Ep. 2024 - White Woman Convicted For Saying The N-Word In Minnesota

**Michael Knowles** (0:00)
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A white lady in Minnesota is criminally convicted of saying the N-word after a Somali guy followed her around with a camera and begged her to say it. Is the First Amendment dead in the Mogadishu of the Midwest? Then, speaking of outspoken white women, the WNBA's Sophie Cunningham does more to help Republican candidates in the midterms than basically every member of Congress combined. And President Trump roasts the left at the White House Correspondents Dinner three months after a leftist tried to shoot it up. A Michael Knowles is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show, New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani has been threatening to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. If Netanyahu goes to New York, there's a big update on this showdown between Mamdani and the Israeli Prime Minister. Trump is pretty crucial to it since he shot down all these stupid comments from the mayor, but we'll get to where that stands. First, Shiloh Hendricks. This is the case. Americans, we love our First Amendment rights. For goodness sakes, it's the very First Amendment. And now, the First Amendment might have been shredded in Minnesota because this lady, Shiloh Hendricks, was just criminally convicted of saying the N-word. Now, even if you don't like the N-word or the M-word or the O-word or the P-word, even if you don't like any of those words, surely Americans have a First Amendment right to say it, don't they? Well, yeah, maybe, I think, kind of, maybe, generally. You know, I did write a book about the actual American free speech tradition called Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which is available, thank you very much, they were a little slow on the bell today.
The actual American free speech tradition is a little more complicated, going all the way back to the 18th century. It's a little more complicated than the free speech absolutists make it out to be. But in this case, it seems pretty clear to me, for those of you who don't remember Shiloh Hendricks, here is the video filmed by some Somali guy, accusing Shiloh Hendricks of calling a little kid the n-word.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:37)
Did you call him a n-word, the child?

**SPEAKER_3** (2:40)
Did you call the child a n-word?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:43)
It is my own business. You call him a n-word. Okay. Why don't you have the boss to say it right now again? Okay. All right. That's what you say.
Nobody dig into your s***.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:00)
That little kid, you call him a n-word? The little child?

**SPEAKER_5** (3:05)
Are you about to hit him?

**SPEAKER_4** (3:06)
You chase him here? He took my son's stuff.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:09)
So that gives you the right to call the child five-year-old an n-word?

**SPEAKER_4** (3:14)
That's what you're going to call him? You know, that's a hate speech, and you can be a n-word for that.

**Michael Knowles** (3:22)
Okay. I didn't realize the producers were going to blur the word because then you basically couldn't hear anything at all because it's just this Somali guy saying, say it, say it, say this word, say this word, say this word. And finally, she says that word. Now, it's actually important to go back to the original video here because what happened in Minnesota is that Sophie Cunningham was, sorry, we'll get to Sophie Cunningham in a second. What, well, that's the other Valkyrie who's going viral at the moment. What happened in Minnesota is that Shiloh Hendrix was found guilty of this misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct for saying the n-word to a grown man, but not for calling a kid the n-word. We'll get to in a second whether or not that's even a crime or should be a crime. But some people are claiming that she never actually even called the kid the n-word, that that was all a big hoax. But that's not true. She admits on camera in the original video that she did call the little kid the n-word because she says the kid went in and stole her kid's stuff. And then this Somali maniac follows her around with a camera and says say the word, say the word, say the word. So the first question you got to ask yourself before we figure out the legality of this or whether the First Amendment's been shredded in Minnesota is if she admitted to calling the kid the n-word on camera, why would she be acquitted of that charge but convicted of saying the n-word to the adult, of disorderly conduct with regard to the adult? Because it's not that the n-word is illegal or the m-word or the o-word or the p-word.