Larry Elder at BLEXIT Greenville

[Music]. ladies and gentlemen please welcome to. the stage. author and radio host larry elder. [Applause]. [Music]. [Applause].

[Music]. [Applause]. thank you oh my goodness. i can feel the love nobody took a knee. thank you all for coming out i can just. feel all the energy all the enthusiasm. they told me i have no more than 20. minutes to speak so i'll speak quickly. i get paid by the word.

so i'm from l.a i arrive in the. charlotte airport. to come here to greenville and when i'm. in charlotte black guy in the airport. walks down he's got a t-shirt on that. says. i can't be calm i have a black child. that's exactly what i said i said what. i can't be calm i have a black child. obviously what he's referring. to uh is this narrative that the police. are out mowing down black people.

just because they're black. it's fascinating to me i am a big. sports fan and one of my favorite sports. teams of all time is so-called fab five. you might remember them they were five. freshmen they started. michigan they made back-to-back final. fours. one of the fab five is a guy named jalen. rose. jane rose had a long career 13 years or. so in the nba good career. became a sportscaster and he's woke.

he's one of these guys that believes in. this narrative. now i once heard somebody tell jalen. rose. that they felt he had a mediocre career. that he. came out of university of michigan a lot. of fanfare 13-year careers a long time. in the nba the average career three. years. but he did not achieve the same numbers. that some people thought he should. achieve. and he said very calmly you see that's. the kind of comment. that we made that would be made by. somebody who's never played basketball. at the highest level because if you knew.

this. i played for three teams he said i. played for denver. and when i was in denver who set the. record for assists for a rookie in. denver. then i got traded to indiana i had a. different position top ten. my position that guy traded to chicago. who in the year i was at chicago in the. top 10 with 20 points. six dimes five boards me. holler at your boy he said.

and my point is he very carefully. skillfully. logically with facts with data. outlined what he thought was a very. successful career and he's right. the same mind when it comes to this oh. why is this keep happening oh. why are they doing this oh doc rivers. the coach of the. l.a clippers why do these things came. happening. why do we love america america doesn't. love us back.

i saw doc river speak at our country. club in la once. logical structured. facts data when it comes to his. profession. if you apply the same mentality to this. issue. you say to yourself well 50 million. police civilian interactions every year. out of those 50 million police. interactions every year there are 11. million arrests. out of those 11 million arrests 60 000. officers are assaulted. after the 50 million interactions 11.

million arrests. 60 000 assaults 1 000 people out of a. population of 350 million people. are killed every year by the police of. that 1000 almost. all of them were resisting with the. weapon or resisting violently. when you get down to the handful of. white cops. who killed an unarmed black person and. by the way unarmed does not mean not. dangerous. michael brown was unarmed his dna was. found on the officer's gun.

so if you are looking at the percentage. of white cops. who killed unarmed black men who are not. reasonably perceived as. a threat you're talking about less than. four percent. of all the people the police shoot every. year 500 of them are white. 250 of them are black the police kill at. least as many unarmed whites. as they do unarmed blacks name one.

because nobody cares van jones doesn't. care cnn doesn't care. msnb hee-haw doesn't care they only care. when it's a white cop killing a black. person. now if these guys spent a fraction of. the time analyzing this issue the way. they analyze their own careers. they would realize the narrative is bs. now just having a bs narrative and. neither here in or there if it doesn't. have any. downsides this has huge downsides. first side the cop side you're a cop.

why in the world would you be proactive. why in the world would you try and stop. crime why in the world would you do. anything other than answer 9-1-1 squad. cars. why what's the upside you're going to be. accused of. engaging in police brutality. institutional racism. so screw it cops pull back they become. more passive it's known as the ferguson. effect. and what happens crime goes up and who's. hurt. the very black and brown people that the.

so-called black lives matter proponents. and their sympathizers claim they care. about. what's the other thing that happens if. you're a young black man and you've been. told. all your life they are out to get me. jesse jackson's told me that farrakhan's. told me that sharpness told me that. van jones had told me that don lemons. told me that well if i get pulled over. why wouldn't i be wary why wouldn't i. think this guy's going to do something.

to me why wouldn't i be ready to have a. confrontation. so you have affected both sides with. this lie. and it is a lie the. youngest tenured professor in the. history of harvard. is a black guy named roland fryer. he just knew that the police were using. deadly force against blacks. just because they were black and was. kind of surprised that no one had ever. done a comprehensive study about it. so he decided he would do it he knew it. was going to confirm it.

he looked at his results and looked at. his results and looked at his results. and he said this is the most surprising. finding of my career not only did he. find the cops were not shooting blacks. just because they were black he found. out the cops were more hesitant. more reluctant to pull the trigger on a. black suspect than on a white suspect. it's a lie it is not true in the last 50. 60 years according to the cdc. the rate at which blacks have been shot. by the police has declined.

