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All right, let's get started. I hope you had a good weekend. I had a good weekend.
I hope you had a good Lord's Day. I had a good Lord's Day. Let's get started. The great
Thomas Sowell, he wrote a book a while back about the
American public education system and what a complete disaster it's been. And it's a really good book.
If you've never read it, man, I'm forgetting the name of it right now, but I'm gonna quote from it.
So you'll be able to look up the quote and find out the name of the book. But in any case, and the public education system has been a disaster.
I was publicly educated. I always bring that up whenever I mispronounce a word or something like that, just to use as an excuse.
It's a handy excuse. I was publicly educated and I turned out fine.
I'm aware of my own intelligence level. And I know that public education really didn't help me in that regard.
It probably hurt a little bit, I don't know. But you can survive public school. There's just no question about it. You can thrive.
But I distinctly remember many times in my public education that I just,
I took a step back from what was going on in the classroom and I just could not believe how stupid it was.
And at the time I had no way to know if maybe I just didn't get it or whatever.
But no, looking back, it was stupid. It was very stupid. And many times this would happen either in English class or social studies.
Those are the two classes I remember this happening in. I don't remember this in math. I don't remember this in science. Although I'm sure in 2023, this happens in math and science as well.
But in English class and social studies, we'd be talking about, one minute we'd be talking about the meaning of the book or what message the book was trying to send or what happened in history or something like that.
And then we'd talk about how it made us feel and our own feelings and our own personal interpretations.
And I always knew that that was complete nonsense. Like, sure, the book might make you feel a certain way, but what does that matter?
And what does that matter to me? It doesn't matter to me. We need to figure out what it actually means, not how it made you feel and what you feel it might mean.
And I remember very distinctly many times just, I just could not believe how dumb the conversation had gone.
And in the book, Thomas Sowell has a quote, and this is a really good quote. People have quoted this many times.
This sums up public school, I think very well, and probably more so today than it used to.
He says this, he says, the problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think.
The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is. He confuses it with feeling.
That's the quote. It's not that he can't read. Of course, you know, this public education system usually teaches kids how to read, usually.
You know, kids usually come out and they're able to think, right? They're able to think through certain things.
But the problem is that they oftentimes can't distinguish logical thinking processes from emotional thinking processes.
And they think it's the same thing. And if something makes them feel a certain way, then it has to be a certain way.
On your screen, you've got Amin Hudson. Amin Hudson is a woke church promoter, you know, that kind of thing.
He's got a podcast called, I think, South Side Rabbi or something like that, where he talks to this rapper.
I forget the rapper's name. KB, I think it is. And they talk about, you know, woke issues, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, I had a conversation once with Amin and KB, and I thought it was a pretty good conversation. This is back when I used to ask for conversations.
I don't anymore, because I know that so few of these people actually are honest enough to have a real conversation.
Most of them are very disingenuous. And in my opinion, Amin is one of those people. So this is
Amin Hudson. Amin Hudson, he quote tweeted a scare quote that somebody clipped out of Matt Walsh's commentary recently on a show about slavery.
And, you know, he's very offended by it, as usual. I mean, when are these people not offended by things, right?
And I thought we'd go over it, because this is a textbook example of confusing thinking with feeling, confusing your logical processes, logical arguments with emotions.
And so let's talk about this. We'll watch the Matt Walsh clip and go from there. But here's the thing, like the
Matt Walsh clip, I'm no fan of Matt Walsh. I don't really like him very much. He's made me laugh a few times.
Like I remember, I've probably watched, let's see. I've probably watched no more than five or six
Matt Walsh clips. I've never watched the Matt Walsh show on its own. I've only seen things that people have clipped.
But he's made me laugh a few times. He's got that sort of dry sense of humor that I like.
There was one video I remember where he was talking about anime and he said that he thinks anime is a joke.
He thinks anime is demonic and he doesn't really have a reason. It just seems like it is to him. I thought that was really funny because I can relate to that.
I think anime seems very weird as well. It's a joke though, of course. I know you anime weirdos out there, whatever.
Anyway, so this is not about defending Matt Walsh. I don't care. I think Matt Walsh is,
I don't like him. Let me put it that way. I don't like Matt Walsh.
But he has said some good things. And I give credit where credit is due. I mean, he said some good things about the
Trannies and all that kind of stuff. Anyway, so let's watch this. And here is what
Amin has to say about. We'll start with that and we'll go from there. Here's Amin's emotions.
