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[ominous music]

- I care deeply
about black people

and the issues of black people.

But I care deeply about
the issues of all people.

I want to look at
things objectively.

When I look at what
policies I believe

will help not only black people,

but what would help all
people, I voice that.

And because I stand
in the opposition,

that makes me an Uncle Tom.

I used to get very
offended and upset

whenever people would
call me an Uncle Tom.

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

I kinda pity them because
of their ignorance.

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

Whenever someone calls
you an Uncle Tom,

what they're trying
to communicate

is that either you just
do not like black people

and you see all black
people as trash,

or they're tying to communicate

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

"You're trying to be
accepted among whites.

"And so, I wanna call
you this derogatory word

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

"you will never be
accepted by whites.

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

[dramatic music]

- Those people who
find my Instagram

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

I never thought that
I would be called

such racist and
derogatory terms.

- Uncle Tom.

- Uncle Tom.

- Uncle Tom, coon, bed wench.

- Boot licker.

Chuckin' and jobbin'.

- House Negro.

Coon.

- Uncle Tom and coon.

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

Coon of the year award.

- They call us the coons.

- Coon.
- Coon.

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

- Uncle Ruckus.

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

- The guy from "Get Out."

They put his face on my post.

- I find that the
African-American
experience for me

has been for the
most part very good.

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

most absurd thing is a
black white supremacist.

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

- They go [gasps].

- White power.

- It must be real.

- People say crazy things.

Leftists say the
craziest shit to you.

- [Lenore] Don't try
to twist what I say.

- But that's what you're saying.

- [Lenore] That is
not what I'm saying.

- That is what you're saying.

- [Lenore] You can't
tell me what I'm saying.

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

- [Lenore] You don't know me.

- You sound like all of them.

- [Lenore] Oh yeah, okay.

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

Now, how about that?
- See that?

I knew it.

Lenore, it's good
to hear from you.

It's good to hear from you.

- [Lenore] Go drop dead.

- All right.

Thank you, Lenore.

What a sweet lady.

- An Uncle Tom is
somebody who has sold out

by embracing the white man,
by becoming a Republican,

by rejecting the idea
that you're a victim,

by supporting things
like hard work,

accountability and low taxes.

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

as opposed to as an
American who is black.

- Your skin color should
dictate how you think

and what you say.

- The only way I can
operate as a human being

is via my skin color.

I can't operate
via my intelligence

or the things I
have accomplished.

My resume should be, I'm black.

- An Uncle Tom has traditionally
been a black person

that tried to serve and curry
favor with white people.

So, they believe that
I wanna be accepted

in the white community.

Kinda like the House
Negro back in slavery.

That I'm in the house.

"Master, what can I do for you?"

And I'm gonna suck up to them

and leave my people behind.

- Most black people
don't believe

that other blacks can be
independent free-thinkers

or standing up--
- You definitely don't.

- Or stand up for what is right.

They believe that
if a black person

stand up for what is
right, they're a Sell Out.

They're a Uncle Tom.

The white people have
to be brainwashing.

- As my late
grandfathers used to say,

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

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

He said, "I does not care."

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

Just meet me at the bank.

[laughing]

And we'll compare bank accounts.

[soft music]

- I am very optimistic
about the future.

Frankly, I have
seen certain changes

in the United States
over the last two years

that surprise me.

I've seen levels of compliance

with the Civil Rights
bill, and changes

that have been most surprising.

So, on the basis of this,

I think we may be able
to get a negro president

in less than 40 years.

[somber music]

- [Announcer] In churches,
in bars, on the streets.

Americans have been
celebrating this great landmark

of the long struggle
for civil rights.

In Chicago, the veteran
black leader, Jesse Jackson,

broke down in tears.

In Atlanta, from the pulpit

of Martin Luther
King's old church,

its pastor declared,
"Tonight, we have seized

"the promise of America."

- [Man] Not to sound crazy,

but white people
always had Jesus.

So, they always
had that mentality,

I could be anything, even God.

For me, the image
of him is like,

who's the most powerful
person in the world?

Who's considered like
a God, basically?

It's the president
of the United States.

Obama became that image
for us, like that Jesus.

We never looked at ourselves
as being politicians.

We looked at
ourselves as rappers.

or football, basketball
players, drug dealers.

That's why I think
Obama was important

in becoming president.

Because it gave us that optic.

Like, we could be
whatever we wanna be.

- [Candace] It was
America finally feeling

that we could let go.

Just let go and say
we finally did it.

Progress is here.

I cried when he won.

[crowd cheering]

- I never thought in my
lifetime that it would happen.

But it happened today.

It's a reality and we did it.

America is now more united.

We did it.

- I can't believe that
I got the opportunity

to live, to see
something so great.

I can't even describe it.

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

- [Woman] Just look around.

It's all young
people, all colors.

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

Who would have
thought that this year

a man like this will be elected

as the president
of United States?

This is the beauty of America.

God bless America.

God bless America!

[drill whirring]

- I became a Christian
back in 2009.

The year prior, I
voted for Barack Obama.

I was really passionate about
Barack Obama and his policies.

I was having a
conversation with a friend,

and I was telling him
how I'm a Democrat

because the Democrat
policy is pro-Medicaid,

pro-government benefits,
all these things

that can help poor
urban communities.

And doesn't the Bible say

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

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

"Well, was it talking
about the government

"or is it talking about you?"

[soft music]

And I was like, that's
very interesting.

And so, I went back and read it

and it was talking about me.

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

but I was still a Democrat.

This friend of
mine challenged me

to go and read the
Republican platform

and read the Democrat platform.

And see where my values
and my views line up.

My whole mindset was
changing around this time,

and so I took him
up on that offer.

I went in and I read the
entire Democrat platform

and I read the entire
Republican platform.

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

- I have learned to go beyond

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

I go on Fox News all the time,

but I decide to go beyond
what they are saying

and what they're selling

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

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

I used to be a Democrat.

I used to be hardcore,
Barack Obama,

the Democrats are only
here to help the people,

they're the party of the people.

And then I found out
that the Democratic party

was the party of
slavery, Ku Klux Klan,

the Jim Crow laws.

They were opposed to the
civil rights movement.

The 13th, 14th
and 15th Amendment

which freed the slaves, gave
black people citizenship

and the right to vote.

The Democrats
unanimously voted against

all of those rights.

And when I found that out,

and nobody could give
me a legitimate stance

on how the party switched,

it's like I have no other choice

but to at least
consider what principles

does the other side have?

What are they offering?

[ominous music]

- [Man] When I began
to educate myself

on the history of
the Democratic party,

I learned a lot about
Margaret Sanger.

- [Margaret] I think the
greatest sin in the world

is bringing children
into the world.

That have disease--

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

And I learned about
the Jim Crow south.

And I learned about
Black Wall Street.

And all of those events had
Democratic hands in them.

It unraveled everything
that I knew to be true.

Everything that the
news media taught me.

Everything that my
own culture taught me.

- We're going to the studio.

News nugget.

Show time.

George Washington mural should
be covered but preserved

according to a San Francisco
school board decision.

Don't they have
better things to do?

Do you know what the
problem is with that mural?

It has a slave in it.

That was back then.

But they wanna cover up history.

It had a native
American-Indian in it.

They don't like that.

It's part of history.

I focus on three things.

Performance,
performance, performance.

The three things that
are my guiding lights,

belief in God, belief in myself

and my belief in the
United Sates of America.

I learned it from
that man right there.

[soft music]

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

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

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

And then one day he
was asked to drive

for the chairman and
CEO, Robert W. Woodruff.

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

I never heard him complain

about having to work so hard.

I never heard him complain

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

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

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

telling us we were poor.

My dad encouraged
my brother and I

to get as much
education as you can.

'cause he worked
in an environment

where the most successful people

were the ones that had the
greatest amount of education.

Success does not come
in a straight line.

It's a zigzag.

- I'm sick of us hearing
about or people talking about,

"Oh, when I go to a job,

"they're gonna
discriminate against me.

"White privilege."

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

[crowd applauding]

You're stronger than that.

You're more powerful than that.

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

and someone don't give
me an opportunity,

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

until I get a job.

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

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

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

you'll be successful.

[somber music]

- I never saw myself
as handicapped,

because I was black,
I was a woman,

that I came from poverty.

