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Where are u Dad's of every community? Ep 2822 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio program. I am
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Speaker 1: Gary mckenn's thank you for joining like to acknowledge God
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Speaker 1: and our listeners. On episode twenty and twenty one, a
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Speaker 1: special where are You Dad? Of every community, a lawyer
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Speaker 1: is trying to call his clients. The telephone rings, and
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Speaker 1: a little boy and a whisper says hello. The lawyer asks,
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Speaker 1: is your mommy there? The boy whispers yes, the lawyer,
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Speaker 1: Can I speak to her? The boy whispers, She's very busy, lawyer.
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Speaker 1: Is your daddy there? Boy whispers yes, lawyer. Can I
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Speaker 1: speak to him? Boy whispering, No, he's very busy, lawyer.
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Speaker 1: Is there anyone else there? Boy? Yes? The fire department
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Speaker 1: in a whisper, Lawyer, Can I talk to one of them?
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Speaker 1: The boy whispering, No, they're busy too, lawyer. Is there
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Speaker 1: anybody else there? The boy whispering? The police department? Lawyer, Well,
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Speaker 1: can I talk to one of them? Boy whispering, No,
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Speaker 1: they're busy too, lawyer. Let me get this straight. Your mother,
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Speaker 1: your father, the fire department, and the police department all
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Speaker 1: in your house and they're all busy. What are they doing?
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Speaker 1: The boy whispering, They're all looking for me. You don't
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Speaker 1: have the utmost greatest respect for My parents and I
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Speaker 1: came out of public housing. It was eight of us.
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Speaker 1: My father was a hard worker, jack of all trades
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Speaker 1: who attempted to teach my brothers and I the trades
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Speaker 1: for the survival of this real, real, cold and indifferent world.
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Speaker 1: Of course, we didn't get it at the time, at
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Speaker 1: least I know I did. That's not funny, especially when
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Speaker 1: my parents had came from you know, the black belt
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Speaker 1: of Alabama. Whether KKK chased my father as he was
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Speaker 1: sharing the story with me one day and his parents
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Speaker 1: into the pig fans, Well, they were gonna try to
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Speaker 1: do harmers, and which is why he had my dad
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Speaker 1: a problem with God, because those individuals wore crosses around
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Speaker 1: their necks with the hidden faces. But my dad took
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Speaker 1: care of his family. I, on the other hand, was
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Speaker 1: not the son, the sibling, the man, the husband, the father.
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Speaker 1: I wanted should have been, needed, to have been ought
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Speaker 1: to been or workaholic with real world consequences, And sadly,
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Speaker 1: I did not know how to be any of those things.
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Speaker 1: You know, imperfect man. You know, society tells you to
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Speaker 1: do this and do that and be successful. Which is
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Speaker 1: contrast to God and family. But you know what, I
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Speaker 1: thank God I'm not the man I used to be.
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Speaker 1: How about you, dads soon to be dads? Here in
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Speaker 1: the United States, fatherless homes our growing problem. Wait, hold
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Speaker 1: on it, do anybody miss hear what I just said? Well,
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Speaker 1: they put a certain skinned tone onto it. According to
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Speaker 1: the US Census Bureau, in twenty twenty, twenty four point
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Speaker 1: seven million children, thirty three percent in the United States
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Speaker 1: lived in fatherless homes, and this number has increased by
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Speaker 1: twenty five percent since nineteen sixty. There are several reasons
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Speaker 1: why children are growing up without their fathers, and we
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Speaker 1: don't talk about that today, you know, like events like divorce, separation, death.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's some other reasons like incarceration, abandonment, never
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Speaker 1: having been married. But in no way are these statistics
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Speaker 1: about children who come from fatherless homes intended to demean
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Speaker 1: the role of those single mom homes. Single moms are heroes,
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Speaker 1: but like all of us, they sometimes need help, and
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Speaker 1: these statistics about fatherless homes will address how widespread this
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Speaker 1: issue is the importance of having a present and involved father,
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Speaker 1: and how not having a father present, present and involved
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Speaker 1: affects children. I remember sadly working seventeen different projects and
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Speaker 1: I was taking my son when he was a little
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Speaker 1: went to a basketball court and know, don't all black
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Speaker 1: men play basketball? But I was teaching him and he said, Dad, yeah,
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Speaker 1: why do you always work the AFPI AFP as in
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Speaker 1: Paul i as an Idem put out a report across
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Speaker 1: America twenty twenty two, data indication there are, apart from
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Speaker 1: the eighteen point three million children who live without a
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Speaker 1: father and a home, comprising about one in four US children,
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Speaker 1: about eighty percent of single parent homes are lied by
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Speaker 1: single moms. Children from single parent families are twice as
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Speaker 1: likely to suffer from mental health and behavioral problems as
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Speaker 1: those living with married parents. And you know, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to do the sidebars because there are some of you
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Speaker 1: who remember, and you know, let me go back, because
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Speaker 1: remember those of you who can remember in public house
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Speaker 1: when it was permitted, like my parents, and maybe yours
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Speaker 1: or yours or yours here in the United States where
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Speaker 1: the two parent household was permitted. But the second part
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Speaker 1: is just because a child, where children are suffering from
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Speaker 1: mental health and behavior problem, doesn't mean that you should
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Speaker 1: always pump them on the inside with medication, the drugs
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Speaker 1: you think are helping them, then later on find out
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Speaker 1: it has been more harmful. And one study seventy percent
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Speaker 1: of youth in state operated facilities were from single parent houses.
