All right let me jump over here to the right
side way model log the daily model log don't
forget every single day we do this it's it's
a series of commentaries and just giving you thoughts
that you might want to hold onto so let
me just follow what I just said a moment
ago so Barack Obama 's back in the news right
gave a speech yesterday designed for vote shaming you
heard me vote shaming I'll dissect that more in
detail a little bit later but for now just
know that Obama whose mother was white met with
a group of supporters yesterday and told them his
words that he wasn't feeling enough excitement about voting
for Kamala from " the brother basically saying what
Biden said back in 20 20 that black folks
don't vote for Democrats then they just ain't black
it's pure vote shaming it's also Gowling levels of
extreme prejudice extreme prejudice so let me ask you
this have you ever been to the position of
realizing that someone who has a position of authority
or influence over you had already decided that you
just did not measure up and should therefore you
know deal with you with a separate outcome so
yeah I just described the root of prejudice and
by the way that's actually more than just racism
I mean to be sure prejudice as a part
of racism but prejudice can extend more than just
race prejudice is the preconceived opinion about someone or
something that is not always based on reason interactional
experience under the law it can also be something
that result in harm and when a couple prejudice
with a position of influence well then you get
a recipe for disaster prejudice tries to get around
barriers prejudice looks for loopholes and workaround to maintain
it bias even though at it it's worse prejudice takes
action against someone for no good reason but prejudice
can also be found in just like an indifference
like you don't matter as much to me therefore
I won't help you or because I have a
preconceived notion about you I will expect action and
so from you and nothing more well I had
a personal experience once here's one of my personal
moments of dealing with prejudice to 2 1 years
ago I was preparing to take the bar exam
made a late life decision to go to law
school but I was doing so a year later
than I had planned because 9 11 it happened
and I had deployed immediately for Afghanistan so after
a year at war I came home to take
the bar exam and imagine my shock when I
was told that some of my prerequisites had expired
because I've been away for a year imagine my
further shock when I let the bar know that
all my pre- Rex had been completed in entirely
fashion and we're all you know straight up only
to find out that the bar didn't even care
that one guy at the bar didn't care his
name was Keith Norman and he was the director
of the Alabama State bar at the time it
didn't matter that everything was done to standard didn't
matter the delay was gonna set me back another
year with an attitude of complete indifference I was
told with a lack of care and concern and
a complete expressed level of indifference by the director
of the state bar to disco " use some
of that good law school learning you got appeal
it well he should've said that because I did
I may be the only attorney in the state
of Alabama who had to sue the state bar
to be allowed to take the bar exam it
didn't stop there I won and then they tried
shaming me when I got to the bar exam
in a room full of hundreds of people I
was made to sit in the front row middle
seat the very seat in front of which the
executive Director who had just lost me and my
legal challenge stood to address the room right smack
in front of me a little bit later so
it was indifference at first then it was intimidation
why I don't know by the way he lost
again when I passed the bar maybe he didn't
like me maybe they didn't like my law firm
or my law school maybe he didn't believe that
I would do anything about it because he believed
himself to be above my concerns I've I've learned
that not every form of prejudicial behavior can even
be explained but I've also learned that almost without
fail the bullies in the go alone to get
along in the calloused indifferent individuals all of them
well at times allow their individual prejudices to stand
up against you but they will also often back
down when they are confronted with truth I say
all that because in my opinion we're watching a
revolution take place right now there's a pushback from
people who are tired of being pigeon hold by
prejudice I'm talking about conservatives who were saying to the woke
and leaders that enough is enough like conservative influencer
Robbie Starbuck he's been exposing liberal corporations left and
right lately basically making known how badly some of
them are chosen to treat conservative consumers and when
faced with the truth companies have begun finally pulling
back from the cliff they were standing next to
but that's just the tip of the iceberg in
a world in which the mantra has become diversity
equity and inclusion we are finding more and more
that prejudice has flipped the script into a new
realm of negative action and the difference basically in
what amount to a round of prejudice in corporate
action we're seeing more and more than if we
are conservative in our views holding faster traditional values
even in our faith that they are companies that
will lash out or best simply become callous and
indifferent but I recently discovered an organization I gotta
tell you about it's called the 17 9 2
exchange 17 9 2 exchange they have a website
called the 17 9 2 exchange .com and they
have issued a report that's updated regularly showing 3
1 00 major corporations around the US that it
says have taken it upon themselves to treat conservatives
differently even prejudicially it's named for the year that
the Americans stock exchange was found in 17 9
2 it says by the way on their website
that they exist to " preserve freedom of speech
and enterprise and religion by countering what it causes
woke capitalism the 17 9 2 exchange has a
mission to develop policies and resources to protect us
from weakness in the world of public commerce and
doing so it's compiled a pretty darn good look
at major companies that have taken upon themselves to
have different standards for how they're gonna treat people
not on race and gender but it still values
woke standards that automatically create a prejudice toward anyone
who dares to have a different world view a
bit towards conservatism and you may wind up being
de platformed or denied alone or having an opportunity
close to you for no other reason that just
a prejudicial view against your own views now some
of the examples are listed like Bank of America they set
their vendors based on their commitment to LGBTQ values
they've cease lending with some gun manufacturers it's also
provided funding to plan parenthood as well as a southern public
law center they have a long track record of
targeting conservative groups don't like the agenda don't promote
E.S.G. you might not do business with Bank of America how
about Ben & Jerry's they're listed in the 17 9 2
exchange report to that famous Vermont ice cream company ice cream
I mean it's ice cream defund the police campaigns opposed
legislation meant to limit election fraud said the criminal
justice system must be dismantled and openly advocated for
pro- abortion policies among other things how about companies
that you might use every day like BP like
you go to a BP gas station right BP
scored a 9 5 on the human rights campaigns
for support of the LGBTQ agenda and they pay
transgender medical cost for their employees and their employees
children BP is a big supporter of E.S.G. policies
they also support the D platforming of conservatives and
media and basic censorship of so-called disinformation but the
17 9 2 exchange report does more than just
make people aware of the work prejudice it's all
two pervasive and what corporations it also talks about
what to do about it make it known you
make it known you make yourself known to them
and you ask for them to revise their position
for good cause shown and when that doesn't work
and much like me with the state bar there
many times it doesn't work then they'll be in
need for legal or legislative of action the whole
thing that I read about 17 9 2 it
ends by saying this I said " if conservatives
don't soon make a concerted effort to fight back
against " corporations in America will soon be transformed
beyond repair look at my particular case I had
a guy that was indifferent to me you could
care less about me maybe even press against me
and if I had just sat still and taking
my lumps it would've delayed my practice by another
year and really what I couldn't see it was
that I went up going to a rock later
so it probably would've staggered in and delayed me
by 2 to 3 years I had to take
action it was for my family but that's no
different than what we faced in everyday life your
business your own personal spending your own personal investments
they should not be subject to a prejudice against
you by others who have chosen a position based
solely upon what you believe if we sit still
and say nothing if we sit still and say
nothing and do nothing then that prejudicial behavior is
gonna work harm that goes beyond what we might
be able to foresee and I'm gonna say right
now not on my watch and I know this
audience and I would say the same for you
not on our watch extreme prejudice it has to go
and that's a wrap for the right side way