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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: American Dream | Allen Jackson NOW | June 22, 2026
- Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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- I'm alan jackson.
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- As america approaches her
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- 250th birthday, we're facing an important question.
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- What kind of nation
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- Are we leaving to our children and grandchildren?
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- You know, for generations, americans
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- Were taught that this country
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- Was an extraordinary experiment in freedom,
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- Not because we were perfect, but because our founders believed
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- That our rights came from god, not from government.
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- They understood that freedom carried responsibilities,
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- That character mattered, and that faith
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- Played an important role in public life.
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- Well, today, that understanding is being challenged.
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- Instead of learning what made america strong.
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- Many are being taught why america should be criticized
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- Instead of being encouraged to see opportunity.
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- They are often encouraged to see obstacles.
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- Well, as a result, ideas
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- That have failed around the world
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- Like socialism and government dependance.
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- Well, they're finding new support
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- In major cities across our nation.
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- At the same time,
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- We seem to be overlooking the very people
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- Who keep this nation strong.
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- The father who gets up early and goes to work.
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- The mother who sacrifices for her family.
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- The police officer who runs towards danger.
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- The soldiers willing to defend people they may never meet.
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- They are ordinary americans doing extraordinary things.
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- And they remain the backbone of this nation.
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- But are we passing those values on to the next generation?
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- Have we forgotten
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- The role that faith played in shaping our country?
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- And what happens if we fail to preserve the principles
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- That have sustained america for 250 years?
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- Well, in a moment, we'll talk with doctor ben carson.
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- He's one of the most respected voices in america today.
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- And is america celebrates this historic milestone.
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- We'll ask him what must be done to ensure
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- America's best days are still ahead.
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- I'll be right back.
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- I'll be right back.
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- Well, tonight we're joined by the founder and chairman
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- Of the american cornerstone institute, doctor ben carson.
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- Welcome to the show, doctor carson.
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- Always good to be with you, pastor.
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- It is always good to get to visit with you.
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- You are a prime example of someone
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- Who has experienced the american dream.
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- You were born into a less than ideal circumstances.
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- Your fair share of poverty, a single mom,
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- And yet
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- You overcame through faith in god
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- And the opportunity of education.
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- You became the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery
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- In the u.s.
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- At johns hopkins, at 33.
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- You served there for more than 30 years.
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- You led a team of surgeons
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- In the first known separation of conjoined twins,
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- Among many other accomplishments in the o.r..
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- You were awarded the presidential
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- Medal of freedom by president bush.
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- You'll receive the same from president trump.
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- You served the presidential cabinet as a secretary of hd.
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- The list goes on and on.
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- My question is pretty simple.
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- Is there any other nation in the world
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- Where somebody could come from
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- Poverty to that list of achievem
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- Well, you know, my
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- Wife and i have visited 68 countries.
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- It'll be the 69th later this summer,
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- And there is no place that even comes close
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- To offering the same kind of opportunities.
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- You can work as hard as you want,
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- And you can realize your dreams.
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- And some people are trying to convince
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- Segments of our society that the american dream is dead.
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- It's not dead.
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- You know, we're the only country that has that dream.
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- There's no other country that has a dream
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- That everybody knows about.
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- And there's a reason for that.
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- And we really need to do everything
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- We can
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- To preserve it, because those who want to fundamentally
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- Change us can do so by creating dissension
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- And hatred in our hearts and our country.
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- They're working very hard to do that
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- Now, by telling certain people in our society
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- That everybody's against you,
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- That the government's against you,
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- That the system is against you, and you need to blow it up.
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- You know,
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- We seem to live in a season
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- Where we can't have civil discourse
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- Without a lot of shouting at one another.
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- And yet what i think of you, you represent
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- The notion of gentleness in a ukwa in a unique way.
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- You obviously have an intense desire
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- To learn, achieve and accomplish,
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- And yet you communicate with other people in a way
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- That brings that gentle spirit to bear.
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- Can you coach the rest of us on that just a bit?
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- Well, you know, the bible tells us,
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- Love god with all your heart
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- And love your neighbor as yourself.
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- If you build open areas yourself,
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- You're not going to be trying to tear them down.
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- You'll be trying to build them up.
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- You'll be kind.
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- You'll be gentle, you'll be rational.
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- You'll be willing to listen.
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- And can you imagine the difference in tone
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- That would occur in our country
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- If people were simply willing to sit down at the table
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- With the facts in the middle of the table
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- And discuss their differences,
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- Rather than hurling accusations and filthy names at each other.
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- We could do so much better, and we can do so much better.
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- It's a choice.
