Uncle Tom (2020) - full transcript

(ominous music)

I care deeply about black people

and the issues of black people.

But I care deeply about the issues of all people.

I want to look at things objectively.

When I look at what policies I believe

will help not only black people,

but what would help all people, I voice that.

And because I stand in the opposition,

that makes me an Uncle Tom.

I used to get very offended and upset



whenever people would call me an Uncle Tom.

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

I kinda pity them because of their ignorance.

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

Whenever someone calls you an Uncle Tom,

what they're trying to communicate

is that either you just do not like black people

and you see all black people as trash,

or they're tying to communicate

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

"You're trying to be accepted among whites.

"And so, I wanna call you this derogatory word

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

"you will never be accepted by whites.



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

(dramatic music)

Those people who find my Instagram

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

I never thought that I would be called

such racist and derogatory terms.

Uncle Tom.

Uncle Tom.

Uncle Tom, coon, bed wench.

Boot licker.

Chuckin' and jobbin'.

House Negro.

Coon.

Uncle Tom and coon.

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

Coon of the year award.

They call us the coons.

Coon.
Coon.

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

Uncle Ruckus.

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

The guy from "Get Out."

They put his face on my post.

I find that the African-American experience for me

has been for the most part very good.

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

most absurd thing is a black white supremacist.

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

They go (gasps).

White power.

It must be real.

People say crazy things.

Leftists say the craziest shit to you.

Don't try to twist what I say.

But that's what you're saying.

That is not what I'm saying.

That is what you're saying.

You can't tell me what I'm saying.

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

You don't know me.

You sound like all of them.

Oh yeah, okay.

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

Now, how about that?
See that?

I knew it.

Lenore, it's good to hear from you.

It's good to hear from you.

Go drop dead.

All right.

Thank you, Lenore.

What a sweet lady.

An Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out

by embracing the white man, by becoming a Republican,

by rejecting the idea that you're a victim,

by supporting things like hard work,

accountability and low taxes.

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

as opposed to as an American who is black.

Your skin color should dictate how you think

and what you say.

The only way I can operate as a human being

is via my skin color.

I can't operate via my intelligence

or the things I have accomplished.

My resume should be, I'm black.

An Uncle Tom has traditionally been a black person

that tried to serve and curry favor with white people.

So, they believe that I wanna be accepted

in the white community.

Kinda like the House Negro back in slavery.

That I'm in the house.

"Master, what can I do for you?"

And I'm gonna suck up to them

and leave my people behind.

Most black people don't believe

that other blacks can be independent free-thinkers

or standing up--
You definitely don't.

Or stand up for what is right.

They believe that if a black person

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

They're a Uncle Tom.

The white people have to be brainwashing.

As my late grandfathers used to say,

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

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

He said, "I does not care."

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

Just meet me at the bank.

(laughing)

And we'll compare bank accounts.

(soft music)

I am very optimistic about the future.

Frankly, I have seen certain changes

in the United States over the last two years

that surprise me.

I've seen levels of compliance

with the Civil Rights bill, and changes

that have been most surprising.

So, on the basis of this,

I think we may be able to get a negro president

in less than 40 years.

(somber music)

In churches, in bars, on the streets.

Americans have been celebrating this great landmark

of the long struggle for civil rights.

In Chicago, the veteran black leader, Jesse Jackson,

broke down in tears.

In Atlanta, from the pulpit

of Martin Luther King's old church,

its pastor declared, "Tonight, we have seized

"the promise of America."

Not to sound crazy,

but white people always had Jesus.

So, they always had that mentality,

I could be anything, even God.

For me, the image of him is like,

who's the most powerful person in the world?

Who's considered like a God, basically?

It's the president of the United States.

Obama became that image for us, like that Jesus.

We never looked at ourselves as being politicians.

We looked at ourselves as rappers.

or football, basketball players, drug dealers.

That's why I think Obama was important

in becoming president.

Because it gave us that optic.

Like, we could be whatever we wanna be.

It was America finally feeling

that we could let go.

Just let go and say we finally did it.

Progress is here.

I cried when he won.

(crowd cheering)

I never thought in my lifetime that it would happen.

But it happened today.

It's a reality and we did it.

America is now more united.

We did it.

I can't believe that I got the opportunity

to live, to see something so great.

I can't even describe it.

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

Just look around.

It's all young people, all colors.

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

Who would have thought that this year

a man like this will be elected

as the president of United States?

This is the beauty of America.

God bless America.

God bless America!

(drill whirring)

I became a Christian back in 2009.

The year prior, I voted for Barack Obama.

I was really passionate about Barack Obama and his policies.

I was having a conversation with a friend,

and I was telling him how I'm a Democrat

because the Democrat policy is pro-Medicaid,

pro-government benefits, all these things

that can help poor urban communities.

And doesn't the Bible say

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

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

"Well, was it talking about the government

"or is it talking about you?"

(soft music)

And I was like, that's very interesting.

And so, I went back and read it

and it was talking about me.

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

but I was still a Democrat.

This friend of mine challenged me

to go and read the Republican platform

and read the Democrat platform.

And see where my values and my views line up.

My whole mindset was changing around this time,

and so I took him up on that offer.

I went in and I read the entire Democrat platform

and I read the entire Republican platform.

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

I have learned to go beyond

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

I go on Fox News all the time,

but I decide to go beyond what they are saying

and what they're selling

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

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

I used to be a Democrat.

I used to be hardcore, Barack Obama,

the Democrats are only here to help the people,

they're the party of the people.

And then I found out that the Democratic party

was the party of slavery, Ku Klux Klan,

the Jim Crow laws.

They were opposed to the civil rights movement.

The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment

which freed the slaves, gave black people citizenship

and the right to vote.

The Democrats unanimously voted against

all of those rights.

And when I found that out,

and nobody could give me a legitimate stance

on how the party switched,

it's like I have no other choice

but to at least consider what principles

does the other side have?

What are they offering?

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When I began to educate myself

on the history of the Democratic party,

I learned a lot about Margaret Sanger.

I think the greatest sin in the world

is bringing children into the world.

That have disease--

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

And I learned about the Jim Crow south.

And I learned about Black Wall Street.

And all of those events had Democratic hands in them.

It unraveled everything that I knew to be true.

Everything that the news media taught me.

Everything that my own culture taught me.

We're going to the studio.

News nugget.

Show time.

George Washington mural should be covered but preserved

according to a San Francisco school board decision.

Don't they have better things to do?

Do you know what the problem is with that mural?

It has a slave in it.

That was back then.

But they wanna cover up history.

It had a native American-Indian in it.

They don't like that.

It's part of history.

I focus on three things.

Performance, performance, performance.

The three things that are my guiding lights,

belief in God, belief in myself

and my belief in the United Sates of America.

I learned it from that man right there.

(soft music)

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

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

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

And then one day he was asked to drive

for the chairman and CEO, Robert W. Woodruff.

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

I never heard him complain

about having to work so hard.

I never heard him complain

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

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

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

telling us we were poor.

My dad encouraged my brother and I

to get as much education as you can.

'cause he worked in an environment

where the most successful people

were the ones that had the greatest amount of education.

Success does not come in a straight line.

It's a zigzag.

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

"Oh, when I go to a job,

"they're gonna discriminate against me.

"White privilege."

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

(crowd applauding)

You're stronger than that.

You're more powerful than that.

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

and someone don't give me an opportunity,

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

until I get a job.

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

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

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

you'll be successful.

(somber music)

I never saw myself as handicapped,

because I was black, I was a woman,

that I came from poverty.

It was just not the way I processed the world.

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

then went on to get a four-year degree,

graduating magna cum laude,

while I was working 40 hours a week,

nights and weekends at the community college library.

My life has taken many turns.

I married at 16, I dropped out of school.

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

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

and becoming a university professor.

Graduate school was very interesting for me

in a lot of ways.

I had this experience in a course

that was being taught by a white female,

she was actually a white liberal.

At some point in the classroom,

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

because she turned to me and she yelled,

"You'll never be able to change the fact

"that you're a black woman."

And I interpreted that to mean that I was handicapped,

whether I knew it or not.

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

I was a woman, and that I was not supposed

to have accomplished the things

that I had already accomplished, which was success.

By then, it was too late.

When I was a kid, I went to a summer camp

in an area of California called Ukiah.

Really bucolic, flowers everywhere, it was just wonderful.

There was a Boy Scouts jamboree,

and there were hundreds of Boy Scouts

from all over California.

And from what I can tell,

there were just a handful of blacks.

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

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

And there was one kid.

He and I got into some sort of argument,

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

And I literally had to restrain the other kids

from killing this guy.

I mean, they were just gonna kill him.

They were more angry about it than I was.

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

the racists were in the majority.

I never really felt that.

I always felt that people who were bigots

intuitively were in the minority,

and most people didn't feel that way.

