Debunking the 1619 project - Is America Racist? David Barton teaches on the Truth about America.

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take a seat i want to start out by just kind of looking at america for a moment from the standpoint of government we have a government like all nations have a government of some type this this year there's 195 nations at the u.n so we have 195 nations guys if we can get that up thank you there's 195 different nations at the un they all have a government of some type now what's interesting is our constitution we did in 1787 we ratified it in 1788 and we've been operating under the constitution since 1789. so america has only ever had one constitution if you look across the rest of the world it's very interesting to see how many constitutions they've had in that same period of time or less imagine living in nations where you have this many constitutions in the same or less period of time than america has in america we often take for granted the stability we have it's a it's a real blessing but we don't recognize that because that's all we've ever known we haven't known other things last year we had a congressional delegation in poland and i was talking to people in poland a live people talking to me who have lived through seven constitutions in their lifetime so if you look you know south korea that's a stable nation we think of it as stable nations an ally six constitutions since 1948 you know we just don't we don't think in those terms and so literally if you were to ask the question what's the average length of a constitution in the history of the world the answer is 17 years so 17 years is what a nation averages that's an average nation of 17 years in the constitution we're at 233 this year that's not average that's that's very different we are the exception we're not the rule no other nation has been the same length of time under constitutions america has if you look at what america enjoys in the way of creativity america has four percent of the world's population and four percent of the world's population should produce four percent of whatever but that's not the case in america our four percent of the world's population we produce more innovation more technology more medical cures more discoveries more symphonies more plays more books more everything than the other 96 percent of the world combined so our four percent produces more than the rest of the world we take for granted all the technology we enjoy i was in germany a couple of years ago do a lot of speaking at u.s military bases and so i was in germany there and i got to stay at a five-star hotel in germany and that's pretty cool because that is an ancient nation it goes back centuries and centuries and centuries and so there i am at this five-star hotel in germany and for a cowboy kind of guy from texas that's that's a big deal and it would have been really nice if they would have had internet at their hotel we've got internet at motel 6 here i mean everybody's got internet see we just there's so much we take for granted that the rest of the world doesn't enjoy the same when you look at prosperity uh our four percent of the world's population produces 25 percent of the world's gross domestic product and it's not that we have more we have much fewer natural resources than other nations for example agriculture like the kind of lifestyle that that i have on the ranch agriculture america is number 66 in the world in percentage of farmable land but america is number two in the world in farm production so we're way down with natural resources we're way up america takes what we have and makes it go further than any other nation so this is what's become historically known as american exceptionalism now this this will that phrase drives professors through the roof today america is not exceptional yes we are there's all sorts of statistics it's not a matter of arrogance or pride or anything else that's just the fact america is the exception not the rule we have stability when other nations don't we have prosperity when other nations don't we have creativity with other nations we're the exception not the rule so the question becomes so how did you get there who's responsible for all this that america enjoys and that america often takes for granted and if you look at leaders invariably textbooks will point to political leaders they'll point to people like george washington the point of founders like john hancock or john adams and those are all fine i mean they had a huge role in helping america have the form of government that that's been so special but what's interesting is if you go back to when john adams was an old man the millennial if you will of his generation the younger generation his time a guy named hezekiah niles came to him and said hey i'm doing a history book this is 1816. and so i've got this history book from 1818. if you were here yesterday you know that we own about 120 000 documents from before 1812. so thousands of documents the guys we call founding fathers well i've got that that textbook that hezekiah niles did 1818. so 1816 he writes john adams said look we were young we weren't part of it back there we're really enjoying what we have in the nation now but i'm writing this history book and i need to know from you as a participant as an eyewitness as a guy who was in it who were the most important people back then who do you look to as the most important people and so when john adams was asked that he had a number of names and among the names he included were people like the reverend samuel cooper he said the reverend jonathan mayhew he he called out the reverend george whitfield and and the reverend uh charles chance he went to enlisted preachers now those aren't the guys we find in history books today but that's who he thought was really significant back then and we don't list preachers day whether they're white or whether they're black we usually don't even know who they are so if you add richard allen you add people like absalom jones or john moran or lemuel haynes or harry hoosier i don't think i know those names let me just take a story from harry hoosier for a minute harry hoosier really interesting guy harry hoosier had been a slave he became a christian he was freed he ends up working with francis asbury now if you know anything about francis asbury he's part of the the great awakenings part of the revivals we had in america francis asbury spent most of his ministry on horseback the guy rode 300 000 miles on horseback sharing the gospel all over the country had a huge impact had huge crowds people came out and mass numbers to hear him well he also francis also had harry preach at those revival meetings and harry actually got larger crowds than asbury did so ashbury gets these masks we know the name ashbury today we don't know harry hoosier benjamin rush who's the signer of the declaration of independence said i i heard harry preach he said he's the greatest order i've ever heard well he's heard all the other guys he's heard the patrick henry's and the jeffersons and he said no no the best order i've ever heard is harry hoosier well harry as he works and all these people get converted under his ministry and so their ministry by and large it was kind of a blue collar ministry because they're riding everywhere they're on horseback they're out in in the woods and they're out in the farm countries and they're out in the rural areas and all these blue-collar archives guys are kind of getting converted and you've got mountain men in there and you've got frontiersman you've got explorer and woodsman and a lot of the revivals they conducted were out kind of in the