August 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Priscilla Rahn, former Colorado GOP vice-chair, joins Ryan to discuss the Native American 'land acknowledgment' she must start her teaching day at Denver Public Schools. Also, reintroducing her new book recently released on Amazon - Restoring Education in America: An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox.
Restoring Education in America: An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox: Rahn, Priscilla, Rahn M.Ed., Priscilla, West, L.C. Allen: 9798291947845: Amazon.com: Books
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm announcing historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam,
and squalor and worse. This is Liberation Day in DC,
and we're going to.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Take our capital back.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me
as the President of the United States. I'm officially invoking
Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,
you know what that is, and placing the DC Metropolitan
Police Department under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting
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the people that will be directly involved with that. Very
good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening,
and they've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the
National Guard to help re establish law order of public
safety in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly. Now,
this is the first time that American president has invoked
section seven forty of the DC Home Rule Act since
the advent of the United States Civil War in eighteen
sixty one. So this truly is a historic day that
President Trump would step in and step up and invoke
that clause and an act federal control over the District
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of Columbia. Taking your text five seven, seven thirty nine,
what you think about this? And I think it bears
a lot of examination, not only for the historical context
that I just cited, but also for the practical context,
which I think. It's fascinating how Mayor Muriel Bowser has
responded to this. She's done so in a way. She's
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got a tough balancing act here. She's got a walk
of fine line and she's got a threat a needle.
She can't give in to President Trump and thank him
and credit him and praise him for doing something that
DC desperately needs. The District of Columbia has its own
unique history, going all the way back to when it
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was established as our capital and they were building a
White House. This goes back to I think it's just
after the time of George Washington himself. Our capital moved
a couple of times from New York City to Philadelphia
and then ultimately to what would be called after George Washington,
obviously the District of Columbia Washington, d C. And they
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basically ceded some territory between the states of Virginia and Maryland.
Literally a box, if you will, if you look at it,
a map that would be specifically a federal zone for
our nation's capital to ben that it would not reside
with any one of the thirteen colonies or eventually states,
and of course going on to the future of our
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country and you know, the fifty states, it would be
an independent bureau jurisdiction, et cetera run on its own.
But there's always been some confusion with that as to
how the District of Columbia should be represented in our Congress,
in our electoral College. They have a license plate for
those of you who have visited d C are driven
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around there, it says no taxation without representation. They have.
D C does one of these kind of perfunctory representatives
in the United States House, but it's much like the
Virgin Islands has one and Puerto Rico has one. They
don't have voting power. They have a presence at the Capitol,
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but they don't get one of the votes of say,
our eight House members here in the state of Colorado.
They don't have that equivalent power or input. And DC
is still chafed about that. It wasn't until you know,
over these last however many years, thing is not quite
one hundred years, but going back, I think at least
to about nineteen sixty or so that the District of
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Columbia was awarded three electoral votes, separate from Maryland and
separate from Virginia, so that they do have representation in
our presidential election. They elect three electors, like the small
est states throughout the Union. And the thing is, DC
with those three electoral votes goes overwhelmingly Democrat every single time,
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and it has for all the years that I've been
following politics, and probably well before that. It's a guaranteed
three in the bank for the Democrats. They love that,
of course they love that. And it breaks about ninety
ten ninety Democrat, ten percent Republican in those elections. And
of course the DC City Council runs along those lines
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and is extremely liberal and is extremely soft on crime,
and in fact, they passed a recent ordinance reinforcing this.
Let's focus on Mural Bowser for a moment, the mayor
of d C. There was a conflict you might recall,
dating back to January sixth as to whether or not
both Murial Bowser, the Mayor of d C, and Nancy Pelosi,
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the Speaker of the House, rejected President Trump's offer of
several thousand members of the National Guard to keep the
peace on that day where there is going to be
a protest and tensions were going to be high, and
all the available evidence suggests that Donald Trump was correct
that they needed to accept that assignment, that he could
just not invoke it federally without their consent, without their knowledge,
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without their approval, and that therein lies the conflict there.
So we go to Muriel Bowser right now. And this
is interesting because it took place on MSNBC. It's a
so called The Weekend, and if you watched it, you
might have been the only one. They don't even register
for ratings, I don't think most times in Nielsen. And
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this is some guy named Eugene Daniels, and he's trying
to lay the groundwork for Mayor Bowser to take the
bait that this is a racial discussion, that this is
done because Trump doesn't like black or brown people.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
One of the things that we have seen over and
over from the President from his team, you know, Stephen
Miller saying it's like Baghdad in Ethiopia. They seem to
hold their harshest criticism sometimes for cities that are majority
black and brown.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Do you see that or what do you think that means? Well?
Kind of leading question is that, first of all, secondly,
it's patently absurd. It's ridiculous, but interesting. Here, Mayor Bowser
doesn't even go there with this, She kind of backs
away from it. And here's the first part of her answer.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
I think that I have been dealing kind of with
this issue for a number of years. It's kind of
easy fodder on the campaign trail. But now we're talking
about governing, and my job is to focus on making
sure our city is running is running well and people
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enjoy a great quality of life, and I think we're
doing a really good job.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's a very careful statement, and to condense it further down,
she's saying, Look, the campaigns. Campaign season is one thing,
and then you know Trump ratcheting up the rhetoric. But
now he's one and now it's time to govern, and
DC has real problems and murial. Bowser's very well aware
of those, and so her stance here is yes, to
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cooperate with federal government intervention and assistance. Now these comments
were from over the weekend. She made very different comments today,
which we'll get to in just a moment, but let's
start here with how she sees the federal government's role
in assisting with law and order in DC. Very interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
We do need the federal government's help, as I mentioned,
because they have an outsized influence on our criminal justice system.
