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Speaker 1: discussing the history of black governors. And I know when
Speaker 1: you think of governors, you think of old white man
Speaker 1: and big mansions, with the top hat and that weird monocle.
Speaker 1: Just with some glasses. Governor, you can afford the frames.
Speaker 1: But in fact, America has a history of unknown but
Speaker 1: meaningful black governors like Pps pitch Back, America's first black
Speaker 1: governor and the only politician in US history brought to
Speaker 1: you by viewers like you. Pitchback was born in Georgia
Speaker 1: to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner
Speaker 1: who emancipated his baby mama, which would have made for
Speaker 1: one hell of a Maoria episode. During his life, Pitchback,
Speaker 1: who could pass as a white man of Latin descent,
Speaker 1: leaned into his blackness, something that is known today as draking.
Speaker 1: Pinchback got involved in politics and rose to the third
Speaker 1: highest office in the state of Louisiana, which is pro
Speaker 1: tempt of the Senate, not as some people believe, the
Speaker 1: football coach of l s U. Then, in eighteen seventy two,
Speaker 1: after the lieutenant governor died and the governor was impeach.
Speaker 1: Pitch Back became governor because sometimes the best way for
Speaker 1: black people to take power is to just wait for
Speaker 1: somebody else to die. Kamala Pinchback would unfortunately only hold
Speaker 1: the office for thirty five days, but during that brief
Speaker 1: step he enacted ten laws proven it's not about how
Speaker 1: long you last, fellas, it's about how efficient you are.
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Speaker 1: After PBS Pinchback's governorship, America would not see another black
Speaker 1: person serve in that role for over one hundred years.
Speaker 1: That man would be Douglas Wilder. Wilder grew up in
Speaker 1: the segregated itself of the nineteen thirties. During his time
Speaker 1: at Virginia's Union University, he experienced so much racism working
Speaker 1: at a dinner he considered poison in white people's salads,
Speaker 1: which may sound harsh, but if you order a salad
Speaker 1: at a dinner, you deserve to be poison. After graduating,
Speaker 1: Wilder was drafted into the army and served in the
Speaker 1: Korean War. He would go on to win the Bronze
Speaker 1: Star for his heroism during the Battle of pork Chop Hill.
Speaker 1: Now pork Chop Hill, that's what you want to order
Speaker 1: the dinner, whole, big pile of pork chops, saltat and
Speaker 1: butter and garlic, and it's just the graven deepicious. Wilder
Speaker 1: returned to Virginia and got into politics after serving in
Speaker 1: the Virginia Senate. In nineteen eighty nine, he became the
Speaker 1: first black person ever elected governor of Virginia, and he
Speaker 1: owed it all to his campaign slogan, don't make me
Speaker 1: poison your salad. Move it on. Our next black governor
Speaker 1: is Duval Patrick. Patrick was raised by a single mother
Speaker 1: on Chicago South Side after his father, a jazz musician,
Speaker 1: left his family because everybody knows that jazz is all
Speaker 1: about the kids who don't raise. After graduating from Harvard
Speaker 1: Law School, the Vault spent the early eighties working as
Speaker 1: a lawyer for the A c. P. During that time,
Speaker 1: he sued then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and impressed him
Speaker 1: so much. During the case, Clinton later hired him, which
Speaker 1: I get you gonna get your azz beat by somebody
Speaker 1: playing pick up basketball so bad you'd be like, yo,
Speaker 1: you've got to be on my team. And then he
Speaker 1: hates playing with you because you gotta bust it knee
Speaker 1: and a bad heart and you won't stop slapping people's
Speaker 1: asses because that's what we did back in the day.
Speaker 1: It was nothing sexual about that. Call call me back
Speaker 1: carl Let's bowl. Anyway. After serving in President Clinton's Justice Department,
Speaker 1: the Vall spent some time working in the private sector
Speaker 1: before returning to politics, and in two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: Dvall became the first black governor of Massachusetts, succeeding the
Speaker 1: whitest governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney. It was like going
Speaker 1: from watching Frasier to the BT Awards. It's jarring. Moving
Speaker 1: on to our final governor, David Patterson, who was not
Speaker 1: only New York's first black governor, but also the first
Speaker 1: line governor in American history. He was like a political
Speaker 1: Stevie wonder If you're one of those people who actually
Speaker 1: believe that Stevie Wonders blind, I know you can see Stevie.
Speaker 1: I was at the concert and seventy eight, you're turning
Speaker 1: ran from me. I want my money mother. In two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, then Lieutenant Governor Patterson took over the
Speaker 1: governorship from Elliot Spitzer after Spitzer was disgrace from having
Speaker 1: numerous affairs with high end escorts. But once Patterson took office,
Speaker 1: he proved that black governors could also be plagued with scandals.
Speaker 1: A previous affair with a co worker came to light.
Speaker 1: He was accused of giving Jay Z a sweetheart investment deal.
Speaker 1: He was found for unlawfully accepting Yankees World Series tickets.
Speaker 1: All in all, he was having a pretty good time
Speaker 1: as governor. But that's all the black governors we have
Speaker 1: time to discuss today. We there there are no more
Speaker 1: black governors. That is all the black governors. Damn black
Speaker 1: people who produced less governors than Predator movies. It tells
Speaker 1: me two things. One America must do better and two
Speaker 1: I need to watch Predator again. That was a damn
Speaker 1: good movie. This has been CP time. And remember from
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