America's Hidden History | Black History Month
February 2, 2018
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- - MODERN HISTORIANS HAVE REVISED, REWRITTEN, AND
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- EVEN DELETED ENTIRE CHAPTERS OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
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- SO WHAT ARE WE MISSING?
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- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HISTORY THAT DIDN'T MAKE
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- THE BOOKS?
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- JOIN HISTORIAN DAVID BARTON, TIM BARTON, AND
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- SPECIAL GUESTS HAVE AS THEY UNCOVER THE FACTS
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- SOME HISTORIANS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
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- THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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- [ MUSIC]
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- - TIM BARTON: SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15,
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- 1963, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA.
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- MORE THAN 100 CHURCH GOERS ARE IN ATTENDANCE
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- AT 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH.
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- THE CHOIR IS GETTING READY TO SING.
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- THE PASTOR IS GETTING READY TO DELIVER HIS
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- SERMON, A LOVE THAT FORGIVES.
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- AT 10: 23 A.M. A BOMB WENT OFF DEVASTATING THE CHURCH
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- AND KILLING FOUR YOUNG GIRLS.
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- MOTIVATED BY RACIAL HATRED, THIS HORRIFYING
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- ACT SHOOK THE WORLD AND LITERALLY CHANGED THE
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- COURSE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICA.
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- I'M TIM BARTON OF WALL BUILDERS, AND I RECENTLY
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- HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO BIRMINGHAM AND VISIT
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- WITH ONE OF THE SURVIVORS OF THAT BOMBING, AND HE
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- JOINS US HERE TODAY TO SHARE HIS PIECE OF
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- LIVING HISTORY.
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- THIS IS BISHOP JIM LOWE.
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- [ MUSIC]
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- - JIM LOWE: I REMEMBER THAT DAY VERY CLEARLY.
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- I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY.
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- ITS BEEN ETCHED INTO MY MEMORY BECAUSE I WAS THERE.
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- I ALMOST DIED THERE.
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- I'M BISHOP JIM LOWE, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, AND
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- I'M HERE TO SHARE WITH YOU SOME OF THE
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- EXPERIENCES AND THINGS THAT I ENCOUNTERED IN
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- 1963, THINGS THAT HAPPENED HERE IN
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- BIRMINGHAM THAT WERE VERY VERY CRITICAL IN THE
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- DIRECTION THIS NATION HAS TAKEN, THE DIRECTION THIS
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- NATION HAS TAKEN REGARDING CIVIL RIGHTS
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- AND FREEDOMS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS.
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- WE'D GOTTEN UP IN THE MORNING, MY TWO SISTERS,
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- AND MY MOTHER ALWAYS DRESSED US UP IN
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- OUR BEST ATTIRE.
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- WE WERE GOING TO CHURCH.
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- YOU KNOW, THE OLD STATEMENT ABOUT
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- SUNDAY-GO-TO-MEETING CLOTHES.
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- THAT DAY, MOM AND DAD WERE GOING TO COME ALONG
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- LATER, SO THEY DROPPED US OFF FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL.
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- I GUESS COMING BACK HERE AND LOOKING OVER THESE
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- THINGS IT KIND OF BRINGS BACK MEMORIES.
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- - YEAH.
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- - YOU KNOW, THINGS ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE THEN.
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- THOUGH I CONTINUED ON IN THE CHURCH, A FEW YEARS,
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- I MEAN SEVERAL YEARS AFTER THE BOMBING,
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- THERE'S SOME THINGS I JUST DIDN'T DO, AND I
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- DIDN'T -- I HADN'T BEEN BACK IN THE LOWER PORTION
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- OF THIS BUILDING FOR OVER 50 YEARS.
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- - WOW.
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- - I MEAN, I'VE COME TO THINGS IN THE UPPER PART,
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- BUT I NEVER REVISITED THAT I CAN REMEMBER THAT ROOM.
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- - SO WHERE YOU WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL, WHERE YOU
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- WERE THE DAY OF THE BOMBING YOU HAVEN'T BEEN
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- BACK IN 50-SOMETHING YEARS?
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- - NO.
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- [ MUSIC]
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- - SOME THINGS ARE COMING BACK TO ME NOW.
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- [ INDISTINCT ] THIS WAS THE WAY GOING UPSTAIRS HERE.
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- THAT WAS A SMALL AREA THERE.
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- LIKE SAID THIS WAS THE LIBRARY, AND THIS IS THE
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- ROOM THAT I CAME OUT OF.
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- - SO THIS IS WHERE THE SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS WAS?
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- - IN THAT CLASS THAT DAY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT
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- LOVE, AND WE TOOK OUR LITTLE FLAGS THAT WE HAD
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- AT THE BIBLE STUDY, AT THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
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- AND WE WERE MARCHING AROUND A DESK, AND WE ALL
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- WENT TO OUR INDIVIDUAL CLASSES.
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- I REMEMBER THE TABLE THAT WE SAT AT WAS RIGHT HERE.
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- THOUGH I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND MUCH OF WHAT
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- IT WAS, THE CHURCH HAD BEEN USED AT THAT TIME BY
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- DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, REVEREND SHUTTLESWORTH,
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- HAD BEEN USED FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE.
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- - DORIS GARY: MY NAME IS DORIS GARY, AND I WAS BORN HERE IN
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- BIRMINGHAM, AND I ATTENDED THE BETHEL
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- BAPTIST CHURCH IN COLLEGEVILLE THAT THE REVEREND FRED
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- SHUTTLESWORTH PASTORED.
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- - YOU KNOW, THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE THAT WERE
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- CALLED FOOT SOLDIERS THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THE
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- MOVEMENT AT THAT TIME, AND THERE ARE MANY OF
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- THEM, TOO NUMEROUS FOR ME TO NAME.
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- [ MUSIC]
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- ONE OF THE WOMEN THAT WAS INVOLVED WITH THE
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- FOUNDING OF THE MOVEMENT IN THE 50'S AND WITH
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- REVEREND SHUTTLESWORTH WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR
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- BRINGING MARTIN LUTHER KING HERE TO TOWN, SHE IS
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- ONE WHO HAS A FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE OF THE EVENTS.
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- AGAIN, I WAS 11.
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- SHE WAS A YOUNG WOMAN AT THAT TIME.
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- SHE ACTED AS REVEREND SHUTTLESWORTH'S SECRETARY,
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- SO SHE KNEW THE INS AND OUTS.
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- [SINGING]
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- HE CAN TURN THIS AROUND BECAUSE WE'RE MARCHING
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- ON TO FREEDOM LAND...
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- BACK THEN THE CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT WAS NOT FORMED
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- IN NOBODY'S HOUSE OR AT A COMMUNITY CENTER.
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- IT WAS FORMED IN THE CHURCH FROM A PREACHER
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- THAT BELIEVED IN THE LORD, AND HE TRANSFERRED
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- THOSE BELIEFS AND TRAINING TO THE
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- PARTICIPANTS OF THE MOVEMENT.
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- - SO WHERE WAS THE EXPLOSION?
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- IF YOU'RE IN HERE, WHERE WAS THE EXPLOSION?
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- - ALL THE SUDDEN THERE WAS A LOUD NOISE, AND
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- THIS -- IT WAS AS IF GLASS CAME -- GLASS CAME FROM THE
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- SIDE, AND I TURNED THIS WAY.
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- DIDN'T KNOW WHY.
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- I GUESS IT WAS JUST INSTINCTIVELY I DID THAT,
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- AND I FELL DOWN.
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- AND THE OTHER KIDS THAT WERE IN THERE WE ALL HIT
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- THE FLOOR, DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
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- I REMEMBER LOOKING UP, AND THERE WAS DUST
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- EVERYWHERE, LIKE A CLOUD OF DUST, AND THERE
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- WAS SCREAMING.
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- THE WOMEN YELLING AND CONFUSION, A GREAT DEAL
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- OF CONFUSION.
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- BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF DEBRIS.
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- ONLY THAT WAS ALSO THE AREA WHERE THE FOUR GIRLS
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- WERE KILLED.
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- I KNEW THEM, ESPECIALLY DENISE.
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- DENISE WAS AROUND MY AGE.
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- SHE WAS JUST A LITTLE BIT OLDER.
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- DENISE WAS ONE THAT I THOUGHT WAS CUTE.
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- I LIKED HER, AND -BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED
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- AT THAT POINT.
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- THE SCREAMS OF MY MOM LISTENING TO THE NEWS, I
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- HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS AT THAT TIME, BUT IT WAS
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- THE SCREAMS OF FINDING OUT THAT THOSE
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- GIRLS WERE DEAD.
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- YOU SEE, THAT'S WHEN RACIAL HATRED CAME
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- TO MY CHURCH.
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- THAT'S WHEN BIGOTRY AND HATRED AND MURDER CAME TO
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- MY CHURCH.
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- WE WERE IN CHURCH LEARNING ABOUT LOVE, AND
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- INSTEAD OF LOVE WE SAW HATE IN ITS GREAT DEGREE.
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- A LOVE THAT FORGIVES, A LOVE THAT FORGIVES, THE
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- TYPE OF LOVE OF CHRIST TO FORGIVE NO MATTER WHAT
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- PEOPLE DID TO HIM.
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- [ SOBS ] [ INDISTINCT ]
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- - IT AFFECTED THE WHOLE CITY WHEN THEY BOMBED THOSE GIRLS,
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- AND I THINK IT WAS A FEELING OF I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT WAS
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- SYMPATHY OR EMPATHY THAT PEOPLE HAD TO
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- KNOW THAT SOME WHITE PEOPLE WOULD TAKE THE LIVES OF
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- INNOCENT CHILDREN THAT'S ATTENDING SUNDAY SCHOOL,
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- AND FOLKS THAT WAS NOT WHAT YOU CALLED IN THE
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- MOVEMENT THEY CAME A PART OF THE MOVEMENT THEN.
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- IT WAS A TURNING POINT.
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- - AND THEN WITH THE BOMBING, I THINK IT
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- BECAME THAT WHICH WAS A CATALYST FOR THE NATION
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- TO WAKE UP.
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- THE FIRE HYDRANTS, THE DOGS, I THINK THE WHOLE
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- WORLD WOKE UP NOT BECAUSE WE RIOTED, NOT BECAUSE OF
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- RIOTS BUT BECAUSE OF A GENERAL SPIRIT THAT
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- OVERWHELMED I GUESS YOU WOULD SAY A GOLIATH THAT
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- DID IT IN THAT MANNER, AND I THINK IT BROUGHT
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- THE NATION TO ITS SENSES.
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- - REFRAIN FROM THE VIOLENCE OF FISTS,
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- TONGUE, OR HEART.
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- YOU HAD TO SIGN.
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- WE CAN'T WIN THIS WAR WITH AMMUNITION.
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- WE AIN'T GOT ENOUGH.
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- IT GOT TO BE PRAYER AND THE TRUST IN GOD TO WIN.
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- WE GOT TO HAVE ANOTHER METHOD TO ACCOMPLISH
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- THIS MISSION.
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- - THIS IS MY HOME, AND THIS IS WHERE MUCH OF THE
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- CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE WAS FOUGHT.
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- IT BROUGHT ABOUT CHANGES THAT THIS NATION SEES TODAY.
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- I BELIEVE STILL TODAY BIRMINGHAM HAS A LOT TO
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- DO TO BRING HEALING TO THIS NATION.
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- IT WAS A CITY OF VIOLENCE IN 1963, A CITY OF
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- VIOLENCE AND SEGREGATION AND RACIAL HATRED
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- THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, BUT I BELIEVE THAT THIS CITY
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- ALSO IS A CITY THAT WILL ALSO TEACH THE WORLD HOW
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- TO LOVE, AND FROM THOSE THAT WERE ONCE AT ODDS
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- WITH ONE ANOTHER, I BELIEVE WE CAN SEE A
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- UNITY THAT CAN BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER.
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- [ MUSIC]
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- [ APPLAUSE]
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- - I WANT TO WELCOME THE AUDIENCE AND THE VIEWERS TODAY.
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- WE ARE GRATEFUL YOU ARE WATCHING US.
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- WE'RE HERE ON SET WITH BISHOP JIM LOWE, WITH
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- MY FATHER, DAVID BARTON.
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- BISHOP, AS WE JUST WATCHED THIS, I'M JUST
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- CURIOUS, AND WITH OUR LIVE AUDIENCE, WE'RE GLAD
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- YOU'RE HERE, TOO, BUT I'M CURIOUS HOW MANY OF YOU
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- KNEW THERE WERE BOMBINGS IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS
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- TARGETING CHURCHES, TARGETING HOMES
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- AS YOU'VE SHARED?
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- HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW THOSE BOMBINGS OCCURRED?
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- THAT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN VERY
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- MANY HISTORY BOOKS.
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- SO WHAT ARE WE MISSING NOT KNOWING ABOUT THIS?
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- BECAUSE HONESTLY, UNTIL, BISHOP, I MET YOU, I
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- HADN'T HEARD HARDLY ANYTHING ABOUT BOMBINGS
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- HAPPENING IN BIRMINGHAM.
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- BUT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT LITERALLY SHOOK THE
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- WORLD AND CHANGED THE WHOLE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
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- - THE BOMBINGS TO US WERE COMMONPLACE.
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- I MEAN, MY EARLY CHILDHOOD I CAN REMEMBER
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- HEARING EXPLOSIONS THAT WOULD HAPPEN IN VARIOUS
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- PLACES, AND I REMEMBER MY MOM AND DAD TALKING ABOUT
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- WELL, WHERE WAS THIS AND WHAT HAPPENED?
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- I HOPE THIS WASN'T THIS PERSON'S HOME OR THIS
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- PERSON'S HOUSE.
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- THERE WERE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT BLACK PEOPLE WEREN'T
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- SUPPOSED TO LIVE IN, AND BECAUSE WE GOT CLOSE TO
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- WHERE WHITE PEOPLE LIVED, THEY WOULD BOMB THOSE HOMES.
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- COMMON OCCURRENCE.
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- CHURCHES WERE BOMBED ALL THROUGHOUT THE 50'S AND
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- 60'S, AND IT WAS A THING THAT YOU GOT USED TO IT.
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- YOU'D HEAR A BOMB, WELL, THERE'S ANOTHER BOMBING.
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- AND IT WAS A COMMON THING.
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- - AND IN THE MIDST OF ALL THESE BOMBS, THE
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- SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES THE PASTOR'S MESSAGE WAS
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- A LOVE THAT FORGIVES.
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- - YOU WOULDN'T EXPECT A BOMBING TO OCCUR DURING A
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- CHURCH SERVICE.
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- WE HEARD -THEY ALL OCCURRED AT NIGHT, YOU KNOW.
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- THEY DIDN'T HAPPEN LIKE DURING THE DAYTIME, BUT
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- THIS WAS TOTALLY, TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
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- IT WAS DONE DURING A SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS WHERE
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- YOUNG PEOPLE, JUST CHILDREN WERE.
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- AND I DON'T KNOW -- THE PERSON THAT DID IT
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- CLAIMED THAT HE WAS NOT TRYING TO GET IT TO GO
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- OFF AT THAT TIME, BUT IT DID GO OFF AT THAT TIME,
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- AND THERE WERE CHILDREN THAT HAD BEEN IN THE
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- MARCHES UP UNTIL THAT POINT, AND THEY WERE
- 00:12:11.170 --> 00:12:13.110
- MARCH, AND THAT'S WHAT CHANGED PEOPLE'S MIND,
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- WHEN THEY SAW KIDS 10, 11 YEARS OLDS, 13 YEARS OLD,
- 00:12:15.230 --> 00:12:19.120
- FIRE HOSES BEING TURNED ON THEM, DOGS ATTACKING THEM.
- 00:12:19.140 --> 00:12:23.110
- AND FIRE HOSES THAT HAD ENOUGH FORCE TO THROW
- 00:12:23.130 --> 00:12:26.140
- THEM TO THE GROUND, RUN THEM INTO WALLS AND
- 00:12:26.160 --> 00:12:28.210
- THINGS, AND THEY GOT SCARRED UP WITH THAT.
- 00:12:28.230 --> 00:12:30.140
- AND SO MAYBE THE GUY PUT THE BOMB THERE IN ORDER
- 00:12:30.160 --> 00:12:32.250
- TO HURT THE CHILDREN.
- 00:12:32.270 --> 00:12:34.120
- HE CLAIMED HE DIDN'T DO IT, BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT
- 00:12:34.140 --> 00:12:36.070
- THE MESSAGE WAS, BUT FOUR GIRLS DIED THAT DAY.
- 00:12:36.090 --> 00:12:39.140
- FOUR INNOCENT GIRLS THAT WERE NOT EVEN IN THE
- 00:12:39.160 --> 00:12:42.230
- MARCHES, THEY WERE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL TRYING TO
- 00:12:42.250 --> 00:12:45.280
- WORSHIP AND WORSHIP PLACE WAS NOT PLACE FROM THE
- 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.110
- VIOLENCE THAT THESE PEOPLE PERPETRATED.
- 00:12:49.130 --> 00:12:51.260
- - BUT FROM THEIR LIVES THE ENTIRE CULTURE SHIFTED.
- 00:12:51.280 --> 00:12:59.100
- - YES.
- 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:00.260
- - BECAUSE TO THAT POINT THE PRESIDENT HADN'T EVEN
- 00:13:00.280 --> 00:13:02.280
- BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND WHAT WAS
- 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:06.010
- HAPPENING IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY, BUT DIDN'T
- 00:13:06.030 --> 00:13:07.260
- THAT REALLY SEEM TO SHIFT THE DEBATE?
- 00:13:07.280 --> 00:13:09.110
- - IT CHANGED THINGS, WHEN THE NATION LOOKED AT
- 00:13:09.130 --> 00:13:12.240
- THE ATROCITIES -- THESE PEOPLE HAD BEEN DOING
- 00:13:12.260 --> 00:13:14.180
- THIS STUFF FOR A LONG TIME.
