News Roundup: PCA Madness, Inner City Crime, Revisionism, & the Death of Manhood

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So I have curated for myself what I think are important news stories to think through. And I wanted to start here. I wanted to start with a situation that took place over the weekend regarding a murder.

Crime, Race, and the Charlotte Stabbing

And it seems like what's happened with this murder that took place in Charlotte, North Carolina, it has opened up a discussion that is ongoing and I believe will intensify. I don't think the discussion is going away.

We are going to, for years to come, be talking about violence, especially when it comes to violence emanating from certain racial groups and what accounts for the level of violence that come from certain racial groups.

Racial minority groups in particular, obviously illegal migrants have been part of this discussion but more broadly speaking, black people in this country, the descendants of slaves, and I would include those who have assimilated into that culture who have come since the times of slavery, that particular culture receives a lot of scrutiny and it's from both the left and the right.

The left wants to say the reason for this is deprivation from years ago, from the days of segregation and from the days of slavery. If we didn't have those experiences, you wouldn't have this level of crime.

There are, I guess you could say a spectrum, we'll say on the right, that analyzes this and says, hold on a minute, look at places like Canada that don't have those same experiences and you have the same kinds of situation.

You have crime. You have the crime at basically the same levels in that population. Look at certain African countries. Now there are differences, by the way, this episode really wasn't for this particular purpose so I didn't get a list together, but there are places, I know they might be smaller places, but there are places, for example, there are certain islands in the Caribbean that have very high black populations and have very low crime rates.

So you have to get into each particular all the cultural factors in each particular situation to find out, okay, why does it look this way here and not there? I actually pointed out many times during the great riots of 2020 that most of the violence seemed to be in the North and yet we ripped down hundreds of these Confederate Southern statues and not just that, we ripped down Christopher Columbus statues, we even ripped down some Bounding Fathers statues, mostly Southerners who had some kind of a connection to the institution of slavery in this country.

And I thought it was ironic that most of the violence though was in the North, the place that you saw cities actually burning down were in Northern areas. The closest you came to violence in the South was probably in Atlanta and it did not compare to cities in the North, like the Twin Cities in Minnesota or even Chicago.

So I think there are differences in populations of quote unquote black people, even in the United States but obviously we have our crime statistics and there has to be a reason for it, right? And so I don't shy away from those things.

I've been talking about those things for years and I will tell you what I think and we don't have time to get into all the details with all the things we're gonna talk about today but I will try to give you somewhat of a solution.

What I've thought for years about solving the problem of crime in inner city, urban areas and whether it's people who are black or people who are, I don't care if they're green or whatever color, the right way to approach this particular situation.

We also are going to talk about the PCA today and the situation that happened the Sunday before last at a particular PCA church, it's a wild situation. I'll play you the video, but it's a pastor who decided he was going to convert to the Roman Catholic Church.

And as part of his goodbye, he served the Lord's supper right after making the declaration that he is now a papist. I don't know what to make of that, but there are some, it's a very prominent PCA church and there happens to be someone who's very prominent in the PCA who serves at the church.

And so this has caused somewhat of an uproar, probably it should be more of an uproar to be quite honest because the PCA has shown they have a fighting spirit to go after all manner of quote unquote, racism, kinism.

And it seems like Christian nationalism, but I don't know why this doesn't register quite as high, but we're gonna talk about that. We are going to talk about masculinity in general in this country. There was another example that went viral last week of a man and I feel bad for him, but I think he did the exact wrong thing.

And I understand, I think why he did it. And I think it's time for a pep talk. We're gonna have to have a pep talk men about what your responsibility is to your children, even when it's a Cubs game and the baseball is for your son, you've caught it and someone else wants it.

We're gonna have to have a conversation about what to do in that situation without pointing too many fingers and condemning, but what happened guys? What happened to the American man? That's a question we've talked about many times.

We're gonna talk about it some more. We have some president Trump clips to talk about. We have some Barna polls to talk about that unfortunately give us some dismal evidence for the situation in the United States concerning Christianity.

And that's most of it. We're gonna also get into Jamar Tisby's whole analysis of racially motivated crime and what he thinks should happen. Of course, it's not anything that would be new to you. We went through this in the social justice years, but I think it's good to bring it back up, refresh our minds a little bit.

And last but not least, we are going to talk about a clip that I think I've just had it. It's from Candace Owens and who else? There was someone else on the podcast with her. We'll find out in a moment.