the rural areas of of west eastern pennsylvania and elsewhere and so as these guys get converted they are explorers they are woodsman they are they are frontiers guys and so they start moving toward the west because they want the rough country and as they get into the west they get into this country here and people in that country looked at and said these guys behave a little different than everybody else uh that's because they're hoosiers now why would they be called hoosiers because they were converts of harry hoosier i wonder how many people in indiana today know that they were named after a black evangelist probably very few now [Music] [Applause] it would seem like that that might be something we should cover in history but like columbus yesterday if you were here we don't cover this stuff anymore we don't know where the name hoosier came from well we actually do know where the name hoosier came from we just don't tell that anymore and there's so many more stories like that if i take you to this guy named john morant when john morant was 13 years old he was in charleston south carolina and as he was in south carolina he was a child prodigy in music he was he was great on the french horn the violin he was probably the most sought after guy in town to play at to play concerts but to play for private parties and everything else so he was raking in lots of money and he said he was on his way he and a friend were on the way to play for a party one time private party and they went by a meeting house which is church and he says he went by the meeting house he he said he heard a crazy man inside halloween at the crowd well the crazy man actually happened to be george whitfield who was preaching in the great awakening and so as john went by he and his friend talked about it and he said hey let's let's go in and let's see what's going on the friend said there's no way i'm going in that meeting he said yeah come on let's go see and the friend said i'll only go in there if you promise to take out your horn and break up the meeting and john said i'm down with that let's do it so they go inside john pulls his horn out he starts to blow the horn to break up the meeting and he said that as he started blow the horn whitfield spun and turned and pointed at him and said prepare to meet thy god and when he said that morant said he fell down speechless and senseless just hit the deck was out couldn't move at all and so people were concerned about them they came tried to get them up they couldn't revive them they couldn't get him up he was laying there on the floor speechless and senseless they called for medical people to come try to see what the problem was well the meeting continues to go on and at the end about a half hour later whitfield's finished and he comes back and he looks at john laying there on the ground just paralyzed just can't move and he looks at him and says so the lord jesus has got the at last he said i've got a friend he said i would love to spend time with you but i i'm leaving town i have more meetings but i will send a friend to talk to you about what's happened to you and so they got john up they carried him home they got him in bed at home they called for more doctors to see what was wrong why he couldn't move and why he was semi-paralyzed and so a couple days later a preacher shows up at the front door and says george whitefield asked me to come meet with you and so he went in beside john on the bed john was laying on the bed and the preacher said can i pray for you and john said no no and he said he took my hand and prayed for me and he said as he took my hand i was so fearful that i actually rolled off the bed on the other side so he hits the floor on the back side of the bed the preacher picks him up puts him back on the bed grabs his hand prays for him said how do you feel and john said i feel terrible this is this is worse he said well let me pray again no so he prayed again how do you feel i feel really bad so he prayed a third time how do you feel and john said i feel really different some something's going on and and so he he actually ends up having a dramatic conversion of christ and he had such a dramatic conversion got such a love for jesus and the word of god in the bible that his family thought he went way too far off the edge and so the family as john said they they they did everything to me except that which was good so they really persecuted him so here he is 13 years old and they back they want him out of the home they don't want anything to do with what he's got so he heads out in the woods he just leaves the house he's basically been thrown out and as he gets in the woods he meets up with the cherokee brave and this cherokee brave that's in the woods for the next 10 weeks they just kind of hang around together and so they they hunt together and they do all sorts of stuff together and good relationship good friendship at the end of 10 weeks the brave says i have to go back to my tribe uh john said well i don't have anywhere to go i've been living here in the woods with you and so the the brave says well come on with me and john says well the cherokees have a law that any outside of their tribe will be killed and the brave said i'll speak for it it'll be all right so as they went to the tribe they got there and the the chief when they saw john moran the chief said kill him and so they started coming to kill john and the brave tried to speak and they hauled the brave off to the side they held john they had a trial they had what was called the judge and the executioner and john called him the king he was the chief of the tribe and so they sentenced him to death because he should not have been in the village so they put him in a in a hut and john had his bible with him because when he left home he had the bible with him so they put him in a hut and as he's been sentenced to death and the executioner has shown him how he's going to die and it was barbaric uh john records all of this so as he's in that hut he's praying that night he at first is scared of dying he says but wait a minute if i die i get to be with jesus this is really good so he starts praying all night and he's praying to jesus and the executioner has a guard on the hut to make sure he doesn't get away and the guard tells the executioner he's in there talking somebody i don't know who's in there i don't know how they got in but he's in there talking to somebody so that the executioner throws the door open goes in who are you talking to i'm talking to jesus i don't see anybody well he's here and so this it ends up the executioner gets converted the judge gets converted they take him to the king because they don't want to be killed now and the king is really angry at him and actually when he starts talking to the king the king's daughter 16 year old here's what john says and she gets converted and she goes over and grabs his bible and hugs it and puts it up to her ear and kisses the bible and the king is so angry he says you got my daughter under a spell you free her from that spell right now or i'll chop you to pieces in front of me well ends up the king gets converted so the whole tribe gets converted so this cherokee chief says to john he says we've got a lot of allied tribes around here why don't you go speak to all these other tribes because they need to hear what you've told us and so but he says the deal is if you go in they're going to do to you what we try to do and that's kill you so i'm going to take my personal bodyguards 50 of them i'm going to send them with you and i want you to go from tribe to tribe to tribe and those bodyguards make sure nothing happens to you so john ends up becoming