1 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Hello, New World Family. I'm doctor Ben Carson. I'm so 2 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:11,719 Speaker 1: happy to be with you guys today. You know, NEWT 3 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: is on a well deserved vacation this week, and I'm 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: going to be substituting for a couple of episodes. And 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: this is something I was interested in hosting. First of 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: all because new It's a good friend, but also because 7 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: you know, we're at a time in our nation where 8 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: media is not trusted, and it's well deserved. It's not 9 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: trusted because you know, it's become more of a indoctrination. 10 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:46,120 Speaker 1: And I want you to adopt my ideology as opposed 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: to just providing people with information and a mechanism to 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,640 Speaker 1: discuss things. You know, discussions are what hold people together. 13 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: You take a marriage, for instance, when people are first 14 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: attracted to each other and they start going together, that's 15 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: all they think about. It's being together and talking and 16 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: you know, calling each other on the telephone, speaking for hours. 17 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,120 Speaker 1: I remember before we were married once and I was 18 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: at the University of Michigan and medical school and my 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: wife was at Yale and you know, hundreds of miles apart, 20 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,479 Speaker 1: and we just missed each other so much. We were 21 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: talking on the phone for six hours, a long distance 22 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: called and we didn't have money for that, and we 23 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: were terrified. But we never got a bill for it. 24 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: I think the telephone company said, Dad, this is a mistake. 25 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: I just threw it out. But now we've reached a 26 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: point where a lot of times people don't engage in discussion. 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: And you know those lovers just before they get divorced, 28 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: what did they do? They stopped talking, they stopped having conversations. 29 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: The next thing you know, their spouse is a devil incarnate. 30 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: And that's sort of where we are in nation now, 31 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: as we've stopped really talking to each other, discussing things, 32 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: talking about the reasons that we've arrived at the conclusions 33 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: that we've arrived, and instead getting into our respective corners 34 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 1: and hurling hand grenades at each other. And that's not helpful. 35 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if any situation where that has ever 36 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: been anything but trouble. I wanted to talk a little 37 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: bit today about why standing up to critical race theory 38 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: is so important. It's important to me, it's important to 39 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 1: most Americans because you know, this is a country that 40 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: consists of people from many different ethnic groups, and if 41 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: we all just look at the ethnic group from which 42 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: we came. Rather than being under an umbrella that unites us, 43 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: all we're going to have is conflict all the time. 44 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 1: And isn't that exactly what critical race theory is doing, 45 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: creating conflict. Telling young kids who are trying to develop 46 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: their self image, if they're white, that you're a horrible person, 47 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: that your parents are horrible people, and your grandparents and 48 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: all of your ancestors because they've done such horrible things 49 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 1: just because of their race, and you're guilty and you 50 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: owe other people, And then telling kids who are black 51 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: and other minorities you're a victim and it really doesn't 52 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: matter what you do. You're never going to achieve what 53 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 1: you could have achieved in a fair society, and there 54 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: are those who owe you things. Now, please tell me 55 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: how in the world does that create a better environment 56 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: for anybody. You know, the old adage divide and conquer. 57 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: Who's trying to conquer us? Well, you might be surprised 58 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: to know that there have been people around for quite 59 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 1: some time who don't like America. They don't like the 60 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: way we function, they don't like what we stand for, 61 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: and they want to fundamentally change us. But in order 62 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: to fundamentally change us. They first must create major dissatisfaction 63 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: with what's going on. Now. Now, what would you do 64 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: if you really want to create major dissatisfaction in this country, Well, 65 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: one of the first things you'd want to do is 66 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: gain control of the educational system so that you can 67 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: indoctrinate the kids. And we've already seen the fruits of 68 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: that indoctrination last summer in Seattle, Portland, some of our 69 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 1: other cities, major riots and destruction, more than two billion 70 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: dollars worth to damage, the most expensive riots in the 71 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: history of this country, by young people who are coming 72 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: of age, who have been taught that this is an 73 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,400 Speaker 1: evil place, who've been taught that there's systemic racism, that 74 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: the police are aligned against minorities and particularly black males. Well, 75 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 1: you know, I personally have never had a negative encounter 76 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: with a police officer as a black male growing up 77 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 1: in Detroit and in Boston. Doesn't mean that they don't occur, 78 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: but I've never had one. And you know, my mother 79 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: always taught us to be respectful of the police and 80 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 1: of authority figures. So if I encountered a police officer, 81 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: if they asked the question, I would answer them respectfully. 