Values Matter. Race Doesn't. | Short Clips

they were fighting for us to have the right to our opinion not the right to vote for whoever the white liberal said black people are supposed to vote for you I'm saying them then James Corden winning has said well this president your Christian and this president I don't see anything Christian about him I said okay so last year y'all tried to tell me who I supposed to vote for because I'm black now this year white liberals trying to tell me how I'm supposed to vote for because I'm Christian that would be like I live in Calabasas area when my car's gotta be a convertible huh it's just all based on y'all vision of what I'm supposed to do we are in a country where we allowed to like whatever we like seven years and six years in to the Obama administration when I was sitting at there at the met boss when I was sitting in front of white people and they thought I wouldn't thought you at like Trump because of the racism so you mean to tell me I make every decision based off my color the most racist thing a person could tell me is that I'm supposed to choose something based on my race on a lot of stuff we gonna have to agree to disagree because I think we're gonna walk out the door with this the same way that we walked in you notice Han late that's what I've been saying let's agree to disagree and I'm fine with it I'm here to celebrate you God is showing that you can have your own thoughts bro I've been cancelled before that was cancelled culture who told you that my career would be over the same people that are telling you that you can't have a right to say who you will vote for those people will be soon to take Jesus out to school wake up wake up mr. West wake up culture wake up everybody think they so woke but they following the rules of what woke supposed to be I have turned my back on the idea of victimization mentality we brainwashed out here bro come on man it's a free man talking I recently discovered something startling about myself it turns out that I'm a racist sexist misogynist this came as quite a shock to me how did this been as a person of color a single woman with a graduate degree who grew up poor in a home without a father I had a clear political path to follow and I followed it I voted for Barack Obama twice after all we share the same skin color his father was from Africa mine was - what other reasons did I need I was inspired to see a black man rise the highest office in the land I believed his ascent would herald a new beginning a new era of racial healing and harmony we would finally have that frank discussion about race that everyone always talks about I was also inspired by his wife I was thrilled to see such a strong opinionated black woman take the national stage but then something happened actually several some things I realized there was a big contradiction in my own life I considered myself a free thinker but I was thinking exactly what I was supposed to I decided to start asking questions I belonged to several campus feminist groups I was even teaching feminism to inner-city girls part of that teaching involves making the case for abortion these girls needed to know that they had the right to make decisions about their own bodies surely I thought that's empowerment but one day I asked myself isn't it men who benefit most from consequence free sex doesn't that give them even more power over women and of course abortion certainly doesn't empower the woman it prevents from ever being born when I began to ask my other feminist friends how they reconcile these issues they just got angry I was called anti woman even by progressive men but I'm not anti woman I thought I am a woman I just still want to be a weak one I want to be strong like Michelle at about the same time while I was a student at the University of Texas at Dallas the UT Austin Department of African Diaspora studies released a statement in which they said and I quote African Americans are disproportionately affected by the saturation of our society by firearms we demand that firearms be banned in all spaces occupied by black people on our campus wait a second I thought why would you want to ban firearms only in black areas doesn't that mean that you either think black people are more dangerous than other people or less worthy of protection these questions did not endear me to my progressive friends I was called a race trader even by white people but I'm not anti black I am black I just want to be safe like Barack I realize I didn't have a good answer I only had more questions like why were blacks doing so poorly in cities that had been run by Democrats for decades was it racism and sexism that was holding people back or was it something else the more questions I asked the less popular I became but here's the funny thing I started to feel better about myself I decided that the very definition of empowerment required me to take responsibility for my own life I wasn't going to be anyone's victim which meant I had to protect myself so I bought a gun I started to advocate for gun rights that cost me more friends I joined the pro-life movement and walked in a March for life more friends gone then I crossed the line I vote a Republican the party that views me as an empowered individual able to shape my own destiny not as a member of a victim group and that's how I became a racist sexist misogynist I'm Antonia Okafor for Prager University