We need more prosecutors, we need more judges. There are
other ways to help. Even we want to rebuild our
jail and there ways that the Feds can help with that,
but also just doing their part cutting the grass, fixing
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the fountains, making sure that federal law enforcement is doing
all of the policing that they can do. And I
just have to say thank you to MPs, FBI, atf
who've always worked cooperatively with us, and we expect that
they will again.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Now there was a city council ordinance, and I'll get
more details on it. I left it at the printer
and I can't be two places at once, but basically,
the DC police were up in arms of the fact
that Mayor Bowser, this is how far to the left
the city council is. They passed this completely soft on crime,
reducing maximum sentences, eliminating minimum sentences for various offenses, and
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looking to force this through Bowser vetoed it. She said, no, no,
we got enough problems in the District of Columbia. We
don't need to add to them by soft our stances
on crime. They then overrode the veto did the City
Council of DC, showing exactly where their priorities were, and
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Donald Trump took time out of his lengthy press conference
today to rip them.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
This dire public safety crisis stem is directly from the
abject failures of the city's local leadership. The radical left
city Council adopted no cash bail. By the way, every
place in the country where you have no cash bail
is a disaster. That's what started the problem in New York,
and they don't change it. They don't want to change it.
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That's what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians
started it. Bad leadership started it. But that was the
one thing that's central. No cash bail. Somebody murders somebody
and they're out or no cash mail before the day
is out.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We're going to end that in Chicago. We're going to
change statute. I spoke with Pam.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And Todd and everybody. We're gonna change the statue. And
I'm gonna have to get the Republicans to vote because
the Democrats are weak on crime, totally weakn crime.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
My thanks to the other half of the Detroit Connection
here on the program, Shannon Scott behind the glass, because
he jumped into action and chased down what I was
talking to you about. This is a press release from
the DC Police Union dated January seventeenth, twenty twenty three,
so about two and a half years ago now, and
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it reads as follows. On January seventeenth, twenty twenty three,
the DC Council voted to override the Mayor's veto of
the Revised Criminal Code Act of twenty twenty one, a
bill that completely overhauls the city's criminal laws and significantly
reduces sentencing guidelines, including for violent crimes. Come to DC,
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commit a violent crime and we will give you a
lighter sentence. That is a great vacancy sign to put
outside of the DC hotel. Figuratively speaking, DC Police Union
Chairman Gregory Pemberton stated, quote, the mayor is the only
elected official listening to district residents on crime and violence.
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This law, once enacted, will lead to violent crime rates
exploding even more than they already have. It's reprehensible that
the Council would smugly continue to support failed policies at
the expense of the lives of our most vulnerable residents.
And to that point, think about who this affects most
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and much is the irony. We go back to the
original comments made by mural Bauser, prompted by Eugene Daniels,
who says, well, Trump is only targeting these inner cities
because it's mainly black and brown people. Well, mister Daniels,
I may suggest that it is these very African Amicamerican
citizens in some of the most tenuous neighborhoods, shall we say,
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not only in the District of Columbia, but in Chicago,
Cabrini Green, the South Side in Los Angeles, Compton, in
New York areas of the Bronx and Harlem. Yes there
is a higher crime rate. Yes there is a higher
percentage of African American residents. That is not to paint
all people with one brush, because unlike the left, we
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don't put people in silos. But the facts are the facts,
and the statistics are the statistics, and the numbers don't lie.
That is where this crime is happening. So the people
it's affecting the most are in these dangerous neighborhoods that
happen to have a higher percentage of African American population,
and they are the victims of the crime that President
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Trump is attempting to curb to help them live in
a safer neighborhood. It would then stand a reason that
Eugene Daniels would prefer that these neighborhoods remain war zones,
that these people, a majority of whom are African American,
continue to live in danger of being killed, being mugged,
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of being raped, of being murdered. President Trump, quite to
the contrary, would like to see that stop. Far be
it from him to do anything that would effect that continuing. Now,
this is again from Greg Pemberton, the chairman of the
DC Police Union. Gregory Pemberton, while there were several issues
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in the rewrite that everyone agreed with, there are a
number of provisions that police prosecutors and public safety experts
say will dangerous decrease penalties, and he goes point by
point on these. The penalties for many offenses have been
significantly reduced, from robbery and burglary to carjacking and a
legal possession of a handgun. Even the penalties for sexual
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salt and rape have been reduced on what planet? Is
that a good idea? The Left would have you believe
this one, and in their cities that they run. Why
why would you protect criminals? Why would you not protect
the innocent, the law abiding citizens in these communities, in
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these neighborhoods, and again a majority of whom are African American?
Why not step up and protect those law abiding citizens
in those neighborhoods from being preyed upon by criminals? Answer
me that continuing the bill removes mandatory minimums in the
few categories that still had them. This will allow lenient
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judges to issue slap on the wrist penalties even for
repeat offenders. Where else are we seeing that? In this
cot Oh Denver and the eighteenth Judicial District right here
in Aurora, Rapaho County. I went over the weekend to
JJ's place, owned and operated by Danielle Duran's, and she
was there, saw listener Steve Cheddar there too. Hi, Steve
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and I signed the petition, as did Kelly Coucerra, as
did Kelly's husband Adam, to recall Amy Padden because this
is the pattern we're seeing from the Soros funded left
and the das and prosecutors that have been hand picked
and put in place, and Amy Padden is one of them,
and she brags about it. Danielle made the great point
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they recalled a Soros appointed and funded DA in San
Francisco a liberal bastion for all of time immemorial. So
if it can happen in San Francisco, you can bet
your bottom dollar, Annie that it can happen here in
Aurora for a DA that is not protecting her citizens,
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her constituents, the residents within Arapahoe County soft on crime,
favor the criminals, refer to them, protect illegal aliens if
they commit crimes in the district. Protect a registered sex
offender like Solomon Gallaghan and was just released over the
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weekend that the charges have been officially dropped. He's in
a metal hospital for an interminate amount of time, at
which time he will be released back into the community.
After trying to kidnap an eleven year old fifth grader
from an elementary school playground in broad daylight, Amy Padden
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would have you believe that's acceptable, And she gives this
soft serve interview after you might remember daniel Jorinsky announced
she was going to seek this petition. Recall, then Padden
came out of the woodwork and made a couple of
public comments and interviews with local television stations. But even
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then she's like, WHOA not mundering a new about it.
I don't like the law, But dude, what do you
want me to do? How about vehemently coming out against
the law. I don't care if it was passed by Democrats,
those of your ilk and stand up for the people
of the Rapaho County. This is a pattern in Denver,
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in Los Angeles, in San Francisco, in Chicago, in New
York City, and right here in Washington, d C. But
the difference is because DC is under federal jurisdiction, the
president has the option to do and announce what he
did today, and that is he's rolling in the National
Guard and there will be a new sheriff in town.