cherokee for all practical purposes he dressed the same way he painted his face the same way did everything the same looked exactly like a cherokee and for the next two years he went from tribe to tribe converting them to christianity went from not only from the cherokee but to the kadusa to the house are to the creek 13 and 14 years old he's the first black american to successfully evangelize native americans in america terrific terrific story john actually recorded that story uh he wrote a narrative here you can see the narrative 1785. here's a a copy early copy that narrative this is one of the two best-selling black narratives in american history was the story of john moran we've never ever heard of the story today it's just kind of gone and not there anymore you have the same difficulty when you come to lemuel haynes lemuel haynes a very famous name or should be he was a famous preacher across new england in states like vermont and new york and massachusetts elsewhere and this is actually an original painting of him back in the founding era now would you please look at that painting tell me something about his congregation they're all white they can't do that they were all racist back then again bad history there's just so much more to the story than what we hear and so you see him here with this congregation an interesting thing about him he is the first black man in american history to receive a degree of higher education and you would think in history books we would want to do first we would want to talk about first and so the first black man to break through and receive a degree in higher education he's also the first black man to have a sermon preached published this is a published sermon of liberal haines from back in the day so he's the first man first black man to have a public sermon and in addition to that it's interesting lemuel haynes was also a soldier in the american revolution he was one of the minutemen one of the famous minutemen and so he served under george washington and in his churches on george washington's birthday he would give a sermon on his commander chief george washington and we're told how racist washington is and all the statues of washington have to come down and again we have such an incomplete story today here you have black heroes from previous generations who knew washington who were with him who praised washington who actually preached sermons about washington and actually this book right here this is the bible of liberal haines and inside his bible you see his name sketch inside the bible i'll try to be careful opening this and show you but this is the bible of lemuel haynes and there his is his name on the inside of that cover so he's a real guy and he's a really cool guy we just don't know anything about him today so many others let me let me go through some chronological stuff for a minute i want to take you to the american revolution let's go to 1775 of april april 1775 is when we we have paul revere making his famous right now as paul revere writes it turns out that throughout the revolution there were a number of times that people made paul revere kind of rides and so paul revere was not the only one who wrote to alert the patriots others did so as well and one of those guys who wrote to alert the patriots was a guy named wentworth cheswell he's a black patriot now wentworth cheswell up in new hampshire interesting thing about wentworth cheswold is one where cheswell is the first black man elected to office in america well i can't say that we had blacks elected office in 1641 to 1642 in colonies like maryland et cetera but in in 1768 in the colonial era he's elected to office now these are a number of of documents from what with cheswall uh and by the way i love the fact that in the american revolutions blacks and whites doing so much together there's something a narrative you won't hear today but again we've got so much of the history so much the documents so much of the old textbooks but he's the first guy elected office of america these are some of the documents from wentworth cheswell when he was a judge he served not on and by the way he was reelected for 49 years this is one of the documents when he was a judge he was reelected for 49 years and across those 49 years he held eight different political positions now his town is very white and he is clearly black and they elected him to office just like they did in so many other places just like you you had lemuel haynes the the black pastor of a white congregation there was racism in america but systemic and institutional no it existed in locations and locales existed in places in the south but as you get into new england area and as you get into northern the united states very very very different story now interestingly enough wentworth cheswell is not only a patriot but he's a historian he is responsible for these books right here this is the first history done of new hampshire so he is a scholar he is a patriot he is a political leader he is all sorts of stuff you would think the textbooks would want to talk about the first black guy elected office in in colonial america gone nothing there nothing said about it so as you move past that we go back to paul revere he's making his ride when paul revere makes his right he is looking for two individuals he's got to find hancock and he's got to find john adams because the british have ordered them to be executed on the spot all the other patriots can be forgiven but these two guys have to be executed so as revere rides he's writing to the home of the reverend jonas clark because that's where the political leaders stayed was with the church leaders and so they're here in in the town of lexington and they're here with jonas clark and when word gets there and they hancock and adams turned to pastor clark and said pastor are you people ready for this he said of course they are instead of training for this very hour so the next day is when the next morning actually is when we have the first battle the american revolutions the battle of lexington and it occurred when 70 men from his church went out to take on 800 british citizens and so often in the american revolution it was churches that went out to defend their town so the reverend jonas clark his church goes out and at the end of the battle there were 18 americans lying on the ground dead and wounded those 18 americans included white patriots like john robbins and black patriots like princess to brook white and black laying on the ground together because they all went to church together they were all out of his church they were all fellow parishioners now that again is not the story we hear and by the way prince esther brooke even back in the day they they did monuments to princess brook way back then they're still doing monuments to princess to brook today it's just that unless you're there to see them we don't study this in history anymore now we used to we just know who princess brook is don't know the guy anymore if you go to june of 1775 this is the battle of bunker hill this is now four battles three battles later this is the fourth battle of the revolution and so the battle of bunker hill this is printed by a guy named john trumbull who's called the painter of the american revolution all of that and then you got over there he put two guys off on the side yeah to make sure you would see them to make sure you'd see this guy right here peter salem peter salem is the hero of the battle of bunker hill and so put him off there away from the crowd so you could tell who's there and he's standing right there beside thomas grubner again black and white side by side you had this this cooperation