WEBVTT 00:08.943 --> 00:11.011 >>> TAKE A LOOK AT THIS MARK 00:11.045 --> 00:12.326 >>> TAKE A LOOK AT THIS MARK 00:12.337 --> 00:13.802 ROBINSON HEADLINE FROM THE 00:13.813 --> 00:15.132 WASHINGTON POST. 00:15.167 --> 00:18.236 MARK ROBINSON’S SITE SCANDAL 00:18.247 --> 00:19.775 GREETED WITH SHRUGS BY SOME 00:19.810 --> 00:24.005 TRUMP BACKERS AND THE 00:24.016 --> 00:27.113 REVELATIONS SURROUNDING THE 00:27.114 --> 00:28.568 CANDIDATE TESTS VOTERS 00:28.602 --> 00:29.399 TOLERANCE FOR DISTURBING 00:29.400 --> 00:33.445 ALLEGATIONS IN THE TRUMP ERA. 00:33.446 --> 00:35.901 THAT STORY INCLUDES THIS QUOTE 00:35.912 --> 00:37.773 FROM ONE FAN WHO SAID, AND I 00:37.775 --> 00:38.973 QUOTE, WE HAVE ALL DONE THINGS 00:38.974 --> 00:40.174 IN OUR PAST THAT WE ARE SORRY 00:40.175 --> 00:41.036 FOR AND SOME OF THE THINGS ARE 00:41.047 --> 00:41.534 CRAZY. 00:41.568 --> 00:43.408 I MEAN, HE ADDED, IF WE JUST 00:43.419 --> 00:46.851 WENT ON THAT, WE WOULDN’T BE 00:46.852 --> 00:48.421 HERE FOR TRUMP, WOULD WE? 00:48.455 --> 00:50.954 AND THE ANTITHESIS REPRESENTING 00:50.965 --> 00:52.290 SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF 00:52.324 --> 00:55.933 IS REPRESENTING JUST YOURSELF 00:55.935 --> 00:58.909 AND IN THE CASE OF TRUMP, A 00:58.911 --> 01:02.493 SMALL, PETTY ROTTEN SELF. 01:02.504 --> 01:05.065 AMERICA HAS HAD NINE YEARS OF 01:05.076 --> 01:06.034 WATCHING TRUMP POLITICAL ETHOS 01:06.069 --> 01:06.968 AND ACTION STARTING WITH THE 01:06.979 --> 01:07.720 RIDE DOWN AND LITERALLY DOWN 01:07.754 --> 01:10.298 THE ESCALATOR. 01:10.309 --> 01:13.819 IT STANDS IN STARK CONTRAST TO 01:13.830 --> 01:18.178 WILEY POLITICAL ETHOS. BYFRIEND HAS -- MY FRIEND HAS 01:18.213 --> 01:20.881 BYFRIEND HAS -- MY FRIEND HAS 01:20.892 --> 01:25.355 PUBLISHED A NEW MEMOIR WHICH 01:25.390 --> 01:27.358 DESCRIBES HER LIFE OF GROWING 01:27.369 --> 01:28.842 UP IN A FAMILY WHERE HER 01:28.853 --> 01:29.378 PARENTS PRIORITIZED ACTIVISM 01:29.389 --> 01:30.490 AND INSPIRED HER PATH TO A 01:30.525 --> 01:31.233 LIFETIME OF ADVOCACY WORK. 01:31.244 --> 01:35.079 SHE WRITES, NEITHER OF MY 01:35.080 --> 01:37.113 PARENTS SIT IN BUT FOR 01:37.124 --> 01:37.593 DIFFERENT REASONS. 01:37.594 --> 01:40.157 DADS ORIGIN STORY AND WHAT IT 01:40.168 --> 01:41.861 MEANT TO BE A WIDELY INVOLVED A 01:41.872 --> 01:42.751 SILENT EXPECTATION IN 01:42.752 --> 01:47.060 IMAGINATION AND THAT WAS 01:47.094 --> 01:52.657 ACHIEVEMENT AND THAT 01:52.668 --> 01:56.267 IMAGINATION WAS CHANGING THE 01:56.302 --> 01:56.619 SOCIETY. 01:56.630 --> 01:57.622 THE MESSAGE ON REPEAT WAS, 01:57.623 --> 01:58.516 REMEMBER, YOU ARE A WILEY. 01:58.518 --> 01:59.520 ONE THING HIS EARLY DAYS TAUGHT 01:59.531 --> 02:01.280 ME WAS THAT WE DON’T KNOW WHAT 02:01.282 --> 02:02.506 WE WILL BECOME . AND WE ARE 02:02.517 --> 02:03.256 SHAPED AS MUCH BY OUR 02:03.267 --> 02:03.802 EXPERIENCES AS OUR 02:03.836 --> 02:05.249 EXPECTATIONS. 02:05.260 --> 02:08.805 JOINING ME NOW IS THE PRESIDENT 02:08.816 --> 02:10.305 AND CEO OF THE LEADERSHIP 02:10.316 --> 02:12.466 CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS, MAYA WILEY AND AUTHOR 02:12.501 --> 02:15.282 RIGHTS, MAYA WILEY AND AUTHOR 02:15.293 --> 02:20.877 OF THE NEW MEMOIR, REMEMBER, 02:20.911 --> 02:23.061 YOU ARE A WILEY. 