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I care deeply about black people

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and the issues of black people.

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But I care deeply about the issues of all people.

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I want to look at things objectively.

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When I look at what policies I believe

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will help not only black people,

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but what would help all people, I voice that.

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And because I stand in the opposition,

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that makes me an Uncle Tom.

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I used to get very offended and upset

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whenever people would call me an Uncle Tom.

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I think I'm in a place now, when someone calls me that,

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I kinda pity them because of their ignorance.

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It just shows that they haven't actually read the book.

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Whenever someone calls you an Uncle Tom,

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what they're trying to communicate

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is that either you just do not like black people

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and you see all black people as trash,

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or they're tying to communicate

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that, "Oh, you're just trying to fit in with white people.

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"You're trying to be accepted among whites.

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"And so, I wanna call you this derogatory word

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"to put you in your place and to remind you,

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"you will never be accepted by whites.

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"You'll always be just a black nigger."

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Those people who find my Instagram

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and comment on it just to call me Uncle Tom, House Negro...

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I never thought that I would be called

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such racist and derogatory terms.

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Uncle Tom.

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Uncle Tom.

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Uncle Tom, coon, bed wench.

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Boot licker.

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Chuckin' and jobbin'.

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House Negro.

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Coon.

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Uncle Tom and coon.

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Matter of fact, I have a Coon Award over there.

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Coon of the year award.

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They call us the coons.

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Coon.
Coon.

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For Indians like me, you're an Uncle Patel.

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Uncle Ruckus.

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Well, praise be to white God and his son, white Jesus.

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The guy from "Get Out."

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They put his face on my post.

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I find that the African-American experience for me

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has been for the most part very good.

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I think the funniest thing I've ever been called,

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most absurd thing is a black white supremacist.

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It's like the old Chappelle skit, Clayton Bigsby.

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They go (gasps).

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White power.

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It must be real.

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People say crazy things.

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Leftists say the craziest shit to you.

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<v Lenore>Don't try to twist what I say.

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But that's what you're saying.

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<v Lenore>That is not what I'm saying.

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That is what you're saying.

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<v Lenore>You can't tell me what I'm saying.

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I know you, Lenore, that's what you're saying.

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<v Lenore>You don't know me.

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You sound like all of them.

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<v Lenore>Oh yeah, okay.

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And guess what, you sound like all them Uncle Toms.

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Now, how about that?
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I knew it.

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Lenore, it's good to hear from you.

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It's good to hear from you.

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<v Lenore>Go drop dead.

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Thank you, Lenore.

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What a sweet lady.

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An Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out

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by embracing the white man, by becoming a Republican,

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by rejecting the idea that you're a victim,

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by supporting things like hard work,

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accountability and low taxes.

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By refusing to think of yourself as a black person first,

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as opposed to as an American who is black.

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Your skin color should dictate how you think

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and what you say.

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The only way I can operate as a human being

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is via my skin color.

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I can't operate via my intelligence

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or the things I have accomplished.

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My resume should be, I'm black.

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An Uncle Tom has traditionally been a black person

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that tried to serve and curry favor with white people.

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So, they believe that I wanna be accepted

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in the white community.

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Kinda like the House Negro back in slavery.

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That I'm in the house.

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"Master, what can I do for you?"

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And I'm gonna suck up to them

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and leave my people behind.

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Most black people don't believe

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that other blacks can be independent free-thinkers

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or standing up--
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Or stand up for what is right.

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They believe that if a black person

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stand up for what is right, they're a sell out.

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They're a Uncle Tom.

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The white people have to be brainwashing.

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As my late grandfathers used to say,

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who lived to be 94, "I does not care."

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'cause he didn't have a lot of education.

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He said, "I does not care."

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So, I don't care if they call me names.

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Just meet me at the bank.

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(laughing)

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And we'll compare bank accounts.

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I am very optimistic about the future.

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Frankly, I have seen certain changes

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in the United States over the last two years

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that surprise me.

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I've seen levels of compliance

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with the Civil Rights bill, and changes

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that have been most surprising.

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So, on the basis of this,

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I think we may be able to get a negro president

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in less than 40 years.

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<v Announcer>In churches, in bars, on the streets.

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Americans have been celebrating this great landmark

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of the long struggle for civil rights.

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In Chicago, the veteran black leader, Jesse Jackson,

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broke down in tears.

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In Atlanta, from the pulpit

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of Martin Luther King's old church,

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its pastor declared, "Tonight, we have seized

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"the promise of America."

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<v Man>Not to sound crazy,

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but white people always had Jesus.

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So, they always had that mentality,

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I could be anything, even God.

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For me, the image of him is like,

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who's the most powerful person in the world?

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Who's considered like a God, basically?

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It's the president of the United States.

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Obama became that image for us, like that Jesus.

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We never looked at ourselves as being politicians.

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We looked at ourselves as rappers.

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or football, basketball players, drug dealers.

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That's why I think Obama was important

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in becoming president.

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Because it gave us that optic.

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Like, we could be whatever we wanna be.

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<v Candace>It was America finally feeling

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that we could let go.

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Just let go and say we finally did it.

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Progress is here.

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I cried when he won.

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I never thought in my lifetime that it would happen.

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But it happened today.

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It's a reality and we did it.

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America is now more united.

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We did it.

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I can't believe that I got the opportunity

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to live, to see something so great.

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I can't even describe it.

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I can't believe I got the chance to vote for someone...

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<v Woman>Just look around.

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It's all young people, all colors.

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I believe, when you dream, your dreams can come true.

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Who would have thought that this year

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a man like this will be elected

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as the president of United States?

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This is the beauty of America.

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God bless America.

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God bless America!

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I became a Christian back in 2009.

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The year prior, I voted for Barack Obama.

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I was really passionate about Barack Obama and his policies.

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I was having a conversation with a friend,

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and I was telling him how I'm a Democrat

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because the Democrat policy is pro-Medicaid,

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pro-government benefits, all these things

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that can help poor urban communities.

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And doesn't the Bible say

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that we're supposed to look out for poor people?

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And this friend of mine, who's also a Christian said,

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"Well, was it talking about the government

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"or is it talking about you?"

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And I was like, that's very interesting.

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And so, I went back and read it

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and it was talking about me.

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A lot of the way that I saw things began to change,

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but I was still a Democrat.

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This friend of mine challenged me

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to go and read the Republican platform

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and read the Democrat platform.

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And see where my values and my views line up.

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My whole mindset was changing around this time,

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and so I took him up on that offer.

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I went in and I read the entire Democrat platform

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and I read the entire Republican platform.

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And I was like, "Man, I'm a Republican,"

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I have learned to go beyond

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just listening to what CNN says, or even Fox News.

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I go on Fox News all the time,

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but I decide to go beyond what they are saying

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and what they're selling

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and I'm able to listen and do the research on my own

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so I know who I believe in, who am I voting for and why.

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I used to be a Democrat.

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I used to be hardcore, Barack Obama,

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the Democrats are only here to help the people,

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they're the party of the people.

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And then I found out that the Democratic party

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was the party of slavery, Ku Klux Klan,

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the Jim Crow laws.

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They were opposed to the civil rights movement.

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The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment

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which freed the slaves, gave black people citizenship

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and the right to vote.

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The Democrats unanimously voted against

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all of those rights.

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And when I found that out,

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and nobody could give me a legitimate stance

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on how the party switched,

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it's like I have no other choice

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but to at least consider what principles

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does the other side have?

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What are they offering?

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<v Man>When I began to educate myself

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on the history of the Democratic party,

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I learned a lot about Margaret Sanger.

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<v Margaret>I think the greatest sin in the world

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is bringing children into the world.

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That have disease--

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And I learned about the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

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And I learned about the Jim Crow south.

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And I learned about Black Wall Street.

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And all of those events had Democratic hands in them.

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It unraveled everything that I knew to be true.

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Everything that the news media taught me.

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Everything that my own culture taught me.

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We're going to the studio.

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News nugget.

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Show time.

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George Washington mural should be covered but preserved

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according to a San Francisco school board decision.

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Don't they have better things to do?

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Do you know what the problem is with that mural?

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It has a slave in it.

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That was back then.

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But they wanna cover up history.

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It had a native American-Indian in it.

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They don't like that.

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It's part of history.

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I focus on three things.

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Performance, performance, performance.

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The three things that are my guiding lights,

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belief in God, belief in myself

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and my belief in the United Sates of America.

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I learned it from that man right there.

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My dad worked three jobs until he could live off of two,

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and he worked two until he could live off of one.

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He used to be a chauffeur for the Coca Cola company.

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And then one day he was asked to drive

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for the chairman and CEO, Robert W. Woodruff.

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It was like a 24/7, seven-day a week job.

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I never heard him complain

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about having to work so hard.

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I never heard him complain

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about what the government didn't do to help us.

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We were poor, but we didn't know it.

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We didn't have people screaming at us all the time

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telling us we were poor.

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My dad encouraged my brother and I

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to get as much education as you can.

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'cause he worked in an environment

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where the most successful people

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were the ones that had the greatest amount of education.

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Success does not come in a straight line.

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It's a zigzag.

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I'm sick of us hearing about our people talking about,

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"Oh, when I go to a job,

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"they're gonna discriminate against me.

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"White privilege."

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I don't wanna hear a lick of that crap anymore.

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(crowd applauding)

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You're stronger than that.

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You're more powerful than that.

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I tell you what, I go to a job interview,

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and someone don't give me an opportunity,

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I'm a apply for every single job on the block

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until I get a job.

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I don't need no handouts, I don't need your excuses.

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I'm a go harder than everybody else for their job.

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And if you go hard, and you put yourself in position,

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you'll be successful.

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(somber music)

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I never saw myself as handicapped,

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because I was black, I was a woman,

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that I came from poverty.

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It was just not the way I processed the world.

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As someone who got a GED, went to a community college,

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then went on to get a four-year degree,

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graduating magna cum laude,

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while I was working 40 hours a week,

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nights and weekends at the community college library.

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My life has taken many turns.

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I married at 16, I dropped out of school.

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By the time I was 21, I had three small children.

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I had no idea that I would end up going to college

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and becoming a university professor.

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Graduate school was very interesting for me

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in a lot of ways.

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I had this experience in a course

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that was being taught by a white female,

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she was actually a white liberal.

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At some point in the classroom,

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I'm sure I'd said something that really irked her

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because she turned to me and she yelled,

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"You'll never be able to change the fact

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"that you're a black woman."

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And I interpreted that to mean that I was handicapped,

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whether I knew it or not.

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There I learned that I was black, I was poor,

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I was a woman, and that I was not supposed

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to have accomplished the things

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that I had already accomplished, which was success.

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By then, it was too late.

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<v Larry>When I was a kid, I went to a summer camp

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in an area of California called Ukiah.

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Really bucolic, flowers everywhere, it was just wonderful.

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There was a Boy Scouts jamboree,

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and there were hundreds of Boy Scouts

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from all over California.

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And from what I can tell,

342
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there were just a handful of blacks.

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I was in a cabin with maybe seven or eight kids,

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and we'd been together now for three, four days.

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And there was one kid.

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He and I got into some sort of argument,

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I don't remember why, and he called me a nigger.

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And I literally had to restrain the other kids

349
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from killing this guy.

350
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I mean, they were just gonna kill him.

351
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They were more angry about it than I was.

352
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And so, I never really felt that those who are bigots,

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the racists were in the majority.

354
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I never really felt that.

355
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I always felt that people who were bigots

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intuitively were in the minority,

357
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and most people didn't feel that way.

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That seemed to be consistent

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with my own personal experiences.

360
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I was always confident.

361
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I always knew I had a good memory,

362
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made good grades, and my parents gave me

363
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a lot of positive feedback because of that.

364
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I always knew I was going to be an achiever,

365
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and it was no doubt about that.

366
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The only doubt was the route.

367
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There was never a time when I thought of myself

368
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as a victim, never, not one time.

369
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You're afraid of being marginalized.

370
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Welcome to what it feels like to be black.

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A man caught on video unleashing a racist rant.

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An alleged racist incident.

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Racial bias.

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Racist tendencies.

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Racism.
Racism from coast to coast.

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The open racism.

377
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Statements of racism.

378
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He was brutally beaten by attackers

379
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yelling racist and homophobic slurs.

380
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A racist drifter.

381
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Is it racism, is it sexism?

382
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How do we get white people to see racism

383
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as their problem too.

384
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That was racist.
Racist.

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Go back to Africa kind of racism.

386
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Straight up racist.

387
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Racist tweets.
Racist tweets.

388
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Those tweets are racist.

389
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A racial dog whistle.

390
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The most successful black Americans today

391
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are Nigerian-Americans,

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because they're not brainwashed by our media.

393
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We've heard all about the big, explosive cases

394
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of racial injustice in America.

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But that's not what most black people in America deal with.

396
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You deal with what we call micro aggressions,

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or a 1000 cuts of racism every single day.

398
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I grew up being told of my disadvantages.

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That this country is unfair to black people.

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You're black, you're not gonna be able to do it.

401
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You can't get this, you can't get that,

402
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you can't get bank loans.

403
00:18:46,936 --> 00:18:48,365
When you walk into a bank,

404
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you will get a loan more easily if you're a white guy.

405
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The ideology is implanted into you subconsciously

406
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to believe these things.

407
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We don't teach our children to have confidence.

408
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It's like we're brainwashed to think.

409
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"Or is it because I'm black?

410
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"Why are they looking at me like that?"

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00:19:03,899 --> 00:19:05,687
How many of you feel judged?

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How many of you feel feared on sight

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when people see you?

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Show of hands.

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We teach them to be scared of this country,

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to be scared of the world that they live in.

417
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It's like a cancerous plague

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in the mind of black Americans.

419
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You trying to say that this country

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does not specialize in racism and bigotry?

421
00:19:24,331 --> 00:19:26,149
I am saying that racism exists.

422
00:19:26,149 --> 00:19:28,763
I am saying--
Exists,

423
00:19:28,763 --> 00:19:31,042
but you have the luxury.

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You have the luxury to be cavalier about it.

425
00:19:34,421 --> 00:19:37,331
When you are angry, it's very easy to be deceived.

426
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It's very sad to see black people operate in that.

427
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There's a lot of members in the black community,

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who they're operating in very negative energy.

429
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I call out racism.

430
00:19:51,594 --> 00:19:54,030
That is maddening to me, and I'm crying about it

431
00:19:54,030 --> 00:19:55,669
because it's crazy--

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If you keep yourself in this constant state

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of woe is me, I'm disadvantaged,

434
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I'll never accomplish anything,

435
00:20:03,003 --> 00:20:04,906
then you won't accomplish anything.

436
00:20:04,906 --> 00:20:07,278
It will be a self-fulfilling prophecy for you.

437
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If you determine that you can't be successful

438
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or that you're oppressed, then you are oppressed.

439
00:20:12,057 --> 00:20:13,760
That's the power of the mind.

440
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If you believe that you can't, you won't,

441
00:20:15,096 --> 00:20:16,440
and you sure as hell won't try.

442
00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,019
And black America has been programmed

443
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to believe that we can't.

444
00:20:19,342 --> 00:20:22,572
The country was founded on racism and bigotry, David.

445
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If you turn on a radio morning show.

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<v Woman>If you a African-American and the cops show up,

447
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we don't know if we gon' make it out alive, I'm sorry.

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<v Man>The message is clear.

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<v Man>If you broke and white in America,

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you're wasting your whiteness.

451
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<v Man>And that's what's being fed

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into the urban community.

453
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<v Man>White supremacy is the backbone

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of political and economic disenfranchisement of black folks.

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So long as black people continue to have their psyche

456
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filled by that nonsense, we won't have an awakening.

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Trump is a racist.

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He doesn't want more brown and black people here--

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It gets brainwashed into you in multiple facets.

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We tend to be geared towards entertainment.

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<v Snoop>You need to know

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that a lot of your fans is racist.

463
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People have used those entertainment personalities

464
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to convince us subconsciously what we should believe.

465
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If you like that nigga, you motherfuckin' racist.

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Fuck you and--

467
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♪ Fuck Donald Trump ♪

468
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♪ Fuck Donald Trump ♪

469
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♪ Yeah, nigga, fuck Donald Trump ♪

470
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I'm beginning to lose confidence

471
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in the Trump administration.

472
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(audience laughing)

473
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Yeah, what do you think of that?

474
00:21:25,234 --> 00:21:28,684
I think it's actually a great thing.

475
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Jay Z has always been a drug dealer

476
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to the black community.

477
00:21:31,169 --> 00:21:32,002
He's very open about the fact

478
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that he used to sell crack cocaine

479
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when he was living in the projects,

480
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and that's how he got ahead.

481
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So, he was selling something that was harming

482
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the black community.

483
00:21:39,827 --> 00:21:41,060
Well, he's still doing that.

484
00:21:41,060 --> 00:21:42,119
He's still selling something

485
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that's harming the black community,

486
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and it's flying off the shelves, and that's victimhood.

487
00:21:46,001 --> 00:21:47,192
We have to have the conversation.

488
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We have to have tough conversations.

489
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We have to talk about the N-word,

490
00:21:49,824 --> 00:21:53,370
and we have to talk about why white men are so privileged

491
00:21:53,370 --> 00:21:54,262
in this country.

492
00:21:54,262 --> 00:21:56,845
(somber music)

493
00:21:59,134 --> 00:22:00,836
Colin Kaepernick, same exact hustle.

494
00:22:00,836 --> 00:22:03,098
This is a half-white man who's chosen

495
00:22:03,098 --> 00:22:05,158
to pick his hair out to be an Afro, to be black,

496
00:22:05,158 --> 00:22:08,158
because right now victimhood is hot.

497
00:22:12,371 --> 00:22:13,987
Colin Kaepernick is making a ton of money.

498
00:22:13,987 --> 00:22:15,708
Jay Z is making a ton of money.

499
00:22:15,708 --> 00:22:18,041
Is black America any better?

500
00:22:19,173 --> 00:22:20,573
The communities are still hurting,

501
00:22:20,573 --> 00:22:23,406
but they get to line their pockets

502
00:22:24,796 --> 00:22:27,464
and we accept the same type of crack cocaine.

503
00:22:27,464 --> 00:22:28,570
The left gets away with this

504
00:22:28,570 --> 00:22:32,906
because 80 to 90% of the primary sources of news

505
00:22:32,906 --> 00:22:33,739
are left-wing.

506
00:22:33,739 --> 00:22:34,886
My father was a janitor.

507
00:22:34,886 --> 00:22:36,964
He was born in the Jim Crow south.

508
00:22:36,964 --> 00:22:38,837
Fast forward, my father in his late 40s,

509
00:22:38,837 --> 00:22:40,104
started a small business,

510
00:22:40,104 --> 00:22:41,486
got a little bit of property.

511
00:22:41,486 --> 00:22:42,899
This is what happens in America.

512
00:22:42,899 --> 00:22:44,964
Raised three boys, educated them.

513
00:22:44,964 --> 00:22:46,734
We have a thriving black middle class.

514
00:22:46,734 --> 00:22:48,357
If black America were a country, Brooke,

515
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it would be the 15th wealthiest country in the world.

516
00:22:51,019 --> 00:22:53,882
For crying out loud, this is not your grandfather's America.

517
00:22:53,882 --> 00:22:55,444
America is an idea.

518
00:22:55,444 --> 00:22:57,561
That's why we're different than every other country.

519
00:22:57,561 --> 00:22:59,865
That's why we have freedoms that other countries don't.

520
00:22:59,865 --> 00:23:01,934
That's why entrepreneurs are birthed here.

521
00:23:01,934 --> 00:23:04,029
That's why there's so many millionaires here.

522
00:23:04,029 --> 00:23:05,574
That's why black people are doing better here

523
00:23:05,574 --> 00:23:07,068
than anywhere else in the world.

524
00:23:07,068 --> 00:23:08,791
It's very simple.

525
00:23:08,791 --> 00:23:12,610
This ideology, people begin to adopt around the world,

526
00:23:12,610 --> 00:23:15,524
and they become successful.

527
00:23:15,524 --> 00:23:16,983
It's an idea.

528
00:23:16,983 --> 00:23:18,591
America is an idea.

529
00:23:18,591 --> 00:23:21,049
Anybody who adopts the idea of America

530
00:23:21,049 --> 00:23:23,682
will be American and successful.

531
00:23:23,682 --> 00:23:26,771
If you don't adopt the idea, you're not American.

532
00:23:26,771 --> 00:23:28,631
You're not get that forward in America

533
00:23:28,631 --> 00:23:31,102
if you don't pursue the American idea.

534
00:23:31,102 --> 00:23:33,286
(soft music)

535
00:23:33,286 --> 00:23:34,953
You wanna hold it?

536
00:23:39,134 --> 00:23:41,346
(cock crowing)

537
00:23:41,346 --> 00:23:45,013
I love that this country values individuals.

538
00:23:45,962 --> 00:23:47,737
As a black American in the United States,

539
00:23:47,737 --> 00:23:49,832
I have autonomy in the things that I do

540
00:23:49,832 --> 00:23:51,415
or are of my doing.

541
00:23:58,237 --> 00:23:59,940
A lot people expect when you say farmer,

542
00:23:59,940 --> 00:24:01,587
they're expecting wide tracts of land

543
00:24:01,587 --> 00:24:04,023
and tractors and stuff, but we don't have any of that.

544
00:24:04,023 --> 00:24:07,285
And I realize when I look back here every day,

545
00:24:07,285 --> 00:24:11,162
I'm proud of what we've gotten done so far.

