[00:00:01] You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is The Political Cesspool. The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program. And here to guide you through the murky waters of The Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
[00:00:30] Standing on the promises I cannot follow Listening every moment to the Spirit's call Resting in my Savior as my all in all Standing on the promises of God Sing it!
[00:00:50] I was actually supposed to come out of that before they re-sang that chorus, but I couldn't because that takes me back.
[00:01:40] Boy, does that take me back. Welcome back, everybody, to our Easter, our annual Easter program here on TPC. Is he coming up in the next hour? Sure enough, brick-and-mortar pastor Brett McAtee is going to be with us from the Christ the King Reformed Church in Michigan. Any pastor who is on the hate watch list is obviously someone you should listen to. I think his church is officially a hate group.
[00:02:08] I know that the singing nuns of Spokane are. I think Brett attained that. Brett had been attacked in the press very publicly, and his church stood by him. Listen, you don't know if you don't know. You don't know what you don't know. And he stood by his church. There's a lot of things I don't know, but I do know that there are good, strong Christian churches, muscular, masculine Christian churches out there that are certainly... And there is a resurgence of that, more and more, that you would only really know, I guess,
[00:02:38] if you keep a finger on the pulse of these things. But let's go now to our featured guest of this second hour. John Hill is the founder of the AP Hill Legacy Foundation. We will give you more information about that later this hour when we do transition into our Confederate History Month coverage. Again, Easter and Confederate History Month converging tonight, and we will have a big Confederate History Month wrap-up finale show next week, our last week of the month.
[00:03:07] But let's go right now to John Hill. He is the closest living descendant of Lieutenant General AP Hill of the Confederate Army. Lee's forgotten general, but forgotten no longer. His work with AP Hill Legacy Foundation has really made an impact these last few years. John, great to have you back. Happy Easter. Happy Easter. Thanks for having me. Well, we are going to be talking about the Southern things in a moment.
[00:03:30] But before we do that, you have also taken a very keen interest in this tragedy in Texas. Share with us your thoughts on that and take it anywhere you'd like to go. Well, Carmelo Anthony didn't belong at that school, and he went under a guest tent, and Austin Metcalf asked him to, you know, please leave the tent. So, sorry, I'm in my car. I just got to roll a little down.
[00:03:55] When he asked him to leave his tent, you know, Carmelo Anthony said, you know, touch me and see what happens. And he starts going through his bag. Like, so Austin, you know, trying to, this is everything I've heard from witnesses and, you know, read online, like the actual truth of what happened. So Austin went to remove him from the tent because he saw him digging around in the bag. He pulls out the knife, stabs him in the chest, throws the knife onto the bleachers, and then takes off running.
[00:04:21] So when the officers got a description of him and caught him later on, they said, we have the alleged suspect. And almost bragging, Carmelo Anthony says, no, I'm not alleged. I did it. And Austin Metcalf's twin brother actually held him while he died. So, uh, I think Carmelo's go, uh, not his father, his give, send, go is now up to like 491,000 or more, almost 500,000.
[00:04:51] And, you know, apparently in this country, if somebody asks you to move from a tent, so say you're at the beach with your family and you have a tent set up and some random guy comes and sits under that tent, you ask him to leave. It's illegal, I guess, if you're black for him to stab you in the chest and kill you. And you also get almost $500,000 raised. They have a $900,000 house now. They just bought a hundred and maybe like $120,000 brand new Escalade and they have full-time security.
[00:05:24] And you're talking about the people helping him do this. We mentioned his name, other, the so-called minister, Dominique Alexander. He is the founder of the Jason Kessler really staying on top of this. I go to Jason Kessler's telegram all the time. He's the founder of the Next Generation and yours, too. You're actually two of the few people I follow on telegram just because I'm not that proficient with it. But founder of the Next Generation Action Network and a career violent felon.
[00:05:50] Next Generation was founded to bail out criminals during the George Floyd riots and is now committed to helping Carmelo Anthony get away with murder. So, John, again, it was actually because of your telegram that I knew I wanted to work you back in for Confederate History Month and we'll get to the reason why you're on for that celebration in just a moment. But as we continue to talk about this, Charlie Kirk saying Carmelo Anthony brutally murdered Austin Metcalfe. Support for him is growing in the black community. Murdering a white kid in cold blood is now acceptable.
[00:06:21] And so, as Jason Kessler again comments here, conservatives are developing their own breed of white identity politics and this stuff is polling well and beginning to get people elected. Interesting observation. John, what was it that, though, made you want to speak out about this particular homicide? There's been a lot of instances I've been speaking out about, like even back in 2020 when Cannon, little five-year-old Cannon, got killed in North Carolina by a black man just because he was playing in his yard. He came up and executed him.
