Monroe

They didn't want to get involved in all the internal conflicts and such in the Cultural Revolution in China.

They knew that their struggle was replacing white supremacy with justice and how black people were being treated in Monroe, North Carolina, in the states in general.

And they said that they were going to go to Tanzania, see if things worked out.

That is exactly where we're picking up this week.

And then headed to Tanzania and see what's going to go down there.

Really see the dynamics of white supremacy, racism in Tanzania.

And then trying to see if they can make it back to the U.S. to escape the lynch mob that was waiting for him with the kidnapping case in Monroe.

All of that said, we will get to it.

I think I've heard from a lot of them.

Um, then the 16th I'm in Hickory and Raleigh, North Carolina, the 17th in Davidson and Monroe, North Carolina, the 18th in Sneeds Ferry and Oceanel Beach, North Carolina.

And then the 19th and 20th is the big Peachtree Bluff town takeover in Beaufort.

We're doing double decker bus tours, a lunch at Beaufort grocery, um, a cocktail party on the grounds of the historic sites and a little mimosa party on Sunday.

I looked it up and there's a list of classic Pizza Huts.

There are several in C, one in Monroe.

I would have included the link, but apparently YouTube deletes comments with external links.

So look up Pizza Hut Classic and the website with the list should be in the search results.

All right, got to drive out to Monroe to get some old school.

Monroe, North

Carolina.

Some old school Pizza Hut.

No, the only – I just do – If there's autograph signings, you know, I haven't done any comic cons.

I'm not that guy, but, you know, but there's one in July up in Monroe, North Carolina, July 12th or 15th.

I can't remember, but he's a promoter that did all the NWA Fan Fest.

His name's Greg Price.

And for a few years, they were monsters.

They were three-day events.

So he's doing something up at the Ag Center up in Monroe.

That's kind of a big deal.

Grew

up a Cowboy fan in Monroe, North Carolina, home of Casey and JoJo.

And he was a big Tony Romo fan.

Big Tony Romo fan.

My disbelief turned to intense anger.

This was the same Khrushchev who had promised to send the poverty-stricken people of Monroe a relief ship, raised our hopes, and backed down when he considered that such action might offend the US power structure.

The next morning, a delegation of bourgeois communists visited me.

These Americans were all elated and full of admiration for Khrushchev.

But it-- You might have to go there physically to obtain the material, but there is a lot of information about Robert and Mabel Williams and all of this time, and newspaper articles about them from this time period, newspaper articles in the US about Radio Free Dixie and the impact that it was having.

Lots, lots of material if you want to research and learn more about, and learn more about people and, uh, important portion of the so-called civil rights movement, 1960s counter-racism effort that is willfully deleted by white people most of the time when they talk about really important events of this time period.

They generally leave out the Williamses, Monroe, North Carolina, and counter-violence.

Okay, let's see.

I had been, I had been in the South in the summer of '63.

I'd been, uh, in some demonstrations in, uh, Danville, Virginia, Monroe, North Carolina.

What, what I remember is the, um...

And I'm getting goosebumps as I s- as you, you, I was talking to you.

I'm gonna have to save some of these over the weekend.

But there was one I came across last night from Monroe, North Carolina.

Most, most of you don't, probably don't even know where Monroe is.

That's where my mother was born.

That's where my mother's people came from.

And, uh, it's, it's where Jesse Helms was from, was born.

He was in high school with, uh, my mother.

And listen to what's going on now in Monroe, North Carolina, in the, you might call it the buckle of the Bible Belt.