On Tuesday’s Mark Levin Show, the Loudoun County school system seems to be under the iron fist of the radical left. The local NAACP is angry after a teacher passed around some cotton during a history lesson on slavery and the invention of the cotton gin. You can’t pass cotton around as an example of what was produced and what took place in the South? Is this a joke? The NAACP has a lot of time on its hands. Loudoun County School shouldn’t apologize – they need a backbone to stand against this idiocy. Later, 14 suspects were detained in a home invasion, and kidnapping at the Aurora, Colorado apartments where the viral video surfaced of gang members from Tren de Aragua terrorizing residents. These blue states do not care about their citizens. We get lectured by Kamala Harris and Democrats on gun control, but they didn’t secure the border while illegal guns and drugs poured through. These Democrats need to stop being soft on crime and stop supporting soft prosecutors. Also, Rep Barry Loudermilk asked the FBI to investigate Liz Cheney for numerous federal laws broken during the January 6th committee. if you’re censoring information or tampering with witnesses and you use that to try and criminally indict someone – that’s out of line.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello America, Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Lots of big stories. Aurora, Colorado, going on out there, Madison, Wisconsin, and so forth. But before we get to those. Loudoun County School system. Seems to be under the the iron fist of the radical left. Seems to be a petri dish in so much that takes place in this country. And it would appear the NAACP, at least the branch that’s involved in Loudoun County, Virginia, has a lot of time on its hands. That’s a lot of time on its hands over there at the ACP. I want you to listen to this report from NBC4 Washington, the local NBC affiliate, obviously. Take a listen to this and then I want your thoughts about a cut 16 go. And families and students that allowed in county high school are outraged. The president of the Loudoun County, ACP says students are forced to pass around cotton during an advanced history class. Yes, she says, the offensive lesson happened last week at Riverside High School in Lansdowne. Amy Cho has the story you’ll see only on News four. Controversy at Riverside High School after some students were forced to touch cotton during a history lesson on slavery, according to Pastor Michelle Thomas. She’s president of the Loudoun County ACP and says she received a complaint from a black student in the class. Black students were extremely embarrassed and humiliated in some sections of the class. We had students that were actually laughing and making jokes. Thomas says she hopes teachers understand the hurtful connotations of cotton to students of color. The fact that teachers have cotton on hand to be used as demonstration that is problematic, especially when they are teaching advanced classes. News four obtained a letter sent by the school’s principal to parents in which she acknowledged the lesson had brought up some uncomfortable feelings in students. The principal also wrote that teachers, administrators and counselors would be working together to support students who were involved. The letter also said We take matters that involve our students safety, both physically and emotionally, seriously and all. CPS is dedicated to creating a safe and inclusive learning environment for all students in Loudoun County schools. Just sent news for a statement moments ago saying the lesson was part of a discussion around the invention of the cotton, gin and enslavement. The school system said it must and will do better to achieve a safe and inclusive learning environment for students. LCP also said it will work on better guidance for teachers when lessons could potentially be associated with trauma. And the school system promised to review policies with staff around giving parents advance notice when the sensitive topics will be discussed in class. Is this a joke? Is this a joke? Current was the main agricultural product, particularly the South. They sold it heavily overseas to the British and the French. And then. We had the Civil War and the cotton gin was. Had an enormous impact on the growth of the use of cotton and the economy in the South. Is there something going on? I don’t understand. Do people use Q-tips? Do they have cotton balls? I mean, do you have cotton clothing? So you’re passing cotton around as an example. Of what was produced and what took place. And that’s offensive that the president of the NAACP got a complaint from an African-American student about. Having to see or touch cotton. Do I understand this story correctly, Mr. Producer? And that the Loudoun County School system is going to do a better job and counselors are available for anybody who is offended. And I hear that, too. Now. What the hell is this? If you want to teach American history, the good, the bad and the ugly, you want to teach slavery. How do you avoid cotton and the cotton gin? I’m quite serious and its impact. On the South, actually, its impact on the American Revolution, as a matter of fact. So it was racially insensitive to pass around cotton. It’s a serious. And did you hear how serious the report was? The fact that NBC4 Washington found this. To be an imperative news story. It’s crazy. So that tells me the local ACP in Loudoun County doesn’t have enough to do. And so this apparently rises to the top of the list. Cotton being handed