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Teddy and Booker T. · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  We have Frederick Douglas, who was an idol of Booker T. Washington.
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  They met, he spoke at Tuskegee, a school that Booker founded, and
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  there was six year old Teddy Roosevelt looking out the window on Broadway. You've
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  been on Broadway looking at the body of Abraham Lincoln in eighteen sixty five after
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  he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. His grandfather made Cherry saw him,
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  and from that moment he remembers always idolizing Lincoln. So I thought, to
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  these two guys that could talk about race and American move us forward. When
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  I first started doing these books, I thought, wouldn't it be great if
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  I had newspeople interested in history? And now what are we talking about on
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  our shows? We're talking about the war on history. They're taking down Jackson,
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  they're taking down Columbus, they're moving Jefferson out of City Hall, and
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  then all of a sudden they're boxing up Teddy Roosevelt statue and moving it away
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  because they don't feel he's politically correcting us. In twenty twenty two, and
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  now, I thought, let me talk to the Roosevelt people, goes Booker
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  T. Washington team with Teddy Roosevelt to move us forward on race relations.
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  And I just think we need a perspective when you have Megan Rappino, who
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  doesn't think we're far enough along as a country to stand up during the national
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  anthem, and another quarterback taking a knee because he wasn't starting for the forty
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  nine ers. I thought, if you read what Booker t overcame to move
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  us forward and what Teddy did to defy his times, I thought that you
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  might have a perspective on why were the most successful multicultural country in the history
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  of the world Because two people came from the outer reaches, different worlds to
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  combine and make our country better. And that's the story I tried to tell.