We need to understand history, and we need to understand our history, and we understand what progress is. So if you think that this is racial division to a lot of people, you need a history lesson. At one point at West Point, during the Civil War, we had West Point graduates that would spend four years together, training together, learning together, eating together, and they became dear friends together and soldiers and classmates, they entered a time at war during the Civil War, and you had West Point classmates that were killing each other. That's the vision. I talk about my grandfather, my great, great grandfather being a slave. I talk about my father, who's Alive and well, 72 years old, lives right here in Houston, Texas, about 30 minutes away from where I sit right now. (15:51–16:10)
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