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11-19-24 Willie with Heather McDonald

Nov 19, 202417 min
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Willie discusses the war on police in the name of social justice with Heather McDonald.

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Speaker 1

Okay, let's continue, Bill Cunningham. The great American, one of the great thinkers and philosophers I call her in American life today is Heather McDonald's and she's written many books on the subject of race and merit. What's happening to urban areas. I think there's been a slight turn in the right direction. We'll see what occurs. A new book is coming is out when race Trump's merit, But more importantly,

Heather McDonald, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. You have a posting about what happened in California, because we're often told what happens in California will come to Iowa, Ohio and Georgia down the road. But what happened to George Gascone and Pamela Price in California, Why that might be a slight turn in the right direction by the citizens of California.

Speaker 2

Well, it's great to be with you Bill again. They were finally held accountable for performing their jobs, which they have utterly failed to do. George Gascon, the prosecutor, the deep District attorney in Los Angeles County, has twice faced recall efforts that failed failed allegedly didn't get enough signatures.

The day he took office, he sparked a revolt among the longstanding district attorneys in his office because he issued proclamations that basically said, we're going to stop enforcing the law because if we do so, it will have a disparate impact on black criminals. So there's been extreme dissatisfaction among people that are officially and truly committed to the rule of law for since he was in office. But

he's managed to escape. This time. He was booted out, elected out to a very moderate challenger, Nate Hawkman, by a massive percentage. Two thirds of the voters voted for Hawkman, and Gascon had initially had a of sorrows money behind him,

this time he got almost none. Even the sorrows people were realistic to know that la had seen so many of the mass looting events, so many of the street takeovers, so many of these flash mobs that come into seven elevens and strip them like a horde of locusts, knowing the participants, knowing that there will be no consequences, that

he's out. And then in Alameda County, which is the East Bay area east of San Francisco, whose county seat is Oakland, which is itself right next to Berkeley, California. They put in several two years ago an extremely left wing prosecutor named Pamela Price, who again, this is all about race, Bill, Everything going on in the criminal justice system for the last twelve years is all about race. If you don't know that, you're not going to understand

what's going on. It's all about decriminalizing and deprosecuting because if you enforce the law in a color blind, constitutional neutral fashion, you will have a disparate impact on black criminals. Not because the law is racist, but because the black crime rate is so high, and we have decided collectively as a society somehow that we would rather not enforce the law at all, that enforce it and have a

disparate impact on blacks. So Pamela Price comes in and she's all about racial justice too, and she says, we're not going to prosecute fiendish juvenile homicide gang members as adults because that would be have a disparate impact. We're not going to put on sentencing enhancements to the most gruesome gang murders because that will have a disparate impact. And she this time she faced an actual recall that

was successful. Earlier in her term, the NAACP from Oakland called for the national emergency to be called because crime had gotten so out of control. You had long standing businesses around the Oakland Airport, like in and out Burger Target that had been there for decades that pulled out because they said, we can't guarantee the safety of our employees or customers any longer. Pamela Price denied this was a problem, and she helps firm to her racial justice agenda.

And so you have two of the most liberal cities in the country and counties finally saying enough is enough. And so this is a very good sign. Bill. I'm not usually an optimist, right and I always thought that liberals would put up endlessly with crime and disorder because they're so committed to their ideology. But it turns out that finally there is a limit.

Speaker 1

And the great number of victims of the disparate impact argument are also black victims and are also persons of color. They're the ones who voted out these left wing prosecutors because black mom and dads and family members, they don't want to live in a society we're tolerating crime and urban squalors as part of the cost of business. The black voter supports you and I and also those who kicked out these prosecutors. Correct, this isn't black against white. These are criminals against victims.

Speaker 2

That's absolutely true. Now, you know, one can be a little bit too rosy about that. There still is you know, supporting the black community for racial victimology. But as I say, it was very significant that the NAACP in Oakland said enough is enough. We're in an emergency situation here and we need strong law enforcement. So yes, nobody wants to It's it's amazing to me how racist the media is.

