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June 30, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Equality in Education - June 29th, Hour 1

Sean covers the latest Supreme Court decision to end affirmative action and sits down with Dr. Ben Carson to understand what true equality is.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We'll get his take on today's uh Supreme Court decision, where the Supreme Court, 6'3 and 6'2 submitting two separate affirmative action college admission cases, uh one for Harvard and University of North Carolina.
We'll get into all those details.
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You're gonna hear a story about a guy that went to Harvard law that actually decided that happened to be Hispanic American that did not check the box to be, you know, on the application form that he was Hispanic American, a conscious choice.
Very interesting story, and and he had uh written extensively about this particular case.
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So, you know, long story short, um, because the Supreme Court uh earlier today in a six, well, six three and six two decision, I'll get to that in a second, ruled that affirmative action admission policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina are unconstitutional.
Um now, eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it, writing Chief Justice John Robertson, the majority opinion, which all five of his fellow conservative justices joined in.
Robert said that both Harvard and UNC's affirmative action programs, quote, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints.
We have never permitted admissions programs to work in that way, and we will not do so today, Roberts wrote, finding that the university policies violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and its 14th Amendment, and that clause bars states from denying people equal protection under the law, equal protection clause.
The Chief Justice then added, however, that quote nothing prohibits universities from considering an applicant's discussion of how race affected the applicant's life, so long as the discussion is concretely tied to a quality or a character or unique ability that the particular app applicant can contribute to the university.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion that the school's affirmative action admissions policies fly in the face of our colorblind Constitution.
Two discriminatory wrongs cannot make a right, Thomas wrote.
A lot of this had to do with the fact that believe it or not, the most discriminated group in the country, when you again you're you're playing identity politics, but we break every pole down by by race and gender, et cetera.
But Asian Americans disproportionately, especially when you look at objective scores in admissions, that would be the SATs and the ACTs, and for law school would be the L I CITs, or for medical school, the MCATs, that they scored dramatically better than students of other races, but these universities made conscious decisions.
Well, there's too many, quote, Asian Americans getting gaining admission.
And again, you know, one of the things you've got to ask yourself, do you want to end discrimination by institutionalizing discrimination?
Because that's ostensibly what you've decided here.
And if discrimination is wrong, it is wrong and should not be practiced.
Now we're going to give you Harvard has given every indication that they're going to try and you know do a workaround using the Supreme Court language here, which means probably this is not said and done forever.
Um it is a i it it just is a very, very interesting thought and concept.
Now you think about this.
Every every single, and I would argue that not every school district is the same.
Let's start there.
And the people that have been demanding that the unholy alliance between teachers' unions and the Democratic Party, that that that stronghold be broken, that stranglehold.
You know, New York City, one of the top cities in the country, spends more per capita in education per student than any other industrialized country.
Same with like Baltimore.
What do they have?
13 public schools, not a single kid proficient in reading and math?
I mean, how do you fail on such a spectacular level?
And and yet the teachers' unions continue this power, the stranglehold over the Democratic Party.
It's all related to money and donations that they give to the Democratic Party.
And it's Republicans that have said, no, we believe in in choice in education.
We believe in competition.
You know, we believe in school vouchers.
We believe in charter schools, any anything that's going to improve the quality of education for every child, predicated on a belief that it's my Christian belief that every child is created by a God, by God, the Father, and that inside of every individual, God puts unique talents and abilities.
We all have a our own unique fingerprint.
I mean, that's pretty amazing when you think about it.
How many people in the world, seven billion, whatever people in the world?
Every single person has their own unique fingerprint.
That's a lot of fingerprint variation that you have to come up with.
And but that's just, you know, how it is.
And I think in the same way, you can argue that every individual's given gifts and and talents, and you know, the education, the word education from the Latin derivative educare means to bring forth from within.
That doesn't mean that you're force-feeding information into kids' brains.
It means that the talent is already there and in the right environment, providing the sunlight and the water and the and the food and the nourishment that any child can flourish and become the person that God created and intended to be in life.
But unfortunately, we rip the rungs of the ladder out from underneath so many kids by denying them what is the ladder to success in this country, which is education.
