Responding to *NEW* Allegations of White Privilege.

we've got to react to what is a

remarkable piece by a high school

student

essentially slamming his school board

for focusing on race and race-based

education rather than an education that

should be based on Merit rather than the

color of our skin now I find some

interesting points in this and an

interesting comparison to for example

the idea and I want you to think about

this as we go through the video to the

idea of who's allowed to run for

president in the United States think

about this for a moment

skin color based discrimination is bad

and illegal of course

but who could run for president is in

some way similar now I don't want to get

a lot of angry folks I know that's a

little triggering so I'm gonna walk back

a little bit on that and say look I'm

not suggesting talking about who can run

for president has anything to do with

the hell that other races have gone

through including redlining and real

estate and building about the real

estate or the lack of financial

education that's provided in poor more

heavily minority-based districts it is

there is so much work that needs to be

done in America but it's very

interesting because when you listen to

this person's argument I want you to

think about their argument in context of

if somebody is uh born in another

country they don't choose where they're

born just like they don't choose their

race yet that is still a legal way that

the constitution legally today says oh

no no we can still discriminate based on

where you're born and now this

particular individual's argument is very

interesting and I'd like to play it and

we'll add some commentary here and yeah

and the reason I bring up the race idea

is just for example not that I actually

expect Elon Musk would ever run for

president uh but somebody like Elon Musk

of course a lot of Democrats would not

like that uh Republicans might like that

seems to be mostly a rational person who

likes to get things done uh you know it

can't run for president because he was

born in South Africa but anyway let's

listen to this video here because it's

phenomenal I might pause for some

commentary but I think it's a really

interesting piece and it's worth talking

about on my channel I'm a big fan of us

being able to have an open dialogue and

talk about even hard things so that's

what we'll do here let's go ahead and

jump into this

my name is Brett oh darn it I've got to

change the audio Source why does this

happen to me stand by just one second

there we go we just missed that Brad

Taylor and I just finished my freshman

year at rhs I've been a part of district

196 schools now for 10 years and I'm

going to give you a glimpse today of

what's actually going on inside these

schools despite the board's attempt to

deny it district 196 schools are quickly

becoming a place where promoting

activism is actually more important than

promoting education

I'll take you I'll take you back to my

first day at rhs this fall the principal

came out and gave us a heartfelt speech

about equality and standing together

um he began to list countless races such

as Latino Asian expressing how much they

matter and how important they are but

never once did he mention a race or

identity that reflects me or half the

kids that were in the class

now members of the board I know you

haven't been to school in a while and I

know most of the people I know none of

you or most of you don't have any kids

left in the school district

but you must admit how uncomfortable it

will be to be characterized just by your

skin color on the first day of school

and be thought that you were wrong just

because of your skin color

so I'll never forget to look one of my

friends gave me from across the room as

we were sitting there listening to this

blatant bias being expressed in the

so-called Equity statement by the leader

of our school

to be clear I don't need you to tell me

that I matter but hearing the

condolences given to other races and

leaving Just One race out it inevitably

you'll start to feel like you've done

something wrong

and in our principal's attempt to unify

us he instead created unwarranted

boundaries and barriers between his

students pitting us against each other

based on characteristics that we can't

control

in another separate instance I was told

that writing all lives matter on the

Whiteboard was political and could be

seen as offensive

when I questioned the teacher after

class she told me that she didn't have

an answer and she just had to erase it

and it was quickly erased

there are political signs all over rhs

specific about specific races that

matter specific sexual orientations that

matter and specific perspectives that

matter

but when I question the rhs

administration about how these signs

were political they told me that they

were supporting human rights so when I

questioned why the equity statement

couldn't represent all students they

told me that to even ask that question

was outlandish and offensive

and they when I asked why that was they

told me quote whites have a pretty good

situation right now unquote

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so is that not racism disregarding my

