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<\/a>And, by the way, this has become an issue that practically every Democrat frontrunner has said they support.\u00a0 They can\u2019t not support it! (laughing) They have to support reparations for slavery.\u00a0 At the same time, the bill claims slavery “was a moral and political mistake.”\u00a0 Well, somebody invited a writer named Coleman Hughes to give testimony at the hearing.<\/a>\u00a0 He\u2019s a writer at a website or magazine called Quillette, and he testified against the idea of reparations.\u00a0 He said (summarized), “We don\u2019t need another program like this, and nothing I\u2019m about to say is meant to minimize the horror or brutality of slavery and Jim Crow.<\/p>\n“But we do not need another one of these quasi-welfare programs.\u00a0 What we need are safe neighborhoods, good education.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need reparations.\u00a0 We don\u2019t need another apology.”\u00a0 Well, the room exploded — and the guy\u2019s African-American.\u00a0 The room exploded, and the chairman of the committee had to start shouting, “Chill out, everybody!\u00a0 Chill! Chill! Chill!”\u00a0 Now they\u2019re all trying to find out who invited this guy, who he is, how he got in there, and how they can make sure this doesn\u2019t happen again because…<\/p>\n
They even brought Danny Glover in!<\/p>\n
That\u2019s our audio sound bite.<\/p>\n
They brought Danny Glover in to testify for reparations for slavery.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 We\u2019re gonna start here with her eminence, Sheila Jackson Lee.\u00a0 You talk about intelligence? She possesses a rare intelligence, and she\u2019s one of the guiding lights of the Democrat caucus in the House of Representatives.\u00a0 You know the old story.\u00a0 She lives in Houston, a suburb of Houston.\u00a0 She was over at NASA, and they had had video shot from the Mars rover.<\/p>\n
It was tooling along the surface, scooping up stuff, analyzing it, sending it back to NASA to find out what it was so that we could escape to live there when climate change wipes us out.\u00a0 She asked them if the rover would then go over to where the astronauts planted the flag. Ahem. All this is televised, and the NASA officials say, “Ahem. Ahem. Well, uh, Congresswoman, uh… That flag was the Moon.\u00a0 Buzz Aldrin. Armstrong. They planted it on the Moon.\u00a0 We haven\u2019t been to Mars yet.”<\/p>\n
“Oh, yes, yes! Of course, of course,” she said. “I knew that. I knew.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be silly.\u00a0 I knew that!\u00a0 Don\u2019t insult me.\u00a0 I knew that.”\u00a0 So whenever she speaks, we stop and listen.\u00a0 It\u2019s a rare moment.\u00a0 So this morning during the slavery reparations hearing, Sheila Jackson Lee explained her logic verifying or requiring or supporting the idea that we need slavery reparations.<\/p>\n
LEE: Thirty-one percent of black children live in poverty compared to 11% of white children.\u00a0 The national average is 18%, which suggests the percentage of black children living in poverty is more than 150%.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n
LEE:\u00a0 Supporting the institution of slavery and subsequent discrimination directed against blacks is an injustice that must be formally acknowledged and addressed.\u00a0 I just simply ask, “Why not?\u00a0 And why not now?\u00a0 If not all of us, then who?”\u00a0 God bless us as we pursue the final justice for those who lived in slavery for 250 years in the United States of America.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s kind of late for them, Congresswoman.\u00a0 I guess tou\u2019re gonna take their money and claim that it\u2019s theirs and you\u2019re gonna do the right thing with it? Just like liberals do: Take everybody else\u2019s money. You\u2019re gonna get a bunch of money appropriated for them.\u00a0 I mean, you never lived in slavery, unless you want to claim that life in America today for Democrats or African-Americans (or gays, lesbians, transgenders, and the bathroom-confused) is slavery.<\/p>\n
But how about this justification:\u00a0 “The national average suggests the percentage of black children living in poverty is more than 150%”?\u00a0 So (chuckling) how many people are we counting twice here in order to just — and how many of them are slaves?\u00a0 And then she said here, “God bless us as we pursue the final justice … that must be formally acknowledged and addressed.”\u00a0 Have we not, have we not acknowledged, have we not addressed it? Five hundred thousand people lost their lives in Civil War to stop this.<\/p>\n
