May 21, 2011 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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All right, kids, here we go again.
Welcome to another live broadcast of the Political Cesspool Radio Program.
It's Saturday evening, May 21st here in Memphis, Tennessee, and I guess for that matter, all across America.
I'm your host, James Edwards, coming to you live tonight from AM 1380, WLRM Studios in downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
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I want to thank everybody for tuning in to our award-winning broadcast tonight.
Keith Alexander standing here, or I should say sitting here in the studio with me this fine late spring, early summer evening.
Keith, how are you?
To tell you the truth, you're lucky I'm not lying down.
I've got a bad case of spring fever today.
I've had a great day just enjoying myself, exercising, riding on a bike trail, then going on a guided tour at a local cemetery, soaking in the history that they have there.
So I've basically been doing nothing and enjoying it and am laid back, but I'm ready, willing, and reporting for duty as usual.
Well, you've had a much more active day than I have.
I have spent most of the day in and out of bed whenever I could get a break or whenever the nap schedule with the kids coincided.
My wife and I were in a wedding last night.
I was a member of the groom's party and she was a bridesmaid.
And I tell you, I'm only 30, but I'm not as young as I used to be.
I used to go out, you know, day and night and then some and wouldn't have any recovery time.
If I go out now and stay out past midnight, it's going to be a day in the infirmary for me the next day just to get my second win.
So as you can tell, Keith, I'm kind of slumming it in the studio tonight.
God help me when I get as old as you are.
Look, they used to have an old song back in the old days, even before my time, called Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine.
Are they doing that to you, James?
Oh, man.
Oh, yes, yes, absolutely.
And I was the first one to kind of start that trend.
I was the first one of my group of friends my age to get married.
And now the dominoes are falling.
And anyway, it's been a lazy day for me, an active day for Keith.
And here we are, though, together once again this Saturday evening to bring you the Political Cesspool.
Now, it's been a pretty active week in Memphis as well this week.
Barack Obama came to Memphis, as we told you, I believe last week on the show.
And I've been so busy or had been so busy with my preparation for tonight's broadcast that I nearly forgot to update you on the website about Obama's visit to Memphis.
Sadly, as we expected, he did not take the time to take me up on my offer and talk to us on the air, but he still got plenty of press.
And this is something that Keith Alexander and I were going over as we ate together at a local restaurant a few days ago and as we planned the segments for this evening's show.
And I tell you, when I read a newspaper, I expect a story to be objective.
I expect to read the who, what, where, when, and why.
I expect to read, in this case, President Barack Obama was in town today to give a commencement speech at this all-black inner city high school.
This is what he said.
This was the reaction from the people.
That's what I expect to read, just the facts, as Joe Friday would say.
But that's not how it went down here in Memphis.
And Keith and I were just had eyes bulging out of our heads.
This is what passed.
I'm just going to read you one example.
This is what passed as objective reporting here on Obama's four-hour stop in Memphis.
And I've posted the entire article to our website, thepoliticalcesspool.org, so you can really just sink your teeth into it.
But this is what it said.
This is what passes as reporting.
Words weren't enough.
When trying to capture the importance of President Barack Obama's commencement address to the graduating class of Booker T. Washington High, people found oral expressions as difficult as scoring a ticket to the event.
President Obama conforts a Booker T. Washington senior.
It says comforts.
Comforts, comforts.
There it is.
Never mind, Keith.
Thank you.
Thank you for catching that.
I got my little proofreader here.
Talks about how he comforted the kids and that it was historic, awesome, indescribable.
And then it just goes on.
They really dig deep into the thesaurus and pull out all these adjectives.
At the end, it said that it's okay that few people in Memphis can wrap their arms around Monday and squeeze out a poetic reflection worthy of inscription and granite.
It won't matter if the undescribable experience for these graduates is unforgettable.
And you read that kind of stuff.
And if you can believe it, the other reports were even more gooey than that.
