A black immigrant Asmerom called from New York to ask Jesse why he feels the need to "kowtow to white supremacists." He quotes Jesse as saying, "Thank God and white people for slavery." He asks Jesse, "You think slavery is a…
A black immigrant Asmerom called from New York to ask Jesse why he feels the need to "kowtow to white supremacists." He quotes Jesse as saying, "Thank God and white people for slavery." He asks Jesse, "You think slavery is a good thing?" Jesse answers, "Yes." Thank God we were born here rather than have to sneak across the border or take a test (which we'd never pass, by the way). So be grateful to those who died and sacrificed their lives that we might be born here — rather than wimp and whine and complain about something black people today have never experienced.
He asked Jesse why he likened the slave ship to riding on the back of an airplane. Nowadays the airlines treat the people in the back like slaves — they don't even feed them, and it's crowded, and smelly. Nowadays you can die on an airplane. Jesse jokes that we created a slave ship to send blacks back to Africa who don't want to be here, and they can't come back.
Jesse asked him which is better: To show your appreciation or to complain? He says, "I'm not gonna show my appreciation, no." He says he grew up here but was born in Africa. Jesse starts calling him out, "Who are you to tell me I can't appreciate my own country! ... I can't believe you! ... Why shouldn't I show appreciation for slavery?" Jesse says he knows more about slavery — he grew up on a plantation. Asmerom tries to tell him he's still on the plantation.
The caller's going to college now. His parents brought him as a kid, and they're now citizens. He says he doesn't "appreciate the sins of this country." Jesse asks him if he hears white people want to bring slavery back. He claims Ku Klux Klan rallies say they want to bring back slavery.
Jesse asks him about being raised by both parents, and whether he's a moral man. So due to his morality he's having a good life. Jesse asked him, "Are most black people suffering due to the destruction of the family and the lack of moral character, or because of racism?" Jesse points out 70% of ba..
