Dennis Prager Show - BLM Dividing Families and Threatening Jobs
Aired: 2020-07-13
Duration: 04:53


=== Dedication's Toll (04:53) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello, Mr. Prager.
[00:00:01]  Thank you for taking my call.
[00:00:02]  It's an honor to speak with you, sir, as always.
[00:00:04]  Thank you.
[00:00:05]  I just wanted to ask, I'll try to be as concise as possible.
[00:00:09]  I've been a police officer for 16 years.
[00:00:11]  I've spoken to you a few times now.
[00:00:13]  And my parents, they fled the Soviet Union, and I was born in Canada.
[00:00:18]  I was always grateful to this country and to the West for the opportunities, and I wanted to serve my country.
[00:00:23]  I served overseas twice, peacekeeping in Afghanistan and Ukraine.
[00:00:29]  And I've dedicated my life to service and I'm having a very tough time right now.
[00:00:33]  I lead about 22 officers on the job and we're all very fearful every day we come into work now.
[00:00:40]  I've never been this bad.
[00:00:42]  We're fearful that either we're going to lose our lives or that a 10-second clip will label us a racist and our lives will be ruined another way and probably another terrible fashion.
[00:00:54]  And I'm struggling with my own family that they don't support me publicly.
[00:00:59]  They support Black Lives Matter for the most part.
[00:01:02]  And when I try to communicate to them the ideologies that they hold and the life experience that I have dealing with that organization, they tell me that we'll just have to agree to disagree.
[00:01:14]  And I find myself feeling very distant from them and very hurt by that lack of support because...
[00:01:20]  They know who I am.
[00:01:21]  They know the character that I have and my colleagues have.
[00:01:24]  And I'm just asking and reaching out to you.
[00:01:27]  Are you married?
[00:01:29]  I'm not.
[00:01:30]  I have a girlfriend and her family and her are extremely supportive of me.
[00:01:34]  And they're kind of like my lifeline, actually.
[00:01:36]  So, okay.
[00:01:37]  Them and you, sir.
[00:01:39]  Well, thank you.
[00:01:40]  I'm glad to be that.
[00:01:41]  Is she marriageable material, to put it bluntly?
[00:01:49]  She's divorced, has a 10-year-old child.
[00:01:52]  We're both strong Christians.
[00:01:54]  My father is Jewish, but at this time...
[00:01:58]  What prevents you from getting married?
[00:02:00]  Oh, she's afraid of getting married?
[00:02:02]  She's afraid.
[00:02:03]  I'm open to it.
[00:02:04]  Wait, why is she afraid?
[00:02:06]  Because of her past experience.
[00:02:09]  Well, since you listen so avidly, you might know my response to that.
[00:02:14]  The driving, the driving, right?
[00:02:16]  Have you asked her that?
[00:02:18]  Not yet, sir.
[00:02:19]  We've only been together for about four months.
[00:02:23]  She's been, again, a lifeline to me, but I'm finding it very difficult to actually be close to my family now.
[00:02:30]  I find myself withdrawing, and I wear my heart on my sleeve.
[00:02:34]  Well, but don't.
[00:02:35]  See, this is interesting.
[00:02:36]  I was blessed by God or nature with shock absorbers.
[00:02:42]  These things, one of the things that I have always known, Is the unimportance of blood.
[00:02:51]  And so that has protected me from any hurts that would be within family life.
[00:02:58]  I'm not saying I have wonderful, many wonderful, obviously, family members.
[00:03:03]  I want to make that clear.
[00:03:04]  But I've had that as well.
[00:03:06]  But I was prepared for it because I knew that blood doesn't mean a damn thing.
[00:03:13]  Everything is values.
[00:03:16]  And, you know, if you've seen my fireside chats, I did one on blood just a couple of weeks ago.
[00:03:24]  And I think it's an eye-opener, especially to young people, that values are so much more important than blood.
[00:03:30]  So just, yes, you could withdraw.
[00:03:33]  What you should do now is just be, I don't want you ever to sever relations with family, obviously.
[00:03:39]  Now what, in my opinion, For what it's worth, and apparently it's worth a lot to you, so I say this with some humility, but I would not raise these issues.
[00:03:52]  I would be aware I am not that close to them as I would like to be.
[00:03:58]  C'est la vie, as you folks would say in Canada.
[00:04:02]  And then I find kindred spirits, which was the theme of my happiness hour, outside of my family.
[00:04:11]  And it's unbelievably helpful.
[00:04:15]  And I hope you get married.
[00:04:17]  And that'll really answer the problem.
[00:04:21]  Because imagine, just imagine, this should make your day.
[00:04:27]  Imagine if you were married to somebody who had contempt for your views.
[00:04:34]  Thank you, sir.
[00:04:36]  My pleasure.
[00:04:37]  Thank you.
[00:04:37]  I hope we meet one day.
[00:04:41]  It's unique.
[00:04:42]  Talk Radio is unique.
[00:04:47]  It's really something.
[00:04:48]  I never lose sight of the good things of my life and of your life.