WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.000 You are with us on this particular day and on today, 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.960 one hundred days of the Trump White House, dot the 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:12.160 West myself would kind of analyze that, share our thoughts 4 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:15.679 about the one hundred days. And Amazon had the nerve, 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:20.079 I mean, the pure, unadulterated gall to lift tariffs, to 6 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:23.719 list the tariffs in their pricing so that their customers 7 00:00:23.800 --> 00:00:29.480 could know why each product increased in price and whether 8 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:31.440 it was due to terrafts or not due to terrafts. 9 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:34.000 And then the White House made a call, so let's 10 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:36.600 talk about it. I don't often agree with Amazon, but 11 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:38.719 on this one, I thought that was a really good 12 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:42.159 thing to do, let consumers know that the prices have 13 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:45.079 gone up, and which prices have gone up and the 14 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.159 reasons why they've gone up. But the White House called 15 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:50.799 file as a matter of fact that they said that 16 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:54.640 this was a hostile and that was a political act, 17 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.560 a hostile political act to let consumers know that this 18 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:01.119 product or that product increased in. 19 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:02.560 Prices because of tariffs. 20 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:05.359 Well we'll get to all that, but before that, the 21 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.519 doctor's in the house, doctor West, what is on your heart, 22 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:11.040 your soul, and your mind on this day. 23 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:14.319 Well, my dear sister, I just thank God that I'm 24 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.400 still in my right mind and still able to see 25 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:18.319 the sunshine. 26 00:01:18.920 --> 00:01:19.280 Amen. 27 00:01:19.879 --> 00:01:21.159 Because when I think of. 28 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:25.680 Part of what tablets reflecting on, you know, this anniversary 29 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:35.159 Vietnam War, three million people murdered, killed. That's a whole 30 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:37.519 lot of people in a short amount of time. 31 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:41.599 It really is. And I was. 32 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.799 Thinking of this is for the audience especially, well for 33 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:48.120 all of us. But in nineteen thirty one, the International 34 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:52.879 Center for Intellectual Cooperation connected to the League of Nations 35 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:57.200 asked Albert Einstein to choose anybody in the world to 36 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:04.120 reflect on war, and Einstein chose Sigmund Freud, and the 37 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:08.759 letters that they wrote their correspondences, it's one of the 38 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:14.039 profound moments of the reflection of the persistence of aggression 39 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:21.840 and destruction, of hatred and contempt organized and what we 40 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:27.360 could do about it. That Freud had just written in 41 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.599 the Ego and beyond the pleasure principle and the civilization 42 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:34.400 is discontent just a few years before the future of 43 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.560 an illusion as well. He only had about seven or 44 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:42.960 eight years to live, and Freud said, I'm very pessimistic, Einstein. 45 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:48.000 All I can see is the possibility of some arrows 46 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:52.280 in the face of Thinotosinatos is the death drive. Arrows 47 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:57.840 is love drive. How do we redirect arrows in such 48 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:02.360 a way that it gets beyond nash and tribalism, so 49 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:07.360 that generates forms of solidarity to push back the human 50 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:11.479 addiction to self destruction. Now, and I think of the 51 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:16.599 Trump administration for the past one hundred years, that's a clear, 52 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:24.680 clear illustration of the human addiction to self destruction. It's 53 00:03:24.759 --> 00:03:29.319 just it's stupidity in the form of not being interested 54 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:32.479 in the truth. Not ignorance, because all of us are ignorant. 55 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:34.719 All of us don't know certain truths. But when you 56 00:03:34.759 --> 00:03:38.159 have no interest in the truth, and then when you're 57 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:43.719 driven by so much revenge and retribution and contempt and 58 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:50.280 hatred every story in the human human history, let you 59 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:57.599 know that leads toward destruction. From canaan Abel to the 60 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:00.960 Trump one hundred years of one d days. 61 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:03.120 Doc, Please don't put one hundred years on us. 62 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:05.759 Okay, No, you ain't lied. 63 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:08.240 Yeah, but we, we black folk, had two hundred and 64 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:09.280 forty four years of. 65 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:09.639 It, don't. 66 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:15.759 Yeah, Just indeed, you know what I mean, I do. 67 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:18.920 We are uniquely glad to. 68 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.759 Come to the New World, and we locked in for 69 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:24.800 two hundred and forty four years of the most barbaric slavery, 70 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:30.439 and people get upset for us for being upset. Hey, 71 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:35.600 let's be fallible, humble in our quest for truth. And 72 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:39.279 condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak. Let's 73 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:43.360 be honest and candidate in terms of people's realities, which 74 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:45.120 is often atrocities. 