#1512 - Ben Shapiro

One of the great myths is that the big threat to the black community in the United States is law enforcement. It's just nonsense. It's not only nonsense; it's counterproductive nonsense.

I'm warning people now that what happens in the George Floyd case with Derek Chauvin... They should be warned up front. I want this police officer punished. I think everyone wants this police officer punished. The defense is going to make a case that the police officer is not responsible for George Floyd's death in exactly the same way that the New York police officers made the case that they weren't responsible for Eric Garner's death. The initial autopsy tends to support that. What that suggests is not that Derek Chauvin is good or clean or decent, but if you're going to charge him with murder, that's a hard charge to make on a legal level.

Biden is running almost the ideal campaign. He's not alive. And as it turns out, beating a dead horse is actually kind of tough.

The number one predictor of intergenerational poverty in the United States remains single motherhood. The single motherhood rate in the black community was 20% in 1960; it's upwards of 70% today.

When you want to make a change in your life, you first have to commit that you want to make the change before you make the change.

If you want to be good at a thing or be successful at a thing, you have to commit to the thing. That's true whether you're talking about marriage, educational success, or your career.

Politics is about the art of making it hard to vote for your opponent and easy to vote for you. Trump is fairly good at number one and god awful at number two.

The drug of sexual attraction is the most sold drug in the United States. It sells cars. It sells homes. It literally sells lifestyles.

If you have to go this far to find things to be offended over, there's not that much to be offended over. If you have to go so far that you have to be offended by 'Trader Jose's,' you got nothing going on in your life.

If you're in these isolated environments, and everyone around you is involved in gangs, crime, and drugs, it's difficult to model yourself after something that you don't see in real life.

The number one factor in allowing kids to rise is not even having a father in the home; it's how many fathers there are in the community. You can have a single mom, but if there are a lot of male father figures around, that helps fill in the gap.

There were two moments where I saw an opportunity for us to come together, and one of them was the moment the COVID-19 lockdown happened. To me, it was very similar to right after 9/11 where everybody was confronted with their own mortality. 'Holy shit. We might be on the verge of a pandemic, just like in a movie, where a lot of the people we know die. We have to be kind to each other.'

I had the unfortunate experience of actually reading one of the bestselling books in the country: Robyn D'Angelo's 'White Fragility,' and let me tell you, a greater pile of horseshit has never been produced by a bevy of horses. It is an awful book.

The Washington Post database last year [2019] showed that a grand total of 15 black Americans were shot while unarmed across the United States in a country of 42 million black people.

The longer you live together with somebody before you get married, the higher the divorce rate after.

What percentage of American males do you think are addicted to porn at this point? It's got to be 50%. It's got to be an extraordinarily high percentage, and none of that is good for relations between men and women.

Most Americans are wearing masks right now. By polling data, 59% of Americans say that they always wear a mask when they leave the house.