Vivek Ramaswamy Gets a History Lesson From Black America

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[00:01:14]Today's nominee, the Vivig Rama Swami campaign in Ohio is producing some amazing images.

[00:01:21]That was today's nominee, but that's not exactly why he was nominated. But let's dig in. What y'all talking about? The gentle minion on the left. Damn. The minions didn't do nothing to deserve being brought into this. They didn't.

[00:01:36]Hey. Hey. The minions are my favorite characters. You got You got to lead them off. [laughter] >> Are you serious?

[00:01:45]>> That's a Elmer Fud situation.

[00:01:48]He could so easily just change his name to Victor Ramsay and he would be crushing it in the Midwest. Oh, Victor Ramsay.

[00:01:57]I wonder why they say that. If he really wants to win over voters, he should dress like this.

[00:02:04]Hey. Hey, don't give Vivic no ideas.

[00:02:08]That's how he ended up in that cowboy costume. Oh, wait. We don't even have a caption on this one. They just posting his hair.

[00:02:15]>> Damn.

[00:02:16]>> Huh. And then and now we got a close-up of his hair.

[00:02:19]>> Hold up. Wait a minute. Something ain't right.

[00:02:22]>> I don't see what's so wrong. They got that on the wall at Hair Cuttery.

[00:02:27][laughter] And it's coming soon to Great Clips. It used to Great Clips had it on the secret menu. You had to go to Hair Cuttery. But now Great Clips, they they rolling that in to to Great Clips now. Mhm. Me too, buddy. [laughter] And wait, that's the dude right next to Vivic.

[00:02:48]>> Damn, >> man.

[00:02:50]It be your own people, don't it, Vivic?

[00:02:52]Oh, wait. That's not your own people.

[00:02:56]Put a pin in that, why don't you? The Vivic Ohio dream, huh?

[00:03:04]I wonder what they meant by that. Just a bunch of people enjoying themselves.

[00:03:10]>> What, [ __ ] not caring about their physical appearance or or judgment coming from the outside.

[00:03:18]>> Wake the hell up.

[00:03:19]>> Or does it have something to do with being dirty? I don't know. Y'all got to get back to me with THAT ONE.

[00:03:24]>> WAKE UP. WAKE UP. WAKE UP.

[00:03:27]>> NO. In fact, we won't be lectured on what it means to be an American by a literal Indian anchor baby. It's such an indignity. And the elite class put that.

[00:03:38]Wow.

[00:03:41]The dark skin. Wow. Wow. Wow. It never takes long, does it? It It never takes very long, Vivic. It sure doesn't. And who you think that came from? Huh? What segment of America you think that CAME FROM?

[00:03:56]>> WAKE UP. WAKE UP.

[00:03:59]>> And yet here we are today.

[00:04:03]this you >> aid from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society that actually rolled back some of the benefits that black families enjoyed like a stable family foundation in the 1960s no longer the case today in part because the government gave them an incentive to live in single parent households rather than dual parent households. Affirmative action, effectively a cancer on our national soul in part because it's a form of psychological slavery that holds black Americans back by teaching them that they can't get ahead without actually somebody giving them a boost. Vivic Ramaswami argues that black Americans were better off in the 1960s during Jim Crow and calls affirmative action a form of psychological slavery that is a cancer on our nation's soul. And to think the whole time I was growing up, I had no idea that my parents were were literally ducking the feds by by keeping a two parent household. I didn't know they had phased out the black two parent households and they were ducking the feds. They were still paying to send me to school while having to pay the two parent household tax.

[00:05:16]So I knew something was wrong. I knew something special about it. Man, I owe them a a huge debt of gratitude. But but Vivian, you owe me a huge debt of gratitude because of the fact that I have been able to make it to this point in my life while overcoming the psychological slavery of affirmative action. That is, you know, I I I the fact that I woke up today and I I put on my clothes and I brush my teeth. Well, I don't brush my teeth in the morning. Um, don't no judgment. Brother, I put on my clothes and and and and washed up and and came here to sit and do this video while overcoming the psychological slavery. It's just and not only psychological slavery and the victim mentality.

[00:06:07]>> You're a victim.

[00:06:09]>> [music] >> I I know I MADE IT TO WORK DESPITE THE VICTIM MENTALITY.

