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May 5, 2020 - Get Off My Lawn - Gavin McInnes
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S02E159 - KING ARTHUR'S BLACK [2020-05-05 - S02E159 - KING ARTHUR'S BLACK]
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Great band from Washington, D.C., the Discord scene of the mid-80s, post the initial did, sorry, hardcore scene of the early 80s.
There was sort of a post-hardcore scene that Ian Mackay and Discord Records were an integral part of because everyone in D.C. was rich.
There's a huge contingent of punk rock that is rich kids.
Penny Rimbaugh of Krass grew up rich, went to private school.
Joe Strummer of The Clash grew up rich, went to private school.
Ian Mackay of Minor Threat Discord grew up rich.
They're all politicians.
I've said this a million times, but when you have beautiful photos of HR diving into the crowd, that's because the guy who took the picture has a dark room.
So people think, oh, London, New York, and D.C. were just so seminal in the rebellious music scene.
No, they just documented it best.
Philly had an incredible punk scene and hardcore scene, but no one had any money.
So you don't have beautiful photographs of it.
In fact, my little hardcore scene in Ottawa, Canada wasn't that consequential, but it's disproportionately represented in history because of Sean Scallon had all these excellent photographs of it.
Why would you look up Ottawa for that, you fucking retard?
Ottawa, Canada hardcore scene.
Oh, I thought you just looked up Ottawa.
Anyway, we have a boring and repetitive show for you today.
That's why I said that's why I played that repetitive song.
Great band, Gray Matter, though, and that's their hit.
They were in high school, I think, when they made that.
But yeah, they made King Arthur black.
And no one gives a shit.
And I give a shit.
But not because I give a shit that a black guy's playing King Arthur.
That bothers me like 3%.
What bothers me is if the reverse were to happen, blacks and mostly whites, actually.
Race is a white thing.
This whole discussion on what's racist, what's not racist, it's a white thing.
And when blacks do it, they're parroting a white culture.
Like the Redskins with Indians.
I've known Indians my whole life.
You talked to Indians a long time ago, like 2001, about Redskins.
They didn't give a shit.
Then whites told them, no, no, no, grievance culture, it's a thing.
You should really do it.
It's profitable.
You can get a job.
You can get a gig.
You can be a consultant.
You can get money.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I'm offended.
I hate it.
It's indicative of systemic racism.
They teach them some stupid white words.
But yeah, if you were to ever make Martin Luther King white, imagine you had a white guy who looked exactly like Martin Luther King and they browned him up a bit and he did a perfect MLK.
There'd be riots in the streets.
But King Arthur can be black.
So it's the double standard that pisses me off because it's not egalitarian and I'm a non-racist.
So when you throw blacks breadcrumbs like they're beneath you, I get pissed off.
But before we get to that, we usually do fun banter and Ryan and I pretend we like each other.
Yes.
You are so great.
And you're awesome.
What's that brown thing?
It's me.
It's Ryan.
Oh, it's my arm.
I saw this piece of brown leather swiveling.
I'm like, what the fuck is that?
Brown leather.
Yeah, we were talking today about a new studio.
And I think we can afford it.
I think this year has been profitable.
And I had a great idea for a theme.
I watched Escape from New York last night, which holds up.
I think it was made in 1987.
It doesn't look corny.
In fact, it looks fucking cool.
And I would like to make our new office not like Manhattan in that movie because there's nothing there.
It's like Detroit today.
But the like control rooms where they monitor the prison with their digital...
The graphics are fucking awesome.
Even when they're flying over New York with a helicopter when it's abandoned, it's clearly a painting.
Yeah, that bald guy.
Well, you can't really see it there.
And he's not in the control room.
Sorry.
Oh, that's the watch he wears.
Wouldn't it be cool if we had a clock like that behind us showing the time for the live show?
Thursday night show.
But they don't have escape...
You have to put escape from New York in quotes.
And now you have to go...
Escape from New York in quotes.
And then you do control room.
See, you can see that above me.
That's clearly a painting, but it's classy.
And it doesn't look corny.
What do we got here?
The computers were really cool, too.
I want to just get these big standing 1970s computers with the little lights going beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep bewoop beep.
I think I might have taken a picture of them.
You should have seen this guy's fucking phone.
Well, that was the cool graphics, but that would be an awesome theme.
Yeah, I think I have one here, but you can't really see the control room.
You can just see his giant phone.
Dude, there's a scene where the plane crashes in.
Oh, here's it.
Here it is.
Shall I email this to you?
There's a scene at the beginning where the president is an Air Force One and they're crashing into the World Trade Center.
Escape from New York.
And you see it, you see it.
You see that they don't hit the Trade Center.
They hit a plane next to it.
But I got video of that too.
That was a disturbing.
It's a POV of crashing into the World Trade Center.
So after we watch it, my daughter goes, 13-year-old girl goes, I don't understand that.
And I go, what did you not understand?
She goes, what was going on there?
And I go, okay, there's two separate things.
One, oh shit, this is too big to send to you.
There you go.
No, no, no.
The movie, you fucking retard.
Your Bluetooth is off, and I can't.
Let me try texting it.
Sometimes that works.
Yeah, that's what I want a new office to look like.
Tracer test confirmed at 20 hours The scene that I'm showing right now?
17 minutes, 50 seconds.
Wouldn't that be awesome?
Hell yeah.
Okay, I texted it to you.
Will that help?
Nope.
Why not?
I could just retransfer it to myself?
So, yes, it will help.
Right?
Sure.
Are you being weird?
Stop.
Oh.
Yeah, that's what we need.
We need to make our office like that.
Or not that.
That.
That's pretty cool.
Wouldn't that be awesome?
Like 1980s looking?
Or just 90s?
We'll just get a bunch of, you know what would be cool?
Just get a bunch of monitors, like old 80s monitors, and they could have anything on them, just the news, anything.
I want to have lots of big, like, white panels.
Not as dim as that, though.
Very, very bright.
Lots of lights.
But anyway.
So my daughter goes, I don't get it.
I go, look.
They kidnapped the president.
They hijacked the plane.
You know what hijacking a plane means?
They take over the plane at the beginning.
They drive it into the building to kill the president.
They're not connected with the criminals.
That's a separate thing.
These are revolutionaries who hijack the plane.
They crash it into the building.
The president escapes in a pod.
Now there's a new story.
New story.
The people who live in Manhattan, Manhattan is just a giant prison, by the way.
It's the year 1997, if you can even imagine that far in the future.
And they just, Manhattan got so bad they walled it off and made it a prison of America.
Now that you don't have other prisons, which is kind of a cool idea.
And the United States Police is a police force that monitors it.
And so these criminals see the pod.
Wait, is this the whole movie?
No, just the scene here.
Oh.
The criminals see the pod.
They see it's the president.
They kidnap him and figure, we'll put him on a car and say, you better let us out of this prison or we're going to kill the president.
Got it?
And then I noticed she's not listening to me.
And I'm like, crying out fucking loud.
It was driving me crazy.
And she's like, and I go, stop, stop, listen to me.
Two separate things.
Don't get confused by the hijacking.
It has nothing to do with the movie.
The movie was all about the serendipity of having the president as a hostage that's just dropped into your lap.
They didn't know they were going to get him.
Got it?
And then she's not even in the kitchen anymore.
She's gone upstairs.
Oh, for fuck's sakes!
Very frustrating.
What are you doing now?
I mailed it to myself.
Oh, okay.
But I was trying to look up that set, and I'm not sure.
Well, I know the people at SNL who did that Star Wars sketch, Undercover Boss.
Oh, my God, this is so awesome.
What the?
Wait, that's what I just sent you?
It is, yeah.
That was the text that was too big to mail?
Go back to the beginning, though.
Wait, no.
What are you doing here?
I just emailed you.
I just emailed myself what you just sent me, and it's this long.
That's not what I sent you.
Boy, we look like fucking idiots right now.
Mine is 15 seconds, what I sent you.
I go to prepare it.
It says no.
Right.
Now I email it to myself.
It says yes.
And then it gives me a second long thing.
I think I could figure this out.
It says use mail drop.
Try sending attachment.
Why don't we just try?
Yeah.
Oh, I see what happened.
It cut you off.
So it only allowed you to see the first few seconds.
Isn't this a great TV show?
Aren't we organized?
All right, let's move on.
We'll find that later and come back to it.
Here's a thought I had.
This is one three.
We keep watching these videos, and this has become the norm now.
Something's going on, right?
Something's going wrong.
You get out your phone, you film it, and you don't touch the person.
There's no confrontation.
You don't fight the person and you say, call the police, get the police.
This is assault.
And I realized this is what Big Brother wants.
So this woman is mad, right?
That this Mexican illegal alien is selling oranges.
It's possible, by the way, that millions and millions of people have no idea there's a pandemic going on.
Isn't it?
Like, say you're an illegal Mexican.
You don't listen to the radio much.
You just sell your oranges on the side of the road and you come home and you play soccer and you watch telenovelas.
