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I care deeply about black people
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and the issues of black people.
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But I care deeply about the issues of all people.
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I want to look at things objectively.
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When I look at what policies I believe
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will help not only black people,
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but what would help all people, I voice that.
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And because I stand in the opposition,
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that makes me an Uncle Tom.
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I used to get very offended and upset
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whenever people would call me an Uncle Tom.
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I think I'm in a place now, when someone calls me that,
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I kinda pity them because of their ignorance.
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It just shows that they haven't actually read the book.
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Whenever someone calls you an Uncle Tom,
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what they're trying to communicate
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is that either you just do not like black people
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and you see all black people as trash,
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or they're tying to communicate
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that, "Oh, you're just trying to fit in with white people.
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"You're trying to be accepted among whites.
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"And so, I wanna call you this derogatory word
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"to put you in your place and to remind you,
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"you will never be accepted by whites.
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"You'll always be just a black nigger."
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Those people who find my Instagram
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and comment on it just to call me Uncle Tom, House Negro...
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I never thought that I would be called
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such racist and derogatory terms.
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Uncle Tom.
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Uncle Tom.
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Uncle Tom, coon, bed wench.
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Boot licker.
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Chuckin' and jobbin'.
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House Negro.
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Coon.
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Uncle Tom and coon.
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Matter of fact, I have a Coon Award over there.
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Coon of the year award.
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They call us the coons.
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Coon.
Coon.
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For Indians like me, you're an Uncle Patel.
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Uncle Ruckus.
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Well, praise be to white God and his son, white Jesus.
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The guy from "Get Out."
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They put his face on my post.
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I find that the African-American experience for me
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has been for the most part very good.
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I think the funniest thing I've ever been called,
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most absurd thing is a black white supremacist.
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It's like the old Chappelle skit, Clayton Bigsby.
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They go.
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White power.
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It must be real.
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People say crazy things.
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Leftists say the craziest shit to you.
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Don't try to twist what I say.
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But that's what you're saying.
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That is not what I'm saying.
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That is what you're saying.
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You can't tell me what I'm saying.
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I know you, Lenore, that's what you're saying.
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You don't know me.
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You sound like all of them.
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Oh yeah, okay.
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And guess what, you sound like all them Uncle Toms.
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Now, how about that?
See that?
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I knew it.
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Lenore, it's good to hear from you.
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It's good to hear from you.
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Go drop dead.
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All right.
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Thank you, Lenore.
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What a sweet lady.
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An Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out
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by embracing the white man, by becoming a Republican,
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by rejecting the idea that you're a victim,
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by supporting things like hard work,
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accountability and low taxes.
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By refusing to think of yourself as a black person first,
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as opposed to as an American who is black.
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Your skin color should dictate how you think
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and what you say.
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The only way I can operate as a human being
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is via my skin color.
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I can't operate via my intelligence
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or the things I have accomplished.
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My resume should be, I'm black.
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An Uncle Tom has traditionally been a black person
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that tried to serve and curry favor with white people.
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So, they believe that I wanna be accepted
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in the white community.
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Kinda like the House Negro back in slavery.
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That I'm in the house.
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"Master, what can I do for you?"
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And I'm gonna suck up to them
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and leave my people behind.
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Most black people don't believe
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that other blacks can be independent free-thinkers
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or standing up--
You definitely don't.
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Or stand up for what is right.
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They believe that if a black person
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stand up for what is right, they're a sell out.
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They're a Uncle Tom.
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The white people have to be brainwashing.
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As my late grandfathers used to say,
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who lived to be 94, "I does not care."
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'Cause he didn't have a lot of education.
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He said, "I does not care."
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So, I don't care if they call me names.
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Just meet me at the bank.
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And we'll compare bank accounts.
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I am very optimistic about the future.
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Frankly, I have seen certain changes
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in the United States over the last two years
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that surprise me.
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I've seen levels of compliance
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with the Civil Rights bill, and changes
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that have been most surprising.
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So, on the basis of this,
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I think we may be able to get a negro president
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in less than 40 years.
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In churches, in bars, on the streets.
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Americans have been celebrating this great landmark
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of the long struggle for civil rights.
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In Chicago, the veteran black leader, Jesse Jackson,
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broke down in tears.
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In Atlanta, from the pulpit
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of Martin Luther King's old church,
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its pastor declared, "Tonight, we have seized
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"the promise of America."
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Not to sound crazy,
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but white people always had Jesus.
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So, they always had that mentality,
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I could be anything, even God.
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For me, the image of him is like,
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who's the most powerful person in the world?
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Who's considered like a God, basically?
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It's the president of the United States.
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Obama became that image for us, like that Jesus.
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We never looked at ourselves as being politicians.
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We looked at ourselves as rappers.
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Or football, basketball players, drug dealers.
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That's why I think Obama was important
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in becoming president.
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Because it gave us that optic.
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Like, we could be whatever we wanna be.
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It was America finally feeling
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that we could let go.
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Just let go and say we finally did it.
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Progress is here.
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I cried when he won.
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I never thought in my lifetime that it would happen.
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But it happened today.
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It's a reality and we did it.
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America is now more united.
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We did it.
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I can't believe that I got the opportunity
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to live, to see something so great.
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I can't even describe it.
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I can't believe I got the chance to vote for someone...
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Just look around.
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It's all young people, all colors.
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I believe, when you dream, your dreams can come true.
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Who would have thought that this year
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a man like this will be elected
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as the president of United States?
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This is the beauty of America.
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God bless America.
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God bless America!
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I became a Christian back in 2009.
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The year prior, I voted for Barack Obama.
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I was really passionate about Barack Obama and his policies.
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I was having a conversation with a friend,
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and I was telling him how I'm a Democrat
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because the Democrat policy is pro-Medicaid,
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pro-government benefits, all these things
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that can help poor urban communities.
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And doesn't the Bible say
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that we're supposed to look out for poor people?
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And this friend of mine, who's also a Christian said,
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"Well, was it talking about the government
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"or is it talking about you?"
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And I was like, that's very interesting.
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And so, I went back and read it
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and it was talking about me.
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A lot of the way that I saw things began to change,
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but I was still a Democrat.
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This friend of mine challenged me
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to go and read the Republican platform
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and read the Democrat platform.
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And see where my values and my views line up.
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My whole mindset was changing around this time,
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and so I took him up on that offer.
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I went in and I read the entire Democrat platform
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and I read the entire Republican platform.
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And I was like, "Man, I'm a Republican,"
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I have learned to go beyond
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just listening to what CNN says, or even Fox News.
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I go on Fox News all the time,
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but I decide to go beyond what they are saying
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and what they're selling
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and I'm able to listen and do the research on my own
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so I know who I believe in, who am I voting for and why.
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I used to be a Democrat.
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I used to be hardcore, Barack Obama,
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the Democrats are only here to help the people,
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they're the party of the people.
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And then I found out that the Democratic party
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was the party of slavery, Ku Klux Klan,
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the Jim Crow laws.
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They were opposed to the civil rights movement.
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The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment
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which freed the slaves, gave black people citizenship
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and the right to vote.
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The Democrats unanimously voted against
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all of those rights.
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And when I found that out,
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and nobody could give me a legitimate stance
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on how the party switched,
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it's like I have no other choice
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but to at least consider what principles
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does the other side have?
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What are they offering?
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When I began to educate myself
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on the history of the Democratic party,
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I learned a lot about Margaret Sanger.
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I think the greatest sin in the world
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is bringing children into the world.
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That have disease--
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And I learned about the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
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And I learned about the Jim Crow south.
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And I learned about Black Wall Street.
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And all of those events had Democratic hands in them.
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It unraveled everything that I knew to be true.
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Everything that the news media taught me.
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Everything that my own culture taught me.
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We're going to the studio.
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News nugget.
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Show time.
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George Washington mural should be covered but preserved
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according to a San Francisco school board decision.
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Don't they have better things to do?
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Do you know what the problem is with that mural?
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It has a slave in it.
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That was back then.
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But they wanna cover up history.
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It had a native American-Indian in it.
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They don't like that.
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It's part of history.
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I focus on three things.
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Performance, performance, performance.
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The three things that are my guiding lights,
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belief in God, belief in myself
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and my belief in the United Sates of America.
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I learned it from that man right there.
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My dad worked three jobs until he could live off of two,
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and he worked two until he could live off of one.
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He used to be a chauffeur for the Coca Cola company.
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And then one day he was asked to drive
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for the chairman and CEO, Robert W. Woodruff.
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It was like a 24/7, seven-day a week job.
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I never heard him complain
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about having to work so hard.
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I never heard him complain
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about what the government didn't do to help us.
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We were poor, but we didn't know it.
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We didn't have people screaming at us all the time
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telling us we were poor.
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My dad encouraged my brother and I
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to get as much education as you can.
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'Cause he worked in an environment
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where the most successful people
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were the ones that had the greatest amount of education.
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Success does not come in a straight line.
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It's a zigzag.
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I'm sick of us hearing about our people talking about,
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"Oh, when I go to a job,
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"they're gonna discriminate against me.
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"White privilege."
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I don't wanna hear a lick of that crap anymore.
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You're stronger than that.
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You're more powerful than that.
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I tell you what, I go to a job interview,
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and someone don't give me an opportunity,
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I'm a apply for every single job on the block
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until I get a job.
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I don't need no handouts, I don't need your excuses.
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I'm a go harder than everybody else for their job.
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And if you go hard, and you put yourself in position,
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you'll be successful.
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I never saw myself as handicapped,
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because I was black, I was a woman,
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that I came from poverty.
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It was just not the way I processed the world.
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As someone who got a GED, went to a community college,
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then went on to get a four-year degree,
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graduating magna cum laude,
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while I was working 40 hours a week,
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nights and weekends at the community college library.
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My life has taken many turns.
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I married at 16, I dropped out of school.
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By the time I was 21, I had three small children.
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I had no idea that I would end up going to college
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and becoming a university professor.
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Graduate school was very interesting for me
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in a lot of ways.
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I had this experience in a course
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that was being taught by a white female,
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she was actually a white liberal.
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At some point in the classroom,
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I'm sure I'd said something that really irked her
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because she turned to me and she yelled,
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"You'll never be able to change the fact
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"that you're a black woman."
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And I interpreted that to mean that I was handicapped,
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whether I knew it or not.
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There I learned that I was black, I was poor,
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I was a woman, and that I was not supposed
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to have accomplished the things
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that I had already accomplished, which was success.
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By then, it was too late.
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When I was a kid, I went to a summer camp
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in an area of California called Ukiah.
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Really bucolic, flowers everywhere, it was just wonderful.
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There was a Boy Scouts jamboree,
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and there were hundreds of Boy Scouts
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from all over California.
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And from what I can tell,
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there were just a handful of blacks.
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I was in a cabin with maybe seven or eight kids,
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and we'd been together now for three, four days.
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And there was one kid.
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He and I got into some sort of argument,
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I don't remember why, and he called me a nigger.
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And I literally had to restrain the other kids
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from killing this guy.
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I mean, they were just gonna kill him.
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They were more angry about it than I was.
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And so, I never really felt that those who are bigots,
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the racists were in the majority.
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I never really felt that.
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I always felt that people who were bigots
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intuitively were in the minority,
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and most people didn't feel that way.
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That seemed to be consistent
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with my own personal experiences.
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I was always confident.
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I always knew I had a good memory,
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made good grades, and my parents gave me
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a lot of positive feedback because of that.
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I always knew I was going to be an achiever,
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and it was no doubt about that.
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The only doubt was the route.
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There was never a time when I thought of myself
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as a victim, never, not one time.
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You're afraid of being marginalized.
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Welcome to what it feels like to be black.
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A man caught on video unleashing a racist rant.
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An alleged racist incident.
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Racial bias.
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Racist tendencies.
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Racism.
Racism from coast to coast.
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The open racism.
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Statements of racism.
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He was brutally beaten by attackers
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yelling racist and homophobic slurs.
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A racist drifter.
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Is it racism, is it sexism?
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How do we get white people to see racism
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as their problem too.
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That was racist.
Racist.
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Go back to Africa kind of racism.
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Straight up racist.
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Racist tweets.
Racist tweets.
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Those tweets are racist.
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A racial dog whistle.
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The most successful black Americans today
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are Nigerian-Americans,
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because they're not brainwashed by our media.
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We've heard all about the big, explosive cases
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of racial injustice in America.
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But that's not what most black people in America deal with.
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You deal with what we call micro aggressions,
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or a 1000 cuts of racism every single day.
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I grew up being told of my disadvantages.
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That this country is unfair to black people.
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You're black, you're not gonna be able to do it.
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You can't get this, you can't get that,
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you can't get bank loans.
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When you walk into a bank,
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you will get a loan more easily if you're a white guy.
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The ideology is implanted into you subconsciously
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to believe these things.
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We don't teach our children to have confidence.
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It's like we're brainwashed to think.
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"Or is it because I'm black?
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"Why are they looking at me like that?"
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How many of you feel judged?
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How many of you feel feared on sight
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when people see you?
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Show of hands.
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We teach them to be scared of this country,
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to be scared of the world that they live in.
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It's like a cancerous plague
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in the mind of black Americans.
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You trying to say that this country
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does not specialize in racism and bigotry?
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I am saying that racism exists.
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I am saying--
Exists,
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but you have the luxury.
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You have the luxury to be cavalier about it.
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When you are angry, it's very easy to be deceived.
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It's very sad to see black people operate in that.
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There's a lot of members in the black community,
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who they're operating in very negative energy.
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I call out racism.
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That is maddening to me, and I'm crying about it
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00:19:53,998 --> 00:19:55,637
because it's crazy--
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If you keep yourself in this constant state
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of woe is me, I'm disadvantaged,
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I'll never accomplish anything,
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then you won't accomplish anything.
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It will be a self-fulfilling prophecy for you.
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If you determine that you can't be successful
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or that you're oppressed, then you are oppressed.
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That's the power of the mind.
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If you believe that you can't, you won't,
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and you sure as hell won't try.
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And black America has been programmed
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to believe that we can't.
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The country was founded on racism and bigotry, David.
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If you turn on a radio morning show.
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If you a African-American and the cops show up,
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we don't know if we gon' make it out alive, I'm sorry.
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The message is clear.
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If you broke and white in America,
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you're wasting your whiteness.
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And that's what's being fed
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into the urban community.
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White supremacy is the backbone
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of political and economic disenfranchisement of black folks.
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So long as black people continue to have their psyche
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00:20:46,964 --> 00:20:50,327
filled by that nonsense, we won't have an awakening.
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Trump is a racist.
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He doesn't want more brown and black people here--
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It gets brainwashed into you in multiple facets.
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We tend to be geared towards entertainment.
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You need to know
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that a lot of your fans is racist.
451
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People have used those entertainment personalities
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to convince us subconsciously what we should believe.
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If you like that nigga, you motherfuckin' racist.
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Fuck you and--
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♪ Fuck Donald Trump ♪
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♪ Fuck Donald Trump ♪
457
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♪ Yeah, nigga, fuck Donald Trump ♪
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I'm beginning to lose confidence
459
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in the Trump administration.
460
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Yeah, what do you think of that?
461
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I think it's actually a great thing.
462
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Jay Z has always been a drug dealer
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to the black community.
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He's very open about the fact
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that he used to sell crack cocaine
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when he was living in the projects,
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and that's how he got ahead.
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So, he was selling something that was harming
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the black community.
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Well, he's still doing that.
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He's still selling something
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that's harming the black community,
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and it's flying off the shelves, and that's victimhood.
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We have to have the conversation.
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We have to have tough conversations.
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We have to talk about the N-word,
477
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and we have to talk about why white men are so privileged
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in this country.
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00:21:59,102 --> 00:22:00,804
Colin Kaepernick, same exact hustle.
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This is a half-white man who's chosen
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to pick his hair out to be an Afro, to be black,
482
00:22:05,126 --> 00:22:08,126
because right now victimhood is hot.
483
00:22:12,339 --> 00:22:13,955
Colin Kaepernick is making a ton of money.
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Jay Z is making a ton of money.
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Is black America any better?
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00:22:19,141 --> 00:22:20,541
The communities are still hurting,
487
00:22:20,541 --> 00:22:23,374
but they get to line their pockets
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00:22:24,764 --> 00:22:27,432
and we accept the same type of crack cocaine.
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The left gets away with this
490
00:22:28,538 --> 00:22:32,874
because 80 to 90 % of the primary sources of news
491
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are left-wing.
492
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My father was a janitor.
493
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He was born in the Jim Crow south.
494
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Fast forward, my father in his late 40s,
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started a small business,
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got a little bit of property.
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This is what happens in America.
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Raised three boys, educated them.
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We have a thriving black middle class.
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If black America were a country, Brooke,
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it would be the 15th wealthiest country in the world.
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For crying out loud, this is not your grandfather's America.
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America is an idea.
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That's why we're different than every other country.
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That's why we have freedoms that other countries don't.
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That's why entrepreneurs are birthed here.
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00:23:01,902 --> 00:23:03,997
That's why there's so many millionaires here.
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00:23:03,997 --> 00:23:05,542
That's why black people are doing better here
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00:23:05,542 --> 00:23:07,036
than anywhere else in the world.
510
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It's very simple.
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00:23:08,759 --> 00:23:12,578
This ideology, people begin to adopt around the world,
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and they become successful.
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00:23:15,492 --> 00:23:16,951
It's an idea.
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America is an idea.
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Anybody who adopts the idea of America
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will be American and successful.
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If you don't adopt the idea, you're not American.
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00:23:26,739 --> 00:23:28,599
You're not get that forward in America
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00:23:28,599 --> 00:23:31,070
if you don't pursue the American idea.
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00:23:33,254 --> 00:23:34,921
You wanna hold it?
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I love that this country values individuals.
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00:23:45,930 --> 00:23:47,705
As a black American in the United States,
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00:23:47,705 --> 00:23:49,800
I have autonomy in the things that I do
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00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:51,383
or are of my doing.
525
00:23:58,205 --> 00:23:59,908
A lot people expect when you say farmer,
526
00:23:59,908 --> 00:24:01,555
they're expecting wide tracts of land
527
00:24:01,555 --> 00:24:03,991
and tractors and stuff, but we don't have any of that.
528
00:24:03,991 --> 00:24:07,253
And I realize when I look back here every day,
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00:24:07,253 --> 00:24:11,130
I'm proud of what we've gotten done so far.
530
00:24:11,130 --> 00:24:14,739
Started with chickens, which is the gateway farming
531
00:24:14,739 --> 00:24:16,906
to goats, rabbits, horses.
532
00:24:21,236 --> 00:24:23,333
These are my goats, Posey and Zelda.
533
00:24:23,333 --> 00:24:26,345
One's a Nubian and one's a Kiko.
534
00:24:26,345 --> 00:24:28,428
A really badly bred Kiko.
535
00:24:30,940 --> 00:24:33,201
This year is the first year that I ever had goats.
536
00:24:33,201 --> 00:24:36,632
Individualism, independence and taking responsibility
537
00:24:36,632 --> 00:24:38,210
for your actions and for your food.
538
00:24:38,210 --> 00:24:40,907
I think that as for promoting small government values.
539
00:24:40,907 --> 00:24:42,447
When you do things yourself,
540
00:24:42,447 --> 00:24:46,364
you don't need the government to do it for you.
541
00:24:47,734 --> 00:24:49,718
I think black Americans should believe
542
00:24:49,718 --> 00:24:54,040
and uphold the ideas of constitutional inherent rights.
543
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,747
Without those beliefs, we wouldn't be where we are today.
544
00:25:05,193 --> 00:25:06,621
I will support and defend the constitution
545
00:25:06,621 --> 00:25:08,649
of the United States of America against all enemies,
546
00:25:08,649 --> 00:25:09,772
foreign and domestic.
547
00:25:09,772 --> 00:25:12,310
I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same,
548
00:25:12,310 --> 00:25:14,376
that I take this obligation freely
549
00:25:14,376 --> 00:25:17,058
without any purpose of evasion or mental reservations,
550
00:25:17,058 --> 00:25:18,308
so help me God.
551
00:25:19,999 --> 00:25:24,832
We don't take an oath to a color, to a party, to a person.
552
00:25:26,207 --> 00:25:28,515
We take an oath to the thing that binds us all together,
553
00:25:28,515 --> 00:25:32,848
and that's our constitution, that's our rule of law.
554
00:25:35,914 --> 00:25:37,569
Those of us that understand that oath,
555
00:25:37,569 --> 00:25:41,736
will always be guardians of the American republic.
556
00:25:44,332 --> 00:25:47,433
If I want to see this nation that I love so dearly
557
00:25:47,433 --> 00:25:50,165
continue on in the path of liberty, freedom
558
00:25:50,165 --> 00:25:52,784
and individual rights, then I gotta make sure
559
00:25:52,784 --> 00:25:55,221
that subsequent generations understand that.
