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My next guest is that person who I 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: met who's changing lives on a daily basis. Based in Houston, Texas. 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: He was born in Louisiana. I had to say that 13 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: because guess what, My parents were born in Louisiana, so 14 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: he's cut from good stock. Then he moved to Texas. 15 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: I was born in Texas. And it's uh And there's 16 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 1: a proud graduate of Prayer of Prayer of you and there, 17 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: which is right down the street from Houston, Texas. Now 18 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: this is way it goes a little different. He's a 19 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: proud member, lifetime member of cap Appaside I'm on Mega 20 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: Sci Fi members. See that's the only thing in this 21 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: intro that goes a little bit different, But I think 22 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: that's great. Honorably discharged Vietnam War veteran where he served 23 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: in the medical unit. He's a retired executive from MERK 24 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:14,000 Speaker 1: where he later national team in medical design and installed 25 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: Merk's military medical branches. At the retire he found it, 26 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 1: which is very special. The Buffalo Soldiers National Brasilium based 27 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Captain 28 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: Paul Matthews. How you're doing, Yes, sir, how are you 29 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: doing outstanding? Now? Are you in Houston right now? Yeah? 30 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 1: Exactly at home in Texas, just outside of Houston. Cool. Well, 31 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: let's talk. Let's talk about that. You're a little bit uh. 32 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: You know, your life has a body of work tied 33 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: to it as a as a person who was a college, college, lifestyle, professional, lifestyle, military. 34 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: When you when you encompass all that together, Captain, what 35 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: what stands out the most when you when you when 36 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: people ask you to speak. What do you tell people 37 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: when you when you're motivating them, when you're giving them 38 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: nuggets of information about being successful? What do you talk about, well, 39 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: I talk about, you know, having specific goals, direction and 40 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: and leaving a place like pur of you being a 41 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: second lieutenant in the United States Army and going on 42 00:02:22,440 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: to a successful career in the pharmaceutical industry, and then 43 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: being able to collect artifacts, documents, memorable, bilious from thirty 44 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: years of of traveling around the country and starting a 45 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: museum and now those other kinds of things that I thought, 46 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: you know, make it all worthwhile. So that you know, 47 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: we as African Americans have controlled the history narrative. I 48 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: think that's the key, the key to the future is 49 00:02:54,919 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: being able to to just demonstrate, you know, your history. Right. 50 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: So when you talk about the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, 51 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: of course, you know many years ago Bob Marveley did 52 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: an amazingly popular song called Buffalo Soldiers, right, and you know, yes, sir, yeah, 53 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: The museum actually opened January the fifth of two thousand 54 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 1: wound and we focus on and feature the Buffalo Soldiers, 55 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 1: but in actuality, we give a perspective on the African 56 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: American military experience from seventeen seventy to two thousands are 57 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: from the Revolutionary War to the Persian Gup War. If 58 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: you talk about personalities from Chris pasadics, the cold and 59 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: foul and our missing. Our mission is to preserve, promote, 60 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: and perpetuate the honor and legacy of the braves, men 61 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: and women who fought, fled, and died in defense of America. Okay, cool, 62 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: Now this is the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum. Who are 63 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Soldiers? Yeah, the Buffalo Soldiers were the peace 64 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: keepers in the American with Uh. They build camps, sports, railroads, 65 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 1: delivered the mills, strung telegraph wise, charted the land, chased 66 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: down outlaws, common sharrows of Mexican revolutionaries. As a matter 67 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: of fact, without the Buffalo Soldiers, the Westwood Movement would 68 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: have been delayed, you know, fifty years. And just to 69 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: put it in context, Uh, at the end of the 70 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: Civil War, the army reorganized and established for segregated units 71 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: that were African Americans, the ninth and His Cavalry and 72 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: the twenty four and t Infantry, and those four segregated 73 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: units went on to become what we commonly call now 74 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Soldiers. Okay, why why Buffalo Soldiers? Why did 75 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,280 Speaker 1: that they become part of Yeah, that's the mystery. Now 76 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta drift down on that now, you 77 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 1: know that exactly. The number one person that we get 78 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: is that how did the Buffalo soldiers get their names? 79 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: And they came from the Shihene warriors. They saw two 80 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: things and the soldiers that they saw in the buffalo 81 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: it was a naturally curly hair and that farocius fighting spirit, 82 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: and they put those two things together and they came 83 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: up with wild buffalo in the turn, while buffalo eventually 84 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: became Buffalo soldiers. Wow. So you said, like I think 85 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: earlier in your conversation, you said, over thirty years you've 86 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: been collecting. What have you been collecting? We have all 87 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: types of unique artifacts, documents, memorabilis, uh, some of these. 88 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,600 Speaker 1: The one of the kind items you see at the 89 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 1: museum is that a letter from a Korean War veteran 90 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: and African American who was the twenty fourth Infantry Regiment 91 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: and he was then Korea, and he wrote a letter 92 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: back to his mom who lives in Brownwood, Texas. And 93 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: he opened up by saying things are quiet here, how 94 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: things are quiet at home? And then he said, we 95 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,839 Speaker 1: heard today that our unit was going to be integrated. 