That seemed to be consistent

with my own personal experiences.

I was always confident.

I always knew I had a good memory,

made good grades, and my parents gave me

a lot of positive feedback because of that.

I always knew I was going to be an achiever,

and it was no doubt about that.

The only doubt was the route.

There was never a time when I thought of myself

as a victim, never, not one time.

You're afraid of being marginalized.

Welcome to what it feels like to be black.

A man caught on video unleashing a racist rant.

An alleged racist incident.

Racial bias.

Racist tendencies.

Racism.
Racism from coast to coast.

The open racism.

Statements of racism.

He was brutally beaten by attackers

yelling racist and homophobic slurs.

A racist drifter.

Is it racism, is it sexism?

How do we get white people to see racism

as their problem too.

That was racist.
Racist.

Go back to Africa kind of racism.

Straight up racist.

Racist tweets.
Racist tweets.

Those tweets are racist.

A racial dog whistle.

The most successful black Americans today

are Nigerian-Americans,

because they're not brainwashed by our media.

We've heard all about the big, explosive cases

of racial injustice in America.

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

You deal with what we call micro aggressions,

or a 1000 cuts of racism every single day.

I grew up being told of my disadvantages.

That this country is unfair to black people.

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

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

you can't get bank loans.

When you walk into a bank,

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

The ideology is implanted into you subconsciously

to believe these things.

We don't teach our children to have confidence.

It's like we're brainwashed to think.

"Or is it because I'm black?

"Why are they looking at me like that?"

How many of you feel judged?

How many of you feel feared on sight

when people see you?

Show of hands.

We teach them to be scared of this country,

to be scared of the world that they live in.

It's like a cancerous plague

in the mind of black Americans.

You trying to say that this country

does not specialize in racism and bigotry?

I am saying that racism exists.

I am saying--
Exists,

but you have the luxury.

You have the luxury to be cavalier about it.

When you are angry, it's very easy to be deceived.

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

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

who they're operating in very negative energy.

I call out racism.

That is maddening to me, and I'm crying about it

because it's crazy--

If you keep yourself in this constant state

of woe is me, I'm disadvantaged,

I'll never accomplish anything,

then you won't accomplish anything.

It will be a self-fulfilling prophecy for you.

If you determine that you can't be successful

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

That's the power of the mind.

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

and you sure as hell won't try.

And black America has been programmed

to believe that we can't.

The country was founded on racism and bigotry, David.

If you turn on a radio morning show.

If you a African-American and the cops show up,

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

The message is clear.

If you broke and white in America,

you're wasting your whiteness.

And that's what's being fed

into the urban community.

White supremacy is the backbone

of political and economic disenfranchisement of black folks.

So long as black people continue to have their psyche

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

Trump is a racist.

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

It gets brainwashed into you in multiple facets.

We tend to be geared towards entertainment.

You need to know

that a lot of your fans is racist.

People have used those entertainment personalities

to convince us subconsciously what we should believe.

If you like that nigga, you motherfuckin' racist.

Fuck you and--

♪ Fuck Donald Trump ♪

♪ Fuck Donald Trump ♪

♪ Yeah, nigga, fuck Donald Trump ♪

I'm beginning to lose confidence

in the Trump administration.

(audience laughing)

Yeah, what do you think of that?

I think it's actually a great thing.

Jay Z has always been a drug dealer

to the black community.

He's very open about the fact

that he used to sell crack cocaine

when he was living in the projects,

and that's how he got ahead.

So, he was selling something that was harming

the black community.

Well, he's still doing that.

He's still selling something

that's harming the black community,

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

We have to have the conversation.

We have to have tough conversations.

We have to talk about the N-word,

and we have to talk about why white men are so privileged

in this country.

(somber music)

Colin Kaepernick, same exact hustle.

This is a half-white man who's chosen

to pick his hair out to be an Afro, to be black,

because right now victimhood is hot.

Colin Kaepernick is making a ton of money.

Jay Z is making a ton of money.

Is black America any better?

The communities are still hurting,

but they get to line their pockets

and we accept the same type of crack cocaine.

The left gets away with this

because 80 to 90% of the primary sources of news

are left-wing.

My father was a janitor.

He was born in the Jim Crow south.

Fast forward, my father in his late 40s,

started a small business,

got a little bit of property.

This is what happens in America.

Raised three boys, educated them.

We have a thriving black middle class.

If black America were a country, Brooke,

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

For crying out loud, this is not your grandfather's America.

America is an idea.

That's why we're different than every other country.

That's why we have freedoms that other countries don't.

That's why entrepreneurs are birthed here.

That's why there's so many millionaires here.

That's why black people are doing better here

than anywhere else in the world.

It's very simple.

This ideology, people begin to adopt around the world,

and they become successful.

It's an idea.

America is an idea.

Anybody who adopts the idea of America

will be American and successful.

If you don't adopt the idea, you're not American.

You're not get that forward in America

if you don't pursue the American idea.

(soft music)

You wanna hold it?

(cock crowing)

I love that this country values individuals.

As a black American in the United States,

I have autonomy in the things that I do

or are of my doing.

A lot people expect when you say farmer,

they're expecting wide tracts of land

and tractors and stuff, but we don't have any of that.

And I realize when I look back here every day,

I'm proud of what we've gotten done so far.

Started with chickens, which is the gateway farming

to goats, rabbits, horses.

These are my goats, Posey and Zelda.

One's a Nubian and one's a Kiko.

A really badly bred Kiko.

This year is the first year that I ever had goats.

Individualism, independence and taking responsibility

for your actions and for your food.

I think that as for promoting small government values.

When you do things yourself,

you don't need the government to do it for you.

I think black Americans should believe

and uphold the ideas of constitutional inherent rights.

Without those beliefs, we wouldn't be where we are today.

(somber music)

I will support and defend the constitution

of the United States of America against all enemies,

foreign and domestic.

I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same,

that I take this obligation freely

without any purpose of evasion or mental reservations,

so help me God.

We don't take an oath to a color, to a party, to a person.

We take an oath to the thing that binds us all together,

and that's our constitution, that's our rule of law.

Those of us that understand that oath,

will always be guardians of the American republic.

If I want to see this nation that I love so dearly

continue on in the path of liberty, freedom

and individual rights, then I gotta make sure

that subsequent generations understand that.

They are willing to go out and fight for it and defend it

just the same as I did.

Because I had a dad that inculcated that into me.

Your green herring bones, but take your hat first.

That's the green hat with a brim on it.

Try it on.
At the age of 15,

when my dad said that there was no greater honor

than to wear the uniform

of the United States of America,

that's a powerful statement.

Coming from a man that was born in 1920 down in the south.

Never heard him say a bad word

about the United States of America.

He went off to serve and fight for this country,

even though this country did not see him

as it should have seen him.

But he wasn't a victim.

The black community really believe

that if they could show that they were willing

to stand side by side with white Americans

and fight for liberties and freedoms,

that sooner or later, people would understand

that we can't have this hypocrisy.

Executive order 9981 that President Harry Truman signed

that desegregated our military.

He finally realized that if we are true to ourselves

about the liberation of other people,

from the tyranny of Nazism, fascism

and Japanese imperialism, we gotta be true to that here

in our own country, in the United States of America.

And that's why Harry Truman's picture hangs in my house.

That's why the principles of the founders

speak loudly to me.

Even though we face the difficulties

of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I think it is an immoral posture

to hold the position that individuals,

whether they be Negroes or members of other minority groups,

should have their basic constitutional

and God-given rights held up.

Self governance is what all

of those grassroots people were seeking.

They understood that the victimizer,

i.e. racism and discrimination may have knocked you down,

but it's the victim that has to get up.

Hello, sister Tasha Fields.

Hi, this Rob Woodson, how are you?

Good, listen.

I wanna invite you and your husband

to join this consortium of ours.

We're calling it the 1776 Consortium,

to respond to the 1619 piece that was done

in the New York Times.

I'm not interested in engaging in debate with them.

I'm saying, we need an accurate portrayal of slavery,

but it doesn't totally define the black condition.

We want our people to understand

that the future of black America

is not defined by slavery,

but by the kinds of things we did

and responds to these conditions,

similar to what you and your husband has overcome.

So, I'm gonna send you if I could,

a invitation to formally join us.

Because what we would like to do...

I wish that it would be mandatory reading,

not just in the black community

but all across America, to read the autobiography

of Booker T. Washington.

Here was a man that was born into slavery.

And when he learned that he was free,

his number one quest, his number one goal

was to get an education.

He walks from present day West Virginia

to Hampton, Virginia, to Hampton Institute,

so that he could show himself qualified

to enter that institution and get an education.

When he established Tuskegee Normal

and Industrial Institute,

it wasn't just about the book learning,

it was about industrial learning.

It was about people being able to take an education

and develop themselves into entrepreneurs

so that they could have self reliance.

