My mixed race son sees himself as black thanks to critical race theory
This week we take a look at the biggest sore loser in skateboarding history, as a 27 year old mediocre skater complains about losing to a trans woman. Also, a white mother goes on Fox News to complain about her black son becoming woke. Dire stuff, folks. Support the show for only $3.11/mo at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult and help us support abortion access funds in red states. Bonus episodes every week for Patreon supporters and 20% off merchandise at http://miniondeathcult.com Music: Djunah - Built Gospel - Warm Bed
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Alright, so the first story that I wanted to talk about Was this skater who blamed losing a competition on a trans skater.
This is Taylor Mae Silverman, who's throwing like a three week long hissy fit about not being very good at skateboarding, which, I mean, a lot of us have been there.
Yeah, it sucks.
I never tagged Ben Shapiro about the fact that I couldn't do a lip slide, but That's one way to go.
That's one way to do it.
Yeah, yeah.
I have tagged Joe Rogan because I was hurting myself when I was trying to focus my board.
I needed board breaking.
Does he break boards?
I feel like he might break boards.
Well, he's definitely talked to somebody who's broken boards.
He might know a guy.
Hey Joe, do you know a guy who can help me break my board better?
So, Taylor Mae Silverman.
She's an American skateboarder, question mark?
Because she's also got photos of herself in Israel that say home.
So, keep that in your back pocket.
I'm not sure what that means.
She's just a Zionist.
Just a straight Zionist.
That's the circle she fills in, in a sense, is Zionist.
Okay.
She posted on Instagram, you know, my favorite kind of Instagram post, which is just a screenshot of your notes app.
That's always so engaging and eye-catching on Instagram.
My name is Taylor Silverman.
Yeah.
No shit.
That's also your username.
And that's where I'm seeing this.
Thank you.
I am a female athlete.
I have been skateboarding for 11 years and competing for several years.
I have been in three different contests with trans women, two of which I placed second.
At the last contest series I did for Red Bull, I placed second.
The trans competitor who won took $1,000 in qualifiers, $3,000 in finals, and $1,000 in best trick.
qualifiers, $3,000 in finals, and $1,000 in best trick.
This totaled to $5,000 of the prize money meant for the female athletes.
I took $1,000 in qualifiers.
The girl who took third received $750.
$17.50 for second place, so $27.50 in total.
The girl who took third received $750.
The girl who deserved $1,000 for best trick took nothing along with whoever would have placed third.
I deserved to be first. - I'm just, Be acknowledged for my win and get paid.
I reached out to Red Bull and was ignored.
I am sick of being bullied into silence.
So, for the record, what happened here is- Actually, it wasn't for the record.
It was for, like, second and third place.
Exactly.
When she says that, like, the girl who deserved the $1,000 for best trick, that girl didn't do the best trick.
That girl was just the only, like, cisgendered girl who did a decent trick and got blasted out of the water by a trans woman who, like, did an awesome trick, who skated a contest insanely good, And Taylor's second place.
That's a great placing for Taylor because Taylor sucks.
Taylor's not very good.
Taylor's Instagram is laughable.
Do you know the name of the trans skater who beat her off the top of her head?
Oh, you know what sucks?
I have it somewhere.
I forgot her name.
Yeah, I was looking at Taylor's Instagram and it's bewildering.
It's honestly astonishing.
The video right before she posted this is of her just rolling through a bowl.
It's her, like, going halfway up the vert on a bowl.
Not even coming close to coping.
Nowhere around coping.
She reaches down and, like, grabs her board and tries to pull it up off the ground a little bit, which is, hey, that's not how you do it, first of all.
An early grab under coping is a nine-year-old trick.
That's what little kids do.
This is an adult woman who's like, I'm a professional.
She's got several videos of her doing the same exact flatland or freestyle routine.
Oh, it's so cringe.
Just staying still on the board, tipping the board up onto the side, and standing up on the wheels, and then putting it back down.
And does not look clean at all.
Looks like she's hanging on by the skin of her teeth.
Yeah, not even close to clean.
What's really funny about all this, too, is this is happening in a moment.
Well, first of all, women and non-cis men in skateboarding are having an awesome, like, like renaissance right now but it's also not new like elisa steamer had one of the best parts ever and jumping off a building in like 1999 like the bar is very high there is no like there is no like she's just not a good skateboarder yeah has nothing to do with anything besides the fact Has nothing to do with her being a girl.
And that's what she's trying to make it about.
And that's what's really funny because it's like, no, the proofs in the Switch 360 flip that you can't do that she did down the 3 flat 3 that looked amazing that you will never do.
Dude, when I saw that Taylor Mae Silverman was 27, my soul left my body.
Yeah.
Oh, I thought she was like 13.
That's what you were hoping, right?
I thought that's why she looked so awkward in her own body.
Yeah, I was hoping so.
But no, you've been doing it for 11 years.
And it's like, look around you.
There's so many... I'll go ahead and... No, I won't do that.
But there's so many amazing skaters right now that you just can't say that you're good just because you want to say you're good.
You have to actually be good now.
And it's so funny.
I love being like, hey man, I did a board slide.
Where's my 27.50?
Or no, sorry, she did get $27.50 for doing the board.
Hey, I did a board slide.
Where's my $5,000?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
And it's like, well, you didn't do it nearly as good as she did.
And you're just mad because you're like, wah, but she's trans.
But I'm crying.
Like, shut up.
Get better.
Hey, get better.
Cry about it.
I don't know.
It's so funny.
It's very funny to be complaining about not making money through skateboarding.
Yeah, and to be a contest skater for so long and decide to get into contest skating I guess in your 20s when you're pretty mediocre is a really weird thing.
That'd be like me entering contests.
I would never do that.
I would never ever do that.
I'm still looking for a name.
I'm so sorry.
That's alright.
I got stuff to say too, Tony.
So don't worry about it.
You sent me one of the competitions she did in 2019, where she was 34th out of 50 women, including getting beaten by a 10-year-old.
A 10-year-old cisgender skateboarder.
Yeah.
Who, like, probably goes over coping, and that's probably why.
But to be fair, that 10-year-old did have a biological advantage.
She was born with hollow bones, she has avian bone syndrome, literally can hang in the air longer.
She almost, like, floats a little bit.
Oh yeah, it was Lillian Gallagher.
The skater who beat her was Lillian Gallagher.
And Lillian Gallagher rips.
You can go watch that run.
You can watch the runs from this contest and it's very clear who Who was better that day?
And it looks like every day.
Also, if you look at somewhere on my Twitter, there's also a really great clip of Miss Sionis just really getting broke off on a rail.
Just getting real broke off.
Stepping up to a rail that has no business at all, but I'm just getting real, real broke off.
So yeah, the proof's in the pudding there.
So, shout out Lillian.
You fucking rip.
And it's hilarious that this person's getting dunked on so hard.
Yeah, the responses to this were not friendly.
A lot of skaters came out to just completely make fun of her, just one, for losing, for being a fucking bad loser.
I think the other girl in the competition, one of the other girls in the competition was like, no, she's a better skater.
She won, you know?
But, yeah, a lot of people were just like, hey, you should get better.
You should try skating more and getting better, which is what everybody has to do, you know?
Yeah, it was a sick response, and it's a really good time.
Because, like, skateboarding's still not perfect.
It's got a long ways to go.
But right now, it's finally, like, not cool to be a bigot.
It's finally not cool to be, like, a misogynist, homophobic, transphobic person in skateboarding.
Like, we're finally there.
Did you see the email she wrote to Red Bull?
I didn't see the email, no.
- No, no. - She posted it too with this post. - Amazing. - And she conveniently leaves the Red Bull email in the shot, cuts out her own email address.
But she writes, "Contest concern." Hi, Eric.
