August 17, 2021 Show with Bill Potter on “Exposing the Lies of the 1619 Project Fraud”

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August 17, 2021 BILL POTTER (B.A. Cedarville College, M.A. University of Dayton, PhD. (abd) The College of William & Mary), author, conference speaker & chief historian for LandmarkEvents.org, who will address: “EXPOSING the LIES of the 1619 PROJECT FRAUD”

00:04: Live from the historic parsonage of the 19th century gospel minister, George Norcross, in downtown
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01:31: And at the very enthusiastic urging of my very dear friend,
01:37: Dr. Joseph C. Moorcraft III, who is pastor of Heritage Presbyterian Church in Cumming, Georgia, and also at the enthusiastic urging of his wife,
01:49: Becky, I have invited on the program today, for the very first time, Bill Potter, who received his
01:57: BA from Cedarville College, his MA from the University of Dayton, and his
02:04: PhD from the College of William and Mary. He's an author, a conference speaker, and chief historian for landmarkevents .org.
02:15: And today, we're going to be addressing Exposing the Lies of the 1619 Project Fraud.
02:22: And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time ever to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Bill Potter. Thanks, Chris.
02:29: I appreciate it, and I appreciate the kudos from the Moorcrafts, who are dear friends. Yeah, wonderful folks.
02:35: And everyone who listens to this program regularly knows full well that Dr.
02:42: Moorcraft is one of my favorite guests, which is made evident due to the high frequency of my interviews with him.
02:50: Well, first of all, tell our listeners about Landmark Events, where you serve as chief historian.
02:58: Okay, Landmark Events is a company that provides history tours and history teaching for Christian families by going to the places where history was made.
03:10: We do a lot of domestic tours, and also Ireland and Scotland and England when they're open, which they aren't at the present moment.
03:20: And we teach from a, you might say, a biblical worldview, providential perspective, and that kind of sets us apart from other groups, as well as the fact that we teach at every place that we go.
03:36: And we do maybe 12 or 13 tours a year, and still coming up this year, especially
03:43: November, is the 400th anniversary celebration of the pilgrims in Plymouth.
03:51: And that will be a sort of a landmark event in a very real way, a week before Thanksgiving.
03:58: But that's what we do. We go to the places where history has happened, and we look for the providence of God and his hand in our history, and in all the history that we cover, whether it be battlefields, museums, or historic homes.
04:13: Now, when you say that you view history through a providence perspective, I'm assuming, being a fellow
04:19: Calvinist myself, that you're talking about God's foreordination of all things that have ever occurred and will occur in heaven and on earth.
04:30: Indeed. That is the bedrock of our theology, in a way, the sovereignty of God.
04:38: And what we're looking at oftentimes are just the means that God has used to fulfill his purposes in history.
04:45: We look at the past, we see his hand, and we study the various means that he used to accomplish his will.
04:53: And so that is a very real part of the way we approach our study of history. Amen. In fact,
05:00: I can think of no other fact of God's sovereign control over all events of history that gives me comfort during the greatest of trials that I have personally experienced in my own life.
05:17: So, to know that everything comes from his foreordination is a great comfort and should be to every single believer.
05:24: Oh, it is a great comforting doctrine. I agree. And it's amazing that anyone would view our understanding of that to be preposterous and even ugly and depressing.
05:38: And it even drives some opponents of Calvinism to go to the extreme of saying, a
05:46: God like that, I will never serve. That runs chills up my arms and my spine when
05:52: I hear. No, they're serving their own God. That's right. Amen. Well, I'm going to give our listeners right now our email address.
06:02: It's chrisarnsen at gmail .com. If you have questions for Bill Potter regarding our theme, exposing the lies of the 1619
06:16: Project Fraud, please give us your first name, at least your city and state and your country of residence.
06:22: If you live outside the USA, only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter.
06:28: Let's say your family or your church is promoting the 1619 Project Fraud.
06:33: You don't feel comfortable at this point identifying yourself as being in opposition to them or anything like that.
06:42: We understand that you would be compelled to remain anonymous. But if it's just a general question on history, on the specific subject of the 1619
06:50: Project, on theology, general questions, please include your first name, at least your city and state and country of residence.
07:00: Oh, and although I intend to repeat this website later, for those of you who are interested in investigating more about landmark events, go to landmarkevents .org,
07:14: landmarkevents .org. Bill, we have a tradition here on Iron Trip and Zion Radio.
07:20: Before we enter into the main theme of any discussion on my show, if I am interviewing a first -time guest, we always have that first -time guest give a summary of their salvation testimony, including what kind of religious atmosphere they were raised in, if any, and what kind of sovereign or, should
07:40: I say, providential circumstances our sovereign Lord raised up in their lives that drew them to himself and saved them, and that would include you.
07:50: So if you could give us an abbreviated testimony of your own journey to Christ. Sure, be happy to.
07:58: I was born into a family that was a very devout Bible -believing
08:03: Christian family. I was raised in a church that was actually founded by my parents and five other couples who abandoned a liberal church and started a
08:17: Baptist church that was deeply devoted to the Scriptures and to the sovereignty of God and to the doctrines of our faith, and I was taught them from probably before I was actually born.
08:33: And so I was raised hearing the gospel my entire life. I frankly don't remember a time in my youth when
08:42: I didn't love Christ, but I made a commitment, I guess
08:47: I would say now, a repentance and public profession of faith in Christ when
08:55: I was around eight years old or nine years old, and from that time forward was never out of hearing or participation in the means of grace, in the preaching of the
09:08: Word of God, prayer, sacraments, and the faithful attendance at our church.