- 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:16.070
- THEY'D BEEN LYNCHING PEOPLE, THEY'D BEEN
- 00:13:16.090 --> 00:13:17.150
- KILLING BLACKS AND THINGS WERE GOING ON FOR A LONG
- 00:13:17.170 --> 00:13:20.220
- TIME, AND NOBODY SEEMED TO CARE, BUT IT TOOK THE
- 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:23.010
- DEATH OF THOSE FOUR GIRLS TO GET THE WORLD TO PAY ATTENTION.
- 00:13:23.030 --> 00:13:27.260
- THIS WAS A NON-VIOLENT MOVEMENT.
- 00:13:27.280 --> 00:13:29.210
- IT WAS ABOUT LOVE.
- 00:13:29.230 --> 00:13:31.040
- IT WASN'T ABOUT WE WANT OUR RIGHTS SO WE'RE GOING
- 00:13:31.060 --> 00:13:33.150
- TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS.
- 00:13:33.170 --> 00:13:34.240
- IT WAS ABOUT WE DESERVE THE RIGHTS TO BE TREATED
- 00:13:34.260 --> 00:13:37.210
- AS HUMAN BEINGS, AND WE WERE TAUGHT IT WAS ABOUT LOVE.
- 00:13:37.230 --> 00:13:41.160
- IT WAS NOT ABOUT HATRED, AND THAT'S WHERE THE
- 00:13:41.180 --> 00:13:44.260
- POWER THAT CAME WAS THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING HE
- 00:13:44.280 --> 00:13:47.180
- RECEIVED THE PEACE PRIZE, THE PEACE PRIZE, AND THEN
- 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:51.060
- THERE WERE OTHER MEMBERS OF THAT MOVEMENT WHO HAD
- 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:53.230
- TAKEN SO MUCH ABUSE, BUT THEY RESPONDED
- 00:13:53.250 --> 00:13:55.250
- WITH CHRISTIANITY.
- 00:13:55.270 --> 00:13:57.220
- THE TRUTH FAITH OF CHRISTIANITY, NOT THE
- 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:00.090
- FAITH OF CHRISTIANITY THAT IS TAUGHT SOMETIMES
- 00:14:00.110 --> 00:14:03.120
- TODAY IN MANY OF OUR CHURCHES, BUT IT WAS A
- 00:14:03.140 --> 00:14:05.010
- FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH THAT GOD IS LOVE, AND LOVE
- 00:14:05.030 --> 00:14:08.070
- ALWAYS REIGNS, AND LOVE PROVED ITSELF BY
- 00:14:08.090 --> 00:14:11.230
- ACCEPTING ALL OF THE ATROCITIES THAT HAPPENED.
- 00:14:11.250 --> 00:14:15.100
- THAT LOVE OVERWHELMED.
- 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:17.150
- THAT'S THE LOVE OF CHRIST.
- 00:14:17.170 --> 00:14:18.240
- - DAVID BARTON: I MEAN, THEY WERE SO SERIOUS
- 00:14:18.260 --> 00:14:20.040
- ABOUT IT THAT ALVEDA KING WHO IS THE NIECE OF
- 00:14:20.060 --> 00:14:23.040
- DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING THEY LEFT HER IN JAIL ONE
- 00:14:23.060 --> 00:14:26.090
- TIME BECAUSE SHE BROKE ONE OF THE COMMANDMENTS,
- 00:14:26.110 --> 00:14:29.000
- AND THAT'S -- DOCTOR KING AND SAID NO, NO, NO.
- 00:14:29.020 --> 00:14:31.240
- THIS IS HOW WE DO IT.
- 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:33.100
- AND THAT SPIRITUAL EMPHASIS, I KNOW I'VE
- 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:36.120
- BEEN APPOINTED IN A NUMBER OF STATES TO WRITE
- 00:14:36.140 --> 00:14:38.250
- THEIR HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT STANDARDS, AND
- 00:14:38.270 --> 00:14:40.110
- IN ONE OF THE STATES AS WE GOT TO THE CIVIL
- 00:14:40.130 --> 00:14:42.190
- RIGHTS MOVEMENT THEY WERE COVERING AS THEY SHOULD
- 00:14:42.210 --> 00:14:44.160
- DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, AND SAID, WAIT A MINUTE.
- 00:14:44.180 --> 00:14:48.020
- LET'S MAKE SURE WE TELL THE KIDS THAT HE'S THE
- 00:14:48.040 --> 00:14:49.240
- REVEREND DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING.
- 00:14:49.260 --> 00:14:51.180
- OH, NO. YOU CAN'T SAY THAT.
- 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.110
- WASN'T HE A PREACHER?
- 00:14:53.130 --> 00:14:55.060
- YEAH, BUT YOU CAN'T SAY THAT.
- 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:56.060
- WAIT A MINUTE.
- 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:57.130
- YOU JUST HAD THE KIDS READ THE LETTER FROM THE
- 00:14:57.150 --> 00:14:59.090
- BIRMINGHAM JAIL WHERE IT'S A PASTOR WRITING TO
- 00:14:59.110 --> 00:15:01.250
- OTHER PASTORS SAYING, WHAT ARE YOU DOING
- 00:15:01.270 --> 00:15:03.290
- OUT OF JAIL?
- 00:15:04.010 --> 00:15:05.240
- YOU SHOULD BE IN HERE IN JAIL STANDING FOR STUFF.
- 00:15:05.260 --> 00:15:07.000
- YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TELL THEM IT WAS A PASTOR
- 00:15:07.020 --> 00:15:08.010
- WRITING THAT?
- 00:15:08.030 --> 00:15:08.280
- NO, NO, WE CAN'T.
- 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:10.060
- AND TODAY THE WAY WE PORTRAY EVEN WHAT WENT ON
- 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.200
- NOTHING ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF SIDE OF IT, NOTHING
- 00:15:12.220 --> 00:15:15.080
- ABOUT I THE NON-VIOLENT SIDE OF IT, NOTHING
- 00:15:15.100 --> 00:15:17.020
- ABOUT THE LOVE.
- 00:15:17.040 --> 00:15:18.030
- IT'S JUST NOT THERE.
- 00:15:18.050 --> 00:15:19.210
- - BUT THE ONLY WAY YOU GET VICTORY, VICTORY
- 00:15:19.230 --> 00:15:22.110
- COMES THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD BECAUSE GOD IS THE
- 00:15:22.130 --> 00:15:25.250
- ONE THAT SETS UP AND DISPOSES KINGS.
- 00:15:25.270 --> 00:15:28.280
- GOD IS THE ONE THAT CONTROLS THE DESTINY OF
- 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.240
- NATIONS, BUT GOD CANNOT BE BROUGHT OUT THROUGH
- 00:15:31.260 --> 00:15:36.010
- VIOLENCE AND METHODS THAT ARE NOT OF GOD.
- 00:15:36.030 --> 00:15:38.000
- - THAT'S RIGHT IS.
- 00:15:38.020 --> 00:15:39.150
- - YOU NEVER GET VICTORY [ APPLAUSE ] UNLESS GOD
- 00:15:39.170 --> 00:15:42.060
- IS A PART OF IT.
- 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:44.090
- - SO ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT
- 00:15:44.110 --> 00:15:46.020
- THIS, THINKING ABOUT THE WHOLE SCENARIO, THE 16TH
- 00:15:46.040 --> 00:15:48.260
- STREET CHURCH BOMBING, WHEN THOSE GIRLS LOST
- 00:15:48.280 --> 00:15:52.220
- THEIR LIVES, THIS DID CHANGE THE POSITION FROM
- 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:55.130
- PRESIDENT KENNEDY WHO NOW COMES AND SAYS, WAIT A SECOND.
- 00:15:55.150 --> 00:15:58.150
- WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS.
- 00:15:58.170 --> 00:15:59.290
- AND THEN HE'S ASSASSINATED, BUT NOW THE
- 00:16:00.030 --> 00:16:02.160
- NEXT PRESIDENT JOHNSON COMES --
- 00:16:02.180 --> 00:16:04.110
- - BUT NOT ONLY DID HE OPPOSE IT, THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL THAT
- 00:16:04.130 --> 00:16:06.250
- EVENTUALLY GOT PASSED, THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS
- 00:16:06.270 --> 00:16:09.140
- BILL PASSED AS A RESULT OF WHAT HAPPENED
- 00:16:09.160 --> 00:16:11.180
- IN BIRMINGHAMM,
- 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:13.180
- PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD VOTED AGAINST IT WHEN HE
- 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:15.050
- WAS A U.S. SENATOR.
- 00:16:15.070 --> 00:16:16.150
- HE OPPOSED THAT, BUT AFTER WHAT HAPPENED IN
- 00:16:16.170 --> 00:16:18.060
- BIRMINGHAM AS PRESIDENT HE PICKED UP THAT 1957
- 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:21.150
- BILL WRITTEN BY PRESIDENT EISENHOWER AND SAID HEY,
- 00:16:21.170 --> 00:16:24.080
- WE NEED TO PASS THAT.
- 00:16:24.100 --> 00:16:25.210
- HE WAS ASSASSINATED IN DALLAS, AND THEN LBJ
- 00:16:25.230 --> 00:16:28.140
- PICKED UP THE BILL AND PUSHED IT ON ACROSS THE
- 00:16:28.160 --> 00:16:30.090
- FINISH LINE, BUT HE LITERALLY HAD OPPOSED
- 00:16:30.110 --> 00:16:32.050
- WHAT'S IN THAT BILL UNTIL BIRMINGHAM, AND THEN
- 00:16:32.070 --> 00:16:35.080
- BIRMINGHAM THERE'S A SWITCH EVEN IN THE
- 00:16:35.100 --> 00:16:37.000
- PRESIDENT AT THAT POINT.
- 00:16:37.020 --> 00:16:38.180
- - SO THOSE FOUR GIRLS LIVES LITERALLY SHIFTED
- 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:42.110
- THE DIRECTION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- 00:16:42.130 --> 00:16:44.100
- IN AMERICA.
- 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:45.190
- - OF THIS ENTIRE NATION.
- 00:16:45.210 --> 00:16:46.290
- PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO LEARN THAT THE ONLY THING THAT
- 00:16:47.010 --> 00:16:49.050
- WORKS IS THAT WE'VE GOT TO BEGIN TO TURN BACK TO
- 00:16:49.070 --> 00:16:52.000
- THE DOCTRINE, THE WORD OF JESUS CHRIST.
- 00:16:52.020 --> 00:16:54.060
- AND WE'VE GOT TO HAVE RELIGIOUS LEADERS LIKE
- 00:16:54.080 --> 00:16:55.250
- DOCTOR KING, RELIGIOUS LEADERS LIKE SHUTTLESWORTH
- 00:16:55.270 --> 00:16:58.260
- WHO ARE WILLING TO STAND FOR THE TRUTH EVEN WHEN
- 00:16:58.280 --> 00:17:01.030
- THE TRUTH IS NOT POPULAR BECAUSE EVEN TO WHITE
- 00:17:01.050 --> 00:17:05.120
- PEOPLE [ APPLAUSE ] AND BLACK PEOPLE IT WAS NOT
- 00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:09.250
- THE POPULAR TRUTH THAT BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD GET
- 00:17:09.270 --> 00:17:11.030
- THEIR TRUTH, BUT YOU KNOW, IT WAS GOD'S TRUTH.
- 00:17:11.050 --> 00:17:15.100
- IT WAS GOD'S TRUTH THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS
- 00:17:15.120 --> 00:17:17.280
- DIGNITY, AND EVERY HUMAN BEING IS WORTH SOMETHING,
- 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.210
- BUT PREACHERS WOULDN'T PREACH IT, BUT DOCTOR KING WOULD.
- 00:17:22.230 --> 00:17:26.080
- REVEREND SHUTTLESWORTH WOULD PREACH IT.
- 00:17:26.100 --> 00:17:28.120
- THERE IS ONE GOD, AND WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER,
- 00:17:28.140 --> 00:17:32.130
- AND THE GOD OF LOVE IS THE GOD THAT WE HAVE TO
- 00:17:32.150 --> 00:17:34.120
- COME TOGETHER IN.
- 00:17:34.140 --> 00:17:35.200
- ANY GOD THAT'S OF VIOLENCE IS ONLY GOING TO
- 00:17:35.220 --> 00:17:37.160
- CREATE MORE VIOLENCE.
- 00:17:37.180 --> 00:17:38.210
- [ APPLAUSE]
- 00:17:38.230 --> 00:17:41.000
- MORE CHILDREN WILL BE SACRIFICED BECAUSE IF
- 00:17:41.020 --> 00:17:44.060
- THERE'S NOT LOVE, THEN THERE'S ONLY HATE.
- 00:17:44.080 --> 00:17:46.180
- - YOU QUOTED THE DECLARATION OF
- 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:48.050
- INDEPENDENCE, AND OF COURSE DOCTOR KING STOOD
- 00:17:48.070 --> 00:17:51.020
- ON THE MALL AND SAID HEY, WE JUST WANT TO REDEEM
- 00:17:51.040 --> 00:17:53.260
- THE PROMISE THAT WAS GIVEN IN THE DECLARATION.
- 00:17:53.280 --> 00:17:55.120
- - RIGHT.
- 00:17:55.140 --> 00:17:56.240
- - AND TIM, GRAB THAT BOOK ON TOP THERE.
- 00:17:56.260 --> 00:17:58.270
- THIS IS A BOOK FROM 1772 THAT WAS USED ALL OVER
- 00:17:58.290 --> 00:18:03.280
- AMERICA PRIOR TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, BUT
- 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.190
- IT CAME FROM THE 1680'S, AND IT WAS THE REVEREND
- 00:18:07.210 --> 00:18:11.230
- JOHN WISE, AND HERE'S A PREACHER IN
- 00:18:11.250 --> 00:18:16.030
- MASSACHUSETTS, A WHITE GUY WHOSE EYE PREACHER IN
- 00:18:16.050 --> 00:18:19.050
- MASSACHUSETTS.
- 00:18:19.070 --> 00:18:20.250
- HE STANDS IN HIS PULPIT, AND HE GIVES A SERMON
- 00:18:20.270 --> 00:18:22.220
- THAT SAYS ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
- 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:24.230
- THEY'RE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN -- I
- 00:18:24.250 --> 00:18:26.270
- MEAN, THE SAME WE HEAR IN THE DECLARATION, AND HE
- 00:18:26.290 --> 00:18:28.160
- WAS A HUGE ADVOCATE FOR FULL RACIAL EQUALITY AT A
- 00:18:28.180 --> 00:18:30.030
- TIME WHEN THAT WASN'T NECESSARILY POPULAR,
- 00:18:30.050 --> 00:18:31.260
- WASN'T THE THING, BUT HE ALSO PREACHED THAT
- 00:18:31.280 --> 00:18:33.160
- TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY
- 00:18:33.180 --> 00:18:35.230
- AND THAT THE BEST GOVERNMENTS CAN SEND THE
- 00:18:35.250 --> 00:18:37.230
- GOVERNED, THEY BROUGHT THAT OUT FOUR YEARS -- THAT
- 00:18:37.250 --> 00:18:39.250
- PREACHER'S SERMON CAME OUT FOUR YEARS BEFORE THE
- 00:18:39.270 --> 00:18:42.170
- DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THAT
- 00:18:42.190 --> 00:18:44.050
- LANGUAGE ENDED UP IN THE DECLARATION OF
- 00:18:44.070 --> 00:18:46.020
- INDEPENDENCE, SO EVEN WHAT DOCTOR KING WAS
- 00:18:46.040 --> 00:18:48.270
- THERE TO REDEEM AND IN THE WAY OF THE PROMISE OF
- 00:18:48.290 --> 00:18:51.120
- THE DECLARATION CAME FROM PREACHERS.
- 00:18:51.140 --> 00:18:53.180
- I MEAN, THAT WAS GOD'S WORD BEING TAUGHT BACK AT
- 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:56.060
- A TIME WHEN IT REALLY WASN'T POPULAR, BUT
- 00:18:56.080 --> 00:18:58.190
- THAT'S WHAT SHAPES SO MUCH OF WHAT WENT
- 00:18:58.210 --> 00:19:00.250
- RIGHT IN AMERICA.
- 00:19:00.270 --> 00:19:02.240
- - LET ME POINT TO A PICTURE UP HERE.
- 00:19:02.260 --> 00:19:04.100
- THE ONE ON THE LEFT.
- 00:19:04.120 --> 00:19:05.180
- THERE IS A WHITE GUY AND A BLACK GUY STANDING
- 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:07.100
- TOGETHER. THE WHITE GUY IS MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE.
- 00:19:07.120 --> 00:19:10.030
- HE'S A FRENCH GUY.
- 00:19:10.050 --> 00:19:11.080
- HE WAS A 19 YEAR OLD GENERAL.
- 00:19:11.100 --> 00:19:13.000
- COMES TO AMERICA, ENDS UP BEING A MAJOR GENERAL.
- 00:19:13.020 --> 00:19:14.200
- HE'S STANDING BY A BLACK GUY, JAMES ARMISTEAD.
- 00:19:14.220 --> 00:19:18.000
- HAS ANYBODY HEARD THE NAME JAMES ARMISTEAD?
- 00:19:18.020 --> 00:19:20.240
- - NOW, I'M GONNA SAY, THE BIO SAYS WHEN WE
- 00:19:20.260 --> 00:19:23.100
- SHOW THAT TO SCHOOL GROUPS AND SAY WHO IS
- 00:19:23.120 --> 00:19:24.270
- THAT BLACK GUY?
- 00:19:24.290 --> 00:19:26.030
- THEY ALL SAY, OH, THAT'S HIS SLAVE.
- 00:19:26.050 --> 00:19:27.270
- NO. MATTER OF FACT, THE WHITE GUY IS ONE OF THE
- 00:19:27.290 --> 00:19:31.160
- BIGGEST ABOLITION VOICES IN AMERICA AND
- 00:19:31.180 --> 00:19:34.040
- DEFINITELY NOT HIS SLAVE.
- 00:19:34.060 --> 00:19:36.110
- - LAFAYETTE WAS VERY MUCH A ANTI-SLAVERY GUY.
