WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:03.319 I'm Jesse Junior walking forward to the Jesse Jackson Junior 2 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:09.279 show up on BLA Talk fifteen eighty yesterday walk Haigan Boy. 3 00:00:09.400 --> 00:00:15.160 I delivered the speech that I'm word at Martin Luther 4 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:19.239 King Junior's speech on April fourth, nineteen sex seven that 5 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:27.640 he titled Beyond Vietnam, Time to Break the Silence. I 6 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:32.880 titled my speech Beyond Venezuela A Time to Break the Silence. 7 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:36.399 I hope it was inspiring to people that were in attendance. 8 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:40.600 It's also available on my Facebook page, Jesse Jackson Junior. 9 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:43.479 It's got a little check next to my name Jesse 10 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.679 Jackson Junior Facebook page. You'll see the you scroll down, 11 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:49.960 you'll see the Beyond Venezuela speech. I want to share 12 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:51.880 with you very quickly before I bring up our Tenacious 13 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:56.479 Tuesday host Barber arn Wine. How I concluded, I concluded 14 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:00.159 with a how Doctor Howard Thurman began and opened his book. 15 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.479 He talked about his family in the deep Ryal South, 16 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.560 having pulled together all of the moneies that they could 17 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:11.560 find because they wanted one child in the Jim Crow 18 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.239 era as sharecroppers to be able to go to school 19 00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:17.920 and to go to college. So they pulled together their 20 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:21.680 pennies and their nickels and their quarters, and they bought 21 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:24.640 doctor Thurman a ticket, a ticket on a train to 22 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:30.239 Daytona Fort, Florida, where they were allowing colored children to 23 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:33.799 be talked. Doctor Thurman took his ticket, and he took 24 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:37.640 his trunk, and he put all of his important items 25 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:40.079 of his life, the broken pieces of his life, his memories, 26 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:41.319 and he put them all in a trunk and he 27 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:43.799 aded to the train station. And when he got there, 28 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:47.719 he presented his ticket, but the ticket agent or the 29 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:51.799 conductor refused to let his bag on the train, the 30 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.200 train of all the bag with all of his memories. 31 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:56.959 So he went over into the corner of the train 32 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:02.200 station and he began crying. It was a devastating moment 33 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:04.640 for him because he had lost hope. He had concluded 34 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:06.879 that he was not going to go to college because 35 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:10.599 he did not want to leave his trunk. So, staring 36 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.199 deep into a puddle of tears and saliva and yes, mucus, 37 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:18.639 he was drained. Everything was draining. When he wiped away 38 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:20.240 the tears from his eyes, and he looked up and 39 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.639 he saw a rustic, old pair of brown, beat up 40 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.719 boots and he looked from the floor and kept looking 41 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.120 up and saw a man standing there and overalls that 42 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:32.439 were tattered as well, and the young the old man 43 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:36.120 said to him, boy was wrong with you? And he said, 44 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.319 I got a ticket to go to Daytona to go 45 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:43.800 to school and go to college. But I can't take 46 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:45.960 my trunk. I don't have a ticket for my trunk, 47 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:47.680 so I've changed my mind. I'm not going to go. 48 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:50.560 The man reached into his pocket, pulled out a little 49 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:54.800 leather sack with a drawstring, and pulled out a few 50 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.319 coins and went to the ticket agent and he bought 51 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:03.879 a ticket for Howard Thurman's bag is trunk. Howard Thurman 52 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.439 dedicated his book to that man. When he got on 53 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:10.479 that train, he walked to the back of the train, 54 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:13.400 and all he remembers is the man walking in the 55 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:16.800 opposite direction on the train tracks as the train was 56 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:19.879 pulling away. He said he never got the man's name. 57 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:24.039 He dedicated his book with Head and Heart to a 58 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:28.199 man that he called the Stranger, and he thanked him 59 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:32.520 for restoring his hope. Doctor Howard Thurman would go on 60 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:35.919 to become a spiritual leader and guide to the late 61 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:39.240 Martin Luther King Junior, And in this moment, I can't 62 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:42.439 help but think that we need to pay more attention 63 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:47.120 to the strangers in our lives, those who are nameless 64 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:51.919 and faceless, because in my opinion, the stranger is God. 65 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:55.639 God intervened in Howard Thurman's life at just the right time, 66 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.120 and he went on to become the architect of our 67 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.960 liberation