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>> Rick Green: welcome to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Greene. I'm Rick Greene, America's Constitution coach. Thanks for joining me today. You are in for a treat. We're going to pick up where we left off last Thursday. If you're a regular listener, then, you know, last Thursday we heard Biblical citizenship in Modern America the second week, which is called Tending the Garden. So most of that was David Barton teaching on essentially jurisdictions and our role and taking care of what God has given us, being good stewards. And of course, we had commentary in there from Charlie Kirk and from Kirk Cameron and Bob McEwen and Jack Hibbs and all these other folks. So I hope you enjoyed that last Thursday.

We've got a case before the Supreme Court that involves racial gerrymandering

Today I want to get the conclusion of week two. And it's this whole segment by Tim Barton which is a response to the 1619 Project and just the lies about who we are as Americans. And the reason I think this is so incredibly important right now, at this moment in our history and with what's happening right now is we've got this case before the Supreme Court that is going to determine the future of racial gerrymandering. Now you know, if you're a frequent listener to, at the core that I have ranted about how evil and wrong it is to choose our congressmen based on race, that it's evil and wrong to draw the lines for the districts across this country to try to guarantee that someone of a particular skin color gets elected. That's true racism right there. That's the most evil of racism. It's the very thing we're not supposed to do. It's supposed to be judged by the content of the character, not the, the color of the skin. And yet our Supreme Court and appellate courts in the last few years have upheld this, this evil of racial gerrymandering in Alabama and now this case from Louisiana and these other states that it's been terrible. So I think it's appropriate that we have this teaching from Tim Barton today so that we understand the real history of race in this country. No question there's been racism in our country. Unfortunately it's been the Democrats that have done that throughout history. And we'll learn some of that in this program, but even more. And then we're learning about a lot of the great black heroes that helped to found this country, to help to secure liberty and to expand liberty to all Americans. So there's a lot of this that I think is really going to empower you and it's going to change a little bit of your or a lot of your perspective on this particular issue. And again with this issue with this case before the Supreme Court, it's an important topic for us to cover. So enough, let me, let's jump in. Okay. We're going to pick up right where we left off on Thursday, which Tim had just begun to explain last Thursday. And if you missed that then go to our website and download the radio program from Thursday. But he was just beginning to explain the 1619 project, which is this, this made up history that became so popular and really led to a lot of the Summer of Love, you know, where we burned cities across the country with BLM and antifa. These just, just left wing organizations admitted avowed communist. And and so Tim is explaining a little bit of the history of the 1619 project and then you'll hear the real truth of America.

Tim Barton: Articles say America's founding was based on slavery

So let's jump back in with Tim Barton teaching in the second week of biblical citizenship in modern America.

