America's 250th & Call for Unity

Hi, welcome to The, uh, Perspective. I'm Jim Perrin, and, um, tonight I want to, um, start with the Fourth of July, and we're going to get to that a little bit later. We just celebrated, uh, Juneteenth, okay? And that was, uh, to do with the Emancipation Proclamation. Now, I normally don't read, um, from my script here Um, but I normally just freelance it pretty much because my teleprompter isn't working anyway. Um, but I want to just talk about, um, President Lincoln when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, okay, into law. And he signed it into law in January. Let me get this straight. I want to give you the numbers here because I don't want to get it wrong because the Democrats will say, oh no, he, he screwed up.

He didn't.

That's not true. Well, this is all statistics here and facts. So he signed it into law on January 1st, 1863, okay, ending slavery in the United States. Now keep in mind, Lincoln was a Republican, not a Democrat. He was a Republican. Actually, he was the first Republican president ever elected. He was the very first. He was the 16th president but he was the first Republican ever elected. That's a fact. Now, it wasn't until late in, uh, June 19th in 1865 that, uh, it was in the, the order was actually enforced down south because Southern Democrats were up offering a lot of resistance. So Ulysses S. Grant at the time was president, and he sent down troops to go ahead and, and make the South comply, make the Southern Democrats comply with the law. And so they enacted the— freed basically the slaves down in the southern states. All right, that's— that was on, um, Let me look here to make sure I got it right. In 1865, and it was June 19th in 1865, and that's officially the first Juneteenth that we ever had. Okay, now it wasn't celebrated for years until recently, and I understand all that. People think it's a new thing, but it was actually celebrated way back when in 1865, believe it or not. That's the history of it. Now, the, um, just after the Civil War, the, the Republicans, the, the North defeated the South. And, um, like I said, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant were both Republicans. Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were Democrats. Just for the record. So, because the media has kind of switched it around and, and made it sound like the Republicans are the racist and the Democrats are, are just, um, they've always been for the, for the Blacks and for the people. And, and it's just the other way around. So I want to talk about the, um Fast forward another 100 years. I want to talk about the Civil Rights Act, okay, and of 1964, which Martin Luther King had a lot to do with, okay.

And he'd be a Republican, by the way, today if he was, if he was still here.

He was shot by a Democrat, by the way. But regardless of that, in 1964, okay, they put the Civil Rights Act, and let me read this here too. Because, um, in 1964, the House passed the bill with 60% of Democratic support and 78% of Republican support. 60% Democrats, 78% Republican support. So on to the Senate it went, okay? But it faced strict, strong opposition from Southern Democrats. And Richard Russell, actually a Democrat from Georgia, and I'm going to quote him here. He said he stood on the floor, the filibuster, they, they, the Democrats created a filibuster that lasted for days. And he said, and I quote, the bill, that bill would lead to the destruction of the South's two different social orders and result in the mongrelization the mongrelization of our people, unquote. But after was amended and passed in the Senate with 69% of Democrats' support and 83% of Republican support, so was sent back to the House where it passed with 60% of Democratic support and 76% of of Republican support. Not bad for a bunch of racist Republicans, huh? It would never got across the, the act of the, the bill of 1964 Civil Rights Act, um, which basically, um, covered a lot of things. And I mean, the— it was proposed originally by JFK in 1863. Okay, and it was to end segregation and in public places and to make employment discrimination, uh, illegal in the United States. That's what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was about. And now, prior to this, in 1957, by the year— the way I was— the year I was born Um, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first major legislation to enact in decades, and it was to protect the rights of Black voters. That's what the, the 1957 Civil Rights Act was for. People don't know about that when they think, oh, the 1964 Martin Luther King was the only civil rights. Actually, there was four 4 different civil rights bills passed between 1957 and 1968. But I'm talking about the one in 1964 where Martin Luther King was strong— strongly involved. And I'm talking about the very first one in 1957. Um, like I said, it gave— it ensured the voting rights of Black Americans. Okay, the— now the bill, here's the numbers. The bill passed the House with 51% of Democrat support and 84% of Republican support. In the Senate, after it was amended, it passed with 59% of Democratic support and 93% of Republican support. Again, the media has made it out to be all this talk about the fascist racist Democrats, the fascist racist Republicans, uh, they, they're like the guy who used to cheat on his wife on the way home from the bar after work. He'd go to a bar, see his girlfriend, or pick up a girl, go home, have— go to her place, have sex, then come home and his wife would say, 'Why are you late?' And he'd say, 'Oh, you've been cheating on me. You've been running around on me.' He's doing the exact same thing to throw suspicion off himself. That's what the Democrats do. They, they create a narrative that says, 'Oh, that guy's doing it,' but they're actually the ones doing it. Now, like I said, back to the Senate. And now it had to go back to the House because it was amended, and it was amended again, and it passed in the House 55% of Democrat support and 75% of Republican support. And finally, back to the Senate one more time, it was passed with only 46%. Under half, under half of the Democrats voted yay. On it. Okay, 46% Democratic support and 80% of Republican support. And on September 9th, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law. My point is, over the years, the Democrats have been calling, like, like I just said, Republicans racist. And they've been supported by the mainstream media. The mainstream media has carried their water for them. They've done it for years and years and years, for decades, okay? Because they've all went to the academic schools and they've all got their little degrees and they all got their little cliques and they go to the best cocktail parties held by the Democrats. It's all about power and influence is what it's about. And the reality is that they, they, they have been the ones suppressing the Black people all these years. And a lot of Black people are getting on to it. Donald Trump just gained the highest, the very highest, uh, rate of, of, uh, votes for Black America. He also gained the highest— and he's supposed to hate Mexicans because he closed the border. He got the highest Hispanic vote any Republican in history, in history, has ever gotten. So all this narrative, a lot of baloney and bullshit is what it is. Um, it's all, it all should go by the wayside. You people should know, especially you young millennials out there, you should know. And, and I'm sorry for the Gen Z people because you seem to probably gravitate toward, um, this new thing they call Democratic Socialist. Um, and it's because you think there's no better way because the American dream is dead. I get it.

