When did racism against white people become okay?
Joe Biden put white people last in line for COVID relief funds,
Kamala Harris said, disaster aid should go to non-white citizens first,
liberal politicians block access to medicine based on skin color.
Progressive corporations, airlines, universities,
all openly discriminate against white Americans, racism is always wrong.
The left's anti-white bigotry must stop.
We are all entitled to equal treatment under law.
America First Legal paid for this ad.
>> America First Legal airing that insane ad in parts of Georgia and Florida.
Stephen Miller, one of Trump's advisers and well known white supremacist is
behind this particular ad, which if you know anything about Stephen Miller,
it's the most unsurprising thing in the world.
But of course it is full of lies.
We like to provide the receipt.
So we'll go ahead and debunk decode everything that's in there.
Before we do though,
I wanna give you an opportunity to just knee jerk reaction to that ad Cenk.
>> Yeah, three quick things.
One is none of it is true but you need a press that is willing to be honest and
say these things are true and these things are not true.
If you hear this ad, do you understand that you're listening to a goddamn liar?
So hey, I guess the Republicans have decided to lie to you on purpose.
So that's reaction number one, reaction number two is, I've never seen an ad that
stocks racial fear and racial hatred as much as that ad does all with lies.
And then third thing I realize, all the ads now are relatively diverse, right?
So whether it's an ad for Coke or Nike or most political ads,
even the Republicans will put in actors who are black or
Asian instead of pretending that those groups support them.
>> That ad was all white, 100% white.
>> No I mean yeah.
>> Obviously because of the topic, right?
But the second thing that it's showing you is, white people,
the Republican party is for you and you only and so it's as bad as it gets.
And will it get the kind of coverage we're giving it here overall?
Will people realize, hey,
if I see this ad, I understand that the republicans are the racist lying party?
No, they won't get that at all.
Tons and tons of people will believe this ad.
>> Yeah I mean, look, I remember any time we covered a story involving
police brutality or a story involving,
let's say a black family getting their home appraised for far less.
If the appraiser knew that they were black versus getting appraised for
far more if the appraiser had no idea and thought the owners were white.
Anytime we would cover those stories, right-wing would get vicious about it and
they would accuse us of race baiting when we're just reporting the news,
this is what is happening in the country.
This is what you should know about.
No, but they project every time they speak because race baiting is what they do.
This is race baiting and it's based on complete lies.
So let's go through each lie one by one.
So the first part of the ad says Biden's restaurant relief program
excludes white male owners and then they have this poor guy, poor schlep.
He's being denied,
obviously he's not getting any of that relief program money, right?
Except as we know based on where all the small business money went to during COVID,
a lot of wealthy white business owners got that money, but it doesn't matter right?
This is a lie, so let's tell you what actually happened.
So they cite an article from Daily Wire which was written in May of 2021
on October 8th of 2021 Joe Biden did discuss potentially prioritizing
COVID aid to small businesses owned by people of color and women.
But again, they're excluding important context, okay?
This is what Biden actually said, the exact statement.
Our focus will be on small businesses on Main Street that aren't wealthy and
well-connected, that are facing real economic hardships through no fault of
their own.
Our priority will be Black, Latino Asian and
Native American-owned small businesses, women-owned businesses and
finally having equal access to resources needed to reopen and build.
So I think the full context is important.
It wasn't Biden saying no, we're not gonna offer any aid to white business owners.
>> Yeah, okay, so two things about that.
Remember the ad said that it excludes all white male owners.
>> Right. >> Exclude them completely.
So first of all that's 100% lie and it's a lie on two fronts.
As Ana pointed out, other than PPP,
which actually went to generally speaking small to midsize companies.
The first round of relief actually went to giant corporations that are run
almost exclusively by white males, right?
Now there's some minorities in there but not a lot, okay?
So but the idea that they were excluded is hilarious.
They got the overwhelming percentage of the money,
they got a lot more money the small business owners did.
And then when you go to the small business programs PPP etcetera,
we've looked at those rules aa thousand times can white people apply?
Of course, can males apply?
Of course, and whites and males apply, did they get PPP?
Yes 100%.
So but it doesn't have to be true.
It just has to be hey Biden said half a sentence that could be misinterpreted good
enough, let's go.
>> Yeah, then that's exactly what they did.
And look the reason why Biden wanted to prioritize the specific small businesses
that he was referring to there, is for good reason.
According to data from the National Bureau of Economic Research,
African African American businesses saw a 41% drop in business activity
from February until April of 2020.
Latino businesses saw a 32% drop and Asian businesses dropped by 26%.
Female-owned businesses saw a similarly disproportionate effect with 25%
decrease in business activity.
That is in contrast to a 17% decrease white business owners have faced.
>> But even so Biden was just saying that rhetorically,
this is what we say about Democrats all the time, they never mean anything anyway.
So he didn't actually prioritize them in any way, shape or form.
I'm positive the PPP forms and every other aspect didn't even mention race.
It wasn't like you can check out I'm white male,
okay you go to the bottom of the list, it has nothing to do with it.
This whole thing is invented, including Biden's rhetoric about how he's gonna help
blacks and women, first, they never did that.
>> They never did that.
