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Donald trump appears, does he not, determined to drag us back, not 30 years ago, but 100 years ago. no. he seems very determined. and he s determined with his policies to do that and his language. you and i have met with donald trump down through the years. i ve known him 35 years. and marched on him, protested him and have met with him. all of my meetings with donald trump has been far more profane than profound. so i know that he used this kind of language. it is what he does. and no doubt he s calculated it. the irony is 36 years ago today, january 15th, 82, i was in my 20s. james brown brought know the white house. he was lobbying president reagan. he want med to go because i was youth director in new york of dr. king s northern operation bread basket and he was lobbying ....
Baltimore. and he put 10,000 of his own money into that bank to try to save it. that is $20 million today. it was said that bank did more to set free slaves and america back than ten more years of slavery. said so i think we re t dumb and stupid, we re brilliant. you level the playing field and we excel. we just don t know what we don t know that s killing us, but we think we know. and the memo delivers the rules that no one ever taught you and gets us updated to today. now, we need to deal with economic stability and economic growth, and i think that there s been a lot of emphasis and needed emphasis, i might add, on political empowerment yes. but we ve not been in my opinion as focused on economic empowerment which is why i said when i started under bill jones and reverend jackson and those older than me, it was around economic issues of operation ....
Teach him how to fish and he can feed himself for lifetime. that age-old message endures to this day in life and in politics. now one man is evading that lesson to help americans in politics. it s detailed in his new book the memo. five rules for your economic liberation. joining me is john hope bryant, the chairman, founder and ceo of operation hope. thank you, reverend, for being with us this morning. no, you re the reverend. and happy birthday to you and to reverend jackson. thank you. we re all of us standing on tall shoulders. and we have a lot to thank for you and reverend jackson and amgs young, reverend john lewis and others. thank you. now you you and i have talked and you know i started at 13 in operation breadbasket which was an economic program. ....
Were the mentors to me that were in the generation ahead of me, reverend jackson and reverend walker, bill jones, shirley chisholm and others that invested in me, i thought about what is it that i really want to say. and that is that the key to life is two dates. the day you were born and the day you find out why you were born. there s an old quote, but it s true. purpose must drive your life. and from when i was a boy preacher to when at 13 i became an official in operation bread basket, i found my purpose, fighting for justice in my ministry being around to fight for justice. find your purpose. your life s meaning is not by what you own, your life s meaning is about what you are about. i see a lot of young activists coming up under me. the good ones are not the ones that want to be seen. the good ones are the ones that ....
Taking a lot of those resources and putting it into the vietnam war. i became director of operation bread basket the year dr. king was killed, i was a kid, and they had a tent city dr. king proposed, we were down and ralph abernathy who succeeded dr. king that i was being mentored by, were fighting then because they were saying the money shouldn t go to vietnam, it should stay on the war on poverty. then nixon became president and began killing those programs. after him, you had a brief four years of jimmy carter, reagan, bush, this has not been a 50-year war against poverty, republicans were in charge most of the last 50 years. mlk in 1967 says, it seems as if there was a real promise of ....