Good morning. Welcome to Community Voice. I'm your host Keith Parris. Sorry for the delay getting on here, but they had to shut the ice box now. What's happening, Clark Kent? Who you with? Oh, man. Let me guess. Did the Packers win yesterday? Yeah, by luck. I see you got your pack of gear on. Yeah. You know, I'm going to put it on when they win.
But when they lose, I'm gonna take it off. Yeah, we all do. Bury your stuff, man. Be like, uh, well, they might have a little run because the Falcons, sorry, Frankie, the Falcons. Oh my God, the Falcons. All right, but Bryce looked pretty good yesterday. Yeah. Bryce looked good, man. So maybe the bears are not that good. And they hurt, too. But when they lose, I'm gonna take it off. Yeah, we all do. Bury your stuff, man. Be like,
The truck driver right there. How we man, this is the first time we've ever picked up a CB Wow Wow, we just picked up the CB. Yeah, you can mention some on my show That's crazy
It's on now, man. Oh, let me know what is on
If anybody watched the end of the Packer game, did you all hear that did the simulcast like you wouldn't get in the Packer? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm trying to repeat something that the Keisha actually told me to say a boot It had to do with and this is you're better Some major church things you may happen November 3rd Like one of these big meetings out of state here by conventions conferences or something
Okay, is that her? Okay, Keisha. Good morning. Good morning, Keith and Michelle. Yes, you heard what I was saying, trying to struggle to figure out remind, remember what you wanted me to mention. About the church, about the churches in November 3rd election. Oh, if you are a member of the Church of God in Christ. Oh, Convocation. Yes, Convocation begins on November the 3rd.
And that is election day. So we are asking all members of the Church of God in Christ to vote before you go to Convocation. Don't take your vote with you and leave, you know, leave with your vote. Make sure you vote early. Make sure you get your vote voting done before you go to Convocation. Thank you. I was trying my best to remember that. It was something I was supposed to tell people this morning. So yeah, thank you so much. So thank you Keith. I appreciate it.
No, no, no, that's a national national. Are they in Memphis again? Because they've been going back and forth. They've been going back and forth.
And I was like, oh, that makes sense. Yeah, so we need to make sure that people vote before they leave. Michelle, don't leave it where she's going. She's on her way to the convention. Oh, I didn't know if you knew this. Her program. You know what? Her work hours is. I ain't gonna have my little red bulb in here. I saw you have a model on TV Saturday. You did. Yes.
They played Yeah, man, it was a nice crowd there, too Oh the Braves, that's right
How are we looking for Saturday? We good. I think we're going to be good, but I was that's one of the reasons I was calling in to let people know that there are still a few spaces available on the bus for the Milton house. Is Jubilee fingers event? So if anyone needed to get tickets to the event, they are still available. They can give me a call at 504.
Eight one four zero six six four once again five zero four eight one four zero six six four and they can get on the bus for the Milton house event Okay, let me let me let me do an update here. You're correct. They did play Arkansas pine pine buff not this weekend weekend before last This was a basketball scores fifty three fifty one Jesus, but they lost the North Alabama Saturday. Yeah. Oh wow
Uh, beat Texas Southern. Oh, no, they play Texas Southern Saturday Saturday Saturday Saturday. Yes, Miss Myers. Yes. Uh, for this trip this weekend, can I bring a big pan of pork and beans and winners and feed it to the people on the bus? Do you have so safe?
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These wieners are more bees than poop. These wieners that I'm putting the bees, I mean, they are more bees than poop. That's what we look at. We'll skip you. We'll not have you on this event, okay?
But you know what, Dr. Myers, it would be a nice homage if we travel like we used to do. We go to the south, had a little shoe box, fried chicken up in there, some light bread, and some caramel candy. That's it. That's the travel package right there. The premium travel package. You know what, I went to see, I was 14 years old and we went to Saviors Day.
And we I got a chance to hear the honorable Elijah Muhammad, which was wow What an experience that was crazy. That was whoa But on the way back they had a nice little box lunch for us And it was like corned beef Really? Yeah, so it was set up nice. Oh set up really nice man for a 14 year old Oh man, I had a good time but now when I think about that when we would travel to the south and
We have our little shoe box. Yeah. Put put in that little shoe box. Put a little string on it. Tie it up. Jumping the station wagon. Uh huh. Some wax paper. Whoa. Because we couldn't stop. Right. Right. We couldn't stop. I was telling Michelle that uh I too watch Rich Man Poor Man.
Yeah It was so crazy because it the finale was in the spring Okay, and it was so warm. We had our windows open on campus, right? I think Peter Strauss gets shot at the end of this I'm trying to remember as it comes back But you could hear audibly all throughout the campus when he got shot you could hear all through the windows Wow, so the whole campus was what rich man poor man was quite a phenomenon
But roots just came in and just shut it all down. I mean it shut it all down and it was and it was do you know there were people rioting? Really about roots. Yep. Yep. Yeah, a lot of people my mother refuses. She will not watch any movie dealing with enslavement. She said it's too painful. She said it is too painful. It's like reliving it all over again. But then, you know, at Saturday Night Live did a skit.
It was John Beluchi, and I don't know who it was and they was trying to that whole couldn't come to kente told me so they did That line they wanted him to be Peggy flimmy You know when Michelle was it's amazing how actors can can reach different generations at different times So when you talk about rich man poor man and she was talking about Ben Vereen and
Yes, I watched Ruth, but I wasn't alive when it came out for me on television. So I saw it later, you know, as a rerun and watched it with my parents and everything like that. But the other part was my first introduction to Ben Vereen was on Zoo Believe Zoo. Or who? Zoo Believe Zoo. It was a show on PBS. Zoo Believe Zoo, yeah. Zoo Believe Zoo.
You want to talk about five degrees or six degrees of separation? Remember when he got hit on the freeway? Ben Vereen was crossing the freeway. Yeah. You know who hit him? Who? David Foster. What? David Foster. Yes. David Foster hit Ben Vereen. I do. Remember when he was called? Yeah. Yeah. He got hit. I remember that. I think.
Let me i'm gonna verify it now, but i thought because david foster was telling the story david foster Ben valine Keith real quick there was a caller that just called in uh-huh That wanted keisha to repeat the information Excuse me. Yep phone number. Oh for the phone number. Yes ma'am phone number Absolutely the phone number to reach me for tickets is 504 814 066
four. Once again, that's 504-814-0664. Jermaine, you know, there's another trip that I'm doing too, and I think you'd be interested in that. Okay, talk to me. You know, Master P, and Birdman, and Manny Fresh, and Lil Bootsy, all the Cash Money Millionaires, all the November Soldiers, November 13,
We're taking a party bus over to Chicago. We're going. We're going. Say no more. Now, I'm going to break my pork and beans winners for that one. No, you can't. No, I can't do that. Okay. No, no limit. But I will have a hand grenade for you. It was Master P just here for fish bones. Yeah, fish bowls. So that's his
Okay, June 1992, music producer David Foster accidentally struck actor and dancer Ben Vereen with his vehicle on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, critically injured. Earlier that day, Vereen had hit a tree with his car and suffered a stroke while walking along the highway, which caused him to wander into the dark road.
