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t or the other thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. And a special welcome to any noobs who still don't know they were the victims of a hoax, a double hoax. You got hoaxed once by 4chan and Reddit and then once by me. You got double hoaxed. You're the most hoaxed group in America. Double hoaxed. Good for you. Here's a trivia question for you. Durin…

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ertain terms, based on opinion polls, Rasmussen, about half of black Americans don't think it's cool to be white. It's just not okay to be white. So since I've designated that to be a hate group, black Americans, a hate group collectively, not every individual obviously, anything I say about a group you're all smart enough to know that doesn't apply to all individuals, right? You know that, right? If I say that most of the presidents until Obama were all white, that doesn't mean I was the president. You get that, right? You can talk about groups and it doesn't mean anything about any individual.

So if I say that black Americans are a hate group, does that mean I don't like my neighbor who is black and a doctor? Oh, he's great. I love that guy. That has nothing to do with individuals. I've made no comment about individuals. I love black individuals, right? And all kinds of individuals. So as an individual I'm always going to treat you as an individual, whether I want to date you, have sex with you, hire you, work with you, talk to you. It's always going to be who the individual is. I don't think I've ever had any negative interactions with any black American in my life or any black person of any nationality.

But it is nonetheless true that white people trying to help black America for decades and decades has completely failed. I wish we'd just stopped doing it because all we got was called racists basically. There was no payoff. I think what finally pushed me over the edge was finding out that the school systems in a lot of our inner cities, they're graduating zero people who can read and do math. Zero. And as I've said before, the only strategy that works for any group in America is focusing on education. If that's not your top focus, I don't want to help you. Let me say that as clearly as possible. If education is not your primary focus, now I get that it's hard to do, but if it's not your primary focus, I don't want to have anything to do with helping you improve, helping you succeed, reparations, nothing. I don't even want to have a conversation.

Who is the most notable black leader pushing education as a way to improve the life of black Americans? Who is that person? Somebody said Ben Carson, maybe. Yeah, probably. Somebody said Bill Cosby. Okay, I hate the fact that that's true. I hate the fact that that's true. I think it's true that Bill Cosby was big on education, wasn't he? Yeah. Tim Scott, good. But you're also mentioning politicians who are more famous just for being generally politicians. But who's the black leader who is just known as the education person? Now you're mentioning a lot of people like Thomas Sowell, who is excellent. Ben Carson, Obama. Yeah, they all say it, but it's not really a focus, is it? If you tell me that any of them are famous for making it their focus, I would say maybe famous to a very small number of people. But there's nobody who's really the brand for that. Larry Elder. I'm sure every black leader has talked about education, but it's not really talked about like a focus, is it? How much did we talk about George Floyd versus education? I'm just not even close, right?

So anybody who doesn't focus on education, I don't want to help them at all. But just to be completely clear, it has nothing to do with individuals, right? I love individuals of all types. I always have. That's not changing. It's just if we're going to treat groups as groups, I'm going to say, well, here, let me say this. The LGBT group, it's sort of weird to throw such different people in the same group, but LGBT people in America, huge success. Am I right? Have you ever said to yourself, I don't want to go into that gay neighborhood because of all the crime and littering? You've never heard that. You've never heard that. Nope, not at all.

So you know you can talk about groups and say some things that maybe are a little bit useful, but it doesn't have anything to do with individuals. All right. Have you been to Atlanta? All right. So you know how the world works because I said something provocative that literally everyone agrees with, which is if you're white, don't live in a black neighborhood. It's too dangerous. And half of the people there will think it's not okay to be white according to the recent poll. That would be crazy.

So here, predictably, a white man comes after me on Twitter and says, oh, you're telling me I should get away from my black family members. Does that sound like something I would say? That you should get away from your black family members? I'm assuming in-laws. I don't know. That's stupid. That's stupid. And then I asked him, do you live in a mostly black neighborhood? I didn't wait for the answer because I don't have to, because the people who are going to come after me all agree with me. There's not a single one of those white peo

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ple who are going to be, you know what do you call it, signaling, socially signaling. They're going to come after me to socially signal, but they don't live in black neighborhoods. They're taking my advice. That's all I'm saying. Am I saying that this one individual is probably a sister-in-law or something like that? Am I saying that his sister-in-law sucks because she's black? No, no. I don't ev…

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