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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What it's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Very Show is on the air. We won't
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take a lot of hate.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We're gonna be sued every day, numerous times. I think
you will see the left try to control the media.
They're going to show the first crying female, first crying child,
and say how inhumane we are.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I just wouldn't say that. I'm so sorry. Only people
are getting attacted children. I don't understand. I'm so sorry.
I wish I could do something that they can't. I
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don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'll try and be there.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But they won't talk about three hundred and forty thousand
children that they've failed to take care of. They're not
going to talk about the young women who have been
murdered in this country, the hands the criminal cartels. They're
not going to talk about the hundreds of angel moms
and dads who bury their children. Want to talk about
family separation, they bury their children. Their children were killed
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by a member of a member of a criminal cartewler
where someone's not supposed.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
To be here.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
They'll tell one side of the story. They'll try to vilifie,
but they're not going to stop it.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I can do. All I can do is crap.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You can do what.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You let some.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Martina fights through her pain and tears after she says
her father andress Martina was arrested from his wake Gan
home early Sunday morning by Immigration and Customs enforcement agents.
She says, the forty four year old grandfather came to
the US from Mexico nearly thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
They will open the door because they thought maybe one
of us were introver or something's happened to us. You
think they would been nice.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
We go find that priority tiger, which is a criminal
alien if he's were with others in the United States.
I legally we're going to take enforcement action against them.
We're going to force the immigration.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
Helping the curtain and saw that it said police.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
When I saw the agents get out, they had the
buildings surrounded, so they entered.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
They went up and started knocking on the doors really loudly.
My children started to crying.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
The main.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
In I do.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Let's talk about the Democrats for a moment. Christian Minifie,
the former Harris County Attorney, was elected in the special
election a couple of days ago in the eighteenth Congressional
distrect that was long held by Sheila Jackson Lee thirty years,
just short of to be exact. That is a congressional
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district that was created, jerrymandered actually as part of the
awful Voting Rights Act, which was a way for the
federal government to impose racism on the South. A seat
was created or a black congressman. The first to be
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elected was Barbara Jordan. Actually turned out to be a
pretty good congressman. Upon her I think it was MS,
assistic fibrosis maybe as MS. Her body was twisting and
gnarling and she couldn't she could barely stand any longer.
Her partner, she was lesbian, lived in Austin. She resigned
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from the Congress and moved in with her partner in Austin.
Taught at the University of Texas School of Public Affairs,
and that seat became open and Mickey Leland was elected.
He died in a plane crash. Craig Washington beat Anthony
Hall in a runoff to replace and then Sheila Jackson
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Lee shortly thereafter. I think it was two terms for
Craig Washington. Sheila Jackson Lee was elected to Houston City
Council to the seat I would eventually hold and she
was sworn in as a city councilman and immediately walked
across the street to the Federal the Mickey Leland Federal Building,
where she registered to run for Congress. She would win,
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and she would hold that seat until her death. A
very corrupt Houston mayor, Sylvester Turner, it would be wired
for him to replace her. He would die after the
President's Stay of the Union speech walking through the tunnel.
He'd been rather ill before that, and the seat sat open.
And now Christian Minafee has won that seat. Something interesting
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happened there. Before redistricting. There was the eighteenth Congressional district
and then there was al Green's seat that he was occupying.
And with redistricting you sort of consolidated those two seats.
So instead of two dedicated black congressional tens Stritch jerry
mandered for racial dominance of some sort, now you had
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only one. So al Green announced that he was retiring
and then said, actually I'm running in that seat. I'm
going to go back to Washington, DC at eighty years old.
I believe he is well. Christian Minefie was already in
the seat for the special election. The expectation was that
he would win that, which was a few days ago,
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he would serve out what is known as an unexpired term.
The term did not expire, so he would serve out
the remainder of the unexpired term, which is this year,
and this November. He'd be on the ballot for the
full two year term that would begin in January. So
all was going according to plan. However, I learned last
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night that so yesterday when Lena Hidalgo came out and
endorsed al Green, that thickened the plot. Because Menefee is
Rodney Ellis had been grooming Christian Menefee, as is done
in these types of politics and politicians, to be the congressman.
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Menefee was placed in the County Attorney's office by Rodney
Ellis because you want to make sure that your guy
is reviewing and offering legal opinions on what you're up to.
Rodney Ellis has become the unquestioned Dean, the doned godfather
of Harris County politics.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, here's what happened next.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Al Green announces that he's going to run in that district,
which would have created quite a split. Al Green and
the old Black Houston against Rodney Ellis and his machine,
and that might expose some things that we want to
keep hidden. We got to, you know, everybody's greasing the
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skids for each other to make this whole thing work.
So Rodney calls Christian Menefee and says, look, I got
to support Al Green. I can't support you in the
congressional race. My understanding is that uncharacteristically Christian Menefee blew
a gasket and said some things that.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Were regrettable to Rodney. We'll pick up this little tail
coming up.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Man.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
But Michael Berry show.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
February third is remembered as today the music died.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I always thought I should be February.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Second, because the show at the Surf Ballroom was their last.
