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When I think about
American dream, I think that
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it means having
a lot of opportunities
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to have a good education,
a good job,
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a good house, and good food.
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I think in America,
everything can be possible.
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The test of our progress
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is not whether we add more
to the abundance of those
who have much,
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it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
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Any man
who seeks to deny equality
among all his brothers
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betrays the spirit of the free.
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We have the opportunity
to move not only
toward the rich society,
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but upward
to the Great Society.
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Those who
have been left out,
we will try to bring in.
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To go forward at all
is to go forward together.
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The American dream endures.
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We must have full faith
in our country.
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We all came from different
lands, but we share the same
values, the same dream.
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Our nation
is the enduring dream
of every immigrant
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who ever set foot
on these shores.
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May those generations
say of us here
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that we led our beloved land
into a new century
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with the American dream alive
for all her children.
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The grandest of
these ideals is an unfolding
American promise
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that everyone deserves
a chance,
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that no insignificant person
was ever born.
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The bedrock
of our economic success
is the American dream.
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But today, for far too many
Americans, this dream
is slipping away.
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The American dream is dead.
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What's at stake
are American values.
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And we have to reclaim them.
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The American dream
was always a belief system,
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that if you worked hard
and you played by the rules,
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you could climb.
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You could get an education
and you could get a good job.
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You could have a better life
than your parents did.
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You could rise
from nothing
to great heights.
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In the 1950s,
90% of kids
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could expect to climb
the income ladder
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and have a higher
standard of living
than their parents did.
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If you look
at that number today,
it's only around 50%.
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The rungs of the ladder
have grown further apart
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so there are huge differences
in terms of dollars
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between the 80th percentile
and the 20th percentile.
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You are now more
a prisoner of legacy.
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Poverty becomes sticky...
Stickier,
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and that you have
less of a chance
of escaping it
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if you were born into it.
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And that wealth also
kind of clusters itself,
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so that if you
were born wealthy
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you're more likely
to maintain that wealth.
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The American dream
is premised on this notion of the individual above all else.
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We don't see context,
we don't see culture,
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we don't see circumstance.
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We think that all of those
are basically irrelevant
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and it's just a matter
of motivation and desire.
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But the reality is
that circumstances are critical
to helping them make it.
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America has achieved
a dubious distinction
of being the
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most unequal society
of any of
the advanced countries.
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The very richest Americans,
those in the top one percent,
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have been gaining a larger
and larger share
of the economic pie,
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while the earnings of people
in the middle of the income distribution have been stagnant
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and the earnings of the people at the bottom of
the income distribution
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have actually been falling.
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We're asking families of
four, five, six,
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you know,
to live on very low means.
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They cannot own,
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they barely can rent.
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140 million Americans
are living one paycheck away
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or one child's illness away
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from complete
financial devastation.
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There's no justice in a society
where roughly 40% of people
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that are born in poverty
in the United States
are gonna remain in poverty.
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When the family
you're born into
determines your destiny,
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that tears at the fabric
of the American dream.
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It makes
the American dream a lie.
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You're blessed to get out
the bed this morning.
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You're blessed to feel
well enough to come.
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You're blessed
you could drive over here.
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You're blessed.
You're blessed!
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I think that my childhood
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prepared me to do this work.
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I was born in
St. Louis, Missouri,
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moved to Southern California
when I was three,
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and moved to Denver
when I was 10.
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We were fleeing
from my father at the time.
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He was dealing with some
alcohol and drug abuse,
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and some domestic
situations occurred,
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and it was just unsafe
for my mom
to be in California.
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As a little girl,
I remember Christmas.
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I prayed that we would have
a Christmas.
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I...
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I woke up to nothing.
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So, you...
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get up,
and it's another day, and...
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even as a little girl
I was aware that I didn't
wanna see my mom feel bad.
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Mmm-mmm.
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She was trying.
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My freshmen year
of high school
we were evicted
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and I lived
with my best friend.
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And my sister lived with
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her best friend,
and my mom lived...
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I don't know.
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My sophomore year, I had
an amazing English teacher.
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My girlfriends and I
would stand in the hallway
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and discuss
Crime and Punishment.
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We were so engulfed in
literature and discussion,
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and I was like, if I can do
what she's doing for me
right now
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with someone else,
that would be cool.
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I am the new principal
at Frick Impact Academy.
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We are plagued with
a history of violence,
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suspensions, lack of
experienced teachers,
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lack of resources.
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I am here to turn around
the school. If I fail,
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then my school will close.
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-Hey.
-Hey.
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-Good to see you.
-How are you?
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-Good to see you.
-I'm doing well.
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Ready to talk shop.
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My first feeling was...
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-this is an institution.
-Mmm-hmm.
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I felt like I was going
for a class at San Quentin.
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Does this keep kids safe?
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-The fence?
-Yeah.
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Are we trying to keep
people out? Or we trying to
invite people in?
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Maybe we open the fence.
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You can't have schools
that feel like San Quentin
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and expect them to be
places of love
and peace and joy.
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It just doesn't work
that way.
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Nothing is wrong
with my kids.
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Everything is wrong
with the system.
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We're a society of
do-it-yourself.
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Like, that's the
American dream, is...
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pull yourself up
by your bootstraps.
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When you don't have boots,
it's hard.
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We serve
a very high population
of students
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who are in foster care.
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A lot of homeless families.
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My students come with
no supplies, no backpack,
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didn't eat...
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They come with,
"Dad is in jail."
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"My father was taken from
our family and deported
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"last night."
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The list goes on and on
of what they bring,
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and if they have a bad day
and they roll their eyes,
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then now
you take it personally
as an adult.
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But you don't even know
that her mom is on
a crack binge right now.
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And she probably
rolled her eyes 'cause didn't
wanna take her sweater off
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because her uniform shirt
is dirty.
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But you didn't ask her.
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You assumed.
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That's inequity.
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Is not meeting
every single child
where they're at,
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and we have to.
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It was
just kinda one thing
after another with his,
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not using his uniform,
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standing up
and walking around.
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Finally, I just said,
"Just leave. Just go."
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And it was a trigger
for him
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and he got up
and he came up to me
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with his hands clenched
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and he stepped
on my foot, hard.
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Do you feel safe
if he returns to your class?
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I have to make sure
you and the other students
feel safe,
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at the same time
try to support Elijah,
because I know
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he's going thought a lot
at home.
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I don't feel like
the best thing
for him is to
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go out into the world,
right, because
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there's not gonna be any
positive reinforcements.
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Where we live,
poverty is real,
violence is real.
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They don't recognize
their own trauma
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and a lot of the behavior
that they're exhibiting is
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a part of that trauma.
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Is everything okay?
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-Stop.
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Stop. Stop!
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-Stop! Stop!
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No. No. No. No.
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Stop. Stop.
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Stop!
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No! Can you
get him that way?
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-I got him. I got him.
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Look at me. Look at me.
Look at me...
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Is that front door locked?
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That chaos is bullshit.
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It doesn't have to exist
in schools.
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It doesn't have to exist.
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And we keep failing kidsby letting shit like this exist.
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Fuck, man.
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The formation of
the society that would become
the United States
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was simultaneously
revolutionary
and reactionary.
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These people articulate this
profound aspiration
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that all people are equal.
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But at the same time,
they're developing
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in line with profound notions
of race and gender that say,
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some people
just aren't human.
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It's no great secret that
it was wealthy white men
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who had the political power
and the vision
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to create
the founding documents,
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which at that time were
brilliant advances in sort of
the democratic project.
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But we know now, of course,
that their vision of
"All men are created equal"
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certainly didn't
include women,
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but it didn't even
include all men.
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I mean, most of the
Founding Fathers
were slave owners.
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Women had no legal existence
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separate from their husband.
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Not enjoying a right
to own or buy property.
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Not a right to inherit wealth
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without the permission
of their husband.
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Black Americans were treated
even worse, of course,
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because they were enslaved,
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and there were no protections
for black Americans
against slave masters.
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When you create a constitution
that protects property,
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and property includes people,
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basically the constitution
is reinforcing
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the subordination
of those people.
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So we wrote racism,
classism, and sexism
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into our founding documents.
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The result is a society
that is deeply hierarchical.
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We live in a patriarchal system
and that patriarchy, it says,
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everything that is
stereotypically masculine
is on top,
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and everything that's
stereotypically feminine
is on the bottom.
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So, we tend to value things
that we assign to men.
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Things like competitiveness,
radical individualism,
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control, domination,
aggression.
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We then end up devaluing
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universal human traits.
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Things like empathy, compassion care, community, partnership.
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In the gender binary system,
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so often we make these
artificial splits
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and so we say,
to be masculine
means to be strong.
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Therefore, to be feminine
means to be weak.
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So, whether you look through
the lens of race, class,
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sexuality, you see
the same hard-soft binary.
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White people on top,
and black people
on the bottom.
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Rich people on the top,
poor people on the bottom.
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The people on the top
are humanized
only in relationship
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to the dehumanization of
the people on the bottom,
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which is woman,
people of color,
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poor people, gay people,
immigrants, et cetera.
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What we've done
with these ideas
is we've used them to justify
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different levels of worth
and worthlessness
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to justify privilege
and violence,
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and then we've built
our society, the structures,the institutions of our society,
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around these ideas.
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And so basically,
much of this inequality is
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seen as invisible or normal.
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For example, politicians
always seem to find money
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for traits and activities
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that are "stereotypically"
considered masculine.
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Weapons, wars, prisons,
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but somehow they can't seem
to find enough money
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for anything
that we have learned
to call "soft,"
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"feminine," childcare,
healthcare, early childhood
education.
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The very investments
that we so need,
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not only for
human capacity development,
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but for economic development.
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The United States
is a very masculine country,
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and so we need to incorporate
a critical understanding
of gender
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in all our efforts
to diminish inequality
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and fulfill
the American dream
in the 21st century.
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My parents
came to the States from India
pursuing the American dream,
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and looking for
better opportunities
for their children.
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It was precisely that
striving towards
the American dream
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that really struck me
in the larger Chicano
neighborhood
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that I grew up in.
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These were
working class folks
that worked really hard
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and believed
they would one day
be wealthy,
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but there's just so many
structural obstacles
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to you actually achieving
that "American dream."
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I was working at
a Latino immigrant worker
organizing center
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when 9/11 happened.
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There was a restaurant
at the top of the
World Trade Center, Tower 1,
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and on that morning,
73 workers died.
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There were also
13,000 workers
in New York City
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who lost their jobs
in the months and weeks
that followed.
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So we founded
the Restaurant Opportunities
Centers United
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to help these workers
get back on their feet.
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We were overwhelmed
with workers asking for help.
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Key issues kept coming up
again and again.
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Poverty wages,
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lack of benefits like
paid sick days,
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sexual harassment,
and very severe
racial segregation,
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so that workers really had
no opportunity
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to achieve the America dream.
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The restaurant industry, it's one of the fastest growing sectors of our economy
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and yet, every year
seven of the 10
lowest paying jobs
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and the two absolute
lowest paying jobs
in the country
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are restaurant jobs.
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One of the reasons goes back
to the emancipation
of the slaves.
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The restaurant industry
and the Pullman Train Company
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demanding the right to hire
newly freed slaves
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and let them rely on
customer tips rather than
pay them a wage.
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And that was actually
codified into the very first
minimum wage law
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passed under FDR in 1938.
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Which meant that the first
minimum wage for tipped workers
in the United States was zero.
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And we've gone from zero
to $2.13 an hour,
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which is the current
federal minimum wage
for workers who earn tips
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over a hundred-year period.
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The ultimate goal
is to get Congress
to do things for women.
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Especially women in
the restaurant industry
and women in low-wage jobs,
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that help them succeed
and feed their families,
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and getting rid of the
lower wage for tipped workers
is one of those things.
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70% of tipped workers
in America are women
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who have a median wage of
$9 an hour including tips,
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suffer from three times
the poverty rate of the rest
of the U.S. workforce,
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use food stamps at
double the rate,
and suffer from the worst,
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the absolute worst
sexual harassment rate of any
industry in the United States.
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Generally about $100,
I would say a month,
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were what
the restaurant paid me.
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And then I would be making
$900 in tips.
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My budget was $2,000.
I had to pay rent,
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I was helping my mother
take care of my
little brother,
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still had to pay
student loans,
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phone bill, everything...
It was not adding up.
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So, it forced me to either
go and get a second
or a third job.
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Do you know that we spend
$16 billion annually
in tax payer dollars
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for public assistance
for these workers?
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This is the only industry
on earth that's gotten away
with essentially saying,
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"All other working Americans
should pay for
our workers' wages."
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There was an article in
The New York Times about restaurant workers in Denmark,
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where they have a minimum wage
of $21 for all
restaurant workers,
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tipped and non-tipped.
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And they asked
the operator of
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major chain restaurants
in the Copenhagen Airport,
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"Why do you pay this much?"
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And he said, "Well,
if I didn't pay $21 an hour,
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"workers would have
to live on
public assistance,
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"and that would be a sign
of a failed society."
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'Cause it isn't just about
these workers who can't live,
it's the fact that
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they're not gonna
be able to afford
to support this economy.
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We're nearing a place
where half of America
is living in poverty.
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That's gotta be our
top priority for the world's
richest country.
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Let's say you have giant
multinational company "A"
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that employs hundreds
of thousands of workers,
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but doesn't pay those workers
a living wage.
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Well, who makes up for that?
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The taxpayer makes up for that.
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And so then,
the taxpayers, regressively,
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are in a position of
subsidizing the shareholders.
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Giving welfare, in essence,
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to some of the wealthiest
corporations in the world.
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It used to be
that corporations
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saw themselves as
long-lives institutions,
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but beginning around 1980,
we began to rewrite the rules
of the economy,
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with those at the top
doing very well,
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the bankers
doing very well,
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the rest of the economy
doing very poorly.
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There was also a shift
in our values.
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We began, in a sense,
to enter a new gilded age
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in which we celebrated wealth
and celebrated power.
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Corporations take the profits and they distribute them to the shareholders
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and pay the CEOs
huge amounts of money.
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And then they say,
"We don't have any money
to pay workers."
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The annual Wall Street
bonus pool,
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just the bonus pool,
is almost double
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the full time
minimum wage earnings
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of all Americans.
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Corporations,
the financial sector
figured out
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that investments
in Washington,
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by campaign contributions,
paid huge returns
in terms of
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first, deregulation,
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and then in terms
of preventing
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the kind of re-regulation
that would make
our economy function well
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for everybody in society.
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So we see this
very tight relationship
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between politicians
and corporations,
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in terms of the revolving door between the two sectors.