Okay, now let's get to the second one, because actually before we get to
the second lie, I need to give you some recent history, okay?
So there was a devastating hurricane that took place in Florida hurricane Ian,
if you can recall, I was on vacation when that happened, but
I was following it very closely.
The reason I was following it closely is because it hit a place called Fort Myers,
where me and my family visit regularly almost every year.
And that it was completely devastated and I was very happy to see how fast
Biden was in responding to Ron DeSantis declaring a state of emergency and
providing upward of $70 billion in federal funding
meant to help Florida recover from that devastation.
That's important to keep in mind, with that said, here's the second lie.
They alleged that Kamala Harris wanted disaster aid to go to non- white
citizens first following Hurricane Ian.
Not true at all, the assertion is also missing context.
In reality during a conversation on September 30 of this year,
Harris was asked about climate justice generally and
mentioned distributing resources equitably to help vulnerable populations, okay?
So here's the exact comment.
It is our lowest-income communities and
our communities of color that are most impacted by these extreme conditions.
And impacted by issues not of their own making.
And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources
based on equity.
Understanding that we need to fight for equality, but also equity.
Not everyone starts out the same at the same place and
sometimes we have to take into account those disparities and do that work.
So what did they want her to say?
I believe that the federal money should further bolster the finances
of the wealthiest people in the country.
That's where I think the aid should go to first.
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if Stephen Miller genuinely thought that, okay?
>> So what she's saying is, hey,
let's not leave behind poor people generally speaking.
Unfortunately disproportionately minorities in this country when things
like this hit.
So she's not saying, you know what?
Finally poor people are ahead of white people.
Wouldn't that be amazing in America?
But if you're poor, it doesn't matter if you're white or black, you know,
that's never gonna happen, right?
So when she asked for a little bit of equity and equality for
everyone concerned, they're like, how dare you?
Rich white people should be first.
>> I wanna clarify something cuz this is important.
When she made that statement, she wasn't even referring to Hurricane Ian either.
She was just talking about the climate emergency generally, which does
disproportionately impact the lives of low income communities, we know that.
>> Yeah, and oftentimes they're the first to get wiped out,
if you remember the Hurricane Katrina of course in New Orleans,
wiped out the poorest areas first.
That were disproportionately African American and she's saying,
don't leave those people behind, let's go for equity and equality.
They're like, how dare you say equality?
That means you hate white people.
White people should get something first.
Now they didn't say it like that in the ad is that they lied in the ad.
>> That's exactly right.
All right, let's do one more real quick.
So the ad also has this portion that reads whites may not be eligible for
antibodies and antivirals while nonwhites are.
And they cite the Wall Street Journal on January 7 of 2022.
Let's all recall when Ron DeSantis ensured that the rollout of the vaccines
in his state went to his wealthy donors first before anyone else.
Obviously that wasn't mentioned in the ad, but
what was mentioned in the ad was in fact a lie.
The group has taken some legal action on this claim.
Earlier this year, America First Legal filed a lawsuit in the state of New York
against a Department of Health guideline for
Covid-19 treatment that stated non-white race or
Hispanic/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor.
As longstanding systemic health and
social inequities have contributed to an increased
risk of severe illness and death from Covid-19.
It's just demonstrably true, It's just demonstrably true.
But Stephen Miller took that and twisted it in a way that would stock more hatred,
more tensions more of this divisive racial stuff in the country on purpose,
cuz that's what they do, divide and conquer, divide and conquer, that's it.
>> So here let me clarify this too.
So contributed to a risk factor doesn't mean you only give it to people
of color, okay?
It never says that as always, so
let me give you an example that is removed from Covid at all.
So I happen to get a skin disease that mainly affects Jewish people in the world.
I happen to get it randomly, okay?
It's not doesn't exclusively affect Jewish people, but
it predominantly affects Jewish people.
So being Jewish is a risk factor for that particular skin disease.
So the government saying, hey, remember that and
take that into account because we don't want you to forget that,
that it's more likely to affect those particular people.
>> Right.
>> It doesn't say Cenk Uygur who isn't Jewish, shouldn't be treated.
It doesn't say that at all, if it did, I'd be livid, right?
It just says remember that it's a risk factor and it is more likely to affect
this group and in the case of Covid, unfortunately it's devastating.
But for blacks and Latinos, it affected them more, it was a risk factor.
By the way later, you could say that, hey,
being a Republican was a risk factor cuz they're more likely to be dumbasses
that didn't take the vaccine and there are much greater danger.
And I would have told doctors be careful if you're seeing a Republican,
you should pay more attention to them because they're more likely to be idiots
who didn't take any precautions and have greatly endangered themselves, okay?
By the way, of course they would be livid about that, okay?
But there are risk factors, but
they would add itself saying white people won't be able to be treated in hospitals.
Of course, 100% fabrication.
>> The hospitals were overwhelmed with Trump supporting patients who refused to
mask up and get the vaccine every surge, every single surge.
I just, anyway all right, so there it is.
I mean, I don't know what good us debunking the ad will do.
I don't know if any of the people who saw the ad are ever gonna come across this
video, but this is how politics is done.
You have the right-wing engaging in the most vicious form of lies and
deceptions and then you have Democrats who just wanna play patty cakes and be civil.