Honoring Dr. King

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Ms Gray Tray Tray, What you
doing all the way up in Virginia trying

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to stay warm? Me? Yeah, I didn't want to ask. I

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didn't want to ask. I died. Did you see slow? It's yeah

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show oh, oh, dear,
but there's Tommy and Tommy Tommy. She's

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not down the street to the left, but I could get to it for

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me, hetty big iy for in
the name of Jesus, how are you,

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Tommy? How's the weather in jvill
Today was a good day, yes,

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but the rest of the days were
very chilling. Yeah, got you,

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I got you. We're feeling and
I think we're in the seventies.

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Uh here in the old for just
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But I understand it's gonna drop tonight, and it's going rain tomorrow, and

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it's possibly dropped tomorrow night. So
I just hope I'll be in my house

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and there we go. I got
they. We got plenty of hot chocolate

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and some marshmallows already. Well,
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and grooving. So people are listening
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we're gonna what set it straight.
So here we go. Well, tonight

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we are honoring doctor Martin Luther King
and normally maybe in the future we may

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have it take the day off,
but the Lord wanted us to come on

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tonight and we want to talk about
a couple of things. One his whole

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you know, it seemed like the
whole movement of history for us really hangs

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on civil rights and the civil rights
movement. Well, I did a little

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research. Hey you see, amen
and amen happened New Year Yai did a

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little research and come to find out, actually civil rights came up in year

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three thirteen and it included the freedom
of religion. I'm sorry, yeah,

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in three thirteen and then three point
eighty the subjects of the Roman Empire to

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profess Catholic Christianity. So it actually
kind of got its beginnings. It's got

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it. It started having its legs
with people adhering to the Catholic religion,

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and the Catholic religion folk were Catholics
were being a little persecuted back in the

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day. And then in the seventeenth
century it went on and they were talking

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about rights based on citizenship by arguing
that the Englishmen had historically enjoyed such rights.

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And then we're going to go to
and of course it appears in seventeen

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seventy six with the Bill of Rights, and then it just kind of said

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they removed the legislation of civil rights
constitutes a civil disability. In the early

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nineteenth century and civil rights, civil
rights most commonly referred to the issue of

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legal discrimination against Catholics against Catholics,
and then it came all the way around.

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Then they included the Roman Catholic Relief
Act in eighteen twenty nine, which

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restored their civil rights. Now the
last mentioned or influence of civil rights in

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the United States, the term civil
rights has been associated with civil rights movement

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of nineteen fifty four to nineteen sixty
eight, which fought against racism. It

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goes no further. So this is
just me speaking as I said on the

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show once before. To me,
civil rights belonged to the black Americans in

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the United States that suffered, that
had the My son, actually we were

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watching Honor to the Tuskegee Airmen today
and I had just mentioned to him that,

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you know, civil rights was you
know, nobody except black Americans had

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fire hoses turned on them and dogs
turned on them and beaten in the street,

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jailed for no reason. And I
found out that just a little fact,

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the tusk Tuskigee airmen they went against
how they were not allowed to go

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into these soldiers hall. So they
all did, they all did a set

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out or something, and over a
hundred of them were jailed that day,

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over one hundred of them. And
so my son got a chance to see

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and at the fire hoses being turned
on black people today, he's like,

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WHOA what I said, Yeah,
And that our culture with Our history includes

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lynchings, Our history includes molestation and
rapes, and and and taking your people's

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stuff and taking properly so and it
ends. This is where the history of

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civil rights ends. Within that history
and within this culture, Black American culture.

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So I'm saying, this is just
misgrad this is just me any other

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population that feel that they are not
treated right laws are used against them.

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However, you want a word that, you need to come up with your

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own phrase, because according to the
history, civil rights ends with the cry

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against racism, just saying it's in
don't don't shoot the messenger, go after

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the message, you know. But
that is in the history archives that I

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have found. So I was like, okay, God, I wasn't just

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trying to say something to point certain
people out or certain groups out or whatever.

