WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.559 Guys, go loot your local establishment ahead of the winter apocalypse. 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:06.599 That race stag. 3 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:11.320 It will belong to chat a couple times four or 4 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:14.039 about rather, we'll do that sub forty five, eight forty 5 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:19.920 five respectively. So we got that lumen. The Wake County 6 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:22.960 school Board is simply out of hand. They're not dealing 7 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:27.960 with they're not dealing with the Trump administration real well. 8 00:00:28.519 --> 00:00:29.480 Now they they want. 9 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:32.840 To remind you that they're seemingly their focus, their big 10 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:41.079 focus is to first and foremost make sure that your 11 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:44.479 kids get a quality education. Apparently to do that though 12 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:49.520 if they can't have their DEI stuff, they're very bothered 13 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:55.200 by that. And we'll say whatever random insane things. Literally 14 00:00:55.439 --> 00:00:58.960 seated there at the podium in their capacity as the 15 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:05.400 elected officials for your kids' school, they will sit there 16 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:11.879 and have temper tantrums. Some they have to apologize for, 17 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.040 you know, whether it says Sam Hershey the other day 18 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:20.519 talking about how mediocre all the white dudes are while 19 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:21.439 himself being. 20 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:29.200 One, or yet Lynn Edmunds going off on her Trump rant. 21 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:30.239 All. 22 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:35.680 What this stems from is their realization that if they 23 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:42.280 keep doing what they have been doing, they're inevitably going 24 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.040 to cost themselves and your kids federal funding. 25 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:49.519 You don't have to like where the President's coming from. 26 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:53.200 But this, right here is what we were talking about 27 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.359 with the Department of Ed and the ability at the 28 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:04.159 federal level to essentially use that national apparatus, even while 29 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:10.400 they're getting rid of it, to hamstring local school districts 30 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:12.840 to do what they want. The irony, of course, is 31 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:19.800 the abolition of the Department of Ed would free up 32 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.240 wake county schools if the state didn't step in and 33 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.759 put restrictions. 34 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:28.199 To do as much of this crap as they wanted. 35 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:37.240 So you're literally watching their reaction, their tantrums are proving 36 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:44.039 to you what the problem is here, right, The problem, 37 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:49.599 of course, being that the federal government can sit there 38 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:53.879 and say, all right, we don't like this thing, and 39 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:56.280 in this case, it's the federal government saying, you know, 40 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:02.199 we don't like the fact that you're essentially ignoring the 41 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:05.639 very basic tenets of what education is supposed to do 42 00:03:06.719 --> 00:03:11.400 and instead you're prioritizing all of these woke initiatives. And 43 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:17.840 at the federal level, we're not going to do that anymore. 44 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:22.560 You're watching them literally prove to you what the problem 45 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:29.560 is when it comes to these DEI initiatives. That's what's 46 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:33.400 so hilarious. That's what's so crazy about this, Like you're 47 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:37.520 proving his point every step of the way, and then 48 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:42.120 you're sitting there and you're using your pulpit to tell 49 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:44.840 people to go ahead and send money to these very 50 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:49.520 woke advocacy organizations. And I don't know is that legal. 51 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.159 Can you sit there as an electuse at the federal level, 52 00:03:55.240 --> 00:04:00.879 you can't do that, right. You have things like the 53 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:05.000 Hatch Act and others that preclude you from what really 54 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.120 appears to be politicking. So when you're sitting there and 55 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.960 it's your turn to speak as part of your ability 56 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:16.639 or your right as an elected official, and you use 57 00:04:16.680 --> 00:04:20.560 it to advocate for the very same liberal organizations that 58 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:25.160 are out suing the president. On behalf of this, we've 59 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:28.319 got our own attorney general here in North Carolina who's 60 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:31.399 decided that he's going to join these lawsuits, which really 61 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:35.439 doesn't track considering North Carolina voted for Trump. Again, they 62 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:40.959 voted for him, but they also voted for Trump. I 63 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:42.959 don't know how it all pans out. And what's going 64 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.279 to happen is some elected officials are going to get 65 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:48.279 made an example out of and when they get made 66 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:54.079 an example funding for your kids' school could be imperiled 67 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.600 by their own behavior. And then they'll point and they'll 68 00:04:57.639 --> 00:04:59.480 scream and they'll say it was Trump. But when you're 69 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.720 having mel downs on the record like. 70 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.319 This, I was struck by something that was said tonight 71 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:10.600 during public comment that we the because of our woke 72 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:15.439 agenda or however it was described, are like putting vulnerable 73 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.800 students at risk and federal funding at risk. 74 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:19.720 And I thought, you are wow. 75 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:25.199 That is uh, that's rich. Solu exactly is so threatened 76 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.839 by the pillars and value of d I are so 77 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:30.279 threatened by pronouns. 