Jared Taylor thinks that having dark skin makes you backward, stupid, uncivilized, or worse yet uncivilizable.
Here's his "epic" takedown against a another racialist commentator on the Young Turks:
It is so beautiful to see a well prepared man say - "it’s actually an observation" with conviction and real facts to back his stance. pic.twitter.com/V3QJRi1Q8d
Don't get me wrong: The Young Turks and their race-baiting is a crime against humanity. Their anti-white bigotry should be confronted and resisted at every turn.
However, the answer to anti-white bigotry is not anti-black bigotry. The answer to racism is not more racist, but truth.
And Mr. Taylor has a hard time with the truth.
He asserts that in Sub-Saharan Africa, there were no two-story buildings, no calendars.
Let's focus on the two-story building charge first.
Guess what? Ethiopa is part of Sub-Saharan Africa.
And guess what? They had two-story buildings:
Here's a brief commentary on this building from Wikipedia:
The eleven Rock-hewn Churches of Lalibela are monolithic churches located in the western Ethiopian Highlands near the town of Lalibela, named after the late-12th and early-13th century King Gebre Meskel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty, who commissioned the massive building project of 11 rock-hewn churches to recreate the holy city of Jerusalem in his own kingdom. The site remains in use by the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church to this day, and it remains an important place of pilgrimage for Ethiopian Orthodox worshipers.[1] It took 24 years to build all the 11 rock hewn churches.
We are talking the 13th century, not the 20th century. This building do not arise because of European investment or imperialism.
These were Sub-Saharan Africans, and they built not one, not two, but ELEVEN mutli-story buildings.
And that's not all.
Check out the Nsude pyramids of Nigeria:
Only their remains ... remain, but these were constructions of considerable height, to be sure.
Therefore, one must marvel at the Nsude pyramids in Nsude, Enugu state, on the Onitsha–Port Harcourt expressway just before 9th mile. On the left-hand side, from Onitsha to Enugu, the area where they used to be can be seen at the foot of a low hill, densely wooded and quite distinct from the surrounding grassland.
And check out these structures in the Ivory Coast:
Consider also these constructions in the Kingdom of Mutapa, in what is now Zimbabwa:
Now let's consider Taylor's second charge, that there were no calendars.
A useful chart providing all the equivalents can be found in Chaîne's book on chronology in Ethiopia and Egypt,[55] and can easily be consulted online at the Internet Archive, from page 134 to page 172.
The Igbo calendar is the traditional calendar system of the Igbo people from present-day Nigeria. The calendar has 13 months in a year (afo), 7 weeks in a month (onwa), and 4 days of Igbo market days (afor, nkwo, eke, and orie) in a week (izu) plus an extra day at the end of the year, in the last month. The name of these months was reported by Onwuejeogwu (1981). The Yoruba calendar is a calendar used by the Yoruba people of southwestern and north central Nigeria and southern Benin. The calendar has a year beginning on the last moon of May or first moon of June of the Gregorian calendar. The new year coincides with the Ifá festival. The traditional Yoruba week has four days, the four days that are dedicated to the Orisa.
The Akan Calendar is a Calendar created by the Akan people (a Kwa group of West Africa) who appear to have used a traditional system of timekeeping based on a six-day week (known as nnanson "seven-days" via inclusive counting). The Gregorian seven-day week is known as nnawɔtwe (eight-days). The combination of these two system resulted in periods of 40 days, known as adaduanan (meaning "forty days").
The traditional isiXhosa names for months of the year poetically come from names of stars, plants, and flowers that grow or seasonal changes that happen at a given time of year in Southern Africa.
The Xhosa year traditionally begins in June and ends in May when the brightest star visible in the Southern Hemisphere, Canopus, signals the time for harvesting.
Now, some may charge that these developments are irrelevant, because they were spurred on by Arab or European traders and missionaries.
If that is the case, then the whole discussion is moot, because Western and Eastern European barbaric tribes were just as backward.
What caused a real explosion of revelation, knowledge, and wisdom was the Greco-Roman innovations and insights (Reason) and Judeo-Christian Revelation. Skin color is immaterial to the matter entirely.
What caused some regions to thrive, and others to take a dive, was communication vs. isolation, trade vs. intransigence, and spiritual growth vs. stagnation. Skin color is immaterial to the matter.
