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America's Hidden History | Black History Month

February 2, 2018

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America's Hidden History

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America's Hidden History | Black History Month

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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
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MARCH, AND THAT'S WHAT CHANGED PEOPLE'S MIND,
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WHEN THEY SAW KIDS 10, 11 YEARS OLDS, 13 YEARS OLD,
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FIRE HOSES BEING TURNED ON THEM, DOGS ATTACKING THEM.
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AND FIRE HOSES THAT HAD ENOUGH FORCE TO THROW
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THEM TO THE GROUND, RUN THEM INTO WALLS AND
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THINGS, AND THEY GOT SCARRED UP WITH THAT.
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AND SO MAYBE THE GUY PUT THE BOMB THERE IN ORDER
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TO HURT THE CHILDREN.
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HE CLAIMED HE DIDN'T DO IT, BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT
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THE MESSAGE WAS, BUT FOUR GIRLS DIED THAT DAY.
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FOUR INNOCENT GIRLS THAT WERE NOT EVEN IN THE
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MARCHES, THEY WERE IN SUNDAY SCHOOL TRYING TO
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WORSHIP AND WORSHIP PLACE WAS NOT PLACE FROM THE
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VIOLENCE THAT THESE PEOPLE PERPETRATED.
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- BUT FROM THEIR LIVES THE ENTIRE CULTURE SHIFTED.
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- YES.
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- BECAUSE TO THAT POINT THE PRESIDENT HADN'T EVEN
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BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND WHAT WAS
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HAPPENING IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY, BUT DIDN'T
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THAT REALLY SEEM TO SHIFT THE DEBATE?
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- IT CHANGED THINGS, WHEN THE NATION LOOKED AT
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THE ATROCITIES -- THESE PEOPLE HAD BEEN DOING
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THIS STUFF FOR A LONG TIME.
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THEY'D BEEN LYNCHING PEOPLE, THEY'D BEEN
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KILLING BLACKS AND THINGS WERE GOING ON FOR A LONG
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TIME, AND NOBODY SEEMED TO CARE, BUT IT TOOK THE
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DEATH OF THOSE FOUR GIRLS TO GET THE WORLD TO PAY ATTENTION.
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THIS WAS A NON-VIOLENT MOVEMENT.
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IT WAS ABOUT LOVE.
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IT WASN'T ABOUT WE WANT OUR RIGHTS SO WE'RE GOING
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TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS.
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IT WAS ABOUT WE DESERVE THE RIGHTS TO BE TREATED
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AS HUMAN BEINGS, AND WE WERE TAUGHT IT WAS ABOUT LOVE.
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IT WAS NOT ABOUT HATRED, AND THAT'S WHERE THE
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POWER THAT CAME WAS THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING HE
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RECEIVED THE PEACE PRIZE, THE PEACE PRIZE, AND THEN
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THERE WERE OTHER MEMBERS OF THAT MOVEMENT WHO HAD
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TAKEN SO MUCH ABUSE, BUT THEY RESPONDED
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WITH CHRISTIANITY.
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THE TRUTH FAITH OF CHRISTIANITY, NOT THE
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FAITH OF CHRISTIANITY THAT IS TAUGHT SOMETIMES
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TODAY IN MANY OF OUR CHURCHES, BUT IT WAS A
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FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH THAT GOD IS LOVE, AND LOVE
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ALWAYS REIGNS, AND LOVE PROVED ITSELF BY
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ACCEPTING ALL OF THE ATROCITIES THAT HAPPENED.
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THAT LOVE OVERWHELMED.
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THAT'S THE LOVE OF CHRIST.
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- DAVID BARTON: I MEAN, THEY WERE SO SERIOUS
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ABOUT IT THAT ALVEDA KING WHO IS THE NIECE OF
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DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING THEY LEFT HER IN JAIL ONE
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TIME BECAUSE SHE BROKE ONE OF THE COMMANDMENTS,
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AND THAT'S -- DOCTOR KING AND SAID NO, NO, NO.
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THIS IS HOW WE DO IT.
