You're listening to Ted Talks daily, Amelie's you on today's show, Dr. Bernice Albertine King, she's the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the CEO of the King Center. In her talk from Ted 20-20, she calls on all of us in America to think about this moment we're living in. And remember that to move forward, we have to deconstruct systems of oppression that the country is built upon and rebuild in a nonviolent way. I was five years old when my father was assassinated and he did change the world, but the tragedy is that we didn't hear what he was saying to us as a prophet to this nation and his words and now reverberate reverberating back to us.

Change, we all know is necessary right now. And yet it's not easy, but I want to talk about America's choice. At a greater level, the prophet said to us, we still have a choice to be non-violent coexistence or violent annihilation. We have seen literally in the streets of our nation, people who have been following the path of nonviolent protest and people who have been hailed bent on destruction. Those choices are now looking at us and we have to make a choice.

The history of this nation was founded in violence, in fact, my father said America is the greatest purveyor of violence. And the only way forward is if we repent for being a nation built on violence. And I'm not just talking about physical violence. I'm talking about systemic violence, I'm talking about policy violence, I'm talking about what he spoke of, of the triple evils of poverty, racism and militarism, all violent. Albert Einstein said something to us, he said, we cannot solve problems on the same level of thinking in which they were created.

And so if we are going to move forward, we are going to have to deconstruct the systems of violence that we have said America and we're going to have to reconstruct on another foundation. That foundation happens to be love and nonviolence. And so as we move forward, we can correct course if we make that choice that daddy said non-violent coexistence and not continue on the pathway of violent annihilation. So what does that look like? That that looks like some deconstruction work.

In order to get to the construction, we have to deconstruct our thinking. We've got to deconstruct the way in which we see people and deconstruct the way in which we operate, practice and engage and set policy. And so I believe that there's a lot of hard work to do in the midst of all the hard, hard work to do because hard work is hard work. One of the things we have to do is we have to ensure that everyone, especially my white brothers and sisters, have to engage in the hard work, the anti-racism work in our hearts.

No one is exempt from this. Especially in my white community, we must do that work in our hearts, the anti-racism work. The second thing is that I encourage people to look at but nonviolence training that we the King Center, the king king's bag so that we learn the foundation of understanding our interrelatedness and interconnectedness, that we understand our loyalties and commitments and our policy making can no longer be devoted to one group of people, but has to be devoted to the the greater good of all people.

We all have to change and have to make a choice. It is a choice to change the direction that we have been going. We need a revolution of values in this country. That's what my daddy said. He changed the world. He changed hearts. And now what has happened over the last seven, eight years and through history, we have to change course. And we all have to participate in changing America with a true revolution of values where people are at the center and not profit when morality is at the center and that our military might.

America does have a choice, we can even choose to go down continually that path of destruction or we can choose nonviolent. Coexistence and as my mother said, struggle is a never ending process, freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. Every generation is called to this freedom struggle. You as a person may want to exempt yourself, but every generation is called. And so I encourage corporations in America to start doing anti-racism work within corporate America.

I encourage every industry to start doing anti-racism work and pick up the banner of understanding nonviolent change personally. And from a social change perspective, we can do this. We can make the right choice to ultimately build the beloved community. Thank you. PR ex.