Adam Carolla asks simple questions on race and poverty, gets slammed for it

We have the right to free speech in the United States, but there are just some things you aren't supposed to talk about. Or question. Race is one of them. We're all supposed to pretend we don't notice if someone is black or white, or Hispanic, Asian, or Native American. With all the hush-hush on the topic, you'd think race was something we were supposed to be ashamed of. Why do we pretend it doesn't exist? Why are we all fooling ourselves? And why do we all jump on someone the moment they break the rules and dare ask questions about it? Isn't it getting a bit silly?

The latest person to step on the race landmine is Adam Carolla, podcaster and former co-host of Love Line and The Man Show. Carolla is now getting crucified after a recent podcast which featured guest Gavin Newsom, a former San Fransisco mayor. The incident began after Newsom started talking about poverty and mentioned the fact that many Blacks and Hispanics don't have access to checking accounts and ATMs. Carolla then asked what was wrong with them? What is it about Blacks and Hispanics that prevents them from having access to checking accounts like the rest of us do? Are they flawed? Newsom responded by saying that there were many reasons but he didn't want to get into a sociological discussion.

Listen to the exchange below:
If you listen to the rest of the exchange, you'll learn that Carolla's point is that those who do well are those whose focus is the family, a good education, and hard work, while those who don't are the opposite. There seems to be an almost unanimous view in the country that blacks are at the bottom rung still because of their origins in slavery. The argument is that they're still catching up as a result of that and we should all just be patient and sooner or later their school performance and employment rates will improve.

What goes against this argument is this: slavery was abolished in 1865, while the Japanese were put in internment camps in 1942 and Jews were killed by the millions in the 1940s as well. Are the Japanese still struggling the survive? Are Jews experiencing high unemployment and dropout rates? And whatever your reasoning happens to be for the state of affairs in the United States, what about for the rest of the world where conditions are different yet similar problems exist?

As you can see, there appear to be some holes in the status quo reasoning. Most people seem to realize that somewhere there is a fault in the logic, but anyone who dares to question it gets crucified in a heartbeat. We're not allowed to discuss race. We're not allowed to acknowledge discrepancies. Keep your head in the sand and hopefully it'll all work itself out. How's that been working out for us?

Fight at Denny's Caught on Video

The video:



This happened at a Denny's in Chicopee, Mass. this past Sunday, Feb 20.

Here's the police report obtained by The Smoking Gun.

We're told that the altercation started long before these folks were inside Denny's. Apparently while in route to Denny's one car was cut off by the other and tempers continued to flare once they got inside. We're not exactly sure who's at fault here or really who to cheer for, so if anyone out there has the low down on this story please leave a comment below. The police report redacted the names of everyone involved, but we would like to know the names so if you are one of the people involved or you know who it was, let us know!

What we see here is a small group sitting down eating, 2 gals and a guy. The guy and girl that approach the table appear to be the aggressors. The guy standing starts taking shots at the guy sitting, then his woman gets involved and she ends up taking shots at the 2 gals. We don't know the full story here of what went down, but it appears to us that the aggressors are intellectually inferior and lost the argument they were having, but they didn't want to just leave looking like idiots so their only recourse to save face was to start getting physical. So at this point we're siding with the 2 gals and guy that were sitting down eating. We'd really like to know the names of the aggressors, the man and the woman, so again if anyone has any information...names, addresses...etc let us know! Let's shame the trash.

One thing that has us very concerned though is this little tidbit:

While investigators have identified each pugilist seen in the YouTube video, a Chicopee Police spokesperson said that for someone to be charged with simple assault and battery the attack must occur in the presence of a police officer.

We've never been to Chicopee, Massachusetts so we really don't know how things operate down there. But if this policy is true, it has to be one of the dumbest things we've heard in a long time. Apparently in Chicopee you can just go up and beat the shit out of whoever you want and as long as you don't do it in front of a police offer, you get off scott free. Is it really that backwards down there? Or is the Chicopee Police spokesperson a fucking retard that doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground? Anyone from Chicopee reading this? Let us know what the hell is going on in your town.