78 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:33.040 Well, you're the ones who if you call somebody a 79 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:39.040 DEI higher you get mad. So apparently you yourself are 80 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:44.600 threatened by DEI in some capacity. But again, the pert, 81 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:47.680 the only person putting it in peril is you and 82 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:52.759 fellow board members that are having these public tantrums. All 83 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:56.040 you have to do is not do the stuff, and 84 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:57.720 you can even use the money to do stuff you 85 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.040 should be doing. That's it. 86 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:02.439 That's the only thing you gotta do, and you can't 87 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:04.000 do it. You can't help. 88 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:06.639 Yourself that they would deny special needs students with the 89 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:10.800 funding they need and deny children's school meals own it, and. 90 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:14.000 Again that's that's what they're putting out there. Well, if 91 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.519 we don't have the money to do the DEI initiatives, 92 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.279 you know who's going to suffer is your kids for 93 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:23.000 special needs and for meals, because we're still going to 94 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:24.600 spend the money on the woke stuff. But if the 95 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:26.560 money stops coming for the woke stuff, we're gonna have 96 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:28.240 to get it from somewhere and it's probably gonna be 97 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:32.519 your kid's belly or special led funding or something, because 98 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:35.879 that's how they do it. I've covered school boards long 99 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.040 enough that when they don't have the money they think 100 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:42.160 they should have, what they will do is they will 101 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:47.000 go and they will make very visual cuts not to 102 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.560 the stuff they like, but to the stuff you like, right, 103 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:52.439 So they'll do things. They'll be like, well, we don't 104 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:54.759 have enough money because we want to spend a portion 105 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:56.639 of the budget with these DEI initiatives. 106 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:58.560 So we're still going to do it. 107 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.959 But since we're we're getting less money because we're doing it, 108 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:07.000 We're going to now double the price for participation in extracurriculars, 109 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:11.639 or we're going to Unfortunately, we're going to have to 110 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.879 combine some of our special ed programs. But that stay, 111 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:19.360 there's nothing we can do, and then parents will suffer 112 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:22.639 and kids will suffer. But we can't help the suffering 113 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:25.040 because they will give us money for. 114 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.639 The other thing. And we're super upset. 115 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:33.360 Own that short sightedness and own that cruelty. Lastly, to 116 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:36.240 all those looking for ways to fight back, I'll just 117 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.079 ask you to keep standing with us, stand up for 118 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:43.439 the marginalized children, and stand up for kindness and truth 119 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:47.720 and justice. The goal with all of these executive orders 120 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.360 is to destroy democracy. The speed and reckless approach is 121 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:54.600 a strategy meant to exhaust us and make us feel hopeless. 122 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.279 So let's do the opposite of that. Let's show up here, 123 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.680 show up in the street, show up in the courts, 124 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:04.360 and if you're in a position that you can give 125 00:08:04.439 --> 00:08:09.279 some money, I suggest Lambda Legal, who works to protect 126 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:14.680 LGBTQ plus students and people, Democracy Forward, and the ACO 127 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:17.639 you who are rapidly responding in the courts to these 128 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:21.439 executive orders and to the Human Rights Campaign. There's many, 129 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:23.279 many more, but those are the ones I chose to 130 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:27.120 highlight tonight. Our kids and our schools, are worth all 131 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:29.360 we've got to give in this moment. 