50 Things They Don't Want You to Know

Dedication

To George and Annie

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Introduction

1:From 2012 to 2016, More Black Women in New York City Had Abortions Than Gave Birth

2:The U.S. Government Awarded 100 Million in Tax Dollars for Contracts to the Aborted-Baby-Tissue Industry

3:Black and Hispanic Students Are More Underrepresented at America’s Top Colleges and Universities Than Before Affirmative Action

4:America’s Most Deadly and Dangerous Cities Are Run by Democrats

5:The Obama Administration Knew That Up To Two-Thirds of Americans Might Not Be Able to Keep Their Health Care Plans Under Obamacare

6:Since 1950, 97.8 Percent of Mass Shootings Have Occurred in Gun-Free Zones

7:Drug Overdoses Kill More Americans Than Gun Violence

8:Falling and the Flu Are Far Deadlier Than Mass Shootings

9:The U.S. Resettled More Refugees in 2018 Than Any Other Nation

10:Eighty Percent of Central American Women and Girls Are Raped Crossing into the U.S. Illegally

11:Obama Deported More People Than Any Other President

12:The IRS Documented 1.2 Million Identity Thefts Committed by Illegal Aliens in 2017

13:There Are No Jobs Americans Won’t Do

14:For Every $1 a Netflix Employee Donates to a Republican, $141 Gets Donated to Democrats

15:Half of Federal Arrests Are Related to Immigration

16:Amazon Paid $0 in Taxes on $11.2 Billion in Profits in 2018

17:America Has Spent $22 Trillion Fighting the War on Poverty

18:America’s Trade Deficit Grew 600 Percent After NAFTA

19:Taxpayers Doled Out $2.6 Billion in Food Stamps to Dead People

20:World Leaders Flew to Davos in a Fleet of 1,700 Private Jets to Discuss the Impact of Global Warming

21:Ninety Percent of Plastic Waste Comes from Asia and Africa

22:Nearly 70 Percent of Muslims (1.2 Billion) Support Sharia Law

23:Jihadists from Iran, Palestine, and Syria Took Home Billions in U.S. Money and Weapons During the Obama Era

24:The Taxpayer Cost of Illegal Immigration Will Exceed $1 Trillion by 2028

25:America Protects and Foots the Bill for Border Walls Around the World

26:U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Have Plummeted for Decades Without Federal Laws or a Massive Carbon Tax

27:Hillary Clinton Supported a Strong, Competent, Prosperous, Stable Russia Before Blaming It for Her Election Loss

28:Hillary and Bill Clinton Made Millions and Russia Got 20 Percent of All U.S. Uranium

29:President Obama and Hillary Clinton Encouraged U.S. Investors to Fund Tech Research Used by Russia’s Military

30:Top Democrats Blamed Obama for Doing Little to Stop Russia’s 2016 Election Meddling

31:Donald Trump Won the 2016 Election by Winning Michigan, a State Russia Didn’t Attempt to Hack

32:Google Could Swing an Election by Secretly Adjusting Its Search Algorithm, and We Would Have No Way of Knowing

33:Google Works with the Oppressive Chinese Government to Build a Censorial Search Engine but Refuses to Work with the U.S. Government

34:Facebook Changed Its Algorithm, Leading to a 45 Percent Drop in Users Interacting with President Trump

35:Google and Facebook Enlisted Biased Fake News Fact-Checkers Who Were Often Wrong

36:Facebook Receives Your Most Sensitive Personal Info from Your Phone’s Other Apps

37:Americans Pay Billions to Large Corporations to Not Hire U.S. Citizens

38:Nearly Three-Quarters of Silicon Valley Workers Are Foreign-Born

39:Black and Hispanic Unemployment Hit Record Lows Under Trump

40:Venezuela Was the Wealthiest Country in Latin America Before Socialism

41:American Cities with the Largest Homeless Populations Are All Democrat-Run Enclaves

42:Muslims Account for 1 Percent of the U.S. Population, But Radical Islamist Extremists Account for More than 50 Percent of Deaths by Extremists

43:China Is Holding Two Million Muslims in Internment Camp Sweatshops

44:Large-Scale Minimum Wage Hikes Have Led to Layoffs, Decreased Hours, and Fewer Jobs

45:Economists Predicted a Trump Victory Would Crash the Stock Market. Instead It Hit a Record High the Week After He Was Elected

46:Family Separation and Detention of Illegal Aliens at the Border Exploded under President Obama and DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson

47:Illegal Immigration May Have Cost Black Americans More Than 1 Million Jobs

48:There Have Been More Than 630 Examples of Left-Wing Political Violence and Threats Against Trump Supporters

49:Dick’s Sporting Goods’ Anti-Gun Policy Resulted in a $150 Million Loss for the Company, But the Left’s Approval Is Worth More

50:Christianity Is the World’s Most Persecuted Religion

Acknowledgments

Notes

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

Introduction

Americans are bombarded with an informational avalanche every day. News clips come whizzing at us at Mach speed on social media. Voters, hustling to stay informed, readily attempt to drink from this fire hose of headlines. The average person sees and shares one hundred articles a day.

