Deconstructing Historic Narratives: Black Influence in Music & WWII

00:03.21
Bruce Anthony
Welcome First of all welcome this is unsolicited perspectives I'm Bruce Anthony you're hosts here to lead the conversation in important events and topics that are shaping today's society join the conversation by following us wherever you get your audio podcasts subscribe to our Youtube channel to get our video podcast rate. Review like comment share share with your friends share with your family hell even share in your enemies on today's episode I'm going to be responding back to some comments about what me and my sister said about country music be talking more about black facts specifically world war 2 and we're going to be talking about a messy situation in a marriage that I got from a Reddit page but that's enough of the intro. Let's get to the show.

00:55.84
Bruce Anthony
You know I was going to film this episode yesterday and I'm not gonna tell you which day I'm filming this episode but it's fairly recent to the release. But I was going to film this episode yesterday and I was angry and I said let me stop. Let me take a day to myself. And not record an angry episode as I'm trying to explain something to people who are ignorant and once again ignorant in in and of itself is not a negative comment ignorant is just not knowing so some people are ignorant and then some people are willfully. Ignorant the people that are willfully ignorant are the ones that really agitate me but those people that are ignorant I'm always willing to have a conversation and try to teach something or explain my point of view from a perspective as a black bear and. This particular topic that I'm going to get into is regarding the comment that me and my sister made on our last sibling happy hour in which we stated that black people created a country music now. There's a lot of pushback from some people out there in the social media landscape now. I understand there are trolls out there I really don't get agitated with trolls I actually find it funny if you don't have trolls I guess you're not doing some successful. So the fact that I have bought backlash from this podcast. Let me know that I'm doing something successful I'm touching a nerve whether you like it or not.

02:30.83
Bruce Anthony
What I see has some form of impact out there and in in the the world. Okay, which is humbling and also little little self gratification there that that comes from that as well. But trolls so I'm used to getting hurtful hateful comments. That I don't allow a lot of people to see um I deal with it on my own. My sister doesn't even really see them and I don't know if that's necessarily healthy for my psyche to being bombarded with some of these negative messages. Um, but I will say that there are a large number of positive messages. Would like more positive messages on the comments on the Youtube page because that would kind of help but I get direct comments through emails or you know Dms and things of that nature of how much people really enjoyed show really respect my perspective on things really feel like they're getting. Insight and enlightenment to certain things that they either never thought about or didn't think about in the way in which I present them so I'm I'm extremely extremely grateful for all of that. But once again social media touched a nerve and and I will say being a black man that is very outspoken. And does not run away from any topic. Um I agitate people sometimes a majority of them tend to be white males. Um, but not just males females and not just white everybody because I'm going to speak.

04:07.60
Bruce Anthony
My truth whether you like it or not and I'm going to come with receipts right? I don't just say anything Philippin Lee I I am a researcher at heart I'm a historian at heart. There is a background of research that is done before I do the shows. Do I turn on the to I turn on the mic in camera and just go no that I do do those on my talk straight ish episodes and after hours on censor that you can find on our Patreon page at patreon.comback/unsolicited perspectives those shows are strictly. We're turned on to cameras and we're going and we can say anything crazy. Those shows aren't really prepared but these shows that I do the sibling happy hours. The shows that I do to my own the interviews that I do everything is very thoughtfully prepared and I got great experience to prepare from. From my college right? It was secondary education studying to be a teacher so creating lesson plans and then being at a history major. You know how many papers I wrote my senior year between the the two semesters I wrote 6 or seven thirty page papers between the two semesters and that was just 1 year that's not including the junior sophomore freshman year second sophomore year there was there was a 5 year program there but that's neither here nor there. So I thoroughly research the things that I talk about and I'm not.

05:34.96
Bruce Anthony
Once again I'm not saying things flippantly. Um, if I tell you if I say to you black people created country music know that if you say no, they didn't um where you getting this information from I'm going to come back with receipts so that's what I'm going to do in just a minute. But to show that I'm not one of those people who can't self-ref reflect I want to tell you a story and we tell you two stories as a matter of fact, the year is 1992 Dr Dra and the chronic had just come out and Ai n't nothing but the g thing drops which crazy is. I'm 1112 years old my dad is 33 30 4 years old at the time I just thought he was the oldest man in the world outside of my grandfather and my uncles my grandfathers and my uncles um, but 33 is really really young I mean it's 10 years younger than what I am right now and I still listen to to hip hop. Um, but he I was listening to the Dr Dra ain't none but g thing and he comes in the room wrapping it. He knows the song and he is like yeah you know that's parliament funcadelic and I'm like who he said? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's parliament funcadelic I was like no, that's Dr. Dra he's like yeah yeah, I get that but the samples are from parliament and funcadelic. Who is that he puts his head down because my father being the musician bona fide musician can play multiple instruments ah can sing can can do music by ear. Um, incredible incredible musician um

