chuck douglas 3-18-2024 Cornell Lewis

ARMED CITIZENS BRIGADE masking news in HARTFORD, CT. This my talk with Cornell Lewis from 3 18 2024

Episode Transcript

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Boom twenty minutes way to the topof the hour. I'm Chuck Douglass.
This is the Power Hour on sixto ten DOUBLEUTV in my number eight two
one nine eight eighty six eight twoone doutv in. If you ever grab
a line you feel like your fusehas been lit, you need to jump
in there, get involved, havesomething to say. I will always do
everything I can to get you onthe air. I can't promise, but
I always do everything I can toget you on the air and give you

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your little moment on the soapbox spotlight. I don't know if you know what
it's like to be proud of aperson or a group of people that you
never met. But I have atendency to do that when I see something
strong, when I see something positive, when I see something influential happening around
me, even if I'm not connectedto it, I look at it.
I go yeah, yeah, andI have pride in what I'm seeing.

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Anybody who's listened to me for anyperiod of time AMFM Mornings evenings doesn't matter.
Anybody who's been around with me overthe years, UH knows that there
are some strange, little idiosyncrasies aboutme. First of all, conservative,
and I see I still say black. I know I offend people people it's
African American. I got no connectionwith Africa. So you know, conservative

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and black, which is people thinkis crazy. Plus, I have long
said, especially as the gun debatecame along of any group, if you
wanted to classify a group of peoplein the United States of America should be
supportive of their Second Amendment rights,you would think the American black man would
be supportive. The history, thecross burnings, the dogs, the fire
hoses, the riots, the jailcells, everything it took all those years.

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You would think they'd be like thefirst in line to say, yes,
I will defend my family, Iwill defend my home, I will
protect So I've always said that Idon't get how the lefties, honestly,
how they're able to turn the mindsof so many people of black, brown,
or non white skin, how they'reable to turn their minds into this

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mushaca. Oh guns your bad meand guns you're bad and people with guns
your bad. And I don't evenlike you know how people make a mushall
and they go look at he's guns. Oh, I hate that, I
hate you. I don't understand howtheir minds are messed up like that.
Now, last week I heard astory I happen to be listening to Glenn
Beck. There you go, Dana, I plug Glenn Beck on my show.

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I know because he does that allthe time. And Beck was talking
about Hartford, Connecticut, and hewas talking about this group of citizens that
were out patrolling the neighborhood. Theydecided, we've had enough of this crapola.
We're going to take responsibility. Sincethe police can't do it, since
the government can't do it, wewe the people will go out here and

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do something. And so they arearmed, some with with weapons, some
with baseball bats. They are male, they are female, they are young,
they are old. I'm quite surethat they are different political affiliations,
sexual orientations, short, tall,doesn't matter. They are in the community
and they are out trying to protecttheir community and let the bad guys know
they got no place in this community. Oh and by the way, they

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are largely not white people. That'swhat I'm saying, Black folks with guns.
Let the church say, amen,let me get this man on the
radio right now. Cornell Lewis ishis name. He has been he's been
largely involved. I pushed the buttonand the button came off. What is
so cheap around this place? Man? He's been largely involved in this effort
in Hertford, Connecticut. He isinstrumental. He is as he's an inspiration

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to me because he is a bigpart and I guess kind of the the
face of what's going on in Hartford, Cornell. Thank you for giving me
some time this scevening. I appreciateyou being here. Thank you very much
for having me appreciate it. Sundaynight was kind of a big event.
How did that go? The Sundaynight patrol started at eight o'clock. Actually,

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we got there early to the churchand as always my motto is the
victory is in the details. SoI advised everybody how we should conduct ourselves
and what should happen if we raninto any problems, and what I wanted.

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And we left the church at eightpm and went down the street and
we had flashlights and we had someI forget what you call them, but
I guess a sash around your neck. It was a strip that said armed

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citizen. It was luminous and itwas it had yellow letters on it and
you could read clearly it said armedcitizen. So it went okay. People
came out on the porch and itwas cold out there and they watched,

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and we went down this street,and as we got near Nelson and Garden
Street, the bad guys started running. That's why we had the flashlights because
just like in a housing project,when you cut the lights on, the
roaches run. And so the drugdealers took off and no incidents and people

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ask us what we were doing,and so it went well. For nighttime,
we had to position it differently thoughin the daytime we had about forty
people with us at the beginning onGarden Street. That was daytime, though
at nighttime we had to do itdifferently. We had people in the houses
watching us, We had people withtheir cameras on the porches filming us.

