Anti-racism activist Jane Elliott & Roland Martin 2017 WCTF Conference Keynote Address

Manny kept Jane and me waiting all day when you're a man. Lucy time is really slow. I thought it was just a few minutes, but he says that all day his minutes are very important. Yes, of course, James, but they will help us. get this show on the road I've been here long enough, I told you, as you can see, I have a lot of work ahead of me, this will be the easiest or hardest job this morning, maybe you have an easy task. work, don't worry about that, so you heard the presentations about our guests this morning and I want to highlight the work that they are doing specifically with Miss Elliot, we heard about the blue eyes and brown eyes experiment that she is doing I mean exercise your workshop exercise for her job she has received death threats she has been beaten she has been threatened with a knife she has been rejected by her various communities and her family and her family all black people the first person the first modern human being then evolved on this earth was a black woman and we are all descendants of that black woman now if you don't if you don't learn anything else here today and if you don't remember anything else you remember this there is only one race there is no one black runner let me show you something good every person in this room that thinks it's a member of the white race please leave these skaters here that's all folks there's only one race and we all come from a black woman so there's only one race and it's the black race forget all the rest of this nonsense this is gone this has gone on long enough we've had enough I'm sorry I interrupted you I'm sorry oh it was going to be a bad day, go ahead I also want to highlight the work of Roland Martin, and this is a work Serious.

He has written books about faith. He is a civil rights

activist

. He is a human rights

activist

. He also receives death threats. Trolls on his email accounts. In your website accounts. who do a fair job or a threat to our society I will I will I will I will so we will make a correction I am I do not consider myself a civil rights activist I am a journalist but as a journalist I am a journalist in the search for truth and justice, and when you look at the work, whether you're talking about Frederick Douglass, I'm Welles Barnett, you're going to talk about Robert Abbott, Ethel, although it's always people who work within the Black Press and I do that. distinction because it is important because I have worked in the main media.

I have worked at Black Press. The reason Black Press is vitally important is because that is where the greatest truth is seen. The black press has forced the mainstream media to do its job and it is about these issues. And so what happened, what often happens is that when we try to talk about these issues, what happens is when you go into a mainstream environment, but even the mainstream phrase actually means white because they'll say, Oh, black media to the mainstream Latin media. it went well if that's black that's Latino that has to be white and then the sirasa expectation this really happened in 2007 to then understand why we're going to talk about why you experience this because you have to understand the role of the media Anywhere in the world there is a COO anywhere in the world, they get control of the weapons first, the media, second, they get control of the media before the banks think about it, they control the media before the money, like that that you understand the power of the media when I was on CNN. 2007 I did a pilot for a show and I got Senator Barack Obama to agree to be in the pilot, meaning it was never going to air after he announced that he was running for president during the conversation, I literally took part in health. attention and I mentioned the word that I said your brother did when I had to file bankruptcy because of healthcare because Kim came out of the executive vice president to see at the time we were meeting with HLN, this is literally what he said, he said, have Be careful when using the word brother because we don't want to scare white viewers, then he said: I also show this to my wife, she agreed.

I was like the white wife who agreed and I think about that. I'm talking to a black United States senator. I'm using the vernacular man who really hurt his brother, natural, no. Larry King is using phrases that I don't know what he's talking about. Larry King is Jewish and they say that's all good, but think about it, we're going to be scared. white viewers, but when Glenn Beck talks about using the word brother as a white evangelical, it is acceptable to understand the depth of terms of how the media shapes what we think and act every day, which is why I am a journalist at Black Press because my work is different and I bring my blackness to television whether I'm on CNN on ABC CNN doesn't matter, I'm glad you mentioned Frederick Douglass with two S's, are you going to come out because of who the fool is talking to? 45 talk to Frederick Douglass says Frederick Douglass is doing great things, that bothers me a lot if he can talk to Frederick Douglass.

I want you to talk to my husband. Sorry, he continues. I want to take you back to 2007, your book. I was just coming out listening in the spirit in which you were talking at the time about the number of religious marches and protests that were happening, you talked about this on cnn.com, you did some interviews about this and one of the things you said was because This is the women of color task force, so let's talk about women for a minute. Alright. One of the things that you said was missing from those marches in those protests was attention to police brutality, attention to attendees, attention to the poor. education in our communities what is the role of women the responsibilities of women regarding these issues when we think about those marches let's fast forward exactly 10 years later, in

2017

we had the women's march on Washington, what do they say about what was happening in 2007 and what happened what happened in

2017

and your attention to those issues, first the lack of good, first of all, when I look at you, you talk about the role of women and then when you talk about organizations, you also have to deal with this racial construct, so I'll use the example of what happened in McKinney, Texas, when the police officer slammed the young woman to the ground.

The pool party, the white women were silent. The first response was that civil rights organizations were black women's organizations, but the National Organization for Women was silent. I blew them up on my air three hours later, they issued a statement. It was since then that anything happened to a black man. They issued a statement in ten minutes because they like, look, we know what he's going to say. And now that? Why is that important? The same thing in 2007, historically, what has happened are issues that have involved black women. Now it has been silent. I am absolutely silent, so the question then is fine.

Are you the National Women's Organization of the nationalization of white women? The same is Concerned Women for America. conservative organization, they are protesting because there were a couple of conservative female judges who were trying to get appointed and they were putting pressure on the Democrats. I said I was sorry when Bill Clinton appointed Cheryl Watley to the North Texas federal bench. "Everything was quiet. I said it, so don't call yourself women who care about America if you only care about conservative white women. The reason I bring it up is because when you talk about these issues you can't say we want to talk to they".

Women's issues within you exclude other groups and then how they are affected, and that is one of the issues that women play a central role in. Black women voted at a higher rate than any other group in 2008, in 2012, more than white men. black men, Latino men, everyone, so when you talk about those concerns, are you putting specific issues on the table or is it kind of a parallel conversation and that's the struggle we have in this country if you're going to say we're moving forward because of women have to be women, not a certain group of women, let's move forward Jane advancing the cause of women, not certain groups of women, she talked a little about what you saw at the march on Washington, we have been advancing the cause of women white women since the women's movement emerged the women's movement was a movement for white women, they might as well have been holding signs saying black women don't need to run and that was only allowed to happen because we wanted to stop the civil rights movement and The whites.

The men agreed to that to stop the civil rights movement. As long as we're talking about the rights of white women, then we don't have to talk about the rights of people of other colors to the extent that I worry that that's what the women's movement was about. Now there is going to be another women's movement. You must realize this. If you haven't read Ben Wattenberg's book, The Birth of the Earth, you should realize that in this country right now. There are a lot of white people who are scared to death because they know that within 30 years white people will have lost their numerical majority in the United States of America and if you haven't read that book where it says that the biggest problem facing this country today is that few white babies are being born in this country, if we do not solve this problem and solve it quickly, white people will lose their numerical majority and this will no longer be a white man's land. many First Nations Native Americans who don't believe this is a white man's land, they think it is, he said, there are three ways, three things we can do to solve this problem, number one, we can increase a lot.

