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chuck douglas 3-18-2024 Cornell Lewis · Chuck Douglas

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  Boom twenty minutes way to the top of the hour. I'm Chuck Douglass.
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  This is the Power Hour on six to ten DOUBLEUTV in my number eight two
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  one nine eight eighty six eight two one doutv in. If you ever grab
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  a line you feel like your fuse has been lit, you need to jump
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  in there, get involved, have something to say. I will always do
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  everything I can to get you on the air. I can't promise, but
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  I always do everything I can to get you on the air and give you
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  your little moment on the soapbox spotlight. I don't know if you know what
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  it's like to be proud of a person or a group of people that you
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  never met. But I have a tendency to do that when I see something
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  strong, when I see something positive, when I see something influential happening around
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  me, even if I'm not connected to it, I look at it.
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  I go yeah, yeah, and I have pride in what I'm seeing.
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  Anybody who's listened to me for any period of time AMFM Mornings evenings doesn't matter.
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  Anybody who's been around with me over the years, UH knows that there
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  are some strange, little idiosyncrasies about me. First of all, conservative,
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  and I see I still say black. I know I offend people people it's
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  African American. I got no connection with Africa. So you know, conservative
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  and black, which is people think is crazy. Plus, I have long
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  said, especially as the gun debate came along of any group, if you
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  wanted to classify a group of people in the United States of America should be
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  supportive of their Second Amendment rights, you would think the American black man would
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  be supportive. The history, the cross burnings, the dogs, the fire
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  hoses, the riots, the jail cells, everything it took all those years.
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  You would think they'd be like the first in line to say, yes,
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  I will defend my family, I will defend my home, I will
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  protect So I've always said that I don't get how the lefties, honestly,
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  how they're able to turn the minds of so many people of black, brown,
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  or non white skin, how they're able to turn their minds into this
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  mushaca. Oh guns your bad me and guns you're bad and people with guns
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  your bad. And I don't even like you know how people make a mushall
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  and they go look at he's guns. Oh, I hate that, I
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  hate you. I don't understand how their minds are messed up like that.
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  Now, last week I heard a story I happen to be listening to Glenn
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  Beck. There you go, Dana, I plug Glenn Beck on my show.
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  I know because he does that all the time. And Beck was talking
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  about Hartford, Connecticut, and he was talking about this group of citizens that
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  were out patrolling the neighborhood. They decided, we've had enough of this crapola.
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  We're going to take responsibility. Since the police can't do it, since
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  the government can't do it, we we the people will go out here and
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  do something. And so they are armed, some with with weapons, some
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  with baseball bats. They are male, they are female, they are young,
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  they are old. I'm quite sure that they are different political affiliations,
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  sexual orientations, short, tall, doesn't matter. They are in the community
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  and they are out trying to protect their community and let the bad guys know
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  they got no place in this community. Oh and by the way, they
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  are largely not white people. That's what I'm saying, Black folks with guns.
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  Let the church say, amen, let me get this man on the
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  radio right now. Cornell Lewis is his name. He has been he's been
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  largely involved. I pushed the button and the button came off. What is
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  so cheap around this place? Man? He's been largely involved in this effort
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  in Hertford, Connecticut. He is instrumental. He is as he's an inspiration
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  to me because he is a big part and I guess kind of the the
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  face of what's going on in Hartford, Cornell. Thank you for giving me
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  some time this scevening. I appreciate you being here. Thank you very much
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  for having me appreciate it. Sunday night was kind of a big event.
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  How did that go? The Sunday night patrol started at eight o'clock. Actually,
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  we got there early to the church and as always my motto is the
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  victory is in the details. So I advised everybody how we should conduct ourselves
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  and what should happen if we ran into any problems, and what I wanted.
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  And we left the church at eight pm and went down the street and
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  we had flashlights and we had some I forget what you call them, but
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  I guess a sash around your neck. It was a strip that said armed
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  citizen. It was luminous and it was it had yellow letters on it and
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  you could read clearly it said armed citizen. So it went okay. People
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  came out on the porch and it was cold out there and they watched,
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  and we went down this street, and as we got near Nelson and Garden
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  Street, the bad guys started running. That's why we had the flashlights because
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  just like in a housing project, when you cut the lights on, the
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  roaches run. And so the drug dealers took off and no incidents and people
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  ask us what we were doing, and so it went well. For nighttime,
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  we had to position it differently though in the daytime we had about forty
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  people with us at the beginning on Garden Street. That was daytime, though
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  at nighttime we had to do it differently. We had people in the houses
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  watching us, We had people with their cameras on the porches filming us.