07:09.44
Bruce Anthony
Says yeah, no, this is let me introduce you to this so he brings out the record parliament funcadelic and he finds a song I can't remember exactly what the song was and come to find out the majority of that album which later Dr Drae credits right? Um, gives a lot of credit to pe funk and parliament funcadelic.

07:28.76
Bruce Anthony
Um, to find out that a lot of the album that I'm listening to was sampled and our songs from Dr Drake had no idea how would I the music was before I was born. So unless somebody introduced it to me I wouldn't know about it. Fast forward to I don't know 2004 um, little John and the east side boys had just released the album me and my sister talked about it I think lovers and friends is definitely on that album I think that's where that album came from that record came from that album and another song on there was play. No games. And that song was done by Littlel John Esa Boys and fat Joe I'm a huge huge fat Joe fan and so I'm playing in the car. My brother is me my mom it's me my mom and dad brother and sister. We're all in the car I don't know where we're going. We're going somewhere and I play this song and this it was bold of me because I'm very respectful. My parents I don't cuss. i' a groom I'm a grown ass man I don't cuss around my parents the most cussing that my parents hear from me is really through the show. But for some strange reason I turn on this song and and we're listening to it and me my brother sister are rocking to it. My mom is a p ah of course she is. And then my dad yells out that ain't none but some doy stick and me my brother and sister fall out in laughter talking about what the hell are you talking about dad. Yeah yeah, yeah, that's a song that's that's a song dooky stick its we laughed right.

09:00.82
Bruce Anthony
Then I did a little bit of research and there was a song called dukey stick in the 70 s that was a hit and it was literally the sample that little John took once again it was something that I wasn't familiar with I was ignorant of it and my dad introduced me to it I told those stories to say. When I learned that the music that I was listening to was a remix and a sample of older music I didn't decide to turn my eye at it just because my favorite artists had borrowed something and made it their own I said okay, well they took something and they remixed it and made it their own. But. Originally it was this and I acknowledged that as a 12 year old kid as a 24 year old young man I acknowledge these things. So for all those people that said there's no way in hell that black people created country music. The information that I'm about to give you right now will fully prove that black people created country music and despite the fact that it is dominated by white people as of right now that the country music awards is almost as big as a grammy's and that white people identity. Is tied up in the country music that does not mean that one still can't enjoy country music just because you're not the creator of it and it's not exactly the same but country music as we as we listen to it right now.

10:35.79
Bruce Anthony
As Beyonce Drops albums is an evolution of music that was started by black people and one of the first things that I could do to point this out is by introducing a simple instrument called the banjo now the banjo is a key instrument in country music. And guess where it originated from it originated in Africa it was brought to America by enslaved africans and became a central part of slave music and culture in the south. The instrument was later standardized appropriated and spread to white audiences through minstrel shows. And blackface shows. Now we've had the conversation about what's Menstru on blackface right? I told you all the story of uncle Tom the book the uncle Tom and how the book al the character uncle Tom is actually this really great hero that became. Bastardized because the south didn't want this black man to be a hero and then changed it. So the character became this minstrel black folks blackface which is essentially making fun of black people making the uncle Tom character stupid. And a buffoon to which now we portray we look at the time uncle Tom as something negative. It was not that in the original incarnation of uncle Tom it was positive so here we have the banjo and it's a major instrument in.

12:06.91
Bruce Anthony
This music that is being created which is is the genesis of country music and it became bastardized once again through minstrel and blackface shows it. Also this form of music also hugely informed quote unquote what is called. Hillbily music and the Hill Billy music was later rebranded as country music so you see the evolution. The banjos introduced a banjo is used in a lot of african music and and and customs and rhythms and songs. This is the introduction of country music. The evolution of it becomes hillbilling music and then rebranded as country music but I'm not done I'm not done many of the songs of what is of what early quote unquote hillbilly artists played inherited and adopted. Black sources like slave spirituals field songs religious hymns or quite simply just works from professional black song writers. Yeah, so once again, we go from. Hillbilling music to later being rebranded as country music. The original quote unquote hillbilly music was all themes from black culture black southern culture. Okay, so let's talk a little bit about.