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We changed the rules
of the political game
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as well
as the economic game.
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They give more
influence to money.
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It has moved from
one person, one vote
to one dollar, one vote.
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And all across the land,
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we see institutions
that have broken
the social compact,
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this notion that
we're all in it together.
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I grew up
in a small village
in McDonald, Ohio.
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A town that was named after the first superintendent of U.S. Steel.
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When I was younger,
everything was booming.
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We had five bars
and five churches.
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They were all full.
We had a grocery store,
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a pharmacy.
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It seemed like the America dream was going on and everybody was happy.
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These apartments
were actually built
for mill employees.
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We lived
in the apartment here.
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With my own father leaving
at six months old,
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00:22:53,067 --> 00:22:56,636
it was pretty devastating
to us.
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My mom is by far
the hardest working
individual
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that I've ever met.
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00:23:02,424 --> 00:23:04,818
She worked at the mill
seven days a week,
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long hours,
then she went to clean
the post office.
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I'm not even sure
when she slept.
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00:23:10,127 --> 00:23:12,565
When I came home,
there was always food
on the table.
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00:23:15,481 --> 00:23:18,397
I always wanted to work
at the steel mill.
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00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,703
The way those guys
laughed and joked,
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00:23:20,747 --> 00:23:22,401
and the old roughness
to 'em,
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00:23:22,444 --> 00:23:24,881
their arrogantness,
and told dirty jokes...
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I loved it.
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00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,843
It was what was meant to be
a man as far as I knew.
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I ran a sonic tester,
at Copperweld,
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which tests for internal flaws in all of the quality steel.
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00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:41,376
It's a well-known fact
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00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:45,162
that the individuals
in this area helped build
the tanks and bombs
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00:23:45,206 --> 00:23:46,903
that won
these countries' wars.
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00:23:49,166 --> 00:23:53,780
And September, 1977,
was known as Black Monday.
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00:23:53,823 --> 00:23:59,002
LTV Corporation
announced the closing
of the Youngstown Works.
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00:23:59,046 --> 00:24:02,789
Five thousand individuals
lost their jobs immediately.
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00:24:02,832 --> 00:24:07,184
In the next several months
after that, over 14,000.
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00:24:07,228 --> 00:24:10,361
And over the last 20 years
in the Youngstown area,
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00:24:10,405 --> 00:24:13,800
we've lost over 100,000
steel mill-related jobs.
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Management did not
wanna buckle
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and understand that
you needed these folks.
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You're gonna have to
pay them a little bit more.
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00:24:23,331 --> 00:24:25,376
And that was one of
the key issues.
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00:24:27,944 --> 00:24:31,121
Corporate greed
annihilated this area.
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In August of 2000,
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they were talking about
closing Copperweld,
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00:24:38,651 --> 00:24:41,175
and a lot of the individuals
around me
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said they've been talking
about closing for 30 years,
it'll never happen.
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00:24:44,874 --> 00:24:48,487
Well, that Christmas time,
I was one of the folks
that got laid off.
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00:24:49,836 --> 00:24:51,968
I was completely devastated.
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00:24:52,012 --> 00:24:55,189
I had just built a new house
and bought a new truck.
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00:24:55,232 --> 00:24:56,973
I have three young boys.
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00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:03,197
It was either file bankruptcy and move back to the apartments where I came from,
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00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,633
or go door to door.
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00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:07,941
You gotta get your hustle on.
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00:25:09,551 --> 00:25:11,248
And you put
your pride aside...
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00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:17,516
and you ask 'em
if you can clean their gutters.
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00:25:22,869 --> 00:25:25,524
I remember one year,
we filed our income tax
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00:25:25,567 --> 00:25:27,656
and I think it was
less than $15,000.
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That was our combined total,
you know.
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00:25:30,180 --> 00:25:32,139
Our first, probably, 10 years,
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00:25:32,182 --> 00:25:34,968
most of our arguments
was about money.
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00:25:35,011 --> 00:25:36,926
And I hated it.
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00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:40,147
You struggle...
We did it for many years.
436
00:25:40,190 --> 00:25:44,238
I used to joke
I'm going grocery shopping
at my mom's.
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00:25:44,281 --> 00:25:48,024
Toilet paper,
you know, couple of cans
of macaroni and cheese.
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00:25:49,286 --> 00:25:50,940
-Hey, Steven, how you doing?
-Not bad.
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00:25:52,638 --> 00:25:54,378
Thank you.
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00:25:54,422 --> 00:25:57,294
When the yellow point
starts to run out,
you keep going
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00:25:57,338 --> 00:26:00,776
to look for a job
and you keep getting
turned down, or you keep
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00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:03,083
getting rejected
over and over again,
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00:26:03,126 --> 00:26:04,475
it takes a toll.
444
00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:06,695
It not only takes a toll
on you,
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00:26:07,870 --> 00:26:10,569
but it erodes
the whole family.
446
00:26:10,612 --> 00:26:12,571
How'd you adjust?
What'd you do?
447
00:26:12,614 --> 00:26:14,834
-You go into survive mode.
-Yep.
448
00:26:14,877 --> 00:26:17,097
Cut everything out,
sell everything.
449
00:26:17,140 --> 00:26:20,404
I've sold coin collections,
I've sold my gold,
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00:26:20,448 --> 00:26:22,537
I sold watches
that I had collected...
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00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,366
just to keep the house.
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00:26:25,409 --> 00:26:29,544
All these years
and now here I am again
starting over.
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00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:32,503
I left my wife and kids,
I went to Texas.
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00:26:32,547 --> 00:26:34,331
And went right
into the oil field.
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00:26:34,375 --> 00:26:36,769
My day would
start at 3:00 in the morning,
456
00:26:36,812 --> 00:26:38,335
and it was six days a week.
457
00:26:38,379 --> 00:26:41,251
It killed me to be away.
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00:26:41,295 --> 00:26:44,907
I had missed so much
of my family time with them
because of that.
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00:26:44,951 --> 00:26:48,302
They were gonna pay
for relocation, but I just...
460
00:26:48,345 --> 00:26:50,217
my roots are here.
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00:26:50,260 --> 00:26:53,437
I'm not gonna take the kids
away from their grandparents.
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00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,527
Right.
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00:26:56,571 --> 00:26:59,618
The years you watched
as we let foreign countries
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00:26:59,661 --> 00:27:03,099
shutter our factories
and steal our jobs
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00:27:03,143 --> 00:27:04,710
like we're little babies,
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00:27:04,753 --> 00:27:07,887
but those days
are over, Ohio.
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00:27:11,891 --> 00:27:14,633
We switched party lines
and voted Republican
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00:27:14,676 --> 00:27:17,200
for the first time since 1972.
469
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,421
We've had
40 years of suffering.
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00:27:22,728 --> 00:27:24,033
Enough is enough.
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00:27:31,519 --> 00:27:34,522
What we've done
for the last 50 years is
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00:27:34,565 --> 00:27:37,699
we've created a politics
in which there's broad support
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00:27:37,743 --> 00:27:42,051
for a series of policies
that are driving
economic inequality.
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00:27:42,095 --> 00:27:45,315
The rich can win
popular support
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00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,230
for their preferences,
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00:27:47,274 --> 00:27:50,103
which is more power
and more wealth concentrated
in their hands,
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00:27:50,146 --> 00:27:52,192
if they say to the public
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00:27:52,235 --> 00:27:56,065
government programs
that try and build
a collective public
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00:27:56,109 --> 00:27:59,460
are actually giveaways
to undeserving minorities.
480
00:27:59,503 --> 00:28:03,029
Government is not
the solution to our problem.
481
00:28:03,072 --> 00:28:05,379
Government is the problem.
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00:28:05,422 --> 00:28:08,382
"And if
government is a problem,"
Reagan would say,
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00:28:08,425 --> 00:28:10,732
"stop funding it.
Cut taxes."
484
00:28:10,776 --> 00:28:12,647
And so Reagan did.
485
00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:15,302
He passed some of
the biggest tax cuts
the country's ever seen.
486
00:28:15,345 --> 00:28:19,001
But did these tax cuts
actually go
to hard working whites?
487
00:28:19,785 --> 00:28:22,004
In fact, over the 1980s
488
00:28:22,048 --> 00:28:26,400
the Reagan tax cuts
transferred
a trillion dollars of wealth
489
00:28:26,443 --> 00:28:28,315
to the top one percent
of the country.
490
00:28:32,101 --> 00:28:34,756
And these tax cuts
have never been repealed.
491
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,674
And so each decade since,
a further trillion dollars
of wealth
492
00:28:39,718 --> 00:28:42,329
have been transferred
to the top one percent
of the country.
493
00:28:42,372 --> 00:28:44,723
If you're reducing taxes
on the wealthy,
494
00:28:44,766 --> 00:28:46,289
and you're not bringing in
any more revenue,
495
00:28:46,333 --> 00:28:48,770
you're gonna have to then
cut programs that serve people.
496
00:28:48,814 --> 00:28:52,339
Including
mental health programs
and community services
497
00:28:52,382 --> 00:28:54,210
and public works projects.
498
00:28:54,254 --> 00:28:56,691
Worker retraining
and all the kinds of ways
499
00:28:56,735 --> 00:28:59,999
in which government money
can ameliorate
the most dire effects
500
00:29:00,042 --> 00:29:01,391
of inequality,
501
00:29:01,435 --> 00:29:03,524
and the idea there
is totally gendered,
502
00:29:03,567 --> 00:29:05,656
in other words, the notion
of a self-made man
503
00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:07,093
who doesn't need
other people
504
00:29:07,136 --> 00:29:10,531
versus community which is
gendered very much feminine,
505
00:29:10,574 --> 00:29:12,794
which is to say
interdependence.
506
00:29:12,838 --> 00:29:14,753
How do they convince people
507
00:29:14,796 --> 00:29:16,798
to turn against
the very policies
508
00:29:16,842 --> 00:29:19,758
that had created
the biggest expansion
in middle class
509
00:29:19,801 --> 00:29:21,803
the United States
had ever seen?
510
00:29:21,847 --> 00:29:24,763
They engaged in what we call
dog-whistle politics.
511
00:29:24,806 --> 00:29:27,635
And the metaphor
is of a political message
512
00:29:27,678 --> 00:29:30,420
that on one level generates
sharp reactions,
513
00:29:30,464 --> 00:29:32,335
but on another, is silent
514
00:29:32,379 --> 00:29:34,468
in a way
that allows politicians
515
00:29:34,511 --> 00:29:37,297
to deny that they are doing
any such thing.
516
00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:41,388
To you,
the great silent majority,
517
00:29:41,431 --> 00:29:42,998
my fellow Americans,
518
00:29:43,042 --> 00:29:44,652
I ask for your support.
519
00:29:44,695 --> 00:29:48,482
...great national crusade
to make America great again.
520
00:29:48,525 --> 00:29:52,355
All Americans are rightly
disturbed by the large numbers
521
00:29:52,399 --> 00:29:55,315
of illegal aliens
entering our country.
522
00:29:55,358 --> 00:29:57,752
And we will
not be intimidated by thugs.
523
00:29:57,796 --> 00:30:00,929
The silent majority is back.
524
00:30:00,973 --> 00:30:05,368
And we are going
to make America great again!
525
00:30:05,412 --> 00:30:09,198
"Make America great again,"
what it really says is,
526
00:30:09,242 --> 00:30:11,679
"Make white men
center-stage again."
527
00:30:11,722 --> 00:30:13,333
Any hierarchy
528
00:30:13,376 --> 00:30:15,857
has ways of defending itself
529
00:30:15,901 --> 00:30:19,556
by creating a situation
of scarcity in competition.
530
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,950
So, there's been scarcity
in competition
531
00:30:21,994 --> 00:30:24,823
between women
and people of color,
532
00:30:24,866 --> 00:30:28,391
between racial minorities
and immigrants,
533
00:30:28,435 --> 00:30:30,698
between working class people,
534
00:30:30,741 --> 00:30:32,134
and racial minorities.
535
00:30:32,178 --> 00:30:33,832
And all that competition
536
00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:36,095
makes it hard for people
to look, to see
537
00:30:36,138 --> 00:30:37,836
what's happening
at the very top.
538
00:30:56,855 --> 00:30:58,291
You have your chair stuck, baby?
539
00:30:59,509 --> 00:31:01,424
I was raised with two
younger brothers
540
00:31:01,468 --> 00:31:03,687
in a very middle-class family
541
00:31:03,731 --> 00:31:05,907
in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
542
00:31:05,951 --> 00:31:07,604
My dad took me outside
one day.
543
00:31:07,648 --> 00:31:09,693
It was a really cold
December day.
544
00:31:09,737 --> 00:31:11,782
He said,
"Go grab the shovel."
545
00:31:11,826 --> 00:31:13,523
I said, "Okay."
546
00:31:13,567 --> 00:31:16,004
So, I get the shovel
and he said,
"All right, start digging."
547
00:31:16,048 --> 00:31:18,485
Okay, so I'm digging
and in a little while I said,
548
00:31:18,528 --> 00:31:20,400
"Um, what are we doing?"
549
00:31:20,443 --> 00:31:22,489
He said, "I'm teaching
you something."
550
00:31:22,532 --> 00:31:24,143
I said,
"What are you teaching me?"
551
00:31:24,186 --> 00:31:25,927
He said,
"Do you want to do this
the rest of your life?"
552
00:31:25,971 --> 00:31:28,887
I said, "Oh, no, sir."
He said, "Go to college.
553
00:31:28,930 --> 00:31:31,237
"Get an education.
Work hard."
554
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,543
I said, "Yes, sir." He said,"All right, you can put away theshovel and go in."
555
00:31:35,719 --> 00:31:37,721
Thank you, ma'am.
556
00:31:37,765 --> 00:31:39,593
In 1980,
when Reagan beat Carter,
557
00:31:39,636 --> 00:31:41,421
I was six years old,
558
00:31:41,464 --> 00:31:43,510
and my dad let me
stay up and watch
the election returns.
559
00:31:43,553 --> 00:31:45,991
I was hooked right then.
Hooked.
560
00:31:46,034 --> 00:31:49,081
How can you not
fall in love
with Ronald Reagan?
561
00:31:49,124 --> 00:31:51,822
I aim to try and tap
562
00:31:51,866 --> 00:31:54,086
that great American spirit.
563
00:31:54,129 --> 00:31:56,915
We're going to put America
back to work again.
564
00:31:58,655 --> 00:32:01,310
His message
was just hope
565
00:32:01,354 --> 00:32:02,877
and American exceptionalism.
