Epoch Times - Larry Elder Debunks Hater’s Comment on Denzel Washington Viral Video | Larry Elder
Aired: 2021-02-08
Duration: 10:14


=== Underfunded Schools & Neighborhoods (05:54) ===

[00:00:03]  You know, the video we did on Denzel Washington's positive attitude about America is now approaching two and a half million views.
[00:00:10]  But this gentleman was not happy.
[00:00:13]  Rubbish.
[00:00:15]  Black people live in underfunded neighborhoods and schools that are underfunded.
[00:00:20]  Then you ask them to compete with better educated kids.
[00:00:23]  These black conservatives never criticize white conservatives their master.
[00:00:29]  He, I'm assuming he's referring to me, he has only strength for black people.
[00:00:33]  He is just a paid mouthpiece for whites who surrounds himself with white women as usual, end of quote.
[00:00:40]  Goodness, another satisfied customer.
[00:00:43]  I guess I'm not in the will.
[00:00:44]  Let's start with his last comment first.
[00:00:46]  Surrounds himself with white women?
[00:00:48]  What is the relevance of my personal life to my views?
[00:00:54]  But let's play that game.
[00:00:55]  Surrounds himself with white women as usual, meaning conservatives surround themselves with white women and liberals don't.
[00:01:03]  Tell that to Van Jones.
[00:01:05]  He's now divorced.
[00:01:06]  But what about Don Lemon?
[00:01:09]  No, he wasn't married to a white woman.
[00:01:12]  He's married to a white man.
[00:01:14]  We're going to take a hot second to congratulate our friend, John Lemon, who just got engaged to his long time.
[00:01:19]  Welcome to Malone!
[00:01:21]  Woo!
[00:01:22]  Congrats!
[00:01:23]  Very handsome couple.
[00:01:24]  They're both, as far as I know, hard, hard lefties, so...
[00:01:28]  Underfunded neighborhoods.
[00:01:30]  I have no idea what that even means.
[00:01:32]  Are you saying that taxpayers should give poor neighborhoods more money because they're black?
[00:01:39]  What are you saying?
[00:01:40]  The gentleman also said underfunded schools.
[00:01:44]  It's not true.
[00:01:45]  In order to get the true cost of an education, you need to add in all the expenses school districts typically leave out.
[00:01:52]  Houston School District offers a pretty straightforward example of how districts obscure school spending from parents and taxpayers.
[00:02:01]  Houston's stated per-pupil spending comes from the general fund alone.
[00:02:04]  That excludes 16 other education funds from debt service payments and capital expenses to health insurance and athletics.
[00:02:13]  When we add that spending back in, per-pupil spending is $12,500.
[00:02:18]  That's 50% more than the district claims.
[00:02:21]  We've also looked at the District of Columbia, where spending is anything but straightforward.
[00:02:26]  DC doesn't even publish a per-pupil spending figure.
[00:02:29]  It took dozens of phone calls and emails over the course of a month to get an official figure.
[00:02:35]  They say they spend about $17,500.
[00:02:38]  All capital expenditures are excluded from that figure, as if children don't need classrooms and buildings to learn it.
[00:02:45]  When you add that, along with all the other education items, back into the budget, you get $28,000 per student.
[00:02:52]  There is no more prominent left-wing think tank than the Brookings Institution.
[00:02:58]  And they looked at this and they were surprised.
[00:03:01]  It turns out urban schools are better funded than suburban schools.
[00:03:06]  Do school districts spend less money on poor and minority students?
[00:03:12]  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.
[00:03:29]  As mentioned, Brookings was surprised.
[00:03:34]  We hypothesized that wealthier districts would under-allocate resources to poor and minority students.
[00:03:40]  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.
[00:03:51]  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.
[00:04:06]  In many cases, however, we find just the opposite.
[00:04:10]  In richer districts, poor and Hispanic students receive more school resources relative to their non-poor and white peers in the same districts.
[00:04:21]  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.
[00:04:35]  These black conservatives, he said, never criticize their white conservative masters.
[00:04:45]  Master?
[00:04:47]  Slavery has been abolished since 1865?
[00:04:53]  13th Amendment?
[00:04:54]  Maybe you heard about it?
[00:04:55]  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.
[00:05:05]  Do liberals do the bidding of their masters or do liberals not have masters?
[00:05:11]  I'm confused.
[00:05:13]  And here's another one I got from a gentleman who said, Larry, you keep saying there's no racism.
[00:05:18]  At that point, it's difficult for me to finish reading the sentence because Larry has never said there's no racism.
[00:05:24]  Here's what Larry has said.
[00:05:26]  Back in 1997, what's that, 23 years ago, Time and CNN did a massive survey of black teens and white teens.
[00:05:35]  And they asked them whether racism was a major problem in America.
[00:05:38]  Not too surprisingly, both black teens and white teens said yes.
[00:05:41]  But then they asked the black teens the following questions.