For more information on the role of geography and traffick for the flourish of cultures, read Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies (2021).
Here's my full debate with Nick Taurus, a pro-Palestinian Trump supporter from Orange County, CA.
Some people consider that an oxymoron. How can someone support the Palestinian movement, since so many of them are Leftists? Of course, his side, and many of his supporters, counter that Israel and Zionism are the greatest threat
The debate took place at the Laguna Hills Community Center on Wednesday, October 30th, 2024.
Nick reached out to me in the middle of Summer 2024. He was hoping to pair me off against another anti-Zionist speaker. He reached out to a number of left-leaning, pro-Palestinian groups, but none of them would step up.
I was glad to step in and stand for truth, stand for Israel, and expose the truth about the so-called Palestinian movement.
This was not as daunting a task, since I had debated Nick on the Arab-Israeli conflict shortly after the October 7th, 2023 Hamas massacre:
For the October 30th, 2024 debate, Nick provided all the questions in advance, which was great, since that gesture allowed both of us to study, research, and prepare more effectively.
He also provided ground rules, which included no interruptions. I admit that that is my weak point. CRINGE! It's true, and I can laugh at myself about that.
There were supposed to be two moderators, a pro-Zionist and an anti-Zionist, but the pro-Zionist could not make it at the last minute.
Lawrence of Europa served as the moderator, and like CBS or NBC moderators, he broke the rules and interrupted me a few times, but that conflict did not stop me from speaking out.
Some of my friends joined the event, including Rachelle Mand, a Persian Jew who fled Iran before the Ayatollah took over. Keith Hardine of South Los Angeles, John Willis of Upland (both former members of We the People Rising), and Eli Komai of the John Birch Society also attended.
It was a pleasant surprise to see Eli, who is also a friend of Nick Taurus.
GROUP PHOTOS!
The debate was fun!
It was great to stand for truth, to refute a lot of the anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist talking points.
Nick was definitely the more reserved debater, standing behind the podium the whole time. I was more active, moving around a great deal. I don't recall any rules of decorum regarding our behavior, so there is that.
I really enjoyed stepping forward and speaking to the audience directly. For the first time in a long time, I felt really confident about this subject. It was good to interact with people.
Nick referenced a great deal of books, resources, and authors. That did not bother me, since truth is truth, and if lots of information is based on a false premise, everything else is invalidated. I also referenced some books, websites, and authors. I will say this much: I want to work on memorizing more names and more sources for future debates.
Let me get the worst and the missed opportunities out of the way:
Nick pointed out that there are Jewish people in the Biden Administration who are part of the open borders agenda. But who put them there? Joe Biden! I should have responded to that, but there were so many other things I wanted to respond to.
He talked a great deal about "Jewish" NGOs pushing mass migration and open borders. Who funds them, though? Most of the funding comes from rich white liberal Gentiles.
He mentioned the Appollo Affair. Yawn. I had challenged that in the last debate, in which independent American and Israeli investigations confirmed that Schlomo Solomon did not steal any uranium. A third party, Seymour Hersh, did his own investigation and wrote his findings in The Sampson Option.
I neglected to point out that Amin al-Husseini, the grand Mufti of Jerusalem, along with other Arab interests in the Middle East and Muslims in Southeastern Europe, collaborated with the Nazis to exterminate the Jews in Europe instead of expelling them to the Middle East.
Some of the best moments (for me) in the debate:
Pointing out that Israeli police officers arrest hyper-Orthodox Jews when they spit at Christians. That fact deflated the whole talking point from the anti-Zionists in the audience.
Using the phrase "so-called Palestinians" and undermining the legacy and veracity of that term. It felt really good to inform the audience that Zionist founders like Golda Meir and David Ben-Gurion were also Palestinians!
Not breaking a sweat when one of the anti-Zionist members of the audience asked me about the Haavera Transfer Agreement. At that moment, I had not heard of that phrase, although I know that Hilter initially wanted to expel the Jews to the Middle East. Instead of getting flustered, I got to the heart of the issue: "Do you think that justifies pushing 6 million Jews into ovens?" I also stated, "Whatever that is, that does not delegitimize Israel." That's what all these obscure references are really all about.
Refuting the "Dancing Israelis" conspiracy by using the phrase "Dancing Palestinians." I wanted to underscore the reality that it's the so-called Palestinians and their Arab/Muslim allies who are harming this country. I really thank God for having that phrase on the tip of my tongue.