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And even Bowser's comments make clear that she is powerless
to fight it, and in fact, she is law bound
to cooperate.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
The Homeworld charter requires the mayor to provide the services
of MPD during special conditions of an emergency, and we
will follow the law. Though there's a question about the
subjectivity of that declaration, So what in fact, the chief
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has already provided a high level liaison in point of
contact with the federal government and made those initial contacts.
The executive order is also clear that the President has
dedicated his authority to make requests of us to Attorney
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General Pam Bondi. I have reached out to Attorney General
Bondy and hope to schedule a meeting soon.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So there you have it. It's not exactly sounding like
Mayor Bowser is going to fight this. She's not going
to give Trump in his administration credit for it, but
she is going to cooperate. And this from a couple
of Texters five seven, seven three nine. Ryan, maybe Trump
doesn't like kids running around with no discipline from a
fatherless household. I think that's what that's supposed to say.
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In a lot of cases that does correlate. Not always
the case, Brian. I think one thing is good about
what Trump did is that he can prevent DC from
becoming a state in the future. While Bowser had advocated
for that as well, statehood for DC and that would
give them two senators and that's all a math game,
that's all the Democrats are concerned about getting and retaining power.
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Damn the torpedoes, and damn the very citizens and residents
they were elected to protect and serve. A timeout. Priscilla
Ron joins us next on Ryan Schuling Live. It was
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Ryan Schuling Live. And we begin this segment with a
land acknowledgment following quote recognizing DPS commitments to no justice,
no peace. Those are spelled kN ow. We the DPS
educational community, place our minds and bodies in this space
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while acknowledging Indigenous relatives who have lived in and cared
for this ancient land from time immemorial. We acknowledge the
close relationship that Arapaho, Cheyenne, Southern Ute, and Ute Mountain Ute,
and natives of other tribal nations continue to have with
the waters, plants, and all moving things that call this
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land home. We pledge our respect for those enduring Indigenous
connections to the place we now call Colorado. That from
Tim Tinker, Tink Tinker, and don't you know he has
a PhD. And he represents according to him O Sage nation.
This is what our next guest is required to start
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their day reading in public school. Not the Pledge of Allegiance,
not singing God Bless America, course our star spangled banner,
not looking at the greatness of our country. But no,
we stole the land from the Native Americans who once
occupied it. No better time to encourage you to check
out her new book. It's been out for a month now.
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You can find it on Amazon. It's called Restoring Education
in America, An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. She's one of them
in DPS doing the brave good work from within. Priscilla
Ron joins us on Ryan Schuling Live. Priscilla.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Welcome back, Hi Ryan, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, I was great seeing you at the Jeff Coo
kids first gallop.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
It was amazing. Yeah, you were you were a great speaker.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Really appreciate that all, especially coming from you. But this
is the thing, Priscilla, you know I talked and I'll
talk with Valdemar Archiletta coming up in our second hour.
You talk about being kind of behind political enemy lines
when he was running against Diana to get You are
teaching behind those ideological lines in the Denver Public schools
and thank god someone like you is. But take us
through what this land acknowledgment is, where it comes from,
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why you have to begin each class with it.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Well, if you guys remember a former school board member,
Tay and Anderson who now goes by his full name
Aonte Anderson, who spent much of his time calling everybody
on the school board racist. Everybody was racist, and he
was very much at the sphere of eliminating the Pledge
of Allegiance at district events. And that was during the
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time a couple of years ago where the school board
replaced the pledge with the Land Acknowledgment. And that's been
a big part of the DEI apartment in DPS. And
I don't care what anybody says they still activate in
that ecosystem of diversity, equity and inclusion in the districts.
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And so now that is the beginning slide of pretty
much every single professional development. I had one last week
where they started with the land acknowledgement, and today is
our first day back with teachers, and that's the first slide,
and we're all supposed to We're forced to sit there
and read that.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Priscilla Ron our guests talking about indigenous persons, Native Americans
who were first upon these lands before white settlers arrive.
But this is the key distinction, Priscilla, I would like
to know how many Native American tribes Ionte Anderson can name,
and if he knows how many there were, and if
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he truly believes that all of these Native American tribes
back in history, before there were white European settlers, we
got together and got along and lived in peace, and
there were no wars between any of these factions. Forget
the Cheyenne, very violent tribe, and then of there themselves,
you've got the Apache, You've got the Iroquois, the Commanche,
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the Cherokee. There were some violent tribes out there that
would rape and pillage and conquer the lands of other tribes.
Am I am I the crazy one here, Priscilla, No, you're.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
One hundred percent right. There were people before then, these
indigenous folks that were naming right there. But the history
of like you said, stealing land and taking over land
and who owned the land, who had claimed to the
land first. But what this does is it divides all
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of us. We're trying to unite as a community, and
every time they throw up that land acknowledgment, it divides people.
And you know, the virtue signaling is fake in DPS
because they had the nerve to close the only Native
school in Denver Public Schools two years ago they closed it.
I don't even have the Native school anymore. So they
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don't really care that much for the Native community if
they're you know, taking those actions. So I think this
is an opportunity to talk about history in North America,
to talk about what we're saying when we read that
land acknowledgment and what it means for the future of
our young people.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Priscilla Ron joining us and once again her book Restoring
Education in America in Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. And this is
something Priscilla, as I just noted, with you. It is
a teaching opportunity. We should know the good, the bad,
and the ugly of our history, but we should also
discuss it honestly and accurately about what happened before the
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white men arrived and then after, and there were treaties
that were broken, and you can talk about that during
the wild West and when they're you know, President Grant
sent the Union troops westward to try to relegate these lands,
set up reservations, and there's a darkness to that. There
is something to be criticized about that. But to make
it seem like there were these halcionic days of Native
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American tribes that but for the white man coming to
settle it was just a peaceful existence, that is hardly
the truth and speaking honest truths no matter which side
you're on here. I think it's important for young people
to understand the context of our history because it's very complicated,
isn't it.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
One hundred percent? And you know it's to take it
in a step further. It sets the tone for what
we're about to do, how we're supposed to be in
community together, what we're going to learn as educators. So
if that's the first thing that you're leading off with.
