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0:00hi everybody dennis prager fireside chat
0:03fireside chat dog so as I talked to you
0:06now there are there are protests and
0:11there are riots taking place so and of
0:15course since the last time I met with
0:17you was the was the death of George
0:20Floyd so what has happened since is to
0:27me quite disturbing his death is quite
0:30disturbing the the statistics actually
0:36do not show that police are particularly
0:39racist we don't even know that George
0:43Floyd died because of his color we don't
0:46know these things have not been
0:48established he might have been maybe the
0:50police men did not value black lives
0:53that is that is certainly possible there
0:56are bad policemen there are bad doctors
0:59I mean evil in the sense of good and bad
1:01there are bad doctors there are bad
1:04chiropractors there were our bad
1:05plumbers there are bad engineers there
1:08are bad professors every every group on
1:11earth has bad people within it it is not
1:14possible not to have any bad people the
1:18New York Times had a headline there will
1:20be protests until there is no more
1:22police brutality then there will always
1:26be protests because there will always be
1:28some police brutality you don't have
1:31angels as police the amount the number
1:35of police who do not engage in brutality
1:37is astonishing given how hard their job
1:41is so I don't ever expect utopia this
1:46expectation we will ruled it out
1:49completely doesn't exist on planet Earth
1:52by the way the people who say that they
1:55should these are usually either well
1:57educated let their kids become policemen
2:00there's a simple answer to this if you
2:02believe that there are bad people going
2:05into police work go into police work
2:07have the children of who are graduating
2:10from Yale and Stanford and
2:12so on let them go into police work see
2:15if they do better when confronted with
2:18people everyday want to kill them it's
2:23it's sickening frankly the the rhetoric
2:27that is taking place here being for
2:29instance so based on a lie
2:30most police are not racist most whites
2:33are not racist I have said for years the
2:37greatest libel in my lifetime is that
2:39America is a racist society it's that's
2:43how bad it is it's a libel this is the
2:47least racist society where multiple
2:50races live in the history of the world
2:53people get along great in this society
2:57this is a manufactured crisis
3:02manufactured for political and other
3:05reasons people need meaning in life so
3:09this gives them meaning I'm fighting
3:11racism that's beautiful but the this
3:15there's not much racism to fight I'm
3:19sorry that's just I have to apologize
3:21for saying how wonderful America is the
3:26the I am being photographed right now by
3:29a young black man okay we talked about
3:34this earlier I told to all the blacks in
3:37my life I asked I ask these questions
3:40how could black conservatives don't
3:42agree that America is racist what's
3:45wrong with them
3:46do they walk around with white face
3:51really how do you explain the the
3:53million at least black conservatives
3:56people who celebrate America they walk
4:00around and interact the same way blacks
4:02who loathe America and the whites who
4:05loathe America that known as aka
4:08leftists if you want to find offense and
4:14evil keep looking for it you'll always
4:17find it I don't want I don't want to
4:20close my eyes to evil if a black man is
4:24killed by a policeman because he
4:25black that's evil that's it's a given
4:30but the the statistics belie this charge
4:36also what do you know this I mean just
4:41statistically a white person is much
4:43more likely to be killed by a black then
4:45a black is statistically gonna be killed
4:48by a white should what do you say to
4:51that now it's a fact that's a fact it's
4:55not it's not an opinion but what do you
4:59so what do you deal with such facts you
5:02you mourn the fact that it exists and
5:04you try to improve life that's what you
5:06do but people are bored and they need
5:12meaning they need a cause they need to
5:14feel moral oh I'm gonna look inside and
5:18I'm gonna fight my racism it's a it's
5:24it's getting it's getting to the point I
5:26have some stuff from from Instagram
5:28listen to this I won't say its name
5:32right
5:32it's not necessary some guy wrote this I
5:36see no color is not the goal yes it is
5:41the goal to see humans and not color is
5:45precisely the goal it is racist to see
5:49the color don't you get it
5:50that's the whole point that's racist
5:53you're defined by your color can you
5:56think of a more superficial way of being
5:58defined I see your color
6:02I see no color is not the goal I see
6:05your color and honor you what does that
6:08mean I honor you for being black do I
6:13honor you for being white right that's
6:16one of the colors imagine if somebody
6:19said that I see that you're white am i
6:20honor you I value your input I will be
6:26educated about your lived experiences I
6:29will work against the racism that harms
6:31you you are beautiful