But there was one report that actually got into what the president said while he was here.
And he said this, and this is something that almost knocked the wind out of me.
He was talking to the graduates of this all-black inner city high school.
And he was here, by the way, because over the course of the last three years, they had gotten their graduation rate up to about 50%, which for them was represented a 30% increase.
And so I guess that's something to celebrate.
And not that the standards are that high in public schools anyway.
We know what a joke they are.
I went to a private Christian academy.
And if one person out of the senior class didn't graduate or was held back, I mean, that was scandalous.
I mean, that was unheard of.
If a single person here, you get 50% graduating, and it's worthy of a presidential visit.
But here's what he said in part of his remarks to the crowd.
I quote the president now.
Each of you knows what it took for you to get here.
But in reaching this milestone, there's also a common lesson shared by every graduate in this hall.
Yes, you're from South Memphis.
Yes, you've always been underdogs.
Nobody has handed you a thing.
But it also means that whatever you accomplish in life, you will have earned it.
So let's just focus on what he said there.
No one has handed you a thing.
On the contrary, Mr. Obama, everything that these students have had has been handed to them from welfare to their weekly and monthly checks in the mail from the government to housing to food and public education.
It's all of it been provided to them at the expense of primarily white taxpayers.
And Obama promised them that it wouldn't change.
He told them also in his speech that the federal government will be there for them.
Now that's a little more truthful.
And why do I say that it's been primarily the white taxpayers footing the bill for everything these students had?
Because it's the truth.
This very story reports that the annual median income for these kids' families is $10,000 a year, $10,000 a year.
So, you know, how are they enjoying all of these goodies?
Now, don't get me wrong.
I sincerely hope that these black students, and I mean this, I hope that they go on to become positive, lawful, abiding members of society, productive members of their community.
But at the same time, I'd like a little honesty and candor when discussing racial issues.
And that's where this radio program comes in.
And somebody else that commented on this story, certainly Keith understands it as well.
I can't really find it right here, but here it is.
If no one handed them a thing, they wouldn't be in school eating fat on the hog at the same time.
They wouldn't go to school, get fed, get housing assistance, or get checks in the mail.
They would not have a better chance of getting a free college education and all the government toppings that go with it.
I know I kind of went long, Keith, in my opening montage there.
We'll turn it over to you for a quick word and then we'll follow up on this in the next segment.
But what do you make of Barack Obama?
No one gave these kids anything.
I'm going to have to stop talking to you at lunchtime because you stole all my thunder.
All the comments I made at lunch found their way into James's commentary.
That's great.
Let me just tell you.
He's absolutely right.
No, the truth is what matters.
I hear our song.
Thank you, James.
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Coming up a little bit later in tonight's show, ladies and gentlemen, Reverend Ted Pike will be with us again, and he has got a lot of stuff to bring to your attention in the third hour.
But also forthcoming this, our first hour, Keith Alexander, is going to get into the Brown versus Board of Education decision, the horrible landmark ruling that celebrates an anniversary this week.
And first, I promise, I promise, I'm going to let Keith talk this segment.
First segment, of course, we were talking about Barack Obama's trip here to Memphis, where he spoke to the graduating class of Booker T. Washington High School, which is an all-black school in the mean streets of South Memphis, the inner city slums, I guess you could say.
And they were celebrating the fact that they got the graduation rate up to about 50, 60%.
And so he was here.
And while he was here, the media just was fawning all over him.
It was almost embarrassing to read the kind of reaction they gave his visit when, by comparison, when George Bush would come into town, I mean, you know, you just taste the venom coming off their pens.
And then also, in his address, the one thing that really stuck out to me was that these kids have never been given anything.
They've never been given anything.
And the fact that they got up to a 60% graduation rate, man, they did it all on their own.
And that's where Keith's going to take over now.
Thanks, James.
What happened is, you know, we have this great celebration in the local newspaper and in the local news media generally about the hardships that were overcome by this Booker T. Washington high school class to graduate.
