That's what the audience demands.

00:29:23.300 That's what the Atlantic audience demands.

00:29:25.860 And very sadly, performers of this false narrative are going to dance to the same old tune. 0.78

00:29:31.620 They're doing it now, and it's trending on Twitter, and they're going to win more awards for it, and they're going to make even more ridiculous claims.

00:29:39.540 And that same old audience is going to say, oh, that's right. 0.64

00:29:43.420 You can't better yourself.

00:29:45.340 It's really, really sad.

00:29:46.800 And maybe people will someday be able to see through the insidiousness of that bigotry.

00:29:51.880 But probably not anytime soon.

00:29:53.320 Okay, enough about race.

00:29:54.160 Do we have a little bit of time?

00:29:55.340 So I'm glad before we had to cut to break that we were able to get to Kanye Watch for the 17th day in a row, I think.

00:30:02.080 This show is basically going to be renamed the Kanye West program, the Kanye West analysis.

00:30:08.160 We've got to get to the news.

00:30:09.040 Before we get to the news, I'm sorry.

00:30:10.920 I'm sorry.

00:30:11.940 I have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:30:15.160 We've got so much to talk about.

00:30:16.380 I want to talk about Rosie O'Donnell going to the clink, throwing Rosie O'Donnell behind bars, hopefully.

00:30:21.520 I want to talk about John McCain a little bit.

00:30:23.860 And John McCain, it appears that he's in the last days.

00:30:26.800 It looks like he's dying of aggressive brain cancer.

00:30:29.260 But he ain't going out without a fight, and he's hitting a lot of former allies.

00:30:33.000 So we'll talk about that.

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00:31:09.240 Many are called, few are chosen.

00:31:10.840 But that doesn't matter.

00:31:13.520 Hold on.

00:31:14.300 Just got to keep it real a little bit over here. 0.99

00:31:16.920 I'm going to kill. 0.99

00:31:17.600 Oh, those are real. 1.00

00:31:18.620 That is keeping it real.

00:31:19.840 Those are the Kanye West vintage leftist tears.

00:31:22.920 They have been pouring in.

00:31:24.980 As Hawaii spews lava, so too the continental United States

00:31:28.280 has been spewing leftist tears ever since Kanye West said that he liked Donald Trump.

00:31:33.060 And those are real.

00:31:34.820 That is, it's hard to tell.

00:31:35.980 Keeping it real from real these days, that is, oh, wow.

00:31:40.600 Go over, I'm going to take a few gulps myself.

00:31:43.040 Go to dailywire.com.

00:31:44.020 You'll get the leftist tears tumbler.

00:31:45.060 We'll be right back with the news.

00:31:46.000 Delish.

00:31:56.960 So let's get to a really happy news story.

00:31:59.760 Rosie O'Donnell is in trouble with the law. 0.68

00:32:02.980 If justice is blind, Rosie O'Donnell may now be headed to the clink. 1.00

00:32:07.240 We are joined for comment by President Donald Trump.

00:32:09.380 Mr. President, your reaction.

00:32:10.800 I like to see bad people fail.

00:32:12.780 Rosie failed.

00:32:13.780 I'm happy about it. 0.99

00:32:14.760 She's basically a disaster. 1.00

00:32:16.460 Well, she called me a snake oil salesman. 0.91

00:32:18.440 And, you know, coming from Rosie, that's pretty low.

00:32:20.500 Because when you look at her and when you see the mind, the mind is weak.

00:32:24.820 I don't see it.

00:32:25.760 I don't get it.

00:32:26.520 I never understood.

00:32:27.680 How does she even get on television? 1.00

00:32:29.420 I believe Barbara made a terrible mistake putting her on.

00:32:32.020 And I think Barbara's probably paying a big price. 1.00

00:32:34.940 When you see the mind, you know, you're totally right, Mr. President.

00:32:37.620 The mind is weak.

00:32:38.960 The mind is weak.

00:32:39.640 So, Rosie apparently made illegal campaign donations on five separate occasions. 1.00

00:32:48.180 And when you donate to a political candidate, there is a limit for campaign donations.

