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On today's show, Glenn and Pat discuss the Washington Redskins' decision to change their name to and the controversy surrounding it. Plus, a special guest joins the show to talk about the Colin Kaepernick jersey controversy, and why it's not about the flag or the anthem.
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welcome to the podcast today pretty much every sport uh franchise around the country is going
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to change their name to probably something inoffensive i don't know if there's anything
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inoffensive that's actually left but the redskins almost certainly seem to be gone indians look like
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they're going that way too we'll see who else is going to be uh removed from the uh from the
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record books we also uh talk about glenn's special that happened this past weekend you
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gotta go check that out it's at blaze tv.com slash glenn if you use the promo code fight the mob you
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can save 20 bucks off your subscription uh there's a whole new version going to be uploaded uh in the
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super high definition later this week you can wait for that as well but it's worth making sure that
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you check out and we talked to a congressional candidate from baltimore who's trying to take
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elijah cummings seat uh a republican african-american who has a different perspective from what you're
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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welcome to the glenn beck program and welcome to mr pat gray
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from pat gray unleashed the podcast you can hear wherever you hear your podcasts or you can hear
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him record it live uh uh right prior to this uh broadcast on blaze radio hello pat gray uh hello
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glenn beck uh yes all of those things are very very true uh and so is the fact that you know if if
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they are that's scrumptiouscookie.com i mean that's okay all right we got it
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pat's wife is making cookies and they are honestly did i tell you this uh my sister was up and i didn't
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say anything to my sister about them and she never listens so she has no clue and i said hey i just want
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you to i want you to try this uh this cookie clotta and she took a bite out of it and it was so funny
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because it was like watching my dad and my kids said it's like watching dad eat cookies because i
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analyzed them like my father used to who's a baker yeah and she did too and she just her eyes popped
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open she said this is a really good cookie and i said right yeah i mean how come dad is like washed
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up now what is up with this they're better than anything my father ever made and my father was a
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really good pastry compliment thank you it's it's nice to have a product that you can be proud of
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you know and i kind of am proud of her cookies they're pretty good okay you're almost as proud
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of the cookies as colin kaepernick is of america i feel like oh not quite that not that that's hard
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to match that kind of pride yeah because as you know pat it's not about the flag it's not about
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the country it's not about the anthem it's not about anything it's about police what evidence do you
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have what what evidence do you have that it is about the that it is about the country or the flag
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i tend to see a hint of it a hint of it being about the country but it's so subtle you have to
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really dig deep don't you now listen closely see if you can parse this all right because it's gonna
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be hard it's very difficult and i want you guys to make sure because we're told every day it's not
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about the flag it's not about the country it's not about the anthem no um okay here we go um black
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people have been dehumanized brutalized criminalized and terrorized by america for centuries and are
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expected to join your commemoration of independence while you enslaved our uh ancestors we reject your
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celebration of white supremacy oh wow so i mean i can't is that a news statement this weekend yeah
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that's from this weekend oh now there's a hint of it there no i hadn't even heard yeah see i think
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i i think i could see how you would read that that way that it's not about the country yeah and that
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it's not about division or anything when he says you know and then you expect us to join your
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commemoration of independence right like when he's saying you're you almost think like he's talking about
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other people i'm not part of this country i'm not part of this country i hate this country it's kind of
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like that now it is of course identical to previous statements he's made uh with the same thing from
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the beginning from the moment he started protesting when he was saying it was about the country and the
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flag specifically mentioned those things very specifically yep when he said this country has
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never been great for uh for african americans um he wants to make it great for the first time
