Austin Offscript

I'm going to say something.

There has been no other ethnic group within the confines of the history of this nation that had the color of their skin stigmatized like black Americans did.

Not one.

So let me say that one more time for the camera.

There is no other ethnic group in the history of this nation that had the color of their skin defined as the basis upon which they were stigmatized and used as a thing, as a tool, not a person to be respected.

Not true.

You do know that at one point it was illegal to even teach slaves to read.

It was illegal to even issue birth certificates.

I understand.

Listen, my daddy was born in 1965.

He and his mother, let me be clear, my grandmother went through, saw Dr. King give the I Have a Dream speech.

Shirley Franklin saw Dr. King give the I Have a Dream speech.

So they were alive during the time that the lasting economic impact of slavery and redlining and Jim Crow and segregation and the lack of real estate access had direct impacts on black Americans.

So we may not have been in the field, but we were still suffering the economic disparity of impact from policies that were hundreds of years old.

And if you're a white man in America and you are suffering or you're poor, that is your misuse of your privilege.

That's impossible.

If that's true.

Who are you to tell black people they don't deserve some awesome shit they built?

What did you build?

My ancestors built this country.