>> Tim Barton: Another article says America holds an undemocratic assumption from its founding that some people Deserve more power than others. Now, America's founding, I would argue, was 1776, when America actually separated from Great Britain to become a nation. The premise of separating from the king was the king thought he had all the power, and the people didn't have power, and there wasn't equality. And so the Americans said, we are against the notion that some people should have more power than others. This is the exact opposite of how we were founded. Another article says slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our prison system. So the notion that we are scared of black people in America, if you're not black, you're scared of black people, and that violent punishment defines our prison system. I'm not sure of the violent punishment that's taking place in our prison system today. If it is, I would probably be opposed to it. But this is the notion that kids are learning. These are the articles that are being written. This is being taught in schools today. Here's another article. The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the white gold that fueled slavery. The purpose of the article is to identify that candy in candy bars was rooted in slavery and white supremacy. So if you eat candy bars, you might be a white supremacist. This is crazy, but these are the arguments being made today. Another article. Most Americans still don't know the full story of slavery. This is the history you didn't learn in school. I will agree. Most Americans have no idea the full story of slavery. But this is not something that is actually being identified in the 1619 project. It's going the wrong direction. And even advocates of the 1619 Project, people like Democrat senator Tim Kaine, he said that America actually created slavery. We didn't inherit it from anybody. If you think America created slavery, you had the worst world history teacher in the history of school. Because obviously there was slavery before America was a nation. Study the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire. And if you're familiar with the Bible, I'm a Christian. I believe in the Bible. I believe it is true. If you go to the book of Genesis, Joseph was the one who had dreams, and his father made them. This coat of many colors. Joseph's brother sold him into something. Oh, yes, slavery. Moses delivered the Israelites from slavery. America, didn't create slavery. And yet this is what kids are learning today. This is why we have an entire generation that thinks America has done more bad than we've done good, because we don't know basic history. Well, you now even See, in the NBA, here's the article. In the NBA, the very term owner has come under fire as players, most of whom are black, assert self determination. There's a group of players in the NBA who said the term owner offends them because it implies they are owned. And that goes back to their roots of their ancestors being slaves. If you are a business owner, the assumption is not that you own your employees, rather that you own the business business and you hire people to work for you. But we now live in a culture that is so woke that we can't even use the term of a business owner without it presumably offending somebody. In the midst of all of this, the New York Times was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their great work in the 1619 project. And when this happened, there was a lot of promotion from the New York Times saying we want to make this a curriculum for all kinds of teachers. And actually right now this is being used in all 50 states, in different schools in those states, and kids are learning these very lessons today. Well, as this all unfolded, there was also a group of professors who came out and said, this is totally inaccurate. And so professors came out pointing out the historical inaccuracies of what was being said. Now, professors on the left and right side of the political spectrum who just know basic history pointed out how many fallacies were in these articles and inaccurate statements were being made and kids were learning things that simply weren't true. With that being said, you would think maybe the New York Times, the 1619 Project, would have some corrections and would change some of these articles. If you go to their website, there's only one correction listed on their website and it says an earlier version of the introduction to this project referred incorrectly to Virginia in the year 1619 as a British colony. At the time, it was an English colony. So the only correction they make is to clarify that actually it wasn't a British colony, an English colony. Well, there's a lot of other inaccuracies being said. And here's the problem with this is there is a lot of important history that's been lost, including a lot of black history, a lot of black heroes that have been lost, and even a lot of terrible things that happened in American history. And Americans need to learn the whole story, the good, the bad and the ugly. The problem is today what's being said not only is misrepresenting what is true, many things are just flat out lies and dishonest in the way they're being presented. And what's also lost is the fact that in America, when we look back to Jamestown and say, well, the first group of slaves arrived in Jamestown in 1619. Jamestown was not the only major settlement in America. In fact, America largely could be referenced back to Charles Dickens classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities, because America was largely defined by two major early cities, early colonies, and it was Jamestown. And the second major colony was Plymouth. Both of these colonies had a major impact in American history and both had an incredible legacy they left. But both were very different legacies. If you look at Jamestown, we probably are semi familiar with some of the people from Jamestown, which was founded in 1607, and people like Captain John Smith or the name Pocahontas, who's one of the great heroes as we've studied history. Well, those are names we would know from Jamestown. And certainly there were some, some great people in Jamestown, but Jamestown definitely had some major problems as well. Jamestown went through a period known as a starving time where they actually turned to cannibalism. They had some major issues in Jamestown. They didn't always have great relations with the Native Americans and the Indians. And so there no doubt was issues with Jamestown, but that was just one of the early primary colonies. The other colony was Plymouth. Plymouth was founded in 1620. And if you look at some of the story of Plymouth, we know some major names like Governor William Bradford, but also there's major players to the story. People like Somerset, who was an Indian that the Pilgrims met, who actually spoke some English. And he told them that there was another Indian who spoke even better English than he did, and he wanted to introduce them to Squanto. And so he left and came back with Squanto. And they actually met the chief of the tribe, Chief Massasoik. In the midst of all of this, what they discovered was that the Wampanoag Indians were a very good Indian people, a very great tribe. They made a peace treaty with the Wampanoags. It was the longest lasting peace treaty between any whites and any natives in American history. The treaty lasted more than 50 years. Now, this is just part of the legacy of Plymouth that even today we don't know much of the story of Plymouth and their relation with the Indians and how good it was in so many scenarios.

