August 14, 2026 • 52 mins
Where did wokeness come from? In the finale of Woke Army, we continue our journey by telling the story of how Herbert Marcuse’s disciple got entangled in a horrific crime…and how the movement took a detour that would make wokeness go mainstream.
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
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The sole reason they give for their intention to fire
me is my membership in the Communist Party.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
That this entire incident, starting with the hiring of Miss Davis,
was a deliberate provocation.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Political opinions should be brought into the classroom. They belong
in the classroom.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
A court decision last week declared the regent's action unconstitutional.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Own Mini Miles the university as your base.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We have to talk about a complete and total change
in the structures of this society.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Four students lay dead on the campus grounds where they.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Are shows that they want to find out.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I suppose I just lost that job at UCLA.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Where did Wokeness come from?
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I'm Patrick Currelci and I'm Adriana Cortez.
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You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at the final part of our
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series of episodes entitled Woke Army. You've probably heard the
first four, but if you haven't, stop and go back
and listen from the beginning. We're looking for the answer
to the question where did Wokeness come from? By telling
the story of how an obscure group of German refugees
started all of this woke madness and what we need
to do to stop it.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So in our last episode, we told the story of
how Angela Davis and other revolutionaries escalated their Marxist struggle
on the streets and college campuses of America. California Governor
Ronald Reagan was working to help keep radicals and militants
out of the state's college campuses. He forced Herbert Marcusin
to retirement at UCSD and block the Black Panthers from
officially speaking on college campuses. In defiance, UCILE hired the
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one person that represented both black militants and radical academics,
Angela Davis. The UC region who governed the University of California,
voted to fire her, citing its longtime policy of not
hiring communist. Angela's childhood friend, Bettina Appathecker, helped the radical
professor rally the troops at UCLA, and Angela joined a
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faculty group in a lawsuit against the uc regents. Ultimately,
a superior court judge ruled that the firing was unconstitutional
and Angela was reinstated. She boldly announced that she'd be
bringing her brand of Marxist politics into the classroom. Then
she joined her teacher, Marcusa in a victory lap at
the birthplace of student insurrection, UC Berkeley. The two laid
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out a long term plan to ignite a socialist revolution.
The new oppressed groups identified by Marcusa had to bring
the fight to the streets and more importantly, to the campuses.
They saw the university as the base of their socialist
revolution because it taught the next generation of leaders.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
A few weeks later, the Black Panthers Los Angeles headquarters
was raided by the LAPD and after a five hour
gun battle, the Panthers threw up the white flag. Angela
felt that their socialist revolution was right around the corner,
and she called on revolutionaries to take up arms to
help usher it in. The energy was building. The radicals
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just needed a new trigger to enlist the moderate left
to their cause. That would come in late April nineteen seventy,
when Nixon expanded the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Almost on
q radicals organized a national student strike. Over one million
students protested on nearly nine hundred college campuses. When the
dust settled, students lay dead at Kent State and Jackson
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State Universities, and thirty rotc buildings were burned to the ground.
Moderate anti war students didn't realize it, but they just
participated in a socialist insurrection. The country had had enough.
A counter protest took to the streets opposing the student violence.
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The FBI was in the midst of an effort to
break up organizations like the Black Panthers and Students for
a Democratic Society or SDS. Nixon began an investigation into
the source of the campus unrest, and the UC regents
made moves to terminate Angela Davis once and for all
from her UCLA teaching post. But Angela wanted to keep
up the heat. She began championing a new cause, the
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freedom of the Solodad Brothers, three convicts charged with murdering
a prison guard. She had taken a liking to one,
in particular, George Jackson, one of the Soldad brothers, in
prison nine years earlier for armed robbery. George Jackson captured
Angela Davis's heart, and the Frankfurt school disciple began working
with the convict's young Black Panther brother, Jonathan Jackson, to
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rally the country around his release. But then in the
summer of nineteen seventy, the effort to free George Jackson
took a dark turn.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
On a hot summer day in August nineteen seventy, a
trial was in session in a Marine County courthouse in
northern California. A black convict named James mc lane was
being tried for the stabbing of a prison guard. The
trial was presided over by Superior Court Judge Harold Hayley,
a sixty five year old, thin haired white man with
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dark rimmed glasses. Judge Haley was a pillar of the community.
He'd married his high school sweetheart. They had three daughters together.
Life was good, but something was about to change all
of that. As the trial was in session, a young,
tall black man with the nafro entered the courtroom. He
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brought with him a bag, and strangely, he was wearing
a trench coat. Given the time of year and the
hot weather, it was an odd choice of fashion. As
he sat down, he caught the eye of a bailiff
who remembered seeing him the day before in the courtroom
wearing the same jacket. As a suspicious young character surveyed
the room, the prosecutor was questioning a defense witness in
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the case, another black convict name Rochelle McGee. Moments later,
all hell broke loose. The trench coated man stood up
and yelled out. A witness described what he said.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Hit the floor and looking to the spectator side of
the cardroom, saw a tall, light complexed negro with fushy hair,
punting a handgun at the back of the neck of
Lieutenant Dixon of St. Clentin Correctional Force.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The intruder was Jonathan Jackson, the black panther, colleague of
Angela Davis and the younger brother of George Jackson, one
of the primary Solodad brothers. As everyone hit the floor,
the man that was on trial asked Jonathan if he
brought the tape. Jonathan gave it to him along with
the shotgun, and mcclaan taped the shotgun to Judge Haley's neck,
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placing the barrel right below his chin. He told the
judge if I die, you're dying too. While this was happening,
Jonathan gave handguns to the other black convicts, Rachelle McGee
and William Christmas, both were witnesses in the trial and
friends with the defendant. Jonathan Jackson then pulled out a
shotgun and an M one carbine with a banana clip.
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The three convicts and Jonathan now had complete control of
the courtroom. They had. The judge called the Sheriff's office
and McClain took the phone and made a demand.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
We want the Solodad Brothers free or we'll kill Judge Haley.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The hoodlums next grabbed several hostages, adding to Judge Haley.
They took three white female jurors as well as the prosecutor.
They cautiously began making their way out of the courthouse,
disarming guards along the way. That's when they crossed the
path of a photographer for a local paper.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Well, I was coming in from an assignment, just a
regular normal assignment, and picked up on the police monitor
a call from the civic center that there was an
armed gunman in the corridor. So I rolled to the
Civic Center and went up to the court floor off
the elevator, and I went around a corner and I
encountered a man with two guns and I was then
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part of the action.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But the photographer was not taken hostage. He'd soon learn why.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
They wanted the publicity. They invited me to take pictures,
and I was convinced at that time that this was
similar to a Cuban hijack, that there was a purpose
behind it. And one of the men as they left
in the elevator, after they told me that they didn't
want me as a hostage, did say we want the
Sola Dead brothers freed. By twelve thirty to.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Day, Jonathan Jackson, the three escapees, and their hostages made
their way to a van in the parking lot. The
photographer could see them from his vantage point.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
They all got into the truck after a little bit
of confusion about who was going to drive.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Once they were all in, Judge Haley asked where they
were going. McLean reportedly answered.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
We'd go into the airport and take a plane.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
As Jonathan began to drive, he put his hand outside
the window of the van. In it, he was holding
a revolver. Then suddenly he came to a stop. That's
when a flurry of shots were fired. Jonathan pulled his
hand back in the car and it was bleeding. The
prosecutor looked over to the judge and saw one of
the convicts, Rochelle McGee, with the sod off shotgun beneath
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the judge's chin. A moment later, McGhee pulled the trigger,
blowing off the judge's face. Now in a fight for
his life, the prosecutor wrestled a gun from Jonathan Jackson,
shot him with it, then shot in the area of
two of the convicts a few seconds later the gunflurry ended.
The third convict, William Christmas, was outside on the pavement
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laying lifeless. That's when the photographer arrived at the scene.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
And even then, and as quickly as it was happening,
you could see that the back window was blown out.
There were many bullet holes in the truck visible from
the outside. The doors opened and the hostages bolted out,
and we looked in and we could see the dead
convicts and the dead judge.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
The prosecutor was slumped over in the van. He was
shot in the spine by a bullet from outside, paralyzing
him from the waist down. The shocking event was sensational
even by California standards.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
How did it happen that Superior Court Judge Harold Haley
and three others were killed.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
The youth who brought guns into Judge Haley's courtroom was
Jonathan Jackson, brother of one of the Solidad three. Jonathan
had yelled in the courtroom corridor to free the Solidad
brothers before he made his escape and was killed.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Investigators for the Marine County Sheriff's Department still are not
sure of all the details, but they are piecing together
this story from witness and participants in the shocking crime
that took place here yesterday.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
At this point, as near as we can determine, one
of the witnesses in the van said they heard a
shot immediately the judge's head was blown off. The assistant
district attorney then grappled with the inmates, procured a gun,
and shot three of them. During this sension, there was
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other gun fire going on.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
There are still a great many loose ends and a
great deal of speculation about what happened here. Investigators will
now try to determine if there was a conspiracy of
some kind that involved perhaps more persons than those who
actually participated in the bloody event. Investigators say militant organizations
such as the Black Panther Party will be high on
the list of inquiry.
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So after a courthouse escape attempt and a demand to
set the Soldad Brothers free, four people laid dead, including
Black Panther Jonathan Jackson and Judge Hayley. The investigations started immediately.
They searched a satchel they found in the van. There
were books in it. One was titled The Politics of
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Violence in the Modern World. On the inside cover was
the name Angela Y. Davis. Another book was titled Violence
and Social Change. It too had the name Angelo y
Davis on the inside cover. They swept the contents of
the satchel for prints and found Angela Davis's print on
a book and on two pamphlets. One of the pamphlets
was associated with the M one carbine used by Jonathan
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Jackson in the getaway attempt. An investigator checked Jonathan's wallet
and found a yellow slip of paper on it was
a phone number. They tracked it to a public payphone
near the American Airlines ticket counter at the San Francisco Airport.
