In this segment of the PragerU video, host Dennis Prager and documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz discuss Horowitz’s field interviews with Black individuals about the claim that racism causes higher obesity rates among Black Americans. Horowitz reports that the Black interviewees uniformly laughed at or dismissed the premise, insisting that personal choices—eating better and exercising—are the primary factors, and that the idea of racism as a causal factor is a left‑wing narrative. Prager emphasizes that this reaction illustrates a broader liberal tendency to deny Black agency. The conversation then shifts to the political puzzle of why the Black community continues to support the Democratic Party despite this disconnect, suggesting that the left’s framing of health disparities is becoming mainstream within Democratic politics. Prager proposes a follow‑up experiment: interviewing a sample of white Americans about Black obesity, recording their political self‑identification, and comparing responses across racial and partisan lines to highlight any ideological differences.
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make-believe, you become a liberal or a conservative. You are no longer a leftist.
That's correct. So, so, uh, I then began to ask Black people, right? Because I think the people who would happen to know best how certain things affect the Black community— well, who would it be? I don't know. Let's just say Black people themselves. And they were dumbfounded, gobsmacked. And I would tell them that white leftists believe that obesity is due to racism. In fact, they accept the premise that black obesity is higher because they're in touch with reality. And they, person after person, would say to me, are you— the only reason why we—
They laughed at you. They laughed at you. Every black he interviewed either laughed or just seriously dismissed the notion that white racism is responsible for black obesity. I mean, they just said basically, why don't they just eat better? Why don't they exercise? Why don't they, of course, now by the way, just for the record, there are people who are obese and it's not because they're eating Dunkin' Donuts by the dozen. I just wanna make that clear. But that's true for whites and blacks. But to the extent that it is, what he's illustrating, Ami, is the white liberal, and I think liberals would join leftists on this, dismissal of Black, as you put it, agency. Yes. And Blacks don't. That's the point.
No, that's correct. And which makes me look, and if you want to look at it in a larger framing, it does confound us, you and I, and certainly most people in the conservative world about why the Black community continues to support Democratic policies. And that's a whole different discussion. But the point is, is that when you see the disconnect between left and black is when you see the opportunity to separate the black community from the Democratic Party, which has been taken over by leftists, right? What I, what I told you now with the video that we have to— that I'm showing is becoming— this is not the domain of just a small fraction of the left. This is becoming, as, as all hard leftist thought is becoming, it is mainstreamed into the bloodstream of the American left and the Democratic Party. You're seeing it more and more often. That's the larger and the more important point—
All right, so you need to do the same video and ask a whole bunch of whites, only whites, the same question about black obesity, and then ask them, how would you characterize your politics? And then show not just the— this time you show the difference between whites and blacks. Blacks having the healthier response. Show one between left and right, if you could find any conservatives in Manhattan. That might be a challenge. Folks, see the video at DennisPrager.com. Ami Horowitz in
