on us and i was because i but afterwards he told me i have a daughter here look at a she s beautiful. she s nineteen now but if she came home with a black guy i throw out a huge i was damn hollister ocean ice. man was the guy and the problem was that nobody knew anything about us i mean we were asked who we were. at. the huddle. we were just seen as workers. every worker is also a person but there was nothing human at the center of the debate. suddenly she made the point stands in the midst of point. they never experienced hostility or racist incidents towards mozambicans they say just a general lack of interest in them where they came from how they lived what they were excited about hardly anyone in east germany wanted to know that s why real
autobiography writer. she began with i know why the caged bird sings which oprah talked about encountering. if you listened to how she talked about encountering the autobiography and the notion of the specific story always meeting the universal. as i sat there and listened to two people speak i realized i can quote the book of maya in a way i can quote books of the bible. people will say things she said so often to us that they became part of who we are. one of them is that nothing human can be alien to me. it is a reminder i sometimes give my team whenever we need to cover mass shootings. we don t call people monsteres. dr. angelou taught me as a 16, 17, 18 year old that nothing human can be alien to me. anything horrible is something i
more alike than we are unalike and that nothing human can be alien to me. it s a reminder i sometimes give my team whenever we have to cover, for example, mass shootings. our rule on our team is we don t call people monsters. what they do may be monstrous, but dr. angelou had taught me even as a 16, 17, 18-year-old that nothing human can be alien to me. anything horrible is something i also have inside of me and anything that is great i also have inside of me. yeah. and here on the last word team we were watching the interview you did with her in 2012 and asking about how to advance equality and one the things she said to you back was you do it with what you re doing with your words, she talked about her books and her speeches and your work. you felt that in this memorial, people moved by a woman who felt she could change minds and hearts just by reaching out, just by communicating. well, and perhaps more than anyone else the first lady. i have to say i didn t sit with literally
the majority felt this was a discussion that needed to continue and need to be had and not too much was being made about it. it is interesting to me how still to this day often white america and black america sees things through different lenses. absolutely, because we have not come to the decision which is so important. you can only come to this decision if you have courage. the decision is, i am a human being. nothing human can be alien to me. until we come to that, whites will really think i m better than. well, they re not so bad but their color doesn t come off and that hair doesn t straighten out, and so we are not equals. until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. it s very clear. and you don t think that has occurred? you don t believe there is true equality yet?
and among many white americans the poll numbers said that a lot of white americans felt too much was being made about race. whereas among african-americans the majority felt that this was a discussion that needed to continue and need to be had and not too much was being made about it. it is interesting to me how still to this day often white america and black america sees things through different lenses. absolutely, because we have not come to the decision which is so important. you can only come to this decision if you have courage. the decision is i am a human being. nothing human can be alien to me. until we come to that, whites will really think i m better than. well, they re not so bad but their color doesn t come off and the hair doesn t straighten out. and so we are not equals. until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister we will not have parity. it is very clear.