Dr. Cornel West

“But the same is true within, let's say, black communities. You've got, okay, 1% of the population in America who own 41% of the wealth.”

West states that the top 1% of the U.S. population owns 41% of the nation's wealth.

“what was the last time we checked it was in the 90 percent right of people that are that are killed by drones are actually innocent it's some insane number”

West claims about 90% of people killed by U.S. drone strikes are innocent civilians.

“Martin Luther King Jr. died. Basically a broke man. Gave every penny that he won from the Nobel Prize to the movement. Malcolm X only had $150 in his pocket.”

West claims MLK died broke after giving away his Nobel Prize money, and Malcolm X had only $150 in his pocket when he died.

“Now, of course, part of the question here has to do with, they'll say, well, we wasted this money on the poor. You say, well, wait a minute. Donald Trump just …”

West claims Trump passed a $750 billion military budget.

“any time you talk about white supremacy, you've got the John Browns. And you know Mary Ellen Pleasant, who was a black woman who was worth $347 million in the …”

West states that Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Black abolitionist businesswoman, was worth $347 million in the 1840s.

“It's very much like our Jewish brothers and sisters felt in 1973. They'd already undergone a genocidal attack, one out of three precious Jews killed.”

West states that one out of three Jews were killed in the Holocaust.