Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.
Speaker 2: The people in face masks like this are usually not them,
but good guys in history. By the way, was an
affront of their freedom during COVID. But again they seed
a little racism to put the mask on. Masks are okay,
and we are yelling about the blacks and the browns
and the gays.
Speaker 1: The bottom line is if we were going to do that,
we would have done it long before now. But we
are better than that. We are Americans. We, after suffering
from sixteen nineteen to the crap we just saw this weekend,
have still believed in the country that has yet to
not only believe in us, but show us any kind
of real love. So every day we generation after generation
have to prove that we are worthy to be on
a soil, in a community, in a that we built,
that we built. Racism is reactionary, and it reminds with
that photo, if we could put it up again, reminds
me of my mother's experience moving to Washington, newly married,
moving into a neighborhood in Washington, d c. And having
white folks because they were afraid of her and hated
her at the same time, and that one or two
other black families that moved in around that time. They
fled light hell, they got out, they got away. I
remember the nineteen sixties growing up in this city, and
my mama couldn't take me to certain businesses, certain parks,
certain communities because we were black. That reaction to us
is still what drives and animates this Republican Party today,
this president today, and those groups that have latched on
like a cancer so wretched and vile that there's very
little that we can do about it by ourselves. So
my hope is that as we look at the next
two hundred and fifty years, that each one of you
in your generation have a better shot at stamping out
this pollution, this hatred. Then clearly my mother and my
generation have had because we as a nation have failed.
If that picture is a twenty first century picture, the.
Speaker 2: People who like your mother, fought to make this country good,
make good on its promise, raised great kids with the
people that were racist also raise kids. And so that's
why when people say things like, oh, this isn't America,
I understand what they're trying to say, but it is
important that we understand this is America. This is as
American as anything out.
Speaker 1: To that of a final point on that talked with
a gentleman who in his late nineties said I don't
want to do this again.
Speaker 2: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at
seven p m.
Speaker 1: Eastern on ms now