April 16, 2011 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Keith Alexander here with me in the studio for his customary first hour as we are gearing up for another scintillating, vivacious, and effervescent program.
Keith, could I give him another seldomly used adjective to describe what we're going to bring to him this evening?
Vibrant.
Vibrant, incisive, penetrating.
You know, the words go on and on.
Right, getting the Tsaris out.
Well, you know, every night when we come into the studio, we have an outline of what we plan to talk about each hour, including, you know, the guest interviews.
We keep it loosely based, though, because live radio is a fluid entity, and we've got to be able to roll with the punches that Keith, as Keith said.
We were sitting here about an hour before showtime tonight.
We got to the studio, started doing our final preparations for tonight's show, and Keith and I were just talking about just the typical daily tasks and chores that one does on the weekend, running errands, so on and so forth.
And lo and behold, in asking Keith what all he did today, a program segment popped up out of the blue.
And to explain more about that, I'll turn it over to Keith.
James just asked me, by way of small talk, you know, probably for lack of anything better to ask, what you've been up to today?
And I said, well, the first thing I did was go to get my wife's prescription filled at the drugstore.
And that just opened up a cornucopia of insights about what is wrong with America today, James.
Specifically, here's what happened.
I went to the drugstore and I was third in line.
The two people in front of me were two black people, two men.
One pulled out a card, which was a government health care card.
He was a government employee and through his government employee union got health care benefits.
He got a heart medication that's pretty expensive.
At least I know that because I have to pay for it, not for myself, but for my wife.
He got it for $9.65.
Then there was another black person who was right in front of me.
He pulled out a Medicaid card, and he wound up paying even less than $9.65 for it.
Then I came up there and got the same medication, and I wound up paying over $100 for it because I work in the private sector, am self-employed, and therefore didn't have health insurance.
So I wound up paying $107.85 for the very same medication that one of those guys got free and the other guy got for $9.65, James.
And just to repeat, and just to be clear, you know, they weren't in there getting Tylenol and you in there getting some exotic medication for a mysterious ailment.
Y'all were getting the exact same prescriptions.
And sometimes, you know, when you paint with a broad brush, you're going to hit the mark.
In fact, more times than not.
And I don't think it's being employing too much of a generalization to assume that these two gentlemen in front of you either had government health care or health care that they received from their job, such as, you know, as a government employee, which is, I guess, basically the same thing.
See, non-whites, particularly here in the South, and I'm sure it's a nationwide problem or else they wouldn't be having all of this commotion up in places like Wisconsin where they're trying to bust the government unions.
People of color typically get a check from the government.
They either get a check in the form of some type of welfare if they're not working, or if they're working, the chances are that they're working for the government, either state, local, or federal in one form or another.
And one of the great benefits of working for the government is that you get Cadillac health care.
You also get a defined benefit pension.
I have no pension.
James has no pension.
But on the other hand, government employees, and again, government employees are predominantly black, particularly in a place like Memphis, they're going to have a defined benefit pension.
You know, James and I, at the very best that we could hope for, quake with fear and trembling every quarter as you get a 401k statement and you wonder how much of your retirement has evaporated into thin air because of the ups and downs of the stock market, which are being manipulated, of course, by globalist elites who are liberals.
On the other hand, these government employees know that World War III can happen tomorrow and they'll still get the same check every month.
They're going to get it, come rain or shine, because they got their front feet into the government trough and we don't.
Then another thing is that they're going to, they can not be fired easily.
They have civil service protection, so they can be insubordinate.
They can take off sick days like their vacation days.
They can basically do whatever they want to.
They can go through slow motion, through passive aggressive techniques and get nothing accomplished all day.
And it's virtually impossible to fire them.
This is what is wrong with America, this accommodation for the mores and the standards and the lack of intelligence that you have as a result of having a third world contingent in your population, James.
Not to get too far off the beaten path, but it doesn't even have to be a government employment position for it to be so hard to dismiss minorities.
My brother, I have one sibling, a younger brother.
He's about four years younger than me, and he worked for a while at Federal Express, which is, of course, a big, you might have heard of him.
And here in Memphis, it's their international hub.
And my brother, working at FedEx, said everybody on his shift that, and he's not, he's very apolitical.