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AND THAT SPIRITUAL EMPHASIS, I KNOW I'VE
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BEEN APPOINTED IN A NUMBER OF STATES TO WRITE
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THEIR HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT STANDARDS, AND
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IN ONE OF THE STATES AS WE GOT TO THE CIVIL
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RIGHTS MOVEMENT THEY WERE COVERING AS THEY SHOULD
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DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, AND SAID, WAIT A MINUTE.
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LET'S MAKE SURE WE TELL THE KIDS THAT HE'S THE
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REVEREND DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING.
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OH, NO. YOU CAN'T SAY THAT.
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WASN'T HE A PREACHER?
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YEAH, BUT YOU CAN'T SAY THAT.
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WAIT A MINUTE.
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YOU JUST HAD THE KIDS READ THE LETTER FROM THE
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BIRMINGHAM JAIL WHERE IT'S A PASTOR WRITING TO
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OTHER PASTORS SAYING, WHAT ARE YOU DOING
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OUT OF JAIL?
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YOU SHOULD BE IN HERE IN JAIL STANDING FOR STUFF.
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YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TELL THEM IT WAS A PASTOR
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WRITING THAT?
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NO, NO, WE CAN'T.
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AND TODAY THE WAY WE PORTRAY EVEN WHAT WENT ON
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NOTHING ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF SIDE OF IT, NOTHING
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ABOUT I THE NON-VIOLENT SIDE OF IT, NOTHING
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ABOUT THE LOVE.
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IT'S JUST NOT THERE.
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- BUT THE ONLY WAY YOU GET VICTORY, VICTORY
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COMES THROUGH THE POWER OF GOD BECAUSE GOD IS THE
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ONE THAT SETS UP AND DISPOSES KINGS.
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GOD IS THE ONE THAT CONTROLS THE DESTINY OF
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NATIONS, BUT GOD CANNOT BE BROUGHT OUT THROUGH
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VIOLENCE AND METHODS THAT ARE NOT OF GOD.
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- THAT'S RIGHT IS.
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- YOU NEVER GET VICTORY [ APPLAUSE ] UNLESS GOD
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IS A PART OF IT.
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- SO ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT
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THIS, THINKING ABOUT THE WHOLE SCENARIO, THE 16TH
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STREET CHURCH BOMBING, WHEN THOSE GIRLS LOST
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THEIR LIVES, THIS DID CHANGE THE POSITION FROM
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PRESIDENT KENNEDY WHO NOW COMES AND SAYS, WAIT A SECOND.
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WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS.
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AND THEN HE'S ASSASSINATED, BUT NOW THE
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NEXT PRESIDENT JOHNSON COMES --
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- BUT NOT ONLY DID HE OPPOSE IT, THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL THAT
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EVENTUALLY GOT PASSED, THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS
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BILL PASSED AS A RESULT OF WHAT HAPPENED
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IN BIRMINGHAMM,
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PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD VOTED AGAINST IT WHEN HE
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WAS A U.S. SENATOR.
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HE OPPOSED THAT, BUT AFTER WHAT HAPPENED IN
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BIRMINGHAM AS PRESIDENT HE PICKED UP THAT 1957
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BILL WRITTEN BY PRESIDENT EISENHOWER AND SAID HEY,
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WE NEED TO PASS THAT.
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HE WAS ASSASSINATED IN DALLAS, AND THEN LBJ
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PICKED UP THE BILL AND PUSHED IT ON ACROSS THE
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FINISH LINE, BUT HE LITERALLY HAD OPPOSED
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WHAT'S IN THAT BILL UNTIL BIRMINGHAM, AND THEN
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BIRMINGHAM THERE'S A SWITCH EVEN IN THE
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PRESIDENT AT THAT POINT.
00:16:37.020 --> 00:16:38.180
- SO THOSE FOUR GIRLS LIVES LITERALLY SHIFTED
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THE DIRECTION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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IN AMERICA.
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- OF THIS ENTIRE NATION.
