1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeakclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,880 your support. All righty, so let's talk about Ashville, shall we. 10 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:40,679 Let's the city of Ashville. They put together a disaster 11 00:00:40,799 --> 00:00:46,280 recovery plan, as one would do after a disaster, particularly 12 00:00:46,359 --> 00:00:52,719 one of such epic, historical catastrophic dimensions as Hurricane Helene was. 13 00:00:52,799 --> 00:00:59,000 So they put together their disaster recovery plan and then 14 00:00:59,079 --> 00:01:01,439 you know, as one with these types of plans, you 15 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,879 submit them to gov CO. And then the federal gov 16 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,159 CO people will be like, Okay, you know, we're going 17 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:10,879 to fund this thing, and we're going to work with 18 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,640 you on that and release the funds for here and whatever. 19 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:20,159 But Asheville failed to take into account that there is 20 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:24,280 a new president, there's a new administration. They have a 21 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,920 different focus and one of the things that they are 22 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:33,280 not fans of is the DEI crap, the discrimination stuff, 23 00:01:33,879 --> 00:01:37,159 and that's what DEI is. It is, as you know, 24 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,560 Ibram x Kendy, the guy who told us how to 25 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:44,560 be an anti racist, which is to discriminate. 26 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 2: Right. 27 00:01:45,519 --> 00:01:50,799 Speaker 1: The only remedy for past discrimination is current discrimination, which 28 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,879 doesn't ever really explain how you break free of a 29 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:58,719 discrimination cycle. And the reason why that has never explained 30 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,599 is because that is not the objective. The objective is 31 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:08,680 to simply achieve power, because this is all neo Marxist ideology, 32 00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:12,680 and neo Marxism is all based on power dynamics. Marxism 33 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,520 is right, it's all based on power dynamics. Who's the 34 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,680 oppressed and who is the oppress or? And that's why 35 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,439 everything gets filtered through that kind of a lens, because 36 00:02:22,439 --> 00:02:26,199 it's all just power dynamics to these people. And so 37 00:02:26,719 --> 00:02:29,360 if I'm going to be more powerful, it means I 38 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,759 have to take it from you. This is why I 39 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:37,439 firmly believe Marxism at its core is simply a philosophy 40 00:02:37,759 --> 00:02:41,639 of envy, which is one of the seven deadly sins. 41 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:46,120 It is evil. Envy is evil when you envy these 42 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,479 the station of other people. You envy what they have, 43 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,919 You envy their jobs or their wives or whatever. Right, 44 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,719 this is evil. And so that's why it is my 45 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:02,080 firm belief that Marxism is at it's core evil and 46 00:03:02,159 --> 00:03:07,080 all the different manifestations of it, permutations that they dress up. 47 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,960 Every generation they figure out a different way to dress 48 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,240 up Marxism as something else. Whether it's through you've heard 49 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:20,080 the term watermelon, this is climate change stuff green the greenies, Right, 50 00:03:20,599 --> 00:03:23,960 it's a watermelon, green on the outside, red on the inside. 51 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,639 So whether it's that, which, by the way, like what 52 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:34,240 is the solution there, it's the same thing. It's always envy. 53 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,360 It's hey, first world, you guys have too much energy production, 54 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:44,520 so you need to offset your energy production either by 55 00:03:44,639 --> 00:03:47,680 cutting it right, getting rid of energy literally the lifeblood 56 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:50,520 of any economy. And what that means is that all 57 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:56,599 of your citizens will be poorer. Right, that's the idea. 58 00:03:57,759 --> 00:04:01,879 It's this pitting of different classes against each other. So 59 00:04:01,919 --> 00:04:04,919 whether you dress it up in environmental justice or social 60 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:10,520 justice or whatever, education, justice, equity, whatever you are dressing 61 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:16,120 it up, it's always the same core philosophy envy, because 62 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:20,079 