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your support. Narry A flake in the skies at least

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here in West Charlotte. That will probably change, but it's

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probably not going to be very bad. There may be

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ice satan slushy if you will, the wintry mix. We

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don't really get a ton of snow. We get snow

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and then we get ice freezes overnight. I'm more worried

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about tomorrow morning, you know, tonight, when everything starts freezing

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and then into tomorrow morning. That's really when I'm more

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what I'm more concerned about. And so I had a

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question as to whether or not we would be initiating

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operations Snowman on the street. I do not intend to

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do so today just because well see previous comments about

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Nrea snowflake, and so I feel like, you know, I

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don't want to unnecessarily alarm people. I know, even though

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I'm in the media, but I don't want to unnecessary

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alarm people. I mean, the schools are already remote. Not

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really stinks just because they're all remote, and so they

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still have to go to school, but they got to

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do it on their you know, smartphones, and I don't

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know if they have to keep wearing the mask at

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home while they're on the smartphone. But regardless, I feel

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bad for the kids. They don't get snow days anymore,

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you know. I mean, not that this is a snow day.

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I mean it's I think you've got to have snow

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for it to be a snow day, and so I

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don't really feel comfortable calling it that. By the way,

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we're going to get into some of the the renaming

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of all things in the third hour. Stacy Matthews will

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join us. But first I want to start at a

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speaking of schools, I want to start with the Woke

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County sorry, Wake County Board of Education. All right, So

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there's a bit of a chronology that is important here.

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First off, the school board up there had a meeting

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on February fourth, I believe, and it was at this

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meeting that the board members discussed, you know, all of

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the terribleness of one Elon Musk and his and his

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efforts to root out the waste, fraud and abuse. How

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dare he? This was all part of the DOGE and

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still is ongoing. Still is ongoing. And so there is

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a school board member in Woke County, sorry Wake County,

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and his name is Sam Hershey. And as I understand it,

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he does not make chocolate. I don't know if he

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is related to the chocolateeer, but that's his name, Sam Hershey,

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and he is a board member on the Woke County

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school Board, sorry, Wake County school Board. I don't know

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why I keep saying that, but actually I do so.

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Sam Hershey got a bit of national publicity after he

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made the following comments at this school board meeting back

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on February fourth.

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Speaker 2: Lastly, because it's Black History Month, I think it's a

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good time to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and

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I really want to highlight, as doctor Maxine, we're celebrating

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two fifty next year that for two hundred and fifty years,

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I think it's really important to talk about people being

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hired based on their skin color, and for two hundred

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and fifty years it has been mediocre white men who

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have been hired based on their skin color. And those

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are facts. I mean, that's you know, I've heard people

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say DEI is racist. If that's what you believe, you

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know nothing about diversity, equity, inclusion and you know nothing

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about racism, and that speaks to you as a human being.

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You know, within Waite County, how does how does that

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impact a school system? It's ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion

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ensures that our kids who need more help get more help.

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It ensures that kids are black and brown, kids who

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have not had the same educational opportunities over the course

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of the two hundred in forty nine years of this

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country get those opportunities. And it's without lowering standards. That's

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the thing that drives me nuts the most. That's being real.

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And I've said this before. People who throw around DEI

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higher is they're just replacing the N word with DEI higher.

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That's what they want to say. We get it. You

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guys are all losers. Sorry, no, no, not everybody in here.

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I'm not talking about anybody in here. It's what I

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hear on TV when when we had the plane crash,

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and and you had people on TV questioning, should I

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be should I see a black pilot? Do I think

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they're DEI higher? No, that's racism, you know, to think

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that way. And I have to edit my language real quick.

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I was about to get in trouble with the chair.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, calm down, Sam, my goodness, so passionate.

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So first off, he says there that those are the

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facts medio white men. You call them facts that mediocre

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white men have been hired based on their skin color

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for two hundred and fifty years. I'm not exactly sure.