Anyway, Candace Owens, talking about the true history of the United States and the poison pill constant. I don't know if she mentioned the constitution, but our American ideas, basically in the founding documents being motivated by Freemasonry.

And I think I'm just, I don't know if I'm just getting in my middle-aged here, a little more rambunctious about these things, but I'm not gonna turn a blind eye to it. I'm just a little sick of hearing these things.

And I know it's mostly on X. Most of you maybe have not heard about the theory that I'm gonna show you, but I'm just seeing so many wacky theories out there and they're popping up on the right and they're not helpful.

And they do make us look kind of silly. And so we'll talk about Freemasonry a little bit. And if you want, we'll do a whole episode on it, but I wanna at least respond to this clip. So that's where we're going today.

Let us start with this situation. I'm gonna read for you a news story about this murder that took place. And we'll use that to launch our discussion about crime and safety in the United States. Oh, that's the men's retreat.

Sorry, that's the men's retreat video. Good reminder again, though, sign up for the men's retreat if you haven't done so. Here's the New York Post. Now, this story has gotten a lot of press in right-wing circles, especially because it has not received a lot of press in the mainstream media.

And there's a question of why. Why is it that the George Floyds of the world get so much press? And this particular story doesn't get hardly any. Well, the New York Post is a bit right-leaning for New York standards at least.

And they did report on it. I noticed today the mainstream media is reporting on it. The AP had a weird headline making Donald Trump the center of the whole thing. And a lot of the mainstream stories for some reason do not mention the name of the particular victim in the case, which is another interesting thing because when it's something that fits the left-wing agenda, the name of the victim is always front and center.

But we will tell you the name and we will talk about what happened. So liberal media and politicians have been accused of staying silent on the savage murder of a young Ukrainian refugee. That makes this even more interesting.

It's a Ukrainian refugee. I thought we were supposed to care about them. Well, this Ukrainian refugee was on a train in North Carolina, in Charlotte, and after a career criminal with no fewer than 14 arrests was charged with her murder.

And those arrests, by the way, included things like breaking and entering, stealing, assault. It's a long rap sheet. And this person is still on the street and it's kind of odd that this person isn't in prison already.

It doesn't make sense. Why is this person freely roaming around? This person does have some issues with supposedly schizophrenia. Maybe he's just talking to demons. I don't know. He has some very weird ideas, including thinking that this young Ukrainian woman was reading his mind, apparently.

But Erna Zarutska, who's 23, was stabbed to death on a light rail in Charlotte with horrifying surveillance footage showing the moment the unsuspecting young woman was brutally attacked. Now, this man is sitting behind her.

He just stands up and just starts stabbing her in the neck and kills her. And the people around her don't even notice what happened initially because it happened so fast. It was unprovoked. It doesn't seem like she even had time to scream.

She just dies right there in cold blood. And this criminal starts walking around the bus. Blood is dripping from his knife. And the name of the criminal is DeCarlos Brown Jr. He's 35, and he's allegedly shown pulling out a, allegedly, pulling out a pocket knife and getting out of his seat behind Zarutska before the video cuts, just as he prepares to plunge the blade into her.

So it's a nasty thing. I obviously have seen the video, like most of you, up until the point where the attack, where this screen is, where the attack begins. And that is censored for obvious reasons. Zarutska is totally unaware of the killer behind her.

She's fiddling with her phone. After the killing, the attacker can be seen wandering through the blue train line, dripping blood across the floor as he carries the weapon. Bystanders barely seem to notice that a young woman has been knifed to death right behind them.

This is one of the tragic commentaries on our modern life, isn't it? That you have someone who has died, someone who has been murdered. And if you look at this picture, you have this guy's kind of in a daze, looking ahead of him.

People are probably tired. They're coming home from work. But most people are just looking down, presumably, at their phones. And we're so distracted by our technology, do we even notice what's around us?

It's kind of a sad thing. He leaves the train, takes off his bloody hoodie, then calmly awaits for the train to pull into the station before exiting. But in the wake of the monstrous killing, which took place on August 22nd, so this actually took, the actual incident did take place a while ago, a few weeks ago, but I think the footage was not released until last week.

Anyway, mainstream outlets and politicians have stayed silent. Charlotte's Democratic mayor even thanked publications that chose to keep the video from the public. There's a picture of the criminal right there.

