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Hey, were just getting in the spirit of things. not trying to culturally appropriate. just wearing this costume of an indigenous costume and having fun. when you dont see it because youre of privilege, it allows you to be anythingerant? we see, wow, mockery, ridicule and dehuman saigz. for others a great costume for a party. i wonder when it comes to governor northam. that photo of him in blackface was in his yearbook. nobody said, wait a minute. theres a man in blackface in the yearbook. maybe ...

That way you would get the audience, they would understand what this is all about. the witness cant wiggle. quite the way he can, or she can. they cant filibuster through that five minutes. so i think thats the crux of the problem is the rule, and not any of the particular members. >> john dean, always good to have you with us. thank you. >> thank you, erica. well, any moment now justin trudeau set to face questions about photos, video thats surfaced showing the canadian prime minister donning...

Taking a moment to speak to obviously constituents who are french speaking. as hes doing that, bring you in. curious to your reaction what were hearing from him and in this first couple of moments appaologizing and explaining whe he is today? >> why did he see it as racist as a young man? he briefly teased he had the privilege and privileged not to see it. we know privilege is blind to its own power, its own abuses of power but i really would were have hoped he would take this moment to really t...

Blackface. what has always been done, advance white supremacy at the expense of people of color. yellowface, "breakfast at tiffanys." buck teeth, slanted eyes. audience laughs. object of ridicule and mockery. whoevers in power in the case of western society often white spr supremacy, the rest of us marginalized, the people are color. why were stuck. okay. all these liberals putting on blackface, brownface and conservatives dont seem to like black and brown people and were stuck in the middle? wh...

Something absolutely unacceptable to do. and i appreciate calling it makeup, but it was blackface, and that is just not right. it is something that people who live with the kind of discrimination that far too many people do because of the color of their skin or their history or their origins or their language or their religion face on a regular basis, and i didnt see that from the layers of privilege that i have. and for that i am deeply sorry, and i apologize. okay. [ speaking in foreign langua...

-- every single day in their lives even in a country like canada. what i did hurt them. hurt people who shouldnt have to face intolerance and discrimination because of their identity. this is something that i deeply, deeply regret. darkening your face regardless of the context or the circumstances is always unacceptable, because of the racist history of blackface. i should have understood that then, and i never should have done it. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> speaking, justin trudeau.

Many times and he said, this is what i remember. whats interesting is, when you look at incidents like this and as you point out as recently as 2001 for him when hes a grown man, even the reaction in 2001, theres been a lot of change and development in the way people, you know, talk about race, look at race, talk about privilege in 2019 versus 2001, but even in 2001, it seems somewhat surprising. >> yeah. i mean, i talked to a friend of mine, i was a student at uc-berkeley, even then, doing blac...

Surfaced. specifically talking in the u.s. about blackface and the history of that in this country. canadian media referred to these pictures as racist makeup or darkface. we forget the labels, though. every time this comes up seems theres a conversation thats missing? >> yeah. so if youre watching at home thinking about putting on blackface or brownface for halloween, dont do it! thank you for coming to my pep talk. the reason, theres a history here. i mean, the reason people say, oh youre bein...