It was just not the way
I processed the world.

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

then went on to get
a four-year degree,

graduating magna cum laude,

while I was working
40 hours a week,

nights and weekends at the
community college library.

My life has taken many turns.

I married at 16, I
dropped out of school.

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

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

and becoming a
university professor.

Graduate school was
very interesting for me

in a lot of ways.

I had this experience
in a course

that was being taught
by a white female,

she was actually
a white liberal.

At some point in the classroom,

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

because she turned
to me and she yelled,

"You'll never be able
to change the fact

"that you're a black woman."

And I interpreted that to
mean that I was handicapped,

whether I knew it or not.

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

I was a woman, and
that I was not supposed

to have accomplished the things

that I had already
accomplished, which was success.

By then, it was too late.

- [Larry] When I was a kid,
I went to a summer camp

in an area of California
called Yucaipa.

Really bucolic,
flowers everywhere,
it was just wonderful.

There was a Boy Scouts jamboree,

and there were
hundreds of Boy Scouts

from all over California.

And from what I can tell,

there were just a
handful of blacks.

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

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

And there was one kid.

He and I got into
some sort of argument,

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

And I literally had to
restrain the other kids

from killing this guy.

I mean, they were
just gonna kill him.

They were more angry
about it than I was.

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

the racists were
in the majority.

I never really felt that.

I always felt that
people who were bigots

intuitively were
in the minority,

and most people
didn't feel that way.

That seemed to be consistent

with my own personal
experiences.

I was always confident.

I always knew I
had a good memory,

made good grades, and
my parents gave me

a lot of positive
feedback because of that.

I always knew I was
going to be an achiever,

and it was no doubt about that.

The only doubt was the route.

There was never a time
when I thought of myself

as a victim, never,
not one time.

- You're afraid of
being marginalized.

Welcome to what it
feels like to be black.

- A man caught on video
unleashing a racist rant.

- An alleged racist incident.

- Racial bias.

- Racist tendencies.

- Racism.
- Racism from coast to coast.

- The open racism.

- Statements of racism.

- He was brutally
beaten by attackers

yelling racist and
homophobic slurs.

- A racist drifter.

- Is it racism, is it sexism?

- How do we get white
people to see racism

as their problem too.

- That was racist.
- Racist.

- Go back to Africa
kind of racism.

- Straight up racist.

- Racist tweets.
- Racist tweets.

- Those tweets are racist.

- A racial dog whistle.

- The most successful
black Americans today

are Nigerian-Americans,

because they're not
brainwashed by our media.

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

of racial injustice in America.

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

You deal with what we
call micro aggressions,

or a 1000 cuts of
racism every single day.

- I grew up being told
of my disadvantages.

That this country is
unfair to black people.

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

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

you can't get bank loans.

- When you walk into a bank,

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

- The ideology is implanted
into you subconsciously

to believe these things.

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

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

"Or is it because I'm black?

"Why are they looking
at me like that?"

- How many of you feel judged?

How many of you
feel feared on sight

when people see you?

Show of hands.

- We teach them to be
scared of this country,

to be scared of the
world that they live in.

- It's like a cancerous plague

in the mind of black Americans.

- You trying to say
that this country

does not specialize
in racism and bigotry?

- I am saying that
racism exists.

I am saying--
- Exists,

but you have the luxury.

You have the luxury to
be cavalier about it.

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

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

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

who they're operating
in very negative energy.

- I call out racism.

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

because it's crazy--

- If you keep yourself
in this constant state

of woe is me, I'm disadvantaged,

I'll never accomplish anything,

then you won't
accomplish anything.

- It will be a self-fulfilling
prophecy for you.

If you determine that
you can't be successful

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

That's the power of the mind.

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

and you sure as hell won't try.

And black America
has been programmed

to believe that we can't.

- The country was founded on
racism and bigotry, David.

- If you turn on a
radio morning show.

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

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

- [Man] The message is clear.

- [Man] If you broke
and white in America,

you're wasting your whiteness.

- [Man] And that's
what's being fed

into the urban community.

- [Man] White supremacy
is the backbone

of political and economic
disenfranchisement
of black folks.

- So long as black people
continue to have their psyche

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

- Trump is a racist.

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

- It gets brainwashed into
you in multiple facets.

We tend to be geared
towards entertainment.

- [Snoop] You need to know

that a lot of your
fans is racist.

- People have used those
entertainment personalities

to convince us subconsciously
what we should believe.

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

Fuck you and--

♪ Fuck Donald Trump

♪ Fuck Donald Trump

♪ Yeah, nigga,
fuck Donald Trump ♪

- I'm beginning
to lose confidence

in the Trump administration.

[audience laughing]

Yeah, what do you think of that?

- I think it's
actually a great thing.

- Jay Z has always
been a drug dealer

to the black community.

He's very open about the fact

that he used to
sell crack cocaine

when he was living
in the projects,

and that's how he got ahead.

So, he was selling
something that was harming

the black community.

Well, he's still doing that.

He's still selling something

that's harming the
black community,

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

- We have to have
the conversation.

We have to have
tough conversations.

We have to talk
about the N-word,

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

in this country.

[somber music]

- Colin Kaepernick,
same exact hustle.

This is a half-white
man who's chosen

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

because right now
victimhood is hot.

Colin Kaepernick is
making a ton of money.

Jay Z is making a ton of money.

Is black America any better?

The communities
are still hurting,

but they get to
line their pockets

and we accept the same
type of crack cocaine.

- The left gets away with this

because 80 to 90% of the
primary sources of news

are left-wing.

My father was a janitor.

He was born in the
Jim Crow south.

Fast forward, my
father in his late 40s,

started a small business,

got a little bit of property.

This is what happens in America.

Raised three boys,
educated them.

We have a thriving
black middle class.

If black America were
a country, Brooke,

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

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

- America is an idea.

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

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

That's why entrepreneurs
are birthed here.

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

That's why black people
are doing better here

than anywhere else in the world.

It's very simple.

This ideology, people begin
to adopt around the world,

and they become successful.

It's an idea.

America is an idea.

Anybody who adopts
the idea of America

will be American and successful.

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

You're not get
that far in America

if you don't pursue
the American idea.

[soft music]

- You wanna hold it?

[cock crowing]

I love that this country
values individuals.

As a black American
in the United States,

I have autonomy in
the things that I do

or are of my doing.

A lot people expect
when you say farmer,

they're expecting
wide tracts of land

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

And I realize when I
look back here every day,

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

Started with chickens,
which is the gateway farming

to goats, rabbits, horses.

These are my goats,
Posey and Zelda.

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

A really badly bred Kiko.

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

Individualism, independence
and taking responsibility

for your actions
and for your food.

I think that as for promoting
small government values.

When you do things yourself,

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

I think black Americans
should believe

and uphold the ideas of
constitutional inherent rights.

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

[somber music]

- I will support and
defend the constitution

of the United States of
America against all enemies,

foreign and domestic.

I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same,

that I take this
obligation freely

without any purpose of evasion
or mental reservations,

so help me God.

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

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

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

Those of us that
understand that oath,

will always be guardians
of the American republic.

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

continue on in the path
of liberty, freedom

and individual rights,
then I gotta make sure

that subsequent generations
understand that.

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

just the same as I did.

Because I had a dad that
inculcated that into me.

- [Man] Your green herring
bones, but take your hat first.

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

Try it on.
- At the age of 15,

when my dad said that
there was no greater honor

than to wear the uniform

of the United States of America,

that's a powerful statement.

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

Never heard him say a bad word

about the United
States of America.

He went off to serve and
fight for this country,

even though this
country did not see him

as it should have seen him.

But he wasn't a victim.

The black community
really believed

that if they could show
that they were willing

to stand side by side
with white Americans

and fight for
liberties and freedoms,

that sooner or later,
people would understand

that we can't have
this hypocrisy.

Executive order 9981 that
President Harry Truman signed

that desegregated our military.

He finally realized that
if we are true to ourselves

about the liberation
of other people,

from the tyranny
of Nazism, fascism

and Japanese imperialism, we
gotta be true to that here

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

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

- That's why the
principles of the founders

speak loudly to me.

- Even though we
face the difficulties

of today and tomorrow,
I still have a dream.

