The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1828 - These American Cities Are Rapidly Turning into Zimbabwe

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

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Taxes and fees extra. Initial term only greater than 50 gigabytes may slow when network is busy. See terms. If you learned about South Africa or Rhodesia in school, then you learned about the alleged horrors of white minority rule, apartheid, and racial injustice. The heroes of the story, according to every history teacher in the public school system, were men like Nelson Mandela or Desmond Tutu. They bravely resisted the cruelty of their white oppressors and fought for a world in which every black person living in South Africa and Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, could finally enjoy equal rights. The premise of the fairy tale was always false. What black Africans were seeking in these countries, ultimately, was not equality. They wanted the legal right to punish whites on the basis of their skin color. They wanted to drive white people away and seize their farms and their property. And they got exactly what they wanted, which is why both countries are now in ruins. Unemployment was 21% in South Africa in 1996. Now it's around 40%, the highest anywhere in the world. Power outages have been common because the electricity grid is failing, and nobody there knows how to fix it. 22% of the population says they're routinely low on food. And meanwhile, Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, went from exporting food to the entire region. They were the so-called breadbasket of Africa to desperately needing international food aid for survival. Thirty-five percent of the

population is in extreme poverty compared to just 8% in 1998. Hyperinflation has destroyed the value of the currency and on and on and on. Now, one of the reasons you're never told the truth, which is that South Africa and Rhodesia were far better off under minority white rule is that the downfall of these two countries has many very significant ramifications for the United States. South Africa and Rhodesia illustrate that when the white people are pushed out, sooner or later, things begin to fall apart. That's a very tricky thing to explain if you're a subscriber to modern racial orthodoxy. how do you blame white supremacy and colonialism for all of your problems when white people left you a fully functioning wealthy country? And then the moment the white people are gone, the power goes out, and the corn stops growing, and crime begins spiraling, and no one can find a job.

If white people are supposed to be oppressors, why exactly did the death spiral of Rhodesia and Zimbabwe begin as soon as the white people were forced out? Could the problem possibly relate to the incompetence and corruption of black officials instead of white supremacists? Now, this is a verboten question. It's a question you must never ask. Because if you start thinking along these lines, then you might have some questions about the current state of affairs in places like Gary, Indiana, population 67,000, which sits along the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Now, Gary is roughly 80% black, 10% white, and 10% Hispanic. And two weeks ago, a major storm, with winds reaching 99 miles per hour, hit Northwest Indiana, leaving more than 300,000 people

without power, including, by some estimates, 30,000 residents of Gary. As of Monday evening, around 4,000 residents in Gary remained without power. On Sunday, that number was reportedly around 10,000. Now, by any measure, these outages have gone on for too long. Yes, this was a hurricane-4 storm, roughly equivalent to a Category 2 storm. And yes, storms like this can cause long-term outages. But at the same time, you generally don't expect a Category 2 storm, which hits on August 11th. that it will cause power outages as late as August 25th. It's hard to explain why it would take several weeks to restore power to thousands of people, and it demands an answer as to what the issue is.

Do we not have enough linemen? Is the utility company to blame? What about the local government? Over the weekend, activists on the left came up with an answer to this question, and it's exactly what you would think they'd come up with. They are blaming, of course, white supremacy. They have concluded that in some vague and unspecified way, white people are preventing the black residents of Gary from getting their power. Here's one social media post with millions of views, for example, making this case, quote, Gary Indiana has been without power for 11 days.

Gary, Indiana is 75% black. Yet another example of environmental racism, it is so effing disgusting. Now, the mayor of Gary, whose name is Eddie Melton, has endorsed this theory. So here's Melton on something called The Don Lemon Show, for example, watch. This is, to me, it feels like neglect. Do you think that some of that neglect comes from or is happening, if you feel that way? It may be in part because Gary is a black working class city? A hundred percent, I believe a couple of things are at play. here. During the middle of the restoration process, the utility company and full transparency,