The video of the heartbreaking attack that took Erna Zyrucka's life is now public. I want to thank our media partners and community members who have chosen not to report or to share the footage out of respect for the family, he said.

So here's a picture of the mayor, Mayor by Lyles. It's terrible. Representative Brad Nott, Republican, said this about it. The mayor's refusal to condemn Censel's horrific and preventable violence is as telling as it is despicable.

Violent criminals, regardless of who they are or what they look like, need to be in jail. Lyles' office did not respond immediately. The violence in Charlotte is a microcosm of a national epidemic, Mark Harris from North Carolina, Republican representative says.

Charlotte City Council candidate Edwin P. Beacock posted a video of his nighttime ride on board a light rail train in Charlotte as he called for a crackdown on public transit crime. A week ago, 23-year-old Erna Zyrucka was brutally killed on Charlotte's light rail.

Her death is a tragedy. So people are weighing in on this. It's just so preventable. I think that's what's got people riled up. It's so preventable. This could have been stopped. This guy was on the radar of law enforcement for quite some time.

He had issues that should have kept him out of society, and yet there he is and senselessly killing people. Now, I'm not gonna show it, but I was a little perturbed that when the mainstream media was not covering this, which was, I think I looked it up last Saturday, there was local media and there was a local, I believe it was an NBC affiliate that decided to use social media posts, because sometimes news stories do that, from what appears to be a local activist, a left-wing activist who didn't blame any of this on evil coming from the human heart.

It wasn't the problem of the law enforcement being prevented from actually locking this guy up. It actually had to do with mental health. It was all a mental health issue, which, right, when there's a murder that's to the left-wing's advantage in their narrative, it's always, it's guns, it's Republicans, it's something else.

In this particular case, though, it's mental health, and we just need to raise awareness about mental health. I guess that's the takeaway. I thought, that's ridiculous. And I went to the guy's profile.

It was not even someone worth talking about because he had so few followers, but it was someone on Facebook who was a Black Lives Matter activist. And I just thought, this is ridiculous. That's the takeaway.

You know that kind of a narrative would be completely reversed, obviously, if it was a white man and a black woman or a white Ukrainian refugee. Actually, I don't even know, would that play into the rights anti-immigration stuff?

I'm not sure. But either way, this didn't fit the narrative. And so they didn't either report on it or they tried to take this odd stance that it's all just mental health and we have mental health problem.

That's what caused this. No, sin caused this. Evil caused this. A criminal justice system that's broken in our inner cities caused this. And that's where you can trace all of this back to. So that is the situation.

There was, I feel like there was something else that, yes, the Charlotte mayor responds to the deadly light rail stabbing. This is from August 27th, going back to August 27th. Lyles did not mention the victim by name or discuss any specific measures the Charlotte area transit system where police are taking to address safety on public transit.

I guess there's just no way to prevent this stuff. It's just gonna happen, right? And I mean, of course things slip through the cracks but these are some pretty big cracks to have a rap sheet as long as this guy did and he's still out there.

So that is what was happening in social media discussion over the weekend. How do we stop this? What's going on? And of course there were a lot of takes that were very racially focused that either this is what this particular demographic, people who are black, people who look like Mr. Brown, this is what they end up doing in higher numbers or this is something that's particular to certain regions.

This is an inner city problem. Or like I said, there's some people who just think, oh, it's mental health, I guess. And I wanted to open this discussion up a little broader and read for you. This is something I wrote.

I probably wrote it in 2020 or 2021 but it was published in my book, Christianity and Social Justice in 2021. I've been talking about these issues for a while and it's in a response I made to Jamar Tisby.

And Jamar Tisby is blaming all of the violence that takes place, that takes place because minority groups are committing more of it. And he says that it's essentially because of white people too. You can trace that back to the way white people have treated black people, right?

That's the whole issue. They say Jamar Tisby, we're gonna get to Jamar Tisby, Phil Bisher, but they're basically the same narrative. So it was a Phil Bisher thing I was responding to. And let's see, where do I wanna start?

So Jamar Tisby is part of this too. I guess I talk about both of them. So he talks about this in the color of compromise, racism just adapts, racism never goes away. It's all racism. And, oh, did I get rid of it?

I thought, hmm, I thought I had it queued up but maybe I have the wrong page number here in the book. Okay, so let's go to Bisher. So Bisher takes the same narrative and promotes it in a very viral video that went viral in 2020 about racism in America.

