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So, uh, last year you said something about DEI unqualified black pilots. You see a pilot on a black pilot. Uh, don't you think it was irresponsible statement suggesting that maybe these pilots aren't qualified or unqualified? But I'll tell you exactly what I said and why I said it. I said if I the pretext I went through a whole windup. I said United Airlines is saying that they want 40% of all their pilots to be people of color or women. We have learned that that we have relaxed standards anytime that we try to reach racial quotas. Anytime we reach racial quotas, we relax the standards. Standards for air traffic control professors or college admissions. Therefore, when it comes to pilots or surgeons, if I see somebody who is black, as I said on the show, I'm going to hope that that person is qualified. That's what I said, which of course is legitimate because they're begging the question, we're not hiring based on merit anymore. We're hiring based on race. So, so when you see a black pilot, you wonder, boy, is that person there because they earned it or because they were placed there. That's what DEI does. It makes you ask questions you otherwise would not ask. So, the airline industry is going to take an unqualified person just just based off diversity. Underqualified. Yeah. Underqualified. Unqualified. Unqualified. Whatever. Uncertified and put them in a cockpit and risk people's lives. No, those are two different things. Under and on are two different things. Of course, United Airlines will not take someone off the side of the street and put them into a pilot pilot. But in order to reach a 40% goal, they might cut corners. They might accelerate the process in order to reach a goal. We know this through all sorts of DEI examinations and projects over the last 10 years. When you when you can you have to choose in life either excellence or racial quotas will end up being the most important and both cannot simultaneously exist. It's never happened before. Okay. Okay.
So, when we talk about DEI, well, who benefits the most? Because black people really don't. It's only like maybe 3 to 4% of black people actually benefit from those programs. So, who benefits the most? Uh, I I'm not sure your question. I mean, theoretically, if 40% of all pilots end up being black people are, but that's not I actually looked it up. It's only like maybe about 6% of their goal is 40%. Right? That's the point. It's like that that's actually a great point. So, they wanted to go from 6% to 40%. And so, you have to wonder, boy, you go from 6% to 40%, there's going to be a relaxing of standards. Okay. I guess the way I'm Let me see if I can rephrase this. So essentially when you talk about DI affirmative action or anything to that effect, I'm against all of it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And and that would be fine. The thing is is that now it's actually uh you know referenced as a slur against uh you know essentially if you see a black person in a position or you know minority or whatever the assumption is that that person is not qualified when literally and you know you have to be qualified in order to even to to get in that position. Well so let's take college admissions. So this is what great example at Harvard. We learned because of new revealed documents that black students were having test scores that were 30 to 35% lower than their white counterparts. Okay? And so therefore, if you saw a black kid at Harvard, it's a fact that they were not having the same test standards as their white counterparts. Still doesn't matter. The kid has to get through. He's got to get through the classes, do the tests, do all the research. Well, they actually drop out at a greater rate, too. But the point being is just the idea that they were there number one took a spot from an otherwise qualified individual that might be white and they were not there on the same merits. So what we want is the same rules for everybody. You're making the assumption that they're not qualified in order to get in in order to even get there. It's the data. So for example, it's literally at Harvard you had kids with perfect SAT scores, perfect ACT scores that were white. So that makes a degree from Harvard worthless then. Well, you're exactly right. Yeah, actually Harvard's degree is becoming more worthless because it's more race-based than merit-based. You're exactly right. Okay.
