Transcript

Are Black Women The Most Privileged Group Of People Out There?

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· 15 min · 2,435 words · 21 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Are Black Women The Most Privileged Group Of People Out There?", an episode of Matt Walsh published January 14, 2026 (15 min, about 2,435 words). It mentions 13 people, works and ideas, including Black Women, Victim Hierarchy, Bowen Yang, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Golden Globe.

What this episode is about

The discussion revolves around the provocative assertion by a Black woman claiming superiority over others, leading to backlash against Bowen Yang's mild criticism of Jasmine Crockett's campaign. The analysis highlights the escalating tensions around race and representation, particularly the backlash faced by Yang and his co-host for suggesting financial support should be reconsidered, emphasizing the broader implications for Black women's political aspirations and the societal reactions to perceived slights within racial contexts.

Key takeaways

  • In the world of politics, a black woman's ambition is often met with a unique set of scrutiny and expectations.
  • Critics of black women face backlash for mere critique, yet similar scrutiny on other demographics often evades reckoning.
  • The high bar set for black women in public life highlights systemic biases, questioning who really defines 'competence.'
  • While white men enjoy grace post-failure, black women are judged under an unforgiving lens—flawlessness often feels mandatory.
  • The narrative of black women being immune to criticism exposes a paradox; can empowerment exist without honest evaluation?

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 3:00: Bowen Yang, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Black Women, Matt Rogers
  2. – 6:00: Black Women
  3. – 9:00: Black Women, Victim Hierarchy, Amanda Gorman, LGBT
  4. – 12:00: Black Women, Golden Globe, Tiana
  5. – 15:00: Black Women, Golden Globe
  6. – 15:28: Matt Wall Show, Daily Wire (company)

Notable quotes from "Are Black Women The Most Privileged Group Of People Out There?"

  • Is he's the gay Asian one who I guess left the show and he made very, very mildly critical comments about Jasmine Crockett on a podcast. Very mild, basically nothing.
    about Bowen Yang · at
  • Bud in a microphone that has so much to say. But since we are being funny since the Boys with Podcast decided to turn a black woman's Senate run into a punchline, let me return…
    about Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett · at
  • Black women are basically never criticized.
    about Black Women · at
  • That there's a there's a reorganizing happening because I actually think that maybe it's black women who are at the very tippy top of the whole thing.
    about Victim Hierarchy · at
  • And yet she is celebrated as the greatest poet of our time simply because she's a black woman. No other reason.
    about Amanda Gorman · at
  • Black actress won an award at the Golden Globes. And I don't even know who this is. Who is this? Tiana something. She's definitely not the first black woman to win a Golden Globe at all. Not even close. But watch her acceptance speech.
    about Tiana · at
  • Got up there and said every white man belongs in every room he walks into, that would be they would stone him to death at the Golden Globes.
    about Golden Globe · at
  • Say. If you'd like to see what else I have to say, you can access my full show by going to dailywire.com or by going to the Matt Wall Show Twitter page. Hope to see you there. God speed.
    about Matt Wall Show · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Bowen Yang — Person · Referenced public figure / controversy subject · 2 mentions · first at
    Cited as a former SNL figure who made mild comments about donating to Jasmine Crockett, triggering backlash that the speaker uses as evidence for his broader claim about criticism of Black women being treated as bigotry.
  • Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett — Person · Referenced political figure / controversy subject · 2 mentions · first at
    Her campaign is the object of the donation comment that sparked the backlash discussed. She functions as the key example used to argue that discouraging support for a Black woman in politics is framed as racist/sexist regardless of policy critique.
  • Matt Rogers — Person · Referenced public figure / controversy subject · 1 mention · first at
    Named alongside Bowen Yang as a podcast participant accused (in the TikTok response) of trying to 'starve' a Black woman's campaign by discouraging donations. Used as part of the episode's central example of backlash dynamics.
    Not talking about quirky insane, not internet cute insane, but structurally violent insane. That Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang thought that it was appropriate to sit on a…
  • Amanda Gorman — Person · Referenced cultural example · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as a Black woman whom the speaker claims is praised beyond her talent, used to reinforce the episode's thesis about perceived over-celebration and protection from critique.
  • Tiana — Person · Referenced award recipient (uncertain identity) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as 'Tiana something,' a Black actress who won at the Golden Globes; her acceptance speech is used as a focal example for the speaker's critique of perceived narcissism and audience applause.

