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Jan. 14, 2021 - Epoch Times
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Check Out These Deleted Scenes From the Film ‘Uncle Tom’ | Larry Elder
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If you've not seen Uncle Tom, the movie that I executive produced, that Justin Malone directed, and that writer Ansel co-wrote, you're missing out.
Just go to UncleTom.com.
You know, if we had stuck everything we wanted in the film, it would have been a 10-hour film.
We got a lot of outtakes.
Here's one on the real origins of Uncle Tom.
Because I'm not led by the nose.
I think for myself.
The white man doesn't think for me.
The black man doesn't think for me.
I don't need Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the rest of those clowns.
No, Trump is not a clown.
I think it's condescending to assume that because I'm a black man, I'm supposed to vote for a Democrat.
Whether it's coming from the media telling me to do it, or from a politician telling me to do it, or even from another black person to tell me to do it.
You can't, on one hand, say that you're against slavery, but then on the other hand, tell me how to vote What to wear, how to speak, you know what I mean?
How to live my life because black people are supposed to do these things.
They're supposed to vote this way.
They're supposed to talk this way.
They're supposed to walk this way.
They're supposed to believe a certain thing because that's slavery.
You can't say that you're against slavery, but then...
Put me in a box and tell me that this is how I have to perform.
You called me a nigger.
I didn't call you no nigger.
Yes, you did.
No, I didn't.
You did.
But you can say that.
That's his constitutional right.
You know anything about the Constitution?
I said you're a house nigger.
I didn't call you a nigger.
Oh, okay, that's a big difference.
You're Uncle Tom.
Oh, is that my Uncle Tom?
To call somebody an Uncle Tom is completely idiotic.
Because if you've read Harriet B. Tristow's Uncle Tom's Cabin, You'll see that Uncle Tom was actually a very good person.
He did a lot of good things.
He sacrificed on behalf of other slaves who were on the plantation.
In many ways, there's a lot of dramatic irony at play with being called an Uncle Tom.
When you use the term Uncle Tom to demean someone, being ignorant, not knowing the history of what Uncle Tom means, you know, you're literally just signifying the fact that you yourself are ignorant.
After educating myself on the story of Uncle Tom and learning about Josiah Henson, He was a completely good person, completely opposite of what the black community thinks Uncle Tom is.
Uncle Tom was the hero!
He was the hero!
He was self-sacrificing.
And ultimately, he paid the ultimate sacrifice for not ratting out the other slaves that had escaped.
Uncle Tom was the hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
And nobody knows that, so they call us Uncle Toms to hurt us.
And every time we get called, we're nice to go, oof.
You should read the book.
A lot of black conservatives have kind of flipped the narrative on Uncle Tom.
I mean, we embrace it.
You know, we say, yeah.
Yep, that's me.
I get into debates with people.
They'll call me an Uncle Tom, and I'll say, thank you, I appreciate the compliment.
It should be a badge of honor.
I wear it as a badge of honor.
I like to tell people I'm a proud Uncle Tom.
This whole scenario is indicative of the problem with the black community.
The man who's trying to save the black community is demonized, and the one who's damaging and destroying the black community, a lot of people don't even know him.
They don't even know the demon in their own communities.
But the one who's helping them, they want to throw you away.
What they're actually meaning to call someone is a Sambo, which Sambo was the one who was always telling on the other slaves and telling the master where the slaves were hiding.
He wanted to see the slaves get caught in the master triumph.
Sambo was who they referred to as Uncle Tom, and then they just switch it to Sambo.
They don't stop and think to say, man, all these years I've been saying, wow, I have been kind of brainwashed to a bit to see it this way.
And they don't see that.
They just completely move Uncle Tom aside and bring in Sambo, and now you're Sambo.
Now, after we develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, can we develop one for white guilt?
I can deal with an honest bigot than I can a patronizing liberal.
I can change a bigot.
I'm going to now lead us in an apology from white Americans to African Americans on behalf of our country, to you and to your ancestors and to all of your people.
So to the African Americans in the room who would wish and be willing to participate in this, please stand up.
I saw a clip of Marianne Williamson where she had a bunch of white people...
And now I'd like to ask white Americans who are sitting near you...
Stand around black people in this church and repeat this solemn chant of I'm sorry basically for all the atrocities that my people committed against you.
On behalf of myself and on behalf of my country...
To you and all African Americans.
I don't understand the fetishization of victimhood that white progressives want to put on to the African American community.
It's like, how dare you think that you are in the level of society where I am?
You need to believe in the myth of whiteness and privilege.
You need to understand that you're just not going to be as good as I am in society.
