--- title: Jamie Foxx Talks Voting and Leadership With Van Jones' Be Woke.Vote description: The comedian joined Van Jones on the Be Woke Vote series and spoke about the importance of voting and leading by example. canonical: https://time.com/5443727/jamie-foxx-van-jones-be-woke-vote/ author: Gina Martinez article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-11-03T19:37:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:05:04.427Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Jamie Foxx Discusses the Importance of Voting and Healing the Nation in 'Be Woke.Vote' With Van Jones og:description: "The only thing that disheartens me is when it comes to my kids," Foxx said og:url: https://time.com/5443727/jamie-foxx-van-jones-be-woke-vote/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03e3aa09e13903de/698879e8f887dcf492e943aa/jamie-foxx1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3696 og:image:height: 2079 og:image:alt: Actor Jamie Foxx attends the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and Note 5 Launch party on Aug. 18, 2015 in West Hollywood, California. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jamie Foxx Discusses the Importance of Voting and Healing the Nation in 'Be Woke.Vote' With Van Jones twitter:description: "The only thing that disheartens me is when it comes to my kids," Foxx said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03e3aa09e13903de/698879e8f887dcf492e943aa/jamie-foxx1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jamie Foxx Discusses the Importance of Voting and Healing the Nation in 'Be Woke.Vote' With Van Jones > Sponsored content. 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Comedian Jamie Foxx recently sat down with CNN commentator Van Jones for his “Be Woke.Vote” series to discuss the importance of voting and leading by example._ by [Gina Martinez](https://time.com/author/gina-martinez/) ## Gina Martinez Nov 3, 2018 7:37 PM UTC Comedian Jamie Foxx recently sat down with CNN commentator Van Jones for his “Be Woke.Vote” series to discuss the importance of voting and leading by example. by [Gina Martinez](https://time.com/author/gina-martinez/) ## Gina Martinez Nov 3, 2018 7:37 PM UTC Comedian Jamie Foxx recently sat down with CNN commentator Van Jones for his [“Be Woke.Vote” series](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfXrX7trBmi7%5FoT5gLcyamA) to discuss the importance of voting and leading by example. In the interview, Foxx discussed what it feels like being black in America during Donald Trump’s presidency and told Jones he feels disheartened that his children can’t look up to the President. “The only thing that disheartens me is when it comes to my kids,” Foxx said. “When I see grown people talking that way in that position, it hurts the kids because being President, yeah it’s great, it makes you feel good, but the one thing you could count on was the moral compass. I could always look to the President to know he is going to say and do the right things.” Foxx said he feels the President rips the nation apart instead of healing. “Say the economy is doing a little better, but you rip us apart so we can’t even have a conversation right now, that’s the disheartening part,” he said. “That’s where I think, not only do we vote, but we put pressure on the people who are supposed to be doing it. What can you do to actually heal it a little bit?” Foxx added that he wished the Democrats would come together. “Democrats are like R&B singers, they gotta sing lead,” he said. “You never saw Obama with Clinton, they never came together if you think about it. You had all of these opportunities to come together. I remember when Obama won, I thought it would be great if Obama, Bill Clinton and all of the Democrats did a nice cover for TIME magazine. No. Republicans, they sing in a choir, they don’t necessarily sing in tune but they sing loud and they all know the words.” ## Transcript Stay woke. See, you are messing me up [ LAUGH ] [ MUSIC ] Hi Guys Jamie Foxx here, y'all go ahead and clap for him. Cuz we already, he's nothing, ain't nothing but a roll and start. Nothing but, please sit down [ LAUGH ] Like Hey, this just for the front row, this for front row. Nobody wants to see your- Now this is the back row. [ LAUGH ] [ LAUGH ] Come on man. [ LAUGH ] Let's not forget to have fun. [ LAUGH ] Okay, well listen, now we're about to have a good time in fact the whole point If we want to get folks like yourself to understand help us understand where we are. People are terrified, freaked out people watching news everyday get freaked out and November is coming up. We're not sure people actually are focusing on November so what we are doing is trying to get of our best minds on this situation on this problem I mean your an actor You're an academy award winner, you're a musician, you're a singer, you're A male dancer, [ LAUGH ] A lot of people don't give me props for that. Fine, whatever you want. Yeah, yeah, all that. I wanted to start with that, because I think people don't know how much you care. I care a lot People don't know I'll watch you and text you sometimes be out of hand but so I am glad your doing this because we've got to wake up in so many different things I learned so much you