Guest Host, Bishop E.W. Jackson, talks "Constitution Day"

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1. 0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
2. 0:02It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
3. 0:06This is the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
4. 0:10It should be uncomfortable for a believer to live as a hypocrite.
5. 0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
6. 0:18And the philosophies of this world.
7. 0:20God has called you and me to be his ambassador.
8. 0:23Even in this dark moment.
9. 0:26Let's not miss our moment.
10. 0:28and now the Hamilton Corner.
11. 0:32And of course, this is not Abraham,
12. 0:34Hamilton the third, but this is Bishop E. W. Jackson senior.
13. 0:38It is great to be with you.
14. 0:39It's always an honor to sit in the chair of this great young man
15. 0:43and to substitute for him.
16. 0:46So thank you all so much for your prayers, for your support,
17. 0:50for all that you do to make this network possible.
18. 0:53And it is my distinct pleasure to be a part of it
19. 0:56and to come in here and sit and substitute
20. 0:59for some of these great hosts.
21. 1:01So look, I've got a tremendous program for you today.
22. 1:06Folks, I don't know that I'm gonna be able to get it all in
23. 1:10because I'll tell you first,
24. 1:11I wanna talk about September 17th.
25. 1:13September 17th, as you all know,
26. 1:15it's Constitution Day, I wanna talk about that.
27. 1:18But before I get to that,
28. 1:20let me get a couple of things out of the way.
29. 1:23First of all, for those of you who might be listening
30. 1:26in the Oklahoma area, or for that matter, the Detroit area, I'm going to be speaking at
31. 1:31Turning Point USA in Detroit this coming Thursday.
32. 1:37And I'm going to be speaking at in Oklahoma City, that is actually it's Edmonton, Oklahoma,
33. 1:46this coming Saturday.
34. 1:50And let me see if I have the details for this that is Saturday the 26th.
35. 1:57This is part of my truth tour event, as you all know, back to American History you never
36. 2:02taught.
37. 2:03I'm going to be there with Jason Hardaway as a Constitution coach for Oklahoma and Arkansas,
38. 2:11of course part of Patriot Academy Constitution Conference.
39. 2:15And let's see, I'm going to be at, like I said, Edmonton, Oklahoma at Oasis Church,
40. 2:2216,000 Northwestern Adventists.
41. 2:24So if you're in the area, anywhere nearby, come on by on Saturday.
42. 2:30I am speaking on Saturday.
43. 2:34Come to the conference.
44. 2:35I don't have the exact time I'm speaking in front of me, but folks, I will be there.
45. 2:38I guarantee you that.
46. 2:39And I always love running into my...
47. 2:43Actually, I do have the time I'm speaking at 10 o'clock, 10 a.m.
48. 2:48But always enjoy running into our AFR listeners.
49. 2:52And then the day before that, well, that is the Thursday, before that, that's the 24th.
50. 2:58I will be at 20 point USA Faith Forward Pastors Summit.
51. 3:04And I'll be speaking there on Thursday.
52. 3:07again, I don't think I have the exact time I'm speaking in front of me, but come on out
53. 3:14to it.
54. 3:15I'm sure you will enjoy it.
55. 3:16It's going to be a great time.
56. 3:17Turning point, USA, has become one of the greatest organizations in the United States
57. 3:22of America for furthering our Judeo-Christian values and principles, and it has only continued
58. 3:29to grow and thrive since the tragic wicked assassination of its founder and its president,
59. 3:38of course, Charlie Kirk, leaving behind his widow Erica.
60. 3:44So I'm happy to be a part of anything that they're doing, frankly, and so I'll be out
61. 3:50there for a past summit on Thursday, September the 24th.
62. 3:57Now I said I want to talk to you primarily about September the 17th and I do.
63. 4:02But before I get to that, there are a couple of issues I want to just put on the table and
64. 4:05then I'll talk about September 17th.
65. 4:09Believe it or not folks, I've been waiting a long time for this moment and I am not joking.
66. 4:17I've been waiting a long time for this moment.
67. 4:21I can't do it today because I'm not prepared to do that and this is primarily a radio program.
