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- [Narrator] This is the
story of the most cynical

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political game in
American history.

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[upbeat music]

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- The Democratic Party somehow
has convinced Black people

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that they're the good guys.

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Republican Party, the party
of Lincoln is perceived

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to be the bad guys.

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Nevermind the skanky history
of a Democratic Party,

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that was a party of slavery.

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- [Narrator] This is the
story of how the Democrats

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came to rely completely
on America's Black vote.

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- He said, listen, I gotta
give these niggers enough,

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not too much, but enough

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that I have them voting Democrat

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for the next 200 years.

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- [Narrator] It's the story
of how the specter of racism

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became a political weapon.

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- The primary basis of
the democratic party's

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appeal to Black voters is
the invocation of racism.

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- If I tell you this is racist,

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if I tell you that
is racist, yeah,

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I'm gonna get you emotional,
I'm gonna get you to jump,

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I'm gonna get you to skip.

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- [Narrator] Of how
the politics of race

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are used to smear
America's working class.

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- The basket of deplorables,
untouchable, racist bigots,

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and the term simmering
under the surface

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when you hear these
comments is white trash.

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- [Narrator] Of
how the Democrats,

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once the party of segregation,

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came to rely again
on racial division.

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- It's impossible to
envision a world without race

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for the Democratic party.

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It's impossible to envision
a world that gets beyond race

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because their bread and
butter and their bottom line,

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they're raised on and everything
that they're trying to do

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depends upon people being
kept in these boxes.

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- The things that
you guys are doing.

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- [Narrator] It's about the
Americans who are hitting back.

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- Oh, but we Black.

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You gonna tell me how
to be Black, right?

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You're a fraud, look at you.

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These are frauds.

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And now y'all got the audacity
to say Black Lives Matter.

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Y'all don't care
about Black people.

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- I don't find it satisfying
to think of myself

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as a Black person.

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Well, I'm a father and a husband

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and a bunch of other
remarkable things.

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And all of those things
are far more important

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to me than being Black.

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- [Woman] Oh, wait,

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I think they put your
letter in the same one.

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- [Woman 2] That's true.

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- [Woman] Wait a minute.
- [Woman 2] That's true.

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- Yeah.

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[laughing]

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- [Narrator] Beverlyn Baidey
has received a letter.

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It says the New York
City Police Department

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is dropping charges against her.

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- We gotta make sure
that's the right.

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That's the summon, yo.

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- You know what?

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- Go get the summons
our your wallet.

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- The NYPD has failed to file

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a legally acceptable accusatory
instrument with this court.

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There is no need for
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on the summons number
referenced above, that is crazy.

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- Yes.

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- That is crazy.

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- [Narrator] Beverlyn has
been arrested several times

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at events organized
by Black Lives Matter.

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But she's not campaigning
for Black Lives Matter.

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Beverlyn is campaigning
against them.

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Left-wing activists have
painted Black Lives Matter

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in big yellow letters outside
Trump Tower in New York.

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They say Donald Trump is
racist and they are calling

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for the police to be defunded

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because they say
they too are racist.

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- Okay, so Martin,

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we're going to paint the
Black Lives Matter mural

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on Fifth Avenue Black.

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You guys, we're here,
just stay tuned.

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Black Lives Matter, right?

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- [Narrator] Bevelyn
thinks that the left wing,

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largely white supporters
of Black Lives Matter,

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have little connection
with or understanding

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of ordinary Black people.

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- They say Black lives matter,

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they say Black
lives matter, right?

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They don't care
about Black lives.

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They don't care
about Black lives.

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- [Narrator] She says the
left's theatrical crusade

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against racism is
nothing but a charade,

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affront for promoting
otherwise unpopular

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left wing politics.

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- Defund the police,
defund the police,

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defund the police, defund the
police, defund the police.

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[people shouting]

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- Black lives matter is
a demon, it's a devil.

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- [Narrator] As for the
campaign to defund the police,

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Bevelyn grew up in a
poor Black neighborhood.

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She's been shot,
she's been stabbed

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and she and her friends, far
from wanting fewer police,

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would rather like more.

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- They don't care.

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Since I grew up in a
hood, I need my police.

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I need them to come
my brothers from.

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- But when you live,
when you up in the,

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you ain't seeing and
police just cruise by

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to make sure everything's okay.

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You kind of tend to think,
what's the point of the police?

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But when you seeing
shootings every day.

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- Yes.

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- And it's your
own family members

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either shooting at each
other or getting shot at,

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it's like, wait a minute.

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Everybody knows in the
hood if the police come,

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that's when you come out.

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When they leave, you leave.

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Y'all want the Black cop to die.

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Huh, huh?

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Do Black Lives Matter when
it's a Black cop, huh?

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- [Narrator] According
to the supporters

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of Black Lives Matter,
Black people live in fear

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of white police and indeed
white people in general,

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all of whom are racist,

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whether or not they
realize it or admit it.

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- I'm over here.

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- [Narrator] But Beverlyn
recalls her pleasant surprise

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when she moved into a white
neighborhood in Maine.

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[person shouting]

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- When I got to Maine,
it's like, oh my God,

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the whitest state in the
world, it's just so white.

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But I'ma tell you something
right now about Maine.

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Living in a predominantly
white state,

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I felt more safe than living
in a predominantly Black state.

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And I'm being honest.

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I'm just keeping it 100.

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When you live in predominantly
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don't pull up in a nice car.

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Nine times outta
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they clocking you,
when you leave

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and they gonna hit
your crib, okay.

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You moving to the
white neighborhoods,

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you get your packages,
you call your neighbor.

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I remember one time I
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I called my neighbor
and say, hey, Carly,

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could you go check and
see if my oven's on?

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Oh, sure, absolutely, I'll
be over there right now.

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[woman laughing]

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She went over there so quick,
make sure my oven was good.

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Lock my door, lock your
door, I'll lock it for you.

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Listen, I'm be honest with you.

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You not gonna really
get this in a lot Black,

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and I'm not saying all,
I'm not saying all,

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but I'm just saying.

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- People are gonna listen to
what you're saying right now

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and take offense,
but it is a fact.

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- [Robert] This is president
Ronald Reagan and myself.

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- [Narrator] Robert Woodson,

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is it veteran civil
rights campaigner.

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- [Robert] This is myself

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with President Ford
and Jimmy Carter.

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- [Narrator] He spent
his life working directly

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with Black people in America's
poorest inner city areas

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to improve their lives and
he's been recognized repeatedly

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for his work.

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- I was given the
Presidential Award

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and it was given
in the Oval Office.

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And this is my granddaughter
who had to write an essay

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and she wrote about
the president's dog.

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That's what impressed her most.

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[man laughing]

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[gentle music]

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- [Narrator] Since the
start of the 1960s,

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he has witnessed the
collapse of the Black family,

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the rise of Black crime,

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the dissent of poor
Black neighborhoods

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into terrifying lawlessness.

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[sirens wailing]

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But he refuses to accept
that racism is the cause

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and to prove it, he
points to the history

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of Black people in America.

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- The Black on Black crime,
high incarceration rates,

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70% outta wedlock births.

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A lot of naysayers try to
suggest that that was attributed

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to the legacy of slavery
and discrimination.

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That is just untrue,
it's patently untrue.

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[car beeping]

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- [Narrator] Long after
the end of slavery,

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Black people in America were
demonized, abused by employers,

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turned away from
restaurants and hotels,

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excluded from
schools and colleges

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and denied equal
protection under the law.

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They were terrorized
by murderous gangs

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of hooded racist thugs, who
themselves were protected

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by racist cops, judges
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[crowd cheering]

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And yet, despite all this,

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in the decades that
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Black people used
what freedom they had

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to transform their
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- There were large
numbers of Blacks

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who were skilled craftsmen.

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They were iron workers, they
could work with leather.

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They were carpenters.

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And so these workers were
in demand and wage rates

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as a consequence soared.

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- [Narrator] Black people
worked hard and made money.

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They bought their own homes,

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built their own
churches and schools.

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[gentle music]

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When racist shop owners
refused to serve them,

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they set up their own.

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When racist employers
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they went into
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By 1910, even in the former
slave state of North Carolina

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and despite dreadful racism,

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a quarter of Black households
owned their own home,

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a rate of home ownership,
not far short of whites,

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28% of businesses in the
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including theaters, drug
stores and real estate firms.

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- All the stores in the
community we're owned by Blacks.

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When we were denied access
to hotels, we built our own.

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There was a St.
Charles in Chicago,

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the St. Teresa in New York,
The Waluhaje in Atlanta,

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I can go on and on and on.

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A little known fact,

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there were 20 Blacks
who were born slaves

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who died millionaires.

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- [Narrator] Black people
built their own colleges.

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By 1920, across America, there
were more than 100 colleges

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of higher education
for Black people.

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And no fewer than 15
Black universities.

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[singing in foreign language]

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- There was a
thirst for education

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and Blacks flocked
to these schools.

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- [Presenter] Here
at Howard University,

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located in Washington, DC.

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This meteorology class
teaches future flyers

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celestial navigation.

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Howard University Medical
School has one of the country's

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leading authorities
on blood plasma.

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- [Narrator] Far from
it being impossible

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to get into higher
education, by the 1930s,

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these 15 Black universities

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were having to compete
for Black students,

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advertising the achievements
of their alumni.

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- [Announcer] The late
George Washington, Carver,

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honored in the chemistry
of agriculture.

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Law, elected judge of
New York City court.

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Medicine, leading New
York city surgeon.

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Education, principal of a
New York City public school,

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curator, Schomburg
collection of literature,

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international prize
winning sculpture.

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Explorer, financier
and publisher,

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men and women in
every walk of life.

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[upbeat music]

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- [Narrator] By the 1940s,

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Black businesses had
grown spectacularly

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in number and scale.

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- I can give endless examples

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of the kind of
businesses they built.

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- [Narrator 2] The late CC
Spalding pioneered as founder

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of the North Carolina Mutual,

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the largest of Negro America's
58 insurance companies.

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The Pittsburgh Courier, largest
Negro newspaper in America

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with a 300,000 circulation,

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owner publisher, Mrs. Robert Van

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and editor in chief Bill Nun,

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oversees 16 different
weekly editions.

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The thousands of
independent businesses

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in every part of the country,

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serving every imaginable
want and need of the consumer

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are the final gauge of
prosperity and progress.

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- [Narrator] Not every Black
person went to university

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or set up a business or
even owned their own home.

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But even in poorer
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there was self-reliance
and ambition.

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Walter Williams
would go on to become

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one of America's most
distinguished economists,

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but he started life in
just such a neighborhood.

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- I grew up in a very poor
neighborhood in Philadelphia,

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and Blacks were proud people,
even poor people worked.

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My stepfather used to say
to me that any kind of a job

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is better than
begging and stealing.

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He would say, look,

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if you wanna be
successful in this world,

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you gotta come
early and stay late.

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That was the kind of
philosophy that we got.

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And we were poor.

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- [Narrator] In Black
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church played a central
part in communal life.

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Marriage rates were
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and it was rare for a baby
to be born out of wedlock.

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- Between 1920 and 1940,

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Black America had the
highest marriage rate

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of any other group
in the country.

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85% up until 1960
of Black families

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had a man and a woman
raising children.

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- In 1938 to 1942, the
Black illegitimacy rate

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or out of wedlock birth rate
if you prefer, was 10 to 11%.

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[gentle music]

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- Back in the day, Black
people were Christian,

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especially Black Americans,
we were strong Christians,

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everybody in the neighborhood

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you knew, they basically family.

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If a neighbor didn't have food,

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they knew they could come
to their neighbor say, hey,

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listen, they'll send something
over to feed the family.

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There was a dependency
on the community.

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That was a true understanding
of neighboring one another.

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Grandma was the pillar
in the community.

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Fathers were fathers to the
fatherless in the community.

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- Elderly people could
walk without fear

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of being assaulted by
their grandchildren.

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- [Narrator] In the first
half of the 20th century,

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Black crime rates were far,
far lower than they are today.

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[gentle music]

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In the 1920s, despite
the racist judges,

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juries and cops, eight
out of 10 convicts

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in America's prisons were white.

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By the mid 20th century,
Black people had achieved

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truly astonishing progress
since the dark days of slavery,

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building communities
that were self-reliant,

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decent, proud, and ambitious.

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- That's the reality of Black
America prior to the 1960s.

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That's the Black America that
does not get much recognition.

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[gentle music]

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- [Narrator] And all
of this in the face

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of the most ugly,
pervasive racism.

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- A lot of racism,
man, a whole lot of it.

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And yet people built
homes and families.

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They started businesses
they strove to do as well

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as they could under
the circumstance.

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And moreover, they
created the foundation

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for a movement that
overturned the racism.

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- Racism and the history

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of discrimination in
America is not responsible

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for the conditions that
we are witnessing today.

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- [Narrator] But if
not racism, then what?

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How did the self-reliant, law
abiding Black neighborhoods

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of the first half
of the 20th century

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turn into the terrifying,
lawless ghettos of today?

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- Keep your hands where I
can see them, come on out.

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- [Narrator] To understand,
it is necessary to delve

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into the history
of race in America

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and tell perhaps the
most extraordinary story

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in American political history,

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the transformation of
the Democratic Party

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from the party of
slavery and segregation

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into the party that claims to
best represent Black America.

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Early racist Hollywood
epic, "Birth of a Nation",

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depicts the American south
on the eve of Civil War.

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This was the time when Democrats

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had a near monopoly of power
in the Southern states,

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the Southern Democrats
defended slavery and later,

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Jim Crow and segregation.

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In their election posters, the
Democrats declared themselves

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to be the party
of the white man.

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The Republicans were mocked
as the party of Black people.

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The Democrats represented
white supremacy.

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The Republicans were the devils
attempting to end slavery.

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[gentle music]

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In birth of a nation, the
Northern Republican Yankees

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who invade the south are reviled

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for fighting alongside
Black troops.

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The good guys are the
hooded Ku Klux Klan.

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- Most Black people
are completely unaware

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that Democrats started the KKK.

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the Ku Klux Klan
is the organization
that in the twenties,

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had almost four or
five million people.

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It was started by Democrats
and it used to be called

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the terror wing of
the Democratic party.

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And the Democratic party
voted against the 13th,

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14th and 15th amendments, 13th
amendment freed the slave.

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The 14th amendment gave newly
freed slaves citizenship,

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and the 15th amendment,

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at least on paper gave
slaves the right to vote.

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Democrats voted against
all three of those things.

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- [Narrator] By
1930, 21 Black people

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had been elected to the US
House of Representatives.

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Every single one of
them was a Republican.

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- The first Republican
Party in Texas was started

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by Black people, not the
Black Republican Party.

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The Republican Party
started by Black people.

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- [Narrator] By the 1970s,
only three Black people

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had been elected to the Senate,

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but all of them were Republican.

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It was the Republican
president, Eisenhower,

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who passed the Civil
Rights Act of 1957

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in an effort to force
Southern Democrats

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to respect the voting
rights of Black people.

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- I propose to end segregation
in the district of Columbia,

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including the federal government

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and any segregation
in the armed forces.

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- [Narrator] It was
Eisenhower, the Republican,

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who sent troops to
enforce desegregation

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in the Democrat dominated south.

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[gentle music]

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- [Man] On September 27th, 1957,

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President Eisenhower
sent 1000 men

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of the United States Army
to carry out the law.

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The Supreme court of the
United States had said,

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the entire strength
of the nation

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may be used to enforce
in any part of the land,

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the security of all rights
entrusted by the constitution.

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And that included my rights

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and the rights of eight
other Negro Americans

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who wanted to go to
central high school

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in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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- The Democratic party

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somehow has convinced
Black people

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that they're the good
guys, Republican Party,

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the party of Lincoln, is
perceived to be the bad guys,

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nevermind the shanky history
of the Democratic Party.

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That was a party of slavery.

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- [Narrator] But by
the end of the 1950s,

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the racism of the
Southern Democrats

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was catching up with them.

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America's Black population,
which lived mainly in the south,

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had grown in prosperity
and confidence.

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They were no longer
willing to put up

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with local Jim Crow
laws designed to stop
them from voting.

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And when they won the vote,
as they soon inevitably would,

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they were unlikely
to vote Democrat.

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The leading Democrat, Lyndon
B. Johnson, was a known bigot.

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He had even voted against
an anti-lynching bill,

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but now he was worried.

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These Negroes, they're getting
pretty uppity these days.

