Epoch Times - Rich Black Talking Heads Who Say America is Keeping Black People Down | Larry Elder Show
Aired: 2021-01-14
Duration: 13:58


=== Racism and Power Dynamics (12:07) ===

[00:00:00]  Ever notice how cable news is chock full of rich black people who tell non-rich black people how racism is stopping them from becoming rich black people?
[00:00:09]  We start with Don Lemon.
[00:00:13]  This is CNN Tonight.
[00:00:15]  I'm Don Lemon.
[00:00:15]  Thank you so much for joining us everyone.
[00:00:17]  Now for a man who routinely complains about racial oppression, Mr.
[00:00:21]  Lemon is doing pretty well.
[00:00:22]  How well?
[00:00:24]  Show me the money.
[00:00:25]  Celebrity net worth estimates that Don Lemon has a net worth of 10 million dollars.
[00:00:31]  Much of that wealth likely comes from his CNN salary, which is estimated to be in the millions of dollars.
[00:00:38]  He also owns a home in Sag Harbor, New York, which he purchased in 2016 for 3.1 million, as well as a condo in New York's Harlem neighborhood.
[00:00:48]  End of But although he's a public figure, apparently not everybody knows who Mr.
[00:00:54]  Lemon is.
[00:00:56]  Now, God forbid you should run into him and not show him the appropriate amount of respect as actor Jonah Hill found out.
[00:01:02]  He was at a hotel and he ran into Jonah Hill and apparently wasn't a good meeting between the two.
[00:01:10]  Supposedly, Dunn said hi, Jonah shook his hand and moved on.
[00:01:14]  But Dunn felt disrespected and ignited a...
[00:01:17]  Twitter war.
[00:01:19]  Quote!
[00:01:21]  It sounds like he's assuming that Jonah Hill should have known who he is.
[00:01:29]  What did he really want him to do?
[00:01:30]  I don't get it.
[00:01:31]  Probably something along the lines of...
[00:01:33]  Oh, Don Lemon, the famous reporter.
[00:01:37]  Oh, CNN, I love you.
[00:01:40]  Aww.
[00:01:42]  Waaaaah!
[00:01:45]  Waaaaah!
[00:01:49]  Now what did Jonah Hill say about all of this?
[00:01:52]  Jonah wasn't having any of it.
[00:01:53]  He tweeted, I said hi.
[00:01:55]  What are you going to do?
[00:01:55]  Move in with you?
[00:01:56]  I was in a hurry.
[00:01:57]  I didn't realize you were a 12-year-old girl.
[00:01:59]  Peace.
[00:01:59]  Notice what Lemon did here.
[00:02:01]  He whipped out the race card.
[00:02:03]  Jonah Hill must have thought I was a bellman.
[00:02:05]  But no, Mr.
[00:02:07]  Hill.
[00:02:08]  Mr.
[00:02:08]  Lemon is decidedly not a bellman.
[00:02:11]  I'm a human being.
[00:02:12]  Damn it!
[00:02:13]  My life has value!
[00:02:14]  Now, the next rich black host telling non-rich black people that racism is stopping them from becoming rich and black, Van Jones.
[00:02:22]  Greetings, I'm Van Jones.
[00:02:35]  This is the Dan Jones Show.
[00:02:37]  And Mr.
[00:02:38]  Jones, of course, is a foot soldier in the battle against institutional, systemic, and structural racism.
[00:02:43]  Remember election night, 2016?
[00:02:46]  We've talked about race.
[00:02:47]  I mean, we've talked about everything but race tonight.
[00:02:49]  We've talked about income.
[00:02:50]  We've talked about class.
[00:02:51]  We've talked about region.
[00:02:51]  We haven't talked about race.
[00:02:53]  This was a white lash.
[00:02:55]  This was a white lash against a changing country.
[00:02:58]  It was a white lash against a black president in part.
[00:03:02]  And that's the part where the pain comes.
[00:03:05]  Just how bad is it out there?
[00:03:07]  Real bad.
[00:03:09]  People have talked about a miracle.
[00:03:12]  I'm hearing about a nightmare.
