#1249 Amor Patriae
Listening to America
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🗓️ 29 August 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Responding to a flood of emails from listeners, this week an out-of-character program discussing the recent events at Charlottesville.
Find this episode, along with recommended reading, on the blog.
Thomas Jefferson is interpreted by Clay S. Jenkinson.
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| 0:00.0 | Good Day Citizens and Welcome to this week's podcast edition of the Thomas Jefferson Hour. |
| 0:07.0 | Another difficult program, this one, our reaction to the events at Charlottesville. |
| 0:13.0 | You know, I've been so troubled by this, David, because you can't do Jefferson for 30 years and not be an optimist. |
| 0:21.0 | And then when you see that the country still has some squibs of dark, dark, dark energy |
| 0:28.0 | that illuminate the reptilian in us rather than the proto angel. It's just so upsetting and you keep thinking |
| 0:38.1 | that's over with the election of Barack Obama. Even he thought we may be moving into a post-racial America. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, nonsense, we're not there yet. |
| 0:47.0 | For those of you who listen to this podcast edition, I must urge you, if you do not have time to listen to the entire program do listen to |
| 0:56.1 | Clay's essay wow you've never said that before and the title of it is |
| 1:00.5 | Thomas Jefferson weeping for america uh... and if you if you don't have time for |
| 1:06.2 | the podcast uh... or you just want to share that that essay go to uh... |
| 1:10.0 | Jefferson Hour dot com it's well well, it's posted every week. |
| 1:14.4 | So you can, actually I think you can find the text for it and a recording of it. |
| 1:19.5 | And I'm sorry, I have to do this. |
| 1:22.2 | Uh-oh. While you're at the Jefferson Hour.com site. |
| 1:26.2 | This show is listener supported. We have no grants we get no support from public radio. |
| 1:32.0 | The only way this show continues we get no support from public radio. |
| 1:32.8 | The only way this show continues and is on the air |
| 1:35.8 | is through kind listeners like yourselves |
| 1:39.3 | that are willing to part with some of their own resources in order to help us. |
| 1:44.0 | And great human sacrifice by you and me. |
| 1:47.0 | Don't forget that. |
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