They left from there to their next show, the plane
crashing near Mason City, Iowa. Buddy Holly along with the
Big Bopper from Beaumont. J. P. Richardson, a a radio
DJ who was hot on the charts at the time,
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and Richie Vallens would take off in a chartered plane
for Fargo, North Dakota. Their bus was rattle trap, it
was drafty, it had no heat. They all had a
coal or the sniffles and this was a way to
avoid that and get there and get some laundry done.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It was a rough, rough tour, But February third.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Is known as the day the music died because they
left after midnight.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So there you have it.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It was on this day in eighteen ninety six, that
the Galveston Brewing Company began operations. Saint Louis Brewers, William J.
Limp and Adolphus Bush were major shareholders.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You're going to start another brewing company, We're going to
be part of it. We may just buy it if
you get good enough.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
By this time, Texas posted more than fifty years of
brewing history that began with small home operations and gradually
expanded to commercial brewers.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Breweries.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Many centered on the sizeable German populations. The impressive Galveston
complex This is eighteen ninety six menu included a large
ice plant, cold storage rooms, several water wells, railroad tracks
so they could move the beer to people, and a
brewery that produced up to seventy five thousand barrels of
beer annually.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The facility survived the Galveston.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Hurricane of nineteen hundred, which would occur four years later,
with minor damage. The brands they brewed included high grade
and seawall bond. During Prohibition, the company produced Galvo, which
was on today's menu it would have n slash a
on it because it was.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
A non alcoholic beer.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Was Galvo a non intoxicating serial beverage.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Galveston Brewing Companies one of.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The few regional breweries who survived Prohibition, but small regional
breweries would decline in Texas as the national chains moved
into the state.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Those national chains would one.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Day develop hegemony over the industry and a death grip
on independent brewing until the day that they had a
woman in charge of marketing who thought it would be
a good idea to have a little scrutty gay guy
dress up like a pixie twelve year old girl and
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prance around and then honor her, at which point the
industry would go into free fall. So back to Christian Menefee.
Christian Menefee was groomed to be Rodney Ellis's.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He was the Harris County Attorney, a very useful position
to Christian to Rodney Ellis. But then when Sylvester died
unexpectedly shortly after Sheila had died, Christian Menefee's ambition got
to it, and so he decided he's going to run
with Rodney's blessing and with Rodney's machine. I cannot tell
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you how powerful Rodney's machine is, but trust me, there's
not been a single person more politically influential in my
lifetime in this region than Rodney Ellis. He's managed to
cobble together the money, the Sorrows type money, the planets
attorney money. There's some different groups that he's got. People
will often email me, hey, I'm over here. It used
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to be Altis, Altis and Winnie and Rodney just walked
in and it's every major planet's attorney from Beaumont and
there's some big money on there. And Rodney came in
and they all clapped each other's hands and hugged and
embraced and sat down and like they're dividing up the world.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Well they are.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Wayne Rio doesn't take a meeting with Rodney Ellis and
hug him so vociferously for nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
These are guys plotting and planning.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But Rodney also managed once he went into the commissioners seat,
he also managed to get hold of the grassroots and
he started creating slates and then he did something that
was interesting. He went after his death grasp on Harris
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County politics. He put his girl Lena in the county
judges position. She screwed the pooch on that. That wasn't
his fault. He put her there, and he finally just
couldn't bear her being there any longer. So Minefie runs
and wins. But somewhere along the way, Al Green steps
into that race, and Rodney pitched in with al Green
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and told Minefee he wouldn't be supporting him. Minefee pitched
a fit, and there is trouble in paradise now. Minefee
won last night or night before with over two thirds
of the vote against Amanda Edwards. Amanda Edwards, you may remember,
attractive lady, a lawyer. She was on Houston City Council.
She was going to run for mayor. Sheila cut a
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deal with her. Don't run for mayor against me, You'll
split the Black vote. So Amanda, she said, don't run
for mayor against me. I'll endorse you in my congressional seat.
You can be a congressman. Amanda Edwards made the fatal
mistake of trusting Sheila Jackson Lee. She steps out of
the mayor's race. Sheila loses on Saturday and on Monday
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before five o'clock when the deadline was up. In second
week of December, she said, I'm running for Congress. Amanda
was betrayed, so Amanda Edwards ran again. Menefie beat her
and al Green. I suspect will beat Menefee come November,
which means Menefee loses his Harris County gig and won't
be a congressman.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Bizarre of talking.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yes, oh, w a tangled web we weave when first
we practice to deceive. That's the moment where you're waiting
to see, Oh is this a Fuji's version? When it
comes in with the soft acoustics Roberta. Otherwise it takes
a whole different approach, and then it's Roberta joined about Lauren.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And White cleft. I love that remain, I love it.
I'm slacking to see.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm sure you know this already that this song is
based on an experience that Lorie Lieberman had.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
She was an uncredited co author of this song.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
She had been signed by Charles Fox, the composer and
Norman Gimble, the lyricists. Gimba was forty three at the time.