question merely because of the color of

my skin to be honest after during a year

of the people in charge telling me that

I'm a racist and I'm privileged and

pointing out our irreversible

differences I've never noticed race more

and it's becoming the first thing I

notice when I meet someone which has

never before been the case

rhs Administration confidently told me

that rhs students and staff are happy

with their Equity statement but from my

experience in talking with other

students this is not the case I know

many kids who disagree with their

teachers but they're too scared to stand

up because they're worried that their

grades will be docked in their learning

experience will be affected

my honors government teacher I'm not

going to say his name but he's mentioned

that Democrats care more about all

people while Republicans only care about

themselves

and he's also inferred to us that

socialism is better than democracy he

even had a statue he had a statue of a

socialist leader in his classroom

um I have been I've been told by a lot

of kids that they just stay silent and

adjust their schoolwork to reflect an

acceptable opinion to secure a good

grade

I've been approached by multiple

teachers who have told me in private

that they just want to say that they

agree with me and they support me

standing up but they can't say it in

front of the class for fear of being

disciplined by the administration in

some way or losing their jobs there is

clearly only one way to think in this

district and that is that they are

teaching their kids to shut up if they

don't agree

now members of the board I want you to

take a good look at yourselves in the

mirror tonight and ask are you really

standing up for the equality of all

people or are you just pushing a

damaging political ideology

um on our students

a fellow co-worker at my job who by the

way is of color

discreetly told me that the schools seem

to be pushing a very leftist agenda in

class

this proves that not everyone is happy

with your school and not everyone who

isn't happy is white

now due to all these instances I've

mentioned and many more that I can't fit

in this five-minute speech I've decided

to leave this district and continue

school on a private Christian School

online

thank you

and

and there will be sacrifices and I will

not get to walk in the graduation

ceremony or attend milestones at rhs but

I will be able to learn an environment

that is not intent on punishing me daily

for my skin color and political views

now regardless how you take my speech

whether you just shrug it off as

Malarkey or Fox News talking points

I encourage you to think about it

because someday I'm going to be a leader

I may be the president a governor or

just a professional golfer but I will

never stop believing that everybody has

value no matter their skin color or

personal beliefs and it's a shame that

you're not going to be able to say that

I was an alumni of rhs in District 196.