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I think he may have been referring to himself to

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some degree. I'm not kidding about that. I've got a

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quote in here where he kind of says that, so

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I'm not really sure what he's talking about. But mediocre

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white man, I'm not really sure what mediocre means either.

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I'm not really sure why you'd be like lumping this

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into a discussion about Elon Musk and Doge and Black

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History Month and such. But he also said, you know

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nothing about DEI, And it's basically just you know, when

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you say DEI higher that that is a stand in

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for the N word, and that's what you really want

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to say. And you're a loser. You're a racist and

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a loser. This is a school board member. And then

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he says the biggest lie that DEI does all that

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it does without lowering standards. But that is precisely the

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problem it does. That's why people oppose it is that

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you've swapped out a merit based system for a system

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that waits, that gives you know, preferential treatment to certain

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protected classes, certain categories, certain characteristics of a person that

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they have no control over, particularly race. Right. And what's more,

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they're illegal. These these laws are the DEI policies, I

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should say, are illegal because you are in fact not

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hiring people or you know, hiring people, you're discriminating against

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them based on the their race and their sex. So

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you are in fact violating the law. And that's the problem.

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It's no different. And this is embedded in this argument

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is what Ibram x Kendy, who was the celebrated, you know,

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intellectual leader, and I do use that term very loosely,

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the intellectual leader of the anti racism fever that spread

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right around the COVID time period. Ibram X. Kendy wrote

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the book How to Be Anti Racist, but could never

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really define what anti racist meant. He just said anti

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racism is like when you behave in an anti racist way,

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and it's just stupid. He has no intellectual heft, Okay,

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but he did get a whole bunch of money tens

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of thousands of dollars for doing a zoom call with

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Charlotte mecklamerg school's leaders, Okay. And at the heart of

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Kendy's are argument has been that the way to solve

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past discrimination is current discrimination. In other words, it's a

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reparations type of argument that because discrimination occurred before, the

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only way to fix it or to correct it is

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to discriminate now, even though he says that really won't

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actually correct it either, because there really isn't anything that

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you could ever do to make up for the discrimination

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that somebody not related to you fifty sixty seventy one hundred,

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two hundred years ago did. See, it's all very intellectual,

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and the point is that it does lower the standards,

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and that's the concern that people have, and it also

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damages the very people who get hired. And he makes

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a reference to that, I'll pick it up there in

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a minute, and then, of course the fallout that occurred.

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I am getting some pushback about the lack of the

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snowman on the Street segment here. I'm not turning over

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all my coverage to what is right now a non

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existent weather event. It may be coming, it may not.

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I don't know. I can't tell the future, but the

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people who say they can, they tell me it's not

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really even gonna hit here. And I feel like, okay.

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So Benjamin says, come on, man, we need snowman on

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the street today. Not cool to cancel this arbitrarily, and

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then he says it is coming soon, and if you're

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not terrified, you're not doing your job right. Like, if

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you're not scared, I'm not doing my job right. That

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I understand. But we've got other stuff to get to.

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I'm not I'm not forswearing it. I'm not saying it's

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not gonna happen. I'm just saying, as of right now,

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we're not activating it. We're not activating it because I

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can only take so many phone calls of people telling

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me nothing's happening, you know, and that that number is zero.

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I don't want to take any phone calls of people

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telling me nothing is happening. So all right, where was I?

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Oh talking about the mediocre white man, not the metior

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than okrah, no white men. Uh So you can tell

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Bernie's got a kid now because he's all about the

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dad jokes. So Sam Hershey school board member up in

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Waite County, and he goes after people, uh, conservatives, Let's

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be honest. He's going after conservatives who are opposed to DEI.

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And this, you know, infection in all institutions and businesses,

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the corporate world, just in everything, kademia, everywhere. And you know,

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he mentions, oh, and people say DEEI higher. They really

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want to say the N word, but they just can't.