Snow number one is that we can pay women to have babies like they have been doing in Western European nations for years, then he says unfortunately and these are your words, not mine, unfortunately we would have to pay women of all colors for them to have babies, so we don't do it. I don't want to do that now, this man was a member of the ultra-conservative right-wing think tank American Enterprise Institute and gave his advice to US presidents. He says the second thing we could do is allow the number of immigrants allowed into this country each year to increase further and then he says that unfortunately, the majority of people who want to come to this country today are people of color, so we don't want to do that.

He says the third thing we can do and this is really scary to realize that 60% of the fetuses that are aborted every year in this country are eliminated if we can preserve that 60% of life that would solve our birth shortage. Now, how many of you think that sounds like blatant

racism

? I know that the attempt to get rid of my white right or any other woman's right to have an abortion is not about religion, it is not about morality, it is about keeping white people as the numerical majority in this country and you better give up. realize that that's what's happening right now they're trying to pass legislation in mr. 45 and his subordinates I refuse to say his name because if I do I will have to call him what I call him, which is dinosaur

address

um oh geez, is this being televised?

Okay, okay, I'm tired of working anyway, people, they trying to ban abortion are trying to tell women once again what they can do with their bodies if a woman has to be punished for getting pregnant, whether she likes it or not, she has to be punished by burying that child, then the person who contributed to that unwanted pregnancy should be held responsible, so I think there is a hey, hey, wait, don't waste your time, it's perfectly logical, there is a perfectly logical expert, legal articles, remedy for this problem, any man who contributes to an unwanted pregnancy pregnancy must undergo an involuntary vasectomy so that he cannot contribute to another unwanted pregnancy now, people, you should know that vasectomy It only takes a few minutes at the doctor's office, it's not very painful, my husband's vasectomy didn't hurt me at all.

You must also realize that vasectomy is reversible, motherhood is not reversible once you are a mother, you are a mother as long as you live, that's right, even if you give that child up for adoption, you still hear that child crying in the night and you questions how people handle vasectomy is reversible young men could have a vasectomy and have a lot of fun without much responsibility and then when they want to have a child, when they want to contribute to a desired pregnancy life, then they can reverse the vasectomy. How many of you think that would be a logical conclusion to this problem now?

Now, starting off, they will say that she doesn't like men. Oh yeah, I don't dislike it, boy. You need to know that I don't dislike men. Some of my best friends are men. How many of you have heard something like this before? AHA. Sorry, go ahead, when we talk about these differences, it's very interesting to I say that we completely deny how we got here. Well, I often speak around the country. I tell people to understand this country in all its parts. They use the example ofa house under construction. How many of you have ever had a house built? from scratch, okay, which is different than buying an existing house, so we're talking about a house that is built from scratch.

I've been fortunate enough to literally see in Texas, where I was born and raised, Nate, what they literally built the cities, so I saw an area with nothing there and all of a sudden they come in, they pull down power lines, sewage lines, all these things, then all these things happen. Even before the foundation is laid, let's say all those things happen suddenly now you do the foundation if you want to show a poorly built house that you normally don't know about until after the house is being built because then you see the cracks in the molding. crown the cracks in the walls because the foundation is bad to understand where we are today in America when it comes to sexism when it comes to

racism

when it comes to weathering when it comes to even within women this notion of good , I don't like you and I like you, the terms of this balance existed between black women, white women, the exact same thing happens in the LGBT community.

I have done stories in the segments. About this on my show where African Americans have spoken about the rampant racism that exists in the LGBT movement in the so-called equality movement, there is tons of inequality now, but I have had brothers and sisters who said I would love it. My show talked about the battles they've had with other people who are white and gay because their whiteness was more important than their gayness, so you have to understand how a house is built so we see the cracks where we have cracks. this foundation called America is because of what our foundation's problems are like, so literally go back to how we started and see when we talk about these laws today in our country, we never say, wait a minute, do we? was enacted and what was the root cause behind it, we were talking about last night.

I was talking about Governor Terry McAuliffe when he said he provided voting rights to 13,000 formerly incarcerated people. That law in Virginia was implemented when a state legislature said in 1902 that they're doing this to stop you from voting, so Virginia was defending a law for over a hundred years where the basis was a white legislature that said we had to stop you from voting, so what happens is we never want to wonder where this came from. How did we get to this point that explains the struggle we continue to have because we want to say we live in a post-racial America?

Everything is great. Why do people listen to hip-hop, but I listen to some country music and it's all great. Beyoncé. performs at the Country Music Awards, everyone is happy and wonderful until you go to the comments on the Country Music Association website, so we have to look at ourselves and ask ourselves how did we get here and how does this generation change? where we go? the future because we're playing if we just have these nice, nice conversations but then we come home, to mostly white homes, mostly black homes, we don't invite others to our house, we don't eat with other people, we don't talk to other people but we say oh , I am not racist.

I get along with everyone. Many of us live lies every day. I would like to talk. Mike was at my house a year ago. Killer Mike Rinder is, oh my god, the rest. when I went you had dinner with a murderer Mike damn oh yeah someone has said that denial is not just a river in Egypt, in this country today we deeply deny the fact that we are deeply racist, we are teaching racism in schools the daily and if you haven't read Nathan Ruts' teen book the psychopath lacks the racial conditioning of our children you need to get it and read it this man knows what he knew what he was talking about now someone said this morning he did it good.

Jane came here with a sweatshirt, yes I came here with the sweatshirt, people because I'm working number one, number two, this says exactly what I believe, racist prejudice is not an emotional commitment to ignorance, now the problem with white people It is not white innocence. someone this week is called in your book has called it white innocence, it is not white innocence and it is not white privilege, it is white ignorance and until white people are educated in the fact that they are not superior due to the lack of melanin in their skin, that's how For a long time we will have this problem and we might not be able to do that.

I have an opinion: we could change this problem if we started educating instead of indoctrinating them in schools. We are indoctrinating children instead of educating them. an educator the word educator comes from the duck deuce which means to lead the prefix II which means outside the suffix a te which means to act and the suffix floor which means one who does I am someone who is involved in the act of leading people out of ignorance and You can't do that by teaching antisocial studies, which is what we're doing today in this country, and here's why that phrase white ignorance is so important because the problem with white privilege and because I said I was a journalist when I interviewed to Maya Angelou she said no, you're an educator and I said, oh, it's really okay, she said no, he said no, you are, I look at you, you educate every day.

