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Dr. Alveda King: America’s Next Great Awakening & The Downfall of D.E.I. | The Stakscast

April 1, 2025 | 22:25

Dr. Alveda King: America’s Next Great Awakening & The Downfall of D.E.I. | The Stakscast
Are we on the precipice of a new great awakening, and what does that mean for the future of America? Over the last four years, we’ve seen the rise of radical, far-left ideas like transgenderism, gender re-assignment surgeries for children, unrestricted abortion and D.E.I. initiatives. Yet, Americans responded loudly, culminating in a landslide election victory for Donald Trump. Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., shares why there’s hope for America and how God’s way is the answer. From dealing with issues of life, justice, and equality to experiencing God move in a powerful way, discover what could be next for America.
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| Dr. Alveda King: America’s Next Great Awakening & The Downfall of D.E.I. | The Stakscast | April 1, 2025
  • When martin luther king himself was killed
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  • Before my dad was killed 18 months later,
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  • He said, forgive and love.
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  • You can't hate white people. they pray with us.
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  • They go to jail with us. they die with us.
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  • We must learn to live together
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  • As brothers not perish together as fools.
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  • Other nations have fallen,
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  • And i believe god has given us another chance
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  • And another opportuny or another reprieve
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  • I think we should take the greatest advantage of that.
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  • And to not fight, not accuse each other.
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  • If i don't see you, how can i love you?
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  • Let me go through a little exercise.
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  • Hold this fist bump right here.
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  • Come on. yes, erick, you are wanted.
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  • You are needed.
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  • You are loved.
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  • Now i see you.
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  • We have to see each other.
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  • Share that compassion with each other on purpose.
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  • So we can love each other.
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  • We can repent, we can reconcile, and we can move ahead.
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  • We are here at the annual nrb convention, national religious broadcasters.
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  • And we're here with the one and only dr. alveda king.
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  • Our good friend joining us here on the tbn,
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  • Set. alveda, always great to see you.
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  • Erick is so good to be here.
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  • Tbn its so amazing broadcasting around the world
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  • And it really is important to occupy the airwaves
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  • And yall do it well.
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  • Yeah, thank you. and you're part of that, alveda and this conference is great
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  • Because this is religious broadcasters
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  • From around the world, including yourself, by the way,
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  • We are going to talk about your music as well.
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  • But alveda let's start with what's happening in our country
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  • Right now.
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  • It feels like right now, frankly,
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  • There's a move of god in america.
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  • Absolutely. a divine turn around and stirrings of revival.
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  • A lot of that starts at the white house with the new administration.
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  • What are you seeing right now? you've got to be encouraged.
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  • We've had a quarter of a century.
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  • And if you go back to 2000,
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  • President bush, the hanging chads, 9/11
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  • Coming at that time, and america did make a bit of a mistake.
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  • Even with 9/11. we will rebuild.
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  • But we forgot to say with god's help, we will rebuild.
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  • And so we went through that time.
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  • And then we've had several presidents since that time.
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  • Of course, you've had bush,
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  • You've had obama, you've had trump,
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  • You've had biden and trump isnt that
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  • Amazing? yeah.
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  • And so during those times, america has remembered
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  • That we absolutely have to pray.
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  • And there's been a lot of prayer that led up to this
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  • Election. yes.
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  • And we remember
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  • That its going to have to be with the help of god.
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  • So here we are, people are angry and frightened.
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  • I know some are, but some are hopeful
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  • And some are relying on god.
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  • The only answer that we can absolutely have
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  • Is to have faith in god.
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  • And that's really the word that i'm having now.
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  • Faith, hope, love.
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  • And then reconciliation.
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  • One blood, one human race.
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  • And we cannot be color blind if i don't see you,
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  • How can i love you if i don't appreciate your ethnicity?
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  • There's one race, one human race.
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  • Martin luther king jr and my uncle.
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  • We must learn to live together as brothers
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  • And all that as sisters and not perish together as fools
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  • Yeah. so we can love each other.
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  • We can repent, we can reconcile and we can move ahead.
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  • Yeah, it's the only way through the lord.
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  • And alveda, it seems like and i've been saying this
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  • Over the past several weeks with president trump,
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  • This is a king josiah moment.
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  • The bible talks about josiah tearing down the high places.
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  • Absolutely. and sadly, as you said, the past quarter of a century,
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  • So many high places and frankly, evils
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  • Had taken root in america.
