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-- every single day in their lives even in a country like canada. what i did hurt them. hurt people who shouldn't 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. what's interesting is, when you look at incidents like this and as you point out as recently as 2001 for him when he's a grown man, even the reaction in 2001, there's 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 blackface, brownface, yellowface was wrong. it's a privilege that -- not just 2001. recently, right? ...

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 there's a conversation that's missing? >> yeah. so if you're watching at home thinking about putting on blackface or brownface for halloween, don't do it! thank you for coming to my pep talk. the reason, there's a history here. i mean, the reason people say, oh you're being to politically correct or too sensitive. that's not the case. black or brown or yellowface i...