[00:06:23]Does he ever shut the f up? He is obsessed with black Americans.

[00:06:26]Meanwhile, racist white people can't stand his brown behind.

[00:06:31]Oh, in case you need a reminder. Oh, this is a nice one. He's posting about about meeting his wife here and there and uh uh when is your dad getting deported?

[00:06:44]You're both going back to India. Oh, that's right. But you don't need a reminder, do you? No. No. Because it got so bad they ran you off of social media.

[00:06:56]They sure enough did. You couldn't even post your own family without them talking about pooping on the beach.

[00:07:04]That That was you. Congratulations, you played yourself.

[00:07:08]>> And then when it comes to, you know, overcoming things and and the the psychological slavery and the victim mentality and all that kind of stuff, man, I wonder if that's why they destroyed all those black thriving communities during the Jim Crow era. I wonder if that's I wonder if that's why it was the psychological slavery. Is that why they destroyed the communities pre-Jim Crow? Vivic realized he would never become governor of Ohio because he's a brownskinned Hindu and immediately pivoted back to rage baiting racism for a podcast check. Black hatred is great business. Oh, it sure enough is. It sure enough is. Just ask your buddy Elon Musk how good business black hatred is. And he did just drop a new check on you now, didn't he? Uh-huh.

[00:08:04]Uh-huh. Hey, um, when you go pick up that check, make sure that you let Elon Musk know that we got a little something for him from here, too. Yeah, we going to check them. Now, Vivid, one thing you might have left out, cuz I know your target was black Americans, but you're talking about affirmative action, and that's not going to land so great with everybody.

[00:08:28]>> What do you mean by that?

[00:08:31]You know, affirmative action did help white women as much as anybody. And that is half of who you're courting with your antilack rhetoric now, isn't it? H. Now, I wonder how they survived the psychological slavery and why that's never been in your mouth.

[00:08:54]Huh. That is that is really fascinating.

[00:08:57]Well, Vivic, one thing that uh is to be noted is the fact that that you have taken such an interest in the advancement of black people because it is so rare for people to really earnestly push for black excellence cuz that would be the only reasonable nonracist justification for this now, wouldn't it? I can't wait to see that platform.

[00:09:25]Arguments like these don't deserve to be taken seriously when the people making them have never once proposed a single policy that would actually improve the conditions for black Americans. Focus on the things you actually care about, Vivic Rama Swami. Oh, that is correct.

[00:09:42][clears throat] So much to say about how legislation that has helped black people was actually destructive but not proposing a thing to replace it. Hm.

[00:09:54]>> Hey pal, [music] you just blowing from stupid town.

[00:09:58]>> I guess attacking black folks is the point in and of itself.

[00:10:04]Preach on.

[00:10:06]>> First of all, let's be honest about what this is. This is not a man who has spent his life concerned about the advancement of black people. This is a man who received a fellowship funded by George Soros, a program that specifically sought equity for underrepresented groups. And then he spent his entire political career telling black people that programs designed to create equity are the real problem.

[00:10:25]>> Wait a minute. You said George Soros.

[00:10:28]George Soros? Who? Huh? Does Steven Miller know about this?

[00:10:35]Man, his ears must be ringing every time Steven Miller be talking about George Soros and hoping nobody put those two together.

[00:10:43]We got you.

[00:10:48]And wait, what's this you said about him benefiting from a grant and then trying to pull up the ladder behind himself?

[00:10:56]Who he think he Byron Donald's >> smell like a doo parade [music] smell like an elephant booty grenade.

[00:11:05]>> He said that black Americans were better off in the 1960s. In the 1960s, black Americans could be legally denied housing through redlinining. They were denied access to credit and mortgages and the ability to build generational wealth through home ownership. In the 1960s, black Americans were being murdered for attempting to vote. And the people who murdered them were acquitted by all white juries.

[00:11:26]>> That was a point that I made very aggressively while we were knocking down Byron Donald's >> saying a similar thing about the black family being together.

[00:11:41]free Jim Crow, you know, under the constant threat of lynching.

[00:11:47]So, I guess they were together when they were allowed to be.