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  • And seems like now is the time they're coming down and they're coming down rapidly
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  • All too often in the bible
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  • And you have many more bad kings and good kings.
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  • But then it was say and he was a good king,
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  • But he did not remove those high places.
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  • And one thing that people did not understand with the usaid,
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  • For example, or equity and all of that,
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  • There were other things tucked into the legislation
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  • That were not good.
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  • So they seem to be very, very good.
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  • But they had other things that were going to be harmful
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  • Inside the legislation.
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  • So he had to go back and remove everything.
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  • It was amazing. but i just decided on my own to run my own poll and i would say
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  • You work with people who work for the government
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  • And everybody went home to work from home.
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  • At covid. what really happened?
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  • They said, well, a lot of people
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  • Just got another job and kept taking that check, too.
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  • I found that was really true more often than not.
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  • And absolutely some of the people have died,
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  • But the checks was still going somewhere
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  • And they're voting probably too. in 2014.
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  • My mom died last march and her ballots came to the house.
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  • I tore them up.
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  • I didn't vote for her.
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  • I did not. but a lot of people.
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  • Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  • Wow, folks, by the way, we are again
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  • At the nrb convention in dallas, texas.
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  • If you hear a little bit of background
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  • Noise, there's a lot of hustle and bustle here,
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  • A lot of believers,
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  • Great christian broadcasters, podcasters, radio host tvs.
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  • They're all gathered here in dallas.
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  • Alveda king, of course, is one of them.
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  • Alveda, you mentioned dei, diversity, equity and inclusion.
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  • The trump administration
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  • Doing away with that at all levels,
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  • Especially in the federal government.
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  • Why is that such an important thing
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  • For some people say, wow, well,
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  • I was great for the african-american community
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  • And now it's gone.
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  • Why is important to eliminate dei?
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  • We will get something better.
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  • My mother always taught you don't take something away
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  • Unless you have something better.
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  • And so what we want is genuine equality.
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  • We want everyone to have a fair chance and an equal chance.
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  • My friend alice johnson,
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  • I don't know if you've heard of her, but trump's new czar know she's going to be the pardon czar
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  • And so she says, we don't want to just give pardons,
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  • But when they come home, we want a safe community.
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  • We want them to have a better life.
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  • We want them to have an opportunity to work
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  • And contribute to that community.
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  • So dei really didn't do that.
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  • Dei often created programs of dependency
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  • And people were depending on handouts, but
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  • They had no work ethic, no genuine opportunity.
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  • And without that is not a level in an equal playing field.
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  • And so we want to see everyone as human beings.
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  • We value human dignity.
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  • But the the i always said as a young woman,
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  • I say, why are you only going to give 10% to the black community?
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  • I want the 100% like everybody else gets to try
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  • To have that hundred percent. why are we only worth 10%?
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  • It didn't make sense.
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  • Wow, yeah, great point number one. now aveda,
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  • Number two, along those lines, i think of the election november
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  • 2024, record numbers of african-americans, hispanics,
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  • Young people, jews across every racial religious line.
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  • Yeah. voted for donald trump.
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  • It seems that we're actually a lot more united as a nation than we thought.
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  • And i think of his last administration, the first term
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  • African-americans, hispanics
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  • In particular, are thriving economically.
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  • Yeah,
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  • It seems that the trump administration
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  • Could be a galvanizing force that despite what the mainstream
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  • Media says, actually brings americans together of all backgrounds.
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  • Well, you remember president trump himself said
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  • We all bleed the same.
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  • We are americans,
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  • And that's why we are one blood and one human race.
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  • As a matter of fact, we were at the white house
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  • With the african american black history month celebration,
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  • And he said he didn't say people of all races
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  • Because there's only one race.
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  • He said people of all colors. yeah.
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  • So we have to see people
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  • And i have to throw this in there from the womb
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  • To the tomb and beyond.
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  • These are still people
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  • And there has to be a better way to serve humanity
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  • Than killing anybody or cutting off body parts.
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  • For somebody to correct something,
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  • There has to be a better solution.
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  • And there is. there absolutely is so many evils, high places.
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  • And alveda, you mentioned the mutilation of little kids.
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  • Little kids. evil. yeah.
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  • And that's coming to a stop.
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  • And folks, we can't talk to
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  • Dr. alveda king without talking about life.
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  • Dr. king is one of the foremost advocates
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  • For the unborn, for life in america
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  • And really around the world.
