Brady carlson and a look at president ial grave sites and monuments. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. First up on booktv in prime time, heres crystal wright. Host crystal wright is backt ott our desk, editor and publisher of conservativeblackchick. Com, also out with a new book, con job. Crystal wright, a lot to get into in that title of your book, but i want to begin with this quote from your book. It reads real racism still exists in modern america, it and hurts real people. But when hustlers like al sharpton and other liberals are quick to label every incident i America Racist from voter id laws to the shooting of black teens, it diminishes the rightful attention that true racism should receive. So what is true racism, and why are some of the issues that you bring up in that example not for racism . Guest well, i actuallyll devote a chapter in the book to true racism. Its in the appendix, and its my familys personal story of being discriminated against. When i was a little girl, they applied to a country club and were told that they didnt want my parents to be members because they were blacks. And that case, actually, went all the way up to the u. S. Court of appeals. At the time, in 1980, 81 when it went to the appeals court, the u. S. Justice departmentt filed an amicus brief because it said that in, you know, 13 years after the Civil Rights Act had passed, this is not what america was about. So that, to me, is true racism and discrimination. I would say, you know, when someone is denied access to something, that is true racist discrimination. E when people are called the nword outright by White Supremacists, that istion. Discrimination. Cliven bundy, the rancher, the incendiary things he said about black people, thats racism. Whats happened now, and i write about this in con job, you have this industry where people like al sharpton and cornel west are getting rich out of calling everything racism, jumping into Racial Division incidents in the United States and profiting on it. Jesse jackson is another one. That, to me, is not being a champion for ending discrimination, thats aei champion for self and making money. Host you say its something that the Democratic Party is trading off of guest yes. Host to profit in votes and money. Guest it is trading off of that, because right now you see the narrative playing out on the democrat side. Ra we have Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, which are the democrat frontrunners, the only ones vying for the democrat nomination in this president ial nomination, and theyre pandering to black lives matters. We saw last year when Bernie Sanders was at an event, hee didnt give what black people thought was appropriate lip service to black lives matters, and he was heckled off the stage. What is that . Iv im a black person, and i find that offensive. I want to hear policies to make all lives better. So right now you have theres a race going on on the democrat side with the candidates to get socalled black endorsements. Its and furious. Theyre meeting with al sharpton. I dont know about you, john, but im a grabbing woman, it speak for myself im a black woman, i speak for myself. Where is Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, why arent they getting the endorsement of socalled White America and white spokespeople . I find it offensive. Its theres nothing real in it. They should be talking about their agenda for black america, and they havent. And we know that Hillary Clinton in 1994 supported her husbands crime bill which locked up and incarcerated more black men than any president in u. S. History. He created the disparagement between sentencing of crack cocaine and cocaine that led too the mass incarceration of black americans. I would argue that neither candidate has done anything in their decades of service toei improve the lives of black americans. Er host in the 2014 election, 89 of black americans voted for democrats. You argue in your book that theyre voting against their own interests when they do that. How do you try to change that mindset to change those numbers, 89 . Guest well, its not just yeah. Its 89 of the country, and its also overwhelmingly you have over 90 of black americans the last two election cycles voting for the first black president of the United Stateses of america in 2008 and 2012. And i talk about this in con job. The subtitle of the book is hoj democrats gave us crime, sanctuary cities, abortion profiteering and racial discrimination. And the reason i wrote the book is to expose the lies i believel the Democrat Party is based on. I have 50 pages of mostly Government Data to prove every point i talk about. Abortion is not a friend ofea Womens Health because,cc according to planned parenthood, three out of ten women by the time they age 45 will have had an abortion. N. You tell me about how thats promoting Womens Health. You know, we should be talking about a. N. S. W. E. R. Innocence, ws should abstinence. We should be talking about if a woman comes into an abortion clinic, you she should be gettig counseling on adoption. None of that is happening, and planned parenthood is getting 40 government funding to fund their 1. 