WEBVTT 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:39.600 Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast. 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:40.480 I am Corey J. 00:00:40.720 --> 00:00:41.680 Mahler. 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:43.840 And I'm still woe. 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:48.800 Today's Stone Choir is a continuation of last week's episode on the 00:00:48.800 --> 00:00:50.400 life of the Reverend Dr. 00:00:50.400 --> 00:00:52.000 Martin Luther King Jr. 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:55.360 Or Michael King, or Mike as we're gonna call him. 00:00:55.360 --> 00:00:59.920 As we discussed last week, Mike was not a Christian. 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:04.160 Every day of his life that he spent dealing with Christian subjects 00:01:04.160 --> 00:01:07.440 was a day spent in blaspheming the god of Scripture. 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:12.080 So last week we specifically focused on the theological aspects of his 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:16.560 life. This week we're going to be specifically focusing on what he 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.240 did once he got into the pulpit, he pretty much immediately leapt 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.800 out of the pulpit into political activity, which was really what his 00:01:24.800 --> 00:01:26.480 goal was from the beginning. 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:28.800 And he pretty much said as much in in his own early 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:30.880 writings when he was in seminary. 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:33.760 Before we get into the meat of this proper, I want to 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.480 give a couple uh preambles briefly. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:38.720 One, as I said last week, we're not just doing this to 00:01:38.720 --> 00:01:39.600 beat up on a guy. 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:43.680 It's not because we don't like his politics, although obviously we don't. 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:48.560 The specific reason that this matters is that King is inserted into 00:01:48.880 --> 00:01:50.480 Christianity today. 00:01:50.480 --> 00:01:55.920 His beliefs, his morals, his ethics, his political views are pretty much 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.800 sanctified by almost every church today. 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:03.760 Your pastors, your leaders in your churches have almost certainly quoted him 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:07.520 favorably on the high holy days of the black religion of this 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:12.400 country. You will see his shining face with some meme on Facebook 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:16.240 and Twitter and wherever else your churches use social media, holding him 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:19.360 up as an example of here's a good Christian man and here's 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.160 a good Christian life and here's what good Christians sound like. 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:27.760 The sainthood that was conferred upon him pretty much by fiat serves 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:28.800 political ends. 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:31.200 And so today we're going to be talking about that, and that's 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:32.720 kind of the second part of the preamble I want to give 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:37.760 here, is that while this is an episode talking about political stuff, 00:02:37.760 --> 00:02:41.360 the reason that we're doing it is that fundamentally at some point 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:47.280 that dichotomy that dichotomy between religious and political, between the Christian church 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:51.840 life and the Christian civic life breaks down. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:53.280 There are important distinctions. 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:55.760 There are things that the state should do and that the church 00:02:55.760 --> 00:02:57.760 should do that should not overlap. 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:00.240 And that's what the two kingdoms doctrine is about. 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.640 It's not about Christians being stuck in one sphere or the other. 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:10.160 It's about the Christian organizations that exist for the blessings of all 00:03:10.160 --> 00:03:13.840 Christians and all men by God are structured in such a way 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.880 that when the state does something it the church shouldn't it and 00:03:16.880 --> 00:03:18.080 vice versa. 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:22.240 So the reason for talking about these political things today is that 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:28.080 fundamentally calling them political is really giving short shrift to what's actually 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:32.640 happening. Because w again, when this man, who we're told was he 00:03:32.640 --> 00:03:36.000 was a pastor, he was a preacher, he was a good, peaceful, 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.520 nonviolent man, he had a lot of good teachings, he had a 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:44.320 lot of good civics lessons, and if you disagree with those, you 00:03:44.320 --> 00:03:46.000 are religiously condemned. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:50.320 You are damned as an unbeliever and a hater and you know 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.520 all these other defamatory things that are said about men who will 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:59.120 dare to question the civic religion, which today is indistinguishable from his 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.840 religion. So that's that's why we're talking about this. 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:04.960 It's not it's not gonna be it's gonna be an episode we're 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:10.480 talking about political m events, but the important distinction is that fundamentally 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:13.920 if you let Satan just chip away and chip away at the 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:17.440 entire civic life until you're just limited to a couple hours on 00:04:17.440 --> 00:04:20.080 Sunday, you can't be a Christian anymore. 00:04:20.080 --> 00:04:23.760 And that's really but what's been accomplished by so many of these 00:04:23.760 --> 00:04:28.080 teachings. So to begin, as I said, you know, last week we 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:31.920 talked about his his childhood, his college days, his seminary days, a 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:34.560 little bit about his PhD days, and then very briefly when he 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:35.440 was in the pulpit. 00:04:35.440 --> 00:04:36.560 We kinda ended there. 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:40.560 And he lived another about f fourteen, fifteen years. 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:44.480 So today we're mostly gonna be talking about those years after he 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.040 got his PhD. 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:51.360 We're gonna be talking a lot today about communists and about Jews 00:04:51.440 --> 00:04:54.240 and about communists, Jews, and about Jewish communists. 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:58.160 That will be a recurring theme throughout this, which again sounds political. 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:01.760 I want to preface what we say in the rest of this 00:05:01.760 --> 00:05:05.600 episode with a brief excerpt from an article from the Atlantic from 00:05:05.760 --> 00:05:09.840 2017. This is an article that was talking about the history of 00:05:09.840 --> 00:05:14.640 the Soviet Union as it viewed race relations in the United States. 00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:17.040 Because I think this is a part of history that most people 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:21.040 don't know about, and it's critical because as we're talking about civil 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:26.240 rights and MLK in the South in the fifties and sixties and 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.560 then we are also talking about communists. 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.600 If all you know about communists is from oh it's McCarthy and 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:34.160 it's Hoover and they were just name calling and they were being 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.480 mean, then you're not going to be able to put two and 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:36.960 two together. 00:05:36.960 --> 00:05:38.960 And so I'm going to begin with this quote from the Atlantic 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:43.200 specifically because it makes perfect sense in light of what the Atlantic 00:05:43.200 --> 00:05:43.760 is saying. 00:05:43.760 --> 00:05:45.040 Like, not our guys. 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.680 They're not by any stretch friendly to anything that we have to 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.640 say. And yet they're telling the truth here about this because frankly 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:51.920 they're kind of proud. 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:54.080 The Atlantic rites. 00:05:54.080 --> 00:05:58.640 Playing on racial tensions inside the United States was a Soviet tactic. 00:05:58.640 --> 00:06:01.120 In fact, it predates even the Cold War. 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:05.440 In nineteen thirty two, for instance, Dimitri Moore, the Soviet Union's most 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:10.560 famous propaganda poster artist, created a poster that cried freedom for the 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:12.160 prisoners of Scottsboro. 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.280 It was a reference to the Scottsboro boys and nine black teenagers 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:18.720 who were accused of raping two white women in Alabama, and then 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.680 repeatedly convicted by all white Southern juries. 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:24.720 The case became a symbol of the Jim Crow South, and the 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:29.440 young Soviet state milked it for all the propagandistic value it could. 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:32.160 It was part of a plan put in place in nineteen twenty 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:36.400 eight by the Comintern, the Communist International, whose mission was to spread 00:06:36.400 --> 00:06:38.480 the Communist Revolution around the world. 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:43.440 The plan initially called for recruiting Southern Blacks and pushing for self-determination 00:06:43.440 --> 00:06:44.560 in the Black Belt. 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:48.240 By nineteen thirty, the Comintern had escalated the aims of its covert 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:51.840 mission and decided to work towards establishing a separate black state in 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:55.360 the South, which would provide it with a beachhead for spreading the 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:58.000 revolution to North America. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:02.160 So as we're talking about communists today and we're talking about Southeastine's 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:06.240 political, you need to keep in mind that as early as 1928, 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:10.640 just ten years after the Jewish Communist Revolution in the Soviet Union, 00:07:10.640 --> 00:07:14.720 where they murdered the Russian rulers and replaced them with their own 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:20.480 people, within ten years they had correctly identified the using racial divisions 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:21.200 in the United States 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:26.400 was going to be a key fracture point to A advance the 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:31.040 goal of spreading communism in the United States and B diminishing the 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.360 United States political power. 00:07:33.760 --> 00:07:37.040 And so all the things we're going to say today, just keep 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:41.520 in mind that 20, 30 years later, the Soviet Union, when they 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:45.760 were deciding how to destroy America, they decided let's use blacks in 00:07:45.760 --> 00:07:47.040 the South to spread communism. 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:50.560 So when we say later on there are communists in the South 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.560 using blacks against the United States government, that's not just us name 00:07:54.640 --> 00:07:56.640 calling. That's literally what the plan was. 00:07:56.640 --> 00:07:59.360 And so if you can put those two and two together, it 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:02.960 gets a little bit easier to take what we're saying at face 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:04.800 value and like you don't need you don't need to believe any 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:05.200 of this. 00:08:05.200 --> 00:08:06.960 You can go research for yourself. 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:09.120 These are all just historical facts. 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:11.760 So just keep in mind when we're talking about communists in the 00:08:11.760 --> 00:08:15.440 South, they had already decided in nineteen twenty-eight that this was the 00:08:15.440 --> 00:08:16.880 plan they wanted to enact. 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:17.520 And 00:08:17.520 --> 00:08:21.920 so we'll start with a little bit of context just to give 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:23.840 you an idea of where it is that we're beginning 00:08:24.880 --> 00:08:29.200 or picking up this narrative with regard to MLK, and that is 00:08:29.200 --> 00:08:33.440 in nineteen fifty four, in September of that year, he became pastor 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.760 of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama Alabama, and the city 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:39.520 is relevant here. 00:08:39.520 --> 00:08:44.400 As mentioned, he didn't really spend over much time as an actual 00:08:44.400 --> 00:08:49.600 pastor, he was really more interested in the civil rights movement. 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:53.120 And so in nineteen fifty five, in December, of course, that is 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:58.480 when we have the Montgomery Bus Boycott, that was coordinated and organized 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:05.920 by the organization called the Montgomery Improvement Association, which was organized and 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:10.640 basically began its life on December fifth, and MLK was made the 00:09:10.640 --> 00:09:12.960 head of it the same day. 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:16.400 That is the day that they were going to originally have the 00:09:16.400 --> 00:09:17.280 bus boycott. 00:09:17.280 --> 00:09:19.360 It was meant to be one day. 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:22.800 It wound up being over a year. 00:09:22.800 --> 00:09:25.520 And there's a lot that follows on from that. 00:09:25.520 --> 00:09:27.600 We'll get into more of those facts shortly. 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:31.760 But it's worth noting that this didn't actually begin with the Montgomery 00:09:31.760 --> 00:09:32.960 Improvement Association. 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:38.400 It began years earlier with an organization called the Women's Political Council 00:09:38.560 --> 00:09:42.880 that was founded by Mary Fair Burks, who was head of the 00:09:42.880 --> 00:09:47.680 English department actually at Alabama State, she resigned. 00:09:47.680 --> 00:09:51.200 There's some questions about whether or not it was really a resignation 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:53.040 or a forced resignation. 00:09:53.040 --> 00:09:55.840 Resignations often are not voluntary. 00:09:56.640 --> 00:09:58.240 And she did that because 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:01.760 she was an activist and she was involved with a number of 00:10:01.760 --> 00:10:05.280 other activists at the school who had been dismissed specifically because of 00:10:05.280 --> 00:10:09.760 their in this case, yes, Marxist activism. 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:13.280 But of course, when you think of the bus boycott, there's a 00:10:13.280 --> 00:10:16.080 name that is going to come to mind immediately, and that's going 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:17.760 to be Rosa Parks. 00:10:17.760 --> 00:10:21.680 And the reason Rosa Parks comes to mind is because in your 00:10:21.680 --> 00:10:24.160 history books, most likely you were taught that Rosa Parks was the 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:26.000 one that sparked this. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:30.000 To some degree that's true, to some degree it's not. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.200 Because there had been a number of blacks who had been arrested 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:38.080 over the years for violating the laws in place with regard to 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:39.840 public transportation. 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:45.040 However, those who wanted to push for the boycott wanted to pick 00:10:45.040 --> 00:10:45.920 the perfect plaintiff. 00:10:45.920 --> 00:10:47.200 This is plaintiff shopping. 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.040 This is something that attorneys do. 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:55.200 It's not always permissible how it's done, but it's not always impermissible. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:58.400 But at any rate, it points out that this bus boycott was 00:10:58.400 --> 00:11:01.760 very much a planned matter. 00:11:01.760 --> 00:11:03.920 This was not a spur of the moment. 00:11:03.920 --> 00:11:06.960 This was not, you know, Rosa Parks was tired, I've heard people 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:08.720 say that over the years. 00:11:08.720 --> 00:11:11.760 And she flatly refutes that in her memoirs incidentally. 