WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:04.759 Attention. You're listening to the Todd Huff Radio Show, America's home for conservative 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:09.000 not bitter talk radio. Be advised. The content of this program has been 3 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:12.720 documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean 4 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:33.399 to the right. Here's your conservative but not Bitter host, Todd Huff. 5 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:42.320 All right, my friends, there we go. Welcomes the todhu Show. 6 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:46.280 I am your host, Todd Huff. Email should you want to be part 7 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:50.200 of the conversation today Todd at toddhof show dot com. You can also connect 8 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:55.679 with us by text that numbers three one seven, two one zero twenty eight 9 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:03.719 thirty. Indianapolis is home base for us, but we are on several stations 10 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:07.599 around the country. And no matter where you're listening, whether that's on the 11 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:15.280 actual radio, on podcast, or even on the video podcast of this program, 12 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.680 we welcome you and I hope you are having a great day. And 13 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:27.239 today I want to talk about what happened yesterday pertaining to the Supreme Court decision 14 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:41.120 of regarding affirmative action. So the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Harvard University and 15 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:51.560 University of North Carolina. I believe they're way of selecting students. The way 16 00:01:51.680 --> 00:02:01.439 of admitting students, their admissions process violates the fourteenth Amendment because because of this 17 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:08.080 little thing called affirmative action. Now, what does that basically mean. We're 18 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:13.120 going to talk about that today. We're gonna talk about implications of this. 19 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:17.199 I've got a short personal anecdote story that I want to share with you as 20 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:22.000 well, and so, but I want to I want to kind of back 21 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:30.520 up here at at the beginning or take us back to where we got into 22 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:40.199 kind of the beginnings of the affirmative action line of thinking and process and why 23 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:46.639 that is has become what it is today. So, as you know, 24 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:58.639 and as we've discussed on this program, this nation has a history of racism. 25 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:05.319 It has at its found I want to differentiate between the Founding as the 26 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:12.560 fathers wrote about it, the Founding, as the fathers crafted the Constitution, 27 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:20.120 the words of the Declaration. Those things were marvelous principles and ideas, those 28 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:30.120 beliefs. Those ideas said that all men are created equal and downed by their 29 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:35.159 creator with certain unalienable rights, that among those are life, liberty, and 30 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:43.520 the pursuit of happiness. The Founders believed in the idea. They recognize the 31 00:03:43.639 --> 00:03:47.919 idea of liberty, the importance of liberty, freedom for all people. They 32 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:53.199 saw it, but yet they did not live up to it in reality. 33 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:59.000 And in the early years of this country we had serious problems. We had 34 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:06.400 we had had laws and things happening in this country that violate the truth that 35 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:13.800 they wrote about in the Constitution, in the Declaration of Independence. And so 36 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:18.040 it was a systematic problem, not because of the Founding documents, but instead 37 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:29.199 instead because of laws and practices that people excused in those days. And you 38 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:30.439 know, if you go back and read some of the Founders, I mean, 39 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:34.839 it's it's you know, some of them. Some of them didn't like 40 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:43.920 the idea of slavery and that component. Some tried to, you know, 41 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:48.680 play mental gymnastics to come up with a way to justify it in their minds 42 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:53.199 and so forth. But I think they all knew, I do believe this, 43 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:58.240 They all knew deep down that that was that it was a atrocious and 44 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:03.360 wicked and evil thing, and it contradicted what they wrote about it. It 45 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:12.079 contradicted the ideas that they base this nation upon. And because of that, 46 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:19.639 because of that, this nation um eventually eventually went to went to war, 47 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:28.439 went to Civil War, and it was its slavery was eradicated, it was 48 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:32.800 ended. But the issue with slavery, or with racism, I should say, 49 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:41.759 did not end with the end of slavery being a practice that was allowed 50 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:46.920 in certain states in this country. Racism is a condition of the heart. 