15 years ago or 15 years, I worked for that company, so I know about the process. They were releasing the updates of restoration. And Gary was not listed on that restoration list. Gary is the largest geographic footprint of a city that we have, not population-wise, but geographic footprint. And that was the moment that the extreme frustration came out from the public because it would appear that we're being forgotten when you don't list out the actual restoration time frame. So that's where all of the mayhem really started to get triggered on the ground level. So the conspiracy were told by the mayor of Gary, Indiana, involves the local utility, which is called Nipsco. And apparently Nipsco did not include Gary on the restoration list, which means the public informed out the areas where power will be restored

in the next few days. And this is the evidence, the smoking gun, if you will, that white supremacists have forgotten all about Gary, Indiana, or are intentionally neglecting it solely because a lot of black people live there. Nipsco is basically a chapter of the KKK, is what we're told. put aside the fact that plenty of other areas in Indiana were left off the restoration list, too, including the mostly white community of Portage, where thousands of people still don't have power, and we'll ignore the fact that Nipsco only includes cities on its power restoration list if they know when power will be restored, which was difficult to do in Gary, given the extent of the damage. Let's just ignore all of that, and take the mayor at his word. Let's assume,

for the sake of argument, that the utility company slow-rolled its power restoration efforts simply because Gary Indiana is mostly black. That's obviously a very alarming situation if it's true. But the conspiracy gets even worse when you look at the leadership of this utility company. And we'll put that up on the screen right now. So these are the higher-ups at Nipsco's parent company. They oversee gas and electric services for more than a million people all over Indiana. And as you can see, half of the leadership team is black.

And more to the point, the guy in charge, Lloyd Yates, the president, and CEO of the utility is black. So is Melody Birmingham, the executive vice president. Then you have a black guy named William Jefferson, another VP and safety officer. Then there's Angela Sanchez, Vice President and Chief Communications Officer. So if these executives are white supremacist, then the implications of this conspiracy are truly profound. I mean, we could only conclude that this utility company is dousing its executives in tropic thunder levels of shoe polish. To the untrained eye, the, you know, they look like run-of-the-mill,

black executives in an overwhelmingly black town, which also has a black mayor and a city council that's 100% black. But when you look a little closer, the truth is obvious. These are, these are the Maga Republicans that Joe Biden warned us about. They've been lying in wait, hoping for a big storm to strike. Maybe they generated the storm. Who knows? And the moment the storm hit, they sprang into action. They delay the utility trucks solely because they hate black people. Now, at this point, I know what you're thinking. You're probably thinking, well, this can't get possibly get any more insane than it already is. But if that's your reaction, then you clearly underestimate the degree of intrigue and high

drama that truly defines day-to-day life in Gary, Indiana. Because indeed, the conspiracy goes even deeper. You see, it turns out that the utility company isn't simply delaying its power restoration efforts because they're all MAGA Republicans and blackface. On top of that, if you could believe it, racist Nipsco employees are driving around the streets of Gary, Indiana at midnight in their company-issued jeeps looking for trouble.

Now, officially, they're surveying the damage and coordinating repair efforts. That's the narrative the man wants you to believe. But we all know that if you drive around Gary late at night in a car that costs more than 500 bucks on Facebook marketplace, you're just begging to be shot at. You're provoking the locals

so that you can have a pretext to start a fight, sort of like, you know, Lincoln at Fort Sumter. And what do you know, the utility company got the fight it was looking for, those bastards. Watch. Yeah, Suzanne, that's right. And Nipsco did confirm that they paused restoration efforts for some time around noon yesterday. They said in a statement they're working closely with law enforcement and are grateful there were no injuries. Gary Police say two Nipscoe employees were inside this white Jeep you see with a number of bullet holes while they were scouting the area near Rutledge Street before. 1 o'clock in the morning Saturday. That's when someone fired two gunshots at them.

One bullet getting lodged in the back of a headrest inside of that car. There was no suspect spotted by police or those two employees at the scene. The mayor of Gary posting a video to social media denying that restoration efforts were ever paused. And I don't want residents to think because of this one isolated incident that the work has stopped. So we have an organized effort. We're actually meeting right now. We've got a crew that's meeting with other people. Yes, they are shooting at the utility workers in Gary, Indiana.