Hope all is well with you.
I am reaching out in hopes of being directed to the right person to express my concerns about what occurred at the Red Bull Cornerstone Contest with the transgender competitor in the women's division.
Perhaps that is you.
If not, hopefully you can put me in c-blah blah blah.
A biological man with a clear advantage won the women's division.
An advantage of being a better skater.
Won the women's division best trick and also won multiple qualifiers.
This took away the opportunity that was meant for women to place and earn money.
It wasn't meant for all women to place and earn money.
That's kind of the nature of hierarchy.
Sounds like you want to flatten this earth a little bit.
Equalize things.
Maybe we should try that.
No more contests.
I was actually told that this was made for me to win, specifically.
I was told that, so either way, I'm really upset about this.
Also, it's funny because in skateboarding, it's a necessary evil because they get paid, but everyone hates Red Bull.
Appealing to Red Bull is so lame.
You're so lame.
Everyone hates you.
You're the worst part of skateboarding.
I miss the good old days when Red Bull would put some bikini babes in a little mini Cooper.
Didn't have to worry about woke issues or anything like that.
We need to go back to tradition of the Red Bull car babes.
I think they do it still, but they also put some beefcakes out there, which is like tight.
Okay.
What happened was unfair.
And at the time I was too uncomfortable to speak up.
Silenced.
Wow.
She was silenced by being, by her discomfort.
I understand that in today's society, even some women think this is acceptable, but I believe in doing the right thing, even if it's not the popular thing.
Nope.
Like, like the woman who won was really insisting that she should win.
So yeah, some women actually agree with this.
It's real, it's real weird.
I now realize it's really important for me to speak up, and I'd like to schedule a time to talk.
Uh, so she says, uh, this is the email I sent Red Bull that was completely ignored.
So, uh, based.
Wow, Red Bull's based.
Yeah, good job, Red Bull.
Uh, Red Bull has no clue that this- Red Bull doesn't even know this contest happened.
Like, Red Bull is so massive and does so many things all the time, they have no idea that this is a thing.
They're like, yeah, we don't care.
Me writing an email to Red Bull about the flight competition they have every year.
Oh, well.
Yeah, Flutog?
The Flutog.
Clearly, the winners who had a giant toaster where they each appeared to be a slice of bread in the toaster had a biological advantage when they went over the cliff.
They were flatter and skinnier.
They floated like paper down there.
How is that fair?
It wasn't fair.
It was not fair.
It was bullshit.
We here at Red Bull believe in the future.
Stop living in the past.
Have a good one.
She tagged so many people in this post.
So many people.
It kind of gives up the game when you're like, I'm not a bigot.
I have no problem with trans people.
I'm just going to tag Blair White, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, Matt Walsh, The Daily Wire, and Buck Angel.
Jesus Christ.
You know who Buck Angel is, right?
I didn't know that that was the path.
That sucks.
Yeah, Buck Angel is a trans male porn star who is like gender critical now with Blair White.
He and Blair White are like best friends and then they share memes where it's like, you think you're going to start a revolution?
Millennials can't even tell what gender they are.
And Buck Angel will be like, this is literally the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen.
This is hilarious.
No, I actually, uh, once, once, uh, once Buck started talking about politics, I was like, you know, hey, shut up, shut up and fuck.
I don't need to hear your politics.
That's what I said.
Uh, yeah.
So, uh, didn't really need to see the coverage in Daily Wire for this.
You can just imagine what it is, you know?
Did they pick it up, though?
They picked it up?
Uh, I don't know.
Probably.
Probably.
They should.
It's smart.
Yeah, and she posted a photo of her, uh, in Is this her in Israel, or is it just an Israeli flag behind her?
I don't know which one.
She's been to Israel.
I know on her story there's a whole trip to Israel.
I think she's wearing a Zionist Thrasher rip-off shirt.
What?
She's wearing a Star of David around her necklace, which is obviously not inherently Zionist.
What does the Thrasher shirt say?
I'm just assuming that's what it is.
It's a Thrasher font and she's in Israel on her birthright trip, so I'm assuming that that's what's happening.
I feel cozy doing that.
I'm okay doing that.
I don't know if she's actually in Israel, come to think of it.
It's just an Israeli flag.
I thought she was Israeli, but she's apparently American.
She is.
She is in Israel.
She talks about a birthright trip in her post.
So I don't know if that picture in particular, but she has gone there.
She's done the thing.
Yeah, she went to Israel to learn about how marginalized communities like Zionists are being oppressed by woke people like Palestinians.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh my God.
Imagine just being a mile away from devastation and being like, this is the most... Do you get the Israel ads on YouTube?
No.
I mean, I'm not on YouTube enough to get any ads, really.
They're amazing.
They're like, the most beautiful beaches.
We just got nice beaches.
That's all we got is beaches and really good food and beautiful people.
We're all so hot.
Come do our beaches.
Birthright trip.
And it's like, that's it?
That's all of it?
Well, from what I understand, birthright for, you know, college-aged kids is, like, the chance to get laid, essentially.
That's like their summer camp for, you know, college-aged kids or whatever.
And I mean, like, who hasn't, like, displaced a family for some nookie?
You know?
Whomst Amongst Us hasn't just, like, excavated someone's family from a building, you know, so that, you know, I can get some, make you a little dry-handy.
Uh, if you come home and there's a necktie on the door, uh, it means you don't live here anymore.
Oh, God.
Yeah, Whomst Amongst Us, you know?
Yeah, so that's the trend.
I hope she can get better at skating through tagging the Golden One or through tagging the CRT guy, Conceptual James.
Maybe the judges will consider her social media presence.
Maybe they'll think twice before they make their next ruling.
If I were her, what I would do is I would watch a couple videos.
I would watch the Their Skateboarding video, Ruining Skateboarding, that features exclusively queer skateboarders.
Lots of them are trans.
Lots of them are gay.
It's all queer.
All rippers.
And then also the Glue video that also features a bunch of queer and trans and amazing skateboarders owned by Leo Baker, trans man legend.
Best style in the game.
Going and winning contests, like the best style in the game.
Go watch those videos, do those tricks, then come out and complain.
Do those tricks and those videos, and then be like, wah.
Yeah, I mean, if you want to complain about not being judged fairly or not winning a competition or whatever, I would suggest the bare minimum you can do is try to be better than a 10-year-old.
Yeah, try to be better than a 10-year-old.
Challenge a 10-year-old and then challenge like a Marbie Princess to a game of skate, get smoked publicly, and then cry more.
Like, just get better.
Yeah, work your way up from 10-year-olds to adults that are still 9 years younger than you.
Like, you have to be better at skateboarding than Lil Wayne to complain about those things.
And the thing is, Lil Wayne is dusting you right now.
Big ups to Lil Wayne.
You know what happened?
Lil Wayne skated every day.
Lil Wayne skated harder than you did, and you just didn't skate hard.
Dude.
But have you seen her tic-tac, Tony?
Man, I never seen, when I saw her tic-tac-click-clack back and forth, I got chills.
Well, what's cool is every once in a while if you tic-tac fast enough, it's kind of an ollie.
It's kind of an ollie.
You kind of are getting some air.
Pretty sick.
What was her trick that she tried to win best trick with?
Did you watch it?
Oh, no, what's funny is she wasn't even trying to claim best trick.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, so that's what's really funny about it.
She wasn't even trying to claim best trick, but I don't, yeah, because she just sucks so bad.
I'm going to, no, because she didn't post it all.
I found it through, oh, I'm such a nerd.
I found it through the slap board, and I should have found it there, but the girl who won did some flip in, flip out shit, and the second place didn't.
You're just sorry.
You're just not that good.
Tony, but biological women cannot kickflip.
It's a well-known fact.
It really is.
Like, it really is the reduction.
