You know why the tomato turned red?
It saw the salad dressing. [laughs]
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Online and offline people are very curious about
my ideas on race. What I think it is.
How it works and how I perceive it and everything.
I have to be honest. I really -- I don't think about it.
I don't. I mean, for example,
I don't think of people being tall or short, right.
I just think of them as humans. I think about what they have to say.
I think about what they think.
You know, how they are to me. I don't care if somebody
is 6'10" or 4'9". You know what I mean?
Just the same way I don't care what color somebody's skin.
I can't imagine what that must be like.
You know, to have different color skin.
It's just not something I really think about too much. I just think about people.
And I think about if we have fun together and if we like each other.
You know.
If somebody makes me laugh
it's doesn't matter if they're tall or fat or skinny
or black or green or whatever.
I just like them and we have a good time together.
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Martin Luther King always talked about
"Don't judge a man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.
And I got to be honest with you I think people like myself
and other blind people are the best at that because we don't
see the color of their skin. Right? It's all about
content of character. See, beauty. I don't know from beauty either.
I don't know if you're beautiful or not.
You're beautiful to me if we get along and you make me laugh
and you make me smile, you know, you're beautiful to me.
We have fun together. Right. That's what my beauty is.
I get to know somebody to figure out whether or not I like them.
I can't just walk by somebody and go
"yuck, I don't like that person because they got yellow teeth or whatever."
I don't -- it doesn't matter to me.
People judge others by a lot of different things. I mean, not only race
but by the clothes that they wear, by the shoes that they wear.
By the type of car that they drive. Really?
Come on, man. Who cares about that stuff?
Although, I wouldn't be caught dead in a Chevy Volt.
No. [laughs] I'm just kidding.
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I really can't tell race or anything by what somebody says
or what somebody does. You know what I mean?
One of the things that I have noticed is that our skin is a little bit different.
White people and black people. Black people it is
that there are more natural moisturizers in their skin
therefore their skin is softer than ours. It's isn't as course as white people's skin.
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So when I was young I happened to notice
I touched a black person's hair one time and went "wow, what's that?"
You're hair is completely different than mine and I love it
and want that hair. And I said, "what is that?"
And they, "well, because I'm black and my hair is a little bit different than yours."
And I went, "that's so cool. I want that."
You know what I mean? Because it's really soft to touch.
And that was one of the first times I ever really
got to sort of see the difference between myself and somebody else.
You know, that we had sort of a different thing happening.
But I wanted it. I didn't hate it.
I was like this is so cool because my hair is very straight.
You know, and this was nice and tight and soft
and it just felt great - oh.
I think I sat and touched her head for a really long time
because I just thought it was so cool.
So I guess that's my real first memory of sort of noticing that, wow, you know what,
there are some difference in people and it's kind of cool
and I like that. I don't know.
I feel like I can't be funny talking about this stuff because it's quite serious.
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I always wanted to have a party, right, where no one could see.
Now, there would be people to help you for example if somebody
needed to go to the bathroom or to bring drinks to people and things like this.
But none of the guests could see each other
and they could just talk to each other.
And I think that would be so cool. And you know at the end of the night
you take off the blindfolds or whatever and let people see
who you've been talking to for a few hours.
It would be awesome.
Right, because if you close your eyes
it's amazing the things you could hear. I think so.
I need somebody with a giant house so we can have this party, so...
[laughs]
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It boggles my mind that we're all different colors.
See, inside we're all the same color, aren't we?
It's just this stupid skin that gets in the way. And quite frankly it's vision
that can get in the way as well. If we all got rid of the skin
we'd all look the same again.
If you don't like me, that's cool. I get it.
But don't dislike me because I can't see...
Dislike me because of what I say and what I do.
Right. My being blind has nothing to do with my character.
Nothing. Just the same as someone's color
skin color has nothing to do with their character. Nothing at all.
It's all about what's in your head and what's in your head.
Those are the only two things that matter to me about a human.
Really.
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You know what's funny? M&M's are different colors but they all taste the same.
It's true. Only the outside parts are different. The insides are all the same.
Humanity. Just like a bag of M&M's.
[beep] You know what you'd call America if everyone had a pink car?
Wait for it...
A pink car-nation. [laughs]