566
00:32:02,921 --> 00:32:05,271
He believed
in American greatness.
567
00:32:06,185 --> 00:32:08,709
I believe if you work hard,
568
00:32:08,752 --> 00:32:11,581
you can do anything.
It's America.
569
00:32:11,625 --> 00:32:13,453
I've always been
a Republican
570
00:32:13,496 --> 00:32:15,150
because I thought
they were the party
of lesser government,
571
00:32:15,194 --> 00:32:16,630
more individual liberties.
572
00:32:16,673 --> 00:32:18,849
I don't wanna give up
my individual freedoms
573
00:32:18,893 --> 00:32:21,374
for an entitlement
for a whole group of people.
574
00:32:26,031 --> 00:32:28,207
So, this was
my little trailer park.
575
00:32:29,643 --> 00:32:31,819
I technically
still own the land.
576
00:32:33,168 --> 00:32:36,302
You just would be surprised
how people live.
577
00:32:36,345 --> 00:32:39,174
Sometimes you'd walk in
and you'd step
on a dirty diaper.
578
00:32:39,218 --> 00:32:40,959
When you're high
and you're on drugs,
579
00:32:41,002 --> 00:32:43,483
they just throw up
on themselves,
they don't clean it.
580
00:32:43,526 --> 00:32:44,919
One was so bad,
581
00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:47,139
I had an officer with me
to evict people,
582
00:32:47,182 --> 00:32:48,836
and he came out puking.
583
00:32:50,533 --> 00:32:53,580
The frustrating part
to someone like me is,
584
00:32:53,623 --> 00:32:55,451
whatever, they're 16 years old
585
00:32:55,495 --> 00:32:57,627
and they say,
"Oh, I'm gonna go
file for disability."
586
00:32:57,671 --> 00:32:59,412
You're like,
587
00:32:59,455 --> 00:33:00,717
"Are you disabled?"
588
00:33:00,761 --> 00:33:03,242
"Oh, no, no, no.
I'll just say I have seizures.
589
00:33:03,285 --> 00:33:05,374
"They can't prove epilepsy."
590
00:33:05,418 --> 00:33:07,159
And they just
collect a check,
591
00:33:07,202 --> 00:33:08,551
and it is very frustrating.
592
00:33:11,206 --> 00:33:13,513
My mother believed
she was right
593
00:33:13,556 --> 00:33:15,515
and everyone else was wrong.
594
00:33:15,558 --> 00:33:17,647
She was not
compassionate at all.
595
00:33:17,691 --> 00:33:19,998
It was, "You're on welfare,
you should starve to death."
596
00:33:20,041 --> 00:33:23,392
Not, not to that degree, okay?
But I mean, it was just real...
597
00:33:23,436 --> 00:33:25,046
rigid.
598
00:33:25,090 --> 00:33:27,266
So I was raised
very conservatively,
599
00:33:27,309 --> 00:33:29,094
but without compassion.
600
00:33:31,705 --> 00:33:34,751
One of the fundamental problems that we have to address
601
00:33:34,795 --> 00:33:37,058
is this empathy gap.
602
00:33:37,102 --> 00:33:40,235
This tendency
to otherize people
603
00:33:40,279 --> 00:33:41,671
who aren't like ourselves.
604
00:33:41,715 --> 00:33:44,935
To point fingers rather than
offer a helping hand.
605
00:33:44,979 --> 00:33:46,807
We have created a society
606
00:33:46,850 --> 00:33:49,157
where we don't see each other.
607
00:33:49,201 --> 00:33:51,551
And so, when you
don't see people,
608
00:33:53,118 --> 00:33:55,685
you can dehumanize people.
609
00:33:55,729 --> 00:33:57,600
We are in a crisis
of connection.
610
00:33:57,644 --> 00:33:59,776
Children are being
raised to believe
611
00:33:59,820 --> 00:34:01,169
that the outgroup member,
612
00:34:01,213 --> 00:34:04,042
whether it's class-based,
race-based, gender-based,
613
00:34:04,085 --> 00:34:07,349
is somehow fundamentally
not like them.
614
00:34:07,393 --> 00:34:10,744
And that is the most
devastating thing we can
communicate to our children,
615
00:34:10,787 --> 00:34:12,920
because what do you think
that does to your actions,
616
00:34:12,963 --> 00:34:15,575
your ability to create
a collective with people
617
00:34:15,618 --> 00:34:17,098
from different communities?
618
00:34:17,142 --> 00:34:18,447
You're not gonna
be able to do it.
619
00:34:29,023 --> 00:34:31,721
This morning we come
to the name of Jesus.
We love you.
620
00:34:31,765 --> 00:34:34,246
We thank you for loving us.
God, give us peace today
621
00:34:34,289 --> 00:34:35,725
as we search for you.
622
00:34:35,769 --> 00:34:37,292
It's in your name we pray,
Jesus. And everybody say...
623
00:34:37,336 --> 00:34:39,381
Amen.
624
00:34:39,425 --> 00:34:41,035
We wanted it
to be a community that
everyone felt welcomed,
625
00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:43,385
no matter who they were
or what they'd been through,
626
00:34:43,429 --> 00:34:45,257
their social status,
627
00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:47,520
um, and then we want
to be a church of grace.
628
00:34:47,563 --> 00:34:49,652
Even though it was storming
this past week
629
00:34:49,696 --> 00:34:51,480
and everybody was flooded in,
630
00:34:51,524 --> 00:34:54,092
we still found time to feed
over 500 people
this past Thursday.
631
00:34:54,135 --> 00:34:55,702
-That's awesome.
632
00:34:58,618 --> 00:34:59,923
People ask us all the time,
633
00:34:59,967 --> 00:35:01,360
"Why do y'all
feed those people?
634
00:35:01,403 --> 00:35:03,101
"They're taking
advantage of you."
635
00:35:03,144 --> 00:35:05,581
It's not on me what they do
when we do good,
636
00:35:05,625 --> 00:35:07,105
it's our job to do good.
637
00:35:11,326 --> 00:35:13,415
We're in the Bible Belt.
638
00:35:13,459 --> 00:35:15,896
We have very rich people
who come here, we have very poor people who come here.
639
00:35:15,939 --> 00:35:18,986
We have white, black,
all different types of races,
640
00:35:19,029 --> 00:35:21,293
different types of families,
orientation.
641
00:35:21,336 --> 00:35:23,121
We have progressives here
642
00:35:23,164 --> 00:35:24,992
and we have
conservatives here.
643
00:35:25,035 --> 00:35:27,603
I wanted us
to be a testimony
644
00:35:27,647 --> 00:35:29,431
of different people
coming together
645
00:35:29,475 --> 00:35:31,868
in spite of those differences and still worshipping together
646
00:35:31,912 --> 00:35:34,219
because what I saw
was division.
647
00:35:34,262 --> 00:35:36,786
A lot of people
aren't really interested
648
00:35:36,830 --> 00:35:39,702
in understanding
other people right now.
649
00:35:39,746 --> 00:35:43,053
If you're not on their side
on women's rights,
650
00:35:43,097 --> 00:35:44,968
their right to choose,
651
00:35:45,012 --> 00:35:48,668
if you don't believe in just
one man and one woman,
what they believe,
652
00:35:48,711 --> 00:35:50,583
then they would say,
653
00:35:50,626 --> 00:35:52,062
"How could you be
a Christian?"
654
00:35:52,976 --> 00:35:54,674
I feel like, that today,
655
00:35:54,717 --> 00:35:57,981
one of the greatest sins
of our country is
656
00:35:58,025 --> 00:35:59,461
racism, prejudice,
657
00:35:59,505 --> 00:36:01,768
and hatred against people
that are different than you.
658
00:36:01,811 --> 00:36:05,163
If we do not
protect our race
and protect our people,
659
00:36:05,206 --> 00:36:06,947
they're gonna destroy you.
660
00:36:06,990 --> 00:36:08,644
-White power!
-White power!
661
00:36:12,126 --> 00:36:14,868
White lives matter!
White lives matter!
662
00:36:14,911 --> 00:36:17,479
You will not replace us!
663
00:36:18,263 --> 00:36:20,526
You will not replace us!
664
00:36:20,569 --> 00:36:23,790
My country!
I'm a proud fuckin' American!
665
00:36:23,833 --> 00:36:26,532
Go back to jail, motherfucker!
666
00:36:26,575 --> 00:36:29,143
And build that fucking wall,
for me!
667
00:36:39,153 --> 00:36:41,547
We started doing
healing circles.
668
00:36:41,590 --> 00:36:44,419
It's been a practice
that we've seen
669
00:36:44,463 --> 00:36:47,857
bring our community
closer together.
670
00:36:47,901 --> 00:36:49,468
And when you connect
you heal.
671
00:38:10,505 --> 00:38:12,594
Every single one
of my students
672
00:38:12,638 --> 00:38:15,423
could use a therapist.
673
00:38:17,556 --> 00:38:19,427
Weekly, minimum.
674
00:38:21,821 --> 00:38:24,476
There is a waiting list
for therapy.
675
00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:26,173
It's really sad
676
00:38:26,216 --> 00:38:28,741
how we start to rank trauma.
677
00:38:30,395 --> 00:38:32,135
With our newcomer population,
678
00:38:32,179 --> 00:38:34,007
their trauma is so fresh,
679
00:38:34,050 --> 00:38:36,792
in that whole experience
of crossing the border.
680
00:38:38,272 --> 00:38:40,666
One of my young
female students
681
00:38:40,709 --> 00:38:43,843
normally very respectful,
happy,
682
00:38:43,886 --> 00:38:45,323
yelled at a teacher
683
00:38:45,366 --> 00:38:48,326
and, like, was really angry.
684
00:38:48,369 --> 00:38:51,154
And once we started
to ask her, you know,
685
00:38:51,198 --> 00:38:53,287
"What's going on?
Why are you acting out?"
686
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:57,117
And she said that
ICE was at her house.
687
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,338
We had a soccer game
and they didn't wanna
come and play.
688
00:39:00,381 --> 00:39:02,688
They didn't know
if they would be safe.
689
00:39:02,731 --> 00:39:04,298
They're scared.
690
00:39:10,086 --> 00:39:11,261
Hi.
691
00:39:11,305 --> 00:39:13,960
Thank you for being here.
692
00:39:14,003 --> 00:39:15,440
-Thank you so much.
693
00:39:19,705 --> 00:39:22,621
What percentage
of your students
are newcomers?
694
00:39:22,664 --> 00:39:25,450
-31%
-31%? Wow.
695
00:39:25,493 --> 00:39:27,887
Can you feel the difference
in the atmosphere,
696
00:39:27,930 --> 00:39:29,671
like this year
versus last year?
697
00:39:29,715 --> 00:39:32,979
It's way more tense
this year.
698
00:39:33,022 --> 00:39:36,199
Every week I have a kid
who is trying
to commit suicide
699
00:39:36,243 --> 00:39:37,679
and I'm calling
an ambulance.
700
00:39:37,723 --> 00:39:39,899
-Every week?
-Every single week.
701
00:39:39,942 --> 00:39:41,770
We have over 30 kids cutting,
702
00:39:41,814 --> 00:39:43,946
like, a cutting epidemic.
703
00:39:43,990 --> 00:39:46,862
Do you guys remember when
I explained to you that
704
00:39:46,906 --> 00:39:49,082
the mayor had made
an announcement
705
00:39:49,125 --> 00:39:50,997
about ICE being in Oakland?
706
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,739
And that I told you
not to panic,
707
00:39:53,782 --> 00:39:57,351
that, um, you guys were
in a safe school,
708
00:39:57,395 --> 00:39:59,745
and that nothing
was gonna happen to you?
709
00:39:59,788 --> 00:40:03,183
I think it's very important
that people know their rights
710
00:40:03,226 --> 00:40:06,316
and I hope that people
feel welcome in Oakland
711
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,362
no matter where
they come from.
712
00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:12,148
And I encourage you
to always speak
713
00:40:12,192 --> 00:40:13,933
to those who hold power
714
00:40:13,976 --> 00:40:16,936
about what they're
doing with it.
715
00:40:16,979 --> 00:40:19,460
-Because you matter, right?
-Yeah.
716
00:40:19,504 --> 00:40:20,983
What are some of your dreams?
717
00:40:21,027 --> 00:40:22,681
I want to be a doctor.
718
00:40:22,724 --> 00:40:24,204
-Doctor?
-Yeah.
719
00:40:24,247 --> 00:40:26,728
-That'd be great,
to heal people.
-Yeah.
720
00:40:26,772 --> 00:40:28,817
Does anyone want
to be the mayor?
721
00:40:29,644 --> 00:40:32,081
-No?
722
00:40:32,125 --> 00:40:34,083
We call him "Mr. President."
723
00:40:36,042 --> 00:40:38,784
I want you to have
all your dreams come true.
724
00:40:38,827 --> 00:40:41,264
I want everyone to feel like
725
00:40:41,308 --> 00:40:43,049
they have access to a future
726
00:40:43,092 --> 00:40:45,268
and I know we have work to do.
727
00:40:45,312 --> 00:40:47,357
And you have
a wonderful principal
728
00:40:47,401 --> 00:40:50,709
who works very hard
and she holds a lot.
729
00:40:50,752 --> 00:40:52,537
The things that worry you,
730
00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:56,018
she goes home and worries
about them, too,
every night.
731
00:40:57,193 --> 00:40:59,108
That's part of
being a family, right?
732
00:40:59,152 --> 00:41:00,153
Mmm-hmm.
733
00:41:02,024 --> 00:41:04,897
You can't be so close
to this much trauma
734
00:41:04,940 --> 00:41:08,117
and not be affected by it.
735
00:41:08,161 --> 00:41:12,121
It's much more emotional
than I thought it would be.
736
00:41:12,165 --> 00:41:15,124
It's really, like,
it takes a lot.
737
00:41:15,168 --> 00:41:16,735
And sometimes
you just feel like,
738
00:41:16,778 --> 00:41:19,041
"I'm not achieving
anything here."
739
00:41:19,085 --> 00:41:21,870
-Yes, you are.
Stop saying that.
-It gets to you, right?
740
00:41:21,914 --> 00:41:24,090
It gets to you.
You feel like
741
00:41:24,133 --> 00:41:26,919
-the problems
are insurmountable.
-Mmm-hmm.
742
00:41:26,962 --> 00:41:29,487
This is like the biggest
challenge of my life, really.
743
00:41:32,968 --> 00:41:35,797
I'm just worrying about
the Ruby plan.
Do you have one?
744
00:41:37,059 --> 00:41:38,800
How you gonna
sustain yourself?