[00:03:15]  It's hard to be a parent tonight for a lot of us.
[00:03:18]  You tell your kids, don't be a bully.
[00:03:21]  You tell your kids, don't be a bigot.
[00:03:25]  You tell your kids, do your homework and be prepared.
[00:03:28]  And then you have this outcome, and you have people putting children to bed tonight, and they're afraid of breakfast.
[00:03:36]  They're afraid of, how do I explain this to my children?
[00:03:39]  I have Muslim friends who are texting me tonight saying, should I leave the country?
[00:03:44]  Goodness gracious sakes alive, every man for himself.
[00:03:47]  But, but, White Lash has not stopped Mr. Jones.
[00:03:57]  Jones.
[00:03:58]  Now, we don't know his salary or his net worth, but check out this little nugget from a celebrity gossip magazine.
[00:04:04]  Van Jones has quite a great earning through his professional career as a news commentator, author, and attorney.
[00:04:11]  Jones has managed to amass a great fortune in millions of dollars through his several attorney projects, shows, and his books.
[00:04:20]  End of quote.
[00:04:22]  Next we have CNN contributor and Democratic strategist Bakari Sellers.
[00:04:26]  I think that the comparison that Jeffrey made is intellectually disingenuous at best.
[00:04:33]  And what we saw him do was pervert one of the greatest pieces of literature that we've seen in a very long period of time and over a hundred years, the letter from the Birmingham jail.
[00:04:41]  Do you understand that some people look at me as being inherently dangerous because I'm a black male?
[00:04:46]  Do you get that?
[00:04:48]  Do you understand?
[00:04:49]  As Stokely Carmichael once said, a white man who wants to lynch me, that is his problem.
[00:04:54]  A white man who has the power to lynch me, that is my problem.
[00:04:58]  Racism is a question of power, not a question of attitude.
[00:05:02]  Oh my goodness, everybody down to the bomb shelter.
[00:05:06]  May I point out that when you're talking about black, white, violent interracial crimes, excluding homicide, there are roughly 500,000.
[00:05:14]  Roughly 90% of them are black perpetrator, white victim, only 10% the other way around.
[00:05:20]  So who exactly should be afraid of whom, Mr.
[00:05:23]  Sellers?
[00:05:23]  Speaking of Mr.
[00:05:24]  Sellers, apparently this fear has not stopped him from becoming really, really rich.
[00:05:30]  The Bakari seller net worth is estimated around five million.
[00:05:34]  He earned a good income from his political career.
[00:05:37]  Now his contribution to the show CNN is quite popular these days.
[00:05:42]  Bakari is indulged in various jobs which help him to generate good revenue.
[00:05:46]  End of quote.
[00:05:48]  Next up, Mark Lamont Hill, no relation to Jonah, whose motto ought to be, ah, the race card.
[00:05:55]  Do not leave home without it.
[00:05:57]  In 2012, you created a list of overrated white people.
[00:06:01]  Yes.
[00:06:03]  And Donald Trump was on that list.
[00:06:05]  He was.
[00:06:06]  I'm a visionary.
[00:06:07]  So now here in America, we say there's a moral failure of police violence.
[00:06:10]  There's a moral failure of police terrorism at times.
[00:06:13]  And there's a moral failure of gun culture for all people.
[00:06:16]  We need to change that.
[00:06:17]  When the Charlottesville events first happened, the president didn't denounce anything.
[00:06:21]  His statements that there are good people on both sides raises moral, ethical, and just very practical question marks.
[00:06:28]  Actually, Mr.
[00:06:29]  Hill, Trump did denounce neo-Nazis and white supremacists, as ultimately acknowledged by even two of your colleagues on CNN. So you know what?
[00:06:39]  It's fine.
[00:06:39]  You're changing history, you're changing culture, and you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.
[00:06:49]  Now, elsewhere in those remarks, the president did condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
[00:06:54]  So he's not saying that the neo-Nazis and white supremacists are very fine people, but he is saying people protesting alongside those neo-Nazis and white supremacists are very fine people.
[00:07:02]  Within the last 10 days, I know that I made reference to those words from the president, and I had a phone caller who called and said, that is not what the president said.
