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- [crew member 1] Ready to start rolling?
- [Stewart] All right.
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[crew member 2] All right.
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Before this job, I was a DEI officer
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which is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion,
of course.
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And it was a very stressful job.
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What did you do? Like, what did it--
What was your purview?
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Preparing presentations,
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making sure people knew
what the definition of racism was.
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Like, just so that everyone knew
what they were accountable for.
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And that alone was hell.
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Of course.
Because people wanted to be like,
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"Why are you making me feel bad?
I'm trying."
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And I'm like,
"I'm literally defining a word."
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I'm-- I'm Webster today.
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But it was such a stressful job.
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So I think from now on
I'm just gonna be Black for free.
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[all laughing]
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Wait a second.
That's what got us in this mess.
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Let's not--
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- Let's not be Black for free.
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[audience applauding, cheering]
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Boom.
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Boom.
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Boom.
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Hey!
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[audience applauding, cheering]
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What's happening?
Thank you so much for joining us.
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My name is Jon Stewart.
Welcome to our television show.
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For those of you who don't know,
a television show is like a--
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It's like a-- a podcast that moves.
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You'll get used to it.
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Um… trying to be lighthearted,
trying to bring it in here
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because we've got some things
to talk about this evening.
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Um… Oh, the show we've prepared.
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[audience laughing]
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As you may know,
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uh, this country has had
some issues with race.
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[audience murmurs]
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Oh, okay.
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[audience laughing]
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Sphincters are tightening already.
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Uh, we've had some issues with race.
There was that incident in…
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[stammers] …1619, and then…
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had a few hiccups since then, but…
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mostly it's been fine.
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We've all been chilling. It's been chill.
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Until a couple years ago,
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another rare bad thing happened
to Black people in the summer of 2020.
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George Floyd's death
is sparking a national reckoning.
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The death of George Floyd. It sparks this
global movement, this racial reckoning.
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We here in America
certainly had our own racial reckoning
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in the wake of George Floyd's death.
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A growing number of American companies
facing a racial reckoning.
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As America confronts a racial reckoning.
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A racial reckoning.
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It also comes at a time
of racial reckoning for the country.
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Oh.
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So you guys are finally ready
to talk about racial repar--
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Uh, reckoning.
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[audience laughing, applauding]
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We don't-- We don't wanna--
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We don't wanna right the wrongs.
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We just reckon
we're gonna think about it for a bit.
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Well, not to worry.
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This egregious midday murder
will not be in vain.
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Let the work of righting
centuries of oppression begin.
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Aunt Jemima is being retired.
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[audience laughing, applauding]
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By any means necessary.
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Cream of Wheat is removing
the Black chef from its packaging.
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[reporter 1]
Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor,
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has announced he is stepping away.
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[reporter 2] Every NFL stadium, you're
gonna see phrases like "end racism."
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Tonight we know the Dixie Chicks
are dropping the "Dixie."
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[reporter 3] The Village of Hempstead
renamed Main Street
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"Black Lives Matter Way."
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We will now kneel
for our moment of silence.
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[audience laughing]
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Worst production of Lion King ever.
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[audience laughing, applauding]
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But more than kente cloth calisthenics
and some long overdue brand readjustments,
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there came another
even more meaningful cultural shift.
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I think white people need to listen.
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White people should listen
to African Americans.
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White people, we need to listen.
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We are listening. I am listening.
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Now, it's time for us
to have ears to hear.
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[audience laughing]
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Oh, good.
'Cause I've been using mine for fucking.
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Two-- Two at a time.
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[audience applauding]
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I likes my ear fucking like
I like my Pink Floyd albums--
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in stereo.
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[audience laughing]
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Yeah-- Yeah, we changed it
from rehearsal for the--
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the crew that got
a bit of a tickle out of that one.
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Yes. Apparently this racial issue
that so divides America
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could have just been solved
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if only Black people
would have said something.
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So…
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Okay, white people. Ears to hear.
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This is the harsh reality for Black people
in America today,
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that we are expected
to participate in democracy
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while receiving
conditional citizenship in return.
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A zip code determines
what kind of school that you go to.
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A zip code determines
what kind of food you can eat.
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These are the vestiges of enslavement.
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So when they say,
"Why do you burn down the community?"
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"Why do you burn down
your own neighborhood?"
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It's not ours. We don't own anything.
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It's amazing to me
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why we keep loving this country,
and this country does not love us back.
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I mean, this stuff is-- is hard to hear.
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But these are tough conversations,
and I would probably have more hope
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in its impact on our culture
if those same exact sentiments
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hadn't already
been conveyed to white people
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over and over and over.
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Like one year earlier
on The Breakfast Club.
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They never, never, never addressed
the primary problems of Black folk.
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Our primary problem was
not social integration or civil rights.
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The primary problems you never corrected.
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The legacies and burdens of slavery.
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Or by Viola Davis
at an award show in 2015.
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The only thing that separates
women of color from anyone else
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is opportunity.
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Or in the '90s,
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when Sister Souljah explained this
directly to Bill Clinton and Larry King.
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The thing that kills
African people in America
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is not what white people say,
but what they do,
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their policies, their actions.
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See, white people are pretending
that this problem is new
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and we're just hearing about it now,
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because we love to discover stuff
that's already existed.
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[audience laughing]
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It's kind of our thing.
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America!
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Where did you come from?
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First.
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As a matter of fact,
this shit has been said many times
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just by Chris Rock.
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Shit, there ain't a white man in this room
that would change places with me.
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And I'm rich.
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You had a 400-year head start,
motherfucker.
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See, the Black man gotta fly
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to get something
that the white man can walk to.
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A Black C student can't even be
the manager of Burger King.
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Meanwhile,
a white C student just happens to be
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the president
of the United States of America.
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He's a very good comedian.
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But you know what?
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Maybe you don't want to hear
about our racial divide
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and have it be funny.
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Would you rather Black people
invent an entire genre of music
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just to explain it to us?
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♪ Fathers of this country
Never cared for me ♪
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♪ They kept my ancestors
Shackled up in slavery ♪
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♪ And Uncle Sam never did
A damn thing for me ♪
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♪ Except lie about facts
In my history ♪
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But you know what? [stammers]
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It's wonderful that white people
are finally ready to sit back and listen.
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But damn.
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The Black people speaking out now
are just sampling the classics.
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Racism is so deeply embedded
into the fabric of the society.
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Thank you, Angela.
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James Baldwin went all the way
to England to explain it,
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because he wanted to do it
at white people headquarters.
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[James Baldwin]
It comes as a great shock to discover
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that the country which is your birthplace
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and to which you owe
your life and your identity
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has not, in its whole system of reality,
evolved any place for you.
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For fuck's sake,
Frederick Douglass told white people,
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"The rich inheritance of justice, liberty,
prosperity and independence
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bequeathed by your fathers
is shared by you, not by me."
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He said that in 1852.
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And now… 170 years later,
suddenly we're like,
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"Hey… you seem upset."
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[audience laughing]
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"We're still cool though, right?
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Did we do something?"
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Black people have given us step-by-step
instructions through the centuries.
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They didn't even do that
with the electric slide,
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which, by the way,
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three steps, and then you bend.
I don't want to get into it.
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And yet, even after all that,
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the wealth gap, worse now.
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Homeownership, worse now.
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Segregation, worse now.
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On average, a white high school graduate
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is wealthier than
a Black college graduate.
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Forget about them telling you.
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Even the stark facts don't seem to matter.
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Black Americans should understand
that if they study and work hard,
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they will likely succeed in this country.
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Just not as much as white people,
who don't study as hard.
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We have been told over and over
and over again by Black people
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that this country has never resolved the
original sins of slavery and segregation.
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But the response to that is always…
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If Barack Obama can make it as a
single-- as the son of a single white mom,
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then, so can everybody else.
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Oprah Winfrey is perhaps
the best example of a talented person
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who made it on her own in America.
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LeBron James
is a great American success story.
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How can America be racist
if Cleveland has a championship?
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[audience laughing]
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It doesn't seem to matter
what Black people tell us
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or how many times they say it.
