June 13, 2024 • 39 mins
On Tyranny Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Part 3 with Psychologist and Mental Health Specialist Dr. Warren Harper on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.
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You know it's time of the beltof Fish, time of the belt
of show Y. Let's go.We are rocking and rolling on this Thursday,
June thirteenth, twenty twenty four.Enjoyed this fabulous day today. But
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before we go to our phone lines, hold for a few minutes. You
don't mind doing that. I thankyou so much for doing that, because
I have to tell you you youknow what I have to tell you.
It's lunchtime around the city. Sothat means that you need to head over
to my favorite place. What's thatplace? You know the place? Let
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me tell you all about my favoriteplace. It's the Rocking Chair of Memphis.
Yeay, yay, yay yay.The Rocking Chair of Memphis, where
they are feeding up some of thebest Southern soul food. Around fifteen forty
two Elvis Presley and Wednesday through Sundayeleven am to five pm, The Rocking
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the tastiest fried chicken, baked chicken, smort, smothered pork trapped or fried
pork trapps, smoke turkey necks,miss Ann's chitling yawl, macaroni and cheese,
candy, damn black eyed peas,collar greens. And today is Thursday.
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Pot roast, buffalo fish, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
Northern bean spaghetti, pinto beans,fresh pick greens, cornbread, and
uh you know they got them titlingswaiting for you. At the Rocking Tier
of Memphis. We rock with thebest soul food around, but we rock
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with entertainment into two so don't forget. On Friday and Saturday of this week
it is absolutely free until eight pmfor men and women. Yeah, they're
gonna have entertainment there. I'm gonnatell y'all about the entertainment and new group
there. Go me there on Junefourteenth. So I want you to stop
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one by the Rocking Chair. Youcan dine in or take out. Here's
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six' four. That's nine zeroone for two five five five two six
four and matter of fact, rockingChair is so famous. You might even
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today when you go by there,see the cast of New Jack City.
Yeah. I heard they gonna stopby the Rocking Yeah, yeah they are,
Doctor Harper. Yeah, that's whatthey say. They gonna stop by
the Rocking Chair, the cast ofNew Jack City. Yeah. So you
can go on by there, butdon't forget this weekend. They're gonna have
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great entertainment for you Friday and Saturdayfree until eight pm for men and women.
But stopping by that today get yousome of the best Southern soul food
around. And don't forget Miss Ann'sChicklings. Call them right now nine zero
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out, and when you go theretell them Bev Johnson sent you to the
Rocking Chair up Memphis fifteen forty two. Elvis Presley and welcome back. We're
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going back to our phone lines.Thank you all so much for waiting.
Hei Ti hi bab hi, DoctorHarper, good day. Yes, I
have all back in. I normallydon't call into the show like I did
last Friday. I'm the person whoinitiated the phone call last Friday. I
want to clear something up. Notonce did I say, I told my
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sons about two strikes. I said, that was my analogy and thinking of
how to get them through life situations, knowing that the black male has two
stripes against him since I was havingsun Now one time, did I say,
I told my son that I taughtthem about life situations and how to
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maneuver around those two things that weregoing to affect them in life. I
didn't have to tell them about it, because life itself, as they got
older and they grew into from aboy to a manhood, they found out
for themselves. And plus their fathertaught them because that was his position to
teach them about man things. Myposition was to be there and teach them
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about things going on in the world. It just appalls and amazes me how
this conversation was last Friday. Itwas distan screwed what I said. But
here it is almost a week later, and it's still, you know,
being brought up in a negative connotation. Out of all of the positive things
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that I said about my sons andtheir rearing and how they are now extremely
successful and this and that, thatpart was overlooked. So even if I
did tell them out to strike,and you know what, tease, but
it wasn't overlooked because doctor Jeffries commendedyou on that, and it wasn't over
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looked by me as well. Butyou're right. People they take out what
they want to take out, yes, but we as a society that's one
of our main things that we do. You take one aspect of something and
just want it in the ground andit's negative and then it's really not what
the person said. Now this isdirected and I normally don't call names,
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but this is directly directed at PrinceCharles. One thing I did teach my
sons, Prince Chawles, was bequick to listen and slow to speak.
And also when someone tells you somethingor give their opinion, it don't necessarily
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have to be to affect you.If there's nothing positive in it that's going
to edify you, then and justlet it be their opinion, because every
comment is not meant to be commentedon. And like I said, if
you could take something positive from itto add to your life, didn't do
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that. But if it's nothing positivefor you, didn't just leave it alone
because that's just that person's opinion.So always be quick to listen and slow
to speak, and sometimes before youspeak, analyze what was said. Thank
you Bell to taking my call,and I hope it got cleared up.
But well, thank you for callingback T and I appreciate that. All
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right, you guys have a goodday, you too, Bye bye,
unforgetful Sam jumping in Doctor Harper Man, y'all go, you have the wonderful
great shows again. Thank you jumpYes, sir, you're working dot harp
rock and share the way you doit, Oh, is so beautiful the
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way you spread. I don't understandwhat people don't. You got talent in
that there. It's greater than youbeing up there talked because you can do
things. I love that now,y'all. People out there, they got
all these bills of dollars. Y'allmean to look at this young lady.
She got the boys and that waydoing. As far as advertising your product,
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they just my opinion. People thatyour opinion. But doctor Harper,
I want to ask I want toask you one question about reverse psychology.
It's such a thing, and saythey're just something. It is, okay.
I wish to talk about that lateron. But you know, doctor
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Harper, I have this Nat Turnerin me, but I controlled it because
I know it can go you know, it can get wild out here when
when they come out of me.But Doc Harper, I love it.
Is that the reason why? BecauseI really learned about history and is it
true about what the French did thecountry of France, What did they do?
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Tell us what they did? Iknow they're in European country over there
by Brandon and all that stuff,but they basically helped black back in the
day. So I was wondering aboutwhen the British, you know, abolished
slavery in eighteen thirty one or somewherearound now. I wondered, did the
French as slaves one day abolished it. That's the one thing I was like,
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Yeah, all European countries and Arabcountries as well enslaved people. And
the intent was always to exploit,rape and do everything possible to these people,
to our people as they possibly could. French were no better than anyone
else and again even Arabs, butwere very very demeaning and damaging to African
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people. Okay, I didn't knowthat. I was just wondering, but
basically, uh, most people aredifferent, I mean different, like the
white let's say white and black makeyou more eat for me. But uh,
most white people really have a problemwith the black skin. Like you
said, black people, all ofthem. Okay are you asking? Are
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you asking a question? Uh?I can't. I can't. Yeah,
I can't speak for all all whitepeople. But but clearly, clearly,
if if you're if if you ifyou're born and raised in a society that
that that that is predominantly Eurocentric oror white, then obviously the the information
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that you're going to receive as anAfrican American person, as a black person,
is going to be predominantly what's positiveabout their particular ethnic group. They
ain't a race. Don't say race, They're not a race, their ethnic
group. And and see what happensis that the more you get about their
ethnic group being so positive and wonderfuland breeding and sophisticated, what have you,
the less we get about our own. And that's intentional. And that's
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where the racism seeped in. Sothere's no such thing as a white person
that's not influenced by racism, noris there there are any black people not
influenced by racism. And yes,I believe strongly, And there's a book
out that talks about this that racismis taught by white women to their children
primarily. So basically, will Lynchcame runner is still around. Well,
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if Willie Lynch is true, thensure it's still around, and it's gonna
always be around, I believe,as long as we're walking this earth.