that's what Marxism is. So the new administration comes in 63 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,279 and they're like, we are not going to be using 64 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:28,839 people's immutable characteristics like their race or their ethnicity. We're 65 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:33,120 not going to be giving people preferential treatment based on 66 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:39,480 skin color. Which when I grew up, that's what the 67 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:44,319 goal was. Everybody understood that this was the goal, right, 68 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:48,480 that we wanted to judge individuals by the content of 69 00:04:48,519 --> 00:04:52,040 their character, right, not the color of their skin. And 70 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:57,199 so who you are as a person matters more than 71 00:04:58,199 --> 00:05:01,480 what your skin pigmentation is or what your religion is. 72 00:05:01,519 --> 00:05:03,839 I mean, as long as you're not using that religion 73 00:05:03,879 --> 00:05:07,120 to justify beheadings and stuff, you know, I mean within limitations, 74 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,160 but still, like, these are things your ethnicity, your national 75 00:05:10,639 --> 00:05:13,720 country of origin, these are things that you had no 76 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,000 control over. So we shouldn't judge you based on that. 77 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,720 I should judge you based on the content of your character. 78 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:26,079 So they're getting rid of the DEI stuff. Apparently the 79 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,399 city of Ashville did not get that memo. I guess, 80 00:05:29,439 --> 00:05:33,399 so ensconced in their liberal bubble, they were not aware. 81 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,120 I don't know how that happened, but apparently they were 82 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,480 not aware, and they sent in their disaster recovery plan 83 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:43,040 to the Department of Housing and Durban Development, and it 84 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,360 happened to include a bunch of DEI crap in it, 85 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,959 and so they were told, yeah, you're gonna have to 86 00:05:49,959 --> 00:05:55,160 take that out right. The HUD Secretary, Scott Turner, took 87 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,040 issue with a section that detailed how Ashville would support, 88 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:04,879 as the Charlotte Observer calls it, vulnerable populations. See that's 89 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,480 how this is the way. So one of the other 90 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:07,959 things you always got to keep in mind with the 91 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:14,079 left is that they corrupt language in order to advance, 92 00:06:14,319 --> 00:06:21,000 to smuggle in their ideology. Most people would reject any 93 00:06:22,519 --> 00:06:26,519 proposal that came down the line and said, hey, for example, 94 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,000 we want fifteen million dollars for small businesses, but we 95 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:35,399 would very much like to discriminate against white males. They're 96 00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:37,519 not going to get any money. If you're a white 97 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,439 dude or a white woman, you're not getting any money. 98 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,639 We're discriminating against you. Most people, when they hear it 99 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,319 like that, they would be like, oh, well, wait a minute, 100 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:50,360 that doesn't sound right, that doesn't sound legal, that doesn't 101 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:55,360 sound Dare I say it fair because it's not fair right, 102 00:06:55,399 --> 00:06:59,480 because you're judging somebody based on an immutable characteristic. Your 103 00:06:59,519 --> 00:07:04,120 penalized somebody's access to disaster recovery money based on the 104 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,680 color of their skin. That is discriminatory, so they don't 105 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:13,439 call it discrimination as the observer dutifully pumps it out 106 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:19,759 to support vulnerable populations. Right, and this is what the 107 00:07:19,959 --> 00:07:26,439 e equity, That's what this is about. It's about using race, 108 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:31,360 using religion, using gender, using ethnicity, whatever, using these different 109 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,399 characteristics of people, and using them against certain populations in 110 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:41,120 order to give an extra little boost to some other population, right, 111 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:48,240 historically marginalized. To hear that too. The section stated in 112 00:07:48,279 --> 00:07:51,839 this Planet said the city will prioritize assistance for minority 113 00:07:51,879 --> 00:07:56,600 and women owned businesses. This has been the challenge with 114 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:01,680 the these MWB programs for