09:16: Over the years I have changed my views on certain things, and I'm a
09:23: Reformed Presbyterian, but my family, my parents, my grandparents, all of my first cousins and aunts and uncles, my brothers and sisters, my second cousins, and even back maybe five or six generations
09:40: I haven't found anybody that wasn't a believer. God has been very faithful to our family.
09:48: In fact, some of my lines I have back 13 generations that we can really confirm the biblical faith of our ancestors.
09:57: So God has been a real covenant God to our line, and my prayer, of course, is that our eight children and 22 grandchildren follow in the faith as we are faithful to present the gospel to them.
10:13: But that's the thumbnail sketch. Yeah, in fact, I was raised
10:19: Roman Catholic, and after I had become a born -again believer, after the
10:27: Lord and His sovereign providence guided me to a Reformed Baptist church, where I eventually very quickly collapsed on my knees and cried out to the
10:41: Lord for salvation and came to, after a couple of months, even embrace
10:48: Reformed theology. After this had occurred,
10:54: I found out that my ancestors on my father's side of the family were
11:00: Baptists in Norway, and they immigrated in the late 19th century to Brooklyn, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
11:13: And I had discovered that many of my relatives, especially in Virginia, are still
11:20: Baptists. So it was kind of an interesting providence to discover this after I was a believer, and it really warmed my heart.
11:29: Yeah, that's very exciting. Yeah. I have heard, if I'm not mistaken, from our mutual friend
11:38: Dr. Joe Moorcraft, that your ancestry even includes a martyr who was a
11:44: Covenanter Presbyterian. Yeah, so I'm a kinsman of the
11:50: Reverend James Guthrie, who was the pastor of the church in Stirling in Scotland.
11:56: He was the second Covenanter to be martyred by Charles II, the first being the
12:05: Marquess of Argyll, and the second being James Guthrie, who refused to recognize the
12:12: King of England as the head of the church. And he was willing to die for his faith, and he was very stubbornly held to biblical doctrine, and was a tremendous man.
12:30: Great influence on his generation and on the history of Scotland. Well, we've got to do a program on that in the future.
12:39: If you enjoy yourself today and you want to return, God willing, let's have you back to discuss that very subject of your ancestor and the
12:49: Covenanters in general. And aren't you writing a book on this? Yes, I'm still in the process, after a number of years of writing a biography of James Guthrie, there isn't a good one.
13:01: I'm just a couple of brief ones from the 19th century, and I've been working diligently until recent, the last year,
13:10: I've been working diligently on completing a biography of him. Now, how did you develop such a deep affection and enthusiasm for history?
13:26: Well, I would say that very early in my life, when my father was building our home, we lived with my grandparents.
13:35: I was in the first grade, and my grandfather had a trove of photographs, and it turns out we had a family member who was a photographer all the way back into the 1840s, which is really at the beginning of photography.
13:49: And we had a collection of family photos that went back that far, and I would compel my grandfather to sit and go through each picture and tell me stories about these people, some in uniforms, some with gutted deer hanging up in a tree and rifle over their shoulder.
14:13: I wanted to know who they were and how I was connected to them, and it really piqued my interest in history.
14:22: And then even when I was in the second grade, my best friend came home from vacation with a stack of Civil War centennial postcards with soldiers on them, and I grabbed those and I never looked back.
14:42: And I've been studying military history ever since, along with everything else, and I knew by the time
14:50: I was in the sixth grade that I had a great sixth grade teacher, and you can't underestimate the power of a really excellent teacher.
15:00: And I decided in the sixth grade that I wanted to be him. And so from then on,
15:06: I was determined to be a historian wherever God would direct that interest, and my parents supported me in every conceivable way.
15:18: And one of the reasons I went to Cedarville College, or two reasons, they had a four -year grant to play basketball, but they had a great history department, which was the number one thing that I was looking for from a
15:31: Christian perspective. And from there to graduate schools that were not in the least of the same faith as I, but I pursued the study and teaching of history for about, well, it's going on 45 years now.
15:49: Praise God. I would love it if you or some very knowledgeable and gifted historian,
16:00: Christian historian, would write a biography of the man who lived in the building
16:06: I am sitting in right now conducting this interview. This is the former parsonage, 19th century parsonage, of a
16:17: Presbyterian pastor here in Carlisle, George Norcross, who was the very first pastor of Second Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which was created due to a church split from First Presbyterian Church, because Second Presbyterian Church was an old school
16:41: Presbyterian congregation, and they had left First Presbyterian, which had become a new school
16:49: Presbyterian Church. And from what I have learned, I just have learned a little, but from what
16:56: I've learned of this man, he was quite fascinating. And his brother -in -law was a missionary to the
17:04: Native Americans, planted over 100 churches, and actually rescued
17:11: Eskimos from a famine by being the first to import reindeer from Siberia to Alaska in order to rescue these
17:21: Eskimos. And Time magazine lists this missionary as one of their top 10
17:31: Alaskans of history. This is the brother -in -law of Reverend Norcross. But I would love for somebody to pick up that project and do a thorough biography.
17:41: Oh, what a family. Yeah, wow. Well, we are discussing a very controversial issue today, and I've gotten a lot of enthusiastic responses from those who have heard about this interview
17:57: I'm conducting with you on the 1619 project fraud.