96 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: Now that's a very powerful letter because this is nineteen one, 97 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: and here you have a black man in Korea fighting 98 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:35,680 Speaker 1: for the liberation of Koreans and a segregated on him. 99 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: So that's a very powerful historical perspective to look at. 100 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: And also how he reacted, how it was like, uh, 101 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: I guess uh, you know, I have to say it's 102 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: a big deal because nobody won't. Because when you're separate, 103 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: that that that that applies that there is something wrong, 104 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,799 Speaker 1: there is something that you know, there's something different about 105 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: you that can't be can't be unless they say associated 106 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 1: assimilated with every body else. And that's what people do. 107 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: That's what people don't understand about racism, about discrimination, about segregation, 108 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: is that is that whenever you you're not just black 109 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: boy any grade, whether it's cash structure, based on finances 110 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:14,800 Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, when you tell when you won't 111 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: let everybody participate or have the same opportunities to win, 112 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: then that there's a there's a designation that there's something 113 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: wrong with you that you should not have that opportunity. 114 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: In the military, when you're out there fighting laying your 115 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: life on the line for the same cause, that even 116 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: that should be even more mind boggling. Correct, Oh, yeah, yeah, 117 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 1: And you know that's that's a very good point. Even 118 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: though they had the same time of the equipment and 119 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: arms and all of that. You know, the army is 120 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: basically a microcosm of America. And so but I should 121 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,360 Speaker 1: say that the military was on the van or of 122 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: the moderns. They civil rights movement. So there that's important 123 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: to note. You know, as a matter of fact, when 124 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: you when you go back back to her favorite Duckness, 125 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: and he made a very important point at the start 126 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: of the Civil War. He said, give the colored man 127 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: a uniform of buckle with the US on it, a 128 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 1: button with an eel on it, and a musket, and 129 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: you're making a citizen. But you're also making amend. That's 130 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,239 Speaker 1: what he's trying to do is make sure the Civil 131 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: War was being fought for freedom and not just to 132 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: save the Union. And the only way you can do 133 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:32,920 Speaker 1: that yet for the black man the blue uniform. And 134 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: that same message carrot over to World War One, when 135 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: du Boys said in a famous Crisis Magazine article at 136 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: the start in the World War One, he said, put 137 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: aside your differences, goal with these come back the first 138 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: class citizens. And in World War Two, the same messages 139 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: came along as this is called a double D for 140 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: victory victory against the actors in Europe and victory against 141 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: racism at home, you know. So those were at the 142 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: end of War War two. The soldiers that came back, 143 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: you know, were the individuals that supplied the funds you 144 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 1: know that helped to move forward the modern civil rights movement. 145 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: So these people worked in the they came back, they 146 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: had trades, they took the g I bal you know, 147 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,599 Speaker 1: they went to trade schools. A good examples of the 148 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: Texas Southern University started out as as a trade schools. 149 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 1: And so these individuals became the Miller class that supported 150 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: you know, the more Lucy Kings and the Abnaces and 151 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: all the other civil rights move All right on the phone, 152 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: as of the founder of the Buffalo Soldier National Museum 153 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. We'll be back with more because I 154 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: want to emphasize the military being the band guard of 155 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: civil rights movement. I just for Sean mcgond, you're listening 156 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 1: to money making conversation. Um, when I look at my life, 157 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: I look at their the challenges. Um. Growing it up 158 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 1: in the inner city, growing up with two parents, one 159 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 1: was a truck driver one was to stay at home 160 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: mom and six sisters, two brothers. UM. I live in 161 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: an environment that people say success doesn't happen easy, but 162 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: I think opportunity is what enables you to be successful. 163 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: And when I was talking earlier on our first break 164 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: with Captain Matthews, Captain Paul Matthews, the founder of the 165 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: Buffalo Soldier's National Museum, he was saying that the that 166 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: the military was at the at the forefront of civil 167 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: rights movement, and he was talking about this letter that 168 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: was written in nineteen fifty one, and it was talking 169 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 1: about his unit was about to be integrated as ninety one. 170 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: Just to set that in perspective, Brown versus the Board 171 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: of Education was not settled that landmark case until nteen 172 00:10:54,520 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: fifty four, So the military was already positioned itself to 173 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: understand that there should be lanes of equality and we 174 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: shouldn't be treating people different. I'm not saying it was 175 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,199 Speaker 1: overnight there, but I was just saying that was in 176 