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Whether it's a white woman, or a black woman, or a Spanish woman, or an Asian woman—we are all equal because we are here in America trying to provide and trying to create better lives, not only for ourselves but for our families.
In spite of those mindset requirements, that's how you make America great again. That's how you make America great again, because everybody feels like their way of thinking is right. And in my mind, I'm just sitting here like—and it's farfetched—but in my mind, we lose our power as a people when we don't understand that all of our voices really matter.
And in my mind, when I say black people we got to do better, I can't say white people we got to do better. I've never been a white man a day in my life. I don't know the cultural issues that they deal with; I don't know why they feel the way they feel. I've never been that, right? But I do know that white people in America, and black people in America, and Spanish people in America, Asian people in America—we make up America.
Here's the thing I realized when I watched the Olympics last night: I was voting for—I was going for white people that had America on; I was going for black people that had America on; I was going for Hispanic people that had America on. I was going for USA. I was like, "Bro, why you flipping on a skateboard like that? Why you cracking like that, bro? Breaststroke, dog, come on, girl, what you doing, dog?" I didn't care what color they were. I was like, "Bro, we gotta win." So what I was looking for—I'm talking to my dog, Travis—like, "What the medal count look like? Who got the most medals?" I went to Googling last night. I said, "Who got the most medals?" America got more gold medals than anybody. I'm like, I'm like, "We present the most dominant athletes in the world, bro. I'm like, this is what we do." I didn't care about freaking color. I was cheering for the little white dude on the skateboard contest yesterday. I was cheering for the black—I'm like, "Where both of y'all cracked at the end? You let the Japanese dude win." I wasn't being—I was rooting for the country that I live in. I'm watching the swimming; I see white girls swimming. I'm like, "Come on, man, what you doing? Come on, give me the stroker, stroker. Oh, what you doing?" I'm looking at the dude do the gymnastics last night. I'm like, "Come on, let's go! Let's go, land, land, let's go! You got to get it, dog!" I'm geeked up in the crib. I'm not worrying about color. I'm going for the red, white, and blue. I'm looking at what you got on; I ain't worrying about your race. You born in America, bro? I'm born in America, bro. Let's go take the most gold home.
I'm looking at my dog, Travis. I'm like, "Bro, why the hell—" I say, "Bro, you know the American people want to make $37,000, bro? That is some—" you know, say—I'm like, "Bro, we got to pay our people, bro." In my mind, how can we be the greatest company in the world, but we're paying our—at least the least? That says a lot about the country. That says a lot about the country. So at some point, at some point, at some point, we the people of America got to show our government how strong we are. I'm going to go even further: We got to show the people on the stock market how strong we are; we got to show the banks how strong we are; we got to show all of them we got to, because without us, there is no country. Without us, there is no country. If we say, "Bro, we not putting no money in a bank," what they going to do? We not letting—I don't care what the rates is; we ain't lending nothing. I don't care what the rates is; we ain't borrowing nothing. I'm not buying a stock; I'm not selling. I don't care about your credit rate; I ain't buying no house. Without us, until you put value on black life the same as you put it on white life, same you put on Asian life, as soon as you—the Indian life—and when you start valuing all of us the same way, that's when we going to start representing this thing the way that it needs to be represented. Becoming the greatest country—to make America great again—doesn't—America doesn't be great as long as there are mass divisions amongst Americans. That's the way I wanted to say that. America can never be great as long as there's mass division amongst Americans.
So I'll be lying if I say I see a white dude and I don't see color, but I'm playing basketball, we—and my—me and my dog, we playing. I'm like, "Yo, the white boy got skills, yo. He on my team, bet. Let's—let's ball out." But I ain't saying I ain't getting him the ball, no. You got to—God, isolate, son, isolate. You got him? Pull up in his face. Because at the end of the day, bro, at the end of the day, we are all people. And I personally—my mentor right now is a white man. He's worth nine figures. I called him on the phone: "Hey, bro, look, I'm trying to get this real estate deal." We sat in here yesterday—the—the man gave me so much game yesterday on a phone call about how to do a real estate deal. He's like, "Nah, Trap, do this, do that, do this, do that, do this." Because I want to do business in spite of—I want to trade in spite of—I want to help him with what I'm good at, and he can help me with what he's good at, in spite of color, in spite of ethnic background, in spite of where I came from, in spite of where I grew up at, in spite of where I went to school at, in spite of me going to prison and him being a college graduate. In spite of all those things that make us different, the common goal is how do we come together and be better.
In spite of those are the mindset shifts; those are the mindset requirements that have to take place. But before the mindset is shifted internally, we have to shift internally. I got to look at another man and out the gate know that we are equal. I got to look at that woman and say I'm not superior to her, but here's what I bring to what she has going on. Whether it's a white woman, or a black woman, or a Spanish woman, or an Asian woman—we are all equal because we are here in America trying to provide and trying to create better lives, not only for ourselves, for our families.
In spite of those are mindset requirements about that's how you make America great again. That's how you make America great again. You don't make America great again by causing division. You don't make America great again by saying, "I'mma give police immunity for whatever." You don't cause division. You don't make America great again by voting yes for mass incarceration, knowing it's going to affect two specific groups of people. You don't make America great again by that. You don't make America great again by telling a woman, "I don't care if you like it or not, what she can and can't do with her body." You don't make America great again by that. You—you make America great again by saying equality is each and every one of us have the same equal rights all the way around the board.
Now, here's what I will say: I totally understand that there are supposed to be tax breaks for certain people. I'm not against that at all. I truly, in my heart of hearts, do not believe—this is just me—I don't believe that the person who I pay to work for my business should have the same perks as I do for creating the business. I don't—I don't believe that—I don't believe that the—the—the—the person who works for Amazon should have the same tax breaks as the man who built Amazon. I don't—I don't—I don't believe that. I'm not—I don't—I'm not—I'm not mad at that. I'm not mad at that at all. Because one person takes all the risks; one person has to be the mastermind to put it together and build a company, and the other person is actually great at helping the company flow. I'm not mad at that at all. I'm not mad at that. There are people that helped the country evolve, and but every one of us plays a part in the game. Every—every one of us plays a part in the game, and that's cool. I don't have a problem with that. But—but caveat—in spite of we're all equal, in spite of we're all equal, you get up, you breathe the same bre—you don't breathe the special air; you don't got a certain kind of pH air that you breathe that I don't breathe. You feel me? You don't—you don't have a certain quality of air like your air is a little bit fresher than my air, and we all in America like that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. But also, the rules to the game are available for everyone. In spite of—in spite of mindset requirements, yo.