Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - July 17, 2020


Ep 276 ｜ Unpacking the Wayfair Rumors & Nick Cannon's Racism


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

175.96832

Word Count

9,068

Sentence Count

569

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

51


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. These weeks have been going by super fast
00:00:16.820 for whatever reason. I don't know if you guys feel like that. Maybe it's just because there's
00:00:20.340 so much going on in the news. It feels like I can't even keep up. There's so much to talk
00:00:24.740 about every week that it goes by so quickly. But for some of you, it kind of might be dragging
00:00:29.400 on because your state is still locked down and you're wondering when we're ever going
00:00:34.420 to exit this dystopia. I don't know. But for me, the weeks have been going by so fast.
00:00:39.540 I can't believe we're already on Friday. Today, we are going to talk about a few news stories.
00:00:44.420 We're going to talk about Wayfair. We're going to talk about Nick Cannon and anti-Semitism
00:00:49.300 and anti-white racism and if that's even possible. And then we're probably going to talk about
00:00:54.960 a couple other news stories if I have time for it. And then we are going to end with good news.
00:01:02.300 We're going to end with comforting affirmation from the Word of God. I know a lot of you have
00:01:08.900 told me that you're just stressed out and kind of over the news and talking about all the conflicts
00:01:14.980 that are going on, which of course I completely understand. At the same time, there are a lot of
00:01:19.060 you who are always asking me to keep you up to date on the most contentious issues. And so I'm going to
00:01:23.380 try to balance that. Monday, you guys have requested that I do a most misused and I will do that for you.
00:01:30.280 I haven't decided which verse I'm going to use. If I haven't done Jeremiah 29 11 yet, I'll probably do
00:01:36.800 that. But if there's another verse or like a group of verses that you guys see going around today that
00:01:42.660 is kind of decontextualized, taken out of context, just let me know and I'll try to cover that. I've done
00:01:48.940 a few before. Judge not lest you be judged. God is within her. She cannot fail. Let's see. There are
00:01:55.100 a few more that I've done. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. So you can go
00:01:58.740 back and listen to those most misused episodes where we dive into the context and see what these
00:02:04.760 verses actually mean. So we'll be taking a break from the news then, but today we've got to get into
00:02:10.380 some of this crazy stuff that has been happening. So let's talk about Wayfair. If you haven't heard
00:02:16.800 what happened with Wayfair, I will let you know. So Wayfair is a furniture website. It has everything.
00:02:25.020 It's kind of like, it's kind of like Zappos is, I guess, for clothes. Wayfair is like that for
00:02:30.480 furniture. It's been accused of trafficking children through their website. So more accurately, they have
00:02:37.140 been accused of completing the financial aspect of these kinds of trafficking transactions through
00:02:42.300 their site. The theory goes like this, that there are certain products on Wayfair's website,
00:02:48.400 including storage products. This was the big one that was going around on Twitter as a front for
00:02:53.100 selling children for sex. There were storage cabinets and pillows and cabinets for tens of
00:02:58.200 thousands of dollars online and attached to some of these products appeared to be names that
00:03:04.280 corresponded with missing children in different parts of the country. And then the SKU numbers,
00:03:09.980 when entered into this Russian search engine, came up as a disturbing pictures of little girls.
00:03:17.280 And then people discovered similar overpriced products on Amazon. So that's a summary of what
00:03:23.420 happened. This was going on on social media saying that Wayfair and Amazon are really just front
00:03:28.880 organizations or front groups, at least part of these, part of these companies for trafficking
00:03:35.660 children. This started on Twitter really at the beginning of June, but then it moved to a subreddit
00:03:42.500 r slash conspiracy, and then it spilled over into all of social media. Now, this is in a lot of ways
00:03:49.760 connected to what those who follow Q, QAnon believe and talk about online that the world is being run
00:03:57.060 by this elite cabal made up of billionaires and celebrities that are not only causing a lot of the
00:04:03.380 political chaos that we see, but also pushing, for example, the LGBTQ agenda and most famously
00:04:08.600 are in charge of child sex, the child sex trafficking industry. That is what a lot of people who follow
00:04:15.080 Q believe and really everything they talk about kind of centers on that idea. Now, some of the people
00:04:20.700 talking about Wayfair have no idea that this is kind of in some ways connected to Q or it's at least
00:04:26.840 become connected to Q. Not everyone who is talking about this is connected to Q, but there's a large
00:04:32.060 portion of the internet that is both connected to Q and this conversation or this story about Wayfair.
00:04:40.300 The people who have been swept up into these accusations of running a pedophile ring is what
00:04:48.900 they call it, or people like Tom Hanks, Hillary Clinton, Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres. It's also connected
00:04:54.240 to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal loosely. The bulk of all of this kind of started with Pizzagate when a bunch
00:05:00.440 of emails surfaced from John Podesta. He was a consultant to Obama and Hillary Clinton and Bill
00:05:06.680 Clinton and those in his circle. There was an accusation that people who were connected to him
00:05:13.860 were running a pedophile ring through a pizza place in D.C. called Comet Ping Pong. So it's all loosely
00:05:21.820 connected, not necessarily all directly influencing one another, but it's all kind of loosely connected.
00:05:28.140 The documentary, Out of Shadows, talked about some of this, and I did a whole episode on Out of
00:05:33.240 Shadows and what I think about that and the whole QAnon thing. So you can go back and listen to it
00:05:38.860 if you want more of my thoughts on that. As far as Wayfair goes specifically, though, if you listen to
00:05:45.020 people like, for example, Jocko Booyens, who has been in the fight against sex trafficking for a long
00:05:50.740 time, really knows the ins and outs of the industry, he will say what I also personally
00:05:57.140 believe, that there's just not enough evidence to prove that this is happening. Now, some of this
00:06:04.300 stuff is super sketchy and weird. Wayfair's statement saying that none of it is true didn't
00:06:09.980 explain why some products were overpriced. They said that the storage cabinets were accurately priced
00:06:16.540 because they're industrial grade, but they didn't talk about the pillows and the baby items that were
00:06:21.540 priced as thousands of dollars. Same thing with Amazon. We don't know why some of these products
00:06:26.760 were so overpriced. There have also been alleged former employees of Wayfair who say, yeah, I could
00:06:33.260 see some of this happening here, some of the sketchy things that went on when I worked there.