82 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: I would cooperate, and I'm not aware of situations where 83 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 1: police just see somebody who's cooperative doing what they're supposed 84 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 1: to be doing, not breaking the law, and just hauls 85 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 1: off and shoots them. I'm just not aware of those situations, 86 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: quite frankly, and some of the ones that have been 87 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 1: brought to light, you know, like the George Floyd case, 88 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: you have media who tries to take that and make 89 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 1: that seem like the norm. That's not the norm, that 90 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: it's way out of the norm. That police officer Derek 91 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: Schobin was not in any way representative of police officers. 92 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: He's an embarrassment to law enforcement. And you're always going 93 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: to find people like that, you have, you know, I 94 00:06:55,680 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: speak from experience. There are some physicians I wouldn't let 95 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,839 Speaker 1: my tone now, believe me, but they're few and far between. 96 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: But I'm not going to judge all physicians based on 97 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: those individuals. Nor would I base all my thinking about 98 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: teachers on some teachers who are perhaps less than adequate. 99 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 1: And it goes for any group of people. So why 100 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: is it that when it comes to law enforcement, we 101 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: make broad, sweeping judgments based on what some very unusual 102 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: people do. This is what we really need to start 103 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: thinking about, quite frankly and critical race theory, despite the 104 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: fact that some of the leaders in the educational system 105 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: are saying it's not being taught in our children's schools. 106 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: It is being taught in our children's schools. It's being 107 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: taught in businesses, it's being taught in the United States 108 00:07:55,960 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: government of all things. In twenty nineteen, Seattle Public Schools 109 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: created a K through twelve Math Ethnic Studies framework, and 110 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: it divided math instruction into themes of origins, identity and agency, 111 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: power and oppression, history of resistance and liberation, and reflection 112 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 1: and action. And in August twenty nineteen, The New York 113 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: Times released the sixteen nineteen Project, developed by Nicole Hannah Jones. Now, 114 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: the sixteen nineteen project kind of reminds me of you know, 115 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: when I was a youngster in school in the third grade. 116 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: We all be out on the playground just having a 117 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: terrific time, and then along comes somebody and says, did 118 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: you hear what they said about John Mama? Just wearing 119 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: up trouble, creating problems where none existed or a relatively 120 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: few existed. So along comes to sixteen nineteen project, and 121 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:19,040 Speaker 1: it wants to equate everything that's happening to a relationship 122 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:24,959 Speaker 1: with slavery and the sequelling of slavery in our society. 123 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: And it's slavery a horrible thing. Absolutely, it's abominable institution. 124 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: But as the United States unique in having slavery, absolutely 125 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: not every society from the beginning of mankind until now. 126 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: In fact, there are more slaves now in the world 127 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: than there were in eighteen sixty three when the Emanci 128 00:09:55,320 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: Creation poculation was put forth. So we're in not unique. 129 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: We are unique, however, in the sense that we fought 130 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: a very costly civil war to rid ourselves of this 131 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: abominable institution. So if there's anything that we should be 132 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: teaching is that we and a large portion of Americans 133 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,960 Speaker 1: did not believe in it, and not only did they 134 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 1: not believe in it, but they fought to end it. 135 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: And that's a good thing. Slavery itself not a good thing, 136 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: horrible thing. The reason I emphasize that obviously you know that. 137 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: But you know, we live in a society now where 138 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,360 Speaker 1: people try to take any words you say and twist 139 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: them and the next thing you know, they're saying Carson 140 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: said that slavery was a good thing. You know, it's 141 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 1: almost funny, you know when you listen to him. I remember, 142 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: you know, when I first took over the Helmet Hut 143 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: and I gave a talk about immigrants coming here from 144 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: every place, including some in the bottom of slave ships, 145 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: and was attacked viciously. I mean, how could you say 146 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: that slaves were immigrants? And of course it was found 147 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 1: that Barack Obama had said exactly the same thing on 148 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: multiple occasions, and when he said, oh yeah, yeah, that's wonderful. 