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PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO LEARN THAT THE ONLY THING THAT
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WORKS IS THAT WE'VE GOT TO BEGIN TO TURN BACK TO
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THE DOCTRINE, THE WORD OF JESUS CHRIST.
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AND WE'VE GOT TO HAVE RELIGIOUS LEADERS LIKE
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DOCTOR KING, RELIGIOUS LEADERS LIKE SHUTTLESWORTH
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WHO ARE WILLING TO STAND FOR THE TRUTH EVEN WHEN
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THE TRUTH IS NOT POPULAR BECAUSE EVEN TO WHITE
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PEOPLE [ APPLAUSE ] AND BLACK PEOPLE IT WAS NOT
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THE POPULAR TRUTH THAT BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD GET
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THEIR TRUTH, BUT YOU KNOW, IT WAS GOD'S TRUTH.
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IT WAS GOD'S TRUTH THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS
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DIGNITY, AND EVERY HUMAN BEING IS WORTH SOMETHING,
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BUT PREACHERS WOULDN'T PREACH IT, BUT DOCTOR KING WOULD.
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REVEREND SHUTTLESWORTH WOULD PREACH IT.
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THERE IS ONE GOD, AND WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER,
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AND THE GOD OF LOVE IS THE GOD THAT WE HAVE TO
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COME TOGETHER IN.
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ANY GOD THAT'S OF VIOLENCE IS ONLY GOING TO
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CREATE MORE VIOLENCE.
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[ APPLAUSE]
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MORE CHILDREN WILL BE SACRIFICED BECAUSE IF
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THERE'S NOT LOVE, THEN THERE'S ONLY HATE.
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- YOU QUOTED THE DECLARATION OF
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INDEPENDENCE, AND OF COURSE DOCTOR KING STOOD
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ON THE MALL AND SAID HEY, WE JUST WANT TO REDEEM
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THE PROMISE THAT WAS GIVEN IN THE DECLARATION.
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- RIGHT.
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- AND TIM, GRAB THAT BOOK ON TOP THERE.
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THIS IS A BOOK FROM 1772 THAT WAS USED ALL OVER
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AMERICA PRIOR TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, BUT
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IT CAME FROM THE 1680'S, AND IT WAS THE REVEREND
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JOHN WISE, AND HERE'S A PREACHER IN
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MASSACHUSETTS, A WHITE GUY WHOSE EYE PREACHER IN
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MASSACHUSETTS.
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HE STANDS IN HIS PULPIT, AND HE GIVES A SERMON
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THAT SAYS ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL.
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THEY'RE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN -- I
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MEAN, THE SAME WE HEAR IN THE DECLARATION, AND HE
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WAS A HUGE ADVOCATE FOR FULL RACIAL EQUALITY AT A
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TIME WHEN THAT WASN'T NECESSARILY POPULAR,
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WASN'T THE THING, BUT HE ALSO PREACHED THAT
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TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY
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AND THAT THE BEST GOVERNMENTS CAN SEND THE
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GOVERNED, THEY BROUGHT THAT OUT FOUR YEARS -- THAT
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PREACHER'S SERMON CAME OUT FOUR YEARS BEFORE THE
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, AND THAT
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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.
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I MEAN, THAT WAS GOD'S WORD BEING TAUGHT BACK AT
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A TIME WHEN IT REALLY WASN'T POPULAR, BUT
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THAT'S WHAT SHAPES SO MUCH OF WHAT WENT
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RIGHT IN AMERICA.
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- LET ME POINT TO A PICTURE UP HERE.
00:19:02.260 --> 00:19:04.100
THE ONE ON THE LEFT.
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THERE IS A WHITE GUY AND A BLACK GUY STANDING
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TOGETHER. THE WHITE GUY IS MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE.
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HE'S A FRENCH GUY.
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HE WAS A 19 YEAR OLD GENERAL.
00:19:11.100 --> 00:19:13.000
COMES TO AMERICA, ENDS UP BEING A MAJOR GENERAL.
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HE'S STANDING BY A BLACK GUY, JAMES ARMISTEAD.