The argument that America was built as a slave nation is overstated

But let me back you up to Jamestown, because the argument is that America was really built as a slave nation. Well, Jamestown was founded in 1607, but in 1619 there was a shipload of slaves that arrived in America. Approximately 20 slaves arrived on a British ship. And the British ship had just captured these slaves off of Portuguese trade ships. When they came to Jamestown, they were sold to the people of Jamestown, but they actually were sold as indentured servants in indentured servitude. You work for a period of several years and generally about seven years. At the end of seven years, you would receive your freedom. All of those, approximately 20 slaves not only received their freedom, they became free landowners. And some of them them became very wealthy landowners in Jamestown. It wasn't until 1651 that chattel slavery actually became legal in Virginia or legal in the New World. And this is long after 1619. But again, this is Jamestown. That's one colony. There was a second colony, Plymouth. If you look at Plymouth, their history of slavery is very different. In fact, In Plymouth, in 1641, they passed some early laws that actually forbid man stealing. And man stealing, stealing, they defined as capturing someone off of a continent, transporting them across the ocean to a new continent to sell them into slavery. This was specifically targeting the North Atlantic, or the African slave trade that was going on at the time. Now, in 1641, they did pass a law where they said that slavery was legal in two conditions. It was legal for punishment for a crime, that you could be a slave for so many years only, or it was legal if you were captured in justified warfare. And some people today want to say, well, the fact that they allowed slavery in any conditions is terrible. But remember, this is the 1600s, and if it's a justified war, meaning it was a war where you were defending your property, defending your family, defending your people and nation, you didn't start the war, but you were defending. Well, if you conquered a people in the 1600s, there were only two options for a conquered people group after a war. You either killed them or you enslaved them. And this wasn't something unique for the Pilgrims. This was the way the world operated for literally thousands of years. And so this was the Pilgrims being normal. But they did say it was against the law to man steal, to kidnap somebody off a continent to transport them to a new continent and sell them into slavery. Now, that law matters. In 1646, the first shipload of slaves arrived in Plymouth, free from Africa. But because man stealing was a crime in Plymouth, the people of Plymouth imprisoned the ship captain and the crew and they freed all of the slaves and they actually charged the crew and the captain with the crime of man stealing. This is a big deal, because, you see, the legacy of Plymouth is very different than the legacy of Jamestown. And this is what's lost today. One of the cool things that was done in the late 1800s is a map showing the legacy from Plymouth and the legacy of Jamestown. And it shows the legacy of Jamestown promoted slavery in many of the southern states, southern colonies. But the legacy of Plymouth promoted freedom and work ethic and responsibility and biblical values over the majority of the nation. Why does this matter? As the map even identifies, although Jamestown had a very significant legacy in America, the majority of America was not impacted from the legacy of Jamestown. The majority of America was impacted from the legacy of Plymouth and what it promoted throughout all of the nation. But today, we're not learning about the positive things that Plymouth promoted or brought to the New World. What we're learning about is the negative impact of Jamestown. And even some of that is overstated or misstated in what's being said. But this is where the 1619 project gets it so wrong. One of the things the 1619 Project also says is we need to be learning in a merit about some of the black heroes who have contributed along the way to the American story. And I totally agree. It's just that the 1619 project has left out a lot of very important black heroes that they should be highlighting. People like the Reverend Harry Hoosier, who was considered an evangelist in the Second Great Awakening. Now, he was a slave early on in life. He got saved and decided he wanted to share the gospel message with others. He joined up with the Reverend Francis Asbury, who was one of the leaders in the Method denomination at the time. And they begin traveling together. Well, Reverend Harry Hoosier actually began drawing larger crowds than the more famous Francis Asbury. And even founding fathers had, heard Harry Hoosier speak. People like Benjamin Rush, who knew every major founding father, Benjamin Rush, said, considering that Harry Hoosier never had a formal education, he was the best speaker he ever heard. Well, Harry Hoosier, you gotta stay.

>> Rick Green: With me through the break, folks, and you'll learn about the amazing story of Harry Huser. Stay with me. You're listening to at the Core with Rick Green

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Tim Barton: There are numerous examples of black officials or black politicians being elected

Alright, we're going to jump back in. Here's Tim Barton teaching in biblical citizenship.

>> Tim Barton: Well, Harry Hoosier, because he had grown up on really kind of a slave plantation and he was a skilled labor kind of guy, he was a blue collar worker. So he felt that he would be best reaching people who really were the outdoors people, working with your hands kind of people. And so he began evangelizing and witnessing to people who were very rough people. And when they would get saved, they would have dramatic conversions, their lives would be totally changed and they begin to be known by the name Hoosier when they would convert to Christianity. Because people would see, hey, you're different than you used to be. What's different about you? Oh, you're one of those Hoosiers now. You got saved under Harry Hoosier. And this was kind of the thought that happened. Now a lot of these guys that were getting saved and having conversions under the work of Harry Hoosier begin moving from where he was out to the Indiana territory. Now Indiana became known as the Hoosier State. Actually the state of Indiana. This is, their mascot for even one of their universities. Well, where did they get the name Hoosier? You can go back to the Reverend Harry Hoosier from the second Great Awakening. This is what's very interesting about this is if we're going to talk about black heroes who had a major impact on America, he's a guy certainly who should be included. And yet most people have never heard the story of Harry Hoosier. But if we go to something like the American Revolution, which is where I would argue, this is when America became a nation. If you look at the American Revolution, things like in April 1775, this is when guys like Paul Revere came to notoriety because Paul Revere makes his famous midnight ride. If you're a student of history, you know, as the British are marching through the colonies, there were many people who made famous rides to warn other Americans the British were coming. One of the guys who made a very famous midnight ride, or at least one of those kind of rides was this man down here. His name was Wentworth Cheswell. Wentworth Cheswell was actually an elected politician elected to multiple positions, but he was a guy who made a famous midnight ride, or a famous ride, it might not have started at midnight, but it was through the night to warn Americans that the British were coming. But he was elected to office as a young man up in the New England states. And not only was he elected to office, we own some of his documents from what he did. And he served for nearly 49 years being elected by a primarily white community to serve in a variety of positions. And this again is contradictory to some of the narrative we hear today that, well, the white people really oppressed the black people and the black people didn't have freedom. And certainly there were many occasions when that did happen. But that's not the entire story. There are numerous examples of early black officials or black politicians being elected in different capacities. And Wentworth Cheswell was one of those guys making a famous ride warning Americans the British were coming. In the midst of that, let's back up, up to Paul Revere. When Paul Revere is making his famous midnight ride, he's riding specifically looking for John Hancock and Sam Adams. The reason was he wanted to warn them about the British coming because these were major leaders in the early Revolution period. Well, Paul Revere rode to the home of the Reverend Jonas Clark, who was a friend to both of these guys and he was a cousin to John Hancock. When Paul Revere arrives, both those guys were there. He warned them the British were coming. And the next morning the British arrived. And this is where Lexington Greene, you had the shot heard round the world where approximately 70Americans took on more than 700 British. Throughout the skirmish at the end, there were 18Americans who were dead or wounded. Among those Americans were John Robbins and Prince Esterbrook, a black and white man, both recorded to have been there and both of them who attended the church of the Reverend Jonas Clark. So black and white men fighting together in the cause of freedom, in the cause of the revolution. And this is something that Prince Esterbrook used to be a very well known person from the Battle of Lexington. Even today, if you go visit Lexington, there is a statue, a little monument rather, honoring Prince Esterbrook there.