149 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: You know, the double standard is deafening in our society, 150 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:37,520 Speaker 1: and people don't actually listen to what you're saying. They're 151 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 1: just looking to find fault with what you're saying. And 152 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 1: that's why it's very difficult to benefit from someone else's 153 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: thinking when all you're waiting for is something that you 154 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: can pounce on, rather than listening to what they're saying. 155 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: That's what communication is all about, and that's something that's 156 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: so important in our society today. Will In January twenty 157 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 1: twenty one, third graders at ri Meyerhaltz Elementary School in 158 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: San Jose, California, we're given an assignment to deconstruct their 159 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: racial identities and then rank themselves according to their quote 160 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: power and privilege unquote. This was taught during a math class. 161 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: Of all things, the teacher asks all students to create 162 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: an identity map, which require them to list their race, class, gender, religion, 163 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: family structure, and other characteristics. The teacher explained to the 164 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: student that they live in a dominant culture of white, 165 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: middle class cis gender. That means you identify as the 166 00:12:55,280 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: same as your physiological characteristics, educated, able bodied Christian English Speakers, who, 167 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: according to the lesson, created and maintained this culture in 168 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: order to hold power and stay in power. Can you 169 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:20,199 Speaker 1: believe that these people were scheming all along to do 170 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: all the things that have occurred that took us from 171 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: quite frankly, a bunch of ragtag militiamen to the pinnacle 172 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 1: of the world, just so that they could hold them 173 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: to power and stay in power. And In February twenty 174 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:41,520 Speaker 1: twenty one, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommended 175 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: critical race theory and mathematics education to its members for 176 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 1: summer readings. Think about that, you know, it's sort of 177 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: like you're taking something that's really good, something that's really 178 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 1: making a lot of progress, and you want to confiscate 179 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:08,680 Speaker 1: it for yourself, so you try to make it seem 180 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: like something that's really bad so that other people won't 181 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: want it. I'm talking about America, an American society. It 182 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: reminds me when I was a kid, and you know, 183 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 1: I would be eating something my brother, my older brother, 184 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: really liked it, and maybe I really liked it too, 185 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 1: but he wanted mine too. He eating it, He wanted mine, 186 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: and he would start talking about things like maggots smothered 187 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: in rats, and I would say, oh no, and pretty 188 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 1: soon I wouldn't want it, and he say, I'll eat 189 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 1: that for you. You know, it's sort of like they're 190 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: trying to say that our society is maggots smothered in 191 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: rats and we need to change it, and we need 192 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: to change it quickly. And of course that is far 193 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: from true. You know, this isn't something that's new out 194 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 1: of the left typical playbook. Listen to this quote from 195 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: Vladimir Lenin, give me four years to teach the children, 196 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: and the seeds I have sown will never be uprooted. 197 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: Think about that, but he's actually saying the same thing. 198 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: The Bible says and proverbs twenty two to six. It 199 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: says train up a child in a way he should go, 200 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. 201 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: See Lenin and the Socialists and the Communists and the Marxists. 202 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: They know that if you can get to the children 203 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: in their formative years and you can plant some seeds, 204 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: those seeds will stay there. You know. It's the way 205 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 1: the brain works. The human brain is a fantastic organ system. 206 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: You know. It has billions and billions in their rounds, 207 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than 208 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: two million bits of information in one second, remembers everything 209 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: you've ever heard, or seen or learned. You know, you 210 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: can take an eighty year old man and you can 211 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: make a small defect in the skull and put in 212 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: certain types of probes into the memory centers and stimulate, 213 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: and he will be able to quote back to you 214 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: verbatim a passage he read sixty years ago. All of 215 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: that stuff stays there. Now another quote. The link between 216 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: education and our policy should be the chief inducement in 217 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: making people join us in our cultural and educational work. 218 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 1: A title may express something if there's a need for it. 219 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: For along the whole line of our educational work. We 220 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: have to abandon the old standpoint that education should be 221 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: non political. We cannot conduct educational work and isolation from politics. 