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00:04:00.000Well, I just wanted to talk about American history, and I want to move up in time from the president of freedom fighter Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.
00:04:10.000You have six-year-old Teddy Roosevelt looking out of his window on Broadway as the body of Abraham Lincoln comes down Broadway and he's able to see from his grandfather's apartment.
00:04:21.000And he would idolize Lincoln the rest of his life.
00:04:23.000And for Frederick Douglass, he was an inspiration to Booker T. Washington at a time in which it wasn't great to be a black man in the South.
00:04:33.000We'll pull the Union troops out of the South if you guys would let Rutherford B. Hayes become president to break this controversial electoral college.
00:04:43.000I know where I've heard that before, but it was deadlocked in seven separate states.
00:05:18.000And that's what I wanted to see: how that life coincided with Teddy Roosevelt's life and to see if America could be inspired by this story and how they came together.
00:05:28.000And it reminds me of your previous book.
00:05:30.000And I'm sure it's a theme that you're exploring.
00:05:32.000The previous book is the president of the Freedom Fighter, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
00:05:36.000This one is not as talked about, though.
00:05:38.000This one is not as kind of in the American Zeitgeist, which I know that with this book, you're attempting to do.
00:05:44.000And also total different backgrounds, right?
00:05:45.000Teddy Roosevelt was born into kind of an upper middle class, you could say elitist life, right?
00:05:52.000Talk about the different biographies and how fate had them meet in the consequential early 1900s, which was the thrust of the Teddy Roosevelt presidency.
00:06:01.000I mean, the main thing is, people listening right now, they think we're dug into this race, black, white, and Hispanic, and we're not.
00:06:08.000And if you want to talk about a time in which there was a real difference in the color of people's skin, it was back then.
00:06:13.000And then people are willing to work their way through it.
00:06:16.000You have a guy that was born a slave, no shoes until he was nine, slept on the floor his entire youth up until he was got it, hurt his freedom.
00:06:23.000He remembers going to the house on the plantation and having a union soldier read the Emancipation Proclamation.
00:06:29.000When I read that in his biography, I said, I got to do something on him.
00:06:42.000And then just have a guy that got himself at 10, 11, just thirsted to learn, was stuck in the salt mines, would maneuver his way out to become an upkeep or a housekeeper for this very rich woman who saw nothing but potential in him, taught him to read and write, made his way to Hampton College, $12,400 on foot, got there.
00:07:04.000They didn't want to let him in because he was such a mess.
00:07:33.000Yeah, but when one guy had, he had a horrible intestinal disease as a kid, he had asthma, his parents thought for sure he was going to die, had no formal school he had to do.
00:07:47.000And he went there where he began to excel, socialize, and overcompensated, so to speak, for all the physical ills he had.
00:07:55.000So I thought, again, if people want to relate to a story, just because you have wealth, it doesn't mean you have, you're born on third base.
00:08:06.000And so the main part of the book you're focusing on is racial equality.
00:08:09.000Teddy Roosevelt doesn't get remembered for that or the pursuit of that.
00:08:15.000And one of the foils, I'm not sure if you get into this in the book, is obviously W.E.B. Du Bois, who had a different philosophical approach than Booker T. Washington.
00:08:29.000But talk about, as far as here, you say, you know, in the kind of book teaser, both men abhorred the decadence and moral rot the nation and fall into, believed that improvement through careful collaboration was possible, and trust that the American ideals of individual liberty and hard work could propel the neediest towards success if only holding them back would step aside.
00:08:48.000Talk more about in the Teddy Roosevelt presidency, what he did to try and create a more perfect union.
00:08:56.000What he tried to do is say, and you might have heard this before, Booker T. Washington was going to be advisor.
00:09:02.000He's like, I don't really know much about the South.
00:09:04.000I need to know the best judges, the best postmasters, the best dockmaster.
00:09:08.000I need to know who's going to be able to run the shipyards.
00:09:10.000Would you be able to give me those names?
00:09:12.000And don't worry about the, don't tell me about their nationality, the color of their skin, or their gender.
00:09:19.000So this guy born a slave at nine years old is now advising the president, who would speak at a commencement address at Tuskegee.
00:09:25.000So if America is that bad and that polarized and that racist, why was this happening?
00:09:32.000And in the South, when people had preconceived notions because of the way they were brought up or the culture they were in, he wouldn't get mad at him.
00:10:22.000Her two brothers were officers for Robert E. Lee.
00:10:26.000So if he's in his house and he's growing up and he's hearing his mom's perspective on America, much like you're susceptible to your parents, he heard all that.
00:10:36.000He still said, okay, I'm going to make my own judgment.
00:10:39.000And with Booker T. Washington, you saw him saw nothing but a great man.
00:10:44.000You didn't see him judging by his race.
00:10:48.000But Teddy Roosevelt was somewhat of his times.