6:33tell me how to do better that is the
6:35goal this is sickening
6:36pablum first of
6:39all let's see why are you beautiful how
6:43do you know the guy's beautiful because
6:44he's not white is that definitional
6:47you're not white you're beautiful you're
6:49beautiful if you're a good person that's
6:52the world is divided this is my motto in
6:55life from Viktor Frankl who went through
6:57the Nazi hell of the death camps he was
7:02asked to you do you hate the German race
7:04right after the World War two and he
7:08said there are only two races the decent
7:10and the indecent that's how I look at it
7:13that's the only two races that matter to
7:16me it's there's so little racism in the
7:19United States that people make up things
7:22that are racist it is now racist to say
7:24I see no color but it was Martin Luther
7:27King who said it's the content of a
7:29person's character that's his dream just
7:32judge people by their by their character
7:34not their race that is the whole dream
7:37that is the purpose and what what if
7:39you're biracial do I honor your black
7:42and your white side what do i do then
7:46what if your grant what if you have all
7:49sorts of blood this preoccupation with
7:51blood is it is wrong it is evil it is
7:55primitive
7:56we are moving backwards this
7:59concentration on race is a moral
8:02regression not progress humans matter
8:07not colors there are a lot of Evil's in
8:10the world and they need to be fought but
8:14the amount of racism in the United
8:15States is wildly exaggerated wildly
8:19that's why they make up things like the
8:22University of California has a list of
8:24microaggressions it's on the internet
8:26things that you will say that you may
8:29not know are in fact racist but are for
8:32example if you say ready for a real
8:35racist line I only think there's one
8:39race the human race that's considered
8:42racist some of the anti-racist idea that
8:45you could have right as a religious
8:48person I believe were created in God's
8:50image God's not black God's not white
8:53God has no color and of issue by
8:56definition I can't be racist because I
8:58can't believe in race if I don't think
9:00it's important how could I possibly be
9:02racist the Ku Klux Klan thinks black is
9:06important that's the irony real racists
9:09really do think race is important so the
9:12left and the Ku Klux Klan both agree
9:14race defines you there's another one
9:21from Instagram who actually gives it F
9:24if people are looting you realize the
9:28government only gave some people $1,200
9:30right
9:31no rent freeze no mortgage freeze and
9:33people have been stuck at home millions
9:35have lost jobs why are you more outraged
9:37over insured stores vs. police killing
9:40us so we so there are two things here
9:47because of the lockdown people are
9:51looting okay
9:53I don't believe that all right number
9:55one we are we we have sunk the left is
10:01so sunk the moral status of Americans
10:04that the that there is now a large
10:07movement of people who think it is wrong
10:11to condemn the looters and the arsonists
10:17and the window smashers that's how bad
10:20it is this is what I have been railing
10:23against my whole life there is a total
10:25breakdown of a moral standard total the
10:29left remember my motto
10:30whatever the left touches it destroys it
10:32destroys the basic principles of
10:35morality like thou shalt not steal these
10:38are excuses to steal it is mind-blowing
10:43what we are living through I have said
10:49so often if the world just looked by the
10:50ten commandments it would be a utopia
10:52that's right
10:53this is an example they don't want the
10:56ten commandments and by the way I
11:00opposed the lockdown that made people
11:02lose jobs the left is the biggest
11:04supporter of the lockdown blame them
11:07the despicable governors of democratic
11:10states for for your loss of your income
11:15Republicans have wanted to open their
11:17states and have there is no moral excuse
11:22for the for the length of this lockdown
11:25maybe two weeks maybe I said from the
11:29beginning it was hysteria I have been
11:31proven right
11:32I said from the beginning this was a
11:35cure worse than the disease I was right
11:37and it's the left that is the biggest
11:41advocate of the of taking away your job
11:45you lost income in Pennsylvania and in
11:48Michigan and in Washington and in Oregon
11:51and in California because you have
11:53Democrat leftists as governors and then
11:57then people say oh they don't get their
11:58income because you shut it down in the
12:01name of some dubious benefit when the
12:04median age of people dying from kovat 19
12:08is about 80 when half the deaths are in
12:12nursing homes when it is almost
12:13impossible for a young person to die
12:16from this disease more young people have
12:18died this year from the flu than from
12:20kovat 19 and we took away everybody's
12:23business let's put the blame where it
12:26belongs
12:29the stuff that's out there is
12:31mind-blowing if you claim to mourn the
12:35murder of George Floyd while
12:37simultaneously showing more outreach for