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And this is something the leftists say all the time

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because in their minds, that word comes to their mind

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immediately for some reason, I don't know why, but for

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some reason, it pops into their head whenever somebody says

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something about I guess a black individual, and I don't

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know why, again it pops into their head when discussing

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a black individual, I think that might say more about

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them than it does about the people they're attacking. But

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here's the problem, and by the way, this is the

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argument made by black intellectuals who are opposed to affirmative action,

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guys like Glenn Lowry, Coleman Hughes, for example, Thomas Sole

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is that it actually harms the people that you claim

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to be trying to help. Because when you lower standards

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to admit in any group of people, it doesn't matter

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who that group is. But when you like you can

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be talking about female firefighters, for example, that can't pass

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the physical test that the men have to pass, that

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kind of thing. And so when you lower the standards

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and everybody in that profession knows the standards for entry

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have been lowered, they then look suspiciously upon anybody for

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whom the standards were lowered. Right, They're going to look

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at the female firefighter, even if she made the men's standards,

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even if she met the same standard as all the dudes.

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The dudes are going to look at her and think

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differently at first. Now maybe they get disabused of that

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at some point, we hope so. But that is what

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people will automatically think because you have made it a

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policy to try to help out certain groups of people

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to discriminate against other groups of people, And so you're

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doing damage to the very people that now have to

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walk around even though they've met the same standard they

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got to walk around, and they have to be subjected

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to this idea among their colleagues that they somehow don't

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cut the mustard, when in fact they do, but because

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your policy, people are suspicious that they actually did. And

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then he got a whole bunch of national coverage and

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the tune changed a little bit. All right, If you're

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listening to this show, you know I try to keep

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media landscape more transparent. Alrighty, So Sam Hershey, board member,

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Wake County Schools, I played you the sound by what

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he said the other day. This was February fourth, And

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then on Valentine's Day, a little old Twitter account called

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libs of TikTok gets wind of his video, posts his

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video and says, meet Sam Hershey, board member at Wake

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County Public Schools in North Carolina. He went on a

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racist rant and said, for two hundred and fifty years,

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it has been mediocre white men who have been hired

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based on their skin color. He also claims that people

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who use the term Dei higher are just saying the

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N word and are racist. These are the people in

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charge of your kid's education. That's what Libs of TikTok posted.

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And this is always hilarious to me is that the

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left gets so angry with this account, Libs of TikTok.

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When Libs of TikTok all it does is just as

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the name indicates, it just posts what they say. It

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takes their videos things that they say, usually like self

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recorded posted to their public accounts, and Libs of TikTok

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just says, hey, look at this, and then everybody's like,

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oh my gosh, you said what And then the lib

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who's on the video is like, oh my gosh, I'm

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being contact. Well, yeah, because you said something really stupid

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like Sam Hershey. So the News and Observer does a story.

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This is by the education reporter Kiung Hui, and their

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headline is wake school board member gets threats and anti

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Semitic insults for supporting Dei. Once again, remember journalisming rule

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number two. Right when the scandal involves or is about

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a democrat, then the story that the media will report

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is about the Republican reaction to that scandal. Now, if

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it's a Republican scandal, then the story is the scandal,

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how are the Republicans responding? And that is what we

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see here. A Wake County school board member is receiving

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threats and anti Semitic insults after national coverage of his

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speech accusing DEI critics of being racists and mediocre white men.

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School Board member Sam Hershey said at the February fourth

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board meeting that mediocre white men have been hired for

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two hundred fifty years solely due to their skin color,

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and that critics a DEI in place of using a

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racial slur against black people. Fox News aired a story Thursday,

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so after Libs of TikTok promoted it, Fox News picked

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it up and Fox asked if Hershey would be reprimanded

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by the school district. Ha ha, of course not Libs

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of TikTok, which has been labeled as extremist by the

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Southern Poverty Law Center. Why are you still quoting that organization?

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Kung Hui? Why are you still quoting Kinghui? Sorry? Why

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are you still quoting him. They're leftist activists. They have

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burned any credibility that that organization used to have. But

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that's how you extremist. Libs of TikTok is extremist because

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it posts videos of leftists. That's what makes this account extremist.

