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Voddie Baucham - Darwinism Is RACIST By Default · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: Evolution. Listen to this from Paula Weston. The increase in
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  Speaker 1: spread of evolutionist doctrine has much to answer for in
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  Speaker 1: relation to the way people often treat each other. Sadly,
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  Speaker 1: people rarely recognize that the prejudices which have slowly become
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  Speaker 1: ingrained in their psyche have often been a result, directly
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  Speaker 1: or indirectly, of evolutionary thinking. We don't know how much
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  Speaker 1: we've been messed up. Listen to this from Stephen Jay
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  Speaker 1: Gould and his book, Ontogeny and Phylogeny. He's a Harvard professor, was,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. Biological arguments for racism may have been
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  Speaker 1: common before 1859. By the way, 1859 is when we
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  Speaker 1: got this earth-shattering book here, The Origin of Species by
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  Speaker 1: Charles Darwin, 1859. The Origin of Species by Means of
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  Speaker 1: Natural Selection. There is an alternate title to this book,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. Most people don't put the whole title
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  Speaker 1: of the book on the cover of the book. The
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  Speaker 1: Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The
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  Speaker 1: Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. Foundational
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  Speaker 1: book for modern racism, right here. I recommend you read it.
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  Speaker 1: And its companion, The Descent of Man. I recommend you
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  Speaker 1: read that. Because people who are basing their understanding of
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  Speaker 1: the world on Darwinian evolutionary concepts have no idea that
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  Speaker 1: at its core, Darwinian thinking is racism. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: The widely held view was that blacks evolved from strong
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  Speaker 1: but less intelligent gorillas. The Orientals evolved from the orangutans.
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  Speaker 1: And whites evolved from the most intelligent of all primates,
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  Speaker 1: the chimpanzees. That was Darwinian evolutionary thinking. We all came
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  Speaker 1: from apes. Just some of us came from more intelligent
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  Speaker 1: apes than others. Not Genesis chapter 10, the table of nations. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not that. Not all with one common ancestor. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not that. Some came from big, strong gorillas, others came
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  Speaker 1: from orangutans, and others came from the intelligent chimpanzee. Here's
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  Speaker 1: one I wish you could see. But there's a popular
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  Speaker 1: evolutionary picture, and you've seen it. You know, it starts with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this knuckle-dragging gorilla, and then he begins to
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  Speaker 1: stand more upright. And eventually, at the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: it's man walking in his fully evolved form. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know. There are six drawings.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, it's a drawing. There are six
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  Speaker 1: drawings on that evolutionary picture and that evolutionary chart, this
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  Speaker 1: Darwinian evolutionary chart. The first two drawings are very ape-like.
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  Speaker 1: The third drawing is supposed to be this kind of
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  Speaker 1: missing link, kind of maybe Lucy or one of these fossils.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth drawing is a black man. The fifth drawing
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  Speaker 1: is an Asian man. And the final drawing is an
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  Speaker 1: Anglo-Saxon man. And so the teaching of Darwinian evolution, as
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  Speaker 1: depicted in this drawing, is that as people became more evolved,
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  Speaker 1: they became less dark. So the darker you are, the
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  Speaker 1: less human you are. How many of us had that
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  Speaker 1: drawing in our science books? That drawing is often still
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  Speaker 1: in people's science books, and it impacts us. That drawing
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  Speaker 1: is incompatible with the teaching of Genesis chapter 10. According
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  Speaker 1: to Genesis chapter 10, We all have common ancestry, and
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  Speaker 1: there is but one race and one race only. According
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  Speaker 1: to Darwinian evolution, I'm darker because I'm less evolved than
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  Speaker 1: my lighter brethren. Do you think that this has not
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  Speaker 1: affected us? Listen to this, one man's journey. David's father,
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  Speaker 1: a geologist, tried to reconcile evolution with Christianity. His father
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  Speaker 1: was Methodist. by concluding that evolution was the means God
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  Speaker 1: used to create life. This background set the groundwork for
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  Speaker 1: David's later acceptance of Darwinism. As he read more and
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  Speaker 1: more on the scientific issue of race, he became torn
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  Speaker 1: between his religion and science. David was doing his research
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  Speaker 1: on Darwinism while he was attending a Church of Christ
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  Speaker 1: school in New Orleans. As a result of his study
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  Speaker 1: of evolution, David openly challenged his teachers. discussing his evolving
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  Speaker 1: ideas about the origin of humans and their implications for racism.