222 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: Lenin November the third, nineteen twenty and the speech to 223 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:25,960 Speaker 1: political educational workers think about this and a quote from 224 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: Karl Marx the education of all children from the moment 225 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: they can leave their mother's care in national establishments at 226 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: national costs. That's from the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, 227 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: who also said education is free. Freedom of education shall 228 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: be enjoyed under the condition fixed by law and under 229 00:17:54,400 --> 00:18:00,440 Speaker 1: the supreme control of the state. Boy, does that sound 230 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:02,880 Speaker 1: a lot like what the left is trying to do 231 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: in our country right now. And the only thing that 232 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,959 Speaker 1: will stop them, quite frankly, is us. We have to 233 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 1: be ready to stand up for the things that we 234 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: believe in. You know, there are so many people who 235 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: just sit quietly in a corner with their head down. 236 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: I'm speaking figuratively, hoping that no one will call them 237 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: a nasty name, won't call them a racist or some 238 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 1: other thing. But folks, I gotta tell you, there comes 239 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,600 Speaker 1: a time when you have to stand up for what 240 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: you believe in. I'm so proud that so many parent 241 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: groups are now going to the school board meetings and 242 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 1: making their voices hurt, because you cannot be the land 243 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: of the free if you're not the home of the brave. 244 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,480 Speaker 1: You know, critical race theory was developed in the mid 245 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:05,520 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies with scholars like Derek Bell, Alan Freeman, and 246 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 1: Richard Delgado. Now, one of the things that they said, 247 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 1: you know, from the book Critical Race Theory and introduction 248 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 1: by Devgato and Stephanik, it's said, unlike some academic disciplines, 249 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: critical race theory contains an activist dimension. It not only 250 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:34,360 Speaker 1: tries to understand our social situation, but to change it. 251 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 1: It sets out not only to ascertain how society organize 252 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 1: itself along racial lines and hierarchies, but to transform it 253 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: for the better. They want to change it. They want 254 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: to change our whole society through education and using things 255 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: like critical race theory. Now, some of these people who 256 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 1: advocate this, they're not bad people. They're not horrible people. 257 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:10,719 Speaker 1: They're just misled people. They have a different value system, 258 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:15,439 Speaker 1: and we have to remember not to treat them the 259 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 1: way they treat us. But we do have to protect 260 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: our kids. Now, Unlike traditional civil rights, which embraces incrementalism 261 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:31,199 Speaker 1: and step by step progress, Critical race theory questions the 262 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, enlightenment, rationalism, 263 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: and neutral principles of constitutional law. That's by Delgado and 264 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: Stephanic and Critical Race Theory that same book. We have 265 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 1: to take a short break to support the sponsors who 266 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: make newts World possible. Welcome back. I'm doctor Ben Carson, 267 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 1: guest hosting for our good friend Nuke Gingrich while he 268 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: is a well deserved vacation. So why is all this important? 269 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: Let's talk about critical race theory. There's no civil dialogue anymore. 270 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: People are getting canceled for no reason. Think about that. 271 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: You know, our Judeo Christian foundation in this nation teaches 272 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: us to love our neighbor, pray for those who despitefully 273 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: use you, to be kind and gentle. But as we've 274 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: moved away from those Judeo Christian and foundations, it gets 275 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: replaced with something else, and that something else is not good. 276 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 1: That something else says hate your neighbor, cancel your neighbor, 277 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: cancel people who disagree with you. Now, please tell me 278 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: how in the world does that lead us to a 279 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 1: better place. How can it lead us to a better place. 280 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: You know, I'm glad obviously that they're pushing so hard, 281 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:35,119 Speaker 1: because it's actually waking people up to the dangerous race 282 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:44,200 Speaker 1: critical race theory and doctrination. You know, it was sort 283 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: of like being in the saucepan, the frog in the 284 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:52,119 Speaker 1: saucepan with the heat being turned up very very slowly, 285 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 1: and maybe it was a little uncomfortable, but it was tolerable. 286 00:22:57,440 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: But now somebody has come and turned the heat all 287 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: way up. Suddenly the frogs are jumping out of the saucepan, 288 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: and I'm very glad they are. They're recognizing that they're 289 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: about to get cooked if they don't do something about this. 290 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 1: You know, it's impossible not to notice that. It's not 291 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 1: only in our classrooms, but it's in our boardrooms, it's 292 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,400 Speaker 1: on the sport team jerseys, it's in our pop culture, 293 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: it's everywhere. There's no longer an escape from identity politics. 