Diamond and Silk "Chit Chat Live" | July 23, 2018 | Guest, Dinesh D'Souza

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[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Two on fire ladies who hold comnmentary on a host of issues. Special guest tonight is Dinesh D'Souza.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

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[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Wouldn’t count on too many black Americans switching their votes to Republicans. Too many “conservatives” are rabid racists, and black America knows it.

First and foremost, this thing about “racists” is not as meaningful as some want to make it out. I mean that in the same sense that sin is not as big a problem as some think.

What! Sin not a problem?

Yes. The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

It is inherently self-righteous when people scream loud charges of “Racism!” Frankly, there has been a great deal of racism in this country, on all sides. Back before the Civil War, about four million people were treated so shabbily that they suffered from (what we now call) Stockholm Syndrome. So heavily psychologically abused that they were ill-equipped for free society. Similar to what happened to Patty Hurst. And she was not immersed in that system from birth.

The people who created that system didn’t do it all in a day, and they raised their children to sustain that system. Those children were immersed in a class consciousness which was, de facto a presumption of a title of nobility based on “condition of servitude” and race. The great problem is that such a system actually works - it convinces those being degraded and it convinces those who are doing the degrading. IOW it deludes everyone who is immersed in it. Anyone who takes for granted that they would not have succumbed to that degradation if they had been doing the degrading or if they had been thus degraded is a self-deluding cockeyed optimist. And needs to consult the writings of Professor Jordan B. Peterson, who has studied the psychological effects of being a German under the tutelage of the NAZI regime.

So, yeah - the institution of slavery in the American South produced racism, and by degrading its victims it actually made them, to some extent, their own oppressors. Not all of them, and perhaps not 100% of any of them - but enough to make the assumption of their inherent inferiority only too plausible. Thomas Jefferson was asked about that question, and I take him at his word when he says in his writings that he was aware that he didn’t really know - because he knew that his own perception was heavily biased and where he stood figured to be affected by where he sat.

Anyone who assumes that they are not racist would have to adduce proof. And spare me the conceit that “I can’t be racist because I don’t have power;” the slaves of the antebellum South did not have power and that might have worked for them, at least in logic (but certainly not in terms of convincing their masters). But modern blacks have at least as much power as modern whites do. More, if they get away with fatuous claims of immunity from the temptation to prejudge based on race which are patently false. For certainly, no white can get away with such a claim. And I haven’t even mentioned the fact that there are nations whose ideology is explicitly racist. You can’t be Japanese, for instance, unless you are “related to the Emperor.” What is that, but racism neat?

And as to the legitimacy of slavery as an institution, Thomas Sowell points out in Black Rednecks and White Liberals that although undoubtedly slavery has never been popular among slaves, the institution was an established one in every part of the world throughout history - including Christian ones - until Christendom in general, and Protestant Christians in particular (and among them, English Christians most especially) turned against the acceptance of slavery as morally legitimate. The bottom line in that regard is that the Christians of the South were uniquely situated by history to be among the last people to get the word. In any systematic way, only Christians have ever opposed slavery which was not imposed on them. IOW if you were a slave and hoped for external liberation, your realistic hope would be for the arrival of Christians with rifles. Even if (as would not be the case in this stage of history) your oppressors were themselves Christians with rifles.

Having “servants” was undoubtedly highly convenient. But in that context, modern Americans should consider that their standard of living is enhanced by technology to such an extent that if given the choice of her own amenities (availability of air travel and air conditioning and central heating, health care/life expectancy of self and family, electronics and electrical appliances, availability and quality of food and drink, automobiles, things made of plastic and aluminum and titanium, etc) and those which Queen Victoria (1819-1901) enjoyed, an American secretary today would have to think it over seriously. And that would go double for the comparison between modern amenities and those enjoyed by slave owners of the antebellum South. Modern Americans think themselves seriously inconvenienced if the electricity goes down for a few hours. How must the antebellum slaveowners, lacking modern electricity-driven amenities and being used to “servants," have felt about the prospect of abolition???