Back to episode — Episode 1884 Scott Adams - I Use The Whiteboard of Wisdom To Explain Racism In America
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biggest problems in the country? You might disagree what's the biggest problem but you will agree it's one of the big ones, right? So you might disagree that's the biggest but it's one of the biggest. Now here's the claim. The claim is that in the world of persuasion the best picture always wins. And look at climate change. Can you imagine climate change if nobody had ever produced the hockey sti…
← Previous segment →ns into college. Yes they're trying really hard. So this part of the superhighway is solid. The corporation part is solid. But the school part where you get your basic education to qualify for the rest of the superhighway, totally broken. Totally broken, right? Why is it broken? Well that's mostly the teachers unions. Because teachers unions are the primary friction that keeps schools from competing. Right, because teachers don't like the competition. They want a nice safe environment. So the unions are doing a great job for the teachers I think. I mean teachers may disagree but it looks like the unions are doing a good job for the teachers. It is not the job of the teachers unions to do a good job for the kids. Not their job. They'll say it but definitely not their job. Their job is to take care of themselves and there's nothing wrong with that. We live in a system that promotes it. Really we like unions but unions are not the end of all stories. There can be counterbalances. There can be other forces. Unions are not the beginning and end of everything. So they're important but at the moment they are the primary obstacle to Black American success.
Now I'm not saying that Black schools are the only ones that are bad. I'm saying that all low-income schools need a lot of improvement. In high-income places the Black and the white students are going to do fine because they both have good schools. Where I live, some of the best schools in California, do you think the Black students are especially disadvantaged? Not really. Not really. If a Black student comes out of this school system direct to college, I mean you couldn't even avoid college if you were a smart Black kid where I live. So we're just, because the schools are good. Now if you live in the poor place it doesn't matter what color you are. You're not going to have a good school experience and it's going to be hard to get onto the rest of the superhighway.
So here's the mystery I'm going to solve. Mystery number one. Why is it that Black people think that corporate America must be totally still discriminating? Because they look and say but it's still full of white people. Like why is the board of directors a bunch of white people? Why is the CEO a white person? Why are the senior vice presidents all whit
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e guys? They're not all, I mean it's changing but you know what I mean. And the answer is because there's nothing in the pipeline or not enough, right? So the problem is not that the corporations are discriminating. But you could see how if you were a Black American you would think so, right? So that was the first mystery. It's like why does every white American know that Black people have a gigan…
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