Like you said, Tony, the bar is already high and this is a lot of women, like a lot of, you know, Untalented women, or mediocre talented women, trying to desperately lower that bar by saying it is literally impossible to do a kickflip to a boardslide for a biological woman.
It's impossible.
This is unfair.
And like I said, that's straight up Elisa Steamer erasure.
Like Elisa Steamer had one of the best parts in jumping off a building in 1999.
Maybe 2000?
I think it's 1999 though.
Well, after that though, the Illuminati plot to feminize women really took hold.
People talk a lot about the Illuminati plot to feminize men, but there's also one that's feminizing women so they can't be good at skateboarding anymore.
I think she did have an ankle injury for a while.
That does actually add up.
Like, just had a part in the Baker 4 video.
Not part, but had clips in the Baker 4 video, like, at the age of 40-something.
Like, shut up.
You suck.
Get better.
She had an ankle injury, Tony.
I mean, that should be the clearest indication of all.
Name one male skateboarder with an ankle injury.
Oh, I've never heard of it.
I've never heard of it.
It's never happened, ever.
Yeah, it's just so fucking, like, It's just such a step.
You're like doing a disservice to what you're trying to do.
It's fucking gender essentialism.
It's crazy gender like conservative reactionary gender essentialism that hurts fucking everybody.
Not just trans women.
It hurts quote biological women.
It hurts men.
Like all this shit is like You know, uh, firing the gun with the barrel pointed back into your face.
Like, the same thing with trying to make fun of trans women or trying to be critical of trans women by saying they're not real women or whatever.
Like, the same fucking reactionaries you're aligning with to discredit or to talk shit on trans women are going to be saying the same shit about you.
The second you step out of line, they're going to be calling you a man.
They're going to be saying like digitally altering photos to include a package in your pants.
Yeah, they're going to be like, oh, no, no.
I know I saw that nollie flip.
That nollie flip was clean.
But also, if you look hard enough, she's got an Adam's apple.
That's going to happen to you.
Because you're like, you can't embrace that like, you as a woman can't embrace that women fucking rip.
Like, that sucks.
That sucks to be a self-hating woman.
Yeah.
It's what you're doing in the end, you know?
You're aligning yourself with a lot of real freaks when you do this stuff.
And it's not a good thing to do for anybody.
So like, right now, I mean, to put it somewhere, do you remember the 360 flip girl in the tutu?
Yeah, really young girl, like eight year old or?
Yeah, her name's Reysa.
Reysa's 14 now.
Reysa just front-lipped the Hollywood 16.
Wow.
And went pro for Baker.
No, sorry, pro for April.
Pro for April.
And it's just like, Shut the fuck up.
You don't get to do that anymore.
Sorry you can't win your little local contest or whatever.
But yeah, you don't get to just win because you want to.
I'm sending you that back lip on the Hollywood 16 right now.
Was she wearing it?
On Instagram.
Was she wearing pants when she did it though?
She was wearing a full Nike SB fit, some limited dunks, looking hard as fuck.
No, it's Backlip, because I thought it might have been Switch, but yeah.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
Like, shut up.
First comment behind it is Erin, who is this amazing trans fem skateboarder who looks like she's going pro for sci-fi fantasy any day now, who does the hardest flip in flip out tech stuff you've ever seen.
And it's like, shut up.
Yeah, I mean, that was a good trick, but she's embracing the dark side of skateboarding, which is she's wearing pants here.
She's wearing a hooded sweatshirt.
You know, it's clear that she's dabbling with crazy gender fuckery, and that's probably fueling her talent in a way.
Also, don't like don't like black people wear dunks.
Yeah, that's pretty.
Because Taylor's wearing Mike Valeli's in a lot of her shoes.
I'm not trying to knock Mike Valeli's.
I'm not trying to tie Mike Valeli's to this, but I'm just saying Mike Valeli's are not dunks.
But how hard was that backflip though?
It was amazing.
Like look at that.
It's so clean.
Imagine someone doing a freestyle routine with someone else like in slow motion looking so cringe.
There's so many ways to... You theater kidded skateboarding and it sucks.
There's so many ways to fall doing that trick.
Bringing your back trucks over while turning around and facing the rail backwards.
Going backwards?
Yeah.
Not fun.
I mean, you couldn't pay me $5,000 to do that, frankly.
$5,000?
Are we covering hospital expenses?
Right.
$5,000 for an attempt.
I'll do that as long as they're being covered as well.
*music*
*music* Um, okay, moving on.
Uh...
One of my favorite stories in the news right now is via both, what is this here, New York Post and Fox News.
I saw this first on Twitter.
Very good shit.
Sorry, one second.
So, so everyone has, like, they're not hearing what they're usually hearing.
It's because I did break the bowl in my bong.
Um, so I do have a joint role that I do have to light before we enter this story.
So that's what's happening right now.
But just so you know, you don't have the usual, um, atmospheric sound.
It's because I broke the bowl in my bong.
Um, and I'm sorry about that.
Okay.
This is from Vox News.
Let's listen to a bit of this audio here.
Alright, so, Melissa, your son is, uh, the father's black, you're white, and he never mentioned issues with race before, you're saying?
What exactly changed?
Right, we didn't have issues before.
He's in eighth grade.
They introduced this critical, um, program, and now he's having racial issues that was not there before.
What kind of racial issues is he having?
Well, he's seen himself just as a black man.
He's seen things that don't go his way as racism.
And he's finding safety in numbers now.
So when you're saying he gets a bad grade at school, he blames racism, or a girl rejects him on a date.
Racism.
Are those the kind of things you're seeing?
Yes.
I ask him to clean the house.
Racism.
Yes.
You're kidding, right?
Are you serious?
No, I'm serious.
They have totally changed his perspective.
They have put him in a box.
Amazing.
Hell yeah.
She's loving this shit.
She's loving going on Fox News to talk shit about her eighth-grade-year-old son and saying, yeah, I guess he's black now.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
That sucks.
It's funny because I kind of remember my mom being kind of bummed when I really figured out that I was black.
But it wasn't like this.
Luckily we didn't have social networks.
She couldn't go cry about it on the internet.
It's just so funny.
I swear to God that your kid knew that he was black from the second he was reminded about it every single time he was around his white cousins.
I swear to God.
He's been told about this his entire life.
And also, what's your deal?
Why are you bummed about this?
He's also a teenager.
Yeah, like barely a teenager.
He's probably 13.
12 or 13 if he's in 8th grade.
And also, you remember being told to take the trash out at 12 or 13?
How did that go?
Every single time, just for funsies, Yeah, no, I used to tell my dad, I'd say, uh, is it because I'm Irish?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Is that why you're telling me to mow the lawn?
Huh?
Yeah, is that what's happening?
I always tell my mom all the time.
So green out there, you'll love it.
Is that it?
Actually, I would do the joke.
You know what he did?
He did the joke to his mama.
He said, he said, yes, mama.
I'll go take the trash out right now for you, mama.
I'll just go do it right now.
Hey mama, want me to do a little dance for you on the way out the door?
Like he did that and she was like, this is uncomfortable.
This is the CRT.
I remember one time I was, uh, I was ordering food from somewhere and, uh, or like I was at a register or something and the guy, the guy behind the counter was black and I asked for something or I said, you know, this is it.
And he's all, yeah, sure thing boss.
And I was like, did you just own me?
Yeah.
Is that what happened?
You're like, wait.
And then you were, you were like, wait, hold on.
You, you are getting paid, right?
No, I was like, yeah, I am the boss.
I'm the customer.
I am the boss.
It's so funny.
Cause like I identify with this kid so much.
If he's trolling, I love it.
Cause I remember being a little bit older and my mom being like, listen, seriously.
I was like, what's up?
She's like, do you really hate white people?
