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College Student Beliefs · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American Mamas. Dear Mamas, do
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  Speaker 1: you think college students need to hide their conservative beliefs
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  Speaker 1: in order to pass certain classes?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American Mamas.
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  Speaker 3: Mamas, Mamas, Mamas.
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  Speaker 2: And I told me not to come. She said, that
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  Speaker 2: ain't the way to happen, no.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now are American Mamas, Terry Nedeville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burleson. You know, I'm thinking back to when we
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  Speaker 1: first started doing American Ground Radio nine plus years ago.
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  Speaker 1: This was one of the first questions that you and
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  Speaker 1: Terry and Denise talked about at the time before Kimberly
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  Speaker 1: came on board. so our conversation at the time was, yeah, there,
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  Speaker 1: there's students, conservative students in college are having to hide
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  Speaker 1: their conservative beliefs. Do you think that's still going on?
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  Speaker 2: It's still going on.
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  Speaker 3: I just saw, there was this, I don't know, Steven Crowder.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He just had like, yeah, he just had his first
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  Speaker 3: change my mind debate and he had it with this
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  Speaker 3: law professor, Randall Kennedy in Boston.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the students in the crowd stood up
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  Speaker 3: and she said, I really feel like I need to
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  Speaker 3: hide the fact that I'm a conservative and to actually
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  Speaker 3: just pass. And then there was another person that said
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  Speaker 3: that her son has learned to play by their rules.
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  Speaker 2: He gets a.
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  Speaker 3: Feeling for how that professor thinks And he knows if
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  Speaker 3: I don't sound like he needs me to sound, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to pass. And I thought, what the freaking freak?
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  Speaker 2: This makes me crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But then you reminded me of what happened even at
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  Speaker 3: Louisiana Tech University. You would think, you would totally, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: same thing is happening at that school.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I was about to read some of what she said,
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  Speaker 2: but you covered it perfectly. That's exactly how it went.
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  Speaker 2: The problem or one of the issues is they don't
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  Speaker 2: have teachers, all of them coming from America. They have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of teachers that come in from other places.
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  Speaker 2: DEI hiring.
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  Speaker 1: DEI.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so Steele played baseball, but on top of playing baseball,
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  Speaker 2: it was important to him to get all A's.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: He's just that kid. He wanted to go to medical school.
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  Speaker 1: And he wanted to go to medical school and be.
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  Speaker 2: Great at that. And he knew that everything mattered. That
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  Speaker 2: was his focus, his priority. And he was making all A's.
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  Speaker 2: And then this one teacher, and he knew, he could
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  Speaker 2: tell from all the classes where the professor leaned.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And he'd have to be careful without compromising his own
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  Speaker 2: belief system. The Democrat kids didn't have to worry about that,
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  Speaker 2: but the conservative ones absolutely did. They would pay for
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  Speaker 2: it in their grades. This teacher tried to give him...
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  Speaker 2: It was like a failing grade on a test that
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  Speaker 2: would bring him down to a B. And he was like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you talking about? Long story short, he knew
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  Speaker 2: that she was wrong and he knew why she was
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  Speaker 2: wanting him to have a B in that class. And
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  Speaker 2: it became the principal. So over spring break, Steele decided,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. He talked
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  Speaker 2: to his coach. He told him the situation. He said,
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  Speaker 2: she's trying to act like that I got information from
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  Speaker 2: the teacher assistant illegally or whatever when I did everything
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  Speaker 2: by the book. I don't cheat. I don't have to cheat.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: People want to cheat off of me. And so he
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  Speaker 2: went in front of the board. I mean, I'm telling
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  Speaker 2: you from what I understand, the people on the board
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  Speaker 2: said that only one other person in the history of
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  Speaker 2: tech has been able to overrule a teacher legally. And
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  Speaker 2: Till Steele, he came in with his suit on and
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  Speaker 2: one of the board members, and it was four Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: three Democrats. And he told his story. He shared everything.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could remember exactly. He had the receipts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he had everything written down, everything just perfectly where it
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  Speaker 2: could not have been denied. And she showed up on
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  Speaker 2: the screen with her mask on. It was during COVID.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And so she didn't even have the courtesy to
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  Speaker 2: be there in person. Right. So she showed up on
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  Speaker 2: the screen and she had nothing that she could stay.
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  Speaker 2: So the board member that talked to me, who is
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat, said your son came in dressed in a suit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Had his point presentation. Yeah. Explained his issue. Told them
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  Speaker 2: why he felt like she was against him. Said he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't against her for her belief system. He just had
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  Speaker 2: his own. It was, I think, all but two. All
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  Speaker 2: but two sided with him. Wow. And his grade was
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  Speaker 2: an A. The teacher actually got reprimanded.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: She had to go. Yeah, she got reprimanded. And there
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  Speaker 2: was something she had to go to because of what
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  Speaker 2: was discovered through this process. Right. And I was so
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  Speaker 2: proud because I was the one going, it's just a B,
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  Speaker 2: let it go.
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  Speaker 1: But how many students would have had the one, the
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  Speaker 1: courage to do that and two, the ability to do that?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a rarity. And maybe that's why the bullying of
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  Speaker 1: conservatives has worked in universities is because it's been hard
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  Speaker 1: for people to stand up against it.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I think that you just hit the nail on
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  Speaker 2: the head. It became a moral issue for Steele. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Not the fact that he was going to get a
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  Speaker 2: B because a B is fine. It's above average. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't want that, but it became this, okay, you think
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  Speaker 2: you're going to win by bullying me and making me
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  Speaker 2: succumb to something that I don't deserve? Well, then I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to go all the way. He missed weeks, and
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  Speaker 2: his coach was so proud of him. And the coach
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  Speaker 2: was talking to some of the leaders in the community, saying,
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  Speaker 2: this has to stop. I'm having a lot of my
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  Speaker 2: boys coming in talking to me about this going on
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  Speaker 2: in the classrooms. We have to do something about this.
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  Speaker 2: And now we see it's happening at Harvard, the same situation.
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  Speaker 1: And it was probably happening at Harvard long before Louisiana Tech.
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  Speaker 1: But if it's happening at Louisiana Tech, it's happening basically everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd like to ask our American Mamas a question,
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  Speaker 1: the Ask the Mamas button. Terry Netto, Kimberly Burleson, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.