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It lands on deaf ears.
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Because a large swath of white America
believes that Black Americans
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are solely responsible
for their community's struggle.
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And the bias is so pervasive,
we don't even notice it.
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Crack. Who's responsible?
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Let me tell you straight out.
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Everyone who uses drugs.
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Mmm.
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And perchance… who would this everyone be?
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[reporter 1] Crack has become
the new franchise, a chemical McDonald's.
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You want to get high,
you see the guys in the gangs
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in the red and blue outfits.
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[reporter 2]
The front line in the war on crack.
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[reporter 3] There are tens of thousands
more crack babies on the way.
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Crack babies…
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…are gonna overwhelm
every social service delivery system.
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[reporter 1] Before, we could afford
to ignore hopelessness
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represented by gangs.
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But now we're afraid it will affect
our schools, our kids, our streets.
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It's as innocent-looking as candy, but
it's turning our cities into battle zones.
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And it's murdering our children.
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What kind of fucking candy do you eat?
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[audience laughing]
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Now, this is not to downplay, at all,
the effects of the crack epidemic.
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But we are currently in the midst
of an equally corrosive opioid epidemic.
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Although that affects
a slightly different "everyone."
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And how is that portrayed?
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[reporter] America's addiction to opioids
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is playing out right down the street.
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Every type of person you can imagine.
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Successful people.
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Funny people.
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Moms, dads, grandparents.
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Injured athletes.
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Cancer patients.
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War veterans.
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Chances are greater than ever
you know someone directly affected.
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Why are opioids so hard to quit?
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Well, that's fucking easy.
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It links opioid receptors
and inhibits an enzyme that--
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I'm not going to get into it right now.
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But the point is, it's on purpose.
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And the people who made it that way
only had to pay a fine.
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But that's drugs.
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I'm sure poverty doesn't have
the same empathy gap.
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Inner city is a polite name for ghetto,
as in Black ghetto.
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[audience laughs, murmurs]
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And that's
the award-winning PBS journalist.
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So, uh-- uh, just out of curiosity,
why is the Black ghetto poor?
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Intelligent Americans know it is
the collapse of the traditional family
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that is wreaking havoc
in the African-American community.
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72% of Black babies
are born to single mothers.
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If they would start talking
about the responsibilities of fatherhood.
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Dependency on welfare
was breaking up Black families.
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The breakdown of the Black family
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and an extraordinarily dysfunctional,
toxic inner city culture.
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[chuckles] Inner city? Excuse me.
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The politically correct phrase
is "Black ghetto."
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[audience laughing]
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Good day.
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Uh, by the way, how do we portray poverty
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in the… outer city?
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[reporter 1] Ruggedly beautiful
and deeply poor Appalachia
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for decades has struggled.
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[reporter 2]
People here have struggled more and more
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as their factories have shuttered
and their coal mines have closed.
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It's been a slow,
painful drip of job losses for decades.
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It used to be with a high school degree,
you could get a job
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that actually could provide
for your family.
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Yeah.
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And the disappearance of those may
lead people to feel a lot more stressed.
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So that low self worth,
along with that hopelessness feeling,
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we start seeing tremendous depression.
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So how do you relieve depression?
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You can relieve it with drug use,
alcohol use.
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White people are poor and do drugs
because something has been done to them.
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Black people are poor and do drugs
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'cause they won't
just get up and do something.
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Everything that happens
is viewed through that filter.
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[reporter 1] What started
as peaceful protest
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devolving into something beyond that.
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[reporter 2]
An explosion of violence today.
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[reporter 3] This is not what we want
people to see of the city of Philadelphia.
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Well, it makes perfect sense.
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How would you like people to see
the city of Philadelphia?
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The Eagles victory touched off
a wild celebration in Philadelphia.
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[reporter 1]
The celebration quickly got rowdy.
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Fans pulled down traffic lights.
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[reporter 2] The awning in front
of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel collapsed.
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[reporter 1]
Started fires and tipped over cars.
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Looks like everybody
had a good time there last night.
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[audience laughing]
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And thus…
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the problem with white people.
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[audience applauding, cheering]
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Hold on. I'm just gonna…
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I'm just--
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I'm just gonna stop for a second and--
and pose, so you can get your memes out.
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Okay, there we go.
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Get a good picture for your clickbaits.
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For however sincerely
we want to reckon and listen,
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the truth is,
America has always prioritized
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white comfort over Black survival.
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Black people have had to fight
so hard for equality
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that they've been irreparably set back
in the pursuit of equity.
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And any real attempt
to repar-- repar-- repair
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a ton of… that damage--
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[whispers] Reparation.
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[normal voice] …sets off white people's
"They're coming for our shit" alarm.
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Which we would know ourselves
had we actually been listening.
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My feeling is white people
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have a very, very serious problem.
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And they should start thinking
about what they can do about it.
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Take me out of it.
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Understood.
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Take a look at this.
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Hey, white people, it's me, Leslie Jones,
America's motherfucking sweetheart,
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here to illuminate
something for all y'all.
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Racism is a spectrum.
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And it can go from "racism" to "racism."
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With many shades and flavors in between.
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But what degree of racist are you?
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We have the extreme racists.
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Skinheads, KKK, most of--
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All of Boston.
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Boom! Right here.
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Now, right in the middle.
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Are you the person who says
"I have a Black friend"?
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Do you consider me that Black friend?
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Lynyrd Skynyrd fans.
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"Free Bird," is that by Lynyrd Skynyrd?
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I love "Free Bird." I didn't know that
they was racist until later on in my life.
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Right here.
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The ladies who think Meghan McCain
got bullied on The View.
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That bitch didn't get bullied.
She ain't get bullied.
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Do you secretly wish Bring It On
ended in a tie?
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So you saying the bitches from Compton
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really, really was gonna tie
with you, bitch? No.
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This is where you are.
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And at the very end of the spectrum
we have the unconscious bias.
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A catch-all for the rest of y'all.
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Did you assume Uncle Ben
and Aunt Jemima were a couple?
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You racist and dumb as hell.
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Do you think all nipples are pink?
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Even while you looking
at my black-ass face!
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That's racism sneaking in
without you knowing it.
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Tricky little bitch.
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Okay, white people, I'm done teaching.
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If you didn't see yourself
on the spectrum,
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that's the category you in.
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Giving yourself
the Best White Person Award.
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Congratu-fucking-lations.
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[audience cheering, applauding]
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One thing's that's fucking mind-blowing
to me is that one in five white people
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believe that they're discriminated
against more than Black people.
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- One in five.
- That doesn't even hold true
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in the category of best rap album
at the Grammys.
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[all laughing]
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- Was that one in five?
- One in five.
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So, was it Ross, Rachel, Chandler…
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- [all laughing]
- …Phoebe?
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It wasn't my baby Monica.
Please, not Monica.
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[audience cheering, applauding]
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Hey.
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We're back.
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Uh, welcome back. Now, obviously--
Thank you very much for joining us again.
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Uh…
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Obviously, usually in an episode
about race, focusing on Black issues,
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uh, you'd want to connect
with a Cornel West, a Ta-Nehisi Coates,
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a Dave Matthews, experts in the field.
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But I'm gonna take, uh,
Toni Morrison's advice on this.
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It's time for white people to talk
and figure some things out.
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So tonight I'm speaking to, I mean,
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honestly, as white a panel
as I think I could find.
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I have an Andrew, a Lisa and a Chip.
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This-- This panel is bone.
It is-- It is alabaster.
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Uh, to my left, is Chip Gallagher,
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he's a professor of Sociology
at La Salle University.
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He researches social inequality and race.
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Lisa Bond, the resident white woman
for Race2Dinner,
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a group that is trying to have better
conversations about race in America.
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And joining remotely, longtime author
and columnist Andrew Sullivan,
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editor of The Weekly Dish.
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Welcome, everybody.
Thanks so much for joining us.
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Uh-- I want to know what it is--
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Here's what I think holds back
our race conversation in America.
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I think at its core,
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I think white people put blame
on Black people
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for the position that they are in.