Foster was driving home late at night when his vehicle struck vorine breaking his leg and causing severe internal Yeah, he talked about he had a bad day that day. Oh my god. I can't a tree didn't get hit by a car He came back from it. Yeah, yeah, he came back from it. Yeah, now Ben marine was on
Will Smith, too. He played Will Smith, too. He played Luke. Wow, that's crazy, man. And I was going like, because I remember when Ben Marine, because they said he had the car accident, didn't get run over. But then I was like, David Foster. What's the car? Man, you talk about, whoa.
Whoa, what's the odds of that happen? All right, give us the number again just in case, because I know people are really interested and want to be able to make the trip. That number is? 504-814-0664. And you can call me back cash money and the fish you believe in us. All right. To those of us. All right.
I know you like rap music. Keith, you should be right there with us. Oh, I'm into the classic rap, man. Well, that's classic rap right there. No, no, I'm talking Sugar Hill gang. I'm talking the real, you know, the real great. Am I in the rap? None of these dudes. Yeah. Well, a little boosty dude. I think Keith don't have a Grandmaster plan. Grandmaster plan. I don't believe that. We're talking about, we're talking about the classics here.
Do you think everything Nas is going to tour? Nas was just at Virginia last year. Was he? He did, he did Illmatic with a live orchestra, I think. Okay, okay. Yeah, he was at Virginia I think last summer. I really, I really appreciated Nas. It was at Tamra Grisby's funeral. And at the end,
She put on if I ruled the world. Oh my god. I gotta check this dude out. You got chicken out? Really? Okay. No, because I'm gonna be honest with you. I had heard of him. I believe it. No, I believe it. Because you gotta remember when, when, when, when rap was coming out, you, you were in the crowd with Jesus, right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I was into the quiet storm.
That was all the music I was listening to. And then somebody put Tupac's greatest hits in my head. I was like, oh, oh, oh, okay. It's only cracking now and ever since then. He's been thug life. No, I didn't say then. I said ever since then. Yeah, he's been thug life. He's been thug life. Dr. Nella Mitchell Reed. The hate you give. What is that Dave Chappelle skit?
Where he was talking about a two-pock is playing Oh George W Let me let me let me two-pock unleashed for some folks an interest in Machiavelli
Yeah, sure. Yeah. And if you study political science, you understand Macavelia's and I was here and young dudes come up and then wasn't it the the Illuminati? Illuminati. That was the other one that that people kind of got in because of Tupac. Tupac really steered everybody because when he started talking about Macavelia and Illuminati, nobody really knew. Yeah, they weren't talking about it. So soon as he opened up that can and warms people Illuminati. So they started
Tapping into it and they was like whoa. Hold on. This is this is way deeper than what we think Yeah, and I think he got more people to start reading and understanding like right, you know back of those the print and all of it right the power behind the throne Yeah, that's who rules the world. It is not the the person you see out front. What it can would always talk about is that you know, he'd always talk about who who is to pet on yeah, and there's it's always a
bigger entity that's working behind the scenes, like even now with Trump, you know, Trump is the face of the bigger machine that's working behind them because they got these, you know, they got these goals, but that they try to get done with that. So, I mean, what was that thing that they had? Project 2025. Project 2025. And you know, you know what's ironic? The person who's over OMB is one of the authors of Project 25. Oh, yeah.
It's a major machine. And this machine has plenty of people that's operating under this umbrella. And Trump is just the face of what they're trying to get done. One of the movie out like that. The movie about the machine running the world, but they had... But they had people that... Yeah. Yeah, which we only got about 10 years, y'all.
Well, I mean with this information coming out to with AI almost starting the war over the weekend 10 years is crazy now when you have a System that can create so much chaos and it's going rogue on you like it's loose. It don't even have a mind But it's losing its mind. There's a everybody if you watch a young and the rest of us. Yeah, I remember Victor Newman. Victor. Yeah. Oh big Newman There's a movie. I think it's called Colossus. This was done like in the late 60s
Talking about a computer that ended up Controlling right it went rogue and they couldn't shut it off Yeah, I mean that they talking about Regulating kill switch for these things because they seeming and it's going crazy It's losing his mind and it's starting to do whatever it wanted. That's amazing. Listen to how you're speaking. I know you put the human characteristic Yeah, it's losing his mind and they don't even have a mind
So that's my boy of his own. I should say there's a mind and it's real scary because now you have you have this this entity that got all of this information that again, if you can almost start a war and they caught it right before it almost started a war if it has that capability just imagine what else it can do. Well, you know if this was the old this was the
Fonda movie Henry Fonda failsafe Okay, and if people have ever seen failsafe this was done like 61 62 and it talks about how you can get a false alarm But it could trigger a nuclear war. Yeah. Yeah, and then all the protocol that they have and I think James Earl Jones is in that Is it is he yeah James Earl Jones is in that and that's that's the thing about technology, but it's
You know, to have this conversation where you said it has a mind. Yeah, right. But what it doesn't have is a soul. There's a soul. Exactly. So now you're having a mind of its own and not having a soul. You really don't care because the soul can mitigate. Come on. What's going on in the mind? Come on, man. Right. Exactly. Right. Man, I like how you talk to me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's real scary. Like people really don't realize
was in front of them, like when you have these robots that they experiment with and having them out running and talking to humans and doing all type of human characteristics, what we don't realize, or we probably do, but fail to care, is that we're feeding this machine all our characteristics. All our characteristics. So what it does though. It is very what people put into AI, like their personal information. They were telling people, do not put your social security into...
But I think that we have gotten to the point where virtual touch For some people is still a touch. Yeah. Yeah, you know and we're becoming more and more isolated even though, you know, we're able to Right, right, but we seem to be more separated. I think the thing that I Said not having a soul
But the ability to be able to calculate Yeah, how quickly is able to calculate something and that's the debate they're having an academic, you know in academia now whether or not Like for me if I can go in, you know when you did a research paper you hit the stacks You know we had what Michael fish my hold I am yeah, you're going to pull up the articles and do what you have to do You have technology now they can do all of that man HS
All of that AI program just solved a math problem that humans been struggling with for 500 some years, but humans still solved that problem because as dr. Myers said as human beings who put the data
But I think that we, and I asked the young people yesterday, we no longer have children's church. We've changed our name. We are now the Children's Fellowship, Children's Youth Fellowship. Who to pass? Who to pass? Yeah, I mean, that's just that. I asked them how many of them use AI. That's the child part about a lot of it. When you look at our organization and institutions, a lot of them are becoming unrecognizable or so nondescript, which is why I had the conversation about quote unquote, non-denominational churches.
And then you look at some of the fellowships that have started that are nondescript that can be used as covers and infiltration methods. But I think it could also be part of a mini-reformation where you have people who are less likely to identify with religious brands.
And so then people come, but at some point, once I call Jermaine and Jermaine and I come together non-denominational, there's probably some shared practices, some shared rituals, some shared theology, some shared dogma that we have. That's why I always thought the National Baptist Convention was an oxymoron. Because we're autonomous, right? And so I think people who have like the Southern Baptist,
have been able to maintain a certain level of control, even though churches have autonomy, they have a certain level of control that you don't see in the National Baptist Convention, that you don't see in the American Baptist Churches, which is fascinating. But I think- I mean, well, they had one shared common goal in the Southern Baptist Convention. Slavery. Yeah, slavery. And the split was, and I mentioned it last week, that the...