know from my father who was a black history teacher but he would explain the desensatizing of a black life like when I was talking to you about the lynchings see when When I made the postcards at the Lindsey's, there was a couple of things they were doing. Not only documented, but they were de- sensitizing you to death. Right. Like when those families would take their kids and then take a picnic bus and they go to a ranching, it is 300 people and they got food and they're watching black men be killed and burned. That's to desensitize that 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old so by the time he's 30, he doesn't care what a black person is. He doesn't care. So when he's watching something on the news, I don't care and then what does it do to us? We watch is so much, we start not to care. Look at us. When we see black folks being killed, sometimes we start to think, well that's just. That's just, that's our plight, it's what we're experiencing, cuz you gotta think about it. If those kids were seven, eight years old, they grow up, have their kids. So now- It gets passed down and passed down. It gets passed down. Yeah. So my father would always say, I wish everyone could get a passport. I wish everybody in American could get a passport. He said, because, think about it. Even if you're white or black, you stay on your block. You never leave your block. You go to church, and what do you see? Only the people in your community. You go to white church. You don't see blacks and whites going to church together. Everything we do is separate. And the only thing that you have to define someone that doesn't look like you, is that. So when you're watching TV, what do you see? So all of the images and all the things, people changing, by the time you see that person, what are you? I used to do this joke called whew. [ LAUGH ] You know what that is? No. Not yet. It's all some white people react when they see black people. [ LAUGH ] Like, I was in Chicago, I was in Chicago and I'm already Jamie Foxx Im in Chicago and I'm doing a gig. I'm going to the nice hotel but I have my hoodie on. I get on the elevator and it was a few white people and the went they shut it, went to the corner, they didn't know. So I was like right, whatever. But one had the courage to look over to see and they said God it's Jaime Fox [ LAUGHTER ]. And they all went [ SOUND ] [ LAUGH ] It's like but it's funny but a t the same time it's real and so now when you start talking about Be Woke stop with the Instagram ****. Stop with goofiness let's actually get out there and do it. We need you to tell how tell young folks how. Important it is that you go vote. I hear, man, my vote ain't gonna count. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. And the thing that I think people don't add up in their own mind is, if your vote didn't matter, why did they spend so much time trying to disenfranchise us. Passing all these laws. Voter right delaws. They don't get it because it's subtle. When you say voter ID you can ask any person on the street what is a voter ID law. They have no idea. So I say forget all that. Just say hey get your **** up and **** go vote. I don't care who you vote for. Cuz all of that stuff, it go over your head when they say [ UNKNOWN ]. Devoter [ UNKNOWN ], do I got my ID? [ LAUGH ] You know how somebody say, you got ID, I'm like, ****, do I have my ID with me? [ LAUGH ] It's simple, all of the bellyache and my daughter 24. Yeah, well, I got questions about it, but go ahead, talk about your daughter. My daughter 24, so when she was talking about the situation with the presidential, and I said Don't take me for granted. Dad, I'm so upset. He won, I said did all you guys vote? Not this time but we're gonna- [ LAUGH ] I said, then get off my phone. [ LAUGH ] Get off my phone. 540 million women in the street saying that but where were those 540 million to support that other woman? But now you barely age. No no, when Obama was coming you know what I was doing. I was like you know the brother come, I'm coming! I had the curtain open when I was on, like you know you're going to see me mark this one. Come on brother! But I say it in a joke, but I also saw a lady She had her own company. I was [ UNKNOWN ] in Denver. I said you voting for Hillary, right? God, no. [ LAUGH ] I said, what? No, she's a crook. I said, what did she do? I don't know, but it's all over the press. [ LAUGH ] And it was an email, or something, or something about a chive and a vote, I don't know what, but she's evil! I said, okay, gee, I thought so you was running your own company, you want to break the glass ceiling that this would be a president you would embrace. I took my iPad and I put all of the candidates and what they believe in on the iPad but I hid the names. I said, I want you to pick who you agree with. She put her glasses on, let me see here. [ LAUGH ] This one. I said you want me to tell you who to pick? God please no. [ LAUGH ] You picked Hillary Clinton. But what is that? What is that that you can't get past that you basically allow. Now my whole thing like this. The system works Which I'll talk about the voting system. Here's the thing, when the voting system don't work in your behalf, man, this **** is **** up. [ LAUGH ] It's rigged. No, you know just like we know. When we went out and supported who we wanted to support and it turns out your way. And it's important that you do this because what they have to understand is, things like Supreme Court justice is things like that That Donald Trump wasn't Donald Trump, Donald Trump was a way to get what you want done. That's why I would always say like the Democrats. I'd say sometimes you're too soft, too lackadaisical, you're too worried about everything. Democrats are like R & B singers. They gotta sing lead, you know, I gotta sing lead. You never saw Obama with Clinton. They never come together, think about it. You have all of these opportunities to come. I remember when Obama won. I thought, man, it'd be great if Obama, Bill Clinton and all of the democrats did a nice cover for Time magazine. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] No, R & B, I got it. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Republicans They sing in the choir. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] They don't necessarily sing in tune. Mm- hm. [ LAUGH ] [ LAUGH ] But they sing loud [ LAUGH ] And they all know the words. [ LAUGH ] It's all one song, and they Sing that, mother ****. [ LAUGH ] And they singing right now. So you can't be mad at their enthusiasm for what they want. You have to have the same enthusiasm. And you gotta stop being so, I just don't wanna say. You gotta see where it is, you gotta take the fight to fight. I love the, when they go high, we go low. I dig all that. Right. But sometimes you gotta- [ LAUGH ] Kick him in the testicles. [ LAUGH ] Tie your hair up, get some vaseline. [ LAUGH ] One thing I think you mentioned the whole thing about women not supporting Hilary Clinton. Yeah. One thing brothers never got any appreciation for, six out of ten white women basically voted for Donald Trump. Yeah. If you had ten white women, six out of them voted for Trump. That's what they wanted to do. But For all that they say about African American men being sexist and patriarchal, which we are and still working on- What would we do? Okay, I'm sorry. You take ten black men, ten black male voters, nine out of ten black male voters voted Voted for Hilary Clinton. So black man will [ UNKNOWN ] white woman in the [ UNKNOWN ] office. That's a loaded [ UNKNOWN ] you go ahead. [ LAUGH ] [ UNKNOWN ] white woman [ UNKNOWN ] no, I'm kidding, [ UNKNOWN ] no, I'm just kidding. Listen, listen- But all I'm saying is don't you think we deserve some credit or some respect for being willing as black [ UNKNOWN ] for female? Okay, listen to what I'm saying All the credits and all the greatness. At the end of the day, if you want a different candidate, there's certain things that we gotta break. Let me ask you a question. Every person that voted for Donald Trump, are they racist? I have never said they're all racist. I'm asking you a question. I'm gonna ask the audience. Do you think that every person that voted for Donald Trump is racist? No. No. You know what they are though? Perceptionist. New word. The perception may not hate the person but the perception of a woman, even women can't get past the perception. We graded Hillary Clinton on everything. Everything. I was doing a whole black, it was an all black women. I said, you voting for him? [ SOUND ] [ LAUGH ] Hell no, she can't get her man together. She can't get the country together. What? [ LAUGH ] They was naming all the stuff there. And her clothes, I can't take it. [ LAUGH ] One time she had on a kung fu outfit. It was [ LAUGH ] And she did. And she did. She did. She had a kung fu outfit on and it was eight gold buttons and a high collar. And she had the shoes that go with it. And I did say wow. [ LAUGH ] I said wow. And when I was watching her speak, my boy was sitting next to me going what's with the Bruce Lee outfit? And I said I'm trying to hear the issues, bro. And, we graded her on everything. One girl said, I said you voting for Hillary? She's a Scorpio, I can't mess with no Scorpio. She's a Scorpio? And she literally said a Scorpio beat me out some money two years ago, I just can't fool with no Scorpio. It was the perception of her, then you look at Donald Trump, the perception. White man, that funny hair, that long, he look like a high school principal. You know what I'm saying? That big old wide tail and he, " You kids get to class, you blacks, you Mexicans ." Archie Bunker- ish, he was a reality star. He did certain things. It was just a perception of that. And even black people are guilty of perception sometimes against our own. Cuz I know I've done it. Cuz black people are nervous flyers. You ever seen a black person get on the plane? [ LAUGH ] Especially if they just [ UNKNOWN ], they assess everything. Is the wing where it's supposed to because the wing got to be at the. [ INAUDIBLE ] and we go in the cut and we look in the cockpit. The first thing we do is, who's flying it. If we see a black person we [ INAUDIBLE ]. [ LAUGH ] The first time I saw a black pilot I literally said hey man what's you doing? [ INAUDIBLE ] man get your **** out of this. [ UNKNOWN ] I said, what, you the. Okay, cool. Man, I sat in [ UNKNOWN ] for 15 minutes. I asked America, so how many