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Let's the city of Ashville. They put together a disaster
recovery plan, as one would do after a disaster, particularly
one of such epic, historical catastrophic dimensions as Hurricane Helene was.
So they put together their disaster recovery plan and then
you know, as one with these types of plans, you
submit them to gov CO. And then the federal gov
CO people will be like, Okay, you know, we're going
to fund this thing, and we're going to work with
you on that and release the funds for here and whatever.
But Asheville failed to take into account that there is
a new president, there's a new administration. They have a
different focus and one of the things that they are
not fans of is the DEI crap, the discrimination stuff,
and that's what DEI is. It is, as you know,
Ibram x Kendy, the guy who told us how to
be an anti racist, which is to discriminate.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The only remedy for past discrimination is current discrimination, which
doesn't ever really explain how you break free of a
discrimination cycle. And the reason why that has never explained
is because that is not the objective. The objective is
to simply achieve power, because this is all neo Marxist ideology,
and neo Marxism is all based on power dynamics. Marxism
is right, it's all based on power dynamics. Who's the
oppressed and who is the oppress or? And that's why
everything gets filtered through that kind of a lens, because
it's all just power dynamics to these people. And so
if I'm going to be more powerful, it means I
have to take it from you. This is why I
firmly believe Marxism at its core is simply a philosophy
of envy, which is one of the seven deadly sins.
It is evil. Envy is evil when you envy these
the station of other people. You envy what they have,
You envy their jobs or their wives or whatever. Right,
this is evil. And so that's why it is my
firm belief that Marxism is at it's core evil and
all the different manifestations of it, permutations that they dress up.
Every generation they figure out a different way to dress
up Marxism as something else. Whether it's through you've heard
the term watermelon, this is climate change stuff green the greenies, Right,
it's a watermelon, green on the outside, red on the inside.
So whether it's that, which, by the way, like what
is the solution there, it's the same thing. It's always envy.
It's hey, first world, you guys have too much energy production,
so you need to offset your energy production either by
cutting it right, getting rid of energy literally the lifeblood
of any economy. And what that means is that all
of your citizens will be poorer. Right, that's the idea.
It's this pitting of different classes against each other. So
whether you dress it up in environmental justice or social
justice or whatever, education, justice, equity, whatever you are dressing
it up, it's always the same core philosophy envy, because
that's what Marxism is. So the new administration comes in
and they're like, we are not going to be using
people's immutable characteristics like their race or their ethnicity. We're
not going to be giving people preferential treatment based on
skin color. Which when I grew up, that's what the
goal was. Everybody understood that this was the goal, right,
that we wanted to judge individuals by the content of
their character, right, not the color of their skin. And
so who you are as a person matters more than
what your skin pigmentation is or what your religion is.
I mean, as long as you're not using that religion
to justify beheadings and stuff, you know, I mean within limitations,
but still, like, these are things your ethnicity, your national
country of origin, these are things that you had no
control over. So we shouldn't judge you based on that.
I should judge you based on the content of your character.
So they're getting rid of the DEI stuff. Apparently the
city of Ashville did not get that memo. I guess,
so ensconced in their liberal bubble, they were not aware.
I don't know how that happened, but apparently they were
not aware, and they sent in their disaster recovery plan
to the Department of Housing and Durban Development, and it
happened to include a bunch of DEI crap in it,
and so they were told, yeah, you're gonna have to
take that out right. The HUD Secretary, Scott Turner, took
issue with a section that detailed how Ashville would support,
as the Charlotte Observer calls it, vulnerable populations. See that's
how this is the way. So one of the other
things you always got to keep in mind with the
left is that they corrupt language in order to advance,
to smuggle in their ideology. Most people would reject any
proposal that came down the line and said, hey, for example,
we want fifteen million dollars for small businesses, but we
would very much like to discriminate against white males. They're
not going to get any money. If you're a white
dude or a white woman, you're not getting any money.