I was like, okay, cool, Maya, Maya Angelou said it, I'm educated, so so I live by words, words mean something to me, so part of the problem with white privilege is that we've been conditioned. to think that privilege means you probably live in a gated community, probably drive an Aston Martin or a Rolls Royce and then play games. croquet or polo, that's what we think of in terms of privilege, ownership is about what happens, although I try to explain to people that you may be broke and can't read white in West Virginia, but the The reason you have you would say white privilege is that you can go to a department store and not be filed around you.

You may be the most broke person in the world and I might be in the top 1%, but you can actually do some things that I can't do. and in this country we are called free to also put it in this proper context. 20-odd people from Africa arrived in Virginia in 1619. You go through this period of slavery. Go to 1863. Emancipation Proclamation. 12 years of Reconstruction. The great compromise of 1877 takes us all. the path through civil rights to move the world into a world war, then you go through the 13 years of the black freedom movement, if you use 1970 as a marker when African Americans were technically completely free Americans, when I say Completely free means we could work anywhere. live anywhere eat anywhere but that's technically because we still had lawsuits from that time but let's say 1970 that means in 398 years of America blacks have only technically been completely free Americans 47 years follow me here I'm 48 how old are you?

I will be 49 years old in November, which means I was born in an America where I was not born completely free, my wife and I have no biological children, my brothers, my sisters, that means my nieces and nephews are first generation African Americans. I was born technically completely free. I say it because you have to understand it because we the people say, Oh, slavery was so long ago, but I've met people who were the first African Americans to be in corporate America in 1971, 89% of the electorate that voted. for the president in 1972 they were white 89% this year it was 70 percent the 2020 elections will be the first time in the history of the United States less than 70% of Ector's total, so that is important because now you start to give Step back and go, man.

Wait, so you're trying to tell me that even though slavery is in this Mass Patient Proclamation of 1863, which was a lot only in those states that were successful and then of course it's also in place because a 13th amendment was passed and the word slavery is still in the 13th amendment. If you go into the prison system, suddenly you start to understand how all these pieces start to fit together and then you say, Oh, now I want to see the brand that I study. The average white family has a wealth of $110,000. Every black family has five. thousands of dollars in wealth and average Americans can get their wealth from their home by owning a home, so you understand that the Federal Housing Authority when they use the federal system, we will use the federal system to prevent black people from owning homes. houses and make red lines and anyone of you who is white could get a home, white soldiers had the GI Bill after World War II, black soldiers couldn't and then if they had the GI Bill they still couldn't go to work other places so they literally see the construction so people go today why can't these blacks save money?

It's because it was ingrained in our system where we couldn't and then we saw the foreclosure crisis where you were black, you qualified for a prime loan but you got a subprime mortgage. loan and in the last eight years 53 percent of all black wealth disappeared due to the foreclosure crisis, so we'll say well why our communities look this way why most black neighborhoods look this way this way how was that? The black neighborhood was easily created, a red line was drawn and it said don't invest in it, you can't own it, don't put in, don't put in resources, and then we see here today, why can't those explosions get their stuff? together they have this type of statements on their website in which they ask us let me see if wait a minute wait a minute okay, I didn't realize how young you are and I'm not going to blame you because you know a lot, however Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered next year, it will be 50 years since his death and can we correct the record because I think we said 35 years?

It's been 50 years next year since Martin Rees, after the King assassination, you started this job in third grade, well even your father I at that time okay no no no no when he was killed mom was two months pregnant I was a Valentine's Day baby I was born on November 14th and a tough woman was before February 14th okay what's your question I know what happened on Valentine's Day in 1968 you were in a different context when you heard that, Go ahead, what I want to do is have him talk about the structures of racism. You've been doing this job for 50 years, but he's been living this for 50 years.

He has been living this. There is a big difference. I can talk about it because I don't have to live it. You should live it. You have to understand that my heroes and never call me a heroine because that's not what I am. My heroes are black women. Black women keep going despite all the obstacles we put in their way and I don't. I'm not just telling you this because you're a majority black audience. I say this to every audience I speak to. to realize that you were here first and you will be here and you will be last because white people are going to go out into the sun and things are going to get worse and worse thanks to you and we are going to die of melanoma, so you are going to be here for a long time.

After we are gone very soon they will be the majority in this country so be prepared for it because they will think they have been abused before waiting until they get the power they have the power to do whatever they want. they choose to do and that's the problem like people are scared to death that if people of color get power they will want to do to us what we have done to them now how many of you want to get revenge on everyone? White people, how many of you want to get revenge on one or two?

Yes, all we white people have to do is work very, very hard to make sure that we are not the ones who want revenge for what we do in the current constructions. the right of the future blacks are not responsible for the past whites are not responsible for the past where we are all responsible for what we do in the present to build the future of our children and grandchildren we do not have time for that you need to know that in what as far as I'm concerned we are all related we are cousins ​​30 to 50 each person in this room all of you are related to me now you may not like being related to me but you are my relatives and I will not tolerate my relatives being abused because of someone else's ignorance of the skin color and that's what we're talking about in this country, but I see again when these studies come out about things, we recite them on television and again many of my white colleagues don't even remotely think beyond what it's like to get a perfect example. 2009 John Avlon John Avlon and I were at CNN waiting to go on the air and I said, John, right now we are in the beginning stages and what I call white minority resistance I said although the numbers don't show it that's where we are I said President Obama's election is about to reveal America's true feelings nowThis is where the agreement is people say oh but there are many that I postulate to vote Obama yes, but it goes beyond the numbers and so on, so Pew does an annual survey and asks: are you optimistic about the future of United States for your children?

In 2009, African Americans had the most optimism. Latinos ranked second to each other in all groups. Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, they are Americans in all groups, well, the majority said yes, only one group was less than the majority in September, another study comes out, are you optimistic about the economic future of the United States over the next 10 years? African Americans, Louis, had the highest optimism at 58%, Latinos ranked second lowest and also had the second highest optimism. Whites in the United States have the highest and highest average per family, $110,000 only 41% said they were optimistic about the pace of the United States over the next 10 years for children.

I then asked why is it because we've changed so much that my ignorance or white privilege now means your son can't tell his boss to hire my son or daughter. Now white kids in America have to compete because this is real. Why is his last name Fischer? I forgot her name. trying to memorize it why she sued the University of Texas she well I had to lose she came here yeah she came here so she sued Sorry, she sued the University of Texas because she said she couldn't get in because she was Those minority students, That's why I couldn't enter, they migrated were much superior and I know that their grades were lower.

So what happened within the judicial system, go to the Supreme Court and then the evidence comes out that they were white students who had lower grades than her, but they came in and it was like, damn, we can't blame black people with people. Hema and it never occurred to him that you have to do more to get into school than just studying, but in his whiteness he said that it always had to be them, it was a question of competition, so what is happening is that there are white mothers and fathers who Now they are afraid to die because they have not raised their white children to know how to compete.