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  • And, alveda, it seems like a golden opportunity,
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  • As we're discussing, for the body of christ.
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  • No doubt. but for the pro-life movement right now, president
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  • Trump has already signed several executive orders for life.
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  • It seems that the pendulum is swinging there.
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  • And you've been in the trenches on this issue for years.
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  • One thing i've observed myself,
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  • Jesus said, let the children come
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  • Yeah, and you've heard of that.
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  • Take your child to work day. oh, yeah.
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  • So here's president trump, bringing grandchildren.
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  • Here is elon musk and his son
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  • And somebody says, that's unprofessional
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  • And that's not good.
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  • But we are seeing children.
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  • As a matter of fact, at church for a minute,
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  • There weren't that many babies being born even at church.
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  • And you didn't see
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  • Our nurseries open back and there are little children
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  • Everywhere.
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  • And they found 80,000 of the 300,000
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  • Missing children in america that had been human trafficked.
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  • In america, you see.
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  • So they're finding those children as those high places come down.
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  • So we have to be ready to open them with open arms.
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  • I do want to mention, because you said we're at the
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  • Nrb yeah.
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  • National religious broadcasters.
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  • I'm part of a cast of the vision tv show,
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  • The christian tv show.
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  • We have relevant news, we have entertainment,
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  • We have hot topics, christmas specials and all of that.
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  • So i'm here and we are meeting people and interviewing people.
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  • There. destiny yarbrough, day gardener, several of us.
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  • Several years ago, day and i shot a pilot called the vision
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  • We were watching a show called the view.
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  • Yeah. and we said, oh, we can't take this anymore.
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  • We have to do something.
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  • So the vision tv show, it says the world has a view.
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  • God has the vision and we're having
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  • A wonderful time with that as well.
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  • Although i have to say, alveda
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  • I love to see you on the view, going toe to toe with them. but
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  • I don't think they last.
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  • I don't know. amen.
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  • I don't think the ladies of the view would last very long with dr. alveda king.
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  • Needless to say,
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  • Hey, your upbringing, this legacy
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  • That you're carrying on is not by accident.
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  • You're your uncle, obviously, the reverend dr.
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  • Martin luther king,
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  • Growing up in your family,
  • 00:11:00.501 --> 00:11:02.434
  • Your dad, obviously also a great man of god.
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  • Reverend a.d. king, my mom, dr. naomi ruth barber
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  • King. what a legacy.
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  • Yeah. talk about growing up in that family,
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  • A great godly heritage that you were raised up,
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  • And that'd be quite an experience.
  • 00:11:15.001 --> 00:11:16.835
  • Growing up, i was raised by what i call chauvinist black male preachers.
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  • So my daddy and my granddaddy, king james bible,
  • 00:11:22.668 --> 00:11:25.167
  • I was a little precocious girl. i was in a play at church.
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  • I was the messenger.
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  • I in 1958, carrying the word back and forth.
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  • I listened to the bible. it was king james.
  • 00:11:33.568 --> 00:11:35.700
  • So i would ask my dad, i said, daddy, yes, baby
  • 00:11:36.134 --> 00:11:39.002
  • Or granddaddy or uncle m.l. martin luther king.
  • 00:11:39.002 --> 00:11:41.167
  • I said, it says, men should always pray.
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  • Men should always do this.
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  • Men should always do that.
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  • I'm a little negro.
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  • We called us then, girl
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  • So i don't have to pray and be good because only men
  • 00:11:50.301 --> 00:11:53.234
  • Have to do it. you know?
  • 00:11:53.301 --> 00:11:55.001
  • And so i grew up taught
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  • By the bible, believing and understanding.
  • 00:11:57.735 --> 00:12:00.601
  • But as i grew up and became a christian evangelist myself,
  • 00:12:00.935 --> 00:12:04.401
  • I began to understand that the gospel there's
  • 00:12:04.968 --> 00:12:07.668
  • No male, no female, no bond, a free, only christ.
  • 00:12:07.668 --> 00:12:10.801
  • All in all, granddaddy would preach, make it plain.
  • 00:12:10.801 --> 00:12:14.901
  • Now, this is a funny thing, but it really did happen.
  • 00:12:14.901 --> 00:12:17.100
  • My uncle was very educated,
  • 00:12:17.667 --> 00:12:21.001
  • A wonderful orator, and he used huge words.
