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Or religion but it needs to be something. countries dont remain united without a reason. whats ours? you think our elites would be staying up late thinking about. that theyre not, they havent given it a thought and they dont want you to either. diversity is our strength. it is ined a "response from inadequate leadership class. they fan the flames of mindless tribalism, division helps them maintain power even as it destroys our country. they have no interest in national unity, they have no intere...

Mark: why? >> because for many reasons, but again one of them to go back to the whole guilt thing is that without affirmative action, without the idea of a preference that you grant victims, the left has no power, has no way to keep this whole machinery going, and so it just -- they just find new and different and more inventive ways of using preferences to send the signal that were innocent. at harvard university, 8-9% of every single freshman class has to be black. if you didnt lower the stand...

You should let me change this aspect of the university system, thats why you should let me do any number of other things, not because i have better ideas that im a better problem solver, but because i offer this identity of innocence, which is now the, i think, big political problem. we have not identified up to this point, but it is -- that susceptibility, that vulnerability in the political arena, people are going to play on it, theyre going to exploit it. i can -- and ive seen this, spent my ...

A moment i thought this protest was telling in that regard, kind of a point at which the culture may be turning, because it was a fruitless protest it. achieved absolutely nothing. mark: could the culture be turning but the elites digging in? >> thats well said. mark: because more and more when i watch these debates on television and so forth, people very easily almost casually call people they disagree with racist. if they disagree with a political agenda, if they disagree with a particular iss...

Left is more an identity than anything else. the way i think of myself as a decent civilized human being. and those other people are contemptible. and so it worked on the cultural level, now i think the irony is that -- that this is beginning to fade, you begin to see signs of a cracking at this point that people dont take maxine waters seriously anymore, thats not martin luther king. when he came along, there were obvious, terrible things, terrible discrimination behind every word he spoke and ...

Nothing behind the protest. mark: but if you have a political mind-set. a political party. a political ideology that has to sustain this argument, even though as you say, this is a horrific past, but were free, but the democrat party, not all the people in the democrat party, but many of the spokesman and leaders of the democrat party, theyre not free from this. >> no. mark: is it because they seek to keep people or stigmatize people or -- whats that all about? >> the essence of american liberal...

So i know all about it, and theres a part of me that says wait, whoa, im not ready to fully identify with america yet. thats a bit of a stretch. the cold fact is it doesnt matter. we cant change the past. we can only move into the future. and in the future, we have to identify with this country. its the greatest country there ever was. what other system are you going to go to? and its hard emotionally for people to say, well, we need to get some sort of a paycheck, something, for what we went th...

Preference, and what, in a sense, white america is saying is that were redeeming ourselves this way. without us, wed go back to the old way, discrimination and racism and so forth. so you know, weve got the finger in the dike, so affirmative action is just diversity is the new incarnation. a wretched idea with all sorts of perversions of follow from the idea of diversity. i could tell you a story about that. mark: doesnt it help camouflage the failures of half a century of the lefts agenda? >> t...

Numbers on it, and yet they protest. what exactly are they protesting? >> theyre just stuck. you know, again, one of the ways we adapted to not being free is to think our group identity is the way were being black and being down with the cause. that was the way we were going to get it. unity was everything. and if you are authentically black, youre going to do what blacks have always done to one degree or another, youre going to protest. the irony is youre making $15 million a year. youre making...

Know he would be coming to the podium and speaking before a national audience. >> why would he say that never -- we call someone a racist and look for evidence. come on. >> its funny, don. >> you know thats not true. >> it would be funny if he said it -- i do know its true. it would be funny if he said it to me. tvs endearing -- >> if someone is called up to the podium for a special moment, that kind of ruins it, doesnt it. >> hold on, lets hear about the moment and then well talk about it. here...