>> Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, he gave a speech on Thursday about America's stance
on human rights. And during that he lost it to an off the rails attack against the New
York Times 1619 Project. And for those of you who maybe don't know details about it,
the 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from the New York Times magazine that began
in August of 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery.
So it aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and
the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. So
instead of it being the main thing, we talk about slavery being Abraham Lincoln, he's
a hero. And the Civil War's they reason why we fought against this indentured servitude
or maybe some guys who were underpaid a little bit.
We're given the real deal about it and what its effects on our country really have been.
So of course, Mike Pompeo could not deal with that. So he went out and spoke against it.
He was so proud of the speech that he had against this initiative that he even tweeted
himself out said hey, look what I did you guys.
Actually came on and I downplayed slavery in this country and I said how great everything
always has been. So let's go to a little bit of video of what he really did have to say
during that speech. >> The New York Times 1619 Project, so named
for the year that the first slaves were transported to America, wants you to believe that our
country was founded for human bondage.
They want you to believe that America's institutions continue to reflect the country's acceptance
of slavery at our founding. They want you to believe that Marxist ideology that America
is only the oppressors and the oppressed. The Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful
when they see the New York Times spout this ideology.
Some people have taken these false doctrines to heart. The rioters pulling down statues
thus see nothing wrong with desecrating monuments to those who fought for our unalienable rights,
from our founding to the present day. This is a dark vision of American's birth. I reject
it. It's a disturbed reading of our history.
It is a slander on our great people. >> I'm never sure when Mike Pompeo is trying
to speak and he's trying to say something poignant or slow it down, if it's just that
he's completely uninterested or he thinks it's a good acting job. And sometimes the
just speak, bro.
We don't believe anything you're saying already. We know that you're out there acting and putting
your face out there to be another shield for the President. We know who you really are,
just say it, just spit it out. It's okay, cuz we know that you're going through something
horrible in the first place anyways.
So we can't criticize anything that's happened to our country because we're not the only
countries that participated in slavery. They might make you think that our founding fathers
were against the rights for all mankind. Well, they specifically considered a certain segment
of the population not humans. I think we can talk about that a little bit.
But we have this problem with being able to adjust our history and the negative nature
of our past, because if that happens, we have communism. We have China celebrating. China
won't celebrate our destruction or they won't celebrate our infighting if we don't do things
to attack our own country and have people rise up and go, you're gonna stop stepping
on me.
It's not gonna happen anymore. So when you deny your history and what you've always done
this country and how it continues in other forms today, you can have only this up to
blame for setting up that snare. >> Okay, that's an eloquent response to Pompeo.
I was gonna go with what my kids don't really say, wait, what?
>> Wait, how do we get to the Chinese communists from slavery? What, that took a turn I didn't
expect. I think he was just trying to win racist bingo. Yeah, black people being enslaved.
Not that big a deal plus I hate Chinese people and I'm calling them commies.
Yeah, bingo, I win. And so what's he trying to win? He's trying to win Trump's base. Next
time he runs for office, and next time Trump's winning or running, God forbid, winning. So,
look, there's folks in this country that are uncomfortable with the fact that we had slavery.
I hope we're all uncomfortable about it. But you could be in one of two camps. One is bury
your head in the sand, pretend it didn't happen, say it's no big deal, let's move on, it was
a long time ago. Or you could be in the camp of acknowledging it.
But for God's sake, working to get beyond it, because unfortunately this is at the the
heart of our disagreement. We're not beyond it, and Pompeo says I'm beyond it. I know,
dude, because you're white and in power, and it never bothered you. In fact, it gave you
a giant leg up.
So it's easy for you to say you're beyond it. But the reality is, I was talking about
this on an earlier show, when they talk about the post slavery period, they're not going
to be talking about our past. They're going to be talking about now. And unfortunately,
quite a bit into our future.
It's taking us about 200 years to get past it. And I wish to God it wasn't. But we had
Jim Crow for so long. We had redlining. We have the police abusing and arresting and
killing African Americans at disproportionate rates today. Today, we have out of control
racism today.
And so some people wanna say not just that, hey, ignore it. But honestly they benefit
from it. So if you ignore it, you might not fix it, which then keeps their unfair advantage.
And so I just can't stomach these guys anymore. And it comes from the same guys who then turn
around and say no, don't tear down Confederate statues cuz we have to know our history.
Okay, all right, well then, let's know about slavery. No, no, I don't wanna about it.
>> Cuz if we know about it, then the Chinese communists win.
>> It's the same thing we call no, no, we can't allow the reality situation to show
up, cuz it'll make us look bad.
President Trump has directly said it countless times. We can't actually show what's happening.
It's gonna make us look bad, he starts comparing to other countries. The point is to look good,
but not to do good. That is the basis when we've always done things since we've done
bad things.
Every bad thing we do, say it didn't happen, and then move on. Cuz we can't let people
think we look bad.