Even if it's 100% graduation rate, it really doesn't take that much to graduate from an inner city high school in a place like Memphis, a majority black city.
In fact, the odds are stacked for you to graduate.
You have teachers that teach to the TCAP exams, which are mandated under the No Child Left Behind.
Basically, that's what they learn all year long.
And basically, their high school experience is an elaborate test preparation session.
So even if they had 100%, again, so what?
What's that about?
You know, again, if you have all the teachers conspiring, all the administrators, like the principals inspiring for you to succeed, and basically they refuse to let you fail.
They don't let you suffer the consequences of your own lack of initiative, your own lack of punctuality, your own lack of task orientation and things like this.
They're going to get a lot of people passing.
But to suggest that their passing was all due to their hard work and initiative and that nothing's been given to them is, you know, if it weren't so pathetically so pathetic, it would be humorous.
These kids from the day they were born and even before were the beneficiaries of federal and state and local governmental largesse.
They live in subsidized housing.
Most of these people get the SNAP program, the Supplemental Nutrition and Food Program, which has replaced food stamps.
They now get an EBT card, a debit card, and they get their food free.
And then they get debit cards for gasoline, everything else.
They get clothing.
They get their haircuts.
Virtually everything they get is a gift from the government.
And the government, of course, is financing this on the backs of taxpayers who, as James rightly pointed out, are primarily white.
White people are still the majority in this nation, although the elites are conspiring and doing their dead level best to make sure that that changes as soon as possible in the United States.
And when it does, it's going to be a calamity because if you kill the dog, all the fleas will die.
And these people are living off of that tax money.
In fact, one of the things that was pointed out recently in the news is that the United States government now cannot fund itself, its current expenditures based on tax revenues and other revenue coming into the federal government.
What we're financing is paying the interest on the money we've borrowed via T-bills and otherwise from China and other foreign people and Americans to finance current levels of consumption.
We're now involved in three wars.
They may tell you it's only two, but basically Libya is the next new war.
Nobody on either party, Republican or Democrat, is talking about cutting that back.
If they cut that back, we would suddenly find ourselves awash with money.
But between these extravagant welfare programs that we have, where everything from cars to gasoline to food to clothing and everything is being paid for for the underclass by the federal government and these incredibly expensive foreign wars that we fight,
which aren't doing anything to benefit the average American citizen, this is, this just shows you that the average American citizen's welfare is the furthest thing from the minds of the elites that are running this country right now.
For example, we're all suffering under $4 to $5 a gallon gas.
Who, either Republican or Democrat, has any type of realistic plan to give us relief on gasoline prices?
And of course, the way to do it, it's obvious and easy.
Drill for all the oil you can, turn a deaf ear to all of the liberal complaints in places like the West Coast or the Left Coast as it's called, where they haven't had any oil drilling offshore since 1973 Santa Clara oil spill.
The reason why the oil and gas in Alaska isn't coming down to the lower 48, one of the reasons is that they don't want it to be downloaded or unloaded on the west coast of the United States so that it can become available to the rest of us.
Nobody's talking about doing that.
The fact of the matter is we have no idea whether we could be energy independent or not because we haven't tried it since the end of World War II.
At first, we were going to use everyone else's oil reserves up before ours.
And now we've had the triumph of liberalism, which was brought about by the Brown decision that we're going to discuss later.
And because of that, one branch of the pernicious liberal tree is environmentalism.
And for some reason, they think that it's terrible that we have to use fossil fuels in order to provide the fuel that drives the engine of our economy in America.
Now, all of that is somewhat off far afield from Booker T. Washington, but it's just amazing how all of this kind of ramps together, James.
It's in, you know, also, we've talked about how everything that the kids at Booker T. Washington that we were celebrating, you know, rather than being something that they did themselves, it's actually that they are the poster children for the welfare state.
Everything they have, they have because of the government.
