July 18, 2025 • 45 mins
What’s an American? In the finale of our series, we tell the story of the man that popularized victimhood – Howard Zinn. The author of the most anti-American book ever written illuminates what it means to be an American...and what needs to be done to save the nation.
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Previously on Red Pilled America, the massive Maga civil war
that has taken place over the Christmas holidays that began
with the critique over H one B visas.
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An H one B visa is a type of US
work visa that purports to bring so called highly skilled
immigrant workers to America.
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The United States does not officially recognize dual citizenship.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So to get a gauge on how people feel about
this topic, we spoke to you. Do you think it's
legal for an American city in to also be a
citizen of one or more countries?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Am I eligible to be a citizen in any other
countries with their AFRAYUM decision. The Supreme Court ruled that
US citizenship is a constitutional right protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
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What's an American? I'm Patrick CARELCI and I'm Adriana Cortes.
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And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
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We're all about telling stories.
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Stories.
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Welcome to Red Pilled America.
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Say you all plays, they sated.
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It was November twenty ninth, nineteen ninety when President George H. W.
Bush stepped into a White House signing ceremony and gave
away America's future.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Thank you very much for coming, everybody.
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The atmosphere was festive, almost jubilant, and perhaps for a
good reason, because the tech titans in the room were
getting just what they wanted.
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Today.
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I am plays to sign S three point fifty eight,
the Immigration Act of nineteen ninety. It is the most
comprehensive reform of our immigration laws in sixty six years.
This bill is good for families, good for business, good
for crime fighting, and good for America.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But the bill was anything but good for the country
because it would not only nearly triple immigration on the
eve of a recession, it would also provide a pipeline
for foreigners to take over some of the most important
industries in America. We're at the finale of our series
of episodes entitled What's an American. We're looking for the
answer to that question by taking a deep dive into
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the meaning of American citizenship. So to pick up where
we left off in the last episode, in a razor
thin five to four split decision, the Supreme Court narrowly
sided with base Afroyum, ruling that it was unconstitutional for
Congress to revoke his American citizenship for voting in an
Israeli election. According to the Court, US expatriation had to
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be voluntary and intentional. The decision set an extraordinarily high
standard for expatriation. Even if an American citizen naturalized in
another country renouncing allegiance to the United States, Congress could
still not revoke this person's citizenship. In nineteen seventy six,
the US Department of State underscored the impact of the
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Afroyum decision. It announced that the only way that an
American could lose their citizenship was by explicitly and officially
renouncing it with the US government. The policy meant that
an American could swear an allegiance to a foreign power,
become a citizen of a foreign state, hold public office
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in a foreign country, and even serve in a foreign
military all without being expatriated. Dual citizenship may not have
been officially recognized by the US government, but it was
effectively legal. The Afroyum case diminished one of the foundational
principles of being an American exclusive allegiance to the United States.
Americans could now have a deeper connection with their ancestral
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lands than with the U S. A transnational America finally
became a reality, and this movement blossomed at just the
right time because the anti American Herbert Marcusa had begun
resonating within academic circles, the kind that refused to assimilate
to the country's Anglo Saxon norms. Marcusa's intelligentsia disciples were
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convincing socialists, disgruntled racial and sexual minorities, and feminists that
they were all victims being oppressed by the evil capitalist
cos colonizers. His ideas explained everything about their misery. But
the problem was that MARCUSA was a bit abstract in
his delivery.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
The social mechanisms of manipulation, indoctrination, repressions which are responsible
for this lack of a mass basis, which are responsible
for the integration of the majority of the oppositional forces
into the established social system.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
His message resonated with an influential but small segment of
the US population. For his victimhood ideology to spread far
and wide, he needed someone to package his brand of
Marxism for mass consumption.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Enter Howard Zen, the man that popularized victimhood.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
My parents were European immigrants, and we lived in the
slums of the Brookland.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's Howard Zin reflecting on his childhood. Zinn was born
in nineteen twenty two, the son of working class Jewish
immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father was a waiter, his
mother a garment worker.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
And what I did see, and what did register with me,
is that my father worked very hard and he had
nothing to show for it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
They weren't scholars. The only bookshelf in the Zen household
was a window ledge. But before he was done, Howard
Zinn would have his anti American book on practically every
high school and university bookshelf in the United States. In
nineteen forty three, at the age of twenty one, Zin
enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
I became a bombardier in World War Two, and I
was an enthusiastic bombardier the War against Fascism and all
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He flew missions over Nazi controlled Europe. One of his
final assignments in the spring of nineteen forty five was
dropping napalm bombs on the French seaside resort town of Ryan.
Zin would later call it eb That moment stayed with him.
After the war. He used the GI bill to go
to college, eventually earning a pH d from Columbia, the
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same university that gave refuge to Herbert Marcusa and the
Frankfurt School Marxist. He was the son of Jewish immigrants
from the Brooklyn Projects, Suddenly in the Ivy League that
instead of seeing himself as someone blessed by America's opportunities,
he adopted a victimhood narrative. Of the world, soaking up
Columbia's brand of Marxism like a sponge. In nineteen fifty six,
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Zin took a job teaching at Spelman College, a historically
black woman's university in Atlanta. He taught Plato by day
and marched for civil rights by night. He became a
faculty advisor to the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee, the
same group that spawned radicals like Stokely Carmichael and the
Black Power Movement. Zin encouraged his students to protest what
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he saw as their university's passivity on civil rights. He
moved on to Boston University, where he clashed with just
about everyone who wasn't on the picket line. He joined
Vietnam War protest visited North Vietnam. His view on America
as a global oppressor blossomed through his lens. America was
not a shining light of opportunity. It was a heartless
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factory that churned out victims.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Whenever anybody said to me in America, if you work hard,
you'll make it, I always was indignant when I heard
that statement, because I knew how untrue it was.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Zin didn't just want to reform American institutions. He wanted
to burn them to the ground. Then he wrecked Marxist
and doctrination hubs in their place. And nowhere would that
mission be clearer than in the book he spent years
writing between lectures, student sit ins, and anti war rallies.
He called it a people's History of the United States,
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and he wrote it from a very specific perspective.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Some of you may know George Orwell's statement, who ever
controls the past controls the future, and whoever controls the
present controls the past, And whoever was in charge of
the culture decides what history we get, or tries to decide,
or history we get an eye. Job is to look
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beyond that and to try to find our own history,
the one that they don't want us to have.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Zin believed the true history of the United States was
being kept from the American people, and so he wanted
to write a book not from the perspective of history's winners,
but instead from that of its losers. To do that,
Zin had to go all the way back to the
origin narrative of America.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I made up my mind that I was going to
I was going to tell the history of the United
States from a different point of view. I was going
to tell the story of Columbus from the standpoint of
the Indians.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
If you were born in or before the nineteen seventies,
at some point in grade school, you were told the
story of Christopher Columbus, the young explorer that sailed well
from Spain in fourteen ninety two, discovering the New World.
It was a bold and daring trip that launched western
civilization in the Americas. Zin didn't just reject that story,
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he torched it. In chapter one of A People's History,
he quotes Columbus's journal describing how friendly and generous the
Native people were, before noting how quickly Columbus turned to
enslaving and brutalizing them.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
They would make fine.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Servants, Columbus wrote in his journal. Zin saw those words
as the true founding document of America. He accused Columbus
of genocide, not discovery. For Zin, this wasn't just historical correction.
It was ideological warfare in place of conquest and progress.
He gave readers conquest and cruelty.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
I want to tell the story of the Mexican War
from the standpoint of the Mexicans. The Southwest all belong
to Mexico and we got it. From the point of
view of the Mexicans, there was a war instigated by
the United States, planned by President Polk even before that
incident took place in eighteen forty six between the Nueces
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River and the Rio Grande River.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
In place of the Founders, he gave readers slaveholders. In
place of America's greatest presidents, he told their stories with
the darkest interpretation of their biographies.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Lincoln suddenly was not the great emancipator represented in that
statue with the black kneeling before him, gratefully from black
point of view. For from any decent point of view,
Lincoln was a reluctant emancipator. Kennedy was no civil rights advocate.
