f that was the case we'd have a lot more white MVPs. Wouldn't the numbers be way worse? So Barkley's sort of statistical instinct is that if 80 percent of the voters were white and racial bias is in it that we see like mostly white winners. Does that make sense to you? That makes sense to you? Neither of these arguments make any damn sense. Neither side makes any sense, right? Because neither of them have any data. Neither of them have any data. And if they did would the data tell you anything? Probably not.

Let me tell you why the data wouldn't tell you anything. And I'm going to surprise you. I'm going to side with Kendrick Perkins. I'm not going to side with Barkley. I like what Barkley's doing. I think what Barkley's doing is trying to just take race out of it which I love. Which is why Charles Barkley is like way on the top of my list of people I would want to vote for if he ran for politics. Like he would be way at the top of my list. I just love that he's lived a life where he can sort of laugh about racial stuff but you never think he takes it seriously. That's like such a good place to start. So I like his instinct to try to take the energy out of it and stuff like that.

But here's what I think. If you were the, let's say most of them were white, nobody knows if it's 80, but if most of the writers who were voting every year do you think that white people would have the following thought? And I'm going to speak as one white person who would think the following way but I'm not going to say that they do. All right. So I'm not going to say that somehow I represent white people. Here's what I would have done if I were in that group. I'd say to myself what's good for the game? And then I would have voted appropriately.

If I were a sports writer, especially white but maybe also Black, I'm not sure why it would especially be different, but if I were voting I would vote for what's good for the game. And sometimes what's good for the game is that a few white people win sometimes. Because maybe if you only did the top scorers it would be nothing but Black winners and you have probably way more white audience. And to me it seems like the writers were somewhat subconsciously balancing it out so that it would sort of look like something closer to balanced. And it might be that maybe it's been since Larry Bird that a white guy should have won. I don't know if that's true. But I would have to say it does look a little suspicious to me that the white guys are the ones who win without being in the top ten of scoring. That's not a bad point is it? Is that a bad point?

But I don't think it's exactly the way he's describing it. I think you could allow for two types of racism. One type of racism is the bad kind where people are just voting based on race. The other kind is also incorporating race but more trying to find a balance of just what's good for the game. It'd be good if some white people won once in a while because there are a lot of white fans. It's the sort of same sort of thinking if the situation were reversed. Now that's probably how I would vote. I have to admit I probably would vote based on if I thought there was some unfairness or inequity I might vote in a way that would fix it. I can imagine that. I don't know if I would just be like oh who had the best stats. Because it's not really even about the best stats is it? Because beyond the stats some players consistently make their team win when they're on the field. That's actually the best stat. The best stat is how they score when that one person is playing. That's the one I like the best.

All right. So I guess we don't know. I guess my only point is that without data and without being statisticians and none of us in the story are statisticians I don't think Kendrick Perkins' idea is crazy. I would just say it might be more of a good purpose to it or at least good intention than bad intention. But probably there's a racial component to that.

A woke agenda might be banned in Iowa. So the House of Representatives is looking at something to ban the DEI bureaucracies in our institutions of higher education. Do you think that'll pass? Iowa's solidly Republican. Are they? No they're not. Is Iowa in the legislature they're not right? Yeah. So does it have a chance? Wouldn't you need a solid Republican legislature to have a chance with something like that? So I don't know what the odds are. I guess I should have brought it up.

So here's a just latest update on me but I'm not going to go into any detail on this now. So the Chris Cuomo interview I did about my so-called racist rant, TM, trademark. Should I try to get a trademark on racist rant? No probably too soon. But nearly half a million people have viewed it. And the best criticism that came out of it was from Dan Abrams who said that I can't have it both ways. I can't say that my statement was hyperbole but also out of context.

Yes I can. The statement I made was a sentence of hyperbole and the reason that I did it was the context that was left out. It's pretty easy to do both of those at the same time. Now consider the fact that that was the best objection. There were other objections but the other objections were based on things I didn't even say or didn't even feel or was mind