00:06:37.820 But some of the things that people are citing as evidence, I'm just not sure. Like people,
00:06:43.400 for example, are pointing to these pillows that are priced as $8,000 on Amazon. And there are a lot
00:06:51.980 of weird reviews on these pillows that people who are accusing Amazon of trafficking children are saying
00:06:59.600 are proof of the fact that these pillows are really just a front for the trafficking transaction.
00:07:06.600 But if you go and you look at some of these reviews, they're just funny. They're just making fun of
00:07:11.560 the fact that this pillow is so overpriced. They're saying things like, oh, I bought this for my
00:07:16.120 my third yacht after I sold my private jet and I slept like an angel all night. Like they're just
00:07:23.280 kind of ridiculous and funny reviews. I don't see how that is any kind of evidence that this is
00:07:29.740 happening via Amazon. I'm just not buying that. As for the names that are associated with the Wayfair
00:07:35.700 products, the names that happen to correspond to missing children throughout the United States,
00:07:40.360 it's probably just a coincidence. WUSA9.com ran a good piece on this. And here's what it says about
00:07:48.140 this part of the story. For example, people linked a missing girl named Samara Duplessis to a $10,000
00:07:53.760 Wayfair pillow with Duplessis in the name. But the family reported that she was back home in May.
00:08:00.200 Additionally, a search for Duplessis on the website will bring back a number of different items.
00:08:04.500 All of the other items that the search yields are considerably less expensive.
00:08:08.140 People also pointed out that one of the expensive cabinets from the original post is named Samaya.
00:08:13.760 That is also the name of a teenager reported missing from Columbus, Ohio. However, Samaya said that those
00:08:19.580 claims are false in a video she posted to her Facebook account. A search for Samaya on Ohio's
00:08:25.040 missing person database yields no results. Other examples include a direct coffee table that people
00:08:30.600 linked to the case of Mary Durett. However, she went missing in 2017 and was found safe later the same
00:08:36.780 month. Multiple items people have linked to missing children cases have been on Wayfair's store since
00:08:42.120 before those children went missing. They are among many products sharing such a name. In the video
00:08:47.880 above in this article, Verify reporter Jason Puckett demonstrates how almost any name can be searched
00:08:55.060 on Wayfair and linked to a random missing person report to make a sinister looking but ultimately
00:09:02.340 false accusation. Now, as far as the SKU numbers yielding results in a Russian search engine that
00:09:09.960 the pictures that come up are young children, the pictures of these children don't actually correspond
00:09:16.460 with the names on the product that apparently allegedly correspond with a recently missing child.
00:09:21.680 So you do get pictures disturbingly of random young girls, but they're not the girls whose name
00:09:27.440 is on the product and were reported as missing. It's when you apparently search SRC USA, which is
00:09:34.360 allegedly a code used by pedophiles. Some of these people who are talking about this story are saying
00:09:40.200 followed by these SKU numbers from Wayfair that these pictures come up. But according to the same
00:09:46.100 article that I was just reading, if you put any series of numbers along with SRC USA into this Russian
00:09:51.780 search engine, apparently, you get pictures of children, not just SKU numbers from Wayfair. So what does that
00:09:58.380 mean? I don't know. But I think it's enough to tell us that the whole search engine SKU number thing is not
00:10:05.240 enough to indict Wayfair or Amazon. Now, all this to say, is anything possible when it comes to child sex
00:10:15.540 trafficking? Sure. Anything is is possible. Child sex trafficking is not only real, it's extremely
00:10:21.480 widespread. It's a multi billion dollar industry that is propped up by widespread demand of child
00:10:29.480 pornography and child prostitution and predominantly disproportionately in the United States. Every day
00:10:36.120 children are being trafficked. They're being kidnapped. They're being sold, raped and abused. That is
00:10:41.200 something that happens. That is not a conspiracy theory. Are there people in power who are a part
00:10:49.820 of this and who are propping this and probably aiding and abetting this stuff? I'm confident there
00:10:55.540 are. This kind of thing doesn't keep going. Is it this lucrative without people in power throughout the
00:11:02.160 world who are helping? The evil that exists in this universe, we know as Christians, knows no bounds.
00:11:08.800 And the primary victims of this evil are always going to be the vulnerable. They're especially
00:11:14.600 going to be children who just can't defend themselves. I mean, we see that, for example,
00:11:18.600 via abortion. You have people who are willing to stick a needle full of poison into the beating heart
00:11:24.860 of a living, moving baby in the womb so that they go into cardiac arrest and die and then dismember
00:11:33.380 that child with forceps. If we are willing as a society to not just allow that, but to celebrate
00:11:40.300 that in the name of women's empowerment, then of course you can believe that there are people,
00:11:47.080 unfortunately millions and millions of people, powerful people, rich people, who are not only
00:11:52.500 allowing sex trafficking to happen, but are also a part of it. Our Rescue is an organization that works
00:12:00.680 to free children from sex trafficking. They have stories of the victims on their pages, and it's
00:12:05.180 just tragic. I encourage you to check that out. It will open your eyes. It will break your heart to
00:12:10.520 just some of the devastating evil that is going on. Another example of this attacking of the vulnerable
00:12:19.500 is happening in major cities throughout the United States, not just through sex trafficking, but also
00:12:24.920 through abuse and also through murder. This is especially happening in New York City, where Mayor Bill
00:12:31.400 de Blasio, who I have said many times, world's worst mayor, right next to Chicago and Seattle mayors,
00:12:37.860 shifted $1 billion away from the NYPD, shrunk the police force, and disbanded the anti-crime unit.