  • 00:12:21.001 --> 00:12:24.101
  • And so one sunday he was preaching and he said some word,
  • 00:12:24.668 --> 00:12:29.601
  • And the man in the audience under the deacon says, amen, whatever that means.
  • 00:12:29.901 --> 00:12:33.167
  • And their granddaddy said, make it plain, right?
  • 00:12:33.801 --> 00:12:37.034
  • And so write the vision and make it plain
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  • So that they who read it can run with it. yeah.
  • 00:12:39.468 --> 00:12:41.668
  • So i through the years, my grandmother was marvelous.
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  • Mama king
  • 00:12:45.167 --> 00:12:47.268
  • My mother traveled all over the world with a message of peace and christ.
  • 00:12:47.369 --> 00:12:51.134
  • So i was raised by men and women
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  • Who absolutely loved the lord.
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  • And i believe if they were here today.
  • 00:12:57.067 --> 00:12:58.834
  • Granddaddy would always say,
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  • I was born a baptist, i'll die a baptist.
  • 00:13:00.434 --> 00:13:03.201
  • However, in heaven there will be no denominations
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  • And then no separate races, only
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  • One blood and one human race.
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  • Amen.
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  • You've had such a journey in your life, alveda
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  • And i said, you're one of the foremost advocates for life in the world.
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  • In my view.
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  • You have your own abortion story. yeah.
  • 00:13:21.067 --> 00:13:25.634
  • Can you share that? i know it's difficult topic to talk about, of course.
  • 00:13:25.901 --> 00:13:28.034
  • Can you share that with our viewers
  • 00:13:28.501 --> 00:13:30.568
  • And how that impacted you and helped drive you to a
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  • God is doing through you now
  • 00:13:33.867 --> 00:13:35.668
  • When it comes to that issue in particular. my grandfather,
  • 00:13:35.668 --> 00:13:38.735
  • Daddy king, asked my mother not to have a d and c in 1950.
  • 00:13:38.735 --> 00:13:43.834
  • She had conceived me.
  • 00:13:43.834 --> 00:13:45.401
  • She and dad were engaged, but they wanted to finish college.
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  • Mother did not abort me.
  • 00:13:49.101 --> 00:13:50.735
  • I always call that a prophetic ultrasound
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  • Because granddaddy said
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  • That's a little girl.
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  • We're not aborting a baby.
  • 00:13:57.468 --> 00:13:59.201
  • It was illegal, but a d and c was not.
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  • He says she has bright skin and bright red hair
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  • And she's done a blessed many people.
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  • I was born looking at exactly like he said.
  • 00:14:07.001 --> 00:14:09.267
  • So that was an era where abortion was still illegal
  • 00:14:09.534 --> 00:14:12.434
  • And everything and then martin luther king was shot in ‘68.
  • 00:14:12.634 --> 00:14:16.967
  • My dad was killed in ‘69.
  • 00:14:17.034 --> 00:14:19.301
  • My grandma was shot playing the organ at ebenezer, ‘74.
  • 00:14:19.534 --> 00:14:23.468
  • So we had a lot of forgiving and repenting and trauma.
  • 00:14:23.868 --> 00:14:28.101
  • During that time, the women's movement arose
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  • And talked about a woman having a right to choose
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  • What she did with her body and a baby's a blob of tissue.
  • 00:14:34.768 --> 00:14:38.567
  • And so i believed all that hype
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  • And i ended up with two abortions
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  • And a miscarriage because my body was damaged.
  • 00:14:44.768 --> 00:14:46.834
  • In the seventies, i was pregnant again, divorced,
  • 00:14:47.101 --> 00:14:49.568
  • And i was going to abort that baby. i'd had two abortions.
  • 00:14:49.568 --> 00:14:52.234
  • I said to my grandfather, granddad,
  • 00:14:52.501 --> 00:14:54.434
  • I'm going over to planned parenthood.
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  • I'm getting an abortion.
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  • It doesn't hurt as bad as pulling a tooth,
  • 00:14:57.001 --> 00:14:59.001
  • And it does hurt real bad.
  • 00:14:59.301 --> 00:15:01.334
  • He says, wait a minute, that's my great grandchild.
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  • We're not doing that.
  • 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:08.268
  • And so soon after that, in the eighties, i remarried, had more children,
  • 00:15:08.535 --> 00:15:13.901
  • And in 1983 i became a born again christian.