You know, he just doesn't really care one way or the other about it, like so many people.
He doesn't.
That's right.
It surely is, fraught with peril.
But he just happened to notice in passing that, you know, a lot of the non-whites on his shift would just come to work, clock in, go to bed, and wake up when it was over, and they never got fired.
Meanwhile, my brother's doing the work for five people, breaking his back.
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During that first segment, actually just before the commercial break, I shared with you an observation that my brother made while being employed at Federal Express here in Memphis.
Before that, Keith Alexander was sharing with you a story, an experience that he had had today at the local drugstore, going to get a prescription filled.
And, you know, I'm certainly not what you could categorize as being a rich man.
I live a very nice, middle-class existence here in the suburbs.
I live comfortably, don't get me wrong, and I'm very blessed for all that I have.
I have a lot more than most, but I certainly don't live lavishly.
You know, middle-class, not paycheck to paycheck, but I couldn't take off too long from work and still expect ends to be met.
But, you know, I pay each month, $300 for insurance for myself and my daughter.
My wife is lucky enough to work at a place that covers her insurance.
But $300 just for my baby and I. That's a lot of money.
And I pay that every month in addition to, you know, the co-pays and money you have to pay for medicine and this, that, and the other should the need arise.
So revisiting Keith's story, to me, yes, obviously, it's offensive to see everyone except the working class, the people who are keeping this nation going, paying through the nose for the same benefits that it seems the dregs get on my tax paying dime.
And speaking of taxes, you know, I just mailed in my quarterlies last week.
So there's another uncle changed to Uncle Sam.
See, this is the same thing over and over again.
We just keep seeing it time and time again.
We need to understand that if it were not for a private sector, there would not be any money, any tax revenues to finance the public sector.
That's where they get their money, unless they just print it up out of thin air which, of course, seems to be a new strategy that the elites are using.
But if there was not a private sector and a productive part of society creating taxable income which is then taxed, those tax revenues are used not only to pay the welfare that we saw with the number one person that I encountered in the drugstore, but there also would not be money to pay government employees not only their salaries but their employee benefits,
like the health insurance that was funding the prescription drug purchase of the number two person in my little tale.
See, basically the public sector and to the extent that it is overwhelmingly minority in a place like Memphis, the minority population is leeching off of the private sector white population that continues to work as we support more and more people.
And then, of course, our federal government, by taking no action on securing our border, is basically inflating the numbers of people who have a natural instinct to leech off of the government, either by public you know, by welfare, or by public sector employment.
James and my objection to all this isn't born out of jealousy, it's it's what's right.
Yeah, absolutely it's what's right for all Americans.
You know, special privileges for none and equal opportunity for all.
I can't get welfare number one because I have pride all right.
Number two, because I actually work for a living all right.
I can't get a government job because I'm white, so therefore I'm left having to buy my own insurance.
You know, basically because not all private positions in fact very I don't know what the percentage is, but it's easy you can easily say, not all private employers offer free you know free health care.
Very few of them do some.
You have to pay half, so on and so forth.
So well, I can tell you from looking at things from my vantage point.
I find myself down in government buildings and working among the government sector on a regular basis and what I've noticed is that whenever a black person gets elected in Memphis to something like a clerk's office, like the county court clerk or like the trustee's office, the next thing you see is a wholesale reordering of the staff and you see all of these black people coming in,
being hired and all these old white people being cashiered out either through early retirement or otherwise.
And you see and you know, this government employment, as apparently somebody at the Republican Party has figured out, needs to stop.
It's a gravy train and it is basically a burden, an anchor tied around the neck of the productive part of society.
As we have more and more public sector employees and more and more welfare beneficiaries, we have more and more people riding in the wagon, James, and fewer and fewer people pulling the wagon.
Well, I couldn't be said any better or more clearly, and I don't know what more we can add to that, although there is much more we have to talk about this evening on the radio program.
So, Keith, before we move in to a little early Confederate History Month segment this first hour, I know there was another topic you wanted to address very passingly.