[00:11:53]In the 1960s, the median black family income was less than 55% of white family income. In the 1960s, black Americans were legally segregated from schools, hospitals, and public spaces. So, if black Americans were better off in the 1960s, what exactly is the metric? And yes, there were higher rates of two parent black households in the 1950s and the60s. But what they never talk about because it doesn't fit their narrative is how there was a deliberate dismantling of black communities through what they called urban renewal where they destroyed functioning black neighborhoods and displaced families.

[00:12:26]The war on drugs was explicitly designed to target black communities. Mass incarceration. It removed black fathers from homes at rates that have no parallel in any other demographic. Oh, I got one more for you, ma'am. Um, how are we doing on the divorce rate and marriage success in modern times visav prejim crow? You know, before women were respected and could have bank accounts of their own. Huh?

[00:12:56]How about that?

[00:12:59]That's right, Vivic. You actually got to make your woman happy now. You didn't have to do that before.

[00:13:05]I appreciate you.

[00:13:08]You loyal. [music] I changed a lot.

[00:13:14]>> I'm just playing, Dad.

[00:13:17]And they try to act like these are cultural failures and not policy decisions. You don't get to create the conditions that produce an outcome and then point to that outcome as proof that the people are the problem. Also, him saying that affirmative action is a form of psychological slavery is probably the most insulting thing that he said. The vecram swami is a son of Indian immigrants who came to this country specifically because of the opportunities that this country made available to them.

[00:13:42]>> One more time for those in the back. The vecram swami is a son of Indian immigrants who came to this country specifically because of the opportunities that this country made available to them. And these are opportunities that were not available to black Americans for most of this country's history. So for him to sit in front of a camera and get on a microphone and tell black Americans that a program designed to correct centuries of deliberate exclusion is actually what's holding them back. That is a level of audacity that I do not have the words for. These people don't point to black failure because they care about black success. They point to black failure because it is useful to them. It gives them a story that puts the responsibility for the consequences of systemic racism onto the people who experienced it.

[00:14:27]>> Now wait a minute. Now wait a minute.

[00:14:30]It's not just enough that he personally was able to take advantage of these same programs that he's denouncing because of the the carnage that it wrought on black achievement. That wasn't enough. No, the sheer fact that he is here makes him a beneficiary of the civil rights movement which pushed for said opportunities and legislation.

[00:15:05][music] That is crazy. I I I really don't like that guy.

[00:15:12]>> That's right. We got you now and you then.

[00:15:16]Did your father also take the citizenship test? And is your father a citizen?

[00:15:21]>> He did not. And that's a choice that he has made for familial reasons, but my mother did. And I think that every immigrant who comes to this country in order to become a full voting citizen has to do the same. And I believe in being consistent about my policies where >> So your father is not a citizen of the United States.

[00:15:40]>> He's not.

[00:15:40]>> So your father is not a citizen of the United States.

[00:15:42]>> He's not. So your father is not a citizen of the United States.

[00:15:49]>> Man, this some more [ __ ] >> Let's talk about Viva Graaswami. During his political campaigns, he made headlines by calling Junth a useless holiday, claiming it was born out of political duress.

[00:16:01]>> They wanted to have a holiday maybe cancel Juneth for winter other useless holidays. Do you think Junth is a useless holiday?

[00:16:08]>> I desperately do.

[00:16:10]Memorial Memorial Day, Veterans Day. Are you holidays?

[00:16:13]>> I don't because I have I I stand with the presumption of time tested.

[00:16:17]>> Hey, Vivic, did you say time- tested? I can tell you what was time- tested.

[00:16:22]Immigration quotas.

[00:16:24]>> Damn. [screaming] >> Yeah, that was time- tested before black folk came in and knocked it down. That was time-t tested. Just about all of the discrimination that we have previously faced and have overcome as a country was time- tested. But I guess I guess that's the thing now, isn't it?

[00:16:46]>> With all due respect, what the Hey, Clarence Thomas going to love you. He praised holidays like Memorial Day, calling it a real American tradition.

[00:16:59]Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Did you just say Memorial Day?

[00:17:03]>> Go [ __ ] yourself. [music] >> I know he not throwing up Memorial Day to attack black people cuz Oh, you you Okay. All right. Hey, tell them.

[00:17:15]Somebody better tell him. But these are two massive historical contradictions here that expose a deep case of political amnesia. First, let's look at Memorial Day. The tradition didn't start with elite Washington politicians. It was founded on May 1st, 1865 by thousands of newly emancipated black people in Charleston, South Carolina.

