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When I think about
American dream, I think that

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it means having
a lot of opportunities

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to have a good education,
a good job,

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a good house, and good food.

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I think in America,
everything can be possible.

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The test of our progress

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is not whether we add more
to the abundance of those
who have much,

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it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

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Any man
who seeks to deny equality
among all his brothers

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betrays the spirit of the free.

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We have the opportunity
to move not only
toward the rich society,

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but upward
to the Great Society.

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Those who
have been left out,
we will try to bring in.

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To go forward at all
is to go forward together.

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The American dream endures.

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We must have full faith
in our country.

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We all came from different
lands, but we share the same
values, the same dream.

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Our nation
is the enduring dream
of every immigrant

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who ever set foot
on these shores.

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May those generations
say of us here

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that we led our beloved land
into a new century

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with the American dream alive
for all her children.

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The grandest of
these ideals is an unfolding
American promise

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that everyone deserves
a chance,

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that no insignificant person
was ever born.

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The bedrock
of our economic success
is the American dream.

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But today, for far too many
Americans, this dream
is slipping away.

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The American dream is dead.

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What's at stake
are American values.

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And we have to reclaim them.

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The American dream
was always a belief system,

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that if you worked hard
and you played by the rules,

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you could climb.

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You could get an education
and you could get a good job.

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You could have a better life
than your parents did.

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You could rise
from nothing
to great heights.

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In the 1950s,
90% of kids

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could expect to climb
the income ladder

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and have a higher
standard of living
than their parents did.

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If you look
at that number today,
it's only around 50%.

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The rungs of the ladder
have grown further apart

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so there are huge differences
in terms of dollars

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between the 80th percentile
and the 20th percentile.

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You are now more
a prisoner of legacy.

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Poverty becomes sticky...
Stickier,

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and that you have
less of a chance
of escaping it

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if you were born into it.

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And that wealth also
kind of clusters itself,

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so that if you
were born wealthy

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you're more likely
to maintain that wealth.

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The American dream
is premised on this notion of the individual above all else.

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We don't see context,
we don't see culture,

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we don't see circumstance.

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We think that all of those
are basically irrelevant

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and it's just a matter
of motivation and desire.

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But the reality is
that circumstances are critical
to helping them make it.

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America has achieved
a dubious distinction
of being the

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most unequal society
of any of
the advanced countries.

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The very richest Americans,
those in the top one percent,

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have been gaining a larger
and larger share
of the economic pie,

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while the earnings of people
in the middle of the income distribution have been stagnant

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and the earnings of the people at the bottom of
the income distribution

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have actually been falling.

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We're asking families of
four, five, six,

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you know,
to live on very low means.

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They cannot own,

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they barely can rent.

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140 million Americans
are living one paycheck away

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or one child's illness away

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from complete
financial devastation.

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There's no justice in a society
where roughly 40% of people

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that are born in poverty
in the United States
are gonna remain in poverty.

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When the family
you're born into
determines your destiny,

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that tears at the fabric
of the American dream.

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It makes
the American dream a lie.

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You're blessed to get out
the bed this morning.

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You're blessed to feel
well enough to come.

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You're blessed
you could drive over here.

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You're blessed.
You're blessed!

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I think that my childhood

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prepared me to do this work.

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I was born in
St. Louis, Missouri,

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moved to Southern California
when I was three,

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and moved to Denver
when I was 10.

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We were fleeing
from my father at the time.

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He was dealing with some
alcohol and drug abuse,

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and some domestic
situations occurred,

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and it was just unsafe
for my mom
to be in California.

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As a little girl,
I remember Christmas.

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I prayed that we would have
a Christmas.

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I...

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I woke up to nothing.

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So, you...

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get up,
and it's another day, and...

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even as a little girl
I was aware that I didn't
wanna see my mom feel bad.

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Mmm-mmm.

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She was trying.

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My freshmen year
of high school
we were evicted

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and I lived
with my best friend.

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And my sister lived with

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her best friend,
and my mom lived...

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I don't know.

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My sophomore year, I had
an amazing English teacher.

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My girlfriends and I
would stand in the hallway

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and discuss
Crime and Punishment.

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We were so engulfed in
literature and discussion,

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and I was like, if I can do
what she's doing for me
right now

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with someone else,
that would be cool.

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I am the new principal
at Frick Impact Academy.

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We are plagued with
a history of violence,

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suspensions, lack of
experienced teachers,

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lack of resources.

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I am here to turn around
the school. If I fail,

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then my school will close.

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-Hey.
-Hey.

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-Good to see you.
-How are you?

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-Good to see you.
-I'm doing well.

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Ready to talk shop.

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My first feeling was...

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-this is an institution.
-Mmm-hmm.

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I felt like I was going
for a class at San Quentin.

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Does this keep kids safe?

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-The fence?
-Yeah.

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Are we trying to keep
people out? Or we trying to
invite people in?

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Maybe we open the fence.

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You can't have schools
that feel like San Quentin

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and expect them to be
places of love
and peace and joy.

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It just doesn't work
that way.

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Nothing is wrong
with my kids.

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Everything is wrong
with the system.

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We're a society of
do-it-yourself.

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Like, that's the
American dream, is...

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pull yourself up
by your bootstraps.

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When you don't have boots,
it's hard.

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We serve
a very high population
of students

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who are in foster care.

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A lot of homeless families.

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My students come with
no supplies, no backpack,

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didn't eat...

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They come with,
"Dad is in jail."

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"My father was taken from
our family and deported

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"last night."

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The list goes on and on
of what they bring,

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and if they have a bad day
and they roll their eyes,

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then now
you take it personally
as an adult.

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But you don't even know
that her mom is on
a crack binge right now.

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And she probably
rolled her eyes 'cause didn't
wanna take her sweater off

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because her uniform shirt
is dirty.

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But you didn't ask her.

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You assumed.

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That's inequity.

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Is not meeting
every single child
where they're at,

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and we have to.

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It was
just kinda one thing
after another with his,

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not using his uniform,

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standing up
and walking around.

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Finally, I just said,
"Just leave. Just go."

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And it was a trigger
for him

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and he got up
and he came up to me

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with his hands clenched

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and he stepped
on my foot, hard.

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Do you feel safe
if he returns to your class?

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I have to make sure
you and the other students
feel safe,

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at the same time
try to support Elijah,
because I know

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he's going thought a lot
at home.

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I don't feel like
the best thing
for him is to

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go out into the world,
right, because

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there's not gonna be any
positive reinforcements.

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Where we live,
poverty is real,
violence is real.

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They don't recognize
their own trauma

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and a lot of the behavior
that they're exhibiting is

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a part of that trauma.

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Is everything okay?

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-Stop.

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Stop. Stop!

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-Stop! Stop!

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No. No. No. No.

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Stop. Stop.

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Stop!

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No! Can you
get him that way?

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-I got him. I got him.

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Look at me. Look at me.
Look at me...

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Is that front door locked?

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That chaos is bullshit.

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It doesn't have to exist
in schools.

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It doesn't have to exist.

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And we keep failing kidsby letting shit like this exist.

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Fuck, man.

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The formation of
the society that would become
the United States

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was simultaneously
revolutionary
and reactionary.

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These people articulate this
profound aspiration

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that all people are equal.

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But at the same time,
they're developing

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in line with profound notions
of race and gender that say,

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some people
just aren't human.

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It's no great secret that
it was wealthy white men

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who had the political power
and the vision

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to create
the founding documents,

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which at that time were
brilliant advances in sort of
the democratic project.

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But we know now, of course,
that their vision of
"All men are created equal"

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certainly didn't
include women,

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but it didn't even
include all men.

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I mean, most of the
Founding Fathers
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Women had no legal existence

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separate from their husband.

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Not enjoying a right
to own or buy property.

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Not a right to inherit wealth

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without the permission
of their husband.

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Black Americans were treated
even worse, of course,

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because they were enslaved,

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and there were no protections
for black Americans
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When you create a constitution
that protects property,

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and property includes people,

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basically the constitution
is reinforcing

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the subordination
of those people.

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So we wrote racism,
classism, and sexism

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into our founding documents.

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The result is a society
that is deeply hierarchical.

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We live in a patriarchal system
and that patriarchy, it says,

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everything that is
stereotypically masculine
is on top,

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and everything that's
stereotypically feminine
is on the bottom.

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So, we tend to value things
that we assign to men.

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Things like competitiveness,
radical individualism,

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control, domination,
aggression.

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We then end up devaluing

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universal human traits.

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Things like empathy, compassion care, community, partnership.

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In the gender binary system,

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so often we make these
artificial splits

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and so we say,
to be masculine
means to be strong.

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Therefore, to be feminine
means to be weak.

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So, whether you look through
the lens of race, class,

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sexuality, you see
the same hard-soft binary.

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White people on top,
and black people
on the bottom.

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Rich people on the top,
poor people on the bottom.

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The people on the top
are humanized
only in relationship

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to the dehumanization of
the people on the bottom,

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which is woman,
people of color,

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poor people, gay people,
immigrants, et cetera.

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What we've done
with these ideas
is we've used them to justify

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different levels of worth
and worthlessness

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to justify privilege
and violence,

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and then we've built
our society, the structures,the institutions of our society,

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around these ideas.

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And so basically,
much of this inequality is

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seen as invisible or normal.

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For example, politicians
always seem to find money

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for traits and activities

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that are "stereotypically"
considered masculine.

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Weapons, wars, prisons,

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but somehow they can't seem
to find enough money

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for anything
that we have learned
to call "soft,"

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"feminine," childcare,
healthcare, early childhood
education.

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The very investments
that we so need,

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not only for
human capacity development,

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but for economic development.

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The United States
is a very masculine country,

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and so we need to incorporate
a critical understanding
of gender

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in all our efforts
to diminish inequality

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and fulfill
the American dream
in the 21st century.

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My parents
came to the States from India
pursuing the American dream,

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and looking for
better opportunities
for their children.

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It was precisely that
striving towards
the American dream

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that really struck me
in the larger Chicano
neighborhood

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that I grew up in.

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These were
working class folks
that worked really hard

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and believed
they would one day
be wealthy,

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but there's just so many
structural obstacles

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to you actually achieving
that "American dream."

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I was working at
a Latino immigrant worker
organizing center

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when 9/11 happened.

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There was a restaurant
at the top of the
World Trade Center, Tower 1,

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and on that morning,
73 workers died.

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There were also
13,000 workers
in New York City

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who lost their jobs
in the months and weeks
that followed.

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So we founded
the Restaurant Opportunities
Centers United

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to help these workers
get back on their feet.

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We were overwhelmed
with workers asking for help.

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Key issues kept coming up
again and again.

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Poverty wages,

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lack of benefits like
paid sick days,

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sexual harassment,
and very severe
racial segregation,

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so that workers really had
no opportunity

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to achieve the America dream.

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The restaurant industry, it's one of the fastest growing sectors of our economy

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and yet, every year
seven of the 10
lowest paying jobs

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and the two absolute
lowest paying jobs
in the country

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are restaurant jobs.

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One of the reasons goes back
to the emancipation
of the slaves.

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The restaurant industry
and the Pullman Train Company

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demanding the right to hire
newly freed slaves

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and let them rely on
customer tips rather than
pay them a wage.

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And that was actually
codified into the very first
minimum wage law

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passed under FDR in 1938.

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Which meant that the first
minimum wage for tipped workers
in the United States was zero.

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And we've gone from zero
to $2.13 an hour,

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which is the current
federal minimum wage
for workers who earn tips

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over a hundred-year period.

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The ultimate goal
is to get Congress
to do things for women.

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Especially women in
the restaurant industry
and women in low-wage jobs,

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that help them succeed
and feed their families,

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and getting rid of the
lower wage for tipped workers
is one of those things.

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70% of tipped workers
in America are women

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who have a median wage of
$9 an hour including tips,

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suffer from three times
the poverty rate of the rest
of the U.S. workforce,

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use food stamps at
double the rate,
and suffer from the worst,

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the absolute worst
sexual harassment rate of any
industry in the United States.

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Generally about $100,
I would say a month,

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were what
the restaurant paid me.

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And then I would be making
$900 in tips.

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My budget was $2,000.
I had to pay rent,

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I was helping my mother
take care of my
little brother,

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still had to pay
student loans,

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phone bill, everything...
It was not adding up.

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So, it forced me to either
go and get a second
or a third job.

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Do you know that we spend
$16 billion annually
in tax payer dollars

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for public assistance
for these workers?

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This is the only industry
on earth that's gotten away
with essentially saying,

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"All other working Americans
should pay for
our workers' wages."

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There was an article in
The New York Times about restaurant workers in Denmark,

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where they have a minimum wage
of $21 for all
restaurant workers,

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tipped and non-tipped.

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And they asked
the operator of

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major chain restaurants
in the Copenhagen Airport,

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"Why do you pay this much?"

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And he said, "Well,
if I didn't pay $21 an hour,

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"workers would have
to live on
public assistance,

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"and that would be a sign
of a failed society."

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'Cause it isn't just about
these workers who can't live,
it's the fact that

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they're not gonna
be able to afford
to support this economy.

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We're nearing a place
where half of America
is living in poverty.

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That's gotta be our
top priority for the world's
richest country.

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Let's say you have giant
multinational company "A"

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that employs hundreds
of thousands of workers,

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but doesn't pay those workers
a living wage.

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Well, who makes up for that?

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The taxpayer makes up for that.

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And so then,
the taxpayers, regressively,

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are in a position of
subsidizing the shareholders.

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Giving welfare, in essence,

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to some of the wealthiest
corporations in the world.

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It used to be
that corporations

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saw themselves as
long-lives institutions,

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but beginning around 1980,
we began to rewrite the rules
of the economy,

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with those at the top
doing very well,

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the bankers
doing very well,

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the rest of the economy
doing very poorly.

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There was also a shift
in our values.

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We began, in a sense,
to enter a new gilded age

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in which we celebrated wealth
and celebrated power.

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Corporations take the profits and they distribute them to the shareholders

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and pay the CEOs
huge amounts of money.

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And then they say,
"We don't have any money
to pay workers."

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The annual Wall Street
bonus pool,

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just the bonus pool,
is almost double

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the full time
minimum wage earnings

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of all Americans.

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Corporations,
the financial sector
figured out

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that investments
in Washington,

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by campaign contributions,
paid huge returns
in terms of

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first, deregulation,

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and then in terms
of preventing

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the kind of re-regulation
that would make
our economy function well

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for everybody in society.