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And then believe that white people
will lose something
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in order for Black people to gain it.
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And-- And that's what creates that
resentment and difficulty to overcome.
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And I'll start with Chip because…
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- Chip.
- [chuckles]
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It's Charles. Uh, yeah.
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- That doesn't help.
- No, it doesn't help. Yeah, yeah.
403
00:22:31,603 --> 00:22:33,230
- Okay. Uh…
- [chuckles]
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A significant amount of white people
in the United States of America
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see race relations
through a color-blind lens.
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And I don't mean that--
I don't mean that whites don't see race.
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They see someone that's Black or Asian.
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But they don't, in any way,
attach any meaning to the color
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in affecting life chances.
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And what that fundamentally means is
that race doesn't matter in getting ahead.
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It just doesn't matter.
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They believe that we are in a race--
race-neutral environment.
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[stammers]
That the playing field has been leveled.
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- And if you make it, um, or you don't…
- It's a meritocracy.
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…it's a meritocracy, and it's a
narrative also, that does a lot of things.
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It makes white privilege invisible.
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Um, and it also makes whites feel
that whatever they did,
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whatever successes they had,
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had nothing to do with
what happened 50, 100, 200 years ago.
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You have to look at it as…
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it is difficult.
422
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I can see how people would get
defensive about, "I didn't have sla--
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I-- I have not actively participated.
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I am a part of a system
that was built through, uh, racism.
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But-- But my life is hard
and I work hard and I don't get ahead.
426
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So how--
how does privilege factor into it to me?"
427
00:23:40,797 --> 00:23:43,633
Now, Lisa, you try
and get these conversations going.
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Where I come from,
is that this system of white supremacy
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has done such a good job of teaching us,
as white people, that racism is bad.
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And when we talk about racism,
we're talking about your character flaw.
431
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If we say you're racist,
it's a character flaw.
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- Mm-hmm.
- I'm bad, and I know I'm not bad.
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I'm-- I think I'm a good person.
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I think I'm a nice person,
and I know that I am racist.
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And I know that I am racist
because I, every single day,
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uphold the systems
and the structures of racism.
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And if we don't start having
a conversation about that,
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and about the ways that we are complicit
every day, daily--
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If we don't talk about it,
then we are never going to see movement.
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- Ever.
- Andrew, do you think
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because it always gets framed
on that moral level, right?
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Does the moral qualifying of it
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make resentment
the natural outcome of that?
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I think one of the issues is that some--
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it's very hard to agree
with some of the very premises
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that are being expressed tonight,
as if everything is already settled.
447
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We know this country is,
for example, a white supremacy.
448
00:24:59,834 --> 00:25:01,211
Well, I don't believe that.
449
00:25:01,753 --> 00:25:06,800
I think it's possibly the most absurd
hyperbole I've ever heard.
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I come from--
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I'm an immigrant, so I have
a slightly different view of this.
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I can tell you America in 2022
is the most multiracial,
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multicultural, tolerant,
diverse melting pot
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that has ever existed on planet Earth.
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And there is no other place
on Earth even like it.
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That's why 86%
of our immigrants are non-white.
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[Stewart] Let me ask you a question.
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Do you think they want to come
to a white supremacist country?
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I-I think you bring up
an interesting point,
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and we might be
getting hung up on semantics.
461
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So the fact that you're an immigrant
speaks volumes.
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It means you chose to come here.
463
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But America didn't start that way
for Black people.
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They didn't immigrate here.
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They were living somewhere else
and they were kidnapped, and raped
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and murdered and taken here.
467
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And so for you to just say this
is a magnificent place
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that doesn't have racism
is actually, I think…
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- [Sullivan] I didn't say that.
- …more of a foundational lie
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than anything else.
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- [audience cheers]
- I didn't say that.
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I did not say that.
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- You said that it's the most hyperbole--
- I did not say that racism doesn't exist.
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00:26:14,576 --> 00:26:19,247
I said the term "white supremacy"
is an absurd hyperbole.
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For most people, that means the KKK.
476
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It means no rights for minorities.
477
00:26:23,752 --> 00:26:26,087
- And this has been used…
- Okay, then let's define the term.
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- …simply to avoid an argument.
- Let's take a step back.
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And let's define what we mean
by white supremacy.
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When you say white supremacy,
481
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how are you defining it
for, uh, this conversation?
482
00:26:38,099 --> 00:26:41,269
When I talk about white supremacy
and when I talk about racism,
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I'm talking about, um,
power and privilege.
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The power and privilege
that we hold as white people in society.
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The way in which our structures,
our institutions, our systems,
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how everything was designed
with white people in mind,
487
00:26:57,869 --> 00:26:59,788
and only white people in mind.
488
00:26:59,871 --> 00:27:05,418
If you think about who-- who is white
in society, how it has morphed…
489
00:27:05,502 --> 00:27:08,838
Oh, dude, I'm a Jew.
I was grandfathered in like 50 years ago.
490
00:27:08,922 --> 00:27:11,132
- Right.
- [Stewart] They-- Here's what they did.
491
00:27:11,216 --> 00:27:13,593
Brown people started coming. They're
like, "We're gonna need some Jews."
492
00:27:13,677 --> 00:27:14,970
And so they brought us in.
493
00:27:15,053 --> 00:27:16,263
- [Bond] Absolutely.
- It expands.
494
00:27:16,346 --> 00:27:21,184
But it does that to hold up the pillars
of the systems that are in place.
495
00:27:21,268 --> 00:27:22,686
But you think it's purposeful?
496
00:27:22,769 --> 00:27:25,355
- It's absolutely purposeful.
- Andrew, would your argument be
497
00:27:25,438 --> 00:27:28,984
that you don't believe that that's
purposeful, or that it doesn't exist?
498
00:27:29,609 --> 00:27:31,945
- I don't believe it exists.
- Okay.
499
00:27:32,028 --> 00:27:34,281
I don't know what these systems are.
500
00:27:34,364 --> 00:27:36,032
- [Stewart] Okay, so--
- Just give me one system.
501
00:27:36,116 --> 00:27:38,326
- All right, redlining neighborhoods.
- Capitalism?
502
00:27:38,410 --> 00:27:40,704
- No, redlining neighborhoods.
- Well, that's a state--
503
00:27:40,787 --> 00:27:43,873
That was a state-enforced thing
from Jim Crow,
504
00:27:43,957 --> 00:27:47,127
which is the one point
of which I think absolutely is true.
505
00:27:47,210 --> 00:27:49,880
So you just said
it doesn't exist except for that.
506
00:27:50,422 --> 00:27:51,548
- No, no, no.
- Yeah.
507
00:27:51,631 --> 00:27:54,342
No, I said white supremacy doesn't exist.
508
00:27:54,426 --> 00:27:58,221
So when the New Deal--
when the New Deal was passed, right?
509
00:27:58,305 --> 00:27:59,389
When the New Deal passed,
510
00:27:59,472 --> 00:28:03,768
Black people were explicitly
not allowed to have those loans.
511
00:28:03,852 --> 00:28:06,605
When the Homestead Act
allowed white people
512
00:28:06,688 --> 00:28:10,775
to get an enormous wealth of land
and be able to farm it,
513
00:28:10,859 --> 00:28:12,444
Black people did not have access to that.
514
00:28:12,527 --> 00:28:16,573
When slaves were freed,
when Social Security came--
515
00:28:16,656 --> 00:28:19,534
Black people-- when the G.I. Bill--
Black people were not--
516
00:28:19,618 --> 00:28:22,537
So when you say to me,
"I don't get how this exists,"
517
00:28:22,621 --> 00:28:25,540
I'm just having trouble figuring out,
like-- I mean, you're a bright guy,
518
00:28:25,624 --> 00:28:27,500
like, what the fuck are you talking about?
519
00:28:27,584 --> 00:28:29,628
- [Gallagher] Exactly.
- Honestly, like, I don't know.
520
00:28:29,711 --> 00:28:30,629
Yeah.
521
00:28:30,712 --> 00:28:34,299
So, Chip, Chip, you jump in.
And I don't mean to attack you.
