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eral topics about systemic racism etc. But the trigger, the primary thing that the protests have been about, the George Floyd situation is complete, it's complete. And I gave myself enough freedom by setting the groundwork in the things that I've done up to this point that I might be the only person in the world who can say that out loud. Do you know anybody else who's saying this? That the Black…
← Previous segment →m see what happens but do a small, see if finding out if it works. But here's my issue with the Black Lives Matter protest over police killing. Police killing might be not, might be, probably is not, probably is absolutely is, I'm going to go for full certainty on this, the smallest problem in the Black community. It's the smallest problem. Why are they protesting over their smallest problem?
The total number of people killed by police in general that's your smallest problem. Do you know what's a big problem? How about health care for Black people in general? How about that? Yeah that's a way bigger problem. Health care for Black people in general on a scale of 1 to 10 that's like a 10. If you were to say on a scale of 1 to 10 where is number of people killed by the police, Black people killed by the police during police stops, that's a two, one or a two on the scale of one to ten just because there's so few people involved. How about a good education for Black people? You know better education especially in the inner city areas. Where is that on a scale of one to ten? Ten. Ten. That is ten. And if the scale was higher it would be higher. It's not anywhere close to the problem of police killing Black people during stops. Not even close. You know that one's a two. Education is a 10.
What are the Democrats trying to do? Reduce the ability of Black people to get a good education by removing school choice which is literally the only way to fix it. Nobody even has another idea really. It's th
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e only way. So the Black population has by, and I think that the illegitimate press is largely to blame for this. Imagine a world in which the protests were happening just the way they're happening now but if you turned on CNN they would say you know this is actually your smallest problem statistically. If you're just to look at the numbers this is by far your smallest problem because all of the c…
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