00:11:12.400 --> 00:11:15.200 But to go back to the actual bus boycott here and the 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:19.920 facts of what happened, the driver in this case was James Blake, 00:11:19.920 --> 00:11:25.760 and actually, Rosa Parks and James Blake had interacted earlier along the 00:11:25.760 --> 00:11:30.000 same lines, because twelve years earlier she had refused to sit in 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.280 the back of the bus and had been confronted by James Blake, 00:11:33.280 --> 00:11:34.400 this same driver. 00:11:34.400 --> 00:11:36.080 At that point she got off the bus. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:37.760 She was not removed from the bus, she got off of her 00:11:37.760 --> 00:11:39.280 own accord. 00:11:39.280 --> 00:11:43.280 So this is twelve years later, and this is when the bus 00:11:43.520 --> 00:11:47.760 boycott and really MLK's real activism begins. 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:50.720 I think the important thing to note is we're going along and 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:56.160 mentioning all these disparate little, seemingly friendly sounding organizations like the Women's 00:11:56.160 --> 00:11:59.520 Political Council, the Montgomery Improvement Association. 00:11:59.520 --> 00:12:02.160 How could you possibly object to anything that a group like that 00:12:02.160 --> 00:12:04.080 would ever do? 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:09.360 Once you observe and learn how the left works, you'll find that 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:11.520 this is exactly how it works. 00:12:11.520 --> 00:12:16.320 They will set up an entire brand new organization created from whole 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.880 cloth with a set goal in mind that will not be the 00:12:20.880 --> 00:12:23.120 goal that is the stated goal of the organization. 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:25.600 You know, Montgomery Improvement Association. 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:27.200 That sounds like the nicest thing in the world. 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:29.520 Who wouldn't want Montgomery to improve? 00:12:29.520 --> 00:12:34.320 However, when you start unraveling who was behind it, who was financing 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:37.280 it, who is organizing it, what were their plans going in, and 00:12:37.280 --> 00:12:40.240 then what did they do as soon as they hit the ground, 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:46.000 it becomes very clear that their intentions went far beyond improving Montgomery. 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.680 And so we're going to mention a bunch of different groups like 00:12:49.680 --> 00:12:51.040 this, just little organizations. 00:12:51.040 --> 00:12:53.920 You know, it's happening today in our own church in Missouri Sand. 00:12:53.920 --> 00:12:56.080 You have the Lutherans for Racial Justice. 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.880 They appeared fully formed within a few weeks of George Floyd's suicide. 00:13:00.880 --> 00:13:04.400 And everyone's saying, well, you know, they're Lutherans and they want racial 00:13:04.400 --> 00:13:07.040 justice. Well, that sounds, you know, if you know a little bit, 00:13:07.040 --> 00:13:09.760 you think, you know, that's probably bad news, because only bad people 00:13:09.760 --> 00:13:15.120 talk about racial justice, incidentally starting in the fifties with these people. 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:15.440 But 00:13:16.560 --> 00:13:19.440 if you're not really paying attention and you just see a new 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:22.640 group pop up, you think, oh my, there's a ground swell, there's, 00:13:22.640 --> 00:13:26.880 you know, it's not Astroturfed, it's a natural upwelling of the people 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.600 in pursuit of some particular goal. 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:35.920 And so all these seemingly disconnected organizations with completely innocuous names, they're 00:13:35.920 --> 00:13:37.760 all effectively fronts. 00:13:37.760 --> 00:13:41.760 And when you call something a front, it sometimes there's a very 00:13:41.760 --> 00:13:45.200 deliberate specific roadmap behind it. 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:46.880 And sometimes it's spontaneous. 00:13:46.880 --> 00:13:50.080 You know, for example, the the Antifa blog that was set up 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:53.840 to dox Corey and me sprang into existence for the sole purpose 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:55.600 of assassinating our character. 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:57.360 That's the only reason it exists. 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.960 They the people existed before, but the new brand that they created 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:02.640 was created for that specific purpose. 00:14:02.640 --> 00:14:05.440 So they sprang up, they do it, and then you know later 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:08.160 on they'll just walk away from it because there's no investment in 00:14:08.160 --> 00:14:09.680 the organization. 00:14:09.680 --> 00:14:12.000 So a lot of these groups, you know, like the women's political 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.080 council, I don't know if it's still around, it's probably not. 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.640 And it wasn't just that time passed, it was that in that 00:14:16.640 --> 00:14:19.200 moment it had served its purpose. 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:23.760 So when you hear these names, keep in mind that if you 00:14:23.760 --> 00:14:27.440 were doing this stuff, because you're an honest person, you're a Christian, 00:14:27.440 --> 00:14:29.840 you would stick to your principles and you would apply them to 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:30.960 whatever you're doing. 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.480 You cannot give that benefit of the doubt to these organizations. 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.880 When they're playing these shell games with organizations that let them mask 00:14:38.880 --> 00:14:42.000 funding and mask organizers, the reason for that is that it seems 00:14:42.400 --> 00:14:45.520 spontaneous when it's actually all coordinated. 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:45.840 And 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.640 the names are always a dead giveaway for anyone who's familiar with 00:14:48.640 --> 00:14:50.400 how the left works. 00:14:50.400 --> 00:14:52.560 They always sound like this. 00:14:52.560 --> 00:14:55.440 Hence why of course you have the People's Republic of China. 00:14:56.400 --> 00:15:00.000 They name them in ways that, like you said, sound positive. 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.800 It sounds like something you couldn't possibly oppose, but then you look 00:15:02.800 --> 00:15:05.520 into what they're actually doing. 00:15:05.520 --> 00:15:10.720 And so to continue with that particular theme, the husband of Rosa 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:15.040 Parks was Raymond, and he was a member of the NAACP, which 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:19.040 of course is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:23.200 Apparently they're still allowed to use that term. 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:28.080 She did not initially join the NAACP because her husband expressed some 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:30.960 reservations or concerns about her safety. 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:34.320 Whether or not those were genuine, one could debate, but she did 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:38.000 eventually join the NAACP in nineteen forty three, so she's already an 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.840 activist, more than a decade before this happens. 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.360 And she also had a history of violating the various laws in 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.680 the South related to segregation. 00:15:47.680 --> 00:15:51.280 So this was not the first instance of her just being tired 00:15:51.280 --> 00:15:52.800 and refusing to give up her seat. 00:15:52.800 --> 00:15:55.840 That narrative is totally false. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:58.160 Beyond that, she was actually specifically trained 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:05.200 by communists as a political activist, as an agitator. 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:09.200 And she was trained at what was then called the Highlander Folk 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:13.280 School. And that was in August of nineteen fifty five, just shortly 00:16:13.280 --> 00:16:17.120 before this bus boycott, which started in December. 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:21.120 Incidentally, I looked it up and surprisingly this school still exists. 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:24.320 It's only a half hour from where I live, which is interesting. 00:16:24.880 --> 00:16:30.240 It's now called the Highlander Research and Education Center, still a socialist, 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:36.640 far left, communist think tank, as it were, training agitators and advocating 00:16:36.640 --> 00:16:40.960 for the sort of policies you would expect. 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:44.400 There are some notable people involved in this school. 00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:49.680 A couple of them would be Myles Horton and his wife, Zylphia. 00:16:49.680 --> 00:16:53.520 The reason she is interesting here is that she is the one 00:16:53.520 --> 00:16:58.480 who adapted a Christian hymn to create the song We Shall Overcome, 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:01.680 which of course became the sort of anthem of the civil rights 00:17:01.680 --> 00:17:05.520 movement. There are a lot of individuals who wind up connected to 00:17:05.520 --> 00:17:08.320 this school, as it is called. 00:17:08.320 --> 00:17:13.360 Now, Rosa Parks never officially became a member of the Communist Party, 00:17:13.360 --> 00:17:16.800 and you will see that in in some of the individuals as 00:17:16.800 --> 00:17:18.400 we go through this history. 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:21.600 Some of them become members, some of them don't become members. 00:17:21.600 --> 00:17:25.040 Her husband was a member, and she attended meetings. 00:17:25.040 --> 00:17:28.560 So whether or not she was officially a member of the Communist 00:17:28.560 --> 00:17:31.200 Party hardly matters. 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.320 It may have been her husband who introduced her to the Communist 00:17:34.320 --> 00:17:40.000 Party, it may have been another that's not particularly clear. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:44.880 But what is clear is that most likely her husband became involved 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:50.400 with the Communist Party in the 1930s, when the NAACP was raising 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:53.920 funds to appeal the convictions in the case that was mentioned in 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:59.440 the opening the Scottsboro Boys, which was a gang rape case involving 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.720 a group of blacks and two white women. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:09.680 The Communist Party agitated along with the NAACP to get the convictions 00:18:09.760 --> 00:18:14.080 overturned and helped the Communist Party helped raise funds. 00:18:14.080 --> 00:18:19.680 This was largely organized by the group called International Red Aid. 00:18:19.680 --> 00:18:21.040 Now at the International Red Aid 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:28.080 is, they deliberately use the name as really sort of a pun, 00:18:28.080 --> 00:18:32.480 because they called themselves a version of the Red Cross but for 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:38.000 political prisoners and political activists and of course red is also associated 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:39.280 with communists. 00:18:39.280 --> 00:18:41.440 We have the colors reversed in the US 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:48.560 That is because a newspaperman decided that he didn't want to associate 00:18:49.040 --> 00:18:52.640 the left with communism in the US, so the colors got switched 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:53.920 and it stuck. 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.720 It's dumb, but that's just the way it is in the US. 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:00.480 Typically conservatives are actually blue in most of the world But at 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:04.880 any rate, the International Red Aid was one of the revolutionary organs 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:06.800 of international communism. 00:19:06.800 --> 00:19:13.120 It was in fact started by the Communist International in 1922. 00:19:13.120 --> 00:19:17.360 But to get back to Parks, we pointed out in the opening 00:19:17.360 --> 00:19:21.840 that many of these individuals have basically become a sort of saint 00:19:21.840 --> 00:19:23.440 in a new religion. 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:28.960 And toward that point, Parks is commemorated in five states, at least, 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:33.120 there may be more now, but she is commemorated in California, Michigan, 00:19:33.120 --> 00:19:36.720 Ohio, Oregon, and Texas. 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.080 So whatever you may think of Texas as being a conservative state, 00:19:41.040 --> 00:19:44.720 perhaps reconsider that on some counts. 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:49.280 As for Parks in her later life, she became even more of 00:19:49.280 --> 00:19:49.920 an activist. 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.160 She got involved in the Black Power Movement. 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:57.040 She advocated for murderers and rapists, arsonists, and various other criminals through 00:19:57.040 --> 00:20:01.200 her various organizations, with which she involved herself, or in some cases 00:20:01.360 --> 00:20:07.040 started. She founded the Detroit chapter of the Joanne Little Defense Committee, 00:20:07.040 --> 00:20:10.800 which that organization is notable. 00:20:10.800 --> 00:20:12.480 You may even recognize this name. 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:16.640 They defended Angela Davis, who is an open Marxist and a professor 00:20:17.040 --> 00:20:18.240 at UC Santa Cruz. 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:22.480 They defended her, I believe that was on a murder charge. 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:27.360 To expand on Angela Davis, for those who are mercifully heretofore not 00:20:27.360 --> 00:20:32.720 familiar with her She lived in the USSR, longtime member of the 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:38.800 Communist Party, deeply involved in far left agitation, communist politics, and she 00:20:38.800 --> 00:20:43.440 has been frequently accused, perhaps reasonably, of engaging in calls for political 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:49.200 violence. These are the sorts of individuals who were involved from the 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:51.200 very beginning of this. 00:20:51.360 --> 00:20:51.520 Well 00:20:51.600 --> 00:20:54.560 most people when you hear the name Rosa Parks you think of 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:56.320 the the hagiography. 00:20:56.320 --> 00:20:59.520 Poor old woman, tired feet, made to sit in the back of 00:20:59.520 --> 00:21:03.200 the bus, she objected 'cause why shouldn't she be allowed to? 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:05.520 And then maybe if you knew later on in her life that 00:21:05.520 --> 00:21:08.560 she was politically motivated to be an activist? 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:09.520 well of course. 00:21:09.520 --> 00:21:12.400 She s suddenly she realized how bad racism was and she wanted 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:14.560 to devote her life to fighting it. 00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:17.280 That's an easy story to buy if you don't pay any attention, 00:21:17.280 --> 00:21:18.960 and that's what they're counting on. 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:23.680 They're counting on all of us being stupid and not having any 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.800 interest in figuring out where any of this stuff came from. 00:21:26.800 --> 00:21:30.160 Yeah, fundamentally this is a genealogy of ideas episode. 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:34.320 What is the genealogy of these people and their ideas and their 00:21:34.320 --> 00:21:37.280 supporters and the organizations that they were in. 00:21:37.280 --> 00:21:42.160 Because the actual Rosa Parks, as as Corey's just laid out, was 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:44.400 effectively a communist agitator. 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:46.800 And it doesn't matter whether or not she was a communist party 00:21:46.800 --> 00:21:50.000 member, because as I mentioned in the intro, as it popped up 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:55.760 again here with the um the Scottsboro boys, this was the playbook. 00:21:55.760 --> 00:21:59.760 This was literally the Soviet Union's communist playbook. 00:21:59.760 --> 00:22:02.720 They wrote it down in the twenties and thirties, and then in 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:05.040 the forties and fifties they did it. 00:22:05.040 --> 00:22:09.920 So there's a direct line between the political goals of communism to 00:22:09.920 --> 00:22:13.600 overthrow you the United States and all these nice old black people 00:22:13.600 --> 00:22:17.040 in the South having sore feet and just wanting to be left 00:22:17.040 --> 00:22:20.320 alone. And if you don't pay any attention, you don't see the 00:22:20.320 --> 00:22:21.840 connection between the two. 00:22:21.840 --> 00:22:25.360 And when someone tells you there's a connection, typically all you're gonna 00:22:25.360 --> 00:22:28.160 hear is people shouting and say, You're racist, you're whatever. 00:22:28.160 --> 00:22:31.520 Like it's just they want to cancel you because if you're not 00:22:31.520 --> 00:22:34.160 canceled and people hear you out, they're like, Oh wow, you can 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:35.040 go read for yourself. 00:22:35.040 --> 00:22:38.400 Like I said, you know, the the Atlantic article on many articles 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:42.720 when they describe these things today looking backward, they don't hide these 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.920 connections because there's no longer any concern to be ashamed. 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.440 And the reason for that is that communism, A, we think is 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:52.800 dead, because we don't fundamentally understand what it is, we'll be doing 00:22:52.800 --> 00:22:54.640 a future episode specifically on that. 00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:57.200 So we're we're kind of jumping in the middle of you know 00:22:57.280 --> 00:22:58.720 the fifties and sixties. 