560
00:25:55,221 --> 00:25:57,985
They are willing to go out and fight for it and defend it
561
00:25:57,985 --> 00:25:59,334
just the same as I did.
562
00:25:59,334 --> 00:26:02,660
Because I had a dad that inculcated that into me.
563
00:26:02,660 --> 00:26:04,537
Your green herring bones, but take your hat first.
564
00:26:04,537 --> 00:26:05,741
That's the green hat with a brim on it.
565
00:26:05,741 --> 00:26:06,941
Try it on.
At the age of 15,
566
00:26:06,941 --> 00:26:08,763
when my dad said that there was no greater honor
567
00:26:08,763 --> 00:26:09,625
than to wear the uniform
568
00:26:09,625 --> 00:26:10,798
of the United States of America,
569
00:26:10,798 --> 00:26:12,291
that's a powerful statement.
570
00:26:12,291 --> 00:26:16,808
Coming from a man that was born in 1920 down in the south.
571
00:26:16,808 --> 00:26:18,415
Never heard him say a bad word
572
00:26:18,415 --> 00:26:21,359
about the United States of America.
573
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,539
He went off to serve and fight for this country,
574
00:26:23,539 --> 00:26:25,358
even though this country did not see him
575
00:26:25,358 --> 00:26:27,537
as it should have seen him.
576
00:26:27,537 --> 00:26:29,454
But he wasn't a victim.
577
00:26:30,819 --> 00:26:32,751
The black community really believe
578
00:26:32,751 --> 00:26:35,174
that if they could show that they were willing
579
00:26:35,174 --> 00:26:38,312
to stand side by side with white Americans
580
00:26:38,312 --> 00:26:39,988
and fight for liberties and freedoms,
581
00:26:39,988 --> 00:26:42,827
that sooner or later, people would understand
582
00:26:42,827 --> 00:26:46,454
that we can't have this hypocrisy.
583
00:26:46,454 --> 00:26:50,587
Executive order 9981 that President Harry Truman signed
584
00:26:50,587 --> 00:26:51,966
that desegregated our military.
585
00:26:51,966 --> 00:26:56,450
He finally realized that if we are true to ourselves
586
00:26:56,450 --> 00:26:58,771
about the liberation of other people,
587
00:26:58,771 --> 00:27:00,816
from the tyranny of Nazism, fascism
588
00:27:00,816 --> 00:27:04,381
and Japanese imperialism, we gotta be true to that here
589
00:27:04,381 --> 00:27:06,511
in our own country, in the United States of America.
590
00:27:06,511 --> 00:27:10,117
And that's why Harry Truman's picture hangs in my house.
591
00:27:10,117 --> 00:27:13,449
That's why the principles of the founders
592
00:27:13,449 --> 00:27:15,032
speak loudly to me.
593
00:27:16,572 --> 00:27:20,218
Even though we face the difficulties
594
00:27:20,218 --> 00:27:23,885
of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
595
00:27:26,815 --> 00:27:30,786
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
596
00:27:30,786 --> 00:27:33,903
I think it is an immoral posture
597
00:27:33,903 --> 00:27:37,122
to hold the position that individuals,
598
00:27:37,122 --> 00:27:41,040
whether they be Negroes or members of other minority groups,
599
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,273
should have their basic constitutional
600
00:27:44,273 --> 00:27:46,961
and God-given rights held up.
601
00:27:46,961 --> 00:27:49,073
Self governance is what all
602
00:27:49,073 --> 00:27:51,881
of those grassroots people were seeking.
603
00:27:51,881 --> 00:27:55,281
They understood that the victimizer,
604
00:27:55,281 --> 00:28:00,031
i.e. racism and discrimination may have knocked you down,
605
00:28:02,121 --> 00:28:05,371
but it's the victim that has to get up.
606
00:28:11,648 --> 00:28:13,898
Hello, sister Tasha Fields.
607
00:28:14,780 --> 00:28:17,613
Hi, this Rob Woodson, how are you?
608
00:28:19,678 --> 00:28:20,523
Good, listen.
609
00:28:20,523 --> 00:28:22,177
I wanna invite you and your husband
610
00:28:22,177 --> 00:28:24,734
to join this consortium of ours.
611
00:28:24,734 --> 00:28:28,246
We're calling it the 1776 Consortium,
612
00:28:28,246 --> 00:28:31,633
to respond to the 1619 piece that was done
613
00:28:31,633 --> 00:28:33,177
in the New York Times.
614
00:28:33,177 --> 00:28:36,659
I'm not interested in engaging in debate with them.
615
00:28:36,659 --> 00:28:39,711
I'm saying, we need an accurate portrayal of slavery,
616
00:28:39,711 --> 00:28:43,093
but it doesn't totally define the black condition.
617
00:28:43,093 --> 00:28:44,377
We want our people to understand
618
00:28:44,377 --> 00:28:46,570
that the future of black America
619
00:28:46,570 --> 00:28:48,799
is not defined by slavery,
620
00:28:48,799 --> 00:28:51,401
but by the kinds of things we did
621
00:28:51,401 --> 00:28:53,547
and responds to these conditions,
622
00:28:53,547 --> 00:28:57,103
similar to what you and your husband has overcome.
623
00:28:57,103 --> 00:29:00,222
So, I'm gonna send you if I could,
624
00:29:00,222 --> 00:29:02,581
a invitation to formally join us.
625
00:29:02,581 --> 00:29:05,472
Because what we would like to do...
626
00:29:05,472 --> 00:29:08,435
I wish that it would be mandatory reading,
627
00:29:08,435 --> 00:29:09,830
not just in the black community
628
00:29:09,830 --> 00:29:12,523
but all across America, to read the autobiography
629
00:29:12,523 --> 00:29:14,523
of Booker T. Washington.
630
00:29:15,775 --> 00:29:18,992
Here was a man that was born into slavery.
631
00:29:18,992 --> 00:29:22,075
And when he learned that he was free,
632
00:29:23,173 --> 00:29:26,066
his number one quest, his number one goal
633
00:29:26,066 --> 00:29:28,066
was to get an education.
634
00:29:29,168 --> 00:29:31,787
He walks from present day West Virginia
635
00:29:31,787 --> 00:29:34,224
to Hampton, Virginia, to Hampton Institute,
636
00:29:34,224 --> 00:29:36,675
so that he could show himself qualified
637
00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:41,319
to enter that institution and get an education.
638
00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:43,919
When he established Tuskegee Normal
639
00:29:43,919 --> 00:29:45,839
and Industrial Institute,
640
00:29:45,839 --> 00:29:47,677
it wasn't just about the book learning,
641
00:29:47,677 --> 00:29:49,119
it was about industrial learning.
642
00:29:49,119 --> 00:29:52,714
It was about people being able to take an education
643
00:29:52,714 --> 00:29:54,974
and develop themselves into entrepreneurs
644
00:29:54,974 --> 00:29:58,141
so that they could have self reliance.
645
00:30:00,366 --> 00:30:02,743
There was a schism between Booker T. Washington
646
00:30:02,743 --> 00:30:04,326
and W.E.B. Du Bois.
647
00:30:07,245 --> 00:30:11,356
Booker T. Washington believed in the ability of someone
648
00:30:11,356 --> 00:30:13,564
to get out there and work with industries
649
00:30:13,564 --> 00:30:15,805
and show their value, by the talents
650
00:30:15,805 --> 00:30:17,515
that they were able to develop,
651
00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:21,848
by the businesses they were able to create and open.
652
00:30:23,936 --> 00:30:27,106
The W.E.B. Du Bois faction more so believed
653
00:30:27,106 --> 00:30:30,647
in that protest oriented demanding of rights
654
00:30:30,647 --> 00:30:32,814
and things of this nature.
655
00:30:33,851 --> 00:30:36,454
This is where you get the sellout, Uncle Tom
656
00:30:36,454 --> 00:30:37,455
and all of these things
657
00:30:37,455 --> 00:30:42,106
that they used to demonize Booker T. Washington.
658
00:30:42,106 --> 00:30:44,464
But when you think about, in the long run,
659
00:30:44,464 --> 00:30:45,631
who was right?
660
00:30:47,310 --> 00:30:50,376
W.E.B. Du Bois was an avowed socialist,
661
00:30:50,376 --> 00:30:52,264
who became an avowed communist,
662
00:30:52,264 --> 00:30:54,948
who renounced his American citizenship.
663
00:30:54,948 --> 00:30:58,186
But the institution that Booker T. Washington established
664
00:30:58,186 --> 00:30:59,936
is still there today.
665
00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:04,421
We need to go back and understand
666
00:31:04,421 --> 00:31:06,486
what Booker T. Washington was really,
667
00:31:06,486 --> 00:31:09,558
his philosophy, what he was trying to get us to understand.
668
00:31:09,558 --> 00:31:11,849
There's nothing wrong with hard work.
669
00:31:11,849 --> 00:31:13,586
There's nothing wrong with working your way up
670
00:31:13,586 --> 00:31:14,499
from the bottom.
671
00:31:14,499 --> 00:31:19,257
Much the same as his autobiography says, up from slavery.
672
00:31:31,826 --> 00:31:34,214
I had a college student ask me one time,
673
00:31:34,214 --> 00:31:37,348
how did you deal with color and race
674
00:31:37,348 --> 00:31:39,757
when you were climbing the corporate ladder?
675
00:31:39,757 --> 00:31:41,424
My answer, I didn't.
676
00:31:42,910 --> 00:31:44,743
Let them deal with it.
677
00:31:45,634 --> 00:31:49,217
I didn't focus on that, I didn't have time.
678
00:31:55,369 --> 00:31:57,380
I went to the president of the Pillsbury company
679
00:31:57,380 --> 00:31:59,328
and said, "I need to get involved
680
00:31:59,328 --> 00:32:01,185
"in some other aspects of the corporation,
681
00:32:01,185 --> 00:32:04,221
"because I want to run one of the business units one day."
682
00:32:04,221 --> 00:32:07,067
So, he said, "We need a lotta leadership in Burger King.
683
00:32:07,067 --> 00:32:10,254
"You have to go and spend two weeks at Whopper College."
684
00:32:10,254 --> 00:32:13,830
There really is a Whopper College in Miami.
685
00:32:13,830 --> 00:32:15,583
I graduated summa cum laude.
686
00:32:21,045 --> 00:32:23,690
I was working for the Department of the Navy.
687
00:32:23,690 --> 00:32:26,637
The same day that I started, another white gentleman
688
00:32:26,637 --> 00:32:28,861
named Robert started working there also.
689
00:32:28,861 --> 00:32:31,070
We had very similar jobs.
690
00:32:31,070 --> 00:32:35,329
So, the first 12 months, I got outstanding performance
691
00:32:35,329 --> 00:32:38,060
four quarters in a row.
692
00:32:38,060 --> 00:32:41,038
Second year, outstanding performance fur quarters in a row.
693
00:32:41,038 --> 00:32:43,359
And Robert got outstanding performance.
694
00:32:43,359 --> 00:32:47,020
But Robert was getting his GS salary increase
695
00:32:47,020 --> 00:32:50,412
at least two months sooner than me.
696
00:32:50,412 --> 00:32:52,836
So, I went to Wayne, my supervisor and said,
697
00:32:52,836 --> 00:32:54,790
"Robert and I are both doing a great job."
698
00:32:54,790 --> 00:32:56,458
He said, "Yeah."
699
00:32:56,458 --> 00:33:00,984
"But why is he getting little increases quicker than me?"
700
00:33:00,984 --> 00:33:04,671
He said, "He has a Master's degree."
701
00:33:04,671 --> 00:33:06,527
I said, "Oh, it's not because he's white?"
702
00:33:06,527 --> 00:33:10,039
"Nope, he has a Master's degree."
703
00:33:10,039 --> 00:33:11,664
So, you know what I did?
704
00:33:11,664 --> 00:33:13,304
I didn't get mad.
705
00:33:13,304 --> 00:33:16,422
I went and got me a Master's degree.
706
00:33:16,422 --> 00:33:18,585
There are only four rungs to this ladder.
707
00:33:18,585 --> 00:33:20,519
Went back, sat down with Wayne.
708
00:33:20,519 --> 00:33:21,870
I said, "Well, I got a Master's degree.
709
00:33:21,870 --> 00:33:23,732
"That says next time you have opening for a promotion,"
710
00:33:23,732 --> 00:33:26,036
I said, "Keep me in mind.
711
00:33:26,036 --> 00:33:28,214
"See you around."
712
00:33:28,214 --> 00:33:30,570
And not long after that, they had a special project
713
00:33:30,570 --> 00:33:34,043
called a rocket assisted projector.
714
00:33:34,043 --> 00:33:34,979
They had to have someone
715
00:33:34,979 --> 00:33:39,979
who was gonna be the GS 13 supervisor and mathematician,
716
00:33:40,210 --> 00:33:42,096
to do the special ballistics
717
00:33:42,096 --> 00:33:44,929
on this rocket assisted projector.
718
00:33:46,678 --> 00:33:49,134
I got the promotion.
719
00:33:49,134 --> 00:33:52,758
And I had eight white people working for me.
720
00:33:52,758 --> 00:33:56,679
It was all about performance, not the color of your skin.
721
00:33:56,679 --> 00:33:59,098
So, since I now had that Master's degree
722
00:33:59,098 --> 00:34:02,348
and I had proved myself, I got the job.
723
00:34:03,729 --> 00:34:06,364
When I decided to live Dahlgren,
724
00:34:06,364 --> 00:34:08,673
never forget the department head.
725
00:34:08,673 --> 00:34:11,049
And he called me up for an exit interview.
726
00:34:11,049 --> 00:34:14,249
And I'll never forget Ross, I think he's deceased now.
727
00:34:14,249 --> 00:34:19,220
He said, "You know, you have taught me something."
728
00:34:19,220 --> 00:34:21,008
I said, "What?"
729
00:34:21,008 --> 00:34:25,155
He said, "I had never worked with a black person before.
730
00:34:25,155 --> 00:34:27,433
"You taught me, don't judge somebody
731
00:34:27,433 --> 00:34:29,200
"by the color of their skin."
732
00:34:39,326 --> 00:34:43,174
I grew up primarily around black people.
733
00:34:43,174 --> 00:34:45,956
Primarily in what we call the Afrocentric perspective.
734
00:34:45,956 --> 00:34:48,802
That mean, everything in life
735
00:34:48,802 --> 00:34:52,458
was seen from the lens of being black in America.
736
00:34:52,458 --> 00:34:54,391
I used to have gold teeth in my mouth.
737
00:34:54,391 --> 00:34:56,533
I got young savage tattooed across my stomach.
738
00:34:56,533 --> 00:34:58,602
I got my hood tattooed on my forearm.
739
00:34:58,602 --> 00:35:02,185
So, I kinda had this whole hip hop culture,
740
00:35:03,188 --> 00:35:05,355
negative, angry mentality.
741
00:35:06,404 --> 00:35:08,292
I grew up believing that white people
742
00:35:08,292 --> 00:35:09,866
did not like black people.
743
00:35:09,866 --> 00:35:11,715
And that no matter what you did in life,
744
00:35:11,715 --> 00:35:15,259
the white man is gonna hold you down.
745
00:35:15,259 --> 00:35:19,342
My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim,
746
00:35:21,079 --> 00:35:24,716
but there were other influences that did.
747
00:35:24,716 --> 00:35:27,710
Whether we're talking about uncles and aunts,
748
00:35:27,710 --> 00:35:30,344
from the hip hop industry, the media.
749
00:35:30,344 --> 00:35:34,067
It painted a picture of the black man in America
750
00:35:34,067 --> 00:35:36,913
as being in a constant state of distress,
751
00:35:36,913 --> 00:35:38,974
a constant state of disadvantage.
752
00:35:38,974 --> 00:35:42,142
And I have relatives of mine who bought into that message.
753
00:35:42,142 --> 00:35:44,763
And I even bought into that message before I was born again.
754
00:35:44,763 --> 00:35:47,525
The only people I knew who existed in my life
755
00:35:47,525 --> 00:35:51,266
and who I could pick to be role models
756
00:35:51,266 --> 00:35:53,164
were athletes and rappers.
757
00:35:53,164 --> 00:35:56,341
So, many of you guys have watched my political awakening.
758
00:35:56,341 --> 00:35:59,546
I've been pretty much in front of everybody on the stage
759
00:35:59,546 --> 00:36:00,776
when I've had this reckoning,
760
00:36:00,776 --> 00:36:05,051
but there's one person who totally transformed
761
00:36:05,051 --> 00:36:05,884
the way that I thought.
762
00:36:05,884 --> 00:36:08,255
There was a video that I saw on YouTube
763
00:36:08,255 --> 00:36:10,452
and it was Larry Elder.
764
00:36:14,038 --> 00:36:15,952
Oh my God, they always call me the sunken place demon.
765
00:36:15,952 --> 00:36:16,785
I think it's the funniest thing...
766
00:36:16,785 --> 00:36:18,483
Larry Elder is my mentor.
767
00:36:18,483 --> 00:36:21,258
I can call him any time about any topic,
768
00:36:21,258 --> 00:36:24,179
'cause there are still spots of ignorance that I have.
769
00:36:24,179 --> 00:36:25,615
I'm having to contend with the fact
770
00:36:25,615 --> 00:36:27,898
that all I have is the media narrative of things,
771
00:36:27,898 --> 00:36:29,660
and he lived through it, he saw it,
772
00:36:29,660 --> 00:36:32,130
and he'll tell me exactly what to look up and research.
773
00:36:32,130 --> 00:36:33,675
Larry Elder was at the forefront
774
00:36:33,675 --> 00:36:35,234
of being a thought leader,
775
00:36:35,234 --> 00:36:37,706
in terms of questioning prevalent narratives
776
00:36:37,706 --> 00:36:39,200
of the black community.
777
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:41,688
Especially with regards to individual accountability.
778
00:36:41,688 --> 00:36:44,209
If you have parents who care about education,
779
00:36:44,209 --> 00:36:45,865
there are books around and you're immersed in it,
780
00:36:45,865 --> 00:36:47,712
you're gonna have a better situation
781
00:36:47,712 --> 00:36:49,567
than somebody else with the same IQ
782
00:36:49,567 --> 00:36:51,617
whose parents don't have that kind of motivation,
783
00:36:51,617 --> 00:36:53,716
who don't immerse you in education.
784
00:36:53,716 --> 00:36:55,389
Environment absolutely has a role.
785
00:36:55,389 --> 00:36:57,825
He provided a huge part of my awakening.
786
00:36:57,825 --> 00:37:00,121
One video of him with Dave Reuben,
787
00:37:00,121 --> 00:37:02,169
and I went, "Oh my goodness!
788
00:37:02,169 --> 00:37:03,272
"I've been so ignorant."
789
00:37:03,272 --> 00:37:04,571
You wouldn't not acknowledge
790
00:37:04,571 --> 00:37:06,500
that there are some systemic issues.
791
00:37:06,500 --> 00:37:07,596
Give me an example.
792
00:37:07,596 --> 00:37:10,415
Tell me what you think the most systemic, racist issue is.
793
00:37:10,415 --> 00:37:11,411
What is it?
794
00:37:11,411 --> 00:37:13,796
Well, I would say that because black people
795
00:37:13,796 --> 00:37:15,673
in most cases, in many cases,
796
00:37:15,673 --> 00:37:20,673
were descendants of slaves, that racism as an institution--
797
00:37:20,844 --> 00:37:22,061
In 2015?
A certain amount if it
798
00:37:22,061 --> 00:37:24,263
just exists.
In 2015?
799
00:37:24,263 --> 00:37:26,036
Give me the most blatant racist example
800
00:37:26,036 --> 00:37:28,324
you can come up with right now.
801
00:37:28,324 --> 00:37:31,099
I think you could probably find evidence
802
00:37:31,099 --> 00:37:34,182
that in general cops are more willing
803
00:37:36,429 --> 00:37:40,429
to shoot if the perpetrator is black than white.
804
00:37:41,404 --> 00:37:43,682
What's your basis for saying that?
805
00:37:43,682 --> 00:37:44,865
Look, I know a lot of people would say,
806
00:37:44,865 --> 00:37:46,041
"Look what's going on in Chicago."
807
00:37:46,041 --> 00:37:46,874
I know what they would say,
808
00:37:46,874 --> 00:37:47,914
I'm talking about what the facts are.
809
00:37:47,914 --> 00:37:51,500
965 people were shot by cops last year and killed.
810
00:37:51,500 --> 00:37:54,521
4 % of them were white cops shooting unarmed blacks.
811
00:37:54,521 --> 00:37:59,028
In Chicago in 2011, 21 people were shot and killed by cops.
812
00:37:59,028 --> 00:38:01,150
In 2015, there were seven.