51 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:59.079 Racism is a reprehensible and evil idea. Racism is I would want to clearly 52 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:10.560 state racism is a well a sin. I don't. That's one way to 53 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:15.759 put it. I was gonna say it violates how God created humanity to live 54 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:17.879 with one another. In a simple way of saying that is, it's it's 55 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:24.639 a sin. To the to the Christian, to the follower of Christ, 56 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:30.240 it is evil. And so but it's a condition of the heart. And 57 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:38.079 so as America has moved from literally the days where slavery was legal and accepted 58 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:44.680 up to those years where we actually went to war, and the president of 59 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:46.800 the United States at the time, Abraham Lincoln, by the way, the 60 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:55.079 Republican Party was founded on this very principle of ending slavery, and Abraham Lincoln 61 00:06:55.160 --> 00:07:00.160 did just that. That's a whole nother discussion in and of itself. So 62 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:06.519 you have this, you have this, uh, this timeline of history, 63 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:15.319 of a history of early slavery. Then you had this fevered pitch that ended 64 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:21.600 that I guess culminated with the Civil War, and then that ended slavery, 65 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:30.800 but it did not obviously end racial hostilities and tensions and so forth, and 66 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.040 so over time America continued. The founders put this in the in the constitution, 67 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.920 right, they said, in order to form a more perfect union. 68 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:45.759 And so we have been striving we should be striving today. We don't strive 69 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.800 for this collectively as a union. It's why this country's in such an absolute 70 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:57.680 disaster or a just it's a mess today because we don't strive to be more 71 00:07:57.720 --> 00:08:03.279 perfect. Some of us do, but many people strive to get even or 72 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:11.680 strive to answer a wrong with another wrong, and that is going to never 73 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:18.519 that that will cause the pendulum to never settle at equilibrium of equal justice under 74 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:24.399 the law. And so as we moved from the end of slavery, if 75 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:28.000 you look at this, and really, I mean I'm just overly simplifying it, 76 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:31.079 but if you look at you know, from the Revolutionary War to the 77 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:35.960 Civil War roughly roughly one hundred years. Of course, slavery went back before 78 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.240 that, I'm just saying, from from the start of America to the Civil 79 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:46.279 War ball park a hundred years. Then you go from the Civil War to 80 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:52.039 the Civil Rights movement roughly one hundred years. So that movement, which of 81 00:08:52.080 --> 00:09:00.919 course we know names like doctor Martin, Luther King and others who pushed for 82 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:11.759 pushed for racial equality because there were still reprehensible things happening in this country that 83 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:20.440 were systematically systemically racist, and so there was the Civil Rights Movement. In 84 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:26.480 fact, my friends, there's I'm not going to say verbatim, but you 85 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:30.519 there's one particular town that I'm aware of, and I'm sure that this has 86 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:37.159 happened. This happened in multiple towns, but there were towns in the say 87 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:45.559 fifty, well say seventy years ago, I'm ball parking this that had signs 88 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:56.159 as you entered the town threatening people of another race, threatening black people from 89 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:03.799 entering or being in the town. This is this has happened. Reprehensible, 90 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:11.759 evil, wicked, right, There were lynchings, there was some folks turned 91 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:18.399 a blind eye to some of the racist behavior and the violence, inexplicably and 92 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:26.799 inexcusably doing that. But from that point in time until today, America has 93 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.440 made great strides. I would say to you, and I think that this 94 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:39.559 is demonstrably true, that there is no more systemic or systematic racism in this 95 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:46.519 country. There is individual racists. There are individual racists. There are individual 96 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:50.480 or even groups of people who hate. And by the way, this can 97 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:56.960 go in any direction. People can hate a particular race, a particular religion, 98 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:05.759 a particular gender, a particular sexual orientation. I heard a pastor once. 99 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.399 I can't think of his name at the moment. It's just escaping me. 100 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.480 I thought this was brilliant. I don't want to get too preachy to 101 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.360 you here this morning or today, but the preacher, the pastor said, 102 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:22.279 