Dennis Prager Show - Joel Pollak on the Riots  ⎜The Dennis Prager Radio Show
Aired: 2020-06-05
Duration: 07:29


=== Black Lives Miseducated (07:23) ===

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[00:00:13]  I did not know you were in interracial marriage.
[00:00:18]  And it's relevant to the story, obviously.
[00:00:20]  You were in Santa Monica, California, which is a left-wing city.
[00:00:26]  I know the city well.
[00:00:28]  I conducted the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, you may recall.
[00:00:32]  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.
[00:00:50]  It was better for the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra to not raise funds than be conducted by a conservative.
[00:00:59]  I raised that evening the entire year's budget for the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra because I try to help local orchestras.
[00:01:10]  But it was more important to them to destroy the orchestra than enable a conservative to conduct.
[00:01:17]  It's totally appropriate your story where you see A minority-owned business smashed by leftists.
[00:01:29]  And I want you to continue the story, but I am curious.
[00:01:34]  Is it going on as we speak?
[00:01:38]  Is there more destruction in Santa Monica?
[00:01:43]  Right now, it's peaceful because there's such a large law enforcement presence.
[00:01:50]  If you can call, board it up.
[00:01:52]  It stores peaceful.
[00:01:54]  People can't live their ordinary lives.
[00:01:58]  And, you know, Dennis, there's been a real confusion in the media about this term peaceful, peaceful protest.
[00:02:05]  But there's a difference between peaceful and lawful.
[00:02:08]  And people have the right to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, but everybody has that right.
[00:02:14]  That's why you can't just block traffic whenever you want to.
[00:02:18]  That's why we have...
[00:02:19]  Demonstrations apply for permits.
[00:02:21]  It's for public safety, and it's so that you don't overrun other people when they're exercising their rights.
[00:02:27]  But these quote-unquote peaceful protests diverted the police.
[00:02:31]  The police were patrolling the protest on Ocean Boulevard while the looters were emptying out Santa Monica Place.
[00:02:38]  And here you mentioned the symphony.
[00:02:41]  The looters smashed the Santa Monica Music Center, also a minority-owned, minority-founded business.
[00:02:47]  And they trashed it, and they looted the instrument.
[00:02:50]  And this is what's going on in our liberal cities.
[00:02:54]  And now in Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti is cutting the police budget by $150 million.
[00:03:01]  He's kowtowing to these people to show up at protests with signs that say, defund the police.
[00:03:07]  There's nothing worse for black communities and communities of color than to make them less safe.
[00:03:13]  Because no one's going to invest in those communities if they can't.
[00:03:18]  I don't think liberal America, and certainly I don't think our media, realize what this has done.
[00:03:24]  I was telling a relative of mine this morning, this is the worst thing I've seen in my lifetime.
[00:03:28]  I've never seen anything like this.
[00:03:31]  It's not just the destruction.
[00:03:33]  It's that they wrap it all in the language of social justice.
[00:03:37]  And PragerU is so important because...
[00:03:41]  The college campus is now our reality.
[00:03:44]  What you were fighting on campus a few years ago is now everywhere.
[00:03:48]  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.
[00:04:05]  It's completely appalling.
[00:04:07]  And the mayor not only cuts the bullies, he gave a speech.
[00:04:10]  Where he said he understood the pain of black Americans because it hurts from the very day you're born.
[00:04:18]  There's this concept they have called generational trauma.
[00:04:22]  It's so completely ridiculous.
[00:04:25]  And it's racist, too.
[00:04:26]  It's saying, essentially, that being born black is some kind of sentence, some sort of punishment.
[00:04:32]  And this is held up as the highest form of enlightened liberalism.
[00:04:36]  You know, this is a very con.
[00:04:38]  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.
[00:04:48]  Because what does Black Lives Matter say?
[00:04:51]  It says that white privilege is the problem, which means that white people become the most important people in fixing the problem.
[00:04:58]  So it takes away black agency and makes liberals like Eric Garcetti, who can go home and enjoy private security.
[00:05:07]  It makes them feel great about themselves, and they're safe and secure, while black communities have less police patrolling.
[00:05:13]  And by the way, when you put the police budget by 10%, you're taking away jobs from black, Hispanic Angelenos.
[00:05:21]  The police force is disproportionately minority.
[00:05:24]  This is all just insanity.
[00:05:27]  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.
[00:05:34]  But I do think there's one other thing to think about, which is that this is in many ways a test of will.
[00:05:39]  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.
[00:05:49]  I'm not saying that coronavirus isn't a real problem.
[00:05:52]  I'm not even saying that racism in the police force or America isn't a real problem.
[00:05:57]  But they're elevating it to such an hysterical and self-destructive level.
[00:06:01]  Black America was at its death early this year.
[00:06:04]  Lowest level of poverty, highest level of employment.
[00:06:07]  The media would destroy Black America if it would get rid of Donald Trump.
[00:06:11]  And that's what we're seeing.
[00:06:13]  It's a test of wills, though.
[00:06:14]  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.
[00:06:23]  Many Americans, although people are fearful and fearful right now, both in a physical sense and in a social sense, many Americans...
[00:06:30]  Don't believe in the United States.
[00:06:32]  Don't believe in Martin Luther King.
[00:06:33]  These kids never learned about Martin Luther King.
[00:06:35]  The New York Times quoted Martin Luther King the other day saying that a riot is the voice of the unruly.
[00:06:42]  He did say that, but he also said in the same paragraph that he did not support riots.
[00:06:48]  He was trying to explain why riot happened, but he committed to nonviolence even in that same paragraph.
[00:06:53]  They don't quote that part.
[00:06:54]  So our youth are being miseducated as to what Martin Luther King Jr. was about.
[00:06:59]  And our media are enjoying the spectacle of disorder.
[00:07:02]  They're enjoying what the novelist Norman Rush called, and I quote him in my book, Red November, actually.

=== Pants That Don't Fit (00:21) ===

[00:07:08]  But he called the insurrectionary moment.
[00:07:11]  Every socialist wants the insurrectionary moment.
[00:07:15]  They don't think about what happens afterwards.
[00:07:17]  And what happens afterwards is 20 years of economic devastation.
[00:07:21]  What are these kids going to do, the ones who looted?
[00:07:24]  What are they going to do when the pants don't fit and there's no store to return on the kids?
[00:07:28]  All right, we'll hold it there.