294 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,159 Speaker 1: But you know, I have tremendous faith that our country 295 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: will right the ship. You can already see that happening. 296 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: You see, America is different. We're not like any other 297 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 1: country that has ever existed. We cherish our rights, and 298 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 1: we were conceived in the notion that our rights come 299 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 1: not from government, come not from big tech, come not 300 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: from social media. Our rights come from God, our creator. 301 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: And I think that gives us a special relationship with God, 302 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: It gives us special confidence and ourselves. It gives us 303 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: insight into human behavior. You know, the San Francisco Unified 304 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 1: School District Board of Education voted unanimously on April sixth 305 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:37,959 Speaker 1: of this year not to rename a third of their schools, 306 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: including those that were named after President George Washington and 307 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln. Why did they vote not to rename those 308 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 1: schools Because there was a tremendous backlash from the community 309 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: that tells you it is possible to stop this stuff 310 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: that is not inexorable. And are they trying to destroy 311 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: our history good and bad? You need your history because 312 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: your history gives you your identity, and your identity is 313 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: that thing upon which your beliefs are built. So if 314 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: you destroy the history, you see the whole thing come 315 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: cascading down and you don't even know who you are, 316 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:32,800 Speaker 1: and you become easy prey for whatever ideology is sweeping 317 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 1: at that time. That's not America, that's not Americans Stop 318 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 1: CRT Critical Race Theory Act HR thirty one seventy nine 319 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: was introduced in the House and if passed, will band 320 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: federal funding to any entity that advances critical race theory. 321 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 1: It would also reinstate President Trump's Executive Order one three 322 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,640 Speaker 1: nine five oh which blocked the use of federal funds 323 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: to promote CRT and training programs for federal workers and 324 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:18,880 Speaker 1: federal contractors. Now, some of the governors at the forefront 325 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: of the conservative movement, like Rond Decantists and Florida and 326 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: Greg Abbott in the Great State of Texas have already 327 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,119 Speaker 1: taken key action on fighting back against critical race theory 328 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 1: in the classrooms. Combating racial training in the military, that's 329 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: sin STY eight was introduced in the Senate and if passed, 330 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: would prohibit US army forces from promoting anti American and 331 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: racial theories. Now, think about it. You've got a military. 332 00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 1: They're there to protect our freedom, They're there to make 333 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 1: sure that our way of life can continue, and you 334 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 1: have people who want to indoctrinate them to tell them 335 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 1: how terrible our society is. Why would they want to 336 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: protect it, Why would they even want to be a 337 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:24,680 Speaker 1: part of it? This is a pernicious and very destructive 338 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: thing that is happening. And like I said, I do 339 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: believe the American people are smart enough to actually see that. 340 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 1: But parents need to get involved and they need to 341 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: stay involved. At American Cornerstone Institute, which I found it 342 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,199 Speaker 1: and the chairman of you know, I actually thought I 343 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: was going to retire after the election last November. You know, 344 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: I had failed retirement the first time. I said, this time, 345 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 1: I'm going to really be able to retire. But about 346 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,239 Speaker 1: three weeks after the election, I could already see the 347 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 1: seeds of what was going to happen to our nation, 348 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: and I said, you'll never be able to enjoy playing 349 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: golf when you know your nation's going down the tube. 350 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: So a group of us from hud got together and 351 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: created the American Cornerstone Institute, which looks at those cornerstone 352 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:26,000 Speaker 1: principles that allowed this nation to go from nowhere to 353 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: the pinnacle of the world. It was not by accident. 354 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: It was because of those principles like our faith, which 355 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: teaches us how to relate to our fellow man, among 356 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:40,240 Speaker 1: other things, and liberty. This was the beacon of liberty 357 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 1: for the entire world. And here we are in a 358 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 1: situation where those liberties are escaping from us, such basic 359 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: liberties like freedom of speech. Some people say, our freedom 360 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: of speech is not being impeded. The government's not stopping 361 00:28:55,440 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 1: us from saying anything. Guess what if big tech, social media, 362 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 1: and the mainstream media are restricting your speech with compliance 363 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: of the federal government, the effect is exactly the same. 364 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: We got to wake up and make sure we understand