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  Speaker 1: When endeavoring to combine his Darwinist racist beliefs with Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: David used many of the same rationalizations used by theistic
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  Speaker 1: evolutionists to rationalize the plain statements in Genesis. David eventually
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  Speaker 1: sided with Darwinism and rejected creationism. He concluded that with
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  Speaker 1: each passing day, more evidence emerges of the dynamic, genetically born,
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  Speaker 1: physical and physiological differences between the races. So ended his
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  Speaker 1: fleeting commitment to Orthodox Christianity, even though he still peppers
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  Speaker 1: his writings with religious phrases such as, if I can
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  Speaker 1: move our people one inch toward God, my life will
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  Speaker 1: have been worthwhile. His life tells a very different story.
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  Speaker 1: In short, after his acceptance of Darwinism, David Duke unabashedly
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  Speaker 1: classified both Europeans and Asian races as higher levels of
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  Speaker 1: human evolution than the African race. Who's David Duke? You
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  Speaker 1: remember the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan? Renf Congress?
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  Speaker 1: What were his ideals based on? A rejection of Genesis 10,
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  Speaker 1: in favor of racist, Darwinian, evolutionist ideas about who we
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  Speaker 1: are as people. Do we look in Genesis 10 and
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  Speaker 1: see some of us? Or do we look in Genesis
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  Speaker 1: 10 and see all of us? What about this racist idea?
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this. A higher race subjects to itself racism.
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  Speaker 1: A lower race. A right which we see in nature
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  Speaker 1: and which can be regarded as the sole conceivable right.
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  Speaker 1: It is the sole conceivable right of a more evolved
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  Speaker 1: race to subject a less evolved race. Who said that?
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  Speaker 1: Adolf Hitler said that. That's who. That's who said that.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what he believed. But that was then. Right? Right?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on, that was Darwin in the 1850s,
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  Speaker 1: over in Europe. Come on, that was Adolf Hitler and
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  Speaker 1: the Nazi regime. Certainly, that was other individuals and other cultures,
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  Speaker 1: and not our own, really. How about here in America?
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  Speaker 1: Otabenga was an African pygmy. He was captured and brought
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  Speaker 1: to the United States in the 20th century. Not the
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  Speaker 1: 19th century, not the 18th century. Oda Benga was captured
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  Speaker 1: and brought to the United States in the 20th century.
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  Speaker 1: He eventually ended up in a zoo. Yes, in a zoo.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to the heading of one paper when he first
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  Speaker 1: premiered in the zoo. Bushman shares cage with Bronx Park Ape. Oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: did I tell you? This was New York, not Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: And this was in 1906. Listen to the statements. There
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  Speaker 1: was always a crowd before the cage, most of the
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  Speaker 1: time roaring with laughter. And from almost every corner of
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  Speaker 1: the garden could be heard the question, where's the pygmy?
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  Speaker 1: The answer was in the monkey house. That was September
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  Speaker 1: of 1906. How about this? We believe that the white
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  Speaker 1: Anglo-Saxon Germanic kindred people to be God's true literal children
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. Only this race fulfills every detail of biblical
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  Speaker 1: prophecy and world history concerning Israel and continues in these
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  Speaker 1: latter days to be heirs and possessors of the covenants, prophecies, promises,
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  Speaker 1: and blessings Yahweh God made to Israel. Where do you
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  Speaker 1: find that? Oh, the statement of faith at Ku Klux Klan.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they interpret Genesis. How about the Christian identity movement?
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  Speaker 1: We believe that the man Adam is the father of
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  Speaker 1: the white race only. How about Mormonism? We know the
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  Speaker 1: circumstances under which the posterity of Cain and later Ham
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  Speaker 1: were cursed with what we call negroid racial characteristics. Is
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  Speaker 1: it just the Mormons? How about the Jehovah's Witnesses? In
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  Speaker 1: July 1929, in their magazine, The Watchtower, you find this statement.
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  Speaker 1: The curse that Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin
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  Speaker 1: of the black race. Is it just the Darwinists? is
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  Speaker 1: it just the cultists? no it's also been prevalent in
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  Speaker 1: the church among orthodox Christians for example in 1794 a
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  Speaker 1: denomination was born the African Methodist Episcopal denomination Where was
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  Speaker 1: the African Methodist Episcopal denomination born? Out of the Methodist Church.