132 00:08:29.480 --> 00:08:31.720 Thank you great, okay, And then the other thing you 133 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:34.200 can do is that's fine if you want to use 134 00:08:34.200 --> 00:08:37.039 your free time to advocate for that, But in the interim, 135 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:39.600 you have a job to do, because you're an adult, 136 00:08:40.440 --> 00:08:46.200 and your job is to cut out those programs that 137 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:50.879 will make you ineligible for the federal funding so that 138 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:54.240 you can protect your ability to fund the other stuff. 139 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:58.799 So you know, wine and complain and do all of this, 140 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:03.200 but it does negate your responsibility. So nobody has to 141 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.799 own the cruelty and own the cuts because you don't 142 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:09.080 have to be cruel and you don't have to make 143 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:12.120 cuts to the other stuff. You just don't get to 144 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:16.720 do your little thing that you want to do because you, frankly, 145 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:19.919 you and others did way too much of it. Do 146 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:22.840 you think there's a parent right now whose biggest concern 147 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:26.320 as it pertains to kids in school is your little 148 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:31.399 pet dei projects. No, No, they're sitting there, especially when 149 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:33.320 it comes to things like the way keunty school board, 150 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:36.320 and they're going, all right, well, how come my kid 151 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:39.480 can't go to school because the air conditioner doesn't work? 152 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:44.039 What's up with that, especially when all that COVID money. 153 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:47.600 I saw that COVID money, How is that happening? And 154 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:50.919 then you find solutions for that, And your solution is, 155 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:52.600 we need a bunch more money. We're gonna wait for 156 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.720 the voters to give it to us, and there's gonna 157 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.360 be no accountability for what happened to those COVID dollars. 158 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:01.240 And we're gonna we're going to kick and scream and 159 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.360 have these meltdowns during our comments section, which I don't know. 160 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.600 Feel like they violate literally the laws. 161 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.279 A member of Congress couldn't do that, a member of 162 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.960 the Cabinet couldn't do that. But that's what we're going 163 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:19.639 to do, and they we're gonna have our You know, 164 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:21.799 she's not even the worst. The wait till I play 165 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:23.960 the audio from the other dude from you for you, 166 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:30.519 he's already had to apologize for his comments. And now 167 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.720 ask yourself, during these changes, whether you like them or not, 168 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:38.840 is this school board going to adapt and overcome in 169 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:42.320 a way that protects the core principles of what they're 170 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:45.519 trying to do, or are they going to make any 171 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:48.480 cuts they have to do ugly to prove a point 172 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.799 so that they can blame it on Trump, right, some 173 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:55.600 stuff that's really out there. Meanwhile, all you're trying to 174 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:58.240 figure out is my kid's school open today, is going 175 00:10:58.320 --> 00:10:59.000 to be open tomorrow. 176 00:10:59.039 --> 00:10:59.840 What are we going to do with this? 177 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.639 Whether what changes in my daily routine are we going 178 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.399 to have to make? Those are the immediate needs that 179 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:12.840 people have instead your your rant like lunatics and having 180 00:11:12.840 --> 00:11:16.480 to apologize and insulting all the white men, as you'll 181 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:20.879 hear in the Hershey audio, just sheer lunacy. All right, 182 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.399 six eighteen. We got more on this, We get calls, 183 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:27.919 we got you know, unlike with the last president, it's 184 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:32.519 like every day this president's out there, he's talking about something. 185 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:38.440 So we'll share that with you. Mark Hampiell's story is 186 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.200 so dumb. We'll get to it though, anyway, lots to 187 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:43.480 get to six nineteen. Hang on, I'm going to play 188 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.360 this Hershey audio one more time because. 189 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:49.080 There's a lot going on here. 190 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.799 A lot going on, like the the sheer arrogance in 191 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:58.480 the entirety of this statement. 192 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:00.840 Black History Month, I think it's a good time to 193 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:04.679 talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, and I really want 194 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:09.360 to highlight as doctor man mentionine we're celebrating two fifty 195 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:10.399 next year. 196 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:13.080 That for two. 197 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:15.039 Hundred and fifty years, I think it's really important to 198 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:19.320 talk about people being hired based on their skin color. 199 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:22.440 And for two hundred and fifty years it has been 200 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:24.759 mediocre white men. 201 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:26.480 Who have been hired based on right. 