It tells me a whole lot about what the rest
of the professional development is going to include and what's
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going to be expected of me as a teacher. And
of course, you know, we were asked to change our
on our emails signature and it put our pronouns. Of course,
I'm not putting my pronouns. If you can't figure out
that I'm a female, I mean, my pronouns are not
going to help you. But it's just more and more
of that stuff. Nothing has changed, and the professional development
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is really lacking. I can't even call it professional development
anymore because that's not what I experienced this morning.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Priscilla, let me pay in a scenario for you and
tell me how this would go. Let's say you go
ahead and you comply, and you do this Land acknowledgement thing. Okay,
but then you also have your class stand up and
recite the pledge of allegiance to the United States Flag.
What would happen to you?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
No, no, no, nothing. I actually do the pledge of
the students in my class, Okay, good daily. I don't
do Land acknowledgment because I think the first and foremost
thing that my students need to learn is that there's
freedom and justice for all. And if they don't know
that's in the pledge and they don't know how to
hold our government accountable for that, nothing else matters. And
I'm not indigenous. I am a descendant of enslaved or kins.
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So when I read that Land acknowledgment, it doesn't acknowledge
the lynching and the abuse and the separation of families
that my answers has had to experience here. So you know,
it's really actually, it's really disrespectful. And there's very few
educators who appreciate being forced to start every professional development
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with that. They won't say anything publicly, but we all
talk about it, and it's very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Now I'll ask that question the other way. Do start
your class as you so choose as the teacher of
that class to recite the Pledge of allegiance. But you're
saying you're not doing the Land acknowledgement for Scilla. Will
there be consequences for you in not complying with that?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
I don't think so. I mean, I will see, but
I'm not going to comply with something that I think
actually separates my students. I mean, we have children who
are coming from many Central and South American countries. So
you know, they had nothing to do with the history
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of the United States, So what does it mean to them.
They can't connect with that, But what they can connect
with they're here in the United States. They want to
be here, so they connect with being an American, right.
I think that's the thing that the thread that unites
all of us is that we're here for freedom. We
believe in the Constitution. It's something that their parents or
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they themselves, if they want to become US citizens, are
going to have to show their understanding of and take
their citizenship exam. Just's like my mom and my husband
did when they became US citizens. So I really think
this practice is ineffective and it's separating people.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Well, whether or not you're lucky enough to have one
or more of your kids and one of Priscilla Ron's classes.
You can buy her book Restoring Education in America and
Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. And even with trolls trying to sink
or rating on Amazon, it's still at a four point
and I think it's only going up. So Priscilla, congratulations
on the new book of Best of Luck at the
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School year. We'll see what happens going from here on
that pledge.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Thank you so much. I appreciate you, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Appreciate you. Priscilla round there inviting your text at five seven, seven,
three nine. We'll get to those. We had not one,
but two hot Takes installments for you a waiting just
after this break. That's all you gotta do is wait
through this break. You're gonna hear it. Donald Trump again
jiving with the media today. It was classic as usual,
and we're back with more after this on Ryan Shuling Live.
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It's time once again for another edition of Trump's Hot Takes,
charting the forty seventh president's epic interactions with the fake
news media.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
To stand, a lot of you tend to be on
the liberal side, but you don't want to get You
don't want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed.
And you all know people and friends of yours that
that happened. And so you can be any anything you want,
but you want to have safety in the streets. You
want to be able to leave your apartment or your
house where you live and feel safe and go into
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a store to buy a newspaper, buy something, and you
don't have that now. The murder rate in Washington today
is higher than that of Bogata, Columbia, Mexico City, some
of the places that you hear about as being the
worst places.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
On Earth's much higher. This is much higher. The number
of car.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Thefs has doubled over the past five years, and the
number of kar jakins has more than tripled.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Murders in twenty twenty three reached.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
The highest rate probably ever. They say twenty five years,
but they don't know what that means because it just
goes back twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Can't be worse.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and
bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs,
and homeless people.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
And we're not going to let it happen anymore. We're
not going to take it. We're gonna start.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
This says this is.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
No, we're not saying. President Trump isn't either. In d C.
He is enlisting the help of the National GUARDI is
federalizing oversight of law and order with Attorney General Pam
Bondy for Washington, d C. And there's not a darn
thing maryel Bowser can do about it the mayor of DC,
and she knows it, but it's necessary, and even she
acknowledges that p schneyder By the way I would say,
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he kind of used to be one of us. I
believe he's a big fan of Reagan, and then maybe
not so much w but a little bit. Then then
John McCain. I think he supported John McCain. But over
the years he has kind of been afflicted, unfortunately with
Trump arrangement syndrome, and he is no fan Donald Trump.
So I have to edit that music out on the
podcast episode. You know, I usually use that Like I
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feel like if I were to use let's say kid
rock as a music bed for something coming out, that
he wouldn't mind us doing that, but we would need
not only his permission, but the rights holders. It's the
whole thing with iHeart. You might hear Joe Paggs talk
about it when we're over the year. If you're listening
to me on the radio, you get to hear all
the music when either I or Zach have to edit
the podcast and put them up to take it out
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because we don't hold the digital licensing rights. It's just weird,
but that's the way that it is. Let's get to
some texts. Are they weird? We'll find out. Alexa asks
how much did you pay Priscilla to say you were
a great speaker? Oh, Alexa, only about thirty bucks. Those
kids should not be educated by our system. Let someone
open a paid for ESL school English as a sincred
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language school. Not following where the origin of the blast
is coming from, but if you could further explain it, texture,
I welcome that Ryan. Did all the Native American tribes
get along with each other in a peaceful fashion and
share the land and resources equally? No, of course they didn't.
To say otherwise is to ignore historical accuracy. Otherwise there
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would have been one big, happy, jolly tribe that was
throughout the land of the United States as we now
know it. But there were like dozens, if not hundreds,
of tribes in the United States, each doing their own
thing according to their own code. Many of them raped
and pillaged other tribes. Some were very peaceful, like the
Hope Indians. Anybody that does any amount of research or
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studying of this, and I'm watching all kinds of documentaries, movies, etc.
