0:05 when we talk about equality immediately
0:08 race pops into mind
0:11 uh it's always about race racial
0:13 discrimination about the founding of the
0:16 nation white dominant Society so forth
0:19 and so on and you make the case and
0:20 you've made this case throughout your
0:22 life but it's very poignant in your book
0:24 which is wait a minute
0:26 of course this has some impact
0:29 but it's not the only thing that has an
0:31 impact but why what first of all what
0:34 other things have an impact
0:36 probably an infinite list of things and
0:38 secondly why do they only focus on Race
0:41 on the left
0:46 so racism I would Define it as a
0:49 collection of racist policies that lead
0:54 to racial inequity that are
0:56 substantiated by racist ideas
1:02 anti-racism
1:03 [Laughter]
1:08 is pretty simple using the same terms
1:11 anti-racism is a collection of
1:12 anti-racist policies leading to racial
1:15 anybody want to take guests Equity that
1:18 are substantiated by anti-racist ideas
1:22 hahaha
1:24 [Laughter]
1:28 come again
1:33 I guess it's because that that's proven
1:37 to be a politically uh popular thing to
1:40 do uh but in point of fact that one of
1:42 one of the things that's mentioned in
1:44 the book is a study that was done by the
1:47 New York Times of all people oh some
1:50 years ago uh where they tried to show
1:55 the 10 poorest counties in the United
1:57 States uh and they mentioned which ones
2:00 they were and so on uh uh and and uh it
2:04 turns out that six of those ten counties
2:07 had a popular population that was from
2:10 90 to 100 percent White
2:12 now in the New York Times They didn't
2:14 mention the race of the people but once
2:16 they told me the counties I looked it up
2:18 and in fact I followed the average
2:20 income in those six counties over a span
2:23 of 50 years and then all those 50 years
2:27 all six of those counties had a median
2:31 income lower than the median income of
2:34 black Americans
2:35 now and so those kind the people in
2:37 those counties uh faced zero racism
2:40 because they were white and
2:42 indistinguishable before from all other
2:44 ways uh they they didn't have a legacy
2:47 of slavery
2:48 and yet there there they were
2:50 uh and and it you you have to ask then
2:54 clearly there must be other things that
2:56 cause poverty we can't just assume that
2:59 the costs people of a given race have uh
3:02 more poverty than some other other
3:04 people that race must be the reason but
3:08 this has become the automatic kind of
3:09 thing and I think most people would be
3:12 quite surprised one of the things that
3:15 that happens is that behavior matters
3:18 and and you see that in so many uh
3:21 different ways
3:23 uh for for example uh I think I think
3:27 most people would be surprised to learn
3:28 that despite the fact that likes as a
3:31 whole have a higher poverty rate than
3:34 whites as a whole Black married couples
3:37 families
3:38 how they have for more than a quarter of
3:41 a century every single year
3:44 had a poverty rate under 10 percent
3:49 uh and in most of those years the
3:51 national poverty rate was not as low as
3:54 10 percent
3:55 so it it's not a quite and you say well
3:58 this is due to institutional racism in
4:01 that case does that mean that the
4:03 racists make an exception for blacks who
4:05 are married I mean do racists either
4:07 Noah care whether blacks are married
4:09 none of these live uh explanations
4:12 stands up to the slightest empirical
4:15 study and let's talk about this when it
4:17 comes to minorities generally
4:20 do an Asian population in this country
4:22 that achieves a lot as a group
4:24 intellectually education wise
4:27 and they are discriminated against by
4:30 these Ivy League colleges by Harvard we
4:33 just had a Supreme Court decision and so
4:34 forth the way Jews were a hundred years
4:36 earlier by Harvard Yale Princeton and so
4:39 forth so the people who push this race
4:42 issue
4:43 is it that they really care about black
4:46 people or Asian people or Jewish people
4:48 or is it that it's just another wedge
4:50 issue to try and destroy this culture
4:53 and Destroy This Society there are some
4:55 people who are who are who are both some
4:58 really believe it and I feel sorry for
5:00 them but there are some some who really
5:02 don't care if it gets them elected
5:05 that's what matters and this is one of
5:08 the tragedies of trying to uh politicize
5:11 race uh
5:14 there are so many fallacies that it's
5:16 hard to even know which which one to to
5:18 take up but uh for example the the great
5:21 narrative is that blacks uh Rose from
5:25 poverty uh got into uh uh professional
5:28 occupations as a result of the 1960s
5:31 social welfare programs uh and then and
5:35 this is a bit big benefit
5:38 uh
5:39 one of the problems with this way of
5:42 looking at things is that everything
5:44 depends on when you pick as the start of