out are being shown in a classroom teaching history. And as the school district did say. The impact of the cotton, gin and cotton on the South. That is highly relative. In fact, many slaves were brutalized picking cotton in the South. So this is nuts. Absolutely nuts. It’s an amazing thing. You know, DeSantis was under attack in Florida. Because he he rejected the CRT crap. And the wokeism crap and all the rest said no, you teach history, the good, the bad, and the ugly. So when you’re talking about cotton and cotton was used in the South, how slaves were picking it and brutalized pegging it. That’s the bad and the ugly right there of American history. No, no, no, no. You can’t pass cotton around in the classroom. Because that’s offensive. Cotton passing cotton around in the classroom is offensive. Says the pastor, president of the NAACP of Loudoun County. It was a history lesson on slavery and the invention of the cotton gin. Well, it’s kind of hard to have a history lesson on slavery and the invention of cotton gin without cotton. And it must be so horrible to actually show cotton and pass it around in the classroom must be so damn offensive. Why? Why? It sounds to me like the teacher in the lesson plan. We’re showing some of the ugly underbelly of what had taken place during this period in American history. That’s American history. That’s American history. Loudoun County School system ought not apologize. You don’t need counselors. You need a backbone. To stand up against this idiocy. Dressed up as racism. That’s history. That’s history. The product is cotton. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
The NAACP of Loudon County should be celebrating what this teacher did. What took place in this classroom? I wonder if the president of the NAACP actually understands the significance of cotton during the slave period. Because honestly, she sounds like an idiot to me. Here’s a thought company, AECOM It’s hardly a right wing site. The cotton gin made the cotton industry in the South explode before its invention. Separating cotton fibers from its seeds was a labor intensive and unprofitable venture after Eli Whitney invented it. Unveiled his cotton gin processing cotton became much easier, resulting in greater availability and cheaper cloth. However, the invention also had the byproduct of increasing the number of enslaved people needed to pick the cotton and thereby strengthening the arguments for continuing enslavement. Cotton as a cash crop became so important that it was known as King Cotton and affected the politics up until the Civil War. Whitney’s cotton gin revolutionized an essential step in cotton processing. The resulting increase in cotton production dovetailed with other industrial revolution inventions, namely the steam boat. And it goes on. Much of the South suddenly increased quantity of ready to weave cotton was exported to the north. Much of was destined to feed the New England textile mills. When he died in 1825, Whitney had never realized the invention for which he’s best known today. It actually contributed to the growth of the enslavement of black people to a degree. To the degree it did, I should say, in the Civil War was cotton gin and reduce the number of workers needed to remove the seeds from the fiber and actually increase the number of enslaved people the plantation owners needed to plant, cultivate and harvest the cotton. Thanks largely to cotton gin growing cotton became so profitable that plantation owners constantly needed more land and labor of enslaved people to meet the increased demand for the fiber. From 1790 to 1860, the number of U.S. states where enslavement was practiced grew from 6 to 15, and largely because of cotton from 1790. And Congress banned the importation of enslaved people in 1808, and that would be under the Constitution. The South imported over 80,000 Africans by 1860, the year before the outbreak of the Civil War, approximately one in three residents, a southern state, was an enslaved person. Now this is relevant. This is important. It is a. A cancer on our history. It’s being taught in the classroom. They pass around cotton to demonstrate. Well, they know what cotton is. What was that? Well, what the hell did you think the teacher was doing? Making a racial display. How ridiculous is this? How absurd is the sheep of Loudon County? How absurd is NBC for in Washington, DC for even reporting on the damn thing? Well, Mark, what are you bringing up to expose it? That’s why. To expose it. Is there nothing better to do in Loudon County? What next? We’re going to take all the cotton products out of our grocery stores, out of our. Make up stories out of our clothing. What the hell is this? It’s so stupid. Somebody is offended. Offended by what? That cotton was passed around and they were forced to touch it. Nobody was forced to touch it. They passed it around the classroom. When I was a little kid, they would pass things around the classroom and you’re sitting there and you’re offended. You’re offended. Well, what was taught in that classroom? The school district said. What was taught in the classroom. Slavery, the invention of the cotton gin, its impact on the importation of black people. The expansion of slavery in the South. It seems to me that’s pretty damn relevant. Here I am defending it. And we have the NAACP trashing the fact that Cotton was passed around. My God, what the hell is wrong? And no, I’m not making a big deal of this. It is a big deal. If you’re a real teacher. And it’s a real classroom