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Dec. 1, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
04:14
What Killed Michael Brown?
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By the way, what did Amazon do to your documentary?
They canceled it.
They sent us a...
You know, I'm a writer.
I know about rejection letters.
This was a rejection letter that literally had hatred in it.
It had contempt for us.
It told us never to resubmit, never to...
Did not play around and change the title and sort of sneak in the back door.
It told us, you know, on and on it went.
So, I mean, they were just really brutal about it, and they canceled us.
Well, Wall Street Journal got wind of this.
Others did.
And the Wall Street Journal had a couple editorials on it.
Jason Reilly wrote a piece.
And they were embarrassed.
Because the documentary met every criterion they had.
The reviews that had come in before that were all very good.
Five out of five, so forth.
And so then, of course, we got a nice little phone call from some executive somewhere in the vast world of Amazon who said, oh, we made a mistake.
Oh, we made a mistake?
We made a mistake.
And did he or she specify what the mistake was?
No, no.
And I asked them, and they said, no, that's, you know, they put it off on somebody else, some other department.
They really meant to cancel Mein Kampf, but by accident, they did it to what killed Michael Brown.
Right, what killed Michael Brown, which maybe they got in the way with it, except their rejection letter was so personalized.
I wish you had it in front of you.
Yeah, it was ideological.
Of course.
The irony is, see, it's irrelevant to the left.
Back to your point about the weight of falsehood, they're crushed by the weight of falsehood.
Because they don't ask, is your documentary telling the truth?
They just ask, does it promote the leftist poetic fiction?
That's right.
That's right.
That's it.
But they did finally run, and so it is now streamed on Amazon, among other places.
How's it doing?
It's done very, very well.
In fact, the publicity helped it a little.
I would imagine.
Exactly right.
Prager, you got a big boost when some comedian took 10 minutes to crap on us.
It was a great boost.
We got a lot more fundraising.
That's right.
These people have no idea how helpful the publicity is.
So, do you, I'm sure you know, but I don't think most of my audience knows, Barack Obama mentioned Ferguson after it was known that Michael Brown was not killed because of racism or even police mistake.
Is that correct?
Yes.
Yes, and many, many other people still refer to it as if it was a given that Michael Brown was a victim of white racism.
But his murder was investigated.
There were two different Justice Department investigations.
There were two different grand juries.
Which had blocks on them.
Right.
And they found absolutely nothing, not one shred of evidence anywhere, to suggest that this was racially motivated.
Keep up the great work.
You're a special man.
Shelby Steele's documentary is up at DennisPrager.com.
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