Memorial Day is a great holiday for bringing Americans together unless you decide to promote segregation while you do it. A Black Lives Matter group in New York City threw a Memorial Day party and barred anyone who was not Black from attending. This is what they said being intentional about being around Black people is an act of resistance. This is an exclusively Black space so if you do not identify as Black and want to come because you love Black people please respect the space and do not come. Lisa Durdon is a political commentator and Black Lives Matter supporter. She joins us tonight. Lisa, thanks for coming on. Thank you. Good to see you again. You're doing well. Thank you. I was confused by this because I thought the whole point of Black Lives Matter, one of the points would be to speak out against singling people out on the basis of their race and punishing them for that because you can't control what your race is and yet they seem to be doing that. Explain that to me. What I say to that is boo hoo hoo. You white people are angry because you couldn't use your white privilege card to get invited to the Black Lives Matters all Black Memorial Day celebration. Wow. Let me contextualize that for you. Memorial Day was created by Black people in the basis of their race. You're talking people in the basis of their race to honor those individuals who are union soldiers who fought and died for our freedom. So Black Lives Matter in that same vein decided to get together with Black folks. I'm not going to let you pass my question. I'm not mad at that. I'm not mad at that. I just have a really simple question for you. If you don't like people excluding others on the basis of their race and as a society we agree that that's bad. I agree it's bad. You agree it's bad. Then why are you doing it? Why are you listening it? Why folks crack me up all of a sudden when we have questions. It's a universal value. So Black folks to focus on ourselves but you've been having white days forever. You don't say the words anymore because you know it's political and correct but you've had an all white Oscars, all these movies with all white actors moving. You have to move after you perpetuating it. Oh, white TV shows with white cast over and over and over again the Bachelorette. It took 11 seats. It took a black Bachelorette. Are you serious? It's hard to believe. I hope you're not speaking for anyone else. I hope there aren't a lot of people in this country who don't really believe in it. I just hope there aren't people watching who agree with you because what you're saying is so hostile and separatist and crazy. It's such a basic violation of what I thought we all agreed on which is you don't attack people for things they can't control. It's not a tag. It's not an attack. I'm stating the facts. People are just learnings where they exclude children. It doesn't mean they don't like children. They don't know if your kids are going to be monsters and those kids are going to be well behaved. So in the same vein, Black Lives Matter decided to have one day where they didn't want white folks who were going to be off the rails. They don't know if you're going to be the ones behaved and for them are the ones who are there against them. So let me ask you a question. Just ask you a quick question. Do you think it's racist to exclude people on the basis of their skin color? I think it's racist when you've been excluding people for a hundred years. Why don't you answer my question and start with your silly lectures? I'm asking you a very simple question. We're forced to come together collectively to celebrate ourselves because you guys won't. You are the larger society. Let's be really here. You guys, I'm not talking. I'm talking about what I thought we all believed. Let me ask you this. Do you think it would be fair if white people did come to a Black Lives Matter celebration? They do all the time. When you look at Black Lives Matter. Do you use the same water fountain that they do? And you see Black Lives Matter coming together collectively for different issues. You see people of all races. So we do accept them this particular day. They said, stay your asses out. We want to celebrate today. We don't want anybody going against us today. And you can't celebrate if someone who doesn't look like you was around? Yes, you can, but you can think. I don't want to do it. It's a personal trick. And what you're saying is disgusting. And if you were a Nazi, I would say the same thing to you. You're not going to say what you're saying is indistinguishable from what they are saying, which is I don't care your opinions. I don't care your views, your life experience, your intentions. All I care about is the way you look. Something that you can't control. And on that basis alone, I'm judging you. And I'm hostile to you. That's the case you're making. And it's divisive and wrong. And it's amazing that you don't have to say that out loud. But I can't believe you're making an impression. Unfortunately, unfortunately, when you have a racist society like America, you force individuals to come together collectively to make sure that they have a voice. And this is what it is. This is what it is. The rates of the myth. People to come together collectively. Let me ask you a question. Is there a single white person in America? You would have let into this. Now, I'm not, I'm not Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter is a. You're just an apologist. However, however, I can respect the decision. It doesn't mean it's a decision I would have made. Maybe I would have. Just like a wedding where I might say your kids can't bring their bad asses in my wedding. Children are not an ethnic group. Every person in you just really gets people with kids. You're saying don't bring your bad ass kids. Would it be okay? Yeah, but you see, there are white adults and Asian adults and Hispanic adults. And presumably, they're basically the same as black adults. But you don't agree with that. We have gay pride parades. We have Puerto Rican day parades. We have quarter weekends or a lot of days. We have mothers day. We have fathers day. We have fathers or a lot of days just changing mom out. Not changing. We're capable of having this conversation. So I'm going to end it now. Let me just ask you one last. Let me ask you a rating. This question. And be it totally honest with me. Do the people in your world, your parents, your siblings, your kids, your friends, do they agree with you on this? My family respects my right to free speech. Don't give me that double. Do they agree with what you just said? Do you agree with what a people who agree with what you just said? Whatever. No one's contestant. Stop, stop, stop. Do you agree with what I'm going to say? Do you agree with what I'm going to say? I'm going to say you again in less than a month. I don't even know what you're talking about it. I'm not sure if it's going to happen. Thanks for coming on tonight, Lisa.