Main Threat To Democratic Party With Bruce C. Carter
What's the main threat to the Democratic Party?
Bruce C. Carter, also known as the Relentless Voice, reveals a surprising perspective that you won't want to miss. With over 500,000 youth mentored and the Presidential Lifetime Award under his belt, Bruce brings his unique insights into fatherhood, family dynamics, and the impact of Black men in politics. Tune in as he shares how the broken family structure, policies like the Johnson Amendment, and the need for strong father figures shape our communities and our future.
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Main Threat To Democratic Party With Bruce C. Carter
Black Men
Our expert is Bruce C. Carter, who's also known as the Relentless Voice, who has mentored over 500,000 youth and is the recipient of the Presidential Lifetime Award. His journey from challenges to triumph makes him the perfect guide for fathers seeking to make a lasting impact on their children's lives. He communicates different concepts about the Johnson Amendment. I encourage everyone to look up everything they can about Johnson as the president. If you go online, you can check that out under the Johnson Amendment, and that'll help you. We'll also put information in our action guide for you.
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The topic of our threat is called The Main Threat to the Democratic Party is Black Men. Our expert is Bruce Carter who's going to tell us all about that. Bruce is an expert and a relentless voice in this mission. He's going to share with us what that's all about. Welcome to the show, Bruce. How are you?
I'm good. Thank you for having me.
What I'm going to do is ask you a few questions and you can give us your wisdom and help my audience understand what's going on. My first question is in this journey you're on about the American family and this book that you wrote called Becoming the Best Dad: A Father's Guide, how did you get involved in this ministry and all this traveling you've been telling me you've been doing going across the country?
The Importance Of Fathers In Strengthening Families And Communities
In 2007, I started mentoring kids due to the dropout rate in Waco, Texas. In mentoring the kids, you would start to find out this child didn't have a father or this child lived with the grandmother. You realize that that family structure was broken. That was one of the biggest dynamics I found to be consistent. What I wanted to do was better understand the why. Why is a father not taking care of his child? Where is the mother in this case?
That work led me to mentor kids for about ten years. This was before I became politically inclined to understand some of the policies and history that had destroyed the Black nuclear family. We can get into that later, but I'm talking about LBJ and the thought process behind not having men around but giving out subsidies that would give a woman or mother false empowerment. A lot of families deteriorated based on the data that I researched.
What do you mean by false empowerment? Tell us about that.
For those who are believers, the Bible talks about not being able to destroy a home when the strong man is there. When you take the man or the father out of a situation, then you're going to have certain things that happen to the children. In the mid-'60s, I wasn't born but according to history, that was one of LBJ's requirements to get certain assistance. The father couldn't be in the home. You have a mother who has a place to stay. She's able to get groceries but she can never go up a ladder of success. When you remove the man or the father, you have started a generation of issues that are still propelling the Black communities.
That is some valuable information. You told me you've been traveling across the country for fifteen months.
I wish it was that. What I've done is multiple tours over the last couple of years. 2016 is when I decided I wanted to know why things weren't working from a political standpoint. The history is out there. Being ignorant of politics, I started supporting Bernie Sanders after having a conversation with my daughter in 2016. That was in the primaries. By the time we got to the general, I was supporting Trump.
I traveled through 40 states in that election cycle. I left Philadelphia and went to LA and I saw the poverty, the homelessness, and all these urban courts have been led by Democrats. That made me say, "I do not want to be a Democrat because I don't want to be poor and I don't want to live in a crime-ridden area." I needed to understand why that was happening and how I could address it.
It's been a total of 8 years and 2,700 plus hotel stays to get to a point to say, "Here's how we solve the issues." One of those is, I believe, the Democrat party to where they rebuild their platform differently and it's not to enslave Blacks or people living in poverty as their voting block. That's been my mission. That was one of the things that I worked on these past couple of months. It was to educate Black men on why they had to get involved and why they needed to be the main people who make decisions on voting in different places so that eventually, their mothers, daughters, and children would follow them because they became so involved with the Democrat process.
Enemies have been trying to emasculate the Black man anyway all throughout history. A lot of the time, the women had to step up, and maybe that's part of it. They had to step up to take care of the family. What led you to write this book, Becoming the Best Dad: A Father's Guide?