[00:06:51] So I wrote Justice for Cannon on my hard hat at work and I tried to get other guys to write it and nobody would. Nobody had enough guts. And then they also, one of the managers came over and said, hey, you know, you can't have anything political on your hard hat. I said, it's not political. It's for a five-year-old who was killed. And we're trying to get his story out there. And he looked at me and says, well, you're going to have to remove that. And I looked at him and said, well, fire me. If you want, go ahead, fire me. I'm not going to take it off. He never did.
[00:07:19] So I've done security at rallies, too, throughout the years. And I've been trying to raise awareness on black on white crime. But I noticed when you do this, a lot of white people, there's no unity. They argue. They call you ungodly. They say, just sit back and pray and see what happens. You know, I'm trying to raise awareness so people train. If you're armed, a lot of this stuff wouldn't happen, just like with Jacob Couch and that story.
[00:07:48] We'll probably get into that, too, because I wanted to raise awareness about him because I've been talking to his sister-in-law and one of his childhood friends. So I really want to collab with them and help raise awareness because Jacob Couch did pass away last Thursday. Just hold on on that, John. We'll wrap up this segment because we're running out of time before we open up that equally horrific story. But we'll do that in the next segment. Keith, tell me this right to the bottom line.
[00:08:18] Is Carmelo going to be convicted or not? And if he's convicted, is he going to be punished? Or is somebody going to come in like with Leo Frank, some governor, and pardon him to keep the peace? Yeah, I don't think he's going to be convicted. And if he is, he's going to get a really light sentence because that even happened here in Ohio. This whole civil rights thing has gone crazy.
[00:08:45] I tell James all the time that back in 1955, I had this thing that you can go to on Google. The Memphis City Beautiful Celebration 1955 and look and see how well behaved whites and blacks were and how they helped one another back then. All of that has gone by the boards. The civil rights movement did nothing except put a massive chip on the shoulder of all blacks.
[00:09:13] And now we have basically racial warfare in America. Yeah, then Obama capitalized on that too. It made it worse. Yeah. But it's just, you know, Here in Ohio, there was a guy who he was 19. Him and his brother were 19 and 20. Black guy's name was Tyler Stafford, I think. And they beat to death a 17-year-old for squirting them with a water gun when they were playing basketball. He was Ethan Liming. I think it's how you pronounce his last name.
[00:09:43] They beat him to death and Stafford got six months for murder. He was technically an adult too, killing a 17-year-old. He got six months for murder. Prior to that, he was arrested for having four felonies. They released him. He killed Ethan, got six months for murder, got released again. And that was back in 2022. And then recently in March, he was in a police chase with cops and ran his vehicle into someone's home. So he'll probably be released again.
[00:10:12] One of the very last things that I was able to post on Twitter before they banned my account almost two years ago to the day, my last post was on April the 23rd of 2023. And it was about this, I was actually promoting a fundraiser, a GoFundMe fundraiser for this little white girl and her father who were shot. This was the case where this little white girl, about six years old, a basketball had rolled
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[00:13:16] Well, Eastern Confederate History Month surely converge when you hear music like that.
[00:13:58] That certainly has that southern feel to it with the harmonica, a little bit of Dixieland in there. It all sounds like a song you'd hear from the Song of the South soundtrack, another thing that's been banned, of course. Don't give our enemies any ideas. Well, when I was talking with John Hill, John Hill is the founder of the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation. And we had originally, again, this makes me, you need, this makes me all the more offended
[00:14:26] by diversity in the civil rights movement, which the blood is, the blood of Austin Metcalf, the blood of all of these people on the hands of the people behind that. And I wanted to celebrate Easter tonight for the full show, but we've had to cover this because it's new and this is, I mean, people would expect this, but it's really bothering me to have to cover it on Easter. What it shows is how wise our ancestors were to institute segregation.
[00:14:55] Blacks will become predators without it. Whites will become victims without it because they have some misconstrued notion of Christianity that says that they need to sit there and take it. When you have a father basically refusing to come to the defense of the memory of his own son. Well, no. Let's just talk about it. It's too much on him. I mean, it's a terrible thing. But, I mean, he's irrelevant to what, you know. No, he's not. Let me just say this. He's not irrelevant.