813
00:38:01,150 --> 00:38:03,593
In Chicago, which is 1/3 black, 1/3 white
814
00:38:03,593 --> 00:38:05,953
and 1/3 Hispanic, 70 % of the homicides
815
00:38:05,953 --> 00:38:07,457
are black on black.
816
00:38:07,457 --> 00:38:11,361
About 40 per month, almost 500 per year
817
00:38:11,361 --> 00:38:12,498
last year in Chicago,
818
00:38:12,498 --> 00:38:14,597
and 75 % of them are unsolved.
819
00:38:14,597 --> 00:38:16,402
Where is the Black Lives Matter on that?
820
00:38:16,402 --> 00:38:19,069
The idea that a racist white cop
821
00:38:19,069 --> 00:38:22,094
shooting unarmed black people is a peril to black people
822
00:38:22,094 --> 00:38:24,713
is BS, is complete and total--
823
00:38:24,713 --> 00:38:27,731
A white guy can say all this stuff all he want.
824
00:38:27,731 --> 00:38:29,442
It's facts or it's not.
825
00:38:29,442 --> 00:38:31,391
But Larry Elder did something different.
826
00:38:31,391 --> 00:38:33,781
What this lie does, it causes young, black men
827
00:38:33,781 --> 00:38:35,233
to be confrontational with cops
828
00:38:35,233 --> 00:38:37,491
instead of cooperating, and it causes the cops to pull back
829
00:38:37,491 --> 00:38:39,475
for fear that they'd be called racist--
830
00:38:39,475 --> 00:38:43,928
I saw a black man that reminded me of myself
831
00:38:43,928 --> 00:38:46,286
and other people I grew up with.
832
00:38:46,286 --> 00:38:50,595
And I said, he's black, he came from a similar background.
833
00:38:50,595 --> 00:38:52,173
How did he come to these conclusions?
834
00:38:52,173 --> 00:38:54,072
It's incomparable to have porous borders
835
00:38:54,072 --> 00:38:55,326
and a welfare state.
836
00:38:55,326 --> 00:38:57,046
So, I think it's just common sense to say,
837
00:38:57,046 --> 00:39:00,216
if you come here, you ought not be a charge on taxpayers.
838
00:39:00,216 --> 00:39:01,893
Why is that so controversial?
839
00:39:01,893 --> 00:39:04,180
In order to be persuaded or to like someone's work,
840
00:39:04,180 --> 00:39:05,938
you don't have to share a race with them.
841
00:39:05,938 --> 00:39:08,830
However, we're talking about a very important,
842
00:39:08,830 --> 00:39:11,709
fundamental shift, like a breaking of the frame.
843
00:39:11,709 --> 00:39:14,031
What's the purpose of an SAT?
844
00:39:14,031 --> 00:39:16,662
The purpose of the SAT is to make sure
845
00:39:16,662 --> 00:39:18,860
the student can do the freaking work
846
00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:20,129
that's required of him or her
847
00:39:20,129 --> 00:39:22,663
once they get admitted to that given university.
848
00:39:22,663 --> 00:39:24,728
So, if you give 'em adjusted score
849
00:39:24,728 --> 00:39:26,891
because of their disadvantaged nature,
850
00:39:26,891 --> 00:39:28,939
that does not give them the ability
851
00:39:28,939 --> 00:39:31,422
to compete at the school and succeed.
852
00:39:31,422 --> 00:39:34,830
So, all you're gonna do is create more dropouts
853
00:39:34,830 --> 00:39:35,663
than we already have,
854
00:39:35,663 --> 00:39:37,159
because of race based preferences.
855
00:39:37,159 --> 00:39:39,358
You're talking about breaking a very major narrative,
856
00:39:39,358 --> 00:39:40,932
shattering a glass ceiling.
857
00:39:40,932 --> 00:39:42,541
A lot of young black people are discovering me
858
00:39:42,541 --> 00:39:44,997
and consider me to be something of a mentor,
859
00:39:44,997 --> 00:39:47,924
the way I considered Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.
860
00:39:47,924 --> 00:39:49,661
Black people have never taken a position
861
00:39:49,661 --> 00:39:50,850
that you describe.
862
00:39:50,850 --> 00:39:53,254
So, it is not a question of what black people chose.
863
00:39:53,254 --> 00:39:56,331
It is what you choose to put in the mouths of black people.
864
00:39:56,331 --> 00:39:58,619
It's what you choose to project.
865
00:39:58,619 --> 00:39:59,530
We didn't learn about these guys.
866
00:39:59,530 --> 00:40:03,298
I didn't know who Thomas Sowell was until four years ago.
867
00:40:03,298 --> 00:40:07,480
The engineer is judged by the end product
868
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,136
which is not simply ideas.
869
00:40:09,136 --> 00:40:11,901
If he builds a building that collapses,
870
00:40:11,901 --> 00:40:15,276
it doesn't matter how brilliant his idea was,
871
00:40:15,276 --> 00:40:16,526
or he's ruined.
872
00:40:17,436 --> 00:40:20,212
Conversely, if an intellectual who's brilliant
873
00:40:20,212 --> 00:40:23,171
has an idea for rearranging society,
874
00:40:23,171 --> 00:40:25,286
and that ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.
875
00:40:25,286 --> 00:40:27,802
To hear Thomas Sowell destroy
876
00:40:27,802 --> 00:40:29,269
all of this so-called data,
877
00:40:29,269 --> 00:40:32,436
that the so-called enlightened among us
878
00:40:32,436 --> 00:40:34,139
were using to try to get their way
879
00:40:34,139 --> 00:40:35,265
and to try to shape policy--
880
00:40:35,265 --> 00:40:36,678
But you would also have to agree
881
00:40:36,678 --> 00:40:39,669
that generally speaking, women are paid less for example,
882
00:40:39,669 --> 00:40:41,098
for the same jobs as men.
883
00:40:41,098 --> 00:40:42,058
No, I would not.
884
00:40:42,058 --> 00:40:43,129
I would not agree with that.
885
00:40:43,129 --> 00:40:44,653
You're talking about women.
886
00:40:44,653 --> 00:40:46,850
With the same number of years of experience.
887
00:40:46,850 --> 00:40:50,438
With the same continuous service, et cetera, et cetera.
888
00:40:50,438 --> 00:40:53,230
Then when I look at that, I don't find that disparity.
889
00:40:53,230 --> 00:40:55,764
I find for example, in many cases, the women are making more
890
00:40:55,764 --> 00:40:57,974
depending on how you break the data down.
891
00:40:57,974 --> 00:41:00,030
The difference with women
892
00:41:00,030 --> 00:41:02,240
is between married women and everybody else.
893
00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:06,740
If his message would have somehow penetrated through
894
00:41:08,383 --> 00:41:13,064
all of the nonsense, and all of the manufactured,
895
00:41:13,064 --> 00:41:15,958
preconceived notion that I bought into
896
00:41:15,958 --> 00:41:17,962
and settled itself in my mind,
897
00:41:17,962 --> 00:41:20,901
he would've been a huge influence for me.
898
00:41:20,901 --> 00:41:25,873
Why wouldn't they teach us about Thomas Sowell in school?
899
00:41:25,873 --> 00:41:27,421
I know Lebron James.
900
00:41:27,421 --> 00:41:28,885
I know you guys are excited to see her.
901
00:41:28,885 --> 00:41:30,683
I didn't know you guys would be excited to see me too,
902
00:41:30,683 --> 00:41:33,810
but thank you.
903
00:41:33,810 --> 00:41:36,310
I know all of these rappers.
904
00:41:37,368 --> 00:41:39,618
I don't know Thomas Sowell.
905
00:41:41,557 --> 00:41:43,119
I don't know about Walter Williams.
906
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:44,323
I've always been a radical.
907
00:41:44,323 --> 00:41:46,004
I've always challenged the status quo.
908
00:41:46,004 --> 00:41:47,418
If there's one person that you think
909
00:41:47,418 --> 00:41:49,027
black America would be celebrating...
910
00:41:49,027 --> 00:41:50,912
I supported things like minimum wage laws
911
00:41:50,912 --> 00:41:53,012
'cause I thought it was a good idea.
912
00:41:53,012 --> 00:41:54,634
Until I ran into some professor, he said,
913
00:41:54,634 --> 00:41:57,369
"Well, look Walter, let's look at the effects
914
00:41:57,369 --> 00:41:58,220
"of the minimum wage law,
915
00:41:58,220 --> 00:41:59,856
"as opposed to looking at the intentions."
916
00:41:59,856 --> 00:42:03,594
They gave me material to read and then I changed my mind.
917
00:42:03,594 --> 00:42:06,761
It's like havin' a very successful family
918
00:42:06,761 --> 00:42:09,624
that you never knew you had.
919
00:42:09,624 --> 00:42:11,753
Until your grandfather dies
920
00:42:11,753 --> 00:42:14,467
and y'all meet at the funeral.
921
00:42:14,467 --> 00:42:18,237
While I was hangin' out with my cousin smokin' weed,
922
00:42:18,237 --> 00:42:22,207
we got people in our family that have gone to Harvard.
923
00:42:22,207 --> 00:42:25,522
We have people in our family that own businesses.
924
00:42:25,522 --> 00:42:27,022
Highly successful.
925
00:42:29,098 --> 00:42:32,008
Why have you hidden this from me?
926
00:42:32,008 --> 00:42:34,774
It's unfortunate but history is written by academics,
927
00:42:34,774 --> 00:42:37,906
and academia is a tool of the left.
928
00:42:37,906 --> 00:42:40,820
If you find a very educated black American,
929
00:42:40,820 --> 00:42:43,742
somebody who got a 4.0 at a public high school,
930
00:42:43,742 --> 00:42:46,229
they're actively learning their history wrong.
931
00:42:46,229 --> 00:42:49,545
That's a part of the uphill battle that we have.
932
00:42:49,545 --> 00:42:54,378
Is that if you are educated, you're actually mis-educated.
933
00:42:57,852 --> 00:43:00,580
When I was growing up, my mom was a Democrat,
934
00:43:00,580 --> 00:43:02,208
remained a Democrat her entire life.
935
00:43:02,208 --> 00:43:03,719
My dad was a Republican,
936
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:05,507
remained a Republican his entire life.
937
00:43:05,507 --> 00:43:07,418
By the way, most blacks were Republican
938
00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:09,067
until the New Deal.
939
00:43:09,067 --> 00:43:11,067
My dad was born in 1915,
940
00:43:12,172 --> 00:43:15,436
and my dad like most people his age was a Republican.
941
00:43:15,436 --> 00:43:16,269
He never changed.
942
00:43:16,269 --> 00:43:18,134
My mom became a democrat in large part
943
00:43:18,134 --> 00:43:19,340
because of Franklin Roosevelt.
944
00:43:19,340 --> 00:43:22,476
To 30 millions of our citizens,
945
00:43:22,476 --> 00:43:24,409
who will reap direct benefits
946
00:43:24,409 --> 00:43:26,879
through unemployment compensation.
947
00:43:26,879 --> 00:43:27,911
Most blacks were Republican
948
00:43:27,911 --> 00:43:30,301
to the extent that they could vote before the New Deal.
949
00:43:30,301 --> 00:43:31,292
And when the New Deal came,
950
00:43:31,292 --> 00:43:33,958
a number of blacks switched over to the New Deal.
951
00:43:33,958 --> 00:43:35,003
That switch has continued.
952
00:43:35,003 --> 00:43:37,318
Only a few months before his tragic death,
953
00:43:37,318 --> 00:43:40,112
President Kennedy called on the American Congress
954
00:43:40,112 --> 00:43:42,679
to pass the most far reaching Civil Rights bill
955
00:43:42,679 --> 00:43:44,680
in the nation's history.
956
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,954
To protect the constitutional rights of all citizens.
957
00:43:49,344 --> 00:43:52,740
The shift came with the presidential election
958
00:43:52,740 --> 00:43:56,153
between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
959
00:43:56,153 --> 00:43:58,931
Martin Luther King Jr. Had been imprisoned,
960
00:43:58,931 --> 00:44:03,146
and both sides asked their respective presidential candidate
961
00:44:03,146 --> 00:44:06,538
to give a courtesy call to Coretta Scott King
962
00:44:06,538 --> 00:44:08,700
and offer their condolences and their support
963
00:44:08,700 --> 00:44:10,200
and what have you.
964
00:44:11,529 --> 00:44:15,216
The rumor got out that John F. Kennedy did.
965
00:44:15,216 --> 00:44:16,702
And so, the next thing you know,
966
00:44:16,702 --> 00:44:18,327
and every house down south,
967
00:44:18,327 --> 00:44:21,348
and I can say this from my own eyeballs.
968
00:44:21,348 --> 00:44:24,241
There were three pictures that hung in the living room
969
00:44:24,241 --> 00:44:26,763
of any black home down south.
970
00:44:26,763 --> 00:44:29,314
It was Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr.
971
00:44:29,314 --> 00:44:31,541
And John F. Kennedy.
972
00:44:31,541 --> 00:44:34,728
John Kennedy promoted a dramatic tax cut.
973
00:44:34,728 --> 00:44:37,114
He was a coal warrior, he was a hunter,
974
00:44:37,114 --> 00:44:39,131
he believed in the Second Amendment.
975
00:44:39,131 --> 00:44:41,278
John Kennedy's collection of views right now
976
00:44:41,278 --> 00:44:42,511
would make him a Republican.
977
00:44:42,511 --> 00:44:46,604
He would not be welcome within the Democratic party.
978
00:44:46,604 --> 00:44:49,271
No memorial, oration or eulogy
979
00:44:50,620 --> 00:44:55,352
could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory
980
00:44:55,352 --> 00:44:58,439
than the earliest possible passage
981
00:44:58,439 --> 00:45:00,716
of the Civil Rights bill for which he fought so long.
982
00:45:01,866 --> 00:45:04,340
It goes back to the mid-1960s
983
00:45:04,340 --> 00:45:08,507
as to why blacks believe they should be Democrats.
984
00:45:11,050 --> 00:45:14,133
In 1964, the Civil Rights Act passed.
985
00:45:16,679 --> 00:45:19,487
Lyndon Johnson signed it.
986
00:45:19,487 --> 00:45:22,404
1965, the Voting Rights Act passed.
987
00:45:23,337 --> 00:45:25,757
Lyndon Johnson signed it.
988
00:45:25,757 --> 00:45:30,757
So, he got credit for those two major pieces of legislation.
989
00:45:33,191 --> 00:45:35,935
But here's what they don't tell you.
990
00:45:35,935 --> 00:45:39,510
There was a larger percentage of Republicans in Congress,
991
00:45:39,510 --> 00:45:42,507
in both instances that voted for it
992
00:45:42,507 --> 00:45:45,626
than the percentage of Democrats that voted for it.
993
00:45:45,626 --> 00:45:48,791
Who enabled the Civil Rights legislation in '64 to pass
994
00:45:48,791 --> 00:45:51,753
was Senate Republicans, led by Everett Dirksen.
995
00:45:51,753 --> 00:45:53,882
Everett Dirksen got an award from the NAACP
996
00:45:53,882 --> 00:45:56,075
for helping to shepherd the act into fruition.
997
00:45:56,075 --> 00:45:57,277
Most blacks are unaware of that.
998
00:45:57,277 --> 00:46:00,103
I didn't study that kind of stuff when I was in history.
999
00:46:00,103 --> 00:46:03,063
President Johnson was able to get
1000
00:46:03,063 --> 00:46:05,760
the Civil Rights bill passed,
1001
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:07,602
and it was perceived that it was an effort
1002
00:46:07,602 --> 00:46:10,167
on the part of the Democrats.
1003
00:46:10,167 --> 00:46:13,873
And so that's a perception and a narrative
1004
00:46:13,873 --> 00:46:17,201
that has been created, that caused the community
1005
00:46:17,201 --> 00:46:20,368
to connect that event, momentous event
1006
00:46:22,814 --> 00:46:24,619
to the Democratic party.
1007
00:46:24,619 --> 00:46:26,812
And they have been using that idea
1008
00:46:26,812 --> 00:46:29,645
to effectively create a perception
1009
00:46:30,761 --> 00:46:33,621
that the best friend to the black community
1010
00:46:33,621 --> 00:46:38,038
is the Democratic party, which is far from the truth.
1011
00:46:39,343 --> 00:46:40,759
Black people have been taught
1012
00:46:40,759 --> 00:46:43,308
that the Democratic party wears the white hat
1013
00:46:43,308 --> 00:46:45,951
when it comes to Civil Rights and racial justice,
1014
00:46:45,951 --> 00:46:48,553
and Republicans have been described
1015
00:46:48,553 --> 00:46:50,019
as wearing the black hat.
1016
00:46:50,019 --> 00:46:55,019
If resistance to the Federal Court order ceases at once,
1017
00:46:55,072 --> 00:46:59,019
the further presence of Federal troops will be unnecessary.
1018
00:46:59,019 --> 00:47:00,195
And the city of Little Rock
1019
00:47:00,195 --> 00:47:03,933
will return to its normal habits of peace and order.
1020
00:47:03,933 --> 00:47:05,609
And a blot upon the fair name
1021
00:47:05,609 --> 00:47:08,413
and high honor of our nation in the world
1022
00:47:08,413 --> 00:47:09,799
will be removed.
1023
00:47:09,799 --> 00:47:12,347
Dwight Eisenhower was responsible
1024
00:47:12,347 --> 00:47:16,490
for bringing the civil rights issues to the forefront.
1025
00:47:16,490 --> 00:47:19,990
I have a dream, that one day...
1026
00:47:20,897 --> 00:47:25,287
It was a movement that was challenging America
1027
00:47:25,287 --> 00:47:27,037
to embrace its ideas.
1028
00:47:28,795 --> 00:47:30,221
Those ideas that were found
1029
00:47:30,221 --> 00:47:32,299
in the Declaration of Independence,
1030
00:47:32,299 --> 00:47:34,769
that all men are created equal.
1031
00:47:34,769 --> 00:47:37,969
To hold our society, America,
1032
00:47:37,969 --> 00:47:41,156
to the principles that were found in the constitution.
1033
00:47:41,156 --> 00:47:43,042
And those constitutional principles
1034
00:47:43,042 --> 00:47:45,104
that protect our liberties,
1035
00:47:45,104 --> 00:47:48,457
and protect our individual rights,
1036
00:47:48,457 --> 00:47:50,844
is what that civil rights movement was all about.
1037
00:47:50,844 --> 00:47:54,661
There must be a revolution of values in our country.
1038
00:47:54,661 --> 00:47:58,127
Because some of the values that presently exist
1039
00:47:58,127 --> 00:48:01,544
are certainly out of line with the values
1040
00:48:02,753 --> 00:48:05,355
and the idealistic structure
1041
00:48:05,355 --> 00:48:07,893
that brought our nation into being.
1042
00:48:07,893 --> 00:48:10,523
Unfortunately, we haven't been true to these ideals.
1043
00:48:10,523 --> 00:48:12,929
It was signed under the hope
1044
00:48:12,929 --> 00:48:14,410
that that piece of legislation
1045
00:48:14,410 --> 00:48:16,492
would open up opportunities for the blacks.
1046
00:48:16,492 --> 00:48:21,087
To have equal access, to have first class citizenship,
1047
00:48:21,087 --> 00:48:23,167
have better economic opportunities.
1048
00:48:23,167 --> 00:48:27,890
That was the dream that Dr. Martin Luther King talked about.
1049
00:48:32,345 --> 00:48:35,089
Al Gore's father, Al Gore Sr.,
1050
00:48:35,089 --> 00:48:37,339
worked with other Democrats
1051
00:48:39,219 --> 00:48:41,328
to mount what was at the time,
1052
00:48:41,328 --> 00:48:46,122
the longest filibuster in the history of the Senate.
1053
00:48:46,122 --> 00:48:48,904
To prevent the bill from ever getting onto the floor
1054
00:48:48,904 --> 00:48:49,821
for a vote.
1055
00:48:51,615 --> 00:48:54,914
Al Gore's dad by the way died a Democrat.
1056
00:48:54,914 --> 00:48:59,496
He didn't make a big switch to join the racist Republicans.
1057
00:48:59,496 --> 00:49:02,975
Whenever I began to read the Republican party platform,
1058
00:49:02,975 --> 00:49:05,869
I didn't find one thing in there
1059
00:49:05,869 --> 00:49:09,119
that I felt as a black man targeted me.
1060
00:49:10,339 --> 00:49:13,008
I began to wonder, well, if I can't find anything
1061
00:49:13,008 --> 00:49:14,375
in their platform, maybe I can find something
1062
00:49:14,375 --> 00:49:16,659
in the Republican party's past
1063
00:49:16,659 --> 00:49:19,394
that gives me an example of how they targeted me
1064
00:49:19,394 --> 00:49:20,644
as a black man.
