April 5, 2018 Show with Darrell Bernard Harrison and Christopher Harris on “Racism in America: Are Modern Day Social Justice Warriors Diminishing Or Perpetuating the Sin of Bigotry?”

The Program Theme: Racism in America and the Sin of Bigotry

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I'm so delighted about today's program. It will be a controversial program. It may even get a number of my listeners angry with me, and perhaps even some of my friends will be angry with me as a result of today's program, but I have to follow the truth where I believe it leads me, and today we have two guests on the program, one per hour, who are both going to be addressing the same theme.

The theme today is racism in America are modern-day social justice warriors diminishing or perpetuating the sin of bigotry. My two guests who will be discussing this topic today, starting off with the first hour, Daryl B. Harrison, and then the second hour we will have as our guest, Christopher Harris, and he is the founder of Unhyphenated America, but let me first introduce our first guest, Daryl Harrison.

He is lead host of the Just Thinking podcast, and he is a veteran of the United States Army where he served six years as a member of the United States Army Intelligence Security Command. He is also a fellow of the Black Theology and Leadership Institute, otherwise known as BTLI, of Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey.

He's an alumni of the Theology and Ministry program at Princeton Theological Seminary, an alum of the Liberty University where he majored in psychology with a specialization in Christian counseling, and an alum of the Institute for Expository Preaching, which is a ministry of Dr. Stephen Lawson, who we've had on this program several times.

He is the first African-American to be ordained a deacon in the nearly 200-year history of First Baptist Church of Cummington, Georgia, where he attended from July 2009 to July of 2015, and he is currently a member of the Rockdale Community Church in Conyers, Georgia, which is a Reformed Baptist congregation.

He is an expository Bible teacher with a passion for helping Christians understand what they believe and why they believe it, and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time to Iron Trip and Zion Radio, Daryl B. Harrison.

Well, good afternoon, Chris, and finally be on your program.

Yes, in fact, two people very close in time to one another strongly urged me to have you as a guest on the program, the first being Tom Askle, who is president of Founders Ministries, and the other is Dwayne Atkinson, the host of The Bar podcast, and so I'm glad that I finally have you on the program, and this is, as I said, a controversial issue that divides the body of Christ, even divides those who would be described as racial and ethnic minorities, because it'd be a racist statement in itself to say that all blacks think alike, and they certainly don't, and they certainly don't, but let's, before we go into any of this, let's hear about your own personal testimony.

You are a first-time guest, and I typically, whenever possible, when I have the time to do so, I have our first-time guests give a summary of how they were raised religiously, if at all, and what those providential circumstances that our Lord used to draw you to faith in Him, and then eventually even into Reformed theology.

Yeah, I have, going back to my earliest memories of being in church, like many professing Christians, I'm no different, you know, most of us would probably, but my upbringing in the black church tradition, memories I have of going to church, I'm a native of Atlanta, a narrow street on the southeast side of Atlanta.

It was literally a house church that they had sort of retrofitted and made into a church building. They'd knock down some walls and put some pews in, but looking back on it now, it was really sort of a whole mingling of a little bit of Catholicism with a little bit of, you can imagine.

Wow, that is a combination of opposites, it seems, although there are a lot, it might surprise people to hear this, but there are a lot of connections between Roman Catholicism and Pentecostalism and Charismatic theologies because of the focus on the miraculous.

It's just that the Roman Catholic Church is typically far more sedated in the way that it approaches those things.

Point Chris, and with me was a female, a woman, who went by the title, her office title was Arch Bishop, so she would even, she actually looked quite Pope-like, if I could use that term, in her attire on Sundays, and you know, so I grew up in that kind of environment, very emotion-driven.

I never got caught up, very matter-of-fact and take things for what they are, but you know, when I grew up, going through high school, and after high school, I entered into the military for most of my young life, but as I got into my teens, we transitioned out of that church into another local church in our neighborhood.

