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rushing. I once had to close a restaurant, two restaurants actually, but I had to close a restaurant that wasn't working out. And I had to tell the staff that they were all fired, with severance and stuff like that so they were treated well. But that's a really bad day. It's twice a bad day because as I was telling them that I would treat them right and everything, there were some who were actuall…

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s at least apparently black. So good job. Good job there. Seems like a good fit.

But I would like to give him a shout out because you know how you get an immediate reaction to some public figures. Do you remember when Barack Obama burst on the scene? The first time you saw him give a speech, even if you were a Republican, you probably said to yourself, ooh, there's something special there, right? Didn't you see that? Like you see it immediately. And the special thing was he wasn't doing the thing you expect. Obama did not run as a black guy. And every time he didn't run as a black guy, which he did better than anybody ever did, right? Obama was just the master of using race without using it. Oh my God, he did that well. Because it was there. You could see it. You can make your own decision. But if he'd even said it once, you should vote for me because I'm black, he would be done. It was like, no, no, that's absolutely, you're off the list if you say that. But he never did because he's very good at this stuff.

So I want to give a similar shout out to this Derek Johnson. I'd never seen him before, but he was talking about the meeting. And he first said that he thought Musk agreed with the people who were there. That's good. So no confrontational anything. Just it looks like he agreed. But there was a question of whether Musk would be able to execute, which is exactly the best question you could ever have. Do you think Musk can execute? That's like what he does better than anybody who's ever done anything. Musk can execute better than anybody maybe in the whole world who's ever done anything. There's one thing you can do.

But here's why I want to give Derek a shout out. He went through the whole interview and he talked about how he wanted to make sure that Twitter was protecting communities that were marginalized. And I watched the whole interview, and not once did he frame things racially. Now I think it's completely fair to say don't have groups targeted for hate speech. That's not really a racial statement. That's something everybody would say. But somehow he got through the whole thing without me hating him for saying I'm bad or something. Like I didn't get blamed for anything. And he didn't even talk about it like in the normal team play. Somehow he did it. He did an Obama on this thing. And I gotta say I want to see more. I want to see more from him, Derek Johnson, because one of the things I've been saying forever is that the Black American population doesn't have a good leader. You know, somebody who would appeal to whoever they're trying to persuade at the same time as appeal to the black community. And he may be the guy. He's got a strong game. Yeah. So just keep an eye on him. This is another thing that in my opi

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nion is going right. In my opinion, and this will be really controversial, racial harmony is actually improving. What do you think of that? In my opinion, racial harmony is improving. And I'll tell you why. Because we're wising up to why it happened in the first place. We're wising up that it was the media that was causing it, right? And I think people are wising up. People, everybody wants every…

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