going on for so long so peter salem is the guy that literally saved countless american lives that day after the battle they presented to the commander-in-chief he had dozens of military accommodations from officers on all the courage heroism he did we don't hear that name but we used to as a matter of fact here's a textbook from the 1840s and in this textbook in 1840s who are we showing as the battle of bunker hill the clear hero there the clear patriot is is excuse me it's peter salem then you go to the 1870s now we're in the color pictures and textbooks but we're still showing the clear heroes peter salem by the way in that same battle was also another hero named salem poor he also was a black patriot he also received numerous commendations that day so the heroes of the battle of bunker hill were black patriots we don't know that today we used to know that back then so again and by the way what do you think would happen with race relations in general if we knew more of our own history if we knew more of what happened we would have a different view of all sorts of things this is where not knowing history has a huge impact on public policy if you don't know history and what's happened then you can be talked into all sorts of things that are counterproductive and are completely anticipated what the nation really stood for now and that's not saying we didn't have racism we definitely had racism we're going to talk more about that later but you just need to know there's another part of the story so as you move into december 1776 this is when george wash is making the famous crossing of the delaware this is when we have the really first major victory in the american revolution and we look up there and say those are great patriots except we just don't know who they are we used to know who that guy was he was prince whipple black patriot who served throughout the american revolution by the way it's interesting black patriots in the american revolution on average served nine times longer than white patriots did white patriots average serving six months that was their enlistment black patriots averaged serving four and a half years they kept re-enlisting and re-enlisting and re-enlisting and they serve quite a lot of patriotism you just don't hear anything about it other black patriots back in that day part of the the battle of of tr princeton and trenton would be oliver cromwell again these were names that we knew and i can tell you the story principle up a pretty cool story uh he actually is associated with the signer of the declaration william whipple from up in rhode island so there's fun stuff there if you go to july of 1777 this may be one of my most fun stories in the american revolution i enjoy this one thoroughly at this point in the american revolution still very young in the revolution and george washington's commander chief and second of command is charles lee now charles lee has just been captured by the british so we've lost our second command and that's a big blow to the american military we need this guy back how do you get him back you need to have a prisoner exchange well that means you're going to have to get the british second in command and have a prisoner exchange second in command for second command british second command is richard prescott richard prescott is actually in the middle of rhode island he's in the middle of rhode island harbor there in newport and there's an island in the middle harbor that has a british fort surrounded by the british fleet and he's in the fort in the middle of the british troops in the middle of the british fleet how are you going to get him out of there well what happens is a a man named colonel william barton says i've got a plan and his plan essentially was what we would call the first special forces type of operation and he got the guys together and he said i've got a plan here it's a wild idea he said probably we'll all die as a result it's a suicide kind of a mission so i'm only taking volunteers who wants to volunteer for this and so 40 guys volunteered 20 blacks and 20 watts volunteered and right up front was a guy named jack sisson jack sisson actually after he volunteered he is the guy who got in the lead vote and took the lead and so as we decide that we've got to go to the island get him we know that we need to pass the island at night or go to the island night so what he did was they got all these boats together and you gotta you gotta go through the british navy so i don't know one or two in the morning somewhere in there they got these boats and they did what they called muffling the oars they took the oars of the boats and they wrapped them with cloths so there's you're rolling in the water you don't hear the splash hero real quiet and that wouldn't hopefully wouldn't wake the british up on the ship so they rode right under the ships right through the ships they got to the island there were guards on the island but they weren't expecting anything they're surrounded british ships so the americans quickly knocked out the guards on the island after they knocked out the guards now they got to find out where the generals stand and general prescott was back in a barred room with a bar on the inside of the big oak door and so they look at that and say oh my gosh to beat that door down we'll wake up everybody in the area we won't get off of here and at that point is when jack says and said got it you guys get out of my way what happened um if you've ever seen the movie princess bride it was that kind of a moment that was jack jack said got this so what jack did was he backed up down the hallway he put his head and shoulder down and ran right through the door broke the iron hinges off it got into the room when he got in the room he quickly went over to the general and just knocked him out cold with a punch picked him up put him under his arm and walked out like a sack of potatoes got back in the boat went across the it just [Music] they have their prisoner exchange and america gets a second in command back because of a bunch of commandos led by a black commando named jackson and literally that was the beginning of what we would call the kind of the special forces stuff so he's a fun story if you get into 1781 this is the final battle of the american revolution young general marquis lafayette french general who had come here and brought the french navy and french army without his help we couldn't have won standing beside him is this man right here now i often ask classes who is that black guy oh that's his slave no it's not that is not his slave that is james armistead lafayette was one of the many anti-slavery he was really strong anti-slavery and what happened is armistead and and lafayette form a friendship and as they do and they're talking together lafayette or actually armistead says i want to do something to help in in the war and lafayettes well what we really need washington george washington has tasked me to try to find intelligence on the enemy and we really haven't been good at that we don't know what the british are doing until they do it and it's too late to respond then so they give us a surprise attacks that we didn't know were coming and so james said i think i can do something with that and and armistead and lafayette says it's really dangerous well i can do it so what he does is james arma said go straggling into the british camp and says oh i'm a runaway slave i hate the americans they are so mean to me they so mistreat me and so the british said you're welcome in our place and so he starts serving very diligently serving the soldiers they're doing anything for them being like a servant and a waiter for them almost a