Kennedy appointed racist, segregationist judges in the Deep South, in
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Alabama and Georgia and Mississippi. Theodore Roosevelt one of our
great presidents. He's high on any list of presidents. Tells
you something about the historical teaching that has gone on
in this country. This racist When Italian immigrants were lynched
in the South, Theodore Roosevelt wrote about it. Hey, it's
not a bad idea there he is on now drushmore
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talk about environmental pollution.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
R US history books did often oversimplify American progress, but
Zin took the exact same approach he criticized by generalizing
America's shortcomings, providing the worst interpretations of its victories without
the nuance and context required to uncover the truth. In
his book, Zin attacked the melting pop view of American culture.
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He instead wanted to replace it with multiculturalism. In his view,
Americans shouldn't assimilate with the racist Anglo Saxon regime. They
should sit during the Pledge of allegiance and even elevate
their ethnic heritage above the evil colonizers. A people's history
of the United States was filled with strikes, rebellions, and protests.
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From the viewpoint of the strikers, rebels, and protesters, there
was next to no celebration of invention, expansion or American exceptionalism.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I guess I decided to write it because I was
looking for a book like that and I couldn't find it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
So I wrote it, and in nineteen eighty Harper and
Rowe published it. It didn't sell it first, but slowly
teachers discovered it, then colleges, then high schools. It became
a cult classic among the disaffected and a flashpoint in
the culture wars. A People's History of the United States
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became required reading in tens of thousands of American classrooms.
It influenced teachers, activists, and even movies like Goodwill Hunting.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
You want to read a.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
Real history book, read Howard Zin's People's History in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
For Zin, history was not neutral but a weapon, not
a search for balance, but a call to battle, And
it turned out there was a market for Zin's brand
of victimhood history. His book went on to sell millions
of copies and became one of the best selling history
books of all time. By painting the US as an
evil colonizer responsible for their unbelievable oppression and genocide, he
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inflicted incalculable damage on the psyche of American youth. He
replaced hard won progress with endless grievance, casting a cynical
eye on patriotism, faith, capitalism, and the very idea of
American pride. He didn't have to read his book to
feel its impact on culture. In the years after its release,
his arguments became embedded in the tone of American discourse
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and the publication of A People's History gave fuel to
the victimhood class that was about to grow exponentially.
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Welcome back to red Pilled America. When Howard Zinn published
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A People's History of the United States in nineteen eighty,
the country was on a perilous road. Inflation was nearly
fourteen percent. GDP was negative, with high inflation and no growth,
a stagflation gryptination. To make matters worse, America is being
embarrassed on the international stage. In November nineteen seventy nine,
radical Iranian students seized the US embassy in Tehran.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Some sixty Americans, including our fellow citizen whom you just saw,
bound and blindfolded, are now beginning their sixth day of
captivity inside the US Embassy in Tehran.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
A year later, only fourteen had been released. With the
country in massive turmoil. On election Day nineteen eighty, Americans
chose a new direction.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
The time has come. You've seen the map, We've looked
at the figures, and NBC News now makes its projection
for the presidency. Reagan is our projected winner. Ronald Wilson Reagan,
thank you, but.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
There's never been a more humbling moment in my life.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Just hours after his inauguration, the remaining American hostages in
Iran were released, and President Reagan went into action on
the economy. He implemented pro growth policies to reduce inflation.
He tweaked fiscal policy a drastically cut income taxes and
slashed regulations. By nineteen eighty four, America was experiencing a
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strong recovery. Inflation plummeted to roughly three percent, GDP surged
to over seven percent, and unemployment began to fall. On
the international stage, United States was also gaining an advantage
in its Cold War with the Soviet Union. Consumer and
business confidence soared, and America had momentum and foreign policy.
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As a result, Ronald Reagan won his reelection in a
historic landslide.
Speaker 11 (18:04):
Seems we did this four years ago, and let me.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Just say, well, you know, good habits are hard to break.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Reagan won forty nine out of fifty states. He only
lost in Washington, D C. And in his opponent, Walter
Mondale's home state of Minnesota. It was arguably one of
the biggest landslides in US presidential history. Reagan was given
an undeniable mandate. He could have done anything he wanted
to do to secure America's future, but, as leaders often do,
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he let his guard down and made perhaps the biggest
mistake in US presidential history. The Reagan administration worked with
Congress to pass the Immigration Reform and Control Act of
nineteen eighty six. The bill had been floating around Washington,
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D C. During Reagan's first term but failed to pass,
which should have been a red flag. You see, the
original act granted amnesty for illegal aliens that arrived in
the country before January first, nineteen eighty two. In exchange,
the bill included tighter border security and penalties and employers
who hired illegal aliens. The agricultural lobby hated the original
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bill because they were concerned it would disrupt their flow
of cheap labor. Border Hawks felt that any form of
amnesty was a dereliction of enforcement, so during the nineteen
eighty four race for the White House, President Reagan himself
worked with the media to reframe the bill as not
a softening on immigration, but instead as a national security issue.
Speaker 12 (19:44):
Mister President, you too have said that our borders are
out of control. Yet this fall you allowed the Simpson
Mazzoli Bill, which would at least have minimally protected our
borders and the rights of citizenship, because of a relatively
unimportant issue of reimbursbursement to the States for legalized aliens.
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Given that, may I ask, what priority can we expect
you to give this forgotten national security element? How sincere
are you in your efforts to control, in effect the
nation state that is the United States.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
It is true our borders are out of control. It
is also true that this has been a situation on
our borders back through a number of administrations. And I
supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty
for those who have put down roots and who have
lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.
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And I'm going to do everything I can, and all
of us in the administration are to join and again
when Congress is back at it, to get an immigration
bill that will give us once again control of our borders.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So to get the bill through in Reagan's second term,
they weakened it. They added a provision that allowed illegal
aliens had been working in US agriculture for merely ninety
days to be eligible for amnesty. They also softened sanctions
on employers, requiring them to only use good faith efforts
to verify the legal status of their employees. Prior to
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nineteen eighty six, it was not against the law for
employers to hire illegal aliens, which created an immigrant magnet,
especially in industries like agriculture, construction, and hospitality. At the
time of the debates around the act, experts claimed that
roughly one million illegal aliens would be provided amnesty. President
Reagan was sold on the compromise. It passed Congress with
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bipartisan support, and on September sixth, nineteen eighty six, President
Reagan invited the press to the signing ceremony.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
This bill, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of nineteen
eighty six, that I will sign in a few minutes,
is the most comprehensive reform of our immigration laws since
nineteen fifty two. Our objective is only to establish a reasonable,
fare orderly, and secure system of immigration into this country,
and not to discriminate in any way against particular nations
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or people. Future generations of Americans will be thankful for
our efforts to humanely regained control of our borders and
thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred
possessions of our people, American citizenship.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But American citizens got hoodwinked. Employers that wanted cheap labor
found ways around the citizenship verification requirement, and that was
just the beginning of their problems. Shortly after the bill passed,
civil rights groups and labor unions sued the US Immigration
and Naturalization Services. They claimed foreign looking and sounding applicants
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were being discriminated against and demanded the elimination of the
enforcement mechanism. But they didn't stop there. They sued to
shift the nineteen eighty two amnesty cutoff date. With each lawsuit,
the US government gave a little loosening the enforcement parameters
and opening the cutoff window. It became clear that a
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pipeline was opening for even more to acquire amnesty. Immigrants
began rushing illegally over the border. Before it was all done,
nearly three million illegal aliens were granted amnesty, triple the
initial estimate, and most importantly, the enforcement mechanism was effectively dismantled.
Reagan's amnesty didn't reduce illegal immigration, it grew it exponentially
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without enforcement. Pro immigration groups understood that it would just
be a matter of time before another amnesty was granted.