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It began with attack on Catholic religion, on one's religion, and it's

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resting now on the issue within the
house of racism. So there, now

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we're going to move on to I
asked the ladies. The Lord told me,

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you know, hey, get everybody's
opinion and let them talk about listening

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here in twenty degrees Louisiana. Okay, Misty, I just hope that you

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got the firewood burning, the weird
real wood, and you got plenty of

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hot you know beverages, and you
you know, you got your little you

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know cap on too. You could
do that for us, and you know

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we got you. We're feeling you, and just please be safe, Please

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use your remedies. If you start
sniffling, please nip it in the bug

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get rid of it, you know, do whatever you go to old old

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cultural go back and talk to your
great greats and say what do we do

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for a common cold or whatever?
Get that out of you you want to

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get I mean to be gross,
but you want to get the mucus out

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of here. You don't want mucus
landing in your lung and it stays there

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and then other stuff built on top
of it. That's the key to really

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walking around without catching any of the
variances or even the common flu or cold.

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So please do whatever you need to
do to combat that. It will

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keep you in our prayers most definitely. And just why go ahead. I

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just want to say one thing right
quick too. But I heard or it's

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saying that if you drink dark sodas
or dairy it increases mucus so if you

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canna a thing on that, Yes, I just did a big thing on

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that and I got a text.
I mean, half the foods were eating

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it. Just it calls on mucus
and it makes it hold it, It

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holds it in us. So it's
a whole list out there. All you

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have to do is google it.
What foods or your foods that or beverages

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that causes mucus. It's right there
on Google. And I just just screenshoted

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and everything. So we're gonna have
to change make some changes in our home

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as well. We got to do
it, yes, ma'am. We didn't

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pray yet. Oh Heaven and Father, we come to you this day,

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thanking you, if you praise,
honoring you, worshiping you in every way.

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We thank you for this opportunity unity
to speak to your people, Lord

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God, that we give them the
facts and the understanding and the truth of

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what the messages are about. Father
God, we thank you for delivering us

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from racism. We thank you,
Lord that you're kind of removing this in

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every way. We're asking that you
look down from your holy habitation and just

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smile upon us and do that which
you need to do within all of us

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from the sounds of our voices.
Use us mightily, Lord God. We

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stand behind your cross, Lord God, because this is your shoe and we're

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here to serve you and you only
giving your people the truth of what you

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would have them to know. In
everything we do, we bind and rebuke

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that spirit of that cold, of
that common cold that flew, or whatever

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a virus that's trying to come against
our sister. We just thank your Lord

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God for your healing power in Jesus
Mighty imprecious day. We pray, Amen,

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Amen and Amen Glory to God.
Thank you Lord. And I'm sitting.

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If you saw my lips moving,
I was repenting because I did not

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do that. You must your turnaround
time has to be quick. When you

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know you're in error, when you
know you've done something or said something or

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thought something that God that would displease
God. You just call yourself out on

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the carpet. Don't try to rhyme
or reason it. You did it,

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It happened. Get your You can
move through it now, Father God,

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please just And I was just asking
for repentance, and I was repenting and

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saying, God, please forgive me, so thank you for that time.

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And that's what these ladies are here
for. This is what we do,

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you know, fifty three they're okay, country, see, I'm I'm sorry.

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I'm not laughing. I'm sorry.
You know. Just stay warm,

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people, stay warm, you know, even in your house, stay warm,

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you know. Amen. So what
we're talking about tonight, we're honoring

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doctor King. I don't think that
we can't. I mean, he's got

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statues here and there, and most
of his famous you know, all of

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his famous words or all of his
speeches have been cited somewhere. They're in

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black and white and red somewhere.
But I thought it would be nice for

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the ladies, for everybody, including
our engineer and producer, to share a

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quote that has been important to them
or that resonated with them. So we're

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gonna we're gonna do that, and
then we're gonna talk about a little a

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few more things at the end of
the show. So, uh, ladies,

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I'm gonna mute myself and anybody wants
to jump in you or I'll go

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last. All right, Well,
since I prayed, I go ahead and

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go ahead one of them. Some
people may be familiar with it, and

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I'm not sure, but forgiveness is
not an occasional act. Hear me.

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Forgiveness is not an occasional act.
It is a permanent attitude. That was

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a quote from Martin Luther King,
and I think that's right. You know,

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you have to forgive and forgive deep, even though you may run into

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that person, see that person,
that fair person could be in your family

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member. You gotta learn to forgive
and let it go. It's easy said

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than done. I will say that. I will tell you it does take

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a process. But if you stay
in that process and asking God to help

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you be delivered from that, you
can move on. Because a lot of

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times we hold it, and we
hold it so tight. He can't he

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won't. I ain't gonna say he
can't. He won't release it until you're

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ready to open up your hand and
let him reach move it out your hand.