546
00:24:11,162 --> 00:24:14,771
Started with chickens, which is the gateway farming

547
00:24:14,771 --> 00:24:16,938
to goats, rabbits, horses.

548
00:24:21,268 --> 00:24:23,365
These are my goats, Posey and Zelda.

549
00:24:23,365 --> 00:24:26,377
One's a Nubian and one's a Kiko.

550
00:24:26,377 --> 00:24:28,460
A really badly bred Kiko.

551
00:24:30,972 --> 00:24:33,233
This year is the first year that I ever had goats.

552
00:24:33,233 --> 00:24:36,664
Individualism, independence and taking responsibility

553
00:24:36,664 --> 00:24:38,242
for your actions and for your food.

554
00:24:38,242 --> 00:24:40,939
I think that as for promoting small government values.

555
00:24:40,939 --> 00:24:42,479
When you do things yourself,

556
00:24:42,479 --> 00:24:46,396
you don't need the government to do it for you.

557
00:24:47,766 --> 00:24:49,750
I think black Americans should believe

558
00:24:49,750 --> 00:24:54,072
and uphold the ideas of constitutional inherent rights.

559
00:24:54,072 --> 00:24:57,779
Without those beliefs, we wouldn't be where we are today.

560
00:24:57,779 --> 00:25:00,362
(somber music)

561
00:25:05,225 --> 00:25:06,653
I will support and defend the constitution

562
00:25:06,653 --> 00:25:08,681
of the United States of America against all enemies,

563
00:25:08,681 --> 00:25:09,804
foreign and domestic.

564
00:25:09,804 --> 00:25:12,342
I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same,

565
00:25:12,342 --> 00:25:14,408
that I take this obligation freely

566
00:25:14,408 --> 00:25:17,090
without any purpose of evasion or mental reservations,

567
00:25:17,090 --> 00:25:18,340
so help me God.

568
00:25:20,031 --> 00:25:24,864
We don't take an oath to a color, to a party, to a person.

569
00:25:26,239 --> 00:25:28,547
We take an oath to the thing that binds us all together,

570
00:25:28,547 --> 00:25:32,880
and that's our constitution, that's our rule of law.

571
00:25:35,946 --> 00:25:37,601
Those of us that understand that oath,

572
00:25:37,601 --> 00:25:41,768
will always be guardians of the American republic.

573
00:25:44,364 --> 00:25:47,465
If I want to see this nation that I love so dearly

574
00:25:47,465 --> 00:25:50,197
continue on in the path of liberty, freedom

575
00:25:50,197 --> 00:25:52,816
and individual rights, then I gotta make sure

576
00:25:52,816 --> 00:25:55,253
that subsequent generations understand that.

577
00:25:55,253 --> 00:25:58,017
They are willing to go out and fight for it and defend it

578
00:25:58,017 --> 00:25:59,366
just the same as I did.

579
00:25:59,366 --> 00:26:02,692
Because I had a dad that inculcated that into me.

580
00:26:02,692 --> 00:26:04,569
<v Man>Your green herring bones, but take your hat first.

581
00:26:04,569 --> 00:26:05,773
That's the green hat with a brim on it.

582
00:26:05,773 --> 00:26:06,973
Try it on.
At the age of 15,

583
00:26:06,973 --> 00:26:08,795
when my dad said that there was no greater honor

584
00:26:08,795 --> 00:26:09,657
than to wear the uniform

585
00:26:09,657 --> 00:26:10,830
of the United States of America,

586
00:26:10,830 --> 00:26:12,323
that's a powerful statement.

587
00:26:12,323 --> 00:26:16,840
Coming from a man that was born in 1920 down in the south.

588
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,447
Never heard him say a bad word

589
00:26:18,447 --> 00:26:21,391
about the United States of America.

590
00:26:21,391 --> 00:26:23,571
He went off to serve and fight for this country,

591
00:26:23,571 --> 00:26:25,390
even though this country did not see him

592
00:26:25,390 --> 00:26:27,569
as it should have seen him.

593
00:26:27,569 --> 00:26:29,486
But he wasn't a victim.

594
00:26:30,851 --> 00:26:32,783
The black community really believe

595
00:26:32,783 --> 00:26:35,206
that if they could show that they were willing

596
00:26:35,206 --> 00:26:38,344
to stand side by side with white Americans

597
00:26:38,344 --> 00:26:40,020
and fight for liberties and freedoms,

598
00:26:40,020 --> 00:26:42,859
that sooner or later, people would understand

599
00:26:42,859 --> 00:26:46,486
that we can't have this hypocrisy.

600
00:26:46,486 --> 00:26:50,619
Executive order 9981 that President Harry Truman signed

601
00:26:50,619 --> 00:26:51,998
that desegregated our military.

602
00:26:51,998 --> 00:26:56,482
He finally realized that if we are true to ourselves

603
00:26:56,482 --> 00:26:58,803
about the liberation of other people,

604
00:26:58,803 --> 00:27:00,848
from the tyranny of Nazism, fascism

605
00:27:00,848 --> 00:27:04,413
and Japanese imperialism, we gotta be true to that here

606
00:27:04,413 --> 00:27:06,543
in our own country, in the United States of America.

607
00:27:06,543 --> 00:27:10,149
And that's why Harry Truman's picture hangs in my house.

608
00:27:10,149 --> 00:27:13,481
That's why the principles of the founders

609
00:27:13,481 --> 00:27:15,064
speak loudly to me.

610
00:27:16,604 --> 00:27:20,250
Even though we face the difficulties

611
00:27:20,250 --> 00:27:23,917
of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

612
00:27:26,847 --> 00:27:30,818
It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

613
00:27:30,818 --> 00:27:33,935
I think it is an immoral posture

614
00:27:33,935 --> 00:27:37,154
to hold the position that individuals,

615
00:27:37,154 --> 00:27:41,072
whether they be Negroes or members of other minority groups,

616
00:27:41,072 --> 00:27:44,305
should have their basic constitutional

617
00:27:44,305 --> 00:27:46,993
and God-given rights held up.

618
00:27:46,993 --> 00:27:49,105
Self governance is what all

619
00:27:49,105 --> 00:27:51,913
of those grassroots people were seeking.

620
00:27:51,913 --> 00:27:55,313
They understood that the victimizer,

621
00:27:55,313 --> 00:28:00,063
i.e. racism and discrimination may have knocked you down,

622
00:28:02,153 --> 00:28:05,403
but it's the victim that has to get up.

623
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,930
Hello, sister Tasha Fields.

624
00:28:14,812 --> 00:28:17,645
Hi, this Rob Woodson, how are you?

625
00:28:19,710 --> 00:28:20,555
Good, listen.

626
00:28:20,555 --> 00:28:22,209
I wanna invite you and your husband

627
00:28:22,209 --> 00:28:24,766
to join this consortium of ours.

628
00:28:24,766 --> 00:28:28,278
We're calling it the 1776 Consortium,

629
00:28:28,278 --> 00:28:31,665
to respond to the 1619 piece that was done

630
00:28:31,665 --> 00:28:33,209
in the New York Times.

631
00:28:33,209 --> 00:28:36,691
I'm not interested in engaging in debate with them.

632
00:28:36,691 --> 00:28:39,743
I'm saying, we need an accurate portrayal of slavery,

633
00:28:39,743 --> 00:28:43,125
but it doesn't totally define the black condition.

634
00:28:43,125 --> 00:28:44,409
We want our people to understand

635
00:28:44,409 --> 00:28:46,602
that the future of black America

636
00:28:46,602 --> 00:28:48,831
is not defined by slavery,

637
00:28:48,831 --> 00:28:51,433
but by the kinds of things we did

638
00:28:51,433 --> 00:28:53,579
and responds to these conditions,

639
00:28:53,579 --> 00:28:57,135
similar to what you and your husband has overcome.

640
00:28:57,135 --> 00:29:00,254
So, I'm gonna send you if I could,

641
00:29:00,254 --> 00:29:02,613
a invitation to formally join us.

642
00:29:02,613 --> 00:29:05,504
Because what we would like to do...

643
00:29:05,504 --> 00:29:08,467
I wish that it would be mandatory reading,

644
00:29:08,467 --> 00:29:09,862
not just in the black community

645
00:29:09,862 --> 00:29:12,555
but all across America, to read the autobiography

646
00:29:12,555 --> 00:29:14,555
of Booker T. Washington.

647
00:29:15,807 --> 00:29:19,024
Here was a man that was born into slavery.

648
00:29:19,024 --> 00:29:22,107
And when he learned that he was free,

649
00:29:23,205 --> 00:29:26,098
his number one quest, his number one goal

650
00:29:26,098 --> 00:29:28,098
was to get an education.

651
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,819
He walks from present day West Virginia

652
00:29:31,819 --> 00:29:34,256
to Hampton, Virginia, to Hampton Institute,

653
00:29:34,256 --> 00:29:36,707
so that he could show himself qualified

654
00:29:36,707 --> 00:29:41,351
to enter that institution and get an education.

655
00:29:41,351 --> 00:29:43,951
When he established Tuskegee Normal

656
00:29:43,951 --> 00:29:45,871
and Industrial Institute,

657
00:29:45,871 --> 00:29:47,709
it wasn't just about the book learning,

658
00:29:47,709 --> 00:29:49,151
it was about industrial learning.

659
00:29:49,151 --> 00:29:52,746
It was about people being able to take an education

660
00:29:52,746 --> 00:29:55,006
and develop themselves into entrepreneurs

661
00:29:55,006 --> 00:29:58,173
so that they could have self reliance.

662
00:30:00,398 --> 00:30:02,775
There was a schism between Booker T. Washington

663
00:30:02,775 --> 00:30:04,358
and W.E.B. Du Bois.

664
00:30:07,277 --> 00:30:11,388
Booker T. Washington believed in the ability of someone

665
00:30:11,388 --> 00:30:13,596
to get out there and work with industries

666
00:30:13,596 --> 00:30:15,837
and show their value, by the talents

667
00:30:15,837 --> 00:30:17,547
that they were able to develop,

668
00:30:17,547 --> 00:30:21,880
by the businesses they were able to create and open.

669
00:30:23,968 --> 00:30:27,138
The W.E.B. Du Bois faction more so believed

670
00:30:27,138 --> 00:30:30,679
in that protest oriented demanding of rights

671
00:30:30,679 --> 00:30:32,846
and things of this nature.

672
00:30:33,883 --> 00:30:36,486
This is where you get the sellout, Uncle Tom

673
00:30:36,486 --> 00:30:37,487
and all of these things

674
00:30:37,487 --> 00:30:42,138
that they used to demonize Booker T. Washington.

675
00:30:42,138 --> 00:30:44,496
But when you think about, in the long run,

676
00:30:44,496 --> 00:30:45,663
who was right?

677
00:30:47,342 --> 00:30:50,408
W.E.B. Du Bois was an avowed socialist,

678
00:30:50,408 --> 00:30:52,296
who became an avowed communist,

679
00:30:52,296 --> 00:30:54,980
who renounced his American citizenship.

680
00:30:54,980 --> 00:30:58,218
But the institution that Booker T. Washington established

681
00:30:58,218 --> 00:30:59,968
is still there today.

682
00:31:01,892 --> 00:31:04,453
We need to go back and understand

683
00:31:04,453 --> 00:31:06,518
what Booker T. Washington was really,

684
00:31:06,518 --> 00:31:09,590
his philosophy, what he was trying to get us to understand.

685
00:31:09,590 --> 00:31:11,881
There's nothing wrong with hard work.

686
00:31:11,881 --> 00:31:13,618
There's nothing wrong with working your way up

687
00:31:13,618 --> 00:31:14,531
from the bottom.

688
00:31:14,531 --> 00:31:19,289
Much the same as his autobiography says, up from slavery.

689
00:31:19,289 --> 00:31:22,039
(dramatic music)

690
00:31:31,858 --> 00:31:34,246
I had a college student ask me one time,

691
00:31:34,246 --> 00:31:37,380
how did you deal with color and race

692
00:31:37,380 --> 00:31:39,789
when you were climbing the corporate ladder?

693
00:31:39,789 --> 00:31:41,456
My answer, I didn't.

694
00:31:42,942 --> 00:31:44,775
Let them deal with it.

695
00:31:45,666 --> 00:31:49,249
I didn't focus on that, I didn't have time.

696
00:31:55,401 --> 00:31:57,412
I went to the president of the Pillsbury company

697
00:31:57,412 --> 00:31:59,360
and said, "I need to get involved

698
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,217
"in some other aspects of the corporation,

699
00:32:01,217 --> 00:32:04,253
"because I want to run one of the business units one day."

700
00:32:04,253 --> 00:32:07,099
So, he said, "We need a lotta leadership in Burger King.

701
00:32:07,099 --> 00:32:10,286
"You have to go and spend two weeks at Whopper College."

702
00:32:10,286 --> 00:32:13,862
There really is a Whopper College in Miami.

703
00:32:13,862 --> 00:32:15,615
I graduated summa cum laude.

704
00:32:15,615 --> 00:32:17,865
(laughing)

705
00:32:21,077 --> 00:32:23,722
I was working for the Department of the Navy.

706
00:32:23,722 --> 00:32:26,669
The same day that I started, another white gentleman

707
00:32:26,669 --> 00:32:28,893
named Robert started working there also.

708
00:32:28,893 --> 00:32:31,102
We had very similar jobs.

709
00:32:31,102 --> 00:32:35,361
So, the first 12 months, I got outstanding performance

710
00:32:35,361 --> 00:32:38,092
four quarters in a row.

711
00:32:38,092 --> 00:32:41,070
Second year, outstanding performance fur quarters in a row.

712
00:32:41,070 --> 00:32:43,391
And Robert got outstanding performance.

713
00:32:43,391 --> 00:32:47,052
But Robert was getting his GS salary increase

714
00:32:47,052 --> 00:32:50,444
at least two months sooner than me.

715
00:32:50,444 --> 00:32:52,868
So, I went to Wayne, my supervisor and said,

716
00:32:52,868 --> 00:32:54,822
"Robert and I are both doing a great job."

717
00:32:54,822 --> 00:32:56,490
He said, "Yeah."

718
00:32:56,490 --> 00:33:01,016
"But why is he getting little increases quicker than me?"

719
00:33:01,016 --> 00:33:04,703
He said, "He has a Master's degree."

720
00:33:04,703 --> 00:33:06,559
I said, "Oh, it's not because he's white?"

721
00:33:06,559 --> 00:33:10,071
"Nope, he has a Master's degree."

722
00:33:10,071 --> 00:33:11,696
So, you know what I did?

723
00:33:11,696 --> 00:33:13,336
I didn't get mad.

724
00:33:13,336 --> 00:33:16,454
I went and got me a Master's degree.

725
00:33:16,454 --> 00:33:18,617
There are only four rungs to this ladder.

726
00:33:18,617 --> 00:33:20,551
Went back, sat down with Wayne.

727
00:33:20,551 --> 00:33:21,902
I said, "Well, I got a Master's degree.

728
00:33:21,902 --> 00:33:23,764
"That says next time you have opening for a promotion,"

729
00:33:23,764 --> 00:33:26,068
I said, "Keep me in mind.

730
00:33:26,068 --> 00:33:28,246
"See you around."

731
00:33:28,246 --> 00:33:30,602
And not long after that, they had a special project

732
00:33:30,602 --> 00:33:34,075
called a rocket assisted projector.

733
00:33:34,075 --> 00:33:35,011
They had to have someone

734
00:33:35,011 --> 00:33:40,011
who was gonna be the GS 13 supervisor and mathematician,

735
00:33:40,242 --> 00:33:42,128
to do the special ballistics

736
00:33:42,128 --> 00:33:44,961
on this rocket assisted projector.

737
00:33:46,710 --> 00:33:49,166
I got the promotion.

738
00:33:49,166 --> 00:33:52,790
And I had eight white people working for me.

739
00:33:52,790 --> 00:33:56,711
It was all about performance, not the color of your skin.

740
00:33:56,711 --> 00:33:59,130
So, since I now had that Master's degree

741
00:33:59,130 --> 00:34:02,380
and I had proved myself, I got the job.

742
00:34:03,761 --> 00:34:06,396
When I decided to live Dahlgren,

743
00:34:06,396 --> 00:34:08,705
never forget the department head.

744
00:34:08,705 --> 00:34:11,081
And he called me up for an exit interview.

745
00:34:11,081 --> 00:34:14,281
And I'll never forget Ross, I think he's deceased now.

746
00:34:14,281 --> 00:34:19,252
He said, "You know, you have taught me something."

747
00:34:19,252 --> 00:34:21,040
I said, "What?"

748
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:25,187
He said, "I had never worked with a black person before.

749
00:34:25,187 --> 00:34:27,465
"You taught me, don't judge somebody

750
00:34:27,465 --> 00:34:29,232
"by the color of their skin."

751
00:34:29,232 --> 00:34:31,815
(somber music)

752
00:34:39,358 --> 00:34:43,206
I grew up primarily around black people.

753
00:34:43,206 --> 00:34:45,988
Primarily in what we call the Afrocentric perspective.

754
00:34:45,988 --> 00:34:48,834
That mean, everything in life

755
00:34:48,834 --> 00:34:52,490
was seen from the lens of being black in America.

756
00:34:52,490 --> 00:34:54,423
I used to have gold teeth in my mouth.

757
00:34:54,423 --> 00:34:56,565
I got young savage tattooed across my stomach.

758
00:34:56,565 --> 00:34:58,634
I got my hood tattooed on my forearm.

759
00:34:58,634 --> 00:35:02,217
So, I kinda had this whole hip hop culture,

760
00:35:03,220 --> 00:35:05,387
negative, angry mentality.

761
00:35:06,436 --> 00:35:08,324
I grew up believing that white people

762
00:35:08,324 --> 00:35:09,898
did not like black people.

763
00:35:09,898 --> 00:35:11,747
And that no matter what you did in life,

764
00:35:11,747 --> 00:35:15,291
the white man is gonna hold you down.

765
00:35:15,291 --> 00:35:19,374
My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim,

766
00:35:21,111 --> 00:35:24,748
but there were other influences that did.

767
00:35:24,748 --> 00:35:27,742
Whether we're talking about uncles and aunts,

768
00:35:27,742 --> 00:35:30,376
from the hip hop industry, the media.

769
00:35:30,376 --> 00:35:34,099
It painted a picture of the black man in America

770
00:35:34,099 --> 00:35:36,945
as being in a constant state of distress,

771
00:35:36,945 --> 00:35:39,006
a constant state of disadvantage.

772
00:35:39,006 --> 00:35:42,174
And I have relatives of mine who bought into that message.

773
00:35:42,174 --> 00:35:44,795
And I even bought into that message before I was born again.

774
00:35:44,795 --> 00:35:47,557
The only people I knew who existed in my life

775
00:35:47,557 --> 00:35:51,298
and who I could pick to be role models

776
00:35:51,298 --> 00:35:53,196
were athletes and rappers.

777
00:35:53,196 --> 00:35:56,373
So, many of you guys have watched my political awakening.

778
00:35:56,373 --> 00:35:59,578
I've been pretty much in front of everybody on the stage

779
00:35:59,578 --> 00:36:00,808
when I've had this reckoning,

780
00:36:00,808 --> 00:36:05,083
but there's one person who totally transformed

781
00:36:05,083 --> 00:36:05,916
the way that I thought.

782
00:36:05,916 --> 00:36:08,287
There was a video that I saw on YouTube

783
00:36:08,287 --> 00:36:10,484
and it was Larry Elder.

784
00:36:10,484 --> 00:36:13,234
(crowd cheering)

785
00:36:14,070 --> 00:36:15,984
Oh my God, they always call me the sunken place demon.

786
00:36:15,984 --> 00:36:16,817
I think it's the funniest thing...

787
00:36:16,817 --> 00:36:18,515
Larry Elder is my mentor.

788
00:36:18,515 --> 00:36:21,290
I can call him any time about any topic,

789
00:36:21,290 --> 00:36:24,211
'cause there are still spots of ignorance that I have.

790
00:36:24,211 --> 00:36:25,647
I'm having to contend with the fact

791
00:36:25,647 --> 00:36:27,930
that all I have is the media narrative of things,

792
00:36:27,930 --> 00:36:29,692
and he lived through it, he saw it,

793
00:36:29,692 --> 00:36:32,162
and he'll tell me exactly what to look up and research.

794
00:36:32,162 --> 00:36:33,707
Larry Elder was at the forefront

795
00:36:33,707 --> 00:36:35,266
of being a thought leader,

796
00:36:35,266 --> 00:36:37,738
in terms of questioning prevalent narratives

797
00:36:37,738 --> 00:36:39,232
of the black community.

798
00:36:39,232 --> 00:36:41,720
Especially with regards to individual accountability.

799
00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:44,241
If you have parents who care about education,

800
00:36:44,241 --> 00:36:45,897
there are books around and you're immersed in it,

801
00:36:45,897 --> 00:36:47,744
you're gonna have a better situation

802
00:36:47,744 --> 00:36:49,599
than somebody else with the same IQ

803
00:36:49,599 --> 00:36:51,649
whose parents don't have that kind of motivation,

804
00:36:51,649 --> 00:36:53,748
who don't immerse you in education.

805
00:36:53,748 --> 00:36:55,421
Environment absolutely has a role.

806
00:36:55,421 --> 00:36:57,857
He provided a huge part of my awakening.

807
00:36:57,857 --> 00:37:00,153
One video of him with Dave Reuben,

808
00:37:00,153 --> 00:37:02,201
and I went, "Oh my goodness!

