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could find it because I don't think it's in a book. If it's in a book it's going to be the whole book. But where could you get a one-page how to become a cartoonist? Just for me. I've also got one page on how to be a better writer, one page on how to do personal finance, and probably one page on a number of other things. And the reason I wrote one page on how to do personal finance is that it didn…
← Previous segment →biggest problems in the country? You might disagree what's the biggest problem but you will agree it's one of the big ones, right? So you might disagree that's the biggest but it's one of the biggest.
Now here's the claim. The claim is that in the world of persuasion the best picture always wins. And look at climate change. Can you imagine climate change if nobody had ever produced the hockey stick graph? The famous hockey stick graph. One picture basically changed the world. And I believe there are other cases where one picture has changed the world. You know, maybe the Vietnam napalm picture, maybe some stuff like that. So if you believe that, if you believe the first part, the one well-designed picture can change the world, that's what I'm going to try to do.
So I'm going to take two movies that have been operating independently and I'm going to bring them into one movie, something that's almost never done. And I'm going to make every one of you understand it and agree. And the Black American community and the white American community and all the other communities will be on the same page for the first time so that we can work together to solve this. All right, so what the biggest problem is that we didn't agree what the biggest problem was or how to solve it. And now I'm going to solve that. Here you go. Was that enough buildup? Here you go.
So here's a visual depiction that will integrate what Black Americans experience, their life experience, with what white Americans experience, their actual experience. And it goes like this. Let's agree, we will stipulate that if you're a Black American and you want to get to success there is this giant minefield of discrimination and there are just a million places that you could be discriminated against if you're Black. Now Black people are not the only people being discriminated against, certainly not saying that, but I'm just telling their story for now, right? Everybody has their own story. This one's not more special than yours necessarily but it needs to be understood because it's sort of vital to the heart of America.
But the federal government, quite progressively and smartly I would say, created a superhighway such that Black Americans could go right through all this minefield of discrimination and all the way to success. But there was one problem with their superhighway to success. It wasn't the corporations. Because as I often say, too much criticism. If you're a qualified Black man or woman you go into corporate America you're definitely getting the job. If you're a qualified white man you might get the job if nobody else is applying except other qualified white men. Then you've got a chance. But corporate America is very solidly on board, like very solidly, like 100 percent solidly, that if you have qualifications and you're a person of color, you're LGBTQ, except for the R and the I they don't recognize those, you have a leg up. You absolutely can do well in corporate America if you're qualified.
Now what makes you qualified? Well college was a big part of it. Our colleges are doing a good job of recruiting and doing the best they can to help with the finances to get Black America
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ns into college. Yes they're trying really hard. So this part of the superhighway is solid. The corporation part is solid. But the school part where you get your basic education to qualify for the rest of the superhighway, totally broken. Totally broken, right? Why is it broken? Well that's mostly the teachers unions. Because teachers unions are the primary friction that keeps schools from competi…
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