Referencing Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who served in a foreign military in order to supporting allow American citizens to serve in Congress. Nick acknowledged that point as a good counter-argument, and I respect that.
Repeating the fact that Israel offered the so-called Palestinians a state FIVE TIMES. None on the Pro-Palestinian side can bellyache about fairness or lack of return, when so-called Palestinian leaders just want to push the Jews into the sea.
My favorite moment was turning the tables on a groyper wearing an American Flag jacket during the Question and Answer period. I think his name was Andrew, although I could be wrong. He referenced the Lavon Affair, which is a common anti-Zionist talking point. He went off about the USS Liberty, which I had mentioned before he did. He tried to interrupt me a few times, but I was relentless in pushing back on the anti-Zionist tropes.
I really like that I held him accountable for exploiting those veterans, and I also like that I could get the truth out about Lyndon Baines Johnson, one of the most consequential--and the worst--Presidents in our country's history.
Frankly, I think that the biggest problem for many of these anti-Zionist guys is that people simply do not let them talk, and they do not respond with simple facts or evidence. People get easily offended because of the controversial nature of the subject and just shut off all discussion. That is not the way to win (back) hearts and minds.
I liked that I was able to confront other anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in the audience, and Lawrence could not stop me. The whole situation reminded me of JD Vance, when he confronted the CBS moderator for "fact-checking" him, when the corporate media moderators were just lying. Nick backed me up when the moderator got out of line, which helped a great deal.
Post-debate was great, too. A number of people came up to me and thanked me for coming, including the pro-Palestinian groyper (?) wearing an American flag on his jacket. He came up to me and shook my hand, praising me for stepping into hostile territory and taking a stand for Israel.
I let him share his views on "The Jews did 9-11," and I was able to refute his arguments.
I think it's quite telling that during the Question and Answer period, Nick did not want to spend too much time responding to his question about invading and destroying Israel. Even for anti-Zionists, the American-Flag jacket guy's arguments were way too much!
Nick was very magnanimous and praised me efforts after the debate. I am grateful that I could come and speak up, too!
For nearly two months, I’ve watched the great city of London, England, overrun with terrorist supporters.
That’s not an exaggeration: hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets calling for the extermination of Jews in Israel (“from the river to the sea”), and world-wide (“Intifada revolution”).
I went to one of those hate marches, and I could only find a single person who was willing to call Hamas a terrorist group (but still not denounce them). My colleague Alexa Lavoie went to another London hate march, and even found some people praising Adolf Hitler and his Final Solution.
But Sunday was when Britain’s Jews and many righteous Gentiles took to the streets of London in a giant rally against antisemitism. I was there, and I made a 50-minute mini-documentary about it.
What do you think? Do you think I was too tough on liberal Jews, who for years have promoted open-border immigration and “woke” ideology in national institutions? I think those are the very forces devouring Britain’s Jews today.
Let me know what you think. I’m worried about the UK because every day it bears less resemblance to the land that Shakespeare described as “the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.” And as the UK goes today, Canada goes tomorrow.
The push for a One World Government has been going on for a long time.
Now, the brazen elites who are pushing for this evil are no longer hiding their nefarious plot.
Mamathir Mohamad
Consider what the Islamic militant former prime minister of Malaysia shared with this audience:
If your thinking why has the world gone crazy these past few years.. Here’s why👇🏼the NWO that you called a conspiracy theory in fact has been real and using corrupt world leaders to further the cause 😡 watch👇🏼👀👇🏼abs sharepic.twitter.com/Mw8uwaiB6H
I spent last week like many of you watching and hearing stories about what happened 20 years ago on 9/11.
I’d like to share two things I saw and pose a question about it?
The first thing that made an impression on me was a street interview asking college-aged young people what they knew about 9/11. I was shocked and saddened to see how little they seemed to know, but even worse how little they seemed to care. It was not something they experienced first-hand so it joined the ranks of those things labeled as “history” which so often seem far-removed in importance in the minds and lives of young people. I understand that if I was just stopped on the street for an interview I may not come across as very articulate or knowledgeable either, so I need to give them some slack for that, but I was disappointed in their detached demeanor and apparent lack of interest on the subject.