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Speaker 1: Children was an actively engaged father perform uce veteran school.
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Speaker 1: Some data shows that there are thirty three percent less
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Speaker 1: likely to repeat a class and forty three percent more
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Speaker 1: likely to get AIDS in school. And a study of
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Speaker 1: fifty six school shootings, only ten of the shooters eighteen
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Speaker 1: percent were raised in a stable home with both biological parents.
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Speaker 1: Eighty two percent grew up in either an unstable family
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Speaker 1: environment or grew up without both biological parents together. Sidebark,
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Speaker 1: do you know it's a lot of shootings you hear
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Speaker 1: about in the United States are coming from individuals with
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Speaker 1: who come from two parent household. So I only say
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Speaker 1: that to say, depend on what factual studies you are
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Speaker 1: taking it from, like an official police report or whatever
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Speaker 1: the case may be, a sociology report, whatever the case
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Speaker 1: may be, children's services report, wherever the case may be,
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Speaker 1: court documents, whatever the case may be. But I say
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Speaker 1: that to say, you can't judge it. But I know
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Speaker 1: there's somebody out there, all of a sudden, all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, put a skin tone on it. Every community,
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Speaker 1: your skin and culture as well, should start with. On
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Speaker 1: earth Web, they put out a powerful report. Remember now
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Speaker 1: we've been listening to the reports from twenty twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty two. Earth Web put out a powerful
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Speaker 1: report percentage of black fatherless homes in the United States. Now,
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Speaker 1: notice what I just did. You've always heard me say,
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Speaker 1: you know, from a biblical spiritual standpoint, how that are
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Speaker 1: saved or started with his own community, the Jewish community,
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Speaker 1: and the importance that every respect of who you're trying
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Speaker 1: to help help, have you started with your own community
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Speaker 1: before reaching out branching out to help everybody? If led,
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Speaker 1: there's an alarming made of homes without fathers in the
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Speaker 1: past years. According to the studies from the Consensus Bureau,
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Speaker 1: Blacks are more likely to experience father of this households
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Speaker 1: than their counterparts. Why is that without you? Were you? Were? You? Were?
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Speaker 1: You making an assumption? This is a growing concern since
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Speaker 1: two parent homes are scientifically proved to have economic, developmental
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Speaker 1: and health related benefits for children. So let me ask
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Speaker 1: you a question. You don't mind do you, because it's
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Speaker 1: been interesting to me and for me, having come out
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Speaker 1: of a seclusion to look around and see a lot
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Speaker 1: of these faces who happen to be black out there
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Speaker 1: in the public square. And you always heard me pose
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Speaker 1: the question. We'll continue. You know who selected or elected
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Speaker 1: those individuals, because a lot of stuff I'm hearing and
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Speaker 1: have heard are from individuals who I don't know what
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Speaker 1: community they came from, and if they came from the
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Speaker 1: black community, depending on what segment of the black community.
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Speaker 1: It really doesn't sound like that, or as you've heard
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Speaker 1: me say, if you are if I use my community
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Speaker 1: as an example in yours, but I'm talking about mine. Remember,
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Speaker 1: but what I'm talking about today is for all dads.