Furthermore, all of the hardships that they tried to, you know, pluck your heartstrings about with these kids were caused by the government, too.
For example, in last Sunday's commercial appeal, it says, BTW's determination to find tough statistics.
The storied Booker T. Washington class of 2011 grew up in a neighborhood that was steadily eroding beneath their feet.
Well, let's look into that.
Why was this neighborhood eroding beneath their feet, James?
Was it because of some pernicious, honky private developers that were coming down, knocking down their homes?
No, it was the federal government under Barack Obama that was tearing down all the old housing projects they lived happily in for time immemorium to put up expensive mixed-use Hope 6 housing.
And as a result, they gave these people Section 8 vouchers and directed them towards the inner suburbs where the crime rate spiked up and it further inconvenienced these kids because they had to take a bus trip into their school if they wanted to wrap up their careers at Booker T. Washington High School.
So the government giveth and the government taketh away, James.
Keith Alexander, I tell you, we kept him on the bench for that first segment.
He came out raining fire, ladies and gentlemen.
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Keith Alexander and I have, for the first half hour of tonight's show, been talking about President Barack Obama's trip to Memphis earlier this week where he spoke to the graduating class, the 2011 graduates of Booker T. Washington High School.
We have been examining that in pretty good detail and we're still not done yet, Keith.
Yep.
Like you said, current day America provides plenty of sewage to keep the political cesspool full to overflowing, both on our blog post and our website and for weekly fodder for this radio show.
Now, last we were talking about not only how all of the benefits that supposedly have been achieved by the Booker T. Washington class of 2011 were underwritten by governmental largest, governmental largest that didn't exist and quite frankly shouldn't exist in a democratic republic like the United States, but also all of the problems that they supposedly overcame were in large measure caused,
authored by the government.
For example, they're tearing down these poor folks' neighborhood.
Well, who's doing that?
Are there a bunch of pernicious honky developers in the private sector that are heartlessly kicking these people out of their homes while they build some strip mall?
No, indeed.
What's happening is the federal government has decided they've got to get rid of these old housing projects that have proven to be virtually indestructible over 70 years, built during the last Great Depression.
And they used to be white ones and black ones.
Now they're all black.
Almost every one of them is 100% black.
And they're a benefit.
These kids like their neighborhood, like their home, like their school.
But they had to move because the elites decided that these old badges of slavery had to go.
And they're going to replace it with an elaborately expensive federal program called HOPE 6.
Hope is an acronym that stands for Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere.
Now, what they do is they tear down the old housing projects, replace them with fancy homes and apartments, and it's supposed to be a mixed-use, quote-unquote, community with low-income, middle-income, and high-income housing.
Well, good luck filling that high-income housing in the former slums.
Nobody's moving in there.
Basically, what it does, it improves the housing stock for middle-class blacks, people that work for the government typically.
Husband working in one sector of the government, wife working in the other, and they get good housing close to work because all the government offices, for the most part, tend to be in the downtown area.
And these, of course, are very near to the downtown area.
But meanwhile, these poor kids, their parents or their parent, typically, has been given a Section 8 housing voucher.
They've been pointed to the inner suburbs of Memphis.
And as a result, these kids who wanted to finish up their education at Booker T. Washington, understandably so.
That's where they like the school.
That's where they felt comfortable.
They were having to take a long bus ride.
In fact, the valedictorian had to take two buses.
Now that raises another interesting question.
What about these buses?
Is this another great triumph of private enterprise in America?
Not at all.
It's subsidized by the government.
It's a quasi-governmental agency called MATA, Memphis Area Transit Authority.
And he complains in here, and it was telling that he did so about being on a bus with two people on it, him and one other.
Well, imagine running a huge diesel bus from the inner suburbs to the inner city with two riders on it.
This is what happens when you have government subsidies.
And if you want to see something that is bad for the environment, I have never seen a car that belches out more black sooty smoke than a Memphis city bus does.
