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Black Lives Miseducated
00:07:23
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| His new book is Red November. | |
| Will the country vote Red for Trump or Red for Socialism? | |
| Intelligent title. | |
| It's now available for pre-order. | |
| It's up at DennisPrager.com. | |
| I did not know you were in interracial marriage. | |
| And it's relevant to the story, obviously. | |
| You were in Santa Monica, California, which is a left-wing city. | |
| I know the city well. | |
| I conducted the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, you may recall. | |
| And the hatred of conservatives is so great that the former mayor and present mayor at the time said they would not attend the concert at the Disney Concert Hall. | |
| It was better for the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra to not raise funds than be conducted by a conservative. | |
| I raised that evening the entire year's budget for the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra because I try to help local orchestras. | |
| But it was more important to them to destroy the orchestra than enable a conservative to conduct. | |
| It's totally appropriate your story where you see A minority-owned business smashed by leftists. | |
| And I want you to continue the story, but I am curious. | |
| Is it going on as we speak? | |
| Is there more destruction in Santa Monica? | |
| Right now, it's peaceful because there's such a large law enforcement presence. | |
| If you can call, board it up. | |
| It stores peaceful. | |
| People can't live their ordinary lives. | |
| And, you know, Dennis, there's been a real confusion in the media about this term peaceful, peaceful protest. | |
| But there's a difference between peaceful and lawful. | |
| And people have the right to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, but everybody has that right. | |
| That's why you can't just block traffic whenever you want to. | |
| That's why we have... | |
| Demonstrations apply for permits. | |
| It's for public safety, and it's so that you don't overrun other people when they're exercising their rights. | |
| But these quote-unquote peaceful protests diverted the police. | |
| The police were patrolling the protest on Ocean Boulevard while the looters were emptying out Santa Monica Place. | |
| And here you mentioned the symphony. | |
| The looters smashed the Santa Monica Music Center, also a minority-owned, minority-founded business. | |
| And they trashed it, and they looted the instrument. | |
| And this is what's going on in our liberal cities. | |
| And now in Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti is cutting the police budget by $150 million. | |
| He's kowtowing to these people to show up at protests with signs that say, defund the police. | |
| There's nothing worse for black communities and communities of color than to make them less safe. | |
| Because no one's going to invest in those communities if they can't. | |
| I don't think liberal America, and certainly I don't think our media, realize what this has done. | |
| I was telling a relative of mine this morning, this is the worst thing I've seen in my lifetime. | |
| I've never seen anything like this. | |
| It's not just the destruction. | |
| It's that they wrap it all in the language of social justice. | |
| And PragerU is so important because... | |
| The college campus is now our reality. | |
| What you were fighting on campus a few years ago is now everywhere. | |
| The cry bullies who talk about their pain while the looters are destroying lives and setting fire to minority-owned businesses and making sure nobody ever invests in retail stores ever again, whether in Beverly Hills or in Compton. | |
| It's completely appalling. | |
| And the mayor not only cuts the bullies, he gave a speech. | |
| Where he said he understood the pain of black Americans because it hurts from the very day you're born. | |
| There's this concept they have called generational trauma. | |
| It's so completely ridiculous. | |
| And it's racist, too. | |
| It's saying, essentially, that being born black is some kind of sentence, some sort of punishment. | |
| And this is held up as the highest form of enlightened liberalism. | |
| You know, this is a very con. | |
| In a way, you could almost look at the Black Lives Matter movement, as it is right now, as a way for privileged white people to assert their privilege. | |
| Because what does Black Lives Matter say? | |
| It says that white privilege is the problem, which means that white people become the most important people in fixing the problem. | |
| So it takes away black agency and makes liberals like Eric Garcetti, who can go home and enjoy private security. | |
| It makes them feel great about themselves, and they're safe and secure, while black communities have less police patrolling. | |
| And by the way, when you put the police budget by 10%, you're taking away jobs from black, Hispanic Angelenos. | |
| The police force is disproportionately minority. | |
| This is all just insanity. | |
| And, you know, Dennis, it's very upsetting, and I can hear it in my voice how upset I am about it, and I do think the stakes are very high for November. | |
| But I do think there's one other thing to think about, which is that this is in many ways a test of will. | |
| And the media, having tried and failed to get rid of Donald Trump any other way, they used impeachment, then they used the coronavirus, and now they're using this. | |
| I'm not saying that coronavirus isn't a real problem. | |
| I'm not even saying that racism in the police force or America isn't a real problem. | |
| But they're elevating it to such an hysterical and self-destructive level. | |
| Black America was at its death early this year. | |
| Lowest level of poverty, highest level of employment. | |
| The media would destroy Black America if it would get rid of Donald Trump. | |
| And that's what we're seeing. | |
| It's a test of wills, though. | |
| And I think people just need to know that beyond the headlines and the news, a lot of Americans are looking at this as the obsidian it is. | |
| Many Americans, although people are fearful and fearful right now, both in a physical sense and in a social sense, many Americans... | |
| Don't believe in the United States. | |
| Don't believe in Martin Luther King. | |
| These kids never learned about Martin Luther King. | |
| The New York Times quoted Martin Luther King the other day saying that a riot is the voice of the unruly. | |
| He did say that, but he also said in the same paragraph that he did not support riots. | |
| He was trying to explain why riot happened, but he committed to nonviolence even in that same paragraph. | |
| They don't quote that part. | |
| So our youth are being miseducated as to what Martin Luther King Jr. was about. | |
| And our media are enjoying the spectacle of disorder. | |
| They're enjoying what the novelist Norman Rush called, and I quote him in my book, Red November, actually. | |
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Pants That Don't Fit
00:00:21
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| But he called the insurrectionary moment. | |
| Every socialist wants the insurrectionary moment. | |
| They don't think about what happens afterwards. | |
| And what happens afterwards is 20 years of economic devastation. | |
| What are these kids going to do, the ones who looted? | |
| What are they going to do when the pants don't fit and there's no store to return on the kids? | |
| All right, we'll hold it there. | |