that. 365 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: And then the other cornerstone community. We've succeeded in the 366 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: past because we worked together, all of those little towns 367 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: and villages and Oklahoma and Wyoming and New Hampshire. They 368 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,160 Speaker 1: had people with different skills and different talents, but they 369 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: worked together to build strong communities that grew and coalesce 370 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: and created the foundation for massively successful nation. And yet 371 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 1: we have forces now that are trying to destroy that 372 00:29:51,640 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: sense of community, driving wedges on the basis of race, income, religion, age, 373 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: political affiliation, you name it, driving wedges, trying to destroy 374 00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: that cohesiveness, making you believe that that person who lived 375 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: across the street from you for the last twenty years 376 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:18,000 Speaker 1: peacefully is now your enemy because they have a different 377 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: yard sign than you do. Folks, it's okay to have 378 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: different opinions. I always say, if two people agree about everything, 379 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 1: one of them isn't necessary. You know, we need to 380 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: have differences of opinion. It's okay. It does not make 381 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: us into enemies. But you know, my mother understood at 382 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,280 Speaker 1: a very young age how important it was to do 383 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: reading and to emphasize education, and she made us read books. 384 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: And I didn't like it a whole lot of the beginning, 385 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: but you know, there were a lot of people around 386 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: who were talking about how negative our situation was, how 387 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: the society was stacked against black people, and how you 388 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: could never realize your dreams. But as I read those books, 389 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,520 Speaker 1: and I read about engineers and entrepreneurs and surgeons and 390 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 1: explorers and all kinds of people, and I begin to 391 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: understand that the person who has the most to do it, 392 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 1: what happens to you is you stop looking for somebody 393 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: else to blame, double down, work extremely hard, and accomplish 394 00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 1: and goes. You know, It's one of the reasons I 395 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: think of a lot of immigrants to this country do 396 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: so well. They come here and they see nothing but opportunity, 397 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: whereas so many people who are born here already think 398 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 1: their opportunities have vanished. You know one group that has 399 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: done the extremely well, Nigerians also Ghanaians to extremely well 400 00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:02,120 Speaker 1: in this country. And guess what, they're black. So, if 401 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,719 Speaker 1: our nation is systemically racist, how is it that these 402 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: black people are doing so well economically? If our country 403 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: is systemically racist, why do people in Central and South 404 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: America form caravans trying to get in here? Are they nuts? 405 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: Why would they come someplace where there's systemic racism against them? Well, 406 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: obviously they know that there is not systemic racism, and 407 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: they know that there are opportunities here. And I hope 408 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:42,479 Speaker 1: that many more Americans. We'll just engage that brain of years. 409 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: We have. These fabulous brains given to us by our creator, 410 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 1: were made in the image of God. And you know, 411 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 1: the human brain is a lot different than say a 412 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: dog's brain, or a cat's brain or any other animal. 413 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:03,520 Speaker 1: Most animals have very large mid brain. The midbrain allows 414 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: you to react, to react quickly to external stimulation, and 415 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: that's why animals react so quickly and so well. But 416 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 1: their frontal lobes are relatively small. That's where you engage 417 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: in active thought processing intellectual analysis. Animals don't have to 418 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,920 Speaker 1: do a lot of that. But people have big frontal 419 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 1: lobes and relatively small midbrain, and yet critical race theory 420 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 1: tries to get you to react, to react to a 421 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 1: person's external characteristics and not to analyze their character. Isn't 422 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 1: that what doctor Kingworth talking about when he said he 423 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,360 Speaker 1: dreamed at the time when his children would be judged 424 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,040 Speaker 1: on the content of their character and not the color 425 00:33:55,120 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: of their skin. Let's just think about this. Do we 426 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: want to judge people based on external characteristics over which 427 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 1: they have no control or would it be more prudent 428 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: to judge them on the basis of a character over 429 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:20,720 Speaker 1: which they have complete control. We just have to start 430 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 1: using those frontal lobes a little bit more. At American Cornerstone, 431 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:30,320 Speaker 1: we're starting a program called Little Patriot where we're teaching 432 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:36,799 Speaker 1: through a number of mechanisms, including interactive Internet lessons that 433 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: have just incredible graphics, teeing them about the real history 434 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,240 Speaker 1: of our country, warts and all. Every society has warts, 435 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: and we have some warts too, because we're inhabited by 436 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 1: human beings, and human beings are inherently not perfect. That's 437 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,200 Speaker 1: why we need a savior. But we want them to 438 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: learn about our nation We want them to learn about 439 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:09,960 Speaker 1: the people who were the founders of our nation. We 440 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 1: want them to learn about those young men who sacrifice 441 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:20,360 Speaker 1: their lives on the beaches of Normandy so that we 442 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 1: could have freedom. We want them to learn about the 443 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 1: young ladies who left by the millions their homes to 444 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: go into the factories during World War Two and to 445 00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 1: build more bombs, tanks, and mortars than anybody could imagine, 446 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: which helped to save the world from Nazism. Our country 447 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 1: has nothing to be ashamed of. We've created an environment 448 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 1: where people have been able to have magnificent lifestyles. Okay, folks, 449 00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 1: time for a break from Newt's wonderful sponsors. Welcome back 450 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,080 Speaker 1: to Newts World. I'm doctor Ben Carson, filling in for 451 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 1: the vacationing Newt Gingrich. We thought we tried something fun today. 452 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 1: We sent out a request for questions to you, the listener, 453 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 1: questions you'd like me to answer, and we've got some 454 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: great ones now to help me. I'd like to introduce 455 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: you to Debbie Myers, the president of Gingrish three sixty 456 00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:52,720 Speaker 1: and the executive producer of Newts World, who probably would 457 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: like to be on vacation too, but she's dedicated and 458 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 1: wants to participate in this program. Hi, Debbie, Hi, how 459 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 1: are you? Thank you so much for filling and you're 460 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,359 Speaker 1: doing a great job. Thank you. We got a lot 461 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: of wonderful questions. A lot of people love you, doctor Carson, 462 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,560 Speaker 1: so it's hard to narrow these down. But hopefully you'll 463 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: come back and do more and I'll save some of 464 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,319 Speaker 1: these great questions for you later. But let's kick it 465 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,120 Speaker 1: off with our first question from Mike, and Mike asked 466 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,160 Speaker 1: doctor Carson, what do you think caused the political divide 467 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 1: in the United States, and more importantly, how can we 468 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,720 Speaker 1: reverse it. That's a very good question and obviously something 469 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:36,160 Speaker 1: that concerns many of us. You know, there was a time, 470 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: in a not too distant pass quite frankly, when our 471 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:47,799 Speaker 1: political atmosphere was occupied by Democrats and republican. Democrats are 472 00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:52,000 Speaker 1: Republicans who had the same end goal, they just had 473 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:58,840 Speaker 1: different philosophies about how to achieve it. Now it's different. 474 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,680 Speaker 1: Now they don't have the same end goals. Now we 475 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 1: have people who love what America stands for, liberty and 476 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:15,839 Speaker 1: justice for all one nation under God, and we have 477 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,720 Speaker 1: another group of people who want to fundamentally change America 478 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 1: who actually dislike what America represents. And it's going to 479 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,880 Speaker 1: obviously be more difficult now to get on the same 480 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 1: page with people who don't like the page that we're 481 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:41,799 Speaker 1: on and want to turn it. However, because we have 482 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: those big frontel lodes, we do have the ability to 483 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,400 Speaker 1: sit down, We do have the ability to discuss things. 484 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:54,040 Speaker 1: We do have ability to work things out. We shouldn't 485 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,800 Speaker 1: be trying to eliminate each other, we should be trying 486 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,399 Speaker 1: to work with each other. It can do that. It's 487 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,560 Speaker 1: going to require voices of reason, no question about that. 488 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:11,640 Speaker 1: But it's also going to require a platform whereby the 489 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 1: people who truly love and believe in America can get 490 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:22,440 Speaker 1: their voices heard. When we have organizations like Facebook and 491 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,759 Speaker 1: Twitter and some of the other social media platforms trying 492 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:30,640 Speaker 1: to shut down the speech of people who don't agree 493 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:36,360 Speaker 1: with the leftist agenda, it makes it very, very difficult. However, 494 00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:41,640 Speaker 1: necessity is the mother of invention, and those new transplant 495 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,200 Speaker 1: platforms are being created and they will be here very soon, 496 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,920 Speaker 1: and I think that's going to help to level the 497 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:52,560 Speaker 1: playing field. This next question is from Glenn from California, 498 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,680 Speaker 1: and he says it seems like homelessness around the country 499 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,960 Speaker 1: keeps growing. Why do you think that is and what 500 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,760 Speaker 1: are your ideas to solve one of the grand challenges 501 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:06,239 Speaker 1: of our time? Again a very appropriate question. Obviously, that 502 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: was something we dealt with a lot when I was 503 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,080 Speaker 1: at HUT, and obviously it's been something we've been working 504 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:18,320 Speaker 1: on in this country for decades and it is getting worse. 