12:39the loss of material things you are not
12:41an ally and you have failed to
12:43understand the significance of what is
12:45happening in the world right now I
12:47understand the significance it's a total
12:49breakdown of a code of ethics it's an
12:51excuse to steal that's what's happening
12:54you're allowed to Moore and George Floyd
12:57and condemned theft it's not hard but in
13:02typical leftist manner this manifesto
13:05ends nothing in this post is up for
13:08debate there you go it's the typical
13:10leftism you don't agree with me you sear
13:14scum that's the attitude another one
13:19white pee
13:20we'll teach your kids not to kill black
13:22people but percentage of blacks who kill
13:25whites and we honor what if we have
13:27black people teach your kids up to kill
13:29white people statistically that would be
13:31more accurate whites are walking around
13:33killing black people you want to teach
13:39people not to kill people send them to
13:41religious schools I have a video up thou
13:44shalt not murder as you know Google put
13:46it on the restricted list maybe you
13:50would have saved some more lives if
13:52people could see it any family is not
13:54amazing to watch it my testimony in the
13:56US Senate and they ask the Google
13:59representative why don't you put this on
14:01the restricted list because it has
14:02murder in it yeah the Ten Commandments
14:05has murder in it that's correct I was
14:10taught not to murder
14:11I always thought God said do not murder
14:13that's a good one that's pretty powerful
14:15I wasn't taught not to murder any
14:19specific group I'm so not to murder
14:21humans we're living in a sick time a
14:27sick time all of this confirms every
14:31value that I have ever believed in old
14:33kid everything I've ever advocated is
14:35confirmed by the moral chaos that I am
14:37watching now that people are not only
14:40stealing oh oh I love the one they're
14:43insured oh I get it so that's it the
14:47tenth commandment says do not steal
14:49unless the people you can steal from
14:50have insurance I missed that part
14:55God gave an asterisk in the in that one
15:02we're in bad shape folks we are in bad
15:05shape if people are popularly if this is
15:10a popular sentiment you can condemn the
15:13lowlifes the thugs that are stealing and
15:16breaking windows and putting on making
15:20these play putting these places on fire
15:22that's a this is the lowest one of the
15:27lowest moral points in American history
15:30I'm not surprised though there's there's
15:33been no moral education
15:34and the death of God leads to the death
15:36of values it always happens it's not a
15:40question mark secular conservatives
15:43should pay attention to this if this is
15:46popular on the Internet
15:48we're in trouble black firefighters
15:53spent his life savings to open a bar
15:55then Minneapolis looters burned it down
15:57can you condemn that sir can you condemn
16:00that or is it just property guy spends
16:03his entire life to build this bar now
16:06it's burned down by these thugs it's
16:12amazing the the the left was so angry at
16:16the people who demonstrated in lansing
16:18michigan to open up to be allowed to
16:23make a living remember that oh and they
16:28were very angry because they didn't wear
16:29masks and they were they were too close
16:31but there's these protests this is these
16:34are beautiful I'm not throwing the
16:36protesters I have no issue with the
16:37protesters I'm talking about the violent
16:39ones okay that's America's the least
16:46racist country in world history not that
16:50has many races living in it alright
16:53let's take our video question
16:58all right video question take it away
17:03hi Dennis my name is Lily Hayes I'm from
17:07Buffalo New York and I'm 20 years old
17:09I'm also a member of Praeger force my
17:11question is do you think that the
17:13American police system needs reform and
17:15if so what needs to change Thank You
17:18Lily from Buffalo it probably does need
17:22a reform what can you take can you think
17:25of an institution that doesn't need
17:27reform of course but they have they have
17:32enacted reforms of there were a lot of
17:34police chiefs who were black you I know
17:41this you can never have a perfect police
17:44force you can't have a perfect anything
17:47we have we have to live in the world of
17:49reality I wish we didn't need police but
17:53I don't live by I wish I live by what is
17:56possible I'll tell you what is going to
18:00happen more blacks will die as a result
18:02of all of this the anti police hatred
18:05that has been unleashed in this country
18:07by the left this will have the following
18:10effect we know it statistically it had
18:13the fight it had this effect it's called
18:15the Ferguson effect police simply say I
18:19I don't want to have to deal with blacks
18:23as a policeman my private life doesn't
18:26mean a thing that's fine
18:27but as a policeman anything even if I'm
18:31a hundred percent right I can be
18:33depicted as brutal so I don't want to go
18:36into black neighborhoods and save lives