The political left’s response to our ever-expanding ocean of information has been to gin up hysteria over Russian bots and ring alarm bells about so-called fake news. The real problem, of course, is far deeper and much more complex: Establishment media, marketers, and advertisers have conditioned us to choose emotion over logic, feelings over facts. Why? Sensationalism sparks more clicks. Emotionalism ignites more shares. And in the process, sharing, liking, and commenting on emotion-laden content has morphed into a virtue-signaling shortcut to critical thought. This is a dangerous downward spiral that only serves the elites who profit from it.

The result of all this has been a devolution of the national dialogue on many of the most axial issues of our time.

50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know rips back the curtain and, using data and facts, uncovers startling, hidden truths. This book bypasses the ideological guards keeping these facts from becoming mainstream: the professorial radicals running the intellectual meat grinders that are our country’s college campuses; the legacy media machine that minimizes, misinforms, and flat-out ignores these truths; the lawmakers, who lecture and lie about these facts—all while the sphere of societal damage widens.

This book examines the true tragedy of our deeply mismanaged immigration system, from the rampant sexual assault of women and girls being trafficked, to the migrants being beaten and slaughtered while attempting to survive the dangerous 1,000-mile journey from Central America to the U.S. border. This system is condoned by craven politicians and applauded by mega-corporations that get filthy rich, thanks to a never-ending supply of cheap labor. It’s this human misery the mainstream media and elitist politicians choose to ignore. The same media outlets incite massive moral panic over border enforcement tactics. The same politicians compare those enforcement methods to actions carried out by Nazi soldiers during the Holocaust. What these people fail to tell you is that more than half of the Border Patrol agents carrying out these so-called Gestapo tactics are Latino. President Obama deported more illegal immigrants than all presidents of the twentieth century combined. Separating family members who illegally crossed the U.S. border also expanded with Obama’s blessing. He was the first U.S. president to place hundreds of unaccompanied children in steel cages. But the Democrats’ fake rage, on display every day, exploded just two years ago. Indeed, how can a country run by President Trump, whom media and Hollywood elites smear as an anti-immigrant xenophobe, also lead the world year after year in accepting refugees? Both cannot be true.

This book blows up and disproves some of the political left’s most treasured tenets. The truth is, you are far more likely to die from falling or influenza than you are in a mass shooting. The United States has dramatically decreased its carbon footprint for decades in the absence of a massive federal mandate or a grandiose U.N. decree. Border walls work, keeping people safe in countries around the world, and American taxpayers provide those walls to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Meanwhile, the rate of U.S. federal arrests related to immigration rose from 46 percent in 2006 to 58 percent in 2016.

This book questions how a culture constantly discussing how America systematically marginalizes and mercilessly oppresses black people, constantly fails to ask where that so-called oppression ends and self-sabotage begins. For years, woke white media elites have delighted in showcasing Black Lives Matter’s message about the value of black life in America. But those same woke white liberals never ask how one in three black pregnancies ending in abortion fits into the equation. Woke white activists smear law enforcement after a white cop tragically kills a black boy but are silent when black killers send hundreds of black bodies to the morgue every day. Democratic politicians openly campaign for stricter gun laws but can’t explain how those laws will put an end to the gang- and drug-related maimings carried out on a daily basis right under their noses.

This book confronts the fact that after decades of affirmative action, black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at America’s top colleges and universities than ever before. It also uncovers and celebrates the incredible educational triumphs blacks achieved in America fifty years before the civil rights movement began. The first public high school for black Americans graduated students who went to Harvard and other Ivy League institutions as early as 1903. That seven in ten blacks in America were literate just one generation removed from slavery leaves in tatters the political left’s gospel that blacks needed racial preferences to overcome inequality and racism and achieve any level of mainstream academic or socioeconomic success.

Immigration, race, national defense, health care, education policy—you name it—on each issue we see elites weaponizing emotion at the expense of facts and data that don’t yield the politically correct conclusions they desire. This must stop.