There was a schism between Booker T. Washington

and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Booker T. Washington believed in the ability of someone

to get out there and work with industries

and show their value, by the talents

that they were able to develop,

by the businesses they were able to create and open.

The W.E.B. Du Bois faction more so believed

in that protest oriented demanding of rights

and things of this nature.

This is where you get the sellout, Uncle Tom

and all of these things

that they used to demonize Booker T. Washington.

But when you think about, in the long run,

who was right?

W.E.B. Du Bois was an avowed socialist,

who became an avowed communist,

who renounced his American citizenship.

But the institution that Booker T. Washington established

is still there today.

We need to go back and understand

what Booker T. Washington was really,

his philosophy, what he was trying to get us to understand.

There's nothing wrong with hard work.

There's nothing wrong with working your way up

from the bottom.

Much the same as his autobiography says, up from slavery.

(dramatic music)

I had a college student ask me one time,

how did you deal with color and race

when you were climbing the corporate ladder?

My answer, I didn't.

Let them deal with it.

I didn't focus on that, I didn't have time.

I went to the president of the Pillsbury company

and said, "I need to get involved

"in some other aspects of the corporation,

"because I want to run one of the business units one day."

So, he said, "We need a lotta leadership in Burger King.

"You have to go and spend two weeks at Whopper College."

There really is a Whopper College in Miami.

I graduated summa cum laude.

(laughing)

I was working for the Department of the Navy.

The same day that I started, another white gentleman

named Robert started working there also.

We had very similar jobs.

So, the first 12 months, I got outstanding performance

four quarters in a row.

Second year, outstanding performance fur quarters in a row.

And Robert got outstanding performance.

But Robert was getting his GS salary increase

at least two months sooner than me.

So, I went to Wayne, my supervisor and said,

"Robert and I are both doing a great job."

He said, "Yeah."

"But why is he getting little increases quicker than me?"

He said, "He has a Master's degree."

I said, "Oh, it's not because he's white?"

"Nope, he has a Master's degree."

So, you know what I did?

I didn't get mad.

I went and got me a Master's degree.

There are only four rungs to this ladder.

Went back, sat down with Wayne.

I said, "Well, I got a Master's degree.

"That says next time you have opening for a promotion,"

I said, "Keep me in mind.

"See you around."

And not long after that, they had a special project

called a rocket assisted projector.

They had to have someone

who was gonna be the GS 13 supervisor and mathematician,

to do the special ballistics

on this rocket assisted projector.

I got the promotion.

And I had eight white people working for me.

It was all about performance, not the color of your skin.

So, since I now had that Master's degree

and I had proved myself, I got the job.

When I decided to live Dahlgren,

never forget the department head.

And he called me up for an exit interview.

And I'll never forget Ross, I think he's deceased now.

He said, "You know, you have taught me something."

I said, "What?"

He said, "I had never worked with a black person before.

"You taught me, don't judge somebody

"by the color of their skin."

(somber music)

I grew up primarily around black people.

Primarily in what we call the Afrocentric perspective.

That mean, everything in life

was seen from the lens of being black in America.

I used to have gold teeth in my mouth.

I got young savage tattooed across my stomach.

I got my hood tattooed on my forearm.

So, I kinda had this whole hip hop culture,

negative, angry mentality.

I grew up believing that white people

did not like black people.

And that no matter what you did in life,

the white man is gonna hold you down.

My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim,

but there were other influences that did.

Whether we're talking about uncles and aunts,

from the hip hop industry, the media.

It painted a picture of the black man in America

as being in a constant state of distress,

a constant state of disadvantage.

And I have relatives of mine who bought into that message.

And I even bought into that message before I was born again.

The only people I knew who existed in my life

and who I could pick to be role models

were athletes and rappers.

So, many of you guys have watched my political awakening.

I've been pretty much in front of everybody on the stage

when I've had this reckoning,

but there's one person who totally transformed

the way that I thought.

There was a video that I saw on YouTube

and it was Larry Elder.

(crowd cheering)

Oh my God, they always call me the sunken place demon.

I think it's the funniest thing...

Larry Elder is my mentor.

I can call him any time about any topic,

'cause there are still spots of ignorance that I have.

I'm having to contend with the fact

that all I have is the media narrative of things,

and he lived through it, he saw it,

and he'll tell me exactly what to look up and research.

Larry Elder was at the forefront

of being a thought leader,

in terms of questioning prevalent narratives

of the black community.

Especially with regards to individual accountability.

If you have parents who care about education,

there are books around and you're immersed in it,

you're gonna have a better situation

than somebody else with the same IQ

whose parents don't have that kind of motivation,

who don't immerse you in education.

Environment absolutely has a role.

He provided a huge part of my awakening.

One video of him with Dave Reuben,

and I went, "Oh my goodness!

"I've been so ignorant."

You wouldn't not acknowledge

that there are some systemic issues.

Give me an example.

Tell me what you think the most systemic, racist issue is.

What is it?

Well, I would say that because black people

in most cases, in many cases,

were descendants of slaves, that racism as an institution--

In 2015?
A certain amount if it

just exists.
In 2015?

Give me the most blatant racist example

you can come up with right now.

I think you could probably find evidence

that in general cops are more willing

to shoot if the perpetrator is black than white.

What's your basis for saying that?

Look, I know a lot of people would say,

"Look what's going on in Chicago."

I know what they would say,

I'm talking about what the facts are.

965 people were shot by cops last year and killed.

4% of them were white cops shooting unarmed blacks.

In Chicago in 2011, 21 people were shot and killed by cops.

In 2015, there were seven.

In Chicago, which is 1/3 black, 1/3 white

and 1/3 Hispanic, 70% of the homicides

are black on black.

About 40 per month, almost 500 per year

last year in Chicago,

and 75% of them are unsolved.

Where is the Black Lives Matter on that?

The idea that a racist white cop

shooting unarmed black people is a peril to black people

is BS, is complete and total--

A white guy can say all this stuff all he want.

It's facts or it's not.

But Larry Elder did something different.

What this lie does, it causes young, black men

to be confrontational with cops

instead of cooperating, and it causes the cops to pull back

for fear that they'd be called racist--

I saw a black man that reminded me of myself

and other people I grew up with.

And I said, he's black, he came from a similar background.

How did he come to these conclusions?

It's incomparable to have porous borders

and a welfare state.

So, I think it's just common sense to say,

if you come here, you ought not be a charge on taxpayers.

Why is that so controversial?

In order to be persuaded or to like someone's work,

you don't have to share a race with them.

However, we're talking about a very important,

fundamental shift, like a breaking of the frame.

What's the purpose of an SAT?

The purpose of the SAT is to make sure

the student can do the freaking work

that's required of him or her

once they get admitted to that given university.

So, if you give 'em adjusted score

because of their disadvantaged nature,

that does not give them the ability

to compete at the school and succeed.

So, all you're gonna do is create more dropouts

than we already have,

because of race based preferences.

You're talking about breaking a very major narrative,

shattering a glass ceiling.

A lot of young black people are discovering me

and consider me to be something of a mentor,

the way I considered Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.

Black people have never taken a position

that you describe.

So, it is not a question of what black people chose.

It is what you choose to put in the mouths of black people.

It's what you choose to project.

We didn't learn about these guys.

I didn't know who Thomas Sowell was until four years ago.

The engineer is judged by the end product

which is not simply ideas.

If he builds a building that collapses,

it doesn't matter how brilliant his idea was,

or he's ruined.

Conversely, if an intellectual who's brilliant

has an idea for rearranging society,

and that ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.

To hear Thomas Sowell destroy

all of this so-called data,

that the so-called enlightened among us

were using to try to get their way

and to try to shape policy--

But you would also have to agree

that generally speaking, women are paid less for example,

for the same jobs as men.

No, I would not.

I would not agree with that.

You're talking about women.

With the same number of years of experience.

With the same continuous service, et cetera, et cetera.

Then when I look at that, I don't find that disparity.

I find for example, in many cases, the women are making more

depending on how you break the data down.

The difference with women

is between married women and everybody else.

If his message would have somehow penetrated through

all of the nonsense, and all of the manufactured,

preconceived notion that I bought into

and settled itself in my mind,

he would've been a huge influence for me.

Why wouldn't they teach us about Thomas Sowell in school?

I know Lebron James.

I know you guys are excited to see her.

I didn't know you guys would be excited to see me too,

but thank you.
(crowd cheering)

I know all of these rappers.

I don't know Thomas Sowell.

I don't know about Walter Williams.

I've always been a radical.

I've always challenged the status quo.

If there's one person that you think

black America would be celebrating...

I supported things like minimum wage laws

'cause I thought it was a good idea.

Until I ran into some professor, he said,

"Well, look Walter, let's look at the effects

"of the minimum wage law,

"as opposed to looking at the intentions."

