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Thomas Sowell...EXPOSES Obama Secret to Deceiving Americans—Twice · Gil I Am

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  Speaker 1: One of the most dangerous illusions of modern politics is
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  Speaker 1: the idea that racial conflict is simply an unfortunate reality,
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  Speaker 1: an inevitable product of a society that has yet to
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  Speaker 1: overcome its historical injustices. But the truth, however inconvenient it
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  Speaker 1: may be, is that racial division is not merely a
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  Speaker 1: consequence of history or injustice. It is a tool, a
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  Speaker 1: very useful tool, and like any other tool, it is
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  Speaker 1: wielded by those who stand to benefit from it. Racial
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  Speaker 1: division is a tool wielded by politicians to maintain power
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  Speaker 1: and control. It's a means to an end, not an
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate reality. Barack Obama, with his unique position as the
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  Speaker 1: first black president, had the opportunity to bridge the racial divide. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he chose to exploit it. Obama's presidency was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: mark the beginning of a post racial America. However, it
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  Speaker 1: only led to deeper racial resentment and heightened grievances. Everything
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  Speaker 1: from school disciplined to policing to economic disparities framed in
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  Speaker 1: terms of racial oppression. The incentives for politicians to perpetuate
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  Speaker 1: racial division are clear. By convincing people that their problems
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  Speaker 1: are due to an oppressive system, they can maintain dependency
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  Speaker 1: on the government and secure votes. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: new phenomenon. Politicians have been doing this for decades. Obama
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  Speaker 1: was a master of rhetorics, speaking the language of unity
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  Speaker 1: while encouraging division. Obama's policies reinforced the idea that racial
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  Speaker 1: disparities were proof of white supremacy, rather than addressing the
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  Speaker 1: real causes of economic stagnation in black communities. Politicians, particularly
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  Speaker 1: those on the left, have long understood that racial division
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  Speaker 1: is an asset. If you can convince people that their
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  Speaker 1: problems are not the result of their own actions or decisions,
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  Speaker 1: but of an inherently oppressive system, you can keep them
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  Speaker 1: dependent on the government and more importantly, keep them voting
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  Speaker 1: for you. This is not a new phenomenon. Politicians have
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  Speaker 1: been doing this for decades. But what makes Barack Obama's
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  Speaker 1: role in this particularly revealing is that he was uniquely
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  Speaker 1: positioned to end this cycle. Here was a man who,
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  Speaker 1: by all accounts, should have been the final proof that
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  Speaker 1: America was not hopelessly racist, that a black man could
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  Speaker 1: not only succeed in this country but rise to its
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  Speaker 1: highest office, and yet his presidency did not mark the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of a post racial America. Quite the opposite. It
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  Speaker 1: ushered in an era of deeper racial resentment, heightened grievances,
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  Speaker 1: and a political culture in which everything from school discipline
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  Speaker 1: to policing to economic disparities was framed in terms of
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  Speaker 1: racial oppression. How did this happen and why? The answer,
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  Speaker 1: as always lies and incentives. What incentives exist for politicians
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  Speaker 1: to actually solve problems? More importantly, what incentives exist for
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  Speaker 1: them to perpetuate problems while claiming to solve them. To
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  Speaker 1: understand this, we must break down the mechanics of racial politics.
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  Speaker 1: We need to analyze why racial division is so politically profitable,
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  Speaker 1: how it has harmed from the very people it claims
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  Speaker 1: to help, and most importantly, how Obama, despite his polished rhetoric,
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  Speaker 1: exploited it just as effectively as any of his predecessors.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to understand why racial division persists, stop
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  Speaker 1: looking at morality and start looking at incentives. Politicians do
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  Speaker 1: what is in their best interest, not what is best
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  Speaker 1: for the country, and when it comes to race, their
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  Speaker 1: best interest is clear. Keep the issue alive, keep the
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  Speaker 1: outrage fresh, and keep the solutions just out of reach.
