Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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int Norm. My point is that I'm owning it totally. Are you missing that point? Did some of this look like an apology or something? I'm totally owning it. I'm owning what I said. I can't own whatever impression somebody else put in your head. I don't have any ownership of your own mental faculties. I can't control that but I can own what I did totally. I totally own it. Desert ferry chick says you…

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ther the people who are trying to get out they have a chance. But I think if you take one good person who wants to get out but their friends because of where they live are four or five gang members you think that one good person is going to make it out if they're best friends with four or five gang members? And somebody says yes I did. Yeah so I'll speak statistically. You can definitely make it out if you have bad friends. You could definitely do that but your odds I think go way down because of the influence of your peers.

So they'll just say it's the odds. Call your pod at church. Oh yeah okay now there's the benefit of black churches. It'll get you to associate with people who are trying to figure out legal useful well-proven techniques for a good life. That's smart. Very smart.

Part of the reason young men are not getting married is they can't earn enough. Yeah there's a constellation of problems for young men much of it their own cause.

Are black churches racist? Yes but in a good way. In a good way. I don't have any problem with the black church. How about historically black colleges? So there's still a number of historically black colleges as far as I know. Anybody can go there. Could you give me a fact check on that because it would be illegal to ban anybody? I think anybody can go there but they're historically black and they kind of stay that way. Now is having something that's even called a historically black college that clearly is focused on helping black people associate with other people have the same goals in life and they can network and all that is that racist? Of course it is but do you disagree with their existence? I don't. I mean some of you might. Some of you might if you're like absolutist you might but the world is a messy place. You need to make some exceptions sometimes. You need to boost some groups for the benefit of everybody. And historically black colleges are clearly racist in a good way. In a good way. Just like me.

Were my comments racist? Absolutely. Were they useful? Yep. If you actually take the time to listen to them you will understand better the situation and understanding the situation is the first step to doing anything useful. So I know a lot of people who got their panties in a bunch so to speak but I meant that. And there's still some people asking me to apologize for angering people. I don't apologize for things I did intentionally. What good would that do? I intentionally angered people to draw energy to myself so that I could talk about anything I wanted. Yeah here we are. Although again I didn't think the canceling would get as big as it was but I knew there'd be some and I knew it would drive some energy my way. So there you are.

Is black music racist? Well let me ask you this. There's a white boy and a black — I won't say boy — there's a young white man and a young black man in a car and a popular song comes on from a hip-hop artist. Which one can sing all the words out loud in the car? Yes it's racist. Yes black music is purely racist because white people can't even sing it out loud. You're literally not allowed to sing the lyrics out loud if you're white. You don't get much more racist than that. Now do I have a problem with that? Not really. Not really. Not a big problem. Is it racist? Totally. Is it okay with me? Yeah. Yeah I mean it's not perfect. I don't have a problem with it.

All right ladies and gentlemen I'm going to say goodbye to the YouTube friends who came in to get some outrage. I hope I gave you enough outrage to keep you going today. All of you dopamine gooners especially have fun. Have fun with this one. This one's going to be good. So keep your hands flexible and go nuts. See you tomorrow.