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So we see this
very tight relationship

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between politicians
and corporations,

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in terms of the revolving door between the two sectors.

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We changed the rules
of the political game

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as well
as the economic game.

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They give more
influence to money.

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It has moved from
one person, one vote
to one dollar, one vote.

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And all across the land,

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we see institutions
that have broken
the social compact,

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this notion that
we're all in it together.

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I grew up
in a small village
in McDonald, Ohio.

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A town that was named after the first superintendent of U.S. Steel.

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When I was younger,
everything was booming.

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We had five bars
and five churches.

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They were all full.
We had a grocery store,

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a pharmacy.

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It seemed like the America dream was going on and everybody was happy.

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These apartments
were actually built
for mill employees.

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We lived
in the apartment here.

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With my own father leaving
at six months old,

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it was pretty devastating
to us.

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My mom is by far
the hardest working
individual

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that I've ever met.

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She worked at the mill
seven days a week,

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long hours,
then she went to clean
the post office.

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I'm not even sure
when she slept.

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When I came home,
there was always food
on the table.

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I always wanted to work
at the steel mill.

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The way those guys
laughed and joked,

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and the old roughness
to 'em,

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their arrogantness,
and told dirty jokes...

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I loved it.

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It was what was meant to be
a man as far as I knew.

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I ran a sonic tester,
at Copperweld,

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which tests for internal flaws in all of the quality steel.

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It's a well-known fact

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that the individuals
in this area helped build
the tanks and bombs

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that won
these countries' wars.

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And September, 1977,
was known as Black Monday.

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LTV Corporation
announced the closing
of the Youngstown Works.

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Five thousand individuals
lost their jobs immediately.

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In the next several months
after that, over 14,000.

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And over the last 20 years
in the Youngstown area,

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we've lost over 100,000
steel mill-related jobs.

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Management did not
wanna buckle

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and understand that
you needed these folks.

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You're gonna have to
pay them a little bit more.

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And that was one of
the key issues.

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Corporate greed
annihilated this area.

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In August of 2000,

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they were talking about
closing Copperweld,

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and a lot of the individuals
around me

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said they've been talking
about closing for 30 years,
it'll never happen.

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Well, that Christmas time,
I was one of the folks
that got laid off.

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I was completely devastated.

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I had just built a new house
and bought a new truck.

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I have three young boys.

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It was either file bankruptcy and move back to the apartments where I came from,

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or go door to door.

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You gotta get your hustle on.

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And you put
your pride aside...

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and you ask 'em
if you can clean their gutters.

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I remember one year,
we filed our income tax

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and I think it was
less than $15,000.

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That was our combined total,
you know.

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Our first, probably, 10 years,

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most of our arguments
was about money.

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And I hated it.

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You struggle...
We did it for many years.

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I used to joke
I'm going grocery shopping
at my mom's.

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Toilet paper,
you know, couple of cans
of macaroni and cheese.

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00:25:49.286 --> 00:25:50.940
-Hey, Steven, how you doing?
-Not bad.

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00:25:52.638 --> 00:25:54.378
Thank you.

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When the yellow point
starts to run out,
you keep going

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to look for a job
and you keep getting
turned down, or you keep

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00:26:00.820 --> 00:26:03.083
getting rejected
over and over again,

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00:26:03.126 --> 00:26:04.475
it takes a toll.

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00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:06.695
It not only takes a toll
on you,

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00:26:07.870 --> 00:26:10.569
but it erodes
the whole family.

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00:26:10.612 --> 00:26:12.571
How'd you adjust?
What'd you do?

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-You go into survive mode.
-Yep.

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00:26:14.877 --> 00:26:17.097
Cut everything out,
sell everything.

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00:26:17.140 --> 00:26:20.404
I've sold coin collections,
I've sold my gold,

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I sold watches
that I had collected...

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just to keep the house.

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All these years
and now here I am again
starting over.

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I left my wife and kids,
I went to Texas.

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And went right
into the oil field.

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My day would
start at 3:00 in the morning,

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and it was six days a week.

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00:26:38.379 --> 00:26:41.251
It killed me to be away.

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I had missed so much
of my family time with them
because of that.

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00:26:44.951 --> 00:26:48.302
They were gonna pay
for relocation, but I just...

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my roots are here.

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00:26:50.260 --> 00:26:53.437
I'm not gonna take the kids
away from their grandparents.

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Right.

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The years you watched
as we let foreign countries

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shutter our factories
and steal our jobs

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like we're little babies,

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but those days
are over, Ohio.

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We switched party lines
and voted Republican

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for the first time since 1972.

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00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:20.421
We've had
40 years of suffering.

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Enough is enough.

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What we've done
for the last 50 years is

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we've created a politics
in which there's broad support

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for a series of policies
that are driving
economic inequality.

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The rich can win
popular support

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00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:47.230
for their preferences,

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00:27:47.274 --> 00:27:50.103
which is more power
and more wealth concentrated
in their hands,

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00:27:50.146 --> 00:27:52.192
if they say to the public

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00:27:52.235 --> 00:27:56.065
government programs
that try and build
a collective public

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are actually giveaways
to undeserving minorities.

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Government is not
the solution to our problem.

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00:28:03.072 --> 00:28:05.379
Government is the problem.

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00:28:05.422 --> 00:28:08.382
"And if
government is a problem,"
Reagan would say,

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"stop funding it.
Cut taxes."

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00:28:10.776 --> 00:28:12.647
And so Reagan did.

485
00:28:12.691 --> 00:28:15.302
He passed some of
the biggest tax cuts
the country's ever seen.

486
00:28:15.345 --> 00:28:19.001
But did these tax cuts
actually go
to hard working whites?

487
00:28:19.785 --> 00:28:22.004
In fact, over the 1980s

488
00:28:22.048 --> 00:28:26.400
the Reagan tax cuts
transferred
a trillion dollars of wealth

489
00:28:26.443 --> 00:28:28.315
to the top one percent
of the country.

490
00:28:32.101 --> 00:28:34.756
And these tax cuts
have never been repealed.

491
00:28:34.800 --> 00:28:39.674
And so each decade since,
a further trillion dollars
of wealth

492
00:28:39.718 --> 00:28:42.329
have been transferred
to the top one percent
of the country.

493
00:28:42.372 --> 00:28:44.723
If you're reducing taxes
on the wealthy,

494
00:28:44.766 --> 00:28:46.289
and you're not bringing in
any more revenue,

495
00:28:46.333 --> 00:28:48.770
you're gonna have to then
cut programs that serve people.

496
00:28:48.814 --> 00:28:52.339
Including
mental health programs
and community services

497
00:28:52.382 --> 00:28:54.210
and public works projects.

498
00:28:54.254 --> 00:28:56.691
Worker retraining
and all the kinds of ways

499
00:28:56.735 --> 00:28:59.999
in which government money
can ameliorate
the most dire effects

500
00:29:00.042 --> 00:29:01.391
of inequality,

501
00:29:01.435 --> 00:29:03.524
and the idea there
is totally gendered,

502
00:29:03.567 --> 00:29:05.656
in other words, the notion
of a self-made man

503
00:29:05.700 --> 00:29:07.093
who doesn't need
other people

504
00:29:07.136 --> 00:29:10.531
versus community which is
gendered very much feminine,

505
00:29:10.574 --> 00:29:12.794
which is to say
interdependence.

506
00:29:12.838 --> 00:29:14.753
How do they convince people

507
00:29:14.796 --> 00:29:16.798
to turn against
the very policies

508
00:29:16.842 --> 00:29:19.758
that had created
the biggest expansion
in middle class

509
00:29:19.801 --> 00:29:21.803
the United States
had ever seen?

510
00:29:21.847 --> 00:29:24.763
They engaged in what we call
dog-whistle politics.

511
00:29:24.806 --> 00:29:27.635
And the metaphor
is of a political message

512
00:29:27.678 --> 00:29:30.420
that on one level generates
sharp reactions,

513
00:29:30.464 --> 00:29:32.335
but on another, is silent

514
00:29:32.379 --> 00:29:34.468
in a way
that allows politicians

515
00:29:34.511 --> 00:29:37.297
to deny that they are doing
any such thing.

516
00:29:37.340 --> 00:29:41.388
To you,
the great silent majority,

517
00:29:41.431 --> 00:29:42.998
my fellow Americans,

518
00:29:43.042 --> 00:29:44.652
I ask for your support.

519
00:29:44.695 --> 00:29:48.482
...great national crusade
to make America great again.

520
00:29:48.525 --> 00:29:52.355
All Americans are rightly
disturbed by the large numbers

521
00:29:52.399 --> 00:29:55.315
of illegal aliens
entering our country.

522
00:29:55.358 --> 00:29:57.752
And we will
not be intimidated by thugs.

523
00:29:57.796 --> 00:30:00.929
The silent majority is back.

524
00:30:00.973 --> 00:30:05.368
And we are going
to make America great again!

525
00:30:05.412 --> 00:30:09.198
"Make America great again,"
what it really says is,

526
00:30:09.242 --> 00:30:11.679
"Make white men
center-stage again."

527
00:30:11.722 --> 00:30:13.333
Any hierarchy

528
00:30:13.376 --> 00:30:15.857
has ways of defending itself

529
00:30:15.901 --> 00:30:19.556
by creating a situation
of scarcity in competition.

530
00:30:19.600 --> 00:30:21.950
So, there's been scarcity
in competition

531
00:30:21.994 --> 00:30:24.823
between women
and people of color,

532
00:30:24.866 --> 00:30:28.391
between racial minorities
and immigrants,

533
00:30:28.435 --> 00:30:30.698
between working class people,

534
00:30:30.741 --> 00:30:32.134
and racial minorities.

535
00:30:32.178 --> 00:30:33.832
And all that competition

536
00:30:33.875 --> 00:30:36.095
makes it hard for people
to look, to see

537
00:30:36.138 --> 00:30:37.836
what's happening
at the very top.

538
00:30:56.855 --> 00:30:58.291
You have your chair stuck, baby?

539
00:30:59.509 --> 00:31:01.424
I was raised with two
younger brothers

540
00:31:01.468 --> 00:31:03.687
in a very middle-class family

541
00:31:03.731 --> 00:31:05.907
in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

542
00:31:05.951 --> 00:31:07.604
My dad took me outside
one day.

543
00:31:07.648 --> 00:31:09.693
It was a really cold
December day.

544
00:31:09.737 --> 00:31:11.782
He said,
"Go grab the shovel."

545
00:31:11.826 --> 00:31:13.523
I said, "Okay."

546
00:31:13.567 --> 00:31:16.004
So, I get the shovel
and he said,
"All right, start digging."

547
00:31:16.048 --> 00:31:18.485
Okay, so I'm digging
and in a little while I said,

548
00:31:18.528 --> 00:31:20.400
"Um, what are we doing?"

549
00:31:20.443 --> 00:31:22.489
He said, "I'm teaching
you something."

550
00:31:22.532 --> 00:31:24.143
I said,
"What are you teaching me?"

551
00:31:24.186 --> 00:31:25.927
He said,
"Do you want to do this
the rest of your life?"

552
00:31:25.971 --> 00:31:28.887
I said, "Oh, no, sir."
He said, "Go to college.

553
00:31:28.930 --> 00:31:31.237
"Get an education.
Work hard."

554
00:31:31.280 --> 00:31:33.543
I said, "Yes, sir." He said,"All right, you can put away theshovel and go in."

555
00:31:35.719 --> 00:31:37.721
Thank you, ma'am.

556
00:31:37.765 --> 00:31:39.593
In 1980,
when Reagan beat Carter,

557
00:31:39.636 --> 00:31:41.421
I was six years old,

558
00:31:41.464 --> 00:31:43.510
and my dad let me
stay up and watch
the election returns.

559
00:31:43.553 --> 00:31:45.991
I was hooked right then.
Hooked.

560
00:31:46.034 --> 00:31:49.081
How can you not
fall in love
with Ronald Reagan?

561
00:31:49.124 --> 00:31:51.822
I aim to try and tap

562
00:31:51.866 --> 00:31:54.086
that great American spirit.

563
00:31:54.129 --> 00:31:56.915
We're going to put America
back to work again.

564
00:31:58.655 --> 00:32:01.310
His message
was just hope

565
00:32:01.354 --> 00:32:02.877
and American exceptionalism.

566
00:32:02.921 --> 00:32:05.271
He believed
in American greatness.

567
00:32:06.185 --> 00:32:08.709
I believe if you work hard,

568
00:32:08.752 --> 00:32:11.581
you can do anything.
It's America.

569
00:32:11.625 --> 00:32:13.453
I've always been
a Republican

570
00:32:13.496 --> 00:32:15.150
because I thought
they were the party
of lesser government,

571
00:32:15.194 --> 00:32:16.630
more individual liberties.

572
00:32:16.673 --> 00:32:18.849
I don't wanna give up
my individual freedoms

573
00:32:18.893 --> 00:32:21.374
for an entitlement
for a whole group of people.

574
00:32:26.031 --> 00:32:28.207
So, this was
my little trailer park.

575
00:32:29.643 --> 00:32:31.819
I technically
still own the land.

576
00:32:33.168 --> 00:32:36.302
You just would be surprised
how people live.

577
00:32:36.345 --> 00:32:39.174
Sometimes you'd walk in
and you'd step
on a dirty diaper.

578
00:32:39.218 --> 00:32:40.959
When you're high
and you're on drugs,

579
00:32:41.002 --> 00:32:43.483
they just throw up
on themselves,
they don't clean it.

580
00:32:43.526 --> 00:32:44.919
One was so bad,

581
00:32:44.963 --> 00:32:47.139
I had an officer with me
to evict people,

582
00:32:47.182 --> 00:32:48.836
and he came out puking.

583
00:32:50.533 --> 00:32:53.580
The frustrating part
to someone like me is,

584
00:32:53.623 --> 00:32:55.451
whatever, they're 16 years old

585
00:32:55.495 --> 00:32:57.627
and they say,
"Oh, I'm gonna go
file for disability."

586
00:32:57.671 --> 00:32:59.412
You're like,

587
00:32:59.455 --> 00:33:00.717
"Are you disabled?"

588
00:33:00.761 --> 00:33:03.242
"Oh, no, no, no.
I'll just say I have seizures.