They questioned workers there. A Pacific Southwest Airlines ticket agent
said on the day of the shooting, just a few
minutes before two pm, and Angela Davis came running up
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in a panic to the counter and bought a ticket
to Los Angeles. She paid by check. The ticket agent
said Angela had no luggage. They heard from another officer
he claimed he stopped Angela Davis and Jonathan Jackson at
the Mexico border about a week prior to the shootout.
Investigators spoke to a custodian an officer and a shuttle
driver at the San Quentin prison. They placed Angela with
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Jonathan at the prison on August fourth and August fifth,
as he visited his brother, George Jackson. The shootout happened
on August seventh. A bailiff claimed he saw Jonathan in
the courtroom the day before the shooting, wearing the same
trench coat. When Jonathan showed up, he learned that the
trial had cut short that day, so he left. Could
this have been a test run? Investigators dug further and
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found four separate witnesses that placed Angela with Jonathan at
a gas station across the street from the Marine Courthouse
the day before the shootout. They also began tracking down
the guns used in the escape attempt, and that's when
things got even more interesting. One was purchased at a
Western Surplus in Los Angeles by Angela Davis two days
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before the shootout. A pair of employees from a San
Francisco area pawnshop said Angela, accompanied by Jonathan, purchased a
shotgun from their store. The clerks recognized Angela because of
her distinct look, and they even asked her for an autograph.
The shotgun turned out to be the one that blew
off Judge Haley's head. In fact, every one of the
private guns used in the failed escape attempt were purchased
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by Angela Davis. The stunning news began making its way
to the media and out.
Speaker 11 (16:39):
The two of the guns used in the court room
were bought by Angela Davis.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
She was the teacher fired from the University of California
at Los Angeles.
Speaker 13 (16:48):
Angela Davis is now reported to be in Toronto, Canada.
It is not certain why she went there, if indeed
she did, or when, although friends claim it was about
two weeks ago. She has not been charged with anything,
although rumors do persist that conspiracy to commit murder is
being considered. If that is the case, then presumably police
would have to be prepared to prove that she gave
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those guns to a minor with the intent of using
them and the escape attempt.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
A state official spoke to reporters about discovering who bought
the guns. What was she doing with those guns?
Speaker 14 (17:19):
I am the foggiest idea what she was doing with
the guns at that time. Obviously, since that time, the
guns have had rather an interesting way throughout the state
of California, finally winding up in Marine County, and from
our information, the guns that were used in the killing
of the people in Marine County.
Speaker 15 (17:35):
Do you think it's true communist revolutionary style for her,
who have bought these guns in her own name.
Speaker 14 (17:41):
And that'd be difficult, and that'd be difficult to say.
There's nothing to be said that a communist has to
be smart.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Investigators felt they had enough to get an arrest warrant
for the Marxist academic.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
As this was in motion, a funeral service was held
for Judge Haley.
Speaker 16 (18:03):
Judge Haley, for whom mass was set here today, died
in one of the most bizarre escape attempts ever staged.
Foundation but nearly one hundred law enforcement officers joined perhaps
a thousand Marinites at Saint Sylvester Catholic Church for the mass.
The Sheriff's office now believes from witnesses that there were
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shots fired from the escape van before the judge was killed.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
On the other side of town, in Oakland, the Black
Panthers held a funeral for Jonathan Jackson.
Speaker 12 (18:34):
The convicts who died and themselves a hero's funeral and
a god of honor from the Black Panthers.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Astonishingly, thousands of white, black and brown people lying to
the streets holding their fists in the air to salute
the young man responsible for the whole bloody affair practically
pulled from the pages of Herbert Marcuse's repressive tolerance. They
were not only accepting, but celebrating the despicable actions coming
from the radical left, including the killing of an innocent judge.
Speaker 12 (19:02):
As the convicts were being buried, the police were busily
tracing the guns which had been used in the shootout,
and they'd all been registered in the name of Angela Davis.
On the strength of this, a warrant was issued for
her arrest, and her name was put on the FBI
list of the nation's most wanted criminals.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Bettina Apathecker, Angela Davis's childhood friend that helped organize the
nineteen sixty four UC Berkeley student protest, attended the funeral
with her husband. A black militant friend of Angela's walked
up to Bettina and, without looking in her eyes, said
loud enough for Bettina to hear that Angela had been
implicated in the killings and that she'd gone underground. Angela
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Davis was on the run. She thought about leaving the country,
maybe Cuba or Canada, but knew that if she left,
she'd never be able to come back. So Angela made
her way to a friend in Chicago, a guy named
David Poindexter. She hid in his apartment, but point Dexter
got in a fight with the neighbor, and they were
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afraid that the neighbor would wrap them out if the
FBI came knocking, so they fled to Miami. Meanwhile, the
FBI got a tip that Angela was in Chicago. They
went to the Windy City and leaned on Poindexter's ex girlfriend.
They learned that Angela had been in the area, but
fled with Poindexter to his mother's hometown of Florida. The
FBI also got the make of the car they were driving.
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They were closing in on them. After the FBI questioned
Poindexter's mom, Angela knew she had to get out of
Florida as well. While the FBI was hunting for her
in Miami, Angela and her companion took off to the
Big Apple, but it wasn't long before the FBI got
a call. Law enforcement found Angela's vehicle parked at an
NYC Howard Johnson on October thirteenth, nineteen seventy. Agents descended
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on the motel and nabbed Angela as she was en
route to her room.
Speaker 17 (20:56):
Black Revolutionary Angela Davis appeared without her distinct Steve afro
hairdoo as she was arraigned in New York City today
as a fugitive from Justice.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
President Nixon spoke to the Justice Department about the arrest.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I think after the actions of the FBI and apprehending
Angela Davis, a rather remarkable story. Again, in the long
history of remarkable stories of apprehensions by the FBI, is
an indication that once the federal government, through the FBI,
moves into an area, we shall see to it that
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those who engage in such terroristic acts are brought to justice.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Angela's comrade, Bettina Appathecker, immediately flew to NYC to begin
working on a campaign to get her free. Angela was
desperately trying to avoid being extradited to California and why.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
The big question after the arrest was whether Miss Davis
would be extradited from New York to stand trial in California.
An issue of more than academic importance, because under Californian law,
any person aiding and the vetting the commission of a
crime becomes as guilty as those who actually carry it out.
This meant that Miss Davis would face a possible death
penalty if found guilty in California. It was a prospect
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she fought strenuously against in the New York courts, supported
by vociferous crowds of demonstrators on the streets outside. But
all the shouting and marching didn't influence the courts, and
Miss Davis was duly sent back to San Rafael to
stand trial with Russell McGee.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
On arrival in California, Bettina and Angela started brainstorming on
a public campaign to get her free. They first needed
to start raising money for her defense. The Communist Party
was there to answer the call.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
A nationwide free Angela Davis movement was rapidly organized among
America's radicals, with branch committees in fifty cities for the
Moribun Communist Party. The whole affair is a much needed
shot in the arm. Angela Davis has become their first
martyr for years, and the parties now trying to raise
fifty thousand dollars for her defense.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Her team of lawyers and supporters went to work as well.
They began crafting a narrative Angela was being framed.
Speaker 18 (23:11):
The attempts in the press to link her with a
shooting in Maren two months ago is based solely on
police and former allegations and has no basis in fact.
The pillory of Angela Davis comes at a time when she,
with others, was exposing in a mass way the condition
of the prison system.
Speaker 19 (23:30):
The more that I see of the state of California,
the more doubtful I become whether or not there's any fairness.
The more I become impressed by mister McGee's position that
is a conspiracy, a statewide conspiracy, perhaps a nationwide conspiracy
to murder him and miss Davis. I don't know the
names of the conspiratists. I don't know the particular dates
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today met in the green I don't know exactly what
their ultimate purpose is, except that as it affects my client, immediately,
I fear that they're trying to think of life.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It was really a preposterous position. It was utable that
the guns were purchased by Angela Davis, yet her lawyers
and spokesmen continued to argue that she was being framed.
What did they expect law enforcement to do? Disregard the
fact that Angela's guns were used to kill a judge.
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She must have understood the optics of her situation, because
Angela took to the media from behind bars to deal
with the issue of the guns.
Speaker 20 (24:28):
People that very upset when they hear that black people
have weapons, their own weapons. As I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama,
some very very good friends of mine were killed by bombs,
bombs that were planted by races. I remember from the
time I was very small. I remember the sounds of
bombs exploding across the street are house shaking. I remember
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my father having to have guns at is disposed of
at all times because of the fact that at any
moment someone we might expect to be attacked.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But she she wasn't carrying guns for her protection at
all times, because if she was, they would have been
in her possession and not used in the murder of
a judge. Angela appeared to be using a victim argument
as a deflection. Her owning guns wasn't the question. What
was under scrutiny was that her guns were used to
murder a judge, and all in an attempt to free
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a convict that she'd been working to set free. The
connection seemed obvious when preliminary hearings took place in Angela's trial,
she began to do something shocking to most law and
order loving citizens. She embraced Michelle McGee, the convict involved
in the murder of Judge Hayley.
Speaker 15 (25:42):
At least on the surface, the federal courtroom was different.
There were no uniform guards. Rochelle McGee was not chained
to his chair as he is in Marin County, and
he and Angela Davis were allowed to sit next to
each other and even embraced on being brought into the courtroom.
Miss Davis, who was participating in her own defense, thus
far out during the hearing, free Rachel McGhee.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
The move was either sincere or tactical. Either way, By
supporting the black convict involved in murdering a judge, she
showed the radicals on the street in college campuses that
she was one of them. To the very end. Well,
it appeared to be working. Radical academics began speaking out
in her defense.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Well, the way I feel about Andrew right now is
the way I think.
Speaker 11 (26:30):
All black people have felt throughout history.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
When they've seen their sisters and mothers being taken off
and raped.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
What they're doing to her is an exaggerated form of
what happens every day to black people.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
In this country.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, angel Davis, and you hear Michelle McGee, her co
defendant in this case, spoke of them with political business.
Some people represent the struggle physically and others represented vocally.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
Angela Davis as a spokeswoman for the struggle behind everything.
