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Don Lemon hosts "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon," and "Silence is Not an Option" podcast, and author of the new book, "This is the Fire: What I Say To My Friends About Racism" · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. His name is Don Lemon. He's the host
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Speaker 1: of Seeing n Tonight with Don Lemon, and he's America's
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Speaker 1: only black prime time anchor. In Done was the leading
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Speaker 1: voice on CNN guided viewers like me through the death
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Speaker 1: of George Floyds on the summer nationwide protests and riots.
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Speaker 1: god us through the global pandemic. I recently got a vaccine,
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Speaker 1: I woul tell you them. He guided me through the
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Speaker 1: process of being mature enough to deal with that and
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Speaker 1: go get the vaccine. I got it yesterday. Now an urgent,
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Speaker 1: deeply personal and rivetem plead his new book shows us
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Speaker 1: how deep our problem live with racism and what we
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Speaker 1: can do to begin to fix the problem. The book
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Speaker 1: is entitled This is the Fire What I Say to
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Speaker 1: my friends about racism. Don brings his vast audience and
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Speaker 1: experience as a reporter and a black man to today's
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Speaker 1: most urgent question, how can we end racism in America
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Speaker 1: in our lifetime? Please? Welcome to Money Making Conversation. Don Lemon,
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Speaker 1: Chris Shawan, Thank you so much. It's good to be
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Speaker 1: with you again. And wow, what an introduction. Well, you know,
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Speaker 1: some man, it was. It was emotional, you know, because
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Speaker 1: I read the book and the book was a journey.
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Speaker 1: And I say that to everybody that before I get
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Speaker 1: into detail about the book. One of the things that
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Speaker 1: I love what you said is somebody says they have
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Speaker 1: the answer to the racism, basically walk away from because
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Speaker 1: they lie. And you said that in the book, because
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Speaker 1: that's true. Talk to us about that. Well, it's said,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to write this book because I thought I
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Speaker 1: had some things that I could speak to and that
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Speaker 1: I could speak because I'm at the really at the
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Speaker 1: matrix of, as you so keenly pointed out, of everything
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Speaker 1: that happens in this country every single night, every weeknight,
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Speaker 1: at least sometimes on weekends, sometimes seven nights a week. Uh,
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Speaker 1: And I'm just sort of guiding people through the process
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Speaker 1: and so, um, so you're right on about that. I
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Speaker 1: it was, it was. It was a tough thing to
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Speaker 1: write this book, knowing, um what I know, and experiencing
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Speaker 1: what I've experienced, and it was, as you said, very personal.
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Speaker 1: Just before just before I hung up with you a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes and just before I got on with
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Speaker 1: you a couple of minutes ago. Um, you know, my
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Speaker 1: I write the letter to my nephew in the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the book. My niece and her husband called, which
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Speaker 1: is Trishad my great nephew who I write the letter to.
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Speaker 1: It's his mom and stepdad. And they called me and
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Speaker 1: they were so emotional about the book, and they didn't
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Speaker 1: realize just how personal and how candid it would be.
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Speaker 1: And they said they were actually crying reading the book.
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Speaker 1: And he's like, and you know, his stepdad Jeffrey said,
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Speaker 1: I'm not an emotional person, but don you made me cry.
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Speaker 1: I believe this book is going to be a classic
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Speaker 1: and a hundred years people are going to be reading.
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Speaker 1: And I said, what, So there you go. But you
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Speaker 1: know in that letter it was it was a couple
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Speaker 1: of things. Maybe smile when you said we share the
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Speaker 1: same fourhead nose and we're articulated m bones. What is that?
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Speaker 1: What is that? Then you know you know well articulated
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Speaker 1: on bones, that everything is in the right place. Um, um,
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Speaker 1: there's a there's a photo of us at the beach
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Speaker 1: from a couple of summers ago, and um, very similar.
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Speaker 1: He's he has the younger body, uh, the younger version
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Speaker 1: of me. And so I looked at it. I said, look,
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Speaker 1: we have the same arms and we have the same
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Speaker 1: weird and so that I said, how would I put
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Speaker 1: that in there? Instead of saying, you know, it's so
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Speaker 1: simple to say we have the same arm and say, well,
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Speaker 1: don't want to say the same well articulated arm. But
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Speaker 1: I loved it. It may be smile because the book
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Speaker 1: like this want to smile. You want to find those
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Speaker 1: moments of happiness because it's the truth. And sometimes when
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Speaker 1: you deal with racism and that, and you know, white people,
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Speaker 1: they always say, you have to say, white people, can
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Speaker 1: you just move on? You know, we know there's a problem.
