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Bakersfield in California, where strong views about race | 0:00:01 | 0:00:02 | |
are part of everyday life. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:07 | |
Now on BBC One, with Donald Trump poised to become the Republican | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
candidate for the US Presidency, Hilary Andersson visits | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
Bakersfield in California, where strong views about race | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
are part of everyday life. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:15 | |
There are some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting | 0:00:15 | 0:00:17 | |
in Panorama. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:18 | |
Our country needs a truly great leader. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:20 | |
Love him or hate him, Donald Trump today | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
seeks the Republican nomination for president... | 0:00:22 | 0:00:23 | |
Leave the area. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:24 | |
...at a time when race is taking centre stage... | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
They're bringing drugs. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:28 | |
They're bringing crime. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
They're rapists. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:32 | |
...in an election campaign marred by violence. | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
They get called neck is at school. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
That's the key word around here - not or, monkey. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
I'm in Bakersfield California, a Donald Trump stronghold. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
I am sick of fair and reasonable. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:47 | |
I want somebody that's going to take the bull by the horns and at least | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
attempt to do something. | 0:00:50 | 0:00:51 | |
I'm just tired of it. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
Vote Trump. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
I am angry. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
A place where minorities fear Trump's vision for America. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
How can somebody get so much support with so much hate? | 0:01:00 | 0:01:04 | |
Tonight, we ask: Is America angry enough to vote in President Trump? | 0:01:04 | 0:01:10 | |
I wouldn't count him out by a long shot. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:15 | |
It looks like a Civil Rights march, but it's a presidential | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
campaign rally, Trump-style. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:40 | |
Inside, it's almost all white. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:48 | |
Outside, it's not. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:53 | |
Lines are being drawn. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
I don't want my tax dollars to buy Spanish books, | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
pay for Spanish signs, pay for all this crap, just so you | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
don't learn English. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
Learn English. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:05 | |
Respect us - who said that? | 0:02:05 | 0:02:08 | |
Oh, man what a great line that is. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
David Rogers is here to see his hero in the flesh. | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
He loves Donald Trump. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
If you go to the Mexican neighbourhoods, where a lot | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
of illegals are, I've seen some of them, I don't know who's legal, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
who isn't, I'm not an authority on that, but they're all dirty. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
A lot of people would say that's racist, what you're saying, | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
painting a group of people dirty. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:30 | |
Fine, then call it what you want. | 0:02:30 | 0:02:32 | |
I don't hang around dirty people. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
I don't want to hang around people that throw trash out on the street. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:42 | |
Nothing but street people live around here. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
David's from Bakersfield in California. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
There's no Hollywood glitz and glamour here. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
Bakersfield is poor and deeply Republican. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:56 | |
I came here to try to understand why the Trump message | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
is hypnotising America. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
Now that's, where that stop sign is on the other | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
side of the red truck, that starts the bad area. | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
Oh, really close to your house. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
Right there. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:13 | |
And who lives here? | 0:03:13 | 0:03:15 | |
All Mexicans, all Hispanic, Mexicans. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
What's the crime like over here? | 0:03:17 | 0:03:19 | |
A lot of crime, a lot of killings, a lot of fighting, a lot | 0:03:19 | 0:03:22 | |
of them, a LOT of theft. | 0:03:22 | 0:03:24 | |
Nothing is safe here. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:29 | |
In its heyday, Bakersfield, in Kern County, was a prosperous, | 0:03:29 | 0:03:33 | |
mainly white, American city, a country music capital. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