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And that's a problem for us,
since they've got something now

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they've never had
before, political pull,

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we've got to give them
a little something,

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just enough to keep them quiet,

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not enough to make a difference.

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LBJ's plan for winning
Black votes was ingenious.

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- This administration today

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declares unconditional
war on poverty in America.

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[audience clapping]

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[upbeat music]

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- [Narrator] Johnson launched
his war on poverty in 1964

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with a massive program
of public spending,

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much of it directed specifically

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at America's Black communities.

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- He implemented
a war on poverty,

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a program to help you guys,
you've been through so much.

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You've been through
so much struggle,

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even though his party, the
blood is on his party's hands.

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- [Narrator] The
Democrats expanded welfare

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and sent legions of
government officials

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into Black neighborhoods
in particular,

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going from door to door,
offering welfare assistance.

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- What these
government workers did

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was go out among poor Blacks
and working class Blacks,

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and actually recruit them
into the welfare system.

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You have a right to welfare.

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After all, whites
have taken from us

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over the years to enslave,

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therefore we have a
right to reparations

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and welfare is a
form of reparations,

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payment for past misdeeds
on the part of whites.

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- Welfare stepped into
the picture and said,

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I can get you an apartment,
I can get you some money

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at the beginning of the month,

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you don't have to
worry or struggle

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about taking care of your kids.

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It sounded beautiful,
and people fell for it.

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- As a consequence, we
saw millions of Blacks

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flooding into the welfare system

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over the course of
about four years.

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- [Narrator] Johnson
was convinced

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he could buy the Black vote.

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He even boasted "I'll have
them niggers voting democratic

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for 200 years."

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- He was smart.

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He said, listen, I gotta
give these niggers enough,

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not too much, but enough
that I'll have them

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voting Democrat for
the next 200 years.

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- [Narrator] As LBJ predicted,

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his massive welfare
spending spree

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won the Democrats Black
electoral support.

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But as poorer Black people
came to rely on welfare,

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commentators noticed
a subtle alteration

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in the character of some
Black neighborhoods.

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- When you tell people
that they had the right

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to live at the expense
of other people

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that has lived through the
government welfare programs,

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then you're gonna expect a
change in their behavior.

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[gentle music]

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- [Narrator] In the
decades after slavery,

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Black people set up
dozens of their own banks

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and savings and loan companies,

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Black people not
only worked hard,

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but prudently saved their money

498
00:23:27,129 --> 00:23:29,994
to guard against
possible troubles ahead.

499
00:23:29,994 --> 00:23:32,169
But with the advent
of welfare support,

500
00:23:32,169 --> 00:23:35,655
it was no longer the same need
to save against a rainy day,

501
00:23:35,655 --> 00:23:39,901
nor was there the same urgency
to find and keep a job.

502
00:23:39,901 --> 00:23:44,906
- When you consider healthcare,
housing aid, food stamps.

503
00:23:46,114 --> 00:23:48,081
When you add up all of
the array of services

504
00:23:48,081 --> 00:23:50,981
that are offered to
welfare recipients,

505
00:23:50,981 --> 00:23:53,155
it made it much more profitable

506
00:23:53,155 --> 00:23:55,744
for families to go on
welfare than to work.

507
00:23:57,436 --> 00:23:59,127
- [Narrator] But there was
another change brought about

508
00:23:59,127 --> 00:24:01,785
by welfare that would have
a truly devastating effect

509
00:24:01,785 --> 00:24:03,752
on the Black community.

510
00:24:03,752 --> 00:24:06,306
And that wasn't people's
attitude towards marriage

511
00:24:06,306 --> 00:24:07,307
and having a baby.

512
00:24:08,619 --> 00:24:10,690
Until the expansion
of the welfare state,

513
00:24:10,690 --> 00:24:13,210
in Black communities, it
was considered shocking

514
00:24:13,210 --> 00:24:14,832
to have a baby out of wedlock.

515
00:24:16,489 --> 00:24:18,387
- You just couldn't do that.

516
00:24:18,387 --> 00:24:20,769
You couldn't because
it was shameful.

517
00:24:20,769 --> 00:24:22,357
You couldn't afford it.

518
00:24:22,357 --> 00:24:25,084
Number one, if people
wasn't gonna just step in,

519
00:24:25,084 --> 00:24:26,810
there wasn't a
government to step in

520
00:24:26,810 --> 00:24:29,122
and just pay for your mistakes.

521
00:24:29,122 --> 00:24:32,298
If you had that baby, you were
gonna take care of that baby.

522
00:24:32,298 --> 00:24:36,958
Fathers would go to these
men and with a shotgun,

523
00:24:36,958 --> 00:24:40,651
like, listen, you gonna
do right by my daughter.

524
00:24:40,651 --> 00:24:41,859
And you are gonna
take care of your baby

525
00:24:41,859 --> 00:24:43,412
because it costs money.

526
00:24:43,412 --> 00:24:45,553
- The two families would get
together and they would have

527
00:24:45,553 --> 00:24:47,140
what's called a shotgun wedding,

528
00:24:47,140 --> 00:24:48,659
they would force the
boy to marry the girl.

529
00:24:48,659 --> 00:24:51,041
Now you may look at that
and say, that's a bad thing.

530
00:24:51,041 --> 00:24:53,457
But the point is,
getting somebody pregnant

531
00:24:53,457 --> 00:24:55,321
in those days was not
only a moral crisis,

532
00:24:55,321 --> 00:24:56,460
it was an economic crisis.

533
00:24:56,460 --> 00:24:57,599
Who's gonna pay for it?

534
00:25:00,637 --> 00:25:02,811
- [Narrator] But with the
offer of welfare assistance,

535
00:25:02,811 --> 00:25:06,505
the economic logic
of teen pregnancy was
turned on its head.

536
00:25:07,885 --> 00:25:10,647
- A girl who gets pregnant
will get food stamps,

537
00:25:10,647 --> 00:25:14,443
will get AFDC, will get
transportation vouchers.

538
00:25:14,443 --> 00:25:17,516
What's called women, infant and
children medical healthcare.

539
00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:18,689
You add it all up.

540
00:25:18,689 --> 00:25:20,104
And a woman with two children

541
00:25:20,104 --> 00:25:22,521
makes more money than she would

542
00:25:22,521 --> 00:25:24,005
if she worked a minimum wage job

543
00:25:24,005 --> 00:25:25,800
in every single
state in this union.

544
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,974
- What the welfare
state says, look,

545
00:25:29,148 --> 00:25:31,668
we will give you housing.

546
00:25:31,668 --> 00:25:35,534
We will give you food stamps,
we'll give you a stipend.

547
00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:37,259
All you have to
do is have a baby.

548
00:25:38,675 --> 00:25:41,125
- [Narrator] Single mothers
on welfare were now in effect,

549
00:25:41,125 --> 00:25:42,610
married to the government.

550
00:25:42,610 --> 00:25:44,715
As welfare worked its grim magic

551
00:25:44,715 --> 00:25:46,924
in America's poorer
Black neighborhoods,

552
00:25:46,924 --> 00:25:49,237
the number of children
born to single mothers

553
00:25:49,237 --> 00:25:51,550
shot up at an incredible rate.

554
00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:55,174
As early as the 1970s, the
economist Thomas Sowell

555
00:25:55,174 --> 00:25:56,416
was sounding the alarm.

556
00:25:56,416 --> 00:25:58,453
- You make the
following statement,

557
00:25:58,453 --> 00:26:00,800
the current large
and rising numbers

558
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,664
of female headed
families among Blacks

559
00:26:02,664 --> 00:26:04,493
is a modern phenomenon,

560
00:26:04,493 --> 00:26:07,911
stemming from the era
of the welfare state.

561
00:26:07,911 --> 00:26:09,119
- Yes, it was rare,

562
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,535
particularly for
teenage Black women

563
00:26:11,535 --> 00:26:14,987
to have children with
no man in the house,

564
00:26:14,987 --> 00:26:18,715
one period, 3% of
the Black families

565
00:26:18,715 --> 00:26:20,820
were headed by teenage girls.

566
00:26:20,820 --> 00:26:22,788
- And that figure
is now over 50%.

567
00:26:22,788 --> 00:26:24,479
- I don't know what the
teenage girl percentage is,

568
00:26:24,479 --> 00:26:28,310
but it's an awful
lot higher than that.

569
00:26:28,310 --> 00:26:31,348
[gentle music]

570
00:26:31,348 --> 00:26:32,970
- [Narrator] By the
1980s, there were scenes

571
00:26:32,970 --> 00:26:35,455
that would've astonished
previous generations.

572
00:26:35,455 --> 00:26:37,975
High schools were forced
to set up large nurseries

573
00:26:37,975 --> 00:26:39,908
to accommodate the
dozens of children

574
00:26:39,908 --> 00:26:41,876
born to their students.

575
00:26:41,876 --> 00:26:43,118
- [Man 2] Every
year, one million

576
00:26:43,118 --> 00:26:45,293
American teenagers
become pregnant.

577
00:26:45,293 --> 00:26:48,089
It's not uncommon for a large
high school to have dozens

578
00:26:48,089 --> 00:26:50,125
of girls who suddenly
face the shock

579
00:26:50,125 --> 00:26:52,818
of moving straight from
childhood to motherhood.

580
00:26:54,233 --> 00:26:55,993
- [Narrator] Across the
Black community as a whole,

581
00:26:55,993 --> 00:26:59,652
3/4 of all babies are now
born to single mothers.

582
00:26:59,652 --> 00:27:00,895
In the poorest neighborhoods,

583
00:27:00,895 --> 00:27:02,759
the proportion is higher still.

584
00:27:04,553 --> 00:27:08,385
- I lived in a housing project
and we were the only kids

585
00:27:08,385 --> 00:27:10,905
in their neighborhood
who did not have a mother

586
00:27:10,905 --> 00:27:12,631
and father in the house.

587
00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:16,117
This is like during
the 1940s and 1950s.

588
00:27:17,566 --> 00:27:19,603
And today, if you go to the
Richard Allen housing project

589
00:27:19,603 --> 00:27:22,399
where I grew up, it would
be exactly the opposite.

590
00:27:22,399 --> 00:27:27,024
It would be rare to find
a two parent family.

591
00:27:27,024 --> 00:27:29,026
- A kid born during slavery

592
00:27:29,026 --> 00:27:31,719
was more likely to be
raised under a roof

593
00:27:31,719 --> 00:27:35,584
with his biological mother and
biological father than today.

594
00:27:35,584 --> 00:27:38,173
[gentle music]

595
00:27:42,522 --> 00:27:44,179
- [Narrator] It's hard
enough to bring up a child

596
00:27:44,179 --> 00:27:47,113
with two parents, but
when there's only one,

597
00:27:47,113 --> 00:27:49,598
a young girl on her
own with little money,

598
00:27:49,598 --> 00:27:51,324
it can be lonely and desperate,

599
00:27:51,324 --> 00:27:54,017
with many of the joys of
motherhood emptied out.

600
00:27:55,535 --> 00:27:59,022
- These young girls that
end up being single mothers,

601
00:27:59,022 --> 00:28:00,506
they're stuck with the baby.

602
00:28:00,506 --> 00:28:02,957
And now the child looks
like a burden to them,

603
00:28:02,957 --> 00:28:04,855
more than a blessing.

604
00:28:04,855 --> 00:28:07,030
[people chattering]

605
00:28:07,030 --> 00:28:08,790
- [Narrator] To accommodate
the exploding number

606
00:28:08,790 --> 00:28:10,274
of single mothers

607
00:28:10,274 --> 00:28:13,830
and children, large municipal
housing blocks were built.

608
00:28:13,830 --> 00:28:16,798
The children who lived in these
blocks were far more likely

609
00:28:16,798 --> 00:28:20,768
from an early age to be left
on the streets, unaccompanied.

610
00:28:20,768 --> 00:28:23,667
And it is life in these
bleak neighborhoods

611
00:28:23,667 --> 00:28:26,912
that will shape how
they think and behave.

612
00:28:26,912 --> 00:28:30,709
- You have a jungle where it
is survival of the fittest,

613
00:28:32,434 --> 00:28:35,196
and in that particular
jungle, you have to be tough.

614
00:28:35,196 --> 00:28:38,199
- Parents aren't around to
monitor what's going on.

615
00:28:38,199 --> 00:28:39,925
So if they look a little wimpy

616
00:28:39,925 --> 00:28:42,237
or maybe he seems a little
bit more like a dork,

617
00:28:42,237 --> 00:28:44,757
his glasses are a little
thicker than everybody else's,

618
00:28:44,757 --> 00:28:46,000
the kids are gonna jump him.

619
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,484
- You have a bunch of young men

620
00:28:47,484 --> 00:28:50,936
who are without direction,
who have pent up anger

621
00:28:50,936 --> 00:28:54,077
and frustration, you will
be tested at some point.

622
00:28:54,077 --> 00:28:58,081
- They sit slouching, chilling.

623
00:28:58,081 --> 00:28:59,461
You know, I'm a gangster.

624
00:28:59,461 --> 00:29:04,121
- The walk, the way
they look, the swagger.

625
00:29:05,605 --> 00:29:07,573
- This is how you be a man.

626
00:29:07,573 --> 00:29:10,507
This is how you get respect,
you walk around like this.

627
00:29:10,507 --> 00:29:12,129
And if a dude look
at you the wrong way,

628
00:29:12,129 --> 00:29:13,475
you punch him in the face.

629
00:29:13,475 --> 00:29:15,305
And so these men are trained.

630
00:29:15,305 --> 00:29:19,758
These young boys are
trained as a kid to do this.

631
00:29:19,758 --> 00:29:22,036
- [Narrator] But the skills
needed to survive the streets

632
00:29:22,036 --> 00:29:24,314
are ill-suited to the classroom.

633
00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:28,421
- These same young guys I
would see in high school,

634
00:29:28,421 --> 00:29:32,046
when it was time to do their
work and engage in classwork,

635
00:29:32,046 --> 00:29:35,463
they still were holding
onto that demeanor of,

636
00:29:35,463 --> 00:29:36,775
I'm a gangster, I'm tough.

637
00:29:36,775 --> 00:29:39,156
So gangsters don't do homework,

638
00:29:39,156 --> 00:29:40,986
gangsters don't read books,

639
00:29:40,986 --> 00:29:44,334
gangsters don't care about
what the teacher's saying.

640
00:29:44,334 --> 00:29:46,854
They're twisting their dreads
while the teacher's talking,

641
00:29:46,854 --> 00:29:48,994
could care less what
the teacher's saying,

642
00:29:48,994 --> 00:29:50,512
not listening to anything.

643
00:29:55,828 --> 00:29:57,312
- [Narrator] The children
of single mothers

644
00:29:57,312 --> 00:29:59,521
tend to do far worse at school.

645
00:29:59,521 --> 00:30:01,213
They don't have
hardworking parents

646
00:30:01,213 --> 00:30:04,216
instilling ambition and
setting them an example.

647
00:30:04,216 --> 00:30:06,287
Their mothers are
often too distracted

648
00:30:06,287 --> 00:30:08,461
to take an eager interest
in their schooling,

649
00:30:08,461 --> 00:30:12,017
too tired to go over homework,
too unknowledgeable to help.

650
00:30:14,502 --> 00:30:17,091
- Having a father
specifically present

651
00:30:17,091 --> 00:30:19,818
improves grades,
improves health,

652
00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:23,269
decreases a female teenager's
chances of getting pregnant,

653
00:30:23,269 --> 00:30:27,653
decreases a young man's risk
of going to prison and so on.

654
00:30:27,653 --> 00:30:29,344
And this is becoming
a growing problem

655
00:30:29,344 --> 00:30:30,552
in the white community,

656
00:30:30,552 --> 00:30:32,416
especially the poor
white community.

657
00:30:32,416 --> 00:30:36,041
Two parent Black families
are substantially less likely

658
00:30:36,041 --> 00:30:39,941
to be poor than single
parent white families.

659
00:30:41,322 --> 00:30:44,635
That is something that's
simply unchallenged in the data

660
00:30:44,635 --> 00:30:46,430
because two people
are better than one.

661
00:30:46,430 --> 00:30:47,742
It helps to have parents,

662
00:30:47,742 --> 00:30:49,640
that is perhaps the
greatest privilege,

663
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,056
quote, unquote, you can have.

