Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / FTTxJT 061826 P21s Terris Todd
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- 0:10Speaker 1: On your to do list, putting the radio on is
- 0:13Speaker 1: the first thing today.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Thanks, and let me me be of service to you.
- 0:28Speaker 2: It is a puzzlement to me, and even more so
- 0:32Speaker 2: an embarrassing puzzlement because for years, you know, it has
- 0:38Speaker 2: been commonplace to watch Juneteenth get celebrated by pandering leftists
- 0:46Speaker 2: who have been nothing but the bane of the black community,
- 0:50Speaker 2: when really it's a holiday celebrating one of the great
- 0:53Speaker 2: moments in Republican history, the final moment when the Texas
- 0:59Speaker 2: communities found out about the culmination and the victory of
- 1:04Speaker 2: the Republicans over slavery in the Civil War. To talk
- 1:09Speaker 2: about it a little bit is one of the executive
- 1:11Speaker 2: director's director of Coalitions and Outreach for the Project twenty
- 1:16Speaker 2: one Black Leadership Network, The Great Terrorist Todd is back
- 1:20Speaker 2: on with us this morning. Terrorists happy Juneteenth? Am I wrong? Though?
- 1:25Speaker 3: That? This?
- 1:26Speaker 2: Why do Republicans hide from June teenth? This is a
- 1:29Speaker 2: holiday we invented.
- 1:32Speaker 3: You know what. Thanks for having me on.
- 1:34Speaker 4: You are absolutely correct, and that's just the facts, you know,
- 1:39Speaker 4: And you're right. The left has always anything that resembles freedom,
- 1:42Speaker 4: They somehow have you know, kind of taken ownership of
- 1:47Speaker 4: when in fact, it was the other way around. It's
- 1:50Speaker 4: the same thing with the Civil Rights Act of sixty
- 1:51Speaker 4: four Voting Rights Act of sixty five, those two bills
- 1:54Speaker 4: would not have gotten passed had it not been for Republicans.
- 1:58Speaker 4: They actually unanimously actually voted in support of those two bills,
- 2:02Speaker 4: and it was their bill to begin with. So June
- 2:04Speaker 4: teenth is the same. You know, we know that the
- 2:07Speaker 4: left were the ones that were constantly pushing to keep
- 2:11Speaker 4: slavery intact, you know, and you're right, You're absolutely right.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Sometimes you know what happens is when they started taking ownership,
- 2:18Speaker 4: then the right usually kind of takes a step back
- 2:21Speaker 4: and allow them to own it. But that's actually not
- 2:24Speaker 4: the case. You know, I think they have every right
- 2:26Speaker 4: to own it simply because had the Emancipation Proclamation not
- 2:31Speaker 4: been proclaimed, June teenth would not exist.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Right, And see, that's the thing, you know, and the
- 2:37Speaker 2: Republican Party, for all of its failings today, was founded
- 2:41Speaker 2: on the idea of opposing slavery and creating a political
- 2:45Speaker 2: movement to oppose the execrable commerces. Jeff Jefferson called it.
- 2:51Speaker 4: You're absolutely right, and it was actually the very first home.
- 2:54Speaker 4: It was exactly the first place where black Americans were
- 2:59Speaker 4: actually elected, you know, and they took a position in
- 3:04Speaker 4: the Republican legislature and whatnot.
- 3:06Speaker 3: And this was in the South.
- 3:08Speaker 4: These were individuals from the Southern states that have risen
- 3:11Speaker 4: to power, so even many many years, even before you know,
- 3:15Speaker 4: they became Democrats. So yeah, so it was the original
- 3:18Speaker 4: home of black Americans for sure.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Well, so how do we and we're watching this battle
- 3:24Speaker 2: President Obama and his I don't know every depending on
- 3:27Speaker 2: the angle, it looks like a housing complex or a
- 3:30Speaker 2: penitentiary his president museum on the side of the lake there.
- 3:35Speaker 2: But in his speech, he you know, he talks about
- 3:37Speaker 2: how the founders failed this country, and it's it's to me,
- 3:43Speaker 2: it's one of those conceits that says the country is
- 3:46Speaker 2: this abstract that does things rather than the people in it.
- 3:50Speaker 2: And there were lots of moral people who saw the
- 3:53Speaker 2: problem with slavery for years before we were an independent nation.
- 3:58Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right.