809
00:37:02,201 --> 00:37:03,304
"I've been so ignorant."

810
00:37:03,304 --> 00:37:04,603
You wouldn't not acknowledge

811
00:37:04,603 --> 00:37:06,532
that there are some systemic issues.

812
00:37:06,532 --> 00:37:07,628
Give me an example.

813
00:37:07,628 --> 00:37:10,447
Tell me what you think the most systemic, racist issue is.

814
00:37:10,447 --> 00:37:11,443
What is it?

815
00:37:11,443 --> 00:37:13,828
Well, I would say that because black people

816
00:37:13,828 --> 00:37:15,705
in most cases, in many cases,

817
00:37:15,705 --> 00:37:20,705
were descendants of slaves, that racism as an institution--

818
00:37:20,876 --> 00:37:22,093
In 2015?
A certain amount if it

819
00:37:22,093 --> 00:37:24,295
just exists.
In 2015?

820
00:37:24,295 --> 00:37:26,068
Give me the most blatant racist example

821
00:37:26,068 --> 00:37:28,356
you can come up with right now.

822
00:37:28,356 --> 00:37:31,131
I think you could probably find evidence

823
00:37:31,131 --> 00:37:34,214
that in general cops are more willing

824
00:37:36,461 --> 00:37:40,461
to shoot if the perpetrator is black than white.

825
00:37:41,436 --> 00:37:43,714
What's your basis for saying that?

826
00:37:43,714 --> 00:37:44,897
Look, I know a lot of people would say,

827
00:37:44,897 --> 00:37:46,073
"Look what's going on in Chicago."

828
00:37:46,073 --> 00:37:46,906
I know what they would say,

829
00:37:46,906 --> 00:37:47,946
I'm talking about what the facts are.

830
00:37:47,946 --> 00:37:51,532
965 people were shot by cops last year and killed.

831
00:37:51,532 --> 00:37:54,553
4% of them were white cops shooting unarmed blacks.

832
00:37:54,553 --> 00:37:59,060
In Chicago in 2011, 21 people were shot and killed by cops.

833
00:37:59,060 --> 00:38:01,182
In 2015, there were seven.

834
00:38:01,182 --> 00:38:03,625
In Chicago, which is 1/3 black, 1/3 white

835
00:38:03,625 --> 00:38:05,985
and 1/3 Hispanic, 70% of the homicides

836
00:38:05,985 --> 00:38:07,489
are black on black.

837
00:38:07,489 --> 00:38:11,393
About 40 per month, almost 500 per year

838
00:38:11,393 --> 00:38:12,530
last year in Chicago,

839
00:38:12,530 --> 00:38:14,629
and 75% of them are unsolved.

840
00:38:14,629 --> 00:38:16,434
Where is the Black Lives Matter on that?

841
00:38:16,434 --> 00:38:19,101
The idea that a racist white cop

842
00:38:19,101 --> 00:38:22,126
shooting unarmed black people is a peril to black people

843
00:38:22,126 --> 00:38:24,745
is BS, is complete and total--

844
00:38:24,745 --> 00:38:27,763
A white guy can say all this stuff all he want.

845
00:38:27,763 --> 00:38:29,474
It's facts or it's not.

846
00:38:29,474 --> 00:38:31,423
But Larry Elder did something different.

847
00:38:31,423 --> 00:38:33,813
What this lie does, it causes young, black men

848
00:38:33,813 --> 00:38:35,265
to be confrontational with cops

849
00:38:35,265 --> 00:38:37,523
instead of cooperating, and it causes the cops to pull back

850
00:38:37,523 --> 00:38:39,507
for fear that they'd be called racist--

851
00:38:39,507 --> 00:38:43,960
I saw a black man that reminded me of myself

852
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,318
and other people I grew up with.

853
00:38:46,318 --> 00:38:50,627
And I said, he's black, he came from a similar background.

854
00:38:50,627 --> 00:38:52,205
How did he come to these conclusions?

855
00:38:52,205 --> 00:38:54,104
It's incomparable to have porous borders

856
00:38:54,104 --> 00:38:55,358
and a welfare state.

857
00:38:55,358 --> 00:38:57,078
So, I think it's just common sense to say,

858
00:38:57,078 --> 00:39:00,248
if you come here, you ought not be a charge on taxpayers.

859
00:39:00,248 --> 00:39:01,925
Why is that so controversial?

860
00:39:01,925 --> 00:39:04,212
In order to be persuaded or to like someone's work,

861
00:39:04,212 --> 00:39:05,970
you don't have to share a race with them.

862
00:39:05,970 --> 00:39:08,862
However, we're talking about a very important,

863
00:39:08,862 --> 00:39:11,741
fundamental shift, like a breaking of the frame.

864
00:39:11,741 --> 00:39:14,063
What's the purpose of an SAT?

865
00:39:14,063 --> 00:39:16,694
The purpose of the SAT is to make sure

866
00:39:16,694 --> 00:39:18,892
the student can do the freaking work

867
00:39:18,892 --> 00:39:20,161
that's required of him or her

868
00:39:20,161 --> 00:39:22,695
once they get admitted to that given university.

869
00:39:22,695 --> 00:39:24,760
So, if you give 'em adjusted score

870
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,923
because of their disadvantaged nature,

871
00:39:26,923 --> 00:39:28,971
that does not give them the ability

872
00:39:28,971 --> 00:39:31,454
to compete at the school and succeed.

873
00:39:31,454 --> 00:39:34,862
So, all you're gonna do is create more dropouts

874
00:39:34,862 --> 00:39:35,695
than we already have,

875
00:39:35,695 --> 00:39:37,191
because of race based preferences.

876
00:39:37,191 --> 00:39:39,390
You're talking about breaking a very major narrative,

877
00:39:39,390 --> 00:39:40,964
shattering a glass ceiling.

878
00:39:40,964 --> 00:39:42,573
A lot of young black people are discovering me

879
00:39:42,573 --> 00:39:45,029
and consider me to be something of a mentor,

880
00:39:45,029 --> 00:39:47,956
the way I considered Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.

881
00:39:47,956 --> 00:39:49,693
Black people have never taken a position

882
00:39:49,693 --> 00:39:50,882
that you describe.

883
00:39:50,882 --> 00:39:53,286
So, it is not a question of what black people chose.

884
00:39:53,286 --> 00:39:56,363
It is what you choose to put in the mouths of black people.

885
00:39:56,363 --> 00:39:58,651
It's what you choose to project.

886
00:39:58,651 --> 00:39:59,562
We didn't learn about these guys.

887
00:39:59,562 --> 00:40:03,330
I didn't know who Thomas Sowell was until four years ago.

888
00:40:03,330 --> 00:40:07,512
The engineer is judged by the end product

889
00:40:07,512 --> 00:40:09,168
which is not simply ideas.

890
00:40:09,168 --> 00:40:11,933
If he builds a building that collapses,

891
00:40:11,933 --> 00:40:15,308
it doesn't matter how brilliant his idea was,

892
00:40:15,308 --> 00:40:16,558
or he's ruined.

893
00:40:17,468 --> 00:40:20,244
Conversely, if an intellectual who's brilliant

894
00:40:20,244 --> 00:40:23,203
has an idea for rearranging society,

895
00:40:23,203 --> 00:40:25,318
and that ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.

896
00:40:25,318 --> 00:40:27,834
To hear Thomas Sowell destroy

897
00:40:27,834 --> 00:40:29,301
all of this so-called data,

898
00:40:29,301 --> 00:40:32,468
that the so-called enlightened among us

899
00:40:32,468 --> 00:40:34,171
were using to try to get their way

900
00:40:34,171 --> 00:40:35,297
and to try to shape policy--

901
00:40:35,297 --> 00:40:36,710
But you would also have to agree

902
00:40:36,710 --> 00:40:39,701
that generally speaking, women are paid less for example,

903
00:40:39,701 --> 00:40:41,130
for the same jobs as men.

904
00:40:41,130 --> 00:40:42,090
No, I would not.

905
00:40:42,090 --> 00:40:43,161
I would not agree with that.

906
00:40:43,161 --> 00:40:44,685
You're talking about women.

907
00:40:44,685 --> 00:40:46,882
With the same number of years of experience.

908
00:40:46,882 --> 00:40:50,470
With the same continuous service, et cetera, et cetera.

909
00:40:50,470 --> 00:40:53,262
Then when I look at that, I don't find that disparity.

910
00:40:53,262 --> 00:40:55,796
I find for example, in many cases, the women are making more

911
00:40:55,796 --> 00:40:58,006
depending on how you break the data down.

912
00:40:58,006 --> 00:41:00,062
The difference with women

913
00:41:00,062 --> 00:41:02,272
is between married women and everybody else.

914
00:41:02,272 --> 00:41:06,772
If his message would have somehow penetrated through

915
00:41:08,415 --> 00:41:13,096
all of the nonsense, and all of the manufactured,

916
00:41:13,096 --> 00:41:15,990
preconceived notion that I bought into

917
00:41:15,990 --> 00:41:17,994
and settled itself in my mind,

918
00:41:17,994 --> 00:41:20,933
he would've been a huge influence for me.

919
00:41:20,933 --> 00:41:25,905
Why wouldn't they teach us about Thomas Sowell in school?

920
00:41:25,905 --> 00:41:27,453
<v Candace>I know Lebron James.

921
00:41:27,453 --> 00:41:28,917
I know you guys are excited to see her.

922
00:41:28,917 --> 00:41:30,715
I didn't know you guys would be excited to see me too,

923
00:41:30,715 --> 00:41:33,842
but thank you.
(crowd cheering)

924
00:41:33,842 --> 00:41:36,342
I know all of these rappers.

925
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,650
I don't know Thomas Sowell.

926
00:41:41,589 --> 00:41:43,151
I don't know about Walter Williams.

927
00:41:43,151 --> 00:41:44,355
I've always been a radical.

928
00:41:44,355 --> 00:41:46,036
I've always challenged the status quo.

929
00:41:46,036 --> 00:41:47,450
<v Woman>If there's one person that you think

930
00:41:47,450 --> 00:41:49,059
black America would be celebrating...

931
00:41:49,059 --> 00:41:50,944
I supported things like minimum wage laws

932
00:41:50,944 --> 00:41:53,044
'cause I thought it was a good idea.

933
00:41:53,044 --> 00:41:54,666
Until I ran into some professor, he said,

934
00:41:54,666 --> 00:41:57,401
"Well, look Walter, let's look at the effects

935
00:41:57,401 --> 00:41:58,252
"of the minimum wage law,

936
00:41:58,252 --> 00:41:59,888
"as opposed to looking at the intentions."

937
00:41:59,888 --> 00:42:03,626
They gave me material to read and then I changed my mind.

938
00:42:03,626 --> 00:42:06,793
It's like havin' a very successful family

939
00:42:06,793 --> 00:42:09,656
that you never knew you had.

940
00:42:09,656 --> 00:42:11,785
Until your grandfather dies

941
00:42:11,785 --> 00:42:14,499
and y'all meet at the funeral.

942
00:42:14,499 --> 00:42:18,269
While I was hangin' out with my cousin smokin' weed,

943
00:42:18,269 --> 00:42:22,239
we got people in our family that have gone to Harvard.

944
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,554
We have people in our family that own businesses.

945
00:42:25,554 --> 00:42:27,054
Highly successful.

946
00:42:29,130 --> 00:42:32,040
Why have you hidden this from me?

947
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,806
It's unfortunate but history is written by academics,

948
00:42:34,806 --> 00:42:37,938
and academia is a tool of the left.

949
00:42:37,938 --> 00:42:40,852
If you find a very educated black American,

950
00:42:40,852 --> 00:42:43,774
somebody who got a 4.0 at a public high school,

951
00:42:43,774 --> 00:42:46,261
they're actively learning their history wrong.

952
00:42:46,261 --> 00:42:49,577
That's a part of the uphill battle that we have.

953
00:42:49,577 --> 00:42:54,410
Is that if you are educated, you're actually mis-educated.

954
00:42:57,884 --> 00:43:00,612
When I was growing up, my mom was a Democrat,

955
00:43:00,612 --> 00:43:02,240
remained a Democrat her entire life.

956
00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:03,751
My dad was a Republican,

957
00:43:03,751 --> 00:43:05,539
remained a Republican his entire life.

958
00:43:05,539 --> 00:43:07,450
By the way, most blacks were Republican

959
00:43:07,450 --> 00:43:09,099
until the New Deal.

960
00:43:09,099 --> 00:43:11,099
My dad was born in 1915,

961
00:43:12,204 --> 00:43:15,468
and my dad like most people his age was a Republican.

962
00:43:15,468 --> 00:43:16,301
He never changed.

963
00:43:16,301 --> 00:43:18,166
My mom became a democrat in large part

964
00:43:18,166 --> 00:43:19,372
because of Franklin Roosevelt.

965
00:43:19,372 --> 00:43:22,508
To 30 millions of our citizens,

966
00:43:22,508 --> 00:43:24,441
who will reap direct benefits

967
00:43:24,441 --> 00:43:26,911
through unemployment compensation.

968
00:43:26,911 --> 00:43:27,943
<v Larry>Most blacks were Republican

969
00:43:27,943 --> 00:43:30,333
to the extent that they could vote before the New Deal.

970
00:43:30,333 --> 00:43:31,324
And when the New Deal came,

971
00:43:31,324 --> 00:43:33,990
a number of blacks switched over to the New Deal.

972
00:43:33,990 --> 00:43:35,035
That switch has continued.

973
00:43:35,035 --> 00:43:37,350
<v Announcer>Only a few months before his tragic death,

974
00:43:37,350 --> 00:43:40,144
President Kennedy called on the American Congress

975
00:43:40,144 --> 00:43:42,711
to pass the most far reaching Civil Rights bill

976
00:43:42,711 --> 00:43:44,712
in the nation's history.

977
00:43:44,712 --> 00:43:46,986
To protect the constitutional rights of all citizens.

978
00:43:46,986 --> 00:43:49,376
(audience applauding)

979
00:43:49,376 --> 00:43:52,772
The shift came with the presidential election

980
00:43:52,772 --> 00:43:56,185
between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

981
00:43:56,185 --> 00:43:58,963
Martin Luther King Jr. had been imprisoned,

982
00:43:58,963 --> 00:44:03,178
and both sides asked their respective presidential candidate

983
00:44:03,178 --> 00:44:06,570
to give a courtesy call to Coretta Scott King

984
00:44:06,570 --> 00:44:08,732
and offer their condolences and their support

985
00:44:08,732 --> 00:44:10,232
and what have you.

986
00:44:11,561 --> 00:44:15,248
The rumor got out that John F. Kennedy did.

987
00:44:15,248 --> 00:44:16,734
And so, the next thing you know,

988
00:44:16,734 --> 00:44:18,359
and every house down south,

989
00:44:18,359 --> 00:44:21,380
and I can say this from my own eyeballs.

990
00:44:21,380 --> 00:44:24,273
There were three pictures that hung in the living room

991
00:44:24,273 --> 00:44:26,795
of any black home down south.

992
00:44:26,795 --> 00:44:29,346
It was Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr.

993
00:44:29,346 --> 00:44:31,573
and John F. Kennedy.

994
00:44:31,573 --> 00:44:34,760
<v Larry>John Kennedy promoted a dramatic tax cut.

995
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,146
He was a coal warrior, he was a hunter,

996
00:44:37,146 --> 00:44:39,163
he believed in the Second Amendment.

997
00:44:39,163 --> 00:44:41,310
John Kennedy's collection of views right now

998
00:44:41,310 --> 00:44:42,543
would make him a Republican.

999
00:44:42,543 --> 00:44:46,636
He would not be welcome within the Democratic party.

1000
00:44:46,636 --> 00:44:49,303
No memorial, oration or eulogy

1001
00:44:50,652 --> 00:44:55,384
could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory

1002
00:44:55,384 --> 00:44:58,471
than the earliest possible passage

1003
00:44:58,471 --> 00:45:00,748
of the Civil Rights bill for which he fought so long.

1004
00:45:00,748 --> 00:45:01,898
(audience applauding)

1005
00:45:01,898 --> 00:45:04,372
It goes back to the mid-1960s

1006
00:45:04,372 --> 00:45:08,539
as to why blacks believe they should be Democrats.

1007
00:45:11,082 --> 00:45:14,165
In 1964, the Civil Rights Act passed.

1008
00:45:16,711 --> 00:45:19,519
Lyndon Johnson signed it.

1009
00:45:19,519 --> 00:45:22,436
1965, the Voting Rights Act passed.

1010
00:45:23,369 --> 00:45:25,789
Lyndon Johnson signed it.

1011
00:45:25,789 --> 00:45:30,789
So, he got credit for those two major pieces of legislation.

1012
00:45:33,223 --> 00:45:35,967
But here's what they don't tell you.

1013
00:45:35,967 --> 00:45:39,542
There was a larger percentage of Republicans in Congress,

1014
00:45:39,542 --> 00:45:42,539
in both instances that voted for it

1015
00:45:42,539 --> 00:45:45,658
than the percentage of Democrats that voted for it.

1016
00:45:45,658 --> 00:45:48,823
Who enabled the Civil Rights legislation in '64 to pass

1017
00:45:48,823 --> 00:45:51,785
was Senate Republicans, led by Everett Dirksen.

1018
00:45:51,785 --> 00:45:53,914
Everett Dirksen got an award from the NAACP

1019
00:45:53,914 --> 00:45:56,107
for helping to shepherd the act into fruition.

1020
00:45:56,107 --> 00:45:57,309
Most blacks are unaware of that.

1021
00:45:57,309 --> 00:46:00,135
I didn't study that kind of stuff when I was in history.

1022
00:46:00,135 --> 00:46:03,095
President Johnson was able to get

1023
00:46:03,095 --> 00:46:05,792
the Civil Rights bill passed,

1024
00:46:05,792 --> 00:46:07,634
and it was perceived that it was an effort

1025
00:46:07,634 --> 00:46:10,199
on the part of the Democrats.

1026
00:46:10,199 --> 00:46:13,905
And so that's a perception and a narrative

1027
00:46:13,905 --> 00:46:17,233
that has been created, that caused the community

1028
00:46:17,233 --> 00:46:20,400
to connect that event, momentous event

1029
00:46:22,846 --> 00:46:24,651
to the Democratic party.

1030
00:46:24,651 --> 00:46:26,844
And they have been using that idea

1031
00:46:26,844 --> 00:46:29,677
to effectively create a perception

1032
00:46:30,793 --> 00:46:33,653
that the best friend to the black community

1033
00:46:33,653 --> 00:46:38,070
is the Democratic party, which is far from the truth.

1034
00:46:39,375 --> 00:46:40,791
Black people have been taught

1035
00:46:40,791 --> 00:46:43,340
that the Democratic party wears the white hat

1036
00:46:43,340 --> 00:46:45,983
when it comes to Civil Rights and racial justice,

1037
00:46:45,983 --> 00:46:48,585
and Republicans have been described

1038
00:46:48,585 --> 00:46:50,051
as wearing the black hat.

1039
00:46:50,051 --> 00:46:55,051
If resistance to the Federal Court order ceases at once,

1040
00:46:55,104 --> 00:46:59,051
the further presence of Federal troops will be unnecessary.

1041
00:46:59,051 --> 00:47:00,227
And the city of Little Rock

1042
00:47:00,227 --> 00:47:03,965
will return to its normal habits of peace and order.

1043
00:47:03,965 --> 00:47:05,641
And a blot upon the fair name

1044
00:47:05,641 --> 00:47:08,445
and high honor of our nation in the world

1045
00:47:08,445 --> 00:47:09,831
will be removed.

1046
00:47:09,831 --> 00:47:12,379
<v Man>Dwight Eisenhower was responsible

1047
00:47:12,379 --> 00:47:16,522
for bringing the civil rights issues to the forefront.

1048
00:47:16,522 --> 00:47:20,022
<v Martin>I have a dream, that one day...

1049
00:47:20,929 --> 00:47:25,319
It was a movement that was challenging America

1050
00:47:25,319 --> 00:47:27,069
to embrace its ideas.

1051
00:47:28,827 --> 00:47:30,253
Those ideas that were found

1052
00:47:30,253 --> 00:47:32,331
in the Declaration of Independence,

1053
00:47:32,331 --> 00:47:34,801
that all men are created equal.

1054
00:47:34,801 --> 00:47:38,001
To hold our society, America,

1055
00:47:38,001 --> 00:47:41,188
to the principles that were found in the constitution.

1056
00:47:41,188 --> 00:47:43,074
And those constitutional principles

1057
00:47:43,074 --> 00:47:45,136
that protect our liberties,

1058
00:47:45,136 --> 00:47:48,489
and protect our individual rights,

1059
00:47:48,489 --> 00:47:50,876
is what that civil rights movement was all about.

1060
00:47:50,876 --> 00:47:54,693
There must be a revolution of values in our country.

1061
00:47:54,693 --> 00:47:58,159
Because some of the values that presently exist

1062
00:47:58,159 --> 00:48:01,576
are certainly out of line with the values

1063
00:48:02,785 --> 00:48:05,387
and the idealistic structure

1064
00:48:05,387 --> 00:48:07,925
that brought our nation into being.

1065
00:48:07,925 --> 00:48:10,555
Unfortunately, we haven't been true to these ideals.

1066
00:48:10,555 --> 00:48:12,961
<v Man>It was signed under the hope

1067
00:48:12,961 --> 00:48:14,442
that that piece of legislation

1068
00:48:14,442 --> 00:48:16,524
would open up opportunities for the blacks.

