Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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rations because it's so expensive to build back these businesses and recover that I would imagine we're talking something in the trillion dollar range just from these riots. Probably trillion. And I can't imagine that reparations would have ever reached a trillion dollars. So somebody said Larry Elder can help with that. There's nothing to help with. Reparations are done. Reparations are a histor…

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you what you should think. Nothing like that. You know everybody gets to make their own decisions in this world. I'm only telling you that if you wanted to be effective you need to be effective with white people because otherwise you're just talking to yourself. And Black Lives Matter is a message from Black people to Black people. When white people hear it it's divisive. If you want to be divisive just start some protests that you know are going to bring Antifa and looters and let us film all that so that we can make racism much much worse because that's what happened.

So I would say that Black Lives Matter is a failed destructive organization with good intentions. Good intentions for you know the vast majority of people who are associated. All good intentions but execution, solid failure.

All right that's it for today. Let's see how this plays out. And I told you that I wasn't going to do evening periscopes anymore because the coronavirus shutdown was winding down but then I got a curfew last night even where I live. I live in like the safest place in the whole world. Even I had a curfew. Freaking curfew. I broke the curfew of course. I'm not going to pay attention to a curfew in my town but yeah it's not like there's any risk around here but the fact that there was a curfew makes me think maybe I should do some evening periscopes but I haven't decided on that yet.

All right people get very angry when you say all lives matter. It's a divisive slogan. That's all for now. I'll talk to you later.