>> This is Bill Barr defining what racism
is and then insisting that it doesn't actually
matter.
>> Racism usually means that I believe that
because of your race, you're a lesser human
being than me. And I think there are people
in the United States who feel that way, but
I don't think it is as common as people suggest,
and I think we have safeguards to ensure that
it doesn't really have an effect to someone's
future.
I think we've made a lot of progress in the
past 60 years. To listen to this to listen
to the American left nowadays, you think we've
got nowhere after-
>> Well there's no doubt there been a lot
of progress, but do you think black people
are treated differently, by law enforcement
than white people?
>> I think there were some situations where
statistics would suggests that they are treated
differently, but I don't think that that's
necessarily racism. Didn't Jesse Jackson say
that when he looks behind them and he sees
a group of young black males walking behind
them he's more scared, than when he sees a
group of White dudes walking behind him, does
that make him a racist?
Does that make him a racist?
>> But.
>> I mean, he's one of the most powerful individuals
in the country. And he repeatedly during that
interview would say, yeah no, no police are
definitely biased against black individuals.
There's extra suspicion all of that, and every
single time immediately, but it's not systemic
and it doesn't matter and it doesn't lead
to anything and who cares?
Like no, no, totally their bias there's tons
of stereotypes totally. And the idea that,
if our fundamentally racist society, ever
leads to a non white individual buying into
any level of that racism, then you can be
a literal member of the KKK and it's all the
same. It doesn't matter, if you accept any
of it as a non white individual, you're as
bad as the Grand Wizard.
>> I just see these tropes and these lies
continue to play out. This thought that racism
doesn't exist unless it's in a white hood.
That there is not subtle forms of racism that
ruin lives every day. And I think that this
George Floyd movement, a lot of that is about
these more subtle forms of racism, that permeate
our everyday lives and that tear us apart,
in terms of workplaces.
And absence of our existence being paid lower,
being mistreated, that these are all symptoms
of racism. And when people think that they
are completely absolved of it, that it's not
their problem, it has nothing to do with them,
that's when we don't get anywhere. And unfortunately,
we're not moving anywhere to society because
people won't confront the fact that racism
exists and people like Bill Barr, all they're
doing is perpetuating those lies.
>> And they won't confront it and they won't
even acknowledge or talk to, or even listen
to the largest social movement of our life.
>> Yeah.
>> That is the obstacle to change that you
can organize something we haven't seen in
more than a half a century, and they can just
ignore it 100% and imply that everyone in
that is crazy.
You got bill Barr effectively saying that
every single one of those people marching,
is fundamentally wrong. He doesn't know any
of them, he doesn't know anything about their
life experience, their perspective, he's not
gonna listen to their concerns but they're
wrong, they are stupid and wrong. And it's
not just him in the same in right wing media,
Tucker Carlson has literally never listened
to one of the valid concerns of this movement.
Just today Ben Shapiro tweeted, what is the
evidence that black Americans all 42 million
of them wake up knowing that they could be
murdered just for being black? What is the
evidence to justify this proposition? He's
asking a lot of questions there, but you can
rest assured they're rhetorical, because he
definitely isn't gonna talk to any representatives
of the movement about any of this.
He's just spitting it out on Twitter, this
intellectual gladiator of the right, he's
not interested in actually understanding of
these concerns, he's uninterested in wondering
why 10 to 20 million Americans, could be so
fundamentally wrong for a century plus about
their own lived experience. Why would all
of this be wrong?
I don't know, I'm curious enough to tweet
it, I'm not curious enough to sit down with
anyone though.
>> Yeah, but the thing is, I sincerely feel
he knows the answer, this is all antics and
playing into these tropes we see what former
super conservative racist Joe Walsh, now come
around to acknowledge Black Lives Matter black
people are being mistreated, like he didn't
know before everybody knew.
It's just a matter of acknowledging it because
if you actually acknowledge someone's plight,
you have to acknowledge your participation
and your involvement in it. And so it's still
one of these up I'm not convinced, and I'm
a smart person kinda rhetoric. But the thing
is I will note, it's come a lot further because
remember it's first you don't understand the
movement you're a part of also, like what?
Stick to sports, just dribble. This the paid
hired actors like all of these things to do
legitimatize, and now having Bill Barr just
say, you're wrong, that at least goes a
little ways, hey gives me some credibility,
it's nice hey.
>> Jeez.