You wouldn't know there's a pandemic.
So it's possible this guy doesn't even know.
Anyway, if I was Big Brother, if I was Orwellian, if I was Soros, if I was a globalist, I'd say, all right, I want people to monitor each other.
And because I can't do it, I can't afford 9 billion cameras and they can't all catch everything.
I need a good shot when something's going wrong.
So I need the people to do this for me.
I need them to do my dirty work.
And it reminds me of something that happened 2008, I would say.
I was looking at this anarchist message board, which was sort of like Reddit today and with less pictures.
And Lisa Suck Dog was on it, Lisa Carver.
She's like from the Jim Go generation, my generation.
And we were anarchists talking about anarchy in the state and not giving them any information and all that kind of anarcho-shit.
And she said something like, you know, I'm just making this up, by the way, but she said something like, Timothy McVay said that violence breeds results.
And it's kind of hard to avoid the logic of that.
And then someone else says, Lisa, you've got your name here, people know who you are, you're making yourself vulnerable.
I wouldn't say stuff like that on this message board.
And her response was beautiful.
She said, oh, okay, so I'll police myself.
That's the way it works now.
We are so scared of Big Brother that he doesn't even have to show up for work.
Now the authorities don't need to monitor because we monitor ourselves and we self-censor.
And since she said that, things have gotten much more extreme.
Now, anything that goes wrong, anytime there's a conflict, we document it.
We don't deal with it ourselves.
We don't solve our own problems and we get police.
It's like when my kids are at school at PS-14 in Brooklyn, and they were told, if you see someone fighting, don't intervene and go and get a teacher, an authority figure.
The authority figure will handle it.
And I said, no, to my son, if you see someone hurting your sister, you punish them immediately.
You don't get an authority figure.
Like New Rochelle High School, where the guy, the coach who's brought all these black people to the NFL, saved lives.
New Rochelle is a very shitty community in Westchester.
It's mostly black.
And a lot of these kids turned to drugs, turned to gangs.
He was an excellent coach who would turn people to football, save their lives.
And he knows, and he's done this for generations, right?
I'm meaning generations of students, not he's only been alive for one generation.
And he sees his niece and he says, hey, honey, what's going on?
You seem drunk.
And she's like, fuck you, buddy.
He's white, by the way.
And so he calls the girl's mom, which I guess is his sister-in-law or something.
And so he gets fired.
I've told you this story before.
He gets fired for not letting the state handle his business with his niece.
This goes back to what we were saying last week or two weeks ago, where they say, let's be honest, the community should raise your children.
The parents don't always know what's best for their kid, which goes back to that Harvard professor who said it's somewhat authoritarian to let parents completely teach their kids.
Homeschooling is authoritarian.
You have to leave homeschooling to the authorities.
So being unauthoritarian is authoritarian.
This Orwell said this.
Remember in 1984, ignorance is strength.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Authoritarianism is anti-authoritarianism.
So, look, I know it makes for funny content on my show, but I don't want my show for controlling society.
Can we just confront people, please?
Ryan, that's not the best timing in the world while I'm talking about something else entirely.
Can we just confront people?
Like, I saw this other video, and don't try to find it, of someone in a Verizon store, and she's screaming, calling him the devil, calling this guy an asshole.
And just like, grab her shirt.
You don't have to fucking choke her.
Grab her shirt and go, come on, lady.
But I'll get sued for assault.
All right.
Get fired.
Get in trouble.
Get sued.
Go up to people.
So if some guy's selling oranges, and I don't have a problem with that, if you don't want to get corona from an orange, don't buy oranges from this guy.
So if you see some lady screaming at a guy with oranges, go, lady, what the fuck?
Just relax.
Mind your own business.
So he's selling oranges.
Aren't you more concerned with the fact that he's illegal?
But they don't do that.
They film.
They do two things that Big Brother loves.
They film and they say, I'm calling the police.
The police are on their way.
Meanwhile, the police must fucking hate this too.
They join the force to catch rapists and bad guys.
And what are they doing?
Catching Karens.
And what's the charge here, by the way?
Okay?
They can't see their family.
It doesn't matter.
He's out here.
It does matter.
He's out here canceling police.
It doesn't matter.
You're not a police officer.
You're not a police officer.
You need a police officer.
You just said the cops are coming.
That's harassing.
You need to stop harassing him.
Karen.
Karen.
This is his neighbor.
Stop harassing him.
Karen.
Hey.
Notice he's grabbing his oranges and like, I gotta get the fuck out of here.
I don't want asking any questions.
There's so many videos like this that could just be handled with a normal 80s man grabbing someone by the scruff of their shoulder and just going, get the fuck out of here.
Or in this case, you don't want to grab her, throw her anywhere.
You just go, will you shut up and leave him alone, bitch?
The fuck's your problem.
Go somewhere else.
Like when my friend, my gay friend, I cannot, this is only a faint memory and I don't remember the context, but I wish I could just brainwash myself, like hypnotize myself and get it out.
A homo buddy of mine was eating and this woman was like, you need to fuck off.
I can't remember what she was yelling at him for and he didn't know what she was mad about and he just goes, what?
Fuck off, you ugly bitch.
It was just so perfect.
It was instantaneous too.
I wonder if my wife can remember that.
Should I call her?
This is the escape from New York City.
You want to watch that?
Will you call her?
No.
I want to call her.
It doesn't take a long time to call someone.
I see.
My back kills.
Still.
Me too.
She never answers her phone.
Hi, reached Emily.
Ah, farts.
Ah, shit.
Thank you.
All right, so I got to get that out there.
And there's a fun game you can play where you look at some, you go to Twitter moments, right?
Oh, you want to look now?
We can do the whole movie here.
Oh, cool.
And I used your video, so your video did help to see the time code.
It's 1350, so it's not it.
And the video said 12.
Yeah.
Okay, it's after this, yeah.
So wait a minute.
The video said 12, and you were up in 14.
It was 12.50, so I went to 1250.
Wait, hold on, hold on, stop it.
Sure.
Hello?
Hi.
Hey, do you remember years ago some gay dude was getting confronted with some lunatic and he just looked at her?
I think he was chewing something.
He just goes, fuck off, you ugly bitch.
No, I don't.
I'm sorry.
Okay, thank you.
All right.
Go back.
1231.
So 12.10.
So wait a minute.
My timecode said 12-something and you were up in 14.
Yes.
So you fucked up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, and you missed it again.
It was 12.31.
We just passed it.
Yeah, but my timecode from when I buy it on demand is not necessarily going to be the same timecode as YouTube.
So that's the pod coming out.
So you didn't show the crash.
Go back before the crash.
Yeah, it's got to be some point after this.
Oh, did they cut it out of the movie?
Oh, maybe.
Wow.
Wait, wait, wait.
No, this looks promising, right?
So the plane's going.
Yeah, there we go.
Look at this.
The World Trade Center.
And you're a plane right now.
And then you go into a building.
Whoa.
Dang.
Maybe we should put that in our intro.
Holy crap.
Overlay market.
There.
Wait, go back.
Go back.
That's our new studio.
That's pretty sick.
That would be so dope.
Hell yeah.
Industrial.
Utilitarian.
So sometimes I go into a Twitter vortex and just come out going, because I'm banned now.
So you know how you're in a bubble when you're on Twitter and you see, like if I was still on Twitter, I'd be looking at Jack Pisobic, Mike Cernovich, Cassandra Fairbanks, everyone who's been on my show, Stefan Molyneux, and Scott Adams and all those dudes.
And I'd be, you know, enjoying rational people that I consider friends.
But because I have to go through this weird ghost sub-account, I see just the normal, I have to start with moments and go down a rabbit hole.
So I end up in their bubbles, just sort of floating along like a scuba diver going into these various bubbles and seeing fucking garbage.
Ryan, please leave Escape from New York and get back to this show.
Get back to your notes.
Check out 1.4.
Oh yes, this is, so I'll see something like this, right?
So here's the story.
There was a guy, you have to wear a mask.
That's actually two pictures.
It's not very clear here.
You have to wear a mask when you come in the store.
This guy's just had enough.
He's had enough of this shit.
So he wears a mask.
Fine, I'll wear your fucking mask.
And he wears a clan hood.
Oh, my.
Now that is funny, right?
You want me to wear a mask?
Fine, I'm wearing a mask.
This male was photographed in the Mission George Vaughan store.
I think that's like Santa Barbara or something.
Earlier this evening, wearing a KKK cap.
He was asked to remove it by security personnel, but not to leave the store.
Address this issue.
And we've got 10 news, NAACP.
We have to solve this problem.
We finally found a Klansman.
Finally.
Here's another photo I saw.
Imagine being so fragile.
Look at this.
Thank you for finding another picture.
And then play that gay video.
Yay, white power.
Why are all the fists white?
Put him on blast, internet.
Find out who he is.
And then Dag Savage goes, we need to find out what his name is.
So I'm just like, I can go through this for hours.
Look, he finally changed the color of his fist.
Thank God.
What does that one do?