00:12:46.560 We're going to talk a little bit more about the effects of that and how that is disproportionately
00:12:51.120 and unfortunately affecting children in just one second. Okay, now shifting back to unfortunately
00:12:59.080 these vulnerable communities being disproportionately affected by bad policymaking, which helps lead to
00:13:05.460 violence. Violent crime, according to the New York Post, is the highest that it has been in New York
00:13:11.240 City in 30 years. In 30 years, while simultaneously Bill de Blasio is shrinking the police force, he said
00:13:18.600 this, we are reducing the size of our police force by not having the next recruit class. We are reducing
00:13:24.440 our overtime levels. We're shifting functions away from police to civilian agencies. You know who is
00:13:31.440 going to be hurt by this for the millionth time? It's not going to be the rich people. It's not going
00:13:37.260 to be the powerful people. It's not going to be Bill de Blasio, who has his own taxpayer-funded
00:13:41.620 security. It's not going to be any of the elites in New York who are pushing for the disbanding and
00:13:49.560 the defunding of the police. It's going to be people in poor communities. It's going to be women.
00:13:55.540 It's going to be children. And the gun laws are so strict in New York City that they're not even going
00:14:00.820 to be able to defend themselves. The only people who are going to be able to get guns and who can get
00:14:04.900 guns in New York City are the criminals. A one-year-old baby was sleeping in a stroller
00:14:09.760 over the weekend at a cookout with his family. And someone drove by, stuck a gun out of the window,
00:14:18.120 shot him in the stomach, and murdered him. Here is the father, and I believe the grandmother of that
00:14:25.060 little boy. He took my son's life. I can't get that back. I can't hold him no more. I can't hear him
00:14:32.660 calling me daddy no more. I can't kiss him no more. I can't play with him no more. I can't do nothing
00:14:37.460 with him no more. Like, I got to put my son in the ground now. And he's only one. His birthday
00:14:45.240 two months. In two months, he didn't live the C2. Like, he didn't live life. And it's like, I wanted
00:14:52.820 to get him out this violence before something like this happened. I mean, that should just break your
00:14:57.920 heart. That is so similar to what the mother and the father of the eight-year-old little girl who was
00:15:03.520 shot and killed at a Black Lives Matter protest outside of the Wendy's at which Rayshard Brooks
00:15:09.200 was shot by a police officer in Atlanta. That is exactly what they said as well. You're saying that
00:15:15.980 Black Lives Matter. What about this black eight-year-old little girl that you just shot and
00:15:20.020 killed? What about this little black one-year-old little boy? When are we going to realize, when are
00:15:27.600 we going to wake up to the fact that the problems that are disproportionately affecting the Black
00:15:34.660 community are not going to be helped by disbanding or defunding or demonizing the police? Like, this is
00:15:44.140 what always happens. This happened after Ferguson, too. Local officials kowtow to the people who say that
00:15:50.380 the police are all bad, that they need to be held back, they need to be minimized. And now it's,
00:15:55.780 like I said, they need to be defunded altogether. And while anti-police rhetoric and attitude
00:16:01.500 are at a high, that is when criminals come in. That's when they take advantage of the situation
00:16:08.040 when police are under the spotlight and they know that every move they make is going to be scrutinized
00:16:14.380 and they don't want to make the next headline. They don't want to be the next reason for the protest.
00:16:20.000 That is when criminals swoop in and they devastate communities. They become more brazen. They know
00:16:26.460 that they are less likely to be caught doing what they want to do, the criminal activity that they
00:16:32.320 desire to engage in. And so they move even more swiftly and even more brazenly. And the people that
00:16:40.420 are affected are those that cannot defend themselves, namely poor women and children. That's just what
00:16:46.360 happens. That's what's happening right now. That's why more people are being murdered
00:16:50.060 in these big cities than we have seen in decades. That and the fact that the lockdowns have people
00:16:56.600 cooped up, drugged up, unfortunately in a lot of cases, and purposeless, which is always trouble,
00:17:03.540 especially for young men. That's just true. AOC said in an interview recently that crime is up
00:17:09.880 because people are hungry and are stealing a loaf of bread to feed their family. Girl, this is not
00:17:16.040 Les Mis. That is not what's going on here. There is a link. There is a link between poverty and crime.
00:17:21.840 That is for sure. You can look at every bit of data and you absolutely see a link between poverty and
00:17:26.960 crime. But shoplifting theft isn't what is up in New York. It is a murder that is up in New York right now
00:17:34.000 by 130%. That's not just a little uptick. That is a large jump from last year to this year. And so
00:17:43.280 you're not going to be able to say that this is simply because of an economic, just because of an
00:17:50.740 economic downturn. People aren't going out and shoplifting bread. The numbers just don't show
00:17:56.220 that. The stabbings are up. The shootings are up. The murder is up. The assault is up. The child abuse
00:18:01.640 is up. People aren't just doing that because they're hungry. And we are talking about one of
00:18:07.020 the wealthiest cities in the world with enough resources, literally, for every single person
00:18:12.620 who lives there. That's not to say there aren't people struggling, that there aren't people in
00:18:16.080 poverty. There absolutely are. But people aren't going out and stealing bread out of the window of
00:18:22.980 a bakery because they're hungry. There are so many organizations and so many resources for people
00:18:28.280 in New York City. We're not talking about a third world country here. People are committing crimes
00:18:33.380 because, essentially, ultimately, they want to commit crimes. People are killing babies because
00:18:38.900 they can, because evil exists. The leftist worldview, in a lot of ways, refuses to ascribe responsibility
00:18:46.180 or to expect decency from those that they have decided are a part of the irrevocably oppressed
00:18:53.640 class. That is just not a biblical worldview, by the way. And thank goodness for that. Thank goodness
00:18:58.780 that we can look at the evil in the world and we can know and trust in the fact that God is a God of
00:19:03.860 justice, that he is going to hold every single murderer accountable, no matter what they look like,
00:19:08.760 no matter what their background is, that his wrath is not going to go unquenched. Like, isn't that our hope?
