December 29, 2020 Show with Samuel Sey on “The New Socially Acceptable Racism”

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Introduction of Samuel Say and His Ministry

And I am thrilled to have as a first-time guest today, at the great enthusiastic urging of my webmaster, Eric Nielsen, Samuel Say, a Ghanaian Canadian, and the community liaison at the Canadian Center for Bioethical Reform, who is committed to addressing racial, cultural, and political issues with biblical theology in an attempt to be quick to listen and slow to speak.

Samuel's words have been featured on the Statement on Social Justice, The Blaze, Relatable with Ali Stuckey, brightbart .com, challies .com, Alpha and Omega Ministries, the Ezra Institute, wretched .org, desiringgod .com, and more.

And he is the host of slow2write .com. Today we are addressing the new socially acceptable racism. That's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time ever to Iron Triple Design Radio, Samuel Say.

Yeah, thank you so much for having me, sir.

Oh, my pleasure. And it's so great to know that, it's so great to discover that you've been listening for a long time and benefiting greatly from the show. Well, you know, a lot of people ask me, what are you doing here?

Meaning, why am I even hosting the show? But I'm sure after a reasonably short period of time, you'll become very relaxed, knowing that this is just like a conversation between two brothers over a coffee table.

And before we go into your personal salvation testimony, which is a tradition here, whenever we have first time guests on Iron Triple Design Radio, why don't you tell us about slow2write .com?

Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit more about exactly what the Canadian Center for Bioethical Reform.

Does?

And you deserve the right, because I don't quite understand.

Praise God. Yes. In fact, I know a woman, she's actually the woman that led me to Christ in the 1980s. And she had a book of photographs, not of aborted babies, but actually of the development of life in the mother's womb, from conception to moments before delivery.

And she had a friend who was using crack. And the doctor was urging her to get an abortion, because the doctor was fairly convinced that the baby would have severe brain damage or other negative effects from the mother's habitual use of crack.

So she was all set to have this abortion until my friend, Susan, who led me to Christ, sat down with her with this book of photographs. And those photographs convinced her that what was inside her was a human being.

And she had the baby, and the baby was completely normal.

As I said before, since you are a first-time guest on High Interpretation Radio, I would.

Love for you now to give a summary of your salvation testimony, or what kind of religious atmosphere, if any, you were raised in. And what kind of providential circumstances did our Sovereign Lord raise up in your life that drew you to Himself and saved you?

There you are.

Tim has been on this program a number of times. Praise God. Well, tell me about your journey into the whole discussion of race and racism, the particular position you have taken. You take a very conservative and biblically orthodox and theologically sound approach to this whole issue.

When did this start to offend you so deeply? And I'm speaking of things like the woke movement, critical race theory, and other things that the leftists have championed and really turned into a new religion.

Tell us about your journey into opposing that publicly.

Yeah. I get what they say. I can read what they say. But ultimately, if they are against it, then I'm against it more and more. Well, we're going to be going to our first break right now.

And I'd like to give our listeners our email address so that they can join us with their own questions if they'd like. Our email address is chrisarnzen at gmail .com. C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N, gmail .com.

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Critical Race Theory and the New Socially Acceptable Racism

Welcome back. This is Chris Arms. And if you just tuned us in, our guest today for the full two hours, with a little bit less than 90 minutes to go, is Samuel Say, who is host of Slow2Write .com. Today, we are addressing the new socially acceptable racism.

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Well, reading right off of your website, Samuel, you say that the most socially acceptable form of racism today is not white supremacy. It is critical race theory. White supremacist books are not bestsellers.

Critical race theory books are. Richard Spencer's Racist Ideology, and by the way, for those of our listeners who are unfamiliar with him, and I thank God if they're not familiar with him. He's a neo-Nazi, a racist activist and author, but Richard Spencer's Racist Ideology did not shape widespread protests and riots this year, and it's not influencing academia, businesses, churches, and culture.

Unlike them, ex-Kendi's Racist Ideology, only one of these racists has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine, and it's not Richard Spencer. Ibram X. Kendi is a history professor and the founding director of the Boston University Center for Anti-Racist Research, but most notably, he's the author of How to Be an Anti-Racist.

Next to Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility, How to Be an Anti-Racist is the bestselling critical race theory book over the last year. Now, going back to the original statement here that white supremacy is not the most socially acceptable form of racism today, make your case for that, including the other things that we mentioned from your quotes, and tell us about who Ibram X. Kendi is.

Now they, those that promote cultural race theory and so on, they would insist that what.

They embrace as their own ideology is not racism. In fact, many among them will insist that it is actually impossible for a black person, perhaps they will include some other minorities that have darker skin colors, but it is impossible, especially for a black person, to be a racist.

Now, this is mind-boggling, isn't it? This is a real clear example of racism when you're basically saying that somebody is morally superior to others because of something as ridiculous as the melanin content of their skin.

I mean, isn't this just pure insanity?

Exactly. Now, just like they would say probably the majority of black police officers are racist.

Yeah, it's especially concerning since you and I happen to be theologically reformed in our makeup, and knowing that this exists amongst our theological kinsmen, this is existing amongst those that profess to be theologically reformed Christians.

Yet, I'm assuming that there may be a part to play in the desire of many.

Reformed Christians to see more black Christians and even unbelievers to not only become Christian, but to see more blacks come into the reformed faith. Perhaps because we have such a tiny minority right now, although it is growing, a tiny minority of blacks in the reformed faith, there may be more of a tendency to try to appeal to what these reformed Christians think will be a draw to more black folks.

I'm just assuming that this may be a part of it.

Oh, absolutely.

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