# I'll never swim the Kern river again. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:42 | |
# That's where I lost my best friend. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:44 | |
# It was there where I met her. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:48 | |
# It was there that I lost my best friend...# | 0:03:48 | 0:03:50 | |
This was really a nice area when I was a little kid, | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
really a nice area. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:56 | |
So this is pretty much unrecognisable | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
from how it used to be? | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
A few of the houses look the same, they're old houses, but it's | 0:04:01 | 0:04:05 | |
just absolutely trashed. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:06 | |
I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better | 0:04:06 | 0:04:09 | |
than me, believe me, and I'll build them very inexpensively. | 0:04:09 | 0:04:12 | |
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
Mark my words. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
A wall to keep illegal immigrants out of America. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
You've got to have a boundary if you're going to have a country. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
It's Sunday night and David, who runs a home-based computer | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
business, is having a barbeque. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
The wall is symbolic. | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
The wall is symbolic of all the problems, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
and being in Bakersfield we have a lot of them. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
What they should do is they should shoot them as they get to the top. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
If they fall over on the Mexican side, we're in the clear. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:54 | |
If they fall on the American side, then we pay for their | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
(BLEEP)ing medical. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
I'm American, I expect robust opinions here, | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
but this took me aback. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:06 | |
It's the ones that want free sort, the same thing with the Americans | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
here who want free sort, they're all the same - whether | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
they're white, brown or black. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
They're all the same. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:16 | |
Their dad was worthless and their mom was worthless. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
They want something for free. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:22 | |
David has many Mexican-American neighbours. | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
This once virtually all-white town is now half Hispanic and black. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
How does it feel living on the same street as people | 0:05:27 | 0:05:30 | |
who really like Trump? | 0:05:30 | 0:05:35 | |
I think I'll grow into it. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:37 | |
Everybody has their right. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:40 | |
It's funny. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:42 | |
It shows a bit of ignorance. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
People dislike the Mexicans or anybody brown or of Hispanic | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
culture, because we're not doctors, engineers, lawyers | 0:05:47 | 0:05:50 | |
or anything like that. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:53 | |
We're just here to work. | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
David, like most here, says he has no objection | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
to immigrants as a whole, only to those here illegally. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
I have Mexican friends. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:06 | |
I have black friends and just that alone makes me not a racist. | 0:06:06 | 0:06:10 | |
Because I truly have those friends. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
They can call me up and I'd do anything for them. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
That shuts down the racism right there. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
When Mexico sends its people, they're sending people that | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
have lots of problems. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
They're bringing drugs. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
They're bringing crime. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
They're rapists. | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
And some, I assume, are good people. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:32 | |
You get this clown out there saying that they come | 0:06:32 | 0:06:35 | |
here to rape and deal drugs. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:37 | |
How can somebody get so much support with so much hate? | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
There's been a lot of controversy over the language that | 0:06:40 | 0:06:42 | |
Donald Trump has used. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:45 | |
Who cares, this is real life. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:47 | |
Wait, wait, suggesting that all the immigrants are rapists or - | 0:06:47 | 0:06:50 | |
He didn't say that. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:52 | |
He didn't say that. | 0:06:52 | 0:06:55 | |
A major percentage of them are though. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:57 | |
The thing is, if they had something going for them in Mexico, | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
why would they come here? | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
I've always jokingly said that we're the new black people | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