We're discriminating against you. Most people, when they hear it
like that, they would be like, oh, well, wait a minute,
that doesn't sound right, that doesn't sound legal, that doesn't
sound Dare I say it fair because it's not fair right,
because you're judging somebody based on an immutable characteristic. Your
penalized somebody's access to disaster recovery money based on the
color of their skin. That is discriminatory, so they don't
call it discrimination as the observer dutifully pumps it out
to support vulnerable populations. Right, and this is what the
e equity, That's what this is about. It's about using race,
using religion, using gender, using ethnicity, whatever, using these different
characteristics of people, and using them against certain populations in
order to give an extra little boost to some other population, right,
historically marginalized. To hear that too. The section stated in
this Planet said the city will prioritize assistance for minority
and women owned businesses. This has been the challenge with
the these MWB programs for decades. I remember the big
fight over the City of Charlotte's. They had one that
was challenged, and before they could get their butts handed
to them in court, they scrapped their program and created
a different program where they try to mask what it
is that they are doing, right, so they get the
pushback turner. The HUD secretary says this incorporated DEI criteria
to prioritize some impacted residents over others. The release the
press release from HUD said that it had advised the
City of Asheville that its plan was unsatisfactory and would
not be approved in its original form. The City of
Ashville assured the department it would update the plan to
be in compliance. So did they do it all?
Speaker 3: Right?
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to the phone lines and chat with Randall. Hello, Randall, Hey, Pete,
how you doing is?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 1: I am all right, sir? What's going on?
Speaker 2: Pete? I just wish someone would tell the truth about
DEEI diversity equity and inclusive inclusion. Most times when people
talk about it, it's almost it makes it seem like
it's a black thing. You know that blacks are the
fakes of that uh three those three letters when actuality.
If they were just looking research, they find out that
the people that benefit the most from DEI are white
women and Asians. Black people are at the very bottom
of marginized people.
Speaker 1: So what is the evidence? What's your evidence to support
that claim?
Speaker 2: What do you mean by what's my evidence?
Speaker 1: What is your evidence to support that claim? You claim
that white women an Asian because like I for like,
let me just take the second part of it, and
I like the the Asian benefit I think is greatly
reduced by the fact that they are actually cut out
of opportunities, particularly at the college level. Right. This is
why Harvard got sued over affirmative action. It was Asian
students that couldn't get into Harvard because even though they
had better scores than everybody else, they were not getting
admitted and it was based on their race. So I
don't know if they're the biggest beneficiaries of these DEI
types of programs. As for white women, I am aware
that white women and just women in general, will be
sort of like the owner of a business on paper,
you know, even though their husband might actually be the
one who runs the business. And this way they can
get contracts with city governments, for example, as a woman
owned business, even though they are not really running the business.
Is that what you're talking about?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, But unfortunately I didn't write down where I
got the information from, where the study was done, where
they kept track of d and who actually benefits from it.
But my thing is that once you hear those three
letters that acronym, the first thing you think about is
black people going into places where they're unqualified, they're being
pushed ahead of everyone else, when unfortunately that's not true,
and so the average person really don't understand d and
had operating. I know about that thing you were talking
about about where the Asians were not being admitted into
the Harvard School of Business or Harvard University, but that's
more or less an isolated case.
Speaker 1: That's not isolated. That's why they that's why I went
all the way to the Supreme Court. It wasn't just Harvard,
it was it was all bunch of schools, and that
led to the dismantling of the program because it was
so dare I say, systemically ingrained that they were cutting
Asian students because Asian students have on average much higher
score academic scores than any other racial group.
Speaker 2: So you're exactly right, right.
Speaker 1: And so they were, they were outperforming all of their peers,
and schools didn't want to keep admitting, you know, ninety
nine percent of the student body being Asian or whatever
it was, and so they they would just cut them.
And it was based on race. So that's not allowed.
You're not, I mean, unless you're going to make an
argument to me that you should be doing it, and
well I will. So let me let me just say this,
because you you made a comment about hearing DEI and
equating it with the race. I don't equate DEI policies
with a particular race because it's going just like the
two examples I just gave you, one with Asians and
one with women, it's just going to depend on how
the policies are being implemented at whatever level it's being implemented,
whether it's at a business, if it's at a government level, right,
if you're if you are. This is to me what
just what DEI always comes down to. It is discriminatory
and that can manifest itself in in many different ways,
just depending on what this what the organization is that's
doing the discrimination, right.
Speaker 2: And I agree, But what I but what I'm saying
is I wasn't necessarily saying that you equate it with race.
I'm saying that when the average person here the word
de EI, the face of that word is a black
person called a black race, and that is not true.
That's what I'm trying to get across, So I do.
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I don't know if it's true or not.