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  Speaker 1: Power and votes. One of the most important lessons in
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  Speaker 1: economics is that people respond to incentives. If you create
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  Speaker 1: policies that reward failure, you will get more failure. If
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  Speaker 1: you subsidize irresponsibility, you will get more irresponsibility. And if
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  Speaker 1: you make racial grievance politically profitable, you will get more
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  Speaker 1: racial grievance. Democratic politicians, particularly those who appeal to black voters,
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  Speaker 1: have spent decades telling people that they are victims of
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  Speaker 1: an oppress system. Why because the moment voters stopped believing that,
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  Speaker 1: they start looking elsewhere for solutions. If Black Americans started
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  Speaker 1: believing that their economic struggles were primarily the result of
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  Speaker 1: bad policies, bad schools, and bad personal decisions rather than
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  Speaker 1: systemic racism, they might start questioning why they keep voting
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  Speaker 1: for the same politicians year after year. That is a
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  Speaker 1: risk that people like Barack Obama could not afford to take, so,
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  Speaker 1: instead of addressing the real causes of economic stagnation in
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  Speaker 1: black communities, such as failing schools, family breakdown, and government dependency,
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  Speaker 1: he reinforced the idea that racial disparities were proof of
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  Speaker 1: white supremacy and that only more government intervention could fix them.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the irony the very policies he pushed to
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  Speaker 1: fix these disparities only made them worse. Welfare programs discouraged
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  Speaker 1: work and family stability, soft on crime policies increased violence
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  Speaker 1: in black neighborhoods. Public schools, already failing, became even less
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  Speaker 1: accountable under policies that emphasized racial quotas over actual learning.
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  Speaker 1: And at every turn, whenever these policies predictably failed, the
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  Speaker 1: excuse was always the same racism, group, identity politics. Obama
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  Speaker 1: was a master of rhetoric. He spoke the language of
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  Speaker 1: unity while simultaneously encouraging division. He framed America as a
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  Speaker 1: nation constantly struggling with its original sin of racism, as
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  Speaker 1: if nothing had changed since the nineteen sixties. His message
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  Speaker 1: to Black Americans was clear, You are not responsible for
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  Speaker 1: your failures. The system is. The police are against you,
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  Speaker 1: employers are against you, schools are against you. Even if
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  Speaker 1: you do everything right, the deck is stacked against you.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the most destructive messages a leader
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  Speaker 1: can send. Personal responsibility has always been the key to success,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of race, and yet Obama spent eight years promoting
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  Speaker 1: a narrative that undermined them. Very idea He normalized the
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  Speaker 1: belief that failure in the black community was not due
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  Speaker 1: to bad choices, but due to an invisible force of
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  Speaker 1: oppression results a culture of entitlement, resentment, and stagnation. The
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  Speaker 1: role of the media. The media played a significant role
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  Speaker 1: in perpetuating this narrative, assuming racial motivation in police shootings
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  Speaker 1: and ignoring facts. Obama capitalized on this dynamic, inflaming racial
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  Speaker 1: tensions instead of cooling them. The media doesn't just report
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  Speaker 1: the news, it shapes public perception, and in the case
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  Speaker 1: of racial issues, it has been a willing accomplice in
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  Speaker 1: distorting reality. Whenever a black person is killed by police,
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  Speaker 1: the media immediately assumes it was racially motivated. Never mind
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  Speaker 1: that more unarmed white people are killed by police every year,
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  Speaker 1: never mind that in most of these cases the police
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  Speaker 1: officers involved were responding to actual crimes. The narrative comes
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  Speaker 1: first and facts comes second. Obama capitalized on this dynamic.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of cooling racial tensions, he inflamed them. When Trayvon
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  Speaker 1: Martin was shot, he said, if I had a son,
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  Speaker 1: he'd look like Trayvon. When Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson,
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  Speaker 1: he encouraged the idea that Brown was an innocent victim
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  Speaker 1: rather than a suspect who had just robbed a store
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  Speaker 1: and attacked a police officer. The real issue is that
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  Speaker 1: crime in black communities is disproportionately high, not because of
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  Speaker 1: systemic racism, but because of a breakdown in law and order.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Obama and the media focused not on the criminals
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  Speaker 1: destroying black neighborhoods, but on the police trying to maintain order.