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:00.880 I think we'll probably have to do an an episode on the 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:04.160 civil rights movement at large because there's much more to it than 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:06.960 just these people, particularly MLK. 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:10.480 And then we'll have to deal with communism both forward and backward 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:13.440 in time, because again, it's it's theology. 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:18.000 You know, the communist values the Soviet Union was an atheist state. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.160 Well the very first things they did was A ban anti Semitism, 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:24.960 which incidentally they just invented, and you'd be put to death for 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:26.800 anti Semitism in the USSR. 00:23:26.800 --> 00:23:28.960 And B, Christianity was made illegal. 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:30.400 Almost simultaneously. 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:32.320 And you would be executed for being a Christian. 00:23:32.320 --> 00:23:35.520 They tortured and murdered tens of millions of Christians. 00:23:35.520 --> 00:23:38.960 They starved them to death, they put them in gulags, they were 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.840 systematically exterminating Christians. 00:23:41.840 --> 00:23:45.200 That was communism, and it's still communism. 00:23:45.200 --> 00:23:48.240 It happens everywhere the communism spreads up. 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.120 And when we hear the term we think, oh well that's just 00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:54.640 political. And some people even today in our own churches try to 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:56.160 sanctify some of that. 00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:59.760 I mean there's a pastor in the LCMS who literally says with 00:23:59.760 --> 00:24:03.360 pride, my Marxist, when he's talking about one of the laymen in 00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:05.120 his own congregation. 00:24:05.120 --> 00:24:07.680 That should not be the case in any Christian church. 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:14.480 And so it's important to tackle where the theology ends if it 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:17.040 does, and where the politics be begins. 00:24:17.040 --> 00:24:20.080 And frankly, I don't think the theology ever ends, which is not 00:24:20.080 --> 00:24:22.320 the same as saying we want a theocracy. 00:24:22.320 --> 00:24:25.280 I think it's important as we tackle these things to make clear. 00:24:25.280 --> 00:24:30.480 We're not saying theocratic rule is the alternative to this. 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.840 We're simply saying that Christians can be Christian in all spheres of 00:24:33.840 --> 00:24:34.480 their life. 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:37.520 And if they're doing that, it doesn't look like the life of 00:24:37.520 --> 00:24:40.320 Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr. 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:46.240 Before we return to the aftermath, what happens because of that boycott, 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:50.000 there is another individual who needs to be mentioned here because he 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.160 is one of the founders of the Montgomery Improvement Association, and that 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:54.800 is E.D. 00:24:54.800 --> 00:24:58.720 Nixon. His father was a Baptist minister. 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:02.160 It's worth noting because as we go through this, you are going 00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:06.000 to notice there are a lot of ministers, many of them Baptists, 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:11.120 some Methodist, I believe there's one Episcopalian at one point, but there 00:25:11.120 --> 00:25:17.440 are a lot of men who are masquerading as Christians. 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:20.080 Now the reason they're doing this should be obvious. 00:25:20.080 --> 00:25:23.520 It's because it lends a sort of credibility, it lends a sort 00:25:23.520 --> 00:25:27.360 of prestige that they would otherwise not have. 00:25:27.360 --> 00:25:29.440 And we have some of this happening today. 00:25:30.080 --> 00:25:33.200 There are men who are very much not Christian and yet are 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:34.960 wearing a collar. 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:39.360 And so we have to be careful of wolves who are 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:43.280 dressing up as shepherds. 00:25:43.280 --> 00:25:46.240 But at any rate, Nixon was one of the ones who was 00:25:46.560 --> 00:25:49.520 really one of the organizers of the effort to find a good 00:25:49.520 --> 00:25:53.440 plaintiff for the lawsuit that would follow on from the Montgomery bus 00:25:53.600 --> 00:25:58.000 boycott. Because of course from the beginning, that was the goal. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:01.440 The goal was to change the law of the land by creating 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:05.040 chaos and forcing a court case. 00:26:05.040 --> 00:26:08.160 And so there were a number of individuals who were ignored who 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:13.200 had been arrested for violating the very same sort of laws. 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:17.040 One was a fifteen year old student who was arrested nine months 00:26:17.040 --> 00:26:20.080 prior to the Rosa Parks incident. 00:26:20.080 --> 00:26:24.160 This was very much a planned endeavor. 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:27.440 They knew what they were trying to achieve, and they set about 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:30.800 doing so ruthlessly. 00:26:30.800 --> 00:26:33.760 Now, as mentioned, originally the boycott was meant to last for one 00:26:33.760 --> 00:26:36.800 day, December fifth, but it wound up going for more than a 00:26:36.800 --> 00:26:40.400 year, and it eventuated in the court case called Browder v. 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:42.160 Gale. That was a U.S. 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:46.960 District Court case in the middle district of Alabama, and this found 00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:49.760 against the segregation laws of Alabama. 00:26:49.760 --> 00:26:56.160 So basically, this is one of the cases that forces integration, particularly 00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:58.080 in the South. 00:26:58.080 --> 00:27:01.840 The judge in this case was Frank Minnes Johnson. 00:27:01.840 --> 00:27:07.360 He would go on to oversee many desegregation cases, including desegregating the 00:27:07.360 --> 00:27:09.680 Alabama school system. 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:15.200 The other two justices who were involved here was Seaborn Harris Lynn, 00:27:15.280 --> 00:27:20.800 he notably dissented, although on technical grounds, and Richard Rivas, who is 00:27:20.800 --> 00:27:24.080 not particularly relevant in this narrative. 00:27:24.080 --> 00:27:27.920 What is relevant is that this case was of course appealed, and 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:33.520 it was summarily affirmed by SCOTUS, by the Supreme Court, on the 00:27:33.520 --> 00:27:36.160 thirteenth of November in nineteen fifty-six. 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:37.520 And the holding of this case 00:27:39.120 --> 00:27:42.720 is that conditions created by segregation 00:27:44.320 --> 00:27:46.320 violate the equal protection 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:49.440 under the 14th Amendment. 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:50.400 That's the basic holding. 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:54.240 And of course that's always how we wind up with these segregation 00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:55.760 cases going. 00:27:55.760 --> 00:28:00.240 These measures are struck down because well initially it was found by 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:04.640 the Supreme Court separate but equal, which is Plessy V. 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:09.680 Ferguson. This sort of overrules that to some degree, but of course 00:28:09.760 --> 00:28:12.240 that was really overruled by Brown v. 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:16.000 Board of Education, which was the desegregation of public schools. 00:28:16.320 --> 00:28:20.080 That incidentally was a unanimous opinion, which is worth noting. 00:28:20.080 --> 00:28:23.760 We didn't have dissenting justices who decided to uphold the law. 00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:27.680 They all decided to overturn it. 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:32.800 And so this is an extension to some degree of that. 00:28:32.800 --> 00:28:35.680 But to go into the facts of Brown v. 00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:40.560 Board of Education a little more, that was also an NAACP case. 00:28:40.560 --> 00:28:45.120 In fact, it was five cases that were sponsored by the NAACP 00:28:45.360 --> 00:28:49.840 that were combined into one case and then taken before the court. 00:28:49.840 --> 00:28:54.960 Another noteworthy individual here would be the chief counsel for the NAACP 00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:58.800 at that time, and that was Thurgood Marshall, who would later be 00:28:58.800 --> 00:29:02.560 appointed to the Supreme Court by Lyndon Johnson. 00:29:02.560 --> 00:29:06.880 Thurgood Marshall was a far leftist. 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:10.400 There are many things we could mention about him, many anti Christian 00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:11.920 stances that he took. 00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:15.360 One in particular would be that he was a lifelong staunch opponent 00:29:15.360 --> 00:29:18.400 of the death penalty. 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:21.920 Incidentally, also one of the justices who played a key role in 00:29:23.040 --> 00:29:26.080 undermining obscenity law in the US. 00:29:26.080 --> 00:29:31.200 And so you will see these Marxist agitators and those around them 00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:37.600 constantly working to undermine civil society and the morality of society. 00:29:37.600 --> 00:29:40.880 One of the biggest ways in which the courts have done that 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:44.080 is the changes to obscenity law over time. 00:29:45.120 --> 00:29:49.040 Now we could go through the history of obscenity law with Hicklin 00:29:49.120 --> 00:29:53.280 and Roth and Miller, but we're not going to do that, because 00:29:53.280 --> 00:29:55.120 this isn't the point of this podcast. 00:29:55.120 --> 00:29:57.360 The point here is that 00:29:59.600 --> 00:30:04.320 Thurgood Marshall was one of the driving forces behind Stanley v. 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:08.800 Georgia, which was the case that ruled that the criminalization of obscene 00:30:08.800 --> 00:30:12.000 materials was unconstitutional. 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:13.680 You may not immediately recognize 00:30:15.280 --> 00:30:20.960 the problem with that case in which Marshall actually wrote the opinion. 00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:24.880 The big reason that that case is a problem is that it 00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:30.320 was founded upon the grounds of privacy, a right to privacy. 00:30:30.320 --> 00:30:33.840 Now, if you are familiar with some other areas of the law, 00:30:33.840 --> 00:30:35.760 you may understand the problem here. 00:30:35.760 --> 00:30:39.360 The right to privacy is also how we got abortion. 00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:44.720 That is incidentally why we have pornography so widespread as well. 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:46.720 It's all a ratchet. 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:49.440 If you give an inch, they take a mile, and they will 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:53.040 always work toward whatever the next evil is. 00:30:53.040 --> 00:30:55.600 And so of course from Stanley v. 00:30:55.600 --> 00:31:00.560 Georgia, we have now the Miller Test, nineteen seventy three, which basically 00:31:00.560 --> 00:31:02.640 just permits obscenity. 00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:05.680 Our obscenity law at this point in the US is a complete 00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:11.520 joke. The things that are banned are so egregious that we will 00:31:11.520 --> 00:31:14.000 never mention them on this podcast. 00:31:14.080 --> 00:31:19.840 The personal privacy angle is also how how contraception was legalized nationally. 00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:24.640 That was another key thing to abortion, contraception, pornography are they all 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:25.440 part and parcel. 00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:27.280 It's all part of the same group of people. 00:31:27.280 --> 00:31:32.720 And although MLK was not himself personally an advocate of these things, 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:35.200 it was all the people surrounding him in a c in a 00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:38.880 cloud. So he didn't have to because he legitimized all these other 00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:43.440 moving parts, all advancing inexorably towards the same sort of goals. 00:31:43.760 --> 00:31:43.920 Well 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:45.360 he didn't care about pornography. 00:31:45.520 --> 00:31:47.440 He was much too busy with prostitutes. 00:31:47.520 --> 00:31:52.080 Indeed. But as a follow yeah, as a follow-on from The Bus 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:57.680 Boycott, MLK writes his Strive Toward Freedom book, which was his so-called 00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:03.040 memoir about this boycott, and he does this throughout his life. 00:32:03.040 --> 00:32:07.920 He does something that is agitating, something that is disruptive, and then 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:10.960 writes a book or an article or speech about it. 00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:15.120 Although it is not entirely accurate to say he writes because he 00:32:15.120 --> 00:32:17.440 used ghost writers, that is very obvious. 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:21.280 I would hope the last episode made very obvious that his most 00:32:21.280 --> 00:32:25.280 famous speeches were written by others. 00:32:25.280 --> 00:32:28.720 We saw the sort of things he wrote. 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:34.640 But moving forward in time to one of MLK's speeches, 1957, he 00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:39.440 delivers the Give Us the Ballot speech at the Lincoln Memorial. 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:43.120 This is of course highly praised by the NAACP. 00:32:43.120 --> 00:32:46.960 Not surprising considering they helped organize the event. 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:48.080 The event is attended by 00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:52.160 a number of prominent individuals. 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:56.000 One salient one here is A Philip Randolph. 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:59.040 And the reason that he is relevant is because he was the 00:32:59.040 --> 00:33:03.120 founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and and the Negro 00:33:03.120 --> 00:33:08.160 American Labor Council, Nalk, which will be relevant later. 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:11.440 He is one of the individuals who pushed for the march on 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:17.520 Washington. He was an open socialist. 00:33:17.520 --> 00:33:22.000 He explicitly tied in his comments, in his speeches, in his public 00:33:22.080 --> 00:33:27.040 appearances, overcoming racism to enacting socialism. 00:33:27.040 --> 00:33:30.560 And of course, bear in mind that when we use socialism in 00:33:30.560 --> 00:33:35.360 this context, we mean the sort of socialism that the communist used 00:33:35.520 --> 00:33:38.960 as the pathway to communism. 00:33:38.960 --> 00:33:42.960 In keeping with the theme of a lot of involvement of supposed 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:48.800 Christians and pastors, Randolph claimed to be a Methodist. 00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:51.520 He was probably an atheist, though. 00:33:51.520 --> 00:33:56.160 He signed a document called the Humanist Manifesto II, the second version 00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:56.720 of it. 00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:59.360 This was signed by a number of prominent individuals. 00:33:59.360 --> 00:34:04.240 Asimov, Isaac Asimov, for instance, signed this one. 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:10.640 This rejected theism, deism, any argument there is proof of the afterlife, 00:34:10.640 --> 00:34:16.880 rejected and opposed racism, proposed an international court, supported contraception, abortion, divorce, 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:22.000 and euthanasia, and supported quite a few other Marxist or leftist causes, 00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:27.520 very clearly not something that a Christian could even contemplate signing. 00:34:27.520 --> 00:34:29.680 And of course the nail in the coffin he was also a 00:34:29.680 --> 00:34:32.640 pacifist. Christians cannot be pacifists. 00:34:32.640 --> 00:34:35.680 Perhaps we'll go into that in greater depth at some point in 00:34:35.680 --> 00:34:39.520 the future. 00:34:39.520 --> 00:34:45.040 Another thing that follows on from this Montgomery bus boycott is the 00:34:45.040 --> 00:34:45.520 formation of 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:49.520 a particularly salient group. 00:34:49.520 --> 00:34:55.680 That group is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 00:34:55.680 --> 00:34:59.600 One of their stated goals in establishing this group was to quote 00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:03.600 redeem the soul of America, unquote. 00:35:03.600 --> 00:35:04.240 You may 00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:08.720 find that similar to things that you have heard from pastors and 00:35:08.720 --> 00:35:10.320 politicians today. 00:35:10.640 --> 00:35:14.720 You may think of those who say that racism is America's original 00:35:14.720 --> 00:35:21.440 sin. This is an alternative religion to Christianity. 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:26.960 Christians don't talk about politics redeeming the soul of anything. 00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:29.760 That's not what politics does. 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:33.760 And yet that is supposedly what this group thought they would do, 00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:35.840 and you may think, oh well they have the name the word 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:37.680 Christian in their name. 00:35:37.680 --> 00:35:39.120 Obviously their no. 00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:44.880 Their original name before well, I believe this one was actually Levison. 