75 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:47.040 And so when we think of. 76 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:51.199 Freud and Einstein, they both concluded, they said, we must 77 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:56.959 remain deeply, deeply committed to the pursuit of truth, no 78 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.839 matter where it takes us. We must remain deeply committed 79 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:04.639 to the pursuit of love. We must remain deeply committed 80 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:08.680 to the pursuit of solidarity with those who suffer. Now, 81 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:13.959 Einstein called himself a militant pacifist. He wasn't just like Martin, Martin, 82 00:05:14.079 --> 00:05:17.240 King of Desmond, Tutu. He was a militant pacifist. But 83 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:21.079 his response was, you got to convince people to refuse 84 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:24.399 to fight, because you're always gonna have elites who want 85 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.319 people to fight. But if the working people don't fight 86 00:05:27.439 --> 00:05:29.959 for them, let the elites get out there and fight 87 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:30.240 the war. 88 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:31.680 At least ain't gonna fight no war. 89 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:36.160 Wall Street elites Harvard, Yale, Princeton professors. They ain't gonna 90 00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:39.120 fight no war. No, they want to send the working 91 00:05:39.199 --> 00:05:40.480 people to fight the war. 92 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:41.720 He said. 93 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:43.759 Einstein' says, now we have to. That's why he was 94 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:45.959 so close to the boys. But when they tried to 95 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.879 eliminate nuclear weapons, he was close to Paul Robinson. Trying 96 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.759 to eliminate nuclear weapons. Of course, Robinson and the boys 97 00:05:53.879 --> 00:05:56.839 rough on the house, arrests and trying to send the 98 00:05:56.839 --> 00:05:59.199 boys to jail. When he's eighty three years old, they 99 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:02.839 would meet at Einstein's house in Princeton, Paul Robinson and 100 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:07.800 the boys together. That's the kind of brother Albert Einstein was. 101 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:09.959 He's like Norm Johnson, you know what I mean of 102 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:14.480 our day. And Freud himself in Europe not a radical. 103 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:18.519 Freud was not politically radical, but he he had a 104 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:21.560 sensitivity and he had an intellectual genius. And when you 105 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:36.839 just think of war in all of his form, war aggression, destruction, massacre, lynching, rape, violation, 106 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:38.839 that drive you crazy. 107 00:06:40.279 --> 00:06:44.639 Oh my mama, absolutely it would, It does and it 108 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:48.439 still can. You're listening to Truth Time, doctor Cornell West 109 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:51.759 and Nina Turner. When we come forward, we will continue. 110 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:53.079 Oh yeah, So. 111 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:57.279 Doctor dropping those gems about doctor W. B. The boys, 112 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.240 Paul Robinson and Albert in. 113 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:03.079 Just rivety. 114 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:05.439 I mean, I wish I could have been invisible in 115 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:10.360 the room to listen to the conversations that they would 116 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:14.319 have about the complex issues, the complexities of war about 117 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.279 What really got me is the statement about the human 118 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:24.439 addiction to self destruction. I don't necessarily think we think 119 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:28.279 about ourselves like that as a species that were driven 120 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:29.639 to self destruct. 121 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:32.800 Well, you think of so many instances and all of 122 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:37.199 the different wars and the ways in which you acknowledge 123 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:43.000 so science and technology in such creative ways to destroy 124 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:47.000 each other. You know, in World War two almost one 125 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:52.120 hundred and fifty million, War War one had forty five million. 