Okay. So when I brought upgo ahead, bath going to it,
I brought up, yeah, whenI brought up about uh, put the
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word, you know, freedom inAmerica for black folks. You know,
what, can we all get togetherand just work together to solve our problems?
Just one big block sus politics foranswer? Why can't all blacks in
America just vote for one cause,you know, get together on that?
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Why it's so hard for us todo that? And you know we owe
the keys to the fleet to doctorHarper. A lot of us got the
keys to the past. You know, we can unlock these doors. That's
all I'm saying. You know,I look at these kids, Doctor Harper.
I'm not thinking about their unforgift forthe Doctor Harper, the Prince Job
or all best junks and whatever.I ain't thinking about y'all, even myself.
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I'm looking at these mothers walking aroundhere with these babies. You know,
new born, one year old,three year old kids that don't your
next generation, you know them theones that are important to me, okay,
and I want them to have abetter feature than I had, you
know, because I experienced racism andstuff. The young lady just got wrong.
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She was right. You know,I really appreciate that because you know
you King Harry, Oh, goodafternoon, queen, and my friend and
Tom rad doctor Hopper. That's mybrother. M Hey, I'm glad you
finally got him off of there,because he can go on and on.
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But I was calling on the samesubject of what y'all were talking about.
I don't think it's a thing tosaying that you got something against You're saying
that you're letting your child know thatno matter how smart intelligence that you are,
you will always taste barriers against you. Sure if you are a white
person and a black person get thesame it job, same pay. In
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order to get and a raise,you have to do double what they're doing.
And here's my example. When Iwas in the military, I went
for the anti or the month Iwent to antiora quarter, I was getting
ready to go for the brigade,and I asked my chief, you know,
when are you gonna send me tothe East sixth board. I was
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pretty much only black in my section, so he said, I'm not ready.
So I skipped him and went tothe first shirt and asked him.
He said, I thought you alreadywent. You sitting here representing my whole
company, then I'm gonna send you. So my boss got mad because I
went over his head. That's aplan example. The man knew that I
had all the intelligence, I wasready for the next grade, but he
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did not want to see a blackman get that rank before somebody else that
wasn't even better experience than I was. So that's all you tell them.
You gotta always be on your q'sand peace, because no matter how experience
that you are, you always gottwo strikes against you. It's very much
in the military. It's very muchin the military. People didn't think praised
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it was real praijudice. In themilitary. They did not want you to
get no rank. So you justhave to be smarter. It's not putting
a kid down by telling them that. I told my son and my daughter
too. It's not putting you down. It's just letting you know you have
to be stronger and more intelligent thanthey are in order to get to see.
That's all I want to say onthat, Ben, Thank you,
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King Harry. I have a goodweekend. I'll be calling you up.
Okay, all right, bye bye, all right, okay bye bye.
W D. I a hey caller. Good afternoon, sister Beth, Good
afternoon, mold Lee. How areyou always trying? I know, doctor
Harper, I hope you're doing well. I'm doing well, brother, and
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I hope you are doing insane?You can which is can you hear me?
I can hear you now? Becauseyou were breaking up? Molee okay,
uh initially, Look, there wasa section in there that I really
liked that talk. You're breaking up. Yeah, you're breaking up. I'm
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breaking up. Call you, yeah, call me back, call me back
because you're breaking up. W D. I a father? What doing?
I don't know? Father. Well, I'm glad just come up through playing
crier now for as uh you alwaystalking about for as racism and stuff like
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that, you know what I mean? I always uh, well, my
kids already they ain't get that incree in and there always gonna be superior,
and they included the whole you know, to home and making song.
Who needs to boot you know,because because me and your father, I
ain't got no into I'll set upfor the world song. It was right
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there, that's right father. Uhhuh right, Well yes, you Johny
green Jack, green eyed doom thathate no little daddy in the morning.
I'm done with y'all. Y'all somehaters and you some deal. But have
a good bill and you too,little daddy. We are talking this day.
Hold on, y'all, we're gonnaget to you. Don't get to
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you. I want to get todoctor Harper too as we take this break.
Yeah. Yeah, you're listening tothe BEB Johnson Show along with DTR
Warren Harper right here on w DI A nobody, and I mean nobody
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does it like the Queen of talk, Beb Johnson on the BEB Johnson Show
on wd I A ad words inyour home election or Google home. She's
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got Memphis talking. It's the BebJohnson Show on the station that's still Goodwill
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Here's Bev Johnson and we're going backto our phone lines and doctor Harper
decided we'll take all the phone callsand he'll come back with his next topic.
Yeah, so Molly is back.Go on, Molle, how is
our connection this go around? It'sbetter, much better, Moe. Okay,
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good book, Dr Harper. Inaddition to that one, I would
also recommend Snyder's colleague James Whitmore hasa Whitman rather has written a book called
Hitler's American Model, and that speaksto how the j and Nazi Nuremberg laws
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were based on, uh, theAmerican segregation and Jim Crow and slavery UH
codes. Very fascinating that they wereable to perfect what we had we had
initially put into place. Bevue,you pushed on civics quite often. It's
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lacking totally with respect to our educationsystem. Uh. The German students are
thoroughly meshed in learning about the Holocaust. French students are taught about France's brutal
colonial past in Algeria and Vietnam.Ivory students are well aware of the abuse
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caused by the Catholic Church. Spanishstudents study courses on the Eagles of Fascism
and Spain's fascist past. American studentsdon't learn about slave markets, betrayal of
tears, Japanese internment camps. Werequire enforced ignorance in this country, and
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we teach lies to our students.And it's mind bottling to the rest of
the world. Why we are heldbent on destroying democracy. Think about it.
We've come full circle. At onetime in history, it was illegal
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to teach a slave to read.Today in some state school districts, it's
illegal to read about slavery. That'swhere we are. And I'm really scared.
I'm really scared, doctor Harper,about where it's headed because from from
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from my perspective in terms of thelegal world, I'm afraid of the courts.
Be afraid folks when the courts changethe law, be afraid when the
courts eliminate the law. Be afraidwhen the courts don't enforce the law.
