The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - May 25, 2026


Instant #1 NYT Bestselling Author Self-Flagellates to Honor George Floyd (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_999)


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4 minutes

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Word count

521

Sentence count

11


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00:00:00.000 Hi everybody, this is Scott Saad. This will be the first time ever that an instant number one New York Times bestseller, both in the nonfiction hardcover and the combined print and ebook categories, number one Globe and Mail, number one Toronto Star, number one Audible, is going to be self-flagellated.
00:00:30.000 get ready this is the book that you should all be getting get out there and get it now
00:00:34.640 but i'm going to self-flagellate look at it look at it you see it the whip of self-disgust now why
00:00:44.520 am i doing that many of you white supremacists have forgotten that today is the day that
00:00:50.600 saint george floyd who was canonized by blm uh died a few years ago and as you know both
00:01:00.840 jacob fry the mayor of minnesota and i both we you know we shed tears non-stop i was
00:01:09.660 inconsolable i just couldn't stop crying for for days on end when the very peaceful
00:01:14.880 blank slate felon George Floyd passed away and today we honor his legacy but before I honor
00:01:24.840 his legacy I mean I will be eventually self-flagellating before I do that but in the spirit
00:01:31.780 of anti-racism I want to read you from page 129 of Suicidal Empathy this is from CanMeds the folks
00:01:41.100 who, you know, help surgeons and physicians in Canada
00:01:48.240 maintain their training codes and so on.
00:01:52.940 So this is from page 129.
00:01:54.980 Anti-racism is an explicit stance, a process and a systematic method of analysis
00:02:01.380 requiring a proactive course of action for individuals, institutions, and societies to undertake.
00:02:09.900 Anti-racism sheds light on the structures of racism rooted in the justification of colonization, slavery, and white supremacy with manifestations at the individual, interpersonal, and systemic levels.
00:02:29.780 Anti-racism actively seeks to identify, remove, prevent and mitigate racially inequitable outcomes
00:02:37.160 and power imbalances and changes the structures that sustain inequities. This is the organization
00:02:43.820 that does the training code for physicians and surgeons in Canada.
00:02:49.480 Anti-racism is deeply rooted in anti-oppression which analyzes the world through the lens of
00:02:55.040 power including the historical and ongoing structures of racism white supremacy settler
00:03:03.260 colonialism heteropatriarchy holy this is starting to hurt capitalism ableism classism sexism
00:03:14.640 homophobia transphobia and more anti-racism and anti-oppression call for action on the
00:03:23.140 manifestations of oppression based on race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity,
00:03:29.180 sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, immigration status, and more. Anti-racism in
00:03:35.320 medicine and healthcare requires us to examine, acknowledge, and work to mitigate and dismantle
00:03:41.060 the deep roots and manifestations of racism and other intersecting oppressive structures in our
00:03:49.200 day-to-day work close quote this is from this book go get it now it's the mind vaccine to save
00:03:56.860 the west and just as you know the sides are moving to the u.s therefore by extension by proxy i've
00:04:07.240 also become part of the white supremacist society of the united states therefore i am personally
00:04:14.680 guilty for the murder of saint george floyd and so just one more to honor saint floyd
00:04:23.860 there you go folks get out there buy the book i just self-flagellated the
00:04:31.200 shi t out of my back for you you're welcome cheers