Uh, they were all could all together as Baptist northern Baptist think they all together Then they barred slave masters slave owners from being missionaries like and that split The Baptist convention and you had the southern Baptist convention who was very supportive of enslavement All right, I got take a break all right. All right appreciate you
Okay, you're listening to community voice caller. I see you. I'm gonna grab you right after the break. We'll be right back With your host Keith Paris I welcome back call we thank you for your patience. Welcome to the program I'm doing all right for a black man living in America. How are you my man? My man slow motion slow motion Hey, tell Melody. We didn't see her piece. So she good anyway. Hey
Did you see our little penalties that the passes had? Wow, I've never seen them in the penalties, man. That was really weird. You watched the game last week? At one point, didn't they have almost as much penalty yards as they had offensive yards? Man, they got to clean that up, man. Yeah, you got to clean that up. Showboating, when you do defense, you showboating. Come on, man.
Played the game but boy did get didn't the quarterback for the just he had a sportsman like for talking Showed it. Yeah, you're right. You're right But one thing I did like they do got a nice kicker and then they did they didn't they didn't lose air at the fourth quarter They kept they kept it going. So that's one thing. Can I give you two words and a number 25
Keisha Nixon Yeah Boy, oh, yeah That dude Wilson nobody even heard of Wilson until yesterday. He was wearing him out Putting hands on. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. What else man. What else you got, bro? No, that's all I wanted to say, but man, it's gonna be it's gonna be a stressful season But I'm gonna enjoy every penny every ride of it. I know it's crazy. They lost like six straight I didn't realize they was on the losing streak going into the playoffs
I didn't mean that. Yeah, they lost like six straight. Oh, and then you know, oh, you know, one more thing I want to say too is love, love kind of feel like he been, he been, he kind of injured or something. Well, he hurt his head. He don't look right. He hurt. All right, man. I don't know. All right, brother. Call and welcome to the program. All right, good morning to you and to the rest of WNIV.
I have two questions for you. The first question is, I was going to ask you, is it possible you can have somebody come in, some disease control? Because I'm thinking it's a good chance we might have an outbreak, some zoonotic. Because, you know, it's a lot of people that's messing with the fish now and the animals. And people need to be aware. So there's going to be no outbreak. And we'll have penicillin and antibiotics on the side.
because there's been like 550 something cases, but it wasn't from Zoonotic. So if you could bring somebody in from disease control, that'd be great. And the second question, and I wanted to get the opinion of you and Jermaine and the staff that's in there, I understand when you go up to the military, they trained you for combat, right? My issue is,
Why would you want to be checked in for testosterone erectile dysfunction and morning work? I can tell you why. Because there is this outsize hypermasculinity. In Pete Hesse's mind, he feels like it's about masculinity. This is why we want to do, and then I guess you can get the testosterone treatment free.
Here's the problem though, we're taking artificial testosterone. It then represses the natural growth of testosterone. Yeah, because, because it's, it's all like some gay sugar honey ice tea to me because if they're trained on combat, why is you worried about they got more than we're, that's not for you anybody. And doesn't it sound like somebody's throw this board? But, but, but check this out though.
Now as a man you you supposed to get a morning wood because that's your blood flow That's letting you know my that your blood is flowing through your body boy. No seriously, man That's what that's what this director. No, no, no seriously this direction. No seriously. That's what the doctor told me like
Every morning as a man you supposed to get some type of wood because that's so I'm gonna do it You have the peak you at the peak of at the beginning of the day. Yeah, you're at the peak Yeah, right and it is down here from there right and one of those indicators is and I'm so blood flow morning wood But uh, no, I think that it is this this hyper and hyper masculinity. It's dangerous. It's toxic right and and and we do it because
What we're struggling with in the 21st century is how do you define? I'm just I can't speak of women now. How do you define a man? How do we define men? You know for for a lot of us is the masculine image, right? But the spectrum of what it is to be a man depending on, you know, again, we talk about testosterone, all these other things. And I don't know how much testosterone kicks in when it's a question of courage. Well, yeah, because he's my thing.
They keep bringing this stuff up, but they always caught in compromising positions like a dog. So why would you want to be worried about that at the first thing in the morning? Every man was ready to shoot in the morning, but you want to take time out your day to go check for that. And I think they're on some gay sugar on the ice. I think you're right. A lot of gay erotica is really about the full masculine form. Like when you when you look at that statue they did of David.
Michelangelo did David and what would be the ideal what a man looks like and what a man should be and then we put a premium on Masculine physical power, right? I mean that is that's the thing if you look at some women are really attracted to men who are physically powerful. Well, I read a book called the the dawn of sex and it talks about the development of sexuality in
and homo sapiens and human beings and they said that even back in the day that ancient not ancient but prehistoric women would look at a man if he's attractive if he's strong that's who she would want to mate with because the assumption was then her offspring primarily her males would be so it there's a lot that goes on there but I agree with you that is that that whole image of masculinity and that's supposed to exude power
Yeah, because it's given me bottom, boy, power bottom. And everything keeps coming out that they're always getting cocky in these compromising positions. And I'm like, why? Well, you know, and I think the other thing for gay men, some gay men was like, join the Marines because the Marines are hyper masculine, right? They're the first ones in.
So I think there's a lot there in terms of where we are, in terms of our understanding of sexual behavior, sexual development, sexual identity, all those things. And it's wrapped up in the military. Like if you look real powerful, then for a lot of people, that image becomes real important. But then there are other things that makes me a man, right? My temperament, my intellect, all those things. They're not always valued.
Like we value so-called strength
at the narrow bar. Can you can you be a trans rooster? I was just saying, could you be a hen who identifies as a rooster? You'll be a hen rooster. You'll be a heathen. That's what you are. You're a heathen. Is there confusion about chickens right now? Yo, listen to community words. We'll take a quick break and we'll be right back.
Let me do this. I didn't tell you about my weekend busy busy I was telling Clark that there are times that I walk out of here thinking I don't ever want to do this program again. I mean I feel that way. Hey man, but I want to tell you there Somebody actually I saw them out on the street They listened to the show What was it Friday the Thursday Friday the when you and George was going at it?
And they actually said, they was like, man, listen, I turn on the station just to hear you guys go at it, man. He was like, and Keith and George, that made my day. He was like, just sitting back and listening to it. It kept me engaged. A fight. Pretty much. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
And he just said he liked, we talk about everything and nothing. And I go and then you bump people say, hey, man, I listen to you. So thank you for what you listen. But you know what, though, with that, everything and then that's just like we be at the barber shop. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Same thing. Same thing. It's just like around, you know, just us, you know, among us when we off the air. Yeah. You know, so I mean.
I mean, you go hit some nerds and you ain't gonna hit some nerds. And then sometimes, you know, we bring out the, you know, we bring out the couch. Yeah. We bring out the couch. The couch. You know, give them a... In a no pass. All right. That's quite cool. Tell me more about my eyes. Let me, I was telling the writeout that we had a shout out to Music Ministry yesterday. They were there. Anya Day and Man.
First of all, they picked the perfect person to emcee the program. What was emcee? One of the sisters at our church. Oh, OK. OK. Because she did what she's supposed to do, introduce the next act. Right. Some of us as emcees, and I include myself in that group, I am one of the acts. Yeah. Feel like I'm going to take this time. Yeah, I got to do my thing. But she got them up. And got them out of there. And we got up.
and let people get up and do. So let me shout out Ascension Church there. My former classmate there, Parkman Panther, Pastor Marvin Spence. Let me thank the good folks there at, God, right over here, Way of the Cross. Oh, yeah. I think that's Dr. Gill. Yeah. And because they were great. And then the Majestics. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Joe Nathaniel. So I'm going to try to get Joe in.
