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The Brendan O'Neill Show

334: Wilfred Reilly: How Black Lives Matter fooled the world

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Wilfred Reilly – author of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me and Hate Crime Hoax – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show this week to discuss the five-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd. Wilfred and Brendan talk about the myth of America’s race war, how BLM put black people in danger, and why race relations could improve Donald Trump.

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0:00.0

Trump actually is making some moves toward kind of a colorblind society, and a lot of people

0:07.2

voted for that, and they voted for that across color lines.

0:10.4

American race relations on the ground are pretty functional.

0:13.0

I mean, the Trump vote is pretty good evidence of that.

0:15.7

Trump won 54% of Hispanic men, 46% of Hispanics overall.

0:20.8

That actually might just be Hispanic

0:21.9

women, because he nearly split Hispanics. He won about a third of young black men. But in terms

0:26.5

of the good news, I mean, he won almost 40% of Asians, 65% of natives, 50 plus percent of whites.

0:31.9

So I think in a situation like that, where most people are voting for, in practice, a center-right

0:37.2

Republican candidate, And that's

0:39.1

the case of the law across racial lines. I mean, I think that's obviously a good thing for race

0:42.5

relations. Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill,

0:49.7

and my special guest this week, Wilfred Riley. Will, welcome to the show. Glad to be on. Thanks for having me.

0:55.2

It's great to have you back on. And I want to talk to you about Black Lives Matter. You wrote a

1:00.2

brilliant piece for us on the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd. It's, I don't know if

1:07.6

it's surprising or not that it seems that long ago, but it's been five years

1:12.0

and a lot has happened since then. So it's a good thing to look back on and ask ourselves,

1:17.9

what was going on there? What was that all about? What were the consequences of it?

1:22.6

So take us back to 25th of May 2020. We saw this image of George Floyd being kneeled on by a cop and it shocked

1:31.0

people around the world. What were your initial thoughts when you saw that before everything

1:36.2

exploded and before the streets blew up? What did you think when you saw that happen?

1:40.7

Yeah, when I first saw the George Floyd video itself, I mean, I think I had the same

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