The message to the world was clear, if you can
get into America, you will inevitably be a citizen. Immigrants
continued to illegally surge across America's southern border, but this
time it was different. Prior to Reagan's amnesty, most illegal
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immigrants were from Mexico, but once the bill was signed,
immigrants came from El Salvador, Guatemala, On Duras, Nicaragua, Brazil, Columbia,
and Venezuela, each making a deliberate decision not to subject
themselves to US immigration law. Reagan's amnesty shipped away at
the American dream by flooding the country with people that
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had no allegiance to the United States. It destroyed the
value of American citizenship. Illegal aliens lowered wages and work standards,
increased crime and the cost of health care, and inflated
property values. They lowered school testing scores, and freed social cohesion.
Many had been in America for decades, but still wouldn't
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learn the English language. They refused to assimilate, creating a
permanent disgruntled class vulnerable to the victimhood ideology of Herbert
Marcusa and Howard Zinn. With the onslaught of new arrivals,
the US government provided benefits like healthcare, education, and, perhaps
most troublingly, the Open Border's lawyers creating this new pipeline
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began perverting birthright citizenship. Called the story of the eighteen
ninety eight Wangkimark Supreme Court decision we told in an
earlier episode of this series. In that case, the Supreme
Court only gave citizenship to children born on American soil
if their parents were legally and permanently residing in the
United States, and we know this for several reasons. In
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their decision, the Court continually repeated that Wangkimark's parents were
permanently domiciled in the United States at the time of
their son's birth, meaning they were in the country legally.
This satisfied the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that states.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Because Wangkimark's parents were in the US legally, their son
was subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Wang
Kimark's status satisfied the Fourteenth Amendment, but the Court's decision
did not grant citizenship to everyone born on American soil.
In the decades fall following the ratification of the Fourteenth
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Amendment and the Wong cam Ark decision, children born to
Native Americans were still excluded from birthright citizenship. That's because
the children of Native Americans were not subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States. They had allegiance to a
foreign power their tribe. It took an Act of Congress
in nineteen twenty four to grant them US citizenship. The
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same applies to children of illegal aliens born on American soil,
their allegiances with their parents' home country not America. Many
even openly admit it, I'm a first generation American, but
I get it, like you've always said, I am Mexican,
first American second. To this day, Contrary to what open
border activists say, the Supreme Court has never directly ruled
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on whether children born in the United States to illegal
aliens or US citizens, but in the wake of President
Reagan's amnesty, pro immigration activists began twisting the meaning of
birthright citizenship, arguing that the children of illegal aliens were
in fact American because they were born on American soil.
They were wrong. The drafting of the fourteenth Amendment was
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clearly not intended to cover illegal aliens, who was written
to give citizenship to freed slaves. Nevertheless, granting birthright citizenship
to the children of illegal aliens born on American soil
became U S policy. It created the phenomenon of anchor babies,
where illegal aliens deliberately have children in the US to
prevent their deportation. This policy mortally wounded the value and
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meaning of American citizenship and forever changed the national prospects
for GOP candidates. California was once a Republican stronghold, but
once illegals were given amnesty and their children came of age,
that would all change. After the nineteen eighty eight election,
no Republican president candidate ever won California again. The anti
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American forces were changing the face of America from the
ground up, and their next move would look to alter
the US from a different angle.
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. President Reagan's amnesty was
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a colossal failure. It didn't stop illegal immigration, it expanded it.
Illegal aliens were coming into the country, having children and
then imbuing them with the same ideas that destroyed the
countries they fled from. What was happening in America in
the late nineteen eighties was exactly what the founding fathers
like Thomas Jefferson feared.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
They will bring with them the principles of the governments
they leave imbibed in their early youth.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
An enormous influx of foreign ideas began to seep into America,
and they started to infect what was once thought to
be an untouchable the sciences.
Speaker 13 (29:05):
I discovered that the National Academy of Sciences had faked
a shortage of scientists and engineers.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's Eric Weinstein talking to Joe Rogan in twenty twenty
four about a secret study he discovered in the nineteen eighties,
the Reagan administration.
Speaker 13 (29:22):
For the first time, they appointed somebody to come in
from industry rather than academics, to head the National Science Foundation,
guy named Eric Block.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
According to Weinstein, Eric Block hired an economist to look
at how much scientists and engineers were going to cost
in the near future, and what was found alarmed the
industry insider.
Speaker 13 (29:41):
And they picked an economist named Miles Boyland, who in
nineteen eighty six wrote a study that said, here's how
expensive it's going to be to pay for scientists and
engineers who are American in the future. The price of
American scientists and engineers was going to hit six figures.
How do we avoid having to pay six figures for
new PhDs?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
According to Eric Weinstein, they came up with a solution, and.
Speaker 13 (30:03):
They said, let's fake a demographic supply crisis where we
wouldn't have enough scientists.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
In other words, they faked a shortage of scientists and engineers.
Speaker 13 (30:13):
The National Academy was acting against the American interest by
narrowly saying we need to make American scientists and engineers cheaper,
that we need to flood the market, we need to
interfere in the wage mechanism. We need to allow China
first look at everything we do. I had caught them
in this conspiracy against American scientists, and they spun an
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entire story about we need the best in the brightest,
but it was all about money.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And in nineteen ninety, President George HW. Bush used this
same argument to flood America's science and tech industry with
cheap foreign labor.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Today, I am pleased to sign S three point fifty
eight the Immigration Act of nineteen ninety. Immigration reform began
in nineteen eighty six with an effort to close the
back door on illegal immigration, and now as we open
the front door to increased legal immigration, this bill provides
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long needed enforcement authority. Immigration is not just a link
to America's past, it's also a bridge to America's future.
This bill provides for a vital increases for entry on
the basis of skills, infusing the ranks of our scientists
and engineers and educators with new blood and new ideas.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
The Immigration Act of nineteen ninety brought into existence the
infamous H one B Work visa, the same controversial visa
that launched our journey into the question, what's an American like?
Reagan's amnesty. Before it, the H one B VISA chipped
away at the American dream. It decreased the value of
a science and engineering degree. If an American student couldn't
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earn enough to recoup the investment in an expensive degree
in these fields, they eventually abandoned the path altogether. Over time,
Americans were effectively replaced by cheaper foreign born workers. A
recent study showed that sixty six percent of US tech
sector employees are foreign born. Sixty six percent. These are
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the same people that go on to control our social
media feeds, AI algorithms, and universities. People with stronger allegiances
to a foreign power have saturated the very institutions that
define what it means to be an American, and many
of these foreign born techees go on to become dual
citizens with the US and their homeland. You may recall
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it the opening of the series that we wanted to
get a gauge on how people felt about the topic
of dual citizenship. So we asked many of you a
series of simple questions on the topic, and there were
some differences of opinion on whether dual citizenship should be allowed.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
Probably not for thinking being that you know, if you're
a citizen in the United States, you should probably be
loyal the United States, and you know, not too great
Britain or Zimbabwe.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Do you think it should be allowed?
Speaker 11 (33:08):
Yes, yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
You know.
Speaker 13 (33:10):
I think it's probably done worldwide with dual citizenships, so
I guess.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
I guess I would say no, I think that that
could be allowed.
Speaker 14 (33:19):
I think it should be illegal because then there are
no borders. You are sovereign to one nation.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Do you think the dual citizenship should be allowed?
Speaker 15 (33:27):
I think so. I think yeah, because personally I was
born in Mexico. I became naturalized here in the US,
so as far as I know, I'm still a citizen
of Mexico, but my allegiance is to the US oneself
was naturalized.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Answers were about split on whether dual citizenships should be
allowed in the United States, but when asked a different way,
the answers were near unanimous.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Do you think it's legal for an American citizen to
swear allegiance to a foreign state?
Speaker 5 (33:58):
No, it sounds like treason to me.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Absolutely not. Do not.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And do you think that should be allowed?
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Do you think it's legal for an American citizen to
swear allegiance to a foreign state.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
No, no, I would think that was constitutional.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
It is illegal, and it should be no.
Speaker 15 (34:17):
Not if they're a citizen of the US.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Do you think it's legal for an American citizen to
swear allegiance to a foreign state? I do not think
it is okay. Do you think that that should be allowed.