Now contrast this to a piece I saw covering the bravery and heroism in the lives of the 13 young servicemen and women who lost their lives in the blast in Afghanistan. These young people were about the same age as the students interviewed. These were stories of self-sacrifice and courage of young people who were in the middle of doing their duty and thinking of others up until their last moments on earth. What made them care that much? What made them believe in something worth fighting for and giving their lives for? What made the difference in these two groups of young people?
For months now I have been posting about education and how important are the messages we communicate to the impressionable and precious young minds that are placed in our care. Why is it so important for them to not only remember something they may not have been alive for like 9/11, but to also learn to feel the significance of these events as well? One of the reasons is because if we fail to teach the next generation these things then not only will the memory of what happened be lost, but all the lessons we learned from that event will also be gone forever.
David and I visited New York City not too long after the towers were hit. I remember the cab driver telling us that there was a sense of love and unity throughout the city that he had never experienced before. There was a humility and kindness that brought everyone together.
I heard an interview by a person last week describing the brave first responders helping to carry people out of the burning building say, “Believe me those people being carried out wouldn’t’ have given a fig what pronouns that person who was carrying them out used or what political party they belonged to.” That statement really hit me.
There are so many things causing division between us right now. I pray it won’t take a tragedy to get us in touch with the things that really matter to all of us – the things that unite us rather than divide us. I also saw interviews of some people who decided to go into search and rescue and law enforcement after they witnessed the bravery of so many in their willingness to run into the burning building when everyone else was running out.
I want my grandchildren to glimpse some of that unity we felt after 9/11. I want them to know that not only are there people so full of hate they will give their lives to hurt others, but there are also people who are so full of love that they will give their lives to save others. I want their education to inform them of those things that bind us all together rather than trying to split us apart.
This kind of education cannot occur if we choose to keep them focused on victimization and division. That is why I have written so consistently and passionately against the ideologies I see being pushed in our schools that seek to separate us and instill in our children the lens of fear and division rather than unity and love.
Since 9/11 there have been factions pushing the message sown in the Sixties that American is evil and that America deserved to be attacked. Are we a perfect nation? Of course not. But if our young people are not given a glimpse of all the good and wonderful things that inform who we are and are striving to be then they will not see anything in it worth holding onto or preserving. They need to study and learn about the Constitution and how inspired of a document it truly is.
In that street interview several students said that they didn’t think it was a good idea to spread the idea of American exceptionalism. They said it isn’t good for us to think we are better than other nations. I don’t know about you, but I never thought that was the definition of American exceptionalism. Our young people need to know the reason that America is exceptional is because it is founded on exceptional principles inspired by God and predicated on righteous ideals dedicated to liberty and justice for all. These are principles that can be shared no matter what faith we believe in or not. If our young people don’t understand or remember this, then they will not think America is worth defending and what will happen then?
One of the powerful messages of the Book of Mormon is the admonition to remember. We learn so vividly in its pages what happens when we forget our reliance and dependence on God. The pride cycle is one of the great warnings of this sacred text. It is repeated over and over in so much of this record that we cannot escape that its message is for us. When the people were successful, they became prideful and forgot God. This pride led to them to being attacked by their enemies. With the attacks they became fearful and humbled and looked once again to God for their strength and thus they prospered again. After they prospered, they became prideful again and forgot God and the cycle continued. Here’s a poem I came across that relates to this cycle as well.
Hard times create strong men
Strong men create good times
Good times create weak men
Weak men create hard times.
I would just add that “strong men and women” are strong because they know their strength comes from God.
Alexis de Toquerville is credited with saying that “America is great because she is good and if she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”
We are not perfect, but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep trying to be good. And by good I don’t think it means that we all have to believe in the same things nor in the same way. The founding fathers certainly understood that.
I think that’s something worth remembering.
I was about to send this when I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal this morning by Peggy Noonan who also reflects on what she has seen happen in the past 20 years since that fateful day. Here is an excerpt from her observations on what has changed.
“...We cannot help compare the America now with that of 20 years ago, and we see a deterioration. We feel disturbance at this because we don’t know if we can get our way back.The losing of the thread feels bigger than ideology, bigger certainly than parties. It feels like some more fundamental confusion, an inability to play the role of who we are, and to be comfortable in who we are.
