>> tuscaloosa, alabama. that's an indian word that means "nothing to do."er my phone. people call me, i answer the phone, say, hey, son, put your daddy on the phone. they come back to the drive-thru talking about can you repeat your order please, ma'am? what's wrong with you? >> when did you start performing? >> i was 16. but i didn't start the way -- because these guys are -- i love stand-ups. i'm an improvisational comedian slash actor. so when i started i was doing the stuff that got my ass beat nen my neighborhood. musical theater. i was coming home. where are you going? i just got finished doing "oklahoma." >> i don't know about y'all, but you have to really go all out for the ladies in this day and time. everyone wants to be -- you know, like i got a partner. he come to the club, he want to fight before he get to the club. y'all don't know me! i'm like, man, introduce yourself. you got to put it down for the ladies. you can't just -- you've got to put it down. i'm sorry you've got to do it. as a matter of fact, i don't know -- you ever made love to a

we sang it in tuscaloosa, alabama. we sang it at the beginning of morning assemblies when i was a student at hamilton high school here in memphis in the 1960's. the song "lift every voice and thing" written by an african-american composer and one-time naacp president around 1900. it was written in observance of abraham lincoln's birthday for students at his own school in florida where he was teaching to sing in commemoration of lincoln 's birthday. by the time the song came around to me, and it was probably in a printed program where i first saw the title because i had ,earned the lyrics long before but when i saw the title of the song in a program, it had become the name that some time after world war ii took on the negro national anthem. let me if you will repeat the second verse, and i have to read it because now i'm at a point where my memory no longer suffices. how the lyrics, particularly in the second verse, invoke liberation's winding, brutal path. "stony the road we trod bitter the chasing rod felt in the day

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he still lives in tuscaloosa where he used to work at the ihop. he also worked at the red lobster and delivered budweisers on a truck. he plays with the police department and the funniest part is when guys foul him they say my bad, my problem. they've do not want to get him mad. his roots are deep. a lot of fans here to support him tonight, brian. >> brian: kristine, there are things you can know about deontay wilder. huge alabama fan. worked at ihop, red lobster, and on the budweiser truck, it wasn't just like for a summer, i saw in the notes, so you worked there for two months. . no six years delivering the beer. lugging the beer. wasn't even the top guy on his truck. >> danny: he knows hard work. >> brian: takes a while to become the driver. first you have to lug the beer. he did that for six years. looks like arreola is cut on the bridge of the nose. >> virgil: it could be from the right hand down the pipe, caught him in the forehead, the thing is wilder came back with a psychological play after chris had his moments and went to rumbling with

this is from -- this is like a -- a -- a drawing that was published in the tuscaloosa newspaper in 1868, trying to scare off an ohio carpet bagger and another gentleman, warning them away from the south. and so if the south has been -- if this is the landscape that we've inherited, right, and if these confederate monument, especially those that were created deep into the 18th -- 19th century, it should be read as part of this jim crow landscape. ok. so what really should be our response today? you guys are preservationists. a preservation ethic needs to be a really reflective one and thoughtful one. so this is the question that we need to think about. what do we need to do with these monuments? well, maybe they should be destroyed. this is what happens often in regime change. this is what happened to the firdos square monument to saddam husain in 2003. this is, from what we can tell, this was staged by the united states military to look like it was going to be a popular kind of spontaneous destruction of the cultural heritage of the husain regime and the baathist regime. this is as far

he still lives in tuscaloosa where he used to work at the ihop. he also worked at the red lobster and delivered budweisers on a truck. he plays with the police department and the funniest part is when guys foul him they say my bad, my problem. they've do not want to get him mad. his roots are deep. a lot of fans here to support him tonight, brian. >> brian: kristine, there are things you can know about deontay wilder. huge alabama fan. worked at ihop, red lobster, and on the budweiser truck, it wasn't just like for a summer, i saw in the notes, so you worked there for two months. . no six years delivering the beer. lugging the beer. wasn't even the top guy on his truck. >> danny: he knows hard work. >> brian: takes a while to become the driver. first you have to lug the beer. he did that for six years. virgil, take a closer look, looks like arreola is cut on the bridge of the nose. >> virgil: it could be from the right hand down the pipe, caught him in the forehead, the thing is wilder came back with a psychological play after chris had his moment

tim in tuscaloosa, alabama on the democrat line. caller: good morning. night andned last what happened the previous days with the killing of two black men by police officers. i understand the anger some people feel toward the police. but, i don't agree with going out, shooting and attacking and killing police. police now are going to be more peopleive towards black because of that. thing, i would like to say that a lot of police, i feel -- some of them are kkk members. killcan go and harass and and do things to buy people. host: how do you know that? caller: i don't know that. i said that is the way i feel. host: i see. caller: one more thing about what's going on -- since obamas been president, i can't think of any time that there's been more black people shot and killed by police officers. i would like all young viewers watching this program to pull up the name natasha mckenna. she died in fairfax, virginia. she was a black woman in the jail and six white police officers pulled her out of that naked todcuffed her the concrete floor and taste her until

tim in tuscaloosa, alabama on the democrat line. caller: good morning. night andned last what happened the previous days with the killing of two black men by police officers. i understand the anger some people feel toward the police. but, i don't agree with going out, shooting and attacking and killing police. police now are going to be more peopleive towards black because of that. thing, i would like to say that a lot of police, i feel -- some of them are kkk members. killcan go and harass and and do things to buy people. host: how do you know that? caller: i don't know that. i said that is the way i feel. host: i see. caller: one more thing about what's going on -- since obamas been president, i can't think of any time that there's been more black people shot and killed by police officers. i would like all young viewers watching this program to pull up the name natasha mckenna. she died in fairfax, virginia. she was a black woman in the jail and six white police officers pulled her out of that naked todcuffed her the concrete floor and taste her until

let's hear from larry in tuscaloosa, alabama. hillary clinton supporter.re you going to be a united party going into november, larry? caller: yes, sir. that is the only way to be. a house divided will fall. i want to let the lady who just called, a vote for an independent party is a waste of a vote. you might as well stay at home. i also want to say that the former secretary of state mrs. .illary clinton is a leader she has got a plan, she has got a vision, and also she shows good tact. she is not here cutting down folks with her tongue. she is not here speaking smooth like hot butter on crisp toast and then turning around and yes warld trump's heart is in and in hatred here to she is for the 13 commitment, abolishing slavery, she is for the 19th amendment, women's rights to vote. that is what she is for, the working people and the class people and the working poor curate i want to say, peter, you brought up a statement a long time ago, and you asked a person from tuscaloosa, alabama, you asked him -- how do you know that the in the policeot force, so i we