faith. I'm very honored in this hour. The Barbara Arnwine, 68 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:06.960 President and founder the Transformative Justice Coalition, internationally renowned for 69 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.919 contributions on critical justice issues, including the passage of the 70 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:12.520 landmark Civil Rights Act of nineteen ninety one and the 71 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:16.040 two thousand and six reauthorization provisions of the Voting Rights Act, 72 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:19.240 is our very special guest, Attorney Arnwine, Welcome forward to 73 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:20.600 the Jesse Jackson Junior Show. 74 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:22.600 It's great to be here. 75 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.560 Good evening, good afternoon. It's just wonderful to be here. 76 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:29.720 I am so grateful that you're here, doctor Arnwine. Attorney 77 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:31.839 Barbara Arnwine, tell us what's going on in the world 78 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:33.079 and what we should be focusing on. 79 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.480 Well, first of all, thank you for that Howard Thurman story. 80 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:40.199 I had never heard that one, and it's beautiful and 81 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:46.279 it's so instructive to all of us about the importance 82 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.240 of strangers. You know, in the Biblical times, it was 83 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:56.399 considered simple right to treat strangers poorly and you were 84 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:02.959 required to show some so uh, you know, care compassion 85 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:06.839 for strangers. That's why the road of Somarthia, right, it 86 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.560 is always talked about in the uh you know, in 87 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:14.360 the biblical tradition. Uh So that's just so powerful. I 88 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:15.360 just loved that story. 89 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:18.079 And he was going to Daytona. So what he was going. 90 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:22.319 To to uh be you know at one of the 91 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:26.360 amazing you know schools that we know we're founded, you know, 92 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:30.279 thereby you know, some of our incredible you know leaders. 93 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:32.680 So it's it's just quite quite the story. 94 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:38.519 I I have been, of course, thinking about doctor King. 95 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:41.480 And Coretta Scott King. 96 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:47.240 I've been thinking about them with such a passion this 97 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:55.399 week because last week your president decided to disrespect everybody right. 98 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:59.759 The first thing he did was he declared, uh publicly 99 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.800 that the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four nineties 100 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:08.480 and the Voting Rights Act in nineteen sixty five fair 101 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:09.680 housing activ. 102 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:27.160 And information that worked. 103 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.120 By his timing, by he would use this opportunity so 104 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:36.000 close to this holiday to make such a races statement. 105 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:37.800 And folks, the. 106 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:41.040 Reason why I say is it's ridiculous is that if 107 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:43.879 you know anything about employment law, which is you know, 108 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.759 a big part of the nineteen sixty four Civil Rights Act, 109 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:50.519 the Title seven, you'll know that it's helped too. 110 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:58.959 Your show on k Bilge Look fifteen eighty, we're going 111 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.160 to talk about Trump and what he did last week 112 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:03.800 with Barbara Arnwe more on KBLA Talk fifteen eighty when 113 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:06.480 we come forward. Our very special guest on Tenacious Tuesday 114 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:09.360 is Barbara Arnwine, the president and founder of the Transformative 115 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:12.759 Justice Coalition. Just before we came forward, you were talking 116 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:16.519 about the president's speech and comments that he made. I 117 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:19.639 believe he also tweeted it as well. Yes, a direct 118 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:22.079 attacked on nineteen sixty four Civil Rights Act, the Voting 119 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:27.040 Rights Act, as well as the open housing legislation. Yes, 120 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:29.480 jewels of the civil rights movement. 121 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.199 And he was making it very clear that he was 122 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:37.040 playing the zero sum game. He was telling white Americas 123 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:40.800 that somehow these acts had harmed them, that they were 124 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:42.519 quote bad for white people. 125 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:43.360 He lied. 126 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:48.839 He lied because first of all, his comments were just 127 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:52.120 meant to be racially divisive he was trying to make 128 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:57.680 white people resent black people and make impositive himself with 129 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.680 somehow their great white Hope, the great Savior. 130 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:06.959 But his premise is just factually inaccurate. 131 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:12.600 Because white women were some of the biggest benefish series 132 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.639 of the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty four because 133 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:21.759 it covered race, age, national origin, sex. 134 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:25.879 So people got to understand that. 135 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:31.879 It also required Entitled seven that any job criteria had 136 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:33.120 to be job related. 