It is a dream deeply rooted
in the American dream.

I think it is an immoral posture

to hold the position
that individuals,

whether they be Negroes
or members of other
minority groups,

should have their
basic constitutional

and God-given rights held up.

- Self governance is what all

of those grassroots
people were seeking.

They understood
that the victimizer,

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

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

Hello, sister Tasha Fields.

Hi, this Bob
Woodson, how are you?

Good, listen.

I wanna invite you
and your husband

to join this consortium of ours.

We're calling it
the 1776 Consortium,

to respond to the 1619
piece that was done

in the New York Times.

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

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

but it doesn't totally
define the black condition.

We want our people to understand

that the future of black America

is not defined by slavery,

but by the kinds
of things we did

and responds to
these conditions,

similar to what you and
your husband has overcome.

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

a invitation to
formally join us.

Because what we
would like to do...

- I wish that it would
be mandatory reading,

not just in the black community

but all across America,
to read the autobiography

of Booker T. Washington.

Here was a man that
was born into slavery.

And when he learned
that he was free,

his number one quest,
his number one goal

was to get an education.

He walks from present
day West Virginia

to Hampton, Virginia,
to Hampton Institute,

so that he could show
himself qualified

to enter that institution
and get an education.

When he established
Tuskegee Normal

and Industrial Institute,

it wasn't just about
the book learning,

it was about
industrial learning.

It was about people being
able to take an education

and develop themselves
into entrepreneurs

so that they could
have self reliance.

There was a schism between
Booker T. Washington

and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Booker T. Washington believed
in the ability of someone

to get out there and
work with industries

and show their
value, by the talents

that they were able to develop,

by the businesses they were
able to create and open.

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

in that protest oriented
demanding of rights

and things of this nature.

This is where you get
the sellout, Uncle Tom

and all of these things

that they used to demonize
Booker T. Washington.

But when you think
about, in the long run,

who was right?

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

who became an avowed communist,

who renounced his
American citizenship.

But the institution that Booker
T. Washington established

is still there today.

We need to go back
and understand

what Booker T.
Washington was really,

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

There's nothing
wrong with hard work.

There's nothing wrong
with working your way up

from the bottom.

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

[dramatic music]

- I had a college
student ask me one time,

how did you deal
with color and race

when you were climbing
the corporate ladder?

My answer, I didn't.

Let them deal with it.

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

I went to the president
of the Pillsbury company

and said, "I need
to get involved

"in some other aspects
of the corporation,

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

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

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

There really is a
Whopper College in Miami.

I graduated summa cum laude.

[laughing]

I was working for the
Department of the Navy.

The same day that I started,
another white gentleman

named Robert started
working there also.

We had very similar jobs.

So, the first 12 months, I
got outstanding performance

four quarters in a row.

Second year, outstanding
performance four
quarters in a row.

And Robert got
outstanding performance.

But Robert was getting
his GS salary increase

at least two months
sooner than me.

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

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

He said, "Yeah."

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

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

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

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

So, you know what I did?

I didn't get mad.

I went and got me
a Master's degree.

- There are only four
rungs to this ladder.

- Went back, sat
down with Wayne.

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

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

I said, "Keep me in mind.

"See you around."

And not long after that,
they had a special project

called a rocket
assisted projector.

They had to have someone

who was gonna be the GS 13
supervisor and mathematician,

to do the special ballistics

on this rocket
assisted projector.

I got the promotion.

And I had eight white
people working for me.

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

So, since I now had
that Master's degree

and I had proved
myself, I got the job.

When I decided to
leave Dahlgren,

never forget the
department head.

And he called me up
for an exit interview.

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

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

I said, "What?"

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

"You taught me,
don't judge somebody

"by the color of their skin."

[somber music]

- I grew up primarily
around black people.

Primarily in what we call
the Afrocentric perspective.

That means, everything in life

was seen from the lens of
being black in America.

I used to have gold
teeth in my mouth.

I got young savage
tattooed across my stomach.

I got my hood tattooed
on my forearm.

So, I kinda had this
whole hip hop culture,

negative, angry mentality.

I grew up believing
that white people

did not like black people.

And that no matter
what you did in life,

the white man is
gonna hold you down.

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

but there were other
influences that did.

Whether we're talking
about uncles and aunts,

from the hip hop
industry, the media.

It painted a picture of
the black man in America

as being in a constant
state of distress,

a constant state
of disadvantage.

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

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

- The only people I knew
who existed in my life

and who I could pick
to be role models

were athletes and rappers.

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

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

when I've had this reckoning,

but there's one person
who totally transformed

the way that I thought.

There was a video
that I saw on YouTube

and it was Larry Elder.

[crowd cheering]

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

I think it's the
funniest thing...

Larry Elder is my mentor.

I can call him any
time about any topic,

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

I'm having to
contend with the fact

that all I have is the
media narrative of things,

and he lived through
it, he saw it,

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

- Larry Elder was
at the forefront

of being a thought leader,

in terms of questioning
prevalent narratives

of the black community.

Especially with regards to
individual accountability.

- If you have parents
who care about education,

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

you're gonna have
a better situation

than somebody else
with the same IQ

whose parents don't have
that kind of motivation,

who don't immerse
you in education.

Environment
absolutely has a role.

- He provided a huge
part of my awakening.

One video of him
with Dave Rubin,

and I went, "Oh my goodness!

"I've been so ignorant."

- You wouldn't not acknowledge

that there are some
systemic issues.

- Give me an example.

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

What is it?

Well, I would say that
because black people

in most cases, in many cases,

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

- In 2015?
- A certain amount if it

just exists.
- In 2015?

Give me the most
blatant racist example

you can come up with right now.

- I think you could
probably find evidence

that in general cops
are more willing

to shoot if the perpetrator
is black than white.

- What's your basis
for saying that?

- Look, I know a lot
of people would say,

"Look what's going
on in Chicago."

- I know what they would say,

I'm talking about
what the facts are.

965 people were shot by
cops last year and killed.

4% of them were white cops
shooting unarmed blacks.

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

In 2015, there were seven.

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

and 1/3 Hispanic,
70% of the homicides

are black on black.

About 40 per month,
almost 500 per year

last year in Chicago,

and 75% of them are unsolved.

Where is the Black
Lives Matter on that?

The idea that a racist white cop

shooting unarmed black people
is a peril to black people

is BS, it's complete and total--

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

It's facts or it's not.

But Larry Elder did
something different.

- What this lie does, it
causes young, black men

to be confrontational with cops

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

for fear that they'd
be called racist--

- I saw a black man that
reminded me of myself

and other people I grew up with.

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

How did he come to
these conclusions?

- It's incompatible
to have porous borders

and a welfare state.

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

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

Why is that so controversial?

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

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

However, we're talking
about a very important,

fundamental shift, like
a breaking of the frame.

- What's the purpose of an SAT?

The purpose of the
SAT is to make sure

the student can do
the freaking work

that's required of him or her

once they get admitted
to that given university.

So, if you give
'em adjusted score

because of their
disadvantaged nature,

that does not give
them the ability

to compete at the
school and succeed.

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

than we already have,

because of race
based preferences.

- You're talking about breaking
a very major narrative,

shattering a glass ceiling.

- A lot of young black
people are discovering me

and consider me to be
something of a mentor,

the way I considered Thomas
Sowell and Walter Williams.

- Black people have
never taken a position

that you describe.

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

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

It's what you choose to project.

- We didn't learn
about these guys.

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

- The engineer is judged
by the end product

which is not simply ideas.

If he builds a building
that collapses,

it doesn't matter how
brilliant his idea was,

he's ruined.

Conversely, if an
intellectual who's brilliant

has an idea for
rearranging society,

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

- To hear Thomas Sowell destroy

all of this so-called data,

that the so-called
enlightened among us

were using to try
to get their way

and to try to shape policy--

- But you would
also have to agree

that generally speaking, women
are paid less for example,

for the same jobs as men.

- No, I would not.

I would not agree with that.

You're talking about women.

With the same number
of years of experience.

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

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

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

depending on how you
break the data down.

The difference with women

is between married women
and everybody else.

- If his message would have
somehow penetrated through

all of the nonsense, and
all of the manufactured,

preconceived notion
that I bought into

and settled itself in my mind,

he would've been a
huge influence for me.