Speaker 14 (34:27):
If you're a citizen of the United States and you
should be loyal to the United States above all else.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Our listeners were split on dual citizenship, yet almost universally
believed that swearing an allegiance to a foreign state should
be illegal. But the two are the same thing. For
an American citizen to become a dual citizen of another country,
they must swear a note of allegiance to that foreign power.
To be frank we didn't know this until we began
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research for this series. Thank our institutions have done a
poor job of conveying this fact to the public. That
that is how the sacred value of American citizenship has
been diluted. Exclusive allegiance to America was the foundation on
which U S citizenship was originally built. From the beginning,
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Americans rejected allegiance to a foreign power, the British Crown.
Our founders wanted US citizens to have an allegiance to
the American principles of self governance, freedom, liberty, justice, opportunity, equality,
and the.
Speaker 11 (35:27):
Rule of law.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
They tried to set up a system where only those
with the highest likelihood of assimilating to these principles were
allowed in. Our founders warned us that foreign influences could
enter America and corrupt the populace. When creating the first
citizenship clause, our leaders rightfully included exclusive allegiance to America
as a condition of birthright citizenship, but through decades of
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chipping away at America's foundations, foreigners could claim US citizenship
by their parents simply breaking into the country and giving
birth to them. Exclusive allegiance to America and her principles
are of paramount importance to the country's long term survival,
which is why dual citizenship is so dangerous.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
When I first started research for this series, I began wondering,
am I eligible to be a citizen in any other countries?
And if so, which ones? What about Adriana? How easy
would it be for us to acquire dual citizenship? And
we found out.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Most countries that allow dual citizenship cut eligibility off at
the grandparents if either of them was born in the
country you qualify. Mexico falls into this category. Both of
my parents were born in Mexico, making me easily eligible
for dual citizenship in that country.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
My grandparents on my dad's side were also born in Mexico,
making me eligible there as well. My nana on my
mom's side was born in Ireland, making me eligible for
citizenship in the Emerald Isle. Providing the proof necessary to
gain citizenship in those countries is easy. It's just a
few birth certificates and marriage licenses that connect myself to
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my grandparents. In a matter of months, I could be
a citizen in three different countries and I and two
but we could not imagine taking that step.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
We are Americans through and through. I would never desecrate
the sacrifice of my grandmother, whose parents started making the
trek into America legally over one hundred years ago.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
And I would never dishonor the sacrifice of John Kemper.
John was from a German mining town named Mussen. He
was a skilled miner. In seventeen thirteen, he and his
colleagues were invited by Alexander Spotswood, a governor of Virginia,
to extract silver and iron ore from the hills of
the colony. John was known as an adventurous type. He
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gathered with a mix of twelve families, all Protestants, totaling
forty German villagers, and they set on their journey to
start a life in America. Their travels were a long
and arduous one. They were met with delays, abandonment, and
near starvation. They eventually arrived in America in April seventeen fourteen.
John Kemper and those twelve families set up the first
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German colony in Virginia. It was called Germana. They created
a fort on the frontiers of Virginia, an extremely dangerous
area at the time. Just a few years earlier, settlers
in this region were attacked by the Tuscarora Indians. A
large number of them were massacred. The survey General John
Lawson was burned at the stake. So Governor Spotswood gave
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these German settlers the Germanic Colony to not only mine
the area, but to act as a barrier to Indians
looking to attack Virginia. Colonists John Kemper, his countrymen and
their families put their bodies between the Virginia Colony and
the Indians looking to kill them. In other words, John
Kemper made an extraordinary sacrifice, not to make America great,
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but to make America. He was my sixth great grandfather.
By becoming a dual citizen of Mexico or Ireland, I'd
be dishonoring the sacrifice of John Kemper and Jacob Coons,
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my fourth great grandfather, who fought in the American Revolution,
and John C. Reid, my third great grandfather, that fought
in the Mexican American War to annex Texas. If I
were to become a dual citizen, I'd be dishonoring the
sacrifice of my great grandfather William Henry Coons the second
that served in World War I, my grandfather Frederick Coons,
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Nana Mary Cox, and grandfather Rudolph Kerelchi who all served
in World War II, and my father Rudy who served
in Vietnam. This is all to say that we'll never
have allegiance with any other country but America. We've burned
the boats. This is our home. But the same can't
be said for members of our Congress. No one knows
how many members of Congress are dual citizens. They refused
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to divulge that bit of information, and that's of course
a major problem because they pass legislation that impacts American
citizenship are border and foreign policy. Like GOP Rep. Maria Salazar,
her parents were born in Cuba. Her entire career has
been built around her connection to Havana. She's famously one
(40:25):
of the only Spanish speaking TV reporters to have interviewed
Fidel Castro one on one now in Washington, DC. She
wants to give amnesty to illegal aliens. She just pretends
like it's not amnesty.
Speaker 16 (40:38):
Now there is another massive people who most of them
are Hispanics who have been here for more than five years,
that have been contributed to the economy, who do not
have a criminal record, and those people are the ones
who deserve some type of dignity. And for the reason
I'm introducing today, so I thank you for the opportunity
immigration reform. A GOP member of Congress is going to
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be trying to give dignity, not amnesty, to those people
who deserve to say a continue contributing to our economy.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Since Congress has refused to disclose whether its members are
dual citizens. Red Pilled America analyze their biographies to investigate
which are eligible to be dual citizens. What we found
was the potentially vast influenced foreign countries have on our policies.
Many claim Israel runs Washington, d C. While it's true
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that many DC politicians have ancestral connections to Israel, that
foreign power is far from having the most representation in
the nation's capital. In the Senate, Israel friendly senators only
outnumber the European Union by one member. In the House,
European Union connected congressmen dwarfs Israel's representation by nearly two
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to one. Even Mexico representation outnumbers the Jewish State in
the House. And it's not hard to see how foreign
influences can over time make a nation unrecognizable. Take, for example,
the United States mother country the United Kingdom. At one
time over the past decade, the mayor of London, Birmingham, Leeds, Blackburn, Sheffield, Oxford, Luton,
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Oldham and Rochdale were all either Muslim or of Muslim descent,
a strange development when Britain is the country that helped
spread the Protestant movement. In twenty twenty three, the top
baby name for boys in England and Wales was Muhammad.
If Brits are happy with this trend, that's their prerogative.
But this shift doesn't bode well for legacy Britain and
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if it continues, the UK will be saturated with people
that clearly hate the country's roots, people like Neurinda Kerr,
a popular British social commentator of Sikh descent, who thinks
England's flag is racist.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
As a woman of color, I feel in this country
that Saint Georgie's flag represents to me far right racism
and bigotry and actually we should be pound. What we
should be proud of in Britain is actually we are diverse,
We are multiculture, and the good say of Britain will
always want diversity.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
People that hate what a country stands for will ultimately
work to redefine it from within, which leads us back
to the question what's an American? An American is someone
whose paramount allegiance is with the United States and its
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founding ideals. When our founders signed the Declaration of Independence,
they risked being hung, drawn and quartered, an execution of
the most brutal fashion imaginable. That was their level of
allegiance to America. Political science professor Stanley Renshawn also sees
allegiance as the cornerstone of being an American.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
The idea of what it means to be an American
is an emotional and psychological commitment to the country. It's
well being, the idea that you want to further. It's
overall national interests, and that you're willing to make a
hierarchy in which other groups and other perspectives have some presence,
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but that the primary allegiance that you hold, of all
those different ones that you can have, is to America.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
But contrary to what some believe, it doesn't matter how
long you've been in this country to be an American.
My family has been here for over three hundred years.
That makes me a native American. But those that have
a full allegiance to America and its founding ideals are
just as American as I. That's why it's so important
to be careful who we let in. They must have
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full allegiance with America because if this principle of allegiance
doesn't become overwhelmingly dominant in the US, this country will
inevitably serve those that don't even consider America their home.
Speaker 6 (44:59):
Iraq has led.