589
00:33:03.285 --> 00:33:05.374
"They can't prove epilepsy."

590
00:33:05.418 --> 00:33:07.159
And they just
collect a check,

591
00:33:07.202 --> 00:33:08.551
and it is very frustrating.

592
00:33:11.206 --> 00:33:13.513
My mother believed
she was right

593
00:33:13.556 --> 00:33:15.515
and everyone else was wrong.

594
00:33:15.558 --> 00:33:17.647
She was not
compassionate at all.

595
00:33:17.691 --> 00:33:19.998
It was, "You're on welfare,
you should starve to death."

596
00:33:20.041 --> 00:33:23.392
Not, not to that degree, okay?
But I mean, it was just real...

597
00:33:23.436 --> 00:33:25.046
rigid.

598
00:33:25.090 --> 00:33:27.266
So I was raised
very conservatively,

599
00:33:27.309 --> 00:33:29.094
but without compassion.

600
00:33:31.705 --> 00:33:34.751
One of the fundamental problems that we have to address

601
00:33:34.795 --> 00:33:37.058
is this empathy gap.

602
00:33:37.102 --> 00:33:40.235
This tendency
to otherize people

603
00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:41.671
who aren't like ourselves.

604
00:33:41.715 --> 00:33:44.935
To point fingers rather than
offer a helping hand.

605
00:33:44.979 --> 00:33:46.807
We have created a society

606
00:33:46.850 --> 00:33:49.157
where we don't see each other.

607
00:33:49.201 --> 00:33:51.551
And so, when you
don't see people,

608
00:33:53.118 --> 00:33:55.685
you can dehumanize people.

609
00:33:55.729 --> 00:33:57.600
We are in a crisis
of connection.

610
00:33:57.644 --> 00:33:59.776
Children are being
raised to believe

611
00:33:59.820 --> 00:34:01.169
that the outgroup member,

612
00:34:01.213 --> 00:34:04.042
whether it's class-based,
race-based, gender-based,

613
00:34:04.085 --> 00:34:07.349
is somehow fundamentally
not like them.

614
00:34:07.393 --> 00:34:10.744
And that is the most
devastating thing we can
communicate to our children,

615
00:34:10.787 --> 00:34:12.920
because what do you think
that does to your actions,

616
00:34:12.963 --> 00:34:15.575
your ability to create
a collective with people

617
00:34:15.618 --> 00:34:17.098
from different communities?

618
00:34:17.142 --> 00:34:18.447
You're not gonna
be able to do it.

619
00:34:29.023 --> 00:34:31.721
This morning we come
to the name of Jesus.
We love you.

620
00:34:31.765 --> 00:34:34.246
We thank you for loving us.
God, give us peace today

621
00:34:34.289 --> 00:34:35.725
as we search for you.

622
00:34:35.769 --> 00:34:37.292
It's in your name we pray,
Jesus. And everybody say...

623
00:34:37.336 --> 00:34:39.381
Amen.

624
00:34:39.425 --> 00:34:41.035
We wanted it
to be a community that
everyone felt welcomed,

625
00:34:41.079 --> 00:34:43.385
no matter who they were
or what they'd been through,

626
00:34:43.429 --> 00:34:45.257
their social status,

627
00:34:45.300 --> 00:34:47.520
um, and then we want
to be a church of grace.

628
00:34:47.563 --> 00:34:49.652
Even though it was storming
this past week

629
00:34:49.696 --> 00:34:51.480
and everybody was flooded in,

630
00:34:51.524 --> 00:34:54.092
we still found time to feed
over 500 people
this past Thursday.

631
00:34:54.135 --> 00:34:55.702
-That's awesome.

632
00:34:58.618 --> 00:34:59.923
People ask us all the time,

633
00:34:59.967 --> 00:35:01.360
"Why do y'all
feed those people?

634
00:35:01.403 --> 00:35:03.101
"They're taking
advantage of you."

635
00:35:03.144 --> 00:35:05.581
It's not on me what they do
when we do good,

636
00:35:05.625 --> 00:35:07.105
it's our job to do good.

637
00:35:11.326 --> 00:35:13.415
We're in the Bible Belt.

638
00:35:13.459 --> 00:35:15.896
We have very rich people
who come here, we have very poor people who come here.

639
00:35:15.939 --> 00:35:18.986
We have white, black,
all different types of races,

640
00:35:19.029 --> 00:35:21.293
different types of families,
orientation.

641
00:35:21.336 --> 00:35:23.121
We have progressives here

642
00:35:23.164 --> 00:35:24.992
and we have
conservatives here.

643
00:35:25.035 --> 00:35:27.603
I wanted us
to be a testimony

644
00:35:27.647 --> 00:35:29.431
of different people
coming together

645
00:35:29.475 --> 00:35:31.868
in spite of those differences and still worshipping together

646
00:35:31.912 --> 00:35:34.219
because what I saw
was division.

647
00:35:34.262 --> 00:35:36.786
A lot of people
aren't really interested

648
00:35:36.830 --> 00:35:39.702
in understanding
other people right now.

649
00:35:39.746 --> 00:35:43.053
If you're not on their side
on women's rights,

650
00:35:43.097 --> 00:35:44.968
their right to choose,

651
00:35:45.012 --> 00:35:48.668
if you don't believe in just
one man and one woman,
what they believe,

652
00:35:48.711 --> 00:35:50.583
then they would say,

653
00:35:50.626 --> 00:35:52.062
"How could you be
a Christian?"

654
00:35:52.976 --> 00:35:54.674
I feel like, that today,

655
00:35:54.717 --> 00:35:57.981
one of the greatest sins
of our country is

656
00:35:58.025 --> 00:35:59.461
racism, prejudice,

657
00:35:59.505 --> 00:36:01.768
and hatred against people
that are different than you.

658
00:36:01.811 --> 00:36:05.163
If we do not
protect our race
and protect our people,

659
00:36:05.206 --> 00:36:06.947
they're gonna destroy you.

660
00:36:06.990 --> 00:36:08.644
-White power!
-White power!

661
00:36:12.126 --> 00:36:14.868
White lives matter!
White lives matter!

662
00:36:14.911 --> 00:36:17.479
You will not replace us!

663
00:36:18.263 --> 00:36:20.526
You will not replace us!

664
00:36:20.569 --> 00:36:23.790
My country!
I'm a proud fuckin' American!

665
00:36:23.833 --> 00:36:26.532
Go back to jail, motherfucker!

666
00:36:26.575 --> 00:36:29.143
And build that fucking wall,
for me!

667
00:36:39.153 --> 00:36:41.547
We started doing
healing circles.

668
00:36:41.590 --> 00:36:44.419
It's been a practice
that we've seen

669
00:36:44.463 --> 00:36:47.857
bring our community
closer together.

670
00:36:47.901 --> 00:36:49.468
And when you connect
you heal.

671
00:38:10.505 --> 00:38:12.594
Every single one
of my students

672
00:38:12.638 --> 00:38:15.423
could use a therapist.

673
00:38:17.556 --> 00:38:19.427
Weekly, minimum.

674
00:38:21.821 --> 00:38:24.476
There is a waiting list
for therapy.

675
00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:26.173
It's really sad

676
00:38:26.216 --> 00:38:28.741
how we start to rank trauma.

677
00:38:30.395 --> 00:38:32.135
With our newcomer population,

678
00:38:32.179 --> 00:38:34.007
their trauma is so fresh,

679
00:38:34.050 --> 00:38:36.792
in that whole experience
of crossing the border.

680
00:38:38.272 --> 00:38:40.666
One of my young
female students

681
00:38:40.709 --> 00:38:43.843
normally very respectful,
happy,

682
00:38:43.886 --> 00:38:45.323
yelled at a teacher

683
00:38:45.366 --> 00:38:48.326
and, like, was really angry.

684
00:38:48.369 --> 00:38:51.154
And once we started
to ask her, you know,

685
00:38:51.198 --> 00:38:53.287
"What's going on?
Why are you acting out?"

686
00:38:53.331 --> 00:38:57.117
And she said that
ICE was at her house.

687
00:38:57.160 --> 00:39:00.338
We had a soccer game
and they didn't wanna
come and play.

688
00:39:00.381 --> 00:39:02.688
They didn't know
if they would be safe.

689
00:39:02.731 --> 00:39:04.298
They're scared.

690
00:39:10.086 --> 00:39:11.261
Hi.

691
00:39:11.305 --> 00:39:13.960
Thank you for being here.

692
00:39:14.003 --> 00:39:15.440
-Thank you so much.

693
00:39:19.705 --> 00:39:22.621
What percentage
of your students
are newcomers?

694
00:39:22.664 --> 00:39:25.450
-31%
-31%? Wow.

695
00:39:25.493 --> 00:39:27.887
Can you feel the difference
in the atmosphere,

696
00:39:27.930 --> 00:39:29.671
like this year
versus last year?

697
00:39:29.715 --> 00:39:32.979
It's way more tense
this year.

698
00:39:33.022 --> 00:39:36.199
Every week I have a kid
who is trying
to commit suicide

699
00:39:36.243 --> 00:39:37.679
and I'm calling
an ambulance.

700
00:39:37.723 --> 00:39:39.899
-Every week?
-Every single week.

701
00:39:39.942 --> 00:39:41.770
We have over 30 kids cutting,

702
00:39:41.814 --> 00:39:43.946
like, a cutting epidemic.

703
00:39:43.990 --> 00:39:46.862
Do you guys remember when
I explained to you that

704
00:39:46.906 --> 00:39:49.082
the mayor had made
an announcement

705
00:39:49.125 --> 00:39:50.997
about ICE being in Oakland?

706
00:39:51.040 --> 00:39:53.739
And that I told you
not to panic,

707
00:39:53.782 --> 00:39:57.351
that, um, you guys were
in a safe school,

708
00:39:57.395 --> 00:39:59.745
and that nothing
was gonna happen to you?

709
00:39:59.788 --> 00:40:03.183
I think it's very important
that people know their rights

710
00:40:03.226 --> 00:40:06.316
and I hope that people
feel welcome in Oakland

711
00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:08.362
no matter where
they come from.

712
00:40:08.406 --> 00:40:12.148
And I encourage you
to always speak

713
00:40:12.192 --> 00:40:13.933
to those who hold power

714
00:40:13.976 --> 00:40:16.936
about what they're
doing with it.

715
00:40:16.979 --> 00:40:19.460
-Because you matter, right?
-Yeah.

716
00:40:19.504 --> 00:40:20.983
What are some of your dreams?

717
00:40:21.027 --> 00:40:22.681
I want to be a doctor.

718
00:40:22.724 --> 00:40:24.204
-Doctor?
-Yeah.

719
00:40:24.247 --> 00:40:26.728
-That'd be great,
to heal people.
-Yeah.

720
00:40:26.772 --> 00:40:28.817
Does anyone want
to be the mayor?

721
00:40:29.644 --> 00:40:32.081
-No?

722
00:40:32.125 --> 00:40:34.083
We call him "Mr. President."

723
00:40:36.042 --> 00:40:38.784
I want you to have
all your dreams come true.

724
00:40:38.827 --> 00:40:41.264
I want everyone to feel like

725
00:40:41.308 --> 00:40:43.049
they have access to a future

726
00:40:43.092 --> 00:40:45.268
and I know we have work to do.

727
00:40:45.312 --> 00:40:47.357
And you have
a wonderful principal

728
00:40:47.401 --> 00:40:50.709
who works very hard
and she holds a lot.

729
00:40:50.752 --> 00:40:52.537
The things that worry you,

730
00:40:52.580 --> 00:40:56.018
she goes home and worries
about them, too,
every night.

731
00:40:57.193 --> 00:40:59.108
That's part of
being a family, right?

732
00:40:59.152 --> 00:41:00.153
Mmm-hmm.

733
00:41:02.024 --> 00:41:04.897
You can't be so close
to this much trauma

734
00:41:04.940 --> 00:41:08.117
and not be affected by it.

735
00:41:08.161 --> 00:41:12.121
It's much more emotional
than I thought it would be.

736
00:41:12.165 --> 00:41:15.124
It's really, like,
it takes a lot.

737
00:41:15.168 --> 00:41:16.735
And sometimes
you just feel like,

738
00:41:16.778 --> 00:41:19.041
"I'm not achieving
anything here."

739
00:41:19.085 --> 00:41:21.870
-Yes, you are.
Stop saying that.
-It gets to you, right?

740
00:41:21.914 --> 00:41:24.090
It gets to you.
You feel like

741
00:41:24.133 --> 00:41:26.919
-the problems
are insurmountable.
-Mmm-hmm.

742
00:41:26.962 --> 00:41:29.487
This is like the biggest
challenge of my life, really.

743
00:41:32.968 --> 00:41:35.797
I'm just worrying about
the Ruby plan.
Do you have one?

744
00:41:37.059 --> 00:41:38.800
How you gonna
sustain yourself?

745
00:41:38.844 --> 00:41:42.456
-I love them.
-I know. I'll tell you
why I asked. All right.

746
00:41:42.500 --> 00:41:44.632
Let's say you burn out,
you get tired,

747
00:41:44.676 --> 00:41:46.895
not just physically,
emotionally, mentally,

748
00:41:46.939 --> 00:41:48.984
spiritually, you're tired.

749
00:41:49.028 --> 00:41:51.900
Your mind starts breaking down,
your body starts breaking down,

750
00:41:51.944 --> 00:41:53.772
you're not doing
any good for anybody.

751
00:41:57.863 --> 00:42:00.169
I was in a classroom

752
00:42:00.213 --> 00:42:02.432
doing an observation

753
00:42:02.476 --> 00:42:05.566
and I'm starting to get
kind of dizzy,

754
00:42:05.610 --> 00:42:07.612
and my chest is just hurting,

755
00:42:07.655 --> 00:42:09.788
I just can't breathe.

756
00:42:09.831 --> 00:42:12.921
The right side of my body
kinda goes numb

757
00:42:12.965 --> 00:42:15.402
and I'm, like,
panicking at this point.

758
00:42:16.316 --> 00:42:18.144
I get to the hospital

759
00:42:18.187 --> 00:42:20.799
and straight to
the emergency room,

760
00:42:20.842 --> 00:42:22.801
and I'm...

761
00:42:22.844 --> 00:42:25.325
...freaking out
and I'm crying.

762
00:42:25.368 --> 00:42:27.327
In my mind I'm thinking,
"You're weak."

