And here's a fun fact. American made products don't get stuck on cargo ships. My name

is James T Harris sitting in for the Jesse Kelly show. I'm a radio talk show host. Actually,

yeah, talk show host in general. I'm talking a lot of different platforms out of Phoenix,

Arizona. And it's my pleasure to sit in for Jesse Kelly today. You know, before we get

into our supply side controversy, most of us woke up this morning to some very sad news.

Colin Powell, military leader, first black US Secretary of State died after complications

with COVID-19. Now general Colin Powell, what a controversial figure. But I have to tell

you that early on, he was one of the people that I looked up to in the conservative movement.

Yes, back in the day, we saw him as a conservative as a Republican, a proud Republican. And Colin

Powell, the first black Secretary of State, whose leadership and several Republican administrations

helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century. He was that

big. He was one of those quiet souls, one of those giants who worked behind the scenes.

And I kind of compare him to Jackie Robinson, who broke all kinds of barriers in baseball,

but not just the race barrier. That's a big thing. But I mean, the man was a brilliant

baseball player. And you never really knew of all of the stuff that he had to put up within

the background, all of the isms. You didn't find about that about that until much later.

Books started to be written. You know, you got the Jackie Robinson movie. They highlighted

that stuff, but he was a dignified man. He didn't use his platform as people would say today

to to spew racial angst. He did not have a racial chip on the shoulder, neither did Condoleez

Arise, who also she took the place of a Colin Powell. She was also a Republican, an American

of African descent, a born out of the deep South, I believe in poverty, at least, you

know, the working class rolls to the heights of being Secretary of State, a brilliant woman,

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