3 billion, i think ita talk about in the book, thatat they made 20132014. And with black americans too what i also talk about is often times you see democrats pitting one constituent against another. They actually cannibalize constituents. Theres no party that can be all things to all people. Thats the failure of identity politics. On the one hand, you have Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and barack obama talking about illegal immigration which isra actually the enemy of black employment in this country. So i could probably go on and on, but ill let you ill stop. Host a lot to get to there because we want to bring in our callers. Democrats, 7488000,republican republicans, 7488001, independents, 8002. Lets get to a few calls. James, hollywood, florida. Line for democrats, youre up first for crystal wright. James, go ahead. James, youve got to stick by your phone. Well go to josh from kissimmee, florida. Line for republicans. Josh, youre on the washington journal. Caller good morning. I would like to ask your guest exactly how does she feel about the narrative that alle republicans are racist and the fact that my daughter and i, we went to a trump rally in orlando last weekend, shes raciallymixed, and the crowd was racially mixed. Nobody was saying racial end they wants or anything like that, and how can we get around the media false narrative . Guest thats a great question, and thats why well, thats why i wrote con job, to break through the stereotype that somehow because black people were born with a certain skin color, we are relegated to the democrat box. If you go back in history, you know, way before 964 when 1964 when the Democrat Party won, started owning the black vote lock, stock and barrel because lyndon b. Johnson actually signed the Civil Rights Act into law and martialed it through really for political expediency, before that you had republicans actually championing all the things that now the Democrat Party is giving lip service to and says that its the champions of. But i think more importantly its people like you and me speaking out and saying you just told me you were at the trump rally. You didnt have people calling each other incendiary names. O and i do not believe that donald trump is a racist. I do i would have liked him to repudiate much stronger when he came out against the david duke support and white supremacist support. He has since done that saying that he doesnt want that kind of support. Oe he cant control who votes for him, but he needs to talk in the vein of Ronald Reagan and say, hey, if im elected president , im going to bring all the people together, and im going to repudiate that kind of, youou know, trash talk and racist talk. Host are you voting for donald trump this cycle . Guest i have not endorsed a candidate or decided, you know, who im going to support in the d. C. Primary yet. I will vote in the d. C. Primary as a republican. Ll there are those of us who exist. Were a little over 30,000. I like what Donald Trumps candidacy is doing to the political establishment called the Republican Party, because they are tone deaf to inclusion, and thats why we are in the state we are. And i predict that the party will be born anew even if trump doesnt prevail in being thew, nominee or elected. Host i was going to note in your column about donald trump and this issue of the White Supremacists and his comments about that, you note some criticism for the republican establishment, that the establishment has done nothing to grow the party beyond its collegeeducated white base, eni quote, over the past four years. Guest yeah with, it hasnt. I remember vividly when mitt romney became our nominee, and i was a Newt Gingrich supporter and delegate here in d. C. I tried at every turn to volunteer for mr. Romney bes campaign romneys campaign, never got responses. I was on television supporting him, supporting his wife, ann romney. And he ran one of the whitest campaigns in recent memory. And host what does that mean . Guest well, that means while barack obama was using even though i dont believe in Barack Obamas policies perception becomes reality. Esident mr. President obama had people of color, he enlisted actresses in hollywood to go out there and help him as surrogates with his campaign. You didnt have his surrogates looking like the whos who ofve White America. Very opposite was true of mr. Romney. His campaign, largely white males. He had a bunch of coalitions, you know . Ive got the africanamerican coalition, the asian coalition, but thats all they were, in name only. And that was reflected in the votes that mitt romney won. Mitt romney won 60 of the white vote. That was more than any president had won in 1988. And we see the path forward is not just the white vote, you know . Our nominee today, in 2016, ise going to have to peel off minorities, women, independents. So, you know, were so i thought it was really disingenuous and really an affront for mitt romney to getng up there and start blasting donald trump when he lost an election in 2012 that many people say that he should have won. So, you know, yeah. My party has problems on inclusion. Host back to the phones. Line for democrats, line from waldorf, maryland. Go ahead, bookie. Caller hi. Yes, good morning, cspan, and good morning to your guest. I have a feeling that herself and i would probably not agree on many things, but after hearing her, i think i might change my opinion. So the first is i do sincerely disagree with you, respectfully, with, you know, definition of true racism versus, i suppose you categorize it in just not racism or no racism. I think your definition should be broadened to include covert versus overt racism. I think thats really the definitions that you probably should be speaking to. But my other statement is that i agree with you in some aspects in that the Democratic Party probably should not have a lock on the black vote. I think that thats not very r its not very informed of us voters to simply vote your party. I myself would, i suppose i identify as a democrat because ive only voted democratically in every election. However, i, you know, as i getas older, as i become more informed and become i suppose more active in the political process, i think i have changed my understanding of who i should vote for. And maybe im more of an independent than a democrat. Host im going to let crystal wright jump in. Guest thanks, and you make some great observations. I think racism if i had more time, i dont want to dominatedo