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Art Welcome ladies, gentlemen, and gender not conforming individuals to another episode of
The Benjamin Dixon Show. Today is Friday, July twenty eighth, twenty and
twenty three. Thank you so much for joining me. Presidential hopeful Rhn de
Santis has responded to Florida Representative Byron Donalds criticism very mild criticism of the language
in the new Florida curriculum that states that black people benefited from slavery by acquiring
skills. This was his response to fellow Republican Byron Donalds the end of the
day, you gotta choose. Are you gonna sign with Kamala Harris in liberal
media outlet? Are you going to side with the state of Florida? And
I think it's very clear that these guys did a good job on those standards.
It wasn't anything that was politically motivated. These are serious scholars. You've
seen doctor Allen out on gun TV talking about the stories, talking about his
own family history and everything like that. So don't side with Kamawah on that
stand up, so run to Santis is now telling black conservatives not to stand
up for their blackness, but rather stand up for his particular Florida Curriculum.
Will have much more on this later in today's episode, but first the Headlands.
The United States is facing the possibility of yet another government shutdown, this
time the result of the far right wink House Freedom Call because waging a culture
war attempting to defund all so called woke federal funding. We should not fear
a government shutdown. Most of what we do up here as bad. Anyway,
most of what we do up here hurts the American people. Mostly American
people won't even miss if the government is shut down temporarily. That was the
voice of Representative Bob Good, the congressman from Virginia's fifth congressional district and also
member of the House Freedom Caucus. House Republicans erupted into booze as Katherine Clark,
the representative from the fifth Congressional district of Massachusetts, called out Republicans recklessness
with their latest attempt to shut down the government. Funding our government is our
basic job. The comments from the GOP conference about how we could go into
a MAGA shutdown and it wouldn't matter. Our outrageous and don't talk to us
about standing for veterans when the GOP was the one that have cut veterans housing,
has cut their healthcare. Has said to our women, our active women
military women said it is okay to ask our military women to fire. Georgia
Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, who is facing a possible public reprimand for displaying nude
images of Hunter Biden during a recent congressional hearing, un ironically called for California
Representative Robert Garcia, who adhered to the Houses rules of decorum actor calling out
Green over her anti VAXX conspiracy theories. But just like rfkin are the conspiracy
theorists, members this committee continue and continue to attack the vaccines. Vaccines saved
lives. The pandemic costs US one point three plus million Americans. It's the
single largest, most devastating loss of life event to win, Mister Chairman,
modern era. Mister Chairman, I'd like to make a point of order and
ask the members to be reminded of the rules of decorum. Sure, what
rules are those? What rules of decorum? Indeed, and during a congressional
hearing on whether or not the government should ban gender affirming care for all trans
adults, Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee from the eighteenth Congressional District of Texas utilize her
time to make this state. But I will not sit here and allow the
trans community to be abused and in essence to be rejected. And for someone
somewhere let me say your life is worthwhile. And finally, former President Donald
Trump, who is facing his third and fourth potential indictment, is facing new
charges in the mari Lago Classified Documents case after new allegations have emerged that he
ordered his staff at Marlago to erase the servers containing surveillance footage. This,
ironically after years of Donald Trump alleging that the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign
did the same. Where is the server? How come the FBI never got
the server from the DNC. Where is the server? I want to see
the server. Let's see what's on the server now. I don't know how
the FBI can investigate something if the DNC the Democrats refuse to give the server.
Both Washington, d C. And Fulton County, Georgia are preparing for
potential violence with the third and fourth potential indictments of Donald Trump alone. These
are just some of the headlines for today Friday, July twenty eighth, two
thousand and twenty three. Also on this day in Black history, July twenty
eighth, nineteen seventeen, and estimated fifteen thousand Black Americans marched without words in
New York City and what is known as the Silent Parade. The Silent Parade
was in response to lynchings, murders, and every form of violence inflicted upon
Black Americans at the hands of whites and known white supremacists across the nation.