522
00:28:34,382 --> 00:28:38,220
- I'm just confused. Chip.
- First off, the false analogy is this--
523
00:28:38,303 --> 00:28:43,934
equating 250 years of slavery
and then 100 years of Jim Crow
524
00:28:44,017 --> 00:28:49,105
with the immigrant experiences
of white Europeans from 1870 to 1924.
525
00:28:49,189 --> 00:28:50,941
I grew up in an Italian, Jewish
neighborhood in Philadelphia,
526
00:28:51,024 --> 00:28:52,108
working class.
527
00:28:52,192 --> 00:28:53,902
But you know how these folks made it?
528
00:28:53,985 --> 00:28:57,906
They got jobs in the government,
civil jobs, cops, union jobs.
529
00:28:57,989 --> 00:29:01,159
These were all off-limits.
If you were brown or Black, forget it.
530
00:29:01,243 --> 00:29:03,119
Here's the real deal about everything,
531
00:29:03,203 --> 00:29:06,122
is that whites came to believe
that everything good--
532
00:29:06,206 --> 00:29:09,334
the jobs, the lands, the suburbs,
it was theirs.
533
00:29:09,417 --> 00:29:12,128
And when Blacks try to encroach,
that's when you have the pushback.
534
00:29:12,212 --> 00:29:16,550
That's when you have riots about busing.
That's when you have terrorism.
535
00:29:16,633 --> 00:29:19,719
So I don't know-- You know, I get Andrew.
I know Andrew's history.
536
00:29:19,803 --> 00:29:23,056
But, like, I don't even remotely
understand what he's saying
537
00:29:23,139 --> 00:29:24,182
about American history.
538
00:29:24,266 --> 00:29:25,976
Because it is not in anyway--
539
00:29:26,059 --> 00:29:28,770
People that have studied it, this
is nothing like what he's talking about.
540
00:29:28,853 --> 00:29:31,022
No one is denying this awful history.
541
00:29:31,106 --> 00:29:32,691
Nor is anyone denying--
542
00:29:32,774 --> 00:29:36,486
Great, so let's talk productively
about what we do about it.
543
00:29:36,570 --> 00:29:39,739
I think the conversation is then this--
we have an awful history.
544
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,241
It's-- It's--
545
00:29:41,324 --> 00:29:43,910
- Remnants are still felt today.
- We also have a great history, Jon.
546
00:29:43,994 --> 00:29:46,079
- Say it again.
- We also have a great history.
547
00:29:46,162 --> 00:29:48,081
But I think you're minimizing it.
548
00:29:48,164 --> 00:29:49,874
You're suggesting that because--
549
00:29:49,958 --> 00:29:55,213
I think by calling today white supremacy,
you are minimizing actual white supremacy.
550
00:29:55,297 --> 00:29:57,591
We have an incredible diversity.
551
00:29:57,674 --> 00:30:02,512
To condemn all American history as racist
when in fact it's been liberatory…
552
00:30:03,138 --> 00:30:07,017
The systems that were racist
that were put in place that--
553
00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:10,186
- Systems?
- Yes, the systems that were put in place.
554
00:30:10,270 --> 00:30:12,647
I'd like you to explain
exactly what they are.
555
00:30:12,731 --> 00:30:15,442
Well, I thought I explained it
earlier about the G.I. Bill
556
00:30:15,525 --> 00:30:17,193
and about the New Deal.
557
00:30:17,277 --> 00:30:20,363
That's one thing.
I want to know about these systems.
558
00:30:20,447 --> 00:30:22,908
I just explained it. Housing--
559
00:30:23,491 --> 00:30:25,744
That's one, and I've agreed that.
560
00:30:25,827 --> 00:30:29,331
Andrew, you're not living
on the same fucking planet we are.
561
00:30:29,414 --> 00:30:30,874
Honestly.
562
00:30:30,957 --> 00:30:33,835
- I really don't think you are.
- I think you are not living--
563
00:30:33,919 --> 00:30:37,005
I think you are not living
in the planet most Americans are,
564
00:30:37,088 --> 00:30:39,799
which is why this kind of extremism…
565
00:30:39,883 --> 00:30:42,344
- Right.
- …this-- this anti-white extremism…
566
00:30:42,427 --> 00:30:45,263
- Yes.
- …is losing popular support,
567
00:30:45,347 --> 00:30:49,267
is creating a backlash,
is going to elect Republicans
568
00:30:49,351 --> 00:30:51,478
and undo a lot of the good
you think you're doing.
569
00:30:51,561 --> 00:30:54,022
This is what happens
when you don't talk about it.
570
00:30:54,105 --> 00:30:55,774
- I'm in favor of talking about it.
- This is what happens
571
00:30:55,857 --> 00:30:57,525
when white people don't talk about it,
572
00:30:57,609 --> 00:31:01,196
is you have racist,
dog-whistle tropes like this
573
00:31:01,279 --> 00:31:04,407
that actually perpetuate
and perpetuate and perpetuate.
574
00:31:04,491 --> 00:31:06,243
So I am-- I-I--
575
00:31:06,326 --> 00:31:11,706
And I did not come on this show to sit
here and argue with another white man.
576
00:31:11,790 --> 00:31:12,874
That's one of the reasons
577
00:31:12,958 --> 00:31:15,669
that we don't even engage
with white men at Race2Dinner.
578
00:31:15,752 --> 00:31:19,297
- Um… So, um…
- [Gallagher] I'm out.
579
00:31:19,381 --> 00:31:20,715
You know, because quite honestly,
580
00:31:20,799 --> 00:31:24,970
if white men were going to do something
about racism, you had 400 years.
581
00:31:25,053 --> 00:31:27,472
- You could've done it.
- [audience cheering]
582
00:31:27,556 --> 00:31:29,849
Okay. Um…
583
00:31:30,350 --> 00:31:32,852
- So, I just-- Nope.
- I am 58 years old.
584
00:31:32,936 --> 00:31:34,187
I'm shutting you down right now.
585
00:31:34,271 --> 00:31:37,482
- Um, so the point is…
- I'm not responsible for anyone before me.
586
00:31:37,566 --> 00:31:41,069
…I'm so tired of just engaging
this conversation
587
00:31:41,152 --> 00:31:44,573
and this deep hurt that Andrew has
about talking about racism.
588
00:31:44,656 --> 00:31:48,910
And-And, Chip, God bless you,
but I'm gonna put everybody in the thing.
589
00:31:48,994 --> 00:31:51,288
All of us white people do this.
590
00:31:51,371 --> 00:31:53,373
I don't care if we say
we're abolitionists.
591
00:31:53,456 --> 00:31:55,166
I don't care if we say we're progressive.
592
00:31:55,250 --> 00:31:59,004
I don't care if we're literally
members of the KKK.
593
00:31:59,087 --> 00:32:03,592
Every single white person upholds these
systems and structures of white supremacy.
594
00:32:03,675 --> 00:32:05,760
And we have got to talk about it.
595
00:32:05,844 --> 00:32:09,306
[audience applauding, cheering]
596
00:32:12,392 --> 00:32:15,770
If I could finger snap,
I would finger snap right now.
597
00:32:16,396 --> 00:32:17,939
Uh, let's remove it then from the--
598
00:32:18,023 --> 00:32:20,191
Will you be finger snapping her
calling me a racist, Jon?
599
00:32:20,275 --> 00:32:24,779
Let's-- You've been doing a pretty good
job with it yourself there, so…
600
00:32:25,488 --> 00:32:29,200
Uh, but, Andrew,
I think you're taking words out of context
601
00:32:29,284 --> 00:32:31,036
and blowing them out of proportion
602
00:32:31,119 --> 00:32:36,333
so that you don't have to deal with
having to figure out a way
603
00:32:36,416 --> 00:32:39,878
to deconstruct the barriers
that were put in place
604
00:32:39,961 --> 00:32:41,963
for Black people in this country
605
00:32:42,047 --> 00:32:44,549
and give them a better chance.
606
00:32:44,633 --> 00:32:49,304
- Your opening segment was the biggest--
- Was brilliant.