664
00:30:53,265 --> 00:30:55,543
- [Narrator] As if these
disadvantages weren't enough,

665
00:30:55,543 --> 00:30:57,648
single parents on
welfare have no choice

666
00:30:57,648 --> 00:31:00,306
but to send their children
to government run schools,

667
00:31:00,306 --> 00:31:01,514
where the standard of discipline

668
00:31:01,514 --> 00:31:03,862
and teaching is
often deplorably low.

669
00:31:05,587 --> 00:31:07,003
- In the city of Baltimore.

670
00:31:07,003 --> 00:31:11,697
There are 13 high schools
where not a single,

671
00:31:13,354 --> 00:31:16,529
predominantly Black
high schools, where
not a single student

672
00:31:16,529 --> 00:31:20,775
tests proficient in mathematics

673
00:31:20,775 --> 00:31:24,020
and roughly 13% test
proficient in reading.

674
00:31:24,020 --> 00:31:29,025
The average Black kid who
has a high school diploma

675
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,720
in his hand can read and
write as well as the average

676
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,067
white sixth or seventh grader.

677
00:31:37,067 --> 00:31:40,484
[gentle music]

678
00:31:40,484 --> 00:31:42,901
- [Narrator] Ill educated,
unfamiliar with the demands

679
00:31:42,901 --> 00:31:44,937
of work and with
the general demeanor

680
00:31:44,937 --> 00:31:46,870
of defensiveness and aggression,

681
00:31:46,870 --> 00:31:48,423
all this leaves young adults

682
00:31:48,423 --> 00:31:51,219
struggling to land
and hold down a job.

683
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,053
- This demeanor, this image,

684
00:31:57,053 --> 00:31:59,503
they were raised to
have it as a kid.

685
00:31:59,503 --> 00:32:01,747
And so now once they go
out into the real world,

686
00:32:01,747 --> 00:32:03,714
they still think
this is appropriate.

687
00:32:03,714 --> 00:32:05,924
This is the way to be.

688
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:10,514
Well, if I bring this being
Black, I'm Black, yo, I'm tough.

689
00:32:10,514 --> 00:32:12,827
That attitude alone
is intimidating.

690
00:32:12,827 --> 00:32:14,725
And any person in their
right mind is gonna think,

691
00:32:14,725 --> 00:32:16,727
I don't know if I wanna
hire him, he might Rob me.

692
00:32:16,727 --> 00:32:18,281
[woman laughing]

693
00:32:18,281 --> 00:32:20,317
- [Man 3] These are the
hardcore unemployed,

694
00:32:20,317 --> 00:32:23,217
the high school dropouts who
have seldom or never worked.

695
00:32:24,390 --> 00:32:26,358
- Employers tell me, all
they want is somebody

696
00:32:26,358 --> 00:32:28,360
who can read, write and
compute at grade level,

697
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,189
who'll show up, who be polite,

698
00:32:30,189 --> 00:32:31,950
who knows how to
respect authority,

699
00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:33,468
and because of the
breakdown of the family,

700
00:32:33,468 --> 00:32:34,642
because of the welfare state,

701
00:32:34,642 --> 00:32:36,023
because of the
change of the norms,

702
00:32:36,023 --> 00:32:38,301
many people simply
cannot read, write,

703
00:32:38,301 --> 00:32:40,820
compute at grade level,
have an attitude.

704
00:32:40,820 --> 00:32:43,478
They don't know how to behave
and interact with people.

705
00:32:43,478 --> 00:32:44,617
They don't know how
to deal with a boss

706
00:32:44,617 --> 00:32:45,998
in a respectful fashion,
and as a result,

707
00:32:45,998 --> 00:32:48,000
they're much more
likely to be unemployed.

708
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,141
[gentle music]

709
00:32:51,141 --> 00:32:53,281
- [Narrator] If you can't get
out of bed in the morning,

710
00:32:53,281 --> 00:32:54,869
if you won't look
people in the eye,

711
00:32:54,869 --> 00:32:58,286
if you you say is hard
for people to understand,

712
00:32:58,286 --> 00:33:00,219
if you are habitually
discourteous,

713
00:33:00,219 --> 00:33:03,395
unwilling to please,
slovenly and resentful,

714
00:33:03,395 --> 00:33:05,155
if you can barely read or write,

715
00:33:05,155 --> 00:33:08,089
if you dress and comport
yourself like a street thug,

716
00:33:08,089 --> 00:33:10,747
then even when there are
plenty of jobs available,

717
00:33:10,747 --> 00:33:12,576
it is unlikely that
you will get one.

718
00:33:17,064 --> 00:33:18,651
- That culture and
how they raised

719
00:33:18,651 --> 00:33:22,897
disqualifies them for
mainstream American life.

720
00:33:22,897 --> 00:33:25,762
Whether it's work, a
normal relationship

721
00:33:25,762 --> 00:33:27,660
with a healthy young woman,

722
00:33:27,660 --> 00:33:30,215
a lot of what they
do disqualifies them.

723
00:33:30,215 --> 00:33:35,220
- The sad part is
this, there is hope,

724
00:33:36,083 --> 00:33:38,050
and there is a sense of pride

725
00:33:38,050 --> 00:33:42,296
when you work for what you
have, you value it more.

726
00:33:43,607 --> 00:33:47,025
And that's being choked
from Black community.

727
00:33:48,750 --> 00:33:50,166
- [Narrator] Without
a steady income,

728
00:33:50,166 --> 00:33:52,858
young men are incapable
and have no expectation

729
00:33:52,858 --> 00:33:54,549
of supporting a family.

730
00:33:54,549 --> 00:33:57,794
And so the welfare
cycle continues, of
men having children

731
00:33:57,794 --> 00:33:59,209
that they will not pay for,

732
00:33:59,209 --> 00:34:01,591
with women they will not
live with or support.

733
00:34:02,764 --> 00:34:05,767
- Now, if we take care
of you, we your husband,

734
00:34:05,767 --> 00:34:08,874
we your daddy, you can't
have no other men in here

735
00:34:08,874 --> 00:34:10,565
and you can't run the show,

736
00:34:10,565 --> 00:34:12,671
but every month, we'll make
sure you get that check

737
00:34:12,671 --> 00:34:14,052
and your rent will be paid.

738
00:34:15,053 --> 00:34:17,814
[birds chirping]

739
00:34:25,511 --> 00:34:28,721
- It's not abnormal for you
to be birthed outta wedlock.

740
00:34:28,721 --> 00:34:31,241
It's not abnormal for a
man to have multiple women,

741
00:34:32,415 --> 00:34:34,624
a man not taking care
of his responsibilities

742
00:34:34,624 --> 00:34:38,352
is not as demonized or frowned
upon culturally anymore.

743
00:34:39,525 --> 00:34:41,631
- Hip hop is not rapping
about going to school,

744
00:34:41,631 --> 00:34:44,392
getting a master's
degree, being successful,

745
00:34:44,392 --> 00:34:45,842
raising your dad,

746
00:34:45,842 --> 00:34:47,913
they're talking about
twerking and slapping hoes.

747
00:34:47,913 --> 00:34:50,018
So these guys are
raised thinking, yeah,

748
00:34:50,018 --> 00:34:52,366
we gonna be watching slap a hoe.

749
00:34:52,366 --> 00:34:54,506
They're not thinking
about getting an education

750
00:34:54,506 --> 00:34:57,198
and being a man, that's the
last thing on their mind.

751
00:34:57,198 --> 00:34:59,994
[sirens whirring]

752
00:34:59,994 --> 00:35:01,685
- [Man 4] We're in pursuit

753
00:35:01,685 --> 00:35:04,378
of one of the young
men that just ran.

754
00:35:05,862 --> 00:35:09,003
- [Narrator] For young men in
particular, without direction,

755
00:35:09,003 --> 00:35:12,593
responsibilities or hope, crime
is the alternative to work.

756
00:35:12,593 --> 00:35:14,664
You don't have to talk
properly or be polite

757
00:35:14,664 --> 00:35:17,425
to be a drug dealer, in
fact, it's a drawback.

758
00:35:19,151 --> 00:35:20,877
- You're under arrest.

759
00:35:20,877 --> 00:35:24,260
- If don't understand the
concept of getting a proper job

760
00:35:24,260 --> 00:35:26,538
or don't even know how
to get a proper job,

761
00:35:26,538 --> 00:35:28,816
you're gonna try to find
a way to make money.

762
00:35:28,816 --> 00:35:29,989
And in these neighborhoods,

763
00:35:29,989 --> 00:35:32,199
a lot of times
it's selling drugs.

764
00:35:32,199 --> 00:35:35,581
- Drugs and money is
what it's really about.

765
00:35:35,581 --> 00:35:37,480
- [Man 5] Most of the drug
dealers and gang thugs

766
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,792
have little education,
don't have a job

767
00:35:39,792 --> 00:35:42,692
and have a tough time
making money the honest way.

768
00:35:44,107 --> 00:35:46,074
- If you are raised in an
environment where drug dealing

769
00:35:46,074 --> 00:35:49,940
is normalized or where
drug dealing is profitable,

770
00:35:49,940 --> 00:35:52,219
then of course you're
gonna sell drugs.

771
00:35:52,219 --> 00:35:53,703
- It's quick money.

772
00:35:53,703 --> 00:35:56,395
You don't have to work as
hard and you get a lot of it.

773
00:35:59,018 --> 00:36:01,159
- [Narrator] There are no
legally enforceable contracts

774
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:02,746
between drug dealers.

775
00:36:02,746 --> 00:36:05,266
Their deals are backed by
the threat of violence,

776
00:36:05,266 --> 00:36:08,235
in this world,
brutality and murder

777
00:36:08,235 --> 00:36:10,616
have become a necessary
part of everyday life.

778
00:36:11,652 --> 00:36:12,894
[sirens whirring]

779
00:36:12,894 --> 00:36:13,688
- [Announcer 2] Two
young men gunned down

780
00:36:13,688 --> 00:36:15,173
at a Chicago strip mall.

781
00:36:15,173 --> 00:36:18,279
The first two victims of a
bloody and violent weekend.

782
00:36:18,279 --> 00:36:20,419
One that's on nine
people shot to death

783
00:36:20,419 --> 00:36:22,801
and at least 60 others wounded.

784
00:36:22,801 --> 00:36:27,392
- Success is how skilled you
are at taking from others.

785
00:36:29,532 --> 00:36:32,190
Success is dependent
upon how tough you are.

786
00:36:33,432 --> 00:36:34,951
- [Narrator] As a
result of the social

787
00:36:34,951 --> 00:36:38,023
and criminal chaos in
America's welfare ghettos,

788
00:36:38,023 --> 00:36:40,370
murder rates have soared.

789
00:36:40,370 --> 00:36:41,889
- If you hear the gunfire

790
00:36:41,889 --> 00:36:46,307
and we're in a community where
kids know to duck and hide.

791
00:36:46,307 --> 00:36:47,239
- [Announcer 3]
This city is called

792
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:48,758
the poorest in the country.

793
00:36:50,138 --> 00:36:52,486
And it has a murder
rate to match.

794
00:36:52,486 --> 00:36:55,040
Just 12 years old
and shot to death

795
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,043
on the main streets
of Camden, New Jersey.

796
00:36:58,043 --> 00:37:00,425
- My son is going and
he's not coming back.

797
00:37:00,425 --> 00:37:01,874
- Oh, the murder
rate is so high.

798
00:37:01,874 --> 00:37:04,981
No wonder the cops are
afraid when they stop a car

799
00:37:04,981 --> 00:37:06,534
in one of these
Black communities,

800
00:37:06,534 --> 00:37:09,192
that the kid on the inside has
a gun and is gonna kill him.

801
00:37:09,192 --> 00:37:12,885
No wonder the cops are so
quick in their own defense

802
00:37:12,885 --> 00:37:15,233
sometimes to pull
their gun into shoot.

803
00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,338
- Stay in the car,
stay in the car.

804
00:37:17,338 --> 00:37:20,652
- They have to actually
deal with violent people.

805
00:37:20,652 --> 00:37:23,206
[gentle music]

806
00:37:23,206 --> 00:37:24,414
- [Narrator] Black
people growing up

807
00:37:24,414 --> 00:37:26,313
in the first half
of the 20th century

808
00:37:26,313 --> 00:37:30,627
faced great material challenges
and terrible open racism,

809
00:37:30,627 --> 00:37:34,459
but they worked and
saved and married.

810
00:37:34,459 --> 00:37:36,288
Young women were respected,

811
00:37:36,288 --> 00:37:39,774
couples aspired to bring up
children secure in their love,

812
00:37:39,774 --> 00:37:42,674
who would get on in life and
do better than their parents.

813
00:37:48,542 --> 00:37:51,269
By contrast, in
today's inner cities,

814
00:37:51,269 --> 00:37:54,927
stable relationships
are vanishingly rare,

815
00:37:54,927 --> 00:37:58,241
and the destruction of the
family has emptied out the lives

816
00:37:58,241 --> 00:38:01,555
of the people who live here,
creating neighborhoods,

817
00:38:01,555 --> 00:38:03,867
which are squalid
and frightening,

818
00:38:03,867 --> 00:38:05,628
no wonder young
men and women here

819
00:38:05,628 --> 00:38:07,837
seem not to fear incarceration.

820
00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:10,702
Freedom counts for little

821
00:38:10,702 --> 00:38:13,463
when your life is a
spiritual and moral vacuum.

822
00:38:15,431 --> 00:38:18,261
- It's nonstop, I heard
gunshots this morning.

823
00:38:18,261 --> 00:38:20,505
- I don't feel safe at all.

824
00:38:21,506 --> 00:38:24,267
[dramatic music]

825
00:38:33,069 --> 00:38:35,313
- Going to jail back and forth.

826
00:38:35,313 --> 00:38:39,144
I mean, killing and also
watching brothers get killed.

827
00:38:39,144 --> 00:38:41,905
I mean, it can take
a toll on your life.

828
00:38:41,905 --> 00:38:43,838
It can take a toll on your mind.

829
00:38:43,838 --> 00:38:45,599
- [Narrator] For veteran
civil rights campaigner,

830
00:38:45,599 --> 00:38:48,602
Bob Woodson, this whole
social catastrophe

831
00:38:48,602 --> 00:38:51,087
is the inevitable,
tragic consequence

832
00:38:51,087 --> 00:38:53,261
of the welfare revolution.

833
00:38:53,261 --> 00:38:57,300
- Welfare is a dagger in
the soul of Black America.

834
00:38:58,163 --> 00:38:59,716
It's been devastating.

835
00:39:08,069 --> 00:39:10,831
- [Narrator] The irony is
that the massive expansion

836
00:39:10,831 --> 00:39:12,039
of the welfare state

837
00:39:12,039 --> 00:39:14,938
was meant to lift
people out of poverty.

838
00:39:14,938 --> 00:39:16,388
And yet across the world,

839
00:39:16,388 --> 00:39:18,804
wherever big welfare systems
have been introduced,

840
00:39:18,804 --> 00:39:22,429
the results are the same,
a breakdown of the family,

841
00:39:22,429 --> 00:39:25,708
the dissent of communities
into violence and hopelessness,

842
00:39:25,708 --> 00:39:28,538
and a whole class of
people trapped in poverty.

843
00:39:30,989 --> 00:39:32,749
- There are other people
who sincerely believe

844
00:39:32,749 --> 00:39:35,338
that if they will hand
out things here and there,

845
00:39:35,338 --> 00:39:36,995
that this will in
fact benefit people,

846
00:39:36,995 --> 00:39:38,790
again, looking at.

847
00:39:38,790 --> 00:39:39,963
- [Interviewer] Your
point is it doesn't.

848
00:39:39,963 --> 00:39:41,309
- It doesn't, I haven't
been able to find

849
00:39:41,309 --> 00:39:43,035
a single country in the world

850
00:39:43,035 --> 00:39:44,554
where the policies that
are being advocated

851
00:39:44,554 --> 00:39:45,728
for Blacks in the United States

852
00:39:45,728 --> 00:39:47,833
have lifted any
people out of poverty.

853
00:39:47,833 --> 00:39:51,768
- We have spent 22 trillion
in 50 years on programs

854
00:39:51,768 --> 00:39:54,944
to aid the poor,
that's more money

855
00:39:54,944 --> 00:39:56,670
than it takes to buy

856
00:39:56,670 --> 00:39:59,535
all of the agricultural
land in the country.

857
00:39:59,535 --> 00:40:02,917
More money that we've spent
collectively on all of our wars.

858
00:40:04,332 --> 00:40:08,336
And yet, the needle has barely
moved on reducing poverty.