There, that I, it occurred to me for the first time that I wasn't learning anything about God. God hit me with that awareness just one Sunday out of the blue, and I ended up leaving that church, joining First Baptist Church of Atlanta, where Dr. Charles Stanley is still the senior pastor, and I was at FBA for 23 years, and it was under FBA, although they're more Arminian in their soteriology, it was that FBA, though, that I came to the awareness that you can be a student of the Bible and not just a reader.

It was that FBA that I first was exposed to a non-KJV translation. I, you know, when I first got, whatever Bible he's reading from, I want that translation because I can understand what he's saying. Now, I just found the KJV to be very, I still use the NASB today, only I use American.

It was there at FBA that I came to know Christ. I came to prove you don't get saved by putting your name on a roll. You don't get saved by you walking down an aisle. I came out of that, of an understanding that I did not choose monergistic theology that sort of drew me into Reformed theology.

Emphasize one, that you're justified. It would be that you have nothing to do with respect to your works, making you, by faith alone, and yet your works have absolutely nothing to do with that. That kind of drew me into looking deeper into Reformed theology and understanding that the doctrine of election, that God, Christianity, as much as it may be inclusive, it is also that He has chosen some people to exist.

John MacArthur theology has helped me understand that it forces, not only theology, but it forces you to read thematic theology. It forces you to read the creeds and the councils and the writings of the early Church Fathers.

It forces you to have an intellectual paradigm of biblical theology, not just going by the traditions that Reformed theology. That would be the doorway that God allowed me to walk through, that you're being.

Justified by, and not your own efforts. Praise God. In fact, I wish I could remember his last name. I was going to ask you if you were at the church where Charles Stanley pastors, simultaneously with a man that I know, but I haven't seen him in years, and I forgot his last name.

He was the pastor of the Syosset Baptist Church here on Long Island, where my friend Dr. James R. White of Alpha Omega Ministries had his very first debate with a Muslim. I arranged this debate there between Dr. White and Hamza Abdul Malik, a former professing Christian who converted to Islam.

But the pastor there, and I can't remember his last name, I'll get back to you later with that, but he was a member of that church where Charles Stanley pastors, and he was a full-blown Calvinist, unlike Dr. Stanley, and he was given the opportunity once to preach there, and he preached on unconditional election, and apparently the tape room, that's they used back in those days, so the old-fashioned cassette tapes, was so swarmed with people that it was drawn, it drew the attention of Dr. Stanley when he returned from whatever trip he was on, and he never permitted my friend to preach from the pulpit again.

Wow. But anyway. I'm not.

Surprised. I'm not surprised, though. I mean, it's not a, you know, they're strictly, you know,.

Arminian in their soteriality, so yeah, I'm not surprised. Oh, and even anti-Calvinist, even though I remember somebody years ago gave me a tape. On one side, it had Dr. Stanley preaching on election, and on the other side, it had Dr. Stanley preaching on election, taking a polar opposite view.

I mean, he, I don't know if he was consciously exegeting it like a Calvinist on the one sermon, but it was very strange to hear the same person preaching two different messages with two different theologies on the same text.

Yeah, that was a long time ago. That was back in the late 80s, perhaps. Like you said, back in the days of tapes. Yes, right. Well, tell us about the Just Thinking podcast. Yeah, so the Just Thinking podcast is a podcast.

That my brother in Christ, Virgil Walker, and I launched back in, I think it was early December of 2017, so it's a very young podcast. They're a very young ministry still. It's sort of the brainchild of Dwayne Atkinson, who you mentioned earlier, and Dwayne brought myself and Virgil Walker together, having this idea that he and I might mesh well together from a podcast standpoint, and we've been doing the podcast now for about five months, and to this day is that he and I up-flow based on my blog a lot of, and then give, you know, delvedthinking .me, and then from the blog, if you'll just look to the right-hand side of the homepage, you'll see a link where you can click on and get to my podcast.

Great, and we'll announce that information later on as well.

Well, the theme that we have today, as I already announced, is racism in America, our modern-day social justice warriors diminishing or perpetuating the sin of bigotry. Let me ask you to start our discussion on this about your own attitude toward the racism that you have witnessed and experienced throughout your life, either as somebody who has been a victim in some way of this or just as an observer, and also, if your ideology on this issue or your perspective on this issue has gone through a journey in and of itself, or have you just maintained a similar stance or an exact same stance that you've always had on the sin of racism?