[00:15:24] Unfortunately, this is not the first time. He's not an outlier. There are too many white people that take that same position and think that they're being sanctimonious and holy and righteous by, you know, abandoning their own kith and kin. And this is, you know, the blacks would never put up with a father doing that. Well, you know, that was another thing said to me today is that, you know, he is partially responsible for this. Maybe, maybe.
[00:15:51] But, again, just, I mean, piling on the father of the dead son is, you know, how much more, you know, do we need to do that? I mean, yes, it's a gross thing. What he's done is terrible. It makes things worse. It's negative of what happens with white people when they've been deracinated. So, I was talking with John right before the break about her name was, Jessica White was actually the mother. Kinsley White was the young girl. So, the basketball goes over into her black neighbor's yard.
[00:16:20] He walks over because the basketball rolled into his yard, shoots her and her father. They both survived miraculously, but with obviously, you know, severe injuries. And, you know, John, that's what I was saying is that there was just thousands. So, you said her nation would have taken care of that. That's right. That's right. Yes. I mean, of course. But the thousands of these, John, thousands. I mean, even what you and me and Keith are doing right now, we're still only covering, you know, just a handful that, you know, we can immediately call to memory.
[00:16:48] But there are thousands of black on white murders and attempted murders. And it's just, you know, to me, the most amazing thing about the Austin Metcalf story was that it made any news at all. I mean, you know, we said that last week. I think the last time, you know, you had anything, it wasn't that many times ago when they were bringing me on CNN. And that was very rare because of the Knoxville thing. So, once every five years. What do you think? Twitter. Yeah. Yeah. Well, sometimes that has. Yes. People share it.
[00:17:17] It gets millions of views and they have to talk about it. Because on the other platforms, it would just be silenced, especially before, like with the other administration in office and everything, everything would just be silenced. And now with X, even though they're trying to shadow ban my account and get rid of my posts for hate speech, but it's because of X and everything that people were posting about this and the news stations had to cover it. And that's why even the news stations barely covered it.
[00:17:45] It was X getting 2.4 million views and all these views on posts about that, that actually brought light to the situation. Because like we were saying that it's the civil rights movement and also the media and the CRT, that critical race theory crap is what's to blame because it's making people more and more hate white people because of the media brainwashing everybody in the critical race theory and the civil rights movement.
[00:18:11] And it's just, I don't want to go in depth in anything else on your show, but a lot of it too is because of Jewish influence. I mean, the Jews run the banks, the media, they run everything. They ran the civil rights movement. Did you see that thing with Elon Musk and Amy Comey Barrett where X was being, was objecting to the content moderation by these platform moderators?
[00:18:38] And he got some insider information that showed that they were using their content moderation regulatory powers to keep people on the reservation, so to speak, on this. See, this is what we have to, even when we've got Twitter under control, he's having to go to the Supreme Court to prevent them from censoring us in effect. All right. And John has been a victim of that here or been subjected to that.
[00:19:08] John's never a victim. John's a big guy. John's the kind of guy you want to be. So, you know, but he has been subjected to that sort of censorship as well this week. Let's just put it that way. But John, I want to cover one more thing. Not nearly making the news as Austin Metcalf and Carmelo Anthony, but you have been trying to raise awareness, and you mentioned it in passing just a moment ago, and I told you to hang on to this segment. Just a terrible thing about a near decapitation of an Alabama guy in Arizona while he was sitting there with his family. What's going on?
[00:19:38] So they lost a child that is stillborn back in May of 2024, and they were in Los Angeles on vacation, and they were coming back to Alabama, and they were at a bus stop in Tucson, Arizona at 10 a.m. This is not at night. This is not at 2 in the morning. It's at 10 a.m. And Daniel Michael, who's a suspect, walked over with a hatchet and started yelling at them.
[00:20:02] So before, based on what his wife said and everything, Kristen, before Jacob really said anything, she just said, let's go. And she looked at Daniel Michael and said, you know, we're leaving. So when Jacob bent down to pick up their bags to get off the bench to leave, he had a hatchet, and he tried to decapitate Jacob. So he ended up on life support for over two weeks, and then he passed away on Thursday for no reason. So you're talking about... Married 11 years.
[00:20:32] Married 11 years. They're sitting on a bench in Arizona, traveling back, a black guy with a hatchet, which, I mean, if you ever see a black man walking down the sidewalk for no reason with a hatchet, you know, get out of the way. But, I mean, so immediately, obviously, you're going to be cause for concern. And for no reason, they had no prior relationship. There was nothing there. He was just a case of a white man being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
[00:20:55] Black man walks up, and essentially, you know, he didn't lop his head off, but he very nearly decapitated him, and he did go on to die from his wounds. So what's the update on that? I mean, of course, that is not making the news. It is in the news, but it is not a national news story like Carmelo Anthony. But this is just, again, this is just another example happening at almost the exact same time as the Austin Metcalfe murder. And why you need segregation again. A dime a dozen. A dime a dozen.