202 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.360 Okay, all right, and again this is the inability to 203 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:38.399 separate modern society with this this idea. What's crazy is 204 00:12:38.480 --> 00:12:41.960 you remember the audio we had the other day of 205 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:45.000 the new Hanover County in fact Ross We put that 206 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:49.919 up of the guy down in Wilmington, right, who is 207 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:53.759 who's convinced that our schools are less segregated now than 208 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:56.600 they were during you know, when they were literally integrating 209 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:59.679 schools with the use of the National Guard. All Right, 210 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.600 So on one end of the state, down there in Wilmington, 211 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.519 you have this woke school board members convinced of this. Meanwhile, 212 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:10.320 you have this Wake County school board member who along 213 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:18.360 with his colleagues, is having tantrums over not being able 214 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:20.840 to do their DEI stuff. All right, I'll play the 215 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.080 other audio here in the moment. Let's finish with Hershey, 216 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:25.000 just because I want to break a few things down. 217 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:29.919 On their skin color, and those are facts. I mean, 218 00:13:29.960 --> 00:13:33.360 that's that's you know, I've heard people say DEI is racist. 219 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:36.120 If that's what you believe, you know nothing about diversity 220 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.919 equity inclusion, and you know nothing about you, and that 221 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.360 speaks to you as a human being. You know, within 222 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:45.840 Waite County, how does that how does that impact a 223 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:50.799 school system? It's ensuring diversity, equity inclusion ensures that our 224 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:54.000 kids who need more help get more help. It ensures 225 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:57.039 that kids are black and brown kids who have not 226 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:01.200 had the same educational opportunities over the course of the 227 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:02.679 two hundred and forty nine years. 228 00:14:02.679 --> 00:14:04.639 All right, but we're not talking about the two hundred 229 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:07.320 and forty nine years. I want to talk about modern society. 230 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:10.559 In fact, let's just talk about during your tenure as 231 00:14:10.559 --> 00:14:16.440 a school board member, just this generation of kids. Are 232 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.559 you telling me that the same educational opportunities are not 233 00:14:19.840 --> 00:14:23.840 or have not been available in just just take the 234 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:27.639 time I've been alive, right, and in my forty plus 235 00:14:27.759 --> 00:14:30.039 years on this planet. Are you saying that that hasn't 236 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:34.360 existed in Wait County schools? Because the math doesn't math there. 237 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:38.559 We've had every moment of my life, we've had these 238 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:41.679 established civil rights laws for every moment that I've been alive. 239 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:49.200 So inherently, if you're going to prioritize hiring so that 240 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:53.399 you have the representation that you feel is necessary, then 241 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:58.080 by definition, you are using a racial component in your 242 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:05.879 hiring process or the establishment of different programs. That's why 243 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:08.120 they say that it's racist, because the only way to 244 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:14.240 achieve it is through a quota of some sort, especially 245 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:17.240 for an industry that they say that they have trouble 246 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:22.960 historically recruiting for. I mean, that's great, and yes, I 247 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:27.519 understand that component too, right, that pairing the right teacher 248 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.559 with the right student could have a big impact doesn't 249 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:36.080 necessarily have to be race. It's why some teachers resonate 250 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:38.360 with kids more than other teachers. And then you start 251 00:15:38.360 --> 00:15:40.879 to see a pattern there and you realize it's not 252 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:42.600 necessarily because of who. 253 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:46.639 They are on the outside. It's how they go about 254 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:47.120 their job. 255 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.000 The biggest delineation between the quality of teachers I've had 256 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:58.799 has really been an emotional component and not their background, 257 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.399 ability to connect with kids, them being good at their job. 258 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:08.840 A meritocracy, and it is that meritocracy that you're arguing against. 259 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.240 So you can achieve certain components. You can argue that 260 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:16.320 you think your process yields better educational results, but you 261 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:21.519 can't deny that it's a process that prioritizes people based 262 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:28.440 on their protected characteristics. So no, I'm not an idiot 263 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:31.000 for recognizing that. And for you to then have to 264 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:33.720 throw the well, you're all dumb, you're all racist, you 265 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:37.399 just don't get it in there means you can't even 266 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:38.519 explain why you're right. 