  • 00:15:13.901 --> 00:15:17.033
  • And in 1983 i realized
  • 00:15:17.900 --> 00:15:20.301
  • A woman has the right to choose what she does with her body.
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  • The baby is not her body.
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  • And then i said, how can the dream survive if we murder our children?
  • 00:15:26.502 --> 00:15:28.601
  • This was being a born again christian, repenting
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  • For my sins, accepting jesus christ as my lord and savior.
  • 00:15:31.534 --> 00:15:36.467
  • And so even though, like the woman at the well woman
  • 00:15:37.501 --> 00:15:40.434
  • Caught in the act, rehab the harlot,
  • 00:15:40.434 --> 00:15:43.002
  • I also had a message from god about queen esther,
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  • And it was time for me to embrace the lord
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  • And to really live for jesus.
  • 00:15:50.634 --> 00:15:52.900
  • And i've done that for all these years,
  • 00:15:53.468 --> 00:15:55.401
  • For such a time as this. for such a time as this.
  • 00:15:55.401 --> 00:15:58.134
  • Speaking of queen esther. yeah.
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  • Do you feel a special charge in your life,
  • 00:15:59.434 --> 00:16:01.867
  • Your family legacy and the tragedy,
  • 00:16:01.867 --> 00:16:04.400
  • Not just your uncle?
  • 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:05.600
  • I mean, as you said,
  • 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:06.835
  • My daddy, my grandmother, it was something unbelievable.
  • 00:16:06.835 --> 00:16:10.067
  • You, youre a young girl going through this,
  • 00:16:10.067 --> 00:16:12.101
  • How did your family carry through that?
  • 00:16:12.101 --> 00:16:14.401
  • Was faith your anchor in that? howd the family get through
  • 00:16:14.401 --> 00:16:17.001
  • Really faith tumultuous is an understatement.
  • 00:16:17.101 --> 00:16:19.634
  • When our house was bombed in birmingham in ‘63, daddy
  • 00:16:19.935 --> 00:16:22.734
  • Asked the people not to riot.
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  • Go home and pray when granddad is well know.
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  • When martin luther king himself was killed.
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  • Before my dad was killed, 18 months later,
  • 00:16:29.634 --> 00:16:31.900
  • He said, forgive and love.
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  • You can't hate white people.
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  • They pray with us. they go to jail with us.
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  • They die with us.
  • 00:16:37.633 --> 00:16:38.368
  • The devil killed my brother.
  • 00:16:38.368 --> 00:16:40.735
  • And then when my grandmother was killed,
  • 00:16:40.735 --> 00:16:42.668
  • My granddady, black man shot her.
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  • He goes to the jail and says,
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  • Don't give him don't execute him.
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  • And i forgive him. i was like,
  • 00:16:49.834 --> 00:16:51.501
  • How in the world? and he shot big mama ok granddaddy.
  • 00:16:51.501 --> 00:16:55.067
  • And so learning to love, to forgive
  • 00:16:55.067 --> 00:16:57.900
  • And to move ahead has been very important.
  • 00:16:58.234 --> 00:17:00.568
  • And that's how we have the peace that passes all understanding.
  • 00:17:00.768 --> 00:17:03.900
  • And we love, we forgive, we repent.
  • 00:17:04.301 --> 00:17:06.934
  • It's not easy. i have a temper still
  • 00:17:07.601 --> 00:17:09.501
  • Today. and see granddadys grandfather was irish.
  • 00:17:09.501 --> 00:17:13.067
  • Nathan branum king. so i have an irish temper.
  • 00:17:13.067 --> 00:17:17.001
  • My grandmother. i do. i really do.
  • 00:17:17.001 --> 00:17:19.334
  • And then off the coast of west
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  • Coast of africa, big mamas, people the african. and moms dad
  • 00:17:21.234 --> 00:17:25.501
  • Was squire reece was part cherokee
  • 00:17:25.735 --> 00:17:28.266
  • That's why i say one blood. one blood.
  • 00:17:28.900 --> 00:17:31.633
  • You see? a mix.
  • 00:17:31.633 --> 00:17:33.001
  • We all are. we all are.
  • 00:17:33.001 --> 00:17:35.368
  • So if we realize that we can love each other,
  • 00:17:35.368 --> 00:17:39.001
  • We can repent, and then we can have god
  • 00:17:39.001 --> 00:17:42.167
  • Move in our lives like we see today.
