Ben Shapiro critiques a Man on the Street segment where white respondents attribute Black obesity to institutional racism and stress, arguing these views deny individual agency. He contrasts this with the notion that white obesity stems from poor personal choices, asserting that blaming systemic factors for dietary habits is illogical since healthy food remains affordable. Ultimately, Shapiro concludes that progressive narratives of systemic racism allow individuals to evade accountability, insisting that managing one's own health is the only viable solution. [Automatically generated summary]
Okay, so, you'll notice that all the white people are like, yes, the black people are eating bad food because the black people are experiencing racism in American society.
Now, if you ask them why white people are very fat, because there are a lot of fat white people, they would say it's personal choice, right?
It's all the white people who are eating bad stuff because they're dumb hicks.
These are all upper class white liberals.
So they'd be saying, oh, you know, the only fat people that I know are those hicks from the sticks.
So probably it's because they're stupid making bad food choices because they're white.
But if it's people of color, then it's well, it must be not that they are making personal choices that impact their diet.
It must be because of widespread institutional Racism.
I wonder if black people feel the same way as white people.
I have a feeling the answer is no.
Just as upper-class white liberals think that police are the worst thing for black communities, and black people are like, no, we kind of need the cops, I have a feeling that if Ami asks a bunch of black people the same question, their answers are not going to resemble the answers given by these upper-crust white liberals.
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Education is a factor as well, which also ties into racism.
They're not being educated as to what is good to eat, what is not good to eat.
Trump probably put the McDonald's in the black community.
So here's the problem.
They've tried to put things like Whole Foods in black communities, and it turns out that the market just doesn't exist for it.
A lot of people just don't want to buy stuff from there.
It is true that healthy food is sometimes more expensive than unhealthy food, but it depends on the kind of healthy food that you're talking about.
Manufactured garbage, stuff that is just like heavily greased up french fries in a burger, That could be pretty cheap.
But the truth is that a can of peas is also pretty cheap.
So you can find healthy food at a low price.
The notion that it is just a price differential that explains all of this is not true.
There's a lot of personal decision-making that is happening right here.
And if you think that Whole Foods would avoid being in a black area if there were a lot of people who wanted to buy organic kale from Whole Foods, corporations are pretty profit-driven.
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Do you think it's a conscious decision by corporate America to destroy the black community by making sure they have all these unhealthy choices?
So, again, you'll notice that for the wokes, they're not solutions oriented.
Nothing they do makes anybody's life better.
Shouting about how Whole Foods is racist and about how corporations, because of Trump, are locating in black areas is helping no one.
You know what helps people?
Telling them that they ought to get control over their own weight.
It is hard to think of anything that is more personal to you than your eating habits.
You literally make that decision multiple times a day.
I make that decision too.
I try to keep myself in good shape.
I work out a lot, but I'm disappointed in myself sometimes because I make bad dietary choices.
I mean, literally yesterday, I started off the day, I had a coffee, I had like one egg, and I was like, oh, I'm doing great.
And then lunch came, I went out to lunch with my wife and just blew it out with the carbs.
That's my fault.
Okay, and that's true for everyone.
There is no more personal decision over which you have more choice in the United States than the kind of food that you eat.
And trying to blame it on systemic racism or systemic poverty is really, really dumb.
You do have to ask the question as to why white woke progressives think that they can speak for black people this way.
And the answer really does go to something that Shelby Steele talked about a long time ago, which is that white progressives want to maintain control of the conversation.
It's really about power for them.
If they get to say that racism, not my racism, systemic racism, everybody else's racism is the problem, and then they can say that black people have no responsibility inside the system, then it is not up to black people to fix their lives, and it's not even up to black people to fix the system.
It's up to white woke liberals to fix the system.
So they get to maintain the power by dissociating from all of these white institutions and then correcting them from the outside.
So all these people are really claiming power.
It's not about them being humble about their own race or about their impact on the world.
It is about them dissociating from all these other bad institutions, demonstrating their own moral Credit and credibility.
And then being able to say, I want to control the system in order to fix it.
That really is what it's about.
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