[00:21:25] Just horrific, though, in Grizzly, because this is something straight out of a horror movie. Continue on, John, please. So they have a GoFundMe, and Erica Sims is her name. That's his sister-in-law. She started the GoFundMe. I sent you the link to your text and a screenshot of it. I can go see the link if you want. It's got that GoFundMe slash and then like a bunch of letters and numbers. I can read it off to her if you want.
[00:21:49] And then so there's also a Give, Send, Go that I don't know if it was started by someone in the family or maybe somebody was saying maybe a famous YouTuber was trying to help. I don't know who started the Give, Send, Go, so I'm not going to share that one. All right. Well, I'll tell you this. So if you go to GoFundMe, I just did this. If you go to GoFundMe and click the search tab, it is just type in Erica Sims, E-R-I-C-A-S-I-M-M-S.
[00:22:18] And, yes, John, as you said, you had sent me the direct link, but I just wanted to be able to articulate it to the audience. If you go to GoFundMe.com, do the search, and then Erica Sims. And this – well, I'll just read it. Well, they're saying, you know, this is the time that medical help was still needed. Obviously now they're going to be talking about funeral help. But they've raised $73,000 for this nice-looking white guy, young guy. You just mentioned a little bit of the family background.
[00:22:47] Just sitting on a bench, a black guy comes up with a hatchet, hits him in the back of the head. He's dead. $73,000 versus $500,000 for a self-confessed murderer. It's not even that – you know, they're claiming that Carmelo Anthony did it, and he's saying he didn't. And there's maybe – you know, he said, she said there's some confusion about it, so they're trying to get him a fair trial or something. I mean, that would be something. Carmelo Anthony admitted it. Everybody knows he did it. He admitted it. He's got $500,000. This guy is $73,000.
[00:23:17] He's dead. His wife is a widow. It's just awful. This is reality, though, in multicultural – Children are orphans. In multiracial America. Call it what it is. Yes. Yeah. Yep. Children are orphans now. $73,000, though. So, again, where is the – and you're trying – listen, you became a hero to so many people through your work with the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation, protecting our monuments, protecting the integrity of our heroes. But then what you did with the Lean last year was just – and we'll talk a little bit more about that and remind people about that.
[00:23:47] But you're trying to raise awareness of this, too. And you have been in touch with the family? Yes. So, my post – I made a post about Jacob, and I shared the GoFundMe on my Twitter, or X. The post got over 40,000 views in a couple days. So, I found Erica Sims on Facebook. I reached out to her, and I also made sure – I made a post about Jacob on my Facebook page, and I made it public so people could share it and see it.
[00:24:14] And another man reached out who said he was childhood friends with Jacob, and he wants to collab with me and see maybe – I was even going to talk to you about if you wanted to have – I don't know about Erica, but he would like to maybe come on your show and talk about Jacob in a future show and maybe even have a couple other people that knew Jacob. And – We can do it as early as next week. I hear the music. When we come back, we have you for the rest of the hour. We are going to transition here shortly into some Confederate History Month coverage.
[00:24:43] We need to do that tonight. But we will get your contact information so people can link up. Liberty across the land. You're listening to Liberty News Radio. News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Jason Walker. United States and Iran wrapping up talks earlier today,
[00:25:07] and a top Iranian diplomat says future discussions will be aimed at a possible deal over Tehran's nuclear program. Next round slated for next Saturday. Meanwhile, Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton says President Trump has made it clear what Iran needs to do to avoid further sanctions. Surrender and dismantle their nuclear program, to stop their ballistic missile program that threatens us here in the United States, and to stop their support for terrorism.
[00:25:34] If they want to do those things, if they want to become a normal nation and come in from a cold, a deal is there to be had. Senator Cotton says the president knows well what Iran's strategy is in calling for more rounds of talks. Drag out negotiations and in terminal talks as they continue to race towards a nuclear weapon and missiles. Deliver that weapon not just to Israel and its Arab neighbors, but also to the United States probably in fewer years than you have fingers on your hand.
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[00:26:31] Rollins interviewed this week on the Salem Radio Network on the Hugh Hewitt Show. Trump administration calls U.S. manufacturing a, quote, economic and national security priority and says tariffs will force companies to have more products made in the United States to avoid steep prices increases on their imports, leading to better paying American jobs. More on these stories, townhall.com. You hear the term living better.
