Dennis Prager Show - The Dennis Prager Show LIVE Aired: 2020-09-17 Duration: 01:19 === Grateful to Americans (01:19) === [00:00:00] And by the way, that's not a shot at some of the amazing people I worked with there, obviously. [00:00:04] I loved my publisher. [00:00:06] She really fought for me every step of the way. [00:00:08] Her name was Natasha, and she understands me. [00:00:11] And I'm so pleased to know that she can go into those meetings with an I told you so. [00:00:18] You know, I told you so. [00:00:19] I knew this book would be a success. [00:00:21] And I'm just grateful to so many Americans, and not just Americans, people all over the world are buying this book. [00:00:28] For helping me win, you know, for helping me win. [00:00:31] And the battle was really just me saying, I am allowed to exist, right? [00:00:35] And that's such a sad thing, but I had to fight to exist, to be seen outside of the box of what the media and the politicians are insisting that Black Americans must think and feel. [00:00:46] Basically, the moral of my book, the irony, is I am not a victim, and we should be responsible for ourselves, personal responsibility. [00:00:56] We live in an age now, Dennis, where you have to fight to publish a thesis about being personally responsible. [00:01:03] And that is, that's sad that that's the state of things today. [00:01:08] That's right. [00:01:09] That is the state of, well, it's been the state of things consistently because, you know, I've been in this so long and that's been the fight the whole time. [00:01:18] We're not individuals.