Host back with our conversation with armstrong williams. You talked about economic are for two unity. That everybody you talked about economic opportunity. You will concede that not everybody gets that chance, though. I will probably surprise you. I believe everybody has the. Pportunity, a chance the bible tells us the poor will always be among us. Tells us that, people like myself and others are so thankful. Thank god fori his grace and mercy because i realize my life is not normal. Sometimes i feel it feels like a fantasy and i do not think i am anything special. I do not believe that. I could never explain why he blesses me so richly, but i want to bless others. Not in a way where i want to go out and boast that i support this or that because, but privately. I think it is more important to give than to receive. I think it is so more important than power. You cannot empower others without empowering yourself. Back to the part of your question that not everybody has the same parents. I have the best mother and father in the world. I had the best department of health, education, and welfare growing up, my mother and my father. I have the best brothers and sisters. We keep a farm in the family. It stays in the family because we get along so well. Impressedand mother on us that we had to get along. There could never be conflict. Tois very easy for me interact and build relationships outside of the family. My parents taught me what work ethic was, busting my chops in those tobacco fields. My parents taught me what it is like in the garden, baling hay, taking care of cattle. Terms callede virtue and values and we make these assumption that they know what they mean. We have taken in so many interns from the inner cities, whether black or white. We take people in who come from these backgrounds. Black people are not the only people who come from impoverished backgrounds. It is people from all walks of life. They are not the only people that come from a singleparent household. What it takes is a lot of work. Teaching them how to have respect, because of a man grows up in a household with a woman who is angry with her man, what she emanates his bitterness toward her father. Is bitterness toward her father. You have to help that young man. Espect male authority and then you have to pay them. You do well here, you make progress, you get paid. When you do something really phenomenal, you get a bonus. And you begin to see that young person transform in six or seven months. But taking them out of poverty, out of their environment, giving them another experience, another narrative, is so much work. You are not going to make money. You may never make money on it at all. But you are growing men and women for leadership for this society. For us, it is not enough to talk about creating wealth. No persons circumstances no persons circumstances are the same. You have to give people opportunities to create wealth, but also grow them along the way. I must admit, weve had hundreds of interns, hundreds of students who have come through our company over the decades. What when i see them out in the Larger Society and how they contributing how they are contributing, they say to me the American Dream is possible, but you have to have mentors, heroes, and people willing to be parents, willing to be disciplinary. Young people want to be held accountable. They want someone to do a check and balance with them. They want someone to be honest with them because they want success. Sony money people are dealing with this opio crisis so many people are dealing with this opioid crisis, they are depressed, they are suicidal. The parents do the best that they can. We have a responsibility to go in these communities and help them. People who have i know blackno people who have never met a white person in their lives. Had i glenn hand i glad hand the police. They realize they are so nice. They are human. Often they believe lawenforcement are monsters. Response you have a responsibility to break down the stereotypes, to grow these young people. Haveare families, they experiences, and they have feelings just like you. What you have got to do is step out of your comfort zone and get to know people. Host mr. Williams, we will introduce you again to robert in tucson, arizona. Go ahead. For taking myyou call. I agree with many things you just said, mr. Williams, deeply. Old, biracial, chemical engineer. I am exception i am the exception. A question. You have to develop trust with the police in our communities to stop black on black violence. That has to be addressed and dealt with head on. We have seen corruption. We have seen Police Involved in all kinds of things. Aggressive policing tactics have to stop, ok . My two questions. I want to know what your thoughts are on our president ial leadership regarding race relations, specifically charlottesville. That is where you lost me. That is where he lost a lot of people. There are not good people on both sides of that. It hurts to know that that is where our country is. Number two, the statues and monuments were designed to keep minorities in their place by seeing who has the real political power. Those are my two questions and i would like to hear you address them. I was talking to senator tim scott earlier in the year. We were talking about charlottesville and the president s position. He told me he was in the white house and clearly told the president that it was wrong. He picked the wrong side. He did not say the right thing and he did not heal the country. He said he had no idea what the president s reaction would be, and that the president was very humble, very accepting, and he said to senator scott, tim, what should i do now . That was surprising to me, but often because oftentimes the president is painted as a monster, egomaniacal come out of control all about himself, and yet you hear the stories from senator tim scott, held up how the president embraced them, how empowerment zones were created, Second Chances to get out of prison over trumped up charges. Everyone has a narrative. It does not matter whether it is fox or cnn or the mainstream media. They have an image and perception of who the president is and they print that narrative. Talking to someone who is integrally involved in the president gave me a lot of hope, first, that he is able to admit that he is wrong. Secondly, he was willing to do something about it. He wanted to get it right. Good news is that my father, another lesson. Everybody has a past. Everybody has a future and everybody can change. As long as the president is willing to change and get better and have humility, hearfastness, and wants to honest thoughts and truth from others, then that gives me hope. I am not going to judge the president for all the things the media judges and for, but i can take seriously my respect for tim scott and the president was willing to make progress. S, but in perfect being we are willing to make a change. As far as the statues and monuments. If we move every monument and statute to heal the racial wounds today, i think most people would embrace it fully. But it is not going to change everything. Though statues represent the history of people. It is not always about race and bigotry. It is much deeper than race and bigotry. Weo, equally important, should also represent slaveryamericans from to segregation to the civil rights movement, their lives, their blood, their tears, their dignity, their sacrifice for those hundreds of years in america. They are, their monuments their statues, monuments, history, should be there. But is why you have the museum of africanamerican that is why you have the museum of africanamerican history and culture on the mall, put there by george bush. You do not want to alienate anyone to defeat the vestiges of racism. You just add more so the entire history of america the entire history of america is represented. Moving statues does nothing but creating more chaos. We want to bring people together because everyone has a perspective. You should not be afraid of other ideas. I think that more than racism and other these other and all these other isms, the greatest issue in terms of bigotry and discrimination today is ideology. You could have a conversation with someone today and say you support trump, and they will want to kill you, think you are outrageous, but that is the american way. It is freedom of speech. If somebody says they support biden and Kamala Harris that is their right. Why do we want people to believe what they believe what we believe . Diversity of thought is essential. We should celebrate each others experiences. For me, i have a strong guidance system, a strong belief system, and no matter how much i have invested in my value system over the last decade, if someone takes me to a higher truth, i would have been did my ideology. It is the truth i will embrace because it is the truth that i see, not being right or wrong. Host deborah in south bend, indiana, hello. Caller gd
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