18:03: And if you could, first of all, tell us about this 1619 project.
18:09: What is the significance of the date, and why was this project launched? Okay. Well, the creator of this project, the one who has the main writer of it, is a journalist of the
18:26: New York Times. Her name was Nicole Hannah -Jones, and she gathered together a group of Black writers, journalists, historians, and other sociologists to write articles that conform to the main thesis, or the main aim.
18:53: And she stated it this way, this project aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the
19:06: United States national narrative. And in so doing, every aspect of the project has to make the data and the content of the writing conform to that aim, and that is to rewrite
19:23: American history based on, really this is a practical outworking of another theory called critical race theory, and that's even a bigger subject.
19:41: But this project is designed to be put in the hands of millions of people, especially school children, so that the actual, what they call the narrative of American history, up until this point is totally erroneous, and it's part of a tool, a power tool, in the toolkit of white supremacists who have spent their life oppressing other people.
20:20: And so this is to right that wrong, to rewrite American history, and have it be based on race.
20:28: So that's the larger picture of what the project is about, and some of the, it was published in the
20:39: New York Times Magazine, and there were 16 different writers, and they've also turned this, which includes a lot of fiction, and ironically,
20:50: I think, in my opinion, much of the reported history is also fiction, but it includes poetry and all sorts of other types of literary writing, and it's designed to be put into curriculums, to be put in the hands of, as they say, everybody from the lowest elementary grades through college, and it has been adopted as the narrative of American history by hundreds of schools across the
21:23: United States. And one of the ironies of this project is that these things actually have been being taught for 40 years.
21:36: This isn't something brand new. This is the project that's brand new, but the idea, the ideas behind it and the origins of it have been around for quite some time and have been being taught.
21:49: Well, now it's out in the open with a literal curriculum based on critical race theory and other critical theories that go along with this new post -modern approach to the past.
22:06: Of course, it involves destroying the past as it now exists and the interpretation of it, and then going forward with a whole new way of looking at American history.
22:20: And if you look at some of the works that are involved in it, they have titles like America Wasn't a
22:28: Democracy Until Black Americans Made It One. That was written by Nicole Hannah -Jones, the journalist.
22:35: American Capitalism is Brutal. You can trace that to the plantation. Another one is
22:41: Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music? I think there should be anyone who loves black music should be very complimented, not that it's being stolen, but that it's being imitated.
22:58: I happen to love a lot of music that would be categorized that way, including especially the older black gospel music.
23:07: Oh, yeah. Well, it goes on and on like this. They call it cultural appropriation, and it covers a wide swath of popular culture.
23:23: A New Literary Timeline of African American History, which is a collection of poems and stories.
23:30: It could go on and on. And a lot of it is actually of historical interest, and is part of what is taught in typical
23:41: American history courses anyway. But these are taught instead of other things.
23:51: These are really the center. Keith Lehmann on Reverend Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition speech.
23:59: I'm sure one of the most important documents that any American could ever read. And so it goes.
24:09: It did not happen overnight. It isn't something that was made up in the fevered brow of a
24:21: New York Times journalist. These ideas and the background to this came from things that have been produced in the past.
24:30: Other books, other movements, and they've come together in the 1619
24:36: Project. Something interesting that came out pretty quickly, there were five or six really preeminent
24:44: American historians, which included James B. McPherson, who's sort of the
24:50: Civil War studies in American history, and several others of his caliber.
24:57: And they came out with a real strong criticism. In fact, could you pick up right where you left off there, because we have to go to our first break right now.
25:04: Sure. But this is very important, so don't forget where you left off there, because I've got to hear more about this.
25:10: If anybody wants to join us with a question of your own, send it to chrisarnsen at gmail .com, C -H -R -I -S -A -R -N -Z -E -N at gmail .com.
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36:54: But anyway, we are interviewing today Bill Potter, who is the chief historian for landmarkevents .org.
37:02: We are discussing exposing the lies of the 1619 Project fraud. If you have a question, send it in to ChrisArnzen at gmail .com.
37:10: Give us your name, city and state, and country of residence. You just before the break,
37:16: Bill, were starting to introduce to our audience some historians who negatively responded, pushed back as it were, on the 1619
37:29: Project. And from what I understand, a considerable percentage of them are even correctly identified as liberals.
37:41: Yeah, I think probably all of them that wrote the letter to the New York Times would politically be considered liberals.
37:50: And let me give a little bit of a timeline here too to put them in their proper context. The 1619
38:00: Project came out in August of 2019, and there was a reason for that.
38:07: It was the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first Africans at Jamestown, Virginia.
38:14: Now, I live in Virginia, and I've taught Virginia history and have studied Jamestown for many, many years.
38:23: And in 1619, three things happened that year at Jamestown. One was, it was the founding of the
38:30: House of Burgesses, the representative government in the New World. And also, a shipload of young ladies arrived that year also to help perpetuate the existence of the colony.
38:43: They forgot to bring women with them when they came originally and suffered tremendously for that oversight.
38:50: And in 1619... They forgot? What a thing to forget.
38:57: Well, they remembered when they arrived. The first Africans were landed, and more about that later.
39:12: But the idea behind it is that these were the first slaves to be brought to America.
39:19: They were the opening wedge of the slavocracy that was going to dominate the
39:25: American colonies over the next 100 or more years, etc. And so they chose 1619 as the project title to commemorate the arrival of first Africans and the introduction of slavery into America.
39:45: Now, the critique of the project was published in December of 2019, so from August to December.