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And then that means democracy is movingtowards death. And with that that is
my ranto for the week. Mayyou both thrive you too, Bye bye
w d I A Hi, Sharon, how you doing this? I'm doing
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well in yourself, very well.Uh. It's a quick statement when you're
enjoying your show. As always,I want to piggyback on something doctor Harper
said earlier about teaching our children andrealizing ourselves the black people that we very
often have to work twice as hardand to receive half the half of the
recognition as our white counterparts. Andthat is definitely true. But what I
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like to add to that is that, believe it or not, that's the
same exact praise. I use wordfor word when I'm giving a ci T
graduation speech. The CIT stands foryou know, I know you understand.
What stands the doctors is the CrisisIntervention Team. And I give between three
to five graduation speeches a year,and I've been doing this well over a
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decade and it's an honor and blessingto be able to do it. And
so what I do, and there'snormally just one to four females in the
group, so I always give ashout out to them. I'm doing my
introduction, and I say the sameexact words did you said, because it's
true. I am retired US Armoryin the military, I'm a totally in
permanent disable old veteran, and I, as a black woman, face that
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daily as I went up the ranksup through to my retirement, so I
understand that, and I give thatrecognition to those women because they deserve it.
Thank you. I'm wanna listen tothe rest of your show. Thank
you, Sharon. Bye bye,Hi David, Good afternoon of my most
beautiful, beautiful African vider. Howare you doing today, my sister.
I'm doing well today. How aboutyou, brother? I'm doing well,
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especially since I've heard your melodious voice. How you doing, doc? Brother
doctor? Is it working on adoc? Can you tell me? Is
it working on it? I hopeit is. He head no, but
but you know sometimes people shake theirhead knowing they retah. Boy. But
anyway, boy, I am soglad that there was a brother I think
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of the brother. Please forgive me. Was that a brother or sister?
But anyway, that there was somebodybetween me and mo Lee. But because
boy, that was deep, that'sour herd one to follow the day.
Lord have mercy. Anyway, brother, Doc. I'm a baseball fan.
As far as I and I becamea baseball fan, I'm gonna tell you
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I saw Reggie Mister Reggie Jackson hitthree home run off of three different pictures
in the World Series and in Baseballtwo strikes does not mean you out.
Three strikes mean you out. Ifif if, if, the manager and
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the team tells you about the pictures. His weaknesses are what you up against,
right, and so when you getup at the play, if you,
if you, if you swing twotimes, you still got one.
Most shot Black folks been kicking asswith one shot at the plate. We've
been killing it with one shot atthe damn plate and many times knocking it
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out of the freaking part. Forthose of you brothers and sisters who do
not know this, Jackie Robinson wasnot the best Negro League player. Wrap
your head around that he was notthe best Negro League player when we when
they decided to give him a shotin the major league. How many of
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those brothers that that were better neverhad a shot at all at the plate?
Period. That's this country, that'sAmerica. It's frustrating to hear people
who act like they don't have adime worth of knowledge about the history of
America. Bell doc, Do wenot give our people, our young people,
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to talk about how to deal withthe with the freaking police, David
doctor Harper, We were talking aboutthat off air. We say that all
the time. We tell them aboutthe police, don't we Yes, I
mean, what the hell you thinkthat's about? Is that about? Is
that about a citizen of this countrywho's paying taxes? And you got to
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warn your children about the freaking policewhen they stop you for a traffic ticket,
hoping that they make it home.We are Look, I've lost I
lost a bunch of friends by tellingthem this doc. I swear to God,
Well, I'm not a bunch,but I don't have I didn't have
friends. I don't use loosely,but I've lost some friends by telling them
this. Black folks, I'm nothaving a conversation with you about race unless
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you read these ten books, becauseit's too damn frustrating. Now. You
can call me a buppy. Buppy, you can call me uppy, you
call me whatever you want to do, But to just to say you black
and you understand the situation not ain'tenough. That's not enough. You have
to study. You have to readsome Ballwin. You have to read some
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of the boys. You know,you got to read some Goddy to know
what the hell were up against.Yeah, we've done. Look, we've
done as good as we can dowith what we had. But we in
the midst bear of looking at whitemen's angle about now having to compete with
everybody, right, and because theyhave to compete with everybody, they wouldn't
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overthrow the damn country. You hearme, Yes, when Donald Trump came
down un the escalator and said whathe said, I meanly knew what he
was talking about, just because hewasn't talking about black folks. He was
talking about white men's anger at thefact that they no longer can get the
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same shot. They got a bettershot than the smartest negro. The dumbest
white boy can't get the same shotas the smartest negro, and they are
angry at that. So you sistersout there, you make sure your boys,
especially are armed because as public enemy, the great rap Brew said there's
a fear of the black planet,and they took that title from doctor Francis
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crest Wells in her views look herup to that's one of my ten that's
in my ten books to read.You understand we arming our children because if
we armed them, they wouldn't beon this damn hampster wheel wondering, well,
why did that white man going tocourt talking away? He talking and
getting away with it right right right? Uh huh, Come on, take
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your ass to court and do that, because I've been to court and and
and bev when that sister judge said, mister mister Malik, you need to
calm down. You know what Idid. Calm down. I know you
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what you said, so che youup like Bobby c You better teach,
you better teach. Here we arein the midst of a country that has
chosen white supremacy over the democracy,and you wondering about whether you and you
you got two strikes against you ornot black women. Look, the part
I was making about the black planningis this. If y'all could produce sperm
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yourself, you be just as endangeredas we are. Y'all have a thank
you, David W. D IA Hi, Marie, Hey, Breb.
How you doing today. I'm doingwell, Maurice and yourself. I'm
doing great. How you doing,doctor Harper? I'm doing fine, brother.
No problems here, all right?Good hey doctor Harper. Now this
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this is what I see things,doctor Harper. You know back in the
past times, you know when onenation would overthrow another, will conquer another
nation, the first thing they woulddo is go in the burning library,
right, true, right, Yeah, that's right. Okay, Now today
I see that just in reverse,is that they're taking us out of the
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books. See they're doing a vertygonna take us out of the books,
and then I think they're gonna tryto eradicate us. Now, like you
were saying about those stormtroopers and thesered necks out here are practicing paramilitary operations
and they're just sitting back waiting onDonald Duck to blow the dog Wilson and
they gonna come out. Well,doctor Harper, what would be the alternative
to that? What would be theanswer for that? Well, the first
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answer for that is for us toknow that it's going to happen, for
us to to to to basically getprepared, whether that's psychologically, spiritually,
or or physically or or or withweapons if we have to, because we
have to protect ourselves. But wealso have to start basically talking to our
politicians and basically getting them busy ontrying to I guess reteach or teach the
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the the American population about the dangersof the paramilitary and anyone that is who
is against humanity. We have toget that across that these people are not
just an assault or a danger tothe people of color. They're they're danger
to their own people because because oncethey kill off or or or depower us,
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they're coming after their own as well. Believe me, the ritual survive
the rest of the ones who'll justbe basically basically like police trying to monitor
us as well as people who arejust trying to to just live our lives.