- 4:00Speaker 4: But we're also talking about the Obama that was also
- 4:04Speaker 4: elected twice. So when he talks about the founders have failed,
- 4:08Speaker 4: we're talking about someone who was elected twice by the
- 4:10Speaker 4: American people to be the president of this country and
- 4:14Speaker 4: who also failed to bring us together. You know, he
- 4:17Speaker 4: was the first mulatto president. You know, that's just what
- 4:20Speaker 4: it is. He's a biracial man, he's not a black man.
- 4:23Speaker 4: But he had the best of both worlds and failed
- 4:26Speaker 4: to bring us together as one. And so so that's
- 4:29Speaker 4: who we're actually hearing, you know, kind of state those messages.
- 4:32Speaker 4: But he also told Black Americans years ago. I recall
- 4:35Speaker 4: when he told them to stop crying and stop whining
- 4:38Speaker 4: about stuff. So Black Americans were really upset about those comments.
- 4:43Speaker 2: Well, well, you know this is the thing, I mean,
- 4:45Speaker 2: ever since, and I went back, I played that wonderful
- 4:47Speaker 2: passage Sean Cullum, the actor and singer from the film
- 4:52Speaker 2: seventeen seventy six, you know, lashes to slaves and you know,
- 4:57Speaker 2: putting to music the South Carolina an opposition to and
- 5:02Speaker 2: you imagine a different United States if that passage of
- 5:05Speaker 2: the Declaration of Independence had been allowed to stay. But
- 5:09Speaker 2: I connected it to our modern problem with crony capitalism.
- 5:13Speaker 2: Our inability to get the Save Act passed is all
- 5:18Speaker 2: fruit of the same tree, because there's a business owner
- 5:21Speaker 2: that's given a politician money, so they don't they don't
- 5:24Speaker 2: do the right thing for the citizens. Terrorists talk about that.
- 5:28Speaker 3: No, you're absolutely right what they've done.
- 5:31Speaker 4: And it's unfortunate because the citizens and some people when
- 5:35Speaker 4: they lean on government and these politicians and whatnot, these
- 5:38Speaker 4: politicians have literally become God to them, and so they've
- 5:41Speaker 4: built an altar that they bow to to these people,
- 5:43Speaker 4: and so these folks can do no wrong. I mean,
- 5:46Speaker 4: you're going back to Obama, for example, the things that
- 5:49Speaker 4: he had done. No one would have known that he
- 5:51Speaker 4: dropped more bombs than any other recent president, but he
- 5:55Speaker 4: got away with it, and he got away with it
- 5:57Speaker 4: with a smile for goodness sake.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's trying to do the right thing for people.
- 6:01Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 6:02Speaker 2: I talked about this with conservatives all the time, and
- 6:05Speaker 2: I say things about Republicans mostly because it's the place
- 6:09Speaker 2: I find the most conservatives as a political party. Anyway,
- 6:12Speaker 2: Terrorist todd on with us from Project twenty one. But
- 6:15Speaker 2: Republicans inability to conservatives inability, or that seeming unwillingness to
- 6:20Speaker 2: address poverty, to acknowledge that poverty exists and that we
- 6:25Speaker 2: have better answers if we would just get off our
- 6:28Speaker 2: urses and talk about it. We need to do that
- 6:31Speaker 2: if we're going to win back our communities, especially the
- 6:34Speaker 2: poorer inner city ones, aren't we.
- 6:36Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely right, one hundred percent. And that's exactly
- 6:39Speaker 4: why we are celebrating, you know, fathers. We're celebrating Father's
- 6:44Speaker 4: Day and fatherhood in general. We just recently launched our
- 6:47Speaker 4: new Fatherhood monograph that we have at Project twenty one
- 6:51Speaker 4: where we're celebrating fathers and we're talking about solutions of
- 6:55Speaker 4: how to come against poverty. Well, when you remove the
- 6:58Speaker 4: head of the home, it's like taking the head off
- 7:00Speaker 4: the body, right, the body is sure to die if
- 7:02Speaker 4: the heads are not audit. And so when they decimated
- 7:04Speaker 4: the family again the left and they're bad policies with
- 7:08Speaker 4: the welfare state. When you start doing that, then families
- 7:12Speaker 4: are four times more likely and children are four times
- 7:14Speaker 4: more likely to end up in poverty.
- 7:16Speaker 3: So who wants that for anybody?