745
00:41:38,844 --> 00:41:42,456
-I love them.
-I know. I'll tell you
why I asked. All right.
746
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:44,632
Let's say you burn out,
you get tired,
747
00:41:44,676 --> 00:41:46,895
not just physically,
emotionally, mentally,
748
00:41:46,939 --> 00:41:48,984
spiritually, you're tired.
749
00:41:49,028 --> 00:41:51,900
Your mind starts breaking down,
your body starts breaking down,
750
00:41:51,944 --> 00:41:53,772
you're not doing
any good for anybody.
751
00:41:57,863 --> 00:42:00,169
I was in a classroom
752
00:42:00,213 --> 00:42:02,432
doing an observation
753
00:42:02,476 --> 00:42:05,566
and I'm starting to get
kind of dizzy,
754
00:42:05,610 --> 00:42:07,612
and my chest is just hurting,
755
00:42:07,655 --> 00:42:09,788
I just can't breathe.
756
00:42:09,831 --> 00:42:12,921
The right side of my body
kinda goes numb
757
00:42:12,965 --> 00:42:15,402
and I'm, like,
panicking at this point.
758
00:42:16,316 --> 00:42:18,144
I get to the hospital
759
00:42:18,187 --> 00:42:20,799
and straight to
the emergency room,
760
00:42:20,842 --> 00:42:22,801
and I'm...
761
00:42:22,844 --> 00:42:25,325
...freaking out
and I'm crying.
762
00:42:25,368 --> 00:42:27,327
In my mind I'm thinking,
"You're weak."
763
00:42:27,370 --> 00:42:28,850
Like, "You're weak.
764
00:42:28,894 --> 00:42:31,157
"This is not...
765
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,725
"Get it together."
But I can't. I can't.
766
00:42:33,768 --> 00:42:35,901
I physically
cannot do anything.
767
00:42:38,643 --> 00:42:41,471
I had a panic attack.
768
00:42:41,515 --> 00:42:43,299
At that point, I said,
769
00:42:43,343 --> 00:42:45,301
"Well, if I don't
take care of my myself,
770
00:42:45,345 --> 00:42:47,695
"and my kids,
771
00:42:47,739 --> 00:42:50,089
"who's gonna
take care of them?"
772
00:43:06,279 --> 00:43:08,498
Our best economic policies
773
00:43:08,542 --> 00:43:11,153
were investments
in the common genius.
774
00:43:11,197 --> 00:43:13,199
Universal public education,
775
00:43:13,242 --> 00:43:14,722
the Homestead Acts,
776
00:43:14,766 --> 00:43:17,551
to which 25%
of Americans today
777
00:43:17,595 --> 00:43:19,422
attribute their wealth.
778
00:43:19,466 --> 00:43:22,251
The creation of
the 30-year Mortgage Act
779
00:43:22,295 --> 00:43:24,993
by Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac.
780
00:43:25,037 --> 00:43:26,299
The G.I. Bill,
781
00:43:26,342 --> 00:43:27,648
where we said to our G.I.'s,
782
00:43:27,692 --> 00:43:29,389
"You defended our country,
783
00:43:29,432 --> 00:43:30,956
"so we'll provide you
home loans,
784
00:43:30,999 --> 00:43:33,654
"business loans,
college loans."
785
00:43:33,698 --> 00:43:38,006
Each of those major
wealth-building initiatives
786
00:43:38,050 --> 00:43:40,182
left out people of color.
787
00:43:40,226 --> 00:43:43,621
The federal government
spent money in such a way
788
00:43:43,664 --> 00:43:45,405
that excluded
African-Americans
789
00:43:45,448 --> 00:43:46,841
and other non-whites,
790
00:43:46,885 --> 00:43:50,323
from enjoying the fruits
of our wonderful experiment,
791
00:43:50,366 --> 00:43:52,107
um, in democracy.
792
00:43:52,151 --> 00:43:55,067
Redlining actually
kept people who were black
793
00:43:55,110 --> 00:43:57,678
from being able
to buy homes
in certain areas.
794
00:43:57,722 --> 00:44:00,812
People who were white
began to move in droves
795
00:44:00,855 --> 00:44:03,292
out of cities into
suburban communities.
796
00:44:03,336 --> 00:44:05,947
Political clout went
with them to the suburbs.
797
00:44:05,991 --> 00:44:09,385
The best schools
went to the suburbs.
798
00:44:09,429 --> 00:44:12,432
Cities were left with schools
that were under-funded,
799
00:44:12,475 --> 00:44:14,521
jobs that were disappearing,
800
00:44:14,564 --> 00:44:17,959
under-investment in public transportation systems.
801
00:44:18,003 --> 00:44:20,701
We like to think
that this stuff happened
a long time ago,
802
00:44:20,745 --> 00:44:22,442
but to this day, then,
803
00:44:22,485 --> 00:44:26,272
those exclusions continue
to shape life chances
804
00:44:26,315 --> 00:44:29,144
for people who are
their descendants.
805
00:44:29,188 --> 00:44:32,017
On the one hand,
we have this wonderful value
806
00:44:32,060 --> 00:44:34,759
about equality in the country,
807
00:44:34,802 --> 00:44:36,064
democracy,
808
00:44:36,108 --> 00:44:37,718
the value of public education,
809
00:44:37,762 --> 00:44:41,374
and on the other hand,
we have the ugly reality
810
00:44:41,417 --> 00:44:43,811
of inequality and segregation
811
00:44:43,855 --> 00:44:46,727
that was baked into
much of public education
812
00:44:46,771 --> 00:44:48,686
from the beginning
of the country.
813
00:44:48,729 --> 00:44:52,733
Fortunately, the legislation
in the '60s and '70s
814
00:44:52,777 --> 00:44:54,735
that was
desegregating schools,
815
00:44:54,779 --> 00:44:58,521
that was reducing inequality
in funding for schools,
816
00:44:58,565 --> 00:45:02,134
putting money into cities
and poor rural areas,
817
00:45:02,177 --> 00:45:04,049
uh, from the federal
government,
818
00:45:04,092 --> 00:45:06,747
all of which came to an end
819
00:45:06,791 --> 00:45:09,054
or was greatly reduced
in the 1980s.
820
00:45:09,097 --> 00:45:10,925
What has happened since?
821
00:45:10,969 --> 00:45:13,885
We began to
disinvest in the public?
822
00:45:13,928 --> 00:45:16,452
We adopted this idea that
823
00:45:16,496 --> 00:45:18,237
it was all about
the private good
824
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:19,891
that undermines
825
00:45:19,934 --> 00:45:21,849
the collective investments
826
00:45:21,893 --> 00:45:24,156
that we need to be
a successful society.
827
00:45:24,199 --> 00:45:27,681
By making education
a private good for ourselves,
828
00:45:27,725 --> 00:45:30,640
I unwittingly,
and perhaps unconsciously,
829
00:45:30,684 --> 00:45:32,947
collude in the processes
of inequality.
830
00:45:32,991 --> 00:45:35,950
Because that means
that I'm okay with segregation.
831
00:45:35,994 --> 00:45:37,691
I just want the best
for my child.
832
00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:39,519
In the United States
it's sort of as though
833
00:45:39,562 --> 00:45:42,217
some kids are on
a high-speed elevator
834
00:45:42,261 --> 00:45:45,220
going to the top
of the 90-story building,
835
00:45:45,264 --> 00:45:47,527
and others are going up
some escalators
836
00:45:47,570 --> 00:45:49,659
on the way to that goal,
837
00:45:49,703 --> 00:45:52,575
and others are trying
to walk up creaky stairs
838
00:45:52,619 --> 00:45:54,447
with holes in them.
839
00:45:54,490 --> 00:45:58,494
And that really is
the opportunity gap
in the United States.
840
00:45:58,538 --> 00:46:02,498
In most states,
the funding structure
for education
841
00:46:02,542 --> 00:46:06,067
is predicated
on the tax base.
842
00:46:06,111 --> 00:46:08,983
You can't get a big tax base
in communities
843
00:46:09,027 --> 00:46:11,203
where there's not
home ownership.
844
00:46:11,246 --> 00:46:13,988
And it is radically different
from communities
845
00:46:14,032 --> 00:46:15,816
where the median home
846
00:46:15,860 --> 00:46:18,297
is going for $950,000.
847
00:46:18,340 --> 00:46:22,518
So, when we do have these
fundamental opportunity gaps,
848
00:46:22,562 --> 00:46:24,564
we're sending,
to some kids a message
849
00:46:24,607 --> 00:46:26,653
that you don't matter
as much as other kids.
850
00:46:26,696 --> 00:46:28,611
When you say that
there's an American dream
851
00:46:28,655 --> 00:46:30,570
to somebody
who's a poor child
852
00:46:30,613 --> 00:46:31,919
with no education,
853
00:46:31,963 --> 00:46:33,703
living in a dangerous
neighborhood,
854
00:46:33,747 --> 00:46:35,444
with no opportunity,
855
00:46:35,488 --> 00:46:37,490
what would that
do to a child?
856
00:46:37,533 --> 00:46:39,927
That would say that
if they couldn't find
the American dream
857
00:46:39,971 --> 00:46:41,929
there is something
wrong with them.
858
00:46:41,973 --> 00:46:44,279
And that has a social
psychological impact.
859
00:46:44,323 --> 00:46:46,716
I think it has
a behavioral impact as well.
860
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,849
How do you keep invested
in something
861
00:46:48,893 --> 00:46:50,851
where you don't think
people care about you?
862
00:46:50,895 --> 00:46:53,811
Extreme poverty
and marginalization
863
00:46:53,854 --> 00:46:55,856
has created despair.
864
00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:58,293
And some of that despair
has manifested itself
865
00:46:58,337 --> 00:46:59,904
with drug addiction
and abuse,
866
00:46:59,947 --> 00:47:01,557
it has manifested itself
867
00:47:01,601 --> 00:47:03,777
in pockets
of increased violence.
868
00:47:07,172 --> 00:47:09,522
The war on drugs
has historically,
869
00:47:09,565 --> 00:47:10,784
from its inception,
870
00:47:10,828 --> 00:47:12,568
been a war
on poor people
871
00:47:12,612 --> 00:47:14,527
and a war
on people of color.
872
00:47:24,189 --> 00:47:26,626
White and black kids
experiment with marijuana
873
00:47:26,669 --> 00:47:28,193
at about the same rate.
874
00:47:28,236 --> 00:47:30,238
And yet, nine out of 10
of the people
875
00:47:30,282 --> 00:47:31,892
who were being arrested
were black.
876
00:47:32,632 --> 00:47:35,069
How do you look at that
877
00:47:35,113 --> 00:47:37,724
and say that the government
itself is not being used
878
00:47:37,767 --> 00:47:40,118
as an instrument of punishment
and suppression
879
00:47:40,161 --> 00:47:42,294
for one group of people?
880
00:47:42,337 --> 00:47:44,209
It ultimately
became a means
881
00:47:44,252 --> 00:47:46,254
of mass exploitation,
882
00:47:46,298 --> 00:47:48,039
in a mass bureaucracy.
883
00:47:58,658 --> 00:48:01,487
This dramatic increase
has left states
884
00:48:01,530 --> 00:48:03,228
devastated economically.
885
00:48:03,271 --> 00:48:06,274
They can't fund schools
and health and human services
886
00:48:06,318 --> 00:48:08,494
because so many
of our dollars have been
887
00:48:08,537 --> 00:48:10,800
swallowed by this system
888
00:48:10,844 --> 00:48:13,542
of over-incarceration
and excessive punishment.
889
00:48:24,162 --> 00:48:27,121
And then you ask
why so many
890
00:48:27,165 --> 00:48:30,559
young black women
are not married?
891
00:48:30,603 --> 00:48:33,388
Why you have disparities
in schools?
892
00:48:33,432 --> 00:48:37,262
Why so many young
black children
893
00:48:37,305 --> 00:48:39,307
are in need
of social services?
894
00:48:39,351 --> 00:48:41,309
It's a systemic problem.
895
00:48:51,102 --> 00:48:54,148
We have to move away
from this punitive economy
896
00:48:54,192 --> 00:48:56,368
that has served no one.
897
00:48:56,411 --> 00:48:58,936
It means reckoning
with a long history
898
00:48:58,979 --> 00:49:01,460
of racial injustice
in this country
899
00:49:01,503 --> 00:49:05,029
and reinvestment
towards jobs, not jails,
900
00:49:05,072 --> 00:49:06,508
books, not bars,
901
00:49:06,552 --> 00:49:08,641
healthcare, not handcuffs.
902
00:49:08,684 --> 00:49:10,208
-Books, not bars!
-Book, not bars!
903
00:49:10,251 --> 00:49:11,992
Jobs, not jails!
904
00:49:12,036 --> 00:49:13,994
Healthcare, not handcuffs!
905
00:49:18,042 --> 00:49:21,001
One of the first times
that I started to think about
906
00:49:21,045 --> 00:49:23,003
inequality and racism
907
00:49:23,047 --> 00:49:25,179
was being asked
as an undergrad
908
00:49:25,223 --> 00:49:27,442
to go and speak
to high school students
909
00:49:27,486 --> 00:49:29,575
to encourage them
to go to Harvard.
910
00:49:29,618 --> 00:49:31,446
I then found that
half of the students
911
00:49:31,490 --> 00:49:34,275
were not graduating
from the high school
in my neighborhood.
912
00:49:34,319 --> 00:49:36,016
I was also noticing that
913
00:49:36,060 --> 00:49:37,583
young people at Harvard
914
00:49:37,626 --> 00:49:39,672
were being treated
a lot differently
915
00:49:39,715 --> 00:49:41,369
for doing a lot
of the same things.
916
00:49:41,413 --> 00:49:43,154
So, drug use and abuse
917
00:49:43,197 --> 00:49:45,373
meant taking a semester off
918
00:49:45,417 --> 00:49:47,288
and restarting your studies,
919
00:49:47,332 --> 00:49:49,464
whereas it might mean
getting locked up
920
00:49:49,508 --> 00:49:51,205
for some of my friends
in East Oakland.
921
00:49:58,343 --> 00:50:01,607
A year-and-a-half ago,
my daughter was, uh, detained
922
00:50:01,650 --> 00:50:03,739
and she was housed here.
923
00:50:03,783 --> 00:50:05,524
They tried to give her
two to five years
924
00:50:05,567 --> 00:50:07,961
-and I had to bail her out.
-Whoa.
925
00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:11,225
I've been in
this revolving door
926
00:50:11,747 --> 00:50:13,184
for 12 years.