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Speaker 1: But you've heard me ask impose a question that if
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Speaker 1: you have been selected or elected, and you live in
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Speaker 1: Alaska and you happened if you have the same skin tone,
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Speaker 1: how you become the expert of the of my community,
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Speaker 1: which is of your community. If I'm twelve, this bad
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Speaker 1: example of twelve billion miles away from you in the
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Speaker 1: United States, I don't know you, You don't know me.
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Speaker 1: Your household, my household is different than yours. There may
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Speaker 1: be some similarities depending. What is the percentage of black
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Speaker 1: fallowless homes in the United States in twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Now you remember, now, we're just in February, just arrived
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Speaker 1: in February. According to a survey from a reputable American
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Speaker 1: consensus institution, sixty seven percent of black children in the
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Speaker 1: United States under the age of eighteen living to fallow
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Speaker 1: us home. Now, look at this cold and in different
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Speaker 1: world out here. Look what's been going on without giving
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Speaker 1: an excuse, providing an excuse? This alarming rangers in start
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Speaker 1: contrast with their white fellows, with the latter recording only
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Speaker 1: twenty four percent, and the black fatherhood stereotype gaging the
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Speaker 1: percentage of black father's homes. There's not a new talk
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Speaker 1: of the town. In fact, the stereotype about black fatherhood
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Speaker 1: being absent the household started way back in nineteen sixty five.
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Speaker 1: It is now twenty twenty five. A report published by
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Speaker 1: white sociologists in the same year claims that verbs outside
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Speaker 1: marriage and homes ruled by single mothers will lead to
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Speaker 1: the destructions of black families over time. And since then,
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Speaker 1: black homes have been associated with turns like fatherless and
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Speaker 1: single parent homes, which are still evident today. You see
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Speaker 1: how you can make an assumption a judgment. I remember
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Speaker 1: I was asking my pastor at the time when I
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Speaker 1: was assigned to do executive protection work, and I said, well,
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Speaker 1: why me? And he said from a biblical standpoint. But
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Speaker 1: he didn't just say it from a biblical standpoint. He
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Speaker 1: set down here on earth. Remember now, a lot of
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Speaker 1: times we can be so heavily mine no earthly good
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Speaker 1: and vice versa. But he said, Geary, have you ever
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Speaker 1: thought that maybe you're around that prison because you're the
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Speaker 1: only black person that they've ever been around, even in
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Speaker 1: their own upbringing. And what you represent, what you show professionally,
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Speaker 1: and what you discussed professionally, is what they're going to
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Speaker 1: take back to their community. Although black families evidently dominate
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Speaker 1: fatherless homes, such is also the case with other cultures.
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Speaker 1: It is not just a black thing, if that's what
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Speaker 1: you're concerned about. Look at the dead on the percentage
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Speaker 1: of children living exclusively with their mothers on end in
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Speaker 1: every decade since nineteen sixty. Characterize Let's start with the
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Speaker 1: first one black nineteen sixty. You know, I loved going
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Speaker 1: back like I did when we were talking about slavery.
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Speaker 1: If you look at the previous episodes, nineteen point nine
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Speaker 1: percent of children belonging to this group lived without their
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Speaker 1: fathers during the decade nineteen seventy, twenty nine point five
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Speaker 1: percent of children belonging live it out their fathers during
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Speaker 1: the decade nineteen eighty. Forty three point nine percent of
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Speaker 1: children lived out their fathers during the decade nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: fifty one point two percent of children two thousand, fifty
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Speaker 1: one point one percent of children twenty ten, forty eight
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Speaker 1: point five percent of children lived out their fathers during
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Speaker 1: the dead in the Black community. But hold on, hold on,
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Speaker 1: you thought I was gonna leave out your community. Remember now,
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Speaker 1: isn't the topic today about all dads in nineteen sixty
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Speaker 1: If we talk about the white community, six point one
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Speaker 1: percent of children belonging lived out their fathers during the
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Speaker 1: decade nineteen seventy seven point eight percent, the same nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty thirteen point five percent, the same nineteen ninety sixteen
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Speaker 1: point two percent, the same, two thy seventeen point three percent,
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Speaker 1: the same twenty ten, eighteen point three percent, the same
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Speaker 1: lived out their fathers during the decade. Hispanic community nineteen
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Speaker 1: eighty nineteen point six percent of children lived out their
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Speaker 1: fathers during the decade nineteen ninety twenty seven point one percent,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty five point one percent, twenty ten
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Speaker 1: twenty six point three percent, and as can be seen
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Speaker 1: from the day that black children more likely to experience
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Speaker 1: father's homes compared to his spanning and whites. On the
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Speaker 1: other hand, the percentage is growing swiftly for the white
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Speaker 1: population households with the absence of fathers, where the meager
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Speaker 1: percentage of six point one percent in the nineteen sixties, However,
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Speaker 1: the numbers have inflated to eighteen point three percent in
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Speaker 1: twenty ten. Nevertheless, still has the lowest percentage of fallow
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Speaker 1: this home among the other participating cultures. How about the
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Speaker 1: children raising a single parents structure, It may be either
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Speaker 1: that the father of the mother's missing start with my community.