Speaker 12 (45:00):
By example, when we took our trip to afri Can
visit it his home country in Kenya, we took a
public HIV test.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
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Previously on Red Pilled America, the massive Maga civil war
that has taken place over the Christmas holidays that began
with the critique over H one B visas.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
An H one B visa is a type of US
work visa that purports to bring so called highly skilled
immigrant workers to America.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
The United States does not officially recognize dual citizenship.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So to get a gauge on how people feel about
this topic, we spoke to you. Do you think it's
legal for an American city in to also be a
citizen of one or more countries?
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Am I eligible to be a citizen in any other
countries with their AFRAYUM decision. The Supreme Court ruled that
US citizenship is a constitutional right protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
What's an American? I'm Patrick CARELCI and I'm Adriana Cortes.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We're all about telling stories.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Stories.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The media mocks stories about everyday Americans that the globalist ignore.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You can think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Welcome to Red Pilled America.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Say you all plays, they sated.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
It was November twenty ninth, nineteen ninety when President George H. W.
Bush stepped into a White House signing ceremony and gave
away America's future.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Thank you very much for coming, everybody.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
The atmosphere was festive, almost jubilant, and perhaps for a
good reason, because the tech titans in the room were
getting just what they wanted.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Today.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
I am plays to sign S three point fifty eight,
the Immigration Act of nineteen ninety. It is the most
comprehensive reform of our immigration laws in sixty six years.
This bill is good for families, good for business, good
for crime fighting, and good for America.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But the bill was anything but good for the country
because it would not only nearly triple immigration on the
eve of a recession, it would also provide a pipeline
for foreigners to take over some of the most important
industries in America. We're at the finale of our series
of episodes entitled What's an American. We're looking for the
answer to that question by taking a deep dive into
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the meaning of American citizenship. So to pick up where
we left off in the last episode, in a razor
thin five to four split decision, the Supreme Court narrowly
sided with base Afroyum, ruling that it was unconstitutional for
Congress to revoke his American citizenship for voting in an
Israeli election. According to the Court, US expatriation had to
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be voluntary and intentional. The decision set an extraordinarily high
standard for expatriation. Even if an American citizen naturalized in
another country renouncing allegiance to the United States, Congress could
still not revoke this person's citizenship. In nineteen seventy six,
the US Department of State underscored the impact of the
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Afroyum decision. It announced that the only way that an
American could lose their citizenship was by explicitly and officially
renouncing it with the US government. The policy meant that
an American could swear an allegiance to a foreign power,
become a citizen of a foreign state, hold public office
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in a foreign country, and even serve in a foreign
military all without being expatriated. Dual citizenship may not have
been officially recognized by the US government, but it was
effectively legal. The Afroyum case diminished one of the foundational
principles of being an American exclusive allegiance to the United States.
Americans could now have a deeper connection with their ancestral
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lands than with the U S. A transnational America finally
became a reality, and this movement blossomed at just the
right time because the anti American Herbert Marcusa had begun
resonating within academic circles, the kind that refused to assimilate
to the country's Anglo Saxon norms. Marcusa's intelligentsia disciples were
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convincing socialists, disgruntled racial and sexual minorities, and feminists that
they were all victims being oppressed by the evil capitalist
cos colonizers. His ideas explained everything about their misery. But
the problem was that MARCUSA was a bit abstract in
his delivery.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
The social mechanisms of manipulation, indoctrination, repressions which are responsible
for this lack of a mass basis, which are responsible
for the integration of the majority of the oppositional forces
into the established social system.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
His message resonated with an influential but small segment of
the US population. For his victimhood ideology to spread far
and wide, he needed someone to package his brand of
Marxism for mass consumption.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Enter Howard Zen, the man that popularized victimhood.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
My parents were European immigrants, and we lived in the
slums of the Brookland.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That's Howard Zin reflecting on his childhood. Zinn was born
in nineteen twenty two, the son of working class Jewish
immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father was a waiter, his
mother a garment worker.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
And what I did see, and what did register with me,
is that my father worked very hard and he had
nothing to show for it.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
They weren't scholars. The only bookshelf in the Zen household
was a window ledge. But before he was done, Howard
Zinn would have his anti American book on practically every
high school and university bookshelf in the United States. In
nineteen forty three, at the age of twenty one, Zin
enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces.
Speaker 8 (06:42):
I became a bombardier in World War Two, and I
was an enthusiastic bombardier the War against Fascism and all
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He flew missions over Nazi controlled Europe. One of his
final assignments in the spring of nineteen forty five was
dropping napalm bombs on the French seaside resort town of Ryan.
Zin would later call it eb That moment stayed with him.
After the war. He used the GI bill to go
to college, eventually earning a pH d from Columbia, the
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same university that gave refuge to Herbert Marcusa and the
Frankfurt School Marxist. He was the son of Jewish immigrants
from the Brooklyn Projects, Suddenly in the Ivy League that
instead of seeing himself as someone blessed by America's opportunities,
he adopted a victimhood narrative. Of the world, soaking up
Columbia's brand of Marxism like a sponge. In nineteen fifty six,
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Zin took a job teaching at Spelman College, a historically
black woman's university in Atlanta. He taught Plato by day
and marched for civil rights by night. He became a
faculty advisor to the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee, the
same group that spawned radicals like Stokely Carmichael and the
Black Power Movement. Zin encouraged his students to protest what
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he saw as their university's passivity on civil rights. He
moved on to Boston University, where he clashed with just
about everyone who wasn't on the picket line. He joined
Vietnam War protest visited North Vietnam. His view on America
as a global oppressor blossomed through his lens. America was
not a shining light of opportunity. It was a heartless
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factory that churned out victims.
Speaker 8 (08:24):
Whenever anybody said to me in America, if you work hard,
you'll make it, I always was indignant when I heard
that statement, because I knew how untrue it was.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Zin didn't just want to reform American institutions. He wanted
to burn them to the ground. Then he wrecked Marxist
and doctrination hubs in their place. And nowhere would that
mission be clearer than in the book he spent years
writing between lectures, student sit ins, and anti war rallies.
He called it a people's History of the United States,
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and he wrote it from a very specific perspective.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Some of you may know George Orwell's statement, who ever
controls the past controls the future, and whoever controls the
present controls the past, And whoever was in charge of
the culture decides what history we get, or tries to decide,
or history we get an eye. Job is to look
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beyond that and to try to find our own history,
the one that they don't want us to have.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Zin believed the true history of the United States was
being kept from the American people, and so he wanted
to write a book not from the perspective of history's winners,
but instead from that of its losers. To do that,
Zin had to go all the way back to the
origin narrative of America.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
I made up my mind that I was going to
I was going to tell the history of the United
States from a different point of view. I was going
to tell the story of Columbus from the standpoint of
the Indians.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
If you were born in or before the nineteen seventies,
at some point in grade school, you were told the
story of Christopher Columbus, the young explorer that sailed well
from Spain in fourteen ninety two, discovering the New World.
It was a bold and daring trip that launched western
civilization in the Americas. Zin didn't just reject that story,
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he torched it. In chapter one of A People's History,
he quotes Columbus's journal describing how friendly and generous the
Native people were, before noting how quickly Columbus turned to
enslaving and brutalizing them.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
They would make fine.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Servants, Columbus wrote in his journal. Zin saw those words
as the true founding document of America. He accused Columbus
of genocide, not discovery. For Zin, this wasn't just historical correction.
It was ideological warfare in place of conquest and progress.
He gave readers conquest and cruelty.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
I want to tell the story of the Mexican War
from the standpoint of the Mexicans. The Southwest all belong
to Mexico and we got it. From the point of
view of the Mexicans, there was a war instigated by
the United States, planned by President Polk even before that
incident took place in eighteen forty six between the Nueces
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River and the Rio Grande River.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
In place of the Founders, he gave readers slaveholders. In
place of America's greatest presidents, he told their stories with
the darkest interpretation of their biographies.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Lincoln suddenly was not the great emancipator represented in that
statue with the black kneeling before him, gratefully from black
point of view. For from any decent point of view,
Lincoln was a reluctant emancipator. Kennedy was no civil rights advocate.