137 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:38.039 Guess who that benefited, not just white women, it benefited 138 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:40.879 white men. Think about it. 139 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:43.919 When I grew up, if you wanted to be a 140 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.759 police officer, they insisted that you be what at least 141 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:55.039 five eleven six feet tall, and it was you know quote. 142 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:59.919 They felt that was more intimidating to people on the street. 143 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:04.360 So even white men who were shorter than that couldn't 144 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.000 get a job, not get a job. 145 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:08.960 Yeah, I want to share that. I would have shared 146 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.600 that because Dad and I often laugh at that particular 147 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:15.000 application of the law. Yes, let me expound upon that. 148 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:18.000 Do you realize that short white men could not be 149 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:22.480 state troopers in Alabama and and Texas and louis in 150 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.440 Georgia and the Deep South because they were short? Right? 151 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.159 They had a requirement and you had to be six 152 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:34.039 feet plus or taller and top more over people in 153 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.919 order to be a state trooper. Now, what kind of 154 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:41.279 qualification is that other than that the Civil Rights Act 155 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.440 of nineteen sixty four and that subsequent legislation laid the 156 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:50.000 foundation for them to have a claim of discrimination based 157 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:55.159 on their height or base their weight. Doesn't just benefit 158 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:57.960 black people. It made America better. 159 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:02.840 It made so many need people better, including American with disabilities, 160 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:06.320 because people had all these rights, They had all these 161 00:10:06.559 --> 00:10:11.399 really bizarre notions about who was best for jobs, and 162 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:15.360 they had nothing to do with their capabilities and their abilities. 163 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:20.360 And so, you know, prior to the pre nineteen sixty 164 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:26.519 four civil rights era was one of massive non meritocracy, 165 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:32.919 massive non you know competence in you know, uh, you know, incompetence, 166 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:35.360 and people just don't understand that. 167 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:40.080 And so you know, he just totally missed, miss talked 168 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:42.720 that era. You know, by the way, when we were 169 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:45.559 talking about howd Thurman I was, it was Mary. 170 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:49.559 McLeod mccoon's university that he probably was headed to the 171 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:50.519 Daytona Beach. 172 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:52.639 How I just had to you know, put that up. 173 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:57.480 Of course, during the break because Mary McLeod was so amazing, 174 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.639 uh and so committed to education your people. 175 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.840 I'm I'm I'm thinking also that uh that, Barbara, we 176 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:10.000 have to give some consideration in light of our reflection 177 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:13.919 on Martin Luther King Junior, that what's taking place in 178 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:18.679 South America, from Cuba to Haiti, to Colombia to Venezuela, 179 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:22.399 even the attacks on Nigeria and now the president's desire 180 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.919 to it feeling it feels inevitable that he's going to 181 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:29.399 provide some kind of military action in Greenland. Barbara, bring 182 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:30.759 us up to date on your thoughts on that. 183 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.440 Yes, a couple of things everyone. First of all, I 184 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.639 wish I had a picture and Gena, if you do, 185 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.840 please share it. Doctor Martin Luther King getting his Nobel 186 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.639 Peace Prize, uh, because somebody else we know don't. 187 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:53.399 Have one, losing his little mind over. 188 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:58.799 It and even even playing geo political politics on the 189 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:01.960 basis of does he get a little Nobel prize try 190 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.559 to steal somebody else's right? 191 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:04.320 Uh? 192 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:04.720 You know. 193 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:08.159 So I just want people to understand that, you know, 194 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:12.200 one of my favorite speeches is, in fact doctor King's 195 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:16.720 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize Peace Prize why is 196 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:21.000 that important? Please go listen to that speech. He talks 197 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:25.480 about that. You know, he talks in at length about 198 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.000 the fact that he's accepting that prize not for himself, 199 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:34.879 but he's accepting it for all the people who suffered 200 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:39.360 and fought for the for civil rights, all the people 201 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:42.120 who were in the streets. He talks about those who 202 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:45.000 were killed, He talks about those who were maimed and injured. 