 We really appreciate everyone being here this evening and to listen to K. Carl Smith, we're excited about this, the opportunity to talk about critical race theory in our schools happening now, whether it's denied or not, it's actually happening. And I just want to introduce John Clark to begin with. John. Thank you. Thank you. I really want to thank Lisa, the people who have been volunteering have made such a difference. I think you can see. I try to work on the content, but what a nice event. It's so wonderful to see you all here, and I think you're going to agree when we leave that this is a really positive experience. Smile is everywhere. We had a great time last night, didn't we, Mr. Smith? So just to give you a little idea, some of you know I ran for governor, and I ran for governor because I really wanted to bring ideas to Vermonters that they were not hearing, that were being excluded from the conversation, including the issue of race. And 38 people stood up to run with me. Not all of them made it to the finish line, but some of them won. And we made a difference, and we made a difference because we talk about ideas instead of people. And the identity politics we're facing right now, including this racial issue, seems to divide people into tribes instead of these ideas. And tonight we're here to talk about the ideas, so I'm very excited to tell you that it worked. We proved it worked. That if you bring people together around ideas, you can actually bridge some of these divisions. And so we're getting ready to do it again. Vermont Liberty Network is about keeping that movement going. It's not about me. Something always getting ready to run again. I don't know. But you are. So many people stood up and ran on the ideas. The progressive leader of the progressive party in Vermont lost to Sally Aki, who I am glad to say never would have run had it not been for our craziness. What's more important? And I know that Kay Carl Smith knows us. These are ideas that have endured for a long time, and they're important ideas. And that's why it's so exciting to talk about them. Now in talking about critical race here, I just want to segue to Kay Carl, who really is here from Alabama. We're very excited to have you. But that's a different world for you. We're so excited to have you. Kay Carl and I actually hosted an event last year, while I was on the campaign trail COVID came, so we had to do it via Zoom call. So it's very nice to do it in person. And but I want to explain a little bit about what's going on with critical race theory in Vermont, because we can't expect you to know that. But to set it up so you can show us why the ideas of Frederick Douglass and the Constitution are the real solution to our racial division, not this new ideology, which is a coup effort on all levels against the Constitution. And that's what Vermonters need to understand is I try to figure out how to explain this. I think people need to understand that it is the opposite of Martin Luther King and the ideas of Frederick Douglass. It is the opposite of the Constitution and that's why many of us are having a hard time comprehending it. And one person asked a question last night after we spoke. They said, I posted this event on Facebook and many people said they can't believe that segregation in Vermont schools is actually happening. Well, this is called cognitive dissonance, all right? I'm a lawyer. I bring facts in front of a court. The court right now is the parents of Vermont. Well, I wanted to find out, either it is or it isn't happening. And I'll assure you that it is because we've got the teaching materials where they're doing it up in essence. And I read yesterday how they're doing it within our legislature. They've been doing it at press conferences where only black people are allowed to attend. The name of it under secret under racial equity is safe spaces. And it is designed around race which itself is very difficult to identify in many times, especially as the centuries go by. The premise is that all white people are subconsciously racist and that neuroscience shows this. Therefore, every racial disparity in our country is attributed to a deep-seated hatred by white people and black people. And everything they suffer is due to the horrible malice of white people. That's a pretty big statement to make. You'd better be able to prove it. Let me tell you that they can't prove it. And so in our schools, Vermont is in a unique place, 4K Carl. You get to return, though, to Alabama. The whole nation is railing against this. Some 20 states' legislatures have been moving against this. We're told this is right-wing extremism. These are the ideas of Martin Luther King. Traditional Democrats should be with us. You admitted you used to be a Democrat. So was I. I was a different kind of Democrat. I supported the freedom of other people to have ideas. That's what supposedly Democrats believed. And now we're the Republicans standing up for Martin Luther King's ideas and we're being called racists for doing so. The problem is that the disparities that are in this country are not all attributable to systemic racism. Vermont in particular is not a systemic racist state. Okay, everybody get that? And our governor and our legislature have been passing laws defining us as systemically racist and eliminating our history of abolitionism and even rewriting our history and manipulating statistics against our police and against good Vermonters. And it's all on the record. The evidence is before the court. Of course they're segregating people because they believe that the only way to make a just society is to discriminate against white people to benefit black people. That only white people can be racist. Black people cannot be racist. This is critical race theory. Look it up. It's so crazy. It's easy to dismiss it. It's in your schools. It's teaching children to hate themselves for their skin color. And Aaron Kinzauter has been a great gift, a UVM professor. No right wing extremist who has been showing us in his discipline of cognitive behavior and in psychotherapy how harmful this is to compel people to say something that they don't necessarily believe. So we do know that critical race theory is here in Vermont. And it's either here to stay or parents will be rising up to make sure it doesn't. Do not discourage that they put this in and that they're waiting Black Lives Matter flags everywhere. Because critical race theory is Black Lives Matter. It is a political ideology. It's not little letters that we care about Black people. It's like, what if you put MAGA signs in every school in the state, you think they might complain? Because it's a violation of the First Amendment for government to embrace one party over the other. Just in case nobody knew. Because in Vermont, we've been taken over by a progressive coup. And we talk about Marxism, and this is all rooted in Marxism, but let's show where else it's rooted. It's rooted in progressive academia. The same places where we've got the eugenics movement and lobotomy science. Remember all the science? Let's jiggle a spike in somebody's brain. And if you dare speak up for those people, you are attacked. If you're a transgender person on whose victimhood this society is hinging so much right now and you change your mind, you are attacked. You are victimized. And if you're a Black person, especially in Vermont, who dares to speak up against critical race theory, you're vilified. And I know this, because we have a lot of Black people who are not as brave as you, because you get to go home, like I said. That's terrible. Their voices are valid. Watch the movie, Uncle Tom, by the way, if you have not seen it, these are Black voices. And more white Vermonters need to listen to Black people instead of deciding they know what's best for them. Malcolm X had a lot to say about the liberals. But Malcolm X also embraced this Constitution. So I just want to show you a couple things in closing before I gladly introduce this wonderful speaker. And I get to relax. So Vermont Lurie Network, we continue to highlight the bureaucratic ineptitude and blow of our government. This is one of our shirts. I designed this myself. Farmers, we can make, hey, we can make t-shirts. This is the bloated dome with a tick in it, being sprayed with a spray bottle. You're the spray bottle. Getting informed is how you ask them to be accountable for the money. Guess what happens next year when the price of gas and food keeps skyrocketing? We're going to see that they spent all of our efforts trying to brainwash our children instead of safeguarding their future. How dare you? Use your eugenics lobotomy, lobotomy, untested science on these children. You have the duty to prove this is going to work. There is no evidence that critical waste theory is going to work. None. How did we get here, Americans? How did we get here, Vermonters? Why would anybody trust any of their children in this school system next year, even if they pull it all back? This is a school choice issue. That's the revolution. Right now, when they tell you critical waste theory is not being taught in schools, they are lying. Go find out for yourself. I've got materials. They don't want you to know. Why not? Gee, for five years, they've been telling us all this stuff. And now we try to talk about it. They say we want to deny a conversation about race. This is a book by Rajni Eddins already in the materials in Essex. This guy moved here. I don't know what his education is. This is a book of hate. They're bringing this to the curriculum. You open this up any page. It's about hate, retribution forever. It talks, one whole poem is about hacking a white family to death with machetes till there's nothing left. After all, it's only fair, I quote. I can't even repeat the swears and obscenities and anti-Christian, anti-American, anti-flag, anti-everything. This is in our school system already. Here's Thomas Sowell, Black, Red, Nex, and White, Liberals. Great book. I haven't finished it. This is, to me, the best way for all of us to arm ourselves against this. This is a Black writer, Thomas Sowell, Harvard, Magda Cum Laude graduate. Discrimination and disparities. An