There's a documentary that they did based on gospel here in the city. And he was one of the future folks. And when I walked by him, I said, hey, man, I saw the documentary. And he said, what did you think? I said, that was good. I mean, get a chance to see it. But to be able to, I guess there's two groups here, and that's no disrespect to anybody else. But there's two groups here where you think about, there's Anthony McGay. AMP? Yeah.
But let me tell you, man, the majestic is is like a grown folk sound. Yeah, it is full. And, you know, it goes without question that, you know, we're going to sing three parts. Yeah. We're going to sing three parts. Yeah, you're going to do the harmony. And so let me shout them out. Also, our fall revival starts tomorrow evening at 6 30 at Zion Hill Church. So who's in revival? We have Dr. Ivy.
from the Mount Zion Baptist Church in Beloit. He is now the president of our Wisconsin general. But I don't know what convention I'm in. I don't know if I'm general state because I'm a Baptist. It's so many that he's president of the convention that we're aligned with. So y'all y'all are part of I think the part of the general Baptist general Baptist. Yeah, there was a split. Right, right, right. And so I I always I know
Our convention is now being led by Dr. Ivy. So that's how I keep it straight. I'm not really that involved. As a matter of fact, this year was one of the first times in many years I'd even gone to a convention, but I went down to Racine to hear Pastor Keith Evans, our past president for eight years to do his farewell.
Address and so I got a chance to go down. I had not been in the new Mount Eagle and I say new it's old but being Mount Eagle but Pastor Ivy's great preacher and so we that'll be tomorrow starts tomorrow Wednesday and Thursday Zion Hill Church gonna be a bit of a problem on Thursday So we need to get them up Because it's about 715 something happening, right?
Yeah, so we got that. What else did I do? Let me shout out my good friend, Yvonne McCaskill. What's that? Here would you say, where's my check? I guess what you don't understand is that check that he's looking for.
is about what we get paid. All right. We are not rich here. So let me, great, great, great birthday party for Yvonne. Wow. And it's hard to believe that she's 80 years old, but a great party, a lot of people there in her life, the work she did at MPS.
around education, the work she's doing now around environmental justice. So it was good to see some folks I had not seen in a minute. Todd Spur, I don't know if you're listening, but I saw your mom yesterday. So it was good. And we, a fairly long day for us, because usually on Sundays after church, I got the headset on and the play charts that I'm on red so.
Yeah, I was able to, but it was it was good. It was good day Sunday. And like I said, I just mentioned that we changed the name of our Children and Youth Church now to our Children's and Youth Fellowship because they come downstairs. They get a quick lesson and then they eat. I think they come for the food. I don't know if they come for the food for their soul, but they come for the food. So I love I love.
Talking to kids, you know, I'm not being Bill Cosby here, but you know kids say some of the some of the darndest things so we were going through and this was the first meeting we had since the beginning of the school year so I said to start off what you're gonna do what you're doing for school and So these kids came up with stuff like one little girl wanted to learn about Hinduism
I don't know if I was supposed to correct her and say different Which I thought was another young lady wanted to learn about Greek mythology Which I thought was something and of course my plan Kennedy Kennedy says she wants to learn new and different mathematical equations So afterwards
so afterwards people going up she's smart with all those little kids smart that's the one thing about this group of kids that they are all i'm talking like really really smart kids so uh we can be a little bit more high context with them but then you have to remember they're still kids right and so uh you have those moments where you go wow and then you go oh yeah they're kids
you know, so be able to do it. So let me shout out again, the kids in the fellowship. It's always a lot of fun to, uh, for some of you older folks, just spend some time. Don't, don't sit around trying to mess them up. I'm sorry. Trying to correct. Trying to correct them. Just listen to them, you know, take it in. There's some things you're going to learn. I was surprised how many of them don't do AI. That surprised me.
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860 a.m. 106.5 fm W in OV though 6.5 fm with your host Keith Paris. All right, welcome back and we're joined in studio again by Miss Grace sure Thank you for having me. Thank you for being coming back. Tell us about doors open Milwaukee
So this is our 16th annual. It's a celebration of architecture and history in Milwaukee's neighborhoods and This year will be the biggest ever with 197 locations pre-pandemic we were up to 176 and then the pandemic hit we went online and then we've kind of been ramping up since then But it's an invitation for people to come into
Some buildings that you drive by all the time. You wonder what's inside some of our public buildings and then some more, you know, neighborhood buildings that maybe aren't typically open to the public. It was what would be maybe this is not a precise way of asking, but what is the borders when we say open door Milwaukee? Is it Milwaukee County? Is the city of Milwaukee? It's for the most part the city of Milwaukee with a few exceptions. Um, standing out would be Schlitz autobahn.
opens for free and that's Bayside. Yep. Uh, Linden sculpture gardens. Um, River Hills. Yeah. Yep. Like Brown deer. Um, I want to go there. I drive by there and I wonder.
Is there a cost normally? Typically there is, yes, and they're free. It's just beautiful sculpture garden with, you know, world-renowned sculptures on display. And then another really unique one outside of the city is Karma Labs, where they make karmics, chapstick. But it's, you don't go there to see like chapstick being made, you go there because it's the, one of the warehouses is the home to the world's largest pipe organ.
So the owner of Carmel Labs has been collecting pipe organ pieces over the years, and has now amassed such a large quantity and created this huge pipe organ. And they actually do displays and concerts throughout doors open. So probably 1,000 people go there to listen to this happen. But otherwise, focus is City of Milwaukee. So talk about how do you want to go to East-West, North-South, how do you want to go? Yeah, well, I think
Part of it is people will be like 197 that's too many like how can I see everything in the weekend and the? Answers you you won't and don't feel like you have to And so our website makes it easy to choose like pick which day are you going on Saturday and Sunday? It's this coming weekend Are you gonna just go one day our website makes it so you can filter by the day and then you can choose yeah, which side of town you want to be on which neighborhood and then like
Maybe you're really into churches and you want to just see a bunch of cool historic churches. So we have many of those, you know, including the Basilica Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. I was wondering, I just drove by there this weekend and I was wondering, would that be part of it? The Annunciation? Yes. Is that Frank Lloyd Wright? It is, yeah. Yeah, it was one of his last designs. He actually passed away before it was completed. But that's a really beautiful church. And more modern building is from the 1960s.
um yeah and then we have also you can sort by like maybe you're into manufacturing or breweries so there's a bunch of modern breweries and historic spaces too um like Amorphic and Gathering Place are both in the River Works neighborhood um
And Urban Harvest is on the south side. So we have a lot of little micro breweries that you get to go and see how beer is made. Forest Home Cemetery. Forest Home Cemetery. Yep, we'll be part of it. Absolutely. They do a bicycle-led tour as well. So if you want to get on your bike and see a little bit more of the cemetery, that's a great way to explore as well. Some other places. Well, what about some of the places you added this year? Yeah, so the biggest addition
is UW Milwaukee is our presenting sponsor this year and they wound up with 40 locations that you can tour on primarily on Saturday and a few will be open on Sundays as well. So typically you would be able to go there in years past and see the planetarium of course and they have star shows throughout the weekend. You can go to the rooftop of one of their buildings. They have this green greenhouse that is home to like 160 exotic
species of plants that you can check out. But this year they have also added like you can watch where the basketball, the Panthers team practices and the public will be invited to like go on the court and run drills and they also have this really beautiful like film room where you can watch coach film, state-of-the-art facility. They also have you know their physics
department is kind of like world-renowned and their team helped secure a Nobel Prize in 2017 having to do with gravitational waves. That's as far as I'll speak about it because maybe you need to just go there and hear directly from the scientists but they'll be there on Saturday so it's you might think even as an alumni which I went there like oh I've been to UWM what else
is there to see, but there's a lot really on campus that you could do. What building is it? It's either the Science or Engineering building on Kenwood. It has a little bit of a slope there. And the reason why I remember that building is we had an eclipse a few years ago. And I remember going over there to see the eclipse. And it's kind of like all these people, okay? They tore down the old Bakersfield house, so that's gone.
