Greg Kelly claims current conversation around race hurts people of color because it ignores “problems in a culture that mocks literacy, that mocks a two-parent family”
Kelly: “White supremacy has been hyped. ... It's been overstated, totally overstated.”
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Greg Kelly: "I think the current dialogue we're having about race relations is hurting people of color nationally"
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From the March 11, 2021, edition of WABC's The Greg Kelly Show
GREG KELLY (HOST): Joe Biden can go back to watching television and he'll be briefed a week from tomorrow on the white supremacy situation because we got to get those white supremacists, all 18 of them. White supremacy has been hyped. First of all, obviously, white supremacy is the dumbest philosophy I've ever heard of and, but the thing is, it's been overstated, totally overstated. And they're doing that for political reasons, of course, and they're trying to besmirch anybody who might be in favor of Donald Trump as a white supremacist. If you voted for Trump, you had a role in the January 6th insurrection, which is obviously not an insurrection. It was a terrible riot, terrible day, shouldn't have happened. But actually, I heard that the charging documents the Department of Justice just put out a lot of material on who's being charged with what in connection with January 6th and guess what? Nobody's being charged with an armed insurrection, which is actually chargeable. Insurrection is, you know, there's a law against insurrection, and no one's being charged with that.
White supremacy, the President Biden, he mentioned it during his inaugural address. I've heard Mayor de Blasio talk about it. I've heard this police commissioner at times talk about politically correct things. Not too long ago, he actually apologized for the systemic racism of the police department, which, let's face it, is a slap in the face, and I would be more outraged if everybody was paying attention to this police commissioner, but as we talked about yesterday, these city officials, nobody knows who they are. They have all faded away, in part because we have no real media class anymore that like everybody, you know, Jimmy Breslin, everybody read his column. We don't have that anymore, although we're going to make this show something that people tune into, but no that's one of the reasons why these local officials can get away with what they get away with because everybody's distracted. Everybody's looking at a million different things. So Bill de Blasio can say outrageously insulting things.
And maybe people are paying a bit more attention now because Donald Trump is off the stage in part, and they have more time to scrutinize and to look at what de Blasio has come up with, and he has said some just ridiculous things about life in America, life in the city. He's done nothing to improve our lives. Let's face it, these are basics. You know, he's talking about income inequality and, you know, reparations and global warming. You know, we just want the streets clean. We just want these lunatics off the subway in the morning. These are the kinds of things that state and local officials can handle but that, or should be able to handle, that's what they're there for. But it's not fun to do that stuff and it often doesn't command attention, and that's all it seems anybody really wants these days is his attention for a moment.
You know, let's talk about who has done what for the community. De Blasio has hurt the African-American community in this city. I think the current dialogue we're having about race relations is hurting people of color nationally. We're having a silly conversation about race to avoid having an important and helpful conversation about race. Sheriff Clarke has been on my show. The late, great Herman Cain was on my show. And we talked in very honest ways about problems in a culture that mocks literacy, that mocks a two-parent family. That's a problem, and I said earlier, that's what Barack Obama could have been involved with, but instead, like everybody else, he just virtue signals and has fun with that. Two people who saved the lives -- a couple of people I want to mention, who have saved the lives of people of color. One of them will be joining WABC in about 45 minutes: Rudy Giuliani. Rudy Giuliani has saved the lives of countless people of color by making this city much safer over the eight years when he was mayor.