in our efforts to take back the white house and the senate, here in 2012, then our country will be fundamentally changed. and we cannot afford for her to go away. that's why we need a leader who can gain respect again of both our friends and our foes. that's why it is important that we choose the right candidate in this presidentialial election. americans are tired of apologizing for who we are. and i tell you right now, we

are -- we do not need to bow down or apologize to any one, we are the greatest nation on the face of this earth. [ applause ] we are the leader that our friends and foes will respect. we need a leader that will put swagger back into the american stride and we need a leader who is proud to be an american every day of his life, not just when it's convenient. we need a patriot. we need someone who will not bow down to any one. now, that leads me to our children. if i may for a moment, tell you

that i'm very concerned about our children. is with talking to lee and karen and don the other night at dinner. and we had a very interesting conversation about our children. and as i said earlier there are people who come here to this country and they want our stuff. i want to tell you something. while we slept those who are in our classrooms who we have entrusted to teach our children, have poisoned their minds. while we slept our children have been taught by those who have

been schooled in socialist doctrine, that america is not an exceptional country. our children have been poisoned not just by hollywood, but by the use of your tax dollars in public schools. and even in the literature that you buy for them, that america is the problem in this world, and just as we try to expose in runaway slave, that america is still a great land of opportunity, your children, many of them, your grandchildren for sure, are under the impression that somehow you sitting in this

room are wild-eyed hysterical people. who think -- whose thinking is antiquated. your children, believe it or not, we came to the conclusion they want our stuff. and even though we don't like to think about this, there are some who are waiting for the demise of the free market system. the demise of capitalism so they can get our stuff. but this is a hard thought that i'm about to share with you. and that is, unfortunately, our

childr children, we have been pursuing happiness, we've been pursuing life, we've been pursuing liberty. and we've been making them happy. but our children, their happiness has been dependent on us. and they, unfortunately, do not have the same drive, the same determination, to get for themselves what we were willing to sacrifice to get. the old saying in louisiana comes from an old song, it says momma may have. popa may have, but god bless the child whose got his own. simple idea.

but it's one that is missing in our children. they don't want to get their own. they want to have yours. and they want to have it now. my grandfather, a man who was a great man. but if he wrote his name on the back of this wall, he would not be able to read it. his father was a slave. my dad had a third grade education. here i am, two degrees, standing before people all across this

country that i have never met. talking about the very same things that that man who could not read taught us. that was by the sweat of your brow, the work of your hands, and the determination that god gives you the strength to accomplish, i stand here before you as a free man in america. the american spirit is built on such stories. but if we allow socialist tendencies to invade, i don't know about you, but i stand here

saying with every fiber of my being, i will refuse to surrender our country to socialism and i will stand against it with every ounce of my being. i refuse to watch and sit by as our constitution is trampled upon and we must determine today that we will defend the most devinely breathed document that our country have and that is the american constitution. we must defend it against foreign and domestic foes. and, we send this message to this administration.

i stand firmly with cardinal dolan now, in saying that americans will not yield and we will not comply to any legislation that is against our consciousness and that is against our moral values. [ applause ] we stand together as catholics, protestants, jews, gentiles all over this country. and it is important that we understand that if they come for the catholics, they will come for the jews. and they will come for the protestants, even the agnostics. if we yield now, we might as well prepare to continue to

yield until there is nothing left to give up. ronald reagan said it best, that our freedom is only one generation from perishing. this is why when matt and i met in 2009, this is why 2.9 million americans marched on washington, because we sensed something was terribly wrong in this land. we sensed that if we did not speak up, there was something we could lose that we could never

regain. and i stand here to tell you that i was proud to be a tea partier then and i'm proud to be a tea partier now. [ applause ] "runaway slave" is a movie about a people trapped in a system. i grew up in louisiana. i'm very proud of it. my roots run deep. my father was creole. great grandfather were all of that culture. there was a system at one time in our country that in fact

supported slavery. and these were people who were locked in a system with freedom all around them. the master was free, his friends were free. and they could see that that was a reality. and every once in a while there was one who said to himself or herself, i want that. i want that freedom. and they mustered the courage to say to themselves, whatever it takes, i want freedom. they would run away. they would leave the plantation system to the perils of reaching

freedom. it was a dangerous and very difficult course to take. but whatever it cost, even if it cost them their lives, they were determined that they would run away from that system and achieve freedom. many of them like harriet tubman, frederick douglas, once they achieved it, they would return and they would tell those who they had left in bondage, you can be free. but do you know what happened when they returned, telling the

others about their freedom? many times those who had that slave mentality and a plantation way of thinking, they would tell the overseers that they had troublemakers in their midst. my friend herman cain was called a bad apple by harry belafonte. and i tell you today that that type of thinking is exactly what the progressive left wants to keep a certain group of people believing. that people like myself, people like herman, if you place that bad apple in the barrel with the

rest of them, they are going to spoil those who we have already in the barrel. and americans, i say to you that as one who was a part of that system, one who ran away from that system, and found freedom for myself as i now return to tell others, that you can be free, the same thing happens to me as did to them 150 years ago. but except the dogs that are sicced on them now and the overseers that are sicced on us now, the dogs are no longer four-legged hounds, they are two-legged hounds in the shape

of sal sharp on the and jesse jackson and people like that. those are the ones who would capture the runaways. but yet freedom is all around us. and we must, in fact, secure it. my friends, whether you came here on the mayflower, or whether you came here on slave ships, america has never been a place that guaranteed anything to any one. whether you are escaping the tyranny of king george, to try a land unknown, a place untested and untried, or whether you came

