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In the whole world. It's the best place.
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There's no place I'd rather be or be from.
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And we are all lucky to be here.
Everybody in this room, lucky to be here.
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Even black people, lucky to be here.
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But if you black, you gotta look at America
a little different.
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If you black, America's like the uncle
that paid your way through college
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but molested you.
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You gotta forgive, right? You gotta forgive.
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What's the biggest issue in America right now?
The most divisive issue in America
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is affirmative action.
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A lot of people think it's to do with the '60s,
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the back of the bus,
separate lunch counters. No.
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When you see footage of the '60s, see black
people, see us getting sprayed down,
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dogs getting sicked on us,
little girls getting burnt up in churches,
1:00:01
that's just white people being nice.
1:00:04
Nicer than they was in the '50s, '40s, and '30s.
1:00:08
Shit, there's black people that died in the '30s
1:00:12
that was looking down from heaven in the '60s
going, "Man, them niggers got it good."
1:00:20
No, affirmative action
was put into place to offset policies
1:00:25
that the United States Government
implemented during slavery
1:00:29
that affect us today.
1:00:31
When I talk about slavery,
I'm just talking about a period of time
1:00:36
where black people had no rights.
1:00:38
So you're talking about the 1600s
1:00:40
to about 1964.
1:00:44
You know, give or take a year, depending on
when yo town decided to act right.
1:00:50
People go, "What happened during slavery
that could affect us today?"
1:00:56
A lot of shit happened during slavery
that affects us every day.