She was only nineteen, he was married, He fell in love.
They had an affair, but he did her dirty. He
and Charles Fox would take a song on which she
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had collaborated it with. The genesis of the song was
that she went to a concert at the Troubadour in
la and she found herself having feelings for this guy
on the stage who was playing the guitar. He had
a song that was rising up charts, and in an
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era of bands backed by Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton,
there was this guy that was lyrics forward, meaningful lyrics,
songs too long to play on the airwaves, writing poetry
and putting it to a few chords. It was amazing,
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and she she was enthralled. Lori Liberman would tell about
that story and they would begin the process of writing
a song about this woman highly moved by the man
who holds her heart in his guitar strings. And the
concert Lorie Lieberman had gone to see was, of course
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Don MacLean. They wouldn't give her credit. Years later she
would sue and they would admit for two deck over
two decades that she had been a collaborator with them,
And then thirty years into it, when they realized what
they'd have to pay her. They said, oh no, no, no,
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she wasn't a collaborator at all. The black politics are
in full swing. It's always interesting when it's Democrat on
democrat before the Republicans get involved. Grab your popcorn, because
the Democrats have begun the race game on each other.
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So let's go back. Colin Allred ran against Ted Cruz.
He is a black man, former NFL player who was
going to run for the Senate again until Jasmine Crockett
walked in and she did that finger snap with the
Z and she said uh uh uh, and he exited
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the race to run for a congressional seat. Interesting, you
can either represent one thirty eighth of the state in
the House and be up for election every two years
and be one of four hundred and thirty five members
of the lower House, or you can run to be
a representative of the entire entirety of the Great State,
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one of only two and only have to run every
six years, with a great deal more power over things
like ratifying or confirming Senate nominations, for instance.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
In the Senate. But Colin, he's good boy, did what
he was told.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
He exited the race when Jasmine told him to, which
has got to be awkward because you've been out running
for the Senate for four months and now all of
a sudden you decide, no, no, you want to run
for Congress. I really want to go back to Dallas
and represent just that little district right there. Okay, So
Jasmine Crockett starts looking like the Rodney Ellis of the state,
and Rodney is involved with their campaign. By the way, well,
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now Colin allred because he's all in on the race thing.
Never was before, but he's all in on the race thing.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Jasmine Crockett has a white liberal, little scrawny little They
call him Beto with the Bible. Okay, I call him
Betto with the Bible. But still he's been called Beto
with the Bible. James tallerco kind of basing his campaign
on a folk see Bill Clinton in nineteen ninety two.
When he's in black crowds, he hams up the black thing.
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But the rest of the time he's got to convince
whitey he's not such a bad guy. You know, those
Republicans are so mean. The Lord wants us to be kind.
So he hams up a Southern accent and he kind
of dresses it up in some flowery language and talks
about compassion and love and appealing to our love of
our state and our family. And he's a dangerous candidate
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in that way. But Jasmine will have none of it.
So Jasmine, who was the ghetto queen before, like the
boss bitch of a seventies blaxploitation film that is running
the drug ring after her husband's been killed. Now all
of a sudden, she's putting on a Texas accident.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I can't keep up. I cannot keep up. And so
here we are.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
James Talerrico has to be destroyed, this white democrat, he
has to be destroyed. And so they use Colin all
Ready to do it. Because Colin Allred calls James Salerrico,
you will never guess she's black. Colin Already is black.
They're working together. James Talerico's white guy. I told you
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before there's no place for white people in Democrat party anymore,
and they keep learning that. But James sal Rico has
now been called by call him already, this white liberal
democrat has now been called.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Racist, and I'm here for it. He is racist.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
How dare he run against this black woman, it's her turn.
He's been called racist for calling James Talerico, for James
sole Rico calling Colin Alread a mediocre black man. Okay,
I don't like tall Rico. I'm pretty good. That pretty good,
am I giving credit for that? And that's that's that's
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that's kind of singer. I'm kind of impressed all Rico
could say that because it's true and because it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And it is kind of low key racist. And that's
what white liberals do.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Very very strategically, is they insert a little low key
racism to the white liberals, who, as I've told you
for years, as did Malcolm X, are the most racist
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people on earth. And so the white liberals gathered together
for Beto with the Bible, and they love to support
the minorities, and those Republicans are all racist, but deep
down they view blacks as pets people to vote for them.