763
00:42:27.370 --> 00:42:28.850
Like, "You're weak.

764
00:42:28.894 --> 00:42:31.157
"This is not...

765
00:42:31.200 --> 00:42:33.725
"Get it together."
But I can't. I can't.

766
00:42:33.768 --> 00:42:35.901
I physically
cannot do anything.

767
00:42:38.643 --> 00:42:41.471
I had a panic attack.

768
00:42:41.515 --> 00:42:43.299
At that point, I said,

769
00:42:43.343 --> 00:42:45.301
"Well, if I don't
take care of my myself,

770
00:42:45.345 --> 00:42:47.695
"and my kids,

771
00:42:47.739 --> 00:42:50.089
"who's gonna
take care of them?"

772
00:43:06.279 --> 00:43:08.498
Our best economic policies

773
00:43:08.542 --> 00:43:11.153
were investments
in the common genius.

774
00:43:11.197 --> 00:43:13.199
Universal public education,

775
00:43:13.242 --> 00:43:14.722
the Homestead Acts,

776
00:43:14.766 --> 00:43:17.551
to which 25%
of Americans today

777
00:43:17.595 --> 00:43:19.422
attribute their wealth.

778
00:43:19.466 --> 00:43:22.251
The creation of
the 30-year Mortgage Act

779
00:43:22.295 --> 00:43:24.993
by Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac.

780
00:43:25.037 --> 00:43:26.299
The G.I. Bill,

781
00:43:26.342 --> 00:43:27.648
where we said to our G.I.'s,

782
00:43:27.692 --> 00:43:29.389
"You defended our country,

783
00:43:29.432 --> 00:43:30.956
"so we'll provide you
home loans,

784
00:43:30.999 --> 00:43:33.654
"business loans,
college loans."

785
00:43:33.698 --> 00:43:38.006
Each of those major
wealth-building initiatives

786
00:43:38.050 --> 00:43:40.182
left out people of color.

787
00:43:40.226 --> 00:43:43.621
The federal government
spent money in such a way

788
00:43:43.664 --> 00:43:45.405
that excluded
African-Americans

789
00:43:45.448 --> 00:43:46.841
and other non-whites,

790
00:43:46.885 --> 00:43:50.323
from enjoying the fruits
of our wonderful experiment,

791
00:43:50.366 --> 00:43:52.107
um, in democracy.

792
00:43:52.151 --> 00:43:55.067
Redlining actually
kept people who were black

793
00:43:55.110 --> 00:43:57.678
from being able
to buy homes
in certain areas.

794
00:43:57.722 --> 00:44:00.812
People who were white
began to move in droves

795
00:44:00.855 --> 00:44:03.292
out of cities into
suburban communities.

796
00:44:03.336 --> 00:44:05.947
Political clout went
with them to the suburbs.

797
00:44:05.991 --> 00:44:09.385
The best schools
went to the suburbs.

798
00:44:09.429 --> 00:44:12.432
Cities were left with schools
that were under-funded,

799
00:44:12.475 --> 00:44:14.521
jobs that were disappearing,

800
00:44:14.564 --> 00:44:17.959
under-investment in public transportation systems.

801
00:44:18.003 --> 00:44:20.701
We like to think
that this stuff happened
a long time ago,

802
00:44:20.745 --> 00:44:22.442
but to this day, then,

803
00:44:22.485 --> 00:44:26.272
those exclusions continue
to shape life chances

804
00:44:26.315 --> 00:44:29.144
for people who are
their descendants.

805
00:44:29.188 --> 00:44:32.017
On the one hand,
we have this wonderful value

806
00:44:32.060 --> 00:44:34.759
about equality in the country,

807
00:44:34.802 --> 00:44:36.064
democracy,

808
00:44:36.108 --> 00:44:37.718
the value of public education,

809
00:44:37.762 --> 00:44:41.374
and on the other hand,
we have the ugly reality

810
00:44:41.417 --> 00:44:43.811
of inequality and segregation

811
00:44:43.855 --> 00:44:46.727
that was baked into
much of public education

812
00:44:46.771 --> 00:44:48.686
from the beginning
of the country.

813
00:44:48.729 --> 00:44:52.733
Fortunately, the legislation
in the '60s and '70s

814
00:44:52.777 --> 00:44:54.735
that was
desegregating schools,

815
00:44:54.779 --> 00:44:58.521
that was reducing inequality
in funding for schools,

816
00:44:58.565 --> 00:45:02.134
putting money into cities
and poor rural areas,

817
00:45:02.177 --> 00:45:04.049
uh, from the federal
government,

818
00:45:04.092 --> 00:45:06.747
all of which came to an end

819
00:45:06.791 --> 00:45:09.054
or was greatly reduced
in the 1980s.

820
00:45:09.097 --> 00:45:10.925
What has happened since?

821
00:45:10.969 --> 00:45:13.885
We began to
disinvest in the public?

822
00:45:13.928 --> 00:45:16.452
We adopted this idea that

823
00:45:16.496 --> 00:45:18.237
it was all about
the private good

824
00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:19.891
that undermines

825
00:45:19.934 --> 00:45:21.849
the collective investments

826
00:45:21.893 --> 00:45:24.156
that we need to be
a successful society.

827
00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:27.681
By making education
a private good for ourselves,

828
00:45:27.725 --> 00:45:30.640
I unwittingly,
and perhaps unconsciously,

829
00:45:30.684 --> 00:45:32.947
collude in the processes
of inequality.

830
00:45:32.991 --> 00:45:35.950
Because that means
that I'm okay with segregation.

831
00:45:35.994 --> 00:45:37.691
I just want the best
for my child.

832
00:45:37.735 --> 00:45:39.519
In the United States
it's sort of as though

833
00:45:39.562 --> 00:45:42.217
some kids are on
a high-speed elevator

834
00:45:42.261 --> 00:45:45.220
going to the top
of the 90-story building,

835
00:45:45.264 --> 00:45:47.527
and others are going up
some escalators

836
00:45:47.570 --> 00:45:49.659
on the way to that goal,

837
00:45:49.703 --> 00:45:52.575
and others are trying
to walk up creaky stairs

838
00:45:52.619 --> 00:45:54.447
with holes in them.

839
00:45:54.490 --> 00:45:58.494
And that really is
the opportunity gap
in the United States.

840
00:45:58.538 --> 00:46:02.498
In most states,
the funding structure
for education

841
00:46:02.542 --> 00:46:06.067
is predicated
on the tax base.

842
00:46:06.111 --> 00:46:08.983
You can't get a big tax base
in communities

843
00:46:09.027 --> 00:46:11.203
where there's not
home ownership.

844
00:46:11.246 --> 00:46:13.988
And it is radically different
from communities

845
00:46:14.032 --> 00:46:15.816
where the median home

846
00:46:15.860 --> 00:46:18.297
is going for $950,000.

847
00:46:18.340 --> 00:46:22.518
So, when we do have these
fundamental opportunity gaps,

848
00:46:22.562 --> 00:46:24.564
we're sending,
to some kids a message

849
00:46:24.607 --> 00:46:26.653
that you don't matter
as much as other kids.

850
00:46:26.696 --> 00:46:28.611
When you say that
there's an American dream

851
00:46:28.655 --> 00:46:30.570
to somebody
who's a poor child

852
00:46:30.613 --> 00:46:31.919
with no education,

853
00:46:31.963 --> 00:46:33.703
living in a dangerous
neighborhood,

854
00:46:33.747 --> 00:46:35.444
with no opportunity,

855
00:46:35.488 --> 00:46:37.490
what would that
do to a child?

856
00:46:37.533 --> 00:46:39.927
That would say that
if they couldn't find
the American dream

857
00:46:39.971 --> 00:46:41.929
there is something
wrong with them.

858
00:46:41.973 --> 00:46:44.279
And that has a social
psychological impact.

859
00:46:44.323 --> 00:46:46.716
I think it has
a behavioral impact as well.

860
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:48.849
How do you keep invested
in something

861
00:46:48.893 --> 00:46:50.851
where you don't think
people care about you?

862
00:46:50.895 --> 00:46:53.811
Extreme poverty
and marginalization

863
00:46:53.854 --> 00:46:55.856
has created despair.

864
00:46:55.900 --> 00:46:58.293
And some of that despair
has manifested itself

865
00:46:58.337 --> 00:46:59.904
with drug addiction
and abuse,

866
00:46:59.947 --> 00:47:01.557
it has manifested itself

867
00:47:01.601 --> 00:47:03.777
in pockets
of increased violence.

868
00:47:07.172 --> 00:47:09.522
The war on drugs
has historically,

869
00:47:09.565 --> 00:47:10.784
from its inception,

870
00:47:10.828 --> 00:47:12.568
been a war
on poor people

871
00:47:12.612 --> 00:47:14.527
and a war
on people of color.

872
00:47:24.189 --> 00:47:26.626
White and black kids
experiment with marijuana

873
00:47:26.669 --> 00:47:28.193
at about the same rate.

874
00:47:28.236 --> 00:47:30.238
And yet, nine out of 10
of the people

875
00:47:30.282 --> 00:47:31.892
who were being arrested
were black.

876
00:47:32.632 --> 00:47:35.069
How do you look at that

877
00:47:35.113 --> 00:47:37.724
and say that the government
itself is not being used

878
00:47:37.767 --> 00:47:40.118
as an instrument of punishment
and suppression

879
00:47:40.161 --> 00:47:42.294
for one group of people?

880
00:47:42.337 --> 00:47:44.209
It ultimately
became a means

881
00:47:44.252 --> 00:47:46.254
of mass exploitation,

882
00:47:46.298 --> 00:47:48.039
in a mass bureaucracy.

883
00:47:58.658 --> 00:48:01.487
This dramatic increase
has left states

884
00:48:01.530 --> 00:48:03.228
devastated economically.

885
00:48:03.271 --> 00:48:06.274
They can't fund schools
and health and human services

886
00:48:06.318 --> 00:48:08.494
because so many
of our dollars have been

887
00:48:08.537 --> 00:48:10.800
swallowed by this system

888
00:48:10.844 --> 00:48:13.542
of over-incarceration
and excessive punishment.

889
00:48:24.162 --> 00:48:27.121
And then you ask
why so many

890
00:48:27.165 --> 00:48:30.559
young black women
are not married?

891
00:48:30.603 --> 00:48:33.388
Why you have disparities
in schools?

892
00:48:33.432 --> 00:48:37.262
Why so many young
black children

893
00:48:37.305 --> 00:48:39.307
are in need
of social services?

894
00:48:39.351 --> 00:48:41.309
It's a systemic problem.

895
00:48:51.102 --> 00:48:54.148
We have to move away
from this punitive economy

896
00:48:54.192 --> 00:48:56.368
that has served no one.

897
00:48:56.411 --> 00:48:58.936
It means reckoning
with a long history

898
00:48:58.979 --> 00:49:01.460
of racial injustice
in this country

899
00:49:01.503 --> 00:49:05.029
and reinvestment
towards jobs, not jails,

900
00:49:05.072 --> 00:49:06.508
books, not bars,

901
00:49:06.552 --> 00:49:08.641
healthcare, not handcuffs.

902
00:49:08.684 --> 00:49:10.208
-Books, not bars!
-Book, not bars!

903
00:49:10.251 --> 00:49:11.992
Jobs, not jails!

904
00:49:12.036 --> 00:49:13.994
Healthcare, not handcuffs!

905
00:49:18.042 --> 00:49:21.001
One of the first times
that I started to think about

906
00:49:21.045 --> 00:49:23.003
inequality and racism

907
00:49:23.047 --> 00:49:25.179
was being asked
as an undergrad

908
00:49:25.223 --> 00:49:27.442
to go and speak
to high school students

909
00:49:27.486 --> 00:49:29.575
to encourage them
to go to Harvard.

910
00:49:29.618 --> 00:49:31.446
I then found that
half of the students

911
00:49:31.490 --> 00:49:34.275
were not graduating
from the high school
in my neighborhood.

912
00:49:34.319 --> 00:49:36.016
I was also noticing that

913
00:49:36.060 --> 00:49:37.583
young people at Harvard

914
00:49:37.626 --> 00:49:39.672
were being treated
a lot differently

915
00:49:39.715 --> 00:49:41.369
for doing a lot
of the same things.

916
00:49:41.413 --> 00:49:43.154
So, drug use and abuse

917
00:49:43.197 --> 00:49:45.373
meant taking a semester off

918
00:49:45.417 --> 00:49:47.288
and restarting your studies,

919
00:49:47.332 --> 00:49:49.464
whereas it might mean
getting locked up

920
00:49:49.508 --> 00:49:51.205
for some of my friends
in East Oakland.

921
00:49:58.343 --> 00:50:01.607
A year-and-a-half ago,
my daughter was, uh, detained

922
00:50:01.650 --> 00:50:03.739
and she was housed here.

923
00:50:03.783 --> 00:50:05.524
They tried to give her
two to five years

924
00:50:05.567 --> 00:50:07.961
-and I had to bail her out.
-Whoa.

925
00:50:08.005 --> 00:50:11.225
I've been in
this revolving door

926
00:50:11.747 --> 00:50:13.184
for 12 years.

927
00:50:13.227 --> 00:50:15.664
He's got a mental problem.
He's not a criminal.

928
00:50:15.708 --> 00:50:17.840
He has the mind
of a little teenager.

929
00:50:19.364 --> 00:50:22.019
We are called out when
somebody has been, um,

930
00:50:22.062 --> 00:50:23.977
reporting that they
have been sexually harassed

931
00:50:24.021 --> 00:50:25.631
or sexually assaulted
in the jail.

932
00:50:25.674 --> 00:50:28.808
I've had a few clients
recently who

933
00:50:28.851 --> 00:50:30.592
are in
for non-violent crimes,

934
00:50:30.636 --> 00:50:32.594
and they are remaining
in here

935
00:50:32.638 --> 00:50:35.293
rather than being released
to programs that would help

936
00:50:35.336 --> 00:50:36.903
with what we call
dual diagnosis.

937
00:50:36.946 --> 00:50:39.253
So that could be
substance abuse,
mental health issues,

938
00:50:39.297 --> 00:50:41.125
and that's not a way
to rehabilitate people.

939
00:50:41.168 --> 00:50:43.562
It's not a way
to get people off the street

940
00:50:43.605 --> 00:50:44.954
and it's not humane.