927
00:50:13,227 --> 00:50:15,664
He's got a mental problem.
He's not a criminal.
928
00:50:15,708 --> 00:50:17,840
He has the mind
of a little teenager.
929
00:50:19,364 --> 00:50:22,019
We are called out when
somebody has been, um,
930
00:50:22,062 --> 00:50:23,977
reporting that they
have been sexually harassed
931
00:50:24,021 --> 00:50:25,631
or sexually assaulted
in the jail.
932
00:50:25,674 --> 00:50:28,808
I've had a few clients
recently who
933
00:50:28,851 --> 00:50:30,592
are in
for non-violent crimes,
934
00:50:30,636 --> 00:50:32,594
and they are remaining
in here
935
00:50:32,638 --> 00:50:35,293
rather than being released
to programs that would help
936
00:50:35,336 --> 00:50:36,903
with what we call
dual diagnosis.
937
00:50:36,946 --> 00:50:39,253
So that could be
substance abuse,
mental health issues,
938
00:50:39,297 --> 00:50:41,125
and that's not a way
to rehabilitate people.
939
00:50:41,168 --> 00:50:43,562
It's not a way
to get people off the street
940
00:50:43,605 --> 00:50:44,954
and it's not humane.
941
00:50:44,998 --> 00:50:47,218
I just really commend you
for the work that you do.
942
00:50:47,261 --> 00:50:48,480
You hang in there.
943
00:50:48,523 --> 00:50:50,090
You tell your daughter
to hang in there.
944
00:50:50,134 --> 00:50:51,309
Thank you.
945
00:51:04,496 --> 00:51:06,454
I'm sorry
we brought you back...
946
00:51:06,498 --> 00:51:08,935
-No, I'm just thinking like...
-...to the lion's den.
947
00:51:11,198 --> 00:51:13,026
That's slavery...
948
00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:14,593
Yeah.
949
00:51:14,636 --> 00:51:16,638
That's slavery at the...
950
00:51:16,682 --> 00:51:19,119
finest compound.
This is slavery.
951
00:51:22,949 --> 00:51:25,343
I'm sorry.
952
00:51:25,386 --> 00:51:28,259
As you know, people are making
their choice of putting,
953
00:51:28,302 --> 00:51:30,957
literally putting food
on their table
954
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,133
-or trying
to bail out their kid.
-I had to do it.
955
00:51:33,177 --> 00:51:35,309
-Right? Yeah.
-Like, I had to do it.
956
00:51:35,353 --> 00:51:39,008
-I've been living
out of suit...
-Yeah.
957
00:51:39,052 --> 00:51:41,010
...for the last
year-and-a-half.
958
00:51:41,054 --> 00:51:42,316
I don't tell people that,
959
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,188
how many times
I didn't have water,
960
00:51:44,231 --> 00:51:46,103
or didn't have electricity
in my house.
961
00:51:46,146 --> 00:51:48,105
You have to choose.
962
00:51:48,148 --> 00:51:50,194
$50,000 later,
963
00:51:50,237 --> 00:51:52,674
-I chose college or bail.
-Yeah.
964
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,463
We've gone
just so far off
965
00:51:58,506 --> 00:52:00,682
the deep end in this country,
966
00:52:00,726 --> 00:52:03,032
in terms of embracing
967
00:52:03,076 --> 00:52:06,297
this punitive criminal
justice system
968
00:52:06,340 --> 00:52:09,822
that disproportionately
impacts people of color.
969
00:52:09,865 --> 00:52:13,391
This system is costly,
not just in financial terms,
970
00:52:13,434 --> 00:52:15,436
but in terms
of people's mental health,
971
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:19,092
and it worsens
the mental health situation
of their entire family.
972
00:52:19,136 --> 00:52:22,661
So, we have an opportunity
to do something different.
973
00:52:35,326 --> 00:52:36,936
When the mills shut down,
974
00:52:36,979 --> 00:52:40,200
all the social problems
came about.
975
00:52:40,244 --> 00:52:43,203
The marriage troubles,
the suicides,
976
00:52:43,247 --> 00:52:44,857
the split families.
977
00:52:44,900 --> 00:52:48,774
And these are jobs
that are not
$8-an-hour jobs.
978
00:52:48,817 --> 00:52:50,123
-So you can raise families.
-Yeah, yeah.
979
00:52:50,167 --> 00:52:52,169
You know,
and take vacations,
980
00:52:52,212 --> 00:52:53,648
and buy a car.
981
00:52:53,692 --> 00:52:56,260
-Live the American dream.
-Buy a home.
982
00:52:56,303 --> 00:52:57,783
Now, what are you gonna do?
983
00:52:57,826 --> 00:52:59,219
I had young people,
984
00:52:59,263 --> 00:53:00,612
they'd say, "What do I think?"
985
00:53:00,655 --> 00:53:02,048
I'd say,
"Get out of the area."
986
00:53:02,091 --> 00:53:04,224
You know, my own children.
"Leave."
987
00:53:04,268 --> 00:53:06,444
There's nothing here
and that's sad.
988
00:53:06,487 --> 00:53:07,706
This was a great area.
989
00:53:08,837 --> 00:53:11,753
This was a steel area,
but what we had
990
00:53:11,797 --> 00:53:14,060
became from steel
to heroin.
991
00:53:21,067 --> 00:53:23,069
I became more aware
992
00:53:23,112 --> 00:53:24,462
of our opioid addiction
993
00:53:24,505 --> 00:53:27,116
and heroin problems
in this area
994
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,075
when it affected
my own family.
995
00:53:30,381 --> 00:53:32,383
My own son's girlfriend
996
00:53:32,426 --> 00:53:34,254
became addicted to heroin.
997
00:53:36,691 --> 00:53:38,911
Bryson was born
998
00:53:38,954 --> 00:53:41,218
addicted to drugs
and had seizures.
999
00:53:43,176 --> 00:53:45,222
I did not know
that she was doing drugs
1000
00:53:45,265 --> 00:53:48,486
while she was pregnant
with Bryson.
1001
00:53:48,529 --> 00:53:50,836
I was terrified
when I found out.
1002
00:53:53,273 --> 00:53:56,276
I tried helping her.
I even offered to pay
1003
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,758
for some of her rehab
and she refused.
1004
00:53:59,801 --> 00:54:01,890
I've had full custody
since then.
1005
00:54:05,633 --> 00:54:07,069
There it is.
1006
00:54:07,113 --> 00:54:10,508
Being a single father is...
I mean, it's hard.
1007
00:54:10,551 --> 00:54:14,207
Even with me graduating from college with two degrees,
1008
00:54:14,251 --> 00:54:17,950
the regular 40-hour-a-week
is just not enough anymore.
1009
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,910
Right now I'm working
seven days a week,
1010
00:54:21,954 --> 00:54:23,347
three jobs,
1011
00:54:23,390 --> 00:54:25,784
teaching special needs
at Austintown High School.
1012
00:54:25,827 --> 00:54:29,353
I'm also part-time
at the Vitamin Shoppe.
1013
00:54:29,396 --> 00:54:33,574
I still have my drug
and alcohol counseling job
on the weekends.
1014
00:54:33,618 --> 00:54:36,708
This is just what I have
to do to survive.
1015
00:54:37,970 --> 00:54:39,363
See you, buddy.
1016
00:54:41,452 --> 00:54:43,280
I mean, he is turning
eight this year,
1017
00:54:43,323 --> 00:54:44,846
so I have to start
thinking about
1018
00:54:44,890 --> 00:54:46,805
putting money back
for college,
1019
00:54:46,848 --> 00:54:48,633
and with me working
75 hours a week,
1020
00:54:48,676 --> 00:54:51,679
I think I should be able
to afford to put
some money back.
1021
00:54:51,723 --> 00:54:54,682
But something is
definitely wrong
with the system
1022
00:54:55,379 --> 00:54:57,163
that I can't do it.
1023
00:54:57,206 --> 00:55:00,340
I mean, it's not just me,
it's every...
It's everyone around here.
1024
00:55:00,384 --> 00:55:04,866
To work every day
to basically just make it.
1025
00:55:04,910 --> 00:55:07,304
It's not really living,
it's just...
1026
00:55:07,782 --> 00:55:08,870
not dying.
1027
00:55:14,702 --> 00:55:15,921
The universal way
1028
00:55:15,964 --> 00:55:17,792
in which we determine
value in our culture
1029
00:55:17,836 --> 00:55:18,924
is through money.
1030
00:55:18,967 --> 00:55:20,752
Certain sectors
are vastly underpaid
1031
00:55:20,795 --> 00:55:22,493
and they tend
to be feminized sectors.
1032
00:55:22,536 --> 00:55:24,495
So, for example, education,
1033
00:55:24,538 --> 00:55:26,540
healthcare,
the service sector,
1034
00:55:26,584 --> 00:55:30,022
um, we just don't pay
people in those occupations
1035
00:55:30,065 --> 00:55:31,850
whether they be
male or female,
1036
00:55:31,893 --> 00:55:33,155
as much as they're worth.
1037
00:55:41,903 --> 00:55:44,384
Who's gonna argue
that teachers
living in poverty
1038
00:55:44,428 --> 00:55:45,994
is somehow okay?
1039
00:55:46,038 --> 00:55:48,910
But because that occupation
is feminized, we pay it less.
1040
00:55:48,954 --> 00:55:51,783
Whereas we overpay other
masculinized occupations,
1041
00:55:51,826 --> 00:55:52,958
we'll start with sports.
1042
00:56:00,313 --> 00:56:01,880
Or the financial sector,
1043
00:56:01,923 --> 00:56:04,273
people making money
off of money.
1044
00:56:11,019 --> 00:56:14,022
So, compare teachers,
right, to someone
in the finance sector,
1045
00:56:14,066 --> 00:56:16,285
and the value that
they're contributing
to society
1046
00:56:16,329 --> 00:56:18,287
and the hours
that they're putting in,
1047
00:56:18,331 --> 00:56:19,463
it's outrageous,
1048
00:56:19,506 --> 00:56:21,465
that we value one
so much more
1049
00:56:21,508 --> 00:56:23,075
than we value the other.
1050
00:56:23,118 --> 00:56:26,383
It's the jobs
that get closer
1051
00:56:26,426 --> 00:56:28,994
to caring and emotional labor
1052
00:56:29,037 --> 00:56:31,562
that seem to be
the least valued.
1053
00:56:31,605 --> 00:56:34,434
That's just never quite seen
as real work.
1054
00:56:34,478 --> 00:56:36,523
And it's often
been associated
1055
00:56:36,567 --> 00:56:39,439
with women of color,
immigrant women,
1056
00:56:39,483 --> 00:56:42,790
women who are of
marginalized social status.
1057
00:56:42,834 --> 00:56:44,705
We all hear that women earn
1058
00:56:44,749 --> 00:56:47,229
79 cents on the dollar
compared to men,
1059
00:56:47,273 --> 00:56:48,927
but what you don't
often hear
1060
00:56:48,970 --> 00:56:51,930
is that they own only
32 cents on a dollar.
1061
00:56:51,973 --> 00:56:55,063
For women of color
that gap is really a chasm,
1062
00:56:55,107 --> 00:56:57,457
because black
and Latino women
1063
00:56:57,501 --> 00:56:59,285
own only pennies
on the dollar
1064
00:56:59,328 --> 00:57:00,895
compared to white men
and white women.
1065
00:57:08,163 --> 00:57:09,774
It's really important
to remember that
1066
00:57:09,817 --> 00:57:13,647
women did not have access
to credit in their own name
1067
00:57:13,691 --> 00:57:17,477
until the Equal Opportunity Act in 1974.
1068
00:57:17,521 --> 00:57:20,262
Then when we were able
to access credit,
1069
00:57:20,306 --> 00:57:24,223
women were preyed upon
during the lead-up
to the foreclosure crisis.
1070
00:57:24,266 --> 00:57:26,704
African-American women
were two-and-a-half times
1071
00:57:26,747 --> 00:57:29,794
more likely to receive
a subprime loan,
1072
00:57:29,837 --> 00:57:32,623
and that led to a lot
of wealth stripping.
1073
00:57:32,666 --> 00:57:35,495
To really succeed
in our society,
1074
00:57:35,539 --> 00:57:39,107
you need access
to a well-paying job,
1075
00:57:39,151 --> 00:57:42,763
you need access to support
to take care of your kids
while you're working,
1076
00:57:42,807 --> 00:57:45,723
you need access
to investment vehicles
1077
00:57:45,766 --> 00:57:48,116
like a home or a business.
1078
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,468
Oftentimes, people do
the blame-the-victim thing,
1079
00:57:51,511 --> 00:57:53,078
when what's really
behind her
1080
00:57:53,121 --> 00:57:56,560
is this whole history of...
of discrimination
1081
00:57:56,603 --> 00:57:58,692
and she's carrying it
on her shoulders.
1082
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,699
Whose building?
- Our building.
1083
00:58:05,743 --> 00:58:08,093
-Whose building?
-Our building.
1084
00:58:08,136 --> 00:58:10,269
-Whose building?
-Our building.
1085
00:58:10,312 --> 00:58:12,576
-Whose building?
-Our building.
1086
00:58:15,666 --> 00:58:19,583
Hey, everybody.Happy International Women's Day.
1087
00:58:19,626 --> 00:58:21,715
In front of our building.
1088
00:58:21,759 --> 00:58:23,412
Our building!
1089
00:58:23,456 --> 00:58:27,199
We're here to stand with workersof all different sectors,
1090
00:58:27,242 --> 00:58:28,766
to say, "Enough is enough."
1091
00:58:28,809 --> 00:58:31,159
What we need
is one fair wage.
1092
00:58:31,203 --> 00:58:33,988
We need paid sick days
and paid family leave.
1093
00:58:34,032 --> 00:58:36,382
We need healthcare
for everybody.
1094
00:58:36,425 --> 00:58:39,690
We need an end to sexual
harassment and discrimination.
1095
00:58:39,733 --> 00:58:41,866
So we're going to keep rising
1096
00:58:41,909 --> 00:58:43,563
as women workers.
1097
00:58:45,696 --> 00:58:47,262
All right,
so we've got sisters here
1098
00:58:47,306 --> 00:58:48,481
from the restaurant industry
1099
00:58:48,525 --> 00:58:51,049
who are going to
share their stories.
1100
00:58:51,092 --> 00:58:53,007
At 18, I started bartending.
1101
00:58:53,051 --> 00:58:54,705
On my first day,
1102
00:58:54,748 --> 00:58:57,011
the owner called me
into his office.