Okay, reading the newspaper again and our kind of behind enemy lines of approach that we take, the lead editorial in Saturday today's commercial appeal in Memphis was a congratulation to the government for caving into an EPA lawsuit brought against the TVA in the Memphis Light Gas and Water Division,
basically trying to get them to abandon using coal-generated power, steam turbines, and the heat is produced for the steam to run the turbines by coal and replacing it with quote-unquote green energy.
Now, this is supposed to be a great advance for the people of Memphis, but what they don't tell you, they do not connect the dots, and that's why we're here at the Political Cesspool to connect these dots for you.
This power is bound to be much more expensive and also have all sorts of unpredictable side effects.
It will be negative.
And we could do just well, just fine without all this help from liberals, liberal environmentalists and others, forcing us to change.
Memphis is a poor place.
Memphis is the type of place that brings out the truth of one of Abraham Lincoln's observations, one of the few that turned out to be true and beneficial.
He said that God must have loved poor people because he made so many of them.
Well, in Memphis, we certainly have our share of poor people because it's the only city in Tennessee with a majority black population.
It's also the only city in Tennessee that had a loss in population over the past census period, the past 10 years.
For the same reasons as Detroit.
And see, people just, you know, they are encouraged never to notice this.
You know, it's like the Wizard of Oz behind the screen.
Pay no attention to this little man behind the screen.
Pay no attention to this salient fact, which says that Memphis is in decline.
And quite frankly, we're on a razor's thin margin.
One or two more little changes in the way that things happen in Memphis is going to cause the remaining white exodus to turn into a flood.
And then what will happen is that Memphis will turn into Detroit.
And hopefully that's not going to happen.
But, of course, the left is, you know, like Admiral Farragut in the Civil War at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
They say, damn the torpedoes full speed ahead.
We're going forward with this left-wing Marxist agenda.
And if it causes white people to flee Memphis, well, that's just the price of progress, I guess.
And see, this is what's going to happen.
We're going to have more and more expensive energy in Memphis, which we can't afford.
And you also see that alternative energy, as the Japanese have learned, is not without problem.
That's liable to be the type of problem that we encounter here in Memphis and elsewhere if we go to alternative sources.
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One of the comments made just a few minutes ago was that Keith Alexander brings truth in a way that even the least attentive of us can understand.
And also, I would add to that by saying you will get more truth during the first hour of this radio program than you will in each week than you will watching Fox News 24-7 around the clock for a week.
And that being said, I want to take a question from the chat room.
That's just another reason why you should come on into the chat room rather than having to call in the studio.
We can take your questions directly from the chat and answer them on air.
We were talking just a moment ago, Keith, about, you know, we as middle class citizens, working class, not working class citizens, because that's a little bit lower in status, but we work for a living.
We're middle class.
We've worked hard to get up to the middle class.
One of the attendees in the chat room asked, what do we consider the middle class to be?
What income range?
Because John McCain once said he considers someone making $5 million or less a year to be middle class.
I'd say $30,000 to about $200,000 a year is middle class in America today, at least in most locales.
In places like New York, it would have to be higher.
There's, of course, upper and lower middle class.
Yeah, there's an upper and lower middle class.
And, you know, there's a lot of people that want to deny there's anything above upper middle class in America.
But, of course, that's hogwash.
To be a person that makes enough money to be over the poverty level and not qualify for any type of federal benefits, except the general benefits that are available, like being able to deduct your mortgage payments, things like that.
That is, I think, probably the greatest indicia of what the middle class is.
Now, people that work for the government and otherwise leech off the government are just as, you know, it doesn't matter whether they're welfare recipients or if they're making $150,000 or $250,000 a year like some of the government employees that we have in Memphis do.
They're still part of the problem.
It's not just a matter of class.
And, you know, we're not beating up on poor people.
What we're beating up on are people that intentionally access all of these welfare benefits.
And a lot of them do it in a very, you know, calculating way.
You know, somebody told me one time, if you want to see the dark side of the moon in your yard man or maid's personality, try paying them with a check.
Well, the reason that does that is because a check can be traced.
And when they see it, the government does, they can disqualify people for a whole panoply of government benefits, WIC program, SNAP program, supplemental nutrition program, things like this.
And a lot of people look at that, unfortunately, particularly minorities, as their floor.
Now, then they go about trying to make money from other sources, and they want cash.