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HAS ANYBODY HEARD THE NAME JAMES ARMISTEAD?
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- 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?
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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
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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
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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
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REVOLUTION, AND HERE'S HIS STORY.
00:19:52.250 --> 00:19:54.190
SO WHEN LAFAYETTE COMES TO AMERICA, LAFAYETTE IS
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A VERY WEALTHY FRENCH GUY, SO HE HAS MONEY.
00:19:57.030 --> 00:19:59.050
HE COMES TO AMERICA.
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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.
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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
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PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.
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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
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GATHER INTEL AND COME BACK AND REPORT TO YOU.
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SO HE SAYS WELL JAMES, I MEAN IF YOU'RE
00:21:03.100 --> 00:21:04.290
WILLING TO DO THAT.
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SO JAMES GOES, PRETENDING TO BE AN ESCAPED SLAVE.
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AND YOU CAN USE YOUR IMAGINATION AND IMAGINE
00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:11.080
HOW THAT MIGHT HAVE UNFOLDED, RIGHT, AND HE
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GOES IN GUYS, PLEASE! PLEASE!
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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?
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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.
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HE STARTS SERVING OFFICERS.
00:21:26.150 --> 00:21:27.230
IN FACT, HE BECOMES THE PERSONAL ASSISTANT OF
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BENEDICT ARNOLD WHO WAS A FAMOUS AMERICAN TRAITOR.
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HE'S LISTENING TO ALL OF THE BRITISH OFFICERS AND
00:21:33.170 --> 00:21:37.010
ALL OF THEIR PLANS.
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EVERY DAY HE SENDS WORD BACK TO LAFAYETTE AND
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SAYS LAFAYETTE, HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING,
00:21:42.120 --> 00:21:43.270
HERE'S WHERE THEY'RE GOING.
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SO LAFAYETTE'S ABLE TO RALLY THE AMERICANS.
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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.
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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.
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:59.140
IT COST THEM THEIR LIVES.
00:48:59.160 --> 00:49:01.090
ELIJAH LOVEJOY WAS A PREACHER IN ILLINOIS.
00:49:01.110 --> 00:49:05.110
ACTUALLY, HE WAS IN MISSOURI, AND MISSOURI WAS A SLAVE
00:49:05.130 --> 00:49:08.260
STATE, AND HE WAS A NEWSPAPER EDITOR WRITING ALL THESE
00:49:08.280 --> 00:49:13.130
ARTICLES AGAINST SLAVERY, AND SO THEY BURNED HIS PRESSES
00:49:13.150 --> 00:49:16.270
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
00:49:29.160 --> 00:49:31.160
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
00:49:50.190 --> 00:49:54.170
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
00:50:13.180 --> 00:50:15.200
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.
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WELL, BISHOP, YOU JUST NEED TO START TELLING PEOPLE.
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WELL, HE DOES, BUT IT'S REALLY SOMETHING -- WE HAVE A LOT
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MORE OPPORTUNITIES SOMETIMES THAN WE UTILIZE, BUT WHAT THE
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BIBLE SAYS IS, "YOUR FRIENDS LISTEN TO YOUR VOICE, SO
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SPEAK." THAT WOULD BE MY FIRST THOUGHT, AND IF YOU'RE LOOKING
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FOR POETRY, YOU CAN GO TO GOOGLE BOOKS, AND A LOT OF IT
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YOU CAN FIND ON GOOGLE WHERE YOU CAN JUST GO AND READ IT.
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IT WOULD BE A LITTLE HARDER TO GET A REPRINT OF IT, BUT YOU
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CAN GO AND READ IT ONLINE AND SEE A LOT OF WHAT SHE DID
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WRITE EVEN THE THINGS ABOUT GEORGE WASHINGTON, ABOUT
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GEORGE WHITEFIELD, ABOUT HER COMING TO AMERICA, HER
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CHRISTIANITY, HER FAITH.
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SO YOU CAN FIND A LOT OF THAT ON GOOGLE BOOKS.
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IS THERE ANOTHER QUESTION? YES, SIR?