[00:07:13]  Now, having invested the time to go back and subruder the tape, I think the caller's right, and I think you're right.
[00:07:20]  I think it's true.
[00:07:21]  He'd have done himself a favor if he had verbalized it the way you have with the words, monument debate.
[00:07:29]  Apart from that, Mr.
[00:07:30]  Hill nailed it.
[00:07:32]  Now, he and I had an exchange about Ferguson and about Michael Brown.
[00:07:36]  Bakari Sellers insisted that the police were routinely mowing down unarmed black men.
[00:07:40]  And I told him, of all the people killed by black people every single year, the police kill but a tiny, tiny fraction.
[00:07:49]  Two things.
[00:07:50]  One, I think your earpiece could be broken because the question was on mental health, and you once again go back to the pathologies of the black community.
[00:07:55]  That's stunning to me.
[00:07:56]  Why do you have to insult me all the time?
[00:07:58]  Why can't you address what I said rather than insulting me?
[00:08:00]  Why is that necessary?
[00:08:01]  Can't we have a discussion as two black men without insulting each other?
[00:08:04]  Is that possible?
[00:08:05]  Can we try and do that, please?
[00:08:07]  Larry, I haven't insulted you.
[00:08:09]  Larry, I'm not insulting you.
[00:08:10]  What I'm responding to- Of course you have.
[00:08:12]  You said I was sounding a dog whistle.
[00:08:14]  Why do Republicans always use a dog whistle?
[00:08:16]  I didn't say that.
[00:08:17]  The merits of what I said.
[00:08:18]  For a change, Lamont.
[00:08:19]  I watch you all the time.
[00:08:20]  You talk over people.
[00:08:21]  You don't listen to the merits of what they say.
[00:08:22]  You're talking over me.
[00:08:23]  First of all, okay, a few things.
[00:08:24]  I never said dog whistle.
[00:08:26]  Second, you're saying engage what you're talking about.
[00:08:27]  Sure you did.
[00:08:28]  Let me finish.
[00:08:29]  I didn't.
[00:08:29]  When you rewind this, you'll realize you were wrong.
[00:08:31]  What I just spoke about was mental health in the black community.
[00:08:34]  You said something similar.
[00:08:34]  What I just spoke about was mental health in the black community, and you responded by talking about black people and believing that racism still exists.
[00:08:41]  You totally didn't acknowledge my question or respond to my comment.
[00:08:44]  I want us to have perspective and talk about what's important, but you won't do that.
[00:08:48]  Oh, no.
[00:08:49]  Well, you don't get to decide what's important.
[00:08:51]  We all have opinions here.
[00:08:52]  I made a comment.
[00:08:53]  I wanted you to respond to it, but I'll respond to your comment.
[00:08:56]  You think the problem of unarmed black people is a major problem in America, and I don't.
[00:09:00]  Okay, let me tell you what I think now that you've spoken.
[00:09:04]  There are two issues here.
[00:09:05]  You mentioned black-on-black crime.
[00:09:06]  You say that that's a problem.
[00:09:07]  I agree with you that it's a problem.
[00:09:09]  It's a huge problem.
[00:09:10]  It's a massive problem.
[00:09:11]  Larry, Larry, I agree with you.
[00:09:13]  One voice, gentlemen.
[00:09:14]  One voice.
[00:09:16]  I agree with Larry Elder that black and black violence is an issue.
[00:09:20]  I absolutely agree with him.
[00:09:21]  So let's not argue about what we both agree on.
[00:09:23]  I agree.
[00:09:23]  But if this study bears out, and it does, that at least one, that every 28 hours an unarmed black person is killed, then that also is a problem.
[00:09:34]  That means it's less than 2% of the total, Lamont.
[00:09:37]  Less than 2% of the total.
[00:09:39]  7,000 black people killed every year.
[00:09:41]  Less than 2% are killed by police officers in an unarmed way.
[00:09:45]  So why don't we talk about the 98%?
[00:09:47]  And many of these murders in Chicago are unsolved.
[00:09:50]  At least we know what happened in the Michael Brown case.