13:40.75
Bruce Anthony
Hillbily music. Um, so they use certain techniques like call and response and blurring of the note which are essential in African Music traditions and later became prominent in country music but hillbilly music specifically. Is also known as country music or Appalachian music and I told you guys a couple of shows back about the Millonians who come from appalachia which were a combination of black people. Native Americans Iningious folks and poor white people that came together in Appalachian mountains and created this. Entirely different community from anything else, right? once again, barring on the African customs that's been spread out throughout the south. All right? Um, we've already talked about the banjos but some of the themes in hillbilly music Now. We're going from. Gone are the days of the minstrel shows in the blackface and we're fully steeped in hillbly music. Once again is a direct descendant of African music using the banjo because you're still using the banjo and hillbilly music all right and and hillbily music is a negative term. Ah. I'm using it like I said when I said quote unquote I'm using it specifically to make a point here because there's a genesis of a rebranding of what was then known as hillbily music that is now rebranded as country music. It all comes from the same name for same thing. The name just changed right? Okay, so.

15:15.78
Bruce Anthony
Some of the themes in hillbilling music often reflects the experiences and values of people laying living in rural areas is known for its down to earth and homey appeal does that not sound like country music to you and and and. I understand rural areas now especially in the flyover states are predominantly dominated by white people. Ah but black people have always been in rural areas and a lot of these rural customs that are in these flyover states still originated from the south. And still were influenced by african culture all right? So that's the evolution of what was hillbilly music and how it involved how he evolved and influenced other genres but more specifically what is now known as modern country music. So. Ah I can't draw any clearer picture of how we go from black people created this music it evolved over hundreds of years to become what is now known as contrary music. And and we're seeing a lot of this when I talk about the black facts like we talk about the inventor Marie Brown of the home security system the inventor of the ring camera gets ah gets the majority of the credit because he took something that was already created and connected it through wi-fi.

16:50.50
Bruce Anthony
Right? Ah, but he is not the originator of home security. But if I told you it's a black woman that actually created that you were like how how in the world did she create that one where really inventive people always have been and and and 2

17:09.16
Bruce Anthony
The reason why we get overshadowed is because people are trying to take away the history I'm not going to get into my deep dive about how there's a connection of what's going on right now with book banning trying to take away d I trying to take away african-american history and and history. And not teach it to the kids because some kids feel guilty I'm not going to go into all that but a little bit I am because when you do those type of things you miss out on the truth of the evolution of how things became what they are today. And this was just an example of how country music was literally started by black people going all the way back to Africa and the banjo. Ah, but despite the deep roots and contributions of black artists like um.

18:06.51
Bruce Anthony
Leslie Riddle and t tote payne who actually taught Hank Williams um without the contributions of these people without the recognizing the contributions and the commercial decisions by white industry executive. Led to basically the exclusion of black history and country music. It becomes very difficult to sell something to the white audiences if they realize that they are not the ones who actually created it There was a whole film genre that saved the music industry saved the movie industry and they were black exploitation films. Ah it all started with sweet sweetbacks badass song and then later with movies like shaft superf fly in the Mac. Where movie studios realized oh there's a huge untapped market of consumers. They're black people. We've never made movies for black people and movie studios were going out of business in the 70 s the whole movie industry was going to collapse. And they tapped into this market and they realized that black audiences want movies that they can identify with they made movies that black audience can identify with the movie companies made their money back. But the point I'm trying to make is is that they weren't catering to black audiences. Why? well.

19:41.67
Bruce Anthony
White people are the majority even still in this country contrary to to this great replacement theory that they're trying to to push out and that they thought that that was the core audience that they were the ones that only had disposable income to to promote to so if you're a white executive. And you realized that hey you know this movie was started by black folks and then became Hill Billy music which black folks were still a part of and some of our major country singers learned from black folks. We can't really tell him that let's just go with Hank Williams and let's ride this into the sunset and make this a popular genre to white audiences and we're not even going to address that history and and it's not just country music. What if I told you that black people also started rock music. Yeah yeah, yeah, so rock music. Originated in the United States in the late 1940 s and the early 50 s its immediate origins lay and mixing together of various black music genres of the time including rhythm and blues and gospel music rock and roll was influenced by deep south black music genre called the blues. Started out as rhythm and blues many of the early rock and roll bands including the beatles the animals, the rolling stones the who and etc began to imitate 1950 s American Rock and roll rhythm and blues rural blues and urban blues. All.

