July 31, 2023 - Candace Owens
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| Oh, LeBron James, where do we begin? | |
| All right, well, I'll tell you the headline here. | |
| His I Promise School is failing. | |
| But before we talk about that, let's just talk about my general commentary regarding LeBron James that has earned me the ire of the black community because how dare you insult one of our kings? | |
| King James, oh my God, he can put the basketball in the net and like, oh my gosh, it means he's a king or something like that. | |
| No, that's really stupid. It's really stupid to believe that we should be following the ideas of someone who is, in fact, a remarkable athlete. | |
| And I'm glad that he has this incredible athleticism. | |
| It's wonderful to watch him play basketball. | |
| Why do we listen to LeBron James? | |
| LeBron James, in my view, is all brawn and no brains. | |
| And I have said this repeatedly, and I'm going to just unpack this for you slowly before we get to the obvious failures of his school, which I said years ago, nobody ever gives me any credit for being right, right? | |
| I'm just being a hater. I just hate him because he's a strong black man who knows how to play basketball or something ridiculous like that. | |
| LeBron James obviously does not read books. | |
| He is not clever. He is not smart. | |
| He is not what Kobe Bryant was. | |
| But he wants you to believe he is, which is why he is often seen holding a book and always remarkably reading the very first page when he has Botox catching him reading a book. | |
| Here is a meme generally showing you eight pictures. | |
| What are the odds? Eight pictures of a paparazzi catching him reading the first page of a book. | |
| That's because this is marketing. | |
| LeBron James is trying to sell to you that he's got intellectual prowess. | |
| He has none. If you need further evidence of that, here is when he is caught off guard and a reporter asks him to detail what he's learned in the Malcolm X book that he's holding in this interview. | |
| Take a listen. So you're holding the autobiography of Malcolm X along with Alex Haley. | |
| I don't know how far you are into the boat, but what's your biggest takeaway so far? | |
| I kind of just started a couple days ago. | |
| But I've read a lot of notes over the years. | |
| It's my first time actually reading this from start to finish. | |
| But just a very, very smart man. | |
| Very, very, very smart man. | |
| And basically, His words in the 60s and what was going on was actually what's going on today still. | |
| Him understanding how powerful the Negro can be. | |
| He used that word a lot. | |
| How powerful we are. | |
| But we have to unite. | |
| And we have to be together. | |
| We have to stand strong because there's always going to be obstacles. | |
| There's always going to be You know, things that's going to be thrown at us where they try to weaken us. | |
| Okay, get out of here. It's too painful. | |
| It's too painful. I can't watch it anymore. | |
| You know when you just have to bullshit a whole book report and you didn't read it the night before, you realize it's due, and you're like, oh, crap, what's this book about? | |
| Malcolm X, okay, he is he used the word Negro a lot. He a very very very very | |
| very very very smart man. Gosh I'm gonna do this third paragraph on. | |
| Malcolm, we have to unite. | |
| And that's kind of the point of the book, is that Black America has to unite. | |
| That's probably kind of the point of every book that's been written by a Black person. | |
| And I really hope I get an A on this book report regarding this book that I didn't read. | |
| This is what LeBron James is. | |
| And people are upset with me for calling it out. | |
| You can like him as an athlete. | |
| He's not an intellect. And so when he announced that he was opening the I Promise School, I obviously was critical of this because you cannot give people handouts. | |
| It does not work. The students have to do the work. | |
| You can't say, oh, because you're black, you just need a school. | |
| And he said, I'm going to guarantee every kid a scholarship to college. | |
| As if that's going to work. | |
| That's not how it works in a meritocracy, right? | |
| These children have to actually want to do well in school. | |
| school and it turns out that they don't want to do well in school. | |
| Yes, not a single eighth grade student has passed state math test in three years at the | |
| I Promise School, which is based in Akron, Ohio. | |
| And just to be clear, he is funding the school entirely via his LeBron James Family Foundation. | |
| And you will remember the media campaign. | |
| I think Don Lemon went down with him to the school and talked about his goals, the media campaign behind LeBron James giving back to the community, how they were trying to convince you that this was going to be a remarkable success. | |
| A lot of marketing dollars went into that. | |
| Let me jog your memory. Take a look. | |
| I promise. I promise. | |
| To go to school. | |
| Go to school. To never give up. | |
| To never give up. | |
| No matter what. No matter what. | |
| The I Promise School is more than a school. | |
| It's a place where we are family means everything. | |
| A school where teachers greet you with hugs and high fives. | |
| Where strong STEM academics are infused with love and care. | |
| And where our team mentality shines through IPS athletics. | |
| A place where learning is about more than books. | |
| Well, you heard it there first, guys. | |
| They're going to greet you with hugs and high fives, and learning is about, quote, more than books. | |
| Don't know maybe they should have made the learning about the books because as I said | |
| It turns out but not a sole student in its fall eighth grade | |
| Class passed the state math test since the third grade. | |
| This has just been going on for years According to the Akron Beacon Journal. So this school is in | |
| fact a failure. It's not really a failure actually more than it is | |
| Revealing truth about something that I have been saying forever black America has to want to pick itself up from | |
| the bootstraps Of its own bootstraps. You can't have a community that whines | |
| about racism the entire time Where where's the racism at LeBron James's school? | |
| The entire thing is focused on basically saying you're a winner just because you're black and that's not true | |
| You're a winner when you win a lot of people are losers. | |
| Okay That is so evidentiary. | |
| We have a lot of losers in society that believe that they can become winners if they whine the loudest. | |
| A lot of people that don't want to work, want to be given handouts, because look how cool I am. | |
| I go to LeBron James' school. | |
| LeBron James gave me a high five and a hug. | |
| Who cares about your high five or your hugs? | |
| Teach these kids to learn how to read. | |
| If they don't know how to read, fail them. | |
| Flunk them, okay? | |
| People need failures in life to be able to develop. | |
| That is the truth. Failure is good for people, not pats on the backs and high fives. | |
| But what do I know? I don't know. | |
| I guess I'm the only person who actually wants black America to get better, and it's only going to get better via tough love and understanding that we should not be having idols like LeBron James, because even though his heart was in the right place with this school, he He is not an intellect. | |
| This is obviously why this is going to fail. | |
| It's also the reason why affirmative action was a remarkable failure and why I didn't support it. | |
| And I'm glad that the Supreme Court has finally sided against it. | |
| All right, if you like this video, you're going to like the full episode even better. |
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