203 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.159 He talks about the water hosing of you know people 204 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.559 by these evil you know forces, police forces. He talks 205 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:55.039 about the beings. He talks about all of that, and 206 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:57.440 he said, these are the people, this is who I 207 00:12:57.519 --> 00:12:59.960 accept this award for because they're the ones who get. 208 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:03.440 All this work, and I'm just a figurehead, a spokesperson. 209 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.759 He's very clear about it. He also takes his time 210 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.559 in that speech to talk about the truth. You know, 211 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:15.200 what he's called many times the three triplets of evil, 212 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:22.120 and that's racism, militarism, and materialism. Yes, and he spends 213 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:28.600 a lot of time on militarism and American colonialism and 214 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:33.279 European colonialism, and he even talks about the struggle against 215 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:38.600 apartheid in South Africa, and that speech he talks about 216 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:44.679 humanity's need to stop being so you know, greedy, you know, 217 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:49.399 and enslaving. People are pressing people because you want their resources, right, 218 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:53.320 you want their mineral resources. He talks about this, and 219 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:58.519 he talks about the cruelty of your colonial and settler behavior. 220 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:03.200 So I won't go read that speech because when you 221 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:04.399 read the speech or you. 222 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:09.080 Listen to it, you realize what Deveezuela is about, because 223 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:11.399 that brings it fully home. 224 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.759 I mean you're like, you know, as they said the law, 225 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.159 I had to connect it up, you know, because you're like, 226 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:17.519 where's she going with all this? 227 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:24.440 Because you know that militarism is what is driving the US. 228 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:27.320 Is that you know, we quote have military power. I 229 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:30.720 want everybody to know something. Who is the largest military 230 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:32.120 force in the world. 231 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:34.799 Think about it, Think. 232 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:41.159 About the United States? The United States by multiples? No, no, okay. 233 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:44.720 No, it's I mean, and I understand that if you 234 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:49.080 go nation by nation, yes, the combined forces of NATAL 235 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:53.799 are the largest military force in the whole world. I mean, 236 00:14:53.879 --> 00:15:00.000 that's what everybody misses. Why do you think he's attacking Greenland? 237 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:01.559 It's for the resources. 238 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:04.799 I you know, told you guys months ago, a year ago, 239 00:15:04.840 --> 00:15:07.960 about Peter till it is worn in Greenland and all 240 00:15:08.039 --> 00:15:11.440 this madness and uh and about you know jd Vance, 241 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.679 who's depending on teal and why he was the first 242 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:18.120 trip he took what was to Greenland and all of this. 243 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:23.080 But there's another thing that we got to understand, the 244 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:27.519 unraveling of Natal. Who benefits from the unraveling a natal? 245 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:31.159 It's not just the US occupying Greenland. 246 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:32.360 Who benefits from. 247 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:33.519 The unraveling of Natal? 248 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:36.480 Mm one pool ten. 249 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:42.279 Yeah, absolutely, Pu. You know, bro, let me ask you 250 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:45.320 a question about about that same speech, since we're right 251 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:51.039 there at beyond a time to speak. Yes, I did 252 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:53.000 a little research. You can google it, and I hope 253 00:15:53.000 --> 00:15:55.480 that the listeners will google it. Ask the question, what 254 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:59.399 was the Dow Jones industrial average at the end of 255 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.919 nineteen eighty It should say four or four four hundred 256 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:06.639 and four. Ask what the Dow Jones industrial average was 257 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:11.000 at the hour of Martin Luther King Junior's death. Should 258 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.639 be around seven I think one thousand. I think one thousand. 259 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:18.440 At the beginning of the Reagan administration, the Dow Jones 260 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:24.440 industrial average seven thousand. At the end of the Obama administration, 261 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:27.720 the Dow Jones industrial average nineteen thousand, and this is 262 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:31.840 the indicator for the US economy today. Today. Last Friday, 263 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.360 the Dow Jones closed at forty nine thousand. 264 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:37.440 That's correct. 265 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:40.159 And I'm going to say this because I believe we 266 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:44.480 have reached a tipping point Historically, in this two hundred 267 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:48.879 and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution 268 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:53.360 has guided the economy in the direction of human rights 269 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:57.639 that benefit all of the American people. It has benefited 270 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.200 people around the world, but it's certainly prioritize the American people. 