thank you

boy I'd hate to be on that board I also

would probably never be on any board

because I think boards suck I'm sorry

like if you're on a board I I couldn't

stand it maybe it's just not my

personality but anyway yeah look I mean

these are important things to think

about right you you can't pick your skin

color you can't change that right to you

you can't empathize with somebody of a

different skin color you could try to

sympathize but that's the best you can

do you know if you're black and I'm

white I can't empathize with you the

best I could do is sympathize that's it

that's that's definitely definitionally

the best thing you can do uh you also

can't pick where you're born you know if

you're born in America and you weren't

born with an accent uh which I had an

accent until about first grade for

example because I was born in Germany I

can't change that and and how did that

potentially affect someone as a child I

don't know I'm not trying to at all make

a comparison that an accent is like a

skin color I'm just saying you have no

control over that right you have no

control over your skin color you can't

pick where you're born to some degree

you can't even pick your health right

obviously to some degree you can you

could exercise and try to give yourself

the best odds on health uh and eat

healthy foods but but to some degrees

you with your health is genetically what

it is right so what you can do is very

different from what you can't do in my

opinion here's what you can do you can

work to have a phenomenal work ethic you

can encourage a strong work ethic you

could encourage and actually perform

honestly and provide transparency in

what you're doing or do what you say

you're going to do right your word is as

good as gold you can do the right thing

even when nobody's looking and make sure

that even if you can get away with doing

something where you make more money you

choose to do the right thing because

it's the right thing to do

that's eudaimonia living the good life

the aristilian mean doing the right

thing

you could also get educated rather than

being jaded at the world that we live in

whether it's your opinion of the corrupt

Media or the corrupt monetary system or

corrupt politicians or even as far as

thinking everyone on YouTube is a scam

whatever

you can I have the jaded point of view

of life and ah well the cards I was

dealt suck and everybody else is a scam

or you could try to improve see one of

the biggest differences unfortunately

between success and uh crime and poverty

is education

but that's difficult because

unfortunately people more often Black

and Hispanic who live in poorer areas

where there's a phenomenon known as the

concentration of poverty the poor and

area gets the more people move there

because it's cheaper but the cheaper it

gets more people move there the worse

services are schools police fire

everything right crimes higher it's

harder to actually succeed right so so

you have this massive situation problem

where unfortunately yeah there are

races that are more likely to be in

poorer areas and have worse outcomes

that's very true

and it's sad it shouldn't be that way

and that's where we need a government

that can actually focus on providing

Financial education and more education

not less education the fact that you've

got a city in California a Culver City

High School removing honors classes is

the complete opposite of what should be

done we should have more education and

more opportunities not less just because

maybe individuals who are Hispanic or

black at that Culver City High School

are less likely to enroll in AP classes

doesn't mean you should get rid of the

stepping stone to AP honors classes you

should try to elevate everyone and give

everyone equal opportunity but yeah

you're never going to be able to

guarantee equal results now somebody in

the comments wrote look the individual

in this speech here says look you know

you you uh you're like seeing race more

now than you've ever seen it before and

maybe that's the point is to identify

that yes there are other races who have

been dealt worse hands than white people

some people call that that white

privilege right maybe it is I mean to

some degree everybody has some level of

privilege in some direction maybe we

haven't found our own privilege yet but

by sticking to what we're bad at we're

really not trying to find what we're

good at and we're really just hurting

ourselves right and I don't think it's

it really beneficial to anyone to really

feel guilty about some of the odd

opportunities they had I mean I don't

think somebody who plays poker in his

dealt pocket aces should feel somehow

guilty about being dealt at they should

make the best moves they can with the

hand they have maybe you were Delta two

and a three but then the board shows you

essentially a straight and and uh and

you crush the person with pocket aces

right so ultimately I'm a big believer

in not feeling guilt or trying to cast

aside someone's success as an element of

privilege but rather doing the best we

can with the lot we're given and being

aware that as individuals as part of

society we should be encouraging our

government to do everything we can so

that they can provide more support to

the people who need it the most which in

the context of this example yes might be

more support for uh Black and Hispanic

but is that now necessary to make

everyone in our society focus on guilt

and pulling others down to sort of

equalize the playing field no absolutely

not I don't think that's the answer at

all I think the answer is more

investment into poorer areas schooling

and opportunities for individuals

regardless of what their race is

ultimately we should in my opinion go

back to the idea of being colorblind and

if there are individuals who are scoring

lower scores no matter what the color of

their skin is they should be they should

have opportunities to be able to elevate

their level of Education maybe they

maybe every student let's just say has a

budget of fifty dollars per day for

their education right let's just make

that up every student has a budget of

fifty dollars per day I I don't think

