July 4, 2026
America at 250: A Birthday, a Reckoning, and a Hope for Better
America is celebrating 250 years of independence, fireworks, freedom, and the promise of a nation built on equality. But for many Americans, especially Black, Brown, Indigenous, immigrant, and working-class communities, the Fourth of July can also bring difficult questions.
In this special Independence Day episode, David McClam reflects on America’s 250th birthday through both pride and pain. What does freedom truly mean when so many people still feel unseen, unheard, unsafe, or left behind?
This is not an episode about tearing America down. It is about loving this country enough to tell the truth about where we have been, where we are now, and where we still need to go.
David discusses:
• Why Independence Day is officially celebrated on July 4, even though the vote for independence happened on July 2, 1776
• Why some Black Americans have a complicated relationship with the Fourth of July
• The legacy of slavery, segregation, voter suppression, discrimination, and unequal opportunity
• Why African Americans remain essential to the story, progress, and future of the United States
• The accomplishments of inventor Marian Croak and the technology that helps power modern communication platforms
• The meaning of patriotism when your country has not always treated everyone equally
• Hope, unity, truth, justice, and the responsibility we all share in shaping the next 250 years
This episode also features two powerful songs from YouTube creator Baby’s Baby TV: “Happy Birthday America” and “America Won’t Be Great.”
America’s future will not be written by one race, one religion, one political party, or one group of people. It will be written by all of us.
Happy 250th Birthday, America. Now let’s work toward becoming the nation we have always promised to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to True Crime, offers and extraordinary people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The podcast where we bring two passions together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The show that gives new meaning to the old adage.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Here is your host, David McLean.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is a suicide prevention hotline.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They could get you the help that you need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In a case, no one else has told you this today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me be the first one to tell you, I do care and I do need you to be here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is nothing
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright guys, well let me kick this off by saying happy 4th of July.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I do these kind of episodes for teaching lessons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes people miss construed them as whining or crying, but it's the truth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And today I do what I do on my birthday is I reflect on what is before me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The nation has been free for 250 years today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now we all know that the nation was freed from great Britain's rain and all that good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But let me read you something you may not know that I kind of knew because they hinted to when I was in history class, but maybe a lot of people don't know this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so July 4th is the celebrated holiday, and the actual vote to server ties with Great Britain though took place two days earlier.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So actually, the independent day was July 2nd of 1776.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now John Adams famously believed that July 2nd would be the day Americans would still
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, the date printed on the national archives of the Declaration of Independence document staged July 4th became the date historically synonymous with the nation's birth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So truth be told, America was already freed two days before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you have to ask yourself if you really want the truth this question.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was everybody really freed?
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[SPEAKER_00]: on July 4th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not talking about Juneteenth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we know we see that things going on, you know, June 19th about we all were not free and things of that nature.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about as a nation, as a country, as people of the country is everyone included is everyone treated the same.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can tell you that that's not the case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See, as I go around and look at celebrations today and I look at what people are saying, there's a number of things popping up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is that black people should not celebrate before the July or be happy about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of that reason is because if you guys do your history and understand, slavery is older than the independence of the country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 400 years ago, we were still enslaved people if you were black back then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of black people don't look at America in the same vein that other people do or that we were all freed, especially what is going on now in this country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I wanted to think about what I really wanted to say.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really wanted to encapsulate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really want to try to bring people together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really want the next 250 to be a different story than it is today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I ran across this song that was created by a YouTube creator that goes by the name of Baby's Baby TV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say this for anybody, don't fall over it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care how it was created.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It capsulate it everything and which I was feeling and happened feeling and probably wanted to say, just to know how to articulate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So right now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to play you that song and it's entirety.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I will come back and I will close out the episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the name of this song is called Happy Birthday America.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Baby's baby Got something to say Happy birthday America I hope you enjoy my gift
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[SPEAKER_02]: 250 candles, that's a long journey, some celebrate with fireworks, some celebrate with lima leaves, some celebrate with stars, this is my birthday call to the country I call home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If I'm not excited about the 250 years celebration How can I feel celebrating when my ancestors weren't free 250 years ago when this nation don't get me wrong I love my country but with the lack 250 years
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[SPEAKER_02]: My country hasn't shown much love to those who look like me From broken trees to oxen blocks, from Jim Crow to redalites From schools divided to justice delayed
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[SPEAKER_02]: We paid, we voted, we fought, we buried too many dreams Just hoping tomorrow and the difference We say, we bill, we serve, we believe a miracle can become The country it says it is Happy birthday America!