607
00:32:49,387 --> 00:32:51,765
He didn't see it. I don't think he saw it.
608
00:32:51,848 --> 00:32:53,683
Brilliant.
609
00:32:53,767 --> 00:32:56,686
The biggest reductionist, one-sided--
610
00:32:56,770 --> 00:32:58,939
- Yes. Yes.
- Uh, uh…
611
00:32:59,022 --> 00:33:02,234
- Completely biased position.
- Yes, yes.
612
00:33:02,317 --> 00:33:05,403
- Andrew, you are correct.
- When I watched it, I wondered,
613
00:33:05,487 --> 00:33:09,574
have you lived in the same country
as everybody else for the last 30 years?
614
00:33:09,658 --> 00:33:12,118
It was a straw man that you created.
615
00:33:12,202 --> 00:33:13,662
- Andrew…
- A total straw man.
616
00:33:13,745 --> 00:33:16,414
- …you can appreciate things--
- In which every white person was bad.
617
00:33:16,498 --> 00:33:18,959
- Let me stop for a second.
- Every Black person had the same position.
618
00:33:19,042 --> 00:33:21,169
You can appreciate where you live.
619
00:33:21,795 --> 00:33:23,964
You can love where you live.
620
00:33:24,047 --> 00:33:29,261
And you can honestly diagnose
a terrible, terrible illness
621
00:33:29,344 --> 00:33:34,224
that has lived in this beautiful place
that you call home and love,
622
00:33:34,307 --> 00:33:38,395
that you believe
has metastasized into a cancer
623
00:33:38,478 --> 00:33:43,900
that can kill the very thing that you
believe in so deeply about this country.
624
00:33:43,984 --> 00:33:45,777
To improve that place
625
00:33:45,860 --> 00:33:51,866
and make it into the country that it
stated it was in its founding documents
626
00:33:51,950 --> 00:33:55,287
is the duty of everybody who lives here.
627
00:33:55,370 --> 00:33:57,956
- So do not…
- [Sullivan] Indeed.
628
00:33:58,039 --> 00:34:01,418
…tell me who I am
or what I believe, uh, motherfucker.
629
00:34:01,501 --> 00:34:03,920
I'm just saying
that you've created a straw man.
630
00:34:04,004 --> 00:34:05,672
- [laughs]
- [audience applauding]
631
00:34:07,090 --> 00:34:11,177
I apologize. I-- I-- I fucking--
[stammers]
632
00:34:11,260 --> 00:34:13,805
When you get older,
it's harder to control the emotions.
633
00:34:13,889 --> 00:34:15,599
But let's talk about solutions.
634
00:34:15,682 --> 00:34:18,852
Um, Lisa, I'll start with you.
What is-- What is the future?
635
00:34:18,934 --> 00:34:24,900
How do we heal a country that has
a really difficult time dealing with this?
636
00:34:24,983 --> 00:34:29,945
As we see from four people that I think,
uh, like and respect each other
637
00:34:30,030 --> 00:34:31,948
and yet still can't have a conversation.
638
00:34:32,032 --> 00:34:34,492
I think the first thing
that we need to understand
639
00:34:34,576 --> 00:34:36,745
is that all of us white people
640
00:34:36,827 --> 00:34:41,791
have a responsibility to engage
in these conversations regularly.
641
00:34:41,874 --> 00:34:44,753
But when it gets hot like this,
what do you do?
642
00:34:44,836 --> 00:34:47,088
How do you back out of that
and remind everybody like,
643
00:34:47,172 --> 00:34:49,507
"Hey, okay, let's take a breath.
We're all--
644
00:34:50,258 --> 00:34:52,844
I think we're all decent,
good-hearted people
645
00:34:52,928 --> 00:34:54,262
who are trying to do the right thing.
646
00:34:54,346 --> 00:34:56,264
- We differ in how to do it."
- Yes.
647
00:34:56,347 --> 00:35:00,769
I think that we have to know
that we have to hold people accountable,
648
00:35:00,852 --> 00:35:07,108
but we also have to, um,
hold them with grace and with compassion.
649
00:35:07,192 --> 00:35:09,527
And we have to--
we have to do each of them.
650
00:35:09,611 --> 00:35:11,988
[Gallagher] To Lisa's point,
I think at the individual level
651
00:35:12,072 --> 00:35:13,406
- there are things we can do.
- Yeah.
652
00:35:13,490 --> 00:35:14,616
- At the big level…
- Okay.
653
00:35:14,699 --> 00:35:19,704
…what I think is that a lot of racism,
when you strip it away,
654
00:35:19,788 --> 00:35:24,084
it's about someone trying to take
my resources. And status is a resource.
655
00:35:24,751 --> 00:35:28,797
We need something akin to a new New Deal,
to something to a Marshall Plan.
656
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,801
We basically, instead of building
another B-1 bomber or another carrier--
657
00:35:32,884 --> 00:35:34,594
basically we invest in our infrastructure.
658
00:35:34,678 --> 00:35:37,764
Schools, bridges.
I mean, the list is very, very long.
659
00:35:37,847 --> 00:35:41,101
Andrew, I would think that's something
actually that might appeal to you
660
00:35:41,184 --> 00:35:43,144
in terms of rebuilding
infrastructure and things,
661
00:35:43,228 --> 00:35:46,648
because that's not, uh, based on--
but it's rebuilding areas
662
00:35:46,731 --> 00:35:49,484
that are entrenched in poverty
and those things.
663
00:35:49,568 --> 00:35:54,239
It can be absolutely, yes, um,
but I'm sorry to say,
664
00:35:54,322 --> 00:35:57,742
I think just white people talking
about this endlessly
665
00:35:57,826 --> 00:35:59,452
is not going to help
666
00:35:59,536 --> 00:36:01,871
actual Black Americans who deal with it.
667
00:36:01,955 --> 00:36:03,832
I have certain ideas about that.
668
00:36:03,915 --> 00:36:07,335
I think we need to focus intensely
on young education.
669
00:36:07,419 --> 00:36:08,753
I think education is crucial.
670
00:36:08,837 --> 00:36:14,092
I think figuring out a way to help
Black kids have a stable family.
671
00:36:14,175 --> 00:36:15,886
The truth is-- That's two--
672
00:36:15,969 --> 00:36:19,431
If you have a two-parent home,
you're going to do better.
673
00:36:19,514 --> 00:36:20,849
You really are.
674
00:36:20,932 --> 00:36:24,519
I didn't grow up in a stable family.
I grew up in a single-parent family.
675
00:36:24,603 --> 00:36:27,230
- I'm just telling you the data.
- And so, you know--
676
00:36:27,314 --> 00:36:30,692
The data is that 30% of African Americans
don't have this.
677
00:36:30,775 --> 00:36:34,571
It's the biggest factor in getting people
into college and succeeding in life.
678
00:36:34,654 --> 00:36:37,782
And if you ignore it,
we're gonna let these Black kids down.
679
00:36:37,866 --> 00:36:40,702
I think Andrew-- I mean,
what I'm hearing is, like, the family,
680
00:36:40,785 --> 00:36:42,162
the pathology of the Black family.
681
00:36:42,245 --> 00:36:44,372
That was the line.
It wasn't the Black family.
682
00:36:44,456 --> 00:36:46,708
It was the structures.
You know, in the '80s it was crack.
683
00:36:46,791 --> 00:36:48,835
It's disinvestment, it's--
it's white flight.
684
00:36:48,919 --> 00:36:52,714
Family stability-- There is an element of
economic stability and family stability.
685
00:36:52,797 --> 00:36:54,549
And like,
that's lost in your conversation.
686
00:36:54,633 --> 00:36:57,552
I feel like your defensiveness
687
00:36:57,636 --> 00:37:01,306
and the tropes that you use
about, uh, the Black family
688
00:37:01,389 --> 00:37:04,768
being the cause of entrenched poverty
in that community
689
00:37:04,851 --> 00:37:09,272
ignores why those families
are broken up in the first place.