economist. Why isn't he being taught in school as a Black voice who has the science and the statistics and doesn't abuse the math the way they are in our state? Why is this being taught? Because it's a coup. So I looked just before I came, because I've been told not to talk about race. I looked it up. My first article in Vermont Digger ever was in February of 2016, and it was called, Our Constitutions Have Never Been More Relevant. I didn't really think that was that prophetic. And the tagline was, if government could be trusted to observe and protect the rights of citizens, we would not need such documents or ideas. We are here to celebrate the Constitution. Literally celebrate. Listen to the positive message of your speaker tonight. I also wrote an article in November of 2016 called Reverse Racism. Doesn't exist, you know. Can't say it. And another in November of 2016 called A Continuing Discussion of Race. I wrote another one called Black Supremacy in Vermont. Oh, Horrid, what a title. Read it. I'm asking for equality. I'm asking to not have a new racial activation of children against one another. This is scary stuff. And whatever else you think of it, we're all going to have a voice at the table. And that's what Vermont Liberty Network is about. That's what this is the culmination for. All of you here have been involved in the conversation. I'm so excited to see more people joining it, to see wonderful people with their skillset standing up for this important time for our nation. It's much more important than just the school issue. But K. Carl Smith has come here from Alabama to talk about that in particular. He's a much better speaker than I as you'll soon see, so I will be quiet. And so warmly and gratefully welcome K. Carl Smith from the Frederick Douglass Republicans. Vermont, thank you. Thank you. Let me clean house a little bit, John. What? Sorry about that. You're good, you're good, you're good. This is called Southern Hospitality. Let me say that it's a pleasure to be here. I want to thank you for coming. Thank you, John, for setting this up and inviting me back to your great state of Vermont. This is the second time I've been here. Second time I've been here. I think the first time I was here about four years ago when I wrote my book, Frederick Douglass Republicans that came in and spoke to various groups. So it's a pleasure to be back. Let me tell you a little bit more about myself. I'm a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I didn't expect that all the way in Vermont. So I was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. And my father is a math genius. My father, when he received his master's degree in mathematics from University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, 1963, 64, he was hired by NASA in Huntsville, Alabama, the Martian Space Flight Center, where my father was hired and worked with the German scientist, Walter von Braun. He did the Saturn V boosters, all that kind of stuff. So I grew up in Huntsville. So we moved from Arkansas to Alabama in 1964. We moved from Arkansas to Alabama. You're not following me. We moved from Arkansas to Alabama to George Wallace Country. And as a young boy growing up in Alabama, I had a chance to experience some things and witness some things as it pertained to race relations, racism, all that kind of thing. I have three brothers. All of us are five years apart. So you can see my father was indeed a mathematician. He didn't want two boys in college at the same time. My oldest brother is a retired colonel of the United States Army. I'm also retired from the United States Army as a major. Well, I don't like using the word retirement. I completed my service obligation in 1996 before my first look for Lieutenant Colonel. My brother that's five years my junior is a pastor of 30-something years. And my youngest brother, 10 years my junior, graduated from high school with a D minus. He is now a PhD physicist. So remember, it's not how you start the race it counts, it's how you finish the race. So I always got to tell this story because I'm really proud of him, what he's done with his life. I grew up in a staunch Christian Democrat home. I was not converted to conservatism. I've always been one, I just didn't know it. That's not the word we use. And I would think then that most people here probably have a conservative leaning, you would say. There may be some exceptions here, if there are. Let me give you this warning now. By the time I finish here, you probably gonna change your affiliation. Because you may have an awakening like I had. I am gonna talk about the critical race theory in the second part of my speech here. But the first thing I wanna talk about, my thing is messaging. I contend that if we're gonna save our nation, defeat the critical race theory, it's all about messaging. It's all about us being able to have a conversation with our friends, our family members, and people who may not look like us about the importance of liberty, the importance of the Constitution, and dismantle this whole Marxist agenda to destroy America from the inside. That's what's really going on. Indeed, it is a spiritual battle, but it's about Marxism. And John talked about it, he mentioned it right. This whole CRT, BLM, when you go to BLM website, they proclaimed their trained Marxists. So this is not a surprise. And they wanna destroy America from the inside. So in order to do that, we got to become better advocates of liberty. We gotta know how to trump the race card pun intended. And you gotta understand that as a conservative now, that before we get a chance to speak, we have already been discredited. That's our problem. You know, the word conservative has a racist connotation. I don't know if you know that. If you describe yourself as a black conservative, a constitutional conservative, Reagan conservative, that's what you're saying, but that's not what people are hearing. What people are hearing is black conservative, black racist, Reagan conservative, Reagan racist. If you say you're a Tea Party conservative or a constitutional conservative, now you are a racist racist. And you're under defense. And if we're gonna say this nation, we gotta be on the offense all the time. You follow me? So that's what's happening. We have to win this narrative. We have to be in the trenches and engage people. We gotta have a conversation with them, not a confrontation. We gotta get people to listen to us. Right now, nobody's listening to us. Well, think about it. If I perceive somebody to be a racist, I don't care what they say. I don't care what truth you speak, what evidence you bring, what statistics you show. I'm not gonna listen to when I perceive as a racist or on a cotton. That's what we're dealing with. You follow me? And I've been speaking across the country for the past 12 years and this whole thing about as I travel the country, I intentionally, I go out and I preach to the choir. I preach to the conservative choir to teach the choir how to go out and bring in new choir members and give the choir member a new song to sing. I'm okay with hymns, but hymns don't work all the time. You gotta sing, you gotta come in different messes, especially that overcomes the negative propaganda to the left. Now, I'm gonna play an audio for you. I'm not gonna tell you who this is, but you're gonna recognize the voice. This is somebody over the years we have come to love and respect. And I'm gonna hope I can play this, right? Let me get the volume up. Listen carefully what this talk show host has to say. If I can find it. I feel your pain. Good gosh. There it is, there it is. But being honest with you and with myself is paramount. And I can tell you, and you know this without me telling you that if conservatism and liberalism are brands, the left has succeeded in destroying, destroying the brand of conservative. All you have to say the word conservative and they think you're talking about a Nazi or a racist. Pushing conservatism is not the answer. So I would suggest to you, when you're out and about and you're doing, if you run into an occasion where you have the opportunity to talk politics, people that don't agree with you, do not use the word conservative. Do everything else, but don't call yourself that. Don't promote it. We've got a brand problem. It's timely, I hate it. I hate having to admit it and get rid of it. Stop calling yourself that, just be one. Just talk to people as one. So you know what I think? I think you're gonna find, if you do this, that you're gonna have far more people agree with your solutions than will disagree if you don't identify yourself first as a conservative one time. Nobody needs to abandon conservatism. It's just stop labeling everything we think or do as conservative and just do it. You recognize that voice? The Godfather? Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh made that comment back in 2018, I think it was November 28th, 2018, during the third hour of his show. I've been saying that for the past 12 years. So Rush agrees with me. So here's the question. Now listen what Rush had to say. He said, don't stop being a conservative now. Don't throw away your values. But understand using that word is the problem because the left has demonized it. So the question is, how should we identify ourselves? I'm glad you asked. Several years ago, I was invited to a friend's home to watch our favorite football team playing on television. There were 18 and 20 blacks in attendance. All of them were black Democrats. When I, and during that night, excuse me, the subject of politics service, when I shared with my friends that I was a conservative Republican, the attacks began. They called me everything but a child of God that night. Uncle Tom, foot shuffler, house nigger. Your parents must be disappointed in you. How could you do such a thing? When I said I was a conservative, to them I just grew seven heads and the attack was on. Their insults ran the gamut and I'm on the defense the whole night. I left that event thinking and mostly praying about how can I best articulate my values, my conservative values, how can I win the narrative and win them and inspire them to vote their values. See, many of them were more conservative than I am. So after several weeks and months and a year of reading and research, I invented something called the Frederick, the Frederick Douglass Republican Engagement Strategy. So a year later, I invited those same 18 or 20 black Democrat friends of mine to my home to watch our favorite football team play on television. Reluctantly, they all came. And of course that night, the subject of politics surface. They said, okay, Carl, he's a conservative Republican. I said, wait a minute, I'm more than a conservative. I'm more than a Republican. I am a Frederick Douglass Republican and I believe in a life empowering values of Frederick Douglass, respect for the US Constitution, respect for life. I believe the limited power of government, economic prosperity, free speech, school choice, women's rights, the right to keeping their arms, religious liberty. When I shared that with them, all of them started talking about how they were a Frederick Douglass Republican too. It worked. For the first time in my life, I had the confidence, the knowledge and the skill to trump the race card pun intended. Tonight, before you leave here, you're gonna know how to do the same. You're gonna know how to have a healthy atmosphere for political discourse without the fear of being called a racist. Until you're able to do that, you will be on the defense, proving that you're not a racist. Well, I'm gonna teach you how to overcome that. John was right. I remember those life empowering values. I just, the life empowering values I just went through, respect for the Constitution, respect for life. We call those life empowering values in lieu of saying conservative values. You follow me? Here's what John just took out of my notes. He didn't, and he doesn't know it. Values unite, issues divide. When you focus on those life empowering values that Douglas wrote about, that's how you find coming ground with people regardless of their political label. That's what happened to me that night. When I shared with them what my values were, respect for the Constitution, respect for life, these limited power government, economic prosperity, free speech, school choice, it resonated with them. And race came off the table. Uncle Tom came off the table. By leveraging Freda Douglas, see, Freda Douglas wrote about each of those values that I just laid out to you. You remember Freda Douglas, don't you? Born 1818 in the eastern shores area of Maryland, the way I like to put it, Freda Douglas born below poverty. See, when you're born into slavery, you're born below poverty. Never stepped in the bed to age eight, never owned a pair of shoes to age 10. He was homeschooled, self taught. Freda Douglas started his own homeschooling program to learn how to read and write, and you want to know why? Because he rejected the slave master's coming core curriculum. Did y'all get that? Dad, I got to work on that punchline some more. And so, so Douglas was a slave for the first 20 years of his life. Never had any formal education, none, all homeschooled, all homeschooled. Let me share some tip bits about Douglas's life. Freda Douglas wrote three autobiographies. And he wrote a novel called The Heroic Slave. And the reason I'm making this point because based on my reading of history, at that time, 90% of blacks could not read or write. That brother wrote three books, three autobiographies in a novel. Freda Douglas was an advisor to five Republican presidents, five of them. I mean, Abraham Lincoln's first, Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Rutherford Hayes, and Benjamin Harrison. Most folks don't get a chance to be one president. This brother was an advisor to five Republican presidents. Freda Douglas passed away in 1895 at the age of 77. He died of a massive heart attack. When Freda Douglas passed away, that brother had $300,000 in savings back then. When you calculate the inflation, that's over $10 million today. So you see that the life of Freda Douglas is inspiring. He started his life as a sub-zero percenter. He was on a plantation getting that free stuff. I can make the case, Douglas was a 47 percenter. He died a one percenter. I like leveraging the life of Freda Douglas when I talk to young people about success because no matter which victim category that the left try to put people in, no American today can out-victimize Freda Douglas. Your excuses go away. Now, that's the life of Douglas. I wanna shift down and talk about the writings of Freda Douglas. In my view, Freda Douglas is America's greatest liberty messenger. The greatest philosopher on human rights in liberty. Freda Douglas. The founding founders gave us two magnificent documents. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But what Freda Douglas had to say about freedom and liberty is more important than what any of the founders had to say. That's heresy, Kate Carl, that's blasphemy. Let me prove my point. Of course, the founders gave us those two magnificent documents. If you recall now, some of the founders owned slaves and the slaves were not free when the Constitution was ratified. In many cases, the slaves were free after the death of the founder. So when it comes to liberty, the founders are tainted and the left exploits that. These racist men who owned slaves gave us this racist document called the Constitution, don't they? Thank God that we have the literary legacy of Freda Douglas to refute the lies and the false rhetoric of the left. Douglas wrote on the Constitution one day, Douglas said, the Constitution reads we the people. It does not read we the white people, end of quote. Douglas went on to say, if black folks are considered to be people, then they should be benefactors of the Constitution. He concluded by saying the problem is not with the Constitution. The problem is in the application of the Constitution. The problem is not with the Bible. The problem is in how the Bible is applied. So again, thank God we have the literary legacy of Freda Douglas. These life-empowering values, Douglas wrote about immigration. He wrote about school choice. He wrote about free speech, Douglas and Boston. He gave a speech called the plea for free speech in Boston. And one of the most powerful statements in that speech, Douglas said this. He said, turrets cannot tolerate free speech because they know the power of it. See, if I have free speech, I can let the world know what you're doing to me. Without free speech, I'm stuck like Chuck. Freda Douglas, Freda Douglas, this whole Liberty Messenger engagement strategy is based on the Liberty Messages of Freda Douglas. I also contend that Freda Douglas is not only America's greatest Liberty Messenger, but he is the forgotten prophet. He was a philosopher. And he, of course, he wrote those books, but you can go to Yale University Press. They have a collection of Douglas's writing called the Douglas Papers, four volumes, six size font, I mean, thousands of pages. You can go to Amazon, get Philip Fauner's writings, selective writings of Douglas that's different for sending the Douglas Papers, 900 page book, six size font, I read all that. I became obsessed with Douglas. I became so obsessed with Douglas, I thought I was Freda Douglas. I wrote all, I read everything that he wrote, every speech he gave, if I could get my hand on it, I read it. Every biography that was written on Douglas at that time, I read it. I went on a reading binge because he turned my thinking right side up. I'm a graduate of Historical Black College, Alabama, and a university. I was taught in college that the Constitution was a pro-slavery document. I was taught in college that blacks were considered three-fifth of a human being, meaning that members of the Constitution kept the three-fifth clause, and I was taught in college, and this is still being taught today, by the way. I taught with some BLM kids, not recently, and they came up with this three-fifth clause, meaning that blacks are three-fifth of a human being. It was Freda Douglas that changed my thinking, and when I shared what Freda Douglas said to the BLM kids, young people, it changed their thinking. It was March 26, 1861, Freda Douglas in Glasgow, Scotland. He was actually in a debate, and this whole thing about the Constitution came up. So what Douglas said, the three-fifth clause has nothing to do with the personhood of a black individual, but it was a compromise approach used by the Northern Free States above the Southern slave states. See, at that time, in the Constitution, it read that for every 30,000 citizens, you get one congressional representation. So the slave states want to count every black person in slavery, which is like four million of them, as one person, one vote, which would give them a huge majority in Congress. The free states said, nope, if you free them, we'll let you count them as one person, one vote, but since you can't free them, we'll let you count the slave population as three-fifths of a vote. So a free person, a black person in the free state is worth five-fifths of a vote. A black person in the slave state, because they're still in bondage, is only three-fifths of a vote. When I shared that with them, their eyes got big. When you're engaging people who are of a left-wing persuasion, here's what I learned. They get indoctrinated in college, but they never heard the liberty message coming from Frederick Douglass. They never heard it. And how can you argue with a runaway slave about his love for the Constitution, his admiration for the founding fathers? The following? It would behoove us to get into the writings of Frederick Douglass and make that part of our language as we engage. Leverage, what Frederick Douglass had to say about these life-empowering values. So, the power of this whole Frederick Douglass public engagement strategy is that this is not a gimmick. This is not a technique or persuasive messaging model on how to talk to black people. It's a messaging model on how to engage anyone regarding your conservative values. And you do it in a way where you're on the offense, not on the defense. And where race comes off the table. So what is the political identity we should go by now? If we're not gonna use the word conservative, the