Back to episode — Episode 1048 Scott Adams - Kanye Enters the Race, Dark and Divisive Speeches, Magic Mushrooms
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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…
← Previous segment →ercent support. Well now you have to listen to him, right? Because if he decides to endorse somebody it's gonna matter. So now you say, let's say Kanye gets 20 percent of the poll and he says look I don't know who's gonna win but here's my deal for you America. Republicans, give me your best offer for what school would look like for everybody to make sure that you absolutely get a good education no matter who you are or where you're born. What's your proposal?
Now Republicans say something like school choice. They'll say something like charter schools. And guess what? Those things are very popular in the black community. The Republicans have a proposal for education which as far as I can tell is far more popular among black voters because what would they like more than a choice of where to go to school? I mean that's pretty high on the list of things that can fix everything, right? You get your school right.
So imagine Kanye is saying look I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've got 20 percent of the vote behind me and I get to ask for one thing. Tell me which of you guys has a proposal. Democrats, your proposal is that the school unions own you and you're not going to do a thing. Is that your proposal? It is? Okay then. Republicans, what's your proposal? And I'm not talking about college because any black kid who's got good grades is gonna find a way to get to college or get the training they need or skip college because maybe it's not so important anymore. Learn to code, whatever. But you got to get there early. School, right?
You know, so Bernie's talking about free college. Well that's great but you got to get
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the early stuff right. So if Kanye could say here's my deal. I'm gonna go with whoever could fix racism and the only way to do it is to fix schools and fix it for everybody. You give me the best proposal for that and you have my endorsement. And then Kanye is not technically the president but he fixes racism in one generation. Fixes it, I mean, because if the proposals are good. And when I say fix…
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