00:19:16.140 Don't we want? Don't we want that? Don't we want justice? Don't we want to serve a God who is
00:19:21.740 impartial in his execution of justice? We do. If Black lives matter, and they do, what about these
00:19:29.020 Black lives? Like, how many times do we have to talk about this? How many times do we have to say
00:19:33.820 that the vast majority, the vast, vast majority of Black people, of Black young people in this country
00:19:41.040 are murdered by other Black people and the police are the only ones in a lot of these cases who are
00:19:46.860 mitigating the carnage in these inner cities? Before, how many times do we have to say that? Before,
00:19:51.880 the leftist activists wake up and realize that that is the problem in a lot of these communities. I'm
00:19:57.540 not saying that we shouldn't talk about police reform. Like, I'm not saying we shouldn't talk
00:20:01.280 about when police do overstep their bounds, when they do use their force to bully people, to hurt
00:20:06.900 people, and even to kill people unjustly. We should talk about that. Like, I think we should hold police
00:20:11.680 accountable. I think we do all want more transparency. We do want to make sure that police are treating
00:20:16.840 people equally across the board. Absolutely. But let's not kid ourselves here. Let's not
00:20:22.920 ignore when babies, when young men, when young women, when children are being slaughtered in
00:20:29.040 the streets of these inner cities, not by the police, but by each other. Like, are we just
00:20:33.960 going to ignore that and keep saying that Black lives matter? Black lives don't matter to you
00:20:38.400 if Black lives only matter sometimes. So I think that we just need to be clear about that and we
00:20:43.700 need to be fair about that. And just to be fair, both sides have selective outrage on this. That's
00:20:50.520 absolutely true. That there are people on the right who will not even look into a case in which
00:20:56.880 a Black person was possibly unfairly abused by the police. And there are a bunch of people on the left
00:21:04.120 who won't even talk about the violence in inner cities, the crime that is being committed in these
00:21:10.980 inner cities disproportionately against Black people. So there certainly is some partisan selective
00:21:16.960 outrage. And my encouragement to all of us, and I am trying to make sure that this is true of me,
00:21:24.340 that we care about injustice of all kinds, that all people, no matter who they killed them,
00:21:29.480 are made in the image of God. And therefore, they are valuable. It doesn't matter what race their
00:21:34.580 murderer is. But if we want to talk about something that is systemic, something that is pervasive,
00:21:40.800 something that is even seemingly institutional, like we need to talk about this violence in the
00:21:47.220 inner cities, and we don't need to even entertain this lunacy of disbanding the police, when very often
00:21:54.440 that is the only line of defense that poor women and children have in these communities. Okay, moving on.
00:22:02.340 Let us talk about another form of craziness and injustice that apparently we're not really
00:22:09.160 allowed to talk about. And that is Nick Cannon spewing what we're, I don't even know how else
00:22:15.740 to say it or how else to describe it, anti-white views and anti-Semitic views. So if you didn't hear
00:22:21.440 about this, I'm going to give you a little bit of a rundown. He has a show, a podcast on ViacomCBS.
00:22:26.780 On the show, he argued, there's this clip going around, and it's long, so I won't play the whole thing.
00:22:32.380 He argued that white people are actually, quote, closer to animals than other races. Our lack of
00:22:38.060 melanin is a defect. He said that a melanin equals compassion. And so the more melanated you are,
00:22:44.900 according to his logic, the more compassionate you are. And white people don't have any choice,
00:22:50.120 according to Nick Cannon, but to be evil. I'm not going to lie. I burst out laughing when I watched
00:22:57.680 this clip. It's like two and a half minutes of a very superstitious person with their tinfoil hat on
00:23:06.760 trying to articulate a theory that they just read about in the dark holes of the internet,
00:23:11.540 but they're trying to pass as academic or some intellectual revelation. I mean, there's no other
00:23:18.260 word for this except for racism. It's ridiculous, but it is racism. Critical theorists can try to change
00:23:24.000 the words all they want to, to try to say that black people, for example, can't be racist, that
00:23:29.200 only white people can be racist because racism, they say, is prejudice plus power, and only white
00:23:35.080 people have power. But that's absurd. That's absurd for any logically thinking, for any clear thinking
00:23:40.560 person. Racism is a form of hate. It's a specific form of hate. Hate for someone because of their skin
00:23:46.040 color or a feeling of superiority to someone because of your skin color. And we know from the Bible that
00:23:52.020 God doesn't have some nuanced critical theory definition of what constitutes as hate. If you
00:23:57.000 hate someone in your heart, Jesus says that you are a murderer. You can't love God and hate your
00:24:01.600 brother, 1 John tells us. You can be poor and hateful. You can be rich and hateful. You can be white and
00:24:07.260 hateful. You can be black and hateful. God is not going to judge you by how many oppression points or
00:24:13.180 privilege points you are assigned to your identity group by Marxists. Like, that's not how it's going to
00:24:17.540 work. And this is why, this is part of why Marxism is such a terrible worldview, by the way. It holds
00:24:22.960 the so-called oppressed groups by a lower standard of morality than everyone else. And the result is
00:24:28.900 not only bad for other groups, all the other groups, it's bad for the oppressed groups too,
00:24:33.740 because it traps them in cycles of justified, seemingly justified, bitterness and resentment
00:24:39.820 and victimhood. And that's not to say that certain groups have not been oppressed and that there
00:24:45.760 aren't people in those groups who are still oppressed today. It is absolutely true that
00:24:50.620 black people have felt the brunt of the most severe racism for the longest amount of time in the United
00:24:55.860 States. No one is arguing against that. I'm not all, I'm not at all also trying to paint white people
00:25:01.560 as the historic victims here. I have no interest in that at all. I just don't even want to play that
00:25:06.180 game. It is simply to say that excusing the kind of hatred that Nick Cannon articulated about white
00:25:12.160 people just based on the color of his skin is what we call the soft bigotry of low expectations,
00:25:19.180 specifically when it comes to moral standards. Nick Cannon, according to this thinking, can't be
00:25:24.340 expected to be loving and understanding and see people equally and have a view of all people as
00:25:29.640 equally valuable because he is part, the logic goes, of an oppressed group. That's the kind of stuff,
00:25:35.740 guys, that rots people's hearts and souls. And therefore, it rots whole societies if everyone thinks that way.