21:15.47
Bruce Anthony
Essentially black genres of music some of the earlier black pioneers of course little Richard Ike Turner Bo didly Chuck Berry who played a crucial role in shaping the genre ah and and and taught many of the artists. That later propelled rock and roll music like the Beatles right? And let's not forget Jimmy Heron Hendrik's one of the greatest guitarists ever who went on to teach people like Prince and Lenny Kravitz and slash of guns of roses like the influence of. Black people and rock and roll is bananas but they don't get their recognition right? Um, and so all I'm trying to say is this and I know this was a long winded way of saying it but all I'm trying to say is this I've been taking this month to point out. Black influence on american culture through inventions and how we've basically produced music in this country if you put country you put rocka roll you put r and b you put hip hop which is rap right with other genres and music really is um, gospel.

22:34.54
Bruce Anthony
That's black music as well. So when me and my sister say black people created. Um, what is american music those are the examples I'm trying to give to you not trying those are the examples I gave to you now. If you were ignorant before like I was when my dad explained to me about how p funk influenced Dr Dra and the chronic album and how dukey stick influenced play no games right? He gave me that information. I took it did some research found out. It was true and said hey that doesn't take away from what Dr Dray and what low John Easta boys did but I got to give recognition to the creators of what they remixed. So since I've given you this information. You are no longer ignorant. You don't believe me Google is your friend Google it yourself. But if you refuse to believe the facts that I present it to you. You're not ignorant. You're willfully ignorant and that I really don't have any time for. You can stay stupid for all you want to I'm trying to evolve as a person that gets smarter so I can learn something from people give me all the information you got I'm gonna take it in decipher it go do my own research and come up with my own opinion based on facts not based on what I want to believe but based on.

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Bruce Anthony
Facts.

24:13.99
Bruce Anthony
All right? We're not done talking about black people not at all. We're gonna talk about Frederick Mckinney Jones and why is he important? Well this was a black man who is also an inventor an entrepreneur and an engineer. Who made significant contributions to the field of refrigeration technology. You know refrigerators freezers things of that nature. He made the advancements of that technology. How do he do that he is best known for his mobile refrigeration technology. Which eliminated the far less effective use of ice and salt to preserve foods for transportation this greatly extended the distance over which food can be successfully delivered he in the 1930 s he designed and patented a portable air cooling device for trucks transporting food and later adapted. This. Portable air cooling device to fit trains and aquatic vehicles this duke before before him we was just using ice and salt to preserve food food was going bad people had that had the bubble guts eaten bad food that had gone. You know. Gone bad with the meat and eggs and things of that nature eating spoil milk all types of eating spoil food and here is Frederick Mckinney Jones coming up with refrigeration. Don't get recognized for this. Everybody. Everybody uses a refrigerator. Everybody uses a freezer right? This is him beforehand you know how you.

25:46.88
Bruce Anthony
Use a cooler. You know you put the lot of ice in the cooler to keep stuff cold. That's what people was doing before before mobile refrigeration, but it's not just that it's not just his creation of or his advancements in technology as far as refrigeration's concern. It's how it helped us. During world war ii so his units were very helpful in transporting food blood and medical supplies around the world and for the Us and military allies for the Us and military allies to preserve blood medicine and food to be used at army hospitals. And on open battlefields that's right I don't think what gets discussed enough and I know I'm gonna do a detour you thought I was just going to talk about ah my man. Mr. Jones Mr. Jones to know I'm doing a detour. When you thought I was just going to talk about inventions I'm going to talk about actually how little recognition black soldiers get for their help in world war two I get really agitated. When people try to describe the 1950 s in America as this pristine. Great time. Let let me tell you the 1950 s have the greatest Pr firm that ever existed.

27:15.84
Bruce Anthony
Because there's this idea that America was so great in the 1950 s after World War two and that that generation the greatest generation I put that in quotes right? just like I did hillbilling the first segment. That the greatest generation is the greatest generation that's ever been produced in this country I'm gonna dig into the greatest generation. But first I want to talk about what black soldiers faced during world war ii and there was and and and it's not just war war two. Black soldiers were in world war one in the civil war. They never get credit for all the defense that we did to make this country the most powerful nation. But black soldiers face significant discrimination and segregation during world war ii not just home but also abroad despite black people's black men because remember it was only men going off the war despite the despite the willingness of black men to serve their country. Black soldiers were often relegated to segregated divisions and combat support roles. The military was just as segregated as the deep south was black soldiers face discrimination in every branch of the armed forces they often were degraded and treated as lower class citizens.