They nearly killed these workers as they simply drove around trying to catalog the damage and restore power to this community. I mean, this is more third world than anything you'll find in most of the third world. It's perhaps the most third world story of all time. It's like you're trying to rescue someone who's drowning, and he pulls you under and drowns you to, except it's worse than that because it's more like, If somebody is drowning and you run out to help him,

and then he pulls out a gun and shoots you directly in the chest. I mean, that's basically what's happening here. And then without missing a bean, after the utility workers nearly had their heads blown off, the city's mayor has the gall to go on camera and declare that it's just one isolated incident. And it's no big deal. And the utility company, you know, they went right back to work. Well, I can guarantee you they did not go right back to work.

And for good reason. If you're a lineman in Gary, Indiana and something like this happens, then you either get a police escort or hazard pay. Otherwise, you're seeing if someone else is available. I mean, that's what happens when your city treats utility workers like their contractors in Fallujah or Mogadishu. Eventually, the workers stopped showing up. I wouldn't, if I were them. I'm not going to risk my life to restore power to a community that's shooting at me. Hey, figure it out yourself.

How about that? See you later. I'm not putting my life on the line for that. And no, that's not white supremacy. It's the inevitable result of dysfunction, the kind of dysfunction that is endemic in overwhelmingly black cities in this country and abroad.

And at some level, these people know that. That's why they give different answers in different contexts. What's funny about the mayor's response, by the way, is that when he's not appearing on Don Lemon show, he's offered a separate explanation for the slow response, and his response in that case

has nothing to do with racism. Watch. Well, we might have on aging infrastructure and probably a lack of maintenance, both historically on the utility company around tree trimming, but also on the city itself. I've been there two and a half years, and we made tree trimming a priority. When you look at the photos, you see a significant amount of trees that have been uprooted, something that you can't get around on a storm such of this magnitude. So that's a more honest take, at least.

they're not maintaining the trees. So when it gets windy, the power lines are destroyed. The utility company, which is run by black people, should probably do something about that. So should the city government, which is also run by black people. The only reason these people are blaming white supremacy, as always, is to cover for their own complete incompetence. And it's not just happening in Gary, Indiana. Here's a new post from Justin Pearson, who's the rich kid lawmaker in Tennessee, who occasionally impersonates Martin Luther King, Jr. And here's what he wrote. Quote, after a thunderstorm last night, 100,000 households in Memphis are without power, possibly until Thursday.

It's 90 degrees outside. Another majority black working class city left in the dark. Well, you know where this is going. We'll put some photographs up on the screen. You know exactly what they're going to look like. The mayor of Memphis is black. The chief operating officer is black. The majority of the city council is black.

The police chief is black. Most of the city is black. So naturally, if there's a big storm in Memphis, and people can't get their power back online, white people are to blame. Somehow, somewhere, white people cause every single problem in black cities. It's like that old riddle, you know, if a tree falls in the forest and only black people are around and a black guy is holding the chainsaw, are white people still to blame? And the answer, of course, is yes.

This is the message from the elites and the politicians like Justin Pearson who went to schools that cost $100,000 a year, but no actual person believes this. Let's take a look at this local news report from Memphis, for example. See what the locals are identifying as the root of the problem. Watch. A powerful storm tore through Memphis Saturday, knocking out power for more than 140,000 MLGW customers, and leaving trees, limbs, and power lines across neighborhoods. For Binghampton resident Curtis Washington, the outage.

is personal. His mother is still without power and he's questioning whether more of the city's power infrastructure should be underground. Y'all tomorrow. Y'all might be thirsty. Now, my mom are old. Y'all need some lights tomorrow. Y'all need to learn how to take these lines y'all got because I would do construction myself. Y'all need to take the line from the poles and put them on the ground. Y'all need to make it more better because it's $2,2006. Let's upgrade. Everything else's upgrade. We should prepare ourselves for anything. You should always have an emergency kit. what you're going to do, where you're going to go, who you're going to contact when these things happen, because they will happen.

