Cities Are Running Out of Burial Space | Bakari Sellers

but do you want to shut down to school? But I realized this might help everybody, you know, because on the one hand, you've got Black History Month, which a lot of people don't like, and then you've got like schools that are open, which a lot of people also don't like. But a lot of people who don't like Black History Month don't want the schools to be closed.

It's like an intersection. So maybe that'll help now because there will be in school and people be like, we're gonna learn about Harriet Tubman today and be like, all right, shut down to school. It's cool, COVID, send them home,

send them home. It's interesting. You know what I'm excited for this this Black History Month is how teachers are going to teach everything that they want to without running a foul of like the critics of critical race theory, because no one seems to know what critical race theory actually is or isn't. Teachers are afraid. They don't want to get suthed. They don't want to lose their jobs. Basically, like during Black History Month, every teacher is gonna sound

like rap songs on the radio. You know, they're just gonna have to like edit all the pots out. They're gonna be like today, everyone, we're gonna be learning about Harriet Tubman and how she and then she and all day and then she lived happily ever after. It's gonna be like every story is gonna sound like this. It's gonna be like, Hi, kids, he has a story of Martin Luther Kane Jr. He was born, and then he and he preached for a while, and he was and

then Barack Obama. Coming to you from the heart of Times swear in New York City, the only city in America. It's the Daily Show. Here's edition tonight. No more rings for Brady. We're all gonna die, dude, but glory sellers. This is the Daily Show with Trevor no Hey, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Daily Show. I'm Ever Noah and joining me for today's headlines is our very own Roy would Jr. What's going on? Roy? Happy Black History Month? Happy Black History Month to you, bro. Yeah.

I like Black History Month, man, because this is the time to reflect and think about our past, right and everything that is important from the past, which reminds me. I don't know if I got that that two from you that you owed me remember from the Super Bowl from two years ago when we bet. Yeah, I think it's good for us to let the past stay in the past. Happy Black History Month. All right, let's jump straight into today's headlines. We kick things off with big

news from the world of sports. We're two weeks away from the Super Bowl, one day a year where men can express their emotions openly, and one familiar face who won't be there this year is Tom Brady, quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and done with almost as many

rings as shan Chi. Brady has appeared in every Super Bowl dating back to two I don't know if that's that is right, might be, but if it feels weird watching it without him this year, you better get used to it, because he's never going to be in it ever again. Breaking news this hour, seven times Super Bowl champion Tom Brady is retiring from football, he removed all down. The forty four year old quarterback played two NFL secenes and including twenty seasons with the New England Patriots, he

won seven Super Bowls. I want to read from his statement here. This is difficult for me to write, but here it goes. I have loved my NFL career, and now it is time to focus my time and energy on other things that require my attention. Are the things that require my attention. It's a weird reason to retire. It sounds like he's got like household chores. I've loved playing in the NFL, but I've got twenty years of

laundry piling up, so it's time to call it quits. Guys, but look that you love them or hated him, you have to admire tom Brady's journey. I mean, when this dude started his career, he was picked almost dead lost in the draft, and yet he ended up dominating the game for twenty years, which is an important lesson for the little kids out there who might be coming in lost. And that lesson is this probably won't happen to you. You see, this was only gonna happen one time, and

Tom Brady took it. I'm sorry. So if you keep coming in dead lost, you probably want to quit and do something else. You got this now, If we're being honest, this retirement isn't a surprise to anyone, right. What is surprising is that at four years old, this dude was still dominating in the NFL. Think about it, the NFL when people car accident each other for a living, and this guy was doing that in his forties. Most people I know in their forties are like, ah, my back hurts.