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is my gift to you
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[SPEAKER_02]: Be better, be better Love every child protect every vote Teach every truth, now you every life Stop judging people by race Sir, as a ring, people by race I care a tough Baby, we're all there Make justice Oh, little problem
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[SPEAKER_02]: Happy birthday, you'll have it all This is my gift to you And be better now Blow out your candle You'll be hundred year apart though
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then your pass, happy birthday America, this is my gift You never will be back Now blow up your candles Now blow up your candles I still believe
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[SPEAKER_02]: that America can become the land where every child has an equal chance to dream, where history is told, not hidden, where freedom belongs to everyone, not just a fortunate few, so today, I don't bring you fireworks, I bring you home, I bring you home, I bring you home,
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so if that song hit you as hard as you hit me, there's a lot of messaging that I get out of that song, and it's not just about black messaging.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though everything that song said was exactly true, I think at some point in this country, you need to understand that we can't get along without each other, even though I forget Americans, it's credited with a lot of things as we did it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We built this nation, and it hurts me when people go, I say, I don't like black people and black people are unintelligent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just say at this point, I wanna congratulate Marion Croke,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys will know who Marion Crook is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just say that the way that we communicate today with the social media, so Zoom, FaceTime, what's app will not be possible without her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She Marion Crook is a black woman, and she is the inventor of the technology that powers Zoom FaceTime and what's app.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I think it goes to show that we don't get anywhere in this nation without African Americans, but we also don't get anywhere in this nation without people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's sad that 250 years later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that the country has regressed the same things that my ancestors and my mother fought and marched for is still here trying to strip me of my rights trying to deport brown people that was born here trying to make racism come back nobody who is looking at what has gone on in this country at least in the last couple years should be happy about the 250th birthday
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[SPEAKER_00]: because to those of our allies that we use to have, it says that a nation that was what strong is now being weakened and then to the enemies that we have had and still have and probably got more of their laughing because they see everything crumble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So my message for America's 250 is this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am totally related to being an American.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I totally understand that there is no other country that is as free as we are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is no other country that people looks like B has poor more blood and sweat and tears into.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I was had a great leader.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And no matter what you say about Barack Obama or try to tear him down or whatever is you didn't like it, whether he was a black man and we voted whoever in to get rid of him 10 years later after this man is now off of the presidency state.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time he is asked and every meeting or talking point or whatever he's doing does he still have
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think when you talk about Barack Obama, he is deeply ingrained in the 250th anniversary of this nation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was the first black president, or you can call him the first mixed-race president as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that he did more to unify this country than anybody wants to give him credit for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's kind of shocking to me that he is no longer the president.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't been the president in 10 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yet all around the nation, if you pay attention, all around the nation, all around the country, people is asking him to come and speak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're asking him what America can become.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're asking him what he thinks of things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That should be the role of the president that is currently being seated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Barack Obama for all attempts of purposes has become the face at this point of this nation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This didn't happen when Biden was the president, they went to him, so you have to look around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we regress.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm still fighting for the same rights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Black people and Brown people is still being mistreated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People have feeling they got the right to walk up or just say racist stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's people that decimated our capital in January, fourth that is now free.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People's trying to funnel money to them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the stain on what America and the twin for the anniversary is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And also, didn't we fight to get independent
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you pay attention, that's what the current administration was to put his back into.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why there's no King's rallies out here because that's what he's inspiring to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So my message is this, we all have to be great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: America is not going to be great until some of these ways are changed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I look at all of you regardless of your skin color as my brothers and sisters and their human race.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be all of us and our children and our children's children to make sure that the next 250 years is greater than the first.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those who do not feel like they belong in this country, we need to make them feel like they belong because they do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is what the Statue of Liberty is all about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When it was given to us from France, the abolitionists gave it to us as a big of hope and freedom and to be truthful about everything that's happened in this country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll say this, we all must get together as a people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We all must stand up for what is right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we all must stop looking at each other because of the color of our skin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we get past the color of our skin and sit down and put our heads together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can figure out what this country could be because everybody is needed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody has a different set of skills.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody has different things that they can do and they can contribute to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But until we get past this, this is the story that we have of American.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I say this, in minor grades, when people say, black people should not celebrate 250th anniversary of America or July 4th, I don't think I'm 100% in with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's why