as for as Hispanics, we're the new black. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
We're getting all the hatred. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
Raul's partner, who used to be in the US military, resents Trump. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
I didn't fight for him to have the right to hate | 0:07:14 | 0:07:17 | |
and to spread the hate. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
I fought for him to fight for unity and for us to be united | 0:07:20 | 0:07:23 | |
because it's the United States. | 0:07:23 | 0:07:25 | |
How are you going get this people to build this wall? | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
Take all the illegals and they're the labour. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
Jesse's an air conditioning installer and a good | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
friend of David's. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
He lives next door. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
We're building the wall. | 0:07:38 | 0:07:41 | |
The wall's going up and Mexico's going to pay for it. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
I've talked to the president of Mexico and he's going to pay it. | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
He knows he's going to pay for it. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:48 | |
No, he's not. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:49 | |
They say anything. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:51 | |
I know you. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
You're a very intelligent man. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
It scares me that I know this many intelligent people | 0:07:55 | 0:07:57 | |
that are this gullible. | 0:07:57 | 0:07:59 | |
But nothing horrifies David's neighbours as much as Donald Trump's | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
most radical proposal. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
We're going to have a deportation force and you're going | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
to do it humanely. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
Deportation en masse of an estimated 11 million illegal | 0:08:09 | 0:08:11 | |
or undocumented immigrants, most of whom are from Latin America. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:19 | |
11 million people he's going to deport, whether | 0:08:19 | 0:08:21 | |
documented or undocumented. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
If your parents were undocumented while they had you, | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
you're going to Mexico, kids that have never | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
even been to Mexico, don't even know Spanish. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
Hey, send them back, send them over there. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
Dean Haddock, a Bakersfield psychologist, is also | 0:08:36 | 0:08:42 | |
the local Republican leader. | 0:08:42 | 0:08:46 | |
Like many Republicans he's sceptical about Trump's deportation plan. | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
It's just not going to happen. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:53 | |
The people have been here so long, they're our families. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:56 | |
They're my family too. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:59 | |
Nobody's going to allow them to take them and move them back. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:02 | |
It's not even their country any more. | 0:09:02 | 0:09:04 | |
Mexican population that comes up here from Mexico, they don't | 0:09:04 | 0:09:10 | |
assimilate into the community and become with us. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
They want to break away. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
They want to cause trouble. | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
That's what scares me the most, all these people that came out | 0:09:18 | 0:09:21 | |
of the woodwork being racist and supporting Trump | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
and not acknowledging that it's hurting people. | 0:09:23 | 0:09:29 | |
Bakersfield was built on the riches of the land. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
This is an oil town. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:37 | |
But the glory days are no more. | 0:09:37 | 0:09:44 | |
Look at all of them that are stopped. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
Never seen this many oil rigs anywhere. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
Look how many are stopped. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:51 | |
They're all stopped. | 0:09:51 | 0:09:53 | |
You have to look for one that's running. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
Yeah. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
The fall in global oil prices has had a devastating impact | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
on jobs here. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
Last July, it dropped like a rock. | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
Ensign laid off like 5,000 people overnight. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
Just because of the drop of the oil price? | 0:10:06 | 0:10:08 | |
Yeah, they're gone. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
It's like a ghost town. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:14 | |
I'm losing my house and I have no money to pay for it. | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
On the edge of the oil field, on a back street, Shari Kent | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
is selling up all her possessions. | 0:10:22 | 0:10:25 | |
You're selling your stuff to try to make some money | 0:10:25 | 0:10:28 | |
to pay your mortgage? | 0:10:28 | 0:10:31 | |
Not my mortgage, just to buy food. | 0:10:31 | 0:10:34 | |
Shari's been surviving on $10 an hour night shifts | 0:10:34 | 0:10:36 | |
at the grocery store. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:42 | |
Now her life's falling apart - divorce, stress and less work. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:45 | |