Speaker 20 (26:55):
She's still my sister, and I wanted her to survive.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Angela and Bettina Appatheker also came up with another brilliant plan.
Two days before the murder of Judge Haley, Black Panther
co founder Huey P. Newton was acquitted for murdering a
police officer, a coalition of white and black militants successfully
applied public pressure, leading to the release of the Black Panther.
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Angela wanted to do the same, so her and Bettina
worked on editing a book that could be used as
a political weapon to organize communist support from both in
and outside of America to demand her freedom. They released
the book in nineteen seventy one, and the Marxist left
from all around the world began to demand the release
of the so called political prisoner Angela Davis.
Speaker 12 (27:45):
In America. Supporters of the Blank liberation movements are stepping
up the pressure in the campaign to free Angela Davis,
a Blank philosophy elector and communist who was now facing
a charge of murder in California. The American left is
incensed over the case, but interest in it has not
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been confined to the United States. Overseas, the response to
the Angela Davis case has been almost as strong as
in America. Over two thousand West Germans gathered to demand
freedom for the black militant teacher, and left wing groups
all over Europe have staged similar protests. From Russia, a
group of scientists has written to President Nixon asking him
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to ensure that the case is judged with full impartiality
in humanity. At the center of this storm is a slim,
attractive black girl who, at twenty seven, has already established
an impressive academic record. The philosopher Herbert Marcus called her
his best pupil in thirty years.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
The Free Angela media campaign reached such global proportions that
it attracted the type of people that loved a virtue signal.
Celebrities Jane Vonder, Leonard Bernstein, and Sammy Davis Junior spoke
out in her defense yogo Ono John Lennon released in
Angela Davis tributes, but Rita Franklin even offered to pony
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up bail money. The problem with that was Angela was
facing the death penalty given her record. The judge thought
her possible death sentence meant she was a flight risk,
so he refused bail. But then something remarkable happened.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
Official word came from the Supreme Court Clerk's office at
noon when the actual decision was passed out to reporters.
By a six to one vote, the court ordered life
imprisonment for convicted murderer Robert Anderson and made its ruling
applicable to all persons now sentenced to die.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
The California Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
The court said that capital punishment degrades and dehumanizes all
who participate in its processes, and is unnecessary to any
legitimate goal of the state and incompatible with the dignity
of man and the judicial process.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
The ruling meant that Angela Davis was now eligible for bail,
and in February nineteen seventy two, they found the bail
money from an unexpected source.
Speaker 15 (30:09):
Her attorney, Howard Moore said that the man who put
up one hundred thousand dollars for the surety bond was
Roger McPhee of Fresno County, a cooperative farmer. Angela Davis
and her supporters were, of course ecstatic at her release
from jail.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
After release, Angela went to Betina Apatheker's house to celebrate.
Speaker 21 (30:29):
I feel fine.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I feel better than a.
Speaker 21 (30:32):
Half in sixteen months. The real reason why I feel
better is because now I'm able to give much more
of myself to the struggle to fee all of our
sisters and feathers.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
The trial began a month later in March nineteen seventy.
Herbert Marcusa and Betina Apatheker could be seen attending as
moral and tactical support. One big surprise was that Angela
was added to the defense team as co counsel. This
was a stroke of genius. It allowed her to make
the opening argument without having to be cross examined. In
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her opening statement, she admitted to having purchased all of
the guns, but denied giving them to Jonathan Jackson. She
challenged the prosecution to provide any evidence that proved that
she had any knowledge or intent of the escape. Attempt.
Angela argued that when she heard the police were looking
for her, she didn't run, She just made herself unavailable.
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Angela claimed she feared for her life at the hands
of the cops. She was being targeted for her work
in trying to free the Soledad brothers. It was just
that simple.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
The prosecution made the same arguments that they'd made at
the time of her indictment.
Speaker 12 (31:49):
Angela Davis is accused not of carrying out the crime,
but of supplying guns to those such as Russell Magee,
who allegedly did so. Magee was one of two convicts
appearing in the trial when the kidnapping took place.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
There weren't many surprises during the prosecution's case. They laid
out the circumstantial evidence the guns, that her near constant
companion leading up to the shootout was Jonathan Jackson, the
fact that she fled, the witness testimony to Jonathan and
her being together, and so on. But the prosecution did
include evidence that came in late to the case. You
may recall that the motive for the Marine County Courthouse
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shootout was to free the Soledad brothers, and in particular,
Jonathan Jackson's older brother, George Angela had been working to
free him in the months leading up to the shootout.
From jail, Angela spoke about how she first met him.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
The first time I met him was on the occasion
of one of the court appearances in Leada's California.
Speaker 21 (32:44):
I had not.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Really expected the scene that confronted me when I walked
into that courtroom and sat down and saw coming into
the courtroom three black men who were chained and shot.
I had never seen black men before with chains all
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over their bodies. It was certainly reminiscent of slavery. And
in spite of the fact that they were completely suppressed
in a physical sense, you could see from the attitude
and their demeanor when they entered the courtroom that they
were not for a moment going to resign themselves to
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that situation. That they had a very profound fighting spirit.
Speaker 22 (33:36):
And it was that.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Which really affected me very strongly.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
When Angela became imprisoned as well, she began to write
to George. In one instance, in July nineteen seventy one,
Angela and George were astonishingly allowed to meet in a
holding cell outside of a Marin Civic Center courtroom while
they were both still incarcerated. It was reportedly the first
time they'd spend time together in the same room for
a long stretch of time. They were intimate. Immediately after
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their meeting, Angela began writing George love letters over a
period of a month. The letters were smuggled out of
Angela's detention center and delivered to George Jackson at San Quentin.
He kept them hidden in his cell, but in August
nineteen seventy one, George attempted an escape from prison and
was killed in the process. When his cell was searched,
Angela's letters were found. The prosecution made them the centerpiece
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of Angela's motive.
Speaker 23 (34:35):
Prosecutor Albert Harris wound up his case by trying to
establish miss Davis's love for Solodad brother George Jackson as
the motive for her alleged participation in the escape plot.
Just before he rested, he read to the jury edited
portions of an eighteen page diary or letter written to
Jackson eleven months after the shootout. I am totally intoxicated
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overflowing with you. The letter said that so much love
could exist anyway I never realized. The next day, Harris
said she wrote, I'm crazy with love and desire, and
I guess you're already willing to accept all the consequences.
Miss Davis and her attorneys had fought hard to keep
the diary from being entered as evidence.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
In another letter, she wrote about their first meeting in
May nineteen seventy, saying, quote, as I was pulling myself
together after the court appearance in Selena's, I was struck
by a similar sense of inexorably succumbing to you, just
you being absorbed by that huge, beautiful man with whom
I had instantly and unexpectedly fallen in love. End quote.
In another passage, she wrote, quote love you, love you
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with love, even more unbounded, even more unconquerable, your lifelong wife.
End quote. After nine weeks and over one hundred witnesses,
the prosecution rested its case. Now it was the defense's turn.
Speaker 23 (35:55):
The defense will attack that series of events as coincidental
and not proving anything other than Miss Davis's concern for
her own safety and her involvement in militant leftist political causes.
They scoff at the allegations of love for Jackson being
a motive and a.
Speaker 16 (36:10):
Conspiracy to free him.
Speaker 23 (36:12):
Her attorney, Howard Moore, admits she bought the gun and
that young Jonathan Jackson had access to them. Both Moore
and miss Davis deny she planned with Jackson for the escape.
They say she left the state because she knew she
was to be persecuted for her political activism and her
closeness to the Jackson.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Angela Davis never testified. Her team largely took a standard
approach to their defense. They focused on the circumstantial nature
of the prosecution's case, trying at every turn to poke
holes to prove a reasonable doubt. Her defense attorney challenged
the witness's testimony placing Angela with Jonathan Jackson on the
days leading up to the shootout. It simply wasn't his client.
Speaker 17 (36:52):
Defense attorney Leo Bratton said he did not know who
the person was that the prosecution witnesses had identified as
Angela Davis, but he said it wasn't his job to
find out. Angela Davis is no fool, He continued, why
would she buy a gun to blow it judge's head
off and buy it in her own name? The prosecution's
theory is absurd. The jury will begin deliberating her guilt
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or innocence tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
After a thirteen week trial, both sides rested. The jury
went into deliberation, But just when people thought the case
couldn't become more sensationalized, shocking news hit the airwaves. Do
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Speaker 1 (37:45):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So, after thirteen weeks,
both sides in the Angela Davis trial rested. The jury
went into deliberation, But just when people thought the case
couldn't become more sensationalized, shocking news hit the airwaves.
Speaker 24 (38:01):
I heard one of the stories, is IM running us
to the other stewardess and she said, mister said, it's
happening to us, And I asked her what was happening
to us? And then I saw a man in an
army uniform come up the aisle and going to the cockpit,
and I knew her were being hijacked. I started crying.
I told my husband.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
A militant faction of the students for a Democratic Society
or SDS, hijacked a plane and demanded both money and
the Angela Davis be let free.
Speaker 15 (38:26):
The hijacker had announced over the intercom earlier SDS men,
relax our demands are being met, and another message had
included the word weather Men, which is a radical offshoot
of Students for a Democratic Society. After a refueling stop
in New York where the passengers were let off, the
Western seven twenty h took off again for Algeria with
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a half a million dollars. During yesterday's hijacking, in which
it was thought miss Davis had been demanded by the hijacker,
the defendant was brought to the courtroom.
Speaker 9 (38:58):
She looked distraught and tired.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Angela's defense team claimed no knowledge of the hijacking. They
wanted their fate to be handed by the jury and
that was, no doubt a calculated decision. You see, Angela's
lawyers applied a novel approach to jury selection. At the
time in nineteen seventy two, jury selection took a very
unsophisticated approach, but for Angelus case, five black psychologists volunteered
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to help with the process to develop personality profiles for
each prospective juror. They carefully watched them, whether they interacted
with others, how they acted at lunch period, whether they
were talkative. They slipped questions to Angela's lawyers to acquire
the necessary data. Ultimately, they helped Angela's team select a
group of jurors that would give her the best chance
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for an acquittal. It's been an approach to jury selection
ever since because it worked. After just thirteen hours of deliberation,
an all white jury found Angela Davis innocent on all counts.