[00:17:37]They went to a former Confederate prison camp where captured Union soldiers had been thrown into a mass grave, painstakingly gave those soldiers proper barriers, built a fence around the cemetery in march with arm loads of flowers to decorate the graves. It was called Decoration Day. To praise Memorial Day while trashing Junth isn't defending American tradition, it's snubbing black Americans from the very traditions we created. But the contradiction runs even deeper. [music] Vivbec's own parents immigrated to the United States from India in the 1970s.

[00:18:08]And without the freeing of all the slaves in America, which is American history, which is something positive and worth celebrating, there would have been no fight for rights by black Americans, which means your Indian parents wouldn't have been allowed in America and you wouldn't be born here.

[00:18:24]>> Yeah, it's true. Ask about it. Ask.

[00:18:29]>> So why would a son of immigrants turn around and bismerch the very people who sacrificed secured his family's right to exist here? In sociology, this is called vying for white proximity. For non-white conservative politicians, leaning into anti-black rhetoric or downplaying black history is a calculated strategy. It's a signal to a predominantly white right-wing base that says, "Look at me.

[00:18:51]I'm safe. I will repeat your cultural grievances. But the tragedy of the strategy is the ultimate paradox." Oh, I'll show you the tragedy of this strategy. [snorts] Vivic already knows.

[00:19:04]Jesus Christ is God and there is no other God. He is part of the Holy Trinity and any other God is a demon and it's false. Do you think it's inappropriate for someone who's a Hindu to be say a US president?

[00:19:16]>> No, I think it's no. Well, >> you be honest.

[00:19:21]>> Isn't Hinduism >> um because you're an Indian? Despite Vivc spending months on the campaign troll echoing these talking points, right-wing pundits like Anne Coulter and MAGA voters told him straight to his face and on conservative podcast that they loved his ideas, but they would never vote for him because he isn't white.

[00:19:39]>> I still would not have voted for you.

[00:19:41]Um, because you're an Indian loser. [laughter] He tried to turn around and wish a happy Juneenth last year to black people because he realized, "Oh [ __ ] maybe I need the black vote." Happy Junth, everybody. I know that ain't who I think it is.

[00:19:58]>> I said, "What?" She said, "Yeah." I said, "No, >> I know. I know that ain't who I think it is."

[00:20:05]Vivid Rama Swami had the nerve to get up there and say, "Happy Junth." Hey, if that haircut he had with them farmers was a politician, it would be him. It would it would be It's perfect. is a perfect fit. It's a per ain't no just ain't nothing grounded about it whatsoever. Just whatever way the wind is blowing. That's that's what we rocking with right now. Happy Junth from Vivic Guam Swami. That Hey, that's as hollow as a happy black history month for Donald Trump.

[00:20:35]>> Come on now, dog.

[00:20:38]Come on, man.

[00:20:40]>> No, Booy. I wasn't calling for you. That that No, that was in February. That's not happening right now. But we know you was there though. How'd that work out?

[00:20:48]>> I personally think black Americans were better off during Jim Crow.

[00:20:53]>> OH, COME ON. Another one. ANOTHER WE GOT TO I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A VIVIC RAMA SWAMI VIDEO. I AIN'T GOT TIME TO drag a black mag is what I would say if I was VC Rama Swami.

[00:21:07]>> Hey, you almost had me, bro. You almost had me, bro.

[00:21:12]Get him. People that think black Americans were better off during Jim Crow because we weren't in proximity to white Americans are either grifters or have never read a book or don't really understand what Jim Crow was. Jim Crow was literally white supremacy's response to reconstruction, which was a response to black people being freed from slavery. Jim Crow was the 13th Amendment. Jim Crow is redlinining. Jim Crow is a black person being hung because they they dared to go to a voting poll on election day. Some will tell you, "Well, back then the black family was more together and they were more conservative." And that's just a myth and a lie. Because the closer we get to Jim Crow ending, the closer we get to the party switching ideologies, the thing that y'all pretend didn't happen, the less conservative that black America got at the polls. That's a fact.

[00:22:00]>> The only people that will agree with you that things like affirmative action are stupid and black people had it better during Jim Crow are racist and Clarence Thomas. You really want to be associated with Clarence Thomas?