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there was some elements of that that i picked up and thought maybe he's talking about the country
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generally um but no just about those very specific uh you know examples of police brutality that are
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well known that's it that's all he's been talking about all right time okay so i've got some uh good
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news for you the edmonton eskimos have decided to keep that racist name oh my gosh after an extensive
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year-long formal research and engagement program with the inuit leaders and community members
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across canada wow that's unbelievable isn't it even though the the inuit the actual eskimos yeah
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they don't have a problem with it well they don't know any better they're still bastards they don't
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know they should be offended by that they don't know any better of course they're not white right so
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we need some white liberals out there to help them exactly this is an ongoing plan where we take away
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things that uh groups that are supposed to be offended actually love like the washington redskins
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like aunt jemima syrup where african americans are overwhelmingly the biggest customers for aunt
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jemima syrup however we have to tell them that they need to be offended by it and therefore should not
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be able to buy it anymore because us as white people understand their plight better than they do
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and how about uncle ben let's get into that racist yes smiling on the label there what do you what
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kind of stereotype is that that blacks smile all the time is that what that is still listen to you
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both listen to you both you just laugh it up clowns laugh it up meanwhile mr coffee the one who
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dominates every kitchen and oppresses everything else in the kitchen is left to just run the show
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the white mr coffee uh the cleveland indians are now thinking about changing their names uh they will
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and the and the redskins are going to do another thorough review of the team's name i don't know what
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you have to review we know we know we know why the name redskins was uh selected uh the first coach
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was native american was he not yes he's native american when they named the team uh they did it
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to honor him uh and also several native american players uh at the time uh the phrase and to my to
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this moment i have literally never heard the phrase used by a person in a derogatory manner other than
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the redskins suck meaning the football team but i've never heard anyone using it in a derogatory
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manner at all towards native americans um with the exception you can go back to the 1800s and find
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ways however that was not the original way it was intended like so it started out as a by a a a term
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used by native americans to describe themselves then there were some instances of racial use in in
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history however that was not the the use at the time or now yeah so at some point in the middle
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200 years ago people use this term in a bad way and that's supposed to mean that we need to change
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the the name now it's insanity and this one is interesting because it's being led by fedex who
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has asked the redskins to change their name because and they you know they've got a 200 million dollar
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investment in the redskins but i i don't know if daniel snyder will cave into this the way they
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worded that statement makes me think they are you think they will oh yeah i mean just they're like
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because he has fought tooth and nail against this stuff why are you doing another review then yeah
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why are you doing another review i just feel like and it's different now they think they can get away
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with the folding because so many other companies have folded and therefore there's going to be loss in
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the shuffle of the constant folding of everybody else and i'm sure daniel snyder is sick of dealing
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with this i would like the review to come back i take about six months and come back and just
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washington redskins statement on the name change nah and that's it i like that i like that uh although
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the the washington post i don't think would like it too much did you see the article uh while offensive
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tv shows get pulled problematic books are still inspiring debate and conversation oh so we now have
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to go after books is it time to burn them as confederate uh it doesn't say actually anything
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about matches they're burning the books yet as confederate statues finally tumble across america
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television networks are marching through their catalogs looking to take down racially effective
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offensive content turns out that little video monuments were lurking all across the tv canon
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more shocking with each new announcement just this month blackface scenes have been rediscovered and