For all the oppression and all of the injustices, I apologize.
That's what the white progressive burden is.
And it's weird.
I will never understand it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer said it best.
He said that one of the most difficult human phenomena to confront is not malice, because malice you can confront with violence.
It's folly.
It's when someone is doing something that they believe to be in your interest.
And the more you say to them, you're strangling me to death.
Oh, but I love you.
At their core, a white liberal is the ultimate narcissist.
That's it.
The ultimate narcissist.
It's the people that adopt animals for the purpose of saying, I adopted an animal.
To them, we are these pathetic, cute little playthings that they can then take to their friends and say, look at this person that I helped.
As we call it, xenophilic tokenism.
They take on the struggles of others so that they deflect away from talking about actual issues.
They want so much to be a good white person and to be perceived as a good white person.
And if you want to see if a white progressive is a good white person, put them in the room with a black conservative.
See how that conversation goes.
The biggest challenge to try to figure out whether a white liberal is generally just confused or whether they're a narcissist is simply tell them, no, thank you.
That's the test that I say that you should do to all white liberals.
Say, actually, no, I don't see myself as a victim.
Watch how they react.
Because if all you're out to do is help black Americans, you come across a black American that says, actually, like, I'm feeling empowered and I feel great, you should be happy.
Oh man, I'm so happy to hear that.
That's great.
That's not how they react.
They freak out.
They block you.
I'm blocked by Alyssa Milana.
When someone says that they're progressive, they shouldn't automatically be perceived as caring, non-racist, non-bigoted.
Most of my experiences of racialized dialogue in a negative way are in confrontations with white progressives who Who I guess hate me because they hate racism?
Just yesterday I got a message from a white lady saying that I was a disgrace to my race.
It was odd to me that a white woman would declare me a disgrace to my race based on her own stereotypes and preconceived notions of what minorities should think.
They sell this idea of tolerance and inclusivity and we love everyone and everyone is welcome here, but no, that's not true.
We are only welcome there if we believe exactly what you want us to believe.
They will act as if for you to rebuff their overtures of sadness or apology is in itself the most despicable crime.
It is because the modern white liberal needs you to be a victim.
They have weaponized the notion of being a victim.
And various minorities have latched onto that.
That has become the identity that they've taken on.
What message is this sending to these white people that are having to go out in their actual lives or their workplaces or whatever and, like, deal with black people?
The message that it's sending to them is that you have to walk on eggshells with this person.
This person is going to be a perpetual victim.
And I'm going to be so afraid to interact with this person as if they're a human being that I'm just not going to interact at all.
And I think that that is the real result of all of the woke, explaining, anti-racist, intersectionality crap.
Finally, there was a lot of love for President Donald Trump after these young Blacks, excuse me, young Black Uncle Toms visited the White House.
Hello.
We love our President Trump.
Thank you guys.
Thank you guys.
USA. USA, that was phenomenal.
It was great.
It was great.
That was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
I will never forget that.
It was wonderful, man.
It was beautiful.
Absolutely.
Look at all these Uncle Toms, right?
Free-thinking blacks.
It was fantastic.
It was amazing.
It's such an honor to have been able to get there and Even see the president in person, it was amazing.
I just met the president, man.
He told me I was the flyest guy in the room.
It was an honor.
Thank you.
You know, they didn't think I would be a head guy from the streets in the White House.
I never would think I'd be one of the first in my family to be invited to the White House as a black man.
You know, not too many people can say that amongst black families.
You know, so it's good that that actually happened, you know.
I made history in my family.
Amazing experience.
Lots of regular Americans getting in there, having an opportunity to share laughs with the president of the United States.
It was a great experience.
I shook his hand.
I lost my voice in a little bit, so I'm sorry.
It was amazing.
See the other great times.
See the president, see the vice president.
Yes, sir.
See many black American conservatives.
It was just lit.
It was energy.
This is me and her third time.
Every time we go, President Trump, he's so funny.
The energy is amazing every time.
I feel warm.
Electrifying, like, I caught chills.
As soon as he came in, the way the crowd erupted in there, it was like...
The president said we blew his ears out.
Got a chance to listen to all the things that he's done for the black community, and I'm just grateful for this president.
I didn't support him the last election, but after seeing what he's done and that speech he gave in there, he's convinced me I'm voting for him in 2020.
He...
Made it very clear that he is here to put America first.
You know, we have people suffering here, but meanwhile, we're spending so much time and energy devoted towards illegals or people coming to this country unfairly.
And, you know, Democrats have made a mess of our inner cities, but he is really trying to root all that mess out and really help people in the ways that are actually effective, rather than the empty lies and promises that Democrats have been giving, but we haven't had any results.
