Episode Transcript
America pretty much invented slavery.
It's our original sin.
It's one more thing.
Speaker 2One more thing.
Speaker 1If anybody's in the market for a big steaming pile of horse crap, that introdution, that introduction.
Speaker 3Was one introdution.
Isn't a word introduction.
Speaker 4I was gonna say, I sent sarcasm.
Speaker 3Steaming pile of horse manure.
Speaker 4It reminds me.
I had a friend who had regularly use the expression we were always out at the bar and stuff like that, and he had this job.
Speaker 3He didn't like his boss, and he.
Speaker 4Was always talking about and what do they give me here?
Here's a shit sandwich?
Speaker 3Son, eat up?
Wow?
Speaker 1You know I'll just go ahead and grab something from the vending machine.
Speaker 4Anybody that right?
Speaker 3Right?
Speaker 1So you got John Stossel here, the great John Stossel, and and he's talking mustache before mustache was cool and mustache after it's no longer cool.
He is the og stash guy anyway.
Talking to Wilfred Riley.
I don't remember if he introduces him in any of our clips, but he wrote a great book that I owned called Lies My liberal teacher told me or progressive teacher, whatever it is.
And then Brett Pike, who you may or may not know.
He is a real guru in like traditional patriotic education and homeschooling and that sort of thing, and they kind of meld together pretty well.
Thanks to Hanson for editing some of this.
But anyway, let's just start Michael with clip number ninety.
Speaker 3We'll go from there.
Speaker 4This is John Stossel, the original sin of slavery, the original sin of slavery.
Speaker 5Today Americans are taught when it comes to slavery, America.
Speaker 3Was the worst.
Speaker 4The Atlantic slaverty from Africa to the Americas was different from any other type of slavery.
Speaker 6The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody.
Speaker 5We created it.
American slavery was worse because.
Speaker 4The slaves were reduced to property.
They were channel property.
No other system of slater did that except American slavery.
Speaker 1Well, as we're about to hear, virtually everything that you just heard is completely fictional.
Speaker 4Boy, some of them were really howlers.
Speaker 3Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely true.
Speaker 1But they're necessary to convince kids to hate their country so the neo Marxists can take it over.
Now, there are a lot of useful idiots that don't understand that's what they're doing, but they're part of it.
Speaker 3Nonetheless, roll on.
Speaker 2That's complete nonsense.
Speaker 5Wilfred Riley is a political science professor and author of Lies.
My liberal teacher told.
Speaker 2Me generational slavery like if you're the son of a slave, you're a slave.
That was extraordinarily common.
Slavery around the world was slavery.
Speaker 5Books like this Unfinished Nation.
Slaves in Africa were kept unfree only for a fixed term.
Speaker 2No is the short answer.
Most of the slaves taken by these sort of players would be either kept as slaves for their entire life, or more likely sold to the Whites and the Arabs in two years.
Speaker 3Okay, we can roll.
Speaker 5On Today, Partly thanks to the New York Times sixteen nineteen project, students are taught that America's slavery was unlike anything that existed before.
Speaker 2We're the worst society ever.
We've done things that no one else has ever done.
And sometimes there's nothing wrong with acknowledging your historical mistakes.
I mean, I'm Black, Irish, a bit Native American, at least per the family lower.
I mean, those are three people that have experienced a great deal historically.
Speaker 3Nothing wrong with acknowledging that.
But it's extremely.
Speaker 2Odd to focus only on the negatives of your society and to exaggerate those.
Speaker 4Yeah, I'd say, as I've been saying.
Speaker 3For a long time.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's for a specific purposes I've been seeing for a long time.
Speaker 3Roll on.
Speaker 5Americans are taught that slavers caught people in Africa and ship them here, but few were taught that most slaves were not shipped to the United States.
Speaker 2Between ten point seven million and twelve million slaves from Africa went to the New World.
We got a little under four hundred thousand, under four hundred thousand out of ten million.
Speaker 3The extreme focus on slavery in the United States.
Why did that happen?
Speaker 2One reason is that a lot of black people survived here.