So if you ask some of the black residents to actually live in Memphis, they'll say the city government failed them. They'll say the infrastructure needs to be upgraded. They'll encourage each other to prepare emergency rations and supplies. They won't blame white people, though, because they know it's absurd. No sane person uncorrupted by an elite education would even think of saying something as stupid as that. So the takeaway here is that even as DEI has become an embarrassing concept, people are removing DEI from their LinkedIn bios, for example. That's one big sign. This country is still very much suffering from the legacy of the civil rights era. This is a legacy that did not foster racial equality, which is what we were promised, and said the civil rights era ushered in a pathology of dependence. White people are simultaneously responsible for all the bad things that happen to black people, while also being responsible for fixing. All the bad things that happened to black people. Black elites and activists, meanwhile, are responsible for nothing.

They can't be held responsible for their words, their actions, their policies. They are entitled and hopeless simultaneously. They're perpetually needy, but not in a charming way like a small child. They're vicious. They'll shoot at your Jeep, leaving a bullet in a headrest, and then they'll blame you for not wanting to come back. Along those lines, here's a quote from the New York Times, Derange reporting on Gary, Indiana, before we closed the book on these power outages, quote, as they sat inside their dark living rooms on porches to,

or on porches to escape the stagnant air inside, some residents said they doubted a rich white town would have been left to languish for so long without power. Don't understand it, said Damon Willis, 45, a chef at a casino restaurant, who's without power since August 11th. It shouldn't be this long. I think if we weren't a black city, things would be different.

Well, yeah, Damon. And you know why that is? It's because rich white towns would not shoot at the utility company. Okay? That's the problem. But strangely enough, the shooting wasn't mentioned anywhere in this 4,000-word New York Times article. They don't even tell you that the locals are trying to murder the utility workers. So this is how our society works now, even though you're not supposed to talk about it.

You'll find examples everywhere every day. Here's exhibit number 5,000 from yesterday. this is an announcement from a black supremacist named Karen Atia, Attaya, who, whatever, who cares, who was fired from her job running the opinion pages at the Washington Post last year. She sued the Post and went to arbitration, which is apparently allowed under their collective bargaining agreement because a bunch of useless journalists have a union for some reason.

And it says, quote, breaking. The Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk's killing. I fought back. I'm happy to announce. I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. Now, you can read a dozen articles about this case, and they'll all tell you that Karen, Ateam, was supposedly fired by the Washington Post because she criticized Charlie Kirk.

They'll frame her termination as an attack on free speech. They'll celebrate the fact that the Post had to rehire her. Now, first of all, just at a basic level, even without talking about the facts of the case, this outcome is truly pathetic and embarrassing and nonsensical. You know, the company said they don't want to work with her anymore, and she's now using a legal system to force them to work with her. So much for freedom of association. You know, rather than get another job, which she can't do, I guess, because she's worthless. She's compelling her employer to rehire her.

And this employer, by the way, is a failing company that can't even pay its own bills. But she's desperate to go back and work there because, you know, no one else will take her. So we've somehow abandoned the idea that a private company should have the ability to fire you if they don't want to work with you anymore. Pretty basic concept. No one is entitled to somebody else's money. They should be able to fire her for any reason. That's how life works. It's how capitalism works. We started to get away from capitalism during the New Deal and we gave more and more power to unions and labor law. And now we're at a point where black women are legally entitled, legally entitled to jobs at the Washington Post. It's her God-given right. Now, to be clear, Karen was not fired for any discriminatory reason. Obviously, she was fired because after Charlie Kirk's murder,

she attributed the following quote to Charlie Kirk, which she completely made up. She fabricated a Charlie Kirk quote as a way of joining in on the left's euphoria after Charlie was executed. Quote, black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person slot. and then that's attributed to Charlie Kirk. That's what she posts. But, you know, the thing is, Charlie never said that.

He didn't say that. She made that up. What he did say, accurately, is that Michelle Obama and Contagy Brown Jackson and Joy Reed and Sheila Jackson Lee do not have the brain power to be taken seriously. He said that they stole white people's slots. And that's true.