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So I think that that forgiveness is
very strong. That's one of our

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greatest flaws, whether it's prejudice,
whoever, they can't forgive, and that's

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something that we definitely have. And
the only other quote I have I think

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it says, oh, not ignite
indigen. I'm trying to think it says

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we must accept indigen disappointment. But
that word, but never lose ignited hope.

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That those were two that I really
loved that came from him in the

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midst of his speeches as he and
the quotes that he had stated before.

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So those are what I give to
you because I want us to walk more

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in love. And if we could
conquer that thing called love, what a

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different place this would be. It
would be a major change in the atmosphere,

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in the attitudes, in all aspects
of our lives, and you find

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yourself being a lot more free.
So that's what I would give to our

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audience, and I pray that you
all accept those. Go ahead, Trey,

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all right, all right. So
looking at some of the quotes that

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doctor King had and you know,
thinking about how things resonate with me,

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you know how it's in tune.
And so one of the quotes is make

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a career of humanity. You know, I always feel that, you know,

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you have to treat others the way
that you would want to be treated.

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And so it started off, make
a career of humanity, commit yourself

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to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of

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yourself, a greater nation of your
country, and a final world to live

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in and so you know that it
would just if it if we would have

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like a domino effect, you know, each one just recognizing the rights of

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someone else. You might not agree
with it, you know, but who

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are we to judge? You know, there's only one judge and jury that

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I know of. And my thing
is, if you spend a lot of

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time judging others and putting them there
constantly, it causes riff, you know

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what I mean, love the person
that I mean, people don't you might

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not have the same habit you have. And you know, as long as

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you're not killing somebody or or you
know, doing harm or you know those

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things. But my thing is,
why isn't it that we can Why can't

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we be nice to one one one
another? Why can't we treat the person

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another person with respect? Why can't
we just understand? Why can't we empathize

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with other folks going through things or
other cultures? You know, there's there's

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there's so much to people besides just
what you see in front of them.

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But if you get a chance to
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we had a day of blindfolds,
just just everybody wears blindfolds. And the

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thing, the only thing you get
to know is the sound of a person's

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voice and just having some dialogue or
and finding out that you might have more

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in common than you have not in
common with with another person. But I

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think we get so barged down with
the way people look, appearances, uh,

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skin tones, you know. I
just, I just, I don't

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know. I don't know. Loss
of words tonight, I don't know what's

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going on with me tonight. But
come on the word but anyhow, But

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I it's that word humanity. And
I always try to treat people with respect.

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That's a goal that I have.
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of the words that I use when
I'm communicating with someone. And so if

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you know, if I say something
or if I think about it. And

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I had to ask myself a couple
questions. Am I trying to help someone?

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Or am I try to hurt someone? Am I part of their mess?

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Or am a part of the message? What is it that I want

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to be? Because the thing is
I can make a difference in that person's

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life. If I say something negative, it could trigger us something negative.

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If I say something positive, it
could trigger positive things. And we don't

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know what people are going through and
sometimes a word of encouragement could be a

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life saver to someone who is really
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And that's what I have to say, beautifully said, Beautifully said.

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I think this is my turn,
so I have to say, I am

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Italian, but I've always people look
at me and they think white and it's

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not. And I kind of understand, but nowhere near to the point of

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what other people have gone through.
But when you look at me, you

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just assume, and it's like,
man, if you only knew how much

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it's not. And in studying doctor
King Tommy said, one of them of

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things that meant to you know,
meant to lie to me. Another one

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is injustice anywhere. Is the threat
to justice everywhere if we cause and uh,

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let me see, I don't know
all the words exactly. It's but

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if we cause inescapable feelings, we're
all tied to the same destiny. If

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we don't change it's not it's gonna
affect everybody directly. And that's it's part

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of you, like because like everybody
thought, oh, you know, you

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look white, so you got a
fitness category. But I'm not, so

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I don't and everybody didn't understand because
just like other people, we grew up

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with name calling, and you know, we weren't we were less than.