They don't want a job at McDonald's because that little job at McDonald's will cause them to lose all of these other benefits like Medicaid or 10 care.
They're going to miss out on the WIC program, women, infant children supplements.
They're going to miss commodities like the infamous government cheese and whatnot and things like, you know, remember the song from the late 60s that Richard Nixon likes so much, Welfare Cadillac by Guy Drake.
Going to prevent you from getting food stamps or the EBT card, as they call it now, which is what the SNAP program uses, food stamps or passe.
All of those things are the floor.
Then they want to make cash in addition to that, but only cash.
And this, quite frankly, leads to criminality because if you got to make money and you can only make it in cash, you can't make it in the regular above-ground economy.
You get paid by a check.
But what's the greatest all-cash economy of them all, James?
It's crime.
Your local pimp, drug dealer, and fence don't accept Visa, MasterCard, or personal checks.
They want cash.
And if you want to make cash, you know, you can do shade tree mechanic work.
You can do a little sheetrock work on the side.
But the biggest thing you can do is you can be a pimp.
You can be a prostitute.
You can sell drugs.
You can steal stuff and sell it to the fence and get cash back, doing stuff like that.
So basically, this whole welfare system basically encourages people to turn to crime.
Just like the welfare system that says that you don't get welfare benefits for your children, if there's a man living in the house, encourages people to be promiscuous sexually and to have children outside of wedlock.
Because if they have a husband, guess what?
They don't get the benefits.
If they have no husband, then every child is a plus to their income through government benefits.
So, see, we have an upside-down world if you look at it from the standpoint of traditional morality.
But on the other hand, if you're a leftist and you're interested in tearing down the traditional societal structure, it's working perfectly according to Hoyle, isn't it, James?
Keith, it absolutely is.
And I tell you, you've really got them fired up.
You've been pouring napalm on the burning flame in the chat room today.
I tell you, you've got them whipped into a frenzy over there.
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I want to ask Keith to provide a little commentary on an article that I happened to see today at Walgreens.
I wasn't there to get prescriptions, but rather to buy mailing supplies to send off some books to some of our listeners.
While I was there, and I couldn't bring myself to open it because I knew it would just make me mad and put me in a bad mood.
And I didn't want to go there right before I drove downtown to the studio tonight.
I wanted to come here with a pretty sunny disposition.
But I saw the most recent edition of Time magazine.
And on the April 2011 edition of Time, you will see a huge portrait of Abraham Lincoln with a superimposed tear running down his cheek.
And the tear is almost cartoonish in nature, as if to accentuate the fact that it's there, because you want to see that Abraham Lincoln is crying over the fact that we are still fighting the Civil War today.
And of course, Time magazine goes on to give us their take on the real reason why our Second War for Independence was fought.
Now, like I said, I couldn't bring myself to open the magazine.
But knowing Keith Alexander, the masochist that he is, he reads all of this stuff for you.
He puts himself through this torment so he can comment on this stuff for you or our loyal listeners and fans.
He reads the newspaper every day.
That would give me an aneurysm.
But he even read this monstrosity on Lincoln in this month's Time magazine.
Keith, it's a full-length feature article.
It's like 20 pages long, but kind of break it down with the time we have, and then we'll get as much of it as we can.
What's it about?
It's called The Way We Weren't.
It's in the April 7th, 2011 edition of Time magazine.
And basically, they're asking the question, what caused the Civil War?
They said it returns 20 million Google hits and a wide array of arguments on the internet, comment boards, and discussion threads.
Okay, now here's what they say.
They say that out there in boob land, red state America in particular, where yahoos are, you know, picking their nose and scratching themselves in inappropriate places, they think that the Civil War was caused by something other than slavery.
But among the academic experts, quote unquote, there is a consensus that it was caused by slavery.
Everything stemmed from slavery, from the slavery issue, says Princeton professor James McPherson, whose book, Battle Cry of Freedom, is widely judged to be an authoritative one-volume history of the war.
Another leading authority, David Blight of Yale, laments, no matter what we do or the overwhelming consensus among historians out in the public mind, there is still a need to deny that slavery was the cause of the war.
It's not simply a matter of denial.