00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:46.480 We'll get to him soon enough. 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:50.080 But the original name before some of MLK's handlers got to it 00:35:50.080 --> 00:35:57.200 was the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration, which 00:35:57.200 --> 00:36:01.280 is not only a mouthful but nonsense and doesn't involve the word 00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:02.160 Christian. 00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:08.000 One of the reasons that this group is relevant is the individuals 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:09.040 involved in it. 00:36:09.040 --> 00:36:13.280 And so now we'll run through a number of key individuals from 00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:14.400 this group. 00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:16.240 We'll start with perhaps the 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:22.640 most relevant, although perhaps this man and the last one we'll mention 00:36:22.720 --> 00:36:26.240 are probably the two most relevant from this particular group. 00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:28.080 The first is Bayard Rustin 00:36:29.520 --> 00:36:32.960 Rustin notably was a communist. 00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:36.000 More he was a communist sodomite. 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:40.240 He joined the Young Community League, which was a communist feeder group 00:36:40.240 --> 00:36:41.680 in nineteen thirty six. 00:36:41.680 --> 00:36:47.440 He did leave that one because he became disillusioned with their effectiveness. 00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:50.880 And then he became involved with the Communist Party USA. 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:54.320 He became disillusioned with them as well, and the reason that he 00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:58.080 became disillusioned with them is notable because this happened with a number 00:36:58.080 --> 00:37:01.440 of the so-called civil rights leaders. 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:09.280 When World War II started, international communism, understandably, shifted focus from 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:13.680 trying to gin up racial hatred and division in the US in 00:37:13.680 --> 00:37:18.160 order to undermine and destabilize the US, to attempting to get the 00:37:18.160 --> 00:37:21.120 US to enter World War II. 00:37:21.120 --> 00:37:25.520 Because of course, the Communists would have lost World War II if 00:37:25.520 --> 00:37:26.240 not for U.S. 00:37:26.240 --> 00:37:28.320 entry into that war. 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:33.360 These individuals became disillusioned with the Communist Party because they saw the 00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:37.600 Communist Party as abandoning them because they were focusing on the war 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:44.160 instead of on these various civil rights issues in the US. 00:37:44.160 --> 00:37:47.600 And so he joined the Socialist Party instead. 00:37:47.600 --> 00:37:52.240 This man was also another one of the architects behind the march 00:37:52.240 --> 00:37:54.160 on Washington. 00:37:54.160 --> 00:37:58.560 To give a little more information about this man's life and the 00:37:58.560 --> 00:38:00.960 Life and the sort of character he was. 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:03.520 He was arrested in nineteen fifty three. 00:38:03.520 --> 00:38:05.360 He was forty years old then. 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:09.280 He was caught having sex with two other men, in their twenties, 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:12.240 in a parked car. 00:38:12.240 --> 00:38:15.760 Later in his life when he was seventy years old, he adopted 00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:22.240 his catamite, and the katamite at that point was thirty. 00:38:22.240 --> 00:38:26.960 He took a trip to Russia, communist Russia at one point, which 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:29.920 is another thing you will see with many of these 00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:35.360 Marxist agitators, even if they don't publicly profess to be Marxists, they 00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:39.760 will take questionable trips to various communist states, whether it happens to 00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:43.760 be Cuba or Russia or China. 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:48.320 They go there, of course, often to get training, partly just as 00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:53.440 a sort of solidarity with their fellows in other states. 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:56.160 He was also a friend of Norman Potteretz, some of you will 00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:58.720 recognize that name. 00:38:58.720 --> 00:39:02.080 And later in life he became a Zionist. 00:39:02.080 --> 00:39:06.400 And I guess as one sort of final point for attacking another 00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:11.280 idol that we may eventually get around to, upon Rustin's death, he 00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:14.160 was praised by Ronald Reagan. 00:39:14.560 --> 00:39:16.960 One of the things that stuck out to me in the story 00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:22.640 the story of Rustin is that he became disillusioned with the communists 00:39:22.640 --> 00:39:26.720 because they had been using blacks in America as part of their 00:39:26.720 --> 00:39:30.800 proxy war against the United States, against Christians in this country. 00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:35.680 And as soon as political need shifted, they got dumped like a 00:39:35.680 --> 00:39:38.240 sack of potatoes because they were never the point. 00:39:38.240 --> 00:39:41.760 What I found interesting is that if you remember the feminism episode 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:44.640 we did a couple months ago, the exact same thing happened with 00:39:44.640 --> 00:39:48.160 feminism and slavery in the US in the eighteen hundreds. 00:39:48.160 --> 00:39:52.240 Only this time it was the African Americans in the pursuit of 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:59.280 emancipation that was the primary mover and the feminist agitators were piggybacking. 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:02.240 And they thought that the revolution was going to include everyone at 00:40:02.240 --> 00:40:06.160 the same time, that liberation would be universal, that all blacks would 00:40:06.160 --> 00:40:08.960 be freed, all women would be freed, all children would be freed, 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:09.600 there'd be just 00:40:09.600 --> 00:40:11.040 infinite freedom. 00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:12.560 And as soon as 00:40:12.560 --> 00:40:18.640 the emancipation movement got enough steam going that it was clear that 00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:24.080 there was going to be a concerted effort to end slavery, the 00:40:24.080 --> 00:40:25.520 women got left behind. 00:40:25.520 --> 00:40:29.680 They had been active participants, they had been key in many aspects, 00:40:29.680 --> 00:40:33.440 and they got dumped like a sack of potatoes because they weren't 00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:35.120 politically expedient anymore. 00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:38.560 It wasn't gonna work if they were on board. 00:40:38.560 --> 00:40:40.800 Because they knew they could only tackle one thing at a time. 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:42.160 We'll do slavery. 00:40:42.160 --> 00:40:45.280 This women's stuff just r is gonna have to wait. 00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:48.320 And that was really the advent of the open feminist movement as 00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:49.520 its own thing. 00:40:49.520 --> 00:40:52.720 They had to split because it became clear that they were not 00:40:52.720 --> 00:40:54.320 the principal reason. 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:57.840 And so every time on the left you see there's some sort 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:03.200 of what they call advancement of these goals of their stated goals, 00:41:03.200 --> 00:41:04.800 it's always mercenary. 00:41:04.800 --> 00:41:08.960 It it's always whatever is expedient is what they're gonna do. 00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:11.120 And if they have to shoot their own people in the back 00:41:11.120 --> 00:41:12.720 to do it, they don't care. 00:41:12.720 --> 00:41:18.080 They They the communists absolutely dumped the African American allies that they 00:41:18.080 --> 00:41:21.120 had on this in on this soil on the floor. 00:41:21.120 --> 00:41:23.520 They just they let them go because they had other things to 00:41:23.520 --> 00:41:24.480 worry about. 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:27.600 And yet these people never learned the lesson that they're being used 00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:29.600 as a tool. 00:41:29.600 --> 00:41:33.920 And I think that's one of the hard parts about contextualizing when 00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:38.480 we say that men like Michael King, he was obviously a dirtbag 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.920 in his own life, but he wasn't nearly smart enough to be 00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:44.720 the sort of tool that if we just said he was a 00:41:44.720 --> 00:41:46.720 mastermind, no one would believe that. 00:41:46.720 --> 00:41:50.160 But he was absolutely a tool in someone else's hands. 00:41:50.160 --> 00:41:53.120 And that's why it's important that it didn't matter if he was 00:41:53.120 --> 00:41:58.640 a communist member or if he particularly in person wanted pornography or 00:41:58.640 --> 00:42:01.760 contraception or any of these other things to be legalized, because he 00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:04.720 was part of the same march and he was locked arm in 00:42:04.720 --> 00:42:07.680 arm with all these other people pursuing the same goals. 00:42:07.680 --> 00:42:10.720 And one by one the goals get achieved and the people who 00:42:10.720 --> 00:42:14.800 are advancing other things either advance or they get dumped. 00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:19.280 Because as long as things are getting worse and worse The satanic 00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.160 animating force behind all this is gaining ground. 00:42:22.160 --> 00:42:25.520 It doesn't hit care who gets destroyed in the process. 00:42:25.520 --> 00:42:29.120 So I just found it interesting that Rustin was personally aggravated and 00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:33.600 offended that the that the Soviet Union would not be worried about 00:42:33.600 --> 00:42:37.680 black liberation in America when they were trying to fight a global 00:42:37.680 --> 00:42:40.240 war. But that's that's what we're dealing with. 00:42:40.240 --> 00:42:45.280 You have macro scale geopolitical events that are over most people's heads 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:46.800 and seem very theoretical. 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:50.000 And on the other hand, you have things like bus boycotts. 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:53.600 And it can sound completely harebrained to try to tie the two 00:42:53.600 --> 00:42:57.520 together. And when you look at the moving parts, sometimes they're disconnected 00:42:57.600 --> 00:43:01.200 because like in this case the Soviets quit caring for a while 00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:05.840 they weren't pushing that stuff because they needed different things from different 00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:09.040 people but once the war was over they came back around in 00:43:09.040 --> 00:43:12.560 the late 40s and 50s and as Corey said earlier, Rosa Parks 00:43:12.720 --> 00:43:15.440 went to one of these schools that they were funding and pushing, 00:43:15.440 --> 00:43:20.960 just like Saudi Arabia has their madrasas training people up to overthrow 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:25.120 their governments, different religions, but ultimately serving the same sort of evil 00:43:25.120 --> 00:43:27.760 ends. And so there's an ebb and flow to these things. 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:31.440 And if someone can't come along and just say, yes, there was 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:33.680 A and then there's B and there was C and there's a 00:43:33.680 --> 00:43:36.960 straight line and there was a consistent force applied throughout. 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:40.320 No, it comes and goes because this is all happening in real 00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:42.880 time. And so as we look back on it, some of the 00:43:42.880 --> 00:43:44.480 things seem a little bit disconnected. 00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:48.720 It's simply because there were bigger things happening that were also moving 00:43:48.720 --> 00:43:51.840 different parts around on the board that weren't a part of anything 00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:53.520 that MLK was doing. 00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:54.160 When 00:43:54.160 --> 00:43:59.040 it comes to the gentleman who was the ultimate handler for MLK, 00:43:59.040 --> 00:44:02.000 we actually don't know who that was. 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.240 We know the group that was really controlling what he was doing 00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:08.400 and in fact what he was saying. 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:11.840 We will get to the intermediate handler though, the puppet master as 00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:12.400 it were. 00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:15.440 I see him coming up in my notes here, after we get 00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:20.720 through The rest of those who were involved in this particular group, 00:44:20.720 --> 00:44:23.360 the SCLC. 00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:27.360 And so the next individual for this group is Ella Baker. 00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:31.920 Ella Baker was a Marxist agitator, but one of the interesting facts 00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:35.680 about her is that she was close friends for much of her 00:44:35.680 --> 00:44:41.040 life with Anne Braden, who was a Jewish communist and open advocate 00:44:41.040 --> 00:44:46.960 for anti racism and for many of the so called or really 00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:51.200 modern Marxist causes that we see being pushed today. 00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:51.760 And so 00:44:52.720 --> 00:44:57.680 even back here, decades ago, a number of decades ago, we see 00:44:57.680 --> 00:45:01.760 the same sort of evil being pushed that is being pushed today. 00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:05.120 Jewish communist pushing anti-racism. 00:45:05.120 --> 00:45:08.080 Just go on Twitter any day and you will find the same 00:45:08.080 --> 00:45:10.720 sort of thing. 00:45:10.720 --> 00:45:15.920 The next individual is Charles Kenzie Steele, an NAACP activist. 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.920 Basically anyone we mention at this point in this episode 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:25.200 is probably going to be connected to the NAACP in some way. 00:45:25.200 --> 00:45:28.960 That's one of the organizations they all wind up joining in some 00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:34.640 fashion. Steele notably was also a Baptist preacher, you may be noticing 00:45:34.640 --> 00:45:36.160 a theme. 00:45:36.160 --> 00:45:38.960 Next individual was Fredley Shuttlesworth. 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:44.480 He would later help provoke the Selma riots, which we won't really 00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:48.400 get into in this episode, but I'll put some stuff in the 00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:50.640 show notes for that. 00:45:50.640 --> 00:45:53.600 But one of the reasons that he is notable is he helped 00:45:53.600 --> 00:45:56.000 organize what was called the Freedom Riders. 00:45:56.000 --> 00:46:00.320 And now what the Freedom Riders did was they would deliberately get 00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:05.600 on an interstate bus and take that bus from somewhere where it 00:46:05.600 --> 00:46:10.880 was legal for an integrated bus to exist to somewhere where it 00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:11.840 was not legal. 00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:15.120 And so in other words, they would deliberately cross state lines in 00:46:15.120 --> 00:46:18.560 order to violate the law. 00:46:18.560 --> 00:46:22.000 Why this is interesting is not so much that they did that, 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.440 because that's just what you expect from Marxist agitators the goal is 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:30.560 to cause chaos and undermine rule and order and the law. 00:46:30.560 --> 00:46:35.520 The interesting part here is that Robert F Kennedy gave Shuttlesworth his 00:46:35.520 --> 00:46:38.720 personal phone number and told him to call in case he needed 00:46:38.720 --> 00:46:43.120 any legal help with this particular scheme. 00:46:43.120 --> 00:46:46.960 And so our own leaders who are tasked with upholding the law 00:46:47.120 --> 00:46:50.560 are deliberately, of course, undermining it. 00:46:50.560 --> 00:46:54.160 The next individual is Joseph Lowry. 00:46:54.160 --> 00:46:58.320 He becomes part of the reason for the case that becomes known 00:46:58.320 --> 00:46:59.680 as New York Times v. 00:46:59.680 --> 00:47:02.880 Sullivan. There are a number of other cases below it that turn 00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:04.480 into ultimately New York Times v. 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:11.360 Sullivan, that is the case that basically permits the media to slander 00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:17.040 people. Basically, if you are a public figure, you are going to 00:47:17.040 --> 00:47:19.680 lose a defamation suit. 00:47:19.680 --> 00:47:23.840 Because the standard is that you have to show actual malice, which 00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:26.640 is a very high bar. 00:47:26.640 --> 00:47:31.760 The general standard for defamation for a private individual is essentially just 00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:33.680 false information that is damaging. 00:47:33.680 --> 00:47:37.600 It's more complicated than that, but this isn't legal advice or a 00:47:37.600 --> 00:47:38.560 legal podcast. 00:47:38.560 --> 00:47:42.240 I'm not going to explain defamation law. 00:47:42.240 --> 00:47:47.680 The added, as I mentioned, element, the added requirement for a public 00:47:47.680 --> 00:47:51.040 figure, and there is such thing as a limited public figure, notably, 00:47:51.040 --> 00:47:53.920 so you can be a public figure with regard to this one 00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:59.120 area, or you can be general, so a politician, general public figure. 