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Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show with your host Eric Mataxas.

Hello there folks. This is the Eric Mataxas show or so they tell me.

Part of what I like to do on this show is introduce my audience which would be you technically.

To people that I've gotten to know, to new friends, new ideas. Recently I was in Birmingham,

Alabama with my friend Larry Taunton. He's with the Fix Point Foundation. He's been on this

program many times. And we were doing a conference there and he brought a few people to the conference

as speakers whose work I was unfamiliar with. One of them is CL Bryant. And I had such a fun time

getting to know CL Bryant that I said, hey, you know it would be a nice gesture to let my audience

know who CL Bryant is and to bless you as I have been blessed. So my guest for the day,

CL Bryant. CL, welcome to the Eric Mataxas show.

Thank you so much for the invitation and I'm glad to be here with you.

Well, we had fun with Larry Taunton in Birmingham and part of the fun for me was getting to know you.

And so let me tell my audience, you've been a minister for over 35 years, your in Treesport,

Louisiana. You were the president of the NAACP. I want to ask you about that.

You made a film, an award-winning film called Run Away Slave. I want to talk to you about that.

You've written a book called A Race for Freedom. You're a senior fellow with Freedom Works

and you're the host of the CL Bryant show. So if somebody doesn't know anything about you,

I've just listed a bunch of things. But tell us, I mean, I know a little bit about this,

but I want my audience to get to know you. Where did you grow up? How did you come to be serious about

your faith, about your conservative view of political situation? What's your story?

Growing up in a middle-class black home, upper middle-class black home, I was privileged as a child

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