But one of the ways that you can ascertain the difference between somebody's academic skills.
Now, there are kids that make decisions in high school, and I know this now because you know my kids are, you know, my youngest is about to get out of college now.
And um, thankfully, um, but by the way, parenting does not end.
If you were like me and you foolishly believe that your kids would graduate college and your job is over, then you were as dumb as I am, because that's what I actually thought one day.
Maybe I maybe I was applying too much of my own life experience to this equation because I've been pretty much independent and on my own and doing whatever the hell I want since I'm 10.
And my parents really didn't have much say over my life.
Uh And I liked it that way.
And nor did I want to take anything from them or ask anything for them.
And I always made my own money, and I always bought my own food because I didn't, we didn't, we didn't have family dinners like normal families because my mom was working as a prison guard 16 hours a day.
How's she going to cook dinner?
You know, she'd come home, crash, then her alarm clock would go off, you know, six hours later.
It'd be like an atom bomb went off in the entire neighborhood.
It was a uh clock radio alarm, and then ba boom.
You know, up comes the alarm that she put away from her bed so she wouldn't flip it off, and she'd have to get up and actually turn the thing off.
But I digress.
But the one thing is there are kids that make choices in high school.
Now, I was not one of those kids that made those choices in high school to take the harder classes that you took the AP classes that could even get higher than a 4.0 grade point average.
Um I finally decided later in my high school years to actually put my nose to the grindstone and pay attention.
Gee, lo and behold, I ended up on the honors list.
You know, go to Delphi University and I became a dean's list student.
Oh, lo and behold, if you actually open a book and read and study and hand in your assignments, your grades get better.
But there are kids that work hard and they get not only a 4.0 GPA, you can get a 4.2 or 4.3 or 4.4 GPA.
And those kids sacrifice to get those grades.
They take the harder classes, they study, they give up their time that they'd otherwise that all the other kids are spending with their friends or doing other things.
And I'm not saying it just is academically, they've made choices.
And then those kids that study for the SATs and take prep courses for the SATs and the ACTs, and I don't know, maybe if they could afford it, they hire a tutor, or maybe they go to a class at school that's given after school and they stay later, and then they end up getting better scores on the ACT and the SAT.
And combine with their good grades, you know, if they have higher a higher grade point average with a with a much tougher course load and higher scores on these standardized tests, well, why would somebody that has lower scores that didn't put in the same time effort as they did be granted admission to a prestigious university over them?
You know, and I I certainly don't think that should happen to anybody.
If you've earned your way, you've earned your way.
That's it.
You know, but we have Justice Um Jackson, Brown Jackson, who's saying that this is a tragedy for all.
Uh Justice Sonia Sotomyor saying today the court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress.
Says the ruling is profoundly wrong and devastating, and that the majority holds that race can no longer be used in a limited way in college admissions to achieve such crucial benefits.
Well, in the case of Harvard, what they discovered is, well, they they made a decision that too many, especially Asian Americans were getting into the school based on the objective criteria as I just outlined, and they made a decision to make the university student body more diverse, and that meant less qualified people got the spots of the people that were more qualified.
Now tell me how that's fair and not discriminatory.
I don't think that sounds fair.
You know, I mean, what do you tell a kid?
Sorry, you have a 4-4 GPA and a perfect score in the SATs, but we took this person who had a 36 or 3-5, and maybe out of 1490 or 1,500 on their SATs.
Um, and that's that that's the kind of object that that that is for the most part an equal playing field.
However, it could be a really equal playing field if we would finally break the stranglehold on education in in big blue states and big blue cities that have capitulated to pressure from teachers' unions that have done a horrific job educating our kids,
and have not lived up to the standard of of what their job should be, and that is making sure these kids are smart and doing their work and learning reading, writing, math, science, history, computers.
No, they're too busy teaching woke education and CRT and other agenda driven items and gender identity classes, contradicting parental values and authority, thinking that they know better how to raise your children.
It's pretty unreal.
But anyway, Harvard uh came out.
Well, first of all, Joe Biden came out and actually said that in case after case, including recently, just a few years ago, the court affirmed and reaffirmed this view that colleges could use race not as a determining factor for admissions, but one of the factors among many in deciding who to admit.