Yeah, different fists and a woman's fist too.
Yeah, we're fighting the old man at some random supermarket who made an offensive mask joke.
Like, do they think he's serious?
I'm seriously expressing my hatred for the Negro while I buy bananas.
Oh, they responded.
Look, this was a disturbing incident for our associates and customers, and we are reviewing with our team how best to handle such an That's not good enough.
It's never good enough, right?
Khan should have immediately ticked his ass out of the store.
So glad I live in Clant.
I don't live in Clanty anymore.
I would have went to jail this weekend.
Yeah, sure you would have, Rodney.
In complete candor, I share, I was most stunned by the hubris unchecked in a public marketplace.
Yeah, the guy's had enough of all this shit.
He's not making a racist statement.
He's saying, fuck you.
It's a middle finger.
Wait, go back?
You didn't let me finish.
Maybe there was a collective application of applied restraint, but were I there, a confrontation would have occurred.
No, you would have filmed him with your phone and called the fucking police, just like Big Brother wants you to.
And the irony is you'd consider that a confrontation.
You'd say, yeah, I took care of it.
I'm no pussy.
I went up to him and I said, hey, putting you on blast.
You just got famous and the cops are on their way.
I handled it.
Son, you know, I want you to know when you were younger, I made America a better place for you because I wanted you to be safe.
So when someone said something that was offensive or put on an offensive mask, I went over and I filmed them, then tattletailed to the world, and then also called the government to take care of that wrongthink.
Pretty badass, huh?
Somebody addresses that.
Cops weren't called?
Please come quick.
This man's wearing a white hood.
Buy vegetables.
Oh, see, that's always the thing with this, too.
The first like 15, 20 comments will be pussies, and then word will get out, and you'll have other people going, Great snitching, good job.
Unsafe for them to ask him to remove this mask.
This guy does not get it.
They did ask him several times.
He eventually did the checkout counter because they implied he would not be able to purchase his groceries.
They didn't get the joke.
Another one of Trump's good people.
Oh, the way they see Trump now.
The pandemic is his fault.
He should have done more.
He should have closed the borders.
And you can imagine, say he had a time machine, right?
And he said, all right, I'm going to make zero cases of COVID.
So he closes the borders totally, shuts down the airports, like say February.
And especially Middle Eastern countries, Chinese people were quarantined.
Chinatown was ruled out.
You weren't allowed to go to Chinatown.
They had martial law.
Can you imagine the fucking complaints from the left about how he overreacted?
Anything to get him out of office, anything, including that woman who prosecuted Bill O'Reilly and said, I'm going to defend, I'm not going to help out Tara Reid, Biden, because I need Trump to lose.
Like that just says, that tweet says everything.
Did I send that to you?
It just sums up the whole fucking universe.
Where she says, yes, Tara Reid, you're right.
Everything you're saying is totally legitimate, but I can't support you because I need Trump to get out of there.
There it is.
This should be a poster.
I think what we're going to start doing in the new office is printing out these doozies, like the ones I mentioned earlier with it's authoritarian to a homeschool and the parents don't know what's best for their kids.
And this one deserves a framed picture.
We're going to copy Project Veritas and have the Hall of Shame.
I believe you, Tara Reed.
You have people who remember you told them about this decades ago.
We know he is handsy.
You're not asking for money.
You've obviously struggled mightily with this.
However, despite the truth, I still have to fight Trump, so I will support Joe.
But I believe you, and I'm sorry.
See, the other huge thing about this is she's not quietly saying this to her, whispering it to her at a birthday party.
She's saying, hey, everyone, Tara Reed is right.
We shouldn't be hypocritical.
But hey, everyone, let's ignore this particular rape.
In other words, we don't see rape as something that should be prosecuted because a woman was assaulted.
We see rape as a political weapon.
She just admitted it.
We use it against Trump.
We use it against Kavanaugh.
We will not use it against Biden.
Got it?
Okay.
I guess I appreciate your candor, my dear.
Also in the Twitter hole.
Yeah.
Also in the Twitter hole, I saw this thing, 1.5.
Apparently there's a school that just can't afford bullshit classes like African American studies and gender studies.
Is that the tweet?
Yeah.
And so all these white liberals are pissed off that blacks won't be studying African American studies.
Do we need African American studies departments in 2020?
Yes, we do more than ever.
Because America is more racist than ever, by the way.
We live deep in the legacy of slavery every day.
Yeah, because you put us there.
Because you teachers grammed my daughter's nose into half a century ago and sorry, 400 years ago, too.
And it is painfully clear that we need a greater understanding of the African American experience.
And then he fucking patronizes us all with a Black Lives Matter hashtag and some fucking dots.
And now the fun part with things like this is you go into the thread and you see other people commenting on it.
View replies hit the tweet, the author is hidden.
I didn't know you could do that.
You can hide replies.
Go up.
View replies.
Anything valuable those departments provide can more than adequately be covered by sociology and anthropology.
It was racist in the first place to assume the study.
So these are all the ones he's hidden.
LMAO, good riddance, go down.
So you can spend hours watching these people, but go back.
Yeah, so that's all sane people, but let's get away from the hidden ones because I know those opinions.
Look at Tyus D. Williams.
African American studies department certainly would be helpful, but we also need an entire reformation on how we teach K through 12 history in public education systems.
So let's get more slavery in like kindergarten.
And even though, what are you doing?
And even though private school, that's where a lot of these education, where the systemic ideals are continually being overshadowed.
Indeed, he says to a little kid.
And click on that little kid, by the way.
I was going to make this a green screen, Tyus D. Williams.
What's his first thing?
Carnivore ecologist.
No, no, go down.
Patreon.
Please give me money.
The left is obsessed with self-charity.
That's their big thing.
And what's 1-6?
I forgot this tweet.
Oh, yeah, this was also amazing.
But wait, before we get to that, I want to jump ahead to African American studies.
Everyone loves African American studies, but they've never looked them up.
They've never seen the dissertations.
They just like the concept.
This is what they always say about blacks, and I'm sorry this episode is so blacky.
The whites love blacks in theory.
Oh, sorry, northern whites love blacks in theory, but not in practice.
Southern whites like blacks in practice, but not in theory.
And it sounds like the northern view of blacks is what's taking over the entire country, because it's definitely prevalent in media and academia.
So they like the concept of African American studies.
And they love seeing doctor next to a black guy's name.
But all of these dissertations that give these people their PhD, or I shouldn't say all, a massive swath of them are absolute fucking crap.
Now, Naomi Schaefer-Riley, one of my favorite writers, did a blog, a 500-word blog post.
She used to work for an education site, and it's been scrubbed from the internet.
She was fired for this, for criticizing African-American PhDs.
You can only find it on American Renaissance, which is about as controversial as it gets.
These are the only ones who haven't scrubbed it from the web.
But here's what she wrote many years ago.
That's what I would say about Ruth Hayes' dissertation, So I Could Be Easeful.
So this is an, she dared to look at some of these dissertations, and the criticism she got was, well, you didn't read the whole thing.
She's like, I'm doing a 500-word blog post.
Even the title is enough to mock.
So here's the title of an African-American PhD.
So I could be easeful, black women's authoritative knowledge on childbirth.
It began because she, quote, noticed that non-white women's experience were largely absent from natural birth literature, which led me to look into historical black midwifery.
And then Naomi says, how could we overlook the non-white experience in quote-unquote natural birth literature?
Whatever the heck that is.
It's scandalous and clearly a sign that racism is alive and well in America, not to mention academia.
And then she says, but topping the list in terms of sheer political partisanship and liberal hackery is Tasha B. Levy.
According to the Chronicle, quote, Ms. Levy is interested in examining the long tradition of black Republicanism, especially the rightward ideological shift it took in the 1980s after the election of Ronald Reagan.
Ms. Levy's dissertation argues that conservatives like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, John McWhorter, and others have played one of the most significant roles in the assault on the civil rights legacy that benefited them.
End of quotes.
The assault on civil rights, because they don't favor affirmative action and they're assaulting, because they don't support affirmative action, they're assaulting civil rights.
Because they believe there are some fundamental problems in black culture that cannot be blamed on white people, they are assaulting civil rights.
And then she ends it with, if these young scholars are the future of the discipline, I think they can just as well leave their calendars at 1963 and let some legitimate scholars find solutions to the problems of blacks in America.
Solutions that don't begin and end with blaming the white man.
All right, that brings us to a massively boring and repetitive examination of the hunchback of Notre Dame that goes on forever.
And it's using a video that I've already discussed.
So you may want to just go get a coffee at this point.
Or a beer.
Let's get a beer.
I need the sword to be king.
No one shall wield the sword.
No one shall wield Excalibur.
But me, King Arthur, swing, swing, swing.
Remember that phase when you were 10 and you were really into the Knights of the Round Table and Excalibur and King Arthur?
He was, of course, the leader of Britain in the, I think, 500 AD.
Long time ago.
But medieval literature included him in the matter of Britain, which was the seminal sort of document, semi-fictional historical look at this time in Britain's history where King Arthur beat back the Saxons swing knights.