  • 00:17:42.167 --> 00:17:44.001
  • Yeah, but it is startling.
  • 00:17:44.001 --> 00:17:45.768
  • You have to admit that things are going like shoom
  • 00:17:45.768 --> 00:17:48.101
  • Shoom. oh, my gosh, it's amazing
  • 00:17:48.101 --> 00:17:50.434
  • I mean, the pendulum has completely swung from one end.
  • 00:17:50.434 --> 00:17:53.401
  • Let me ask alveda, do you think if the election went
  • 00:17:54.035 --> 00:17:56.900
  • The other way?
  • 00:17:57.334 --> 00:17:58.601
  • I think we were done as a nation i think we would be done.
  • 00:17:58.601 --> 00:18:01.001
  • And other nations have fallen.
  • 00:18:01.001 --> 00:18:03.267
  • And i believe god has given us another chance
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  • And another opportunity. a reprieve.
  • 00:18:06.067 --> 00:18:09.135
  • And it is. and so i think we should take the greatest advantage of that.
  • 00:18:09.302 --> 00:18:13.134
  • Yeah. and to not fight, not accuse each other,
  • 00:18:13.601 --> 00:18:16.467
  • Not to say,
  • 00:18:16.734 --> 00:18:17.934
  • Oh, i'm better than you because i did this
  • 00:18:17.934 --> 00:18:20.101
  • And you did that, and i didn't do that.
  • 00:18:20.101 --> 00:18:22.167
  • All of that, that has to go away.
  • 00:18:22.167 --> 00:18:25.002
  • No doubt. you get a sense, number one, that this is a
  • 00:18:25.135 --> 00:18:26.701
  • Golden opportunity not only for the country
  • 00:18:26.701 --> 00:18:28.601
  • Writ large, but for the body of christ?
  • 00:18:28.601 --> 00:18:30.801
  • It seems like we can really take some ground
  • 00:18:30.801 --> 00:18:33.035
  • For the kingdom, take back ground and take more ground. and
  • 00:18:33.035 --> 00:18:35.601
  • Then move ahead with it. yes.
  • 00:18:35.601 --> 00:18:37.368
  • And we cant squander this opportunity it seems.
  • 00:18:37.368 --> 00:18:39.768
  • We can see that even in the younger generations
  • 00:18:39.768 --> 00:18:42.767
  • As the busy it is here and all the background,
  • 00:18:43.001 --> 00:18:45.567
  • I don't only see older people.
  • 00:18:45.800 --> 00:18:47.368
  • I see even on your crew, i see a lot of young people.
  • 00:18:47.368 --> 00:18:50.934
  • Yeah. and they know the lord, they believe
  • 00:18:51.468 --> 00:18:54.267
  • And they're on fire. this has to happen.
  • 00:18:54.501 --> 00:18:56.401
  • Every generation, every platform, every decade.
  • 00:18:56.401 --> 00:19:00.834
  • If it's not told, people forget.
  • 00:19:00.900 --> 00:19:03.067
  • That's what the bible says write it
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  • Write it on your forehead, wear it on your hands,
  • 00:19:05.167 --> 00:19:08.735
  • Which i have scriptures everywhere.
  • 00:19:08.735 --> 00:19:10.167
  • People say, why do you do that?
  • 00:19:10.167 --> 00:19:11.768
  • And that is in the bible. it's a biblical mandate.
  • 00:19:11.768 --> 00:19:13.934
  • It is. it really is.
  • 00:19:13.934 --> 00:19:15.334
  • My daughter and i was a little bit concerned about it.
  • 00:19:15.334 --> 00:19:18.634
  • She's been talking about writing a book for years,
  • 00:19:18.634 --> 00:19:20.967
  • And the name of it is i had a nightmare.
  • 00:19:21.368 --> 00:19:23.834
  • It wasnt i have a dream.
  • 00:19:24.700 --> 00:19:26.568
  • I had a nightmare as she has written it
  • 00:19:26.568 --> 00:19:29.234
  • And its very beautiful.
  • 00:19:29.234 --> 00:19:30.835
  • My children and grandchildren write books and music.
  • 00:19:30.835 --> 00:19:34.934
  • I write and perform and do some of that.
  • 00:19:34.934 --> 00:19:38.200
  • I have a new playlist.
  • 00:19:39.034 --> 00:19:40.501
  • It's called oh freedom and it's on youtube.