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Libs of TikTok accused Hershey of making a racist rant

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in a post on x previously called Twitter. The post

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went viral, drawing more than one hundred and fifty thousand

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views and thirteen hundred reposts in its first two hours.

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So what does Sam Hershey say? He says, quote, I

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regret that this story is taking attention away from our schools,

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and that it's taking attention away from the potential devastating

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impact that cutting federal funding would have on public schools

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across this country if that were to happen. No, No,

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you caused the distraction, dumbass. You did it. It's not

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the reporting of your dumb assery, it's you. But this

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is classic crisis management by leftists. They always say, oh,

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don't focus on the thing that I did. That's just

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a distraction. All the hullabaloo about what I did is

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just a distraction. See, if you hadn't said the stupid thing,

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there wouldn't be the hullabaloo. But you said a very

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stupid thing, in fact, a couple very stupid things all

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at once, and you prompted the reaction. It's not a distraction,

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particularly because the thing you said was stupid. But you're

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also a school board member and you are charged with

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directing the education of the children. That is a very

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vital role in our society. And so the heat you

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are getting for saying stupid things, specifically these stupid things

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that are about education. That's why people are mad is

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because you're in charge of educating their kid. He then

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goes on to say where we are as a country

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when it comes to education is not the fault of

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one party or the other. Both have been in power

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over the last two decades, and the only way we

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improve Sonawi's like I'm above this partisan rank or he's

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a Democrat of course, but like I'm not engaged in

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the partisan politics. He says, the only way to improve

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academic outcomes across the country is to be working together.

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If we decide to do that in a meaningful way,

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we can give all of our students the opportunity to succeed.

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See so unity. Let's have some unity, you racist losers.

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Let's all get together and unify racists. They don't even know,

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they don't even know how transparent this is. This crap

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doesn't work, Sam, it doesn't work. I don't know what

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you think you're saying. I don't know why you think

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this is helpful. It's not. Although he did come back

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at the next board meeting and issued another statement that

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he read. He read a statement at the next board meeting.

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Will take a listen to it. All right, I hope

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Hershey school board member up in Wake County. So he

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says the stupid things at the board meeting. He gets

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the national coverage, which by the way, he posted about

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not on Twitter because you know Elon Musk. So he's

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over at Blue Sky, which is where all the leftists

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have fled to, so they can all you know, censor

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people at will over there and make that just like

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a ghost town of social media platforms. But so he

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and he goes by the handle school board sam so

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school Board Sam. He posted with a screenshot of the

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Fox News website showing his video as one of the stories,

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and he says, look at me, I mean literally he says,

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look at me, look at me, look at me, look

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at me making Fox News. So far it's mostly just

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insults with a couple of threats good times. So that's

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like a humble brag and to poor me, all rolled

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up into one manipulative tweet or sorry, what do they

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call it? Over at the blue sky? They called it blue?

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What they call it? Or a sky? A cloud? What

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do they call it? I don't know, it doesn't matter.

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So Hershey then attends another meeting after all of the

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swirl has been percolating for a couple of days. Again,

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this all kind of blew up on Valentine's Day, so

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not even a week ago. And then Hershey makes another

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statement at a school board meeting.

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Speaker 2: Here it is, I want to acknowledge everyone who showed

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up tonight, whether with words of support or with constructive

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criticism from me or this board. It's crucial in preserving

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our democracy that all people continue to have the guaranteed

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First Amendment right to address their government.

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Speaker 1: I am above you.

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Speaker 2: I want Eric Shepherd to know that I took his

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words to heart, and I want to personally apologize to him.

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I could have made the same points two weeks ago

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by being more nuanced and without coming across as the

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meaning to anyone, mister Shepherd, and to those who feel

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I don't mean their own life, I am sorry, and

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those are my comments. Thank you, Thank you, mister Hershey.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who Eric Shepard is a public speaker.