1065
00:49:22,372 --> 00:49:26,545
And I started with Abraham Lincoln, who was a Republican.
1066
00:49:26,545 --> 00:49:30,124
You can argue, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation
1067
00:49:30,124 --> 00:49:33,517
as a war strategy, and you could argue that.
1068
00:49:33,517 --> 00:49:34,897
But at the end of the day,
1069
00:49:34,897 --> 00:49:37,273
the fact of the matter is that it was a Republican
1070
00:49:37,273 --> 00:49:40,457
who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
1071
00:49:40,457 --> 00:49:44,749
And then if you fast forward to women suffrage,
1072
00:49:44,749 --> 00:49:48,832
it was a Republican Chief Justice in William Taft
1073
00:49:49,895 --> 00:49:52,382
that struck down laws that made it illegal
1074
00:49:52,382 --> 00:49:53,882
for women to vote.
1075
00:49:57,245 --> 00:49:59,245
If you look at Jim Crow.
1076
00:50:01,571 --> 00:50:05,258
It was Republican votes in the Senate and in the House
1077
00:50:05,258 --> 00:50:08,428
that was able to rid this country of Jim Crow.
1078
00:50:15,055 --> 00:50:18,873
When we look at the history of entities like the KKK,
1079
00:50:18,873 --> 00:50:21,152
it was specifically intended
1080
00:50:21,152 --> 00:50:24,155
to suppress the African-Americans
1081
00:50:24,155 --> 00:50:27,210
and keep them from voting for Republicans specifically.
1082
00:50:27,210 --> 00:50:31,127
That was always what the KKK was founded to do.
1083
00:50:32,855 --> 00:50:35,650
A lot of black people were voting for Democrats
1084
00:50:35,650 --> 00:50:37,484
because they were being forced to.
1085
00:50:37,484 --> 00:50:39,323
If you don't vote for Democrats,
1086
00:50:39,323 --> 00:50:41,397
the Ku Klux Klan are gonna come
1087
00:50:41,397 --> 00:50:44,291
and lynch your eldest son.
1088
00:50:44,291 --> 00:50:47,022
And so, you fast forward to today,
1089
00:50:47,022 --> 00:50:48,374
the message is still the same.
1090
00:50:48,374 --> 00:50:49,851
If you don't vote for Democrats,
1091
00:50:49,851 --> 00:50:51,118
the Republicans are gonna come.
1092
00:50:51,118 --> 00:50:52,925
They can turn back voting rights.
1093
00:50:52,925 --> 00:50:56,144
They can turn back many of the things
1094
00:50:56,144 --> 00:50:58,789
that people suffered and died for.
1095
00:50:58,789 --> 00:51:02,399
Didn't nobody donate to us the right to vote.
1096
00:51:02,399 --> 00:51:04,248
It's the same Democratic party.
1097
00:51:04,248 --> 00:51:06,917
It's just, they learned to play the game better.
1098
00:51:06,917 --> 00:51:08,753
We in the same ship.
1099
00:51:08,753 --> 00:51:11,226
It's the same suit just worned over.
1100
00:51:11,226 --> 00:51:12,464
It ain't nothing change.
1101
00:51:12,464 --> 00:51:14,222
The same party is doing the same thing
1102
00:51:14,222 --> 00:51:15,878
they always been doing.
1103
00:51:15,878 --> 00:51:18,849
Party of division, the party of power.
1104
00:51:18,849 --> 00:51:20,520
If you're a minority, you're smart,
1105
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,566
you can believe what you wanna believe,
1106
00:51:22,566 --> 00:51:23,802
support what you wanna support,
1107
00:51:23,802 --> 00:51:25,482
you are free to do these things.
1108
00:51:25,482 --> 00:51:27,637
We don't have to support one person.
1109
00:51:27,637 --> 00:51:31,140
You don't have to drink at this one water fountain.
1110
00:51:31,140 --> 00:51:32,322
We are free to make choices.
1111
00:51:32,322 --> 00:51:34,516
It's like, okay, that's great.
1112
00:51:34,516 --> 00:51:37,074
I choose to be a Republican, and when whoa!
1113
00:51:37,074 --> 00:51:38,375
Everybody stop.
1114
00:51:42,174 --> 00:51:45,652
He is encouraging a generation of foolish, young people.
1115
00:51:45,652 --> 00:51:48,480
These are lost, disturbed, self-loathing people.
1116
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:52,295
Notice that all of those youngsters had caps on.
1117
00:51:52,295 --> 00:51:55,580
It was almost like, we're gonna dress you for the photo.
1118
00:51:55,580 --> 00:51:58,246
It's gone like from physical restrictions,
1119
00:51:58,246 --> 00:52:00,798
but now, in the 21st century
1120
00:52:00,798 --> 00:52:02,880
as we're reaching the information age,
1121
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,252
it's a become a sort of metaphysical restriction
1122
00:52:05,252 --> 00:52:07,317
as to what a minority can and can't do.
1123
00:52:07,317 --> 00:52:08,700
Minorities shouldn't think this way.
1124
00:52:08,700 --> 00:52:10,824
Minorities shouldn't support these people.
1125
00:52:10,824 --> 00:52:12,808
Minorities shouldn't believe these things.
1126
00:52:12,808 --> 00:52:14,711
Black conservatives today,
1127
00:52:14,711 --> 00:52:16,806
or anybody that has a black conservative message,
1128
00:52:16,806 --> 00:52:18,807
we are the people that are escaping the plantation.
1129
00:52:18,807 --> 00:52:21,278
The liberal will try to control a black person
1130
00:52:21,278 --> 00:52:22,724
through the concept of racism,
1131
00:52:22,724 --> 00:52:25,353
because they know that we are very proud, emotional people.
1132
00:52:25,353 --> 00:52:27,619
What was your reaction when black slaves
1133
00:52:27,619 --> 00:52:29,262
escaped the plantation?
1134
00:52:29,262 --> 00:52:30,286
It was swift.
1135
00:52:30,286 --> 00:52:32,987
What I saw was a minstrel show today.
1136
00:52:32,987 --> 00:52:34,723
Him in front of all of these white people
1137
00:52:34,723 --> 00:52:35,973
embarrassing himself.
1138
00:52:35,973 --> 00:52:38,089
When minorities don't support
1139
00:52:38,089 --> 00:52:40,884
the agenda of the Democrats or the left,
1140
00:52:40,884 --> 00:52:43,884
all of a sudden, the restrictions they put on years ago
1141
00:52:43,884 --> 00:52:44,980
in a physical realm,
1142
00:52:44,980 --> 00:52:46,934
they're now doing in a metaphysical realm.
1143
00:52:46,934 --> 00:52:48,391
But are we 100 % convinced?
1144
00:52:48,391 --> 00:52:51,856
Are we back on the Kanye is not sick and off his meds?
1145
00:52:51,856 --> 00:52:56,246
He really has a problem pumping the break here
1146
00:52:56,246 --> 00:52:57,594
mentally and emotionally.
1147
00:52:57,594 --> 00:53:00,146
Maybe he was missing his medication.
1148
00:53:00,146 --> 00:53:02,309
Though makes clear that he has struggled
1149
00:53:02,309 --> 00:53:05,832
and admitted diagnoses for personal mental health issues.
1150
00:53:05,832 --> 00:53:09,816
Anybody who threatens their 95 % monolithic black vote
1151
00:53:09,816 --> 00:53:11,151
is an enemy.
1152
00:53:11,151 --> 00:53:13,084
They've gotta be dealt with, they've gotta be put down.
1153
00:53:13,084 --> 00:53:14,478
Another stunning act of terror--
1154
00:53:14,478 --> 00:53:16,686
A mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand.
1155
00:53:16,686 --> 00:53:19,396
He claims to have been radicalized by Candace Owens.
1156
00:53:19,396 --> 00:53:21,350
Saying that she was an inspiration to him.
1157
00:53:21,350 --> 00:53:23,492
She has responded sarcastically.
1158
00:53:23,492 --> 00:53:25,104
Few events I have not been blamed for.
1159
00:53:25,104 --> 00:53:26,739
Brazilian mining dam collapse.
1160
00:53:26,739 --> 00:53:28,825
Chinese air smog.
1161
00:53:28,825 --> 00:53:30,839
Tenerife air crash, 1973.
1162
00:53:30,839 --> 00:53:33,266
She's not taking this at all seriously.
1163
00:53:33,266 --> 00:53:34,303
What do you think the press is doing
1164
00:53:34,303 --> 00:53:36,583
when you try to smear someone as having a mental disorder
1165
00:53:36,583 --> 00:53:37,794
and when you say that someone
1166
00:53:37,794 --> 00:53:39,437
is inspiring a mosque shooting.
1167
00:53:39,437 --> 00:53:41,108
Or you're trying to make it so that my career
1168
00:53:41,108 --> 00:53:42,195
is effectively cut off.
1169
00:53:42,195 --> 00:53:44,100
You're trying to make it so that nobody talks to me,
1170
00:53:44,100 --> 00:53:46,247
so that I'm considered sort of this reject.
1171
00:53:46,247 --> 00:53:48,863
I just have to say that I object strenuously
1172
00:53:48,863 --> 00:53:51,801
to your use of the word hilarious.
1173
00:53:51,801 --> 00:53:54,062
To me, this feels a lot like your reaction
1174
00:53:54,062 --> 00:53:56,967
to being named on one of these manifestos.
1175
00:53:56,967 --> 00:53:59,688
Now, you're of course not responsible
1176
00:53:59,688 --> 00:54:02,761
for the words of somebody writing that document.
1177
00:54:02,761 --> 00:54:06,788
But I do think that laughing at it is a real problem,
1178
00:54:06,788 --> 00:54:08,337
because these are real families
1179
00:54:08,337 --> 00:54:10,059
that are impacted by this violence.
1180
00:54:10,059 --> 00:54:12,821
I'm a black female who came from poverty.
1181
00:54:12,821 --> 00:54:14,818
I should be at the top of the progressive stack.
1182
00:54:14,818 --> 00:54:16,235
I should be receiving awards.
1183
00:54:16,235 --> 00:54:18,219
They should be calling me, inviting me on the red carpet
1184
00:54:18,219 --> 00:54:19,879
to share my story, but they're not.
1185
00:54:19,879 --> 00:54:20,712
Why?
1186
00:54:20,712 --> 00:54:22,784
Because I'm not saying what they want me to say.
1187
00:54:22,784 --> 00:54:25,937
You would rather assign meaning to a homicidal maniac
1188
00:54:25,937 --> 00:54:29,445
than to actually address the things that I said today
1189
00:54:29,445 --> 00:54:31,495
that are actually harming black America.
1190
00:54:31,495 --> 00:54:33,383
Number one, father absence.
1191
00:54:33,383 --> 00:54:35,559
Number two, the education system
1192
00:54:35,559 --> 00:54:36,523
and the illiteracy rate.
1193
00:54:36,523 --> 00:54:39,381
Allele immigration ranks high, abortion ranks high,
1194
00:54:39,381 --> 00:54:41,441
white supremacy and white nationalism,
1195
00:54:41,441 --> 00:54:43,899
if I had to make a list again of 100 things,
1196
00:54:43,899 --> 00:54:45,766
would not be on it.
1197
00:54:45,766 --> 00:54:48,452
This hearing in my opinion is a farce,
1198
00:54:48,452 --> 00:54:50,139
and it is ironic that you're sitting here
1199
00:54:50,139 --> 00:54:52,562
and you're having three Caucasian people testify,
1200
00:54:52,562 --> 00:54:54,201
and tell you what their expertise are.
1201
00:54:54,201 --> 00:54:55,519
Do I know what my expertise are?
1202
00:54:55,519 --> 00:54:56,739
Black in America.
1203
00:54:56,739 --> 00:54:58,459
I've been black in America my whole life.
1204
00:54:58,459 --> 00:55:00,363
All 30 years, and I can tell you,
1205
00:55:00,363 --> 00:55:02,252
that you guys have done the exact same thing
1206
00:55:02,252 --> 00:55:04,441
every four years ahead of an election cycle
1207
00:55:04,441 --> 00:55:05,874
and it needs to stop.
1208
00:55:05,874 --> 00:55:08,674
I think probably the most hated
1209
00:55:08,674 --> 00:55:11,891
political person in America, is a black conservative.
1210
00:55:11,891 --> 00:55:15,676
And that's because we refute the entire philosophy
1211
00:55:15,676 --> 00:55:18,320
of the Democratic party.
1212
00:55:25,469 --> 00:55:26,856
I think the fact that a black person
1213
00:55:26,856 --> 00:55:29,526
can start in government housing,
1214
00:55:29,526 --> 00:55:32,205
and go on to be one of the most successful brain surgeons
1215
00:55:32,205 --> 00:55:33,372
ever to exist,
1216
00:55:34,856 --> 00:55:36,613
that's somebody you should emulate.
1217
00:55:36,613 --> 00:55:39,548
That's someone you should idolize.
1218
00:55:39,548 --> 00:55:41,806
That's someone you should put on a pedestal.
1219
00:55:41,806 --> 00:55:45,335
Came from nothing, became a neurosurgeon,
1220
00:55:45,335 --> 00:55:46,862
one of the greatest men in the world.
1221
00:55:46,862 --> 00:55:51,529
Some of things he done, nobody's ever done in the world.
1222
00:55:52,682 --> 00:55:55,673
He was the first person to perform surgery
1223
00:55:55,673 --> 00:55:58,340
on conjoined twins at the brain.
1224
00:55:59,184 --> 00:56:00,354
No one wanted to do that.
1225
00:56:00,354 --> 00:56:02,077
And he did that as a black man.
1226
00:56:02,077 --> 00:56:05,525
I don't think myself as a surgeon,
1227
00:56:05,525 --> 00:56:09,315
just a guy people pay to stab their brain
1228
00:56:10,778 --> 00:56:12,451
until they're healthy.
1229
00:56:13,752 --> 00:56:16,090
A quick back story on Dr. Ben for those who don't know.
1230
00:56:16,090 --> 00:56:17,541
He's a former brain surgeon
1231
00:56:17,541 --> 00:56:19,103
and Republican presidential candidate,
1232
00:56:19,103 --> 00:56:21,151
who our celebrity in chief, Donald J. Trump,
1233
00:56:21,151 --> 00:56:24,314
nominated as his HUD secretary in 2017,
1234
00:56:24,314 --> 00:56:27,381
despite him having zero relevant experience.
1235
00:56:27,381 --> 00:56:29,744
Ben Carson is a very intelligent person.
1236
00:56:29,744 --> 00:56:33,760
To ignore that and say like, oh well, he's a doctor.
1237
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,478
He has no business in government.
1238
00:56:35,478 --> 00:56:36,370
Really?
1239
00:56:36,370 --> 00:56:38,061
So we can't even have people
1240
00:56:38,061 --> 00:56:39,460
who are smart enough to be doctors
1241
00:56:39,460 --> 00:56:40,518
in the government now?
1242
00:56:40,518 --> 00:56:41,930
Like, who do you want to be in the government then?
1243
00:56:41,930 --> 00:56:43,213
Just because Dr. Ben Carson
1244
00:56:43,213 --> 00:56:44,677
is a well educated neurosurgeon,
1245
00:56:44,677 --> 00:56:46,106
who doesn't speak fluent nigger
1246
00:56:46,106 --> 00:56:47,973
doesn't mean he's acting white.
1247
00:56:47,973 --> 00:56:49,706
So, I don't agree with calling people Oreos
1248
00:56:49,706 --> 00:56:53,008
but I can see why you would call Dr. Ben Carson one.
1249
00:56:53,008 --> 00:56:55,295
Ben Carson, do you pass the black test?
1250
00:56:55,295 --> 00:56:59,634
You know, I grew up in Detroit and I grew up in Boston.
1251
00:56:59,634 --> 00:57:03,261
In Boston, we lived in the ghetto.
1252
00:57:06,769 --> 00:57:09,090
Excuse me, you grew up in a what?
1253
00:57:09,090 --> 00:57:09,923
A ghetto?
1254
00:57:11,339 --> 00:57:12,815
A ghetto?
1255
00:57:12,815 --> 00:57:15,563
That sounds like a French person saying cat in Spanish.
1256
00:57:15,563 --> 00:57:16,945
What is that?
1257
00:57:16,945 --> 00:57:19,867
What kind of black person says, "Ghetto."
1258
00:57:19,867 --> 00:57:22,568
Mother I'm straight outta Compton.
1259
00:57:22,568 --> 00:57:26,336
This kind of crap goes on all the time.
1260
00:57:26,336 --> 00:57:29,476
They're trying to say he is not black enough.
1261
00:57:29,476 --> 00:57:32,907
I was at a Popeyes organization,
1262
00:57:32,907 --> 00:57:35,574
and then I deposited basketballs
1263
00:57:36,465 --> 00:57:38,965
at the urban athletic complex.
1264
00:57:39,879 --> 00:57:42,981
Thereafter, I rounded out the night
1265
00:57:42,981 --> 00:57:44,722
by making it precipitate
1266
00:57:44,722 --> 00:57:46,753
at a ladies clothing removal facility.
1267
00:57:48,973 --> 00:57:49,965
We wanna shun him.
1268
00:57:49,965 --> 00:57:52,145
He's a sellout, he's a coon.
1269
00:57:52,145 --> 00:57:54,108
We wanna remove his name off of schools.
1270
00:57:54,108 --> 00:57:55,784
The Detroit school board now considering
1271
00:57:55,784 --> 00:57:58,404
stripping the name of HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson
1272
00:57:58,404 --> 00:58:02,449
off of a local school, over his ties, yes, to the president.
1273
00:58:02,449 --> 00:58:03,797
I've cringed when I've seen the way
1274
00:58:03,797 --> 00:58:05,905
people like Ben Carson get treated by the media.
1275
00:58:05,905 --> 00:58:08,913
For example, when Carson first became HUD secretary,
1276
00:58:08,913 --> 00:58:12,232
he gave a speech where he likened slaves to immigrants.
1277
00:58:12,232 --> 00:58:13,969
A land of dreams and opportunity.
1278
00:58:13,969 --> 00:58:15,578
There were other immigrants who came here
1279
00:58:15,578 --> 00:58:16,866
in the bottom of slave ships,
1280
00:58:16,866 --> 00:58:20,283
worked even longer, even harder for less.
1281
00:58:21,382 --> 00:58:22,929
But they too had a dream.
1282
00:58:22,929 --> 00:58:25,382
And he got fried, especially in the black media.
1283
00:58:25,382 --> 00:58:28,617
Like we actually came here on our own accord.
1284
00:58:28,617 --> 00:58:29,803
Shackled.
1285
00:58:29,803 --> 00:58:31,001
Beat.
1286
00:58:31,001 --> 00:58:33,358
Shot, killed, on our way here to find a better life.
1287
00:58:33,358 --> 00:58:35,393
How does he miss that no slave
1288
00:58:35,393 --> 00:58:37,786
came to this country willingly?
1289
00:58:37,786 --> 00:58:40,594
This is one of the most atrocious acts
1290
00:58:40,594 --> 00:58:43,957
of historical revisionism that one might imagine.
1291
00:58:43,957 --> 00:58:47,540
It wasn't always easy for new immigrants.
1292
00:58:49,243 --> 00:58:52,409
Certainly it wasn't easy for those of African heritage
1293
00:58:52,409 --> 00:58:55,729
who had not come here voluntarily,
1294
00:58:55,729 --> 00:59:00,062
and yet in their own way were immigrants themselves.
1295
00:59:01,706 --> 00:59:05,107
Obama said the very same thing at least 11 times.
1296
00:59:05,107 --> 00:59:06,857
Nobody said anything.
1297
00:59:09,362 --> 00:59:12,078
The left claims it advocates for black people,
1298
00:59:12,078 --> 00:59:14,525
but they really advocate for left wing black people.
1299
00:59:14,525 --> 00:59:19,486
Reagan won Pennsylvania by the margin of despair.
1300
00:59:19,486 --> 00:59:22,281
By the margins of fracture of our coalition.
1301
00:59:22,281 --> 00:59:23,891
Your time has come.
1302
00:59:23,891 --> 00:59:27,714
Pick up your slingshot, pick up your rock.
1303
00:59:27,714 --> 00:59:29,881
Declare our time has come.
1304
00:59:31,822 --> 00:59:34,391
When I became old enough to vote,
1305
00:59:34,391 --> 00:59:35,872
I registered as a Democrat,
1306
00:59:35,872 --> 00:59:39,123
because that's what the black people did.
1307
00:59:39,123 --> 00:59:42,537
I suffer for it because I started to believe
1308
00:59:42,537 --> 00:59:46,114
what the Democratic party was saying.
1309
00:59:46,114 --> 00:59:48,281
I believed into their lie.