And these are new buses, but nonetheless, that's just the nature of diesel fuel, apparently.
But they're coming in, and we're paying for a driver to be making probably about $50,000 to $60,000 a year with full benefits to drive this bus that has two riders on it.
So, you know, they tell us things that are supposed to make us feel sorry for them, and instead it just enrages you when you think about the government waste that's all over the place in a place like Memphis.
Now, we were talking about this during the break, James and I were, and we said that basically what's happened is all of this can be tracked back to the Brown versus Topeka Board of Education decision.
And because of that, you know, we normally spend quite a bit of time talking about Brown, and rightfully so, because it is doubtlessly the most disastrous Supreme Court decision ever in the history of the United States.
It's transformed society more than just about any other single event you can think of.
We were talking, for example, comparing it to the Civil War.
The Civil War took four years of intense armed conflict, cost 620,000 military lives and approximately 50,000 to 80,000 civilian lives.
And basically, the Brown decision accomplished as much, if not more, change in America by the mere stroke of a pen.
How did white Americans allow the house their fathers built to be stolen from them by the stroke of a pen by a bunch of elites in the Supreme Court?
That is one of the eternal mysteries of American life.
When historians, centuries from now, look back at the rise and fall of America, they'll say, why did these people sit by passively and allow this to happen?
What was it that allowed them to be beguiled, to be spellbound, into going along with this decision that it's one, extra legal, two, based on sociology, three, has been an abject failure, but nonetheless is worshipped like the golden calf, James.
Well, again, ladies and gentlemen, it's times like these when you're coming on the heels of such a superb and scintillating commentary from my friend and co-host Keith Alexander that I have to remind you that you will not find opinion and analysis like this on any other mainstream syndicated AM FM radio broadcast.
The Political Cessible is the only radio program in this country, indeed the world, with the guts to take on political correctness and talk about the issues of vital importance without retreat, surrender, or apology.
We are talking about, we have segued in, flawlessly and seamlessly segued from the situation surrounding Booker T. Washington High School and the president's visit there earlier this week to the Brown versus Board of Education decision that made much of this a reality.
And so this is something we've been doing every year.
I think we have been covering Brown versus Board on this show since 2006, which was I think two years after we first went on the air.
And so this is something we do every year.
And once again, very few people even know what Brown versus Board is anymore.
You don't really hear about it much unless someone's celebrating it in an op-ed column.
But here in the political cesspool, we do our duty.
And just like, you know, Spartan warriors, here we are going against all odds and telling you what you need to know.
Yes, James, when it was handed down on May the 17th of 1954, May 17th of 1954 was a Monday and it wasn't long until it was being called Black Monday.
And it indeed was a black day for America.
Our decline into and our devotion to a radical racial egalitarian regime that basically brooks no dissent whatsoever and steamrolls over the interests, the legitimate interests of economic, social, and otherwise of Americans.
All of that had its genesis in the Brown decision.
Let me read you something from a Paul Craig Roberts article.
Brown Miss Living Law School.
Let me, here's the first sentence and we'll get on to the rest of it later.
Judicial activism, to which conservatives and Republicans object, was born in the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown versus Board of Education of Jobica.
Yet conservatives and Republicans who oppose judicial activism support the decision that gave it birth.
Republicans and conservatives support Brown in order to demonstrate their non-racist credentials.
Brown has lost whatever connection to law it ever had.
Today, Brown is about racism.
We'll come back to it after this break.
One of our favorites, Paul Craig Roberts, and Keith is going to be breaking down his article right after this.
We'll be back right after these messages.
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And I think this first hour really encompasses everything that the Political Assess Pool Radio Program is about.
It's about tackling hard-hitting truths, talking about racial differences in a very frank and candid way, as we always say.
Now, there's one thing I can't get off here.
Keith Alexander is really at the top of his game tonight.
I just kind of sit here in my chair here at the radio station and just kind of marvel when he's on one of his, when he's delivering one of his flawless commentaries because, you know, I'll listen to a lot of talk radio above me on this radio program.