Christians often, unfortunately fall into the category of one or two things. Whenever 103 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:30.799 they are dealing with, you know, dealing with certain sins that other people 104 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:37.080 commit, they either they either hate the person or they affirm, they affirm 105 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:41.879 the choices and the decision and the actual sin itself. And the truth is, 106 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:48.879 the truth is we should be able to love the person without affirming something 107 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.919 that is not a good behavior trait, and so forth, we have to 108 00:11:56.039 --> 00:11:58.360 We should do this with ourselves. That's the other thing. I mean, 109 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:03.000 you know, sometimes I myself wondering why some people have all such a hard 110 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.879 time and understanding that just because I disagree with the decision that someone makes, 111 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.639 and you can apply that a belief that someone holds, it does not mean 112 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:18.120 that I hate I hate the person obviously to me, because I think there 113 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:20.759 are things that times that I have had to say to myself, I don't 114 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:26.759 like what I thought about this or did, I don't like my behavior, 115 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:33.320 And that doesn't mean I hate myself and I there's there's some confusion and some 116 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:39.679 conflating going on in some of the circles, and it actually, instead of 117 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:46.480 making it a worthwhile in a productive conversation, can actually heap more division and 118 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:54.679 hatred and so forth into that particular conversation or disagreement. So but so, 119 00:12:54.759 --> 00:13:03.240 the idea of affirmative action was the government or running government funded institutions. And 120 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:11.240 this could be anything from employers through again, now that's I'm painting the spectrum 121 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:16.360 here. So it could be a business that's not under the control, if 122 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:20.720 you will, of the government, but it could be a government agency. 123 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:26.600 It could be education, it could be the military. There's policies and there 124 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:39.480 were programs developed to try to remedy some of America's past agregious behaviors and decisions 125 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:46.480 and so forth, as it pertained to racism, as it pertained to slavery, 126 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:50.360 and so forth. And so the idea was to say, okay, 127 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:58.600 we are going to try to put our finger on the you know, the 128 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:05.159 scale of justice and fairness, and trying to come up with a way to 129 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:11.159 say that this in this particular, this court case, it's dealing specifically with 130 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:18.159 education, with college education, we're going to admit some students. We're going 131 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:24.320 based upon a criteria that includes their race, so they could get I guess 132 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:31.600 if you will. If there's a grading scale, you get weighted, you 133 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:37.519 get weighted differently in your consideration if you are of one race instead of another. 134 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:45.679 And this generally speaking is called affirmative action. And so the government would 135 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:50.600 say, we are in embracing these policies. We are implementing these policies so 136 00:14:50.639 --> 00:15:03.200 that we can have an outcome that helps those individuals who have been maybe impacted 137 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:09.559 negatively by some of America's past sins, if you will, pertaining to race, 138 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:16.039 and so we are going to choose to give them preferential treatment because of 139 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.080 that race. And so this is something that again has been done. This 140 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:24.159 has been done across the board in all sorts of places, from I mean 141 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:31.320 from colleges and education, you know, higher education, to I know, 142 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:35.600 the military academies which are in higher education, which, by the way, 143 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:41.399 from what I can tell from this decision, the military academies were actually given 144 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:45.320 an exemption here. And I've got a story about that, a short one. 145 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:46.399 I don't want to make it too much about my experience, but I 146 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:50.759 do want to share it because I think it's relevant to the conversation. So 147 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:58.120 some people who are applying to be a firefighter or a law enforcement officer, 148 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:03.879 there are there are certain crime tiria, and sometimes it's it's you know, 149 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:07.159 you've got to run this distance or do this many push ups or whatever. 