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Speaker 1: Can we move on. That's not me. They don't really
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Speaker 1: realize the vast nature of hot racism is so undercover.
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Speaker 1: The beauty of electing a person like you said with
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump in to me, you said, he led us
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Speaker 1: to the fire. And what exactly is the fire? Well,
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Speaker 1: he glowed us to the fire and then pour gasoline
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Speaker 1: on it. Um. The Fire is James Bowen's book, Um,
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Speaker 1: The Fire Next Time, which was this was a tribute
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Speaker 1: to right. That's why one of the reasons that I
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Speaker 1: um fashioned the book in the way that I fashioned
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Speaker 1: it is because James Bowen is my literal very hero
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Speaker 1: UM as I was as I read I read The
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Speaker 1: Fire Next Time a couple of times a year, and
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Speaker 1: as all of these events were unfolding UM in the
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Speaker 1: last few years, and especially the last year in the
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Speaker 1: summer of I wanted to write something. I was inspired
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Speaker 1: to write something that was short, that was concise, and
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Speaker 1: that was powerful, and I wrote it in the fashion
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Speaker 1: of James Baldwin. That's why James Balwan starts to fire
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Speaker 1: Next Time with a letter to his nephew one hundred
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Speaker 1: years after the Emancipation Proclamation on the anniversary one hundred
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Speaker 1: years and he starts by saying something like, we know
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Speaker 1: that we're celebrating or we're writing this. You know, I've
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Speaker 1: begun this letter, UM a thousand times and I've torn
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Speaker 1: it up. And then he says, we know that we're
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Speaker 1: celebrating this anniversary a hundred years too soon, even though
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Speaker 1: it's a hundred year anniversary of the Emancipation Patient Proclamation.
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Speaker 1: And when he said God gave no oh the rainbow
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Speaker 1: sign no more water to fire next time, to me,
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Speaker 1: that was an indication in a call after watching someone
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Speaker 1: die on camera, UM, that we were in the fire
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Speaker 1: and that we were at an inflection point in our society, UM,
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Speaker 1: and either we could decide as a group of people
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Speaker 1: to continue on towards a more perfect union rather than
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Speaker 1: a divisive union, or regressing to a time where UM,
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Speaker 1: people of color and marginalized people did not have equal
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Speaker 1: rights under the law under the Constitution, or at least
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Speaker 1: under the law unto the Constitution, they should have, but
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Speaker 1: not more treated that way, and so I believe that
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Speaker 1: we are. This is the fire that we're in right now.
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Speaker 1: If we don't fix this, then it's going to get
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Speaker 1: hotter and worse, and we will never fix it. We're
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Speaker 1: at an inflection point where it needs to change. And
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Speaker 1: then in the book we talked about it. I think
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Speaker 1: it's a great segument because you say we're a perfect
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Speaker 1: union because at the age of back three new book,
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Speaker 1: you talk about Thomas Jefferson and he's writing. But before
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Speaker 1: we go there, let's go back to sixteen nineteen as
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Speaker 1: you're talking a book when they really all started. You know,
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Speaker 1: you know many women are dark complexion of color, collection
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Speaker 1: skin well sold as slave in sixteen and then you
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Speaker 1: jumped to Thomas Jefferson at the age of thirty two
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Speaker 1: and when they wanted to do right, but they were
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Speaker 1: shouted down by men who didn't want to do right
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Speaker 1: because they said, who's going to pick the cotton? I'm
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Speaker 1: not picking the cotton, so's not gonna pick itself right.
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Speaker 1: And then because it was, like I said, it was
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Speaker 1: a beautiful book. First of all, I want to compliment
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Speaker 1: you on that because I read a lot of books
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Speaker 1: and and what captures me as a as a reader
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Speaker 1: is emotion and it also you're very colorful writer. In
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Speaker 1: other words, I actually felt the moments I felt uh
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Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson's issues that he had in your writing. And
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Speaker 1: then you jumped to uh Miss moul Terry in nineteen
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Speaker 1: forty seven. It gets personal with you because you start
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Speaker 1: talking about your life. You know, you start talking about
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Speaker 1: this is an area of the country that you live in,
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Speaker 1: and she, as a black woman, was in a position
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Speaker 1: to purchase land and the issues that she had to
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Speaker 1: deal with. And then you jump even further to George Floyda.
