iendly advice with affection to Van Jones, because I think he's one of the most productive people in the country right now, I don't think the sexism helps us. We probably didn't need that.

All right, here's my favorite story that didn't get many retweets. Now the fact that this didn't get many retweets compared to everything else I tweeted today tells me that the message is not getting through or it's getting through and it's being rejected. And now I'm going to tell you something that'll be one of the most important things you'll ever hear. Indeed it's so important it could end racism. I just let that hang in the air for a moment. I'm going to give you a suggestion, a persuasion suggestion that's so powerful it could completely end racism. It's a pretty big claim isn't it?

Let me tell you the story. Buffalo teenager, 18 years old who is African-American, which is important to the story. After Buffalo was hit by the looting, I guess there was glass all over the streets, and this 18-year-old gentleman decides to just on his own go out with a broom and start sweeping the streets. And he spent 10 hours cleaning the street by himself. Just one guy by himself and a broom cleaning the street. What do you think happened? Have you ever heard of the power of reciprocity? I talk about this and it's documented. It's in the book Influence by Cialdini. So it's been studied. This is not some new agey kind of let's all get along kind of thing. It's been studied and it's scientifically true that if you just give somebody something and ask nothing in return, the odds of them being flexible with you in the future and wanting to work with you and do good things for you that you didn't ask for goes through the roof. Now I don't know that reciprocity works everywhere all the same. There could be a cultural element to it. But I can tell you as your representative white person that, and again I assume it works with everybody but I can only speak to the group that I have the most information about, among white people reciprocity is like a freaking nuclear weapon. We can't ignore it. We can't. If you do something good for me I just gotta return the favor. I got to. And if I can't find a way to do it right away it will bother me for years. Years literally will bother me for years if I can't pay back a kindness.

So what happened to the 18-year-old African-American guy who just saw glass in the streets and said you know it'd be a better world if I just swept up this glass, spent 10 hours doing it? If you've ever swept for 10 hours, because I have not 10 hours but I've swept for hours and it's hard after the first few hours. Here's what happened. One gentleman gave him a car. I think a Mustang. It was a classic one. It was a few years old because he checked his social media, the person who gave him the car, and found that he said he was