[no audio] did you normalize it . If you could mute him [indiscernible] that was great behind the scenes radio talk we just did. The final countdown is on the inauguration of donald trump and mike pence on friday. We can come in with a regular after isic and then, tease the show in what is coming up, i will give it to you for cut four. 43 then cut one, which, seconds and 129, so. Cute we should come in with three. Hang on. I have got it. That is probably better. Come on and with that and once it gets in, overlay cut one. Every time. All right. Cspan is here. Hi, cspan. It is great to be part of your broadcast today and happy Martin Luther king day to everyone watching across the country. My name is Larry Oconnor and news and talk a Radio Station that anyone who is anyone listens to and frankly anyone who is anyone broadcasts. You will hear from luke this afternoon, our sound engineer and a man who makes the great death happen on the show. Another person who makes things happen is victoria, producing the show today. Who will help put everything together. Are we good . We are good. What do we want to come in with . Larry i do not know yet. I will go back and see what we came in with. I am sorry. This is maria behind the glass. The local news right now and she will do that at the top and bottom of every to let everyone in d. C. Know what is going on in their lives. A lot of the news is centered around the inauguration this friday. It is cool being in washington because we are a local show. We are alive and we talk about what is important to washingtonians. On a week like this where history is being made with the president ial inauguration as it does every four years, the inauguration of a president is a local story. It affects their lives here, traffic, life at work, life with their kids in school. We talk about that from that perspective as well here and i will give you a preview. In this hour, we will speak with ed henry from Fox News Channel about preparations for the inauguration and about this weeks hearing and some controversies we have seen this week between president elect donald trump and members of congress. Henry has a new book coming out about Jackie Robinson and the faith that helped him overcome all of his hurdles that he had in becoming the first black ace ballplayer of major leagues ball. That is appropriate today on Martin Luther king day. On the 4 00 hour, we have dr. King, the niece of Martin Luther king, junior, and a prolife activist. Foryou will want to be here all three hours because of 5 00, we will speak with senator kim scott of South Carolina, and we will ask him about his agenda and what he hopes to achieve in the senate and his reflections as an effort american senator and report and republican. He is downtown. Things that happen here in National News is also a local story. 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Good afternoon and happy Martin Luther king jr. Day to you. This is wmal. Greeting to our audience at home watching a television or on their computers or however they are streaming our program on cspan as the next three hours will be broadcast and simulcast live on seized and. Check that out. It is the first time you can go on cspan and not see an overpaid politician groaning on about something you are angry about. No. By the way, we will open our phone lines to the cspan audience as well. Coming up, and henry of Fox News Channel, talking about ed robinson and how he handles mime luther king. King, thef that, dr. Niece of Martin Luther king jr. , will join us in the 4 00 hour. We will check in with senator tim scott and get his impression of the first 100 days and Curt Schilling, baseball legend. Thank you for being here. I just want to do gods will. He has allowed me to go up to the mountain. I have looked over and i have seen the Promised Land. I mean i get there with you, but weant you to know tonight, as a people will get to the Promised Land. Larry amazing words out of a whole library of amazing words delivered by Martin Luther king in his time here on this planet. Sadly a short time. He was assassinated not long after those pathetic words. True to me ring today because on the day we reflect on the life and legs and Martin Luther king jr. , i wonder about the Promised Land. And whethert it was we have actually changed course from 50 years ago as to what the Promised Land was. Have we gotten to the Promised Land the way the ref went told us we would . Or have we changed with the Promised Land actually means . When i was a kid, i thought it the otherflection of great famous words of gotten dr. Martin luther king that he delivered during its march on washington standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I have a james that one day i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be selfevident that all men are created equal. [applause] larry he went on to speak of his four reflected in daughters, that they would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. Is that in fact the Promised Land he promised we would reach or has that been changed it now . Think we have fulfilled the dream that Martin Luther laid out 50 years ago . Do you think we have reached the Promised Land or do you think the Promised Land has been redefined . Let me explain what i mean. Daughters and two sons, four children and biracial. Me, the idea of having biracial children is part and parcel to the idea that they are judged on the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. That we ignore and judge people based on who they are, versus how they appear to us. That is what i thought we were aiming for, as a child growing 80s,the 1970s and early that is what lets talk to me, that race was not important. That it does not matter. Matteru say it does not today, you could be called a racist. You look at the activist who promote the agenda of black lives matter and other organizations and entities to remove this in our country, you say i do not want to evaluate someone based on race, you are suddenly a problem because race is incredibly significant to them. A dress somebody not from the context of black or white or asian or latino but instead talked to somebody from the context of a human being, you are not allowed to overlook their racial makeup paired they say if you do, that is just your White Privilege talking. When did that change . As im concerned, the ideal, the dream, the Promised Land, if you want to use those words as Martin Luther king did dream isy, to me the to judge each of us what is up here and what is down here, in your head and heart, and not what the shade if your skin is. If you start thinking someone is a certain way or thinks a certain way or believes a certain thing or ought to act a certain way just because their color is different than yours or they happen have a certain color skin, that if the definition of racism, isnt it . To suggest how can you be black or conservative or how can you be white and be a liberal, that is racism to suggest a black person should only think a certain way because of their skin color or life experiences. Big when we tell people they should think her vote a certain way because of their color of their skin, dont we walked down a dangerous road . We have come so