what I am, which is that this is being looked at backwards? This is the most unifying event in the history of the United States since Pearl Harbor, maybe 9/11. I don't think racially we've ever been more on the same side. And we should be celebrating that we are so on the same side.

Turn on CNN. It looks like it's basically the same story on CNN and on Fox News. How often does that happen? Now the difference of course is that CNN is blaming the president for being a racist and therefore it's always false. They've turned it into this ridiculous political thing when in fact the biggest story in the world is unfolding right in front of us and it's invisible. It's literally invisible. The most unifying situation we've ever had socially and it's invisible. Why? Because the media has the public hypnotized by their framing of things and they have framed this as a problem with racial inequality. It's exactly the opposite.

Now independent of what those individual cops were thinking in their head, we don't know that. But we're not talking about individuals. I'm talking about tens of thousands of people in the street. Just look at the video. All racial groups, all genders, gay, straight. It's the most unifying thing we've ever experienced.

Thank you for reminding me that Van Jones, the way that he's characterized this. As you said if you're looking for racism in Trump's — I'll paraphrase so you said it better — but basically saying it's not the racists who are like the real legitimate racists that are all the problem but rather it's the people who think there are good people and vote for Democrats but then when you approach them in the park with your dog suddenly they turned into raging racists.

And Van Jones is quite insightful. He's saying maybe the problem isn't this group. Maybe the problem is people. Maybe the problem is people. And if we stop slicing it into this kind of people or this kind of people and just say maybe we're just a biased, discriminating, prejudiced people.

Now my take on this is that that's how the brain works. Your brain is a pattern recognition machine. It operates on patterns. I've seen this before. This worked before. This didn't work before. I'll do what worked before. It's all patterns. The trouble is we're really bad at it. So we have a pattern recognition machine in our head that makes all our decisions and it's not good at recognizing patterns. It couldn't be worse but it is the situation we're in.

And prejudice and bias is all based on the fact that you've got a pattern recognition machine and you've got a bad pattern in there. Now if you have a good pattern in there you're actually able to predict the future. Oh every time I see this situation this happens. So that's what a good pattern can do for you. A bad pattern says oh every time I see an Elbonian wearing a hat he's going to punch me in the face because the last three Elbonians wearing a hat punched me in the face. Or worse, I've never been punched in the face by an Elbonian but I was raised to think that they punch you in the face. Now that would be a bad pattern presuming that Elbonians do not punch people in the face more than the average. That would be a pattern that's just a faulty pattern.

So what do you do when people are naturally pattern recognition machines and they're not good at it? I think that's what you have to deal with. You should deal with the fact that we're all biased by design. We don't, you can't be unbiased. Anybody who tells you that they don't have bias, they're just lying. They're just liars.

Now I think you can love somebody at the same time you have bias. I think you can rise above your bias. I think you can say to yourself okay I don't have a good feeling about this for whatever biased reason but I'm going to give everybody a fair chance. I'm going to look at the resume. I'm not going to look at the skin color. I'm going to look at what you can do, how you did in the interview. I'm not going to look at your gender etc.

So I think we should maybe just accept that being biased in every possible way whether it's racially or politically, anything, that's just who we are. And I don't think we should pretend. See the worst thing we do is pretend there are people who are not that person. That just doesn't exist. There are people who can overcome their bias but there are no people who don't have bias. That's just not possible.

Somebody says it works both ways Scott. Of course it does. What I'm talking about is people so of course it would work in every direction. Totally agree. But that's not the name of the game. Obviously the name of the game is politics and power. So people will make claims that are not true but the trouble is the public believes them.

It's one thing. Oh I'm glad I lifted your spirits Kathy. Yeah I've said before that we can't tell the difference between being on the edge of doom and being on the edge of greatness. It looks the same. That being right on the edge of the worst day you're ever going to have and being right on the edge of the best day you'll ever have can look identical.

So when we're focusing on these riots etc. we're just being blinded to the fact that there's nobody on the other side. I don't know how many times I could say that. That'd still be the only person who says it. There's no one on the other side. There's no one on the other side. When do we realize that there's no one on the other side? It'l