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removed from the office community 30 rock and scrubs the office really i don't remember that scene
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of course not collective amnesia is essential condition for perpetuating poisonous stereotypes
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i really don't remember that scene i don't either as you were saying that i was like he's actually
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not he's saying the words i'm thinking i really do not remember that scene uh so they she she go
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this writer goes into now this is the washington post the what post about how there are books now
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uh that really need to be is that what you're saying the slave owner post george washington slave
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owner huh yeah yeah i did the washington post actually printed something criticizing the name uh you know
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wash the washington statues it's like it's in the name of your paper you dunce you could have called
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it the dc post but you didn't you didn't so i bet i bet they will soon yeah they probably will
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the folding is just embarrassing at this point it's it's just embarrassing all these people crumbling
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uh for what you know for what and this is i you know i kind of came to a i want to run this guy by
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this is totally a work in progress so it could be a terrible theory but i started thinking about this
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this weekend in that here is a a country that i think is a good place generally like i think it's
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a good place and i like it here and i think it's the best country on earth and i had to think about
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that a little bit because i wrote something for the blaze on this topic and as i was thinking about
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it i was like one of the ways you understand you're making real progress is when the complaints
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become dumber they just become so incredibly stupid like for example like african americans at
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one point were fighting to actually not be slaves anymore they didn't want to be slave they were
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enslaved as a race and they they were working for nothing and enslaved as a race now they are
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complaining that the holiday which would commemorate them no longer being a slave is not a big enough
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deal yeah like that is real progress let me give you another uh example of that in in uh at the
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university of wisconsin and madison they want to take down the lincoln statue because yes while he was
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anti-slavery he really wasn't pro-black enough right so what what right was he supposed to be a member
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of the naacp in 19 in 1863 wow yeah unbelievable and like these aren't like a statue coming down
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doesn't help one black person do anything no doesn't help them accomplish anything doesn't help
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them advance in society doesn't help that's not we're no longer that's not the goal right
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the goal the goal that's for sure is to erase our history and quite honestly i hear this and and i
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feel the same way this is ridiculous this isn't gonna last this is that's what every empire says
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that's what every country says right before it goes down the ground you know everybody's like well it
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won't happen it's happening it's happening right now and it's happening in really multiple ways oh yeah
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because like right we've had every front several these big movements that have like for example the
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right after parkland you had the shoot the gun they went after guns like crazy you had the me too
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situation which again flared up and it's you know feels like it's died down at some level where not
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every day you have a new accusation against some uh you know figure that you thought was beloved was
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apparently the worst person that's ever lived that seemed to have died down but then now there's this
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like there's this is constant it's that chaos theory you've been talking about forever glenn it's
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like there's this constant churn of these massive crisis crisis crisis crisis crisis sorry i knew it was
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in there somewhere uh crises that that that that take the foundation and just rip it up there so there's
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just no there's nothing left these things on their face are fine but it's it's overturning the foundation
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of the country there's no stability i would i would just like to point out that when i said their masks
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are going to come off we thought their masks had come off here recently did we not did we not all say
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like oh wow there's what a year ago there it is uh no have you noticed they keep unmasking themselves
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and it gets deeper and deeper the things that were said about july 4th and independence day and our
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founders and everything else is shocking to me absolutely shocking to see the press they have
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taken their masks off they're not just marxists they are truly revolutionaries that are are cheering