That's why I asked if you had any evidence for
the claim, because I don't know if it is true
or or not. I don't know who benefits like if
we're looking at if we're going to sort people into
racial demographics to find out who has been the largest
beneficiary of DEI programs or something like, maybe somebody has
quantified that. I don't know, but I haven't I've never
seen that, so I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well what, Well, what I'll do at some other
point at the time, I'll get the information and when
I called back, I'll have yeah, factor of where I
got it from, who said it, and uh, then we'll
go from there.
Speaker 1: No, that'd be great if Yeah, randall, if you're a
to like if you know where or you're able to
easily find where you got the data point from or
the study or whatever, if you want to send send
me an email or you can call back in. But
if you send me an email and tell me where
to look for it, I'll go. I'll go track it
down if I can. Yeah, because I'd be interested to
know what the actual impact of the policies have been,
because it may turn out that you're exactly right, and
that I think would be a surprise to people to
find out, like if specifically white women have been the
largest beneficiaries of DEI programs. But I but I don't
know that to be true or false.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, what I'll do VI is I will get
that information and I will email it to me.
Speaker 1: All right, cool, Thanks Randall. I appreciate it. Thank you, sir,
have a great weekend, all right. I appreciate it. Yeah, Because,
like I know, with with the DEI stuff, there was
Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility, right book, remember that five years ago? Oh,
it is all the rage. All the book clubs were
reading it. White privilege, white fragility, all of that, and
white women took the brunt of that stuff. But they
were also doing a lot of that stuff against their
fellow white women. So that's what I mean. I don't like,
I never checked. I never went through looking at the
demograph scorecard here to find out who was up, who
was down. You know all of this because to me,
once you start justifying any kind of discrimination, you're already
down the wrong path. And it doesn't matter to me
what kind of discrimination you're doing. If you're doing it
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you have. They want what you have. That is true too.
I also just saw this. Let me see here, when
did it come down? Eleven seventeen, So about an hour
and a half ago, the White House put out a statement.
The Department of or actually the Rapid Response Team their
comms department put out a statement that the Department of
Education has opened investigations into forty five universities under Title
six for alleged impermissible use of race exclusionary preferences, race
based scholarships, and or race based segregation. Arizona State, Boise State,
cal Poly, Humboldt, California State University, San Bernardino, Gigy Mellon, Clemson,
Cornell Duke Emery, George Mason, Georgetown, MIT, Montana State University, Bozeman, NYU,
Rice University, Rutgers University, The Ohio State University, Towson, Tulane,
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, University
of Cincinnati, University of Colorado at Colorado. Well, that makes sense,
Like why would you need to say University of Colorado
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New Mexico, North Dakota, North Texas, Notre Dame UNLV, Oregon,
Rhode Island, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Madison, Wyoming, Vanderbilt, Washington State University,
Washington University in Saint Louis, Yale. The schools under investigation
for alleged impermissible race based scholarships and race based segregation
are Grand Valley University, Ithaca College that's in New York,
New England, College of Optometry. It's weird they didn't see
that company. Sorry, it's okay, never mind, Alabama, Minnesota, South Florida,
and Tulsa School of Medicine. Okay, So just by coincidence,
we were talking with Randall about these types of policies
and how they're being used to discriminate, and so it's
not just a one off. It wasn't just Harvard with
their race based admissions programs. There were other schools And
now you can see like they've got forty five universities
that used race exclusionary preferences and these are now under investigation.
We don't know, they could all be fishing expeditions. Maybe
every single one of these colleges is innocent. I would
be surprised at that. So the city of Asheville puts
together it's disaster recovery plan. I don't know if they
tried to sneak in a fifteen million dollar chunk of
disaster recovery money for DEI businesses or something. I don't
know if that, like, if they tried to sneak it
past the Feds, but either way, the FEDS caught them
and they're like, no, you're we're not going to We're
not going to approve your plan because it's got these
DEI preferences in there. HUD put out a statement saying
that it advised Ashville that its plan was un satisfactory
and would not be approved in its original form. The
City of Ashville assured the department it would update its
plan to be in compliance, and the Secretary of HUD,
Scott Turner, said, once again, let me be clear, DEI
is dead at HUD. We will not provide funding to
any program or grantee that does not comply with President
Trump's executive orders. On March tenth, the City of Ashville
released a revised version of the recovery plan. The updated
plan states that the Small Business Support Program is quote
intended to support all businesses, including those that employ low end,
moderate income individuals and vulnerable populations. Okay, so I don't
know if that's going to be enough for HUD or what,
but I will tell you this is a familiar tax.