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- YES, FAITH IS SUCH A HUGE PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY, AND
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I WAS WONDERING AT WHAT POINT WOULD IT BE OKAY TO WRITE THAT
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OUT OF OUR TEXTBOOKS AND THE BEST WAY TO INCORPORATE THAT
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INTO THE CONTINUING TEACHING OF OUR HISTORY?
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- THE ANSWER TO THAT IS PRETTY SIMPLE.
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IT GOES BACK TO THE BIBLE VERSE BISHOP USED THAT WHEN
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THE RIGHTEOUS RULE, THE PEOPLE REJOICE; THE WICKED RULE,
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THE PEOPLE GROAN.
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IT REALLY IS WHOSE IN CHARGE, AND WHAT HAPPENED WAS IN THE
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1920s, AND 30s, FOR WHATEVER REASON, PREACHERS STARTED
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SAYING, HEY, CHRISTIANS, YOU WANT TO DO
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SOMETHING GOOD FOR GOD?
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BE A PASTOR, BE A MISSIONARY, BUT STAY OUT OF SCIENCE.
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OH, MY GOSH. DON'T BE GETTING THAT EDUCATION.
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STAY OUT OF POLITICS.
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AND SO WE STARTED PULLING CHRISTIANS OUT OF
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ALL OF THESE ARENAS.
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WHEN YOU PULL CHRISTIANS OUT OF THOSE ARENAS, YOU PULL
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CHRISTIAN VALUES AND CHRISTIAN THINKING OUT OF THOSE ARENAS.
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THEY'RE GOING TO BE FILLED BY SOMEBODY.
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SO POLITICS GOT FILLED BY A LOT OF SECULAR FOLKS, AND
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EDUCATION GOT FILLED BY SECULAR FOLKS AND SCIENCE GOT
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FILLED BY SECULAR FOLKS.
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SO WHY ARE WE SURPRISED TODAY THAT SCIENCE IS SO SECULAR?
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THAT WE HAVE SUCH SECULAR HISTORY BECAUSE WE HAVE NO
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GOD-THINKING PEOPLE IN IT.
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THIS IS ACTUAL HISTORY, BUT YOU'VE BEEN MISSING IT
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FOR SO LONG, YOU THINK IT'S NO HISTORY.
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WHEN YOU PULLED THE CHRISTIANS OUT OF THERE IN THE 20s AND
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30s, BY THE 40s AND 50s, THE OTHER GUYS ARE IN THERE, AND
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YOU WILL FIND THAT AFTER WORLD WAR TWO, THERE IS A DECIDED
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SHIFT TOWARDS SECULAR HISTORY.
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YOU NO LONGER GET A GOD VIEW OF ANYTHING, AND YOU JUST
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WON'T FIND THAT TODAY.
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- ALL RIGHT, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES?
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- SO IF BLACK HEROES HAVE BEEN WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY,
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WHO ELSE HAS BEEN WREN OUT OF HISTORY?
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HAVE WOMEN? HAVE NATIVE AMERICANS?
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WHAT ELSE ARE WE NOT LEARNING TODAY?
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- THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
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I WOULD SAY CERTAINLY ONE OF THE OBVIOUS ASPECTS TO ME
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WOULD BE THE FAITH ELEMENT.
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- FAITH ELEMENT IS GONE.
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IF I SAY MARGARET BRANT, OR IF I SAY M.K.
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GODDARD, OR IF I START GOING THROUGH -- WHO ARE THEY?
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- I DO NOT KNOW.
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- THEY'RE ALL ELECTED WOMEN, ELECTED TO OFFICE BACK
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IN THE AMERICAN FOUNDING.
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IF I START GOING THROUGH ALL THE WOMEN OF THE AMERICAN
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REVOLUTION, START PULLING NAMES OUT AND GIVE YOU THOSE
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NAMES, AND AS TIM POINTED OUT, FAITH IS A BIG DEAL.
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WE'RE TOLD THAT THOSE WHO FOUNDED THE NATION WERE
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LARGELY ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, AND DEISTS.