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Speaker 1: Two thousand, fifteen six point three million, or sixty six
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Speaker 1: percent of the children lived in single parent families during
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Speaker 1: the year two thousand, sixteen six point two million, or
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Speaker 1: sixty six percent. Two thousand seventeen six point one million
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Speaker 1: or sixty five percent. Two thousand, eighteen six point one
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Speaker 1: million or sixty five percent. Two thousand, nineteen five point
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Speaker 1: nine million, or sixty four percent, twenty twenty one five
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Speaker 1: point six million or sixty four percent. Hispanic community in
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Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, seven point one million, or forty two
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Speaker 1: percent of children lived in a single parent family during
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Speaker 1: the year. Two thousand sixteen seven point two million for
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Speaker 1: forty two percent, two thousand seventeen seven point two million
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Speaker 1: for forty one percent, twenty eighteen seven point three million
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Speaker 1: for forty one percent, twenty nineteen seven point three million,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one seven point four million, or forty two percent.
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Speaker 1: How about the white non Hispanic two thousand and fifteen
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Speaker 1: eight point nine million or twenty five percent, twenty sixteen
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Speaker 1: eight point seven million, two thousand and seventeen eight point
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Speaker 1: six million, twenty eighteen eight point five million, twenty nineteen
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Speaker 1: eight point four million, twenty twenty one seven point nine million,
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Speaker 1: or twenty four percent of children lived in a single
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Speaker 1: parent family during the year. Fatherless homes and his implication
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Speaker 1: on child development. The alarming percentage of black fatherless homes
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Speaker 1: is putting his implications on child development in question. According
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Speaker 1: to studies, childre oldren who grow up with two biological
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Speaker 1: parents or more likely to graduate from college than those
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Speaker 1: living in single parent and step parents settings. In numbers,
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Speaker 1: only fifteen percent of children from single parent households graduate
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Speaker 1: from college. This is a lower percentage than those with
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Speaker 1: complete parental figures, which is at twenty eight percent. And
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Speaker 1: the conclusion is that black homes have often been associated
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Speaker 1: with fatherless since the nineteen sixties. While the percentage of
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Speaker 1: Black children living without their fathers has considerably eased in
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Speaker 1: the past decades, it remains the highest among all cultures
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Speaker 1: in the United States. Let me do a side form
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Speaker 1: real quick, you or me say that coming out of seclusion,
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Speaker 1: I look around and I see all the division, and
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Speaker 1: I see and always questions, always ask the most the question,
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Speaker 1: what's the motive, especially as relates to relationships. When you
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Speaker 1: have individuals doing divisive techniques and tactics. Have you been
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Speaker 1: watching that? Do you understand? And that's apart from two
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Speaker 1: individuals having their own individual problems as imperfect human beings
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Speaker 1: without giving an excuse. But what happens next is when
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Speaker 1: other individuals entered into the picture and they've had their
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Speaker 1: own personal problems, and they impose or project their personal
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Speaker 1: problems unto you, and all of a sudden, it interjects,
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Speaker 1: you interjected into your relationship with that other person. Now
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Speaker 1: you're at OZ. Now you've enjoy based upon what because
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Speaker 1: of what of the same gender, and now you're taking
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Speaker 1: size against without you two working it out, depending on
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Speaker 1: what it's all about. The percentage of black fathers home
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Speaker 1: is at high sixty seven percent. The absence of a
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Speaker 1: parental figures associated with higher chances of dropping out of college,
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Speaker 1: the worst of getting incarcerated over time. So the question
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Speaker 1: still you got to ask that who really cares? And
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Speaker 1: there's some people that may be able to believe that
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Speaker 1: why should they care? But if you look around today
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Speaker 1: and you see all the problems that you're having, and
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, like they talk about the last
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Speaker 1: election or the recent election, why the black male. If
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Speaker 1: we talk about the black male, can't speak about any
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Speaker 1: other male. You can talk about the white male. You
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Speaker 1: can talk about the Latino male, you can talk about
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Speaker 1: the age of male, but don't forget about the Native
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Speaker 1: American male. You and don't forget about the Jewish male
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Speaker 1: and others. What effects does father listeners have? Spiritually? America
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Speaker 1: is facing a crisis crime. Look what's going on in
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Speaker 1: the United States, poverty, addiction, and emotional and educational failures
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Speaker 1: are skyrockinging. But the root caused, remember cause ative factors
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Speaker 1: often gets ignored. The breakdown of the family, a two
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Speaker 1: parent house. That is not just a nice idea. It's
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Speaker 1: essential to solving many of society's problems. Kindo Qualls, the
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Speaker 1: founder of Take Charge, argues that America has lost its way.