Yeah, I think your listeners may be surprised here. At least I am one who has never experienced what, not to my knowledge, my views on racism. Out of my poverty, I grew up materially poor, to their needs, or that, you know, you may want to have.

What I did have was a solid two or three jobs. I don't have many memories of my father. He got older, but in my youth, he was always working. My mother, ideology was that I was exposed. The work ethic that my parents demonstrated, they did not use their poverty.

They went to work, eat the carbs that they were myself, and someone who doesn't make excuse, Ecclesiastes 7 .14, ordains the days of adversity, as well as that one caveat as well. You already know this, Chris.

I want to let everyone know who may be listening that I did not subscribe to the notion of race. I will use the term race, and for the sake of the conversation that we're having here, but I did not subscribe to the notion of race.

I think biblically... Yeah, we are all one race. Right, we are all one race. A text that I like to do, one of the texts that I like to fall back on is in Acts 17 .26, from one blood, every nation, and that word nation is the word ethnos, every ethnicity.

So when you look at it from an ideological standpoint, God creates ethnicities. He does not create races, races, race, racism, and any derivative of that word by both theology and very recent... Whatever you and I discuss here today, and whatever views I express on the theme of today's topic, I need everyone to know that that is discussed with the caveat that I personally do.

Not believe in such a thing. Yes, and in fact, if anybody would like to listen to a program that I conducted, an interview I conducted with Charles Ware on one race, one blood, a biblical answer to racism, you could go to my website, IronSharpensIronRadio .com, IronSharpensIronRadio .com, and then click on the archived programs, past programs podcast, or past shows podcast, and if you type in the search engine, one race, one blood, or Charles Ware, W-A-R-E, you will get the mp3 to listen to that program, to that interview.

Now, having said what you said, obviously there are many, many people in this country who, by virtue of the color of their skin, have been treated with grotesque hatred, bigotry, and abuse, and persecution, and so on.

In fact, there are certain people alive today, of course, who even may have been grotesquely tortured, and physically abused, and abused in many other ways during the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s, especially when the Ku Klux Klan was alive and well, and routinely brutalizing, and lynching, and murdering, and torturing, and persecuting racial minorities, especially those of black skin, and getting away with it very often.

So, not only do you have those that either personally experienced or witnessed those things, and even have family members who lost their lives as a result of those things, but even going up to the 21st century, as much as we may think liberals and leftists are going way overboard in their opposition to the police force in major cities all over this country, there have been genuinely truthful accounts of people of darker skins who have been treated unlawfully and with brutality by police, and so on.

So, in light of that, what is your response to what I just said in regard to the topic at hand? Yeah, I think a mistake a lot of.

People make is that when it comes to their timeline, which is too recent, they normally go back, they sort of default back to the civil rights era, or at worst, they may default back to the 1860s and Civil War era, but what they need to do really is go back probably hundreds of years, and when I mean hundreds of years, I'm not talking about 1609, I'm talking about even further back than that, because if we're talking about racism, we should not limit racism as being only be directed from a white person to a black person.

That is not the only type of racism that exists or has ever existed. What I call, what we default to in America is, meaning that there's the bigotry or sinful prejudice that that was a black person, but if you really want to get to the origins and genesis of racism, you really need to go back to on black racism.

I come, people, if you really would trace my tribe called the Balanta people who hail out of West Africa, I'm sorry, West Ghana and Africa, hundreds of years before. I bring that up because the paradigm of racist definition never think that racism is limited to white on black racism.

There's also black on white racism and black on black racism. There's also an ideological type of black on black racism in that someone who is like myself within the community, because I don't toe that same Christianity line.

For someone like me, it is very difficult to be accepted within the tribalist, you know, collective of black Americans, believe it or not. So there's even, which is just melanin based. It's not just skin color based.

