Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 436 ｜ Saving America Means Saving the Family ｜ Guest： Ken Blackwell

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Today I am talking to Mr. Ken Blackwell of the Family

00:00:15.540 Research Council. He is also an author of several books. And this is a very encouraging conversation.

00:00:21.460 You are going to leave with a love for America and a hope that things can get better. And that's

00:00:28.480 just something that we really need right now. We're going to talk about racial harmony,

00:00:32.540 the enemies to racial harmony, and just American unity in general, and what we can do just as

00:00:40.800 average people to make the world around us better and to make sure that we are moving in a good

00:00:46.800 direction in the United States. It's a good reminder that you don't have to be an influencer to have

00:00:51.880 influence by you raising your family with the values that God has given us in His Word,

00:00:59.580 with the values of hard work and responsibility, that we can make the world around us better.

00:01:05.900 And that's all that we're called to do. We can't change the world as just one person,

00:01:09.340 but we can influence the spheres that God has placed us in. And so I'm very excited for you

00:01:15.420 to hear his insight and to get encouragement and edification from him as well. So without further

00:01:23.480 ado, here is Mr. Ken Blackwell. Mr. Blackwell, thank you so much for joining me. I think most

00:01:35.200 people listening or watching already know, but just in case, can you tell everyone who you are and what

00:01:39.640 you do? I'm Ken Blackwell. I am a fellow at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., and I

00:01:48.980 serve on the board of several conservative, constitutionally-centered organizations.

00:01:59.160 And you wrote something recently. We talk a lot on this podcast about critical race theory. You have

00:02:06.000 also talked about critical race theory and how it undermines racial harmony. Can you expound on that

00:02:13.340 a little more? I know for people on the left, that's a surprising statement. Well, critical race 0.85

00:02:18.940 theory, as it has been advanced, sets up a hierarchy of racial types. It, under the guise of attacking racism,

00:02:28.800 racism actually deepens the institutional racism that might exist in the world. Look, those proponents of

00:02:39.660 critical race theory believe that America was locked into a moment of history. Their model is the 1619

00:02:50.080 model. And they believe that as a consequence of being frozen in that moment, America is irrevocably

00:02:57.420 racist and must be reconstructed, torn down and fundamentally reconstructed. Well, there are those of us who

00:03:06.440 understand history as a process that America was not frozen in the 1619 modality. We, in fact, had a 1776

00:03:17.760 birth as a nation. And while there are moments in our history since 1776 where there have been racial

00:03:30.640 challenges, what we have is a universally accepted principle that government, no form of government,

00:03:42.280 is the grantor of our human rights. Our human rights are a gift of God inherent in our human

00:03:48.260 dignity. And governments can only actually recognize and protect those fundamental human rights.

00:03:58.180 And so critical race theory basically says that there is this cabal of racial geniuses who, in fact,

00:04:06.080 can unfreeze us from a moment that they claim that we are frozen in 1619 and do their critical

00:04:13.100 manipulations can change us into the perfect utopian society. And that is just pure, that is just pure

00:04:22.740 nonsense. You know, since 1776, as Lincoln opined, we are not a perfect nation, but we are a perfectable

00:04:33.380 nation. And we've seen tremendous, tremendous advancements in racial harmony and in the breaking 0.68

00:04:41.960 down of those barriers to opportunity that have been based on race. And we have seen a tremendous

00:04:50.940 transformation in our country. Those who want to freeze us in the 1619 moment of history are looking at

00:05:02.160 the world backwards. And they have falsely claimed the title of being progressive thinkers.

00:05:10.100 And what do you think is behind that? Why wouldn't we want a positive view of our country as a country

00:05:15.280 who is imperfect, but has made amazing progress? Why would people like Ibram X. Kendi or Nicole Hannah-Jones

00:05:22.420 or Robin DiAngelo want to say that we're stuck in 1619, which is a statement on its face that seems 0.61

00:05:29.340 ridiculous. Well, I think, you know, many of these theorists and activists have their roots in

00:05:39.000 Marxist-Leninist worldview. And they fundamentally don't believe in a higher power. They don't believe

00:05:51.780 that paragraph, the second paragraph in the Declaration of Independence, which says, we hold

00:06:00.900 these truths to be self-evident. And my dad, who was a blue-collar worker, high school graduate,

00:06:08.420 used to always say to me and my brother, any knucklehead should be able to get this.