00:32:52.140 In this case, I believe the limit is $2,700.

00:32:54.780 And Rosie exceeded it.

00:32:56.560 Apparently vastly exceeded it.

00:32:58.220 So, you might recall you're having deja vu all over again.

00:33:01.260 And Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative filmmaker and columnist, he did this too.

00:33:05.800 He did this exact same thing for his friend Wendy Long.

00:33:08.240 And I was working races in New York when Wendy Long was running in this race. 0.70

00:33:13.020 Wendy Long was his old pal from Dartmouth.

00:33:14.980 She was never going to win this Senate seat in New York.

00:33:17.240 And he donated $20,000 to her instead of the legal limit.

00:33:21.200 So, he donated over the limit.

00:33:23.300 One, certainly not enough money to make any difference in politics.

00:33:26.480 And two, a race that was unwinnable.

00:33:30.800 It just wasn't going to happen.

00:33:32.600 For this great crime, Dinesh, for giving a little extra money to his old college pal in a race that was never going to win,

00:33:39.620 he was sentenced to five years probation, eight months in a halfway house, and a $30,000 fine.

00:33:44.860 The reason that Dinesh got this, usually these cases aren't prosecuted.

00:33:48.940 The reason that he was prosecuted and sent to the clink is because he was a major critic of Barack Obama.

00:33:55.980 He made these films against Barack Obama.

00:33:58.360 He was a relentless critic of Obama.

00:34:00.680 So, he was selectively prosecuted and sentenced to absurd time for this minor first-time offense.

00:34:09.160 Rosie O'Donald has donated way more money than that to many more candidates. 0.98

00:34:13.740 Apparently, $90,000 in just this cycle alone.

00:34:16.860 And then, when she was called out on it, she claimed ignorance.

00:34:19.120 She said, well, I didn't know there was a limit.

00:34:21.500 I didn't know what the limit was.

00:34:23.680 The mind.

00:34:24.300 The mind is just not there.

00:34:25.740 As Donald Trump says, the mind is not.

00:34:27.460 So, she said, I didn't know.

00:34:28.920 How was I supposed to know?

00:34:30.180 I mean, I know it's the law, and it's written on every campaign website, and it's actually, by law, clearly spelled out.

00:34:35.400 But, you know, if it was too much, the candidates should have returned the money.

00:34:39.320 But, as you might know, ignorance of the law is no excuse.

00:34:41.860 That's not an excuse not to be prosecuted.

00:34:43.940 So, will she be prosecuted?

00:34:45.460 I don't know.

00:34:46.260 Usually, the first-time offenders don't get prosecuted.

00:34:48.800 Rosie is clearly a multiple-time offender here. 1.00

00:34:51.040 Is justice blind?

00:34:53.480 Are they going to go after Rosie?

00:34:55.020 It's funny, because last time, Obama was in office, and Obama hated Dinesh, and now Trump is in office.

00:35:01.000 And Donald Trump is Rosie O'Donnell's primary antagonist in the entire world.

00:35:07.060 There was that time during the—I will point out, Rosie started the fight. 1.00

00:35:09.700 But during the debate, Megyn Kelly said, Donald Trump, you have called women slobs and pigs and idiots and this and that. 1.00

00:35:18.880 And he interrupted. 1.00

00:35:19.480 He said, only Rosie O'Donnell.

00:35:22.100 So, who knows?

00:35:23.200 Is justice blind?

00:35:24.080 There are two points on this that you should think about.

00:35:26.080 One is justice under the law.

00:35:28.120 If it's good for Dinesh, it's got to be good for Rosie.

00:35:30.260 What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

00:35:32.200 Also, we should think about the justice of the law, these limits on campaign contributions.

00:35:37.300 I think this is a terrible law.

00:35:39.600 I think it's anti-constitutional.

00:35:41.320 I don't think we should have these sort of limits on how much you can give to a political candidate.

00:35:45.700 Because, one, it's anti-constitutional.