We saw it with CMS when the courts said that
CMS was no longer racisty and they didn't need to
keep using race to bus students. This was about twenty
five years ago, and so CMS devised a different way
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over here and get Joe on the program.
Speaker 3: Hello, Joe, Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm good. What's going on?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: Number one? Just see the Red Moon last night?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 3: Actually, yes, yeah, it's pretty impressive. So what I'm calling
about is, you know a CEI and everything want to
ask to remember, I'm a retired doctor surgeon worked at
a large university, you know, medical school Mike Son does
now too. And back in the nineteen you know, there
was difference in the MCAT scores that you had to
take depending upon your ethnicity, and some of the MCAT scores,
depending on your ethnicity, you only had to score two
thirds as high as some other groups of ethnic origins
in order to be taken care of. And the thing
I find interesting is when I used to talk to
my friends that are Jewish, a lot of the discrimination
and stuff that happened in the fifties and those schools
that are now doing it to Asians and other places
or other humans did it back and then. And so
the interesting thing is is that even though everybody's aware
of it now. It has been existing in certain areas
for a very very long time of certain profession.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, oh yeah, no, I remember, I'm trying to
what was it school Ties? I think was the movie
I saw with Brendan Frasier a long time ago where
he was a Jewish kid at some you know, preppy
academy or whatever, and there was you know, rampant anti Semitism.
There obviously the discrimination against Black Americans for you know,
one hundred years plus, like that's yeah, it's these are
all dark parts of our history. But I thought when
I was growing up, the point was that we were
supposed to move away from those things because we recognize
them as inherently bad, that we don't judge people based
on those things.
Speaker 3: Right. Well, the interesting thing is is that it all
gets back and maybe you don't agree with the family
unit as to how the family unit raises their children,
as to educational possibilities and what they want to do
in the future, because if the family unit breaks down,
whether it be religious or rather ethical or regular morals,
then you have whole generations that are not going to
be as motivated as other generations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean People only know what they know, right,
you know, if they're taught, you know, a certain norm
in their family, in their neighborhood, in their school, among
their peers, then they're only going to follow that as
the norm because that's what they were taught.
Speaker 3: And the sad thing is that, maybe again you don't
agree in some of their listeners, but the internet and
social media is definitely dumbing down human.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, no, it's hard to argue with any of
that either, Joe. I appreciate the call, sir.
Speaker 3: Yeah, take care all right, yes.
Speaker 1: Sir, take care. Yeah, this kind of discriminatory practice has
been going on for a very long time. And so
when I read the story about Ashville with its disaster
recovery plan where they try to smuggle in some DEI
funding and they got called out for it by the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development HUD and they were like,
we're not going to approve your plan because it's got
this money in there for DEI. So they're like, oh, okay,
so we'll we'll release a revision to the plan and
now the money is intended to support all businesses, including
those that employ low and moderate income individuals and vulnerable populations. Okay,
And when I read that, I start thinking that it
shares a similarity with the way the Charlotte Mecklenburg School
District behaved about twenty five years ago when I first
was a reporter here at WBT, and I was like,
one of the very first press conferences I ever covered
for this station was at the EDGSHD CMS Board of
Education and they were in litigation. They were getting this
the district was being sued over its bussing, its desegregation
bussing program, and the school district's argument was that we
cannot be trusted to fund all schools equally, we're racists,
which was interesting because a majority the school board was black,
and so they were like, don't trust us, we have
to have the race based bus The court said, no,
you have removed the last vestiges of racism from the institution.
From CMS, we are not going to bind you to
this bussing program any longer, and so now you can
assign students to wherever. Well, a lot of the leadership
did not want to do that, so they used as
a proxy socioeconomic status, and so they wanted to keep
bussing based on socioeconomic status because it was a proxy
for race. It wasn't. It wasn't a you know, one
hundred percent one to one, but it was close enough,
and that's what they wanted to keep doing. So they
will keep trying to find ways to keep these kinds
of discriminatory practices in play. And I kind of get
the sense that that is what the City of Asheville
might be trying to do here now. The city they've
got three public sessions planned to allow the public to
give input on the plan before it must be submitted
on April two. First, I suspect that those public hearings
will not look or sound like the public hearing town
hall that we just saw in Asheville yesterday with Congressman
Chuck Edwards. All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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