Episode 032: GLORY - and Glory Hallelujah

In this episode of The Jeremiah Gunn Show, Jeremiah Gunn reflects on American history, Civil War–era symbolism, and modern political and cultural divisions, arguing that the ideological conflicts underlying the Civil War continue today. Using songs like “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “Union Dixie” as entry points, he discusses their origins, abolitionist themes, and how religious language was used to frame the fight against slavery as a moral cause.

Gunn explores figures such as Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant, while examining how historical narratives around slavery, abolition, and the Union are interpreted in contemporary debates. He critiques media institutions, particularly publicly funded outlets, and argues that cultural and political messaging continues to shape perceptions of race, patriotism, and national identity.

Throughout the episode, Gunn shares anecdotes, commentary on modern political rhetoric, and personal observations about regional attitudes toward race. He concludes by reiterating his view that America remains in an ongoing ideological “civil war,” encouraging listeners to question prevailing narratives, reflect on history, and engage in open dialogue.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 2:13

Hey, thank you, Tennessee Ernie Ford, one of the great singers of American history. That was uh called Union Dixies from a record, off a record called the Civil War. This is Jeremiah Gunshow. Welcome to the Jeremiah Gunshow. Thank you. Thank you for for having me. Thank you. Uh so much appreciate it. I just want to talk to you. Uh we we are still in the Civil War. We're in a critical, critical point in our uh it's a constitutional crisis, it's a crisis of democracy, all all that stuff. And uh civil war is still going on. So that's what we're gonna talk about today. But um think about that song, think about the words to that song. Um anyway, this is Jeremiah Gunn, the Jeremiah Gunn Show. Uh this show is dedicated to Charlie Kirk. And uh uh we want to talk about the things that are pressing us on all sides right now that are and here's our mission statement. Here's how we do it. Uh uh we coalesce the vapors of human experience, gleaning the wise to summarize and open eyes to vaporize and cauterize the metasticized, supersized lies. Don't even we don't even realize from the Lord of the Flies, but we keep our eyes on the prize and we never compromise. We cogitate, contemplate, and communicate. The reason I say we and not I is because it's we the people. We the people. That is what makes the America exceptional. It makes America exceptional. And uh I gotta make a brief brief announcement here. Sorry, I gotta have a disclaimer. Anyway, I I I I think my voice is just way too slow. But if if you're okay with it, great. If not, speed it up. I I like to listen to it at faster. So if if that works for you, go ahead. 1.5, 2, whatever you want. Uh hope hopefully that helps. Anyway, opening disclaimer here. This shows for men. But uh we men that are men have to thank you women. Have to thank you noble women that aren't lost fools. They don't participate in the gender gap. You noble women that aren't lost fools, enemies of your own country, your own family, and your own selves. To be popular is easy, to be right, when it's not popular is noble. So thank you for that. I say this shows for men, but um men that are men. And women that appreciate that and understand what's at stake. That's what we're talking about, that's the stakes. I'm kind of the Chuck Norris of philosophy. And uh I wanna I wanna beat beat down the the the Pharisees, the propagandists, and the the perpetrators of the crime of the centuries, which is uh the Civil War is still going on and and we're not admitting it. So that's what we're gonna talk about today. So I had uh uh you know, my one of my grandsons is into music and uh all kinds of a music, eclectic, it's getting a great they used to call it uh music appreciation. So he he kind of came across the battle hymn of the republic. It's just such a beautiful song. I mean, you used to go to great moments with Mr. Lincoln, the Republican, uh uh at Disneyland, uh they had that music playing behind him, underneath his speech, his words. Simple. It's a it's a basic um theme of America. It's called a hymn. So I started looking into um it's and and what you're gonna hear here is kind of proof that the Civil War never ended. Never ended. So I looked up, I was trying to remember. I know I think it was Harriet Beecher Stowe that wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and uh actually lived on the same sort of plot of land as Mark Twain. It was very interesting. Found that out last year or so. Her house is right there next to Mark Twain's house. And they used to walk, he used to walk across the property and talk to him, talk to her about her her work. Um She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, and isn't that word Uncle Tom used wrong now? Larry Elder made a couple of fantastic movies called Uncle Tom One and Two. I don't know if he made a three, but if you get a chance to see them, please, please do. I recommend there's some great movies surrounding the Civil War. Uh Glory. Yeah, glory, glory, hallelujah. So that's what we're