[00:22:10]>> I didn't think so. Now, that brother was preaching. Um, I appreciate the fact that he also referenced Byron Donald's, but also that that Jamal Hill post.

[00:22:21]Let's let's pull that up. In 1960, black poverty rate was 55% overall was 22%. Black unemployment rate was 12.4% twice as high as white people.

[00:22:34]Only about 4% of black people had a college degree. I don't have to explain the indignities and the violence that black Americans suffered under Jim Crow.

[00:22:42]He's saying that affirmative action was worse than that. Clown is too good of a word for him. Oh, yes. But you see, the only reason why you would make a case that affirmative action was worse than Jim Crow is if that's aspirational.

[00:22:58]Yeah. All those numbers, that's what they want to return to. Some people get a microphone and immediately forget who they talking to. VC Rama Swami, come to the front of the congregation, beloved. We got to talk about something. Did this man really say that black people were better off during Jim Crow? Mhm. Sir, the audacity on you is built like a dollar store Wi-Fi signal.

[00:23:25]>> Ma'am. Ma'am, you know they ain't have no Wi-Fi at the dollar store. Uh-uh.

[00:23:30]Nah.

[00:23:32]That was Family Dollar. Family Dollar was the only place I ever bought Wi-Fi.

[00:23:36]>> Built like a dollar store Wi-Fi signal.

[00:23:39]Strong enough to make noise, not strong enough to carry facts. You know what amazes me? The people who never had to survive our experience are always the first ones volunteering to rewrite it.

[00:23:53]Why do politicians think that they can explain black history better than the people who actually lived said history?

[00:24:01]Jim Crow was not the good old days. It was legalized discrimination. People were denied jobs, schools, housing, voting rights, just basic decency and dignity. That's not freedom. That's oppression with paperwork. And when somebody like VC Ramaswami tells you that oppression ain't that bad, they're not teaching history. They're asking you to lower your standards for how people deserve to be treated. VC, if you want to debate affirmative action, debate the policy. That's fair game. But don't you dare tell black Americans we were better off when the government was literally treating us like secondass citizens. And you got some nerve, cuz I know you've had some affirmative action help you out, too, sir. See, history does not become less ugly because somebody says it into a podcast microphone. Stop letting people rewrite our history to fit their politics.

[00:24:58]Oo, I just had to let her cook. I just had to let her cook. Lowering your standards for how people should be treated. It is pretty much as clear as day. But one point that she made that I loved, people who never had to survive our experience always want to tell us about it. And if that isn't a theme of Vivec Rama Swami and public life, I don't know what is.

[00:25:27]Cuz this was you, wasn't it, Vivic?

[00:25:30]Comparing Ayana Presley and the members of the squad to modern grand wizards of the clan.

[00:25:40]Huh, that's interesting that that's where you would choose to go to throw on on a black woman. You would ask, "What experience would you have with that?"

[00:25:52]But then you have the fact that your mentions look exactly like how the clan would be behaving these days, but you're attacking Ayanna Presley.

[00:26:04]>> Slude, lascivious, salacious, outrageous.

[00:26:06]>> And then it was that time that you got up on CNN and argued with Don Lemon about the black experience.

[00:26:15]They got their second amendment rights and they actually got the NRA played a big role in that. But today down the >> N did not play a big role.

[00:26:21]>> Absolutely. They train black Americans how to use firearms.

[00:26:23]>> That's a lie. That's not the RA did not play a big role in >> this is just historical fact. But downto the part that I find because you say it's historical fact.

[00:26:29]>> The part that I find insulting is when you say today black Americans don't have those rights after we have gone through civil rights revolution.

[00:26:36]>> You are sitting here telling an African-American about the rights and what you find insulting about the the the way I live the skin I live in every day. Here's where you and I black and white that black people don't have in this country and that black people do have.

[00:26:49]>> Now, this is what's what's so fascinating is that you are very loudly and aggressively trying to supplant black folks own experience with what you say it is under the guise of refuting racism.

[00:27:17]That'd be like me taking everybody's phones during a fantasy draft cuz they said I'm a dictator. You know what I mean? It would be it would be like that. It would be something like that.

[00:27:31]That's what Cash Patel did.