As the revolution kicks off, you have major battles

Well, this is as the revolution kicks off, as the revolution continues, you have major battles. Like in June 1775, you have the Battle of Bunker Hill. And this is a painting done depicting the Battle of Bunker Hill. And over here on the right there is a black patriot. This is Peter Salem. He's standing behind a white guy, Thomas Grosvenor. And Peter Salem actually was the hero of the battle. Over the decades following the battle of Bunker Hill. There were many paintings, many different depictions of Peter Salem that were done highlighting the fact that he was the hero that happened. And the reason he was the hero is because as you see in this picture, the British officer who was leading the charge and if you remember the story of Bunker Hill or Breed's Hill, the British charged and were repelled the first time. They charged a second time and the Americans a second time repelled them and the British were taking heavy casualties. The third time they charged, the Americans ran out of ammunition. So now the British were going to be able to come and take them and conquer them and maybe kill them all. Well, the officer leading the charge was Major Pitcairn. And as he was leading the charge, Peter Salem had a shot left. He shot the officer, British officer leading the charge. It allowed the Americans time to escape after they escaped. Many of the American officers who were there said that man should be promoted for his bravery on the battlefield, his courage. He saved all our lives. He received over a dozen commendations for his bravery on the battlefield. And he wasn't the only man who was honored m on the battlefield that day. Salem Poor was also there and was also recognized as being a great warrior on the battlefield. And this is still early in the revolution as the revolution continues. If you go to December 1776 when George Washington crosses the Delaware, the Battle of Trenton is about to unfold. The famous painting done of Washington crossing the Delaware in the front of the boat, Prince Whipple. This black man was depicted being with Washington, which historically we know he was with Washington when Washington cross was the Delaware. And we know he wasn't the only black patriot there because there's record that Oliver Cromwell, a black patriot, was there also. Well, this is now still 1776. We're early on in the Revolution. As you continue on, this is just one of the many, many examples. Again, there are so many examples we can point to. Let me give you my last example, relatively speaking, but it's probably my favorite example. In 1781, this is where the revolution is coming to a close, although the Americans don't really know that yet. Marquis de Lafayette was a French major general and he, when he came to America as a 19 year old young man, he teamed up with George Washington and he's helping the Americans fight for freedom. Washington assigned Marquis de Lafayette to track the movement of many of the British officers because we were trying to capture officers and really know where their troops were going. And so for Lafayette to do this, he set up his own spy ring and One of the things he did in his spy ring was he would take many of the black patriots, and he would tell them, pretend to be escaped slaves, go seek refuge in the British camp, and then just try to gather whatever intelligence you can, come back and let me know. I'll tell Washington. Well, one of the guys who joined him in 1781 was James Armistead. James Armistead was from Richmond, Virginia. And when Richmond was conquered, James decided he wants to sign up and he wants to help fight for American independence. At the time, he was a slave, but in Virginia, the law said that if you fought for a year, you could have your freedom. And so maybe he's thinking, hey, I'll fight for freedom for America, but also I'll get my freedom. Either way, he signs up. Well, Lafayette asks him to go and work as a spy. So James Armistead goes into the British camp pretending to be a spy. Well, it just so happens that if you remember, the famous American general turned American traitor, Benedict Arnold was the famous American traitor who became the British general who had actually conquered Richmond, which is the reason James Armistead wanted to get involved in the first place. When James Armistead was sent by Lofty to go serve in a British camp, it happened to be the camp of Benedict Arnold. So when James is serving in camp, he does such a good job serving that the officers saw him serving and said, you know, a guy like that should probably serve the officers because he's too good to serve the common man. So James begins serving in the officer's tent and learning the officer's plans. Actually, he gets reassigned and begins serving under Cornwallis, who is the commander the. Of.