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  Speaker 1: Why was the AME Church born out of the Methodist
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  Speaker 1: Church in 1794? Because of racism within Methodism that did
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  Speaker 1: not allow certain races entree into their churches. So they
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  Speaker 1: formed the African Methodist Episcopal Church. How about Southern Baptists?
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  Speaker 1: Certainly not us, right? The Southern Baptist Convention was established
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  Speaker 1: in 1845. Why? Because of a dispute. What was the dispute?
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  Speaker 1: Can a man who owns slaves be commissioned as a missionary?
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  Speaker 1: So at the Triennial Convention in 1845, some Baptists from
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  Speaker 1: the South sent a man up as a candidate to
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  Speaker 1: be a missionary sent out by the convention. They rejected
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  Speaker 1: him on the grounds that he was a slaveholder. Because
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  Speaker 1: they did that, in 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention split.
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  Speaker 1: and was thereby born. There was not a public acknowledgement
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  Speaker 1: or repentance from this until the 150th anniversary of the
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  Speaker 1: SBC in 1995. According to one survey, as late as 1968,
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  Speaker 1: only 11% of Southern Baptist churches allowed non-whites to be members.
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  Speaker 1: Only 11%. Listen to this. How about the fundamentalists? What
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  Speaker 1: about them? Listen to this from John Rice, who's the
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  Speaker 1: founder of the magazine The Sword of the Lord. Socially,
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  Speaker 1: it is better for both Negroes and whites to run
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  Speaker 1: with their own kind and intermarry with their own kind.
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  Speaker 1: The mixing of races, widely differing, is almost never wise. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: if a girl would do wrong to marry a Negro boy,
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  Speaker 1: she would be wrong to keep company with him, mixing
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  Speaker 1: regularly with him in social life. Were those the only
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  Speaker 1: fundamentalists who thought that way? Well, there's one fundamentalist university
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  Speaker 1: who banned interracial dating. They lifted the ban, however, in 2000.
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  Speaker 1: In 2000, they lifted the ban. Why did this fundamentalist college, university,
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  Speaker 1: lift the ban on what they called interracial dating? By
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  Speaker 1: the way, how can you have interracial dating if you believe,
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  Speaker 1: according to Genesis 10, that there is but one race?
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  Speaker 1: You can't. So this fundamentalist school listed the ban on
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  Speaker 1: interracial dating in 2000. Why? Because George W. Bush was
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  Speaker 1: running for president and had a debate on their campus.
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  Speaker 1: The press was so upset with Mr. Bush for going
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  Speaker 1: to Bob Jones University that they raised a furor. And
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  Speaker 1: it was only then, in an effort not to hurt Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Bush's campaign, that Bob Jones University changed their stance on
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  Speaker 1: interracial dating. In 2000. Is it just on the non-dark-skinned side? No.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this. from Elijah Muhammad, one of the founders
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  Speaker 1: of the Nation of Islam, and his book, Message to
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  Speaker 1: the Black Man in America. The origin of all sin,
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  Speaker 1: the origin of murder, the origin of lying, are deceptions
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  Speaker 1: originating with the creators of evil and injustice, the white race.
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  Speaker 1: Even today, they like climbing and jumping. The monkeys are
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  Speaker 1: from them. Before their time, there were no such things
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  Speaker 1: as monkeys, apes, and slimes. So the other side comes
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  Speaker 1: back and argues, no, no, no, we're not the ones
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  Speaker 1: who were descended from the apes. In fact, the apes
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  Speaker 1: descended from you. Dueling Darwinian racism. But Genesis chapter 10
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  Speaker 1: says Noah had three sons. They were Shem, they were Ham,
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  Speaker 1: and they were Japheth. These three sons went to different
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  Speaker 1: regions of the world, and eventually all people groups come
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  Speaker 1: from those three sons. So what do we learn from
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 10? What does the Bible teach us? Number one,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible teaches us that we are one in Adam. Amen. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. There is one race, and Adam is
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  Speaker 1: the father of that race. Eve is the mother of
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  Speaker 1: that race. Secondly, the Bible teaches us in Genesis chapter
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  Speaker 1: 9 and Genesis chapter 10 that we are one in Noah.
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  Speaker 1: After the flood, there was a preservation of the human race.
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  Speaker 1: And it was through Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham,
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  Speaker 1: and Japheth. The Bible also teaches us that we are
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  Speaker 1: one in Christ. Galatians chapter 3 And verse 28, turn
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  Speaker 1: there with me if you will. And it reads, There
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  Speaker 1: is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free.