- 7:18Speaker 4: So the answer to poverty is to get fathers more
- 7:21Speaker 4: actively engaged back into the household, back in with their families,
- 7:24Speaker 4: promoting marriage and so on, promoting the Gospel of Christ
- 7:27Speaker 4: and putting them back where they belong. So that way
- 7:30Speaker 4: those families are least likely to end up in poverty
- 7:32Speaker 4: to begin with.
- 7:34Speaker 2: And the important part is that when young men black, white, Asian,
- 7:39Speaker 2: doesn't make a difference, but when they really take casually
- 7:43Speaker 2: the role of fatherhood. I use the phrase for public
- 7:48Speaker 2: consumption DNA don or I use a different phrase when
- 7:50Speaker 2: I'm speaking privately. You know, they just act like it's
- 7:54Speaker 2: just fun and then they can leave, and it drives
- 7:58Speaker 2: up the abortionists industry. It breaks the families up. And
- 8:02Speaker 2: I watched these politicians. We just had it here in Virginia,
- 8:06Speaker 2: a coalition of the damned. I call it. Abigail Spanberger
- 8:09Speaker 2: just joined Kathy Hokeel and Gavin Newsom, oh and all
- 8:14Speaker 2: the you know, the highlights of democratic leadership in this
- 8:19Speaker 2: coalition to quote protect abortion rights. But this all feeds
- 8:24Speaker 2: off that abdication of fatherhood, This this inability to teach
- 8:29Speaker 2: the importance of fatherhood. And so the young men of
- 8:33Speaker 2: the world are just going around, you know, having their fun,
- 8:37Speaker 2: and it is fun. I'm not going to sit here
- 8:39Speaker 2: and be approved and say, oh, not fun. It's fun
- 8:42Speaker 2: for a reason, because we're supposed to be fruitful and
- 8:44Speaker 2: multiply and the importance of that, and I want to
- 8:47Speaker 2: talk about that fatherhood. My name is Bobby.
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- 8:54Speaker 1: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
- 8:56Speaker 1: weightlifting champion. I'm Sam, I'm a veteran.
- 9:00Speaker 5: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
- 9:02Speaker 5: of and supporting my family.
- 9:04Speaker 6: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
- 9:07Speaker 6: of their lives.
- 9:08Speaker 3: I'm a veteran.
- 9:10Speaker 1: My victory was going from homeless to all.
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- 9:16Speaker 6: the benefits they've earned.
- 9:17Speaker 4: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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- 9:34Speaker 6: We helped more than a million veterans every year as
- 9:37Speaker 6: they face and conquer their challenges.
- 9:39Speaker 2: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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- 10:06Speaker 3: To do list.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Putting the radio on is the stir the years I
- 10:19Speaker 1: have of them fallen.
- 10:23Speaker 4: I've been every time of a.
- 10:28Speaker 5: Man and.
- 10:31Speaker 2: That's a radio life for you, isn't it?
- 10:33Speaker 4: Fine?
- 10:33Speaker 1: Never had control.
- 10:37Speaker 2: Off the table in mycle, but.
- 10:42Speaker 4: Somehow you never did.
- 10:45Speaker 2: Give upon celebrating Pride Month all month along here on
- 10:50Speaker 2: first thing today by Joe Thomas, Terrorist Todd on with
- 10:54Speaker 2: us Project twenty one, one of the directors especially in
- 10:59Speaker 2: the world about red We need more of this. We
- 11:01Speaker 2: were talking Juneteenth, but Sunday is Father's Day and you
- 11:05Speaker 2: brought it up, Terrorists, and I wanted to dig some
- 11:08Speaker 2: further into that, Terris, talk more about what Project twenty
- 11:12Speaker 2: one is going to be doing to help promote fatherhood.