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

- [Candace] I know Lebron James.

- I know you guys are
excited to see her.

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

but thank you.
[crowd cheering]

- I know all of these rappers.

I don't know Thomas Sowell.

I don't know about
Walter Williams.

- I've always been a radical.

I've always challenged
the status quo.

- [Woman] If there's one
person that you think

black America would
be celebrating...

- I supported things
like minimum wage laws

'cause I thought
it was a good idea.

Until I ran into some
professor, he said,

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

"of the minimum wage law,

"as opposed to looking
at the intentions."

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

- It's like havin' a
very successful family

that you never knew you had.

Until your grandfather dies

and y'all meet at the funeral.

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

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

We have people in our
family that own businesses.

Highly successful.

Why have you hidden
this from me?

- It's unfortunate but history
is written by academics,

and academia is a
tool of the left.

- If you find a very
educated black American,

somebody who got a 4.0
at a public high school,

they're actively learning
their history wrong.

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

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

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

remained a Democrat
her entire life.

My dad was a Republican,

remained a Republican
his entire life.

By the way, most
blacks were Republican

until the New Deal.

My dad was born in 1915,

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

He never changed.

My mom became a
democrat in large part

because of Franklin Roosevelt.

- To 30 millions
of our citizens,

who will reap direct benefits

through unemployment
compensation.

- [Larry] Most blacks
were Republican

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

And when the New Deal came,

a number of blacks switched
over to the New Deal.

That switch has continued.

- [Announcer] Only a few
months before his tragic death,

President Kennedy called
on the American Congress

to pass the most far
reaching Civil Rights Bill

in the nation's history.

- To protect the constitutional
rights of all citizens.

[audience applauding]

- The shift came with
the presidential election

between Richard Nixon
and John F. Kennedy.

Martin Luther King Jr.
had been imprisoned,

and both sides asked
their respective
presidential candidate

to give a courtesy call
to Coretta Scott King

and offer their condolences
and their support

and what have you.

The rumor got out that
John F. Kennedy did.

And so, the next thing you know,

and every house down south,

and I can say this
from my own eyeballs.

There were three pictures
that hung in the living room

of any black home down south.

It was Jesus Christ,
Martin Luther King Jr.

and John F. Kennedy.

- [Larry] John Kennedy
promoted a dramatic tax cut.

He was a coal warrior,
he was a hunter,

he believed in the
Second Amendment.

John Kennedy's collection
of views right now

would make him a Republican.

He would not be welcome
within the Democratic party.

- No memorial, oration or eulogy

could more eloquently honor
President Kennedy's memory

than the earliest
possible passage

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

[audience applauding]

- It goes back to the mid-1960s

as to why blacks believe
they should be Democrats.

In 1964, the Civil
Rights Act passed.

Lyndon Johnson signed it.

1965, the Voting
Rights Act passed.

Lyndon Johnson signed it.

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

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

There was a larger percentage
of Republicans in Congress,

in both instances
that voted for it

than the percentage of
Democrats that voted for it.

- Who enabled the Civil Rights
legislation in '64 to pass

was Senate Republicans,
led by Everett Dirksen.

- Everett Dirksen got
an award from the NAACP

for helping to shepherd
the act into fruition.

Most blacks are unaware of that.

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

- President Johnson
was able to get

the Civil Rights bill passed,

and it was perceived
that it was an effort

on the part of the Democrats.

And so that's a
perception and a narrative

that has been created,
that caused the community

to connect that
event, momentous event

to the Democratic party.

And they have been
using that idea

to effectively
create a perception

that the best friend
to the black community

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

- Black people have been taught

that the Democratic
party wears the white hat

when it comes to Civil
Rights and racial justice,

and Republicans
have been described

as wearing the black hat.

- If resistance to the Federal
Court Order ceases at once,

the further presence of Federal
troops will be unnecessary.

And the city of Little Rock

will return to its normal
habits of peace and order.

And a blot upon the fair name

and high honor of our
nation in the world

will be removed.

- [Man] Dwight Eisenhower
was responsible

for bringing the civil rights
issues to the forefront.

- [Martin] I have a
dream, that one day...

- It was a movement that
was challenging America

to embrace its ideas.

Those ideas that were found

in the Declaration
of Independence,

that all men are created equal.

To hold our society, America,

to the principles that were
found in the constitution.

And those constitutional
principles

that protect our liberties,

and protect our
individual rights,

is what that civil rights
movement was all about.

- There must be a revolution
of values in our country.

Because some of the values
that presently exist

are certainly out of
line with the values

and the idealistic structure

that brought our
nation into being.

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

- [Man] It was
signed under the hope

that that piece of legislation

would open up opportunities
for the blacks.

To have equal access, to
have first class citizenship,

have better economic
opportunities.

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

[crowd cheering]

- [Larry] Al Gore's
father, Al Gore Sr.,

worked with other Democrats

to mount what was at the time,

the longest filibuster in
the history of the Senate.

To prevent the bill from
ever getting onto the floor

for a vote.

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

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

- Whenever I began to read
the Republican party platform,

I didn't find one thing in there

that I felt as a
black man targeted me.

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

in their platform, maybe
I can find something

in the Republican party's past

that gives me an example
of how they targeted me

as a black man.

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

You can argue, he signed the
Emancipation Proclamation

as a war strategy, and
you could argue that.

But at the end of the day,

the fact of the matter is
that it was a Republican

who signed the
Emancipation Proclamation.

And then if you fast
forward to women suffrage,

it was a Republican Chief
Justice in William Taft

that struck down laws
that made it illegal

for women to vote.

If you look at Jim Crow.

It was Republican votes in
the Senate and in the House

that was able to rid
this country of Jim Crow.

[ominous music]

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

it was specifically intended

to suppress the
African-Americans

and keep them from voting
for Republicans specifically.

That was always what the
KKK was founded to do.

- A lot of black people
were voting for Democrats

because they were
being forced to.

If you don't vote for Democrats,

the Ku Klux Klan are gonna come

and lynch your eldest son.

And so, you fast
forward to today,

the message is still the same.

If you don't vote for Democrats,

the Republicans are gonna come.

- They can turn
back voting rights.

They can turn back
many of the things

that people suffered
and died for.

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

- It's the same
Democratic party.

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

- We in the same ship.

It's the same soup
just warmed over.

It ain't nothing change.

The same party is
doing the same thing

they always been doing.

Party of division,
the party of power.

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

you can believe what
you wanna believe,

support what you wanna support,

you are free to do these things.

We don't have to
support one person.

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

We are free to make choices.

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

I choose to be a
Republican, and when whoa!

Everybody stop.

[somber music]

- He is encouraging a generation
of foolish, young people.

These are lost, disturbed,
self-loathing people.

- Notice that all of those
youngsters had caps on.

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

- It's gone like from
physical restrictions,

but now, in the 21st century

as we're reaching
the information age,

it's a become a sort of
metaphysical restriction

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

Minorities shouldn't
think this way.

Minorities shouldn't
support these people.

Minorities shouldn't
believe these things.

- Black conservatives today,

or anybody that has a
black conservative message,

we are the people that are
escaping the plantation.

- The liberal will try
to control a black person

through the concept of racism,

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

- What was the reaction
when black slaves

escaped the plantation?

It was swift.

- What I saw was a
minstrel show today.

Him in front of all
of these white people

embarrassing himself.

- When minorities don't support

the agenda of the
Democrats or the left,

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

in a physical realm,

they're now doing in
a metaphysical realm.

- But are we 100% convinced?

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

- He really has a problem
pumping the brakes here

mentally and emotionally.

- Maybe he was missing
his medication.

- It all makes clear
that he has struggled

and admitted diagnoses for
personal mental health issues.

- Anybody who threatens the
95% monolithic black vote

is an enemy.

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

- Another stunning
act of terror--

- A mass shooting at two
mosques in New Zealand.

- He claims to have been
radicalized by Candace Owens.

- Saying that she was
an inspiration to him.

She has responded sarcastically.

Few events I have
not been blamed for.

Brazilian mining dam collapse.

Chinese air smog.

Tenerife air crash, 1973.

She's not taking this
at all seriously.