Face the post-civil rights movement babies who are now the second generation of post-civil rights movement babies who came out of the womb and were raised twice as well. You will do what you have to do. The black women. Black women go. They are going to go to university. a higher rate than anyone else America kept throwing at James pouring America kept throwing hurdles and blacks like it, alright, alright, gold, now it's 14 feet, alright, I'm gon' go, I'm gon' go, Black people here, I'm going to practice. I'm going to go exercise I'm going to come back and I'm going to dunk this damn ball that goes in your feet and then it rained he dunked it again at 14 feet things like oh the new height is now 16 feet black balls "Okay, I'm going I'm going to go train, I'm going to throw this damn 16 foot ball that's being the black experience, so the reason that number is 41% because it's white people's fear of the future, it's the ability to be able to do it." get guaranteed jobs get guaranteed loans and that's why the election was what it was here in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania because there's this fear when you hear I want the United States read the story on God's day Erie Pennsylvania I want the United States like it It was for me when I got out of school and got a job in a factory so my kids could get a job, bro, that world is gone, he wants the America of 1972, when we were only two years away from the movement of civil rights and that's the fear and people say, but oh no, I'm not racist, no, the point is that you grew up a certain way and you want that America, but you want to deny what that America was to the people who They look like me and that's it, so this is not a four-year fight.

What's going to happen in the 2020 elections? You know what James said before. We're in a thirty-year war, friends. 20:44 It will be the year when America change when it comes to any group, this is not going away, you We will see this battle all over America for fear of a changing nation, but it doesn't have to be a battle precisely if we start educating people and those of You guys who believe in this white superiority bullshit you need to educate yourself to understand. love from heaven get the book the myth of race by Robert Wald Sussman if you haven't read that book you don't understand that there is really only one race, we don't have to bet to have this battle if we wanted to You don't realize that you and I are all members of the same race, there is only one, your valuable human beings because you were born on the face of the earth.

Skin color does not indicate intelligence or lack thereof, you must realize that it does not. ability, ability or disability, it shouldn't be a problem unless they look at people who are less colorful and say to themselves: well, they've been here long enough to know by a good rating in the game, because most whites are not. We don't know because we haven't been, instead of being educated, we've been indoctrinated and you're going to say, well wait, white people are the only racist people, you know as well as I do that people of color are racist. Also, because they all took the same social studies, they all learned the same nonsense.

Everyone knows that if you're too dark, it's too bad and if you're too light, it's too bad. There is no way you can win in a situation we are in. judging people by the amount of melanin in their skin is ridiculous, it doesn't make sense, it needs to be stopped, you know it and I know it, and even this man who is younger than me knows it, he can't help people of your age. he will get old if he's lucky and if you're lucky I won't get too old but we didn't, we could fix this if we wanted to if we choose to say no more, we won't tolerate this anymore nor and the The reason we have this number 45, which in reality He's about 43 and a half years old, the only reason we have that man is because he's a reaction to eight years of a black man in the White House.

Now I have been a passionate member. If you stopped doing it. that more is said here, okay, I remember when Ronald Reagan said that the reason we have such high unemployment in this country is because of all the women in the workforce, you don't remember that I do, you're not old enough to remember that I also remember when Richard Nixon told a group of white reporters: I'm trying to save the White House for you white people? This is nothing new, this is something that has been here, we have been teaching it for many years. years, you have to realize that 500 years ago, suddenly, after the Spanish Inquisition, someone listened to Linnaeus, who classified plants according to their similarities and differences and said that if that works with plants, it will work with people who don't. works. people and it's time to put an end to it, we could stop it if we so choose.

This is nonsense, this is the mark of an uncivilized society. You need to become a civil society and, so vital, it is vital that you understand yourself again. Can history be unbelievable to me when I had these debates about affirmative action? First of all, the biggest Firm attack program in American history was Social Security and the GI Bill and that did not benefit blacks; The second was the induction program, my author Fletcher put it about President Richard Nixon and the biggest beneficiary has been white women MWBE minority women's businesses look, most of these contracts I don't mind taking it out in the state most likely they will be women Getting a larger share than any other minority group, black women are in the black category here, extending to the Hispanic agent category or the Asian category, so it really means that white women see which is surprising to me when I see people who, I mean, I. this at Texas A&M or one of my speech communications classes and I talk about affirmative action.

I see. How many of you have mothers with businesses and burned hands? How many of you are not only black kids in the class? How to leave them with mothers and they are getting government contracts with their hands up I said congratulations affirmative action just paying for your college and who's going to be like I'm crazy. What the hell are you talking about? So I had to explain to them the reality of affirmative action. but here's the other reality and liberal white women do this too and again it's just clueless so how many didn't get their degree nine?

How many of you think the tie line was about sports title nine, not sports title? The nine was about opening professional schools to women, you saw the explosion of female doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers and architects and all these professors after the ninth was passed, can anyone tell me where the title nine comes from? Title nine comes is a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, so women, mostly white women, have benefited from the opening of professional schools because black people were marching to get Civil Rights Act 64 if you are disabled and you love who is disabled and the American Disabilities Act where it comes from. the Civil Rights Act of 1964, who is gay in their head or who is married in same-sex marriage, it's called the Fourteenth Amendment in the Equal Protection Clause, which was a reconstruction amendment, so I was online about multiple ways in which many Americans have benefited from the work of black people.

So there are people walking around opposing the civil rights law without even realizing that they have benefits if you don't speak a language if you don't speak English and you're voting and your ballot is in Vietnamese or some other language. you should thank black people because that is the result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. What I am pointing out is in American history and you can go back and see during the Reconstruction period, poor whites benefited even more than the poor blacks during the 12 years of reconstruction because the laws were being passed, the so-called free helped slaves also helped the poor and illiterate whites and were voting against their own economic interests when Jim Crow came in because they too lost The whites.

White poverty decreased afterward, but with the war on poverty after 1968 due to the efforts of African Americans who fought for it, if white people in America realize that if you go bankrupt, black people are bankrupt, you are bankrupt and if we work together and it is about problems in our economic condition, but We are being deceived because the people who are richer say: "Look, now we expect them to be black and we do this together. We are going to prevent them from getting jobs. Then we will keep to all those Latinos outside the United States. Then you can get more jobs the same way. food, who tells you that he is the same one that hires illegal immigrants and pays them $3 and forces them to do it, yes, you are right, so we will kick them out and build the wall and then keep all the jobs, no.

They'll still pay you less if you're broke if you're broke as a white person, it's because of affirmative action and they call it reverse discrimination. There is no reverse discrimination. People, it's not reverse. discrimination is delayed justice this has been going on long enough if you're broke as a white person it's a shame we can help you if that is if you're broke it's as a black person it's because you're too lazy to get it as yours you know that and I know that's what is happening in this country because we need to educate the American mind, we need to change the educators, we have to re-educate the educators because they also believe in all this garbage. they really believe they really think that black history began with slavery, they mainly believe that that was when black history began because they haven't read Browder's Nile Valley contributions to civilization and if you haven't read it , you get it, you read it, and then you take that to school and tell the teachers to say wait a minute instead of having Black History Month, we're going to have black history every day of the year in school, that's how it should be. be.

