you cannot sit up here in 2019 and make an argument that it would have been okay with you to leave little girls like kamala harris at the tender mercies of local law enforcement, local school boards because it was 20, almost 30 years after brown vs. the board of education and schools still were not desegregated. i m a ninth generation american, i m a first person in my family born with all my rights recognized by this government. had we been waiting interest these local sheriffs to do right by us, we still be in the situation my parents were born into. so he had the opportunity to be joe biden last night, to show the empathy, to show the growth, to thank kamala harris for what she s done, thank her family. he missed the empathy moment, the civil rights moment. he missed the moment, and i think the air is going to come out of the tires for him not because of any one thing but the totality of this performance
when you pervert it and say you re not the kind of patriot that i want you to be, that you re ini ammical to the cause. we heard you on this. let s bounce it back. van, the reason i wanted to do this, it ain t about football and it sotbout the flag. this started as a social protest. no one has ever said i m anti-flag. they said it is hard for me to honor the flag right now and with these issues that i m so against. it was i m a ninth generation american. my father was a veteran. try.teed anybody to tell me in what this flag means and what it represents. people in my family. people who look like me have put
our freedoms. no. of course not. when you convert it. when you say that if you are not the kind of patriot that i want you to be that you are the cause here. and that s dangerous stuff. van jones, hang on a second. heard you on this one. bounce it back. van, listen, the reason i wanted to do this tonight is it ain t about football. okay. it s not about the flag. this started as a social protest. never a protest off to the flag. that s what trump made it. and allies like on the show now. its that fair? i m ninth generation american, chris. first person in my family that was born with all my rights recognized by this government. my father was a veteran.
historic moment with van jones joining us from san diego this morning. i know this is a huge moment not just for south carolina but really for the entire nation. and you have fought for civil rights for a long time yourself. what s going through your mind right now? well it s an emotional moment i think, for a lot of people. i grew up in the south. i m a ninth generation american. i m the first person in my family that was born with all my rights recognized and respected. i was born in 68. i think people don t understand how recent this segregationist past is. my parents were born under segregation and married under segregation. this flag i understand as a southerner why people feel that our region is not respected. why people want to have regional pride. there s a sense that people on
give them what they deserve. van jones? if there were ever a case for reparations for any people certainly african-americans who were enslaved for a couple hundred years, would be a case. listen if you worked one summer all summer long and then at the end of it supposed to get your paycheck they said nevermind we re not going to pay you, you would be angry for the rest of your life. i worked all summer they never paid me. imagine if it wasn t a summer but a century. imagine if it wasn t one century but two. how would you feel if your family had that. i m a ninth generation american. this is a family story that is very alive and present in our understanding about how we have to navigate. that said i do think that regardless if you want to say well because of the past reparations or because of the present income inequality or