However, the immediate events which precipitated this impressive protest were the lynchings in Memphis,
Tennessee of l persons, the Waco horror of Jesse, Washington, and
the race riots of East Saint Louis in May and July of nineteen seventeen.
These riots resulted in the murder of forty Black Americans. The protests march was
organized by the NAACP church and community leaders. Leading the Silent Parade were children
dressed in white, followed by women dressed in white, ending with men dressed
in black, and although the protest was silent. Participants carried signs with various
messages including we march because we deem it a crime to be silent in the
face of such barbaric acts. They also had signs as stated, we march
because we want our children to live in a better land. Black Boy Scouts
handed out informational flyers who onlookers as the participants marched silently to the cadence of
muffled drums The Silent Parade y eight nineteen seventeen. For more Black history facts,
go to Black Heritage days dot com, where you can get access to
three hundred and sixty six days of Black history provided by none other than my
friend and my brother, doctor Karl Mack, who I consider to be the
people's historian. When we come back, Black conservatives are speaking out against Ron
De santiss revisionist history in the state of Florida, and the De Santist campaign
is attacking they have attacked. These Black conservatives who dare to speak up for
their blackness will be back right after the spring. Look, I'm in nine
with the stars. I'm gonna sink with the earth tintoast deep flower Child from
the turf. I never switch sides like even when I die, I'm gonna
ride for the squad letter ties in the hearse I've been on the five.
Kind of hard to describe. I remem between I'm good and it's fine,
but I'm tired of the grind. Then I come alive in the night to
realize I'm in the middle with the time of my life. I never saw
back Chris Stack at the light on the back batter back from the pain that
I write it, Queen looking Tyson, that's fine. Welcome back to The
Benjamin Dixon Show. Visitors online at the Benjamin Dixon Show dot Com. Yep,
welcome back. I um, I must admit that I have changed my
opinion and my take on the black conservatives that are standing up against this revisionist
history, this insult to injury, this tip, this consolation prize for slavery,
which was at least black folks acquired some skills. I think it is
revisionist history, and I think it is the attempt of the cruelty is the
point, right. I think they enjoy pouring salt into the open wound that
is America's original sin. And my original take was almost to just say,
you know what, black conservatives I told you so. And you know what,
I can admit when I needed to shift and change a little bit,
because despite the fact that I disagree with the politics of these black conservatives,
probably i'd say a good seventy five to eighty percent clip, I disagree with
them, but I have to admit, I am I can't help but to
be extremely proud of the fact that when the rubber met the road, these
particut not all black conservatives. I still have to see what Candice Owens is
going to say. Yea, she has me blocked on Twitter, so I
don't know. She probably has already come down on the side of Rhonda Stantists.
But these black conservatives, Byron Donalds, who I have never said a
kind thing about, I have to admit that I am proud of this brother
taking a stand against Rhonda Santists at the risk of his own career. The
rest of Byron Donald's politics suck. He still supports Donald Trump, but when
it came down to his blackness, he said, no, I'm gonna draw
the line here, and so I salute that brother, even if it's in
a limited sense. But I want you to listen to this clip of Rhonda
Santists as he was asked by a reporter specifically about Byron Donalds, and I
want you to listen to how he simply suggests that Byron Donald's should get in
line, stop following Kamala Harris, and stand up for this revisionist history in
the state of Florida. So he was critical about particularities, this little dust
stuff between the campaign environ Donalds. Is that helpful though? So, Um,
the end of the day, you got to choose. Are you gonna
side with Kamala Harris in liberal media outlets? Are you gonna side with the
state of Florida? And I think it's very clear that these guys did a
good job on those standards. It wasn't anything that was politically motivated. These
are serious scholars. You've seen doctor Allen out on on TV talking about the
stories, talking about his own family history and everything like that. So don't
side with Kamala on that stand up. Don't side with Kamala on that stand
up for Florida. Um, he's not siding with Kamala Harris. I can.
I can certainly tell you that if you ask any black conservative what they
think about Kamala Harris, they are not siding with Kamala Harris run Descantis.
They're siding with their blackness. They're siding with the reality that under no circumstances
should we try to cast a single facet of slavery in a positive light.