126 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:55.759 That's a lot of people dead. That's a whole lot 127 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.199 of people did And when Martin said that the choices 128 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:03.560 between none violence and non existence, or when JFK said, 129 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:09.439 those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution. In 130 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:17.000 this issue of violence and aggression, and of course it's 131 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:20.879 the psyche. There's psychic violence, there's spiritual violence, there's economic violence, 132 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:27.319 there's political violence. But then there is physical violence, militaristic violence, 133 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:33.480 and all of those manifestations win crystallized lead toward not 134 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:36.279 just destruction, but in the end self destruction. We're right 135 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.559 on the edge of self destruction right now in terms 136 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:44.360 of ecological collapse, of possible nuclear wars. And of course 137 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.240 we've got Taiwan on the one hand with China, and 138 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:50.519 you got the Middle East. Just think of genocide. I mean, 139 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:55.840 that's Lord have Mercha. I mean, it's just it's beyond 140 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:59.879 belief that people could just keep killing palastan in babies 141 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:07.840 every day for eighteen nineteen twenty months. And Harley politicians 142 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:10.120 can say a word. That's the kind of stuff that 143 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:14.360 Einstein and Freud and du Bois and Robesen we're talking about. 144 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:16.799 You know what I'm saying as true with black folk 145 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:22.080 in regard to the lynchings and the good God Amighty. 146 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:27.200 What is it about us as human beings that somehow 147 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:30.240 we don't muster the courage to raise our voices to 148 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.440 say something and do something in the face of that 149 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:38.279 kind of immorality and inhumanity and criminality. 150 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.840 Now, thank god, we do have OHK who do no 151 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:43.679 doubt about that. 152 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:49.399 Einstein, duboce Robes and Fanny Loui and Martin King rab 153 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:49.840 by head. 154 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:53.759 So you know, we gol win Zai. There's a cloud of. 155 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:58.320 Witnesses, but there it's just it's not like there's a 156 00:09:58.360 --> 00:09:59.320 major uprising. 157 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:03.799 No, it's not. And that is something to wrestle with. 158 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.279 I mean, yesterday we were talking about wrestling with the power. 159 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:12.000 Is the power of love stronger than the love of power? 160 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:13.279 Yeah, that's true. 161 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:19.600 M It is an age old question for humanity. 162 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.360 I don't necessarily think we as human beings think of 163 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:27.799 ourselves as as addicted to self destruction. But we have many, 164 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:31.320 many examples throughout the existence of humankind. 165 00:10:32.320 --> 00:10:34.600 That we really are. And so whether or not we're 166 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:36.000 able to look at the man, the. 167 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:39.120 Women, the people in the mirror and make that change, 168 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:42.919 you know, to quote some ofer brother Michael Jackson's song, 169 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:44.919 that is a very powerful song if you think. 170 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:49.759 About its idea. They understood the truth about that. And 171 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:52.200 the good news is that we can break the addiction. 172 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.679 The good news is that we could interrupt it. We 173 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.799 could disrupt it, we could erupt it. But how long 174 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:02.360 will the interruption ass You know, when I see what's 175 00:11:02.399 --> 00:11:05.720 going on my precious brothers and sisters, and Sudan and 176 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:13.480 the conoing and Kenya and Hey Lord, have mercy. Lord 177 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:23.720 you're Ukraine, Russia, Cashmere. I was just in Vancouver, you know, 178 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:26.639 this weekend. I was right around the corner where that 179 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:32.080 accident took place with the when they brother drove his 180 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:35.039 car right into the precious Filipinos festival. 181 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.080 Yeah, what what is going? 182 00:11:38.519 --> 00:11:40.559 My god? My god? 183 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.879 What is we human beings that too many of us 184 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:51.039 are just so cold and callous and cowardly when we 185 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:53.360 got to still love them? You know, I'm a Christian, 186 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.519 so I know people always make fun of me these days. 187 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.559 You know, you turn to love Everyboddy. I'm tired of 188 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:02.200 your Christianity. Sorry, I'm not apologizing. 189 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.279 You shouldn't you shouldn't have to, but it is wild. 190 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:13.200 I mean, it's an ugly reality that we have to 191 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:19.320 wrestle with, There's no doubt about it. You think anniversary 192 00:12:19.360 --> 00:12:27.279 of Vietnam, all the protests, all the resistance, and we 193 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:29.519 still couldn't bring it to a clothes quick enough. 194 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.720 No, it's never quick enough, especially for those who are suffering, 195 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.759 you know. And I think about the great Muhammad Ali 196 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:44.200 indicting this country willing to give up, was penalized for 197 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:49.159 refusing to go and fight, and just paraphrasing his words. 