And, you know, I blame the Vikings because in British history, you have like Loch Ness and a lot of monsters and dragons being slain.
That was a Viking thing.
I think the Vikings influenced this.
But anyway, in The Matter of Britain, which is a series of books that came out in the 12th century discussing this king from the 6th century, and it was also very big in the 19th century, there's the Lady of the Lake, and she gives him Excalibur.
Interesting.
Remember the movie Excalibur?
I think it came out in the 80s.
Have you got that?
Swing!
Get him!
I'm a knight!
Swing faith to me!
I think that's Excalibur.
Looks nicer than me.
I'm a knight!
swear face to a squire!
Emma!
Emma!
Ah!
Look at the cool masks.
You're right.
I'm not yet a knight.
You Irians will knight me.
There is night tonight.
I can't offer you your mercy.
Mario getting sucked into it.
You know, my son was really into nights.
And we went to the museum and they were fixing the display.
And I said, well, can he not just sort of peer over the rope?
And they go, sorry, sir, get out.
And they went, oh, that was kind of a bummer.
And it was all hot.
And we're at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
And then he kind of lost interest.
And I just thought, just because you assholes, you could have done this on a Sunday.
But because you shut down the night display, my son lost interest.
I'm worried with this pandemic, he's losing interest in baseball because he's just playing basketball by himself.
St. George.
He's a knight.
I'll give you the right to bear arms and the power to meet justice.
That duty I will solemnly obey.
As knight.
All right, anyway.
If you are black in America, this isn't necessarily something that you recognize and you see people in.
If you are an albino, you also will have to not see yourself in this story.
I'm sorry.
When I look at the history of King Tut and I want to get into the Egyptians, I don't look like Anthony Cumia.
I don't look like a Sicilian, which is what the Arabs looked like.
The We WizKangs did not look black.
They looked Sicilian.
But I can still enjoy these stories.
You can be black and still play knights in the backyard.
You're only 15% of the population, so you're not going to look like 100% of the people.
But there is this myth, see it to be it, where women have to see badasses so they can be a badass.
And blacks can't enjoy Hamilton unless everyone in the cast is Black and Hispanic.
Okay, now I can look at the founding fathers, now that they look like me.
Do we get this from people with intense freckles?
What about the guy from System of a Down who has that giant long possum nose?
He doesn't look like anyone anywhere ever in history.
He doesn't look like a human being.
Do we have to start casting giant noses?
Look at his nose.
And these are pictures he chose.
Sometimes, though, they'll catch it.
It's the biggest nose in music.
So, see it to be it.
And you know what was funny about Hamilton, too?
That was all these blacks and Hispanics portraying American history.
God knows why.
And even my conservative friends say, well, at least it's getting blacks and Hispanics interested in history.
Really?
Do they have $700 for a ticket?
It's whites.
Whites can only, they're so steeped in guilt that they can only enjoy their own history if you change the players.
So Netflix has a King Arthur coming out.
Right?
Where is it now?
Yeah, it's called, is it Netflix that's putting it out?
Yeah, it's called Cursed.
It's actually focusing on the Lady of the Lake who gave King Arthur his sword.
But King Arthur is black in this one because the King Arthur thing with the white guy, blacks can't really identify with that.
I don't believe you.
I think this is done for whites.
Whites hate themselves so much that they would prefer to see their legendary heroes as blacks because they see it as like a charity.
It's a racist charity where you go, hey, Negro, here's some of my incredible history.
Ah, now I can enjoy it.
I'm spreading it around.
The 1% of the medieval history is the 60.
Well, sorry, my chink inpox is affecting the show.
So, you know, you'd say your first instinct when you see this is, okay, I'm not outraged.
It's just an actor playing a role.
It's kind of distracting.
Like, Walt Disney was called racist because he didn't want black people in castle roles in Disney because he said it would pull you out of it to see a black guy.
So there's an element of that.
But that's not what pisses me off.
If we were all in an even playing field, then I'd say, go Benenes.
I'm sorry.
Ryan made me try spam from his lunch right before this, and I'm not used to eating dog food.
So it really tickles the throat, that Purina.
What pisses me off is that the reverse is unfathomable.
And I'm sorry to my devout viewers who have already seen this clip a hundred times.
I apologize for repeating myself.
I talked about this a lot last year.
No, you're going way ahead, Rye Guy.
The hunchback of Notre Dame.
So in Utica, New York, which is the exact same demographics as the entire country.
It's 15% black, 65% white.
There's a bunch of half-white Hispanics, more dark Hispanics.
They had a play, and they did auditions.
This is at their high school.
They did casting for the Esmeralda, the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Now, you're familiar with this French play.
It's about the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
He's a deformed guy at the Notre Dame Church.
And one of his allies is a woman who is half-gypsy, half-white.
Now, if you want to know what a half-gypsy, half-white person looks like in real life, it looks like Kennedy from Fox Business.
This is Esmeralda.
That is such a foxy picture that Kennedy put on her book, isn't it?
Tabernouche.
She's like a triathlete.
And I guess she thought, I'm not going to have this body forever.
I might as well stick it on my fucking book and show people that I may look nerdy, but I am actually a smokeshow if I want to be.
She's a Benjamin Button babe in that she's getting hotter as she gets older.
But anyway, look at her.
Very Caucasian.
You can see the gypsy in there, but she could also pass for white.
She could pass for white or gypsy.
That's the beauty of half and half.
Usually when she's depicted in paintings and stuff, she looks like this.
No, no.
Come on, Ryan.
Please work with me here, buddy.
Yeah.
This is typically how Esmeralda looks.
A slightly swarthy white girl.
Now, this girl could even be northern.
She could be any white girl.
We have these in Ireland.
We have them in Germany.
They're called brunettes, and they're not black.
Now, Disney wanted to up their diversity figures.
So when they depict her, they sort of, they take the contrast down a bit and pump up the brown.
Have you got a Disney Esmeralda?
And especially at nighttime, they can kind of look black.
Now, because we are living in a totally uneducated time, where most people are probably not even surprised by King Arthur being black, this is now taken as fact.
And so Disney's version of Esmeralda is now Esmeralda, right?
Forget the past, forget the actual story.
And I guess the long hair means she has a weave or something or like shouldn't, shouldn't Indians be up in arms?
That looks Indian to me.
Anyway, so in Utica, New York, they cast, I think it was junior high.
No, no, sorry, junior year.
They cast a white girl as Esmeralda.
Now, as we saw from Kennedy, that's not a big deal.
I've seen this girl because the dad told me about it.
This is, I don't want to show her face because I want to respect her privacy.
And by the way, she was brutalized for this, totally harassed.
She ended up just capitulating and going, I know, I hated it.
I didn't want the role.
She quit the role from all the shit she got in.
But this is a younger version of her.
And that's what she looks like.
Okay?
So we're not talking like Aryan Brotherhood, fucking white chick with blue eyes and long blonde hair.
She was a brunette.
Does this look so different from Kennedy?
Now, imagine this girl.
She's 11.
Imagine her at 14, 15.
That's Esmeralda.
And we can put A black wig on her if that makes you feel better.
But no.
Americans, stupid fucking Americans, have convinced themselves that Esmeralda is black, and to depict her as white is to diminish the black experience.
Are you grasping this now?
So we handed you a bone and made Esmeralda darker to make you feel better.
And now, if she's depicted closer to the original story, you're offended.
That's the part that pisses me off.
I don't mind that you did a black version of the honeymooners or even that you're making King Arthur black.
It said if we made Conan O'Brien MLK, you would have a fucking heart attack.
Now, here is a video.
It's really hard to find, and I've shown it on the show before.
I'm sort of committing a sin here because I don't like to show things twice.
But King Arthur's in the news because it's just coming out soon.
And no one's really complaining about it.
And I thought, I have to show this again.
It's one of my favorite videos.
It's three hours long, so we will not be going through all three hours.
But I have a time stamp there, Ryan.
Is that the first time stamp?
Here, zoom out so people can see what it is.
ICSD BOE meeting, Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018.
And there's no comments.
So they're trying to hide it.
But yeah, just pull it up.
Okay, we'll go back to the beginning.
The first guy that comes out.
I hate every single person in this video.
So here, you know how we spend, just stop.
You know how we spend so much money on education?
A lot of it goes to teachers.
Teachers are overpaid.
I know they only make 50K a year, 60K, 70, 80.
It goes up to 80 pretty fast.
But they get off four months a year in holidays.
Two of them are in a row.
Can you imagine that?
That's a pandemic for you every year.
But a lot of the money goes to these assholes, the administrators.
Zoom out.
I'm just going to put Zoom out on a post-it note on your desk.
So this, by the way, look at the kerning on his name tag.
Everything they do is unprofessional.
And look how much he's enjoying this.
This is like his time in the sun.
This is why he exists.
I've got my water bottle.
I'm all ready to rock here.
Let me go to the next guy.
Who's this now?
Turn it up.