I know you have too, knows that the Native Americans
did not get along the way that we're being told
they are with these land acknowledgments, Stay tuned more RSL
straight Ahead
I'm announcing historic action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam,
and squalor and worse. This is Liberation Day in DC,
and we're going to.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Take our capital back.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
We're taking it back under the authorities vested in me
as the President of the United States. I'm officially invoking
Section seventy forty of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act,
you know what that is, and placing the DC Metropolitan
Police Department under direct federal control. And you'll be meeting
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the people that will be directly involved with that. Very
good people, but they're tough and they know what's happening,
and they've done it before. In addition, I'm deploying the
National Guard to help re establish law order of public
safety in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And they're going to be allowed to do their job properly. Now,
this is the first time that American president has invoked
section seven forty of the DC Home Rule Act since
the advent of the United States Civil War in eighteen
sixty one. So this truly is a historic day that
President Trump would step in and step up and invoke
that clause and an act federal control over the District
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of Columbia. Taking your text five seven, seven thirty nine,
what you think about this? And I think it bears
a lot of examination, not only for the historical context
that I just cited, but also for the practical context,
which I think. It's fascinating how Mayor Muriel Bowser has
responded to this. She's done so in a way. She's
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got a tough balancing act here. She's got a walk
of fine line and she's got a threat a needle.
She can't give in to President Trump and thank him
and credit him and praise him for doing something that
DC desperately needs. The District of Columbia has its own
unique history, going all the way back to when it
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was established as our capital and they were building a
White House. This goes back to I think it's just
after the time of George Washington himself. Our capital moved
a couple of times from New York City to Philadelphia
and then ultimately to what would be called after George Washington,
obviously the District of Columbia Washington, d C. And they
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basically ceded some territory between the states of Virginia and Maryland.
Literally a box, if you will, if you look at it,
a map that would be specifically a federal zone for
our nation's capital to ben that it would not reside
with any one of the thirteen colonies or eventually states,
and of course going on to the future of our
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country and you know, the fifty states, it would be
an independent bureau jurisdiction, et cetera run on its own.
But there's always been some confusion with that as to
how the District of Columbia should be represented in our Congress,
in our electoral College. They have a license plate for
those of you who have visited d C are driven
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around there, it says no taxation without representation. They have.
D C does one of these kind of perfunctory representatives
in the United States House, but it's much like the
Virgin Islands has one and Puerto Rico has one. They
don't have voting power. They have a presence at the Capitol,
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but they don't get one of the votes of say,
our eight House members here in the state of Colorado.
They don't have that equivalent power or input. And DC
is still chafed about that. It wasn't until you know,
over these last however many years, thing is not quite
one hundred years, but going back, I think at least
to about nineteen sixty or so that the District of
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Columbia was awarded three electoral votes, separate from Maryland and
separate from Virginia, so that they do have representation in
our presidential election. They elect three electors, like the small
est states throughout the Union. And the thing is, DC
with those three electoral votes goes overwhelmingly Democrat every single time,
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and it has for all the years that I've been
following politics, and probably well before that. It's a guaranteed
three in the bank for the Democrats. They love that,
of course they love that. And it breaks about ninety
ten ninety Democrat, ten percent Republican in those elections. And
of course the DC City Council runs along those lines
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and is extremely liberal and is extremely soft on crime,
and in fact, they passed a recent ordinance reinforcing this.
Let's focus on Mural Bowser for a moment, the mayor
of d C. There was a conflict you might recall,
dating back to January sixth as to whether or not
both Murial Bowser, the Mayor of d C, and Nancy Pelosi,
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the Speaker of the House, rejected President Trump's offer of
several thousand members of the National Guard to keep the
peace on that day where there is going to be
a protest and tensions were going to be high, and
all the available evidence suggests that Donald Trump was correct
that they needed to accept that assignment, that he could
just not invoke it federally without their consent, without their knowledge,
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without their approval, and that therein lies the conflict there.
So we go to Muriel Bowser right now. And this
is interesting because it took place on MSNBC. It's a
so called The Weekend, and if you watched it, you
might have been the only one. They don't even register
for ratings, I don't think most times in Nielsen. And
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this is some guy named Eugene Daniels, and he's trying
to lay the groundwork for Mayor Bowser to take the
bait that this is a racial discussion, that this is
done because Trump doesn't like black or brown people.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
One of the things that we have seen over and
over from the President from his team, you know, Stephen
Miller saying it's like Baghdad in Ethiopia. They seem to
hold their harshest criticism sometimes for cities that are majority
black and brown.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Do you see that or what do you think that means? Well?
Kind of leading question is that, first of all, secondly,
it's patently absurd. It's ridiculous, but interesting. Here, Mayor Bowser
doesn't even go there with this, She kind of backs
away from it. And here's the first part of her answer.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
I think that I have been dealing kind of with
this issue for a number of years. It's kind of
easy fodder on the campaign trail. But now we're talking
about governing, and my job is to focus on making
sure our city is running is running well and people
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enjoy a great quality of life, and I think we're
doing a really good job.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That's a very careful statement, and to condense it further down,
she's saying, Look, the campaigns. Campaign season is one thing,
and then you know Trump ratcheting up the rhetoric. But
now he's one and now it's time to govern, and
DC has real problems and murial. Bowser's very well aware
of those, and so her stance here is yes, to
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cooperate with federal government intervention and assistance. Now these comments
were from over the weekend. She made very different comments today,
which we'll get to in just a moment, but let's
start here with how she sees the federal government's role
in assisting with law and order in DC. Very interesting.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
We do need the federal government's help, as I mentioned,
because they have an outsized influence on our criminal justice system.
We need more prosecutors, we need more judges. There are
other ways to help. Even we want to rebuild our
jail and there ways that the Feds can help with that,
but also just doing their part cutting the grass, fixing
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the fountains, making sure that federal law enforcement is doing
all of the policing that they can do. And I
just have to say thank you to MPs, FBI, atf
who've always worked cooperatively with us, and we expect that
they will again.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Now there was a city council ordinance, and I'll get
more details on it. I left it at the printer
and I can't be two places at once, but basically,
the DC police were up in arms of the fact
that Mayor Bowser, this is how far to the left
the city council is. They passed this completely soft on crime,
reducing maximum sentences, eliminating minimum sentences for various offenses, and
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looking to force this through Bowser vetoed it. She said, no, no,
we got enough problems in the District of Columbia. We
don't need to add to them by soft our stances
on crime. They then overrode the veto did the City
Council of DC, showing exactly where their priorities were, and
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Donald Trump took time out of his lengthy press conference
today to rip them.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
This dire public safety crisis stem is directly from the
abject failures of the city's local leadership. The radical left
city Council adopted no cash bail. By the way, every
place in the country where you have no cash bail
is a disaster. That's what started the problem in New York,
and they don't change it. They don't want to change it.
