Michael Knowles (16:07)
Okay, so this is not a new clip. It's resurfacing because Jasmine Crockett is now running for Senate. And this clip was from earlier in the year. And obviously it's quite relevant now because crime has ticked up, because the terror attacks have ticked up, because the terror is coming from the left, because violent crime is a big problem in the cities that Trump has sought to suppress. And so she says, well, hold on, this is all misplaced. Most violent crime in America is committed by white supremacists. So this is not merely a claim of, I don't know, of preference. This is not a claim of supposition, a gut feeling. This is the sort of thing that we actually can test. So I went to the FBI statistics and even take out the supremacist part. Is it the case that most violent crime is committed by white people generally? Sort of. Sort of. But when you consider it proportional to the relative white, black, Hispanic or the other population, it's much, much lower. So According to the FBI statistics, 59.4% of violent crime is committed by white people. Now, white people are 60%, a little over 60% of the population. So it's lower than the proportion of white people in the population. But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. There are a lot of lies in these statistics. So 59.4% of violent crime committed by whites, 36.2% committed by black people. Now, black people are only about 12% of the population. So much, much higher proportion of violent crime being committed by Black people then 2.4% being committed by Indians. Feather not dot. And 2% being committed by Asians. Now you notice there is a demographic group that is missing here. The demographic group being Hispanics. Where are the Hispanics? You add up all these numbers, you get to 100%. So where are the Hispanics? The Hispanics are largely classified as white for the purpose of crime statistics. Notice Hispanics are not uniformly classified as white. Hispanics are not. And you might say, well, look, there are blacker Hispanics and whiter Hispanics. Hispanics of more Spanish origin, Hispanics of more African origin, Hispanics of more indigenous origin. Yeah, yeah, that's all true. But put all of that aside. Regardless, when it comes to crime statistics, Hispanics are largely classified as white. When it comes to university admissions, Hispanics are never classified as white, ever. It doesn't matter how. They could be lily white. They could be straight out of Barcelona. Barcelona, Quick little pit stop in Havana on the way up to America. They are not classified as white. In other words, when it is advantageous for Latinos as a group to be classified as white for the purpose of hiding crime statistics, they are. And when it is advantageous for them to be classified as non white, they are classified as non white. As in the case of affirmative action university admissions. So even that Jesse and Crockett says most of the crime is committed by white supremacists, you say, okay, what's what? 59 or so percent? Even that, though a huge chunk of that we don't know what percentage is not white people by many metrics in America. Okay, then, furthermore, let's get to her real claim, which is white supremacists. How many white supremacists are there in the country? Like four, I assume. @ this point, the vast majority of people who belong to white supremacist organizations are FBI agents. It's like there's 10 people in the Klan group and nine of them are federal agents. And one of them is Bubba. Poor Bubba, who got lured to the. He was probably Invited by the FBI, but they just don't exist. So then you look even where there are these gangs, they're mostly prison gangs, like the Aryan Brotherhood, and they mostly just kill each other. But I looked at this data set, and according to the statistics, white supremacists account for well under 0.1% of violent crime in the United States. So statistically, zero. So in other words, Jasmine Crockett, completely wrong about this. And probably people who observe that will be derided as racist or playing identity politics or something or whatever. However, we have to keep this principle in mind. We have to keep this principle in mind when we're talking about the terror attacks that were foiled on New Year's Eve. Terror attacks that just took place at Brown University in Sydney, Australia. We talk about violent crime. Generally, it is very important to identify where the problem is coming from. Not out of cruelty, not out of hatred, not out of bigotry. Not because we hate the leftists and want to round them all up and send them to camps. Not because we hate black people or these people or that people, but because clarity is charity. And you can only fix a problem if you identify where the problem's coming from. And you want to fix the problem for everyone, even for the perpetrators. It's the idea of a rehabilitative criminal justice system. Okay. Speaking of racial politics, a very sorry scene took place in the US Capitol. Statue of Robert E. Lee was just removed from the Capitol. This has been a process that's been building for years and years and years since blm. So they take down the statue of General Lee, one of the greatest Americans ever to live, and they replaced the statue of General Lee with a statue of civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns. I say civil rights icon because that is how this is being reported everywhere in the liberal media, even in some of the conservative media. Civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns. Quick test. Hold on. Don't Google it. Who's Barbara Rose Johns? You don't know? I don't know. I looked at her Wikipedia page today. I still don't really know. Nobody has ever heard of this woman ever. No one. No one. And I know there's this impulse, especially among people who want the approval of the liberal, coastal, intellectual, credentialed institutional elites. I know there's a simple specific. No, of course I've heard of that person. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I've totally. Of course I've heard of. Who hasn't heard of Juneteenth? Yeah, of course. Oh, I've been. My family's been celebrating Juneteenth for, you know, like a hundred years. What are you. Oh, yeah, of course I know what that is. Oh, yeah, Barbara Rose John. Yeah, of course I know. Who's Barbara Rose Johns? You've never heard of her? She's not an icon. The left is trying to make her into an icon by iconoclasm. Taking down the icon of General Lee, who as an icon, stood for something and stood for something very good. Do you know what he stood for? He stood for reconciliation among Americans who had such bitter divisions that they went to war with each other. And General Lee, after defending his countrymen, General Lee after not even really defending slavery, which was obviously an important issue in the Civil War, but General Lee, who famously said that he celebrated the end of slavery, he rejoiced that slavery was over. General Lee, who would have happily given up all of his slaves if it were up to him. He fulfilled what Abraham Lincoln called for, which was malice toward none and charity for all, and they took him down. And now there's a new icon, this woman that no one's ever heard of. And this new icon stands for what? Victory of the oppressed over the oppressor. Victory of the unknown. The very fact that no one knows who she is is actually part of her iconography. The victory of the unknown person over the great man of history. Victory of the modern progressives over the traditions of America, over the traditional American. And I can't tell you the surprise and disappointment I felt when I read Glenn Youngkin's take on this. I like Glenn Youngkin. I think he's been a good governor in Virginia. I like him, and I know that he's the governor of a blue commonwealth. And I hated his take on. We'll get to this in one second. First, I want to tell you about RO Nutrition. Go to rhoneutrition.com discount knowles. This episode is sponsored by Row Nutrition. You can get 20% off Row's liposomal NAD@rhonutrition.com discount knowles. Let me tell you why I strongly recommend Rose liposomal NAD every morning. NAD is one of the most important molecules in your entire body. If you picture every cell having a little engine inside of it, the mitochondria, you probably learned that in seventh grade. NAD is the fuel that engine runs on. It's what helps power everything from your metabolism to cellular repair to how well you think and recover. As we get older or just live busy, high stress lives, NAD levels naturally decline. 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Today we gathered in Emancipation hall of the U.S. capitol to dedicate the Barbara Rose Johns statue to honor her legacy as a trailblazer and ensure her story of courage and conscience is a story for generations to come. Okay, blah blah blah. Here's the kicker. You can't tell the story of Virginia or the story of how our nation overcame segregation without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns. You can't tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns. We've done a pretty good job of it for the last 300 years. No one ever heard of this woman before yesterday. You cannot convince me that anyone, possibly including the people who put her statue up yesterday, no one had ever heard of this woman. You can't. We were doing a pretty good job telling the story of Virginia before yesterday. Frankly, we were doing a better job of telling the story of Virginia in years past, before the recent spate of statue toppling and spitting on our ancestors. You can't. He's a Republican. Glenn Youngkin I don't mean to invade. I get it. There are political exigencies when you're a Republican governor in what is generally a blue Commonwealth. I get it. Look, it's easy for me to pontificate. I don't have to go win the votes of moderates and Dems. And I get it. But bro, what on earth are you talking about? This has taken political stretching of the truth into the realm of the truly absurd. You can't tell the story of Virginia without telling the story of Barbara Rose Johns. I forgot her name in between the last time I was complaining about this and this most recent statement, which was a time span of about 32 seconds. What's her name? Hey, hey. Pop Quiz. Maybe if you're watching this, you see it on the screen. But if you're listening, Pop Quiz. What's the lady's name? I bet some of you don't. It's Barbara Rose Johns. Oh, it's all just so tedious now. In stable countries, I wanna be totally fair. I wanna be as fair as I can be. In stable countries, stories change. Stories about our heroes, our ancestors, our lore, our mythology, they change over time. That's true. That's necessary. That's part of how human culture develops. So our understanding of George Washington today is a little different from the Founding Fathers understanding of George Washington is a little different from the 19th century understanding of George Washington. Certainly that's true. Myths and legends develop over time. George Y. He cut down a cherry tree and he could not tell a lie. Absolutely. Absolutely. These things change. However, in stable countries, the stories that we tell about our heroes just kind of develop. It's like the stories of the saints, and these heroes of American history are just secular, civic saints. But the stories of the saints there are real saints. These saints really lived. They really did real things. A lot of them were martyrs for the faith. And then legends develop about the saints, you know, slaying dragons and things like that. It's not that the legends totally undermine the real history of the saints. They really develop out of the real history. They color in the real history, but they don't undermine the truth of it. That's what happens in stable countries. You get some legends and myths and stories we tell about the heroes change in revolutionary countries like we live in right now. The heroes themselves change today. Think about this. When I was a kid, we learned about the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Probably many of you did too. People learned about the midnight ride of Paul Revere from the revolutionary era, when it was news all the way up through probably about 20 years ago. Now, if you polled 100 kids under the age of 25, you said, who's Paul Revere? How many of them would have any idea? Not just how many of them would have. Their stories differ a little bit in different. No, no. How many of them would even know who that person is? They probably wouldn't. Because these heroes of American history are not merely having their reputations changed or even damaged. They're being erased. They're being pulled down like the Taliban blowing up the Buddha statues. That's what the left is doing here. Think about Ike Eisenhower was a moderate Republican president, war hero. Of World War II. Country loved him. Presided over really probably the greatest era of peace and prosperity ever in the United States. Here's what Dwight Eisenhower had to say about Robert E.
