Dennis Prager Show - Larry Tells Dennis How He Plans to Fix the CA Schools
Aired: 2021-09-13
Duration: 05:21


=== Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony (02:26) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello, my friends.
[00:00:01]  Dennis Prager here with one of the most important races in recent American history, the California recall of a governor who has only done damage because he's the governor who is Democrat.
[00:00:14]  And all he's done is damage to the state of California.
[00:00:18]  As businesses leave, in the greatest numbers in California history, a net decrease in the population for the first time.
[00:00:27]  Actually leading to a decrease in the congressional representation.
[00:00:31]  Right.
[00:00:32]  The schools are pathetic and there is a tremendous alternative if Newsom is recalled.
[00:00:40]  Larry Elder is who I have in mind.
[00:00:43]  Larry will be speaking and honoring a World War II veteran and his family at Monterey Park City Hall.
[00:00:50]  For those of you in that area or any area of L.A., from 10 to 11 this morning, so shortly after we end our interview.
[00:01:00]  So you want to get a picture with Larry Elder.
[00:01:04]  You just want to help him.
[00:01:06]  This is a great way.
[00:01:07]  Go to the Monterey Park City Hall.
[00:01:10]  So what is this with the World War II veteran?
[00:01:17]  Well...
[00:01:17]  This is a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony.
[00:01:21]  And as you know, Dennis, my dad received a Congressional Gold Medal.
[00:01:25]  He received it posthumously.
[00:01:26]  My dad was a Montford Point Marine.
[00:01:29]  They were the first black Marines.
[00:01:31]  And Congress gave them a Congressional Gold Medal after my dad had died.
[00:01:35]  And so former Congressman Dana Warbacher arranged for a ceremony at Camp Pendleton here in California.
[00:01:41]  And my dad received his posthumously.
[00:01:44]  Kirk and I were there for the ceremony.
[00:01:45]  In fact, you can see the whole ceremony on YouTube.
[00:01:47]  Just Google Staff Sergeant Randolph Elder and you can watch the whole thing.
[00:01:51]  What would your father, who did indeed grow up in a racist America or certainly racist parts of America, what would he say about the charge that America is systemically racist?
[00:02:09]  Well, he would be angry at us, meaning my brothers and me, if we use racism as an excuse because he knew what real racism is.

=== Opportunity Unlimted (03:09) ===

[00:02:19]  And when we were young, by young I'm talking about late 50s, my father said things are so different now, quote, the door is wide open.
[00:02:27]  And that, of course, was well before the door was truly wide open.
[00:02:30]  But compared to what my father faced, as far as he was concerned, opportunity was unlimited.
[00:02:36]  He would have very little patience with critical race theory, very little patience with reparations, very little patience with people complaining about oppression.
[00:02:46]  What do you see as the, if we had a chart, is the belief that America is anti-black rising the same or lowering in black America?
[00:03:04]  Well, it seems to me it's on the increase.
[00:03:07]  And I blame, in part, people like Barack Obama.
[00:03:11]  You know, when Barack Obama got elected, I think he won with 52 percent of the vote, something like that.
[00:03:17]  Before he set foot in the Oval Office, Dennis, his popularity had increased to almost 70 percent, meaning a whole bunch of people who didn't vote for him still pulled for him because they assumed he was going to bring about racial reconciliation.
[00:03:30]  And as you know, he repeatedly, in my opinion, went the wrong way.
[00:03:34]  And that's one of the things that I find interesting about him.
[00:03:38]  You know, Dennis, he cut a commercial for Gavin Newsom.
[00:03:41]  One of the big things I'm running on is school choice.
[00:03:45]  Barack Obama, when he was living in Indonesia with his stepfather and mother, attended a private school that was run by the executives of the oil company where his stepfather worked.
[00:03:55]  His mom sends him to Hawaii.
[00:03:57]  He goes to the finest prep school in Hawaii.
[00:03:59]  He comes here to L.A. for the first two years of college at Occidental, a selective private school.
[00:04:06]  He finishes up at Columbia, an Ivy League school.
[00:04:09]  He goes to Harvard, Ivy League school.
[00:04:12]  Michelle Robinson, his wife, she did attend a public high school in Chicago, but not the one nearby because it was inferior.
[00:04:19]  She got on a bus and went to one much further from her home.
[00:04:22]  The girls, Sasha and Malia, attended a private school that was run by the University of Chicago for teachers and instructors at that school when Obama was an instructor there.
[00:04:32]  And then when they moved to Washington, D.C., they went to Sidwell Friends, the Quaker school.
[00:04:37]  That tuition is currently $40,000 a year.
[00:04:40]  So the girls never set foot in a public school.
[00:04:43]  Obama never set foot in a public school.
[00:04:45]  And for all intents and purposes, Michelle Robinson, his future wife, attended a charter school.
[00:04:50]  Yet the Democrats are opposed to school vouchers.
[00:04:53]  Democrats are opposed to parents having the same kind of choices as they had.
[00:04:57]  And it's fascinating to me.
[00:04:59]  Yeah, fascinating.
[00:05:02]  It's a neutral word.
[00:05:04]  It's obnoxious.
[00:05:05]  It's a neutral word.
[00:05:06]  It's obnoxious.
[00:05:06]  All right, folks.
[00:05:07]  Help Larry Elder, electelder.com.
[00:05:11]  Larry, you're a credit to the country, and not to mention to yourself and your parents.
[00:05:19]  Thank you again.
[00:05:20]  God bless.
[00:05:21]  Thank you, Dennis.