They don't like these blacks getting up and here running
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for office.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
They don't like him. They have to deal with them.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh well, that's when the firecrackers started.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Fireworks and fireworks truly not.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Good to use firecrackers, tracker, And that's a good story
on that donal plan three.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
People like that.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I appreciate that he uses subtlety there. It's a thinking
man's song, if you will.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Because on this day, nineteen eighty nine, that wild Thing
by tone Lowe would become the first rap single certified platinum.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Get a Bye, I thought it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
The sales are over one million.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Smartest Ye Toneak would be sued by Van Halen or
sampling their song extra credit if you get this right,
Jamie's crying. He used Alex's drum fills and part of
uh Eddie's guitar rip.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
In fact, I don't know if you can go back
at this point. But if you will go back, well
you already know where it is.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
If you will go back to one second, ten and
seventeen seconds in will see.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Okay, we're gonna start over.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Tonks management would settle with Van Halen, and the amount
was rumored to be.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Is that more or less than you would have expected
them less? How much would you expected a billion? That's
the full crumb on which that song was created. Uh,
I'm not ready to go that far. I would expect
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that from Jim because he's the biggest van Halen fan,
I think if you're objective, Uh look, look, it is
a catchy hook. There's there's no doubt it is catchy,
and there is no doubt they ripped a goodly portion
from Van Halen.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Okay, give me, give me the opening of tone.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And here's what I'm trying to figure out, and not
trying to figure out if they ripped him off.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I know they ripped him off. I can hear it.
I'm trying to figure out how important that was to the.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Sex, to the success or maybe sex to the success
of the song. Okay, so give me ton loa, give
me first twenty seconds. It is odd, the introduction of
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the guitar right there, right, it is odd. Okay, So
all right, now give you Jamie's.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Crime, I said, I don't doubt he ripped him all.
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The ironic thing.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Is that I'm sure sales for Wild Thing exceeded Jamie's Crime.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And I love James krun. It's a great song, disproving.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
The white man covering a black man's song. I think
the best example there is Clapton's I shot the Sheriff
ripping off Bob Marley, but he did so openly. He
was a cover royalties were paid. But if he's what
his went higher than Bob Marley. But on this case,
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it's a black man coming later. It felt like everything
was ripping off. I mean, who was the guitarist or
the who was the lead guitarist for Tone Lowe or
the drummer. I mean that was the introduction of manufactured
music or machine built music and it was all samples.
I mean, how big does run DM say get without
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the collaboration with Aerosmith.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It feels like that was a very acceptable, understood.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Thing to do.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, you're right, run DMC did bring Aerosmith back to
relevance for a whole new generation. You're right, I one
hundred percent agree with that Aerosmith were on the steep decline.
I one hundred percent agree with that. They're one of
those cases of incredible staying power.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
And you have some moments like that.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So James Talerico, after being called a racist by calling
all Red on behalf of Jasmine Crockett, responds with a pathetic,
woke virtue signaling statement saying, as a black man in America,
Congressman Allred has had to work twice as hard to
get where he is. I understand how my critique of
the congressman's campaign could be interpreted given this country's painful
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legacy of racism, and I cared deeply about the impact
my words have on others. Then gather race, you little
you little racist. All right, So here is TikToker Morgan Thompson,
who found the audio of Tallarico calling all Red a
mediocre black man.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Is some pretty awesome, low key racism. I mean, it
really is.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
James Talerico told me that he signed up to run
against a mediocre black man, not a formidable and intelligent
black woman. And I want to explain why this is problematic,
especially as he shifted his current approach in the Texas
Center race. Now, before I get into the conversation that
led to this comment, I want to put it out
there that I supported Tallerco and planned on voting for
him before Jasmin Crockett joined the race. I'm voting for
James Tallerrico, so I planned on voting for him when
he was running against Colin Alred, the mediocre black man
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that he's referring to. Now, no matter how you feel
about Colin Alred, the man is an attorney, a former
professional football player and a former congressman.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
But I'm not.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Bringing this forward because I want to bring any more
negativity to this race. I care way too much about
Texas to do something like that. But I do think
it is my responsibility to bring something like this forward.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Again.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
I do think it also indicates some things that are
pretty important when it comes to how he's moving with
his campaign. The obvious intimidation of Jasmin Crockett, along with
the racially charged and disrespect of Colin Alred as a
black man, indicse something deeper than just an overly familiar
comment that is coded in a compliment for.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
A black women.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
This explained to me why he would jump at the
opportunity to play victim at just the mere thought is
anything other than pop It is being out about him,
And it also explains why he would say something like
attack ads is what she planned on doing, when the
actual video he's referring to says nothing of the sort.
Using this language when you have the privilege of being
a white man, when people across the political spectrum are
also using the angry black woman that's aggressive trope to
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attack her is microaggressive. That's why Pregacy stated that this
is an indication of his insecurity around his candidacy, or
syndicating that he's had something to hide.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
She's a PhD level expert in the terminology and the
logic of these people, and they have this Texas A
and M to the credit announcing that they are doing
away with their African American studies and their gender studies
and all their silly studies programs.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I'm not a fan of Glenn Hagard, but I will
commend good work when it happens.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's not only Aggie's who should be happy.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
It's every taxpayer in the state of Texas, because you
pay the bills for Texas A and M, not the
students or the parents. Did you notice all her little
language that she's so proud to use that makes her
the expert you will vow before her.
What it's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Michael Very Show is on the air. We won't
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take a lot of hate.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
We're gonna be sued every day, numerous times. I think
you will see the left try to control the media.
They're going to show the first crying female, first crying child,
and say how inhumane we are.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
I just wouldn't say that. I'm so sorry. Only people
are getting attacted children. I don't understand. I'm so sorry.
