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Underfunded Schools & Neighborhoods
00:05:54
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| You know, the video we did on Denzel Washington's positive attitude about America is now approaching two and a half million views. | |
| But this gentleman was not happy. | |
| Rubbish. | |
| Black people live in underfunded neighborhoods and schools that are underfunded. | |
| Then you ask them to compete with better educated kids. | |
| These black conservatives never criticize white conservatives their master. | |
| He, I'm assuming he's referring to me, he has only strength for black people. | |
| He is just a paid mouthpiece for whites who surrounds himself with white women as usual, end of quote. | |
| Goodness, another satisfied customer. | |
| I guess I'm not in the will. | |
| Let's start with his last comment first. | |
| Surrounds himself with white women? | |
| What is the relevance of my personal life to my views? | |
| But let's play that game. | |
| Surrounds himself with white women as usual, meaning conservatives surround themselves with white women and liberals don't. | |
| Tell that to Van Jones. | |
| He's now divorced. | |
| But what about Don Lemon? | |
| No, he wasn't married to a white woman. | |
| He's married to a white man. | |
| We're going to take a hot second to congratulate our friend, John Lemon, who just got engaged to his long time. | |
| Welcome to Malone! | |
| Woo! | |
| Congrats! | |
| Very handsome couple. | |
| They're both, as far as I know, hard, hard lefties, so... | |
| Underfunded neighborhoods. | |
| I have no idea what that even means. | |
| Are you saying that taxpayers should give poor neighborhoods more money because they're black? | |
| What are you saying? | |
| The gentleman also said underfunded schools. | |
| It's not true. | |
| In order to get the true cost of an education, you need to add in all the expenses school districts typically leave out. | |
| Houston School District offers a pretty straightforward example of how districts obscure school spending from parents and taxpayers. | |
| Houston's stated per-pupil spending comes from the general fund alone. | |
| That excludes 16 other education funds from debt service payments and capital expenses to health insurance and athletics. | |
| When we add that spending back in, per-pupil spending is $12,500. | |
| That's 50% more than the district claims. | |
| We've also looked at the District of Columbia, where spending is anything but straightforward. | |
| DC doesn't even publish a per-pupil spending figure. | |
| It took dozens of phone calls and emails over the course of a month to get an official figure. | |
| They say they spend about $17,500. | |
| All capital expenditures are excluded from that figure, as if children don't need classrooms and buildings to learn it. | |
| When you add that, along with all the other education items, back into the budget, you get $28,000 per student. | |
| There is no more prominent left-wing think tank than the Brookings Institution. | |
| And they looked at this and they were surprised. | |
| It turns out urban schools are better funded than suburban schools. | |
| Do school districts spend less money on poor and minority students? | |
| Quote, we find that on average, poor and minority students receive between one to 2% more resources than non-poor or white students in their districts, equivalent to about $65 per pupil, end of quote. | |
| As mentioned, Brookings was surprised. | |
| We hypothesized that wealthier districts would under-allocate resources to poor and minority students. | |
| We reasoned that parents with greater resources could more effectively navigate the local political system, making it easier to secure a greater share of school spending for their children. | |
| Reasoning similarly, we also expected To find that in districts with greater income inequality and segregation, poor and minority students would receive a smaller share of school resources. | |
| In many cases, however, we find just the opposite. | |
| In richer districts, poor and Hispanic students receive more school resources relative to their non-poor and white peers in the same districts. | |
| Districts with more segregation, whether socioeconomic or racial, tend to spend more on poor and minority students relative to non-poor and white students, end of quote. | |
| These black conservatives, he said, never criticize their white conservative masters. | |
| Master? | |
| Slavery has been abolished since 1865? | |
| 13th Amendment? | |
| Maybe you heard about it? | |
| So if a black person has a point of view who's conservative that you disagree with, he is therefore doing his master's bidding. | |
| Do liberals do the bidding of their masters or do liberals not have masters? | |
| I'm confused. | |
| And here's another one I got from a gentleman who said, Larry, you keep saying there's no racism. | |
| At that point, it's difficult for me to finish reading the sentence because Larry has never said there's no racism. | |
| Here's what Larry has said. | |