And I was all.
Absolutely.
You gotta stick with it.
You gotta just stick with it.
So she's now got herself in this place where she... The kid's probably hilarious because we're all hilarious.
We're all very funny.
Kid's probably super good looking.
Probably gets more dates because of racism than not dates because of racism.
I'll tell you that much right now.
So you're fabricating a whole lot of stuff right now.
Dude, this woman is a demon.
A demon?
She's so awful.
She's going on Fox fucking News with a huge smile on her face to talk shit about her son's race.
Yeah, yeah, it's wild.
This is like, and I mean, this is like the fucking golden ticket for somebody.
This is like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow because, for everybody, because you get these fucking critical race theory people who, you know, are obsessed with it.
They think it says all this kind of shit that it doesn't say.
They actually do dislike the stuff that it really does say, which is just factual.
They wanna kill it in the crib, and they found a mother to help them do that.
They found a mother to, like, turn on her own- Remember when it was like, oh, they're gonna teach- Critical Race Theory is teaching your kids to, uh, call the FBI on their parents for- for being, uh, for having privilege.
Right?
Remember that?
Never- Obviously never fucking happened.
What did happen was it got this mom on TV to throw her fucking black son under the bus.
Dude, it's like, I, oh, but you know, I, it's, I'm, one thing I'm really grateful for is they don't show the son.
Right.
Because that would get dicey real fast, you know?
I'm a light-skinned boy and it gets dicey real fast.
I'm really happy they didn't put him out there like that.
I'm really happy she didn't put him out here like that.
I hope no one ever finds out who he is and I hope he's left alone.
And I hope that young King is thriving.
And I hope that maybe he pivots and learns a lot from this and maybe becomes extra militant, you know?
I hope he fucking gets emancipation from this woman and garnishes her wages until he's, you know, 25.
Maybe I can adopt him.
Maybe I can do that.
This is what critical race theory is kind of about.
This is what, like, right-wing reaction in general is about.
I mean, a lot of the people who are complaining about, you know, shifting social mores are not themselves victims of any of this stuff.
You know, they might think they are, or they might internalize that stuff and just be, you know, angry about it and consider that a type of victimization.
What they're really worried about is, like, yeah, their kids not liking them anymore.
Their kids being taught that, hey, your dad might be a racist if he says shit like, I don't see color, it's all the same, and if you don't succeed, that's your own fault, or whatever.
They, this is about them considering children like their property, which I'm not here to argue for like child rights or whatever that corny shit is, but it's 100% about like, no, my child is my property.
I get to tell them what race they are.
You're not allowed to tell them what race they are.
Even if society at large is definitely going to tell my son he's black and call him black and treat him black.
You're not allowed to tell him that, okay?
You're not allowed to teach my kids about safe sex.
You're not allowed to do any of this shit because it's going to change them into somebody that I've spent the last five years on Facebook talking shit about and wishing suicide upon.
And it's like, and that's funny because, you know, just because I'm so damn close to it, I feel for shorty here because like, It took my mom, it took my mom, me growing up, um, kind of having to, like, become an adult pretty early without their help, so without the influence, educate myself, and then educate her about the whole thing.
Because she's been influenced by people who are very much like, you sure you want to have this black baby?
You know this baby's going to be black, right?
And then, you know, because you're just growing up, you're just being influenced, you might say things like, yeah, but he's still going to be a white baby.
And then they're going to be like, oh, let's see.
And then you do come out curly headed and they're like, oh, wow, maybe not.
And so she had to like.
meet me and like know me and like you know like know my my father and like go through that to like come to this place because like racism is so embedded that she couldn't avoid it yeah you know it's it's it's like it was still like in in in 1986 it was still a sin it was still like a hey i know we don't do abortion but maybe this one time
Like, that's really what it was.
And that's commonplace in white America.
That's how insidious this stuff is.
So this comes as no surprise.
It almost comes as a caricature that I would have written had I been, you know, hired by MADtv.
But yeah, it's like this poor dummy really believes this shit.
I mean, to go through that sort of experience that it sounds like you're talking about, you have to actually view your kid as a person.
Yeah, exactly.
And not as just an extension of your own beliefs and value system.
You have to think that you can learn something from your kid.
And this person clearly does not think that her kid is worth teaching her anything outside of her own experience.
To just chalk up her son's emotions or her son's responses as indoctrination is profoundly cowardly.
It's a very cowardly and lazy response to have to this.
Which, at 13, my mom probably identified with this, but luckily, she had The Clonic 2001 and Limp Bizkit to blame for this.
So, uh, I don't know, you know, this kid, I don't even, she's not even probably not even aware of what this kid's influenced by.
It's just, this is like, as funny as it is, and as much as we do support this kid, like calling his mom racist for anything and everything, I think that's funny.
Um, he's, he's in eighth grade.
Like for you to look at a, uh, like a, a snotty or sassy eighth grader and be like, Oh, this is because he's black now.
Yep.
Yep.
That's fucked up.
What do you think being black is?
Do you think being black is just being an asshole?
Because it sounds like you do.
It sounds like you're incapable of separating those two things.
Yeah, and I'll tell you what.
I remember being described as having a bit too much flavor.
Nice kid.
Too much flavor.
Very loud.
It's like, yeah, that's what that is.
You wouldn't have written it that way.
You wouldn't have written it that way if I wasn't a couple shades darker than the other kids in the room.
God, it's just so funny.
It's like, yeah, he's a sassy kid and you probably are going to blame it on that because he's probably talking the way all the kids talk.
Except for it sounds better coming from him because he's actually black.
Yeah, I just love My Son Won't Do His Chores or His Homework.
I guess he's black now.
I love that shit.
It's got real... Have you heard that song, I Think My Dog's a Democrat?
No, but I love it already.
Classic song about how lazy the guy's dog is, therefore he's a Democrat.
I'm getting real My Dog's a Democrat vibes from this woman.
I think my son is turning black.
Having a black kid does not make you not a racist.
I just want to make that really clear.
Also, biggest to my mom.
My mom is tight.
She's done a lot of growing.
I love her and she's a really good example.
We still trucking.
But yeah, the poor white moms.
The poor white moms.
They got a lot of work to do.
Well, he never does his homework and forgets about his chores.
Calls Jim Morrison a cracker when I listen to the doors.
Says the Irish weren't enslaved, the system only helps the rich.
Tried to unionize his classmates and called George Washington a bitch.
I think my son is turning black.
Did my mom actually write that?
Did you call my mom?
Did you collaborate with my mom?
Yeah, this is co-written by Alexander Edward and Tony's mom.
I think we need to have her record it also.
I think we need to hear it.
She needs to do some harmonies with that.
It happens overnight.
It happens overnight.
Let's read from the New York Post article that this woman, I guess, participated in.
She didn't write.
This is by Ryan Mills.
But the headline is, He's anti-racist now!
What the frick?
racist program has changed my son mom says he's anti-racist now what the frick what happened melissa riley and her son are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against virginia's alba marley school district school but school district school by the non-profit alliance defending freedom over its anti-racism policies i love yeah we're the alliance defending racism uh defending freedom rather what freedom the freedom to be racist i mean yeah
that's why i live in america you know When Melissa Riley looks at her 13-year-old son, she sees a talented artist, a funny kid who likes playing pranks, and a gamer who spends a lot of his time playing Fortnite with friends.
Oh, trust me.
If your son was doing online gaming, he for sure knew he was black before going to the fucking anti-racism program.
No doubt.
Real quick, real quick, just because it's on point.
Have you seen this new season of Atlanta?
I heard it's great.
Uh, this latest episode is exactly this.
It's exactly this.
And oh my god, did I like... I don't know.
It was brutal.
It was brutal.
It was a... It's a good episode about a mixed kid who's... Yep.