Kennedy appointed racist, segregationist judges in the Deep South, in
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Alabama and Georgia and Mississippi. Theodore Roosevelt one of our
great presidents. He's high on any list of presidents. Tells
you something about the historical teaching that has gone on
in this country. This racist When Italian immigrants were lynched
in the South, Theodore Roosevelt wrote about it. Hey, it's
not a bad idea there he is on now drushmore
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talk about environmental pollution.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
R US history books did often oversimplify American progress, but
Zin took the exact same approach he criticized by generalizing
America's shortcomings, providing the worst interpretations of its victories without
the nuance and context required to uncover the truth. In
his book, Zin attacked the melting pop view of American culture.
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He instead wanted to replace it with multiculturalism. In his view,
Americans shouldn't assimilate with the racist Anglo Saxon regime. They
should sit during the Pledge of allegiance and even elevate
their ethnic heritage above the evil colonizers. A people's history
of the United States was filled with strikes, rebellions, and protests.
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From the viewpoint of the strikers, rebels, and protesters, there
was next to no celebration of invention, expansion or American exceptionalism.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I guess I decided to write it because I was
looking for a book like that and I couldn't find it.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
So I wrote it, and in nineteen eighty Harper and
Rowe published it. It didn't sell it first, but slowly
teachers discovered it, then colleges, then high schools. It became
a cult classic among the disaffected and a flashpoint in
the culture wars. A People's History of the United States
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became required reading in tens of thousands of American classrooms.
It influenced teachers, activists, and even movies like Goodwill Hunting.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
You want to read a.
Speaker 10 (13:39):
Real history book, read Howard Zin's People's History in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
For Zin, history was not neutral but a weapon, not
a search for balance, but a call to battle, And
it turned out there was a market for Zin's brand
of victimhood history. His book went on to sell millions
of copies and became one of the best selling history
books of all time. By painting the US as an
evil colonizer responsible for their unbelievable oppression and genocide, he
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inflicted incalculable damage on the psyche of American youth. He
replaced hard won progress with endless grievance, casting a cynical
eye on patriotism, faith, capitalism, and the very idea of
American pride. He didn't have to read his book to
feel its impact on culture. In the years after its release,
his arguments became embedded in the tone of American discourse
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and the publication of A People's History gave fuel to
the victimhood class that was about to grow exponentially.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
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A People's History of the United States in nineteen eighty,
the country was on a perilous road. Inflation was nearly
fourteen percent. GDP was negative, with high inflation and no growth,
a stagflation gryptination. To make matters worse, America is being
embarrassed on the international stage. In November nineteen seventy nine,
radical Iranian students seized the US embassy in Tehran.
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Some sixty Americans, including our fellow citizen whom you just saw,
bound and blindfolded, are now beginning their sixth day of
captivity inside the US Embassy in Tehran.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
A year later, only fourteen had been released. With the
country in massive turmoil. On election Day nineteen eighty, Americans
chose a new direction.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
The time has come. You've seen the map, We've looked
at the figures, and NBC News now makes its projection
for the presidency. Reagan is our projected winner. Ronald Wilson Reagan,
thank you, but.
Speaker 11 (17:11):
There's never been a more humbling moment in my life.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Just hours after his inauguration, the remaining American hostages in
Iran were released, and President Reagan went into action on
the economy. He implemented pro growth policies to reduce inflation.
He tweaked fiscal policy a drastically cut income taxes and
slashed regulations. By nineteen eighty four, America was experiencing a
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strong recovery. Inflation plummeted to roughly three percent, GDP surged
to over seven percent, and unemployment began to fall. On
the international stage, United States was also gaining an advantage
in its Cold War with the Soviet Union. Consumer and
business confidence soared, and America had momentum and foreign policy.
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As a result, Ronald Reagan won his reelection in a
historic landslide.
Speaker 11 (18:04):
Seems we did this four years ago, and let me.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
Just say, well, you know, good habits are hard to break.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Reagan won forty nine out of fifty states. He only
lost in Washington, D C. And in his opponent, Walter
Mondale's home state of Minnesota. It was arguably one of
the biggest landslides in US presidential history. Reagan was given
an undeniable mandate. He could have done anything he wanted
to do to secure America's future, but, as leaders often do,
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he let his guard down and made perhaps the biggest
mistake in US presidential history. The Reagan administration worked with
Congress to pass the Immigration Reform and Control Act of
nineteen eighty six. The bill had been floating around Washington,
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D C. During Reagan's first term but failed to pass,
which should have been a red flag. You see, the
original act granted amnesty for illegal aliens that arrived in
the country before January first, nineteen eighty two. In exchange,
the bill included tighter border security and penalties and employers
who hired illegal aliens. The agricultural lobby hated the original
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bill because they were concerned it would disrupt their flow
of cheap labor. Border Hawks felt that any form of
amnesty was a dereliction of enforcement, so during the nineteen
eighty four race for the White House, President Reagan himself
worked with the media to reframe the bill as not
a softening on immigration, but instead as a national security issue.
Speaker 12 (19:44):
Mister President, you too have said that our borders are
out of control. Yet this fall you allowed the Simpson
Mazzoli Bill, which would at least have minimally protected our
borders and the rights of citizenship, because of a relatively
unimportant issue of reimbursbursement to the States for legalized aliens.
(20:04):
Given that, may I ask, what priority can we expect
you to give this forgotten national security element? How sincere
are you in your efforts to control, in effect the
nation state that is the United States.
Speaker 11 (20:18):
It is true our borders are out of control. It
is also true that this has been a situation on
our borders back through a number of administrations. And I
supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty
for those who have put down roots and who have
lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.
(20:39):
And I'm going to do everything I can, and all
of us in the administration are to join and again
when Congress is back at it, to get an immigration
bill that will give us once again control of our borders.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
So to get the bill through in Reagan's second term,
they weakened it. They added a provision that allowed illegal
aliens had been working in US agriculture for merely ninety
days to be eligible for amnesty. They also softened sanctions
on employers, requiring them to only use good faith efforts
to verify the legal status of their employees. Prior to
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nineteen eighty six, it was not against the law for
employers to hire illegal aliens, which created an immigrant magnet,
especially in industries like agriculture, construction, and hospitality. At the
time of the debates around the act, experts claimed that
roughly one million illegal aliens would be provided amnesty. President
Reagan was sold on the compromise. It passed Congress with
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bipartisan support, and on September sixth, nineteen eighty six, President
Reagan invited the press to the signing ceremony.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
This bill, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of nineteen
eighty six, that I will sign in a few minutes,
is the most comprehensive reform of our immigration laws since
nineteen fifty two. Our objective is only to establish a reasonable,
fare orderly, and secure system of immigration into this country,
and not to discriminate in any way against particular nations
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or people. Future generations of Americans will be thankful for
our efforts to humanely regained control of our borders and
thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred
possessions of our people, American citizenship.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
But American citizens got hoodwinked. Employers that wanted cheap labor
found ways around the citizenship verification requirement, and that was
just the beginning of their problems. Shortly after the bill passed,
civil rights groups and labor unions sued the US Immigration
and Naturalization Services. They claimed foreign looking and sounding applicants
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were being discriminated against and demanded the elimination of the
enforcement mechanism. But they didn't stop there. They sued to
shift the nineteen eighty two amnesty cutoff date. With each lawsuit,
the US government gave a little loosening the enforcement parameters
and opening the cutoff window. It became clear that a
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pipeline was opening for even more to acquire amnesty. Immigrants
began rushing illegally over the border. Before it was all done,
nearly three million illegal aliens were granted amnesty, triple the
initial estimate, and most importantly, the enforcement mechanism was effectively dismantled.
Reagan's amnesty didn't reduce illegal immigration, it grew it exponentially
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without enforcement. Pro immigration groups understood that it would just
be a matter of time before another amnesty was granted.
The message to the world was clear, if you can
get into America, you will inevitably be a citizen. Immigrants
continued to illegally surge across America's southern border, but this
time it was different. Prior to Reagan's amnesty, most illegal
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immigrants were from Mexico, but once the bill was signed,
immigrants came from El Salvador, Guatemala, On Duras, Nicaragua, Brazil, Columbia,
and Venezuela, each making a deliberate decision not to subject
themselves to US immigration law. Reagan's amnesty shipped away at
the American dream by flooding the country with people that
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had no allegiance to the United States. It destroyed the
value of American citizenship. Illegal aliens lowered wages and work standards,
increased crime and the cost of health care, and inflated
property values. They lowered school testing scores, and freed social cohesion.
