so joe rogan, you re opening up for a guy who is redefining for many people blackness in the last 15 years and yet you re claiming not to know what blackness is. yeah, i think that s a deliberate willful ignorance and it s the unintentional hilarity of a certain kind of whiteness that refuses to own up to what it is because if he refuses to acknowledge my blackness he doesn t have to confront his whiteness. the moment he acknowledges that i am a black man he has to confront the fact that he is a white man. and in order to deflect that and to defer that and to defend his whiteness he would rather disappear it. as gore vidal said, we live in the united states of amnesia. and my brother joe rogan and mr. peterson from dr. peterson from canada are parts of that, you know, united states of amnesia, you know, the canadian virtue and province of amnesia. this is what we re talking about. a willful whiteful white
president biden getting his shot to fill a supreme court seat with justice stephen breyer deciding to retire. will the president deliver on his campaign promise to nominate a black woman? the short list circulating in washington signals history s about to be made. and you ve got to hear this. podcaster joe rogan thinks he has the definition of what makes a black person. unless you re talking to someone who is like 100% african from the darkest place where they re not wearing any clothes all day and they ve developed all that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, even the term black is weird. okay. professor michael eric dyson s name coming up as part of this uninformed rant. he joins me just ahead on that. and the country might be sick of covid but the cdc is predicting more than 62,000 deaths over the next month.
weird thing to say, to refer to people as black. that s what he said, it s weird to refer to people as black unless they are from africa, not wearing any clothes. there s a fundamental misunderstanding, as you ve been pointing out, of what it means to be black. absolutely. they re harkening back to joseph conrad s heart of darkness. brother rogan is smarter than that. people who are in africa who don t wear clothes, who have deeper melanin, was he speaking about thousands of years ago? is he talking about today? when he refers to what it means to be african. when he refers to what it means to be black. are you that obtuse, indifferent to truth, ignorant about traditions? but yes, so many people are. this is the same kind of i ignorance that fuels the idea that crt is being taught in elementary school. this is the same kind of ignorance that would have us believe that 1619 is an anti-democratic, anti-american project. this is the nature of the whiteness we continually
peterson and brother rogan to take a class. when we talk about race as a social construct, what we re saying is it s not about a biological determinism. it s about an inherited set of beliefs that depend upon a society that imbue it with meaning. and therefore, it s not simply about who you are, your skin color, your hair, your shade and tone. now, while they unsuccessfully challenged my blackness, they damn sure proved their whiteness. indifferent to history, oblivious to truth, and indifferent to reality. mm-hmm. so just it was kind of a weird thing to say, to refer to people as black. that s what he said, it s weird to refer to people as black unless they are from africa, not wearing any clothes. there s a fundamental misunderstanding, as you ve been pointing out, of what it means to be black. absolutely.
but when the conversation turned to race the other day, well, what was said on joe rogan s podcast about prominent black professor michael eric dyson was jaw-dropping. neither of us are white. well, i m italian mostly. and he was brown, not black. well, isn t that weird? yeah. it s really weird. the black and white thing is so strange because the shades are so tan and brown. there s such a spectrum of shades of people. ain just wouldn t go away. despite all he did to manage his symptoms. day after day. still came the belly pain, discomfort, and bloating, awful feelings he tried not showing. finally with the help of his doctor it came to be, that his symptoms were all signs of ibs-c. and that s why he said yess to adding linzess. linzess is not a laxative. it helps you have more frequent and complete bowel movements, and is proven to help relieve overall abdominal symptoms belly pain, discomfort, and bloating. do not give linzess to children less than two. it may harm