941
00:50:44.998 --> 00:50:47.218
I just really commend you
for the work that you do.

942
00:50:47.261 --> 00:50:48.480
You hang in there.

943
00:50:48.523 --> 00:50:50.090
You tell your daughter
to hang in there.

944
00:50:50.134 --> 00:50:51.309
Thank you.

945
00:51:04.496 --> 00:51:06.454
I'm sorry
we brought you back...

946
00:51:06.498 --> 00:51:08.935
-No, I'm just thinking like...
-...to the lion's den.

947
00:51:11.198 --> 00:51:13.026
That's slavery...

948
00:51:13.070 --> 00:51:14.593
Yeah.

949
00:51:14.636 --> 00:51:16.638
That's slavery at the...

950
00:51:16.682 --> 00:51:19.119
finest compound.
This is slavery.

951
00:51:22.949 --> 00:51:25.343
I'm sorry.

952
00:51:25.386 --> 00:51:28.259
As you know, people are making
their choice of putting,

953
00:51:28.302 --> 00:51:30.957
literally putting food
on their table

954
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:33.133
-or trying
to bail out their kid.
-I had to do it.

955
00:51:33.177 --> 00:51:35.309
-Right? Yeah.
-Like, I had to do it.

956
00:51:35.353 --> 00:51:39.008
-I've been living
out of suit...
-Yeah.

957
00:51:39.052 --> 00:51:41.010
...for the last
year-and-a-half.

958
00:51:41.054 --> 00:51:42.316
I don't tell people that,

959
00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:44.188
how many times
I didn't have water,

960
00:51:44.231 --> 00:51:46.103
or didn't have electricity
in my house.

961
00:51:46.146 --> 00:51:48.105
You have to choose.

962
00:51:48.148 --> 00:51:50.194
$50,000 later,

963
00:51:50.237 --> 00:51:52.674
-I chose college or bail.
-Yeah.

964
00:51:56.200 --> 00:51:58.463
We've gone
just so far off

965
00:51:58.506 --> 00:52:00.682
the deep end in this country,

966
00:52:00.726 --> 00:52:03.032
in terms of embracing

967
00:52:03.076 --> 00:52:06.297
this punitive criminal
justice system

968
00:52:06.340 --> 00:52:09.822
that disproportionately
impacts people of color.

969
00:52:09.865 --> 00:52:13.391
This system is costly,
not just in financial terms,

970
00:52:13.434 --> 00:52:15.436
but in terms
of people's mental health,

971
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:19.092
and it worsens
the mental health situation
of their entire family.

972
00:52:19.136 --> 00:52:22.661
So, we have an opportunity
to do something different.

973
00:52:35.326 --> 00:52:36.936
When the mills shut down,

974
00:52:36.979 --> 00:52:40.200
all the social problems
came about.

975
00:52:40.244 --> 00:52:43.203
The marriage troubles,
the suicides,

976
00:52:43.247 --> 00:52:44.857
the split families.

977
00:52:44.900 --> 00:52:48.774
And these are jobs
that are not
$8-an-hour jobs.

978
00:52:48.817 --> 00:52:50.123
-So you can raise families.
-Yeah, yeah.

979
00:52:50.167 --> 00:52:52.169
You know,
and take vacations,

980
00:52:52.212 --> 00:52:53.648
and buy a car.

981
00:52:53.692 --> 00:52:56.260
-Live the American dream.
-Buy a home.

982
00:52:56.303 --> 00:52:57.783
Now, what are you gonna do?

983
00:52:57.826 --> 00:52:59.219
I had young people,

984
00:52:59.263 --> 00:53:00.612
they'd say, "What do I think?"

985
00:53:00.655 --> 00:53:02.048
I'd say,
"Get out of the area."

986
00:53:02.091 --> 00:53:04.224
You know, my own children.
"Leave."

987
00:53:04.268 --> 00:53:06.444
There's nothing here
and that's sad.

988
00:53:06.487 --> 00:53:07.706
This was a great area.

989
00:53:08.837 --> 00:53:11.753
This was a steel area,
but what we had

990
00:53:11.797 --> 00:53:14.060
became from steel
to heroin.

991
00:53:21.067 --> 00:53:23.069
I became more aware

992
00:53:23.112 --> 00:53:24.462
of our opioid addiction

993
00:53:24.505 --> 00:53:27.116
and heroin problems
in this area

994
00:53:27.160 --> 00:53:29.075
when it affected
my own family.

995
00:53:30.381 --> 00:53:32.383
My own son's girlfriend

996
00:53:32.426 --> 00:53:34.254
became addicted to heroin.

997
00:53:36.691 --> 00:53:38.911
Bryson was born

998
00:53:38.954 --> 00:53:41.218
addicted to drugs
and had seizures.

999
00:53:43.176 --> 00:53:45.222
I did not know
that she was doing drugs

1000
00:53:45.265 --> 00:53:48.486
while she was pregnant
with Bryson.

1001
00:53:48.529 --> 00:53:50.836
I was terrified
when I found out.

1002
00:53:53.273 --> 00:53:56.276
I tried helping her.
I even offered to pay

1003
00:53:56.320 --> 00:53:59.758
for some of her rehab
and she refused.

1004
00:53:59.801 --> 00:54:01.890
I've had full custody
since then.

1005
00:54:05.633 --> 00:54:07.069
There it is.

1006
00:54:07.113 --> 00:54:10.508
Being a single father is...
I mean, it's hard.

1007
00:54:10.551 --> 00:54:14.207
Even with me graduating from college with two degrees,

1008
00:54:14.251 --> 00:54:17.950
the regular 40-hour-a-week
is just not enough anymore.

1009
00:54:19.560 --> 00:54:21.910
Right now I'm working
seven days a week,

1010
00:54:21.954 --> 00:54:23.347
three jobs,

1011
00:54:23.390 --> 00:54:25.784
teaching special needs
at Austintown High School.

1012
00:54:25.827 --> 00:54:29.353
I'm also part-time
at the Vitamin Shoppe.

1013
00:54:29.396 --> 00:54:33.574
I still have my drug
and alcohol counseling job
on the weekends.

1014
00:54:33.618 --> 00:54:36.708
This is just what I have
to do to survive.

1015
00:54:37.970 --> 00:54:39.363
See you, buddy.

1016
00:54:41.452 --> 00:54:43.280
I mean, he is turning
eight this year,

1017
00:54:43.323 --> 00:54:44.846
so I have to start
thinking about

1018
00:54:44.890 --> 00:54:46.805
putting money back
for college,

1019
00:54:46.848 --> 00:54:48.633
and with me working
75 hours a week,

1020
00:54:48.676 --> 00:54:51.679
I think I should be able
to afford to put
some money back.

1021
00:54:51.723 --> 00:54:54.682
But something is
definitely wrong
with the system

1022
00:54:55.379 --> 00:54:57.163
that I can't do it.

1023
00:54:57.206 --> 00:55:00.340
I mean, it's not just me,
it's every...
It's everyone around here.

1024
00:55:00.384 --> 00:55:04.866
To work every day
to basically just make it.

1025
00:55:04.910 --> 00:55:07.304
It's not really living,
it's just...

1026
00:55:07.782 --> 00:55:08.870
not dying.

1027
00:55:14.702 --> 00:55:15.921
The universal way

1028
00:55:15.964 --> 00:55:17.792
in which we determine
value in our culture

1029
00:55:17.836 --> 00:55:18.924
is through money.

1030
00:55:18.967 --> 00:55:20.752
Certain sectors
are vastly underpaid

1031
00:55:20.795 --> 00:55:22.493
and they tend
to be feminized sectors.

1032
00:55:22.536 --> 00:55:24.495
So, for example, education,

1033
00:55:24.538 --> 00:55:26.540
healthcare,
the service sector,

1034
00:55:26.584 --> 00:55:30.022
um, we just don't pay
people in those occupations

1035
00:55:30.065 --> 00:55:31.850
whether they be
male or female,

1036
00:55:31.893 --> 00:55:33.155
as much as they're worth.

1037
00:55:41.903 --> 00:55:44.384
Who's gonna argue
that teachers
living in poverty

1038
00:55:44.428 --> 00:55:45.994
is somehow okay?

1039
00:55:46.038 --> 00:55:48.910
But because that occupation
is feminized, we pay it less.

1040
00:55:48.954 --> 00:55:51.783
Whereas we overpay other
masculinized occupations,

1041
00:55:51.826 --> 00:55:52.958
we'll start with sports.

1042
00:56:00.313 --> 00:56:01.880
Or the financial sector,

1043
00:56:01.923 --> 00:56:04.273
people making money
off of money.

1044
00:56:11.019 --> 00:56:14.022
So, compare teachers,
right, to someone
in the finance sector,

1045
00:56:14.066 --> 00:56:16.285
and the value that
they're contributing
to society

1046
00:56:16.329 --> 00:56:18.287
and the hours
that they're putting in,

1047
00:56:18.331 --> 00:56:19.463
it's outrageous,

1048
00:56:19.506 --> 00:56:21.465
that we value one
so much more

1049
00:56:21.508 --> 00:56:23.075
than we value the other.

1050
00:56:23.118 --> 00:56:26.383
It's the jobs
that get closer

1051
00:56:26.426 --> 00:56:28.994
to caring and emotional labor

1052
00:56:29.037 --> 00:56:31.562
that seem to be
the least valued.

1053
00:56:31.605 --> 00:56:34.434
That's just never quite seen
as real work.

1054
00:56:34.478 --> 00:56:36.523
And it's often
been associated

1055
00:56:36.567 --> 00:56:39.439
with women of color,
immigrant women,

1056
00:56:39.483 --> 00:56:42.790
women who are of
marginalized social status.

1057
00:56:42.834 --> 00:56:44.705
We all hear that women earn

1058
00:56:44.749 --> 00:56:47.229
79 cents on the dollar
compared to men,

1059
00:56:47.273 --> 00:56:48.927
but what you don't
often hear

1060
00:56:48.970 --> 00:56:51.930
is that they own only
32 cents on a dollar.

1061
00:56:51.973 --> 00:56:55.063
For women of color
that gap is really a chasm,

1062
00:56:55.107 --> 00:56:57.457
because black
and Latino women

1063
00:56:57.501 --> 00:56:59.285
own only pennies
on the dollar

1064
00:56:59.328 --> 00:57:00.895
compared to white men
and white women.

1065
00:57:08.163 --> 00:57:09.774
It's really important
to remember that

1066
00:57:09.817 --> 00:57:13.647
women did not have access
to credit in their own name

1067
00:57:13.691 --> 00:57:17.477
until the Equal Opportunity Act in 1974.

1068
00:57:17.521 --> 00:57:20.262
Then when we were able
to access credit,

1069
00:57:20.306 --> 00:57:24.223
women were preyed upon
during the lead-up
to the foreclosure crisis.

1070
00:57:24.266 --> 00:57:26.704
African-American women
were two-and-a-half times

1071
00:57:26.747 --> 00:57:29.794
more likely to receive
a subprime loan,

1072
00:57:29.837 --> 00:57:32.623
and that led to a lot
of wealth stripping.

1073
00:57:32.666 --> 00:57:35.495
To really succeed
in our society,

1074
00:57:35.539 --> 00:57:39.107
you need access
to a well-paying job,

1075
00:57:39.151 --> 00:57:42.763
you need access to support
to take care of your kids
while you're working,

1076
00:57:42.807 --> 00:57:45.723
you need access
to investment vehicles

1077
00:57:45.766 --> 00:57:48.116
like a home or a business.

1078
00:57:48.160 --> 00:57:51.468
Oftentimes, people do
the blame-the-victim thing,

1079
00:57:51.511 --> 00:57:53.078
when what's really
behind her

1080
00:57:53.121 --> 00:57:56.560
is this whole history of...
of discrimination

1081
00:57:56.603 --> 00:57:58.692
and she's carrying it
on her shoulders.

1082
00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:05.699
Whose building?
- Our building.

1083
00:58:05.743 --> 00:58:08.093
-Whose building?
-Our building.

1084
00:58:08.136 --> 00:58:10.269
-Whose building?
-Our building.

1085
00:58:10.312 --> 00:58:12.576
-Whose building?
-Our building.

1086
00:58:15.666 --> 00:58:19.583
Hey, everybody.Happy International Women's Day.

1087
00:58:19.626 --> 00:58:21.715
In front of our building.

1088
00:58:21.759 --> 00:58:23.412
Our building!

1089
00:58:23.456 --> 00:58:27.199
We're here to stand with workersof all different sectors,

1090
00:58:27.242 --> 00:58:28.766
to say, "Enough is enough."

1091
00:58:28.809 --> 00:58:31.159
What we need
is one fair wage.

1092
00:58:31.203 --> 00:58:33.988
We need paid sick days
and paid family leave.

1093
00:58:34.032 --> 00:58:36.382
We need healthcare
for everybody.

1094
00:58:36.425 --> 00:58:39.690
We need an end to sexual
harassment and discrimination.

1095
00:58:39.733 --> 00:58:41.866
So we're going to keep rising

1096
00:58:41.909 --> 00:58:43.563
as women workers.

1097
00:58:45.696 --> 00:58:47.262
All right,
so we've got sisters here

1098
00:58:47.306 --> 00:58:48.481
from the restaurant industry

1099
00:58:48.525 --> 00:58:51.049
who are going to
share their stories.

1100
00:58:51.092 --> 00:58:53.007
At 18, I started bartending.

1101
00:58:53.051 --> 00:58:54.705
On my first day,

1102
00:58:54.748 --> 00:58:57.011
the owner called me
into his office.

1103
00:58:57.055 --> 00:58:59.405
He said that he could help me
pay for college

1104
00:58:59.448 --> 00:59:01.189
if I gave him a blow job.

1105
00:59:01.233 --> 00:59:03.496
When I refused, I was fired.

1106
00:59:06.847 --> 00:59:10.068
At 30, I was locked in the bar
where I worked

1107
00:59:10.111 --> 00:59:11.722
by the general manager

1108
00:59:11.765 --> 00:59:14.812
and assaulted
by the vice president
of the hotel group.

1109
00:59:14.855 --> 00:59:18.729
Unknown to me, he was told
he could have anything
he wanted, including me.

1110
00:59:22.036 --> 00:59:27.041
The dynamic of having
a mostly-female workforce
in the front, living on tips,

1111
00:59:27.085 --> 00:59:30.828
and a mostly male workforce
in the back,
not living on tips,

1112
00:59:30.871 --> 00:59:33.918
creates a dynamic in which
women have no power.