1069
00:48:16,524 --> 00:48:21,119
To have equal access, to have first class citizenship,

1070
00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:23,199
have better economic opportunities.

1071
00:48:23,199 --> 00:48:27,922
That was the dream that Dr. Martin Luther King talked about.

1072
00:48:27,922 --> 00:48:30,672
(crowd cheering)

1073
00:48:32,377 --> 00:48:35,121
<v Larry>Al Gore's father, Al Gore Sr.,

1074
00:48:35,121 --> 00:48:37,371
worked with other Democrats

1075
00:48:39,251 --> 00:48:41,360
to mount what was at the time,

1076
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:46,154
the longest filibuster in the history of the Senate.

1077
00:48:46,154 --> 00:48:48,936
To prevent the bill from ever getting onto the floor

1078
00:48:48,936 --> 00:48:49,853
for a vote.

1079
00:48:51,647 --> 00:48:54,946
Al Gore's dad by the way died a Democrat.

1080
00:48:54,946 --> 00:48:59,528
He didn't make a big switch to join the racist Republicans.

1081
00:48:59,528 --> 00:49:03,007
Whenever I began to read the Republican party platform,

1082
00:49:03,007 --> 00:49:05,901
I didn't find one thing in there

1083
00:49:05,901 --> 00:49:09,151
that I felt as a black man targeted me.

1084
00:49:10,371 --> 00:49:13,040
I began to wonder, well, if I can't find anything

1085
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:14,407
in their platform, maybe I can find something

1086
00:49:14,407 --> 00:49:16,691
in the Republican party's past

1087
00:49:16,691 --> 00:49:19,426
that gives me an example of how they targeted me

1088
00:49:19,426 --> 00:49:20,676
as a black man.

1089
00:49:22,404 --> 00:49:26,577
And I started with Abraham Lincoln, who was a Republican.

1090
00:49:26,577 --> 00:49:30,156
You can argue, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation

1091
00:49:30,156 --> 00:49:33,549
as a war strategy, and you could argue that.

1092
00:49:33,549 --> 00:49:34,929
But at the end of the day,

1093
00:49:34,929 --> 00:49:37,305
the fact of the matter is that it was a Republican

1094
00:49:37,305 --> 00:49:40,489
who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

1095
00:49:40,489 --> 00:49:44,781
And then if you fast forward to women suffrage,

1096
00:49:44,781 --> 00:49:48,864
it was a Republican Chief Justice in William Taft

1097
00:49:49,927 --> 00:49:52,414
that struck down laws that made it illegal

1098
00:49:52,414 --> 00:49:53,914
for women to vote.

1099
00:49:57,277 --> 00:49:59,277
If you look at Jim Crow.

1100
00:50:01,603 --> 00:50:05,290
It was Republican votes in the Senate and in the House

1101
00:50:05,290 --> 00:50:08,460
that was able to rid this country of Jim Crow.

1102
00:50:08,460 --> 00:50:11,127
(ominous music)

1103
00:50:15,087 --> 00:50:18,905
When we look at the history of entities like the KKK,

1104
00:50:18,905 --> 00:50:21,184
it was specifically intended

1105
00:50:21,184 --> 00:50:24,187
to suppress the African-Americans

1106
00:50:24,187 --> 00:50:27,242
and keep them from voting for Republicans specifically.

1107
00:50:27,242 --> 00:50:31,159
That was always what the KKK was founded to do.

1108
00:50:32,887 --> 00:50:35,682
A lot of black people were voting for Democrats

1109
00:50:35,682 --> 00:50:37,516
because they were being forced to.

1110
00:50:37,516 --> 00:50:39,355
If you don't vote for Democrats,

1111
00:50:39,355 --> 00:50:41,429
the Ku Klux Klan are gonna come

1112
00:50:41,429 --> 00:50:44,323
and lynch your eldest son.

1113
00:50:44,323 --> 00:50:47,054
And so, you fast forward to today,

1114
00:50:47,054 --> 00:50:48,406
the message is still the same.

1115
00:50:48,406 --> 00:50:49,883
If you don't vote for Democrats,

1116
00:50:49,883 --> 00:50:51,150
the Republicans are gonna come.

1117
00:50:51,150 --> 00:50:52,957
They can turn back voting rights.

1118
00:50:52,957 --> 00:50:56,176
They can turn back many of the things

1119
00:50:56,176 --> 00:50:58,821
that people suffered and died for.

1120
00:50:58,821 --> 00:51:02,431
Didn't nobody donate to us the right to vote.

1121
00:51:02,431 --> 00:51:04,280
It's the same Democratic party.

1122
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,949
It's just, they learned to play the game better.

1123
00:51:06,949 --> 00:51:08,785
We in the same ship.

1124
00:51:08,785 --> 00:51:11,258
It's the same suit just worned over.

1125
00:51:11,258 --> 00:51:12,496
It ain't nothing change.

1126
00:51:12,496 --> 00:51:14,254
The same party is doing the same thing

1127
00:51:14,254 --> 00:51:15,910
they always been doing.

1128
00:51:15,910 --> 00:51:18,881
Party of division, the party of power.

1129
00:51:18,881 --> 00:51:20,552
If you're a minority, you're smart,

1130
00:51:20,552 --> 00:51:22,598
you can believe what you wanna believe,

1131
00:51:22,598 --> 00:51:23,834
support what you wanna support,

1132
00:51:23,834 --> 00:51:25,514
you are free to do these things.

1133
00:51:25,514 --> 00:51:27,669
We don't have to support one person.

1134
00:51:27,669 --> 00:51:31,172
You don't have to drink at this one water fountain.

1135
00:51:31,172 --> 00:51:32,354
We are free to make choices.

1136
00:51:32,354 --> 00:51:34,548
It's like, okay, that's great.

1137
00:51:34,548 --> 00:51:37,106
I choose to be a Republican, and when whoa!

1138
00:51:37,106 --> 00:51:38,407
Everybody stop.

1139
00:51:38,407 --> 00:51:40,990
(somber music)

1140
00:51:42,206 --> 00:51:45,684
He is encouraging a generation of foolish, young people.

1141
00:51:45,684 --> 00:51:48,512
These are lost, disturbed, self-loathing people.

1142
00:51:48,512 --> 00:51:52,327
Notice that all of those youngsters had caps on.

1143
00:51:52,327 --> 00:51:55,612
It was almost like, we're gonna dress you for the photo.

1144
00:51:55,612 --> 00:51:58,278
It's gone like from physical restrictions,

1145
00:51:58,278 --> 00:52:00,830
but now, in the 21st century

1146
00:52:00,830 --> 00:52:02,912
as we're reaching the information age,

1147
00:52:02,912 --> 00:52:05,284
it's a become a sort of metaphysical restriction

1148
00:52:05,284 --> 00:52:07,349
as to what a minority can and can't do.

1149
00:52:07,349 --> 00:52:08,732
Minorities shouldn't think this way.

1150
00:52:08,732 --> 00:52:10,856
Minorities shouldn't support these people.

1151
00:52:10,856 --> 00:52:12,840
Minorities shouldn't believe these things.

1152
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:14,743
Black conservatives today,

1153
00:52:14,743 --> 00:52:16,838
or anybody that has a black conservative message,

1154
00:52:16,838 --> 00:52:18,839
we are the people that are escaping the plantation.

1155
00:52:18,839 --> 00:52:21,310
The liberal will try to control a black person

1156
00:52:21,310 --> 00:52:22,756
through the concept of racism,

1157
00:52:22,756 --> 00:52:25,385
because they know that we are very proud, emotional people.

1158
00:52:25,385 --> 00:52:27,651
What was your reaction when black slaves

1159
00:52:27,651 --> 00:52:29,294
escaped the plantation?

1160
00:52:29,294 --> 00:52:30,318
It was swift.

1161
00:52:30,318 --> 00:52:33,019
What I saw was a minstrel show today.

1162
00:52:33,019 --> 00:52:34,755
Him in front of all of these white people

1163
00:52:34,755 --> 00:52:36,005
embarrassing himself.

1164
00:52:36,005 --> 00:52:38,121
When minorities don't support

1165
00:52:38,121 --> 00:52:40,916
the agenda of the Democrats or the left,

1166
00:52:40,916 --> 00:52:43,916
all of a sudden, the restrictions they put on years ago

1167
00:52:43,916 --> 00:52:45,012
in a physical realm,

1168
00:52:45,012 --> 00:52:46,966
they're now doing in a metaphysical realm.

1169
00:52:46,966 --> 00:52:48,423
But are we 100% convinced?

1170
00:52:48,423 --> 00:52:51,888
Are we back on the Kanye is not sick and off his meds?

1171
00:52:51,888 --> 00:52:56,278
He really has a problem pumping the break here

1172
00:52:56,278 --> 00:52:57,626
mentally and emotionally.

1173
00:52:57,626 --> 00:53:00,178
Maybe he was missing his medication.

1174
00:53:00,178 --> 00:53:02,341
Though makes clear that he has struggled

1175
00:53:02,341 --> 00:53:05,864
and admitted diagnoses for personal mental health issues.

1176
00:53:05,864 --> 00:53:09,848
Anybody who threatens their 95% monolithic black vote

1177
00:53:09,848 --> 00:53:11,183
is an enemy.

1178
00:53:11,183 --> 00:53:13,116
They've gotta be dealt with, they've gotta be put down.

1179
00:53:13,116 --> 00:53:14,510
Another stunning act of terror--

1180
00:53:14,510 --> 00:53:16,718
A mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand.

1181
00:53:16,718 --> 00:53:19,428
He claims to have been radicalized by Candace Owens.

1182
00:53:19,428 --> 00:53:21,382
Saying that she was an inspiration to him.

1183
00:53:21,382 --> 00:53:23,524
She has responded sarcastically.

1184
00:53:23,524 --> 00:53:25,136
Few events I have not been blamed for.

1185
00:53:25,136 --> 00:53:26,771
Brazilian mining dam collapse.

1186
00:53:26,771 --> 00:53:28,857
Chinese air smog.

1187
00:53:28,857 --> 00:53:30,871
Tenerife air crash, 1973.

1188
00:53:30,871 --> 00:53:33,298
She's not taking this at all seriously.

1189
00:53:33,298 --> 00:53:34,335
What do you think the press is doing

1190
00:53:34,335 --> 00:53:36,615
when you try to smear someone as having a mental disorder

1191
00:53:36,615 --> 00:53:37,826
and when you say that someone

1192
00:53:37,826 --> 00:53:39,469
is inspiring a mosque shooting.

1193
00:53:39,469 --> 00:53:41,140
Or you're trying to make it so that my career

1194
00:53:41,140 --> 00:53:42,227
is effectively cut off.

1195
00:53:42,227 --> 00:53:44,132
You're trying to make it so that nobody talks to me,

1196
00:53:44,132 --> 00:53:46,279
so that I'm considered sort of this reject.

1197
00:53:46,279 --> 00:53:48,895
I just have to say that I object strenuously

1198
00:53:48,895 --> 00:53:51,833
to your use of the word hilarious.

1199
00:53:51,833 --> 00:53:54,094
To me, this feels a lot like your reaction

1200
00:53:54,094 --> 00:53:56,999
to being named on one of these manifestos.

1201
00:53:56,999 --> 00:53:59,720
Now, you're of course not responsible

1202
00:53:59,720 --> 00:54:02,793
for the words of somebody writing that document.

1203
00:54:02,793 --> 00:54:06,820
But I do think that laughing at it is a real problem,

1204
00:54:06,820 --> 00:54:08,369
because these are real families

1205
00:54:08,369 --> 00:54:10,091
that are impacted by this violence.

1206
00:54:10,091 --> 00:54:12,853
I'm a black female who came from poverty.

1207
00:54:12,853 --> 00:54:14,850
I should be at the top of the progressive stack.

1208
00:54:14,850 --> 00:54:16,267
I should be receiving awards.

1209
00:54:16,267 --> 00:54:18,251
They should be calling me, inviting me on the red carpet

1210
00:54:18,251 --> 00:54:19,911
to share my story, but they're not.

1211
00:54:19,911 --> 00:54:20,744
Why?

1212
00:54:20,744 --> 00:54:22,816
Because I'm not saying what they want me to say.

1213
00:54:22,816 --> 00:54:25,969
You would rather assign meaning to a homicidal maniac

1214
00:54:25,969 --> 00:54:29,477
than to actually address the things that I said today

1215
00:54:29,477 --> 00:54:31,527
that are actually harming black America.

1216
00:54:31,527 --> 00:54:33,415
Number one, father absence.

1217
00:54:33,415 --> 00:54:35,591
Number two, the education system

1218
00:54:35,591 --> 00:54:36,555
and the illiteracy rate.

1219
00:54:36,555 --> 00:54:39,413
Allele immigration ranks high, abortion ranks high,

1220
00:54:39,413 --> 00:54:41,473
white supremacy and white nationalism,

1221
00:54:41,473 --> 00:54:43,931
if I had to make a list again of 100 things,

1222
00:54:43,931 --> 00:54:45,798
would not be on it.

1223
00:54:45,798 --> 00:54:48,484
This hearing in my opinion is a farce,

1224
00:54:48,484 --> 00:54:50,171
and it is ironic that you're sitting here

1225
00:54:50,171 --> 00:54:52,594
and you're having three Caucasian people testify,

1226
00:54:52,594 --> 00:54:54,233
and tell you what their expertise are.

1227
00:54:54,233 --> 00:54:55,551
Do I know what my expertise are?

1228
00:54:55,551 --> 00:54:56,771
Black in America.

1229
00:54:56,771 --> 00:54:58,491
I've been black in America my whole life.

1230
00:54:58,491 --> 00:55:00,395
All 30 years, and I can tell you,

1231
00:55:00,395 --> 00:55:02,284
that you guys have done the exact same thing

1232
00:55:02,284 --> 00:55:04,473
every four years ahead of an election cycle

1233
00:55:04,473 --> 00:55:05,906
and it needs to stop.

1234
00:55:05,906 --> 00:55:08,706
I think probably the most hated

1235
00:55:08,706 --> 00:55:11,923
political person in America, is a black conservative.

1236
00:55:11,923 --> 00:55:15,708
And that's because we refute the entire philosophy

1237
00:55:15,708 --> 00:55:18,352
of the Democratic party.

1238
00:55:18,352 --> 00:55:21,019
(ominous music)

1239
00:55:25,501 --> 00:55:26,888
<v Man>I think the fact that a black person

1240
00:55:26,888 --> 00:55:29,558
can start in government housing,

1241
00:55:29,558 --> 00:55:32,237
and go on to be one of the most successful brain surgeons

1242
00:55:32,237 --> 00:55:33,404
ever to exist,

1243
00:55:34,888 --> 00:55:36,645
that's somebody you should emulate.

1244
00:55:36,645 --> 00:55:39,580
That's someone you should idolize.

1245
00:55:39,580 --> 00:55:41,838
That's someone you should put on a pedestal.

1246
00:55:41,838 --> 00:55:45,367
Came from nothing, became a neurosurgeon,

1247
00:55:45,367 --> 00:55:46,894
one of the greatest men in the world.

1248
00:55:46,894 --> 00:55:51,561
Some of things he done, nobody's ever done in the world.

1249
00:55:52,714 --> 00:55:55,705
He was the first person to perform surgery

1250
00:55:55,705 --> 00:55:58,372
on conjoined twins at the brain.

1251
00:55:59,216 --> 00:56:00,386
No one wanted to do that.

1252
00:56:00,386 --> 00:56:02,109
And he did that as a black man.

1253
00:56:02,109 --> 00:56:05,557
I don't think myself as a surgeon,

1254
00:56:05,557 --> 00:56:09,347
just a guy people pay to stab their brain

1255
00:56:09,347 --> 00:56:10,810
(audience laughing)

1256
00:56:10,810 --> 00:56:12,483
until they're healthy.

1257
00:56:12,483 --> 00:56:13,784
(audience laughing)

1258
00:56:13,784 --> 00:56:16,122
A quick back story on Dr. Ben for those who don't know.

1259
00:56:16,122 --> 00:56:17,573
He's a former brain surgeon

1260
00:56:17,573 --> 00:56:19,135
and Republican presidential candidate,

1261
00:56:19,135 --> 00:56:21,183
who our celebrity in chief, Donald J. Trump,

1262
00:56:21,183 --> 00:56:24,346
nominated as his HUD secretary in 2017,

1263
00:56:24,346 --> 00:56:27,413
despite him having zero relevant experience.

1264
00:56:27,413 --> 00:56:29,776
Ben Carson is a very intelligent person.

1265
00:56:29,776 --> 00:56:33,792
To ignore that and say like, oh well, he's a doctor.

1266
00:56:33,792 --> 00:56:35,510
He has no business in government.

1267
00:56:35,510 --> 00:56:36,402
Really?

1268
00:56:36,402 --> 00:56:38,093
So we can't even have people

1269
00:56:38,093 --> 00:56:39,492
who are smart enough to be doctors

1270
00:56:39,492 --> 00:56:40,550
in the government now?

1271
00:56:40,550 --> 00:56:41,962
Like, who do you want to be in the government then?

1272
00:56:41,962 --> 00:56:43,245
Just because Dr. Ben Carson

1273
00:56:43,245 --> 00:56:44,709
is a well educated neurosurgeon,

1274
00:56:44,709 --> 00:56:46,138
who doesn't speak fluent nigger

1275
00:56:46,138 --> 00:56:48,005
doesn't mean he's acting white.

1276
00:56:48,005 --> 00:56:49,738
So, I don't agree with calling people Oreos

1277
00:56:49,738 --> 00:56:53,040
but I can see why you would call Dr. Ben Carson one.

1278
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,327
Ben Carson, do you pass the black test?

1279
00:56:55,327 --> 00:56:59,666
You know, I grew up in Detroit and I grew up in Boston.

1280
00:56:59,666 --> 00:57:03,293
In Boston, we lived in the ghetto.

1281
00:57:03,293 --> 00:57:06,801
(audience laughing)

1282
00:57:06,801 --> 00:57:09,122
Excuse me, you grew up in a what?

1283
00:57:09,122 --> 00:57:09,955
A ghetto?

1284
00:57:11,371 --> 00:57:12,847
A ghetto?

1285
00:57:12,847 --> 00:57:15,595
That sounds like a French person saying cat in Spanish.

1286
00:57:15,595 --> 00:57:16,977
What is that?

1287
00:57:16,977 --> 00:57:19,899
What kind of black person says, "Ghetto."

1288
00:57:19,899 --> 00:57:22,600
Mother (bleep) I'm straight outta Compton.

1289
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:26,368
This kind of crap goes on all the time.

1290
00:57:26,368 --> 00:57:29,508
They're trying to say he is not black enough.

1291
00:57:29,508 --> 00:57:32,939
I was at a Popeyes organization,

1292
00:57:32,939 --> 00:57:35,606
and then I deposited basketballs

1293
00:57:36,497 --> 00:57:38,997
at the urban athletic complex.

1294
00:57:39,911 --> 00:57:43,013
Thereafter, I rounded out the night

1295
00:57:43,013 --> 00:57:44,754
by making it precipitate

1296
00:57:44,754 --> 00:57:46,785
at a ladies clothing removal facility.

1297
00:57:46,785 --> 00:57:49,005
(audience laughing)

1298
00:57:49,005 --> 00:57:49,997
We wanna shun him.

1299
00:57:49,997 --> 00:57:52,177
He's a sellout, he's a coon.

1300
00:57:52,177 --> 00:57:54,140
We wanna remove his name off of schools.

1301
00:57:54,140 --> 00:57:55,816
The Detroit school board now considering

1302
00:57:55,816 --> 00:57:58,436
stripping the name of HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson

1303
00:57:58,436 --> 00:58:02,481
off of a local school, over his ties, yes, to the president.

1304
00:58:02,481 --> 00:58:03,829
<v Larry>I've cringed when I've seen the way

1305
00:58:03,829 --> 00:58:05,937
people like Ben Carson get treated by the media.

1306
00:58:05,937 --> 00:58:08,945
For example, when Carson first became HUD secretary,

1307
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he gave a speech where he likened slaves to immigrants.

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00:58:12,264 --> 00:58:14,001
A land of dreams and opportunity.

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00:58:14,001 --> 00:58:15,610
There were other immigrants who came here

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00:58:15,610 --> 00:58:16,898
in the bottom of slave ships,

1311
00:58:16,898 --> 00:58:20,315
worked even longer, even harder for less.

1312
00:58:21,414 --> 00:58:22,961
But they too had a dream.

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00:58:22,961 --> 00:58:25,414
<v Larry>And he got fried, especially in the black media.

1314
00:58:25,414 --> 00:58:28,649
Like we actually came here on our own accord.

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00:58:28,649 --> 00:58:29,835
Shackled.

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00:58:29,835 --> 00:58:31,033
Beat.

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00:58:31,033 --> 00:58:33,390
Shot, killed, on our way here to find a better life.

1318
00:58:33,390 --> 00:58:35,425
How does he miss that no slave

1319
00:58:35,425 --> 00:58:37,818
came to this country willingly?

1320
00:58:37,818 --> 00:58:40,626
This is one of the most atrocious acts

1321
00:58:40,626 --> 00:58:43,989
of historical revisionism that one might imagine.

1322
00:58:43,989 --> 00:58:47,572
It wasn't always easy for new immigrants.

1323
00:58:49,275 --> 00:58:52,441
Certainly it wasn't easy for those of African heritage

1324
00:58:52,441 --> 00:58:55,761
who had not come here voluntarily,

1325
00:58:55,761 --> 00:59:00,094
and yet in their own way were immigrants themselves.