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  Speaker 1: There is neither male nor female. For you are all
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  Speaker 1: one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then
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  Speaker 1: you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise. We're
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  Speaker 1: one in Adam. We're one in Noah. We're one in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And we will be one in glory. Turn with me,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, to Revelation chapter 7. After this I looked,
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  Speaker 1: and behold, a great multitude that no one could number
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  Speaker 1: from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages,
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  Speaker 1: standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in
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  Speaker 1: white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying
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  Speaker 1: out with a loud voice, Salvation belongs to our God
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  Speaker 1: who sits on the throne and to the Lamb. So
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  Speaker 1: who's God? Our God. Which nation's God? Our God. Which
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  Speaker 1: people's God? Our God. Which tongue's God? Our God. That's
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  Speaker 1: who's God. One in Adam. One in Noah. One in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: One in glory. So what does this mean? Here's what
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  Speaker 1: I want you to understand. Make this observation and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll close with a couple of applications. We all descended
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  Speaker 1: from common ancestors. We know this from the scriptures. We
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  Speaker 1: also know this scientifically. There's one race, but there are
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  Speaker 1: many nations. Ethnic groups. What do we get that term from?
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  Speaker 1: If you're a member of this church and you've been
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  Speaker 1: through new members orientation, you know the one Greek phrase
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  Speaker 1: that everyone's required to know if you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: a member of Grace Family Baptist Church. That one Greek
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  Speaker 1: phrase is what? Pantata ethnei. Where's that from? The Great Commission.
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  Speaker 1: Go and make disciples of Pantata Ethne. Every ethnicity. Every
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  Speaker 1: people group. There is but one race. There are many
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  Speaker 1: different ethnicities. Thirdly, understand this. There is less than a
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  Speaker 1: 2% genetic difference between any two people in this room. Or,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, 0.2%. There is less than a 0.2% genetic
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  Speaker 1: difference between any two people in this room. You pick
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  Speaker 1: any two people in this room at random, and there
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  Speaker 1: is less than a 0.2% genetic difference between any two
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  Speaker 1: people in this room. Which means, fourthly, we all share
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  Speaker 1: the same genes. Amen. Amen. There used to be laws
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  Speaker 1: against intermarriage based on the fact that if people were
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  Speaker 1: to marry from differing quote-unquote races, that there would develop
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  Speaker 1: some mongrel race, that there would be some kind of
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  Speaker 1: freakish development as a result of the intermixing between those individuals.
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  Speaker 1: There is less than a 0.2% genetic difference between any
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  Speaker 1: two people in this room. And newsflash, whatever you think
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  Speaker 1: you are, you're that and a whole lot more. Amen? Finally,
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  Speaker 1: here's what's also interesting. We're all the same color. We're
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  Speaker 1: all the same color. Well, no, we're not. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: actually we are. The color in your skin and the
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  Speaker 1: color in my skin all comes from the same chemical.
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  Speaker 1: It's called melanin. There aren't different colors of melanin. There
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  Speaker 1: are just different degrees of melanin in the skin. People
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  Speaker 1: are darker or lighter because they have more or less
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  Speaker 1: melanin in their skin. That's all. It's all the same color.
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  Speaker 1: Some people just have more of that color in their skin.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what's interesting about the whole deal. If we
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  Speaker 1: had started with two individuals, Adam and Eve, who just
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  Speaker 1: completely lacked melanin and were what we call white, we
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  Speaker 1: would not have gotten all the different colors. of people.
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  Speaker 1: Or shades, shall I say, of people. Or if we
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  Speaker 1: started with two people, Adam and Eve, and they were
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  Speaker 1: individuals with as much melanin as me, and they were
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  Speaker 1: all what we call black, we would not have gotten
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  Speaker 1: all the different shades of people. However, if Adam and
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  Speaker 1: Eve were what we call middle brown, then guess what?
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  Speaker 1: From a middle brown couple, you could get every shade
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  Speaker 1: represented in this room, and only from a middle brown couple. So, newsflash,
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  Speaker 1: Javier is the closest thing to what Adam looked like
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  Speaker 1: as it relates to the melanin in his skin. I
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  Speaker 1: was talking to Javier about this earlier. I didn't just
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  Speaker 1: spring that on him, by the way. I told him
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  Speaker 1: I was going to do that. And when I told
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  Speaker 1: him I was going to do that, Javier just sort
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  Speaker 1: of smiled. And he said, you know what's interesting? In
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  Speaker 1: my country, in Venezuela, we have people, we have couples,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and the couple will both be the sort
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  Speaker 1: of same complexion like my complexion. And they'll have kids
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  Speaker 1: and some of them will be real, real, real light.