859
00:40:08,336 --> 00:40:12,548
- We spent $20 trillion,
T as in Tyrannosaurus,

860
00:40:12,548 --> 00:40:14,688
over the last 50 years
on the war on poverty

861
00:40:14,688 --> 00:40:16,275
and poverty has won.

862
00:40:16,275 --> 00:40:18,346
So it seems to me that
if you're an intelligent,

863
00:40:18,346 --> 00:40:19,831
bright person,

864
00:40:19,831 --> 00:40:21,246
you would look yourself
in the mirror and say,

865
00:40:21,246 --> 00:40:23,421
I need to rethink my
assumptions, but they can't.

866
00:40:23,421 --> 00:40:26,009
[gentle music]

867
00:40:28,253 --> 00:40:29,427
- [Narrator] Although welfare

868
00:40:29,427 --> 00:40:31,359
failed to lift people
out of poverty,

869
00:40:31,359 --> 00:40:35,571
it did what LBJ predicted,
large numbers of Black people

870
00:40:35,571 --> 00:40:37,883
came to depend
not on themselves,

871
00:40:37,883 --> 00:40:41,922
their families or
their communities,
but on the government.

872
00:40:41,922 --> 00:40:44,269
And to keep the
welfare taps turned on,

873
00:40:44,269 --> 00:40:45,995
they voted Democratic.

874
00:40:45,995 --> 00:40:47,721
- Lyndon B. Johnson
was very smart.

875
00:40:47,721 --> 00:40:50,448
He said it, it came to
pass, homie dead and gone.

876
00:40:50,448 --> 00:40:53,174
But what he said came to pass.

877
00:40:54,590 --> 00:40:57,731
- The reality is, that
has come to full fruition.

878
00:40:57,731 --> 00:41:02,045
And for the most
part, since 1964,

879
00:41:02,045 --> 00:41:06,602
Blacks have voted
anywhere between 80%,

880
00:41:06,602 --> 00:41:10,019
all the way to 95% Democrat.

881
00:41:10,019 --> 00:41:11,227
- Whether that
uniqueness was there.

882
00:41:11,227 --> 00:41:12,711
- [Narrator] For the Democrats,

883
00:41:12,711 --> 00:41:16,163
welfare dependency was not
a problem, on the contrary,

884
00:41:16,163 --> 00:41:18,924
it was the very thing
that won them votes.

885
00:41:18,924 --> 00:41:20,408
- People vote for
you when they think

886
00:41:20,408 --> 00:41:22,756
that they can depend on you
when they are dependent on you,

887
00:41:22,756 --> 00:41:25,275
to the extent that people
become self-reliant and can feel

888
00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:27,312
they're perfectly capable of
taking care of themselves.

889
00:41:27,312 --> 00:41:30,039
To that extent, do you lose
your hold on their votes?

890
00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:33,629
One of the key ways of holding
Blacks in slavery at low cost

891
00:41:33,629 --> 00:41:36,424
was to keep the people
dependent as much as possible,

892
00:41:36,424 --> 00:41:40,498
dependence was seen as the key
to holding the slaves down.

893
00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:41,775
It's ironic that
that same principle

894
00:41:41,775 --> 00:41:44,156
comes up in the welfare
state, 100 years later.

895
00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:47,297
- [Narrator] The
welfare revolution

896
00:41:47,297 --> 00:41:48,920
won votes for the Democrats

897
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,543
and not just in the
welfare ghettos,

898
00:41:51,543 --> 00:41:54,442
the massive expansion
of the welfare state

899
00:41:54,442 --> 00:41:56,583
created a vast
number of new jobs

900
00:41:56,583 --> 00:41:58,516
in government administration,

901
00:41:58,516 --> 00:42:01,898
greatly expanding
America's public sector.

902
00:42:01,898 --> 00:42:03,382
[whirring]

903
00:42:03,382 --> 00:42:04,867
- [Person] This is the nerve
center for paying cash benefits

904
00:42:04,867 --> 00:42:06,454
to America's growing family

905
00:42:06,454 --> 00:42:10,217
of 23 million social
security beneficiaries.

906
00:42:10,217 --> 00:42:11,356
[upbeat music]

907
00:42:11,356 --> 00:42:13,876
- The great society programs

908
00:42:13,876 --> 00:42:16,637
eventually became
the middle class,

909
00:42:16,637 --> 00:42:19,329
great society bureaucracy.

910
00:42:21,918 --> 00:42:24,783
- [Narrator] America had once
prided itself on a small,

911
00:42:24,783 --> 00:42:27,027
efficient public administration,

912
00:42:27,027 --> 00:42:29,961
but in the decade following
LBJs welfare reforms,

913
00:42:29,961 --> 00:42:33,343
several million new
government jobs were created.

914
00:42:33,343 --> 00:42:34,828
The millions who owed their jobs

915
00:42:34,828 --> 00:42:37,071
to the expansion of
the welfare state,

916
00:42:37,071 --> 00:42:39,487
were obviously unwilling
to blame welfare

917
00:42:39,487 --> 00:42:42,007
for the chaos in
America's inner cities.

918
00:42:42,007 --> 00:42:45,079
In fact, to them,
every social problem

919
00:42:45,079 --> 00:42:49,739
merely served to justify an
ever larger welfare state.

920
00:42:49,739 --> 00:42:51,499
- We need more funding for this.

921
00:42:51,499 --> 00:42:52,949
We need more funding for that.

922
00:42:52,949 --> 00:42:54,986
We need to implement
another program for this.

923
00:42:54,986 --> 00:42:57,851
We need to implement
another program for that.

924
00:42:57,851 --> 00:43:00,129
- [Narrator] As one
welfare program failed,

925
00:43:00,129 --> 00:43:02,338
another one or two
would soon replace it,

926
00:43:02,338 --> 00:43:05,859
each time, further expanding
government bureaucracy.

927
00:43:05,859 --> 00:43:08,102
By 2019 in America,

928
00:43:08,102 --> 00:43:09,863
there were twice as many people

929
00:43:09,863 --> 00:43:13,798
employed in government as
there were in manufacturing.

930
00:43:13,798 --> 00:43:17,698
- Anyone who works for
or is for big government

931
00:43:17,698 --> 00:43:20,977
is never going to
oppose big government.

932
00:43:22,116 --> 00:43:23,911
They're gonna always
push for the government

933
00:43:23,911 --> 00:43:27,397
to get bigger and
bigger and bigger.

934
00:43:27,397 --> 00:43:29,503
- [Narrator] For the
supporters of big government,

935
00:43:29,503 --> 00:43:32,575
it was vital to deny
and divert attention

936
00:43:32,575 --> 00:43:35,405
from the poisonous
effects of welfare.

937
00:43:36,303 --> 00:43:38,270
The crisis in America's cities

938
00:43:38,270 --> 00:43:41,204
had to be blamed
on something else.

939
00:43:41,204 --> 00:43:42,965
- If you worked for
the welfare state,

940
00:43:42,965 --> 00:43:45,692
if you believe in the
so-called war on poverty,

941
00:43:45,692 --> 00:43:47,935
it is awfully difficult for
you to then look at the data

942
00:43:47,935 --> 00:43:50,800
and say, oh my goodness,
what have I done?

943
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,390
I have dismantled the nuclear
intact family in this country.

944
00:43:54,390 --> 00:43:55,598
They can't do that.

945
00:43:55,598 --> 00:43:57,462
- However, those
people in government

946
00:43:57,462 --> 00:44:01,190
have a vested interest in
not blaming the programs

947
00:44:01,190 --> 00:44:03,192
that they're working for.

948
00:44:03,192 --> 00:44:07,299
You can't blame the poverty
on what you've done.

949
00:44:07,299 --> 00:44:08,853
You have to blame it
on something else.

950
00:44:08,853 --> 00:44:10,475
You have to blame it on racism.

951
00:44:13,064 --> 00:44:14,824
- [Narrator] Racism
for the Democrats

952
00:44:14,824 --> 00:44:17,240
provided the scapegoat
to explain away

953
00:44:17,240 --> 00:44:20,071
that toxic social
effects of welfare.

954
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,351
- Racism is the reason why
father's not in the family.

955
00:44:24,351 --> 00:44:27,457
Racism is the reason
why Black on Black crime

956
00:44:27,457 --> 00:44:29,390
is happening in their
own communities.

957
00:44:29,390 --> 00:44:32,566
Racism is the reason why kids

958
00:44:32,566 --> 00:44:35,017
are undereducated
because of their schools.

959
00:44:35,017 --> 00:44:39,262
Racism is the reason
why Jenny got five kids

960
00:44:39,262 --> 00:44:40,678
by four different men.

961
00:44:41,575 --> 00:44:42,990
- [Narrator] To the Democrats,

962
00:44:42,990 --> 00:44:46,235
the collapse of the Black family
was not caused by welfare,

963
00:44:46,235 --> 00:44:49,272
but was somehow the
legacy of slavery.

964
00:44:49,272 --> 00:44:52,759
When young Black men from broken
families were sent to jail,

965
00:44:52,759 --> 00:44:55,693
it was the fault of
racist cops and judges.

966
00:44:55,693 --> 00:44:58,557
When young Black people
struggled to get a job

967
00:44:58,557 --> 00:45:00,214
or to get into university,

968
00:45:00,214 --> 00:45:03,183
it was blamed not on
lousy government schools

969
00:45:03,183 --> 00:45:05,703
that left them barely
able to read and write,

970
00:45:05,703 --> 00:45:08,671
but on the racial bigotry
of college administrators

971
00:45:08,671 --> 00:45:09,948
and employers.

972
00:45:09,948 --> 00:45:12,882
To Civil Rights
campaigner, Bob Woodson,

973
00:45:12,882 --> 00:45:15,091
to blame racism for
all these problems

974
00:45:15,091 --> 00:45:18,370
is a flagrant act of
political cynicism.

975
00:45:18,370 --> 00:45:21,373
- The majority of the
cities where you find

976
00:45:21,373 --> 00:45:23,513
the greatest failures
of low income Blacks

977
00:45:23,513 --> 00:45:27,932
are cities that have been
run by their own people.

978
00:45:27,932 --> 00:45:31,004
Blacks dominate city council,
the police department,

979
00:45:31,004 --> 00:45:36,009
the courts, the education
system in places like Chicago,

980
00:45:37,182 --> 00:45:40,703
Washington, Trenton,
Newark, Baltimore,

981
00:45:40,703 --> 00:45:43,188
the majority of the
teachers are Black.

982
00:45:44,327 --> 00:45:47,123
The majority of the
school boards are Black.

983
00:45:48,331 --> 00:45:51,507
So the question is,
if Blacks are running

984
00:45:53,233 --> 00:45:55,511
where other Blacks are failing,

985
00:45:56,581 --> 00:45:59,549
how can that be
associated with racism?

986
00:46:01,172 --> 00:46:02,725
- [Narrator] It is hard to see

987
00:46:02,725 --> 00:46:05,245
how historic racism could
have caused the explosion,

988
00:46:05,245 --> 00:46:09,525
since the 1960s, of Black
single parent families.

989
00:46:09,525 --> 00:46:12,148
- If you look at fatherlessness
in Black communities,

990
00:46:12,148 --> 00:46:14,737
that is not a legacy of slavery,

991
00:46:14,737 --> 00:46:18,327
the Black community had gotten
the out of wedlock birth rate

992
00:46:18,327 --> 00:46:22,055
down to about 10% in 1938,
according to Walter Williams,

993
00:46:22,055 --> 00:46:26,991
that's now 75%, 74.3%, okay.

994
00:46:26,991 --> 00:46:31,236
That has absolutely nothing
to do with historical racism.

995
00:46:31,236 --> 00:46:33,549
- [Narrator] Likewise,
if racism were to blame

996
00:46:33,549 --> 00:46:36,276
for there being so many
Black people in prison,

997
00:46:36,276 --> 00:46:38,416
why was the Black prison
population so much lower

998
00:46:38,416 --> 00:46:41,591
in the first half
of the 20th century,

999
00:46:41,591 --> 00:46:44,180
when racism had been far worse?

1000
00:46:44,180 --> 00:46:46,251
- Black people take up
12% of the population,

1001
00:46:46,251 --> 00:46:50,462
but 50% of the crime, but
that's because of racism.

1002
00:46:50,462 --> 00:46:51,774
It has nothing to
do with the fact

1003
00:46:51,774 --> 00:46:53,811
that they actually
breaking laws.

1004
00:46:54,950 --> 00:46:57,262
- Mass incarceration
is to a large extent,

1005
00:46:57,262 --> 00:46:59,161
a result of mass crime.

1006
00:46:59,161 --> 00:47:03,199
If you look at US crime
rates between 1963 and 1993,

1007
00:47:03,199 --> 00:47:07,169
crime increased about 560%,
not just among Blacks,

1008
00:47:07,169 --> 00:47:09,205
but among Puerto Ricans,
Italian Americans,

1009
00:47:09,205 --> 00:47:10,793
many other groups,
Southern whites,

1010
00:47:10,793 --> 00:47:14,417
and all those groups went to
prison nearly proportionately.

1011
00:47:14,417 --> 00:47:19,422
It is wildly unlikely that
the recent surge in crime

1012
00:47:20,492 --> 00:47:22,046
is due to racism
because obviously racism

1013
00:47:22,046 --> 00:47:25,118
has not dramatically increased.

1014
00:47:25,118 --> 00:47:27,914
[gentle music]

1015
00:47:27,914 --> 00:47:29,847
- [Narrator] What's
more, if it's racism

1016
00:47:29,847 --> 00:47:32,056
holding down poor Black people,

1017
00:47:32,056 --> 00:47:35,576
what can explain the remarkable
success of poor Black people

1018
00:47:35,576 --> 00:47:38,200
who migrate to
America from abroad?

1019
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,305
- I think that
immigrants to our country

1020
00:47:40,305 --> 00:47:42,618
who will come from countries
without a welfare estate,

1021
00:47:42,618 --> 00:47:46,070
they have not developed
a welfare mentality.

1022
00:47:46,070 --> 00:47:49,245
They get up and work
and are successful.

1023
00:47:49,245 --> 00:47:50,419
- [Person 2] When
Somali refugees

1024
00:47:50,419 --> 00:47:52,007
first arrived in Lewiston,

1025
00:47:52,007 --> 00:47:54,630
many found employment,
or started businesses.

1026
00:47:56,321 --> 00:47:58,599
- [Narrator] Many Black and
Asian immigrants to the US

1027
00:47:58,599 --> 00:48:00,118
come from countries
where there's little

1028
00:48:00,118 --> 00:48:02,672
or no welfare, family stability,

1029
00:48:02,672 --> 00:48:04,985
and the work ethic
are still strong.

1030
00:48:04,985 --> 00:48:07,919
And Black immigrants to
America are more successful

1031
00:48:07,919 --> 00:48:09,369
even than white Americans.

1032
00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:12,924
- Black Caribbeans
that have migrated

1033
00:48:12,924 --> 00:48:15,375
to United States and
become American citizens,

1034
00:48:15,375 --> 00:48:17,964
they have a median income

1035
00:48:17,964 --> 00:48:21,553
that's slightly higher
than Americans in general.

1036
00:48:21,553 --> 00:48:23,245
- First generation Blacks

1037
00:48:23,245 --> 00:48:25,937
of Caribbean and
African ancestry,

1038
00:48:25,937 --> 00:48:28,698
they tend to do extremely
well in this country

1039
00:48:28,698 --> 00:48:30,942
at every single income level,

1040
00:48:30,942 --> 00:48:32,288
at every single wealth level,

1041
00:48:32,288 --> 00:48:33,841
they tend to do extremely well,

1042
00:48:33,841 --> 00:48:36,879
not merely as compared to
their Black counterparts,

1043
00:48:36,879 --> 00:48:40,538
but compared to virtually
every other American group.

1044
00:48:40,538 --> 00:48:43,023
- One of the most
successful groups in the USA

1045
00:48:43,023 --> 00:48:45,198
happens to be Black immigrants.

1046
00:48:45,198 --> 00:48:48,373
If you look at Nigerian
Americans and Ghanaians

1047
00:48:48,373 --> 00:48:50,375
do just as well, West
Indians do just as well.

1048
00:48:50,375 --> 00:48:51,929
I'm just picking the
largest group here.

1049
00:48:51,929 --> 00:48:54,379
Nigerian Americans are
the best educated group

1050
00:48:54,379 --> 00:48:55,829
in the country.