They gave me material to read and then I changed my mind.

It's like havin' a very successful family

that you never knew you had.

Until your grandfather dies

and y'all meet at the funeral.

While I was hangin' out with my cousin smokin' weed,

we got people in our family that have gone to Harvard.

We have people in our family that own businesses.

Highly successful.

Why have you hidden this from me?

It's unfortunate but history is written by academics,

and academia is a tool of the left.

If you find a very educated black American,

somebody who got a 4.0 at a public high school,

they're actively learning their history wrong.

That's a part of the uphill battle that we have.

Is that if you are educated, you're actually mis-educated.

When I was growing up, my mom was a Democrat,

remained a Democrat her entire life.

My dad was a Republican,

remained a Republican his entire life.

By the way, most blacks were Republican

until the New Deal.

My dad was born in 1915,

and my dad like most people his age was a Republican.

He never changed.

My mom became a democrat in large part

because of Franklin Roosevelt.

To 30 millions of our citizens,

who will reap direct benefits

through unemployment compensation.

Most blacks were Republican

to the extent that they could vote before the New Deal.

And when the New Deal came,

a number of blacks switched over to the New Deal.

That switch has continued.

Only a few months before his tragic death,

President Kennedy called on the American Congress

to pass the most far reaching Civil Rights bill

in the nation's history.

To protect the constitutional rights of all citizens.

(audience applauding)

The shift came with the presidential election

between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

Martin Luther King Jr. had been imprisoned,

and both sides asked their respective presidential candidate

to give a courtesy call to Coretta Scott King

and offer their condolences and their support

and what have you.

The rumor got out that John F. Kennedy did.

And so, the next thing you know,

and every house down south,

and I can say this from my own eyeballs.

There were three pictures that hung in the living room

of any black home down south.

It was Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr.

and John F. Kennedy.

John Kennedy promoted a dramatic tax cut.

He was a coal warrior, he was a hunter,

he believed in the Second Amendment.

John Kennedy's collection of views right now

would make him a Republican.

He would not be welcome within the Democratic party.

No memorial, oration or eulogy

could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory

than the earliest possible passage

of the Civil Rights bill for which he fought so long.

(audience applauding)

It goes back to the mid-1960s

as to why blacks believe they should be Democrats.

In 1964, the Civil Rights Act passed.

Lyndon Johnson signed it.

1965, the Voting Rights Act passed.

Lyndon Johnson signed it.

So, he got credit for those two major pieces of legislation.

But here's what they don't tell you.

There was a larger percentage of Republicans in Congress,

in both instances that voted for it

than the percentage of Democrats that voted for it.

Who enabled the Civil Rights legislation in '64 to pass

was Senate Republicans, led by Everett Dirksen.

Everett Dirksen got an award from the NAACP

for helping to shepherd the act into fruition.

Most blacks are unaware of that.

I didn't study that kind of stuff when I was in history.

President Johnson was able to get

the Civil Rights bill passed,

and it was perceived that it was an effort

on the part of the Democrats.

And so that's a perception and a narrative

that has been created, that caused the community

to connect that event, momentous event

to the Democratic party.

And they have been using that idea

to effectively create a perception

that the best friend to the black community

is the Democratic party, which is far from the truth.

Black people have been taught

that the Democratic party wears the white hat

when it comes to Civil Rights and racial justice,

and Republicans have been described

as wearing the black hat.

If resistance to the Federal Court order ceases at once,

the further presence of Federal troops will be unnecessary.

And the city of Little Rock

will return to its normal habits of peace and order.

And a blot upon the fair name

and high honor of our nation in the world

will be removed.

Dwight Eisenhower was responsible

for bringing the civil rights issues to the forefront.

I have a dream, that one day...

It was a movement that was challenging America

to embrace its ideas.

Those ideas that were found

in the Declaration of Independence,

that all men are created equal.

To hold our society, America,

to the principles that were found in the constitution.

And those constitutional principles

that protect our liberties,

and protect our individual rights,

is what that civil rights movement was all about.

There must be a revolution of values in our country.

Because some of the values that presently exist

are certainly out of line with the values

and the idealistic structure

that brought our nation into being.

Unfortunately, we haven't been true to these ideals.

It was signed under the hope

that that piece of legislation

would open up opportunities for the blacks.

To have equal access, to have first class citizenship,

have better economic opportunities.

That was the dream that Dr. Martin Luther King talked about.

(crowd cheering)

Al Gore's father, Al Gore Sr.,

worked with other Democrats

to mount what was at the time,

the longest filibuster in the history of the Senate.

To prevent the bill from ever getting onto the floor

for a vote.

Al Gore's dad by the way died a Democrat.

He didn't make a big switch to join the racist Republicans.

Whenever I began to read the Republican party platform,

I didn't find one thing in there

that I felt as a black man targeted me.

I began to wonder, well, if I can't find anything

in their platform, maybe I can find something

in the Republican party's past

that gives me an example of how they targeted me

as a black man.

And I started with Abraham Lincoln, who was a Republican.

You can argue, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation

as a war strategy, and you could argue that.

But at the end of the day,

the fact of the matter is that it was a Republican

who signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

And then if you fast forward to women suffrage,

it was a Republican Chief Justice in William Taft

that struck down laws that made it illegal

for women to vote.

If you look at Jim Crow.

It was Republican votes in the Senate and in the House

that was able to rid this country of Jim Crow.

(ominous music)

When we look at the history of entities like the KKK,

it was specifically intended

to suppress the African-Americans

and keep them from voting for Republicans specifically.

That was always what the KKK was founded to do.

A lot of black people were voting for Democrats

because they were being forced to.

If you don't vote for Democrats,

the Ku Klux Klan are gonna come

and lynch your eldest son.

And so, you fast forward to today,

the message is still the same.

If you don't vote for Democrats,

the Republicans are gonna come.

They can turn back voting rights.

They can turn back many of the things

that people suffered and died for.

Didn't nobody donate to us the right to vote.

It's the same Democratic party.

It's just, they learned to play the game better.

We in the same ship.

It's the same suit just worned over.

It ain't nothing change.

The same party is doing the same thing

they always been doing.

Party of division, the party of power.

If you're a minority, you're smart,

you can believe what you wanna believe,

support what you wanna support,

you are free to do these things.

We don't have to support one person.

You don't have to drink at this one water fountain.

We are free to make choices.

It's like, okay, that's great.

I choose to be a Republican, and when whoa!

Everybody stop.

(somber music)

He is encouraging a generation of foolish, young people.

These are lost, disturbed, self-loathing people.

Notice that all of those youngsters had caps on.

It was almost like, we're gonna dress you for the photo.

It's gone like from physical restrictions,

but now, in the 21st century

as we're reaching the information age,

it's a become a sort of metaphysical restriction

as to what a minority can and can't do.

Minorities shouldn't think this way.

Minorities shouldn't support these people.

Minorities shouldn't believe these things.

Black conservatives today,

or anybody that has a black conservative message,

we are the people that are escaping the plantation.

The liberal will try to control a black person

through the concept of racism,

because they know that we are very proud, emotional people.

What was your reaction when black slaves

escaped the plantation?

It was swift.

What I saw was a minstrel show today.

Him in front of all of these white people

embarrassing himself.

When minorities don't support

the agenda of the Democrats or the left,

all of a sudden, the restrictions they put on years ago

in a physical realm,

they're now doing in a metaphysical realm.

But are we 100% convinced?

Are we back on the Kanye is not sick and off his meds?

He really has a problem pumping the break here

mentally and emotionally.

Maybe he was missing his medication.

Though makes clear that he has struggled

and admitted diagnoses for personal mental health issues.

Anybody who threatens their 95% monolithic black vote

is an enemy.

They've gotta be dealt with, they've gotta be put down.

Another stunning act of terror--

A mass shooting at two mosques in New Zealand.

He claims to have been radicalized by Candace Owens.

Saying that she was an inspiration to him.

She has responded sarcastically.

Few events I have not been blamed for.

Brazilian mining dam collapse.

Chinese air smog.

Tenerife air crash, 1973.

She's not taking this at all seriously.

What do you think the press is doing

when you try to smear someone as having a mental disorder

and when you say that someone

is inspiring a mosque shooting.

Or you're trying to make it so that my career

is effectively cut off.

You're trying to make it so that nobody talks to me,

so that I'm considered sort of this reject.

I just have to say that I object strenuously

to your use of the word hilarious.

To me, this feels a lot like your reaction

to being named on one of these manifestos.

Now, you're of course not responsible

for the words of somebody writing that document.

But I do think that laughing at it is a real problem,

because these are real families

that are impacted by this violence.

I'm a black female who came from poverty.

I should be at the top of the progressive stack.

I should be receiving awards.

They should be calling me, inviting me on the red carpet

to share my story, but they're not.

Why?