and you want to teach real history. You put your career on the line. I don’t give a damn what the president of the Loudoun County ACP thinks. What do you think of that? If this is the best she can do. I mean, I’d bet you right now that the vast majority of minorities around county agree with me. If the vast majority of. Black folks around county agree with me that you don’t want to teach this. You don’t want to explain what took place. And so what, you pass cotton around in the classroom. Wow, that’s offensive. Now. It’s only offensive if you want it to be offensive. Pastor. Pastor. Pastor. Shockingly absurd. An ignorant. Truthfully. King Cotton It had an enormous role. In the lead up to the Civil War and the Civil War. As a matter of fact. I’ve mentioned this in the past. States like Georgia. And yet South Carolina, one of the reasons they wouldn’t cite they were so resistant, by the way, of the. American Revolution, even though their delegates to the Second Continental Congress signed on to the Declaration of Independence was because of cotton, because they were selling such enormous amounts of cotton overseas, especially to Britain. They didn’t want to go to war with Britain. They were happy. And in fact, you had militia in southern states like Georgia and South Carolina that were fighting for the British. Against the American Revolution. They said, What the hell do we have to do with Massachusetts and Boston? What the hell do we have to do? A Pennsylvania and Philadelphia and New York? Nothing. We’re just fine. God forbid, if you if you pass a cut. I don’t know what else is barred. What else can’t you pass? I know you can pass out condoms. I know you can pass out pornographic material. I know you can pass out all kinds of crap and all kinds of ass in the classroom. But apparently Cotton is on the list. Don’t pass it out because it’s offensive. In the ACP. The local ACP is very offended because they got some some students who were offended. At least one African-American student was offended. He should have been sat down. It should have been explained to him. It should have been. Put in context by the ACP. They’re the ones. Who should be applauding the fact that this course is being taught. That this teacher, whomever he or she is, has taught it. Notice there’s not a word in this entire report or by these comments by this pastor that anything offensive was said, that there was any racist implications whatsoever. It was the cotton that was passed around, don’t you see? No, I don’t. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
You know, the NAACP, you know, there’s many branches used to be such a fantastic entity, especially 100 years ago, 80 years ago. But they reduce themselves to this. Is that right? I’m just saying how absurd it is. All right. We’re going to move on. I don’t want to waste any more time on this, but I thought you ought to know about it. Any time we can get information. About these things that are going on in the classroom, which is an often but a lot going on, then I need to use it. I need to explain it to you. 14 suspects detained in home invasion kidnapping in Colorado, apartments where viral videos surfaced. Remember this? An Aurora. This Venezuelan gang. There was no Venezuelan gang in this country. Five, six, seven, eight years ago. Now they’re all over the damn place. Remember the governor, this guy, Polis? We don’t have a gang problem. Remember? The mayor and I? We don’t have a gang problem. All these miscreant malcontent reprobates. Well, you do have a gang problem, you jerks. Aurora police detained 14 suspects early this morning after officers responded to a report. Let me tell you where this is from. This is from CBS News of a home invasion. Remember that apartment building? It was in that apartment building. They broke into one of the apartments, the edge at Lowry Apartments, the same apartment complex where a viral video surfaced early this year showing suspects terrorizing residents with weapons. That video prompted President elect Donald Trump to target the city in his deportation plan during a campaign stop earlier this fall. Just before 2:30 a.m., officers responded to a report of an armed home invasion involving a stabbing and kidnapping at an apartment in the 1200 block of Dallas Street. What happened? According to police, the preliminary investigation suggests several suspect 13 males and possibly three females entered an apartment at 1258 Dallas Street occupied by two people at about 8:45 p.m. Monday. Investigators say the suspects moved the victims to another apartment building on the property. 1268 Dallas Street, where they were threatened, bound and assaulted. In fact, they were pistol whipped and they were cut. And they were tortured. An adult now sustained a non-life-threatening stab wound during the incident. The victims were held against their will. They were bound both the male and the female. They were pistol whipped. They were beaten. They were victimized. They were terrified, said Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain during a news conference on Tuesday morning. How about that blue state sanctuary state, Colorado? Oh, no. Well, no, we want to. We want the criminals to leave. Well, how do you know they’re criminals? And so they can make criminal acts like Venezuela’s going to give us a database, you idiot. During the time they were held, the Chief Chamberlain said the suspects went to the victim’s apartment and burglarized and took over that apartment, taking items of value that belonged to