In the first episode of Season 2 of the new season of The Proud Family on Disney+, Patrick introduces his new co-host and co-producer, Alex, and explains why he chose to leave the show, why he left it, and why he doesn t want to do it again.
00:01:51.800The building started in the 1400s when the first European explorers sailed across treacherous and uncharted seas to discover these lands.
00:01:58.360It continued with the European settlers in the 1500s and 1600s who built a life for themselves in this unknown wilderness facing untold threats and, for many of them, certain death.
00:02:08.360This country was built by the colonists and the American revolutionaries.
00:02:11.500It was built by war and conquest, by discovery, by diplomacy, by industry.
00:02:16.160The country was built by the people who made it into the world's great power in the 20th century, who won world wars and brought about peace and economic prosperity.
00:02:23.360It was built by many people over many centuries.
00:02:26.380And for a portion of that history, some people in some parts of the country owned slaves.
00:02:32.420That certainly is not enough to justify the claim that the slaves built the country.
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00:03:34.780Now, if the mere historical fact of slavery automatically means that the country was built by slavery and forever is indebted to slaves and their descendants, then, of course, the same must be said about every nation on the planet.
00:03:47.020There is no race, no people, no nation anywhere in the world who does not inherit the guilt of slavery.
00:03:56.260As I will never tire of pointing out, the only thing that makes America's relationship to slavery unique is how comparatively quickly we abolished it and the lengths we went to abolish it.
00:04:20.200I didn't storm the beaches of Normandy.
00:04:21.920People who looked kind of like me did, but I didn't.
00:04:24.880So I don't take credit for their achievements or claim their accolades, just as I don't pretend to have experienced their suffering or felt their pain.
00:04:32.860I stand at the end of this long line of triumph and sacrifice.
00:04:37.600I am its beneficiary, and so are you, whatever your race.
00:04:41.880Yet in that Disney song, that's not really a song, we hear the word we being used.
00:04:48.500And this is always the case with the race hustlers.
00:04:50.580They talk about the long-ago sufferings of people they never met and who they missed meeting by a century and a half, and they say we and us.
00:04:59.180But no, it's not a we or an us situation because you were not enslaved.
00:05:03.280It may have happened to your ancestors, but if you go back a little further, you may just as well find that your ancestors did it to others.