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: fifty one Brown versus Board, which is where everybody considers 177 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: a landmark. As far as segregated education was insecuctional, unconstitutional, 178 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: wasn't anything fifty four. So I wanted to just point 179 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: it out to you what you said earlier, Captain, that 180 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: the military was at the early stages and being able 181 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 1: to enable African American men or black men as they 182 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 1: were known back then, or negroes depending on the time 183 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,839 Speaker 1: frame of that participation. You know, we get a name 184 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: change every twenty years, you know. Yeah, and so you 185 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 1: know and that that that's really a role that you played, 186 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: you know, and and being there and when when I 187 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 1: took the tour, and because we have a relationship and 188 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: I got real busy. Uh, it's something that I promised 189 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: him that I'm want to do it far as some 190 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: fundraising activity with the museum, it's just that, um, you know, 191 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: a little thing called the Air National Guards stepped in 192 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: and had me all fifty states immediately. That it caused 193 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:07,600 Speaker 1: me to delay. So I apologize, But what I cannot 194 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: apologize for is the success of what you're trying to 195 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: do with educating all individuals, not African Americans, when they 196 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: come to that museum, tell us about that experience. Yeah. 197 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: What we say here at the museum is that when 198 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: you go to other museums, you get content. When you 199 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: come to the Buffalo Soldiers, that's museum. You get context 200 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: because we talked about the items, how it revolves around you, 201 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 1: how you revolved around it. Uh, let me give you 202 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: a good example. We're talking about and say the Emancipation Proclamation. 203 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: You know it's an executive border, but what came out 204 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: of that was June Tea. If you look at section 205 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: nine and section ten of the Emancipation Proclamation, it states 206 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 1: that the slaves would be free when federal troops occupied 207 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: the territory, and that occurred in Texas on June and nineteenth, 208 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five, when Major General Garden Ranges landed in 209 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: Galveston read the proclamation. But he had three hundred black 210 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: troops with him to enforce the law. So that's the key. 211 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: You know, they had troops that the African Americans that 212 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: went throughout the state of Texas enforcing the emancipation proclamations. 213 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: Because in reality, the Emancipation Proclamation didn't free anyone because 214 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: it was more no, it's only applied to the states 215 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: that were not in control of the Union. So if 216 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: you were a Southern state, the Junior had no control 217 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: over you, so then your slaves are not free, right, 218 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: and so that's the that's that's that's the key. But 219 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: you know it's also something that you was mentioning how 220 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:55,720 Speaker 1: life is about, how we're giving an opportunity. You know, 221 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: the African American men being in the military going to 222 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: these trade schools, they started establishing a middle class lifestyle 223 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: they started, which is really important from an economic structure 224 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 1: because we're talking about the The Buffalo Soldiers Museum is 225 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: based in Houston, Texas. And I'm gonna tell you some 226 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: stereotypes are bound when when you have people say, well, 227 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: they got a Buffalo Soldiers Museum, you know, you think 228 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: it's a little small museum. I went over there with 229 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: preconceived notions that I was gonna walk in there, gonna 230 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: walk around the corner a couple of high and buys, 231 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: and I'm out. Now, this is a beautiful, multi story, 232 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: twenty three thousand square foot facility that also is rented 233 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: out for large scales or private events, and uh, it's 234 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: it's amazingly beautiful. And so that's the that's a perception 235 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: that you have to overcome as well of what people 236 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: think the experience will be, what your facility looks like, correct, Captain, 237 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Because we started in actually a three thousand 238 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: square foot buildings and then we moved to the twy 239 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: three thousand square feet three three stories. Uh. We have weddings, 240 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: their family unions, you know, meeting greeds, birthday parties on 241 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: our second floor we called the Hurstein Gallery. Then the 242 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 1: first floor with all the exhibits more than ten thousand 243 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 1: square feet. Uh. We we have the largest collection of 244 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,800 Speaker 1: African American military memorabilia in the world. And so you know, 245 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: we're very excited about our new space and looking forward 246 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 1: to you know, continued success. Kevin, how can you communicate 247 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: to support besides do you have a website? You donate budding? 248 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 1: You know, how can we how can we support it? 249 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: Because you know, you ever, you know, private emissions and 250 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: private donations do happen. There's other ways that we can 251 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 1: support the museum. Oh yeah, that's you know. First of all, 252 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: you can come visited tours and see the exhibits. You 253 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: can plan events after the museum, and more importantly, you 254 00:15:58,080 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: become a member. You know, you can be and then 255 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: you can make donations. You know, so we have you know, 256 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: maybe a five year old you know, being financially independent. 