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  And as always, we had our rear guard and our front guard covered by
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  men and women in cars with long guns since you can't carry them anymore or
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  openly. We had people with the twelve big shotguns in the ar fifteens in
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  cars covering us, or if they got a signal, they came up and
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  they were to clean up crew. This is Cornell Lewis by the way,
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  and importantly here, as you said, there were no events. The bad
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  guys heard you, the bad guys, the bad guys left, and that
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  is the goal here. This isn't about shooting up a neighborhood. This is
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  about letting the bad guys know that there are more good guys and they're finally
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  not afraid to come out and tell you we are here and we're going to
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  protect well. It's also about the fact that it doesn't seem as if the
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  government can protect us, and it doesn't seem as if the democrats in the
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  town want to protect us. So here we are black and brown people playing
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  taxes and can't get any help. So we decided to do this ourselves.
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  It's not about shooting up or tearing up anything, as the mayor tried to
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  portray us George Zimmerman, wannabes and vigilantes. It's about liberating an occupy territory
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  from the oppressor. And historically oppressors going to an area, a neighborhood,
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  a nation, a factory, or a business and take out all the resources
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  and leave it in worse condition. And so we have oppressors in our neighborhood
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  that look like us who had the same culture as us, but they're doing
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  things to the neighborhood and to the people that we just said we're not going
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  to tolerate anymore. And this is about the third place we've patrolled in Hartford
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  since we started this in the summertime. So yeah, it's about patrolling the
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  neighborhood, informing people and getting people to buy into the concept of self defense
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  and guns. And like you said earlier, it's kind of interesting that black
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  people especially are being steered away from guns. Because my grandparents came from Georgia.
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  They came to Detroit with their guns in the car. When my grandmother
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  died, I found some shotguns looked like something Jed Clampett had the Hillbilly well
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  in double barrels with the hammer on each side. You pulled back, yeah,
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  and on the barrel it said Bethlehem Steele. And I hit it and
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  I said, man, that's real. Still that's not our lord. And
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  so my point is, my grandmother always took her gun of forty five Wesley.
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  I think it was a revolver to the store. She said, Cornell,
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  get my gun. I said, you just go in to the store,
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  Grandma, she said, get my gun. So the history of black
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  people, you know, is culturally, we in America would not be here
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  and not defended ourselves with guns from the beginning when we came here, and
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  in New Amsterdam later became New York and Boga Losa, Louisiana with the Deacons
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  for defense, and on and on and on. People of color have defended
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  themselves with their weapons and held those weapons real close. But for some reason,
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  in this so called enlightened age, people have gotten away not only from
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  their culture, but from the history of self defense. Are you inspiring any
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  young people, Cornell, because we've got like ninety seconds here, But I
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  want to are any young people going, hey, you know what, We're
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  going to be part of this. We're gonna possible. Well, we we
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  are. We have a lot of support and a lot of people, younger
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  people and other people. And interestingly enough, when we left out of the
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  church last week in the daytime Saturday, all of those young black men and
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  women were looking at us, and they were especially looking at me, and
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  they were looking at how I commanded the groom and how I talk to people,
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  and you could see in their eyes they were looking at something that they
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  are not used to so. Yes, the answer to your question is youth
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  and we are cultivating them. You have a Facebook page, website, anything
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  where people can follow and watch your progress. Yes, the Self Defense Brigade
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  has a page on Facebook and they can go to my page. Cornell Lewis.
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  You can tell it's my page because you'll see me on the picture with
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  Cornell West and with Brenewsome and Ferguson. You and I are going to stay
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  in touch. I've got your number, were connected on Facebook. I want
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  to know about everything positive and negative, and as events happen, please come
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  back to us and let us know, because this is a wonder as far
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  as I'm concerned. Well, it's spreading and more and more people are getting
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  involved, and more people are saying positive things than negative. And I think
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  the Democrats see the writing on the wall. Thank you, Cornel Lewis,
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  Thank you so very much. I got to get out of here. It
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  is in detail for me to fly. But we will be back tomorrow night
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  at six with another edition of The Power Hour on six to ten WTVN