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Country matters to you." how do you mean avoidance and what can we do about that? >> an example of avoidance would be when you hear people say, all lives matter in the response to black lives matter. obviously all lives matter but that's avoiding the issues. people say black lives matter specifically because we've lived in a country, where, particularly with regard to law enforcement, black lives have been treated as if they did not matter for years, and yet, when you come up with a slogan that says this, people pretend to this confusion that i, frankly, don't believe really exists. you have a...

Oppression and in order to benefit from systemized oppression, you have to have the power. so, in other words, people think that they're -- white people tend to think they are being victims of racism when a black person calls them out of their names. that's not what i'm talking about. if all racism meant was that a white person was going to call me a name from time to time, i would chalk it up as a victory. what racism means is the courts, the media, you know, the education system, the banking, all of these things aligned against me and mine. that's what it means. >> what about -- you point ou...