He says, what happens when you're elevating certain views of American Western social philosophy and history and political cultural tribalism higher than the cross?
What an utterly ridiculous consequentialist argument. Hard for me to wrap my head around how he would think this argument is even viable.
So Amin, he's clutching his pearls real hard, real hard. And so, I'm a nice guy.
I don't really care to necessarily address this to Amin because again, I don't think he's honestly confused.
I think he's just trying to rile his emotions up and his base's emotions up. He knows his audience, they're not a thinking audience.
They're a feeling audience. And if you look at the comments here, you can see it on display just again and again and again.
These people are all just emoting. They're all just emoting. It's like, and it's a lot of clutching pearls.
Like, oh my, my goodness. Oh my gosh, he's a terror. He's a Nazi, you know, like stuff like that.
You know, typical stuff. So I'm not addressing this to Amin, but if Amin wants to find this helpful,
I'm sure he can if he wants to. But this is for my audience. We actually do think through these things and you probably will have to address this at some point in the future.
So hopefully you'll find this helpful. But let's hear what Matt Walsh has to say. In fact, it seems rather clear that black
Americans are doing better here today than they would be had their ancestors generations ago never been brought to these shores.
We can prove this point by simply asking which African country anyone asking for reparations would prefer to live in.
The answer, of course, is none of them. Now, you might offer the rebuttal. There we go. Let's stop right there.
He says it's indisputable. I don't think he said indisputable, but I'm going to say it's indisputable that blacks here in the
United States are doing better than blacks in whatever African country.
I mean, whichever one you want to choose, you're better off here than you would be there. That's indisputable.
There's just no way to dispute that. It's not utterly ridiculous. It's not hard to wrap your mind around.
It is a simple fact. And you can know this is a fact any kind of way.
Like, you can know it through the statistics. You can look at economic data. You can look at life expectancy, you know, crime data, whatever you want.
Whatever data you want to choose, you can know it that way. You don't even need the data, though.
The way he presents this is like, you know, just ask which country would you want to go to rather than the
United States. And pretty much everyone will say, well, there's no country I'd rather go to rather than the United States. And so that's more anecdotal, but it's another way you can know this.
This is a fact. This is a simple fact. And the bottom line is, this is not hard to wrap your mind around.
That's why I know Amin is not really an honest actor. He's just emoting. Okay, hold on a second here.
Sorry about that. My kids are playing Ninja Turtles and I guess my youngest son threw a
Ninja Star at one of his brothers. So that's what that scream was all about. But anyway, I forget where I was, but bottom line is that part is indisputable.
Maybe the hard to understand, ridiculous stuff is coming. Let's find out. I know that if slavery never existed, if we're re -imagining history without that institution at all, then
Africa itself would be in a better shape, better place and better shape. And maybe indeed black Americans would be better off there.
But this seems highly unlikely. And it also ignores the fact that Africans participated in slavery and the slave trade as much as they were victims of it.
Not to mention if we're re -imagining the world without African slavery, then we have to also imagine it without all other forms of global slavery since African slavery was merely one variety, one offshoot of this global institution.
And now we have totally in that point, rewritten the history of the world in a way so dramatic that it's absolutely impossible to say which individuals today would end up worse or better in this alternate universe.
I mean, if you go back in time and get rid of slavery from the entire world, you have just, it's impossible to say what the world looks like right now.
Of course it is. And that's indisputable as well. Slavery has been so ubiquitous.
I think that's the right word, but because I went to public school, I'm not entirely sure. Slavery has been so common in world history and it's still common today in some corners of the world that yeah, you'd be rewriting all of history.
There'd be no way to know what would be happening, right? Because God in his infinite wisdom and his infinite goodness has created history in such a way that there's constantly situations where someone is put into slavery and it actually results in outcomes that are positive for God's people.
You know, you meant this for evil. God meant this for good. That's a famous passage from Genesis chapter 50, which is a key verse.
It's not like, this is the thing. I remember talking to Amin, right? And I'm not allowed to clip that video.
I mean, they made me promise I would never clip that video. I don't know really why, but I did promise to not do that.
I would never make such a promise today because today I don't really care. Honestly, there's very few conversations that I would have, debate conversations that I would have these days.
But back then I was like, I was very keen to talk to someone from the other side.