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- OR EVEN NAMES WE HEAR LIKE FREDERICK DOUGLAS.
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WE'RE NOT TOLD THAT HE WAS REVEREND, A PREACHER.
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- THERE'S A SECULAR VIEW ON THINGS.
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ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE IS COLLECT THE ORIGINALS,
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AND WHEN YOU COLLECT THE ORIGINALS,
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THAT'S WHERE YOU GET TRUTH.
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AND NOW YOU HEAR GENERATIONS AWAY, AND PEOPLE SAY, OH,
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FREDERICK DOUGLAS OR DR. KING. HE WAS A CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER.
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NO, HE WASN'T. HE WAS A PASTOR WHO GOT INVOLVED IN CIVIL
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RIGHTS, BUT HE WAS A PASTOR FIRST, AND THAT'S WHAT HE
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WAS LONG BEFORE THE CIVIL RIGHTS STUFF CAME ALONG.
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AND WHAT HAPPENS TODAY IS HISTORY'S BECOME A
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POLITICAL AGENDA TOOL.
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IF WE'RE SECULAR GUYS, WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU ALL THE
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SECULAR STUFF AND TELL YOU EVERYBODY ELSE DIDN'T EXIST.
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NO, YOU TEACH THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY.
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YOU PUT IT OUT THERE, AND THAT'S WHY YOU ALWAYS
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WANT TO BE BAG FOR TRUTH.
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YOU GO BACK TO ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.
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I DON'T CARE HOW MANY Ph.Ds YOU GOT AFTER YOUR NAME, I
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DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE A PROFESSOR OF
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. THAT WAS NOT TRUTH.
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THERE'S TRUTH SITTING RIGHT THERE.
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THERE'S THE ACTUAL DOCUMENTS OF THESE GUYS.
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THERE ARE PICTURES, PHOTOS. ALL OF THIS STUFF BACK HERE.
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WE JUST DON'T KNOW IT TODAY, AND HISTORY SHOULD NEVER BE AN
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AGENDA TOOL, BUT IT HAS BECOME AN AGENDA TOOL.
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- SOMEBODY HAS TO STAND FOR TRUTH.
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THE AVERAGE AMERICAN CAN BE THE ONE THAT
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CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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EVERY ONE OF YOU OUT THERE CAN BECOME INVOLVED.
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AND IF YOU BECOME INVOLVED, YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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IF WE JUST START STANDING FOR TRUTH.
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IF WE WOULD JUST BEGIN TO MAKE A STAND AND STOP ACCEPTING THE
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SLAVERY THAT'S BEING IMPRESSED UPON US,
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WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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WE ALL CAN BE HISTORY AND MAKE A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
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IMAGINE IF EVERY ONE OF YOU WOULD JUST MAKE A
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COMMITMENT TO SAY, I WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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LOOK WHAT GOD CAN DO WITH YOU.
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IF HE DID IT WITH ME -- I'M A NOBODY, AND HE'S MADE THIS --
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LOOK WHERE I AM NOW. I'M TALKING TO YOU. GOD DID THAT.
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HE'S GOT A PLAN FOR EVERY ONE OF YOUR LIVES,
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A DIVINE POTENTIAL FOR YOU TO EXCEL AND NOT FAIL.
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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.
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YOU'VE GOT LET YOUR LIMITATION BE DEFINED BY GOD, AND ANYBODY
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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.
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LET NO MAN TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU CAN DO
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AND WHAT YOU CANNOT DO.
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RECOGNIZE YOUR AUTHORITY COMES FROM ALMIGHTY GOD.
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- SO ON THIS EPISODE OF AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY,
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WE'VE COVERED BLACK HISTORY; GREAT, GREAT HEROES,
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INSPIRATIONS TO EVERY ONE OF US, AND THERE'S SO MUCH MORE
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BACK THERE IN AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR JOINING US TODAY.
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AUDIENCE, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, AS WELL.
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LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON THE NEXT EPISODE OF
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AMERICA'S HIDDEN HISTORY.
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[APPLAUSE]
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[MUSIC]
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