June 9, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
05:29
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| Heather, we're living in an age of the big lie in a way that has never happened in American history. | |
| Are you on board with me? | |
| I am not on board anything right now, Dennis. | |
| I can't hold on to anything. | |
| Change is happening so fast. | |
| I'm being thrown into the turbulent seas. | |
| I've never seen anything like this. | |
| That's right. | |
| It's stunning. | |
| Every day it gets worse. | |
| You and I have been warning about the phony ideology of identity politics and racial victimization that is the dominant idea, the only raison d'etre in the universities today. | |
| We've warned the public that it's coming. | |
| It's infecting every American institution. | |
| And what we're seeing now is that we're all on campus today. | |
| We're all in a white privilege, white studies class. | |
| We are all the spawn of Ta-Nehisi Coates, who says that the very essence of America is to destroy the black body. | |
| It is simply stunning. | |
| I'm quiet only because I'm... | |
| I'm a mourning. | |
| It's like a moment of silence for my society as we watch this happen. | |
| I have cited your article repeatedly, one of your many articles in the Wall Street Journal, which, thank God, got a lot of reader attention. | |
| And I say thank God. | |
| It was so important. | |
| I want to get this straight because I have been citing this repeatedly. | |
| That in 2018 or 2019, there were nine unarmed blacks killed by police in America and 19 unarmed whites. | |
| Is that accurate? | |
| Did I get you correct? | |
| Yes, that's accurate. | |
| Now, what's fascinating, Dennis, is that was accurate as of June 1. This is from the Washington Post database of police shootings, which it's been keeping since 2015. When my Wall Street Journal article went out, subsequently the Post went back six months after the fact and furiously recategorized its armed victims of police shootings as unarmed. | |
| And it got the black number up. | |
| And again, there was no reason to do this. | |
| There was no new information. | |
| This was purely political. | |
| Now it is showing 15. Unarmed black victims of police force, bringing the percentage of black homicide victims up from 0.1% of all blacks who die of homicide each year to 0.2%. | |
| So a modest change. | |
| But it shows the post, as if we didn't know this already, is purely political. | |
| So whether you want to call it nine, which was the truth... | |
| As of June 1, or whether you want to believe the post reclassification in the last week and think it's 15, it is nevertheless far less than what we are hearing from these Black Lives Matter activists every day who say, what matters that we have destroyed the livelihoods of small businessmen? | |
| What matters that we have destroyed national monuments? | |
| What matters that we are tearing down the fundament of our cities when the police are killing Dozens of us every day. | |
| The lie is huge, and yet no one is rebutting it. | |
| You are, I am, but not many. | |
| I tell my listeners almost every day, lies are the biggest root of evil. | |
| You can't have big evils without big lies. | |
| What do you think of the Minneapolis idea of defunding the police? | |
| Yes. | |
| It's ludicrous. | |
| If Black Lives Matter, you fund the police. | |
| It's that simple. | |
| Social services, we have tried welfare. | |
| We have spent trillions on welfare. | |
| The only thing that brought crime down in this country, saving tens of thousands of minority lives in the process. | |
| It was the data-driven policing revolution that came out of New York City in the 1990s and spread nationwide. | |
| I have gone to dozens of police community meetings in the inner city. | |
| This is what I hear inevitably, Dennis. | |
| We want more police. | |
| You arrest the dealers. | |
| They're back on the corner the next day. | |
| Why can't you keep them in jail? | |
| There's youth hanging out on the corner fighting. | |
| I'm scared to go outside. | |
| I'm scared to go into my lobby. | |
| These are elderly senior citizens talking. | |
| I'm scared to go into my lobby to get my mail because there's trespassing youth selling drugs. | |
| Please, Jesus, send more police. | |
| I hear this again and again. | |
| Yeah, we need to hear them again and again. | |
| Stay on, please, with me. | |
| Heather MacDonald. | |
| And I'll tell you about her book. | |
| Because I just want to thank her in some way. | |
| Sorry? | |
| The War on Cops. |
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