Concepts & topics

  • Black Women — Concept · Core topic · 14 mentions · first at
    The episode centers on the speaker's claim that Black women are treated as 'uncriticizable' and placed at the top of a perceived progressive 'victim hierarchy.' The speaker uses multiple examples (politics, entertainment, awards) to argue there is a cultural double standard around criticism and praise.
  • Victim Hierarchy — Concept · Core explanatory concept · 1 mention · first at
    The speaker explicitly invokes a 'victim hierarchy' to explain which groups are considered most 'unimpeachable' in progressive discourse, and argues the ranking is shifting with Black women at or near the top.
  • LGBT — Concept · Referenced category in hierarchy · 1 mention · first at
    Used as a comparative group in the speaker's 'victim hierarchy' framework, previously described as above Black women but possibly being reordered.
    It's like black women are almost at the top, but then above them is LGBT and then above them is trans. Above all the other above LGB is the T. And that's the way that it's…

Places & events

  • Golden Globe — Event · Referenced event / evidence example · 3 mentions · first at
    Used as an example where a Black actress's acceptance speech is framed by the speaker as narcissistic and uniquely celebrated, supporting his argument about cultural praise and perceived double standards.

Media & podcasts

  • Matt Wall Show — Media · Primary show / episode container · 1 mention · first at
    The speaker directs listeners to the 'Matt Wall Show' Twitter page, indicating this transcript is from that show and anchoring the episode identity.
  • Tik Tok — Media · Platform where backlash occurs · 1 mention · first at
    Identified as the venue where 'race hustlers' respond and amplify criticism of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, functioning as the distribution channel for the reaction clip.
    And now the race hustlers on Tik Tok are taking turns beating their new punching bags. And I thought that this response was especially funny. Watch this.
  • SNL — Media · Referenced credential / background · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned only to situate Bowen Yang's public profile ('former SNL host'), lending notoriety to the controversy discussed.
    There was some controversy in the left-wing fever swamps of the internet when former SNL host Bowen Yang, who is he's the gay Asian one who I guess left the show and he made very, very mildly critical comments about Jasmine Crockett on a.

Sponsors

  • Daily Wire (company) — Company · Distribution platform / sponsor outlet · 1 mention · first at
    Named at the end as where to access the speaker's 'full show,' indicating the episode's publishing home and monetization funnel.
    Trying to say. That's all I'm trying to say. If you'd like to see what else I have to say, you can access my full show by going to dailywire.com or by going to the Matt Wall Show Twitter page. Hope to see you there. God speed.

Full transcript with timestamps

a black woman get up there and say, "We black women are the greatest people who've ever lived. We are better than every single one of you. All of you should die and only we should be alive because our lives matter more than yours." Yes. Amen. All the white people in the crowd, my goddess, my queen. A few days ago, there was some controversy in the left-wing fever swamps of the internet when former SNL host Bowen Yang, uh, who is he's the gay Asian one who I guess left the show and he made very, very mildly critical comments about Jasmine Crockett on a podcast. Very mild, basically nothing.

uh I think he said along with his co-host or whoever's on the podcast with him said that uh it would be a waste of money to donate to Jasmine Crockett's campaign. That was it. And there was backlash and they were called racist for the comment somehow and they both folded obviously like right away. They just caved and apologized right away. Within about 12 seconds uh they they collapsed on the floor begging for forgiveness. But it's not enough because it never is of course. And now the race hustlers on Tik Tok are taking turns beating their new punching bags. And I thought that this response was especially funny. Watch this.

It's always a twink with a gaping rose bud in a microphone that has so much to say. But since we are being funny since the Boys with Podcast decided to turn a black woman's Senate run into a punchline, let me return the favor because it's actually insane. And I'm not talking about quirky insane, not internet cute insane, but structurally violent insane. That Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang thought that it was appropriate to sit on a microphone and tell black people or people in general not to financially support a black woman who is running for office, not critique her platform, not challenge her record, not debate her policies, just don't give her money. That's not comedy. That's not analysis. That is material attempting to starve a black woman's campaign. And then y'all wrap it up in this tired cowardly ass phrase saying that she's too well-defined. Well, baby, she's not too well- definfined. What she is is too

unignorable, too competent, and too black in public. She's too woman while being ambitious, too clear about power, and the clarity that scares people who benefit from living in a fog. Because somehow defined only becomes a problem when the candidate is a black woman or a black person in general. White men can be as defined as hell, angry, loud, corrupt, incoherent, indicted, and still get called serious contenders. They can lose five elections and be called building a movement. They can be mediocre forever and still get donors and headlines and grace. But a black woman has to be flawless and frictionless and humble and exceptional and non-threatening and brilliant and warm and soft and strategic and silent and she's still not going to be viable.