On exiting the courtroom, one jurist looked at Angela's cheering
supporters and raised the black power fist to the crowd.
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In fact, the jury held Angela in such high regard
that a majority of them joined in the celebration parties
of her acquittal. At one of the gatherings, Angela rejoiced
in the decision.
Speaker 22 (40:17):
Really a wonderful feeling to be back among the people,
to be back among all of you who fought so
long and so hard, among all of you who actually
achieved my freedom. And I really wish you could have.
Speaker 20 (40:33):
Been there in the courtroom.
Speaker 22 (40:35):
At the moment when those three not guilty verdicts were
pronounced the cow because that they threw was just as
much sure as there was mine.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
By the end of the trial, America had changed. The
public had not only grown tired of the violence, it
welcomed government action to decisively end it. Through a series
of raids and prosecutions. The Black Panthers had been successfully disintegrated.
The Black Power Ring leader Stokely Carmichael not only left
the organization, he left the country. The Students for a
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Democratic Society or SDS, had also been fractured. When the
organization effectively dissolved by the early nineteen seventies, a militant
faction of SDS, known as the Weathermen went underground. In
addition to hijacking a plane to try and free Angela Davis,
the Weather Underground, as it came to be known, bomb
the Pentagon, US Capital, a New York police station, and
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other locations. If there were any flames left to use
violence for social change. The Weather Underground effectively smothered the embers.
The group turned public opinion against the militant efforts. But
what effectively ended this Marxist revolution was that the US
government got smart. It removed the fuel that was inciting
moderates to work with the radicals. You may remember that
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after the violence and destruction caused by the NAXT nineteen
seventy National student Strike, President Nixon organized a commission to
study the cause of campus unrest. By the summer of
nineteen seventy, hints on the conclusion of that work began
to make its way out to the public, and in
August nineteen seventy interview, while Angela Davis was still on
the run, Vice President Spiro Agnew spoke about a primary
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instigator of the campus unrest.
Speaker 16 (42:24):
You have a very extreme professor such.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
As Marcuse poisoning literally poisoning a lot of young.
Speaker 16 (42:34):
Minds with what I would consider it to be some
of the.
Speaker 17 (42:37):
Most irresponsible drivel that I've ever read or heard.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
The Campus Unrest Commission issued its findings in September nineteen seventy,
and in it they cited the radical professor Herbert Marcusa
as a key figure in providing the intellectual rationale for
the Marxist insurrection. They concluded that students were being drawn
to these radical figures because of the Vietnam War. The
head of the commission, William Scranton, highlighted this point in
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September nineteen seventy.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
It is true that the amount of campus disruption and
violence certainly was much less in the period when the
war seemed to be going in the direction of terminating,
and people were beginning to come back to the United
States Visa for example, late last fall and this last
winter and early spring. And certainly it got much stronger
(43:26):
after the Cambodian We all know that after the Cambodian invasion.
So the less accentuation there is of American participation and
the more return of men, the more helpful it is.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Of course, the American government now understood that if they
removed the incentive from moderates to march with the militant Marxists,
the unrest would subside. By nineteen seventy five, the Vietnam
War was over. The Marxists no longer had the flashpoint
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to give their small minority outsized power on the streets
and college campuses of America. People were tired of the violence,
campus unrest, burning down of buildings, killings, and bombings. These
Marxist revolutionaries had hit a roadblock with their radical activism,
their tried and true strategy of violence and inciting moderates
on college campuses was not only no longer working, it
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wasn't going to work. So what these radicals and militants
did was they went back to college reflecting on the era.
When Herbert Marcusa reed HABOC at UC San Diego, the
former chancellor of the school, inadvertently touched on the radical
student's eventual playbook.
Speaker 25 (44:42):
I wouldn't let the governor of California intrude on our
independence and freedom of a faculty to operate this school
as we saw fit. And I'll be damned if I'm
going to let a group of students do it either.
That is, we govern the University of California, we faculty,
and if the students wished to join us, let them
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become faculty.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
And that's exactly what the socialist revolutionaries did. Herbert Marcusa
died in nineteen seventy nine, but his teachings would immediately
take hold in one particular American institution. The Marxist radicals,
educated by the ideas of the Frankfort School, put all
of their chips on academia. The universities had already warmed
up to the ideas of the Frankfort School. Places like UCSD,
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U C Berkeley, UCLA, Brandeis College, and Columbia. They were
already infected with Marxist radicals, so after the tumultuous nineteen sixties,
Marxism flourished at these universities in departments like the humanities
and theoretical based studies. Philosophy was infected. English departments were
plagued as well. Women's studies would eventually become gender studies,
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and they touted the woke doctrine. African American studies and
Chicano studies adopted wokeness as well. Critical legal studies built
on the Frankfort School's critical theory and would eventually develop
critical race theory. The university began to openly as accept
the radical and militant Marxists into their teaching staffs, a
place where they can turn students into a woke army.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
After Angela Davis was fired from her UCLA job, Ronald
Reagan said she'd never work in the UC system again.
That prediction didn't age well. In nineteen ninety one, UC
Santa Cruz appointed her professor in the History of Consciousness.
She literally became a woke professor. Three years later, she
was appointed to the UC Presidential chair in African American
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and feminist studies. She'd go on to lecture at colleges
all over the world, and the universities opened their doors
to other militants. Many of the SDS revolutionaries, even ones
that planted bombs and were responsible for the deaths of Americans,
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were eventually accepted into professor positions. The co founder of
the Black Panthers, Bobby Seal, who'd been accused of murder,
would go on to teach Afro American staff at Temple University.
Through academia, they'd eventually take over the media, pumping out
students from journalism school infected with the woke ideology. They'd
link with Marxist radicals in Hollywood that had survived the
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communist purge of the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties and
had quietly retaken Tinseltown in the nineteen seventies. What the
Frankfurt School identified as the mass cultural industries of Hollywood,
music and art would eventually fully adopt the woke ideology
of the Marxist intellectuals. They'd be comrades with academia. Through storytelling,
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they would help shift pop culture towards wokeness and reinforce
the wins of the Marxists in every cultural institution. When
Big Tech arose, it became populated by college graduates who
had all been filtered through woke universities. Big tech was
bound to accept cancel culture, an ideology invented by Herbert
Marcusa himself. The Marxists had effectively taken over every institution
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that defines what it means to be American, and they
did it methodically over.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Decades, which leads us back to the question where did
wokeness come from. It came from Marxism. Wokeness is Marxism repackaged.
Wokeness was developed by a small group of German intellectuals
to spark a socialist revolution in the Western world. All
of the insanity you've been experiencing in society, the cancel culture,
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social justice warriors, critical race theory, all of the new
pronouns political correctness, the purging on social media, the diversity,
equity and inclusion departments, biological men competing in women's sports,
affirmative action, the constant claims of institutional racism, the grooming
of kids. All of this wokeness that you are experiencing
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is nothing less than a Marxist revolution. When we opened
this series, we heard how surprised Greg Guttfeld was on
the spread of wokeness. It is everywhere you look.
Speaker 23 (48:58):
I don't think I've seen anything spread so fast in
my life.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
But we know that wokeness did not spread quickly. It's
been nearly a century in the making. You have to
almost admire their level of dedication. Like grains of salt
slowly being added to a cup of water, you don't
see the salt until the water is completely saturated. Then
once that last grain is added, you suddenly see salt
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everywhere in the glass. The Frankfurt School launched in nineteen
twenty three. It would eventually repackage Marxism and identify the
institutions that define the culture of Western civilization, those being
academia and what they called the mass culture industries of film, radio, music, magazines,
and books. They then made the long march through the institutions,
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slowly adding converts to their cause. When violence on the
streets and campuses no longer worked blocking them from saturating
our culture with Marxism, the disciples of the Frankfurt School
took a different route. The ideology flourished in academia and
in Hollywood and in the media, slowly adding converts until
that last grain of salt was added in twenty twenty,
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when again a Marxist insurrection exploded in America, disguised as
Black Lives Matter protests. But it's no secret now America
is experiencing a socialist revolution, and the only way to
stop it is to take a queue from the Marxists themselves.
We need to make the long march through the institutions
and purge wokeness with the truth. We have no other choice.
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We need to create our own cultural institutions, our own Hollywood,
our own publishing industry, our own media, our own storytelling industry,
and perhaps most importantly, we need to retake our schools.
That is an institution that we cannot create on our own,
and it has become a factory for creating radicals. It
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won't be easy because wokeness is so deeply embedded in academia,
but we need to retake the schools and use every
legal tool available to purge wokeness from the system. We
must make the risk of promoting wokeness so enormous that
the worst offenders recede to the fringes where they belong
to eliminate this repackage Marxism known as wokeness. We must
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take the long march through the institutions.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
The good news is that we know what we have
to do. We just need to do the work. Take
an action to help build our own institutions, to retake
our schools. Take an action to help us build a
red pilled America. Because if we don't, and if this
series doesn't propel you to act, then we deserve to
live in the world that the Marxists have built.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
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flash kids.
Speaker 4 (51:51):
Not all boys have a penis and not all girls
have a vagina.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
California Reparations task Force is making history with a major
decision on who will receive compensation.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
And even this idea that like it's, oh, it's we
can't talk about sex with kids, It's like, first of all,
we probably can.
Speaker 13 (52:08):
My dad says, you can't just say that your baby
is gay before.
Speaker 5 (52:11):
He gets a chance to tell us he's gay.
Speaker 18 (52:14):
Destroying property which can be replaced is not violent.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
As a three parent family like LGBTQ people.
Speaker 24 (52:22):
Can you provide a definition for the word woman?
Speaker 2 (52:25):
I can't you can't.
Speaker 10 (52:27):
Not okay this context.