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[00:30:49] Turn your radio on. Welcome back, everybody, to the Night's Live broadcast. It is Easter weekend, Easter and Confederate History Month, all at once. John Hill, our guest. His name is John Hill, and he is the closest living descendant of Lieutenant General A.P. Hill. John exhumed his ancestor's remains on December the 13th, 2022, in Richmond, Virginia.
[00:31:18] He was the pallbearer at his reinterment in January of 2023 in Culpeper, Virginia, and he started the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation in his honor in 2023. So for years now, John has been traveling the country, cleaning and putting new Confederate flags on the graves of its dead in the cemeteries, cleaning and preserving these sites. And he preserves relics and books and letters and photos, and it is his duty, he writes,
[00:31:46] to take care of these southern graves and preserve all of this Confederate history. From October 2nd, 2024, through October the 27th, so the whole month of October, he was in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. He raised over $200,000, our guest this hour did. He bought out four truckloads of supplies and 60 generators, and he sent them and hand-delivered them directly to the people in those affected counties,
[00:32:15] Yancey, Mitchell, Bukom, and Madison counties. He rented heavy equipment. I mean, I'm talking about tractors and all kinds of things, backhoes, excavators for communities to fix up, even rented them for fire departments to fix driveways and roads. And he put families up at hotels and gave out over $135,000 in cash to families who lost everything. That is what. John Hill, our guest is about what the work of the AP Hill Legacy Foundation is all about, not just preserving the past,
[00:32:43] but fighting for our present and future as well. John, it is great to have you again. Let me just say again to have you tonight. I know we're talking about some difficult things that would rather not talk when we're trying to celebrate our ancestors and their heroic memory and celebrate Easter, but this is the world we live in, and it's all around us. But give us again very quickly your contact information, because I know from there people can support the slain victim there in Arizona,
[00:33:11] this Alabama man we were just talking about. It's John Hill on Facebook, and it's AP Hill Legacy Foundation on Twitter, or X, which is at JohnnyReb1989, and I'm also AP Hill Legacy Foundation on Instagram. All right. Anybody can contact me, and I'll help anybody that needs help with anything, and then I also want to help with Jacob Couch. If people want to go to the GoFundMe link or contact me about that,
[00:33:41] I would love to direct them to his sister-in-law and childhood friend. All right. Without further ado, we have shortchanged Confederate History Month enough with all this talk about current events. One thing that I wanted to talk to you about tonight was a great series of posts you put out on your aforementioned social media, the seven causes for that conflict from 1861 to 1865. Take it away. Read them one by one, and then we're going to bring Keith into the conversation after number seven. All right.
[00:34:10] So I usually, like I was telling you, I don't refer to notes usually, but if I ad-libbed and talked, he'd probably be here for three hours. So I'm going to read parts one through seven. Part one, the Confederacy was not trying to overthrow the government, and they were not traitors. Secession was never illegal. The Confederacy started their own government, currency, army, navy, etc. They wanted to peacefully leave the Union and be left alone.
[00:34:38] They wanted to govern themselves and freedom from a tyrannical government. Part two was the Corwin Amendment. In definition, the Corwin Amendment was to prevent Congress from interfering with slavery in any state. And this was introduced to try to stop the South from seceding. They still left the Union because they were not fighting for slavery. I mean, this is the greatest argument is the Corwin Amendment, because if they were really just trying to start the war for slavery,
[00:35:05] they would have took the Corwin Amendment and not seceded, and everything would have been hunky-dory. So that's not what they were fighting for. Part three is 87% of Northern congressmen voted in favor for the moral tariff. The House vote largely followed a North-South split. On the eve of secession and the Civil War, Northern politicians overall wanted dramatically higher tariff rates, and the South did not.
[00:35:35] Obviously, you know, taxing and tariffing the South, 47% of their earnings is not something anybody would go for, except for the North. Part four. Abraham Lincoln benefited from the transplanted 48ers. 48ers were from the failed communist revolution of 1848. That's why they call them 48ers. So a lot of people also don't know about the Wide Awakes, which was also a lot of 48ers. They would basically go around. They were like, they're like modern-day Antifa.
[00:36:03] They would go around in thousands, go to cities basically to force people to vote for Lincoln. Many surviving records indicate that Lincoln relied on them to deliver the votes to win the election. During the first GOP convention, one of the main objectives of the 48ers was to assure that the Puritans and native-born Americans would not control the party. Towns where 48ers settled showed two-thirds higher union enlistments.