[00:27:35]That sounds about right.

[00:27:38]And you know what? Speaking of Cash Patel, he would have a little bit of experience with this here. No way I'm voting for Ramaswami. He's skin folk but not our kin folk. Ramas Swami has repeatedly downplayed racism, spread his own racist rhetoric, and denied the existence of white supremacy even when he's been on the receiving end. From Prrenav Johnny, an associate professor in the department of English at Ohio State University.

[00:28:07]How you be so racist [snorts] towards black people that the Indian people can't take it.

[00:28:19]>> OH BROTHER, THIS GUY STINKS.

[00:28:24]>> And I can't wait to see what the Muslim people talking about cuz I know you ain't stood up for them. They having a whole Islamophobic movement on the right wing. And where you at? Talking about black people. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Well, if you not if you not going to defend your own people, you certainly not going to defend them. I know you don't defend your own people. That's why I had that whole thing with the Nesta Susan when Anesa Souza was complaining about all the the anti-Indian hate that was coming from the rightwing. Look at the abuse Vivic is getting for posting an innocuous photo with his boys. This is the s show that Heritage and Tucker have brought upon us. If this continues, I would not be surprised to see mass desertions of blacks, Latinos, and other minorities from the GOP. Unreal. Some of which was directed at you. What did you have to say? That's around the time that you decide to go off social media. And I can tell you this, Ohio, that's embarrassing. Honestly, that's for a state that prides itself like y'all do. That man went underground, had Desh D Suza fighting his battles. That's almost as embarrassing as Ted Cruz representing Texas.

[00:29:38]By the way, Desh, you might want to check on your son-in-law.

[00:29:43]A lot of this is being done by foreigners. So, we've got we got two different issues here. Got a an immigration issue and a welfare state issue. And we're we're focusing on the latter here on the waste product abuse.

[00:29:55]But whenever you bring in um infinity third worlders into American society from from low trust countries, you kind of expect low trust behavior. And that that's what we've seen here. And VC, you have become a habitual line stepper to the point where we have whole files of your antilackness. In fact, the last time that we were here discussing your candidacy, >> one of the points that came out of my dialogue with her was that actually a black baby is probably safer in the inner street of Chicago, in the inner city of Chicago, than in the womb of his own black mother. And I think that that's actually a problem and it's directly the product of what Margaret Sanger envisioned. Meanwhile, are Indian babies safer in India or America?

[00:30:50]H that was recent. That That was recent.

[00:30:56]So, how did that help attacking the black mothers? How did that help? It's a lot of them in Ohio. I can tell you that right now. It's it's it's a whole lot of them in Ohio. So, and and and quite frankly, I don't know if they forgive you for cursing the Cavs. you showed up to the Cavs game and had them packed up immediately afterwards. I ain't seen a I ain't seen a curse like that since Donald Trump anytime he shows up in public.

[00:31:42]>> [cheering] >> Now I know because he be walking around so much in the United States. That's why we going downhill.

[00:32:06]That's a dag on shame. Hey, Donald Trump going to have to owe us some reparations.

[00:32:11]Not just all the teams he cursed, but but all of America.

[00:32:16]That's right, Vivic.

[00:32:18]I said reparations.

[00:32:20]>> I'm against race-based reparations because I think it will create more division, not less.

[00:32:26]>> Yeah, that's right. He said race-based reparations.

[00:32:29]Apparently, he prefers the heightbased or the hair colorbased reparations. Per perhaps that's what Anything where you can keep it to the blonde people. You know, I mean, anything where you you can exclude the black people, anything like that. Well, let me let me let me tell you this, uh, Vivic. Um, I'm sure you would be a fan of of reparations should somebody have burglarized you now, wouldn't you?

[00:32:58]Oh man. Hey, hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hey.

[00:33:05]>> Right. If somebody has stolen your car or your house or your ability to pursue life, liberty, and and and happiness, you would be in favor of reparations now, wouldn't you? You definitely You definitely would be. In fact, you got just got that $5 million from Elon Musk after getting embarrassed and given a bus pass home from Doge.

[00:33:30]Had them clowning you, talking about you had wore out your welcome and he didn't say a word.

[00:33:35]>> You don't find that suspicious?

[00:33:38]You don't find that suspicious?