=== Sandy Koufax's Complaints (03:46) ===

[00:05:46]  Is racism a big problem?
[00:05:47]  A small problem?
[00:05:49]  Or no problem in your own daily life?
[00:05:51]  89% said racism was a small problem or no problem in my own daily life.
[00:05:58]  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.
[00:06:09]  That was 23 years ago, before the election and re-election of Barack Obama.
[00:06:15]  Larry, who was your favorite baseball player growing up, somebody asked me.
[00:06:18]  That's simple.
[00:06:19]  Sandy Koufax.
[00:06:21]  He found an empty seat behind home plate and began to roll.
[00:06:25]  For decades, the film sat forgotten in a closet.
[00:06:29]  Now recently uncovered and restored, a glimpse of Sandy Koufax on a night that maybe got himself created specially for his own left arm.
[00:06:53]  Batter after batter, Koufax was pitching with mastery, precision, concentration, and a fastball that split the night.
[00:07:02]  *music* With his handheld camera, the Dodgers trainer was capturing history.
[00:07:10]  Till there were two out in a third.
[00:07:13]  And Bill Buehler ran out of film.
[00:07:16]  Sandy Koufax was amazing.
[00:07:18]  He had a period of maybe five, six years that were better than any pitcher, I think, in Major League history.
[00:07:26]  And my first thing I ever wrote was a poem about Sandy Koufax.
[00:07:29]  It got published in our little publication we had in the seventh grade.
[00:07:34]  Fast forward several years later, I meet Sandy Koufax at a black tie affair in Beverly Hills.
[00:07:41]  And I was with a publicist who knows everybody.
[00:07:43]  And I said, is there any way you can get me to just Introduce me to Sandy Koufax.
[00:07:49]  Is that possible?
[00:07:50]  He said, I'll find out.
[00:07:51]  Goes away, comes back a few minutes later, comes back and says, follow me.
[00:07:54]  We walk down to the front table where Sandy Koufax was.
[00:07:58]  Koufax stands up to greet me.
[00:07:59]  And I said, Sandy, I've always been an admirer of yours.
[00:08:02]  I mean, I was so nervous.
[00:08:04]  And I said, the first thing I ever wrote was about you.
[00:08:06]  He said, really?
[00:08:07]  I said, yeah, I wrote a poem about you.
[00:08:08]  Let me just give you the first stanza.
[00:08:10]  Koufax is on the mound.
[00:08:11]  The game has just begun.
[00:08:13]  He gets a sign from the catcher and swish!
[00:08:15]  Strike one.
[00:08:16]  Sandy Colfax put his arm on my shoulder and said, don't quit your day job.
[00:08:22]  A few months ago, I got a letter from somebody I had completely forgotten about.
[00:08:26]  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.
[00:08:32]  So we're all sailing on Lake Erie.
[00:08:35]  And this guy happened to be white.
[00:08:36]  He's about 35 years old, was complaining and complaining and complaining about his job.
[00:08:40]  Hated his job, hated his boss.
[00:08:42]  And I listened and I listened and I listened and I said, what are you going to do about it?
[00:08:47]  And he said, what do you mean?
[00:08:48]  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?
[00:08:55]  And that was about it.
[00:08:57]  And I completely forgot about it.
[00:09:00]  I get this letter.
[00:09:02]  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.
[00:09:09]  And he told me that he started his own business.
[00:09:12]  He now has 20 people who work for him.

=== America's Advantage (00:59) ===

[00:09:14]  He's now extremely successful.
[00:09:15]  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.
[00:09:24]  But as I said, he was white.
[00:09:27]  Everybody needs a boost.
[00:09:30]  Everybody needs encouragement.
[00:09:31]  Everybody needs support.
[00:09:33]  Nothing to do with race.
[00:09:34]  This is the greatest country God ever created.
[00:09:38]  You can go from nothing to something faster in America than any other country in all of human civilization.
[00:09:43]  Let's take advantage of it, okay?
[00:09:46]  Guess what just happened?
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