- 00:19:36.130 --> 00:19:38.020
- NOW JAMES HAD BEEN A SLAVE. HE GOT HIS
- 00:19:38.040 --> 00:19:39.240
- FREEDOM IN THE MIDST OF FIGHTING THROUGH THE WAR.
- 00:19:39.260 --> 00:19:42.260
- BUT WHAT'S SIGNIFICANT ABOUT JAMES IS JAMES IS
- 00:19:42.280 --> 00:19:44.140
- THE VERY FIRST DOUBLE SPY IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
- 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:47.010
- NOW, WHAT'S EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT, THIS IS A
- 00:19:47.030 --> 00:19:50.060
- GUY CREDITED WITH HELPING BRINGING INTO THE
- 00:19:50.080 --> 00:19:52.230
- REVOLUTION, AND HERE'S HIS STORY.
- 00:19:52.250 --> 00:19:54.190
- SO WHEN LAFAYETTE COMES TO AMERICA, LAFAYETTE IS
- 00:19:54.210 --> 00:19:57.010
- A VERY WEALTHY FRENCH GUY, SO HE HAS MONEY.
- 00:19:57.030 --> 00:19:59.050
- HE COMES TO AMERICA.
- 00:19:59.070 --> 00:20:00.140
- BUT FOR THE AMERICAN, THE COLONIAL ARMY, THEY
- 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.020
- REALLY DIDN'T HAVE GUNS, THEY DIDN'T HAVE
- 00:20:03.040 --> 00:20:05.000
- UNIFORMS, SO HE SAYS THIS IS KIND OF AN
- 00:20:05.020 --> 00:20:07.060
- APPALLING SITUATION.
- 00:20:07.080 --> 00:20:08.210
- SO LAFAYETTE, FROM HIS OWN MONEY, OUTFITS HIS
- 00:20:08.230 --> 00:20:11.290
- BRIGADE UNDER HIM.
- 00:20:12.010 --> 00:20:13.230
- SO ESSENTIALLY, EVERYBODY WANTS TO FIGHT WITH
- 00:20:13.250 --> 00:20:15.130
- LAFAYETTE BECAUSE HE GIVES YOU A GUN AND A
- 00:20:15.150 --> 00:20:17.080
- UNIFORM. IT'S AWESOME.
- 00:20:17.100 --> 00:20:18.200
- SO PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET WITH HIM.
- 00:20:18.220 --> 00:20:20.120
- WELL, IN THE MIDST OF THIS, LAFAYETTE IS
- 00:20:20.140 --> 00:20:22.100
- LOOKING AT THE AMERICAN CONDITION, AND HE SAYS
- 00:20:22.120 --> 00:20:24.050
- THE AMERICANS, THEY'RE OUTNUMBERED, THEY'RE
- 00:20:24.070 --> 00:20:26.090
- OUTGUNNED, THEY DON'T HAVE THE SUPPLIES.
- 00:20:26.110 --> 00:20:28.160
- THERE'S NO WAY THEY CAN HANDLE FIGHTING THE BRITISH.
- 00:20:28.180 --> 00:20:32.000
- SO LAFAYETTE STARTS THINKING WHAT CAN WE DO?
- 00:20:32.020 --> 00:20:34.210
- WELL, HE AND JAMES BECOME VERY GOOD FRIENDS.
- 00:20:34.230 --> 00:20:36.140
- SO HE AND JAMES ARE TALKING, AND HE EXPLAINS
- 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:39.110
- TO JAMES IF WE DON'T GET BETTER INTELLIGENCE,
- 00:20:39.130 --> 00:20:41.270
- WE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO REALLY OPPOSE THE BRITISH
- 00:20:41.290 --> 00:20:45.130
- BECAUSE THEY HAVE SUPERIOR FORCES.
- 00:20:45.150 --> 00:20:46.290
- BUT IF WE HAD BETTER INTELLIGENCE, WE MIGHT BE
- 00:20:47.010 --> 00:20:48.260
- ABLE TO RALLY THE MEN AND SHOW UP AT THE RIGHT
- 00:20:48.280 --> 00:20:50.150
- PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.
- 00:20:50.170 --> 00:20:52.050
- SO JAMES SAYS, WELL, WHAT IF I GO TO THE BRITISH
- 00:20:52.070 --> 00:20:55.180
- CAMP, AND I CAN PRETEND TO BE AN ESCAPED SLAVE
- 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.180
- SEEKING REFUGE FROM THE BRITISH, AND I'LL TRY TO
- 00:20:57.200 --> 00:21:00.280
- GATHER INTEL AND COME BACK AND REPORT TO YOU.
- 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.080
- SO HE SAYS WELL JAMES, I MEAN IF YOU'RE
- 00:21:03.100 --> 00:21:04.290
- WILLING TO DO THAT.
- 00:21:05.010 --> 00:21:06.160
- SO JAMES GOES, PRETENDING TO BE AN ESCAPED SLAVE.
- 00:21:06.180 --> 00:21:09.140
- AND YOU CAN USE YOUR IMAGINATION AND IMAGINE
- 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:11.080
- HOW THAT MIGHT HAVE UNFOLDED, RIGHT, AND HE
- 00:21:11.100 --> 00:21:12.170
- GOES IN GUYS, PLEASE! PLEASE!
- 00:21:12.190 --> 00:21:15.030
- I JUST GOT AWAY FROM THE AMERICANS, AND THERE'S SO
- 00:21:15.050 --> 00:21:17.230
- MANY, AND I HATE THOSE GUYS!
- 00:21:17.250 --> 00:21:19.250
- COULD I STAY WITH YOU NICE BRITISH?
- 00:21:19.270 --> 00:21:22.190
- AND THE BRITISH SAID WELL, YEAH, YOU COME STAY
- 00:21:22.210 --> 00:21:24.190
- WITH US. YOU CAN BE ON OUR TEAM.
- 00:21:24.210 --> 00:21:26.130
- HE STARTS SERVING OFFICERS.
- 00:21:26.150 --> 00:21:27.230
- IN FACT, HE BECOMES THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT OF
- 00:21:27.250 --> 00:21:30.110
- BENEDICT ARNOLD WHO WAS A FAMOUS AMERICAN TRAITOR.
- 00:21:30.130 --> 00:21:33.150
- HE'S LISTENING TO ALL OF THE BRITISH OFFICERS AND
- 00:21:33.170 --> 00:21:37.010
- ALL OF THEIR PLANS.
- 00:21:37.030 --> 00:21:38.160
- EVERY DAY HE SENDS WORD BACK TO LAFAYETTE AND
- 00:21:38.180 --> 00:21:42.100
- SAYS LAFAYETTE, HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING,
- 00:21:42.120 --> 00:21:43.270
- HERE'S WHERE THEY'RE GOING.
- 00:21:43.290 --> 00:21:45.060
- SO LAFAYETTE'S ABLE TO RALLY THE AMERICANS.
- 00:21:45.080 --> 00:21:47.210
- THEY START SHOWING UP AT THE RIGHT PLACE
- 00:21:47.230 --> 00:21:49.090
- AT THE RIGHT TIME. WE START WINNING
- 00:21:49.110 --> 00:21:50.290
- SOME OF THESE BATTLES AND SKIRMISHES.
- 00:21:51.010 --> 00:21:52.280
- WELL, THIS IS DISTRESSING TO THE BRITISH BECAUSE
- 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:55.130
- THE BRITISH ARE THE SUPERIOR FORCE, AND
- 00:21:55.150 --> 00:21:57.030
- THEY'RE GOING WAIT A SECOND, HOW ARE THE
- 00:21:57.050 --> 00:21:58.160
- AMERICANS WINNING IN THESE THINGS?
- 00:21:58.180 --> 00:22:00.100
- SO THE BRITISH OFFICERS START TALKING, AND THEY
- 00:22:00.120 --> 00:22:02.090
- SAY WE BETTER TAKE THE AMERICANS A
- 00:22:02.110 --> 00:22:03.150
- LITTLE MORE SERIOUS.
- 00:22:03.170 --> 00:22:05.000
- WE BETTER START THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO.
- 00:22:05.020 --> 00:22:08.040
- AND SO AS THE BRITISH OFFICERS START TALKING,
- 00:22:08.060 --> 00:22:10.030
- THEY SAY YOU KNOW WHAT WE OUGHT TO DO, WE OUGHT TO
- 00:22:10.050 --> 00:22:12.190
- FIND SOMEONE WE CAN SEND TO GO SPY IN THE AMERICAN
- 00:22:12.210 --> 00:22:14.290
- CAMP. WE'VE GOT TO FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN GO
- 00:22:15.010 --> 00:22:17.130
- GATHER INTEL AND COME BACK AND REPORT TO US.
- 00:22:17.150 --> 00:22:19.210
- AND THEY SAID WELL WHO ARE WE GONNA SEND?
- 00:22:19.230 --> 00:22:21.180
- SO THEY TURNED TO JAMES!
- 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:24.110
- AND THEY SAID JAMES, WE HAVE AN IMPORTANT FAVOR
- 00:22:24.130 --> 00:22:28.000
- WE NEED TO ASK OF YOU.
- 00:22:28.020 --> 00:22:29.220
- AND JAMES KNOWS WHERE IT'S GOING.
- 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:31.020
- HE SAYS GUYS, PLEASE, I HATE THE AMERICANS!
- 00:22:31.040 --> 00:22:32.240
- DON'T MAKE ME GO BACK!
- 00:22:32.260 --> 00:22:34.030
- HE'S JUST PLAYING THE ROLE, RIGHT? HE KNOWS.
- 00:22:34.050 --> 00:22:36.020
- AND THEY SAID JAMES, WE'D CONSIDER IT A PERSONAL
- 00:22:36.040 --> 00:22:37.280
- FAVOR IF YOU WOULD GO SPY ON THE AMERICANS.
- 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:40.280
- SO JAMES SAYS WELL, OKAY, FOR YOU GUYS I'LL DO IT.
- 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.150
- HE FINISHES THE WAR PRETENDING TO
- 00:22:44.170 --> 00:22:46.240
- SPY FOR THE BRITISH.
- 00:22:46.260 --> 00:22:48.030
- HE GIVES THEM BAD INTEL THE WHOLE TIME SPYING
- 00:22:48.050 --> 00:22:49.100
- FOR THE AMERICANS.
- 00:22:49.120 --> 00:22:50.210
- THE VERY LAST MAJOR BATTLE IN THE REVOLUTION
- 00:22:50.230 --> 00:22:52.160
- WAS THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN.
- 00:22:52.180 --> 00:22:54.070
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CREDITS JAMES ARMISTEAD WITH
- 00:22:54.090 --> 00:22:57.060
- BEING THE HERO OF THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN
- 00:22:57.080 --> 00:22:59.060
- GIVING THEM THE INTEL.
- 00:22:59.080 --> 00:23:00.180
- HE'S LITERALLY THE GUY THAT HELPED BRING AN END
- 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:02.130
- TO THE REVOLUTION.
- 00:23:02.150 --> 00:23:04.010
- BUT HE'S ONE OF MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN
- 00:23:04.030 --> 00:23:06.160
- HIDDEN FROM HISTORY, AND THERE REALLY ARE SO MANY
- 00:23:06.180 --> 00:23:08.190
- THAT HAVE BEEN IN, KIND OF IN THIS SENSE, HIDDEN
- 00:23:08.210 --> 00:23:11.130
- IN OUR HISTORY BOOKS THAT ARE VERY SIGNIFICANT
- 00:23:11.150 --> 00:23:15.050
- AMERICAN HEROES TODAY WE DON'T KNOW.
- 00:23:15.070 --> 00:23:17.030
- - WELL, YOU'RE SAYING THEY'RE HIDDEN IN HISTORY.
- 00:23:17.050 --> 00:23:19.020
- THEY'RE KIND OF HIDDEN FROM THIS GENERATION
- 00:23:19.040 --> 00:23:21.030
- BECAUSE, OBVIOUSLY, THEY KNEW ABOUT IT BECAUSE
- 00:23:21.050 --> 00:23:23.050
- THEY PAINTED A PAINTING OF IT.
- 00:23:23.070 --> 00:23:24.240
- AND IF YOU GO RIGHT BELOW IT, THAT'S THE PAINTING
- 00:23:24.260 --> 00:23:26.130
- OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
- 00:23:26.150 --> 00:23:28.020
- THAT'S THE FIRST REALLY REALLY BIG BATTLE IN THE
- 00:23:28.040 --> 00:23:30.050
- AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
- 00:23:30.070 --> 00:23:31.140
- AND YOU LOOK AT IT, AND OFF ON THE RIGHT, ON THE
- 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:33.220
- RIGHT SIDE THERE'S TWO GUYS STANDING SIDE BY
- 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:35.260
- SIDE, AND ONE OF THEM IS A BLACK GUY.
- 00:23:35.280 --> 00:23:37.290
- HIS NAME IS PETER SALEM.
- 00:23:38.010 --> 00:23:40.030
- HE IS THE HERO OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
- 00:23:40.050 --> 00:23:42.090
- THE GUY WHO PAINTED THAT PAINTING, JOHN TRUMBULL,
- 00:23:42.110 --> 00:23:44.250
- PUT HIM OFF THERE SO YOUR EYES WOULD GO OVER AND
- 00:23:44.270 --> 00:23:47.010
- SEE HE'S STANDING BESIDE A WHITE GUY,
- 00:23:47.030 --> 00:23:48.170
- THOMAS GOSVENOR.
- 00:23:48.190 --> 00:23:50.000
- MATTER OF FACT, HERE IS A DOCUMENT SIGNED BY PETER
- 00:23:50.020 --> 00:23:52.200
- SALEM, ONLY DOCUMENT I'VE EVER SEEN SIGNED BY PETER
- 00:23:52.220 --> 00:23:55.000
- SALEM, WHO IS THE HERO. HE'S CREDIT--
- 00:23:55.020 --> 00:23:57.200
- THEY GAVE HIM A DOZEN MILITARY ACCOMMODATIONS.
- 00:23:57.220 --> 00:24:00.100
- - WHY WAS HE THE HERO OF THE BATTLE?
- 00:24:00.120 --> 00:24:01.270
- - HE WAS THE HERO BECAUSE THE AMERICANS
- 00:24:01.290 --> 00:24:03.110
- WERE DOING PRETTY GOOD UNTIL THEY RAN OUT OF
- 00:24:03.130 --> 00:24:04.250
- AMMUNITION. THAT'S A HARD WAY TO WIN A BATTLE.
- 00:24:04.270 --> 00:24:07.090
- SO HERE COME THE BRITISH ABOUT TO SLAUGHTER
- 00:24:07.110 --> 00:24:09.100
- ALL THE AMERICANS.
- 00:24:09.120 --> 00:24:10.170
- HE TURNS AND SHOOTS DOWN THE BRITISH COMMANDERS
- 00:24:10.190 --> 00:24:12.120
- AND PUTS THE BRITISH IN DISARRAY.
- 00:24:12.140 --> 00:24:14.140
- SO HE'S CREDITED WITH BEING ABLE TO KNOCK DOWN
- 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:16.280
- THE BRITISH COMMANDER, LET THE AMERICANS
- 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:18.130
- REASSEMBLE, ESCAPE. SO HE--
- 00:24:18.150 --> 00:24:20.040
- - HE PRESERVED THEIR RETREAT. SO WHEN THEY RUN OUT OF
- 00:24:20.060 --> 00:24:22.150
- AMMUNITION, AT THIS POINT THERE'S NO USE STAYING HERE
- 00:24:22.170 --> 00:24:24.180
- FIGHTING. LET'S GET OUT.
- 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:26.090
- BUT THE BRITISH ARE COMING AGAINST HIM.
- 00:24:26.110 --> 00:24:27.250
- SO HE RAISES UP, SHOOTS THEIR COMMANDING OFFICER,
- 00:24:27.270 --> 00:24:30.130
- APPARENTLY WITH ONE OF THE LAST SHOTS THEY HAVE,
- 00:24:30.150 --> 00:24:32.280
- I GUESS. BUT KILLS THE OFFICER.
- 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:35.080
- SO NOW THE BRITISH ARE GOING WHAT DO WE DO?
- 00:24:35.100 --> 00:24:36.150
- THE AMERICANS ESCAPE.
- 00:24:36.170 --> 00:24:37.270
- SO HE SAVED THE LIVES OF ALL THE AMERICANS.
- 00:24:37.290 --> 00:24:40.270
- - THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF SAID HERE'S THE
- 00:24:40.290 --> 00:24:42.240
- HERO OF THE BATTLE.
- 00:24:42.260 --> 00:24:44.090
- THEY BUILT MONUMENTS TO HIM, DOZEN MILITARY
- 00:24:44.110 --> 00:24:46.010
- ACCOMMODATIONS.
- 00:24:46.030 --> 00:24:47.180
- NEVER HEAR HIS NAME TODAY, BUT HE'S IN THE
- 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:50.160
- PAINTING. YOU GO DOWN TO THIS PAINTING HERE.
- 00:24:50.180 --> 00:24:52.180
- WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE.
- 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:53.280
- THAT'S THAT ICONIC PAINTING.
- 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:55.100
- WHO'S IN THE BOAT WITH HIM?
- 00:24:55.120 --> 00:24:57.050
- WELL, GEORGE WASHINGTON.
- 00:24:57.070 --> 00:24:58.120
- YEAH, BUT RIGHT IN FRONT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON,
- 00:24:58.140 --> 00:24:59.280
- YOU'VE GOT PRINCE WHIPPLE AND YOU'VE GOT OLIVER
- 00:25:00.020 --> 00:25:02.140
- CROMWELL, TWO BLACK PATRIOTS THAT SERVED IN
- 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:04.190
- THE REVOLUTION. THEY KNEW IT BACK THEN.
- 00:25:04.210 --> 00:25:06.190
- THAT'S WHY THEY PAINTED THEM IN THE BOAT WITH
- 00:25:06.210 --> 00:25:08.220
- WASHINGTON. WE DON'T HEAR THAT.
- 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:10.290
- OR YOU GO TO THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE REVOLUTION,
- 00:25:11.010 --> 00:25:13.020
- THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON.