- What do you think
the press is doing

when you try to smear someone
as having a mental disorder

and when you say that someone

is inspiring a mosque shooting.

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

is effectively cut off.

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

so that I'm considered
sort of this reject.

- I just have to say
that I object strenuously

to your use of the
word hilarious.

To me, this feels a
lot like your reaction

to being named on one
of these manifestos.

Now, you're of course
not responsible

for the words of somebody
writing that document.

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

because these are real families

that are impacted
by this violence.

- I'm a black female
who came from poverty.

I should be at the top
of the progressive stack.

I should be receiving awards.

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

to share my story,
but they're not.

Why?

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

You would rather assign
meaning to a homicidal maniac

than to actually address
the things that I said today

that are actually
harming black America.

Number one, father absence.

Number two, the education system

and the illiteracy rate.

Illegal immigration ranks
high, abortion ranks high,

white supremacy and
white nationalism,

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

would not be on it.

This hearing in my
opinion is a farce,

and it is ironic that
you're sitting here

and you're having three
Caucasian people testify,

and tell you what
their expertise are.

Do I know what my expertise are?

Black in America.

I've been black in
America my whole life.

All 30 years, and
I can tell you,

that you guys have done
the exact same thing

every four years ahead
of an election cycle

and it needs to stop.

- I think probably
the most hated

political person in America,
is a black conservative.

And that's because we
refute the entire philosophy

of the Democratic party.

[ominous music]

- [Man] I think the
fact that a black person

can start in government housing,

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

ever to exist,

that's somebody
you should emulate.

That's someone you
should idolize.

That's someone you
should put on a pedestal.

- Came from nothing,
became a neurosurgeon,

one of the greatest
men in the world.

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

- He was the first
person to perform surgery

on conjoined twins at the brain.

No one wanted to do that.

And he did that as a black man.

- I don't think
myself as a surgeon,

just a guy people pay
to stab their brain

[audience laughing]

until they're healthy.

[audience laughing]

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

He's a former brain surgeon

and Republican
presidential candidate,

who our celebrity in
chief, Donald J. Trump,

nominated as his HUD
secretary in 2017,

despite him having zero
relevant experience.

- Ben Carson is a very
intelligent person.

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

He has no business
in government.

Really?

So we can't even have people

who are smart
enough to be doctors

in the government now?

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

- Just because Dr. Ben Carson

is a well educated neurosurgeon,

who doesn't speak fluent nigger

doesn't mean he's acting white.

So, I don't agree with
calling people Oreos

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

- Ben Carson, do you
pass the black test?

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

In Boston, we lived
in the ghetto.

[audience laughing]

- Excuse me, you
grew up in a what?

A ghetto?

A ghetto?

That sounds like a French
person saying cat in Spanish.

What is that?

What kind of black
person says, "Ghetto."

Mother [bleep] I'm
straight outta Compton.

- This kind of crap
goes on all the time.

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

- I was at a Popeyes
organization,

and then I deposited basketballs

at the urban athletic complex.

Thereafter, I
rounded out the night

by making it precipitate

at a ladies clothing
removal facility.

[audience laughing]

- We wanna shun him.

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

We wanna remove his
name off of schools.

- The Detroit school
board now considering

stripping the name of HUD
secretary Dr. Ben Carson

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

- [Larry] I cringe
when I've seen the way

people like Ben Carson
get treated by the media.

For example, when Carson
first became HUD secretary,

he gave a speech where he
likened slaves to immigrants.

- A land of dreams
and opportunity.

There were other
immigrants who came here

in the bottom of slave ships,

worked even longer,
even harder for less.

But they too had a dream.

- [Larry] And he got fried,
especially in the black media.

- Like we actually came
here on our own accord.

- Shackled.

Beat.

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

- How does he miss that no slave

came to this country willingly?

- This is one of the
most atrocious acts

of historical revisionism
that one might imagine.

- It wasn't always easy
for new immigrants.

Certainly it wasn't easy for
those of African heritage

who had not come
here voluntarily,

and yet in their own way
were immigrants themselves.

- [Larry] Obama said the very
same thing at least 11 times.

Nobody said anything.

The left claims it
advocates for black people,

but they really advocate
for left wing black people.

- Reagan won Pennsylvania
by the margin of despair.

By the margins of
fracture of our coalition.

Your time has come.

Pick up your slingshot,
pick up your rock.

Declare our time has come.

- [Jesse] When I became
old enough to vote,

I registered as a Democrat,

because that's what
the black people did.

I suffer for it because
I started to believe

what the Democratic
party was saying.

I believed into their lie.

Louis Farrakhan would
come out here to LA

and he would give
talks at The Forum,

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

- We and white people
are mortal enemies.

They were not made
to be our friends.

They were made to
be our enemies,

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

They're locked into that.

There ain't no
redemption for them.

- That is why I challenge
you now to stand together.

- [Jesse] I would
listen to Jesse Jackson.

- Raise your fists together

and engage in our
national Black Litany...

- I would listen to
them, and they would say

and it's all white people fault.

And so, I started to believe

because nobody else was
opposing what they were saying.

And for the first
time in my life,

I started to resent
white people.

I suffered for it.

I finally got over it
but I suffered for it.

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

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

why is it that they're
not holding Jesse Jackson

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

Their kids went to
the best school,

they had father and
mothers in their homes

and they were doing very well.

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

those people back if
they're holding me back

because I'm black.

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

And everything started changing.

- Jesse Jackson is
a racist demagogue,

and he's built a career

on keeping black people down.

Keeping 'em angry,
brainwashing them

to control them for
his own personal gain.

And they have lost that power--

- Speak your mind, Reverend.

- I grew up in Alabama
on a plantation,

and I grew up under
Jim Crow laws.

They deliberately kept us down

by causing us to become
angry, destroying the family

and demoralizing black people.

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

to that reality.

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

right versus wrong.

I had never even
heard the word racism.

We knew that it was
a spiritual battle

between right and
wrong, good and evil.

There was no such
thing as racism, sexism

or homophobia-ism,
Islamophobia-ism.

Or there be that ism,
or white supremacism.

It didn't exist.

That only came about when
we allowed the Democrats

to take over.

They start making up
words to deceive us.

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

Including the black community.

- A lot of the black
civil rights leaders

have abandoned the
moral high ground,

and have perverted the
civil rights movement

to the point where it's become

a part of a race
grievance industry.

- We're on the brink of undoing

what Dr. King and
others went to jail for.

- Blacks have been convinced

that they're supposed
to respect you,

if you have the title,
reverend or pastor,

even if you're no good.

- You probably
can't even remember

a sermon from Al Sharpton.

Reverend Al Sharpton.

He's a reverend of what?

- In politics, the
road to the White House

took a detour
through Harlem today.

It is like a rite of passage
for Democratic candidates,

as an outreach to the
African-American community.

Well today, South Bend,
Indiana mayor, Pete Buttigieg

had lunch at Sylvia's
with Reverend Al Sharpton.

- [Announcer] Barack
Obama dined here in 2008.

So did Bernie Sanders in 2016.

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

How much are you
willing to pay me

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

- They're the ones that
receive the contributions

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

"Let's keep them voting for us,

"and you do what is necessary.

"And help us to
squelch these voices

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

- They're leading the narratives

that others want them to lead.

- The reason for our outrage

is when you keep
pressing people down.

- [Man] If we can get
the black community

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

- [Larry] So they gotta
keep black people angry,

stirred up angry, ticked off.

How else do you
get 95% of people

to pull the lever for a party,

whose views are
absolutely inconsistent

with the best interests
of the country in general

and of the best interests of
black people in particular.

- [Martin] We still
advocate nonviolence

with passive resistance,
and still determined to use

the weapon of love.

But we are still
insisting emphatically

that violence is self defeating.

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

- [Man] Martin Luther
King was a pastor.

He was a genuine pastor.

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

He can't live.

He's too powerful.

- The anger building
up in a community

which causes people to riot

and to tear things down
and to burn things up,

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

like we're building anything.

That we're contributing
to anything.

When it comes America,

black people helped
build this country.

[soft music]

- When you look back at
the history of black people

here in America, once we
were free from slavery,

we were successful in ways,
and we overcame things

and we did things far beyond

our predecessors
could have imagined.

Simply because we had that
almost instinctively in us.