I get it.

But the only thing you're going to get for free, okay, from them is maybe a free lunch in the breadline that they created. Because of their policies. So anyway, um, I want to go back to the Fourth of July and, um, talk about our 250th anniversary. Okay, it's America's 250th year in existence, and it's been the greatest experiment, and it's gained—

capitalism has brought—

made more people wealthy than any other system. And like I told you, I think last week, there's more people have come here in the last 250 years than any other nation. It is a great nation regardless of what the media says, academia says, all the, uh, the social networks that you listen to day in and day out, you're addicted to. They teach you all this garbage about how America is terrible and racist and bad and oppressive, and we stole land from the Indians, which we probably did, I don't know. And that's—

but, but we've made so many improvements in this country.

So you can only make— learn from your mistakes and do better. But the, the Dems have only one card. The race card. That's all they got. That's what they got. They live on hate. Hatred for this country. Hatred for the right. Hatred for Donald Trump. Hatred for, for a lot of things. So anyway, um, we're going to talk a little bit more, um, about, uh, the Fourth of July and what I expect and hope that this country can become and stay. And, uh, we're gonna do that right after the break. All right, thanks. Welcome back from the break.

Um, like I said, I want to talk about the Fourth of July a little bit. Okay, it's, uh, we're on the verge of our 250th anniversary, our 250th birthday, um, of a great, great nation. I love the country, and I hope most of you listening to me love it too.

Now I know we're divided, and I know this guy right here— I know this guy right here— I know a lot of people don't like him. Don't— a lot of people have TDS. They have big problems with him. I, for the life of me, I don't know why.

I have no idea why they hate the guy, but they've hated him ever since he come down the escalator.

In 2015 because the— basically both Republican and Democrat, both Republican and Democrat political establishment— he was an outsider. He wasn't one of them. He didn't want to do the things they did.

He exposed them. He exposed the swamp. He exposed the corruption. That's all he's done in the last 10 years.

He's been living in the brains of every damn Democrat and Never Trumper, even Republicans. He's been living in their brain rent-free all these years. 10 years, that's all they can talk about is Donald Trump, Donald Trump. Now I'm going to put all that aside tonight and say, if you don't like him, that's fine.

Don't vote for him, whatever.

Vote for who you want.

This is a free country. That's why we have elections, and that's why we have fair elections. Okay, but what's important is that the Fourth of July is coming up, and we're a divided nation, unfortunately. But I remember an America when I grew up that was, uh, really a close knit community.

And we, we all loved America, Democrats, Republicans, everyone. No one asked who was a Democrat or Republican. I grew up basically—

I was born in 1957 and I grew up, basically came of age in the, in 1970s.

But even then, there was no Democrat.

Everybody loved this country because they came here for a better life. Immigrants came here legally. They came here for a better life. So it's important, I think, that we focus on what this country has done, all the positive things, not the negative things that they want you to believe. All the negative—

there's negative and there's positive in every single situation in life.

That's just a fact.

The negative stuff, if you dwell dwell on it and get you down, you, you're gonna—

you're not gonna succeed. And that's just the simple truth of it. But if you think about the positive things, the good things, the blessings that you have in this country and all the blessings you have in your life, then you'll, you'll, you'll live a better life. That's just also a fact. Try it if you don't believe me.

But what I wanted to focus on was the Fourth of July, because like I said, a lot of us are divided. Some people had friends. We had friends. Maybe you on social media disfriended them and you're not friends with them anymore because, because they hate Donald Trump and you like Donald Trump, or vice versa. It doesn't matter. They're your friends.

They used to be your friends. And just for the weekend, just one weekend, the Fourth of July weekend, try to come together and find that common ground.