39:58: And the critique that came as a letter to the Times was from a small coterie of academic historians who are really at the top of their game.
40:12: Gordon Wood, James McPherson, Sean Willens. McPherson and Willens are both
40:17: Civil War historians, among other things. Victoria Bynum and James Oakes.
40:24: I also, I read an article that stated that they had invited a couple of black scholars, historians, to join them in their protest.
40:36: And what they called strong reservations about the factual inaccuracies in the 1619 project.
40:47: And that none of them joined them at that time. And the article, the point of the article was that what they said was, we agree that there are factual errors in the project, but this project is absolutely necessary to right the wrongs that have taken place over the years, or something to that effect.
41:10: So they were acknowledging that much of the information is false, or at least a substantial percentage of it.
41:16: We've got to use it to right wrong. But the idea of it is so important and necessary.
41:23: And they didn't want to have their names associated with a critique of it.
41:31: And then in May of 2020, on May 1st, Hannah Jones was given the
41:38: Pulitzer Prize, and their project was given the Pulitzer Prize. Much to the protest and dismay of many other historians and those who are really concerned about the interpretation of American history being as accurate as possible and as free of political cant as possible.
42:03: And that is not, that did not happen. And so they received the amount of errors.
42:14: But an interesting article that was published shortly thereafter in the Atlantic, the title, let's see,
42:23: I might even have the title here someplace. While you're looking, I'm going to announce our email address again.
42:29: If anybody would like to join us on the air with a question of your own, our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com,
42:38: chrisarnsen at gmail .com. Give us your first name, at least your city and state and your country of residence only remain anonymous if the question involves a personal and private matter.
42:48: Have you found what you were looking for? I didn't find it, but I remembered it. And it's something to the effect that the problem is not with the facts.
42:59: And by using that as the headline, they instantly marginalized those historians by saying, nobody disagrees about what happened, nobody disagrees about the facts, but it's actually how those facts are interpreted.
43:17: Now, in a certain sense, that is true of historians.
43:24: They choose the facts they want to choose, and they present the interpretation that they believe is the most accurate.
43:33: But by using that headline and saying that we all agree on the facts, they completely eviscerated any critique of the project.
43:48: And the problem is, one of the problems is that we don't agree with the so -called facts.
43:57: The whole 1619 group of Africans, the
44:03: Ndongos from Angola that arrived, the Bantu -speaking people that had been attacked and seized as war captives and taken to the shores of Africa by African tribes that were warlike and sold slaves for a living, and sold them to the
44:23: Portuguese or to the Spanish. They ended up on a Spanish ship. I think they were originally sold to Portuguese because Angola was ruled over by Portugal.
44:34: And these particular Africans spoke Portuguese, and they had Christian names. In any case, they were taken off a
44:44: Spanish ship by some English privateers. And there are all kinds of problems with that because King James had come to the throne in England, and he had declared that there would be no more privateering against Spanish shipping.
45:00: And the kidnapping of, or the taking of those Spanish ships that they hoped had gold and silver, and they actually had 20 -odd
45:11: Africans instead, huge disappointment, and also a frightening occurrence because King James had recently beheaded
45:23: Sir Walter Raleigh for the very crimes of what
45:31: King James now declared to be criminal activity, attacking Spanish fleets. He wanted peace, and he did not want the
45:39: English causing international incidents. And so the two English ships that were involved in capturing the
45:47: Spanish ship were stuck with 20 prisoners they didn't know what to do with.
45:54: And they brought them into, they operated out of Jamestown illegally. They brought them into Jamestown.
45:59: They went to the governor. We don't know what to do. And he said, I will take them off your hands, which he did.
46:06: And in the course of however many next few years, those
46:12: Africans were indentured out to plantations along the
46:17: James River and the York River. And a plantation, of course, is just a replanting of a culture.
46:24: It doesn't mean a huge farm that has hundreds of slaves or anything like that.
46:34: It's really the replanting of one culture from one place to another. And so that was the origins of the word plantation, and that's how they thought of it.
46:43: And so they were indentured. And 90 % of the people at Jamestown were indentured servants. And these
46:49: Africans were indentured also. And most of them worked off their indentures and became free.
46:57: And none of that appears anywhere in this 1619 project.
47:05: And it's interesting. There's a very fine book on the subject.
47:11: A young man decided to trace his genealogy, a young historian. And he's white.
47:18: And he traced his genealogy back and he found that he was descended from these Angolans.
47:24: And his name was Tim Hayshaw. And he wrote a book about his searching for his ancestors and what he discovered about the first African Americans.
47:39: And it's called The Birth of Black America, the First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown.
47:48: And almost all of them became free. And in fact, one of them that became free enslaved one of his fellow
47:56: Angolans as a slave who ran away.
48:02: And he sued in court and got him back. But these Africans, these
48:09: Angolans, intermarried with local people. Some married white, some married fellow
48:15: Africans, some probably married some of the local Native Americans. And just blended into the fabric of the colony.
48:23: Like everybody else that worked off their indentures and were able to buy land and become productive members of the colony.
48:33: And so that was sort of the fate of that first shipment. And in, you know,
48:40: Virginia jurisprudence, you don't find any real specific references to African slaves or special laws for slaves until around 1660.
48:56: So for, what's that, 40 years, this first ship that arrived with Africans, most of them become free.
49:07: And he was able to trace their families down to modern times and discovered among their descendants, both
49:16: Union and Confederate generals, and all sorts of interesting people that are descendants of these first Africans.