1051
00:48:55,829 --> 00:48:58,038
And with the household income
of about $67,000 a year,

1052
00:48:58,038 --> 00:48:59,729
they slightly out earn whites.

1053
00:48:59,729 --> 00:49:01,455
They would dramatically
out earn whites

1054
00:49:01,455 --> 00:49:02,698
except that so many of them

1055
00:49:02,698 --> 00:49:05,149
become fairly
poorly paid teachers

1056
00:49:05,149 --> 00:49:08,083
and college professors,
given all those degrees.

1057
00:49:08,083 --> 00:49:09,636
[people cheering]

1058
00:49:09,636 --> 00:49:11,051
- [Narrator] Although
the Democrats

1059
00:49:11,051 --> 00:49:13,605
blame social problems on racism,
they didn't feel the need

1060
00:49:13,605 --> 00:49:17,506
to identify actual racist
individuals or acts of bigotry.

1061
00:49:17,506 --> 00:49:19,784
Instead, they pointed
to statistics.

1062
00:49:19,784 --> 00:49:23,581
If there are proportionately
more Black people in prison,

1063
00:49:23,581 --> 00:49:25,134
it must be racism.

1064
00:49:25,134 --> 00:49:28,068
If there are fewer Black people
in Ivy League universities

1065
00:49:28,068 --> 00:49:32,107
or in jobs like accountancy,
it must be down to racism.

1066
00:49:32,107 --> 00:49:34,488
This, they called
systemic racism.

1067
00:49:36,214 --> 00:49:38,113
- We gotta tackle
systemic racism.

1068
00:49:38,113 --> 00:49:39,286
- Systemic racism.

1069
00:49:39,286 --> 00:49:40,529
- Systemic racism.

1070
00:49:40,529 --> 00:49:42,462
- Systemic racism
in our country.

1071
00:49:42,462 --> 00:49:45,292
[phone ringing]

1072
00:49:45,292 --> 00:49:46,466
- [Narrator] For the Democrats,

1073
00:49:46,466 --> 00:49:48,709
fighting systemic
racism naturally called

1074
00:49:48,709 --> 00:49:52,196
for yet more government
intervention, jobs were created

1075
00:49:52,196 --> 00:49:55,613
in equality and inclusion
and not just in government.

1076
00:49:55,613 --> 00:49:58,236
In response to affirmative
action in other initiatives,

1077
00:49:58,236 --> 00:50:00,307
large companies
and organizations

1078
00:50:00,307 --> 00:50:02,551
had to hire dedicated staff.

1079
00:50:02,551 --> 00:50:06,693
Consultancies sprang up, law
firms began to specialize.

1080
00:50:06,693 --> 00:50:09,627
A sprawling diversity
industry was created.

1081
00:50:14,425 --> 00:50:17,842
- Diversity is now what
we refer to as the C level

1082
00:50:17,842 --> 00:50:18,843
in the business world.

1083
00:50:18,843 --> 00:50:21,708
IE it's a CEO or
CFO level title,

1084
00:50:21,708 --> 00:50:24,297
CDO, Chief Diversity Officer.

1085
00:50:24,297 --> 00:50:26,920
It's hard to imagine a
Fortune 500 corporation

1086
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:28,508
that doesn't have a CDO.

1087
00:50:28,508 --> 00:50:30,717
And I think that anyone
that didn't at this moment

1088
00:50:30,717 --> 00:50:32,546
would be a little bit nervous.

1089
00:50:32,546 --> 00:50:34,893
[gentle music]

1090
00:50:34,893 --> 00:50:36,999
- [Narrator] With the rise
of the diversity industry

1091
00:50:36,999 --> 00:50:39,070
came an ever-growing
number of professionals

1092
00:50:39,070 --> 00:50:41,141
and organizations whose jobs

1093
00:50:41,141 --> 00:50:44,489
and funding depended
on finding racism.

1094
00:50:44,489 --> 00:50:46,905
- If you are in the African
American studies department

1095
00:50:46,905 --> 00:50:48,424
at a university,

1096
00:50:48,424 --> 00:50:50,806
it is in their best interest
to constantly find racism.

1097
00:50:50,806 --> 00:50:53,567
You have a whole bunch of
people, pundits on cable TV,

1098
00:50:54,706 --> 00:50:56,260
professors in college,

1099
00:50:56,260 --> 00:50:59,056
people that belong to
organization like the NAACP.

1100
00:50:59,056 --> 00:51:01,575
It is in their best
interest to see the world

1101
00:51:01,575 --> 00:51:03,301
through what I call
race tenant glasses.

1102
00:51:03,301 --> 00:51:04,716
And that's what they do.

1103
00:51:04,716 --> 00:51:06,960
- The race grievance industry
would have you believe

1104
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:08,099
that Blacks get up

1105
00:51:08,099 --> 00:51:10,308
and think about nothing
else except race.

1106
00:51:12,172 --> 00:51:14,140
- [Narrator] Those
who make their living

1107
00:51:14,140 --> 00:51:16,521
in the diversity industry
are understandably reluctant

1108
00:51:16,521 --> 00:51:19,455
to acknowledge any
decline in racism.

1109
00:51:19,455 --> 00:51:22,009
- From any common
sensical perspective,

1110
00:51:22,009 --> 00:51:25,841
if you have a large group
of upper middle class people

1111
00:51:25,841 --> 00:51:28,154
whose salaries
depend on identifying

1112
00:51:28,154 --> 00:51:30,639
and fighting a great
deal of racism,

1113
00:51:30,639 --> 00:51:33,090
and these salaries can
reach into the six figures,

1114
00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:36,300
they're unlikely to report
that there's almost no racism.

1115
00:51:36,300 --> 00:51:39,751
- There is a whole big
cottage industry for racism.

1116
00:51:39,751 --> 00:51:42,202
If racism went away, a lot of
people would be unemployed.

1117
00:51:42,202 --> 00:51:46,379
- I think that racism's
being constantly resurrected,

1118
00:51:46,379 --> 00:51:49,692
resuscitated by
people who benefit

1119
00:51:49,692 --> 00:51:53,972
from accusations of
racial discrimination.

1120
00:51:53,972 --> 00:51:56,320
[gentle music]

1121
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,184
- [Narrator] It was the job
of the diversity industry

1122
00:51:58,184 --> 00:51:59,737
to find racism.

1123
00:51:59,737 --> 00:52:01,014
And so they found it

1124
00:52:01,014 --> 00:52:03,327
in places no one before
had thought of looking.

1125
00:52:06,088 --> 00:52:09,747
- As traditional racism
almost fades away,

1126
00:52:09,747 --> 00:52:11,680
you've seen the
redefinition of racism

1127
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:13,199
to mean something very different

1128
00:52:13,199 --> 00:52:15,511
from what we've always
thought of it as being.

1129
00:52:16,857 --> 00:52:18,652
- [Narrator] Among the
new forms of racism

1130
00:52:18,652 --> 00:52:21,172
is cultural appropriation.

1131
00:52:21,172 --> 00:52:23,416
If a German Pope visits Mexico,

1132
00:52:23,416 --> 00:52:26,350
it's deemed to be racist
for him to wear a sombrero,

1133
00:52:26,350 --> 00:52:29,629
no matter how much it
seems to delight the crowd.

1134
00:52:29,629 --> 00:52:32,183
[upbeat music]

1135
00:52:33,529 --> 00:52:36,739
In a bizarre echo of
segregation, it is now forbidden

1136
00:52:36,739 --> 00:52:39,604
to copy or adopt the styles
of a different culture.

1137
00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:44,195
- If cultural appropriation
were a valid idea,

1138
00:52:44,195 --> 00:52:46,473
I couldn't wear pants and shoes.

1139
00:52:46,473 --> 00:52:47,888
Most of the civilized

1140
00:52:47,888 --> 00:52:50,063
African people's preferred
robes and sandals.

1141
00:52:50,063 --> 00:52:52,479
- I play piano, is that
a European instrument,

1142
00:52:52,479 --> 00:52:54,654
did I culturally
appropriate that?

1143
00:52:54,654 --> 00:52:58,244
Is Wynton Marsalis a
cultural appropriator,

1144
00:52:58,244 --> 00:53:00,142
'cause he plays a trumpet,
a European instrument.

1145
00:53:00,142 --> 00:53:02,903
- If there's a Caucasian,
you can't for example,

1146
00:53:02,903 --> 00:53:04,422
in good conscience,

1147
00:53:04,422 --> 00:53:08,081
make Mexican or Asian food
or dance to hip hop beats

1148
00:53:08,081 --> 00:53:10,635
or learn certain aspects
of a foreign language.

1149
00:53:10,635 --> 00:53:12,465
It is a legitimate question.

1150
00:53:12,465 --> 00:53:14,018
It becomes a
legitimate question,

1151
00:53:14,018 --> 00:53:16,572
what advantage does
diversity provide?

1152
00:53:16,572 --> 00:53:19,575
Aren't I now just
surrounded by strangers

1153
00:53:19,575 --> 00:53:21,198
that often seem angry at me.

1154
00:53:23,510 --> 00:53:25,202
- [Narrator] To some,
the left is guilty

1155
00:53:25,202 --> 00:53:26,858
of trivializing racism.

1156
00:53:26,858 --> 00:53:29,620
There are still
racists in America

1157
00:53:29,620 --> 00:53:33,037
and countless acts of
real racial bigotry,

1158
00:53:33,037 --> 00:53:35,695
but to constantly find
racism where there is none,

1159
00:53:35,695 --> 00:53:38,629
to denounce people as
racist who are not,

1160
00:53:38,629 --> 00:53:41,218
to frivolously and
casually use racism

1161
00:53:41,218 --> 00:53:44,462
is a cheap political slur,
does nothing to expose,

1162
00:53:44,462 --> 00:53:47,879
but can rather conceal
genuine bigotry.

1163
00:53:47,879 --> 00:53:50,675
- All that does is cause
people to become more cynical

1164
00:53:50,675 --> 00:53:53,230
when people argue that
there is serious racism,

1165
00:53:53,230 --> 00:53:55,404
and of course there's
racism in America.

1166
00:53:55,404 --> 00:53:56,785
This is a country with
300 million people.

1167
00:53:56,785 --> 00:53:59,960
8% of Americans believe
Elvis is still alive.

1168
00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:01,168
I don't know what to tell you.

1169
00:54:01,168 --> 00:54:02,756
There's some idiots
in this country.

1170
00:54:04,413 --> 00:54:05,932
- [Narrator] But there
was another reason

1171
00:54:05,932 --> 00:54:09,763
why race and racism became so
important to the Democrats.

1172
00:54:09,763 --> 00:54:12,594
The Democrats had long
posed as the party

1173
00:54:12,594 --> 00:54:16,598
of the working man,
but LBJs reforms

1174
00:54:16,598 --> 00:54:18,393
proved to be deeply unpopular

1175
00:54:18,393 --> 00:54:20,705
among America's
broader working class.

1176
00:54:22,189 --> 00:54:23,708
In the election that followed,

1177
00:54:23,708 --> 00:54:26,987
support for the Democrats from
America's white working class

1178
00:54:26,987 --> 00:54:31,268
collapsed spectacularly,
to just 35%.

1179
00:54:31,268 --> 00:54:32,890
Working class people it seemed

1180
00:54:32,890 --> 00:54:34,788
were closer to the
world of welfare

1181
00:54:34,788 --> 00:54:36,549
and better understood
what it did.

1182
00:54:37,826 --> 00:54:39,172
[audience cheering]

1183
00:54:39,172 --> 00:54:40,691
Their views were
articulated by a rising star

1184
00:54:40,691 --> 00:54:44,246
in the Republican Party, the
former actor, Ronald Reagan.

1185
00:54:45,454 --> 00:54:47,387
- The working men and
women of this nation

1186
00:54:47,387 --> 00:54:49,596
voted against taxing themselves

1187
00:54:49,596 --> 00:54:52,081
to provide a standard
of living for others

1188
00:54:52,081 --> 00:54:53,876
that was often more
than they could afford

1189
00:54:53,876 --> 00:54:55,706
for their own families.

1190
00:54:55,706 --> 00:54:57,708
They voted against the
idea that government

1191
00:54:57,708 --> 00:55:01,125
must always grow larger and
more costly and powerful.

1192
00:55:02,368 --> 00:55:05,094
- Ordinary, working
class Americans

1193
00:55:05,094 --> 00:55:08,408
that are not recipients
of government large S,

1194
00:55:08,408 --> 00:55:12,412
do not believe that
their salvation comes

1195
00:55:12,412 --> 00:55:15,898
with paying higher taxes
for bigger government

1196
00:55:15,898 --> 00:55:19,005
that can regulate
their lives even more.

1197
00:55:19,005 --> 00:55:21,110
- Responsibility for
lending a helping hand

1198
00:55:21,110 --> 00:55:22,698
to those who through
no fault of their own

1199
00:55:22,698 --> 00:55:24,390
couldn't find work.

1200
00:55:24,390 --> 00:55:27,393
We should help them
to help themselves.

1201
00:55:27,393 --> 00:55:29,705
And that's all that
most people want,

1202
00:55:29,705 --> 00:55:31,431
is a helping hand
when they need it

1203
00:55:31,431 --> 00:55:33,640
until they can get
back on their feet.

1204
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,229
Man is a creature of the
spirit and filling his belly

1205
00:55:36,229 --> 00:55:39,991
doesn't make up for emptying
his soul of self-reliance.

1206
00:55:39,991 --> 00:55:42,546
The welfare burden
is 10 times as big

1207
00:55:42,546 --> 00:55:45,618
as it was in the dark
days of the Depression,

1208
00:55:45,618 --> 00:55:49,415
institutionalizing poverty
for millions of our people.

1209
00:55:49,415 --> 00:55:51,555
Welfare as we know
it in America,

1210
00:55:51,555 --> 00:55:55,455
is a colossal and
almost complete failure.

1211
00:55:55,455 --> 00:55:57,354
A hopeless end to the road.

1212
00:55:57,354 --> 00:56:00,322
[audience clapping]

1213
00:56:02,082 --> 00:56:03,774
- [Narrator] Ronald
Reagan was swept to power

1214
00:56:03,774 --> 00:56:06,397
on a tide of working
class support.

1215
00:56:06,397 --> 00:56:08,468
Of those who voted
firm for president,

1216
00:56:08,468 --> 00:56:10,884
70% had no college degree.

1217
00:56:12,299 --> 00:56:15,372
- Working class Americans,
they have become more

1218
00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:16,614
and more Republican

1219
00:56:16,614 --> 00:56:20,100
in their voting patterns
and their ideology.

1220
00:56:20,100 --> 00:56:22,137
- If you know someone's
race and income,

1221
00:56:22,137 --> 00:56:25,209
you very, very likely know
who they're voting for.

1222
00:56:25,209 --> 00:56:27,832
88% of African Americans
vote for the Democrats.

1223
00:56:27,832 --> 00:56:30,456
70% of working class,
white Christians,

1224
00:56:30,456 --> 00:56:32,389
if not more vote
for the Republicans.

1225
00:56:32,389 --> 00:56:34,770
- At one time,
the Democrat party

1226
00:56:34,770 --> 00:56:38,222
was seen as the party
of the working men

1227
00:56:38,222 --> 00:56:39,810
and the Republican party
was seen as the party

1228
00:56:39,810 --> 00:56:43,848
of the country club, but
that has been reversed.

1229
00:56:43,848 --> 00:56:45,022
[car beeping]

1230
00:56:45,022 --> 00:56:46,126
- [Narrator] The
Democrats are shocked

1231
00:56:46,126 --> 00:56:47,473
that working class Americans

1232
00:56:47,473 --> 00:56:51,200
do not want higher taxes
and more regulation.

1233
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:54,687
This working class rejection
of socialism is embarrassing.

1234
00:56:54,687 --> 00:56:56,723
How can they explain it?

1235
00:56:56,723 --> 00:56:59,864
Racism once again has
come to the rescue.

1236
00:56:59,864 --> 00:57:01,901
Working class people
vote Republican

1237
00:57:01,901 --> 00:57:03,558
because they are
ignorant bigots.

1238
00:57:05,663 --> 00:57:07,182
- I believe it was Barack Obama

1239
00:57:07,182 --> 00:57:10,737
who said, those bitter
folk up there in the hills,

1240
00:57:10,737 --> 00:57:12,774
clinging to their
guns and their Bibles

1241
00:57:12,774 --> 00:57:15,362
to dismiss a substantial
chunk of the country,

1242
00:57:15,362 --> 00:57:18,642
to dismiss most of my
friend's parents in Kentucky.