(09:40):
That's what started it in Chicago. I mean, bad politicians
started it. Bad leadership started it. But that was the
one thing that's central. No cash bail. Somebody murders somebody
and they're out or no cash mail before the day
is out.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
We're going to end that in Chicago. We're going to
change statute. I spoke with Pam.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
And Todd and everybody. We're gonna change the statue. And
I'm gonna have to get the Republicans to vote because
the Democrats are weak on crime, totally weakn crime.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
My thanks to the other half of the Detroit Connection
here on the program, Shannon Scott behind the glass, because
he jumped into action and chased down what I was
talking to you about. This is a press release from
the DC Police Union dated January seventeenth, twenty twenty three,
so about two and a half years ago now, and
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it reads as follows. On January seventeenth, twenty twenty three,
the DC Council voted to override the Mayor's veto of
the Revised Criminal Code Act of twenty twenty one, a
bill that completely overhauls the city's criminal laws and significantly
reduces sentencing guidelines, including for violent crimes. Come to DC,
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commit a violent crime and we will give you a
lighter sentence. That is a great vacancy sign to put
outside of the DC hotel. Figuratively speaking, DC Police Union
Chairman Gregory Pemberton stated, quote, the mayor is the only
elected official listening to district residents on crime and violence.
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This law, once enacted, will lead to violent crime rates
exploding even more than they already have. It's reprehensible that
the Council would smugly continue to support failed policies at
the expense of the lives of our most vulnerable residents.
And to that point, think about who this affects most
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and much is the irony. We go back to the
original comments made by mural Bauser, prompted by Eugene Daniels,
who says, well, Trump is only targeting these inner cities
because it's mainly black and brown people. Well, mister Daniels,
I may suggest that it is these very African Amicamerican
citizens in some of the most tenuous neighborhoods, shall we say,
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not only in the District of Columbia, but in Chicago,
Cabrini Green, the South Side in Los Angeles, Compton, in
New York areas of the Bronx and Harlem. Yes there
is a higher crime rate. Yes there is a higher
percentage of African American residents. That is not to paint
all people with one brush, because unlike the left, we
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don't put people in silos. But the facts are the facts,
and the statistics are the statistics, and the numbers don't lie.
That is where this crime is happening. So the people
it's affecting the most are in these dangerous neighborhoods that
happen to have a higher percentage of African American population,
and they are the victims of the crime that President
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Trump is attempting to curb to help them live in
a safer neighborhood. It would then stand a reason that
Eugene Daniels would prefer that these neighborhoods remain war zones,
that these people, a majority of whom are African American,
continue to live in danger of being killed, being mugged,
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of being raped, of being murdered. President Trump, quite to
the contrary, would like to see that stop. Far be
it from him to do anything that would effect that continuing. Now,
this is again from Greg Pemberton, the chairman of the
DC Police Union. Gregory Pemberton, while there were several issues
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in the rewrite that everyone agreed with, there are a
number of provisions that police prosecutors and public safety experts
say will dangerous decrease penalties, and he goes point by
point on these. The penalties for many offenses have been
significantly reduced, from robbery and burglary to carjacking and a
legal possession of a handgun. Even the penalties for sexual
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salt and rape have been reduced on what planet? Is
that a good idea? The Left would have you believe
this one, and in their cities that they run. Why
why would you protect criminals? Why would you not protect
the innocent, the law abiding citizens in these communities, in
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these neighborhoods, and again a majority of whom are African American?
Why not step up and protect those law abiding citizens
in those neighborhoods from being preyed upon by criminals? Answer
me that continuing the bill removes mandatory minimums in the
few categories that still had them. This will allow lenient
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judges to issue slap on the wrist penalties even for
repeat offenders. Where else are we seeing that? In this
cot Oh Denver and the eighteenth Judicial District right here
in Aurora, Rapaho County. I went over the weekend to
JJ's place, owned and operated by Danielle Duran's, and she
was there, saw listener Steve Cheddar there too. Hi, Steve
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and I signed the petition, as did Kelly Coucerra, as
did Kelly's husband Adam, to recall Amy Padden because this
is the pattern we're seeing from the Soros funded left
and the das and prosecutors that have been hand picked
and put in place, and Amy Padden is one of them,
and she brags about it. Danielle made the great point
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they recalled a Soros appointed and funded DA in San
Francisco a liberal bastion for all of time immemorial. So
if it can happen in San Francisco, you can bet
your bottom dollar, Annie that it can happen here in
Aurora for a DA that is not protecting her citizens,
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her constituents, the residents within Arapahoe County soft on crime,
favor the criminals, refer to them, protect illegal aliens if
they commit crimes in the district. Protect a registered sex
offender like Solomon Gallaghan and was just released over the
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weekend that the charges have been officially dropped. He's in
a metal hospital for an interminate amount of time, at
which time he will be released back into the community.
After trying to kidnap an eleven year old fifth grader
from an elementary school playground in broad daylight, Amy Padden
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would have you believe that's acceptable, And she gives this
soft serve interview after you might remember daniel Jorinsky announced
she was going to seek this petition. Recall, then Padden
came out of the woodwork and made a couple of
public comments and interviews with local television stations. But even
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then she's like, WHOA not mundering a new about it.
I don't like the law, But dude, what do you
want me to do? How about vehemently coming out against
the law. I don't care if it was passed by Democrats,
those of your ilk and stand up for the people
of the Rapaho County. This is a pattern in Denver,
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in Los Angeles, in San Francisco, in Chicago, in New
York City, and right here in Washington, d C. But
the difference is because DC is under federal jurisdiction, the
president has the option to do and announce what he
did today, and that is he's rolling in the National
Guard and there will be a new sheriff in town.
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And even Bowser's comments make clear that she is powerless
to fight it, and in fact, she is law bound
to cooperate.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
The Homeworld charter requires the mayor to provide the services
of MPD during special conditions of an emergency, and we
will follow the law. Though there's a question about the
subjectivity of that declaration, So what in fact, the chief
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has already provided a high level liaison in point of
contact with the federal government and made those initial contacts.
