there are layoffs the white teachers go first. It's in the union contract. So yeah there's some stories where you don't need any commentary. Do you? Is there anything I need to add to that? Like your mind just filled in everything that needs to be said about that story. They have an actual signed contract that says that white people will be fired first.

Do you know where that happened before? Where I worked. Yeah. Where I worked. So that was many years ago now, over 30 years ago. And you all know my story. I tell it too often. I was told directly by senior management that I couldn't be promoted because I'm white and male. Directly in those words. I was told that I would no longer have a chance of promotion until something changed and they couldn't tell me when that would ever happen because it would take years presumably. But think about that. 30 years ago I was told that directly. And here we are 30 years later and these teachers and the school district are being told in writing that they'll be discriminated against.

Now let me ask you this. If I were to give advice to Black Lives Matter it would go like this. Black Lives Matter should go shut that down. Do you know why? Because they're a joke if they don't. And they're already got some criticisms that are valid I think. But if Black America doesn't shut that down immediately, every one of you, let me be as clear as I can be. If Black America isn't against that, every one of you, every one of you, right? I'm not giving you anything. You need to be against that. Because if I saw that, if I saw a contract that said Black people are fired first, I wouldn't stand for that. I wouldn't stand for that for you. You think I would let that stand? Not a chance. No. No way. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. No. If that happens to you I'm activated. If you're going to let, it's not happening to me specifically, but if you're going to let this happen so directly to a bunch of white teachers, if you're okay with that and you even justify it, well you get nothing from me. You need to fix that. That's not for white people to fix. If you want any credibility going forward you got to fix that.

Now you know I know you got bigger problems, right? You have your own problems. I get that. But at least in words give me a tweet, give me an opinion. Just tell me that you're against it. You don't even have to fix it, right? That's asking a lot. But I would do it for you. I would do it for you and I do it in a heartbeat. And if you try to give me any argument about well systemic, you too far right. You have to read the room. Read the room. The room wants to help. I've put substantial reputation, money and time into helping the Black community. You've seen it here. I do it publicly in a variety of ways and you see that I take a hit for it. It's not cheap. It is not cheap to help some other group, right? Because you get attacked for it. And this is too far. This contract that explicitly discriminates against white people, that's too far. You need to hold your credibility by drawing a line there, right?

So this is advice that's a benefit to the Black community. I mean this to be productive by the way. It sounds like I'm just being a critic but I mean this could be productive. If you want to get help from the white community and I think you do, why wouldn't you, right? The most obvious thing is get everybody on board to recognize your situation and help when they can. And we'd love to do it. Love to help. In fact you know I'm investing right now in turning one of my books into a study guide and I've always imagined it would have more value in the Black community than the white because I think strategy is the thing that's most missing. And I think it's one of the advantages of growing up in a let's say a more prosperous family is that you get the benefit of some of the advice and seeing how things are done the right way just being around it. And so that's the benefit I'd like to bring to lower income people who don't have that. And that's going to be skewing more non-white than white if people take it seriously. So it's good persuasion advice. You can't maintain your credibility if you just believe everything that's bad for white people is good for you. That's just not the world you live in. You got to read the room a little bit better.

So all right. I think I made my point. It's a bit woke to assume they want help from the white community. What is that really in question? Is there anybody who wouldn't want free help from the largest population that has the most money? Of course everybody would want that. I'd want it myself.

All right. I'm seeing if you have any comments that are worth jumping on. Yes. Who is they exactly? Do you think wokeness is going to go away as a term? I see comments go by that I don't, I never know how true they are. Somebody on YouTube says the first was it monkey to dog? Monkeypox. I don't know. I'm not going to believe that. All right. And the labels now. Davos. Yeah I don't have much to say about that.

Do I believe in fate or destiny? Well you know I used to believe in a clockwork universe where everything that's going to happen has to happen because that's just the way the cause and effect goes. But since I started to appreciate the simulation theory there's something else going on there that suggests that your intentions can control your reality. Now ten years ago if I said maybe your intentions can control your reality all of the science people would say oh that's crazy. But if you imagine that we're a simulation created by another entity there's no reason to believe that we don't have some powers within the simulation because they could just be programmed in. There's nothing that would stop you from having powers if they had been programmed into the simulation.

So one of the powers might be that when we focus and imagine something clearly it's more likely to materialize in what we understand to be our reality. And I think there's nothing that rules that out and there's at least anecdotally it looks like it's true. The people who seem to think they can control their environment do seem to have outcomes that look unusually good. I'm one of those people. I believe I can control what I perceive as my reality anyway. Maybe not a real reality but what I perceive as my reality I feel I can control in ways that don't make sense by any cause and effect traditional classic way of looking at the world.

Now I'm still skeptical enough that I'm open to the fact this is just a psychological artifact. It has nothing to do with reality but it's where my head is at at the moment. So at the moment I do not believe in fate. I believe that we're authoring our reality or at least some of us can. I don't know if everybody can.

All right. A model of reality doesn't need to be true. It just needs to work. And what that usually means is that it's predictive, right? If your model of reality predicts it's probably pretty good. It's the best