[00:36:31] And 48ers were obviously German Jews from the communist revolution. Part five is about Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter was rightfully the South's property. It was South Carolina's property after secession. The Confederate government tried to reach a settlement with the federal government, but Lincoln could not allow that. The Lincoln administration destroyed these efforts by sending a hostile fleet to Sumter. Lincoln would avoid all blame
[00:37:00] if he could make the South attack first. So, of course, you know, the South fired the supposedly first shot at Fort Sumter, and Lincoln maneuvered the South into doing this by using this strategy to, again, try to put blame on them that they started the war. Also, part six, Lincoln raised 75,000 troops and called for the blockade of all Southern ports without congressional approval, which was against his constitutional restraints.
[00:37:29] So, again, raising 75,000 troops, blocking all Southern ports, causing them to fire on Fort Sumter with his strategy, but people still say the South started the war. Part seven is roughly one-third of the Union army was foreign-born, more than 625,000 out of 2 million troops. Army regulations at the time stated no volunteer will be mustered into the service who is unable to speak the English language.
[00:37:58] That rule would simply be ignored. In 1864, Lincoln stated, I regard our immigrants as one of the principal replenishing streams appointed by Providence to repair the ravages of internal war and its waste of national strength and health. Lincoln's dependence on foreign-born troops and mercenaries and officers led to mixed results on the battlefield. He launched an unprecedented effort to get more immigrants to the United States to fill the gaps.
[00:38:28] So they were just bringing in mercenaries from other countries, and, you know, you want to fight in our war, you get citizenship, is what he was doing. So when the South, there was even a soldier who wrote in his journal, he says, I don't think we killed all the Yanks. They're not speaking English. So a lot of the foreign-born troops couldn't even speak English, and they were wondering, the Southerners were like, what's going on? Hey, good movie about that. A lot of these soldiers aren't speaking English. Good movie about that,
[00:38:57] Gangs of New York. Mm-hmm. So that was the seven parts of the, my seven part causes of the Civil War. I kind of summed it up. I made it short because I have really long versions of each one, and you know, people nowadays don't like to read. So I kind of made these in a meme format and made them within like about a paragraph or so each, and I post those anytime. And I repost them every once in a while to get people, you know,
[00:39:27] new followers and stuff like that to discuss the causes. And then when people have questions, I'll answer them. But I like to keep it more short-winded because people, if they see, you know, six, seven paragraphs on a post, they're just going to keep scrolling. A lot of people don't even want to read. Well, I think you gave a pretty nice and succinct summation, Keith, the music's about to play, but I'd love to get your reaction to that. Well, I agree with John that slavery was not the cause of the revolution. And that doesn't mean
[00:39:57] that they were integrationist either or early civil rights activists. They were not, and rightly so. Well, basically, if you look at what Abraham Lincoln believed in, he believed in what a lot of people wish had happened today. Well, he was a white supremacist by modern terms. he didn't like slavery, but he didn't like black people either. And he wanted them to be sent back to Abraham. But he wanted to win re-election, so he came up with the Emancipation Proclamation. And, you know, but, to reinforce your point about the tariffs versus slavery, when the
[00:40:27] Virginia delegation arrived at the White House to see if they could avert secession by Virginia, what did he say? What did Lincoln say? No. What about slavery? He said, what about my tariff? There you go. Hey, listen, I'm going to come back with something on that very quickly, and then much more from our guest, John Hill. Check him out at aphilllegacyfoundation.org. aphilllegacyfoundation.org. There you can link over to his Facebook, to his Instagram, to his ex.
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[00:43:03] Kid, I'd take a trip every summer down to Mississippi to visit my granny and her antebellum work. I'd run barefooted all day long, climbing trees free as a song. One day, I happened to catch myself with a squirrel and I was sitting in a little shoebox and punched a couple holes in the top. When Sunday came, I snuck him in the church. I was sitting way back in the very last view, showing him to my
[00:43:33] good buddy Hugh when that squirrel got loose, went totally berserk. What happened next is hard to tell. Some thought it was heaven, some thought it was hell, but the fact that something was among us was plain to see. As the choir sang, I surrender all, a squirrel ran up hard in Newman's coveralls. Hard feet to his feet said, something's got a hole in the first self-righteous church in that sleepy little town
[00:44:02] of Pascavula. It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival. They were jumping, fusing, shouting, hallelujah. Well, you know, we've been talking about my pastor a little bit tonight, my lifelong pastor. We go to another small little church now, great congregation. I'm not going to... He found his home. Well, I'm not going to tell them where it is, but it's... Go there with my cousin and his family, and it's just... We really enjoy it.