The court once again walked away from decades of precedent.
Then he was asked a question today by a reporter as he's walking away.
Well, Mr. President, the Congressional Black Caucus said the Supreme Court has thrown into question its own legitimacy.
Is this a rogue court?
Biden's answer, this is not a normal court.
Should there be term limits?
Of course they want term limits.
Of course they want to pack the courts.
We already knew that.
You know, and then Harvard comes out with their statement and says, Oh, okay.
Uh they react and they say that they will uphold the court's decision.
Um, and then went on to say the court ruled universities, etc.
etc.
Uh, we'll certainly comply with that.
We write to today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep transformative teaching, learning, research depend on a community comprising of many backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences.
Uh, and we will certainly and then saying that that principle is as true and important today as it was yesterday.
So it sounds to me that they're just gonna look for a workaround and and just try to continue to their practices, and they'll just call it something else.
That's how I interpreted that.
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Quick break right back.
Ben Carson, Mark Levin coming up.
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Um, before we get back to the news of the day, uh we wanted to say hello to our friend Dr. Ben Carson.
Uh you know he's been running this series of of Patriot books and children's books.
Freedom of of Bark is the first in a series and the newest book featuring Liberty the Eagle from the Star Spangled Adventures cartoon series and the Barker family, and uh on top of that, we had a pretty big Supreme Court decision today that I'd like to get his take on.
Uh Ben Carson, Dr. Carson, how are you, my friend?
I'm doing well, Sean.
Good to talk to you.
All right, so your reaction to the Supreme Court today.
Well, interestingly enough, uh on February 24, 2003, I penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled Compassionate Action.
And I say we've always been a compassionate society and extend the hand up to the downtrodden.
But that should have nothing to do with grace.
That should have to do with circumstances.
And I'm glad that we've twenty years later finally reached a point where we understand that you know racial discrimination is to be abhorred no matter how you look at it.
There's no angle from which you can make it justifiable.
And uh but but absolutely we should uh look at circumstances that a person comes from.
You know, it to me it's it's very simple.
I mean, there's certain basic fundamentals.
I mean, if you have straight A's or you know, you can now get above, for example, if you take advanced classes, AP classes in high school, you know, you can get a 4 2 or 4 3 even uh higher uh grade point average, uh, but that takes a lot of work on behalf of the student, uh a lot of discipline, a lot of sacrifice on their part.
And if you do well on your SAT scores or your HCT scores, uh that takes a certain amount of of studying and and effort unless you're just so naturally bright and gifted that you know any school in the country would want you anyway, but you know,
when when you have people that have the higher scores that you know, every oper every child has that same opportunity, but correct me if I'm wrong, to get high scores and to get good grades, and then you find out people with lower scores and less of less academic credentials, and and and or maybe you're an athlete too, which is you know part of the consideration, or maybe maybe you're a great musician and you could play for the school band.
I don't know what it what what other factors are in there.
Those are all skill sets that you develop that build your character.
Now, if you are saying, okay, well, we're gonna put aside a X amount of available admissions to this particular person based on their race, uh, and there's other people more qualified, how is that not in and of itself discrimination?
And and do you use discrimination and discrimination?
It's total discrimination, and it does work, and two wrongs don't make a right.
And uh, you know, we've seen uh a massive change in our society over the last several decades.
Um much improved in terms of race and race opportunities.
In my lifetime, it has changed dramatically.
And I remember as a youngster when a black person came on television in a non-servile role.
It was a big deal.
You call everybody into the living room to watch, you know.
Everybody's doubling.
And now, you know, we have black judges and generals and admirals and CEOs of Fortune 500 competition and university.
And we've got a black president, got a vice black vice president, double, you never see her.
So I mean, look to say that things have not changed dramatically would be uh a total lie.
And when affirmative action was put in place several decades ago, we were a very different society.
Let me give you a chance.
Um you've embarked on this new effort to to help in uh with values and education of young kids.
Uh obviously your mom's influence in your life and and her pushing you hard towards uh education resulted in in tremendous success in your life.