Many had been in America for decades, but still wouldn't
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learn the English language. They refused to assimilate, creating a
permanent disgruntled class vulnerable to the victimhood ideology of Herbert
Marcusa and Howard Zinn. With the onslaught of new arrivals,
the US government provided benefits like healthcare, education, and, perhaps
most troublingly, the Open Border's lawyers creating this new pipeline
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began perverting birthright citizenship. Called the story of the eighteen
ninety eight Wangkimark Supreme Court decision we told in an
earlier episode of this series. In that case, the Supreme
Court only gave citizenship to children born on American soil
if their parents were legally and permanently residing in the
United States, and we know this for several reasons. In
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their decision, the Court continually repeated that Wangkimark's parents were
permanently domiciled in the United States at the time of
their son's birth, meaning they were in the country legally.
This satisfied the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment that states.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
All persons born or naturalized in the United States and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Because Wangkimark's parents were in the US legally, their son
was subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Wang
Kimark's status satisfied the Fourteenth Amendment, but the Court's decision
did not grant citizenship to everyone born on American soil.
In the decades fall following the ratification of the Fourteenth
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Amendment and the Wong cam Ark decision, children born to
Native Americans were still excluded from birthright citizenship. That's because
the children of Native Americans were not subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States. They had allegiance to a
foreign power their tribe. It took an Act of Congress
in nineteen twenty four to grant them US citizenship. The
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same applies to children of illegal aliens born on American soil,
their allegiances with their parents' home country not America. Many
even openly admit it, I'm a first generation American, but
I get it, like you've always said, I am Mexican,
first American second. To this day, Contrary to what open
border activists say, the Supreme Court has never directly ruled
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on whether children born in the United States to illegal
aliens or US citizens, but in the wake of President
Reagan's amnesty, pro immigration activists began twisting the meaning of
birthright citizenship, arguing that the children of illegal aliens were
in fact American because they were born on American soil.
They were wrong. The drafting of the fourteenth Amendment was
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clearly not intended to cover illegal aliens, who was written
to give citizenship to freed slaves. Nevertheless, granting birthright citizenship
to the children of illegal aliens born on American soil
became U S policy. It created the phenomenon of anchor babies,
where illegal aliens deliberately have children in the US to
prevent their deportation. This policy mortally wounded the value and
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meaning of American citizenship and forever changed the national prospects
for GOP candidates. California was once a Republican stronghold, but
once illegals were given amnesty and their children came of age,
that would all change. After the nineteen eighty eight election,
no Republican president candidate ever won California again. The anti
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American forces were changing the face of America from the
ground up, and their next move would look to alter
the US from a different angle.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
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Welcome back to Red Pilled America. President Reagan's amnesty was
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a colossal failure. It didn't stop illegal immigration, it expanded it.
Illegal aliens were coming into the country, having children and
then imbuing them with the same ideas that destroyed the
countries they fled from. What was happening in America in
the late nineteen eighties was exactly what the founding fathers
like Thomas Jefferson feared.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
They will bring with them the principles of the governments
they leave imbibed in their early youth.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
An enormous influx of foreign ideas began to seep into America,
and they started to infect what was once thought to
be an untouchable the sciences.
Speaker 13 (29:05):
I discovered that the National Academy of Sciences had faked
a shortage of scientists and engineers.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's Eric Weinstein talking to Joe Rogan in twenty twenty
four about a secret study he discovered in the nineteen eighties,
the Reagan administration.
Speaker 13 (29:22):
For the first time, they appointed somebody to come in
from industry rather than academics, to head the National Science Foundation,
guy named Eric Block.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
According to Weinstein, Eric Block hired an economist to look
at how much scientists and engineers were going to cost
in the near future, and what was found alarmed the
industry insider.
Speaker 13 (29:41):
And they picked an economist named Miles Boyland, who in
nineteen eighty six wrote a study that said, here's how
expensive it's going to be to pay for scientists and
engineers who are American in the future. The price of
American scientists and engineers was going to hit six figures.
How do we avoid having to pay six figures for
new PhDs?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
According to Eric Weinstein, they came up with a solution, and.
Speaker 13 (30:03):
They said, let's fake a demographic supply crisis where we
wouldn't have enough scientists.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
In other words, they faked a shortage of scientists and engineers.
Speaker 13 (30:13):
The National Academy was acting against the American interest by
narrowly saying we need to make American scientists and engineers cheaper,
that we need to flood the market, we need to
interfere in the wage mechanism. We need to allow China
first look at everything we do. I had caught them
in this conspiracy against American scientists, and they spun an
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entire story about we need the best in the brightest,
but it was all about money.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
And in nineteen ninety, President George HW. Bush used this
same argument to flood America's science and tech industry with
cheap foreign labor.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Today, I am pleased to sign S three point fifty
eight the Immigration Act of nineteen ninety. Immigration reform began
in nineteen eighty six with an effort to close the
back door on illegal immigration, and now as we open
the front door to increased legal immigration, this bill provides
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long needed enforcement authority. Immigration is not just a link
to America's past, it's also a bridge to America's future.
This bill provides for a vital increases for entry on
the basis of skills, infusing the ranks of our scientists
and engineers and educators with new blood and new ideas.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
The Immigration Act of nineteen ninety brought into existence the
infamous H one B Work visa, the same controversial visa
that launched our journey into the question, what's an American like?
Reagan's amnesty. Before it, the H one B VISA chipped
away at the American dream. It decreased the value of
a science and engineering degree. If an American student couldn't
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earn enough to recoup the investment in an expensive degree
in these fields, they eventually abandoned the path altogether. Over time,
Americans were effectively replaced by cheaper foreign born workers. A
recent study showed that sixty six percent of US tech
sector employees are foreign born. Sixty six percent. These are
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the same people that go on to control our social
media feeds, AI algorithms, and universities. People with stronger allegiances
to a foreign power have saturated the very institutions that
define what it means to be an American, and many
of these foreign born techees go on to become dual
citizens with the US and their homeland. You may recall
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it the opening of the series that we wanted to
get a gauge on how people felt about the topic
of dual citizenship. So we asked many of you a
series of simple questions on the topic, and there were
some differences of opinion on whether dual citizenship should be allowed.
Speaker 14 (32:56):
Probably not for thinking being that you know, if you're
a citizen in the United States, you should probably be
loyal the United States, and you know, not too great
Britain or Zimbabwe.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Do you think it should be allowed?
Speaker 11 (33:08):
Yes, yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
You know.
Speaker 13 (33:10):
I think it's probably done worldwide with dual citizenships, so
I guess.
Speaker 9 (33:16):
I guess I would say no, I think that that
could be allowed.
Speaker 14 (33:19):
I think it should be illegal because then there are
no borders. You are sovereign to one nation.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Do you think the dual citizenship should be allowed?
Speaker 15 (33:27):
I think so. I think yeah, because personally I was
born in Mexico. I became naturalized here in the US,
so as far as I know, I'm still a citizen
of Mexico, but my allegiance is to the US oneself
was naturalized.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Answers were about split on whether dual citizenships should be
allowed in the United States, but when asked a different way,
the answers were near unanimous.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Do you think it's legal for an American citizen to
swear allegiance to a foreign state?
Speaker 5 (33:58):
No, it sounds like treason to me.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Absolutely not. Do not.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And do you think that should be allowed?
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Do you think it's legal for an American citizen to
swear allegiance to a foreign state.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
No, no, I would think that was constitutional.
Speaker 11 (34:14):
It is illegal, and it should be no.
Speaker 15 (34:17):
Not if they're a citizen of the US.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Do you think it's legal for an American citizen to
swear allegiance to a foreign state? I do not think
it is okay. Do you think that that should be allowed.