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  Speaker 1: The result more crime, more distrust, and more racial division,
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  Speaker 1: economic and social consequences of racial politics. If racial grievance
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  Speaker 1: politics were a product, Obama would have been its top salesman.
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  Speaker 1: But what did it actually produce? Economic stagnation, declining education,
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  Speaker 1: arising crime. Obama's policies reinforced this trend, making marriage and
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  Speaker 1: work financially less attractive. Crime increased in black communities due
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  Speaker 1: to under policing, with politicians and activists more concerned with
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  Speaker 1: maintaining power than with solving real problems. The welfare trap.
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  Speaker 1: One of the greatest tragedies in Black America is the
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  Speaker 1: destruction of the family unit. Before the massive welfare expansions
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  Speaker 1: of the nineteen sixties, the majority of black children were
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  Speaker 1: raised in two parent households. Today, the majority are not
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  Speaker 1: That is not progress, that is collapse. The consequences of
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  Speaker 1: racial grievance politics are clear. The welfare trap has destroyed
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  Speaker 1: the family unit in Black America, with the majority of
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  Speaker 1: children now raised in single parent households. Obama did nothing
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  Speaker 1: to reverse this trend. In fact, his policies reinforced it. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: the consequences of continuing down the path of racial division
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  Speaker 1: and grievance politics are dire. We will continue to see
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  Speaker 1: economic stagnation, declining education, and rising crime in black community.
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  Speaker 1: We will continue to see politicians like Barack Obama who
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  Speaker 1: exploit racial division for their own gain. We will continue
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  Speaker 1: to see the media perpetuate a narrative of racial oppression,
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  Speaker 1: ignoring the facts and promoting a false narrative. But it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be this way. We can choose to
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  Speaker 1: promote policies that encourage work responsibility and individual freedom. We
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  Speaker 1: can choose to reject the narrative of racial oppression and
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  Speaker 1: instead promote a narrative of personal responsibility and individual freedom.
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  Speaker 1: We can choose to hold our leaders accountable for their actions.
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  Speaker 1: We can demand that they address the real causes of
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  Speaker 1: economic stagnation in Black communities. Rather than relying on rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: in grievance politics. The future of America depends on it.
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  Speaker 1: We must make a choice. We must choose between the
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  Speaker 1: path of racial division and grievance politics, or the path
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  Speaker 1: of personal responsibility and individual freedom. I urge you to
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  Speaker 1: choose the latter. Let us work together to promote policies
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  Speaker 1: that encourage work, responsibility, and individual freedom. Let Us work
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  Speaker 1: together to reject the narrative of racial oppression and instead
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  Speaker 1: promote a narrative of personal responsibility and individual freedom. Let
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  Speaker 1: Us hold our leaders accountable for their actions. Let Us
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  Speaker 1: demand that they address the real causes of economic stagnation
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  Speaker 1: in black communities rather than relying on rhetoric and grievance politics. Together,
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  Speaker 1: we can create a brighter future for all Americans. A
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  Speaker 1: future where every individual has the opportunity to succeed, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of their race or background. A future where every individual
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  Speaker 1: is judged on their character and their actions rather than
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  Speaker 1: their skin color. A future where every individual is free
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  Speaker 1: to pursue their dreams without being held back by the
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  Speaker 1: shackles of racial division and grievance politics. Let us work
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  Speaker 1: together to create this future. Let us choose the path
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  Speaker 1: of personal responsibility and individual freedom. Let us reject the
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  Speaker 1: narrative of racial oppression and instead promote a narrative of
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  Speaker 1: hope and opportunity. We can do this, America. We can
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  Speaker 1: create a brighter future for all. But we must make
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  Speaker 1: a choice. We must choose between the path of racial
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  Speaker 1: division and grievance politics, or the path of personal responsibility
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  Speaker 1: and individual freedom. The cycle of racial division will continue
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  Speaker 1: until Americans recognize that grievance politics are politically profitable. The
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  Speaker 1: only way forward is to reject racial division and embrace
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  Speaker 1: the principles of work responsibility and individual freedom. And that
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  Speaker 1: is the tragedy of modern racial politics. It is not
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  Speaker 1: about justice, It is about power. The choice is ours,
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  Speaker 1: but we must make it soon before it's too late.