The executive order is also clear that the President has
dedicated his authority to make requests of us to Attorney
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General Pam Bondi. I have reached out to Attorney General
Bondy and hope to schedule a meeting soon.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
So there you have it. It's not exactly sounding like
Mayor Bowser is going to fight this. She's not going
to give Trump in his administration credit for it, but
she is going to cooperate. And this from a couple
of Texters five seven, seven three nine. Ryan, maybe Trump
doesn't like kids running around with no discipline from a
fatherless household. I think that's what that's supposed to say.
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In a lot of cases that does correlate. Not always
the case, Brian. I think one thing is good about
what Trump did is that he can prevent DC from
becoming a state in the future. While Bowser had advocated
for that as well, statehood for DC and that would
give them two senators and that's all a math game,
that's all the Democrats are concerned about getting and retaining power.
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Damn the torpedoes, and damn the very citizens and residents
they were elected to protect and serve. A timeout. Priscilla
Ron joins us next on Ryan Schuling Live. It was
so great to see Ashley Key out the Jeffco Kids
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tremendous cause. And I was fortunate enough to be able
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Ryan Schuling Live. And we begin this segment with a
land acknowledgment following quote recognizing DPS commitments to no justice,
no peace. Those are spelled kN ow. We the DPS
educational community, place our minds and bodies in this space
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while acknowledging Indigenous relatives who have lived in and cared
for this ancient land from time immemorial. We acknowledge the
close relationship that Arapaho, Cheyenne, Southern Ute, and Ute Mountain Ute,
and natives of other tribal nations continue to have with
the waters, plants, and all moving things that call this
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land home. We pledge our respect for those enduring Indigenous
connections to the place we now call Colorado. That from
Tim Tinker, Tink Tinker, and don't you know he has
a PhD. And he represents according to him O Sage nation.
This is what our next guest is required to start
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their day reading in public school. Not the Pledge of Allegiance,
not singing God Bless America, course our star spangled banner,
not looking at the greatness of our country. But no,
we stole the land from the Native Americans who once
occupied it. No better time to encourage you to check
out her new book. It's been out for a month now.
(22:35):
You can find it on Amazon. It's called Restoring Education
in America, An Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. She's one of them
in DPS doing the brave good work from within. Priscilla
Ron joins us on Ryan Schuling Live. Priscilla.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Welcome back, Hi Ryan, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Yeah, I was great seeing you at the Jeff Coo
kids first gallop.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
It was amazing. Yeah, you were you were a great speaker.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Really appreciate that all, especially coming from you. But this
is the thing, Priscilla, you know I talked and I'll
talk with Valdemar Archiletta coming up in our second hour.
You talk about being kind of behind political enemy lines
when he was running against Diana to get You are
teaching behind those ideological lines in the Denver Public schools
and thank god someone like you is. But take us
through what this land acknowledgment is, where it comes from,
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why you have to begin each class with it.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Well, if you guys remember a former school board member,
Tay and Anderson who now goes by his full name
Aonte Anderson, who spent much of his time calling everybody
on the school board racist. Everybody was racist, and he
was very much at the sphere of eliminating the Pledge
of Allegiance at district events. And that was during the
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time a couple of years ago where the school board
replaced the pledge with the Land Acknowledgment. And that's been
a big part of the DEI apartment in DPS. And
I don't care what anybody says they still activate in
that ecosystem of diversity, equity and inclusion in the districts.
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And so now that is the beginning slide of pretty
much every single professional development. I had one last week
where they started with the land acknowledgement, and today is
our first day back with teachers, and that's the first slide,
and we're all supposed to We're forced to sit there
and read that.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Priscilla Ron our guests talking about indigenous persons, Native Americans
who were first upon these lands before white settlers arrive.
But this is the key distinction, Priscilla, I would like
to know how many Native American tribes Ionte Anderson can name,
and if he knows how many there were, and if
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he truly believes that all of these Native American tribes
back in history, before there were white European settlers, we
got together and got along and lived in peace, and
there were no wars between any of these factions. Forget
the Cheyenne, very violent tribe, and then of there themselves,
you've got the Apache, You've got the Iroquois, the Commanche,
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the Cherokee. There were some violent tribes out there that
would rape and pillage and conquer the lands of other tribes.
Am I am I the crazy one here, Priscilla, No, you're.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
One hundred percent right. There were people before then, these
indigenous folks that were naming right there. But the history
of like you said, stealing land and taking over land
and who owned the land, who had claimed to the
land first. But what this does is it divides all
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of us. We're trying to unite as a community, and
every time they throw up that land acknowledgment, it divides people.
And you know, the virtue signaling is fake in DPS
because they had the nerve to close the only Native
school in Denver Public Schools two years ago they closed it.
I don't even have the Native school anymore. So they
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don't really care that much for the Native community if
they're you know, taking those actions. So I think this
is an opportunity to talk about history in North America,
to talk about what we're saying when we read that
land acknowledgment and what it means for the future of
our young people.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Priscilla Ron joining us and once again her book Restoring
Education in America in Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. And this is
something Priscilla, as I just noted, with you. It is
a teaching opportunity. We should know the good, the bad,
and the ugly of our history, but we should also
discuss it honestly and accurately about what happened before the
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white men arrived and then after, and there were treaties
that were broken, and you can talk about that during
the wild West and when they're you know, President Grant
sent the Union troops westward to try to relegate these lands,
set up reservations, and there's a darkness to that. There
is something to be criticized about that. But to make
it seem like there were these halcionic days of Native
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American tribes that but for the white man coming to
settle it was just a peaceful existence, that is hardly
the truth and speaking honest truths no matter which side
you're on here. I think it's important for young people
to understand the context of our history because it's very complicated,
isn't it.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
One hundred percent? And you know it's to take it
in a step further. It sets the tone for what
we're about to do, how we're supposed to be in
community together, what we're going to learn as educators. So
if that's the first thing that you're leading off with.