Speaker 14 (34:27):
If you're a citizen of the United States and you
should be loyal to the United States above all else.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Our listeners were split on dual citizenship, yet almost universally
believed that swearing an allegiance to a foreign state should
be illegal. But the two are the same thing. For
an American citizen to become a dual citizen of another country,
they must swear a note of allegiance to that foreign power.
To be frank we didn't know this until we began
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research for this series. Thank our institutions have done a
poor job of conveying this fact to the public. That
that is how the sacred value of American citizenship has
been diluted. Exclusive allegiance to America was the foundation on
which U S citizenship was originally built. From the beginning,
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Americans rejected allegiance to a foreign power, the British Crown.
Our founders wanted US citizens to have an allegiance to
the American principles of self governance, freedom, liberty, justice, opportunity, equality,
and the.
Speaker 11 (35:27):
Rule of law.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
They tried to set up a system where only those
with the highest likelihood of assimilating to these principles were
allowed in. Our founders warned us that foreign influences could
enter America and corrupt the populace. When creating the first
citizenship clause, our leaders rightfully included exclusive allegiance to America
as a condition of birthright citizenship, but through decades of
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chipping away at America's foundations, foreigners could claim US citizenship
by their parents simply breaking into the country and giving
birth to them. Exclusive allegiance to America and her principles
are of paramount importance to the country's long term survival,
which is why dual citizenship is so dangerous.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
When I first started research for this series, I began wondering,
am I eligible to be a citizen in any other countries?
And if so, which ones? What about Adriana? How easy
would it be for us to acquire dual citizenship? And
we found out.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
Most countries that allow dual citizenship cut eligibility off at
the grandparents if either of them was born in the
country you qualify. Mexico falls into this category. Both of
my parents were born in Mexico, making me easily eligible
for dual citizenship in that country.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
My grandparents on my dad's side were also born in Mexico,
making me eligible there as well. My nana on my
mom's side was born in Ireland, making me eligible for
citizenship in the Emerald Isle. Providing the proof necessary to
gain citizenship in those countries is easy. It's just a
few birth certificates and marriage licenses that connect myself to
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my grandparents. In a matter of months, I could be
a citizen in three different countries and I and two
but we could not imagine taking that step.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
We are Americans through and through. I would never desecrate
the sacrifice of my grandmother, whose parents started making the
trek into America legally over one hundred years ago.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
And I would never dishonor the sacrifice of John Kemper.
John was from a German mining town named Mussen. He
was a skilled miner. In seventeen thirteen, he and his
colleagues were invited by Alexander Spotswood, a governor of Virginia,
to extract silver and iron ore from the hills of
the colony. John was known as an adventurous type. He
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gathered with a mix of twelve families, all Protestants, totaling
forty German villagers, and they set on their journey to
start a life in America. Their travels were a long
and arduous one. They were met with delays, abandonment, and
near starvation. They eventually arrived in America in April seventeen fourteen.
John Kemper and those twelve families set up the first
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German colony in Virginia. It was called Germana. They created
a fort on the frontiers of Virginia, an extremely dangerous
area at the time. Just a few years earlier, settlers
in this region were attacked by the Tuscarora Indians. A
large number of them were massacred. The survey General John
Lawson was burned at the stake. So Governor Spotswood gave
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these German settlers the Germanic Colony to not only mine
the area, but to act as a barrier to Indians
looking to attack Virginia. Colonists John Kemper, his countrymen and
their families put their bodies between the Virginia Colony and
the Indians looking to kill them. In other words, John
Kemper made an extraordinary sacrifice, not to make America great,
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but to make America. He was my sixth great grandfather.
By becoming a dual citizen of Mexico or Ireland, I'd
be dishonoring the sacrifice of John Kemper and Jacob Coons,
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my fourth great grandfather, who fought in the American Revolution,
and John C. Reid, my third great grandfather, that fought
in the Mexican American War to annex Texas. If I
were to become a dual citizen, I'd be dishonoring the
sacrifice of my great grandfather William Henry Coons the second
that served in World War I, my grandfather Frederick Coons,
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Nana Mary Cox, and grandfather Rudolph Kerelchi who all served
in World War II, and my father Rudy who served
in Vietnam. This is all to say that we'll never
have allegiance with any other country but America. We've burned
the boats. This is our home. But the same can't
be said for members of our Congress. No one knows
how many members of Congress are dual citizens. They refused
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to divulge that bit of information, and that's of course
a major problem because they pass legislation that impacts American
citizenship are border and foreign policy. Like GOP Rep. Maria Salazar,
her parents were born in Cuba. Her entire career has
been built around her connection to Havana. She's famously one
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of the only Spanish speaking TV reporters to have interviewed
Fidel Castro one on one now in Washington, DC. She
wants to give amnesty to illegal aliens. She just pretends
like it's not amnesty.
Speaker 16 (40:38):
Now there is another massive people who most of them
are Hispanics who have been here for more than five years,
that have been contributed to the economy, who do not
have a criminal record, and those people are the ones
who deserve some type of dignity. And for the reason
I'm introducing today, so I thank you for the opportunity
immigration reform. A GOP member of Congress is going to
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be trying to give dignity, not amnesty, to those people
who deserve to say a continue contributing to our economy.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Since Congress has refused to disclose whether its members are
dual citizens. Red Pilled America analyze their biographies to investigate
which are eligible to be dual citizens. What we found
was the potentially vast influenced foreign countries have on our policies.
Many claim Israel runs Washington, d C. While it's true
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that many DC politicians have ancestral connections to Israel, that
foreign power is far from having the most representation in
the nation's capital. In the Senate, Israel friendly senators only
outnumber the European Union by one member. In the House,
European Union connected congressmen dwarfs Israel's representation by nearly two
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to one. Even Mexico representation outnumbers the Jewish State in
the House. And it's not hard to see how foreign
influences can over time make a nation unrecognizable. Take, for example,
the United States mother country the United Kingdom. At one
time over the past decade, the mayor of London, Birmingham, Leeds, Blackburn, Sheffield, Oxford, Luton,
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Oldham and Rochdale were all either Muslim or of Muslim descent,
a strange development when Britain is the country that helped
spread the Protestant movement. In twenty twenty three, the top
baby name for boys in England and Wales was Muhammad.
If Brits are happy with this trend, that's their prerogative.
But this shift doesn't bode well for legacy Britain and
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if it continues, the UK will be saturated with people
that clearly hate the country's roots, people like Neurinda Kerr,
a popular British social commentator of Sikh descent, who thinks
England's flag is racist.
Speaker 4 (42:48):
As a woman of color, I feel in this country
that Saint Georgie's flag represents to me far right racism
and bigotry and actually we should be pound. What we
should be proud of in Britain is actually we are diverse,
We are multiculture, and the good say of Britain will
always want diversity.
Speaker 1 (43:06):
People that hate what a country stands for will ultimately
work to redefine it from within, which leads us back
to the question what's an American? An American is someone
whose paramount allegiance is with the United States and its
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founding ideals. When our founders signed the Declaration of Independence,
they risked being hung, drawn and quartered, an execution of
the most brutal fashion imaginable. That was their level of
allegiance to America. Political science professor Stanley Renshawn also sees
allegiance as the cornerstone of being an American.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
The idea of what it means to be an American
is an emotional and psychological commitment to the country. It's
well being, the idea that you want to further. It's
overall national interests, and that you're willing to make a
hierarchy in which other groups and other perspectives have some presence,
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but that the primary allegiance that you hold, of all
those different ones that you can have, is to America.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
But contrary to what some believe, it doesn't matter how
long you've been in this country to be an American.
My family has been here for over three hundred years.
That makes me a native American. But those that have
a full allegiance to America and its founding ideals are
just as American as I. That's why it's so important
to be careful who we let in. They must have
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full allegiance with America because if this principle of allegiance
doesn't become overwhelmingly dominant in the US, this country will
inevitably serve those that don't even consider America their home.
Speaker 6 (44:59):
Iraq has led.
Speaker 12 (45:00):
By example, when we took our trip to afri Can
visit it his home country in Kenya, we took a
public HIV test.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
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Speaker 8 (45:16):
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Speaker 2 (45:16):
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