There are every single day in the country, there are dozens of blacks getting gunned down in these insane drive by shootings. Nobody ever talks about them. Those black lives don't matter a damn bit to the mainstream media. Why aided the races too, because they're killed by other blacks, And the only blacks that the mainstream media is interested in talking about is that handful of blacks that are shot by a cop. Usually the cop is shooting in

self defense, are trying to protect other people. But otherwise this slaughter that's going on in our cities. Every day is out of sight, out of mind.

Speaker 1

No question about. I hear the sirens in the background here, then another event's taking place and where you live. But most importantly what's occurring is that whether it's in Louisville and I have a friend of mine named Stu Matthews who's who represented one of those cops, they will pursue a white cop to the ends of the earth if they make a wrong, split second decision or one that maybe negligently might be wrong, and they will pursue him constantly.

But twenty thousand black men can gun down twenty thousand other black men on a regular basis and there's no big deal at all. What are the facts and the statistics of being killed at the handsome police? Can you tell the American people be goes you speak so forcibly about this, Give us the facts on cops who kill black men and also white men and other What are the facts nationally?

Speaker 2

Well, blacks, there's about eight to ten thousand homicide victims a year who were black. That's more than all white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though Blacks are only thirteen percent of the population. So and those eight to ten thousand black homicide victims dozens a day. Dozens of blacks killed a day, more than all white and Hispanics killed a day. They are killed overwhelmingly by other blacks. The number of blacks who are killed by a police

officer every year is about two hundred and fifty. The vast majority of those are armed and dangerous. The number of whites killed by a police officer every year is about five hundred, so twice as men whites are killed by blacks. Now that is disproportionate because blacks are thirteen percent. But here's the key.

Speaker 1

When what is what.

Speaker 2

Predicts the police officer's use of force or legal force is the likelihood of confronting armed, violent, and resisting suspects. That happens overwhelmingly in black neighborhoods because of the crime rate. As far as unarmed so called unarmed blacks, and I'm going to bracket that bill because the unarmed category comes from the Washington Post database of fatal police shootings, and

the Washington Post declares unarmed very very loosely. Somebody, if you're suspect trying to grab an officer's gun, but it's not your gun, you're unarmed. So the number of blacks who are killed by the police. Unarmed blacks who are killed by the police every year is about twelve to fifteen. Compare that to eight thousand to ten thousand black homicide victims. A police office is four hundred times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black

is to be killed by a police officer. Historically, blacks have made up about forty to forty two percent of all cop killers black males have even though they're six percent of the population. So if you want to talk about threat in the police black mail encounter, it is overwhelmingly to police officers and not to black So to.

Speaker 1

Put a sharper point on what you just said, from FBI statistics, there are twice as many white men killed by police every year than black men. And secondly, there's about eight thousand black owned black crimes victims. Every year, eight thousand black men are killed, But the total number of questionable police shootings is between twelve and fifteen not

twelve to fifteen thousand. The number is twelve to fifteen in the entire country, with literally tens of millions of contacts every year between law enforcement and the black community hundreds of millions every time somebody's pulled overstop whatever it might be, but twice as likely to be killed by a cop if you're white. And secondly, twelve to fifteen questionable shootings as opposed to eight thousand black men killing other black men, which the media will not deal with. Are those facts to.

Speaker 2

Boil it down? For that we're living a lie, the idea of a war on blacks that we've heard from President Obama, that we heard from from Obama, from Biden, that you know, black parents are right to fill fear that their child will be killed by a police officer every time they go outside. That is utter lie and deception. Yes, guess what Black juveniles in the post George Floyd rac hysteria riot world, black juveniles are one hundred times more

likely to be shot than white juveniles. Why because black juveniles are more likely to shoot at one hundred times the rate. Blacks between the ages of ten and twenty four die of gun homicide at twenty five times the rate of whites in those cohorts. That is, because they're committing crime at those rates. That's the threat to black children is the black gang bangers that we're told we can't incarc rate because that would be racist.

Speaker 1

Ben Heather MacDonald, in your book, when Race Trump's Merit, explain what that book is about, it's all over the place when you say the book is When Race Trump's Merit, explain that to the American people.

