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Welcome, Welcome, welcome. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Very special show today. Visit proamericareport.com. ProAmericaReport.com, sign up there for the daily e-mail. The daily WYNK, which goes out into your, goes into your inbox at 8:00 AM East Coast, 5:00 AM Pacific every Monday through Friday. Sign up there and you won’t regret it. Well and. And before we get to the WYNK, let me just. Set something up for you. I wanna encourage you. To make sure to listen to the end of today’s program, we call it segment 4. In our preparation, you know the first segment is the WYNK, second and third segment are interviews, usually something meaty, segment 4 We catch up on some things. You got to know to do things, to do action steps, and you’ve heard, I think 2 weeks ago, Ryan Hite, my colleague, he was on the program talking about. The importance of Eagle Council. It’s upcoming. Here’s what I want to tell. Our annual event for the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, the organization I work for my sort of day job is annual Eagle Council, 52nd Annual Eagle Council. We go for quality over volume. Now don’t get me wrong. A couple years ago we had 1200 people there, but our goal is not to be a cattle call of conservatives. It’s to be a quality gathering where you learn and your network. I mean, a couple years ago, we had 1200 people, Rick Perry, the presidential candidate, dropped out of the race, we had Huckabee, Santorum, Ben Carson, Rand Paul, all that stuff Trump came to right around Eagle Council to Phyllis Schlafly’s funeral. But what we mostly do is between 200 and 300 people are gathering and they’re the movers and the Shakers. They’re the doers. They’re the people who make things happen, and you’re gonna want to be a part of that. September 15th, 16th and 17th in Saint Louis in a few minutes, I’m gonna talk to you more detail about that. Come on back. And before that, let’s go back to our WYNK. Here’s the topic.
The topic is what’s really happening? What’s really happening? Behind the headlines behind the curtain, behind the history books, what’s really happening? What’s actually happening? We have an extraordinary guest in a few moments, we’ll talk with Jack Cashill. Jack Cashill is I. He’s an academic. He’s got a PhD and he’s been a professor and taught in different things over the years. He’s also an author. He was a guy that was. When I was a young lawyer, I I’ll probably remind him of this. I I know he’ll remember. That’s how we met. But I was a young lawyer practicing a a clerking in Kansas City and Jack Cashill lives there with his wife and daughters. He’s got two daughters. That, and that’s right. I gotta look at my notes. He references in his book. He’s got a new book out called Untenable. And it’s about the incredible flight from the cities, and it’s the true story of white ethnic flight from America cities. He’s from Newark, Newark, he calls it Newark, Newark, New Jersey. I was working in the in Kansas City. I was new there, just lived there for a year and I met Jack Cashill. He kind of has. He kind of has a reputation as a convener of people having conversations and thoughts. He has guests that are authors over the decades. And since I’ve stayed in touch by e-mail and otherwise, so he’s got this new book Untenable from Post Hill Press. It’s really good. It’s a memoir about Newark, NJ, and about how Newark, NJ, changed and why people left. And it’s really, really well done. He’s a he’s very good writer, but here’s what I was gonna tell you. Jack Cashill, who’s got a number of other books. One is called the Hunt. One is called Unmasking Obama. The fight to tell the true Story of a failed presidency. Another one is Barack Obama’s Promised Land: Deplorables need not apply.
He has been smeared over the years, smeared over the years, smeared years by people calling him a conspiracy theorist. In part because two things, one is he he took a hard look at Obama’s writing. The famous memoir Dreams of My Father and Jack Cashill, who’s a writer himself, said, Ah, I don’t think so. I I don’t quite. Believe that that was written by Barack Obama. Who else helped him? And when he dug into that he came away. Really, as one of the early and definitive people who said. This was done by Bill Ayers, who is a sort of radical professor type from Chicago. And so very interesting and and that book got a lot of attention. They tried to smear him and say it was he was a he was a conspiracy theorist, but it kind of held up. It didn’t kind of held up. It held up and he wrote a book on TWA Flight 1, Flight 800. What happened with the Crash January. Excuse me. July of 1996. That crash he he’s anyway. He’s a very interesting man who has written a bunch of different on a bunch of different topics with great clarity. What’s the Matter with California is a book that’s on my shelf right across from me. It’s called Cultural rumbles from the. Golden State and why the rest of us should be shaking. Very interesting. So anyway, he gets he gets smeared by this. The people that say ohh yeah, conspiracy theorists, except everything that we used to be told we’re conspiracy theorists. Are now happening. You know, we’re told. You know what? What is all you know, conspiracy? Russia, Russia, Russia, conspiracy theorist. If you say it wasn’t Russia, it turns out it wasn’t Russia. Conspiracy theorist. If you say Joe Hunter Biden’s laptop and Ukraine. So if it turns out it was. Go down the list. It’s extraordinary anyway, so we’re gonna talk with him, and we will have a chance to visit with him about what’s going on with his work and a whole lot more.