1310
00:59:51,487 --> 00:59:54,208
Louis Farrakhan would come out here to LA
1311
00:59:54,208 --> 00:59:56,204
and he would give talks at The Forum,
1312
00:59:56,204 --> 00:59:58,935
and he talked about how bad the old blue-eyed devil was.
1313
00:59:58,935 --> 01:00:02,352
We and white people are mortal enemies.
1314
01:00:05,075 --> 01:00:07,549
They were not made to be our friends.
1315
01:00:07,549 --> 01:00:09,775
They were made to be our enemies,
1316
01:00:09,775 --> 01:00:13,872
and they are that, and they can't be nothing but that.
1317
01:00:13,872 --> 01:00:15,630
They're locked into that.
1318
01:00:15,630 --> 01:00:18,550
There ain't no redemption for them.
1319
01:00:18,550 --> 01:00:22,956
That is why I challenge you now to stand together.
1320
01:00:22,956 --> 01:00:24,544
I would listen to Jesse Jackson.
1321
01:00:24,544 --> 01:00:26,794
Raise your fists together
1322
01:00:28,567 --> 01:00:32,317
and engage in our national black listening...
1323
01:00:34,010 --> 01:00:35,376
I would listen to them, and they would say
1324
01:00:35,376 --> 01:00:37,336
and it's all white people fault.
1325
01:00:37,336 --> 01:00:38,579
And so, I started to believe
1326
01:00:38,579 --> 01:00:41,877
because nobody else was opposing what they were saying.
1327
01:00:41,877 --> 01:00:42,999
And for the first time in my life,
1328
01:00:42,999 --> 01:00:45,987
I started to resent white people.
1329
01:00:45,987 --> 01:00:47,338
I suffered for it.
1330
01:00:47,338 --> 01:00:51,005
I finally got over it but I suffered for it.
1331
01:00:52,898 --> 01:00:57,284
When I turned 30-something, I started asking questions like,
1332
01:00:57,284 --> 01:01:01,527
if the white man is holding me back because I'm black,
1333
01:01:01,527 --> 01:01:03,610
why is it that they're not holding Jesse Jackson
1334
01:01:03,610 --> 01:01:07,511
and his family back, the so-called NAACP and all of them.
1335
01:01:07,511 --> 01:01:09,593
Their kids went to the best school,
1336
01:01:09,593 --> 01:01:11,671
they had father and mothers in their homes
1337
01:01:11,671 --> 01:01:13,365
and they were doing very well.
1338
01:01:13,365 --> 01:01:16,680
And so, I wonder, why is it that they're not holding
1339
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:18,630
those people back if they're holding me back
1340
01:01:18,630 --> 01:01:19,929
because I'm black.
1341
01:01:19,929 --> 01:01:22,414
And that's when I realized I've been lied to.
1342
01:01:22,414 --> 01:01:24,104
And everything started changing.
1343
01:01:24,104 --> 01:01:26,400
Jesse Jackson is a racist demagogue,
1344
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:27,453
and he's built a career
1345
01:01:27,453 --> 01:01:28,968
on keeping black people down.
1346
01:01:28,968 --> 01:01:31,323
Keeping 'em angry, brainwashing them
1347
01:01:31,323 --> 01:01:34,180
to control them for his own personal gain.
1348
01:01:34,180 --> 01:01:35,401
And they have lost that power--
1349
01:01:35,401 --> 01:01:37,734
Speak your mind, Reverend.
1350
01:01:41,253 --> 01:01:44,828
I grew up in Alabama on a plantation,
1351
01:01:44,828 --> 01:01:47,265
and I grew up under Jim Crow laws.
1352
01:01:47,265 --> 01:01:49,150
They deliberately kept us down
1353
01:01:49,150 --> 01:01:52,546
by causing us to become angry, destroying the family
1354
01:01:52,546 --> 01:01:54,722
and demoralizing black people.
1355
01:01:54,722 --> 01:01:56,834
And so, what we're trying to do is wake them up
1356
01:01:56,834 --> 01:01:58,541
to that reality.
1357
01:01:58,541 --> 01:02:01,694
When I was growing up, I was just taught good and evil,
1358
01:02:01,694 --> 01:02:03,111
right versus wrong.
1359
01:02:03,111 --> 01:02:05,628
I had never even heard the word racism.
1360
01:02:05,628 --> 01:02:07,791
We knew that it was a spiritual battle
1361
01:02:07,791 --> 01:02:11,041
between right and wrong, good and evil.
1362
01:02:13,153 --> 01:02:15,377
There was no such thing as racism, sexism
1363
01:02:15,377 --> 01:02:18,274
or homophobia-ism, Islamophobia-ism.
1364
01:02:18,274 --> 01:02:21,445
Or there be that ism, or white supremacism.
1365
01:02:21,445 --> 01:02:22,678
It didn't exist.
1366
01:02:22,678 --> 01:02:25,216
That only came about when we allowed the Democrats
1367
01:02:25,216 --> 01:02:26,049
to take over.
1368
01:02:26,049 --> 01:02:29,018
They start making up words to deceive us.
1369
01:02:29,018 --> 01:02:31,731
We've got to deal with homophobia in our communities.
1370
01:02:31,731 --> 01:02:33,225
Including the black community.
1371
01:02:33,225 --> 01:02:36,188
A lot of the black civil rights leaders
1372
01:02:36,188 --> 01:02:38,842
have abandoned the moral high ground,
1373
01:02:38,842 --> 01:02:41,701
and have perverted the civil rights movement
1374
01:02:41,701 --> 01:02:43,002
to the point where it's become
1375
01:02:43,002 --> 01:02:45,456
a part of a race grievance industry.
1376
01:02:45,456 --> 01:02:48,523
We're on the brink of undoing
1377
01:02:48,523 --> 01:02:51,288
what Dr. King and others went to jail for.
1378
01:02:51,288 --> 01:02:52,444
Blacks have been convinced
1379
01:02:52,444 --> 01:02:53,951
that they're supposed to respect you,
1380
01:02:53,951 --> 01:02:56,256
if you have the title, reverend or pastor,
1381
01:02:56,256 --> 01:02:57,692
even if you're no good.
1382
01:02:57,692 --> 01:02:59,362
You probably can't even remember
1383
01:02:59,362 --> 01:03:00,893
a sermon from Al Sharpton.
1384
01:03:00,893 --> 01:03:02,501
Reverend Al Sharpton.
1385
01:03:02,501 --> 01:03:03,917
He's a reverend of what?
1386
01:03:03,917 --> 01:03:05,394
In politics, the road to the White House
1387
01:03:05,394 --> 01:03:07,233
took a detour through Harlem today.
1388
01:03:07,233 --> 01:03:09,587
It is like a rite of passage for Democratic candidates,
1389
01:03:09,587 --> 01:03:12,450
as an outreach to the African-American community.
1390
01:03:12,450 --> 01:03:15,058
Well toady, South Bend, Indiana mayor, Pete Buttigieg
1391
01:03:15,058 --> 01:03:18,114
had lunch at Sylvia's with Reverend Al Sharpton.
1392
01:03:18,114 --> 01:03:20,681
Barack Obama dined here in 2008.
1393
01:03:20,681 --> 01:03:23,397
So did Bernie Sanders in 2016.
1394
01:03:23,397 --> 01:03:26,847
I could tell the Negroes to go left and they'll go left.
1395
01:03:26,847 --> 01:03:28,645
How much are you willing to pay me
1396
01:03:28,645 --> 01:03:32,105
to get the Negroes to do what I want them to do?
1397
01:03:32,105 --> 01:03:34,290
They're the ones that receive the contributions
1398
01:03:34,290 --> 01:03:36,905
to say, "Hey, let's keep these people subjugated.
1399
01:03:36,905 --> 01:03:38,774
"Let's keep them voting for us,
1400
01:03:38,774 --> 01:03:40,250
"and you do what is necessary.
1401
01:03:40,250 --> 01:03:42,558
"And help us to squelch these voices
1402
01:03:42,558 --> 01:03:45,338
"that are rising up in opposition to what we believe."
1403
01:03:45,338 --> 01:03:46,864
They're leading the narratives
1404
01:03:46,864 --> 01:03:48,715
that others want them to lead.
1405
01:03:48,715 --> 01:03:51,548
And today, we shall pour outrage
1406
01:03:52,389 --> 01:03:55,218
is when you keep pressing people down.
1407
01:03:55,218 --> 01:03:56,775
If we can get the black community
1408
01:03:56,775 --> 01:04:01,108
to hate the police, then they'll keep breaking laws.
1409
01:04:03,733 --> 01:04:05,629
So they gotta keep black people angry,
1410
01:04:05,629 --> 01:04:08,046
stirred up angry, ticked off.
1411
01:04:13,172 --> 01:04:15,044
How else do you get 95 % of people
1412
01:04:15,044 --> 01:04:18,361
to pull the lever for a party,
1413
01:04:18,361 --> 01:04:21,688
whose views are absolutely inconsistent
1414
01:04:21,688 --> 01:04:23,748
with the best interests of the country in general
1415
01:04:23,748 --> 01:04:26,544
and of the best interests of black people in particular.
1416
01:04:26,544 --> 01:04:29,015
We still advocate nonviolence
1417
01:04:29,015 --> 01:04:32,999
with passive resistance, and still determined to use
1418
01:04:32,999 --> 01:04:34,807
the weapon of love.
1419
01:04:34,807 --> 01:04:38,170
But we are still insisting emphatically
1420
01:04:38,170 --> 01:04:41,276
that violence is self defeating.
1421
01:04:41,276 --> 01:04:44,835
That he who lives by the sword will perish by the sword.
1422
01:04:44,835 --> 01:04:47,194
Martin Luther King was a pastor.
1423
01:04:47,194 --> 01:04:49,566
He was a genuine pastor.
1424
01:04:49,566 --> 01:04:51,509
That's why Martin Luther King can't be around.
1425
01:04:51,509 --> 01:04:53,242
He can't leave.
1426
01:04:53,242 --> 01:04:54,742
He's too powerful.
1427
01:04:56,459 --> 01:04:58,319
The anger building up in a community
1428
01:04:58,319 --> 01:05:00,495
which causes people to riot
1429
01:05:00,495 --> 01:05:03,747
and to tear things down and to burn things up,
1430
01:05:03,747 --> 01:05:07,246
it goes to show that black people don't feel these days
1431
01:05:07,246 --> 01:05:08,317
like we're building anything.
1432
01:05:08,317 --> 01:05:10,254
That we're contributing to anything.
1433
01:05:10,254 --> 01:05:12,187
When it comes America,
1434
01:05:12,187 --> 01:05:13,941
black people helped build this country.
1435
01:05:18,264 --> 01:05:19,953
When you look back at the history of black people
1436
01:05:19,953 --> 01:05:22,640
here in America, once we were free from slavery,
1437
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:26,391
we were successful in ways, and we overcame things
1438
01:05:26,391 --> 01:05:29,023
and we did things far beyond
1439
01:05:29,023 --> 01:05:31,221
our predecessors could have imagined.
1440
01:05:31,221 --> 01:05:35,462
Simply because we had that almost instinctively in us.
1441
01:05:35,462 --> 01:05:38,304
As blacks emerged from slavery,
1442
01:05:38,304 --> 01:05:41,667
minute percentage could read or write.
1443
01:05:41,667 --> 01:05:43,390
And yet in 1/2 a century,
1444
01:05:43,390 --> 01:05:45,763
over 1/2 the black population was literate.
1445
01:05:45,763 --> 01:05:47,162
And economic historians call that
1446
01:05:47,162 --> 01:05:51,616
one of the most remarkable things in history.
1447
01:05:51,616 --> 01:05:54,398
So, in the late 1800s,
1448
01:05:54,398 --> 01:05:59,007
we had actually in not very well documented boon
1449
01:05:59,007 --> 01:06:01,380
of African American proliferation
1450
01:06:01,380 --> 01:06:06,130
into the political space, into the entrepreneurial space.
1451
01:06:07,151 --> 01:06:08,548
And we had real movers and shakers
1452
01:06:08,548 --> 01:06:11,376
in our communities who were doing real things.
1453
01:06:11,376 --> 01:06:13,652
Because at one time, blacks were Republicans,
1454
01:06:13,652 --> 01:06:14,709
and you dominated.
1455
01:06:14,709 --> 01:06:16,885
Those seven years after the Civil War,
1456
01:06:16,885 --> 01:06:18,284
you were Republicans.
1457
01:06:18,284 --> 01:06:21,615
You had more blacks in the House and Senate than you do now,
1458
01:06:21,615 --> 01:06:25,175
and you dominated your own economic communities.
1459
01:06:25,175 --> 01:06:27,508
You did that as Republicans.
1460
01:06:29,271 --> 01:06:31,939
But then what happened was that Democrats realized
1461
01:06:31,939 --> 01:06:33,901
they could still control us
1462
01:06:33,901 --> 01:06:38,318
by enacting new laws to suppress our civil liberties.
1463
01:06:39,644 --> 01:06:43,296
That brings us to the rise of Jim Crow.
1464
01:06:43,296 --> 01:06:45,997
The Jim Crow era and Ruby Bridges going to school,
1465
01:06:45,997 --> 01:06:50,687
that happened in the 1950s, 1960s, that general era.
1466
01:06:50,687 --> 01:06:52,821
But we had Hiram Rhodes Revels
1467
01:06:52,821 --> 01:06:54,980
and many other African-Americans
1468
01:06:54,980 --> 01:06:57,724
rise to positions of power in the political space
1469
01:06:57,724 --> 01:06:59,400
in the late 1800s.
1470
01:06:59,400 --> 01:07:03,705
So, there's this gap of missing achievement that we have,
1471
01:07:03,705 --> 01:07:05,788
and that is what the KKK,
1472
01:07:06,780 --> 01:07:11,113
that is what the Jim Crow laws did to our community.
1473
01:07:12,862 --> 01:07:16,279
You can't depend on a government school
1474
01:07:17,197 --> 01:07:19,817
to teach you raw history.
1475
01:07:19,817 --> 01:07:23,230
You're gonna see people like even Frederick Douglas
1476
01:07:23,230 --> 01:07:25,832
become less and less and less celebrated,
1477
01:07:25,832 --> 01:07:27,505
and less and less and less popular
1478
01:07:27,505 --> 01:07:29,599
because he doesn't really fit the narrative.
1479
01:07:29,599 --> 01:07:32,879
He was a Republican, very American.
1480
01:07:32,879 --> 01:07:34,508
When they wanna teach you somebody that was great
1481
01:07:34,508 --> 01:07:37,226
in black American history and they happen to be Republican,
1482
01:07:37,226 --> 01:07:38,527
they don't tell you that element.
1483
01:07:38,527 --> 01:07:40,650
And they also, and this is sort of one of the biggest myths
1484
01:07:40,650 --> 01:07:44,550
that they tell you, that the parties completely switched.
1485
01:07:44,550 --> 01:07:46,551
They have to say the parties switched.
1486
01:07:46,551 --> 01:07:47,993
They have to.
1487
01:07:47,993 --> 01:07:51,227
Because they can't acknowledge
1488
01:07:51,227 --> 01:07:54,026
that they're part of all of the worst things
1489
01:07:54,026 --> 01:07:56,347
that have ever happened to black people in history.
1490
01:07:56,347 --> 01:07:57,449
And if you know better
1491
01:07:57,449 --> 01:07:59,325
and you know the parties didn't switch,
1492
01:07:59,325 --> 01:08:00,900
and you just look at today,
1493
01:08:00,900 --> 01:08:03,529
there's still a part of every negative thing
1494
01:08:03,529 --> 01:08:06,516
that have happened to black people in America.
1495
01:08:06,516 --> 01:08:08,547
Let's just take one issue.
1496
01:08:08,547 --> 01:08:10,264
And that's the issue we've talked abut for a long time
1497
01:08:10,264 --> 01:08:11,538
and that's vouchers.
1498
01:08:11,538 --> 01:08:14,089
They have to pass through metal detectors.
1499
01:08:14,089 --> 01:08:15,728
They're faced by security guards
1500
01:08:15,728 --> 01:08:17,422
looking for hidden weapons.
1501
01:08:17,422 --> 01:08:19,747
They're watched over by armed police.
1502
01:08:19,747 --> 01:08:21,450
You're required to send your kid to a school
1503
01:08:21,450 --> 01:08:24,813
where only 3 % of kids can do math at grade level,
1504
01:08:24,813 --> 01:08:26,928
because you have no option.
1505
01:08:26,928 --> 01:08:28,933
Republicans want you to have an option.
1506
01:08:28,933 --> 01:08:30,132
But Republicans of course are racist
1507
01:08:30,132 --> 01:08:32,261
so you can't vote for them, right?
1508
01:08:32,261 --> 01:08:33,191
What a dilemma!
1509
01:08:33,191 --> 01:08:35,380
Slave codes in the early 19th century
1510
01:08:35,380 --> 01:08:38,717
made it illegal for black Americans to learn to read, why?
1511
01:08:38,717 --> 01:08:42,177
Because if slaves could read, they could access information.
1512
01:08:42,177 --> 01:08:44,078
I don't believe that much has changed.
1513
01:08:44,078 --> 01:08:45,023
If the parties did switch
1514
01:08:45,023 --> 01:08:47,169
and Democrats really are the party
1515
01:08:47,169 --> 01:08:49,336
of, for and by minorities,
1516
01:08:50,565 --> 01:08:53,482
then why do they react so viciously
1517
01:08:54,644 --> 01:08:56,770
when you introduce legislation
1518
01:08:56,770 --> 01:09:01,212
that would help the minorities by giving them school choice?
1519
01:09:01,212 --> 01:09:02,812
There's answers to all these questions.
1520
01:09:02,812 --> 01:09:04,442
But you have to be the one to find them.
1521
01:09:04,442 --> 01:09:06,789
Because no one else is going to tell you
1522
01:09:06,789 --> 01:09:08,930
the inconvenient truth.
1523
01:09:08,930 --> 01:09:11,680
The welfare state is slavery 2.0.
1524
01:09:16,849 --> 01:09:19,511
The biggest falsehood, the biggest lie
1525
01:09:19,511 --> 01:09:24,011
that gets repeated is that the kind of disorganization
1526
01:09:24,942 --> 01:09:27,524
and chaos and violence
1527
01:09:27,524 --> 01:09:31,360
and self-destruction that we're witnessing
1528
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:36,360
in the black community is somehow a legacy of slavery
1529
01:09:36,427 --> 01:09:38,121
and Jim Crow.
1530
01:09:38,121 --> 01:09:39,704
That is just a lie.
1531
01:09:43,648 --> 01:09:47,808
Because if that were so, between 1930 and 1940,
1532
01:09:47,808 --> 01:09:50,342
during the years of the depression,
1533
01:09:50,342 --> 01:09:54,199
when segregation and racism was enshrined in laws,
1534
01:09:54,199 --> 01:09:57,873
when there was no black representation in government,
1535
01:09:57,873 --> 01:10:01,474
even in the face of these horrible conditions,
1536
01:10:01,474 --> 01:10:04,127
the black community had the highest marriage rate
1537
01:10:04,127 --> 01:10:06,127
of any group in society.
1538
01:10:07,391 --> 01:10:11,058
Our institutions served as an anchor for us.
1539
01:10:12,465 --> 01:10:14,999
And so therefore, elderly people could walk
1540
01:10:14,999 --> 01:10:17,226
in their neighborhood without fear
1541
01:10:17,226 --> 01:10:20,726
of being assaulted by their grandchildren.
1542
01:10:22,917 --> 01:10:27,044
Our business formation rate was high then.
1543
01:10:27,044 --> 01:10:29,485
Has yielded a 1/2 million dollar yearly growth.
1544
01:10:29,485 --> 01:10:31,370
If we were able to accomplish
1545
01:10:31,370 --> 01:10:36,000
the building of hospitals, dental schools, hotels,
1546
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:39,000
movie theaters, Vaudeville theaters.
1547
01:10:40,032 --> 01:10:42,865
If we were able to accomplish this
1548
01:10:43,966 --> 01:10:46,714
and not engage in the kind of self-destruction...
1549
01:10:46,714 --> 01:10:48,839
What's the proper way to mug a nigga?
1550
01:10:48,839 --> 01:10:51,445
You know, walked on him, grab him by his hood and,
1551
01:10:51,445 --> 01:10:52,763
one to the head.
One to the head.
1552
01:10:52,763 --> 01:10:54,075
I'm a hit you one time in the head,
1553
01:10:54,075 --> 01:10:55,606
two times in the chest.
1554
01:10:55,606 --> 01:10:57,856
How can you explain that?
1555
01:10:59,665 --> 01:11:01,246
How is that possible in a society
1556
01:11:01,246 --> 01:11:04,199
that has experienced so much social progress,
1557
01:11:04,199 --> 01:11:07,289
that we are seeing a decline in the black community?
