Glenn Beck sits down with Virginia Lt. Gov. Stacey Abrams to discuss why the left doesn t like her, and why they should like her. Glenn also talks about how to get progressives to reveal their racism, and how to win them over.
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00:07:12.860And that's why in acceptance speech, I say this is not 1963 when my father came, because he came, what, 17 days before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech.
00:08:31.360But let's get even past that, or maybe I should say before that.
00:08:36.880We talk about, when it comes to race relations in America, we talk about the awful tragedy that slavery was.
00:08:45.780But think about, after the Civil War, black people began to accumulate wealth, even when they never got their 40 acres in a mule.
00:08:55.640They decided they weren't going to wait.
00:08:58.280In fact, the Union Army created Special Order No. 15, which designated the 40 acres in a mule and seed so that they could plant, et cetera, et cetera.
00:09:10.220Well, when that began to be taken from them, they did other things, to the point that you had this thriving black community in Tulsa, where they, you know the story.
00:09:42.200And such that the whites, unfortunately, jealous and burned down the businesses, burned down their homes, killed people, et cetera, et cetera.
00:09:57.120Why do we always point to the wickedness of that and not say, but look what God was able to help us to do to accomplish that kind of wealth in that kind of an environment?
00:10:15.940Why don't we say, if black people then could thrive, not just survive, but thrive in those terrible economic times, why can't we thrive today?
00:10:28.340Because I think those people who suffered in humanities would say to us, what are you talking about?
00:10:39.300You have never suffered like we suffered.
00:10:55.820So, Winsome, let me ask you, what is the difference between the African-American community and, let's say, the Jewish community that has had 19 holocausts, one after another after another, and always persecuted and always a scapegoat and everything else, and yet, generally speaking, very successful as a people?
00:11:21.200And my first thought was, well, God plays a very important role in that community.
00:11:28.400However, God plays a huge role in the African-American community.
00:11:35.580Why is one group just refusing to give up and just like, in spite of you, I'm going to make it?
00:11:42.620And the other group has, I don't know, fallen into what they're not.
00:11:47.880Well, I don't know that it's a group, this or that.
00:11:53.960I think because, all right, so most people probably don't remember that after the Civil War, black people were marrying in higher percentages than white people.
00:12:30.660It destroyed our families because they came in with the great society and they had, you know, where they had, if you had a father in the home, then you weren't going to get any government help, any, you know, welfare, et cetera.
00:12:49.780They turned welfare into an, as needed, into an entitlement.
00:12:57.300And so you now have generations who have grown up on entitlement, on welfare, and it has destroyed us.
00:13:06.940Because the government inserted itself and said, if you have a man in the home, then we will not provide benefits, we now have where women are absolutely the matriarchs of our society, the black community.
00:14:24.840You said that when you were talking to some friends back in Jamaica, same age, you were in school, they were in school, that you noticed you were misspelling things, using things, you know, using words in a way that they weren't.
00:14:42.440But they were actually technically correct on English and you weren't.
00:14:46.420And you looked at Americans' education and you thought, how is it better in Jamaica than it is here?
00:14:56.580Well, when I came to America, my father, of course, so what my father did when he came to America, with only $1.75, by the way, he took any job he could find and put himself through school and started his American dream.
00:15:11.800And then once he stabilized, he came back to Jamaica and got me.
00:15:16.580So he had been coming back home, you know, for visits, but he brought me back for good.
00:15:22.700So I arrived when I was six and started public schools here in America, in the Bronx.
00:15:29.040Now, by the time I got to the third grade, I was spelling words like this and that, and I was coming home every week at the end of a week with some kind of meritorious certificate for doing well.
00:15:43.900My father said, oh, no, she's not learning anything.
00:15:47.640So he sent me back to school in a third world country.
00:16:11.000But thankfully, with a lot of tutoring, private tutoring, meaning my uncle, my uncle made multiplication tables for me, broke the clock to teach me how to tell time, did just so many different things that I finally caught up and caught up to the point where I was a grade ahead in school.
00:16:36.820So, yeah, now that uncle, actually, he was recruited to attend Harvard because these higher institutions of learning, the colleges and universities, they actually come to Jamaica to recruit because our educational system is so much better.
00:17:33.240Let me tell you, recently I've been talking about what California has done in its zero emissions policy.
00:17:43.480And you're going to ask, well, what does that have to do with Virginia?
00:17:46.560Well, I'm glad you asked, because what are our Democrats, unfortunately, in the legislature, and I hate to break it down politically, but there's no other way to break it down because they were the ones who made this policy and it became law for us.
00:18:01.320When the Democrats took control of the Virginia State House of the Senate and the governor's mansion, they ran wild with that power.
00:18:12.300They had absolute power, plus they had the attorney general and they had the lieutenant governor.
00:18:16.940They had all five of the top positions.
00:19:13.320So here we are now that California decided this year, last Thursday, as a matter of fact, that they were going to go to a zero emissions policy in cars by the year 2035.
00:19:40.740Except that only 2% of the vehicles in Virginia are hybrids or EVs.
00:19:46.680So the kicker, though, on top of all that is in order to get to 2035, California has instituted where by 2026, one third or about 35% of all vehicles sold in California must be zero emissions.
00:22:12.440Rome was destroyed from within, not without.
00:22:15.500That's what Abraham Lincoln said, too.
00:22:17.480I thought you were, I didn't think of the Electoral College.
00:22:19.800I thought you were going to go to turn back to schools on that, that that is, I mean, right now they're changing the history standards, at least in Texas.
00:22:29.260And when Texas votes, it's the school books are all slaves to either Texas or California.
00:22:36.260So if we change our history and our standards, you know, half the country changes it.