- As blacks emerged
from slavery,

only a minute percentage
could read or write.

And yet in 1/2 a century,

over 1/2 the black
population was literate.

And economic
historians call that

one of the most remarkable
things in history.

- [Man] So, in the late 1800s,

we had actually in not
very well documented boon

of African American
proliferation

into the political space, into
the entrepreneurial space.

And we had real
movers and shakers

in our communities who
were doing real things.

- Because at one time,
blacks were Republicans,

and you dominated.

Those seven years
after the Civil War,

you were Republicans.

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

and you dominated your
own economic communities.

You did that as Republicans.

- But then what happened
was that Democrats realized

they could still control us

by enacting new laws to
suppress our civil liberties.

That brings us to
the rise of Jim Crow.

The Jim Crow era and Ruby
Bridges going to school,

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

But we had Hiram Rhodes Revels

and many other African-Americans

rise to positions of power
in the political space

in the late 1800s.

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

and that is what the KKK,

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

- You can't depend on
a government school

to teach you raw history.

- You're gonna see people
like even Frederick Douglas

become less and less
and less celebrated,

and less and less
and less popular

because he doesn't
really fit the narrative.

He was a Republican,
very American.

- When they wanna teach
you somebody that was great

in black American history and
they happen to be Republican,

they don't tell
you that element.

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

that they tell you, that the
parties completely switched.

- They have to say
the parties switched.

They have to.

Because they can't acknowledge

that they're part of
all of the worst things

that have ever happened to
black people in history.

And if you know better

and you know the
parties didn't switch,

and you just look at today,

there's still a part
of every negative thing

that have happened to
black people in America.

- [Larry] Let's
just take one issue.

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

and that's vouchers.

- [Reporter] They have to
pass through metal detectors.

They're faced by security guards

looking for hidden weapons.

They're watched over
by armed police.

- [Larry] You're required
to send your kid to a school

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

because you have no option.

Republicans want you
to have an option.

But Republicans of
course are racist

so you can't vote
for them, right?

What a dilemma!

- Slave codes in the
early 19th century

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

Because if slaves could read,
they could access information.

I don't believe that
much has changed.

- If the parties did switch

and Democrats
really are the party

of, for and by minorities,

then why do they
react so viciously

when you introduce legislation

that would help the minorities
by giving them school choice?

There's answers to
all these questions.

But you have to be
the one to find them.

Because no one else
is going to tell you

the inconvenient truth.

The welfare state
is slavery 2.0.

- The biggest falsehood,
the biggest lie

that gets repeated is that
the kind of disorganization

and chaos and violence

and self-destruction
that we're witnessing

in the black community is
somehow a legacy of slavery

and Jim Crow.

That is just a lie.

Because if that were so,
between 1930 and 1940,

during the years
of the depression,

when segregation and racism
was enshrined in laws,

when there was no black
representation in government,

even in the face of these
horrible conditions,

the black community had
the highest marriage rate

of any group in society.

Our institutions served
as an anchor for us.

And so therefore,
elderly people could walk

in their neighborhood
without fear

of being assaulted by
their grandchildren.

Our business formation
rate was high then.

- [Reporter] Has yielded a 1/2
million dollar yearly growth.

- If we were able to accomplish

the building of hospitals,
dental schools, hotels,

movie theaters,
Vaudeville theaters.

If we were able
to accomplish this

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

- [Man] What's the proper
way to mug a nigga?

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

one to the head.
- One to the head.

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

two times in the chest.

- How can you explain that?

- [Candace] How is that
possible in a society

that has experienced so
much social progress,

that we are seeing a decline
in the black community?

The statistics of
illegitimacy, crime rates

and illiteracy have worsened

since the time of
segregation and Jim Crow.

[soft music]

- [Larry] Before the
war on poverty launched,

87% of blacks lived below
the federally defined

level of poverty in 1940.

By 1960, that number
had decreased to 47%.

A 40-point drop in 20 years.

That's probably the greatest
economic prosperity period

for blacks in the
history of this country,

and this all happened
before affirmative action,

before the so-called
war on poverty.

- [Man] Back then
it was commonplace

to have both
parents in the home.

If you made a commitment
and you marry somebody

and you had kids,
you stay with 'em.

- [Man] It wasn't just
about your immediate family.

It was also about
your church family.

- [Jesse] In those days,
black men were in control.

The black woman
respected the black man.

- [Man] Having a strong father
showed me how to be a man.

It also showed me
how to treat a woman.

- [Man] When I was young, I
remember going to open house

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

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

had a man and a woman
raising children.

But that all
changed in the '60s.

- If you estimate that
the welfare is paying,

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

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

- [Rob] The architect
of this destruction

was Cloward and Piven.

- The American
public welfare system

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

if it were reaching
all of the people

who are eligible under
existing statutes.

So, we think welfare costs
should probably double.

- A couple of
renowned sociologists

at the Columbia University
School of Social Work.

And their theory was,
if we could separate

work from income, it
would make men redundant,

and if we can just remove
the stigma from welfare

and entice more people to
flood the welfare system,

it will bankrupt
cities and the country.

- [Dr. Wiley] The welfare
rights movement and the lawyers

are challenging man
in the house rules,

and other kinds of requirements
which are restricting.

This, I presume would
be additional people

who could become eligible
for additional money

if these were challenged.

- Yes, that would raise
the cost even more.

- To recruit people
into the welfare system,

we relaxed the rules.

If a woman had to
declare paternity

in order to qualify for
welfare, the ACLU sued

and said this is a violation
of our privacy rights.

They also said that
the nuclear family,

Ozzie and Harriet,
was Eurocentric and
therefore racist.

The women's movement
concurred with that.

The Black Power
movement also agreed.

Millions of blacks in a
period of less than four years

flooded into the welfare
system in major cities.

At a time when the
unemployment rate

for blacks in New York for males

was less than 4%.

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

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

Give me this, give
me what I need,

just like a pet, like a dog.

You have to be fed now.

Give him some food.

- [Rob] What you then
saw is a consequence

of separating work from income.

The out-of-wedlock births
in the black community

began to skyrocket.

Went from under 25% to 70%.

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

and it really hurt families,
especially the black family.

During slavery, a black
kid was more likely

to be raised under a roof
with his biological mother

and biological
father than today.

The welfare state has
done more to destroy

and destabilize the black
family than even slavery did.

- [Candace] We allowed
them to remove the fathers

from our homes.

Removing the backbone
of our families.

- I remember my dad
used to be hard on us,

making us fold clothes and
washing dishes properly.

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

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

when he told us to do 'em.

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

My dad made me a responsible
man by doing that.

And it just really
made me wonder

like what if he wasn't there?

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

and a lot of that had to
do with the upbringing

I had from my father,

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

who made sure that
we were clothed,

that we had shelter,
that we had food.

That was my father.

- When I was growing
up, fathers led.

And you knew not to be
fighting and carrying 'em

because you had respect
for the elderly,

and you respect yourself

because you represented
your parents

when you're out there.

But that representation
is no longer there

because the man is not there.

- If you look at
every major issue

facing the black
community today,

it can be stemmed back
to fatherlessness.

You see black people
joining gangs.

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

Family unit can be
solved with the father.

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

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

They didn't have a
father in their home

that taught them these things.

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

So, this generational
fatherlessness

is far more dangerous
to the black community

than institutional or
generational racism.

- If there is a strong
man in the household,

people aren't eligible
for these benefits.

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

and grows and grows.

- With the political
left, this whole idea

that government can bring
people out of poverty

and that government can
fix all the problems,

we know that government
can't do that.

That government
can't raise a family.

- Who like man.

[bleep] this job.

You can't have the pizza.

I said, "[bleep] I want
the money and your car."

- [Reporter] Dequandre
Weaver was 14 years old

when this video was shot,

and this week a
judge sentenced him

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

- Because the left has
promoted the welfare state,

has encouraged women to
marry the government,

has allowed men to
abandon their financial

and moral responsibility,
we have these problems.

- It is no wonder that
you have the chaos.

More blacks are killing
other blacks in one year

than the Klan
killed in 70 years.

[ominous music]

[gunshots blaring]

- [Man] We are on autopilot
in the destruction

of our own communities.