It affected me by my hours being cut at work. | 0:10:45 | 0:10:48 | |
Everybody, everybody's been laid off. | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
It's all going to be crazy, because people got to eat. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
They've got to eat. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
They have to eat and they've got to pay bills. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:02 | |
What are they going to do? | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
I don't get it, any more. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:07 | |
Shari believes Donald Trump will bring jobs. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
He seems like he can handle business. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
This is a business. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
I mean, taking care of the country is a business. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:22 | |
This area has one of the highest unemployment rates in California. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:33 | |
Shari's neighbour Ramona says many white people here blame Hispanics | 0:11:34 | 0:11:37 | |
for taking the jobs. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
Hispanics will work for less money, you know, because they will live | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
more people in one house. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:43 | |
Normally, white people don't do that, you know what I mean? | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
It's not really normal. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
Right, so some people feel that their jobs | 0:11:48 | 0:11:51 | |
are being taken away. | 0:11:51 | 0:11:54 | |
Right because they can undercut the price, uh-huh. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:56 | |
The Hispanic population has overwhelmed our state, | 0:11:56 | 0:11:59 | |
overwhelmed our jobs, overwhelmed our education, | 0:11:59 | 0:12:01 | |
overwhelmed all of our social services that we put in place. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
They say 10 million. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:07 | |
It's more like 20 million. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:09 | |
They were here illegally. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
They don't stand in line. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:13 | |
They don't wait. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
They have taken the jobs. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:18 | |
There's an estimated eight million illegal workers in America today. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:23 | |
They help drive the economy. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
The head of the local Democrats, an Hispanic immigrant herself, | 0:12:26 | 0:12:30 | |
thinks America needs a more measured approach. | 0:12:30 | 0:12:34 | |
I don't see the average American working in fields, picking produce. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:40 | |
Our economy would have a huge impact, if other workers | 0:12:40 | 0:12:45 | |
were having to be brought in to complete the jobs that | 0:12:45 | 0:12:49 | |
undocumenteds were doing. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:53 | |
But Donald Trump's message, that illegals take jobs, | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
is music here to white Americans, who feel undercut, dispossessed. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:03 | |
Our country needs a truly great leader and we need | 0:13:03 | 0:13:09 | |
a truly great leader now. | 0:13:09 | 0:13:16 | |
Over the years, Bakersfield's racial make-up has changed dramatically, | 0:13:16 | 0:13:21 | |
but it's always been deeply divided. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:26 | |
We're going to take you across the bridge. | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
This is the bridge right here. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
So this bridge divides... | 0:13:30 | 0:13:32 | |
Bakersfield and Oildale and in my era, a big divide, | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
no blacks across that bridge after dark. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:38 | |
They all had to get their butts back over. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
Oildale, the rough side of Bakersfield, used to be known | 0:13:42 | 0:13:45 | |
as a sunset town. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:48 | |
Unless you were white, you weren't welcome after dark. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:52 | |
We ran them out. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
Ran black people out? | 0:13:55 | 0:13:57 | |
Throw stuff at their cars, whatever. | 0:13:57 | 0:13:59 | |
We ran them out of Oildale at night. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
They looked so different from us, we don't like them. | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
So were there any black people? | 0:14:04 | 0:14:06 | |
No, none. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:07 | |
100% white. | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
My dad bought that house. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:11 | |
Now they've turned this into public housing. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:14 | |
They had to put that fence up just to keep it halfway safe. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:17 | |
There's some black people in there, they're all OK, they're | 0:14:17 | 0:14:19 | |
just on welfare. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
If they catch you walking by yourself, and there's two | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
of them and one of you, anything could happen. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:29 | |
Across the road from where David was born, we met Shawana | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
an unemployed mother. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
Recently, she says, a group of white racist thugs | 0:14:33 | 0:14:36 | |
turned up on her street. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:39 | |