So I'm not intending to mispronounce anyone's name.
First is Peterson.
Pause.
So he says, I want to apologize.
I'm going to be pronouncing names wrong.
You couldn't have checked people's names before you did this, gone up to them and said, how do I pronounce this?
Again, look at the kerning on this name tag.
It's illegible.
They are incompetent to the core.
I bet these water bottles are wrong.
I bet they're warm.
So let's see.
He introduces the first speaker.
Okay.
Let's go.
Next would be Sarah Chalmers.
Got it.
My apologies first is Christian Henry, and then is Professor Henderson.
Hi, so I'm Christian Henry.
I'm the freshman user theater meter at high school.
I went through the theater department here at high school and through middle school.
And I want to say first that Bob Winnings is not a racist.
I am half black.
I grew up with my father, one of eight children.
We have grown up below the poverty line.
It wasn't until I got to sixth grade that missed.
So it's also a university town, which is why it's so radical.
But you got Malcolm X here.
Look at this brother doing that like, yo, let's get drop some serious science here.
All these angry NAACP types.
And then just guilty white liberals drenched in shame.
And this gay mulatto is here to tell you that that girl getting that role, this is fucking ninth grade.
I'm sorry the picture was too young.
I didn't want to show her now.
This is ninth grade.
And there's a three-hour meeting that looks like it's got about 70 people to complain about this horrible thing Utic has done.
And then those administrators, they love this because it justifies their job more.
So they sit there getting informed on what a crime has just gone on.
Mr. Winan saw any kind of potential in me because he saw that I love music and I love theater.
And through him, he gave me the opportunity and the support to actually pursue it into the collegiate area of my life and onto a career.
It wasn't until he sat down and said, Christian, you know you're talented.
You know you have passion.
You'll notice a trend here, by the way, with leftist meetings.
And I infiltrated Black Lives Matter with Project Veritas before I was too famous to do such things.
And there was like 40 people there.
Before they started the meeting, they all introduced themselves and talked a little bit about themselves.
Why?
All of these people introduce themselves, say who they are, what their background was.
We know how many siblings this guy had.
We know his dad's name.
We know a conversation he had with his dad.
We know that he took drama in college and now it's a quote-unquote career.
So that you can do whatever you put your mind to, that I felt like I could finally give myself the potential that I knew I had with no other.
It wasn't until he believed in me that I believed in myself.
And I know I'm not the only one that's done that.
Joelle Pain, Crusoe Simone, Fatima Sou, Malama Sacconi, they all are prominent POC that group in the ICSD that have been supported onto their bigger benchmarks.
Doesn't POC sound like POS to you, like pieces of shit?
I thought black was a lot cooler.
...with Nate Parker, with Kristen Zyrowski.
I think right now we're in an area where we're mad at everything.
We're mad with the president.
We're mad with the government.
We're mad with the people who believe that POC and POC are lesser, but we're at a time in our life where we have to separate our anger and with what's the problem.
Right now, we're not doing that.
I think it's easy to say Mr. Winans is a racist, and I think it's easy to just be mad at him and point him as a problem, and the problem doesn't start with him.
And according to the dad that sent me this, the girl who got the role was light years above.
It's a very difficult role.
You got to memorize all the lines.
You got to sing your ass off.
What are you looking up?
Oh.
Don't look her up.
And no one came close to her.
So he's like, all right, we'll put a black wig on her.
It'll be a great show.
Nope.
She has to be Tarana Burke.
Actually, Tarana Burke ended up playing the hunchback.
The actual tumor on the hunchback's back.
The guy just put her on a in a backpack.
In the hunch face of Notre Dame.
Anyway, that guy's boring.
So he says why we're living in a race of time.
Meanwhile, this professor, she looks like she was unbelievably stunning at 20, and then someone married her, and then she just turned into like a bag of bowling balls.
And she just like her ass spills out all over the place.
Anyway, go to her.
She's next.
Look at the eager Asians in the front row.
They're not mad.
They look more like Esmeralda than she does.
Good evening.
Thank you, Dr. Brown, for allowing me to speak at this meeting tonight.
I will be as brief as I possibly can.
My name is Cynthia Henderson.
I'm a professor of acting at Ithaca College, an actor, a writer, a director, and the founder and director of Performing Arts for Social Change.
I'm speaking tonight because I have been informed that my words in meetings and conversations are being adjusted to fit the agenda of others.
Are we not adult enough just to sit down and explain our problem to someone?
Why does this have to be scripted?
And what the fuck is a professor of acting?
World's easiest job.
So as you hear me tonight, I ask that you can't.
She can't wait.
She's next.
She can't wait.
I hold the adult decision makers accountable for this situation we found ourselves in again.
Again.
It is our shared responsibility for the message.
This is a big part of modern American society.
Middle-aged women just on the edge of menopause chastising men.
I guess they lose their libido.
I don't know where they get this.
Maybe they're teachers.
Maybe they're used to treating everyone like little kids.
But they have this really patronizing tone when it comes to the patriarchy.
Can't you see the bag of bowling balls that's going on down here?
Like those are just rolling all over the place.
Whoever married her got ripped off, maybe that's why he left.
We teach our children.
I applaud and support our marginalized young people for the stand they are taking.
Likewise, I care for and wish to help this become a true teaching moment for their more privileged peers.
This can also be a teaching and learning opportunity for the adult decision makers.
The tone-deaf taxing practices in the ICSD and beyond is a very important thing.
Did I spill red wine on a white rug?
Cool solution.
I'm not just talking.
I'm here to work with you.
I have an international profile.
and qualified and willing to step up and do the necessary work to facilitate...
Ooh, you hear that?
She wants a job out of this.
Maybe she could be a consultant.
Maybe we could pay you $40,000, $50,000 a year to come into our school once a month.
And just see who we chose as various leaders.
And you could just say, actually, Esmeralda is black as coal.
So you're going to need someone with an afro for that.
To get to the root of this issue, but both sides need to be willing to truly be in the room together.
It's just an opportunity for these boring hags to showboat and borazole with their bullshit.
I've watched this entire thing.
There is not one iota of consequential information in this entire thing.
It is 100% rhetoric and motherhood statements.
All of those pieces of paper you see are just, I am prepared to start a discussion with marginalized people and those who are privileged.
Both can learn from this.
We can work together to identify the problem and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Go to the next show.
over my son as he navigated...
As he navigates.
She's got it on her phone.
Six-year-old son.
Like all parents, we teach our child what we think he six-year-old son, you don't count.
My name is Sarah Chalmers, and I'm here to support the students who are standing up for equity in the Athena City School District.
I'm a parent, a teacher, and a theater maker.
With my husband, Godfrey Simmons, I help run Civic Ensemble, a theater company here in Ithaca.
Godfrey is working play tonight in Bayhamton, or he would be here with us.
Just pause.
Are these little introductions to say that my two cents is worth more than the others here?
I'm an expert in the field.
Are they all looking for a gig out of this?
By the way, we're what, 14 minutes into a three-hour video?
I'm not going to go through the whole thing.
We'll see how long we can take before we get bored, but I'm pretty patient.
The young people here standing up so passionately and eloquently should be heard with sincerity.
It might be hard to imagine.
The other people here speaking so passionately and eloquently.
When she wrote that, she hadn't heard anyone speaking yet.
So she's assuming they're going to be speaking passionately and eloquently.
And then she says they deserve to be heard.
The fuck does that mean?
Is she implying that we live in a, that Utica, New York is so racist that we don't think black people, just like Sharia law doesn't think women have a right to be heard.
We're like, yeah, I'll have a meeting.
I don't want any Negroes, though.
They don't have a right to be heard.
And same with women and young people.
They don't have a right to be heard.
I only want to hear, I don't know why I'm doing a Spanish accent.
I only want to hear from white dudes.
Only white dudes can be at this meeting.
No one else deserves to be heard.
What are you talking about?
This is what exhausts me about woman politics.
There's nothing there.
It's like if you're super hungry for a steak dinner and they just serve you like the powder from a bag of smart pop.
Are you sure?
Uh-oh.
Well, now we got to look up the demographics of Ithaca.
Imagine what it would mean if we took their determined teas seriously.
While walking back, what we've already said or done is messy and painful and confusing.
Imagine what it would mean to all the students if we made a commitment to end this cycle that Cynthia is talking about.
What if we listened to them?
Godfrey and I have a brown-skinned six-year-old son.
Like all parents, we teach our child what we think he needs to learn.
In other words, I'm such a dumb feminist that I waited too long and my ovaries dried up and I had to adopt a Mexican.
But luckily, I can now use that to complain about racism.
By the way, this is a pattern, according to them.
Black roles keep being given to white people.
That's why we need a three-hour meeting because it happened again.
Bull shit.
I will bet my fucking bottom dollar.
What is it now?
Yeah, it's, I mean, they're right next to each other, right?
Actually, there's less blacks.
Utica is 15% black.
This is only 7% black.
But the whites are about the same.
So they have even less of a case here.