150 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:11.679 It is some sort of a physical fitness test. And then sometimes there are 151 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.759 bonus points, if you will, for being of a different group. And 152 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:21.720 it's not just race, it can be gender. And sometimes sometimes the admission 153 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:26.960 standards, if you will, are dropped for in the case of gender, 154 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:33.559 for females to be able to meet the physical requirements and things like fire departments 155 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.919 and so forth. There's some incredible stories about that. Because you think you 156 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:40.840 need to be able to be pretty strong to pull people out of buildings. 157 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:45.279 Why are we dropping some of these requirements and ways to measure if they could, 158 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.679 if they could actually do that, if it pertains to the job, 159 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.279 and so forth. Anyway, but this case is specifically about education, higher 160 00:16:52.360 --> 00:17:00.200 education college. So but we've seen this, We've seen this affirmative action throughout 161 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.639 For those of us that are, i mean, forty fifty years old, 162 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.640 you've seen this throughout throughout your life. You may have had debates about this 163 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:12.440 in classrooms and so forth, or maybe at a family dinner table or whatever. 164 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:19.960 But that's the idea. The Supreme Court yesterday announced their ruling that that 165 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:26.599 is no longer that is no longer permissible because it violates the fourteenth Amendment. 166 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.799 I'll read that on the other side of the break, But basically, that's 167 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:36.519 equal protection under under the law. And so if you remember, Martin Luther 168 00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:41.000 King Jr. In his speeches, said that he he dreamed, he hoped 169 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:47.720 that one day his children would live in a nation that did not judge them 170 00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:52.720 based upon the color of their skin, but rather by the content of their 171 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.079 character. Likewise, I think you could say, I think you could extrapolate 172 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:02.920 from that and implement and insert some of the things that have been used in 173 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:06.880 the world of affirmative action and say that Martin Luther King Junior would have probably 174 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:11.000 based upon that statement, would have said, I wish, I have a 175 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:18.480 dream that all college applicants be judged based upon the quality of their of their 176 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:22.440 knowledge, that the quality of their qualifications to be accepted, and not for 177 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:29.759 the color of their skin. Right. And so that's effectively the ruling that 178 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:33.759 was handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday a six to three decision six to 179 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:38.279 two, and the other in one of the other cases. Anyhow, there 180 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.640 were the two cases, so Harvard and I think it was North Carolina. 181 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:48.720 So timeouts in order. So now that we've kind of set the framework as 182 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:55.240 to how we got there, the rationale, and then what this argument's about, 183 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:59.279 I've got a short anecdote and story. We'll talk about the fourteenth Amendment. 184 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:03.279 Well that and much more, getting to some other stories as well, 185 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:08.880 including some things that I just you know that are that are comical to me. 186 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:15.440 Story about Hunter Biden. Here he's settled with the mother of his child, 187 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.319 who I believe is four years old. Now I got some news on 188 00:19:18.359 --> 00:19:22.759 that that just I mean, it's just crazy. It's the intersection of all 189 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.160 these Hunter Biden stories, but a lot of other things to get to today 190 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:27.359 as well in due course. But I'm gonna take a time out, my 191 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:30.279 friends. You are listening here to conservative not better talk. I am your 192 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:41.759 host, Tod Huf back in a minute. Welck. So this I actually 193 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.640 sell a quote from Chuck Schumer during the break. I hadn't seen this until 194 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:49.720 the break, so much to processor, but this is a quote from Senator 195 00:19:49.799 --> 00:20:00.200 Chuck Schumer, who is the majority leader Democrat majority leader US Senate. He 196 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:07.440 actually said this in regards to the Court's decision to rule that colleges and universities 197 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:14.839 cannot use the well specifically, there's a whole bunch of discussion as to what 198 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:22.559 this specifically means, because there are some that will say that since the case 199 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:27.920 well, the ruling, the law that actually allowed this was not technically overturned 200 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:34.039 like roversus Wade was regarding abortion, that this is still allowed. You just 201 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:42.240 can't do the particular program, if you will, that Harvard had in the 202 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:47.920 