00:06:13.280 You know, that we're endowed by our creator with unalienable rights, and that among these are life,

00:06:22.220 liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And so what that paragraph really brings home is that there are

00:06:30.060 all kinds of differences. We are different in height and weight and income and skin color,

00:06:37.460 but we all have human dignity. And it is that recognition of the universality of our human

00:06:47.920 dignity that gives rise to this whole body of thinking and practice of protecting our human rights.

00:06:56.500 And so if you follow the logic of these Marxist-Leninists and collectivists, thinkers and activists,

00:07:08.240 they see no use for God, and they see no use for the basic unit of the family, because they think

00:07:17.820 that government with centralized power and a bureaucratic elite, that they are the master

00:07:26.480 of the universe and the grantors of our human rights and determining who should give what and

00:07:34.820 when. And on its notion, that is offensive.

00:07:39.880 It seems like the different kinds of Marxist ideas, which we've seen manifest themselves in

00:07:46.240 different ways, not just in the West, but also in the East, one commonality between all the

00:07:52.040 different manifestations, whether it's in Mao's China or in the United States, is godlessness.

00:07:58.860 That seems to be one of the common threads. Why do you think that is, that as godlessness

00:08:04.320 increases, the ideas of Marx and Lenin, this kind of collectivist, totalitarian thinking,

00:08:12.180 also increases?

00:08:14.080 Well, there are a couple of basic tenets of Marxist-Leninist practice and thought.

00:08:19.660 One, they have no use for God, and so they will try to chase God and faith out of the

00:08:25.580 public square, and they will tell you that religion can be practiced, if it's practiced

00:08:31.260 at all, within the four walls of the church. But it has no place in the public square, and

00:08:41.260 they do everything they can do to run God and faith out of the public square.

00:08:46.320 The other thing is what I mentioned before. They see the family as a useless construct because

00:08:54.940 they see the power of being in the state or the centralized bureaucracy that governs and

00:09:04.720 controls every aspect of our lives. And so consistent with their concentration of power in the hands of a

00:09:16.240 few within a centralized government is this notion that the family is useless and God and faith must be,

00:09:26.500 you know, exercised out of the public square. Look, I grew up in a blue-collar family of lower income,

00:09:38.580 but my dad was a World War II veteran, and he believed in the promise and infinite possibilities

00:09:50.020 of this country. But he and my mom and my grandparents, they raised us on three books,

00:10:01.360 you know. And my grandmother, when she talked to me as I was going off to college, she said,

00:10:07.780 remember the books that your family has taught you to embrace as you go to embrace the library

00:10:13.640 of thousands of books. She said, those books, and she reemphasized, I already knew what they were,

00:10:19.560 were my date book, my checkbook, and the good book. And she said, you know, and I was raised on this

00:10:26.180 notion that my date book or my calendar reflected how I spent my time and with whom I spent it.

00:10:34.000 My checkbook actually saw how I exercised my stewardship, no matter how meager our income

00:10:42.240 or how abundant, you know, how we manage that, those resources was important. But, you know,

00:10:49.440 it was the good book. It was the Bible. It was the book that we were raised on that would help us

00:10:56.700 pick the path of conviction over the path of convenience. And so, as I've gone through some

00:11:06.700 of the best academic institutions as a student, as a lecturer, as a member of boards of trustees,

00:11:18.460 one of the things I've always remembered was that the family is the incubator of liberty. And in my

00:11:28.040 family, you know, those three books led by the Bible was so important. And it is that worldview

00:11:37.940 that is in direct, uh, conflict, uh, and daily challenges, uh, the, the worldview of collectivists

00:11:48.060 or statists or Washington and Leninists. Right. Which is exactly why I would say a group like Black 1.00

00:11:55.440 Lives Matter has said explicitly that, you know, a village cares for a child, a community cares for a

00:12:01.860 child and they don't list fathers on their websites at all. They just say parents and mothers. I would

00:12:08.160 say that that's intentional. That is from that Marxist godless world, godless worldview, because

00:12:14.160 like you said, not only is the family, the incubator of liberty, which liberty and Marxism are obviously

00:12:19.940 opposed, but it's also the establishment of a child's values and, uh, dependence as well. That is in

00:12:27.560 direct conflict, uh, with getting your values and depending on the state. Um, so we obviously, we know

00:12:36.500 that faith is important in combating this craziness of godless critical race theory and Marxism. But as you

00:12:44.140 say, the family is as well. Can you talk about some of the repercussions that we've seen and the

00:12:49.600 disintegration of the family in all kinds of communities in the United States? But as you have talked about

00:12:55.380 before, in particular, the Black community in the United States? Well, it's been very, very fascinating. And I