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Now, executives at the Post decided that they didn't want to be associated with a black supremacist lunatic who delights in the murder of her political opponents. It's the kind of thing that doesn't help the credibility of a newspaper. But she presumably got a friend friendly left-wing female arbitrator or something, and now she's forcing the post to hire her again. This would never happen in the other direction. Of course, none of the white people who were fired during the BLM hysteria were reinstated or even came close to getting reinstated. You know, if you're a white guy and you get laid off because foreigners or AI have taken your job, tough. You're not entitled to anything. This is a privilege that's reserved for low IQ vindicted

black women who can't get any other job and who serve no value in society whatsoever. this piece of human garbage, according to our legal system, somehow is the right to be employed by the Washington Post in a role where she represents the paper while she's actively demolishing what's left of the paper's reputation. Now, again, we're supposed to look the other way and hold black people to a much, much lower standard. And that's, you know, the theme here. Here's yet another case where this came up recently, although this is a closer call. but I'm talking about the police shooting involving 36-year-old Sonia Massey, which took place in the summer of 2024. Massey had been having mental health problems and police had been called to her home before.

On this particular occasion, Massey herself called the police to report a potential prowler near the home. So she was not calling to report that she was having a breakdown. She called because of a potential threat to her home. And then as police investigated inside her home, Massey began heating water on the stove. and the officer requested that she move away from the hot steaming water, and Massey initially complied. And then she declared, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus, and grabbed the pot and prepared to throw the boiling water at the officers.

This could be difficult to see the footage, so I'm going to play the officer's body cam, followed by a slow-mo shot that was prepared by the account Nate, the lawyer. And the footage, you can clearly see that Massey was shot as she was attempting to throw the scalding water on the officers. Watch. You got a 52 en route? Yeah.

1078. You better, that's where you got. I'll shoot your face. Okay, I'm sorry. Drop the pot. The fuck. The pot. The pot.

14 shots fired. Shots fired. Shots fired. Drop the pot. I'm going to put this emoji to show each time the cop fires the three shots. And you'll see when the shots were fired in relation to the pot being thrown. Because there's some confusion on whether the cop fired after the pot was thrown or the the pot was thrown or whether he shot while the pot was being thrown.

I believe this officer's defense is going to be this person was going to throw scalding hot water on me. So that could have caused me a serious physical injury and I responded to that threat of serious physical injury with deadly physical force, as I am allowed to do. Now you can make the case that the officer whose name is Sean Grayson could have deescalated the situation more effectively. He could have used, you know, calmer, a calmer approach, nicer language. He could have backed away farther when he saw the threat posed by the boiling water. Those are reasonable things to point out. But these are not the arguments that we heard from BLM and Ben Crump and black activists in the media and tens of thousands of black people on

social media. Instead, they lied about the facts of the case. They acted as though Sean Grayson executed a nice lady in her home solely because he's a white supremacist. They also pretended Sonia Macy was totally blameless in this encounter, which is obviously false. Boiling water is not a small thing. It can disfigure someone. It can blind you. It can lead to serious bodily injury, which is the standard for the use of lethal self-defense. So whether she was insane or not in that moment doesn't really matter because boiling water is going to scald your face,

whether the person's insane or no matter what their situation is. she threatened to maim an officer with a dangerous weapon, both verbally and physically. And this is conduct that is totally inexcusable, obviously. No reasonable person would ever do something like this. But we're supposed to pretend that this officer committed, you know, murder. So there was a political prosecution, a murder conviction, and a big multimillion dollar settlement. It was a national news story. Even though nobody would have cared at all if Sonny Macy had been a white woman.

This case was a major event for black activists. And to this day, they're cursing the name of this. police officer, Sean Grayson. They're portraying him as a cold-blooded murderer as if he shot this woman for no reason. It was reported recently that Grayson died in prison apparently as a result of stage four colon cancer. And if you look at the before and after photos, they're quite stark. This is a man who clearly was suffering and deteriorating for quite some time while he was in prison. And the government still refused his request for compassionate release in his dying days so he could be with his family. And by the way, all these, you know, like all these

women that are so compassionate for Lindsay Clancy who murdered three children, no compassion here. They don't care about this at all. This guy was sent to prison. He's dying. He's going to be dead any day. He's dying. And can you let him out of prison so he can at least die in his home? He's going to be dead either way. You know, none of the women on TikTok, all of their their abundance, They're overflowing compassion. It's just somehow never made it to this guy. This is a man who, whatever you think of how he handled this encounter, did not go into that home with the intent of murdering anyone.