University of North Carolina had so. But they're out there, the left is 203 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:52.519 out there trying to frame this a certain way, and this is what Chuck 204 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.119 Schumer says. He says, the courts misguided decision reminds us how far we 205 00:20:56.160 --> 00:21:02.160 still have to go to ensure that all Americans are treated equally. So when 206 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:07.359 Chuck Schumer's deluded perspective of the world, and in order to make people feel 207 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:11.799 like they're treated equally, you must give certain groups of people preferential treatment, 208 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:17.440 which is craziness. And so a couple of things about that. Number one, 209 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:23.000 I've never been a fan of affirmative action because my reasoning is very simple. 210 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:37.440 I think that the idea that says, in order to make right something 211 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.960 that was done wrong to another person, we have to now do do intentionally 212 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:47.720 do wrong to the next group of people, and that somehow we can buy 213 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:52.519 just our brilliance, the brilliance of the government or of the people who are 214 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:56.839 running the affirmative action and program, reach this absolute state of fairness. Which, 215 00:21:56.839 --> 00:22:00.200 of course, what does that even mean. You'll have some say in 216 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:07.039 order to have complete fairness. Well, let's say they say equity. Now 217 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:11.200 it used to be equality. Equality is a good thing. All people are 218 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:17.640 equal under the law, all people are equal in the eyes of God. 219 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:22.839 Not all people are equal when it comes to their worth in the marketplace and 220 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:26.759 so forth. But that doesn't mean that the value of the person is any 221 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:33.240 less, and it doesn't mean that people should be treated differently under the law. 222 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:37.519 That's absolutely not what should not happen. And so but I just I've 223 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:42.720 never bought into this idea, and maybe partially it's because I had a tiny 224 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:45.880 bit of an experience with this when I was and I don't want to make 225 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:48.720 this so I'm gonna keep this short and sweet. But when I was in 226 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:52.000 high school, my senior year, I started getting recruited for football. Now 227 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:56.200 that's right. I used to play football, and I was getting recruited by 228 00:22:56.200 --> 00:23:00.559 the United States Naval Academy and my coach, my high school coach, talked 229 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:04.880 with one of their coaches. Now, if any of you have either applied 230 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.480 to or know someone who's applied to one of the academies, or just you're 231 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.720 just familiar with it, you know that it's a bit of a process, 232 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:15.640 and I think they say it typically takes up up to a year, and 233 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:22.559 there's a lot of things involved. You have to get a congressional nomination, 234 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:26.640 you have to go through and you know, do tests. I remember having 235 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.880 to do pull ups, and there's you know, a medical exam and all 236 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:32.640 these different things. I don't remember honestly, all of the stuff, but 237 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:34.880 this was in This would have been in the fall of nineteen ninety five, 238 00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:42.880 the beginning of my senior year. And I remember my coach talking with them, 239 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:48.440 the football team, the coach at United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, 240 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:53.880 and the coach said to my coach, the college coach said, to my 241 00:23:53.960 --> 00:24:00.880 coach, the only way that Todd could get in this year as if he 242 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:07.599 was, is a minority or a woman. And to my coach obviously said, 243 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:11.599 no, he's not. So basically they said, well, there's not 244 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:17.039 even any point because of the amount of time it takes unless he's in minority 245 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:21.079 or a woman. And I always wondered why that mattered, why that mattered. 