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Flashback: Shapiro To NAACP Director, ‘Income Inequality Has Nothing To Do With Race And Everything To Do With Culture’

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Back in May, Ben Shapiro was invited to speak on a panel about race in America with three other guests, two off whom were from the far left side of the political spectrum. Shapiro, as always, used logic, facts, and statistics to make his case, which baffled his fellow speakers but delighted the audience. Click above for the truth shellacking.

Speaking of the Baltimore riots, Shapiro said, “I’m offended by the language of uprising applied to people who are breaking into other black people’s stores and looting them. This is a lack of values. People who are destroying private property, destroying cop cars, in an uprising against what exactly? Against a black police chief, against a mostly minority police force, against the black mayor, against the black president, against the black attorney general? Against a city council that is 9 of 15 black and all 15 are elected Democrats? What is the uprising against? What is it seeking to achieve?”

He concluded by saying the idea that the more outraged and angry you are the more justified you must be in your riotous destruction is absolute nonsense.

In response to the moderator posing the question, “How can you argue that racism is not a driving factor in income inequality,” Shapiro, to the head-shaking and arm-flailing of his fellow panelists, fired back, “Because it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with culture.”

“Explain to me why black kids aren’t graduating high school,” Shapiro continued. “Explain to me why black kids are shooting each other at significantly higher rates than whites are shooting each other. Explain to me why 13 percent of the population is responsible for 50 percent of the murder. Explain to me why the number of black kids in prison is so high. Explain to me, if it has nothing to do with culture, why the single-motherhood rate in the black community jumped from 20 percent to 70 percent in the same course of time that the civil rights movement has made such tremendous strides. Is America more racist now than it was in 1960? And if it is please explain to me how that happened.”

Click below to watch the full event…

The video’s description reads:

“After the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the debate on race relations in the U.S. has been reignited. What do the #BlackLivesMatter activists really mean, if conservatives and liberals agree that black lives matter? Are protests (violent or otherwise) to best way to enact change? Where does WA stand on race relations compared to the rest of the country? Join the AM 770 KTTH Freedom Series: Race in America for a local and national analysis, featuring AM 770 KTTH afternoon host and New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, Seattle/King County NAACP development director Dr. Sheley Secrest, The Stranger’s Charles Mudede, and former State Representative candidate and conservative activist Monique Valenzuela Trudnowski. Moderated by AM 770 KTTH morning host David Boze.”

Shapiro recently caused controversy when the president of California State University-Los Angeles canceled his event in which he was to speak on the topic “When Diversity Becomes a Problem.” Shapiro and the Young America’s Foundation who booked him defied the order and put the event on anyway to the horror of hundreds of violent college student “safe-spacers,” who did their best to block and intimidate attendees.

Click below for the intro to his speech for which kids literally had to sneak in and protestors pulled the fire alarm in an attempt to silence him…

Fo Shapiro’s full speech, click below…

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