It was like 10 to 11 cars, white people all over here for just | 0:14:39 | 0:14:45 | |
a handful of black people. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:47 | |
What were they trying to do? | 0:14:47 | 0:14:49 | |
Fight. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
They had bats, cans. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
Like baseball bats? | 0:14:54 | 0:14:56 | |
Uh-huh. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:57 | |
What were they saying? | 0:14:57 | 0:15:00 | |
Not or; that's the key word around here, not or, monkey... | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
It's ridiculous. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:09 | |
Oildale seems a bleak place to fight over. | 0:15:11 | 0:15:15 | |
But it's fertile ground for extremism. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:20 | |
This always happens. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
Today is one of the cooler days, but Friday, don't be out. | 0:15:22 | 0:15:28 | |
What happened on Friday? | 0:15:28 | 0:15:29 | |
If you come out Friday nights, there's a possibility | 0:15:30 | 0:15:31 | |
that you'll get jumped. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
Shawanna says she decided to quit waitressing after a white customer | 0:15:34 | 0:15:37 | |
complained she was black. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
And your children; has it affected your children? | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
They get called neck is at school. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
How do you live like this? | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
Why don't you move? | 0:15:49 | 0:15:50 | |
Well, I'm in a process of moving but it's hard to relocate, | 0:15:50 | 0:15:52 | |
you know, it's hard. | 0:15:52 | 0:16:00 | |
I went to the university in nearby San Bernardino, to meet Brian Levin. | 0:16:00 | 0:16:06 | |
And I need your assignment by the end of class... | 0:16:06 | 0:16:11 | |
He's studying the effects of seismic shifts in America's racial make-up. | 0:16:11 | 0:16:16 | |
One of the things what we are seeing today, for instance 26% of Americans | 0:16:16 | 0:16:20 | |
are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:25 | |
Over the last half century, 59 million immigrants, many Mexican, | 0:16:25 | 0:16:30 | |
have changed the face of America. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:33 | |
In 40 years, white people may be a minority. | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
This demographic change has caused fear. | 0:16:37 | 0:16:42 | |
Not only fear because they believe that immigrants are causing issues | 0:16:42 | 0:16:47 | |
with regard to resources, but issues with regard to what's | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
happening to our cultural heritage and the colour of our country. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:58 | |
Donald Trump's message is simple and alluring. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
Put America first. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
The American Dream is dead. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:14 | |
But if I get elected President, I will bring it back bigger, | 0:17:14 | 0:17:19 | |
and better and stronger than ever before and we will make | 0:17:19 | 0:17:24 | |
America great again. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:30 | |
Donald Trump's campaign tactics are stoking division. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:35 | |
The American Dream was never about a country tearing | 0:17:35 | 0:17:37 | |
itself up over race. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:44 | |
In the last fortnight, eight policemen have been killed | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
following the recent police shootings of two black men. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:57 | |
This year in America, police have killed over 200 black | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
and Hispanic people. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:08 | |
By night, Bakersfield is alive with the sound of sirens. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:12 | |
Police across Kern County killed 13 people last year. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
More per head than any other county in the US. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:24 | |
What did you name him? | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
This is Ronnie Ledesma - a local 39-year-old oil worker - | 0:18:27 | 0:18:31 | |
and a new granddad. | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
Back up, back up! | 0:18:34 | 0:18:38 | |
He's screaming, he's screaming just for his life. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
Joseph Gomez is his son-in-law. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
Ronnie was arrested - presumed drunk. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
Then struck repeatedly with a baton on his body and head. | 0:18:48 | 0:18:55 | |
Put your hands behind your back. | 0:18:55 | 0:19:02 | |
Three officers held him down while the police dog savaged him. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:05 | |
He's obviously been mauled on by the canine which he's, | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
the officer's allowing him enough room on the rope to continue | 0:19:09 | 0:19:12 | |
and he's just simply trying to get away from the dog, | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
he's simply trying to avoid it. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:20 | |
Quit resisting, do not kick the deputies again. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:21 | |
They shout out these, stop resisting, stop resisting, | 0:19:22 | 0:19:23 | |
and he's not resisting, he's just, he's hurting, | 0:19:24 | 0:19:25 | |
he's in pain. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:30 | |
Joseph Gomez believes racist attitudes amongst local police means | 0:19:31 | 0:19:33 | |
Hispanics are targeted. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:37 | |
I would say there is racists within it, I wouldn't say everybody, | 0:19:38 | 0:19:42 | |