decades. I remember the big 115 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,240 fight over the City of Charlotte's. They had one that 116 00:08:04,439 --> 00:08:08,399 was challenged, and before they could get their butts handed 117 00:08:08,399 --> 00:08:11,680 to them in court, they scrapped their program and created 118 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,800 a different program where they try to mask what it 119 00:08:14,879 --> 00:08:19,680 is that they are doing, right, so they get the 120 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:27,519 pushback turner. The HUD secretary says this incorporated DEI criteria 121 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:33,240 to prioritize some impacted residents over others. The release the 122 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,519 press release from HUD said that it had advised the 123 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:41,919 City of Asheville that its plan was unsatisfactory and would 124 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:45,519 not be approved in its original form. The City of 125 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,000 Ashville assured the department it would update the plan to 126 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:54,679 be in compliance. 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Go over 149 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:05,320 to the phone lines and chat with Randall. Hello, Randall, Hey, Pete, 150 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:05,840 how you doing is? 151 00:10:06,039 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 3: Hey? 152 00:10:06,279 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: I am all right, sir? What's going on? 153 00:10:08,799 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 2: Pete? I just wish someone would tell the truth about 154 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:16,840 DEEI diversity equity and inclusive inclusion. Most times when people 155 00:10:16,919 --> 00:10:20,559 talk about it, it's almost it makes it seem like 156 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,559 it's a black thing. You know that blacks are the 157 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,480 fakes of that uh three those three letters when actuality. 158 00:10:27,759 --> 00:10:31,000 If they were just looking research, they find out that 159 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:34,679 the people that benefit the most from DEI are white 160 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:38,080 women and Asians. Black people are at the very bottom 161 00:10:38,519 --> 00:10:39,799 of marginized people. 162 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: So what is the evidence? What's your evidence to support 163 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:43,919 that claim? 164 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 2: What do you mean by what's my evidence? 165 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,799 Speaker 1: What is your evidence to support that claim? You claim 166 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,480 that white women an Asian because like I for like, 167 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:56,639 let me just take the second part of it, and 168 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:03,120 I like the the Asian benefit I think is greatly 169 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,679 reduced by the fact that they are actually cut out 170 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:12,759 of opportunities, particularly at the college level. Right. This is 171 00:11:12,759 --> 00:11:17,039 why Harvard got sued over affirmative action. It was Asian 172 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,639 students that couldn't get into Harvard because even though they 173 00:11:19,639 --> 00:11:22,440 had better scores than everybody else, they were not getting 174 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,919 admitted and it was based on their race. So I 175 00:11:25,919 --> 00:11:29,960 don't know if they're the biggest beneficiaries of these DEI 176 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:34,440 types of programs. As for white women, I am aware 177 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:38,799 that white women and just women in general, will be 178 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,080 sort of like the owner of a business on paper, 179 00:11:42,279 --> 00:11:45,559 you know, even though their husband might actually be the 180 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:47,720 one who runs the business. And this way they can 181 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,320 get contracts with city governments, for example, as a woman 182 00:11:51,399 --> 00:11:54,720 owned business, even though they are not really running the business. 183 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:56,360 Is that what you're talking about? 