hours you got on there? Cool, cool. And then the woman sitting next to him, I said ****, we going down. We going down. Because the perception But that same plane, it's storming outside. And if you get on that plane, you see that white man with the salt and pepper hair, and them damn aviator shades, and that blonde forearm hair that do like that? And it comes to a ridge right there? Flied the **** through a hurricane! [ LAUGH ] Sully got us, y'all! Sully! It's a joke. But it's real. And until we break down perception we'll never be able to make that step towards a woman president, towards things that we just feel uncomfortable and we're afraid to say it out loud. You know why there was a lot of people at the inauguration? Cuz they don't want to tell you how they voted. I was somewhere in Malibu, you know doing my thing, and the person who I thought was literally gonna vote for Hilary accidentally said well you know we think Donald, and [ INAUDIBLE ] was like Charlotte Jesus. I said what? They didn't wanna tell you, so a lot of the stuff that we were belly aching about. Is because inside of us, we haven't gotten there yet. So the minute we turn that switch on and say hey, we want what's decent. The one thing that I loved about and I still love about America, is the fact that we have the ability to get it right. I call it the evolution of freedom, we eventually get it right. In situations like we're going through right now, the only thing that disheartens me is when it comes to my kids. When I see grown people talking that way in that position, it hurts the kids. Because being president, yeah it's great, it makes you feel good if it's who your guy was But the one thing you could count on was the moral compass. See, I'm a comic. So I can, I do whatever. But I could always look to the president to have him say, okay, he's gonna say and do the right things. Cuz my thing's like this, you already won. You scored the touchdown. But you dancing in the end zone like a moth. [ LAUGH ] Like three weeks later. Yeah, so it's sorta, that's the disheartening part. And that's where I think. Not only do vote but we put pressure on the people that are supposed to be doing it. You put pressure on the Republicans and the Democrats and the people that are supposed to holding people in check. You be like yo man we can't destroy it like that. Yeah the economy ticked up a little bit and that's fantastic but also you can look at President Obama and say he took it from sixteen To eight. You took it from eight, to six or five. Obama just didn't dance in the end zone as much, but here's what I say. Say the economy is doing a little better, but you rip us apart. You rip us apart to where we can't even have a conversation with people right now. That's right. When you go out right now, everybody's like this right now. And it's unnecessary, and that's what we have to understand that y'all, what can you do to actually heal a little bit. Let's talk about that, because I I've said many times, the economy coming up and society coming apart is not the right answer. That's what I'm saying. It's like this, whether you believe in the bible or not, certain things in the bible- you know I played the piano for church- but it says, what profit's a man to gain the world And loses soul. Everytime you say something disparaging about someone from that position, you're ripping a soul away little bit, and then you putting pressure on good people. That's right. Cuz I don't think that every Republican is bad, and I dont think that every Democrat is bad. I don't believe that, but I want to watch how much pressure he put on those republicans when he say something I be like, man. [ LAUGH ] Be like you're constipated like. Man, cuz I watching one of the interviews where he was doing a press conference and I had to laugh. He was like, hey. He almost turned in to Joe Pesci a little bit, then he started giving shout- outs said, hey that's General Kelly, where's my general, and you'd cut over to General Kelly, he's like. [ LAUGH ] So So America is always gonna be great, but what we have to do is say how can we dial that back, cuz what you ain't understanding when you saying those things man, you turning some people on, you turning them people in the south what we just did Monroeville, Alabama you turning them them on. I can walk down the street now and be proud that I hate other races? I could be proud that I hate **** and jews and chinks and [ INAUDIBLE ] and everything that they named. I was talking about that I said you know they say down and named every race. Who does that? You give them the keys nah b that's why you should be woke and get your **** up and vote because Those are the things that if we don't stand up to that, who knows what's coming next? And we can't survive that way. And all these kids, these people that are 19, 20 and dealing what they're dealing with We got to be responsible. I am 50 about to be 51. I know I dont look it. [ LAUGH ] Look at the sister right there. My god Jaimie is in the gym. Ok. [ LAUGH ] Black don't crack. [ LAUGH ] No but me and Puff and all of us wer came through at a time where. It was done for us. Our parents sort of paved the way through Civil Rights so when we came through we didn't have the