49:27: And some of the very first Americans that settled in Texas were some of these same people.
49:34: And they even, because they were cattlemen back in Africa, they even brought some of their cattlemen vocabulary with them to Texas.
49:44: You know, the word, for instance, the word doji was the Ndongo word, the
49:49: Bantu word for calf. Yeah, in fact, Joe Morecraft told me that. Yeah, that's right.
49:56: So anyway, this, taking the 1619
50:02: Africans who came, they were enslaved, they were slaves to the
50:10: Spanish, but they were taken by these English privateers. And they were sort of in a no man's land until the governor took them off, took them off his hands and kind of parceled them out around the colony, just like they did any other indentured servants.
50:29: So that fact is never mentioned. And in fact, just the opposite.
50:36: And so much of this alleged historical data that is used is actually the opposite of what actually took place.
50:46: Not in every case, but certainly enough to do this project as being historically credible.
50:57: And as I said before, it also, it was nothing, it didn't happen overnight, as far as the creation of this project.
51:08: And it's a perfect illustration of the application of critical race theory, you might say, in a very practical manner in teaching history.
51:18: And it does come, it does have a history that goes back to the 1960s. In fact, let's pick up right where you left off there.
51:27: So I don't have to interrupt you in mid sentence, we have to go to our midway break right now. And if anybody has a question, and there are some waiting to have their questions asked and answered.
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01:11:36: Julie, in the 1990s, came up with this idea to treat my pastor friends to a lunch.
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01:18:11: That's chrisarnson at gmail .com. Give us your first name at least, city and state, and country of residence.
01:18:17: Do you have anything that you'd like to say to pick up where you left off before I ask a listener question?
01:18:25: Well, I wanted to say that this idea of the 1619
01:18:31: Project is actually the fruit of historians who were being trained or teaching in the 1960s, and not just historians but radicals of various sorts.
01:18:47: The book by Charles Hamilton and Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, really sets out the, you might say, the philosophy behind the idea that whites by definition have instituted institutional racism so that it can't be, it can never be completely obliterated and it'll go on and on and on because it's institutional.
01:19:16: And then other radical ideas that are, some of them absolute nonsense and others with a grain of truth that it's blown all out of proportion.
01:19:26: And the other thing I wanted to say is perhaps the most influential historian of the
01:19:31: Marxist American history coterie is
01:19:38: Howard Zinn, and his book, A People's History of the
01:19:43: United States, has sold three million copies, is promoted by college professors, knowing that most of it's nonsense, but it has become the core of curriculums in high schools, and it's almost laughable if you know anything about American history when you read it.
01:20:04: There's a very fine book entitled Debunking Howard Zinn by Mary Graber, published by Regnery, and they're coming out with another book by her entitled
01:20:27: Debunking the 1619 Project. Oh great, I've got to get her on. So that'll be out in the next month or so.
01:20:34: Her name's Mary Graber, G -R -A -B -E -R. Oh, I've heard this promoted, perhaps even by Dr.
01:20:42: Moorcraft, but also I'm almost certain Gary DeMar. Oh, probably so.
01:20:48: Debunking Howard Zinn is a very fine, very fine book, and I'm looking forward to the
01:20:55: Debunking of the 1619 Project. I don't agree with her 100%, but she does lay the axe to the root of the tree.
01:21:08: And there's another book called Before the Mayflower, if you want to see some other 1619
01:21:16: Project reference materials. There's one by LaRone Barrett, or Bennett, rather, a journalist for Ebony Magazine, a 60s radical, and he's sort of been the inspiration.
01:21:29: He wrote the book Before the Mayflower. So there are some other things along that line.
01:21:36: And before we're finished today, I want to give you one anecdote that goes back to my college days.
01:21:45: Do you want to give it now so you don't forget before I go to any listener questions? I will. I'll give it now.
01:21:52: When I was in college as an undergraduate, I had to take a course, gun to my head, on psychology.
01:22:01: And Professor Jack Scott was the professor. This was at Cedarville College, now Cedarville University.
01:22:07: And he had been an army psychologist in the Korean War. And his job was to interview prisoners of war that were repatriated from North Korea.
01:22:21: And one of the things that he discovered, and he wrote up for the U .S. Army, was that when they were captured, when
01:22:29: American soldiers were captured, they right away separated the officers from the men.
01:22:35: And then when they approached the men, not so much the officers, but the privates and corporals, they divided them again.
01:22:43: And they divided them based on if they had a strong religious faith.
01:22:50: They knew that it would be very hard to brainwash them and propagandize them.
01:22:56: If you know anything about Korean War, the North Koreans were really the worldwide specialists in brainwashing, or what was called brainwashing then.
01:23:05: I don't know what the modern term for it would be. But the other thing that he discovered was that men in the army who did not know
01:23:13: American history were turned easily. And they were given a whole new narrative of American history by the
01:23:23: North Koreans. They were told that American history is the story of the oppression of minorities, of black people, of Indians, of women.
01:23:33: And that is the core narrative of American history. And that was pounded into them.
01:23:41: Using examples from each of those types of oppression, there are always stories and individuals that can be pointed to as being wicked and evil, and having committed atrocities against various other people,
01:23:57: American people. But the whole tenor of American history is one that is a downward arc of more and more oppression, and that they needed to abandon that horrible country and join the people's paradise in North Korea.
01:24:14: And a number of men did it. And what was discovered was that they were really the ones who didn't understand
01:24:21: American history. They hadn't paid attention. And they didn't know the pit from whence they'd been dug.