I think I slept too long. And now that he's put up his cleats, the question is was Tom Brady the best football player of all time? Some people say yes because he holds all the records and won the most Super Bowls. Other people say no because he didn't do that for my team. So it'll be a big debate for a while, but there's no doubt that he is a legend of the game. So congrats Tom Brady on a wonderful, wonderful career. Although sadly it means that now Gronk has to be put down. Let's go out

behind the bard, Gronk. We're gonna take you someplace special. You know what, I you know what? I respect about Tim Brady for the most part, man, is that he kept his scandals on the field. You know, the flate gate with the ball and then whether or not it was a tuck rule fumble way back in the day. Honestly, I think like the Maga had his locker. That was probably the biggest we don't know about Brady. No drug, no arrest, no drama getting arrested, not none of that.

It's wife not murdered. His wife is very unmurdered. All right, But let's move on to the hottest fat on the internet right now. And no, I'm not talking about hardcore pornography. I'm talking about Word, all, the online puzzle game that's turned your Twitter timeline into a lame version of Tetris. Word is especially interesting because of where it came from. You see, it was just invented by one guy in Brooklyn who just made it as a gift for his girlfriend,

which is really sweet. Oh, already subtle way to tell her that she doesn't know how to spell. I need you to brush up on your five letter words. You're really embarrassing me at parties. Anyway, His vision for Word was for it to be a simple, friendly game, totally free, no ads, no app and not addictive, just pure fun.

And yesterday that vision paid off when The New York Times announced that it had bought word All from the Sky for more than a million dollars, which is great for the guy, But now everyone else is wondering will would will still be free? So CNN asked that question to the New York Times and the answer was, uh, I don't know you guys, you gotta tell me what you think. Jonathan. I don't want to make this a hostile interview, but you need to answer the question that

every word will user wants to know. Will you commit right here and now that forever more, in perpetuity, word will will be free to everybody. Thank you for having me. It's great to be here. Um. And yes, when the world, when when world comes to New York Times, it will be free to play for everyone that doesn't answer my question, when it comes to the New York Times, it will be free. How about five years from now, ten years from now? I wish I had that kind of crystal ball,

but I don't. So you won't commit that world will always be free because it's free. Now, that's right. It is free when it comes to the Times, it will be free. And yeah, well that took a weird turn. I mean, at the beginning he was like, you're gonna make us pay for word all? And then all of a sudden he was like, are you gonna make us pay for World? Will answer me, bitch. You see how nervous the New York Times guy, because in the beginning

he was like, yeah, it's gonna be fair. Then the and he was like, look, man, just please, man, come on man. Thats CNN anchor has the skepticism of a guy who's been burned by a drug dealer. You know, He's like, wow, so this is totally free. And then a week later he's like, I see what you did. Yeah, I see what you did. Okay, I'll ask your dick, but I see what you did. You You got me, man, you got me good. Now, I don't know if you

play wordle I do, And I'll be honest. When I heard this, I was kind of sad, yeah, because I was like, does this mean that world will loses its purity? You know, like, now are we going to have to pay to play? Or is the website gonna start tracking me? Am I gonna start getting targeted ads for the letter F. You you're asking the wrong questions. You hasking the wrong question. The question is not whether or not word is going to remain free. The question is will word will still

be easy? Have you tried to do a New York Times cross word postle? I don't know nothing. The words in word that the world that that's the beauty of word of word is for people that I'm kind of dumb. I don't know. You know how many five letter words there are in the English languages, over one hundred and fifty and the word of database there's only Oh so it's just the dumb words. It's the good crank shift spark.

