WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.980 --> 00:00:20.660 That's my reaction to Reverend Jesse Jackson and all his stuff. 2 00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:23.640 I don't particularly care to be stepped on. 3 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:26.260 I've worked with a lot of blacks all my life. 4 00:00:27.140 --> 00:00:30.840 I got nothing against him, but this is just my protest back to him. 5 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:42.640 I've messaged to Mayor Jane Byrne that when she was elected, 6 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:45.360 she talked a great deal about what Chicago. 7 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:51.420 Now the woman has inadvertently or advertently polarized the city. 8 00:00:59.060 --> 00:01:03.120 Well, I think it's very beautiful and very European. 9 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:10.920 It was in Europe and Rome and Paris that the mayor got her idea of putting more 10 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:15.640 fountains in the city of Chicago. I think they're going to plan to have more of these 11 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:23.500 around the city, some in the neighborhood. It's creating a nice little enclave. 12 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:34.080 After much deliberation, I have decided to be a candidate for mayor of Chicago. 13 00:02:00.500 --> 00:02:01.940 Thank you. 14 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:09.580 Thank you. 15 00:02:15.900 --> 00:02:17.120 Thank you. 16 00:02:19.820 --> 00:02:27.620 My family, my wife Maggie, my daughter Nora and Patrick, my mother, my brothers and sisters, 17 00:02:27.780 --> 00:02:33.540 my nieces and nephews are with me today and they share in my decision. 18 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:38.580 On this day, especially, I think of my father. 19 00:02:39.940 --> 00:02:44.560 He was never satisfied with the progress the city had made. 20 00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:51.460 He was always working to make it better because he loved the city. 21 00:02:53.100 --> 00:02:57.040 I am a candidate because I share his love. 22 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:48.180 I take no apology for my name. I am proud of my family name. I am proud of my mother and father. 23 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:55.500 It was from them that I learned my love for our city. It was from them that I learned 24 00:03:55.500 --> 00:04:00.620 the importance of a family unit in neighborhoods in which all of us live. 25 00:04:01.260 --> 00:04:03.660 I look back to my father's life with pride. 26 00:04:05.320 --> 00:04:11.160 Based on what I had seen over the years, he was always very tough. He was always very 27 00:04:11.160 --> 00:04:18.820 shrewd, but he was always very fair. I can understand why in the minds of many he is Mr. Chicago. 28 00:04:20.900 --> 00:04:26.700 I think your mayor is a wonderful fellow, but I depart radically from him when he says that he 29 00:04:26.700 --> 00:04:30.000 would hope that I would have all the good qualities of past mayors. 30 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:37.700 There are no good qualities of past mayors to be had. None, none, none, none. 31 00:04:40.080 --> 00:04:44.200 I did not mourn at the bar of the late mayor. I regret anyone dying. 32 00:04:44.500 --> 00:04:50.500 I have no regrets about him leaving. He was a racist from the core, head to toe and hip to hip. 33 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:57.580 There's no danger about it. And he spewed and fond and oppressed black people to the point that 34 00:04:57.580 --> 00:05:02.440 some of them thought that was the way they were supposed to live. Just like some slaves under 35 00:05:02.440 --> 00:05:07.460 plantation thought that was the way they're supposed to live. I give no who's honors to a racist, 36 00:05:07.880 --> 00:05:12.180 nor do I appreciate or respect his son. If his name were anything else than Daly, 37 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:18.380 this campaign would be a joke. He has nothing to offer anybody, but a Ben Upton can smile, 38 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:20.680 no background, 39 00:05:22.660 --> 00:05:27.360 and he runs on the legacy of his name, an insult to common sense and decency. 40 00:05:27.780 --> 00:05:31.720 Everything I've ever gotten in the world, I worked for it. Nobody gave me anything. 41 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:45.060 And although I may sound abrasive, I have no malice toward anybody. I have a job to do. 42 00:05:45.060 --> 00:05:50.560 I've got places to go and things to do, and I approach this job just like any masterful surgeon 43 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:55.300 when you have to cut out a cancer. I cut it out with no emotion. Get it out. Get it out. 44 00:06:01.960 --> 00:06:06.640 This dominant culture may have messed up my pocket, but they haven't messed up my head one bit. 45 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:14.700 So I approach this awesome job with pride. Pride in my community. Pride in the ability 46 00:06:14.700 --> 00:06:20.000 my community to rouse up as though they had been a sleeping giant and to recognize that there is 47 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:25.580 a responsibility that they have that they cannot shirk. Nobody else is going to shoulder that burden. 48 00:06:25.940 --> 00:06:30.680 I believe in the powers of redemption, and I simply cannot believe in the God I worship that 49 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:35.060 he would permit us to sit on this earth for 400 years, or rather in this country for 400 years, 50 00:06:35.400 --> 00:06:41.420 and suffer the indignities which we have suffered piled time after time, high after high, and so 51 00:06:41.640 --> 00:06:46.280 it has almost broken the backs of one of the most powerful people in this world. I can't believe 52 00:06:46.280 --> 00:06:51.480 there is no redemption, but that redemption is not going to come out in hatred. It's going to come out 53 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:57.520 in positive attitude toward our fellow man. I represent and you represent the fruit of the loom, 54 00:06:57.660 --> 00:07:03.180 the best this world has to offer. We've been through the crucible. We've been through the crucible, 55 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:09.420 and we have come out with strong and powerful tensile strength. We are a high and good and 56 00:07:09.420 --> 00:07:15.140 powerful people. We have no explanations to give to anybody. We don't have to explain our existence. 57 00:07:15.380 --> 00:07:19.700 We don't have to explain the thing that we want to a part of the political power of this country, 58 00:07:19.940 --> 00:07:25.700 not to suppress anybody, but to add our good. We've come into the 1980s with an understanding 59 00:07:25.700 --> 00:07:31.000 that we have not just a right, but a responsibility to give the best that we have to a society. 60 00:07:31.080 --> 00:07:34.180 We want to give it, and we're going to give it if we have to beat them across the head, 61 00:07:34.180 --> 00:07:37.260 knock them down and make them take it. We're going to give it to them. 62 00:07:43.660 --> 00:07:47.220 I've enjoyed this campaign. I suppose you can see that. 63 00:07:49.800 --> 00:08:00.300 United with Richard M. Daly to be the next mayor of Chicago. Chicago loves Daly. Daly loves Chicago 64 00:08:00.300 --> 00:08:02.320 and the people of Chicago.