You even have a Senator Tim Scott who came out and said the exact thing,
that there's no reason for anyone to try to cast a single component of
slavery as something positive. And listen, have you ever heard me say something
positive about Tim Scott? Um? But I would be remiss. It would
be a shame on my blackness if I allowed my disdain for all of the
rest of their politics to make me ignore the fact that in this moment they're
speaking the truth. Listen, listen to this clip. I apologize for the
quality of the audio. It's a little difficult to hear, but if you
listen closely, Tim Scott is speaking the truth upon the freedom, greatest dear
freedom for slavery. There's there's no silver lining freedom and slavery. The truth
is anything you can learn that any benefits of people suggests he had the slavery,
you would have had a free person. Slavery was really about separating.
Factis about mutilating humans and even ripping their wives. It was just devastating.
So I would hope that every person in our country, certainly running for president,
would appreciate that. And people have bad days sometimes they regret what they
say, and we should ask them again to clarify the musicians, Well,
they did ask him again. And see this is where I started parting ways
with my conservative brothers and sisters. I part ways with them because they are
giving Rhan de Santists too much of the benefit of the doubt. Byron Donald's
criticism of this curriculum was very tepid, was I mean, it was a
slight disagreement. If there was ninety nine percent agreement, there was only one
percent of disagreement. And yet and still it was enough for the Disantists campaign
to come out forth wrote it against them. I mean, the type of
the number of people who call this man a sellout. Now I have called
him sellout myself. I'm not even going to front. But to see white
Republicans calling this black man a sellout, these two black men sellouts because they
stood up for their blackness, you just have to forgive me. I just
could not possibly sit back and not say something about that. But to Tim
Scott's point, he said that there's there's no there is literally nothing that black
people may have acquired during slavery that they could not have acquired in freedom,
and that there is no silver lining in slavery. Where I disagree with Tim
Scott on and Rhonda Santists disagrees with them also is the fact that we should
give them another chance to answer. Well, Runda Santists got another chance to
answer. He was asked by another reporter at the same event, and at
this time, Ruhnda Santists got upset because we'll reasons one, how dare anyone
questioned the fewer? And number two, well, Rhonda Santists is just a
small, petty man who's not ready for prime time listening. Were there beneficial
aspects to slavery? That's not what the curriculum says. What do you think
There's no, it's not And the curriculum is very clear. You have I
think it's like two hundred plus pages of all kinds of stuff that you can't
read that have you read it? So what's your Have you read it but
you haven't read it? So I'm just just making that clear. That makes
it very clear about the injustices of slavery in vivid detail. So anyone that
actually read that and then listens to Kamala would know that she's lying. And
that particular provision about the skills that was in spite of slavery, not because
of the ap course has made that same point. Other courses have made that
same point. Nobody said anything about that, and doctor Allen and those people
will say, look, this is what was used postbellum when these folks were
doing stuff. So that was very very clear, And I would just say,
you know, people can read it, but they did a very good
job on it, and there can be no confusion about where they would come
down. He keeps referencing doctor Allan, this is the guy who's gone,
the black man who's gone across Fox News and so many other platforms to defend
Ronda Santis, but completely ignores the fact that there are plenty of black conservatives
who have a problem with this language. Very directly to state, at under
any circumstances that there was a benefit to the cruelty of chattel slavery in the
United States of America is a slap in the face, and as black conservatives
are standing up for their blackness. White Republicans are trying to whip them back
into submission, whip them back onto the plantation of the Republican Party. And
you know, forgive me for using the same language that they try to use
as it pertains the black people who might be progressive. They always like to
say that black people who are not a part of the Republican Party or somehow
on the plantation of the Democratic Party. Well, this is really plantation slave
master behavior coming from run to Santis, he is refusing to acknowledge that there
are high ranking Republicans and his party, black Republicans and his party who absolutely
take issue with every bit of this language about there being a benefit to black
people from slavery. Yet he regularly goes and says, you know, I
have a black friend who still supports me. Well, sure, I'm sure
you're going to get Candice Owes to support you as well. Right, but
at least that there are there are black Conservatives with enough integrity, enough soul
in their blackness to stand up to you, even at the risk of their
careers. Now, I might regret this in the next you know, next
week, because they're gonna say something that I'm gonna have to slam them all
there. I know Byron Donald's is going to say something. He's going to
come out supporting Donald Trump. They're going to come out with some of their
their anti VAXX messaging, They're come out with some of their anti science,
anti climate change, anti trans talking points. So I'm sure I'm going to
regret this next week. But as it stands right now, they are on
the right side of this, and Rhonda Santis and his campaign think that they
are big enough to tell black Republicans to get in line. Now. I
want to play one last clip on this story because I think this individual,
Gazelle Clark, she's a black Conservative and I'm God, I hope I don't
regret playing this next week because I've seen her on Fox News attacking wokeness.