00:13:01.840 think, uh, embracing, uh, a real examination of, of the history of, of, of blacks in America, uh, is, is so

00:13:13.040 important because we, we passed through, uh, the time where the institution of slavery was deeply rooted in, in, in

00:13:22.480 America and had all kinds of negative consequences. But the family unit, uh, the love, and you, and you just

00:13:30.920 mentioned it, uh, you know, we are born into the world very dependent, very vulnerable, uh, to forces that

00:13:39.400 are bigger than us. Uh, and so we are very much dependent on, uh, uh, the, the, the smallest unit of

00:13:48.040 community, and in our cases, the family, uh, to, to, to, to protect the, to protect the, to protect the

00:13:54.700 young, uh, to, to, to teach the, uh, uh, to be independent and self-reliant. Now, if you, you go back

00:14:03.580 and you take a look at, you know, again, collectivists and statists and socialists, you know, you, you, you put

00:14:10.840 the label on them, they, they have something in common, uh, and that is that they, they see human

00:14:17.380 beings not as independent, uh, individuals with human conscience. Uh, they see them almost as

00:14:25.760 humanoids that are manipulable, uh, that they must in fact give, give daily instruction to, uh, and they

00:14:33.360 build dependence. And so if you go back and you, and you look at the fifties and the sixties, and I,

00:14:40.060 there, there were the intact black family was almost, it was on par with the intact white family

00:14:50.600 in America. It was only after the great society program in, um, the, the men's sixties that, that

00:15:00.180 we, we, we moved to this, to the, the development of the welfare state, uh, and rules and regulations

00:15:07.540 were established, uh, that actually, uh, incentivized the breakdown of, of the family. And so when you had

00:15:16.660 the breakdown of the family, uh, and you rewarded, you rewarded families that were fatherless, uh, you

00:15:26.660 in fact, uh, institutionalize, uh, the separation of fathers from the lives of their, of their, of

00:15:35.080 their young. Uh, and so, uh, as we said, uh, a few minutes ago, one of the responsibilities and

00:15:42.200 functions of the family is behavioral modeling, uh, and, and, and education. Uh, and if you destroy

00:15:51.100 that, the, the, the clarity of that modeling of that relationship, you begin to see the breakdown

00:15:59.020 of the family so much. So now that about 70% of the children born in to, to, to black mothers are

00:16:08.020 born out of wedlock, uh, and into, into broken families. And that has all kinds of negative, uh,

00:16:15.840 connotations. And, you know, what you'll hear, if you bring up the consequences of fatherlessness,

00:16:30.600 rather than dealing with that, you'll get, you know, left-wing activists say, well, fatherlessness

00:16:35.760 is actually a result of systemic racism through mass incarceration. But if you look at the data that

00:16:42.960 corresponds with what you're saying, um, actually fatherlessness increased for both white and black

00:16:49.420 families starting in the 1960s. Now people talk about mass incarceration starting with the, you

00:16:56.200 know, so-called drug wars of the 1980s and even the 1990s. And so fatherlessness started to spike in

00:17:03.020 the sixties and seventies among both white and black families, which corresponds much more closely with

00:17:08.860 what you said, the start of the welfare state in the 1960s. And now the fatherlessness rate for all

00:17:16.040 kinds of ethnic backgrounds in the United States is much higher than it was, uh, in, in the 1960s.

00:17:22.160 So if it was truly just systemic racism against black people that caused fatherlessness, while the

00:17:28.040 white fatherlessness rate wouldn't have, you know, increased as much as it has to. And I also think

00:17:34.420 it's just a way to avoid talking about this problem. Why do you think it is that so many activist groups

00:17:40.000 that say black lives matter won't talk about the problem of fatherlessness, not just among those 0.98

00:17:46.160 communities, but among all communities in the United States? Well, because most of them are beneficiaries

00:17:51.900 of, uh, maintaining, uh, individuals that are wards of, of, of the state. Uh, they aspire,

00:18:00.720 you know, to be part of the bureaucratic elite, uh, those, those, those folks that are more concerned

00:18:10.900 in breeding, uh, dependency than they are in, uh, cherishing and developing, uh, uh, individuals

00:18:19.980 and families that, that further, that further liberty. Uh, one of the, one of the main, uh, destructive

00:18:28.100 elements of the welfare state is that it destroys the dignity of work. Uh, and again, as I indicated,

00:18:37.640 we're, we're all, uh, sort of, uh, educated by, by as, as young folks, uh, by the folks who were