1103
00:58:57,055 --> 00:58:59,405
He said that he could help me
pay for college
1104
00:58:59,448 --> 00:59:01,189
if I gave him a blow job.
1105
00:59:01,233 --> 00:59:03,496
When I refused, I was fired.
1106
00:59:06,847 --> 00:59:10,068
At 30, I was locked in the bar
where I worked
1107
00:59:10,111 --> 00:59:11,722
by the general manager
1108
00:59:11,765 --> 00:59:14,812
and assaulted
by the vice president
of the hotel group.
1109
00:59:14,855 --> 00:59:18,729
Unknown to me, he was told
he could have anything
he wanted, including me.
1110
00:59:22,036 --> 00:59:27,041
The dynamic of having
a mostly-female workforce
in the front, living on tips,
1111
00:59:27,085 --> 00:59:30,828
and a mostly male workforce
in the back,
not living on tips,
1112
00:59:30,871 --> 00:59:33,918
creates a dynamic in which
women have no power.
1113
00:59:33,961 --> 00:59:35,963
They have no power
vis-a-vis the customer.
1114
00:59:36,007 --> 00:59:38,139
They have no power
vis-a-vis the kitchen.
1115
00:59:38,183 --> 00:59:40,402
And they have no power
vis-a-vis managers,
1116
00:59:40,446 --> 00:59:43,101
who can decide, "You can have
this table or that table,"
1117
00:59:43,144 --> 00:59:45,669
which means
you get zero dollars
or $200.
1118
00:59:45,712 --> 00:59:48,019
Your wage and your income
could be anything.
1119
00:59:48,062 --> 00:59:49,586
It's all up to the men.
1120
00:59:51,500 --> 00:59:53,546
There are millions
more young women
1121
00:59:53,590 --> 00:59:57,028
for whom this is the first job in high school, college,
or grad school.
1122
00:59:57,071 --> 00:59:58,986
This will be the first job
for my daughters.
1123
00:59:59,030 --> 01:00:01,119
I know it.
1124
01:00:01,162 --> 01:00:05,819
But as a mother,
as an American, that's not the American dream.
1125
01:00:13,871 --> 01:00:16,134
As long as you have
a model of our species,
1126
01:00:16,177 --> 01:00:20,007
in which one half of humanity
is considered inferior
to the other half,
1127
01:00:20,051 --> 01:00:22,444
you are not going
to have equality.
1128
01:00:22,488 --> 01:00:25,099
Because that's basic
to inequality.
1129
01:00:26,405 --> 01:00:29,147
Systems of power
are these invisible,
1130
01:00:29,190 --> 01:00:30,670
behind the scenes,
1131
01:00:30,714 --> 01:00:35,066
but very powerful ways
in which we organize the world.
1132
01:00:35,109 --> 01:00:37,155
Men dominate
most of the major
1133
01:00:37,198 --> 01:00:39,026
economic, political,
and social systems.
1134
01:00:49,384 --> 01:00:52,736
And if women are erased
from these institutions
by and large,
1135
01:00:52,779 --> 01:00:56,870
if they're showing up
at the highest level
in such small numbers,
1136
01:00:56,914 --> 01:01:00,308
it likely means that
their concerns are also erased.
1137
01:01:00,352 --> 01:01:03,790
The domination pyramid
keeps rebuilding itself
1138
01:01:03,834 --> 01:01:05,879
on the same foundations
1139
01:01:05,923 --> 01:01:09,883
of this ranking
of one half of humanity
over the other half.
1140
01:01:09,927 --> 01:01:11,189
It's about power,
1141
01:01:11,232 --> 01:01:13,321
and it's about the ability
to exercise power,
1142
01:01:13,365 --> 01:01:16,107
both individually
and institutionally.
1143
01:01:16,150 --> 01:01:20,241
So for example,
if you're serving power
in an economic sense,
1144
01:01:20,285 --> 01:01:24,768
you have more chance
for advancement than
if you're not serving power.
1145
01:01:24,811 --> 01:01:28,467
And if you're helping
to reinforce men's dominance,
1146
01:01:28,510 --> 01:01:30,948
then there are
more opportunities for you
than if you're
1147
01:01:30,991 --> 01:01:33,080
subverting men's dominance.
1148
01:01:33,124 --> 01:01:36,214
If you really start looking
at economics
1149
01:01:36,257 --> 01:01:38,216
through this lens,
1150
01:01:38,259 --> 01:01:39,739
you begin to see
1151
01:01:39,783 --> 01:01:44,004
that more resources
are funneled to those on top.
1152
01:01:44,701 --> 01:01:46,441
But not only that,
1153
01:01:46,485 --> 01:01:50,184
there isn't enough investment
in caring for people,
1154
01:01:50,228 --> 01:01:53,579
and with this
there isn't enough investment
1155
01:01:53,622 --> 01:01:56,234
in human capacity development.
1156
01:01:56,277 --> 01:01:59,106
We can project
American military strength
all over the world
1157
01:01:59,150 --> 01:02:01,195
and spend hundreds
of billions of dollars,
1158
01:02:01,239 --> 01:02:04,111
but then, what are we
doing about poverty
in the inner cities?
1159
01:02:04,155 --> 01:02:06,026
What are we doing about
rural white poverty?
1160
01:02:06,070 --> 01:02:07,593
What are we doing about
healthcare,
1161
01:02:07,636 --> 01:02:10,378
and citizens who can't even
afford to go to the doctor?
1162
01:02:10,422 --> 01:02:12,859
I mean, it's a question of
who are we as a society?
1163
01:02:12,903 --> 01:02:14,818
What are our values
as a society?
1164
01:02:14,861 --> 01:02:16,123
At the end of the day,
1165
01:02:16,167 --> 01:02:19,300
a budget is a set of values.
1166
01:02:19,344 --> 01:02:21,215
Budget reflects
your values.
1167
01:02:31,399 --> 01:02:33,445
What is this symbol?
1168
01:02:33,488 --> 01:02:35,403
-Less than.
-Less than.
1169
01:02:35,447 --> 01:02:37,754
-Or right... Or greater than.
-Greater than.
1170
01:02:37,797 --> 01:02:41,061
This, for me, is also
a symbol of the way in which
1171
01:02:41,105 --> 01:02:45,805
we reinforce
and justify inequality.
1172
01:02:46,545 --> 01:02:48,416
The idea that men
1173
01:02:48,460 --> 01:02:50,984
are more important than women.
1174
01:02:51,028 --> 01:02:53,073
That straight people
are better than queer folks,
1175
01:02:53,117 --> 01:02:55,336
that citizens are better
than non-citizens,
1176
01:02:55,380 --> 01:02:56,816
and on and on.
1177
01:02:56,860 --> 01:03:00,167
And so if you feel an imbalance
in this country,
1178
01:03:00,211 --> 01:03:03,127
it is because
we are not in balance.
1179
01:03:03,170 --> 01:03:05,651
This imbalance plays out
in our homes,
1180
01:03:05,694 --> 01:03:09,263
in our policies,
and in our national priorities.
1181
01:03:09,307 --> 01:03:11,613
And the truth is
that this symbol
1182
01:03:12,571 --> 01:03:14,312
limits our ability to see.
1183
01:03:21,885 --> 01:03:23,843
We're releasing this report
1184
01:03:23,887 --> 01:03:27,716
called Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families.
1185
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,154
A big part of our challenge
today will be
1186
01:03:30,197 --> 01:03:31,851
making sure
that people understand
1187
01:03:31,895 --> 01:03:33,331
that criminal justice reform
1188
01:03:33,374 --> 01:03:35,202
must be about
women and families
1189
01:03:35,246 --> 01:03:38,466
and not just about
the folks who are
incarcerated themselves.
1190
01:03:39,685 --> 01:03:41,818
Families and the women
who sustain them
1191
01:03:41,861 --> 01:03:44,298
are being dragged
into deeper poverty,
1192
01:03:44,342 --> 01:03:47,040
stress, strain, and debt
1193
01:03:47,084 --> 01:03:49,042
when their loved ones
are incarcerated.
1194
01:04:03,230 --> 01:04:05,232
I have a brother.
1195
01:04:05,276 --> 01:04:07,365
He went in
when he was 18 years old,
1196
01:04:07,408 --> 01:04:09,410
and he's been in
for 10 years now.
1197
01:04:09,454 --> 01:04:12,283
So, it was really hard
for our family.
1198
01:04:12,326 --> 01:04:16,417
My mom
in the first two months
lost 60 pounds.
1199
01:04:16,461 --> 01:04:19,638
went into serious depression.
1200
01:04:19,681 --> 01:04:24,861
My parents had to get
multiple jobs to be able
to afford his lawyer fees.
1201
01:04:24,904 --> 01:04:26,993
And 10 years after,
1202
01:04:27,037 --> 01:04:29,648
we're just financially
getting back to the point
1203
01:04:29,691 --> 01:04:32,433
where we can enjoy
a family vacation,
1204
01:04:32,477 --> 01:04:35,697
because all of our money
was going to
lawyer fee services.
1205
01:04:35,741 --> 01:04:38,787
It's, uh, something
that you have to choose
1206
01:04:38,831 --> 01:04:40,964
between whether you're going
to visit your loved one
1207
01:04:41,007 --> 01:04:43,357
or you're going to buy them
a shirt,
1208
01:04:43,401 --> 01:04:45,185
a long-sleeved shirt
for the winter.
1209
01:04:45,229 --> 01:04:49,363
My mom is still, you know,
taking depression pills
1210
01:04:49,407 --> 01:04:52,062
and, you know,
dealing with how is it that,
1211
01:04:52,105 --> 01:04:54,194
you know, she's going to be
present for her son.
1212
01:04:54,238 --> 01:04:56,588
Congratulations.
That's great.
1213
01:05:04,596 --> 01:05:06,815
-Thank you so much
for your time.
-Of course.
1214
01:05:06,859 --> 01:05:09,688
One in three families
who are facing
big difficult choices
1215
01:05:09,731 --> 01:05:12,517
between paying for
basic necessities, like food,
1216
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:15,433
-versus making
court-related payments.
-Mmm-hmm.
1217
01:05:15,476 --> 01:05:17,826
One in five families
that we surveyed
1218
01:05:17,870 --> 01:05:19,480
had taken out
some sort of loan.
1219
01:05:19,524 --> 01:05:22,483
-We can't wait and we really
do need these reforms...
-Mmm-hmm.
1220
01:05:22,527 --> 01:05:24,485
...in terms of
the criminal justice system.
1221
01:05:24,529 --> 01:05:27,140
And we need to do them in ways
that take into account
1222
01:05:27,184 --> 01:05:29,751
-the entire family.
-Mmm-hmm.
1223
01:05:29,795 --> 01:05:33,407
If you look
at our history as a country,
1224
01:05:33,451 --> 01:05:35,844
we have,
for a very long time,
1225
01:05:35,888 --> 01:05:37,759
valued all things
1226
01:05:37,803 --> 01:05:40,110
connected to
a dominant framework.
1227
01:05:40,153 --> 01:05:42,112
A power over framework.
1228
01:05:42,155 --> 01:05:45,854
We actually need to invest
in well-being in our country.
1229
01:06:01,958 --> 01:06:04,177
I'm afraid
for all of my kids.
1230
01:06:04,221 --> 01:06:06,136
There's nothing really here.
1231
01:06:06,179 --> 01:06:08,268
A lot of minimum-wage jobs,
1232
01:06:08,312 --> 01:06:10,183
but nothing
to raise a family on.
1233
01:06:12,011 --> 01:06:13,839
It has to be
a joint venture
1234
01:06:13,882 --> 01:06:15,884
between the companies
that are here,
1235
01:06:15,928 --> 01:06:20,715
the educational institutions
and the government
to subsidize education.
1236
01:06:20,759 --> 01:06:23,022
They're going
to have to offer incentives
1237
01:06:23,066 --> 01:06:26,721
to provide the training
for skilled trade jobs.
1238
01:06:26,765 --> 01:06:31,422
We need to pay
a living wage to these folks.
1239
01:06:31,465 --> 01:06:34,033
So, employees pay taxes.
1240
01:06:34,077 --> 01:06:38,603
They're not on
the program of government
to have the children get lunch.
1241
01:06:38,646 --> 01:06:40,997
We wouldn't be talking
about healthcare,
1242
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:43,608
we wouldn't be talking aboutsocial security in this country,
1243
01:06:43,651 --> 01:06:45,914
we wouldn't be talking about
lack of money.
1244
01:06:45,958 --> 01:06:48,961
Good jobs solve problems.
1245
01:06:49,396 --> 01:06:51,311
They pay.
1246
01:06:51,355 --> 01:06:54,749
When you take care
of your people,
you will be successful.
1247
01:06:54,793 --> 01:06:56,664
That's how you build
a successful company.
1248
01:06:56,708 --> 01:06:58,797
-That's the moral of my story.
-"Take care of your people."
1249
01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:00,059
Take care of your people.
1250
01:07:00,103 --> 01:07:01,321
That's right, brother.
1251
01:07:06,239 --> 01:07:09,808
I'm just hoping
that they can pour
some money into this area.
1252
01:07:09,851 --> 01:07:12,202
So people
don't have to leave.
1253
01:07:12,245 --> 01:07:15,422
You always have to have hope.
You have to.
1254
01:07:20,645 --> 01:07:23,909
You think
about America, that we had
a formula for success.
1255
01:07:23,952 --> 01:07:26,085
We out-educated,
the rest of the world.
1256
01:07:26,129 --> 01:07:27,521
We invested
in right infrastructure,
1257
01:07:27,565 --> 01:07:29,654
we invested in roads,
and bridges, and ports.
1258
01:07:29,697 --> 01:07:31,612
And we also invested
in research and development.
1259
01:07:31,656 --> 01:07:33,527
We pushed the boundaries
of discovery.
1260
01:07:33,571 --> 01:07:35,834
We encouraged risk-taking
but not recklessness.
1261
01:07:35,877 --> 01:07:39,664
All of these things
inure to the benefit
of businesses.
1262
01:07:39,707 --> 01:07:42,319
All of those things
were public investments.
1263
01:07:42,362 --> 01:07:43,798
A public construct
1264
01:07:43,842 --> 01:07:46,975
of which the private sector
benefitted greatly.
1265
01:07:47,019 --> 01:07:48,977
And so this notion
of interdependence,
1266
01:07:49,021 --> 01:07:50,892
this notion that
we're all in this together,
1267
01:07:50,936 --> 01:07:52,590
that we rise
and fall together,
1268
01:07:52,633 --> 01:07:54,070
is absolutely true.