slave for them and as that goes on one of the british generals looks at him and says man you're so good at this you should be serving more than just soldiers you should serve us officers and so the general who picked him up as a servant was a general named benedict arnold now benedict arnold if you don't know was the american general who was the traitor who became the british general now as a british general he reaches out and says james come serve me james happy to and so james comes and starts serving and he's because because benedict arnold is one of the generals he's associated with with cornwallis and they're having meetings with all the generals and here is armistead hearing all the stuff that's happening and so he's smuggling the word back at night to washington and and to lafayette and they're finding out what's happening and so suddenly the americans are able to avoid the traps the british are sending for them we know they're happening before they happen so we're not losing all the americans we lost and the british attacks on are successful well what happens is benedict arnold gets set out on a mission and so james armistead stays behind and corn wallace goes to him and said hey james would you mind just serving me because ben mcdonald's gone served me happy to serve you and so he brings james in one day and he sits him down and says james i've got a real problem he said there's a spy in our camp and james is like oh no and so cornwallis explains he says somebody is taking our information getting it to the americans and so we're not as successful as we have been they're being able to avoid our traps he says i don't know who it is i'm going to ask you to do something really hard would you become a spy for us and go back to the americans know you hate the americans but would you go back there and this biker he becomes the first double spy in american history so james armistead is the guy who feeds washington the intelligence on what corn walls is doing that allows washington and lafayette to bottle them up and so the battle of yorktown occurred because of the intelligence of james armistead who got them the information on what cornwallis is about to do and then there was also a providential intervention of god where the god changed the weather and cut cornwallis troops in half between god's intervention and james armistead he's the hero of the battle and so james armas said washington others credit him with what happened with american independence is one of the key factors and that's kind of like the beginning of military intelligence and there's so many cool guys back there that we hear nothing about today so i'm going to give you one more and then we're going to change directions here for the last half that we've got 1793 this is a newspaper from 1793 and this newspaper from 1793 has this i'm going to read it to you in case it's not large enough in the borough of eastern pennsylvania a free negro man of the name of thomas hercules was on the sixth day of july last chosen town clerk of that borough by a decided majority of votes this we mentioned is proof of the growing liberality of the present age when virtue and worth alone and not mere color or trippery of rank and splendor begin to recommend a play amanda places of trust and confidence so here's a black man elected in an overwhelmingly white town they say we love this this proves that all we care about is how good someone is we don't care about their color we don't care what kind of background they've got we care about whether they're competent to be able to handle the job now see this is 1793 and there were there were blacks elected across across the states back then now not not in the southern states and that's see what happens today is you can look at the southern states where it's very pro-slavery you can look at the northern states which are very anti-slavery and you look at the middle states which is kind of a mix between it what we do in history today is we take the southern view and make it look like all of race view and that's a bad view why don't we take the northern view and make it look like oh no that would make blacks look really good and whites look really good can't do that so we are into teaching a lot of negative stuff today and i showed you that yesterday at church if you were here so what happens is we don't hear these kind of accounts because they all came out of the north and we don't do a good job of telling northern history we want to tell southern history where it's really bad and impressive and so what you have here this what i think is significant here is what we are now learning in the last 10 years regarding race and science dna results came out just a few years ago on an extensive test done by smithsonian done by national geographic done by groups that are big into science and they did a lot of dna testing and this is what they came back with they said all races share 99.99 of the same genetic materials which means the division of race is largely subjective now it's interesting a division of race is largely subjective now what they pointed out was this is when they came out with the announcement that according to what we see on dna according to what we know in science man could not have come from anything other than previous humans man did not come from other species it came only from humans they said therefore we think there is a common human ancestor somewhere back there adam and eve we think there's a common human ancestor somewhere back there and it can't be more than a hundred thousand years ago well what happened to all this billions of years in evolution and mary species and so now dna that's why i didn't get a whole lot of coverage it got some coverage but they came out and said race is largely subjective if you don't know there's only four races in the world scientifically now there are about thirty thousand ethnicities you have the negro race you have the anglo racial uh you have the australian race and what are called the races which would be the the native americans so only four four races um that are out there but they're 30 000 some odd ethnicities so a division of race is largely subjective what they found in that study is that any two humans take take me i'm a little guy take lebron james he's a big black guy lebron james and i have more in common with our dna than do any two identical twins from the same mother in nature you take two identical twins to a giraffe mother to a hippopotamus mother anything you take any two identical twins lebron james and i have more in common with our dna than two identical twins in nature that's amazing stuff and that's what blew the scientists away as well so a division of race is largely subjective we're focused on things that really don't matter in the eyes of god that's why in acts 17 26 he said he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth hey that's what the scientists just affirmed from one man came all the the men who lived on the face of the earth and of course that one man was was adam and how many generations are we downstream from adam right now in the history of the world we're about 150 generations downstream that's what we are i was speaking at a large black church not long ago about 8 000 members i'm the only white guy in the church and i said hey if you didn't know it i'm your cousin you know 100 i may be your 150th cousin but we all came from the same parents and so if you get that perspective that we all came from the same parents that we have a single human parent then that's what the bible told us in acts 17 26 he made from one man every nation of mankind live on the face of the earth we're all related now the other