[00:09:53]  Now, despite the racist cops mowing down black people, somehow, someway, Mr.
[00:09:57]  Hill, who has an Ivy League degree, has managed to do okay.
[00:10:01]  How okay?
[00:10:03]  Mark Lamont Hill net worth and salary.
[00:10:06]  Mark Lamont Hill is an activist who has a net worth of one million dollars.
[00:10:11]  End of quote.
[00:10:13]  Can you just imagine how big his net worth would be if it weren't for all those racist cops holding him back?
[00:10:19]  Next up, Joy Ann Reid of MSNB Hee Haw.
[00:10:24]  Good morning and welcome to Ann Joy.
[00:10:25]  Now she too is in the vanguard of the fight against racism and against prejudice.
[00:10:30]  That didn't last long.
[00:10:32]  Having read the talking points that were scrambled into his hands by nervous Republicans for almost an entire day, Donald Trump pulled a full Charlottesville today.
[00:10:41]  That racist rant by New York attorney Aaron Schlossberg is just the latest viral video putting a spotlight on bigotry in America.
[00:10:47]  And lastly, you've lost the right to rattle on about the party of Lincoln and Reagan.
[00:10:51]  You are now the party of Donald Trump, the party of the alt-right, of Breitbart.com.
[00:10:56]  You've ratified Trump's vulgarity, his crassness.
[00:10:59]  You saw exactly who and what he was, and you chose it.
[00:11:02]  You're gonna have to own that.
[00:11:03]  Now, speaking of bigotry, did you know about Joy Ann Reid's blog post circa 2007, 2008, in which she said some pretty hideous things about gays?
[00:11:15]  Hadn't heard about that?
[00:11:17]  Didn't think so.
[00:11:18]  Long before this week, Reid was already under pressure for homophobic blog posts more than a decade old.
[00:11:25]  One post suggests Anderson Cooper is the gayest thing on TV, writing that most straight people cringe at the sight of two men kissing.
[00:11:34]  A Twitter user first discovered many of the anti-gay posts, including one that calls homosexual sex gross.
[00:11:42]  Reid's original explanation?
[00:11:44]  Hackers.
[00:11:45]  She hired a cybersecurity expert to investigate, and her attorney said the FBI had opened a probe.
[00:11:51]  In a statement, he suggested the alleged hackers may have found a password on the dark web to access Reid's account.

=== Apology and Reflection (02:05) ===

[00:11:58]  Frankly, I couldn't imagine where they'd come from or whose voice that was.
[00:12:03]  But hey, don't blame her.
[00:12:05]  After all, she was hacked.
[00:12:08]  I've spent a lot of time trying to make sense of these posts.
[00:12:11]  I hired cybersecurity experts to see if somebody had manipulated my words or my former blog.
[00:12:17]  And the reality is they have not been able to prove it.
[00:12:20]  But here's what I know.
[00:12:22]  I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things.
[00:12:26]  But then...
[00:12:28]  I had a conversation the other day with a friend who's also an advocate in the LGBTQ community in Florida who rightly took me to task for my tweets mocking Ann Coulter using transgender stereotypes.
[00:12:40]  I apologize to my friend and I want to apologize to the trans community and to Ann.
[00:12:45]  Those tweets were wrong and horrible.
[00:12:48]  I look back today at some of the ways I've talked casually about people and gender identity and sexual orientation and I wonder who that even was.
[00:12:57]  But the reality is that like a lot of people in this country, that person was me.
[00:13:01]  Well, for a Harvard-educated recovering homophobe, Ms.
[00:13:06]  Reed is doing rather well.
[00:13:08]  Joy Ann Reed has a net worth of $4 million, and her salary is $1.5 million per annum.
[00:13:16]  Joy and her husband are owners of a documentary film company, Image Lab Media Group, end of quote.
[00:13:24]  Like I said, this is cable news, where rich black people tell non-rich black people how racism stops them from becoming rich black people.
[00:13:35]  We must internalize the flatulation of the matter by transmitting the effervescence of the Indonesian proximity in order to further segregate the crux of my venereal infection.
[00:13:55]  I'm Larry Elder, and this has been The Larry Elder Show.