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00:59:01,738 --> 00:59:05,139
<v Larry>Obama said the very same thing at least 11 times.

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00:59:05,139 --> 00:59:06,889
Nobody said anything.

1328
00:59:09,394 --> 00:59:12,110
The left claims it advocates for black people,

1329
00:59:12,110 --> 00:59:14,557
but they really advocate for left wing black people.

1330
00:59:14,557 --> 00:59:19,518
Reagan won Pennsylvania by the margin of despair.

1331
00:59:19,518 --> 00:59:22,313
By the margins of fracture of our coalition.

1332
00:59:22,313 --> 00:59:23,923
Your time has come.

1333
00:59:23,923 --> 00:59:27,746
Pick up your slingshot, pick up your rock.

1334
00:59:27,746 --> 00:59:29,913
Declare our time has come.

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00:59:31,854 --> 00:59:34,423
<v Jesse>When I became old enough to vote,

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00:59:34,423 --> 00:59:35,904
I registered as a Democrat,

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00:59:35,904 --> 00:59:39,155
because that's what the black people did.

1338
00:59:39,155 --> 00:59:42,569
I suffer for it because I started to believe

1339
00:59:42,569 --> 00:59:46,146
what the Democratic party was saying.

1340
00:59:46,146 --> 00:59:48,313
I believed into their lie.

1341
00:59:51,519 --> 00:59:54,240
Louis Farrakhan would come out here to LA

1342
00:59:54,240 --> 00:59:56,236
and he would give talks at The Forum,

1343
00:59:56,236 --> 00:59:58,967
and he talked about how bad the old blue-eyed devil was.

1344
00:59:58,967 --> 01:00:02,384
We and white people are mortal enemies.

1345
01:00:05,107 --> 01:00:07,581
They were not made to be our friends.

1346
01:00:07,581 --> 01:00:09,807
They were made to be our enemies,

1347
01:00:09,807 --> 01:00:13,904
and they are that, and they can't be nothing but that.

1348
01:00:13,904 --> 01:00:15,662
They're locked into that.

1349
01:00:15,662 --> 01:00:18,582
There ain't no redemption for them.

1350
01:00:18,582 --> 01:00:22,988
That is why I challenge you now to stand together.

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01:00:22,988 --> 01:00:24,576
<v Jesse>I would listen to Jesse Jackson.

1352
01:00:24,576 --> 01:00:26,826
Raise your fists together

1353
01:00:28,599 --> 01:00:32,349
and engage in our national black listening...

1354
01:00:34,042 --> 01:00:35,408
I would listen to them, and they would say

1355
01:00:35,408 --> 01:00:37,368
and it's all white people fault.

1356
01:00:37,368 --> 01:00:38,611
And so, I started to believe

1357
01:00:38,611 --> 01:00:41,909
because nobody else was opposing what they were saying.

1358
01:00:41,909 --> 01:00:43,031
And for the first time in my life,

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01:00:43,031 --> 01:00:46,019
I started to resent white people.

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01:00:46,019 --> 01:00:47,370
I suffered for it.

1361
01:00:47,370 --> 01:00:51,037
I finally got over it but I suffered for it.

1362
01:00:52,930 --> 01:00:57,316
When I turned 30-something, I started asking questions like,

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01:00:57,316 --> 01:01:01,559
if the white man is holding me back because I'm black,

1364
01:01:01,559 --> 01:01:03,642
why is it that they're not holding Jesse Jackson

1365
01:01:03,642 --> 01:01:07,543
and his family back, the so-called NAACP and all of them.

1366
01:01:07,543 --> 01:01:09,625
Their kids went to the best school,

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01:01:09,625 --> 01:01:11,703
they had father and mothers in their homes

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01:01:11,703 --> 01:01:13,397
and they were doing very well.

1369
01:01:13,397 --> 01:01:16,712
And so, I wonder, why is it that they're not holding

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01:01:16,712 --> 01:01:18,662
those people back if they're holding me back

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01:01:18,662 --> 01:01:19,961
because I'm black.

1372
01:01:19,961 --> 01:01:22,446
And that's when I realized I've been lied to.

1373
01:01:22,446 --> 01:01:24,136
And everything started changing.

1374
01:01:24,136 --> 01:01:26,432
Jesse Jackson is a racist demagogue,

1375
01:01:26,432 --> 01:01:27,485
and he's built a career

1376
01:01:27,485 --> 01:01:29,000
on keeping black people down.

1377
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,355
Keeping 'em angry, brainwashing them

1378
01:01:31,355 --> 01:01:34,212
to control them for his own personal gain.

1379
01:01:34,212 --> 01:01:35,433
And they have lost that power--

1380
01:01:35,433 --> 01:01:37,766
Speak your mind, Reverend.

1381
01:01:41,285 --> 01:01:44,860
I grew up in Alabama on a plantation,

1382
01:01:44,860 --> 01:01:47,297
and I grew up under Jim Crow laws.

1383
01:01:47,297 --> 01:01:49,182
They deliberately kept us down

1384
01:01:49,182 --> 01:01:52,578
by causing us to become angry, destroying the family

1385
01:01:52,578 --> 01:01:54,754
and demoralizing black people.

1386
01:01:54,754 --> 01:01:56,866
And so, what we're trying to do is wake them up

1387
01:01:56,866 --> 01:01:58,573
to that reality.

1388
01:01:58,573 --> 01:02:01,726
When I was growing up, I was just taught good and evil,

1389
01:02:01,726 --> 01:02:03,143
right versus wrong.

1390
01:02:03,143 --> 01:02:05,660
I had never even heard the word racism.

1391
01:02:05,660 --> 01:02:07,823
We knew that it was a spiritual battle

1392
01:02:07,823 --> 01:02:11,073
between right and wrong, good and evil.

1393
01:02:13,185 --> 01:02:15,409
There was no such thing as racism, sexism

1394
01:02:15,409 --> 01:02:18,306
or homophobia-ism, Islamophobia-ism.

1395
01:02:18,306 --> 01:02:21,477
Or there be that ism, or white supremacism.

1396
01:02:21,477 --> 01:02:22,710
It didn't exist.

1397
01:02:22,710 --> 01:02:25,248
That only came about when we allowed the Democrats

1398
01:02:25,248 --> 01:02:26,081
to take over.

1399
01:02:26,081 --> 01:02:29,050
They start making up words to deceive us.

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01:02:29,050 --> 01:02:31,763
We've got to deal with homophobia in our communities.

1401
01:02:31,763 --> 01:02:33,257
Including the black community.

1402
01:02:33,257 --> 01:02:36,220
A lot of the black civil rights leaders

1403
01:02:36,220 --> 01:02:38,874
have abandoned the moral high ground,

1404
01:02:38,874 --> 01:02:41,733
and have perverted the civil rights movement

1405
01:02:41,733 --> 01:02:43,034
to the point where it's become

1406
01:02:43,034 --> 01:02:45,488
a part of a race grievance industry.

1407
01:02:45,488 --> 01:02:48,555
We're on the brink of undoing

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01:02:48,555 --> 01:02:51,320
what Dr. King and others went to jail for.

1409
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:52,476
Blacks have been convinced

1410
01:02:52,476 --> 01:02:53,983
that they're supposed to respect you,

1411
01:02:53,983 --> 01:02:56,288
if you have the title, reverend or pastor,

1412
01:02:56,288 --> 01:02:57,724
even if you're no good.

1413
01:02:57,724 --> 01:02:59,394
You probably can't even remember

1414
01:02:59,394 --> 01:03:00,925
a sermon from Al Sharpton.

1415
01:03:00,925 --> 01:03:02,533
Reverend Al Sharpton.

1416
01:03:02,533 --> 01:03:03,949
He's a reverend of what?

1417
01:03:03,949 --> 01:03:05,426
In politics, the road to the White House

1418
01:03:05,426 --> 01:03:07,265
took a detour through Harlem today.

1419
01:03:07,265 --> 01:03:09,619
It is like a rite of passage for Democratic candidates,

1420
01:03:09,619 --> 01:03:12,482
as an outreach to the African-American community.

1421
01:03:12,482 --> 01:03:15,090
Well toady, South Bend, Indiana mayor, Pete Buttigieg

1422
01:03:15,090 --> 01:03:18,146
had lunch at Sylvia's with Reverend Al Sharpton.

1423
01:03:18,146 --> 01:03:20,713
<v Announcer>Barack Obama dined here in 2008.

1424
01:03:20,713 --> 01:03:23,429
So did Bernie Sanders in 2016.

1425
01:03:23,429 --> 01:03:26,879
I could tell the Negroes to go left and they'll go left.

1426
01:03:26,879 --> 01:03:28,677
How much are you willing to pay me

1427
01:03:28,677 --> 01:03:32,137
to get the Negroes to do what I want them to do?

1428
01:03:32,137 --> 01:03:34,322
They're the ones that receive the contributions

1429
01:03:34,322 --> 01:03:36,937
to say, "Hey, let's keep these people subjugated.

1430
01:03:36,937 --> 01:03:38,806
"Let's keep them voting for us,

1431
01:03:38,806 --> 01:03:40,282
"and you do what is necessary.

1432
01:03:40,282 --> 01:03:42,590
"And help us to squelch these voices

1433
01:03:42,590 --> 01:03:45,370
"that are rising up in opposition to what we believe."

1434
01:03:45,370 --> 01:03:46,896
They're leading the narratives

1435
01:03:46,896 --> 01:03:48,747
that others want them to lead.

1436
01:03:48,747 --> 01:03:51,580
And today, we shall pour outrage

1437
01:03:52,421 --> 01:03:55,250
is when you keep pressing people down.

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01:03:55,250 --> 01:03:56,807
<v Man>If we can get the black community

1439
01:03:56,807 --> 01:04:01,140
to hate the police, then they'll keep breaking laws.

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01:04:03,765 --> 01:04:05,661
<v Larry>So they gotta keep black people angry,

1441
01:04:05,661 --> 01:04:08,078
stirred up angry, ticked off.

1442
01:04:13,204 --> 01:04:15,076
How else do you get 95% of people

1443
01:04:15,076 --> 01:04:18,393
to pull the lever for a party,

1444
01:04:18,393 --> 01:04:21,720
whose views are absolutely inconsistent

1445
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:23,780
with the best interests of the country in general

1446
01:04:23,780 --> 01:04:26,576
and of the best interests of black people in particular.

1447
01:04:26,576 --> 01:04:29,047
<v Martin>We still advocate nonviolence

1448
01:04:29,047 --> 01:04:33,031
with passive resistance, and still determined to use

1449
01:04:33,031 --> 01:04:34,839
the weapon of love.

1450
01:04:34,839 --> 01:04:38,202
But we are still insisting emphatically

1451
01:04:38,202 --> 01:04:41,308
that violence is self defeating.

1452
01:04:41,308 --> 01:04:44,867
That he who lives by the sword will perish by the sword.

1453
01:04:44,867 --> 01:04:47,226
<v Man>Martin Luther King was a pastor.

1454
01:04:47,226 --> 01:04:49,598
He was a genuine pastor.

1455
01:04:49,598 --> 01:04:51,541
That's why Martin Luther King can't be around.

1456
01:04:51,541 --> 01:04:53,274
He can't leave.

1457
01:04:53,274 --> 01:04:54,774
He's too powerful.

1458
01:04:56,491 --> 01:04:58,351
The anger building up in a community

1459
01:04:58,351 --> 01:05:00,527
which causes people to riot

1460
01:05:00,527 --> 01:05:03,779
and to tear things down and to burn things up,

1461
01:05:03,779 --> 01:05:07,278
it goes to show that black people don't feel these days

1462
01:05:07,278 --> 01:05:08,349
like we're building anything.

1463
01:05:08,349 --> 01:05:10,286
That we're contributing to anything.

1464
01:05:10,286 --> 01:05:12,219
When it comes America,

1465
01:05:12,219 --> 01:05:13,973
black people helped build this country.

1466
01:05:13,973 --> 01:05:16,390
(soft music)

1467
01:05:18,296 --> 01:05:19,985
When you look back at the history of black people

1468
01:05:19,985 --> 01:05:22,672
here in America, once we were free from slavery,

1469
01:05:22,672 --> 01:05:26,423
we were successful in ways, and we overcame things

1470
01:05:26,423 --> 01:05:29,055
and we did things far beyond

1471
01:05:29,055 --> 01:05:31,253
our predecessors could have imagined.

1472
01:05:31,253 --> 01:05:35,494
Simply because we had that almost instinctively in us.

1473
01:05:35,494 --> 01:05:38,336
As blacks emerged from slavery,

1474
01:05:38,336 --> 01:05:41,699
minute percentage could read or write.

1475
01:05:41,699 --> 01:05:43,422
And yet in 1/2 a century,

1476
01:05:43,422 --> 01:05:45,795
over 1/2 the black population was literate.

1477
01:05:45,795 --> 01:05:47,194
And economic historians call that

1478
01:05:47,194 --> 01:05:51,648
one of the most remarkable things in history.

1479
01:05:51,648 --> 01:05:54,430
<v Man>So, in the late 1800s,

1480
01:05:54,430 --> 01:05:59,039
we had actually in not very well documented boon

1481
01:05:59,039 --> 01:06:01,412
of African American proliferation

1482
01:06:01,412 --> 01:06:06,162
into the political space, into the entrepreneurial space.

1483
01:06:07,183 --> 01:06:08,580
And we had real movers and shakers

1484
01:06:08,580 --> 01:06:11,408
in our communities who were doing real things.

1485
01:06:11,408 --> 01:06:13,684
Because at one time, blacks were Republicans,

1486
01:06:13,684 --> 01:06:14,741
and you dominated.

1487
01:06:14,741 --> 01:06:16,917
Those seven years after the Civil War,

1488
01:06:16,917 --> 01:06:18,316
you were Republicans.

1489
01:06:18,316 --> 01:06:21,647
You had more blacks in the House and Senate than you do now,

1490
01:06:21,647 --> 01:06:25,207
and you dominated your own economic communities.

1491
01:06:25,207 --> 01:06:27,540
You did that as Republicans.

1492
01:06:29,303 --> 01:06:31,971
But then what happened was that Democrats realized

1493
01:06:31,971 --> 01:06:33,933
they could still control us

1494
01:06:33,933 --> 01:06:38,350
by enacting new laws to suppress our civil liberties.

1495
01:06:39,676 --> 01:06:43,328
That brings us to the rise of Jim Crow.

1496
01:06:43,328 --> 01:06:46,029
The Jim Crow era and Ruby Bridges going to school,

1497
01:06:46,029 --> 01:06:50,719
that happened in the 1950s, 1960s, that general era.

1498
01:06:50,719 --> 01:06:52,853
But we had Hiram Rhodes Revels

1499
01:06:52,853 --> 01:06:55,012
and many other African-Americans

1500
01:06:55,012 --> 01:06:57,756
rise to positions of power in the political space

1501
01:06:57,756 --> 01:06:59,432
in the late 1800s.

1502
01:06:59,432 --> 01:07:03,737
So, there's this gap of missing achievement that we have,

1503
01:07:03,737 --> 01:07:05,820
and that is what the KKK,

1504
01:07:06,812 --> 01:07:11,145
that is what the Jim Crow laws did to our community.

1505
01:07:12,894 --> 01:07:16,311
You can't depend on a government school

1506
01:07:17,229 --> 01:07:19,849
to teach you raw history.

1507
01:07:19,849 --> 01:07:23,262
You're gonna see people like even Frederick Douglas

1508
01:07:23,262 --> 01:07:25,864
become less and less and less celebrated,

1509
01:07:25,864 --> 01:07:27,537
and less and less and less popular

1510
01:07:27,537 --> 01:07:29,631
because he doesn't really fit the narrative.

1511
01:07:29,631 --> 01:07:32,911
He was a Republican, very American.

1512
01:07:32,911 --> 01:07:34,540
When they wanna teach you somebody that was great

1513
01:07:34,540 --> 01:07:37,258
in black American history and they happen to be Republican,

1514
01:07:37,258 --> 01:07:38,559
they don't tell you that element.

1515
01:07:38,559 --> 01:07:40,682
And they also, and this is sort of one of the biggest myths

1516
01:07:40,682 --> 01:07:44,582
that they tell you, that the parties completely switched.

1517
01:07:44,582 --> 01:07:46,583
They have to say the parties switched.

1518
01:07:46,583 --> 01:07:48,025
They have to.

1519
01:07:48,025 --> 01:07:51,259
Because they can't acknowledge

1520
01:07:51,259 --> 01:07:54,058
that they're part of all of the worst things

1521
01:07:54,058 --> 01:07:56,379
that have ever happened to black people in history.

1522
01:07:56,379 --> 01:07:57,481
And if you know better

1523
01:07:57,481 --> 01:07:59,357
and you know the parties didn't switch,

1524
01:07:59,357 --> 01:08:00,932
and you just look at today,

1525
01:08:00,932 --> 01:08:03,561
there's still a part of every negative thing

1526
01:08:03,561 --> 01:08:06,548
that have happened to black people in America.

1527
01:08:06,548 --> 01:08:08,579
<v Larry>Let's just take one issue.

1528
01:08:08,579 --> 01:08:10,296
And that's the issue we've talked abut for a long time

1529
01:08:10,296 --> 01:08:11,570
and that's vouchers.

1530
01:08:11,570 --> 01:08:14,121
<v Reporter>They have to pass through metal detectors.

1531
01:08:14,121 --> 01:08:15,760
They're faced by security guards

1532
01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:17,454
looking for hidden weapons.

1533
01:08:17,454 --> 01:08:19,779
They're watched over by armed police.

1534
01:08:19,779 --> 01:08:21,482
<v Larry>You're required to send your kid to a school

1535
01:08:21,482 --> 01:08:24,845
where only 3% of kids can do math at grade level,

1536
01:08:24,845 --> 01:08:26,960
because you have no option.

1537
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:28,965
Republicans want you to have an option.

1538
01:08:28,965 --> 01:08:30,164
But Republicans of course are racist

1539
01:08:30,164 --> 01:08:32,293
so you can't vote for them, right?

1540
01:08:32,293 --> 01:08:33,223
What a dilemma!

1541
01:08:33,223 --> 01:08:35,412
Slave codes in the early 19th century

1542
01:08:35,412 --> 01:08:38,749
made it illegal for black Americans to learn to read, why?

1543
01:08:38,749 --> 01:08:42,209
Because if slaves could read, they could access information.

1544
01:08:42,209 --> 01:08:44,110
I don't believe that much has changed.

1545
01:08:44,110 --> 01:08:45,055
If the parties did switch

1546
01:08:45,055 --> 01:08:47,201
and Democrats really are the party

1547
01:08:47,201 --> 01:08:49,368
of, for and by minorities,

1548
01:08:50,597 --> 01:08:53,514
then why do they react so viciously

1549
01:08:54,676 --> 01:08:56,802
when you introduce legislation

1550
01:08:56,802 --> 01:09:01,244
that would help the minorities by giving them school choice?

1551
01:09:01,244 --> 01:09:02,844
There's answers to all these questions.

1552
01:09:02,844 --> 01:09:04,474
But you have to be the one to find them.

1553
01:09:04,474 --> 01:09:06,821
Because no one else is going to tell you

1554
01:09:06,821 --> 01:09:08,962
the inconvenient truth.

1555
01:09:08,962 --> 01:09:11,712
The welfare state is slavery 2.0.

1556
01:09:16,881 --> 01:09:19,543
The biggest falsehood, the biggest lie

1557
01:09:19,543 --> 01:09:24,043
that gets repeated is that the kind of disorganization

1558
01:09:24,974 --> 01:09:27,556
and chaos and violence

1559
01:09:27,556 --> 01:09:31,392
and self-destruction that we're witnessing

1560
01:09:31,392 --> 01:09:36,392
in the black community is somehow a legacy of slavery

1561
01:09:36,459 --> 01:09:38,153
and Jim Crow.

1562
01:09:38,153 --> 01:09:39,736
That is just a lie.

1563
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:47,840
Because if that were so, between 1930 and 1940,

1564
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:50,374
during the years of the depression,

1565
01:09:50,374 --> 01:09:54,231
when segregation and racism was enshrined in laws,

1566
01:09:54,231 --> 01:09:57,905
when there was no black representation in government,

1567
01:09:57,905 --> 01:10:01,506
even in the face of these horrible conditions,

1568
01:10:01,506 --> 01:10:04,159
the black community had the highest marriage rate

1569
01:10:04,159 --> 01:10:06,159
of any group in society.

1570
01:10:07,423 --> 01:10:11,090
Our institutions served as an anchor for us.

1571
01:10:12,497 --> 01:10:15,031
And so therefore, elderly people could walk

1572
01:10:15,031 --> 01:10:17,258
in their neighborhood without fear

1573
01:10:17,258 --> 01:10:20,758
of being assaulted by their grandchildren.

1574
01:10:22,949 --> 01:10:27,076
Our business formation rate was high then.

1575
01:10:27,076 --> 01:10:29,517
<v Reporter>Has yielded a 1/2 million dollar yearly growth.

1576
01:10:29,517 --> 01:10:31,402
If we were able to accomplish

1577
01:10:31,402 --> 01:10:36,032
the building of hospitals, dental schools, hotels,

1578
01:10:36,032 --> 01:10:39,032
movie theaters, Vaudeville theaters.

1579
01:10:40,064 --> 01:10:42,897
If we were able to accomplish this

1580
01:10:43,998 --> 01:10:46,746
and not engage in the kind of self-destruction...

