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Our Original Sin · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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