WATCH: The Ebb And Flow Of Progress For Black Americans

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00:00Dr. Ibram Kendi's books stand from the beginning.

00:02There was also a documentary on Netflix that I was in.

00:04I didn't mean to plug myself, but I was in the documentary.

00:07But in the book, the opening of the book, the book was released,

00:11I want to say the year of Donald Trump's first year in office.

00:16And the way books happen is typically they're written before.

00:20And he basically made a lot of predictions in that.

00:24And he mentioned that with Donald Trump running for president,

00:27that this was just another illustration of the ebb and flow of progress that happens

00:32for black Americans.

00:33And so when we say there's pushback, pushback happens in pockets,

00:37but it's just like an ever, it feels like an everlasting flow.

00:41You know, when we were, when we were, I want to say not delivered, Jesus.

00:45But when we are emancipated from slavery, there was a pushback of Jim Crow.

00:51When Obama was president, there was the pushback of Trump.

00:54And there are definitely like little ripples in between time.

00:56But that pushback is almost inevitable because of the racist roots of this country.

01:01And so I just want people to ensure or make sure that people understand that Project 2025

01:06isn't just a new thing.

01:08It's actually been in the work for some years.

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