I didn’t write this book because I figured out how to stop these elites from selling us lies. I wrote this book because I remember when I realized I was being lied to. It was about a year before America elected its first black president. It was then that I had begun to pass through the three stages of political awakening that so many young people go through. The first stage found me feverishly quenching my thirst for knowledge and news. I read hundreds of books about history, economics, philosophy, and culture from authors on the ideological Left and Right. The news I read and watched came mostly from the dinosaur, alphabet media. I trusted America’s mainstream press blindly. Like many people, I swallowed whole their carefully crafted narratives without objection. But I came to realize that the legacy media were telling me something far less than the whole story. That was stage two. So, I sought and started reading much more partisan media outlets. Then came the third step of political awakening, when I realized that my side was also not telling me the whole truth. I was bewildered and ambivalent, and the establishment media’s affinity for reporting half-truths forced me to find all kinds of new sources like Breitbart News. The network, much like its late founder, Andrew Breitbart, reveled in blowing up everybody’s agenda—on the left and right.

But perhaps no moment of clarity presented itself more flagrantly about how wrong I was to trust the mainstream media than when veteran news broadcaster Charlie Rose of PBS interviewed legendary NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw in October 2008. It was five days before voters went to the polls. The two men, sitting across from each other, openly admitted to each other how neither could honestly say they knew what Barack Obama’s true beliefs were on the pivotal political issues facing the nation.

Rose: I don’t know what Barack Obama’s worldview is.

Brokaw: No, I don’t, either.

Rose: I don’t know how he really sees where China is.

Brokaw: We don’t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

Rose: I don’t really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

Brokaw: Yeah, it’s an interesting question.

Rose: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational [sic] speeches.

Brokaw: Two of them! I don’t know what books he’s read.

Rose: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?

Brokaw: There’s a lot about him we don’t know.

How could these two men—with eighty-four years of journalism between them—find themselves baffled and clueless about one of the most fascinating figures in the history of American politics? And Tom Brokaw had spent more than eighteen months covering Obama’s historic candidacy. In a weird way, Brokaw and Rose grappling with their tragic failings as journalists gave me cover to confront my own vulnerabilities as my sphere of social influence had increased tenfold. I had made a psychological dislocation from the culturally driven, media-enforced expectations for how I should think about an array of issues. There were accepted orthodoxies that, if adhered to, promise the kind of social validation any twenty-year-old college student seeks. My campus looked then like what most college campuses look like today: islands of closed-mindedness where young people are not encouraged to think critically but are instead programmed to be skeptical of those who do. I chose, however, a harder path. As a black man in America, I rejected my expected role as victim. I rejected what felt increasingly like a carefully choreographed, phony political discourse. This made me a pariah. Friends affectionally referred to me as the Conservative Kanye West. This was years before my hairline had begun to recede and more than a decade before the multi-platinum, Grammy-winning rapper-producer-couturier became a fiery cultural critic supporting the Second Amendment and lambasting the China trade deficit from the Trump Oval Office. I spent the next decade braving an increasingly contorted public conversation around race, gender, and politics. Being true to my deeply held beliefs, seeing and comporting myself as an individual first and foremost, left me often alienated and alone. Thankfully, my family and friends were mostly a healthy mix of supportive and affirming, if at times perplexed. Their confusion about my naked refusal to reduce myself to empty melodramatics on issues of race (which was and still is en vogue) challenged me in those solitary moments when I found myself agonizing over questions about my identity and my place in politics.

This book has been years in the making. While it is not an autobiographical work, it is shot through with my most unabashed beliefs. My criticism of the failure of twentieth-century public policies is fueled by the refusal of people in positions of power in the twenty-first century to acknowledge their tragic results. Andrew Breitbart famously said, Politics is downstream from culture. In other words, popular culture drives politics, not the other way around.

As entertainment editor at Breitbart News, I spend most days holding a giant mirror over Hollywood, where self-righteous, often narcissistic, leftist celebrities fire off angry tweets and sappy Instagram sermons to their millions of followers, wailing on about how hard life in their privileged bubble is in the Trump era. These virtue-signaling elites, with their massive social influence, have one thing in common with their mainstream media counterparts—something that Andrew Breitbart warned about: contempt for the American people. Many of these Hollywood elites endorse a politics of victimhood for people who look like me, no matter how condescending that assumption is. They push harmful policies, donate massive amounts of money to morally corrupt politicians, and together demand you cut your carbon footprint while they fly around on private jets, purchase more homes than they could ever live in, and collect more cars than they’ll live long enough to drive. These elites, from the awards stage to the campaign stump, preach down to average Americans on a daily basis.