1269
01:08:02,165 --> 01:08:03,775
Mr. Naughton has decided
1270
01:08:03,818 --> 01:08:07,344
that this is not
going to work for him
moving forward.
1271
01:08:07,387 --> 01:08:10,042
He's probably going to move
somewhere where
the need is less.
1272
01:08:13,611 --> 01:08:15,700
I think
people leave education
1273
01:08:15,743 --> 01:08:19,051
because it's just not valued
in our country.
1274
01:08:19,095 --> 01:08:20,879
We don't pay teachers well.
1275
01:08:20,922 --> 01:08:24,970
We don't celebrate them
and encourage them.
1276
01:08:25,013 --> 01:08:27,842
And then you're a teacher
in East Oakland,
1277
01:08:27,886 --> 01:08:33,370
and you might have a kid
cuss you out
or you might get hit.
1278
01:08:33,413 --> 01:08:38,679
Um, and who... What human is,
like, gonna sit there and say,
"Oh, I can deal with that"?
1279
01:08:40,028 --> 01:08:42,205
Two of my therapists quit
1280
01:08:42,248 --> 01:08:44,816
because of
the secondary trauma
1281
01:08:44,859 --> 01:08:48,602
that they've experienced
with our students
this school year.
1282
01:08:48,646 --> 01:08:52,128
So people leave
because it's crazy.
1283
01:08:52,911 --> 01:08:54,304
And it's hard.
1284
01:08:56,219 --> 01:08:58,656
HI!
- Hi! Good morning.
1285
01:08:58,699 --> 01:09:00,527
What's on your mind?
What's on your heart?
1286
01:09:01,746 --> 01:09:03,748
-There's a lot of anger.
-Hmm.
1287
01:09:03,791 --> 01:09:05,271
-Fuck this system.
-Yeah.
1288
01:09:05,315 --> 01:09:06,533
Fuck this.
1289
01:09:06,577 --> 01:09:08,709
This is the sign
to fail my kids
1290
01:09:08,753 --> 01:09:11,234
and I'm sitting here and
I'm contributing in this way.
1291
01:09:11,277 --> 01:09:13,932
-I get angry.
-Yeah.
1292
01:09:13,975 --> 01:09:19,111
The superintendent
has changed twice now
in two years.
1293
01:09:19,155 --> 01:09:21,505
When we have
a new superintendent,
then it's almost like
1294
01:09:21,548 --> 01:09:23,985
you're trying to convince
that new person
1295
01:09:24,029 --> 01:09:25,813
of the work that you're doing.
1296
01:09:25,857 --> 01:09:27,467
And that is exhausting.
1297
01:09:29,165 --> 01:09:32,864
There is not
a true understanding
1298
01:09:32,907 --> 01:09:34,822
of the amount of need
1299
01:09:34,866 --> 01:09:38,478
versus the amount of money
that we receive.
1300
01:09:40,524 --> 01:09:42,700
With the budget crisis,
I'm sure you're aware,
1301
01:09:42,743 --> 01:09:45,572
our future center may be
1302
01:09:45,616 --> 01:09:47,139
not funded next year.
1303
01:09:47,183 --> 01:09:49,968
So that's something I know
you're really concerned about.
1304
01:09:50,011 --> 01:09:51,578
What else?
1305
01:09:51,622 --> 01:09:56,104
Our African American
Male Achievement program...
1306
01:09:57,018 --> 01:10:00,152
Our Restorative Justice program.
1307
01:10:00,196 --> 01:10:05,070
So everything that's designed
to break down traditional
1308
01:10:05,113 --> 01:10:07,899
-oppression and barriers
to opportunity...
-Yeah.
1309
01:10:07,942 --> 01:10:09,683
-...all that's going away.
-Pretty much.
1310
01:10:11,598 --> 01:10:15,080
When you stick
all of the students
1311
01:10:15,123 --> 01:10:18,562
who have the highest need
into one school building,
1312
01:10:18,605 --> 01:10:21,217
and that is
all they see all day,
1313
01:10:21,260 --> 01:10:25,046
how can you vision
something different?
1314
01:10:25,090 --> 01:10:28,572
You cannot put
all of the poor people
in one building
1315
01:10:28,615 --> 01:10:30,965
and expect them to succeed.
1316
01:10:31,009 --> 01:10:33,185
I think about myself
in this...
1317
01:10:33,229 --> 01:10:34,752
generational poverty,
1318
01:10:34,795 --> 01:10:39,104
and, like, how hard it's been
for me to break that cycle
1319
01:10:39,147 --> 01:10:41,367
within myself and my family.
1320
01:10:42,847 --> 01:10:46,198
And I didn't go
to a school like Frick.
1321
01:10:46,242 --> 01:10:48,548
My school was diverse.
1322
01:10:48,592 --> 01:10:51,812
And I was able to
go to my apartment
1323
01:10:51,856 --> 01:10:53,292
and not have lights,
1324
01:10:53,336 --> 01:10:55,990
but go to my friend's house
and see her bedroom
1325
01:10:56,034 --> 01:10:57,514
as big as my apartment.
1326
01:10:57,557 --> 01:11:02,301
And what if
I hadn't ever seen
something different?
1327
01:11:02,345 --> 01:11:05,391
Would I have believed
in something different?
1328
01:11:05,435 --> 01:11:08,046
I think my students
should be around
other students
1329
01:11:08,089 --> 01:11:11,092
who live completely
different than them.
1330
01:11:11,136 --> 01:11:13,312
And they can go
to the hills in the weekends
1331
01:11:13,356 --> 01:11:16,184
or go to a pool party with
someone of a different race
1332
01:11:16,228 --> 01:11:19,579
or a different
economic background,
1333
01:11:21,059 --> 01:11:23,540
and that's
not happening here.
1334
01:11:25,063 --> 01:11:26,760
We're trying
to break the system,
1335
01:11:26,804 --> 01:11:29,459
we're trying to break
generational poverty,
1336
01:11:29,502 --> 01:11:33,898
and it's going to take
way more resources
than we have.
1337
01:11:33,941 --> 01:11:36,770
I believe my kids
can be successful.
1338
01:11:36,814 --> 01:11:38,163
But I need more time.
1339
01:11:39,425 --> 01:11:42,298
I need more time
to change this school.
1340
01:11:45,257 --> 01:11:46,998
Ah... over there.
1341
01:11:47,041 --> 01:11:49,696
We have to change the habits
and the hearts of the people
1342
01:11:49,740 --> 01:11:51,872
and move away from
our own self-interest
1343
01:11:51,916 --> 01:11:55,441
to become more empathic
about what's happening
to other people's children.
1344
01:11:55,485 --> 01:11:57,878
Knowing how much benefit
1345
01:11:57,922 --> 01:11:59,706
early childhood
education brings
1346
01:11:59,750 --> 01:12:03,536
to closing the achievement gapand closing the opportunity gap,
1347
01:12:03,580 --> 01:12:06,234
we're very foolish
not to provide access
1348
01:12:06,278 --> 01:12:09,107
to high-quality learning
for all young children,
1349
01:12:09,150 --> 01:12:11,805
especially those
in low-income communities.
1350
01:12:11,849 --> 01:12:13,546
You get so much more
bang for the buck
1351
01:12:13,590 --> 01:12:15,896
by investing in a trouble
six-month-old
1352
01:12:15,940 --> 01:12:18,725
or a troubled six-year-old,
than you do in investing
in a...
1353
01:12:18,769 --> 01:12:20,248
in a troubled 16-year-old.
1354
01:12:20,292 --> 01:12:21,772
It's going to cost money
1355
01:12:21,815 --> 01:12:24,427
to make sure every child
starts school ready to learn.
1356
01:12:24,470 --> 01:12:25,819
It's going to cost money
1357
01:12:25,863 --> 01:12:27,691
to make sure that
young people get
1358
01:12:27,734 --> 01:12:30,084
the training they need
for good jobs.
1359
01:12:30,128 --> 01:12:32,173
But for every dollar
that we spend,
1360
01:12:32,217 --> 01:12:36,787
not only do we save several,
but we produce,
1361
01:12:36,830 --> 01:12:38,702
we increase the GDP.
1362
01:12:38,745 --> 01:12:41,835
America will prosper when
the people of the future
1363
01:12:41,879 --> 01:12:45,186
are prepared
to lead to the future
that we all want.
1364
01:12:53,630 --> 01:12:56,720
You know, for all the love
and support in the room,
1365
01:12:56,763 --> 01:12:59,157
I have to confess
that nobody ever seems
1366
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:00,985
to want to take me
out to dinner.
1367
01:13:02,116 --> 01:13:05,206
But, uh, the employers
in this room
1368
01:13:05,250 --> 01:13:08,558
prove that actually you can
take the high road.
1369
01:13:08,601 --> 01:13:11,125
Many of these employers
have been willing
to come with us
1370
01:13:11,169 --> 01:13:13,214
to Congress and
state legislatures and say,
1371
01:13:13,258 --> 01:13:16,479
"We believe in higher wages
and better benefits.
1372
01:13:16,522 --> 01:13:20,134
"Not just for workers,
but because it's better
for the bottom line."
1373
01:13:20,178 --> 01:13:22,659
You know, this is ultimately
about our democracy.
1374
01:13:22,702 --> 01:13:24,443
It's about this question...
1375
01:13:24,487 --> 01:13:28,229
Who gets to decide
how women are treated
in the workplace?
1376
01:13:28,273 --> 01:13:30,667
Who gets to decide
whether we as a nation
1377
01:13:30,710 --> 01:13:32,408
follow the outstanding path
1378
01:13:32,451 --> 01:13:34,018
of the high-road employers
in this room,
1379
01:13:34,061 --> 01:13:37,456
or follow the low road,
a path of poverty and misery?
1380
01:13:37,500 --> 01:13:39,502
Is it a handful of
trade lobbyists,
1381
01:13:39,545 --> 01:13:41,547
or is it we, the people?
1382
01:13:44,985 --> 01:13:48,380
The values of the restaurant
emanate from whatever it is
1383
01:13:48,424 --> 01:13:51,209
that the ownership wants.
1384
01:13:51,252 --> 01:13:53,864
And so, when you say,
"I want an equitable
work environment."
1385
01:13:53,907 --> 01:13:58,434
"We want to create
a living wage
for all of our employees."
1386
01:13:58,477 --> 01:14:00,087
"We want
to open up opportunity."
1387
01:14:00,131 --> 01:14:03,134
All these things really
are basic human values.
1388
01:14:03,177 --> 01:14:05,092
Restaurants can create
a lot of change.
1389
01:14:09,575 --> 01:14:11,403
There are seven states.
1390
01:14:11,447 --> 01:14:14,058
California, Oregon, Washington,
1391
01:14:14,101 --> 01:14:15,842
Nevada, Montana,
1392
01:14:15,886 --> 01:14:17,931
Minnesota, and Alaska,
1393
01:14:17,975 --> 01:14:20,499
have all demanded
that the restaurant industry
1394
01:14:20,543 --> 01:14:22,153
pay their own workers' wages
1395
01:14:22,196 --> 01:14:24,721
and let tips be
on top of that wage.
1396
01:14:24,764 --> 01:14:27,985
And then we've got measures
moving in states
around the country
1397
01:14:28,028 --> 01:14:30,378
to eliminate the lower wage
for tipped workers. And so...
1398
01:14:30,422 --> 01:14:33,207
this is going to be
rolling momentum towards
1399
01:14:33,251 --> 01:14:34,992
the next
three to five years
1400
01:14:35,035 --> 01:14:37,385
being able to move
one fair wage legislation
in Congress.
1401
01:14:38,430 --> 01:14:40,563
We have breaking news.
1402
01:14:40,606 --> 01:14:44,262
The Intercept,which is a,
uh, media platform,
1403
01:14:44,305 --> 01:14:49,136
intercepted a poll
on public support
of the minimum wage.
1404
01:14:49,180 --> 01:14:50,703
And here were the results,
1405
01:14:50,747 --> 01:14:54,315
"71% support
among all people,
1406
01:14:54,359 --> 01:14:57,231
"Republican and Democrat,
raising the minimum wage,
1407
01:14:57,275 --> 01:15:02,062
"and only 8%
of people in America
totally oppose it."
1408
01:15:02,106 --> 01:15:04,935
Everybody wants this.
Everybody needs this.
1409
01:15:04,978 --> 01:15:06,197
It will happen.
1410
01:15:06,240 --> 01:15:10,549
It is just a question
of how and when.
1411
01:15:10,593 --> 01:15:16,337
Imagine a world
in which women were valued.
1412
01:15:16,381 --> 01:15:19,515
In that world, they'd be able to take care of their families,
1413
01:15:19,558 --> 01:15:21,560
they'd be able to take care
of our communities.
1414
01:15:21,604 --> 01:15:22,822
They would lead.
1415
01:15:22,866 --> 01:15:25,346
All it takes is valuing her.
1416
01:15:25,390 --> 01:15:27,087
Letting her know
that she is valued.
1417
01:15:27,131 --> 01:15:30,003
Paying her in a way
that reflects her value.
1418
01:15:30,047 --> 01:15:33,137
If we did that, we'd have
a different economy,
1419
01:15:33,180 --> 01:15:35,139
we'd have
a different country.
1420
01:15:40,579 --> 01:15:45,410
Nations that have invested
in caring for their people
1421
01:15:45,453 --> 01:15:48,631
and in caring for their
natural environment
1422
01:15:48,674 --> 01:15:53,113
are not only always
in the highest ranks
1423
01:15:53,157 --> 01:15:56,726
of the United Nation's
Human Development Reports,
1424
01:15:56,769 --> 01:16:00,164
but of
the World Economic Forum's
1425
01:16:00,207 --> 01:16:02,601
Global Competitiveness Reports.
1426
01:16:02,645 --> 01:16:06,300
And not coincidently,
these are the nations
1427
01:16:06,344 --> 01:16:08,868
where is is much more
equal partnership
1428
01:16:08,912 --> 01:16:11,828
between the female
and male halves of humanity,
1429
01:16:11,871 --> 01:16:15,745
in both
the family and the state.
1430
01:16:15,788 --> 01:16:18,617
As the status
of women rises,
1431
01:16:18,661 --> 01:16:22,621
men no longer feel
it's such a threat
to their status
1432
01:16:22,665 --> 01:16:26,016
to also back, embrace
1433
01:16:26,059 --> 01:16:30,411
more stereotypically soft,
caring policies.
1434
01:16:30,455 --> 01:16:33,023
So they have childcare,
1435
01:16:33,066 --> 01:16:36,679
they have very generous
paid parental leave.