01:24:28: They didn't know that, you know, the arc of America was towards more and more freedom. And this whole institutional racism was a myth and a lie.
01:24:38: And they were the easiest ones to propagandize and to brainwash. And that was the discovery from the
01:24:43: North Korean torture during the Korean War. And that's the one thing
01:24:49: I came away from that psychology class that I've never forgotten. And now the narrative is the narrative of American history promoted by the
01:24:58: Smithsonian, and by the federal government, and by the schools. Amazing.
01:25:04: We have a question from Cindy in Findlay, Ohio.
01:25:11: You've already mentioned some valuable resources on this issue for adults. But Cindy asks,
01:25:17: Please forgive me if my question has already been addressed. With three grandchildren today, under the age of four,
01:25:24: I missed the first part of the show. My question is this, what resources, which are geared toward elementary, middle and high school students, respectively, are available that would correct the errors of the 1619
01:25:37: Project? Thank you for this enlightening interview, Mr. Potter. Thanks for another great show,
01:25:43: Chris. Okay, I'm not an expert on the current publishing of materials that specifically address these things.
01:25:57: But my answer is that they need to be told the truth. And it's likely that a grandparent actually has learned a good deal of truth about American history.
01:26:10: And I would turn to some of the standard Christian history publishers.
01:26:16: Anyone from Bob Jones to Rebecca to Gary DeMar publishes some very, very good history,
01:26:25: U .S. history books that address these things. There are a number of very fine resources for elementary level students that still teach, teach from both a
01:26:37: Christian perspective, and one that's Christ honoring, and at the same time, tells the truth about American history.
01:26:46: So I would go to some of the standard Christian publishers and just tell the truth.
01:26:53: You don't even need to counter, you know, counteract necessarily what's out there in the popular culture.
01:27:00: The truth will win out if you tell it to the truth. Well, thank you, Cindy. Keep spreading the word about Iron Trip and Zion Radio in Findlay, Ohio and beyond.
01:27:11: We have Johnny in Queens, New York. He says, Sorry, I jumped on today's program a bit late.
01:27:17: The current cultural and political climate has given credence to this atrocity, or should
01:27:25: I say atrociously, poor piece of ideological indoctrination.
01:27:31: The 1619 Project is terrible as legitimate history and is taken as gospel truth of America's founding.
01:27:40: How can Christians and history students be equipped to discern terrible scholarship and false history?
01:27:47: What tools would you recommend for true students of history to discover what is true history?
01:27:52: Of course, you've already covered some of that, but any other words of advice that you could give to Johnny in Queens, New York?
01:28:02: Sure, I would go back to some of the primary sources written by the
01:28:07: Founding Fathers. One of the devils in this story is
01:28:13: Thomas Jefferson. Even the Constitution, the
01:28:19: Declaration of Independence are now considered part of white oppression of minorities.
01:28:29: In fact, the National Archives has a racism task force for the rotunda.
01:28:34: They're going to try and reinterpret the structural racism of the founding documents.
01:28:40: But I think that a cursory examination of even the Bill of Rights, for instance, dispels much of what's being purported to be so -called structural racism.
01:28:55: But go back to the Founding Fathers and read what they wrote about why they seceded from England, why they broke away and declared independence.
01:29:06: They were very forthcoming and forthright in what they said about why they did what they did.
01:29:12: So when it comes to the founding, and of course there are many really excellent books on the subject that are still in print and that have been used for generations in examining that period.
01:29:29: Not every historian is going to agree on every point, but the general theme is self -evident in the primary sources, but also in some of the more modern works on the founding of the nation.
01:29:45: There's lots of really good stuff, not all written by Christians either, but from God's common grace.
01:29:51: There's a great deal of great historical writing and it's quite a bit available out there.
01:29:59: Thank you, Johnny. Keep listening and keep spreading the word about Iron Sherpa's Iron Radio in Queens, New York and beyond.
01:30:06: We have John in Bangor, Maine, who says, are not these history revisionists doing a great disservice to the many true and wonderful African -American heroes that we can learn about by introducing falsehoods as if this was necessary?
01:30:28: Oh, that's a really good point. And a goodly number of Black historians and even social activists have weighed in on these issues.
01:30:41: There's a book entitled Red, White, and Black, subtitled Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers.
01:30:50: And that's written by the senior editor is Robert L. Woodson, and all the other authors are
01:30:57: Black historians, including Shelby Steele and Clarence Page, who's a liberal.
01:31:08: They've come out with a book of essays on that very subject.
01:31:14: And they are doing a great disservice because a lot of the
01:31:20: Black heroes of American history, from inventors to military men, to poets, they get a great twist in the teaching of American history and have been for, well, have been for 50 years since I've been studying history.
01:31:38: It's not like they have been left out or are excluded. So it is a great disservice.
01:31:45: And they have eliminated some of those people. Some of those people soon choose to read up from slavery.
01:31:54: And other things by even great
01:32:00: Black abolitionists during the 1850s and 60s pulled down their statues.
01:32:07: What is the reason for that? Well, all revolutions try to start history over again.
01:32:17: And in order to do so, they have to completely eradicate the past. Look at Cambodia and the
01:32:24: Khmer Rouge, and China, Red China. One of the first things they did when the
01:32:30: Communist Chinese took over China in their revolution was to change the street names, to get rid of all the names of past Chinese heroes and historical figures.
