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July 14, 2025 | 22:37

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Federal Accreditation | Allen Jackson Now | July 14, 2025

Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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School is out,
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And a lot of parents are trying to figure out
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Where to send their children to college this fall.
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It used to be that the college search
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Was focused on the quality, the professors,
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The look and feel of the campus,
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Maybe recommendations from friends,
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And even the success of the school's football team.
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But things have changed, and families are now
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Also looking
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At the ideological messages which schools are pushing.
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None of which shows up in their sales pitch.
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Things have gotten so bad at some schools
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That students are afraid to come out of their dorm rooms
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Because they fear they might get hurt.
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Deeply progressive teachers think that a semester
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Of economics 101 is just the right place
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To teach the value of socialism and communism,
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Where capitalism is a bad thing and workers are exploited
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And underpaid.
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Of course,
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They say nothing about the misery
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That existed in east germany before the berlin
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Wall came down, or the old soviet
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Union or china and north korea today, or even cuba,
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Where the average government salary $17 a month.
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Well, fortunately, some of our elected leaders
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Are trying to do something to turn things around.
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So with that,
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I want to introduce our guest today,
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The distinguished congressman from utah, burgess owens.
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Welcome back congressman.
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And i was looking forward to chatting with you.
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Have some great topics. i can't wait to get started for sure.
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Well, i want to thank you on behalf of so many people,
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But i know for the fact that
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You introduced the accreditation for college excellence act,
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Which makes very clear that federal accreditation
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Must never be used as a tool to enforce ideological conformity.
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Translation.
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No more speech.
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Police pressuring colleges
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To adopt d-i mandates or crt programs.
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Can you tell us more about what you have in mind?
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Well, first of all, i think that's a great monologue.
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When you get started with this process
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And you're correct, the parents are now awake, we're realizing,
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And i'll say this, the toughest as we went and was covid.
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But during covid, we had a chance to
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To try to begin to look about this shoulder,
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To see what they're being taught.
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We learned that this is not something
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That's been happening just overnight.
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It's been going up for quite a while.
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The marxist has been marching through our educational system,
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And now we're beginning to see the fruit of that.
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We now go to colleges where common sense
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Makes no sense at all.
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And those in these places, we have folks who who are
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Who don't have the courage
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To go out and start a business and build and take risk.
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They find themselves
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In these college institutions with verse eight.
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It has come to them.
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They leave. they learn from them.
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They leave with debt. way to hide.
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Who would take care of, with.
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With a degree to mean nothing.
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And at the same time here in our country.
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So those things are changing.
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And this is just one piece of it.
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We're realizing throughout that the entire supply chain,
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The masters have been putting their stamp
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In accreditations, a big piece of it.
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Graduation basically says
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That based on these particular creditors,
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Colleges can either receive funds, can get, difficult
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To put through or not.
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So they have a lot of power.
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And that power has been pretty much dictating things like the,
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Critical race theory,
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All the crazy things we're now seeing that our kids
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Are coming through.
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So assume the better colleges
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That in the past had remarkable reputations.
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So that's changing now.
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This is just one case of it.
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And, we're also with the one big, beautiful bill.
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We're looking at having colleges have some kind of,
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Skin in the game.
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If they're putting out kids that cannot get a good job
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With the degrees that mean absolutely nothing.
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We'd have to claw back
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Some of their income
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And make sure that some of these funds,
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Some of the bills, these kids are coming through with it.
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So this accreditation piece is just one small piece
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Of the entire process that we're now looking at to make sure
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That we have the smartest, most productive workforce.
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Preparing this middle class
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That that any touch has ever seen before.
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And i'm excited about being part of that process.
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Well, another thing i noticed about your accreditation act
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Is it protects the colleges religious mission
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And its ability to require adherence
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To religious codes of conduct and practices.
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You know, as a pastor, i can tell you
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There are plenty of parents
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And students who are looking for that.
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Can you explain what your thoughts are here?
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Well, it comes down as comes down to that's what it
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When at the end of the day,
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We have certain rights and then handed
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In the right of speech, the right of religion.
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And those are part, all part of it.
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We our country is the great country.
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It is because we begin
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With the concepts of becoming a more perfect union,
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With the concept of a faith as being a big piece
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Of what makes freedom what it is.
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So understand that everything we're doing right
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Now is just getting ourselves back on track on the way out.
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You always felt,
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The idea of religion,
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Those goals, this student that that, that allowed people
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To come to get the gain of faith, gain
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That their confidence, those things, those, those,
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Those institutions should be also protected
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And allowed to proceed and move forward
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And not not put in the position
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Where they're they're put out of business.
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Well, i think i think it's important
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At least to kind of highlight what we're up against.