Yeah, anything else on the campus? Yeah, there's in the if you attended there, you know about there's like in the basement a recreation space With bowling and pool tables, but they've fully upgraded it in the last year with now there's yeah in the student union
And so that space has like a state of the art gaming room and it's really very, very nice. I think it would be a lot of time over there. Yeah. Yes. You should go see how it's transformed because it's pretty, pretty different student there, but I was there to you. Yeah. Right. And then in the union, like the cinema will be open. I think they'll be playing films. There's arts and crafts studio that'll be open. And yeah, there's there's a lot to see about the theater. Yeah.
Um, let me, I don't know if this as an aside, are you doing anything on Marquette's campus? Uh, we do not know they, so they typically have their parents weekend that weekend and then they're excited to invite the parents to come out and explore for Doors Open. The reason I said, because there's some historic buildings. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, okay. Sorry. I take that back. Um, Hagerty Art Museum. Oh, okay. Participates. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Um, they use the
In the movie Major League, they used the law library as one of their locations. That movie, though, there was a couple of places. I always thought the old Lincoln
Well now the school of Yards, I thought that was it an exterior actually was a building on the south side they use as an exterior where her condo where you know he goes in and then right there on Mr. Street going like if you're going down Is that State Street or Kilburn? There's some apartments there like condos kind of reddish and they use that as an exterior. Okay. Yeah, my um
One of my husbands claimed fame is that he was an extra in the county stadium. Yes. And when his dad, they went and I think stayed up till like three in the morning. Did you go? No, I remember it was it was hot. They were out there at night. It was hot. Yeah, it was. So let's move west. We've moved from UW. Yeah. Yeah. So.
Are you familiar with art intersection, MK? That's a newer, smaller scale sculpture garden on 27th and Vellete. And it's former like vacant lot, probably four consecutive vacant lots or more that have been turned into they like
renovated the landscape. So there's bioswell and really nice plantings and then a bunch of art installations there. So that's really neat. And then at 43rd and the late is the Washington Park Media Center. And artists working in education is over there. So it's kind of a nice place to just head to and you can check that out. And in the park, you can go of course to the Urban Ecology Center.
Washington Park. And that's a fairly new building, I think, just as of last year. A lot of young people don't know that that was the original location of the County Zoo, Washington Park. Yeah. What about downtown Centennial Hall? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Central Library. We just took a group of folks to do like a preview of it there and you get to see they have a green roof. Have you been to the
rooftop so that'll be open to tour and they do weekly tours of the Green Roof as well. They have these really cool historic board rooms that you can check out. We learned about the history of the building was built as the public museum right and library and some of us know the story of the baby lion that they brought. You know about this? No. There was a baby lion that lived in the public museum or at the time you know the library.
kind of as an exhibit but also like was more or less roaming around um and grew up in the museum because they had you know the the collectors of artifacts were in african some safari and just decided to bring this baby cub home with them um the um so what about the old museum well we say old museum because they're building a new one
Oh, sure. Yeah. They are not taking part, but it's open till the end of the year. So yeah. Courthouse? What's it? Courthouse. So the federal building in U.S. courthouse will be open. Milwaukee County Courthouse is not participating this year, but the federal building will on East Wisconsin Avenue. And they were not able to participate last year, so we're really glad.
to have them back. And the fact that you even get in that building, it's pretty tough. Astonishing. Yep. Yeah. And you go through security, but you typically, like you could walk in there today if you wanted to, but you would never be able to take photos because of the security of it being an active courthouse. But during Doors Open, you can take photos and they open up their historic courtrooms as well. What would be maybe a location that people probably, you gave a couple here on the lead, that people might drive by every day and
don't realize that this is a historically or architecturally significant building. Yeah. The one that stands out is the Tripoli Shrine on West Wisconsin Avenue. And that one is, it's got, you know, the onion dome inspired by the Taj Mahal. And the Shriners still operate it so you can get a really cool. People have events there. Yeah. Yes. And they have amazing mosaic tiles throughout.
So the interior is just really stunning and then across the street from there is uplifting mansion Which is a newer business but in a historic home That's been converted to an event space anything down the third ward. Yes. My ad will be open There's a newer art gallery called JK art house which is where Marne
was operating out of for a couple of years. So this is a newer art gallery. Of course, the Marshall Building. Is it the Villatieres? Villatieres will not be part of it, but Charles Alice will be. Charles Alice? OK. Which one? Prospect? Yes. Yeah. And then on the east side, too, this is
not an event we're officially organizing but the east side bid is hosting like a live mural painting festival at the same time as doors open so you can go to Black Cat Alley and the Oriental Theater will be open for doors open of course but there will also be these art activations happening. So anyway people think about the Oriental Theater but really for a lot of east-siders it was the Oriental Bowl.
Right, then that was just a place most people didn't even go. Maybe when they did the midnight show on the Rocky Horror Picture Show. But now Milwaukee Film has it. And so you put the architecture in that. I mean, just the artwork. Because people don't even realize a lot of these old theaters, how ornate they were. You know, when you look at just what they did or going into Symphony Hall now.
Which was the old grand theater. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, huge. Yeah. And so a lot of the downtown theaters will take part like Riverside, Pap's Theater. And they often can't because they'll have shows or conflicting things going on, but they will be open this Sunday. The Turner Hall ballroom will be open to tour.
and Broadway Theater, like Skylight Theater, will be open. So we have a lot of really cool theaters. I like the turners. Turners is real interesting history, right? Because it's rooted in that whole German idea of fitness, you know, tumblers. I think that's originally where it was and people would go in and just all the manifestations that it has gone through over the years. Someone I know just recently passed, Robert R. Smith.
At our seas. Yes, and at one point he was operating out of Turner's Hall. Yes, he was managing the restaurant. Yeah, but their fish fry back in the day on Fridays. Oh my gosh. Notorious. You say notorious. I didn't grow up here, but people will tell me about it. It was memorable, but it was good. I mean, you it was but talk about because I think when you look at like, for example, you talked about the Greek Annunciation Church, right?
how ethnicity, a lot of times, is fed into some of the architecture of some of the buildings that we have here. Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the Basilica is kind of another example of Polish. Polish. Yeah. Yeah. Well, in the building itself, like the materials from the building were from a post office in Chicago. Right. Yeah. And came up on
Many many street cars or railroad cars and then all of yeah, the Polish community came out and actually like took mortgages out to make this Feasible and happen and still you know that I would say that it's changed you know the demographic and It's become a lot more. Well, you know Paris were right there on Brady you could actually go to st. Rita's
was an Italian parish and I think it's the same Hedgwick which is right down the street on Brady was Polish so you had all you know and then of course that would go into how people would build their buildings right based on um um you know the ethnicity and again how they express themselves religiously right yeah yeah
I heard recently about Cream City Brick, which we're all very familiar with. But that when we started first creating Cream City Brick that the consensus was like, oh, this brick is not nice because it wasn't red. So it's kind of used for like churches that didn't have as much money to spend on the red brick or factories. That's why you see it on like a lot of old warehouses and factories. And now of course it's more coveted. There would be a cost.