And so I agreed to not ever clip that. But in that video, I talked about this. It's not like we have no verses that talk about slavery and the outcomes of slavery and things like that.
We do, Genesis 50, you know, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers. That wasn't a good thing, right?
That was an evil thing. Joseph even says it, you meant this for evil. And Joseph suffered very much during that.
But the result, we know the story, the result of Joseph being enslaved in Egypt was that he rose to the rank of second in command of Egypt and God used that and he meant this to save people through that famine.
And if he had not been there, they would have starved during that famine. Now, of course, God can work things out any way he wants, but he chose, listen to this,
God chose to work it out through the enslavement of Joseph. That's what
God's choice was. And I, for one, thank the Lord for that choice that he made.
God could have saved his people another way without enslaving Joseph, but God in his infinite goodness, in his infinite wisdom, chose to use that situation, his brothers beating him into a pulp, selling him to slave traders and having him be enslaved to Egypt, go to Potiphar's house, be framed by Potiphar's wife, thrown in prison for years, and then rising to the ranks of the second in command of Egypt.
That's how God chose to save his people. And I absolutely praise God and thank
God for that choice. That was the right choice and I'm grateful for that choice. So it's not like we don't have examples of this.
I mean, and even the Israelites as a whole, it wasn't just Joseph, right? The Israelites as a whole were enslaved by Egypt later on in the story.
And that was a critical part of the story. And I, for one, thank God for him choosing to do that, choosing to put
Israel through slavery so that he could show the world, he could show everyone that the gods of Egypt were nothing.
He destroyed each god one by one, undermining them one by one in the plagues and then saving his people with an outstretched arm and all of that, that was wonderful.
I thank God for that situation. I thank God for that situation. This is indisputable.
I mean, it's like, oh, maybe the Africans would have been better off in Africa. Maybe, maybe, but I don't think so.
I agree with Walsh here. I mean, I have no idea. I have no idea how the world would be rewritten had
God not chosen to do the things that he's chosen to do. By the way, God chose to have the
Africans enslaved by the Europeans in the United States. That was
God's choice. Let that marinate with you for a minute.
That was God's choice to do that, just like it was God's choice to have
Joseph enslaved, just like it was God's choice to have Israel enslaved the various times that they were enslaved.
That was, God chose to do that. And you know why he did it? He did it for his good purposes.
He did it for the good of his people. And it's not like we have to guess what that good is because we can look at history and we can look at the situation in Nigeria right now, and then we can look at the situation in New Hampshire right now, and we can compare and contrast those situations.
It's not a mystery why God chose to enslave the Africans and bring them to the United States. It's not a mystery.
And I, for one, am very grateful for that. We'll talk about that in a moment. Actually, what we can say is that we'd all end up worse.
All of us today would be in a worse spot if slavery never existed at all across the entire globe, because a change that significant would likely shift the course of events in a way that would mean none of us would even exist.
It would be a world full of other people who are not us. This guy's getting a little bit too
Terminator 2 for me, right? This is a little bit too much back to the future for me, because I, personally, listen, I went to public school, so I can't adjust timelines like this.
Like, this is not back to the future, right? But I understand the point. The point is, if you take out slavery, which has been so ubiquitous, it's been so commonplace, it's been responsible for so much of what we have today, right, then obviously it would adjust the timeline very much.
I mean, again, this is too much back to the future for me. I don't really quite understand exactly why you need to go there, but that's where he went.
I get the point, I get the point. We'd probably have completely different people than we do right now.
That's true, that's true. Okay. I'm still waiting, Amin, for the hard -to -wrap -your -head -around stuff, because this all seems like obviously true, indisputable stuff.
It's just, let's just, maybe it's in the last 10 seconds. Let's listen to this. So I know that I benefit today from virtually everything my ancestors did and everything did to them, because if any of that had not happened, there's a very good chance that I never would have come into being.
And as I see it, I benefit from being if the other option is not being. Okay. So we've got two options here.
Either Amin is brain dead, or he's not really telling the truth here.
It's not hard to wrap his mind around this, and he's just really feeling his way through this.
This is not something he's actually considering logically. This is something that he says, how does this make me feel?
And that's what he determines what the argument means. By the way, a lot of critical race theory people do this.
This is that speech act theory. Like, it's like, what does these words do?
Not what the words say. Like, what does it matter what Matt Walsh says? It's what it does. And what it does is it makes me feel really sad and angry.