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for the destruction of america and america better stand up pretty soon better say something pretty soon
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because this silent majority is looking like a very silent weak and pathetic minority and uh i don't know
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about anybody else but i want action this is this is putting us in a situation look what the president
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said everything he said on in front of mount rushmore i thought was right i the one thing i didn't like
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was this i'm gonna do an executive order we're gonna have a park with monuments i don't want to park
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with monuments i want our monuments left alone leave them where they are period i want somebody to start
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standing up for what is right and what is truly american the best of the glenn beck program
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hey it's glenn and you're listening to the glenn beck program if you like what you're hearing on this
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podcasts you seem to have something bubbling a little bit inside your noggin yeah okay so uh you know
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you have this guy who nobody really knows how he made his money right i mean he's an investment guy
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but nobody really knows how did he go from a teacher to a billionaire right now only the guy the
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only thing is the victorious seeker is a or the limited that guy uh his billions for some reason
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he was very very trusting of this guy with very little experience in managing money except for of
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course it worked out very well yeah the only thing he really had any sort of uh experience with was
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running a ponzi scheme which he was not prosecuted for unfortunately a lot of people's lives would have
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been changed if he was hopefully uh right but yeah never he got that one just kind of slipped away
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the other his partner got prosecuted not jeffrey epstein and then uh that experience somehow won him
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into running a billionaire's fortune uh and all of his cash which is a strange strange choice
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is that is that yeah is that some part of your suspicion hey i have the science teacher over here
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he's just gonna he's actually biology so it's you know it's science but it's not like running numbers
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or a computer or something you know uh i mean what what how did he get this then he makes billions
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of dollars he becomes one of the richest people in the world and then he becomes everybody's best
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friend who happens to be a little bit scummy uh he's everybody's best friend uh you know kevin spacey
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bill clinton uh even donald trump was his friend for a while um but i don't know how you
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i don't know if you were going on trips with with him like the clintons i don't know how you
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didn't know you know i'm saying yeah i mean in this netflix documentary on epstein they have
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multiple people who were like contractors working on this island and all of them seem to know about
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it they they all had they're all very suspicious as to why they were constantly 15 and 16 year old
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girls running around there sometimes without clothes on uh uh it was not a uh did that's not a secret
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yeah it didn't seem to be well hidden if that was if that was the goal
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so what do you think what do you think about the theory that uh
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i don't know about that part of the theory the and this is i've seen this um
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batted around a little bit and that he was essentially trapping all these powerful people
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as an intelligence asset i think even if you don't necessarily to before you even go down that
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road because that's an interesting one as well the idea of him being a guy who really liked this sort
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of activity found other powerful people who also enjoyed the same activity and was able to hold on to
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his freedom for as long as he did because he had uh incredible amount of evidence on a credible amount
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of powerful people so the theory that he could just be free because look he liked uh hanging out with
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young girls he knew a lot of other people who did too and he had cameras all over the island where they
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did all their stuff so he could constantly use that as a um a shield against his own capture
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there's that sort of level of this theory you're going a step further than that even
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to say that this was an intentional outside foreign government sort of uh issue
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foreign government or a u.s government i mean just think of how much power you would have
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if you had the world's most powerful people on tape you know and that would be something that a
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government uh you know a deep state kind of scum baggy do anything for power government
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can't think of one uh all of them say yeah say uh uh hey um you know we could throw your ass in jail
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for all time or you could just kind of work with us a bit just don't just need some stuff on let's say