It's rare to see a Catholic church that's red brick. I mean, you see that the Methodist, you see it, maybe some Lutherans. As close as you would see, there is a parish on Swan and Center, which is red brick. But normally it would not be, it would be almost like a gray masonry. I went to a Catholic college in Maryland and
It was that beautiful. I don't guess it was that that great break now the connection Milwaukee connection with Mount st. Mary's University is that chris abley's Great great great grandmother seated the lab that the couch was on Elizabeth Elizabeth and seatin was the first american canonized saint And he's part of the seatin family. We were talking one day. He said oh, yeah, I'm so it's it's funny how
People will use different things. I don't know if you have any of the St. Mark Church Calvary Church, I don't know maybe some of your things I'll talk to them. Yep Calvary is part of it. Yes Yes, yeah another a new church that's participating is Pilgrim rest Baptist Church. Yes, I think that's a red brick one
But it wouldn't have been Baptist historically. I think it was Catholic. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, when you go and you see all the marble in there. Yeah. And they've been able to retrofit it where there's sound in there. They've been able, because marble, the fleck sound. Yeah. I grew up in Metropolitan right here on 14th and Burlai. We had wood, which is a great conductor for sound, right? But there they had to go and they did a great job there. The story behind Calvary Church, though, it's built based on an African hut.
So that's why it looks the way it looks, where St. Mark, because the Anvil is one of the symbols of the AME church, is built almost like an Anvil. And they were one of the first churches to go in the round, the semi-round. I think annunciation is also.
in the room. Yeah, it is. Yeah, and an enunciation, it's Greek Orthodox and their whole construction of the building is around like the Greek shape of the cross. So it's all like, frankly, right, designed it to mimic all of these things. And I think people will learn about that when they when they take the tour, you go, oh, because you, you know, sometimes you go, this is a beautiful building, but we don't always know what the Genesis was in terms of
design. So, again, if people want to participate in Milwaukee Doors Open, what can they do? They should visit our website, doorsopenmilwaukee.org and start planning their weekend. We make it really easy. You can build a list of your favorites so that you can know what you'd like to check out. And I do want to mention too, we have this. You can look at this, but this is a activity booklet. I'll describe it. This year that we created
um in collaboration with a few Milwaukee artists. You kids working on this? Yes, this one is that I just handed over has some they were they were the experimenters. Yeah, exactly. That's my three year old. Um so you can draw what you would like a mural to look like in black and alley. Um and Emma Daisy is one of the artists. Um Evelyn Patricia Terry. Um there's like a word search and uh in the back of it there's also a
passport page. So, if you are somebody who's going around with kids, you can go and get your passport stamped. Bingo at UWM. So, that's kind of a fun way to get around and those will be available at all. Participating doors open sites. Grace, as always, thank you. Thank you. Again, I always get doors open Milwaukee. You got it. This coming weekend, that would be with the 26 and 27.
And you can go to the website and you can almost plan out your own little itinerary, right? Absolutely. All right. Always good seeing you. You too. Thank you. You listen to Community Voice. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
FM with your host, Keith Parris. Welcome back and if you've been listening to the advertisements that we've been running on the airway so the last maybe month or so there's a very special event that's happening at the Milton House Museum there in Milton, Wisconsin. Ms. Kate and Klaus, did I get Kate or Keaton? It's Keaton. Keaton. Ms. Keaton Klaus, she's executive director of the Milton House Museum. How are you? I'm doing
How are you this morning? I'm doing well. Are you excited about what's happening Saturday? Yeah, it's hard to believe it's less than a week away already. So tell us about the event that's happening Saturday there at the Milton House. Yeah, so.
For those of you who don't know about the Milton House, we are a historic house museum in Milton, Wisconsin, which is just north of Jamesville, Wisconsin. And we're Wisconsin's only certified underground railroad site that you can tour. And this Saturday, we are having our main fundraising event of the year, our signature event. And the headliner for it is the Fisk Jubilee Singers from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee with an opening act of Kothi Dance Company out of Milwaukee. So it's an event we've been planning for
over a year now and it's really exciting that it's getting close. Why did you select the Fisk Jubilee Singers? Well, a lot of people probably don't know. September is International Underground Railroad Month and so we wanted to highlight that and Fisk Jubilee Singers have a connection with, you know, the same kind of history that we share every day at our museum. Fisk University was founded just after the end of the Civil War and it was designed to
educate formerly enslaved individuals. And after a few years of being open, they started having financial issues. And so their finance guy, he was also their director. He grabbed a group of students, put them together, formed a choir, and they traveled around the country and even over to Europe and performed for Queen Victoria. And they raised enough money to save the university and
by singing Negro spirituals. And that was something that a lot of Americans and Europeans had not ever really heard before. So it really brought this whole new idea of what music could be to a broad audience. And they are still doing the same thing today. And so we're really excited to share that with people in Rock County and around the area. And just, you know, some of the distinguished alumni of Fisk University, WB Dubois.
Nikki Giovanni. And then here locally, Alderwemma Malaley-Coggs is a proud graduate of Fisk University there in Nashville. So what can people expect on Saturday? I mean besides the performances?
We're actually hosting it at the Janesville Performing Arts Center, which is a local community theater in Janesville. And so when you come for the event, if you buy just a general admission ticket, doors open at 5.30. We're gonna have a silent auction. There'll be a cash bar as well. And you get to enjoy all of that before going in for the show. And then if you purchase our VIP tickets, we're gonna have a separate area where you're going to have, we're gonna have charcuterie. We're gonna have a...
actual bar in there as well as your own private bar. And then before and after the show, you're going to get some additional performances or introductions with both Kothi and the Fisk Jubilee singers. So it really, like I said, it is a fundraiser for us. So all the ticket proceeds go to continue to preserve and operate the Milton House along with any silent auction, raffle tickets, anything like that. But it's really hopefully just a night that people can come together and experience history and culture and community and
understand why the Milton House and the message that the fist jubilee singers continue to share as well is so important and why they both need to be preserved today. What attracted you to this to work at the Milton House? So I'm a big history buff outside of my job. I've always been very interested in Civil War 1850 really to 1870 through the reconstruction. So
I'm really lucky to get to work at a museum in Wisconsin that has this tie right to the kind of history that I'm interested in. And in the six years that I've been here, I have learned so much more about the Underground Railroad and its significance. And we try really hard at the museum to put the emphasis back on the freedom seeker and really get people to understand what was happening in the country that made the Underground Railroad so important and why that was happening. There's so many people who
have no idea what the Underground Railroad is or have misconceptions like it's actually underground or it's a physical railroad. And I just, it's a history that to me is so important to share. And one of the things that I think is really interesting is that when you look back at Black history throughout America, there's a lot of bleak points. There's a lot of things that are not fun to talk about and not that the Underground Railroad is fun to talk about, but we have the opportunity to show how the Black community
was resilient, how they continue to build community in spite of unimaginable terror and odds. And these freedom seekers were incredibly brave, courageous, smart, intelligent people who decided that they had a right to freedom just like everybody else. And so we try really hard to kind of talk about Joseph Goodrich, who built in the Milton House and ran the Underground Railroad there, but
He was just a helper. The people running were doing the really hard work, and they weren't just waiting on plantations to be saved. They were taking that initiative. And to me, it's a very American story of, again, what humans will do to have freedom. And I think that's just a really encouraging story to share. And I'm honored that I get to share it. When we did the tour,
the tour guide pointed out across the street, there's what I'd even know that this group existed, Seventh-day Baptist Church there. And it's funny when you talk about American history, how the Seventh-day Baptists were anti-enslavement, but they weren't not, they weren't necessarily not racist kind of...