00:10:51.000You hear some things that showed he had blind spots.
00:10:54.000But I just think in a time in which America is so focused on race, people needed a perspective on how far we've come.
00:11:01.000And we're the most successful multicultural country in the history of the world.
00:11:06.000So I want to zero in on this for a second.
00:11:41.000It's boxed up because an Indian was walking, American Indian was walking, and a black man was walking next to Teddy Roosevelt on a horse and made him look superior.
00:11:51.000And I thought to myself, you got to be kidding me.
00:11:52.000They took him out from the museum that is full of all of his trophies and game that he shot and the same fossils he's recovered that his parents found.
00:12:04.000So now they have it out in North Dakota where his library is going to be.
00:12:09.000I mean, this guy was not perfect when it came to race, but man, listen to what Booker T. Washington said.
00:12:16.000The quote, besides Lincoln, no one has taken more of an interest and helped the African American, the Negro rates more than President Teddy Roosevelt.
00:12:25.000Okay, that should have been enough to keep his statue.
00:14:28.000My sense is people start sobering up when people start speaking out and saying there are no perfect people, but their impact on the country is undeniable.
00:14:37.000Unless, of course, you find out that it's not and they're working against us.
00:14:41.000You might want to think about taking the Benedict Donald statue down if you have one.
00:14:45.000I got it, unless you're doing a tribute to double agents.
00:14:49.000But for the most part, we are a country that was born like every other country, every continent had slaves.
00:14:59.000In the South, most houses, most plantations had slaves.
00:15:22.000The book is very important, and it pushes back against a lot of the nonsense that is infecting our current discourse, the historic illiteracy.
00:15:30.000Teddy and Booker T, how two American icons put a fast forward for racial equality.
00:15:36.000So let's dive into this, that one element, Brian, which I think is important.
00:15:40.000Everyone is born into a world that they didn't create.
00:15:43.000It's what you do with that world that is how we measure.
00:15:47.000It says in the Bible, Noah was a righteous man in his generation.
00:15:51.000Not just a righteous man generally, but in his generation, comparing to the people around him, he was pretty awesome.
00:15:57.000We should always judge people in the context and the time of which they are in.
00:16:01.000Brian, as a historian, why are this the smugness of the current orthodoxies always applied to those 100, 200, 300 years ago?
00:16:11.000I think it's honestly one of the most frustrating and damaging patterns that we've seen in recent years.
00:16:18.000You know, what's crazy is I do these things.
00:16:21.000I got a couple coming up, one in Illinois and one in Pennsylvania.
00:16:25.000And I talk about all the books on stage in a more unscripted fashion with some production value to it.
00:16:32.000Because in the beginning, I thought, wouldn't it be great to be able to speak before I sign my George Washington book or the Teddy Roosevelt book, or excuse me, the Thomas Jefferson book?
00:16:41.000You walk in, there's a crowd, and you want to sign the books and go.
00:16:45.000And I go, when you go to give a speech, you never know if that corporation that asked you to come in is going to be involved in some scandal the next day.
00:16:51.000And they go, who's your last keynote speaker?
00:17:00.000And in the beginning, I thought it was going to be great just to be an opportunity to sell books.
00:17:04.000Now it's like a mission on award to win the war on history because the 1619 project was the formal first salvo, but it's been happening for quite a long time.
00:17:14.000I mean, I'm older than you, and in 1976, I was in grade school and they launched this thing called Roots, the most successful mini-series ever, averaged 60 million a night.
00:17:24.000It was the story of slavery and all its brutality.
00:17:36.000Nobody, Republican or Democrat, especially because most of these people were Democrats.
00:17:42.000They kept on pushing to keep it and tried to almost reinstall it in the 20th century.
00:17:48.000Having said that, we've come a long way.
00:17:50.000And I just thought by telling the story of two men and what they did to get where they're at, I also stumbled on a situation with Booker T. Washington where people don't like what would now be termed his conservative message.
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00:19:52.000So Brian, I want to talk some current events here, but I want to encourage the audience too to go to Teddy and Booker T, how two American Icons blazed a path for racial equality.
00:20:00.000You know, things are changing in real time.
00:20:04.000Talk about how this Israel issue is breaking the left.
00:20:20.000Well, I'm going to start with the question.
00:20:22.000You are more in touch with the next generation than anybody I know.
00:20:26.000You go on college campuses on a regular basis.
00:20:28.000I was totally blindsided by the anti-Semitism that rose up, the pro-Palestinian attitude, which actually takes a degree of education to have a position.
00:20:36.000It's not like I thought George Floyd was unjustly killed.
00:21:22.000So these American people who support the American Jewish community, Jews and non-Jews, but people with some logic who understand what Israel is to America and what America is to Israel, knew what side we thought we were on as a country.
00:21:37.000And all of a sudden, that's the minority position.