00:18:48.040 our immediate, our immediate family and community. And again, uh, the dignity of, of, of, of work. It

00:18:59.240 was so, so important. And so, um, my, my dad, as he, as he, as he looked for work, uh, what he understood

00:19:10.720 was that there was a correlation between his ability to work, his ability to give and provide

00:19:17.660 for his family. Uh, and two things happened. It bred independence. When he came back from World War II,

00:19:25.480 he came back to Cincinnati and there were still vestiges of segregation. There was a housing shortage

00:19:31.440 and we lived in a public housing community, but we saw that as a, a, a temporary, and he saw it and

00:19:38.720 my mom saw it as a temporary, uh, station. They didn't see our, ourselves as being, our family as being

00:19:45.440 locked into a public housing community. He, in fact, wanted to, to work, which he did. He worked

00:19:53.300 two jobs and at times three jobs to make sure that there was an income coming into the family. 1.00

00:20:00.160 He and my mom made a decision, uh, that he would work those two and three jobs so that she could,

00:20:06.440 in fact, stay home and provide us, uh, with parental supervision. Uh, but you know, she, she, who, uh,

00:20:15.300 was a high school dropout, but went back and got her GED, uh, she was always prepared to, to, to go to

00:20:23.720 work if in fact there was an income shortage, particularly as we got older. But what I learned

00:20:29.600 from both of them, going back to our three books, was that we prayed all the time, but there was a

00:20:35.440 dignity in work and there was a, a, a self, uh, reliance that, that came from that. And, and, and

00:20:44.800 something that was very much taught to us, uh, and that was that we have an individual conscience.

00:20:53.600 Uh, and, and, and so, uh, there, there is accountability for our, our, our behavior that

00:21:00.140 our conditions might not always be perfect, uh, but the actions that we take, uh, the behaviors

00:21:07.100 that we assume, uh, we are responsible for them. Uh, and so when you, when you have this notion that

00:21:15.680 there, we are individuals of individual conscience, that we, in fact, know right from wrong,

00:21:23.600 uh, and that there is an expectation that we will be accountable, uh, you get a whole different set

00:21:30.880 of behaviors from folks raised in that sort of environment than folks from broken families

00:21:39.600 where there is that lack of supervision and all too often the streets or the television became the

00:21:46.720 the babysitters, uh, and the cultivators of a, of a worldview and a set of expectations that has

00:21:55.360 devastating effects, not only on the family, uh, but on communities.

00:22:01.200 Yes. And as you're talking, I'm thinking about, you know, my own parent's story, which actually

00:22:05.280 sounds similar to your parent's story. They didn't come from very much or even the most stable families

00:22:11.280 in the world, but they made a few good decisions when they were young. One, that they were both

00:22:16.080 going to graduate from high school and that they were going to wait to have kids until after they

00:22:21.600 got married. They got married very young. They got married at 19 and 20. My dad also had to work very

00:22:26.880 hard. My mom was a student teacher when she was pregnant with my oldest brother. And so I think they

00:22:31.840 would say those early days of living in a trailer were very, very difficult. And it was hard to provide,

00:22:39.040 you know, for their family, but they continued to make what seemed probably at the time, like

00:22:43.920 small decisions that differed even slightly from their parents and even the decisions that some of

00:22:49.520 their siblings made. Um, but that really did make all the difference. They were determined to make

00:22:54.720 those small choices in the hopes that they would be able to create a life that was better for my brothers

00:22:59.600 and me than the one that they had. And it seems like that kind of story, which I think is very typical

00:23:06.320 for so many American families. It's pushed to the side in exchange for this narrative of,

00:23:12.400 well, actually you can't get ahead if you're born into this system. This is, uh, you know,

00:23:17.920 some kind of caste system in the United States. And it's very, it's very foreign to me. And it's

00:23:23.760 very difficult for me to have a conversation with someone who believes that and who thinks any story

00:23:29.600 that I tell or any experience that I have is just, you know, indicative of my white supremacy or

00:23:34.960 privilege. It seems like, like you said, that's going to continue to really hold people back,

00:23:39.200 especially children, if that's their mentality. Well, you know, Ali, it's, it's, it's so important

00:23:45.200 that we understand that the human condition, and this, this came out of my, my family's experience.