198 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.919 But you know he said the vietcom never called him 199 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:56.720 the end work and the power in him saying that 200 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:00.480 you got you sending me over here fight of the 201 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:03.240 brown people who've never done anything to me as a 202 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:06.759 black man. But yet in my own country, I gotta 203 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.879 fight and gravel for everything that I get. My people 204 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.399 have to fight and gravel for everything that they get. 205 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.679 No, I ain't going to fight your war. 206 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:17.759 Wow, freemand. 207 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:25.000 Mohammad Alis nobody like and truth teller and one of 208 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:29.919 the most hated people in the country when he said that, 209 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.679 and when he did that, and he ends up in 210 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.919 his life one of the most loved of all folk 211 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:42.600 in the country. Yes, very swing and vacillate. 212 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.639 Yeah, he was very much ahead of his time. You know, 213 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:48.399 time had to catch up with him. 214 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:52.120 And I think most freedom fighters like us are ahead 215 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:55.200 of our time and our indictments and our critiques and 216 00:13:55.200 --> 00:13:57.559 also in our vision for the future. And I'm saying oh, 217 00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:59.759 because I'm putting you and me right in that category. 218 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.440 But if you look at any of the greatest leaders 219 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:08.200 who put out propositions or goals or visions and then 220 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:12.200 also critique this nation and the world They were very 221 00:14:12.279 --> 00:14:14.519 much ahead of their times, and then time caught up 222 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:18.720 with them. And I look forward to us, you know, 223 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:23.120 teaching about going a little deeper on one of the 224 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:26.879 greatest they graded the goat, one of the goats in boxing, 225 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:30.159 the one and only Muhammad Ali. When you've giving up 226 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:34.559 your paycheck like that and also your physical freedom, I mean, 227 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.399 this country tried to destroy this. We're not talking about 228 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:40.120 individual see, that's that's the thing. We're talking about the 229 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:45.600 whole system that is controlled by people, created by people 230 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:51.519 indicted brother Muhammad Ali and tried to take everything from 231 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:54.320 him that he worked for. But you talk about one 232 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:57.120 of the greatest comeback kids, there have been many in 233 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:59.799 black history. That's the black people we know about being 234 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:03.519 the come back, doing the great comeback. But his is 235 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:08.840 certainly up there one of the greatest comebacks in American history. 236 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:13.679 No doubt about that, no doubt about that. 237 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.320 And we don't I don't necessarily think we have and 238 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:21.759 not It's a hard thing for people to make a 239 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:26.159 paycheck sacrifice, a career sacrifice. So I don't say this lightly, 240 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.879 but in within the field of entertainment and athletes, I 241 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.919 don't see many people willing to do that. I mean, 242 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:35.919 you and I certainly have been blessed to travel the 243 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.279 country with some and I'm talking about the great Danny Glover, 244 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:41.399 oh elital weapon himself. 245 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:43.600 I'm thinking about people like Susan Sarandon. 246 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:48.879 Yes, yes, oh, that's so very true. 247 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:54.879 So yeah, they don't necessarily get the types of movies 248 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.399 and you know, play for their talent because they've spoken 249 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:00.960 out for the human rights to both people in this 250 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:03.639 country and the human rights of people abroad. I mean, 251 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:05.840 brother Glover spent a lot of time speaking out and 252 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:09.840 standing up with the Patians and the sister students surrounding 253 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:13.799 the same thing on the Palestinian issue, a sister surrounding 254 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:14.960 the same thing. 255 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:16.080 You know. 256 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.159 So that we do have people who come along who 257 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.440 are willing, they're just doing the right thing, and then 258 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.120 the system punishes at them for it. But that's sacrifice 259 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:30.120 to even say anything about it is incredible. 260 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:32.519 That's so true. You think all your David Ruby. 261 00:16:33.360 --> 00:16:37.840 Oh, yes, yes, two of the greats. Yeah. 262 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:41.519 I had a chance to meet Ruby d when I 263 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.399 was a sophomore at Kyahogan Community College and she came 264 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.960 in to give a talk and just brilliant, I mean 265 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:54.080 as brilliant as she was, beautiful, as talented and caring. 