Now, we talked enough about that. You Okay, so in the past, you said you made statements about black privilege. So, can you explain that to me and what it is and Yeah, of course. I mean, it's easier for a black person to get into college than a white person, you get with lower test scores. It's called affirmative action. Okay. So, that's been a Okay, so college admission uh affirmative action for college has been struck down. Thank you. Yeah, I I'll give you another example. Uh what percentage of TV commercials have black people versus white people? I'm not sure about that. But white people are also in the commercial. About 40. Oh, this is important. About 40 to 50% of all network TV commercials have a person of color right now. What percentage of America is a person of color? Uh, so at least for black people, I know we're about 13%. About So 13% of the population, nearly half of all the TV commercials. White people are still in the commercials. Yes. But underrepresented as proportional though. The point being, I can give you another example. Easier to get corporate jobs. There are entire departments that are dedicated to just try and expand racial quotas. You know what would really would have fixed this from the beginning had you not had you know all the so why do we have DI in the first place because this this is the problem that creates so why why why is why would why was DI necessary in the first place or people or at least the government thought it was necessary in the first place why do I think that it was no why why would you want my well-intentioned explanation or the whatever you got I mean DI was obviously about trying to trying to destroy the excellence of the country and elevate racial tribal politics okay so If you don't have the racism, right, and you then you'll need that program. So you you eradicate the racism then and that eliminates the need for act for you know any kind of program. No, but if you have excellence, you're going to find the best that tries to, you know, take people and and put them in place because they're minorities. No, you want the best in everything. So let me just ask a final question. Okay, if you were about to board a United Airlines flight from Tallahassee to Atlanta and you find out the airline pilot says, "Hey everybody, I'm a pilot. I was hired because of diversity. Let's have a great flight." Would that make you feel good or not so good? No, but I know he's still got to be qualified in order to fly that aircraft. But he said, "I was hired because of diversity." And you're like, "You still got to meet the standards in order to get into." Well, again, we know because air traffic controllers and many others, they relax those standards. When you have a surgeon, you're saying that, but that look, you're not it it does not make sense. It's irresponsible not only to say that, but to actually put, you know, unqualified people in a in and risk lives. But we but we know that's actually happening every day. And that's why it doesn't make sense. But they but racial quotas end up mattering more than excellence. When I go in for surgery, I want my surgeon to be the best surgeon. And here's where we can agree with that. We want a merit-based society, not a race-based society. I say we should have started that way from the beginning, but at any rate, then the last thing I don't want to talk to Mike, but I'll just say this last thing. Um, so you talked about, you know, black fathers absentee and all this other stuff and everything else. I actually agree. Okay. You know, yeah, more you know, more fathers in the home and everything else. That's that's wonderful stuff. The thing is is that you also said and and I'm looking at some of your stuff previous that there's a system in place that actually incentivizes women to make babies without husbands. A great society. Take that away. And then and then and then that problem essentially goes away. I agree. Now, I would ask this question also. What percent of black men do you think are abandoned in their their homes right now? Well, we know we know that it's actually 60 to 70%. that well okay then you you'd actually be wrong because you know the CDC actually uh submitted a report in 2023 that says 54% of black men don't even have children but that's 54% No those are two different numbers man I'm talking about those that impregnate okay well most black men well most black men are actually producing children and within the construct of marriage I'm talking about just the kids so so you're saying black men are getting married and then leaving their families not getting married that's the problem what I'm saying is the data I'm saying two out of three black men impregnate women and don't stay with them. Sir, I'm telling you that 54% of black men according to the CDC study 2023 national health statistic reports literally says that 54% don't even have children. I know that that's a different complete different stat. Everyone knows what I'm saying and not what you're saying. That's a complete different that's like a what I'm saying is that if you have a black child, which obviously exists for some reason, right? Somebody did something to make that black baby, okay? Two out of three times the dad will not be around. Fact done. The statistics only out of Yeah, it's only out of Thank you. The statistics are actually out of only those who have kids. So So So you got black men who are married also. They're not abandoning their children and families at high rates. I'm That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the vast majority of black babies are born out of wedlock with abandoned fathers. Okay. So let's do this. Now, if that's bad for black if that's bad for black, it's bad for everybody. So then shouldn't that be your shouldn't that be your main line then? It is actually everywhere I go. No, when you do it, you kind of focus on black men as if somehow we're the only ones that you know that's part of that problem. Well, no, but it is a black men abandonment issue. Of course. I mean I mean would you agree that's probably the biggest issue facing black America is lack of dads. It's one of the issues. Okay. What is the biggest issue? I don't know. Yeah, I haven't kind of thought about that. I want you to think about it over the next couple days. We as conservatives believe because we got a lot of problems, but I'll the breakdown of family. we believe is the original sin of what's happening. We think that truth transcends colors. It's true for white people, black people, Asians, and Hispanics. Final thought. Okay, fine. Good question. I mean, good conversation. I just my thing is when I hear you talk about it, it seems like you're framing it improperly and then people are here saying that I'm doing it improperly, but you know, I'm a black man in America. I know something about I'm just offering you grace. I I'm not saying that your number is wrong. Just saying that it's a statistic that wasn't necessarily relevant to what I was saying. So, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks for talk.