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- And there are those who are stirring the pot.
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- You can take the most radical left wing person
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- And the most radical right wing person,
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- And they'll agree on about 80% of stuff.
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- Why do we take that 20% they disagree on
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- And make that the thing that is most important,
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- And the thing that we spend all of our time on,
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- When we could start with the vast,
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- Honest things that we agree on and work together
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- To achieve solutions that we can both find acceptable.
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- That would be the rational way to do things.
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- I like your idea.
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- You have
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- Written a new book for children, and it's titled built on faith
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- Because you wanted children to know the real stories
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- Of the men and women
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- Whose courage and faith have built our nation.
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- Can you tell us a little bit about that book?
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- Yeah, well, it's so important that our children
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- Know who we are because there's so much propaganda now.
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- They start very early.
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- I think they were inspired by,
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- Lenin who said giving your children the teacher
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- For years.
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- And the seed that i show will never be uprooted.
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- And you've seen over the last couple of decades
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- A marked change.
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- And what teacher unions put forth
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- And what a lot of the lefties teach
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- Our children that america is bad.
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- We had slavery.
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- We treated the indians for they were systemically racist.
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- This, that and the other.
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- Blaming america for them.
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- And i'm not saying those things in half are.
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- But what i am saying and what we do teach
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- Through our little patriots program is that you have to
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- Look at everything the good, the bad and the ugly.
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- And there's a heck of a lot more
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- Good than there is bad and ugly.
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- Why not talk about that?
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- And that's what we do.
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- We talk about everything, but we put it into proper context
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- So that our young people are educated.
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- Unfortunately, a lot of people in our society are not educated.
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- They don't know very much.
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- And those are people who are very easy to manipulate.
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- I'm sure you've seen some of the man
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- On the street interviews
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- Where they ask them the simplest questions,
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- And they have no idea what you're talking about.
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- Well, those are people who can very easily,
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- Be manipulated
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- And come to believe that they live in an evil country
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- And that they should be part of changing
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- That sometimes in violent ways.
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- We just have to be extremely vigorous.
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- The bible says in proverbs 22 six, train up a child
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- In the way he should go when he's old and not depart from it.
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- That means getting in there on the ground level
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- And making
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- Sure that we teach our children what they should know
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- And what's really interesting.
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- If you take alexis de tocqueville,
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- Who came here in 1831 ostensibly to study our penal system,
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- But he said, let me look at the whole system.
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- He was so impressed by our governmental structure.
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- Checks and balances, separation of powers.
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- He was so impressed by the entrepreneurial business
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- Environment that we created, that made innovation easy
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- About the educational system in those one room schoolhouse
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- That taught children everything they needed to know
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- To succeed in our society.
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- He could find a mountain man and a guy could read.
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- A guy could tell him about the declaration of independence.
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- But what really impressed him more than anything
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- Were the churches
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- And the sermons that he came tumbling out of those pulpits,
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- Which inspired
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- A ragtag bunch of militiamen who didn't even have shoes
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- To defeat the most powerful military force on earth.
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- And to give the people a sense of morality.
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- You know, it was our second president,
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- John adams, who said that our constitution was designed
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- For a moral and religious people
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- And is wholly inadequate for the government of any others.
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- Think about that and think about all the things that went
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- Into creating the kind of nation we have and took.
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- So tocqueville said at the end of his
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- Two volume set, democracy in america.
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- America is great
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- Because america is good.
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- And if america ever ceases to be good,
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- She will cease to be great.
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- We have the formula
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- One nation under god to be good.
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- Will we choose it or not?
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- That is such an important question.
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- Every generation has to make a choice for themselves.
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- And i think those choices are on the table before us.
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- Speaker mike johnson recently said a prayer
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- At the rededicate america event.
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- And i want to play a clip of that prayer
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- And then ask you a follow up question. it's on this topic.
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- Over each
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- Of our 250 years, america has been a land of hope
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- And liberty, a place of miracles
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- And the light and glory of all nations.
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- Because of you.
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- And now, as we approach the 250th anniversary
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- Of american independence, we face a new,
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- New set of challenges in a new era.
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- In recent years, we've seen sinister ideologies
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- Sow confusion and discord among our people.
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- You know, you just reminded us that
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- Educating the next generation
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- About america's history has to be a priority.
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- And it is that for your american cornerstone institute.
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- But everything tells us there's a significant decline
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- Of patriotism amongst the young people.
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- What's at the root of that decline?
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- I think teaching and emphasizing,
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- That we had slavery,
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- That we put indians on reservations.