1558
01:11:07,289 --> 01:11:09,499
The statistics of illegitimacy, crime rates
1559
01:11:09,499 --> 01:11:11,322
and illiteracy have worsened
1560
01:11:11,322 --> 01:11:13,694
since the time of segregation and Jim Crow.
1561
01:11:24,147 --> 01:11:27,182
Before the war on poverty launched,
1562
01:11:27,182 --> 01:11:29,768
87 % of blacks lived below the federally defined
1563
01:11:29,768 --> 01:11:31,851
level of poverty in 1940.
1564
01:11:33,262 --> 01:11:37,017
By 1960, that number had decreased to 47 %.
1565
01:11:37,017 --> 01:11:39,350
A 40-point drop in 20 years.
1566
01:11:40,423 --> 01:11:42,979
That's probably the greatest economic prosperity period
1567
01:11:42,979 --> 01:11:46,132
for blacks in the history of this country,
1568
01:11:46,132 --> 01:11:48,470
and this all happened before affirmative action,
1569
01:11:48,470 --> 01:11:51,470
before the so-called war on poverty.
1570
01:11:53,249 --> 01:11:55,570
Back then it was commonplace
1571
01:11:55,570 --> 01:11:58,320
to have both parents in the home.
1572
01:12:00,673 --> 01:12:02,460
If you made a commitment and you marry somebody
1573
01:12:02,460 --> 01:12:05,460
and you had kids, you stay with 'em.
1574
01:12:06,526 --> 01:12:09,308
It wasn't just about your immediate family.
1575
01:12:09,308 --> 01:12:12,391
It was also about your church family.
1576
01:12:15,124 --> 01:12:17,953
In those days, black men were in control.
1577
01:12:17,953 --> 01:12:21,153
The black woman respected the black man.
1578
01:12:21,153 --> 01:12:24,468
Having a strong father showed me how to be a man.
1579
01:12:24,468 --> 01:12:27,718
It also showed me how to treat a woman.
1580
01:12:29,413 --> 01:12:31,747
When I was young, I remember going to open house
1581
01:12:31,747 --> 01:12:35,747
and everybody's parents were there, everybody's.
1582
01:12:46,723 --> 01:12:50,973
Up until 1962-'63, 85 % of all black families
1583
01:12:51,958 --> 01:12:55,208
had a man and a woman raising children.
1584
01:12:56,361 --> 01:12:59,111
But that all changed in the '60s.
1585
01:13:01,748 --> 01:13:04,444
If you estimate that the welfare is paying,
1586
01:13:04,444 --> 01:13:08,777
I guess, six, $7 billion dollars a year in benefits,
1587
01:13:09,785 --> 01:13:13,071
how much would you say is denied by these illegal practices?
1588
01:13:13,071 --> 01:13:15,491
The architect of this destruction
1589
01:13:15,491 --> 01:13:16,982
was Cloward and Piven.
1590
01:13:16,982 --> 01:13:18,509
The American public welfare system
1591
01:13:18,509 --> 01:13:23,028
is only expanding 1/2 of what it should be expanding
1592
01:13:23,028 --> 01:13:24,346
if it were reaching all of the people
1593
01:13:24,346 --> 01:13:27,742
who are eligible under existing statutes.
1594
01:13:27,742 --> 01:13:29,854
So, we think welfare costs should probably double.
1595
01:13:29,854 --> 01:13:33,040
A couple of renowned sociologists
1596
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:37,056
at the Columbia University School of Social Work.
1597
01:13:37,056 --> 01:13:40,556
And their theory was, if we could separate
1598
01:13:42,616 --> 01:13:46,708
work from income, it would make men redundant,
1599
01:13:46,708 --> 01:13:50,791
and if we can just remove the stigma from welfare
1600
01:13:51,768 --> 01:13:56,609
and entice more people to flood the welfare system,
1601
01:13:56,609 --> 01:14:00,480
it will bankrupt cities and the country.
1602
01:14:00,480 --> 01:14:02,232
The welfare rights movement and the lawyers
1603
01:14:02,232 --> 01:14:05,270
are challenging man in the house rules,
1604
01:14:05,270 --> 01:14:07,822
and other kinds of requirements which are restricting.
1605
01:14:07,822 --> 01:14:10,458
This, I presume would be additional people
1606
01:14:10,458 --> 01:14:13,253
who could become eligible for additional money
1607
01:14:13,253 --> 01:14:15,463
if these were challenged.
1608
01:14:15,463 --> 01:14:19,851
Yes, that would raise the cost even more.
1609
01:14:19,851 --> 01:14:24,321
To recruit people into the welfare system,
1610
01:14:24,321 --> 01:14:26,071
we relaxed the rules.
1611
01:14:27,214 --> 01:14:29,931
If a woman had to declare paternity
1612
01:14:29,931 --> 01:14:33,456
in order to qualify for welfare, the ACLU sued
1613
01:14:33,456 --> 01:14:37,829
and said this is a violation of our privacy rights.
1614
01:14:37,829 --> 01:14:40,346
They also said that the nuclear family,
1615
01:14:40,346 --> 01:14:45,013
Ozzie and Harriet, was Eurocentric and therefore racist.
1616
01:14:47,792 --> 01:14:51,167
The women's movement concurred with that.
1617
01:14:51,167 --> 01:14:54,250
The Black Power movement also agreed.
1618
01:14:55,365 --> 01:14:59,807
Millions of blacks in a period of less than four years
1619
01:14:59,807 --> 01:15:03,766
flooded into the welfare system in major cities.
1620
01:15:03,766 --> 01:15:05,575
At a time when the unemployment rate
1621
01:15:05,575 --> 01:15:08,626
for blacks in New York for males
1622
01:15:08,626 --> 01:15:10,738
was less than 4 %.
1623
01:15:10,738 --> 01:15:13,942
If I could get me a job where I could be my own man.
1624
01:15:13,942 --> 01:15:16,282
Don't make think that they feelin' sorry for me.
1625
01:15:16,282 --> 01:15:18,106
Give me this, give me what I need,
1626
01:15:18,106 --> 01:15:20,439
just like a pet, like a dog.
1627
01:15:22,841 --> 01:15:24,192
You have to be fed now.
1628
01:15:24,192 --> 01:15:25,270
Give him some food.
1629
01:15:25,270 --> 01:15:27,071
What you then saw is a consequence
1630
01:15:27,071 --> 01:15:29,767
of separating work from income.
1631
01:15:29,767 --> 01:15:31,948
The out-of-wedlock births in the black community
1632
01:15:31,948 --> 01:15:33,620
began to skyrocket.
1633
01:15:33,620 --> 01:15:36,703
Went from under 25 % to 70 %.
1634
01:15:39,813 --> 01:15:42,738
It is a neutron bomb that was dropped on this country,
1635
01:15:42,738 --> 01:15:46,595
and it really hurt families, especially the black family.
1636
01:15:46,595 --> 01:15:49,176
During slavery, a black kid was more likely
1637
01:15:49,176 --> 01:15:51,613
to be raised under a roof with his biological mother
1638
01:15:51,613 --> 01:15:54,363
and biological father than today.
1639
01:15:56,084 --> 01:15:58,311
The welfare state has done more to destroy
1640
01:15:58,311 --> 01:16:01,661
and destabilize the black family than even slavery did.
1641
01:16:01,661 --> 01:16:03,692
We allowed them to remove the fathers
1642
01:16:03,692 --> 01:16:05,189
from our homes.
1643
01:16:05,189 --> 01:16:07,689
Removing the backbone of our families.
1644
01:16:07,689 --> 01:16:09,460
I remember my dad used to be hard on us,
1645
01:16:09,460 --> 01:16:12,775
making us fold clothes and washing dishes properly.
1646
01:16:12,775 --> 01:16:14,887
And if we didn't, we got a whooping.
1647
01:16:14,887 --> 01:16:17,264
If we didn't 'em right, or if we didn't do 'em
1648
01:16:17,264 --> 01:16:18,322
when he told us to do 'em.
1649
01:16:18,322 --> 01:16:20,839
And I didn't like him when he did that to us.
1650
01:16:20,839 --> 01:16:23,621
My dad made me a responsible man by doing that.
1651
01:16:23,621 --> 01:16:26,252
And it just really made me wonder
1652
01:16:26,252 --> 01:16:28,771
like what if he wasn't there?
1653
01:16:28,771 --> 01:16:31,301
I'm very blessed to be who I am today,
1654
01:16:31,301 --> 01:16:33,388
and a lot of that had to do with the upbringing
1655
01:16:33,388 --> 01:16:34,766
I had from my father,
1656
01:16:34,766 --> 01:16:38,435
who was in the house, who made sure that we were in school,
1657
01:16:38,435 --> 01:16:39,771
who made sure that we were clothed,
1658
01:16:39,771 --> 01:16:41,507
that we had shelter, that we had food.
1659
01:16:41,507 --> 01:16:43,120
That was my father.
1660
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:45,881
When I was growing up, fathers led.
1661
01:16:45,881 --> 01:16:48,611
And you knew not to be fighting and carrying 'em
1662
01:16:48,611 --> 01:16:50,642
because you had respect for the elderly,
1663
01:16:50,642 --> 01:16:51,798
and you respect yourself
1664
01:16:51,798 --> 01:16:53,437
because you represented your parents
1665
01:16:53,437 --> 01:16:55,145
when you're out there.
1666
01:16:55,145 --> 01:16:57,355
But that representation is no longer there
1667
01:16:57,355 --> 01:16:58,835
because the man is not there.
1668
01:16:58,835 --> 01:17:01,240
If you look at every major issue
1669
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:03,076
facing the black community today,
1670
01:17:03,076 --> 01:17:04,719
it can be stemmed back to fatherlessness.
1671
01:17:04,719 --> 01:17:06,097
You see black people joining gangs.
1672
01:17:06,097 --> 01:17:08,469
They're joining the gang to simulate a family unit.
1673
01:17:08,469 --> 01:17:10,599
Family unit can be solved with the father.
1674
01:17:10,599 --> 01:17:12,685
Don't understand what it's like, how to treat a woman,
1675
01:17:12,685 --> 01:17:16,226
how to be respectful, how to earn a living the legal way.
1676
01:17:16,226 --> 01:17:18,095
They didn't have a father in their home
1677
01:17:18,095 --> 01:17:19,264
that taught them these things.
1678
01:17:19,264 --> 01:17:20,938
And then that father didn't have a father in his home.
1679
01:17:20,938 --> 01:17:22,990
So, this generational fatherlessness
1680
01:17:22,990 --> 01:17:25,836
is far more dangerous to the black community
1681
01:17:25,836 --> 01:17:28,938
than institutional or generational racism.
1682
01:17:28,938 --> 01:17:32,906
If there is a strong man in the household,
1683
01:17:32,906 --> 01:17:36,059
people aren't eligible for these benefits.
1684
01:17:36,059 --> 01:17:38,256
So, you see how it kinda starts and it just grows
1685
01:17:38,256 --> 01:17:39,089
and grows and grows.
1686
01:17:39,089 --> 01:17:41,992
With the political left, this whole idea
1687
01:17:41,992 --> 01:17:44,851
that government can bring people out of poverty
1688
01:17:44,851 --> 01:17:47,240
and that government can fix all the problems,
1689
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:49,238
we know that government can't do that.
1690
01:17:49,238 --> 01:17:51,889
That government can't raise a family.
1691
01:17:51,889 --> 01:17:52,722
Who like man.
1692
01:17:52,722 --> 01:17:53,653
This job.
1693
01:17:53,653 --> 01:17:54,569
You can't have the pizza.
1694
01:17:54,569 --> 01:17:56,644
I said, "I want the money and your car."
1695
01:17:56,644 --> 01:17:58,823
Dequandre Weaver was 14 years old
1696
01:17:58,823 --> 01:18:00,079
when this video was shot,
1697
01:18:00,079 --> 01:18:01,535
and this week a judge sentenced him
1698
01:18:01,535 --> 01:18:06,416
to serve 20 years in prison for a list of felonies.
1699
01:18:06,416 --> 01:18:10,166
Because the left has promoted the welfare state,
1700
01:18:10,166 --> 01:18:12,398
has encouraged women to marry the government,
1701
01:18:12,398 --> 01:18:14,324
has allowed men to abandon their financial
1702
01:18:14,324 --> 01:18:17,176
and moral responsibility, we have these problems.
1703
01:18:17,176 --> 01:18:19,613
It is no wonder that you have the chaos.
1704
01:18:19,613 --> 01:18:23,613
More blacks are killing other blacks in one year
1705
01:18:26,746 --> 01:18:29,496
than the Klan killed in 70 years.
1706
01:18:39,778 --> 01:18:42,235
We are on autopilot in the destruction
1707
01:18:42,235 --> 01:18:44,937
of our own communities.
1708
01:18:44,937 --> 01:18:47,655
Black on black crime is something that our media tells us
1709
01:18:47,655 --> 01:18:49,878
that we're not allowed to talk about.
1710
01:18:49,878 --> 01:18:53,128
Over 93 % of black homicide victims
1711
01:18:54,284 --> 01:18:57,161
are killed by other black people.
1712
01:18:57,161 --> 01:18:59,325
We are not supposed to be outraged,
1713
01:18:59,325 --> 01:19:02,620
and we're not told to remember the names of those victims.
1714
01:19:02,620 --> 01:19:05,417
Because if we begin to focus on that area,
1715
01:19:05,417 --> 01:19:07,171
something that is causing real harm
1716
01:19:07,171 --> 01:19:09,654
and devastation to our communities,
1717
01:19:09,654 --> 01:19:11,904
we might uncover the truth.
1718
01:19:14,877 --> 01:19:18,550
Our inner cities are all by Democrat design.
1719
01:19:18,550 --> 01:19:22,254
Like Chicago, like Baltimore and like Detroit.
1720
01:19:22,254 --> 01:19:26,158
They have been run by Democrats for decades.
1721
01:19:26,158 --> 01:19:27,179
We have been made to believe
1722
01:19:27,179 --> 01:19:29,750
that the conditions in our cities are normal.
1723
01:19:29,750 --> 01:19:31,163
We're supposed to turn a blind eye
1724
01:19:31,163 --> 01:19:33,897
to the corruption, to the crime, to the gangs, and instead,
1725
01:19:33,897 --> 01:19:37,091
focus on what our media deems of more importance.
1726
01:19:37,091 --> 01:19:38,604
We're instead told that we should be focusing
1727
01:19:38,604 --> 01:19:39,975
on white people.
1728
01:19:39,975 --> 01:19:42,530
We're supposed to be reactive and angry and fearful
1729
01:19:42,530 --> 01:19:45,045
about white supremacy, when in fact,
1730
01:19:45,045 --> 01:19:50,045
it is liberal supremacy that is harming our communities.
1731
01:19:50,380 --> 01:19:53,192
In the inner cities, who's killing who?
1732
01:19:53,192 --> 01:19:55,710
Back in slavery, they used to rip the families apart,
1733
01:19:55,710 --> 01:19:56,849
take the father out of the home.
1734
01:19:56,849 --> 01:19:59,501
Now we removing ourselves from the home.
1735
01:19:59,501 --> 01:20:02,341
These are things that I believe
1736
01:20:02,341 --> 01:20:03,513
have gotten us to the point
1737
01:20:03,513 --> 01:20:06,892
where we are on autopilot for the liberal movement.
1738
01:20:09,235 --> 01:20:11,010
You begin to ask yourself,
1739
01:20:11,010 --> 01:20:14,889
why is it that more black women are getting abortions
1740
01:20:14,889 --> 01:20:17,669
than any other ethnic group?
1741
01:20:17,669 --> 01:20:19,459
And you begin to look at maps
1742
01:20:19,459 --> 01:20:23,666
of where these Planned Parenthood clinics are situated.
1743
01:20:23,666 --> 01:20:27,174
77 % of Planned Parenthood abortion pills
1744
01:20:27,174 --> 01:20:30,502
are located in the inner cities.
1745
01:20:30,502 --> 01:20:33,220
Somehow, the script was flipped,
1746
01:20:33,220 --> 01:20:36,343
and so it became a civil right to abort a child.
1747
01:20:36,343 --> 01:20:39,300
It is her body, it is her right, it is her decision.
1748
01:20:39,300 --> 01:20:42,303
It became a woman's reproductive right,
1749
01:20:42,303 --> 01:20:45,577
but nobody really examined the motives behind it.
1750
01:20:45,577 --> 01:20:49,998
52 % of all African-American pregnancies end in abortion.
1751
01:20:49,998 --> 01:20:52,248
1786 a day, and since 1973,
1752
01:20:55,361 --> 01:20:57,926
over 20 million African-Americans
1753
01:20:57,926 --> 01:21:00,319
have been killed by abortion alone.
1754
01:21:00,319 --> 01:21:03,665
For more federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
1755
01:21:03,665 --> 01:21:06,852
The Democratic party has always been focused
1756
01:21:06,852 --> 01:21:11,519
on pushing eugenics and abortion on the black community.
1757
01:21:13,891 --> 01:21:16,277
Margaret Sanger, the woman that ultimately founded
1758
01:21:16,277 --> 01:21:17,677
what became Planned Parenthood,
1759
01:21:17,677 --> 01:21:21,100
believed that certain people were degenerate,
1760
01:21:21,100 --> 01:21:23,490
were unworthy of living.
1761
01:21:23,490 --> 01:21:25,522
And if you're one of those persons,
1762
01:21:25,522 --> 01:21:27,391
perfectly okay for you to be eliminated.
1763
01:21:27,391 --> 01:21:28,691
Whether you're talking about
1764
01:21:28,691 --> 01:21:31,243
Margaret Sanger strategies back then,
1765
01:21:31,243 --> 01:21:33,458
or you're talking about Planned Parenthood's tactics
1766
01:21:33,458 --> 01:21:37,033
of today, they're still able to Trojan Horse
1767
01:21:37,033 --> 01:21:38,821
the black community.
1768
01:21:38,821 --> 01:21:41,108
That is to deliver this message
1769
01:21:41,108 --> 01:21:42,635
of, "We're for women's health.
1770
01:21:42,635 --> 01:21:44,380
"We're for the black community."
1771
01:21:44,380 --> 01:21:47,279
More than 1/2 of Planned Parenthood's centers
1772
01:21:47,279 --> 01:21:52,279
are located in areas without ready access to healthcare.
1773
01:21:52,370 --> 01:21:55,097
Here you have the left wing embracing Planned Parenthood,
1774
01:21:55,097 --> 01:21:56,794
embracing the pro-choice movement,
1775
01:21:56,794 --> 01:21:59,068
completely oblivious to the fact that Margaret Sanger
1776
01:21:59,068 --> 01:22:02,042
was not particularly fond of poor, black people,
1777
01:22:02,042 --> 01:22:03,908
who in her view could not make it on their own.
1778
01:22:03,908 --> 01:22:05,016
I think the greatest sin in the world
1779
01:22:05,016 --> 01:22:07,055
is bringing children into the world
1780
01:22:07,055 --> 01:22:10,315
that have disease from their parents,
1781
01:22:10,315 --> 01:22:12,022
that have no chance in the world
1782
01:22:12,022 --> 01:22:13,901
to be a human being practically.
1783
01:22:13,901 --> 01:22:16,788
Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things,
1784
01:22:16,788 --> 01:22:18,298
just marked when they're born.
1785
01:22:18,298 --> 01:22:21,583
That to me is the greatest sin.
1786
01:22:21,583 --> 01:22:25,726
I see black people argue that if a woman is poor,
1787
01:22:25,726 --> 01:22:28,159
she shouldn't have a child.
1788
01:22:28,159 --> 01:22:31,512
If that were the case, a lot of black people that I know
1789
01:22:31,512 --> 01:22:33,172
who have done great things in life
1790
01:22:33,172 --> 01:22:35,011
would never have been born,
1791
01:22:35,011 --> 01:22:36,257
and I would have been one of them.
1792
01:22:36,257 --> 01:22:38,390
The Billboard's idea that abortion is genocide
1793
01:22:38,390 --> 01:22:41,739
has made a comeback in some parts of the black community.
1794
01:22:41,739 --> 01:22:43,267
Our population growth has stagnated.
1795
01:22:43,267 --> 01:22:45,541
Fueling this is the growing number of Latinos
1796
01:22:45,541 --> 01:22:47,266
who have fewer abortions, more children...
1797
01:22:47,266 --> 01:22:48,351
60 % of all new births
1798
01:22:48,351 --> 01:22:49,642
in this country are Latino,
1799
01:22:49,642 --> 01:22:52,076
and you have Democrats that are advocating for open borders.
1800
01:22:52,076 --> 01:22:53,879
Ethnic minority than black Americans.