Sorry, go ahead. I do. I have racism to thank for one thing and there is one place where racism has actually kept black people well. You all saw all those town halls in Connecticut, Virginia, and New Hampshire when all these white people were crying because their family members were dying from heroin overdoses. Well, and that's because of prescription medications. Well, this is what Bracele really hasn't helped black people. So, to doctors all over America, the reason why black people are prescribed painkillers at a lower rate than white people is because white doctors were afraid that black people would go to the doctor to get painkillers because we were drug addicts, so white doctors say it, we're not going to prescribe painkillers to these blacks, so white people are dying all over America because of these painkillers, so to all the doctorsWhite racists, thank you, black people are not hooked. painkillers and we're not going to die and you all may be businessmen, but understand, Time magazine, they told the story about three or four months ago, white life expectancy has decreased because of the opioid epidemic and because we live in Long live in In fact, the white death rate is shorter than his earlier James point about white births in about five years in about six or seven states.

The white death rate will exceed the annual white birth rate in those states. One of the reasons why the numbers are so high. change for a while it's going down, but the prescription drug thing is a perfect example of how racism works, we are literally doctors whether they say it or not, they are here to get high, so no, take aspirin or leave or leave. take Advil what we're going to say we're going to prescribe is to a white person here with medical care. Oh, everyone will get the oxycontin. Everyone will get all the powerful drugs and then what happened?

They get hooked and the insurance runs out. they're trying to get heroin on the street when you've seen this news in Cleveland 38 people last night overdosed on heroin those weren't 38 black people again you see how racism works even in our healthcare system and this and that literally happened like this which I really appreciate, thank you very much what was your question, let's do something different I want to talk about what's in the headlines okay Kellyanne Conway no no no no I'm not going to talk about Kelli Ann Connolly I'm not you know, skeletons with that hair , oh, damn feet off the couch, but really nice, hush, wait a minute, was it really her feet on the couch?

We have reduced the problem to a problem of feet on the sofa, but what was that photo really? About I don't know, frankly I don't pay attention to Kelly about Kye Kelly and Conway because I think she's crazy, but her feet on the couch no, I haven't been following her feet. on the couch baby, I have you here like I said, I'm not interested in Kellyanne Conway's feet or anything else, so Trump met with historically black college presidents and she's sitting there with her legs spread, feet on the , her legs are spread, should we? talk about it, don't go there, no, no, mine, on the other side of mr.

Martin Rachel I got a let's throw something go ahead and Kellyanne rachel dolezal okay okay so Rachel Dolezal is a song about a white woman who wants to be a black woman but okay and she just changed. her names to the African name she's trying to be Kardashian I mean because you know that doesn't mean anything L no no no no no Kylie Jenner suddenly got some full lips and now sheSelling a full lip line didn't make Kim Kardashian, in the first place place, none of the butts were real, but again to understand American history if you watch Skip Gates in one of his documentaries that was like a university.

I think it's in this state where I forgot to come from campus where they have a museum dedicated to all the images, uh, I have it, so they have it in all the museums. All of these images simply show how the media has been used to portray African Americans. black women have had bigger hips bigger butts bigger lips hair America has said for centuries all that is offensive that's that's horrible now all of a sudden a non black woman discovers a but and now everyone wants a big butt, it was no different in the 70's when both Derek's were brushed, oh Lord there were white women all over the country who would buy them some braids with some beads and so a merit but what was sold but no different than when Pat Boone sang music and they really were black artists and then. they were covering those songs Elvis is not the fucking king, little Richard is Chris Rock said Chris Rock said this but it's pretty much the same thing as Chris Rock said this when he said Jon Stewart can't perform in front of 4,000 people.

Kevin Hart can perform in front of 40,000 people, but Kevin Hart has to cross, so what you have here is you have these standards again, you have these standards, the reason this photo has reached a level of tension is because there is a white woman in the office legs spread and all these black men standing around the oval office, that's why it's gotten so much attention, so it's clear that it's not about the feet on the couch, it's about what's on deeply rooted in the United States, it's that kind of where this kind of reaction comes from and it means continuing to understand our history, it's just understanding the history of this country and, frankly, for me there has been a lot of ado about the photo that I haven't discussed it on my show. more important things to talk about, but it's just understanding that there are racial triggers in America, we see a photo, we see something, all of a sudden it clicks, it's no different than when you were African American, so for example, Serena and Venus, two of the most important people. dominant athletes, not women, not female athletes, which includes men, all of a sudden, they've been branded their entire career, they're arrogant, all the terms are used, same thing, Tiger Woods, exactly the same thing, a tiger, I know which is completely black, but something like that.

The same thing and what we have to understand these standards, how they are different, so I will do it this way. If so, it happened to me when I was at the Star Telegram in Fort Worth. He was 20 years old. He was 25. Another reporter Kendall. a Nia was 25 I covered City Hall he covered county government I'm black he's white ken was assertive ken was aggressive ken was a go-getter who was exactly the same age ken made more mistakes than I had to have more corrections in the paper I was arrogant I was yes I was arrogant I was Why do you have to be?

Why do you have to be so forceful? Everything works fine, so let's say I'm here. You called me that, which means you're limiting my ability to get promoted, which then means you're limiting my ability to earn more, which then means you're limiting my ability. to create wealth, which means you're limiting my ability to be able to invest, you're limiting my ability to make those investments to build trust, so you're limiting my ability to create a trust and then provide for my nine nieces and nephews. which means that your singular decision to call me arrogant today has a direct impact on my family two or three generations from now, that's how deep this issue goes, so if I want to, when I'm fighting, the same as when a woman is fighting . for equal pay is exactly the same thing: you are not just fighting for equal pay, you are actually fighting for wealth creation for your children's children, so this is not just about you today, that's where the generational wealth and this is how Deep in this, I want Jane to engage in this conversation about femininity, write that these are the experiences that he talks about universally, but it's not exactly the same and map out what the experiences of the women and what femininity is about. how we navigate that, can you talk about that a little bit well?

We could if I wanted to, but the black woman's experience is not the same as the white woman's experience, you know that and I know that, and for me to talk about the female experience. I would have to speak from the white point of view and it is different from the black point of view and that is unfortunate because we are not in the same position. She was married to a white man. It took me a long time to understand it. him, but I have him and he looked like Marlon Brando when I married him when he died 59 years later, he looked like Telly Savalas. 59 years of living with me will do that to you white women, you say, I'm mad at white women. and now you're thinking, Oh, anger is such an unproductive emotion, if you're not angry about what's happening in this country, you're probably white and you're probably male because it doesn't bother you much, this isn't happening.