So we're gonna have to only armourselves in whatever way way we can,
but we also have to basically getto get across to this, this
this world or this this country inparticular, how dangerous these these times have
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become, and how we have Wehave a war going on now, and
believe me, the major attack hasnot occurred yet. But believe me,
it's been going on every since theCivil War. It's never died down people.
That's right, that's right, doctorHarper, You're right. It's all
the country I know that will flytwo flags and the regular stars and stripes,
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and then they had the stars andbars, and you can't do that
in no other country. Go therewith pooting that and try to fly another
flag and shit without the dead.Another thing, DoD Happer, Uh,
this is just something I noticed aboutone of Trump's cohorts, which is Governor
Bill Leap. You know, hepassed the bill that made drag racing all
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these donuts and stuff of feelings.Now people know that selling drugs and a
feeling. People know they're kajacking andshooting. The killing is a feeling.
It but is it stopping him fromselling drugs? Is it stopping him from
doing what they're doing? That's right? So when they but you know what,
when he changed that law and hestarted to effect the first of this
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month, and only thing, it'snot going to stop drag racing and don't
know, but you know what it'sgoing to stop, doctor Happer. What's
that. It's going to stop themfrom being able to vote. And I
don't think that's a seriously enough crimeto take away your bowling rights. Maybe
we could take away Trump's behind thefact that he's got what, uh whole
lot of feeling. Yeah, that'sright. Now they need to take his
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boweting rights, that's right, Doc. All right then, Doc, I
enjoyed talking to you man, Thanksa lot for that. Get these last
two calls, w D I ahigh caller. It's kay, I'm gonna
be brief. Hey, I wantto say, black impound has become killed
black, black killed black. Andwhat is happening is they have set us
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up and we are falling right intowhere they want us to. And in
the meantime, you got Russia rightoutside of Florida Circle. You heard about
all the yeah yeah, yeah,which und submarines, They got ratings to
do whatever they want to do.But then we got to realize Americans and
prophecy and underprophe set, and weare being judged by our deeds. So
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I don't care how many lawmakers youget out there until the evil is sad
to sit somewhere down, it's gonnaget worse, and it's gonna only be
worse us because we're killing each other. So they're not gonna have any bullets.
They ain'tn'na stay in no bullets.What they're gonna do with the robots,
they ain't got no bombs, youknow. So the new role order
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you have to have. You haveto be legit straight doing what you're supposed
to be doing, and you definitelyhave to be prayed up and prayerful because
we're gonna live in a perilous town. Scriptures does not a lack don't hang
up, thank you, King andcommon man. Yeah, hey, bib
and how doctor Hopper ain't a man? All right? All right, I
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certainly believe that we have barriers orhow I heard us to hop or strike
stripes stripes against us as black people. As I said before, I definitely
believe racism is still alive. Bib. I remember now when I'm when my
family and I moved into Hickory here, it was like in ninety two.
Right. I don't know if youwere there before me or not, but
you know how nice it was outthere, right, yeah, I was
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there before you. Right, yeah, very nice, very very nice,
elegant. Right, Okay, Somy next door neighbor, and of course
you remember that the community was predominantlywhite. Yes, So I remember one
day we came out of the housegetting ready to go visit my mom in
my white next door neighbor. Thelady she said, oh you all lived
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there, and she said, wewas wondering are those your cars? So
you know, we had the Toyotacamera in a BMW. Right, So
you see how white people don't evenexpect or or think a black person to
have anything nice. They they don'teven think we deserve nice things. We
were not privileged enough to have things, you know. Okay, okay when
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ms T when Miss P said inresponse, first of all, like she
said, she was you know,misquoted. But the thing is, Bill,
you could sit up and give afive ten minute speech and a person
takes only what they want to takeout of it. If they if they
looking for their negative, that's whatthey're gonna find. You could, you
could, you could, You couldprobably plant a million dollars around some you
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know, looking for a Damn heain't gonna find nothing. They dance because
that's all he's looking for. Youknow what I'm saying, what you're saying.
Yes, me and myself, Ithink it's a man set because when
you're looking for negative, that's whatthat's what you come up with. I
remember I was, you know,brushed up, bumped up a little bit
because I said I didn't believe thebest or the first stage of discipline should
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be the whoop of child. Isaid, I believe in talking to my
children first. I think to getthem to respect you, not be afraid
of you. It's the best way. That's my philosophy with my children.
I think. So I can't tellyou what to do with yours. But
it worked for me. I'll saythat much. You know. So what
Ms T does with her children,her and her husband, whatever they tell
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them or whoever. That that beaton people's business. And like you always
say, Bell sometimes salles is golden. You don't have to respond or remark
on everything that come across the radiobecause I here's the stuff that I don't
agree with, or I might thinkit's negative, but I don't always respond
on it. And you have topractice that because if you don't, you'll
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find yourself with nothing but negative comingout of your mouth. I agree,
all right, I'll have a goodnight, doctor Harper. I don't know
if you have children, guess thatyou do. So Happy Father's Day to
yourself, to you, yes,sir, all right, thank you,
coming man, all right, byebye, doctor Harper. Good show today,
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bro. We got some good,good feedback and and good conversation.
Your last words, well, HappyFather's Day to all those fathers out there.
Believe me, uh uh we wewe have paid our dues, particularly
particularly those who can smile when theywhen they say Happy Father's Day and when
they hear it back from there fromtheir sons and daughters. Uh. The
only thing I have to say isthat is that I appreciate all the callers
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calling up through today. I appreciateall the callers that that call in general,
because it says that you're listening,it said, and I hear literally,
I hear if I'm giving a gradeon people. And I don't want
to sound too judgmental. From fromthe years that I've started talking this way
until now, I hear people becomingmore and more educated. And it's not
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necessarily because what doctor Harper's put inyour head. It's behind the fact that
the root word of behind education isto educe, which is to bring out.
I hopefully I am bringing out ofyou with the voice that you have
in the back of your head that'sbeen telling you to speak up for a
long time. My role as arace man is to make is to make
you aware of the fact that youhave a voice, and that that voice
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has to be not only powerful,but knowledgeable. And you only become knowledgeable
if you read and study and planand organize so that we will not be
canon fadder. That said Doctor WarrenHarper. Y'all, thank you, Doctor
Harper. Look forward to next timenext week. Yeah, he's here next
week, y'all, Yes he is. Thank you callers, Thank you listeners
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for joining us this day on theBEV Johnson Show. We do, we
really do appreciate you. So untiltomorrow, please be safe. Cap a
cool head, y'all, don't letanyone still your joy until tomorrow, I'm
BEB Johnson, and y'all keep thefaith. The views and opinions discussed on
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You know it's time of the beltof Fish, time of the belt
of show Y. Let's go.We are rocking and rolling on this Thursday,
June thirteenth, twenty twenty four.Enjoyed this fabulous day today. But
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before we go to our phone lines, hold for a few minutes. You
don't mind doing that. I thankyou so much for doing that, because
I have to tell you you youknow what I have to tell you.