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You know, our country is based on judeo christian values.
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The idea of becoming a more perfect union,
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That all men are created equal, that we can have a fair chance
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Because we have a safe society.
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The other side of that,
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Of that coin is something called marxism.
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Marxism hates the tenets that we believe,
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And we believe in faith, family, the free market, education.
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They hate every single one of them.
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So is that what we've been dealing with for generations?
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Really for decades or our institutions?
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It's trying to undermine everything
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That our country is built upon.
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And so we're getting back to that.
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We're going to make sure our kids come through
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Not only with an education that will prepare them
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For a remarkable workforce that we're going to grow.
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Thinking outside the box, they would take a risk
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If they fail because they have the faith.
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They can stand back up
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And say, in this country, you always have a second chance,
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To look for children inside out, not outside in.
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Everything i'm talking right now is the american way.
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Things we grew up with that we now,
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At least all kids have the same opportunities to
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To live that experience and just take this legacy
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That we've been given down to the next generation.
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So education is is all part of it.
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And i'm just thankful you kind of,
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Made an analogy earlier
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At the table with the things i'm doing here.
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Just know this is the american way.
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We are coming together like never before.
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We the people are making changes here in dc.
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We're expecting certain things to happen to us
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And our college institutions.
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And i'm just again, proud to be part of it.
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But it all began in november of last year.
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Many people said, we've got to get back
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Ourselves, back on track.
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And this is the result of getting that done.
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Well, still, on the subject of schools.
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You've also been pressing the case for something else
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That was in the big
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Beautiful bill recently passed nationwide school choice.
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You know, it's not a party issue
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Because more than 80% of the country
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Democrats and republicans support school choice.
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You're not the only member pushing for this.
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Listen to senator ted cruz.
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Across america, millions of children,
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Especially low income african american and hispanic
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Children, are trapped in failing schools.
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They face crime and violence and despair
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Without the ability to learn and prosper.
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They are denied a fair shot at the american dream school.
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Choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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Every child, regardless of race or wealth or ethnicity,
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Deserves access to an excellent education.
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And when you spoke of your own family history
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On this idea growing up in the segregated south,
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Did you share a bit of that with our viewers? now?
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Absolutely.
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And thanks for the thanks, jacob, for the emphasis
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You're putting on this.
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There's nothing
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Nothing more important for our kids to see than hate it.
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It was well founded, said eager to free.
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Can never be. well, that's the bottom line.
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Now, for those who don't know,
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I grew up in the deep south, segregated south.
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My first exposure, white america, was now 16 years old.
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Let me tell you about that community
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I grew up in, because everything
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You believe that faith, family, free market, education
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Was we competitive. we wanted to man respect.
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In my black community across the country.
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You know, the only way we could command
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Respect was by winning through meritocracy.
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But make sure educated we can debate issues.
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We can go out and work hard.
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We have strong families.
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We can educate our kids.
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How can from the 1940s until the 1960s,
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Because those tenets that we tied into
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As a segregated community,
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My race, the black community, led our country to growth.
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The middle class
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Men matriculated with college men
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Committed to marriage and percentage of entrepreneurs.
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Keep in mind that this is
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Against all of the races, because there's so focus on
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Making sure
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That when our kids left the home,
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They were prepared to go out and ultimately win.
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And bill would be a good reflection
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On the community that that they left.
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You see what's going on right now?
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Well, that's turned upside down
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Because the leftists have done a great job of
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Of making sure our kids are agree
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In the state of california, 2017.
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65% i'm sorry, 75% of the black boys could not read and write.
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You know, see that they didn't rate us up.
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I've got to say, this just came out just recently that
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Basically 70 to 80% of kids across our country
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Cannot read and do math.
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We have places in baltimore, zero proficiency in math
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That is a result of marxism.
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That's the result of the power of education.
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There's more concern about adults
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Than there are about our kids.
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So this this bill that we're going through right now
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That allows a entities like ourselves to invest
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And to have a crack at tax credits, and those tax credits.
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This does not come out.
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This does not come out at all out of the
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The local environment, the local districts.
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Every parent can go to these schools to grab an organization,
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Pull money out of that
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To do
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Public, private, parochial, homeschool,
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Whatever they might want to do for their kid
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And get the chance to have true merit in this system.
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One thing i found that we haven't been missing
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From the very beginning.
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We don't have competition in education.
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Every other place, every industry has it.
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And that's why we get the best product,
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The least cost education to been a monopoly is being controlled
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By the hardware, and therefore we have no choice.
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And so many kids are getting hurt.
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So this will bring merit back, has to start
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Looking at the best choice for themselves.
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And guess what?
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Those schools in the past have not had competition.
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They're going to become better now.