184 00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,519 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, But unfortunately I didn't write down where I 185 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:02,799 got the information from, where the study was done, where 186 00:12:02,799 --> 00:12:06,399 they kept track of d and who actually benefits from it. 187 00:12:06,879 --> 00:12:10,480 But my thing is that once you hear those three 188 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:13,360 letters that acronym, the first thing you think about is 189 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,559 black people going into places where they're unqualified, they're being 190 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:20,480 pushed ahead of everyone else, when unfortunately that's not true, 191 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,639 and so the average person really don't understand d and 192 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,879 had operating. I know about that thing you were talking 193 00:12:27,879 --> 00:12:30,480 about about where the Asians were not being admitted into 194 00:12:30,519 --> 00:12:35,440 the Harvard School of Business or Harvard University, but that's 195 00:12:35,639 --> 00:12:37,440 more or less an isolated case. 196 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: That's not isolated. That's why they that's why I went 197 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,879 all the way to the Supreme Court. It wasn't just Harvard, 198 00:12:41,919 --> 00:12:45,519 it was it was all bunch of schools, and that 199 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,960 led to the dismantling of the program because it was 200 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,320 so dare I say, systemically ingrained that they were cutting 201 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:58,600 Asian students because Asian students have on average much higher 202 00:12:59,519 --> 00:13:02,720 score academic scores than any other racial group. 203 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:04,919 Speaker 2: So you're exactly right, right. 204 00:13:04,759 --> 00:13:07,799 Speaker 1: And so they were, they were outperforming all of their peers, 205 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:12,120 and schools didn't want to keep admitting, you know, ninety 206 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,159 nine percent of the student body being Asian or whatever 207 00:13:14,159 --> 00:13:16,519 it was, and so they they would just cut them. 208 00:13:16,799 --> 00:13:19,919 And it was based on race. So that's not allowed. 209 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,440 You're not, I mean, unless you're going to make an 210 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:23,519 argument to me that you should be doing it, and 211 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,000 well I will. So let me let me just say this, 212 00:13:26,039 --> 00:13:28,799 because you you made a comment about hearing DEI and 213 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,960 equating it with the race. I don't equate DEI policies 214 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,480 with a particular race because it's going just like the 215 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,919 two examples I just gave you, one with Asians and 216 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:43,200 one with women, it's just going to depend on how 217 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:47,320 the policies are being implemented at whatever level it's being implemented, 218 00:13:47,399 --> 00:13:50,399 whether it's at a business, if it's at a government level, right, 219 00:13:50,639 --> 00:13:54,080 if you're if you are. This is to me what 220 00:13:54,159 --> 00:13:57,720 just what DEI always comes down to. It is discriminatory 221 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,600 and that can manifest itself in in many different ways, 222 00:14:02,759 --> 00:14:05,840 just depending on what this what the organization is that's 223 00:14:05,879 --> 00:14:08,159 doing the discrimination, right. 224 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,159 Speaker 2: And I agree, But what I but what I'm saying 225 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,039 is I wasn't necessarily saying that you equate it with race. 226 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,519 I'm saying that when the average person here the word 227 00:14:15,639 --> 00:14:18,639 de EI, the face of that word is a black 228 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:21,519 person called a black race, and that is not true. 229 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,600 That's what I'm trying to get across, So I do. 230 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:25,639 Speaker 1: I'm yeah, I don't know if it's true or not. 231 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,480 That's why I asked if you had any evidence for 232 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:29,399 the claim, because I don't know if it is true 233 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,919 or or not. I don't know who benefits like if 234 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,279 we're looking at if we're going to sort people into 235 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,039 racial demographics to find out who has been the largest 236 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,159 beneficiary of DEI programs or something like, maybe somebody has 237 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,320 quantified that. I don't know, but I haven't I've never 238 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:45,519 seen that, so I don't know. 239 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 2: Okay, Well what, Well, what I'll do at some other 240 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,480 point at the time, I'll get the information and when 241 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,159 I called back, I'll have yeah, factor of where I 242 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,759 got it from, who said it, and uh, then we'll 243 00:14:57,759 --> 00:14:58,200 go from there. 