The Dangerous Lie NYC Mayor Mandami Just Told America | Victor Davis Hanson

Victor, let's take the most controversial one that's gotten some attention, though I don't know how widespread this is, and this is New York City Mayor Mondami's prepared remarks for the 4th of July, and if I, just bear with me, here's what he said. You can look at the text while you read. Yeah, the powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, becomes only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest, etc., etc. And he talks about asylum and the persecuted. Yeah, oh, Mondami. Mondami, I know what you mean by people not having because of the color of their skin. I mean, we had a president, poor guy, he had to be president, Barack Obama, for eight whole years. And then he got, he left office, and you know what, Mondami, he's only worth 100 million bucks. That is so racist. And he has four mansions. Why can't he have six? Why not seven? And then, you know, look at the NBA, LeBron James, poor guy, he's so underpaid. The guy is worth 10 billion. He's only worth a billion dollars. And I don't know, you should know about race, Mondami, because you tried to game the system. Why did you say you were an African American when you applied to Columbia a few years ago? Was it because African Americans are systematically discriminated, like you just said? So then therefore, you decided to show your solidarity with African Americans by lying that you were one, so that you would ensure you would not get into Columbia? The fact that you didn't get into Columbia wasn't because you weren't African American, it's because they lied that you lied, and they found out you weren't African American. So if you think that people of color are being discriminated, then why do you keep identifying as a person of color? Why do you think that you got so much attention? Because you were really the first Indian American mayor, and you went to town with that. You know, another thing he said was, America, they will tell you, I don't know who says that, Jack, but he says, belongs only to those with the right accent or right shade of skin. The rest of us, notice this, us, the rest of us, insists, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginable. Thus spoke the coloner settler, Colonius from Uganda, where the Indian community, which is not native or indigenous, believe me, to Uganda, came to Uganda as colonial settlers, and now controls 60% of the GDP of that country, and they comprise one mandami, 1%. You were the 1%. And no sooner did you leave the 1% as a settler, Colonius, then you came in as a, I don't know, you said you were a visitor, maybe you would use your own Marxist terminology, you came in as more settler, Colonius, to another country. And what happened there? Your father was an endowed professor at Columbia instantaneously, and your mother was a heavily subsidized filmmaker who was very critical of her host movie in those movies, and guess who her chief funder was? Millions and millions of dollars from gutter, one of the most illiberal places in the world. And then you were a product of that privilege, and you belong to, I've said this before, you belong to the wealthiest, richest, most privileged of all ethnic minorities in America, the Indian American community, whose per capita income soars above so-called white people. And so you say that you're exploited, and he said, you know, another thing that really got me, the rest of us, he said, when he said the rest of us should be grateful, grateful, I think all we ask is you come legally, and we don't have 20 to 30 million people who are here illegally. And the other thing all we ask is that you show some gratitude, so that if you're Iliyan Omar, you don't compare us negatively as a dictatorship, which we're not, to Somalia, which it is, in which her father was a member of a genocidal dictatorship, as were a lot of the refugees who fled to Minnesota. That's an untold story, Jack, why we let in so many people who were connected with the Saeed Bari dictatorship in Somalia. We let in a son, reportedly, he's here. Tom Hanks Yeah, in Columbus, Ohio. Yes. And he's running... David Crichton Yeah, why did we let them in? Because we surely didn't let people come in from the Nazi government or the Japanese militarists, we didn't let them come in. So this whole idea that this beloved community came over as refugees being oppressed is not the story. In many, not all, but many cases, they were part of what the Marxists call the victimizer-oppressor binary. And then they would have stayed there and enjoyed their privilege, except Saeed Bari killed so many people, over 200,000, in a civil war that he lost power. And when he lost power, his regime collapsed, and the people who had been dealt an injustice wanted their revenge, and started to go after the Saeed Bari people, who then fled, and the gracious America, for some reason, allowed them to come in. And now they are saying that we are racist and show we're hostile to people of color.