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[SPEAKER_00]: my ancestors died fighting for the rights of this country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people that has rights right now wouldn't have them if it wasn't for my ancestors and then my mother and now myself and the other African Americans around that still continue to protest for all people in the face of wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm like, Eminem, this is my country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not leaving my country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the place in which I was raised.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We all have problems where we was raised.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing is, either we leave it the way that it is, or we do something about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's 250th birthday of America.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all about independence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all about freedom from Britain's rule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But now we carry that into America when Black Americans was enslaved, Indian land was stolen, and Brown people was told they no longer deserve to be here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna end this show a little bit differently today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is another song that I think hits that we're gonna close with by the same creator, Babies, Baby TV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's about what we can do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to change the way that our country in our nation is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll say this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember if they two America.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we as a people need to do better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to embrace everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The devil's an independent says that all men are created equal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the framers and the forefathers, at least what 10 of them were Christians.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They founded, with anybody likes that or not, they founded America on Christian values and Christian principles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're like me and you are a Christian and you know the word of God, there is no one that's ever excluded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus included everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He embraced everyone from the beggar to the prostitute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He healed lepers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He made people see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't ask if they was Jewish first or he didn't say,
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[SPEAKER_00]: his mission here was to heal and to save anyone who wanted to be saved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we need to get to because that's what this nation was founded on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I hope you guys have a good fourth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm about to get out of here and go eat with my wife.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll sing her praises all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My wife gives up herself to take care of others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you know anything about my wife, she has a gigantic heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and I don't mind sharing her to a degree and she's out taking care of a client that really depends on her and really wants no one else to be there but her after her hip surgery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So me and the kids are gonna go out and we're going to eat, be married, celebrate with her after this episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So listen to this song guys, know that I do love you and we will be seeing you guys and talk to you again
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[SPEAKER_00]: next episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also remember if you want a visual to this, please remember we are on YouTube and some of these episodes do go on TikTok as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're out too long and I do leave clips if the episode is too long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright guys, be safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't set off your legal fireworks and we are talking to you guys on the next episode.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There is maybe got something to say.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They tell us to love America and I do but love is impretending everything is perfect.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Love is telling the truth because the truth is the only thing that can heal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If we ever gonna be the nation we say we are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: With respect instead of caring and playing children deserve class rooms filled with hope Not fear and neglect a learning they can't cope the park keep working but can't get ahead One emergency from losing the roof over head if hard work alone is supposed to be enough Why are so many still struggling despite being tough?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Imagine an America where every child reads
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[SPEAKER_02]: every veteran sleeps in a home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What teachers are on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What teachers are on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Workers are in their words.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Health care isn't a privilege.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And dignity begins at birth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Trakness isn't measured by the size of your military.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of the tallest buildings reaching high until the air, Trakness is how you treat the weakest in the room, whether they leave with hope, believe with doom, invest in schools before another prison sale.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Lift people up instead of watching them fail, protect the votes so every voice is heard, make justice something more than just a word.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Letting money write democracy script remember who the Constitution was written to uplift government should answer to the people every day not the highest bidder who can simply pay love your name Welcome to Stranger Tell the truth about yesterday So tomorrow Can finally shine
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm never gonna be great I could be great if it puts its feet on first That means all of its people Every child from her corporate career Powered on her politicians for the little guy We still America changes its ways We won't ever be great And let me tell you why
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[SPEAKER_02]: When justice is equal, when I proximity reaches everyone, when love is louder than hate, if we're the people, truly means all the people of America, the dream is in death.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright guys, well let me kick this off by saying happy 4th of July.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I do these kind of episodes for teaching lessons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes people miss construed them as whining or crying, but it's the truth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And today I do what I do on my birthday is I reflect on what is before me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The nation has been free for 250 years today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now we all know that the nation was freed from great Britain's rain and all that good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But let me read you something you may not know that I kind of knew because they hinted to when I was in history class, but maybe a lot of people don't know this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so July 4th is the celebrated holiday, and the actual vote to server ties with Great Britain though took place two days earlier.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So actually, the independent day was July 2nd of 1776.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now John Adams famously believed that July 2nd would be the day Americans would still
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, the date printed on the national archives of the Declaration of Independence document staged July 4th became the date historically synonymous with the nation's birth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So truth be told, America was already freed two days before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But you have to ask yourself if you really want the truth this question.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Was everybody really freed?