>> Tim Barton: Of all the British forces. James is the guy who learned that Lord Cornwallis was going to be moving a large section of troops and going to Yorktown. Actually, James Armistead gets Lafayette the information. Lafayette writes a letter to Washington where he says, I have a spy in the camp who's just giving me information that Lord Cornwallis is going and moving his troops. And this might be the time we've been waiting for to capture him and conquer him and maybe in the war. Well, this is exactly what happened. The Americans were able to surround Yorktown. And this is where. This is a painting depicting the surrender of Cornwallis. James Armistead is a guy largely credited with the intelligence that led to the capturing of Cornwallis, who's the commander of all the British forces. And this major victory arguably led to an end of the American Revolution. Now, why does this matter? Because James Armistead is credited with, with the intelligence that led to this victory. So this victory, the last major battle that's considered to have won the revolution, would not have happened had it not been for a black patriot who was a spy in the revolution. And not only that, if you look at the military intelligence that we have today, it goes back to people like James Armistead. Now, why this matters is if you think big picture American Revolution. When we think of how did the revolution begin, we might look at the shot heard around the world. But John Adams says the revolution actually began in 1770, the Boston Massacre, because that's when the British shed the first American blood and that's when the war actually began. Well, if you remember the Boston Massacre, there was a man killed in the Boston Massacre who's considered the first bloodshed in the Revolution. Well, that man was Crispus Attucks. And there were many famous depictions and paintings done of Crispus Attucks of the black man being killed by the British. If you look at the Revolution, the revolution arguably began with the death of a black patriot. And the revolution was won arguably because of the intelligence of a black patriot. What this means is you can't even fully tell the story of the American Revolution without including the contributions of black heroes and black patriots in American history. And I've only given a few examples. We have entirely history books of just black heroes from the American Revolution, from The War of 1812, from the Civil War, throughout American history. And yet today, very few Americans know anything of these black heroes. Why don't we know these black heroes today? Well, you can back up to a guy like Woodrow Wilson who's, I would argue, the biggest culprit of why we don't know so many of these black heroes. When Woodrow Wilson was a professor at Princeton University, he wrote a new, new history series. And actually it was considered kind of this chronological history of America from the beginning all the way up to that point. It was a five volume set and it was believed to be the most scholarly history book ever done. Well, in this he became so prominent and well known because of this that he became the President of Princeton University. And then not long after, he became the President of the United States of America. Well, Woodrow Wilson was also a very racist man. Very racist man. So much so that when he became the President of the United States, one of the things that happened under his watch and leadership was the rebirth of the kkk. Not only that, Woodrow Wilson showed the very first ever film on the White House, which was the Birth of a Nation. It was a recruiting film for the kkk. And some of his administration actually marched in the marches for the KKK, even in Washington, D.C. so Woodrow Wilson, very racist guy, very bad guy. And actually this is depicted even in his history books. Because if you back up to his history books, he removed every single black person from American history, Not just the heroes, every black person in general. And in his history books, he not only ignores every black hero, but by the way, how do you talk about the Civil War and leave out Frederick Douglass or the Mass. 54th?

One of the arguments today is that America is evil because we had slavery

And there's, so many examples we could give, he leaves them all out. And yet in his history book, he wants to make sure that if you don't know about black people, he wants to show you what black people look like. And if you look at this, if you've ever seen the scales of evolution, where it goes from goo to you, one of the things that it shows is kind of like these Neanderthal images. Well, why in the world would Woodrow Wilson have incredibly racist images in his book? If you back up to some of the leading scholars and scientists of the day, you have people like Charles Darwin. And Charles Darwin, in his early book, it was right. We know it as the Origin of Species, but actually there's a subtitle to it, and it's the preservation of favored races and the struggle for life. Charles Darwin actually argues in his writings that the lighter your skin, the more evolved you are, and the darker you are, the less evolved you are or the more Neanderthal you are. And this was largely accepted in academic circles, which, remember, Woodrow Wilson was a professor. He was the president of university. This was academically and scientifically accepted. Which, by the way, some of those notions today, when people say, well, trust all the science, I don't trust all the science because I know not all scientists are right. But this is exactly what happened in American history. And because of this, because of these kinds of notions, what happened is most Americans today, because of guys like Woodrow Wilson that removed all these heroes, most Americans have never heard of these heroes today. And yet it's very easy when you look at original historic documents to identify that had it not been for the contributions of many of these black patriots, America would look and would be very different. And yet today, we don't learn about so many of these heroes and the contributions or even how black and white people work together to do great things to advance equality and civilization and how America was leading the way in this. What we hear is, no, no, no, America was really, really bad. Right? 16, 19, project is what's promoting that idea so much today. And because of that, there's articles that are coming out every single month about how America was rooted in slavery and all of America about slavery and slavery. And this is what we hear so much of. So let me just finish by giving a few thoughts related to slavery. First of all, it's worth noting that America was not ever a leader in the global slave trade. That's a big deal, because today we hear that America was one of the biggest leaders and perpetuators of the slave trade. That's just not historically accurate. And if you back up and look at this, the North Atlantic, or the African slave slave trade lasted from roughly 1501 to 1875. And during that time period, approximately 12.7 million slaves were taken out of Africa. Scholars have gone back and researched to identify where those 12.7 million slaves arrived when they went off continent. And what they discovered is that if you look at those 12.7 million slaves, 43% went to Portugal and Brazil. In their holdings, 24, 74% went to Great Britain, 15% went to Spain, 11% went to France, 5% went to the Dutch, 2.5% went to the United States, and 1% went to Denmark. What does that mean? America absolutely did participate in something that was very, very evil. But America was nowhere close to a leader in this, which is what is argued today. And it's also worth noting at this point in world history, every single nation in the world had slavery because it was, was a global condition. One of the arguments today is that America is evil because we had slavery in our past. I would point out every nation in the history of the world had slavery. In fact, every single people group at some point was enslaved and at some point enslaved other people. Because this is the history of humanity. It goes back to the notion we started with is that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Nobody's perfect. So everybody, everybody has done bad things at some point. Every nation has done bad things at some point. That's part of the history of slavery. Even with that being said, America has still done remarkable good when it comes to the story of slavery. So much so.