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we just need some information on the queen what does she eat every day how does she keep her slender
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figure like that what is she is she still exercising they got some information on the prince uh i don't
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know they got uh that far but they certainly got some i don't know you just you just have
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yeah and and i'm not necessarily saying it was for foreign governments as much as it is
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for just corporations and get them on our side get them you know you just that's a lot of power
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that's that's that's you know uh hoover kind of power and you know hoover it didn't end well
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for hoover but everybody was afraid of hoover until he was out now i don't know if you know
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i don't know if maxwell i mean they're saying she's singing like a bird it's it's a weird way
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this went down i mean she people were speculating she was all over the world she was apparently in
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new hampshire uh gets arrested and you know she was the girlfriend if you haven't watched all
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these documentaries all the girlfriend slash sort of uh teenager picker upper of the of the epstein
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world which was again we were kind of talking about this off the air it's a world that's it's
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one thing to say okay you're going to abuse a few women right terrible horrible person you are you're
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going you're going to prison you're an apologist for this now i did i said do i i just said you're
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going to prison it's terrible horrible doesn't sound like apology of course it's terrible you
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abuse a few women no but i i'm trying to make a separate point but i appreciate you interrupting
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it so you can make it look like i was saying trying to help you yeah of course yeah um the point is
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though how would you think you could possibly get away with what he did you know if you you have a
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couple of targets and you do something terrible to these a few women maybe you think you're going to
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get away with it this is a guy who routinely over a multi multi-year uh time frame would go out into
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local communities around him and abduct basically multiple 15 and 16 year olds and bring them in to
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do all this stuff at his house in which he was in which he owned was well known in the community
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was in a very wasn't really wearing a mask area was not really wearing a mask this is pre-covid uh was
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not wearing a mask he is in a the richest community in the area where all of the rich people are that
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know everybody and everything about this community because it was it's tight-knit and everyone knows
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when the new person moves in he's just bringing in like you know people who are uh of lower means
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that don't normally go to this community bringing them in over and over and over again and then having
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networks of recruiting going out into local high schools like how on earth could you possibly believe
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that it's that one of the 116 year olds you bring into your home is not going to start talking to their
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mom about this when they feel bad about it later on there's no way you could believe you're going to
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get away with this unless you had either just an incredible amount of hubris and believe you could
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get you could pay your way out of everything because no one's going to believe this random 16 year old
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but when you've done it with 100 of them there's going to be enough uh enough people who can come
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together and say yes this happened or you have some real high connections that you think can deflect
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all of these things when it comes down to it it's hard to imagine honestly that anyone could just be
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this ballsy i don't know how you think it's going to work without those connections well you could
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your arrogance could get out of control but you wouldn't your arrogance wouldn't get out of control
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unless you had some sort of you know trump card hanging not literally but some some sort of a you know
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a card that you could pull out and go yeah i don't think you're going to look over here
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you know i i mean it's just it's and i don't you did have it with i have an easier police
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yeah which is amazing you know here they are the enemies of everyone oh everyone the police oh my
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gosh everybody hates the police you know the only people who stood up for those victims were the
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police officers everybody else abandoned them all throughout government basically the police
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officers yeah they actually stepped up and said no we're not going to let this happen
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and continually beat this drum for multiple years after it had already been covered up we still
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wouldn't have known if it wasn't for them uh if it wasn't for the police officers continue so focused