267 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:41.440 You can just throw these things out of. 268 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:46.320 This country get those opportunities, and it's without lowering standards. 269 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:47.799 That's the thing that drives. 270 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:51.279 But it inherently is it doesn't mean that that person 271 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.559 who you're excited to get because they look like the 272 00:16:54.600 --> 00:16:58.679 students that you feel that they need to are they 273 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:02.279 the best person for that job. And if they're not, 274 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:06.160 then inherently they're lowing standards. And I mean based on meritocracy, 275 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:13.240 not on skin color. So just because just because you're 276 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:13.799 going to sit. 277 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:15.559 Here and argue that it's not doesn't make it. 278 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:18.759 So that's the most that's being real. And I've said 279 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:23.160 this before. People who throw around DEI higher is they're 280 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:25.680 just replacing the N word with DEI higher. 281 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:31.039 But you just said there's nothing wrong with DEI, So 282 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:34.000 why then if somebody adds the word higher after it? 283 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:38.079 Is it now you know language or the klan or whatever? 284 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:39.599 Do you hear yourself? 285 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:41.039 That's what they want to say. 286 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:43.079 We get it. You guys are all losers. 287 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.319 Sorry, no, no, not anybody in here. 288 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:47.559 I'm not talking about anybody anything. 289 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:49.279 Right, But a lot of those losers are the parents 290 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:53.559 who feel that way, who are looking at the quality 291 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.640 of the education they're getting and going, why why is 292 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:57.839 my kids test scores not getting any better? What's going 293 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:03.799 on here? Why is there so much remedial stuff that 294 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:08.440 needs to happen? What are we prioritizing here? And now 295 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:11.039 you're playing this dangerous game where you're literally ready to 296 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:14.720 imperil federal funding because I feel like you want the 297 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:19.519 moment where you can do something horrible and cut something 298 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.400 horrible and then pretend like you had no other choice 299 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:25.279 because Trump made you do it for the political points. 300 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:29.880 Because it's at that moment you're no longer prioritizing the 301 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:33.279 quality of the education the resources that you have to 302 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:38.079 work with, which you have arbitrarily diminished through your own behavior. 303 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:44.680 You've not prioritized that, You've prioritized your ideology. 304 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:49.400 Just to make the political point. That's what's so dangerous here. 305 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:52.400 It's what I hear on TV when when we had 306 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.160 the plane crash, and and you had people on TV 307 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:59.000 questioning should I be should I see a black pilot? 308 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:00.640 Do I think they're I hire? 309 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:04.319 No, that's racism, you know, to think that way. 310 00:19:04.160 --> 00:19:08.240 And I have to edit my language real quick. 311 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:10.559 I was about to get in trouble with the chair. 312 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:11.400 Yeah. 313 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:13.400 Well, and what you ended up getting in trouble with 314 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:15.759 here's what I would be concerned. You'd get in trouble 315 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:19.400 with one the people at the federal level who have 316 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:21.640 said this stuff is not going to be in local 317 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:24.279 government anymore, not if they're receiving federal funding. 318 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:27.279 We're not going to do it. And then you going 319 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:33.319 out and doing it anyway because you want to. So like, 320 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:35.240 that's what's standing out to people. 321 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:39.440 That's the decision that you're getting ready to make on 322 00:19:39.519 --> 00:19:40.920 behalf of your constituents. 323 00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:42.920 And I don't feel that's the decision they want. 324 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:45.279 And by the way, why don't you talk to your 325 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:47.839 moonbat buddy down to the south there in Wilmington, a 326 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:51.160 new Hanover school board who's on CNN, Tim Merrick is 327 00:19:51.160 --> 00:19:52.039 his name saying this. 328 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:52.759 You know, we have. 329 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:57.480 Private schools and religious schools that are not regulated by 330 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:01.519 the federal government the same way that our public schools are, 331 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:04.720 and they are not showing better performance here in New 332 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:08.240 Heater County. Fact, what they are in the schools pre 333 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:10.079 performance than many of our public schools. 