1113
00:59:33.961 --> 00:59:35.963
They have no power
vis-a-vis the customer.

1114
00:59:36.007 --> 00:59:38.139
They have no power
vis-a-vis the kitchen.

1115
00:59:38.183 --> 00:59:40.402
And they have no power
vis-a-vis managers,

1116
00:59:40.446 --> 00:59:43.101
who can decide, "You can have
this table or that table,"

1117
00:59:43.144 --> 00:59:45.669
which means
you get zero dollars
or $200.

1118
00:59:45.712 --> 00:59:48.019
Your wage and your income
could be anything.

1119
00:59:48.062 --> 00:59:49.586
It's all up to the men.

1120
00:59:51.500 --> 00:59:53.546
There are millions
more young women

1121
00:59:53.590 --> 00:59:57.028
for whom this is the first job in high school, college,
or grad school.

1122
00:59:57.071 --> 00:59:58.986
This will be the first job
for my daughters.

1123
00:59:59.030 --> 01:00:01.119
I know it.

1124
01:00:01.162 --> 01:00:05.819
But as a mother,
as an American, that's not the American dream.

1125
01:00:13.871 --> 01:00:16.134
As long as you have
a model of our species,

1126
01:00:16.177 --> 01:00:20.007
in which one half of humanity
is considered inferior
to the other half,

1127
01:00:20.051 --> 01:00:22.444
you are not going
to have equality.

1128
01:00:22.488 --> 01:00:25.099
Because that's basic
to inequality.

1129
01:00:26.405 --> 01:00:29.147
Systems of power
are these invisible,

1130
01:00:29.190 --> 01:00:30.670
behind the scenes,

1131
01:00:30.714 --> 01:00:35.066
but very powerful ways
in which we organize the world.

1132
01:00:35.109 --> 01:00:37.155
Men dominate
most of the major

1133
01:00:37.198 --> 01:00:39.026
economic, political,
and social systems.

1134
01:00:49.384 --> 01:00:52.736
And if women are erased
from these institutions
by and large,

1135
01:00:52.779 --> 01:00:56.870
if they're showing up
at the highest level
in such small numbers,

1136
01:00:56.914 --> 01:01:00.308
it likely means that
their concerns are also erased.

1137
01:01:00.352 --> 01:01:03.790
The domination pyramid
keeps rebuilding itself

1138
01:01:03.834 --> 01:01:05.879
on the same foundations

1139
01:01:05.923 --> 01:01:09.883
of this ranking
of one half of humanity
over the other half.

1140
01:01:09.927 --> 01:01:11.189
It's about power,

1141
01:01:11.232 --> 01:01:13.321
and it's about the ability
to exercise power,

1142
01:01:13.365 --> 01:01:16.107
both individually
and institutionally.

1143
01:01:16.150 --> 01:01:20.241
So for example,
if you're serving power
in an economic sense,

1144
01:01:20.285 --> 01:01:24.768
you have more chance
for advancement than
if you're not serving power.

1145
01:01:24.811 --> 01:01:28.467
And if you're helping
to reinforce men's dominance,

1146
01:01:28.510 --> 01:01:30.948
then there are
more opportunities for you
than if you're

1147
01:01:30.991 --> 01:01:33.080
subverting men's dominance.

1148
01:01:33.124 --> 01:01:36.214
If you really start looking
at economics

1149
01:01:36.257 --> 01:01:38.216
through this lens,

1150
01:01:38.259 --> 01:01:39.739
you begin to see

1151
01:01:39.783 --> 01:01:44.004
that more resources
are funneled to those on top.

1152
01:01:44.701 --> 01:01:46.441
But not only that,

1153
01:01:46.485 --> 01:01:50.184
there isn't enough investment
in caring for people,

1154
01:01:50.228 --> 01:01:53.579
and with this
there isn't enough investment

1155
01:01:53.622 --> 01:01:56.234
in human capacity development.

1156
01:01:56.277 --> 01:01:59.106
We can project
American military strength
all over the world

1157
01:01:59.150 --> 01:02:01.195
and spend hundreds
of billions of dollars,

1158
01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:04.111
but then, what are we
doing about poverty
in the inner cities?

1159
01:02:04.155 --> 01:02:06.026
What are we doing about
rural white poverty?

1160
01:02:06.070 --> 01:02:07.593
What are we doing about
healthcare,

1161
01:02:07.636 --> 01:02:10.378
and citizens who can't even
afford to go to the doctor?

1162
01:02:10.422 --> 01:02:12.859
I mean, it's a question of
who are we as a society?

1163
01:02:12.903 --> 01:02:14.818
What are our values
as a society?

1164
01:02:14.861 --> 01:02:16.123
At the end of the day,

1165
01:02:16.167 --> 01:02:19.300
a budget is a set of values.

1166
01:02:19.344 --> 01:02:21.215
Budget reflects
your values.

1167
01:02:31.399 --> 01:02:33.445
What is this symbol?

1168
01:02:33.488 --> 01:02:35.403
-Less than.
-Less than.

1169
01:02:35.447 --> 01:02:37.754
-Or right... Or greater than.
-Greater than.

1170
01:02:37.797 --> 01:02:41.061
This, for me, is also
a symbol of the way in which

1171
01:02:41.105 --> 01:02:45.805
we reinforce
and justify inequality.

1172
01:02:46.545 --> 01:02:48.416
The idea that men

1173
01:02:48.460 --> 01:02:50.984
are more important than women.

1174
01:02:51.028 --> 01:02:53.073
That straight people
are better than queer folks,

1175
01:02:53.117 --> 01:02:55.336
that citizens are better
than non-citizens,

1176
01:02:55.380 --> 01:02:56.816
and on and on.

1177
01:02:56.860 --> 01:03:00.167
And so if you feel an imbalance
in this country,

1178
01:03:00.211 --> 01:03:03.127
it is because
we are not in balance.

1179
01:03:03.170 --> 01:03:05.651
This imbalance plays out
in our homes,

1180
01:03:05.694 --> 01:03:09.263
in our policies,
and in our national priorities.

1181
01:03:09.307 --> 01:03:11.613
And the truth is
that this symbol

1182
01:03:12.571 --> 01:03:14.312
limits our ability to see.

1183
01:03:21.885 --> 01:03:23.843
We're releasing this report

1184
01:03:23.887 --> 01:03:27.716
called Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families.

1185
01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:30.154
A big part of our challenge
today will be

1186
01:03:30.197 --> 01:03:31.851
making sure
that people understand

1187
01:03:31.895 --> 01:03:33.331
that criminal justice reform

1188
01:03:33.374 --> 01:03:35.202
must be about
women and families

1189
01:03:35.246 --> 01:03:38.466
and not just about
the folks who are
incarcerated themselves.

1190
01:03:39.685 --> 01:03:41.818
Families and the women
who sustain them

1191
01:03:41.861 --> 01:03:44.298
are being dragged
into deeper poverty,

1192
01:03:44.342 --> 01:03:47.040
stress, strain, and debt

1193
01:03:47.084 --> 01:03:49.042
when their loved ones
are incarcerated.

1194
01:04:03.230 --> 01:04:05.232
I have a brother.

1195
01:04:05.276 --> 01:04:07.365
He went in
when he was 18 years old,

1196
01:04:07.408 --> 01:04:09.410
and he's been in
for 10 years now.

1197
01:04:09.454 --> 01:04:12.283
So, it was really hard
for our family.

1198
01:04:12.326 --> 01:04:16.417
My mom
in the first two months
lost 60 pounds.

1199
01:04:16.461 --> 01:04:19.638
went into serious depression.

1200
01:04:19.681 --> 01:04:24.861
My parents had to get
multiple jobs to be able
to afford his lawyer fees.

1201
01:04:24.904 --> 01:04:26.993
And 10 years after,

1202
01:04:27.037 --> 01:04:29.648
we're just financially
getting back to the point

1203
01:04:29.691 --> 01:04:32.433
where we can enjoy
a family vacation,

1204
01:04:32.477 --> 01:04:35.697
because all of our money
was going to
lawyer fee services.

1205
01:04:35.741 --> 01:04:38.787
It's, uh, something
that you have to choose

1206
01:04:38.831 --> 01:04:40.964
between whether you're going
to visit your loved one

1207
01:04:41.007 --> 01:04:43.357
or you're going to buy them
a shirt,

1208
01:04:43.401 --> 01:04:45.185
a long-sleeved shirt
for the winter.

1209
01:04:45.229 --> 01:04:49.363
My mom is still, you know,
taking depression pills

1210
01:04:49.407 --> 01:04:52.062
and, you know,
dealing with how is it that,

1211
01:04:52.105 --> 01:04:54.194
you know, she's going to be
present for her son.

1212
01:04:54.238 --> 01:04:56.588
Congratulations.
That's great.

1213
01:05:04.596 --> 01:05:06.815
-Thank you so much
for your time.
-Of course.

1214
01:05:06.859 --> 01:05:09.688
One in three families
who are facing
big difficult choices

1215
01:05:09.731 --> 01:05:12.517
between paying for
basic necessities, like food,

1216
01:05:12.560 --> 01:05:15.433
-versus making
court-related payments.
-Mmm-hmm.

1217
01:05:15.476 --> 01:05:17.826
One in five families
that we surveyed

1218
01:05:17.870 --> 01:05:19.480
had taken out
some sort of loan.

1219
01:05:19.524 --> 01:05:22.483
-We can't wait and we really
do need these reforms...
-Mmm-hmm.

1220
01:05:22.527 --> 01:05:24.485
...in terms of
the criminal justice system.

1221
01:05:24.529 --> 01:05:27.140
And we need to do them in ways
that take into account

1222
01:05:27.184 --> 01:05:29.751
-the entire family.
-Mmm-hmm.

1223
01:05:29.795 --> 01:05:33.407
If you look
at our history as a country,

1224
01:05:33.451 --> 01:05:35.844
we have,
for a very long time,

1225
01:05:35.888 --> 01:05:37.759
valued all things

1226
01:05:37.803 --> 01:05:40.110
connected to
a dominant framework.

1227
01:05:40.153 --> 01:05:42.112
A power over framework.

1228
01:05:42.155 --> 01:05:45.854
We actually need to invest
in well-being in our country.

1229
01:06:01.958 --> 01:06:04.177
I'm afraid
for all of my kids.

1230
01:06:04.221 --> 01:06:06.136
There's nothing really here.

1231
01:06:06.179 --> 01:06:08.268
A lot of minimum-wage jobs,

1232
01:06:08.312 --> 01:06:10.183
but nothing
to raise a family on.

1233
01:06:12.011 --> 01:06:13.839
It has to be
a joint venture

1234
01:06:13.882 --> 01:06:15.884
between the companies
that are here,

1235
01:06:15.928 --> 01:06:20.715
the educational institutions
and the government
to subsidize education.

1236
01:06:20.759 --> 01:06:23.022
They're going
to have to offer incentives

1237
01:06:23.066 --> 01:06:26.721
to provide the training
for skilled trade jobs.

1238
01:06:26.765 --> 01:06:31.422
We need to pay
a living wage to these folks.

1239
01:06:31.465 --> 01:06:34.033
So, employees pay taxes.

1240
01:06:34.077 --> 01:06:38.603
They're not on
the program of government
to have the children get lunch.

1241
01:06:38.646 --> 01:06:40.997
We wouldn't be talking
about healthcare,

1242
01:06:41.040 --> 01:06:43.608
we wouldn't be talking aboutsocial security in this country,

1243
01:06:43.651 --> 01:06:45.914
we wouldn't be talking about
lack of money.

1244
01:06:45.958 --> 01:06:48.961
Good jobs solve problems.

1245
01:06:49.396 --> 01:06:51.311
They pay.

1246
01:06:51.355 --> 01:06:54.749
When you take care
of your people,
you will be successful.

1247
01:06:54.793 --> 01:06:56.664
That's how you build
a successful company.

1248
01:06:56.708 --> 01:06:58.797
-That's the moral of my story.
-"Take care of your people."

1249
01:06:58.840 --> 01:07:00.059
Take care of your people.

1250
01:07:00.103 --> 01:07:01.321
That's right, brother.

1251
01:07:06.239 --> 01:07:09.808
I'm just hoping
that they can pour
some money into this area.

1252
01:07:09.851 --> 01:07:12.202
So people
don't have to leave.

1253
01:07:12.245 --> 01:07:15.422
You always have to have hope.
You have to.

1254
01:07:20.645 --> 01:07:23.909
You think
about America, that we had
a formula for success.

1255
01:07:23.952 --> 01:07:26.085
We out-educated,
the rest of the world.

1256
01:07:26.129 --> 01:07:27.521
We invested
in right infrastructure,

1257
01:07:27.565 --> 01:07:29.654
we invested in roads,
and bridges, and ports.

1258
01:07:29.697 --> 01:07:31.612
And we also invested
in research and development.

1259
01:07:31.656 --> 01:07:33.527
We pushed the boundaries
of discovery.

1260
01:07:33.571 --> 01:07:35.834
We encouraged risk-taking
but not recklessness.

1261
01:07:35.877 --> 01:07:39.664
All of these things
inure to the benefit
of businesses.

1262
01:07:39.707 --> 01:07:42.319
All of those things
were public investments.

1263
01:07:42.362 --> 01:07:43.798
A public construct

1264
01:07:43.842 --> 01:07:46.975
of which the private sector
benefitted greatly.

1265
01:07:47.019 --> 01:07:48.977
And so this notion
of interdependence,

1266
01:07:49.021 --> 01:07:50.892
this notion that
we're all in this together,

1267
01:07:50.936 --> 01:07:52.590
that we rise
and fall together,

1268
01:07:52.633 --> 01:07:54.070
is absolutely true.

1269
01:08:02.165 --> 01:08:03.775
Mr. Naughton has decided

1270
01:08:03.818 --> 01:08:07.344
that this is not
going to work for him
moving forward.

1271
01:08:07.387 --> 01:08:10.042
He's probably going to move
somewhere where
the need is less.

1272
01:08:13.611 --> 01:08:15.700
I think
people leave education

1273
01:08:15.743 --> 01:08:19.051
because it's just not valued
in our country.

1274
01:08:19.095 --> 01:08:20.879
We don't pay teachers well.