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[SPEAKER_00]: on July 4th.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not talking about Juneteenth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we know we see that things going on, you know, June 19th about we all were not free and things of that nature.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about as a nation, as a country, as people of the country is everyone included is everyone treated the same.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can tell you that that's not the case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See, as I go around and look at celebrations today and I look at what people are saying, there's a number of things popping up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is that black people should not celebrate before the July or be happy about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of that reason is because if you guys do your history and understand, slavery is older than the independence of the country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 400 years ago, we were still enslaved people if you were black back then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of black people don't look at America in the same vein that other people do or that we were all freed, especially what is going on now in this country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I wanted to think about what I really wanted to say.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really wanted to encapsulate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really want to try to bring people together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really want the next 250 to be a different story than it is today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I ran across this song that was created by a YouTube creator that goes by the name of Baby's Baby TV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna say this for anybody, don't fall over it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care how it was created.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It capsulate it everything and which I was feeling and happened feeling and probably wanted to say, just to know how to articulate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So right now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to play you that song and it's entirety.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I will come back and I will close out the episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the name of this song is called Happy Birthday America.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Baby's baby Got something to say Happy birthday America I hope you enjoy my gift
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[SPEAKER_02]: 250 candles, that's a long journey, some celebrate with fireworks, some celebrate with lima leaves, some celebrate with stars, this is my birthday call to the country I call home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If I'm not excited about the 250 years celebration How can I feel celebrating when my ancestors weren't free 250 years ago when this nation don't get me wrong I love my country but with the lack 250 years
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[SPEAKER_02]: My country hasn't shown much love to those who look like me From broken trees to oxen blocks, from Jim Crow to redalites From schools divided to justice delayed
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[SPEAKER_02]: We paid, we voted, we fought, we buried too many dreams Just hoping tomorrow and the difference We say, we bill, we serve, we believe a miracle can become The country it says it is Happy birthday America!
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is my gift to you
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[SPEAKER_02]: Be better, be better Love every child protect every vote Teach every truth, now you every life Stop judging people by race Sir, as a ring, people by race I care a tough Baby, we're all there Make justice Oh, little problem
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[SPEAKER_02]: Happy birthday, you'll have it all This is my gift to you And be better now Blow out your candle You'll be hundred year apart though
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then your pass, happy birthday America, this is my gift You never will be back Now blow up your candles Now blow up your candles I still believe
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[SPEAKER_02]: that America can become the land where every child has an equal chance to dream, where history is told, not hidden, where freedom belongs to everyone, not just a fortunate few, so today, I don't bring you fireworks, I bring you home, I bring you home, I bring you home,
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so if that song hit you as hard as you hit me, there's a lot of messaging that I get out of that song, and it's not just about black messaging.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even though everything that song said was exactly true, I think at some point in this country, you need to understand that we can't get along without each other, even though I forget Americans, it's credited with a lot of things as we did it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We built this nation, and it hurts me when people go, I say, I don't like black people and black people are unintelligent.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just say at this point, I wanna congratulate Marion Croke,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys will know who Marion Crook is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just say that the way that we communicate today with the social media, so Zoom, FaceTime, what's app will not be possible without her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She Marion Crook is a black woman, and she is the inventor of the technology that powers Zoom FaceTime and what's app.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I think it goes to show that we don't get anywhere in this nation without African Americans, but we also don't get anywhere in this nation without people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's sad that 250 years later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that the country has regressed the same things that my ancestors and my mother fought and marched for is still here trying to strip me of my rights trying to deport brown people that was born here trying to make racism come back nobody who is looking at what has gone on in this country at least in the last couple years should be happy about the 250th birthday
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[SPEAKER_00]: because to those of our allies that we use to have, it says that a nation that was what strong is now being weakened and then to the enemies that we have had and still have and probably got more of their laughing because they see everything crumble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So my message for America's 250 is this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I am totally related to being an American.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I totally understand that there is no other country that is as free as we are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is no other country that people looks like B has poor more blood and sweat and tears into.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I was had a great leader.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And no matter what you say about Barack Obama or try to tear him down or whatever is you didn't like it, whether he was a black man and we voted whoever in to get rid of him 10 years later after this man is now off of the presidency state.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every time he is asked and every meeting or talking point or whatever he's doing does he still have
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think when you talk about Barack Obama, he is deeply ingrained in the 250th anniversary of this nation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was the first black president, or you can call him the first mixed-race president as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that he did more to unify this country than anybody wants to give him credit for.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's kind of shocking to me that he is no longer the president.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't been the president in 10 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yet all around the nation, if you pay attention, all around the nation, all around the country, people is asking him to come and speak.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're asking him what America can become.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're asking him what he thinks of things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That should be the role of the president that is currently being seated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Barack Obama for all attempts of purposes has become the face at this point of this nation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This didn't happen when Biden was the president, they went to him, so you have to look around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think we regress.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm still fighting for the same rights.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Black people and Brown people is still being mistreated.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People have feeling they got the right to walk up or just say racist stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's people that decimated our capital in January, fourth that is now free.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People's trying to funnel money to them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the stain on what America and the twin for the anniversary is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And also, didn't we fight to get independent
