Name: Jimmy Addresses Past Mistakes and Speaks to NAACP President Derrick Johnson
Uploaded: 2020-07-03T10:15:03.000Z
Duration: 12 min 57 s
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I'm not going to have a normal show tonight.

I'm going to have a different kind of show.

I'm going to start this personally and then expand out

because that's where we all need to start --

with ourselves and looking at ourselves in the mirror.

really examine myself in the mirror this week

because a story came out about me on "SNL"

doing an impression of Chris Rock in blackface.

were trying to cancel me or cancel the show,

But the thing that haunts me the most was,

I respect this guy more than I respect most humans.

I'm not a racist. I don't feel this way."

And instead, what I kept getting advised was

to just stay quiet and to not say anything,

and that's the advice, because we're all afraid.

"God, I'm going to do this wrong. You're right.

I'm going to make this worse. I don't know what to do."

and I realized that I can't not say I'm horrified

And what that small gesture did for me was break my own silence.

And what then I started to do was talk to some experts,

some of which are here tonight and this week,

and I realized that the silence is the biggest crime

that white guys like me and the rest of us are doing.

And we need to stop saying, "That's not okay,"

by not being silent and stepping out and stepping up.

But I need to be -- We all need to be talking about this.

And I spoke to someone incredible and brilliant

who I think can help us all out a little bit here

and in-our-face subject that we need to deal with.

It's not going to get buried. It's not going away.

We can't just hope that everyone loves each other.

We can't say, "Be the change," and just sit around tweeting,

How do I do it? What do I do? Can I wear a T-shirt?

So let's start talking with some people about this

how we're going to get along with each other.

Let's figure out how we're going to stop this senseless violence

and we all need to figure out a way to take the anger,

which, of course, is just sadness and fear,

and do something with it and try to actually dig this up.

but we got to get in there, and we have to dig it up.

I don't know how else to do it. I'm clearly not an expert.

So let's go. Let's reform. Let's talk. Let's do it.

My first guest tonight is Derrick Johnson,

We're going to open the show with him tonight and just talk.

I know you must be very, very busy, so I appreciate this.

and I do want to respond to your opening monologue.

but most importantly that's about courage.

In this time of many people searching for answers

and just the display of anger and hopelessness and wandering,

where they are with a really authentic voice.

And I think you did that with the opening monologue,

-With all the things that are happening right now,

But I personally want to know how I can do better

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