246 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:25.680 And I again understand that we laid out kind of the history of how 247 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:27.400 we got here. I don't want to. I think we should be willing 248 00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:33.119 to understand the ration now that some people give as to why we ended up 249 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.200 with some of you know, some people who really thought that these policies should 250 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:42.039 be implemented. Of course, it's also then later weaponized. It's weaponized against 251 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:49.920 people to divide them further. It's weaponized against people to get votes, you 252 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:52.680 know, that sort of thing. So that's those things are not good, 253 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:57.559 and so I experienced a little bit of that. It's ultimately not what kept 254 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:02.599 me from getting in, because I continued or I started the process anyway, 255 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:08.440 and went my first year to Butler and went through the nomination process as I 256 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:12.599 was at Butler as a freshman, and I actually ended up getting I don't 257 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:18.200 care to say this, I was I got accepted to both West Point and 258 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:22.000 to Annapolis, not to the Air Force Academy. I was not good enough 259 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.519 for there, but um, I was medically qualified for sleepwalking, and I 260 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:30.519 don't know what I would have done had I not been disqualified. But anyway, 261 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:33.440 the point is I did see a little bit of that, and so 262 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:40.319 I just think that that's that's relevant as well, um to to just have 263 00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:48.599 some some perspective because the collective experience of an individual. I mean, there 264 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:56.400 are there are people of all races who have experienced difficulty for a whole host 265 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:02.680 of reasons. The idea that we can boil our entire identity down to our 266 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:08.720 race, down to our gender, down to our sexuality down to our you 267 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:15.400 know, how we identify from a perspective of gender is just it's just nuts 268 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:21.880 to me. And I think we should be honestly looking for ways to find 269 00:26:21.920 --> 00:26:25.839 our similarities, because we have a whole lot of similarities, but we don't 270 00:26:25.839 --> 00:26:30.039 when we're fixated on these things. So the Supreme Court said, you can't 271 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:36.279 use these sorts of policies. It can be maybe considered in the overall scheme 272 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:41.039 of things, but it should not be It should not be you know, 273 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:48.119 weighted, should not be weighted regarding whether or not someone gets into a school 274 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.160 and so forth. And so now, of course there's all sorts of people 275 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:56.680 who are saying this is going to affect the number of black students and all 276 00:26:56.720 --> 00:27:00.160 this sort of thing, and that has you talk about racist. I mean, 277 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:06.279 what in the world. Of course, remember Biden when he said poor 278 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:11.279 kids are just as good as white kids. Remember that that's how the left 279 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.319 thinks. And I think they think that way because they see it as an 280 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:22.680 opportunity to exploit people and gain their vote, and so they think of black 281 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:27.000 kids as being poor. That's what Biden said. Remember he also said to 282 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:33.359 Charlemagne, the god, whatever the world that's supposed to mean that if you 283 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:34.839 don't vote for him, if you vote for Trump and said a Biden, 284 00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:40.079 you ain't black. Biden said these things. He also said you can't walk 285 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:44.759 into a seven eleven without an Indian accent. And then he said he was 286 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:49.240 serious. I mean this guy. You talk about the racist comments and the 287 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:52.160 ridiculous things that this guy says. And of course, if you ask the 288 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:56.440 average American who said those things, I've seen these men on the street interviews. 289 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:00.799 Everyone thinks it's Trump that said those things. Of course it was it 290 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:04.599 was Biden. And it doesn't matter when they find out that it's him, 291 00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.119 because Trump, in their mind, is still the racist. Republicans are still 292 00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:14.359 the racist. But if you want to really get to equality under the law, 293 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:23.079 you've got to quit messing with You can't try to continuously fix a previous 294 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:29.079 mistake, meaning if it didn't like, I don't want someone to say, 295 00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:33.759 hey, because Todd or some other white kid didn't get treated the same way 296 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:36.880 when they were applying to the Naval Academy, that now we should make sure 297 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:38.000 we go out and get another white kid. No, just stop it, 298 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:44.880 just stop it. How about that? Just stop the nonsense and do it 299 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:49.799 fairly, and do it as objectively as you can understand that people are individuals. 300 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:55.519 They're not simply because they're of a certain race. They're not. You 301 00:28:55.559 --> 00:29:00.240 don't know everything about them because you know someone else who is shares their race 302 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:06.279 or whatever. It's it's patently absurd and ridiculous, and it's actually quite racist. 303 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:10.160 And Chuck Schumer's out here saying, in order to have a quality, 304 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.759 we need to have more policies like affirmative action, which is again patently absurd. 