talking about. So I so it wasn't it wasn't uh Harriet Beecher, so it was Julia Ward Howe. And uh she wrote she wrote the book. And so I think what happened is she was in Washington and she heard some troops out there um singing uh John Brown's body lies a mold in the grave. And she thought, well, that's that's kind of John Brown was our first martyr, uh the first Charlie Kirk. He tried to tried to save uh the slaves from the Democrat Party, and um he got killed for it by the head of the party, um Robert E. Lee, head of the Democrat Party. So yeah, this stuff keeps coming back. Keeps coming back. Recent elections. So anyway, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Pen is mightier than the sword. When she when Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, went to the White House uh to meet Lincoln, he said, You're the little lady that started this big war. And um when they said that when Queen Victoria read it across the pond, she cried. So but Uncle Tom was a good guy, actually. But the Uncle Tom's of today, this is the irony age. This is the Orwellian newspeak, this is the convoluted complete twist. Just it's s it's easy to remember. That's one nice thing, but you don't have to have a decoder box or anything. If they call you a racist, they're the racist. If they call you a Nazi, they're the Nazi. If they call you a communist, they they won't call you a communist because they like that. They embrace that. But but you you get the point. Call you a fascist, they're the fascist. They're the tyrant. They're the king. So so uh I guess Julia Ward Howe wrote this. She was just like Harriet Beech Stows, one of those white Christian Republicans, and in their case women. Um it's just a beautiful hymn. So so uh I I I in looking it up, and and there's there's another beautiful hymn that goes along with it. Um and when we talk about the Civil War and we talk about race and other shows, we're gonna explain all of this. Uh that should be c should be common knowledge, but it's not it's not it's not common sense, it's not common knowledge, it's not out there. So I'm looking up this uh the the this other hymn uh was uh Oh holy night. It was kind of converted from I love Christmas I love Christmas hymns, Christmas carols. I I love them I I could play 'em all year long. I just think they're just beautiful. They're just some of the greatest stuff we've written. Well, Oh Holy Night was converted into sort of a uh abolition Republican anthem. And it has the line in it, chains shall he break for the slave is my brother. Chains shall he break for the slave is my brother, and all oppressions shall cease. Um I don't know how I don't know how these Christians in the South and the and the general populace in America thought that the thought that the um the Democrats that started the Civil War, the Confederates still going on today. Same people, same thing. It's this war between the states. It's a war between the states, isn't it? So the same ones that started that uh that war, uh you know, they've they've got this thing twisted around now to where you know they they take the word Uncle Tom and they call it, you know. Who who's really an Uncle Tom? You know, um re Revenue Sharpton Revenue Jess Jesse Jack uh Jackson and oh blah blah and um uh Hakeem Jeffries. These are the house N-words. So hang in there, just relax. Just please listen. But what do they call there's a great senator, Republican senator from uh one of the Carolinas, Tim Scott. He actually ran for president, I think. They call him Uncle Tim. Because they get all excited about uh the first black president. Morgan Freeman pointed out that he was not. Oh, blah blah was not the first black president, he's the first mixed-race president. But anyway, they get all excited about that. But they it would never be Tim Scott. It would never be that Byron Donald's, it would never be that that great guy from Texas who's running for senator. Um, forgive me, he's a war hero and and I mean a Apache Pile. Anyway, it's not going to be one of them. It's not even gonna be Condoleezza Rice or So they they don't want a black president. They want a leftist Democrat, communist, Marxist, socialist president. And that's why they're into Jasmine Crockett and Al Green and all these people. They're not interested in that. So so back to looking up the song, uh Battle Hymn of the Republic, Glory, glory, hallelujah. And uh you know, this little guy, this little toddler, would sing it and listen to it and go to sleep to it and everything. You get in the kids get on these fads, but especially when they have a well-rounded education. And um so I so I look it up and I find the first thing it said. Um this kind of speaks to A AI, because AI is just it's ridiculous. It's absolute nonsense. And so but they put this little ding at the front at the top, uh maybe it's the Washington Post and uh uh KC as Kennedy Center and NPR. These are all the people that it gleans from. And so what's controversial about the Battle Hymn of the Republic? In looking up, just trying to find out who wrote it. What's controversial about the Battle Hymn of the Republic? And here's what it says The Battle Hymn of the Republic, written by Julia Ward Howe in 1861, is controversial primarily because it blends religious, apocalyptic imagery and political war propaganda, framing the