- Black on black crime
is something that
our media tells us

that we're not
allowed to talk about.

Over 93% of black
homicide victims

are killed by
other black people.

We are not supposed
to be outraged,

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

Because if we begin
to focus on that area,

something that is
causing real harm

and devastation to
our communities,

we might uncover the truth.

Our inner cities are
all by Democrat design.

Like Chicago, like
Baltimore and like Detroit.

They have been run by
Democrats for decades.

We have been made to believe

that the conditions in
our cities are normal.

We're supposed to
turn a blind eye

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

focus on what our media
deems of more importance.

We're instead told that
we should be focusing

on white people.

We're supposed to be reactive
and angry and fearful

about white supremacy,
when in fact,

it is liberal supremacy that
is harming our communities.

- In the inner cities,
who's killing who?

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

take the father out of the home.

Now we removing
ourselves from the home.

These are things that I believe

have gotten us to the point

where we are on autopilot
for the liberal movement.

[soft music]

- [Larry] You begin
to ask yourself,

why is it that more black
women are getting abortions

than any other ethnic group?

And you begin to look at maps

of where these Planned
Parenthood clinics are situated.

- [Jesse] 77% of Planned
Parenthood abortion mills

are located in the inner cities.

- [Woman] Somehow, the
script was flipped,

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

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

- It became a woman's
reproductive right,

but nobody really examined
the motives behind it.

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

1786 a day, and since 1973,

over 20 million
African-Americans

have been killed
by abortion alone.

- For more federal funding
for Planned Parenthood.

- The Democratic party
has always been focused

on pushing eugenics and
abortion on the black community.

- Margaret Sanger, the woman
that ultimately founded

what became Planned Parenthood,

believed that certain
people were degenerate,

were unworthy of living.

And if you're one
of those persons,

perfectly okay for
you to be eliminated.

- [Man] Whether
you're talking about

Margaret Sanger
strategies back then,

or you're talking about
Planned Parenthood's tactics

of today, they're still
able to Trojan Horse

the black community.

That is to deliver this message

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

"We're for the black community."

- More than 1/2 of Planned
Parenthood's centers

are located in areas without
ready access to healthcare.

- Here you have the left wing
embracing Planned Parenthood,

embracing the
pro-choice movement,

completely oblivious to the
fact that Margaret Sanger

was not particularly fond
of poor, black people,

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

- I think the greatest
sin in the world

is bringing children
into the world

that have disease
from their parents,

that have no chance in the world

to be a human being practically.

Delinquents, prisoners,
all sorts of things,

just marked when they're born.

That to me is the greatest sin.

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

she shouldn't have a child.

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

who have done great
things in life

would never have been born,

and I would have
been one of them.

- [Man] The Billboard's idea
that abortion is genocide

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

- [Candace] Our population
growth has stagnated.

- [Man] Fueling this is the
growing number of Latinos

who have fewer abortions,
more children...

- [Candace] 60%
of all new births

in this country are Latino,

and you have Democrats that are
advocating for open borders.

- [Man] Ethnic minority
than black Americans.

- [Candace] Right now,
the Democrat party

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

[speaking foreign language]

Black Americans
are gonna wake up,

or we're going to
become irrelevant.

- Black people in general
are starting to get the sense

that we are being traded
for illegal immigrants.

- [Reporter] The
caravan lurched forward

carrying babies,
suitcases and hope.

- [Candace] They're importing
a whole new victim class.

It's gonna do exactly
to the illegals

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

Get them addicted to government,

give them the
handouts, and turn them

into a permanent class
of victim voters.

- [Man] They are willing to use

people's genuine disadvantages,

people's genuine struggles
to get into power.

- And we are gonna
fight for fairness

and justice for immigration.

We're gonna fight for DACA,

and we're going to
help this country--

- How is it that we have
Maxine Waters and John Lewis

and others in the Black
Congressional Caucus

who are fighting for DACA?

For the dreamers

of illegal aliens who
have come to our nation,

and they're not fighting
for black children

and the dreams that our
kids and our teenagers have.

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

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

- The black community
has been destroyed

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

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

Your people do a crime,
they get amnesty,

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

- Blacks are protesting the fact

that for the last 50 years,

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

disinvested places,
and they've been run

by liberal black Democrats.

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

- The black community
is low-hanging fruit

for the Republican party.

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

to message to our
community aggressively

is a huge mistake.

- First, they have to be serious

about whether or not they
want minorities in the party.

And if they are, then they
need to totally rethink

how they're goin' about it.

[soft music]

My experiences running
as a mayoral candidate

in a city that's
predominantly Democrat,

I've been criticized by
Republican strategists

for spending my time in
minority communities.

I've placed my campaign office

in a historically
black community.

I did that by choice.

I have not found
the kind of support

that I expected
from Republicans.

I think that if you look
at the Republican party,

I believe that if I were white

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

racial and ethnic
minorities in my party,

and I would support the
ones that were sincere.

I love America.

I believe the American dream,

and I wanna give hope to
people who are disadvantaged,

not just black people,
but also white people

who come from unfortunate
circumstances.

When I've gone to campaign
and elections meetings,

I hear these strategists say,

"Don't waste your time
in minority communities.

"You need to hunt
where the ducks are."

- For years, the
Democratic party

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

as did the Republican party.

They didn't even try.

Republicans have
convinced themselves

that blacks are
unalterably Democrats,

there's nothing we
can do about it.

Let's husband our
money and our energy

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

- The Republican
party ignores us

because they believe a
narrative that has been pushed

out into the public square

that the black
community is a monolith.

And so we're being
ignored on both sides.

- [Announcer] The major
conservative in the race,

Carol Swain, was the
last to concede tonight.

- [Jesse] We're not making
the kind of investments

in our minority allies.

- That's the fault of
the Republican party,

is that they have
just completely said,

"We can't connect with 'em."

And they gave up.

- We have more in common with
the Republican party by far

than anything Democrat.

Regardless of where your
position is socioeconomically.

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

they don't care about jobs.

So they don't want
you to succeed.

They don't want you
to own anything.

That's why they keep
spoonfeeding you,

putting you in projects and
then giving you a little,

so now you're dependent.

- Being unapologetically
capitalist

is sort of the way
to move forward.

- I wanna be rich.

I don't wanna be poor.

- You wanna be wealthy
and successful.

Well, we're the party
that promotes values

and policies that will make
you wealthy and successful.

- Conservatives are really
bad at marketing good ideas.

They're horrible.

- Republicans have been
their own worst messengers.

- The problem with conservatives

and what we don't
do good enough,

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

- [Candace] For too long, we've
left the left run culture.

Saturday Night Live.

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

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

and your theories and your
thoughts to the people,

if you're doing
things in the same way

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

- Ladies and gentlemen,
I am officially running

[crowd cheering]

for President of
the United States,

and we are going to make
our country great again.

- Donald Trump is the first
Republican that is unafraid.

He's unafraid of the media.

- You know it, if
you're honest reporters,

which in many cases you're not.

- [Man] The progressive
socialist left

and all their tactics,
all their antics.

- It's the next step
in our investigation.

- They don't know
what to do with him.

- If you look at his policies

and how they benefited
and continue to
benefit this country,

there's no denying
the objective facts.

But if you look at
the man, Donald Trump,

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

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

- Painting a picture of
him that he is incompetent,

not capable, out of
control, impetuous,

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

But somehow, through the
charisma of his personality

and a force of his
personality has gotten through

to some in our community.

- I see Trump as this
window of opportunity

for black America to wake up,

is because I think he's
the most cultural president

we've ever had.

- [Man] He was taking
photos with rappers.

He was always part
of the culture.

- You got this guy
that talks shit,

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

and he's president?

- He made politics cool again.

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

- Because you'd be in jail.

- You can see the realness.

He's a New Yorker, man.

And he talks like one.

He has the bravado like one.

- Jeb wants to be a tough guy.

He wants to be a
tough guy tonight.

I didn't take the property.

- [Man] A lot of
young, black people,

that's why they're drawn to him.

- If people spoke
to black people

the way Donald Trump does,
bluntly, without condescension.

- Look how much African-American
communities have suffered

under Democratic control.

To those, I say the following,

what do you have to lose?

- Donald Trump is
facing a new backlash.