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But I never saw it that way, you know, because all right,

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uh, when I grew I grew
up in the wallings and one of my

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friends to play with is Conrad.
He lived on the corner. He was

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a little bit younger than me,
but he was so fun to play with.

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Never did I understand what other people
say, Oh, you can't play

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with him or why not? Well, and they said because he's a black

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boy. I said, so he's
a boy. I can play with a

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boy too. No, girl,
he's a black boy. I'm like,

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what's that matter. He's a good
boy. He's my friend, you know.

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And we grew up playing together until
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And I could never understand. Why
would you say such a hurtful thing about

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the little boy? You know,
he's my friend. And I never I

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never understood. But they were doing
the same thing because other people wouldn't let

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their kids play with me because you
know, oh you can't play with that

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whip or that, you know,
they would say bad things, and I

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never understood, say what is that? And I'd go home and say these

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things, and my grandparents would be
just like, don't worry about it.

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You know, that's that's just the
way people think. And then we always

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had people of all kinds at our
house. You know, there was because

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we were people. We were not
just something. We were not just in

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this category. And I never understood
it until I started to get older,

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when people were some people were starting
to be more friendly, but there was

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still that there was still that injustice, that that way of thinking instead of

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thinking, people are people. I
don't care what you look like. If

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you were if you were suffering,
I'm gonna run to you and I'm gonna

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do something about it. If I
see somebody doing something to you, I'm

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gonna tell them stop, because you
know what, even if they turn on

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me, I'm still gonna hey,
what are you doing? Like I think

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y'all told a story about people that
was on a maybe a doc or something,

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and the boys ran skipped to him. And that really touched me,

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because that's that is something I would
do. I don't care what's going on,

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I don't care what you look like'
If there's something like hey stop,

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you know, don't don't do this
why are you doing this to this person?

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You know, it doesn't have to
come to that. And it always

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mattered because if there's an injustice anywhere, it's everywhere. It matters to all

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of us. That's all I got. Well, thank you, Madam Rebel,

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thank you, thank you, thank
you for your debut tonight. Thank

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you Jesus, there's a change on
the horizon. Hallelujah, give her another

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handclap, hallelujahh thank you. Yes, you're you're absolutely right, and again

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he's the King. Was so insightful
my too. I have to one was

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nothing in the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Nothing

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in the world is more dangerous than
sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. That just

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you could just leave that one there. The first one that I saw has

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always resonated with me, and as
I continued my getting close to the Lord,

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I began to understand it even more, and it really and to this

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day it really means to me,
and it's in this when it's in Memphis,

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Tennessee. In April of sixty eight, he said, we've got some

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difficulty days ahead, but it really
doesn't matter. With me now, because

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I've been to the mountaintop, I've
seen the Promised Land. I may not

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get there with you, but I
want you to know tonight that we as

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a people will get to the Promised
Land. And twenty four hours later he

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was assassinated. What that meant for
me was he reminded me of Uncle Moses

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and cousin Joshua, when Moses told
josh you got to take him over to

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Jordan, and Joshua was like,
what do you mean and Moses said,

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I can't go with you. That
stuck with me. And then the experience

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I had over the past five years
and dying twice and God took me to

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Hell and to come back to be
able to tell the word, tell him,

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tell the world what he said.
I get it when you have experienced.

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And I believe doctor King was a
mere man, but he was a

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teacher and a prophet from God to
me. And despite whatever you can try

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to find that negative on it,
I believe in his relationship with God because

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nobody goes around talking like that,
nobody, And you can motivate people.

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If you look at any of his
film, the black and white film today,

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you just I mean, you just
you just take it up again.

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You're like, wow, wow.
And he spoke peace the whole time.

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He spoke love unconditionally. He spoke
just you got to accept, we got

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to walk this out together. And
I wonder what he was saying about today,

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about where we are today, what's
going on on today again with him

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saying, I've been to the mountaintop, I've been to the Promised Land.

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I want to believe that God in
a dream, maybe he will sleep.