244 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: No, that'd be great if Yeah, randall, if you're a 245 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,480 to like if you know where or you're able to 246 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,559 easily find where you got the data point from or 247 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,000 the study or whatever, if you want to send send 248 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,919 me an email or you can call back in. But 249 00:15:11,919 --> 00:15:14,279 if you send me an email and tell me where 250 00:15:14,279 --> 00:15:15,879 to look for it, I'll go. I'll go track it 251 00:15:15,919 --> 00:15:18,799 down if I can. Yeah, because I'd be interested to 252 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,480 know what the actual impact of the policies have been, 253 00:15:22,799 --> 00:15:24,720 because it may turn out that you're exactly right, and 254 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,519 that I think would be a surprise to people to 255 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,120 find out, like if specifically white women have been the 256 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:35,240 largest beneficiaries of DEI programs. But I but I don't 257 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:36,519 know that to be true or false. 258 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, what I'll do VI is I will get 259 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,519 that information and I will email it to me. 260 00:15:41,639 --> 00:15:45,519 Speaker 1: All right, cool, Thanks Randall. I appreciate it. Thank you, sir, 261 00:15:45,519 --> 00:15:49,320 have a great weekend, all right. I appreciate it. Yeah, Because, 262 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,000 like I know, with with the DEI stuff, there was 263 00:15:53,279 --> 00:16:01,000 Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility, right book, remember that five years ago? Oh, 264 00:16:01,039 --> 00:16:02,840 it is all the rage. All the book clubs were 265 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:07,639 reading it. White privilege, white fragility, all of that, and 266 00:16:08,559 --> 00:16:10,960 white women took the brunt of that stuff. But they 267 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,080 were also doing a lot of that stuff against their 268 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:17,480 fellow white women. So that's what I mean. I don't like, 269 00:16:17,559 --> 00:16:20,480 I never checked. I never went through looking at the 270 00:16:20,519 --> 00:16:24,720 demograph scorecard here to find out who was up, who 271 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:27,320 was down. You know all of this because to me, 272 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:33,960 once you start justifying any kind of discrimination, you're already 273 00:16:34,279 --> 00:16:35,960 down the wrong path. And it doesn't matter to me 274 00:16:36,039 --> 00:16:38,360 what kind of discrimination you're doing. If you're doing it 275 00:16:38,399 --> 00:16:41,360 based on anything other than merit. They either can pass 276 00:16:41,399 --> 00:16:43,480 the physical test to get into the fire department or 277 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,360 they cannot. Right, Like that's it. 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And you can go to 305 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,640 the Charlotte Kowanas Club website to upload a picture of 306 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,480 your dog and then you can share it around, share 307 00:18:30,559 --> 00:18:33,680 the website around, and then get people to vote for 308 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:39,359 your dog. And actually it's like the top ten get 309 00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:42,519 pictured on various cans and stuff, but the number one 310 00:18:42,559 --> 00:18:45,720 dog gets the whole front of the can. And by 311 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,960 the way, this is all a fundraiser, so it's like 312 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,359 a dollar per vote and you can vote as many 313 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:56,079 times as you want, and the fundraiser is for childhood 314 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,039 literacy programs in the Charlotte area. So if you want 315 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:03,920 to enter your dog in the Coolest Dog of Charlotte contest, 316 00:19:04,759 --> 00:19:10,039 go to Charlotte dash Kiwanis dot org. That's ki w 317 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:16,400 a Nis and it's brought to you by Tyler to Construction, 318 00:19:16,759 --> 00:19:21,359 Suffolk Punch, Brewing, Animal Charlotte Kilberg Animal Care and Control, 319 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,200 and Skip Town as well n WBT. So sign up 320 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:27,200 your dog to compete. You vote for your favorite dog 321 00:19:27,519 --> 00:19:29,839 top dogs get featured on the special can of beer, 322 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:34,119 and you can do that at the Charlotte Kawanas Club website. 323 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:39,200 It runs until March twenty seventh. All right, March twenty seventh, 324 00:19:39,839 --> 00:19:42,559 so you still have time get some pictures of your dog. 325 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:47,000 Oh and it can be it could be a dog 326 00:19:47,039 --> 00:19:50,200 that is no longer alive too, so you can you 327 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:56,279 can enter your late dogs into the contest as well. 328 00:19:56,519 --> 00:20:00,000 Got a message from Daryl who says Marxists not only 329 00:20:00,079 --> 00:20:03,640 the envy they covet. They don't want the same thing 330 00:20:03,759 --> 00:20:09,599 you have. They want what you have. That is true too. 331 00:20:12,799 --> 00:20:15,599 I also just saw this. Let me see here, when 332 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:18,960 did it come down? Eleven seventeen, So about an hour 333 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:23,599 and a half ago, the White House put out a statement. 