It's lunchtime around the city. Sothat means that you need to head over
to my favorite place. What's thatplace? You know the place? Let
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me tell you all about my favoriteplace. It's the Rocking Chair of Memphis.
Yeay, yay, yay yay.The Rocking Chair of Memphis, where
they are feeding up some of thebest Southern soul food. Around fifteen forty
two Elvis Presley and Wednesday through Sundayeleven am to five pm, The Rocking
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Chair of Memphis serves up some ofthe best soul food Memphis has to offer
the tastiest fried chicken, baked chicken, smort, smothered pork trapped or fried
pork trapps, smoke turkey necks,miss Ann's chitling yawl, macaroni and cheese,
candy, damn black eyed peas,collar greens. And today is Thursday.
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Pot roast, buffalo fish, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
Northern bean spaghetti, pinto beans,fresh pick greens, cornbread, and
uh you know they got them titlingswaiting for you. At the Rocking Tier
of Memphis. We rock with thebest soul food around, but we rock
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with entertainment into two so don't forget. On Friday and Saturday of this week
it is absolutely free until eight pmfor men and women. Yeah, they're
gonna have entertainment there. I'm gonnatell y'all about the entertainment and new group
there. Go me there on Junefourteenth. So I want you to stop
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one by the Rocking Chair. Youcan dine in or take out. Here's
the number to call place your ordernine zero one four two five five two
six' four. That's nine zeroone for two five five five two six
four and matter of fact, rockingChair is so famous. You might even
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today when you go by there,see the cast of New Jack City.
Yeah. I heard they gonna stopby the Rocking Yeah, yeah they are,
Doctor Harper. Yeah, that's whatthey say. They gonna stop by
the Rocking Chair, the cast ofNew Jack City. Yeah. So you
can go on by there, butdon't forget this weekend. They're gonna have
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great entertainment for you Friday and Saturdayfree until eight pm for men and women.
But stopping by that today get yousome of the best Southern soul food
around. And don't forget Miss Ann'sChicklings. Call them right now nine zero
one four two five five two sixfour, dine in or you can take
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out, and when you go theretell them Bev Johnson sent you to the
Rocking Chair up Memphis fifteen forty two. Elvis Presley and welcome back. We're
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going back to our phone lines.Thank you all so much for waiting.
Hei Ti hi bab hi, DoctorHarper, good day. Yes, I
have all back in. I normallydon't call into the show like I did
last Friday. I'm the person whoinitiated the phone call last Friday. I
want to clear something up. Notonce did I say, I told my
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sons about two strikes. I said, that was my analogy and thinking of
how to get them through life situations, knowing that the black male has two
stripes against him since I was havingsun Now one time, did I say,
I told my son that I taughtthem about life situations and how to
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maneuver around those two things that weregoing to affect them in life. I
didn't have to tell them about it, because life itself, as they got
older and they grew into from aboy to a manhood, they found out
for themselves. And plus their fathertaught them because that was his position to
teach them about man things. Myposition was to be there and teach them
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about things going on in the world. It just appalls and amazes me how
this conversation was last Friday. Itwas distan screwed what I said. But
here it is almost a week later, and it's still, you know,
being brought up in a negative connotation. Out of all of the positive things
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that I said about my sons andtheir rearing and how they are now extremely
successful and this and that, thatpart was overlooked. So even if I
did tell them out to strike,and you know what, tease, but
it wasn't overlooked because doctor Jeffries commendedyou on that, and it wasn't over
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looked by me as well. Butyou're right. People they take out what
they want to take out, yes, but we as a society that's one
of our main things that we do. You take one aspect of something and
just want it in the ground andit's negative and then it's really not what
the person said. Now this isdirected and I normally don't call names,
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but this is directly directed at PrinceCharles. One thing I did teach my
sons, Prince Chawles, was bequick to listen and slow to speak.
And also when someone tells you somethingor give their opinion, it don't necessarily
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have to be to affect you.If there's nothing positive in it that's going
to edify you, then and justlet it be their opinion, because every
comment is not meant to be commentedon. And like I said, if
you could take something positive from itto add to your life, didn't do
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that. But if it's nothing positivefor you, didn't just leave it alone
because that's just that person's opinion.So always be quick to listen and slow
to speak, and sometimes before youspeak, analyze what was said. Thank
you Bell to taking my call,and I hope it got cleared up.
But well, thank you for callingback T and I appreciate that. All
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right, you guys have a goodday, you too, Bye bye,
unforgetful Sam jumping in Doctor Harper Man, y'all go, you have the wonderful
great shows again. Thank you jumpYes, sir, you're working dot harp
rock and share the way you doit, Oh, is so beautiful the
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way you spread. I don't understandwhat people don't. You got talent in
that there. It's greater than youbeing up there talked because you can do
things. I love that now,y'all. People out there, they got
all these bills of dollars. Y'allmean to look at this young lady.
She got the boys and that waydoing. As far as advertising your product,
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they just my opinion. People thatyour opinion. But doctor Harper,
I want to ask I want toask you one question about reverse psychology.
It's such a thing, and saythey're just something. It is, okay.
I wish to talk about that lateron. But you know, doctor
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Harper, I have this Nat Turnerin me, but I controlled it because
I know it can go you know, it can get wild out here when
when they come out of me.But Doc Harper, I love it.
Is that the reason why? BecauseI really learned about history and is it
true about what the French did thecountry of France, What did they do?
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Tell us what they did? Iknow they're in European country over there
by Brandon and all that stuff,but they basically helped black back in the
day. So I was wondering aboutwhen the British, you know, abolished
slavery in eighteen thirty one or somewherearound now. I wondered, did the
French as slaves one day abolished it. That's the one thing I was like,
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Yeah, all European countries and Arabcountries as well enslaved people. And
the intent was always to exploit,rape and do everything possible to these people,
to our people as they possibly could. French were no better than anyone
else and again even Arabs, butwere very very demeaning and damaging to African
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people. Okay, I didn't knowthat. I was just wondering, but
basically, uh, most people aredifferent, I mean different, like the
white let's say white and black makeyou more eat for me. But uh,
most white people really have a problemwith the black skin. Like you
said, black people, all ofthem. Okay are you asking? Are
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you asking a question? Uh?I can't. I can't. Yeah,
I can't speak for all all whitepeople. But but clearly, clearly,
if if you're if if you ifyou're born and raised in a society that
that that that is predominantly Eurocentric oror white, then obviously the the information
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that you're going to receive as anAfrican American person, as a black person,
is going to be predominantly what's positiveabout their particular ethnic group. They
ain't a race. Don't say race, They're not a race, their ethnic
group. And and see what happensis that the more you get about their
ethnic group being so positive and wonderfuland breeding and sophisticated, what have you,
the less we get about our own. And that's intentional. And that's
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where the racism seeped in. Sothere's no such thing as a white person
that's not influenced by racism, noris there there are any black people not
influenced by racism. And yes,I believe strongly, And there's a book
out that talks about this that racismis taught by white women to their children
primarily. So basically, will Lynchcame runner is still around. Well,
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if Willie Lynch is true, thensure it's still around, and it's gonna
always be around, I believe,as long as we're walking this earth.