For most of the first century after the war, historians, novelists, and filmmakers worked like hypnotists to soothe the post-traumatic memories of survivors of the war and their descendants.
Now, what he doesn't tell you is that for the past 50 years, you know, this is a sesquicentennial, 150 years since the Civil War, basically we've been under hypnosis and brainwashing to believe that slavery and slavery alone was the cause of the Civil War.
And we're going to get back after this break and tell you why they want you to think.
You heard it.
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Welcome back to the program, everyone.
James Edwards here and Keith Alexander co-hosting with me for the first hour.
In case you didn't hear it, or in case you didn't visit our website this week and see it on the blog, Ashley Judd and Kobe Bryant, a radical feminist and a black professional athlete, have run afoul with the politically correct thought police.
And we're going to tell you why.
Now, you're probably thinking I'm getting way off course, but no, that was just a teaser for the second hour to entice you to stay tuned, as if you needed such an incentive.
But we will now go back to Keith Alexander's expose, Keith Alexander's show and tell about this dreadful feature on Abraham Lincoln that is in the Time magazine for April 2011.
Got the big tear rolling down his face.
We were talking about it a little bit in the last segment before the break.
Someone in the chat room, Keith, asked you if you thought that the tear was on his face in this magazine portrait because he was assassinated before he could implement his Liberian experiment.
I don't really think that he was going to do that.
I think that he was a duplicitous person that spoke out of both sides of his mouth.
If you'll look at the Lincoln-Douglas debates, it's quite obvious that he took one position when he was in front of a basically conservative crowd and he would take another position when he was in front of what he considered to be a friendly liberal crowd.
He was one of the first liberals and he was also one of the first big government people.
That's one of the keys to understanding what really happened in the Civil War.
But as Time magazine points out, the first 100 years, they didn't think that slavery was the big problem.
They didn't think that was the animating cause of the Civil War.
But what they don't tell you is as important as what they tell you in Time magazine.
For the past 50 years, there's been a relentless drumbeat to make people believe that black slavery was the only cause and that nobody that has any sense at all could believe otherwise for the American so-called Civil War.
Now, they say all the experts are in agreement.
Well, that's because all the experts are liberals.
If you're not a liberal, you don't get to be an expert.
You're not going to be in academia.
You're not going to be extended tenure.
And if you are, you're going to be teaching at Yontna Patofa Junior College, not at Harvard and Yale.
So they get all these Harvard and Yale people that are proving that they're good card-carrying liberals who tell you the typical liberal line that slavery was the cause of the war.
But, you know, there are a lot of very smart people out there who don't have academic positions, people that are lawyers, doctors, Indian chiefs, in other ways.
They don't need someone like the professors at Harvard and Yale to chew their food for them.
They can study history themselves and draw sound conclusions on their own.
That's what we've done here at the CESPO.
And I can tell you that black slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War.
And I'm prepared to back that up.
Now, why is it so important to the left and liberal news media outlets like Time Magazine to make you believe otherwise, that it was the one and only real big cause of the Civil War?
That's because the left has been totally committed since the days of Trotsky and the cultural Marxists.
They discovered that inflicting guilt upon white people and setting that the race issue, basically, which is setting non-whites against whites, was the key, the absolute philosopher's stone for having a successful Marxist revolution in the West.
They realized that the old classical formula enunciated by Engels and Marx didn't work, and it was World War I that taught them that it didn't work because none of the people in Britain are not, you know, there was no uprising in Britain to speak of.
There was a small uprising in Germany that was easily crushed.
There was no uprising in France.
The Bella Kuhn government in Hungary lasted six months until the people were so outraged by what they saw of Marxism or communism as they called it then that they basically turned on the government.
They found that that wasn't going to work.
White proletarians were not going to be a good proletariat.
white working class was just a bunch of bourgeois wannabes.
They had to find people that had revolutionary zeal and they said non-whites outnumber whites in the world.
Even back then it was 25% white, 75% black.
And if we can turn that animus that all non-white people have against whites and they had it because they'd either been defeated militarily or they had been dominated economically by whites, that is going to be revolutionary zeal in spades and we're going to be able to carry the day when we basically let that genie out of the bottle, which they did.