505 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,560 Speaker 1: Part of the problem is if you go out there 506 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,480 Speaker 1: and you see the homeless people, like I visited the 507 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:28,000 Speaker 1: Los Angeles a number of times, skid Row and some 508 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,160 Speaker 1: of the other areas, a lot of those homeless people 509 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:37,919 Speaker 1: are suffering significantly from drug addiction, from mental illness. It's 510 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:41,719 Speaker 1: very problematic. And you know, they have something some of 511 00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,600 Speaker 1: you are familiar with called the Housing First program, where 512 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,480 Speaker 1: you just say, let's get people off the street, no requirements, nothing, 513 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,839 Speaker 1: just get them off the street because they're safer off 514 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: the street and it costs less to take care of 515 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,520 Speaker 1: them off the street. This is true. I believe in 516 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 1: housing first, but I think it must be coupled with 517 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,600 Speaker 1: housing second and housing third. Housing second, as you diagnose 518 00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:13,759 Speaker 1: the reason that they're homeless, and housing third you fix it. 519 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,000 Speaker 1: So if you're dealing with people who are drug for instance, 520 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,840 Speaker 1: you need to work on getting them clean. Now. A 521 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,440 Speaker 1: lot of them will say, well, I don't want to 522 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 1: be clean. I like this, this is what I want, 523 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,600 Speaker 1: this is the lifestyle I want. In most cases, that's 524 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,440 Speaker 1: probably not true. And if they could push a button 525 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,279 Speaker 1: and not be addicted, I believe most of them would 526 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,759 Speaker 1: wear that button now. But unfortunately, it's easy to get 527 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:44,600 Speaker 1: addicted and very hard to get unaddicted. And we need 528 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,239 Speaker 1: to be compassionate and we need to use the resources 529 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,720 Speaker 1: we have to get those people back on their feet 530 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:55,239 Speaker 1: to become productive members of our society. As far as 531 00:41:55,320 --> 00:42:00,000 Speaker 1: the mentally ill our concerned. It's cruel in visual punishment, 532 00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,240 Speaker 1: quite frankly, to put those people out on the street 533 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,600 Speaker 1: like we did many decades ago, unable to take care 534 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,200 Speaker 1: of themselves. In many cases would be like taking a 535 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,319 Speaker 1: ten or twelve year old, sticking them on the street 536 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:15,080 Speaker 1: and send pin for yourself. But you know, with appropriate 537 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:21,439 Speaker 1: counseling and therapy, including income in some cases medications, many 538 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 1: of those people can be quite functional, and that's what 539 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,600 Speaker 1: we need to be thinking about. And then there are 540 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,839 Speaker 1: those who are on the street simply because they can't 541 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,120 Speaker 1: afford not to be on the street. I mean, in 542 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,600 Speaker 1: a place like Los Angeles, you can make fifty thousand 543 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,040 Speaker 1: dollars a year or not be able to find a 544 00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:37,680 Speaker 1: place to live and still have to live in a 545 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:42,000 Speaker 1: tent or in your car or your van. You know, 546 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:45,600 Speaker 1: we need to work on getting those people into a 547 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,360 Speaker 1: situation where they can get the appropriate skills. But we 548 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,680 Speaker 1: also need to work on affordable house and you should 549 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:53,560 Speaker 1: be able to find a place that you can afford 550 00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,680 Speaker 1: if you make fifty thousand dollars a year. You know, 551 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:03,160 Speaker 1: accessory dwelling unit, tiny houses, cubicle houses. There's a whole 552 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,919 Speaker 1: bunch of inventions over the last few decades that would 553 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,720 Speaker 1: be quite useful, but then we have so many regulations 554 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,359 Speaker 1: that prevent us from using it. And by the time 555 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,560 Speaker 1: you add on all the regulations, you've taken something that 556 00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,920 Speaker 1: was eminently affordable and transformed into something that's not affordable. 557 00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,120 Speaker 1: During the last administration, we had the White House Task 558 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:30,080 Speaker 1: Force on eliminating barriers to affordable housing. We were getting 559 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,640 Speaker 1: a lot of work done on that. I hope that 560 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:37,080 Speaker 1: the current administration will pick up on that and recognize 561 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:39,400 Speaker 1: that there are ways to do it. But we have 562 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,400 Speaker 1: to be actively involved and getting rid of those things 563 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:50,760 Speaker 1: that cause the problem. But I had a great time 564 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,399 Speaker 1: hosting Newts World today and I hope you enjoyed our 565 00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,480 Speaker 1: time together. I'm going to be hosting another episode. It 566 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:03,319 Speaker 1: launches this coming Sunday, August the first, and we're gonna 567 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:08,280 Speaker 1: be talking about something very important and that is why 568 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:14,840 Speaker 1: America matters, and believe me, it does. Also, don't forget 569 00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:20,239 Speaker 1: to email me your questions, keep them short, email them 570 00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:28,279 Speaker 1: to English three dot com slash newt until Sunday. Be 571 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:43,440 Speaker 1: well and enjoy your day.