I say this, Bisher incorrectly states that vagrancy laws were only applied to black men and ignores the desperate economic circumstances in which they arose. He neglects to discuss the ways in which some white people promoted integration gradually and the constitutional concerns associated with forced integration.

When it comes to disparities in home ownership, Bisher, so I talk about all these economic things. Bisher's wrong about all of it, basically. He leaves out things that are inconvenient to his narrative.

Fast forward, he insinuates that white people's fear of black people created disparities in policing and cites a poll known to be compromised, which falsely alleges that the majority of Americans blamed black people for crime in 1968.

However, he overlooks the fact that many urban black people requested additional law enforcement themselves. I thought that was an interesting thing that the communities which experience high crime, if you actually poll those communities, generally they'll say they want more law enforcement, but then they end up voting for people who do the exact opposite, right?

And rage bait against the police and so forth. Interesting dynamic. Bisher also points to higher incarceration rates as evidence that harsher penalties for drug-related crimes, especially for crack cocaine violations singled out black people.

Yet again, he fails to mention that most of the Congressional Black Caucus supported these harsher measures. So I go through all that, drug crimes and all that. Bisher insists that there is no visible connection between higher incarceration rates and higher violent crime rates, yet only about 17 of black people in prison are there on drug charges.

Violent crime is currently the most proportionally significant category in which more black people are incarcerated than white people. The FBI reports that black people account for over 37 of violent crime arrests, even though they make up a little over 13 of the population according to Census Bureau.

The Department of Justice found that over 70 of violent crimes against black people are committed by other black people. Black criminals also commit violent crimes against white victims nine times as often as white criminals do against black victims.

It is likely that this data could make more sense of the current 33 incarceration rates among blacks than Bisher's charge of white racism. Bisher also alleges that a study of drivers in New Jersey showed discrimination.

You're gonna skip past that one because you got that one wrong too. At one point, Bisher falsely attributes the findings in a survey specifically focused on economic conditions experienced by black people who live in urban areas to black people in general.

At another point, he cites a study that suggests white teachers are half as likely to recommend a black student for a gifted track. So in every category, Bisher is saying, law enforcement, every category, it's just against black people.

The whole system is just rigged and that's why you see these crimes. I go through the Planned Parenthood stuff. Let's see, was there anything else I wanted to mention here? Okay, I think that was pretty much it.

I think there's some more things I say about this, but long story short, you have a higher rate. And I do go through later on some stats. It wasn't always this way, basically. And I don't know where I went over that, but I'll just, from memory.

During the 1920s and through, I don't know, right before the Great Society, you had much higher, as long as we've been tracking these kinds of stats, at least, you have much higher marriage rates. You have also lower crime rates.

Now, as long as we've been tracking it, black people have always contributed more to the crime rate as opposed to quote-unquote white people. And that's how the crime statistics are done. So I'm just using their categories.

But much lower than today. So today is, I think the out-of-wedlock birth rate is something, it's like close to 70%, maybe a little over that. If you're born into a situation, you're a black person being born, it's more than likely you're going to be born to a single mother.

It was the reverse before the Great Society stuff. Now, I don't think the Great Society makes sense of all of this. I think it exacerbated a problem that was already present. But we've, through policies, and this is a good situation to talk about this, through our own policies, we have made this problem much, much worse.

So when you got a guy with a rap sheet, he's got 13 arrests, he's been stealing, he's been assaulting, and he's still just on the street. He keeps getting acquitted somehow. He keeps getting slaps on the wrist.

Then what do you have to blame? You have policies to blame at that point. There were so many times that this could have been prevented, and yet it wasn't. And that's been our problem for quite some time, especially since the late 1960s, 70s.

We've had an aversion to, and I say we, I say, I'm meaning politicians, have had an extreme aversion to doing things that would have disparate impact. Doing, enforcing policies, some of them already on the books, that could be accused of racism because there's some kind of a disproportionate impact it has on people who are black or people who are, fill in the blank, Hispanic in certain areas.

That's, you know, coming from Los Angeles, that's the thing you hear the most about. It's gonna have a disparate impact on this population, therefore, must be racist, you can't do it. Well, that's just killing us.

That's just making the cities inhospitable places, making the cities, because they're controlled by mostly Democrats who are living with these high numbers of these populations, and they're not enforcing basic laws about crime.

They are creating inhospitable environments, and people don't wanna live there anymore, and for good reason. They don't wanna take public transportation. Right now, I live about two hours outside of New York City.