Speaker 22 (52:29):
I'm not a biology.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
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Speaker 1 (00:42):
Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
The sole reason they give for their intention to fire
me is my membership in the Communist Party.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
That this entire incident, starting with the hiring of Miss Davis,
was a deliberate provocation.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Political opinions should be brought into the classroom. They belong
in the classroom.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
A court decision last week declared the regent's action unconstitutional.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
Own Mini Miles the university as your base.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
We have to talk about a complete and total change
in the structures of this society.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Four students lay dead on the campus grounds where they.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
Are shows that they want to find out.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I suppose I just lost that job at UCLA.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Where did Wokeness come from?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm Patrick Currelci and I'm Adriana Cortez.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We are all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
The media marks stories about everyday Americans of the globalist ignore.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries,
and we promise only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at the final part of our
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series of episodes entitled Woke Army. You've probably heard the
first four, but if you haven't, stop and go back
and listen from the beginning. We're looking for the answer
to the question where did Wokeness come from? By telling
the story of how an obscure group of German refugees
started all of this woke madness and what we need
to do to stop it.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So in our last episode, we told the story of
how Angela Davis and other revolutionaries escalated their Marxist struggle
on the streets and college campuses of America. California Governor
Ronald Reagan was working to help keep radicals and militants
out of the state's college campuses. He forced Herbert Marcusin
to retirement at UCSD and block the Black Panthers from
officially speaking on college campuses. In defiance, UCILE hired the
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one person that represented both black militants and radical academics,
Angela Davis. The UC region who governed the University of California,
voted to fire her, citing its longtime policy of not
hiring communist. Angela's childhood friend, Bettina Appathecker, helped the radical
professor rally the troops at UCLA, and Angela joined a
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faculty group in a lawsuit against the uc regents. Ultimately,
a superior court judge ruled that the firing was unconstitutional
and Angela was reinstated. She boldly announced that she'd be
bringing her brand of Marxist politics into the classroom. Then
she joined her teacher, Marcusa in a victory lap at
the birthplace of student insurrection, UC Berkeley. The two laid
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out a long term plan to ignite a socialist revolution.
The new oppressed groups identified by Marcusa had to bring
the fight to the streets and more importantly, to the campuses.
They saw the university as the base of their socialist
revolution because it taught the next generation of leaders.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
A few weeks later, the Black Panthers Los Angeles headquarters
was raided by the LAPD and after a five hour
gun battle, the Panthers threw up the white flag. Angela
felt that their socialist revolution was right around the corner,
and she called on revolutionaries to take up arms to
help usher it in. The energy was building. The radicals
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just needed a new trigger to enlist the moderate left
to their cause. That would come in late April nineteen seventy,
when Nixon expanded the Vietnam War into Cambodia. Almost on
q radicals organized a national student strike. Over one million
students protested on nearly nine hundred college campuses. When the
dust settled, students lay dead at Kent State and Jackson
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State Universities, and thirty rotc buildings were burned to the ground.
Moderate anti war students didn't realize it, but they just
participated in a socialist insurrection. The country had had enough.
A counter protest took to the streets opposing the student violence.
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The FBI was in the midst of an effort to
break up organizations like the Black Panthers and Students for
a Democratic Society or SDS. Nixon began an investigation into
the source of the campus unrest, and the UC regents
made moves to terminate Angela Davis once and for all
from her UCLA teaching post. But Angela wanted to keep
up the heat. She began championing a new cause, the
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freedom of the Solodad Brothers, three convicts charged with murdering
a prison guard. She had taken a liking to one,
in particular, George Jackson, one of the Soldad brothers, in
prison nine years earlier for armed robbery. George Jackson captured
Angela Davis's heart, and the Frankfurt school disciple began working
with the convict's young Black Panther brother, Jonathan Jackson, to
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rally the country around his release. But then in the
summer of nineteen seventy, the effort to free George Jackson
took a dark turn.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
On a hot summer day in August nineteen seventy, a
trial was in session in a Marine County courthouse in
northern California. A black convict named James mc lane was
being tried for the stabbing of a prison guard. The
trial was presided over by Superior Court Judge Harold Hayley,
a sixty five year old, thin haired white man with
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dark rimmed glasses. Judge Haley was a pillar of the community.
He'd married his high school sweetheart. They had three daughters together.
Life was good, but something was about to change all
of that. As the trial was in session, a young,
tall black man with the nafro entered the courtroom. He
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brought with him a bag, and strangely, he was wearing
a trench coat. Given the time of year and the
hot weather, it was an odd choice of fashion. As
he sat down, he caught the eye of a bailiff
who remembered seeing him the day before in the courtroom
wearing the same jacket. As a suspicious young character surveyed
the room, the prosecutor was questioning a defense witness in
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the case, another black convict name Rochelle McGee. Moments later,
all hell broke loose. The trench coated man stood up
and yelled out. A witness described what he said.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Hit the floor and looking to the spectator side of
the cardroom, saw a tall, light complexed negro with fushy hair,
punting a handgun at the back of the neck of
Lieutenant Dixon of St. Clentin Correctional Force.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
The intruder was Jonathan Jackson, the black panther, colleague of
Angela Davis and the younger brother of George Jackson, one
of the primary Solodad brothers. As everyone hit the floor,
the man that was on trial asked Jonathan if he
brought the tape. Jonathan gave it to him along with
the shotgun, and mcclaan taped the shotgun to Judge Haley's neck,
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placing the barrel right below his chin. He told the
judge if I die, you're dying too. While this was happening,
Jonathan gave handguns to the other black convicts, Rachelle McGee
and William Christmas, both were witnesses in the trial and
friends with the defendant. Jonathan Jackson then pulled out a
shotgun and an M one carbine with a banana clip.
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The three convicts and Jonathan now had complete control of
the courtroom. They had. The judge called the Sheriff's office
and McClain took the phone and made a demand.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
We want the Solodad Brothers free or we'll kill Judge Haley.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The hoodlums next grabbed several hostages, adding to Judge Haley.
They took three white female jurors as well as the prosecutor.
They cautiously began making their way out of the courthouse,
disarming guards along the way. That's when they crossed the
path of a photographer for a local paper.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
Well, I was coming in from an assignment, just a
regular normal assignment, and picked up on the police monitor
a call from the civic center that there was an
armed gunman in the corridor. So I rolled to the
Civic Center and went up to the court floor off
the elevator, and I went around a corner and I
encountered a man with two guns and I was then
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part of the action.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But the photographer was not taken hostage. He'd soon learn why.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
They wanted the publicity. They invited me to take pictures,
and I was convinced at that time that this was
similar to a Cuban hijack, that there was a purpose
behind it. And one of the men as they left
in the elevator, after they told me that they didn't
want me as a hostage, did say we want the
Sola Dead brothers freed. By twelve thirty to.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Day, Jonathan Jackson, the three escapees, and their hostages made
their way to a van in the parking lot. The
photographer could see them from his vantage point.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
They all got into the truck after a little bit
of confusion about who was going to drive.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Once they were all in, Judge Haley asked where they
were going. McLean reportedly answered.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
We'd go into the airport and take a plane.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
As Jonathan began to drive, he put his hand outside
the window of the van. In it, he was holding
a revolver. Then suddenly he came to a stop. That's
when a flurry of shots were fired. Jonathan pulled his
hand back in the car and it was bleeding. The
prosecutor looked over to the judge and saw one of
the convicts, Rochelle McGee, with the sod off shotgun beneath
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the judge's chin. A moment later, McGhee pulled the trigger,
blowing off the judge's face. Now in a fight for
his life, the prosecutor wrestled a gun from Jonathan Jackson,
shot him with it, then shot in the area of
two of the convicts a few seconds later the gunflurry ended.
The third convict, William Christmas, was outside on the pavement
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laying lifeless. That's when the photographer arrived at the scene.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
And even then, and as quickly as it was happening,
you could see that the back window was blown out.
There were many bullet holes in the truck visible from
the outside. The doors opened and the hostages bolted out,
and we looked in and we could see the dead
convicts and the dead judge.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
The prosecutor was slumped over in the van. He was
shot in the spine by a bullet from outside, paralyzing
him from the waist down. The shocking event was sensational
even by California standards.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
How did it happen that Superior Court Judge Harold Haley
and three others were killed.
Speaker 9 (11:40):
The youth who brought guns into Judge Haley's courtroom was
Jonathan Jackson, brother of one of the Solidad three. Jonathan
had yelled in the courtroom corridor to free the Solidad
brothers before he made his escape and was killed.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Investigators for the Marine County Sheriff's Department still are not
sure of all the details, but they are piecing together
this story from witness and participants in the shocking crime
that took place here yesterday.
Speaker 10 (12:07):
At this point, as near as we can determine, one
of the witnesses in the van said they heard a
shot immediately the judge's head was blown off. The assistant
district attorney then grappled with the inmates, procured a gun,
and shot three of them. During this sension, there was
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other gun fire going on.
Speaker 11 (12:29):
There are still a great many loose ends and a
great deal of speculation about what happened here. Investigators will
now try to determine if there was a conspiracy of
some kind that involved perhaps more persons than those who
actually participated in the bloody event. Investigators say militant organizations
such as the Black Panther Party will be high on
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So after a courthouse escape attempt and a demand to
set the Soldad Brothers free, four people laid dead, including
Black Panther Jonathan Jackson and Judge Hayley. The investigations started immediately.
They searched a satchel they found in the van. There
were books in it. One was titled The Politics of
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Violence in the Modern World. On the inside cover was
the name Angela Y. Davis. Another book was titled Violence
and Social Change. It too had the name Angelo y
Davis on the inside cover. They swept the contents of
the satchel for prints and found Angela Davis's print on
a book and on two pamphlets. One of the pamphlets
was associated with the M one carbine used by Jonathan
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Jackson in the getaway attempt. An investigator checked Jonathan's wallet
and found a yellow slip of paper on it was
a phone number. They tracked it to a public payphone
near the American Airlines ticket counter at the San Francisco Airport.
They questioned workers there. A Pacific Southwest Airlines ticket agent
said on the day of the shooting, just a few
minutes before two pm, and Angela Davis came running up
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in a panic to the counter and bought a ticket
to Los Angeles. She paid by check. The ticket agent
said Angela had no luggage. They heard from another officer
he claimed he stopped Angela Davis and Jonathan Jackson at
the Mexico border about a week prior to the shootout.
