I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. This is a crazy time in our country. It's stressful. A lot of anxiety and it's going to get worse.

And I realize that one of the things that helps me take away the stress is realizing that there's

nothing new under the sun. So on this podcast we take the news of the day and we

run it through the Bible and other periods in history to realize that we've been

through this before and we can rise above again.

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So as you know I grew up in Levittown on Long Island and I was looking at pictures of me as an urchin and my house.

Eight thousand dollars, my father bought it on a GI Bill in 1951.

He's a Brooklyn guy, moved out to Central Nassau.

And the house consisted of two bedrooms, tiny, one bath, tiny, kitchen living room. That's it. There was

an upstairs that was unfinished. There was a car port, not a garage. I mean, maybe it was

a thousand square feet, but I doubt it. Anyway, that was where I lived and everybody else lived in those same house because

Levitt just built them all identical. So nobody thought it, wow, I wish I had a better house, because everybody had the same house.

Now, we had no air conditioning,

so in the summer, everybody was out.

All the urchins were out, Okay playing and we were playing baseball and stickball and kickball and

dodge ball in the street. There were hundreds of kids in Levittown.

As part of that culture, there was racial stuff,

okay?

Because the Levitt brothers who built Levittown in New York and

Pennsylvania would not sell to blacks and I've mentioned this before. So it's

white ethnics Irish Irish, Italian, Jewish, Polish, primarily.

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