| Time | Text |
|---|---|
|
Why They Won't Review
00:07:50
|
|
| I mean, to think that the New York Times... | |
| I wonder if they'll even review your book. | |
| You know, Candace Owens, of course, is my guest. | |
| Do you think they'll review your book? | |
| I mean, it would be so poignantly absurd if they didn't. | |
| And, I mean, there's just no tricks they can pull. | |
| Some people were like, oh, they might try to lead you off the list. | |
| I was like, 90,000 copies sold on Amazon alone. | |
| I mean, that's not even separate from Barnes& Noble or anywhere else. | |
| So I feel pretty optimistic that they will, and that they just, you know, at a certain point, at a certain amount of number of books, they just have to do what's right if they want to be taken seriously. | |
| Not that anyone's ever accused the New York Times of wanting to be taken seriously. | |
| Right. | |
| Well, they do want to be taken seriously. | |
| They have no reason to expect it, but they do. | |
| So, yeah, well, in any event, I could actually... | |
| Do you know Candace? | |
| I'm not kidding. | |
| If somebody paid me, and I don't mean an exorbitant sum, but I'd have to be paid for my time, write the review that you expect the New York Times to write on Candace Owens' book, I could write the review. | |
| No, I would, because I know what they would, it is not possible to think that you and Ta-Nehisi Coates or Zandi, Ibram Zandi, If I have his name right, or the White Fragility folks, you can't both be right. | |
| Either two and two is four or it's five. | |
| Have you read, and I don't expect that you have, but have you read or know about White Fragility? | |
| I know about the book White Fragility, but I have not read it because I'm trying to maintain my brain cells. | |
| Okay, fine. | |
| So this notion... | |
| First of all, how do you react to the notion all whites are racist? | |
| I mean, it's just, even that sentence is racist. | |
| I mean, think of it again, going back to the definition of racism, assigning attributes to the ties for people based on their race. | |
| So a statement like all whites are racist is actually a racist statement. | |
| All whites are privileged is a racist statement. | |
| And it's just so frustrating that it just took a couple of decades for people to completely forget what racism is. | |
| And to think that somehow, flip it on its head, it's no longer racism, and it is. | |
| You know, that is the exercise. | |
| If you said a sentence, I always say remove the word white and put blacks. | |
| And how does that sentence make you feel, right? | |
| All blacks are racist. | |
| That's right. | |
| People would freak out, you know? | |
| When I see these articles in BuzzFeed, white people need to just shut up. | |
| Imagine if that same article said black people need to just shut up. | |
| The world would explode. | |
| They would say it was racist. | |
| So why have we suddenly arrived into a society that permits that sort of language if it's spoken against white people? | |
| This is supposed to be some what? | |
| what some retribution from the times of slavery. | |
| I'm demanding white people that never held slaves pay, black people that were never slaves, and that's supposed to make you feel good, and that doesn't feel like an injustice. | |
| People miss the forest for the trees here. | |
| And it's almost not their fault because there is a mass brainwashing going on, the psychological conditioning that's happening because of the media, which is working with the politicians. | |
| Who can no longer discern between right and wrong, right? | |
| We used to agree, but left in the right, on some basic concepts of right and wrong, right? | |
| This was never up for debate. | |
| It's wrong to lose. | |
| It's wrong to riot. | |
| It would be crazy to say defund the police. | |
| Now, we don't agree on those things. | |
| They always have a, but it can be right. | |
| It's okay to lose in right if you're just feeling emotional and upset. | |
| It's okay to attack a business owner's door because of past depressions that you never lived through. | |
| And that's a scary place to be in, when adults and people in places of power can no longer discern between basic concepts of goodness and righteousness and wrongness. | |
| That's right. | |
| So you are leaving Black exit from the Democratic Party. | |
| Let me tell you my reaction and have you react to it, if you would. | |
| I think you're making headway, and I don't live in a world of rose-colored glasses. | |
| But I have a sense that there is more openness to the question, has the Democratic Party been good for me? | |
| And for other Blacks, it is more capable of being heard today than at any time in my life. | |
| Yes, and that's exactly right. | |
| And, you know, I really do think that I've made an impact there because I was extremely strategic. | |
| People didn't understand what I was doing when I first arrived on the scene. | |
| Not everybody is PragerU who understood the importance of the, you know, the cultural war and the battle that I was fighting. | |
| But I was very intentional. | |
| Each of my actions. | |
| And there were times people were like, you know, this is not the way to be a conservative. | |
| You know, I've been loud, I've been in their face, and I've been questioning their narrative unapologetically. | |
| And that's the difference between some older generations who are much brighter than I. Dr. Ben Carson, he's a literal neurosurgeon who separated conjoined twins. | |
| You've got Dr. Connelly's wife, but they were so polite. | |
| That it allowed people to just, they would never respond when somebody called them an Uncle Tom or Coon. | |
| They'd just take it. | |
| And I realized that that was the mistake, is that we have to fight back as black conservatives. | |
| We have to show them that we're not here to apologize for being right. | |
| And I've done that. | |
| I've pushed back because I also realized that the black American condition... | |
| For many people, when we're talking about a group of people that have a 77% rate of father absence, father absence leads to a disrespectful group of people who don't respond well to authority. | |
| You've never had that staple in your life, right? | |
| So being kind and trying to show them statistics doesn't really work. | |
| I've approached this with a different attitude. | |
| You know, they don't respect me and I'm not here to try to earn their... | |
| Friendship or their respect. | |
| I'm here to say the facts, and I'm not going to apologize for saying facts. | |
| And in the process, I happen to have earned a lot of their respect for standing up there and saying it and not backing down. | |
| Have you made any offers to the Ta-Nehisi Coates types to debate? | |
| Yes. | |
| I mean, please, I have offered up me, and then they say, oh, you're just, the clout chasing is their thing now, the favorite thing to say. | |
| You're just trying to become puss. | |
| You know, get into the room, and I say, okay, I'm going to take someone else. | |
| Take Larry Elder. | |
| If no one would do, I wouldn't do that. | |
| I would never try to debate Larry Elder. | |
| We're on the same side, right? | |
| That's right. | |
| Man, as I walk in, it's like, with you, you stay away from that debate. | |
| That's right. | |
| And Larry's been doing that his whole life, trying to debate the Alistair. | |
| They don't do it because they know they're lying. | |
| And if you know you're lying, it's not wise to step into a room with the truth. | |
| Lies need to hide themselves. | |
| The truth doesn't. | |
| There's not a single leftist that I am afraid to debate. | |
| I've had some of my shows that weren't willing. | |
| I mean, I had Mark Lamont Hill on the show. | |
| I watched that, yeah. | |
| People were saying, oh, you embarrassed us. | |
| This didn't make sense. | |
| But that's the reason. | |
| I'd love to have the conversation because I want to expose their lies, but they're not willing to because they're platform guys once they get exposed. | |
| Alright, let's have one more segment. | |
| I could do this for a long time. | |
| She's remarkable. | |
| The book is remarkable. | |
| Blackout. | |