The Political Influence Of Black Men In Shaping The Future
In this past election cycle, I was in Wisconsin educating. I was meeting with the city manager in Kenosha. We were talking about fathers and some of the issues of why we had so much crime and violence among our young Black males. I said, "A lot of these young kids hate their fathers because there's no relationship. They are full of anger. The minute they have an altercation or something with a Black male, it's like, "I don't care." It's okay for them to shoot each other and commit crimes against each other." That city administrator said, "If you can address and build up fathers, you will be an American hero." I was thinking, "I didn't go to the Military. I'm not going now because I'm old. If I can become an American hero by building fathers, I can take this on."
If you can address and strengthen fathers, you will become an American hero.
The research and the data allowed me to put the book together relatively easily based on what I already knew. Being a father of five daughters and a son, I understand how important it is as I've gotten older. My goal is if you are a 0, I want to build 5-star fathers. If you are a 3, I want to get you to a 5-star. If you're a 4, I want to get you to a 5-star.
I believe we will have strong people within our communities who can lead in mentoring and who can lead in other organizations versus having a person out there who wants to be seen and heard. You got someone who knows, "Even if I'm not the biological father, I can serve as a dad because it's going to make my children safer and my community safer."
That's great stuff. The book is also a step-by-step guide to help these guys figure out how to get in that direction, right?
Correct. We'll utilize the book as a lightning rod or a guide for the journey. I call it a journey because it's not something that's going to be fixed in a conversation with your child. You got to earn this. Let's say a gentleman's in there. His name is Tyrone. Tyrone will ask his children or child what he needs to do to become a 5-star because they may have rated him as a 3.
You're not out here guessing what you have to do. Your child has said, "This is what I need and want from you. Now, we will help guide you to accomplish that if your real desire is to be a committed, engaged, and active father." If you do that, then you will be an honored grandfather and a well-covered great-great-grandfather because you've been around your children and they have the respect that your legacy needs to see.
What I'm getting from the spirit is you're raising up a whole new battlefield against the enemy. That's exciting to hear because of everything we've had to live. You're not as old as I am. You're still a young guy. We're living in the craziest times I've ever seen. It's a ministry to reach these guys. The title of this thing of the threat to the Democratic party, how do you think they as people that you probably know that are in that party are receiving this content?
After this past election, they are open to listening and understanding based on how badly they were defeated. I have put out some information in mass quantity and there was no major pushback. As a matter of fact, I'm meeting with a Democrat gentleman who's the mayor pro tem of Dallas because he's talking about the number of Black men who are homeless in the streets of Dallas. That number didn't miraculously change. They understand that what we've seen happen at a national level, hopefully, we can make it happen at local levels in Philadelphia, Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, and Atlanta. If we're able to do that, I believe that some of the carnage as far as the loss of life will change. People need to know they're valuable at every level in our country.
I don't know how much sleep you're getting, probably not a lot. In a minute or so, if you're speaking directly to a Black family or a family that's fatherless, tell me how you can give them some peace.
I tell them my story. My story is simple. I didn't grow up with my father but I grew up with a village. I had my mom, my grandmother, and my great-grandmother. I had my uncles and my great-uncles. I had my coaches. Since I was so loved, it allowed me to love people. When a child doesn't have that, they become bitter. When you get the love of Christ as you get older, then you know you're okay.
We have to guide these children until they can see and understand the word for themselves. At every level, we have to let them know or I let them know anyway that it's because of God's grace that I'm even here because sometimes, I don't want to do the job. People are open to the fact that you are there given your time. I'm not there based on a grant. I'm not there based on a candidate or a political party. This is a mission that I've invested eight years of my life directly on the road. I am seventeen years into wanting people to be better.
For that reason, especially with the Black males that I encounter, a lot of them want to be that but they don't know how. They have child support issues. In Wisconsin, if you miss four payments of child support, it can become a felony. You have people with these felonies on their record, which encompasses them getting good jobs to be able to sustain themselves. What has worked for me is the heart. Once they get to the point where they know that I really care, then they're a lot more receptive and open to being a part of and participating.
The Role Of Church And Community In Supporting Fathers
Are you feeding the pastors and churches with this information so they can get their minds wrapped around more than they can do at the pulpit other than what they are doing? Are they getting this information with what you're doing in this ministry?
