- Biden -- the fact that he's willing
to make a promise at the outset that it must be a Black woman --
I got to say, that's offensive.
- Racism is not just about whether or not a person likes
or dislikes a person of a particular race.
It's about the entire system that's behind it.
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden said, "If elected,
I will nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court",
and then when Justice Stephen Breyer retired recently,
you know, Biden had his opportunity.
- The person I will nominate will be someone
of extraordinary qualifications, character,
experience, and integrity,
and that person will be the first Black woman
ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court.
What Ted Cruz said was, "Look, you're excluding the vast
majority of everybody for this selection in one fell swoop,
and that, saying you're gonna pick
just a Black woman for this Supreme Court
posting is racist in and of itself."
- It is an example how Democrats,
and particularly the far left, everything is race,
everything --
they will discriminate based on race,
they will pigeon-hole you,
they don't care about the individual.
- What this is is not just a misreading,
a misunderstanding of the role that race plays in history,
the role that race plays in American society.
- I believe it to be typical of this administration,
which has been the most race-obsessed, gender-obsessed,
in terms of trying to deconstruct genders.
Actually, this is a hard-woke left administration.
- Although there are sort of underlying cultural issues
that sort of affect how people feel about race,
and all that stuff, you do have partisan politicians
who are saying, "Oh, this is an opportunity
to get these people on board with my policies."
- These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people.
They're racist and they're very sick.
They're mentally sick.
- Donald Trump has been a member of the 1%,
a cisgender white man, from the moment he was born.
He was the leader of the free world.
So, for him to proclaim that he is a victim of racism,
of a racist system, is really kind of far-fetched,
and he didn't really provide a lot of exposition
about his justification and his reasoning,
but we do know some things.
All three prosecutors, two in New York,
one in Georgia, are Black, and that's basically it.
- In reality, they're not after me, they're after you,
and I just happened to be the person that's in the way.
- Donald Trump, Ted Cruz are tapping into something,
which means there is something there,
and what that is is sort of this feeling
why a segment of the American populace --
you know, white, conservative --
but this feeling that the pendulum
of what constitutes racist has swung.
- The irony is that the Supreme Court is,
at the very same time, hearing cases
about this sort of affirmative racial discrimination.
- Yes. - And while adding someone
who is the beneficiary of this sort of quota.
- It can simply be a thing that appeals to somebody's emotions
and their sense of unfairness and grievance.
What some people, what the people
that Donald Trump and Ted Cruz
are really talking to are saying is, "Look, I'm not racist.
I haven't harmed Black people.
All I want is a fair and equal shot at whatever."
And that the effort to basically forgive or correct
the sins of our forefathers
is actually having a clearly delineated harm
on one group of people right now,
and those people are white people,
particularly conservative white men.
- And it's actually an insult to Black women.
If he came and said,
"I'm gonna put the best jurist on the court,"
and he looked at a number of people
and he ended up nominating a Black woman,
he could credibly say,
"Okay, I'm nominating the person who's most qualified."
He's not even pretending to say that.
He's saying, "If you're a white guy, tough luck."
- And so, as we get closer and closer
to these pivotal midterm elections,
that may control, you know, may decide who controls Congress
and whether Joe Biden is able to push forward his agenda,
as we get closer and closer to that,
we probably will see these things increase.