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Speaker 1: Why was it important to have these transitional time moments
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Speaker 1: in your book to set the stage because I think
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Speaker 1: it was importan to show that the true history of
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Speaker 1: the country and the contributions of black people, of people
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Speaker 1: of color, of um people who were descendants of slaves.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was important to be able to point
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Speaker 1: that out because I don't think that we can solve
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Speaker 1: this unless we start at the beginning. In the beginning
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Speaker 1: is a true history of this country. You mentioned sixteen nineteen,
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Speaker 1: and there's a sixteen nineteen project, But there's also what
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Speaker 1: we should realize is that long before the Mayflower was here.
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Speaker 1: There were people who came over who made the journey
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Speaker 1: across the Atlantic, and they were Africans, and there were
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Speaker 1: people who helped to build this country for free. So
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Speaker 1: while we look upon the descendants are the people who
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Speaker 1: came over on the Mayflower as some sort of sort
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Speaker 1: of vaunted or celebrated position. Um, perhaps that we should
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Speaker 1: teach the history of the people who came over before
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Speaker 1: them as well, and who actually built the country for
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Speaker 1: free as slave slave labor. And um, so I used
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Speaker 1: mon terry, because mon terry that should be taught in
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Speaker 1: our history books to American history to kids, as we
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Speaker 1: teach Christopher columb Us discovered America. Christopher Columbus did not
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Speaker 1: is here, just asked any native American. And it's insulting
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Speaker 1: to people actually to learn that, because it's not the truth.
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Speaker 1: If you want to say Christopher Columbus conquered America, or
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Speaker 1: that um that Europeans conquered America, Okay, that might be
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Speaker 1: a fair statement. So that um, people like Mone Terry
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Speaker 1: and his sister a Maza, and um, the German coast Uprising,
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Speaker 1: which I write about, and a number of other things
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Speaker 1: that instances in the book that include African Americans or
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Speaker 1: African how African people contributed to this country. I think
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Speaker 1: that's where we start with the truth from the beginning,
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Speaker 1: Now you're saying the book, you do not pretend to
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Speaker 1: have any answers. And then the book is this is
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Speaker 1: the fire. What I say to my friends about racism,
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Speaker 1: what what response are you given to your friends? So
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Speaker 1: the response that the biggest responses that we have to
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Speaker 1: do the work is that there's a shared responsibility that
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Speaker 1: we all have as American where we can't say, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, my people didn't do this, and my people
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Speaker 1: didn't do that, and I didn't know in plays and
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Speaker 1: I didn't know, but um, there but there were people
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Speaker 1: in this country, um, who weren't able to vote, weren't
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Speaker 1: able to get an education, who were not able to
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Speaker 1: live with they where they wanted and weren't able to
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Speaker 1: which is the biggest part of it is to earn
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Speaker 1: generational wealth. And but who helped to build the wealth
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Speaker 1: for wealthy people, and which offers what an ease in
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Speaker 1: society and the comfort and the level of privilege that
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Speaker 1: that isn't afforded to most people of color in this country.
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Speaker 1: And so what I tell them is that again they
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Speaker 1: must know their history starts from the beginning, and teaching
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Speaker 1: their children the real history of this country. But I
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Speaker 1: also tell people that the difference is going to be
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Speaker 1: made with the relationship because when you see people as human,
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Speaker 1: when you see people's humanity, it's hard to discriminate against them.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to be humanize them. And it's even more
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Speaker 1: difficult to put your knee on their neck for almost
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Speaker 1: nine minutes on a street in front of the world
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Speaker 1: to see, you know, relationships, get to know people who
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Speaker 1: don't look like you. That's really important, and it really
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Speaker 1: it was. It was interesting things. When I talk I
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Speaker 1: try to talk out of when I talked about staff,
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Speaker 1: I talked to my family and talked to my my daughter.
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Speaker 1: I would talk about the reality of what Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: was to this country. I always felt that and I
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Speaker 1: tell the people that I said equipment with the one
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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, I think that we needed this gut
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Speaker 1: check because I felt that Donald Trump pushed this country
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Speaker 1: into a state of racist reality, and it brought out
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Speaker 1: a lot of people who are boldly let them know
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Speaker 1: how they feel about race, but boldly letting them know,
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Speaker 1: let you know what side of the eye they're willing
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Speaker 1: to stand on. Do you think that's good or bad?
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Speaker 1: Because myself I think I want to know what a
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Speaker 1: person thinks. Hiding what they think, I want to know
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Speaker 1: as well. I would rather someone tell me who they are.