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on making sure this guy paid for these crimes we would have never known about them
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it's uh it's it's truly remarkable uh that he killed himself too
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i mean i mean i just don't buy it i just i don't buy i have an easier time thinking bigfoot
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killed john f kennedy then this guy killed himself in prison really because i don't think there's a lot
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of people proposing the theory that bigfoot killed john kennedy so you're pretty you're out of the
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right that's that's that's way out of a limb but i would accept that one faster than this was just
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no the camera was out and the guys and they were just sleeping and it was weird and it was you know
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nobody came in there he just hung him said this no i don't believe it there's a new book about this too
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maybe we should get the authors on um there's a new book about this that basically uh dives into this
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and is only focused on whether the the uh suicide was real you know like it's not focused on the
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entire story because there's a lot of epstein stuff coming out this is about like what happened
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at the prison this doesn't make any sense can we get that person on we gotta get yeah it's two it's
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two authors i'll um i'll i'll get the the name of the book and stuff because i think what is their
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conclusion uh one of them is completely convinced that it that it was not suicide one of them is
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completely convinced the other one is like not completely convinced but very skeptical like i
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would say uh is very open to the idea that it could have been um uh it could not have been
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you know potentially suicide um the interesting thing it's not just random people too like one of
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them is a you know well-known journalist uh has worked for you know uh mainstream and conservative
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leaning i would say sources um uh so i mean it's not like some crazy conspiracy book i mean it's just
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looking at the facts of the situation and and like look it it's super suspicious i mean there is an idea
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that a person who has lived this uh life where they've done all these things could just decide
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screw it what's the point um there's a lot of evidence though that that's not where his head was
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at that time uh yeah even then yeah you know he still he was still pretty convinced and honestly
00:29:06.580
glenn i think there's evidence to say that he had a decent case honestly that's not the case that he
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was innocent of these crimes the case i i mean he signed an agreement with the federal government
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that he would not be prosecuted anymore for any of this stuff and like you know they just basically
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said and this has happened several times and i think it's a bad development overall for the country
00:29:30.040
which is we get these things they get resolved legally and then we say you know what this is a
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big deal there's a lot of documentaries about it let's just break all those agreements and now
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prosecute the person again and it's the same thing with cosby it's happened with several
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weinstead is in this area it's the same thing with it's the same thing with uh the me too movement
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where i've settled it you we paid out a big amount of money and then you come back and you're like
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no i want some i i want to tell the truth you can't do that you can't have both i mean cause
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you can't have both cosby signed an agreement that he would not testify unless it was sealed
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and then he testified and then they just unsealed it because they really wanted him to go to prison
00:30:09.780
well that's not okay i mean i think all these guys are guilty but that's not how this process is supposed
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to work this is the best of the glenn beck program and don't forget rate us on itunes
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just as you feel maybe a little beat up like there's nobody talking common sense anymore
00:30:35.260
let's cover something the media won't um there are republican candidates in the greater
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baltimore area uh one two five five republican candidates uh that are african-american and uh we
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have one of them on i think you're going to like her kim klasik she is a woman that moved to baltimore
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round right after i think obama was elected and uh she founded potential me and this was something
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that would help women um you know uh get into the workforce and then develop themselves i think it's
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really great she assisted 200 women to become gainfully employed 30 percent have gone on now
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to uh obtain financial independence and kim is with us now hi kim how are you hey god how are you doing
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i'm doing good good so kim tell me a little bit about uh yourself and why you're running
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yeah definitely so you know like you said in the opening there and thank you for that
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i appreciate it i started a workforce development non-profit in the baltimore city area about eight
