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FTTxJT 061926 with Donna Jackson from CFACT · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Back into our special coverage of Juneteenth here on First
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  Speaker 1: Thing Today, brought to you in part by our friends
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  Speaker 1: at the Lunch Pale Foundation Lunch Pale Defense dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Donna Jackson on with us from Sea Factor Committee for
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  Speaker 1: a constructive tomorrow. Donna, and I appreciate you taking some
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  Speaker 1: time out to do this with us. Why have the
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  Speaker 1: Conservatives abandoned Juneteenth as a concept? Since this was a
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  Speaker 1: holiday born of the news of one of the great
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  Speaker 1: moments in Republican Party history, the passage of the signature
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  Speaker 1: of the Emancipation Proclamation. I'm getting to the last combatants
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  Speaker 1: in the Civil War.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the importance today is focusing on the
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  Speaker 2: fact that we need to come together and celebrate the
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  Speaker 2: freedom for all Americans, and that is July fourth, single
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  Speaker 2: on out, one group and say that somehow this is
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  Speaker 2: the greatest this is the greatest achievement. I think is
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  Speaker 2: the wrong concept. Today.
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  Speaker 3: Everything is so divided, there's so much.
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  Speaker 2: Focus on slavery that we don't realize the fact that
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  Speaker 2: nothing was possible in terms of freedom.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Declaration of Independence. Wasn't fined.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Declaration of Independence. It is the Constitution
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  Speaker 2: that gave us the fundamental freedoms we have that lay
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  Speaker 2: the framework for.
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  Speaker 3: Any subsequent civil rights achievements that we have.
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  Speaker 2: Today, there's been this divisiveness in trying to make everything
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  Speaker 2: about race.
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  Speaker 3: And it's been used in a vindictive way. And for me, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Really concerning because you know, I wake up every morning
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  Speaker 2: and I'll say, oh, today, I'm a black American. What
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  Speaker 2: am I gonna do as a black person? I don't
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  Speaker 2: even see myself that way. I see myself as an American.
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  Speaker 2: I realize that the fundamental rights that I have is
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  Speaker 2: based on the fact that we have an American experience
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  Speaker 2: that's unique from every country.
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  Speaker 3: In the world. I mean, in this land, you can
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  Speaker 3: be whatever you want to be. Now, this is.
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  Speaker 2: Even though you and I agree on this, this is
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  Speaker 2: almost a foreign concept today because today we're saying no,
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  Speaker 2: you can't be whatever you want to be. Right that
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  Speaker 2: somehow there's invisible barriers that are stopping us from becoming
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  Speaker 2: and realizing our full potential. You know, there are people
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  Speaker 2: who are still sitting around and I have to bring
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  Speaker 2: us up waiting for reparations. In the same time, we've
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  Speaker 2: had the invention of the internet, flat screen TV, smartphones,
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  Speaker 2: smart TVs.
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  Speaker 3: We've had.
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  Speaker 2: Accomplishments in medicine and technologies.
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  Speaker 3: Now there's AI.
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  Speaker 2: And those same people that are sitting around waiting for
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  Speaker 2: reparations for slavery have invented nothing they nor would they
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  Speaker 2: wander their talents. Isn't They're sitting around saying, I'm owed.
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  Speaker 1: Something right and you're owed just a government to protect
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  Speaker 1: Here gotta be She another one of the amazing ladies
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  Speaker 1: I've met in my life. But Donna Jackson ce fact
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  Speaker 1: on with us. We want to get your impact of
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  Speaker 1: all of this. I know there's a lot of folks
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  Speaker 1: in here on the guest hotlines, but you as well
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  Speaker 1: how the news of the day is impacting you. At
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  Speaker 1: four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the production office, it was pointed out to
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  Speaker 1: me that the amount of people that listen to us
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  Speaker 1: on a web stream somewhere or another puts us at
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  Speaker 1: a disadvantage because those web streams are fifteen forty five
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  Speaker 1: seconds behind the live broadcast. So I need to give
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  Speaker 1: everyone a little air so that if somebody wants to
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  Speaker 1: jump in, they can, because apparently a couple of folks
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  Speaker 1: called in right as we were getting on with Terris Todd,
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  Speaker 1: who's going to come back with us. We're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: Father's Day this weekend, and so I just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make sure you had your airtime to get there. But
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  Speaker 1: Donna Jackson, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow c fact
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  Speaker 1: dot org, great peace if you go there about July fourth,
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  Speaker 1: and how it's more important than Juneteenth, and it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: happen without Juneteenth, wouldn't happen without July fourth. Donna, the
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  Speaker 1: question of the gas lighting of our country, you brought
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  Speaker 1: it up right as we were going there, that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're convincing people to wait around for the government to
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  Speaker 1: a tell them what to do, be tell them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how much they're going to get paid for what they
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  Speaker 1: want to do or what they're going to do. And
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  Speaker 1: I just find that to be debasing. But I just
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  Speaker 1: find that also is the fruit of a real terrible
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  Speaker 1: campaign of gaslighting of people that you didn't build. That
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  Speaker 1: to borrow from President Obama.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, it's you know, it's debilitating for an entire
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  Speaker 2: group of people.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Is that we've taken accountability out. We've taken in the
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  Speaker 2: fact that people are accountable, accountable for their own successes.