1243
00:57:18,642 --> 00:57:21,265
Hillary Clinton said
that I believe 47%

1244
00:57:21,265 --> 00:57:23,198
of Donald Trump's supporters
fell into what she called

1245
00:57:23,198 --> 00:57:25,165
the basket of deplorables,

1246
00:57:25,165 --> 00:57:27,616
untouchable, racist, bigots,

1247
00:57:27,616 --> 00:57:29,860
and the term simmering
under the surface

1248
00:57:29,860 --> 00:57:32,069
when you hear these
comments is white trash.

1249
00:57:33,415 --> 00:57:35,452
- [Narrator] It is a
remarkable historical fact,

1250
00:57:35,452 --> 00:57:37,971
too often overlooked,
that most white Americans

1251
00:57:37,971 --> 00:57:40,974
vote Republican and not
just in the last election,

1252
00:57:40,974 --> 00:57:45,945
in every single US presidential
election since the 1960s,

1253
00:57:45,945 --> 00:57:47,394
the Republicans won the votes

1254
00:57:47,394 --> 00:57:49,293
of the majority of
white Americans.

1255
00:57:50,190 --> 00:57:51,191
[person knocking]

1256
00:57:51,191 --> 00:57:52,192
- Sir, are you registered vote?

1257
00:57:52,192 --> 00:57:53,021
- Nope.

1258
00:57:53,021 --> 00:57:54,747
- Signature here.

1259
00:57:54,747 --> 00:57:56,231
- [Narrator] For more
than half a century,

1260
00:57:56,231 --> 00:57:57,474
the Democrats would've failed
to get a single president

1261
00:57:57,474 --> 00:57:59,752
in the white house
without the Black vote.

1262
00:57:59,752 --> 00:58:01,408
- I'm not gonna let you die.

1263
00:58:01,408 --> 00:58:02,858
- Okay.

1264
00:58:02,858 --> 00:58:04,170
- If the Democrats ever
stopped consistently winning

1265
00:58:04,170 --> 00:58:06,068
at least 65% of the Black vote,

1266
00:58:06,068 --> 00:58:07,932
they would cease
to win elections.

1267
00:58:07,932 --> 00:58:10,556
- The African American
community in South Carolina

1268
00:58:10,556 --> 00:58:12,868
can make a judgment about
who the next president

1269
00:58:12,868 --> 00:58:15,112
of United States is gonna be.

1270
00:58:15,112 --> 00:58:17,977
- The Democrat party,
not only depend

1271
00:58:17,977 --> 00:58:21,567
on getting a majority of
African American votes,

1272
00:58:21,567 --> 00:58:26,572
they are absolutely dependent
on getting a super majority,

1273
00:58:27,745 --> 00:58:30,299
a near monopoly
of the Black vote.

1274
00:58:30,299 --> 00:58:31,853
- The vote is in your hands.

1275
00:58:31,853 --> 00:58:35,304
Not a joke, you can
control this outcome.

1276
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:41,138
- If a Republican Party can
get 20% of the Black vote,

1277
00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:44,693
then the Democratic Party does
not only lose an election,

1278
00:58:44,693 --> 00:58:47,834
but it becomes an
existential crisis.

1279
00:58:47,834 --> 00:58:50,112
- If more than 1/3 of
Black people stopped voting

1280
00:58:50,112 --> 00:58:52,805
for the Democrats, the Democrats
wouldn't win any elections.

1281
00:58:52,805 --> 00:58:57,292
And politicians and academics
are very aware of this

1282
00:58:57,292 --> 00:59:01,779
on the left, and it is in my
opinion, one of the reasons,

1283
00:59:01,779 --> 00:59:04,368
probably the primary
reason for the constant,

1284
00:59:04,368 --> 00:59:05,749
consistent focus on race.

1285
00:59:05,749 --> 00:59:08,130
- [Narrator] For the Democratic
Party, highlighting race

1286
00:59:08,130 --> 00:59:10,650
as one of the main
political issues in America

1287
00:59:10,650 --> 00:59:12,549
is not just useful.

1288
00:59:12,549 --> 00:59:15,344
It has become essential
to its survival.

1289
00:59:15,344 --> 00:59:18,727
- Race still plays
a significant role

1290
00:59:18,727 --> 00:59:22,420
in determining who
gets ahead in America

1291
00:59:22,420 --> 00:59:24,561
and who gets left behind.

1292
00:59:26,045 --> 00:59:28,012
- [Narrator] The Democrats
have come to rely heavily

1293
00:59:28,012 --> 00:59:29,980
on the specter of
racial prejudice

1294
00:59:29,980 --> 00:59:32,016
to drive Black
voters to the polls.

1295
00:59:33,535 --> 00:59:36,883
- The primary basis of
the USA democratic parties

1296
00:59:36,883 --> 00:59:40,680
appeal to Black voters is
the invocation of racism.

1297
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:41,543
- Racism.

1298
00:59:41,543 --> 00:59:42,579
- Racism.

1299
00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:44,097
- Racism in this country.

1300
00:59:44,097 --> 00:59:45,961
- Oh, because you're Black,
if I tell you this is racist,

1301
00:59:45,961 --> 00:59:47,342
if I tell you that is racist,

1302
00:59:47,342 --> 00:59:50,448
then oh yeah, I'm gonna
get you emotional.

1303
00:59:50,448 --> 00:59:52,865
I'm gonna get you to jump,
I'm gonna get you to skip.

1304
00:59:52,865 --> 00:59:55,764
- One should not be subjected

1305
00:59:55,764 --> 00:59:59,112
to the indignity of being
told to get on your knees

1306
00:59:59,112 --> 01:00:01,908
and put your hands
behind your head,

1307
01:00:01,908 --> 01:00:05,049
simply because you are
walking while Black.

1308
01:00:05,049 --> 01:00:08,605
- You're seeing 90% Black voting
patterns for the Democrats

1309
01:00:08,605 --> 01:00:12,574
because of, they gonna
put you back in chains.

1310
01:00:12,574 --> 01:00:15,612
One of our political parties
has managed to convince

1311
01:00:15,612 --> 01:00:18,373
a great percentage of the
African American population

1312
01:00:18,373 --> 01:00:20,686
that the other party's
run by the Klan,

1313
01:00:20,686 --> 01:00:23,792
which historically has been
the opposite of the truth

1314
01:00:23,792 --> 01:00:24,621
by the way.

1315
01:00:26,105 --> 01:00:28,314
- [Narrator] It would be a
disaster for the Democrats

1316
01:00:28,314 --> 01:00:30,143
if Black Americans
woke up one morning

1317
01:00:30,143 --> 01:00:33,319
and decided they
were just Americans.

1318
01:00:33,319 --> 01:00:35,459
To keep Black people
voting as a block,

1319
01:00:35,459 --> 01:00:38,151
they must be encouraged to
continue to see themselves

1320
01:00:38,151 --> 01:00:39,670
as a distinct racial group,

1321
01:00:39,670 --> 01:00:42,293
at odds with the
rest of America.

1322
01:00:42,293 --> 01:00:44,433
[people shouting]

1323
01:00:44,433 --> 01:00:46,263
- Progressives, socialists,

1324
01:00:46,263 --> 01:00:51,233
Democrats have a
direct investment

1325
01:00:52,683 --> 01:00:57,412
in making minorities believe
that racism is pervasive,

1326
01:00:57,412 --> 01:01:00,380
that Blacks and Hispanics
have no opportunity

1327
01:01:00,380 --> 01:01:03,418
to advance in society
because of racism,

1328
01:01:03,418 --> 01:01:05,040
that a colorblind society

1329
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:08,216
does not exist and
can never exist.

1330
01:01:08,216 --> 01:01:10,183
- It's impossible
to envision a world

1331
01:01:10,183 --> 01:01:12,599
without race for the
Democratic Party.

1332
01:01:12,599 --> 01:01:15,464
For such people, it's
impossible to envision a world

1333
01:01:15,464 --> 01:01:16,914
that gets beyond race

1334
01:01:16,914 --> 01:01:18,433
because they're bread and
butter and their bottom line,

1335
01:01:18,433 --> 01:01:21,056
they raise on and everything
that they're trying to do

1336
01:01:22,437 --> 01:01:25,612
depends upon people being
kept in these boxes.

1337
01:01:26,752 --> 01:01:28,236
[people chattering]

1338
01:01:28,236 --> 01:01:30,825
- [Narrator] That the specter
of racism is so useful,

1339
01:01:30,825 --> 01:01:33,206
even necessary for the Democrats

1340
01:01:33,206 --> 01:01:35,381
perhaps explains
why on the left,

1341
01:01:35,381 --> 01:01:38,453
it has become routine to
accuse people of being racist,

1342
01:01:38,453 --> 01:01:40,904
indiscriminately and casually.

1343
01:01:40,904 --> 01:01:44,252
- It's just gonna always be
they're racist, racist, racist,

1344
01:01:44,252 --> 01:01:46,564
racist, racist,
everything's racist.

1345
01:01:47,945 --> 01:01:49,222
- [Narrator] America
allegations of racism

1346
01:01:49,222 --> 01:01:51,190
have reached almost
hysterical levels

1347
01:01:51,190 --> 01:01:52,674
in American universities.

1348
01:01:54,089 --> 01:01:56,574
- The modern campus is
one of the most tolerant,

1349
01:01:56,574 --> 01:02:00,682
woke environments ever
designed by human beings.

1350
01:02:00,682 --> 01:02:04,617
And yet, accusations of
racism are almost constant.

1351
01:02:06,377 --> 01:02:08,138
- [Narrator] For
the democratic left,

1352
01:02:08,138 --> 01:02:12,245
the accusation of racism has
become a political weapon.

1353
01:02:12,245 --> 01:02:14,592
[gentle music]

1354
01:02:14,592 --> 01:02:16,353
- Today, the term racism

1355
01:02:16,353 --> 01:02:20,633
is used to describe any
incident involving any element

1356
01:02:20,633 --> 01:02:22,152
of bias or potential bias

1357
01:02:22,152 --> 01:02:23,878
that irritates
someone on the left.

1358
01:02:24,948 --> 01:02:26,397
- [Narrator] The
left's feverish crusade

1359
01:02:26,397 --> 01:02:28,814
against racism has
instilled in its supporters

1360
01:02:28,814 --> 01:02:30,608
a furious self-righteousness.

1361
01:02:33,542 --> 01:02:36,028
It's used to justify a witch
hunt of their opponents,

1362
01:02:36,028 --> 01:02:37,615
who are hounded and vilified.

1363
01:02:39,031 --> 01:02:42,068
That enunciation of racist is
now an instrument of terror

1364
01:02:42,068 --> 01:02:44,519
for the left, used to
dismiss and discredit

1365
01:02:44,519 --> 01:02:46,970
those who don't agree with them.

1366
01:02:46,970 --> 01:02:49,800
[people shouting]

1367
01:02:53,562 --> 01:02:56,048
- The term racist is
very often applied

1368
01:02:56,048 --> 01:02:59,016
to normal, mainstream
tax paying citizens

1369
01:02:59,016 --> 01:03:00,949
who are just a bit less woke

1370
01:03:00,949 --> 01:03:02,917
than the median on
a college campus,

1371
01:03:02,917 --> 01:03:05,574
which it's not especially
difficult to be.

1372
01:03:07,197 --> 01:03:08,646
- [Narrator] Black
people meanwhile,

1373
01:03:08,646 --> 01:03:12,167
have been worn to look for
racism everywhere, in every look

1374
01:03:12,167 --> 01:03:14,825
and gesture, in every
encounter with their workmates

1375
01:03:14,825 --> 01:03:16,033
and fellow Americans,

1376
01:03:17,414 --> 01:03:20,727
to be wary of indirect,
unconscious or implied racism.

1377
01:03:22,005 --> 01:03:24,835
They are told that all
white people are racist,

1378
01:03:24,835 --> 01:03:26,423
whether or not they act that way

1379
01:03:26,423 --> 01:03:31,014
or imagine themselves to
be, but for ordinary people

1380
01:03:31,014 --> 01:03:33,879
in their everyday lives,
to be unfairly accused

1381
01:03:33,879 --> 01:03:36,433
of being racist is
upsetting and frightening.

1382
01:03:37,883 --> 01:03:39,298
This can create barriers

1383
01:03:39,298 --> 01:03:42,335
between people, of
paranoia and apprehension.

1384
01:03:45,028 --> 01:03:47,616
- This idea that there
are bigots everywhere,

1385
01:03:47,616 --> 01:03:50,723
and they're waiting for you
complicates normal interactions

1386
01:03:50,723 --> 01:03:51,897
between Black and white people

1387
01:03:51,897 --> 01:03:53,830
to a pretty remarkable degree.

1388
01:03:53,830 --> 01:03:56,971
- It becomes more difficult
to strike up a relationship,

1389
01:03:56,971 --> 01:03:58,973
a genuine, deep relationship

1390
01:03:58,973 --> 01:04:01,251
with people who are of
different racial groups.

1391
01:04:02,700 --> 01:04:05,980
I can't be totally honest
with you because I worry

1392
01:04:05,980 --> 01:04:08,361
that if I say the wrong
thing at the wrong moment,

1393
01:04:08,361 --> 01:04:09,984
perhaps with the
wrong inflection,

1394
01:04:09,984 --> 01:04:13,194
that this might be interpreted
as something hostile.

1395
01:04:13,194 --> 01:04:14,402
- People are
walking on eggshells

1396
01:04:14,402 --> 01:04:16,024
because of all of this nonsense

1397
01:04:16,024 --> 01:04:18,889
about cultural appropriation,
about microaggression,

1398
01:04:18,889 --> 01:04:20,270
about the assumption that racism

1399
01:04:20,270 --> 01:04:21,754
remains a major
problem in America.

1400
01:04:21,754 --> 01:04:26,103
- America's long struggle with
race is far from finished.

1401
01:04:26,103 --> 01:04:27,587
- Every single opportunity

1402
01:04:27,587 --> 01:04:29,624
that you have to interact
with people socially,

1403
01:04:29,624 --> 01:04:33,628
you find reasons to confirm
this ready made narrative

1404
01:04:33,628 --> 01:04:35,078
that you have in your head,

1405
01:04:35,078 --> 01:04:38,184
that you are going to be
discriminated against.

1406
01:04:38,184 --> 01:04:39,876
- [Narrator] But
according to the critics,

1407
01:04:39,876 --> 01:04:43,086
the democratic left cynical
relentless focus on race

1408
01:04:43,086 --> 01:04:45,882
and racism is not just divisive.

1409
01:04:45,882 --> 01:04:50,231
For Black people, it is also
profoundly demoralizing.

1410
01:04:50,231 --> 01:04:54,683
- If you are coaching a team
and you say to your players,

1411
01:04:54,683 --> 01:04:56,168
they're bigger than we are,

1412
01:04:56,168 --> 01:05:00,034
they beat us three times
before, they outweigh us.

1413
01:05:01,449 --> 01:05:04,866
So get out there and do your
best and try not to get killed.

1414
01:05:04,866 --> 01:05:07,455
[man laughing]

1415
01:05:09,457 --> 01:05:12,632
How motivated would you be

1416
01:05:12,632 --> 01:05:14,911
to get out on that
team and compete?

1417
01:05:16,843 --> 01:05:18,052
- The worst thing you could say

1418
01:05:18,052 --> 01:05:22,677
to a young Black child
is that there is racism

1419
01:05:22,677 --> 01:05:27,337
pervasive everywhere,
under every carpet,

1420
01:05:28,510 --> 01:05:31,065
under every table,
around every corner.

1421
01:05:31,065 --> 01:05:33,791
So that kid goes around
in life believing

1422
01:05:33,791 --> 01:05:36,553
they've got no
opportunity to succeed.

1423
01:05:36,553 --> 01:05:39,418
- You're Black, so they
already think this about you.

1424
01:05:39,418 --> 01:05:41,385
They already think
that about you.

1425
01:05:41,385 --> 01:05:46,390
So these kids come into
this world thinking,

1426
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,429
they don't like me 'cause
I'm Black, so basically,

1427
01:05:50,429 --> 01:05:52,707
if every single card
is dealt against you

1428
01:05:52,707 --> 01:05:55,192
and you don't know a
way out, you don't care.

1429
01:05:55,192 --> 01:05:56,953
- Why try to do better
when you imagine

1430
01:05:56,953 --> 01:06:01,060
that no matter what you do,
there are forces out there,

1431
01:06:01,060 --> 01:06:03,511
malevolent forces that
are working against you.