Between what we teach our son and what our white neighbors teach their children.
Parents of middle and upper class white children prepare those children to inherit the world.
I know I was so taught.
But now, I'm the mother of a little brown boy, and we teach him that the world is his birthright and that he will be discriminated against.
Good.
Parenting.
Hey, can we call child services, please, and say that these white people are making their fucking poor Mexican adopted kid paranoid?
And the thing I was saying earlier is I would, I'll bet my fucking house that there was no other example in Ithaca New York high school of a black role going to a white student.
This whole again shit, what was it, roots?
Was roots all white people?
Was it the history of Oprah Winfrey and they gave it to some fucking freckle-faced ginger?
Will be targeted for death.
White and that he will be targeted for death.
Is it black when she says brown?
They always mean Hispanic, right?
Or do they sometimes mean black with brown?
It's hard to hear.
It's painful.
I don't want it to be that way.
I want to soften it.
I want to teach him that thing that I was taught.
Yeah, you should, you stupid bitch.
But the current reality doesn't bear that out.
The world as it is now is not meant for my son or for these young people of color.
Young kid in Ithaca, New York.
You're going to be doing great in 2020.
You will not be shot on the street for being brown.
Okay?
This is not fucking Alabama in the 40s.
Don't listen to your crazy bitch, Jewish mom.
She's a mental patient and she adopted you as a fashion accoutrement.
She's your biggest enemy, believe it or not.
As white people, we're all at different stages of understanding what this means or even believing that it's true.
Oh, look, she's a drama major, so she can read from a script and give it some oomph.
All right, let's give her a little bit more, but then I want the next one.
Why are they all wearing black?
Those of us who think our system is a meritocracy may be confused or angered by the suggestion that there is a double standard based on skin color.
Pause.
Isn't that perfect?
This is the whole point of this video, is that we are living in a meritocracy, and there is a double standard when it comes to rules.
Conan can never play MLK.
You can't even have a white girl play a half-white girl.
But you can make a black guy King Arthur and no one dare makes a peep.
Now my name's come up as someone who might get it, someone who may be able to help navigate these challenges.
But here's the thing.
I have done some work of dismantling my own racism, but I will never be finished.
I will never stop learning, making mistakes, and going to the bottom.
That's what depresses me.
Whites will never get over this self-hatred and this boring guilt.
Can you, you know, I was thinking the other day?
Can you imagine Obama was shot?
How much we'd be hearing about that for the next 200 years?
If someone went to shoot Obama, I would have jumped and no.
Just so we didn't have to hear about it for eternity.
Go ahead.
Technically, theater should be taught by a theater-certified teacher.
Theater-certified.
Or by the equipment.
No offense, lady.
Theater's bullshit.
Acting is easy.
It doesn't matter what it is in high school.
And we just want to choose someone who really tries and knows how to sing.
And any fucking plebe off the street can tell if a little kid can sing.
People were committed to colorblind casting.
What that meant was that though most of the shows were written to have all-white casts, or at least that's what I assumed, the directors were open to casting non-white actors.
But just things were different.
It was clear that the creative team, led by Holly Adams and Tom Peterson, were committed to actively making the theater program a place for everyone.
They went out of the way to make sure teens of color knew the theater department not only had to drum up the courage to walk into that environment.
It was clear that the adults in charge wanted us there, wanted everyone to know how many stories that we had.
What would you rather do?
Eat a large black cricket that's alive or sit through this.
Yeah, I mean the ones with the big arms that really would crunch, those big, huge ones.
The ones that jump at you when you go near them.
Okay, what would you rather do?
Take a rat and slowly just kill it with one hand, your left hand.
I don't know how you're going to do it.
Maybe choke it out.
It's going to be like trying to bite you and scratch.
Kill a rat with your left hand.
And you can't just like punch on the ground.
I put it in your hand.
Now you have to kill it.
Do that or sit through this.
I would sit through this.
I'm actually kind of enjoying it.
This is bizarre.
Wouldn't it be awesome if I was next and I said, hey, what the fuck is everyone talking about?
Well, first of all, my name is Gavin McInnes.
I'm a provocateur, a political pundit, a funny man.
And I have a history of quarter century in media.
Also, as far as acting in theater goes, I've been watching movies since I was a very young man.
I'm married to a woman of color, and I have three red children.
And I tell my red children, by the way, they're going to be shot by cowboys at any moment now.
I couldn't help but notice that Esmeralda's half white.
And the other half is pretty white too.
It's Romanian, so not exactly black.
So basically, as white as Italians and every other sort of non-Northern European white person, as white as a Greek, for that matter.
And we're mad that she's not a fucking black chick from Africa.
That has nothing to do with the story, Hunchback in Notre Dame.
So why are we torturing this poor white girl and making every single move about race?
And also, I'd just like to say to everyone here, are you mad at a Black King Arthur?
Or what about all the other blackified things like the whiz with Michael Jackson or all these other white characters?
What about Hamilton?
Did Hamilton offend you?
And if so, why not?
Thank you very much.
I'm the young Indian woman who wrote the letter which sparked a flame in so many.
The letter that resulted in so many students and adults contacting me, telling me their stories.
She is the head of the student council.
It's one Indian girl with the weird Indian name and then some other Sikh girl with obviously the last name Singh.
So despite Indians, East Indians representing what?
1%, 2% of the population, they represent 100% of the student council.
Do they even have Indians in there is included in Asians?
That's not race, right?
okay thank you White, black, Asian, American Indian, Native, Hawaiian, mixed race.
Yeah, so they're lumped in with the Asians.
I never wanted to be an activist, but I'm an activist now because I have to take a stand and take a stand now on behalf of all the people who have shared their stories with me.
I was hoping after my letter was embraced and possible.
Did she try out as for Esmeralda?
She definitely looks more like Esmeralda than a black girl.
...by so many in our community, you would admit your mistake, learn from it, and do the right thing.
City of Ithaca, please hear me.
This is what has happened instead...
I think everyone here wants a job.
This is a giant job interview.
Adult administrators threatened us all week.
You plan to talk to all the students, many of color, who bravely signed the letter and bring them individually into a room so you could confront us.
You say this was not going to be intimidation, but everyone knows the best way to stop a movement is by threats, isolation, and fear.
Threats.
This is about intimidation?
Why is the entire town in this room talking about it for three hours?
Are we really trying to silence you?
I think we should.
I wish that was the case.
All right, she's boring.
And I'm getting so sick of these people reading.
Just think of your main points like me.
Let's look at shitty Kerning again.
I bet he fucks up.
No, go back to the black guy.
I am here because I'm not comfortable yet.
There we go.
Just so we can hear the end.
It's time to take a stand.
Let's take a stand.
Please tell your story on social media.
Stop casting black roles and giving black roles to white people.
Let's make this hashtag stand now.
It happens all the time.
No more silence.
No more waiting.
Stand now.
Can I make a suggestion?
Just pause?
How would the community feel about taking this white girl that got the role and lynching her?
We can hang her from a tree until the tree rots and it's just a spine hanging there.
And yes, it's going to smell terrible, but the smell and the look, it'll remind all our senses that we're living in a culture of systemic racism.
And this can't happen again.
This girl cannot be allowed to live.
I say we get pitchforks and torches and we go to her house tonight and chase her out of her house.
She's a fucking monster who stole black culture from us.
You know that black story that came from France 200 years ago?
Stop it now.
My name is Praji Rewina and I'm not alone.
What an ending.
Love it.
Tap that lap.
Okay, the turning came.
Scroll a little bit.
Oh.
My name is Annabella McVancourt.
Intro.
Here at Ithaca High School.
I am here because I believe the ICSD has been failing students of color for years and has been failing to educate children on issues of race for years.
It is time for this to end.
I've been upsured by theater my whole life.
I've witnessed how theater can change lives and tell stories.
I see now how easy it is to make this.
Have you noticed there's a trend here in America too?
If blacks aren't into something, then we're doing it wrong.
Like camping.
I've seen people say we need to change the way we market camping because blacks don't seem into it.
Maybe blacks just aren't into it.
I'm not into that Chinese music, that old-timey Chinese music.
I don't like that.
Do we need to work on that?
Is that something we need to change?
Space for everyone.
I can't eat oysters.
Should we work on that?
Do we need to make people more aware of how important oysters are?
Because they are delicious.
My dad loves them.
He won't show up.
They taste like pussy, he says.
Seen how beauty can come from showcasing diverse actors and their diverse stories.
ICSD could do this.
What about the hunchback of Notre Dame?
Not to.
Did they cast an able-bodied person as what is his name?
What about the hunchback?
Does he have a normal back?
What are we saying here?
And if you can't find someone who's physically deformed, what about someone with severe autism or a Peyroni's disease or a hemorrhoid?
You know, it should be someone or maybe a learning disability who can't learn their lines.
That's a disability like a hunchback.
We need to be heard.
I need to get into this meeting.
Opportunity after opportunity to acknowledge your mistakes and own up to the reality of your white-centered program that you've created.