Investigators spoke to a custodian an officer and a shuttle
driver at the San Quentin prison. They placed Angela with
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Jonathan at the prison on August fourth and August fifth,
as he visited his brother, George Jackson. The shootout happened
on August seventh. A bailiff claimed he saw Jonathan in
the courtroom the day before the shooting, wearing the same
trench coat. When Jonathan showed up, he learned that the
trial had cut short that day, so he left. Could
this have been a test run? Investigators dug further and
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found four separate witnesses that placed Angela with Jonathan at
a gas station across the street from the Marine Courthouse
the day before the shootout. They also began tracking down
the guns used in the escape attempt, and that's when
things got even more interesting. One was purchased at a
Western Surplus in Los Angeles by Angela Davis two days
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before the shootout. A pair of employees from a San
Francisco area pawnshop said Angela, accompanied by Jonathan, purchased a
shotgun from their store. The clerks recognized Angela because of
her distinct look, and they even asked her for an autograph.
The shotgun turned out to be the one that blew
off Judge Haley's head. In fact, every one of the
private guns used in the failed escape attempt were purchased
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by Angela Davis. The stunning news began making its way
to the media and out.
Speaker 11 (16:39):
The two of the guns used in the court room
were bought by Angela Davis.
Speaker 12 (16:43):
She was the teacher fired from the University of California
at Los Angeles.
Speaker 13 (16:48):
Angela Davis is now reported to be in Toronto, Canada.
It is not certain why she went there, if indeed
she did, or when, although friends claim it was about
two weeks ago. She has not been charged with anything,
although rumors do persist that conspiracy to commit murder is
being considered. If that is the case, then presumably police
would have to be prepared to prove that she gave
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those guns to a minor with the intent of using
them and the escape attempt.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
A state official spoke to reporters about discovering who bought
the guns. What was she doing with those guns?
Speaker 14 (17:19):
I am the foggiest idea what she was doing with
the guns at that time. Obviously, since that time, the
guns have had rather an interesting way throughout the state
of California, finally winding up in Marine County, and from
our information, the guns that were used in the killing
of the people in Marine County.
Speaker 15 (17:35):
Do you think it's true communist revolutionary style for her,
who have bought these guns in her own name.
Speaker 14 (17:41):
And that'd be difficult, and that'd be difficult to say.
There's nothing to be said that a communist has to
be smart.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Investigators felt they had enough to get an arrest warrant
for the Marxist academic.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
As this was in motion, a funeral service was held
for Judge Haley.
Speaker 16 (18:03):
Judge Haley, for whom mass was set here today, died
in one of the most bizarre escape attempts ever staged.
Foundation but nearly one hundred law enforcement officers joined perhaps
a thousand Marinites at Saint Sylvester Catholic Church for the mass.
The Sheriff's office now believes from witnesses that there were
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shots fired from the escape van before the judge was killed.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
On the other side of town, in Oakland, the Black
Panthers held a funeral for Jonathan Jackson.
Speaker 12 (18:34):
The convicts who died and themselves a hero's funeral and
a god of honor from the Black Panthers.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Astonishingly, thousands of white, black and brown people lying to
the streets holding their fists in the air to salute
the young man responsible for the whole bloody affair practically
pulled from the pages of Herbert Marcuse's repressive tolerance. They
were not only accepting, but celebrating the despicable actions coming
from the radical left, including the killing of an innocent judge.
Speaker 12 (19:02):
As the convicts were being buried, the police were busily
tracing the guns which had been used in the shootout,
and they'd all been registered in the name of Angela Davis.
On the strength of this, a warrant was issued for
her arrest, and her name was put on the FBI
list of the nation's most wanted criminals.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Bettina Apathecker, Angela Davis's childhood friend that helped organize the
nineteen sixty four UC Berkeley student protest, attended the funeral
with her husband. A black militant friend of Angela's walked
up to Bettina and, without looking in her eyes, said
loud enough for Bettina to hear that Angela had been
implicated in the killings and that she'd gone underground. Angela
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Davis was on the run. She thought about leaving the country,
maybe Cuba or Canada, but knew that if she left,
she'd never be able to come back. So Angela made
her way to a friend in Chicago, a guy named
David Poindexter. She hid in his apartment, but point Dexter
got in a fight with the neighbor, and they were
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afraid that the neighbor would wrap them out if the
FBI came knocking, so they fled to Miami. Meanwhile, the
FBI got a tip that Angela was in Chicago. They
went to the Windy City and leaned on Poindexter's ex girlfriend.
They learned that Angela had been in the area, but
fled with Poindexter to his mother's hometown of Florida. The
FBI also got the make of the car they were driving.
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They were closing in on them. After the FBI questioned
Poindexter's mom, Angela knew she had to get out of
Florida as well. While the FBI was hunting for her
in Miami, Angela and her companion took off to the
Big Apple, but it wasn't long before the FBI got
a call. Law enforcement found Angela's vehicle parked at an
NYC Howard Johnson on October thirteenth, nineteen seventy. Agents descended
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on the motel and nabbed Angela as she was en
route to her room.
Speaker 17 (20:56):
Black Revolutionary Angela Davis appeared without her distinct Steve afro
hairdoo as she was arraigned in New York City today
as a fugitive from Justice.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
President Nixon spoke to the Justice Department about the arrest.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
I think after the actions of the FBI and apprehending
Angela Davis, a rather remarkable story. Again, in the long
history of remarkable stories of apprehensions by the FBI, is
an indication that once the federal government, through the FBI,
moves into an area, we shall see to it that
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those who engage in such terroristic acts are brought to justice.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Angela's comrade, Bettina Appathecker, immediately flew to NYC to begin
working on a campaign to get her free. Angela was
desperately trying to avoid being extradited to California and why.
Speaker 12 (21:45):
The big question after the arrest was whether Miss Davis
would be extradited from New York to stand trial in California.
An issue of more than academic importance, because under Californian law,
any person aiding and the vetting the commission of a
crime becomes as guilty as those who actually carry it out.
This meant that Miss Davis would face a possible death
penalty if found guilty in California. It was a prospect
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she fought strenuously against in the New York courts, supported
by vociferous crowds of demonstrators on the streets outside. But
all the shouting and marching didn't influence the courts, and
Miss Davis was duly sent back to San Rafael to
stand trial with Russell McGee.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
On arrival in California, Bettina and Angela started brainstorming on
a public campaign to get her free. They first needed
to start raising money for her defense. The Communist Party
was there to answer the call.
Speaker 12 (22:38):
A nationwide free Angela Davis movement was rapidly organized among
America's radicals, with branch committees in fifty cities for the
Moribun Communist Party. The whole affair is a much needed
shot in the arm. Angela Davis has become their first
martyr for years, and the parties now trying to raise
fifty thousand dollars for her defense.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Her team of lawyers and supporters went to work as well.
They began crafting a narrative Angela was being framed.
Speaker 18 (23:11):
The attempts in the press to link her with a
shooting in Maren two months ago is based solely on
police and former allegations and has no basis in fact.
The pillory of Angela Davis comes at a time when she,
with others, was exposing in a mass way the condition
of the prison system.
Speaker 19 (23:30):
The more that I see of the state of California,
the more doubtful I become whether or not there's any fairness.
The more I become impressed by mister McGee's position that
is a conspiracy, a statewide conspiracy, perhaps a nationwide conspiracy
to murder him and miss Davis. I don't know the
names of the conspiratists. I don't know the particular dates
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today met in the green I don't know exactly what
their ultimate purpose is, except that as it affects my client, immediately,
I fear that they're trying to think of life.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
It was really a preposterous position. It was utable that
the guns were purchased by Angela Davis, yet her lawyers
and spokesmen continued to argue that she was being framed.
What did they expect law enforcement to do? Disregard the
fact that Angela's guns were used to kill a judge.
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She must have understood the optics of her situation, because
Angela took to the media from behind bars to deal
with the issue of the guns.
Speaker 20 (24:28):
People that very upset when they hear that black people
have weapons, their own weapons. As I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama,
some very very good friends of mine were killed by bombs,
bombs that were planted by races. I remember from the
time I was very small. I remember the sounds of
bombs exploding across the street are house shaking. I remember
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my father having to have guns at is disposed of
at all times because of the fact that at any
moment someone we might expect to be attacked.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
But she she wasn't carrying guns for her protection at
all times, because if she was, they would have been
in her possession and not used in the murder of
a judge. Angela appeared to be using a victim argument
as a deflection. Her owning guns wasn't the question. What
was under scrutiny was that her guns were used to
murder a judge, and all in an attempt to free
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a convict that she'd been working to set free. The
connection seemed obvious when preliminary hearings took place in Angela's trial,
she began to do something shocking to most law and
order loving citizens. She embraced Michelle McGee, the convict involved
in the murder of Judge Hayley.
Speaker 15 (25:42):
At least on the surface, the federal courtroom was different.
There were no uniform guards. Rochelle McGee was not chained
to his chair as he is in Marin County, and
he and Angela Davis were allowed to sit next to
each other and even embraced on being brought into the courtroom.
Miss Davis, who was participating in her own defense, thus
far out during the hearing, free Rachel McGhee.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
The move was either sincere or tactical. Either way, By
supporting the black convict involved in murdering a judge, she
showed the radicals on the street in college campuses that
she was one of them. To the very end. Well,
it appeared to be working. Radical academics began speaking out
in her defense.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Well, the way I feel about Andrew right now is
the way I think.
Speaker 11 (26:30):
All black people have felt throughout history.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
When they've seen their sisters and mothers being taken off
and raped.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
What they're doing to her is an exaggerated form of
what happens every day to black people.
Speaker 13 (26:40):
In this country.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, angel Davis, and you hear Michelle McGee, her co
defendant in this case, spoke of them with political business.
Some people represent the struggle physically and others represented vocally.
Speaker 11 (26:52):
Angela Davis as a spokeswoman for the struggle behind everything.
