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early, but these changes I've made, if you wait five years, well we'll be in good shape then. I've really set this up for the future. No, it's not good now because it's an investment, right? So if Zuckerberg were not the head of his company and he said, all right, Facebook maybe isn't killing it at the moment but look what I'm doing with Meta. Right? Meta is Zuckerberg's way of saying we're doing…

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out. So we don't know. We don't know.

All newspapers ended up not being able to run it because my syndication company and then my book publisher canceled me. So that cancels distribution. So they couldn't — newspapers couldn't carry it even if they wanted to. Yeah. So here's this. This is the message that I plan to die on this hill. And I'm going to die on the hill that all the ESG, CRT, DEI are crushing the chances for Black American success. And because they are such an important part of my country, that's bad for me, right? It's bad for me when Black Americans don't do well. That's bad for me. And that's why I've put so much attention in trying to fix that specific situation.

But maybe the CIA took me out for political reasons. Maybe the Democrats took me out for political reasons. The only thing I know is that the conservative part of the country understands this message completely. True or false? Most of you are lean right if you're watching this even though I don't — yeah, every one of you is agreed. Every one of you is agreed. Look at the comments. Absolutely zero pushback. I got canceled for this. This is the way I did it so it's my own damn fault.

But look at the bigger picture. Was canceling me good for Black America? Well let me ask you this question. Was canceling me good or bad for Black America? Because this is what I'm bringing, right? This is what I'm praying. This is my offer. It's free, right? And by the way you don't need to buy it in my books. Like I have a book that I think is good. You can't buy it at the moment because it's canceled. But if you could buy it it would just be one of the things you could do. I'm proposing that the tools of success are so widely available you can just Google it. You could pick up a different book. You could ask somebody who's successful. I don't care where you get it. That's the unimportant part.

So that's why I'm interested in working on homeschooling because I think you could make a difference in the curriculum by just introducing a module about personal success. And a module about personal success if you could do it well I think would guarantee the homeschoolers outperformed everybody else. They probably already do but it would just make it clean.

And I would make a following bet that if you gave me a group of randomized Black Americans or even poor — let's say low income so they're randomized except they're all low income — and you compare that to a randomized group of white kids and you say Scott, you're going to work with the randomized group of Black kids. You're going to teach them the tools of success that work for everybody. And then the white kids will just be the control group. They're just taught at regular education. Come back in 20 years. Who's making more money? I guarantee it's my group. I guarantee it. You should place a very large bet on that. If the group that has the tools of success does well, I would do it.

I could probably make a web series. A web series teaching the rules of success. The trouble is I don't know if people are watching videos that are longer than 30 seconds. So if I did it it would be a series of 30-second reels. It's probably the only way to do it. Yeah, because kids aren't going to read it. You can turn it into a course for a teacher and then the teacher could work with the kids. But for mass communication it's hard to reach kids. You need something really simple. Yeah. I'm trying not to say TikTok because I want TikTok to go away.

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schooling is great only if the parents are well educated. That's probably true although I think that's changing. My understanding is that the homeschool market is now robust enough that you can find videos of good teachers. You know, I think people coordinate to have maybe the smartest parent teach a few of them or something. I think they're finding workarounds. But you're true. But it's true if t…

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