Is that fine? I don't know, but I just know once the New York Times to get their hands on it, they're gonna add all the words and oh, you got word or wrong? Today? Today's where it was six And I ain't with that. I just need world to stay free, stay dumb. Well, anyway, speaking of things that are popular online, let's move on to today's most insane viral video. It comes to us out of suburban Pennsylvania, and if you were in the mood for dinner and the show last night, well, this,

my friends, is where you wanted to be. CBS Philadelphia says a massive brawl broke out and a Pennsylvania Golden Corral restaurant over an alleged steak shortage. A former restaurant employee says he was told that the fight may have started when the buffet ran out of steak and a customer cut in line. Take a close listen, and a man can be heard saying all I wanted was some steak. America, America. This is you. This is how you know COVID is over for people. Americans are ready to go indoors again

and fist fight over food. We're back, baby, we're back. We're back. Give me some of that. Let us bitch. I mean, the only silver lining in this story is that the fight happened at a Golden Corral, because if that fight was at a waffle house, the high chairs would have still had kids inside them. Do you see that guy throwing the chair? By the way he can throw He just smashed the light, you know what the lights like, I wasn't even involved in this ship. Now

the light is smashed. Why are you through? Also a lot of people don't understand like how to throw a chair like they think they know how to throw a chair. A lot of people you can see these were first time chair throwers. These are these were like buffet people. And then they were just like the buffet has never not had the buffet. They didn't know what to do. You can see the people just losing their minds. The

I'd just kicked in at that moment. And I know Golden Corral is probably embarrassed by this, but think about what a huge compliment this actually is to the cooks in your kitchen. Your steak is riot worthy. Yeah, right now, the managers at Ruth's Chris are probably yelling at their chefs, just like, why isn't anyone getting stabbed over our steaks? Huh?

Step up your game, people, step up a game. I saw this, which oh, by the way side, but I don't know if you notice it not, uh, form a Golden Correl employee right here, Royal Wood Jr. Florida, tellus in Florida, nor from my roads at Golden Quarante two thousand one. Baby, I've been in them trenches. I've never seen nothing like that in my life. But I was calm when I was watching the video. No panic did you think people are gonna get hurt. Yeah, No, nobody

was gonna get hurt in that fight. Have you eaten at a buffet in America? Okay, then you know this is the knife. I stole a lot of knives when I worked at Golden Correl. This is an authentic buffet knife from a traditional American buffet restaurant. I want you to see the tip right there. Doll can't stab nobody. You can't get no poke action with that. So nobody was gonna die in that. You can't saw nobody to

death at a buffet fight. That's the one thing that I really appreciated about that video is that nobody was on the ground. That's the thing also like and for you to talk about waffle House, don't put Olden Corral's name in the same bucket as waffle house. Well, I didn't mean to offend anybody. I know you love like the southern little offended Broca. Waffle House fights are one

on one. Golden Corral is a family experience, and you look at that tape, everybody's fighting, family coming together, still unified even in violence. Golden Corral on mission, bro I didn't notice that, and I'm sorry for lumping them all in very disrespect apologize, very disrespectful. Also a lot of different different races in there, a lot of white people in that fight too. That was the thing that I appreciate.

It was that black history, white people allies fighting with well not with black in the same fight, in the same fight about the same thing. Pretty much. Yeah, yeah, man, but yeah, I got I got my name tech man. It's the one thing I kept. I never quit Golden Corral because you never know, you just left. I kind of just I told him I'll be back. So technically you have two busses, right, You've got like me. And then to someone at Golden Corral was like, yeah, Roy

works for me as well. Yeah, his name is Kim mccrack real quick in case you see me. Do you need to know that I'm on the clock. Get my bread? All right? Well, I guess you learned something new about your friends every day. Well you know what, let's let's take a quick break, um, and when we come back, we'll look at all the exciting ways that you can get rid of your corps. You don't want to miss it, don't. I don't think you don't have another job. Hang on

this let's voting crowd. Hey, Mrs mccragan's mine. I'm on the way, Yes, sir, bring me back a starter please, Roy, Welcome back to the Daily Show. We have all experienced supply chain issues recently. Right, you order something, it doesn't arrive on time. It's happening to everything. Some groceries are harder to find, cause are harder to buy. And I was supposed to have a studio audience by now by apparently they're stuck on a container ship off the coast