Speaker 20 (26:55):
She's still my sister, and I wanted her to survive.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Angela and Bettina Appatheker also came up with another brilliant plan.
Two days before the murder of Judge Haley, Black Panther
co founder Huey P. Newton was acquitted for murdering a
police officer, a coalition of white and black militants successfully
applied public pressure, leading to the release of the Black Panther.
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Angela wanted to do the same, so her and Bettina
worked on editing a book that could be used as
a political weapon to organize communist support from both in
and outside of America to demand her freedom. They released
the book in nineteen seventy one, and the Marxist left
from all around the world began to demand the release
of the so called political prisoner Angela Davis.
Speaker 12 (27:45):
In America. Supporters of the Blank liberation movements are stepping
up the pressure in the campaign to free Angela Davis,
a Blank philosophy elector and communist who was now facing
a charge of murder in California. The American left is
incensed over the case, but interest in it has not
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been confined to the United States. Overseas, the response to
the Angela Davis case has been almost as strong as
in America. Over two thousand West Germans gathered to demand
freedom for the black militant teacher, and left wing groups
all over Europe have staged similar protests. From Russia, a
group of scientists has written to President Nixon asking him
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to ensure that the case is judged with full impartiality
in humanity. At the center of this storm is a slim,
attractive black girl who, at twenty seven, has already established
an impressive academic record. The philosopher Herbert Marcus called her
his best pupil in thirty years.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
The Free Angela media campaign reached such global proportions that
it attracted the type of people that loved a virtue signal.
Celebrities Jane Vonder, Leonard Bernstein, and Sammy Davis Junior spoke
out in her defense yogo Ono John Lennon released in
Angela Davis tributes, but Rita Franklin even offered to pony
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up bail money. The problem with that was Angela was
facing the death penalty given her record. The judge thought
her possible death sentence meant she was a flight risk,
so he refused bail. But then something remarkable happened.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
Official word came from the Supreme Court Clerk's office at
noon when the actual decision was passed out to reporters.
By a six to one vote, the court ordered life
imprisonment for convicted murderer Robert Anderson and made its ruling
applicable to all persons now sentenced to die.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
The California Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
The court said that capital punishment degrades and dehumanizes all
who participate in its processes, and is unnecessary to any
legitimate goal of the state and incompatible with the dignity
of man and the judicial process.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
The ruling meant that Angela Davis was now eligible for bail,
and in February nineteen seventy two, they found the bail
money from an unexpected source.
Speaker 15 (30:09):
Her attorney, Howard Moore said that the man who put
up one hundred thousand dollars for the surety bond was
Roger McPhee of Fresno County, a cooperative farmer. Angela Davis
and her supporters were, of course ecstatic at her release
from jail.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
After release, Angela went to Betina Apatheker's house to celebrate.
Speaker 21 (30:29):
I feel fine.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I feel better than a.
Speaker 21 (30:32):
Half in sixteen months. The real reason why I feel
better is because now I'm able to give much more
of myself to the struggle to fee all of our
sisters and feathers.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
The trial began a month later in March nineteen seventy.
Herbert Marcusa and Betina Apatheker could be seen attending as
moral and tactical support. One big surprise was that Angela
was added to the defense team as co counsel. This
was a stroke of genius. It allowed her to make
the opening argument without having to be cross examined. In
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her opening statement, she admitted to having purchased all of
the guns, but denied giving them to Jonathan Jackson. She
challenged the prosecution to provide any evidence that proved that
she had any knowledge or intent of the escape. Attempt.
Angela argued that when she heard the police were looking
for her, she didn't run, She just made herself unavailable.
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Angela claimed she feared for her life at the hands
of the cops. She was being targeted for her work
in trying to free the Soledad brothers. It was just
that simple.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
The prosecution made the same arguments that they'd made at
the time of her indictment.
Speaker 12 (31:49):
Angela Davis is accused not of carrying out the crime,
but of supplying guns to those such as Russell Magee,
who allegedly did so. Magee was one of two convicts
appearing in the trial when the kidnapping took place.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
There weren't many surprises during the prosecution's case. They laid
out the circumstantial evidence the guns, that her near constant
companion leading up to the shootout was Jonathan Jackson, the
fact that she fled, the witness testimony to Jonathan and
her being together, and so on. But the prosecution did
include evidence that came in late to the case. You
may recall that the motive for the Marine County Courthouse
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shootout was to free the Soledad brothers, and in particular,
Jonathan Jackson's older brother, George Angela had been working to
free him in the months leading up to the shootout.
From jail, Angela spoke about how she first met him.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
The first time I met him was on the occasion
of one of the court appearances in Leada's California.
Speaker 21 (32:44):
I had not.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Really expected the scene that confronted me when I walked
into that courtroom and sat down and saw coming into
the courtroom three black men who were chained and shot.
I had never seen black men before with chains all
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over their bodies. It was certainly reminiscent of slavery. And
in spite of the fact that they were completely suppressed
in a physical sense, you could see from the attitude
and their demeanor when they entered the courtroom that they
were not for a moment going to resign themselves to
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that situation. That they had a very profound fighting spirit.
Speaker 22 (33:36):
And it was that.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Which really affected me very strongly.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
When Angela became imprisoned as well, she began to write
to George. In one instance, in July nineteen seventy one,
Angela and George were astonishingly allowed to meet in a
holding cell outside of a Marin Civic Center courtroom while
they were both still incarcerated. It was reportedly the first
time they'd spend time together in the same room for
a long stretch of time. They were intimate. Immediately after
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their meeting, Angela began writing George love letters over a
period of a month. The letters were smuggled out of
Angela's detention center and delivered to George Jackson at San Quentin.
He kept them hidden in his cell, but in August
nineteen seventy one, George attempted an escape from prison and
was killed in the process. When his cell was searched,
Angela's letters were found. The prosecution made them the centerpiece
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of Angela's motive.
Speaker 23 (34:35):
Prosecutor Albert Harris wound up his case by trying to
establish miss Davis's love for Solodad brother George Jackson as
the motive for her alleged participation in the escape plot.
Just before he rested, he read to the jury edited
portions of an eighteen page diary or letter written to
Jackson eleven months after the shootout. I am totally intoxicated
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overflowing with you. The letter said that so much love
could exist anyway I never realized. The next day, Harris
said she wrote, I'm crazy with love and desire, and
I guess you're already willing to accept all the consequences.
Miss Davis and her attorneys had fought hard to keep
the diary from being entered as evidence.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
In another letter, she wrote about their first meeting in
May nineteen seventy, saying, quote, as I was pulling myself
together after the court appearance in Selena's, I was struck
by a similar sense of inexorably succumbing to you, just
you being absorbed by that huge, beautiful man with whom
I had instantly and unexpectedly fallen in love. End quote.
In another passage, she wrote, quote love you, love you
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with love, even more unbounded, even more unconquerable, your lifelong wife.
End quote. After nine weeks and over one hundred witnesses,
the prosecution rested its case. Now it was the defense's turn.
Speaker 23 (35:55):
The defense will attack that series of events as coincidental
and not proving anything other than Miss Davis's concern for
her own safety and her involvement in militant leftist political causes.
They scoff at the allegations of love for Jackson being
a motive and a.
Speaker 16 (36:10):
Conspiracy to free him.
Speaker 23 (36:12):
Her attorney, Howard Moore, admits she bought the gun and
that young Jonathan Jackson had access to them. Both Moore
and miss Davis deny she planned with Jackson for the escape.
They say she left the state because she knew she
was to be persecuted for her political activism and her
closeness to the Jackson.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Angela Davis never testified. Her team largely took a standard
approach to their defense. They focused on the circumstantial nature
of the prosecution's case, trying at every turn to poke
holes to prove a reasonable doubt. Her defense attorney challenged
the witness's testimony placing Angela with Jonathan Jackson on the
days leading up to the shootout. It simply wasn't his client.
Speaker 17 (36:52):
Defense attorney Leo Bratton said he did not know who
the person was that the prosecution witnesses had identified as
Angela Davis, but he said it wasn't his job to
find out. Angela Davis is no fool, He continued, why
would she buy a gun to blow it judge's head
off and buy it in her own name? The prosecution's
theory is absurd. The jury will begin deliberating her guilt
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or innocence tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
After a thirteen week trial, both sides rested. The jury
went into deliberation, But just when people thought the case
couldn't become more sensationalized, shocking news hit the airwaves. Do
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Speaker 1 (37:45):
Welcome back to Red Pilled America. So, after thirteen weeks,
both sides in the Angela Davis trial rested. The jury
went into deliberation, But just when people thought the case
couldn't become more sensationalized, shocking news hit the airwaves.
Speaker 24 (38:01):
I heard one of the stories, is IM running us
to the other stewardess and she said, mister said, it's
happening to us, And I asked her what was happening
to us? And then I saw a man in an
army uniform come up the aisle and going to the cockpit,
and I knew her were being hijacked. I started crying.
I told my husband.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
A militant faction of the students for a Democratic Society
or SDS, hijacked a plane and demanded both money and
the Angela Davis be let free.
Speaker 15 (38:26):
The hijacker had announced over the intercom earlier SDS men,
relax our demands are being met, and another message had
included the word weather Men, which is a radical offshoot
of Students for a Democratic Society. After a refueling stop
in New York where the passengers were let off, the
Western seven twenty h took off again for Algeria with
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a half a million dollars. During yesterday's hijacking, in which
it was thought miss Davis had been demanded by the hijacker,
the defendant was brought to the courtroom.
Speaker 9 (38:58):
She looked distraught and tired.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Angela's defense team claimed no knowledge of the hijacking. They
wanted their fate to be handed by the jury and
that was, no doubt a calculated decision. You see, Angela's
lawyers applied a novel approach to jury selection. At the
time in nineteen seventy two, jury selection took a very
unsophisticated approach, but for Angelus case, five black psychologists volunteered
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to help with the process to develop personality profiles for
each prospective juror. They carefully watched them, whether they interacted
with others, how they acted at lunch period, whether they
were talkative. They slipped questions to Angela's lawyers to acquire
the necessary data. Ultimately, they helped Angela's team select a
group of jurors that would give her the best chance
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for an acquittal. It's been an approach to jury selection
ever since because it worked. After just thirteen hours of deliberation,
an all white jury found Angela Davis innocent on all counts.