[00:44:32] But my lifelong pastor, the one that was in the trenches with me, and you can look him up at the Southern Poverty Law Center as well, Brother David, but he was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, of course. And when we did the hurricane relief effort, so he was, you know, just right down the road from Jefferson Davis' home, Beauvoir, in Biloxi. And so when we did that relief effort and we got some of the original slate roof, I gave a piece of it to Pastor, and he still has it framed. Not one in my house right now. He still has it framed
[00:45:01] and on his wall to this day. But he was from Pascagoula and was a big fan of Ray Stevens. And so when Ray Stevens came on this show a few years ago, several years ago now, I invited Pastor into co-host of that particular show because he was a huge fan of Ray Stevens. Like all, growing up, I've always been a big fan. Yes. And he asked Ray, you know, why Pascagoula? And he said it was the only thing he could think of that rhymed with hallelujah. So that's why the Mississippi Square revival
[00:45:30] took place in Pascagoula. But nevertheless, that's just another great memory in the history of TPC. So back to John Hill now and just a quick recap of our Confederate History Month coverage. I mean, next week is going to be our grand finale. We had five Saturday installments in March Around the World and April only gives us four Saturdays and Easter is gobbling up the third hour. Pastor Brett McAtee on deck next. But a quick recap, kicking off Confederate History Month two weeks ago, we had Dr. Michael Hill
[00:46:01] as our first guest, followed by Gene Andrews, where we talked with Gene about the Nathan Bedford Forest Boyhood Home. Now, we were talking with Gene about the reinterment of General Forrest. John Hill was the recipient of the remains, like Gene, of General A.P. Hill. Last week, we talked with Patrick Martin about tariffs. So it's interesting that John is touching on reinterments. John is touching on tariffs. We talked with Gene about reinterments. We talked to Patrick about tariffs. Paul Lawrence on last week. Mike Wharton
[00:46:30] from the Southern Cultural Center. We also revisited our classic interview with George Wallace Jr. as part of our Confederate History Month coverage last week and Sonny Thomas giving the Ohio Buckeye view of the war between the states from a northerner. A Buckeye. Well, he said he's not a Copperhead. He's a Buckeye. He corrected us on that. But I think that there's probably a little bit of an overlap. Well, the most famous of all of the Copperheads was Clement Van Landingham, the governor of Ohio that had to escape to Canada
[00:46:59] to avoid being arrested by Lincoln. I know. Sonny takes offense to being called a Copperhead, though. But nevertheless, giving a Southern sympathizing view from the North. Let's go back now to John Hill. John, I, Carmelo Anthony, we were talking about this fundraiser for the Jacob Couch and it's raised like $43,000. Not only has Carmelo Anthony's official fundraiser raised half a million dollars, everybody who ever has known Carmelo Anthony has a fundraiser on there. If you just Google
[00:47:29] Carmelo Anthony or search Carmelo Anthony on the Give, Send, Go website, it's like, yeah, I'm Carmelo's cousin and I need, you know, I'm raising some money too. Do I have to go out and kill a white man to do it? Anyway, John, let's talk more about Confederate history. I mean, where do you start? There are so many books. I mean, there are tens of thousands of books on the war, on individual battles, on individual figures. I mean, tens of thousands of books. So four shows in a month on commercial talk radio,
[00:47:59] you're not going to do it justice. Let's talk about AP Hill. If you go back in our broadcast archives, you can Google, I say Google, I use that as interchangeably with search. You can search in our broadcast archives for John Hill's name and the first time we had you on, it was an hour-long discussion just about General AP Hill. Talk about him, talk about anything you want to do. Of course, you and I were in Selma together a couple of years ago and boy, that was eye-opening with Jared Taylor and Brad Griffin and others. But the last five, six minutes of this hour
[00:48:29] are yours. What do you want to talk about when it comes to the South, your ancestor, anything about it? Go, John. Well, I've talked a lot about AP Hill. There's a lot on my website. I wrote up a bio about him. I could also come on your show another time to dedicate more time to talking about General Hill. Sure. What I want to talk about is that's most important that we should all be doing is taking care of the graves of our gallant Confederate dead and saving their relics.