>> Rick Green: Oh, that's a cliffhanger to leave you on. Quick break, folks. You're listening to at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green

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We're back with week two of Biblical Citizenship in Modern America

>> Rick Green: We're back here on at the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green America's Constitution coach. Thanks for staying with me. Final segment of the day, we're gonna get the conclusion of week two of Biblical Citizenship in Modern America. Now, this is the eight, week course that a million people have been through. This is the one. We teamed up with Turning Point and Charlie Kirk and Wall Builders and David Barton and Tim Barton and. And you've heard a lot of other great voices in here. Bob McEwen and Kirk Cameron and Rabbi Daniel Lapin and, Rob McCoy. You know, I said Rob McCoy, Jack. just so many other people. Anyway, it's a powerful, powerful class. We know after 10,000 classes across the country, we know the power of this. We know what happens in your home and yourself and then, of course, in your community afterwards when you have friends and family over and you go through this course. When it's done, people want to take action. They want to get involved. And so you can be the catalyst for a restoration of biblical values and constitutional principles by hosting these classes. It's entirely free. Go to patriotacademy.com today. Get signed up as a host or a coach and start hosting these classes at your church or in your home. Home. And I can guarantee you you're going to see positive results in your community as a result.

America was the fourth nation to actually ban slavery

Okay, let's jump in for the conclusion of week two. This, is Tim Barton teaching on a response to the 1619 Project that.

>> Tim Barton: America was the very first nation in the history of the world to sign a law banning the slave trade. Thomas Jefferson signed that law on March 2, 1807. England signed a law very similar three weeks later on March 25, 1807. But America was the very first nation to sign a law banning the slave trade. America was the fourth nation in the history of the world to actually ban slavery. We did it in 1865. Now, we were the fourth nation. England did it before us in 1833, and then Denmark and then France, and then America. At that time in world history, there were 128 nations in the world, and America was the fourth nation to actually end slavery. And I would argue America paid a higher price in ending slavery because slavery in America ended at the end of the Civil War, which was one of the bloodiest conflicts we've ever seen in American history, with more than 600,000Americans that died in that conflict. And at the end of that conflict, we ended slavery in America. And I'll go even further, because if you look today, slavery still exists today. This is the map depicting the nations of the world, and the different colors are showing nations who are doing better or worse jobs with slavery. Now, to give you context, there's 193 member nations of the UN and that number actually changes every year. It, was 191, then 195 and 193. And it changes based on who's gone to war with who or who's conquered who, who's captured who. But just recently, of those 193 member nations, 94 of those nations had not passed laws banning slavery in their nation. In many nations of the world, slavery to this day is still legal. And that's why it's estimated there's more than 40 million people in slavery in the world world today. That's more than at any time in world history. And this is even in Africa today, there's more than 9.2 million people legally enslaved in Africa. There's people legally enslaved in China and India and Indonesia. This is actually not unusual for much of the world. And yet with that being said, one of the things that the Global Slavery Index does is not only it shows the nations that are doing a really poor job with slavery, it shows the nations that do the best job. And right over here, it shows the nations taking the most action to end slavery in the world. And the nation doing the most is the Netherlands. The nation in second place is the United States of America. America is doing more than virtually every other nation in the world to oppose slavery. And here's the key takeaway. If you look at America, one of the things you can know about America is America started legal opposition to slavery before any other nation in the world. March 2, 1807. And that's America as a whole. That's not even including the states up in New England, because every single state in the north back in the pre Civil War days, actually at the end of the American Revolution, every single northern state had begun passing laws to outlaw and eradicate slavery in their states. So even before as a nation we took steps to outlaw slavery, we had northern states that were doing things to end slavery. And so this is where both before anybody else in the world, America is doing things legally to oppose slavery. America also paid a higher price in ending slavery than any other nation in the world because of the Civil War. And America does more than virtually any other nation today to oppose slavery. When you look at America, it's true that America definitely has the sin of slavery as part of our past. But it's also true that America has one of the most exceptional anti slavery records of any nation in the history of the world. And that's something that doesn't get reported today. And on top of the fact, it's also worth noting that America largely could not have become America without the contributions of black patriots. And this is what today has been so lost. We don't know these stories anymore. And yet at, Wall Builders, we try to do a lot to retell many of these stories, to reintroduce people to some of these heroes they've never heard of before. And I will point out that there are dozens, if not hundreds of other examples we could point to. It's just today we don't know the history. And so when people look at America today and think America is so bad, it's because we don't know the history of America. Or even though America is not perfect, how well America did at overcoming the sins in her past. And I would point out, if you look at any atrocity in American history, if you simply ask the question, how did it end in America? What you will always find is the reason those atrocities ended in America is because Christians stood up and said, we can't do that anymore. We have to stop those things in America. And that's why America corrected and stopped those evils and those sins faster than virtually any other nation in the history of the world. And that's why America largely should still be celebrated today.