here and found yourself on the tyranny of a plantation, the same courage still has to be mustered in anyone who will enjoy the fruits of our great land. so, my friends, i encourage all of you with the runaway slave movie, to flee economic slavery, and run toward the blessings of liberty. now, in closing, i want to say to you as i look out over this crowd, lord knows he has given

me an opportunity, a pastor or preacher of 32 years, pastor of 27 years, i've had to leave my pulpit because of my personal convictions. in a predominantly black church that i pastored, my deacons came to me and they told me just about a year and a half ago, two years almost, pastor, we don't like this tea party thing that you're involved in. and i don't know about you, i'm southern baptist, and in the southern baptist church a preacher is only one deacon's meeting away from being unemployed. but they came to me and i had been there for nine years, we had just built a brand new church. the old one was sort of off the beaten path and we built a

beautiful building. i don't know about here in this neck of the woods but down in my neck of the woods, $1.5 million building is a pretty substantial building in our neck of the woods. and the lord had been gracious enough to let us do that. and then i called matt and i told him about this idea that i had for "runaway slave." matt, i need some help. and he got behind me on the project. and when they heard about "runaway slave" movie if you think they didn't like tea party they lost their minds. this runaway slave thing. so we came to the parting of the ways and i guess sort of like moses i led them up to the promised land but i never went in with them.

but, it was time for me to leave. matt and i in tel aviv about six months ago, we were able to start the first tea party in israel, we call it kosher tea. started off with 70 people crowded into a cramped little space not much bigger than this platform. but now i understand they have grown to over 700. freedom, there is a thirst for it all across our world. and as i leave you tonight, or this afternoon -- i usually speak at night -- as i leave you this afternoon, i want you

americans to know from the words of christ, that these words don't fit many other people in our world today, but it does fit you in this room here today. you are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its saverness, savor, its usefulness then it is good for nothing, to be thrown out, trampled under the foot of men. you are the light of the world. a city that set up on a hill cannot be hid so let your light so shine before men.

that they will see your good works, america, glorify our creator who gave us the rights that we have, and as i travel around this country, sometimes shaking unfriendly hands, sometimes finding myself in perilous places, it would be good to know that there are people right here in colorado who are wishing me well and praying for us, and so i have just one more question for you. are there any patriots in this room here today? is there anyone here who will stand up for american values? is there anyone here who will

stand up for the republic, stand up for god and country, then americans stand up! stand up! stand up! god bless you. god bless america. [ applause ] >> i'm the class of 2012 lpr, also the chairman of the arapaho party tea party. arapaho county serve as city names aurora, a large black population. look around this room and with the exception of you, i don't

see any black people. i don't have any black people -- >> i spotted a couple over there. we're good at doing that. >> i'd say if the population is 12% that we're a little short here today. gentleman named derek willbern started the rocky mountain tea party, an excellent start but people i talked to over the weekend i hear a lot say we don't think we're going to take the white house. they seem resigned to that possibility. i on the other hand don't believe we can take that chance so i'd like to know how do we accelerate the process of getting out the message, we have ten months. we don't have ten years for something powerful like your movie or a speaker like yourself to permeate our society. what do we do to step it up? >> and i assume that you're speaking of getting our influence on the black vote. >> yes, sir. >> in our country. as i alluded to in the speech

conservatives must be who we are. we must not run away from who we are. no one persuaded me to become a conservative. i saw that reality for myself. however, i do believe that the pain that the obama administration is administering on the black community with messages like we have, and i do encourage every one of you to stay and see this film, and then tell your young people and your tea partiers about it, with the unemployment rate being like it is in the black community, with gas prices that will affect the black community as it has been said that when the white community sneezes, the black community gets pneumonia. and what that means is if it's hard for you, then many times it's much harder for them. and if they are not able to see that gas was $1.89 when this man

took office, and now it's approaching $4 in our area, at this point in time, then there are flun so blind than those who will not see. we must continue being who we are. let's take the senate if we don't take the white house, take the senate. let's hold on to the house of representatives. and then if we do take the white house, then let's hold whoever the candidate is, let's hold his feet to the fire. now that may abfelony, i don't know. let's hold his feet to the fire. that's the best advice i can give you. yes. >> i thought randy was going to ask my question. in looking at over the group here, there are not many people here with good tans and i don't really believe in giving them scholarships to come here because they are tan or not tan or slanted eyes or whatever, but

why don't they come? and this is true in this state in many of our conservative political events, why aren't people of color coming to our events? >> the liberal media has done an excellent job in sandbagging the name conservative. they have done an excellent job in sandbagging the name tea party. what you will find and i'm sure those who like me and of the same hue as i am, will attest to is that black folks to their core are very socially conservative v always been. i often noticed that in churches where i preach across the country now, i can be talking to a predominantly black congregation and i'll talk about the evils of abortion and everybody amen, reverend. i'll talk about the evils of programs even same-sex marriage and amen, reverend.

but they will leave that church on that sunday or sunday night and if election day is tuesday they will still go and vote for the liberal agenda. when you have 95%, 96 actually, percent, of people voting for one party over a 50-year period, we deal with this in the movie in a very enlightening way, then herman was right. there has been a very thorough and total brain washing. it's not that they don't want to be associated with you. it's just that they have been led to believe by abc, nbc, and cbs, that you are the enemy. and the strangest thing is, they actually in their core believe the same things that you believe

but they are afraid to run away from the system. yes. >> ross kaminski, looking forward to your movie. a lot of the questions are similar and mine is similar too but in a bigger scale, it seems to me from at least the 1860s to the 1960s most of the progress in black civil rights has been due to republicans typically over democrat objections. and for the last 50 years, i guess einstein is reported to have said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. why is it that blacks are getting terrible results for generations of supporting democrats at every level they support democrats and they are not changing. >> it's because we are the only group of people in this country