Speaker 2

Well, it's the same concept we've been talking about, Bill, which is that any racial disparity, according to elite wisdom, is by definition a result of racism, and therefore any behavioral or intellectual meritocratic standard that has a disparate impact

on blacks must be torn down. So, for instance, we find that black pudents don't do as well on the medical college admissions tests to get into medical school MCATs, and so we've declared those must be racist tests, even though they're colorblind, computer graded, stripped of any possible racial overtones. It's because the reason blacks don't do as well is

because their academic skills are way way behind. Only sixty six percent of black twelfth graders don't possess even partial mastery of basic twelfth grade maths like reading a graph or doing arithmetic. Sixty six percent of black twelfth graders possess basically no math skills. And then we've turned around and say, well, if they're not passing the m CATS proportionally, it's a racist test. So what we do is we tear down standards. We're tearing down standards for medical school,

for medical training because race Trump's merit. We're saying we would rather not have tests of medical knowledge than have a test that has a disparate impact on blacks. Is going on in every research lab, scientific research lab that a're hiring on the basis of race, not merit. It's going on, as I say, in the criminal justice system. It's going on in the federal judiciary. You had Biden elevating black females to the federal bench at rates way out of proportion to their population in the pool of

available lawyers. And that's not even taking into account the skills gap. We have decided that we would rather put racial diversity ahead of competence, ahead of excellence, ahead of achievement. And I just hope that from the day he takes office, Donald Trump says enough, I am going to extirpate the disparate impact standard from every federal regulation. I'm going to work with Congress to take it out of statutes. From here on, we care about one thing, and one thing only.

Can you do the job. I don't want to be promoted because I'm female. Female is not an accomplishment, and being black is not an accomplishment. Being gay is not an accomplishment. I know what accomplishment is. It's learning language, it's learning it's learning mathematics, it's learning reasoning. That's the only thing that should matter.

Speaker 1

And Heather MacDonald, the number one racial group when all these tests are taken are not Whites, They're Asians. In fact, the tests supposedly provide Asians because of faith and family and parents demand educational achievement. Of course, democrats are largely in charge of urban public education, which is an unmitigated disaster. But nonetheless, it's also true that Asians, another minority, do better than white boys and girls, men and women, and

Asians is a small racial category that succeeds magnificently. So the argument that this is racism while it's racist against Asians correct.

Speaker 2

Absolutely right. The idea of this is white supremacy, Well, we haven't done a very good job at it because Asians are whooping our and you can absolutely see it in the family culture. The parents are riding those children from day one. You will study, you will learn, you will get into Harvard, and Harvard keeps raising the bars. So it's harder and harder to get in into your Asian It's no longer enough to play two instruments like a professional. It's no longer enough to score perfect score

sixteen hundreds on your sads. You have to know, I don't know, God what you have to prove that you're going to be totally left wing, presumably to get in. And rather than saying lower the standards on our behalf, which is what the black civil rights leaders do, they say, Okay, we'll meet your standards. You keep raising them, we'll meet them.

Speaker 1

Unbelievable. It's about faith and family and good parenting. It's not about race. Once again, Heather McDonald, you're a great American. Let's not wait two years to do this again. The book is when race Trump's merit, you come with the facts, you come with the receipts. And once again, Heather McDonald, thank you very much for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show.

Let's have a great four years at Donald Trumper. We'll pull out Ei by the roots and get rid of the disparate racial impact studies, which is not as you say, it's not an accomplishment to be gay, it's not an accomplishment to be a female, it's not an accomplishment to be an Indian or a black, and let's get rid of that. I think Trump's going to do it, don't you, Heather? I do.

Speaker 2

And I'm actually for once optimistic in my life. Can you imagine if we had twelve years of EOP rule, I like to be still my heart, we would save the country.

Speaker 1

Oh my god, thank god, Heather McDonald. Once again, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Heather, you're a great American. Thank you.

Speaker 2

Thanks so much. Bill.

Speaker 1

Let's continue, never stop. We simply continue. Asians do well, do great on these tests, but we have to White supremacy fails because Asians succeed. Do you buy that argument? Bill cunning and the Great American with you every day. You're Home of the Bengals. News Radio seven hundred WULW

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