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And he experienced that and God had
to tell him like God had to tell

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Moses, you can't take him to
the Promised Land. You can't go with

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my people. Hand it off to
Joshua now. And that's that's that's big

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as far as a leader, for
him getting in that pulpit that night,

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not knowing but knew his end maybe
was coming. He said, I'm okay,

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it doesn't matter now, we will
get to the Promised Land. And

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then I look at those who are
around him, Andrew Youngs and the mayor,

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Jackson's and all, and I'm like, and Jesse Jackson's, what did

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y'all do? Did y'all take it? You know you the battalion was passed

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to you. Did you cross over
into Jordan, or did you fight and

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and over little stuff and who's gonna
get the title and who gets the chair?

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And what did you do? Because
there's not been that much of a

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movement. As I told my son, like this man stopped the whole transportation

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system. He said, for those
of you who have cars, do you

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know, share your ride, pick
your people up, or most of you

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have to walk. But we got
to do it this way. We got

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to do it this way. And
and no, you know, and nobody

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talks about those who remember him.
They don't talk about all we revelish him,

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and oh he was an idol to
us, and all we were you

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know, we got the t shirts
and nobody talks. But they talk about

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what it meant and how their life
changed. And that's leadership. Leadership is

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when your life is changed. You
don't adore, don't adore me, don't

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look up, don't want to be
like men, you don't want to try.

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But if I'm a leader, I
pray that I've changed something in your

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life. And that's leadership. Moses
was a leader. Eight times he had

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to go back to the king and
said, God said let my people go.

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Eight times I counted it. It
was a leader. But here's a

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leader who knows. I've got to
pass the battalion. God already told me,

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Okay, you know you can't go. You got blood on your hands,

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and I know you repented, but
you can't. You've done what you're

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supposed to do. You parted that
red sea. Now and you've trained Josh,

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Aaron and a few others like I
told you to. Now it's not

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for you to hand it off.
And the beauty and the beauty that God

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let him see where they were going. He let them see. He didn't

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get in there, but he let
him see what it looked like. But

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I just want to piggyback off of
you and rebel because every time I hear

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I have a dream. And I
remember I was young, but as I

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got older, they were teaching black
history in my class and we were I

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remember seeing the magazine and whatever where
he was standing on them that standing on

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that that that railing of the Lorraine
Motel, and you can see his feet

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on the the walkway. You can
see his feet, And I'm like,

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couldn't he didn't? You know,
I'm thinking a childhood today. He didn't

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have a chess vest on. He
did, you know, But then they

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really didn't have those I don't even
think the police really had it. But

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it's just it brings chill bumps on
my arms, just thinking, just like

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Moses got a chance to see what
that promised land looked like. That's what

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Moses, I mean, that's what
doctor King said, I've seen the Promised

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Land. We will get there,
you know. So he definitely was a

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Moses in our day. But I'm
with you, we didn't. We didn't

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have a Joshua. I haven't seen
a Joshua. And I think that maybe

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Malcolm could have been had he been
of a different faith than God. But

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he did convert, but people didn't
realize he starts speaking the truth and people

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didn't quite get it. And when
he starts speaking the truth, they had

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to get rid of him then.
So in actual respect, no, we

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haven't had a leader. We really
haven't. Not the people of our nassistic

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he say, But ethnicity, that's
the right, I'm trying to say ethnicity.

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But we have to take our own
touch, and we have to keep

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walking, and we have to keep
praying, and we have to have that

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faith. That's why I think now
God is telling his people have faith in

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me, see me, watch me, follow me, Listen to me,

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stay in my presence, because I'm
the only way you're gonna be able to

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get through it. I'm the only
one that's gonna be able to assist you

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that you don't get affected by what
is going on around the world. You're

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in this world, but you're not
of this world if we trust and watch

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and have faith in God and stay
in his presence. And that's where I

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am. And this is so perfect
for me because in my reading and I've

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journaled so far, I've been journaling. I am so excited. I am

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journaling because just like I said to
you all in starting the new day,

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I been the new year. We
have a long way to go, but

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we have a lull. I couldn't
see it all, but it starts there

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and and God just wants us to
start little, just little. He'll increase,

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He'll increase our faith is so little. He'll give us our desires,

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our heart and work with us and
progresses where we need to be. So

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with doctor Martin Luther King and I
have a dream it should change all of

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us and rebel. You know,
I understand what you're talking about, and

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I've seen it through my life,
and I'm fortunate my oldest felt it one

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day. But what people failed or
realize and what I will take this quote

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that I heard Miles Monroe said.
I was sitting in the audience not far

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from him. His exact words were, Prejudice is not something we're born with.