- 11:17Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:17Speaker 4: Well, one of the things that one of the approaches
- 11:19Speaker 4: that we've had is because one of the things that
- 11:22Speaker 4: we understand is that especially in the Black American community
- 11:25Speaker 4: in general, they lack education, and so as an education
- 11:30Speaker 4: outfit if you will, or program or initiative, one of
- 11:33Speaker 4: the things the reasons why we did the monograph to
- 11:35Speaker 4: begin with is an educational piece, is to literally get
- 11:38Speaker 4: it in the hands of people in these communities so
- 11:41Speaker 4: that way they understand the historical aspect of how did
- 11:45Speaker 4: we get to where we are? Well, obviously we talked
- 11:47Speaker 4: about the welfare state and bad policy and whatnot, but
- 11:49Speaker 4: it also has become a norm, so it became a
- 11:52Speaker 4: political agenda for the left to keep pushing in these communities,
- 11:56Speaker 4: which is where they have a stronghold of We're saying, no,
- 12:01Speaker 4: that's been the wrong course of action. If we followed
- 12:03Speaker 4: the plan of God in the beginning, understanding the role
- 12:06Speaker 4: of a father and so on, giving children and whatnot,
- 12:09Speaker 4: our young man a model to model after, that's exactly
- 12:13Speaker 4: what we've tried to do, or what we attempted to
- 12:15Speaker 4: do in this monograph. And so anyway, that's exactly what
- 12:18Speaker 4: our approach has been. It's just really to educate the
- 12:20Speaker 4: public and then also to support ministers who are truly
- 12:24Speaker 4: sharing the gospel and the plan of God and how
- 12:26Speaker 4: the order of God should be where there's the head
- 12:29Speaker 4: of the household is the man and his wife, and
- 12:31Speaker 4: then they're raising their children alone, not the government handing
- 12:34Speaker 4: them over to the government to be to become dad
- 12:36Speaker 4: and become the parent. Because we've seen what disaster that
- 12:39Speaker 4: has become over the years.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Yeah, we were just talking to a fellow yesterday on
- 12:43Speaker 2: the program. Is a book called Yeah and now it's
- 12:47Speaker 2: a family unfriendly subtitle is how the Left has made
- 12:53Speaker 2: it seem impossible to raise a child. And it's a
- 12:57Speaker 2: lie because if you have a partner and then you
- 13:01Speaker 2: each have parents, you know, the whole phrase it takes
- 13:05Speaker 2: a village. What that really means is it means it
- 13:07Speaker 2: takes your parents and your wife's parents and you, and
- 13:11Speaker 2: that's more than enough coverage for your you know, however,
- 13:14Speaker 2: many kids here, isn't it terrace?
- 13:16Speaker 3: Yes? Oh man, it's you know what.
- 13:18Speaker 4: And I'm glad you said that because it's always been enough.
- 13:21Speaker 3: Think about it.
- 13:21Speaker 4: Our ancestors had a fraction of the resources we have today.
- 13:26Speaker 4: And you mean to tell me that the left has
- 13:28Speaker 4: co opted our women and men to first of all,
- 13:31Speaker 4: separate themselves, but they've co opted these women to think that, well,
- 13:36Speaker 4: even though our four mothers and four fathers or whatever
- 13:39Speaker 4: had birthed their children all these years, well.
- 13:42Speaker 3: We don't want to do that because we can't afford to.
- 13:44Speaker 3: What do you mean you can't afford to?
- 13:45Speaker 4: They did it with a fraction of what you have today,
- 13:48Speaker 4: and so that's the big lie, that you cannot afford
- 13:51Speaker 4: to have a child. Well, you should not be doing
- 13:53Speaker 4: things that will cause you to have a child to
- 13:55Speaker 4: begin with.
- 13:55Speaker 3: But if you're married, you know, that's why we're pushing
- 13:58Speaker 3: marriage as well. They're least likely to abort, you know, man,
- 14:02Speaker 3: and that is the plan.
- 14:03Speaker 4: So why would you want to keep pushing that agenda
- 14:06Speaker 4: when nobody wins in that? But if you're married and
- 14:09Speaker 4: stuff like that, and if the man is around, the
- 14:11Speaker 4: father's around, then women we know are least likely to
- 14:13Speaker 4: abort their children to begin with.
- 14:15Speaker 2: It is a horrible case of societal gas lighting terrorists.
- 14:20Speaker 2: From where I said, yes, you're told as president about
- 14:24Speaker 2: you didn't build that, and apparently we found out he
- 14:27Speaker 2: didn't pay for either because a lot of contractors haven't been.
- 14:30Speaker 3: Paid for their work.
- 14:33Speaker 2: Go figure, a Democrat president hasn't paid his bills.
- 14:37Speaker 3: But you mess upthing?
- 14:38Speaker 2: So how do people get involved with the Project twenty
- 14:41Speaker 2: one Initiatives on Fatherhood and Family Terrists?