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I'm assuming someone who came there, but so he apologizes

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for it. Do I accept the apology? Nah? Not really.

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Hershey made that original speech in response to Trump's signing

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executive orders removing DEI policies and staff from federal agencies

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and threatening to withhold federal funding from schools that promote

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discriminatory equity ideology. Coincidentally, the acronym there is DEI. On Friday,

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Elon musks this. According to the News and Observer, Elon

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Musk's Department of Government Efficiency announced that the US Department

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of Education has notified all fifty state education agencies that

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they have fourteen days to remove DEI programming in all

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public schools or face loss of federal funding. Musk also

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personally weighed in on Hershey's remarks, saying Friday night in

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a post on X that quote he is in for

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a rude awakening.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The school board chair told the News and Observer Friday

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that there are no plans to reprimand Hershey. We don't

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have a policy or a practice regarding that. He said

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it would be breaking new ground. One thing board members

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could do is adopt a code of conduct or board

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expect to How do you not have a code of conduct?

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My HOA has a board of conduct? How do you

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how do you not have a code of conduct at

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the Wake County School Board? What are you even doing

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up there? Chris Haggerty echoed Hershey's comments that the attention

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on the remarks has distracted people there. You go away

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from issues such as potential federal education funding cuts. The

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cuts are coming to you if you don't don't dismantle

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the discriminatory DEI policies. If you do as the direction,

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this is the problem. When you take federal funds, you

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got to play by their rules. I have been warning

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the lefties about this for my entire professional career. When

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you agree to take the grants, to take the funds,

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you now have to do what your paymaster says. So

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if you don't want to be beholden, then don't take

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the money. Wake School Board members have expressed concerns about

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how Trump is planning to dismantle the US Department of Education, Right,

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because God forbid we operate without the Department of Education

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like we have been operating for most almost all of

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the history of the United States of America.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: The Department of Education was set up, like I think

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within my lifetime, so I'm pretty sure we'll be able

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to educate kids. In fact, I would almost wait. I'm

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not a betting man, but if I were a betting man,

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I would wager that will have better outcomes. And I

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just base that off of the fact that since the

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Department of Education was created, our student academic performance has declined.

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So I'm not saying it's causation. I'm just saying there

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there obviously is some sort of coincidental dynamic going on there.

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So if I had to make a bet, I would say, yeah,

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just let the States keep the money. Mister Hershey is

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this is what the school board chief says. Mister Hershey

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is passionate about his beliefs, and he has a First

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Amendment right to express them. But I regret how this

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has distracted us from urgent issues facing our public schools.

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Hershey then says, in a statement to the News and

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an observer. As I move past this news cycle that

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I have no desire to be a part of again,

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I will be focused on what our schools need to succeed.

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Things like needing to pay teachers more, which helped fill

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vacancies highly qualified peopletional funding and special education, the needed

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for federal government to step up when it comes to

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feeding our students a nutritious breakfast and lunch. These are

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just a few items. And as I said, if we

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decide to work together as a country, we can dramatically

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improve academic outcomes for all students. And that is the

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ultimate goal in education right, and that is what eliminating

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DEI is aimed at doing. Now you may disagree, Hershey,

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you may disagree that eliminating DEI will actually focus these

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education agencies on their core mission, which is to educate right,

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rather than to engage in the social justice activism. You

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can disagree with that, but you're not in charge anymore.

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You're not in charge of this, you guys lost, And

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maybe just consider for a moment that the people who

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do believe that dismantling this discriminatory framework will improve educational

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outcomes because it will focus the educateurs on their core mission.

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Maybe they have the same goal, which is to educate

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the kids, and maybe just having that difference of opinion

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doesn't make them racists or losers. Because his apology was basically,

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I'm sorry if I offended you. He's not sorry he

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said it. He just says I could have chosen my

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words better. He still thinks you're racists and losers. All right,

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that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much

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