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It's taught. It's taught. Your
family didn't teach you to be prejudiced

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or look at skin or judge a
person by their appearance. They taught you

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people were people. Because if they
cut my finger and they cut their finger,

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it will still be red. Blood
is blood. So just know that

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it doesn't matter because you were taught
like I was taught, like I taught

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my girls, that we don't judge
people by their appearance. If anything,

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a lot of people get changed and
turned around because of attitude. And sometimes

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we don't know why people have attitudes. But the ignorance of knowing another person

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is the major downfall. Because they
did not want to learn who we were.

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They did not They just wanted to
use the skills we had. And

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that's all I have to say.
But tonight I wish people would have been

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taught more, you know, like
our neighborhood everybody lived in it, you

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know, and actually we thought we
were less than because see the man on

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the end of the street, he
had a fancy pool in his backyard and

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everything. He had a real good
job. He took care of his family.

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But you know what, he was
a black man. There was nothing

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wrong with him because he was rich. You know. We was like,

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oh, you know, he's got
it going on. He knows what to

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do to not only take care of
his family, but to provide them with

410
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luxury, you know. And we
weren't less than, but he knew better

411
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than we did. But we still
talked to him. We still had neighborhood

412
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gatherings. Everybody still got together.
There was no you know, oh,

413
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well you're rich or you know,
or this it is. We didn't learn

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that. We learned that people are
people, and hey, look, if

415
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your neighbor needs something, you go
say, hey, can we help you?

416
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You know, it don't matter what
anything. Well, then you're rich,

417
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:14.239
whether you're poor, you're people.
Everybody's a person, and you don't

418
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need to look at what people have
because just because you have don't mean that

419
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you're better, because it's all in
the eye of the beholder. I wish,

420
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:30.599
though that people could have like I
would have liked to learn more from

421
00:39:30.840 --> 00:39:37.159
Conrad's mama's head was always beautiful.
I was like, how does she get

422
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her hair to look like that?
I didn't know any better, you know,

423
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Like I just I always knew that
people were good to the heart,

424
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you know what, not because of
what they had, not because of what

425
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they look like, and not because
of anything else. We didn't see that,

426
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and I didn't know, you know, I didn't understand why some people

427
00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:08.400
were, in my opinion, in
my opinion, ignorant about what they said.

428
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:15.400
Because when that that really hurt me
when they sent things about my friends,

429
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:17.840
you know, because these are my
friends you're talking about. Why why

430
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:22.519
would you say that? I mean
there was even a time we was in

431
00:40:22.559 --> 00:40:24.840
school and they asked, well,
you know, what do you watch on

432
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TV? And I was practically laughed
out the classroom because I watched What's happening?

433
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I wanted to be friends with them. I watched. I was scared

434
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:42.320
of JJ's daddy. I think I
was gonna get a whooping. You know.

435
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:45.480
It's like, I, but these
are the things, and I would

436
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:49.239
go to school and I talk about
it, and they're like, what's Troy

437
00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:52.800
with you. What do you mean
you're not supposed to watch that? Why

438
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:59.800
not? And did go on and
on about stuff. I'm like, I

439
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:05.280
don't understand why you're saying this.
I never understood and I would not let

440
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:15.760
them change my opinion, and I
I didn't see anything different, And I

441
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:22.320
wish that I wish that that would
help other people understand. We have a

442
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:28.000
lot to learn from everybody out there. And if you don't, if you

443
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:32.280
close off your heart and you're blinded
by things that you shouldn't be seeing,

444
00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:39.159
you're never gonna learn anything. You're
never gonna just think about this when not

445
00:41:39.239 --> 00:41:45.840
to eleven hit? Did anybody care
what anything was? No? Everybody banded

446
00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:51.199
together because we were Americans. Why
can't we do that always? Why can't

447
00:41:51.239 --> 00:41:57.480
we see that everybody's people and everybody
needs to be together and learn from each

448
00:41:57.480 --> 00:42:04.199
other because there's so many things that
there's just so much that people need and

449
00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:07.800
you can't google everything to find out. But you know, having to sit

450
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:13.559
down with somebody and having a heart
to heart talk I think would really matter.