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Speaker 1: I would rather know who they are, and we do now.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I stay in the book that he
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Speaker 1: was the president we deserved and probably the president we needed. Now,
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Speaker 1: what would it have been better if it if we
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Speaker 1: could have learned the same lessons through a different person
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Speaker 1: with a different experience. Yes, but all things being what
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Speaker 1: they were and what they are right now, we must
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Speaker 1: look at the reality, and that is that he exposed
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Speaker 1: um for us, the symptoms of what was boiling or
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Speaker 1: going on beneath the surface, and he's the one that
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Speaker 1: sent us into the doctor's office to have it diagnosed
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Speaker 1: and then fixed. Whatever that is, whether it's a long
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Speaker 1: process of of convalescing and trying to get better and
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Speaker 1: um and recovery, or whether it's just too excite the
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Speaker 1: problem and try to do it immediately and as fast
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Speaker 1: as possible. But whatever it is, he led, he supposed it,
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Speaker 1: and he led us here. And now we know we
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Speaker 1: don't have to live in um some false reality that
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Speaker 1: we thought that we were post racial, because we're not. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: you know, the thing about it, here's an interesting part
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Speaker 1: about my life. And you know, when you you know,
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Speaker 1: you develop a relationship with a person like you. You know,
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Speaker 1: I value the time I spend with you now, but
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Speaker 1: I even value the time I spend with you whenever
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Speaker 1: at my home. And I turned you on and as
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Speaker 1: a that's an honesty about you done it. Police expound
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Speaker 1: on that because it is riveting to me. Last night
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Speaker 1: when I saw you interview the Capitol police officer who
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Speaker 1: had UH and you in in twelve of Republican members
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Speaker 1: of Congress didn't want to honor them because they didn't
15:43
Speaker 1: see the January sixth event as an insurrection, even though
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Speaker 1: five people died at that little I guess protest that
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Speaker 1: got out of hand. I guess that's what they're calling it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. But this man, you know, he used
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Speaker 1: the word are racial slur. He didn't want to use
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Speaker 1: in word. But he was mentally bruised and may take
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Speaker 1: years of therapy to recover from that moment. But you
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Speaker 1: was the interviewer. How did you how were you taking
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Speaker 1: all of that and then maintaining emotions? Well, I have
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Speaker 1: to because um I am the facilitator, right and if
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Speaker 1: I lose my composure, then you don't get anything out
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Speaker 1: of the interview. But at the very beginning of the interview,
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Speaker 1: I started talking to him and then he said, I'm
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Speaker 1: sorry I stopped. I didn't expect to be this emotional.
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Speaker 1: And so I've said to him, it's okay, go ahead
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Speaker 1: and talk to us. Why are you emotional? And then
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Speaker 1: it gets then he has to explain it. Um. It
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Speaker 1: gives him a place to go rather than going down
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Speaker 1: spiral and spiraling into his emotions. Sometimes you just have
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Speaker 1: to allow it and let people say what they want
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Speaker 1: to say. But I think it was more productive um
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Speaker 1: that he explained his feelings and why he become so emotional.
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Speaker 1: And he said, because I hadn't really had a chance
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Speaker 1: before this interview. The way I set it up the interview,
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Speaker 1: he said, it gave him a fuller perspective or more
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Speaker 1: fulsome perspective about um what had transpired and what people
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Speaker 1: thought about it. And also he had done one earlier interview,
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Speaker 1: and in that earlier interview he had not spoken to
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Speaker 1: his fellow officers, And after speaking to his fellow officers,
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Speaker 1: he got more of their experiences. And that cut even
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Speaker 1: deeper because one of one of the stellow officers said
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Speaker 1: to him, Um, the protesters were not only calling, you know,
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Speaker 1: me the N word, but they said, hey, N word,
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Speaker 1: you have that rifle in your hand. You're so big
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Speaker 1: and bad. Why don't you put that rifle down and
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Speaker 1: we'll show you how big of an inn word you are.
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Speaker 1: And this is a police officer who is who puts
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Speaker 1: his life on the line every day. And these people
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Speaker 1: are out there supposed to be supporters of the police officers,
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Speaker 1: and you know so called blue lives matter, but they're
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Speaker 1: beating them with blue lives matter, blackpoles and times. So um,
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Speaker 1: that's that's why he was emotional because he had had
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Speaker 1: time to his orbit. He hadn't had time to absorb
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Speaker 1: it before. I think he was somewhat still in a
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Speaker 1: state of shock. We know just in reading this book.
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Speaker 1: You know a great picture on the back by the way,
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Speaker 1: I love that picture. Where where was it taken? What
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Speaker 1: take that? That was taken in the backyard of my
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