00:21:40.000And we're seeing all these uprisings everywhere.
00:21:43.000And you see this people march to with Nazi flags in America.
00:21:48.000I can't believe the series of events that's happened.
00:21:52.000How could this, I think it's the same people that are a problem with race in America and the George Floyd riots and they were upset about America, period, about police or whatever.
00:22:04.000These are the same people who are activists for the Palestinian cause.
00:22:08.000And I think we're in a, it's real, really disturbing.
00:22:11.000And for Joe Biden, who evidently Democrats pride themselves on the youth vote, well, this youth vote, while we were looking somewhere else, just left him.
00:26:02.000I'm not sure if it's in the curriculum or not, but let's look at this.
00:26:07.000This guy attacks our country, looks at us as the great Satan, does everything he can to kill as many Americans as possible.
00:26:14.000For 20 years, somebody in your neighborhood went to fight in your name and came back, maybe not the same person, and you never thought to ask them, what were they doing?
00:26:28.000So I'm dumbfounded by the idiocy and the ignorance, which was exponentially accelerated by the pandemic, which gave all these other 18 to 22 year olds another reason not to educate themselves, but to live on Twitter, to live on Twitter and to live on TikTok.
00:26:47.000I just think that this is a wake-up call for everybody.
00:26:50.000Just like the pandemic was a wake-up call for parents.
00:26:54.000Now it's a wake-up call for the country.
00:26:56.000Those kids of yours are protesting against fundamental American values and they're with the other side.
00:27:04.000Not only are they not subscribing, they're with the other side.
00:27:07.000And Charlie, they got a terrible product.
00:27:10.000Nobody wants, who wants to be an Islamic extremist?
00:27:13.000Who wants to give up rights every single day?
00:27:56.000You know, they're, you know, into the indulgence.
00:27:59.000Now it's like, wait a second, like, can you go back to doing weed and like staying up till 3 a.m.?
00:28:03.000I kind of, I actually prefer like a super lethargic, you know, sorry, I got, you know, had a fun time in Cabo than, oh, I don't know, flying the modern-day Nazi flag.
00:28:15.000It's actually, that's a super smart point.
00:28:17.000Yeah, I just don't know what they're offering.
00:28:19.000I mean, we have a better product in every way, shape, or form.
00:28:23.000And you know what they should do, Charlie?
00:28:25.000We should make them just say, listen, are you a pro-Hamas?
00:28:28.000Yeah, I really like what they represent.
00:28:39.000Why are we leaving you here stuck with our horrible Westerners who maybe want to go on vacation or work a second job in order to make ends meet or have a family and want to treat women equally?
00:28:52.000So you don't want to be stuck in that tornado of indulgence.
00:28:56.000So we're going to send you over to Hamas.
00:29:19.000It is partially because of our institutions.
00:29:21.000And there's a lot of Muslim Brotherhood money, which I know you've been following, Brian.
00:29:25.000A lot of Brotherhood money has been flowing into these institutions.
00:29:28.000But also, you know, do not underestimate the contempt and the resentment that left-wing ideology has for America.
00:29:35.000They will partner with any organization, the Chinese Communist Party, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, as long as they say they hate the West.
00:29:44.000All right, everybody, the holidays and big family feasts are upon us.
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00:30:31.000So here's what's happening: the Marxist, the commie, he's trying to put this bill in.
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00:31:11.000Brian, I always ask this question of a guest that does a research piece.
00:31:14.000When you decided to write the book Teddy and Booker T, what piece of information or story did you discover or learn that you're like, wow, I did not know that before, that is the most noteworthy to you.
00:32:13.000And also, when you really want something, even without the social safety net, things will happen.
00:32:19.000And Booker T. Washington time and time again would dream about getting an education where his mom would saw the patch and got him a dictionary.
00:32:45.000And then he ends up using Mrs. Ruffner to propel him to Hampton, where he gets another mentor that sees nothing but potential in him, recommends him to Tuskegee, General Armstrong.
00:32:55.000And I believe in re-looking at his life and Teddy Roosevelt's life, they willed themselves to reaching their goal, reaching their potential.
00:33:05.000And I think you can learn something from what they did.
00:33:08.000Just because we know them, it doesn't mean if you want to own a flower shop or your own gym or you want to be president of the United States.
00:33:16.000If you want something bad enough, it can happen.
00:33:19.000And that's really, I can only say that in America, because we are still the land of opportunity, not the land of outcomes.
00:33:33.000I'm going to give other people an opportunity, but I am not going to rig the game.
00:33:37.000I think in America, we're trying to rig the game and make excuses when you don't win the championship, get the medal, get the job, or win the race.
00:33:55.000Teddy and Booker T, How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality.
00:33:59.000I'm going to ask you an unfair question here, Brian, but studying Teddy Roosevelt in particular, who in America today reminds you closest to Teddy Roosevelt?