To you, white women make really big mistakes. I will never forget the woman who approached me. The white woman who came up to me and said: I have no prejudices. I don't dislike black people. When I see one, I just think there, but. by the grace of God wow me and I was furious and I don't think she's said that since then because I don't think her world will ever be the same because at that moment she experienced a brain change that you can change. the brain have interviewed students my student performers who are now middle-aged people did the blue eyebrow night exercise in 1970 a BBC group came out and was making a documentary on brain science they interviewed two of those middle-aged people -elderly men and asked them how they felt before how they thought before how they thought during how they thought after the exercise and at the end of that interview they said we have shown here that you can change the brain now if you can change the brain of a white child from nine years in one day, what do you do to the brains of people of other colors if you abuse them psychologically, mentally, emotionally and physically for a lifetime?

What would you do about 9 year old black kids, would you change? their brains in a negative way yes, you do it and we do it every day, we know exactly how to do it, a psychologist told me last week and he used one of those four or five syllable terms and she said: I know for years I said, so, For God's sake, why don't you tell the primary school teachers? Because they need to know this, they need to know that the way they treat children will change those brains, whether in a positive way or a negative way. we change women's brains from birth, we subject them to the fact that you are less than you can't do it and if you know, I'm really sick of hearing people say make America great again because that word means go back to the '50s. which was great for white men but was worthless for people of color and women, you should know that and that's what this fool wants us to do and when you hear his mentor say we're going to deconstruct the government to Deconstruct the government taking away the things that are valuable to all of us no, no, you can't let this happen.

You have to realize that deconstructing the government means taking away social security and how many people do you know who are making enough money that they can put it away? money saved in a personal savings account that we wanted us to remember W W I did this at a college one day and the kids said hey, you can't do that anytime anymore Miceli, I said why Ann, what aren't you? What do you mean by them? he said it means reading between the lines after I said and then I said the next two colleges I went to went to the bushes they stopped doing this when they went on stage because suddenly they were exposed, people indecent exposure is what we're living with right now when our 45th president says make America great again, in other words, go back to the '50s.

I don't want to go back to the '50s. I don't have that much time. I can't afford to wait and spend. The next 40 years trying to fix this situation right, we have to fix it now, but first you have to recognize what it is, you have to recognize that racism is ignorance, it is pure unadulterated ignorance and I don't care if you're red. ace racist or a white one or a black one or a yellow one or a brown one if you're racist you're not thinking and you're being ignorant get over it but you have to remember so James just said change your brain, go away Back to the media when you are when you've been hit each of them, although it was big news, was big news three weeks ago.

The Bachelorette will have her first black Bachelorette, oh my gosh we will see a black woman choose someone. to fall in love first, everyone will realize that they didn't start with a black bachelor, they are talking about male domination. America has always said okay, now we have to think we have to see these things, let's see them first with a black woman. but we're not going to have a show, a black man could be casting a white woman on that show. I'm just trying to get all of you who are on the job side to understand this at the same time.

I'm trying to talk about how images work. They hit you, do it in Hollywood when George Lucas did it when he did red tails now this is George Lucas this is mr. Star Wars this is a man who sold his company for four billion dollars to Disney George Lucas goes to the seven Hollywood studios top seven the big seven I am George Lucas I am the man I am the lord. Star Wars I want to take red tails, they said, there are no white heroes, he said. I'm sorry, there are heroes in my movie, they say we know, he said, but they said, but all white people are bad, he said, because it's true. history and the white people the white people were bad and they said no, there are no white heroes in this movie the last seven, that was another movie called stuntmen, so the actor Brian White was on my show, he told me this here, like this that this movie every Hollywood studios loved this movie because all those shenanigans in a hospital with these doctors and they loved it.

Each studio read the script or we wantedmake this movie until they met with the screenwriter and then realized that this was based on a true story of a group of black doctors in the hospital, all the studios lost interest because what Hollywood has said is Hollywood, what you want to go back, uh, if you want to read a book or an empire of your own, how the Jews invented Hollywood, it was a phenomenal experience. book that won numerous awards and the reason why the book is important. I'm building a house again. I like to read how industries were created from the beginning to understand and why they are the way they are today and that's why the book is called How the Jews. in an empire of their own, how the Jews innovated Hollywood, which is a really phenomenal book because it details that the American dream was actually created by Hollywood and therefore what we call the American dream was never the American dream, it was the that they created, largely, immigrants from Eastern Europe because that was their image of America, which actually became the image of America, it's a trip, so Hollywood television determines what you think about what What you see and how you feel.

When Hollywood says we can't have a black hero movie, what does that mean? I tell you when Hollywood says, "Oh no, no, no, we can't have a black lead in a movie, we have to have a white co-lead in the movie too." These things are happening in so-called liberal Hollywood. what was made of the movie 21 about this group of MIT students who went to Las Vegas and beat the system, they were mostly Asian students, but in the movie there were only two Asian students, the main characters were a white man and a white woman and there were no black people on that team, you have to understand why the media keeps appealing to white nationalism, it's attractive to know well, so we hear that the mainstream is appealing to that white family, always here, seen here in Peoria, okay?

It's Peoria, Illinois, so they love to say the Flyover States, regardless of what you hear the media say, we're appealing to Peoria, we're appealing to middle America, what they're saying is we're appealing to the middle section and it's largely white to the tune of 80 to 90% and that's who we target with our movies and our TV shows, that's what's happening and the same thing that's economically impacting people of color because if you don't get the marketing, your movie only makes 40 million when you could have made 400 million. so you don't have the ability to be able to create wealth, this comes down to money, friends, and I have to give you this.

If you have been to Washington DC, there is only one federal agency that shares, along with the White House, a Treasury. they can, you can walk a hundred steps out the side of the Treasury building and you're in the east wing. The power of the White House money. The power of Treasury money. Everything in America comes. America is reduced to money. So you read the book, the other half never. I was told that the reason we even have capitalism in America is because of free labor. The thirteen colonies were afraid of the British. We're going to get rid of them.

Let's abolish slavery. That was the only economy we had. If you read your book about horns. the slave rebellion in 1776 one of the reasons we had the American Revolution because it was a fear that you have to deal with racism in America and money because they go together and how many of you would like to have some money? Green is my favorite color, damn it. Skippy we're almost done. I know she sounds very relieved, don't you think? You'll get out of this very soon. Now let's take a few minutes. I want to take it on locally now that we've talked about the macro level you're on.

Ann. Arbor, which has been described as a liberal bubble, you're at the University of Michigan, right there, which has also been described as a liberal bubble and Arbor votes blue, how do people in this audience have this conversation when we, because we're talking about the women of color task force and its members and their allies, how do you go back to your workplace and have conversations and share the information that you heard here? How do you talk to them about what their next steps are? People always say Well, you brought us a lot of problems but you didn't bring us any solutions.