- 00:25:13.040 --> 00:25:15.040
- YOU HAVE 70 AMERICANS TAKING ON 700 BRITISH.
- 00:25:15.060 --> 00:25:19.030
- AND IN THE PAINTING, YOU SEE LAYING ON THE GROUND
- 00:25:19.050 --> 00:25:21.070
- THERE, THERE WERE 18 AMERICANS HIT THE GROUND
- 00:25:21.090 --> 00:25:23.070
- THAT DAY BECAUSE THEY'RE BADLY OUTNUMBERED.
- 00:25:23.090 --> 00:25:25.130
- BUT LAYING ON THE GROUND THERE ARE GUYS ALL FROM
- 00:25:25.150 --> 00:25:27.290
- THE SAME CHURCH BECAUSE THE 70 GUYS ARE OUT OF
- 00:25:28.010 --> 00:25:30.210
- ONE CHURCH, REVEREND JONAS CLARKE'S CHURCH,
- 00:25:30.230 --> 00:25:32.290
- WHO SAID WE'LL DEFEND OUR TOWN.
- 00:25:33.010 --> 00:25:34.190
- THE CHURCH WENT OUT THERE, 70 GUYS.
- 00:25:34.210 --> 00:25:36.100
- 18 GUYS LAYING ON THE GROUND.
- 00:25:36.120 --> 00:25:37.280
- THEY'RE BOTH BLACK AND WHITE.
- 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:39.190
- YOU HAVE BLACK PATRIOTS LIKE PRINCE ESTABROOK AND
- 00:25:39.210 --> 00:25:41.290
- WHITE PATRIOTS LIKE JOHN ROBBINS.
- 00:25:42.010 --> 00:25:43.220
- THEY ALL WENT TO CHURCH TOGETHER.
- 00:25:43.240 --> 00:25:45.200
- THEY'RE IN CHURCH TOGETHER, AND THEY'RE OUT
- 00:25:45.220 --> 00:25:47.210
- THERE DEFENDING THE TOWN.
- 00:25:47.230 --> 00:25:49.010
- AND THAT'S IN THE PAINTING.
- 00:25:49.030 --> 00:25:50.110
- BUT SEE, THEY KNEW THE BLACK GUYS BACK THEN.
- 00:25:50.130 --> 00:25:53.020
- - RIGHT. WELL, EVEN ONE OF MY FAVORITE
- 00:25:53.040 --> 00:25:55.250
- STORIES IS PRINCE SISSON.
- 00:25:55.270 --> 00:25:57.200
- SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT MILITARY HEROES,
- 00:25:57.220 --> 00:25:59.160
- WELL PRINCE SISSON WAS--
- 00:25:59.180 --> 00:26:01.120
- - NOW LET ME-- WHILE YOU'RE SAYING THAT,
- 00:26:01.140 --> 00:26:03.060
- PRINCE SISSON IS A STORY TOLD IN THIS BOOK RIGHT HERE.
- 00:26:03.080 --> 00:26:07.050
- THIS IS A BOOK BY WILLIAM NELL, AND WILLIAM NELL
- 00:26:07.070 --> 00:26:10.020
- IS, IF I CAN GET HIS-- THAT'S WILLIAM NELL.
- 00:26:10.040 --> 00:26:12.120
- HE IS THE FIRST BLACK MAN TO HOLD ANY TYPE OF
- 00:26:12.140 --> 00:26:16.090
- POSITION IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
- 00:26:16.110 --> 00:26:18.090
- SO HE IS ALSO A GREAT HISTORIAN.
- 00:26:18.110 --> 00:26:21.160
- AND THIS IS THE BOOK THAT HE DID.
- 00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:23.170
- AND IF I JUST READ THE TITLE, IT'S "THE COLORED
- 00:26:23.190 --> 00:26:25.240
- PATRIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION."
- 00:26:25.260 --> 00:26:28.090
- I WILL POINT OUT THAT IT'S NOT A SKINNY BOOK.
- 00:26:28.110 --> 00:26:30.140
- - THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A LOT OF THEM.
- 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:31.240
- - MUST HAVE BEEN A LOT OF THEM.
- 00:26:31.260 --> 00:26:33.020
- AND HERE'S THE "SERVICES OF COLORED AMERICANS IN
- 00:26:33.040 --> 00:26:35.000
- THE WARS OF 1776 AND 1812."
- 00:26:35.020 --> 00:26:37.150
- ANOTHER BOOK THERE, "THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK PAST."
- 00:26:37.170 --> 00:26:40.210
- WE'VE GOT ANOTHER ONE OVER HERE, CARTER WOODSON.
- 00:26:40.230 --> 00:26:42.280
- THERE'S ALL SORTS OF BOOKS DONE, ON ALL THESE
- 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:46.050
- HEROES OF THE REVOLUTION.
- 00:26:46.070 --> 00:26:47.260
- AND PRINCE SISSON IS ONE OF THE STORIES
- 00:26:47.280 --> 00:26:49.000
- HERE OUT OF THIS BOOK.
- 00:26:49.020 --> 00:26:50.120
- - PRINCE SISSON BEING ONE OF THE RECOGNIZED HEROES.
- 00:26:50.140 --> 00:26:52.170
- IN FACT, MANY STORIES, MANY NEWSPAPERS WROTE
- 00:26:52.190 --> 00:26:55.210
- ABOUT THIS GUY AND HOW IMPORTANT HE WAS AND
- 00:26:55.230 --> 00:26:57.180
- SIGNIFICANT HE WAS.
- 00:26:57.200 --> 00:26:59.100
- AND LITERALLY, AS WE LOOKED AT THE REVOLUTION,
- 00:26:59.120 --> 00:27:01.170
- THERE WERE SO MANY AMAZING BLACK HEROES,
- 00:27:01.190 --> 00:27:05.030
- AMAZING STORIES, AND YET FOR SOME REASON THAT IS
- 00:27:05.050 --> 00:27:08.190
- HIDDEN HISTORY TODAY.
- 00:27:08.210 --> 00:27:10.100
- - WELL, YOU KNOW THE THING ABOUT THAT IS
- 00:27:10.120 --> 00:27:12.100
- THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT THAT
- 00:27:12.120 --> 00:27:15.170
- HISTORY OUT, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR
- 00:27:15.190 --> 00:27:18.150
- HISTORY, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR POTENTIAL
- 00:27:18.170 --> 00:27:19.250
- IS FOR YOUR FUTURE.
- 00:27:19.270 --> 00:27:22.010
- AND SO THEY'VE RE-WRITTEN HISTORY IN ORDER TO WRITE
- 00:27:22.030 --> 00:27:25.000
- OUT, I AM CONFIDENT THERE WERE MANY GREAT BLACK
- 00:27:25.020 --> 00:27:28.150
- PEOPLE INVOLVED IN EACH ONE OF THE WARS THIS NATION FOUGHT.
- 00:27:28.170 --> 00:27:32.090
- GREAT BLACK PEOPLE THAT HAVE DONE THINGS THAT
- 00:27:32.110 --> 00:27:34.100
- HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS NATION TO MAKE IT BE AS
- 00:27:34.120 --> 00:27:36.270
- GREAT AS IT IS TODAY.
- 00:27:36.290 --> 00:27:38.100
- BUT YOU HAVE PEOPLE WRITING OUT BLACK PEOPLE
- 00:27:38.120 --> 00:27:41.290
- BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT BLACK PEOPLE TO KNOW WHO
- 00:27:42.010 --> 00:27:45.020
- THEY ARE AND THE POWER THAT THEY HAVE WITHIN.
- 00:27:45.040 --> 00:27:48.120
- AND WHEN A PERSON OR A GROUP OF PEOPLE
- 00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:51.120
- UNDERSTAND THE POWER THAT GOD HAS GIVEN THEM, YOU
- 00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:53.240
- CAN'T HOLD THEM BACK.
- 00:27:53.260 --> 00:27:56.010
- YOU CAN'T STOP THEM FROM ACHIEVING THEIR
- 00:27:56.030 --> 00:27:59.020
- DIVINE POTENTIAL.
- 00:27:59.040 --> 00:28:00.260
- SO YOU REWRITE THE HISTORY SO WE DON'T KNOW
- 00:28:00.280 --> 00:28:04.020
- WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
- 00:28:04.040 --> 00:28:06.100
- - HOW MANY OF YOU COULD NAME BLACK HEROES
- 00:28:06.120 --> 00:28:09.290
- FROM THE REVOLUTION?
- 00:28:10.010 --> 00:28:12.080
- HERE IS WHAT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE IF
- 00:28:12.100 --> 00:28:13.240
- WE SAY IT WAS WRITTEN OUT, THAT'S NOT JUST
- 00:28:13.260 --> 00:28:15.160
- FIGURATIVE THAT IT WAS WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY
- 00:28:15.180 --> 00:28:17.270
- BECAUSE THEY WERE A PART OF HISTORY FOR A LONG TIME.
- 00:28:17.290 --> 00:28:20.210
- - WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A HISTORIAN WHO IS A PHD,
- 00:28:20.230 --> 00:28:24.060
- WHO IS ALSO THE PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.
- 00:28:24.080 --> 00:28:27.100
- AND IN 1902, HE COMES OUT WITH THIS FIVE VOLUME SET
- 00:28:27.120 --> 00:28:31.050
- CALLED "THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE."
- 00:28:31.070 --> 00:28:34.060
- THAT GUY THAT WAS PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON
- 00:28:34.080 --> 00:28:37.020
- THAT'S A PHD, HISTORY GUY, GOES ON TO BECOME THE
- 00:28:37.040 --> 00:28:40.170
- PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
- 00:28:40.190 --> 00:28:41.240
- IT'S WOODROW WILSON.
- 00:28:41.260 --> 00:28:43.270
- WOODROW WILSON DOES THE HISTORY, AND PEOPLE SAY
- 00:28:43.290 --> 00:28:45.270
- OH, MY GOSH, WE'VE GOT A GREAT-- WE'RE GONNA WRITE
- 00:28:45.290 --> 00:28:48.040
- HISTORY LIKE HE DID.
- 00:28:48.060 --> 00:28:49.210
- YOU WILL NOT FIND A SINGLE BLACK NAME
- 00:28:49.230 --> 00:28:53.220
- ANYWHERE IN HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
- 00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:55.170
- WRITTEN BY WOODROW WILSON.
- 00:28:55.190 --> 00:28:57.000
- - SO WOODROW WILSON WAS A LARGE SUPPORTER OF THE
- 00:28:57.020 --> 00:28:59.030
- KKK. UNDER WOODROW WILSON, THE KKK HAD ITS REBIRTH.
- 00:28:59.050 --> 00:29:02.060
- THEY WERE MARCHING IN DC.
- 00:29:02.080 --> 00:29:04.020
- - GRAB THAT PICTURE BEHIND YOU.
- 00:29:04.040 --> 00:29:05.220
- - SO THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE STREETS OF THE KKK
- 00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:09.280
- MARCHING THROUGH DC.
- 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:11.140
- - OPENLY IN DC WAS SENATORS AND
- 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:13.000
- REPRESENTATIVES PART OF IT.
- 00:29:13.020 --> 00:29:14.160
- - AS WOODROW WILSON IS SUPPORTING THIS.
- 00:29:14.180 --> 00:29:16.170
- IN FACT, WOODROW WILSON SHOWS THE VERY FIRST EVER
- 00:29:16.190 --> 00:29:19.110
- FILM SHOWN IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHICH WAS MADE AS A
- 00:29:19.130 --> 00:29:22.030
- KKK RECRUITING FILM, AND IT WAS THIS FILM RIGHT
- 00:29:22.050 --> 00:29:25.210
- HERE, "THE BIRTH OF A NATION."
- 00:29:25.230 --> 00:29:27.120
- - AND THE SCRIPT FOR THAT FILM WAS LARGELY TAKEN OUT
- 00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:29.200
- OF THE BOOKS THAT HE HAD WRITTEN FROM HIS BOOK.
- 00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:31.200
- - BOOKS ABOUT HOW THE WHITE MAN HAS TO SAVE
- 00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:34.120
- AMERICA FROM THE BLACK MAN.
- 00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:35.260
- - MATTER OF FACT, IN HIS BOOKS, HE DOES HAVE SOME
- 00:29:35.280 --> 00:29:38.290
- BLACK HISTORY IN THERE, AND THIS IS--
- 00:29:39.010 --> 00:29:41.240
- - WELL, I WOULDN'T EVEN SAY HISTORY, BUT HE DOES
- 00:29:41.260 --> 00:29:43.070
- ELUDE TO BLACK INDIVIDUALS.
- 00:29:43.090 --> 00:29:44.220
- - THAT'S RIGHT. YOU GET IMAGES LIKE THIS.
- 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:47.140
- THIS IS HOW HE SHOWS BLACK FOLKS IN THAT
- 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:50.100
- HISTORY BOOK. AND IT IS PURELY RACIST.
- 00:29:50.120 --> 00:29:53.060
- AND THIS IS WHY SO MUCH BLACK HISTORY IS GONE
- 00:29:53.080 --> 00:29:56.050
- TODAY, EVEN THOUGH WE KNEW IT FOR YEARS
- 00:29:56.070 --> 00:29:57.260
- AND YEARS AND YEARS.
- 00:29:57.280 --> 00:29:59.030
- - AND IT'S WHY TODAY PEOPLE PROBABLY KNOW THE
- 00:29:59.050 --> 00:30:00.160
- NAME FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
- 00:30:00.180 --> 00:30:02.010
- THEY PROBABLY KNOW THE NAME GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER.
- 00:30:02.030 --> 00:30:03.270
- AND THEY PROBABLY KNOW BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
- 00:30:03.290 --> 00:30:05.130
- - BY THE WAY, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER,
- 00:30:05.150 --> 00:30:06.220
- RIGHT HERE THIS IS HIS LIFE MASK.
- 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:08.130
- WHAT WONDERFUL GUY. THIS IS HIS--
- 00:30:08.150 --> 00:30:11.110
- THAT'S THE HAND THAT DISCOVERED
- 00:30:11.130 --> 00:30:13.210
- 300 USES FOR THE PEANUT.
- 00:30:13.230 --> 00:30:15.270
- I MEAN, UNBELIEVABLE, GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER.
- 00:30:15.290 --> 00:30:18.060
- - AND STRONG CHRISTIAN.
- 00:30:18.080 --> 00:30:19.270
- SO FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ACTUALLY THE REVEREND
- 00:30:19.290 --> 00:30:21.250
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
- 00:30:21.270 --> 00:30:23.160
- SO HE WAS A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL.
- 00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:25.020
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER WAS A CHRISTIAN.
- 00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:26.190
- SIGNED HIS BOOK "T. WASHINGTON STRONG CHRISTIAN."
- 00:30:26.210 --> 00:30:28.140
- YOU HAVE THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING.
- 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:30.100
- BUT LARGELY THOSE ARE PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY FOUR
- 00:30:30.120 --> 00:30:32.190
- BLACK HEROES THAT ANYBODY KNOWS
- 00:30:32.210 --> 00:30:34.230
- FROM AMERICAN HISTORY.
- 00:30:34.250 --> 00:30:36.060
- - LET'S GO BACK PRIOR TO WOODROW WILSON, AND LET'S
- 00:30:36.080 --> 00:30:38.220
- TAKE A BLACK CHURCH LEADER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
- 00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:40.120
- NAMED WENTWORTH CHESWELL.
- 00:30:40.140 --> 00:30:42.170
- THE FIRST BLACK ELECTED TO OFFICE IN AMERICA,
- 00:30:42.190 --> 00:30:45.010
- ELECTED 1768 IN NEW HAMPSHIRE,
- 00:30:45.030 --> 00:30:47.190
- REELECTED FOR 49 YEARS.
- 00:30:47.210 --> 00:30:50.160
- - NOW LET'S PAUSE. YOU'RE SAYING THERE
- 00:30:50.180 --> 00:30:53.000
- WAS A BLACK MAN ELECTED TO OFFICE.
- 00:30:53.020 --> 00:30:56.250
- WE'RE TOLD THAT BLACKS DIDN'T HAVE ANY RIGHTS,
- 00:30:56.270 --> 00:31:01.070
- AND THEY WERE NOTHING, THEY WERE NOBODY, THEY
- 00:31:01.090 --> 00:31:03.020
- WERE THE DREGS OF SOCIETY, AND YET THEY
- 00:31:03.040 --> 00:31:05.180
- WERE LEADERS OF SOCIETY.
- 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:07.060
- - REAL QUICK THING.
- 00:31:07.080 --> 00:31:08.260
- - WE WERE LEADERS OF SOCIETY!
- 00:31:08.280 --> 00:31:10.100
- WE WERE DOING THINGS.
- 00:31:10.120 --> 00:31:11.220
- THERE WERE BLACKS THAT WERE LEADERS, THAT WERE
- 00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:13.260
- PREACHERS, THAT HAD WHITE CONGREGATIONS BEFORE
- 00:31:13.280 --> 00:31:16.020
- THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
- 00:31:16.040 --> 00:31:18.070
- THEY WERE PREACHING THE MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE.
- 00:31:18.090 --> 00:31:20.170
- THE MESSAGE OF CHRIST IS THE MESSAGE THAT MUST BE
- 00:31:20.190 --> 00:31:23.080
- PREACHED. THAT'S THE ONE THAT'S BEING HIDDEN.
- 00:31:23.100 --> 00:31:25.230
- - THIS IS FROM THE AMERICAN FOUNDING.
- 00:31:25.250 --> 00:31:27.150
- YOU LOOK RIGHT THERE, THAT IS CLEARLY A BLACK
- 00:31:27.170 --> 00:31:30.150
- MAN IN THE PULPIT, RIGHT? LOOK DOWN HERE.
- 00:31:30.170 --> 00:31:33.220
- THAT IS A VERY WHITE CONGREGATION. THERE IS NO--
- 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.120
- - THEY DIDN'T CARE AT THAT POINT.
- 00:31:37.140 --> 00:31:39.100
- THEY DIDN'T CARE BECAUSE THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THE
- 00:31:39.120 --> 00:31:40.250
- TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD.
