00:00:00.400Hello folks, I'm the Shameless Berg. I hope you're doing well today. I, uh, I'm out and about just taking a walk. I just had some stuff on my mind. Um, so I just wanted to say that everything I'm doing right now beneath it all is a love for my ancestors and wanting to honor what they did, what they gave to me.
00:00:29.000What they tried to give and some of the things that have been robbed from us. And, uh, you know, we're living in a time and in a culture where people expect us and demand that we, uh, in effect, dance on the graves of our ancestors and that we spit on them and we condemn them and disgrace them.
00:00:54.260That we distance ourselves from them. That we say, well, that wasn't me. I, I wasn't around for that. I, uh, you know, I, look, I'm me. I'm not, I'm not my ancestors. Don't, uh, don't blame me.
00:01:09.540You know, honestly, shame on you for wanting to distance yourselves from your ancestors and disavow them and play this game.
00:01:20.360You know, they demand that we, you know, they demand that we participate in just pissing all over the memory of our ancestors, that we participate in tearing down statues, tearing down flags, renaming streets, rewriting history, recontextualizing everything.
00:01:39.800Telling you, telling you, telling you, telling you, telling you your destiny, telling you your destiny, and expecting you to take it all on the chin.
00:01:52.100But they never tell us why. There's no answer for it that's not rooted in black feelings or whatever other brown or Jew or whatever.
00:02:05.160There's nothing that they can say that's not rooted in just purely hurt feelings.
00:02:10.520There's no obligatory, objective reason that we should be dancing their dance and that we should spit on our ancestors like that.
00:02:20.640For what? What are we supposed to be getting out of this? To what end?
00:02:25.460Honestly, shame on you if you participate in disavowing them.
00:02:31.580No matter what your beliefs are, theologically, spiritually, it might do you well to keep in mind, at least the idea, that in some sense they're aware of you.
00:02:42.860Are they proud of you? Are they proud of what they see?
00:02:45.360And then, of course, moreover, there's the idea, in my opinion, that we are our ancestors.
00:02:51.300So, are you gonna, are you gonna play into the white guilt game or not?