of California. But believe it or not, these supply chain issues might affect you even after you're dead. From the pandemic to quarries closing. Businesses that make monuments for grave sites are having trouble getting granted. A lot of the products that we sell, it's mind in India or Brazil or Italy, and when they all sat down, they weren't sending anything else. This originally would take oh maybe two

months to get now eight months. Okay, Before we move on, can I just say for a second, I love a gravestone that shows someone's priorities, you know, like most of the time it's like loving father, devoted husband. But then this dude was just like, screw you family, I'll be playing golf with Jesus. And I'm sorry about eight months is too long to wait for a gravestone. I mean, after eight months, how are you even going to remember where you buried the person? All right, everyone, you guys

will remember this leaf and what it looks like. Okay, we'll come put the grave stone here in eight months. You got, everybody. It's an orange leaf, a little tinge of yellow something like that. So obviously this is extremely

inconvenient for a lot of people. But it got me thinking like, maybe this gravestone problem could be an opportunity to re examine how modern society handles the dead, because it's actually kind of a big problem, starting with cemeteries, because yes, cemeteries are the number one place god kids go to make out, But it turns out they're also getting more crowded than a Barris Johnson quarantine party. We've

got a grave issue on our hands. As the world's population increases and becomes increasingly urban, the cities of the world are running out of room to bury their dead. In France, the cemeteries in big cities are overcrowded. In l A's rapidly filling cemeteries, some family plots being listed at over a million dollars. New by laws passed in Vancouver will allow the city's only cemetery to bury multiple

unrelated people in the same grave. This means that up to three people who want to participate will be able to share a grave. Okay, okay, getting buried with two other people, I mean that raises a few questions from my side, like like what is the body arrangement? You know, are we are we stacking them like pancakes or are we dropping them in vertical like crayons? Or are they spooning? Because I mean, if we're spooning, that's cool and everything.

I just want to know who's gonna be the big spoon because I don't mind doing it for a while, but I'm not gonna do it for eternity. I want to be cuddled to, you know. Plus my arm is gonna be dead, like dead dead, And I don't know a lot of people right now might be like Trevor, you can't be putting dead bodies on top of each other. What about their dignity? Yeah, but think about it. Have you been to New York? People already stackingly living on top of each other. I mean, if we have to

have roommates, why not the dead? And look, I get wanting to be buried in the city that you lived in. I understand that. You know, it makes it easier for your loved ones to come and visit your grave, and you have a short to commute when you go to haunt them every night. But the fact is, cities are

running out of space. And it's not even just a space issue, because now we're learning that traditional burial methods also leave behind a toxic trail for the people who are still living right now when most Americans consider a traditional burial takes a big toll on the environment. About four point three million gallons of embombing fluid are used

in US burials each year. The typical body requires three pounds of this formal in solution and sends a hundred and twenty gallons of untreated funeral waste directly into the sewage system, including blood, fecal matter, organ fluid, and carcinogenic chemicals, as well as whatever unknown diseases the body contains. An option that's becoming more popular in the US is cremation, but despite its apparent minimalism creation is resource intens of two.

It takes around twenty eight gallons of fuel to turn just one person into ash. You're heating a body for two hours up to eight degrees. You're releasing pollutants into the atmosphere's most significantly and mercury. Each year, Creations in the United States released the same amount of c O two seventy cars. Yeah, it turns out all that stuff that we do to dead bodies is super bad for the environments. I mean, I guess on the plus side, all that toxic ship we dump into the sewers, it's

gonna make some cool new ninja turtles. But aside from that, it is pretty disturbing. And by the way, I don't know about you, but this really makes me look differently at the mafia. You know, all this time, I thought throwing bodies into the river was just a way to cover up their crimes, But it turns out they just really care about the environment. So our modern burial rituals come with a lot of baggage. Does the space issue, there's the environment, and I haven't even gotten to how