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- And so we put
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- Japanese internment camps
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- And emphasizing that and saying that that's who we are.
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- Those are things that happen.
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- But it has to be in context.
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- You know, there's no nation ever go back as far as you want.
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- It didn't have to deal with slavery.
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- So that didn't make us unique that we had slavery.
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- What made us unique
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- Is that we had so many people who opposed it
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- That we fought a bloody civil war and lost a large portion
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- Of our population to get rid of it.
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- And it was the principles of our constitution
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- That had led us in the right direction, that has gotten us
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- Through many of the situations that we face.
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- We had the right kind of laws
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- And the right kind of fidelity,
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- And it made a very big difference and who we became,
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- And it will make
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- A big difference in the future if we adhere to it.
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- And there are those who want to change it.
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- And they say, you know, our constitution is not
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- For us today.
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- It was okay back in those days, but maybe not so much now.
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- I don't think
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- So, because i think it was largely based upon
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- Our judeo-christian belief system.
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- And, there's no question it is not compatible with
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- Sharia law.
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- It is not compatible with communism.
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- And i don't make any apologies for that.
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- That's who we are.
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- That was how we got from nowhere.
- 00:13:04.443 --> 00:13:07.012
- A bunch of ragtag militiamen
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- Running around to the pinnacle of the world in record time.
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- It wasn't a coincidence.
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- It was because of our belief system.
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- Well, doctor carson, we need to take a short break.
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- I hope you'll stay with us for another segment.
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- Absolutely.
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- And for those of you watching, if you happen to have your phone
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- Close by, try logging on to aj now.com.
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- You can send me an email with your thoughts on this topic.
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- I'll be right back.
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- I'll be right back.
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- We're back now with doctor ben carson.
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- Doctor carson, the vice president, j.d.
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- Vance, recently appeared on the view.
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- I know you've had some experience there.
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- The host made claims to the trump
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- Administration to try to erase black history from america.
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- What would your response have been to those claims?
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- I would say prove it to me.
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- That's what matters for us, for the best.
- 00:14:05.438 --> 00:14:07.707
- There's no attempt to erase, black history.
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- There, there is an attempt to make sure
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- That all of our history is included
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- And that we don't segment people.
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- You know, you probably heard today
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- About the attempt to have special
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- Employment, government employment,
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- Contracts for lbg t q community.
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- You know, that
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- Just doesn't make any sense.
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- You choose,
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- To be whatever you want to be, and you can love
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- Whoever you want.
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- But why do you get to have special privileges
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- And set aside by the government?
- 00:14:52.352 --> 00:14:55.088
- This doesn't make any sense.
- 00:14:55.088 --> 00:14:57.090
- And our current
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- Administration wants things based on merit.
- 00:14:59.392 --> 00:15:03.129
- Was there a time when perhaps,
- 00:15:03.730 --> 00:15:07.500
- You needed to have some set aside for
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- Black americans who had been freed from slavery
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- And really had no support system?
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- Yes, i will say that's true.
- 00:15:17.577 --> 00:15:20.013
- But you can't lean on that forever.
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- And you look at how much progress has been made
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- Just in my lifetime.
- 00:15:27.553 --> 00:15:29.789
- I remember as a six year old, going into the deep south
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- And seeing all these whites only and colors on these signs.
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- This is the same lifetime.
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- We have black admirals and generals and ceos of fortune
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- 500 companies and heads of foundations
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- And university presidents, rebellion.
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- Presidents of the united states.
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- Can you really say that nothing's
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- Changed, that we haven't made enormous progress,
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- And we cannot continue to make progress.
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- If we segment society, if we don't put everybody
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- On a level playing field and do things based on
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- Merit and not set asides.
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- President trump has named you as the vice chair
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- Of the religious liberty commission.
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- Can you share with us some of the biggest threats,
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- Religious liberty that we're facing in america?
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- Oh, boy.
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- There are a lot of them, and we very much need the commission.
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- We're actually going to be, reporting,
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- To the president next week,
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- On some of the recommendations. but,
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- You know, the the key thing for us is to recognize
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- That, yes,
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- Everybody is free to believe what they want to believe,
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- But we don't want to be in a situation
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- Where we twist our society
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- To make it fit into everybody's ideology.
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- We have a judeo-christian foundation.
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- And, you know, unlike great britain,
- 00:17:05.451 --> 00:17:09.288
- You know, they allow large segments
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- Of their country to live under sharia law.
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- That changed
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- Significantly who they were.
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- Do we want to go down that road?
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- I think we can be fair, to people
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- Without actually changing who we are.