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  Speaker 1: And some of them will be real, real, real dark.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that's not new. That's what happened to Noah.
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  Speaker 1: He had some real light descendants. Some middle brown descendants
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  Speaker 1: and some dark brown descendants. They're all over the globe.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, anybody have a purebred dog? Purebreds
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  Speaker 1: don't live as long. They got more medical problems. My
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  Speaker 1: brethren who are incredibly light, they got issues. Sun just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't just, you know, they get melanomas and all this
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  Speaker 1: sort of stuff. Just not a good thing. My brethren
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  Speaker 1: who are really, really dark, we have a tendency to
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  Speaker 1: have vitamin D deficiencies. Why? Because we're blocking out more
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  Speaker 1: of the sun. So now what? If Genesis 10 teaches
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  Speaker 1: us that there is but one race, but many ethnicities,
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  Speaker 1: what are the implications for you and me and the
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  Speaker 1: way we live our lives? Number one, we need to
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  Speaker 1: celebrate our oneness in Adam, in Noah, in Christ, and
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  Speaker 1: in glory. Amen? We need to celebrate our oneness. Secondly,
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  Speaker 1: we need to recognize all racism as sin, even that
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  Speaker 1: in ourselves. All of it. Are you worried or perhaps
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  Speaker 1: disinclined about your children coming home with someone of another
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  Speaker 1: skin color when it comes to marriage? Why? Why? Because
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  Speaker 1: a fish doesn't know he's wet. That's why. We all
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  Speaker 1: struggle with that. Thirdly, stop using race as a category.
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  Speaker 1: If you believe Genesis 10, if you believe Genesis 1,
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  Speaker 1: why would we ever use race as a category? This race,
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  Speaker 1: that race, the other race. For those of you who
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  Speaker 1: know me, I have just a few pet peeves. Not
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but we've all got a few pet peeves.
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  Speaker 1: One of my pet peeves is I despise being called African-American.
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  Speaker 1: I hate being called African-American. I get angry at being
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  Speaker 1: called African-American. Did I say I despise being called African-American?
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's a racist term. Why do I have
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  Speaker 1: to be hyphenated at all? Amen, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we hyphenating and dividing ourselves in the first place?
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  Speaker 1: But I'm an African-American. Okay, that's fine. Let's examine this
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  Speaker 1: to see if it's an appropriate term. I'm African-American. Great.
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  Speaker 1: If someone is from Egypt, do we call them an African-American? No. Well,
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  Speaker 1: then the term's not appropriate. Egypt is in Africa. Libya
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  Speaker 1: is in Africa. So if we're going to call someone
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  Speaker 1: an African-American because their skin looks like mine, why wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: we call an Egyptian with lighter skin who is actually
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Arabic in his ethnicity an African-American? Why? Because African-American doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean what we like to say it means. It's a
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  Speaker 1: racist term. Well, okay, fine. Then we won't use African-American. Well, yeah,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we will. We'll use African-American because we're still talking about
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: people from Africa. Okay, that's fine. But we already established
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: that the Egyptian is from Africa as well. Well, we'll
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: use Asian-American. Is that appropriate? Well, let's examine it. Asian American.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: When we use Asian American, we usually talk about people
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  Speaker 1: who are from Korea or Japan or from, you know, China.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what else is Asia, India and Pakistan? Do
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: we call Indians and Pakistanis Asian Americans? No, we don't. Why?
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Because the term is inappropriate. We don't mean what we say.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Someone from Russia who's from the southern part of Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Are they a European American or are they an Asian American?
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  Speaker 1: By the way, someone from the Middle East, what are they?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Middle Eastern American? Well, no, they're Arab American. No, not necessarily,
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  Speaker 1: because people from Iran are not Arabs. They're Persians. The
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: terms don't work. That's why I despise the terms. What
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: do we call someone from Venezuela? Venezuela. A South American American?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: That would make someone from Mexico a North American American.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see how ridiculous this terminology is? The terminology
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  Speaker 1: is born out of our racist preconditioning. Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: I'm what C.S. Lewis calls Son of Adam. Amen? I
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: love that term. That Chronicles of Narnia term. Sons of Adam.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I am. I'm a son of Adam. That's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: what you are. Sons and daughters of Adam.