but I know there is coz you feel it, it's very evident here, | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
it's very evident. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
It's dark over here. | 0:19:48 | 0:19:49 | |
It's dark. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:51 | |
Ronnie Ledesma died eight days after his beating. | 0:19:51 | 0:19:55 | |
Police say he "appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and drugs" | 0:19:55 | 0:20:01 | |
and physical force was necessary because he "became combative". | 0:20:01 | 0:20:06 | |
His death was ruled accidental. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
But his family is taking legal action against the police. | 0:20:09 | 0:20:14 | |
At David's local cafe most people we spoke to want tough policing. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:19 | |
Kern County Police have the highest number of killings of anywhere | 0:20:20 | 0:20:21 | |
in the United States so is that a... | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
Go cops. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:25 | |
I love it. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:25 | |
What do you think of that, Steve? | 0:20:26 | 0:20:26 | |
Go cops. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:27 | |
Go cops. | 0:20:27 | 0:20:28 | |
But you don't have any problem with that... | 0:20:29 | 0:20:30 | |
None whatsoever. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:31 | |
..number of police killings? | 0:20:31 | 0:20:32 | |
It could be 500, I wish it was higher. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
David was not alone in his views. | 0:20:35 | 0:20:37 | |
I'm an American man and Americans over the centuries we don't tolerate | 0:20:38 | 0:20:43 | |
BS from anybody. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:46 | |
That's right. | 0:20:46 | 0:20:47 | |
It's the name of the game for America. | 0:20:47 | 0:20:48 | |
If you're gonna mess with us, you're gonna get messed back. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
We don't know whether these people are guilty or innocent | 0:20:52 | 0:20:53 | |
until it's too late. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:55 | |
I don't know, but you can ask him... | 0:20:55 | 0:20:56 | |
Isn't that a bit of a problem? | 0:20:56 | 0:20:57 | |
If a man pulls a gun on you, you're trained to take care of him. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:01 | |
Tommy, a retired local police officer, was | 0:21:01 | 0:21:04 | |
a lone voice of dissent. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:07 | |
I know of several shootings here in Kern County | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
that absolutely stink. | 0:21:10 | 0:21:11 | |
So you think there's a problem? | 0:21:12 | 0:21:14 | |
Yeah, absolutely, and they're cleared constantly. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
Most of them have been non-whites? | 0:21:16 | 0:21:18 | |
Well, that's because they do most of the crime. | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
When you've got a tonne of them out there doing the crime, | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
sure their numbers are going to be higher because that's | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
what they're doing. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
Donald Trump has stoked this perception. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
He retweeted an inflammatory and inaccurate claim. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
That 81% of white people are murdered by black people. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:42 | |
He is tweeting a figure that says that 81% of whites are killed | 0:21:42 | 0:21:45 | |
by blacks, it's not true, it's completely a wrong figure. | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
OK, so it's not 81, so it's 77, so it's 65, so it's 40, | 0:21:49 | 0:21:50 | |
the idea is that black people commit a lot of crimes. | 0:21:51 | 0:21:59 | |
In fact, FBI figures show most whites are killed by whites. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:04 | |
But David and his friends weren't in the mood to let statistics get | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
in the way of their belief that black people and immigrants | 0:22:07 | 0:22:12 | |
are responsible for high crime levels. | 0:22:12 | 0:22:15 | |
More immigrants have not meant more crime. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
We have had a sustained decline in both property and violent crime | 0:22:19 | 0:22:26 | |
from 1990 into today, but it doesn't matter because facts | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
will not reverberate as much as fear and emotion. | 0:22:30 | 0:22:36 | |
Donald Trump has said he likes to plays to people's fantasies. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:42 | |
He's selling himself as America's strongman. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
I am sick of fair and reasonable. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:50 | |
I want somebody to take the bull by the horns and at least attempt | 0:22:50 | 0:22:51 | |
to do something. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:52 | |
Whether he can get it done or not, that's a different story. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:54 | |
He's a salesman. | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
I mean, he's a businessman. | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
He's selling the idea of what folks wanna hear and what they wanna see. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:05 | |
And many Americans want to see a tough line on Islamist terror. | 0:23:05 | 0:23:09 | |
Trump has one. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:14 | |
Donald J Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown | 0:23:15 | 0:23:19 | |
of Muslims entering the United States until our | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:28 | |
It was a calculated move. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:37 | |
Coming soon after the terror attack not far from Bakersfield, | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
in San Bernardino. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