Slavery was harsh, but it is a lot less harsh than clearing the Brazilian jungle.
Speaker 3So out of and Stossel just went with ten million.
Speaker 1But is the mister Riley put it, It was ten point seven to twelve million slaves out of we'll call it eleven million.
Just split the difference.
Out of eleven million, we got about four hundred.
Speaker 4Thousand and the rest went where South America.
Speaker 1South American and Central America to a lesser extent.
Speaker 3But yeah, wow.
Speaker 7That is not well known, and the way it's talked about, you'd think it was all here of course.
Speaker 4Every single person, Yeah yeah, or that you know, or that it has never never existed anywhere on earth before this.
It's always existed, right, It's like maybe it's.
Speaker 3His old as prostitution.
Speaker 4Uh, it's one of the oldest profession owning another human being if you're strong enough to grab them and force.
Speaker 3Them to do it.
Speaker 1But more on that to come.
But you're both absolutely right, roll on, Michael.
Speaker 5All right, But American blacks are at a disadvantage.
They have less capital, financial and educational capital.
What's the harm and pointing out how abusive white people were.
Speaker 2The harm is that pointing out how abusive white people were is not going to get Black Americans anymore capital.
Most of the problems of the modern black community don't have anything to do with historical ethnic conflict one hundred and.
Speaker 3Sixty years ago.
Speaker 5Riley says most of the problems began when welfare began.
Speaker 2Crime in the black community every time I've tried to break this out increased about eight hundred percent between say nineteen sixty three and nineteen ninety three.
Racism didn't increase between nineteen sixty and the modern era.
You're looking at the impacts of the Great Society, the welfare programs.
Speaker 5Riley argus, it's better to teach the truth that almost every society had slaved.
Speaker 1And then Brett Pike kind of accidentally sort of in these two clips that we were looking at to continues the story.
Speaker 6Why is it that public schools only teach about the Transatlantic slave trade.
They don't teach that there was slavery in the Ottoman Empire, that it lasted for six hundred years and five to ten million people were enslaved, that they not only enslaved men, but the most valuable slaves were women, because sexual slavery was not only permitted, but it was institutionalized in the Ottoman Empire.
So they would get many of their slaves from Central Europe, many of their slaves from the Balkans, and they would enslave Hungarians, Russians, Ukrainians, which is why the word slave comes from.
Speaker 1Slough as in aside, I happen to hear a different discussion about slavery in the Ottoman Empire and the Muslim world in general, and one of the real issues Islam had was when the the slave trade was abolished, led by the English and Americans among others.
Fundamentalist Islam said, slavery is absolutely normal.
In fact, it's muhammadad slaves.
This is something we do, and to back off of that is to be pushed off of Islam.
And in some of the major battles in the nineteenth century where Muslim lands were conquered, some of the people who were who had to cooperate with the West, said, all right, how do we convince people to just let the slavery thing go?
And that was the beginning of what you might call the Protestant protestantization of certain aspects of Islam, where they started to push the idea that, well, the Quran says it, but what really matters is what's in your heart, your relationship with God.
Speaker 4Also had it was just a couple of weeks ago somebody had a stat higher than I'd ever heard before, of the percentage of black slaves that were captured by other black people and sold to the United States or South Amla or what.
Speaker 3A vast, vast majority.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I was like ninety percent or something, because slavery was routine in Africa, one tribe or people enslaving the other after beating him in a war.
Speaker 4It was routine.
Speaker 7No, I'm just this is I mean, listening to this, all I'm thinking is like, how it so doesn't work with today's narrative.
Speaker 4They're also younger than us and grew up in the Bay Area, so.
Speaker 7And I'm thinking about what I was taught in school, and it's like it was not this.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Right.
Speaker 4We've been talking a lot about the book Dominion by Tom Holland lately, and he talks in there about how Julius Caesar went off to what would today be France, killed a million people and enslaved a million people as white people, enslaving white people, million people, the advanced you know, deep thinking Roman Empire.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, ancient Greeks.