690
00:37:09,356 --> 00:37:10,899
And that's mass incarceration,
691
00:37:10,982 --> 00:37:14,277
and that's, uh, the way that we viewed
the crack epidemic,
692
00:37:14,361 --> 00:37:18,740
and that's the economic opportunity
over generations that was defined, so--
693
00:37:18,823 --> 00:37:22,744
You keep trying to remove things
from their historical bearings.
694
00:37:22,827 --> 00:37:24,412
- And I just think that's--
- [Sullivan] No.
695
00:37:24,496 --> 00:37:27,290
If you can't diagnose the problem,
you can't fix it.
696
00:37:27,374 --> 00:37:30,877
We need to think about how we help
the family restructure itself.
697
00:37:30,961 --> 00:37:32,921
Because it's key. It's key.
698
00:37:33,004 --> 00:37:34,172
Let's boil it down then.
699
00:37:34,256 --> 00:37:36,883
Why do you think the family got that way?
700
00:37:36,967 --> 00:37:38,134
Because I do think--
701
00:37:38,218 --> 00:37:41,388
Because I do think it wasn't--
Marriage became less important.
702
00:37:41,471 --> 00:37:43,598
Sex outside of marriage became--
for all of us.
703
00:37:43,682 --> 00:37:46,226
Uh-huh. But you're not talking
about all of us, Andrew.
704
00:37:46,309 --> 00:37:49,104
And now we're seeing the same
happening with white families.
705
00:37:49,187 --> 00:37:52,023
You're talking about
specifically the Black community.
706
00:37:52,107 --> 00:37:54,442
If you look at white families today,
you see the same thing.
707
00:37:54,526 --> 00:37:56,152
So you're upset about that as well?
708
00:37:56,236 --> 00:37:58,154
- Of course I am.
- Okay, all right.
709
00:37:58,238 --> 00:38:00,699
I'm not blaming-- This is--
This is a family question.
710
00:38:00,782 --> 00:38:03,660
White or Black, you're gonna do better
if your parents stay at home
711
00:38:03,743 --> 00:38:06,079
and take care of you until you leave home.
712
00:38:06,162 --> 00:38:07,622
That's just a fact.
713
00:38:07,706 --> 00:38:10,458
How are you supposed to do that
when you work a low-income job
714
00:38:10,542 --> 00:38:11,835
and you don't have child care?
715
00:38:12,460 --> 00:38:15,171
Well, it's really tough,
which is why we need to address that.
716
00:38:15,255 --> 00:38:17,716
- Absolutely.
- But that's what we just talked about.
717
00:38:17,799 --> 00:38:20,051
Of course we do and--
Yeah, that's important. I agree.
718
00:38:20,135 --> 00:38:23,096
I would spend more on that.
I'd spend more on schooling.
719
00:38:23,179 --> 00:38:25,307
I would spend more on child care.
720
00:38:25,390 --> 00:38:28,184
But I do not think
you can dismiss culture.
721
00:38:28,268 --> 00:38:30,937
- There are very poor--
- That's the point I'm getting to, Andrew,
722
00:38:31,021 --> 00:38:33,064
which I think you've been dodging around.
723
00:38:33,148 --> 00:38:35,150
What do you mean by culture?
724
00:38:35,233 --> 00:38:41,907
I mean a culture in which the family unit
is not as strong as it might be.
725
00:38:41,990 --> 00:38:44,451
And in which the sense of making it
in America--
726
00:38:44,534 --> 00:38:46,661
And why is it not as strong
as it might be?
727
00:38:46,745 --> 00:38:49,456
- You're not talking about everybody.
- …a source of a lot of our problems.
728
00:38:49,539 --> 00:38:50,999
- I am.
- You're talking about Black people.
729
00:38:51,082 --> 00:38:52,334
Why do you think--
730
00:38:52,417 --> 00:38:54,836
You seem to feel like somehow
731
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:59,549
Black culture is uniquely
destructive to family. Why?
732
00:38:59,633 --> 00:39:00,842
I don't-- I don't--
733
00:39:00,926 --> 00:39:04,054
To be honest, I'm just telling you
that's what is the truth,
734
00:39:04,137 --> 00:39:06,598
that 30% are still born out of wedlock.
735
00:39:06,681 --> 00:39:07,933
Only born out of wedlock.
736
00:39:08,016 --> 00:39:10,477
I mean, it's a complicated question.
I think--
737
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,562
Well, that's why I'm asking you
to explain it.
738
00:39:12,646 --> 00:39:14,940
- Tell me.
- [stammering] It's also a function--
739
00:39:15,023 --> 00:39:18,818
Well, I think it's a function of social
conservatism losing its grip
740
00:39:18,902 --> 00:39:20,153
in African-American communities.
741
00:39:20,237 --> 00:39:21,655
In the 1930s,
742
00:39:21,738 --> 00:39:25,951
the family retention rate,
the marriage rate was in the 80s.
743
00:39:26,034 --> 00:39:27,035
80 percent.
744
00:39:27,118 --> 00:39:29,955
If it was 80% in Harlem in 1928
745
00:39:30,622 --> 00:39:32,666
and it's only 30% now,
746
00:39:33,792 --> 00:39:37,045
we need to get it back to where it was
to have a better chance
747
00:39:37,128 --> 00:39:39,422
for kids-- for Black kids to succeed.
748
00:39:39,506 --> 00:39:40,882
That's what I'm talking about.
749
00:39:40,966 --> 00:39:43,927
- Because you care about Black kids.
- And-- Okay. That's-- So we'll--
750
00:39:44,010 --> 00:39:46,805
- We'll look into that.
- [audience laughing]
751
00:39:46,888 --> 00:39:48,056
- Um…
- [audience member] Yeah!
752
00:39:48,139 --> 00:39:50,559
[stammering] And we'll get there, but, uh…
753
00:39:50,642 --> 00:39:53,019
People in those communities want
a better quality of life.
754
00:39:53,103 --> 00:39:56,898
Whatever we have to do to get there
for them to attain quality of life--
755
00:39:56,982 --> 00:39:58,567
It's not about broken marriage--
756
00:39:58,650 --> 00:40:01,987
It's about, how do we get people
to have the quality of life
757
00:40:02,070 --> 00:40:04,781
that we all as Americans, uh, deserve?
758
00:40:04,864 --> 00:40:06,992
I think that we can all agree on.
759
00:40:07,075 --> 00:40:10,745
And what a wonderful moment of kumbaya…
760
00:40:10,829 --> 00:40:12,872
[audience laughs]
761
00:40:12,956 --> 00:40:16,668
…at the end. I've appreciated everyone
taking the time to do this.
762
00:40:16,751 --> 00:40:21,423
Boy, has it pointed out some fault lines,
and we've got to recalibrate
763
00:40:21,506 --> 00:40:25,719
and find a way to… be open to
764
00:40:25,802 --> 00:40:31,141
all different stripes
of white people in the conversation,
765
00:40:31,224 --> 00:40:33,643
whether they be people who study it,
766
00:40:33,727 --> 00:40:36,438
uh, people who spend their lives
trying to change it,
767
00:40:36,521 --> 00:40:39,733
or people who are very upset
about having to do that.
768
00:40:39,816 --> 00:40:41,735
- Um…
- [audience laughs]
769
00:40:41,818 --> 00:40:44,029
Thank you very much,
Andrew Sullivan, Lisa and Chip.
770
00:40:44,112 --> 00:40:45,572
All right, we'll be right back.
771
00:40:45,655 --> 00:40:47,532
[audience cheering]
772
00:40:47,616 --> 00:40:49,326
[no audible dialogue]
773
00:40:54,289 --> 00:40:55,290
[audience laughs]
774
00:41:01,129 --> 00:41:04,341
[commentator] Back to Larry for three.
Yes. Three-pointer!
775
00:41:04,424 --> 00:41:06,092
[commentator 2] Hits the three.
776
00:41:06,176 --> 00:41:09,721
[commentator 1] The hired assassin
is firing it on target today.
777
00:41:09,804 --> 00:41:11,348
[commentator 2]
Look at that smooth rhythm.
778
00:41:11,431 --> 00:41:12,766
[commentator 3] Stockton open.
