Live from Music Row, Wednesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio for another edition of Crom’s Crommentary.
CROM CARMICHAEL:
Michael, you know, it wasn’t long ago that Biden agreed to pay for climate reparations to all of the developing countries in the world that are being affected by the Biden administration’s policies that end up driving the cost of energy through the roof. Exactly who’s going to pay for that and how it’s going to be paid is unknown.
But Gavin Newsom has taken a page out of Biden’s book and assigned a bill to set up a commission of nine members in California to investigate the history of slavery in the United States. California is involved in that, and how much the states benefited.
Now, of course, he will pick the members on the committee, and it will end up showing a terrible, terrible thing, and he will then say that here are the states that will cause the slavery and that benefited from slavery. And it will be all the red states. And every Republican in the State House in California, voted against it, which is only 15 members.
What Republicans seem to find themselves doing is being on the side that’s against things. I would encourage the Republicans in the House of Representatives to take a page out of Newsom’s book and actually hold hearings on the history of slavery in this country and its impact and who caused it, and what has been the result of it.
And of course, we know that the Democrat Party lived off of slavery during the years of slavery. We know that it was the Republican Party that was the party that fought to abolish slavery. Literally fought to abolish slavery in the Civil War and defeated the Democrat-controlled south at that time.
And they were racist Democrats. And I may be an oxymoron, but they were racist Democrats. And then after the Civil War, what happened in The Reconstruction? The Klu Klux Klan. The Klu Klux Klan was the militant wing of the Democrat Party. And these are things that ought to be investigated, and they ought to be vowed to be brought up.
And the members of the House Committee should be of similar makeup to the January 6 committee because slavery is a serious matter. The history of slavery and getting the history of slavery right is a serious matter. And so I would strongly encourage Republicans to go on the offensive here.
And then the question is not which states benefited because a state is inert. A state’s nothing. It’s individuals who would have benefited. And so I think you look at Big Tech and you look at Big Tech and you say, if it weren’t for slavery, Big Tech wouldn’t exist today.
And so the multi-billionaires who are making money off of Big Tech, by God, the Republicans ought to say that here’s what reparations should be and here’s who ought to pay for it. Big Tech. Because it’s clear the connection between slavery and Big Tech is right before our eyes. It is irrefutable.
And that’s where the payments shouldn’t be made. And Republicans should start pushing for that the day after they take office in Washington.
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