political identity is I'm a Frederick Douglass Republican. See, a Frederick Douglass Republican, that's, you're not a Frederick Douglass Republican because of your skin color. You are a Frederick Douglass Republican because of the values. What are those values? Respect for the Constitution, respect for life, the belief in the limited power of government, economic prosperity, free speech, school choice, women's rights, legal immigration, religious liberty, the right to keep and bear arms. Frederick Douglass wrote about all of these things. That's why you gotta leverage him. I'm here to tell you, if we can grow a nationwide movement of people like yourselves who know how to leverage the liberty message of Frederick Douglass and make that part of your own, the left now, where they gonna go? They gotta go back to France, jump out of 12 story buildings. The left have no answer for Frederick Douglass and they never will. They never will. So thank God we have this literary legacy we can leverage on. If we didn't have Frederick Douglass, I don't know where it would be because the left can play the race card on everybody else. You can't play the race card on Douglass. Douglass was not a racist. He was the victim of racism. But he left with this literary legacy that we can use today if we are wise enough to leverage it. So let's engage Mr. Reddy. Let me quickly talk about why it's so powerful. So it's not a gimmick. This is not some cheap magician's trick that I've come up with. This is a divinely inspired message that God gave to me 12 years ago. And I've been for the past 12 years traveling around the country preaching to the choir to empower you, making myself scalable, how to talk to your friends, how to talk to your family members. You know what I'm talking about. You guys family, they come around your house around Thanksgiving time. You get so upset, you leave and go to the tiny table with the little kids. How do you engage them? You engage them by leveraging the liberty message of Frederick Douglass and letting them know that your political identity is, is a Frederick Douglass Republican. See that Frederick Douglass Republican, reason why it's such a powerful phrase, it is because simply this, it's an oxymoron for a lot of folks. Frederick Douglass is an icon of liberty. Republican because the negative propaganda of the left is icon of racism, liberty, racism, they just don't go together. So when you utter the phrase, I'm a Frederick Douglass Republican, you just created a mystery in the other person's mind and they don't wanna know what you're talking about. That's when now you gotta have some content to go with the phrase. You just can't utter the phrase. You gotta have the content to go behind it. You follow me? You don't have to write any of this down. I wrote a book, I'm gonna share it with you tonight. Where I lay all this stuff out. Okay? Let's shift now and get into this whole critical race theory. We're not gonna be long. The critical race theory. And I said that I read it. I read it for myself. And the conclusion I have drawn is this. All it is, it is a Marxist agenda, anti-liberty, anti-God to destroy the United States from the inside based on stirring up racial strife. That's all it is. Where does this come from? This is nothing new. Where does this come from? Here's a book you need to get your hands on. This book is written by Manning Johnson. It's called Color, Communism and Common Sense. Manning Johnson is a black American. Manning Johnson wrote this book. This book came out in 1958. Manning Johnson reached the upper level of the American Communist Party. He was so liked by the Communist Party. He was so articulate. They actually sent him to Moscow for training. So Manning became a communist because he was disillusioned with capitalism. And he thought that communism would be the friend to black folks and create this utopia. As he got into more of the communists and the teachings and their strategies, he realized that's not the case. So he wrote this book, a tell all book. It's like 76 pages. Then sometime later Manning died in a very, in a car accident. They said that there's no proof that it showed in Capifile play, but they play, you know, the Marxists play for keeps. So in this book, in this book, which you need to get your hands on, Manning talks about the whole strategy of Marxism and communism is to create racial strife. They want us to ignore all the gains we have made over the years in terms of race relations, as if we have made any gains. They have to keep that alive. See, what Marxism is when Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto, his idea was, look, we gotta create this revolution based on class. He put the have lots against the have nots to create this conflict. So back in like 1928, when the communists came over to America and tried to bring that here, it didn't work. Why didn't it work? Because in the United States, you can be poor one day, come up with an idea, or take your guy, give him a gift, you can become a 1%, like a friend that does. So that classism stuff doesn't work here. So the communists said, we gotta find something else, how we can create strife. They decide to focus on race. Why? Cause color doesn't change. It doesn't change. Manning Johnson talks about that. Get that book, Manning Johnson, color, common sense, and color coming is the common sense. I wanna read for you excerpts of the 45 goals of the American Communist Party. I wanna read them to you. I'm not gonna read all of them to you now, not whole 45. Because as I read them, some of them are gonna come. It's gonna hit home because they have accomplished a lot of these. This was in 1963, there was a congressman out of Florida. He went to the house, floor of the house, and he read into the congressional record the 45 goals of communism. Okay? His name was, what was his name? Albert S. Hurlong, congressman out of Florida. This is 1963 when he did this. Let's see if any of these goals hit home. Number 15, capture one or both of the political parties in the United States. Check. If John F. Kennedy was alive today, he would not get elected in the Democrat Party. 17, get control of the schools. Use them as a transmission belt for socialism and current communist propaganda. Check. Number 21, gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. Check. Why do you think there's never been a movie about Frederick Douglass? James Brown got a movie. Aretha Franklin got a movie. Tupac has a movie. There never been a movie about Frederick Douglass coming out of Hollywood. Why? Because the views and the writings of Frederick Douglass is the opposite of, is the socialist. Total opposite. Number 22, continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. A company sale was told to eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings. This is 1963. Check. You know, doing one of the riots last year in Rochester, New York, they actually tore down Frederick Douglass statue. You remember that? Number 26, present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as normal, natural, and healthy. Check. 27, infiltrate the churches and replace reveal religion with social religion. Check. Here's the last one I'm gonna read to you. Well, I'm gonna read two more to you. It says here, discredit the American constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, and out of step with modern needs. Check. And one more, create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of American tradition that students and special interest groups should rise up and make a united force to solve economic, political, and social problems. That's what we saw going in the streets. How do we win this? You win it by messaging, by leveraging Frederick Douglass. The most effective liberty message to counter Marxism is Frederick Douglassism. I'm in the airport, I had on my Trump cap. I was flying to D.C. And there were some BLM kids right in front of me that were at the gate. And here's this black guy got a Trump cap on him. They didn't say anything to me. I just said, do you like my cap? Then the conversation started. Then I told them about my political identity. I'm a Frederick Douglass Republican. It was like a deer in headlights, they stopped. And when I know what I'm talking about, it gives me a chance to seize control of the narrative. And I started talking about what I believe in. Again, what I learned is they never heard the liberty message coming from the writings of Frederick Douglass, a former slave. Never heard it. Never heard it. Everything they talked about Douglass wrote about. They talked about the Constitution. I told what Douglass said about the Constitution. They talked about right to keep it bare arms. I told what Douglass said about right to keep it bare arms. School choice. I told what Douglass said about school choice. I gave them one of my engagement card that I'm gonna talk about in a minute. They were enlightened. I didn't have a confrontation. It was a conversation. I was driving the bus by leveraging Frederick Douglass. What I want you to get out of this that I'm saying to you tonight, this engagement strategy works. And it works more effectively when a white person uses the strategy and leverages Douglass. It's more effective when you use it than when I use it. Because why? Frederick Douglass, that's my ethnicity. People expect me to hold Frederick Douglass in high esteem. But are we here on CNN, MSNBC, the white conservatives, white liberty advocates or racists? But when you come out and say from your heart, I hold Frederick Douglass in high esteem and I agree with his life in power and values, respect for the Constitution, respect for life. I believe the limited power of government, economic prosperity, free speech, school choice. When you say that, as someone who they don't expect to say that, you just took a major step to win the narrative. Now you're in the driver's seat in the conversation and race comes off the table. A racist cannot and will not say that they hold Frederick Douglass in high esteem. Will not. You follow me? It works. So what God gave me, so I took the liberty message of Frederick Douglass and I combined it with the diversity outreach strategy of