00:25:41.700 So Nick Cannon expressed racism against white people. And I actually think that this attitude
00:25:48.400 is not only pretty prevalent, but also pretty acceptable, even somewhat in the evangelical
00:25:55.780 church. I talked about this on Wednesday with Dr. Shinvi. Whiteness, we're told, is something that we
00:26:02.000 need to divest of or to repent of, something to let go of and deny. Blackness is something that we are
00:26:11.200 told should be fully manifested and celebrated because whiteness has been synonymized by critical
00:26:17.700 theorists with bigotry and oppression. But that insistence upon always correlating the two is
00:26:27.260 racism. Negative generalizations based on race is racism. There was this infographic, and we're going
00:26:33.860 to loop back to Nick Cannon in just a second, but there was this infographic going around from the
00:26:40.600 National Museum of African American History talking about whiteness and what whiteness is. The aspects
00:26:47.820 and assumptions, we'll put it up on the screen, but the aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white
00:26:52.760 culture in the United States. So I'm just going to list you some of the things that the National Museum
00:26:59.800 of African American History and Culture says are exclusive and unique to whiteness. And they're
00:27:05.500 not saying that these are good things. This is just white culture. Individualism, the individual is
00:27:11.240 the primary unit. Self-reliance, independence, autonomy, emphasis on the scientific method, so
00:27:18.140 objective, rational, linear thinking. Family structure, nuclear family, husband is the breadwinner,
00:27:26.040 children should have own rooms and be independent. Let's see. They say Protestant work ethic, hard
00:27:33.860 work is the key to success. That's a part of white culture, according to them. Religion, Christianity
00:27:39.240 is the norm. White people, apparently we respect authority, heavy value on ownership of goods and space
00:27:50.260 and property. Another aspect of whiteness, this museum says, is to plan for the future.
00:27:56.040 Delayed gratification and the belief that tomorrow will be better. Holidays are based on Christian
00:28:03.760 religions, okay? Justice is based on English common law. Protect property and entitlement. Intent
00:28:10.500 counts, according to this group. That's what white people think. We believe in competition. We
00:28:20.120 believe that we must always, quote, do something about a situation. We believe in decision making.
00:28:26.620 So that is part, apparently, of white culture. Now, if you didn't know any better, if I didn't tell you,
00:28:33.980 maybe I should have done this. If I didn't tell you who this was from, you might think that this was from
00:28:39.080 a white supremacist organization, talking about the inherent really superiority of white people.
00:28:47.840 Are you trying to say that people who aren't white, aren't individualists, like don't care about the
00:28:52.900 nuclear family, aren't hardworking, don't show up on time, aren't organized, aren't planning for the
00:28:58.800 future, aren't people who want to fix problems, aren't people who believe in the so-called Protestant
00:29:04.780 work ethic, don't believe that Christianity is the norm? Like, have you ever met a Black person?
00:29:09.760 Most Black people that I know are very strong Christians. Like, they believe in a lot of these
00:29:15.740 things that the National Museum of African-American history and culture are saying are exclusive to
00:29:22.020 whiteness. And we know, according to the Bible, that some of these things are just objectively what
00:29:26.860 people of all ethnicities are supposed to strive to. Like, hard work is not a white characteristic.
00:29:31.760 That is a characteristic that we are all to strive toward. Like, we are all to work excellently as for
00:29:39.360 the Lord and not for man. We are all supposed to believe in objective truth. The scientific method?
00:29:46.080 I mean, are you talking about just the idea that objective truth exists and that there is actually
00:29:52.180 a way to try to get to objective truth in the universe? That's apparently a white thing. So are you
00:29:57.040 saying that people who are not white are just completely emotional and relative and subjectivist?
00:30:03.200 It's crazy. So this is their attempt. So by saying that whiteness in general equals oppression, it
00:30:09.300 equals bigotry, it equals slavery, it equals white supremacy. Whiteness in general is just a bad thing
00:30:15.560 that always oppresses other people who are not white. And then saying that whiteness is individualism,
00:30:22.860 it's showing up on time for work, liking your job, being a hard worker, caring about the nuclear
00:30:29.740 family. They are saying that we need to get rid of that, which I think is a veiled attempt to try to
00:30:35.440 say that capitalism and really just American individualism and even how the constitution was
00:30:40.740 set up on this idea of the individual being endowed with certain inalienable rights. I think it is
00:30:46.520 their slightly veiled, thinly veiled attempt at saying that we need to divest our country of
00:30:54.120 whiteness. Therefore, we need to divest our country of all of these things that they are arbitrarily
00:30:59.060 associating with whiteness in order to make an argument and to make a case for their cultural
00:31:05.200 revolution to try to undo the American way of life by synonymizing it with this evil whiteness and
00:31:12.640 bigotry, if that makes sense. I mean, this is racist. Like, in an attempt to try to say why
00:31:18.180 white people are bad, they inherently are saying that people who aren't white are inferior. And that
00:31:24.260 is, again, the craziness of the critical theory worldview, the craziness of the Marxist worldview is
00:31:30.360 that it's so incoherent and inconsistent and is condescending and patronizing while trying to
00:31:36.520 elevate the so-called oppressed. It is condescending and patronizing towards them. That is certainly true
00:31:41.580 of the book, for example, White Fragility. John McWhorter, who was a professor and he is an expert
00:31:48.240 in linguistics, he has written a lot of good stuff and is a very interesting and nuanced thinker. But
00:31:53.340 he wrote a piece in The Atlantic about the condescension of the book, of the book White
00:31:59.280 Fragility, that I highly encourage you to read. I'll include it in the description. But it's just so
00:32:04.640 true in an attempt to say that everything that is American or everything that is capitalistic or
00:32:09.600 everything that has to do with hard work is white. You are saying that people who are not white are
00:32:14.540 what? Lazy and poor? I mean, that's, again, that sounds like a white supremacist argument to me.
00:32:21.680 Anyway, back to Nick Cannon also being a racist. So Nick Cannon says all this stuff on his show.
