Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Prager & Larry Elder Discredit the Systemic Racism Narrative
Aired: 2020-07-01
Duration: 06:53


=== Why Police Can Tell (06:21) ===

[00:00:01]  UncleTom.com.
[00:00:02]  It rhymes.
[00:00:02]  That's why he did it, by the way.
[00:00:05]  He asked, you know, we discussed the possible name.
[00:00:08]  I have more soul than I could control.
[00:00:11]  There you go.
[00:00:12]  You see that?
[00:00:12]  He thinks in rhymes.
[00:00:14]  That's right.
[00:00:14]  He wrote the original rap melody, in fact.
[00:00:17]  It's not well known.
[00:00:18]  That was one of the original Sugar Heel Gang.
[00:00:20]  What'd they call that?
[00:00:21]  Sugar Heel Gang?
[00:00:22]  The one they did the...
[00:00:23]  Yes, according to Sean, yes.
[00:00:25]  By the way, Sean is black.
[00:00:27]  I don't know why you're laughing.
[00:00:29]  That is so wrong.
[00:00:30]  Larry King told me, honestly, that his kids want to be black.
[00:00:35]  And that's the other thing about all of this stuff.
[00:00:39]  Kids like black music, black culture, whatever that is.
[00:00:43]  You know my son David.
[00:00:44]  I asked David when he was 80. I said, what do you want to be when you grow up?
[00:00:47]  He said, black.
[00:00:49]  That's exactly right.
[00:00:50]  The only pictures in his room were black guys because they had the Lakers.
[00:00:54]  He was a big Laker fan.
[00:00:54]  And you know that Tess has been...
[00:00:56]  Shown for decades that black people have higher self-esteem than white people.
[00:00:59]  Yeah.
[00:01:00]  And much higher self-esteem than Asian.
[00:01:02]  I'll tell you, if that's true, it's a little confusing.
[00:01:08]  I am a victim with high self-esteem.
[00:01:10]  Mm-hmm.
[00:01:11]  Okay.
[00:01:12]  All right.
[00:01:13]  Let me take your calls, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:01:15]  Chicago, Patrick, thank you for calling.
[00:01:19]  Hey, I just got something that's kind of stuck in my craw about what Mr. Elder said when he first came on about how can a police officer know that a person is black before they pull him over?
[00:01:36]  And I got three ways a police officer can know a person's culture before pulling them over.
[00:01:43]  And the first one is that if they're patrolling a black community, there's a 99% chance that the person they're pulling over is black.
[00:01:52]  And my second one is that black people, they fix their cars up different than white people.
[00:02:00]  So when you go out into a white suburb, there's police officers that can say there's an 80% chance that that person...
[00:02:08]  Can you give me an example?
[00:02:10]  The first one made sense to me.
[00:02:13]  So tell me.
[00:02:14]  A person, most young black people, they put aftermarket accessories on their car.
[00:02:22]  So they may have rims that are 20 inches, 22 inches, and they're chrome and they shine.
[00:02:29]  They may have...
[00:02:31]  Okay, all right, I got it.
[00:02:33]  What's the third way a policeman could know the color of the driver?
[00:02:38]  Well, simply, this happened to me, and I'm 50 years old.
[00:02:43]  I went out to the suburbs to visit my friend, and he has a white girlfriend.
[00:02:50]  And it was late.
[00:02:52]  And I was leaving to go, driving down the street, dark street, to the highway, and a police officer got behind me, just very close, lights were in my rearview mirror, and he stayed on me all the way until I got right up to the expressway, and he pulled me over and said, what are you doing around here?
[00:03:16]  Okay, alright, alright.
[00:03:19]  I got you.
[00:03:20]  All right, I got you.
[00:03:21]  And only because of time I want Larry to respond.
[00:03:23]  Are you still on?
[00:03:24]  Yeah, but I put him on hold.
[00:03:26]  Okay.
[00:03:27]  I wanted to know what his conclusion was.
[00:03:29]  So therefore, what?
[00:03:31]  You assume that all officers pull over?
[00:03:34]  My conclusion is, Mr. Elder, how can you not know this?
[00:03:37]  How can I not know what?
[00:03:40]  The police are more likely to pull blacks over.
[00:03:43]  Because they can identify the black people's cars by their accessory and therefore they have an idea that it's a black person and that's why the person got pulled over?
[00:03:50]  Okay.
[00:03:51]  Well, it's not like these things have not been studied and studied and studied.
[00:03:55]  And that's what gets me about these kinds of debates.
[00:03:58]  In 2013, during the Obama administration, the National Institutes of Justice, which is the research arm of the DOJ, put out a study called Race and Traffic Stops.
[00:04:07]  75% of black motorists admitted that when they were pulled over, they were pulled over for legitimate reasons.
[00:04:12]  And it turned out, you name the offense, whether it's speeding, driving without a license, driving without a headlight, driving with an expired tag, you name the offense a black motorist was more likely to commit it than other motorists.
[00:04:24]  And therefore, the NIJ concluded that the disproportionate reasons that blacks were pulled over was due to, quote, legitimate factors, end of quote.
[00:04:34]  Secondly, About not being able to tell whether that person is black or being able to tell whether the person is black.
[00:04:40]  Let's take the allegation that was made against New Jersey state troopers years ago when Christy Todd Whitman was governor of New Jersey.
[00:04:48]  People were accusing the troopers of disproportionately pulling over black motorists on the New Jersey Turnpike.
[00:04:53]  So she ordered a study and it turned out...
[00:04:55]  That, according to the researchers, the officers could not tell the race of the people who were in the cars because they were going so fast.
[00:05:01]  Because in the daytime, the sun would reflect off the windows.
[00:05:04]  At nighttime, forget about it.
[00:05:05]  You couldn't tell anyway.
[00:05:06]  And so the researchers concluded that there was no evidence whatsoever that there was a disproportionate pulling over of black voters because of racism.
[00:05:14]  She didn't like the study.
[00:05:15]  She threw it out.
[00:05:16]  Asked for different people.
[00:05:17]  Use different methodology.
[00:05:19]  Same conclusion, different methodology.
[00:05:23]  These officers were not pulling over people because they were black.
[00:05:25]  It turns out the faster the car went, the more likely it was to be a black driver.
[00:05:30]  I don't know why.
[00:05:31]  I'm just telling you what the facts are.
[00:05:33]  And that study, too, was thrown out.
[00:05:36]  So she didn't like the results twice.
[00:05:40]  And again, instead of this being good news, instead of being happy about this...
[00:05:44]  Instead of maybe putting on some PSAs urging black motorists to slow down, the conclusion is, well, it must be there, we just couldn't find it.
[00:05:51]  Honestly.
[00:05:54]  I'll even go a step further, and I may be wrong.
[00:05:57]  But in light of my understanding about how difficult life could be, and how otherwise this is a land of opportunity for anyone of any color, let's say it were true.

=== In The Scheme of Things (00:46) ===

[00:06:12]  There are cops who will stop black drivers sooner than other drivers.
[00:06:17]  I really do believe that I would say, big deal.
[00:06:23]  If that's all I suffer, essentially, in America, because I'm black or because I'm whatever, it's not right.
[00:06:33]  But you know what?
[00:06:34]  In the scheme of things, I'm very lucky to be here.
[00:06:39]  Well, it's why people don't leave the country.
[00:06:42]  Because however you feel unfairly treated, black people stay in America.
[00:06:48]  Dennis, years ago...
[00:06:49]  All right, hold on.
[00:06:49]  We've got to take a break.
[00:06:50]  I want to remind everybody, UncleTom.com.
[00:06:53]  It rhymes.