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RUSH: Jean in Tehachapi, California, I\u2019m glad that you waited. You\u2019re next on the program. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, I hope… I\u2019m really nervous because I never made a call before, but I was so mad when I heard that speech this morning, that I know my blood pressure is about to go through the roof, because I know what prejudice is. I\u2019m American Indian. My grandfather was a Cherokee Indy — Indian, and my grandmother was white. I never knew them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your grandmother was white?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. She wasn\u2019t Indian, and she married my grandfather, and they both died in their twenties. They were real young.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you realize then that because you probably are a victim, and you are probably are a savage and a racist, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Obama said today that we are what we are and we are who we come from and we are who we\u2019ve known. You have this Indian background and so forth, and according to Obama, that\u2019s how we must look at you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, my mother died a couple years ago. She was 91. She had two sisters and a brother. And their mother died in childbirth, and they put her… My great aunt hated the Indians. She was prejudiced. She put \u2019em on a train and sent them to Shalaka Indian School, until she ran away and married my dad. So I know what prejudice is. But, I mean, I love my country. We\u2019ve never dwelt on it. It\u2019s history, you know? It\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we\u2019ve moved on from it. We\u2019ve moved on from it. This is what about Obama\u2019s speech made you mad today, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. It\u2019s history! Get over it! You know, my great aunt that sent \u2019em away to school, before she died, told me she was ashamed of what she did. But they had Indian blood. But she said, ‘I was wrong,\u2019 and none of it — I\u2019m sitting here looking at a proposed bill from Congress about my mother was going to get $3,000. I have my grandfather\u2019s role number. She got, from what I remember, around $60 and ‘more to follow.\u2019 She never got any more money. Did this eat at us? No. It\u2019s history. We tried to get everything out of grandma that she could tell us about our grandparents, because I didn\u2019t know them. But I don\u2019t hate our government for it or my great aunt for it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amen. Amen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you called. I\u2019m glad you waited, Jean, because this is one of the points I was trying to make. One of these sound bites that we played that\u2019s being portrayed as one of the great unifying aspects of the speech actually is a recipe for how everybody is really not an individual. They are who they are based on people they\u2019ve never known that might be in their family, people they\u2019ve hung around. Except Reverend Wright. If you\u2019ve hung around him, you\u2019re not going to adopt anything he says, but anybody else around… He trashed his own grandmother as a racist, and said: This is who I am. No! Just because your grandmother was a racist doesn\u2019t mean that you are, Barack! See, this is how they do it, folks. This is how this little trick is played. As I said at that portion of the program, those of us in our mid-fifties and even older, you start talking about parents and grandparents? You\u2019re going to go back to periods in this country where there was a lot different attitude, racial attitudes. There was more racism then than there is now. So guilt by association! We\u2019re back to that. By the way, I found last night, there was such legislation in Illinois. It was 1998. I couldn\u2019t find it under the name of Guilt-by-Association Act, and I could not find any quotes of Obama to explain why he voted against it, but it was a piece of legislation that would have penalized people on parole hanging around other people that had been involved in the criminal elements of our society. So there was legislation. Obama was one of three people that voted against it. I just couldn\u2019t find it under the name that the caller gave to us yesterday, nor could I find any statement from Obama about why he opposed it. It was ten years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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