02:23.072 --> 02:23.553 AVAILABLE NOW. 02:23.564 --> 02:24.497 I HAVE ONE RIGHT HERE. 02:24.508 --> 02:27.113 CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR BOOK . 02:27.147 --> 02:28.654 WE HAVE THE SAME PUBLISHING 02:28.665 --> 02:29.899 COMPANY. 02:29.934 --> 02:34.065 >> WE DIDN’T KNOW THAT UNTIL WE 02:34.066 --> 02:34.701 KNEW THAT. 02:34.712 --> 02:37.596 >> CONGRATULATIONS AND LET’S 02:37.598 --> 02:39.710 TALK ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND YOU 02:39.721 --> 02:40.792 REPRESENT THE FAMILY YOUR 02:40.793 --> 02:42.914 PARENTS SAID WHEN YOU LEAVE THE 02:42.915 --> 02:44.022 HOUSE AND WHAT WOULD YOUR 02:44.057 --> 02:46.503 PARENTS REACTION TO MARK 02:46.514 --> 02:49.143 ROBINSON’S CAMPAIGN BE? 02:49.177 --> 02:51.533 I THOUGHT OF YOUR BOOK TITLE 02:51.534 --> 02:54.601 AND THE PROMISE OF YOUR BOOK AS 02:54.612 --> 02:55.860 THIS MARK ROBINSON STUFF IS 02:55.862 --> 02:57.155 GOING DOWN. 02:57.166 --> 02:59.403 >> THAT IS SUCH A GOOD QUESTION 02:59.437 --> 03:01.934 BUT I DON’T KNOW IF I HAVE THE 03:01.945 --> 03:05.163 WORDS FOR WHAT THEY WOULD SAY. 03:05.174 --> 03:06.850 I IMAGINE MY FATHER LAUGHING IN 03:06.861 --> 03:09.311 A WAY ABOUT RAGE. 03:09.322 --> 03:15.454 I IMAGINE MY MOTHER GETTING 03:15.455 --> 03:20.109 VERY SERIOUS AND SAYING HE IS 03:20.111 --> 03:22.284 NOT OKAY BECAUSE I THINK FOR 03:22.319 --> 03:24.964 THEM AND MY FATHER BEING A 03:24.965 --> 03:26.657 BLACK MAN IN AMERICA WHO HAD A 03:26.668 --> 03:28.555 PHD IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY IN 03:28.590 --> 03:30.793 1957 FROM CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 03:30.795 --> 03:32.516 WHO HAD TO CONSTANTLY FACE DOWN 03:32.527 --> 03:36.071 WHITE RACISM BUT BE COMFORTABLE 03:36.073 --> 03:38.613 IN HIS OWN SKIN AND INSIST ON 03:38.624 --> 03:39.089 HIS EQUALITY. 03:39.123 --> 03:40.147 BUT MY MOTHER BEING A WHITE 03:40.158 --> 03:44.983 WOMAN WHO UNDERSTOOD RACISM AND 03:45.017 --> 03:47.683 UNDERSTOOD IT IN THE SOUTHWEST 03:47.694 --> 03:49.113 BUT WHO REALLY TRANSCENDED THE 03:49.114 --> 03:50.828 WAY INTO WHICH SHE WAS RAISED 03:50.839 --> 03:54.377 TO BE A RACIST AND DEMONSTRATED 03:54.388 --> 03:55.588 IT COULD BE TRANSCENDED. 03:55.622 --> 03:57.055 IT MEANT THEY BOTH HAD A VERY 03:57.057 --> 03:59.073 SHARP AND KEEN SENSE OF WHAT IT 03:59.084 --> 04:01.476 MEANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU 04:01.510 --> 04:03.511 HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO BE GRATEFUL 04:03.513 --> 04:05.641 FOR IT AND HONOR IT. 04:05.652 --> 04:09.866 I THINK FOR BOTH OF THEM IT 04:09.877 --> 04:11.876 WOULD BE LIKE THIS IS NOT 04:11.887 --> 04:12.321 HONORING ANYTHING. 04:12.332 --> 04:13.856 BUT HIMSELF AND SOME TWISTED SENSE OF WHATEVER HIS OWN SENSE 04:13.890 --> 04:16.450 SENSE OF WHATEVER HIS OWN SENSE 04:16.461 --> 04:21.592 OF IMPORTANCE IS IS UGLY AND 04:21.603 --> 04:21.893 WRONG. 04:21.928 --> 04:24.237 AND WE HAVE TO DO BETTER. 04:24.248 --> 04:25.783 >> WE HAVE AT NINE YEARS TO 04:25.794 --> 04:26.573 WATCH TRUMP AND MAGA 04:26.608 --> 04:27.272 REPUBLICANS BEHAVIOR. 