thing we're told in the scriptures first samuel 16 7 the lord sees not as man sees man looks on the outward appearance god looks on the inward appearance so we look about color and we look about distinctions and we look about eye colors or hair formations or height or whatever it is god doesn't he looks only in the inside which what that tells us is the biblical view of man is that there are only two races that exist the uh not two races two groups the only two groups that exist are those that know god and those that don't know god that's the only distinction god makes he doesn't care a wit about what you look like on the outside he cares what you look like on the inside he's not looking at the outside he's looking to see do you know him do you obey him do you follow him do you take his word because everything else is superfluous it largely is subjective so this is a good lesson that comes out of that now let me go forward from that to where we are right now and see if the remaining time i've got i can take you through eight important points you need to know the modern view of racism that we have today is largely white on black that's the way we teach it in school is wide oppression of black et cetera and that's where we get all the stuff on white privilege so this is and this is basically new stuff over the last 10 to 12 years uh if you haven't had a long academic career then you weren't being taught this 20 years ago you are being taught this now so when you look back at this the relationship between blacks and whites today has much to do with the historical view of slavery the way we present history today is what justifies the way we look at things if you're only going to present southern southern view of history then you can say there was big wide oppression of blacks but that's to do that you even have to omit some southern views of history so i'm going to take you through some of that other history so there's some important things to know about slavery and i'm going to cover eight important facts that you need to know and before i do that let's just start with the simple premise does everybody agree that racism is a sin everybody agree with that okay what that means is it therefore applies to all humans you don't have white sins or black sins or red sins or any other color sins sin is a human condition so if racism is a sin it's a human problem you don't just have texas sins or california's and that's not it humans have sinned and so when you look at it from that standpoint that racism is a sin it affects all humans great examples what happened in rwanda about 10 years ago maybe 12 years ago now however long it was you had a million people killed when the two seas and the hutus went after each other it was racism we don't like your race but you're both black yeah but you're tall and we're short and you're raised if everybody in the world was black we would divide up over whether you have black with blue eyes or black with brown eyes or black with gray eyes we would find a way to divide up would find a way to divide up over the color of your hair the shape of your face that's a human problem so you find that so many things that go on in africa it's racism but it's black on black wait a minute we're told that it's white on black no it's a human problem because it's a sin problem it's a heart problem and because it is it's easy to divide into groups when we shouldn't so it affects all human beings now let me take you through some of the first things first out we're not going to say in any way shape fashion or form that slavery was a good deal it was inhumane and barbaric american slavery that's why we have pictures of stuff like this we have a lot of artifacts at wall builders to show the inhumanity of slavery just bad ideas behind it so it's barbaric it's not a good deal the treatment of other individuals you would never do the you would never be able to justify this before god he said and the way you've treated someone else the way you've treated me remember matthew 25 can't stand up with this kind of stuff at all how many times do you have to be beat on your back to have scars that tall i've got scars on me from working outside and ranching everything else i don't have any scars that are half inch tall i have to be beat how many times to have scars like that so first let's put it aside slavery inhumane barbaric bad deal no justification not going to defend slavery having said that let's move to the next points second point is that america was not a world leader in the global slave trade now it shocks a lot of people today this is a map of the global slave trade and if you look at the global slave trade the african slave trade ran from 1501 to 1875 is considered the official dates and the official dates the african slave trade there were 12.7 million africans taken out of africa as slaves they were enslaved and sent somewhere else now that heat map shows who went where and so if you look at where these slaves went 12.7 million and about 2 million died on the voyage across about 10.5 million actually made it to destination you find that 43 of all african slaves went to portugal and brazil you find the 24 percent went to great britain 15 went to spain 11 went to france 5 went to the dutch 2.5 went to the united states percent went to denmark now as it turns out the united states is one of the lesser nations for receiving slaves out of africa we had a professor tell one of the kids we do a lot of leadership training with young people 18 to 25 in college had a professor tell the kids all 12 point million of those set of those slaves went to america no not even close you see it's it's not how come nobody's talking about portugal and brazil with the slave trade but everybody's talking about america with the slave trade well let's talk about america the 300 000 slaves that came here not a good deal but to say that america is the root of all evil with race oh no not not by a long shot because again it's a human problem and many nations had much worse the more evangelical christianity you had the less of an issue you had with this and that's we'll look at that a little later as well but notice how that over here and i don't yeah my laser won't show up on the screen but notice how the lines are coming from the inside of africa not from the you've got coming off the coast of what's going on the inside of africa what's going on the inside of africa it was black tribes that would capture other black tribes and sell them to the muslims or to the spanish or to the portuguese to ship out so black tribes made money off of enslaving other black tribes we just bought a group of seven swords recently these are all slave trader swords from the inner african slave trade where the blacks were enslaving and killing other tribes and selling them to the muslims to make money on it so that's why you have all the lie how did how did all the slaves get to the coast to be shipped somewhere somebody had to get them there yeah they got there because black tribes were enslaving and killing other black tribes to make money and that's what they did was sell them muslim slave traders who sent them all over the world so that's that and and by the way those things are really old swords and i'm telling you they're still razor sharp uh one of our guys picked one up and got cut on it just when he grabbed it because he had no idea it was still so sharp so that's that's what's going on the inside there so all nations had slavery it was a global condition now did you know that the first nation in the world to ban the slave trade was america we did it in 1807. oh wow think of that 200 years ago as the first nation abandoned