There have been more programs featuring federal money than you can count.\u00a0 This is my argument.\u00a0 These people have voted Democrat my entire life. They\u2019ve voted Democrat to fix all these things, and notice they never get fixed! The anger never does anything but ratchet up.\u00a0 You talk about failed performance?\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 So that was Sheila Jackson Lee.\u00a0 Now it\u2019s time for the star witness at the slavery reparations hearing — and in this, the playbook never changes.\u00a0 Danny Glover. Do you know why he\u2019s an expert?\u00a0 Because… (interruption)<\/p>\n
No, no, no.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 No, no, no, no, no.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t a slave.\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 But a cab wouldn\u2019t stop and pick him up on the streets of Manhattan some year. Don\u2019t tell me you\u2019ve forgotten that. (interruption) Oh, yeah.\u00a0 Danny Glover\u2019s out there on 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue — I wonder why — and a cab went by. He was hailing a cab; the cab wouldn\u2019t stop. Danny Glover gets enraged, calls Mel Gibson, says (paraphrased), “We need to do a press conference on this! The cabdriver was not African-American, obviously scared of me. Racism! This city sucks!”<\/p>\n
A major cause celebre was born, and that\u2019s why he\u2019s been brought in as a witness! (interruption)\u00a0 Ah, close ties with Hugo Chavez?\u00a0 I mean, that\u2019s… Hugo Chavez had nothing to do with slavery!\u00a0 I mean, to us he might have, but not to these people.\u00a0 Hugo Chavez freed the slaves to live in poverty, which is the natural state of things.\u00a0 So here are the opening remarks of actor and activist — and the famously discriminated against by the New York taxi cab community — Danny Glover, and a portion of his opening remarks…<\/p>\n
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GLOVER:\u00a0 I am deeply honored to be here today offering my testimony at this historic meeting about the reckoning of a crime against humanity that is foundational to the development of democracy and material well-being in this country.\u00a0 A national reparations policy is a moral, democratic, and economic imperative.\u00a0 This hearing is yet another important step in the long and heroic struggle of African-Americans to secure reparations for the damages inflicted by enslavement and post-emancipation and racial exclusionary policies.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 All right.\u00a0 So the star witness was a wealthy, famous actor who had once experienced the discrimination of slavery by witnessing a cabdriver refuse to stop for him on the streets of Manhattan. (interruption) What do you mean, “Will Kamala Harris\u2019 dad have to pay?”\u00a0 He\u2019s a Jamaican. (interruption) Well, I know Kamala Harris\u2019s family in Jamaica and they had slaves… (interruption) Kamala Harris\u2019s dad\u2019s family was trading slaves from Jamaica to the United…? (interruption) Kamala Harris\u2019s dad, that\u2019s right.\u00a0 I do remember reading this now.\u00a0 Her dad was involved in the slave trade.<\/p>\n
Jamaican doesn\u2019t count as African-American, though, so there\u2019s an exemption, you see?<\/p>\n
Totally.<\/p>\n
But look, this technique of bringing in actors… I\u2019m sure Danny Glover has starred in many roles as an African-American discriminated against.\u00a0 This gives him instantly credibility with the left.\u00a0 This is not new.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go back to May 6th, 1985.\u00a0 The House Democrat caucus had a little task force here trying to get what they wanted in the farm bill.\u00a0 Now, this is 1985, so we\u2019re going back 40-plus years.\u00a0 The witnesses for this stellar Democrat hearing on the farm bill were actresses Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, and Jane Fonda.<\/p>\n
And do you know why?\u00a0 Because they had played farm women in the Dust Bowl era in Kansas in a movie.\u00a0 And because they had starred in a movie about Dust Bowl poverty and the ravages of drought on the farming community — because they had starred in a movie about this — they were experts in drought and agriculture.\u00a0 Here is a portion of remarks by well-known farmer wife, agriculture and drought expert, Jessica Lange.<\/p>\n
LANGE:\u00a0 What we are witnessing in this decade is the systematic destruction of much of rural society.\u00a0 And in those states, the so-called farm states, when the family farm goes down, the entire state goes down.\u00a0 The heartland of America is being vacated.\u00a0 And I know this one thing.\u00a0 They are in pain.\u00a0 And it is heartbreaking to witness their anguish as they watch their lives stripped away, as they watch their boundaries disappearing —<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Boundaries?<\/p>\n