I am a white woman. I don't have the solution for everyone, but you should go to my website and download the printed learning materials that are there because the first one is a set of typical statements that white people make that they think are not being racist. How many of you have had the experience of a white fool coming up to you and saying when I see you, I don't see you black? Yeah, and what are you supposed to do? I know I see you and you're allowed, right, you're allowed to see white, it's good to see white when someone tells me and people do this to me all the time, they say I.

I'm colorblind always white women I'm colorblind I don't see color and I say I knew it before you told me because if you weren't colorblind you wouldn't have worn that shirt with those pants when someone I'll never forget. Linda Guillory, tall, aggressive, black, Linda Guillory, this white woman came up to her in high heels and you know how women walk, white women walk in high heels, they're trying to run away from their hemorrhoids and they shouldn't wear those. high heels, you know what they're doing and this woman said Linda, I've known you for so long that I don't see you anymore and I took a step back because I thought, oh Lord, there's going to be bloodshed here and tomorrow I'm going to have to wear this suit. and I didn't want to get covered in blood so I stepped back and Linda Guillory said I think you have a problem with your eyesight, let's make an appointment with an optometrist so you can get over this problem, people, this is supposed to be a lie. take it as a compliment when a dumb white woman says she doesn't see the color of your skin, this is ignorance and most of you have had this experience, unless I'm very mistaken, how many of you have been the only black student in a classroom and the white teacher says how black people feel about this and how many of you black people know exactly how every black person feels like people, it's pure ignorance, it's not white privilege, it's pure ignorance, documents on white privilege build on the idea. of race because of my race I can do this and this and this not because of my ignorance I will do this and this and this people this is about ignorance we need to re-educate ourselves all don't put up with it here is your The agitator here is how you change.

I'd like to talk about allies and then I'll hand it over to you so that there are people in this audience who are also working with colleagues who are allies and one of the statements is that they are allies. in your place is that this someone might say I'm with you but no matter what I say no matter what I do it's not good for you you're never satisfied as far as I'm concerned I'm an ally but I can't do anything right you have to realize that if you make the plural of allies has come to allies, they are thinking that we will call ourselves allies, but we don't want you to come to our house or go to church with us and we don't want you to think that your son might be good enough to walk with our daughters except in your case and I'm sure it's not good enough, but it has nothing to do with it, the power is in I'm already thinking, yes, I know you are people, if you want to call yourselves allies, if you are a white person, you want to call yourselves allies , first you have to learn what you are doing, take a look. to those white people, you look at those typical statements and you see how many of them are the ones you've made and then you go to the clarifications of those statements, how they are perceived instead of just what they say, see how they are perceived, so if you want to check the difference, white people, if you really want to be an ally, then go to the set of commitments to combat racism. 18 things white people can do in their own environment to deal with their own problems.

Now someone will say that racism is a social issue. problem societies are made of individuals we as individuals could change our behaviors and that would change that you would create a brain change in those around you now with the number 45 creating a brain change is difficult because first you have to have a brain I'm not sure about this person but he needs a brain change we all need a brain change to realize that we have been lied to and if you want to talk about black history you have to talk about four thousand years before the birth of Christ minimum for a woman Don't say Amen, say women, you have to talk about real black history, which is the history of civilization and the history of the United States of America is not the history of civilization.

People, there was something long before this and there will be something. Long after this, one of my favorite movies is Malcolm They're carrying Brother Johnson out of the hole into the ambulance and then the white cop walks up to Malcolm Malcolm says no. I am not satisfied in the hospital I love it I am not satisfied in 1967 dr. King wrote the book Chaos or Community, Where Do We Go From Here? and in that book he said that it didn't take much for America to be able to sit at a lunch counter, it didn't take much for America to be able to swim. in a swimming pool it didn't cost much for the United States to go to a park or a hotel.

She said the real question is whether the United States will now issue that check where it's going to cost them something, she said, and that's going to be a big check for her - James pointed out earlier when she said righting wrongs by seeking justice, but this is what The doctor. King said and there isn't a person in this room that shouldn't have a copy of that book because that was also his worst selling book for a reason, he said in that same book, even our allies And they won't be with us, he said because they will say.

You've had enough, that's all. I go back to the rebuild, the reason it was rebuilt ended because when they got to six in the seventh year, white white America said okay, what we bought done with this, I mean we've done enough, people, slavery, math patient. The 1863 proclamation is correct, first comes first to fall 1619, subtract 1863 from 1619, what does that give you? 244 so six or seven years of change, okay, that's enough, but 244 years of real slavery we had thirteen years of the freedom movement timid to death August 28, 1955 Sparks Montgomery December 1, 1955 381 days passing and I use the brand of dr.

King's death and the Poor People's Campaign that took place later that year, so let's say 13 years, same thing, from 1877 to 1968 and then people say, well, 13 years is enough as white Americans always tell you. They have told black people. 'All satisfied yet if you go and really study MLK you don't listen to a speech I have a dream speech you don't listen to the last three minutes of the top dream job intended for the mountaintop speech on April 4, 1968 April 3 and Mason temple, listen to the full 43 minute 16 second speech, what you will discover is that King rarely talked about equality.

King always talked about freedom, he wanted freedom, the freedom he warned about is for African Americans the moment they come out of the womb to have exactly the same privileges of rights as anyone else, in fact, he wanted that black child in the womb to have exactly the same because one of the reasons there are black children who are not as developed as mostly white children in America is because white mothers have prenatal checkups. A lot of black mothers don't care, so by the time a black child comes out, they are malnourished and they are already behind the white child and they were born at exactly the same time, so this notion of satisfaction doesn't.

I'm not satisfied I'll probably die Not satisfied I won't be satisfied until I can do exactly what white people do and not get shot. That's freedom, so we can't there, so we can't say well, but when? We will be happy when we are completely free where we don't need a law, so all of you will stand firm. White people have not had to pass a law that allows them to do something. That's the law. That is equality. Freedom means you reach the moment you were Born, so how do you change it? You can't change this until you change who you're talking to.

This is a voluntary environment, meaning that this event you chose to come here even though you applied to the University, you had no control over who else applied. So we say you say liberal and Auburn, no, that's it, and the reason I say that is because some of the most wonderful, nicest fans I've ever met have been liberal, so you have to say who I like, it could be . at the University of Michigan and we all know some people, but who do I ask to go to lunch? Who do I invite to dinner at my house?

What conversations do we have? Who are the authors on my bookshelf? The books Jane mentioned or any of those. books on my shelf,books I've mentioned or any of those books on my shelf, where are our holidays going, who do I talk to? All of that hits home if you live in your white liberal world and say I have a couple. of black friends who occasionally show up, that means the conversations you're having are limited conversations and you're actually reinforcing your individual narratives in your conversations, that's where you start, that doesn't require a college mandate, it doesn't require that. it requires you to really say you know what we're going to ask for a little bit of color in this because we're going to have some different conversations.