You have done nothing.
Instead of accepting your mistakes and working for change, you try to scare us and shut us down.
You offer us only hollow words and lip service.
You use your powerful intimidation and you use your power for intimidation, not education.
Scare tactics.
Clearly.
You know what?
I'm not totally adverse to the possibility that these guys were acting communist about it and trying to shut them down.
Now, they were right to want to do that, because this is a ridiculous argument.
But I'm also open to the idea that the school administration are a bunch of fucking fascist commies that try to extinguish dissent.
It's just that in this case, they happen to be correct.
Not support.
On January 19th, you brought the only three students of color who are the leaders of this movement and not their white counterparts Into a room alone, why them?
Did you think that you could intimidate them?
Did you think having a black?
This is the logic here.
So they go, Look, we want to hear voices of color.
Here, you, here, you, voices of color, come here.
Why didn't you invite the white people?
You thought now that the blacks are alone, you could scare them and torment them?
Of course, they can't say black because there's not enough blacks in that community.
So say people of color, and they can include the rich Indian and Sikh girl who grew up with a nanny and a maid and a personal driver.
Are they also scolding people of color for not auditioning and not representing themselves enough?
And not giving a shit about the hunchback in Notre Dame?
Act school board member there would lull them into a false sense of security.
Do you really think we trust you?
Really?
The four core values of IHF.
How much more of this can we take?
I've already done this video, by the way.
Really?
So I think we've done half of it.
Oh, an actual almost black person.
My name is Maddie Carroll, and I'm a senior edifice.
I'm here because, as a black woman, I have gotten the short end of the stick my entire life.
Not a dinner.
The only time I don't get the short end is in fast food restaurants.
I thought the arts was going to be the one exception to this, and I was wrong.
The actions of the Ithaca City School District and Robert Wymans have made me feel more targeted than ever before.
Many white people might not believe what I'm about to say, but I want to give context to musicals are a symptom of a much larger problem the adults have refused to acknowledge or honestly address.
I can't possibly tell all of them, but I will give you just two examples.
When I was in the seventh grade, I was walking into school and there were two boys behind me.
I never saw their face.
Seventh grade, so we're talking 11-year-olds.
So she's about to tell us something inappropriate and stupid an 11-year-old said.
Okay.
Faces, but they said very loudly, making sure I could hear.
You know why I hate Black History Month?
Because niggers like her feel important.
I cried in the bathroom alone for two hours and then I finally told my parents.
We all went to the house.
Wait a minute.
An 11-year-old said something stupid and ignorant and racist and you cried in the bathroom for two hours.
You know what 11-year-olds say about fat people, gays, people with zits on their face, their mom, their teacher?
You know what they call each other?
11-year-old boys are very inappropriate and say dumb shit.
No need to cry for two hours and use it to describe how your life has been a living hell.
And we were told that nothing could be done about it because I didn't know who they were.
This was an option.
Yeah, well, what do you want me to do about it?
They said they couldn't do anything to the purpose because they had no idea who they were and you don't even know either.
So what the fuck should I just kill every white kid in the school?
And what if it was two black kids?
So we'll just kill, are you sure they were male?
Why don't we just kill every other person in the school and you can just be the only person at this school?
Then you'll never hear anything inappropriate.
Educate white children throughout the school on race.
It was ignored.
In terms of musicals, when I was in the eighth grade at 13 years old, I was cast in Cinderella as the fairy godmother.
Once we started rehearsals, why are we giving these white roles to children of color?
The fairy godmother in Cinderella is clearly white.
And what we're having here is a blackwashing of a seminal Disney and German story.
Cinderella goes back hundreds of years.
There was no black people in it.
And old fat white ladies who are magic are being erased from society.
This is the fairy godmother.
And this is how much, oh, I care about your bullshit racism.
She's making the okay symbol sideways, which means not only is she a white supremacist, but she wants non-white supremacists to die.
I was constantly told to act like Queen Latifah, to act sassy, to mimic a black stereotype.
I am nothing like Queen Latifah.
I'm not a black woman.
So let me just get this straight.
They gave a white role to a black woman and then said, and don't white it up.
We're not looking for a white face here.
You be as be super black for all I care.
Be like Queen Latifah.
We want to blackify this role.
Now, that's stupid, inappropriate.
They got it wrong, but they're from upstate New York.
These towns are between Albany and Syracuse.
They're not that far from Canada.
So they're not really used to black people.
And they want to be cool, hence this three-hour meeting.
So they go out of their way.
And sure, they trip on themselves.
And they say, be like Queen Latifah.
Wouldn't that be cool?
Like, do you think that their goal was malicious here?
And they're like, jump around like a Negro and have a banana and stuff and be all like Negro-y.
Obviously not.
So her real problem with story number two is that someone kissed her ass too much.
So we have 11-year-olds say inappropriate, stupid shit, and white liberals trip over themselves trying to appease me.
Tough lag.
This is your dad.
20 kids of color have come forward and said that they had a good experience with Winans.
Given the hundreds of students who have been through the theater program, this number should speak for itself.
20 kids?
Really?
That's your evidence?
Yes.
There are few children of color every year who Mr. Winens takes an interest in who were tokenized as an example of diversity.
Of course you had a great period.
If he made Esmeralda black, she would be tokenized.
All right, that's enough.
Here's the big picture here.
This is why I don't like all of this tedious name replacing and putting black people where white people are and never putting white people where black people are.
Because Hamilton, King Arthur, and this bullshit three-hour meeting, which I highly recommend you watch.
Put it on in the background.
And every four minutes you go, but it's racist.
It's racist to hand out things like it's some sort of gift.
Here, I have this giant wealth chest of British history.
I'm going to hand it over to you.
The Scots were tormented by the English for 700 years.
I'm not offended by King Arthur.
I'm intrigued.
I'm fascinated by his story and how it blends itself into this over-the-top folklore of dragons and Lady of the Lake and magic swords and knights.
It's fascinating.
I can also be fascinated by samurais and Japanese history.
You don't need to Appease me by putting wrinkly old alcoholics with grover bodies, big mustaches, and no chin into all their stories.
I don't need to see it to be it.
And you don't need to patronize me.
That's what I hate about all this bullshit, this patronizing.
It's fucking racist.
It's fucking racist.
It's embarrassing that I got Ithaca mixed up with Utica, but they're all an hour from Syracuse.
They're all college towns.
Ithaca has Cornell.
They're all the same, basically the same demographic.
I think the students really skew the demographics because upstate New York's pretty darn white.
But, you know, if I was a true artist, I would have just gone through those whole three hours and made this a five-hour show.
But I got to balance it with what's interesting.
So what's dramatic and funny and weird, like doing it all three hours would look cool if you looked over the year of shows.
And you're like, remember that one show where he went through a whole three-hour town hall and examined every single one?
Jesus, that went on forever.
But then I also want you to enjoy this particular episode.
Anyway, sorry to make this such a blacky episode, such a raceity race, race, race episode, but you started it.
Jesus.
You started it by making King Arthur Black.
I believe you, Tara Reed.
What a cunt.
All right, you ready for some mail?
Ryan, shut up, you don't have a dance.
Let's turn our eyes together's mailbag.
Let me touch it.
You ready?
Oh, yeah.
Guys, this is a very depressing update, but I've got some intel about the hot Latina from Hobbs and Shaw.
There was once a soap opera from Mexico called Lola.
Here's the main protagonist.
As hard as it is to believe, that is Elza Gonzalez.
All of her newfound hotness and success is the result of nip and tuck, plastic, and Botox.
They did a great job, though, so she is worthy eye candy.
That's got to be a 2.3 deduction in my book to a 7.6.
I kind of like her better with her weird schnaz.
You know?
I don't like when a woman's chin is so good.
Maybe I'm jealous or something, but you know when they have that strong masculine chin.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's cheating.
Erect it.
I want to do a whole audio podcast on having babies.
And let me be specific here.
There was a story many years ago about this Chinese guy who was suing, his Chinese wife is in China, obviously, for not telling him that he had Botox, that she had Botox and Nipintock and all this stuff.
And everyone said, that's so fucking absurd.
What he's suing her for being secretly ugly?
It's not that crazy.
Because what is attraction?
Attraction is a big part of it is I want to have beautiful children.
So if you're married to a hot chick and you have ugly kids, you've kind of been gypped.
And then it got me thinking about, and I don't really have an opinion on this, what are the parameters of ethics?
Like, what if you have this crippling multiple sclerosis and your kid is guaranteed going to get it?
You shouldn't have a kid.
If you're a single mom and you want to have a baby, you shouldn't have a kid because you're starting your child off with a disadvantage.
Now we start getting into a gray area.
Like, what about a midget?
What if you're deaf?
What if you have that weird face thing?
What about a cleft palette?
That's a disadvantage.
It's not a big disadvantage, but it's a disadvantage.
So I want to explore that, but it would take like an hour and a half to really sit down and get into it.
Dear Gavin, I purchased your book electronically a while back.