It's ideological as well. So what we have to do in America is to not start your timeline at the 1960s, not even the 1860s, not even the 1600s. We need to go way back hundreds of years, because if we're going to be intellectually honest about this, and call racism what it is, we need to go back to his earliest human that even black Africans didn't treat their own people well.

Right. So let's just.

Be honest about that. Yes. And in fact, Maya Angelou, who was no conservative, she told the story I can vividly remember of black churches in the south that had a hairbrush hanging from a string at the door of the church and with a sign saying, if you cannot run this brush through your hair, do not enter or something of that nature.

And this is a black church. Right. And so and Maya Angelou was obviously known very well known for her liberal ideology in many ways. And so this was not coming from the mouth of some conservative who is trying to broaden the spectrum of the source of racism.

She was just relating to something that was true. Right. And in fact, we are going to go to our first break right now. And if anybody would like to join us with a question of your own, our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com.

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Our guest today for the first hour on Iron Trepans Iron Radio is Darrell B. Harrison. He is the lead host of Just Thinking, which is a podcast you can hear and I highly recommend you listen to by going to the Just Thinking podcast website, which is, actually I just got led by clicking that to the bar that I just mentioned before, hosted by Dwayne Atkinson.

What is your website again for Just Thinking? Yeah, so Just Thinking, you can get to the website at justthinking .me, justthinking .me. Justthinking .me. And we are discussing, for both hours, with two different guests, racism in America are modern day social justice warriors diminishing or perpetuating the sin of bigotry.

And let me go to, before we run out of time, let me also repeat our email address. If you'd like to join us on the air with a question of your own, our email address is chrisarnsen at gmail .com. C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com.

Please give us at least your first name, your city and state, and your country of residence if you live outside the USA. Please only remain anonymous if your sin involves a personal and private matter.

That's chrisarnsen at gmail .com. And I could readily see a topic like this lending itself to people wanting to remain anonymous. People today are very fearful of being accused of racism, whether it is a legitimate accusation or not.

And so I could understand if some of you feel awkward and want to ask anonymously. But we have Ted in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He's got quite a long email here, so I may have to break this up in parts. He asks, I'm wondering if Pastor Harrison could comment on two particular rhetorical strategies that have been used with increasing frequency in discussions of race in America.

The first is the notion that blacks cannot be racist because racism requires power and presumably blacks have no power in contemporary society. And I'll get to the second after you respond to that one.

Yeah, I appreciate that question.

I don't subscribe to that notion. It is a mindset. It has its impetus in the heart, not in some like Mark chapter 7, where Jesus says that that which proceeds out of the man, that that is what defiles the man.

Okay, that is what defiles us is that is what's already in us. So racism, I want to make that clear, sort of put that caveat to it, because not all prejudice, we need to make that clear. But racism is in, namely, the color of someone's skin which God and his power of anything else.

Yeah, and the reason why that ideology is ridiculous,.

One of the reasons, is because you have many circumstances, especially in the 21st century, where you have black people in positions of wealth and power and authority who have interaction with poor white people.

You know, you have politicians and police officers and wealthy black executives and corporation owners and presidents who have white employees under them. You know, this is not the deep south in the 19th century or earlier.

This is a very new era that we're in. And so therefore, what do you do when a president of a corporation who happens to be black may be demeaning a white employee who he has the power to fire or hire or do whatever he legally desires to do?

Right. And the other thing is, if you're a Christian, and there are a lot of Christians who make this claim, or at least professing Christians, the reason why it's absurd is because the racism that you hear more about than anything else in the New Testament is the sin of racism that Jews were guilty of harboring towards Gentiles.

And the Jews were a persecuted minority who were abused and tormented and persecuted by the Gentiles for centuries and enslaved by them, etc. And yet, you have the Apostle Paul rebuking Peter for this sin.

And it was a very serious sin indeed, and still is a serious sin. But this whole notion of a requirement of power is completely unbiblical, isn't it? Absolutely it is. And again, you know,.

The feedback I receive, podcasts, I get the rejection people, not from white people. So never believe that because the narrative sort of makes white people this hateful and attitude towards white people as a white person could towards a black person.

