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u know, older infrastructure. Now what is the effect of having too much lead in your environment? Well the big one is it lowers your IQ. You see where this is heading? The Democrat cities have the oldest infrastructure. The old infrastructure is correlated with more lead in your environment. More lead in the environment makes you stupid. I think we just figured out what's going on. Yeah. The Demo…

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dumber. So it might be that Democrats of all races and genders and everything else, that Democrats just because of where they live are getting dumber now. Would that be systemic racism? If that were true, there's more lead making you dumb in places that Democrats are clustered for unrelated reasons. That would be systemic racism.

So those of you who say systemic racism isn't real, I just don't think you're trying very hard. Of course it's real. Of course it is. There are some things that are just baked into the system that are really hard to change. Now I don't think that you should focus on those. Well, obviously you should focus on fixing them if you can, but I don't think that should be the driving force of how we live our lives. Rather the driving force should be the King Randall kind of learn to take care of yourself, build a talent stack and these problems just go away. If you have talent, all the problems go away.

Hey, did you hear about the highly qualified black engineer who couldn't get a job? You've heard about that, right? There's a story about a very qualified black engineer, has all the right qualifications, went to MIT, got a degree, has a good background, experience, no problems whatsoever. Can't get a job in America. Did you hear about that? No. You never heard about that because it didn't happen. It's never happened

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once. There are zero cases where a qualified black man can't get a job in America. None. There are lots of cases where somebody has a criminal record. That's a problem. There are lots of places where there are individual pockets of discrimination. That's real. Usually smaller companies. The big companies, of course, are dying for diversity. There's no such thing as a person with valuable job skil…

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