- 00:31:40.270 --> 00:31:42.120
- THEY DIDN'T CARE WHETHER IT CAME FROM A BLACK MAN.
- 00:31:42.140 --> 00:31:44.040
- THEY DIDN'T CARE WHERE IT CAME FROM.
- 00:31:44.060 --> 00:31:46.110
- AND THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE HUNGER FOR IS TRUTH.
- 00:31:46.130 --> 00:31:49.040
- AND THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID MAKES US FREE.
- 00:31:49.060 --> 00:31:52.100
- IT'S THE TRUTH THAT MAKES US FREE.
- 00:31:52.120 --> 00:31:54.140
- AND SO PEOPLE LIKE WOODROW WILSON, OTHERS,
- 00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:57.110
- REWRITE THE HISTORY USING THINGS LIKE THIS, IMAGES
- 00:31:57.130 --> 00:32:01.180
- TO PORTRAY PEOPLE, TO DEGRADE PEOPLE, TO TAKE
- 00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:04.190
- AWAY THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN BEINGS WHEN THERE'S SO
- 00:32:04.210 --> 00:32:07.250
- MANY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THE VOLUMES CAN TELL
- 00:32:07.270 --> 00:32:09.200
- YOU, SO MUCH HISTORY THAT IS HERE THAT'S
- 00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:12.070
- BEEN WRITTEN OUT. WE HAVE TO SEEK THE TRUTH
- 00:32:12.090 --> 00:32:14.240
- SO THE TRUTH CAN MAKE US ALL FREE.
- 00:32:14.260 --> 00:32:16.280
- NOT JUST BLACK AMERICANS, BUT WHITE AMERICANS, ALL
- 00:32:17.000 --> 00:32:19.190
- AMERICANS. IN ORDER TO KNOW THE TRUTH, YOU'VE
- 00:32:19.210 --> 00:32:22.060
- GOT TO LEARN HOW TO SEEK THE TRUTH.
- 00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:24.140
- AND YOU LEARN TO SEEK THE TRUTH BECAUSE EVERY ONE
- 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:26.120
- OF THESE PEOPLE HERE, YOU CAN FIND THERE'S SOME
- 00:32:26.140 --> 00:32:28.110
- WORD OF GOD IN THEM.
- 00:32:28.130 --> 00:32:30.030
- THAT'S WHAT MADE THEM BE WHAT THEY ARE.
- 00:32:30.050 --> 00:32:32.260
- AND WE'RE GETTING AWAY FROM THAT NOWADAYS.
- 00:32:32.280 --> 00:32:34.250
- THIS NATION WILL NOT CONTINUE THE WAY IT WAS
- 00:32:34.270 --> 00:32:38.110
- DEFINED IN THE BEGINNING.
- 00:32:38.130 --> 00:32:40.050
- IT CANNOT LONG GO FORWARD WITH SOME OF THE THINGS
- 00:32:40.070 --> 00:32:42.190
- WE'RE DOING TODAY.
- 00:32:42.210 --> 00:32:43.280
- - NO, SECULAR STUFF IS NOT GONNA WORK.
- 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:45.130
- - DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHO THIS IS?
- 00:32:45.150 --> 00:32:47.100
- THIS GUY'S NAME IS HARRY HOSIER.
- 00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:49.220
- HE WAS A PASTOR, A REVEREND FROM THE
- 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:51.210
- SECOND GREAT AWAKENING.
- 00:32:51.230 --> 00:32:53.110
- HE ACTUALLY, REALLY INTERESTING, WHEN HE GOT
- 00:32:53.130 --> 00:32:56.120
- SAVED, HE FEELS THAT GOD HAS CALLED HIM TO GO BE
- 00:32:56.140 --> 00:32:58.100
- AN EVANGELIST ON THE WILD WESTERN FRONTIER.
- 00:32:58.120 --> 00:33:01.020
- NOW, THAT'S STILL KIND OF EARLY-ISH AMERICA, SO THE
- 00:33:01.040 --> 00:33:04.100
- WILD WESTERN FRONTIER HAD NOT GONE AS FAR WEST.
- 00:33:04.120 --> 00:33:07.100
- SO BACK THEN, LIKE, THE WESTERN FRONTIER WAS LIKE
- 00:33:07.120 --> 00:33:09.100
- KENTUCKY, OHIO. THAT WAS YOUR WESTERN FRONTIER.
- 00:33:09.120 --> 00:33:13.040
- WELL, HE WORKS HIS WAY OVER THROUGH KENTUCKY,
- 00:33:13.060 --> 00:33:16.150
- WORKS HIS WAY OVER, BUT HE'S EVANGELIZING THE
- 00:33:16.170 --> 00:33:18.090
- WHOLE TIME. SO AS HE'S GOING, HE'S HAVING THESE
- 00:33:18.110 --> 00:33:20.190
- BIG MEETINGS, PEOPLE ARE GETTING SAVED,
- 00:33:20.210 --> 00:33:22.250
- DRAMATIC CONVERSIONS.
- 00:33:22.270 --> 00:33:24.110
- IN FACT, IT'S CHANGING ENTIRE TOWNS.
- 00:33:24.130 --> 00:33:26.050
- IT'S CHANGING COMMUNITIES BECAUSE PEOPLE
- 00:33:26.070 --> 00:33:27.200
- ARE GETTING SAVED.
- 00:33:27.220 --> 00:33:28.280
- HE WORKS HIS WAY ALL THE WAY UP INTO INDIANA, AND
- 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:31.240
- HE JOURNEYED ALL AROUND INDIANA DOING CRUSADES,
- 00:33:31.260 --> 00:33:33.250
- PEOPLE ARE GETTING SAVED, DRAMATIC CONVERSIONS.
- 00:33:33.270 --> 00:33:35.130
- BUT HERE'S WHAT'S INTERESTING.
- 00:33:35.150 --> 00:33:36.270
- THEY SAID YOU CAN TELL WHERE THE REVEREND HARRY
- 00:33:36.290 --> 00:33:39.060
- HOSIER HAD BEEN BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU COULD WALK
- 00:33:39.080 --> 00:33:41.270
- INTO A TOWN AND THE PEOPLE WOULD BE
- 00:33:41.290 --> 00:33:43.090
- DIFFERENT, THEY SAID.
- 00:33:43.110 --> 00:33:44.170
- IN FACT, IT WAS ALMOST LIKE THERE WERE LITTLE
- 00:33:44.190 --> 00:33:46.100
- HOSIERS JUST RUNNING AROUND EVERYWHERE.
- 00:33:46.120 --> 00:33:48.080
- NOW THIS IS INDIANA.
- 00:33:48.100 --> 00:33:50.270
- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW ABOUT INDIANA UNIVERSITY,
- 00:33:50.290 --> 00:33:53.050
- THE HOOSIERS. YEAH.
- 00:33:53.070 --> 00:33:55.090
- DID YOU KNOW THEY'RE NAMED AFTER A BLACK
- 00:33:55.110 --> 00:33:56.220
- PASTOR FROM THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING?
- 00:33:56.240 --> 00:34:00.110
- THIS IS THE AMAZING HIDDEN HISTORY THAT IF WE
- 00:34:00.130 --> 00:34:04.200
- KNEW HISTORY, WE WOULD GO OH, MY GOSH!
- 00:34:04.220 --> 00:34:07.130
- AND BY THE WAY, AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THESE
- 00:34:07.150 --> 00:34:09.140
- HEROES, THERE'S VERY FEW HEROES WE COULD POINT TO
- 00:34:09.160 --> 00:34:12.050
- OF ANY RACE IN AMERICAN HISTORY WHO WERE
- 00:34:12.070 --> 00:34:14.060
- NOT PEOPLE OF FAITH.
- 00:34:14.080 --> 00:34:16.080
- BECAUSE IT WAS THEIR FAITH THAT MOTIVATED
- 00:34:16.100 --> 00:34:18.020
- THEM TO BE DIFFERENT, TO LIVE DIFFERENT,
- 00:34:18.040 --> 00:34:19.250
- TO DO THINGS DIFFERENT.
- 00:34:19.270 --> 00:34:21.140
- - THAT, THE FIRST BLACK BISHOP OF THE EPISCOPAL
- 00:34:21.160 --> 00:34:25.090
- CHURCH IN AMERICA, THE REVEREND ABSALOM JONES.
- 00:34:25.110 --> 00:34:29.010
- BLACK GUY. THIS MAN, FIRST BLACK MAN TO SPEAK IN
- 00:34:29.030 --> 00:34:31.250
- CONGRESS, REVEREND HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET.
- 00:34:31.270 --> 00:34:35.050
- - NOTICE THE WORD REVEREND.
- 00:34:35.070 --> 00:34:36.280
- - REVEREND. THIS MAN, GREAT CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER,
- 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.040
- FREDERICK DOUGLASS, EXCEPT NOBODY EVER HEARS
- 00:34:39.060 --> 00:34:41.070
- HE'S THE REVEREND FREDERICK DOUGLASS.
- 00:34:41.090 --> 00:34:43.100
- HE IS AN A.M.E. ZION PREACHER.
- 00:34:43.120 --> 00:34:45.120
- YOU HAVE THE REVEREND RICHARD ALLEN WHO IS, HE
- 00:34:45.140 --> 00:34:49.290
- FOUNDED THE FIRST BLACK DENOMINATION IN AMERICA, A.M.E..
- 00:34:50.010 --> 00:34:53.130
- AND BY THE WAY, RICHARD ALLEN, OBVIOUSLY A BLACK
- 00:34:53.150 --> 00:34:55.200
- GUY, OFTEN PREACHED AT CHURCHES WITH 2.000
- 00:34:55.220 --> 00:34:57.180
- WHITE FOLKS IN THEM.
- 00:34:57.200 --> 00:34:59.060
- AND WE TALKED ABOUT LEMUEL HAYNES A MINUTE
- 00:34:59.080 --> 00:35:00.270
- AGO, THE REVEREND LEMUEL HAYNES RIGHT HERE.
- 00:35:00.290 --> 00:35:03.190
- NOW THIS GUY WENT ALL OVER NEW ENGLAND
- 00:35:03.210 --> 00:35:05.170
- FOUNDING CHURCHES.
- 00:35:05.190 --> 00:35:07.080
- HE WAS A BLACK PASTOR OF WHITE CHURCHES.
- 00:35:07.100 --> 00:35:09.100
- HE ALSO, BY THE WAY-- TIM, PULL THAT STUFF OUT RIGHT
- 00:35:09.120 --> 00:35:12.060
- THERE. HE'S THE FIRST BLACK MAN TO RECEIVE A HIGHER
- 00:35:12.080 --> 00:35:14.180
- DEGREE OF EDUCATION. THAT IS HIS BIBLE.
- 00:35:14.200 --> 00:35:16.290
- THAT IS HIS PREACHING BIBLE RIGHT THERE.
- 00:35:17.010 --> 00:35:18.160
- HIS NAME'S INSIDE IT.
- 00:35:18.180 --> 00:35:20.100
- HE'S THE FIRST BLACK MAN TO HAVE ANY SERMON
- 00:35:20.120 --> 00:35:22.260
- PUBLISHED RIGHT HERE, LEMUEL HAYNES.
- 00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:26.020
- BUT HE WAS A MINUTE MAN IN THE AMERICAN
- 00:35:26.040 --> 00:35:28.070
- REVOLUTION. HE SERVED UNDER GEORGE WASHINGTON.
- 00:35:28.090 --> 00:35:30.140
- IN HIS CHURCH IS IN NEW ENGLAND.
- 00:35:30.160 --> 00:35:32.050
- ON GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, HE PREACHED
- 00:35:32.070 --> 00:35:34.210
- SERMONS ON GEORGE WASHINGTON, HIS COMMANDER
- 00:35:34.230 --> 00:35:37.080
- IN CHIEF WITH WHOM HE HAD SERVED IN THE
- 00:35:37.100 --> 00:35:38.220
- AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
- 00:35:38.240 --> 00:35:40.020
- - ANOTHER BLACK HERO.
- 00:35:40.040 --> 00:35:41.280
- SO THIS YOUNG LADY, PHILLIS WHEATLEY, SHE
- 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:45.190
- ACTUALLY WAS BROUGHT TO AMERICA AS A SLAVE.
- 00:35:45.210 --> 00:35:47.280
- SHE WAS BOUGHT BY A FAMILY, AND THEY SAID
- 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:49.130
- WE'RE NOT LETTING THIS GIRL INTO SLAVERY.
- 00:35:49.150 --> 00:35:50.240
- THEY BOUGHT HER HERE.
- 00:35:50.260 --> 00:35:52.110
- - WHEN SHE WAS SIX YEARS OLD FROM SENEGAL AFRICA.
- 00:35:52.130 --> 00:35:54.230
- THEY KIDNAPPED HER IN SENEGAL, THEY BROUGHT HER
- 00:35:54.250 --> 00:35:56.240
- TO BOSTON AT THE AGE OF SIX, AND THERE'S A SIX
- 00:35:56.260 --> 00:35:58.230
- YEAR OLD GIRL WHO CAN'T SPEAK A WORD OF ENGLISH
- 00:35:58.250 --> 00:36:01.140
- STANDING ON THE SLAVE BLOCK BEING SOLD, AND THE
- 00:36:01.160 --> 00:36:03.210
- WHEATLEY FAMILY SAYS NO, NO, NO, WE'RE BUYING HER.
- 00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:08.060
- AND THEY RAISED HER AS ONE OF-- THEY HAD TWO
- 00:36:08.080 --> 00:36:10.140
- DAUGHTERS, AND SHE BECAME THEIR THIRD DAUGHTER.
- 00:36:10.160 --> 00:36:12.130
- THEY JUST RAISED HER IN THE HOME.
- 00:36:12.150 --> 00:36:14.030
- - THEY BOUGHT HER, THEY SET HER FREE, THEY GAVE
- 00:36:14.050 --> 00:36:15.090
- HER AN EDUCATION.
- 00:36:15.110 --> 00:36:16.190
- AT SIX YEARS OLD SHE STARTED TRAINING IN LATIN.
- 00:36:16.210 --> 00:36:19.020
- SHE STARTED TRAINING IN GRAMMAR AND MATH.
- 00:36:19.040 --> 00:36:20.240
- - AND ENGLISH.
- 00:36:20.260 --> 00:36:22.040
- - ENGLISH FOR SURE.
- 00:36:22.060 --> 00:36:23.170
- SO SHE'S LEARNING ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF.
- 00:36:23.190 --> 00:36:25.110
- WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THAT SHE ACTUALLY
- 00:36:25.130 --> 00:36:27.080
- EXCELLED REALLY REMARKABLY.
- 00:36:27.100 --> 00:36:29.230
- SHE BECAME VERY VERY GOOD IN ACADEMICS,
- 00:36:29.250 --> 00:36:32.100
- PROGRESSED GREATLY.
- 00:36:32.120 --> 00:36:34.200
- IN FACT, AT NINE YEARS OLD, SHE WAS ALREADY
- 00:36:34.220 --> 00:36:37.010
- BEGINNING TO WRITE POETRY BECAUSE SHE SO GRASPED
- 00:36:37.030 --> 00:36:39.190
- GRAMMAR AND THE SYNTAX AND WAY IT FLOWED,
- 00:36:39.210 --> 00:36:42.120
- SO SHE'S WRITING THIS.
- 00:36:42.140 --> 00:36:44.000
- WELL SHE DOES A REALLY REALLY GOOD JOB WRITING
- 00:36:44.020 --> 00:36:46.120
- POETRY. SO SOME OF HER POETRY STARTS GETTING PUBLISHED.
- 00:36:46.140 --> 00:36:49.100
- WELL, NOT ONLY DOES IT START GETTING PUBLISHED,
- 00:36:49.120 --> 00:36:52.020
- SHE'S SO GOOD AT THE AGE OF 12 THEY ACTUALLY
- 00:36:52.040 --> 00:36:55.260
- PUBLISHED HER POETRY.
- 00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:58.050
- THEY'RE MAKING IT INTO A BOOK OF HER POETRY.
- 00:36:58.070 --> 00:37:00.100
- WELL, HER POETRY--
- 00:37:00.120 --> 00:37:02.020
- - SHE'S THE FIRST BLACK POETESS IN AMERICA.
- 00:37:02.040 --> 00:37:04.100
- AND THAT'S HER POEMS.
- 00:37:04.120 --> 00:37:06.290
- - AND AT 12 YEARS OLD, SHE'S GETTING PUBLISHED.
- 00:37:07.010 --> 00:37:09.020
- HER POETRY GETS TO GO BEFORE GEORGE WASHINGTON.
- 00:37:09.040 --> 00:37:11.250
- HE READS IT AND GOES THIS IS AMAZING!
- 00:37:11.270 --> 00:37:13.290
- DURING THE REVOLUTION, HE REQUESTS THAT THIS LITTLE
- 00:37:14.010 --> 00:37:16.140
- GIRL-- WELL, I GUESS SHE WAS A LITTLE OLDER AT THE
- 00:37:16.160 --> 00:37:18.140
- TIME, BUT REQUESTED PHILLIS WHEATLEY COMES
- 00:37:18.160 --> 00:37:20.080
- AND DOES POETRY READING FOR THE MEN.
- 00:37:20.100 --> 00:37:24.010
- HE SAYS THEY WOULD GREATLY BENEFIT BY--
- 00:37:24.030 --> 00:37:26.150
- - EARLY U.S.O. IS WHAT IT AMOUNTS TO.
- 00:37:26.170 --> 00:37:28.090
- - IT REALLY WAS.
- 00:37:28.110 --> 00:37:29.210
- PERFORM FOR THE TROOPS, BOOST THEIR SPIRITS.
- 00:37:29.230 --> 00:37:31.170
- - SHE DID A FULL POEM ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON,
- 00:37:31.190 --> 00:37:33.270
- AND SHE DID A FULL POEM ABOUT GEORGE WHITEFIELD.