things that the kids are dealing with now. To look on Social Media and see some of the things that are ripping us apart. And so that's why we got to do it. We have to pick up and say hey man. Whether it is Republican, whether it is Democrat, whether it is Independent Let's just be respectful. And like I said, the only way you get that is to get out there and let your voice be heard. One thing I always say people all the time is, we need republicans and we need democrats. If all republicans gonna go off the rails, all democrats will go off the rails. I've never seen a bird fly with only a left wing or only a right wing. A bird needs two wings to fly. But that said. We need to vote for a better republican if you're a republican and vote for better democrat if you're a democrat but I just wanna come back you said something about having a daughter that's 24 Yeah Before we get out of here She's doing very very well. Yeah. Corrine Fox, she's with you [ UNKNOWN ], she's going to be in a movie that you're directing. What's the name of the movie? All Star Weekend. All Star Weekend. It's about two guys, one guy loves LeBron the other one loves Steph Curry and they just trying to get to the All Star game. Mad funny. Yeah, so, you got, Real, she's coming on. Different generation though. Different generation. Different challenges or whatever. When you talk to her and her friends, they'll all excited or whatever, do you feel they are going to step it up this time? I actually do. I got to commend the young folk. Talk about it. And the reason I commend the young folk, like say in a situation on now where we live in a world where There's social media. Police shoots and kills a black man in front of his kid, right. The young folk stood up. My daughter, who was, God bless, she grew up in a very controlled, safe neighborhood. She called me from on her phone and said dad I am marching. I said where you at? I'm in the street. I said for what? Ferguson. I'm in the street. Travon. I'm in the street. So the young folks we got to count them. We kind of fell asleep. Look at us. Look at the guys my age going I don't want them getting at my money. I don't wanna get any of that. But these young kids is like no and what I was explaining to people, I said they live in a world where everything is on their phone. You can't get a back. I mean I know you old people I know why these kids don't turn their phones off and go outside and play. That is not gonna happen. But here's what's interesting when we're talking about those things when I talk to her I said Corinne I'm glad that you're standing up. Now I can give you the tools to help you talk to them. Mayor Nutter like say for instance the police, Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia asked me one day, could you come speak to the police? I said yeah, but let me talk to the hood first. He said, what do you mean? I said, [ INAUDIBLE ] I don't wanna be hanging out here and be with y'all and the hood be like what are you doing? So I talked to the hood. And this is a point where they were killing cops, you remember this, a few years back. It was horrible. And I talked to the hood and it was like, yeah, I was like, So I went back to Amara, I said, hey, you got a situation but what I think you should do is change the perception. Go find the most white cop you could find, have him go into poorest black neighborhood, get a kid, six, seven years old. Throw a picnic for him. He said, what's that gonna do? I'm trying to change the perception, trying to change the narrative because if we can see different narratives, if that kid can see that cop differently then things may change as that kid gets older. Actually, because right now what's happening once we're on this And you see that cope shoot that man in front of that kid, there's no way you can't feel something about that, and regardless of what they say about black on black, you can't get that out of your head, now what happens? Young black kid sees that, 19 year old kid is watching that, what is he doing? He's, now white cop, he's on heels, sees that black kid [ INAUDIBLE ] now what happens? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Once they run into each other, what? It's all bad. I told her, I said, we have the tools, we can help in every aspect. But I love the fact that you guys have taken it upon yourselves. And we give millennials a lot of **** But the one thing they did do, was to say we ain't standing for it. So we've got to back them, We've got to keep them energised, we've got to keep them engaged and there it is. [ APPLAUSE ] I love everything you said. I feel inspired by the young people, if we can get them to march on in to the voting booth, and they keep on marching doing other stuff I think it's gonna be great listen. I appreciate you, I love you. Man, [ UNKNOWN ] Now, I'm gonna see if I can close it. You do your thing. You do your thing. Cuz I know nothing bad gonna happen to you. Here we go. All right. So honored to have you here. Jamie Foxx, this is another episode, another installment of Be Woke, Vote. I'm Van Jones with the messy truth. We'll see you next time. Great. [ LAUGH ] Swag it out baby. Be like me Be woke, vote. 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