257 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 1: We have a minimum five million dollar endowment. So all 258 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,040 Speaker 1: of these things, uh, community based activities that you can 259 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: get involved with. Right when you said how do you 260 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 1: how do you become independent? To talk to me, because 261 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 1: you know, I'm all about telling people how to participate, 262 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,880 Speaker 1: telling people how they can make a difference. And like 263 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: I've learned in politics, you don't have to make a 264 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. You can make a five dollar dollar, twenty dollars, 265 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: you know, all those add up uh to thousands of dollars, 266 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: millions of dollars. And so how does this campaign, what 267 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: is the point? What is the point angle? And how 268 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: can we have get the word out on money making conversations? 269 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: Right there? The objective is to increase our our membership, uh, 270 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: to have uh ample you know, a thousand people being 271 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: members them for you know months. Uh. Those are the 272 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: kinds of things that helps build the financial wealth of 273 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: the organization. They have corporations, foundations that get grant for 274 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,399 Speaker 1: all different programs that we have, you know, so you 275 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: and and then those are the things that really makes 276 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: you financially independent, because it would be a good to 277 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,639 Speaker 1: him a million people that joined in for you know, 278 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:39,399 Speaker 1: thirty dollars a year. Yeah, So all those kinds of 279 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: things they add up over time. Well, you know something 280 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: I'm about adding up. That's called good man, that's called 281 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 1: you know. One thing what you think about is that 282 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 1: you know, I get to go there, I got that, 283 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: I got, I got the personal tour, you know, get 284 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 1: those extra private stories. Now what just the what just 285 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 1: the most difficult artifacts are the best story of any 286 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 1: artifact that you brought to the museum. Oh and that's 287 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: a very tough one. Relaxing here, you know which child 288 00:18:08,119 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: is the best? Oh, you're gonna go down all your 289 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: all your artifactor children. Don't you do that to me, captain, 290 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: don't you do that? But we have a a bronze 291 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 1: bust of a Buffalo soldier is called the Old Soldier, 292 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 1: and it was done by Eddie Dixon and and he 293 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: lives in a Fort Worth, Texas, on them real Texas. 294 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: And when before we bought the museum and before we 295 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:38,160 Speaker 1: moved in, I met with the board and said, wants 296 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: to get in our new building. We need something special 297 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: to go in it. And they said, what are you 298 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 1: thinking about? I said, as a bronze bust of a 299 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: buffalo soldier is called the Old Soldier. And I showed 300 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: him a picture of it. I say, this is one 301 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: of three's that port levin Worth, Kansas. Two of three 302 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: is in Georgia, and I'm not sure what three or 303 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 1: three is. And look at this. Nine months later, nine 304 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: months later, got a call from a couple in Paris, Texas, 305 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,800 Speaker 1: said they had a bronze bus of a Buffalo soldiers 306 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 1: they want to donate to the museum and that Braun 307 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 1: the bus was the old soldier. M hmm, yeah, that's 308 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: a testimony the Now that's a very special piece that 309 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: we have, something that we wanted and much for praying 310 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: for actually, and nine months later get it as a donation. Ye, 311 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,840 Speaker 1: special special gift. Well that's right. Uh. The the amazing 312 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: thing about you know you, I've been in Smithsonian. I've 313 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 1: been to a lot of great museums in New York. 314 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 1: As a kid in high school, they take you to 315 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: museums and so are you on that? You are you 316 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,919 Speaker 1: on that like a high school tour list of middle 317 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:03,440 Speaker 1: school tour list? How do people find out about your museum? Yeah, 318 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:08,120 Speaker 1: we are connected with the Convention of Visitors Bureau. Uh. 319 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: We have this the multi the media access word of mouth, 320 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 1: so all of the avenues that it is in the 321 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: advertising world. We're part of that. We belong to the 322 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: Eustern Museum District Association, the African American Museum Association, and 323 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: the National Organization of Museum, so you know we are 324 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: affiliated with all of those entities. It's really good. I'm 325 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 1: talking to Captain Paul Matthews. Uh. He's the founder of 326 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, which is a twin three 327 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: thousand square food museum located and Houston, Texas. The mission 328 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum is to educate the 329 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: public and to preserve, promote, and perpetuate the history, tradition, 330 00:20:55,560 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: and outstanding contributions of America's Buffalo Soldiers from the Revolutionary 331 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 1: War to the present. The amazing thing about it is 332 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 1: that when I when when I went there, I learned 333 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,919 Speaker 1: so much and I want to go back and all right, 334 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 1: so much more that I'm committed to helping raise funds 335 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: so he can meet his goal again. I want to 336 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: thank you for taking the time to come on my show, sir. Uh. 337 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,640 Speaker 1: You know I've been near a building. You know I've 338 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 1: made a commitment to you, and I brought you in 339 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: my show just to remind you that I didn't forget 340 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: and you are part of my future. Okay, thank you 341 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: very much. We appreciate it. Look, thank you, sir. 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