Reverend Jim Wallace does this when he goes to someone's house, he looks at their DVD collections, their book collections, his artwork. the pictures on her walls and he says who you have dinner with and that's what happens now if you're black and a black student from Texas A&M comes to see me and she says you know how he was, you talk about Texas A&M and you love it I said yes , I did, I had a great time there and she's like, but yeah, but you know we have these white students that wanted to talk.

I said, what are you talking about? She says what you mean, that's how your mouth came out at Texas A&M we have a tradition we say holiday we don't say how are you hello that's an annual tradition I go you say hello I don't like to say hello why your butt here we have a tradition no no no follow me here she is a black student who comes to Texas A&M and says: I like traditions, but that's it, we have a universe of traditions, we have tons of traditions, but you knew all the traditions, which is the Aggie thing, but what? are you black or not?

I said, okay. So when you're having lunch, I'm curious to know that you just said I'm with some white people, so what you mean is I say, Well, did you ever just walk on the train today? How are they? I can see? Yeah man, who? I said, here goes, no, I said, so you're asking white students to do what you won't do, so you want white students to come and sit with you, but you won't sit like I know right now in this. I had one of the sisters from my program today on campus, so you have some black students who want to save space so black people can organize when it comes to social justice.

Okay, I get it, but look, I'm different. I'm going. Arrange yourself in the middle of a group of white people because I want you to hear a conversation. I want everyone to think about what I just said. I want them to see us walking. I want you to go. What are they doing? Because if I am. in a place where there are only black people, so I'm reinforcing a conversation and a narrative. No, I want some white people to become liberal and Arbor to feel uncomfortable with my presence because seeing my presence may also make them start saying, "I know what they were." talking and what invariably happens is someone says what can I learn more can I listen more see that's just one reach one teach one that's where we're afraid we look for safe spaces when what we need are unsafe spaces we need people who are willing to get out of your comfort zone to talk to people and challenge people that might require them to say they care if I sit here and invariably can start a conversation and the last thing here because that's how it works as a student.

Sophomore, we were playing pool, it was 2 in the morning, I don't know how the conversation started, then this white guy started talking to me and my brother, I don't know where he was from and this is what ended up happening. He told us a story and he says he just told us how he explained how it came about, but he said that when he was a kid they were playing football and a black kid got mad and took the ball and went home and said, "I gotta I don't like football." sins of black people, since they have too many balls, they all heard that word and I said, I said, now I didn't make a fool of myself by getting angry, are you what the hell was this fool saying?

I said, I said, I said to help you so that you haven't been Like black people all these years because a black kid took your ball and went home. Right, he says yeah, I said you know, in a neighborhood right now there's a group of black kids playing and a black kid got mad and he took a ball from black kids and went home. I don't think the group of black people didn't like him anymore. black people because that black kid took his ball, I said, I'm telling you the story because that's what kids do. little ones, take the damn balls and go home, I said, so I need you to understand that and we started having a dialogue that he literally for eight years was not like among black people because an incident happened when he was a child, why does it matter? ?

Because in the same city, when he worked at the KBTX television station, the Bryan-College station, Jeff Braun, yes, I call him by his name, I applied. for the weekend sports anchor job there and he wouldn't give me the job because he had a run-in with someone black several years earlier. I didn't get the job because of an encounter he had with a black man, all at the station. the sports director the deputy sports director at 5:00 p.m. producer 6:00 p.m. producer exactly producer everyone said Rolling is the best intern at this station he should get the job but he said no his own friends told me he won't hire you because of that and then he hired a guy from my classmate the nice one John Oakley, who I went around and around about why I'm saying that because that same kid in his sophomore year who liked black people because of an incident when he was a kid will grow up to be in corporate America and have an incident and not hire someone black Because of the one incident, if we didn't do it now, I don't know if it stayed the same, but if we didn't have that conversation at two in the morning, I don't know if I would still be walking with I think the same feelings, though, because we had the conversation he might have changed his mind if you sit in your safe space and don't talk to anyone then you can't change okay you have to realize that when he talked about what someone did when he was a kid the number 45 happens all your time in your childhood egos, do you have three ego states? child, parent and adult, spends his time in his child ego state right there until we take him out of his child ego state and his parent. ego state in which it says you are fired we will not have an adult in the white house you must realize that we have a man who was a case of that Arrested Development when he was kicked out of the military academy that he had not had the complete course so He is still in that ridiculous situation of being at the beginning of training.

You have to understand that this man cannot think without someone telling him what to think and without someone telling him that what we have to do is deconstruct. This government doesn't have your best interests at heart and it doesn't have my best interests at heart and I want you to realize what's really going on. It's not because I'm 70 years old, but because I watched the head of the Department of Commerce. this morning and let me tell you, I know us older people know a lot, but when you can't cross the room without problems you shouldn't be the head of an important government department, you understand, come on, I'm sorry.

Sorry, I'm not ageist but I'm not stupid either, what do you want? What else do you want besides me? I'll shut up, I want you to say thank you and goodbye and then I'll bring Catherine. up because she has something special okay thank you and goodbye and no one else is worth thank you very much guys can you wait a moment don't run out don't run out hello come back okay on behalf of women of color task strength first, we would like to thank our moderator, the teacher Robin, it means komen, she had an extremely difficult job today and I think she did it with grace, dignity and control, so on behalf of the Women of Color Task Force, I would like, we would like to thank her and offer her this symbolic gift and you I'll say this because I always sit outside and I hate when someone gets a gift and you don't know what it is, it's a black M made out of wood at the University of Michigan Campus, every time we cut down trees and build buildings, we take that wood and we reuse and it's a black M and it's a paperweight, it's that big and she's going to get some of the wood from Michigan, okay, so in the name of Martin Luther.

Martin Luther King Jr. the César Chávez Rosa Parks Visiting Professorship we offered this certificate certifying that Jane Elliott served as the King Shava Sparks Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and is hereby granted all rights, honors and privileges thereof, in witness whereof the thresholds of the state of Michigan and the University of Michigan and the signatures of the university officials thereof are here to fix and are signed by our president marshal and our vice chancellor and chief diversity officer. I can't read Robert Sellers' signature, that's a beautiful signature, thank you, that's wonderful. thank you so we have a Martin Luther King jr.

César Chávez Rosa Parks visiting professorship for Roland Martin. He has served as a King Chavez Parks Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and is hereby granted all rights, honors and privileges thereof in testimony of his knowledge of the seals of the state of Michigan. and the University of Michigan and the signatures of its university officials are herein attached. This is signed by our President Marshal and our Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer, Robert Sellers.