451
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:21.159
That's just my opinion. There's so
much, you know, Thank you

452
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:24.719
so much, Rebel, And it's
yeah, at the end of the hour,

453
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and I found two more and it
just fits right into what we all

454
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:32.559
are saying. One of his other
quotes, not everybody can be famous,

455
00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:40.280
but everybody can be great because greatness
is determined by service. Another one he

456
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:44.320
said, in the end, no, we don't want to do that one.

457
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:47.280
Oh yeah, in the end we
will remember not the words of our

458
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:54.079
enemies, but the silence of our
friends. And the last one, A

459
00:42:54.119 --> 00:43:00.159
man who won't die for something is
not fit to live. That's a good

460
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:07.280
one, and rebel hit it while
you sit down instead of judging people by

461
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:13.559
the kitchen window that you're looking out
and you see you don't know anything about

462
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:17.199
that person. But if you get
to know them, say hi, say

463
00:43:17.239 --> 00:43:24.679
hello, introduce yourself. That's how
you get to know people, and you

464
00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:30.880
learn people. That's what happens on
the job. When you get to know

465
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:37.679
people, they get to know you
and you realize, yes, I could,

466
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:40.039
I could understand this person, I
can work with this person. Because

467
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:45.159
you had a conversation with that person, you realize that they're not violent,

468
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:50.119
You realize that they don't fit the
stereotype that people try to put them in,

469
00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:57.400
and a lot of times they scared
to they judge you off of afraid

470
00:43:57.480 --> 00:44:00.440
of you taking something from them.
And a lot of times people don't won't

471
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:06.079
even take. They just want to
have a job and provide for their family.

472
00:44:06.519 --> 00:44:12.079
That's see it. Yeah, I
was gonna piggyback on on everything,

473
00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:15.159
and you know, Rebel, you
hit it on the head as well,

474
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:19.000
and just think it takes you know, it just takes one person to make

475
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:21.760
a difference. And I think a
lot of that. Well, now I

476
00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:27.239
was gonna say that too, Tommy
was fear. And so fear has been

477
00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:32.360
passed on from generation to generation of
what their perception of people of color,

478
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:39.480
white people, you know, other
other ethnicities or races or religious groups.

479
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:43.280
You know, it's the fear,
you know, you look at it.

480
00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:49.960
Even after the nine nine to eleven
incidents, the thing was now persons from

481
00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:54.079
the Middle East were supposed to be
feared, you know, because of the

482
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:58.519
acts of a few people, you
know what I mean. And so when

483
00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:05.800
you start judging a whole group based
on the acts a few, then you

484
00:45:05.800 --> 00:45:09.920
you cause this fear. You know. So we don't all have to agree,

485
00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:15.320
but we can agree to disagree.
I think being able to hear,

486
00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:22.159
listen, not hear, because here
you just listen, actually listen and have

487
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:27.920
dialogue and conversation and learning about cultures, read about the different cultures and then

488
00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:30.880
ask questions. And you know,
we can start as little as having culture

489
00:45:30.920 --> 00:45:35.599
groups, you know, each one, bring one, you know, somebody

490
00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:42.079
just to learn and then create create
round rules. We're not gonna call names,

491
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:46.159
We're not gonna We're just gonna listen
and maybe sharing just something that comes

492
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:51.519
sharing recipes or you know, I
like hamburger, like you know, anybody

493
00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:53.400
likes. You know, I like
skating, I like bowling, you know,

494
00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:59.920
just kind of creating great groups that
does not attach a color to it,

495
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.639
just attaches interest to it. And
I think once we do that,

496
00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:09.840
it'll be easier to communicate with people. And I grew up in a diverse

497
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:15.440
neighborhood. It was you know,
my father was retired military and I lived

498
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:19.559
in a military town, and so
you were liable to see all kinds of

499
00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:22.480
folks, you know, influxing in
and out and stuff like that. So

500
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.400
one of his tours, we were
able to go to Japan. I was

501
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:30.840
young, but we were able to
go to Okinawa, so and then coming

502
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:36.079
back, so he was exposed to
going abroad, you know, going mid

503
00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:40.480
you know, in the Middle Midwest
States when at that time it wasn't the