It's... I don't want to... Watch this season.
I don't want to spoil it, but it is this.
It is exactly this situation.
It's very on point.
Very honest.
And it's why this mother feels this way.
A guy doing a Fortnite dance to this kid.
Who radicalized you?
You did.
Yeah, you did.
You taught me.
I learned from you.
She sees a young man who's excited about playing football and maybe taking some architecture and engineering courses when he starts high school next fall.
Oh my god, this is so triggering.
This is so triggering.
This is exactly me.
Do you want to be black or do you want to take architecture programs?
Huh?
Well, the thing is he's smart, but he's also husky and can dance good.
He's pretty fast.
He's pretty fast.
He's athletic, but he's also smart.
I don't know.
And he's pretty artistic.
He's a unique one.
Also very handsome.
That didn't happen until later on.
That didn't happen until later on.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh, but that's not what the teachers and leaders of her son's Virginia middle school see, she said.
Okay, wow, wow, they really said, wow, she really said they said that?
I can't believe she said they said that.
That's crazy of them to have been saying somebody else to have said they said.
Yeah, it's been said now though, it's documented.
When they look at her son, she believes they see one thing first and foremost, a black kid.
Yeah.
Dog.
Yeah.
Dog.
Yeah.
You know what they- this is the thing.
You know what they don't see?
They don't see a white kid.
Right.
That's kind of the bottom line.
I don't know what this kid looks like, but I guarantee you they don't see a white kid.
Oh, she'll say what he looks like.
Don't worry.
Growing up in the Charlottesville area, Riley said her son never really saw himself as different from the other kids in school.
Sure, his skin tone was a little darker.
His dad is black and Riley is white and Native American.
Yep.
Amazing.
I'm sorry.
Hey, you know what?
Hey, can we, can we actually, can we cut this?
I need to reframe, I need to reframe this from the perspective of this being an indigenous person.
I want to totally reframe where I'm coming from.
I didn't realize what I was saying.
Uh, my bad, my bad.
We need to do a land acknowledgement.
My bad.
From Riley's house.
Hey, this is, we're on, uh, we're, we're on indigenous Riley land right now.
So, uh, yeah, I can't be racist.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay, she says she's Native American.
You guys know what she looks like?
She looks like Melissa McCarthy.
That's exactly who she looks like.
She looks like Melissa McCarthy with long hair.
And you know what I thought when I read the words and I saw what she looked like?
You know what I thought?
God damn it!
God damn it!
Of course that's what she looks like.
Of course that's what she looks like.
God damn it.
You know, if she had been Trump's spokesperson, she would have stayed out of trouble like this.
She wouldn't have had time to be going to school board meetings and shit like that.
I saw it in that snippet from the Blackstar album, where he's like, my conditioning has been conditioned.
And that conditioning has been conditioned.
I'm a victim, brother, I'm a victim!
I think it's the intro to Brown Skin Lady.
But I think they suck now.
I think they're probably both, like, TERFs and awful, so fuck them, but that intro's funny.
Yeah, Freudian complexes have to be even weirder when you take race into consideration.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Not weirder, but more interesting, I guess is what I meant.
It's okay, they made a play about it.
It's called Slave Play.
Are you familiar with Slave Play?
When you say a play, I thought you meant a theatrical production.
You mean like a sex game.
Yeah, but they made a theatrical production about it.
Called about slave play?
About sex slave play?
About couples therapy through race play with interracial couples.
Oh no.
I've been told it's violent, is what I've been told.
Should we watch that?
I don't think I can.
I don't know if I'll be able to.
I don't think I want to.
I don't think I can.
I'll watch it for you and tell you all about it.
Thank you.
I'll explain it to you.
No, I guess it's like a live production.
Yeah, you could probably get that though.
You go to a theater and they do those broadcasts of theatrical play.
You can go see Cats, a stage production of Cats, or you can go see Mystery Science Theater do commentary over a movie or whatever.
You can also see the sex slave race play stuff too.
I heard those are all best if you watch them on mushrooms.
Especially slave play.
I'm just curled up in the corner crying.
You gotta see it in the actual theater though because they digitally removed all the assholes.
For the broadcast.
Is that what happened in Cats?
I think so.
They did something.
I think they left real hands in the movie and had to digitally remove the human hands from the characters.
Awful.
I remember they did a re-edit.
Okay.
Uh, yeah.
But Riley never- So, his dad is black and Riley is white and Native American!
Native American.
Wow, how come they capitalized Native American but not white?
Hmm.
But Riley never- But Riley never thought it was appropriate to box him in with stifling racial classifications.
Quote, he looks Hawaiian, she said of her son.
He's beautiful.
He doesn't even look black!
He's beautiful.
You know my husky ass was called Hawaiian all the time.
You know it.
You fucking know.
You know my 5'10 at 10 years old husky ass.
Wow.
I hate.
But you know my 5'10 at 10 years old husky ass.
Wow, I hate her guts.
Do you know what?
It sucks 'cause I swear, when you're the, you just kind of mix.
The only people that know you're black are other black people.
And like, people who are just smart.
But other black people know, but like, everyone else.
That's so funny.
That's so funny.
I know for sure my mom has probably called me Hawaiian at one point.
There's no goddamn doubt about it.
Love you mom, but that's hilarious.
Oh my god.
I love it.
She's like trying to cover for his race by saying, oh, he looks Hawaiian.
And it's like, why do you feel the need to do that?
Like, why are you instinctively downplaying his blackness?
Could it be that you have a problem with black people?
Could it be that society, even like charitably, could it be that society at large has a problem with black people and it's helpful to identify as something other than black, at least as far as you can?
It's funny too because like I think my mom would have done that but like my dad like I'm I'm just light-skinned him I'm just I just look just I look just like him but just light-skinned and so he can't like there's no way for him he just will say oh if he were to describe me he would just say oh yeah he looks like light-skinned me and that you know so it's just so funny how that works in those directions that's so funny Look what they did to my beautiful boy.
He used to look Hawaiian.
Now he's wearing a Zulu hardcore t-shirt.
Now he's saying to abolish white hardcore. - Yeah, I'm not a good one.
What happened to my beautiful boy?
That's, yeah, that's so funny.
Oh my god.
But she said her son's views on race and his conception of his own complex identity have been tossed in a blender and mixed up.
Have I got a fucking song for you, babe?
Honestly, it sounds like only blended was your pussy, shorty.
identity have been tossed in a blender and mixed up it's almost like a complex identity is already a mix of other identities and cultures honestly it sounds like only blended with your pussy shorty like that was like the only thing getting blended up ever since the alba marley school district adopted an anti-racism policy with an explicit goal of eliminating quote all forms of racism from the local schools which of course is a joke in and of itself like yeah it's not gonna happen
you know it's good that they're trying to address it they're probably not doing a good job of it but they're trying you know they're trying and it's like they're gonna make some missteps along the way and like you got to be able to if you were truly like a Against racism, you gotta like, try to be supportive of programs like this.
Even if they're not perfect, you know what I mean?
You can like, sit and cast stones from the left and say, oh it's...
It's eliminating class from the conversation, or it's too pessimistic about race or whatever.
Help out, maybe.
I don't know.
Try to make the program even better.
These programs are necessary.
They're definitely talking about a real fucking problem.
I mean, we need to maybe reassess it.
I think what we need to do is, I think we need to make more like a dress code program, right?
where in order to wear white Air Force Ones or FUBU or any type of silk head covering, you have to prove that one of your parents is black.
And also you have to give us a book report on a book written by a black person about black matters.
Yeah, I have this one from Thomas Sowell.
It's very good.
You should check it out.
Once you submit the report, it will be assessed by our tribunal and you will be anointed with your FUBU jersey.