It is very well-known in my area, if you go down to New York City, don't take the subway. That's just kind of a common sense thing, and it's been that way since the Daniel Penney thing. There's way too many things that have happened on the subway.

I mean, there's crazy people that ride the subway. There's murders that happen on the subway. The subways are dirty. Don't ride the subway. If you go down to New York City, take a cab, drive yourself, find other accommodations and public transportation.

Subway is just not something that you're supposed to do, and everyone here knows it, so they don't take it. And so who takes the subway then, right? It's people primarily who are caught, people who can't afford other means of transportation, and so they're forced to take transportation that carries more risks with it.

It's a big problem, and now you have someone who's running for New York City mayor, who will likely win, who's a communist, who will make the situation likely more worse than it even is now. There's no solution.

There's no political solution, right? And this plays into why Donald Trump is going into Chicago. I don't like that, by the way. I like federalism. I like localism. I don't like the central government playing an outsized role in what should be local law enforcement, but I can understand also why Donald Trump feels the way he does about this.

He's a nationalist. He looks at the whole country. He thinks it's an embarrassment what's happening in Chicago. It's an embarrassment what's happening in Los Angeles. I'm sending in the National Guard.

It's an embarrassment what happens in DC. I'm gonna clean these places up. If they won't do it, I'll do it. And he will do it. That's the thing. He actually will get results that the local populations, for some reason, they're not voting for people who will give them those results.

These places are basically places that you can't live. They're inhospitable. And so what options do you even have? Well, your options are you get out of the city, which a lot of people do, including black people, including people who have been there for a long time, whose families go back generations.

They just get out. As soon as they have the economic means to do it, they leave and they never look back. That's one solution, right? And that just makes the situation worse because your intelligent population, the people who actually have maybe some virtue and should be the leaders of society, they're gone.

You have a brain drain happening. So now you're just leaving the criminal elements to control things even more. The people who are there end up voting for governments who do not enforce the laws or they change the laws so that they're even less hard on crime.

So you end up just having a war zone and you either have to tolerate living in a war zone or you get out as soon as you can. And most people who have some common sense try to get out. They have to work in the city.

They work in the city, but their families are protected in the suburbs, right? We've been going through this for years and years and years. And it doesn't seem like in many places there is a local remedy for it.

You don't have people winning who are going to carry out the policies necessary. Now, what policies would those be? It's fairly simple to me. What you would need to have, I think, what did I call it on X the other day?

I called it a type of paternalism, which I'm gonna read you an article from Jared Martisby in a moment. Paternalism apparently very, very bad, but I don't think I said genteel. What did I say? Kind of a benevolent.

I think I said benevolent paternalism. That's what you would need, a benevolent paternalism. What does that mean? That means you're gonna have to be very hard on crime and there's gonna have to be a strong police presence.

If people can't protect themselves, they're gonna need to be protected. If people won't limit their choices to destroy society, those choices are gonna have to be limited. You would also need to have available low to medium skilled jobs, jobs that the people there could do and make an honest wage and take care of themselves and hopefully families that they would form.

And you'd have to cut off the welfare. You would need welfare reform so that they're not incentivized to just spend their time thinking about what crimes they can do and what trouble they can get into and children being created into an environment where they're not gonna be protected and so forth.

And so that's the other thing. You would need those kinds of... But those factories and those jobs are never gonna go to those places, obviously, if there's not first a heavy police presence and crime isn't curtailed.

That's the first step you would need to do. And then the third thing, it would be you would need a heavy moral presence. There have to be very strong disincentives, public shame, if you will, to participate in evil things.

And so there would need to be a cooperative effort among Christians to evangelize those regions and make sure that there's a hope and with all the mess that there is, there's a mechanism for counseling people out of those things should they want to leave their dysfunctional lifestyles.

That's it.

I mean, what other options are there, right? I mean, for a plan, right? That would be the plan. That would be what you would have to do. Otherwise, they're just gonna keep getting worse and worse and worse, and there's no solution in sight.

So when you have major cities going down this road, they're a threat, and you're going to get heavy-handed people in the state or national governments who want to correct that mess because they're tired of hearing about it.

And it does affect the economy. It affects investment. It affects all kinds of other things. So I think that's always been the solution, but Jamar Tisby says, no, that's not a solution for these kinds of things.