28:41.41
Bruce Anthony
Many of the bases and training facilities were located in the south and regardless of the region they were separate they were separate blood banks hospitals or wards medical staff barracks recreational facilities. All that stuff was separate for black soldiers and lower lower and class to black soldiers. Black soldiers were routinely slurred and harassed by white soldiers and local white residents despite the fact that they were trying to defend their country the military often regulated black soldiers to less desirable roles such as cooks mechanics roadbuilders, ditch diggers. Supply unloaders slave labor. That's what I just did manual labor. This is what they were relegated to look. This is the crazy part and and for those people who are like that's not true. Once again Google is your friend use critical thinking skills. Google it look at the sources get all the information and then come to an educated ah opinion about these things but it can't really truly be a opinion because these are facts. There were instances where imprisoned Nazi. Combatants nazis received preferential treatment over black troops. Let me repeat that so that you hear it captured Nazi soldiers.

30:17.42
Bruce Anthony
Were treated sometimes better than the black soldiers. They were treated better than the people that are trying to fight alongside you to defend this country greatest generation right? Greatest generation. Despite these challenges there were black soldiers served in distinction and made significant contributions for the war more than 1000000 black men and women so there was a few women out there just a few served in every branch of the Us armed forces during world war ii. Despite facing discrimination and often being relegated to these supporting roles black so soldiers served a variety of capacities including logistics helping the ferry supplies to allied troops all across Europe. Let's not forget Doris Miller portrayed by Cuba good and junior in the movie Pearl Harbor who was the first national hero of war war two and became the first african american to be awarded the navy cross because he was the crewman that was aboard to West Virginia and Pearl when Pearl Harbor was attacked so y'll remember the move in Pearl Harbor and cubba goods. Junior's character. Once again I can I can't remember what his character was it was a cook and mechanic because that's what black soldiers were he jumped into the machine gun and started shooting at the planes that were coming to bomb him showing that hey man if you give us a shot.

31:48.84
Bruce Anthony
We can contribute but military segregated this is all record right? Everything and I'm saying these are all facts. This is not my opinion I didn't live during that time I don't I didn't see it firsthand these there are books. There are articles. There are movies that give you all of this information. Don't believe me do the Google search yourself, but these are facts now let me get to this so-called greatest generation now the greatest generation was. Was coined by Tom Brocall and and basically the greatest generation is commonly referred to those americans who were born in the nineteen hundreds through the 1920 s so they were adults during war war 2 right? Ah they what I will give them credit for. Is that they live through not only the great depression but war war 1 and world war 2 so if you want to say they were some of the most they were 1 of the most resilient generations I might not argue with you too much about that. Right? I mean great depression and two world wars I would say that there's a generation that just went through September Eleventh ah and then also the the war on terror which is terrible technically still going the iraqi war and Afghanistan and all that stuff right? for 20 years

33:22.27
Bruce Anthony
And there was also a whole generation that didn't even get to volunteer. They were forced into Vietnam and then you also have the feminist music movement civil rights movement that actually to me is the greatest generation but let's just focus on why they say. This generation born in nineteen hundreds and 1920 s is the greatest generation right? Ok I will give them the fact that they went through the great depression and to war wars but then they are described as driven patriotic and team players. Okay, well I just examined how they're not team players and oh let's not forget that segregation was a real thing during this time right? So how much of team players were they how driven were they I don't know I mean I guess there is. There is something to be said to pull yourself out of the great depression I will say that the economy of war helped us out of the great depression. Um, but you still had to go through it. Um, they're the parents of baby boomers and who. I actually believe and I know there's a knock on boomers right now but boomers were the adults that were really fighting the real fights to get social justice in this country and to get as close to as you could possibly get to equality. We're still not there. Yeah, but they fought the fights.