But if not, and you pull up on the FUBU and you're over here looking like Jack Harlow, if I catch you with some Vans socks on and some Nikes, we're going to beat the brakes off you.
That's our new CRT dress code policy.
What if you're a really good rapper like Jack Harlow though?
So you know what someone told me about Jack Harlow?
And I don't know because I haven't listened because I will not be listening to Jack Harlow.
I did not realize that I was listening to Jack Harlow through TikTok clips, which makes me hate him even more.
Apparently, Manz is a better celebrity than he is a rapper.
And all I can think about is that fucking picture of those two brothers carrying him through that mud.
And goddamn do I wish they would have suplexed him.
Oh my god, so badly do I wish that that was like the Dudley Brothers and that there was a table and chairs.
Haven't seen that photo.
It's awful.
I hate it.
I hate it.
It makes me feel angry thoughts.
Riley said that a new anti-racist curriculum launched at Henley Middle School last spring is itself racist.
Wow, how ironic.
What?
Because it indoctrinates students and teachers in a racial essentialist worldview that emphasizes racial conflict and teaches, or sorry, treats students differently based on their skin color.
She said the school has changed her son in ways she doesn't approve of.
He's got armpit hair now?
Uh, he's real stinky.
Voices, voices deep?
Oh, they taught him, oh yeah, Barry White.
That's how black people sing.
And so, yeah, he's had to lower his voice thanks to the school.
You know what they're not teaching him in school?
The importance of conserving water.
These showers are too long.
These showers are taking too long.
And there's no hot water for me, and they're taking too long.
That's what they need to teach him in the schools.
Uh, yeah, he said he, uh, the reason he comes, puts cum down the shower drain is because he likes to watch a white plumber on his hands and knees, uh, have to clean it out.
Clogging the drains.
Clogging the drains.
That's like so much.
It's reparations, bitch.
All the hair, too.
All the hair.
Her son now sees himself as different from his mostly white classmates, as a young black man who will now have more struggles in life because of his race and because of the systemic racism that is endemic in American life.
This is like, reading this shit, it's so funny because, you know, these people love like George Orwell 1984 and Animal Farm and like, you know, Pretty, you know, if not mediocre, at least like pretty thin, you know, science fiction, right?
That they can just paste on to whatever their grievance is.
This reads kind of like a bizarre science fiction where it's like, oh, you know, there's a society that exists and nobody even knows what color everybody is.
You know, everybody just thinks everybody's the same.
And then an evil wizard brought the bad glasses to show that some of these people are actually aliens bent on world domination.
He came home with these goggles and everything was different.
It's like somebody watching They Live and being like, why do you have to put on the glasses?
That's obviously the source of your problems here.
Just take them off.
It's fine.
It's fine.
Quote, he is changing, Riley said of her son.
Oh, he heard black guys have to be tall, and so now he's grown six inches.
If things don't go his way or things seem unfair, he will now claim it's racism.
He never did that before.
He now identifies as a black man because that's how the school told him he looks and who he is!
The other day he was playing ball with his cousins and usually he would hit a tasteful bounce pass inbound.
He drove the lane, dunked it, and dipped his nutsack on his cousin's chin.
Very disrespectfully, managed to make eye contact the whole time.
All I'm saying is, all I'm saying is I've never seen a white guy do that.
He wasn't doing that before.
He wasn't doing it before he watched Jesus' son.
A court fight.
Riley and her son are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the Abermarley County School Board in December by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a non-profit conservative legal firm.
The ADF lawyers allege the district's anti-racism policy and curriculum violate the Virginia Constitution's equal protection and free speech clauses and violate parental rights.
Their lawsuit was dismissed last month by a circuit court judge who seemed to find the district's policy unobjectionable and declared that there is, quote, nothing inherently evil or wrong about it.
These quotes are really funny from the judge.
The Abermarley County School Board adopted its anti-racism programming in 2019 and implemented a pilot program at Henley Middle School last spring as students were returning to the classroom from COVID-19 related school closures.
That was when Riley learned about the program.
At its most mundane, the school offered a series of anti-bias lessons and feel-good teachings about positivity and inclusivity.
Last summer, for example, Henley Middle School students painted murals in the school hallways with messages such as, we are equal, happy mind, happy life, and that life is fragile, quote, like paper, according to a local TV news report.
Oh, that's so, I love that.
I love, I love that discussion amongst like, Teens, like, hey, y'all, like, chill.
Things are tough and that's okay.
Like, that's amazing.
Yeah.
But parents who dug deeper into the curriculum found reasons to be concerned.
The curriculum taught middle schoolers that racism is, quote, the marginalization and or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed hierarchy that privileges white people.
Yeah.
Students were urged to be, quote, anti-racist and that by not making anti-racist choices, they were unconsciously upholding, quote, Aspects of white supremacy, white dominant culture, and unequal institutions in society.
Yep.
Yep.
It's pretty charitable to be like, oh, you're unconsciously upholding these things.
Well, well, but Alex though, you don't understand.
Um, they, they, they were, they were using a lot of slurs, uh, a lot of slurs throughout the curriculum when only quoting white people.
What about, what about that?
I, have you listened to the radio?
Yeah.
I don't hear him quoting the radio.
Only slurs in there were from white people.
That's, that's curious to me.
Well, that's, that's called black privilege, Sony.
That's something they will not teach in this program.
I mean, I just, as, as, as a white mother, I just would like to hear more angry, you know, black men in the conversation too.
Next to, you know, after we do like, um, You know, a story about like a false rape accusation that led to a lynching.
Maybe talk about DMX being problematic after that.
How about that?
Teachers were trained to identify, quote, white privilege and to understand that the idea of meritocracy is a myth.
They learned... I doubt they're teaching their students that meritocracy is a myth, even though they should, but... They might!
When it says here they're trained to identify white privilege, I think what they want the reader to hear or to read when they see that is that these teachers are singling out white students and pointing out points of privilege about them or asking them to give their background and being like, that's white privilege.
Which, again, I kind of doubt that's what it actually means when you're trained to identify white privilege.
It just means being trained to know what it is, I think, is what they're talking about.
They learned about, quote, communication as a racialized tool, and were taught that, quote, white talk is verbal, impersonal, intellectual, and task-oriented, whereas, quote, color commentary Is nonverbal, personal, emotional, and process-oriented.
Lessons that critics say perpetuate gross racial stereotypes.
I have no idea about this.
This sounds like bullshit once again.
It's a... It's an empty conversation is all.
It's like an observation at most, but it's like barely that.
It's like not fleshed out.
Specifically though, the whole white talk thing?
Yeah, that's... Because I don't know if...
The point of bringing up white talk within these materials or within the training program is to de-stigmatize the idea of white talk and to say, no, speaking clearly isn't just an aspect of white people, right?
Because there's a lot of...
There's a lot of people who argue against the idea of saying, oh, going to college is a white thing, don't go to college.
Or like, reading theory is white people shit.
There's a lot of people arguing against that idea for very good reasons, for progressive reasons, right?
So I don't think they're teaching their students that, oh, to be good in class is white.
I don't think that they're teaching them that.
No, they're not doing that.
And also, color commentary?
The New York Post seems to be substituting color commentary for African American Vernacular English.
Which is not what color commentary fucking means.
That's an old phrase that does not mean AAVE.
And the word substitute is very important.
Yeah, so it's really weird what the New York Post is trying to do here in particular.
Non-negotiables.
Some parents spoke up at meetings, complaining that the lessons were rooted in critical race theory and calling for a pause in the teachings.
But the school board and superintendent dug in, penning an online letter that emphasized, quote, bringing the anti-racism policy to life for all.
Uh, good.
Don't, like, give these freaks any inch.
They denied that critical race theory was part of their curriculum, but acknowledged that the district offers a professional development program on culturally responsive teaching.