5:46 this trend if you go back to 1940 that
5:50 is 20 years before these wonderful
5:51 things are supposed to have happened in
5:53 the 1960s and you discover that the uh
5:58 degree to which blacks were in poverty
6:01 declined from 87 percent in 1940 to 47
6:05 percent in 1960. so it went by went down
6:08 by 40 points uh in those 20 years now
6:13 you look at the 20 years following 1960s
6:16 they went down 18 points
6:19 and so the the trend did not begin in
6:21 the 1960s the trend was there before
6:23 then and the trend did not even
6:25 accelerate after 1960s many people think
6:28 that it would all began with the Civil
6:30 Rights Act of 1964. well that's that was
6:33 a fine act to to get rid of the
6:36 segregation laws in the South but the
6:39 cold fact is that the percentage of
6:41 blacks who had professional occupations
6:44 doubled from 1954 to 1964. that is in
6:49 the in the decade ending at the time
6:52 that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was
6:54 passed if you look at the things that
6:56 are negative like for example uh black
6:59 children being raised in single-parent
7:01 households in 1940
7:04 just under 17 percent of black kids uh
7:09 were raised in par in one parent
7:11 families but at the after 1960s before
7:15 the end of the century four times that
7:18 many 68 of black kids were being raised
7:21 in one parent families and that does not
7:24 depend on racism or any other things
7:26 they talk about it depends upon things
7:28 that happen do it due to the policies of
7:31 the 1960s which are still going forward
7:33 which encourage the dissolution of the
7:36 family it's just unbelievable
7:41 now they're saying the quiet part out
7:45 loud they would like to ban the entire
7:48 teaching of racism think about how silly
7:51 that is
7:52 if you ban the teaching of racism
7:55 some some of you may say well that may
7:57 be a good idea doc I mean
8:00 we can now focus on things like Unity
8:02 you really think so
8:04 if they ban racism how do you now teach
8:06 Dr King
8:09 that's true
8:11 if you ban racism how do you teach
8:13 Gandhi
8:14 if you ban racism how do you teach
8:17 the civil rights movement in America as
8:20 a matter of fact if you ban the teaching
8:23 of racism
8:25 how can you ever understand the true
8:28 origins of America
8:33 [Laughter]
8:38 come again
8:40 how can you ever understand the true
8:43 origins of America
8:45 another book that is on the uh summer
8:48 reading for third through fifth grade is
8:50 a book called stamp for kids again by
8:52 ibram kindy I read the entirety of the
8:55 book and I will say it is
8:57 an astonishing book on page 33 it asks
9:02 the question
9:03 can we send white people back to Europe
9:07 that's on 33 that's what's being given
9:09 to eight and nine years old
9:11 it also
9:14 on page 115
9:16 says the idea that we should pretend not
9:18 to see racism is connected to the idea
9:20 that we should pretend not to see color
9:22 it's called color blindness
9:25 skipping ahead here's what's wrong with
9:27 this it's ridiculous skin color is
9:29 something we all absolutely see
9:31 skipping ahead so to pretend not to see
9:33 color is pretty convenient
9:35 if you don't actually want to Stamp Out
9:37 racism in the first place now what this
9:40 book argues for is the exact opposite of
9:42 what Dr King
9:44 spoke about on the floor of the Lincoln
9:46 Memorial you talk about critical race
9:48 Theory which is pretty much going to be
9:49 teaching kids how to hate each other
9:51 how to dislike each other
9:55 it's pretty much what is going to all
9:57 come down to you're going to
9:58 deliberately teach kids this white kid
10:00 right here got it better than you
10:02 because he White You're Gonna personally
10:04 tell a white kid oh the black people are
10:05 all down and suppressed how do I have
10:07 two medical degrees if I'm sitting here
10:08 oppressed
10:11 you've only got five minutes now five
10:13 minutes it is sad that we are even
10:15 contemplating something like critical
10:16 race Theory where children will be
10:18 separated by their skin color and deemed
10:21 permanently oppressors or oppressed in
10:23 2021 that is not teaching the truth
10:26 unless you believe that whites are
10:28 better than blacks I have personally
10:30 heard teachers teaching CRT and we have
10:32 had an assembly shut down because Duval
10:35 County public school system consultant
10:37 thought it would be a great idea to
10:38 separate students by race this is
10:40 unacceptable CRT is not an honest
10:43 dialogue is a tactic that was used by
10:44 Hitler in the Ku Klux Klan on slavery's
10:46 very many years ago to dumb down my
10:48 ancestors you cannot tell me what is or
10:50 is not racist look at me
10:53 I had to come down here today to tell
10:55 you to your face that we are coming
10:56 together and we are strong this will not
10:58 be the last greet and meet respectfully
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