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years ago and it was just really to help women coming out of incarceration rehabilitation um and
00:31:52.060
homelessness to get back into the workforce so we decided to get them closed get them ready we work
00:31:57.560
with deployment specialists uh they would call us and let us know when they had job interviews
00:32:01.760
and then we would get them going and so from there i noticed there was a huge need for career
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opportunities in general you know not just the jobs but the careers with the health care benefits
00:32:12.700
and everything that everybody really wants to have so i decided you know what i'm going to do more
00:32:17.560
i'm going to investigate it and see why we don't have so many more career opportunities in the
00:32:21.860
baltimore area and as i was digging i just noticed that i had so much potential to do so much more in the
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city uh but baltimore city officials weren't really getting it together um and then last summer in july
00:32:33.880
i decided to take my video camera through parts of west baltimore to show the blight uh the trash
00:32:39.700
the illegal dumping i posted it online president trump saw it he retweeted it and then this discussion
00:32:46.100
began about how resources weren't really going to so many people in need uh there's a lot of
00:32:51.940
neighborhoods in baltimore that have been neglected and we kind of wanted to just highlight that
00:32:55.920
and since then we found out you know if you call dpw who picks up the trash in baltimore city
00:33:02.640
in harbor east a very nice neighborhood uh the answer to call 100 of the time in carlton ridge
00:33:09.480
where i was in my video camera where you saw the riots in 2015 after the death of freddie gray
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the answer to call five percent of the time so the disparity is there and the resources are there
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the money is there but for some reason it's just not getting it to the people
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in these neglected areas so i decided to just throw my hat in the ring and give it a shot
00:33:27.900
so you're actually going for elijah cummings seat yeah so this is the uh general primary we had the
00:33:36.620
special election uh back in on april 28th uh i did not win that unfortunately but i did go off
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against kwaisi and fume he's now in the general primary with myself uh we were able to capture
00:33:48.980
70 of the vote uh on june 2nd so we're excited about it uh we beat seven other candidates uh some
00:33:56.020
of them lifelong republicans that have run before um i think people just want to change a new leadership
00:34:00.660
so kim tell me how because i think it was baltimore where they just threw another statue of columbus
00:34:10.180
into the inner harbor um what what is happening in uh our african-american communities what what's
00:34:19.760
what's really going on how much of this is how much of the i hate america tear it all down
00:34:27.040
is real and how much is coming just from marxist revolutionaries i would think 95 of it's coming
00:34:36.080
from marxist revolutionaries i mean you look in baltimore people don't remember but in 2017 our
00:34:42.040
mayor who just went to prison because she was indicted uh for pay to play but she actually did
00:34:46.420
in 2017 she removed four confederate statues because it was the trendy thing to do our homicide
00:34:52.240
rate carjackings armed robberies all of those numbers have gone up significantly since then so it's
00:34:57.720
not connected uh people should understand that know that by now you know this virtue signaling
00:35:02.060
it's literally just virtue signaling it doesn't affect the the poverty it doesn't affect the
00:35:07.600
education system that's broken or the crime and violence that's sky high um so i don't know why
00:35:12.820
we continue to do this you know it was awful to see columbus uh going into the the baltimore city
00:35:18.060
inner harbor this weekend um but these are people that come into neighborhoods that they don't belong
00:35:22.180
to uh they didn't spend the money to put that statue there um and as far as i know we we got rid of
00:35:27.920
our confederate statues four years ago uh or three years ago but you know people just don't seem but
00:35:33.480
i don't think it's remember you know it's it's it's like uh listening to colin kaepernick oh it's not
00:35:39.040
about the flag it's not about the country it's about police oppression well now he comes out this weekend
00:35:44.140
and says you know that this is a horrible dreadful racist country um and you know all of the voices seem
00:35:54.360
to be uniting including those in the press on you know independence day is a white supremacist day and
00:36:01.180
we don't want anything to do with it and and we're looking at the destruction of our country
00:36:06.340
yes yeah no i don't understand why we're uh you know it's hard to understand how people are getting
00:36:14.660
uh enraged over things that just don't change their life or the trajectory of their future it doesn't
00:36:21.640
make any sense um so yeah colin kaepernick all these people you know they're really getting
00:36:26.260
famous and getting paid off of i call it fear mongering you know we we're not talking about
00:36:31.760
defund the police in baltimore city but we had 348 homicides last year we're on uh we're progressing
00:36:38.220
this year and we'll have even more this year um so you know it it doesn't affect us um it's literally
00:36:45.120
just the trendy thing to do you see a lot of people at these protests and they're there to take
00:36:49.540
facebook pictures or you know post it on snapchat they're not even you know really talking about
00:36:54.620
what they're protesting you ask them what they want in the end no one seems to have an answer
00:36:58.600
so they're making these demands of absolutely nothing
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so what is the do you think there's a disconnect or what is the disconnect between
00:37:08.020
black republicans being the majority on city councils versus struggling to put through a republican
00:37:14.920
candidate in congress well it's you know basically the difference in parties you know it says i'm a
00:37:22.180
republican uh everybody on city council our city has been run by democrats for the past 60 years
00:37:27.760
um and they truly make people believe that they're there to help them but you know they're pushing the
00:37:32.620
welfare state i tell people you know the only way that you're going to come out of poverty is with
00:37:36.940
