In her own words:
Well, working with him made me see that its really about those who have versus those who dont, you know. And they could be black; they could be white; they could be Hispanic. And it made me realize then that I needed to work to help poor people those who dont have access the way others have.
I want to just share something with you and I think it helps to it you know, when I learned this, Im like, Oh, my goodness. You know, back in the late 17th and 18th century, black there were black indentured servants and white indentured servants, and they all would work for the seven years and and get their freedom. And they didnt see any difference in each other nobody worried about skin color. They married each other. You know, these were poor whites and poor blacks in the same boat, except they were slaves, but they were both slaves and both had their opportunity to work out on the slavery.
But then they started looking at the injustices that they faced and started then trying you know, the people with money you know, they started the poor whites and poor blacks who were they you know, they married each other. They lived together. They were just like we would be. And they started looking at what was happening to them and decided we need to do something about it you know, about this. Well, the people with money, the elite, decided, hey, we need to do something here to divide them.
So thats when they made black people servants for life. Thats when they put laws in place forbidding them to marry each other. Thats when they created the racism that we know of today. They did it to keep us divided. And they it started working so well, they said, Gosh, looks like weve come up on something here that can last generations. And here we are over 400 years later, and its still working. What we have to do is get that out of our heads. There is no difference between us. The only difference is that the folks with money want to stay in power and whether its health care or whatever it is, theyll do what they need to do to keep that power, you know. Its always about money, yall.
You know, I havent seen such a mean-spirited people as Ive seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried. Didnt it surface? Now, we endured eight years of the Bushs and we didnt do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President.