00:23:06.980No, no, it's right here in good old Virginia.
00:23:11.000And in Loudoun County, the parent tried to read the filth, tried to read a book and a curriculum that the children in Loudoun County are forced to read.
00:23:24.560And the school board stopped the parent from doing so because they said it was filth, only then to be told by the parent, well, this is what you're teaching our children.
00:23:36.760And if I can't repeat it in public, why are you teaching it to my children?
00:23:48.260We cannot leave the battlefield, and the battlefield is called voting, because you lose 100 percent of the battles that you walk away from.
00:23:58.340You know who's hoping that America stays America?
00:24:01.920The people who are dying at the border to come in, the southern border.
00:29:51.300I knew what the IMF meant when I was eight, nine years old.
00:29:56.620Because we had a prime minister who came to power and said we were a banana republic because of these multinational corporations who were in Jamaica.
00:30:55.060People tried to leave the country because we were in lockdown all the time.
00:31:00.860It's the communist socialist thing, you know.
00:31:04.020And it got to the point where he said to those who could flee Jamaica, those who had means, he said, if you don't like my economic policies, well, there's a plane leaving for Miami every day at three o'clock.
00:31:23.780And, of course, they could only take so much money out of the country.
00:31:26.920It has taken Jamaica at least 40, 45, 50 years to come back to where we are today.
00:31:34.960We had been on such a major trajectory that we could have been one of the little tigers that you hear in Southeast Asia, like the Taiwans and the Singapours of the world.
00:32:03.200I just asked this on the air or made the statement the other day that I never really understood.
00:32:12.120There's a fulfillment of a few things in understanding.
00:32:15.480Now, one of the things I never really understood until recently is those with eyes will see and those with ears will hear because I'm watching things that are black and white.
00:33:29.820You see, the very wealthy are I think they have to be careful because sometimes they're helping to drive the policies.
00:33:38.260The journalists we know, the mainstream media, the legacy media, they're helping to drive the issue and they've taken side.
00:33:47.780Except that they forget that once certain people come to power, then you're one of the first that they destroy because you see they have to stop you because you help them get here.
00:34:05.600That means you have power and power goes after power.
00:34:09.900And there's nothing like when the government comes against you.
00:34:14.180So we have to begin to see that there are seeds being planted, seeds of unrest, seeds of distrust, seeds of divisiveness.
00:34:26.040And there are people who want power and they're going to get it if we allow them to be successful.
00:34:33.020And that's why people who look like me are dangerous, because I'm the trifecta.
00:35:44.560NAACP invited our secretary of the Commonwealth to dinner.
00:35:49.780And it's one of the ways that they raise money, scholarship money, so that people can afford schools, etc.
00:35:59.000And because she's a Republican, the Democrats came after this local NAACP chapter and forced the local NAACP chapter, a nonpartisan organization, to pretty much disinvite her.
00:36:16.300And because they wouldn't, then they had to cancel, cancel something that would help the black community.
00:36:57.900I'll get into this with you some other time.
00:37:00.120But you say who died and left you in charge of us.
00:37:02.520I think it was John F. Kennedy and he left Lyndon Johnson, a known racist, also the guy who signed the the the great society bill, which just destroyed the black community, as you point out.
00:37:16.480So I want to I only have seven minutes left because I know you're on a tight schedule.
00:37:20.380So I want to ask you about two things.
00:37:23.960First of all, you've worked in homeless shelters.
00:37:58.680And yet I talk to so many Christians who just don't think they think it's all up to us that we have to find the that one person that can save us.
00:38:11.020And I and it's almost like they're denying the power of God.
00:38:14.900It's like, no, just do the right thing.
00:38:40.260Where is where are the Christians that are that are standing up peacefully and squaring their shoulders and saying, I'm sorry, but this is wrong.
00:40:01.360That's the reason why we have locks on our doors.
00:40:06.400We don't just have doors on our, you know, the entryway to our homes.
00:40:11.480We have locks because there is darkness.
00:40:14.820There is going to be somebody trying to get into your home to steal things when you're there as well as when you're not there.
00:40:22.680We have wickedness and darkness in the world when we have rapists and murderers, et cetera, which is why we have laws to protect us from these people because they're going to do something.
00:40:39.220A law is preparing us that if you do X, then we are going to do Y.
00:40:46.200We have the military to protect us from other countries even because let's not kid ourselves.
00:40:58.120If we don't fund our military, if we are not always prepared, yes, we have a constitution.
00:41:06.520But if we don't have a military to protect and defend it, if we are overrun by another country, you know what they're going to do with the constitution?
00:43:19.420Are you, would you consider yourself, when you look at the landscape today, optimistic, cautiously optimistic, cautiously pessimistic?
00:43:35.720Where are you on the future of America today?
00:43:39.300Well, you know, when I think about the Jews, when the Lord said he was going to send them into captivity and he said, pray for the peace of the place that I am sending you to.
00:43:55.640And then I'm reminded about Esther that even though the book of Esther doesn't specifically mention God, he did provide a way for them to defend themselves.
00:44:06.300So, you know, when, uh, the, the, the, the pagans are coming after them.
00:44:12.580So I believe I'm sort of an exile here in America.
00:44:17.740You know, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm a Jamaican in exile and I'm, and I'm now a product of America and thank God for America.
00:44:27.380Here I am second in command in the former capital of the Confederacy.
00:45:47.160And if people will get on their knees and pray and turn from their wicked ways, as the Bible says in Chronicles, then God will hear and help heal our land.
00:47:24.920You know, you can't ever, I don't think, plan your life because here I am talking with you and I say only God can do these sorts of things.