the victim’s. Police say the victims were held for several hours and so they convinced the suspects to release them, promising not to call authorities. Chief Chamberlain said the victims were released just after 2 a.m., so they held them for 6 hours. Good Lord. And left the property for a friend’s residence in another area of Aurora where they called 911. You know, those of us who are not ultra familiar with Colorado Aurora, I seem to recall Aurora is sort of a little town. A real American community. Aurora, I think where they made model planes and stuff like that. If I’m right, multiple Aurora police officers arrived at the apartment complex and detained 14 suspects. As other officers interviewed the victims, those suspects have not been identified. It’s unclear what led up to the victims being kidnapped, but they’re all part of that Venezuelan gang that they know. This is an incredibly problematic complex. It is an incredibly crime riddled complex that I think we’ve been focusing on. The city of Aurora has been focusing on without question. Attention will not stop until every individual who victimizes somebody else will be held accountable to be removed from that complex, said the chief. Now, the city councilwoman who first brought all this to our attention is a nation who was attacked for overstating the case, she said. One of the things that’s not being reported in the news. As you know, they kidnapped a male and a female. Is that the female’s fingernails were pulled off her fingers, Mr. Producer. The Aurora Police Department has not clarified whether the suspects are tied to a gang from Venezuela. But Chief Chamberlain did say they will find out if the suspects involved in the kidnapping and assault are affiliated with their gang. I think they have since found out that they are. How stupid they think we are. This is the same apartment complex that went viral that last time. He began talking about the bigger issue of thousands of immigrants arriving in the city, the lack of resources available for the population, he said. We’re talking about 40,000, 35,000 Venezuelans that were brought into the city of Aurora and dropped into the city, and he means by the Biden regime there. They are perfectly happy community. And Biden drops 35 now, 40,000 Venezuelans in their desert, not their gang members are criminals. They don’t care. That’s the point. Neither does the governor of Colorado is a complete jackass. This is not a political discussion. Law enforcement is not political. But I was very clear on what I saw. As a law enforcement practitioner and how these individuals were brought into this country in the complete disregard for how they were treated. He went on to say that the Aurora Police Department will do everything in its power to hold those involved accountable. That’s going to be done within the Constitution of the United States. How these individuals were brought into this country and the complete disregard for how they were treated as human beings when they got here. Early this month. Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman accused Denver Mayor Mike Johnston this guy Mike Johnston, as a complete extremist nutjob of human dumping, saying he placed migrants in Aurora apartment complexes without the city’s. Now, let’s look at this. It’s like human trafficking between cities and towns. We don’t want these people. We don’t want these Venezuelan gang members. Send them over there now. I’m sending them over there now. And Denver is a sanctuary city of the worst order. The worst order. But he issues this statement. Does the pathetic mayor of Denver echo the strong words that Chief Todd Chamberlain expressed in his news conference? And they go on. Well, talk to your damnable governor, all these blue state governors. Hey, we’re a sanctuary state now. You’re a Confederate. That’s what you are. There’s federal law. There’s federal constitutional language. And you, you jackasses in these blue states, I run these states. They governors and run these cities. The mayors and the city councils. You are nothing but confederates. You reject federal authority when it comes to this issue of immigration in which the federal government has plenary authority. And don’t give me Texas and Florida and others. Were those governors, red state, conservative governors? Took matters into their own hands to enforce federal law. That’s what they were doing. Whereas these blue governors in California, in Illinois, in Michigan, in New York, and all these other places, they are defying federal law. They are defying the federal Constitution. They are confederates. That’s what they are. They don’t give a damn about their citizens. This is all about empowering the Democrat Party. I’ve said it over and over and over again. That’s what it’s about. They know one day these people will vote. Little Dick Durbin of Illinois. There’s another one. He already let the cat out of the bag. They already did. I already told you they would. We got to get these people, you know, into amnesty. Legalized them. So hard working people, you know, we get You don’t know who’s what, you little jerk. You overwhelm the system, you’ve met people. You have to manage it. Administrative system. But you guys flooded the system. You flooded it. While you had missed a dimension, the Oval Office was all for bringing his millions. As many as you can. Get them in here. They’ll get lost into the country. We’ll get them amnesty. We’ll give them parole. We’ll do all kinds of stuff. Then they’ll have children. We’ll claim