On exiting the courtroom, one jurist looked at Angela's cheering
supporters and raised the black power fist to the crowd.
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In fact, the jury held Angela in such high regard
that a majority of them joined in the celebration parties
of her acquittal. At one of the gatherings, Angela rejoiced
in the decision.
Speaker 22 (40:17):
Really a wonderful feeling to be back among the people,
to be back among all of you who fought so
long and so hard, among all of you who actually
achieved my freedom. And I really wish you could have.
Speaker 20 (40:33):
Been there in the courtroom.
Speaker 22 (40:35):
At the moment when those three not guilty verdicts were
pronounced the cow because that they threw was just as
much sure as there was mine.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
By the end of the trial, America had changed. The
public had not only grown tired of the violence, it
welcomed government action to decisively end it. Through a series
of raids and prosecutions. The Black Panthers had been successfully disintegrated.
The Black Power Ring leader Stokely Carmichael not only left
the organization, he left the country. The Students for a
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Democratic Society or SDS, had also been fractured. When the
organization effectively dissolved by the early nineteen seventies, a militant
faction of SDS, known as the Weathermen went underground. In
addition to hijacking a plane to try and free Angela Davis,
the Weather Underground, as it came to be known, bomb
the Pentagon, US Capital, a New York police station, and
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other locations. If there were any flames left to use
violence for social change. The Weather Underground effectively smothered the embers.
The group turned public opinion against the militant efforts. But
what effectively ended this Marxist revolution was that the US
government got smart. It removed the fuel that was inciting
moderates to work with the radicals. You may remember that
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after the violence and destruction caused by the NAXT nineteen
seventy National student Strike, President Nixon organized a commission to
study the cause of campus unrest. By the summer of
nineteen seventy, hints on the conclusion of that work began
to make its way out to the public, and in
August nineteen seventy interview, while Angela Davis was still on
the run, Vice President Spiro Agnew spoke about a primary
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instigator of the campus unrest.
Speaker 16 (42:24):
You have a very extreme professor such.
Speaker 4 (42:28):
As Marcuse poisoning literally poisoning a lot of young.
Speaker 16 (42:34):
Minds with what I would consider it to be some
of the.
Speaker 17 (42:37):
Most irresponsible drivel that I've ever read or heard.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
The Campus Unrest Commission issued its findings in September nineteen seventy,
and in it they cited the radical professor Herbert Marcusa
as a key figure in providing the intellectual rationale for
the Marxist insurrection. They concluded that students were being drawn
to these radical figures because of the Vietnam War. The
head of the commission, William Scranton, highlighted this point in
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September nineteen seventy.
Speaker 6 (43:04):
It is true that the amount of campus disruption and
violence certainly was much less in the period when the
war seemed to be going in the direction of terminating,
and people were beginning to come back to the United
States Visa for example, late last fall and this last
winter and early spring. And certainly it got much stronger
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after the Cambodian We all know that after the Cambodian invasion.
So the less accentuation there is of American participation and
the more return of men, the more helpful it is.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Of course, the American government now understood that if they
removed the incentive from moderates to march with the militant Marxists,
the unrest would subside. By nineteen seventy five, the Vietnam
War was over. The Marxists no longer had the flashpoint
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to give their small minority outsized power on the streets
and college campuses of America. People were tired of the violence,
campus unrest, burning down of buildings, killings, and bombings. These
Marxist revolutionaries had hit a roadblock with their radical activism,
their tried and true strategy of violence and inciting moderates
on college campuses was not only no longer working, it
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wasn't going to work. So what these radicals and militants
did was they went back to college reflecting on the era.
When Herbert Marcusa reed HABOC at UC San Diego, the
former chancellor of the school, inadvertently touched on the radical
student's eventual playbook.
Speaker 25 (44:42):
I wouldn't let the governor of California intrude on our
independence and freedom of a faculty to operate this school
as we saw fit. And I'll be damned if I'm
going to let a group of students do it either.
That is, we govern the University of California, we faculty,
and if the students wished to join us, let them
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become faculty.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
And that's exactly what the socialist revolutionaries did. Herbert Marcusa
died in nineteen seventy nine, but his teachings would immediately
take hold in one particular American institution. The Marxist radicals,
educated by the ideas of the Frankfort School, put all
of their chips on academia. The universities had already warmed
up to the ideas of the Frankfort School. Places like UCSD,
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U C Berkeley, UCLA, Brandeis College, and Columbia. They were
already infected with Marxist radicals, so after the tumultuous nineteen sixties,
Marxism flourished at these universities in departments like the humanities
and theoretical based studies. Philosophy was infected. English departments were
plagued as well. Women's studies would eventually become gender studies,
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and they touted the woke doctrine. African American studies and
Chicano studies adopted wokeness as well. Critical legal studies built
on the Frankfort School's critical theory and would eventually develop
critical race theory. The university began to openly as accept
the radical and militant Marxists into their teaching staffs, a
place where they can turn students into a woke army.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
After Angela Davis was fired from her UCLA job, Ronald
Reagan said she'd never work in the UC system again.
That prediction didn't age well. In nineteen ninety one, UC
Santa Cruz appointed her professor in the History of Consciousness.
She literally became a woke professor. Three years later, she
was appointed to the UC Presidential chair in African American
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and feminist studies. She'd go on to lecture at colleges
all over the world, and the universities opened their doors
to other militants. Many of the SDS revolutionaries, even ones
that planted bombs and were responsible for the deaths of Americans,
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were eventually accepted into professor positions. The co founder of
the Black Panthers, Bobby Seal, who'd been accused of murder,
would go on to teach Afro American staff at Temple University.
Through academia, they'd eventually take over the media, pumping out
students from journalism school infected with the woke ideology. They'd
link with Marxist radicals in Hollywood that had survived the
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communist purge of the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties and
had quietly retaken Tinseltown in the nineteen seventies. What the
Frankfurt School identified as the mass cultural industries of Hollywood,
music and art would eventually fully adopt the woke ideology
of the Marxist intellectuals. They'd be comrades with academia. Through storytelling,
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they would help shift pop culture towards wokeness and reinforce
the wins of the Marxists in every cultural institution. When
Big Tech arose, it became populated by college graduates who
had all been filtered through woke universities. Big tech was
bound to accept cancel culture, an ideology invented by Herbert
Marcusa himself. The Marxists had effectively taken over every institution
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that defines what it means to be American, and they
did it methodically over.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
Decades, which leads us back to the question where did
wokeness come from. It came from Marxism. Wokeness is Marxism repackaged.
Wokeness was developed by a small group of German intellectuals
to spark a socialist revolution in the Western world. All
of the insanity you've been experiencing in society, the cancel culture,
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social justice warriors, critical race theory, all of the new
pronouns political correctness, the purging on social media, the diversity,
equity and inclusion departments, biological men competing in women's sports,
affirmative action, the constant claims of institutional racism, the grooming
of kids. All of this wokeness that you are experiencing
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is nothing less than a Marxist revolution. When we opened
this series, we heard how surprised Greg Guttfeld was on
the spread of wokeness. It is everywhere you look.
Speaker 23 (48:58):
I don't think I've seen anything spread so fast in
my life.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
But we know that wokeness did not spread quickly. It's
been nearly a century in the making. You have to
almost admire their level of dedication. Like grains of salt
slowly being added to a cup of water, you don't
see the salt until the water is completely saturated. Then
once that last grain is added, you suddenly see salt
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everywhere in the glass. The Frankfurt School launched in nineteen
twenty three. It would eventually repackage Marxism and identify the
institutions that define the culture of Western civilization, those being
academia and what they called the mass culture industries of film, radio, music, magazines,
and books. They then made the long march through the institutions,
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slowly adding converts to their cause. When violence on the
streets and campuses no longer worked blocking them from saturating
our culture with Marxism, the disciples of the Frankfurt School
took a different route. The ideology flourished in academia and
in Hollywood and in the media, slowly adding converts until
that last grain of salt was added in twenty twenty,
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when again a Marxist insurrection exploded in America, disguised as
Black Lives Matter protests. But it's no secret now America
is experiencing a socialist revolution, and the only way to
stop it is to take a queue from the Marxists themselves.
We need to make the long march through the institutions
and purge wokeness with the truth. We have no other choice.
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We need to create our own cultural institutions, our own Hollywood,
our own publishing industry, our own media, our own storytelling industry,
and perhaps most importantly, we need to retake our schools.
That is an institution that we cannot create on our own,
and it has become a factory for creating radicals. It
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won't be easy because wokeness is so deeply embedded in academia,
but we need to retake the schools and use every
legal tool available to purge wokeness from the system. We
must make the risk of promoting wokeness so enormous that
the worst offenders recede to the fringes where they belong
to eliminate this repackage Marxism known as wokeness. We must
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take the long march through the institutions.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
The good news is that we know what we have
to do. We just need to do the work. Take
an action to help build our own institutions, to retake
our schools. Take an action to help us build a
red pilled America. Because if we don't, and if this
series doesn't propel you to act, then we deserve to
live in the world that the Marxists have built.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Kevin, you're one of the youngest and first drag queen
flash kids.
Speaker 4 (51:51):
Not all boys have a penis and not all girls
have a vagina.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
California Reparations task Force is making history with a major
decision on who will receive compensation.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
And even this idea that like it's, oh, it's we
can't talk about sex with kids, It's like, first of all,
we probably can.
Speaker 13 (52:08):
My dad says, you can't just say that your baby
is gay before.
Speaker 5 (52:11):
He gets a chance to tell us he's gay.
Speaker 18 (52:14):
Destroying property which can be replaced is not violent.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
As a three parent family like LGBTQ people.
Speaker 24 (52:22):
Can you provide a definition for the word woman?
Speaker 2 (52:25):
I can't you can't.
Speaker 10 (52:27):
Not okay this context.
Speaker 22 (52:29):
I'm not a biology.
Speaker 2 (52:31):
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