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And as always, we had ourrear guard and our front guard covered by
men and women in cars with longguns since you can't carry them anymore or
openly. We had people with thetwelve big shotguns in the ar fifteens in

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cars covering us, or if theygot a signal, they came up and
they were to clean up crew.This is Cornell Lewis by the way,
and importantly here, as you said, there were no events. The bad
guys heard you, the bad guys, the bad guys left, and that
is the goal here. This isn'tabout shooting up a neighborhood. This is
about letting the bad guys know thatthere are more good guys and they're finally

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not afraid to come out and tellyou we are here and we're going to
protect well. It's also about thefact that it doesn't seem as if the
government can protect us, and itdoesn't seem as if the democrats in the
town want to protect us. Sohere we are black and brown people playing

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taxes and can't get any help.So we decided to do this ourselves.
It's not about shooting up or tearingup anything, as the mayor tried to
portray us George Zimmerman, wannabes andvigilantes. It's about liberating an occupy territory

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from the oppressor. And historically oppressorsgoing to an area, a neighborhood,
a nation, a factory, ora business and take out all the resources
and leave it in worse condition.And so we have oppressors in our neighborhood
that look like us who had thesame culture as us, but they're doing
things to the neighborhood and to thepeople that we just said we're not going

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to tolerate anymore. And this isabout the third place we've patrolled in Hartford
since we started this in the summertime. So yeah, it's about patrolling the
neighborhood, informing people and getting peopleto buy into the concept of self defense

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and guns. And like you saidearlier, it's kind of interesting that black
people especially are being steered away fromguns. Because my grandparents came from Georgia.
They came to Detroit with their gunsin the car. When my grandmother
died, I found some shotguns lookedlike something Jed Clampett had the Hillbilly well

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in double barrels with the hammer oneach side. You pulled back, yeah,
and on the barrel it said BethlehemSteele. And I hit it and
I said, man, that's real. Still that's not our lord. And
so my point is, my grandmotheralways took her gun of forty five Wesley.
I think it was a revolver tothe store. She said, Cornell,

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get my gun. I said,you just go in to the store,
Grandma, she said, get mygun. So the history of black
people, you know, is culturally, we in America would not be here
and not defended ourselves with guns fromthe beginning when we came here, and
in New Amsterdam later became New Yorkand Boga Losa, Louisiana with the Deacons

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for defense, and on and onand on. People of color have defended
themselves with their weapons and held thoseweapons real close. But for some reason,
in this so called enlightened age,people have gotten away not only from
their culture, but from the historyof self defense. Are you inspiring any

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young people, Cornell, because we'vegot like ninety seconds here, But I
want to are any young people going, hey, you know what, We're
going to be part of this.We're gonna possible. Well, we we
are. We have a lot ofsupport and a lot of people, younger
people and other people. And interestinglyenough, when we left out of the
church last week in the daytime Saturday, all of those young black men and

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women were looking at us, andthey were especially looking at me, and
they were looking at how I commandedthe groom and how I talk to people,
and you could see in their eyesthey were looking at something that they
are not used to so. Yes, the answer to your question is youth
and we are cultivating them. Youhave a Facebook page, website, anything

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where people can follow and watch yourprogress. Yes, the Self Defense Brigade
has a page on Facebook and theycan go to my page. Cornell Lewis.
You can tell it's my page becauseyou'll see me on the picture with
Cornell West and with Brenewsome and Ferguson. You and I are going to stay

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in touch. I've got your number, were connected on Facebook. I want
to know about everything positive and negative, and as events happen, please come
back to us and let us know, because this is a wonder as far
as I'm concerned. Well, it'sspreading and more and more people are getting
involved, and more people are sayingpositive things than negative. And I think

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the Democrats see the writing on thewall. Thank you, Cornel Lewis,
Thank you so very much. Igot to get out of here. It
is in detail for me to fly. But we will be back tomorrow night
at six with another edition of ThePower Hour on six to ten WTVN