Yes. How dare you? How dare you say that about a black woman? How dare you fail to fall down and worship at the feet of a black woman? How dare you? This is We've talked about this before. This is the great fable of the modern left. I mean, they have a lot of fables. It's all It's all fables all the way down. This is perhaps the greatest and the most deranged. It's the fable we hear over and over and over again where black women are somehow criticized and scrutinized more than any other group. They're held to this impossibly high standard and and nothing they do is good enough. even though they're all so smart and beautiful and so wonderful in every imaginable way.

This is what we're told. Black women are held to the highest standard and uh a standard which they can they consistently exceed. They're held to this, you know, the limbo bar is high well, I guess in this case lower, whatever. Forget about limbo. The bar is is higher for them than it is for anyone else. and um and they consistently get over the bar and it's not good enough. This is what we hear. This is the great left-wing fable. And you hear that and it's like, what? What world are you living in? What are you talking about? This constant drum beat of how black women are treated in society. It's it's no one is criticized this way.

First of all, black women are never criticized. Black women are basically never criticized. So, not only are they not criticized the most, they're not criticized at all. Ever. Doesn't mean that there aren't criticisms one could make, it just means that they're never criticized. Black women are basically never criticized as a group, right? Like nobody ever singles out black women as a group and condemns or even just criticizes them. And that's not white men are criticized obviously as a group all the time. White women are criticized as a group. Uh even black men are sometimes called out.

They're at least called out by black women sometimes for not being good allies or whatever the hell phrase they would use. But uh black women are just never called out. When have you ever heard that? So for all these people say, "Oh, everyone treats black women really who can you give me an example?" I I never hear it. And uh again, it's not like there's nothing to criticize here, okay? It's it's it's not like you can't find fodder for criticism. It's just that they never are. And even individually, black women are basically the only group on the planet where you can't criticize any single one of them individually in any context for any reason without being called a bigot.

That doesn't apply to anyone else. Now, sure, if you criticize a black man, depending on who you are, you might get called a racist. That can happen. But it's still possible to criticize a black man without being charged with racism. theoretically, but a black woman, I mean, this is what we've seen. Like there's so many examples of this, so many examples of controversies because public figures criticized in very mild terms um a woman who happened to be black and and then they have to apologize for it because any criticism of any black woman ever for any reason is racist and sexist.

even coming from someone who's not white doesn't matter. So, black women end up with this like halo around them that that really no one else has. I mean, we've talked about now I'm starting to rethink I'm having a little bit of an existential crisis. I'm starting to rethink. We've talked many times about the the victim hierarchy and I've and I've said that and it changes. I mean, it does change. It's very dynamic. So the victim hierarchy on the left changes and you can't expect that the victim hierarchy today will not be what it is 10 years from now and it's not what it was 10 years ago.

But currently when I when I've gone through this and I've given my my victim hierarchy 101 lessons and maybe we'll have to do another one, but I've said that it's like when you go through the the rankings of and to get to the uber victim who has the most status and is the most uh unimpeachable and cannot ever be criticized. I've always thought it's like black women are almost at the top, but then above them is LGBT and then above them is trans. Above all the other above LGB is is the T. And that's the way that it's worked. And I think that that that there's a there's a reorganizing happening because I I actually think that that that maybe it's black women who are at the very tippy top of the whole thing.

So, and you look at how like Beyonce is treated or Michelle Obama celebrated as these utterly untouchable, perfect goddesses. People talk about Michelle Obama like if she ran for president, she would win. Why? What is impressive about her? There's nothing impressive about this woman at all. The way people have always talked about Beyonce is one of the great artists of all. Oh my gosh, Beyonce who has and you watch and you're like, "Yeah, she's dancing." It's like, who? Everyone does that. They can pull up any random pop star and they can do everything this person does. There's nothing impressive here at all. At all.

And we talked yesterday about Amanda Gorman. Flatout embarrassingly bad poet. her poetry isn't good enough to win a a middle school creative writing contest. And yet she is celebrated as the greatest poet of our time simply because she's a black woman. No other reason. That is the only reason. And um no one has it quite that good where you could be so incredibly mediocre and yet be uh hailed as the greatest in whatever your pursuit is. You could be just not even me you could be below mediocre and yet be seen as one of the greatest ever to do that particular thing. And that is that is a a benefit, a privilege that is almost exclusive to black women.