01:32:43: They finally just began destroying the graveyards. They tore down the statues, the memorials, and then they turned on the graveyards, tear down gravestones that memorialized the past because they're starting over again.
01:32:57: You know, the new Communist man starting year zero, as they tried to do in Cambodia.
01:33:06: And of course, along with that was the bloodbath of millions and millions of people. But it's sort of a revolutionary imperative.
01:33:14: The French did it, the French Revolution, the Russians did it, the Russian Revolution, the
01:33:20: Chinese, the Cambodians, the Cubans. Another destruction of the past is starting over with the new
01:33:26: Soviet man, or whatever. So revolutions tend to annihilate the past, even those who would otherwise perhaps seem to be sympathetic to their cause.
01:33:40: But starting over again, getting rid of the old, as Chairman Mao said, the old way of thinking, the old people, the old history, all have to be done away with.
01:33:53: You know, I find it remarkable, I probably have mentioned this on my show before.
01:34:00: But Cassius Clay, the great heavyweight, who became a member of the
01:34:06: Nation of Islam in the, I believe it was the early 60s, when he did that.
01:34:13: He adopted the name Muhammad Ali, because he said he no longer wanted to go by his slave name.
01:34:24: He wanted to abandon his slave name, Cassius Clay. And the thing that is amazingly absurd about that is that Cassius Clay was a 19th century emancipationist who worked for the abolition of slavery in Kentucky, of all places, where Cassius Clay was born and raised himself.
01:34:48: And I'm speaking of the latter Cassius Clay, I'm speaking of Muhammad Ali. And I would have to think his parents named him that after that great emancipationist.
01:35:00: And I'm baffled as to how he could not know that, or if it didn't matter. But anyway, really, really strange.
01:35:08: We have CJ in Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York.
01:35:16: And CJ asks, when these so called historians who are a part of the 1619 project are confronted with specific fallacies, what is their response?
01:35:29: Is it only stone cold silence? Do they give excuses? Do they say that those correcting them are lying?
01:35:38: Is it a combination of all these things? I find this absolutely mind boggling. The absurdity of it is mind boggling, for sure.
01:35:50: I can give you one example. After those historians wrote the letter, really criticizing the project for putting ideology before historical understanding,
01:36:05: Jake Silberstein, the editor of New York Times Magazine, defended the accuracy of the 1619 project.
01:36:13: But in March of 2020, the Times issued a clarification, modifying one of the passages on the role of slavery in the
01:36:24: American Revolution that sparked controversy. And what it sparked controversy is they said that the
01:36:29: American Revolution was all about saving slaves and preventing the
01:36:35: English, the British, from emancipating the slaves. And what they do is they change one word, and they say some people, or most people, they use a qualified, they exchange an absolute word for a qualifying word to try and step down the radicalness of their previous statement.
01:36:58: So sometimes, in some cases in the 1619 project, they made quiet modifications based on the criticisms.
01:37:08: But the central core of it is, stays the same.
01:37:16: Doug Wilson wrote something interesting, where he says that while he's dealing with the whole idea of critical race theory and the project, he says, relativistic postmodernism has morphed into an absolutist cult.
01:37:37: That is, an absolutist conviction that every form of hierarchy and privilege is evil on the face of it.
01:37:44: This is simply assumed, never demonstrated. It is their foundational presupposition. Thus, things that are stated that simply aren't true are part of the ideology.
01:38:00: They are probably true, or they would be true if. And that's the same as they're true when it comes to, you know, these types of arguments.
01:38:12: In fact, it's been declared that logic now is part of white supremacy.
01:38:18: And so logic is no longer valid in discussing these things. It's absurd to stand.
01:38:26: That makes absolutely no sense. So you're saying that if you are a person with more melanin content than Caucasians, that you think illogically?
01:38:37: I don't even understand. Well, I think the vast majority of American people not only don't understand it, but don't, wouldn't hope to, if it could be explained to them.
01:38:48: I see recent arguments have been, critical race theory is something they teach in college, and you wouldn't understand it.
01:38:57: And when some of these guys are confronted on, like, talk shows and on television, that's their response.
01:39:06: This is something we've been teaching for years, and it's on the college level, and you're really not, you really can't, the average layman can't understand it.
01:39:17: These theories are for experts. And a lot of people are just put off by that. They're intimidated by professional historians, or journalists, or whoever's shouting the loudest in the street.
01:39:30: Yeah. One thing that perpetuates all of these lies is a failure to recognize the universality of total depravity.
01:39:42: People of every skin color and ethnic group and national origin are sinners and deserving of hell.
01:39:52: And there are bigots amongst all of us. And to claim that certain people are exempt from that because of the color of their skin, often accompanied by the lie that only people who have authority and power can be guilty of bigotry.
01:40:12: If you are a Christian, you cannot believe that, because obviously the
01:40:17: Jews were amongst the most persecuted people on the planet Earth, and yet the
01:40:24: Apostle Paul seriously rebuked the Judaizers for their anti -Gentile bigotry, even though the
01:40:33: Gentiles had enslaved and persecuted and slaughtered and tormented
01:40:40: Jews for centuries. That did not give Jewish Christians a license to treat them differently.
01:40:49: Am I making sense here? Oh, yes. And there are other,
01:40:55: I mean, we could really give a pretty keen biblical analysis of the various problems that are in common, or that come along with these theories.
01:41:06: And one is, most of these guys and ladies don't believe in objective truth.
