burning businesses is not." good point. linda from north carolina: "for masked mandate, i -- thanks, everybody. tucker is up next and always remember, i'm watters, and this is my world. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we've got news for you this evening. joe biden, the president, has announced another piece of highly promoted equity agenda. that is the government wide effort to improve the lives of african-americans. you may recall that on his first day in office more than a year ago, the new president explained that equity will require determination and creativity. this week he proved that is true. joe biden's latest idea is to pay black people to smoke more crack. going forward, the

>> come up here. [bleep]. >> tucker: marion barry, ladies and gentlemen, a civil rights pioneer. he was fighting racism with that crack pipe, smoking away the vestiges of white supremacy and the colonials pay peter patriarchal norms. if only we recognized the heroism of the time. to be fair, joe biden did not honor marion barry, either. here is joe biden a year after the mayor's drug bust. >> if you have a p of crack cocaine no bigger than this quarter that i am holding in my hand, one quarter of $1, we passed a law, a law that says you are caught with that, you go to jail. for five years. you get no probation, you get nothing other than five years in

baltimore sometime, you may have to make the pipe yourself from tinfoil or a broken car antenna fear of our inner cities are pipe deserts. talk about the new jim crow. bull connor would be proud. bull connor did not think black people deserve new crack pipe sphere joe biden is going to change that. joe biden understands how essential narcotics are to be future of his party. of democratic voters stop smoking crack they might start thinking for themselves and bece candace owens or something, can have that. unfortunately, this change comes too late for one democratic party icon. 30 years ago, crack addiction was still considered embarrassing especially for elected officials. in some places it was illegal. here was the mayor of washington, d.c., fervently pursuing the equity agenda before it even had a name. back then we just call that smoking crack. >> okay, i understand. pay attention. [bleep]. >> come up here. [bleep].

nothing other than five years in jail. judge doesn't have a choice. >> tucker: going to throw you in jail, boy. that was joe biden then. now joe biden is giving free crack pipes to black people. maybe the lesson here is growth is possible and wisdom really does come with age. you may be wondering as you watch all of this, hold on a second, is the real drug crisis in this country that crack heads don't have enough crack pipes? i seem to remember reading somewhere that more than 100,000 americans died last year from opioid ods. what are we doing about that? well, good question. the answer is nothing. we are not doing anything about that. those 100,000 americans were not from officially marginalized groups, their death had nothing to do with the equity agenda. in fact, their deaths may have helped the equity agenda by changing the demographics of the country in a way that benefits the democratic party. so as far as the biden administration is concerned, it is not a bad trend. sure come a...

pay black people to smoke more crack. going forward, the administration will send at least $30 million in tax money to nonprofits and local governments so they can purchase "safe smoking kits and supplies." according to hhs, these kits will contain joe biden approved pipes that will allow beneficiaries of the equity agenda to smoke crack cocaine as well as crystal meth. some say it is about time. soros-aligned ngos have long complained that marginalized groups in this country don't have adequate access to illegal narcotics or the tools to use them. with this new program, joe biden will finally close the crack gap. for too long in america, quality crack pipes have been the domain of rich white men like so much else. here is the president's son, for example, smoking crack in bed at the four seasons. you will notice the beautifully designed custom crack pipe, it's cooling full nestled in the high thread count egyptian cotton sheets. 100 hunter biden smokes crack, he does it in style. but...