Um, but also, you know, the little Patriots program that you have and and this new kids' book, Freedom of Bark.
You know, why are you doing this and how do people get a hold of it?
Well, you know, uh watching what's doing in terms of trying to indoctrinate our kids.
Some of these horrible messages that are coming from from Hollywood, some of these things that you see in the school books and what teachers are telling them.
We had to put a counterbalance on it.
We can't just complain about it, and there's no way we're gonna get rid of all that stuff.
So what we have to do is come up with ways to teach our children what are the values and principles.
Why is it wonderful to be a citizen of the United States of America?
Why are all these people trying to get in here, even though everybody's saying we're racist, horrible country?
Well, yeah, uh, we're losing you a little bit, but uh anyway, Freedom of Bark.
We got a link on Hannity.com, it's on Amazon.com now, bookstores around the country, and uh Dr. Carson, we support all your efforts, wish you all the best, and really appreciate your time as always.
Thank you for being with us on what is a big breaking news day.
Thank you.
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All right.
That by the way, that that's important to note too.
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Uh, we're gonna get Levin's take on this at the top of the next hour.
That that's you know, he's our con he's like chat GPT for the Constitution.
Now, I'm gonna tell you right now, this is what the speech and debate clause is, you know.
Um, and uh it's sort of like you, you know, if you're friends with Mark Levin, that's one of the great advantages you have.
You have like chat GPT on the Constitution available to you.
I don't know that Chat GPT is the analogy we're trying to make here.
Well, it's a complete abhorrence of our civil rights, I think in the wall.
No, I'm not talking about the the decision.
I'm talking about the brain and the constitutional knowledge.
Can we just compare him to like Britannica?
Like old school.
Okay, Britannica.
Nobody listening, you know, under the age of fifty that's the biggest problem with our society.
Knows what Britannica is.
I bet you you can get Britannica online now, can you?
Uh, just exactly what I just said.
Let's get right back on our devices.
Let's get right back on our devices.
Let's let's do that.
Um anyway, uh, so we'll see what happens.
I don't have good news on the economy.
Politically speaking, if this does not play a big part in this coming presidential race, I don't know what will.
If you're a historic if you love history and you're a history buff, there is a coincidence here, because not only is Joe Biden replaced Jimmy Carter as the most incompetent idiot we've ever had in the presidency in the White House, but now seems to be following Carter's re-election strategy because all of us that were live back then, those of us that remember gas lines, and some of you are like, what is a gas line?
When you had to wait online for gas, and maybe you'd get five dollars worth or ten dollars worth.
It was nuts.
Thank God my father knew a gas station owner, and we kind of were able to occasionally, occasionally, not very often, uh weekly, uh bypass, you know, the long lines and and go in after hours for a quick repair.
And while you get a quick repair, you usually got a full tank when you left.
It was not a bad deal for my dad.
Um, but anyway, you look at Biden taking a page out of Carter's playbook.
He's doubling down on stupid.
You know, that came out this week.
The average American is now fifty-four thousand dollars in debt.
Fifty-four thousand.
Now that's on top of nearly two-thirds of the country living paycheck to paycheck.
Uh that's on on type uh on top of, you know, all of the other costs associated with Biden's horrific economic and energy policies.
You know, look at the high cost of inflation.
Uh you know, costing the average family an average of ten grand a year.
You know, they're pushing Bidenomics now.
This is their big push for what, re-election when only thirty-four percent approve of his handling of the economy, and his big speech yesterday was about declaring war on billionaires, not paying enough money in taxes, and and who's he speaking in front of?
A bunch of millionaires and billionaires, you know, begging them for money to give to his campaign.
Uh anyway, so he's got his like doom loop tour that he's taking, you know, all across the country.
He's in New York City today, which sucks for anybody in New York City, which means you can't get anywhere in in any time because it just pretty much shuts down the city any time a president is in town.
Umlife crisis it came out today.
Three point six million Americans are going to turn 40, and if they haven't already, you know, promptly freaked out, you know, this will now be the third batch of millennials to hit the milestone, but this group probably won't be able to rebel like their parents in their, you know, who were in their forties and fifties and got their flashy boats and their sports cars uh and book flights to Bali uh jumping off the corporate ladder or maybe getting a piercing or a tattoo.