Because I'm not saying what they want me to say.

You would rather assign meaning to a homicidal maniac

than to actually address the things that I said today

that are actually harming black America.

Number one, father absence.

Number two, the education system

and the illiteracy rate.

Allele immigration ranks high, abortion ranks high,

white supremacy and white nationalism,

if I had to make a list again of 100 things,

would not be on it.

This hearing in my opinion is a farce,

and it is ironic that you're sitting here

and you're having three Caucasian people testify,

and tell you what their expertise are.

Do I know what my expertise are?

Black in America.

I've been black in America my whole life.

All 30 years, and I can tell you,

that you guys have done the exact same thing

every four years ahead of an election cycle

and it needs to stop.

I think probably the most hated

political person in America, is a black conservative.

And that's because we refute the entire philosophy

of the Democratic party.

(ominous music)

I think the fact that a black person

can start in government housing,

and go on to be one of the most successful brain surgeons

ever to exist,

that's somebody you should emulate.

That's someone you should idolize.

That's someone you should put on a pedestal.

Came from nothing, became a neurosurgeon,

one of the greatest men in the world.

Some of things he done, nobody's ever done in the world.

He was the first person to perform surgery

on conjoined twins at the brain.

No one wanted to do that.

And he did that as a black man.

I don't think myself as a surgeon,

just a guy people pay to stab their brain

(audience laughing)

until they're healthy.

(audience laughing)

A quick back story on Dr. Ben for those who don't know.

He's a former brain surgeon

and Republican presidential candidate,

who our celebrity in chief, Donald J. Trump,

nominated as his HUD secretary in 2017,

despite him having zero relevant experience.

Ben Carson is a very intelligent person.

To ignore that and say like, oh well, he's a doctor.

He has no business in government.

Really?

So we can't even have people

who are smart enough to be doctors

in the government now?

Like, who do you want to be in the government then?

Just because Dr. Ben Carson

is a well educated neurosurgeon,

who doesn't speak fluent nigger

doesn't mean he's acting white.

So, I don't agree with calling people Oreos

but I can see why you would call Dr. Ben Carson one.

Ben Carson, do you pass the black test?

You know, I grew up in Detroit and I grew up in Boston.

In Boston, we lived in the ghetto.

(audience laughing)

Excuse me, you grew up in a what?

A ghetto?

A ghetto?

That sounds like a French person saying cat in Spanish.

What is that?

What kind of black person says, "Ghetto."

Mother (bleep) I'm straight outta Compton.

This kind of crap goes on all the time.

They're trying to say he is not black enough.

I was at a Popeyes organization,

and then I deposited basketballs

at the urban athletic complex.

Thereafter, I rounded out the night

by making it precipitate

at a ladies clothing removal facility.

(audience laughing)

We wanna shun him.

He's a sellout, he's a coon.

We wanna remove his name off of schools.

The Detroit school board now considering

stripping the name of HUD secretary Dr. Ben Carson

off of a local school, over his ties, yes, to the president.

I've cringed when I've seen the way

people like Ben Carson get treated by the media.

For example, when Carson first became HUD secretary,

he gave a speech where he likened slaves to immigrants.

A land of dreams and opportunity.

There were other immigrants who came here

in the bottom of slave ships,

worked even longer, even harder for less.

But they too had a dream.

And he got fried, especially in the black media.

Like we actually came here on our own accord.

Shackled.

Beat.

Shot, killed, on our way here to find a better life.

How does he miss that no slave

came to this country willingly?

This is one of the most atrocious acts

of historical revisionism that one might imagine.

It wasn't always easy for new immigrants.

Certainly it wasn't easy for those of African heritage

who had not come here voluntarily,

and yet in their own way were immigrants themselves.

Obama said the very same thing at least 11 times.

Nobody said anything.

The left claims it advocates for black people,

but they really advocate for left wing black people.

Reagan won Pennsylvania by the margin of despair.

By the margins of fracture of our coalition.

Your time has come.

Pick up your slingshot, pick up your rock.

Declare our time has come.

When I became old enough to vote,

I registered as a Democrat,

because that's what the black people did.

I suffer for it because I started to believe

what the Democratic party was saying.

I believed into their lie.

Louis Farrakhan would come out here to LA

and he would give talks at The Forum,

and he talked about how bad the old blue-eyed devil was.

We and white people are mortal enemies.

They were not made to be our friends.

They were made to be our enemies,

and they are that, and they can't be nothing but that.

They're locked into that.

There ain't no redemption for them.

That is why I challenge you now to stand together.

I would listen to Jesse Jackson.

Raise your fists together

and engage in our national black listening...

I would listen to them, and they would say

and it's all white people fault.

And so, I started to believe

because nobody else was opposing what they were saying.

And for the first time in my life,

I started to resent white people.

I suffered for it.

I finally got over it but I suffered for it.

When I turned 30-something, I started asking questions like,

if the white man is holding me back because I'm black,

why is it that they're not holding Jesse Jackson

and his family back, the so-called NAACP and all of them.

Their kids went to the best school,

they had father and mothers in their homes

and they were doing very well.

And so, I wonder, why is it that they're not holding

those people back if they're holding me back

because I'm black.

And that's when I realized I've been lied to.

And everything started changing.

Jesse Jackson is a racist demagogue,

and he's built a career

on keeping black people down.

Keeping 'em angry, brainwashing them

to control them for his own personal gain.

And they have lost that power--

Speak your mind, Reverend.

I grew up in Alabama on a plantation,

and I grew up under Jim Crow laws.

They deliberately kept us down

by causing us to become angry, destroying the family

and demoralizing black people.

And so, what we're trying to do is wake them up

to that reality.

When I was growing up, I was just taught good and evil,

right versus wrong.

I had never even heard the word racism.

We knew that it was a spiritual battle

between right and wrong, good and evil.

There was no such thing as racism, sexism

or homophobia-ism, Islamophobia-ism.

Or there be that ism, or white supremacism.

It didn't exist.

That only came about when we allowed the Democrats

to take over.

They start making up words to deceive us.

We've got to deal with homophobia in our communities.

Including the black community.

A lot of the black civil rights leaders

have abandoned the moral high ground,

and have perverted the civil rights movement

to the point where it's become

a part of a race grievance industry.

We're on the brink of undoing

what Dr. King and others went to jail for.

Blacks have been convinced

that they're supposed to respect you,

if you have the title, reverend or pastor,

even if you're no good.

You probably can't even remember

a sermon from Al Sharpton.

Reverend Al Sharpton.

He's a reverend of what?

In politics, the road to the White House

took a detour through Harlem today.

It is like a rite of passage for Democratic candidates,

as an outreach to the African-American community.

Well toady, South Bend, Indiana mayor, Pete Buttigieg

had lunch at Sylvia's with Reverend Al Sharpton.

Barack Obama dined here in 2008.

So did Bernie Sanders in 2016.

I could tell the Negroes to go left and they'll go left.

How much are you willing to pay me

to get the Negroes to do what I want them to do?

They're the ones that receive the contributions

to say, "Hey, let's keep these people subjugated.

"Let's keep them voting for us,

"and you do what is necessary.

"And help us to squelch these voices

"that are rising up in opposition to what we believe."

They're leading the narratives

that others want them to lead.

And today, we shall pour outrage

is when you keep pressing people down.

If we can get the black community

to hate the police, then they'll keep breaking laws.

So they gotta keep black people angry,

stirred up angry, ticked off.

How else do you get 95% of people

to pull the lever for a party,

whose views are absolutely inconsistent

with the best interests of the country in general

and of the best interests of black people in particular.

We still advocate nonviolence

with passive resistance, and still determined to use

the weapon of love.

But we are still insisting emphatically

that violence is self defeating.

That he who lives by the sword will perish by the sword.

Martin Luther King was a pastor.

He was a genuine pastor.

That's why Martin Luther King can't be around.

He can't leave.

He's too powerful.

The anger building up in a community

which causes people to riot

and to tear things down and to burn things up,

it goes to show that black people don't feel these days

like we're building anything.

That we're contributing to anything.

When it comes America,

black people helped build this country.

(soft music)

When you look back at the history of black people

here in America, once we were free from slavery,

we were successful in ways, and we overcame things

and we did things far beyond

our predecessors could have imagined.

Simply because we had that almost instinctively in us.

As blacks emerged from slavery,

minute percentage could read or write.

And yet in 1/2 a century,

over 1/2 the black population was literate.

And economic historians call that

one of the most remarkable things in history.

So, in the late 1800s,

we had actually in not very well documented boon

of African American proliferation

into the political space, into the entrepreneurial space.

And we had real movers and shakers

in our communities who were doing real things.

Because at one time, blacks were Republicans,

and you dominated.

Those seven years after the Civil War,

you were Republicans.

You had more blacks in the House and Senate than you do now,

and you dominated your own economic communities.