I watch political television programming.
And there's just nobody better than what Keith brings, no one else can equal.
There's one thing, though, I don't want to beat a dead horse.
We're talking about Brown versus Board.
We're talking about Booker T. Washington and Obama and some of the things he said there and how they all blend together.
And Keith, I know we're kind of getting into the guts of Brown versus Board, and you were just at the end of the last segment getting into an article by Paul Craig Roberts, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who has made numerous appearances as a featured guest on this broadcast.
And you're going to kind of dissect his excellent piece, Brown Myths Live in Law Schools.
But before we do that, I just can't get over this one thing.
You know, I was reading this article in the Commercial Appeal detailing Obama's visit here, and it said, the median income in South Memphis from which Booker T. Washington draws its students is $10,731.
And 70% of the homes are run by a single parent.
All right.
So these parents obviously don't work.
If they worked at Burger King, they would make more than $10,000 a year.
So they don't work.
And then Obama went on to tell them that the government will be there for them.
So basically, what he's saying is, don't worry about getting a job.
Just do what your parents did.
Do nothing.
We'll take care of it.
And that really chaps my eye because, you know, we spent the first 30 minutes of last week's show kind of lamenting our middle class existence.
You know, we have to bust our backsides to make enough money to feed our kids, to provide for our wives, to pay utility bills, health insurance, homeowners' insurance, mortgage, television, utilities, water.
My God.
I mean, it goes on and on and on.
And these bills are something that we're hit with every single month.
And then, you know, these families can make $10,000 a year, go to school.
It's all taken care of.
You know, they're worthy of a presidential visit.
Keith, it all blends in with Brown versus Board and what Paul Craig's talking about here.
You're right.
For middle-class Americans, basically you have to run as fast as you can to stay in the same place because, one, the job pool is shrinking because our elites, while nobody was looking, decided to trade off our manufacturing base to the rest of the world in the interests of globalism and the dream of the Fabian Society of equalizing incomes throughout the world.
And as a result, there are fewer and fewer good jobs.
And of that shrinking pool of jobs, more and more are being set aside all the time for minority groups, which leaves white males who are still expected by their spouses and by society generally to be the stalwart breadwinners that they were back in 1950.
You know, it just can't happen.
You've got the irresistible force meeting the immovable object with that.
But, you know, the thing about the Booker T. Washington situation is that you can't live on $10,000 a year.
Not even poor people can, particularly poor people with families.
So what are they doing to supplement their income?
Well, that's the other side of the equation that you'll never hear any type of candid conversation about in the mainstream media.
Crime is the way that they do it.
You know, if you want to see the dark side of the moon in a yard man or a maid's personality, try paying them with a check.
They don't like checks.
They don't like banks.
They don't like any of those things because there's a paper trail that is generated by that, that if the government gets a hold of it, they will then be disqualified for all of these welfare benefits they get, which is their floor.
They want to make money.
Some of them are very ingenious and industrious about how they do it, but they need to be paid in cash.
Well, what is the biggest all-cash economy of them all in America or anywhere?
It's crime.
Your local pimp, drug dealer, or fence doesn't accept Visa, MasterCard, or personal checks, James.
And because of that, it's basically providing nursery for the development of crime, and that's why the crime rates are so high in the ghetto, because of this symbiotic relationship between government benefits on one hand, and supplementation by crime on the other hand.
Now getting back to the Brown article and this was written back when Paul Craig Roberts had cojonies, as they say, back in the Hispanic community back in 2004, May the 24th, before he got scared off of this project by the elites.
He now wants to talk about economies and foreign policy, but he stays far away from race.
Here's what he was saying about Brown back in the good old days.
He says Brown is one of those politically correct decisions, the status of which is independent of facts and understanding law.
School academics, such as UCLA law professor Eugene Volkoff and George Mason University law professor David Bernstein, think that Brown was a Supreme Court case about southern segregation.