1432
01:06:03,511 --> 01:06:07,791
- Economic barriers, health
barriers, education barriers.

1433
01:06:07,791 --> 01:06:10,690
- That takes a
pretty serious toll

1434
01:06:10,690 --> 01:06:12,796
I think on anyone's
self-confidence.

1435
01:06:12,796 --> 01:06:15,143
- Telling people and
convincing them they are victim

1436
01:06:15,143 --> 01:06:17,697
paralyzes them and prevents them

1437
01:06:17,697 --> 01:06:21,011
from ever doing anything
to elevate themselves.

1438
01:06:21,011 --> 01:06:24,049
- Simply being told that
your society is racist,

1439
01:06:24,049 --> 01:06:26,085
day in and day out,
leads to depression,

1440
01:06:26,085 --> 01:06:28,674
leads to under performance
and perhaps most dramatically,

1441
01:06:28,674 --> 01:06:30,987
it leads to hatred
of your society.

1442
01:06:30,987 --> 01:06:32,229
[gentle music]

1443
01:06:32,229 --> 01:06:33,886
- [Narrator] But perhaps
the greatest damage done

1444
01:06:33,886 --> 01:06:36,199
by the left's
obsessive focus on race

1445
01:06:36,199 --> 01:06:39,133
is that it has diverted
attention from the real cause

1446
01:06:39,133 --> 01:06:40,410
of the social crisis

1447
01:06:40,410 --> 01:06:42,895
in America's poorest
Black neighborhoods,

1448
01:06:42,895 --> 01:06:45,898
leaving those communities in
a perpetual state of despair.

1449
01:06:48,038 --> 01:06:51,317
Deeply shocking too to
professor Glenn Lowry,

1450
01:06:51,317 --> 01:06:54,182
is the way the left uses
the excuse of racism

1451
01:06:54,182 --> 01:06:56,012
to disguise the abject failure

1452
01:06:56,012 --> 01:06:59,429
of government schools to provide
even the most basic level

1453
01:06:59,429 --> 01:07:01,776
of education to
many Black children.

1454
01:07:02,984 --> 01:07:04,917
- A moral catastrophe as
well if I may just say,

1455
01:07:04,917 --> 01:07:07,057
it's not just a policy failure,

1456
01:07:07,057 --> 01:07:10,543
there's a moral problem here
that these high minded people

1457
01:07:10,543 --> 01:07:14,030
who sit up on high and
say that they're doing

1458
01:07:14,030 --> 01:07:15,893
the right thing by rooting
out discrimination,

1459
01:07:15,893 --> 01:07:18,137
when in fact they're
looking the other way

1460
01:07:18,137 --> 01:07:21,175
while the human development
of African American children

1461
01:07:21,175 --> 01:07:25,213
is not being advanced, are
actually ethically wrong.

1462
01:07:26,973 --> 01:07:28,630
That's just wrong
about the policy.

1463
01:07:28,630 --> 01:07:29,873
They're on the wrong
side of history.

1464
01:07:29,873 --> 01:07:31,047
They're on the wrong side

1465
01:07:31,047 --> 01:07:33,152
of doing what's
right for our people.

1466
01:07:34,533 --> 01:07:37,191
- [Narrator] But today's
so-called anti-racism movement

1467
01:07:37,191 --> 01:07:38,468
has a problem.

1468
01:07:38,468 --> 01:07:40,608
Its promotion of
transgender politics,

1469
01:07:40,608 --> 01:07:43,542
its distaste for
consumer society.

1470
01:07:43,542 --> 01:07:45,509
Its obsession with
climate change

1471
01:07:45,509 --> 01:07:47,649
plays well with
university students,

1472
01:07:47,649 --> 01:07:50,756
but less well with many
ordinary Black Americans.

1473
01:07:50,756 --> 01:07:52,240
- It's important,
especially for white people

1474
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:54,311
to show up into fight
against fascism.

1475
01:07:56,002 --> 01:07:58,971
- [Narrator] At supposedly
anti-racist protests,

1476
01:07:58,971 --> 01:08:01,284
it is striking how few
Black people there are.

1477
01:08:03,458 --> 01:08:06,496
In the so-called race
riot in Minneapolis,

1478
01:08:06,496 --> 01:08:09,568
85% of the protesters
were white.

1479
01:08:09,568 --> 01:08:12,260
In the supposed race
riot in Los Angeles,

1480
01:08:12,260 --> 01:08:15,574
only 3% of those
taking part were Black.

1481
01:08:17,093 --> 01:08:18,542
- One of the most
ridiculous things

1482
01:08:18,542 --> 01:08:23,099
I've ever seen was the mob
during the Minneapolis riots,

1483
01:08:23,099 --> 01:08:25,031
following the death
of George Floyd,

1484
01:08:25,031 --> 01:08:29,381
that must have been 75 to 80%
white bunch of white thugs,

1485
01:08:29,381 --> 01:08:32,108
frankly burning down the
city's traditional Black

1486
01:08:32,108 --> 01:08:33,523
and Asian business district,

1487
01:08:33,523 --> 01:08:36,457
late street, while chanting,
Black lives Matter.

1488
01:08:36,457 --> 01:08:38,114
It was literally surreal.

1489
01:08:39,253 --> 01:08:41,151
- Me and my sisters
and my brothers

1490
01:08:41,151 --> 01:08:42,704
and my mom have been
out in our business

1491
01:08:42,704 --> 01:08:44,948
for the past four
nights asking people,

1492
01:08:44,948 --> 01:08:47,744
this is Black owned business,
please don't destroy this.

1493
01:08:47,744 --> 01:08:50,816
This is a minority business,
olease don't do this to us.

1494
01:08:50,816 --> 01:08:52,128
- What's your name Ma'am?

1495
01:08:52,128 --> 01:08:53,405
- Beverlyn.

1496
01:08:53,405 --> 01:08:54,889
- [Narrator] Beverlyn
Baity and her friends

1497
01:08:54,889 --> 01:08:58,548
have decided to confront some
of BLM's white supporters.

1498
01:08:58,548 --> 01:09:00,136
- And the things that
you guys are doing,

1499
01:09:00,136 --> 01:09:02,034
terrorizing and
shutting down a business

1500
01:09:02,034 --> 01:09:04,795
is not in representation
of Black people.

1501
01:09:04,795 --> 01:09:06,797
When this cause is
over and Black people

1502
01:09:06,797 --> 01:09:08,972
still gotta walk these streets
and live in this neighborhood

1503
01:09:08,972 --> 01:09:11,181
with that hovering over
their head, that gray cloud,

1504
01:09:11,181 --> 01:09:12,700
that in the name of
Black Lives Matter,

1505
01:09:12,700 --> 01:09:14,598
people neighborhoods
was terrorized.

1506
01:09:14,598 --> 01:09:15,806
We look bad.

1507
01:09:15,806 --> 01:09:18,050
- Do you inherently
find the phrase,

1508
01:09:18,050 --> 01:09:20,708
Black Lives Matter
offensive or bothersome?

1509
01:09:20,708 --> 01:09:22,158
- Let me tell you something.

1510
01:09:22,158 --> 01:09:24,401
I got a gun wound in my
leg, I got cuts in my back.

1511
01:09:24,401 --> 01:09:26,334
I got a felony,
been to jail, okay.

1512
01:09:26,334 --> 01:09:28,647
I got cousins who was
locked up 26 years.

1513
01:09:28,647 --> 01:09:30,131
You wanna talk about Black life,

1514
01:09:30,131 --> 01:09:32,202
I'm really from the hood,
really from the hood.

1515
01:09:32,202 --> 01:09:34,411
So let me make
something very clear.

1516
01:09:34,411 --> 01:09:35,964
Let me make
something very clear.

1517
01:09:35,964 --> 01:09:38,588
And a lot of the things
I dealt with oppression

1518
01:09:38,588 --> 01:09:40,106
came from my own people.

1519
01:09:40,106 --> 01:09:41,901
Now I'm not saying that
police are innocent,

1520
01:09:41,901 --> 01:09:43,144
but at the end of the day,

1521
01:09:43,144 --> 01:09:44,663
our own people are
terrorizing us too.

1522
01:09:44,663 --> 01:09:47,390
On top of that, the number
one killer of African,

1523
01:09:47,390 --> 01:09:49,288
they don't wanna hear
it, this is the problem.

1524
01:09:49,288 --> 01:09:51,014
They don't wanna hear the
truth because they're ignorant.

1525
01:09:51,014 --> 01:09:53,119
They wanna be stuck
in that same box.

1526
01:09:53,119 --> 01:09:54,500
- [Narrator] To Beverly,

1527
01:09:54,500 --> 01:09:57,365
randomly smashing up
businesses has nothing to do

1528
01:09:57,365 --> 01:09:59,195
with fighting racism.

1529
01:09:59,195 --> 01:10:02,715
She believes the anti-racism
rhetoric of Black Lives Matter

1530
01:10:02,715 --> 01:10:04,717
is nothing but a cynical ploy

1531
01:10:04,717 --> 01:10:08,963
to make their
otherwise unpopular
anti-capitalist politics

1532
01:10:08,963 --> 01:10:10,930
seem more noble and virtuous.

1533
01:10:12,346 --> 01:10:14,210
- [Woman] Mister, stop
pushing me away, stop.

1534
01:10:14,210 --> 01:10:15,763
- [Man 6] I'm not.

1535
01:10:15,763 --> 01:10:17,489
- Stop, I'm standing
because these punks

1536
01:10:17,489 --> 01:10:19,525
have been terrorizing everybody

1537
01:10:19,525 --> 01:10:21,320
in the name of Black people.

1538
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:23,598
They're punks, they're punks.

1539
01:10:23,598 --> 01:10:26,670
None of y'all in the ghetto,
none of y'all in the hood.

1540
01:10:26,670 --> 01:10:29,190
Oh, oh, but we Black.

1541
01:10:29,190 --> 01:10:30,985
You gonna tell me how
to be Black, right?

1542
01:10:30,985 --> 01:10:32,883
You're a fraud, look at you.

1543
01:10:32,883 --> 01:10:34,540
These are frauds.

1544
01:10:34,540 --> 01:10:36,818
These are people
that are Democrats,

1545
01:10:36,818 --> 01:10:38,855
Democrats ain't nothing
but Dixie cracks.

1546
01:10:38,855 --> 01:10:40,097
Let me tell you something.

1547
01:10:40,097 --> 01:10:42,099
A Democrat been a racist
from the beginning.

1548
01:10:42,099 --> 01:10:45,689
All they did was hire a new
face of a new form of KKK

1549
01:10:45,689 --> 01:10:48,658
to come and oppress people,
to make them vote Democrat

1550
01:10:48,658 --> 01:10:50,694
when the reality
is they're racist,

1551
01:10:50,694 --> 01:10:53,179
they ain't nothing but Dixie
cracks in a new outfit.

1552
01:10:53,179 --> 01:10:54,146
Dixie cracks.

1553
01:10:54,146 --> 01:10:56,182
Y'all the same Democrat party

1554
01:10:56,182 --> 01:10:58,461
who been terrorizing Black
people from the beginning.

1555
01:10:58,461 --> 01:11:00,980
And now y'all got the audacity
to say Black Lives Matter.

1556
01:11:00,980 --> 01:11:03,051
Y'all don't care
about Black people.

1557
01:11:03,051 --> 01:11:05,122
[gentle music]

1558
01:11:05,122 --> 01:11:07,124
- [Narrator] Many people
who genuinely hate the idea

1559
01:11:07,124 --> 01:11:09,851
of racism feel that they
must pay lip service

1560
01:11:09,851 --> 01:11:11,853
to Black Lives Matter.

1561
01:11:11,853 --> 01:11:14,684
Many individuals and
organizations feel intimidated

1562
01:11:14,684 --> 01:11:18,377
into supporting BLM for
fear of being denounced.

1563
01:11:18,377 --> 01:11:19,930
But according to Bevelyn,

1564
01:11:19,930 --> 01:11:22,243
taking the knee and
bowing to the cause

1565
01:11:22,243 --> 01:11:23,486
of Black Lives Matter

1566
01:11:23,486 --> 01:11:26,178
represents nothing
more than a submission

1567
01:11:26,178 --> 01:11:29,181
to the politics and authority
of the American left,

1568
01:11:29,181 --> 01:11:32,702
which is perhaps why more people
are now refusing to do it.

1569
01:11:35,981 --> 01:11:37,707
- Why do it, why take the knee?

1570
01:11:37,707 --> 01:11:39,536
Who are you bowing to?

1571
01:11:39,536 --> 01:11:42,815
I bow, I'm not racist,
for you to do it,

1572
01:11:42,815 --> 01:11:45,611
you're basically
telling these Democrats,

1573
01:11:45,611 --> 01:11:49,339
you submit to their agenda
and you bow to their agenda.

1574
01:11:49,339 --> 01:11:50,858
That's what you do when you bow,

1575
01:11:50,858 --> 01:11:53,170
you're bowing to these
Democrat, I will never bow

1576
01:11:53,170 --> 01:11:56,381
and I'll encourage
anybody else, don't bow.

1577
01:11:58,210 --> 01:11:59,315
- [Narrator] In the run up

1578
01:11:59,315 --> 01:12:00,799
to the last
presidential election,

1579
01:12:00,799 --> 01:12:04,665
the fury of BLM's white
activists reach new heights,

1580
01:12:04,665 --> 01:12:06,839
violently denouncing
all supporters

1581
01:12:06,839 --> 01:12:09,601
of Donald Trump
as racist bigots.

1582
01:12:09,601 --> 01:12:12,431
[people shouting]

1583
01:12:15,986 --> 01:12:19,231
But could this hysteria
reflect a nervous suspicion

1584
01:12:19,231 --> 01:12:23,822
on the left, that it's grip
on Black America is waning?

1585
01:12:23,822 --> 01:12:25,341
- [Woman 3] At this lunch table

1586
01:12:26,411 --> 01:12:27,929
in Charlotte, North Carolina,

1587
01:12:27,929 --> 01:12:29,379
there's unabashed support
for president Donald Trump.

1588
01:12:29,379 --> 01:12:31,381
- He's delivered on quite
a few of the promises

1589
01:12:31,381 --> 01:12:33,797
that he's made, but nobody
wants to admit that.

1590
01:12:33,797 --> 01:12:35,799
- In the 2020 election,

1591
01:12:35,799 --> 01:12:39,044
there was a notable swing
from Democrat to Republican

1592
01:12:39,044 --> 01:12:42,875
among Black, Hispanic and
Asian American voters.

1593
01:12:42,875 --> 01:12:44,049
- I love this guy right here.

1594
01:12:44,049 --> 01:12:45,050
- Amen.

1595
01:12:45,050 --> 01:12:46,534
- That dream has
to be kept alive

1596
01:12:46,534 --> 01:12:48,329
for each and every
one of you as well.

1597
01:12:48,329 --> 01:12:49,882
- [Narrator] When it
comes to education,

1598
01:12:49,882 --> 01:12:51,574
it appears the grip of the left

1599
01:12:51,574 --> 01:12:53,576
on the Black
community is slipping.

1600
01:12:53,576 --> 01:12:55,716
For decades, the democratic left

1601
01:12:55,716 --> 01:12:58,477
has defended shockingly
bad government schools,

1602
01:12:58,477 --> 01:13:00,790
but Black parents are waking
up to what's happening,

1603
01:13:00,790 --> 01:13:02,516
instead of wasting their taxes

1604
01:13:02,516 --> 01:13:04,414
and throwing away their
children's futures

1605
01:13:04,414 --> 01:13:06,002
in these failed schools,

1606
01:13:06,002 --> 01:13:08,384
they are demanding vouchers
to send their children

1607
01:13:08,384 --> 01:13:11,594
to far better privately
run charter schools.

1608
01:13:12,629 --> 01:13:14,320
- Teachers union
public employees

1609
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:15,529
don't want the competition

1610
01:13:15,529 --> 01:13:17,151
from these private
charter schools

1611
01:13:17,151 --> 01:13:18,601
and therefore Black Lives Matter

1612
01:13:18,601 --> 01:13:20,844
doesn't like charter schools
and therefore the NAACP

1613
01:13:21,983 --> 01:13:23,226
doesn't like charter
schools, but guess what?

1614
01:13:23,226 --> 01:13:24,676
Black parents like
charter schools.