34:50.98
Bruce Anthony
Um, so yeah, like I said originated Tom Brocall kind of kind of labeled them the greatest generation and and and I have a friend who's in her sixty s who said yeah, that's the greatest generation because they all went off to war. Okay, let's talk about war war two. Let's talk about our involvement America's involvement in world war two America delayed getting into world war two and that's because they preached a philosophy of isolationism. Ah, this meant that many americans believed that the conflict in Europe was not their concern. And that the Us should focus on its own defense and avoid involvement and and foreign wars does that sound familiar does that sound like what a lot of people in particular parties are saying about Ukraine and Gaza I'm just saying. Does that not sound familiar. Public opinion is that hey we had just done a war war twenty years ago we don't really want to be in another one and I can kind of understand that. Okay, you just fought one fight and you're not trying to really fight. No heavy fight again. Also there were some political but ah debates. With ah some of the some americans questioning joining the war before before they did because they believed that the the Us ah should be isolated and there were other people who were actually like no we got to jump in this war to fight fascism.

36:23.69
Bruce Anthony
And then there were even people and once again, these are all facts if you read books you create articles about why America hesitated to enter into world war two. You could find all this information Google once again, ladies and gentlemen Google is your friend. Ah, there were also americans who had just come to the point that after Germany had made so many advances in Europe that they were just too strong and didn't want that smoke. Yes, there were people here in this country that just didn't want to smoke with Germany. Because Germany was just taking over all Europe and it wasn't until Pearl Harbor was attacked on December Seventh Nineteen forty one Japanese the japanese did a surprise attack at Pearl Harbor that we decide to enter the war. So a lot of ah the majority of men enlisted. Into the war and ah this is considered patriotic and and it is right? It is patriotic to fight for your country I will never ever attack anybody that has blood sweat. Tears fought for this country I am a strong supporter of our armed forces I'm a strong supporter of the military I'm an even stronger supporter of the veterans I think we need to do a much better job at taking care of those people.

37:54.49
Bruce Anthony
Who have ptsd have mental emotional and physical pains dismemberment all that stuff from going into defending us. But with that being said to say. That um America was noble and patriotic for joining the armed forces to go fight in this war I question not the patriotism I question the the hero comment. Because I'm sorry for anybody out there if somebody walks up to you and punches you in the face. Are you just gonna turn and walk away and continue on with your day or are you gonna punch them back or do something back in retaliation now if you decide. That you want to turn and walk away or run away because you don't want that smoke I'm not here to judge anybody I don't know how hard that person hit you or who that person was if Mike Tyson now even if Mike Tyson walked up to me and punched me in the face I'm gonna take that l but I'm gonna defend myself. That's just pride. So was it that this the the men that enlisted was it that they were heroic heroic or prideful because heroic would have been the Us entering the war when Germany.

39:28.63
Bruce Anthony
And the nazis were collecting jewish people and putting them in concentration camps killing them marching through Poland that would have been the time to enter the war and Don I mean yeah, the Us gave some arms. You know were real good at that. We're real good at. Not putting any real skin in the game. We're real good with you know I give you some guns some military stuff to help you out with your problem but you know that's your problem but you not get you a little bit to help you out. That's what America was doing and it went until we got punched in face that we decided to enter the war and this is a generation that we called the greatest generation. Never mind that but when the war ended and all those soldiers came back because who was working in the factories. The women who kept this country afloat as far as the infrastructure that was running in this country. The men were off to fight in a war. It was the women that were working in the factories. It were the women that was taking care of the land. It was the women and when those men came back. Those women were women were relegated back to those old woman customs. Being the housewife being the mother stay in the kitchen. So despite the fact that this is labeled the greatest generation. It didn't stop it from being misogynistic racist discriminative towards different people different races.

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Bruce Anthony
And women this led to black people who had gotten horribly treated in their service to their country during world war 2 coming back saying hey man now I didn't go fight for this country. Go overseas and see different things. This was why a lot of black people. Moved to Paris right? because they went they they were in Paris and they was like wait a minute hold up. Not every place is like the deep South America or not even the deep South America because Chicago was segregated New York was segregated not technically by the laws. It didn't have Jim Crow laws but they did but they didn't but they did. Like redlining and banking and loans and they created basically these areas that only people minorities could live and just it wasn't Jim Crow it just wasn't written on the store counter when you walked in whites only but it was. The same thing and so these black soldiers and these women that had done the work of defending this country. These men came back from fighting war soldiers, patriotic soldiers and women were relegated back to the kitchen. And black folks were relegated back to well weren't reregated. They were still stuck in second class citizenship and this led to the rise of the feminist movement and the civil rights movement. It was the baby boomers. That's the greatest generation to me.