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  Speaker 3: The government.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the government is supposed to create a framework that
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  Speaker 2: people can be free to pursue their happiness. But the
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  Speaker 2: government is not supposed to create your happiness. You have
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  Speaker 2: people around today that think that it's the that that
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  Speaker 2: their primary concern should be, how can the government take
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  Speaker 2: care of me?
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  Speaker 3: And you know both Obama was agreedious yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: His opening of his uh where he says, the founding
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  Speaker 2: fathers did not you know they were they did not
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  Speaker 2: the other promises. Listen, the founding The only reason why
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  Speaker 2: he can stand there and the president could have been
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States was because the founding fathers.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we forget what it took to build
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  Speaker 2: this country. You know, there were people who just had
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  Speaker 2: I mean that that they had the promise that they
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  Speaker 2: would have freedom one day, that fought for years because
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't a one year war, and that sometimes there
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  Speaker 2: were three or four wars going on at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: They had no shoes, they didn't have proper clothing. But
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  Speaker 2: they were all fighting for a concept that they would
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  Speaker 2: be free one day, and that's the same thing that
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  Speaker 2: we should aspire to today.
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  Speaker 3: It took a lot for us to be able to have.
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  Speaker 2: A country where today even the poorest person lives better
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  Speaker 2: than kings back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think, yeah, better than anyone, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that there's an important point because of the
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  Speaker 1: Marxist attitude in the country of the government's going to
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  Speaker 1: provide for you. You were talking about reparations before Baraco
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  Speaker 1: Obama grew up in a broken home. He had an
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  Speaker 1: absentee father, if you wanted, that's the nicest thing to say,
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  Speaker 1: a deadbeat dad who would run off to a whole
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  Speaker 1: other continent, leaving his mother a ward of the state.
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  Speaker 1: So I can almost understand how he grows up thinking
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  Speaker 1: that the government has failed because there he is basically
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  Speaker 1: waiting for welfare checks to help support his mother and him,
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  Speaker 1: and it's never enough, because it never can be enough.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the part of where you know his story.
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  Speaker 1: I wish had gone that turn of saying, look at
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  Speaker 1: what I overcame, and the government needs to get off
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  Speaker 1: the back of people and let them achieve rather than
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  Speaker 1: keeping them on this imaginary plantation like the one he
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  Speaker 1: grew up on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Having those adversities in his life made him what he is.
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  Speaker 2: So we sometimes forget that. We think that things are
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be easy. We think that there's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be no obstacles in front of us. No, in order
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  Speaker 2: for you to achieve, there's always going to be obstacles
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  Speaker 2: for you. Absolutely, but that's what makes your success. That
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  Speaker 2: is what makes you, you know, a successful person. That
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  Speaker 2: is what makes you able to overcome. Remember, we had
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  Speaker 2: patriots that were rag haag farmers, that didn't even have
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  Speaker 2: the adequate equipment, taking on the greatest superpower in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Everything about that they should never have won, but they
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  Speaker 2: did because their determination and this concept of freedom, you
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  Speaker 2: it starts in the mind.
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  Speaker 3: It's not an instantaneous thing.
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  Speaker 2: The process, the belief of freedom starts in the mind
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  Speaker 2: and then it walks itself out over a period of time.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we need to understand today. Nothing is instantaneous.
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  Speaker 2: I could say I want to be a doctor, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be a doctor today. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to take me to the next amount of years.
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  Speaker 1: It's a journey, and honestly, the best part of it
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  Speaker 1: sometimes is the journey of getting their Donna Jackson. It
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  Speaker 1: is see fact dot org read her piece on July
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  Speaker 1: or thank you God, bless you, and I hope you
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  Speaker 1: have a wonderful day, and we probably have to have
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  Speaker 1: her back for July fourth a union.
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  Speaker 6: The founders felt terribly short of the declarations.
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  Speaker 1: Promise, did they did? They really still strict the franchise.
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  Speaker 5: It's a white man.
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  Speaker 3: Who owned property.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, Barry, and they're looking back.
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  Speaker 5: But stream, you know, and I know that people are
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  Speaker 5: salty about me kind of making some core solusions to
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  Speaker 5: the Obama housing complex.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like a tenement building or a penitentiary on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the big concrete block or a cinder
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  Speaker 1: block just sitting on this side of the river. Let's
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  Speaker 1: not forget Bill Clinton's presidential library looks like an airstream,
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  Speaker 1: the presidential historical trailer on the side of the Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: But style points notwithstanding, nobody had founded a country based
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  Speaker 1: on John Locke's teachings until we did.
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  Speaker 1: There were people in South Carolina, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: I'm unfairly harsh. Some people say don't be so harsh.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know. This is the only world they lived
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  Speaker 1: in the King who they weren't necessarily on board with.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a note from Jerry text in to
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  Speaker 1: four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget Joe. A lot of the states didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to be independent from England, and South Carolina was one
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  Speaker 1: of them, and so there was a lot of art
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  Speaker 1: of the deal in quotes, uh to get them on
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  Speaker 1: board with this.
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