And when I listened to your audio book, I thought I'd like to purchase a physical copy from Amazon.
I checked your website.
You don't sell your own book on your website?
You should sell signed copies of your book like Milo does.
I'm sure fans would love to have those.
Also, a few weeks back, I suggested you started selling Don't Let Me Do Shots or Coke shirts.
Oh, I should write that down on my to-do list.
Don't let me shirts.
You bought up a list of shirts two separate times since then and didn't mention this one.
Just write it down and take my money.
Done.
This is from Tom.
Portland Antifa member trying to sue his own grandmother.
You should probably watch the show.
Oh, no.
Covered this.
From Michael.
Gav, your special needs helper, Ryan, is addicted to drugs and does weed.
Found this old pic of him.
P.S. A return of Miles, live chats or bits, would widely be appreciated.
I'm sure.
Don't worry.
I've already shoved that suggestion right at my own ass and shouted in the garbage.
I don't really like Miles anymore.
I guess I should bring him back.
What do you think, Ryan?
Well, it's his family, you know?
Gavin McLava Arse and Ryan Awesome Sauce.
Why does Guy on a Buffalo make me think of you two clowns?
Why are you so entertaining?
Got any music thoughts on Jomo and the possum pussy?
Possum posse?
This is a four-part video of Guy on a Buffalo.
Looks like the damn show notes.
Get these lined up.
We're not going to show them all.
I always thought that was so cool that a guy could ride a buffalo.
Hell yeah.
I've seen a bear.
And he thought to himself.
Men were men.
He's riding a fucking buffalo round.
I hear they're real ornery, too.
Like they'll kick your ass.
Yeah, probably.
They're not easily domesticated, those things.
Fuck off, bear.
Wow.
This is from Brock.
My conspiracy theory is Ryan doesn't have Lyme disease, but he has a second job as a pool boy in the West Village.
I became suspicious when he wore his gay romper to work.
Then I started thinking about his behavior on the show.
He's always tired.
His back hurts.
He's mentally deficient and his second job uniform, a.k.a.
the romper, that makes him look like a Thai ladyboy.
Lyme is a cover for all this.
He's tired.
His back hurts because he's getting drilled at a minimum of three to five to five times a day, five days a week.
The reason he's so stupid is because of all the cum his body has absorbed, which has turned him into a vame, Self-primping whore.
That's not a bad theory.
It's not true.
This is from Caleb.
Hey guys, I'm a Red Pill District teacher who studied colonialism in my undergrad watching yesterday's episode.
I had a thought when you mentioned the root of American culture coming from different parts of Britain.
Isn't it odd how colonialism is seen as so horrible by the left when it is hardly different from globalism?
Yeah.
I would argue colonialism was nothing more than the movement of people which led to conflict as a result of clashing cultures and options.
And these people were only looking for freedom while escaping tyranny.
In other words, early colonists were like refugees to the new world.
Well, isn't it two things?
In fact, wasn't America two things?
Two different settlements around the same time?
There was Colonial Williamsburg, which was the British government saying, look, I know Spain owns this, but let's go there, steal some gold.
If they look like they're going to kill us and we'll lose, then we'll leave.
But if it looks like we can overpower them, we'll just claim that land.
That was one thing.
And then up at Plymouth Rock, wasn't it just the pilgrims, the ones who were worried about temptation from the king of England?
And so they wanted to retain their Puritan religion.
So they settled up there.
So in one case, you have an army doing it.
In the other case, you have a bunch of desperate people.
And as far as the desperate people traveling goes, I don't have a problem with that.
But as far as the army goes, I don't know.
I go back and forth.
Like, why not?
They say, well, England had all this money.
Britain had all this money.
They inevitably had to expand.
Why?
Just give everyone gold boots.
You're the richest country in the world.
You invented the Industrial Revolution.
Why spread to a shithole like India and boil your ass off?
See what I'm saying?
So few people truly understand the results of colonialism.
Think how much worse India would be if the British hadn't built their railroads.
Or why native peoples adopted European technologies like guns, sanitation, music, language.
Don't forget horses in the wheel.
I love understanding and learning about cultures of the past and present, but believe in their fluidity.
Why does all native culture have to live in pre-Columbian manner, like Hawaiians manually scraping taro into poi or Australian Aboriginals spending their days working as nothing more than slaves because they are happy to share their culture through hand carving and painting identical boomerangs as cheap curios?
Because Aboriginals don't appear to be capable of much more.
They could be ministers of industry.
They could be models.
They don't really seem cut out for it.
That's like saying these kids, and look at Indian, I don't want to criticize my wife's people, but look at Indian powwows.
You go there and it's just fancy dancers and tepees and selling ancient bric-a-brac.
Like they don't seem to want their culture to evolve.
Although some of the fancy dancers, you look at the little shingles that are on them making the sounds and it's shards of Pepsi cans.
So that's modern.
But yeah, not everyone wants to update the way we do.
That's like saying kids these days need to learn how to lead a horse and buggy.
I think a lot of cultures do feel that way.
Not Western cultures, but a lot of cultures see driving a car as some sort of perversion of their original culture, probably because their culture is disappearing.
To truly accept indigenous cultures, they should be brought into the context of the 21st century.
Yeah, maybe in a book, but that's idealism.
There were plenty of bad things that happened in empires.
There are plenty of bad things that are happening with globalism.
Everything needs to be seen in a broader context.
Love the show, blah, blah, blah.
I love talking about this stuff.
But one detail that you say, you mentioned how much worse India would be.
India's biggest problem is overpopulation.
And I think that comes from what my friend Mercedes pointed out was we brought them infrastructure and medicine technology before they were ready for it.
We gave a little kid the keys to a pickup truck and they crashed.
So their population was able to expand with infrastructure that they weren't ready for and medicine they weren't ready for.
And they became too big, too fast in an unsustainable way.
We grew at a normal rate.
By helping other countries with infrastructure and medicine, I would argue you're hurting them because you're making them grow up too fast.
Let them grow at their own pace or they will overpopulate.
This is why Robin from Howard Stern went to India because she saw pictures like this and not the explosive diarrhea that's on every street.
Well, it looks fun, Howard.
Hey, Gavin, Ryan, the part in yesterday's show where you were talking about the kids vegetating on electronics was spot on.
My wife and I both work and the inmates all alone.
Sorry, I think I should end this show soon.
I'm sort of talked out.
With my wife and I both at work and the inmates all alone to run the asylum, I regularly get calls from my youngest to complain about who's not letting who sit on which device.
She is quite the turgid tattletale.
I attached the most recent one from a couple hours ago.
Always good for a laugh.
I'm saving these and will embarrass her for years to come as she grows.
Oh, and tell Ryan, thanks for the follow on Instagram.
The impressions he posted yesterday were awesome.
Want to fuck you with my heels on?
Jason from Zimmerman, Minnesota.
I guess that's where they killed Trayvon.
Have you got the message ready?
Jack, can you tell Olympia that I had your room first and the remote and she just came in here with wobbles and she's still remote and I had it first?
Homorpheus?
What the fuck was that kid's name?
Go back?
Jack, can you tell Olympia that I had your room?
I thought he named his daughter Hemorpheus.
Hemorpheus.
Which is Greek for dying.
Wait, wait, don't show this.
Wait.
I have to announce the final video.
As you know, we like to end the show with a final video.
Today's show has been a little too racial for my liking, but at least it's not about the fucking chinkin' pox.
This is the final video, and it is a woman who is an officiator at her friend's marriage, and her and all the Gals got super wasted last night.
That's one possibility.
The other possibility is it's nauseating to hear your friend talk about her husband as her best friend.
Anyway, go ahead.
I promise to be your biggest advocate and your best friend.
I commit to sharing with you in seasons of attendance and in seasons of scarcity.
I promise.
By the way, you don't have to run to her.
It's just BARF.
She's not dying.
Your biggest advocate and your best friend.
I commit to sharing with you in seasons of abundance.
Bullshit.
And in seasons of scarcity.
Clearly, I object.
You know, the best thing about the BARF is there's a in it.
And I love that it came right after best friend.
I commit to sharing with you in seasons of attendance.
You can hear her guts rejecting the food.
Do you hear it?
Nella, do it again?
Here, put the headphones on.
It's amazing.
Best friend.
I commit to sharing with you in seasons of attendance.
You can hear it.
We're coming out the mouth.
Did I see that again?
I can watch this a hundred times.
Seasons of attendance.
Go back more.
I like the one with the flowers in the background, her face.
Yeah, you know what's good about not seeing this before?
I was trying to see which one it was.
That you dream.
I promise to be your biggest advocate and your best friend.
My best friend.
That's so nauseating.
The sound of that hitting that fucking pissed.
First, I stayed fat for my wedding.
That pissed me off.
And now my fucking fat friend puked her guts out right at my best friend part.
How ironic.
Oh, I guess it was the best friend realizing she's no longer the best friend.
She's moved to number two.
That's how nauseating it is to move to number two.
Get fired, get in trouble, be brave, and never stop fighting.
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