Yeah, and so there was the sense of they had a problem with putting any human being in enslavement, but then they still had their ethnic kind of sense of superiority when it came to those descendants or those African people.
Yeah, so the the Seventh Day Baptists are a very interesting group of religion to look at. They are still around today. Actually, their world headquarters is in Jamesville, Wisconsin. So when you read history books and you hear about the Underground Railroad, a lot of times you hear about Quakers. And Seventh Day Baptists were just as active on Underground Railroad. It's just they were a much smaller sect of it. Now, for the Seventh Day Baptists back then, you could not be part of their religion.
if you weren't actively trying to stop slavery. So it was not enough to just say, wow, slavery is bad. That really sucks for people. You had to be doing something to actually prevent it or stop it or whatever in order to be part of that religion. And for Joseph and then his son Ezra, it really was about
who you were as a person. So Joseph also found a college in 1844 in Milton that allowed both genders to study together, which was almost unheard of at the time. Thought education was very, very important. And we have a story of Arthur Lee, who he was born a free man out east.
And then he fought with the 54th Massachusetts after the war, like many people, he was moving west looking for opportunity and he was kind of coming from the East Coast, moving through the Midwest and could not find a job because he was a black man and no one wanted to hire him. And so he gets to Jamesville, he's kind of on his last leg and someone goes, you know what, go to Milton, talk to Ezra, he'll take care of you. And he did, he basically said, will you promise to be a good community member and give back to the community if you're successful? And Arthur said, yes.
As I said, all right, well, then I can, I'm going to help you. So get some set up with, you know, a job. He helps bring his second wife actually from Madison back down here. And so, yes, obviously, then as you go forward in history, there is definitely racist overtones, even in Milton. But the founding of that seven day Baptist really was about everyone's made in God's image. And that's not up to us to decide.
where we fall in that rank, it's that we were all made in God's image and we all deserve the same chances. And so, Seventh Day Baptists, like I said, most people, when I say it on a tour, they go, oh, you mean Seventh Day Adventists? And no, Seventh Day Baptists, we're a religion, they're a big part of our story. And we were having, in our first segment, we were having a discussion about actually the Baptist movement was split over enslavement.
That they had come up with a eat it when they were pretty much all together saying that Slave holders could not be missionaries And so that caused the schism and then now we have the southern Baptist Convention we have the northern Baptist who then became the American Baptist Churches so I thought that a little bit of history was I didn't know that there was in a second I think that part of what makes them is when they celebrate their Sabbath they do it on Saturday my correct
correct. And if you talk to seven day Baptist pastors and stuff today, they will tell you they are the black sheep of the Baptists. They've kind of been because they really believe in that the seventh day of the Sabbath, so Saturday, that's always kind of made them outliers even prior to the Civil War. And then the fact that
even before there was that schism, they were already saying slavery is wrong. They were allowing blacks into their church membership as early as the 1700s. That was something that also made them outliers. So even among Baptists, seven-day Baptists are not very well known at all. And so I do, every time I read a book, I hope maybe I'll see a seven-day Baptists reference, but I've yet to. And until I came to Milton, I had no clue. Yup, you're not alone. And it was like, and then she pointed out, she talked about the history, she talked about Mr. Lee.
Will people be able to take tours or? Not during this event. Like I said, this event's not actually being held at our site, but we are open for tours. Right now we're in our off season, so we have volunteer tour guides. So we just need a little bit of a heads up so we can make sure that we have a guide for you. But we do offer tours all year round. We offer group tours. So if you can bring 10 or more people, you get a discount. And we just really want people to hear this history. And we try and use the, like I said, the Milton House.
As the vehicle to teach about a broader concept of the Underground Railroad, what slavery was before, during, and after the Civil War, and what was driving people both to help on the Underground Railroad and to run on the Underground Railroad. And so we hope that we spark a curiosity after you come on our tour that you're going to want to go and learn more about this really important part of American history. I think you tied Fisk back into it. Some of these Negro spirituals were songs that was used on the Underground Railroad. Yeah.
there were you know I could talk about this for a long time so I'll try and I'll keep it brief but you know especially after the 1850 compromise of 1850 there were a lot of a lost past especially down south that we're trying to prohibit enslaved people from communicating so a lot of times like you couldn't have two or three black people together
without a white person present or you know you were kept on separate plantations and you weren't allowed to talk you didn't read and write for that same thing they wanted to limit your communication and the enslaved community found that song was a way to communicate because they would use the song as well for practical purposes of when you're in the field you think about you know that rhythmic and it kind of helps pass monotonous but then they found ways to communicate about how to
escape, how to survive, how to kind of, I guess, fight back against this oppressive tuning that they were under in slavery. When I always think about it, I'm going home on the morning train. One of the reframes is even in training might be too late. And it was just kind of letting you know that that right, that the underground railroad is coming through. And you're right, literally it wasn't a railroad. No, it was.
people. Where's the train? It wasn't. We do. I'm sorry. We do get that at the museum. I've had people ask where they buy train tickets and how far away the train's taking them and if it's going to bring them back here. And so it is something that we work at very hard with. There's just a lot of myths and misunderstandings around the Underground Railroad that we want to help people understand again what exactly was happening. One of the things that just amazed me was scale.
and the houses and even in that space that's, you know, down where the enslaved people who were running, it was such a small space that a couple of things, we weren't as big as we are now. And they talked about, they showed, correct me if I'm wrong, they showed this big headboard. They said, because people kind of slept upright, am I?
Is that correct on that? That kind of blew my mind. Yeah. Um, like I said, I'm a big, this Victorian era is a big interest of mine. And yeah, Victorian health practices, if you want to go down a rabbit hole, go down that hole. One of the beliefs was that, yes, um, if you low, if you laid flat on your back, a few things might happen. You might kind of swallow your tongue. You might kind of go back and choke you. Um, if you know, so the thing about like when you're sick and you're really congested, you kind of sit upright because everything feels like it's draining. They thought right now drain and like,
drown you in your lungs. And so a lot of people did start sitting, almost sleeping, almost sitting up. And that is where you see the rise of big headboards. And so, yeah, and I get people on my tours, I see a lot of eye rolling and like, okay, how, how dumb are you? But I'm like, don't, don't mock because 150 years from now, I'm sure we have some medical practices that they're going to look at us and go, what in the world were you thinking like that that's going to be good or, or beneficial for you. But
Yeah, you learn all kinds of unique facts when you come on the tour. Related to Underground Railroad and Just Life during that time period as well. I'm gonna hope Keaton. Is it Keaton or Keaton? It's Keaton.
Keaton. That's Keaton Clausi, Executive Director of the Milton House Museum, talking about the event that's happening this Saturday, September 26th. They're in, actually we'll be in Jamesville. They'll be in Jamesville, yes. We'll be there to support the Milton House and let me encourage anyone, if you have not taken that trip, it is worth the ride.