305 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:18.960 A little bit along the segment, my friends gotta take a time out. 306 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.680 You are listening to conservative not bitter talk. I am your host, 307 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:27.799 Tod huff back in just a minute, talk about my friends. You know 308 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:33.519 something else that I it's borderline impossible to offend me. But one of the 309 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:38.839 things that drives me absolutely insane is this assumption, this starting position, that 310 00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:45.039 racism is the single determining factor and everything that happens, or sexism or something 311 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:48.960 some is m my friends. I have said, I have said this on 312 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:59.720 here, We've we've built a team here. I can tell you it makes 313 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:03.920 no difference to me. Those things what matters to me and what I think 314 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:08.039 matters to the vast majority of people, and it should, by the way, 315 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:14.480 is the quality of the individual, their ability to do the job, 316 00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:18.759 or, in the case of attending a school, their ability to be a 317 00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:22.079 good a good student, a student that can go out and land a good 318 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:26.480 job. That then makes sure university look like it's producing students that are good. 319 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.880 Of course, ironically, these schools don't seem too interested in producing real 320 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:36.599 students. They want to produce leftists who candidly are not employable anywhere, and 321 00:30:36.680 --> 00:30:40.480 who are a cancer in most I would say, in all businesses, unless 322 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:45.359 it's a leftist organization, and then the entire thing is a cancer as it 323 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:52.680 is. But I just it insinuates or starts with the assumption that everyone is 324 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:59.000 always racist. And that's why I reject this concept of white guilt, white 325 00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:04.240 whatever they call these things. I'm never ever going to apologize for things that 326 00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:10.400 I didn't. I can empathize with how they've impacted society and so forth, 327 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:15.960 how they've impacted generations. Absolutely, but don't blame me. Don't assume that 328 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:22.079 I'm part of the problem. The problem are these politicians who want to weaponize 329 00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:23.839 it. The problem are the people who want to use it to divide and 330 00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:30.880 to conquer and to drive us apart instead of driving us together. That's who 331 00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:34.480 the problem is here. And so I I have a major issue, have 332 00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:40.119 a major issue with that. So but this all assumes that. So let's 333 00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:47.079 get a little bit into the decision now. The majority opinion was written by 334 00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:52.480 Justice John Roberts, Chief Justice, but Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote what's 335 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:56.519 called a concurring opinion, which basically means, hey, I agree with the 336 00:31:56.599 --> 00:32:02.000 decision, but there's some other rationale at is not in the majority opinion that 337 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:06.720 I want to make sure that gets into the record, And so I want 338 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:08.279 to read you this is an article of the Dailywire dot com. It's so 339 00:32:08.319 --> 00:32:14.720 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dropped a must read concurring opinion in the High Court's 340 00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:20.599 decision striking down affirmative action, praising American exceptionalism, deriving victimhood, and even 341 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:27.720 taking aims squarely at fellow Justice Katanji Brown Jackson's descent. So Katanji Brown Jackson 342 00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:32.119 wrote a dissenting opinion. Clarence Thomas wants to address that opinion head on. 343 00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:37.759 I should also point out I think I read it's not I don't see it 344 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:42.599 here, but I believe. Well, let me let me double check that 345 00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.279 before I say that. Anyway, this is what this says. Having been 346 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:49.759 born into poverty in the Deep South during the Jim Crow era, Thomas has 347 00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:54.640 a poignant and powerful perspective on the issue, and the opinion released Thursday, 348 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:59.640 he pulled no punches. This is what he said. The great failure of 349 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:06.680 this country was slavery and its progeny, Thomas wrote, and the tragic failure 350 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:10.759 of this court was its misinterpretation of the Reconstruction amendments. Those were the post 351 00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:16.960 world excuse me, post Civil War amendments to the US Constitution. Returning back 352 00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:21.559 to his quote here, as Justice Harlan predicted in plus Cy, that's the 353 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:24.920 plus C v. Ferguson case. We should not repeat this mistake