Are you woke? Well, that means your racist.

Wokeism is racism. I'll make the case. Also investigative journalist Julie Kelly joins me to talk about

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We hear a lot about being woke these days. Woke corporations, students on campus, or professors who think that they're woke.

And I want to make the case that wokeism is racism. Now, wokeism presents itself in the opposite mode. It presents itself as a move away from bigotry, from racism to enlightenment.

To be woke is to undergo a certain kind of transformation, a conversion experience.

But I want to argue that the conversion experience is not away from bigotry, but toward bigotry. That when you become woke, you actually develop a stronger racial consciousness.

You begin to think about people in racial terms and you have a hidden, but nevertheless unmistakable foundation, a foundational assumption of black inferiority.

Now, here is Don Lemon, the host of CNN, complaining about racism. In an interview with The Washington Post, he says, I don't know of America sees black people, and especially black gay men as fully human.

He's putting the blame here on America. Americans don't see blacks as fully human. And in general, when people try to blame America on the left, they appeal to American history.

They go, wait a minute, Dinesh, look at the three fifths clause in the Constitution, which declares the blacks are only worth three fifths of a human being.

That is the sort of primafashe evidence typically supplied. And it's based upon a complete fallacy, because the argument between the North and the South, the Northern and Southern states, had to do with political representation.

How many congressmen, how many representatives each side gets. Now, the North, the North, which is the anti-slavery side, wanted blacks to count for zero. Why? Because it wanted to reduce the political power of the Southern states.

The South, which wanted more congressmen, more representation, in order to protect its slave interest, the Southern states wanted blacks to count for one.

So you see right away that although the three fifths number that was agreed upon was a kind of compromise, a compromise to kind of bring the two sides together and get a union, that number, whatever you think of the compromise, had nothing to do with the intrinsic worth of blacks or African Americans at all.

So this is a, this is simply a canard, one of those sort of historical lies that has embedded itself in left wing consciousness.

But moving away a little bit from history for a moment, we turn now to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. This is the Democratic Senator from a Rhode Island, who evidently still belongs to an all white beach club.

Not only does he belong to it, but it's been repeatedly brought to his attention over the last several years, and he's still through his family a member.

He was asked about this recently. Listen. Okay, back in 2017, you had expressed concerns about the membership of the all white, Bailey's Beach Club said that you hoped it would become more diverse.

Now your family's been members, your wife is one of the largest shareholders. Has there been any traction in that? Are there any minority members of the club now?

I think the people who are running the place are still working on that. I'm sorry it hasn't happened yet.

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