Okay, yes, but a broken clock can be right, and this clip
that I'm going to play for you, I think is absolutely sound. The
comparison is apt. You do not get to flex any skills that were learned
from trauma trigger warning. This clip contains references to sexual assault. So I've
been thinking about this whole floor, the education standards thing. You know,
if you were sexually assaulted as a minor repeatedly for your years and years and
years, and then you claim that your sexual assault made you a better lover.
It would mortify people. That's why it's mortifying to hear people say that
you benefit from slavery in any way, because learned things from trauma is not
a flex. It just ain't. It's not. That's that on that.
And while I was really hesitant about playing this particular clip because of the comparison
to sexual assault, truth of the matter is sexual assault was a feature of
chattel slavery. It was a standardized feature of slavey in this country, and
so I think the comparison is apt. Even if it is difficult to hear
anyone suggesting that there is a benefit that should be derived out of a sustained
trauma should be ashamed of themselves, and Rhonda Santis and his entire campaign should
be equally ashamed of themselves for attacking these black conservatives for standing up for truth.
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mean. It's not something for young kids and whipper snappers. That's how you
know how old I am whipper snappers. But I digress. I want to
play a clip of Representative Nancy Mace, who it's being called out by so
many Republicans and conservatives this morning because of her unfortunate too much information moment that
took place at a prayer breakfast and it honestly could not have happened at the
worst place. I'm not defending her. He's a conservative, so I have
very little reason to defend her. But I want to play the clip.
I want you to hear it, and then I want to discuss the kind
of backlatch that she's getting from a bunch of conservative men this morning. And
when I woke up this morning at seven, I was getting picked up at
seven forty five. Patrick, my fiance tried to pull me by my waist
over this morning in bed, and I was like, no, baby,
we don't got time for that this morning. I gotta get into the prayer
breakfast and I got to be on time, and a little t am I,
but I know he can wait, he's got we got I'll see him
later tonight. But I was here generally speaking, all rules of decorum have
been thrown out. Let me let me start by my discussion there like that
is way too information, especially at a prayer breakfast, Like come on,
you have to know better. But what I think Nancy Mace doesn't realize is
that she is in a party who will target her the way they are targeting
her this morning, calling her out, calling her a fake Christian, you
know, calling her a sinner, calling her all these things really just outright.
I mean, giving her scarlet letter a you know this, this is
the this is the reaction that you are getting from overwhelmingly conservative men. And
of course you're going to always have some women, conservative women who are willing
to do the bidding of the patriarchy, just like you have some black conservatives
who are willing to do the bidding of white supremacy, because that's you know,
that's just the way of the world that we live in right now.
But I hope, I hope, for the sake of the future that more
women can see the clear hipcricy of having men who are one hundred percent participants
in every bit of sin, every bit of debauchery, every sexual assault case,
every case of children being molested, whether they're molested by priests in the
church, whether they're molested by school teachers, whether they are overwhelmingly men.