00:47:59.120 --> 00:48:05.600 A sports figure, probably more limited, someone who becomes infamous for something 00:48:05.600 --> 00:48:07.920 in particular, limited public figure. 00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:11.280 But the added requirement is actual malice. 00:48:11.280 --> 00:48:16.720 You have to show actual malice on the part of the publisher. 00:48:16.720 --> 00:48:20.880 And if you're a public figure, good luck. 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:25.120 Lowry is also an NAACP activist, unsurprising. 00:48:25.120 --> 00:48:29.520 Later in life he advocates for homosexual rights so called and homosexual 00:48:29.520 --> 00:48:31.680 marriage so called. 00:48:31.680 --> 00:48:36.400 One interesting part about this individual, and some of you may perhaps 00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:43.360 remember this, he gave the benediction at the inauguration of Barack Obama. 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:46.320 You may notice a theme we have a sort of state religion 00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:48.720 that is being formed here. 00:48:48.720 --> 00:48:54.480 And so the last individual for this particular group is Ralph Abernathy, 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:56.560 another Baptist pastor. 00:48:58.240 --> 00:49:02.000 You may recognize his name if you read the news or have 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:05.200 ever seen some certain memes. 00:49:05.200 --> 00:49:10.160 He opposed space exploration and he protested NASA a number of times. 00:49:10.160 --> 00:49:12.880 He's the one who basically said we shouldn't be spending money 00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:18.720 on the universe out there, space exploration when there are poor people 00:49:18.720 --> 00:49:23.440 here. And so he was advocating for basically shuddering NASA and dispersing 00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:26.960 all the money to poor blacks. 00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:33.440 However, in addition to that little historical tidbit, one of the reasons 00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:37.760 he is a particularly salient individual in this narrative is because he 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:41.840 was a close friend with MLK for many years, and he wrote 00:49:42.240 --> 00:49:46.480 a memoir that was rather revealing. 00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:50.720 In fact, he was roundly condemned by other associates of MLK 00:49:51.600 --> 00:49:55.280 He was accused of betraying MLK's trust because he is one of 00:49:55.280 --> 00:50:01.680 the ones who wrote about MLK's constant cheating. 00:50:01.680 --> 00:50:08.640 And also, he confirmed the FBI narrative that MLK spent his last 00:50:08.640 --> 00:50:12.480 night on Earth cheating with two women and also beating a third 00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:17.360 woman. So this is not just the FBI, this is also one 00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:23.280 of MLK's closest friends, who confirms for us the sort of nature 00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:28.560 of the individual who has been turned into a saint in the 00:50:28.560 --> 00:50:30.160 modern US religion. 00:50:31.040 --> 00:50:35.680 But staying in nineteen fifty seven briefly before we get to the 00:50:35.680 --> 00:50:43.200 aforementioned puppet master, and this leads right into him, in nineteen fifty-seven, 00:50:43.200 --> 00:50:47.040 MLK spoke at the American Jewish Congress. 00:50:47.040 --> 00:50:50.080 Now you may wonder why he was speaking at the American Jewish 00:50:50.080 --> 00:50:55.440 Congress. Incidentally, later on, the AJC becomes involved in the march on 00:50:55.440 --> 00:51:01.440 Washington. But the reason that he speaks at the American Jewish Congress 00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:05.920 is that earlier in the year he sent out a telegram asking 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:11.040 various organizations for support, and Israel Goldstein, I am not making up 00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:14.560 that name, that is actually his name, who was then president of 00:51:14.560 --> 00:51:21.120 the American Jewish Congress, responded with support and advice for deliberations regarding 00:51:21.120 --> 00:51:26.080 the SCLC, which was the organization for which MLK had requested support 00:51:26.080 --> 00:51:27.680 at that time. 00:51:27.680 --> 00:51:34.240 A quote from his speech at the AJC: My people were brought 00:51:34.240 --> 00:51:35.840 to America in chains. 00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:38.960 Your people were driven here to escape the chains fashioned for them 00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:39.600 in Europe. 00:51:39.600 --> 00:51:43.440 Our unity is born of our common struggle for centuries not only 00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:47.360 to rid ourselves of bondage, but to make oppression of any people 00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:50.240 by others an impossibility. 00:51:50.240 --> 00:51:54.160 This is just another instance where you will see very close connections 00:51:54.480 --> 00:52:01.920 between MLK and various Jewish individuals, particularly Jewish communists, and yes, Israel 00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:05.760 Goldstein was in fact a Marxist. 00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:08.320 Moving forward to nineteen fifty eight. 00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:12.400 We have another speech by MLK at an AJC conference, this one 00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:14.320 their biennial conference. 00:52:14.720 --> 00:52:19.440 And here is the individual whose name you should truly know. 00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:25.280 He is at least the intermediate puppet master for MLK and a 00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:28.160 number of other so-called civil rights figures. 00:52:28.160 --> 00:52:33.360 He acts as a go between between international communism, particularly in the 00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:39.920 USSR, and Marxist agitation, communist agitation, in the US. 00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:42.800 And that man is Stanley Leveson. 00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:47.360 He was MLK's contact at the AJC. 00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:51.360 Stanley Levison was a Jewish attorney from New York. 00:52:51.360 --> 00:52:54.800 He is one of the individuals, the key individual, in fact, who 00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:58.720 helped raise funds for the earlier Montgomery bus boycott. 00:52:58.720 --> 00:53:01.600 He is the one who ran the day to day operations of 00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:02.800 MLK's movement. 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:05.360 He was the administrator. 00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:10.720 The FBI at the time had long known that Levison was a 00:53:10.720 --> 00:53:16.880 communist, had known that he funneled money from international communism into groups 00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:19.920 in the US to sow chaos. 00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:22.800 And so he was surveilled. 00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:28.000 Part of the reason the FBI began surveilling MLK was MLK's close 00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:31.200 relationship with Levison. 00:53:31.200 --> 00:53:33.440 To give you a little bit of an idea of the sort 00:53:33.440 --> 00:53:37.440 of man Levison was, he was one of the individuals who helped 00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:40.560 support the defense of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. 00:53:40.560 --> 00:53:44.160 You should know those names, they were two traitors who were executed, 00:53:44.160 --> 00:53:48.480 two Jewish communists who were executed for stealing nuclear secrets. 00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:49.120 To 00:53:49.120 --> 00:53:51.920 be fair, they would be traitors if they were Americans, but in 00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:54.720 fact they were serving their home country. 00:53:54.720 --> 00:53:55.520 They were 00:53:56.640 --> 00:53:57.840 they were Soviet. 00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:00.240 The fact that they happened to be here didn't change anything. 00:54:00.240 --> 00:54:02.800 So it's yes, they they were they were murdered. 00:54:03.040 --> 00:54:03.760 They were executed. 00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:06.400 It wasn't just execution for treason. 00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:07.280 Uh but 00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:10.400 they were serving their true master. 00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:13.760 They didn't betray anyone because they were never here to be a 00:54:13.760 --> 00:54:14.480 part of America. 00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:15.840 They were here to help bring it down. 00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:20.720 And that's the case throughout much of the history of twentieth century 00:54:20.720 --> 00:54:25.680 espionage, particularly atomic espionage, over and over, you will find that wherever 00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:28.480 there were Jews who had access to this stuff, not at the 00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:32.560 highest level, because as we all know, the Manhattan Project was itself 00:54:32.560 --> 00:54:37.520 almost entirely a Jewish project, and many of them were well, they 00:54:37.520 --> 00:54:40.880 wanted to create the bomb for Europe, not for Asia, but it 00:54:40.880 --> 00:54:43.520 just so happened that it it needed to be used in Asia 00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:46.080 because we had already won the war in in Europe by the 00:54:46.080 --> 00:54:47.760 time they'd finished it. 00:54:47.760 --> 00:54:48.080 But 00:54:49.680 --> 00:54:52.160 it's not that every Jew who is a member at a high 00:54:52.160 --> 00:54:58.800 level of the industrial the in military industrial complex acted in a 00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:02.720 treasonous fashion, but very frequently when you run down the people who 00:55:02.720 --> 00:55:09.760 were committing slightly lower levels of espionage, they're almost invariably genetically 00:55:09.760 --> 00:55:13.120 linked back to their Jewish family in Russia. 00:55:13.120 --> 00:55:14.400 That's over and over again. 00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:15.600 We see that to this day. 00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:20.160 Many of the people who were accusers against Trump from within the 00:55:20.160 --> 00:55:24.880 military and elsewhere, over and over, it's Russian Jews, Ukrainian Jews. 00:55:25.120 --> 00:55:27.600 At some point the pattern means something. 00:55:27.600 --> 00:55:30.560 And that's not to say that it's a Jew we should dislike 00:55:30.560 --> 00:55:33.920 them. It's to say when almost everyone who's doing this sort of 00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:38.480 thing has the same ethnic background, at some point it's worth noticing 00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:39.200 the pattern. 00:55:39.200 --> 00:55:42.320 And that's why we're explicitly pointing this out, to say over and 00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:47.040 over, whenever a Jew shows up in these stories, it's doing something 00:55:47.040 --> 00:55:51.120 that's contrary to the interests of America. 00:55:51.120 --> 00:55:56.080 And as we get further along into this series of episodes, I'll 00:55:56.080 --> 00:55:58.080 tell you folks who are listening. 00:55:58.080 --> 00:56:00.240 At some point we may cross the line for some of you 00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:03.200 where you will think I used to like those stone choir guys, 00:56:03.200 --> 00:56:04.240 but they've gone too far. 00:56:04.240 --> 00:56:05.920 I can't abide by any of this. 00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:08.400 I I'm not gonna listen anymore. 00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:11.600 I would hope that if and when you reach that point that 00:56:11.680 --> 00:56:15.680 rather than just turning it off mid episode, you would at least 00:56:15.680 --> 00:56:18.480 for another episode or two become a hate listener. 00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:21.520 Uh we have quite a few hate listeners to this podcast who 00:56:21.680 --> 00:56:25.760 feverishly tune in every week so they can be just completely outraged 00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:27.680 at the things that we say. 00:56:27.680 --> 00:56:30.800 If we cross one one of your red lines when we're dealing 00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:34.640 with these hot button subjects, I would just encourage you to consider 00:56:34.640 --> 00:56:38.720 the fact that we're applying the same level of rigor to that 00:56:38.720 --> 00:56:42.160 subject, whatever it is, as we do to every other subject we've 00:56:42.160 --> 00:56:43.200 ever discussed. 00:56:43.200 --> 00:56:46.320 So if your red line is crossed by one of the comments 00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:50.000 that we make, keep listening and then prove us wrong in your 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:50.480 own mind. 00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:51.840 You don't need to send us hate mail. 00:56:52.160 --> 00:56:53.040 we get plenty of that. 00:56:53.040 --> 00:56:54.640 But you know, if you want to, fine. 00:56:54.640 --> 00:56:56.240 I'm not saying you have to answer to us. 00:56:56.240 --> 00:56:59.600 I'm simply saying if we say something that you're like that is 00:56:59.600 --> 00:57:03.920 completely unforgivable, go do Go do the research yourself and see if 00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:04.880 we lied to you. 00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:09.280 You might not like the conclusion, but frankly, you no one's entitled 00:57:09.280 --> 00:57:10.400 to his own facts. 00:57:10.400 --> 00:57:12.400 Things are either true or false. 00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:14.800 And so as we give this, you know, the the rest of 00:57:14.800 --> 00:57:17.440 this episode is getting read like the Tel Aviv phone book. 00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:19.280 That's not a coincidence. 00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.000 it's what actually happened. 00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:24.960 And I think at some point any honest person has to say 00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:28.480 this seems a bit disproportionate. 00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:32.400 And a lot of the social conditioning that's emerged since the 50s 00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:36.240 and 60s, frankly, it's specifically to make sure that if someone says 00:57:36.240 --> 00:57:38.880 these things, they do get shut down mentally. 00:57:39.120 --> 00:57:40.640 There's a mental block. 00:57:40.640 --> 00:57:43.760 It's like an emergency fire door that as soon as the alarm 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:47.840 goes off it just drops and people can no longer interact or 00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:49.280 communicate or anything. 00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:52.880 So most stone choir listeners you you're smart enough to be able 00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:55.760 to engage with things even if you don't necessarily like them. 00:57:55.760 --> 00:57:58.880 If you hate something we say, just for a little while longer, 00:57:58.880 --> 00:58:03.440 keep engaging with it, because I will tell you in all sincerity, 00:58:03.760 --> 00:58:04.960 one, we're not lying. 00:58:05.120 --> 00:58:07.760 And two, if you're willing to engage with the thing you find 00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:13.680 upsetting, you're gonna learn something because what we're telling you is factual. 00:58:13.680 --> 00:58:17.520 You may disregard our conclusions, but the facts can't be argued. 00:58:17.520 --> 00:58:21.360 And so we believe that this pattern that is not emergent at 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:25.200 this point, it's inescapable, that it is a significant pattern and that 00:58:25.200 --> 00:58:26.240 there's something to it. 00:58:26.240 --> 00:58:29.520 And we'll be doing future episodes where we specifically talk about how 00:58:29.520 --> 00:58:33.360 that pattern emerged and why it matters for Christians and for a 00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:34.720 Christian nation. 00:58:34.720 --> 00:58:40.160 If a certain ethnic group is continuously stealing secrets like atomic secrets, 00:58:40.160 --> 00:58:43.760 maybe that ethnic group shouldn't have access to atomic secrets. 00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:46.400 That's a perfectly reasonable question to ask. 00:58:46.640 --> 00:58:49.760 You know, if if every time you executed someone for treason it 00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:52.320 was an Irishman, at some point you'd ask what's going on with 00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:53.440 these Irish? 00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:58.160 There's no one who gets a special out in the narrative of 00:58:58.160 --> 00:59:01.600 the twentieth century has provided a special out for a certain group. 00:59:01.600 --> 00:59:04.560 And so that doesn't scare us. 00:59:04.560 --> 00:59:06.160 We're willing to tackle these things. 00:59:06.160 --> 00:59:08.400 So this is another blasphemy episode. 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:10.560 We're gonna blaspheme some things that people don't like. 00:59:10.560 --> 00:59:13.440 It's not to be scandalous or shocking. 00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:15.440 It's just these are facts. 00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:17.760 Stanley Levison was a communist. 00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:21.920 Stanley Levison ran Martin Luther King for a decade. 00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:23.840 Ran him like a puppet. 00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:26.080 And like that that's not just us saying it. 00:59:26.080 --> 00:59:30.000 It's his own biographers and others widely hold that view. 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:31.280 They'll phrase it differently. 00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:34.240 But you know, credit of Scott King and all of his other 00:59:34.240 --> 00:59:36.640 family members after he was killed. 00:59:36.640 --> 00:59:40.240 They credited Levinson for the trajectory of his career. 00:59:40.240 --> 00:59:44.480 So when we credit Levison for the trajectory of his career, we're 00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:46.800 in agreement with everyone who was there on the ground as it 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:48.080 happened. 