same filibuster that we re here today. i believe health care is a civil right. the parallels between the struggle for civil rights and the fight to make quality affordable health care accessible to all americans are significant. this is a from the first century. this is a civil rights act. glenn: now, that was health care, but they re doing it now, it s all civil rights, down in arizona. all of it. why? why? not because it is, not because they believe it, because it worked, worked. but the reasohy why it worked is it did start at the grass roots level. it was real. these people believed in it. they weren t just trying to grab power, they believed in it. it was true. this is not. these are half truths or out and out lies. but watch, i want you to watch the way they re imaging everything that s happening now, is a civil rights movement. i want to show you two pictures, come on over with
this victim narrative about blacks in the united states. that the only role they played was a victim to white majority oppression. when i teach my course on black american politics i always stress to my students when we talked about king and the civil rights movement in 50 s and 60 s we need to call it the modern civil rights movements because blacks from before the revolution were pressing, prudently, pressing foretheir rights. m american history could be one long civil rights, emancipation proclamation and it s going on now, it s people trying to grab other s rights. that never changes, that s human nature, that s human history. if i asked the audience when did america have its first african-american judge, what year would you say? anybody? take a guess.
about complacency. join me in 28 minutes for special report. now, back to glenn beck. welcome back to the fifth and final installment of glenn beck s crash course program. we re talking about civil rights this hour. and i m joined by dr. alvita king, niece of dr. martin luther king and pastor associate at priests for life. we want to turn now to some of the black founding fathers who preceded the civil rights leaders of the 1960 s. for some reason in american history we think that the only time blacks stood up for their rights was when martin luther king decided to leave his pulpit and the stump hit the stump to make speeches. the bottom line for the longest time, we ve adopted
that show following the monologue we just saw, we just heard glenn talk about the twisted interpretation of the civil rights movement by some people. was it your uncle s dream to redistribute wealth in this country? well, actually my uncle s dream, and i knew it so very clearly because i heard so many of his sermons and grew up in the same family where he was, but redistribution is almost it goes over to greed and selfishness with those who can have the most, you know, having the resources to do it, but my uncle s dream and vision for all americans was, you know, life, liberty and the pursuant of happiness. everyone having a comfortable place to live, enough food to eat, the ability to care for their children. so that redistribution of wealth is just another whole different concept and even all the battles that he fought on behalf of all people. was the civil rights movies of the 60 s really just about race or do you agree with glenn, that it was about the human race?
stood for and now, when i see speaker pelosi with the african-americans gathered around here and they re really trying to tear down the dream, to destroy the american dream of life, liberty and the pursuant of happiness for one family, one human family, i think it s a travesty and i just ask america, i beg america, please, don t be moved by your emotions. when you see a group of people in what appears to be a civil rights effort, look into the history and see what they re really saying. next, the african-americans next, the african-americans ñ÷÷ñppeceded the civil rights