Hi everybody and welcome to Unapologetic. I'm your host Omla Fanobe. We have Taylor in the

producers' bay. Hello. And today we have a very very special guest. You know I rarely give two

varies when I talk about the guests we have on this show. But today it's very very.

You guys know I used to be a very radical leftist and I ended up waking up by going on the internet and

searching up different points of views. Not really to open my mind but to reinforce the ideas that I

already had. Little did I know I was going to stumble upon a man by the name Larry Elder. Larry,

thank you so much for being on the show. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. How am I going

to live up to that introduction? Oh I have a feeling you'll have no trouble living up to it. Now so many

of the videos that I found that you are making at the time or that people were filming of you speaking

was you debunking systemic racism. You've really made a career in part by going after people who

choose to run with these myths and really hold down black America with them. What made you decide

I'm going to go after this narrative? I don't think there was any moment there was any epiphany.

I've just always been like that. I grew up in the 60s and I was had a lot of friends who had a lot

of views that were emotionally held. Not very well thought out and I'd ask a few questions and all

of a sudden I'm an uncle Tom. I'm a sell out. I've been that way all my life. I was called that when

I was in college. I was called that when I was in law school. My dad was literally homeless at the

age of 13. Jim Crow South at the beginning of the Great Depression never met his biological father

and fast forward my dad ended up starting a small cafe in the Peaco Union area of LA. I know

you're new to LA but it's a heavily Hispanic area and he ended up buying the property beneath the

restaurant little piece property next door plus the house that we have in South Central. So my dad

died at the age of 95 years old. This eighth grade dropout was a little short of a net worth

one million dollars and my dad was a strong patriot. He was a World War II veteran. I believe very

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