People are waking up.
People are changing.
Humans are naturally conservative because we're humans.
You grow up being told to work hard for what you got.
You don't grow up being told you're going to get something because you just want it.
You're saying, like, you ain't got to work for it.
When I went in the store and I tried to get a Snickers and I ain't had no money for it, I'm going to smack my hand, put that Snickers back.
You feel me?
We can't afford that.
You know what I'm saying?
But Democrats, they say, hey, we give you everything for free.
That ain't reality.
Because nothing is free because we pay for everything with our taxes.
They work for us.
It was Donald Trump who woke me up, man.
At first, when he was nominated and he was elected, I was not a big fan.
But to see the things he's done for black community, to see things he's done for America in particular, I'm a huge fan now, and he has my support four more years, and I'll be voting for Donald J. Trump.
See you there.
And when he told us, when he asked us, "What the hell do we have to lose?" I said, "That is exactly right." Right.
"Our schools are horrible.
Our communities are horrible." We got to do something about it.
We have to do something about it.
And he is.
But I know with him, we're going to make a big change here in America.
I think a lot of African Americans are waking up and they're coming to the realization that Trump is great for America.
Trump has done so many fantastic things, not only for, you know, what you think the white people or the rich people, but for the black people, for the Asian people, for the Latino people, for everyone.
He has done something amazing and he will keep doing things amazing.
And when he is elected in 2020, he will continue to make this country better than it was before.
It's easy to get Excited about a president who is putting your needs first.
And that's too often something that we don't hear from the mainstream media, is the way he's trying to help America be the best that it can be.
So it was fantastic to be there and, you know, just basically tell him thank you for standing up for us, because we know that he takes a lot of hits from the media for us, and we're so happy to support him.
You gotta love this man, man.
He brings togetherness, man, and that's what it's about.
Unity as Americans.
America first, man.
The media wants people to think that, you know, the black community hates Donald Trump, but that's not necessarily true.
This event is proof, and I know you can say it's a small fraction of, you know, the black population, but they have family members and other people, friends who weren't able to come here that they, uh, they're ecstatic that they're here.
I don't think they're going to show this, because they want to, like, let, oh, Trump is racist.
They're not going to show this, because that's not a part of their narrative.
They're going to want to ignore it and hope it goes away.
That's how they deal with, like, an inconvenient fact.
They'll bury it, they'll ignore it, or they'll twist it.
Because they don't want to pretty much deal with the truth.
And the fact of the matter is, the conservative message resonates with black America.
And, you know, as time continues to turn, the Democrats are going to have to reckon with that eventually.
The little coverage that it seems that we do get in this movement is that we're paid, that we're tokens, that we're not actually believing in the voices that are speaking and That we are being used and paid by politicians and that couldn't be so far from the truth.
But that is how they like to paint us.
Specifically black conservatives.
They like to deem us as tokens.
Instead of just telling the truth.
It seems like they're so scared to tell the truth because they know our community will wake up if they get the truth out there.
The media for a long time has fooled the black community into believing that Republicans are racist.
But when we study our history, we find out that it was the Republicans that actually passed the first civil rights bill, and it was the Republicans that abolished slavery.
And so now that we're starting to learn for ourselves and think for ourselves, you're going to see a lot more black people voting for Republicans.
We see that on the ground every day.
We see that on our social media every day.
We interact with people every day that are waking up, that see this movement happening.
You have black conservatives not being scared to come out here and show who they are anymore, and you're going to have a revolution of young children out there in the future.
They won't be so young anymore, and they're going to be speaking their mind, and they're going to be speaking the truth, and they're going to be proud of who they are.
Conservatives, you can't shut them down.
You can't shut them down on the social media, and they will always be who they are.
And we want all the smoke.
We did that.
Because pit like this, right?
You think you can bully people to stop doing something, right?
Call us coons, all them type of names, right?
Usually people run into their little cubby holes after that.
But I feel like it's a new movement now, and we want all the smoke.
It's really clear.
You feel me?
Like Antifa, they keep bullying people because people allow themselves to get bullied.
But see, the difference is we want all the smoke.
You know what I'm saying?
People told me not to wear the MAGA hat, so I bought the biggest MAGA hat.
Then I bought a bigger one.
So next time somebody say something to me, duh, common sense.
A bigger one is simple math, really, when you put it all together.
So I feel like we started a new movement, and it's a revolution, and we want all the smoke.
That's my message, period.
To see Uncle Tom, just go to UncleTom.com.
It's going to be far more widely available soon on places like Amazon Prime, so stay tuned.
I'm Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save.
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