Marianne Williamson on the Dark Force of Trumpism

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Explaining the “dark psychic force” of Trumpism and the math on reparations for slavery in America were just two breakout moments Marianne WIlliamson had in the second round of Democratic debates.

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00:00We have an administration that has gutted the Clean Water Act.

00:15We have communities, particularly communities of color and disadvantaged communities all

00:19over this country, who are suffering from environmental injustice.

00:23I assure you, I lived in Grosse Pointe.

00:25What happened in Flint would not have happened in Grosse Pointe.

00:28This is part of the dark underbelly of American society, the racism, the bigotry, and the

00:34entire conversation that we're having here tonight.

00:36If you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the

00:41collectivized hatred that this president is bringing up in this country, then I'm afraid

00:45that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days.

00:48We need to say it like it is.

00:49It's bigger than Flint.

00:51It's all over this country.

00:52It's particularly people of color.

00:53It's particularly people who do not have the money to fight back.

00:56If the Democrats don't start saying it, then why would those people feel that they're there

01:00for us?

01:01And if those people don't feel it, they won't vote for us, and Donald Trump will win.

01:13It's not $500 billion in financial assistance.

01:16It's $500 billion, $200 to $500 billion payment of a debt that is owed.

01:22That is what reparations is.

01:24We need some deep truth-telling when it comes.

01:27We don't need another commission to look at evidence.

01:29I appreciate what Congressman O'Rourke has said.

01:33It is time for us to simply realize that this country will not heal.

01:37All that a country is is a collection of people.

01:39People heal when there's some deep truth-telling.

01:42We need to recognize that when it comes to the economic gap between blacks and whites

01:46in America, it does come from a great injustice that has never been dealt with.

01:51That great injustice has had to do with the fact that there was 250 years of slavery followed

01:56by another 100 years of domestic terrorism.

02:00What makes me qualified to say $200 to $500 billion?

02:04I'll tell you what makes me qualified.

02:06If you did the math of the 40 acres and a mule, given that there was four to five million

02:10slaves at the end of the Civil War, and they were all promised 40 acres and a mule for

02:16every family of four, if you did the math today, it would be trillions of dollars.

02:21And I believe that anything less than $100 billion is an insult.

02:26And I believe that $200 to $500 billion is politically feasible today because so many

02:31Americans realize there is an injustice that continues to form a toxicity underneath the

02:36surface, an emotional turbulence that only reparations will be able to solve.

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