American Civil War as a holy crusade. While it served as a powerful anthem for the Union, its lyrics and interpretation have sparked debate. Not debate. Yes, its lyrics and interpretation have sparked debate over theological, historical, and political issues. Oh my god, what are we gonna do? And it says, The Battle Hymn of the Republic is controversial for blending religious devotion with violent political ideology. And some of this blather is coming from quote Christians, unquote. Christians who won't sing. Why they they post in a when you drill down, why we won't sing it. The Battle Hymn of the Republic, 1861, is controversial for blending religious devotion with violent political ideology, framing the Civil War as a holy crusade where Union soldiers acting for God destroy Confederate soldiers. Portrayed as satanic. I don't know about that, but they grabbed someone's interpretation of that. It glorified a righteous war. Oh God, they called it righteous? That has the word right in it. Challenging Southern identity. Again, these geniuses say that it was about a compass, that that war was over a compass. Southern identity. No matter how many Democrats were in the North trying to derail the Union. Whatever. It glorified a righteous war challenging Southern identity and causing discomfort for its apocalyptic anti-South imagery. Abolition and anti-South sentiment. Julia Ward Howe wrote the lyrics to replace the lyrics of John Brown's body, shifting from a blunt tribute to a slave revolt leader toward an idealized holy victory. They gotta put these dangerous, horrible words like holy and religious and things like that in quotes. Not if it's about Islam, only if it's about Christianity. And remember, John Adams said no king but Jesus. But that's okay. Bill Mars said to Charlie Kirk, You you you showed me that the founders were a lot more Christy than I ever thought, and I thank you for that. So so they put okay, abolitionist and anti-South sentiment. Wow. So I guess the CNN and everybody in those days would say, Well, you have a problem with the South? You have a problem with the geography as soon as you cross the latitude or longitude, I can never remember. Is that your issue? You're oh you so you're anti you're a Southhophic. Oh, hmm. Abolition and an anti-South sentiment. Julia Ward Howe wrote the lyrics to replace the lyrics of John Brown's body, shifting from a blunt tribute to a slave revolt leader toward an i even there, the when they say slave revolt leader, you think of Nat Turner. You don't think of a white guy from Kansas who believed God was telling him to free the slaves. By any means necessary. Julia Ward Howard wrote the lyrics to replace the lyrics of John Brown's body, shifting from a blunt tribute to a slave revolt leader to an idol idealized, quote, holy sorry, I said the H word, victory. The line, let us die to make men free, unquote, specifically enraged Southerners, as it equated their subjugation with God's work. Whose subjugation? The the the fellow man Chain shall he break for the slave is my brother? Or is the subjugation of the people living below that Mason Dixon line? That's all that's all you got. And the border states, don't forget. That song mentions Baltimore. Baltimore was a hotbed of racist Democrat activity. That's where they I think that's where they met the the traitors who were gonna kidnap Lincoln and then wound up with Booth, you know, shooting him. Yeah, I I I started to say that, you know, Christians, you know, a guy gave me a book once about what a marvelous Christian Robert E. Lee was. And you know, I don't know how those folks I don't know if they sang that at Christmas. Chain shall he break for the slave is my brother, and all oppression shall cease in the name of the the Prince of Peace, right? I don't know how they could sing that. They probably didn't. I don't know how they I don't know how they read, came across the verse because they were devoted to the Bible, to the New Testament and the Old Testament. So they had their slaves calling Abraham Moses and uh Harriet Tubman Moses and Father Abraham. And and then they're they're over there studying their Bible and they're coming across a verse that says, If you don't love your brother that you can see, you can't love God that you can't see. I used to tell that to my boys raising them when they'd start fighting. Say it's real simple, boys. If you don't love your brother that you can see, you can't love God that you can't see. So I don't know how they came across. I don't know how they, but you know, Jefferson, Davis, uh uh Alexander Stevens, these were all these were all religious, religious people. And most people felt more religious than the ones don't say North, the ones in the North that were Republican and abolitionist. So, you know, with the when the revolution started, England they labeled us holy hypocrites in our American Revolution. And one of them said, No one no one yells more for liberty than the driver of Negroes. They called us holy hypocrites. Well, they were holy hypocrites too, because the way they treated their people their own people, let alone, you know, the Irish, was worse than slaves. And y and maybe you can talk about India and Africa and Asia and everywhere else too. Go ahead. I'm not gonna argue with it. I'm just pointing out that when somebody calls