JD Vance

She's taking care of the kids today.

So I get in the hotel room in Austin, and it's very late, and I watch this movie, Boys in the Hood.

Have you ever seen Boys in the Hood?

Oh, yeah, sure.

I watched that movie a ton when I was eight, nine years old, and I didn't realize how much that movie has had an influence on me until I watched it last night.

Furious Styles, a lot of his stuff about not letting financial institutions buy up all the stuff in your communities.

Obviously, he's talking about black people in LA and not white people in rural small-town America.

But I was like, oh, like that's maybe the first place that I ever heard this idea.

Or he talks about like the importance of fatherhood, the importance of especially young boys having a father in the home.

It's like I got that from Boys in the Hood.

And obviously it spoke to me when I was a kid because I grew up at the time and I didn't have much of a relationship with my dad.

And it's interesting, man.

He makes this observation, math being racist.

He's criticizing the SAT for being culturally biased.

But then he says the only part that isn't culturally biased is the math.

And it's like, oh, this is like a black nationalist in the mid-80s because that's kind of the philosophy of this movie is what you might call like old school black leftism.

This movie in the 1980s is saying something that I wish a lot of white liberals would hear today, which is actually math is not racist.

It's what –

It's one of the things that's like definitively not racist is math and numbers.

You guys are losing your damn minds.