The anti-racism programming was important to correct racial disparities in student access to learning opportunities, respond to reports of racial harassment and bullying, eliminate the unequal demographic impact of policies and programs, and improve the long-standing opportunity and achievement gaps among students, according to the letter.
These are non-negotiables, the board wrote.
We are firmly committed to achieving these outcomes and to supporting the inclusive programs and activities that make this possible.
We welcome all points of view in how to best strengthen our continuous growth model, and we reject all efforts that would have us resist positive change in favor of the status quo.
It's a good statement.
Cool.
Yeah, sounds great.
Sounds great.
But unfortunately, they're still going home to racist moms.
What's funny is like so what they're talking about is yeah the disparity between like student performance between black kids and white kids and like all these things that are if they're not signs of a racist society If you're arguing that these aren't signs of a race society, racist society, you're arguing about, like, for the inferiority of black people.
Those are the two fucking options.
You either have to admit that society is racist, and it treats black people differently at an institutional, social level, and that is why these discrepancies exist, that is why they're so fucking glaring, and a matter of life and death, frankly.
Yeah.
The only other option is, oh, they're just like that.
They like getting shot by the police.
And the thing is what they don't really realize is like these programs they don't they they don't exist for you because your son still knows these things they don't exist for your son because the thing is we we just know this stuff right yeah we we are aware as as black people that um you know things like standardized testing are stacked for towards white people and towards a certain a certain um uh uh
income bracket, you know?
We know that, we are aware of that.
So it's not even for us. - Totally, yeah.
- It's for the people who just have no clue about how they are just like, they're not aware of how coasting they are.
- Well, and it's to prevent poor treatment of this woman's son.
- Yeah, exactly.
It's to help this woman's son.
Yeah.
And it's also to remind her son from somewhere else, hey, like no shots, but, um, uh, you're going to have to work twice as hard to get, uh, to get half as far.
You just, that's just where you're at.
You just got to do it.
Um, that's just your only option because, uh, like, you know, we're still very much like a minority.
Like people forget how like small the number actually is.
Yeah.
Um.
Some people do.
proportionally you know uh and but so we we're aware of that uh and we are aware of that because you can't you can't live in it and not be aware of it uh so this is not for us this is for this is so that yeah this is so that hopefully your kid will be treated nicer than you so hopefully your kid doesn't have to fucking educate your dumb ass when you're fucking in your you're almost 40 you know no shots love you you've done great you've really grown i'm really proud of you you You know, got my back like Jansport, you're a real one, forever, love you.
Yeah, I love her too.
Yeah, she's great.
For most of his school life, race hasn't really been an issue for her son, Riley said.
Yeah, maybe you just don't know about it because he knows you're an asshole.
Like, he knows you're a jerk and won't listen to him if he tried to talk to you about it.
Also was like probably just popular and cool and like just you know didn't really have problems like that that she didn't realize like you know he overcame whatever hurdle would have come with he would just you know not been also cool.
Right.
A former elementary school principal once tried to get her son to join a mentoring organization for black male students but she declined.
Riley said quote he was not happy with my decision she said of that principal but this is my son and I'm his parent.
And it's like, yeah, I'm not gonna have a black son, okay?
That's- that's that.
Yeah.
This fucking principal was trying to reach out to help her son in a fucking mentoring program.
Yeah.
Uh, no.
Absolutely not.
No, thank you.
I don't- no.
I don't want him- He doesn't need any extra help, okay?
Yeah.
Quote, they said, well, your son would be a great voice for all black students and we would for all black students.
Yeah, I'm sure that's what they said.
And we would love to have him speak for that community, Riley recalled.
He was 12 and I did not think that was his responsibility, but also he has not had a different experience than any of these other children.
Also, I gotta respect her though.
She's just being smart.
She knows that she can't be around positive black men and not want to pounce on them.
She knows that she can't set herself up for failure here.
She's aware of that and I respect that part of it.
I love he has not had a different experience than all these other children.
My child is not special at all.
There's nothing unique about my child that would warrant him speaking to his classmates about his experience.
It's a great way to treat your son like every other kid by telling him he doesn't have anything to say.
I remember a relative saying, um, no, no, no.
He has unique experiences because he's unique, but not because of, not because of that part.
It's just cause he's unique.
Sure.
Whatever, whatever gets you in the door, you know, fine.
You want to hear some, you know, some, here's something really funny.
I like just remembered.
It's a really funny, like, uh, I'd love to hear it.
In my elementary school, in sixth grade, I think I got in a fight.
I think I got punched in the nose, and I punched a guy in the nose.
That guy's dad was a cop.
He didn't get in trouble.
And I would get the only working detention in the history of the school.
Working deten- like at school?
Working detention.
Like I was raking lawns, picking up trash after school, like doing labor.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, and it's never happened, not since the 60s.
At this private Catholic school, and I got the only working detention ever there.
That's so fucked.
I remember them saying, he's a unique kid, we gotta give him a unique punishment.
Oh yeah, sure.
And I was a good kid.
I was a good kid for the most part.
I was a loud person and whatever.
But yeah, how wild is that?
This was a Catholic school, you said?
It was a Catholic school, yeah.
Yeah, they're like, oh, okay, yeah, your punishment is you're going to be digging ditches.
Whatever you do, do not dig in this one spot.
Stay away from this one area.
Everywhere else is fine.
And I had to run.
I had to run between things.
What the fuck?
Yeah, demons.
Demonic people.
But it was cool because my grandma was part of the program.
My white grandma was part of the school.
She ran the Alderserver program.
It was cool because it was like, oh, that's Carol's grandson.
We got to treat him like family.
Like, we gotta, like, rear him extra hard.
We gotta treat him like family.
Even though all the rest of my white cousins went there too.
Wow.
I went there on a scholarship.
Yeah.
Wild.
We gotta treat him like family, by which I mean, uh, use him for free labor.
Yeah.
Use him for free labor.
Yeah.
Use him for free labor.
So wild.
And I, I still remember feeling like I was like the good kid there.
I wasn't, I didn't even do the bad thing.
I think I was like really much defended to myself.
Yeah, anyways.
Yeah, doesn't sound good.
Riley said she was told that if her son was uncomfortable during discussions on race, he would be offered a safe space.
I told them, no, that is segregation!
No, don't do that.
That is, if you listen to me complain and bitch and moan for days on end and then try to help me out, that's also segregation.
Yeah.
No, make him look at it.
Make him look at it.
I make him look at it all the time when he's home.
I make him look at the racism all the time.
These people are like such fucking cranks.
Like, they don't actually want anything.
They just want to be mad.
They want to be, you know, get on TV, probably.
Yeah, it's like saying, okay, we have a sex ed program in class and if your daughter is uncomfortable with that, you know, she doesn't have to go.
No!
No, that's segregation then!
All the students have to do what I want or else it's segregation.
She needs know the way.
And I don't want to teach her.
That's ducky.
I don't want to do it.
What it is, is nobody gets to do it because I don't want my son to do it.
That's what she's trying to argue for.
She's trying to argue.
They offered her a solution, which was, yeah, don't participate.
And she said, no, now you are being racist.
Then you're going to talk behind his back.
I wish that was her aspect, because that would be cool.
Because that's probably real.
She's like, he leaves.
All right, y'all, so he's gone.
I know you want to say it, but just don't say it.
I know you want to say it when they're around, but when they're not around you can say it all the time.
Don't say it when they're around.
The thing is sometimes they're pretty stealthy.
They might creep up on you.
You might say it, but just try not to say it when they're around.
That's the lesson they teach when he's out of the room.
I love how she suddenly discovered the existence of racism when they tried to make accommodations for her hysterical nature.
She's like, oh no, now racism is real and now you're doing it.