you a hypocrite, which means a phony and a self-righteous phony, there there are they usually are exactly that. Case in point, this song. So what so what did the Yeah I saw a civil rights documentary one time and they they referred to the people that were mixing their religion with politics. They referred to them as misguided religionists. So so that's what we had, you know, during all of these struggles, and that's what we have today. Part of this stuff written for AI was not just the Kennedy Center, not just NPR, but it was uh you know, quote, Christians unquote talking about social justice and absolutely betraying social justice at the same time. So it says theological critique, this NPR Kennedy Center thing continues. Some critics find the hymn's focus on trampling and slaves of God's vengeance to be incompatible with the message of peace in the gospel, arguing it turns Christianity into an instrument of state violence. Despite these controversies, the song is still widely recognized for its historical significance and was adopted as an anthem for the civil rights movement. It wa what what? It was a It was adopted as an anthem for the civil rights movement? throw that in at the end. And then it's followed immediately from some quote Christian unquote group that says, why we don't sing the Nash. So so so because Jesus was only about peace, it doesn't matter what you do to your brother. You you don't ever go to war to help free somebody? You know that same that same guy they claim said that, you know, I didn't come to bring peace but a sword. It's going to divide brother against brother. Hmm.

SPEAKER_03 22:37

Isn't that what what they called the war between the states? In fact it was. He said greater love has no man than to give his life for his brother, fellow man.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

So there's General Grant he was elected president after Lincoln was shot by a Democrat actor and he said this. He was a great man. He made the Civil War he made abolition possible and he lost a lot of men. And you know, this idea that they that it was turned into a holy war and and that that just disgusts NPR whatever that that that's just mind-boggling because what happened in fact was the soldiers they put Lincoln over the top there was a Democrat running against him in 1864. A Democrat general horrible general anyway he wanted to end the Civil War by giving him back the slavery. So here's what Grant said brilliant man. He said if we are to have another contest in the future for our national existence the dividing line will be between patriotism and intelligence on the one side and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. And I mentioned Sojourner Truth when she when she came to the White House she uh she she met with Lincoln and she kind of said you know I I've I've heard about I I've followed you a lot. I've followed your rise and and been watching you and he said well I don't know if you know me but I sure know you. I sure know about you and then he he went over to the window in a in the White House and he looked across the the Potomac or whatever at Virginia which was the the capital of the Confederacy Richmond the Democrats the Democrat Civil War that was their capital. That was their false country they tried to start and became our enemies tried to destroy the Constitution. Anyway he said you know if those people over there had behaved I would I wouldn't have been able to free the slaves I wouldn't have been able to do it because how did he do it? He had enough time watch the movie Lincoln he had a tough time getting it through there were no there were no Southerners in the Congress because they broke away they created their own country their constitution their constitution said this is a white man's country racist Robert E. Lee on down anyway total racism built on racism and then all the all the black leaders that are allowed and accepted see this is the subtle racism of the NPRs they they uh they tell you who which which which black is acceptable and which one isn't. They call you an Uncle Tom they put uh Don Lemon and Abbey you know they put them out in front and that uh what's that one? Whoopie gold and there's that other one um uh Joy Reed oh man anyway Grant said if we are to have another contest in the future and he he he was wrong because it's still going, never stopped if we're to have another contest in the future for our national existence, the dividing line will be between patriotism and intelligence on the one side and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. You see Lincoln only was able to get the ball rolling and get some traction on abolition freeing the slaves because he uh because they were at war he he he could establish that in those states where they've broken away and tried to create their own country violating the Constitution um then their their slaves will be free and people accused him of just using it as a trick you know England was going to side with the South they were their whole industry industrial revolution was based on cotton seventy percent of the world's cotton came from the from the Democrats in the South and still does I mean it still comes from here. There's a book called Cotton all about the history of cotton pretty fascinating anyway and and England was going to come in on