You did that as Republicans.

But then what happened was that Democrats realized

they could still control us

by enacting new laws to suppress our civil liberties.

That brings us to the rise of Jim Crow.

The Jim Crow era and Ruby Bridges going to school,

that happened in the 1950s, 1960s, that general era.

But we had Hiram Rhodes Revels

and many other African-Americans

rise to positions of power in the political space

in the late 1800s.

So, there's this gap of missing achievement that we have,

and that is what the KKK,

that is what the Jim Crow laws did to our community.

You can't depend on a government school

to teach you raw history.

You're gonna see people like even Frederick Douglas

become less and less and less celebrated,

and less and less and less popular

because he doesn't really fit the narrative.

He was a Republican, very American.

When they wanna teach you somebody that was great

in black American history and they happen to be Republican,

they don't tell you that element.

And they also, and this is sort of one of the biggest myths

that they tell you, that the parties completely switched.

They have to say the parties switched.

They have to.

Because they can't acknowledge

that they're part of all of the worst things

that have ever happened to black people in history.

And if you know better

and you know the parties didn't switch,

and you just look at today,

there's still a part of every negative thing

that have happened to black people in America.

Let's just take one issue.

And that's the issue we've talked abut for a long time

and that's vouchers.

They have to pass through metal detectors.

They're faced by security guards

looking for hidden weapons.

They're watched over by armed police.

You're required to send your kid to a school

where only 3% of kids can do math at grade level,

because you have no option.

Republicans want you to have an option.

But Republicans of course are racist

so you can't vote for them, right?

What a dilemma!

Slave codes in the early 19th century

made it illegal for black Americans to learn to read, why?

Because if slaves could read, they could access information.

I don't believe that much has changed.

If the parties did switch

and Democrats really are the party

of, for and by minorities,

then why do they react so viciously

when you introduce legislation

that would help the minorities by giving them school choice?

There's answers to all these questions.

But you have to be the one to find them.

Because no one else is going to tell you

the inconvenient truth.

The welfare state is slavery 2.0.

The biggest falsehood, the biggest lie

that gets repeated is that the kind of disorganization

and chaos and violence

and self-destruction that we're witnessing

in the black community is somehow a legacy of slavery

and Jim Crow.

That is just a lie.

Because if that were so, between 1930 and 1940,

during the years of the depression,

when segregation and racism was enshrined in laws,

when there was no black representation in government,

even in the face of these horrible conditions,

the black community had the highest marriage rate

of any group in society.

Our institutions served as an anchor for us.

And so therefore, elderly people could walk

in their neighborhood without fear

of being assaulted by their grandchildren.

Our business formation rate was high then.

Has yielded a 1/2 million dollar yearly growth.

If we were able to accomplish

the building of hospitals, dental schools, hotels,

movie theaters, Vaudeville theaters.

If we were able to accomplish this

and not engage in the kind of self-destruction...

What's the proper way to mug a nigga?

You know, walked on him, grab him by his hood and,

one to the head.
One to the head.

I'm a hit you one time in the head,

two times in the chest.

How can you explain that?

How is that possible in a society

that has experienced so much social progress,

that we are seeing a decline in the black community?

The statistics of illegitimacy, crime rates

and illiteracy have worsened

since the time of segregation and Jim Crow.

(soft music)

Before the war on poverty launched,

87% of blacks lived below the federally defined

level of poverty in 1940.

By 1960, that number had decreased to 47%.

A 40-point drop in 20 years.

That's probably the greatest economic prosperity period

for blacks in the history of this country,

and this all happened before affirmative action,

before the so-called war on poverty.

Back then it was commonplace

to have both parents in the home.

If you made a commitment and you marry somebody

and you had kids, you stay with 'em.

It wasn't just about your immediate family.

It was also about your church family.

In those days, black men were in control.

The black woman respected the black man.

Having a strong father showed me how to be a man.

It also showed me how to treat a woman.

When I was young, I remember going to open house

and everybody's parents were there, everybody's.

Up until 1962-'63, 85% of all black families

had a man and a woman raising children.

But that all changed in the '60s.

If you estimate that the welfare is paying,

I guess, six, $7 billion dollars a year in benefits,

how much would you say is denied by these illegal practices?

The architect of this destruction

was Cloward and Piven.

The American public welfare system

is only expanding 1/2 of what it should be expanding

if it were reaching all of the people

who are eligible under existing statutes.

So, we think welfare costs should probably double.

A couple of renowned sociologists

at the Columbia University School of Social Work.

And their theory was, if we could separate

work from income, it would make men redundant,

and if we can just remove the stigma from welfare

and entice more people to flood the welfare system,

it will bankrupt cities and the country.

The welfare rights movement and the lawyers

are challenging man in the house rules,

and other kinds of requirements which are restricting.

This, I presume would be additional people

who could become eligible for additional money

if these were challenged.

Yes, that would raise the cost even more.

To recruit people into the welfare system,

we relaxed the rules.

If a woman had to declare paternity

in order to qualify for welfare, the ACLU sued

and said this is a violation of our privacy rights.

They also said that the nuclear family,

Ozzie and Harriet, was Eurocentric and therefore racist.

The women's movement concurred with that.

The Black Power movement also agreed.

Millions of blacks in a period of less than four years

flooded into the welfare system in major cities.

At a time when the unemployment rate

for blacks in New York for males

was less than 4%.

If I could get me a job where I could be my own man.

Don't make think that they feelin' sorry for me.

Give me this, give me what I need,

just like a pet, like a dog.

You have to be fed now.

Give him some food.

What you then saw is a consequence

of separating work from income.

The out-of-wedlock births in the black community

began to skyrocket.

Went from under 25% to 70%.

It is a neutron bomb that was dropped on this country,

and it really hurt families, especially the black family.

During slavery, a black kid was more likely

to be raised under a roof with his biological mother

and biological father than today.

The welfare state has done more to destroy

and destabilize the black family than even slavery did.

We allowed them to remove the fathers

from our homes.

Removing the backbone of our families.

I remember my dad used to be hard on us,

making us fold clothes and washing dishes properly.

And if we didn't, we got a whooping.

If we didn't 'em right, or if we didn't do 'em

when he told us to do 'em.

And I didn't like him when he did that to us.

My dad made me a responsible man by doing that.

And it just really made me wonder

like what if he wasn't there?

I'm very blessed to be who I am today,

and a lot of that had to do with the upbringing

I had from my father,

who was in the house, who made sure that we were in school,

who made sure that we were clothed,

that we had shelter, that we had food.

That was my father.

When I was growing up, fathers led.

And you knew not to be fighting and carrying 'em

because you had respect for the elderly,

and you respect yourself

because you represented your parents

when you're out there.

But that representation is no longer there

because the man is not there.

If you look at every major issue

facing the black community today,

it can be stemmed back to fatherlessness.

You see black people joining gangs.

They're joining the gang to simulate a family unit.

Family unit can be solved with the father.

Don't understand what it's like, how to treat a woman,

how to be respectful, how to earn a living the legal way.

They didn't have a father in their home

that taught them these things.

And then that father didn't have a father in his home.

So, this generational fatherlessness

is far more dangerous to the black community

than institutional or generational racism.

If there is a strong man in the household,

people aren't eligible for these benefits.

So, you see how it kinda starts and it just grows

and grows and grows.

With the political left, this whole idea

that government can bring people out of poverty

and that government can fix all the problems,

we know that government can't do that.

That government can't raise a family.

Who like man.

(bleep) this job.

You can't have the pizza.

I said, "(bleep) I want the money and your car."

Dequandre Weaver was 14 years old

when this video was shot,

and this week a judge sentenced him

to serve 20 years in prison for a list of felonies.

Because the left has promoted the welfare state,

has encouraged women to marry the government,

has allowed men to abandon their financial

and moral responsibility, we have these problems.

It is no wonder that you have the chaos.

More blacks are killing other blacks in one year

than the Klan killed in 70 years.

(ominous music)

(gunshots blaring)

We are on autopilot in the destruction

of our own communities.

Black on black crime is something that our media tells us

that we're not allowed to talk about.

Over 93% of black homicide victims

are killed by other black people.

We are not supposed to be outraged,

and we're not told to remember the names of those victims.

Because if we begin to focus on that area,

something that is causing real harm

and devastation to our communities,

we might uncover the truth.

Our inner cities are all by Democrat design.

Like Chicago, like Baltimore and like Detroit.

They have been run by Democrats for decades.

We have been made to believe

that the conditions in our cities are normal.

We're supposed to turn a blind eye

to the corruption, to the crime, to the gangs, and instead,

focus on what our media deems of more importance.

We're instead told that we should be focusing

on white people.

We're supposed to be reactive and angry and fearful

about white supremacy, when in fact,

it is liberal supremacy that is harming our communities.

In the inner cities, who's killing who?

