vice president. so i have seen people use martin s words so many times in so many ways. i actually will quote my uncle myself sometimes. my favorite one, especially for today remembering him is that i ve decided to stick with love. hate is too difficult a burden to bear. so i will use that without even applying it to any of my particular ideologies or beliefs. i m not as offended as martin might be because people will use his dad s words. neil: alveda, when you get with your cousins or thanks giving, is it s a ruckus affair? you all stand out. you say you love each other. how do you settle those differences when you re all around the table? well, we tend to love each other for real. we have steps of nonviolent conflict reconciliation that we learned from uncle m.l., my dad,
original sin. what do you think uncle m.l. as you call him would think about that? well, i was a college professor for 19 years in the 1980s and 1990s, i left to serve the george w. bush administration in the early 21st century. during those years, did i, as a college professor, know that many of my own students predominantly african-american had been disenfranchise you had. so i have never been colorblind. if you are colorblind then you need glasses. we can t pretend people don t have ethnic distinctions. to say work with college prep, it s important to do excellent college prep for every student in america. whether they are very wealthy. whether they re not wealthy. no matter what their skin color is there again, we must learn to live together as brothers and i will say as sisters or perish together as fools. treating all students as human beings. that s what he would really say. now, do you have programs? do you have guidance?
catching the method without taking the message of god s love. neil: do you think that your uncle or your dad they would be sip pathetic to minority sympathetic to minority football players in particular who feel to the african-american man, woman, is not treated fairly today? my uncle, my dad, a.d., m.l. king, daddy king, certainly believed in justice and equality for all people. and i do, too. uncle m.l. said we must learn to live together as brothers. i ll add as sisters. or perish together as fools. it s not divided down color line. we want justice for everyone. african-americans, all americans. and to see each other as that acts 17:26, of one blood god made all people to live on the face of the earth. if we re brothers and sisters fighting over skin color will stop. my uncle would even urge us to stop fighting over skin color.
with colin first took a knee. and i said at that time, well he has the method down pat, taking a knee. but he s forgetting the message. martin luther king jr. and my dad, a.d. king, both of them taking the knee along with other civil rights leaders there are pictures. when they took the knee it was in prayer, repentance for their own since, for the since offers this, for the nation, forgiving others who had harmed them and asking god to help this nation and to end racism and the injustices against people. without that kind of prayer, when you take the knee, it is just a symbol. when they had martin, uncle m.l. in between the two athletes, taking the knee, i said well i hope you know what he would take the knee for. praying for you, for your concerns, praying for america, he would be praying for president trump. i was concerned they were only
need to put that in. america return to god. i want everybody to know that. ainsley: i love that. america return to god.com. good morning you and all our friends. ainsley: why did you title it that? it s time to pray. and that will let you know exactly what i believe we need to be doing right now rather than all of the controversy. we can pray and join the incoming president, our in the president, mr. donald trump who is inviting leaders across america and all of the people to join in making our nation better. so if we can pray and do what uncle m.l. dr. martin luther king jr. said learn to live together as brothers and i add as sisters or parents, we can do this. we can do it together i know we can. ainsley: what do you think of congressman lewis. he is from atlanta where you live and where your uncle, you know, was preaching and grew up, lived as well. i have been to his house there. it s such a special place. what do you make of what congressman lewis is doing saying i m not goin