awkward it is to tip the grave. Digger. Thanks for burying Nana he has a dollar three hundred dollars. I don't know, man, this is weird. And while traditional burials aren't going away anytime soon, there are more and more sustainable alternatives out there for people who decide to think outside the coffin. Around the world, there's a growing to

make funeral practices more sustainable. One of these is a process called acquamation that is essentially a way of dissolving a body and uses a heated bath of potassium hydroxide and water that can be safely disposed down the train. It's more environmentally friendly since there's zero toxic emissions and it has about one tenth of the carbon footprint as a cremation. Washington State Governor j Insley just signed a law making it the first state allowing human composting, or

turning a body into soil. Recomposition is the ultimate green way to go using an eighth of the energy of cremation, and there are other options. The infinity burial suit, a shroud that helps the body decompose, or the eco pot where your body becomes the root of a new tree. That's how I want to go out. What eco pot? Do you hear that I want? That I die. They turned me into a tree. I grow. I provide for the community with my fruits, provide shade for the kids

when they play. When I get old, they chopped me down and turned me into toilet paper. Then I get in that ass, Cindy. Yeah, you said I had zero chance, but now you're wiping your ass with me. I'm in there, girl. I played the long game. No seriously, Actually like this idea of green burial. I mean, yeah, it's good for the environment and all that, but it will also help you flex on everyone else when you get to heaven.

Oh you got buried. Yeah, I just thought that that was kind of bad for the environment, so I was melted in acid instead. I guess I'm just a little bit better than you are as a person, Mr Rogers. Well, anyway, for more on the alternatives to traditional burials, we turned now to our burial experts, Ronnie chang Hey. First off, happy lunar New Year, Ronnie. Yeah, well, thanks for making me come to work to talk about death. That's not bad luck at all. Oh my bad. I guess I

didn't think about that. Sorry. Well, what a surprise. But at least I got a chance to pick up some flowers. Well, Valentine's Day. They're just sitting out here for free. I don't think they're free running. I think someone left them there for for the dead. Yeah, exactly, what a waste, Just like this entire cemetery wasted on the dead. I mean this is prime real estate. Look right here, this could be a cheesecake factory. And over here this could

be another cheesecake factory. Look, you do have a point. There's all sorts of alternatives to cemetaries, like, for instance, human composting or acquamation. Yeah. I don't know what any of those was mean, Trevor, here's what I think. Okay, we need to stop throwing away perfectly good bodies and we can start using that. I don't like where this is going. Yeah, I don't just need sex stuff. Okay, there's all sorts of things a dead body can be

used for. Like, think about it, how many times have you watched Law and Order and thought that's not even a real dead body. I've never thought that once, running or trust me, when you've seen as many dead bodies as I have, you become real stickler for details. Okay, but but fine, forget Law and Order. How many times have you been stuck in traffic. Huh you got dead body? Now you're cruising to work in the cobulan. Wouldn't we be worried about the police seeing you with a dead

body in your car. That's why you only use dead white bodies so you don't get pulled over, right, And that makes sense. The point is I got a ton of ideas for dead bodies. Okay, okay, scarecrows or natural mannequins at the gap? Uh? Sex stuff? That was that was your idea? Uh? Put one in the four years so if a murderer comes to your house, you'll think someone alread beat him? Do it? Okay? What else? Uh? Sell one as an n f T. Wait wait wait

wait what an n f T. I don't know. People just keep yelling at me about n f p s. Al Right, it can't be any dumber than an ape that looks like Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, I don't. I don't get the apes. But let me ask you this, which one of these things, like these new techniques do you want to do with your body? Oh? My body? Oh no, none of them. I'm going four, Masley, I'm covered in gold. I'm thinking ten bedroom ten bath and you'll have a cheese gay factory in it. That actually sounds great, Nie,

I bet you can't wait to be dead. Well, that's not the worst thing you can say on lunar New Year to someone. All Right, that's disgusting. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'll say something else. Um uh gong, hey fat Choi? Oh my god, your pronunciation is even worse. Just wish I die. I'm sorry. You know. Let's take a break and when we come back, I'll be talking to Maccari Sellers. We'll be able to talk about his new book that is just in time for Black History months, So stay tuned.