00:35:47.620 It suppresses your political speech.

00:35:50.140 We know that money is speech.

00:35:52.700 It costs money to make a big yard sign.

00:35:55.220 It costs money to write an op-ed.

00:35:58.360 It costs money to publish things.

00:36:01.220 Speech can require money, and your speech will reach a certain number of people,

00:36:06.660 depending on how much money you spend.

00:36:08.380 We know that in the Citizens United case, speech was, we know that people don't lose

00:36:13.640 their constitutional rights to free speech just because they organize in groups.

00:36:17.340 So, I find all of these campaign finance laws anti-constitutional.

00:36:21.080 But it also, it doesn't achieve what it wants to achieve.

00:36:23.860 It just creates shady backroom ways for the money to transfer.

00:36:26.920 Big politics is always going to attract big money.

00:36:29.340 This is an argument for small government.

00:36:30.960 If you don't want big money in politics, don't have big politics.

00:36:33.360 But also, the minute you start limiting donating to a campaign or donating to this,

00:36:39.260 then you're going to have more money going to the party structures.

00:36:41.620 That's going to give more corruption for the party bosses to pick winners and losers. 1.00

00:36:46.120 You're going to have super PACs, which are apparently shadier.

00:36:49.420 The Democrats hate super PACs.

00:36:50.920 You're just going to put the money there.

00:36:52.460 And this brings us to John McCain.

00:36:53.780 John McCain is the big proponent of campaign donation limits.

00:36:57.120 John McCain, his major campaign law campaign, McCain-Feingold, was struck down in the Citizens

00:37:04.220 United decision, the famous Citizens United decision that said that people don't give up

00:37:08.560 their rights when they organize in groups.

00:37:10.740 McCain was very angry about that decision.

00:37:12.560 This was one of his landmark pieces of legislation.

00:37:15.860 Now, John McCain is dying.

00:37:17.640 And it looks like he's in his last days.

00:37:20.000 So, people are going to not criticize him.

00:37:22.600 They're not going to attack him because you don't want to attack a dying man, which is

00:37:26.760 perfectly right.

00:37:27.460 It is distasteful to unnecessarily speak ill of the dead and the dying.

00:37:32.400 But in the last few minutes here, I would like to point out John McCain seems to be taking

00:37:36.420 advantage of this, of this social moray, because he is not going peacefully.

00:37:40.840 He is not saying, oh, I just, you know, want to spend my last days just only talking about

00:37:45.960 the nice things and enjoying my impressive life.

00:37:49.400 He's launching a memoir.

00:37:51.700 He just leaked that he doesn't want Donald Trump at his funeral.

00:37:55.460 He's attacking Trump.

00:37:57.260 He's willing to have Barack Obama at his funeral, but not Donald Trump.

00:38:00.960 He's releasing this memoir that's coming out at the end of this month.

00:38:04.880 And in that memoir, he's throwing his former running mate, Sarah Palin, under the bus.

00:38:09.740 This is, I don't want to attack John McCain.

00:38:11.460 I'm not going to spend time attacking John McCain.

00:38:13.400 But I do want this to be a cautionary tale.

00:38:16.780 Because John McCain, this Palin thing, throwing Palin under the bus, it became so fashionable

00:38:21.040 for all of the sophisticated Republicans to attack Sarah Palin. 0.98

00:38:24.540 Oh, she's a hick. 1.00

00:38:25.560 Oh, she has a silly accent. 1.00

00:38:27.220 Oh, she doesn't read enough newspapers. 1.00

00:38:28.800 Oh, blah, blah, blah, right?

00:38:29.960 It became very fashionable, especially when they lost.

00:38:32.620 John McCain picked her.

00:38:34.580 Now he can say, oh, they all wanted me to pick her and I didn't want to pick her. 0.62

00:38:37.680 Well, the buck stops somewhere, pal.

00:38:39.600 And John McCain picked Sarah Palin.

00:38:42.020 She served him very ably on the campaign.

00:38:44.840 She helped his campaign.