it's necessary to say okay well let's

take ten dollars from the white person

and give it to a black person and say

Here's the black person they're going to

get a 60 education budget per day and

that white person gets a 40 budget per

day I don't think that is the right

thing to do I actually think the best

thing to do is say if everybody has a

budget of fifty dollars per day

and now you have somebody who's scoring

maybe in the bottom 30 or 40 percentile

maybe the government says you know what

these individuals scoring in the lower

percentiles we're going to spend 75 or a

hundred dollars per day on them but

we're not going to take away from other

people's opportunities for Success

because some people are scoring lower on

tests that's not the way to solve the

inequalities that do exist via race

today and this is why I started with

sort of the presidential example of

there's really no difference in your

choice of your skin color and where you

were born the cards you were dealt with

are what you were dealt with and

somebody shouldn't feel guilty because

they were dealt with some cards that

might be somewhat better than someone

else's you shouldn't feel guilty because

you can see this video or hear it

whereas there's somebody else who's

blind or deaf

that's unfortunate and they have to find

their way and and of course they deserve

more support right and that's sort of

the idea is that hey look if everybody's

getting fifty dollars hey maybe the

person who's blind or deaf hey you know

what here's a hearing aid here's a

government provided cataract surgery or

whatever I'm a big fan of that

but let's not put blinders on the people

who do have good Vision right you don't

need to wear the drunk goggles so to

speak to make yourself equal to the

others that doesn't make sense we should

be focused on elevating Society at all

levels that's really important and I

think this individual the student who

gave the speech is really making the

argument that

maybe rather than so visibly trying to

bring everyone down to the same level

our schools should be focused on

elevating everyone to their Highest

Potential and that could be done by

making sure everyone feels like they

have the opportunity in America to

become the best version of themselves

they can look your dealt pocket aces hey

man here's how we're gonna play the game

okay we're gonna go apply for that

Harvard or Yale admission or whatever

right and your dealt pocket you know a

two and a seven and you can't even get a

straight set up all right let's let's

where where can we get you to the best

level right let's all right let's focus

on maybe we can get into that Community

College then we're gonna go we're gonna

get straight A's there here's how we're

going to help you get straight A's there

this is what I did by the way I went to

Community College and got straight A's

for two years what did I do then I

transferred to UCLA with a scholarship

that helped me pay for my expenses after

UCLA I could have could got into the

workforce for a couple years and uh and

and taken uh you know I could have gone

to potentially Harvard Law or Harvard

Business right and apply at that level

with the card the the cards that I had

or the situation that I was in right and

so at whatever level somebody is at hey

look some people are going to be ahead

of others but they should have the

opportunity to achieve their greatest

potential at that time I don't think

it's necessary to say okay well you're

not you're not there yet because of an

Health ailment or because of your

elementary school education that set up

poor Foundation blocks let's try to

create an equal result for everyone

let's bring the person who wants to

apply to Harvard down to the Community

College level and the person at the

community college level you know maybe

up to to a four year or vice versa

everybody's going to use that for

example you know you're not going to the

Community College you go to UCLA right

away you're not going to Harvard you're

going to UCLA too like that's that's not

how it should work that's my belief I

think everybody with the cards they're

dealt should be uh should be given the

best opportunities that they have in

front of them and then they should be

able to choose how do they want to live

in the world you could take the jaded

approach and say I can never get ahead

or you can take the approach of honesty

Integrity more education and work ethic

like I said I I think I in some ways try

to sympathize with these situations

growing up in a family that basically

went bankrupt and was living paycheck to

paycheck as German immigrants uh you

know with an accent in school and not

being able to I mean basically being in

remedial English classes through like

third or fourth grade uh in and then

deciding okay well I could look at my my

lot and say oh you know we're poor and

and I have an accent and I can't read as

well as others and I'm I'm having to get

tutoring just to stay you know to try to

get ahead but my parents can't really

afford that so we're getting tutors that

can't really write like that taking that

and then working myself up to where I am

now that that's in my opinion a choice

of course it involves there's a lot of

luck involved in that as well I mean if

you're in the right place at the right

time that's freaking awesome you know it

was a lot easier to start a YouTube

channel in 2008 when I did or in 2017

when I got really serious about it than

it is today right so some of that is

luck so by no means am I trying to say

there's no luck in our world but I'm a

big fan of of believing that everyone uh

has has uh has the opportunity to

improve uh their situation regardless of

what cards they were dealt and I don't

think it's necessary to bring down

others who have a better hand uh than uh

to to sort of equalize the result with

those who have a worse hand that's my

take so hopefully uh hopefully you you

uh have

um some similar thoughts but if you

don't I'd love to hear your commentary

as to what why where we might differ and

even if we differ don't worry I still

think we can have a beer together

because I we all know I won't say no to

that