I wish I could do something that they can't. I
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don't know what to do.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I'll try and be there.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But they won't talk about three hundred and forty thousand
children that they've failed to take care of. They're not
going to talk about the young women who have been
murdered in this country, the hands the criminal cartels. They're
not going to talk about the hundreds of angel moms
and dads who bury their children. Want to talk about
family separation, they bury their children. Their children were killed
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by a member of a member of a criminal cartewler
where someone's not supposed.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
To be here.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
They'll tell one side of the story. They'll try to vilifie,
but they're not going to stop it.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I can do. All I can do is crap.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
You can do what.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
You let some.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Martina fights through her pain and tears after she says
her father andress Martina was arrested from his wake Gan
home early Sunday morning by Immigration and Customs enforcement agents.
She says, the forty four year old grandfather came to
the US from Mexico nearly thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
They will open the door because they thought maybe one
of us were introver or something's happened to us. You
think they would been nice.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
We go find that priority tiger, which is a criminal
alien if he's were with others in the United States.
I legally we're going to take enforcement action against them.
We're going to force the immigration.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
Helping the curtain and saw that it said police.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
When I saw the agents get out, they had the
buildings surrounded, so they entered.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
They went up and started knocking on the doors really loudly.
My children started to crying.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
The main.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
In I do.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Let's talk about the Democrats for a moment. Christian Minifie,
the former Harris County Attorney, was elected in the special
election a couple of days ago in the eighteenth Congressional
distrect that was long held by Sheila Jackson Lee thirty years,
just short of to be exact. That is a congressional
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district that was created, jerrymandered actually as part of the
awful Voting Rights Act, which was a way for the
federal government to impose racism on the South. A seat
was created or a black congressman. The first to be
(04:04):
elected was Barbara Jordan. Actually turned out to be a
pretty good congressman. Upon her I think it was MS,
assistic fibrosis maybe as MS. Her body was twisting and
gnarling and she couldn't she could barely stand any longer.
Her partner, she was lesbian, lived in Austin. She resigned
(04:25):
from the Congress and moved in with her partner in Austin.
Taught at the University of Texas School of Public Affairs,
and that seat became open and Mickey Leland was elected.
He died in a plane crash. Craig Washington beat Anthony
Hall in a runoff to replace and then Sheila Jackson
(04:51):
Lee shortly thereafter. I think it was two terms for
Craig Washington. Sheila Jackson Lee was elected to Houston City
Council to the seat I would eventually hold and she
was sworn in as a city councilman and immediately walked
across the street to the Federal the Mickey Leland Federal Building,
where she registered to run for Congress. She would win,
(05:16):
and she would hold that seat until her death. A
very corrupt Houston mayor, Sylvester Turner, it would be wired
for him to replace her. He would die after the
President's Stay of the Union speech walking through the tunnel.
He'd been rather ill before that, and the seat sat open.
And now Christian Minafee has won that seat. Something interesting
(05:41):
happened there. Before redistricting. There was the eighteenth Congressional district
and then there was al Green's seat that he was occupying.
And with redistricting you sort of consolidated those two seats.
So instead of two dedicated black congressional tens Stritch jerry
mandered for racial dominance of some sort, now you had
(06:06):
only one. So al Green announced that he was retiring
and then said, actually I'm running in that seat. I'm
going to go back to Washington, DC at eighty years old.
I believe he is well. Christian Minefie was already in
the seat for the special election. The expectation was that
he would win that, which was a few days ago,
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he would serve out what is known as an unexpired term.
The term did not expire, so he would serve out
the remainder of the unexpired term, which is this year,
and this November. He'd be on the ballot for the
full two year term that would begin in January. So
all was going according to plan. However, I learned last
(06:47):
night that so yesterday when Lena Hidalgo came out and
endorsed al Green, that thickened the plot. Because Menefee is
Rodney Ellis had been grooming Christian Menefee, as is done
in these types of politics and politicians, to be the congressman.
(07:11):
Menefee was placed in the County Attorney's office by Rodney
Ellis because you want to make sure that your guy
is reviewing and offering legal opinions on what you're up to.
Rodney Ellis has become the unquestioned Dean, the doned godfather
of Harris County politics.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, here's what happened next.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Al Green announces that he's going to run in that district,
which would have created quite a split. Al Green and
the old Black Houston against Rodney Ellis and his machine,
and that might expose some things that we want to
keep hidden. We got to, you know, everybody's greasing the
(07:58):
skids for each other to make this whole thing work.
So Rodney calls Christian Menefee and says, look, I got
to support Al Green. I can't support you in the
congressional race. My understanding is that uncharacteristically Christian Menefee blew
a gasket and said some things that.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Were regrettable to Rodney. We'll pick up this little tail
coming up.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Man.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
But Michael Berry show.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
February third is remembered as today the music died.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I always thought I should be February.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Second, because the show at the Surf Ballroom was their last.
