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All right, so here's my point. When I'm looking at the news I'm watching the news media assign people the opinion that Trump is a racist and then blaming Trump for that assignment which wasn't anything he did. I believe that if people simply watched — let's say there was no punditry, let's say all punditry went away and nothing but facts were ever reported and those facts were always put in conte…
← Previous segment →All right, what's happening is people are assigning opinions and you pick your tribe and then you take your opinion.
Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I'm talking about other people. And maybe that's true. I'm sure there are plenty of people on this Periscope watching this who are not really just taking every opinion that they see in the news. Well I'm talking in general. So if you're trying to decide how the country is in terms of race relations and you're looking at your own experience, your anecdotal experience, well that might be telling you something if everybody else is having the same experience. But probably not. Probably not. It's probably just anecdotal.
So I was wondering, are there objective measures of racism that are not captured by opinion polls? So it's one thing to talk to people and say, "Hey, do you think race relations are better or worse?" Then you're just getting people's opinions as they've been assigned by the media. But is there anything you could measure that's just a plus?
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Now if somebody said employment — so black unemployment is great and black business creation, business ownership is up and that's great — but those are really sort of continuations of a trend. They have more to do with just economics and a good economy. They're not really about whether race relations are good. It just might mean they're no worse. You know, obviously if you're black you can get a j…
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