Heather MacDonald

Great to be with you, John.

Thank you.

The sheer repetition of it.

Uh, we have a very convenient, uh, oblivion to the fact that this has been going on for decades.

Uh, now they're called teen takeovers.

They used to be called flash mobs or wilding.

Uh, and it's, I guess it's just a function of the media needing to have a new story.

This is completely standard in 2020.

You had the mayor of Chicago lowering all the draw bridges to the loop and, and downtown Chicago.

to try and prevent the barbarian hordes coming over from the other side of the rivers because the looting was so bad, the attacks were so bad.

You have spring break periodically in Florida where people are getting shot.

You've had the flash mobs in Los Angeles where teens are rampaging through 7-Elevens, grabbing everything in sight, the street takeovers.

Philadelphia, you've had the same mobbing.

So this is a longstanding problem.

And nobody wants to talk about what the causes are, which is black family breakdown.

And the fact that a lot of these kids are not being socialized and the criminal justice is terrified really to do anything about it.

Well, the schools have been absolutely destroyed.

denatured, demobilized as far as being able to impose discipline in the classroom.

And that's an astute question, Georgia, because especially under the Obama administration, continuing under Biden, there was this phony conceit that if schools disciplined black students at a higher rate,

That's because the teachers were racist or the principals were racist, which is the most ludicrous idea.