He was confronted unexpectedly with a violent woman who ambushed him. She lured him there under false pretenses. And then despite multiple warnings, she attempted to throw boiling water on his face. And then he took action that, in his view, was lawful and appropriate under the circumstances. And then he died a horrible death in prison at a very young age. you know, it's very easy for us to play Monday morning quarterback, but none of us have ever been confronted by a deranged woman wielding a large pot of boiling water. Most of us had never been confronted with all kinds of things the police officers deal with every single day. And that's why the reasonable thing, not to mention the compassionate thing, is to get police officers the benefit of the doubt when it's a close call.

But because he killed a black woman, we're supposed to forget about all that context. to, you know, apparently we're supposed to celebrate his death. Like ghouls, which is what many black activists are doing right now in social media. This is one of the more tame videos that I could find. It gets a lot worse than this, but just as an example, watch. Sean Grayson, the former police officer who killed Sonia Massey inside of her home has died in prison. Now, y'all remember this case, right? Sonia Massey was suffering with her mental health. She called the police. because she needed help. Instead of receiving compassion, patience, and protection, she ended up losing her life at the hands of one of the very people who was supposed to protect her.

Gason tried to justify shooting her by claiming that the pot of hot water was a threat. But let's remember what happened. This woman was inside her home. She was struggling mentally and she was shot in the head. Think about that for a second. She called the police for help and one of the of the officers who responded ended up taking her life. Grayson was eventually convicted and sentenced to prison. And now while serving that sentence, Sean Grayson has died in prison. Hey man, look, justice was served. Sonia Massey should still be here. She deserved help. She deserved compassion. She deserved to feel safe inside her home. So look, say her name. Sanya Massey. Well, he gets the fact of the case wrong again.

was not calling for help with her mental problems, and he completely minimizes what Massey was doing. He just leaves out the part where she explicitly threatened the officer with the boiling water and attempted to throw it on him. Because why not? I mean, why bother mentioning the single most relevant detail in the entire story? And predictably, all of the comments on this video are euphoric that the officer died alone in great agony in prison. They're thrilled by it. Now, yeah, it's sad that this woman died, but these kinds of things happen when you threaten police officers with boiling water. You know, I mean, it's like, as always, it's actually very easy to not get shot by the cops. Just don't do, like, just do anything else. Don't, don't threaten them with, with, you know, potentially lethal weapons.

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private Christian, affordable, non-profit. That's gCU.edu. Last week, and yet another example of this phenomenon, we discussed the scandal at Cambridge involving black professor Jason Ardei. Ardae was exposed by a researcher named Nathan Kauffness, who found that Ardae had plagiarized most of his significant academic work. You probably remember the stories we talked about. Additionally, Ardee lied about every major detail of his life story. And rather than admit his responsibility, Ardee supposedly killed himself. So this is a black professor who was elevated by Cambridge to the rank of full professor, promoted all over the media, and was a total fraud. And for exposing this fraud, Nathan Kauffness has been demonized by black activists and the media and Cambridge and his own employer, Ghent University.

No major universities have come out in defense of Koffness, as these people have tried to destroy his life. And to be clear, everything Koffness exposed was accurate. He didn't fabricate anything. No one's even claiming that he fabricated anything. No one's even, there isn't even any controversy over whether what Koff, whether, you know, Koffness's report was accurate or not. Everyone agrees it was accurate. He exposed a massive DEI fraud. And because of this, they're coming after him for it.

