ank God, because our long nightmare of systemic racism is finally coming to a close, at least in Seattle. I would imagine a lot of places are going to copy this model because once you hear it, what they've done to eliminate systemic racism, you're going to say to yourself it's obvious. Once you hear it, until you hear it you say to yourself I don't know, it feels like such a big problem, I don't even know where to begin. But once you see what Seattle's done, you're going to be slapping yourself in the head and saying why did we not do this before? Why?

So here's the three things they've done. They've eliminated the police unit that clears homeless camps. Now I think you know that if you eliminate friction for something it just stops happening, right? That's the Seattle theory, is if they stop clearing out these homeless camps, things should be good now. Some people are going to say, I know critics are going to say, Scott, if you stop clearing out the homeless camps isn't the guaranteed effect of that to attract more homeless camps? To which I say I don't think you understand how systemic racism works. You're in crazy land. No, if you stop clearing the homeless camps, systemic racism goes away. You're thinking about how removing obstacles will make more of something happen, such as more homeless people will stream into Seattle because it's a good place to be homeless. That's just crazy because this will get rid of systemic racism.

But it's not all. You know if that was all that would be pretty amazing, but there's more to it. Second thing they've done is they've agreed to cut the command staff of the police pay. They'll still be as many people on the staff apparently, or it's a little bit unclear, but it looks like what they're doing is mostly just cutting the pay of the people who are in charge of making things better for police. Now I don't have to tell you if you're a student of human nature that one way to get a better result from people, and if you really want them to work hard and give you a good performance, cutting their pay, that's the way to go. So these command staff police officers were being asked to do more with less. They've also been asked to cut their pay and I think that should motivate them in the right direction obviously. How else are you going to motivate people other than cutting their pay? That just feels obvious.

After they do it, you know, until they did this, honestly I feel dumb, but I wouldn't have even thought of this. You know I might have thought of, this is how dumb I am, I would have thought, you know, if you want more out of these people to do a better job, better training of their staff, etc., I would have been thinking in terms of getting better people and paying them more to get more performance. But I think Seattle's on the right track here. Just cut their pay. That should make them work harder and have better morale and so you should get better results.

Then they're also going to reduce 100 officers. Now if you want to make your city better, take the thing that holds it together, law and order, and get rid of that because the law and order was becoming sort of a Trojan horse if you will for racism. A lot of people wouldn't realize that. You probably think to yourself law and order, wait a minute, isn't that good for Black people and white people and brown people and people of all types? Is there somebody for whom an active police force that is pursuing law and order, is there some demographic group for whom that's bad? Well Seattle has spoken. And again these weren't obvious solutions. If any of this was obvious it would have been done before, right? You need sort of out-of-the-box thinking. You need some genius and Seattle has stepped up.

So the reducing the number of police officers, cut the command staff pay, and they got rid of the unit that is clearing the homeless camps. So those three steps, I think are bold. I think they should be observed for how effective they are and probably in a few weeks the rest of the country should go this way because I can't imagine this not working.

Imagine you're Black Lives Matter and you hear this announcement and you think I'm out here every day, I'm protesting, I'm trying to get rid of systemic racism but nothing's happening, nothing's happening. Why is nothing happening? And then you see this and you say whoa, I think I've overperformed. I was trying to get rid of systemic racism in Seattle but I may have done it in the whole world. Because once these three ideas get out there's nothing that's going to stop them from spreading to all of the other smart cities that also want to get rid of systemic racism. So that's all good news. You should be pretty happy about that.

Here's some more news. It's going to be harder and harder to run against Trump and call him a racist. Number one, I love the fact that the organizer of the Charlottesville "fine people" hoax is endorsing Joe Biden. So Joe Biden's primary campaign claim is that the president's called the racist and Charlottesville fine people. Now of course that didn't happen. That was fake news. He said exactly the opposite. He condemned them. But the organizer of the Charlottesville, he endorses Joe Biden for president. So that's interesting.

At the same time Trump, I forgot to mention this yesterday but Trump in his speech explicitly said, and I don't know if he said this before, he said that school choice is the civil rights issue of our time. In other words if you get school choice right then everybody's going to do better and essentially that's effectively a civil rights issue. It's so big and so important to the Black community. So that's a big deal. Have you ever had a president who said there's a gigantic civil rights issue and I'm going to make it a top priority to get rid of it? What is Joe Biden's big civil rights issue? He has none because Seattle already solved it. This whole race systemic racism thing used to be a topic that Biden could talk about but now Seattle's kind of taking it off the table with their so effective solution.

But the president still is working on a civil rights issue which is education is terribly unfair and poorly done. So the president's done prison reform. He's massively funded the historically Black colleges. We'll talk more about them. There's a Biden story there. He's funded the opportunity zones. He's putting 500 billion dollars into capital for Black American businesses. He's got Black unemployment to the best level it's ever been before coronavirus. It's coming back already. He's designated the KKK a domestic terror group. Even Obama didn't do that. I mean seriously Obama didn't do that. Okay? He's the law and order president and by a majority the Black population does like law and order. Surprise, surprise. You're surprised that people like law and order no matter who they are? It's amazing that that's a surprise.

All right but here's the other thing that sort of snuck up on us. Trump is