  • 00:19:40.501 --> 00:19:44.835
  • Oh, freedom. alveda king and theres sixteen music videos.
  • 00:19:45.168 --> 00:19:47.201
  • So in every generation, every decade, every platform,
  • 00:19:47.634 --> 00:19:51.601
  • We are going to have to proclaim the kingdom of god.
  • 00:19:51.901 --> 00:19:54.368
  • We have to do that.
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  • Do. yes, we do.
  • 00:19:55.700 --> 00:19:57.234
  • Folks, she is a woman of many talents.
  • 00:19:57.234 --> 00:19:59.234
  • Check out the music on youtube, no doubt.
  • 00:19:59.634 --> 00:20:02.967
  • And alveda, any words of encouragement before we go?
  • 00:20:03.434 --> 00:20:06.401
  • Weve got about 2 minutes left.
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  • I love you can take us out in prayer? is that possible?
  • 00:20:08.002 --> 00:20:11.101
  • I can. if you take some prayer that'd be great.
  • 00:20:11.101 --> 00:20:13.001
  • Any words of encouragement for our viewers?
  • 00:20:13.001 --> 00:20:14.868
  • You've been through so much in your life
  • 00:20:14.868 --> 00:20:16.234
  • And you've come out the other side
  • 00:20:16.234 --> 00:20:17.501
  • And you're doing god's work.
  • 00:20:17.501 --> 00:20:18.634
  • He's using you in a mighty way.
  • 00:20:18.634 --> 00:20:20.368
  • You've got a beautiful family
  • 00:20:20.368 --> 00:20:21.834
  • And the best days are ahead for you.
  • 00:20:21.834 --> 00:20:23.768
  • Any words of encouragement for our viewers?
  • 00:20:23.768 --> 00:20:25.601
  • Let me go through a little exercise.
  • 00:20:25.601 --> 00:20:27.468
  • Hold this fist bump right here.
  • 00:20:27.468 --> 00:20:28.668
  • Come on. yes, i'm no, look at me.
  • 00:20:28.668 --> 00:20:30.500
  • Look in my eyes.
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  • Erick, you are wanted.
  • 00:20:31.500 --> 00:20:33.867
  • You are needed.
  • 00:20:33.867 --> 00:20:35.368
  • You are loved. now i see you.
  • 00:20:35.368 --> 00:20:38.700
  • We have to see each other.
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  • Share that compassion with each other on purpose.
  • 00:20:41.167 --> 00:20:44.467
  • And let's just pray this way.
  • 00:20:44.934 --> 00:20:47.335
  • Heavenly father, we are living in tumultuous times and yet exciting times.
  • 00:20:47.435 --> 00:20:51.300
  • Much promise.
  • 00:20:51.567 --> 00:20:53.334
  • We see the high places coming down.
  • 00:20:53.334 --> 00:20:56.034
  • We ask that holy spirit come in and flood that atmosphere
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  • With more and more of you.
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  • We thank you for the blood of jesus.
  • 00:21:02.834 --> 00:21:04.668
  • We are not ashamed of the gospel of jesus christ.
  • 00:21:04.668 --> 00:21:07.201
  • We are not ashamed to proclaim that the kingdom of god is here.
  • 00:21:07.501 --> 00:21:11.401
  • The prince of the power of the air is defeated.
  • 00:21:11.701 --> 00:21:14.468
  • That's just the title.
  • 00:21:14.468 --> 00:21:16.101
  • Let those who are here with us now remember those
  • 00:21:16.101 --> 00:21:19.700
  • Who have gone before us,
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  • And then those who are here with us now and who will come
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  • To not be ashamed or afraid to flood the atmosphere
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  • With faith, hope, love and truth.
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  • Lord, if someone is sad or afraid, comfort them,
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  • Wrap your arms around them,
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  • And teach us to be that way with each other.
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  • Lord bless this current administration and all that comes with it.
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  • And let us not look to any human beings
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  • For our help and deliverance, because that's impossible.
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  • But to look for you, to you
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  • And to look for your guiding hand and grace heal
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  • Us, deliver us minister to us and lord,
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  • We will be careful to give you all the honor, all the glory
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  • And all the praise.
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  • In jesus name, amen. amen.
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  • Dr. alveda king, thank you so much.
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  • This was great. god bless you. keep up the great work.
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  • We'll see you again soon. we'll do. thank you.
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