These people do that.
I read that all the time when they go through these midlife crises, right?
What tattoos and piercings?
Yeah.
Those people are just morons, I mean, you know.
Well, no, because this generation is going to they're going to go through their midlife crisis differently.
They can't afford to do it any other way.
Inflation has racked up the cost of tattoos and piercings?
No, the emerging millennial wealth gap, a 2019 report, uh, shows that those born from 1981 to 1986 earn 20% less than baby boomers did at their age.
That's a lot of money.
That is a lot of money.
And then on top of the $54,000 you have in debt.
Now, how does a person that is living paycheck to paycheck, which is nearly two-thirds of the country, how do you start paying down fifty-four thousand dollars in debt?
Never mind the thirty-seven trillion dollars your government has accumulated in debt, uh, which now is gonna account for you know a trillion dollars a year just on service on that debt, especially with interest rates now expected to go up yet again, according to Jerome Powell in a speech that he gave to his European counterparts yesterday.
First of all, why is Jerome Powell in Europe again?
Why are any of these idiots in in Europe?
We have enough problems here.
And you know what?
As a matter of fact, forget I said that.
Let him stay there.
We'll figure it out ourselves.
And we're never going to be able to get the debt down because people don't they can't even conceptualize that much money.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back.
The other news of the day, and we'll get to your calls later.
The great one Mark Levin at the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean or number you want to be a part of the program.
If you actually ask people about the components of Bidonomics specifically, you get poll numbers that are north of 70 percent.
Today we're focused on tomorrow and laying out bynamics and and talking to the American people about uh what that is, how it's taken shape, and how it's made a meaningful impact in their lives.
Um that's what we're focused on for the for the moment.
I don't have anything to preview for you in the way of future economic announcements.
But um look, we believe there's really substantial progress to be proud of here.
Middle out, bottom up.
That's how we approach the economy, and it's working.
All right, so let me get back to this economic news.
So Biden inflation has cost the average American household ten thousand dollars.
Now they're saying Biden regulation.
Now that there is some crossover here, but it means more money is costing Americans almost ten thousand dollars per household.
I mean, and now they want to get rid of your gas stove.
They want to get rid of your coal-fired pizza oven, which I absolutely, you know, and I there's no reason to live in New York if you can't buy pizza.
There's no reason at all to live in New York.
This place is an Adam shift hole.
It's a disgusting.
But did you hear what Tim said yesterday?
Tim from Hands Off My Stove.
He said not only are they going after the restaurants and coal operated and gas, but now they're going off for barbecues.
They're hitting barbecues and people's decks.
Okay.
What are they gonna come to everybody's house?
They're gonna take my gas stove, my refrigerator, and then they're gonna take what else?
My my barbecue?
I mean, literally all the reasons you're over here, Sean.
The things you love to do most of the time.
That's all I care about.
Yeah.
And Biden's push for electric cars now of air alienating longtime unions.
Anyway, so Jerome Powell actually said, told the European Central Bank Forum that the U.S. economy will expect more monetary policy restrictions, better known as interest rate hikes, adding that inflation will not return to its two percent target for the next couple of years.
Another study shows electric vehicles cause twice as much road damage as gas-powered cars, uh, because they're that much heavier.
UK study uh found the average electric car puts two point two four times more stress on roads than a similar patrol vehicle, and one point nine five more than a diesel.
Larger electric vehicles can cause up to two point three times more damage to roads.
So now we're gonna have to pay more to fix these roads.
What about the garage in New York City that collapsed?
Nobody's asking any questions about that.
How many electric vehicles were in there?
I don't know.
So you pay twenty thousand dollars more for an electric vehicle.
You have to pillage Mother Earth to get the cobalt, the manganese and the nickel that you need to build the the batteries if you're not importing them from China.
Uh they weigh about two thousand pounds more on average, and you power up that that battery, that precious electric vehicle battery using the energy grid that is ninety percent fossil fuels.
Now tell me how any of that makes any sense to anybody except a dumb dopey idiot liberal, probably with the last name Biden.
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He'll weigh in on the Supreme Court decision.
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