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Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.

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Speaker 2: The people in face masks like this are usually not them,

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but good guys in history. By the way, was an

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affront of their freedom during COVID. But again they seed

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a little racism to put the mask on. Masks are okay,

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and we are yelling about the blacks and the browns

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and the gays.

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Speaker 1: The bottom line is if we were going to do that,

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we would have done it long before now. But we

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are better than that. We are Americans. We, after suffering

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from sixteen nineteen to the crap we just saw this weekend,

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have still believed in the country that has yet to

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not only believe in us, but show us any kind

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of real love. So every day we generation after generation

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have to prove that we are worthy to be on

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a soil, in a community, in a that we built,

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that we built. Racism is reactionary, and it reminds with

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that photo, if we could put it up again, reminds

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me of my mother's experience moving to Washington, newly married,

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moving into a neighborhood in Washington, d c. And having

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white folks because they were afraid of her and hated

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her at the same time, and that one or two

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other black families that moved in around that time. They

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fled light hell, they got out, they got away. I

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remember the nineteen sixties growing up in this city, and

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my mama couldn't take me to certain businesses, certain parks,

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certain communities because we were black. That reaction to us

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is still what drives and animates this Republican Party today,

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this president today, and those groups that have latched on

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like a cancer so wretched and vile that there's very

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little that we can do about it by ourselves. So

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my hope is that as we look at the next

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two hundred and fifty years, that each one of you

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in your generation have a better shot at stamping out

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this pollution, this hatred. Then clearly my mother and my

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generation have had because we as a nation have failed.

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If that picture is a twenty first century picture, the.

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Speaker 2: People who like your mother, fought to make this country good,

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make good on its promise, raised great kids with the

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people that were racist also raise kids. And so that's

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why when people say things like, oh, this isn't America,

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I understand what they're trying to say, but it is

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important that we understand this is America. This is as

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American as anything out.

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Speaker 1: To that of a final point on that talked with

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a gentleman who in his late nineties said I don't

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want to do this again.

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Speaker 2: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at

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seven p m.

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Speaker 1: Eastern on ms now