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

- Trump's latest
attempted outreach

to a larger voting block is
already being called ignorant.

- So disrespectful
and so condescending.

- How condescending, how
offensive, how racist, whatever.

But he was right.

- What do you have to lose?

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

you have no jobs.

58% of your youth is unemployed.

- The audacity to stare
black America in the face

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

"Look at your communities.

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

"Take a chance on Trump."

- People, black
and white and brown

who did not go to college

have felt ignored by the
elites of both parties.

And Trump turned over
the tables in the temple.

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

he's not smooth, whatever.

People really don't care.

People are tired of politicians

that say one thing
and do something else.

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

They wanna see some change,

they wanna see
something different.

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

is on the rise.

They're looking at the results.

[crowd cheering]

- You think you can bully
people to stop doing something.

Callin' us coons, all
them types of names.

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

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

It's really clear.

People tell me not
to wear the MAGA hat,

so I bought the
biggest MAGA hat.

Then I bought a bigger one.

So now if somebody
say something to me,

duh, common sense, a bigger one.

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

♪ Yeah, I'm black
I'm not Democrat ♪

♪ With the MAGA hat

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

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

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

♪ Yeah, I'm black,
I'm not Democrat ♪

♪ With the MAGA hat

- It was Donald Trump
who woke me up, man.

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

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

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

for America in particular.

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

- We are in historical times,

'cause people are waking
up, people are changing.

Humans are naturally
conservative.

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

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

because you just want it.

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

When I went to the store,

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

momma slapped my hand,
"Put that Snickers back.

"We can't afford that."

But Democrats, they're saying,

"Hey, we give you
everything for free."

That ain't reality.

- Black America is
starting to get it.

And that's why there
is this sort of battle

that's happening
I think right now.

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

Oh, it's bullshit!

It's racism, it's Trump.

Get off your feet, fuck this.

We gotta stand up,
we gotta do our shit.

We gotta do what we
gotta do as black people.

- Round of applause
for Candace, please.

- That's a waste of time.

[somber music]

You guys, this is so beautiful.

Look at all of us.

We made it all the way
to the White House.

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

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

you don't get to take
away my blackness

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

Before, it was just a monolith.

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

Like of course, we have
to support Barack Obama.

- [Larry] The one
reason that I thought

that his candidacy
would be positive.

The one reason, was
because when Senator Obama

was interviewed by Steve Croft,

I believe that was his
first 60 Minutes interview,

and Steve Croft said to Obama.

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

- Yes!

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

- No.

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

it would be because
of other factors.

It's gonna be because
I have not shown

to the American people a vision

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

- [Larry] I said to
myself, hallelujah!

At least this is not your
basic black victocrat.

Well, he got elected.

- [Man] I cried,
tears came to my eyes

during his inauguration.

- My fellow citizens.

- A black man being a president?

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

and everybody else
in the country

that this is not
a racist country.

- And I think that's
what America really felt,

that we had turned a corner.

- I could follow in the
same steps now finally.

That there was no barrier
that was preventing me

as a black American
from doing anything.

- Many people had
high expectations

that he was going to
take us in a direction

that was gonna improve things.

- Obama, before he
became president,

gave a speech at a
black church in Atlanta.

And he said, the
Moses generation,

referring to the generation
of Martin Luther King,

has gotten us 90%
of the way there,

which I though was
pretty reasonable.

He said, "My generation,
the Joshua generation

"has to get us that
remaining 10%."

- The Moses generation
pointed the way.

They took us 90%
of the way there,

but we still got that 10%.

- That was before
Obama became president.

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

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

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

- [Obama] Slavery, Jim
Crow, discrimination

in almost every
institution of our lives,

that cast a long shadow.

And that's still
part of our DNA.

That's passed on.

We're not cured of it.

- Racism?
- Racism.

We are not cured of it.

- Obama got a higher
percentage of the white vote

than John Kerry
did, and here he is

talking about racism
is in our DNA?

- [Both] If I had a son,
he would look like Trayvon.

- The Cambridge Police...

- [Larry] The Cambridge
Police acted stupidly.

- Acted stupidly.

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

that we have in America today.

- He went out of his
way to capitalize

on this sort of like, wokeness.

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

who haven't had the
experience of being followed

when they were shopping
in a department store.

That includes me.

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

And every time you
criticize President Obama

based upon policy,
you were called what?

A racist.

- He played the race
card, Obama did.

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

in my opinion done a
great deal to advance

racial issue in this country.

- We didn't turn any corner.

And so now, we are
just at a point

where we're at each
other's throats.

- You called me a nigger.

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

- No, I didn't.

- He made things
worse for America

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

that can say they remember
America feeling like this.

- Constitution.
- I said you a house nigger.

I didn't call you a nigger.

- Oh, okay.

That's a big difference.

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

[clamoring]

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

I don't remember it.

- [Candace] I don't
remember at any point

before Barack Obama ever
feeling this much racial strife

in this country.

- [Man] Obama was the most
divisive president of our time.

- Especially in the
African-American community,

I will consider it
a personal insult,

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

and fails to activate
itself in this election.

- I believe Obama is one of
the most articulate presidents

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

When you look at his
educational background,

he's probably one of
the most intelligent.

He knows better.

- I harbor a lot of resentment
towards Barack Obama,

because now I see what he was.

But I wouldn't take
that moment back,

for a lot of reasons.

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

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

If America is a racist country,

how did Barack Obama get
into office for two terms?

- In barely half a century,

you can go from a young
African-American girl

being escorted into the
school by the National Guard,

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

[somber music]

- [Man] That's why all
those people were in tears

when Obama was
elected president.

Look at what we are.

This is America.

- If there is anyone out there,

who still doubts that
America is a place

where all things are possible,

who still wonders if the
dream of our founders

is alive in our time,
who still questions

the power of our democracy,
tonight is your answer.

[crowd cheering]

It's the answer told
by lines that stretched

around schools and churches,

in numbers this
nation has never seen.

- I didn't grow up thinking,

one day I wanna own
my own business,

I wanna do my own thing.

It seemed like something that
surely I could never achieve.

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

You have to come from money.

You have to have a
huge set of capital

before you can even
start a business.

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

I would never accomplish that.

So, I didn't even
think about it.

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

I would like to
get it to a place

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

he can run it to you.

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

if you will, of learning
more about policy,

of learning more
about the platforms

and how they're so
different from one another,

I realized, well,
no, there's something

that is well within my grasp.

This is something
that is attainable.

- Being a business
owner in America

is one of the greatest
privileges of being in America.

I love being in this country,

where you can start anything,
you can be anything,

you can do anything.

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

- Oftentimes I get crazy
messages from people

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

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

You don't really get
it and understand it

until you start
doing it yourself.

- Designers.

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

coming into the building...

- In my heart of
hearts, I do desire

that people will kind of have

the same kind of
revelations that I've had,

because to me, what it
means to be a conservative

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

is within yourself.

Conservatism is the
political philosophy

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

that is pro-minority,

way more than any
kind of liberal idea

or policy can ever be.

I want for people
to understand that.

I want for people
to realize that.

These are the sinks that
you fixed last time?

- It starts with the individual.

What you do in making
yourself a better person

will matriculate down to
everybody else in the community,

all the generations
that come after you.

The power is in your hands.

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

You have the power
to change you.

You have authority
to change you.

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

I know that that
makes many people

on the left uncomfortable.

I know people might not like me

'cause they're from an era

where race hustling
is a business.

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

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

"black person in America.

"I am here to be
like an alarm clock.

"Your alarm clock goes
off in the morning

"and you're pretty pissed at it,

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

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

they see mom and dad
voting for Democrats.

They don't question it.

They just go and do it.

But many of them have
so much potential

and so much worth that
they can really do

anything they wanted
with their lives.

So much creativity
and so much vision.

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

and they're being
put in situations

where these limits
are being put on them

by their selves,
by their family,

by their schools,
by the government,

to where their minds
are ever dependent

on Democrat politicians,
on Democrat policies.

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

you're better than a program.

You're capable of
providing for yourself

so much more than any
government program

can provide for you.

My fear is that with
black people in America,

many of us haven't came
to that realization,

and I want for us to.

Because we can do so much
better as a community

when we come to
that realization.

Alrighty.

That'll do it.

[dramatic music]