00:59:48.240 --> 00:59:48.400 When 00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:52.080 it comes to the theft of nuclear secrets, there's basically one exception 00:59:52.080 --> 00:59:56.000 to the Jewish rule, and for anyone who is familiar with political 00:59:56.000 --> 01:00:00.240 science, the name should immediately come to mind, AQ Khan, who is 01:00:00.240 --> 01:00:00.560 the 01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:04.800 Well it depends on how you define your terms, either Indian or 01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:09.120 Pakistani because he was from an Indian family but emigrated to Pakistan 01:00:09.120 --> 01:00:10.880 because he was Muslim. 01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:15.120 But at any rate, he is the one responsible for stealing nuclear 01:00:15.120 --> 01:00:20.720 secrets largely from Europe and then proliferating them basically all over the 01:00:20.720 --> 01:00:26.400 world. He is the reason we have such an immense problem with 01:00:26.400 --> 01:00:29.760 nuclear arms in certain parts of the world. 01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:34.000 We have a problem with nuclear arms in basically there were a 01:00:34.000 --> 01:00:34.880 number of stages. 01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:38.160 You had the US first, then the USSR and a couple others, 01:00:38.160 --> 01:00:42.320 then you had India, Pakistan, North Korea, etc. 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:48.320 The second one, that second wave of expansion, is due to Jewish 01:00:48.320 --> 01:00:50.800 infiltration and theft of nuclear secrets. 01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:53.520 The third one is largely due to AQ Con. 01:00:55.280 --> 01:00:58.560 But the second point that I wanted to make here is another 01:00:58.560 --> 01:01:00.000 tangential point. 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:03.760 I did promise I would say something nice about the Irish, other 01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:05.440 than they make good beer. 01:01:06.560 --> 01:01:11.360 One of the organizations that is salient throughout all of this is 01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:13.760 the AFL CIO. 01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:19.040 Unions in particular play an outsized role when it comes to civil 01:01:19.040 --> 01:01:23.600 rights and socialism and communism, in large part because they were infiltrated, 01:01:23.600 --> 01:01:27.600 because they were seen as a very good way by Marxist agitators 01:01:27.600 --> 01:01:29.120 to spread their propaganda. 01:01:29.120 --> 01:01:31.600 It was very effective. 01:01:31.760 --> 01:01:36.800 The AFL CIO was founded essentially by two men in nineteen fifty-five. 01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:40.160 The first one is William Meany, who was an Irishman and a 01:01:40.160 --> 01:01:41.760 staunch anti-communist. 01:01:41.760 --> 01:01:43.920 And so he deserves praise for that. 01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:46.240 The second one, and here I will say something 01:01:47.120 --> 01:01:51.840 not nice about a German, Walter Reuter was the German co-founder of 01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:56.720 the AFL CIO, and he was a communist. 01:01:56.720 --> 01:02:01.600 But to return to Levison. 01:02:01.600 --> 01:02:05.600 And we left off with the defense of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 01:02:05.600 --> 01:02:08.320 of course, which is why we were talking about nuclear secrets. 01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:12.000 So per the FBI, Levison was one of the chief conduits for 01:02:12.000 --> 01:02:17.440 funneling money from the USSR into various organizations in the US, including 01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:22.080 the Communist Party USA, and also including MLK. 01:02:22.080 --> 01:02:25.120 He gave MLK some untold amount of money. 01:02:25.120 --> 01:02:28.960 There was one point where he just gave him $10,000. 01:02:28.960 --> 01:02:33.440 Today, that would probably be in the 90s, so $90 some thousand 01:02:33.520 --> 01:02:35.120 dollars. I don't know exactly how much. 01:02:35.120 --> 01:02:38.080 I'd have to look up the math on that. 01:02:38.080 --> 01:02:40.240 But a non trivial sum. 01:02:40.240 --> 01:02:46.160 Levison was also one of the ghost writers for MLK's books and 01:02:46.160 --> 01:02:49.920 speeches. He did not necessarily write all of them, but he wrote 01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:54.240 large parts of a number of them. 01:02:54.240 --> 01:02:58.880 And here in particular is a very salient fact. 01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:06.240 Levison worked for MLK for this entire time with zero compensation Compensation. 01:03:06.240 --> 01:03:09.600 That should make you think about what he was attempting to do 01:03:10.560 --> 01:03:14.400 and who was pulling his strings. 01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:18.560 Now Levison, of course, was connected to other communists who were also 01:03:18.560 --> 01:03:20.400 tied to MLK. 01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:24.480 Mention several of them here, two key ones. 01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:26.480 Hunter Pittsodell is the first. 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:30.640 He was a member of the Communist Party USA and the SCLC, 01:03:30.640 --> 01:03:35.680 Odell helped with the Birmingham campaign, which was basically a campaign to 01:03:35.680 --> 01:03:40.800 just bring Birmingham to its knees to cause chaos and to set 01:03:40.800 --> 01:03:45.920 up additional court cases and media coverage and sympathy and fundraising, etcetera, 01:03:45.920 --> 01:03:52.800 the sorts of things that you expect from communist agitation. 01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:58.720 Now with regard to both Levison and Odell, MLK was repeatedly told 01:03:58.720 --> 01:04:04.080 by high-ranking government officials, including the aforementioned Kennedy, that he needed to 01:04:04.080 --> 01:04:08.800 sever ties with these men because they were open communists, they were 01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:11.360 known communist agitators. 01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:13.760 MLK, of course, disregarded that. 01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:18.160 So even if he didn't personally find out some way, he knew 01:04:18.160 --> 01:04:20.720 because he was told multiple times this was the case 01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:22.160 I 01:04:22.160 --> 01:04:25.440 think I read that in sixty two or sixty three that ML 01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:31.600 that um I think Levison himself publicly stepped back from his interface 01:04:31.600 --> 01:04:35.680 with MLK specifically because of the wiretapping and the other pressure. 01:04:35.680 --> 01:04:39.680 But he continued his lifelong r relationship with with him in private. 01:04:39.680 --> 01:04:42.960 So the influence didn't change, he just ceased to be public about 01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:45.040 it. And that that's something that was in his 01:04:45.040 --> 01:04:46.080 own words. 01:04:46.160 --> 01:04:48.960 Yes, he exactly that is exactly what he did. 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:52.640 Because he wanted to sort of attenuate that connection to some degree 01:04:52.720 --> 01:04:57.920 so that MLK would continue to be this shining example of nonviolence 01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:00.640 or whatever, and not have this connection to 01:05:01.600 --> 01:05:06.640 a known communist who is funneling money from the USSR into the 01:05:06.640 --> 01:05:08.560 US to see chaos. 01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:13.360 But the second individual here is Clarence Benjamin Jones. 01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:16.160 He was part of the defense team that argued New York Times 01:05:16.240 --> 01:05:17.600 v. Sullivan. 01:05:17.600 --> 01:05:21.280 He was also general counsel for a group called the Gandhi Society 01:05:21.280 --> 01:05:23.760 for Human Rights. 01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:29.360 This society is Society is noteworthy for a number of reasons. 01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:31.760 Mostly because of the individuals who are involved. 01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:33.920 You may see a theme with that as well. 01:05:33.920 --> 01:05:37.680 It was founded by Theodore Keel, who was a Jewish attorney from 01:05:37.680 --> 01:05:38.640 New York. 01:05:38.640 --> 01:05:43.600 The The other man Jones, just mentioned him, and Harry Vachtel, who 01:05:43.600 --> 01:05:48.400 was another Jewish attorney from New York, and member of the Communist 01:05:48.400 --> 01:05:49.040 Party. 01:05:50.240 --> 01:05:56.160 Other members of the Gandhi Society included Mordecai Johnson, who was the 01:05:56.160 --> 01:05:59.360 black president emeritus of Howard University. 01:05:59.360 --> 01:06:02.240 Although when I say black, I do encourage you if you are 01:06:02.240 --> 01:06:03.920 listening to look up pictures of this gentleman 01:06:05.200 --> 01:06:06.480 just go ahead and do that. 01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:09.280 You can pause the episode if you need to. 01:06:09.280 --> 01:06:13.920 William Moses Kunstler, I think you can probably guess this gentleman was 01:06:13.920 --> 01:06:18.400 Jewish. He was also an attorney, also an open communist, and incidentally, 01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:20.000 also from New York. 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:24.080 Additionally, he was special counsel to the ACLU at the time. 01:06:24.080 --> 01:06:29.040 And the last individual, Benjamin Mays, president of Moorhouse College. 01:06:29.040 --> 01:06:34.880 You may remember Morehouse College from the last episode. 01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:39.840 A sort of aside here, but salient in the narrative, and there's 01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:41.440 a comment worth making on it. 01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:46.800 In nineteen fifty-nine, MLK travels to India for a month. 01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:51.120 Somewhat salient, we just mentioned a Gandhi Society, but also salient because 01:06:52.080 --> 01:06:56.880 MLK didn't really act as a pastor, despite being pastor of a 01:06:56.880 --> 01:07:01.680 church, he spent his time being a political activist and then travelling 01:07:01.680 --> 01:07:05.200 to India for a month, and this made his congregation somewhat unhappy 01:07:05.200 --> 01:07:07.680 with him, understandably. 01:07:07.680 --> 01:07:11.520 And in yeah, nineteen fifty nine, when he got back from India, 01:07:11.520 --> 01:07:15.360 there was enough pressure from his congregation from from some members of 01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:18.800 it that he actually resigned his pastorate. 01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:21.280 Which is interesting because we're talking about fifty nine. 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:24.880 Now he was He'd been in the pulpit since 48, but he 01:07:24.880 --> 01:07:25.680 didn't graduate. 01:07:25.680 --> 01:07:27.600 He didn't get his PhD till 54. 01:07:27.600 --> 01:07:32.960 And so effectively he was only technically in the pulpit outside of 01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:34.640 school for five years. 01:07:34.640 --> 01:07:37.520 But when you go back through the stuff that we've just listed, 01:07:37.520 --> 01:07:40.960 yeah, we didn't talk about all the things that MLK was personally 01:07:40.960 --> 01:07:44.720 doing, but he was active in all these things all the time. 01:07:44.720 --> 01:07:49.520 So as Corey just said, the man was not a pastor. 01:07:49.840 --> 01:07:51.920 He wasn't doing pastor stuff. 01:07:51.920 --> 01:07:57.200 Basically, what he did, he went through a grooming school, a preparatory 01:07:57.200 --> 01:08:00.800 process, at the end of which he was declared to be a 01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:04.720 reverend, and that gave him entree into pulpits anywhere he needed to 01:08:04.720 --> 01:08:07.680 go. So anywhere in the South, anywhere in you know the net 01:08:07.840 --> 01:08:10.720 Yankee North where he would be welcome as a you know as 01:08:10.720 --> 01:08:14.400 a black man in a white congregation, they would be very excited 01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:20.560 to have this famous civil rights leader come preach in quote. 01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:23.440 Functionally, the man was just a politician. 01:08:23.440 --> 01:08:25.680 He was only an activist. 01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:29.120 And so looking back to the first episode, we made it very 01:08:29.120 --> 01:08:32.880 clear the man didn't wasn't Christian, didn't care about Christian doctrine. 01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:35.920 The whole reason that he got into the pulpit in the first 01:08:35.920 --> 01:08:40.720 place was to enable a life of this sort of activism. 01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:41.760 And that's what we see. 01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:46.160 he spent he spent so much time in his first five years 01:08:46.160 --> 01:08:50.720 as a so-called full-time pastor that his own congregation basically asked him 01:08:50.720 --> 01:08:52.560 to step down, and he did. 01:08:52.560 --> 01:08:56.880 And then the subsequent year, he did become an associate pastor in 01:08:56.880 --> 01:09:00.320 his father's congregation, but that wasn't because he was going to get 01:09:00.480 --> 01:09:03.440 back into the pulpit as a serious preacher. 01:09:03.440 --> 01:09:07.200 It was to maintain that credibility check mark. 01:09:07.200 --> 01:09:10.640 He needed people to be able to r to address him as 01:09:10.640 --> 01:09:14.480 reverend and say, here's a here's a wonderful pastor from the south. 01:09:14.480 --> 01:09:16.160 He's here to preach to us today. 01:09:16.160 --> 01:09:18.800 It was a skin suit from the very beginning. 01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:22.240 And that's why that's why we're talking about on a Christian podcast. 01:09:22.240 --> 01:09:26.720 A man who cloaked himself in the Christian faith went on to 01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:30.480 work for communists to do destructive things. 01:09:30.480 --> 01:09:31.760 That's That's it. 01:09:31.760 --> 01:09:33.920 And you know, we said before, is that politics? 01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:34.720 Is it religion? 01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:36.080 Honestly, I don't care. 01:09:36.080 --> 01:09:37.280 It's evil. 01:09:37.280 --> 01:09:38.720 It's insincere. 01:09:38.720 --> 01:09:40.400 It's not Christian. 01:09:40.400 --> 01:09:41.680 It's just bad. 01:09:41.680 --> 01:09:44.480 You don't need to sort of put it into the correct bucket 01:09:44.480 --> 01:09:46.240 to be able to know what to know what to think about 01:09:46.240 --> 01:09:48.880 it. The man pretended to be a pastor so that he could 01:09:48.880 --> 01:09:50.720 do all of this other stuff. 01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:54.240 And that's that's kind of what this entire episode boils down to. 01:09:54.240 --> 01:09:57.120 Not only was he not Christian as we talked about last episode, 01:09:57.120 --> 01:09:59.760 but he wasn't he wasn't a pastor either. 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:02.000 The man didn't do pastoral stuff. 01:10:02.000 --> 01:10:04.400 He did get in pulpits and gave speeches. 01:10:04.400 --> 01:10:07.200 And occasionally he would talk and he'd talk about God and he 01:10:07.200 --> 01:10:09.280 would talk about Jesus, but not at the same time, 'cause as 01:10:09.280 --> 01:10:11.360 we mentioned, he didn't think they were the same. 01:10:11.360 --> 01:10:14.880 He didn't think that Jesus was God or is God. 01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:19.600 But he knew that Jesus opened pocketbooks and Jesus would open doors. 01:10:19.600 --> 01:10:23.040 And so that word, that shibboleth that he would provide to actual 01:10:23.040 --> 01:10:26.960 Christians in some of these places was the opportunity for him to 01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.120 do what the communists had sent him to 01:10:29.120 --> 01:10:37.280 do. 01:10:37.280 --> 01:10:40.640 If we mention that MLK spent a month in India 01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:48.400 and that MLK was an advocate of so-called non-violence, then it's probably 01:10:48.400 --> 01:10:52.640 incumbent on us to at some point go after the idol that 01:10:52.640 --> 01:10:55.120 is Mahatma Gandhi. 01:10:55.120 --> 01:11:00.080 Because of course the nonviolence thing was his big argument. 01:11:00.080 --> 01:11:02.320 And it's as much of a lie as in the case of 01:11:02.320 --> 01:11:07.840 MLK. But returning to MLK, the topic of this episode, in nineteen 01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:12.480 sixty, he moves to Atlanta because he wants to become more involved 01:11:12.480 --> 01:11:16.960 in the SCLC, which was based in Atlanta, and so he becomes 01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:23.200 associate pastor at his father's church, Ebenezer Baptist Church. 01:11:23.200 --> 01:11:27.280 In nineteen sixty three, this is where we get the Birmingham Campaign, 01:11:27.280 --> 01:11:28.960 which was mentioned earlier 01:11:29.840 --> 01:11:35.440 these are large scale protests to disrupt the operation of Birmingham. 01:11:35.440 --> 01:11:39.200 The goal here is complete and utter chaos to bring the city 01:11:39.200 --> 01:11:42.240 to its knees and to force change. 01:11:42.240 --> 01:11:44.320 Which sounds an awful lot 01:11:45.280 --> 01:11:51.200 like something that is not nonviolence, so called. 01:11:51.200 --> 01:11:56.320 Notably, in this campaign, they deliberately used children and young adults in 01:11:56.320 --> 01:12:02.160 order In order to garner sympathy and that was one hundred percent 01:12:02.800 --> 01:12:08.400 fully undertaken with the knowledge that the use of riot tactics would 01:12:08.400 --> 01:12:12.480 be in play because of what these protesters so called were doing. 01:12:12.480 --> 01:12:16.800 The goal was to have children or young adults injured in front 01:12:16.800 --> 01:12:19.840 of the media so that they could take this to the world 01:12:19.840 --> 01:12:22.320 and garner sympathy. 01:12:22.320 --> 01:12:24.560 This was scripted beginning to end. 01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:29.600 It wasn't executed well, but it was scripted from the beginning. 01:12:29.600 --> 01:12:33.600 The mastermind, as it were, behind the use of children and young 01:12:33.600 --> 01:12:35.920 adults was James Beville. 01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:39.360 You may be surprised to learn that James Beville was a serial 01:12:39.360 --> 01:12:44.480 pedophile, who frequently abused his own daughters and undoubtedly others. 01:12:44.480 --> 01:12:47.840 One of his daughters in the court case where he was convicted 01:12:47.840 --> 01:12:51.760 of incest, testified that he began molesting her when she was only 01:12:51.760 --> 01:12:54.160 six years old. 01:12:54.160 --> 01:12:58.560 Lest you believe that these charges were ginned up against him, One 01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:03.920 of the items introduced to evidence into evidence in that case was 01:13:04.160 --> 01:13:08.640 a recording of a conversation between James Bevel and one of his 01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:13.040 daughters, in which he admits to having raped her, and states that 01:13:13.040 --> 01:13:16.880 he just wanted to have sex with her, not get her pregnant. 