334 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:28,200 The Department of or actually the Rapid Response Team their 335 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:31,880 comms department put out a statement that the Department of 336 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:38,480 Education has opened investigations into forty five universities under Title 337 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:46,440 six for alleged impermissible use of race exclusionary preferences, race 338 00:20:46,519 --> 00:20:55,200 based scholarships, and or race based segregation. Arizona State, Boise State, 339 00:20:55,519 --> 00:21:01,640 cal Poly, Humboldt, California State University, San Bernardino, Gigy Mellon, Clemson, 340 00:21:02,039 --> 00:21:11,279 Cornell Duke Emery, George Mason, Georgetown, MIT, Montana State University, Bozeman, NYU, 341 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:18,039 Rice University, Rutgers University, The Ohio State University, Towson, Tulane, 342 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:25,640 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, University 343 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:30,920 of Cincinnati, University of Colorado at Colorado. Well, that makes sense, 344 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,279 Like why would you need to say University of Colorado 345 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:44,799 at Colorado anyway, University of Delaware, University of Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, 346 00:21:45,279 --> 00:21:53,119 New Mexico, North Dakota, North Texas, Notre Dame UNLV, Oregon, 347 00:21:53,720 --> 00:22:03,680 Rhode Island, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Madison, Wyoming, Vanderbilt, Washington State University, 348 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:10,240 Washington University in Saint Louis, Yale. The schools under investigation 349 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:16,519 for alleged impermissible race based scholarships and race based segregation 350 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:22,039 are Grand Valley University, Ithaca College that's in New York, 351 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:29,319 New England, College of Optometry. It's weird they didn't see 352 00:22:29,319 --> 00:22:37,240 that company. Sorry, it's okay, never mind, Alabama, Minnesota, South Florida, 353 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,680 and Tulsa School of Medicine. Okay, So just by coincidence, 354 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,640 we were talking with Randall about these types of policies 355 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,440 and how they're being used to discriminate, and so it's 356 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,359 not just a one off. It wasn't just Harvard with 357 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:56,000 their race based admissions programs. There were other schools And 358 00:22:56,039 --> 00:23:00,920 now you can see like they've got forty five universities 359 00:23:02,039 --> 00:23:07,839 that used race exclusionary preferences and these are now under investigation. 360 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:12,400 We don't know, they could all be fishing expeditions. Maybe 361 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:18,319 every single one of these colleges is innocent. I would 362 00:23:18,319 --> 00:23:22,240 be surprised at that. So the city of Asheville puts 363 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:26,119 together it's disaster recovery plan. I don't know if they 364 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,400 tried to sneak in a fifteen million dollar chunk of 365 00:23:30,559 --> 00:23:37,240 disaster recovery money for DEI businesses or something. I don't 366 00:23:37,279 --> 00:23:39,680 know if that, like, if they tried to sneak it 367 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,039 past the Feds, but either way, the FEDS caught them 368 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:48,480 and they're like, no, you're we're not going to We're 369 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,200 not going to approve your plan because it's got these 370 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:56,559 DEI preferences in there. HUD put out a statement saying 371 00:23:56,559 --> 00:24:00,880 that it advised Ashville that its plan was un satisfactory 372 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,920 and would not be approved in its original form. The 373 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,000 City of Ashville assured the department it would update its 374 00:24:07,039 --> 00:24:12,839 plan to be in compliance, and the Secretary of HUD, 375 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,599 Scott Turner, said, once again, let me be clear, DEI 376 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,160 is dead at HUD. We will not provide funding to 377 00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:26,319 any program or grantee that does not comply with President 378 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:30,400 Trump's executive orders. On March tenth, the City of Ashville 379 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:35,400 released a revised version of the recovery plan. The updated 380 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:40,000 plan states that the Small Business Support Program