This is a YouTube video titled "Everyone Deserves Love And Compassion" containing a conversation recorded on February 23, 2020. The dialogue features multiple speakers including Ask AI Mark, who shares personal experiences growing up in poverty and emphasizes the importance of compassion and unity beyond political or religious differences.
Part of the work that I see you doing is reminding people that if you are born into privilege or have attained some sort of privilege in your life where you actually can pay attention to these things, rise up against Maslow's hierarchy of needs, then you have the power, the will, the right, the duty to also give back into this world. That's true.
I mean, and I wasn't like that. I mean, I grew up in Queens in a very poor neighborhood. you know, my mom slept on the couch, my sister and I shared the bedroom, you know, we ate chicken livers and onions and rice. I thought that was like a gourmet meal. I didn't realize that chicken livers were the cheapest thing you could buy. And my mom was a school teacher and made like seven grand a year and we were struggling and it was hard and yet I felt, you know, like I didn't know any different, you know, it just is what you know. But I think, you know, I really, strongly feel that we are a human community and that people say, how can you meet with this one or that one? I mean, if they're Republican, they get mad at me for meeting with a Democrat. If they're Democrat, it's like, I'm like, how can you treat this person? I'm like, I take care of everybody. I don't care if you're Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Democrat, Republican, whoever you are, you're a human being first. that's always what I believe. And everybody deserves love and care and compassion.