the apostle Paul. Now I'm not here to push my religion now but I'm here to share with you that in the Bible, which is a how-to book, there are some things in there that we need to look at to learn and glean from in terms of best practices. Because in that book, when you think about the apostle Paul, he was a diversity engagement strategist. You remember Paul, he was called by God, commissioned by God to take the gospel to the Gentiles, people of different what? Ethnicities, different races. Right? You know, by occupation, the apostle Paul, he was, he was an attorney and he was a temp maker. Am I right? I'm not making this stuff up. I tell my son all the time, I got a 10 year old son. I said son, don't believe anything I tell you. I'm not gonna lie to you now. I'm not gonna lie to you but don't believe anything I tell you. You go back and check it out. Don't give me no excuse, you can't check it out. Just go ask Siri and ask Alexa. They'll tell you. So don't believe anything I tell you. Don't believe anything I tell you, prove me wrong. So God called the apostle Paul to take the gospel to the Gentiles. Paul was an attorney and he was a temp maker. God called the apostle Paul to establish a big tent. Big tent, that's the metaphoric expression we use all the time as conservatives. We gotta have a what? A big tent. Hmm. The apostle Paul. In 1 Corinthians 9-22, the apostle Paul says something like, I become all things to all people. What did he mean by that? What he meant by that? He's, when you read some of the translation, the apostle Paul was saying, I entered their world. To my, excuse me, the Gentiles. And I tried to experience life from their viewpoint. If you enter my world and you try to experience life from my viewpoint or you enter the world of young people today and you try to experience life from their viewpoint based on the indoctrination they're getting, you're gonna quickly learn the word conservative is not the language of liberty, it's the language of oppression. Okay? If I need to talk about that a little bit more and give you a history on that, I'll share that with you. So what we did, we took the liberty message of Freda Douglas, the diversity outreach strategy apostle Paul, we put them together. Unstoppable. Unstoppable. Also in the ministry of apostle Paul. Not heavy, anybody else say this because God didn't give it to them, God gave it to me. I'm sharing it with you. Through the ministry of apostle Paul, God has given the answer how to trump the race card. Think about it. Through the ministry of apostle Paul, we have the blueprint on how to trump the race card. You remember Paul now before he became a champion of Christianity. He was also well known for being a bloodthirsty persecutor of Christians. Am I right? And that reputation preceded him. The Gentiles shook with fear when they heard Paul's name. And Paul had this Damascus road experience, right? Allow me to use my biblical imagination for one moment. Just imagine what was some of the talk among the Gentiles about Paul. Can you imagine them sitting? No, people aren't. You can imagine them sitting back and saying, y'all, y'all look at Paul. That no good liar. He's over to call himself a Christian evangelist. He's a bigot. He's a racist. Ain't those words not familiar? That's what they say about conservatives, right? He's trying to fool us. Y'all know what he did to those people in Jerusalem, Judea? Y'all heard about that? He's coming over here saying he's a Christian evangelist. Won't us become Christians so he can kill us too? Here's the question. There's no denying that the apostle Paul had a tremendous impact in the early growth of the church. So the question becomes, in order to have that impact, how did he overcome the negative perception that the Gentiles had of him? How did he trump the race card? He did two things. Number one, at a minimum, he did two things. Number one, he had a testimony. When you read Paul's writings, he didn't just talk about Christ, but he talked about how the teachings of Christ, well, let me talk about it. He didn't just quote the Christ, but he talked about how the teachings of Christ changed his thinking, changed his mind, made him a new person. He was transformed. If we're gonna trump the race card, we gotta have a similar testimony. I call it a political inspiration of old declaration. What is that inspirational statement, Kay Carl? I've been inspired by the life and writings of Frederick Douglass. I'm more than a conservative. I'm more than a Republican. I'm a Frederick Douglass Republican. And I believe in the life and power of various of Douglass respect for the constitution, respect for life, I do not. Okay? Then did the apostle Paul had good deeds, excuse me. He had good deeds. He traveled throughout the Roman Empire. He traveled throughout Asia Minor. He went to places nobody has ever been before. He was menacing the people that he's supposed to be, what, racist towards, right? When you put those two together, when you put good deeds and you're testimony together, that's unstoppable. You can't have one without the other. You can't have one without the other. For the last two years, I've been an advisor to the Trump campaign for black voices for Trump. And I shared with them, I said, look, here's a challenge. The president has a lot of good deeds in terms of legislation that was passed that impacted the black community in a positive way, criminal justice reform, opportunity zone, unemployment all-time low in the black community. What's the other one? Yeah, and funding black colleges and made that funding permanent for 10 years. Oh, that's what, good deeds. I said, here's the thing, with all those good deeds in January, I think about two years ago, oh, a poll came out, with all those good deeds, 80% of blacks still felt that he was a racist. With all those good deeds, I said, something is missing. You gotta have a testimony. As a surrogate, it's not what I say about him that matters, what he says about himself. See, and I told them, I said, you gotta understand through which biblical lens that many blacks, and I'm talking about myself here, I was a staunch Democrat, and when I voted Democrat, you gotta understand through which biblical lens was I viewing the world. And a lot of them are doing it today. And the way we view the world was through Proverbs 21 and 1 that the heart of the king is in the hands of God. That God can take a quote, unquote, racist president and use him to bless me. Criminal justice reform, opportunity zones, unemployment all the time low, funding historical black colleges. So President Trump is not gonna get the credit and he didn't get the credit, God got the credit, because God made the racists do it. That's why we gotta trump this race card first. What a lot of people don't realize there's two battles taking place. It's the battle propaganda and the battle of ideas. We have the best ideas wrist up in the propaganda piece. We're using the wrong name to identify ourselves that's been demonized. We gotta win that battle. And once we win that battle, we can bring in statistics. We can bring in truth. See the first thing when it comes to engaging, if you're gonna solve the CRT problem, when you engage your friends, it's not to talk the facts, truth, evidence about CRT. The first thing you gotta do, because we're conservatives have been demonized, right? The first thing you must do is learn how to create trust and credibility for yourself in order to get people to listen. How do you do that? I've been inspired by the life and writings of Frederick Douglass. I'm more than a conservative Republican. I'm a Frederick Douglass Republican. That has to become part of your path. Okay, you following me? Make sense to you? Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass. When I did my research on this whole critical race theory, it's so Marxist agenda, it comes out of writing of Karl Marx, right? Here's some things about Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass is gonna make, get your attention. Frederick Douglass and Karl Marx were both born in 1818. They were both born in 1818. Of course, Frederick Douglass was born into slavery. When you go back and read Karl Marx, Karl Marx is a poster child for white privilege. Karl Marx was a poster child for white privilege. And when I said that to those BLM kids, I said, I said, you despise white privilege, don't you? He said, yeah. But the man you follow, his philosophy, he was a white privilege. His father was a lawyer. But when it comes to a person who was oppressed and talked about the nature of oppression, Frederick Douglass, you don't listen to that. And you brag about that you're a trained Marxist. And you believe in Marxism. I said, I believe in Frederick Douglassism. When I shared that with them, they got it. This, what I'm talking about engaging, leveraging Frederick Douglass is a transferable skill. You can do it. I'm giving you the strategy, I can't give you the wheel. If you're serious about defending the liberty, defending the constitution, defeating Marxism once and for all, you gotta leverage Frederick Douglass. If not, it's over with. Stop waiting for the cavalry to come. Stop looking outside of yourself for the cavalry. You're the cavalry. Don't go out looking for a leader, pick yourself to be a leader. That's what we need now. Look, I had to pick myself. I've been asked to run for Congress in Alabama. Well, they picked me. But I gotta think about that thing because I'm not a politician. I'm a problem solver, but I'm not a politician. So, that may be something I may have to do. But, Yeah. I asked. Yeah, yeah, and I'm not gonna wait for somebody. God put in my heart to do it. I'm almost there. But, we gotta solve this problem. I'm pretty sure I can win. See, what's needed now, we don't need politicians who count their campaign about they're gonna bounce the budget and control spending. All that means nothing. You can't defeat Marxism. And we need the candidates now who have a unifying message, a candidate who can get out there and get people who traditionally don't vote Republican to vote Republican. How you do that? You leverage Fred the Duggas. It was Fred the Duggas. I've been