00:00I rise to Speaker with a special message, one that concerns events that transpired right here on the floor of
00:07the House of Representatives last night.
00:09I rise, Mr. Speaker, to speak truth to power and truth about power.
00:14To speak truth to power, you have to simply say to power, we have a problem, and let us solve
00:21the problem.
00:21But if you speak truth about power, you say, power, there's a problem, and you're it.
00:27I'd like to address both.
00:28Let's start with the genesis of what occurred last night, and that genesis is a meme in some worlds, but
00:40it was actually something AI concocted,
00:44and it had President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama being represented as apes, portrayed as apes.
00:53I find this unacceptable, and a good many people of goodwill found it unacceptable as well.
00:58Well, as a person of goodwill finding this unacceptable, I wanted to do more than simply tweet something about it
01:07or write something about it.
01:09I wanted the President to know that people of goodwill will confront him and let him know that he's doing
01:17things that are unacceptable.
01:18It is unacceptable. It is unacceptable to portray homo sapiens, especially persons of African ancestry, as apes, a little bit
01:29more than in some worlds of the ape family,
01:32and a little bit less than a homo sapien, something that's sort of in a twilight zone, maybe the missing
01:38link, if you will, where we're not the missing link.
01:41We're as human as anybody else, and we're going to demand the respect that everybody else is accorded.
01:48This is not a world where you're going to relegate some human beings to a lower life form simply because
01:55it pleases you and a host of people that you happen to communicate with.
01:59This is unacceptable.
02:01I rise to Speaker with a special message, one that concerns events that transpired right here on the floor of
02:07the House of Representatives last night.
02:09I rise, Mr. Speaker, to speak truth to power and truth about power.
02:14To speak truth to power, you have to simply say to power, we have a problem, and let us solve
02:21the problem.
02:22But if you speak truth about power, you say, power, there's a problem, and you're it.
02:27I'd like to address both.
02:29Let's start with the genesis of what occurred last night, and that genesis is a meme.
02:39It's a meme in some worlds, but it was actually something AI concocted, and it had President Obama and First
02:47Lady Michelle Obama being represented as apes, portrayed as apes.
02:53I find this unacceptable, and a good many people of goodwill found it unacceptable as well.
02:59Well, as a person of goodwill, finding this unacceptable, I wanted to do more than simply tweet something about it
03:08or write something about it.
03:10I wanted the President to know that people of goodwill will confront him and let him know that he's doing
03:17things that are unacceptable.
03:19It is unacceptable to portray homo sapiens, especially persons of African ancestry, as apes, a little bit more than in
03:30some worlds of the ape family,
03:33and a little bit less than a homo sapien, something that's sort of in a twilight zone, maybe the missing
03:39link, if you will, where we're not the missing link.
03:42We're as human as anybody else, and we're going to demand the respect that everybody else is accorded.
03:49This is not a world where you're going to relegate some human beings to a lower life form simply because
03:55it pleases you and a host of people that you happen to communicate with.
03:59This is unacceptable.
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