We're not a racist country, Brian.
We've never been a racist country.
Our goal is to make sure that today is better
than yesterday.
Are we perfect? No. But our goal is to always
make sure we try and be more perfect if every
day that we can.
The history of racism in America should never be the
subject of a sound bite or a question that is
meant to elicit A1 sentence answer.
But there is no denying.
That we have in our history as a nation.
Racism. I don't understand why it's still so difficult to
just admit racism is and has been part of U.S.
history. I mean, does it?
I mean, when you think back,
18491869.
They lynched 2030 Italians because they were Italian.
They lynched black folks. Black folks didn't climb up in
the trees and lynched themselves.
You know, people were angry and came and burned them
out.