Is it that bad? Hey fat Choi? Oh, hey, hey fat Choi. Chinese is racist even when you try. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is civil rights attorney and CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers. He's here to talk about his new children's book. Who are your people? Okari Sellers, Welcome to the Daily Shrank you for having me. I'm glad to be here in person. In person. Right, there's a lot of people I'm meeting now for the

first time, and I go like I've met you. It's like, oh, no, I met you much more handsome in person than virtually. Thank you very much. Thank you. You're much taller than I thought you were. You could have said handsome, but I mean, I don't want to give the compliment back to you. Okay, fair enough, you know what I mean. It feels then, it feels like I'm recycling. So I was trying to think of another thing I noticed about you that wasn't looks related. Um, welcome to the show.

I'm glad to be here. You've You've lived a really interesting life, you know, because there was a moment in your career where people genuinely thought you were going to be one of the next new faces of the Democratic Party in this country. You know, you served for I think it was eight years in the state legislature and people were just like, Oh, this guy's going all the way. We see what he's doing. You know, he's from a civil rights family. He's really in tuneing what's happening. And

then you were like, no, I'm done with this. What happened. I don't know if it was, I'm done with it. But I think that having an opportunity right now to be a father and be a husband I've realized are my two most important jobs. And then being able to utilize my form to lift people up and write books. Now this is my second book, it's my second opportunity to be on the New York Times bestseller's list. Um,

there's just so much that I can do. And when that opportunity presents itself, um, you know, when Jim Claiburne retires, maybe when I get back in that political scrum. Maybe, But I mean, Trevor, would you want to go to Congress and serve and have less seniority than Marjorie Taylor Green or Matt Gates or Madison Cawthorne. Like this is not an appetizing thing when you think about the American political system we have today. So I think I may get back out there, but right now, I just want

to take care of my kids and my wife. Let's talk about the book who Are Your People? Wonderful title that could be um interpreted is the wrong way, you know, because because because in America at least, it's very uncomfortable when people say like, who are you from? Who are your people? Could people have used it, as you know, as you know down South as a colloquialism that when you meet people for the first time, like when I met my my daughter's boyfriend s sixteen, you're like, who

are your people? Because you get to know you want to know where their family is from, um, where they what type of they come from? And so who are your people is is just trying to get people to understand where you come from. And I wrote this book because I wanted personally. I was sick and tired of my twins having to see purple people are blue people

on TV. I wanted him to be able to see people that look like them, like the movie and Conto for example, and and and in this book, they're able to see them and their people and have a sense of pride. And I think when young black and brown kids read it, they'll get a sense of pride. When white kids read it, they'll get a sense of empathy.

And to your point earlier in the conversation, we live in a country where we have an empathy deficit, where people no longer care about the struggles and plight of others. And maybe this is some utopia that I'm living in or youth when I even say, but I firmly believe there's more that brings us together than divides us. But we have to embrace those differences in the book. You you know, when they said, okay, but Car's coming on with a book, I was like, okay, great, I love

his previous pictures for you. And then they were like, there's pictures. And I was like, oh, it's a kid's book. And then I and then I started reading through it, and then I was like, Wow, it's a kid's book. But I mean there's parts of the book where you know, black people are sitting at like the lunch counter and they're just getting shout to that in the science that say no Negroes. Except I was like, wow, this is one hell of a children's book. And then I started thinking.

I was like two things. One, I was like, you know some people who won't be like, oh, man, is this what you want to teach kids? And the other people might go, uh, you know, this book's gonna get banned in a bunch of places soon. Right. Well, that image that you're talking about is is one of my

two favorite images. It's it's actually a real image from February one, nineteen sixty at the World Wor Lunch Counter, where students from North Carolina Anti State University is kicked off the sit In movement, and I wanted to have that history and that those lessons in the book, and maybe if you're an adult reading it, it refreshes your memory, you can teach more about it. But yeah, I mean, people are they're banning Michelle Obama's books in Texas right now.