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Speaker 1: We've got to get back to the roots of family, faith,
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Speaker 1: and education. He puts faith first, which I agree. He says,
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Speaker 1: emphasizing that the collapse the traditional family unit is at
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Speaker 1: the core of America's woes. In the past, eighty percent
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Speaker 1: of black children were raising their two parent homes. Today
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Speaker 1: that numbers reversed. Eighty percent of Black children are now
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Speaker 1: born into father's homes. But this isn't just a black issue.
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Speaker 1: So take your perception lead aside, because you know, if
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Speaker 1: you are an expert of some sort and you're presenting
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Speaker 1: your expertise to whatever organization for grant wise, or whatever
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Speaker 1: else the case may be, and you're laying out the
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Speaker 1: facts for them and every line on you, then they
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Speaker 1: may be also relying on your misperception of your perception
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Speaker 1: of a community, which happens to be black, but it
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Speaker 1: also can be applicable to your community, your community, your community.
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Speaker 1: But Quars goes on and say that the statistics are staggering,
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Speaker 1: but it led us to be known that fatherlessness is
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Speaker 1: on the rise in white and his Spanish communities. As
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Speaker 1: you just heard me share, He says, fatherless children are
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Speaker 1: more likely to suffer from poverty, substance abuse, educational failure,
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Speaker 1: and run ins with the law. Now, think about that.
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Speaker 1: You've heard me on recent episodes talk about the hopeless,
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Speaker 1: the helpless, the hurting, the homeless. You've heard me talk
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Speaker 1: about Look at what's going on in America right now.
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Speaker 1: Look at the people in New York and Chicago and
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Speaker 1: elsewhere coming against their elected officials, saying, letting it be
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Speaker 1: clearly known that they put you in office, but you're
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Speaker 1: not doing anything for them. And look at their effects poverty,
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Speaker 1: substance abuse, educational failure, and running with laws. Take charge.
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Speaker 1: Data shows that seventy five percent of kids and substance
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Speaker 1: abuse center and seventy one percent of high school dropouts
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Speaker 1: come from fatherless homes. America now has the highest rate
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Speaker 1: of children living in a single parent households in the world.
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Speaker 1: That's one in four children, or twenty four million kids
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Speaker 1: without a father. Think about that only if you want to. So.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to look at it from a national standpoint.
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Speaker 1: You don't even want to look at it from a
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Speaker 1: state standpoint. You don't want to look at it from
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Speaker 1: a county standpoint. You don't want to look at it
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Speaker 1: from a township standpoint. Okay, you don't want to look
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Speaker 1: at it from a neighborhood standpoint. You don't even want
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Speaker 1: to look at it from a place of worship standpoint,
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Speaker 1: or your city to go inside your home. Let me
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Speaker 1: continue with class. As Quass bluntly states, we don't have
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Speaker 1: a systematic racism problem. We have a fatherless home problem,
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Speaker 1: and the damage is undeniable. Our prisoners are full of
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Speaker 1: young men who would love to have had a father
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Speaker 1: growing up. He says, we must return to the family unit.