1436
01:16:36,722 --> 01:16:39,029
Of course they have
universal health care.
1437
01:16:39,072 --> 01:16:43,076
And because
they have invested
in caring for their people,
1438
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:48,952
they have less poverty,
less crime, long life spans,
1439
01:16:48,995 --> 01:16:51,650
kids who do well
in international tests.
1440
01:16:51,694 --> 01:16:55,741
They are societies
that have shifted
1441
01:16:55,785 --> 01:17:00,790
from a domination system
more to a partnership system.
1442
01:17:04,532 --> 01:17:07,318
We're not bystanders
in this world.
1443
01:17:07,361 --> 01:17:11,670
We have the ability to step up
and solve big problems.
1444
01:17:11,714 --> 01:17:13,237
We have done that
in the past.
1445
01:17:13,280 --> 01:17:14,847
It's just a question
of prioritization,
1446
01:17:14,891 --> 01:17:16,632
a question of political will.
1447
01:17:17,937 --> 01:17:20,157
Just like nations,
businesses should be run
1448
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:22,812
for the benefit
of all their stakeholders.
1449
01:17:22,855 --> 01:17:24,683
Society, partners, investors,
1450
01:17:24,727 --> 01:17:27,991
customers, employees,
the environment,
communities, et cetera.
1451
01:17:28,034 --> 01:17:29,949
Every business
should have a purpose
1452
01:17:29,993 --> 01:17:31,864
that goes
beyond making money.
1453
01:17:31,908 --> 01:17:34,040
You could compete,
for example,
1454
01:17:34,084 --> 01:17:35,912
on whether or not
your company
1455
01:17:35,955 --> 01:17:38,479
has a high-happiness rating
for its employees.
1456
01:17:38,523 --> 01:17:40,743
Um, you could compete
in terms of
1457
01:17:40,786 --> 01:17:42,440
the environmental record
of the company.
1458
01:17:42,483 --> 01:17:45,878
In terms of whether or not
they offer paid parental leave.
1459
01:17:45,922 --> 01:17:48,533
Instead of just valuing money,
1460
01:17:48,576 --> 01:17:51,144
we would introduce
a whole other set of values.
1461
01:17:51,188 --> 01:17:53,669
You know, economic systems
are human creations.
1462
01:17:54,539 --> 01:17:56,497
We can recreate them.
1463
01:18:00,632 --> 01:18:04,331
If we are a nation
founded in justice
and equality,
1464
01:18:04,375 --> 01:18:06,377
we have to always
be able to see
1465
01:18:06,420 --> 01:18:09,423
folks as deserving
even when they make mistakes.
1466
01:18:09,467 --> 01:18:12,165
We know that
the true path to safety
1467
01:18:12,209 --> 01:18:15,778
is through economic opportunity and restorative justice.
1468
01:18:15,821 --> 01:18:18,302
That most people
would respond to
1469
01:18:18,345 --> 01:18:19,956
a meaningful job,
1470
01:18:19,999 --> 01:18:22,262
and would respond to
restorative justice,
1471
01:18:22,306 --> 01:18:26,092
where they're held accountableand yet still held in community.
1472
01:18:26,136 --> 01:18:28,529
I think that
there is an opportunity
1473
01:18:28,573 --> 01:18:31,837
to restore the balance
of this country,
1474
01:18:31,881 --> 01:18:35,667
and to live up
to our ideals.
1475
01:18:35,711 --> 01:18:39,236
We need to move away
from this
punishment-based economy
1476
01:18:39,279 --> 01:18:41,629
towards a more caring economy.
1477
01:18:46,809 --> 01:18:50,073
What we have to do
as a society is stop
being blind to history.
1478
01:18:51,248 --> 01:18:53,076
Stop being blind to systems.
1479
01:18:54,338 --> 01:18:57,254
Understand that
there are privileges
1480
01:18:57,297 --> 01:18:59,212
and there are oppressions
in society.
1481
01:18:59,256 --> 01:19:01,171
And, in fact,
they work like a seesaw.
1482
01:19:01,214 --> 01:19:04,217
Your privilege is actually
built on my oppression.
1483
01:19:05,653 --> 01:19:08,961
We actually have to
engage in truth-telling.
1484
01:19:09,005 --> 01:19:12,225
We're gonna have to
express some shame
1485
01:19:12,269 --> 01:19:15,489
and sorrow about who we are
and what we've done.
1486
01:19:15,533 --> 01:19:18,014
We're gonna have to
find the will
1487
01:19:18,057 --> 01:19:21,017
to reconcile ourselves
to a different future.
1488
01:19:21,060 --> 01:19:24,498
If you don't
address the racism,
sexism, homophobia, hatred...
1489
01:19:24,542 --> 01:19:26,805
The hatred that we live in,
in our culture,
1490
01:19:26,849 --> 01:19:28,938
then you can't start having
a conversation
1491
01:19:28,981 --> 01:19:30,722
about love, peace
and understanding.
1492
01:19:37,468 --> 01:19:41,689
I think
it was realizing that, like,
my mom's rhetoric
1493
01:19:41,733 --> 01:19:45,868
of she really hated
certain types of people.
1494
01:19:45,911 --> 01:19:48,784
And I thought,
"Well, wait a minute,
1495
01:19:48,827 --> 01:19:52,004
"you tell me that
Jesus loves people, right?
1496
01:19:52,048 --> 01:19:55,573
"But you're saying this
and they don't line up.
1497
01:19:55,616 --> 01:19:57,836
"If Jesus loves everyone,
1498
01:19:57,880 --> 01:20:00,621
"then how can you hate
this type of a person?"
1499
01:20:02,449 --> 01:20:04,408
Had a lady
at the trailer park,
1500
01:20:04,451 --> 01:20:07,498
she would walk
two miles to work every day
at McDonald's,
1501
01:20:07,541 --> 01:20:10,457
and she had to quit
because they took
her food stamps away,
1502
01:20:10,501 --> 01:20:11,807
because she had a job.
1503
01:20:13,547 --> 01:20:15,419
And she said, "Sharon,
I can't afford to work.
1504
01:20:16,463 --> 01:20:18,857
"Because I'm paying
childcare...
1505
01:20:18,901 --> 01:20:22,687
"and now
I don't have food stamps,
so I can't... I'm making less."
1506
01:20:22,730 --> 01:20:25,211
Why can't we help people
that go out
and try to help themselves?
1507
01:20:31,652 --> 01:20:33,132
-Congratulations.
-Thank you.
1508
01:20:33,176 --> 01:20:34,351
About to graduate?
1509
01:20:34,394 --> 01:20:35,439
So, when are you due?
1510
01:20:35,482 --> 01:20:37,397
-I'm due on October 5th.
-Oh, wow!
1511
01:20:37,441 --> 01:20:38,790
-Here you go.
-Thank you.
1512
01:20:38,834 --> 01:20:40,836
And then, did you pick out
your produce yet?
1513
01:20:40,879 --> 01:20:42,533
-Yes, ma'am.
-Okay.
1514
01:20:42,576 --> 01:20:44,535
I've lived 15 years
on the Western Rivers.
1515
01:20:45,536 --> 01:20:46,842
I've never been married.
1516
01:20:47,538 --> 01:20:49,061
Don't have any kids.
1517
01:20:51,324 --> 01:20:53,500
All I cared about
was making money, you know.
1518
01:20:55,241 --> 01:20:57,330
And that didn't do
a lot of good for me,
you know.
1519
01:20:58,331 --> 01:21:00,072
I made a real
bad investment.
1520
01:21:00,116 --> 01:21:02,988
I was gonna go
in the dive boat business.
1521
01:21:03,032 --> 01:21:06,165
And I was stuck with,
you know, a boat that
wasn't worth anything.
1522
01:21:06,209 --> 01:21:07,863
except a big bill.
1523
01:21:07,906 --> 01:21:10,213
I'm so sorry.
1524
01:21:10,256 --> 01:21:13,216
One or two bad decisions
and he had nothing.
1525
01:21:13,259 --> 01:21:15,131
Wow, that could be me.
1526
01:21:15,174 --> 01:21:18,134
I mean, how many paychecks
do most Americans live
from bankruptcy?
1527
01:21:28,666 --> 01:21:29,754
-Here you go.
-Thank you.
1528
01:21:29,797 --> 01:21:30,929
But you grew up on your own?
1529
01:21:30,973 --> 01:21:32,496
Yes, ma'am.
1530
01:21:32,539 --> 01:21:35,499
Some of these guys
got good education,
good potential.
1531
01:21:35,542 --> 01:21:38,023
I mean, if we had a roof
on our head, it'd be better.
1532
01:21:38,067 --> 01:21:40,156
Just a job.
1533
01:21:40,199 --> 01:21:42,201
We are so busy
in our own worlds,
1534
01:21:42,245 --> 01:21:45,988
so we fail to see the people
that need so much
right in front of us.
1535
01:21:46,031 --> 01:21:47,119
What's up, bro?
1536
01:21:47,163 --> 01:21:48,425
The best preacher
in the world.
1537
01:21:48,468 --> 01:21:49,556
Doing all right, my man?
1538
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:50,688
Yes, sir.
1539
01:21:50,731 --> 01:21:52,255
I'm 57 years old.
1540
01:21:52,298 --> 01:21:55,040
I've worked,
paid taxes my whole life.
1541
01:21:55,084 --> 01:21:56,824
I was an engineer.
1542
01:21:56,868 --> 01:21:59,610
And I got
compression fractures
in my back,
1543
01:21:59,653 --> 01:22:02,613
but it's not enough
to get disability money.
1544
01:22:02,656 --> 01:22:04,267
If I could get
disability money...
1545
01:22:05,311 --> 01:22:06,965
I wouldn't be living
out here.
1546
01:22:08,271 --> 01:22:09,925
I don't get food stamps.
1547
01:22:09,968 --> 01:22:11,317
The system sucks.
1548
01:22:11,361 --> 01:22:13,145
Yeah.
1549
01:22:13,189 --> 01:22:14,668
It really is easy
to judge
1550
01:22:14,712 --> 01:22:16,453
and say, "Well, go get a job.
That's what I did."
1551
01:22:17,758 --> 01:22:20,283
But a lot
of these people can't.
1552
01:22:20,326 --> 01:22:23,677
I think people need to learn
each other's stories.
1553
01:22:23,721 --> 01:22:27,290
When we know
each other's stories,
you don't judge harshly.
1554
01:22:27,333 --> 01:22:28,639
Father, we come to you
in the name of Jesus.
1555
01:22:28,682 --> 01:22:29,945
God, I thank you
for my brother here
1556
01:22:29,988 --> 01:22:31,685
and, God, I pray
that you be with him.
1557
01:22:31,729 --> 01:22:34,732
Help him, God.
Protect him, God...
1558
01:22:37,691 --> 01:22:39,780
A lot of this
causes me to think about
1559
01:22:39,824 --> 01:22:43,654
the soul of a nation
and I guess the values of it.
1560
01:22:43,697 --> 01:22:47,223
And what you do with
the most vulnerable
around you,
1561
01:22:47,266 --> 01:22:50,748
whether it's children
or the mentally ill.
1562
01:22:50,791 --> 01:22:53,533
And we forget that
so many people
are left behind.
1563
01:22:55,666 --> 01:22:58,103
I really feel like if we focus more on each other,
1564
01:22:58,147 --> 01:22:59,539
and not on ourselves,
1565
01:22:59,583 --> 01:23:01,933
we'd be so much better.
1566
01:23:01,977 --> 01:23:04,544
We live in such
an individualistic society,
1567
01:23:04,588 --> 01:23:06,372
I guess I'm trying
to think of ways
1568
01:23:06,416 --> 01:23:09,810
to create more communities
where people
are more connected.
1569
01:23:09,854 --> 01:23:12,030
Reconnecting with
your fellow humans
1570
01:23:12,074 --> 01:23:14,032
on that deep
relationship level,
1571
01:23:14,076 --> 01:23:16,730
that feels like
that's the right path
1572
01:23:16,774 --> 01:23:18,602
to solving some
of these things.
1573
01:23:22,475 --> 01:23:26,001
The change we need is premised
on going back to what we know
1574
01:23:26,044 --> 01:23:27,915
about what makes us human.
1575
01:23:27,959 --> 01:23:30,875
We need each other.
We're born into the world
needing each other.
1576
01:23:30,918 --> 01:23:33,356
We thrive in relationships.
We need communities.
1577
01:23:33,399 --> 01:23:35,706
That's the most important thing we have.
1578
01:23:35,749 --> 01:23:38,056
We're all part of
this interconnected system,
1579
01:23:38,100 --> 01:23:42,060
and we all flourish
or we suffer together.
1580
01:23:42,104 --> 01:23:43,714
It truly is about...
1581
01:23:45,150 --> 01:23:47,935
what are your values
as a human being?
1582
01:23:47,979 --> 01:23:51,026
And what does
our American character say
about who we are?
1583
01:23:52,505 --> 01:23:54,377
Are we caring people?
1584
01:23:54,420 --> 01:23:56,683
Will we fight for justice,
1585
01:23:56,727 --> 01:23:58,859
wherever that fight takes us?
1586
01:24:00,339 --> 01:24:03,560
If we shift our culture
to be a world in which
1587
01:24:03,603 --> 01:24:05,649
we're much more connected
to one another
1588
01:24:05,692 --> 01:24:07,825
and where
we're serving others,
1589
01:24:07,868 --> 01:24:09,653
then we all rise,
this is our moment.
1590
01:24:09,696 --> 01:24:11,307
We all rise.
1591
01:24:11,350 --> 01:24:14,614
We will know
we have equality
in this country
1592
01:24:14,658 --> 01:24:18,227
when everybody has a chance
at the American dream.
1593
01:24:18,270 --> 01:24:23,493
Not just in the sense
of hard work leading
to economic security,
1594
01:24:23,536 --> 01:24:27,671
but to the American dream
in the more profound sense
of being treated
1595
01:24:27,714 --> 01:24:33,198
with equal dignity
and being rewarded by full membership in society.
1596
01:24:35,853 --> 01:24:40,814
What makes us who we are
as a country is that
every generation of people
1597
01:24:40,858 --> 01:24:42,990
tries to bridge the distance
1598
01:24:43,034 --> 01:24:48,605
between our founding reality
and the beauty of the dream.
1599
01:24:50,476 --> 01:24:54,306
When I grow up,
I want to be
a doctor or a lawyer,
1600
01:24:54,350 --> 01:24:57,440
because I want
to protect people
and help them.
1601
01:24:59,181 --> 01:25:02,749
I think in America
everything can be possible.
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