Okay. So when I brought upgo ahead, bath going to it,
I brought up, yeah, whenI brought up about uh, put the
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word, you know, freedom inAmerica for black folks. You know,
what, can we all get togetherand just work together to solve our problems?
Just one big block sus politics foranswer? Why can't all blacks in
America just vote for one cause,you know, get together on that?
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Why it's so hard for us todo that? And you know we owe
the keys to the fleet to doctorHarper. A lot of us got the
keys to the past. You know, we can unlock these doors. That's
all I'm saying. You know,I look at these kids, Doctor Harper.
I'm not thinking about their unforgift forthe Doctor Harper, the Prince Job
or all best junks and whatever.I ain't thinking about y'all, even myself.
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I'm looking at these mothers walking aroundhere with these babies. You know,
new born, one year old,three year old kids that don't your
next generation, you know them theones that are important to me, okay,
and I want them to have abetter feature than I had, you
know, because I experienced racism andstuff. The young lady just got wrong.
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She was right. You know,I really appreciate that because you know
you King Harry, Oh, goodafternoon, queen, and my friend and
Tom rad doctor Hopper. That's mybrother. M Hey, I'm glad you
finally got him off of there,because he can go on and on.
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But I was calling on the samesubject of what y'all were talking about.
I don't think it's a thing tosaying that you got something against You're saying
that you're letting your child know thatno matter how smart intelligence that you are,
you will always taste barriers against you. Sure if you are a white
person and a black person get thesame it job, same pay. In
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order to get and a raise,you have to do double what they're doing.
And here's my example. When Iwas in the military, I went
for the anti or the month Iwent to antiora quarter, I was getting
ready to go for the brigade,and I asked my chief, you know,
when are you gonna send me tothe East sixth board. I was
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pretty much only black in my section, so he said, I'm not ready.
So I skipped him and went tothe first shirt and asked him.
He said, I thought you alreadywent. You sitting here representing my whole
company, then I'm gonna send you. So my boss got mad because I
went over his head. That's aplan example. The man knew that I
had all the intelligence, I wasready for the next grade, but he
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did not want to see a blackman get that rank before somebody else that
wasn't even better experience than I was. So that's all you tell them.
You gotta always be on your q'sand peace, because no matter how experience
that you are, you always gottwo strikes against you. It's very much
in the military. It's very muchin the military. People didn't think praised
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it was real praijudice. In themilitary. They did not want you to
get no rank. So you justhave to be smarter. It's not putting
a kid down by telling them that. I told my son and my daughter
too. It's not putting you down. It's just letting you know you have
to be stronger and more intelligent thanthey are in order to get to see.
That's all I want to say onthat, Ben, Thank you,
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King Harry. I have a goodweekend. I'll be calling you up.
Okay, all right, bye bye, all right, okay bye bye.
W D. I a hey caller. Good afternoon, sister Beth, Good
afternoon, mold Lee. How areyou always trying? I know, doctor
Harper, I hope you're doing well. I'm doing well, brother, and
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I hope you are doing insane?You can which is can you hear me?
I can hear you now? Becauseyou were breaking up? Molee okay,
uh initially, Look, there wasa section in there that I really
liked that talk. You're breaking up. Yeah, you're breaking up. I'm
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breaking up. Call you, yeah, call me back, call me back
because you're breaking up. W D. I a father? What doing?
I don't know? Father. Well, I'm glad just come up through playing
crier now for as uh you alwaystalking about for as racism and stuff like
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that, you know what I mean? I always uh, well, my
kids already they ain't get that incree in and there always gonna be superior,
and they included the whole you know, to home and making song.
Who needs to boot you know,because because me and your father, I
ain't got no into I'll set upfor the world song. It was right
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there, that's right father. Uhhuh right, Well yes, you Johny
green Jack, green eyed doom thathate no little daddy in the morning.
I'm done with y'all. Y'all somehaters and you some deal. But have
a good bill and you too,little daddy. We are talking this day.
Hold on, y'all, we're gonnaget to you. Don't get to
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you. I want to get todoctor Harper too as we take this break.
Yeah. Yeah, you're listening tothe BEB Johnson Show along with DTR
Warren Harper right here on w DI A nobody, and I mean nobody
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does it like the Queen of talk, Beb Johnson on the BEB Johnson Show
on wd I A ad words inyour home election or Google home. She's
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got Memphis talking. It's the BebJohnson Show on the station that's still Goodwill
and good Times Am ten seventy WDIA. You're listening to the Bev Johnson Show.
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Here's Bev Johnson and we're going backto our phone lines and doctor Harper
decided we'll take all the phone callsand he'll come back with his next topic.
Yeah, so Molly is back.Go on, Molle, how is
our connection this go around? It'sbetter, much better, Moe. Okay,
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good book, Dr Harper. Inaddition to that one, I would
also recommend Snyder's colleague James Whitmore hasa Whitman rather has written a book called
Hitler's American Model, and that speaksto how the j and Nazi Nuremberg laws
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were based on, uh, theAmerican segregation and Jim Crow and slavery UH
codes. Very fascinating that they wereable to perfect what we had we had
initially put into place. Bevue,you pushed on civics quite often. It's
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lacking totally with respect to our educationsystem. Uh. The German students are
thoroughly meshed in learning about the Holocaust. French students are taught about France's brutal
colonial past in Algeria and Vietnam.Ivory students are well aware of the abuse
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caused by the Catholic Church. Spanishstudents study courses on the Eagles of Fascism
and Spain's fascist past. American studentsdon't learn about slave markets, betrayal of
tears, Japanese internment camps. Werequire enforced ignorance in this country, and
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we teach lies to our students.And it's mind bottling to the rest of
the world. Why we are heldbent on destroying democracy. Think about it.
We've come full circle. At onetime in history, it was illegal
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to teach a slave to read.Today in some state school districts, it's
illegal to read about slavery. That'swhere we are. And I'm really scared.
I'm really scared, doctor Harper,about where it's headed because from from
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from my perspective in terms of thelegal world, I'm afraid of the courts.
Be afraid folks when the courts changethe law, be afraid when the
courts eliminate the law. Be afraidwhen the courts don't enforce the law.