42:41.17
Bruce Anthony
Because they're the ones who actually fought for everybody having rights not the greatest generation the greatest generation saw atrocities that was happening in another land and said that's not my problem. That's no different. Then you're seeing somebody get mugged or getting beaten or maybe getting raped in the street and you walk right past it and you say that's not my problem That's what they did and the only time that they stood up and the only time that you would react. If you were walking past that person being mugged being robbed being raped as if that mugger robber raper turned around and tried to do the same thing to you then you defend yourself. That's not heroic. That's pride. They were tough because they made it through the great depression into world wars but to to label them the greatest generation when they came back and started doing the same shit that they were doing beforehand I'm sorry America was not great in the 1950 s it was fucking horrible if you were anybody of color or women. And that's just the plain truth and anybody who wants to dispute that you just don't want to look at the real history of America you want to look at the great pr creation of America and if we can call out our loved ones and we can say.

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Bruce Anthony
I love my mother I love my father I love my grandmother I love my grandmother but here are their flaws. They are not perfect. Why wouldn't you do the same thing for your country. Why is it so hard for you to look at the negative and atrocities that America has done. Given you the information it is up to you. You are no longer ignorant if you refuse this information you are willfully ignorant and I can't do nothing for you godspeed and your willful ignorance and they say ignorance is bliss. You just gonna remain real blissful I guess.

44:59.85
Bruce Anthony
All right for this last message I can't I read it and I saved it and I can't find the word for word written message on Reddit that I read but I remember the logistics of the message. So I'm going to paraphrase. What this young woman said in the message and then discuss it. So it's a woman that has been married a young woman late 30 s so young to me has been married to a husband for 7 years before she got married her mom told her. Hey look you need a getaway account basically an account that has money in it anytime something happens you can get away. Ah so she creates this getaway account. And through the seven years um she stashes money in the account here's some important details to some of the things that she was saying she says she's a stay at home wife. They don't have any kids. She's a stay at home wife right? She doesn't have a job. He has a job sometimes he's worked. 2 jobs. He used to make really good income so it was okay for her to stay at home. He got into a really bad accident at work where he couldn't work anymore. They tried suing because of the accident and lost the lawsuit. So.

46:34.90
Bruce Anthony
Not only was he not able to work that did not win lawsuit so money was no longer available. Ah they were had run out of a lot of money he did what he could she went out and got a little bit of job till he got back on his feet she says in her own words he. Did work 2 jobs and drove uber to get them back up to where they were when she stopped working she had lost her job that she had gotten during that hard time she had stopped working but he was doing everything and they can to get back on their feet. Throughout this entire process. She was still stacking money in that getaway account. He finds out about the account. They've been married for 7 years He finds out about their account and understandably so I think he's a little upset. Ah. He becomes even more upset when he finds out that there is about 20 I can't remember the exact number but it's like 25 to 50 grand in this getaway account and he is like yo you saw that I was breaking my back while you lost your job. Trying to get us back on our feet get us out of this debt that we was in and you were sitting on on this pile of cash and she's like that's what my mom told me to do any case anytime something happens you know I'm saying I'm gonna need some getaway money so she was basically asking the Reddit community was she wrong.

48:07.41
Bruce Anthony
And I don't comment on Reddit Reddit community sites. It could be a cesspole. It could be worst. It's absolutely worst in Youtube so I did not comment on that I decided I was going to bring it to my show because it's anonymous, right? I they only post a message to synonymous I don't know who they are I just know what she posted. And gonna give my critique to it so she asked was she a jerk or an ahole right? already said the f wear it on this episode. So I'm not gonna continue to cuss was she in ahole and my response to that is yes. But like there's no question. You absolutely are now I will say this I was married this is what we decided to do before we even married when we decided to move in together. We said we have our own accounts but we're going to create a joint account and our joint bills. Were going to total them all up and it was like it was like what our rent was mortgage was whether cell phones cable all that stuff you know everything that was joint bills utilities all that stuff joint bills vacations times when we would go out to dinner. We we like estimated like what we would spend on these things and we said this is the number. That each of us have to put in each month and that takes care of our joint expenses now anything that that you have that's yours that's yours, but this is what you need to put into the joint account for our joint expenses now we maintain that through ah through through the short marriage.

