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She Says Capitalism Is Racist. His Response Is Going Viral

Amala Ekpunobi

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Woke leftist journalist Jemele Hill claims capitalism is inherently racist on a CNN panel. Then a fellow panelist took her to school. Let’s watch and react.


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She Says Capitalism Is Racist. His Response Is Going Viral

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Amala EkpunobiShe Says Capitalism Is Racist. His Response Is Going Viral. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

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her entire argument. Yikes. Let's talk about it. Yeah, you better. Yeah, you better. Thanks for being here today, so please consider liking and subscribing. Today we're headed over to CNN to watch a back and forth on white supremacy and capitalism. Now, this black woman, her name is Jamil Hill. She is a notable leftist who sets very interesting things in the past. We'll get to that. She claims that white supremacy and capitalism go hand in hand. She's not prepared for Camille Foster on this panel who hands that argument right back to her and tells her to throw it in the trash. It's one thing to not think capitalism is working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy. I've always had always had no. Okay. Now, you hear her in the background say, well, how is it not? How is it not? And as a former leftist myself, let me give you a little bit of a window into the woke mind said, if you do not like something, if you have critique for something, just go ahead and call it an extension of white supremacy.

That's pretty much how it works. Go ahead and call it oppressive. When you are constantly looking at the world through the oppressors and the oppressed, you will just file things into those two categories. Now, for this clip, it's going to be capitalism and because she does not like capitalism, capitalism must be inherently oppressive. It must be an extension of white supremacy. In fact, how could it not be? She's actually not prepared to hear any argument for the idea that capitalism has really nothing to do with white supremacy, but she's about to hear it from Camille Foster. It's Camille versus Camille. It's a pretty good one. It's a pretty bad one. Some may call this black and black crime the way he handles this. Third, I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty, the idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use, those private property, and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human

history. Do you think capitalism is not white supremacy? It's always work that way. OK, before we get into, do you believe capitalism has always worked that way? Let me expand on that a little bit, although he basically lays it out. There's not much more work to do on that. Capitalism has created the lives and the environment for this show to even exist, for the panelists to be on it, and for them to lead the lifestyles that they lead outside of this show. And we'll check in on Jameel Hill, who's about to go back and forth with him on that in just a little bit. That is what capitalism has created. It's also made the United States one of the most charitable countries in the world. For when you have your own property, your own capital, and freedom to coincide with that, people tend to do not only what's best for them, there are family members, there are community, what's best for others all over the world. Let's keep watching. I've just described the actual, I've actually just described the basic facts of the knowledge. That is always work. Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism.

The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism and intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable. How is it absurd? It barely needs to be defended. Oh, heat, fire, flames, what else can you say? Slavery, predate capitalism. How is it that you believe that all of these things are fundamentally tied up? Please lay out your argument. That's what I want to hear. In fact, I've heard people argue that slavery has nothing to do with capitalism because slaves are not engaging in slavery voluntarily. That seems to be a pretty important part of what's going on there. We have to acknowledge that slavery was happening before capitalism as he does in this clip. We have to acknowledge what's happening after. It's happening now in nations that have nothing to do with the capitalist economy. What do you have to say about that? Slavery and racism are moral judgments that people are making and are wrongfully so as most would argue. They have very little to do with capitalism. And I think we're also not giving enough room in this conversation for how capitalism has combated racism in history.

Money is green. I mean, a large part of the civil rights movement and having black people integrate it into society with white people was the idea that money is green and patrons are patrons. If you create something that people want, they generally don't care what your skin color is. If you're going to be a customer and pay money for a certain product or service, people generally don't care what your skin color is. Capitalism is actually a driving force in elevating ourselves above the ignorance of judging people and creating systems based off of superficial identity characteristics of all kinds race included. Now she argues that capitalism hasn't always worked this way as if there aren't economic systems of all kinds that haven't always worked as they've been defined and intended to work. You can point out the failings of any system or any ideas when they're not being met out in the real world. He's having to compete with her imagination. This utopian view that there is an all perfect system out there that we just need to set it up and do it now and bring capitalism down in order to get there. It's very difficult to compete with somebody's imagination.

And we have to acknowledge that people throughout history who have had this utopian view of what economic systems could look like haven't really had the best outcomes. In fact, it had some of the worst. What do you mean it barely needs to be defended? You actually have to articulate what the connection is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell it with whoever you like. I don't have to do with white supremacists. I was intended to work versus how it's actually working. I thought I was working right now today. What is the white supremacist dynamic of private property? It's not working. That's the problem. I think the problem is it's okay. With Share My Trip from Uber, you can send your live trip location to the ones who matter most. Like Dan and Hannah, who always wait up to make sure their daughter gets back to her college dorm room. Or Tiffany, who's running late as usual, and her friends are tracking her trip to make sure she's actually on her way. Look, she's right there. She's three minutes away. Who never goes anywhere without her roommate knowing exactly where she is. Some journeys are meant to be shared. Share your ride in real time with Share My Trip on Uber. One more way Uber is putting safety at every turn.

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And then having to go back and forth with somebody who doesn't even, I think, understand what capitalism is when it's being clearly explained to her. She's just coming forward with this idealist yet destructive view that everything has it stands so far. The system that's set in place right now should be completely torn down and destroyed in the name of what she's created in her imagination. Even though she has no idea how we've gotten to this point, she has no idea how the system works. She has no idea what capitalism is and how it has worked all throughout this nation's history. And she has no acknowledgement of where it's gotten her and everyone else up to this point. Tired on everything for the thing that I'm creating in my head or the thing that has never worked historically while I claim that capitalism isn't working now. And the capitalism that isn't working right now for black people, I guess, that is deeply entrenched in white supremacy has her as a black woman on a panel of a show that's getting viewed by millions of people alongside other black people who have different views that her that are discussing this in a pluralistic society.

And I have to mention this and make the argument that probably everybody makes when they see a video like this. She's on a show wearing a platinum blonde wig. I think she has diamonds on her fingers, a beautiful watch clothing that she probably has, you know, hundreds of different types of to choose before she goes on a show like this. She's got her makeup fully done. Her nails are done. All of this in a capitalist society. I think she's doing okay, especially as a black woman. This is basically what you're going to hear when you're talking to a well-guarded. And she is a well-guarded. She's called Donald Trump, a white supremacist. She says that sports are deeply entrenched in white supremacy. That's Caitlin Clark is where she is because she is a white woman. She's gone after Riley Gaines. I mean, she has a deep history of just BS, BS, BS, and blaming everything on white supremacy. And now capitalism is well, I guess. We'll cleft just love to blame. I don't know, everything on capitalism, white people, men, colonialism, that's just basically what you're going to hear anytime you're speaking to them. And this time is just no exception to that rule.

And of course, there is the irony of having your argument handed back to you by a black man when you're trying to say that capitalism is deeply connected to white supremacy. And slavery, I don't know if she was prepared for that. Guys, those are my thoughts on this viral CNN clip. I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments down below. It's always I encourage healthy debate on this channel. So if you disagree with anything I've said, do get out with you so respectfully down below. And if you like this video, like, subscribe. Click the notification bell, be notified every single time I post a video for you guys, which is every day. And I will see you guys tomorrow. Bye, guys. On any journey using Uber, it helps to know you're getting into the right car. Pin verification adds an extra step to make sure your ride is your ride. Before the trip begins, your app gives you a unique pin. Just tell it to your driver and they'll enter it in their app before the ride can start. Hey, what's your pin? Mm-hmm. 2538. That way you know you're in the right car taking the right trip and your driver knows you're the right passenger.

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