1581
01:10:46,746 --> 01:10:48,871
<v Man>What's the proper way to mug a nigga?

1582
01:10:48,871 --> 01:10:51,477
You know, walked on him, grab him by his hood and,

1583
01:10:51,477 --> 01:10:52,795
one to the head.
One to the head.

1584
01:10:52,795 --> 01:10:54,107
I'm a hit you one time in the head,

1585
01:10:54,107 --> 01:10:55,638
two times in the chest.

1586
01:10:55,638 --> 01:10:57,888
How can you explain that?

1587
01:10:59,697 --> 01:11:01,278
<v Candace>How is that possible in a society

1588
01:11:01,278 --> 01:11:04,231
that has experienced so much social progress,

1589
01:11:04,231 --> 01:11:07,321
that we are seeing a decline in the black community?

1590
01:11:07,321 --> 01:11:09,531
The statistics of illegitimacy, crime rates

1591
01:11:09,531 --> 01:11:11,354
and illiteracy have worsened

1592
01:11:11,354 --> 01:11:13,726
since the time of segregation and Jim Crow.

1593
01:11:13,726 --> 01:11:16,143
(soft music)

1594
01:11:24,179 --> 01:11:27,214
<v Larry>Before the war on poverty launched,

1595
01:11:27,214 --> 01:11:29,800
87% of blacks lived below the federally defined

1596
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:31,883
level of poverty in 1940.

1597
01:11:33,294 --> 01:11:37,049
By 1960, that number had decreased to 47%.

1598
01:11:37,049 --> 01:11:39,382
A 40-point drop in 20 years.

1599
01:11:40,455 --> 01:11:43,011
That's probably the greatest economic prosperity period

1600
01:11:43,011 --> 01:11:46,164
for blacks in the history of this country,

1601
01:11:46,164 --> 01:11:48,502
and this all happened before affirmative action,

1602
01:11:48,502 --> 01:11:51,502
before the so-called war on poverty.

1603
01:11:53,281 --> 01:11:55,602
<v Man>Back then it was commonplace

1604
01:11:55,602 --> 01:11:58,352
to have both parents in the home.

1605
01:12:00,705 --> 01:12:02,492
If you made a commitment and you marry somebody

1606
01:12:02,492 --> 01:12:05,492
and you had kids, you stay with 'em.

1607
01:12:06,558 --> 01:12:09,340
<v Man>It wasn't just about your immediate family.

1608
01:12:09,340 --> 01:12:12,423
It was also about your church family.

1609
01:12:15,156 --> 01:12:17,985
<v Jesse>In those days, black men were in control.

1610
01:12:17,985 --> 01:12:21,185
The black woman respected the black man.

1611
01:12:21,185 --> 01:12:24,500
<v Man>Having a strong father showed me how to be a man.

1612
01:12:24,500 --> 01:12:27,750
It also showed me how to treat a woman.

1613
01:12:29,445 --> 01:12:31,779
<v Man>When I was young, I remember going to open house

1614
01:12:31,779 --> 01:12:35,779
and everybody's parents were there, everybody's.

1615
01:12:46,755 --> 01:12:51,005
Up until 1962-'63, 85% of all black families

1616
01:12:51,990 --> 01:12:55,240
had a man and a woman raising children.

1617
01:12:56,393 --> 01:12:59,143
But that all changed in the '60s.

1618
01:13:01,780 --> 01:13:04,476
If you estimate that the welfare is paying,

1619
01:13:04,476 --> 01:13:08,809
I guess, six, $7 billion dollars a year in benefits,

1620
01:13:09,817 --> 01:13:13,103
how much would you say is denied by these illegal practices?

1621
01:13:13,103 --> 01:13:15,523
<v Rob>The architect of this destruction

1622
01:13:15,523 --> 01:13:17,014
was Cloward and Piven.

1623
01:13:17,014 --> 01:13:18,541
The American public welfare system

1624
01:13:18,541 --> 01:13:23,060
is only expanding 1/2 of what it should be expanding

1625
01:13:23,060 --> 01:13:24,378
if it were reaching all of the people

1626
01:13:24,378 --> 01:13:27,774
who are eligible under existing statutes.

1627
01:13:27,774 --> 01:13:29,886
So, we think welfare costs should probably double.

1628
01:13:29,886 --> 01:13:33,072
A couple of renowned sociologists

1629
01:13:33,072 --> 01:13:37,088
at the Columbia University School of Social Work.

1630
01:13:37,088 --> 01:13:40,588
And their theory was, if we could separate

1631
01:13:42,648 --> 01:13:46,740
work from income, it would make men redundant,

1632
01:13:46,740 --> 01:13:50,823
and if we can just remove the stigma from welfare

1633
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:56,641
and entice more people to flood the welfare system,

1634
01:13:56,641 --> 01:14:00,512
it will bankrupt cities and the country.

1635
01:14:00,512 --> 01:14:02,264
<v Dr. Wiley>The welfare rights movement and the lawyers

1636
01:14:02,264 --> 01:14:05,302
are challenging man in the house rules,

1637
01:14:05,302 --> 01:14:07,854
and other kinds of requirements which are restricting.

1638
01:14:07,854 --> 01:14:10,490
This, I presume would be additional people

1639
01:14:10,490 --> 01:14:13,285
who could become eligible for additional money

1640
01:14:13,285 --> 01:14:15,495
if these were challenged.

1641
01:14:15,495 --> 01:14:19,883
Yes, that would raise the cost even more.

1642
01:14:19,883 --> 01:14:24,353
To recruit people into the welfare system,

1643
01:14:24,353 --> 01:14:26,103
we relaxed the rules.

1644
01:14:27,246 --> 01:14:29,963
If a woman had to declare paternity

1645
01:14:29,963 --> 01:14:33,488
in order to qualify for welfare, the ACLU sued

1646
01:14:33,488 --> 01:14:37,861
and said this is a violation of our privacy rights.

1647
01:14:37,861 --> 01:14:40,378
They also said that the nuclear family,

1648
01:14:40,378 --> 01:14:45,045
Ozzie and Harriet, was Eurocentric and therefore racist.

1649
01:14:47,824 --> 01:14:51,199
The women's movement concurred with that.

1650
01:14:51,199 --> 01:14:54,282
The Black Power movement also agreed.

1651
01:14:55,397 --> 01:14:59,839
Millions of blacks in a period of less than four years

1652
01:14:59,839 --> 01:15:03,798
flooded into the welfare system in major cities.

1653
01:15:03,798 --> 01:15:05,607
At a time when the unemployment rate

1654
01:15:05,607 --> 01:15:08,658
for blacks in New York for males

1655
01:15:08,658 --> 01:15:10,770
was less than 4%.

1656
01:15:10,770 --> 01:15:13,974
If I could get me a job where I could be my own man.

1657
01:15:13,974 --> 01:15:16,314
Don't make think that they feelin' sorry for me.

1658
01:15:16,314 --> 01:15:18,138
Give me this, give me what I need,

1659
01:15:18,138 --> 01:15:20,471
just like a pet, like a dog.

1660
01:15:22,873 --> 01:15:24,224
You have to be fed now.

1661
01:15:24,224 --> 01:15:25,302
Give him some food.

1662
01:15:25,302 --> 01:15:27,103
<v Rob>What you then saw is a consequence

1663
01:15:27,103 --> 01:15:29,799
of separating work from income.

1664
01:15:29,799 --> 01:15:31,980
The out-of-wedlock births in the black community

1665
01:15:31,980 --> 01:15:33,652
began to skyrocket.

1666
01:15:33,652 --> 01:15:36,735
Went from under 25% to 70%.

1667
01:15:39,845 --> 01:15:42,770
It is a neutron bomb that was dropped on this country,

1668
01:15:42,770 --> 01:15:46,627
and it really hurt families, especially the black family.

1669
01:15:46,627 --> 01:15:49,208
During slavery, a black kid was more likely

1670
01:15:49,208 --> 01:15:51,645
to be raised under a roof with his biological mother

1671
01:15:51,645 --> 01:15:54,395
and biological father than today.

1672
01:15:56,116 --> 01:15:58,343
The welfare state has done more to destroy

1673
01:15:58,343 --> 01:16:01,693
and destabilize the black family than even slavery did.

1674
01:16:01,693 --> 01:16:03,724
<v Candace>We allowed them to remove the fathers

1675
01:16:03,724 --> 01:16:05,221
from our homes.

1676
01:16:05,221 --> 01:16:07,721
Removing the backbone of our families.

1677
01:16:07,721 --> 01:16:09,492
I remember my dad used to be hard on us,

1678
01:16:09,492 --> 01:16:12,807
making us fold clothes and washing dishes properly.

1679
01:16:12,807 --> 01:16:14,919
And if we didn't, we got a whooping.

1680
01:16:14,919 --> 01:16:17,296
If we didn't 'em right, or if we didn't do 'em

1681
01:16:17,296 --> 01:16:18,354
when he told us to do 'em.

1682
01:16:18,354 --> 01:16:20,871
And I didn't like him when he did that to us.

1683
01:16:20,871 --> 01:16:23,653
My dad made me a responsible man by doing that.

1684
01:16:23,653 --> 01:16:26,284
And it just really made me wonder

1685
01:16:26,284 --> 01:16:28,803
like what if he wasn't there?

1686
01:16:28,803 --> 01:16:31,333
I'm very blessed to be who I am today,

1687
01:16:31,333 --> 01:16:33,420
and a lot of that had to do with the upbringing

1688
01:16:33,420 --> 01:16:34,798
I had from my father,

1689
01:16:34,798 --> 01:16:38,467
who was in the house, who made sure that we were in school,

1690
01:16:38,467 --> 01:16:39,803
who made sure that we were clothed,

1691
01:16:39,803 --> 01:16:41,539
that we had shelter, that we had food.

1692
01:16:41,539 --> 01:16:43,152
That was my father.

1693
01:16:43,152 --> 01:16:45,913
When I was growing up, fathers led.

1694
01:16:45,913 --> 01:16:48,643
And you knew not to be fighting and carrying 'em

1695
01:16:48,643 --> 01:16:50,674
because you had respect for the elderly,

1696
01:16:50,674 --> 01:16:51,830
and you respect yourself

1697
01:16:51,830 --> 01:16:53,469
because you represented your parents

1698
01:16:53,469 --> 01:16:55,177
when you're out there.

1699
01:16:55,177 --> 01:16:57,387
But that representation is no longer there

1700
01:16:57,387 --> 01:16:58,867
because the man is not there.

1701
01:16:58,867 --> 01:17:01,272
If you look at every major issue

1702
01:17:01,272 --> 01:17:03,108
facing the black community today,

1703
01:17:03,108 --> 01:17:04,751
it can be stemmed back to fatherlessness.

1704
01:17:04,751 --> 01:17:06,129
You see black people joining gangs.

1705
01:17:06,129 --> 01:17:08,501
They're joining the gang to simulate a family unit.

1706
01:17:08,501 --> 01:17:10,631
Family unit can be solved with the father.

1707
01:17:10,631 --> 01:17:12,717
Don't understand what it's like, how to treat a woman,

1708
01:17:12,717 --> 01:17:16,258
how to be respectful, how to earn a living the legal way.

1709
01:17:16,258 --> 01:17:18,127
They didn't have a father in their home

1710
01:17:18,127 --> 01:17:19,296
that taught them these things.

1711
01:17:19,296 --> 01:17:20,970
And then that father didn't have a father in his home.

1712
01:17:20,970 --> 01:17:23,022
So, this generational fatherlessness

1713
01:17:23,022 --> 01:17:25,868
is far more dangerous to the black community

1714
01:17:25,868 --> 01:17:28,970
than institutional or generational racism.

1715
01:17:28,970 --> 01:17:32,938
If there is a strong man in the household,

1716
01:17:32,938 --> 01:17:36,091
people aren't eligible for these benefits.

1717
01:17:36,091 --> 01:17:38,288
So, you see how it kinda starts and it just grows

1718
01:17:38,288 --> 01:17:39,121
and grows and grows.

1719
01:17:39,121 --> 01:17:42,024
With the political left, this whole idea

1720
01:17:42,024 --> 01:17:44,883
that government can bring people out of poverty

1721
01:17:44,883 --> 01:17:47,272
and that government can fix all the problems,

1722
01:17:47,272 --> 01:17:49,270
we know that government can't do that.

1723
01:17:49,270 --> 01:17:51,921
That government can't raise a family.

1724
01:17:51,921 --> 01:17:52,754
Who like man.

1725
01:17:52,754 --> 01:17:53,685
(bleep) this job.

1726
01:17:53,685 --> 01:17:54,601
You can't have the pizza.

1727
01:17:54,601 --> 01:17:56,676
I said, "(bleep) I want the money and your car."

1728
01:17:56,676 --> 01:17:58,855
<v Reporter>Dequandre Weaver was 14 years old

1729
01:17:58,855 --> 01:18:00,111
when this video was shot,

1730
01:18:00,111 --> 01:18:01,567
and this week a judge sentenced him

1731
01:18:01,567 --> 01:18:06,448
to serve 20 years in prison for a list of felonies.

1732
01:18:06,448 --> 01:18:10,198
Because the left has promoted the welfare state,

1733
01:18:10,198 --> 01:18:12,430
has encouraged women to marry the government,

1734
01:18:12,430 --> 01:18:14,356
has allowed men to abandon their financial

1735
01:18:14,356 --> 01:18:17,208
and moral responsibility, we have these problems.

1736
01:18:17,208 --> 01:18:19,645
It is no wonder that you have the chaos.

1737
01:18:19,645 --> 01:18:23,645
More blacks are killing other blacks in one year

1738
01:18:26,778 --> 01:18:29,528
than the Klan killed in 70 years.

1739
01:18:33,170 --> 01:18:35,837
(ominous music)

1740
01:18:37,587 --> 01:18:39,810
(gunshots blaring)

1741
01:18:39,810 --> 01:18:42,267
<v Man>We are on autopilot in the destruction

1742
01:18:42,267 --> 01:18:44,969
of our own communities.

1743
01:18:44,969 --> 01:18:47,687
Black on black crime is something that our media tells us

1744
01:18:47,687 --> 01:18:49,910
that we're not allowed to talk about.

1745
01:18:49,910 --> 01:18:53,160
Over 93% of black homicide victims

1746
01:18:54,316 --> 01:18:57,193
are killed by other black people.

1747
01:18:57,193 --> 01:18:59,357
We are not supposed to be outraged,

1748
01:18:59,357 --> 01:19:02,652
and we're not told to remember the names of those victims.

1749
01:19:02,652 --> 01:19:05,449
Because if we begin to focus on that area,

1750
01:19:05,449 --> 01:19:07,203
something that is causing real harm

1751
01:19:07,203 --> 01:19:09,686
and devastation to our communities,

1752
01:19:09,686 --> 01:19:11,936
we might uncover the truth.

1753
01:19:14,909 --> 01:19:18,582
Our inner cities are all by Democrat design.

1754
01:19:18,582 --> 01:19:22,286
Like Chicago, like Baltimore and like Detroit.

1755
01:19:22,286 --> 01:19:26,190
They have been run by Democrats for decades.

1756
01:19:26,190 --> 01:19:27,211
We have been made to believe

1757
01:19:27,211 --> 01:19:29,782
that the conditions in our cities are normal.

1758
01:19:29,782 --> 01:19:31,195
We're supposed to turn a blind eye

1759
01:19:31,195 --> 01:19:33,929
to the corruption, to the crime, to the gangs, and instead,

1760
01:19:33,929 --> 01:19:37,123
focus on what our media deems of more importance.

1761
01:19:37,123 --> 01:19:38,636
We're instead told that we should be focusing

1762
01:19:38,636 --> 01:19:40,007
on white people.

1763
01:19:40,007 --> 01:19:42,562
We're supposed to be reactive and angry and fearful

1764
01:19:42,562 --> 01:19:45,077
about white supremacy, when in fact,

1765
01:19:45,077 --> 01:19:50,077
it is liberal supremacy that is harming our communities.

1766
01:19:50,412 --> 01:19:53,224
In the inner cities, who's killing who?

1767
01:19:53,224 --> 01:19:55,742
Back in slavery, they used to rip the families apart,

1768
01:19:55,742 --> 01:19:56,881
take the father out of the home.

1769
01:19:56,881 --> 01:19:59,533
Now we removing ourselves from the home.

1770
01:19:59,533 --> 01:20:02,373
These are things that I believe

1771
01:20:02,373 --> 01:20:03,545
have gotten us to the point

1772
01:20:03,545 --> 01:20:06,924
where we are on autopilot for the liberal movement.

1773
01:20:06,924 --> 01:20:09,267
(soft music)

1774
01:20:09,267 --> 01:20:11,042
<v Larry>You begin to ask yourself,

1775
01:20:11,042 --> 01:20:14,921
why is it that more black women are getting abortions

1776
01:20:14,921 --> 01:20:17,701
than any other ethnic group?

1777
01:20:17,701 --> 01:20:19,491
And you begin to look at maps

1778
01:20:19,491 --> 01:20:23,698
of where these Planned Parenthood clinics are situated.

1779
01:20:23,698 --> 01:20:27,206
<v Jesse>77% of Planned Parenthood abortion pills

1780
01:20:27,206 --> 01:20:30,534
are located in the inner cities.

1781
01:20:30,534 --> 01:20:33,252
<v Woman>Somehow, the script was flipped,

1782
01:20:33,252 --> 01:20:36,375
and so it became a civil right to abort a child.

1783
01:20:36,375 --> 01:20:39,332
It is her body, it is her right, it is her decision.

1784
01:20:39,332 --> 01:20:42,335
It became a woman's reproductive right,

1785
01:20:42,335 --> 01:20:45,609
but nobody really examined the motives behind it.

1786
01:20:45,609 --> 01:20:50,030
52% of all African-American pregnancies end in abortion.

1787
01:20:50,030 --> 01:20:52,280
1786 a day, and since 1973,

1788
01:20:55,393 --> 01:20:57,958
over 20 million African-Americans

1789
01:20:57,958 --> 01:21:00,351
have been killed by abortion alone.

1790
01:21:00,351 --> 01:21:03,697
For more federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

1791
01:21:03,697 --> 01:21:06,884
The Democratic party has always been focused

1792
01:21:06,884 --> 01:21:11,551
on pushing eugenics and abortion on the black community.

1793
01:21:13,923 --> 01:21:16,309
Margaret Sanger, the woman that ultimately founded

1794
01:21:16,309 --> 01:21:17,709
what became Planned Parenthood,

1795
01:21:17,709 --> 01:21:21,132
believed that certain people were degenerate,

1796
01:21:21,132 --> 01:21:23,522
were unworthy of living.

1797
01:21:23,522 --> 01:21:25,554
And if you're one of those persons,

1798
01:21:25,554 --> 01:21:27,423
perfectly okay for you to be eliminated.

1799
01:21:27,423 --> 01:21:28,723
<v Man>Whether you're talking about

1800
01:21:28,723 --> 01:21:31,275
Margaret Sanger strategies back then,

1801
01:21:31,275 --> 01:21:33,490
or you're talking about Planned Parenthood's tactics

1802
01:21:33,490 --> 01:21:37,065
of today, they're still able to Trojan Horse

1803
01:21:37,065 --> 01:21:38,853
the black community.

1804
01:21:38,853 --> 01:21:41,140
That is to deliver this message

1805
01:21:41,140 --> 01:21:42,667
of, "We're for women's health.

1806
01:21:42,667 --> 01:21:44,412
"We're for the black community."

1807
01:21:44,412 --> 01:21:47,311
More than 1/2 of Planned Parenthood's centers

1808
01:21:47,311 --> 01:21:52,311
are located in areas without ready access to healthcare.

1809
01:21:52,402 --> 01:21:55,129
Here you have the left wing embracing Planned Parenthood,

1810
01:21:55,129 --> 01:21:56,826
embracing the pro-choice movement,

1811
01:21:56,826 --> 01:21:59,100
completely oblivious to the fact that Margaret Sanger

1812
01:21:59,100 --> 01:22:02,074
was not particularly fond of poor, black people,

1813
01:22:02,074 --> 01:22:03,940
who in her view could not make it on their own.

1814
01:22:03,940 --> 01:22:05,048
I think the greatest sin in the world

1815
01:22:05,048 --> 01:22:07,087
is bringing children into the world

1816
01:22:07,087 --> 01:22:10,347
that have disease from their parents,

1817
01:22:10,347 --> 01:22:12,054
that have no chance in the world

1818
01:22:12,054 --> 01:22:13,933
to be a human being practically.

1819
01:22:13,933 --> 01:22:16,820
Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things,

1820
01:22:16,820 --> 01:22:18,330
just marked when they're born.

1821
01:22:18,330 --> 01:22:21,615
That to me is the greatest sin.

1822
01:22:21,615 --> 01:22:25,758
I see black people argue that if a woman is poor,

1823
01:22:25,758 --> 01:22:28,191
she shouldn't have a child.

1824
01:22:28,191 --> 01:22:31,544
If that were the case, a lot of black people that I know

1825
01:22:31,544 --> 01:22:33,204
who have done great things in life

1826
01:22:33,204 --> 01:22:35,043
would never have been born,

1827
01:22:35,043 --> 01:22:36,289
and I would have been one of them.

1828
01:22:36,289 --> 01:22:38,422
<v Man>The Billboard's idea that abortion is genocide

1829
01:22:38,422 --> 01:22:41,771
has made a comeback in some parts of the black community.

1830
01:22:41,771 --> 01:22:43,299
<v Candace>Our population growth has stagnated.