00:32:29.500 He is not at all worried about being counseled for it because honestly, it's not a problematic view
00:32:35.180 to talk badly about white people. It's not a problematic view to the cultural powers that be
00:32:39.360 to talk about white people being evil or savages or closer to animals. And that's not why he got,
00:32:46.740 why his show got pulled from Viacom. It was because he was also anti-Semitic in the things that
00:32:53.280 he said. He touted these anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds, about the Zionist
00:33:00.860 Jews that are running the world. And he said that we black people are the real Hebrews.
00:33:05.940 He quoted Robert Griffin, whom he calls Professor Griff, who spreads these kinds of ideas. In 1999,
00:33:11.660 Griffin told the Washington Times that Jews are responsible for, quote, the majority of wickedness
00:33:16.260 that goes on across the globe. Nick Cannon also quotes positively Louis Farrakhan, whom you all know,
00:33:22.400 he routinely calls Jews, satanic termites, wicked. The black Hebrew Israelites are a black
00:33:29.280 supremacist group who believed this stuff. They believe that they are the real Israel. They are
00:33:34.020 the real chosen people. They are the real Hebrews and that the Jewish people of today are just
00:33:38.540 imposters and are satanic and evil. It's a wild conspiracy theory. There's no truth to it whatsoever.
00:33:45.220 Unfortunately, it has infected how a lot of people in the black community think. So anti-Semitism is this
00:33:52.180 very odd thing that seems to exist in every group. They're professing Christians who buy into this
00:33:59.640 nonsense. I've seen it on social media. It's very sometimes thinly veiled, but they believe that Jews
00:34:05.000 are running and ruining the world. There's replacement theology that is also a form of anti-Semitism to say
00:34:11.800 that we have replaced, Christians have replaced Jews as Israel, and that is actually not theologically
00:34:19.880 correct. There are people in the alt-right who certainly believe this, and the left is a huge
00:34:25.200 problem in general with anti-Semitism, especially in the UK. There is anti-Semitism among Muslims.
00:34:31.100 There are white anti-Semites, and yes, there are black anti-Semites. This is a thing. We see it over
00:34:37.300 and over again, but we're told we're not really allowed to talk about it very much because the stupid
00:34:42.080 rules of intersectionality and critical theories say that we can only talk about white people to meet in a
00:34:47.060 minority, but we've seen it. We saw it even in the Crown Heights riots in 1991. We see it in the
00:34:51.920 violence from the black community in that area toward their neighboring Jews today. We've seen it
00:34:56.260 in Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. We see it in the sentiments of James Cone, the father
00:35:01.220 of black liberation theology, who was a big fan of Karl Marx, who, even though he was an ethnic Jew, he
00:35:06.620 called Jews cheap hucksters who had to be radically changed or subdued in order to defeat capitalism.
00:35:13.500 That's what Karl Marx believed. He wrote this whole thing called on the Jewish question.
00:35:18.600 It's terribly anti-Semitic. Deshaun Jackson, wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles,
00:35:23.960 posted this on his Instagram. White Jews will blackmail America. They will extort America.
00:35:29.660 Their plan for world domination won't work if the Negroes know who they are. That's what Deshaun
00:35:34.260 Jackson posted. It went on to say, his post, Negroes are the real children of Israel. He attributed the
00:35:41.160 quote, to Hitler. That wasn't a correct attribution. So it wasn't actually Hitler who said it, but he
00:35:47.300 thought it was Hitler who said it. He said it was Hitler who said it. And he praised Hitler, agreed with
00:35:52.440 Hitler for saying that. We're talking about Hitler. We're talking about the guy who slaughtered six
00:35:57.660 million Jews in the Holocaust through torture and starvation in gas chambers. Deshaun Jackson agreed
00:36:03.960 with him publicly on Instagram. And what happened to him? Well, the Eagles said, we're giving him a
00:36:09.920 stern talking to, and he has to visit the Holocaust Museum via Zoom. And look, I'm glad that he's doing
00:36:15.340 that. And I hope he learned something. I believe in redemption and grace and forgiveness. And I pray
00:36:20.020 that God uses that to open his eyes and to change his heart and to realize that he was wrong in his
00:36:25.100 ways. I don't believe in cancellation of people and just disregarding people for the rest of their
00:36:30.160 lives because of a mistake that they made, no matter how offensive it is. But the standards just
00:36:37.100 don't seem to be the same for different kinds of racism for different kinds of players.
00:36:41.640 Former NBA player Stephen Jackson came to Deshaun Jackson's defense and said that he is,
00:36:46.360 quote, speaking truth about the Jews. Ice Cube has tweeted a series of tweets blaming the Jews
00:36:52.020 for the chaos in the world and the oppression of black people. Lots of people came to Nick Cannon's
00:36:56.800 defense. NBA player Dwayne Wade tweeted in support of him, although he did say later that he wasn't
00:37:02.860 supporting what Nick said, just him in general, which, OK, well, we'll take his word on that.
00:37:07.920 So Viacom dropped him for the anti-Semitic stuff, not the anti-white stuff, but the anti-Semitic
00:37:13.800 stuff. And Nick Cannon said this, I am deeply saddened in a moment so close to reconciliation
00:37:18.240 that the powers that be misused an important moment for us all to grow closer together
00:37:23.180 and learn more about one another. Instead, that moment was stolen and hijacked to make an example
00:37:28.260 of an outspoken black man. What are you talking about, Nick Cannon? What are you talking about?