merely because 354 00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:30.880 we think, as our predecessors thought, that the present arrangements are superior to 355 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:34.319 the Constitution. Thomas went on to say that the ruling helps move America closer 356 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.559 toward a more perfect union right from stat at the beginning of the program that 357 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:45.160 lives up to its promise despite past racism. Yes, this is what he 358 00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:50.599 says. While I am painfully aware of the social and economic ravages which would 359 00:33:50.599 --> 00:33:53.039 befallen my race and all who suffered discrimination. By the way, if you 360 00:33:53.079 --> 00:33:57.200 don't know this, most the vast majority of you do. But in case 361 00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:05.079 you don't, Justice Clarence Thomas is back and is an incredible Supreme Court Justice. 362 00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:07.840 By the way, I hold out enduring hope that this country will live 363 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:14.599 up to its principles so clearly enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution 364 00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:17.280 of the United States, that all men are created equal, are equal citizens, 365 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:29.039 and must be treated equally before the law. So then he later addresses 366 00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:34.559 Katangi Brown Jackson's opinion and he says this, let me make sure I get 367 00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:40.840 to their right. Here we go. Jackson's race infused world view falls flat 368 00:34:40.880 --> 00:34:45.239 at each step. Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, 369 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:50.519 and accomplishments. What matters not the barriers there that they face, but how 370 00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:53.599 they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything 371 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:59.119 good or bad that happens in their lives. A contrary, myopic worldview based 372 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:04.679 on individual skin color to the total exclusion of their personal choices is nothing short 373 00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:09.719 of racial determinism. Here here justice Thomas. He then went on says the 374 00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:14.639 article warning of the dangers of relying on so called experts to divvy up racial 375 00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:16.840 justice. Oh, boy, isn't that the truth. Just trust the experts, 376 00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:21.519 they'll figure it out for us. Here's the quote from his dissent or 377 00:35:21.559 --> 00:35:25.599 studment concurring opinion. Jackson then builds from her faulty premise to call for action, 378 00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:30.719 arguing that courts should defer to quote experts and allow institutions to discriminate on 379 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:36.440 the basis of race. Magno mistake, Descent is not a vanguard of the 380 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.960 innocent and the helpless. It is instead a call to empower privileged elites who 381 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.639 will tell us what is required to the level of the playing field among casts 382 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:52.760 and classifications that they alone can divine. Oh he's just nailing liberalism right squarely 383 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:57.880 between the eyes here, my friends. He continues then, after salon siloing 384 00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:05.159 us into into racial casts and pitting those casts against each other. The Descent 385 00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:09.559 somehow believes that we will be able, at some undefined point to march forward 386 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:15.360 together into some utopian vision. Social movements that invoke these sorts of rallying cries 387 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:22.039 historically have ended disastrously. Here here, Justice Thomas well said, well done, 388 00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:35.480 timeouts in order. My friends sit tight back in just a minute. 389 00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:43.519 You know, I think there's a fine line between being terrified, being paranoid, 390 00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:49.760 living in fear, and being prepared. There is a difference, and 391 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.360 that's why I think it makes a lot of sense to be prepared. Are 392 00:36:52.400 --> 00:37:00.800 you prepared for supply chain disruptions and the food supply? 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He did settle with the mother of his of his child that 411 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:51.639 he's that's in Arkansas. She's not going to be able to use the last 412 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:57.079 name Biden as was originally requested, which I think was probably just designed to 413 00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:00.719 get his attention. But that being said, that being said, she is 414 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.719 going to get some of his art. That's right. That's the best part 415 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:09.000 of this for me, Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden the artist is going to 416 00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:15.320 give this his daughter art so that she can sell it and make money from 417 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:19.639 it. Who wants to bet that the amount of money raised by the art 418 00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:22.159 that gets money that goes to her is nothing near what we've seen him get 419 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:24.719 on other pieces of my friends. That's all the time I've got. I've 420 00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:27.280 got to go have a great weekend. STG.