1831
01:22:43,299 --> 01:22:45,573
<v Man>Fueling this is the growing number of Latinos

1832
01:22:45,573 --> 01:22:47,298
who have fewer abortions, more children...

1833
01:22:47,298 --> 01:22:48,383
<v Candace>60% of all new births

1834
01:22:48,383 --> 01:22:49,674
in this country are Latino,

1835
01:22:49,674 --> 01:22:52,108
and you have Democrats that are advocating for open borders.

1836
01:22:52,108 --> 01:22:53,911
<v Man>Ethnic minority than black Americans.

1837
01:22:53,911 --> 01:22:55,100
<v Candace>Right now, the Democrat party

1838
01:22:55,100 --> 01:22:57,474
relies upon our vote, but they don't have to forever.

1839
01:22:57,474 --> 01:23:01,141
(speaking foreign language)

1840
01:23:03,567 --> 01:23:05,193
Black Americans are gonna wake up,

1841
01:23:05,193 --> 01:23:06,783
or we're going to become irrelevant.

1842
01:23:06,783 --> 01:23:09,480
Black people in general are starting to get the sense

1843
01:23:09,480 --> 01:23:12,893
that we are being traded for illegal immigrants.

1844
01:23:12,893 --> 01:23:14,860
<v Reporter>The caravan lurched forward

1845
01:23:14,860 --> 01:23:17,860
carrying babies, suitcases and hope.

1846
01:23:18,706 --> 01:23:23,289
<v Candace>They're importing a whole new victim class.

1847
01:23:24,305 --> 01:23:27,388
It's gonna do exactly to the illegals

1848
01:23:28,243 --> 01:23:32,229
what they did to black America in the '60s.

1849
01:23:32,229 --> 01:23:33,442
Get them addicted to government,

1850
01:23:33,442 --> 01:23:35,365
give them the handouts, and turn them

1851
01:23:35,365 --> 01:23:37,652
into a permanent class of victim voters.

1852
01:23:37,652 --> 01:23:40,606
<v Man>They are willing to use

1853
01:23:40,606 --> 01:23:43,189
people's genuine disadvantages,

1854
01:23:44,498 --> 01:23:48,248
people's genuine struggles to get into power.

1855
01:23:49,306 --> 01:23:51,145
And we are gonna fight for fairness

1856
01:23:51,145 --> 01:23:53,308
and justice for immigration.

1857
01:23:53,308 --> 01:23:54,984
We're gonna fight for DACA,

1858
01:23:54,984 --> 01:23:57,169
and we're going to help this country--

1859
01:23:57,169 --> 01:24:00,773
How is it that we have Maxine Waters and John Lewis

1860
01:24:00,773 --> 01:24:03,785
and others in the Black Congressional Caucus

1861
01:24:03,785 --> 01:24:05,952
who are fighting for DACA?

1862
01:24:08,121 --> 01:24:09,994
For the dreamers

1863
01:24:09,994 --> 01:24:14,252
of illegal aliens who have come to our nation,

1864
01:24:14,252 --> 01:24:18,186
and they're not fighting for black children

1865
01:24:18,186 --> 01:24:23,124
and the dreams that our kids and our teenagers have.

1866
01:24:23,124 --> 01:24:27,202
They've set them aside and made DACA their priority.

1867
01:24:27,202 --> 01:24:30,581
I submit to you they're in pursuit of an agenda.

1868
01:24:30,581 --> 01:24:33,964
The black community has been destroyed

1869
01:24:33,964 --> 01:24:38,275
by racist, illegal immigration and we're not gonna have it.

1870
01:24:38,275 --> 01:24:41,218
When my people do a crime, we get three strikes.

1871
01:24:41,218 --> 01:24:43,262
Your people do a crime, they get amnesty,

1872
01:24:43,262 --> 01:24:44,810
they get benefits, and they're not...

1873
01:24:44,810 --> 01:24:47,055
Blacks are protesting the fact

1874
01:24:47,055 --> 01:24:49,231
that for the last 50 years,

1875
01:24:49,231 --> 01:24:52,946
they're living in cities that are the most dangerous,

1876
01:24:52,946 --> 01:24:55,290
disinvested places, and they've been run

1877
01:24:55,290 --> 01:24:57,692
by liberal black Democrats.

1878
01:24:57,692 --> 01:25:02,018
But they've got no alternative to express that discontent.

1879
01:25:02,018 --> 01:25:04,278
The black community is low-hanging fruit

1880
01:25:04,278 --> 01:25:06,242
for the Republican party.

1881
01:25:06,242 --> 01:25:09,331
And the fact that they're not making a more concerted effort

1882
01:25:09,331 --> 01:25:12,664
to message to our community aggressively

1883
01:25:13,611 --> 01:25:15,006
is a huge mistake.

1884
01:25:15,006 --> 01:25:16,044
First, they have to be serious

1885
01:25:16,044 --> 01:25:19,947
about whether or not they want minorities in the party.

1886
01:25:19,947 --> 01:25:22,950
And if they are, then they need to totally rethink

1887
01:25:22,950 --> 01:25:24,350
how they're goin' about it.

1888
01:25:24,350 --> 01:25:26,767
(soft music)

1889
01:25:30,771 --> 01:25:33,828
My experiences running as a mayoral candidate

1890
01:25:33,828 --> 01:25:37,161
in a city that's predominantly Democrat,

1891
01:25:38,278 --> 01:25:41,975
I've been criticized by Republican strategists

1892
01:25:41,975 --> 01:25:45,725
for spending my time in minority communities.

1893
01:25:49,545 --> 01:25:52,356
I've placed my campaign office

1894
01:25:52,356 --> 01:25:55,381
in a historically black community.

1895
01:25:55,381 --> 01:25:57,131
I did that by choice.

1896
01:25:58,585 --> 01:26:01,610
I have not found the kind of support

1897
01:26:01,610 --> 01:26:04,360
that I expected from Republicans.

1898
01:26:05,540 --> 01:26:08,920
I think that if you look at the Republican party,

1899
01:26:08,920 --> 01:26:11,066
I believe that if I were white

1900
01:26:11,066 --> 01:26:14,764
that I would notice that there were so few people of color,

1901
01:26:14,764 --> 01:26:17,427
racial and ethnic minorities in my party,

1902
01:26:17,427 --> 01:26:20,759
and I would support the ones that were sincere.

1903
01:26:20,759 --> 01:26:22,203
I love America.

1904
01:26:22,203 --> 01:26:23,639
I believe the American dream,

1905
01:26:23,639 --> 01:26:26,272
and I wanna give hope to people who are disadvantaged,

1906
01:26:26,272 --> 01:26:29,127
not just black people, but also white people

1907
01:26:29,127 --> 01:26:31,635
who come from unfortunate circumstances.

1908
01:26:31,635 --> 01:26:35,243
When I've gone to campaign and elections meetings,

1909
01:26:35,243 --> 01:26:36,934
I hear these strategists say,

1910
01:26:36,934 --> 01:26:40,066
"Don't waste your time in minority communities.

1911
01:26:40,066 --> 01:26:42,165
"You need to hunt where the ducks are."

1912
01:26:42,165 --> 01:26:43,837
For years, the Democratic party

1913
01:26:43,837 --> 01:26:47,042
has assumed they're going to get 90-95% of the black vote,

1914
01:26:47,042 --> 01:26:49,220
as did the Republican party.

1915
01:26:49,220 --> 01:26:50,306
They didn't even try.

1916
01:26:50,306 --> 01:26:51,347
Republicans have convinced themselves

1917
01:26:51,347 --> 01:26:53,740
that blacks are unalterably Democrats,

1918
01:26:53,740 --> 01:26:54,875
there's nothing we can do about it.

1919
01:26:54,875 --> 01:26:57,090
Let's husband our money and our energy

1920
01:26:57,090 --> 01:26:59,083
and just spend it where we think we can get votes.

1921
01:26:59,083 --> 01:27:01,216
The Republican party ignores us

1922
01:27:01,216 --> 01:27:05,064
because they believe a narrative that has been pushed

1923
01:27:05,064 --> 01:27:06,353
out into the public square

1924
01:27:06,353 --> 01:27:09,603
that the black community is a monolith.

1925
01:27:11,046 --> 01:27:13,128
And so we're being ignored on both sides.

1926
01:27:13,128 --> 01:27:14,839
<v Announcer>The major conservative in the race,

1927
01:27:14,839 --> 01:27:17,499
Carol Swain, was the last to concede tonight.

1928
01:27:17,499 --> 01:27:20,186
<v Jesse>We're not making the kind of investments

1929
01:27:20,186 --> 01:27:22,103
in our minority allies.

1930
01:27:23,975 --> 01:27:26,023
That's the fault of the Republican party,

1931
01:27:26,023 --> 01:27:28,377
is that they have just completely said,

1932
01:27:28,377 --> 01:27:29,745
"We can't connect with 'em."

1933
01:27:29,745 --> 01:27:31,093
And they gave up.

1934
01:27:31,093 --> 01:27:34,912
We have more in common with the Republican party by far

1935
01:27:34,912 --> 01:27:36,183
than anything Democrat.

1936
01:27:36,183 --> 01:27:39,624
Regardless of where your position is socioeconomically.

1937
01:27:39,624 --> 01:27:41,623
'cause the Democrats, they're not giving jobs,

1938
01:27:41,623 --> 01:27:42,912
they don't care about jobs.

1939
01:27:42,912 --> 01:27:44,566
So they don't want you to succeed.

1940
01:27:44,566 --> 01:27:46,402
They don't want you to own anything.

1941
01:27:46,402 --> 01:27:47,801
That's why they keep spoonfeeding you,

1942
01:27:47,801 --> 01:27:50,400
putting you in projects and then giving you a little,

1943
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:51,603
so now you're dependent.

1944
01:27:51,603 --> 01:27:54,158
Being unapologetically capitalist

1945
01:27:54,158 --> 01:27:56,332
is sort of the way to move forward.

1946
01:27:56,332 --> 01:27:57,602
I wanna be rich.

1947
01:27:57,602 --> 01:27:58,788
I don't wanna be poor.

1948
01:27:58,788 --> 01:28:00,251
You wanna be wealthy and successful.

1949
01:28:00,251 --> 01:28:03,532
Well, we're the party that promotes values

1950
01:28:03,532 --> 01:28:06,852
and policies that will make you wealthy and successful.

1951
01:28:06,852 --> 01:28:11,208
Conservatives are really bad at marketing good ideas.

1952
01:28:11,208 --> 01:28:12,881
They're horrible.

1953
01:28:12,881 --> 01:28:15,644
Republicans have been their own worst messengers.

1954
01:28:15,644 --> 01:28:17,332
The problem with conservatives

1955
01:28:17,332 --> 01:28:19,353
and what we don't do good enough,

1956
01:28:19,353 --> 01:28:22,550
is that we don't infiltrate ourselves into the culture.

1957
01:28:22,550 --> 01:28:24,746
<v Candace>For too long, we've left the left run culture.

1958
01:28:24,746 --> 01:28:26,045
Saturday Night Live.

1959
01:28:26,045 --> 01:28:29,112
We're gonna make fun and people can understand humor.

1960
01:28:29,112 --> 01:28:31,228
You're not going to be able to sell your ideas,

1961
01:28:31,228 --> 01:28:33,729
and your theories and your thoughts to the people,

1962
01:28:33,729 --> 01:28:35,291
if you're doing things in the same way

1963
01:28:35,291 --> 01:28:39,372
that you have done them for the last, 20-30 years.

1964
01:28:39,372 --> 01:28:42,928
Ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running

1965
01:28:42,928 --> 01:28:45,627
(crowd cheering)

1966
01:28:45,627 --> 01:28:49,332
for President of the United States,

1967
01:28:49,332 --> 01:28:53,545
and we are going to make our country great again.

1968
01:28:53,545 --> 01:28:58,545
Donald Trump is the first Republican that is unafraid.

1969
01:28:58,988 --> 01:29:00,022
He's unafraid of the media.

1970
01:29:00,022 --> 01:29:01,776
You know it, if you're honest reporters,

1971
01:29:01,776 --> 01:29:03,274
which in many cases you're not.

1972
01:29:03,274 --> 01:29:04,619
<v Man>The progressive socialist left

1973
01:29:04,619 --> 01:29:06,083
and all their tactics, all their antics.

1974
01:29:06,083 --> 01:29:08,504
It's the next step in our investigation.

1975
01:29:08,504 --> 01:29:09,657
They don't know what to do with him.

1976
01:29:09,657 --> 01:29:11,075
If you look at his policies

1977
01:29:11,075 --> 01:29:15,402
and how they benefited and continue to benefit this country,

1978
01:29:15,402 --> 01:29:18,695
there's no denying the objective facts.

1979
01:29:18,695 --> 01:29:22,078
But if you look at the man, Donald Trump,

1980
01:29:22,078 --> 01:29:24,959
the version of him as it is painted by the media,

1981
01:29:24,959 --> 01:29:28,188
then it's easy to hate the man, hate his guts.

1982
01:29:28,188 --> 01:29:30,745
Painting a picture of him that he is incompetent,

1983
01:29:30,745 --> 01:29:33,763
not capable, out of control, impetuous,

1984
01:29:33,763 --> 01:29:37,149
all those things is what we get out of the media.

1985
01:29:37,149 --> 01:29:40,089
But somehow, through the charisma of his personality

1986
01:29:40,089 --> 01:29:42,998
and a force of his personality has gotten through

1987
01:29:42,998 --> 01:29:44,236
to some in our community.

1988
01:29:44,236 --> 01:29:46,719
I see Trump as this window of opportunity

1989
01:29:46,719 --> 01:29:48,037
for black America to wake up,

1990
01:29:48,037 --> 01:29:49,903
is because I think he's the most cultural president

1991
01:29:49,903 --> 01:29:51,153
we've ever had.

1992
01:29:52,193 --> 01:29:53,981
<v Man>He was taking photos with rappers.

1993
01:29:53,981 --> 01:29:56,080
He was always part of the culture.

1994
01:29:56,080 --> 01:29:57,980
You got this guy that talks shit,

1995
01:29:57,980 --> 01:30:00,938
at WrestleMania, he was doing this, he was doing that

1996
01:30:00,938 --> 01:30:01,995
and he's president?

1997
01:30:01,995 --> 01:30:03,490
He made politics cool again.

1998
01:30:03,490 --> 01:30:07,160
Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.

1999
01:30:07,160 --> 01:30:08,643
Because you'd be in jail.

2000
01:30:08,643 --> 01:30:09,991
You can see the realness.

2001
01:30:09,991 --> 01:30:11,193
He's a New Yorker, man.

2002
01:30:11,193 --> 01:30:12,218
And he talks like one.

2003
01:30:12,218 --> 01:30:14,446
He has the bravado like one.

2004
01:30:14,446 --> 01:30:16,230
Jeb wants to be a tough guy.

2005
01:30:16,230 --> 01:30:17,758
He wants to be a tough guy tonight.

2006
01:30:17,758 --> 01:30:19,123
I didn't take the property.

2007
01:30:19,123 --> 01:30:20,748
<v Man>A lot of young, black people,

2008
01:30:20,748 --> 01:30:22,750
that's why they're drawn to him.

2009
01:30:22,750 --> 01:30:24,309
If people spoke to black people

2010
01:30:24,309 --> 01:30:29,309
the way Donald Trump does, bluntly, without condescension.

2011
01:30:29,871 --> 01:30:34,505
Look how much African-American communities have suffered

2012
01:30:34,505 --> 01:30:36,588
under Democratic control.

2013
01:30:37,445 --> 01:30:39,945
To those, I say the following,

2014
01:30:41,558 --> 01:30:43,641
what do you have to lose?

2015
01:30:44,647 --> 01:30:47,083
Donald Trump is facing a new backlash.

2016
01:30:47,083 --> 01:30:50,007
Is "What the hell do you have to lose" the best pitch?

2017
01:30:50,007 --> 01:30:52,058
Trump's latest attempted outreach

2018
01:30:52,058 --> 01:30:55,322
to a larger voting block is already being called ignorant.

2019
01:30:55,322 --> 01:30:57,841
So disrespectful and so condescending.

2020
01:30:57,841 --> 01:31:01,466
How condescending, how offensive, how racist, whatever.

2021
01:31:01,466 --> 01:31:02,299
But he was right.

2022
01:31:02,299 --> 01:31:03,207
What do you have to lose?

2023
01:31:03,207 --> 01:31:06,407
You're living in poverty, your schools are no good,

2024
01:31:06,407 --> 01:31:08,587
you have no jobs.

2025
01:31:08,587 --> 01:31:11,792
58% of your youth is unemployed.

2026
01:31:11,792 --> 01:31:14,586
The audacity to stare black America in the face

2027
01:31:14,586 --> 01:31:17,189
and say, "Hello, wake up, you're already losing.

2028
01:31:17,189 --> 01:31:18,034
"Look at your communities.

2029
01:31:18,034 --> 01:31:19,659
"Everything's run down, what's the big deal?

2030
01:31:19,659 --> 01:31:20,954
"Take a chance on Trump."

2031
01:31:20,954 --> 01:31:23,523
People, black and white and brown

2032
01:31:23,523 --> 01:31:25,833
who did not go to college

2033
01:31:25,833 --> 01:31:30,399
have felt ignored by the elites of both parties.

2034
01:31:30,399 --> 01:31:34,256
And Trump turned over the tables in the temple.

2035
01:31:34,256 --> 01:31:36,800
You can say he's an artful, he's not articulate,

2036
01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:38,297
he's not smooth, whatever.

2037
01:31:38,297 --> 01:31:40,145
People really don't care.

2038
01:31:40,145 --> 01:31:41,659
People are tired of politicians

2039
01:31:41,659 --> 01:31:43,609
that say one thing and do something else.

2040
01:31:43,609 --> 01:31:46,976
Especially, we're starting to see in the black community.

2041
01:31:46,976 --> 01:31:48,017
They wanna see some change,

2042
01:31:48,017 --> 01:31:49,382
they wanna see something different.

2043
01:31:49,382 --> 01:31:51,950
And that's why blacks feeling as if they're conservatives

2044
01:31:51,950 --> 01:31:53,509
is on the rise.

2045
01:31:53,509 --> 01:31:54,694
They're looking at the results.

2046
01:31:54,694 --> 01:31:57,444
(crowd cheering)

2047
01:31:59,558 --> 01:32:02,139
You think you can bully people to stop doing something.

2048
01:32:02,139 --> 01:32:04,785
Callin' us coons, all them types of names.

2049
01:32:04,785 --> 01:32:07,384
Usually, people run to their little cubby hills after that.

2050
01:32:07,384 --> 01:32:09,543
It's a new movement now and we want all the smoke.

2051
01:32:09,543 --> 01:32:10,810
It's really clear.

2052
01:32:10,810 --> 01:32:11,853
People tell me not to wear the MAGA hat,

2053
01:32:11,853 --> 01:32:13,900
so I bought the biggest MAGA hat.

2054
01:32:13,900 --> 01:32:16,032
Then I bought a bigger one.

2055
01:32:16,032 --> 01:32:17,791
So now if somebody say something to me,

2056
01:32:17,791 --> 01:32:19,494
duh, common sense, a bigger one.

2057
01:32:19,494 --> 01:32:21,708
It's simple math really when you put it all together.

2058
01:32:21,708 --> 01:32:23,464
♪ Yeah, I'm black I'm not Democrat ♪

2059
01:32:23,464 --> 01:32:24,583
♪ With the MAGA hat ♪

2060
01:32:24,583 --> 01:32:27,604
♪ Ooh we they try to take my guns I can't go like that ♪

2061
01:32:27,604 --> 01:32:30,386
♪ Ooh we they try to take our funds I can't go like that ♪

2062
01:32:30,386 --> 01:32:33,360
♪ Ooh we they tried to bend our speeds I can't go like that ♪

2063
01:32:33,360 --> 01:32:35,233
♪ Yeah, I'm black, I'm not Democrat ♪

2064
01:32:35,233 --> 01:32:36,675
♪ With the MAGA hat ♪

2065
01:32:36,675 --> 01:32:39,146
It was Donald Trump who woke me up, man.

2066
01:32:39,146 --> 01:32:43,114
At first, when he was nominated and he was elected,

2067
01:32:43,114 --> 01:32:46,851
I was not a big fan, but to see the things he's done

2068
01:32:46,851 --> 01:32:48,229
for the black community, see the things he's done

2069
01:32:48,229 --> 01:32:49,803
for America in particular.

2070
01:32:49,803 --> 01:32:51,854
I'm a huge fan now and he has my support.

2071
01:32:51,854 --> 01:32:52,895
We are in historical times,

2072
01:32:52,895 --> 01:32:54,550
'cause people are waking up, people are changing.

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01:32:54,550 --> 01:32:55,792
Humans are naturally conservative.

2074
01:32:55,792 --> 01:32:57,403
You grow up being told to work hard for what you eat.

2075
01:32:57,403 --> 01:33:00,197
You don't grow up being told you gon' get somethin'

2076
01:33:00,197 --> 01:33:02,047
because you just want it.

2077
01:33:02,047 --> 01:33:03,760
You see, like you ain't gotta work for it.

2078
01:33:03,760 --> 01:33:05,561
When I went to the store,

2079
01:33:05,561 --> 01:33:07,476
and I try to get a Snickers and I had no money for it,

2080
01:33:07,476 --> 01:33:09,998
momma slapped my hand, "Put that Snickers back.

2081
01:33:09,998 --> 01:33:11,578
"We can't afford that."