271 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:05.799 The new technology which doctor King also talks about in 272 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:10.880 that speech, computers and machinery have now reached the point 273 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:16.119 that the profit maximization system of the United States does 274 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:21.119 not need people any longer in order to maximize profit. 275 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.440 So when the down Jones hits sixty thousand and some 276 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:33.720 of us celebrate, or seventy thousand or eighty thousand, a 277 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:37.599 smaller number of people are going to be operating the 278 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.920 most efficient businesses in human history, and they don't need 279 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:48.839 people to operate them. That's a real problem, yes, or civilization. 280 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:55.000 That's a problem for our moral code. Making revolution in 281 00:17:55.039 --> 00:18:00.119 the United States inevitable as people can't get a sand 282 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:02.720 and can't get a lot of red, and can't afford 283 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:07.119 their mortgages, and can't afford to put their children through school. 284 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:13.039 When our quality inevitability until the Congress of the United States, 285 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:17.920 the Senate, the courts reign the economic system in in 286 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:20.880 the direction of human rights for all of the American people. 287 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:22.680 Barbara, Oh, you said it. 288 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:23.400 You said it. 289 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.359 I mean, I don't know if people saw it, but 290 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.480 please look up Elon Musk's his speech from last week 291 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:35.759 where he talks about this very issue and he tells 292 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:39.440 people has learned to tell people don't save up for retirement. 293 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:40.720 Did you see that? 294 00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:41.559 That's what he said. 295 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.160 He said, don't save up for retirement because you know, 296 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:49.799 we're gonna have robots doing everything and everybody's gonna be okay. 297 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:53.000 And I'm going, huh, how what what are. 298 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:54.039 You talking about? 299 00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:58.720 You know, all of this stuff, because he but he 300 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:04.319 was talking about this people. Every time the unemployment rate 301 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:11.119 goes up, the dow goes up. It's it's one of 302 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.240 those you know things. They don't they don't listen. They're 303 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:18.759 not about everybody being employed. They're about you know, making 304 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:21.440 as much money as they can. They're so happy about 305 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:25.279 this whole Venezuela madness. And you know, there's a little 306 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.720 bit on the fence about Greenland because they know what 307 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:31.240 it means if natal disbands or you know, gets shredded. 308 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:35.000 So there's a lot, you know, going on there. 309 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:38.160 But I just think that in this country, I was 310 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:41.680 reading these stats, we have what three hundred and thirty 311 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:47.559 plus million people, twenty two million of those folks, I 312 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:51.440 have a networth of at least a million dollar, and 313 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:58.640 nine hundred and two people are billionaires. Nine hundred and 314 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:04.079 two people in the United States are billionaires. 315 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:08.319 Come on, think about it. 316 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:12.880 Yeah, the upward tift of income and wealth in that 317 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:19.039 direction has us constantly battling with members of our representatives, 318 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:23.519 of our House of Representatives, asking for more and more benefits. 319 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.200 Remember now, the Affordable Care Act, which covers forty four 320 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:32.119 million people. Yes, are people who work every day but 321 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:37.200 can't afford healthcare. So the Affordable Care Act directs healthcare 322 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:40.640 in the direction of more coverage. Yes, we need dental, 323 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:44.799 we need vision, we need hearing. The Affordable Care Act 324 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:48.400 does not cover a lot, but it wasn't meant just 325 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:51.400 to be static. It was meant to be improved upon 326 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:55.880 and expanded to include more coverage so that more working 327 00:20:55.920 --> 00:21:00.440 Americans could experience the benefits of the system. Yes, the 328 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:04.319 supplemental Nutrition Assistance program. Yes, we're working one, two and 329 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:08.319 three jobs and still can't afford to eat. These numbers 330 00:21:08.359 --> 00:21:12.079 are going to expand, and they're going to expand drastically. 331 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:15.960 If in fact, we do not have a government of 332 00:21:16.200 --> 00:21:19.279 for and by the people, not a government of for 333 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:24.640 and by computers and algorithms, but for the people, were people. 334 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:32.640 And government of all the guards, of all of ours, 335 00:21:32.960 --> 00:21:35.400 all of guards, all of guards. 