- 00:37:33.290 --> 00:37:36.120
- SHE DID A FULL-- BOY, IS THIS POLITICALLY
- 00:37:36.140 --> 00:37:39.000
- INCORRECT. THAT WHERE THAT BLUE TAB IS IN THERE,
- 00:37:39.020 --> 00:37:41.220
- READ THE TITLE OF THAT POEM.
- 00:37:41.240 --> 00:37:44.040
- IT'S A VERY SHORT POEM. READ THE TITLE ON IT.
- 00:37:44.060 --> 00:37:46.130
- - THE TITLE IS "ON BEING BROUGHT FROM
- 00:37:46.150 --> 00:37:47.290
- AFRICA TO AMERICA."
- 00:37:48.010 --> 00:37:50.220
- - SHE CAME HERE FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA AS A
- 00:37:50.240 --> 00:37:52.180
- SLAVE. NOT A GOOD DEAL.
- 00:37:52.200 --> 00:37:55.220
- AND YET SHE SAYS I THANK GOD BECAUSE AS A RESULT,
- 00:37:55.240 --> 00:37:58.230
- I FOUND JESUS.
- 00:37:58.250 --> 00:38:00.200
- IF I WAS STILL IN AFRICA, I WOULD NOT KNOW JESUS.
- 00:38:00.220 --> 00:38:05.090
- SLAVERY, BAD AS IT IS, BROUGHT ME TO JESUS, AND NOW I HAVE
- 00:38:05.110 --> 00:38:08.170
- ETERNAL LIFE. SHE SAYS...
- 00:38:08.190 --> 00:38:10.130
- AND SHE GOES ON.
- 00:38:18.280 --> 00:38:20.290
- SHE SAYS, I'M SO GLAD I'M HERE BECAUSE I LEARNED JESUS, BUT
- 00:38:21.010 --> 00:38:22.260
- THAT'S JUST CHRISTIAN FAITH.
- 00:38:22.280 --> 00:38:24.230
- - BUT YOU'LL NEVER HEAR PHILLIS WHEATLY IN TEXTBOOKS
- 00:38:24.250 --> 00:38:26.150
- AS A CHRISTIAN POETESS. YOU'LL NEVER HEAR THAT ASPECT.
- 00:38:26.170 --> 00:38:29.030
- THAT'S JUST SOMETHING WE DON'T DO IN HISTORY ANYMORE.
- 00:38:29.050 --> 00:38:31.100
- - THAT'S A PART OF REWRITING THE HISTORY, TOO.
- 00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:33.260
- WE WANT TO KEEP THE BIBLICAL PART, THE CHRIST PART, OUT.
- 00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:37.210
- THAT'S WHY YOU MENTIONED EARLIER.
- 00:38:37.230 --> 00:38:39.190
- HE'S DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, BUT HE WAS REVEREND
- 00:38:39.210 --> 00:38:41.220
- MARTIN LUTHER KING.
- 00:38:41.240 --> 00:38:43.210
- EVERYTHING, EVERY MOVEMENT BEGAN, THAT WAS SUCCESSFUL,
- 00:38:43.230 --> 00:38:46.040
- BEGAN IN THE CHURCH.
- 00:38:46.060 --> 00:38:48.000
- IT BEGAN WITH THE FAITH THAT GOD WAS GOING TO
- 00:38:48.020 --> 00:38:50.270
- GIVE THE VICTORY.
- 00:38:50.290 --> 00:38:53.030
- AND EACH ONE OF THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE SLAVES HAD A FAITH
- 00:38:53.050 --> 00:38:55.270
- THAT CAUSED THEM TO BELIEVE.
- 00:38:55.290 --> 00:38:58.220
- THEY DID NOT HAVE TO REMAIN A SLAVE, AND THAT'S WHERE MANY
- 00:38:58.240 --> 00:39:01.190
- PEOPLE ARE LOSING HOPE TODAY.
- 00:39:01.210 --> 00:39:03.270
- THEY DON'T HAVE THE SAME FOUNDATION THAT MANY OF THESE
- 00:39:03.290 --> 00:39:06.250
- GREAT MEN AND WOMEN HAD.
- 00:39:06.270 --> 00:39:08.230
- ALL WHITE PEOPLE WEREN'T BAD, NO.
- 00:39:08.250 --> 00:39:11.020
- YOU HAD A GROUP OF WHITE PEOPLE THAT WERE TAUGHT BY
- 00:39:11.040 --> 00:39:13.240
- THEIR PASTORS THAT SLAVERY WAS RIGHT BECAUSE THEY GOT MONEY
- 00:39:13.260 --> 00:39:16.100
- FROM THE PLANTATION OWNERS.
- 00:39:16.120 --> 00:39:18.100
- AND THEY WOULDN'T PREACH THE TRUTH, BUT UP NORTH, THEY
- 00:39:18.120 --> 00:39:20.230
- DIDN'T HAVE PLANTATIONS, SO THEY WOULD PREACH THE TRUTH OF
- 00:39:20.250 --> 00:39:23.050
- THE WORD OF GOD.
- 00:39:23.070 --> 00:39:25.020
- IT'S THE WORD OF GOD THAT SETS THE PEOPLE FREE,
- 00:39:25.040 --> 00:39:26.190
- AND THE MORE WE CONTINUE...
- 00:39:26.210 --> 00:39:28.070
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:39:28.090 --> 00:39:30.110
- THE MORE WE CONTINUE TRYING TO ERADICATE GOD OUT OF OUR
- 00:39:30.130 --> 00:39:33.270
- SCHOOL SYSTEM, GOD OUT OF OUR COMMUNITY,
- 00:39:33.290 --> 00:39:37.020
- OUT OF THE MARKETPLACE, THIS NATION WILL FALL.
- 00:39:37.040 --> 00:39:40.150
- AND EVERYBODY WILL BE IN SLAVERY THEN.
- 00:39:40.170 --> 00:39:43.090
- BE IN SLAVERY TO A GREATER TASK MASTER THAN ANY HUMAN
- 00:39:43.110 --> 00:39:46.030
- BEING COULD EVER BE.
- 00:39:46.050 --> 00:39:48.050
- YOU'RE GETTING ME ABOUT READY TO PREACH.
- 00:39:48.070 --> 00:39:50.100
- THE HISTORY HAS TO BE KNOWN.
- 00:39:50.120 --> 00:39:52.130
- THE TRUTH HAS TO BE KNOWN.
- 00:39:52.150 --> 00:39:54.110
- THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LIFE COME FROM THE WORD OF GOD, AND THAT
- 00:39:54.130 --> 00:39:56.220
- WORD MUST NOT BE HIDDEN BECAUSE PEOPLE
- 00:39:56.240 --> 00:39:58.160
- WANT TO HIDE THAT.
- 00:39:58.180 --> 00:40:00.090
- JUST LIKE THEY HID AFRO AMERICAN HISTORY,
- 00:40:00.110 --> 00:40:02.160
- THEY'LL HIDE HISTORY OF THE TRUTH ALL THE TIME.
- 00:40:02.180 --> 00:40:05.010
- - THIS IS A SPECIAL THAT WE'RE DOING FOR
- 00:40:05.030 --> 00:40:06.290
- BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
- 00:40:07.010 --> 00:40:09.010
- OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE NOT QUITE BLACK ON THIS THING, BUT THE
- 00:40:09.030 --> 00:40:13.030
- BIBLICAL VIEW THAT GOD HAS -- HE SAYS, I DON'T LOOK AT THE
- 00:40:13.050 --> 00:40:15.260
- OUTSIDE; I LOOK AT THE INSIDE.
- 00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:18.080
- AND IN CHRIST THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK NOR SCYTHIAN
- 00:40:18.100 --> 00:40:21.080
- NOR FREE NOR BOND NOR SLAVE.
- 00:40:21.100 --> 00:40:23.070
- AND THAT'S WHY, AS A WHITE GUY, THOSE ARE MY HEROES
- 00:40:23.090 --> 00:40:26.270
- BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF MY HISTORY.
- 00:40:26.290 --> 00:40:28.170
- THAT'S PART OF AMERICA, AND I DON'T CARE
- 00:40:28.190 --> 00:40:30.160
- WHAT COLOR THEY ARE.
- 00:40:30.180 --> 00:40:32.040
- THEY'RE HEROES THAT WE LOOK UP TO.
- 00:40:32.060 --> 00:40:33.290
- - I WAS IN THE BOMBING IN 1963.
- 00:40:34.010 --> 00:40:36.200
- MY LIFE COULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY WHO I KNEW THEN -- ALL I
- 00:40:36.220 --> 00:40:39.240
- EVER KNEW ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE IS THEY WERE LYNCHING, THEY
- 00:40:39.260 --> 00:40:43.270
- WERE KILLING, THEY WERE DOING ALL THIS STUFF.
- 00:40:43.290 --> 00:40:45.290
- AND WHEN IT TOOK THE LIVES OF FOUR GIRLS, I COULD HAVE
- 00:40:46.010 --> 00:40:48.200
- TURNED OUT TO BE AS RADICAL AS ANYBODY COULD HAVE BEEN
- 00:40:48.220 --> 00:40:51.290
- RADICAL, BUT IT WAS THE WORD OF GOD THAT TOUCHED MY HEART.
- 00:40:52.010 --> 00:40:54.260
- I CAME TO SCHOOL RIGHT HERE IN TEXAS, MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN
- 00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:57.210
- AN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT.
- 00:40:57.230 --> 00:40:59.110
- I GREW UP IN SEGREGATED SCHOOLS ALL THE WAY FROM
- 00:40:59.130 --> 00:41:02.080
- ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO HIGH SCHOOL.
- 00:41:02.100 --> 00:41:04.190
- I HAD NO ASSOCIATION WITH WHITE PEOPLE.
- 00:41:04.210 --> 00:41:06.150
- I COME OUT HERE IN DALLAS, AND I'D GO TO A
- 00:41:06.170 --> 00:41:08.140
- COLLEGE THAT'S HERE.
- 00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:10.070
- I WON'T NAME THAT COLLEGE NOW, AND ALL THE WHITE KIDS COME UP
- 00:41:10.090 --> 00:41:12.270
- TELLING ME ABOUT JESUS.
- 00:41:12.290 --> 00:41:14.200
- AND THEY'RE TELLING ME, DO YOU KNOW JESUS AS
- 00:41:14.220 --> 00:41:16.100
- YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR?
- 00:41:16.120 --> 00:41:17.280
- AND I SAID, UH, I GO TO CHURCH.
- 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:20.010
- AND THEY SAID, DO YOU KNOW HIM AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR?
- 00:41:20.030 --> 00:41:22.090
- AND I HAD TO LISTEN TO THEM.
- 00:41:22.110 --> 00:41:24.130
- AND AS I LEARNED WHAT THEY MEANT BY THAT, THEY WERE
- 00:41:24.150 --> 00:41:27.040
- SAYING A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, NOT JUST A
- 00:41:27.060 --> 00:41:29.140
- CHURCH RELATIONSHIP; NOT HAVING A RELATIONSHIP THROUGH
- 00:41:29.160 --> 00:41:32.140
- A PASTOR, BUT KNOWING HIM PERSONALLY.
- 00:41:32.160 --> 00:41:34.180
- AND I CAME TO KNOW JESUS AS MY LORD AND SAVIOR.
- 00:41:34.200 --> 00:41:38.090
- AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED IS I WENT AROUND WITH MY WHITE
- 00:41:38.110 --> 00:41:41.110
- FRIENDS -- AND I HAD NEVER HAD WHITE FRIENDS BEFORE -- GOING TO
- 00:41:41.130 --> 00:41:45.130
- REVIVALS WHERE WHITE PEOPLE WERE, HANGING
- 00:41:45.150 --> 00:41:47.240
- AROUND WHITE PEOPLE, AND I GOT TO KNOW ALL OF THESE
- 00:41:47.260 --> 00:41:50.210
- NICE WHITE PEOPLE BECAUSE I GUESS I WAS THE LITTLE BLACK
- 00:41:50.230 --> 00:41:53.090
- KID THAT THEY COULD BRING IN AND SAY, HEY, LOOK, WE
- 00:41:53.110 --> 00:41:55.130
- GOT A BLACK KID HERE.
- 00:41:55.150 --> 00:41:57.070
- [LAUGHTER]
- 00:41:57.090 --> 00:41:59.000
- AND THEY BROUGHT ME IN.
- 00:41:59.020 --> 00:42:00.200
- UNTIL ONE DAY, ONE OF THE GIRLS THAT WAS PART OF THE
- 00:42:00.220 --> 00:42:02.180
- GROUP SAID, I ASKED MY MOMMY AND DADDY COULD I DATE YOU.
- 00:42:02.200 --> 00:42:05.070
- AND I HAD NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT DATING HER, AND I SAID, OH,
- 00:42:05.090 --> 00:42:07.000
- WHAT DID THEY SAY?
- 00:42:07.020 --> 00:42:09.080
- THEY SAID IT WOULD HARM MY CHRISTIAN WITNESS BECAUSE
- 00:42:09.100 --> 00:42:12.250
- BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT ASSOCIATE THAT
- 00:42:12.270 --> 00:42:15.140
- CLOSELY WITH ONE ANOTHER.
- 00:42:15.160 --> 00:42:17.130
- THEY COULD GET MARRIED, AND THEN WE'D HAVE A
- 00:42:17.150 --> 00:42:19.280
- MONGREL RACE OF PEOPLE. THIS COMES FROM --
- 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:23.100
- - THAT'S YOUR WHITE CHRISTIAN FRIEND?
- 00:42:23.120 --> 00:42:24.260
- - THIS IS MY WHITE CHRISTIAN FRIEND.
- 00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:26.140
- - THAT WAS YOUR WHITE CHRISTIAN FRIEND.
- 00:42:26.160 --> 00:42:28.020
- - THEN I GO TO MY WHITE GROUPIES, AND I SAY,
- 00:42:28.040 --> 00:42:29.230
- WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THERE?
- 00:42:29.250 --> 00:42:31.210
- AND THEY TELL ME, YES, IT'S TRUE.
- 00:42:31.230 --> 00:42:33.190
- THE BIBLE SAYS BLACK AND WHITE PEOPLE SHOULDN'T COME
- 00:42:33.210 --> 00:42:35.040
- TOGETHER IN THAT MANNER.
- 00:42:35.060 --> 00:42:36.260
- I HAD MY BIBLE THAT THEY HAD GIVEN ME FOR ME TO HOLD ONTO.
- 00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:40.240
- I SAID, WELL, KEEP YOUR BIBLE IF THAT'S THE WAY IT IS.
- 00:42:40.260 --> 00:42:44.210
- I DON'T NEED A RELIGION THAT'S GOING TO ENSLAVE ME.
- 00:42:44.230 --> 00:42:47.230
- I NEED A RELIGION THAT RECOGNIZES WHO I AM.
- 00:42:47.250 --> 00:42:50.160
- I STARTED STUDYING ISLAM, AND I STARTED READING THE KORAN.
- 00:42:50.180 --> 00:42:53.140
- I READ THE KORAN, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT SAID TO ME,
- 00:42:53.160 --> 00:42:56.050
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I SAID, I'M LOOKING FOR YOU.
- 00:42:56.070 --> 00:42:58.060
- WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I'M TRYING TO FIND YOU. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
- 00:42:58.080 --> 00:43:01.080
- I DON'T WANT NO WHITE MAN'S RELIGION.
- 00:43:01.100 --> 00:43:04.050
- HE SAID, HAVE YOU READ THE BIBLE?
- 00:43:04.070 --> 00:43:06.210
- AND I HAD NOT READ THE BIBLE.
- 00:43:06.230 --> 00:43:09.110
- I'D BEEN IN CHURCH ALL MY LIFE, BUT NEVER READ THE BIBLE.
- 00:43:09.130 --> 00:43:11.230
- I LISTENED TO WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAID ABOUT THE BIBLE,
- 00:43:11.250 --> 00:43:14.070
- AND I SAID, WELL, I DON'T WANT TO READ NO
- 00:43:14.090 --> 00:43:16.030
- WHITE MAN'S RELIGION. HE SAID, HAVE YOU READ THE BIBLE?
- 00:43:16.050 --> 00:43:18.130
- AND I STARTED READING THE BIBLE.
- 00:43:18.150 --> 00:43:20.030
- THE BIBLE AIN'T NO WHITE MAN'S RELIGION.
- 00:43:20.050 --> 00:43:22.100
- IT AIN'T NO BLACK MAN'S RELIGION.
- 00:43:22.120 --> 00:43:24.080
- IT IS THE FAITH OF GOD. THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
- 00:43:24.100 --> 00:43:26.280
- IT'S THE TRUTH OF GOD, AND I BEGAN SEEING STUFF --
- 00:43:27.000 --> 00:43:29.280
- WHAT MY WHITE FRIENDS TOLD ME, THEY WERE LYING.
- 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:33.140
- AND WHAT A LOT OF BLACK PREACHERS TOLD ME,
- 00:43:33.160 --> 00:43:35.090
- THEY WERE LYING.
- 00:43:35.110 --> 00:43:37.060
- I CAME TO FIND OUT THERE ARE MORE LIES PREACHED IN THE NAME
- 00:43:37.080 --> 00:43:40.140
- OF JESUS THAN THERE IS WHAT TRUTH IS, AND THE ONLY WAY A
- 00:43:40.160 --> 00:43:44.040
- PERSON WILL KNOW TRUTH IS IF HE READS IT FOR HIMSELF.
- 00:43:44.060 --> 00:43:46.220
- THAT'S WHAT EVERY MAN AND WOMAN NEEDS TO DO.
- 00:43:46.240 --> 00:43:50.010
- THEY NEED TO SEE IT FOR THEMSELVES, AND WHEN THEY
- 00:43:50.030 --> 00:43:52.240
- SEE IT FOR THEMSELVES -- I COULD HATE YOU GUYS.
- 00:43:52.260 --> 00:43:55.080
- I KNOW WHAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE.
- 00:43:55.100 --> 00:43:57.010
- I KNOW WHAT YOUR HISTORY HAS DONE, NOT ONLY TO US,
- 00:43:57.030 --> 00:43:59.070
- BUT TO NATIVE AMERICANS.