The ninety nine point nine percent of them are men, and they are some
of the same men who are trying to lecture Nancy Masis morning, the same
men who are voting against women's rights, the same men who are trying to
control women's bodies, the same men who are trying to usher in this new
Puritan era where they get to pretend as though they are religiously devout and pious
and they live. I mean, you even have Andrew Tate. Let me
just give you the extreme of what's happening right now. And Drew Tate,
who is currently under arrest in Romania for sex trafficking charges for rape and sex
trafficking charges. His new position and his new rebrand. He's now an anti
degenerate. He's now actively condemning any any sex workers, anyone who any woman
who is showing parts of her body that he doesn't approve of. You know,
he's really trying to take this position of women should be more modest.
What about the women that you sexually assaulted? My guy, where if are
you saying that if they had been more modest you would not have sexually assaulted
them or sexually trafficked them. You know, you have people like Sneako,
this, this influencer guy who is all over the place now condemning black culture.
Right, you have him who he is condemning all of the degenerate behavior
from women. Meanwhile, he's got porns out there that he's starred in where
he allowed his woman to have sex with someone else while he watched. Just
just google the Sneako chairs n e a Ko chair. He has a whole
he has a whole entry in the Urban Dictionary because of his debauchery. But
they have now been able to rebrand themselves to be morally pious, and in
these seats of righteous indignation, right they get to condemn women. And there's
a fascinating thing that happens in this country where men who commit the acts of
debauchery get to turn around and now become men who condemn the very acts of
debauchery that they participated in. Mind you that they sponsored, that they flew
all the women out to their yachts to have this, these nights of debauchery.
But now now that they're tired of this branding, or this branding has
become inconvenient for them because they're facing sex charges, sexual assault charges. Now
they've turned and started to lecture women and tell them to how they should dress,
and they're condemning the likes of Nancy mase Well. I hope Nancy Mason
other Republican women realize before it's too late, before they wake up in the
Republic of Gilead. Under his eye, the state of Texas, the Houston
Independent School District, they're moving away from the prison to school to prison pipeline
and going straight to the prison they have decided in the state of Texas,
Houston Houston Independent School District, they are eliminating librarians at twenty eight school districts
and they are turning the libraries into discipline centers where children with bad behavior will
be sent to be locked down throughout the day. This is yet another step
towards the destruction of our public school systems, towards the vilification that it is
necessary to treat our children even more like prisoners than they're already being treated.
It's not as though these schools are necessarily great places for our students to thrive
and be happy, but that's not enough for Houston. They are deciding to
do away with their libraries, firing the librarians, and they're going to use
those facilities to discipline children with bad behavior. And I guarantee you that the
students who are going to be targeted the most, just like in any other
scenario we see across this country, it's going to be three groups. It's
going to be black children, impoverished children, and children with mental health needs.
That is always a case in this country when we see the vilification of
poverty, we see the vilification of blackness, and we see the vilification,
the criminalization of people with mental health issues. We know that it also applies
to our children, and so as the State of Texas Governor Greg Abbott as
they embark on all of their draconian and downright fascist policies. This is just
another part. This is just another piece in the puzzle that they are trying
to assemble all across this country that is going to be nothing more than a
theocratic, fascist police state. We think there's a lot. There's some of
my comrades who you know, former comrades, because you know, they don't
really consider me a comrade anymore. But that's their problem. They think that
America is so bad now, you know, bad enough for them for some
of them to be supportive of Vladimir Putin and supportive of an accelerationist mentality of
burning this country to the ground and hoping that something will emerge from the ashes.
You know, they do. They take that position because they think America
is so bad now. The sick and sad irony of it is is that
if we allow the Republicans to gain any more power, in fact, if
we not only don't hold the line here but push these fascists back into the
dregs of society. We are going to see in short order exactly how bad
this place can really become. This is not hyperbole. Every indicator that we
are seeing across this country suggests that we are quickly moving into an era of
a complete and total theocratic fascist state under the control of Christian nationalism. So
we cannot look at what's happening with Moms for Liberty as they attack the school
boards all across this country, as they remove school board superintendents, particularly black
superintendence all over this country, as they start installing puppets that support the agenda
of people like Rhonda Santist, like that's the agenda that's happening all around this
country. We cannot look at the reality of what's happening and sit back and
believe that things will get better if we first allow them to get worse.
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