01:41:13: And for the Christian, we have a standard. We have a signpost of objective biblical truth.
01:41:21: That's why math is racist. We have something to weigh these things against. They don't.
01:41:28: And so they're adrift in a sea of relativity, as Rush Dooney used to say.
01:41:35: And it's coming out in this, what was relativistic postmodernism has now become an absolutist sort of thing.
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01:51:08: Bill. If you want to pick up where you left off, and I also want you to summarize afterward what you most want etched in the hearts and minds of our listeners today.
01:51:20: Okay, thanks. What I was going to say right before the break was we've gone from authoritarianism in the educational system, which tells you what you're not allowed to say, what you can't say.
01:51:38: We've gone to totalitarianism in the educational system, and beyond in business and government.
01:51:47: Totalitarianism, according to Theodore Dalrymple, who made this point, I think rightly so, they tell you what you have to say.
01:51:54: And as Orwell said, two plus two equals five. And that's what you have to say.
01:51:59: You have to say that girls can be boys and boys can be girls, or whatever it is in the general popular culture.
01:52:06: And the 1619 Project is just one subset of a larger war against Christ and against the idea of objective truth, and certainly the biblical and Christian history that has permeated
01:52:29: American history. And it's not just this project. A book came out recently entitled,
01:52:36: Forget the Alamo, the Rise and Fall of an American Myth. And it's in the same predictable 1619
01:52:44: Project style. The central piece of the book is that the
01:52:53: Texan War for Independence for Mexico was waged to protect slavery and enshrine white supremacy.
01:53:00: And this is a 400 -page book just on that subject. But one thing we haven't talked about is, other than on an individual level, what can
01:53:09: I do for my own children or grandchildren, is that you can also have any public influence in your local school boards.
01:53:20: I mean, we homeschool all of our children all the way through. And so we haven't had any contact whatsoever with the public school system.
01:53:29: But for those who do, and those who are still trapped in the public school system, they need to speak up at their local school boards and elect people who understand what's going on and are willing to take a stand.
01:53:44: Now, in Texas, that's what's happened with this particular book. The lieutenant governor came out and called
01:53:50: Forget the Alamo a fact -free rewriting of Texas history. And Texas historians debunked it altogether as a polemic posing as history.
01:54:02: And so there are those who occasionally will take a stand, usually not on state level like that. But locally, certainly.
01:54:10: And with the 1619 Project becoming the American history curriculum in so many schools that people need to know what it is and people need to stand up and fight against it.
01:54:26: I know some states have banned it. I think four or five states have banned the teaching of critical race theory.
01:54:33: Well, they've been teaching it in those schools in those states for 40 years. I mean, you know, banning it now, it's not going to change all those teachers who are trained in all those education schools and believe that that's what history is all about.
01:54:50: So it's going to take a lot of pushback. But for the average
01:54:56: Christian family, you need to be teaching the truth at home. And children need to understand that this is part of a larger war that has continued since the beginning of time.
01:55:10: And this is the permutation of it in our generation. And, you know, the world of our children and grandchildren is going to be very, very different from the world in which we live now.
01:55:24: And they're going to need to learn to stand in the day of battle.
01:55:30: And, you know, things like this curriculum ought not to be a part of a
01:55:36: Christian family's study in any conceivable way. We have
01:55:42: Christopher from Western Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, who says,
01:55:47: I know that there have been quite a number of pastors and theologians who previously were trustworthy, it seems, and agreed on much of the things that I'm sure you and the host,
01:56:07: Chris Arnson, believe in regard to Reformed theology, but who somehow, nonetheless, caved in to adopt and even lead the charge promoting the woke movement.
01:56:21: Have there been any people of note who have otherwise conservative theology and doctrine who have swallowed the 1619
01:56:30: Project, whether they really believe it or not, and are promoting it? Well, I think that there are, but they aren't people that I read or that are in the circles that I'm interested in pursuing.
01:56:49: I hear about them from time to time. But it's never been that way in the history of the
01:56:54: Church. Whenever there's been a crisis, and whenever there's been a majority of popular culture flowing against the
01:57:05: Church, there have always been compromisers. It's nothing new. It'll probably continue to the second coming.
01:57:15: But the false suns within her pale are going to step out and compromise.
01:57:27: It's always been that case. So we can expect it to happen and to continue to happen, and people buying into the woke culture and the new permutation of postmodernism as we see it in the study of history.
01:57:45: Well, Bill, I already know that I want to have you back again frequently on this show.
01:57:51: You've been a real blessing to me. If someone desires to have you speak at their church, at their school, any other venue, how would they go about that, and what specifically would you do on any given number of presentations on different themes?
01:58:08: Well, it depends on what it is. I have hundreds and hundreds of lectures
01:58:15: I've been teaching for more than 45 years, and they just have to drop me a line on my email address, which
01:58:24: I'm not fearful to give out over the air. It's billpotter .historian at gmail .com.
01:58:32: I speak at Father and Son retreats, at history conferences, all sorts of venues and occasions.
01:58:40: So they just have to drop me a line and start a dialogue. So I'm happy to travel and happy to teach.
01:58:48: Great. Well, I want to remind our listeners also of the website for Landmark Events. It's LandmarkEvents .org.
01:58:55: That's real easy to remember. LandmarkEvents .org. Thank you so much, Bill, for being such an extraordinary guest.
01:59:02: I look forward to your frequent and soon return to Iron Trip and Zion Radio. I want to thank everybody who listened today, especially those who took the time to write.
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