Back in slavery, they used to rip the families apart,

take the father out of the home.

Now we removing ourselves from the home.

These are things that I believe

have gotten us to the point

where we are on autopilot for the liberal movement.

(soft music)

You begin to ask yourself,

why is it that more black women are getting abortions

than any other ethnic group?

And you begin to look at maps

of where these Planned Parenthood clinics are situated.

77% of Planned Parenthood abortion pills

are located in the inner cities.

Somehow, the script was flipped,

and so it became a civil right to abort a child.

It is her body, it is her right, it is her decision.

It became a woman's reproductive right,

but nobody really examined the motives behind it.

52% of all African-American pregnancies end in abortion.

1786 a day, and since 1973,

over 20 million African-Americans

have been killed by abortion alone.

For more federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

The Democratic party has always been focused

on pushing eugenics and abortion on the black community.

Margaret Sanger, the woman that ultimately founded

what became Planned Parenthood,

believed that certain people were degenerate,

were unworthy of living.

And if you're one of those persons,

perfectly okay for you to be eliminated.

Whether you're talking about

Margaret Sanger strategies back then,

or you're talking about Planned Parenthood's tactics

of today, they're still able to Trojan Horse

the black community.

That is to deliver this message

of, "We're for women's health.

"We're for the black community."

More than 1/2 of Planned Parenthood's centers

are located in areas without ready access to healthcare.

Here you have the left wing embracing Planned Parenthood,

embracing the pro-choice movement,

completely oblivious to the fact that Margaret Sanger

was not particularly fond of poor, black people,

who in her view could not make it on their own.

I think the greatest sin in the world

is bringing children into the world

that have disease from their parents,

that have no chance in the world

to be a human being practically.

Delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things,

just marked when they're born.

That to me is the greatest sin.

I see black people argue that if a woman is poor,

she shouldn't have a child.

If that were the case, a lot of black people that I know

who have done great things in life

would never have been born,

and I would have been one of them.

The Billboard's idea that abortion is genocide

has made a comeback in some parts of the black community.

Our population growth has stagnated.

Fueling this is the growing number of Latinos

who have fewer abortions, more children...

60% of all new births

in this country are Latino,

and you have Democrats that are advocating for open borders.

Ethnic minority than black Americans.

Right now, the Democrat party

relies upon our vote, but they don't have to forever.

(speaking foreign language)

Black Americans are gonna wake up,

or we're going to become irrelevant.

Black people in general are starting to get the sense

that we are being traded for illegal immigrants.

The caravan lurched forward

carrying babies, suitcases and hope.

They're importing a whole new victim class.

It's gonna do exactly to the illegals

what they did to black America in the '60s.

Get them addicted to government,

give them the handouts, and turn them

into a permanent class of victim voters.

They are willing to use

people's genuine disadvantages,

people's genuine struggles to get into power.

And we are gonna fight for fairness

and justice for immigration.

We're gonna fight for DACA,

and we're going to help this country--

How is it that we have Maxine Waters and John Lewis

and others in the Black Congressional Caucus

who are fighting for DACA?

For the dreamers

of illegal aliens who have come to our nation,

and they're not fighting for black children

and the dreams that our kids and our teenagers have.

They've set them aside and made DACA their priority.

I submit to you they're in pursuit of an agenda.

The black community has been destroyed

by racist, illegal immigration and we're not gonna have it.

When my people do a crime, we get three strikes.

Your people do a crime, they get amnesty,

they get benefits, and they're not...

Blacks are protesting the fact

that for the last 50 years,

they're living in cities that are the most dangerous,

disinvested places, and they've been run

by liberal black Democrats.

But they've got no alternative to express that discontent.

The black community is low-hanging fruit

for the Republican party.

And the fact that they're not making a more concerted effort

to message to our community aggressively

is a huge mistake.

First, they have to be serious

about whether or not they want minorities in the party.

And if they are, then they need to totally rethink

how they're goin' about it.

(soft music)

My experiences running as a mayoral candidate

in a city that's predominantly Democrat,

I've been criticized by Republican strategists

for spending my time in minority communities.

I've placed my campaign office

in a historically black community.

I did that by choice.

I have not found the kind of support

that I expected from Republicans.

I think that if you look at the Republican party,

I believe that if I were white

that I would notice that there were so few people of color,

racial and ethnic minorities in my party,

and I would support the ones that were sincere.

I love America.

I believe the American dream,

and I wanna give hope to people who are disadvantaged,

not just black people, but also white people

who come from unfortunate circumstances.

When I've gone to campaign and elections meetings,

I hear these strategists say,

"Don't waste your time in minority communities.

"You need to hunt where the ducks are."

For years, the Democratic party

has assumed they're going to get 90-95% of the black vote,

as did the Republican party.

They didn't even try.

Republicans have convinced themselves

that blacks are unalterably Democrats,

there's nothing we can do about it.

Let's husband our money and our energy

and just spend it where we think we can get votes.

The Republican party ignores us

because they believe a narrative that has been pushed

out into the public square

that the black community is a monolith.

And so we're being ignored on both sides.

The major conservative in the race,

Carol Swain, was the last to concede tonight.

We're not making the kind of investments

in our minority allies.

That's the fault of the Republican party,

is that they have just completely said,

"We can't connect with 'em."

And they gave up.

We have more in common with the Republican party by far

than anything Democrat.

Regardless of where your position is socioeconomically.

'cause the Democrats, they're not giving jobs,

they don't care about jobs.

So they don't want you to succeed.

They don't want you to own anything.

That's why they keep spoonfeeding you,

putting you in projects and then giving you a little,

so now you're dependent.

Being unapologetically capitalist

is sort of the way to move forward.

I wanna be rich.

I don't wanna be poor.

You wanna be wealthy and successful.

Well, we're the party that promotes values

and policies that will make you wealthy and successful.

Conservatives are really bad at marketing good ideas.

They're horrible.

Republicans have been their own worst messengers.

The problem with conservatives

and what we don't do good enough,

is that we don't infiltrate ourselves into the culture.

For too long, we've left the left run culture.

Saturday Night Live.

We're gonna make fun and people can understand humor.

You're not going to be able to sell your ideas,

and your theories and your thoughts to the people,

if you're doing things in the same way

that you have done them for the last, 20-30 years.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running

(crowd cheering)

for President of the United States,

and we are going to make our country great again.

Donald Trump is the first Republican that is unafraid.

He's unafraid of the media.

You know it, if you're honest reporters,

which in many cases you're not.

The progressive socialist left

and all their tactics, all their antics.

It's the next step in our investigation.

They don't know what to do with him.

If you look at his policies

and how they benefited and continue to benefit this country,

there's no denying the objective facts.

But if you look at the man, Donald Trump,

the version of him as it is painted by the media,

then it's easy to hate the man, hate his guts.

Painting a picture of him that he is incompetent,

not capable, out of control, impetuous,

all those things is what we get out of the media.

But somehow, through the charisma of his personality

and a force of his personality has gotten through

to some in our community.

I see Trump as this window of opportunity

for black America to wake up,

is because I think he's the most cultural president

we've ever had.

He was taking photos with rappers.

He was always part of the culture.

You got this guy that talks shit,

at WrestleMania, he was doing this, he was doing that

and he's president?

He made politics cool again.

Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.

Because you'd be in jail.

You can see the realness.

He's a New Yorker, man.

And he talks like one.

He has the bravado like one.

Jeb wants to be a tough guy.

He wants to be a tough guy tonight.

I didn't take the property.

A lot of young, black people,

that's why they're drawn to him.

If people spoke to black people

the way Donald Trump does, bluntly, without condescension.

Look how much African-American communities have suffered

under Democratic control.

To those, I say the following,

what do you have to lose?

Donald Trump is facing a new backlash.

Is "What the hell do you have to lose" the best pitch?

Trump's latest attempted outreach

to a larger voting block is already being called ignorant.

So disrespectful and so condescending.

How condescending, how offensive, how racist, whatever.

But he was right.

What do you have to lose?

You're living in poverty, your schools are no good,

you have no jobs.

58% of your youth is unemployed.

The audacity to stare black America in the face

and say, "Hello, wake up, you're already losing.

"Look at your communities.

"Everything's run down, what's the big deal?

"Take a chance on Trump."

People, black and white and brown

who did not go to college

have felt ignored by the elites of both parties.

And Trump turned over the tables in the temple.

You can say he's an artful, he's not articulate,

he's not smooth, whatever.

People really don't care.

People are tired of politicians

that say one thing and do something else.

Especially, we're starting to see in the black community.

They wanna see some change,

they wanna see something different.

And that's why blacks feeling as if they're conservatives

is on the rise.

They're looking at the results.

(crowd cheering)

You think you can bully people to stop doing something.

Callin' us coons, all them types of names.

Usually, people run to their little cubby hills after that.

It's a new movement now and we want all the smoke.