266 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:55.919 It's caring. 267 00:16:56.120 --> 00:16:57.679 Let me. I used to go to her church with 268 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:02.200 she and right right outside of dround Mount Vernon, it 269 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:05.319 was White Plains Church, White Plains Baptist Church, because he 270 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:07.960 was a deacon. Actually, he was the first one actually 271 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.599 to call me when I published Prophesied Deliverance in nineteen 272 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:12.960 eighty two. He was the first one to call invited 273 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.400 me to go to his church and talk about his book. 274 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.480 I was saying, I'm gonna be there early. 275 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.680 I'm early, I'm gonna be waiting on the janitor in 276 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:26.759 the church. He was calling me Ruby Di Oh Lord 277 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:32.240 have merch Wow. Well you know how blessed I was. 278 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:35.960 But they're in the same great legacy of the divorces 279 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:41.000 that Harry Belafontes and Danny Glovers, the Cecily Tyson's, the 280 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:43.799 we can go on and on. The Gilts got Heron's, 281 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.920 the Ninas, the moms got those two. 282 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:48.039 Nina, Nina, Nina. 283 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:52.680 Yeah. 284 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:56.400 I just doing what needs to be done. I don't 285 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:59.240 see a whole lot of that in entertainment. My point, 286 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.599 long way to make the point is I don't necessarily 287 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.279 see a lot of that kind of courage in entertainment 288 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:06.400 or in the rim of athletics. 289 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:10.279 He certainly Colin Kaepernick, Oh. 290 00:18:10.200 --> 00:18:16.440 Yeah, oh, absolutely absolutely. And my hunters is that Lebron 291 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:20.400 he wants to do more. You could tell he's got 292 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.839 such a good golden heart. Probably some people around him 293 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:25.920 don't want him to go too far because you remember 294 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.119 around Black Lives Matter he was pushing. 295 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.359 He was pushing, he was even I think moving. 296 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.359 Toward a possible boycott and things, and know, just wear 297 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:37.720 his shirt and so forth, all's up and talks to him, 298 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.119 try to dampen his fight, and no, you don't want 299 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:44.039 to push it too far. And you could tell Lebron 300 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:47.839 really wanted to stretch on out because you know, he 301 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:52.160 represents the best of Akron. But we got Kendrick, We 302 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:53.559 got brother Kendrick Lamar. 303 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:55.000 That is true. 304 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:02.200 Yeah, exactly, He's. 305 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:03.400 Team. 306 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:07.279 They are definitely some, no doubt. I'm definitely not saying 307 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:10.480 they're not some. There would be more. I mean, if 308 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:13.079 more would stand up, then they couldn't hit just one. 309 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:16.680 That's exactly right, and they had a united front of 310 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:18.000 a whole wave level. 311 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:20.039 Yeah. 312 00:19:19.440 --> 00:19:23.359 Oh, look, imagine if Lebron never got that call from 313 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:28.000 President Barack Obama to stand down because if all the players, 314 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:29.799 especially if all the black players, you. 315 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:31.920 Ain't got a league no more. There ain't nothing they 316 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:33.480 could do. They couldn't touch it. 317 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:38.240 That they are in the driver's seat and the vanilla 318 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:41.160 brothers and sisters who would join. 319 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:44.680 But oh, absolutely lead the way. 320 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:49.559 Wouldn't that be something? Oh Lord have merged football too. 321 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:54.759 I could see it. I could see it. 322 00:19:54.960 --> 00:20:00.599 Kyrine Irving Jalen Brown as brother Miles's letting us know, 323 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.119 lift up Kyrie. I mean Kyrie did speak out and 324 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:07.359 they slapped him down right away. And Jalen Brown, thank 325 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:10.519 you that for that, Brother Miles from the NBA. Yeah, 326 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.640 so we do, we have some, We definitely have some. 327 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:16.400 But that, yeah, that United Front, if they all did 328 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:19.400 it together at the same time, they would shut it down. 329 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:23.400 Shut it down in the name of Martin King and 330 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:26.319 Fanny lou Aima and donnads the way. 331 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:35.279 That part, that part, Oh my god, we need that, 332 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:38.000 you know, we really need that. Today of one of 333 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:40.680 our viewers, you know, your your blood wife sent us 334 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:46.599 a message and said, don't talk over each other. So 335 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:48.960 if the audience want to know why we're being very 336 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:52.000 deliberate in our back and forth. The way the system works, 337 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:54.839 if we talk at the same time, it cancels one 338 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:57.400 of us out. And so she sent us a message 339 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:03.000 in the email today she said, my love, it don't 340 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:03.400 do it. 341 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:14.160 We understand, love you Love you. 342 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.839 So doctor Wis, and I being very very deliberate today. 