A Very Brief History and Manifestations of Institutional Racism in America with Dr
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A Very Brief History and Manifestations of Institutional Racism in America with Dr. David Canton – Audio Transcript David Canton: In there people that believe that you know different have different interpretations so Frederick Douglass wrote this famous quote from his 1845. David Canton: autobiography he says this what I what I have said, respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slave holding religion of this land. David Canton: And, with no possible reference to Christianity proper for between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ. David Canton: I recognize the widest possible difference so wide that to receive the one as good pure and holy is up necessity to reject the other is bad corrupt and wicked. David Canton: To be the friend of the friend of the one is, of necessity, to be the enemy of the other I love the pure peaceable and impartial Christianity of Christ. David Canton: I therefore hate the corrupt slave holding women whipping cradle plundering partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. David Canton: Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one for calling the religion of this land Christianity, I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers the boldness of all frauds and the grossest of all libels. David Canton: So, in other words slaveholders saying that Christianity, the Christianity of this land that justified race based slavery. David Canton: genesis 925 the cursor ham that's made up you see serve the master forever all that's made up that's Christianity of this land and that document that Bible was the source, there was no question that source now first question that source black folks and slave folks there was a problem. 1 David Canton: But now we're going to shift to the world of science and secular secularism okay So here we go the a historical African here's the map of the world called a Peters projection map which is. David Canton: drawn to size, if we look at cut catastrophe mapmaking when it comes out of Europe, you had Europe at the Center of the world. David Canton: We look at the size of the African continent three north of the United States can fit in the continent, it gives you a different perspective. David Canton: When you're coming out of Europe, you see your Center as the Center of the world, all that matters you see so let's look at Jefferson notes, when the State of Virginia. David Canton: He claims that slaves require less sleep, of course, he would he had 200 slaves, they could work all day he made that up human beings need sleep. David Canton: You see, that it's made up next in general, their existence appears to participate more sensation than reflection Now this is key reflection is reason, which is the Greek word logos. David Canton: Right that's what makes human beings, where we are, however, according to Europeans only they have reason in logos. David Canton: You see Africans a sense what they feel the whim, they can't plan that can organize that takes reason. David Canton: Reason is human so racism ascribes human endeavors to particular races like superheroes doesn't make sense. David Canton: All humans have reason, all humans are emotion all humans have the capability to do whatever they want to do, but these are how systems are constructed. David Canton: You see, this is Thomas Jefferson he's a smart guy so some guy can't read okay to justify slavery, civilian and sleep they can't love they. 2 David Canton: can do they can't do this, you don't feel bad when you beat them all day you keep it moving. David Canton: that's how this works, the ministers in on it, the education institutions everybody's in on it, so no one's like a tj, this is a problem, no it's not they don't need any sleep. David Canton: Next, we have hey go what we properly understand of Africa is the on historical undeveloped spirit still involved in the conditions of me and nature. David Canton: that's like john locke's, in other words there's this nature of human beings right that Africans are still at that base level. David Canton: On historic, let me should not human underdeveloped spirit the spirit of freedom goes through northern Europe. David Canton: Africans have been involved he's making this up because why this slavery going on 1833 it's a billion dollar industry. David Canton: You have to make it up you can't say well listen it's the African we're all equal we're human beings, I need you to work for free forever, you have to make it up. David Canton: that's what they do and they hide behind big words and the universities in on it no it's made up this what we're talking about the historical and then he removes Egypt out of Africa, Egypt right there. David Canton: The Egyptians, you see the day we're not the ones who built the pyramids, because they came from Arabia, right here after. David Canton: invade 641 common era that's when it becomes Islamic speaking this law they didn't build those pyramids. 3 David Canton: You see, so you gotta understand history, and the reason why I took it out of Africa is why because of the pyramids if they can't build civilizations, how do you build pyramids, and you can you're not a human being, it doesn't add up, so we make stuff up. David Canton: I remember school they had the maps with the Middle East that's all made up the Middle East is not a continent with the middle West with the middle North it's made up. David Canton: This is why history is not kindness history, you see next we have more than the gypsies were not negros what's he talking about he's building off of that. David Canton: Egypt is a matrilineal African civilization right fluence by new beans all but we can't say it, because the racism. David Canton: The Greeks are rotten as they would look up late go down there all the time, this was a construct in Europe to take each other out of Africa to justify slavery. David Canton: Now the flip side the white abolitionists said when they want to kick free blacks back to Africa, they made the argument, the Africans built the pyramids. David Canton: You see it's all it's how this thing works folks so again Jefferson hagen morton now we're getting to what's called scientific racism. David Canton: You see, so university professors doctors in fact there's a doctor named Dr Samuel cartwright out of Louisiana. David Canton: He had his melted mental illness called trapped Romania slaves ran away, that was a mental illness, are you serious that's what we're talking about made up. David Canton: made up, so if you went to the medical meetings they listen to the car right you're an idiot that doesn't make sense, you they look at us being crazy. 4 David Canton: that's how knowledge works it gets reinforced in the system, if you want to move up get rewards get benefits you're going to embrace that system. David Canton: If you chose that system you'll be ostracized and marginalized and that's how systems function. David Canton: But it doesn't stop there folks so you got the scientific side it's like the vice grip of racism. David Canton: The eggheads the harvest the gals the records they're doing their thing and then there are conferences and the journals like the bow review on how to. David Canton: tame slaves, they got their journals they got their research grants going out of the way to prove black inferiority that's your tenure job that's your tenure folio back then. David Canton: i'm going to prove you black folks inferior but i'm doing it objectively with science we don't need the Bible, no more. David Canton: However, these messages trickle down to the masses of people working 18,000 hours a day, many are functionally illiterate, I don't have time to read journals I don't know what the journal is i'm barely getting through common school. David Canton: However, I still believe black folks on ferrier I can't articulate it like a regular 800 page book, but what I do know they're inferior. David Canton: So yeah you get into vice grip on American races popular culture not getting hit on that side. David Canton: So i'm getting from the universities boom Samuel morton and many others now i'm getting it from what popular culture that reaches the white masses. David Canton: they're not going to college and I finished in high school your eyes person in brooklyn you're not going to know college, but you're gonna embrace that racism within an hour. 5 David Canton: you're not going to question it I think black people equal you don't think that way So where does this come from let's look at TD rice right here. David Canton: This is TD rice okay he's known the black face his his character, Jim crow right he saw a slave doing a dance he cultural appropriates the dance paints themselves blackface this becomes the foundation of American popular culture on the backs of black people.