1615
01:13:24,676 --> 01:13:27,644
- We're trying to protest to
get more charter schools going,

1616
01:13:27,644 --> 01:13:30,751
which I think is a whole lot
better than the public schools.

1617
01:13:30,751 --> 01:13:33,478
They challenge kids more.

1618
01:13:33,478 --> 01:13:34,686
[people cheering]

1619
01:13:34,686 --> 01:13:35,618
- If you look at poles
in the inner city,

1620
01:13:35,618 --> 01:13:37,136
Black parents and brown parents

1621
01:13:37,136 --> 01:13:39,311
overwhelmingly want the
ability to take their kid

1622
01:13:39,311 --> 01:13:40,933
out of an underperforming
government school

1623
01:13:40,933 --> 01:13:42,625
and put their kid
into a better school.

1624
01:13:42,625 --> 01:13:44,627
The Democratic Party that
supposedly is pro-Black

1625
01:13:44,627 --> 01:13:46,525
and pro brown is
opposed to that.

1626
01:13:46,525 --> 01:13:47,802
- [Reporter] Charter
school supporters

1627
01:13:47,802 --> 01:13:50,426
say the all choice
system is working.

1628
01:13:50,426 --> 01:13:53,670
The city has gone from
having 78 failing schools

1629
01:13:53,670 --> 01:13:55,189
to only nine.

1630
01:13:55,189 --> 01:13:57,916
- In New York city, where
they have a voucher program,

1631
01:13:57,916 --> 01:14:00,401
four times as many parents
are trying to get in it

1632
01:14:00,401 --> 01:14:02,817
as there our seats available,
that's how popular it is.

1633
01:14:02,817 --> 01:14:06,718
- What matter today is,
you know, I want the school

1634
01:14:07,788 --> 01:14:10,549
to give opportunity to parents,

1635
01:14:10,549 --> 01:14:13,794
and other children who want
to have good education.

1636
01:14:13,794 --> 01:14:15,174
That's why I'm here today.

1637
01:14:15,174 --> 01:14:16,590
- These are parents
who are saying,

1638
01:14:16,590 --> 01:14:19,144
we want education
for our children.

1639
01:14:19,144 --> 01:14:22,319
Nothing could be more
important it seems to me

1640
01:14:22,319 --> 01:14:24,598
in terms of dealing
with racial inequality

1641
01:14:24,598 --> 01:14:26,565
in the United States.

1642
01:14:26,565 --> 01:14:29,499
- [Narrator] In other ways
too, it seems the radical left

1643
01:14:29,499 --> 01:14:31,881
is simply out of
touch with the values

1644
01:14:31,881 --> 01:14:33,814
of ordinary Black people.

1645
01:14:33,814 --> 01:14:35,988
- Blacks are very
religious as a population

1646
01:14:35,988 --> 01:14:37,369
within the American context,

1647
01:14:37,369 --> 01:14:39,336
a lot of Black people
are against abortion.

1648
01:14:39,336 --> 01:14:42,478
Try to find an African
American public figure

1649
01:14:42,478 --> 01:14:45,653
who speaks for life
and not for abortion.

1650
01:14:45,653 --> 01:14:47,724
I'm not taking a position
here myself personally

1651
01:14:47,724 --> 01:14:49,623
about the issue,
I'm just saying,

1652
01:14:49,623 --> 01:14:52,142
they go to storefront
churches and beat tambourines.

1653
01:14:52,142 --> 01:14:53,419
They roll around on the floor

1654
01:14:53,419 --> 01:14:55,283
and the holy ghost one
is possessing them.

1655
01:14:55,283 --> 01:14:56,768
They preach these fiery sermons

1656
01:14:56,768 --> 01:14:58,183
and they sing these
beautiful hymns.

1657
01:14:58,183 --> 01:15:00,219
These are African
American religious people.

1658
01:15:00,219 --> 01:15:02,670
They read their Bible
and they believe it.

1659
01:15:02,670 --> 01:15:05,570
They pray, I'm talking
about real people.

1660
01:15:06,985 --> 01:15:09,574
I see nothing representing
their cultural value,

1661
01:15:09,574 --> 01:15:12,335
orientation and the
expressions in the public arena

1662
01:15:12,335 --> 01:15:15,441
of African American
politicians, it's a scandal.

1663
01:15:15,441 --> 01:15:17,029
[gentle music]

1664
01:15:17,029 --> 01:15:18,272
- [Narrator] The
spectra of racism

1665
01:15:18,272 --> 01:15:21,551
serves many purposes
for the democratic left.

1666
01:15:21,551 --> 01:15:23,829
It diverts attention
from the social chaos

1667
01:15:23,829 --> 01:15:27,661
caused by welfare and the
failure of government schools.

1668
01:15:27,661 --> 01:15:30,456
It is used to intimidate
and silence their opponents,

1669
01:15:30,456 --> 01:15:33,529
to demonize ordinary Americans
who vote against them

1670
01:15:33,529 --> 01:15:38,534
and to justify more government
interference in our lives.

1671
01:15:39,983 --> 01:15:41,709
And it is used to frighten
and cajole Black Americans

1672
01:15:41,709 --> 01:15:45,817
into voting democratic,
without which the democrats

1673
01:15:45,817 --> 01:15:48,267
would struggle ever
to achieve power.

1674
01:15:49,614 --> 01:15:51,443
But critics of the
democratic left

1675
01:15:51,443 --> 01:15:53,721
believe that history
is against them.

1676
01:15:53,721 --> 01:15:56,275
That the game they're
playing of racial division

1677
01:15:56,275 --> 01:15:59,313
and mistrust is doomed to fail.

1678
01:15:59,313 --> 01:16:02,385
- Obama said that racism
is in America's DNA.

1679
01:16:02,385 --> 01:16:06,044
Racism is in America's
DNA in the 1950s.

1680
01:16:06,044 --> 01:16:07,563
If you ask a white person,

1681
01:16:07,563 --> 01:16:09,979
would you ever vote for a
Black person for president?

1682
01:16:09,979 --> 01:16:11,463
No matter how well qualified
the number saying yes

1683
01:16:11,463 --> 01:16:12,671
were in the single digits.

1684
01:16:12,671 --> 01:16:14,397
Obama could not become president

1685
01:16:14,397 --> 01:16:16,502
if in fact racism
were in America's DNA.

1686
01:16:16,502 --> 01:16:19,505
- The United States is quite
possibly the least racist

1687
01:16:19,505 --> 01:16:22,716
along with the UK,
white majority country

1688
01:16:22,716 --> 01:16:25,581
in the modern world and
racism by any real definition

1689
01:16:25,581 --> 01:16:29,481
of that term has been
in substantial decline

1690
01:16:29,481 --> 01:16:30,793
for quite some time.

1691
01:16:30,793 --> 01:16:32,553
- Among regular Americans,

1692
01:16:32,553 --> 01:16:37,558
we are probably more
integrated and have a desire

1693
01:16:39,008 --> 01:16:41,597
to be integrated more now
than ever in our history.

1694
01:16:41,597 --> 01:16:44,047
- Despite all this
human cry about racism

1695
01:16:44,047 --> 01:16:46,602
and institutional racism
and structural racism

1696
01:16:46,602 --> 01:16:47,844
and systemic racism,

1697
01:16:47,844 --> 01:16:50,709
people are getting along
quite well in America.

1698
01:16:52,124 --> 01:16:55,231
The best way an anthropologist
will tell you to determine

1699
01:16:55,231 --> 01:16:56,922
whether or not people
are getting together,

1700
01:16:56,922 --> 01:16:58,890
getting along is
interracial marriage.

1701
01:16:58,890 --> 01:17:01,478
And interracial marriage
in America is booming

1702
01:17:01,478 --> 01:17:05,068
- [Narrator] Today, one in
five marriages in America

1703
01:17:05,068 --> 01:17:06,932
is between people considered

1704
01:17:06,932 --> 01:17:09,866
to be from different
racial backgrounds.

1705
01:17:09,866 --> 01:17:13,214
- The Black, white
intermarriage rates are up.

1706
01:17:13,214 --> 01:17:16,528
Now I think something
like 15% of Black men

1707
01:17:16,528 --> 01:17:18,634
who are married are
married to a white woman.

1708
01:17:18,634 --> 01:17:21,602
- Usually you just like
stick the knife in it.

1709
01:17:21,602 --> 01:17:25,468
- [Narrator] Ex cop, Brandon
Tatum and his wife Coreen,

1710
01:17:25,468 --> 01:17:28,713
are among the millions for
whom race didn't matter.

1711
01:17:29,748 --> 01:17:32,095
- So we met on Instagram.

1712
01:17:32,095 --> 01:17:34,926
She saw me on Fox News and said,

1713
01:17:34,926 --> 01:17:36,928
this is the most handsome man
I've ever seen in my life.

1714
01:17:36,928 --> 01:17:37,756
[woman laughing]

1715
01:17:37,756 --> 01:17:38,999
He's a great catch.

1716
01:17:38,999 --> 01:17:40,828
And let me follow
him on social media.

1717
01:17:40,828 --> 01:17:43,762
- He wishes, that's
not how it went.

1718
01:17:43,762 --> 01:17:45,522
- And I thought she was a troll.

1719
01:17:45,522 --> 01:17:46,972
I thought she was a troll

1720
01:17:46,972 --> 01:17:49,734
because this incredibly
beautiful woman,

1721
01:17:49,734 --> 01:17:52,219
maybe this is a fake
account, somebody stole it.

1722
01:17:52,219 --> 01:17:53,807
And they just posting
pictures of a random woman

1723
01:17:53,807 --> 01:17:56,085
and they're stalking me,
but it was like an epiphany.

1724
01:17:56,085 --> 01:17:58,121
It was like, this is your wife.

1725
01:17:58,121 --> 01:17:59,675
- Yeah.

1726
01:17:59,675 --> 01:18:00,917
- And the logistics part
of it is the only reason

1727
01:18:00,917 --> 01:18:02,194
it took so long for
us to get married.

1728
01:18:02,194 --> 01:18:03,782
'Cause I had to save
up for red and ring

1729
01:18:03,782 --> 01:18:05,301
and all that other stuff.

1730
01:18:05,301 --> 01:18:07,683
So other than that, we could
have been married right away.

1731
01:18:07,683 --> 01:18:12,204
- Yeah, I hate that people
are so obsessed with race

1732
01:18:12,204 --> 01:18:14,690
that character, interests,

1733
01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:19,695
commonalities don't matter and
that skin color comes first.

1734
01:18:21,110 --> 01:18:23,526
Where to me, they're the
ones screaming anti-racist

1735
01:18:23,526 --> 01:18:26,011
but their whole
message is racist.

1736
01:18:26,011 --> 01:18:28,565
- If you are Black, you're
white, none of that matters.

1737
01:18:28,565 --> 01:18:29,981
We're all Americans,

1738
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:32,708
let's listen to what
Martin Luther King said.

1739
01:18:32,708 --> 01:18:34,502
Let's judge people
based on character

1740
01:18:34,502 --> 01:18:35,987
and not the color of their skin.

1741
01:18:35,987 --> 01:18:39,231
We are all united in the
United States of America.

1742
01:18:39,231 --> 01:18:41,026
We are all partners in this.

1743
01:18:41,026 --> 01:18:43,615
We are a melting
pot of assimilation

1744
01:18:43,615 --> 01:18:46,480
that have made us the greatest
country on planet earth.

1745
01:18:46,480 --> 01:18:49,000
- I wanna say to my
fellow African Americans

1746
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:52,072
here in the 21st century,
we're already home.

1747
01:18:53,729 --> 01:18:55,696
This is where we're
going to take our stand

1748
01:18:55,696 --> 01:18:57,905
and make our lives, here.

1749
01:18:57,905 --> 01:19:01,288
We couldn't possibly
be in a better place.

1750
01:19:01,288 --> 01:19:04,498
I wanna say, not withstanding,
I'm not a Pollyanna.

1751
01:19:04,498 --> 01:19:07,190
It's not like I'm unaware
that there are racial problems

1752
01:19:07,190 --> 01:19:10,021
and issues and frustrations
that are going on out there.

1753
01:19:10,021 --> 01:19:12,748
But really, if we
adopt this stance

1754
01:19:12,748 --> 01:19:14,888
of withdrawal and
turning our back

1755
01:19:14,888 --> 01:19:18,546
on our own country, of
contempt for its values,

1756
01:19:18,546 --> 01:19:20,963
of a sense of
permanent alienation,

1757
01:19:20,963 --> 01:19:22,896
we'll be handicapping ourselves.

1758
01:19:22,896 --> 01:19:27,003
It's gratuitous, it's
unnecessary, stop it.

1759
01:19:29,178 --> 01:19:31,007
[gentle music]

1760
01:19:31,007 --> 01:19:33,769
- [Narrator] In the fluid,
mobile 21st century,

1761
01:19:33,769 --> 01:19:35,563
in the age of the internet,

1762
01:19:35,563 --> 01:19:38,290
individuals are less and
less forced to identify

1763
01:19:38,290 --> 01:19:40,396
with a particular
culture or group,

1764
01:19:40,396 --> 01:19:42,743
just because of the
color of their skin

1765
01:19:42,743 --> 01:19:44,987
or by accident of birth.

1766
01:19:44,987 --> 01:19:46,402
- All of the
various technologies

1767
01:19:46,402 --> 01:19:47,817
we have at our disposal now

1768
01:19:47,817 --> 01:19:51,717
are empowering individuals
to find communities

1769
01:19:51,717 --> 01:19:55,342
that are perhaps very
specific to them personally,

1770
01:19:55,342 --> 01:19:57,344
that they have these
unique interests

1771
01:19:57,344 --> 01:19:58,828
and they can find people

1772
01:19:58,828 --> 01:20:01,244
that share those interests and
those people unsurprisingly

1773
01:20:01,244 --> 01:20:03,833
in many cases, don't
happen to look like them.

1774
01:20:06,353 --> 01:20:08,976
- [Narrator] Finally, people
are beginning to challenge

1775
01:20:08,976 --> 01:20:12,635
the very division of Americans
into Black and white.

1776
01:20:12,635 --> 01:20:15,465
These are labels that date
back to the days of slavery.

1777
01:20:17,813 --> 01:20:21,126
Their use in ordinary life
seems increasingly outdated,

1778
01:20:21,126 --> 01:20:23,025
irrelevant and offensive.

1779
01:20:23,025 --> 01:20:26,131
The time surely has
come to move on.

1780
01:20:27,788 --> 01:20:29,203
- I don't find it satisfying

1781
01:20:29,203 --> 01:20:32,206
to think of myself
as a Black person.

1782
01:20:32,206 --> 01:20:35,727
I'm an individual, I'm Camille,
I'm a father and a husband

1783
01:20:35,727 --> 01:20:37,246
and a bunch of other
remarkable things.

1784
01:20:37,246 --> 01:20:39,627
And all of those things
are far more important

1785
01:20:39,627 --> 01:20:42,527
to me than being Black.

1786
01:20:42,527 --> 01:20:44,184
- When people talk
about Black culture,

1787
01:20:44,184 --> 01:20:45,599
I have no idea what
they're talking about.

1788
01:20:45,599 --> 01:20:47,152
I don't even know
what that means.

1789
01:20:47,152 --> 01:20:52,123
Tiger Woods was the top golfer
in this country for a while.

1790
01:20:52,123 --> 01:20:53,365
He's a person of color.

1791
01:20:53,365 --> 01:20:54,884
I thought golf
was a white sport,

1792
01:20:54,884 --> 01:20:57,853
Eminem for a while was a
top rapper in the country.

1793
01:20:57,853 --> 01:20:59,855
I thought rapper was
a Black art form.

1794
01:20:59,855 --> 01:21:01,649
I mean, this is America, you
can be what you wanna be.

1795
01:21:01,649 --> 01:21:03,548
You can embrace what
you wanna embrace.

1796
01:21:03,548 --> 01:21:05,412
You can pursue what
you wanna pursue.

1797
01:21:05,412 --> 01:21:07,138
So the idea that
there's a Black culture,

1798
01:21:07,138 --> 01:21:10,072
I don't even know what that
means, I'm an American.

1799
01:21:10,072 --> 01:21:11,728
- I am not African.

1800
01:21:11,728 --> 01:21:16,733
I am 100% American, my
culture is American.

1801
01:21:17,873 --> 01:21:19,150
There is nothing
African about me.

1802
01:21:19,150 --> 01:21:21,911
I don't even, I'm
American, period.

1803
01:21:25,570 --> 01:21:28,124
[gentle music]