779
00:41:12,849 --> 00:41:14,643
[commentator 4]
It's another one. Great pass.
780
00:41:14,726 --> 00:41:16,811
Beautiful play for Little John Stockton.
781
00:41:16,895 --> 00:41:18,855
["The Best" playing]
782
00:41:20,106 --> 00:41:21,566
[cheering]
783
00:41:43,838 --> 00:41:46,258
- [Stewart] Senator Booker.
- I wish we were back in Jersey, man.
784
00:41:46,341 --> 00:41:48,343
I feel in some ways
like I am back in Jersey.
785
00:41:48,426 --> 00:41:50,345
We've declared this
for the state of New Jersey.
786
00:41:53,390 --> 00:41:54,891
- Senator Scott, South Carolina.
- Yes, sir.
787
00:41:54,975 --> 00:41:56,601
- Thank you so much for joining us.
- Absolutely.
788
00:41:56,685 --> 00:41:59,896
Uh, in this country,
obviously after George Floyd
789
00:41:59,980 --> 00:42:02,983
there was a real sense
of a racial reckoning
790
00:42:03,066 --> 00:42:07,195
that, uh, white people needed to listen.
791
00:42:07,946 --> 00:42:09,656
So we had a conversation
with white people.
792
00:42:09,739 --> 00:42:11,157
I can tell you this.
793
00:42:11,741 --> 00:42:13,118
Uh, it did not go well.
794
00:42:13,201 --> 00:42:14,578
- Really?
- Yeah.
795
00:42:14,661 --> 00:42:17,622
It got heated fast.
796
00:42:17,706 --> 00:42:19,499
One of our guests used the phrase
"white supremacy,"
797
00:42:19,583 --> 00:42:22,294
that the country was designed
in white supremacy.
798
00:42:22,377 --> 00:42:28,717
And that language was a burr in the saddle
of this one individual
799
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,596
who said,
"How dare you say white supremacy."
800
00:42:32,679 --> 00:42:37,642
Even though, to my mind, I don't know
how you would describe it any other way
801
00:42:37,726 --> 00:42:39,311
in terms of the design of it.
802
00:42:39,394 --> 00:42:41,730
So, I don't want to quibble
with some of your words.
803
00:42:41,813 --> 00:42:43,565
Quibble away, though.
I'm here to be quibbled.
804
00:42:43,648 --> 00:42:47,027
But the language-- The reason why your
language makes me feel uncomfortable…
805
00:42:47,110 --> 00:42:49,237
- Yes.
- …is because it makes it sound
806
00:42:49,321 --> 00:42:54,534
like there's some sinister person
who's designing a system today.
807
00:42:54,618 --> 00:42:55,952
We need to tell the truth.
808
00:42:56,995 --> 00:43:00,790
But somehow it can't be
a conversation about blame,
809
00:43:00,874 --> 00:43:02,959
but more that inspires
a sense of responsibility.
810
00:43:03,043 --> 00:43:04,336
[Stewart] So that's really interesting.
811
00:43:04,419 --> 00:43:08,924
So would we agree that
the experience of African Americans
812
00:43:09,007 --> 00:43:11,384
- is unique in this country…
- Yes.
813
00:43:11,468 --> 00:43:16,473
…in that the government really did set
structural barriers for them?
814
00:43:16,556 --> 00:43:21,561
For 180, 190 years of American history
815
00:43:21,645 --> 00:43:25,607
African Americans were, by and large,
specifically carved out
816
00:43:25,690 --> 00:43:29,069
of a free market system
that works incredibly well
817
00:43:29,152 --> 00:43:30,278
- if you're in it.
- Right. Right.
818
00:43:30,362 --> 00:43:32,072
Without a question.
If you can't acknowledge that,
819
00:43:32,155 --> 00:43:33,698
then you're not acknowledging the truth.
820
00:43:33,782 --> 00:43:40,247
But I see so many signs of strong progress
that I've personally experienced,
821
00:43:40,747 --> 00:43:44,167
and at the same time I see some of the
challenges that we still need to confront.
822
00:43:44,251 --> 00:43:48,255
The reason why I wanted to come
to the Senate,
823
00:43:48,338 --> 00:43:51,341
- and Senator Scott and you…
- Right.
824
00:43:51,424 --> 00:43:55,554
…is you sit in a position of power
in an institution
825
00:43:55,637 --> 00:43:59,558
that has not traditionally been hospitable
to people of color.
826
00:44:00,058 --> 00:44:05,814
House of Representatives is very much
a picture of what America looks like now.
827
00:44:05,897 --> 00:44:09,025
It's diverse. Uh, different viewpoints.
828
00:44:09,109 --> 00:44:11,570
Ethnically, gender…
829
00:44:11,653 --> 00:44:14,698
The Senate is affirmative action
for old white dudes.
830
00:44:14,781 --> 00:44:17,033
- [laughs] I--
- It's-- It's--
831
00:44:17,117 --> 00:44:19,828
- But let me get to the point.
- Yes. Please.
832
00:44:19,911 --> 00:44:21,746
How do you move forward
833
00:44:22,330 --> 00:44:26,877
when the still-overwhelming majority
of the country believes,
834
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,797
"If you help the Black community,
that's gonna come out of our pot"?
835
00:44:31,673 --> 00:44:33,049
It's resource guarding.
836
00:44:33,133 --> 00:44:37,387
Those who believe that
in order for me to have what I need
837
00:44:37,470 --> 00:44:39,681
- you have to give up what you need…
- Mm-hmm.
838
00:44:40,807 --> 00:44:42,309
…that's just an illusion.
839
00:44:42,392 --> 00:44:45,520
Why do you think the resentment, then,
is so ingrained?
840
00:44:45,604 --> 00:44:49,316
Too much of success in this nation
feels elusive.
841
00:44:49,399 --> 00:44:50,233
[Stewart] Right.
842
00:44:50,317 --> 00:44:53,653
And so the future challenge
that we have coming our way
843
00:44:53,737 --> 00:44:57,324
I think is less Black and white
and is more structural
844
00:44:57,407 --> 00:45:02,203
to those who feel like their resources
are inadequate to meet their needs.
845
00:45:02,287 --> 00:45:06,124
- If you're looking for a great equalizer…
- Mm-hmm.
846
00:45:06,207 --> 00:45:08,251
…the closest thing to a panacea,
847
00:45:08,335 --> 00:45:13,381
it's understanding that education is
the closest thing to magic in America.
848
00:45:13,465 --> 00:45:18,053
With a good education,
almost all things are possible.
849
00:45:18,136 --> 00:45:21,306
Is it about convincing,
maybe, white Americans
850
00:45:21,389 --> 00:45:26,061
that this investment
actually enriches everyone?
851
00:45:26,144 --> 00:45:29,397
Jon, I don't spend as much time
on white versus Black as you do.
852
00:45:29,481 --> 00:45:31,816
- I spend most of my time--
- I can tell. But to me,
853
00:45:31,900 --> 00:45:34,945
it's illuminating the challenges
854
00:45:35,028 --> 00:45:37,948
so that everything starts off
on a level playing field.
855
00:45:38,031 --> 00:45:41,826
If you were looking at
an area of profound change,
856
00:45:42,911 --> 00:45:44,746
would education be that--
857
00:45:44,829 --> 00:45:50,168
- Is that where the power source would be?
- So, it's hard to say that.
858
00:45:50,252 --> 00:45:52,879
One of the top indicators,
if not the top indicator,
859
00:45:52,963 --> 00:45:55,507
of whether your children will be poisoned
860
00:45:55,590 --> 00:45:57,884
is the color of your skin in this country.
861
00:45:57,968 --> 00:46:01,179
Because from the particulate matter
that causes asthma,
862
00:46:01,263 --> 00:46:04,849
to the toxins in soil,
to the contaminants in water,
863
00:46:04,933 --> 00:46:07,727
those are disproportionately
in low-income places.
864
00:46:07,811 --> 00:46:10,021
So it's hard to say,
"Just give that kid some more money."
865
00:46:10,105 --> 00:46:16,152
You can't separate education from poverty
or from environmental hazards.
