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e know so far is that he tweeted it and now we're starting to learn how practical or impractical that is because people who are smarter than I am are doing some googling and they're saying things like, somebody says wearing burkas is patriotic. Does that analogy, I think I have to respond to your bad analogies. Does that analogy make sense? You think of a burka and a medically required face mask t…

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he's been doing sort of that, I guess a Christian revival or I don't know what you call it, but he's going very heavily into a spiritual direction. In my opinion the country needs that more than they need a new president, right? Because there's sort of a spiritual void or something. You know, I'm not a religious person but I even I can feel that people are drifting. They need some kind of a connection to something bigger than themselves. It's just useful.

So could Kanye be something more than a president? I believe he already is. Could running for president or even teasing that he's running for president help his real job as a spiritual unifier, which is what I think his greater purpose could be? I think it's all good. Anything that drives attention to Kanye is good for me. Yeah, in the sense that I think it's good for the country.

All right, of course I had to announce. Oh, let me give you another way that Kanye could be the kingmaker. Yes or no, whichever way the black vote goes, that will determine the next president. We're all on the same page with that, right? If the black vote moved in mass to Republicans, which now doesn't look like that's going to happen, but follow the logic of this. If the black vote went in mass, let's say 60 percent of them voted Republican, it would guarantee Trump got elected. We're all on board, right? That's just math. Likewise if 95 percent vote Democrat, it pretty much guarantees the Democrat will win. So I would say that black voters have complete control of the next president. Am I right?

Now I don't know if the Black Lives Matter protesters are quite understanding that they already run the country because they do in the sense that they get to decide who is president. But as others have said, they have abdicated or they've left free money on the table. Meaning that as long as you can depend on them voting Democrat, nobody has to offer anything. They've given away all their power by being predictable Democrat voters.

Now imagine if you will Kanye enters the conversation. Could Kanye end racism in the United States? Yes, here's how. All right, and I'm not saying he's going to do this. I'm just, this is just a mental experiment. Could Kanye end racism without becoming president? Yes, here's how.

Okay, as I've described before, if everybody had a good education that would still be racism in the world but you know you can't get rid of the way brains are organized. And let me start with an analogy to soften you up. Let me ask you this. Let's say you had a problem. There's a risk of drowning. What do you do about a problem that's a risk of drowning? And if you live on the planet Earth there's water all over the place. You've got your swimming pools, you've got your lakes, you've got your streams, you've got bathtubs, you've got oceans. There's all kinds of places all over the United States that you can drown. So that's a problem. What are you gonna do?

Well one solution would be to remove all the water from Earth but it's not very practical, is it? You might even call it impossible. The other way to go is to learn to swim or to build a boat or to have some life preservers on you. Now this feels very unfair, doesn't it? Because if you're a person who may or may not drown, is it your fault that there's water everywhere? It's not your fault, right? It's really not anybody's fault. It's just the way it is. So if you can't remove all the water from Earth, the only thing you can do is sort of learn to deal with it.

This is much like racism in my opinion. Racism is everywhere in the world that there are people because bias is built into the way any normal brain is organized. It sees patterns and then acts on the pattern. But the trouble is we're really bad at recognizing patterns. We can't tell confirmation bias, in other words a fake pattern, from one that's an actual pattern. We can't tell the difference. And you've seen this a thousand times in 2020 alone. People will look at the same news. They'll say well here's the pattern. And somebody else will look at it and say no, this other pattern is the one that matters. We're terrible at pattern recognition.

So Black Lives Matter would like to reduce or eliminate racism in this country. Can it be done? No, no it can't be done. You can't even reduce it. It's not possible. The only thing you can do is learn to swim. You can learn to swim. You can't get rid of the water. You can learn to swim.

And so imagine Kanye with this proposition. Again I'm not predicting anything will happen but you can imagine. Imagine Kanye says something like this. Here's the deal. If you get education right, and you can make sure that every poor person, but black people is who we're talking about, but every poor person can have a real

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good education, then the perceived racism in a generation will look a lot less because everybody that an employer talks to will be somebody who's well educated. They're not going to say well odds are or anything like that. They're going to say hey, well-educated kids, they're all good. If you can educate everybody equally you wouldn't eliminate any racism but it would be such a better world becaus…

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