the short time i have with talking about the differenthe types of racism. I experience racism from professors when i was in college and high school, so there are, h you know, we probably dont we dont have enough time to go boo all that. But into all that. Host what about her preferred definition . Lets talk about covert and overt racism. Guest well, look, i believe theres overt racism that we see, that we hear, right . Ra and i gave some examples. There is covert racism in hiring practices now still with fortune 500 companies. You have racism, do taxi cab drivers in major cities still look at black men in a suit and tie and still wont pick them up . Certainly, they do. But that goes to my point. T. If everybody if all white people are racist like al sharpton wants to label people, whats happening now is you have huge, massive, a chasm of Racial Division in this country because of people like al sharpton. Al sharpton, if he was really interested in making the racists come together, he wouldnt jumpo into every scenario like, you know, baltimore, Michael Brown, trayvon martin. He would actually take a step back. But he goes down there, he flaps his loud mouth, and he creates tension. Ea tension that doesnt produce anything but friction and violence. And i think back to what else the caller said, i also wrote the book con job because i am not trying to convince all black people they have to vote democrat. Im saying that she pointed out that black people have no political influence. We gave that up over the last 50plus years that we have voted singlehandedly for one Political Party. No other race does that. And just because you have a d or an r next to your name, i have an r next to my name. Does that mean im always going to vote republican . No. Every election cycle people, politicians have to earn my vote. E i think black people need to hold the politiciansi accountable, specifically the Democrat Party who has not delivered on the promises to blacks over the last 50plus years. Right now you have two candidates on the democrat side promising that black lives matter, and its the same lip service weve heard the lastst four years, the last eight years before that. And i would argue since 19, yous know, over half a Century Black minds have not mattered to democrats, black lives, black education, you know, black educations has gotten worse, black prosperity, wealth has gone down. Everythings gone down the toilet when you look at black lives. Et host one more passage from the book. The black lives Matter Campaign has become nothing more than an excuse for black men to get confrontational with police, particularly white offer officers, across the country to provide the democrats and their race charlatan allies with another incident they will leverage into more rioting, looting and votes for candidates with a d after their name. The book is con job how democrats gave us crime,nc sanctuary cities, abortion profiteering and Racial Division. Crystal wright is our guest for about the next 245 minutes. Never vins 25 minutes. Nevins been waiting in tennessee. Caller just a fast comment, quick comment. I dont think really its just as simple as racism and racial. Its more economic. And just by, you know, your personal history, obviously, youre in a high socioeconomic group. Its, thats why the democrats appeal. Its a working class situation. And its not really racism. Thats just my comment. Thank you. Guest im going disagree with you on that because democrats, when it comes to black americans, theres theem number one thing thats causing most of the crime and lack of education that my race is experiencing, yet they continue to vote for the same party, continue to give them the same result. 72 of all black babies are born out of wedlock. That means more black babies are born into homes without a mom and a dad. And whether you look at Brookings Institute or heritage, which are polar opposites one is on the right, one is on the left all the data shows that when a child is born into that kind of situation, their chances of falling into poverty, not graduating from high school and falling into crime are exponential. Its over, like, 70 . So if democrats are really interested and i talk about this in the book, con job, in solving this problem, theyng would look at how do we stop blacks from having and its not just one generation. N. Its many generations, and it started happening in the early 60s when Daniel Patrick moynihan who was a democrat senator, and he worked for thesident johnson, he wrote thee moynihan report, the negro family, a case for National Action the formal term of it. And he wrote to president johnson when he was then assistant secretary of labor. He said, whoa, johnson, im concerned here. Houston, alert, alert. Youve got 23 of black babies being born into homes without fathers, and im seeing a rising increase of black women depending on welfare. So, and the men going in to jail. So fast forward to today, the problem has only gotten more acute. And president obamas solution was my brothers keepers program. It was more coddling of young black men. This was basically a nanny program. I write about it in con job. It was a federal Government Program that actually was going to teach black men how to be men. Now, thats the responsibility of the parents. We have to stop we need to be teaching abstinence programs and personal responsibility. So i disagree with the caller that its about socioeconomics. Yeah, about more than that. You have more black americans that are not taking responsibility for their lives. So their plight, you know, is never going to change, and they keep voting for a party that continues to keep them in this state of victimization. Host lets go to our line for republicans where oola is waiting in maryland. Caller good morning, how are you doing . Host go ahead. Caller what a grea