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- And that's going to be a big challenge, though,
- 00:17:33.446 --> 00:17:35.715
- Because, you know, it sounds right
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- To let everybody
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- Live the way they want and to change our society
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- To fit the way that they want to live.
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- It sounds like it's compassionate thing to do,
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- But not if it fundamentally changes who we are.
- 00:17:50.296 --> 00:17:53.966
- And it's similar to,
- 00:17:54.433 --> 00:17:57.470
- Lgbtq
- 00:17:57.470 --> 00:17:59.805
- People can do what they want,
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- But when they begin to say
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- Everybody else has to also do what they want.
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- That becomes a problem.
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- And, these are going to be very
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- Interesting areas that we're going to have to deal
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- With as a nation if we want to continue to be
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- The kind of nation
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- That has spawned such freedom
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- And innovation in the past.
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- Well, i want to ask one more question.
- 00:18:29.268 --> 00:18:31.470
- Recently, the southern poverty
- 00:18:31.470 --> 00:18:33.072
- Law center has been indicted for fraud and money
- 00:18:33.072 --> 00:18:36.542
- Laundering allegations that they bankrolled the kkk
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- And some other hate driven organizations.
- 00:18:40.613 --> 00:18:44.383
- Now, you've had some firsthand
- 00:18:44.383 --> 00:18:45.518
- Knowledge with that organization.
- 00:18:45.518 --> 00:18:48.321
- They came after you.
- 00:18:48.321 --> 00:18:50.256
- Can you tell us a bit about that? and.
- 00:18:50.256 --> 00:18:52.792
- Well, i must say i was gratified by the fact
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- That they got so much pushback
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- That they immediately took me off the list.
- 00:18:58.064 --> 00:19:01.133
- I think they had a hard time explaining
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- How i was a terrorist.
- 00:19:04.770 --> 00:19:08.074
- To a lot of the, the,
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- The liberal woke media.
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- If you're black
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- And you don't agree with them,
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- Then somehow you're a threat.
- 00:19:17.283 --> 00:19:19.852
- You're a threat if you think for yourself.
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- And if you have influence
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- That encourages other people to think for themselves.
- 00:19:24.490 --> 00:19:28.261
- And, you know, the southern poverty law center
- 00:19:28.261 --> 00:19:31.030
- Probably started out with good intentions,
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- But, over the years have allowed themselves
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- To be infiltrated and influenced,
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- By people who perhaps had ulterior motives.
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- And it's very sad to see something like that.
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- I'm hopeful that maybe from this incident,
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- They can learn, they can go back and they can
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- Look at their original goals and maybe,
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- Become a useful entity once again.
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- Well, doctor carson, thank you for your time today.
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- We always appreciate
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- Your thoughtful insight and the work that you're doing.
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- You're a blessing, all of us.
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- It's wonderful to be with you.
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- And please give your wonderful family my regards.
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- We'll do that.
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- We'll be back in just a moment.
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- We'll be back in just a moment.
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- Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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- We always look forward to your emails and your thoughts.
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- Lisa from south carolina wrote, it's
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- So clear why the left media and democrats
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- So strongly resist the public display of the ten commandments.
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- Thou shalt not bear false witness,
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- Akin to how the sadducees and pharisees
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- Used deception to persecute christ and his disciples.
- 00:20:48.842 --> 00:20:51.945
- So it's done today
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- Against conservatives, christians, parents. it's
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- A ten commandments were visible in all the public spaces.
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- Then the power of those against the truth
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- And their great mass deceptions would rightly vanish.
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- Bless you.
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- Well, lisa, i
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- Join you in looking forward
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- To seeing the ten commandments put back in public.
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- I've been working with some of them in our community
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- To see that happen in our high schools again,
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- But we can start in our homes.
- 00:21:15.268 --> 00:21:16.737
- Let's be sure that those people under our rules
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- That we share the dinner table
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- With are familiar with the ten commandments.
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- And they don't just know the principles
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- That we encourage one another to live by them.
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- I think our behavior at home can ultimately influence
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- The government.
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- I'm not going to wait for the government
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- To get it right to started our kitchen table.
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- We can be the difference makers.
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- Sally from illinois commented.
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- Brandon tatum said it all perfectly.
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- You both are presenting
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- The challenges with solutions and a call to do something.
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- Well, sally, i agree brandon gets it right.
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- When i grow up, i want to be as eloquent
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- And as funny as brandon.
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- Im afraid that is.
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- He is a gift to all of us.
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- Again, thank you for spending a bit of your day with us.
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- God is moving in the earth.
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- Let's join him in what he's accomplishing.
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- God bless you and good night.
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