- 00:43:59.090 --> 00:44:00.260
- AND SO MANY BLACKS WERE HELD DOWN, BUT THE LOVE OF GOD SAYS
- 00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:05.100
- THAT WE NO LONGER VIEW ANY MAN ACCORDING TO THE FLESH.
- 00:44:05.120 --> 00:44:08.080
- - THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:44:08.100 --> 00:44:10.020
- - AND IF THAT'S THE CASE, I LOOK OUT, AND I SEE THAT WITH
- 00:44:10.040 --> 00:44:12.170
- TWO MEN RIGHT HERE, EXPOSING THE HISTORY RIGHT HERE
- 00:44:12.190 --> 00:44:15.190
- AND BRINGING THIS OUT.
- 00:44:15.210 --> 00:44:17.070
- I SEE TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE IN
- 00:44:17.090 --> 00:44:19.050
- JESUS AS LORD AND SAVIOR.
- 00:44:19.070 --> 00:44:21.140
- THAT MAKES BOTH OF YOU ALL MY BROTHERS.
- 00:44:21.160 --> 00:44:23.180
- - THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT.
- 00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:26.090
- - EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO
- 00:44:26.110 --> 00:44:28.110
- SEE ONLY BLACK AND WHITE.
- 00:44:28.130 --> 00:44:30.070
- WE'VE GOT TO START OPENING OUR EYES.
- 00:44:30.090 --> 00:44:31.280
- THESE MEN WEREN'T SEEING BLACK AND WHITE.
- 00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:34.100
- WHAT THEY WERE SEEING WAS HUMAN BEINGS AND THE RIGHT TO
- 00:44:34.120 --> 00:44:36.260
- LIFE, THE RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, AND THEY FOUGHT FOR
- 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:40.120
- FREEDOM BECAUSE THEY HAD A HIGHER STANDARD THAN THE
- 00:44:40.140 --> 00:44:43.270
- STANDARD THAT MEN TOLD THEM WHAT TO BELIEVE,
- 00:44:43.290 --> 00:44:47.200
- HOW TO VOTE, HOW TO THINK, DO THIS, DO THIS.
- 00:44:47.220 --> 00:44:49.290
- THE WORD OF GOD SET THEM FREE.
- 00:44:50.010 --> 00:44:51.250
- - AND SO BISHOP, AS WE'RE SAYING THIS, AS WE LOOK BACK,
- 00:44:51.270 --> 00:44:54.120
- HOW MANY PASTORS WERE THE LEADERS --
- 00:44:54.140 --> 00:44:56.260
- - PASTORS, BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE TRUTH.
- 00:44:56.280 --> 00:44:58.260
- - BUT THAT ALSO TO ME THEN SAYS THE ONLY HOPE FOR ANY
- 00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:02.080
- KIND OF RECONCILIATION WITH ISSUES TODAY HAS TO BE FAITH.
- 00:45:02.100 --> 00:45:05.040
- - FAITH.
- 00:45:05.060 --> 00:45:07.040
- - BECAUSE IF WE CAN'T COME TOGETHER AS GOD'S KIDS, IF WE
- 00:45:07.060 --> 00:45:09.090
- CAN'T SEE THE VALUE THAT WE ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD --
- 00:45:09.110 --> 00:45:12.140
- - I'D SAY IT HAS TO BE MORE THAN FAITH.
- 00:45:12.160 --> 00:45:14.060
- IT HAS TO BE THE BIBLE. THAT'S WHAT HIS WORD IS.
- 00:45:14.080 --> 00:45:15.200
- - WHAT YOU SAID.
- 00:45:15.220 --> 00:45:17.210
- THIS BLACK MAN TAUGHT FROM THIS, AND WHAT HE TAUGHT WAS
- 00:45:17.230 --> 00:45:21.040
- NOT BLACK THEOLOGY. IT WAS NOT WHITE THEOLOGY.
- 00:45:21.060 --> 00:45:24.050
- IT WAS GOD THEOLOGY, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS NATION WAS
- 00:45:24.070 --> 00:45:27.200
- BUILT UPON: DIGNITY AND WORTH OF EVERY HUMAN BEING.
- 00:45:27.220 --> 00:45:31.270
- IT'S ESPOUSED THAT GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE SENT
- 00:45:31.290 --> 00:45:35.160
- HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHO SO EVER...
- 00:45:35.180 --> 00:45:38.130
- IT DIDN'T SAY BLACK AND WHITE OR WHITE.
- 00:45:38.150 --> 00:45:40.110
- IT DIDN'T SAY WHATEVER COLOR, WHATEVER DENOMINATION, WHATEVER.
- 00:45:40.130 --> 00:45:43.120
- HE SAID "WHOSOEVER", AND HE READ FROM THIS BOOK,
- 00:45:43.140 --> 00:45:47.190
- AND THAT BOOK IS WHERE LIGHT COMES FROM.
- 00:45:47.210 --> 00:45:49.180
- THAT'S WHAT OUR NATION NEEDS TODAY IS TO HEAR FROM THIS
- 00:45:49.200 --> 00:45:52.120
- UNCHANGING WORD OF GOD. AND THE TRUTH OF ALL THESE THINGS.
- 00:45:52.140 --> 00:45:57.200
- WE MUST STOP HIDING IT.
- 00:45:57.220 --> 00:45:59.260
- WE BRING IT FORTH AND LET IT STAND AS IT IS.
- 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:02.170
- AND THIS IS THE WORD OF GOD BECAUSE THIS IS THE TRUTH,
- 00:46:02.190 --> 00:46:05.220
- AND YOU SEE THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY.
- 00:46:05.240 --> 00:46:08.000
- AND WE NEED TO KNOW THE GOOD, AND BAD AND THE
- 00:46:08.020 --> 00:46:10.010
- UGLY OF OUR NATION.
- 00:46:10.030 --> 00:46:12.050
- BUT WHEN WE HAVE THIS AS THE RULE, THEN WE CAN ALL COME
- 00:46:12.070 --> 00:46:15.030
- TOGETHER AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND LIVE TOGETHER.
- 00:46:15.050 --> 00:46:18.150
- ACCORDING TO WHAT MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID THAT ONE DAY,
- 00:46:18.170 --> 00:46:22.250
- THE BLACK BOYS AND LITTLE GIRLS AND WHITE BOYS AND
- 00:46:22.270 --> 00:46:26.120
- LITTLE GIRLS IN MISSISSIPPI AND IN ALABAMA COULD JOIN
- 00:46:26.140 --> 00:46:29.290
- HANDS TOGETHER AND THEY COULD SHOW BROTHERLY
- 00:46:30.010 --> 00:46:32.240
- LOVE TO ONE ANOTHER.
- 00:46:32.260 --> 00:46:34.240
- THIS IS WHAT THE WORD OF GOD TEACHES.
- 00:46:34.260 --> 00:46:36.290
- THAT'S THE HISTORY THAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN, THAT THEY WERE
- 00:46:37.010 --> 00:46:39.170
- GODLY BLACK MEN AND GODLY WHITE MEN.
- 00:46:39.190 --> 00:46:43.130
- - GOD'S WORD ALSO TELLS US WE DON'T PUT PEOPLE IN A BOX.
- 00:46:43.150 --> 00:46:45.170
- SO WE DON'T LOOK AND SEE JUST BASED ON SOMEONE'S COLOR
- 00:46:45.190 --> 00:46:48.050
- AND RACE OR ETHNICITY.
- 00:46:48.070 --> 00:46:50.060
- WHEN WE READ THE BIBLE, WE LEARN TO WALK IN LOVE.
- 00:46:50.080 --> 00:46:53.160
- WE LEARN ABOUT A LOVE THAT FORGIVES.
- 00:46:53.180 --> 00:46:56.270
- - A LOVE THAT FORGIVES IS A LOVE THAT ALWAYS WINS.
- 00:46:56.290 --> 00:47:01.060
- A LOVE THAT FORGIVES ALWAYS GETS THE VICTORY BECAUSE WE
- 00:47:01.080 --> 00:47:05.040
- SEE THAT'S WHAT CHRIST DID.
- 00:47:05.060 --> 00:47:07.130
- THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD HIM DEFEATED, AND THEY PUT HIM IN
- 00:47:07.150 --> 00:47:11.120
- THE GRAVE, BUT THAT LOVE, LOVE THAT IS CRUSHED TO THE GROUND,
- 00:47:11.140 --> 00:47:16.020
- THOUGH IT'S PRESSED DOWN, WILL ALWAYS RISE BACK, AND IT WILL
- 00:47:16.040 --> 00:47:20.200
- REACH OUT AND EMBRACE AND BRING SHELTER AND
- 00:47:20.220 --> 00:47:25.050
- COMFORT TO OTHERS. LOVE ALWAYS CONQUERS.
- 00:47:25.070 --> 00:47:28.160
- [APPLAUSE]
- 00:47:28.180 --> 00:47:33.070
- - KNOWING THERE'S A LOT OF BLACK HISTORY,
- 00:47:33.090 --> 00:47:35.040
- IT'S BEEN HIDDEN HISTORY.
- 00:47:35.060 --> 00:47:37.080
- WE WOULD LOVE INFORM KNOW IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS WE CAN
- 00:47:37.100 --> 00:47:39.030
- HELP ANSWER BEFORE WE FINISH AND WRAP UP THE SHOW,
- 00:47:39.050 --> 00:47:40.230
- SO DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. YES, SIR?
- 00:47:40.250 --> 00:47:44.140
- - YES, I HAVE A QUESTION CONCERNING HARRIET TUBMAN AND
- 00:47:44.160 --> 00:47:48.270
- THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD WHERE HARRIET TUBMAN
- 00:47:48.290 --> 00:47:51.260
- WAS A FREED SLAVE.
- 00:47:51.280 --> 00:47:53.200
- SHE ESCAPED, AND SHE CAME BACK TO GET MORE SLAVES TO GO BACK
- 00:47:53.220 --> 00:47:55.160
- UP NORTH, WHICH TOOK A LOT OF COURAGE.
- 00:47:55.180 --> 00:47:58.070
- BUT THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, I NEVER REALLY GOT THOROUGHLY
- 00:47:58.090 --> 00:48:02.090
- INTO IT, BUT DID IT CONSIST OF WHITE FOLKS HELPING
- 00:48:02.110 --> 00:48:05.070
- HER TO THE NORTH?
- 00:48:05.090 --> 00:48:06.200
- - ABSOLUTELY.
- 00:48:06.220 --> 00:48:08.100
- - CAN YOU EXPLAIN SOME OF THAT.
- 00:48:08.120 --> 00:48:09.290
- - SO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD WAS LARGELY DONE BY RELIGIOUS
- 00:48:10.010 --> 00:48:11.130
- PEOPLE, BY PASTORS.
- 00:48:11.150 --> 00:48:14.150
- - AND BY THE WAY, RICHARD ALLEN WAS IN SLAVERY IN
- 00:48:14.170 --> 00:48:17.240
- MARYLAND, AND HE WAS ABLE TO GET HIS FREEDOM.
- 00:48:17.260 --> 00:48:21.100
- HE WALKED TO PHILADELPHIA FROM MARYLAND.
- 00:48:21.120 --> 00:48:23.260
- WHEN HE GOT THERE, HE STARTED PREACHING AND BECAME
- 00:48:23.280 --> 00:48:26.130
- A PASTOR, ET CETERA.
- 00:48:26.150 --> 00:48:28.100
- BUT HE HAS A GREAT SERMON WHERE HE TELLS HIS PEOPLE, HE
- 00:48:28.120 --> 00:48:32.080
- SAYS, TWO THINGS: ONE IS GOD WILL NOT ALLOW BITTERNESS.
- 00:48:32.100 --> 00:48:36.150
- HE DIDN'T ALLOW IT IN ISRAEL, A ROOT OF BITTERNESS, AND IF
- 00:48:36.170 --> 00:48:39.260
- HE WON'T ALLOW IT IN ISRAEL, HE'S NOT GOING TO ALLOW IT IN
- 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:42.100
- YOU, AND I DON'T CARE WHAT HARDSHIPS YOU'VE HAD,
- 00:48:42.120 --> 00:48:44.120
- YOU CAN'T BE BITTER.
- 00:48:44.140 --> 00:48:46.080
- NUMBER TWO, HE SAID REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE MANY, MANY
- 00:48:46.100 --> 00:48:48.160
- WHITE PEOPLE WORKING ON OUR BENEFIT, AND THAT WAS THE
- 00:48:48.180 --> 00:48:51.010
- UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
- 00:48:51.030 --> 00:48:52.280
- AND SO MUCH OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD WAS WHITE
- 00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:55.050
- ABOLITIONISTS BRINGING PLAQUE SLAVES OUT OF THE SOUTH TO
- 00:48:55.070 --> 00:48:57.260
- FREEDOM IN THE NORTH.
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- IT COST THEM THEIR LIVES.
- 00:48:59.160 --> 00:49:01.090
- ELIJAH LOVEJOY WAS A PREACHER IN ILLINOIS.
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- ACTUALLY, HE WAS IN MISSOURI, AND MISSOURI WAS A SLAVE
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- STATE, AND HE WAS A NEWSPAPER EDITOR WRITING ALL THESE
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- ARTICLES AGAINST SLAVERY, AND SO THEY BURNED HIS PRESSES
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- DOWN THREE TIMES OVER IN MISSOURI.
- 00:49:16.290 --> 00:49:19.010
- HE SAYS, WELL, I'LL GO OVER TO ILLINOIS.
- 00:49:19.030 --> 00:49:20.200
- THAT'S A FREE STATE.
- 00:49:20.220 --> 00:49:22.230
- HE GOES OVER TO ILLINOIS, AND REVEREND LOVEJOY, THEY COME
- 00:49:22.250 --> 00:49:26.000
- AFTER HIM THE FOURTH TIME, AND THEY BUST HIS PRESSES UP.
- 00:49:26.020 --> 00:49:27.220
- NOW HE'S IN A FREE STATE.
- 00:49:27.240 --> 00:49:29.140
- THEY END UP ASSASSINATING HIM AND KILLING HIM AND HE WAS ONE
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- OF THOSE GUYS WORKING ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
- 00:49:31.180 --> 00:49:33.220
- SO THERE'S A LOT OF WHITE MARTYRS ON THIS CAUSE BECAUSE
- 00:49:33.240 --> 00:49:36.160
- IT'S NOT A BLACK WHITE ISSUE. IT'S A SIN ISSUE.
- 00:49:36.180 --> 00:49:38.250
- IT'S A RIGHT AND WRONG ISSUE.
- 00:49:38.270 --> 00:49:40.270
- SLAVERY IS WRONG, END OF STORY, THAT'S IT.
- 00:49:40.290 --> 00:49:43.030
- - WELL, THERE'S ONE OTHER POINT YOU MAKE HERE.
- 00:49:43.050 --> 00:49:45.180
- YOU TALK ABOUT WHITES BEING INVOLVED.
- 00:49:45.200 --> 00:49:47.090
- NOW, LET ME TELL YOU THE GREATEST INVOLVEMENT OF
- 00:49:47.110 --> 00:49:50.170
- WHITES, AND BLACK PEOPLE DID NOT REVOLT TO GET THEIR
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- FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY.
- 00:49:54.190 --> 00:49:56.290
- IT WAS NOT A REVOLUTION THAT DID IT.
- 00:49:57.010 --> 00:49:59.070
- IN ORDER FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO BE FREED FROM SLAVERY, IT TOOK
- 00:49:59.090 --> 00:50:03.070
- A LOT OF WHITE PEOPLE THAT HAD TO DIE FIGHTING FOR BLACK
- 00:50:03.090 --> 00:50:07.260
- PEOPLE TO GET FREE FROM SLAVERY, AND THAT'S SOMETHING
- 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:11.230
- THAT'S NOT EVEN WRITTEN.
- 00:50:11.250 --> 00:50:13.160
- YOU DON'T HEAR A LOT ABOUT THAT, BUT IT WAS A LOT OF GOOD
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- WHITE FOLK THAT GAVE THEIR LIVES SO THAT WE, AS BLACK
- 00:50:15.220 --> 00:50:19.110
- PEOPLE, COULD BE FREE.
- 00:50:19.130 --> 00:50:21.020
- WE HAVE TO STOP SEEING PEOPLE AS BLACK AND WHITE AND RACE.
- 00:50:21.040 --> 00:50:25.260
- WE HAVE TO START SEEING PEOPLE AS HUMAN BEINGS, AND EVERYONE
- 00:50:25.280 --> 00:50:30.010
- LEARNING TO LOVE LIKE CHRIST SAYS TO LOVE.
- 00:50:30.030 --> 00:50:33.150
- - THAT'S RIGHT. - ANOTHER QUESTION. YES, SIR?
- 00:50:33.170 --> 00:50:38.060
- - YES, I WAS VERY INTERESTED IN THE STORY, AND I WAS JUST
- 00:50:38.080 --> 00:50:42.030
- WONDERING HOW CAN I DO ANYTHING TO HELP GET SOME OF
- 00:50:42.050 --> 00:50:47.250
- THIS INFORMATION OUT TO PEOPLE THAT MAY NOT HAVE KNOWN,
- 00:50:47.270 --> 00:50:52.150
- JUST LIKE I DIDN'T KNOW.
- 00:50:52.170 --> 00:50:54.000
- - SURE.
- 00:50:54.020 --> 00:50:55.220
- - AND ALSO HOW DO I GET HOLD OF SOME OF THAT POETRY THAT
- 00:50:55.240 --> 00:50:58.260
- THE LADY PUT OUT?
- 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:01.150
- - WELL, SO A LOT OF THE STORIES AND PORTRAITS ARE
- 00:51:01.170 --> 00:51:04.090
- AVAILABLE ON THE "WALLBUILDERS" WEB SITE.
- 00:51:04.110 --> 00:51:06.010
- SO WE HAVE A LOT OF STORIES.