Yes, we certainly think so. Like I said, this event is a big fundraiser for us. We are not city-state federally funded. We get all of our funding from donors, events, tours, that sort of thing. And so this event is critical to helping us continue to expand our reach and our ability to share this really, really important, like I said, I think I said it like four times now, really important part of American history, but it truly is.
Right now, I feel like it's a story that's more important than not ever, but it's very important. And we're very proud to continue to do it even when some of this stuff is under a little bit of attack. And we want to continue to share this truthfully, even though it can be uncomfortable. And it's not always the feel good tour of the year that you might go on. But I do think you'd be surprised at the encouragement you can get from learning about
what the Underground Railroad was, what the people on it were doing and those helping. I think you can take a lot of encouragement from it even today. Again, your website. www.miltonhouse.org and there's a page on there for tours and our signature event to see the fist jubilee singers this Saturday. I'm gonna kill your name for the third time. Think Michael Keaton. It said the same way.
Ms. Keaton Kloss, she's the executive director of Milton House Museum, and again, the event. I will see you Saturday. Are we coming down or are we coming over? You're coming over, almost directly over. Yeah, we're coming over. So we'd be over. All right, sounds good. We'll watch for you. All right, thank you, Keaton. Thank you for your time. All right, you're welcome.
Man, it's a great tour. Hopefully, you know, schools will take the kids up. It is a great tour. You learn so much. I had a girlfriend in college. She went to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Carlisle was probably more famous for Jim Thorpe. Carlisle School for Indians was there, but she also used to take me. She said, Keith, let me show you where the Underground Railroad sites are.
right there in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Now, because where we were situated, a lot of people go through Ohio, they go through New York, because they're going to Canada, right? We're here. We don't get directly to Canada. You got to go up. So how long have this whole thing been around in Jamesville? It's been around for years. Now, it's funny that we were never
told or taught about this. Claybore Benson talks about it all the time. Well, I mean, now, but I'm just saying like now. Yeah, you know, back in the day, it was never mentioned. Yeah, like it was never ever mentioned. You don't you don't know about there was a black settlement here in Summit, Wisconsin. Right. And Claybore Benson actually told us about that, but I didn't know about that until he came in and you know, and a lot of the folks who came up from the south, they didn't come up here to farm.
Many of them, their experiences had been on farms, on plantations. So they didn't want to come up and necessarily be farmers. So our migration came up here for the industrial part of the American economy where a lot of people began. Because again, my grandfather got to Milwaukee in 1937. My mom was three when they came up from the South.
But she's right. There is always, I will use the word dichotomy, but there's always the split. Also, again, as I mentioned earlier, oh, and let me do this. My bad, my bad. Charge it, charge it to my head, not to my heart. Let me shout out our choir yesterday. It's a phenomenal job. They did a phenomenal job yesterday. It was just a real good boy. You don't get a lot of these where, you know, start on time, keep it moving.
People get up, do what they gotta do, get out the way, let the next group come in. It was great, but certainly let me shout out our ministers of music, Chris Tillman, Mr. James Lackey. They did, I love choirs. I'm not a quartet guy. I appreciate quartets, but I came out the choir. So I'm a choir guy.
You know, I mean, I sat there, we were doing the offertory song and we were walking around and, you know, when I got around O'Gale.
She says, thank you. Oh, man, don't get me started, man. I'll get up there. I'll join a tennis section of New York Minute, man. I'm like Eddie King. I got my choir robot on the back.
I guess he ain't gonna ever be Eddie King. He gonna be Eddie King. I'm sorry. He ain't never gonna be. Uh, brother was talking to me Saturday. He said he got a chance to beat Robert Townsend. And he was telling Robert Townsend how much that movie, The Five Heartbeats, had, you know, got him and his buddies through when they were in college. Said, oh man, that was our little go-to. And, uh, so it was him and his buddy and, um,
And Robert Townsend, they took a picture. And Robert Townsend said, yeah, we did three heartbeats. So appreciated. But yeah. And even because somebody and I heard it yesterday, they said, man, they sang. You know, like we get up and sing and sang interchangeable a lot of times. But also, again, our
Our fall revival starts tomorrow evening 630 Zion Hill Church 18th and Hampton Reverend Dr. James Ivy. Um, I like to give a sound. I got to apologize to the lady. Oh, can I can I finish mine? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. We'll be doing a show. We'll be doing a show before. Go go, man. I'm good. I'm good. No, no, no, no. I'm good. I'm good. No, I apologize to the lady because we had a
uh uh Eastern Star event yesterday me and Debo and uh so Debo got in the war for he got in the war again so he introduced me to the people there so this is Clark Kent WNLV and uh gotta say who you with so when Debo said man young microphone said hold on give me a shot I said
All right, who you with? So he said, no, y'all have to say it. When he said, who you with? Y'all said, you fool. So I said, who you with? Everybody said, with you fool. So after that was over with, little three year old boy said, who you with? He just kept saying it through the whole thing. Who you with? So I'm going to apologize to you because I know you heard that all the way home last night. On my back because he was in the back of the car. Who you with?
like Junior Mafia, Junior Conquit. So I apologize to you about that though, I'm sorry. Oh man, because once they put the tape in, at that age, that tape is just, I was telling them about when Field of Fire came out, and I was, when Field of Fire came out.
And that's when we still have record players. And you can do a little repeat where you don't have to get up and it just kept once it got to the end and go back to the beginning, start all over again. Go back to the beginning. I remember that record player. You had most kids. Most kids. My niece, Paris, she was on. She said, Uncle Keith, you have a turntable?
Wow. She had never seen a turntable. Yeah. Well, yeah, because when they see it, they equate that to the DJ. Right. Yeah. You also got a thing when the turntable did, when CDs came in, turntables have vanished for a minute. Right. Right. People weren't doing vinyl, you know, and now there's been a real big revival in terms of people doing vinyl. So you know what? I realize everything is coming back around and like Jerry Kiros and it's coming back. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. And finger wave. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Jerry curls better stay dead. No I'm with you. I'm with you. It's coming back. It's coming back. Jack listen. I saw it should have never been here. I saw a cat in a loud suit. I mean it was pink as a fool with a Jerry curl man. I mean I'm pinky. Dude listen. No seriously he was playing at this quartet concert and I'm like yeah these cats bringing these curls. Man. Bring man. They're bringing them. Man.
I'm gonna tell you there's certain hairstyles Once they was buried should have stayed buried Doc the Jerry curl and actually the Jerry curl is a brand name. Yeah, it's the S curl the S curl
the wave wave nuble drippy drip man I was wearing the wave nuble. That's because you're a car sit. What? Do you have any pillowcases? Yeah. I know because I had to I had to wash my every uh every other day. Hey, let me let me let me say this about I don't know if y'all remember Proline. Yeah, the hair uh project. Yeah, yeah. It smells so good and the blue and gray. Oh, it smells so good.
I like Jerry curl juice. That's correct. Jerry. It's not like that. It was. Oh my god. It was awful. man. Have you ever tried hooping with escrow? No, I never had an escrow. You try to shoot the ball of your eyes. You're sitting over here in the basket right there. I miss him. Let me thank Miss Keith Klaus. Let me thank Miss Grace Fuhrer. Clark Kent. Thank you.
Man, I'm going to have a nightmare. Like, no. Apostle, thank you. Good Lord, really quick. Don't rise. Hope to talk to everybody tomorrow and as always, go from this place of peace.