Right. And of course, as Vody Baucom reminded me when I was interviewing him in Atlanta, Georgia at the G3 conference, as he reminded me, racism, and in fact, you also mentioned this prior to the, or at the beginning of the program, racism is not just a black and white issue.

Right. I mean, what about the blacks in the inner city who hate with a passion, the Asians that have come into their community and established businesses and so on, and they believe that those Asians have robbed them of jobs and things like that.

I mean, this goes on and on. In fact, my mother-in-law, my late mother-in-law, she was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and she had a problem with bigotry against Mexicans and South and Central Americans.

And I have to just briefly tell you a story. For Mother's Day, I bought her a 36 inch color TV. This was before flat screen TVs were very inexpensive. And I paid for a year's worth of cable vision for her.

And she called me up at work, angry with me, asking me why I let a Mexican in her house. And I was like, what are you talking about? And she said, the man from cable vision, he's a Mexican. I threw him out because I was afraid he was going to rob me.

Now, so you have a Latina having very serious racial issues or bigoted issues with those of Mexican background. And then when I told an El Salvadorian Christian minister about this, he said, yes, I'm from El Salvador and we distrust Puerto Ricans.

So there you have it.

Yeah. So, so, so again, you know, racism is a hard addiction. It's a hard problem. And it's just ridiculous to think bias is sinful prejudice to one ethnic group. Sin doesn't work like that. So given a sort of like one a la carte item and not select another, no, we're all and everyone who we all do has the ability to, racism isn't, you know, blacks aren't excluded.

Yeah. And, uh, and we, and we are, and we are right. And of course,.

Even to taking the conversation into a much more disgustingly brutal area, when you consider the history of violence and brutality between the different Asian cultures, uh, you know, it's nightmarish.

So even within the Asian culture, you have bigotry, uh, of Koreans against Chinese and Chinese against Koreans and Japanese against both of them, you know, it's just,.

It goes on and on and on. Well, that was the case of native American cultures as well. Oh yeah. Native Americans who, who hated one another based on their, you know, their, their tribal differences, uh, their cultural differences and things of that nature.

So, I mean, they, they killed off one another. Right. Uh, you, you don't hear a lot about that, but that's historical fact as well.

Yeah. And of course that never legitimizes anything that those who happened to have white skin did to the native Americans. That was unlawful or unbiblical, but it has been said, and I can't vouch for this with any kind of statistical accuracy or military background, but it has been said that if the native Americans were a united force, that the white man would never have been able to conquer them and, and establish, uh, America.

Yeah. And I can't quantify.

That either, but you know, the point being that it's been positive, uh, in our history books and, and again, in more politically correct narratives in recent years, that the only violence the native American culture here on this soil has ever encountered was from Caucasians and Europeans.

So, and that's not true. They have inflicted upon them because of various cultural, the same way.

More contemporary. And of course, uh, it would certainly without question have been infinitely more difficult for white Europeans to settle here and to, uh, rob lands quote, quote from native Americans.

If the native Americans were a united, uh, force. Indeed. Indeed. And so, uh, tell us about some of your reaction to things that are going on in society, uh, things that have been going on for a long time, but in more recent histories, you have riots in Baltimore and Chicago and Detroit and California and so on, uh, over usually over the, the, um, the death or brutality or even rightful, uh, restraint or dealt or self-defense of police officers against those who happened to have black skin.

And you have these explosions of protest in the community and inner cities all over the country. Tell us what has your reaction been as you have watched these things on your television set or on your computer screen?

Yeah, I think, uh,.

The first thing that I have tried to, the Bible speaks when, when, when, when something like that I think the prudent thing to do, remind yourself single event that, you know, there's no that is also even in the promises in this life reminds us that we are looking for a new hat in this earth.

Large degree. That is what social justice at society where just theologically, that's just not going to happen. You don't get, you don't get perfumes. And if there was perfect justice, we would all be dead in eternity right now.

So we, we would be dead. All of us would be dead. So happening is fairness and equality. We are, we're throwing out these terms or using these language, this, this language, but nobody's defining the terms.