their side but they couldn't because they were anti-slavery. William Wilberforce all that stuff so they couldn't come in on their side but they looked at it they flirted with it they sent liaisons it Canada was kind of on their side the satellite anyway so they'll they'll tell you they'll tell you the most ridiculous thing NPR let's talk about NPR for a minute what does that stand for? National People's Radio Oh National Public Radio National Really that national public radio they're nationalists? They're not Christian nationalists they just proved it with their write up but they're nationalists? Anyway I I call them the na nasty plantation racists or the Nazi plantation racists or or na uh nasty peoples radio they always have the word communist countries always have na uh you know peoples peoples this peoples that Howard Zinn called it a peoples history of the United States he he he was admitting his communist roots NPR uh is if you don't know much about him I my my big hope was that Trump would um defund them completely I heard that they kind of did or whatever. What why did why are they getting money? One of our founders said to force a man, to compel a man to furnish funds for something that he finds abhorrent is an abomination. That's right we don't we don't I don't pay for Amish people to live the way they want to live. Why do we why are we paying money for somebody that could compete and and and should compete with the History Channel, the Bravo, A and E, they all these things came online and we didn't need So the idea is that well if if it's not if it's not publicly funded then it'll be one-sided and biased and oh my God. So do you know anything about uh did you know anything about NPR and this email scandal? PBS NPR? Same thing. How they the the head of it was had to come before Congress and testify and nothing happened. But she talked about how she was sending these emails about we we don't need these Christians around and just trashing them. And you know they had a guy named Juan Williams for a little while he was on Fox on the five or whatever, just a little while and he always talked about how much the right embraced him and was so kind to him and just got nothing but hatred from the left. Ask Fetterman about that ask John Robert Kennedy so a ask Tulsi Gabbard you know ask Reagan who said I didn't leave the Democrat Party Democrat Party left me. So what what does NPR do to Juan Williams? He makes a comment that he gets a little bit consternated or queasy it's a little uncomfortable if he sees a somebody in Muslim garb getting on the airplane with him. And she fired him this awful just watch her testimony before if you're interested but it's horrible. She called him she said something about his comments are between him and his psychiatrist this is a communist trick his therapist you know she she says he's insane for voicing something that everybody everybody if they're honest with themselves voices. She has to pretend that just like they're pretending right now the suicidal sympathy as Gad said they're pretending that there's there's no there's nothing to see here folks with Islam. There's nothing to see here. The strange death of Europe you know the the the and but but Juan Williams has got a Hispanic first name and he's black and he's left he's a leftist but that was it for her she had to she had to performance she had to uh performative ignorance she had to act out what what's the party line on this is uh we we can't have this guy saying things that might be true. Can't have that. So she fires him and he winds up on the five and uh gut fell or something and on Fox and he talks about how every time he goes to some public press conference or event or whatever the people embrace him, the people of the right it's not because he's an Uncle Tom it's because he's a Frederick Douglass in a way. Not philosophically but he Why does she have to put him down for just saying something but then it's this Marxist trick, this Stalinist trick you don't you don't just you don't just have to fire him. You have to say that well it's between him and his shrink in other words anybody that thinks like that is insane really are you truthophobic are you factophobic? Are you racist? You know they're not they're not gonna have him on anymore. They had to fire him does a public entity have a right to act like that with our network with our airwaves with our First Amendment? He didn't have a First Amendment right all of a sudden but Kimmy Kimmel does now. Okay so it's it's just a it's a big lie it's a propaganda and uh I I'd like to I'd like to talk about a couple of things that about the about the South and the racism. Remember remember all that stuff I just read about about you know their their worry that oh they're making it anti-South and they're gonna hurt the Southerners' feelings and it hurts their identity. Are you trying to say that they had the identity to be slave mongers, slaveholders and treat human beings like chattel? Is that where you're going? Because what was all with this fine people hoax what was up with that are you trying to say that there's not only fine people on both sides, but they were it's wrong of the people on the righteous side to to say anything that God had anything to do with this? Lincoln believed that the Civil War was God's vengeance. He said