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Hey, guys. Hey, guys, how are you? Hello, Charlotte. It has been such a tough week, but I have to tell you, this makes me feel absolutely amazing. It is just incredible. I love you, too. We have a lot to talk about tonight. It is a very important year. It's actually a very important time in America. I know that's why so many of you guys are in this room. And it's really, it's so important, and this mission of Lexa is so close to my heart, because there's something that's gone very, very wrong in this country, particularly in the black community.

Can we agree on that? When we made the video that you just watched, I wanted images to be put together, of the black community that I grew up with, what I mean when I say that, is that, you know, I was a '90s child growing up in the '90s. I always call that the Golden Decade, right? Liberals weren't crazy yet. People seem to be getting along, and I remember such positive TV. I talk about that all the time, such positive TV for Black America.

So when I was growing up, I was watching the Hutstables, the Jeffersons at Nick at night, right, staying up late, the Cosbys, they were just wonderful images on TV of what it meant to be, not just the black American, but an American, to have goals, to have your family be together. You know, they'd have their issues throughout the episode, and then every episode would end with the moral of togetherness. And then I don't know what happened, but then sometime over the next couple of decades, that kind of TV left.

And it was replaced with something else. It was replaced with violence. For Black America, I believe the most popular TV show that's on right now is Love and Hip Hop, right? The breakdown of people trying to aspire to make it, as rappers, people that come from strippers, you know, being strippers and trying to make it in the music industry. And I wanted to ask myself a question of, how did that happen? Who is trying to realign our goals as citizens, who's trying to make us think that, um, as minority Americans, we should be aspiring to be ballers and rappers, and not lawyers and doctors, like they were when we watch TV, right?

Um, so the Blexit mission became very close to my heart, and I said, um, I don't think America will ever be fixed if we don't wake up minority America if we don't get Hispanic Americans and Black Americans to wake up to what's going on. And the only way we're gonna do that is through education. The pushback that I got instantly, um, was that people feel that today it is harder, believe it or not, it is harder to be a black American today than it was 60 years ago.

I find that to be completely insulting to the people that lived 60 years ago as black Americans. The idea today that's being sold to us throughout the media, is that we are being held back because of slavery. I find that to be completely ridiculous. I've said this a thousand times. I've never been a slave, and I'm not going to start being one to a piece to liberal orthodoxy. But then I started studying and I said, okay, well, what was slavery?

What were the tenets of slavery? This is important, so I want you to pay attention, because I believe a left has played a trick, and they've done a very good, very good job at doing it. I was reading Frederick Douglas' autobiography in the first couple of pages. Um, you know, he talks about his life as a slave, and he talks about how, um, when his, when his mother died. And when his sisters died, he didn't feel anything.

He felt nothing. There was no attachment because part of being a slave meant that you were constantly being traded, right? You weren't with your family forever. That was the idea. And that was twofold. One is because they wanted the best slaves, and that was just a business model. And the other part was that they actually didn't want black Americans to have a sense of family, to have a sense of togetherness. You know, they wanted to keep them working like machines.

So the breakdown of a family was necessary. A second attribute of slavery, which we all know very well, was illiteracy. It was illegal for slaves to learn how to read. It was so illegal, in fact, but if you were a white American, and you were taught teaching slaves to read, you could be prosecuted. That's how serious it was. The reason for that is obvious. An educated mind can't be enslaved, right? If slaves were reading, they may have picked up on the abolitionist movement that was happening in the North, right?

They may have found out that there were people that were actively working to free them. So they had to make sure that they were not allowed to read. What's interesting about that is we were all of these years past labor, and we're in the exact same predicament. The black family is still broken down, right? But slavery doesn't exist. In the 1960s, a single motherhood rate was 23%. Today, it's 74%, 74% of Black Americans are growing up without a two parent home without a father in the home.

And Larry Elder will talk to you more about that, because he really is an expert. Illiteracy. Well, you'd say, Oh, well, we've been put into schools. Well, what is our public school system teaching us these days? When 70% of black boys in California can't pass a basic literacy exam, when in inner cities like Baltimore, they looked across five public schools and couldn't find a single child that was proficient in reading or writing?

Right? This is happening right in front of our faces and nobody's talking about it. There isn't a single politician on stage that's talking about illiteracy rates, right? Well, that's because an uneducated mind. If you don't know your facts. It's very easy to enslave you. They'll use images, they'll use culture, right? They'll tell you, they'll make you feel like something is going on when it's not. Hence, black lives matter, right?

This idea that we're all under attack from police officers. No, we're under attack by really a really shoddy public school system, is what we're under attack by, you know? And then you think about how is it possible that we got here and no one's talking about it. How is it possible that I start talking about and everybody starts freaking out? Like, it was this big secret that this was all going on, and nobody was ever supposed to know.

And that's simply marketing. Marketing 101. I think if you have to take your hat off and say something that the left and the liberals have done brilliantly. It's marketing. They have a way of marketing things to us, and they sound amazing, even if they're horrible. Like, pro life. That sounds amazing. I mean, I'm saying that you're pro choice, right? Pro choice sounds amazing. I want you to have choices. I want choices.

They're just leaving out the fact that that means that they're murdering babies, right? That 17, uh, that, uh, 17 million black babies have been aborted since 1973. I think that number is at 19 million, as I say, on the stage today. Um, and that the black population has stagnated. There's no more black population growth in America. It's completely flatlined, right? Nobody's talking about that. They're talking about ushering illegals over the border because illegal will be the new black soon.

They're not gonna need, they're not gonna need black people anymore, because they have a new market of victims that they can go after and get addicted to government dependency. Why is no one talking about that, right? There's... There are so many ways that the left has taught us to oppress ourselves. My belief is that minorities that are oppressed in this country are oppressed by ourselves, by our mindset, by our belief that we've bought into that we're victims, and that we can't get ahead.

And here's the truth. If you believe that you can't, you won't. It's that simple. If someone tells you, if you believe and you convince yourself that you can't do something, of course you won't do it. Of course, you're in your own way, how could you possibly do something? We've allowed hip hop artists to replace fathers in the home, right? We've started idolizing. This is a form of idolatry. It's satanic, we're idolizing Hollywood and rappers and ballers.

We're not idolizing our fathers and our grandfathers, and the Bible, and Jesus Christ. So what is the Blex's story? The Blacksit story, what you will see today, is this idea of liberation. We were told that after slavery. We were told that after the civil rights era, we were supposed to be free, but we're not. That's been an illusion, and where we've ended up today is in the wilderness. When you look to the communities in which minorities live, you can see that it has become a wilderness, and we are not getting ahead.

But if we learn the things that we need to know, and we have the courage to speak up and say those things, we will arrive at the Promised Land. So I'm going to come out later, but I just wanted to welcome you all here and enjoy the show and enjoy the speakers. Thank you guys so much. You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, our eyes. You can shoot me with your words.

You can cut me with your hatefulness. But just like life arrives. Out of the huts of history, shame, I rise. Up from a past rooted in pain, I rise. A black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling. I bear in the time. Leaving behind knights of terror and fear, Ira. I am the hope and the dream of the sea. And so...