into the lion's den with Fred the Duggas and come out unscathed in WCP meetings, black churches. Let me tell you the barbershop story that we'll get to your questions. When God had perfected this message in me, this Fred the Duggas piece, the first person I tried it on was my brother, five years my junior. PhD, Pastor, some 25 years. He said, I said, I said, what do you know about Fred the Duggas? He said, not much. He said that, you know, Duggas was Republican, right? He said, Duggas was Republican? I said, yeah, read this. Read Duggas autobiography. Read the Federalist Papers. Read the Constitution. So I sent him through like six months of training. After six months of training, I said to my brother, put this t-shirt on and I want you to come to Atlanta with me. We produce a t-shirt that has three big, bold letters on it. F, D, R. It's not who you think, Fred the Duggas Republican. So I told my brother, come on go to Atlanta with me. So he had no idea what I was doing. So we drove to Atlanta and I pulled up in front of a barbershop. I said, get out the car, go inside the barbershop with the t-shirt, I'll be back in two hours. He said, what? I said, get out the car, go inside the barbershop and see what happens. I'll be back in two hours to pick you up. So he gets out the car and two hours later I came back to pick them up. He gets in the car, I said, how did it go? He said, man, this thing works. I said, what happened? He said, he go inside the barbershop there was about 12 or 13 black guys in the barbershop and he had this FDR shirt on, had there were Republican on it. Two guys, after five minutes of him sitting down, two guys said to him in unison, are you a Republican? He said, I'm a Fred the Duggas Republican. I believe that life is part of that as a Fred the Duggas, respect for the Constitution, respect for life. I believe the limited power of government, economic prosperity, free school choice. He said, for the next 49 minutes, the barbershop turned into a Fred the Duggas Republican Bible study. Because they were curious about that oxymoron. As a result, the proprietor of the barbershop said, hey, can you come back and do a book signing out of the barbershop? Now we're in the hood now and bring some of those books with you. Some of those books. So what happened? So my brother and I, we wrote this book back in 2011. The book's entitled, probably got plastic on it, you can't see it. It's called Fred the Duggas Republicans, the move into reignite America's passion for liberty. Not black folks' passion for liberty, everybody's passion for liberty, based on the writings of this ex-slave. So the book, it's not a dissertation on the political thoughts of Duggas, but what it is, it's a Liberty Messenger's Handbook. In this book, I take four life-empowering values and I give you five quotes for what Fred the Duggas said about each one of them. Respect for the Constitution, respect for life, the belief in limited government and the belief in personal responsibility, what Duggas said about each one of them. Five quotes. Now let me go back here. In the book, the third value is that I believe in limited government. I don't say that anymore because when you say I believe in limited government, what they left will do, oh, you believe in limited government, you won't take folks entitlements away. Now I say I believe the limited power of government, government, while I keep more of the money that I make, it resonates. So I have some books here. With the book comes what I call, there's five engagement cards with the book and it says on it, vote your values. Remember now, values unite. Ideas unite. So on this card are six life-empowering values and a quote from Freda Duggas regarding each one of them. What did Duggas say about immigration, the right to keep and bear arms, school choice, economic prosperity, women's rights, religious liberty. It's a quote from Freda Duggas and the Constitution. It's a quote from Freda Duggas regarding each one of them. That's the engagement card. See, once you read the book and you know how to engage, the engagement card is what you pass to people who get them to have an awakening and they read what Freda Duggas has to say. They get it. How are you gonna argue with a runaway slave? Also comes with the book is Freda Duggas Republican on critical race theory. I thought about this thing. I said, what is the best way to dismantle this critical race theory? Because they talk about racism, right? The best way to dismantle is to go back and take a look at the United States when racism was at its worst. That was in Duggas's time. See, we've come a long way. The racism that does exist in the United States today is pale in comparison to the racism in Duggas's time. We've come a long way. They don't want us to think that. They don't always want to keep strife, right? So I said, okay, what did Duggas have to say about? There are several assertions made in this critical race theory and John talked about them. One of the assertions that's being made in the critical race theory, number one, that blacks are perpetual victims of white racism. That's in the critical race theory. Well, what did Duggas have to say about that? He said something about it. This was 1862, Duggas in Boston, speaking to a group of abolitionists. And what he said to them, he said, stop treating black people like we're a special class of citizen. He said, y'all didn't do anything special for the Irish. He said, leave black folks alone. So he said, so the question was for Fred and Duggas at that time, they asked Duggas this question, what shall we do with the Negro? Because when it's passed with emancipation proclamation being signed, for when your black folks gonna be free from slavery, right? Technically free. They asked Duggas, what shall we do with the Negro? Duggas said, what do you mean what shall you do with the Negro? Don't you think you've done enough? You made him a slave. He said, stop playing mischief with black folks' lives. Duggas said, quote, leave him alone and mind your own business because your interference is causing him positive injury. Quick come up with these social programs and treating black folks like we're some type of social guinea pig with these theories that don't work. Duggas wrote about that. When you turn to the second part, this is something that God gave me, I'm gonna share it with you. It's on the top part of the card and I cannot read this cause I got this plastic wrapped around it. Here's what I'm saying here. I wrote this, convinced that blacks cannot provide for themselves, needing a master needing masters to rule and feed them. The left think their instruction and their benevolence is better to improve the condition of black folks than give them liberty. Don't give them liberty, let us take care of them. That's the slave master mentality. Duggas wrote about that. The slave master mentality was blacks can't handle liberty. So we gotta make them our slave and take care of them. Give them instruction, give them benevolence. Wicked benevolence, by the way. They can't handle liberty. That's what critical race theory is all about. They gotta come up with social programs. Since we're victims now, that means I'm an internal victim. No, I'm more than a conqueror. The other thing is critical race theory that whites are inherently racist and have no redemptive qualities. Now, here's what bothered me. If they're making that assertion, well, how do white liberals get a pass? How do they get a pass? They're excluded themselves from this. So if whites are inherently racist and have no redemptive qualities, what if Freda Dugs had to say about that? When Freda Dugs escaped from slavery, 10 years after he escaped from slavery, he wrote a letter to his former slave master. And he said in that letter when you read it, I forgive you for all the things you did to me. I'm not gonna, you can come see me, you can visit me anytime. I'm not gonna make you eat outside like you made me eat outside. Dugga said, I'm gonna use you as an example how men ought to treat each other. And in that letter, Dugga said, oh, by the way, I want you to free all 400 of your slaves, all 400 of them. And until you do, I'm gonna write about you in my book, I'm gonna talk about you in my speeches, I'm gonna call you out on Twitter and Facebook. So Duggas was original blogger. Within a year, less than a year, less than a year of Duggas making that, insisting that this master do that, within a year, his slave master freed all 400 of his slaves. Why? He redeemed, he was redeemed. And Duggas used that word redemptive in his quote, you'll see it on the card. That slave master freed all 400 of his slaves 15 years before the master proclamation was signed. So much for the critical race theory. The other thing that critical race theory what is really primarily is all about, when you really get down to it, it is to change a person's private worship from God to government. It's about changing our worship from God to government. It's trying to get us to bow down to the altar of the almighty government instead of the almighty God. A good friend of mine, Raphael Cruz, the father of Ted Cruz, and Raphael told me the story that, no Raphael escaped from Cuba. He said that when he was a young boy in the classroom, had been kindergarten, Fidel Castro was in his soldiers out and go to the classrooms. And he'll go to the kindergarten class and tell the kids, the soldier will tell the kids, put your head down on your desk and close your eyes and pray to God for some candy. The kids will close their eyes, put their head on the desk, close their eyes. A few minutes will pass. They raise their head up and the soldiers say, where is your candy? Now, think about the impressionable mind of these young children. See, the critical race there is attacking our children. Then the Castro soldiers will tell these children, put your head down, close your eyes, and pray to Fidel for some candy. They'll put their head down, close their eyes, and the soldiers will quietly walk around each desk and put some candy on the desk. Raise your head, there's your candy. Trying to change the private worship by starting with our children. That's what this does, the