>> Rick Green: Okay, wait, Tim, I got to jump in here on you, man. There were so many times you were dropping truth bombs. I mean, things that people have never heard before, I've never heard before. And I'm thinking to myself, wait a minute. You just changed the whole narrative on America's bad and evil and we're the worst. In other words, you basically reset the table and said, okay, everybody was bad. Yes, but America was leading the charge.

>> Tim Barton: Correct.

>> Rick Green: Instead of being drug along, which is what we've been told for the last.

>> Tim Barton: Year, we know so little of history, both world history and American history, that we think America was the only people group that struggled with sin or did anything bad or evil. Well, that's just silly. It's everybody, every single nation in the history of the world has done bad things. And when we look specifically at what America did, America consistently was at the forefront of leading the charge to correct those problems and evils. And it's not to say that America didn't do bad things. Absolutely. America's done many bad things in our past. But America also, because of the influence of Christianity, because of so many pastors, churches, and leaders who have stood up and said, we have to stop this. So many patriots, America has corrected those problems faster than almost any other nation in the history of the world. And that's why, if we're going to tell the honest story, tell the story that America did some very bad things, but tell the whole story that America fixed and changed those things faster and sooner before virtually anybody else. And that doesn't mean that America doesn't still have problems today.

>> Rick Green: Right? Right.

>> Tim Barton: M. We recognize a lot of problems that we want to solve today, which is why we're doing what we're doing.

>> Rick Green: But isn't the reason that America was leading the charge on that is the very thing we're talking about in this course, because of biblical citizens. Because people in America were saying, like you were saying, pastors were saying, this has to change. And even all the way back to the Declaration that the principles that have been laid in place from the beginning are what made us want to provide that freedom.

>> Tim Barton: what you will see consistently throughout history is the people who have done the most to correct the problems in America were people who knew the Bible, who were patriots, who followed the constitutional principles, those declaration values. And when they applied those things and they fought for those things, they helped change those problems in the nation. And that's really where we are today. We need more of those patriots, biblical minded, constitutional thinking, declaration value promoting citizens, standing up and saying we need to solve these problems. And when we get involved, we're really the only hope. Like it's kind of silly that we think something's going to change without our involvement. Because it's always been the biblical minded people standing up for those right principles and values, fighting to change where there needed to be equality, where there needed to be equal rights, where there needed to be major steps forward. This is where again today we need those biblical minded consciousness, constitutional citizens to stand up and saying we're going to make a difference.

>> Rick Green: Okay, so short answer to the question, is America worth saving? Absolutely.

>> Tim Barton: Yes.

>> Rick Green: This value system is worth preserving and if it's going to be preserved, it's up to the folks that are watching this to be biblical citizens and continue this spread of freedom.

>> Tim Barton: You've said it. You got to be biblical citizens.

America accepts more immigrants than the rest of the world combined

>> Rick Green: You asked the question that everyone has to address, that is, if America is so terrible, why is it that everybody wants to come here? America accepts more immigrants than the rest of the world combined. you talk about refugees, more refugees than the entire rest of the world. I met with some Iranian folks and they were quoting the New York Times about how America was closing its doors. We Take more than the entire rest of the planet. Why would people come to a place that was racist? Why is it that over 90% of the people that come here are people of color? If America was even thought about doing such things, Those people aren't foolish. They've learned that if they want to accuse America something, they can deny some special privilege. If I'm doing something wrong and you catch me, I immediately want to point to something else. And for those that are trying to undo our country, they, rather than face what they've done about burning down a building or stealing from someone else, they want to point at, over their shoulder. While you're looking there, they grab your wallet and run. Of course America's not a racist country. It's the most. I tell you this. Find any place on the planet where ethnicities live as cooperatively as they do in America. It is the example for the rest of the planet. My daughter spent a year in Rwanda. Those folks, you cannot tell them apart. 80% are Hutu, 20% are Tutsi. When 80% voted to kill the other 20%, they chopped a million people to death with machetes. But it's estimated that a, fourth of the people that they killed were really Hutus. Now, that's what the rest of the world is like when it doesn't have the freedom of respect for life that comes from respect for God, which is.