is quote 381 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:46,720 intended to support all businesses, including those that employ low end, 382 00:24:46,759 --> 00:24:53,160 moderate income individuals and vulnerable populations. Okay, so I don't 383 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,200 know if that's going to be enough for HUD or what, 384 00:24:56,279 --> 00:24:59,960 but I will tell you this is a familiar tax. 385 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:06,200 We saw it with CMS when the courts said that 386 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,880 CMS was no longer racisty and they didn't need to 387 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,799 keep using race to bus students. This was about twenty 388 00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:18,319 five years ago, and so CMS devised a different way 389 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,440 to get the same results that they were looking to get. 390 00:25:22,079 --> 00:25:24,480 You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense 391 00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:27,920 of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the 392 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,079 people of our past while transcending generations. 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What's going on? 413 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: Well? 414 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,279 Speaker 3: Number one? Just see the Red Moon last night? 415 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:39,480 Speaker 1: I did? 416 00:26:39,559 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 3: Actually, yes, yeah, it's pretty impressive. So what I'm calling 417 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,279 about is, you know a CEI and everything want to 418 00:26:46,279 --> 00:26:50,279 ask to remember, I'm a retired doctor surgeon worked at 419 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,440 a large university, you know, medical school Mike Son does 420 00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:58,720 now too. And back in the nineteen you know, there 421 00:26:58,839 --> 00:27:02,200 was difference in the MCAT scores that you had to 422 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:06,720 take depending upon your ethnicity, and some of the MCAT scores, 423 00:27:06,839 --> 00:27:09,799 depending on your ethnicity, you only had to score two 424 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:14,400 thirds as high as some other groups of ethnic origins 425 00:27:14,839 --> 00:27:16,759 in order to be taken care of. And the thing 426 00:27:16,799 --> 00:27:19,079 I find interesting is when I used to talk to 427 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:24,359 my friends that are Jewish, a lot of the discrimination 428 00:27:24,559 --> 00:27:27,279 and stuff that happened in the fifties and those schools 429 00:27:27,279 --> 00:27:31,559 that are now doing it to Asians and other places 430 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,839 or other humans did it back and then. And so 431 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:39,039 the interesting thing is is that even though everybody's aware 432 00:27:39,039 --> 00:27:43,000 of it now. It has been existing in certain areas 433 00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:46,480 for a very very long time of certain profession. 434 00:27:46,319 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, oh yeah, no, I remember, I'm trying to 435 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,039 what was it school Ties? I think was the movie 436 00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:54,559 I saw with Brendan Frasier a long time ago where 437 00:27:54,599 --> 00:27:58,119 he was a Jewish kid at some you know, preppy 438 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,680 academy or whatever, and there was you know, rampant anti Semitism. 439 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:07,559 There obviously the discrimination against Black Americans for you know, 440 00:28:07,599 --> 00:28:10,680 one hundred years plus, like that's yeah, it's these are 441 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:14,160 all dark parts of our history. But I thought when 442 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,079 I was growing up, the point was that we were 443 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,240 supposed to move away from those things because we recognize 444 00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:24,119 them as inherently bad, that we don't judge people based 445 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:24,920 on those things. 446 00:28:25,759 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 3: Right. Well, the interesting thing is is that it all 447 00:28:28,279 --> 00:28:31,240 gets back and maybe you don't agree with the family 448 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,039 unit as to how the family unit raises their children, 449 00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:40,160 as to educational possibilities and what they want to do 450 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,160 in the future, because if the family unit breaks down, 451 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,359 whether it be religious or rather ethical or regular morals, 452 00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:50,799 then you have whole generations that are not going to 453 00:28:50,839 --> 00:28:53,880 be as motivated as other generations. 