I mean, you know, people are talking about this book, a picture book, being critical race theory. It's absolutely not critical race theory, but it's getting caught up in all of this this utter anti intellectual bs is the best way that I can phrase it, Because what's wrong with kids learning about out who they are? What's wrong with kids learning about where other kids came from and being proud of that. I don't see anything wrong and it

and hopefully it teaches a new generation to dream. It feels like it comes out at a at a perfect time as well, not just because of what's happening in the conversation around books, but because of Black History Months. You know, Black History Month is is one of the most interesting times to observe, especially when you come from outside of America, you know, because where I'm from, it's always black History Month, you know, and I want to come there. You You're welcome. Welcome every day is Black

History Month used to be? It needs to be your your slogan. You need to work on that. But it really is an interesting, interesting thing to understand as somebody who has worked with some of the most devastated families in this country, as they've dealt with civil rights abuses, as they've dealt with hate crimes. You know, what do

you think Black History should be about? I think we need to understand when Carter G. Woodson found it Nigro History Week and shows February, he did it because of the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas, two of his heroes at the time. And that's how we ended up in black in February for Black History, Negro History Week, and Black History Month. For me, it's about the richness of a culture, the perseverance and overcoming. You're talking about

slavery and oppression four hundred years Jim Crow. My father literally went to segregated schools. My mother was a part of the herd desegregating class in high school. This isn't generations ago. We're talking about pain, but we're also talking about the triumph of overcoming and so there's a lot to be proud of. But if people don't recognize that pain, then they can never understand the struggle of what it

is to be black in America. There seems to be um a paradox for some people in understanding the the duality of being black, you know, like some people think black people can only exist in a state of pain and suffering, and those people just, oh, I'm so sorry that you're black. It must be so hard all the time. And then there are some people who exist almost in a state of being like, oh, get over, nothing happened.

And I always trying to expence people. I go like, no, it's about understanding all of it, the whole, the whole person, and and like, you know that, I think the most perverse phrase we have in politics right now. And I hate when people teach young people to be color blind. I don't want you to be color blind. I mean, I want you to be able to see the richness

of my culture, everything I bring. I want you to see the fact that, yes, I've cried tears when Trayvon Martin was killed, or or when George Floyd was murdered. But I've also recognized that we have a great history of overcoming in this country. And a lot of people disagree me, disagree with me on this premise, but I

fundamentally don't think there's anything irredeemable about this country. I fundamentally believe we have to reimagine what she looks like to being more inclusive America than includes all of us. But what's interesting is how many times black people fought for their progress in the country because of the rules that it had written for nothing that you know what I mean, It's an interesting paradox. It's a bounce check.

And I think King said it best. I mean, it's someone wrote down a promise to give people this and then it bounced. They knew it was insufficient funds, and so here we are, we're trying to we're trying to reclaim what you promised us in that check. And so what you're saying is you're hopeful, you believe that there's a chance that America could be able to pay the

amount on that check. I believe. So I believe America right now is an unfulfilled, broken promise to so many people, whether or not your Muslim immigrants, gay, black, a woman in this country. It's a It is a bounced check and an unfulfilled promise. However, I still have faith in tomorrow. Wow, look at that. I can run for office with that. You should, man, I still have faith into marrow. But car Sellers, I stillft faith in tomorrow. South Africa. Every

day is black history. You know what I'm talking about. I love this. We're running campaigns right here, marketing you. Let me know when you're going back into politics, and I will be right behind you, not following you, but just cheering you. Appreciate you. Who are your people? Is available wherever books are sold. We're gonna take a quick break, but we'll be right back off to this. Yeah, man,

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