{"id":16030,"date":"2012-04-06T19:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T19:29:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-06T19:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T19:29:52","slug":"pilot_stand_on_shoulders_of_the_tuskegee_airmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/06\/pilot_stand_on_shoulders_of_the_tuskegee_airmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot: Stand on Shoulders of the Tuskegee Airmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Tony in Dayton, Ohio. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir, hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you. I know we only have a minute so this will be real quick. I happen to be a pilot, a retired military pilot. I\u2019m very proud of that. I happen to be black. I waited and changed my day-to-day just to speak to you and your audience. This stuff about race has gotta stop. If we want to look at people that we want to emulate, I would just like to draw people\u2019s attention to the Tuskegee airmen and one of my heroes: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Benjamin-Davis-Jr-American-Autobiography\/dp\/1560983957\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1333744349&#038;sr=1-2\">Benjamin O. Davis Jr.<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Benjamin-Davis-Jr-American-Autobiography\/dp\/1560983957\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1333744349&#038;sr=1-2\"><img class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/20081218-benjaminodavisjr_large.jpg\"\/><\/a>Those guys are the reason that I got to wear wings, and they\u2019re the reason I got to serve my country. And they were great Americans. And they didn\u2019t complain about anything. And the last thing I want to say is that my parents grew up in Jim Crow. They taught me to pay my own way. Do not have anyone else pay. Pay your own way.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Tony, let me ask you a quick question. I\u2019ve got about 45 seconds here. Snerdley said something to me today. He thinks that this stuff, the way they\u2019re playing the Trayvon Martin case, he thinks they\u2019re overplaying their hand. They can\u2019t rabble-rouse the whole country any more with this made-up stuff. Do you think that\u2019s true?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I would agree with that because the only time I\u2019ve ever agreed with Geraldo was when, on the air, he said he told his son not to wear a hoodie \u2019cause you look like a thug. I\u2019ll just tell you that plenty of times &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He apologized for that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: He apologized. He didn\u2019t want to offend anyone. He brought the parents in and apologized.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I don\u2019t have to apologize. I told my children a lot of times: &#8220;You know, you need to look a certain way. Don\u2019t go around looking like you\u2019re not.&#8221; So I would say that there\u2019s a lot of people there that can see that they\u2019re overplaying their hand.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I hope you\u2019re right. I\u2019ve been hoping for this for 23 years. I\u2019m not so sure, but I hope. I hope you\u2019re right. But, man, I\u2019ll tell you, folks: He is so right about paying your own way. It\u2019s one of those things people say, &#8220;Well, easy for you to say.&#8221; That is the essence of freedom, by the way. Paying your own way means you\u2019re not dependent on anybody else, and that\u2019s liberating. Believe me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Tony in Dayton, Ohio. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir, hello. CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you. I know we only have a minute so this will be real quick. I happen to be a pilot, a retired military pilot. I\u2019m very proud of that. 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