1275
01:08:20.922 --> 01:08:24.970
We don't celebrate them
and encourage them.

1276
01:08:25.013 --> 01:08:27.842
And then you're a teacher
in East Oakland,

1277
01:08:27.886 --> 01:08:33.370
and you might have a kid
cuss you out
or you might get hit.

1278
01:08:33.413 --> 01:08:38.679
Um, and who... What human is,
like, gonna sit there and say,
"Oh, I can deal with that"?

1279
01:08:40.028 --> 01:08:42.205
Two of my therapists quit

1280
01:08:42.248 --> 01:08:44.816
because of
the secondary trauma

1281
01:08:44.859 --> 01:08:48.602
that they've experienced
with our students
this school year.

1282
01:08:48.646 --> 01:08:52.128
So people leave
because it's crazy.

1283
01:08:52.911 --> 01:08:54.304
And it's hard.

1284
01:08:56.219 --> 01:08:58.656
HI!
- Hi! Good morning.

1285
01:08:58.699 --> 01:09:00.527
What's on your mind?
What's on your heart?

1286
01:09:01.746 --> 01:09:03.748
-There's a lot of anger.
-Hmm.

1287
01:09:03.791 --> 01:09:05.271
-Fuck this system.
-Yeah.

1288
01:09:05.315 --> 01:09:06.533
Fuck this.

1289
01:09:06.577 --> 01:09:08.709
This is the sign
to fail my kids

1290
01:09:08.753 --> 01:09:11.234
and I'm sitting here and
I'm contributing in this way.

1291
01:09:11.277 --> 01:09:13.932
-I get angry.
-Yeah.

1292
01:09:13.975 --> 01:09:19.111
The superintendent
has changed twice now
in two years.

1293
01:09:19.155 --> 01:09:21.505
When we have
a new superintendent,
then it's almost like

1294
01:09:21.548 --> 01:09:23.985
you're trying to convince
that new person

1295
01:09:24.029 --> 01:09:25.813
of the work that you're doing.

1296
01:09:25.857 --> 01:09:27.467
And that is exhausting.

1297
01:09:29.165 --> 01:09:32.864
There is not
a true understanding

1298
01:09:32.907 --> 01:09:34.822
of the amount of need

1299
01:09:34.866 --> 01:09:38.478
versus the amount of money
that we receive.

1300
01:09:40.524 --> 01:09:42.700
With the budget crisis,
I'm sure you're aware,

1301
01:09:42.743 --> 01:09:45.572
our future center may be

1302
01:09:45.616 --> 01:09:47.139
not funded next year.

1303
01:09:47.183 --> 01:09:49.968
So that's something I know
you're really concerned about.

1304
01:09:50.011 --> 01:09:51.578
What else?

1305
01:09:51.622 --> 01:09:56.104
Our African American
Male Achievement program...

1306
01:09:57.018 --> 01:10:00.152
Our Restorative Justice program.

1307
01:10:00.196 --> 01:10:05.070
So everything that's designed
to break down traditional

1308
01:10:05.113 --> 01:10:07.899
-oppression and barriers
to opportunity...
-Yeah.

1309
01:10:07.942 --> 01:10:09.683
-...all that's going away.
-Pretty much.

1310
01:10:11.598 --> 01:10:15.080
When you stick
all of the students

1311
01:10:15.123 --> 01:10:18.562
who have the highest need
into one school building,

1312
01:10:18.605 --> 01:10:21.217
and that is
all they see all day,

1313
01:10:21.260 --> 01:10:25.046
how can you vision
something different?

1314
01:10:25.090 --> 01:10:28.572
You cannot put
all of the poor people
in one building

1315
01:10:28.615 --> 01:10:30.965
and expect them to succeed.

1316
01:10:31.009 --> 01:10:33.185
I think about myself
in this...

1317
01:10:33.229 --> 01:10:34.752
generational poverty,

1318
01:10:34.795 --> 01:10:39.104
and, like, how hard it's been
for me to break that cycle

1319
01:10:39.147 --> 01:10:41.367
within myself and my family.

1320
01:10:42.847 --> 01:10:46.198
And I didn't go
to a school like Frick.

1321
01:10:46.242 --> 01:10:48.548
My school was diverse.

1322
01:10:48.592 --> 01:10:51.812
And I was able to
go to my apartment

1323
01:10:51.856 --> 01:10:53.292
and not have lights,

1324
01:10:53.336 --> 01:10:55.990
but go to my friend's house
and see her bedroom

1325
01:10:56.034 --> 01:10:57.514
as big as my apartment.

1326
01:10:57.557 --> 01:11:02.301
And what if
I hadn't ever seen
something different?

1327
01:11:02.345 --> 01:11:05.391
Would I have believed
in something different?

1328
01:11:05.435 --> 01:11:08.046
I think my students
should be around
other students

1329
01:11:08.089 --> 01:11:11.092
who live completely
different than them.

1330
01:11:11.136 --> 01:11:13.312
And they can go
to the hills in the weekends

1331
01:11:13.356 --> 01:11:16.184
or go to a pool party with
someone of a different race

1332
01:11:16.228 --> 01:11:19.579
or a different
economic background,

1333
01:11:21.059 --> 01:11:23.540
and that's
not happening here.

1334
01:11:25.063 --> 01:11:26.760
We're trying
to break the system,

1335
01:11:26.804 --> 01:11:29.459
we're trying to break
generational poverty,

1336
01:11:29.502 --> 01:11:33.898
and it's going to take
way more resources
than we have.

1337
01:11:33.941 --> 01:11:36.770
I believe my kids
can be successful.

1338
01:11:36.814 --> 01:11:38.163
But I need more time.

1339
01:11:39.425 --> 01:11:42.298
I need more time
to change this school.

1340
01:11:45.257 --> 01:11:46.998
Ah... over there.

1341
01:11:47.041 --> 01:11:49.696
We have to change the habits
and the hearts of the people

1342
01:11:49.740 --> 01:11:51.872
and move away from
our own self-interest

1343
01:11:51.916 --> 01:11:55.441
to become more empathic
about what's happening
to other people's children.

1344
01:11:55.485 --> 01:11:57.878
Knowing how much benefit

1345
01:11:57.922 --> 01:11:59.706
early childhood
education brings

1346
01:11:59.750 --> 01:12:03.536
to closing the achievement gapand closing the opportunity gap,

1347
01:12:03.580 --> 01:12:06.234
we're very foolish
not to provide access

1348
01:12:06.278 --> 01:12:09.107
to high-quality learning
for all young children,

1349
01:12:09.150 --> 01:12:11.805
especially those
in low-income communities.

1350
01:12:11.849 --> 01:12:13.546
You get so much more
bang for the buck

1351
01:12:13.590 --> 01:12:15.896
by investing in a trouble
six-month-old

1352
01:12:15.940 --> 01:12:18.725
or a troubled six-year-old,
than you do in investing
in a...

1353
01:12:18.769 --> 01:12:20.248
in a troubled 16-year-old.

1354
01:12:20.292 --> 01:12:21.772
It's going to cost money

1355
01:12:21.815 --> 01:12:24.427
to make sure every child
starts school ready to learn.

1356
01:12:24.470 --> 01:12:25.819
It's going to cost money

1357
01:12:25.863 --> 01:12:27.691
to make sure that
young people get

1358
01:12:27.734 --> 01:12:30.084
the training they need
for good jobs.

1359
01:12:30.128 --> 01:12:32.173
But for every dollar
that we spend,

1360
01:12:32.217 --> 01:12:36.787
not only do we save several,
but we produce,

1361
01:12:36.830 --> 01:12:38.702
we increase the GDP.

1362
01:12:38.745 --> 01:12:41.835
America will prosper when
the people of the future

1363
01:12:41.879 --> 01:12:45.186
are prepared
to lead to the future
that we all want.

1364
01:12:53.630 --> 01:12:56.720
You know, for all the love
and support in the room,

1365
01:12:56.763 --> 01:12:59.157
I have to confess
that nobody ever seems

1366
01:12:59.200 --> 01:13:00.985
to want to take me
out to dinner.

1367
01:13:02.116 --> 01:13:05.206
But, uh, the employers
in this room

1368
01:13:05.250 --> 01:13:08.558
prove that actually you can
take the high road.

1369
01:13:08.601 --> 01:13:11.125
Many of these employers
have been willing
to come with us

1370
01:13:11.169 --> 01:13:13.214
to Congress and
state legislatures and say,

1371
01:13:13.258 --> 01:13:16.479
"We believe in higher wages
and better benefits.

1372
01:13:16.522 --> 01:13:20.134
"Not just for workers,
but because it's better
for the bottom line."

1373
01:13:20.178 --> 01:13:22.659
You know, this is ultimately
about our democracy.

1374
01:13:22.702 --> 01:13:24.443
It's about this question...

1375
01:13:24.487 --> 01:13:28.229
Who gets to decide
how women are treated
in the workplace?

1376
01:13:28.273 --> 01:13:30.667
Who gets to decide
whether we as a nation

1377
01:13:30.710 --> 01:13:32.408
follow the outstanding path

1378
01:13:32.451 --> 01:13:34.018
of the high-road employers
in this room,

1379
01:13:34.061 --> 01:13:37.456
or follow the low road,
a path of poverty and misery?

1380
01:13:37.500 --> 01:13:39.502
Is it a handful of
trade lobbyists,

1381
01:13:39.545 --> 01:13:41.547
or is it we, the people?

1382
01:13:44.985 --> 01:13:48.380
The values of the restaurant
emanate from whatever it is

1383
01:13:48.424 --> 01:13:51.209
that the ownership wants.

1384
01:13:51.252 --> 01:13:53.864
And so, when you say,
"I want an equitable
work environment."

1385
01:13:53.907 --> 01:13:58.434
"We want to create
a living wage
for all of our employees."

1386
01:13:58.477 --> 01:14:00.087
"We want
to open up opportunity."

1387
01:14:00.131 --> 01:14:03.134
All these things really
are basic human values.

1388
01:14:03.177 --> 01:14:05.092
Restaurants can create
a lot of change.

1389
01:14:09.575 --> 01:14:11.403
There are seven states.

1390
01:14:11.447 --> 01:14:14.058
California, Oregon, Washington,

1391
01:14:14.101 --> 01:14:15.842
Nevada, Montana,

1392
01:14:15.886 --> 01:14:17.931
Minnesota, and Alaska,

1393
01:14:17.975 --> 01:14:20.499
have all demanded
that the restaurant industry

1394
01:14:20.543 --> 01:14:22.153
pay their own workers' wages

1395
01:14:22.196 --> 01:14:24.721
and let tips be
on top of that wage.

1396
01:14:24.764 --> 01:14:27.985
And then we've got measures
moving in states
around the country

1397
01:14:28.028 --> 01:14:30.378
to eliminate the lower wage
for tipped workers. And so...

1398
01:14:30.422 --> 01:14:33.207
this is going to be
rolling momentum towards

1399
01:14:33.251 --> 01:14:34.992
the next
three to five years

1400
01:14:35.035 --> 01:14:37.385
being able to move
one fair wage legislation
in Congress.

1401
01:14:38.430 --> 01:14:40.563
We have breaking news.

1402
01:14:40.606 --> 01:14:44.262
The Intercept,which is a,
uh, media platform,

1403
01:14:44.305 --> 01:14:49.136
intercepted a poll
on public support
of the minimum wage.

1404
01:14:49.180 --> 01:14:50.703
And here were the results,

1405
01:14:50.747 --> 01:14:54.315
"71% support
among all people,

1406
01:14:54.359 --> 01:14:57.231
"Republican and Democrat,
raising the minimum wage,

1407
01:14:57.275 --> 01:15:02.062
"and only 8%
of people in America
totally oppose it."

1408
01:15:02.106 --> 01:15:04.935
Everybody wants this.
Everybody needs this.

1409
01:15:04.978 --> 01:15:06.197
It will happen.

1410
01:15:06.240 --> 01:15:10.549
It is just a question
of how and when.

1411
01:15:10.593 --> 01:15:16.337
Imagine a world
in which women were valued.

1412
01:15:16.381 --> 01:15:19.515
In that world, they'd be able to take care of their families,

1413
01:15:19.558 --> 01:15:21.560
they'd be able to take care
of our communities.

1414
01:15:21.604 --> 01:15:22.822
They would lead.

1415
01:15:22.866 --> 01:15:25.346
All it takes is valuing her.

1416
01:15:25.390 --> 01:15:27.087
Letting her know
that she is valued.

1417
01:15:27.131 --> 01:15:30.003
Paying her in a way
that reflects her value.

1418
01:15:30.047 --> 01:15:33.137
If we did that, we'd have
a different economy,

1419
01:15:33.180 --> 01:15:35.139
we'd have
a different country.

1420
01:15:40.579 --> 01:15:45.410
Nations that have invested
in caring for their people

1421
01:15:45.453 --> 01:15:48.631
and in caring for their
natural environment

1422
01:15:48.674 --> 01:15:53.113
are not only always
in the highest ranks

1423
01:15:53.157 --> 01:15:56.726
of the United Nation's
Human Development Reports,

1424
01:15:56.769 --> 01:16:00.164
but of
the World Economic Forum's

1425
01:16:00.207 --> 01:16:02.601
Global Competitiveness Reports.

1426
01:16:02.645 --> 01:16:06.300
And not coincidently,
these are the nations

1427
01:16:06.344 --> 01:16:08.868
where is is much more
equal partnership

1428
01:16:08.912 --> 01:16:11.828
between the female
and male halves of humanity,

1429
01:16:11.871 --> 01:16:15.745
in both
the family and the state.

1430
01:16:15.788 --> 01:16:18.617
As the status
of women rises,

1431
01:16:18.661 --> 01:16:22.621
men no longer feel
it's such a threat
to their status

1432
01:16:22.665 --> 01:16:26.016
to also back, embrace

1433
01:16:26.059 --> 01:16:30.411
more stereotypically soft,
caring policies.

1434
01:16:30.455 --> 01:16:33.023
So they have childcare,

1435
01:16:33.066 --> 01:16:36.679
they have very generous
paid parental leave.

1436
01:16:36.722 --> 01:16:39.029
Of course they have
universal health care.

1437
01:16:39.072 --> 01:16:43.076
And because
they have invested
in caring for their people,

1438
01:16:43.120 --> 01:16:48.952
they have less poverty,
less crime, long life spans,

1439
01:16:48.995 --> 01:16:51.650
kids who do well
in international tests.