- 00:51:06.030 --> 00:51:07.210
- YOU ACTUALLY CAN DOWNLOAD SOME OF THE IMAGES AND PICTURES
- 00:51:07.230 --> 00:51:09.260
- THERE, BUT I WOULD SAY ONE OF THE THINGS TO DO --
- 00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:12.040
- AND HOW DO WE SHARE THIS WITH OUR FRIENDS?
- 00:51:12.060 --> 00:51:13.250
- ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE LONG TALKED ABOUT FROM THE
- 00:51:13.270 --> 00:51:16.160
- BIBLE IN SONG OF SOLOMON IT SAYS, "YOUR FRIENDS LISTEN TO
- 00:51:16.180 --> 00:51:20.160
- YOUR VOICE, SO SPEAK." AND A LOT OF TIMES, WE LOOK FOR
- 00:51:20.180 --> 00:51:23.040
- PEOPLE WITH A PLATFORM TO BE THE ONE COMMUNICATING WHEN, IN
- 00:51:23.060 --> 00:51:25.210
- REALITY, JESUS TOOK 12 FISHERMEN AND TAX COLLECTORS
- 00:51:25.230 --> 00:51:31.030
- AND NOBODIES AND SAID, JUST GO TELL PEOPLE.
- 00:51:31.050 --> 00:51:33.120
- AND WHEN THEY STARTED TELLING PEOPLE, THERE'S A DISCIPLESHIP
- 00:51:33.140 --> 00:51:36.100
- THAT'S A LOST ART IN OUR CULTURE, AND A LOT OF TIMES WE
- 00:51:36.120 --> 00:51:38.230
- THINK, WHO AM I GOING TO TELL?
- 00:51:38.250 --> 00:51:40.170
- WELL, IF YOU FLIP BURGERS AT MCDONALDS, TELL
- 00:51:40.190 --> 00:51:42.000
- ANOTHER BURGER FLIPPERS, RIGHT?
- 00:51:42.020 --> 00:51:43.220
- IF YOU'RE SHINGLING A ROOF, WELL, TELL THE GUYS THAT ARE
- 00:51:43.240 --> 00:51:46.140
- HELP SHINGLE WITH YOU.
- 00:51:46.160 --> 00:51:48.150
- WHATEVER YOU DO, IF YOU'RE CHECKING OUT AT THE GROCERY
- 00:51:48.170 --> 00:51:50.230
- STORE, WE HAVE A LOT MORE OPPORTUNITIES SOMETIMES,
- 00:51:50.250 --> 00:51:53.120
- AND SOMETIMES WE'RE WANTING SOMEBODY ELSE WHO HAS THIS
- 00:51:53.140 --> 00:51:55.170
- BISHOP CHURCH POSITION.
- 00:51:55.190 --> 00:51:58.130
- WELL, BISHOP, YOU JUST NEED TO START TELLING PEOPLE.
- 00:51:58.150 --> 00:52:00.200
- WELL, HE DOES, BUT IT'S REALLY SOMETHING -- WE HAVE A LOT
- 00:52:00.220 --> 00:52:04.060
- MORE OPPORTUNITIES SOMETIMES THAN WE UTILIZE, BUT WHAT THE
- 00:52:04.080 --> 00:52:06.240
- BIBLE SAYS IS, "YOUR FRIENDS LISTEN TO YOUR VOICE, SO
- 00:52:06.260 --> 00:52:09.130
- SPEAK." THAT WOULD BE MY FIRST THOUGHT, AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING
- 00:52:09.150 --> 00:52:11.130
- FOR POETRY, YOU CAN GO TO GOOGLE BOOKS, AND A LOT OF IT
- 00:52:11.150 --> 00:52:13.220
- YOU CAN FIND ON GOOGLE WHERE YOU CAN JUST GO AND READ IT.
- 00:52:13.240 --> 00:52:16.110
- IT WOULD BE A LITTLE HARDER TO GET A REPRINT OF IT, BUT YOU
- 00:52:16.130 --> 00:52:19.040
- CAN GO AND READ IT ONLINE AND SEE A LOT OF WHAT SHE DID
- 00:52:19.060 --> 00:52:21.050
- WRITE EVEN THE THINGS ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON, ABOUT
- 00:52:21.070 --> 00:52:23.030
- GEORGE WHITEFIELD, ABOUT HER COMING TO AMERICA, HER
- 00:52:23.050 --> 00:52:25.210
- CHRISTIANITY, HER FAITH.
- 00:52:25.230 --> 00:52:28.000
- SO YOU CAN FIND A LOT OF THAT ON GOOGLE BOOKS.
- 00:52:28.020 --> 00:52:29.180
- IS THERE ANOTHER QUESTION? YES, SIR?
- 00:52:29.200 --> 00:52:31.170
- - YES, FAITH IS SUCH A HUGE PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY, AND
- 00:52:31.190 --> 00:52:34.260
- I WAS WONDERING AT WHAT POINT WOULD IT BE OKAY TO WRITE THAT
- 00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:38.100
- OUT OF OUR TEXTBOOKS AND THE BEST WAY TO INCORPORATE THAT
- 00:52:38.120 --> 00:52:41.110
- INTO THE CONTINUING TEACHING OF OUR HISTORY?
- 00:52:41.130 --> 00:52:45.080
- - THE ANSWER TO THAT IS PRETTY SIMPLE.
- 00:52:45.100 --> 00:52:48.070
- IT GOES BACK TO THE BIBLE VERSE BISHOP USED THAT WHEN
- 00:52:48.090 --> 00:52:50.160
- THE RIGHTEOUS RULE, THE PEOPLE REJOICE; THE WICKED RULE,
- 00:52:50.180 --> 00:52:52.210
- THE PEOPLE GROAN.
- 00:52:52.230 --> 00:52:54.200
- IT REALLY IS WHOSE IN CHARGE, AND WHAT HAPPENED WAS IN THE
- 00:52:54.220 --> 00:52:56.240
- 1920s, AND 30s, FOR WHATEVER REASON, PREACHERS STARTED
- 00:52:56.260 --> 00:53:00.110
- SAYING, HEY, CHRISTIANS, YOU WANT TO DO
- 00:53:00.130 --> 00:53:02.040
- SOMETHING GOOD FOR GOD?
- 00:53:02.060 --> 00:53:03.270
- BE A PASTOR, BE A MISSIONARY, BUT STAY OUT OF SCIENCE.
- 00:53:03.290 --> 00:53:05.150
- OH, MY GOSH. DON'T BE GETTING THAT EDUCATION.
- 00:53:05.170 --> 00:53:06.280
- STAY OUT OF POLITICS.
- 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:08.160
- AND SO WE STARTED PULLING CHRISTIANS OUT OF
- 00:53:08.180 --> 00:53:10.030
- ALL OF THESE ARENAS.
- 00:53:10.050 --> 00:53:11.190
- WHEN YOU PULL CHRISTIANS OUT OF THOSE ARENAS, YOU PULL
- 00:53:11.210 --> 00:53:13.130
- CHRISTIAN VALUES AND CHRISTIAN THINKING OUT OF THOSE ARENAS.
- 00:53:13.150 --> 00:53:15.180
- THEY'RE GOING TO BE FILLED BY SOMEBODY.
- 00:53:15.200 --> 00:53:17.190
- SO POLITICS GOT FILLED BY A LOT OF SECULAR FOLKS, AND
- 00:53:17.210 --> 00:53:20.210
- EDUCATION GOT FILLED BY SECULAR FOLKS AND SCIENCE GOT
- 00:53:20.230 --> 00:53:23.110
- FILLED BY SECULAR FOLKS.
- 00:53:23.130 --> 00:53:25.120
- SO WHY ARE WE SURPRISED TODAY THAT SCIENCE IS SO SECULAR?
- 00:53:25.140 --> 00:53:28.280
- THAT WE HAVE SUCH SECULAR HISTORY BECAUSE WE HAVE NO
- 00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:32.040
- GOD-THINKING PEOPLE IN IT.
- 00:53:32.060 --> 00:53:34.020
- THIS IS ACTUAL HISTORY, BUT YOU'VE BEEN MISSING IT
- 00:53:34.040 --> 00:53:36.140
- FOR SO LONG, YOU THINK IT'S NO HISTORY.
- 00:53:36.160 --> 00:53:38.190
- WHEN YOU PULLED THE CHRISTIANS OUT OF THERE IN THE 20s AND
- 00:53:38.210 --> 00:53:40.190
- 30s, BY THE 40s AND 50s, THE OTHER GUYS ARE IN THERE, AND
- 00:53:40.210 --> 00:53:43.180
- YOU WILL FIND THAT AFTER WORLD WAR TWO, THERE IS A DECIDED
- 00:53:43.200 --> 00:53:46.140
- SHIFT TOWARDS SECULAR HISTORY.
- 00:53:46.160 --> 00:53:48.250
- YOU NO LONGER GET A GOD VIEW OF ANYTHING, AND YOU JUST
- 00:53:48.270 --> 00:53:51.190
- WON'T FIND THAT TODAY.
- 00:53:51.210 --> 00:53:53.140
- - ALL RIGHT, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES?
- 00:53:53.160 --> 00:53:56.180
- - SO IF BLACK HEROES HAVE BEEN WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY,
- 00:53:56.200 --> 00:53:59.030
- WHO ELSE HAS BEEN WREN OUT OF HISTORY?
- 00:53:59.050 --> 00:54:00.220
- HAVE WOMEN? HAVE NATIVE AMERICANS?
- 00:54:00.240 --> 00:54:02.100
- WHAT ELSE ARE WE NOT LEARNING TODAY?
- 00:54:02.120 --> 00:54:04.280
- - THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
- 00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:06.210
- I WOULD SAY CERTAINLY ONE OF THE OBVIOUS ASPECTS TO ME
- 00:54:06.230 --> 00:54:09.060
- WOULD BE THE FAITH ELEMENT.
- 00:54:09.080 --> 00:54:11.030
- - FAITH ELEMENT IS GONE.
- 00:54:11.050 --> 00:54:13.000
- IF I SAY MARGARET BRANT, OR IF I SAY M.K.
- 00:54:13.020 --> 00:54:15.020
- GODDARD, OR IF I START GOING THROUGH -- WHO ARE THEY?
- 00:54:15.040 --> 00:54:18.280
- - I DO NOT KNOW.
- 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:20.200
- - THEY'RE ALL ELECTED WOMEN, ELECTED TO OFFICE BACK
- 00:54:20.220 --> 00:54:23.020
- IN THE AMERICAN FOUNDING.
- 00:54:23.040 --> 00:54:25.100
- IF I START GOING THROUGH ALL THE WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN
- 00:54:25.120 --> 00:54:27.270
- REVOLUTION, START PULLING NAMES OUT AND GIVE YOU THOSE
- 00:54:27.290 --> 00:54:30.110
- NAMES, AND AS TIM POINTED OUT, FAITH IS A BIG DEAL.
- 00:54:30.130 --> 00:54:34.000
- WE'RE TOLD THAT THOSE WHO FOUNDED THE NATION WERE
- 00:54:34.020 --> 00:54:36.270
- LARGELY ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, AND DEISTS.
- 00:54:36.290 --> 00:54:39.150
- - OR EVEN NAMES WE HEAR LIKE FREDERICK DOUGLAS.
- 00:54:39.170 --> 00:54:41.120
- WE'RE NOT TOLD THAT HE WAS REVEREND, A PREACHER.
- 00:54:41.140 --> 00:54:43.070
- - THERE'S A SECULAR VIEW ON THINGS.
- 00:54:43.090 --> 00:54:45.010
- ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE IS COLLECT THE ORIGINALS,
- 00:54:45.030 --> 00:54:49.290
- AND WHEN YOU COLLECT THE ORIGINALS,
- 00:54:50.010 --> 00:54:52.140
- THAT'S WHERE YOU GET TRUTH.
- 00:54:52.160 --> 00:54:54.080
- AND NOW YOU HEAR GENERATIONS AWAY, AND PEOPLE SAY, OH,
- 00:54:54.100 --> 00:54:57.190
- FREDERICK DOUGLAS OR DR. KING. HE WAS A CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER.
- 00:54:57.210 --> 00:55:01.020
- NO, HE WASN'T. HE WAS A PASTOR WHO GOT INVOLVED IN CIVIL
- 00:55:01.040 --> 00:55:04.000
- RIGHTS, BUT HE WAS A PASTOR FIRST, AND THAT'S WHAT HE
- 00:55:04.020 --> 00:55:06.060
- WAS LONG BEFORE THE CIVIL RIGHTS STUFF CAME ALONG.
- 00:55:06.080 --> 00:55:09.040
- AND WHAT HAPPENS TODAY IS HISTORY'S BECOME A
- 00:55:09.060 --> 00:55:11.220
- POLITICAL AGENDA TOOL.
- 00:55:11.240 --> 00:55:13.250
- IF WE'RE SECULAR GUYS, WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU ALL THE
- 00:55:13.270 --> 00:55:16.040
- SECULAR STUFF AND TELL YOU EVERYBODY ELSE DIDN'T EXIST.
- 00:55:16.060 --> 00:55:18.190
- NO, YOU TEACH THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY.
- 00:55:18.210 --> 00:55:20.230
- YOU PUT IT OUT THERE, AND THAT'S WHY YOU ALWAYS
- 00:55:20.250 --> 00:55:23.020
- WANT TO BE BAG FOR TRUTH.
- 00:55:23.040 --> 00:55:25.070
- YOU GO BACK TO ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
- 00:55:25.090 --> 00:55:27.050
- I DON'T CARE HOW MANY Ph.Ds YOU GOT AFTER YOUR NAME, I
- 00:55:27.070 --> 00:55:29.200
- DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE A PROFESSOR OF
- 00:55:29.220 --> 00:55:31.100
- PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. THAT WAS NOT TRUTH.
- 00:55:31.120 --> 00:55:32.290
- THERE'S TRUTH SITTING RIGHT THERE.
- 00:55:33.010 --> 00:55:34.220
- THERE'S THE ACTUAL DOCUMENTS OF THESE GUYS.
- 00:55:34.240 --> 00:55:36.080
- THERE ARE PICTURES, PHOTOS. ALL OF THIS STUFF BACK HERE.
- 00:55:36.100 --> 00:55:38.060
- WE JUST DON'T KNOW IT TODAY, AND HISTORY SHOULD NEVER BE AN
- 00:55:38.080 --> 00:55:40.170
- AGENDA TOOL, BUT IT HAS BECOME AN AGENDA TOOL.
- 00:55:40.190 --> 00:55:43.000
- - SOMEBODY HAS TO STAND FOR TRUTH.
- 00:55:43.020 --> 00:55:45.130
- THE AVERAGE AMERICAN CAN BE THE ONE THAT
- 00:55:45.150 --> 00:55:48.160
- CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
- 00:55:48.180 --> 00:55:50.190
- EVERY ONE OF YOU OUT THERE CAN BECOME INVOLVED.
- 00:55:50.210 --> 00:55:53.140
- AND IF YOU BECOME INVOLVED, YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
- 00:55:53.160 --> 00:55:56.190
- IF WE JUST START STANDING FOR TRUTH.
- 00:55:56.210 --> 00:56:01.000
- IF WE WOULD JUST BEGIN TO MAKE A STAND AND STOP ACCEPTING THE
- 00:56:01.020 --> 00:56:05.010
- SLAVERY THAT'S BEING IMPRESSED UPON US,
- 00:56:05.030 --> 00:56:08.070
- WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
- 00:56:08.090 --> 00:56:10.250
- WE ALL CAN BE HISTORY AND MAKE A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
- 00:56:10.270 --> 00:56:15.290
- IMAGINE IF EVERY ONE OF YOU WOULD JUST MAKE A
- 00:56:16.010 --> 00:56:18.200
- COMMITMENT TO SAY, I WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
- 00:56:18.220 --> 00:56:21.130
- LOOK WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH YOU.
- 00:56:21.150 --> 00:56:23.230
- IF HE DID IT WITH ME -- I'M A NOBODY, AND HE'S MADE THIS --
- 00:56:23.250 --> 00:56:26.090
- LOOK WHERE I AM NOW. I'M TALKING TO YOU. GOD DID THAT.
- 00:56:26.110 --> 00:56:28.200
- HE'S GOT A PLAN FOR EVERY ONE OF YOUR LIVES,
- 00:56:28.220 --> 00:56:30.230
- A DIVINE POTENTIAL FOR YOU TO EXCEL AND NOT FAIL.
- 00:56:30.250 --> 00:56:34.100
- AND YOU'VE GOT TO TURN TO GOD AND STOP LISTENING TO THE
- 00:56:34.120 --> 00:56:36.190
- POLITICIANS TELLING YOU WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO.
- 00:56:36.210 --> 00:56:40.140
- YOU'VE GOT LET YOUR LIMITATION BE DEFINED BY GOD, AND ANYBODY
- 00:56:40.160 --> 00:56:43.160
- THAT PUTS A TITLE ON YOU, THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEFINE YOUR
- 00:56:43.180 --> 00:56:47.160
- DESTINY AND YOUR FUTURE.
- 00:56:47.180 --> 00:56:50.010
- LET NO MAN TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU CAN DO
- 00:56:50.030 --> 00:56:53.180
- AND WHAT YOU CANNOT DO.
- 00:56:53.200 --> 00:56:55.170
- RECOGNIZE YOUR AUTHORITY COMES FROM ALMIGHTY GOD.
- 00:56:55.190 --> 00:56:59.080
- - SO ON THIS EPISODE OF AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY,
- 00:56:59.100 --> 00:57:02.020
- WE'VE COVERED BLACK HISTORY; GREAT, GREAT HEROES,
- 00:57:02.040 --> 00:57:05.130
- INSPIRATIONS TO EVERY ONE OF US, AND THERE'S SO MUCH MORE
- 00:57:05.150 --> 00:57:08.210
- BACK THERE IN AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
- 00:57:08.230 --> 00:57:11.010
- SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR JOINING US TODAY.
- 00:57:11.030 --> 00:57:13.230
- AUDIENCE, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, AS WELL.
- 00:57:13.250 --> 00:57:15.240
- LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF
- 00:57:15.260 --> 00:57:17.280
- AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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- [APPLAUSE]
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- [MUSIC]
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