1801
01:22:53,879 --> 01:22:55,068
Right now, the Democrat party
1802
01:22:55,068 --> 01:22:57,442
relies upon our vote, but they don't have to forever.
1803
01:23:03,535 --> 01:23:05,161
Black Americans are gonna wake up,
1804
01:23:05,161 --> 01:23:06,751
or we're going to become irrelevant.
1805
01:23:06,751 --> 01:23:09,448
Black people in general are starting to get the sense
1806
01:23:09,448 --> 01:23:12,861
that we are being traded for illegal immigrants.
1807
01:23:12,861 --> 01:23:14,828
The caravan lurched forward
1808
01:23:14,828 --> 01:23:17,828
carrying babies, suitcases and hope.
1809
01:23:18,674 --> 01:23:23,257
They're importing a whole new victim class.
1810
01:23:24,273 --> 01:23:27,356
It's gonna do exactly to the illegals
1811
01:23:28,211 --> 01:23:32,197
what they did to black America in the '60s.
1812
01:23:32,197 --> 01:23:33,410
Get them addicted to government,
1813
01:23:33,410 --> 01:23:35,333
give them the handouts, and turn them
1814
01:23:35,333 --> 01:23:37,620
into a permanent class of victim voters.
1815
01:23:37,620 --> 01:23:40,574
They are willing to use
1816
01:23:40,574 --> 01:23:43,157
people's genuine disadvantages,
1817
01:23:44,466 --> 01:23:48,216
people's genuine struggles to get into power.
1818
01:23:49,274 --> 01:23:51,113
And we are gonna fight for fairness
1819
01:23:51,113 --> 01:23:53,276
and justice for immigration.
1820
01:23:53,276 --> 01:23:54,952
We're gonna fight for DACA,
1821
01:23:54,952 --> 01:23:57,137
and we're going to help this country--
1822
01:23:57,137 --> 01:24:00,741
How is it that we have Maxine Waters and John Lewis
1823
01:24:00,741 --> 01:24:03,753
and others in the Black Congressional Caucus
1824
01:24:03,753 --> 01:24:05,920
who are fighting for DACA?
1825
01:24:08,089 --> 01:24:09,962
For the dreamers
1826
01:24:09,962 --> 01:24:14,220
of illegal aliens who have come to our nation,
1827
01:24:14,220 --> 01:24:18,154
and they're not fighting for black children
1828
01:24:18,154 --> 01:24:23,092
and the dreams that our kids and our teenagers have.
1829
01:24:23,092 --> 01:24:27,170
They've set them aside and made DACA their priority.
1830
01:24:27,170 --> 01:24:30,549
I submit to you they're in pursuit of an agenda.
1831
01:24:30,549 --> 01:24:33,932
The black community has been destroyed
1832
01:24:33,932 --> 01:24:38,243
by racist, illegal immigration and we're not gonna have it.
1833
01:24:38,243 --> 01:24:41,186
When my people do a crime, we get three strikes.
1834
01:24:41,186 --> 01:24:43,230
Your people do a crime, they get amnesty,
1835
01:24:43,230 --> 01:24:44,778
they get benefits, and they're not...
1836
01:24:44,778 --> 01:24:47,023
Blacks are protesting the fact
1837
01:24:47,023 --> 01:24:49,199
that for the last 50 years,
1838
01:24:49,199 --> 01:24:52,914
they're living in cities that are the most dangerous,
1839
01:24:52,914 --> 01:24:55,258
disinvested places, and they've been run
1840
01:24:55,258 --> 01:24:57,660
by liberal black Democrats.
1841
01:24:57,660 --> 01:25:01,986
But they've got no alternative to express that discontent.
1842
01:25:01,986 --> 01:25:04,246
The black community is low-hanging fruit
1843
01:25:04,246 --> 01:25:06,210
for the Republican party.
1844
01:25:06,210 --> 01:25:09,299
And the fact that they're not making a more concerted effort
1845
01:25:09,299 --> 01:25:12,632
to message to our community aggressively
1846
01:25:13,579 --> 01:25:14,974
is a huge mistake.
1847
01:25:14,974 --> 01:25:16,012
First, they have to be serious
1848
01:25:16,012 --> 01:25:19,915
about whether or not they want minorities in the party.
1849
01:25:19,915 --> 01:25:22,918
And if they are, then they need to totally rethink
1850
01:25:22,918 --> 01:25:24,318
how they're goin' about it.
1851
01:25:30,739 --> 01:25:33,796
My experiences running as a mayoral candidate
1852
01:25:33,796 --> 01:25:37,129
in a city that's predominantly Democrat,
1853
01:25:38,246 --> 01:25:41,943
I've been criticized by Republican strategists
1854
01:25:41,943 --> 01:25:45,693
for spending my time in minority communities.
1855
01:25:49,513 --> 01:25:52,324
I've placed my campaign office
1856
01:25:52,324 --> 01:25:55,349
in a historically black community.
1857
01:25:55,349 --> 01:25:57,099
I did that by choice.
1858
01:25:58,553 --> 01:26:01,578
I have not found the kind of support
1859
01:26:01,578 --> 01:26:04,328
that I expected from Republicans.
1860
01:26:05,508 --> 01:26:08,888
I think that if you look at the Republican party,
1861
01:26:08,888 --> 01:26:11,034
I believe that if I were white
1862
01:26:11,034 --> 01:26:14,732
that I would notice that there were so few people of color,
1863
01:26:14,732 --> 01:26:17,395
racial and ethnic minorities in my party,
1864
01:26:17,395 --> 01:26:20,727
and I would support the ones that were sincere.
1865
01:26:20,727 --> 01:26:22,171
I love America.
1866
01:26:22,171 --> 01:26:23,607
I believe the American dream,
1867
01:26:23,607 --> 01:26:26,240
and I wanna give hope to people who are disadvantaged,
1868
01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:29,095
not just black people, but also white people
1869
01:26:29,095 --> 01:26:31,603
who come from unfortunate circumstances.
1870
01:26:31,603 --> 01:26:35,211
When I've gone to campaign and elections meetings,
1871
01:26:35,211 --> 01:26:36,902
I hear these strategists say,
1872
01:26:36,902 --> 01:26:40,034
"Don't waste your time in minority communities.
1873
01:26:40,034 --> 01:26:42,133
"You need to hunt where the ducks are."
1874
01:26:42,133 --> 01:26:43,805
For years, the Democratic party
1875
01:26:43,805 --> 01:26:47,010
has assumed they're going to get 90-95 % of the black vote,
1876
01:26:47,010 --> 01:26:49,188
as did the Republican party.
1877
01:26:49,188 --> 01:26:50,274
They didn't even try.
1878
01:26:50,274 --> 01:26:51,315
Republicans have convinced themselves
1879
01:26:51,315 --> 01:26:53,708
that blacks are unalterably Democrats,
1880
01:26:53,708 --> 01:26:54,843
there's nothing we can do about it.
1881
01:26:54,843 --> 01:26:57,058
Let's husband our money and our energy
1882
01:26:57,058 --> 01:26:59,051
and just spend it where we think we can get votes.
1883
01:26:59,051 --> 01:27:01,184
The Republican party ignores us
1884
01:27:01,184 --> 01:27:05,032
because they believe a narrative that has been pushed
1885
01:27:05,032 --> 01:27:06,321
out into the public square
1886
01:27:06,321 --> 01:27:09,571
that the black community is a monolith.
1887
01:27:11,014 --> 01:27:13,096
And so we're being ignored on both sides.
1888
01:27:13,096 --> 01:27:14,807
The major conservative in the race,
1889
01:27:14,807 --> 01:27:17,467
Carol Swain, was the last to concede tonight.
1890
01:27:17,467 --> 01:27:20,154
We're not making the kind of investments
1891
01:27:20,154 --> 01:27:22,071
in our minority allies.
1892
01:27:23,943 --> 01:27:25,991
That's the fault of the Republican party,
1893
01:27:25,991 --> 01:27:28,345
is that they have just completely said,
1894
01:27:28,345 --> 01:27:29,713
"We can't connect with 'em."
1895
01:27:29,713 --> 01:27:31,061
And they gave up.
1896
01:27:31,061 --> 01:27:34,880
We have more in common with the Republican party by far
1897
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:36,151
than anything Democrat.
1898
01:27:36,151 --> 01:27:39,592
Regardless of where your position is socioeconomically.
1899
01:27:39,592 --> 01:27:41,591
'Cause the Democrats, they're not giving jobs,
1900
01:27:41,591 --> 01:27:42,880
they don't care about jobs.
1901
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:44,534
So they don't want you to succeed.
1902
01:27:44,534 --> 01:27:46,370
They don't want you to own anything.
1903
01:27:46,370 --> 01:27:47,769
That's why they keep spoonfeeding you,
1904
01:27:47,769 --> 01:27:50,368
putting you in projects and then giving you a little,
1905
01:27:50,368 --> 01:27:51,571
so now you're dependent.
1906
01:27:51,571 --> 01:27:54,126
Being unapologetically capitalist
1907
01:27:54,126 --> 01:27:56,300
is sort of the way to move forward.
1908
01:27:56,300 --> 01:27:57,570
I wanna be rich.
1909
01:27:57,570 --> 01:27:58,756
I don't wanna be poor.
1910
01:27:58,756 --> 01:28:00,219
You wanna be wealthy and successful.
1911
01:28:00,219 --> 01:28:03,500
Well, we're the party that promotes values
1912
01:28:03,500 --> 01:28:06,820
and policies that will make you wealthy and successful.
1913
01:28:06,820 --> 01:28:11,176
Conservatives are really bad at marketing good ideas.
1914
01:28:11,176 --> 01:28:12,849
They're horrible.
1915
01:28:12,849 --> 01:28:15,612
Republicans have been their own worst messengers.
1916
01:28:15,612 --> 01:28:17,300
The problem with conservatives
1917
01:28:17,300 --> 01:28:19,321
and what we don't do good enough,
1918
01:28:19,321 --> 01:28:22,518
is that we don't infiltrate ourselves into the culture.
1919
01:28:22,518 --> 01:28:24,714
For too long, we've left the left run culture.
1920
01:28:24,714 --> 01:28:26,013
Saturday Night Live.
1921
01:28:26,013 --> 01:28:29,080
We're gonna make fun and people can understand humor.
1922
01:28:29,080 --> 01:28:31,196
You're not going to be able to sell your ideas,
1923
01:28:31,196 --> 01:28:33,697
and your theories and your thoughts to the people,
1924
01:28:33,697 --> 01:28:35,259
if you're doing things in the same way
1925
01:28:35,259 --> 01:28:39,340
that you have done them for the last, 20-30 years.
1926
01:28:39,340 --> 01:28:42,896
Ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running
1927
01:28:45,595 --> 01:28:49,300
for President of the United States,
1928
01:28:49,300 --> 01:28:53,513
and we are going to make our country great again.
1929
01:28:53,513 --> 01:28:58,513
Donald Trump is the first Republican that is unafraid.
1930
01:28:58,956 --> 01:28:59,990
He's unafraid of the media.
1931
01:28:59,990 --> 01:29:01,744
You know it, if you're honest reporters,
1932
01:29:01,744 --> 01:29:03,242
which in many cases you're not.
1933
01:29:03,242 --> 01:29:04,587
The progressive socialist left
1934
01:29:04,587 --> 01:29:06,051
and all their tactics, all their antics.
1935
01:29:06,051 --> 01:29:08,472
It's the next step in our investigation.
1936
01:29:08,472 --> 01:29:09,625
They don't know what to do with him.
1937
01:29:09,625 --> 01:29:11,043
If you look at his policies
1938
01:29:11,043 --> 01:29:15,370
and how they benefited and continue to benefit this country,
1939
01:29:15,370 --> 01:29:18,663
there's no denying the objective facts.
1940
01:29:18,663 --> 01:29:22,046
But if you look at the man, Donald Trump,
1941
01:29:22,046 --> 01:29:24,927
the version of him as it is painted by the media,
1942
01:29:24,927 --> 01:29:28,156
then it's easy to hate the man, hate his guts.
1943
01:29:28,156 --> 01:29:30,713
Painting a picture of him that he is incompetent,
1944
01:29:30,713 --> 01:29:33,731
not capable, out of control, impetuous,
1945
01:29:33,731 --> 01:29:37,117
all those things is what we get out of the media.
1946
01:29:37,117 --> 01:29:40,057
But somehow, through the charisma of his personality
1947
01:29:40,057 --> 01:29:42,966
and a force of his personality has gotten through
1948
01:29:42,966 --> 01:29:44,204
to some in our community.
1949
01:29:44,204 --> 01:29:46,687
I see Trump as this window of opportunity
1950
01:29:46,687 --> 01:29:48,005
for black America to wake up,
1951
01:29:48,005 --> 01:29:49,871
is because I think he's the most cultural president
1952
01:29:49,871 --> 01:29:51,121
we've ever had.
1953
01:29:52,161 --> 01:29:53,949
He was taking photos with rappers.
1954
01:29:53,949 --> 01:29:56,048
He was always part of the culture.
1955
01:29:56,048 --> 01:29:57,948
You got this guy that talks shit,
1956
01:29:57,948 --> 01:30:00,906
at WrestleMania, he was doing this, he was doing that
1957
01:30:00,906 --> 01:30:01,963
and he's president?
1958
01:30:01,963 --> 01:30:03,458
He made politics cool again.
1959
01:30:03,458 --> 01:30:07,128
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.
1960
01:30:07,128 --> 01:30:08,611
Because you'd be in jail.
1961
01:30:08,611 --> 01:30:09,959
You can see the realness.
1962
01:30:09,959 --> 01:30:11,161
He's a New Yorker, man.
1963
01:30:11,161 --> 01:30:12,186
And he talks like one.
1964
01:30:12,186 --> 01:30:14,414
He has the bravado like one.
1965
01:30:14,414 --> 01:30:16,198
Jeb wants to be a tough guy.
1966
01:30:16,198 --> 01:30:17,726
He wants to be a tough guy tonight.
1967
01:30:17,726 --> 01:30:19,091
I didn't take the property.
1968
01:30:19,091 --> 01:30:20,716
A lot of young, black people,
1969
01:30:20,716 --> 01:30:22,718
that's why they're drawn to him.
1970
01:30:22,718 --> 01:30:24,277
If people spoke to black people
1971
01:30:24,277 --> 01:30:29,277
the way Donald Trump does, bluntly, without condescension.
1972
01:30:29,839 --> 01:30:34,473
Look how much African-American communities have suffered
1973
01:30:34,473 --> 01:30:36,556
under Democratic control.
1974
01:30:37,413 --> 01:30:39,913
To those, I say the following,
1975
01:30:41,526 --> 01:30:43,609
what do you have to lose?
1976
01:30:44,615 --> 01:30:47,051
Donald Trump is facing a new backlash.
1977
01:30:47,051 --> 01:30:49,975
Is "What the hell do you have to lose" the best pitch?
1978
01:30:49,975 --> 01:30:52,026
Trump's latest attempted outreach
1979
01:30:52,026 --> 01:30:55,290
to a larger voting block is already being called ignorant.
1980
01:30:55,290 --> 01:30:57,809
So disrespectful and so condescending.
1981
01:30:57,809 --> 01:31:01,434
How condescending, how offensive, how racist, whatever.
1982
01:31:01,434 --> 01:31:02,267
But he was right.
1983
01:31:02,267 --> 01:31:03,175
What do you have to lose?
1984
01:31:03,175 --> 01:31:06,375
You're living in poverty, your schools are no good,
1985
01:31:06,375 --> 01:31:08,555
you have no jobs.
1986
01:31:08,555 --> 01:31:11,760
58 % of your youth is unemployed.
1987
01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:14,554
The audacity to stare black America in the face
1988
01:31:14,554 --> 01:31:17,157
and say, "Hello, wake up, you're already losing.
1989
01:31:17,157 --> 01:31:18,002
"Look at your communities.
1990
01:31:18,002 --> 01:31:19,627
"Everything's run down, what's the big deal?
1991
01:31:19,627 --> 01:31:20,922
"Take a chance on Trump."
1992
01:31:20,922 --> 01:31:23,491
People, black and white and brown
1993
01:31:23,491 --> 01:31:25,801
who did not go to college
1994
01:31:25,801 --> 01:31:30,367
have felt ignored by the elites of both parties.
1995
01:31:30,367 --> 01:31:34,224
And Trump turned over the tables in the temple.
1996
01:31:34,224 --> 01:31:36,768
You can say he's an artful, he's not articulate,
1997
01:31:36,768 --> 01:31:38,265
he's not smooth, whatever.
1998
01:31:38,265 --> 01:31:40,113
People really don't care.
1999
01:31:40,113 --> 01:31:41,627
People are tired of politicians
2000
01:31:41,627 --> 01:31:43,577
that say one thing and do something else.
2001
01:31:43,577 --> 01:31:46,944
Especially, we're starting to see in the black community.
2002
01:31:46,944 --> 01:31:47,985
They wanna see some change,
2003
01:31:47,985 --> 01:31:49,350
they wanna see something different.
2004
01:31:49,350 --> 01:31:51,918
And that's why blacks feeling as if they're conservatives
2005
01:31:51,918 --> 01:31:53,477
is on the rise.
2006
01:31:53,477 --> 01:31:54,662
They're looking at the results.
2007
01:31:59,526 --> 01:32:02,107
You think you can bully people to stop doing something.
2008
01:32:02,107 --> 01:32:04,753
Callin' us coons, all them types of names.
2009
01:32:04,753 --> 01:32:07,352
Usually, people run to their little cubby hills after that.
2010
01:32:07,352 --> 01:32:09,511
It's a new movement now and we want all the smoke.
2011
01:32:09,511 --> 01:32:10,778
It's really clear.
2012
01:32:10,778 --> 01:32:11,821
People tell me not to wear the MAGA hat,
2013
01:32:11,821 --> 01:32:13,868
so I bought the biggest MAGA hat.
2014
01:32:13,868 --> 01:32:16,000
Then I bought a bigger one.
2015
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:17,759
So now if somebody say something to me,
2016
01:32:17,759 --> 01:32:19,462
duh, common sense, a bigger one.
2017
01:32:19,462 --> 01:32:21,676
It's simple math really when you put it all together.
2018
01:32:21,676 --> 01:32:23,432
♪ Yeah, I'm black I'm not Democrat ♪
2019
01:32:23,432 --> 01:32:24,551
♪ With the MAGA hat ♪
2020
01:32:24,551 --> 01:32:27,572
♪ Ooh we they try to take my guns I can't go like that ♪
2021
01:32:27,572 --> 01:32:30,354
♪ Ooh we they try to take our funds I can't go like that ♪
2022
01:32:30,354 --> 01:32:33,328
♪ Ooh we they tried to bend our speeds I can't go like that ♪
2023
01:32:33,328 --> 01:32:35,201
♪ Yeah, I'm black, I'm not Democrat ♪
2024
01:32:35,201 --> 01:32:36,643
♪ With the MAGA hat ♪
2025
01:32:36,643 --> 01:32:39,114
It was Donald Trump who woke me up, man.
2026
01:32:39,114 --> 01:32:43,082
At first, when he was nominated and he was elected,
2027
01:32:43,082 --> 01:32:46,819
I was not a big fan, but to see the things he's done
2028
01:32:46,819 --> 01:32:48,197
for the black community, see the things he's done
2029
01:32:48,197 --> 01:32:49,771
for America in particular.
2030
01:32:49,771 --> 01:32:51,822
I'm a huge fan now and he has my support.
2031
01:32:51,822 --> 01:32:52,863
We are in historical times,
2032
01:32:52,863 --> 01:32:54,518
'cause people are waking up, people are changing.
2033
01:32:54,518 --> 01:32:55,760
Humans are naturally conservative.
2034
01:32:55,760 --> 01:32:57,371
You grow up being told to work hard for what you eat.
2035
01:32:57,371 --> 01:33:00,165
You don't grow up being told you gon' get somethin'
2036
01:33:00,165 --> 01:33:02,015
because you just want it.
2037
01:33:02,015 --> 01:33:03,728
You see, like you ain't gotta work for it.
2038
01:33:03,728 --> 01:33:05,529
When I went to the store,
2039
01:33:05,529 --> 01:33:07,444
and I try to get a Snickers and I had no money for it,
2040
01:33:07,444 --> 01:33:09,966
momma slapped my hand, "Put that Snickers back.
2041
01:33:09,966 --> 01:33:11,546
"We can't afford that."
2042
01:33:11,546 --> 01:33:12,452
But Democrats, they're saying,
2043
01:33:12,452 --> 01:33:14,243
"Hey, we give you everything for free."
2044
01:33:14,243 --> 01:33:15,076
That ain't reality.
2045
01:33:15,076 --> 01:33:17,139
Black America is starting to get it.