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And then that means democracy is movingtowards death. And with that that is
my ranto for the week. Mayyou both thrive you too, Bye bye
w d I A Hi, Sharon, how you doing this? I'm doing
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well in yourself, very well.Uh. It's a quick statement when you're
enjoying your show. As always,I want to piggyback on something doctor Harper
said earlier about teaching our children andrealizing ourselves the black people that we very
often have to work twice as hardand to receive half the half of the
recognition as our white counterparts. Andthat is definitely true. But what I
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like to add to that is that, believe it or not, that's the
same exact praise. I use wordfor word when I'm giving a ci T
graduation speech. The CIT stands foryou know, I know you understand.
What stands the doctors is the CrisisIntervention Team. And I give between three
to five graduation speeches a year,and I've been doing this well over a
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decade and it's an honor and blessingto be able to do it. And
so what I do, and there'snormally just one to four females in the
group, so I always give ashout out to them. I'm doing my
introduction, and I say the sameexact words did you said, because it's
true. I am retired US Armoryin the military, I'm a totally in
permanent disable old veteran, and I, as a black woman, face that
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daily as I went up the ranksup through to my retirement, so I
understand that, and I give thatrecognition to those women because they deserve it.
Thank you. I'm wanna listen tothe rest of your show. Thank
you, Sharon. Bye bye,Hi David, Good afternoon of my most
beautiful, beautiful African vider. Howare you doing today, my sister.
I'm doing well today. How aboutyou, brother? I'm doing well,
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especially since I've heard your melodious voice. How you doing, doc? Brother
doctor? Is it working on adoc? Can you tell me? Is
it working on it? I hopeit is. He head no, but
but you know sometimes people shake theirhead knowing they retah. Boy. But
anyway, boy, I am soglad that there was a brother I think
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of the brother. Please forgive me. Was that a brother or sister?
But anyway, that there was somebodybetween me and mo Lee. But because
boy, that was deep, that'sour herd one to follow the day.
Lord have mercy. Anyway, brother, Doc. I'm a baseball fan.
As far as I and I becamea baseball fan, I'm gonna tell you
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I saw Reggie Mister Reggie Jackson hitthree home run off of three different pictures
in the World Series and in Baseballtwo strikes does not mean you out.
Three strikes mean you out. Ifif if, if, the manager and
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the team tells you about the pictures. His weaknesses are what you up against,
right, and so when you getup at the play, if you,
if you, if you swing twotimes, you still got one.
Most shot Black folks been kicking asswith one shot at the plate. We've
been killing it with one shot atthe damn plate and many times knocking it
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out of the freaking part. Forthose of you brothers and sisters who do
not know this, Jackie Robinson wasnot the best Negro League player. Wrap
your head around that he was notthe best Negro League player when we when
they decided to give him a shotin the major league. How many of
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those brothers that that were better neverhad a shot at all at the plate?
Period. That's this country, that'sAmerica. It's frustrating to hear people
who act like they don't have adime worth of knowledge about the history of
America. Bell doc, Do wenot give our people, our young people,
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to talk about how to deal withthe with the freaking police, David
doctor Harper, We were talking aboutthat off air. We say that all
the time. We tell them aboutthe police, don't we Yes, I
mean, what the hell you thinkthat's about? Is that about? Is
that about a citizen of this countrywho's paying taxes? And you got to
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warn your children about the freaking policewhen they stop you for a traffic ticket,
hoping that they make it home.We are Look, I've lost I
lost a bunch of friends by tellingthem this doc. I swear to God,
Well, I'm not a bunch,but I don't have I didn't have
friends. I don't use loosely,but I've lost some friends by telling them
this. Black folks, I'm nothaving a conversation with you about race unless
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you read these ten books, becauseit's too damn frustrating. Now. You
can call me a buppy. Buppy, you can call me uppy, you
call me whatever you want to do, But to just to say you black
and you understand the situation not ain'tenough. That's not enough. You have
to study. You have to readsome Ballwin. You have to read some
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of the boys. You know,you got to read some Goddy to know
what the hell were up against.Yeah, we've done. Look, we've
done as good as we can dowith what we had. But we in
the midst bear of looking at whitemen's angle about now having to compete with
everybody, right, and because theyhave to compete with everybody, they wouldn't
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overthrow the damn country. You hearme, Yes, when Donald Trump came
down un the escalator and said whathe said, I meanly knew what he
was talking about, just because hewasn't talking about black folks. He was
talking about white men's anger at thefact that they no longer can get the
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same shot. They got a bettershot than the smartest negro. The dumbest
white boy can't get the same shotas the smartest negro, and they are
angry at that. So you sistersout there, you make sure your boys,
especially are armed because as public enemy, the great rap Brew said there's
a fear of the black planet,and they took that title from doctor Francis
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crest Wells in her views look herup to that's one of my ten that's
in my ten books to read.You understand we arming our children because if
we armed them, they wouldn't beon this damn hampster wheel wondering, well,
why did that white man going tocourt talking away? He talking and
getting away with it right right right? Uh huh, Come on, take
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your ass to court and do that, because I've been to court and and
and bev when that sister judge said, mister mister Malik, you need to
calm down. You know what Idid. Calm down. I know you
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what you said, so che youup like Bobby c You better teach,
you better teach. Here we arein the midst of a country that has
chosen white supremacy over the democracy,and you wondering about whether you and you
you got two strikes against you ornot black women. Look, the part
I was making about the black planningis this. If y'all could produce sperm
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yourself, you be just as endangeredas we are. Y'all have a thank
you, David W. D IA Hi, Marie, Hey, Breb.
How you doing today. I'm doingwell, Maurice and yourself. I'm
doing great. How you doing,doctor Harper? I'm doing fine, brother.
No problems here, all right?Good hey doctor Harper. Now this
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this is what I see things,doctor Harper. You know back in the
past times, you know when onenation would overthrow another, will conquer another
nation, the first thing they woulddo is go in the burning library,
right, true, right, Yeah, that's right. Okay, Now today
I see that just in reverse,is that they're taking us out of the
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books. See they're doing a vertygonna take us out of the books,
and then I think they're gonna tryto eradicate us. Now, like you
were saying about those stormtroopers and thesered necks out here are practicing paramilitary operations
and they're just sitting back waiting onDonald Duck to blow the dog Wilson and
they gonna come out. Well,doctor Harper, what would be the alternative
to that? What would be theanswer for that? Well, the first
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answer for that is for us toknow that it's going to happen, for
us to to to to basically getprepared, whether that's psychologically, spiritually,
or or physically or or or withweapons if we have to, because we
have to protect ourselves. But wealso have to start basically talking to our
politicians and basically getting them busy ontrying to I guess reteach or teach the
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the the American population about the dangersof the paramilitary and anyone that is who
is against humanity. We have toget that across that these people are not
just an assault or a danger tothe people of color. They're they're danger
to their own people because because oncethey kill off or or or depower us,
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they're coming after their own as well. Believe me, the ritual survive
the rest of the ones who'll justbe basically basically like police trying to monitor
us as well as people who arejust trying to to just live our lives.
