I wanna be very clear.
Nobody has to accept me.
I'm not looking for your acceptance, but
you better treat me the same way you treat everybody else.
That's how we live in this country.
You don't have to love me.
You don't have to like me.
You can think I'm the devil incarnate but
you better treat me like a decent human being.
Because that how I treat you,
even though you don't believe that I have the right to exist.
>> That's LAUSD President Jackie Goldberg
talking essentially to book banning homophobes.
Who didn't want a specific book read to children.
And the fact is,
she read the entire book previous to that part of the speech out loud to everyone.
Here's what she found.
>> I read you the entire book.
It had one sentence.
Families can also be two parents that are mothers and two parents that are fathers.
But here's what really scares me.
When you have two or
three days of this kind of chaos of people screaming at the top of their lungs.
Outside a school that read a book with one sentence in it that said, yeah,
guess what?
Families can include two moms and two dads by the way,
at the little discussion at the school after that.
As soon as the book was over, one of the little girls sitting at my knees said,
I have two mommies.
But a little boy on my other side said, I have five grandmas.
>> [LAUGH] >> The idea that there are different kinds
of families.
The people screaming out at the streets, they didn't get a chance to find out about
that because they made a decision based on hearsay.
They made a decision based on agitators, not from their community.
But from outside their community who saw an opportunity to take advantage of
the real fears of people.
>> So there's a lot in there, and we're gonna show you more.
You can watch the whole video @youtube.com/tytinvestigatesreports.
It's posted five minutes of it.
But what's she talking about with the people screaming and
the events that occurred across town.
Here's what went down the Tuesday before it.
Three people were arrested the previous Tuesday at protests held outside a meeting
of the Glendale Unified School District board.
Where pro-and anti-LGBTQ demonstrators faced off over how schools teach gender
and sexuality.
It has led to violence.
It has led to menacing, the kind of menacing she's about to discuss right now.
>> Three days of yelling and screaming about this.
What do you think that did to them?
What do you think that did to every gay teacher,
every gay custodian, every gay worker in this city, every gay kid?
What do you think that did to them?
It made them afraid.
How dare you make them afraid?
Because you are.
I'm sorry.
I told you this was personal.
I went through with this.
My son was harassed cuz he had two mommies.
But my grandchildren aren't that's progress.
>> That's a lot.
It's so intense.
It's so heartfelt.
And what happens is if you see people who have actually experienced this kinda thing
and had to live with folks.
And come to the correct understanding, which is you should be tolerant,
you should be nice.
You should be embracing, you should be understanding.
But it's just so much easier, as she points out, for people to be like,
no, I feel good when I tell you you shouldn't exist.
Mm-hm, that's what she's getting at.
It's horrible what she has to go through.
She, as the president of the LA Unified School District,
has fought tirelessly to just have some sense of sanity through it all.
We have some more details about how the LAUSD typically acts,
the kinds of stuff that they typically pass to reinforce.
Openness and embracing all different kinds of people and
all different kinds of family.
But first, John, what are your thoughts?
>> Yeah, that was the first time that I saw the videos, and
a few seconds into the first one I was thinking, no.
God, what is she gonna say?
But by the end of it, I thought and this is just constrained to this.
I don't know, as president of the LA USD, what her politics are or anything policy.
She's like my favorite person of this week, easily.
That was awesome, the fire that she has.
How much stronger would our country be if the average person in a position of power
was a little bit more like her, just based on this?
I don't know her politics outside of it.
That was amazing.
Yeah, it's just so weird.
We have these terms, they were in the lower thirds and everything.
They're in our lower thirds, pro and anti LGBTQ.
And I get why for surehand we use terms like that.
But you could use pro and anti for
like we were having conversation in the social break about chickfila sauce.
You could be pro chickfila sauce, anti chickfila sauce.
But isn't it weird that we use those terms for
an entire community's ability to exist that anti LGBTQ people are not people?
I don't prefer it.
Those activists, to whatever extent the law and the police will allow them,
would try to wipe this entire community out of existence.
It's just sheer madness.
And they have a problem with one line in a book that families can have two moms or
two dads.
I'm sorry if that makes you obviously lose control and
become violent like a savage, but it's a fact.
You can get rid of the book if you want.
It doesn't change the fact that families come in different forms.
Take it up with the creator you pretend to worship.
I don't know what to tell you, that it's a fact and you cannot get around it.
Some people are gay.
Now they can be gay in a place that respects them and gives them rights.
Or unfortunately, we can move in the direction of trying to wipe
out those rights and all that, but the person is the same.
I don't know why these people find this so
hard to accept, >> And
those families are never not going to exist.
The difference is that people are either gonna sit at that podium and
protect those families, >> Mm-hm,
>> Or they're gonna sit at that podium and
tear those families apart and put some in prison for
some through gay conversion therapy.
Marginalize them and make their lives even harder than they already are.
How do I know that they're hard?
Look at how everybody else is acting around them on the right, right now.
Horrible and they do it in ways that they don't even understand themselves.
It's really bad.
I do wanna take a really quick moment to talk about what the politics of that
board.
On Tuesday, same day that I was talking about earlier, at least the LA,
according to the LA times.
LA School Board made clear they were not remaining neutral.
The resolution that they passed proclaims.
It commemorates June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month,
October is LGBTQ plus History Month.
As well as October 11th is National Coming Out Day,
November 20th as a Transgender Day of remembrance.
March 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility, and
April 12th as the Day of Silence obviously.
And then it encourages, quote,
all schools to incorporate lessons on the LGBTQ+ community.
And hold commemorative activities at various points throughout the school year.
But as Jackie Goldberg says, you don't have to go to those if you don't want.
That's also her thing.
She said, I don't wanna anyone go to something that they don't wanna go to.
And that's been an option, and
you're trying to ban it over one sentence that isn't bad.
And why they passed this.
Nick Melvoyne, who's a school board member, says, as we're seeing
the weaponization of public policy to sow hate and discrimination.
It makes it all the more important for us to speak out against acts of hate and
violence cropping up all around us.
From legislatures across the country passing LGBTQ+ bills to a cruel act of
vandalism in our own backyard.
Just a few days ago.
So they normally do this, and they're like, yeah,
we just do it cuz it's nice and we're LA and we're very inclusive.
We want everybody to feel comfortable.
But unfortunately,
the climate around the country has led to her having to say stuff like this.
>> Nobody in this district will ever sexualize any kid for
any reason, in any classroom, in any way, shape or form.
>> The fact that you have to say that mm-hm, obviously no one's gonna do that.
And if they do, it's always been against the law, and
they're gonna come down on them hard.