That's what it does. And so they must be bad. It must be a bad argument, because it makes me feel bad.
The problem isn't that Amin can't read. The problem isn't even that Amin can't think.
The problem is that Amin doesn't know what thinking is. He confuses it with feeling.
That's the problem. See, here's how you think through this as a descendant of slaves.
When you're actually thinking, you're not just feeling your way through this, right? Because I'm the descendant of slaves.
It's indisputable. My ancestors were slaves. And I don't mean in the sense that Matt Walsh means, where it's like slavery was so ubiquitous that basically everyone is the ancestor of a slave.
That's true too, by the way. Matt Walsh is probably statistically right about that as well.
But what I mean is I'm in the only slave, my ancestors were in the only slave trade that allegedly matters in this kind of person's worldview.
In this person's worldview, there's only one slave trade that matters. And that's the African slave trade where you come from Nigeria to the
New World. That's the only one that really matters when you're feeling through this kind of stuff.
That's the, but my point is, that's the slave trade that my ancestors were in. I'm Puerto Rican. And if you know anything about the history of Puerto Rico, then you know that that was a major slave port, right?
Africans were brought to Puerto Rico. And that's why there's a lot of black Puerto Ricans. That's why every Puerto Rican pretty much has some
African blood in them. I have African blood. Usually the mix is about 60 % European, 20 % native, like the people that lived on Puerto Rico before the
New World or before it was the New World. And then 20 % African, that's the usual mix.
And that's roughly what my mix is. And my mix is, if you kind of pinpoint the
DNA, it's from Nigeria. I've got 20 % Nigerian blood. So my ancestors were in the slave trade.
They were brought over as slaves. And when you're thinking through this, instead of feeling, and you understand what
God is like, and that last statement where he said, we're all better off, we're all better off because of what happened in the past, the slave trade, and that's what he was talking about in particular.
But the thing is that applies to everything because we've got Bible verses. This is indisputable, right?
When you're thinking about this instead of feeling, this is indisputable. All things, this is what the scripture says, all things, not just slavery and not just good things, all things work together for the good of those who love
Jesus, for those who love the Lord. All things work together for their good.
Now, if you're one of Christ's, all things, including slavery, work together for your good.
If you're not one of Christ, then you're in a different boat.
It's just that simple. But Matt Walsh's point still stands. I mean, you're still benefiting from what happened in the past because here you are, you're here, you're benefiting.
God causes the rain to fall on the unjust as well as the just. But I can think through in a pretty logical way without emoting my way through this because I could get all emotional and say, oh, my ancestors were slaves and therefore
I'm a victim. I'm a victim and I'm basically a slave too. I would have so much more if only my ancestors weren't slaves.
I could do that, but that would just be feeling my way through this. What I do instead is
I have an attitude of gratitude, an attitude of gratitude, contentment, thankfulness to the
Lord, because I look at Nigeria, there's a whole lot of Muslims there. There's a whole lot of suffering there.
There's slaves even there. In this time, in 2023, there's slaves in Nigeria. And then
I think about my family brought over in the slave trade. There's a whole lot of Christians in my family.
And I look at God and I said, what if God left my family over in Nigeria? And let's not play too much back to the future.
Let's say we all still exist, right? It's a pretty good chance, a better than average chance
I'd be a Muslim right now, worshiping Allah and unsafe, still in my sins.
Yes, sure, Christ is a good prophet, but he's not the Lord, he's not the savior. There's a good chance that I'd be in that situation, but I'm not.
I'm here and I'm trusting on the Lord Jesus Christ. And I've got a nice house and I've got good things that God has given me.
My family, I mean, even my family, my grandparents used to live in the projects, right?
All my family's from the Bronx. They used to live in the projects. And it's the kind of place where you go into the elevator and it's very kind of sketchy and there's urine everywhere and there's shootings outside, drug dealers everywhere.
That's the kind of place my grandparents lived. That place is better than being in Nigeria though.
So like, even though they're in a poor situation comparatively to others here in the United States, they're better off being in the projects on Castle Hill Avenue in the
Bronx than they would be in Nigeria, better off. But more than anything, they're believers.
And I thank God because he could have easily left me in my sin. He could have easily said, you know, the
Robles family, let's leave them in Nigeria. Let's leave them in Nigeria and then they'd be the
Mohammeds or the Abduls or whatever it is, whatever the last names. I don't even know what the last names are. He could have easily done that and he didn't.
