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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Chillicothe, Missouri, Steve, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. You\u2019re up first today, and welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. Hey, Rush, I\u2019m a little nervous \u2019cause I\u2019ve never come out of the closet in any way before, but I wanted you to know, be the first to know and your audience to know that I am actually an African-American. I\u2019ve been an African-American my entire life. It\u2019s been bottled up inside me, and as of today, I\u2019m no longer going to be Caucasian.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? How old are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m 38.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thirty-eight. You\u2019ve been living in this prison for — how old were you when you first learned that you weren\u2019t really white?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Must have been about 10.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ten years old. Ten years old, you knew you weren\u2019t white, even though you were. You weren\u2019t white, you knew you were African-American or black. So you\u2019ve lived 28 years in a prison, right? You haven\u2019t been able to be who you are?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. It\u2019s been horrible \u2019cause every day I wake up and I know I\u2019m black and everyone around me is white and I\u2019m living here in flyover country and everybody in my small town is basically white —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this has got to be —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just have to walk —<\/p>\n

RUSH: This has to be hell because here you are, you\u2019re Caucasian, but you know you\u2019re black, but nobody can see that you\u2019re black, so nobody can see who you really are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you\u2019re desperate to be seen who you really are. You\u2019re desperate to be known for who you really are. You\u2019re not an actor. You want to be known for who you are. You know you\u2019re black, but nobody can tell it. And you go tell people you\u2019re black, and they think you\u2019re nuts, right? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. I mean, I\u2019ve signed up for, like, minority grants and that sort of thing, and, you know, they all just laugh at me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why? What\u2019s wrong with minor — oh, I get it. Because yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a very courageous act on your part. I mean, to be an African-American trapped in a white body, that\u2019s cruel, the height of cruelty. Who could do something like that to another person? And that\u2019s gotta be tough. I mean, you\u2019re signing up for benefits that are available to African-Americans and you\u2019re telling them you are one, you knew when you were 10 that you were, and they\u2019re denying you, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So what are you doing about it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m trying to start a movement. I\u2019m calling you and I\u2019m telling 30 million people that I\u2019m actually black.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you gonna do it on Twitter? You gonna have a Facebook campaign? I mean, are you gonna post your —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I haven\u2019t got that far yet. I\u2019m not through.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s 30 million people. You gotta get going. You\u2019re reaching 20 million of \u2019em here, but I imagine a number of \u2019em are gonna be kind of skeptical of this. I\u2019m sure you\u2019re gonna face female that aren\u2019t gonna believe you, be skeptical, think you\u2019re just trying to get on the financial the gravy train and they\u2019re gonna look at you and they\u2019re gonna see Caucasian. What color is your hair?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Blond.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Blond. And yet you\u2019re African-American. In your heart, in your mind, you know you\u2019re black. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Apparently. That\u2019s the way I felt since I was 10.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You felt African — what does it feel like to be African-American? I can\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s just hard to explain. I\u2019m not white. I don\u2019t fit in with my family, you know, it\u2019s —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you hate the cops? Do you have an animus against police officers?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s been building lately, as I see how other people of my color treat the cops and feel towards them, that\u2019s kind of been building in me, so, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Taking it personally, make it personal, I can understand that. Well, you know, you\u2019re gonna have to prove this to people. I mean, you just can\u2019t go out there and say this. You\u2019re gonna have to prove you\u2019re black by doing all the stereotypes like Bruce Jenner is doing with women. I mean, you know, Bruce Jenner didn\u2019t just say, “Hey, I\u2019m a woman.” He had to go do the whole whatever to convince people of it. You can\u2019t just say it.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It would be much easier if you say you knew you were gay when you\u2019re 10, but man, you\u2019ve really bitten off a big one here when you say you knew you were black at age 10 when you\u2019re a blond-haired Caucasian.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, and also now I\u2019m in a biracial marriage and my kids are biracial, so I don\u2019t know what to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What, you\u2019re married to a —<\/p>\n

CALLER: A white woman.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Married to a white woman, you\u2019re Caucasian, but you\u2019re African-American, your kids are biracial. You do have a problem.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I tell you, my heart goes out Steve, first caller, black man in the body of a white man. Wow. If you think he has it tough, imagine being a disabled black lesbian trapped in a nondisabled white man\u2019s body. Now, that could lead to serious therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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