LANGE:\u00a0 — the boundaries which describe their work —<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Boundaries?<\/p>\n
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LANGE:\u00a0 — their land, their family. And their faith in this country and their faith in God.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n
LANGE:\u00a0 These people are living in a kind of modern-day slavery.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 And there you have it! Now, the Democrat Party today mocks and makes fun of farmers.\u00a0 They mock and make fun of rural America.\u00a0 They laugh at \u2019em.\u00a0 They talk about how dumb and stupid they are. “They chew and spit tobacco. They\u2019re missing their front teeth. They drive around the pickup trucks with gun racks in the back with a couple of shotguns there.<\/p>\n
“They\u2019re the first to show up at church on Saturday night to make sure that they get the pew that they want to sit in. This is who they are. They may as well be in a Deliverance movie,” and then — and then — they actually had to praise these people for believing in God-d?\u00a0 You can\u2019t do that today, as a modern-day leftist or Democrat.\u00a0 But Jessica Lange, because she had portrayed these circumstances in a movie, was a star witness.\u00a0 Up next, Sissy Spacek…<\/p>\n
SPACEK: I\u2019d be naive to assume that this is a simple problem with simple answers, but one thing I\u2019m sure of. We can\u2019t turn our backs on these people who have fed us so abundantly and so cheaply throughout our history.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Man, do you believe this? It wasn\u2019t that long ago where Democrats claimed to love the farmers. They claimed to love the rural parts of America. Now that they vote for Trump, it\u2019s let \u2019em starve. We don\u2019t care. The fact they believe in God means they\u2019re a gigantic threat. Last and least, Jane Fonda.<\/p>\n
FONDA: Not since the Grapes of Wrath have we seen so much attention by actors and filmmakers paid to the plight of the family farmer until today. Art and movies reflect reality, but they also shed light on it. And having made these films, The Doll Maker, The River, Country, Places in the Heart, we have a natural desire to express our concern for those farmers in the real world and their wives, their families who are being driven off their land into the graveyard of debt.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, yeah, the Republicans were starving \u2019em, they were gonna take away their Social Security, kick \u2019em off their farms, sell their farms to the Chinese and the Japanese, all of that was what was the order of day back then. Republicans didn\u2019t care about farmers. Only Democrats did. Here\u2019s the witnesses to prove it, actresses. What it really was was a way for Alan Cranston, who was a fairly advanced seasoned citizen by that time, just his way of being able to meet \u2019em and hang around \u2019em.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Okay, we have the audio sound bites of the fireworks at the slavery reparations hearing on Capitol Hill today.\u00a0 This is the judiciary subcommittee hearing on slavery reparations, and Quillette online magazine columnist and author Coleman Hughes spoke. This is the guy that blew it up by telling everybody here (summarized), “We don\u2019t need any more apologies. We don\u2019t need reparations. We need good schools. We need safe neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
“We need clean! We need good! We don\u2019t need any of these apologies.” That just caused people to lose their cookies, and Steve Cohen — I guess he\u2019s a subcommittee chairman.\u00a0 This is the clown that brought in a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken when Barr refused to testify before this committee once, \u2019cause he was “chicken,” supposedly, afraid to do so.\u00a0 So here is Coleman Hughes from Quillette online magazine…<\/p>\n
HUGHES:\u00a0 The question is not what America owes me by virtue of my ancestry.\u00a0 The question is what all Americans owe each other by virtue of being citizens of the same nation, and the obligation of citizenship is not transactional.\u00a0 It\u2019s not contingent on ancestry.\u00a0 It never expires, and it can\u2019t be paid off.\u00a0 For all these reasons, Bill H.R. 40 is a moral and political mistake.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n
COHEN:\u00a0 Thank you, Mr. Hughes.<\/p>\n
CROWD: (hissing and boos)<\/p>\n
COHEN:\u00a0 Chill! Chill! Chill! Chill! He was presumptive, but he still has a right to speak.<\/p>\n