Yeah, it's happening in front of me.
Okay, uh, she said she was directed to talk to a physical education coach to get his perspective.
She said the coach, who is black, told her that the anti-racism policy and instruction were necessary because, quote, parents are not teaching their children what they need to know about race.
Riley wrote in a memorandum to the court supporting the ADF lawsuit, quote, he said, parents aren't parenting anymore and they need to take over, she said.
I told him that I chose to be a parent and that's my job and I will not let them be the parent.
They are there to teach my child academics and I will take care of everything else.
They're there to teach exactly what I want them to teach that I'm not going to teach, but everything else I get to teach, alright?
Hey, so this black is getting out of control?
Someone call the P.E.
teacher.
Someone call the physical education teacher.
The P.E.
teacher is black.
Yeah, but that's what I'm saying.
And he's talking to the white mom, trying to explain fucking anti-racism to her.
Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying.
Hey, we got a black kid problem, can you guys get the P.E.
teacher?
Like, it's a thing.
Like, that's a thing.
What do you mean?
Elaborate, please.
I don't know what you're talking about.
We're, like, good for sports.
We're just good for sports.
I think, I mean, charitably, I think what it was is like the PE teacher was the only, because he's the only black teacher there probably.
That's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
Why isn't there, why isn't there a fucking, you know, black, you know, a black social studies teacher who's stepping in and being like, hey, I'm more than, I'm, hey, I'm more than just like the fast guy.
I'm not here for my quick twitch muscles.
I'm here for my quick twitch brain.
Because it's Virginia, you know?
It's always the P.E.
teacher, you know?
It's just like, fuck, man.
They're trying and they're still part of it.
And this mom is like, this is all bad.
I'm like, man, you're really making it so much worse for your poor kid.
And she's gonna feel like shit later on when hopefully she figures this shit out and they get to have a life together.
That's what I'm gonna say.
Okay, I want to just read the judge's stuff before we get out of here, because it's really good.
It's really good.
According to transcript of the hearing, Worrell appeared skeptical of the ADF's case from the beginning.
He was hard on their lawyers and didn't seem to engage with their arguments.
Good.
Wow.
Based judge.
Wow.
I mean, you never have to hand it to judges, but, you know.
We're gonna do it today.
He seemed to find the district's anti-racism agenda unobjectionable.
During the hearing, Worrell, who is black, said, quote, There isn't any evidence that this district's anti-racism policy and curriculum, quote, are racist, divisive, in any way that's meaningful, at least to the court.
In long monologues about racism in schooling, he said, quote, I think it happens during education that certain people are made to feel uncomfortable about history and their place in it.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah, bullshit.
I like the long monologues.
I think, doesn't every fucking judge do a long monologue that's like half of being a judge?
The good ones.
The good ones.
The ones that get shows later on.
In response to an ADF lawyer who argued that the school isn't just teaching about racism or the horrors of slavery, but personalizing it to students in the room by dividing up various characteristics, race, sex, religion, into dominant and subordinate cultures, Worrell asked, why is that a bad thing?
Why are you worried about it?
What is wrong with asking students to question themselves and the culture so they can learn something about it?
Thank you.
They're gonna go, hey, hey, isn't your mama racist?
Don't you know someone like your mom who's a racist and he's gonna be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I do.
He denied that the school district is perpetuating racial stereotypes and said there is value in telling students that the concept of colorblindness is, quote, insufficient in some ways.
It sounds very even-handed.
It sounds like a sensible guy.
Yeah.
When ADF lawyers argued that the district is trying to indoctrinate students into a particular view on racism, changing how they think, and changing their lives, Worrell responded that everything the school does gives students an ability to change their lives in school.
Yeah, it's called being in school.
They want you to learn stuff.
They're telling you stuff so that you learn it.
I hope so, you know.
Claims by the ADF lawyers that the district's policies are discriminatory is, quote, a statement without fact, a statement without any context.
It's just a statement by you that says it's discriminatory and it's just not true, Warrell said according to the court transcript.
You tell me that the school board policy discriminates against white kids and it's just not true.
You tell me that it discriminates against Riley's son and it's just not true.
Yeah, I love that.
He's like, this is not a discussion.
This is what it is.
It's pretty simple.
Yeah, this is how you have to talk to these people.
You just have to say, it's not true.
Teaching kids about this shit is good.
It's good.
They have to learn it.
Uh, if our job is to teach people about, teach kids about all kinds of things, including social things, they're going to learn about this shit.
That's just a fact of it.
And again, to be honest, like my, my point of view is like your school's never going to teach them enough.
You need to teach them more.
Your school's never going to teach them enough.
You know, this is on us.
The cool thing is if you teach your kids enough, your kids will teach other kids enough.
So fuck what the school's teaching them.
You gotta teach them more than that.
Uh, the lawsuit is the last paragraph.
The lawsuit by the district parents is one of two lawsuits ADF has filed against the Albert Marley County School Board.
In April, Emily Mays, a former Albert Marley Elementary School assistant principal, filed a lawsuit against the board alleging that she was the victim of intense harassment and a hostile work environment for expressing concerns about the district's mandatory anti-racism training.
She claims the harassment caused her to suffer from severe anxiety and panic attacks and ultimately forced her to leave her job.
Yeah, so there's no such thing as racism.
We definitely don't have to try and rectify any sort of racial incongruity or inequality in this country, except for the ones where people are racist against me for being anti-anti-racist.
And also, it's your fault that I quit my job.
I love this whole thing where it's like, you forced me to feel anxiety because I knew that you didn't like the way that I was?
Yeah.
And it's like, dawg, that's existing for us.
It's the liquid death discussion.
It's if you don't understand the problem with liquid death, you don't understand racism.
What's liquid death?
It's that canned water that you cannot drink while you are driving while being black in America because it is literally stressful.
It's literally not good for your heart.
It's going to cause anxiety.
I was like, I smoke weed in the car all the time.
No problem.
Don't even think twice about it.
I had a liquid death in the car one time because it's the only thing the coffee shop had and I really needed water.
I did not touch it.
It was so scary, I hid it in the back seat.
Because I was like, these motherfuckers are going to see that can in my hand, and that's going to be their excuse.
They're going to know you're a dork, and they're going to be like, what do you fuck with this guy?
They're going to be like, that's a beer, that phone's a gun.
Like, if you don't understand what's wrong with liquid death, then you don't understand racism.
And like, there's no way that these moms understand what's wrong with liquid death.
What if the cops saw the skull on the can and thought, oh, this guy's a racist.
That's definitely the totem comp on it.
And then they pulled you over for doing racism.
How would you feel about that?
Wouldn't that be good, though?
Yo, how about how yesterday I was at a protecting Planned Parenthood protest thing, and somebody on our side showed up in a Punisher hoodie, but it was like a Punisher hoodie.
Just an actual Marvel Punisher.
Wow.
I was like, yo, I was like, I was like, when you walked over here, I was like, who are you?
Why are you walking over here this way?
What's happening?
You feel real confident.
What's going on?
Um, and I was like, you just confused everyone here real hard.
They're like, oh yeah.
Sorry.
This is my first protest.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sorry.
I just really liked the Punisher.
I was like, yeah, I noticed you bought a six sign though.
So shout out to you.
It was really funny.
It was like, yeah, that's what happens with liquid death.
Like, turn around and you peel the, like, blue line off of his back and he's like, oh, sorry, I was painting.
I was painting earlier.
Yeah, my bad.
My bad.
That's the episode, folks.
I hope this woman gets the help she needs, by which I mean she, like, opens her fucking ears, you know, to her son.
Treats her son like a human being instead of a black kid.
Yeah, absolutely.
Maybe ask your son how he feels.
Maybe talk to him a little bit.
Well, thanks for listening, folks.
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