75 percent. meanwhile 15 000 homicides every year in. this country. half of them are black victims and they. ain't being shot. by confederate generals they're not. being killed. by the aryan brothers they're not being. killed by the kkk they're being killed. by other black people in the. neighborhood. [Music]. chicago labor day leaking what are we. talking about. 50 000 50 people killed shot five killed.

the weekend before that 66 people shot. five killed the weekend before that 55. people shot. 10 killed where's black lives matter. where are these people black kid kills. another black kid just a dead fly. white cop kills a black kid. international news. you're being manipulated you're being. used. you're being played and the media does. it. for one reason one reason only ratings. and clicks.

the democrats do it because they want. black people to vote for them. and they want white sympathizers to vote. for them and the idea is to get 95. of black people voting for the. democratic party think about that. why would 95 of black people vote for. the democratic party if it weren't for. the perception. that america is racist and we democrats. wear the white hat in that fight. and those guys over there they wear the. black hat that's their. theme because if you take away that. let's look at. abortion 25 of the abortions.

are on black women black people are more. anti-abortion. than whites are look at the stats. uh same same-sex marriage black people. are more opposed to same-sex marriage. than whites however you feel about it. you're talking about education i went to. a high school called crenshaw high. school. if you saw the movie boys in the hood. that was my high school. ice tea went to my high school ten years. after i did.

and chose it because it's a crypt school. meaning the the gang crips control it. and in a recent article. in the la times three percent. of kids from my former high school can. do math at grade level. now what parent within a geographical. area of that school. sends his or her kid who just graduated. from middle school. to a school where only three percent can. do math and it's a school. the democrats are mandating that your. child go there whether you like it or. not. republicans want to give you an option.

out of an underperforming government. school. and they're the bad guys. baltimore where freddie gray died. the time he died he died in police. custody the mayor is black. the police department chief is black the. number two guy. and the police department is black the. state attorney who brought the charges. against six officers. black three of the six officers black.

the judge before whom two of the cases. were tried. black city council all democrat mostly. black. at the time the u.s attorney general was. black loretta lynch. and the u.s president with black barack. obama and we're talking about. institutional racism when black people. were running the institution are you. kidding me. [Music]. [Applause]. what did what what what did comedian. wanda sykes say after obama.

got elected how are you going to. complain about the man when you are the. man. knock it off you're getting people. killed. meanwhile 13 high schools in baltimore. where zero percent are math proficient. and another half a dozen where one. percent is that's half. the high schools in baltimore were. either zero percent or math proficient. or one percent is. and we're talking about police brutality. are you kidding me. you're being manipulated.

i don't know anybody who had a harder. hand dealt than my father. my father was born in athens georgia his. irresponsible mother threw him out of. the house when he was 13 years old. because. he was quarreling with his mother's then. boyfriend. my father leaves picks up anything he. can do. ultimately he became a pullman porter on. the trains in those days they were the. largest private employer of blacks in. those days. and my dad came out to california once. and it was sunny. and you could walk into a restaurant and.

sit down and be served. he couldn't believe it so he made a. mental note that maybe someday he. relocated to california pearl harbor. my dad joined the marines. right semper fi bro. and i said dad why and my dad said. two reasons you know what they are they. go where the action is and i love those. uniforms. my dad is stationed on the island of.

guam bombs fall. war is over goes back to chattanooga. where he met married my mom. my dad was in charge of cooking. facilities in the military he was a. staff sergeant. my dad can look at a cake and tell you. what's in it that's how good he is. he wants a job as a short order cook. 1945. he goes to restaurant after restaurant. after restaurant in chattanooga where he. met and married my mom. and they said we don't hire. my dad goes to an unemployment office. the lady says you went to the wrong door.

my dad goes out to the hall sees colored. only goes to that door to the same lady. who sent him out. my dad went home to my mom and said this. is bs i'm going to california i'm going. to get me a job as a short order cook. i'll send for you after i get a job my. dad comes out to la. where i live now walks around restaurant. to restaurant to restaurant. i'm sorry we only hire people with. references. my dad said i need a reference to make. eggs. he even offered to work for free for two. weeks.

and then write me a reference nobody. would do that. he was treated the same way in la as he. was in chattanooga they were just a. little more polite about it. he went to an unemployment office only. one door. and he sat there and the lady finally. calls him up after a day and a half and. says i have something. i don't know whether or not you want it. my dad said of course i'm going to want. it. it's a job at nabisco brand bred. cleaning toilets. my dad did that for 10 years he worked. for another bread company at the same. time full-time job. cleaning toilets for that bread company.

as well he went to night school. two or three nights a week to get his. ged because he got kicked out of the. house. and he never went back to school at the. eighth eighth grade. and he cooked for a family on the. weekend the man never. slept which is why he was so grouchy all. the time. and why i had such a difficult. relationship with him and my dad. told my brothers and me the following. hard. work wins.

you get out of life what you put into it. and he said larry. you are not in control of the outcome. but you are. 100 in control of the effort. [Applause]. and before you moan and whine about what. somebody did to you or said to you. go to the nearest mirror look at it and. say what could i have done. to change the outcome and finally he. said no matter how hard you work no. matter how good you are. bad crap will happen how you address. that bad crap. will tell your mother and me if we.

raised a man. by the way i wrote a book about all of. this is called dear father dear son two. lives eight hours. about the eight hour conversation my dad. and i had because i hated his guts when. i was growing up. i didn't realize his background i mean i. knew he didn't have. relatives because we never got any gifts. from him but i had no idea what his life. was like. and he sat down and told me about. everything he'd gone through. and at the end of this eight hour. conversation this man was bigger and. bigger and bigger and larry was smaller.

and smaller and smaller. and my dad was a lifelong republican. and he always said this. democrats want to give you something for. nothing and when you try and get. something for nothing. you almost always end up getting nothing. for something. god bless you all god bless our great. country. we're going to win in november 3rd. he's going to triple the black vote.

and we're going to win god bless you. peace out. [Applause]. [Music]. you.