It's really clear.

People tell me not to wear the MAGA hat,

so I bought the biggest MAGA hat.

Then I bought a bigger one.

So now if somebody say something to me,

duh, common sense, a bigger one.

It's simple math really when you put it all together.

♪ Yeah, I'm black I'm not Democrat ♪

♪ With the MAGA hat ♪

♪ Ooh we they try to take my guns I can't go like that ♪

♪ Ooh we they try to take our funds I can't go like that ♪

♪ Ooh we they tried to bend our speeds I can't go like that ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm black, I'm not Democrat ♪

♪ With the MAGA hat ♪

It was Donald Trump who woke me up, man.

At first, when he was nominated and he was elected,

I was not a big fan, but to see the things he's done

for the black community, see the things he's done

for America in particular.

I'm a huge fan now and he has my support.

We are in historical times,

'cause people are waking up, people are changing.

Humans are naturally conservative.

You grow up being told to work hard for what you eat.

You don't grow up being told you gon' get somethin'

because you just want it.

You see, like you ain't gotta work for it.

When I went to the store,

and I try to get a Snickers and I had no money for it,

momma slapped my hand, "Put that Snickers back.

"We can't afford that."

But Democrats, they're saying,

"Hey, we give you everything for free."

That ain't reality.

Black America is starting to get it.

And that's why there is this sort of battle

that's happening I think right now.

Black America is in the midst of an ideological civil war.

Oh, it's bullshit!

It's racism, it's Trump.

Get off your feet, fuck this.

We gotta stand up, we gotta do our shit.

We gotta do what we gotta do as black people.

Round of applause for Candace, please.

That's a waste of time.

(somber music)

You guys, this is so beautiful.

Look at all of us.

We made it all the way to the White House.

This week, in two days, I'm going to the White House

with 400 black kids, and it's basically saying,

you don't get to take away my blackness

because I don't agree with you, because I'm educated.

Before, it was just a monolith.

And there was no thought, it was just nodding like zombies.

Like of course, we have to support Barack Obama.

The one reason that I thought

that his candidacy would be positive.

The one reason, was because when Senator Obama

was interviewed by Steve Croft,

I believe that was his first 60 Minutes interview,

and Steve Croft said to Obama.

You think the country's ready for a black president?

Yes!

You don't think it's gonna hold you back.

No.

I think, if I don't win this race,

it would be because of other factors.

It's gonna be because I have not shown

to the American people a vision

for where the country needs to go that they can embrace.

I said to myself, hallelujah!

At least this is not your basic black victocrat.

Well, he got elected.

I cried, tears came to my eyes

during his inauguration.

My fellow citizens.

A black man being a president?

Like, this is finally, we have proven to the world

and everybody else in the country

that this is not a racist country.

And I think that's what America really felt,

that we had turned a corner.

I could follow in the same steps now finally.

That there was no barrier that was preventing me

as a black American from doing anything.

Many people had high expectations

that he was going to take us in a direction

that was gonna improve things.

Obama, before he became president,

gave a speech at a black church in Atlanta.

And he said, the Moses generation,

referring to the generation of Martin Luther King,

has gotten us 90% of the way there,

which I though was pretty reasonable.

He said, "My generation, the Joshua generation

"has to get us that remaining 10%."

The Moses generation pointed the way.

They took us 90% of the way there,

but we still got that 10%.

That was before Obama became president.

I'm suspecting that now that he's president,

that that 10% probably got shaved into just a little bit.

Yet when he was president, what did he say, what did do?

Slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination

in almost every institution of our lives,

that cast a long shadow.

And that's still part of our DNA.

That's passed on.

We're not cured of it.

Racism?
Racism.

We are not cured of it.

Obama got a higher percentage of the white vote

than John Kerry did, and here he is

talking about racism is in our DNA?

If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.

The Cambridge Police...

The Cambridge Police acted stupidly.

Acted stupidly.

What he really did was add to the level of racial tension

that we have in America today.

He went out of his way to capitalize

on this sort of like, wokeness.

There are very few African-American men in this country,

who haven't had the experience of being followed

when they were shopping in a department store.

That includes me.

He had Al Sharpton in his White House over 70 times.

And every time you criticize President Obama

based upon policy, you were called what?

A racist.

He played the race card, Obama did.

This is a guy who knew better and could've,

in my opinion done a great deal to advance

racial issue in this country.

We didn't turn any corner.

And so now, we are just at a point

where we're at each other's throats.

You called me a nigger.

I didn't call you no nigger.
Yes, you did.

No, I didn't.

He made things worse for America

in terms of race, and there's not a single person

that can say they remember America feeling like this.

Constitution.
I said you a house nigger.

I didn't call you a nigger.

Oh, okay.

That's a big difference.

You a Uncle Tom.
Yeah, I'm a Uncle Tom?

(clamoring)

Before Obama, wasn't all this racist talk at all.

I don't remember it.

I don't remember at any point

before Barack Obama ever feeling this much racial strife

in this country.

Obama was the most divisive president of our time.

Especially in the African-American community,

I will consider it a personal insult,

an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard

and fails to activate itself in this election.

I believe Obama is one of the most articulate presidents

that we've had, charismatic presidents that we've had.

When you look at his educational background,

he's probably one of the most intelligent.

He knows better.

I harbor a lot of resentment towards Barack Obama,

because now I see what he was.

But I wouldn't take that moment back,

for a lot of reasons.

And one of those reasons is that it did me a lot.

Now it's something that I point to to show people.

If America is a racist country,

how did Barack Obama get into office for two terms?

In barely half a century,

you can go from a young African-American girl

being escorted into the school by the National Guard,

to having the first person of color occupy the Oval Office.

(somber music)

That's why all those people were in tears

when Obama was elected president.

Look at what we are.

This is America.

If there is anyone out there,

who still doubts that America is a place

where all things are possible,

who still wonders if the dream of our founders

is alive in our time, who still questions

the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

(crowd cheering)

It's the answer told by lines that stretched

around schools and churches,

in numbers this nation has never seen.

I didn't grow up thinking,

one day I wanna own my own business,

I wanna do my own thing.

It seemed like something that surely I could never achieve.

That's something that you have to be really smart.

You have to come from money.

You have to have a huge set of capital

before you can even start a business.

That's something that's too lofty for me.

I would never accomplish that.

So, I didn't even think about it.

If you have some material and stuff that you're needing,

I would like to get it to a place

where you can call him and if we have it in the shop

he can run it to you.

Early in my 20s when I began to go into a transition,

if you will, of learning more about policy,

of learning more about the platforms

and how they're so different from one another,

I realized, well, no, there's something

that is well within my grasp.

This is something that is attainable.

Being a business owner in America

is one of the greatest privileges of being in America.

I love being in this country,

where you can start anything, you can be anything,

you can do anything.

And it's not possible everywhere to do it that way.

Oftentimes I get crazy messages from people

who, they can't believe I do this or whatever.

But you don't know until you do it yourself.

You don't really get it and understand it

until you start doing it yourself.

Designers.

They're still thinking that it's a four-inch supply

coming into the building...

In my heart of hearts, I do desire

that people will kind of have

the same kind of revelations that I've had,

because to me, what it means to be a conservative

is to realize that a lot of the dignity that you have

is within yourself.

Conservatism is the political philosophy

that is pro-business, that is pro-growth,

that is pro-minority,

way more than any kind of liberal idea

or policy can ever be.

I want for people to understand that.

I want for people to realize that.

These are the sinks that you fixed last time?

It starts with the individual.

What you do in making yourself a better person

will matriculate down to everybody else in the community,

all the generations that come after you.

The power is in your hands.

Don't rely and wait for everybody else to do something.

You have the power to change you.

You have authority to change you.

I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.

I know that that makes many people

on the left uncomfortable.

I know people might not like me

'cause they're from an era

where race hustling is a business.

But I say to people, "I'm not here to be your friend.

"I'm not here to become the most well liked

"black person in America.

"I am here to be like an alarm clock.

"Your alarm clock goes off in the morning

"and you're pretty pissed at it,

"but eventually you get up and you do what you have to do."

Many of the black kids who grew up in this country,

they see mom and dad voting for Democrats.

They don't question it.

They just go and do it.

But many of them have so much potential

and so much worth that they can really do

anything they wanted with their lives.

So much creativity and so much vision.

What's sad is that many of them are being lied to,

and they're being put in situations

where these limits are being put on them

by their selves, by their family,

by their schools, by the government,

to where their minds are ever dependent

on Democrat politicians, on Democrat policies.

When in reality, you're bigger than a program,

you're better than a program.

You're capable of providing for yourself

so much more than any government program

can provide for you.

My fear is that with black people in America,

many of us haven't came to that realization,

and I want for us to.

Because we can do so much better as a community

when we come to that realization.

Alrighty.

That'll do it.

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