every drop of blood that was brought by the lash is going to have to be compensated with one brought by the sword. And you know back back to the soldiers making this a holy righteous war, you know, if you watch a documentary on the civil civil war, even though it's left leaning even though PBS did it, they'll they'll tell you that you know when when the you know the a lot of the white soldiers in the North especially the Irish in the Union in the Republican Army and the constitutional country's army they didn't really like blacks. Primarily the Irish immigrants feared them they became Democrats left right left right left left left all the time soon as they got off the boat in fact they gave him a few a few bucks and said here's a card. What's that card? What's that card mean there that you handed me? It means you're a Democrat. New York That's how they did it and uh it's always been a hotbed of corruption and racism for Democrats. So anyway so what what but when they went in the Civil War and they saw that they had now we had these Negro troops these black troops I don't think they called them black they called them colored or Negro that's the that's the C and the NAACP is colored but whatever. When they saw these black troops going down fighting for the Union and uh the Democrats the Confederates the blue states they would kill them they wouldn't let them surrender. And they thought well this my God this is a holy war. This is a holy war if I care about my brother if I treat him as my brother and think of him. So they were converted they had a conversion when they saw what these racist Democrats were doing in the South so I'm sorry NPR if if you think that song hurts their feelings but we didn't used to think like that. If so if you think like that why are you why were you worried about the Charlottesville stuff? And how how did that corpse get elected? How did he get elected by saying that Trump is a fine people hoax Nazi and all that stuff. Scott Adams went on an absolutely explosive rant about that a lot of F-bombs because he was personally involved because Biden will say anything anything somebody tells him to say or he comes up with on his own that puts him forward whether it's true or not he's a filthy liar and so Scott Adams went nuts because he said oh you you know you're a racist you're a Nazi the the people that follow Trump are garbage. But if you don't vote for me you ain't black. Remember the song talked about Baltimore and what Delaware is the same though those areas were all the same. The border states were they were a real problem. Lincoln couldn't even free the slaves in those states and he had to be careful of them. He said I I'd like to have God on my side but I have to have Kentucky his wife was from there. So just a few kind of anecdotes here about about what the relationship is with race and and the South and that song and stuff. You know uh I had a friend who at work who went to work for Georgia Power and Light which is their utility company. He left here in the San Diego area and le went there. And uh I we acquired an office out there so I went and called him I called him up I said I'd like to get together. He said where you stay and I said uh I said near the near the Waffle House and he said oh that helps a lot there's one every I don't know if you've ever been there but there's one every 50 feet. I mean every other corner has one and so I was just joking around. So we wind up going to a Braves game. He was a he was a um a black guy a good friend of mine. I mean I think all all my friends have have been have been black and and I'm gonna say African American because some of them like uh the Lieutenant Governor in Virginia are from the Caribbean like Kamilala parents were so anyway he you know I I hung out with him and um and and I asked him a question. I said you know it seems to me it seems to me that uh it seems to me like um that the racism here is he had a I mean it had a very prominent position. I said I I it seems like it's a different kind if there is racism here, it seems like there's more in cal in you know in California, in the West Coast, left coast, Seattle, you know, Oregon you know these people that pretend. Malcolm X talked about that. These people that pretend that they're your friend he said the worst enemy that the black has is a black person has is this white liberal who goes around foaming at the mouth pretending to care for them. It's our worst enemy look that one up so anyway I'd I'd we'd go into the Roadhouse grill and you you know you'd we we had uh we'd have black people in our group from work that was going in there and you know a restaurant like that and there's guys at the at the bar with a bent hat, you know, and you think a typical redneck and they're sitting next to a black guy and just talking and they're friends. So I kind of asked him there's a lot of there's an awful lot of blacks in in in Atlanta. This was near Atlanta uh suburbs and um he he said uh you know there there's a there's an awful awful lot of blacks. You know, a friend who moved down there he said that Marta, which is their railway system, it's sort of a rapid transit he said it stands for moving African Americans rapidly through Atlanta. You know? Andrew Young was the governor of Georgia. And so I kind of asked I kind of asked him I said it fe