In fact, he just wrote this today. So I'll just show you. Jamar Tisby, for those who don't know, and I don't have a problem saying this, very much promoted by guys like Lincoln Duncan and even Al Mohler and your big-witted evangelicals years ago as kind of an up-and-coming historian of the new intelligentsia that the evangelicals are producing.

Now, they don't talk about it because he started working with Kendi. He got on the CRT train really hard. He started saying very heretical things, and now he's not, I don't think he's even on X anymore.

He writes from his substack and posts on Blue Sky, but he wrote something on his substack today because I went to his substack. I just wanted to find out, I was like, is he talking about this situation down in Charlotte?

And it doesn't appear that that's, if he is, it's related to this, and it's more along the lines of the National Guard coming in and cleaning these places up. That's the thing that's a problem. So here's Jamar Tisby.

Why Trump's plan to send troops into cities is about race and not crime. Okay, all right, it's about race, not about crime. This article, all right, so this is what he says. At first, Trump's talk of sending troops into major U .S. cities sounds like partisan warfare, red versus blue, but look more closely and you'll see another dynamic.

Trump isn't just targeting Democrat strongholds. He's targeting Black leadership, Chicago, LA, Baltimore, Oakland, all run by Black mayors, often Black women. Just think about that for a moment. I mean, I don't know if that's the point he wanted to make if you just stop the article there.

I mean, all these places, high crime areas that Trump's, it's just weird, right? They're all run by Black women. What could be, I mean, if Democrats is not the, I don't know why he's making this point.

This is Jamar Tisby's point, but he's saying it's not Democrats, they're Black women. That's the thing these cities have in common. And then he says, when Trump points to Chicago and these other cities as so far gone, notice who leads them, they're all Black mayors.

And then there's a picture of Jefferson Davis, right? That's a line, that's a connection right there. Jefferson Davis right there with his adopted son, Jim Limber, a biracial Black child. So Jefferson Davis, he's just like Donald Trump.

Look at him with his paternalism. Look at him trying to help this Black son that he adopted. I mean, I don't know if this makes the point Jamar Tisby wants to make either, the president of the Confederacy adopting a Black child.

I mean, I thought they were all hated Black people, right? But here he is adopting a Black child. And so instead of drawing the obvious conclusion from this, maybe they didn't actually hate, maybe not all of them hated Black people.

The conclusion that he draws is there must've been hatred behind the adoption. There must be hatred behind trying to stop crime in these places where high populations of Black people and Latinos live.

Because we know already, we just assume that all these people are haters. So everything they do is motivated by that, whether it's Jefferson Davis or Donald Trump. So he talks about white racial paternalism.

He says, it's not enough to call these attacks racist. They are also paternalistic. He's not talking about the attack in Charlotte. He's talking about the attack of Donald Trump and wanting to have law and order in these places.

At the core of white supremacy is the belief that Black people cannot care for themselves. Hmm, white racial paternalism casts Black communities as intellectually, morally, politically, and economically deficient, whether because of skin color or more often today because of supposed flaws in Black culture.

So this is the funny thing. Like you can't escape the charge because even if you want to say it's a culture thing, look at the rap music, look at what they're singing about. That too is racist. You can't talk about that.

That's just like going after them for their skin color.

Right?

To the social justice mind, it's the same thing. This deficiency is imagined and permanent. The so-called remedy is white control. Paternalism insists that Black people need guardians, caretakers, or overseers, that white leadership is both necessary and beneficial.

That's why Black political power is treated as a crisis. A Black mayor, Black voters, or Black demands for equal rights appear not as democratic progress, but as breakdown of the social order. In this paternalistic imagination, Black people must be protected from themselves like a child who has to be put on a leash to keep them from running into traffic.

Now, I don't know who's leading the efforts that Trump has to go into these places, but I'll just tell you this, with the ICE videos that I've seen out there from Los Angeles, there's an awful lot of people who are not white in ICE gear going into these regions.

I'm positive Trump doesn't think about it this way. I think he looks at it as there's crime over there. There's a population that doesn't seem to be limiting itself, and you have leaders who aren't enforcing the law.

So therefore, I'm gonna go do it. I think that's the simple explanation and the one that makes the most sense. But Jim Artisbe wants to make... I'll tell a Civil War thing, all right? So he goes, the Lost Cause, right?

The Lost Cause was a myth that recast the Confederacy as a noble, slavery as benevolent, and defeat as honorable. The myth of the Lost Cause where it was like the smoke's still clouding the air in the aftermath of the Civil War.