employment that's the only way that's going to happen um so you got to want to go to work you have
00:37:41.040
to you and we met a lot of people that do want to go to work you know we met a lot of people that
00:37:45.220
don't want handouts they just want that hand up and continue to go um but you know in in this area
00:37:50.960
it's basically here we'll give you this we'll give you that um and then you'll be just fine but people
00:37:55.900
become dependent on the government they can only get but so far we talk a lot about section eight and
00:38:00.360
how fathers aren't even able to live in the home uh to receive that uh program and funding um and that's
00:38:06.460
another thing you know we've dismantled the family structure within the black community over
00:38:10.660
the past few years or i would say even a decade or so um and that's a big big problem you know
00:38:16.600
those that don't have that two-parent family in the home they're they're bringing in less money less
00:38:22.300
income you know so of course they're going to have more issues you know surrounding money problems so
00:38:27.360
it's not rocket science it's just common sense uh but nobody wants to seem to apply it here
00:38:33.220
so how do we get african americans to look at actual black lives matter their website says
00:38:42.840
part of their platform is to destroy the nuclear family that seems anti-american anti-family
00:38:50.700
anti-african-american that families are very important how can we how can we connect
00:38:59.200
black lives matter to their own words and their own philosophies which shouldn't
00:39:06.420
uh shouldn't appeal to african americans right and you know and i i love that new york times they
00:39:12.980
did an article i guess it was two weeks ago showing that you know 54 percent of the people
00:39:17.020
involved in black lives matter are not actually black you know they're white um but you know
00:39:22.400
they've got to we've really got to have bigger voices you know lebron james people like that even
00:39:27.360
colin kaepernick if they would just take a second and read what the mission is and tell people
00:39:32.680
exactly what's going on um you know then people would listen you know when it's me saying it uh
00:39:38.800
when it's kanye west when it's someone that they don't consider uh to be black enough you know that's
00:39:43.640
a thing these days right to be a coon or an uncle tom um but if we had voices that said look this is a
00:39:49.240
mission this is not going to work i mean you know you've got lebron james who came from a single
00:39:55.140
parent household he knows exactly what it was like to grow up like that and then you've got
00:39:58.620
colin kaepernick he was adopted and had a beautiful family structure and he knows what it's like to
00:40:02.800
grow up like that you know so it's kind of like why can't we just have these real discussions and
00:40:06.920
conversations and somebody's got to get these guys to the table and talk about it um i i think you
00:40:12.280
know charlemagne the god and the breakfast club you know they had on joe biden uh it would be great
00:40:16.720
for them to have other people come in and really talk about you know what's going on as far as
00:40:22.280
conservative values and our beliefs um a lot of african americans don't even know they are
00:40:26.740
conservative you know a lot of us grow up in the church uh we know a lot about how important family
00:40:32.440
structure is because you either lived on the one side with a single parent or the other side with
00:40:36.320
two parents and you understand you had parents that are friends that lived on both sides and so
00:40:40.940
you get it uh but we need to talk about you know why it's so important to keep the family together
00:40:45.680
why careers are the only way you're going to lift someone out of employment or poverty and why it's
00:40:50.980
important to even have employment and and how that is helpful for you know this health insurance and
00:40:56.300
the dental insurance and you know we've set the bar so low for people um we need to focus on getting
00:41:03.920
better not just in the black community but in the country as a whole you know we can help each other
00:41:08.780
i don't know why we have to be so divisive uh you know when you hear something like black lives matter
00:41:13.580
that is divisive that's divisive language which they accuse president trump of having all the time so
00:41:18.240
i find that even interesting um so kim let me ask you one final question uh donald trump was doing
00:41:24.700
well with african americans on the black vote and um kind of fell apart a little bit we think
00:41:31.180
because of coronavirus where now everybody is struggling to make ends meet etc etc but during
00:41:37.920
that time there was there seemed to be an awakening uh with the african-american community kanye west
00:41:44.580
candace owens etc etc is that real is that still happening is there something happening to african
00:41:52.200
americans where they're waking up and going you know this isn't working out well for us
00:41:57.540
uh yes i i think you know that was coming around because you could see the numbers you could see
00:42:04.300
the drop you know the unemployment numbers uh was at its lowest ever at that point in time
00:42:09.120
um he was talking about the money he was given to hbcus and for me with my workforce development
00:42:13.620
a non-profit that first step act was so important and i would harp on that all the time you know we
00:42:18.520
would have people coming out of incarceration and you know they went in there before technology was
00:42:22.820
really a thing so they come out they can't sell out job applications online and on the computer
00:42:27.480
because they're still trying to figure it all out but that first step act that is what was getting
00:42:32.040
them the training so they have those skills so they can go and apply for these jobs and so people
00:42:37.080
you know started to see that and started family members you know that weren't employed for so long
00:42:41.820
you know finally getting jobs and good careers so you know as soon as we get back on track i think
00:42:46.400
after this pandemic uh we might see that even before november 3rd well i wish you all the best of luck
00:42:53.840
um kim i i um i sincerely do we we need new fresh blood uh in congress and people who will stand up for
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the declaration of independence and the constitution so i wish you all the best of luck that's kimberly
00:43:09.140
uh clackick uh you can uh follow her on twitter uh clasic i'm sorry um you can follow her at kim
00:43:16.660
uh baltimore at kim uh k baltimore you can also find kim k for congress.com if you would like to uh
00:43:26.440
help her out with her bid to congress kim k for congress.com