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you pay attention, that's what the current administration was to put his back into.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why there's no King's rallies out here because that's what he's inspiring to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So my message is this, we all have to be great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: America is not going to be great until some of these ways are changed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I look at all of you regardless of your skin color as my brothers and sisters and their human race.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be all of us and our children and our children's children to make sure that the next 250 years is greater than the first.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those who do not feel like they belong in this country, we need to make them feel like they belong because they do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is what the Statue of Liberty is all about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When it was given to us from France, the abolitionists gave it to us as a big of hope and freedom and to be truthful about everything that's happened in this country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll say this, we all must get together as a people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We all must stand up for what is right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we all must stop looking at each other because of the color of our skin.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we get past the color of our skin and sit down and put our heads together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We can figure out what this country could be because everybody is needed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody has a different set of skills.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody has different things that they can do and they can contribute to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But until we get past this, this is the story that we have of American.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I say this, in minor grades, when people say, black people should not celebrate 250th anniversary of America or July 4th, I don't think I'm 100% in with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's why
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[SPEAKER_00]: my ancestors died fighting for the rights of this country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people that has rights right now wouldn't have them if it wasn't for my ancestors and then my mother and now myself and the other African Americans around that still continue to protest for all people in the face of wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm like, Eminem, this is my country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not leaving my country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the place in which I was raised.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We all have problems where we was raised.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the thing is, either we leave it the way that it is, or we do something about it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's 250th birthday of America.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all about independence.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's all about freedom from Britain's rule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But now we carry that into America when Black Americans was enslaved, Indian land was stolen, and Brown people was told they no longer deserve to be here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna end this show a little bit differently today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There is another song that I think hits that we're gonna close with by the same creator, Babies, Baby TV.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's about what we can do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: to change the way that our country in our nation is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'll say this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember if they two America.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we as a people need to do better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We need to embrace everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The devil's an independent says that all men are created equal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the framers and the forefathers, at least what 10 of them were Christians.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They founded, with anybody likes that or not, they founded America on Christian values and Christian principles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're like me and you are a Christian and you know the word of God, there is no one that's ever excluded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus included everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He embraced everyone from the beggar to the prostitute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He healed lepers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He made people see.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't ask if they was Jewish first or he didn't say,
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[SPEAKER_00]: his mission here was to heal and to save anyone who wanted to be saved.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we need to get to because that's what this nation was founded on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I hope you guys have a good fourth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm about to get out of here and go eat with my wife.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll sing her praises all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My wife gives up herself to take care of others.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you know anything about my wife, she has a gigantic heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and I don't mind sharing her to a degree and she's out taking care of a client that really depends on her and really wants no one else to be there but her after her hip surgery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So me and the kids are gonna go out and we're going to eat, be married, celebrate with her after this episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So listen to this song guys, know that I do love you and we will be seeing you guys and talk to you again
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[SPEAKER_00]: next episode.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also remember if you want a visual to this, please remember we are on YouTube and some of these episodes do go on TikTok as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're out too long and I do leave clips if the episode is too long.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright guys, be safe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't set off your legal fireworks and we are talking to you guys on the next episode.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There is maybe got something to say.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They tell us to love America and I do but love is impretending everything is perfect.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Love is telling the truth because the truth is the only thing that can heal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If we ever gonna be the nation we say we are.
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[SPEAKER_02]: With respect instead of caring and playing children deserve class rooms filled with hope Not fear and neglect a learning they can't cope the park keep working but can't get ahead One emergency from losing the roof over head if hard work alone is supposed to be enough Why are so many still struggling despite being tough?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Imagine an America where every child reads
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[SPEAKER_02]: every veteran sleeps in a home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What teachers are on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What teachers are on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Workers are in their words.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Health care isn't a privilege.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And dignity begins at birth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Trakness isn't measured by the size of your military.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of the tallest buildings reaching high until the air, Trakness is how you treat the weakest in the room, whether they leave with hope, believe with doom, invest in schools before another prison sale.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Lift people up instead of watching them fail, protect the votes so every voice is heard, make justice something more than just a word.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Letting money write democracy script remember who the Constitution was written to uplift government should answer to the people every day not the highest bidder who can simply pay love your name Welcome to Stranger Tell the truth about yesterday So tomorrow Can finally shine
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm never gonna be great I could be great if it puts its feet on first That means all of its people Every child from her corporate career Powered on her politicians for the little guy We still America changes its ways We won't ever be great And let me tell you why
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[SPEAKER_02]: When justice is equal, when I proximity reaches everyone, when love is louder than hate, if we're the people, truly means all the people of America, the dream is in death.
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