see we talked today like slavery has always been an abomination in the history of the world it's not america was the first to ban the slave trade in 1807 thomas jefferson signed a law and that the british quickly thereafter next fact to know is that america was the fourth nation in the world to ban slavery first nation was great britain 1833 then you had denmark and i think in france we're the fourth when did we ban slavery 1865. wow it's only been 150 years that people have been banning slavery we were one of the first to do it see america was one of the world there were 124 nations back then america was one of the world's leader in trying to end slavery we were the first in the slave trade we're the fourth to ban slavery so that doesn't fit the narrative today that america is the source of all evil and racism america was one of the world leaders in trying to change things so that's why if you look at this map right here these are the nations in the world today and where slavery is today did you know that right now while we're gathered here there are still 94 nations who are members of the u.n who have not made slavery illegal still 94 if you want to talk about slavery in the world let's talk about the nations that still have it going right now because right now there are 40 million active slaves in the world today i helped run an organization that we rescue people out of slavery and unlike other organizations we do it with guys who will go in and snatch the slaves right out from under the slave owners two of our guys have been killed rescuing slaves one of them's been shot 17 times and keeps going back to rescue slaves slavery is a huge issue today and we're focused on america with all the good things we have in america sure we got some bad things because humans are involved but you compare america today to these other nations that are going 40 million today as a matter of fact there are more slaves today than there were in the entire history of the african slave trade so we're focused on something that happened two three four hundred years ago instead of what's going on today doesn't make a whole lot of sense if you look at it logically so that's a point to understand and by the way this is the current global map the most action being taken against slavery today is the netherlands and the united states of america we're one of the top two nations in the world today in fighting slavery fighting racism you wouldn't know that the way you watch the news and see what's happening that's because so many americans have never been told this this perspective even what's happening globally the third point is jamestown now if you listen to the 1619 project from the new york times they tell us that slavery got started in america in 1619 in jamestown actually that's not what happened what happened was in 1619 you had a english ship that captured a portuguese slave ship off the coast of virginia they brought the cargo to virginia which included 19 slaves those 19 slaves weren't slaves in virginia what happened those 19 slaves were made indentured servants which meant that they served for a period of time to to pay off the what would have cost to feed them et cetera they were all given freedom and they were all given land all 19 of them became that's called an indentured servant indentured servant means i'm willing to become my own collateral on a loan you know spacex is taking is they're going to take private people to the moon except i want to go to the moon all right it's going to cost a million dollars i don't have a million dollars but i think i my my labor is worth 50 000 a year so spacex i'll work for you for 20 years if you'll take me to the moon you can have my 50 000 a year i will be an indenture servant for you for 20 years you'll get your million it's just going to be spread out that's what an indentured servant wants i want to go to the new world well it's going to cost about 10 000 and you don't have that well i'll work for you seven years and if you'll if you'll let me work for you seven years then i get my freedom i'm free an indentured servant was not a slave it was someone who put themselves up for collateral so those 19 slaves became indentured servants they were all given freedom and they were all given land by the state of virginia the fir one of the guys who had been an indentured servant a guy named anthony johnson anthony johnson was a black man uh he had become very prosperous successful he owned 250 acres and he began sponsoring other indentured servants to come and so they would come they'd work for him for seven years he'd give them freedom they would get land they would go out one of the indentured servants he had was a black man and anthony johnson said this guy is so lazy he's so incompetent he's so bad anthony johnson went to court and asked the court he said instead of giving this guy's freedom in seven years he's so terrible he's so sloppy and lazy i need to own him for the rest of his life in order to pay off what he what i've invested in him so can i own this guy for the rest of his life and the virginia court said yeah you can own him so the first occasion of legal slavery in america was actually in 1651 and it was when a black man sued to own another black man so slavery began in america when a black man asked the right to own another black man it didn't start in 1619 it started much later than that actually the first slave law in america i think was 1672 and that first slave law allowed you to own black slaves white slaves or indian slaves you could own any race because slavery was was you know at that point in time it's not about race so fourth is free blacks of slave owners now this is an interesting thing three blacks of slave owners there's a guy named carter woodson carter woodson is the father of black history we actually have an original this was a book cover carter woods and there are many books about him he's a hero of black black history he's the guy who really focused on it this was from a book cover this is one of the many books he did on black history and what carter woodson did was take the u.s census and he went back to look in the southern states at three blacks in the southern states what carter woodson found was that for example in south carolina 43 percent of free blacks in south carolina owned black slaves 43 percent that's pretty high now it's not that there were tons of free blacks in these states but they own slaves same with 40 percent in louisiana 26 in mississippi 25 percent in alabama 20 in georgia see it's a human problem it's not just a race problem it's a human problem so black on black slavery was extremely prevalent in the south and then if you move from black on black slavery look at these pictures see all the native americans who are they beside oh those look like black folk they are they're all slaves you see the 1860 u.s census reports that at the time 1860 says the top five native american tribes in america had a higher percentage of black slaves than did whites or any other group in america highest percentage of black slaves were owned by native americans and so native americans and by the way native americans one out of every eight persons that's 12 percent 12 percent of native american tribes were black slaves they also native americans also enslaved each other and by the way when we abolished slavery in 1865 it did not apply to the indian tribes because they're considered foreign nations under the constitution abolishment of slavery and indian tribes came later than 1865 we had to go back and negotiate individual treaties with tribes to end slavery and the native tribes so amer native american slavery they the highest percentage