close to the Promised Land, we have come so close to actually realizing that dream that one would be judged on the content of their character and not the color of their skin. The problem is the goalposts moved andloosed just the Promised Land has been redefined. I want to get to a place where we have gotten that back. 962 54 hour washington audience and those listening on cspan. Marvin on in texas, your first. Caller thanks for taking my call. I was watching cspan today and im enjoying what i am seeing so far. Your question was have we reached the Promised Land. Obviously not. Share this briefly because time is live in it. I grow up in the south in the 1960s. I am about to become an interracial family. Had a serious discussion about how things were and yes, i had some biases but i recognized my biases should not interfere young peoples dream. And yes, dr. Kings right where black boys and girls would come together. The society is not ready for that and we have to do a better in with everything we see politics and what we just experienced in the last eight years, it was like it will be unraveling. Think that is,ou marvin . What has happened over the course of the last eight years that brings us to a point where things have unraveled more . I was hoping the comments of has a barack obama, though i disagreed with him politically, but the symbolism of having an africanamerican president would actually send the signal to the black communities in america that yes, this is not the racist country you have been told it is. The majority of the americans and the majority of the states of the Electoral College raised a black man up to the level of United States. Why is it worse . To the issue of what is in ammans hard to president obama did a great deal for this country but he is still a black man and he has done a lot and im grateful for it but now you have politicians on capitol hill and the constituencies they represent, they want to go back to jim crow and cronyism. Larry who wants to go back to jim crow . You said politicians on capitol hill. Name me one. Look at the, the president elect made about john lewis. He was in the forefront. Larry tell me what he said that makes you think he wants to go to jim crow. Caller it is not what he said but how he goes about doing things. Look at how he was bullying cnn this week with something they reported as being correct. Larry that report is in question but it has nothing to do with jim crow. You raised comments about john lewis. John lewis said donald trump is an illegitimate president president john lewis responded and said disparaging things about john lewis is effective as a congressman and what he has done to his district. To me, that is in fact judging a man based on the contents of his character and not the color of his skin. Because he is a civil rights icon and he is black, does that mean he is immune from any criticism . If that is true, we are giving him a pass because he is a black man involved in the Civil Rights Movement over 50 years ago. I will paraphrase george will who said once that Frank Robinson becoming the manager of the firstore orioles, africanamerican manager in Major League Baseball, him becoming the manager does not mean race does not exist in baseball. Frank robinson and he fired or is racism does not exist. When you can criticize a man fire a man, say as a first lack president that i disagree with his policies, then you are proving you do not have a racial bias. If you treat people differently and you do not criticize them, because you are afraid of being called racists, you have modified your behavior to accommodate skin color. I do not think that is what Martin Luther king wanted. Lets keep it here in the Washington Area. Sam. Caller i will try to be as quick as possible. In theer was raised 30s, 40s, went into the army, the great equalizer amongst men. I followed in his footsteps and over the course of a year, i saw how he changed, i saw how have changed, and what struck me in going to the caller that called him is barack obama says, it seems like every time we take two steps or three steps forward, one step back. I agree. In the last eight years, that is how i feel as a man of the persuasion, it is frustrating to me because go ahead, im sorry. Larry no, im letting you go. Caller it seems like what has occurred is everything now has viewed throughbe the prism of color, which is totally contrary to what Martin Luther king said. Itry that is how i look at as well p told because of our white experience growing up in this country, we will look at it that way because we are white. To me, when you write somebody off and, you are white so that is why you look at things that and parcel toart the betrayal of the dream that Martin Luther king so beautifully and eloquently laid out that i embraced and many people embraced. Words, replay dr. Kings talking about the Promised Land and the dream and any other speeches dr. King gave, many people point out he was speaking specifically to a black audience. He wasnt. That was the greatness of Martin Luther king. He knew that his words transcended race and community. That is why i embraced him as a hero. Although i have some criticisms of the memorial, i will get to that in a moment. More of your calls here. You are on wmal. Caller great to talk to you. I was just saying, i had these conversations with my coworker a lot and the one i have a conversation with who is black, he tells me he has family who wente can talk to through all the pains of the bad stuff about segregation and police brutality, he tells me all the time, there is racism everywhere. I say no there is not, dude. He has family members who went through all that stuff and i have tohe has family members wht through all that stuff and i have to sit back and say, i cannot really. I do not go home for thanksgiving dinner and have family members that tell me about police brutality. That is why release Race Relations are so bad. There are people alive who went through that bad stuff and they remind white people, you do not know what it is like here you do not. Not have family members who can tell you these horrible stories. Larry thank you for that we will continue with your calls in a moment. Have we reached the Promised Land and are we living the dream king junior laid out for us in the 19s or have a read of wind what those promises is. Withl to you what is wrong a Martin Luther king memorial, it has to do with his quotations etched in the walls there. There is something missing and i will reveal that in a moment. First, lets check in with the traffic and the weather. Matt is in the traffic center. Thank you. You are on cspan now so keep your keep your nose clean. Excellent. And then letfour me shorten this up. Finally wrapped up and out of the way. Martin luther king junior we as people will get to the Promised Land. Larry that is 13. Wbal Weather Channel forecast. We have the drizzle ending early, like light rain. Tomorrow, cloudy with a high of 56 degrees. Showers again in the evening. It is go time at Dunkin Donuts. Build i did not get your toward but i am doing it now. We are making money for the Radio Station. I know you guys do not know about that. 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