critical race through. It's trying to change our worship. So what did Douglas say about this? I'm gonna paraphrase this because it's on the card. See, again, Douglas is America's greatest liberty messenger. He was a philosopher when it comes to human rights and liberty. Douglas said this in a speech he gave called The Nature of Slavery. See, you gotta understand now when Douglas wrote, Douglas made it clear that the techniques of oppression used by the slave master are identical to the techniques of oppression used by the slave government, communism, Marxism. Douglas said this, the first aim of slavery is to remove a person from their God, to separate him or her from their maker. And Douglas said, when you separate a person from their maker, they gotta rely on despotic, evil fellow citizens to care for them. I didn't say it, Douglas said it. So thank God we have this literary legacy of Douglas. So you get the book, five cards in the back. This is a, you get 20 cards in here and the book. Now, the books are free. The autograph in each book is $20. So you get the whole pack for $20, okay? You get the whole pack for $20. And that's pretty, because I normally make sell these for like 30 bucks on the end of that. So the book, with the autographs already in it, five engagement cards and 20 cards, Doug is on the credit, Frederick Doug's republics on the critical race theory. So if you believe in those life in part of the values, you are Frederick Doug's republics, not based on color. This is not a black thing, this is a liberty thing. You got that? Makes sense to you? I don't wanna wear it my welcome, but I'm gonna say let's go ahead and do some Q and A right quick. I'd be happy to answer your question. Yes sir. 19th century maybe? Yes. 26 years ago, I read the Great Age of Fortress. Yeah, I agree. His only conflict, his best competition was Edward Everett at other speeches that nobody remembers at Gettysburg. He was the keynote speaker, so. Sir, I guess you get to the question. That won't be respectful of people's time. Yeah, okay, okay, you stand it up. Yeah, go ahead, what's your question? I'm sorry about that. Something about Douglas, right? Yeah, well, when school's out and it's independent state, a lot of public... Yeah, worked to the slaves the 4th of July. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Right. Values. Right. Messenger. Messenger. Waited to do it for... You see, what they're trying to do on July 4th is they're trying to say that Frederick Douglas criticized the declaration. Yeah, yeah. Constitution. And I wanted to be better known for what it really was. Yeah, that's how you do that. First of all, you gotta read it. Read the whole speech. Read the whole speech. Now, in that speech, what Douglas did, he did something called a double reversal. He started softening that speech, praising the founders in their effort to fight tyranny and the revolution, okay? He goes on in that speech and he says to them, did y'all bring me here to make mockery of me? Here you are celebrating the 4th of July informing of your fellow citizens are still in slavery in the South, right? He said, your flag and your anthems are a fraud and a sham, all right? He said, so what to the slaves, your 4th of July? And they're in bondage. He said, I need your help to turn this around. He said, clergy, stop going to the pulpit saying that blacks are innately inferior. And politicians stop passing laws that there are blacks of their rights. So he said, I need your help with this. So he says something positive, negative, but he ended up with something positive. When you read Frederick Douglass, you just can't read the 4th of July speech. You gotta read Douglass's writings about the Constitution. It's a glorious document. These men were brave men. There's about five or six quotes that I talk about in the book. Remember, that's one of the values. I give you five things what Douglass said about the Constitution. Now you gotta remember now, when Douglass escaped from slavery, his mentor was William Lloyd Garrison. He originally believed that the Constitution was a slavery document because he believed what people told him. But Douglass did something interesting. He read the Constitution for himself. Then he read Lysander Spooner's The Unconstitutional Act of Slavery and Douglass said, wait a minute, the Constitution ought to pro-slavery document, it's anti-slavery document. So he had this epiphany. So when you can tell that story and leverage Douglass' writings on the Constitution, in addition to that, the left has no answer for it. None, but they cherry-pick him. But here's the thing, if you don't know the truth, you can't recognize the lie. That's what happened. Douglass is a bad boy. I brought it tough. He put Lincoln in check. He put a lot of folks in check. That brother's tough. So thank God we had the writings of Douglass to save this nation and run the marches out of here. Because we're in a, there's a world championship battle taking place. In one corner, you got Karl Marx. In another corner, you got Frederick Douglass. One's from Germany. A poster child for white privilege. The other young man's from Maryland. Born below poverty. Karl Marx, the revolutionist. Frederick Douglass said, in his third autobiography, Douglass said, I'm not a revolutionist. Douglass, I'm a reformer. Let's keep the best that we have and make it better. Frederick Douglass. Yes, ma'am? Yeah. For a month? Yeah, let John take care of that. I have some materials right here, actually. And sorry, I said so. So these are handouts with some materials and I do highly recommend Thomas Sowell's works for the broader, and this man's book, by the way. You can buy it today. The autobiographic twice, but. Go look at the curriculum because it varies depending on your individual school. Some have already implemented some of these things as I've been pointing out. So you really have to look, and you're entitled to. So we have some materials here as well. Federal law entitles parents to have a lot more than just knowing what the curriculum is. All taxpayers should be able to know what the curriculum is, especially when it's experimental on the minds of children and there's no scientific evidence to show that it's not gonna be a disaster. Bear in mind, this ain't going away. There, are there any media here? Huh, Senator Press really saw the media. Geez, it's like, you know, maybe if we just close our ears, the truth will go away. When your children come home and start talking about this stuff, when the parent, I assure you it's there, and they're gonna find out, don't you worry, keep speaking the truth like he does. And I do wanna say before, what a gift. Everybody, did we get applause for him? Cause I stepped down. So this is me taking credit for spending your money well. And little, hang on a sec, you're next soon. So many champions here. You folks are awesome. We have leveraged the money that we've raised. So we've been doing this since January. Every month we have a meeting, we raise a little money. And then we hire somebody like this who's gonna be US Congressman and we won't be able to afford him anymore. I do pray. Cause God has a plan. And actually when I heard about him on the campaign trail, I was like, huh, Frederick Douglass Republican, what is this? Cause I knew Frederick Douglass. I read his autobiography when I was 12 or 13. I read it again. And at the age of 14 or 15, I was so innate. I actually thought I was Frederick Douglass for a while. It wasn't just you. I have a mirror at all. See, the mirror didn't enlighten him. What a wonderful story. And I'm so excited to have you share it. So I wanna turn back over to the Q&A. But I want you to buy his books. I want you to get the materials. Everything I do is to equip you. Everything he's doing is to equip you. And in case you didn't catch it, one of the biggest charges I get on this man's message is he's telling you to get off your asses like he's going to excuse my language. I'm a farmer, I can say something. And run for office. And work like helping this group. And many of you have helped financially and otherwise to have a voice. Because all we're asking to do is talk. It's not that radical. If you start talking about Frederick Douglass, you have a lot to say. And I will allow you to take some more questions. So please, I'm a farmer. I'm gonna milk this guy all I can. See? Yes ma'am. Yes. John, I give back to you. So again, you- And they won't give it to us. So that's very interesting. Can I address that? Sue Paxman. Who's been trying to get the curricula, correct me if I'm wrong, in Barry and they won't give it to her. They won't answer her questions. Gosh, if it's such a great theory, why can't we drag it out in the light and let it die like a vampire it is? Why won't you let us see? So they're actually, that's called whack-a-mole. Remember? They've already done it. Let me tell you what, they're terrified and they're nowhere more terrified for good reason than in Vermont where they've already implemented or are you doing it to children and they're hurting children already. So keep asking, Sue. Yes, keep asking. How do you get it? I guess, you know, eventually we could follow lawsuit but what I'm saying is how do you get it? The parents, this is what they don't even, the parents control content curriculum this state. The state is not sending this curriculum. It's being done in your school boards. The fact that they're ramming it down people's throats and putting BLM on their flags up, only will help us when the payback comes, when the pushback comes, when people start realizing his parents what's happening. So that's when we'll find out and then we'll get it out. And by the way, a guy named Ben Morley is doing some work up in the kingdom and a lot of people are coming for it. We're still dragging this stuff out in the light. So sorry, that's a Vermont specific question. John, we can't get a movement going where we just vote down every budget every year until they pull it out. Aren't we? I do. So who is in a movement right now? I told you, this is a coup. Against the United States Constitution. This is anti-constitutional. It's all over. It's not just critical race theory. So