Posted on 04/19/2023 7:58:27 AM PDT by CFW
In this new video, former BLM activist Xaviaer DuRousseau – who marched in the George Floyd protests and preached the importance of being a “woke ally” – describes how he stumbled onto PragerU videos. He set out with a grand plan to create a series debunking them, but instead, he “accidentally red-pilled” himself and transformed from a lost, angry young man into a calm and confident voice for the conservative movement.
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The video is only ten minutes long.
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Great video. Thanks for sharing. That young man is a treasure for all of us.
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He seems like a very intelligent, open minded young man which is why he made the switch over. The rest on the BLM movement are not even close to carrying this kids jock strap. They are hateful, resentful and despicable. BUT...maybe he can make a difference for others. One can only hope!!!!!
Too bad they don’t use these in K-12 public schools.
Saw this guy on Tim Pool the other day. It is hard for people like this as they experience a lot of friends and family turning on them, imagine it is quite brutal
A great courageous guy who has seen the truth.
Absolutely excellent. I love Dennis Prager & always listen to his ‘fireside chat’ videos. No wonder the left is doing everything they can to take him out & block PragerU.
BLM.....Billionaires Little Mercenaries, was created specifically to radicalize the iPhone, Facebook, TikTok generation..... Who weren’t alive when Blacks and Whites were making an effort to get along with each other and break down racial barriers, back when racism was still prevalent.
The original civil rights movement was like the original Star Wars movie. And BLM is like the 30th awful Star Wars sequel... complete with heavily promoted merchandising.
And the truth shall set you free.
Using that Socratic Method, that professor walked Sowell into an intellectual corner of Sowell's own making.
He didn't preach to him about where his beliefs led. He didn't tell him what was in that corner. He simply let Sowell's own mind take him, of its own accord, into that intellectual corner.
Dr. Sowell even has a name for that process of actively asking "What happens next?": it is called "Stage Two Thinking". (Stage One Thinking is what puts people into those corners.)
Thomas Sowell didn't change from a Marxist into a Capitalist overnight. But he was too smart to not recognize the inescapable corner that something like Marxism led people into, and over a period of time, came to recognize capitalism as a far more potent force for good than Marxism could ever dream of being.
This young man in the video went through that same kind of transition. He didn't just go unthinkingly into that intellectual corner. As time passed, he began to ask himself the kinds of questions the Left doesn't want black people to ask, and most certainly, not young black men.
I applaud and admire this man.
It is one thing for me as a white male to understand and accept that the narrative pushed by BLM, that, as Colin Flaherty accurately summarized, "Black people are relentless victims of relentless white violence, often at the end of a badge -- for No Reason What So Ever." is complete hogwash.
This man in the Prager video was able to take a clear view, and understood the actual percentage of black men shot by the police for no reason at all is vanishingly small, and that there were a lot of lies built off of that single lie.
That is no mean feat. As Upton Sinclair famously said: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
This man's whole identity as a black man, pushed on him by relentless leftists and racists who claim to be concerned with his welfare, his "salary" so to speak, his membership in that "club", depended on him not understanding that.
He understood it, and rejected the false premise, even when his whole "identity" and social framework depended on him not rejecting it. Most people, regardless of their color, cannot do that.
Another great life story is that of David Horowitz.
He was raised in a Communist New York City family—and believed every word of it for years:
https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Son-Generational-David-Horowitz/dp/0684840057
He knows every dirty leftist trick out there—and knows all of their weaknesses.
Well said!
It’s what happens
Yes! He was another I was thinking of as I wrote that post. I have read “Radical Son” several times, and was thinking of reading it again.
He was red-pilled by the murder of a woman in the Black Panther organization for which he was providing legal services for.
That opened his eyes, and he was too smart of a guy, that once his eyes were opened even a little, that he could ever go back.
When I talk to people from other parts of the world, such as the wife of my former boss who came over from Cuba in 1961, I listen to what these people say. They know. They understand, they understand more fully than most of us will ever be capable of, just what evil exists out there, mostly Leftist evil. They lived under it. They experienced it.
My boss’s wife, whenever Castro was mentioned, would nearly spit on the ground every time.
So when people like that talk, I listen.
It is why I admire David Horowitz. He KNOWS the Left. He knows what they want, what they think.
Just like this young man. He understands the lie that is BLM. And he understands it for the vicious poison it is.
Thank you-I really admire people like him, because it is far easier to accept a lie that comports with your station in life and explains it, rather than rejecting it and seeing your path to freedom clearly.
Great video! I hope he can convince more black people that the BLM movement is a fraud.
I do feel for young black men in this country...in that they grow up surrounded by people pumping them full of lies, also often without a father around to teach otherwise.
It’s a bad combination.
This process also applies if you think through ‘transitioning’. Ok, so you think you’re ‘trans’, what then? You take puberty blockers. What then? You take hormones. What then? You have surgery. What then? You want the life of a woman now. What then? Who will date you? Almost nobody. What then? You gave up on having a family, you’re sterile. What then? Now you’re 50, alone, no kids, probably no partner. What then?
The whole ‘trans’ thing is growing YoY. What happens to the birth rate? It goes down. What then? A declining population? What then? How do you pay for Social Security? What then? Women no longer win anything in sports. Women lose college scholarships to men. What then?
....on and on...the left never thinks anything through. They’re only about their feelings in the moment - but they’re willing to screw everything up for everyone anyway, in the name of ‘compassion’. It drives me nuts.
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