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Speaker 1: Qualls insist there's hope. Research shows that when kids are
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Speaker 1: raising two parent homes of a strong faith component, academic
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Speaker 1: gas vanished. The formula works. Quall says, marriage, family and
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Speaker 1: faith lower poverty by eighty percent. It's simple, proven solution,
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Speaker 1: but it's one that's been ignored by those pushing other
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Speaker 1: agendas again, what's your motive? Quarles call on the church
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Speaker 1: to take action and say that pastors can't sit on
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Speaker 1: the sidelines anymore. We need our pastors a step up
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Speaker 1: to the plate. He urges by promoting strong families and
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Speaker 1: supporting fathers in the community. We've got missions right here
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Speaker 1: in our own country, in our own backyards and own
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Speaker 1: public schools, and that's what we need to go into.
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Speaker 1: So think about it, pastors, behind the poorfit and leaders.
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Speaker 1: But starting with the pastors, you are here talking about
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Speaker 1: all all these other topics. And then there if those
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Speaker 1: of you are here talking about everything is heavenly minded,
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Speaker 1: but you're not being any earthly good, and vice versa.
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Speaker 1: And then you have individuals out of your congregation that
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Speaker 1: are your county, local, township, state, and national leaders that
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Speaker 1: come out of your congregation or sit there. What are
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Speaker 1: they really doing to offset that which we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: And it doesn't have to be about the black mails.
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Speaker 1: It can be. And when I say black males, I'm
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Speaker 1: split sickly saying that, but I'm also frenching out because
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Speaker 1: the topic is for every community. But you notice, and
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Speaker 1: I'll leave it. I'll say that again in a few moments,
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Speaker 1: where's the stance on the Native American mail? You know,
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Speaker 1: the black mail complain, Whether you want to accept it
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Speaker 1: or acknowledge that's you, that's your business, but you can't
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Speaker 1: do away with it. The question to cry out was
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Speaker 1: what about what are you gonna do for them since
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Speaker 1: they've done for you? Depending on who you are, because
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Speaker 1: goes on to say, a key to success is faith
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Speaker 1: based education, take charge of already taken a leave of
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Speaker 1: initiatives like their fatherhood, impact of war, to recognize as
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Speaker 1: fathers who are leading their families that involve in their churches.
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Speaker 1: They even helping churches start and demand quality Christ centered
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Speaker 1: schools where faith and academics are taught in tandem. And
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Speaker 1: you got to remember look around today, and that's the
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Speaker 1: individual's rights, whoever those individuals are, who are non believers, atheists,
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Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. The problem is when
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Speaker 1: you are trying to prevent people of faith with the
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Speaker 1: same or or or or more expertise than you, or
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Speaker 1: you or youth to be able to teach or send
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Speaker 1: their child or children to where they can be taught.
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Speaker 1: Leading up to we just talked about the other day
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Speaker 1: where the nation's report card has released their education where
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Speaker 1: edumication how every where you wanted from anounce it no
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Speaker 1: dignification here has failed, but the youth of America. I
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Speaker 1: can't talk about your country, you can't and you can't
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Speaker 1: talk about my country. I can finish us up by
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Speaker 1: saying churches are catching onto the vision and requests to
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Speaker 1: help start schools are flooding in. More churches want to
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Speaker 1: open schools than we have resources for Cross Shares Today
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Speaker 1: he has received requests from churches in Arizona, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada,
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Speaker 1: South Carolina, and Tennessee. Why is that? Because people are
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Speaker 1: crying out for help for help, he says, faith first
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Speaker 1: answer to America's greatest challenges. Is it more government intervention
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Speaker 1: or political promises. It's restoring the two parent, faith filled
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Speaker 1: family that would change the trajectory of our communities and country.
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Speaker 1: As calls urged, the church has a mission field right
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Speaker 1: here in our own backyards. When the church takes the lead,
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Speaker 1: we can reverse fatherlesseners, break the cycle of poverty, and
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Speaker 1: give children a fighting chance. It's time to get back
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Speaker 1: to the basics, family and faith in God. So where
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Speaker 1: do we start? Before I wrap it up? I remember
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Speaker 1: and I share a story when God bless me to
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Speaker 1: have had to be in position of helping the poor, helpless,
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Speaker 1: the hopeless, the hurting, the homeless. And I remember this
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Speaker 1: eighty some year old lady missus Bell Lucy o' bell,
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Speaker 1: who was a one of the public housing community president.