yes, we have to vote. It's called democracy or a republic. But we have to go and take back our school boards and we're going to because the parents do be the people of whatever color do control our school boards. Isn't that right? Say amen. Amen, but look, I think it's time to boycott. It's time to walk out of these schools. I took my son out of school system. I'm not trying to engage in old 50 year fight. I'm pulling out. And matter of fact, one thing we're doing because of the opportunities zone, my brothers and I, we bought 110 acres of land in Birmingham area. And what we're going to do, we're going to start a Freddard Douglas Stem Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Academy. And it won't be a charter school because I don't want somebody to come tell me who I can send and can't send to the restroom. I'm not doing that. It'll be a Christian Academy. And it will feature the Freddard Douglas Liberty curriculum. And what that is, what we're going to inspire the next generation of Freddard Douglas Liberty ambassadors to counter what? Marxism. We've got to start with the young people. I want to say this, too, when you engage people, a lot of folks don't understand communism. They don't understand socialism. They think it's great. They don't know it because they don't have the experience of people living in third world countries. They don't understand totalitarianism. So what I've learned when I talk to people, especially young people, even some adults, I have to use a different metaphor with them. I can't talk about those isms. They don't understand that. So I talk about a slavery. I give them a slavery metaphor. So when I talk about slavery, then I bring in something Doug has said about his life that correlates to what we're dealing with. Because the techniques of oppression used by the slave master are identical to the techniques of oppression used by the slave government. It's in there. It's the same thing. I call it the parallels of oppression. Some more water. Yes, ma'am. You're three students? I'm the three students. You're the senators. Here in Vermont? We're not distribution of wealth. There's redistribution of people. So when I go into Costco's or Wal-Mart, I feel like I'm in a foreign country. And I don't understand the languages. What do you think of that policy? I'm not familiar with that. What they do what now? I'm not following you on that one. They're resettling refugees in Vermont. Oh, they are? OK. Well, that's the problem. There's not enough economic information. Well, yeah, you know, my thing about when I came to Vermont, I'm about the critical race theory. If you're a racist, do you have enough blacks in Vermont to practice your racism? Where are they? That's a joke, by the way, OK? In a good way. Yes, they have to. They have to. Commitment out, you got to get Manny Johnson's book. See, the left also has no answer for Manny Johnson. Manny was one of them. Manny was a liberal. He was a communist. He talks about what they're doing. And they have to create racial tension, even though it doesn't exist, because that's how you're going to destroy America from the inside through racial strife. Ignore the past accomplishments. Ignore that. But when racial relationships gets better and it's improving, they got to bring it in, something in, to tear it down. That's what they do. Manny talked about that. I didn't say Manny talked about it. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. What was my opinion? What did he try to accomplish? Well, I mean, I've seen stuff where what did he do? So much of what you did was you counted off of the 45. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You picked about 10 different items. And I've seen stuff like that, that he followed some of those items pretty closely. Well, look, I did my homework before I voted. I did not vote for him either time. I knew he's the first black person to occupy the highest office in the land. I understand that. My grandchildren understood he's the first person of color. But I need some political substance, not political celebrityism. What kind of policies are you passing that's in line with the values of Fred the Duggetts? I didn't see it. When he shut down the school choice program in DC, when he shut that down, where now these kids, he defunded it, these black kids now, who were in poor schools, didn't have the opportunity no longer to go to better schools, had a problem with that. He cut the funding to historical black colleges when he was president. And I know because I was involved with one of the HBCU presidents lobbying for that. So it was sad because to me, but here's just of the wrong school of thought. That's not a Fred the Duggetts school of thought. No. But I do recognize his accomplishment in that seat. But in terms of political substance, it wasn't there for me. Yes, sir? Yes, sir? Yes, sir? I don't think his comment was the most segregated day of the week is Sunday. That's what he's saying. Is that a problem? I don't necessarily see that as a problem because we've got different styles of worship. So I don't see that as a problem. But the concern is, what are we doing the other days of the week? Are we taking our worship? And are we forgetting about our biblical teachings on Sunday on the other days of the week? Let me put it this way, when you read my book, I give you my testimony when I was a Democrat. And what changed my thinking was Second Corinthians 13 and 5, where it says, examine yourself. Make sure you're solving the faith. Don't go on taking things for granted. I started examining the way I was worshiped, the way I was voting. My worship was different from how I was voting. I don't believe in same-sex marriage. I don't believe in homosexuality. I don't believe in abortion. But I was voting that way. See what I'm saying? That's the problem. I was not voting the way that my worship. And in the book, I talk about what God appears to my spirit and diagnosed me as a political schizophrenic. I was really spinning in God's face based on how I was voting. I wasn't voting my values. So that's just a personal thing. And I actually went through three days of depression when that happened. Because all the things I believed to be true, I found it was a lie. When that happens, and I was depressed for three days, then come out the house. And that's when I realized my values are more aligned. That's it. Now, the Republican Party is bad. Democrat Party is worse. There's no perfect party. So you've got to be involved where God plants you and be a light in darkness wherever you go. But you've got to go missing your values. We don't need everybody to become Republicans. We have everybody to vote their values if they know what their values are. And then we can say this nation. Yeah. For me, when people ask me why I'm no longer a Democrat, because for me, I didn't want to be part. Once I started reading Fred the Dugget's Understanding History more, I did not want to be part of any organization or political party that put my great, great grandparents in slavery. I'm not going to be part of that. But at the same time, I'm going to make sure that the Republican Party adhered to its platform. And it's not going to be agitated out. Yes? OK. OK. You consider yourself a man of color? Yeah, I am. I'm not the invisible man. I see something a little bit different. Oh, OK. When you, John Clark, get up there and you're up there, I see you both as men of color, red, white, and blue. I got you. I got you. I got you. The first question, Fred the Dug is independent. I'm giving it to you the way God gave it to me. Don't say Fred the Dug is libertarian. Don't say Fred the Dug is patriot. There's a reason why I think God gave me Fred the Dug is Republican, because it's a clear oxymoron. And when people hear it, and what happened, the barber shop, my brother, I said, what happened? He said, when he said Fred the Dug is Republican, they said, wait, wait, what does Douglas have to do with the Republican Party? So they gave him a chance to explain how Douglas was one of the reasons why the Republican Party was started. He was the voice piece of the abolitionist movement. And they started talking about the history of the Republican Party, the pro-black history of the Republican Party, Douglas' involvement in that. So it helps to, when you say Fred the Dug's Republican, now you can get into the writings of Douglas as it relates to the party. There's only one dog in the fight. It's the Conservatives against the Marxists, and it's the Republican Party against the Democrat, and the Independents. I'm sorry to tell you. It's one dog in the fight. And we got to get that dog ready to fight. Now, I am anti-established Republican Party, OK? I'm anti-establishment. That's part of the problem, because the establishment of the Republican Party oftentimes cooperates with the elitists in the Democrat Party. I can tell you some personal experiences about that. I bet you can. Again, I don't want to overstay my welcome, but I want to thank you for coming and thank you for your questions. I hope this made sense to you, because Fred the Dug is so comprehensive. And again, thank God that we have this literary legacy of Dug as we can leverage if we choose to. And other thing is, I don't know if President Trump is coming back. If he comes back or not, we still got to do our job, and that's getting in the trenches and engaging and encouraging people to understand through leveraging Fred the Dug as the importance of liberty, the importance of the Constitution. And we can do that when you leverage Dug as. If you can change how your parents think, you can engage anybody. And I was able to do it with my family members. My parents, when they were alive, they would not describe themselves as conservative. In lieu of saying that, they describe themselves as a Fred the Dug as Republican. See? Remember, it's not a black thing. It's not a color thing. It's a liberty thing. It's about values. Thank you so much. I have some autographs in the back for you. Thank you very much. Wonderful. The host's hand, please stay in my books. And we hope to hold some more events like this, as we do look forward to on these principles. Thank you very much.