They left from there to their next show, the plane
crashing near Mason City, Iowa. Buddy Holly along with the
Big Bopper from Beaumont. J. P. Richardson, a a radio
DJ who was hot on the charts at the time,
(08:58):
and Richie Vallens would take off in a chartered plane
for Fargo, North Dakota. Their bus was rattle trap, it
was drafty, it had no heat. They all had a
coal or the sniffles and this was a way to
avoid that and get there and get some laundry done.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It was a rough, rough tour, But February third.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Is known as the day the music died because they
left after midnight.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So there you have it.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It was on this day in eighteen ninety six, that
the Galveston Brewing Company began operations. Saint Louis Brewers, William J.
Limp and Adolphus Bush were major shareholders.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You're going to start another brewing company, We're going to
be part of it. We may just buy it if
you get good enough.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
By this time, Texas posted more than fifty years of
brewing history that began with small home operations and gradually
expanded to commercial brewers.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Breweries.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Many centered on the sizeable German populations. The impressive Galveston
complex This is eighteen ninety six menu included a large
ice plant, cold storage rooms, several water wells, railroad tracks
so they could move the beer to people, and a
brewery that produced up to seventy five thousand barrels of
beer annually.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The facility survived the Galveston.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Hurricane of nineteen hundred, which would occur four years later,
with minor damage. The brands they brewed included high grade
and seawall bond. During Prohibition, the company produced Galvo, which
was on today's menu it would have n slash a
on it because it was.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
A non alcoholic beer.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Was Galvo a non intoxicating serial beverage.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Galveston Brewing Companies one of.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
The few regional breweries who survived Prohibition, but small regional
breweries would decline in Texas as the national chains moved
into the state.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Those national chains would one.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Day develop hegemony over the industry and a death grip
on independent brewing until the day that they had a
woman in charge of marketing who thought it would be
a good idea to have a little scrutty gay guy
dress up like a pixie twelve year old girl and
(11:12):
prance around and then honor her, at which point the
industry would go into free fall. So back to Christian Menefee.
Christian Menefee was groomed to be Rodney Ellis's.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
He was the Harris County Attorney, a very useful position
to Christian to Rodney Ellis. But then when Sylvester died
unexpectedly shortly after Sheila had died, Christian Menefee's ambition got
to it, and so he decided he's going to run
with Rodney's blessing and with Rodney's machine. I cannot tell
(11:53):
you how powerful Rodney's machine is, but trust me, there's
not been a single person more politically influential in my
lifetime in this region than Rodney Ellis. He's managed to
cobble together the money, the Sorrows type money, the planets
attorney money. There's some different groups that he's got. People
will often email me, hey, I'm over here. It used
(12:16):
to be Altis, Altis and Winnie and Rodney just walked
in and it's every major planet's attorney from Beaumont and
there's some big money on there. And Rodney came in
and they all clapped each other's hands and hugged and
embraced and sat down and like they're dividing up the world.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Well they are.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Wayne Rio doesn't take a meeting with Rodney Ellis and
hug him so vociferously for nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
These are guys plotting and planning.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
But Rodney also managed once he went into the commissioners seat,
he also managed to get hold of the grassroots and
he started creating slates and then he did something that
was interesting. He went after his death grasp on Harris
(13:03):
County politics. He put his girl Lena in the county
judges position. She screwed the pooch on that. That wasn't
his fault. He put her there, and he finally just
couldn't bear her being there any longer. So Minefie runs
and wins. But somewhere along the way, Al Green steps
into that race, and Rodney pitched in with al Green
(13:25):
and told Minefee he wouldn't be supporting him. Minefee pitched
a fit, and there is trouble in paradise now. Minefee
won last night or night before with over two thirds
of the vote against Amanda Edwards. Amanda Edwards, you may remember,
attractive lady, a lawyer. She was on Houston City Council.
She was going to run for mayor. Sheila cut a
(13:47):
deal with her. Don't run for mayor against me, You'll
split the Black vote. So Amanda, she said, don't run
for mayor against me. I'll endorse you in my congressional seat.
You can be a congressman. Amanda Edwards made the fatal
mistake of trusting Sheila Jackson Lee. She steps out of
the mayor's race. Sheila loses on Saturday and on Monday
(14:11):
before five o'clock when the deadline was up. In second
week of December, she said, I'm running for Congress. Amanda
was betrayed, so Amanda Edwards ran again. Menefie beat her
and al Green. I suspect will beat Menefee come November,
which means Menefee loses his Harris County gig and won't
be a congressman.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Bizarre of talking.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Yes, oh, w a tangled web we weave when first
we practice to deceive. That's the moment where you're waiting
to see, Oh is this a Fuji's version? When it
comes in with the soft acoustics Roberta. Otherwise it takes
a whole different approach, and then it's Roberta joined about Lauren.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And White cleft. I love that remain, I love it.
I'm slacking to see.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I'm sure you know this already that this song is
based on an experience that Lorie Lieberman had.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
She was an uncredited co author of this song.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
She had been signed by Charles Fox, the composer and
Norman Gimble, the lyricists. Gimba was forty three at the time.
She was only nineteen, he was married, He fell in love.