00:37:34.320 We weren't even we were not close to reconciliation because of your comment. You literally said that
00:37:38.580 white people are subhuman and that Jewish people are ruining the world. And you're saying that that
00:37:43.360 was a moment that we were close to reconciliation? He says, as for Viacom, who is now on the wrong side
00:37:50.320 of history, he says, I will continue to pray for you. I don't blame any individual. I blame the oppressive
00:37:58.180 and racist infrastructure. Systemic racism is what this world was built on. Man, victimhood is a heck
00:38:07.820 of a drug. So he's blaming systemic racism because he was fired or his show was dropped for being
00:38:16.200 anti-Semitic. This is the unfortunate consequence of making victimhood an identity. You can't let go
00:38:23.260 of it, even when you are clearly in the wrong, because society has said there are different
00:38:27.880 moral standards for some groups. It is impossible for the people who have believed their whole lives
00:38:37.420 that it is not up to them to take responsibility. This is true of every kind of person, of every
00:38:42.900 background, of every ethnicity who has donned victimhood as an identity. Anyone is susceptible
00:38:48.860 to this. The problem is you can't grow that way. And society is filled with people with competing
00:38:54.220 grievances. And we just can't get along if we keep headed in that direction. And again, that is not to
00:39:00.120 say there aren't people who really have been oppressed or groups who haven't really been
00:39:04.900 oppressed. And I'm not saying that talking about racism or saying that you have been a victim of racism
00:39:09.360 makes you a victim. I am talking about when you are someone who, like Nick Cannon, has made a lot of
00:39:15.760 himself, has worked really hard and been really successful. When you are in the wrong, when you
00:39:19.960 are discriminating against other people and you get punished for that, you don't get to claim victimhood
00:39:25.540 in that case. That doesn't mean that he's never been a victim of anything. That doesn't mean that we
00:39:29.420 can't talk about victimhood where it really exists. But this is a clear case of victimhood becoming
00:39:35.180 an identity to the point to where he is not even able to take responsibility for his own racism and
00:39:41.660 the things that he did wrong. Now, I really don't care whether or not Nick Cannon stays at Viacom.
00:39:47.940 Like, I believe in Nick Cannon's right to be as offensive as he wants to be to say whatever he
00:39:54.740 wants to say about white people, no matter how ridiculous, no matter how racist Viacom wants to
00:39:59.480 drop him for being anti-Semitic. That is their business. I'm not going to be the person that demands
00:40:04.800 Nick Cannon's life is ruined. All his partnerships terminated. I don't care. I feel the same way
00:40:10.680 about Deshaun Jackson. I feel the same way about Sarah Zhang, that journalist who works at the New
00:40:15.960 York Times. It came out when she was first hired that she said several years ago, all of these
00:40:21.100 terrible, terrible things about white people. Of course, I don't like hatred. I don't like prejudice
00:40:26.840 against anyone. I don't think it's good. And I'd rather them not say it. However, do I think that they
00:40:32.040 should be threatened? Do I think that they should be canceled by the rage mob for these things?
00:40:36.840 No, that doesn't make things better, in my opinion. And the hiring standards of the New
00:40:41.300 York Times clearly allow for that kind of rhetoric. So that's up to them. Same with the Eagles. Same
00:40:45.920 with Viacom. They can set the rules for their people. Every organization has expectations, has
00:40:50.760 always had expectations for what their employees can and can't say and can and can't do. I do think
00:40:56.100 that the standards should be the same across the board. That's where this trouble starts to come
00:41:01.860 in. If we believe in justice as we say we do, if we believe in fairness and equality, then we have
00:41:08.480 to treat people equally, no matter what their skin color is. Like, who would have thought that that is
00:41:14.240 a scandalous, a radical thing to say in 2020? No preferential treatment for certain skin colors,
00:41:20.460 for certain skin tones, white or black, same standards of morality, same standards of decency,
00:41:25.800 same respect given, same respect expected. I'm talking not just individually, but also in
00:41:31.920 organizations, in politics. Partiality towards anyone, towards someone who is rich, towards someone
00:41:38.980 who is poor, towards someone who is black, towards someone who is white, according to the Bible, for the
00:41:43.000 Christian is a sin. Leviticus 19.15, you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great.
00:41:50.460 But in righteousness, you shall judge your neighbor. Deuteronomy 16.19, you shall not pervert
00:41:56.280 justice. You shall not show partiality. God sees showing partiality to the poor or to the great,
00:42:02.700 to one person or the other, no matter their station in life, as an injustice. 2 Chronicles 19.7,
00:42:09.720 Now then, let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice
00:42:14.900 with the Lord our God or partiality or taking bribes. So God is impartial. Proverbs 28.21,
00:42:23.160 to show partiality is not good. 1 Timothy 5.21, in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the
00:42:28.880 elect angels, I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
00:42:34.720 James 2.9, but if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as
00:42:40.020 transgressors. Like I said, God himself shows no partiality, but is completely impartial,
00:42:45.160 just, and righteous in all his judgments. Acts 10.34. So Peter opened his mouth and said,
00:42:51.280 truly, I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation, anyone who fears him and does
00:42:56.920 what is right is acceptable to him. Romans 2.11, for God shows no partiality. That is good news.
00:43:03.000 Like that's good news that that is what God calls us to. That's what God calls define. That's what he
00:43:09.300 defines as justice, impartiality, and that is who he is. Like, aren't we glad that God is not a Marxist?
00:43:17.060 Like, aren't we so glad that God is not calculating our guiltiness based on our group identity? How
00:43:23.220 hopeless would that be? God made ethnicities and they are good. God made different skin tones and they
00:43:28.760 are good. God allowed for different cultures and they are good. These things shouldn't be
00:43:32.840 ignored. But when it comes to how he judges humanity, ultimately, ultimately, there are two
00:43:38.740 categories, dead in sin and alive in Christ. He doesn't show partiality towards anyone based on
00:43:45.600 their background. There are two ultimate, ultimate eternal categories. People of all backgrounds who
00:43:52.400 are without Christ are dead in their sin, as Ephesians 2 tells us, and people of all backgrounds who are in
00:43:57.920 Christ are alive. There are not different levels of being dead. There are not gradations to being
00:44:04.820 dead. If you are dead in your sin, as Ephesians 2 says, you are dead in your sin. You are without
00:44:10.100 Christ. You are a stinking corpse. You are an enemy of God. You have no hope. But everyone who believes in
00:44:15.620 Christ, who sets their hope on the finished work that Jesus accomplished for them on the cross, people of
00:44:19.960 all socioeconomic backgrounds, socioeconomic classes, criminal records and ethnicities, you are alive in
00:44:27.600 Christ. You are a friend of God. You are a son or daughter of God. You are a co-heir with Christ. You
00:44:31.800 are a co-labor with Christ. You are in God's kingdom. Your name is written in the book of life and you will
00:44:36.640 spend forever with him. Those are the two categories that matter the most. These are ultimately the two
00:44:44.320 categories that divide humanity, not white and black, not American and Chinese, not Republican and
00:44:50.200 Democrat, enemies of God and friends of God. And the difference between an enemy of God and a friend
00:44:55.160 of God is Jesus Christ. Believe in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. By his grace, repent from
00:45:01.360 your former way of life, follow him, and you are now reconciled to a perfect holy God forever and ever.