it seems like here there's a lot of black people in very prominent positions, men and women, and not so much on the left coast in California. And so if it's so racist, I mean look at all that Fannie Willis crap and all that stuff that went on it's so racist that w why am I not seeing it? So one of the things they did when we acquired this company is they had a sort of a recruiting fair and they wanted to have all these people come out and they took them they took uh all the engineers from the high-tech Silicon Valley area here in in California and they brought them out there and they gave them a tour and double decker bus and they took them to show them all the beautiful and what kind of a house you could get by comparison and all this stuff. Well the tour guide referred to the Civil War as the war of northern aggression. Sounds like NPR they referred to the Civil War as the war of and and this guy this head guy of the engineering team he he was being recruited to go out there to get that business built up out there. He said I I don't know I can't I I don't want to be sitting in my garage playing cards with somebody and they start talking like that. We had a facilities manager for our building and I'd see him on a Zoom call. He looked almost exactly like Grant and I said man you look you're a spitting image of Ulysses S. Grant and he said them are fighting words boy we we're not too fond of these people. When you drive around the graveyards there's graveyards all over the place and they have a little American flag and they have a little Confederate flag. Democrat when you think of the word Confederate think of the word Democrat and that's why all this fine people hoax is actually a hoax it's ironic. It's a switch you know so what does the MLB do in typical pandering to the black pander party? The MLB moves the All-Star game from the home of Hank Aaron uh to Lillywhite Colorado Yeah that's what they did to punish Hank Aaron's hometown I mean I think he was still alive he probably could have been there but uh when he when he passed up Babe Ruth Vin Scully made the call you can find it online. I think it was gentleman Al Dowling who was pitching against him who was a black guy that was on the the Yankees and then the Dodgers. I think he's the one who gave up the classic home run that broke I think that record's been shattered by Sammy Sosa now who's black but all but he's from obviously from the Caribbean or South America. But um when Vin Scully's making this call and he says hey he says realize in the Deep South a black man just broke a white man's record and the people of st are thronging him standing O. That was a long time ago. That was in the late 1900s it's a long time ago so I I would talk to my black friends about, you know, is this is this um Is this a Am I seeing what I'm seeing? I mean, does it seem like the they may they may talk about the South being racist and and all that, but is it a lot less racist than Chris Rock was talking about one time he opened a show and he said, so I was walking through South Africa and the people all started laughing because it was pretty hard line apartheid back then. They know he wouldn't be. And then he said, or was it Boston? And they kind of groaned. Boston has always been a racist. Is that in the North? I think it's in the North. I don't know. I have to check the compass war and the compass war over a map and a compass and see. Hokley, New York. Hakalugi, that governor, Cruella de Ville, witch face. She she said that blacks in a ghetto don't even know what a computer is. And this one brilliant young black guy, he he he did a sort of a 2001 spoof of like he's a monkey or a prehistoric man and he's jumping around, he touches the laptop and jumps away from it. That's what they think of you. That's what the people at Berkeley, that's what NPR. They want to keep this thing going. It's called Uncle Sam's Plantation. You know, and and a bunch of uh a whole bunch of black people, real black representatives of black America, they went to the White House and they they just la heaped praise on Trump. They called him the greatest president since Lincoln. The greatest president, but no, NPR calls Slick Willie the first black president.

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Right? They they called Slick Willie the first black president. And uh not oh blah blah.

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There was a black congressman who said I I wouldn't I wouldn't impeach Bill Clinton if I saw him murder someone right in front of my eyes. I called a talk show one time. It was hosted by a black woman and she the the talk was about whether you sh it's okay to say you're proud that you're white. I I told her it was ridiculous. And she said, but it's okay to say if you're proud you're proud that you're black. And I said, Wow, I I I that just doesn't make any sense. I I'm proud that I'm white. Am I talking about Hitler or uh Schweitzer? Am I talking about Mozart or um Jeffrey Dahmer? Does that make any sense to you? Anyway, she says, if you don't think this country's racist, just watch the impeachment hearings. Again, it's like Willie, the first black president. That's not a diss. You don't vote for me, you ain't black, isn't a diss? Anyway, thank you. Take care, y'all. I love ya. I'll always tell you the truth.