2046
01:33:17,139 --> 01:33:19,886
And that's why there is this sort of battle
2047
01:33:19,886 --> 01:33:21,644
that's happening I think right now.
2048
01:33:21,644 --> 01:33:25,058
Black America is in the midst of an ideological civil war.
2049
01:33:25,058 --> 01:33:26,453
Oh, it's bullshit!
2050
01:33:26,453 --> 01:33:28,322
It's racism, it's Trump.
2051
01:33:28,322 --> 01:33:30,092
Get off your feet, fuck this.
2052
01:33:30,092 --> 01:33:32,121
We gotta stand up, we gotta do our shit.
2053
01:33:32,121 --> 01:33:33,281
We gotta do what we gotta do as black people.
2054
01:33:33,281 --> 01:33:34,772
Round of applause for Candace, please.
2055
01:33:34,772 --> 01:33:36,626
That's a waste of time.
2056
01:33:38,836 --> 01:33:40,414
You guys, this is so beautiful.
2057
01:33:40,414 --> 01:33:41,502
Look at all of us.
2058
01:33:41,502 --> 01:33:43,905
We made it all the way to the White House.
2059
01:33:43,905 --> 01:33:46,021
This week, in two days, I'm going to the White House
2060
01:33:46,021 --> 01:33:48,815
with 400 black kids, and it's basically saying,
2061
01:33:48,815 --> 01:33:52,135
you don't get to take away my blackness
2062
01:33:52,135 --> 01:33:55,605
because I don't agree with you, because I'm educated.
2063
01:33:55,605 --> 01:33:57,636
Before, it was just a monolith.
2064
01:33:57,636 --> 01:34:00,315
And there was no thought, it was just nodding like zombies.
2065
01:34:00,315 --> 01:34:04,514
Like of course, we have to support Barack Obama.
2066
01:34:04,514 --> 01:34:06,122
The one reason that I thought
2067
01:34:06,122 --> 01:34:08,392
that his candidacy would be positive.
2068
01:34:08,392 --> 01:34:12,568
The one reason, was because when Senator Obama
2069
01:34:12,568 --> 01:34:14,650
was interviewed by Steve Croft,
2070
01:34:14,650 --> 01:34:17,593
I believe that was his first 60 Minutes interview,
2071
01:34:17,593 --> 01:34:18,969
and Steve Croft said to Obama.
2072
01:34:18,969 --> 01:34:20,683
You think the country's ready for a black president?
2073
01:34:20,683 --> 01:34:22,287
Yes!
2074
01:34:22,287 --> 01:34:23,836
You don't think it's gonna hold you back.
2075
01:34:23,836 --> 01:34:24,669
No.
2076
01:34:25,723 --> 01:34:28,556
I think, if I don't win this race,
2077
01:34:30,374 --> 01:34:33,557
it would be because of other factors.
2078
01:34:33,557 --> 01:34:36,724
It's gonna be because I have not shown
2079
01:34:38,057 --> 01:34:39,649
to the American people a vision
2080
01:34:39,649 --> 01:34:43,033
for where the country needs to go that they can embrace.
2081
01:34:43,033 --> 01:34:44,710
I said to myself, hallelujah!
2082
01:34:44,710 --> 01:34:49,160
At least this is not your basic black victocrat.
2083
01:34:49,160 --> 01:34:50,803
Well, he got elected.
2084
01:34:50,803 --> 01:34:52,711
I cried, tears came to my eyes
2085
01:34:52,711 --> 01:34:53,900
during his inauguration.
2086
01:34:53,900 --> 01:34:55,816
My fellow citizens.
2087
01:34:55,816 --> 01:34:57,101
A black man being a president?
2088
01:34:57,101 --> 01:35:00,206
Like, this is finally, we have proven to the world
2089
01:35:00,206 --> 01:35:01,264
and everybody else in the country
2090
01:35:01,264 --> 01:35:02,697
that this is not a racist country.
2091
01:35:02,697 --> 01:35:04,596
And I think that's what America really felt,
2092
01:35:04,596 --> 01:35:05,826
that we had turned a corner.
2093
01:35:05,826 --> 01:35:08,234
I could follow in the same steps now finally.
2094
01:35:08,234 --> 01:35:10,399
That there was no barrier that was preventing me
2095
01:35:10,399 --> 01:35:12,332
as a black American from doing anything.
2096
01:35:12,332 --> 01:35:14,410
Many people had high expectations
2097
01:35:14,410 --> 01:35:17,465
that he was going to take us in a direction
2098
01:35:17,465 --> 01:35:19,825
that was gonna improve things.
2099
01:35:19,825 --> 01:35:21,288
Obama, before he became president,
2100
01:35:21,288 --> 01:35:23,545
gave a speech at a black church in Atlanta.
2101
01:35:23,545 --> 01:35:25,303
And he said, the Moses generation,
2102
01:35:25,303 --> 01:35:27,368
referring to the generation of Martin Luther King,
2103
01:35:27,368 --> 01:35:31,119
has gotten us 90 % of the way there,
2104
01:35:31,119 --> 01:35:32,732
which I though was pretty reasonable.
2105
01:35:32,732 --> 01:35:35,347
He said, "My generation, the Joshua generation
2106
01:35:35,347 --> 01:35:37,324
"has to get us that remaining 10 %."
2107
01:35:37,324 --> 01:35:40,661
The Moses generation pointed the way.
2108
01:35:40,661 --> 01:35:42,497
They took us 90 % of the way there,
2109
01:35:42,497 --> 01:35:44,904
but we still got that 10 %.
2110
01:35:44,904 --> 01:35:47,067
That was before Obama became president.
2111
01:35:47,067 --> 01:35:49,550
I'm suspecting that now that he's president,
2112
01:35:49,550 --> 01:35:52,703
that that 10 % probably got shaved into just a little bit.
2113
01:35:52,703 --> 01:35:54,971
Yet when he was president, what did he say, what did do?
2114
01:35:54,971 --> 01:35:58,861
Slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination
2115
01:35:58,861 --> 01:36:02,278
in almost every institution of our lives,
2116
01:36:03,870 --> 01:36:06,093
that cast a long shadow.
2117
01:36:06,093 --> 01:36:09,310
And that's still part of our DNA.
2118
01:36:09,310 --> 01:36:10,727
That's passed on.
2119
01:36:11,606 --> 01:36:12,792
We're not cured of it.
2120
01:36:12,792 --> 01:36:14,336
Racism?
Racism.
2121
01:36:14,336 --> 01:36:15,620
We are not cured of it.
2122
01:36:15,620 --> 01:36:17,391
Obama got a higher percentage of the white vote
2123
01:36:17,391 --> 01:36:19,098
than John Kerry did, and here he is
2124
01:36:19,098 --> 01:36:21,075
talking about racism is in our DNA?
2125
01:36:21,075 --> 01:36:23,238
If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.
2126
01:36:23,238 --> 01:36:24,330
The Cambridge Police...
2127
01:36:24,330 --> 01:36:26,019
The Cambridge Police acted stupidly.
2128
01:36:26,019 --> 01:36:27,824
Acted stupidly.
2129
01:36:27,824 --> 01:36:32,437
What he really did was add to the level of racial tension
2130
01:36:32,437 --> 01:36:34,455
that we have in America today.
2131
01:36:34,455 --> 01:36:37,300
He went out of his way to capitalize
2132
01:36:37,300 --> 01:36:39,395
on this sort of like, wokeness.
2133
01:36:39,395 --> 01:36:42,583
There are very few African-American men in this country,
2134
01:36:42,583 --> 01:36:45,490
who haven't had the experience of being followed
2135
01:36:45,490 --> 01:36:48,172
when they were shopping in a department store.
2136
01:36:48,172 --> 01:36:49,038
That includes me.
2137
01:36:49,038 --> 01:36:52,887
He had Al Sharpton in his White House over 70 times.
2138
01:36:52,887 --> 01:36:55,517
And every time you criticize President Obama
2139
01:36:55,517 --> 01:36:58,723
based upon policy, you were called what?
2140
01:36:58,723 --> 01:36:59,649
A racist.
2141
01:36:59,649 --> 01:37:02,054
He played the race card, Obama did.
2142
01:37:02,054 --> 01:37:04,752
This is a guy who knew better and could've,
2143
01:37:04,752 --> 01:37:07,176
in my opinion done a great deal to advance
2144
01:37:07,176 --> 01:37:08,541
racial issue in this country.
2145
01:37:08,541 --> 01:37:10,930
We didn't turn any corner.
2146
01:37:10,930 --> 01:37:13,627
And so now, we are just at a point
2147
01:37:13,627 --> 01:37:15,270
where we're at each other's throats.
2148
01:37:15,270 --> 01:37:16,443
You called me a nigger.
2149
01:37:16,443 --> 01:37:17,686
I didn't call you no nigger.
Yes, you did.
2150
01:37:17,686 --> 01:37:18,519
No, I didn't.
2151
01:37:18,519 --> 01:37:19,832
He made things worse for America
2152
01:37:19,832 --> 01:37:21,897
in terms of race, and there's not a single person
2153
01:37:21,897 --> 01:37:24,691
that can say they remember America feeling like this.
2154
01:37:24,691 --> 01:37:26,121
Constitution.
I said you a house nigger.
2155
01:37:26,121 --> 01:37:27,132
I didn't call you a nigger.
2156
01:37:27,132 --> 01:37:27,965
Oh, okay.
2157
01:37:27,965 --> 01:37:29,009
That's a big difference.
2158
01:37:29,009 --> 01:37:31,309
You a Uncle Tom.
Yeah, I'm a Uncle Tom?
2159
01:37:33,505 --> 01:37:37,307
Before Obama, wasn't all this racist talk at all.
2160
01:37:37,307 --> 01:37:38,506
I don't remember it.
2161
01:37:38,506 --> 01:37:40,187
I don't remember at any point
2162
01:37:40,187 --> 01:37:43,353
before Barack Obama ever feeling this much racial strife
2163
01:37:43,353 --> 01:37:44,535
in this country.
2164
01:37:44,535 --> 01:37:47,729
Obama was the most divisive president of our time.
2165
01:37:47,729 --> 01:37:49,685
Especially in the African-American community,
2166
01:37:49,685 --> 01:37:52,173
I will consider it a personal insult,
2167
01:37:52,173 --> 01:37:56,704
an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard
2168
01:37:56,704 --> 01:37:58,659
and fails to activate itself in this election.
2169
01:37:58,659 --> 01:38:01,630
I believe Obama is one of the most articulate presidents
2170
01:38:01,630 --> 01:38:04,296
that we've had, charismatic presidents that we've had.
2171
01:38:04,296 --> 01:38:06,181
When you look at his educational background,
2172
01:38:06,181 --> 01:38:09,135
he's probably one of the most intelligent.
2173
01:38:09,135 --> 01:38:10,468
He knows better.
2174
01:38:11,759 --> 01:38:14,178
I harbor a lot of resentment towards Barack Obama,
2175
01:38:14,178 --> 01:38:16,875
because now I see what he was.
2176
01:38:16,875 --> 01:38:19,413
But I wouldn't take that moment back,
2177
01:38:19,413 --> 01:38:20,433
for a lot of reasons.
2178
01:38:20,433 --> 01:38:23,650
And one of those reasons is that it did me a lot.
2179
01:38:23,650 --> 01:38:26,257
Now it's something that I point to to show people.
2180
01:38:26,257 --> 01:38:28,839
If America is a racist country,
2181
01:38:28,839 --> 01:38:31,556
how did Barack Obama get into office for two terms?
2182
01:38:31,556 --> 01:38:34,594
In barely half a century,
2183
01:38:34,594 --> 01:38:38,101
you can go from a young African-American girl
2184
01:38:38,101 --> 01:38:41,548
being escorted into the school by the National Guard,
2185
01:38:41,548 --> 01:38:45,240
to having the first person of color occupy the Oval Office.
2186
01:38:46,840 --> 01:38:50,092
That's why all those people were in tears
2187
01:38:50,092 --> 01:38:53,326
when Obama was elected president.
2188
01:38:53,326 --> 01:38:54,692
Look at what we are.
2189
01:38:54,692 --> 01:38:56,774
This is America.
2190
01:38:56,774 --> 01:38:59,357
If there is anyone out there,
2191
01:39:00,448 --> 01:39:03,614
who still doubts that America is a place
2192
01:39:03,614 --> 01:39:06,114
where all things are possible,
2193
01:39:07,530 --> 01:39:10,846
who still wonders if the dream of our founders
2194
01:39:10,846 --> 01:39:14,263
is alive in our time, who still questions
2195
01:39:15,450 --> 01:39:19,700
the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
2196
01:39:26,766 --> 01:39:29,642
It's the answer told by lines that stretched
2197
01:39:29,642 --> 01:39:32,326
around schools and churches,
2198
01:39:32,326 --> 01:39:35,493
in numbers this nation has never seen.
2199
01:39:36,564 --> 01:39:37,622
I didn't grow up thinking,
2200
01:39:37,622 --> 01:39:39,375
one day I wanna own my own business,
2201
01:39:39,375 --> 01:39:41,375
I wanna do my own thing.
2202
01:39:45,294 --> 01:39:47,074
It seemed like something that surely I could never achieve.
2203
01:39:47,074 --> 01:39:49,399
That's something that you have to be really smart.
2204
01:39:49,399 --> 01:39:50,841
You have to come from money.
2205
01:39:50,841 --> 01:39:53,657
You have to have a huge set of capital
2206
01:39:53,657 --> 01:39:56,858
before you can even start a business.
2207
01:39:56,858 --> 01:39:58,561
That's something that's too lofty for me.
2208
01:39:58,561 --> 01:40:00,498
I would never accomplish that.
2209
01:40:00,498 --> 01:40:03,248
So, I didn't even think about it.
2210
01:40:05,033 --> 01:40:07,799
If you have some material and stuff that you're needing,
2211
01:40:07,799 --> 01:40:08,804
I would like to get it to a place
2212
01:40:08,804 --> 01:40:11,404
where you can call him and if we have it in the shop
2213
01:40:11,404 --> 01:40:13,044
he can run it to you.
2214
01:40:13,044 --> 01:40:16,427
Early in my 20s when I began to go into a transition,
2215
01:40:16,427 --> 01:40:20,010
if you will, of learning more about policy,
2216
01:40:21,437 --> 01:40:23,195
of learning more about the platforms
2217
01:40:23,195 --> 01:40:25,469
and how they're so different from one another,
2218
01:40:25,469 --> 01:40:27,096
I realized, well, no, there's something
2219
01:40:27,096 --> 01:40:29,114
that is well within my grasp.
2220
01:40:29,114 --> 01:40:32,557
This is something that is attainable.
2221
01:40:32,557 --> 01:40:34,217
Being a business owner in America
2222
01:40:34,217 --> 01:40:39,027
is one of the greatest privileges of being in America.
2223
01:40:39,027 --> 01:40:40,357
I love being in this country,
2224
01:40:40,357 --> 01:40:42,926
where you can start anything, you can be anything,
2225
01:40:42,926 --> 01:40:44,961
you can do anything.
2226
01:40:44,961 --> 01:40:49,211
And it's not possible everywhere to do it that way.
2227
01:40:50,487 --> 01:40:53,737
Oftentimes I get crazy messages from people
2228
01:40:53,737 --> 01:40:58,379
who, they can't believe I do this or whatever.
2229
01:40:58,379 --> 01:41:00,986
But you don't know until you do it yourself.
2230
01:41:00,986 --> 01:41:02,787
You don't really get it and understand it
2231
01:41:02,787 --> 01:41:05,620
until you start doing it yourself.
2232
01:41:06,562 --> 01:41:07,408
Designers.
2233
01:41:07,408 --> 01:41:09,159
They're still thinking that it's a four-inch supply
2234
01:41:09,159 --> 01:41:10,055
coming into the building...
2235
01:41:10,055 --> 01:41:12,654
In my heart of hearts, I do desire
2236
01:41:12,654 --> 01:41:14,702
that people will kind of have
2237
01:41:14,702 --> 01:41:16,944
the same kind of revelations that I've had,
2238
01:41:16,944 --> 01:41:20,373
because to me, what it means to be a conservative
2239
01:41:20,373 --> 01:41:24,750
is to realize that a lot of the dignity that you have
2240
01:41:24,750 --> 01:41:25,953
is within yourself.
2241
01:41:25,953 --> 01:41:29,649
Conservatism is the political philosophy
2242
01:41:29,649 --> 01:41:32,870
that is pro-business, that is pro-growth,
2243
01:41:32,870 --> 01:41:34,588
that is pro-minority,
2244
01:41:34,588 --> 01:41:38,101
way more than any kind of liberal idea
2245
01:41:38,101 --> 01:41:40,247
or policy can ever be.
2246
01:41:40,247 --> 01:41:42,803
I want for people to understand that.
2247
01:41:42,803 --> 01:41:44,377
I want for people to realize that.
2248
01:41:44,377 --> 01:41:48,132
These are the sinks that you fixed last time?
2249
01:41:48,132 --> 01:41:50,180
It starts with the individual.
2250
01:41:50,180 --> 01:41:54,161
What you do in making yourself a better person
2251
01:41:54,161 --> 01:41:57,510
will matriculate down to everybody else in the community,
2252
01:41:57,510 --> 01:41:59,686
all the generations that come after you.
2253
01:41:59,686 --> 01:42:02,029
The power is in your hands.
2254
01:42:02,029 --> 01:42:04,757
Don't rely and wait for everybody else to do something.
2255
01:42:04,757 --> 01:42:07,262
You have the power to change you.
2256
01:42:07,262 --> 01:42:09,180
You have authority to change you.
2257
01:42:09,180 --> 01:42:11,799
I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
2258
01:42:11,799 --> 01:42:13,015
I know that that makes many people
2259
01:42:13,015 --> 01:42:14,561
on the left uncomfortable.
2260
01:42:14,561 --> 01:42:16,416
I know people might not like me
2261
01:42:16,416 --> 01:42:17,616
'cause they're from an era
2262
01:42:17,616 --> 01:42:18,918
where race hustling is a business.
2263
01:42:18,918 --> 01:42:21,449
But I say to people, "I'm not here to be your friend.
2264
01:42:21,449 --> 01:42:23,549
"I'm not here to become the most well liked
2265
01:42:23,549 --> 01:42:25,174
"black person in America.
2266
01:42:25,174 --> 01:42:27,057
"I am here to be like an alarm clock.
2267
01:42:27,057 --> 01:42:28,524
"Your alarm clock goes off in the morning
2268
01:42:28,524 --> 01:42:29,687
"and you're pretty pissed at it,
2269
01:42:29,687 --> 01:42:32,584
"but eventually you get up and you do what you have to do."
2270
01:42:32,584 --> 01:42:34,499
Many of the black kids who grew up in this country,
2271
01:42:34,499 --> 01:42:36,923
they see mom and dad voting for Democrats.
2272
01:42:36,923 --> 01:42:38,433
They don't question it.
2273
01:42:38,433 --> 01:42:40,107
They just go and do it.
2274
01:42:40,107 --> 01:42:43,357
But many of them have so much potential
2275
01:42:44,334 --> 01:42:46,916
and so much worth that they can really do
2276
01:42:46,916 --> 01:42:50,397
anything they wanted with their lives.
2277
01:42:50,397 --> 01:42:54,233
So much creativity and so much vision.
2278
01:42:54,233 --> 01:42:57,113
What's sad is that many of them are being lied to,
2279
01:42:57,113 --> 01:42:58,802
and they're being put in situations
2280
01:42:58,802 --> 01:43:01,175
where these limits are being put on them
2281
01:43:01,175 --> 01:43:04,406
by their selves, by their family,
2282
01:43:04,406 --> 01:43:07,675
by their schools, by the government,
2283
01:43:07,675 --> 01:43:10,925
to where their minds are ever dependent
2284
01:43:11,771 --> 01:43:15,604
on Democrat politicians, on Democrat policies.
2285
01:43:17,540 --> 01:43:19,733
When in reality, you're bigger than a program,
2286
01:43:19,733 --> 01:43:21,119
you're better than a program.
2287
01:43:21,119 --> 01:43:22,954
You're capable of providing for yourself
2288
01:43:22,954 --> 01:43:25,066
so much more than any government program
2289
01:43:25,066 --> 01:43:27,473
can provide for you.
2290
01:43:27,473 --> 01:43:31,662
My fear is that with black people in America,
2291
01:43:31,662 --> 01:43:34,236
many of us haven't came to that realization,
2292
01:43:34,236 --> 01:43:35,766
and I want for us to.
2293
01:43:35,766 --> 01:43:38,461
Because we can do so much better as a community
2294
01:43:38,461 --> 01:43:41,211
when we come to that realization.
2295
01:44:07,784 --> 01:44:08,617
Alrighty.
2296
01:44:09,944 --> 01:44:11,111
That'll do it.
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