00:45:07.420 And that means that you and I, no matter what you look like, no matter where you're from,
00:45:12.060 are my brother or sister in Christ. And that connection that we have as siblings in Christ
00:45:18.220 is stronger than any connection that I have with a fellow conservative or with a fellow American who
00:45:24.180 does not know Christ. You and I as Christians have been reconciled to God and that reconciles us
00:45:30.580 to one another. The early church dealt with a lot of divisions. The epistles emphasize over and over
00:45:37.420 again, the importance of unity. The letters condemned partiality, arrogance, needless controversies. One
00:45:44.360 of the divisions discussed was the division between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians. The Jews
00:45:49.920 were used to certain customs in a lot of places. Gentiles weren't, or they were all used to certain
00:45:55.880 customs, but this became a big problem in certain places. Gentiles weren't used to those customs.
00:46:02.140 There were even some Jews in the early church insisting that Gentiles follow their Jewish rules,
00:46:07.940 even though they didn't have to. And there was apparently some tension between the two groups.
00:46:12.080 Understandably, Romans 1.16 says salvation came first to the Jew and then also to the Greek. And so
00:46:17.620 there was some division between the two groups. But Ephesians 2 completely obliterates that division,
00:46:23.400 which would have been a huge division at the time. Ephesians 2, 12 through 22. This is what the gospel does
00:46:30.000 to two groups that are far apart, two groups that have even probably oppressed one another at different
00:46:35.780 times. This is what Ephesians 2, 12 through 22 says. Remember that you were at that time separated
00:46:42.340 from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. He's talking to Gentiles here, alienated from
00:46:48.040 the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in
00:46:53.180 the world. But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of
00:46:58.480 Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the
00:47:05.340 dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances that he
00:47:11.000 might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace and might reconcile us both
00:47:17.320 to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you
00:47:24.520 who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him, we both have access in one spirit
00:47:29.800 to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
00:47:35.180 saints and members of the household of God built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets,
00:47:39.980 Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone in whom the whole structure being joined together grows
00:47:45.120 into a holy temple in the Lord. In him, you also are being built together into a dwelling place
00:47:51.240 for God by the Spirit. So the early Christians, they knew division. They were used to that. Like,
00:47:58.280 they were used to coming together with different groups of different backgrounds, having nothing in
00:48:03.100 common except for their faith in Christ. And this passage, as well as several passages in the New
00:48:08.400 Testament, is saying that that is enough. Like, that is what brings us together. Now, of course,
00:48:14.680 there are commands that come with that. There is treatment of people that is built on that gospel
00:48:21.920 reconciliation, both us to God and to one another. So I'm not saying that we just preach the gospel and
00:48:28.640 then we go on living how we want to live. But this is the driving force behind how we love people.
00:48:35.220 Partiality towards people, whether they're black, whether they're white, whether they're rich,
00:48:39.540 whether they're poor, is not loving our brother and sister in Christ. It's not loving our neighbor.
00:48:44.000 It is not justice. And we should hold everyone to the same standard of decency, the same standard
00:48:50.640 of respect. But specifically, when it comes to our brothers and sisters in Christ, we are unified
00:48:56.700 by the blood of Christ. The hostility, the bitterness, the wrath, the anger, the malice—this is what
00:49:04.200 Ephesians 4 talks about—is to be put away because that is how non-Christians act. That kind of division
00:49:09.960 is true of the outside world. It should be—it should not be true in the church. And so the Bible
00:49:15.860 actually commands us to have no partiality, to see everyone equally. And it is through our love for
00:49:22.980 one another, our brothers and sisters in Christ who look differently than us, who the world thinks
00:49:29.420 should be divided and should not like each other and have resentment against one another. It is our love
00:49:35.060 for our brothers and sisters in Christ that is a testimony to the rest of the world, to the Nick
00:49:39.200 Canons of the world who believe that there always has to be some kind of racial hierarchy. And again,
00:49:45.320 of course, we're white Christians or we're white people, the ones pushing that hierarchy throughout
00:49:50.460 American history. Absolutely. But now is our opportunity as a church to show the world what
00:49:56.060 unity really looks like that is impossible without the truth that is articulated in Ephesians 2,
00:50:01.460 which is no partiality, which is that we are either dead in sin or alive in Christ. And we are not more
00:50:08.180 guilty based on our skin color. We are not more holy based on our skin color. But the gospel is the
00:50:12.920 great equalizer that we were dead in sin only through the grace and the power of God where we
00:50:17.620 made alive in Him. And it is because of that that we rejoice. It is because of that that we love our
00:50:22.940 brothers and our sisters in Christ. And we even love the outside world all equally. And so we just
00:50:28.960 reject this nonsense. Christians have to reject this nonsense that one group based on their group
00:50:35.920 identity is guilty and one group based on their group identity is innocent and that we constantly
00:50:41.100 have to play this game of cosmic justice to even out the scales. We believe in equality, equal dignity.
00:50:46.880 We believe all people are made in the image of God. And we believe justice is impartial and we hold
00:50:51.760 everyone to the same standards. We do not buy into this redefinition of words that say some people
00:50:56.540 are not held to the same moral standard as everyone else based on what some Marxist says
00:51:01.720 about their group identity. We reject that craziness and we go to the Word of God for our objective
00:51:05.960 truth and our objective definitions of what justice is and what love should look like and how we should
00:51:11.000 treat other people. Okay, that's all I have today. Monday, we'll take a break from all this craziness and
00:51:15.300 we will just do a most miss you. So we will just be talking Bible for 30 or 40 straight minutes and
00:51:22.500 we will just ignore some of the chaos that is waging outside of our window. Okay,
00:51:29.320 I hope that you guys have a great weekend and I will see you back here on Monday.