This book confronts the beliefs that these elites hold dear, challenges the prevailing wisdom, and cuts through the fog of a censorious political correctness that’s crippling our culture and shutting down serious debate. It provides people with answers and solutions to the issues shaping and influencing our shared political space. These fifty facts will spark millions of conversations that will begin to finally undo decades of damage from disinformation and liberal myth-making.

1

From 2012 to 2016, More Black Women in New York City Had Abortions Than Gave Birth

Black babies represented 42 percent of all abortions in New York in 2013, though blacks are merely 25 percent of the population.¹ A report from the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shows that between 2012 and 2016, expectant black mothers terminated 136,426 pregnancies while only 118,127 gave birth to their babies.² Few statistical disparities illustrate the shrunken scope of African American life more than the staggering number of black pregnancies ended by abortion.

BLACK LIVE BIRTHS TOTAL IN NEW YORK CITY 2012–2016

Source: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/2016sum.pdf

BLACK ABORTIONS TOTAL IN NEW YORK CITY 2012–2016

Source: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/2016sum.pdf

Black women account for more than 36 percent of all abortions nationally.³

In Michigan, black women make up about 14 percent of the female population. They accounted for over 50 percent of all abortions reported in the state in 2017. In Mississippi, 72 percent of abortions are obtained by black women. In Washington, DC, the number is over 60 percent. In Georgia, it’s 59.4 percent, and in Alabama it’s a whopping 58.4 percent. These figures are no accident. According to a study released by Protecting Black Life, an outreach of Life Issues Institute, 79 percent of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities are strategically located within walking distance of African and or Hispanic communities.⁴

A total of 638,169 women ages 15–44 and from forty-nine reporting areas underwent abortions in 2015, as reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among the thirty areas that reported race and ethnicity data for that year—roughly 338,800 abortions—Non-Hispanic white women and non-Hispanic black women accounted for the largest percentages of all abortions (36.9 percent and 36.0 percent, respectively), and Hispanic women and non-Hispanic women in the other race category accounted for smaller percentages (18.5 percent and 8.7 percent, respectively).⁵

While the election of America’s first black president precipitated an incessant debate around race and racism in the United States, largely missing from that discussion was the issue of racial disparities in abortion rates. Indeed, the loudest voices on the American left entered the 2010s ceaselessly spouting pseudoscientific drivel about how our deeply racist country systematically otherizes black people. This obsession with race has persisted and, ironically, came into full bloom in a twenty-first-century America that had thrust a black man with an African surname into the Oval Office. Despite this, there was a daily bludgeoning of left-wing activists and New York City news anchors lecturing America about why black lives matter. Equally intense acrimony was missing when it came to the oft-ignored news that thousands more black babies were being aborted each year than born alive. As author Jason Riley notes, it’s not as if the American left, in its entirety, from its academic elites to its press corps and its judiciaries, hasn’t spent decades decrying racial disparities for blacks when it comes to bank loans, or as if courts haven’t litigated racial disparities in college admissions, or as if the media haven’t promoted the fallacy of racial disparities in police shootings. After years of wall-to-wall coverage of city streets filling with protesters pleading about the value of black life, why was there a dearth of influential African Americans on TV or posted up in front of abortion clinics, speaking up for the black unborn?

This comes as no surprise if you know the eugenic origins of Planned Parenthood. Margaret Sanger, the woman who founded the organization that went on to become Planned Parenthood Federation of America, spent decades promoting the idea that racial betterment could be achieved by stopping not only the reproduction of the unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there are not economic means of providing proper care for those who are born in health. Former White House hopeful Ben Carson singled out Sanger for systematically targeting blacks and Latinos. He claimed in August 2015 that abortion had become the number-one cause of death for black Americans, and suggested that such an alarming reality was the long-intended result of Sanger’s Negro Program, which in the 1940s produced a pamphlet called Better Health for 13,000,000, by which civic and religious leaders were encouraged to seduce other blacks into the program of family planning for Negroes.⁶

Abortion rates decreased to historic lows in 2015. The decline represented a decades-long national downtrend. However, while the number of women having abortions steadily decreased, Planned Parenthood continued to perform the procedure at an increasingly higher clip. Despite a nearly 20 percent decline in the number of abortions in the country between 2000 and 2011, the number of abortions Planned Parenthood performed during that time increased from 197,070 to 333,964, thereby more than doubling its share of the abortion market from 15 percent in 2000 to 32 percent in 2011, the latest year for which national data are available, a Heritage Foundation study found.⁷ The debate over shutting off the tax-subsidy spigot to the nation’s largest abortion provider has raged for decades. Defunding campaigns in Congress have intensified in recent years as Planned Parenthood has come under fire for one embarrassing scandal or another. In 2011,