343 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:17.240 Doc. 344 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:21.279 You know another leader that really spoke out against war. 345 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:25.680 It was Asa Phil Randolph. He said, if you make 346 00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:30.920 him unprofitable, you kill it right there. 347 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:35.359 Absolutely, And when he and Chauncy Owens, as editors of 348 00:21:35.400 --> 00:21:41.599 The Messenger, came out against the war in nineteen seventeen. 349 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:45.839 World War One, they had to go under. 350 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:51.160 You know, they stayed wild and Walter Trotter's basement because 351 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:53.920 police was hunting them down in Boston. And Walter Trotter 352 00:21:54.119 --> 00:21:57.200 was he was the editor of the Radical Guardian. You know, 353 00:21:58.359 --> 00:22:02.039 Harvard graduated with the boys, and Trotter was a bad brother. 354 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:04.559 Yes he was. 355 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:09.440 And everybody running scared from Rando. You kept him in 356 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:12.519 the basement because the police would drag all of them 357 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:13.279 out together. 358 00:22:14.559 --> 00:22:19.920 Gotta go in hiding, deep solid, yeah, just a stand 359 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:21.799 up for justice. You gotta go into hiding. 360 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:22.440 You know. 361 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:25.640 Trotter would be another great one for us to highlight 362 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:30.759 Doc in one of our teaching our teaching Thursday, so 363 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:33.039 I will definitely add him to the list. You are 364 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:37.000 listening to Truth Time with doctor Cornell West and Nina Turner. 365 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:39.200 When we come forward, we're gonna continue. 366 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:42.200 This definitely try our best to bring love and truth 367 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:43.680 together on Truth Time. 368 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:44.319 Doc. 369 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:46.400 It is that time, the time for us to dip 370 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:49.960 into our live chat that is happening over on the tube. 371 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:55.119 As my grandson says, link me up to the tube. Yeah, yea, 372 00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:59.440 So here we go. We got Morris Phillips. Good afternoon, 373 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:03.319 Senator and doctor West. Thank you for your courage. Now 374 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:08.359 we appreciate you, brother Morris Phillips so much, A blessed peacemaker. Greetings, 375 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:11.920 Senator Turner, Doctor West. I am so thankful for this show. 376 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:16.119 I look forward to it all day. Watching from Africa. 377 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:20.119 What's going down in the USA. I need to hear 378 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:24.200 from y'all to reground myself in hope. Ain't that the 379 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:24.799 truth that. 380 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:32.240 We do Africa as a source of hope, Because there's 381 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:38.519 some magni is there who was struggling against you in 382 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:40.880 this courage and determined. 383 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:48.039 Absolutely to keep this going. Brother Morris Phillips, again, Sigmund 384 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.440 Freud taught us that the mind can be trained, conditioned, 385 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:55.359 and programmed just like Pablo's dog. 386 00:23:59.279 --> 00:23:59.839 That's true. 387 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.119 Yeah, yeah, you were making that point. Doctor. 388 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:04.920 We can we can see the world anew, we can 389 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:08.359 dream it anew, we can act anew and do something different. 390 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:10.839 So I'm with you on that, brother Phillips, we both are. 391 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:16.720 We got Daniel Samir Karen, Good afternoon, Doctor Wester Senter Returner, 392 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:21.839 Good afternoon, kb La fam Well, good afternoon. We appreciate that, 393 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.440 brother Morris Phillips. Again, Paul Robinson had his passport taken. 394 00:24:27.799 --> 00:24:31.440 That oh yeah, thank you for reminding us of that. 395 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:34.960 And then he goes on and question what freedom, what freedom. 396 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.559 Was to speak? So he had his passport taken. That 397 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:38.440 is so true. 398 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:40.839 Oh Lord, yes, no. 399 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:45.119 And the text on him was so intense that he 400 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:49.640 was robbed of his livelihood. We've talked before on this 401 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:53.000