Now let me let me tell you what though. I want to. I want to highlight as we talk with him. About his book Untenable, I want to highlight a tweet that Cory D’Angelis put out, and I want to say these things didn’t happen. Flight from our cities, for example, without. Actions and without. Policy choices. So it seems obvious to a lot of people that when you defund the police, people are gonna leave, right? I I mean that seems obvious to people. When you say defund the police, people are gonna leave and that that’s been going on, right. If you look around people are like, yeah, that’s gonna send me leaving. But that might be. Be, among other things, that might be a fake Because. Because people are looking for reasons to to to leave. I think these cities and one of the most glaring aspects of what has made our cities untenable. Is the school systems. And who has been trapped in the school systems. And this is where Corey D’Angelis’s tweet highlighted. He first of all highlighted a, a, he was retweeting. A Randy Weingarten, who’s the head of the American Federation of Teachers. So, and she’s talking about how the, you know, American democracy is cracking, she says. And this explains why, and she’s talking about how government fails. And he, Corey D’Angelis, tweets. Very not too long, but a a pretty lengthy tweet. He says campaign contributions From the American Federation of Teachers to Democrat. Starting in ’94, 99.4% of all contributions are to Democrats by the teachers union, and by 9/2022 it’s 99.97%, meaning this. Meaning this. One of the entities massive amounts of money that has trapped our cities in a cycle of schools that are broken.
You cannot say that the schools in the cities are working, period. No one can. It’s just not possible. It’s not working. And who is it not working for? African Americans and low income families. And so when when Randy Weingarten says, Ohh democracy is not working, it’s not correct. He what what, Corey D’Angelis might have said is you’re right because you are subverting it, your contributions.
And here’s where it gets really tragic. Our governments have helped fund the teachers unions. The bailouts during COVID were massive for the teachers unions to manage that money. And to can grow themselves. And so as government has grown, the Democrats who said they were for the minority community who said they’re for the black community, the large majority of black people vote for The Democrats and yet, and yet the system. Is trapping them and so
When you say untenable, what are the things that could make it make it make it tenable to be in the cities? One of them would be pay for the cops, pay for the prosecutors. Don’t make prosecution selected based on race or based on politics, which is what’s happening in cities like Washington, DC and San Francisco. You know, go back to what they did in New York under Rudy Giuliani and Bloomberg and get, you know, enforce the laws, make things that they say call, they call them quality of life crimes.
But even more substantially. Fix the school systems that are trapping generation after generation. Of low income folks, who generally are. Black and brown. In systems that are broken. It’s outrageous. It’s an outrageous thing. And so when you look at this book Untenable and one of the things that’s powerful about Jack Cashill’s book is he’s talking about his experience, his father, I think it’s. Yeah, it’s his father who was a detective in Newark. His family was from there. He talks about his mother, who, and at the end of her life is is dying. And she’s at the and she’s sick. And she leaves Newark, finally because she’s sick. But she hadn’t, really. She hadn’t left. She refused to leave till then. She was staying, but more and more people that are leaving the cities and one of the aspects that is a a factor. In making them untenable, the more – I’d say the major one is education. An education system that’s failed. And failed repeatedly for decade after decade, failed generation after generation. It’s extraordinary. Alright, that’s what you need to know.
Today we will get back and we’ll talk with Jack Cashill in a few moments. Jack Cashill again is the author of Untenable, a new book from Post Hill Press, and We will take a break and be right back. It’s Ed Martin here on. The Pro America Report be right back.