04:27.273 --> 04:31.410 WHAT WOULD THE WILEY FAMILY 04:31.421 --> 04:34.602 MESSAGE BE ON THE PARTY OF 04:34.613 --> 04:36.444 DONALD TRUMP? 04:36.478 --> 04:39.374 >> I HAVE LIVED WITH THE PAIN 04:39.375 --> 04:40.792 OF DONALD TRUMP IN A VERY 04:40.794 --> 04:41.757 PARTICULAR AND PERSONAL WAY IN 04:41.768 --> 04:42.655 ADDITION TO ALL THE WAYS WE 04:42.690 --> 04:45.975 HAVE ALL LIVED WITH. 04:45.986 --> 04:48.248 AND RUN AWAY AGAIN WAS ELECTED 04:48.283 --> 04:49.434 -- WHEN RONALD REAGAN WAS 04:49.445 --> 04:54.092 ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1980 WITH 04:54.103 --> 04:55.802 THE PRESIDENT USING THE 04:55.837 --> 04:57.084 STRATEGY OF DOG WHISTLE RACISM 04:57.085 --> 05:01.224 AND NOW TO SEE HIS CAMPAIGN 05:01.235 --> 05:02.182 NEAR PHILADELPHIA MISSISSIPPI 05:02.216 --> 05:03.243 AND THEY WERE MURDERED THERE 05:03.254 --> 05:04.101 BECAUSE THEY WERE HELPING BLACK 05:04.112 --> 05:05.359 PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE WHO 05:05.394 --> 05:09.641 HAD EVERY LAWFUL RIGHT TO VOTE 05:09.652 --> 05:11.650 IN USING THE TERM STATE RIGHTS 05:11.684 --> 05:13.143 AND WHEN HE WAS ELECTED AND I 05:13.154 --> 05:15.700 WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, MY MOTHER 05:15.734 --> 05:18.422 APOLOGIZED TO ME AND SAID, I AM 05:18.433 --> 05:20.204 SORRY AND MY RESPONSE WAS WHY 05:20.238 --> 05:24.787 ARE YOU SORRY AND YOU THOUGHT 05:24.789 --> 05:30.575 THE GOOD FIGHT AND YOU HAVE 05:30.577 --> 05:33.140 NOTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR AND I 05:33.151 --> 05:34.543 SAID IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE 05:34.554 --> 05:36.164 THIS WAY NOW. 05:36.199 --> 05:37.928 I FOUND MYSELF IN 2016 05:37.939 --> 05:40.891 APOLOGIZING TO MY HIGH SCHOOL 05:40.902 --> 05:44.927 STUDENT IN MY OLDEST BORN AND 05:44.938 --> 05:46.973 SAYING I AM SORRY. BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP BECAME 05:46.984 --> 05:50.135 BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP BECAME 05:50.169 --> 05:56.472 PRESIDENT THAT NIGHT, PRESIDENT- 05:56.473 --> 05:56.873 ELECT. 05:56.884 --> 05:58.679 THE FACT THAT I HAD THIS A BOOK 05:58.714 --> 05:59.472 AND EXPERIENCE OF THAT 05:59.483 --> 06:00.326 CONVERSATION WITH MY MOTHER IN 06:00.337 --> 06:05.265 THIS CONVERSATION WITH MY OWN 06:05.276 --> 06:07.850 CHILD REMINDED ME THAT ONE OF 06:07.885 --> 06:09.556 THE LESSONS OF MY PARENTS IS 06:09.567 --> 06:10.648 YOU DON’T GET TO STOP FIGHTING 06:10.659 --> 06:12.666 FOR JUSTICE. 06:12.700 --> 06:15.802 HOW YOU DO IT DEPENDS ON WHAT 06:15.813 --> 06:17.309 GIFTS YOU HAVE BEEN WHAT YOU 06:17.343 --> 06:18.907 BRING TO THE TABLE BUT YOU DO 06:18.918 --> 06:21.735 HAVE TO BRING IT AND WE DO HAVE 06:21.746 --> 06:22.759 A RENEWED SENSE OF 06:22.793 --> 06:23.065 UNDERSTANDING. 06:23.066 --> 06:28.489 IT IS OUR LEGACY AND WHAT WE 06:28.491 --> 06:30.523 BRING NOW BECAUSE WE AREN’T 06:30.525 --> 06:30.785 DONE. 06:30.786 --> 06:32.038 >> I DO WISH WE HAD MORE TIME 06:32.039 --> 06:34.320 TO TALK. 06:34.331 --> 06:37.427 YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS WHEN 06:37.461 --> 06:38.288 WE ARE BACK? 06:38.289 --> 06:38.914 >> A DINNER? 06:38.925 --> 06:40.203 >> EXACTLY.