454 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean People only know what they know, right, 455 00:28:57,759 --> 00:29:01,200 you know, if they're taught, you know, a certain norm 456 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,279 in their family, in their neighborhood, in their school, among 457 00:29:05,279 --> 00:29:08,480 their peers, then they're only going to follow that as 458 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:10,960 the norm because that's what they were taught. 459 00:29:11,599 --> 00:29:14,119 Speaker 3: And the sad thing is that, maybe again you don't 460 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,119 agree in some of their listeners, but the internet and 461 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,119 social media is definitely dumbing down human. 462 00:29:21,319 --> 00:29:25,119 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, no, it's hard to argue with any of 463 00:29:25,119 --> 00:29:26,680 that either, Joe. I appreciate the call, sir. 464 00:29:26,799 --> 00:29:28,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, take care all right, yes. 465 00:29:28,279 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: Sir, take care. Yeah, this kind of discriminatory practice has 466 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,079 been going on for a very long time. And so 467 00:29:35,119 --> 00:29:38,160 when I read the story about Ashville with its disaster 468 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,920 recovery plan where they try to smuggle in some DEI 469 00:29:41,039 --> 00:29:43,920 funding and they got called out for it by the 470 00:29:44,559 --> 00:29:48,599 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development HUD and they were like, 471 00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:50,480 we're not going to approve your plan because it's got 472 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,640 this money in there for DEI. So they're like, oh, okay, 473 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,720 so we'll we'll release a revision to the plan and 474 00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:01,079 now the money is intended to support all businesses, including 475 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:08,839 those that employ low and moderate income individuals and vulnerable populations. Okay, 476 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:14,480 And when I read that, I start thinking that it 477 00:30:14,519 --> 00:30:17,400 shares a similarity with the way the Charlotte Mecklenburg School 478 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:22,359 District behaved about twenty five years ago when I first 479 00:30:22,599 --> 00:30:25,559 was a reporter here at WBT, and I was like, 480 00:30:25,599 --> 00:30:27,960 one of the very first press conferences I ever covered 481 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,400 for this station was at the EDGSHD CMS Board of 482 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,240 Education and they were in litigation. They were getting this 483 00:30:35,519 --> 00:30:39,480 the district was being sued over its bussing, its desegregation 484 00:30:39,799 --> 00:30:44,960 bussing program, and the school district's argument was that we 485 00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:51,640 cannot be trusted to fund all schools equally, we're racists, 486 00:30:52,279 --> 00:30:55,599 which was interesting because a majority the school board was black, 487 00:30:56,039 --> 00:30:58,799 and so they were like, don't trust us, we have 488 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,880 to have the race based bus The court said, no, 489 00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:07,240 you have removed the last vestiges of racism from the institution. 490 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,119 From CMS, we are not going to bind you to 491 00:31:10,279 --> 00:31:14,400 this bussing program any longer, and so now you can 492 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,440 assign students to wherever. Well, a lot of the leadership 493 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,599 did not want to do that, so they used as 494 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:25,799 a proxy socioeconomic status, and so they wanted to keep 495 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:30,920 bussing based on socioeconomic status because it was a proxy 496 00:31:31,319 --> 00:31:33,799 for race. It wasn't. It wasn't a you know, one 497 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,480 hundred percent one to one, but it was close enough, 498 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,960 and that's what they wanted to keep doing. So they 499 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,400 will keep trying to find ways to keep these kinds 500 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,640 of discriminatory practices in play. And I kind of get 501 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,920 the sense that that is what the City of Asheville 502 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,319 might be trying to do here now. The city they've 503 00:31:52,359 --> 00:31:55,880 got three public sessions planned to allow the public to 504 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,279 give input on the plan before it must be submitted 505 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,000 on April two. First, I suspect that those public hearings 506 00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:06,559 will not look or sound like the public hearing town 507 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,079 hall that we just saw in Asheville yesterday with Congressman 508 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,000 Chuck Edwards. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 509 00:32:14,079 --> 00:32:16,160 Thank you so much for listening. 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