334 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:12.160 So some of them I can't agree with that. 335 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:16.960 What I can agree with is that without our federal money, 336 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:20.559 we will not be taking care of our most disadvantaged students, 337 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.440 and that is just a crisis that we cannot have. 338 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:27.720 So, you know, there's a way to not interrupt that flow, 339 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:30.480 and that is to not do this stuff. 340 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:32.920 Right. 341 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.720 So you talk about a crisis and when you're gonna 342 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:38.839 put Drkonian responses to but the easiest way. 343 00:20:38.720 --> 00:20:40.839 Not to do this is to not do the things 344 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:42.640 that you want to do. 345 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:48.640 But you can, because this is what you're literally arguing 346 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:51.480 for your arguing that the federal government has this power, 347 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:53.319 you just don't like when it's flexed against you. 348 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:58.799 You know, we have fairly segregated schools here in North Carolina, 349 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:01.359 more segregated than what they we're in nineteen sixty eight, 350 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:07.440 and our richest, wealthy white schools have at the end 351 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:10.240 of fifth grade, they have a ninety one percent proficiency 352 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:14.920 in reading, and our poorest black schools have a nine 353 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:18.640 point five percent proficiency stand in reading in fifth grade. 354 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:22.279 This is a sort of segregation that will be even 355 00:21:22.880 --> 00:21:26.559 worse without the federal guidelines that require us to take 356 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:28.480 care of our most disidented students. 357 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:32.319 Well, but why would that be Why would that be 358 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:34.279 the case? First of all, it's not the case. We've 359 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.039 heard from one of your colleagues and she disagrees with 360 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:41.720 your numbers, And I'm glad because if you literally had 361 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:47.640 that scenario, your argument was, our schools are great, except 362 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:51.599 for the part where half the kids are failing, and 363 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:55.200 they're because they're racially segregated. I understand you're an advocate 364 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:58.799 for your district, and you just said half of you know, 365 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.839 our kids are failing because because our schools are so segregated. 366 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:04.359 But don't worry, half of them are too stupid to 367 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:06.799 know what the word segregated means because we're doing such 368 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:10.279 a bad job of teaching them. That's the pitch you 369 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:16.559 just made for your school, your school district. And so 370 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:19.599 all of these tantrums, all of these outbursts that eventually 371 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:21.920 in the case of Hershey, you got to apologize for 372 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:28.039 because they're just such lunacy is making the goal of 373 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:31.160 teaching kids and having it stick with them. 374 00:22:31.880 --> 00:22:37.000 More difficult, just so that they so that. 375 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:41.720 It's the reason that when the federal government shuts down, 376 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:43.839 the first thing they do is close the things that 377 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:48.640 are visible but least labor intensive, like the stupid stuff 378 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:53.400 like we're needing humans to go and spend part of 379 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:58.559 their time before the actual shutdown barricading inanimate objects in 380 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:02.920 open air parks. Sorry, can't get too close to the 381 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:07.000 Vietnam War memorial. You got to put these barricades up. 382 00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:11.599 That's the game they're going to play, and it is 383 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:18.480 important that they take responsibility for it. So here is 384 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:23.440 Hershey's apology. Hershey said Tuesday night at this so he 385 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:25.640 sent us to the previous board meeting, and then this 386 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:28.960 was last night. Hershey said he didn't mean to imply 387 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:31.839 that all white men are mediocre when he suggested earlier 388 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:34.839 that white men have ended up in power who didn't 389 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:38.319 deserve it. And again, we're not talking about in the 390 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.160 nineteen tens. We're talking about now. 391 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:48.480 You heard the audio there, I don't have to reiterate it. Well. 392 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:50.720 Many of the members of the public spoke in support 393 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:55.200 of Hershey, activists, organized activists, and diversity initiatives. During the 394 00:23:55.960 --> 00:23:59.880 board's public comment period, many spoke against him. Eric she 395 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:02.359 Up heard, a district to lum who is white, said 396 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:05.519 he thought Hershey was criticizing thousands of Wake County parents 397 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:09.200 who are white men, and rejected the notion that all 398 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:13.000 white men are mediocre. Again, the only mediocre white man 399 00:24:13.079 --> 00:24:17.400 I see in this thing is Hershey, and mediocre might 400 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:22.759 be giving him too much credit. Hershey, uh said, And 401 00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:25.319