They had an affair, but he did her dirty. He
and Charles Fox would take a song on which she
(15:42):
had collaborated it with. The genesis of the song was
that she went to a concert at the Troubadour in
la and she found herself having feelings for this guy
on the stage who was playing the guitar. He had
a song that was rising up charts, and in an
(16:02):
era of bands backed by Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton,
there was this guy that was lyrics forward, meaningful lyrics,
songs too long to play on the airwaves, writing poetry
and putting it to a few chords. It was amazing,
(16:26):
and she she was enthralled. Lori Liberman would tell about
that story and they would begin the process of writing
a song about this woman highly moved by the man
who holds her heart in his guitar strings. And the
concert Lorie Lieberman had gone to see was, of course
(16:48):
Don MacLean. They wouldn't give her credit. Years later she
would sue and they would admit for two deck over
two decades that she had been a collaborator with them,
And then thirty years into it, when they realized what
they'd have to pay her. They said, oh no, no, no,
(17:09):
she wasn't a collaborator at all. The black politics are
in full swing. It's always interesting when it's Democrat on
democrat before the Republicans get involved. Grab your popcorn, because
the Democrats have begun the race game on each other.
(17:33):
So let's go back. Colin Allred ran against Ted Cruz.
He is a black man, former NFL player who was
going to run for the Senate again until Jasmine Crockett
walked in and she did that finger snap with the
Z and she said uh uh uh, and he exited
(17:59):
the race to run for a congressional seat. Interesting, you
can either represent one thirty eighth of the state in
the House and be up for election every two years
and be one of four hundred and thirty five members
of the lower House, or you can run to be
a representative of the entire entirety of the Great State,
(18:19):
one of only two and only have to run every
six years, with a great deal more power over things
like ratifying or confirming Senate nominations, for instance.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
In the Senate. But Colin, he's good boy, did what
he was told.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
He exited the race when Jasmine told him to, which
has got to be awkward because you've been out running
for the Senate for four months and now all of
a sudden you decide, no, no, you want to run
for Congress. I really want to go back to Dallas
and represent just that little district right there. Okay, So
Jasmine Crockett starts looking like the Rodney Ellis of the state,
and Rodney is involved with their campaign. By the way, well,
(19:01):
now Colin allred because he's all in on the race thing.
Never was before, but he's all in on the race thing.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Jasmine Crockett has a white liberal, little scrawny little They
call him Beto with the Bible. Okay, I call him
Betto with the Bible. But still he's been called Beto
with the Bible. James tallerco kind of basing his campaign
on a folk see Bill Clinton in nineteen ninety two.
When he's in black crowds, he hams up the black thing.
(19:30):
But the rest of the time he's got to convince
whitey he's not such a bad guy. You know, those
Republicans are so mean. The Lord wants us to be kind.
So he hams up a Southern accent and he kind
of dresses it up in some flowery language and talks
about compassion and love and appealing to our love of
our state and our family. And he's a dangerous candidate
(19:52):
in that way. But Jasmine will have none of it.
So Jasmine, who was the ghetto queen before, like the
boss bitch of a seventies blaxploitation film that is running
the drug ring after her husband's been killed. Now all
of a sudden, she's putting on a Texas accident.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I can't keep up. I cannot keep up. And so
here we are.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
James Talerrico has to be destroyed, this white democrat, he
has to be destroyed. And so they use Colin all
Ready to do it. Because Colin Allred calls James Salerrico,
you will never guess she's black. Colin Already is black.
They're working together. James Talerico's white guy. I told you
(20:38):
before there's no place for white people in Democrat party anymore,
and they keep learning that. But James sal Rico has
now been called by call him already, this white liberal
democrat has now been called.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Racist, and I'm here for it. He is racist.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
How dare he run against this black woman, it's her turn.
He's been called racist for calling James Talerico, for James
sole Rico calling Colin Alread a mediocre black man. Okay,
I don't like tall Rico. I'm pretty good. That pretty good,
am I giving credit for that? And that's that's that's
(21:24):
that's kind of singer. I'm kind of impressed all Rico
could say that because it's true and because it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And it is kind of low key racist. And that's
what white liberals do.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Very very strategically, is they insert a little low key
racism to the white liberals, who, as I've told you
for years, as did Malcolm X, are the most racist
(22:05):
people on earth. And so the white liberals gathered together
for Beto with the Bible, and they love to support
the minorities, and those Republicans are all racist, but deep
down they view blacks as pets people to vote for them.
They don't like these blacks getting up and here running
(22:27):
for office.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
They don't like him. They have to deal with them.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh well, that's when the firecrackers started.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Fireworks and fireworks truly not.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Good to use firecrackers, tracker, And that's a good story
on that donal plan three.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
People like that.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
I appreciate that he uses subtlety there. It's a thinking
man's song, if you will.