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Public schools become better because now they have,
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They got only want to know kids and be accountable
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For that process.
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Well, congressman nolan, stay with us for another segment.
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We've got a lot more to talk about during the break.
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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 utah congressman burgess owens.
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There's quite a lot more that goes on at the capitol
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That doesn't get the national attention it deserves.
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So let me bring this up today.
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You and florida
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Congressman byron donalds introduced a resolution.
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It hasn't been voted on yet, but it ties into the fact
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That you have six children and 17 grandchildren already.
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Not everybody is so blessed.
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So you want to make sure that the country knows that
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Nearly one out
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Of every four american children
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Doesn't have a father in their life.
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Senator josh hawley is on your side as well.
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Listen to his remarks.
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You have a generation,
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Multiple generations now, many of whom many young men
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Have grown up without their dads around.
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We have an epidemic of fatherlessness in this country.
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Can you tell us what you have in mind for your resolution?
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Absolutely.
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And i think it's so timely.
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Again, i must say, these are remarkable times of god's grace
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And that that our country is kind of looking back.
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What we need to do better.
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We're kind of episcopal looking at this thing, to say that
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We're off track and into, to make this thing right,
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We have to get our family back in place.
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And i was just very blessed.
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I was raised by a remarkable to the greatest generation.
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These were men who went off to fight the war.
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They came back to go to remote middle class
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Who still to believe in fate.
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They left their families that regard,
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And they believe in their families.
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It comes down to very simply, this young men
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Will emulate what they see in that household.
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They will.
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They want to be what they see in the household.
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I'm thankful to have a father went to world war two.
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It came back and he taught me some basic
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Things that was told of that generation
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Who have god, country, family, respect, women and authority.
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We were taught that. so
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It it was very it's instinctive for us to do certain things.
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We see women, for instance, being attacked with
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See me and trying to compete in women's sports.
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It's against our very core because we were taught
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That was not the way to respect womanhood.
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So those are kind of things that,
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That, that young men have to see.
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Unfortunately.
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The great meeting i talked about in the last segment,
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I saw it disappearing.
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I saw it this spring when these welfare,
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Departments were put together.
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Only thing that needed to be that had to, to qualify
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Was women.
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Not to have a man not to have a job
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And have as many kids they want to.
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Now, just imagine what that does to a young man who grows up.
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Never understand what it is
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To be responsible to protect, provide,
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To think outside the box and go hard, hard work,
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But get to see people coming in and coming out.
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That's what they're going to. and that's what emily.
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So right now that the day when i was growing up, when,
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What, 80% of men
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Were married to the mothers of their children
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When i was raised in the black community, turned upside down is
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Only now down is 80% of the men i have deserted their families.
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Manhood is about fatherhood.
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It's. how can i be a great example?
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How can i be the leader if they put tector the example?
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And so if you if you do that, we will
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We will start to get back that strong family unit.
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We're not only young men know what to do
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When they grow up, but young women
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Know what to look for when they grow up
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And what what kind of husband they want to have to
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To have this family with and grow with.
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So that's going to be a talk
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About a society that needs to, to survive.
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The family unit is the very core of that.
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And we have to get back to it for sure.
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Well, here's another idea you've had that i love renaming
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Several rooms inside the house press gallery in the capitol
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After frederick douglass.
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That's the place where the reporters work
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When they're covering congress.
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You've got several co-sponsors already.
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So would you please explain
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Why you chose frederick douglass for this press gallery plan?
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And and,
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Well, it's for those who know the history.
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They understand who he was a very good friend of of,
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Of abraham lincoln.
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I took a person who was born in slavery in terms of
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How to read.
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And so what
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We're talking about now,
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Hundreds of years later, because because of what the impact
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He had and the pride he had and when what our race could do.
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You know, i want to thank barrett again.
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Barrett is the one who's kind of initiated this process
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And we have a bipartisan buy into it.
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It's where john frederick douglass would come
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And do press reporting for his newspaper.
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It's right above right above the house floor.
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And, and i had a chance just to take my family
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Up to visit that.
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So it is now the frederick douglass press gallery.
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It's to highlight again the greatness of our nation
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That a former slave can become friends first to a president
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To be to be invited
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To come into the into the the white house, i mean, the,
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The, the, the house of representatives
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To to report to his is to his paper.
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That's what america comes down to.
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And now we see we're come so much farther further than that.
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We have now black men and women on the floor as a president
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Across the board.
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It based on merit that we can do anything.
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And so that's the real message, i think, of frederick douglass
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Press gallery is that in this country,
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Anything is possible if you dream big.
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Overcome obstacles. don't feel sorry for yourself.
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Never be a victim.
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Be a victor.
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And here's a great example of that.