[00:33:41]>> Oh, we remember they were dragging you after Doge and he didn't say a word.

[00:33:49]You know what that $5 million is about?

[00:33:52]Reparations. There you go. There you go.

[00:33:55]That's a nice little nice little reparations you got right there. Nice little repar. When all of a sudden it comes to black people, it's going to create racism. It's just going It's so funny how so many different groups can pursue restitution.

[00:34:10]So many different people can pursue remedies. Our whole court of law revolves around pursuing remedy.

[00:34:19]But when it comes to black people, oh what that's that's just going to make them racist.

[00:34:24]>> What?

[00:34:25]>> That's just that's just going to make them racist. Uh cuz they need a reason.

[00:34:29]They cuz they need a reason. Here's fun.

[00:34:31]And you know what's funny? Maybe that's why they did slavery in the first place.

[00:34:35]Cuz they were mad about some earlier reparations. They was mad about some earlier reparations and that's why they did slavery. That's what that's that's exactly Yeah. Yeah.

[00:34:48]Ohio.

[00:34:50]What the You listen to the response I gave to that black pastor. My whole point is racism has been a major problem for most of our national history, but we're getting close to the promised land that Martin Luther King envisioned.

[00:35:00]We're as darn close to it as we ever have been. And so what bothers the heck out of me is it's right when we're close to that promised land. Martin Luther King said it, "I may not get there with you." and he didn't get there with us.

[00:35:11]But I think it desecrates the legacy of our civil rights movement, desecrates the legacy of Martin Luther King that right when we get closest to the point of having racial equality and gender equality and even opportunities for people of minorities of many types, are we perfect? No. But are we as close as we've ever been? Yes, we have. To then obsess over systemic racism, to then obsess over white guilt and otherwise.

[00:35:32]We're creating new waves of racism, Dasha, that we otherwise would have avoided right when we're closest to having achieved what even the proponents of the civil rights movement would have dreamed of.

[00:35:42]>> Somebody told a lie one day.

[00:35:46]They couched it in language.

[00:35:49]>> Now, white folk, I need to holler at y'all for a second.

[00:35:54]I I need to holl at I need to holl at y'all for a second. I just want y'all to understand the bar that he has set for y'all.

[00:36:05][applause] Because mind you, he didn't refute racism in that clip. He acknowledged that it existed, but he essentially said, "If we having gotten to the point where we are now, continue to call out the racism, well, that's just going to make them more racist."

[00:36:29]>> OH, HELL NO.

[00:36:31]>> That's just going to make them more racist because what would they be without that little bit of RACISM THAT THEY GOT LEFT?

[00:36:38]>> HELL NO.

[00:36:40]>> You know what I mean? What would THEY BE WITHOUT THAT? THAT'S, you know, that's their goat bag of racism. That's that little bit of That's that little bit of racism they set aside in case of emergencies. And you can't come for their emergency racism. Oh, they just going to get more racist.

[00:36:58]You know, that that's that little bit, you know, that's been passed down for generation. That little bit of bag of racism been passed down for generations.

[00:37:06]You can't come for that generation of racism. They got to have it. They they got to have it. Just so y'all know, that's what he said about y'all. Now, as far as you are concerned, Vivic, um what is the point where we weren't closer to Martin Luther King's dream than we've ever been?

[00:37:29]Well, we're waiting >> because we've consistently pushed the bar forward in order to eradicate the racism that keeps morphing and changing shape and direction like whack-a-ole.

[00:37:54][music] Unless, you know, you had a movement that was based around making America great again, like, I don't know, the days prior to Jim Crow.

[00:38:08]>> YOU WANT ANSWERS.

[00:38:09]>> I WANT THE TRUTH. YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH.

[00:38:13]>> In that instance, well, then all bets are off now, aren't they? Yeah, that's right. So essentially what I hear from you is, haven't we gotten rid of enough of the racism to leave it alone? And just imagine if that was the conversation that was had during the Jim Crow era. Imagine if that was the conversation that was had in the 1920s.

[00:38:45]Imagine if that was the conversation that was had in the 1950s. Imagine if that was a conversation that was had in the 1980s.

[00:38:57]But again, please tell us once again what's in our best interest.

[00:39:04]Oh, Vivec Rama Swami who hasn't done a thing to push it forward and won't Up up