And if you don't define the terms, then you can't have a discourse within the proper context. So what I try to do is redefine, recapture these terms. What does the Bible define justice? How does the Bible define rights?

The Bible defines justice to teens and authorities who, when we disobey his law and precepts, that's injustice. It's pretty simple. You know, this is not rocket science. That's pretty simple. But, but what, what we want with these social justice activists, Christians want, is that they want perfect, and you're not going to get that.

That should be clear to any Christian, because the, you know, fundamentally, because God sent a Savior and the person to rescue us from our sin, and until sin is no more, violence will be no more. But in instances of, of, of police-involved violence, we need to trust God.

Even in those cases, the civil magistrates, the legal, we need to still trust God that one day all will be made right. You don't right or wrong by burning down your own communities, your own businesses, your own home.

That doesn't even make sense. That doesn't even make any sense. That's just dumb. Right. There's no other way.

To put it. That's just stupid. Right. But go, go, responding to what you said, I think we have to be careful, though, not to have an attitude of indifference towards other people, and it doesn't even have to be the issue of bigotry and racism.

It could be a multitude of things where we say to them in the comfort of our own lives, in our own nice homes, with our nice jobs and things, when we say to others, don't worry, in this sweet by and by, it will all be better.

And we do nothing, we do nothing to change or to attempt to bring change to a culture or society or community or country or nation. We just sit back and say, right, because it's not our problem. And, you know, that that does go on.

It doesn't, like I said, it could even be something like somebody going through a crippling illness. And it's one thing to say that God's will will be done and we must trust in his sovereignty over whether a person lives and has victory over an illness or dies or goes home to be with Christ for eternity.

And it's another thing to just say, well, don't worry about it. This place is just temporary. And you get the sweet by and by.

Waiting for you. Yeah, I get that. I get that by and by response a lot. And yeah, so not suggesting that at all. If a police officer is acquitted, that doesn't mean you don't file a civil lawsuit. You know, that doesn't mean you just, you know, not at all.

You definitely have legal knowledge of God. And I completely forgot that Ted from Tuscaloosa,.

Alabama, had a second question. The second is the assertion that the only appropriate contributions that white folks have to such discussions are to listen to what blacks have to teach whites about race, to agree with the content of those lessons, and to offer apology and repentance for the racism.

And that shouldn't be isolated to blacks saying this. There are many, many, many, many, many, many multitudes of liberal or should I say leftist whites and leftists of all skin complexions who are saying the same thing.

Yeah, I mean, I don't mean to.

Sound flippant, but I'm a black person. I don't have anything to teach you about race. I don't have a thing to teach you about race. Nothing. I don't have a thing to teach you. And the people who say that, the people who say that, that's race.

The comment itself is intrinsically racist for people to sell, to tell someone like that. Well, white person, you need to sit down. You're black. You don't know where I'm coming from. You don't know what it's like to be black.

Well, you know what? I'm black and I don't know what it's like to be black because the hope poses that every black person has the same life experience. And we don't, we don't. I don't even know when I say I don't know what it's like to be black, that means that Chris, if you were black, I don't know what it's like to be in your shoes.

I don't know what walk Chris Arnzen has had as a black person. All I can tell you is what it's.

Like to be Daryl Harrison. That's all I can tell you. Right. And in case anybody is wondering, Chris Arnzen happens to be a white guy. But we are, we actually are out of time. This is one of the reasons I have a two hour show and usually only have one guest on a two hour show.

I'm looking forward to having you back very soon and very often, Daryl. And to remind our listeners, your podcast can be found at JustThinking .me. JustThinking .me. Thank you so much for being our guest today, Daryl.

And I hope that you come back soon. In fact, I'm going to email you a calendar of available dates where you can join us once again on Iron Trip and Zion Radio. You got it, Chris. Thanks for having me again.

All right. God bless. Well, I hope that everybody stays put and doesn't go away because we have another hour of this discussion. As I mentioned before, the second hour is going to be with Christopher Harris of Unhyphenated America.

Christopher Harris on Race, Identity, and the Limits of Social Justice Rhetoric

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