Specifically, the trans-identifying rector of Ghent University, a man using the name Petra de Sutter, has announced that Kauffinus has been suspended solely because he exposed a black DEI fraud. For pointing out that this other guy was a plagiarist, they sustained. suspended him. Now you can see Petra right there. He's a trans-identifying Belgian gynecologist who now runs this university. Yes, there are layers and layers of bizarre dysfunction to unpack here. It's like something out of a woke parody, but it's real. And this guy has banned Kauffness from campus. He's going to fire him very soon. There's no doubt about that. And to his credit, Kauffness is not backing down. He's not cowering or apologizing to anyone. He's

standing by his findings about our day, as well as his own academic research. And in particular, Coffinness has not apologized for pointing out that according to Harvard's own data, the school's black enrollment is overwhelming of the result of DEI. Based on merit alone, Harvard's black enrollment would decrease from around 14 percent to less than 1 percent. And from this data, Coffness has argued that in general, we are coddling too many black people solely on the basis of their skin color, which is true. We're promoting them for political and ideological reasons. We're giving them a pass when they don't deserve one. And Jason Arde was just one of many examples. Now, rather than engage with

anything Nathan Koffness is actually saying, the media in Europe is dogpiling him with dishonest emotional attacks. This is one of the most egregious examples. It's from a show that's apparently popular in Britain for some reason. And listen to the host's argument, if you can call it that. Listen. No, I wonder if I can bring you back to the question that I asked, Doctor, is what would you say, and I've heard from one already on the show, to black students at Cambridge who are distressed by this? Richard, I'm answering the question. Well, I'll deem, if you are, actually, doctor, so let's go ahead.

What would you say to those students? Well, you're responsible for the questions. I'm responsible for the answers. You asked me what I would say. Here we go. This is what I would say. So statistical generalizations don't necessarily apply across in different countries and different societies.

No, you're not answering the question. I've spoken with a young black female student. No, you'll listen to me. No, you'll listen to me. Doctor, we do it my way, okay? We're going to do it my way because you're on my show. Doctor, I have heard from a young female black student who has expressed her distress because of this

and she says it's already difficult enough to be a black student at the University of Cambridge and this only makes her life and those of her friends who are also black tougher. So I wonder if we could get down to the meat of your answer. to that. What would you say directly to that young woman? Well, as I was saying, I'll skip what I would say. Please don't take me on a tour of academia. Just what would you say to that young woman.

So are you, well, I told you what I say, and you interrupted me, but I'll say that if your, if your position is we're not allowed to talk about Harvard's own statistics about their admission. We're not allowed to talk about Harvard's admissions policy because somebody could pluck that statement. Your position is, doctor, you can knowingly cause offense and distress because of the position you enjoy and the research you can point to. You can knowingly cause distress. Knowingly caused distress? Yes. Well, the full clip is even more brutal, but you get the idea. He doesn't want to debate coughness on the merits because he can't.

So instead he just shouts coughness down. Really, the argument boils down to, well, we can't make black women sad, now can we? You're causing distress. Okay. So it's true. The truthful thing is causing distress. All right. I don't know.

It's your problem. That's the right answer. What would you say to a black woman who's distressed by this truth? I don't know. Your effing problem? I don't know. Deal with it. I don't know.

I don't care at all. Your problem? But no, forget about the truth. Forget about dialogue or argument or debate. Only one goal, apparently, should be. our only goal should be making sure that black people feel appreciated and welcomed. Now, to make black people feel good, we're supposed to also ignore rampant plagiarism, falsified data, fake biographies, all of it. The bar is so low that it's in the ground at this point. We can't demand that black professors have any ability to do their job or do original research.

Only a racist would expect black people to actually do their jobs. In the case of Jason Ardee, it's actually unbelievable. how far they're taking this. If you spent 10 minutes looking into this guy, like he doesn't seem like a real person. And he wasn't. I mean, that's the point. He faked most of what he said. He claims he ran 600 miles in six days.

He says he narrowly escaped masked men wielding knives on campus. He claims he couldn't read or write until he was 18. He says people were shipping pigs heads to his house. All just nonsense. And every time you look closer, you find even more examples of his total absurdity as a human being. Here's just one more example, I can't resist. On LinkedIn, women are acting like this is a profoundly moving passage from

Arday's scholarship, quote unquote. One woman, a psychologist, even said this passage, brought her to tears. Now, before I read this passage, I need to provide some context, which is that, as it turns out, when he wasn't stealing other people's work, Jason Ardei was interviewing himself. Yes, he was interviewing himself and then writing papers about his own answers to his own questions. And then various esteemed journals would publish these interviews. I'm not making this up. He called this practice auto ethnography. And here's a passage from one of these auto ethnographies, otherwise known as interviewing himself, otherwise known as schizophrenia. This is what's bringing women to tears on LinkedIn right now.

