Robert Woodson, Civil Rights Activist, and President of 1776 Unites.
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Bob Woodson wishes he could be a racial exorcist and absolve all white Americans of the sin of slavery. Really. He said that. Woodson joined Michele for a remarkable conversation about where the Civil Rights Movement took a wrong turn, and how he sees the future for Americans of all races and ethnicities.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tofoya, sponsored by Legacy Precious |
| 0:04.8 | medals. There has never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Go to legacy pm.investments.com, |
| 0:11.5 | legacy pm.investments.com. Coming up, the great Bob Woodson of the Bob Woodson Center and |
| 0:18.5 | 1776 Unites on his vision of race relations in America. |
| 0:25.7 | For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. |
| 0:30.5 | She started very young. |
| 0:31.8 | She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national championships. |
| 0:38.2 | And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity. |
| 0:46.9 | This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the sanest people on planet Earth. |
| 0:53.4 | Michelle Tofoya. |
| 0:58.7 | So happy to be joined today by Bob Woodson, a man I have long admired because of his integrity, his patriotism. |
| 1:10.5 | And I think, Bob, you've given me permission to call you, Bob. |
| 1:15.2 | Bob Woodson is our guest. |
| 1:17.2 | You're just your common sense approach toward uniting people. |
| 1:23.8 | And for those who might be meeting you for the first time here today, can you give us a quick nutshell story of the life of Bob Woodson, where you grew up and how you came to be doing the things you're doing today? |
| 1:40.8 | Well, thank you, Michelle. |
| 1:42.6 | I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the middle of the depression, low-income, blue-collar neighborhood. As I tell people, even during segregation, 95% of all households had a man and a woman raising children. Elderly people could walk safely |
| 2:01.1 | without fear of being assaulted by their grandchildren, never heard a gun fired throughout my |
| 2:08.1 | entire early life, even doing segregation. My dad died when I was nine, leaving my mother with a fifth grade education and five kids to raise. |
| 2:20.4 | My goodness. |
| 2:21.1 | And I cleaved to a group of friends, and they were all positive. |
| 2:25.7 | And when they graduated from high school, I was a year younger. |
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