Here 14 people were killed when a local couple | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
of Pakistani descent opened fire in an office party. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:54 | |
Our plan was to make it in three phases. | 0:23:55 | 0:23:57 | |
First it's the community centre, then we'll build the mosque, | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
then the school. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
Saif Ahmed wants to build a large new mosque in Bakersfield | 0:24:04 | 0:24:07 | |
for the Muslims here. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:09 | |
We've always found when we build a mosque, pretty soon | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
we run out of space. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
There's local resistance. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
Saif no longer feels welcome here. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
When I came to this country in 1978, I was so impressed how | 0:24:20 | 0:24:23 | |
the minorities were treated, how everybody was treating us. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:31 | |
Trump has more recently said the ban would apply only to Muslims | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
from countries with terrorist ties. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:40 | |
But that hasn't made Saif feel any more secure. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
There is more animosity now as compared to after 9/11 | 0:24:44 | 0:24:51 | |
because now the presidential candidate, people on TV are talking | 0:24:51 | 0:24:55 | |
anti-Muslims and so people think that's the right thing to do. | 0:24:56 | 0:24:57 | |
Now they look at you as if, you know, you belong to a religion | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
which is mostly terrorists. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:07 | |
To lay people like me, Muslims have a certain look | 0:25:07 | 0:25:11 | |
and I don't know that that's right, I just feel like OK, | 0:25:12 | 0:25:13 | |
I don't like that person, you know. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:16 | |
I would just stop the whole thing long enough to figure out | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
what we got because if we save one person's life, American's life, | 0:25:19 | 0:25:23 | |
it's worth stopping everybody from coming in. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:28 | |
What Trump has said is, it's the other, these people | 0:25:30 | 0:25:31 | |
who are not quite Americans, indeed possible enemies of America. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:37 | |
Mexicans who are rapists and criminals and maybe some good | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
people, or Muslims who, gee, Islam hates us. | 0:25:41 | 0:25:49 | |
What Donald Trump has created is an authoritative leadership brand | 0:25:50 | 0:25:54 | |
that will say that the other is not going to have sway over | 0:25:55 | 0:25:58 | |
this country anymore. | 0:25:58 | 0:26:02 | |
In May, David finally got to see the man who's shocked much | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
of America, and inspired the rest. | 0:26:06 | 0:26:10 | |
We're gonna keep winning, winning, winning and we're gonna make | 0:26:10 | 0:26:12 | |
America great again! | 0:26:13 | 0:26:19 | |
Many of Donald Trump's core supporters are white, | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
low income, less educated. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
Not all have views as extreme as David's. | 0:26:27 | 0:26:31 | |
But they're all fired up by Trump's campaign. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:36 | |
I will gladly accept the mantle of anger. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
Illegal immigration is beyond belief. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
Our country is being run by incompetent people - | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
and ,yes, I am angry. | 0:26:47 | 0:26:52 | |
The question now - can Donald Trump take | 0:26:52 | 0:26:55 | |
the White House? | 0:26:55 | 0:26:58 | |
Donald Trump is going to have a difficult time winning key | 0:26:59 | 0:27:00 | |
states with large Latino and immigrant populations | 0:27:01 | 0:27:03 | |
like California, but here's the thing. | 0:27:03 | 0:27:06 | |
If God forbid there's a terrorist attack or some kind of catalytic | 0:27:06 | 0:27:08 | |
event that feeds into these fears, people are gonna vote with emotion | 0:27:09 | 0:27:12 | |
and their gut and not with their head and policies. | 0:27:12 | 0:27:20 | |
America has never seen a candidate quite like this. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
Many Republicans, worried they could lose November's election, | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
want him to tone down his message. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:33 | |
Politics can turn on a dime, you know, so he's still running | 0:27:33 | 0:27:36 | |
and if or when he is the candidate to run for President, | 0:27:36 | 0:27:43 | |
I think we'll see a new Trump, that's what I'm hoping for. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:48 | |
But Donald Trump has built an entire movement on the raw | 0:27:49 | 0:27:51 | |
emotions of millions. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
He speaks to their fears, directs their frustration. | 0:27:55 | 0:28:01 | |
I think Donald Trump opened up Pandora's Box to what's been hidden | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
with all the racism and hatred that's been in the United States. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:10 | |
I figured they gave him, like, a free card to go | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
ahead and be racist. | 0:28:13 | 0:28:17 | |
The Trump phenomenon, I realised in Bakersfield, | 0:28:18 | 0:28:22 | |
is not so much about the man, it's about the anger and resentment | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
of millions that now has a voice. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:30 | |
I've never seen my country so fearful and divided. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:33 |