villains. it s about the rest of us who are trying to love a country that tells us to go back even though i was born and raised in the bay area of california. and they say i come from s-hole countries and i get these lovely unsolicited recommendations like go back to where you came from or go f a goat or camel and i m like why only goats and camels. this book i wrote hopefully with some humor and hope and hopefully with some punches in the gut is about expanding the american narrative so the rest of us can be co-protagonists. let s talk about that expansion. because these stories have not had the same airspace and page space that so many other stories have had, i think there s an incredible pressure on the part of writers of color to write a perfect version of their story
of immigration and a racist pathway to citizenship that does not include black immigrants. we are not just talking about haitians but all the countries that trump targeted. remember? when he was president. all those s-hole countries. right? and the way in which black immigrants have to come through is a very different process and not given the pathway to citizenship because this country is looking for so-called model immigrants an earn so we have to stop and the president has to change course and make sure that haitians and other black migrants are treated the same. judith, thank you for your time and perspective. we appreciate you being here. thank you. any moment now president biden will return to the white house from camp david preparing for a week that could help define the presidency. on the laend infrastructure negotiations and that crisis we
today. former-president donald trump said the quiet part out loud about our modern-immigration system when he whined about immigrants from african countries, central america, and haiti. calling them, quote, s-hole countries and wondering why more people didn t immigrate from majority-white nations like norway. the answer s obvious. people are fleeing haiti and central america, in part, due to conditions caused by botched american foreign policy over the last century. that s why i went down to del rio, texas, this week to meet and pray with these asylum seekers. some of whom are being forcibly returned to a country that has suffered from centuries of imperialism and just in the last year, has seen the assassination of its leader, multiple natural disasters. people often say that the american immigration system is
trump made juneteenth famous, not the thousands of black scholars who have been teaching about this day and it s meaning for more than a century. it was him, the man who referred to black and brown nations as s-hole countries and constantly argued against taking down confederate statues, which are physical representations of slavery times. we ve come a long way from those trump days, but some things remain exactly the same. now there s a survival guide for that. actor, comedian, activist and author d.l. hughley has written one and it is in stores now. he joins me next to discuss how to survive america. more velshi in a moment.
and just demeaned people of color, when he talked about the s-hole countries. he has found a way to use ugly words to his benefit and to the detriment of the people who are the object of his words. emily dickinson said a word is dead when it is said, some say, i say it just begins to live that day. his words take on life and meaning, and they hurt. and i know the people who are being hurt. and i came to congress to represent them, and i cannot let it go. so i appreciate whatever we will do, but until we deal with the issue of invidious discrimination as it relates to lgbtq community, the anti-semitism, the racism, the islamophobia, the transphobia, and also the misogyny that he has exemplified, i don t think our work is done. you know, sir, i do