| Back in 1997, what's that, 23 years ago, Time and CNN did a massive survey of black teens and white teens. | |
| And they asked them whether racism was a major problem in America. | |
| Not too surprisingly, both black teens and white teens said yes. | |
| But then they asked the black teens the following questions. | |
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Sandy Koufax's Complaints
00:03:46
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| Is racism a big problem? | |
| A small problem? | |
| Or no problem in your own daily life? | |
| 89% said racism was a small problem or no problem in my own daily life. | |
| In fact, more black teens than white teens said, failure to take advantage of available opportunities is a bigger problem than racism, end of quote. | |
| That was 23 years ago, before the election and re-election of Barack Obama. | |
| Larry, who was your favorite baseball player growing up, somebody asked me. | |
| That's simple. | |
| Sandy Koufax. | |
| He found an empty seat behind home plate and began to roll. | |
| For decades, the film sat forgotten in a closet. | |
| Now recently uncovered and restored, a glimpse of Sandy Koufax on a night that maybe got himself created specially for his own left arm. | |
| Batter after batter, Koufax was pitching with mastery, precision, concentration, and a fastball that split the night. | |
| *music* With his handheld camera, the Dodgers trainer was capturing history. | |
| Till there were two out in a third. | |
| And Bill Buehler ran out of film. | |
| Sandy Koufax was amazing. | |
| He had a period of maybe five, six years that were better than any pitcher, I think, in Major League history. | |
| And my first thing I ever wrote was a poem about Sandy Koufax. | |
| It got published in our little publication we had in the seventh grade. | |
| Fast forward several years later, I meet Sandy Koufax at a black tie affair in Beverly Hills. | |
| And I was with a publicist who knows everybody. | |
| And I said, is there any way you can get me to just Introduce me to Sandy Koufax. | |
| Is that possible? | |
| He said, I'll find out. | |
| Goes away, comes back a few minutes later, comes back and says, follow me. | |
| We walk down to the front table where Sandy Koufax was. | |
| Koufax stands up to greet me. | |
| And I said, Sandy, I've always been an admirer of yours. | |
| I mean, I was so nervous. | |
| And I said, the first thing I ever wrote was about you. | |
| He said, really? | |
| I said, yeah, I wrote a poem about you. | |
| Let me just give you the first stanza. | |
| Koufax is on the mound. | |
| The game has just begun. | |
| He gets a sign from the catcher and swish! | |
| Strike one. | |
| Sandy Colfax put his arm on my shoulder and said, don't quit your day job. | |
| A few months ago, I got a letter from somebody I had completely forgotten about. | |
| Years ago, when I lived in Cleveland, a friend of mine has a sailboat and he invited a couple of people to come on the sailboat. | |
| So we're all sailing on Lake Erie. | |
| And this guy happened to be white. | |
| He's about 35 years old, was complaining and complaining and complaining about his job. | |
| Hated his job, hated his boss. | |
| And I listened and I listened and I listened and I said, what are you going to do about it? | |
| And he said, what do you mean? | |
| I said, are you going to sit here and just moan and whine about your job the rest of your life or are you going to do something about it? | |
| And that was about it. | |
| And I completely forgot about it. | |
| I get this letter. | |
| A few months ago, dear Larry, don't know if you remember me, but years ago when you lived in Cleveland, we were on a sailboat and he recounts the story. | |
| And he told me that he started his own business. | |
| He now has 20 people who work for him. | |
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America's Advantage
00:00:59
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| He's now extremely successful. | |
| And he thanked me for giving him the prod that he needed in order for him to get off the couch and stop whining and do something about his life. | |
| But as I said, he was white. | |
| Everybody needs a boost. | |
| Everybody needs encouragement. | |
| Everybody needs support. | |
| Nothing to do with race. | |
| This is the greatest country God ever created. | |
| You can go from nothing to something faster in America than any other country in all of human civilization. | |
| Let's take advantage of it, okay? | |
| Guess what just happened? | |
| We've been demonetized by YouTube. | |
| That's right, Epoch Times channels have been demonetized. | |
| But I've got some exciting news. | |
| It means we must be doing something right, frankly. | |
| I'm amazed it took them so long. | |
| Here's what I want you to do if you want to keep supporting us. | |
| Just go to LarryTube.com. | |
| If you want to hear me, uncensored and on demand, LarryTube.com. | |
| That's all, because we've got a country to save. | |
| I'll see you next time. | |