The country we are experiencing now is one of people in different groups ganging up on each other. We all see this. It’s all division, driven by identity politics, race, gender, class. Twenty years ago we were grateful for cops, now we denigrate them and they leave and we argue about why they left. A rising generation of voters who were children when 9/11 happened and who became conscious of history during the 2008 economic crisis see (and have been well taught!) the imperfections, mistakes and sins of their own country but have no human memory of the abuses of other systems, of how damaging deep socialism, and communism, have been. The passion of their emerging beliefs will engender opposing passions. They already are.
Just about every large business in America is now run by its human resources department because everyone appears to be harassing and assaulting each other or accusing each other. Is this the sign of a healthy country?
Following the trauma and drama of 9/11 we started discovering in some new way our nation’s meaning—what it was in history, meant in history, meant to us. We talked about it. We saw: The first thing the firemen did after the towers fell was put up the flag.
Twenty years in our history is treated as all sin, sin, sin. We’re like mad monks flagellating ourselves. We are going through a nonstop condemnation of our past and our people and their limits and ignorance. It isn’t healthy. Reflection and honest questioning are, but not this. And so much of it comes from our most successful and secure, our elites and establishments. Regular people look and think, “But if our professors and media leaders and tech CEOs hate us, who is going to help us think our way out of this mess?” And they know someone has to, because they know in a way elites can never understand, because they have grown so used to security, that no nation can proceed in the world safely and fruitfully when at bottom it hates itself.
Watching the ceremonies last weekend it was understandable if you thought: We started out rediscovering our love and wound up obsessed with our sins. We started out together and wound up more divided than ever, driven apart by opportunists who set us at each other’s throats.”
My hope is that we can remember and teach our young people the best in who we are and who we want to be.
Love and Blessings,
Bianca
And may we continue to remember those who are still trapped in Afghanistan.
Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters of Jesus Christ,
"I cannot shake the very heavy burden I feel to pray for Afghanistan." Let us turn our attention to the LORD God Jehovah in prayer for our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan who are in great need today. Our country has fallen away from the LORD Jesus and is reaping what we have sown. Let us strive for Wisdom and not to be simple as taught in the book of Proverb. May our LORD forgive us and bring a great revival not only in our country but world wide! Please Jesus wake up the Church and bring UNITY of the Body of Christ in all churches. God you do keep your promises to those who repent and follow You. God please bless our solders who have served this country for our freedoms.
"if You allow Your people to be slaughtered, then I pray that You would give dying grace to each and every one of them. Men. Women. Children. Fill them with Your supernatural peace. Give them a vision of Heaven opened for them, as You did for Stephen in Acts 7. Open their eyes to see You, Lord Jesus, standing at the right hand of the Father, waiting to welcome them Home and give them a martyr’s crown.
And then I pray…yes I do… for the fullness of Your wrath to fall on the evil perpetrators, whether they are in Kabul or Tehran or Washington, DC. Holy God. Avenge Your people.
I know You hear this prayer. Now I wait to see how You will answer.
Even so, come Lord Jesus. Surely it’s time for You to be glorified in all the earth."
Also, Dr. James Dobson Family Institute is asking you to join us as we link arms Sunday, Aug. 22, with Rev. Franklin Graham and Christians worldwide in ardent prayer for the catastrophic events that are unfolding in Afghanistan. Please pray specifically for the Lord's intervention and protection of the tens of thousands of Americans and our Christian brothers and sisters who are in immediate peril by the Taliban.
May we bless God and give Him glory for freeing us from sin through His Son Jesus Christ.
We use to have the Holy Bible read in school. The students were taught to love the USA and more importantly the LORD our God. The God who blessed us with His Word and made this country flourish. Our Father God "YahWeh" has blessed our nation partially because we support Israel. My prayer is that we love our God and not fall away. Let us draw closer to Jesus day by day and sing praises unto Him who died so we may live eternally with Him. How awesome is our God!
May God uplift you in spirit and in truth by His encouragement that He will always be there for you. Remember God will never leave or forsake you. Continue to trust in Him and let Him direct your purpose and path. I would ask you to sing out loud your praises to God and call upon Him. Never give up. Here is praise songs reminding us who we are and Who we belong to:
Do you believe in relative or absolute truth? It is part of this weeks message at Shadow Mountain Community Church. If you would like to see the latest Shadow Mountain Church service enjoy it at >> https://www.shadowmountain.org/default.aspx?page=3468
Love from your brothers in Christ our Messiah, Lord and King,