Now what has happened is you've got to believe in the eyes of the left that black slavery was a cause of the Civil War.
Black is good.
White is bad.
Slavery is bad.
Excuse me.
Yeah, and anti-slavery is good and that secession is bad and abolitionists were good people.
And all those things are the exact converse of reality, at least in terms of the context of the American Civil War.
In the American Civil War, if you look back at the original documents, look at newspapers from the era.
Look at what historians back then were saying.
Look what analysts and political analysts were saying.
Basically, there was not hardly any support whatsoever, particularly at the beginning of the war, for freeing slaves.
And as a result, Abraham Lincoln never counts his arguments in those terms.
He told Horace Greeley, who was a leftist newspaper editor from New York, that his sole purpose in fighting this war was to restore the Union.
He said, if I can restore the Union by freeing all the slaves, I'll do it.
If I can restore the Union without freeing a single slave, I will do it.
And if I can restore the Union by freeing some slaves and not others, I'll do that too.
That's what he thought.
When the Emancipation Proclamation was read to the troops in fighting Joe Hooker's Union Army, they almost mutinied.
They said, this is not what we're fighting for, freeing the blacks.
And furthermore, if you read the Emancipation Proclamation carefully, you'll see that it only frees those slaves that the Union had no authority or power over at the time.
In other words, slaves that were living in Confederate occupied territory.
Slaves in the border states, for example, were not freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
And as a result, that just, that's one of the things that destroys the left's argument that it was about slavery.
The most important thing, the one that I want to give you as an arguing point, is called the Corwin Amendment.
This is the first 13th Amendment, and it guaranteed slavery forever.
It was proposed during what I call phony war period during which the southern states were seceding from the Union, voting in their state legislatures to secede, and he was trying his best to do to prevent that.
He said in the Corwin Amendment that slavery would be guaranteed legally in all the areas of the United States in which it was presently legal.
So consequently, he basically said nothing is going to stop slavery from being legal.
And if the war was about slavery, that would have settled it.
People in the South would have said, well, we now have our slavery.
Let's forget it.
But they didn't.
The reason is it was about much more than that.
It was about being dominated.
They figured out that by 1861, the North, by fair means or foul, was totally in control of the federal government, and they were running the federal government to the benefit of the North and against the benefits, the best interests of the South.
And they wanted the right of self-determination that their ancestors wanted and fought for in the American Revolution.
And that's why they seceded from the Union.
And back then, almost all the newspaper editors in the United States of large newspapers took it for granted that a state had a right to secede.
It was just that Abraham Lincoln and the Whiggish people that he had supported, were his supporters, they didn't want the South to escape.
The South was like their colony.
We produced agricultural products like cotton that they used in their factories.
And they realized that America would not be the strong and prosperous and wealthy nation that they wanted it to be if the South were allowed to secede and to create a separate nation.
So Abraham Lincoln was willing to go to war and killed over 600,000 Americans, basically because white Southerners realized the Federal Union had turned into a loveless marriage and they wanted to be free of it.
That's exactly what happened in the Civil War.
We're going to follow up with this in more depth next week, James, but this is, you know, this is important.
Another reason, a very important reason, is what's called the morale tariff and tariffs.
That's what we need to discuss.
We need to give you the information and the ammo you need to fight off this smug liberal falsehood that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, James.
Well, that certainly sets the table for a very interesting and provocative follow-up.
A part two to Keith Alexander's dissection of this Time magazine feature article on Abraham Lincoln as we continue to celebrate Confederate History Month 2011 right here in the Political Sessible Radio Program.
Still two more hours forthcoming during tonight's live broadcast.
Keith Alexander is bowing out, but we will pick up with him where we're leaving off next week.
For the rest of you, stay tuned.
Second hour coming up in just a minute.
The day the squirrel went deserving in the first South Baptist church in that sleeping little town of Pascagoula.
It was a fight for survival.
That broke out in revival.
They were jumping muses and shouting.
Hallelujah.
Well, Harv hit the aisles dancing and screaming.
Some thought he had religion, others thought he had a demon.
And Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his fruit and blooms.
He fell to his knees to plead and beg, and the squirrel ran out of his bitch's leg unobserved to the other side of the room.