Speaker 1Yeah, slavery was ubiquitous around the globe.
Speaker 3Next clip, and.
Speaker 6Why don't schools teach about the Trans Indian slave trade, which lasted for over twelve hundred years and enslaved four to ten million people, or the Trans Saharan slave trade, which lasted for over twelve hundred years and enslaved nine to seventeen million people, all of which ended are ready for it, not before, but long after the North Atlantic slave trade.
And yes, chattle slavery was practiced in all of these places.
The fact, in seventeen seventy six, the majority of countries in the world practiced chattle slavery.
And where Europe and the United States were early in abolishing slavery, it went on much longer in the Middle East, in Africa, and in places like China, Thailand and Mongolian.
Speaker 4Yeah, the icing on the cake being that China has slaves right now, right final clip.
Speaker 6If you went back to seventeen seventy six, you would find ninety to ninety five percent of the countries in the world practiced slavery, and that had been the norm for thousands of years.
And the United States of America banned slavery in seven states when the rest of the world had only banned it in seven countries.
And the reason this isn't taught is that everything in school is framed through a Marxist lens of oppressed versus oppressors.
So they intentionally teach our history out of context, which is a form of brainwashing that is designed to make dividing and conquering society easy because absent of historical context, it allows them to frame the United States of America as some uniquely evil place, when in reality, it is Britain, the United States of America, and the West that is responsible for driving the institution of slavery into extinction.
Speaker 4It's slavery obviously seems insane by modern standards that any human being could own another human being.
But I wonder throughout world history what percentage of humans were slaves, But it's fairly high.
Speaker 1Or lived in countries where it was routine to have slaves, then you're getting near one.
Speaker 4What an awful life that many, many people in world history have lived, toiling all day long for someone else's benefit.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, absolutely true, and slavery is abhorrent, But it's the perversion of the story to undermine the United States that makes me sick and makes me mad.
Full credit to John Stossel, Wilfred Riley, and Brett Pike for their absolutely great work on this.
Keep going, fellas, we hope to spread your words by by playing them here today.
Speaker 4Decent chance, especially if you live in a blue state, blue city that they're teaching the sixteen nineteen project to your kids this year.
Speaker 7Now, yeah, that's I mean, that's what's blowing my mind is you know, high school for me was about twenty years ago, and the classes obviously were slave heavy on how you know America bad?
I can only imagine how bad it is now.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's pretty much the only thing they teach in terms of American founding at this point.
Speaker 5Right.
Speaker 1Well, and remember they're supposed to work the whole critical theory thing into every class, every class time, to tear down government schools and start again.
Speaker 4Got to admit, though, it'd be damn handy to.
Speaker 3Have a slave, to have a slave I saw Dave.
Speaker 4Chappelle talking about the other day in one of his comedy specials.
Speaker 3It's true, m you me sure, I want to go down that road.
Speaker 4But the reason it existed forever is a it'd be damn handy.
Get an a robot.
Yeah, well, yeah, that's what we'll have.
That that we finally get.
It's all coming together.
It took us a while, certainly, not their freedom denied, but we've got you know the upside right now.
Speaker 1Would and this is the subject of some brilliant, brilliant science fiction through the years, would that robot obtain self awareness and desire liberty because liberty is the natural state of man from my point of view, though history would suggest otherwise.
Speaker 4We might find out, like by next June, how that works out.
Speaker 7I just watched a horror movie where an AI girlfriend robot goes on a rampage and just starts killing everybody.
Speaker 3Why what was she meant about?
Speaker 1She wouldn't say no, if you know, I'm gonna tear your arm off and be with your bloody stumping.
Speaker 7She somehow figured out that she was a robot and that everything that she believed was fake, and that she just started her made her angry, and then she teamed up with other robots.
Speaker 4It was all bad.
Speaker 1That's straight out of some great hind Line and Asimov and guys like that.
Yeah, wow, but with more, you know, buckets of blood.
Speaker 4Keep thinking about the time we talked about human footstools.
How convenient that would be in a lot of ways.
Yeah, well, I guess that's it.