1440
01:16:51.694 --> 01:16:55.741
They are societies
that have shifted

1441
01:16:55.785 --> 01:17:00.790
from a domination system
more to a partnership system.

1442
01:17:04.532 --> 01:17:07.318
We're not bystanders
in this world.

1443
01:17:07.361 --> 01:17:11.670
We have the ability to step up
and solve big problems.

1444
01:17:11.714 --> 01:17:13.237
We have done that
in the past.

1445
01:17:13.280 --> 01:17:14.847
It's just a question
of prioritization,

1446
01:17:14.891 --> 01:17:16.632
a question of political will.

1447
01:17:17.937 --> 01:17:20.157
Just like nations,
businesses should be run

1448
01:17:20.200 --> 01:17:22.812
for the benefit
of all their stakeholders.

1449
01:17:22.855 --> 01:17:24.683
Society, partners, investors,

1450
01:17:24.727 --> 01:17:27.991
customers, employees,
the environment,
communities, et cetera.

1451
01:17:28.034 --> 01:17:29.949
Every business
should have a purpose

1452
01:17:29.993 --> 01:17:31.864
that goes
beyond making money.

1453
01:17:31.908 --> 01:17:34.040
You could compete,
for example,

1454
01:17:34.084 --> 01:17:35.912
on whether or not
your company

1455
01:17:35.955 --> 01:17:38.479
has a high-happiness rating
for its employees.

1456
01:17:38.523 --> 01:17:40.743
Um, you could compete
in terms of

1457
01:17:40.786 --> 01:17:42.440
the environmental record
of the company.

1458
01:17:42.483 --> 01:17:45.878
In terms of whether or not
they offer paid parental leave.

1459
01:17:45.922 --> 01:17:48.533
Instead of just valuing money,

1460
01:17:48.576 --> 01:17:51.144
we would introduce
a whole other set of values.

1461
01:17:51.188 --> 01:17:53.669
You know, economic systems
are human creations.

1462
01:17:54.539 --> 01:17:56.497
We can recreate them.

1463
01:18:00.632 --> 01:18:04.331
If we are a nation
founded in justice
and equality,

1464
01:18:04.375 --> 01:18:06.377
we have to always
be able to see

1465
01:18:06.420 --> 01:18:09.423
folks as deserving
even when they make mistakes.

1466
01:18:09.467 --> 01:18:12.165
We know that
the true path to safety

1467
01:18:12.209 --> 01:18:15.778
is through economic opportunity and restorative justice.

1468
01:18:15.821 --> 01:18:18.302
That most people
would respond to

1469
01:18:18.345 --> 01:18:19.956
a meaningful job,

1470
01:18:19.999 --> 01:18:22.262
and would respond to
restorative justice,

1471
01:18:22.306 --> 01:18:26.092
where they're held accountableand yet still held in community.

1472
01:18:26.136 --> 01:18:28.529
I think that
there is an opportunity

1473
01:18:28.573 --> 01:18:31.837
to restore the balance
of this country,

1474
01:18:31.881 --> 01:18:35.667
and to live up
to our ideals.

1475
01:18:35.711 --> 01:18:39.236
We need to move away
from this
punishment-based economy

1476
01:18:39.279 --> 01:18:41.629
towards a more caring economy.

1477
01:18:46.809 --> 01:18:50.073
What we have to do
as a society is stop
being blind to history.

1478
01:18:51.248 --> 01:18:53.076
Stop being blind to systems.

1479
01:18:54.338 --> 01:18:57.254
Understand that
there are privileges

1480
01:18:57.297 --> 01:18:59.212
and there are oppressions
in society.

1481
01:18:59.256 --> 01:19:01.171
And, in fact,
they work like a seesaw.

1482
01:19:01.214 --> 01:19:04.217
Your privilege is actually
built on my oppression.

1483
01:19:05.653 --> 01:19:08.961
We actually have to
engage in truth-telling.

1484
01:19:09.005 --> 01:19:12.225
We're gonna have to
express some shame

1485
01:19:12.269 --> 01:19:15.489
and sorrow about who we are
and what we've done.

1486
01:19:15.533 --> 01:19:18.014
We're gonna have to
find the will

1487
01:19:18.057 --> 01:19:21.017
to reconcile ourselves
to a different future.

1488
01:19:21.060 --> 01:19:24.498
If you don't
address the racism,
sexism, homophobia, hatred...

1489
01:19:24.542 --> 01:19:26.805
The hatred that we live in,
in our culture,

1490
01:19:26.849 --> 01:19:28.938
then you can't start having
a conversation

1491
01:19:28.981 --> 01:19:30.722
about love, peace
and understanding.

1492
01:19:37.468 --> 01:19:41.689
I think
it was realizing that, like,
my mom's rhetoric

1493
01:19:41.733 --> 01:19:45.868
of she really hated
certain types of people.

1494
01:19:45.911 --> 01:19:48.784
And I thought,
"Well, wait a minute,

1495
01:19:48.827 --> 01:19:52.004
"you tell me that
Jesus loves people, right?

1496
01:19:52.048 --> 01:19:55.573
"But you're saying this
and they don't line up.

1497
01:19:55.616 --> 01:19:57.836
"If Jesus loves everyone,

1498
01:19:57.880 --> 01:20:00.621
"then how can you hate
this type of a person?"

1499
01:20:02.449 --> 01:20:04.408
Had a lady
at the trailer park,

1500
01:20:04.451 --> 01:20:07.498
she would walk
two miles to work every day
at McDonald's,

1501
01:20:07.541 --> 01:20:10.457
and she had to quit
because they took
her food stamps away,

1502
01:20:10.501 --> 01:20:11.807
because she had a job.

1503
01:20:13.547 --> 01:20:15.419
And she said, "Sharon,
I can't afford to work.

1504
01:20:16.463 --> 01:20:18.857
"Because I'm paying
childcare...

1505
01:20:18.901 --> 01:20:22.687
"and now
I don't have food stamps,
so I can't... I'm making less."

1506
01:20:22.730 --> 01:20:25.211
Why can't we help people
that go out
and try to help themselves?

1507
01:20:31.652 --> 01:20:33.132
-Congratulations.
-Thank you.

1508
01:20:33.176 --> 01:20:34.351
About to graduate?

1509
01:20:34.394 --> 01:20:35.439
So, when are you due?

1510
01:20:35.482 --> 01:20:37.397
-I'm due on October 5th.
-Oh, wow!

1511
01:20:37.441 --> 01:20:38.790
-Here you go.
-Thank you.

1512
01:20:38.834 --> 01:20:40.836
And then, did you pick out
your produce yet?

1513
01:20:40.879 --> 01:20:42.533
-Yes, ma'am.
-Okay.

1514
01:20:42.576 --> 01:20:44.535
I've lived 15 years
on the Western Rivers.

1515
01:20:45.536 --> 01:20:46.842
I've never been married.

1516
01:20:47.538 --> 01:20:49.061
Don't have any kids.

1517
01:20:51.324 --> 01:20:53.500
All I cared about
was making money, you know.

1518
01:20:55.241 --> 01:20:57.330
And that didn't do
a lot of good for me,
you know.

1519
01:20:58.331 --> 01:21:00.072
I made a real
bad investment.

1520
01:21:00.116 --> 01:21:02.988
I was gonna go
in the dive boat business.

1521
01:21:03.032 --> 01:21:06.165
And I was stuck with,
you know, a boat that
wasn't worth anything.

1522
01:21:06.209 --> 01:21:07.863
except a big bill.

1523
01:21:07.906 --> 01:21:10.213
I'm so sorry.

1524
01:21:10.256 --> 01:21:13.216
One or two bad decisions
and he had nothing.

1525
01:21:13.259 --> 01:21:15.131
Wow, that could be me.

1526
01:21:15.174 --> 01:21:18.134
I mean, how many paychecks
do most Americans live
from bankruptcy?

1527
01:21:28.666 --> 01:21:29.754
-Here you go.
-Thank you.

1528
01:21:29.797 --> 01:21:30.929
But you grew up on your own?

1529
01:21:30.973 --> 01:21:32.496
Yes, ma'am.

1530
01:21:32.539 --> 01:21:35.499
Some of these guys
got good education,
good potential.

1531
01:21:35.542 --> 01:21:38.023
I mean, if we had a roof
on our head, it'd be better.

1532
01:21:38.067 --> 01:21:40.156
Just a job.

1533
01:21:40.199 --> 01:21:42.201
We are so busy
in our own worlds,

1534
01:21:42.245 --> 01:21:45.988
so we fail to see the people
that need so much
right in front of us.

1535
01:21:46.031 --> 01:21:47.119
What's up, bro?

1536
01:21:47.163 --> 01:21:48.425
The best preacher
in the world.

1537
01:21:48.468 --> 01:21:49.556
Doing all right, my man?

1538
01:21:49.600 --> 01:21:50.688
Yes, sir.

1539
01:21:50.731 --> 01:21:52.255
I'm 57 years old.

1540
01:21:52.298 --> 01:21:55.040
I've worked,
paid taxes my whole life.

1541
01:21:55.084 --> 01:21:56.824
I was an engineer.

1542
01:21:56.868 --> 01:21:59.610
And I got
compression fractures
in my back,

1543
01:21:59.653 --> 01:22:02.613
but it's not enough
to get disability money.

1544
01:22:02.656 --> 01:22:04.267
If I could get
disability money...

1545
01:22:05.311 --> 01:22:06.965
I wouldn't be living
out here.

1546
01:22:08.271 --> 01:22:09.925
I don't get food stamps.

1547
01:22:09.968 --> 01:22:11.317
The system sucks.

1548
01:22:11.361 --> 01:22:13.145
Yeah.

1549
01:22:13.189 --> 01:22:14.668
It really is easy
to judge

1550
01:22:14.712 --> 01:22:16.453
and say, "Well, go get a job.
That's what I did."

1551
01:22:17.758 --> 01:22:20.283
But a lot
of these people can't.

1552
01:22:20.326 --> 01:22:23.677
I think people need to learn
each other's stories.

1553
01:22:23.721 --> 01:22:27.290
When we know
each other's stories,
you don't judge harshly.

1554
01:22:27.333 --> 01:22:28.639
Father, we come to you
in the name of Jesus.

1555
01:22:28.682 --> 01:22:29.945
God, I thank you
for my brother here

1556
01:22:29.988 --> 01:22:31.685
and, God, I pray
that you be with him.

1557
01:22:31.729 --> 01:22:34.732
Help him, God.
Protect him, God...

1558
01:22:37.691 --> 01:22:39.780
A lot of this
causes me to think about

1559
01:22:39.824 --> 01:22:43.654
the soul of a nation
and I guess the values of it.

1560
01:22:43.697 --> 01:22:47.223
And what you do with
the most vulnerable
around you,

1561
01:22:47.266 --> 01:22:50.748
whether it's children
or the mentally ill.

1562
01:22:50.791 --> 01:22:53.533
And we forget that
so many people
are left behind.

1563
01:22:55.666 --> 01:22:58.103
I really feel like if we focus more on each other,

1564
01:22:58.147 --> 01:22:59.539
and not on ourselves,

1565
01:22:59.583 --> 01:23:01.933
we'd be so much better.

1566
01:23:01.977 --> 01:23:04.544
We live in such
an individualistic society,

1567
01:23:04.588 --> 01:23:06.372
I guess I'm trying
to think of ways

1568
01:23:06.416 --> 01:23:09.810
to create more communities
where people
are more connected.

1569
01:23:09.854 --> 01:23:12.030
Reconnecting with
your fellow humans

1570
01:23:12.074 --> 01:23:14.032
on that deep
relationship level,

1571
01:23:14.076 --> 01:23:16.730
that feels like
that's the right path

1572
01:23:16.774 --> 01:23:18.602
to solving some
of these things.

1573
01:23:22.475 --> 01:23:26.001
The change we need is premised
on going back to what we know

1574
01:23:26.044 --> 01:23:27.915
about what makes us human.

1575
01:23:27.959 --> 01:23:30.875
We need each other.
We're born into the world
needing each other.

1576
01:23:30.918 --> 01:23:33.356
We thrive in relationships.
We need communities.

1577
01:23:33.399 --> 01:23:35.706
That's the most important thing we have.

1578
01:23:35.749 --> 01:23:38.056
We're all part of
this interconnected system,

1579
01:23:38.100 --> 01:23:42.060
and we all flourish
or we suffer together.

1580
01:23:42.104 --> 01:23:43.714
It truly is about...

1581
01:23:45.150 --> 01:23:47.935
what are your values
as a human being?

1582
01:23:47.979 --> 01:23:51.026
And what does
our American character say
about who we are?

1583
01:23:52.505 --> 01:23:54.377
Are we caring people?

1584
01:23:54.420 --> 01:23:56.683
Will we fight for justice,

1585
01:23:56.727 --> 01:23:58.859
wherever that fight takes us?

1586
01:24:00.339 --> 01:24:03.560
If we shift our culture
to be a world in which

1587
01:24:03.603 --> 01:24:05.649
we're much more connected
to one another

1588
01:24:05.692 --> 01:24:07.825
and where
we're serving others,

1589
01:24:07.868 --> 01:24:09.653
then we all rise,
this is our moment.

1590
01:24:09.696 --> 01:24:11.307
We all rise.

1591
01:24:11.350 --> 01:24:14.614
We will know
we have equality
in this country

1592
01:24:14.658 --> 01:24:18.227
when everybody has a chance
at the American dream.

1593
01:24:18.270 --> 01:24:23.493
Not just in the sense
of hard work leading
to economic security,

1594
01:24:23.536 --> 01:24:27.671
but to the American dream
in the more profound sense
of being treated

1595
01:24:27.714 --> 01:24:33.198
with equal dignity
and being rewarded by full membership in society.

1596
01:24:35.853 --> 01:24:40.814
What makes us who we are
as a country is that
every generation of people

1597
01:24:40.858 --> 01:24:42.990
tries to bridge the distance

1598
01:24:43.034 --> 01:24:48.605
between our founding reality
and the beauty of the dream.

1599
01:24:50.476 --> 01:24:54.306
When I grow up,
I want to be
a doctor or a lawyer,

1600
01:24:54.350 --> 01:24:57.440
because I want
to protect people
and help them.

1601
01:24:59.181 --> 01:25:02.749
I think in America
everything can be possible.