2082
01:33:11,578 --> 01:33:12,484
But Democrats, they're saying,

2083
01:33:12,484 --> 01:33:14,275
"Hey, we give you everything for free."

2084
01:33:14,275 --> 01:33:15,108
That ain't reality.

2085
01:33:15,108 --> 01:33:17,171
Black America is starting to get it.

2086
01:33:17,171 --> 01:33:19,918
And that's why there is this sort of battle

2087
01:33:19,918 --> 01:33:21,676
that's happening I think right now.

2088
01:33:21,676 --> 01:33:25,090
Black America is in the midst of an ideological civil war.

2089
01:33:25,090 --> 01:33:26,485
Oh, it's bullshit!

2090
01:33:26,485 --> 01:33:28,354
It's racism, it's Trump.

2091
01:33:28,354 --> 01:33:30,124
Get off your feet, fuck this.

2092
01:33:30,124 --> 01:33:32,153
We gotta stand up, we gotta do our shit.

2093
01:33:32,153 --> 01:33:33,313
We gotta do what we gotta do as black people.

2094
01:33:33,313 --> 01:33:34,804
Round of applause for Candace, please.

2095
01:33:34,804 --> 01:33:36,658
That's a waste of time.

2096
01:33:36,658 --> 01:33:38,868
(somber music)

2097
01:33:38,868 --> 01:33:40,446
You guys, this is so beautiful.

2098
01:33:40,446 --> 01:33:41,534
Look at all of us.

2099
01:33:41,534 --> 01:33:43,937
We made it all the way to the White House.

2100
01:33:43,937 --> 01:33:46,053
This week, in two days, I'm going to the White House

2101
01:33:46,053 --> 01:33:48,847
with 400 black kids, and it's basically saying,

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01:33:48,847 --> 01:33:52,167
you don't get to take away my blackness

2103
01:33:52,167 --> 01:33:55,637
because I don't agree with you, because I'm educated.

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01:33:55,637 --> 01:33:57,668
Before, it was just a monolith.

2105
01:33:57,668 --> 01:34:00,347
And there was no thought, it was just nodding like zombies.

2106
01:34:00,347 --> 01:34:04,546
Like of course, we have to support Barack Obama.

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01:34:04,546 --> 01:34:06,154
<v Larry>The one reason that I thought

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01:34:06,154 --> 01:34:08,424
that his candidacy would be positive.

2109
01:34:08,424 --> 01:34:12,600
The one reason, was because when Senator Obama

2110
01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:14,682
was interviewed by Steve Croft,

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01:34:14,682 --> 01:34:17,625
I believe that was his first 60 Minutes interview,

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01:34:17,625 --> 01:34:19,001
and Steve Croft said to Obama.

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01:34:19,001 --> 01:34:20,715
You think the country's ready for a black president?

2114
01:34:20,715 --> 01:34:22,319
Yes!

2115
01:34:22,319 --> 01:34:23,868
You don't think it's gonna hold you back.

2116
01:34:23,868 --> 01:34:24,701
No.

2117
01:34:25,755 --> 01:34:28,588
I think, if I don't win this race,

2118
01:34:30,406 --> 01:34:33,589
it would be because of other factors.

2119
01:34:33,589 --> 01:34:36,756
It's gonna be because I have not shown

2120
01:34:38,089 --> 01:34:39,681
to the American people a vision

2121
01:34:39,681 --> 01:34:43,065
for where the country needs to go that they can embrace.

2122
01:34:43,065 --> 01:34:44,742
<v Larry>I said to myself, hallelujah!

2123
01:34:44,742 --> 01:34:49,192
At least this is not your basic black victocrat.

2124
01:34:49,192 --> 01:34:50,835
Well, he got elected.

2125
01:34:50,835 --> 01:34:52,743
<v Man>I cried, tears came to my eyes

2126
01:34:52,743 --> 01:34:53,932
during his inauguration.

2127
01:34:53,932 --> 01:34:55,848
My fellow citizens.

2128
01:34:55,848 --> 01:34:57,133
A black man being a president?

2129
01:34:57,133 --> 01:35:00,238
Like, this is finally, we have proven to the world

2130
01:35:00,238 --> 01:35:01,296
and everybody else in the country

2131
01:35:01,296 --> 01:35:02,729
that this is not a racist country.

2132
01:35:02,729 --> 01:35:04,628
And I think that's what America really felt,

2133
01:35:04,628 --> 01:35:05,858
that we had turned a corner.

2134
01:35:05,858 --> 01:35:08,266
I could follow in the same steps now finally.

2135
01:35:08,266 --> 01:35:10,431
That there was no barrier that was preventing me

2136
01:35:10,431 --> 01:35:12,364
as a black American from doing anything.

2137
01:35:12,364 --> 01:35:14,442
Many people had high expectations

2138
01:35:14,442 --> 01:35:17,497
that he was going to take us in a direction

2139
01:35:17,497 --> 01:35:19,857
that was gonna improve things.

2140
01:35:19,857 --> 01:35:21,320
Obama, before he became president,

2141
01:35:21,320 --> 01:35:23,577
gave a speech at a black church in Atlanta.

2142
01:35:23,577 --> 01:35:25,335
And he said, the Moses generation,

2143
01:35:25,335 --> 01:35:27,400
referring to the generation of Martin Luther King,

2144
01:35:27,400 --> 01:35:31,151
has gotten us 90% of the way there,

2145
01:35:31,151 --> 01:35:32,764
which I though was pretty reasonable.

2146
01:35:32,764 --> 01:35:35,379
He said, "My generation, the Joshua generation

2147
01:35:35,379 --> 01:35:37,356
"has to get us that remaining 10%."

2148
01:35:37,356 --> 01:35:40,693
The Moses generation pointed the way.

2149
01:35:40,693 --> 01:35:42,529
They took us 90% of the way there,

2150
01:35:42,529 --> 01:35:44,936
but we still got that 10%.

2151
01:35:44,936 --> 01:35:47,099
That was before Obama became president.

2152
01:35:47,099 --> 01:35:49,582
I'm suspecting that now that he's president,

2153
01:35:49,582 --> 01:35:52,735
that that 10% probably got shaved into just a little bit.

2154
01:35:52,735 --> 01:35:55,003
Yet when he was president, what did he say, what did do?

2155
01:35:55,003 --> 01:35:58,893
<v Obama>Slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination

2156
01:35:58,893 --> 01:36:02,310
in almost every institution of our lives,

2157
01:36:03,902 --> 01:36:06,125
that cast a long shadow.

2158
01:36:06,125 --> 01:36:09,342
And that's still part of our DNA.

2159
01:36:09,342 --> 01:36:10,759
That's passed on.

2160
01:36:11,638 --> 01:36:12,824
We're not cured of it.

2161
01:36:12,824 --> 01:36:14,368
Racism?
Racism.

2162
01:36:14,368 --> 01:36:15,652
We are not cured of it.

2163
01:36:15,652 --> 01:36:17,423
Obama got a higher percentage of the white vote

2164
01:36:17,423 --> 01:36:19,130
than John Kerry did, and here he is

2165
01:36:19,130 --> 01:36:21,107
talking about racism is in our DNA?

2166
01:36:21,107 --> 01:36:23,270
<v Both>If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.

2167
01:36:23,270 --> 01:36:24,362
The Cambridge Police...

2168
01:36:24,362 --> 01:36:26,051
<v Larry>The Cambridge Police acted stupidly.

2169
01:36:26,051 --> 01:36:27,856
Acted stupidly.

2170
01:36:27,856 --> 01:36:32,469
What he really did was add to the level of racial tension

2171
01:36:32,469 --> 01:36:34,487
that we have in America today.

2172
01:36:34,487 --> 01:36:37,332
He went out of his way to capitalize

2173
01:36:37,332 --> 01:36:39,427
on this sort of like, wokeness.

2174
01:36:39,427 --> 01:36:42,615
There are very few African-American men in this country,

2175
01:36:42,615 --> 01:36:45,522
who haven't had the experience of being followed

2176
01:36:45,522 --> 01:36:48,204
when they were shopping in a department store.

2177
01:36:48,204 --> 01:36:49,070
That includes me.

2178
01:36:49,070 --> 01:36:52,919
He had Al Sharpton in his White House over 70 times.

2179
01:36:52,919 --> 01:36:55,549
And every time you criticize President Obama

2180
01:36:55,549 --> 01:36:58,755
based upon policy, you were called what?

2181
01:36:58,755 --> 01:36:59,681
A racist.

2182
01:36:59,681 --> 01:37:02,086
He played the race card, Obama did.

2183
01:37:02,086 --> 01:37:04,784
This is a guy who knew better and could've,

2184
01:37:04,784 --> 01:37:07,208
in my opinion done a great deal to advance

2185
01:37:07,208 --> 01:37:08,573
racial issue in this country.

2186
01:37:08,573 --> 01:37:10,962
We didn't turn any corner.

2187
01:37:10,962 --> 01:37:13,659
And so now, we are just at a point

2188
01:37:13,659 --> 01:37:15,302
where we're at each other's throats.

2189
01:37:15,302 --> 01:37:16,475
You called me a nigger.

2190
01:37:16,475 --> 01:37:17,718
I didn't call you no nigger.
Yes, you did.

2191
01:37:17,718 --> 01:37:18,551
No, I didn't.

2192
01:37:18,551 --> 01:37:19,864
He made things worse for America

2193
01:37:19,864 --> 01:37:21,929
in terms of race, and there's not a single person

2194
01:37:21,929 --> 01:37:24,723
that can say they remember America feeling like this.

2195
01:37:24,723 --> 01:37:26,153
Constitution.
I said you a house nigger.

2196
01:37:26,153 --> 01:37:27,164
I didn't call you a nigger.

2197
01:37:27,164 --> 01:37:27,997
Oh, okay.

2198
01:37:27,997 --> 01:37:29,041
That's a big difference.

2199
01:37:29,041 --> 01:37:31,341
You a Uncle Tom.
Yeah, I'm a Uncle Tom?

2200
01:37:31,341 --> 01:37:33,537
(clamoring)

2201
01:37:33,537 --> 01:37:37,339
Before Obama, wasn't all this racist talk at all.

2202
01:37:37,339 --> 01:37:38,538
I don't remember it.

2203
01:37:38,538 --> 01:37:40,219
<v Candace>I don't remember at any point

2204
01:37:40,219 --> 01:37:43,385
before Barack Obama ever feeling this much racial strife

2205
01:37:43,385 --> 01:37:44,567
in this country.

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01:37:44,567 --> 01:37:47,761
<v Man>Obama was the most divisive president of our time.

2207
01:37:47,761 --> 01:37:49,717
Especially in the African-American community,

2208
01:37:49,717 --> 01:37:52,205
I will consider it a personal insult,

2209
01:37:52,205 --> 01:37:56,736
an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard

2210
01:37:56,736 --> 01:37:58,691
and fails to activate itself in this election.

2211
01:37:58,691 --> 01:38:01,662
I believe Obama is one of the most articulate presidents

2212
01:38:01,662 --> 01:38:04,328
that we've had, charismatic presidents that we've had.

2213
01:38:04,328 --> 01:38:06,213
When you look at his educational background,

2214
01:38:06,213 --> 01:38:09,167
he's probably one of the most intelligent.

2215
01:38:09,167 --> 01:38:10,500
He knows better.

2216
01:38:11,791 --> 01:38:14,210
I harbor a lot of resentment towards Barack Obama,

2217
01:38:14,210 --> 01:38:16,907
because now I see what he was.

2218
01:38:16,907 --> 01:38:19,445
But I wouldn't take that moment back,

2219
01:38:19,445 --> 01:38:20,465
for a lot of reasons.

2220
01:38:20,465 --> 01:38:23,682
And one of those reasons is that it did me a lot.

2221
01:38:23,682 --> 01:38:26,289
Now it's something that I point to to show people.

2222
01:38:26,289 --> 01:38:28,871
If America is a racist country,

2223
01:38:28,871 --> 01:38:31,588
how did Barack Obama get into office for two terms?

2224
01:38:31,588 --> 01:38:34,626
In barely half a century,

2225
01:38:34,626 --> 01:38:38,133
you can go from a young African-American girl

2226
01:38:38,133 --> 01:38:41,580
being escorted into the school by the National Guard,

2227
01:38:41,580 --> 01:38:45,272
to having the first person of color occupy the Oval Office.

2228
01:38:45,272 --> 01:38:46,872
(somber music)

2229
01:38:46,872 --> 01:38:50,124
<v Man>That's why all those people were in tears

2230
01:38:50,124 --> 01:38:53,358
when Obama was elected president.

2231
01:38:53,358 --> 01:38:54,724
Look at what we are.

2232
01:38:54,724 --> 01:38:56,806
This is America.

2233
01:38:56,806 --> 01:38:59,389
If there is anyone out there,

2234
01:39:00,480 --> 01:39:03,646
who still doubts that America is a place

2235
01:39:03,646 --> 01:39:06,146
where all things are possible,

2236
01:39:07,562 --> 01:39:10,878
who still wonders if the dream of our founders

2237
01:39:10,878 --> 01:39:14,295
is alive in our time, who still questions

2238
01:39:15,482 --> 01:39:19,732
the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

2239
01:39:20,638 --> 01:39:23,388
(crowd cheering)

2240
01:39:26,798 --> 01:39:29,674
It's the answer told by lines that stretched

2241
01:39:29,674 --> 01:39:32,358
around schools and churches,

2242
01:39:32,358 --> 01:39:35,525
in numbers this nation has never seen.

2243
01:39:36,596 --> 01:39:37,654
I didn't grow up thinking,

2244
01:39:37,654 --> 01:39:39,407
one day I wanna own my own business,

2245
01:39:39,407 --> 01:39:41,407
I wanna do my own thing.

2246
01:39:45,326 --> 01:39:47,106
It seemed like something that surely I could never achieve.

2247
01:39:47,106 --> 01:39:49,431
That's something that you have to be really smart.

2248
01:39:49,431 --> 01:39:50,873
You have to come from money.

2249
01:39:50,873 --> 01:39:53,689
You have to have a huge set of capital

2250
01:39:53,689 --> 01:39:56,890
before you can even start a business.

2251
01:39:56,890 --> 01:39:58,593
That's something that's too lofty for me.

2252
01:39:58,593 --> 01:40:00,530
I would never accomplish that.

2253
01:40:00,530 --> 01:40:03,280
So, I didn't even think about it.

2254
01:40:05,065 --> 01:40:07,831
If you have some material and stuff that you're needing,

2255
01:40:07,831 --> 01:40:08,836
I would like to get it to a place

2256
01:40:08,836 --> 01:40:11,436
where you can call him and if we have it in the shop

2257
01:40:11,436 --> 01:40:13,076
he can run it to you.

2258
01:40:13,076 --> 01:40:16,459
Early in my 20s when I began to go into a transition,

2259
01:40:16,459 --> 01:40:20,042
if you will, of learning more about policy,

2260
01:40:21,469 --> 01:40:23,227
of learning more about the platforms

2261
01:40:23,227 --> 01:40:25,501
and how they're so different from one another,

2262
01:40:25,501 --> 01:40:27,128
I realized, well, no, there's something

2263
01:40:27,128 --> 01:40:29,146
that is well within my grasp.

2264
01:40:29,146 --> 01:40:32,589
This is something that is attainable.

2265
01:40:32,589 --> 01:40:34,249
Being a business owner in America

2266
01:40:34,249 --> 01:40:39,059
is one of the greatest privileges of being in America.

2267
01:40:39,059 --> 01:40:40,389
I love being in this country,

2268
01:40:40,389 --> 01:40:42,958
where you can start anything, you can be anything,

2269
01:40:42,958 --> 01:40:44,993
you can do anything.

2270
01:40:44,993 --> 01:40:49,243
And it's not possible everywhere to do it that way.

2271
01:40:50,519 --> 01:40:53,769
Oftentimes I get crazy messages from people

2272
01:40:53,769 --> 01:40:58,411
who, they can't believe I do this or whatever.

2273
01:40:58,411 --> 01:41:01,018
But you don't know until you do it yourself.

2274
01:41:01,018 --> 01:41:02,819
You don't really get it and understand it

2275
01:41:02,819 --> 01:41:05,652
until you start doing it yourself.

2276
01:41:06,594 --> 01:41:07,440
Designers.

2277
01:41:07,440 --> 01:41:09,191
They're still thinking that it's a four-inch supply

2278
01:41:09,191 --> 01:41:10,087
coming into the building...

2279
01:41:10,087 --> 01:41:12,686
In my heart of hearts, I do desire

2280
01:41:12,686 --> 01:41:14,734
that people will kind of have

2281
01:41:14,734 --> 01:41:16,976
the same kind of revelations that I've had,

2282
01:41:16,976 --> 01:41:20,405
because to me, what it means to be a conservative

2283
01:41:20,405 --> 01:41:24,782
is to realize that a lot of the dignity that you have

2284
01:41:24,782 --> 01:41:25,985
is within yourself.

2285
01:41:25,985 --> 01:41:29,681
Conservatism is the political philosophy

2286
01:41:29,681 --> 01:41:32,902
that is pro-business, that is pro-growth,

2287
01:41:32,902 --> 01:41:34,620
that is pro-minority,

2288
01:41:34,620 --> 01:41:38,133
way more than any kind of liberal idea

2289
01:41:38,133 --> 01:41:40,279
or policy can ever be.

2290
01:41:40,279 --> 01:41:42,835
I want for people to understand that.

2291
01:41:42,835 --> 01:41:44,409
I want for people to realize that.

2292
01:41:44,409 --> 01:41:48,164
These are the sinks that you fixed last time?

2293
01:41:48,164 --> 01:41:50,212
It starts with the individual.

2294
01:41:50,212 --> 01:41:54,193
What you do in making yourself a better person

2295
01:41:54,193 --> 01:41:57,542
will matriculate down to everybody else in the community,

2296
01:41:57,542 --> 01:41:59,718
all the generations that come after you.

2297
01:41:59,718 --> 01:42:02,061
The power is in your hands.

2298
01:42:02,061 --> 01:42:04,789
Don't rely and wait for everybody else to do something.

2299
01:42:04,789 --> 01:42:07,294
You have the power to change you.

2300
01:42:07,294 --> 01:42:09,212
You have authority to change you.

2301
01:42:09,212 --> 01:42:11,831
I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.

2302
01:42:11,831 --> 01:42:13,047
I know that that makes many people

2303
01:42:13,047 --> 01:42:14,593
on the left uncomfortable.

2304
01:42:14,593 --> 01:42:16,448
I know people might not like me

2305
01:42:16,448 --> 01:42:17,648
'cause they're from an era

2306
01:42:17,648 --> 01:42:18,950
where race hustling is a business.

2307
01:42:18,950 --> 01:42:21,481
But I say to people, "I'm not here to be your friend.

2308
01:42:21,481 --> 01:42:23,581
"I'm not here to become the most well liked

2309
01:42:23,581 --> 01:42:25,206
"black person in America.

2310
01:42:25,206 --> 01:42:27,089
"I am here to be like an alarm clock.

2311
01:42:27,089 --> 01:42:28,556
"Your alarm clock goes off in the morning

2312
01:42:28,556 --> 01:42:29,719
"and you're pretty pissed at it,

2313
01:42:29,719 --> 01:42:32,616
"but eventually you get up and you do what you have to do."

2314
01:42:32,616 --> 01:42:34,531
Many of the black kids who grew up in this country,

2315
01:42:34,531 --> 01:42:36,955
they see mom and dad voting for Democrats.

2316
01:42:36,955 --> 01:42:38,465
They don't question it.

2317
01:42:38,465 --> 01:42:40,139
They just go and do it.

2318
01:42:40,139 --> 01:42:43,389
But many of them have so much potential

2319
01:42:44,366 --> 01:42:46,948
and so much worth that they can really do

2320
01:42:46,948 --> 01:42:50,429
anything they wanted with their lives.

2321
01:42:50,429 --> 01:42:54,265
So much creativity and so much vision.

2322
01:42:54,265 --> 01:42:57,145
What's sad is that many of them are being lied to,

2323
01:42:57,145 --> 01:42:58,834
and they're being put in situations

2324
01:42:58,834 --> 01:43:01,207
where these limits are being put on them

2325
01:43:01,207 --> 01:43:04,438
by their selves, by their family,

2326
01:43:04,438 --> 01:43:07,707
by their schools, by the government,

2327
01:43:07,707 --> 01:43:10,957
to where their minds are ever dependent

2328
01:43:11,803 --> 01:43:15,636
on Democrat politicians, on Democrat policies.

2329
01:43:17,572 --> 01:43:19,765
When in reality, you're bigger than a program,

2330
01:43:19,765 --> 01:43:21,151
you're better than a program.

2331
01:43:21,151 --> 01:43:22,986
You're capable of providing for yourself

2332
01:43:22,986 --> 01:43:25,098
so much more than any government program

2333
01:43:25,098 --> 01:43:27,505
can provide for you.

2334
01:43:27,505 --> 01:43:31,694
My fear is that with black people in America,

2335
01:43:31,694 --> 01:43:34,268
many of us haven't came to that realization,

2336
01:43:34,268 --> 01:43:35,798
and I want for us to.

2337
01:43:35,798 --> 01:43:38,493
Because we can do so much better as a community

2338
01:43:38,493 --> 01:43:41,243
when we come to that realization.

2339
01:44:07,816 --> 01:44:08,649
Alrighty.

2340
01:44:09,976 --> 01:44:11,143
That'll do it.

2341
01:44:13,054 --> 01:44:15,804
(dramatic music)