18:39that's what happens do you know why
18:41black you know why police hundred black
18:43neighborhoods to save black lives to
18:46protect innocent blacks but now they say
18:48and they did number of blacks dead after
18:52Ferguson increased because the police
18:57are not proactive in stopping in
19:00stopping a murder which were eighty-five
19:04percent of blacks murdered or murdered
19:06by blacks that's so it's all it's gonna
19:09happen thanks to the left the this is a
19:14perfect example how do you reform
19:17perfectly do is are you gonna hire
19:20prophets oh I know this man may do
19:23something bad one day you it's not
19:26possible or you you you want why don't
19:30you have an all-black police force
19:32wherever there is a a black suspect only
19:35send black policeman but I'll tell you
19:37what happens the left says the black
19:40policeman are racist that is exactly
19:43what they say how's that 8th and 15
19:51years old Maryland what is your response
19:54to someone saying systemic racism is
19:56still a major problem in the u.s. tell
19:58me what system you tell me I hear I hear
20:01this all the time the systemic racism
20:03where is it in the justice system do you
20:06know why there are more blacks in prison
20:08proportionately than whites because more
20:10blacks commit violent crime
20:11proportionally than whites that's it
20:13that's the answer to the question ok
20:17it's a tragedy but if you can't tell the
20:21truth and you can't tell the truth the
20:24truth gets you in trouble today
20:25the left loads the truth because truth
20:28is not a left-wing value as I've said my
20:30whole life that's the reason
20:33overwhelmingly that they were more Buy
20:35in this notion oh they're all in for
20:37drug offenses is not true it's just not
20:39true there are all these cliches that
20:43have thrown out that just aren't true
20:48but I would like to do to help solve the
20:51problem of black black violence and
20:55therefore black incarceration by the way
20:58not black women right the system the
21:01system it it would presumably be against
21:03black women too let's begin with with
21:09with values instruction for whites -
21:13that's all I believe in values
21:15instruction pregger you the whole thing
21:16is about values how about this get a
21:21high school diploma get a job and don't
21:23make a baby till you're married how's
21:26that not that's not tough stay if you
21:30would pregnant a woman stay in the
21:33child's life I'm not even saying you
21:34should marry the woman I want you to
21:36marry the woman but more important to me
21:38is you've got to be in the child's life
21:41how many of the blacks incarcerated for
21:45murder do you think grew up with a dad
21:47in their life I don't know the answer
21:50but I'm I have no doubt it's small 80%
21:53of black kids I believe it is between 75
21:55and 80 are born percent are born into a
22:00family without a father in their life an
22:03unwed mother fathers are a better answer
22:09than police reform sure
22:14is a better answer than police reform
22:16how many murderers white or black works
22:20regular churchgoers Sundays
22:22what percentage 40% of Americans attend
22:26church every week what percent of
22:28murderers do you think do should be 40%
22:31right if church has no impact that
22:33should be 40% when my solutions are
22:36hated by the left God and fathers the
22:41left loathes those answers Azealia 16
22:49Chicago how old destruction of our home
22:51cities make racist injustice go away
22:54how will destruction I don't know and
22:58why can't Caucasians have an opinion on
23:01this issue why are we solid on the basis
23:03of our race isn't that the core of
23:05racism yes it is of course race doesn't
23:09matter that's that's my deepest belief
23:12in life it's only one race the human
23:14race that's the left loathes these ideas
23:18because the left is the quintessence of
23:20racism when you the moment you say race
23:24defines you you're a racist that's the
23:27definition of racist the Nazi said race
23:33is everything where our ian's were
23:36superior why would why would that idea
23:41now be popular in America that race is
23:46important or tells you anything about a
23:48person well if their four grandparents
23:51in four different races what are they
23:53then the very fact that Elizabeth Warren
23:57lied that the you know one sixty-fourth
23:59Indian do you realize what we've come to
24:01blood is now important not values
24:06decency humanity personality character
24:10blood that's called progressive the left
24:15is backward it is all backward we are
24:19descending as a civilization by saying
24:22that race is important probably the
24:25angriest fireside chat I ever had
24:27but I'm angry I am I am seeing the
24:33overthrow of something beautiful flawed
24:36yes America is flawed because it's
24:38composed of people and people are flawed
24:41black people are fraud white people are
24:43flawed mixed-race people are flawed he's
24:46not flawed I'm Dennis Prager thank you
24:51for watching if you'd like to keep these
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