Speaker 8 (22:48):
Because on this day, nineteen eighty nine, that wild Thing
by tone Lowe would become the first rap single certified platinum.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Get a Bye, I thought it.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
The sales are over one million.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Smartest Ye Toneak would be sued by Van Halen or
sampling their song extra credit if you get this right,
Jamie's crying. He used Alex's drum fills and part of
uh Eddie's guitar rip.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
In fact, I don't know if you can go back
at this point. But if you will go back, well
you already know where it is.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
If you will go back to one second, ten and
seventeen seconds in will see.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Okay, we're gonna start over.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Let's do it.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Tonks management would settle with Van Halen, and the amount
was rumored to be.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Is that more or less than you would have expected
them less? How much would you expected a billion? That's
the full crumb on which that song was created. Uh,
I'm not ready to go that far. I would expect
(24:21):
that from Jim because he's the biggest van Halen fan,
I think if you're objective, Uh look, look, it is
a catchy hook. There's there's no doubt it is catchy,
and there is no doubt they ripped a goodly portion
from Van Halen.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Okay, give me, give me the opening of tone.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
And here's what I'm trying to figure out, and not
trying to figure out if they ripped him off.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I know they ripped him off. I can hear it.
I'm trying to figure out how important that was to the.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Sex, to the success or maybe sex to the success
of the song. Okay, so give me ton loa, give
me first twenty seconds. It is odd, the introduction of
(25:23):
the guitar right there, right, it is odd. Okay, So
all right, now give you Jamie's.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Crime, I said, I don't doubt he ripped him all.
(25:52):
The ironic thing.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Is that I'm sure sales for Wild Thing exceeded Jamie's Crime.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And I love James krun. It's a great song, disproving.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
The white man covering a black man's song. I think
the best example there is Clapton's I shot the Sheriff
ripping off Bob Marley, but he did so openly. He
was a cover royalties were paid. But if he's what
his went higher than Bob Marley. But on this case,
(26:27):
it's a black man coming later. It felt like everything
was ripping off. I mean, who was the guitarist or
the who was the lead guitarist for Tone Lowe or
the drummer. I mean that was the introduction of manufactured
music or machine built music and it was all samples.
I mean, how big does run DM say get without
(26:49):
the collaboration with Aerosmith.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
It feels like that was a very acceptable, understood.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Thing to do.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, you're right, run DMC did bring Aerosmith back to
relevance for a whole new generation. You're right, I one
hundred percent agree with that Aerosmith were on the steep decline.
I one hundred percent agree with that. They're one of
those cases of incredible staying power.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
And you have some moments like that.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
So James Talerico, after being called a racist by calling
all Red on behalf of Jasmine Crockett, responds with a pathetic,
woke virtue signaling statement saying, as a black man in America,
Congressman Allred has had to work twice as hard to
get where he is. I understand how my critique of
the congressman's campaign could be interpreted given this country's painful
(27:39):
legacy of racism, and I cared deeply about the impact
my words have on others. Then gather race, you little
you little racist. All right, So here is TikToker Morgan Thompson,
who found the audio of Tallarico calling all Red a
mediocre black man.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Is some pretty awesome, low key racism. I mean, it
really is.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
James Talerico told me that he signed up to run
against a mediocre black man, not a formidable and intelligent
black woman. And I want to explain why this is problematic,
especially as he shifted his current approach in the Texas
Center race. Now, before I get into the conversation that
led to this comment, I want to put it out
there that I supported Tallerco and planned on voting for
him before Jasmin Crockett joined the race. I'm voting for
James Tallerrico, so I planned on voting for him when
he was running against Colin Alred, the mediocre black man
(28:26):
that he's referring to. Now, no matter how you feel
about Colin Alred, the man is an attorney, a former
professional football player and a former congressman.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
But I'm not.
Speaker 5 (28:32):
Bringing this forward because I want to bring any more
negativity to this race. I care way too much about
Texas to do something like that. But I do think
it is my responsibility to bring something like this forward.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Again.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
I do think it also indicates some things that are
pretty important when it comes to how he's moving with
his campaign. The obvious intimidation of Jasmin Crockett, along with
the racially charged and disrespect of Colin Alred as a
black man, indicse something deeper than just an overly familiar
comment that is coded in a compliment for.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
A black women.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
This explained to me why he would jump at the
opportunity to play victim at just the mere thought is
anything other than pop It is being out about him,
And it also explains why he would say something like
attack ads is what she planned on doing, when the
actual video he's referring to says nothing of the sort.
Using this language when you have the privilege of being
a white man, when people across the political spectrum are
also using the angry black woman that's aggressive trope to
(29:16):
attack her is microaggressive. That's why Pregacy stated that this
is an indication of his insecurity around his candidacy, or
syndicating that he's had something to hide.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
She's a PhD level expert in the terminology and the
logic of these people, and they have this Texas A
and M to the credit announcing that they are doing
away with their African American studies and their gender studies
and all their silly studies programs.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
I'm not a fan of Glenn Hagard, but I will
commend good work when it happens.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
It's not only Aggie's who should be happy.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
It's every taxpayer in the state of Texas, because you
pay the bills for Texas A and M, not the
students or the parents. Did you notice all her little
language that she's so proud to use that makes her
the expert you will vow before her.
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