49:41.73
Bruce Anthony
Through the marriage and I would say our issues were never over finances I would never let finances come between us finances could always be worked out I made a little bit more money than she did let me a lot more money than she did. Um. And she was in school she was working she was in school she was putting in money right? She had more worth than I did at that particular time. Um, but but I had more cash than than she did but like we never wanted for anything bills always got paid nobody was ever stressed out if. Finances were stressed one way or the other between us the other person picked up the slack. That's just what couples do in a marriage had I found out that she wasn't working I'm paying all the bills and she's stashing away money that she's not providing. Right? because this woman was not working the majority of the marriage. The only time this woman from this Reddit post was actually working was when he couldn't do the full time stuff that he used to be able to do so she pitched in and then she lost her job and in no part in that message does she talk about. I had a really tough time finding another job. She didn't specify if she did try to find another job. This dude is I hear breaking his back working to jobs driving ubers and ah there are there are other I forgot about this. There were other aspects of it to make her an ahole.

51:18.80
Bruce Anthony
I'm sorry ladies and gentlemen I forgot some very important details that I just now remembered and now I'm not making this up. This was absolutely in the message I swear to you guys he when they were going through the tough times and he was working 2 jobs and driving an uber. He went to her and he said hey this is actually. Killing me is there a way that we can scale back right? Like obviously right now we can't afford this House. We can't afford the things that we're that we're doing. We need to scale back. She said no this is why she wasn't working she said no that she had done a lot of work. Build that home and that she didn't want to reduce her lifestyle in any way now me personally if I was married to her right then and there I'm leaving because she's not looking out for us. She's looking out. For her and if you're in a relationship and that person is only looking out for themselves. You need to get out of the situation I'm not saying people can't make their own decisions right? But when you're in a partnership you need to talk to that other person. Not to get validation for whatever decision that you make but you need to include them into your thought process and let them know hey this is what's going on. This is the decisions I'm going to be making about this but I want you to know ahead of time I think that's fair, um.

52:51.85
Bruce Anthony
That's what a partnership is if I find out and I've been in relationships my last serious relationship was like this um where the person that I was dealing with was all about themselves. They thought about themselves first and don't get me wrong. You need to put yourself first. But didn't include me in decisions that she was making about her life I'm not going to tell her no yay or nay about a decision in her life. But if we're together and your decision can impact me. Probably should give me a little heads up before you make said decision. That's all I'm saying is that when your decisions impact other people you should give them a little heads up and so he's going to her killing himself 2 jobs driving uber hey can we Can we scale back as she says no all the while she has anywhere from 25 to $50000 in the secret getaway account that she's not sharing. She's not pitching in when they're in a tough situation completely by herself she's completely about herself I would have ditched her. As soon as I as soon as I find out about that account because you was over here having me literally kill myself and you staying in the house chilling and you're not helping and you got all this money fact of the matter is that money is my money because I was the one that was working that is my money.

54:24.70
Bruce Anthony
You stole my money from me because that wasn't going that the money that I make is supposed to be going towards us or me not solely to you not solely to you. It's for us or me your money is your money. My money is my money. But our money is our money meaning that some of my money is for us how you gonna be taking how you not gonna be working and you taking money that that I'm making and you're not, You're not using it for Us. You're not even using it for Me. You're using it for you I don't know I consider that stealing but but women out there if you're listening to this give me your feedback right? I don't think that there's anything wrong for a woman having a getaway account I Don't think there's anything wrong for a man having to get away account there that. That's problematic if you're in a relationship and you're already thinking about a getaway account now understand that you need to protect yourself in a situation but it also is kind of like hey are you really in it because. Either all the way in it or you're not and if you're thinking in the back of your head I need to prepare for and case this goes sideways I mean you always want to prepare but that was what she had was overprepare. Um, so I don't know women women and men you know shoot shoot me a comment.

56:00.19
Bruce Anthony
Let me know what you think I think that she was in the wrong. That's just my personal opinion. Um I think there was nothing I think there was nothing about what she did that was right other other than the fact that there is nothing wrong with having in your own account and if it was money that. That she was working and putting in I No are you? It's your money right? That's what you do with your money is is is is your thing I mean what you do with my money. That's not for us I got a real problem with that and that's grounds for me to divorce you because I can't trust you. And if I can't trust you ain't no reason for me to be with you and that's just me and that's actually talking straight ish actually without any cousins. That's that's what that is but on that note I Want to thank all of youall for listening and watching and until next time as always. Ah, holler.