00:23:53.040 Uh, the human condition is not a spectator sport. Uh, you, you, you can influence the course

00:24:02.560 of history and change human conditions, or you can be a spectator and you can be made by and shaped

00:24:10.960 and run over, uh, by the, by the streams of history, uh, in, in your space and, and in your,

00:24:18.560 in your time. You know, um, I had a great uncle. Um, you, you probably had never heard of him. His name

00:24:26.320 was D. Hart Hubbard. Um, my uncle D. Hart was the first black American to win an Olympic gold medal

00:24:35.520 in a track and field, uh, individual event. He did it in 19, uh, 24 in the Olympic games in, in Paris.

00:24:45.280 And uncle D. Hart had a transatlantic debate, uh, with the great Eric Little as to which one of them

00:24:52.880 was the fastest human being on the face of the earth. My uncle D. Hart had qualified for the

00:24:58.560 hundred yard dash, the high hurdles and the long jump. Uh, and they were going to resolve that

00:25:04.720 once they got to, to, to, to Paris. And folks know of Eric Little from the, the film, The Chariots of

00:25:11.200 Fire. So when, when, when he, when my uncle got to, to, uh, Paris, he was told by the international

00:25:18.720 Olympic committee, uh, that the hundred yard dash and the high hurdles were white only events.

00:25:25.280 And so he couldn't, he couldn't compete. Uh, but he won the gold medal and, and the long jump,

00:25:32.160 but he came back and he told my mom's generation, uh, that God had blessed him, uh, with his interaction

00:25:39.360 with Eric Little. Uh, because as you know, Eric Little, uh, didn't run in the finals for the hundred

00:25:45.600 yard dash because it fell on the Sabbath. Uh, and so because he was a devout Christian, he did not 0.98

00:25:54.720 compete. He, he, he passed up the, the, the sprint for worldly glory, uh, because of his, his, his

00:26:02.080 devotion to his, to his faith. And when my uncle came back, he told my mother's generation, he said,

00:26:07.280 you know, uh, what I got exposed to was a fidelity to faith that was, that was so powerful, uh, that,

00:26:17.200 uh, he, he, my uncle wanted to make sure that my mom's generation understood the power of, of faith

00:26:24.720 and devotion. Uh, and so it goes back to that, one of those three books, you, we were, we were raised on

00:26:31.520 the, um, biblical teachings, uh, to, to, and the story of Uncle Dee Hart and Eric Little to underscore

00:26:40.640 the importance, uh, that, uh, one, uh, we, we, we can change our, our, our conditions. Uh, we must, uh, be, uh,

00:26:52.640 consistent with God's divine, uh, design for our lives. Uh, and, and we must understand that there's not a

00:27:00.960 government on the face of the earth that can give you your human dignity. It's been invested in you

00:27:07.200 by higher power already. And so we engaged in every aspect of my life, whether my father was going to

00:27:14.880 World War II or whether we worked in the civil rights movement to make sure that there, there was a, a, a

00:27:23.600 matching of America's promise with America's practice. And that's, that's so important. The human

00:27:29.280 condition is not a spectator sport. We can make things better. And that's what Lincoln's meant when he said

00:27:36.400 we are perfectible. We're not perfect, but we are a perfectible nation.

00:27:50.480 Do you think that that's still the case? And this is what I, I want to end on. There's a lot of people

00:27:55.440 who feel like, you know, we're past the point of no return with these culture wars with people who

00:28:01.200 are just so willing to forego their freedom churches, even de-emphasizing the importance

00:28:06.800 of biblical justice and the biblical definitions of marriage, sexuality, family, all of that.

00:28:11.600 Um, some people feel that America is too far gone and there's no going back. Do you still

00:28:16.800 think that we are a perfectible, betterable nation? And if so, what do we do?

00:28:24.560 We stay engaged. And the answer to your question is yes. Uh, but again, we can't be sideline sitters.

00:28:31.280 Each one of us has to be willing to go on the front lines of, of the, of this battle, you know,

00:28:37.280 and as, as, as my, my, my grandfather used to say, do what you can with what you have, where you are.