866
00:46:16,236 --> 00:46:20,615
So what is it about the white community
that has in their hearts--
867
00:46:20,699 --> 00:46:22,826
- Some in the white community…
- Some, some.
868
00:46:22,909 --> 00:46:28,623
…that there is this lack of--
of-- of that empathy.
869
00:46:28,707 --> 00:46:32,252
You're talking about
a narrow band of people
870
00:46:32,335 --> 00:46:34,921
who harbor racial resentment.
871
00:46:35,005 --> 00:46:39,801
No.
I'm talking about the majority of people.
872
00:46:39,885 --> 00:46:43,388
They don't harbor racial resentment,
but they'll say,
873
00:46:43,471 --> 00:46:44,681
"Well, there's more crime there…"
874
00:46:44,764 --> 00:46:46,016
- Right.
- "…in the Black community."
875
00:46:46,099 --> 00:46:48,685
And if you keep saying to them,
"But why?" They won't come to,
876
00:46:48,768 --> 00:46:51,771
- "Well, redlining and the Homestead Act."
- Yes.
877
00:46:51,855 --> 00:46:54,858
- Yes.
- What they'll come to is the culture.
878
00:46:54,941 --> 00:46:56,610
Well, I'm-- I'm--
879
00:46:56,693 --> 00:46:59,487
- I'm not sure I actually agree with you.
- Okay.
880
00:46:59,571 --> 00:47:01,448
I agree with you
about implicit racial bias.
881
00:47:01,531 --> 00:47:03,116
And-- And-- And it is an issue.
882
00:47:03,700 --> 00:47:05,744
Um, it is an issue of why in my life--
883
00:47:05,827 --> 00:47:07,871
- Right.
- Both Tim Scott and I-- our lives--
884
00:47:07,954 --> 00:47:11,249
we were pulled over disproportionately
to our white friends.
885
00:47:11,333 --> 00:47:14,169
I wanna make sure that you guys
don't think that I'm a unicorn.
886
00:47:14,252 --> 00:47:17,297
[stammers] I have faced
the same challenges you have.
887
00:47:17,380 --> 00:47:20,050
- [Stewart] Right.
- I've been stopped 20-plus times.
888
00:47:20,133 --> 00:47:21,760
As a-- driving while Black.
889
00:47:21,843 --> 00:47:26,014
[Stewart] You guys have the grace
and the pragmatism to move past it.
890
00:47:26,097 --> 00:47:27,891
- These two gentlemen…
- Right.
891
00:47:27,974 --> 00:47:30,143
…on the opposite side of
the political spectrum.
892
00:47:30,227 --> 00:47:33,688
One considered very conservative,
one considered very liberal.
893
00:47:33,772 --> 00:47:40,028
And yet, I was surprised at
how well you aligned with each other.
894
00:47:40,737 --> 00:47:42,322
Look, Tim has been my best partner.
895
00:47:42,405 --> 00:47:46,826
Contempt didn't get me and Tim Scott
to pass the First Step Act,
896
00:47:46,910 --> 00:47:49,204
to pass Opportunity--
I can go through the legislation.
897
00:47:49,287 --> 00:47:51,373
Not hating somebody,
898
00:47:51,456 --> 00:47:53,917
seeing their humanity,
not otherizing them.
899
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,629
Patriotism is love of country,
and you cannot love your country
900
00:47:57,712 --> 00:47:59,631
unless you love your fellow
countrymen and women.
901
00:47:59,714 --> 00:48:02,926
You don't always have to like them.
You don't always have to agree with them.
902
00:48:03,009 --> 00:48:06,054
But love is this radical idea
903
00:48:06,137 --> 00:48:09,307
that, "I am going to put
your well-being in line with mine
904
00:48:09,391 --> 00:48:11,434
and understand that they are
actually bound together."
905
00:48:12,185 --> 00:48:15,480
But you're preaching the gospel
to some extent here.
906
00:48:16,022 --> 00:48:17,399
And I gotta tell you,
907
00:48:17,482 --> 00:48:20,068
if Jesus was alive today
and he preached that gospel,
908
00:48:20,151 --> 00:48:22,737
- the Twitter comments would be vicious.
- [laughs]
909
00:48:22,821 --> 00:48:23,989
I-- I--
910
00:48:24,072 --> 00:48:25,865
"Jesus, you both-sideser!"
911
00:48:25,949 --> 00:48:27,450
- [laughing]
- What are you doing?
912
00:48:27,534 --> 00:48:29,160
[Stewart] Final question is just
for me personally.
913
00:48:29,244 --> 00:48:32,914
But I do wanna ask you,
who is the most racist senator?
914
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,002
- You know, that's like uh…
- [laughing]
915
00:48:37,085 --> 00:48:40,547
…asking a question about when
did you stop-- [stammers] You know--
916
00:48:40,630 --> 00:48:43,884
[both laughing]
917
00:48:43,967 --> 00:48:46,428
- So I'm the fourth Black person…
- Yeah.
918
00:48:46,511 --> 00:48:48,889
…uh, popularly elected ever to the Senate.
919
00:48:48,972 --> 00:48:50,056
Tim is the fifth.
920
00:48:50,557 --> 00:48:51,558
- Really?
- Yeah.
921
00:48:51,641 --> 00:48:52,642
So, picture this.
922
00:48:52,726 --> 00:48:57,480
We were negotiating the policing bill,
and we get assigned a room.
923
00:48:58,148 --> 00:49:00,984
And I'm walking into the room.
I ask my staff,
924
00:49:01,067 --> 00:49:04,154
"What's this room's name?" And they go,
"It's the Strom Thurmond room."
925
00:49:04,237 --> 00:49:07,407
[both laughing]
926
00:49:07,490 --> 00:49:09,492
[chuckling] And I just--
I stopped and wondered…
927
00:49:09,576 --> 00:49:11,661
- [Stewart laughs]
- …"What would Strom Thurmond think?"
928
00:49:11,745 --> 00:49:14,831
[Stewart] Uh, thank you for your time.
It's really much appreciated.
929
00:49:14,915 --> 00:49:16,333
- Appreciate you.
- Appreciate you.
930
00:49:16,416 --> 00:49:17,500
Thank you.
931
00:49:19,252 --> 00:49:21,213
- All right.
- [audience cheering]
932
00:49:23,465 --> 00:49:25,592
Ah, thank you!
933
00:49:26,343 --> 00:49:27,636
Thank you for watching.
934
00:49:30,847 --> 00:49:32,807
I need a nap!
935
00:49:32,891 --> 00:49:34,226
[audience laughing]
936
00:49:35,101 --> 00:49:37,646
Thank you for watching the episode
that'll have the most people on Twitter
937
00:49:37,729 --> 00:49:38,897
reminding me I'm Jewish.
938
00:49:38,980 --> 00:49:42,192
Oh, I look--
I look forward to their comments.
939
00:49:42,275 --> 00:49:44,819
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940
00:49:44,903 --> 00:49:46,571
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941
00:49:46,655 --> 00:49:49,908
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00:49:51,117 --> 00:49:52,577
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946
00:50:03,255 --> 00:50:04,631
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947
00:50:19,187 --> 00:50:21,690
When you hold up a LeBron James or a Jay-Z
948
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or somebody along those lines as,
"Well, that guy made it.
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The most exceptional athlete any of us
have ever seen in our lifetimes
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can make it. Why can't you?"
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Chris Rock used to do a great bit
about it. He goes, "I'm six-foot famous."
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He goes, "Outside of six feet,
I'm just another Black guy
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walking on the street getting in trouble.
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But as soon as they get within six feet,
they're like,
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'Hey, ma-- Hey, Chris Rock!'"
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- [all laughing]
- That's not how the joke goes.
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- [Stewart] Oh, it's not?
- He's six-foot famous.
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And then he goes-- The cop goes,
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"Nigga, nigga, nigga--
Oh, that's Chris Rock!"
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- Yeah. I did-- I did shorten the bit.
- [all laughing]
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I said, "Jon, tag me in.
I'll do the rest of the joke for you."
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- [all laughing]
- "We can do this together."