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And here we are talking about him
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And somebody i have so much respect for.
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And i'm glad to be part of this,
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This process of getting his name,
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Given the honor that he really, really does deserve.
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Congressman, i'm curious, do you think frederick douglass
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Would have given gallery credentials
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To some of the washington media
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Who call themselves journalists today?
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That's he would have spoken out.
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He would have done because he believed in free speech.
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But believe me, he would have been
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At the very front of putting down
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What is happening now in our country.
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And here's the thing.
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And i'm just going to wrap that on a nice little bow.
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We're going to get our kids educated
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So we can have these kind of conversations.
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And no matter which side
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We sit on,
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As long as we can feel
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Comfortable and comfortable in ourselves,
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We can have the toughest decisions,
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Our toughest conversations,
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Still respect each other, to still be friends
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And move our country forward because we still have the same
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Basic endgame for our country.
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That is what frederick douglass stood for.
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That's what president,
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Abraham lincoln stood for.
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That's why our president today, donald trump, stands for.
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And so do the american people.
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That's why we voted the way we did in november.
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So we're coming back to that becoming a more perfect new.
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And you can see it happening
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With fatherhood, with engagement, the way we are
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With getting good people that we're speaking, talk
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And respect each other
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And more importantly, having such a commitment to our kids.
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They should run circles around us.
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We should be proud of of what we're leaving our name to.
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No way to do that
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Is make sure they're educated, they're working hard.
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They become part of the middle class.
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Then they're willing to fight and fight for this great country
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That that they now can really, truly appreciate.
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Well, congressman burgess owens, thank you
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For sharing your time with us today.
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We'll have you on again soon.
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Thank you, my friend.
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Appreciate it. look forward to it. absolutely.
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In a moment.
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Signs of hope. and later some of your emails.
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So stay right where you are and i'll be right back.
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So stay right where you are and i'll be right back.
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I am profoundly grateful to congressman
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Owens for his tireless efforts
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Towards a brighter future for our children.
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The awkward reality is that education must be reimagined.
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It isn't working. our schools are less safe.
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They're less effective.
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Our universities,
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They're fertile grounds for a worldview opposed to ours.
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It wasn't always that way.
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A bit of history will help.
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Perhaps our finest universities began as schools to train
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Christian ministers.
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Places like harvard and yale.
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Of the first 108 universities founded in america,
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106 were distinctly christian, including the first harvard
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University, chartered in 1636.
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For over 100 years,
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More than 50% of all harvard graduates were pastors.
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It's clear from history that the bible
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And the christian faith were foundational
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To our educational and our judicial system.
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We're not the first generation where our schools have wandered
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Into the weeds,
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Who seek the applause of a secular culture
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By diminishing our commitment to biblical values.
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We are simply the current version.
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The question is, how far will we allow our institutions to
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Drift before we use our voices and our influence?
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We see the negative outcomes.
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I believe with all my heart
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That christianity is the hope of humanity.
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Jesus changes us from the inside out.
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So we must be the voice of truth
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In this season of cultural change.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us.
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Just a reminder, if you missed the live
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Broadcast, you can always go to aj.
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Now, dot com.
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There's an archive there of all the shows.
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You can watch them at your leisure.
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There's an easy link. you can send us an email.
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Maybe share an episode with a friend.
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Your emails are always a highlight.
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Rebecca sent a note.
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She said, i pray for israel and her people every day.
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I have a hard time understanding
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All the anti-semitism in america.
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The jewish people are the lord's chosen people
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And they've been persecuted so much.
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I feel there is demonic work at hand.
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What can we do as born-again believers
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To stop this hatred in our own country?
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Well, rebecca, i think we could start
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Perhaps in our local churches and congregations,
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Just reminding one another of the
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We are indebted to the jewish people.
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It's a biblical idea.
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Without the jewish people, we have no scriptures.
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We have no law. we have no covenants.
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We have no messiah.
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We owe them a debt of gratitude.
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Doesn't mean
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Everything that israel does
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Is perfect or should be supported,
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But it does mean we have to pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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And we have an obligation
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To be advocates for the jewish people.
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Sandra emailed.
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Thank you for your message of encouragement
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To step out of our own perspective and give thanks.
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Well, sandra, it seems like we've become
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A nation of entitlements,
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And i believe one of the most powerful things
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We can do to break that very destructive trend
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Is to begin to practice a sense of gratitude.
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We have more blessings than any people in history,
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And yet we're stamping our feet
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Like petulant children demanding more.
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Let's just start every day by saying to god, thank you.
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We have food to eat and shelter, and we have hope for a future.
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That's a reason to be grateful.
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Well, i'm alan jackson,
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Thank you for spending a bit of time with us.
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And i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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