00:00As you know, the president has depicted a former president and first lady as apes.
00:11The behavior has been declared racist by a good many people.
00:17But I don't think the president has really received the message that it's unacceptable.
00:23He seems to think that he can do these dastardly things with impunity.
00:29Tonight, I wanted him to have a person, confront him, and let him know that black people aren't apes.
00:38That black people are not going to tolerate this kind of behavior.
00:42I don't speak for everybody, but I speak for people of goodwill who understand that if you tolerate this kind
00:49of behavior, you perpetuate it.
00:51I refuse to tolerate this level of hate that the president is, in fact, putting into policy.
00:59We must take a stand against this level of invidious discrimination.
01:08I wanted him to know, and I wanted him to see it and hear it up close.
01:14But judging from the expression on his face, he got the message.
01:18He saw it.
01:20He got the message.
01:21And I hope that others will let him have a similar message so that he would discontinue this behavior.
01:28Now, there are people who believe that I should not take a stand such as this.
01:37There are others who have taken stands, and they, too, have been vilified.
01:42Dr. King went to jail for taking a stand.
01:45Rosa Parks went to jail for taking a stand.
01:48Sometimes you have to take a stand.
01:50Rosa Parks was alone when she was arrested in a racist southern town.
01:55But she was there.
01:58There are times when it is, on some issues, better to stand alone than not stand at all.
02:05I stood alone, but I assure you, I would do it again because he must know that there are people
02:11who would take a stand against his insidious behavior.
02:20Do you think you're standing alone on Capitol Hill?
02:26I believe that there are others who agree with me, but for some reason, they're not ready to do what
02:37I do.
02:38And I'll not give any reasons to characterize why they choose to do what they do.
02:45But I know that there are many who agree with me.
02:48I've heard people in private conversations talk about it.
02:51And you've talked about it on television.
02:54You've seen it yourselves with the various persons who are on these various programs
03:00that talk about these kinds of issues, the political programs.
03:04So there are other people.
03:06But at some point, you have to confront him face to face.
03:09He needed to see this.
03:11He needs to know that there are people who will take a stand against him.
03:16He has become a person who assumes that he is beyond the law.
03:21He doesn't recognize the separation of powers.
03:24He doesn't recognize due process of the law.
03:27He doesn't believe that judges can make rulings that are antithetical to his opinions and be right.
03:32He assumes that if he says it, it is right, and that might makes right.
03:37And if we allow this to continue, he is shredding the Constitution.
03:41He goes to war at will without conferring with the Congress.
03:46If we allow this to continue, the Constitution will be meaningless at some point.
03:50So we have to take a stand now.
03:53What are the consequences for being kicked out two years in a row from the State of the Union?
03:57I haven't.
03:58The consequences were of no consequence to me.
04:02You have to take a stand.
04:04The consequences of no consequence.
04:06In the sense that I would allow the consequences to prevent me from doing what I believe is a righteous
04:13thing to do.
04:14Dr. King did not allow the consequences to prevent him from going to Birmingham, and he went to jail.
04:20Rosa Parks did not allow the consequences to prevent her from taking a seat on the bus.
04:25That's where we are now.
04:26We are back to a point where people have to take a stand.
04:30I'm just a person who has done it.
04:32There are many others, I believe, who would.
04:38Thank you, everybody.
04:39I appreciate it.
04:41Thank you, Congressman.
04:43Bye.
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