[00:48:58] I have a small, museum-sized collection and an entire climate-controlled storage unit full of Confederate relics, books, documents, photos, letters, weapons. And I traveled the country for years, even years before anybody knew who I was, before AP Hill, you know, exhuming Hill's remains. For years, I've been traveling the country, cleaning Confederate cemeteries, flagging their graves. I give everyone, all of them a salute. I play Dixie on my phone for them. I made a post about that one time
[00:49:27] that I played Dixie for them and people would get confused that they said, what instrument are you bringing with you? I'm like, I can't play an instrument on my phone. But I play Dixie for the soldiers at the cemetery and I've noticed a lot of Confederate grays and cemeteries across the country are three, like not the main ones, but like the smaller side of the road ones, the smaller ones behind churches, a lot of the ones people have forgotten about. The graves are so dirty, they're almost not legible.
[00:49:57] The weeds are grown three, four, six feet high. There's so many, people want to go to events and picnics and take pictures and dress up and say, hey, look at me and post pictures on social media. People don't want to take the time to go take care of the graves or the men that we're supposed to be honoring in these organizations. That's why I started the AP Hill Legacy Foundation. It's only me. Everything I do is just me. All of my efforts in Western North Carolina was because of that main post on Twitter
[00:50:26] that got 5.1 million views. That's how I was able to raise all that money and I don't have a board of three people. I'm not a 501c3. I don't have anything I don't have to worry about infighting, stealing, nothing. It's just me. So, I have another project I'm doing this summer, a headstone for my third great-grandfather, Sergeant James Gordon Wells of the 19th Tennessee Cavalry. He rode with Forrest and he moved to Denton, Texas. He was in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee and then after the war
[00:50:55] he moved to Denton, Texas and he doesn't have a headstone. There's one stone for him and his wife that just says Wells. The other headstones were destroyed over time. They don't have records of what happened to them so I'm getting a custom-made stone for his wife. She's not my third great-grandmother. This is his second wife and then for my third great-grandfather, James, I'm getting a it's in the process of being made a confederate stone for him with his name, dates, service and at the bottom it says Road
[00:51:25] with Forrest because that's what they even put on his pension document. So, the most important thing just like that grave that I put down for A.P. Hill's last daughter Ann Powell Hill. She was born June 6th, 1865, shortly after Hill died and unfortunately she was sick and she died before her third birthday on April 3rd, 1868 and she went 156 years with an unmarked grave and after a lot of research
[00:51:55] and finding, you know, having them print out the original plot, location and everything at the cemetery, she's actually buried right by her mother and one of her sisters. So, last June I had a headstone made for Ann Powell Hill as well. So, the most important thing that we need to be doing is taking care of their graves and preserving their relics, not picnics and events. John, this is Keith Alexander. I did the same thing with some relatives I found had unmarked graves.
[00:52:24] I went back to the registry at the cemetery and one year it only cost me $250 per headstone at the time, which was a bargain, but I got three of them and one of them was the wife, Adelaide, of my ancestor, my great-grandfather, I.E.S. Alexander, who was in the 15th Tennessee Calvary under Forrest. Now, let me ask you this, if you are ever coming to Memphis, get in touch with me and get in touch with James.
[00:52:53] Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis has more Confederate generals buried in it than any other cemetery in America except for Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. And as we know, Richmond is definitely enemy occupied territory now. As opposed to Memphis. Well, they got Forrest out, but they haven't at least found out about Elmwood Cemetery yet. I have a friend
[00:53:22] who has all the equipment, he knows all the state-of-the-art equipment for cleaning headstones properly and doing it right, and we can get you that information. Yeah, D2 is the stuff to use, not that other wet and forget. John does it right, but I know what you're saying, Keith, yes. Yeah, but what I was going to harsh on sandstone. Right, yeah, and what we need to do is take you around and show you all of these. For example, we've got Patton Anderson's grave here, who was a
[00:53:52] notable former governor of Florida. tour, which was incredible. We went on a fall day, the leaves were changing, it's a beautiful old-school ornate cemetery, and the founder of Bolton High School was a Confederate slave owner. I mean, you know, just the things you don't know, Duke University, Tulane University, they were all Confederates. We are out of time, and John, I know we were just barely doing the broad stroke glossing on some of your work with
[00:54:22] AP Hill Legacy Foundation, your work with Helene, which we have covered at length last year, but all that you do, AP Hill Legacy Foundation.org, folks, and then on Twitter or X, if you prefer, he is JohnnyReb1989, x.com slash JohnnyReb1989, John Hill. We couldn't think more. Highly of you, my friend, and we'll talk to you again very soon. Pastor Brett McAtee with the Easter message of the resurrection. He's going to say, he's