They can't believe how profound and eloquent this is. Quote, my biggest issue in academia is having to hide my autism, turning up to work and hiding my autism. For example, 90% of the time I don't know what's going on, but I'm having to pretend I know what's going on. And I don't understand what people are saying. So because of the processing delay, it takes me ages to understand. But normally, I understand about two days after the meeting and the context is gone. What restricts me professionally is that I just can't be myself. In other words, Jason Arde, by his own admission, had no idea what was going on at work. He couldn't understand anything. He was a teacher. Couldn't understand anything. It takes him ages to understand.

understand what's going on around him. Nevertheless, we're supposed to conclude that in reality, this profound level of incompetence was actually an asset. You know, him being a, you know what that's called? That's not called being autistic. That's called you're just stupid. You can't understand anything going on around you. You're totally oblivious. No, you're just dumb. That's called being a dumb person. And you got women on LinkedIn who are reading this description of being a dumbass. and they're just, they're profoundly stirred by it. You know, if you zone out during your meetings at work and you don't understand anything and you copy other people's work all the time while lying about everything,

for most people what happened is you get fired. And that makes sense because you're not good at your job. You're indistinguishable from a stoner who just hangs out around the office. So you go on the unemployment line. No one cares. but when a black guy with the kendi haircut does it he gets to be a full professor at cambridge he gets fawning interviews in the media he gets to interview himself

his most fawning interviews are the ones he does with himself about the experience of zoning out and then uh someone actually publishes it and women weep and everyone's supposed to pretend that there's nothing wrong with this picture i mean imagine if imagine if i did this imagine if instead of doing a show every day. I just sat at my desk and looked around the set, wondering what the hell was going on. What if I just stared at my fish and didn't say anything for 48 hours on the fish cam? And maybe on occasion, I'd interview myself about my experiences, about, you know, what it's like to stare blankly ahead. We could even do a side-by-side shot with me on the left and me on the

right. And if anyone said, hey, Matt, maybe you should do something. I would just say, well, who are you? I'm autistic. Leave me alone. How long do you think I have a job exactly? How many glowing profiles what I get from CNN. How many universities would offer me tenure? And that comparison is actually generous, by the way, because a 48-hour live stream of the fish cam would be compelling content, in my opinion. More compelling than anything Jason Ardei ever did. Anyway, it's also absurd. It's so laughably on the nose and over the top, and these lunatics are playing it completely straight. The reality is that no country can actually function like this. We were promised a colorblind, race-neutral country. And what we got is this kind of weirdly dystopian.

system that elevates everyone except straight white people, straight white men in particular, and creates all sorts of protections for the worst people among us who are also shielded from any form of responsibility or accountability. After all these decades of affirmative action and DEI and social engineering, the very best exemplars of black leadership are doing exactly what they did to South Africa and Rhodesia. They're leaving nothing but devastation and humiliation and ruin in their wake from Gary, Indiana to Cambridge and everywhere in between. And they'll continue to do so unless more brave men do exactly what Nathan Kaufness is doing, which is to look these fraudsters in the eye and tell them the truth and dare them to do their worst.

These people are cowards. They have no arguments, no principles. They're only capable of emotional blackmail and retribution and violence. What they fear above all is what we were promised decades ago, which is the end of racial favoritism, a truly equal playing field, one that makes no excuses for black dysfunction or any other kind of dysfunction from anybody else. And that would eliminate most of their political power overnight. It would, as Nathan Kauffin says, eliminate most of their cultural power as well. But it's long overdue. You know, the new constitution of the civil rights era has been tried.

And like the power grid in South Africa or Memphis, Tennessee, it has failed in dramatic fashion. Before we have to endure any more humiliating fraudsters like Jason Arday or Karen Attea or Justin Pearson or anyone else, it's blindingly obvious that we now have to, we have no other choice now, but to return to the only workable solution to this ongoing problem. And that solution is the constitution we started with. That'll do for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. of public life. I have never profited from public service. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not

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