00:28:46.960 And, and that is so important that we engage, uh, that we in fact become a force for bettering our,

00:28:55.120 our society. Uh, there are big moments throughout our 200 and now almost 45 years of existence. Uh,

00:29:05.520 and we've become a better nation when in fact we've had folks who have been willing to fight for the

00:29:11.760 promise of America. Yes. And amen. I agree with that. And I hope people are encouraged by that as

00:29:17.680 well. Uh, can you tell people where they can follow you? I know that you're an author as well. Where can

00:29:22.880 they buy your books and all that good stuff? Well, I have three books, uh, that you can purchase through

00:29:28.800 Amazon. Uh, but you know, if you want to follow my, uh, my writings, I, uh, I was, like I said,

00:29:37.600 a senior fellow at FEM research council. So you can go to, uh, FRC.org, uh, uh, punch on my,

00:29:46.960 the link to my, uh, bio and my articles, uh, and, and follow me that way. And, uh, you know, I, I just,

00:29:55.040 I, I, I am so thankful, uh, because I understand, uh, the power of this sort of dialogue that we're

00:30:04.960 having now. Uh, we, the human spirit is irrepressible. Uh, we will conquer, uh, any oppressive status

00:30:15.920 force, uh, because we in fact are pursuing a path that is not the architecture of

00:30:24.960 Marxist or Marx or Lenin or Mao, but of a much higher power. And that is one that recognizes

00:30:35.760 that a divine power, God is the architect of our human liberty. Uh, and that the United States

00:30:44.960 of America, as we've known it from 200 and now 45 years, is not perfect, but it's perfectible

00:30:53.200 when we are engaged. So thank you for being engaged. Thank you for, uh, illuminating, not

00:31:00.000 for lighting candles, not spending all your time cursing the darkness. Uh, and that is why we will

00:31:06.400 win. We are not sideline centers who curse the darkness. We, in fact, light candles and we punch

00:31:13.560 holes in the darkness of our time. Amen. Well, that is a beautiful place to end on. Thank you so much for

00:31:20.560 ending with that light and with that encouragement. I really appreciate you taking the time to talk to

00:31:25.760 us. Thank you, Ali. All right, guys, I really hope that you enjoyed that conversation. So just to

00:31:36.240 reemphasize what I said at the beginning and what was emphasized throughout this conversation is that

00:31:41.280 you don't have to be an influencer to have influence. That means you don't have to have thousands of

00:31:45.400 followers. You don't have to have a podcast. You don't necessarily have to run for office. You don't

00:31:49.480 have to start an organization or be an activist. You can do those things. Maybe God is calling you

00:31:54.520 to do those things, but maybe he's not. Maybe he is asking you to make a difference in your family

00:31:59.580 by obeying him in motherhood, by joyfully changing diapers and joyfully washing the dishes and joyfully

00:32:07.800 doing the work that you do as a stay at home wife and mom. Don't let anyone tell you that obeying

00:32:14.060 Christ in the so-called small areas of your life is not enough because that is what God calls us to.

00:32:21.100 God calls us to occupy the spheres in which he has placed us with joy and with love and with service

00:32:29.140 and with truth. So it means feeling positively and in a godly way the spaces that you are in,

00:32:37.780 the spheres of influence that you already have, whether it's 10 people or whether it's 10 million

00:32:44.600 people, it doesn't matter. What we are called to is obedience. And part of that is making sure that

00:32:49.420 we are living in truth, that we are not redefining what we think about justice or the definition of

00:32:55.320 love or the definition of sexuality or marriage or gender or right or wrong or good or bad or the

00:33:01.780 role of the government versus the role of the family based on what society tells us these things are.

00:33:07.100 But we continue to look to God and we continue to look at his word. And that doesn't mean it's

00:33:11.560 going to be easy. You're going to be called a bigot. You're going to be said, it's going to be

00:33:15.860 said that you're on the wrong side of history. If you don't agree with the whole social justice

00:33:19.960 anti-racist movement, which is pushed by critical race theory, you are going to be told that you are 0.58

00:33:25.780 wrong, that you're a racist, that you're a white supremacist. But you, you look to Matthew 10 that says,

00:33:31.860 look, you are to fear God rather than man, because, uh, what God can do is eternal. What man can do

00:33:38.940 is temporal. You look to Romans eight and says, it is God who justifies who is to condemn Christ.

00:33:45.780 Jesus is the one who died more than that, who was raised, who right now is seated at the right

00:33:50.220 hand of God interceding for us. If our God is for us, who can be against us? That is the strength.

00:33:57.240 That is the resolve that you have. And to be alone on God's side, to be alone on the side of truth

00:34:05.020 is to be, is better than, uh, being on the wrong side with millions of people who are telling you

00:34:12.040 that you are right. So keep that perspective and keep the faith and ask for God to give us

00:34:17.760 strength and to give us resolve and to, uh, be with us as we move forward in love and in truth.

00:34:23.580 All right. That's all I've got for us today. I will be back here soon.

00:34:27.240 Bye.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - June 10, 2021

Ep 436 ｜ Saving America Means Saving the Family ｜ Guest： Ken Blackwell

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