- 14:45Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, they can actually go to Project twenty one
- 14:47Speaker 4: dot org. They can also download that monograph there. We
- 14:51Speaker 4: have a digital copy online, but if they would love
- 14:54Speaker 4: to have the hard copy, they could also shoot us
- 14:56Speaker 4: an email right on our website and give us their
- 14:59Speaker 4: name and address and so on, and we can actually
- 15:01Speaker 4: ship it out to them or because we're right here
- 15:03Speaker 4: in the district and maybe at some point I can
- 15:06Speaker 4: maybe meet with some people, but we can get it
- 15:08Speaker 4: in their hands, and that's been the goal. But yeah,
- 15:10Speaker 4: that's how they can get involved by doing that.
- 15:12Speaker 2: That's amazing and I so appreciate it. Project twenty one
- 15:16Speaker 2: is one of the great organizations that you know, I
- 15:19Speaker 2: don't feel like I mean, I could have somebody on
- 15:22Speaker 2: from Project twenty one every single day, Terras, And maybe
- 15:26Speaker 2: I should, because I just don't hear enough of my
- 15:29Speaker 2: brothers and sisters with you know, three four hours a
- 15:32Speaker 2: day of radio broadcasted across the United States, giving you
- 15:36Speaker 2: guys enough run there at the National Center for Public Policy.
- 15:40Speaker 2: But Terris, God bless you, and happy Father's Day weekend,
- 15:44Speaker 2: and I hope that you know you enjoy the blessings
- 15:47Speaker 2: and and know that you know, if one person, one
- 15:50Speaker 2: person changes their attitude on fatherhood because of what you do,
- 15:55Speaker 2: that's a sea change. And that's all that Jesus walked
- 15:58Speaker 2: the earth talking about.
- 16:00Speaker 4: Yes, sir, and that's been the goal all along, man,
- 16:02Speaker 4: It's to change at least one person at a time. Well,
- 16:05Speaker 4: God bless you. I have a great weekend, Happy Father's Day.
- 16:08Speaker 2: And you know it is I know we in the past,
- 16:11Speaker 2: we've had fun with founding Father's Day weekend. And I
- 16:14Speaker 2: think it's notable when Barack Obama talks about the failings
- 16:19Speaker 2: of the Founding Fathers when this is one of those
- 16:26Speaker 2: things that you look at and you say, well, what
- 16:30Speaker 2: did the Emancipation Proclamation do? It's June tenth. The Emancipation
- 16:36Speaker 2: Proclamation was actually something Thomas Jefferson decried the idea of,
- 16:44Speaker 2: and being a Jeffersonian scholar, that other Illinois senator that
- 16:49Speaker 2: became President, Abraham Lincoln, knew that there had to be
- 16:53Speaker 2: a second part. That Jefferson had warned in his letters
- 16:59Speaker 2: on the Virginia or something. Exact title is escaping file
- 17:05Speaker 2: folder right at this moment. But he said that if
- 17:09Speaker 2: you free the slaves with simply a stroke of the
- 17:11Speaker 2: pen and without making ready an economy for them to
- 17:21Speaker 2: get into, because you were just going to create a
- 17:23Speaker 2: population of people with absolutely nothing and no jobs. I mean,
- 17:27Speaker 2: his point being that you're not going to count on
- 17:29Speaker 2: the slave owners that just we just forced them to
- 17:35Speaker 2: get rid of. And this is what drove the Dixiecrats,
- 17:43Speaker 2: the folks who wanted to keep this execrable commerce to
- 17:47Speaker 2: hire John Wilkes Booth to go and assassinate Lincoln before
- 17:51Speaker 2: he could do his forty acres in a mule bit.
- 17:56Speaker 2: And even despite that, by the time the dawn of
- 18:00Speaker 2: the twentieth century is around, the black community has developed
- 18:05Speaker 2: massive wealth. The whole concept of Black Wall Street that
- 18:13Speaker 2: drove the Dixiecrats insane to the point of where they
- 18:16Speaker 2: had to riot against that. And it's more Milton Friedman
- 18:22Speaker 2: than it is John Locke, Or to be fair, Milton
- 18:28Speaker 2: Friedman would be more like Russell Kirk. If you're doing
- 18:32Speaker 2: the appropriate analogy, it's more it's more Adam Smith than
- 18:39Speaker 2: it is John Locke, because if you have a free market,
- 18:45Speaker 2: these free men went out and found places that needed
- 18:48Speaker 2: their services, made money, made great wealth for themselves.
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