01:13:16.880 --> 01:13:20.400 This was of course admitted when he denied it, because then it 01:13:20.400 --> 01:13:24.400 is an admission against interest and it is permissible to admit that 01:13:24.400 --> 01:13:28.640 over hearsay objection a little A little legal aside for some what 01:13:29.040 --> 01:13:32.400 I'm saying And that's relevant for one specific reason. 01:13:32.880 --> 01:13:34.560 These are moral matters. 01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:39.600 You know, the the accusation of racism is a morac moral accusation. 01:13:39.600 --> 01:13:42.720 It is an accusation of sin against a god. 01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:48.000 And that makes it relevant when men who will rape their own 01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:52.880 children will also call racism evil. 01:13:52.880 --> 01:13:57.120 We said many times, if you as a Christian believe that something 01:13:57.120 --> 01:14:01.840 like racism is evil or misogyny or all of these other words 01:14:01.840 --> 01:14:04.480 that didn't exist in the nineteenth century century. 01:14:04.480 --> 01:14:09.360 If you believe that those are sins against God, ask yourself how 01:14:09.360 --> 01:14:12.800 your morality perfectly matches someone who rapes his own daughters. 01:14:12.800 --> 01:14:14.000 Because it does. 01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:18.720 Someone who says that racism is evil has the same god as 01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:22.160 someone who says that pedophilia is okay. 01:14:22.160 --> 01:14:29.440 And those those two keep coming up with freakishly creepy frequency. 01:14:29.440 --> 01:14:33.440 It's really disturbing to me how often someone who comes after Corey 01:14:33.520 --> 01:14:37.040 or myself, or anyone, you know, on the right, anyone who's not 01:14:37.040 --> 01:14:41.760 afraid to say, actually maybe human beings are not all just fungible 01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:43.360 economic cogs. 01:14:43.360 --> 01:14:47.600 Maybe God creates us differently, and perhaps for different purposes. 01:14:47.600 --> 01:14:50.720 When someone says that, and the person who's furious with them is 01:14:50.720 --> 01:14:54.560 also a child rapist, that's morally relevant. 01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:56.880 Because these are moral questions. 01:14:56.880 --> 01:15:02.240 If harming children in such a horrific manner is okay to someone, 01:15:02.240 --> 01:15:06.320 and using a mean word about someone is horrific to the same 01:15:06.320 --> 01:15:09.600 person, at some point you have to ask yourself: is your moral 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:13.840 compass broken if it's pointing the same direction as theirs? 01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:17.520 Because if you're pointing in the same direction on racism, how are 01:15:17.520 --> 01:15:20.240 they pointing in the in a different direction when it comes to 01:15:20.240 --> 01:15:23.280 something that's clearly much more serious. 01:15:23.280 --> 01:15:25.680 And yet these things keep coming up. 01:15:25.680 --> 01:15:26.800 And he's not the only one. 01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:28.560 Like this happens all the time. 01:15:29.120 --> 01:15:32.160 we talked in the past about uh Jeffrey Dahmer. 01:15:32.160 --> 01:15:37.200 He was a sodomite, a cannibal, a rapist, a murderer. 01:15:37.200 --> 01:15:40.320 The thing that he was upset about when he was arrested and 01:15:40.320 --> 01:15:42.960 in the press was when he was called a racist. 01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:46.240 That was the only thing that anyone accused Dahmer of that actually 01:15:46.240 --> 01:15:47.120 offended him. 01:15:47.360 --> 01:15:49.920 that was against his religion. 01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:52.160 That should be a big deal to Christians. 01:15:52.160 --> 01:15:55.360 If you're still not over the hump of thinking that racism is 01:15:55.360 --> 01:15:58.480 not only not a sin, but it's actually talking about something that 01:15:58.480 --> 01:16:02.320 may be r relevant in the Christian faith, you should just stop 01:16:02.320 --> 01:16:03.840 what you're doing and and work on that. 01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:06.320 That's why we did a whole series on race and we did 01:16:06.320 --> 01:16:08.080 an entire episode on racism. 01:16:08.080 --> 01:16:12.080 Cause don't forget Martin Luther King Jr., Mike devoted his whole life 01:16:12.080 --> 01:16:13.520 to fighting racism. 01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:14.320 And he did. 01:16:14.320 --> 01:16:15.280 He fought racism. 01:16:15.280 --> 01:16:16.560 He toppled racism. 01:16:16.560 --> 01:16:19.440 The reason he comes up in our churches today, because he is 01:16:19.440 --> 01:16:21.840 the patron saint of anti racism. 01:16:21.840 --> 01:16:26.080 He's also a communist, he's also godlist, he's also a rapist, he 01:16:26.080 --> 01:16:28.640 was an evil, wicked man who's burning in hell, and he was 01:16:28.640 --> 01:16:30.080 anti racist. 01:16:30.080 --> 01:16:32.480 That makes it relevant for every Christian today. 01:16:32.480 --> 01:16:35.680 If you can have a religion that has bits and pieces of 01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:39.440 Satan's religion and then bits and pieces of God's religion, and you 01:16:39.440 --> 01:16:42.560 throw them all together, does God survive that? 01:16:42.880 --> 01:16:48.800 does the true Christian faith survive contact with utterly wicked things? 01:16:48.800 --> 01:16:50.160 I don't think it can. 01:16:50.160 --> 01:16:55.280 And it's not powerlessness on God's part, it's unbelief on our part, 01:16:55.280 --> 01:16:58.720 if we're willing to take these wicked things from wicked men and 01:16:58.720 --> 01:17:00.560 say, Yeah, that's mine, that's my new religion. 01:17:00.560 --> 01:17:03.280 I'm I'm really passionate about this now. 01:17:03.280 --> 01:17:07.360 At some point you're jeopardizing your soul and it doesn't take long. 01:17:07.360 --> 01:17:09.840 As we can see from all of these men, these all these 01:17:09.840 --> 01:17:10.560 men are evil. 01:17:10.560 --> 01:17:12.080 There's not a good one among them. 01:17:12.080 --> 01:17:13.200 And we didn't pick. 01:17:13.200 --> 01:17:15.440 Like this is just a l this is just a litany of 01:17:15.440 --> 01:17:18.880 the men in in Mike's life who were all working towards the 01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:23.040 same goals that are by and large anti-racist, which as we said 01:17:23.040 --> 01:17:27.520 at the beginning, was an explicit Soviet tenpole of the destruction of 01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:28.880 America. You 01:17:28.880 --> 01:17:33.200 bring up an important point there that I want to emphasize. 01:17:33.200 --> 01:17:37.760 We did not pick these individuals at random, we did not go 01:17:37.760 --> 01:17:39.680 looking for the worst ones. 01:17:39.680 --> 01:17:46.400 In fact, this list was almost exclusively made from the King Institute 01:17:46.400 --> 01:17:48.080 at Stanford. 01:17:48.080 --> 01:17:53.360 Just taking the names of the individuals the King Institute considers relevant 01:17:53.360 --> 01:17:54.800 in his life. 01:17:54.800 --> 01:17:55.840 So there are others 01:17:56.720 --> 01:18:00.800 who could be listed here, and they aren't. 01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:05.520 We listed the ones that the defenders of King say were relevant 01:18:05.520 --> 01:18:07.840 in his life. 01:18:07.840 --> 01:18:11.840 So this is the good representation of MLK. 01:18:11.840 --> 01:18:14.800 There's a worse one we could make. 01:18:14.800 --> 01:18:18.320 But return for just a moment to Bevel. 01:18:18.320 --> 01:18:21.920 During the trial he also admitted to having had sixteen children with 01:18:21.920 --> 01:18:24.880 six seven different women. 01:18:24.880 --> 01:18:29.440 I will decline to draw any conclusions from that. 01:18:30.080 --> 01:18:34.480 Notably, the Jesuits were involved in the Birmingham campaign. 01:18:34.480 --> 01:18:36.160 They did, however, remark 01:18:37.120 --> 01:18:44.480 that the protesters were disorganized and in their words quote misdirected. 01:18:44.480 --> 01:18:49.280 But the Roman Catholic Church has long had involvement in the so-called 01:18:49.280 --> 01:18:52.000 civil rights movement, and not just in the US, but in other 01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:54.960 places as well. 01:18:54.960 --> 01:18:58.240 And I am not just picking on the Roman Catholics because obviously 01:18:58.320 --> 01:19:02.720 we've already mentioned Baptists and Methodists, and I believe there either is 01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:05.360 an Episcopalian in this list or I saw him while I was 01:19:05.360 --> 01:19:07.840 reading, I may not have ultimately included him. 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:10.720 But this same year, after this 01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:16.240 immense civil unrest caused by MLK. 01:19:16.240 --> 01:19:18.640 And men there were deaths in this. 01:19:18.640 --> 01:19:22.320 There were individuals who were killed as part of this rioting. 01:19:22.320 --> 01:19:26.880 MLK, of course, caps this off by giving a speech about nonviolence 01:19:27.040 --> 01:19:32.480 because how better to cap off a riot that lasts for days 01:19:32.480 --> 01:19:34.400 on end. 01:19:34.400 --> 01:19:37.680 But this is used as one of the reasons that the FBI 01:19:37.680 --> 01:19:45.440 finally wiretaps MLK and then consistency consistently begins collecting recordings 01:19:45.440 --> 01:19:48.720 of his conversations with others. 01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:52.800 This is also when he writes his famous or infamous, depending on 01:19:52.800 --> 01:19:55.760 your point of view, letter from Birmingham Jail. 01:19:55.760 --> 01:20:00.800 This is in part a response to mostly white pastors who had 01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:01.840 urged MLK. 01:20:01.840 --> 01:20:05.680 These are individuals who didn't disagree with MLK. 01:20:05.920 --> 01:20:09.120 They believed in the things for which he was fighting. 01:20:09.120 --> 01:20:10.560 They agreed with his goals. 01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:15.600 They just said, be less radical, be more patient. 01:20:15.600 --> 01:20:20.960 He rejected that, and then he ultimately turned that letter into his 01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:24.000 third book, Why We Can't Wait. 01:20:24.320 --> 01:20:28.640 Declaring, I guess, a a very high time preference. 01:20:29.200 --> 01:20:33.040 But also in nineteen sixty-three we have the March on Washington, one 01:20:33.040 --> 01:20:35.040 of the more Famous 01:20:36.320 --> 01:20:39.520 bit pieces, acts in this entire saga. 01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:43.600 Officially, it was called The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 01:20:43.600 --> 01:20:47.360 Unsurprisingly, they dropped jobs and also freedom. 01:20:47.360 --> 01:20:52.720 This was organized largely by Randolph and Rustin, two individuals mentioned earlier 01:20:52.800 --> 01:20:57.280 and noted specifically for having helped organize the march on Washington. 01:20:57.280 --> 01:21:02.560 There were about two hundred thousand demonstrators who descended on Washington for 01:21:02.560 --> 01:21:03.680 this march. 01:21:03.680 --> 01:21:06.800 This is, of course, where MLK gives his I Have a Dream 01:21:06.800 --> 01:21:11.440 speech. There are a number of notable participants, in fact, quite a 01:21:11.440 --> 01:21:17.760 few notable participants come out for this particular rally. 01:21:17.760 --> 01:21:21.440 I will note one who has not been mentioned previously, a number 01:21:21.440 --> 01:21:24.560 of those who were mentioned previously, of course, attend to this rally, 01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:29.200 but one who was not, was Rabbi Joachim Prince, who was the 01:21:29.200 --> 01:21:33.680 president of the American Jewish Congress at the time, an organization we 01:21:33.680 --> 01:21:35.680 have mentioned a number of times already. 01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:41.680 He had notably been expelled from Germany in nineteen thirty seven, perhaps 01:21:41.680 --> 01:21:45.120 for similar activity which he is now engaging in on U.S. 01:21:45.120 --> 01:21:51.520 soil. This man notably joined the march through Memphis after MLK was 01:21:51.520 --> 01:21:58.400 killed. And so we're sort of coming to the end of MLK's 01:21:59.280 --> 01:22:04.960 well, timeline as it were here, but not necessarily the end of 01:22:04.960 --> 01:22:09.280 describing exactly what it is we've just gone over, what is happening 01:22:09.280 --> 01:22:14.000 here. There's a lot of disparate seeming information. 01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:18.240 If we drew a full web, however, of the connections between and 01:22:18.240 --> 01:22:20.800 among these individuals, it would be so dense you would not be 01:22:20.800 --> 01:22:23.760 able to read the names. 01:22:23.760 --> 01:22:28.640 This is all connected, this is all organized, this is all part 01:22:28.640 --> 01:22:34.160 of a plan, in this case, an international communist plan, to subvert 01:22:34.160 --> 01:22:39.280 the United States, to s to cause chaos, because the goal, in 01:22:39.280 --> 01:22:44.880 large part, for international communism was the destruction of America because America 01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:48.960 was really the only standing power against communism. 01:22:48.960 --> 01:22:51.040 Europe had already been destroyed. 01:22:51.040 --> 01:22:54.320 Western Europe was busy attempting to rebuild still. 01:22:54.320 --> 01:22:54.800 They did not 01:22:56.080 --> 01:22:59.840 form any sort of real opposition to communism, to the spread of 01:22:59.840 --> 01:23:01.280 international communism. 01:23:01.280 --> 01:23:02.640 Only the US did. 01:23:02.640 --> 01:23:06.240 And so the goal was to destroy the US, and one of 01:23:06.240 --> 01:23:06.560 the 01:23:07.440 --> 01:23:09.760 key arrows in that quiver. 01:23:09.760 --> 01:23:13.920 One of the key parts of that plan was to use Southern 01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:19.200 blacks to agitate for along social lines and along racial lines to 01:23:19.200 --> 01:23:23.280 destabilize the U.S., to force the U.S to look inward to attempt 01:23:23.280 --> 01:23:27.680 to solve these problems to address the chaos, and therefore retreat from 01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:31.520 opposing international communism. 01:23:31.520 --> 01:23:34.640 But the final two events we have here we'll just go through 01:23:34.640 --> 01:23:38.480 these two because really they're the most salient for this. 01:23:38.480 --> 01:23:40.000 Nineteen sixty four. 01:23:40.000 --> 01:23:44.080 MLK is named Man of the Year by Time Magazine. 01:23:44.080 --> 01:23:47.520 Now in some cases the man of the year Is just the 01:23:47.520 --> 01:23:50.640 most salient man of the year, the one who has done the 01:23:50.640 --> 01:23:54.320 most or caused the most chaos as the case may be. 01:23:54.320 --> 01:23:59.440 But here we actually see some of the building of the narrative 01:23:59.440 --> 01:24:05.280 of MLK as Saint, in the new religion of the US. 01:24:05.280 --> 01:24:10.240 That religion being essentially Marxism, but often called many other things. 01:24:10.240 --> 01:24:16.080 It's anti racism, its egalitarian, its it's in favor of equality, it's 01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:16.800 all of these things. 01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:17.360 It's 01:24:19.120 --> 01:24:22.000 We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are 01:24:22.000 --> 01:24:23.120 created equal. 01:24:23.120 --> 01:24:24.560 That's what it is. 01:24:24.560 --> 01:24:28.800 Made into a religion with various tenets and various different cults. 01:24:28.800 --> 01:24:32.880 These days largely sex cults, as we have gone over in this 01:24:32.880 --> 01:24:35.440 and other episodes. 01:24:35.440 --> 01:24:39.600 But it is a false religion, and if you're Christian, obviously you 01:24:39.600 --> 01:24:44.880 cannot participate in a competing religion. 01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:50.320 And so of course we end MLK's timeline with him being shot 01:24:50.320 --> 01:24:54.720 and killed on april fourth of nineteen sixty eight. 01:24:54.720 --> 01:24:59.280 We'll decline to speculate as to what exactly happened there because quite 01:24:59.280 --> 01:25:03.440 frankly, it's not entirely clear who did what. 01:25:03.440 --> 01:25:05.760 The white The why is obvious. 01:25:05.760 --> 01:25:09.760 His corpse was used as a sled to push through civil rights 01:25:09.760 --> 01:25:15.120 legislation. And so it's very obvious why it happened and how it 01:25:15.120 --> 01:25:20.080 was used, but who exactly played what role is probably something that 01:25:20.080 --> 01:25:24.560 is known only to God and those who were actually involved. 01:25:25.200 --> 01:25:25.440 At 01:25:25.440 --> 01:25:28.400 some point in the near future we will definitely be doing an 01:25:28.400 --> 01:25:33.920 episode specifically on the history of so-called civil rights in the US 01:25:34.880 --> 01:25:38.400 one of the things that I hope as you're listening to the 01:25:38.400 --> 01:25:44.160 news and reports today in current year, as you see trannies and 01:25:44.160 --> 01:25:48.400 all this other demonic activity out in the open, the people who 01:25:48.400 --> 01:25:51.760 are doing those things make it very clear that that is the 01:25:51.760 --> 01:25:54.400 culmination of the civil rights movement. 01:25:54.400 --> 01:25:55.840 They say that 01:25:57.200 --> 01:26:02.480 So-called transgender mutilated men and women standing on the lawn of the 01:26:02.480 --> 01:26:09.120 White House, half naked, exposing their mutilated bodies, is the pinnacle of 01:26:09.120 --> 01:26:12.800 civil rights, that this sort of acceptance of this sort of behavior 01:26:12.960 --> 01:26:18.000 of these sort of people is the end stage civil rights movement. 01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:19.200 And they're right. 01:26:19.200 --> 01:26:21.520 I I think that's the hard part for a lot of Christians 01:26:21.520 --> 01:26:24.160 to acknowledge is that they're telling the truth. 01:26:24.160 --> 01:26:26.160 These people don't always lie. 01:26:26.160 --> 01:26:29.600 When they show you the absolute most evil thing that you can 01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:33.200 possibly imagine and say, yeah, this is we're finishing. 01:26:33.200 --> 01:26:36.000 This is the finish line of of what Martin Luther King Jr. 01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:40.560 started. If you like MLK, you want to defend his legacy, you 01:26:40.560 --> 01:26:42.720 say, oh no, he was he was a good man, judge a 01:26:42.720 --> 01:26:46.000 man by the content of his character, not this stuff. 01:26:46.400 --> 01:26:50.800 If you believe who Mike King really was, it's a lot easier 01:26:50.800 --> 01:26:53.680 to believe these people when they're doing these evil things and they 01:26:53.680 --> 01:26:56.240 say, Yeah, we're on the same team as that guy. 01:26:56.240 --> 01:26:58.960 And as we said at the beginning, sure, he didn't go as 01:26:58.960 --> 01:27:01.520 far. He might not have approved of some of those things, but 01:27:01.520 --> 01:27:06.400 it doesn't matter because Cory just said his once he had served 01:27:06.400 --> 01:27:09.600 his purpose he had one last purpose, and that was to be 01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:13.520 the sled that the rest of this stuff rode on to advance 01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:16.160 the ball further than he had in his life. 01:27:16.160 --> 01:27:19.040 In his death he did even more damage in his life as 01:27:19.040 --> 01:27:19.920 a saint. 