birthright citizenship. Look at this one. 100 million. Aliens in the country before you know it. And listen to me. We’ve got over 20 million illegal aliens. Number four years decades. So we’re saying had 11 million and never changed. And then Biden comes along, we get 10 to 12 million more. We have over 20 million illegal aliens. If they bring in five people each at some point. If 100 million aliens in the country, in a country of 320 million people. That’s what the Democrats are counting. Not. Look at California. They don’t give a damn what’s happening to California. The governor there. The legislature, which has supermajorities. What gave them supermajorities? Well, all the immigrants that came into the country got amnesty, had children. That’s how they got supermajorities. Well, the rest of the population, by the way, of every background, color, creed and religion, trying to get the hell out of there. Nevada, Tennessee, Florida, Texas. That’s where they’re headed. That’s where they’re going. The citizenry. That’s where they’re going. And so, see, the Democrats are thrilled. They want California everywhere. That’s it. They want power. They’re power hungry. We’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Well, the shooter at the Abundant Life Christian School. 15 year old, not 17, as reported last night. Natalie. Samantha Rup, now is her name and New York Post. The teen girl fatally shot a student teacher and left two more pupils clinging to life. At a private Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday has been identified. She brought a handgun to campus, a nine millimeter, and opened fire around 11 a.m. inside a classroom during study hall. The teenage student teacher was pronounced dead at the scene while another teacher and five more students were wounded. Two of them are in critical condition. Threatening life threatening injuries, clinging to life, said Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes. Robert now sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital. An alleged manifesto. Funny how I thought there’d be something like this. Some kind of manifesto. An alleged manifesto espousing angry, hateful views is circulating online that some social media users claimed belonged to her. But Chief Barnes said police have not yet been able to confirm that document. I don’t jump ahead on stuff like this. I don’t need to be the first guy out of the. You know, out of the race here in the race or out of the barn, I wait for the facts to come in so you’ll not hear me recite what’s in that unless it’s confirmed. We haven’t been able to verify that it’s authentic. We’re certainly aware that it’s been posted, he said, adding his department is working with the FBI to investigate the writings. SWAT teams raided Rob Downs family’s home on Monday night, busting through the front door and conducting a thorough search inside, WISN reported. The home is about eight miles from the school, which is in the state capital, the K through 12 schools, a little more than 400 students, a tiny little private Christian school. And I’m sure the parents were sending their kids there because they thought it was safe, that they wouldn’t be propagandized and indoctrinated with all kinds of perversion and other crap. Well, now opened fire inside a classroom during a study hall filled with students from different grades. As the gunfire erupted, a second grader in a nearby classroom called 9114. Can you imagine? A second grader. And police were on the scene in about 3 minutes. Can’t get there any faster. That’s remarkable. Investigators are still working to determine a motive and have been interviewing the shooter’s father. At this point, there’s no reason to believe her parents committed a crime. Says the Chief. Barnes questioned how her up now was able to get her hands on the gun leading up to the deadly school shooting. By the way, attention radical left wing Democrat Party media. It’s not legal in Wisconsin for a 15 year old to own a nine millimeter, except for exceptional circumstances, which wouldn’t apply here. So I thought you’d want to know. Not that you give a damn because you’re still you’re still on you’ll still get on your high horse. Every child, every person in that building is a victim or will be a victim forever. And I know what that chief means. He means the psychological and emotional impact is. You can’t unraveling. Barnes also addressed speculation online the shooter was transgender in response to a question, but he stressed how the shooter’s identity was not important. Whether or not she was he was they were transgender or something, that may come out later. But for what we’re doing right now, today, literally 8 hours after a mass shooting at a school in Madison, it’s of no consequence at this time, he said. Maybe to him it’s not. But if. But the public wants to know. Many in the public want to know if it was a racial killing or. Any anti-Semitic killing or God knows what other kind of killing people want to know. President Biden called for common sense gun control measures. And listen, I don’t even know what that means. Like I said, she’s 15 years old. She’s not allowed to own this weapon in Wisconsin. What else? What are you going to do? You’re going to search every house? I don’t know. But all they do is they throw out these canards, they throughout these shibboleths, they throw out these these ambiguous statements like suddenly they’re going to fix something if they pass some kind of gun control law. No, they’re not. I’ll be right back.