It tells me a whole lot about what the rest
of the professional development is going to include and what's
(27:51):
going to be expected of me as a teacher. And
of course, you know, we were asked to change our
on our emails signature and it put our pronouns. Of course,
I'm not putting my pronouns. If you can't figure out
that I'm a female, I mean, my pronouns are not
going to help you. But it's just more and more
of that stuff. Nothing has changed, and the professional development
(28:14):
is really lacking. I can't even call it professional development
anymore because that's not what I experienced this morning.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Priscilla, let me pay in a scenario for you and
tell me how this would go. Let's say you go
ahead and you comply, and you do this Land acknowledgement thing. Okay,
but then you also have your class stand up and
recite the pledge of allegiance to the United States Flag.
What would happen to you?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
No, no, no, nothing. I actually do the pledge of
the students in my class, Okay, good daily. I don't
do Land acknowledgment because I think the first and foremost
thing that my students need to learn is that there's
freedom and justice for all. And if they don't know
that's in the pledge and they don't know how to
hold our government accountable for that, nothing else matters. And
I'm not indigenous. I am a descendant of enslaved or kins.
(29:01):
So when I read that Land acknowledgment, it doesn't acknowledge
the lynching and the abuse and the separation of families
that my answers has had to experience here. So you know,
it's really actually, it's really disrespectful. And there's very few
educators who appreciate being forced to start every professional development
(29:22):
with that. They won't say anything publicly, but we all
talk about it, and it's very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Now I'll ask that question the other way. Do start
your class as you so choose as the teacher of
that class to recite the Pledge of allegiance. But you're
saying you're not doing the Land acknowledgement for Scilla. Will
there be consequences for you in not complying with that?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
I don't think so. I mean, I will see, but
I'm not going to comply with something that I think
actually separates my students. I mean, we have children who
are coming from many Central and South American countries. So
you know, they had nothing to do with the history
(30:04):
of the United States, So what does it mean to them.
They can't connect with that, But what they can connect
with they're here in the United States. They want to
be here, so they connect with being an American, right.
I think that's the thing that the thread that unites
all of us is that we're here for freedom. We
believe in the Constitution. It's something that their parents or
(30:26):
they themselves, if they want to become US citizens, are
going to have to show their understanding of and take
their citizenship exam. Just's like my mom and my husband
did when they became US citizens. So I really think
this practice is ineffective and it's separating people.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Well, whether or not you're lucky enough to have one
or more of your kids and one of Priscilla Ron's classes.
You can buy her book Restoring Education in America and
Inspirational Teacher Toolbox. And even with trolls trying to sink
or rating on Amazon, it's still at a four point
and I think it's only going up. So Priscilla, congratulations
on the new book of Best of Luck at the
(31:05):
School year. We'll see what happens going from here on
that pledge.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
Thank you so much. I appreciate you, Ryan.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Appreciate you. Priscilla round there inviting your text at five seven, seven,
three nine. We'll get to those. We had not one,
but two hot Takes installments for you a waiting just
after this break. That's all you gotta do is wait
through this break. You're gonna hear it. Donald Trump again
jiving with the media today. It was classic as usual,
and we're back with more after this on Ryan Shuling Live.
(31:36):
It's time once again for another edition of Trump's Hot Takes,
charting the forty seventh president's epic interactions with the fake
news media.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
To stand, a lot of you tend to be on
the liberal side, but you don't want to get You
don't want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed.
And you all know people and friends of yours that
that happened. And so you can be any anything you want,
but you want to have safety in the streets. You
want to be able to leave your apartment or your
house where you live and feel safe and go into
(32:07):
a store to buy a newspaper, buy something, and you
don't have that now. The murder rate in Washington today
is higher than that of Bogata, Columbia, Mexico City, some
of the places that you hear about as being the
worst places.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
On Earth's much higher. This is much higher. The number
of car.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Thefs has doubled over the past five years, and the
number of kar jakins has more than tripled.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Murders in twenty twenty three reached.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
The highest rate probably ever. They say twenty five years,
but they don't know what that means because it just
goes back twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Can't be worse.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and
bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs,
and homeless people.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
And we're not going to let it happen anymore. We're
not going to take it. We're gonna start.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
This says this is.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
No, we're not saying. President Trump isn't either. In d C.
He is enlisting the help of the National GUARDI is
federalizing oversight of law and order with Attorney General Pam
Bondy for Washington, d C. And there's not a darn
thing maryel Bowser can do about it the mayor of DC,
and she knows it, but it's necessary, and even she
acknowledges that p schneyder By the way I would say,
(34:17):
he kind of used to be one of us. I
believe he's a big fan of Reagan, and then maybe
not so much w but a little bit. Then then
John McCain. I think he supported John McCain. But over
the years he has kind of been afflicted, unfortunately with
Trump arrangement syndrome, and he is no fan Donald Trump.
So I have to edit that music out on the
podcast episode. You know, I usually use that Like I
(34:41):
feel like if I were to use let's say kid
rock as a music bed for something coming out, that
he wouldn't mind us doing that, but we would need
not only his permission, but the rights holders. It's the
whole thing with iHeart. You might hear Joe Paggs talk
about it when we're over the year. If you're listening
to me on the radio, you get to hear all
the music when either I or Zach have to edit
the podcast and put them up to take it out
(35:03):
because we don't hold the digital licensing rights. It's just weird,
but that's the way that it is. Let's get to
some texts. Are they weird? We'll find out. Alexa asks
how much did you pay Priscilla to say you were
a great speaker? Oh, Alexa, only about thirty bucks. Those
kids should not be educated by our system. Let someone
open a paid for ESL school English as a sincred
(35:25):
language school. Not following where the origin of the blast
is coming from, but if you could further explain it, texture,
I welcome that Ryan. Did all the Native American tribes
get along with each other in a peaceful fashion and
share the land and resources equally? No, of course they didn't.
To say otherwise is to ignore historical accuracy. Otherwise there
(35:47):
would have been one big, happy, jolly tribe that was
throughout the land of the United States as we now
know it. But there were like dozens, if not hundreds,
of tribes in the United States, each doing their own
thing according to their own code. Many of them raped
and pillaged other tribes. Some were very peaceful, like the
Hope Indians. Anybody that does any amount of research or
(36:10):
studying of this, and I'm watching all kinds of documentaries, movies, etc.
I know you have too, knows that the Native Americans
did not get along the way that we're being told
they are with these land acknowledgments, Stay tuned more RSL
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