Instead, he had my family brought over in the slave trade. They were suffering on that passage, no question about it.
They were suffering. It wasn't a good thing for the slave traders to do. You see, that's the thing, when you're thinking through this and I urge you to go to the comments of this thing where Amin just emotes for a little while and it's like, oh, so Matt Walsh is saying that slavery is good?
And it's like, this is the exact thing that Genesis 50 talks about. You meant it for evil.
The slave traders meant it for evil. God meant it for good. And I, for one, thank
God for that. I, for one, thank God for that. Now you gotta ask yourself, has
Amin ever read Genesis 50? Has he ever thought through it? And the answer is yes, he has.
He has read Genesis 50 and he has thought through it. And I would argue that if you asked
Amin what Genesis 50 meant, he would get it right because the problem isn't that Amin can't read, he can.
The problem isn't that Amin can't think, he can think. If you asked Amin what
Genesis 50 means, he would get it. He would understand. If you asked Amin, what does it mean that all things work together for good, for those who love
Christ, he would understand. See, the problem isn't that Amin can't think. The problem is that when it comes to certain issues,
Amin doesn't know what thinking is. He confuses it with feeling.
Amin is a product of an absolutely abysmal education system.
Maybe Amin went to public school, maybe he didn't. See, this way of feeling through issues, this is not just limited to public school anymore.
This is how people are. This is the woke church movement. They feel through issues. They don't think through them.
They feel through them. And so while Amin will probably understand that, yeah, sure, it was good that God had had
Joseph go through slavery to save many people alive, that's what the verse says, but that doesn't apply to this somehow because Matt Walsh is evil.
He's conservative and white. Therefore, it doesn't apply. He knows it applies, but this is how you rile up people.
This is how you get people emotional and follow your stupidity. You get all emotional yourself and you feel through issues like this.
That's the point. You see, I can be grateful for slavery because of how
I've benefited. I look at my own children and they've benefited as well. I can be against slavery, but still thank
God for it because of how it benefited me. And that's the bottom line.
And so this doesn't require you to be like some kind of superior intellect.
This doesn't require you to have a 153 IQ or anything like that.
You know what I mean? Like it doesn't require you to be super smart. You can be a public school kid and actually still think through issues, but it does require you to stop thinking with your heart.
Doesn't mean you turn off your emotions, but make sure that when you're thinking through something and you feel those feelings, oh my goodness, he's a
Nazi. Like that's your warning. Maybe it's time for me to take a step back and think through this instead of feeling through this.
And this whole, again, the comments, the way people respond to this, this is a whole list of people that they're just feeling through this issue.
Like the problem with Ty Hill here is not that he can't read. It's not that he can't think. It's that he doesn't know what thinking is.
He confuses it with feeling. This is what he says. This is like telling the parent of one of the Columbine victims, you have more money later in life because you didn't have to pay your kid's college tuition.
Like what do you even say to that? I mean, I have no idea if this guy Ty Hill is a Christian, but the bottom line is that the scripture says that all things work together for the good of those who love him.
Not just the good things, not just the feel -good, warm, in -your -tummy -tum -tum things, but all things, all things work together for the good of those who love him.
A mean is not a stupid man. A mean is not a stupid man.
A mean is not ignorant. A mean is, let me save that.
Let me save that. In any case, I hope you found this helpful. I mean, the reality is that you're gonna face this kind of argumentation where they're just kind of emoting at you.
This is so ridiculous and they don't really tell you why it's ridiculous. This is, I can't even wrap my head around this, but they don't tell you why.
This is how you, when you put tribalism above the cross, it's like, in what way in that clip?
Listen, I'm no fan of Matt Walsh. I don't even like him. There was nothing controversial in here.
Everything he said is indisputably true, indisputably true. And what would he be putting above the cross?
This is from the scripture. This kind of argument is from the scripture. We have examples of slavery.
We have passages that talk about this. Doesn't mean you have to like slavery to acknowledge that you benefited from it.
I mean, Christ was working his good purposes through the slave traders, right?
That might be hard for you to hear, but when you start to feel those emotions, oh no, AD's a Nazi, that's when it's a good warning to take a step back and think it through.
Was God working through the slave traders or not? Doesn't mean what they did was good. Was he working his good purposes through their evil or not?
It's that Amin doesn't know what thinking is. He confuses it with feeling. I hope you found this video helpful.