504
00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:45.519
greatest thing for a personal color to
be traveling, and especially if he drove

505
00:46:45.559 --> 00:46:51.039
along and so, but the experiences
and stuff and meeting good people. And

506
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:52.880
I think it just starts with one, every one of us as a leader,

507
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:55.920
and what is it that you want
to change? Be the change you

508
00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:00.159
want to see in the world.
So write down what you were like to

509
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:02.880
change, and it's just start somewhere. If it starts with a friend,

510
00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:05.719
you know, you got a friend
and say, you know, I don't

511
00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:08.559
do that that group of people,
Hey, let me let me talk to

512
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:14.320
you. Let's have a dialogue why
and just kind of explain, well,

513
00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:17.360
these are my experiences with the experience, wasn't that great? And that's the

514
00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:22.400
only experience they had because in that
they don't interact or don't see that population

515
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:27.480
all the time. So just kind
of decrease in the fear. And I

516
00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:32.079
think we can be the world that
we want to be in. Well,

517
00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:39.800
God is good and and and for
those of us who are believers, you

518
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:44.480
know, we need to take in
you know, consideration, do a check

519
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:47.880
you know of yourself, do self
inventory. I always say judge yourself so

520
00:47:47.960 --> 00:47:52.719
you won't be judged. Even though
that was from Shakespeare seeing three, Act

521
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:58.840
two. But yeah, but I
still have some scripture. I can follow

522
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:04.639
bet up. But you know,
and that's what Jesus taught. You know,

523
00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:07.280
this show was a beautiful experience with
me. I thank you for opening

524
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:10.119
my heart even more. God bless
you, Misty, thank you, Thank

525
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:15.519
you for your honor. Thank you
for listening, just really listening. You

526
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:20.599
know, we appreciate that. And
I feel safe here, you know,

527
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:23.599
to be able to express and say, hey, you know, we needed

528
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:27.519
to take a look at this or
this is things that we need to do,

529
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:29.800
and I just want to I know, we got two minutes. I

530
00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:34.760
just wanted to shift a little bit
and just really encourage everybody please stay safe

531
00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:42.159
out here. Our climate, our
landscape as America, Floridian, whether whatever

532
00:48:42.199 --> 00:48:47.400
state you live in, it's changing
and it's changing even more so we need

533
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:52.400
you to stay prayerful. We need
you to stay safe. We need to

534
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:57.320
use wisdom and ask for wisdom.
You know, get out of debt.

535
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:00.880
Make sure, you know, get
rid of it. That was the biggest

536
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:05.280
thing that I was training this weekend
with mentoring some of the churches go in

537
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:08.480
that closet and get rid of stuff
that you're not gonna use anymore. Create

538
00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:13.239
space in your house. Thank you
for bringing more enlightenment. I feel more

539
00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:15.719
positive in hearing this message from the
show tonight. Thank you country see,

540
00:49:16.519 --> 00:49:20.880
but go ahead and clean up.
Somebody need the bank. One of my

541
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:24.440
banks here was looking for coats for
the folks just here in or Land,

542
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:30.760
Florida, because of the lowering temp
lowering temperature. You know, do one

543
00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:35.440
thing, Go do one thing on
your things to do list. Tommy was

544
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.880
like, Hey, I'm journaling and
she loves it. It's a whole different

545
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:40.719
world for her. You know what
I'm saying. You know, I just

546
00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:45.480
told a group of elders that are
over sixty something years old create a vision

547
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:51.639
board. Life is not over yet. It's not over. And you don't

548
00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:53.440
want to do that. Cross it
off the list. I'm no longer in

549
00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:59.280
school. I crossed it off the
list. I got hundreds of things on

550
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:01.920
there to do. I want you
to love yourselves. We want you to

551
00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:06.199
love yourself, and we don't want
you to We don't want you to be

552
00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:10.880
taking advantage of use wisdom, pray
about everything, Increase your prayer, life

553
00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:15.239
study your word. Love God.
We're going to be back next week,

554
00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:19.840
I promise you, and as always, it's going to be enlightening and resourceful.

555
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:22.480
And if you have anything you want
to say, you know how to

556
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:24.199
reach us, you'd be blessed.
I'll see you soon, take care,

557
00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:44.960
guys, Thank y'all. Night,