>> Rick Green: What America is today is really special. We're going to actually open up the vault of history.

>> Tim Barton: We have over 100,000 documents from George Washington and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin. The library was going back in time.

>> Rick Green: All kinds of incredible documents and weapons. Great treasures from the Revolutionary War. It's so cool. And you actually see it and you're actually feeling it. And for the Greene family, it's better.

>> Tim Barton: Than going to Six Flags or SeaWorld. Can you smell the smoke in it? That's smoke from American Revolution.

>> Rick Green: I'm in awe of this kind of stuff.

>> Tim Barton: We're able to go back and see what they actually wrote, what they said, so we know what they believe. When I read the actual documents, it totally contradicted what I'd been taught by teachers about those documents.

>> Rick Green: We live in an age where we need a revival of patriotism in our younger generation. A bunch of kids don't even know about this stuff.

>> Tim Barton: I realize that that's what we do. You know, we learn about this, we study, and then we go teach it and hopefully get to inspire other people. Jesus said, you know the truth, and the truth will set you free most of the time. People just don't know the truth very well.

That's it for week two of biblical citizenship in modern America

>> Rick Green: That's it for week two of biblical citizenship in modern America. What a wonderful opportunity we had tonight to go into the wall builders mus and learn about the spheres of government and learn about the fact that America is worth saving. Now next week we're going to be right back in this classroom learning about truth and courage. And then we're even going to head out to the very room where the Constitution and the Declaration were created. The Cradle of Liberty, Independence hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You don't want to miss week three of biblical citizenship in modern America. Yeah, yeah, I know. Totally unfair to tease you with week three like that.

We did week two of the 1619 project and many of you wanted more

As we're closing out the program today, just, you know, I like to leave you on a little bit of suspense. I want you to want more and there is a lot more. we would, you know, last Thursday we did the first part of week two, and today of course we got the conclusion with Tim Barton and the response to the 1619 project. There's six more weeks. You know, even if you listen a couple weeks ago when we did week one, which is the foundation, that's the part that had a lot of Charlie Kirk in it. You probably wanted more and well, I know you did because I heard from many of you that you wanted more. So that's why I went ahead and did week two here. I don't know if I'll do week three. I've got, I've actually got my son's wedding coming up and I've got to suffer for the Lord and go to Hawaii for this wedding. I know, I know everybody out there needs to feel really sorry for me and be praying for me to, to suffer through this. actually, I don't know how much I really enjoy the trips to Hawaii. I've only been a few times, usually for speaking trips and that sort of thing. But you know, it's beautiful. It's gorgeous. I just don't like the long flights, and the time it takes, but I'm going to enjoy it. Our whole family's going out there. My youngest son getting married. This is actually my fourth. I've got four kids. The other three are married. My daughter got married just last month, so it's all happening pretty quick. And my youngest is getting married. And so anyway, we hadn't decided yet if I'm going to broadcast from Hawaii or try to pre record some of those programs, maybe get some more of the biblical citizenship in there. So you may get some more of this. but most importantly, I want you to know you can get the entire course at our website, patriotacademy.com and it's free. I mean, that's a pretty good deal. I remember one of our super coaches, Scarlet, always saying that. When she heard that, she said, I can do free, and she didn't have a clue what she was doing. And she became one of our greatest coaches. She still helps run the coach program and has trained, oh, man. Tens of thousands of people across the country in her own classes, Trained other coaches to then do classes. Maybe that's you. Maybe this is that area that you will find yourself being able to make a difference. I've, said it a lot here on the program, so I started to apologize for repeating. I don't apologize for repeating this. Too much truth in it. Charlie Kirk's vessel, they thought they were going to silence his voice, but it's the voice of truth. And so they didn't even silence his vessel because his vessel is now heard by 10 times. The number of people that hurt him in life have hurt him in death. And I know he's rejoicing in heaven for that. but every one of us has a voice. And I think when all of us said right after the assassination that what we need to do in response is not take the bait of Satan and go do violence like the other side did. We need to double down, triple down. We need a thousand Charlie Kirks. I said that the day after the assassination. Wrote an article about it. You can actually go see it on X or, Facebook. But my point in that was saying not everybody's gonna be exactly like Charlie. There'll never be another one exactly like Charlie because we're all unique. But there's gonna be so many people that find their voice and figure out how to be a vessel for the voice of truth. Regardless of how big your platform is, you know, Charlie reached hundreds of millions of people. By the time it was done. I think you could reach 10. 10,000? 10 million.

>> Tim Barton: I don't know.

>> Rick Green: I don't know what God's got in store for you, but I know you've got people in your family, in your church, in your community that listen to you. So speak up. Every single one of us need to speak up. Go to patriotacademy. Com today and get signed up. Thanks for listening to.

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