So we're gonna have to only armourselves in whatever way way we can,
but we also have to basically getto get across to this, this
this world or this this country inparticular, how dangerous these these times have
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become, and how we have Wehave a war going on now, and
believe me, the major attack hasnot occurred yet. But believe me,
it's been going on every since theCivil War. It's never died down people.
That's right, that's right, doctorHarper, You're right. It's all
the country I know that will flytwo flags and the regular stars and stripes,
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and then they had the stars andbars, and you can't do that
in no other country. Go therewith pooting that and try to fly another
flag and shit without the dead.Another thing, DoD Happer, Uh,
this is just something I noticed aboutone of Trump's cohorts, which is Governor
Bill Leap. You know, hepassed the bill that made drag racing all
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these donuts and stuff of feelings.Now people know that selling drugs and a
feeling. People know they're kajacking andshooting. The killing is a feeling.
It but is it stopping him fromselling drugs? Is it stopping him from
doing what they're doing? That's right? So when they but you know what,
when he changed that law and hestarted to effect the first of this
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month, and only thing, it'snot going to stop drag racing and don't
know, but you know what it'sgoing to stop, doctor Happer. What's
that. It's going to stop themfrom being able to vote. And I
don't think that's a seriously enough crimeto take away your bowling rights. Maybe
we could take away Trump's behind thefact that he's got what, uh whole
lot of feeling. Yeah, that'sright. Now they need to take his
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boweting rights, that's right, Doc. All right then, Doc, I
enjoyed talking to you man, Thanksa lot for that. Get these last
two calls, w D I ahigh caller. It's kay, I'm gonna
be brief. Hey, I wantto say, black impound has become killed
black, black killed black. Andwhat is happening is they have set us
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up and we are falling right intowhere they want us to. And in
the meantime, you got Russia rightoutside of Florida Circle. You heard about
all the yeah yeah, yeah,which und submarines, They got ratings to
do whatever they want to do.But then we got to realize Americans and
prophecy and underprophe set, and weare being judged by our deeds. So
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I don't care how many lawmakers youget out there until the evil is sad
to sit somewhere down, it's gonnaget worse, and it's gonna only be
worse us because we're killing each other. So they're not gonna have any bullets.
They ain'tn'na stay in no bullets.What they're gonna do with the robots,
they ain't got no bombs, youknow. So the new role order
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you have to have. You haveto be legit straight doing what you're supposed
to be doing, and you definitelyhave to be prayed up and prayerful because
we're gonna live in a perilous town. Scriptures does not a lack don't hang
up, thank you, King andcommon man. Yeah, hey, bib
and how doctor Hopper ain't a man? All right? All right, I
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certainly believe that we have barriers orhow I heard us to hop or strike
stripes stripes against us as black people. As I said before, I definitely
believe racism is still alive. Bib. I remember now when I'm when my
family and I moved into Hickory here, it was like in ninety two.
Right. I don't know if youwere there before me or not, but
you know how nice it was outthere, right, yeah, I was
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there before you. Right, yeah, very nice, very very nice,
elegant. Right, Okay, Somy next door neighbor, and of course
you remember that the community was predominantlywhite. Yes, So I remember one
day we came out of the housegetting ready to go visit my mom in
my white next door neighbor. Thelady she said, oh you all lived
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there, and she said, wewas wondering are those your cars? So
you know, we had the Toyotacamera in a BMW. Right, So
you see how white people don't evenexpect or or think a black person to
have anything nice. They they don'teven think we deserve nice things. We
were not privileged enough to have things, you know. Okay, okay when
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ms T when Miss P said inresponse, first of all, like she
said, she was you know,misquoted. But the thing is, Bill,
you could sit up and give afive ten minute speech and a person
takes only what they want to takeout of it. If they if they
looking for their negative, that's whatthey're gonna find. You could, you
could, you could, You couldprobably plant a million dollars around some you
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know, looking for a Damn heain't gonna find nothing. They dance because
that's all he's looking for. Youknow what I'm saying, what you're saying.
Yes, me and myself, Ithink it's a man set because when
you're looking for negative, that's whatthat's what you come up with. I
remember I was, you know,brushed up, bumped up a little bit
because I said I didn't believe thebest or the first stage of discipline should
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be the whoop of child. Isaid, I believe in talking to my
children first. I think to getthem to respect you, not be afraid
of you. It's the best way. That's my philosophy with my children.
I think. So I can't tellyou what to do with yours. But
it worked for me. I'll saythat much. You know. So what
Ms T does with her children,her and her husband, whatever they tell
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them or whoever. That that beaton people's business. And like you always
say, Bell sometimes salles is golden. You don't have to respond or remark
on everything that come across the radiobecause I here's the stuff that I don't
agree with, or I might thinkit's negative, but I don't always respond
on it. And you have topractice that because if you don't, you'll
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find yourself with nothing but negative comingout of your mouth. I agree,
all right, I'll have a goodnight, doctor Harper. I don't know
if you have children, guess thatyou do. So Happy Father's Day to
yourself, to you, yes,sir, all right, thank you,
coming man, all right, byebye, doctor Harper. Good show today,
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bro. We got some good,good feedback and and good conversation.
Your last words, well, HappyFather's Day to all those fathers out there.
Believe me, uh uh we wewe have paid our dues, particularly
particularly those who can smile when theywhen they say Happy Father's Day and when
they hear it back from there fromtheir sons and daughters. Uh. The
only thing I have to say isthat is that I appreciate all the callers
(37:28):
calling up through today. I appreciateall the callers that that call in general,
because it says that you're listening,it said, and I hear literally,
I hear if I'm giving a gradeon people. And I don't want
to sound too judgmental. From fromthe years that I've started talking this way
until now, I hear people becomingmore and more educated. And it's not
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necessarily because what doctor Harper's put inyour head. It's behind the fact that
the root word of behind education isto educe, which is to bring out.
I hopefully I am bringing out ofyou with the voice that you have
in the back of your head that'sbeen telling you to speak up for a
long time. My role as arace man is to make is to make
you aware of the fact that youhave a voice, and that that voice
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has to be not only powerful,but knowledgeable. And you only become knowledgeable
if you read and study and planand organize so that we will not be
canon fadder. That said Doctor WarrenHarper. Y'all, thank you, Doctor
Harper. Look forward to next timenext week. Yeah, he's here next
week, y'all, Yes he is. Thank you callers, Thank you listeners
(38:37):
for joining us this day on theBEV Johnson Show. We do, we
really do appreciate you. So untiltomorrow, please be safe. Cap a
cool head, y'all, don't letanyone still your joy until tomorrow, I'm
BEB Johnson, and y'all keep thefaith. The views and opinions discussed on
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