As long as they make it clear that they are against southern segregation, Volkoff and Bernstein don't have to know anything else, such as, for example, that Topeka is not in the South, it's in Kansas, or that Brown was a consolidation of five cases, 60% of which were not in the South.
Neither academic has any idea of Brown's legal history they don't need to know.
All that's important is that they support the Brown decision is the best thing since sliced bread.
Why does Brown generate such unthinking, uninformed support?
Could it be that Brown is supported because it is understood as a continuation of Reconstruction against the South?
Has Brown become central to the intellectual and moral ascendancy gained for minorities and radical racial egalitarianism by exploiting wasp white Anglo-Saxon, Protestant guilt?
Is this intellectual and moral ascendancy based on white guilt the reason that anyone who points out the cons of the Brown decision risks being demonized absolutely again?
Everything tracks back to that fissure that has existed in American political life since the end of the era of good feelings in 1824.
That's when sectionalism arose and the elites that engineered the Brown decision knew this.
They knew that if they could convince the rest of the country that these principles are only going to be used against people in the south and it's southern segregation that we're attacking, they would get the support of the majority of the people in the United States for this project.
Later on, in the late 60s and early 70s, in the Greene Versus NEW KENT County case and in the SWAN V. Charlotte Mecklenburg case, it became obvious that these remedies for Black inferiority in achievement in schools and elsewhere in American life were going to apply just as readily in the North and outside of the South as they were in the South.
It was too late.
They had already confessed to murder, in essence, by buying into the reasoning of Brown.
So consequently, this thing is the fountain.
It's the wellspring.
It's the source of the river from which everything else has flowed.
Radical feminism, criminal rights, the sexual revolution, the drug culture, homosexual rights, radical environmentalism.
Every one of those things follows the blueprint and the template that was created by liberals in the Brown decision.
It is the great safe haven and base.
Whenever you get a liberal on the run in some type of argument, they always track back to Brown.
They accuse you of being a racist.
You know, your book was racism-smacism.
And the reason it's so effective is this is the one great unqualified victory of the left.
They can come back here and say, see, we're really those righteous dudes that are responsible for the Brown decision.
So consequently, when you tell us that homosexual rights aren't good, all we have to do is link homosexual rights to black rights.
When we talk about radical feminism and a lot of women in America don't like it.
Well, again, you're wrong because you were wrong on Brown, you conservatives.
You know, you just need to shut up, put a sock in it, and let your betters, us liberals, the smart people of the world, do the governing.
It's like the old Greyhound bus ad.
It's such a comfort to take the bus and leave the driving to us.
Well, leave the driving to the liberals, all you little people out there in Red State America, because we know best you are a colony of ours and you deserve to be treated like a colony.
That's what it was all about.
Now, what was the real on-the-ground, boots on the ground result of the Brown decision?
Two things.
One, the destruction of public education in America.
Public education in America in a place that has a sizable minority population like Memphis is now basically a private school system for blacks run by blacks.
And the dirty little secret about this private school system, financed through public funds, is that it's not run for the primary benefit of the children that attend there.
It's run for the primary benefit of the black adults that work in that school system.
It's there to provide them with high-paying government jobs and wonderful benefits.
That's one thing.
The other thing that it's done is it has destroyed most major American cities.
When they mandated racial integration in the public schools, most people sent their kids to public schools.
They either moved out of the city or went to private schools.
And when they did that, that left the inner city primarily minority.
And as a result, as James often says, you can't have a first world country with a third world population.
And all you had left in those cities was a third world population.
They've declined precipitously.
Canada, New Jersey, Detroit, East St. Louis, Oakland, California.
Those are your examples.
That's the future of America because of Brown.
He's exhausted, ladies and gentlemen.
We've got to take a break.
Keith Alexander, Red Faith working all that in.
He's punched the clock and now he's got like, we got to drive off.