336 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:38.759 All they care about is making money. I mean, come on, 337 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:41.640 they're going to support making anybody. 338 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:43.640 That's all they do. I'm Jesse Jackson Junior listening to 339 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:46.119 the Jesse Jackson Junior Show on KBL Talk fifteen eighty more. 340 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:48.240 When we come forward with Barbara on Wine or did 341 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:50.680 the Jesse Jackson Junior Show, We're on the grind with 342 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:53.880 Barbara arn Wine and Barbara before we return to the conversation, 343 00:21:55.240 --> 00:22:00.000 we're still waiting for the Kalai decision. Yes, are you 344 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.319 at it shortly? Are you expecting it this week or 345 00:22:02.359 --> 00:22:03.079 maybe next week? 346 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:05.640 No, it's not clear. 347 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:12.920 They did issue two other decisions today. Then they were yes, 348 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:17.400 and they were a unanimous decisions. So the court so 349 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:22.559 non we're voting, but it's telling that they did issue 350 00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:27.519 that means what they've issued our five decisions now, so 351 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:33.519 it's everybody is on their pins and needles over Trump 352 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:36.920 versus Cook argument tomorrow, the oral argument. 353 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:37.240 In that case. 354 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:40.680 Will you know Trump versus Lisa Cook, That argument will 355 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:41.880 be tomorrow. 356 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:45.599 But and people are just talking about the tariff's case. 357 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:46.720 So it may be. 358 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:51.799 Remember when the court does something that is absolutely horrific 359 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:55.279 that they know is gonna make people scream and holler 360 00:22:55.559 --> 00:22:59.920 and go to the polls and vote and just be outraged. 361 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:07.440 They hold those decisions until until the very last opinion 362 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:10.920 issuing date of the term usually you know, July first 363 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:13.839 or whatever, because they know people aren't paying attention. 364 00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:16.759 So we've got a minute, Barbara, Since we got a minute, 365 00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:18.880 I want we want to go to a clip based 366 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.079 on our last conversation h that Genia was able to 367 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:24.079 pull up. Based upon your request. 368 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:53.920 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mister President, Excellences, ladies and gentlemen, 369 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:04.960 I accept the Nobel for peace. At a moment when 370 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:12.519 twenty two million Negroes of the United States are engaged 371 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:17.799 in a creative battle to end the long night of 372 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:24.839 racial injustice. I accept this award on behalf of a 373 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:34.319 civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a 374 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:41.599 majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign 375 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:47.920 of freedom and a rule of justice. I'm mindful that 376 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:55.279 only yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, our children crying out for 377 00:24:55.440 --> 00:25:03.720 brotherhood were answered with fire, snarling dogs, and even death. 378 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:13.000 I am mindful that only yesterday in Philadelphia, Mississippi, young 379 00:25:13.119 --> 00:25:19.400 people seeking to secure the right to vote were brutalized 380 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:29.640 and murdered. I'm mindful that debilitating and grinding poverty afflicts 381 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:35.880 my people and chains him to the lowest rung of 382 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:43.319 the economic latter. Therefore, I must ask why this prize 383 00:25:43.400 --> 00:25:48.480 is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed 384 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:54.480 to unrelenting struggle, to a movement which has not yet 385 00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:59.160 won the very peace and brotherhood which is the essence 386 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:09.240 of the Nobel Prize. After contemplation, I conclude that this award, 387 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:15.559 which I receive on behal for that movement, is a 388 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:22.960 profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial 389 00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:28.319 political and moral questions of our time, the need for 390 00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:34.400 man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence 391 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:44.160 and oppression. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Negroes of 392 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:52.400 the United States, following the people of India, have demonstrated 393 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:59.599 that nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral 394 00:26:59.720 --> 00:27:09.599 force which makes for social transformation. Sooner or later, all 395 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:13.759 the peoples of the world will have to discover a 396 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:19.279 way to live together in peace and thereby transform this 397 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:27.000 pending cosmic elogy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. This 398 00:27:27.079 --> 00:27:32.920 is to be achieved. Man must evolve for all human 399 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:41.599 conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The 400 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:44.400 foundation of such a method is love. 401 00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:48.880