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If the Constitution was written to
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benefit only white people, why is it
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that Asian-Americans are the richest
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people by race in America right now?
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Because the Constitution wasn't written
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to make people rich.
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Was the Constitution written in Korean?
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The Constitution. [laughter]
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Yeah. Yet yet Korean-Americans and
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Vietnamese are actually benefiting the
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greatest from this American experiment.
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Uh actually in California as a direct
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result of Asian success there were laws
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passed that stopped Asian-Americans or
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Asians period Asian immigrants from
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being able to become citizens or own
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land.
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Chinese Exclusion Act you don't recall.
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So no structurally there have been so
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you're proving my point precisely trying
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to make a point.
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I'm so your point is that we were racist
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against Asian-Americans and now they're
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the richest in America. So they went
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through a vast time of inequities and
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they rose above it and they're much
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richer richer for income and wealth than
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than white Americans.
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No, that happens because Americans
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realized that they up and they lost all
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of the labor that was going to be
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possible for people to work on farms in
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California in order to exploit the land
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that was in California. There was no way
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for them to have people to work there.
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And that's why they brought immigrants
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back. That's why
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so so what what social program was
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designed
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literally built on our backs
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that again swearing and saying things
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like that doesn't make your argument any
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more valid okay but it helps me take out
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a little bit of my anger
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that's fair um so [laughter]
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valid for me but then then I focusing on
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if it was rigged for a specific group of
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people Asian-Americans are the richest
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by race the second are Indian-Americans
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people from India and the third would be
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white Americans
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I'm aware so how Why? Why is that?
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How do you feel about phenology racial
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inequality than on the other side?
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So why? No, but explain to me why that
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is. I could tell you why it is though.
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Maybe the top one or 5% are the richest.
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What about the global south? What about
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the poverty? What about the lowest?
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Okay, so let's talk about
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the lowest 50%. What are
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in America or globally? No, in America
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and globally as well. What's their
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racial background?
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What's the racial demographic of that?
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Mostly people of color, not white
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people. But the Asian Asian-Americans
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are at the top of the socioeconomic
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ladder relatively.
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A very small number.
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No, in the aggregate. In the in the
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aggregate, if you look at the the way
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the way the data is compiled and
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presented to us, they are the richest
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per capita group by race in America.
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Why? Because over the last 50 years,
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Asian-Americans graduated from high
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school in record numbers. They did not
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commit crimes.
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We're smarter than you. Sorry.
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Oh, okay.
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That's an unbel That's a racist argument
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you just made.
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I I I'm not going to get into eugenics,
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but you just said you're smarter. I
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don't think that I don't think any race
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is smarter.
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Other races that haven't done what
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you're describing because So, so, okay,
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let me So, the two the the two groups
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that are poorest by race in America are
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Native American Indians and
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African-Americans. We've done the most
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to try to [music] help them over the
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last 50, 60 years. We have the Bureau of
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Native American Affairs in the federal
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government. We spent $22 trillion in the
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federal government trying to help black
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America and black America is poorer
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today than before we tried to start to
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help them. $22 trillion recommendation
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that just exists in the system.
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Okay. So your argument institutional
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racism my argument is failed policies
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that Lyndon Baines Johnson a bitter and
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committed racist. You and I will both
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agree who didn't want to side in the
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civil rights act passed the Great
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Society.
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LBJ was a racist because he was an old
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white man.
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Are all white people racist? I would say
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I would say that that I think white
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people have an implicit bias. You can
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argue with me. I think white people have
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Do you understand how how racist it is
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to think that all white people are
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racist?
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We don't experience systematic racism.
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We don't experience racism when we
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power. Okay. So, let's talk about that.
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So, then how did Asian-Americans climb
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up the power structure?
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That has no anyone explain that to me
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cuz I can't.
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I'll explain. All All Asian most
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Asian-Americans here. Okay. You said
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Native Americans, black Americans
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are the two poorest by race. That's what
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keeps them in common. Okay. They keep
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they've been here for a while.
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Okay. So, you know what keeps them in
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common?
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They also get the most government
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benefits per capita than any other group
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in America because the way government
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programs are that's a symptom, not a
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cause.
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No, no, no. And you can you can go to
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almost a direct day. Black America is
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poorer today than before we started
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helping black America. The welfare
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programs
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helping me by desegregating. I don't
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think that's much help.
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Um, okay. Okay, so how about this? The
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black single motherhood rate in the year
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1964 was 22%. Now it's 74%. How on earth
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does that happen? It happens cuz we
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subsidize single motherhood through the
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70s, 80s, and 90s by saying if you get
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married, you lose your government birth
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control for lower income people. That's
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why
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then why is it only their community, the
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black community, that saw a spike in the
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single motherhood rate?
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Because they don't have the same access
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to it because they've been written out
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of those.
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But weren't Asian-Americans written out
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of the laws in the 1940s and 50s?
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because they are not black.
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Oh, okay. So, it's only black people
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that experienced a tough 20th century.
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No, I'm talking about black people that
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were specifically written out of these
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laws.
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Asian-Americans were written out of laws
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1940s. We put Asian-Americans in
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internment camps, by the way. So, what
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did he call the Great Society Act? Since
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you call him daddy, he called it the
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[laughter] No, he called it the N-word
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bill. He was a bitter and committed
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racist.
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I know he was a racist, but we still got
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these things through. You mean the
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things that kept black America
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permanently poor and kept an entire part
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of the American population without hope?
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That's something you're proud of?
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I'm not an African-American person, so I
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can't speak on that behalf.
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But you can look at data. What other
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buzz?
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I don't think you are either, so I don't
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know if you can speak. But I mean like
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like what what data do you have to
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argue that?