00:38:46.460 People, revisionists now say, oh, she dragged it.

00:38:49.160 He might have won if not for her.

00:38:50.560 No way.

00:38:51.060 His polling was in the doldrums.

00:38:52.660 And then she came on and she really helped his polling.

00:38:55.660 Now, John McCain is in his final days and he decides to throw her under the bus.

00:39:01.500 He makes one last jab at the sitting Republican president and he throws his former running mate

00:39:05.760 under the bus.

00:39:06.660 This is all in keeping with a trend among Republicans to really want to win the affection

00:39:12.320 of the New York Times.

00:39:14.180 Republicans should never try to win the affection of the New York Times.

00:39:18.000 Do not do it.

00:39:19.800 This is the swamp mentality.

00:39:22.200 This is what happens when Republicans come to identify more with their pseudo-sophisticate

00:39:27.440 Democrat critics than they do with their own constituents.

00:39:30.160 And they don't dance with the guy who brung them.

00:39:32.640 You know, the Republican candidates get elected because of conservatives, because of their base.

00:39:37.840 And then the minute they get to Washington, they say, oh, I don't want to be with those

00:39:41.680 people. 0.99

00:39:41.820 Those people are dirty. 0.99

00:39:42.800 And then they don't read the Atlantic or whatever. 0.97

00:39:45.680 So, please, New York Times, like me, like me.

00:39:48.400 I'm not like them.

00:39:49.580 This is a particular political disloyalty, by the way, that history does not look fondly

00:39:54.360 upon.

00:39:55.140 Everyone thinks in the moment, they say, oh, I can't.

00:39:56.740 Oh, I don't like the Tea Party because they're too direct and they speak too plainly and they

00:40:00.480 like the Constitution too much.

00:40:01.640 Oh, no, I'm not like them.

00:40:03.100 I go.

00:40:03.460 I drink Manhattans.

00:40:04.860 I drink.

00:40:05.180 No, I read the Atlantic.

00:40:07.160 Who are these?

00:40:07.920 Who are the political disloyal people who don't like their own base?

00:40:11.860 Mayor John Lindsay of New York.

00:40:13.740 Does history remember him?

00:40:14.780 Is he one of the great men?

00:40:15.840 Oh, yes.

00:40:16.640 As John Lindsay said, you see epitaphs everywhere, big statues.

00:40:20.780 Oh, as the great John Lindsay said.

00:40:23.000 How about Nelson Rockefeller?

00:40:24.480 As the wonderful political leader, Nelson Rockefeller?

00:40:26.620 No, you don't.

00:40:27.700 You forget these people.

00:40:28.900 They're not the great leaders of the Republican Party or of any movement.

00:40:32.960 It's weak sauce.

00:40:33.740 It's really weak sauce.

00:40:35.060 You will never, as a conservative or as a Republican, win the affection of the New York

00:40:38.520 Times. 0.97

00:40:39.220 You'll win it for a moment when it's instrumental and it's useful, and then they'll stab you

00:40:43.080 in the back, as they did to John McCain in 2008.

00:40:45.880 They were really, really nice to him during the primary.

00:40:48.100 They were really, really nice to him when he was attacking George Bush in 2000 and when

00:40:51.920 he was attacking other conservatives in 2008.

00:40:54.640 And then he gets the nomination.

00:40:55.780 They go right back to their guy and they attack John McCain.

00:40:57.700 It happens every time.

00:40:59.060 They will not reward you betraying your base or the confidence of your base.

00:41:04.160 It looks desperate.

00:41:05.680 Don't do it.

00:41:06.440 A cautionary tale.

00:41:08.100 Okay.

00:41:08.540 We'll get to more.

00:41:09.020 We're out of time.

00:41:09.580 We'll get to more news tomorrow.

00:41:10.900 In the meantime, I am Michael Knowles.

00:41:12.520 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:41:14.020 I'll see you tomorrow.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 07, 2018

Ep. 151 - Keepin’ It Real： The Modern Minstrel Show

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