We saw this again over the weekend. A black actress won an award at the Golden Globes. And I don't even know who this is. Who is this? Tiana something. She's uh definitely not the first black woman to win a Golden Globe at all. Not even close. But watch her acceptance speech. Listen.

To my brown sisters and little brown girls watching tonight. Our softness is not a liability. Our death is not that is not too much. Our light does not need permission to shine. We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter and our dreams deserve space. Thank you so much everybody. Thank you.

Our softness. Yeah, you heard that from the other clip too. And this is another thing that comes up a lot in the black woman fable is uh our softness. we're we're so meek and mild and you hear that and you think really I that's not the first word that comes to mind. I I don't really um you know I mean black women are are renowned for uh being slow to give their opinions in situations and uh you know Sure. Okay. So, she's acting like she's the first black woman to ever win an award, treating this like some kind of glass ceiling shattering moment because this is what happens anytime a black woman achieves anything. It's it's treated like it's some kind of historic thing.

And this is a group again, it it's not entirely unique among other victim groups on the left. There's there's a there's a there's a measure of this for every victim group, but I think it's the most with the black female victim group in particular where pure unadulterated narcissism is applauded. Like she actually says, "We belong in every room we walk into." Uh what? No, you don't. There are definitely rooms where you might not belong. Okay. If you walk into my living room unannounced, you don't even knock on the door. You just walk in. You don't belong there.

Oh, is it because I'm a black woman? No, it's because you don't live here. I belong in any room I walk into. Think about think about Just think about how I hate always doing the if the situation's a reverse thing, but you can't help it. Think about how this would sound if a white guy said this about white men. Think about how it would sound if a white man got up there. And it wouldn't be any more ridiculous. Like if a white man got up there and treat it like a glass ceiling breaking moment. Of course, that's absurd because like a lot of white men have won these awards, but a lot of black women have too. So, um, so it's it it's it's not any more ridiculous if a if a if, uh, uh, Timothy Shalomé had won and got up there and said to my white brothers, I I just And he had a, you know, he's like hands are shaking. He has a he has a a message to his to white people that he's written ahead of time and he's

reading it. To to my white brothers to my white brothers out there, ju just know we belong in every room we walk into. That would be seen as the most racist thing ever uttered in human history. that would go down alongside like the the um the the the the militaristic speeches given by Adolf Hitler. They they would put it in that category. If a white man got up there and said every white man belongs in every room he walks into, that would be they would stone him to death at the Golden Globes. They would descend upon him and rip Timothy. They would rip poor Timothy Shalomé literally to shreds, limb from limb.

His bloody dismembered corpse would be left on the stage and they would dance around it like wild Indians celebrating. That's what would happen. And yet a black woman gets up there and says that and everybody applauds. says the most insanely narcissistic nonsense you've ever heard in your life and everyone goes, "Wow." Yeah. A black woman get up there and say, "We black women are the greatest people who've ever lived. We are superior in every way to anyone who has ever lived. We are better than every single one of you. All of you should die and only we should be alive because our lives matter more than yours and everybody in the crowd. Yes. Amen. All the white people in the crowd.

Absolutely. We are nothing. We're scum compared to you, my goddess, my queen. So anyway, it's a little bit of a little bit of a double standard. That's all I'm trying to say. That's all I'm trying to say. If you'd like to see what else I have to say, you can access my full show by going to dailywire.com or by going to the Matt Wall Show Twitter page. Hope to see you there. God speed.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Are Black Women The Most Privileged Group Of People Out There?"?

Matt Walsh (Host), Bowen Yang (Guest), Jasmine Crockett (Guest), Tiana (Guest).

What is "Are Black Women The Most Privileged Group Of People Out There?" about?

The discussion revolves around the provocative assertion by a Black woman claiming superiority over others, leading to backlash against Bowen Yang's mild criticism of Jasmine Crockett's campaign. The analysis highlights the escalating tensions around race and representation, particularly the backlash faced by Yang and his co-host for suggesting financial support should be reconsidered,…

What is mentioned in this Matt Walsh episode?

13 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Black Women, Victim Hierarchy, Bowen Yang, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, Golden Globe, Matt Rogers. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Are Black Women The Most Privileged Group Of People Out There?"?

The episode runs 15 min; the transcript is about 2,435 words in 21 timestamped sections.

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