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Speaker 1: She said, Gary, before you go anywhere, just make sure
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Speaker 1: that you've helped people walk to the well of water,
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Speaker 1: take a cup. Don't assume they know how to use
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Speaker 1: that cup, but take the cup, show them how to
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Speaker 1: dip into the water. And after you've done all you
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Speaker 1: can do, go on, she said, because there's somebody else
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Speaker 1: waiting for you to do the same. And she further
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Speaker 1: said that the person you just helped may try to
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Speaker 1: keep you where they are. So where do we start
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Speaker 1: appointing men of Jesus Christ? And when a man comes
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Speaker 1: to Christ, he begins to feel a sense of responsibility
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Speaker 1: for not himself, his family and everything starts to change
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Speaker 1: from there. And based upon what you will hear from society,
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Speaker 1: this was your life. See, there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: people who once knew you, and oh I knew them,
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Speaker 1: went for away a minute. That was then a man
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Speaker 1: with a ladies says, well, but a man who connects
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Speaker 1: his heavening fathers suddenly discovered they want to be a
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Speaker 1: good father themself, a good man, a good son, a
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Speaker 1: good sibling, a good husband. The Bible emphasizes the important
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Speaker 1: roles of fathers and guiding and nurturing their children, encouraging
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Speaker 1: them to raise their children with love, discipline, and instruction
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Speaker 1: in the ways of the Lord. And I've also shared
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Speaker 1: with people when you go back in the past, don't
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Speaker 1: hang in the past, but understand, especially when you're trying
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Speaker 1: to judge individuals that you know, not their history, and
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Speaker 1: without them providing an excuse. But how many men, apart
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Speaker 1: from what you see on TV and the fake movies,
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Speaker 1: we're taught how to be men from their dads, whether
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Speaker 1: present or not present. Behold on, go back in time
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Speaker 1: to your dad, his dad, his dad. And if you're
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Speaker 1: talking about my community, not yours, not yours, yourdan, yours,
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Speaker 1: but mine, you might not want to hear it slavery.
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Speaker 1: And you wonder why everybody's confused today, not me, young
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Speaker 1: people running around confused? Do they really know their history
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Speaker 1: as an individual? Apart from lenach to understand that, yet
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Speaker 1: a cycle can be broken without putting an excuse on
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Speaker 1: the cycle if he's In six 's four advised fathers
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Speaker 1: not to provoke their children to anger, but to bring
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Speaker 1: them up in a positive, supportive environment. You're gonna hold
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Speaker 1: your child accountable, don't do it in anger and Psalm
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Speaker 1: one hundred and three, verse thirteen. As a father shows
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Speaker 1: compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to
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Speaker 1: those who fear him. Trusting, respect, reverence him, and think
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Speaker 1: about it as a loving dad, like a loving mom.
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Speaker 1: You know your child asks you for a peanut butter sandwich,
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Speaker 1: and you put jelly on top of it as well.
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Speaker 1: Love if he used. In Chapter six, verse four, fathers,
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Speaker 1: do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them
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Speaker 1: up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. And
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Speaker 1: in Proverbs chapter three, verse eleven and twelve, my son,
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Speaker 1: do not despise the Lord's disciplant or be weary of
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Speaker 1: his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves
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Speaker 1: as a father, the son in whom he delights. In
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Speaker 1: the last final two verses, Colossian chapter three, verse twenty one, fathers,
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Speaker 1: do not provoke your children lest they become discouraged. And finally,
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Speaker 1: Proverbs twenty two, verse six. Train up a child and
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Speaker 1: the way you should go, even when he is old,
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Speaker 1: he will not depart from it. You heard me share
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Speaker 1: an open, greatest, greatest respect for my parents and my father,
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Speaker 1: knowing later on in life where he came from the
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Speaker 1: hardships and his determination and challenge and instruct and struggles.
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Speaker 1: But I praised God that on his death bed, and
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Speaker 1: maybe to see not those individuals with crosses around and
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Speaker 1: the acting white sheets over their faces, and being able
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Speaker 1: to see the God of the scriptures who created him,
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Speaker 1: and not those pictures that everybody running around with trying
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Speaker 1: to make our savior or or God. The Father looked
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Speaker 1: like them, with them and them and them, Dad's where
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