Why Is Pro-Black Anti-American?

Olivia and Raven passionately discuss how America’s founding contributed to prejudice and discrimination faced by black people in the US today, and how and why structural racism and prejudice against black people are preserved.

Discussion Summary

00:33: Pro-black is anti-American, and the Preamble and Three-Fifths Compromise in the Constitution.

05:58: The founding fathers supporting slavery, and their anti-slavery sentiments.

11:49: Lincoln’s views on slavery, worshipping the founding fathers who dehumanized and discriminated against black people, and demonizing people protesting for black lives and against police brutality.

19:01: People advocating to preserve the history of racists, not fighting for black history, and minimizing the suffering of others by glorifying the founding fathers.

24:16: The religious foundation for inequality, Christianity’s role in enslavement, and barring slaves from Christianity.

26:30: Whitewashing Christianity.

28:43: Why black people aren’t comfortable with the confederate flag and what it represents.

34:19: Foundations of the police force in the United States, and how people haven’t taken the time to examine structural racism.

41:21: Falsely equivocating black power with black domination because of what white power has been, and teaching people to fear black people.

47:50: Whether or not people care about skin color, and talking about race is only problematic when black people bring it up.

53:59: Black-American culture as an export.

56:11: Outro.

 

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Music credits:

Opening: Goestories - Noir Et Blanc Vie

Closing: First Class - DJ Williams

 

References:

What the Constitution Really Says About Race and Slavery

(1964) MALCOLM X, “THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET”

Three-fifths compromise

Confederate States of America

Here's how policing has evolved in the US

Pre-Adamites, sin, death and the human fossils