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United or Divided · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for American mamas. Dear mamas, do you think we
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  are more divided or more united as a nation today? Well, let's ask
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  our American mamas, Alma and joining us now our American mama's Terry Netteville and
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  Kimberly Burlison. You know, we've kind of talked about this a little bit,
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  and I keep going back to nine to twelve September twelfth, two thousand
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  and one. I know how united we were as a country that day,
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  solid, and oh my gosh, I long for that because when I look
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  around the world today, it seems like we are two completely different tribes and
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  there's just no getting back. And remember, we were all united over our
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  patriotism, our love for America and Americans, the Americans. The flags went
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  up everywhere. We were united in our love for our country, for ourselves,
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  for what we like, standing together united. It's the strongest, most
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  powerful drug in the world, and we've gotten so far. You'd see people
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  with our gore bumper stickers and two American flags flying out of the back seat
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  windows. Yeah, yes, you know, you just don't see that today.
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  No, no, however, I will say this, Kimberly knows the
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  story because I've told her about it. But I had to go get a
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  new phone. It's not my favorite. I liked my ten. It was
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  fine, but for about six months I had to have it on speakerphone.
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  I couldn't hear in it. But anyway, so I went into Verizon.
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  And as we talk about, you know, you want to be a face
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  that people can count on for a warm smile. So that's that's what I
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  do. When people would walk in, we're all waiting over there, and
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  I see this lady. She's probably I think probably mom's age. She's a
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  generation couple of generations above us. White woman. Then and I walked in
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  and I said, I said hi. She said how you need to scan
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  your thing? And then I did so it didn't work because my phone didn't
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  work. And then a few minutes later a black woman came in, she's
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  probably about sixties, and I said, I said hello, Hello, we
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  had our exchanged our pleasant trees. And I said, you need to scan
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  your phone. Well, my phone won't turn on so and that won't work.
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  So I said, well, then we need to tell the guy that
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  you're here so you can get in line. Because they're about thirty tearing taking
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  charge. Yeah, yeah, excuse me, sir. Anyways, traffic.
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  You know, y'all, we were there for thirty minutes. And I know
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  both of their first names. Rebecca and her husband married for forty five years.
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  Uh clotel as somebody in her church who feels deeply that God is in
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  control. Rebecca had on this pen that said pray. So for those thirty
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  minutes while we waited together, this is what I discovered. I don't even
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  know how we got on this subject. It wasn't me, I swear,
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  but we got onto this political thing. Oh. I think that Rebecca was
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  like, you know, she had a theory about the phones not working.
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  She's worried that there's like the Big Brother thing, you know, that somebody
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  is in our phones. They're watching, Yes, they're watching everything. They're
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  listening, they're taking notes, and so she doesn't trust. What was interesting
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  is by the end of our conversation, all three of us, all three
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  of us were united in our belief that God is the one in ultimate control
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  and that it's going to be okay and if we come together. And it
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  was actually the black woman that said and she put her hand on my arm
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  and she said, let me tell you something. God is going to get
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  us through this. But I'm with you. The government is Actually she said
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  this to Rebecca as she's holding my arm. She said, I'm with you.
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  I feel like that they think we're dumb, they think we're stupid,
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  they think we don't see what's happening, but we all see. I don't
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  care what side you're on. I don't care if you're a Democrat or Republican.
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  I'm telling you we're all together in this because we see what's going on,
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  even if we don't mention it. And she said, but she said,
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  I pray every day for this country. I pray for y'all. I
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  pray for and Rebecca pointed to her pen. She's like, well, I
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  pray every day, and I tell And we were like, we all are
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  prayers. And so what I found was right now, we're united in our
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  faith in God. God is the one who can get us through this.
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  Sometimes I feel like that we're having to hit such rock bottom because that's the
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  only way that we can get so far pushed down because we think, oh,
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  okay, now it's going to explode. Now they're going to see it.
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  Never happens. We always say, well, nothing's gonna happen to them.
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  You know that we actually or our eyes are open, nothing ever seems
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  to happen to the bad guys. So then you go another layer below,
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  and then we all are starting to go, God, please help, yes,
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  God, please please. We're looking up to the heavens and we're like,
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  God, only you. So maybe, just maybe we had to get
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  to this place where all of us are looking up to God and we're saying,
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  it's only you. You're the only one. We cannot have faith in
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  a human being. We want you to lead us, guide us, you
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  know, because we have such total faith. But that's when I knew.
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  Okay, after like you said September twelfth, right, we were all united
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  in our love for our country, our flag, each other. I believe
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  now it's a we're coming together in our unity for our love of God and
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  country because eyes are opening. And so I just I left there feeling hopeful.
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  I left their feeling like I had two new friends, and I felt
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  like I left thinking we're actually more like than we think, even if we
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  vote differently. That's very interesting because I've never had that good of an experience
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  in the phone store. You like to ask our American Mama is a question.
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  Go to our website Americanground Radio dot com, slash mama's and click on
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  the ask of the Mama's button. Terry n Netteville, kim Lye, Burls
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  and Spink Sisters. Thank y'all so much, Thank you,