01:27:19.920 --> 01:27:22.880 And he's continuing to do that damage today in our churches. 01:27:22.880 --> 01:27:26.960 When this man is invoked as a source of morality and Christian 01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:32.960 virtue. Once you know the things that we'd said this week and 01:27:32.960 --> 01:27:37.360 last week about the man, what does it say about your pastor, 01:27:37.360 --> 01:27:41.680 whoever is is spreading that in your church for him to believe 01:27:41.680 --> 01:27:45.280 that, to actually believe that this man who had an entire life 01:27:45.440 --> 01:27:49.680 against God and God's things, he didn't get one thing right. 01:27:49.680 --> 01:27:51.360 He didn't get anything right. 01:27:51.360 --> 01:27:56.160 Everything he ever did was intrinsically evil, and it was in service 01:27:56.160 --> 01:27:58.480 to evil that was even greater than himself. 01:27:58.480 --> 01:28:01.680 He wasn't smart enough to understand that Levinson was handling him. 01:28:01.680 --> 01:28:03.840 He thought Levison was a friend. 01:28:03.840 --> 01:28:07.520 It's funny with the the discussions in in the memoirs and the 01:28:07.840 --> 01:28:13.040 wiretaps. Levinson was a typical New York Jewish lawyer. 01:28:13.040 --> 01:28:15.120 He was very much invested in money. 01:28:15.120 --> 01:28:17.280 A lot of the one of the complaints from the FBI is 01:28:17.280 --> 01:28:20.320 that a lot of the wiretaps are crazy Are completely mundane. 01:28:20.320 --> 01:28:24.400 They're this guy whining about nickeling and diming these other circumstances. 01:28:24.400 --> 01:28:27.360 And yet when it comes to devoting so much of his time 01:28:27.360 --> 01:28:33.600 and energy to King's work, never a dime was transferred from King 01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:34.960 to Levinson. 01:28:34.960 --> 01:28:37.520 As Corey said, that tells you something. 01:28:37.520 --> 01:28:40.720 There was so much value that this man who would be so 01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:43.760 cheap in every other aspect of his life was like, no, I'm 01:28:43.760 --> 01:28:45.040 gonna do this for free. 01:28:45.280 --> 01:28:47.680 If you're being charitable and if you think these are good people, 01:28:47.680 --> 01:28:49.600 you think, oh wow, it was so important. 01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:54.480 Well, yes, it was important to Levison to achieve the goals that 01:28:55.120 --> 01:28:57.920 global communism had, that global jewelry had. 01:28:58.800 --> 01:29:03.600 This was their goal was to use civil rights law as a 01:29:03.600 --> 01:29:05.520 solvent to dissolve 01:29:06.400 --> 01:29:08.000 American society. 01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:10.320 Yeah we'll we'll talk about it in the in the civil rights 01:29:10.320 --> 01:29:16.240 episode, but I think that as we look back from current year 01:29:16.240 --> 01:29:20.240 onto the civil rights marches and the civil rights efforts in the 01:29:20.320 --> 01:29:24.160 50s and 60s, it's very easy to say, well, yeah, they were 01:29:24.160 --> 01:29:27.360 fighting for what's fair and black people were mistreated and I don't 01:29:27.280 --> 01:29:27.680 like that. 01:29:27.680 --> 01:29:29.440 I don't want to see people mistreated. 01:29:29.440 --> 01:29:31.120 That's not a bad impulse. 01:29:31.120 --> 01:29:33.040 We wouldn't say that's a bad impulse. 01:29:33.040 --> 01:29:36.000 The question is why was it actually happening? 01:29:36.000 --> 01:29:38.640 And while things we'll talk about in more detail, but I think 01:29:38.640 --> 01:29:41.920 it's worth mentioning here just because of the Tel Vhone book we've 01:29:41.840 --> 01:29:45.360 just read here is that all of the laws, all of the 01:29:45.360 --> 01:29:50.240 rules, all the signs that prohibited Negroes in certain places also prohibited 01:29:50.240 --> 01:29:52.080 Jews in almost every case. 01:29:52.080 --> 01:29:57.120 The civil rights movement, we're told today, in retrospect, was about giving 01:29:57.120 --> 01:30:02.080 African Americans equal access to all of America's bounty. 01:30:02.080 --> 01:30:06.640 In reality, when those laws were passed, they also meant that you 01:30:06.640 --> 01:30:10.400 couldn't have social clubs, you couldn't have golf clubs, you couldn't have 01:30:10.400 --> 01:30:14.640 any sort of private institution where the real power in so-called Wasp 01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:17.440 America excluded Jews. 01:30:17.440 --> 01:30:21.040 Because Jew is first and foremost an ethnicity. 01:30:21.040 --> 01:30:24.160 You can be an atheist Jew and it's not an oxymoron. 01:30:24.160 --> 01:30:26.480 See, it's one of these things where someone you say, well, is 01:30:26.480 --> 01:30:27.920 someone Jewish or not? 01:30:27.920 --> 01:30:28.480 I don't know. 01:30:28.480 --> 01:30:30.560 I don't know if he goes to synagogue. 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:33.920 That's a bait and switch that that's been put in our minds. 01:30:33.920 --> 01:30:37.520 Someone can be Jewish and not have the Jewish faith. 01:30:37.520 --> 01:30:39.760 They don't have to be practicing to be a Jew. 01:30:39.760 --> 01:30:42.880 And frankly, it's really offensive to say to someone you're not a 01:30:42.880 --> 01:30:46.000 Jew because they don't wear the hat and go to synagogue. 01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:47.840 That denies who they are. 01:30:47.840 --> 01:30:49.360 I wouldn't do that. 01:30:49.760 --> 01:30:53.920 and yet that's something that gets played on us when someone wants 01:30:53.920 --> 01:30:56.560 to say, well, I I kind of have a problem with some 01:30:56.560 --> 01:30:59.120 of the political goals of this group of people. 01:30:59.120 --> 01:31:03.440 So as we go through the civil rights history in detail, just 01:31:03.440 --> 01:31:06.240 keep in mind that all the stuff that was presented is being 01:31:06.240 --> 01:31:09.280 done in the name of God, in the name of Christianity, in 01:31:09.280 --> 01:31:13.520 the name of African Americans, it achieved all the goals of these 01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:17.040 other people, of the Lebensons and the Kunzlers and all the others, 01:31:17.040 --> 01:31:19.760 without them having to be out in front. 01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:23.840 They never had to say, let me into your golf club, your 01:31:24.080 --> 01:31:25.280 your golf course. 01:31:25.280 --> 01:31:27.600 All they had to say was you should let this black man 01:31:27.600 --> 01:31:31.120 in. And then when the civil rights rights laws were passed, that 01:31:31.120 --> 01:31:36.720 basically made illegal individuals choosing with whom they would associate, they were 01:31:36.720 --> 01:31:37.920 let in as well. 01:31:37.920 --> 01:31:40.400 And I think that a big part of the fight that's completely 01:31:40.400 --> 01:31:43.280 invisible, and part of the reason that guys like Levison were doing 01:31:43.280 --> 01:31:45.680 all the work for free, was they got a lot out of 01:31:45.680 --> 01:31:49.440 it. Even apart from the global communist efforts, which you know, for 01:31:49.440 --> 01:31:52.400 some people maybe is a is a big ticket item to small 01:31:52.560 --> 01:31:55.360 o those we said at the beginning, like even the Atlantic says, 01:31:55.360 --> 01:31:57.040 Yeah, that's exactly what was going on. 01:31:57.040 --> 01:31:58.800 That's not that's not secret history. 01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:02.960 It's literally the history of the last century. 01:32:02.960 --> 01:32:05.840 I think the overall theme of this in man of our episodes 01:32:05.840 --> 01:32:09.360 is don't necessarily take what people say at face value. 01:32:09.360 --> 01:32:12.480 If someone says they're doing something in the name of fairness or 01:32:12.480 --> 01:32:15.600 in the name of Jesus or whatever they know is gonna sound 01:32:15.600 --> 01:32:19.920 good in your mind, look at where they came from, look at 01:32:19.920 --> 01:32:22.880 the genealogy of their ideas, and look at who else is along 01:32:22.880 --> 01:32:23.680 for the ride. 01:32:23.680 --> 01:32:27.920 Who are they partners and friends with and who's going to benefit 01:32:27.920 --> 01:32:32.080 if they convince you to do what they're asking you to do? 01:32:32.080 --> 01:32:36.000 Because the convincing part is always in moral terms. 01:32:36.000 --> 01:32:38.560 It's this is right, this is wrong, you must do this, you 01:32:38.560 --> 01:32:39.760 can't do that. 01:32:39.760 --> 01:32:43.360 But the doing is what actually matters. 01:32:43.360 --> 01:32:47.840 You could choose to end free association as a civil rights act 01:32:47.840 --> 01:32:49.600 did for any reason or no reason. 01:32:49.760 --> 01:32:52.400 You would say, Yeah, I think everyone should be forced to associate 01:32:52.400 --> 01:32:54.400 with everyone else no matter what. 01:32:54.400 --> 01:32:57.680 Okay. All they have to do is convince you of one reason 01:32:57.680 --> 01:33:00.880 that's going to work and then agree with them and then do 01:33:00.880 --> 01:33:02.800 the thing and then it's over. 01:33:02.800 --> 01:33:06.800 And so every time these things happen, they advance the ball and 01:33:06.800 --> 01:33:08.880 they move things a little bit further. 01:33:08.880 --> 01:33:12.400 And then they restructure polite society. 01:33:12.400 --> 01:33:16.080 So for a man to question, huh, how did that happen? 01:33:16.000 --> 01:33:17.360 and what's up with all these people? 01:33:17.600 --> 01:33:21.280 Why are they all moving in lockstep across a century without any 01:33:21.280 --> 01:33:22.640 apparent coordination? 01:33:22.640 --> 01:33:24.960 And why is it always bad for my people? 01:33:24.960 --> 01:33:28.320 When someone asks that question, they're slandered and defamed in the worst 01:33:28.320 --> 01:33:32.960 possible terms in my in modern society, but they're terms that didn't 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:35.440 exist a hundred years ago because they're not moral terms. 01:33:35.440 --> 01:33:38.640 They're new political terms for political enemies. 01:33:38.640 --> 01:33:42.640 And it's okay for Christians and honest men, even if they're not 01:33:42.640 --> 01:33:48.000 Christian, to break free of someone else's labels of how you must 01:33:48.000 --> 01:33:49.920 limit your behavior. 01:33:49.920 --> 01:33:52.240 Behavior should be dictated by conscience. 01:33:52.240 --> 01:33:56.080 And as a Christian's conscience should be dictated by scripture. 01:33:56.080 --> 01:34:00.000 And when someone who's not Christian comes along and tries to dictate 01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:01.840 your conscience in 01:34:02.800 --> 01:34:07.440 Jesus-y sounding terms that aren't from scripture, just say no, I want 01:34:07.440 --> 01:34:08.240 no part of that. 01:34:08.240 --> 01:34:10.240 Let's talk about what's in the Bible or let's not talk at 01:34:10.240 --> 01:34:12.800 all because I'm not interested in hearing you out. 01:34:12.800 --> 01:34:15.520 I think that if we were to unwind just a little bit, 01:34:15.520 --> 01:34:18.720 basically back to where we were in the fifties, in terms of 01:34:18.720 --> 01:34:22.560 viewing these ideas with either a jaundice eye or a welcoming one, 01:34:22.560 --> 01:34:26.160 we'll the conversations would be completely different. 01:34:26.160 --> 01:34:26.480 And 01:34:27.680 --> 01:34:29.520 right and wrong doesn't change. 01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:30.720 It just doesn't. 01:34:30.720 --> 01:34:33.440 Right and wrong is eternal because it comes from God. 01:34:33.440 --> 01:34:36.080 And so as long as God is not changing, what is sin 01:34:36.080 --> 01:34:38.240 and not sin doesn't change either. 01:34:38.240 --> 01:34:42.320 And our if our anchor is in the ethics of the day, 01:34:42.320 --> 01:34:46.400 it's easy to get bounced around by the tides of these things. 01:34:46.400 --> 01:34:49.840 Christians have to anchor our morality in scripture. 01:34:49.840 --> 01:34:51.600 If God said it, it's true. 01:34:51.600 --> 01:34:53.680 If God forbids it, it's evil. 01:34:53.680 --> 01:34:56.480 Begin there, and everything else is simple. 01:34:56.480 --> 01:35:00.000 And when someone comes along and says, for six thousand years, everyone 01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:00.480 was wrong. 01:35:00.480 --> 01:35:02.560 Today we have a different idea. 01:35:02.560 --> 01:35:05.680 You just need to know that that person's not speaking in God's 01:35:05.680 --> 01:35:09.840 name. And once you figure that out, you can decide who is 01:35:09.840 --> 01:35:12.960 actually acting in your benefit and who might be a threat to 01:35:12.960 --> 01:35:14.800 your soul. 01:35:14.800 --> 01:35:19.520 Ultimately a big part of this episode, and others like it, is 01:35:19.520 --> 01:35:26.160 simply an encouragement to heed the warnings of scripture that a tree 01:35:26.160 --> 01:35:32.000 is known by its fruit, and we are living with the fruit 01:35:32.240 --> 01:35:36.880 of the tree of the civil rights movement, because the fruit of 01:35:36.880 --> 01:35:40.560 that movement is transgenderism. 01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:45.840 The fruit of that movement is children having their genitalia removed in 01:35:45.840 --> 01:35:51.120 the pursuit of becoming the other sex as if that were possible, 01:35:51.120 --> 01:35:54.400 as if we can undo what God did, if we can correct 01:35:54.400 --> 01:35:57.520 his supposed errors. 01:35:57.520 --> 01:36:04.960 The fruit of that movement is the incredible increase in interracial crime. 01:36:04.960 --> 01:36:05.760 The fruit of that movement 01:36:06.720 --> 01:36:12.000 is the fact that we have an enormous percentage of young children 01:36:12.000 --> 01:36:15.520 who are now depressed and some who commit suicide. 01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:18.240 And I could go on for quite some time. 01:36:18.240 --> 01:36:22.640 We all know because we are living through it. 01:36:22.640 --> 01:36:26.560 So if the fruit of the tree is poisonous, the tree is 01:36:26.560 --> 01:36:34.080 poisonous. And so if you wouldn't eat the poisonous fruit, then why 01:36:34.080 --> 01:36:36.240 would you defend the tree? 01:36:36.480 --> 01:36:40.400 If you look at the way the world is today and you 01:36:40.400 --> 01:36:44.400 recognize that it is anti Christian, if you recognize that the world 01:36:45.040 --> 01:36:52.080 hates God, hates his truth, hates his sheep, why would you 01:36:52.080 --> 01:36:56.800 support the very sort of men and the very ideas that brought 01:36:56.800 --> 01:36:59.440 us to where we are today. 01:36:59.440 --> 01:37:03.840 And there is a direct line from the civil rights movement to 01:37:03.840 --> 01:37:05.520 where we are today. 01:37:05.520 --> 01:37:09.440 And we will get into that eventually with an episode on civil 01:37:09.440 --> 01:37:14.560 rights. And if you go back through the list 01:37:15.440 --> 01:37:20.080 of the men and the women we talked about in this episode, 01:37:20.080 --> 01:37:24.160 you will find a lot of them who claim to be Christian. 01:37:24.160 --> 01:37:29.920 You will find Baptists and Methodists aplenty. 01:37:29.920 --> 01:37:33.440 Some of them admitted they were not religious, most of them claimed 01:37:33.440 --> 01:37:34.880 to be one of those two 01:37:38.480 --> 01:37:41.280 And yet look at their deeds. 01:37:41.280 --> 01:37:44.960 Or in the case of those who wrote, look at their writings. 01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:47.120 These men were not Christian. 01:37:47.120 --> 01:37:49.920 They did not believe in the God of the Bible, they did 01:37:49.920 --> 01:37:56.400 not behave as Christians they behaved for all the world as wicked 01:37:56.400 --> 01:38:03.600 pagans, virtually their entire lives, in some of these cases. 01:38:03.600 --> 01:38:06.960 And look at those with whom they surrounded themselves. 01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:13.360 They surrounded themselves with atheists and Jews, and quite a few communists, 01:38:13.360 --> 01:38:15.920 and there is indeed a lot of overlap in those categories 01:38:18.320 --> 01:38:22.000 Christians do not behave in that way. 01:38:22.480 --> 01:38:25.520 not to say that you cannot associate with sinners because that's always 01:38:25.520 --> 01:38:28.720 the charge whenever we make an argument like this. 01:38:28.720 --> 01:38:32.800 Oh well, Christ associate with prostitutes yes, he told them to stop 01:38:32.800 --> 01:38:35.680 being prostitutes. 01:38:35.680 --> 01:38:39.280 If you are a Christian and you spend your entire life associating 01:38:39.280 --> 01:38:40.560 with communists 01:38:42.880 --> 01:38:45.600 There's a very good argument to be made you probably are not 01:38:45.600 --> 01:38:47.600 a Christian. 01:38:47.600 --> 01:38:51.760 Because you should be calling the communists to repentance and then disassociating 01:38:51.760 --> 01:38:54.560 yourself if they refuse for a period of time. 01:38:54.560 --> 01:38:58.560 You can debate the period of time, but you cannot debate. 01:38:58.560 --> 01:39:02.240 The scripture is very clear, do not even associate with such a 01:39:02.240 --> 01:39:08.560 one. There are injunctions in Scripture with relation to disentangling yourself from 01:39:08.800 --> 01:39:15.200 open impenitent sinners, because they will drag you down with them. 01:39:15.200 --> 01:39:18.480 And yet here in the US, we are told that we are 01:39:18.480 --> 01:39:21.840 supposed to revere these men, that we are supposed to pursue the 01:39:21.840 --> 01:39:25.040 same things they pursued as if they were Christian. 01:39:25.040 --> 01:39:28.160 We're told these are part of the faith. 01:39:28.160 --> 01:39:30.960 Find it in the pages of Scripture. 01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:35.840 Find me where Scripture says racism is a sin. 01:39:35.840 --> 01:39:40.400 Find me where Scripture says anti-racism is a good work. 01:39:41.520 --> 01:39:43.120 You won't find it. 01:39:43.120 --> 01:39:45.200 You will find that Scripture says you have to care for your 01:39:45.200 --> 01:39:48.960 Care for your own above and beyond the stranger. 01:39:48.960 --> 01:39:52.400 You will find that Scripture says that if you forsake your own 01:39:52.400 --> 01:39:55.520 family, you are worse than an unbeliever. 01:39:55.520 --> 01:39:59.600 And yet we're told by so many modern pastors, this is a 01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:01.200 sin of partiality. 01:40:01.200 --> 01:40:01.920 It's not. 01:40:01.920 --> 01:40:05.120 We've gone over that. 01:40:05.120 --> 01:40:07.200 Partiality is subverting justice. 01:40:07.200 --> 01:40:12.240 Partiality is not showing preference to your blood kin. 01:40:12.240 --> 01:40:15.600 That is simply behaving as a Christian. 01:40:15.600 --> 01:40:18.480 That's behaving as a human being, that's behaving as a man. 01:40:18.480 --> 01:40:24.080 Even pagans get that one right, better than many modern Christians. 01:40:24.080 --> 01:40:28.480 But when it comes to these new invented so called sins, there's 01:40:28.400 --> 01:40:30.400 a very simple standard. 01:40:30.400 --> 01:40:33.440 It has two steps. 01:40:33.440 --> 01:40:39.280 Can you find it explicitly in the pages of scripture. 01:40:39.280 --> 01:40:44.640 And then, if Christians did not write about it in virtually the 01:40:44.640 --> 01:40:50.080 entire two thousand year history of the New Testament Church, then why 01:40:50.080 --> 01:40:50.560 on earth 01:40:51.440 --> 01:40:54.800 do you think that it is a salient part or even a 01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:59.600 required part of the Christian faith? 01:40:59.600 --> 01:41:03.600 If you cannot find it in Scripture, and you cannot find it 01:41:03.600 --> 01:41:08.640 in the historical writings of the church, then it simply is not 01:41:08.800 --> 01:41:10.400 Christian.