of slave owners and then you get into white slavery now white slavery we don't think much about but these are all cards of slaves that were freed when the union took the south new orleans in 1864. these are all slave cards and you see black slaves and white slaves there that's kind of what you see on the screen up here these these little cards right here and by the way i should have shown you this one earlier this is a reward banner that was posted in indian agencies looking for runaway slaves that got away from the chickasaw nation so the chickasaw nation has bounties on getting their slaves back you know again all races all people had issues with slavery so why slavery was very common at that point point number seven if i take you to muslim slave traders muslim slave traders were looking for slaves and often for them it was about religion rather than race if you're not muslim you need to be enslaved and so these guys specifically took 1.25 million slaves in the american founding era 10 000 of those slaves were americans that they took to slavery over in europe or africa elsewhere by the way did you know that in the 16th century there were more white slaves in the old world than there were black slaves in the new world white slavery was a common thing as to mention that 18 1672 law allowed you to own blacks or whites or indians because it was just human that's just we had a bad view of things uh point number eight southern whites most did not own slaves as a matter of fact eighty percent of southern whites not on slaves twenty percent dead you would think the way we talk about today a hundred percent of all southern whites on slaves that's not true and overall in the nation 92 percent of americans did not own slaves slave owners were a definite minority in any segment of america now there's no question that there were millions of slaves in the south no question about it but 80 percent of southerners didn't own slaves but we can look at the stories of the south and make it really bad and it should be really bad but again that's not the picture of all of america it's not the picture of what was going on with all of america so that's the eighth point that i would point to so if slavery is without a primary color it affects all humans all race that's eight things you need to understand about slavery from an american standpoint and if you understand that it changes the narrative of what should be going up so let me take you into some of what's going on the 1619 project black lives matter antifa etc are all focused on on as we see right now the protests everything else even the protests yesterday with folks killed yesterday so the 1619 project takes its starting point that america was founded to protect and preserve slavery that's a bad assumption from the start america was founded by puritans and by pilgrims the pilgrims for example came in 1620 the second load of slaves that came to america came to the pilgrims and the pilgrims freed all the slaves and imprisoned all the slave owners pointing to the bible as the reason they did so america was not founded to protect and protect protect and extend slavery the puritans the pilgrims all over new england those colonies davenport with rhode island and roger williams with with rhode island and what happened in connecticut i mean just it's just easy to prove so that's where they take the point which is why you get statements like u.s senator tim kaine from virginia recently said on the floor of the senate the united states didn't inherit slavery from anybody we created it how many ways can you spell stupid do you guys remember something in the bible about maybe egyptian slavery of hebrews america didn't exist 3 500 years ago we didn't create slavery we have it in the bible i mean that's that we have ancient greece 30 percent of ancient greece was slaves 40 of ancient rome was slaves at the time columbus landed in the new world between 20 and 40 percent of native americans were enslaved by other native american tribes this is before america ever existed the history of the world is slavery and and we created slavery what a terrible narrative but this is the kind of stuff that's going out today and it's all it's all about history that's why yesterday love of the truth is the biggest thing you have to love truth even if it's uncomfortable you have to love truth so slavery affects all races now the 1619 project actually has curriculum the curriculum of the 1619 project takes as a starting point that america has found to protect and preserve slavery and that the american constitutional system is the source of our society's ills foremost among them being racism so what's that tell you if you're opposed to racism what you need to do is you need to get rid of america's constitutional system see the logic here this is the way they laid out so that's why you see as i showed you in statutes it's not about racist statues because so many of those guys were civil rights leaders so many of the statues that are being torn down are of union generals and of union leaders and of abraham lincoln and there's no racism there they were the on the other side yeah but it's tearing down the constitutional system that's why we got to go to socialism instead of the free market that's why we've got to have marxism instead of of the the constitutional see it's much much bigger than what most of us recognize and it comes from curriculum like this by the way the 16 19 curriculum is being taught in all 50 states it is in schools in all 50 states if you got kids in school they are being taught most likely the 16 19 curriculum so that's what you need to understand about part of the debate that's going on um when you look at the violence that that is happening now this in kenosha it's amazing to think that that that much destruction happens it looks like a tornado or something else hit kenosha but that's what happened in kenosha i want to take you back and finish with the civil rights movement from mlk the civil rights movement okay the hundreds of thousands that marched with him the millions across america that joined him um you couldn't just sign up to be part of his movement because you wanted to be you had to sign a pledge card this is the pledge card that went to his movement i signed this pledge having seriously considered what i will do and the determination and will to persevere and you chose all the things there you put your name in but you had to sign this card now this is the bottom of the card what's on the top of the card what did you agree to sign to to be part of the civil rights movement i hereby pledge myself my personal body to the non-violent movement therefore i will keep the following ten commandments number one meditate daily on the teachings and life of jesus number two remember always that the non-violent movement in birmingham seeks justice and reconciliation not victory number three walk and talk in the manner of love for god is love for pray daily to be used by god in order that all men might be free and owned through it goes you could not be part of the civil rights movement if you didn't have a spiritual underpinning to you totally different and by the way here's the rest of the ten commandments this is civil rights movement then that's a different look from what we're seeing today whole different motivations and by the way they got different results because their objectives were different their tactics were different their knowledge was different everything was different about it so that's real different from where we are today but that's what i want to share with you this morning we're out of time
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