I have a couple of pastors who have been very active in Wisconsin come into our gatherings and offer support with their buildings. If I look at it from a truthful standpoint, in our country, the church has, in many eyes, been a failure, the actual local church. When you bring pastors in, I have found that the male is so not into talking to church or about a pastor because of all the bad behaviors that they see on a regular basis.
In these meetings when we gather, we're gathering as brothers. They know it's through Christ but I also have to live that life. I don't drink, curse, or use profanity so I can at least hold up to a system that they can respect. I don't have to worry about outside influences of what that church might do or that pastor or this pastor that will break away until that man receives that solid foundation. Once he has a solid foundation, he can withstand whatever because he understands his value and what he must do to be the full man that God has put him on this earth to be.
We're in a spiritual battle. You know it like I do. We battle out with flesh and blood but principalities in high places. The enemy's job is to kill, steal, and destroy. He has been doing a pretty good job of it. In this meeting we had, we talked about how there are more people getting into revival now than ever before. I'm hoping that pastors throughout the country will read this message through our audience and that it'll touch their hearts.
They have to open their hearts differently on how to deal with families that don't have a father figure in them and how important that is. Maybe they think they know how but maybe people like you can make a difference. We're going to do our best to get this information out to these guys because they need to know about it. A family eroding is horrible.
A friend of ours told us that there are a bunch of churches that she knows of, and maybe it was in New York, that are going out of business. If they're going out of business, then there's no place for any of these people to go. My final question is to give me a two-minute recap about the book and where we can find the book. I know it's on your website, but I like to let people know about this book, Becoming the Best Dad: A Father's Guide. Maybe a family can pick it up and they can reach back out to the men.
It's simple. You go to BecomingTheBestDad.com. We're going to put it on other platforms. We call it a guide. It's not to sell the book or the guide. It's to make sure that you are part of the process. The process encompasses virtual meetings. We're looking to open a headquarters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where we deal with barriers. Giving someone a book or a guide doesn't always work because a lot of people don't read. Sometimes, you have to be able to walk them through the process where there is an application. For me, it's the application and having them apply that's going to create the difference.
My goal for 2025 is to create or develop 2025 five-star fathers. That's number one. We will be traveling to the city where fathers are. We'll look at the barriers. For instance, child support is a big one. We're going to put together a production studio where they can produce t-shirts, laser engraving, and things they can do to knock down some of this child support and to be that five-star father we're talking about. If you have a child support issue, it's paid off.
I know 1 father who owes $112,000 in child support because when he went to prison, they still were charging him child support and then the interest is half of what the actual child support is. His children are 34 and 35 but he has this debt, which has a lien on his home. His credit is jacked up. He's stuck in a place as a 59-year-old man who could never pay off $112,000. By putting these things in actions that are real, practical, and viable solutions, I hope and pray that that's what's going to make these men more grounded and committed to becoming the best dad.
What a great idea. This is more of a ministry than anything with you. Everybody that tunes in to the show, you know we put out a full episode in 30s and 60s and an action guide. I'm going to encourage everybody who reads this to donate to this and put their money where their mouth is. Put some money out there to help these fathers who got $100,000 out there. $5 from a lot of people will make a big difference. We're going into a season where this is important.
I also have some political connections I'm going to try to connect you with because this is important stuff. I really appreciate your wisdom in this and all your hard work. I pray for peace over your loss, that you get your energy and strength, and that the Lord gives you some even more profound guidance than He has. We thank you for spending the time with us. Bless you.
Thank you for what you're doing. I know some of the other work you've done. Whenever you start to expose God's people or Americans in the world to threats, then you become a threat to other people. It always takes the courage to do the work. May God grant you the same peace in your family and allow you to thrive so we can make people know that there is a threat, that there is spiritual warfare, and that evil is real and it comes in all shapes, forms, sizes, and colors. One day, we can look up and say, "Lord, thank you for everything you allowed us to do." That's my mission and my journey. Thank you.
Bless you. Have a good Thanksgiving with your family. With all of the girls, I imagine that's something. Have a good one. We really appreciate you sharing your wisdom.
We'll talk soon.
Bye.