68. 4:28probably wouldn't work. I have had a Nike t-shirt that I've had for many years. I don't
69. 4:36know when I bought it. I don't know how I got it. I think I bought it, but I'm not absolutely
70. 4:39certain of that. Somebody might have given it to me. I just don't know. But over the years,
71. 4:45of course, as Nike went further and further and further away from truth and more and more
72. 4:51into Marxism and socialism and racial obsession and backing Colin Kaepernick and backing so
73. 5:00called transgenders because there's no such thing really. You can't transition from one
74. 5:05gender to another no matter how hard you try. But nevertheless, to use their language, backing
75. 5:11transgenders guys who suddenly say they're women who want to play on a women's sports
76. 5:17team shower in a women's shower, change in a women's locker room. And Nike's just, you
77. 5:23know, they just backed all that to the hill. And I just, it became so disgusted with them
78. 5:28as a company that I just thought, you know what, I'm going to take this t-shirt and just
79. 5:33rip it to shreds. And I thought, well, wait a minute, I ought to do that publicly so people
80. 5:39can see my disdain for this company and for what they've come to represent. But then I
81. 5:46I thought at the time I was considering it, I thought, but you know, Nike's not really
82. 5:50in the news anyway.
83. 5:52So maybe if they end up in the news again, maybe that'll be the moment.
84. 5:56Well, they're in the news again.
85. 5:57And why are they in the news?
86. 5:59Because they've dropped off the top 100 Dow companies.
87. 6:04They have been losing value.
88. 6:07They have been losing profit.
89. 6:10They are on a downward cycle.
90. 6:14And I knew this moment would come.
91. 6:16And I said, when that moment comes, when something else pops, that's when I'm going to make clear
92. 6:22my disdain for everything Nike has come to represent.
93. 6:25You know, they used to be associated primarily with Michael Jordan and Air Jordans.
94. 6:32But then they became associated with all these bizarre LGBTQ and all this stuff.
95. 6:38And I just thought, what is wrong with these people?
96. 6:40Well, they're paying a price now.
97. 6:43are paying a price. Now some people would argue, well there are other factors that are involved
98. 6:47in this and I had no doubt that they are. But the thing is when you take your eye off the ball,
99. 6:53the ball is to make a product that people like to market that product to the likely purchasers
100. 7:03and to make that product as readily available to them as possible at the most effective cost.
101. 7:10I mean, that's the name of the game, right?
102. 7:12Whether you all know, but I've been a businessman in a past life, actually ran a business for
103. 7:19ten years.
104. 7:23That's what you're trying to do.
105. 7:24You're trying to produce a product that the public wants and are willing to buy at the price
106. 7:28point that you give them.
107. 7:30They took their eye off that and they wanted to get involved in all this political, Marxist,
108. 7:35socialist, racist, sex-obsessed garbage.
109. 7:41And so they took their eye off the ball.
110. 7:42Even if that involvement is not the direct cause of the decline of the company, the results
111. 7:51of doing that is you take your eye off the main thing.
112. 7:56I don't know who it was who said it, but you know, always make the main thing the main thing.
113. 8:01Well, they stop making the main thing the main thing and they made the main thing all
114. 8:06these other things, which have nothing to do with sports and have nothing to do with Nike
115. 8:11products. And in fact, here again, I had a Nike shirt never thought much about it.
116. 8:15Then when they went off on this this tangent, I frankly, when I sort of rediscovered that I had
117. 8:23this shirt in my wardrobe, I thought, how in the world did I get a Nike shirt? I remember how I got
118. 8:31the thing. And I thought, I am getting rid of this thing. Then I said, you know what, no,
119. 8:36So why do it quietly?
120. 8:39I mean, they're not being quiet about the crazy stuff they're supporting.
121. 8:42So I won't do it quietly.
122. 8:43I'll do it publicly.
123. 8:45So folks, I don't know exactly when I'm going to do it.
124. 8:48I'll probably do it on my own podcast, but I am going to shred.
125. 8:54I am going to cut.
126. 8:55I am going to discard that Nike shirt on air at some point.
127. 9:02I have I have my own podcast on American family radio. It posts every Wednesday at about 10 a.m.
128. 9:09About 10 a.m. Mountain Time if I'm sorry, not Mountain Time 10 a.m. Central Time if I'm not mistaken.
129. 9:16I operate in a lot of different time zones. So who knows might be there. I have my own podcast
130. 9:23E. W. Jackson for America might be there. But you stand by because once we've done it,
131. 9:29We're going to post it on social media so everybody can see me doing it.
132. 9:33Now you say, well, why is this?
133. 9:35Is this really important?
134. 9:36Does it really matter?
135. 9:37Yes, it does.
136. 9:38I tell you why it matters.
137. 9:39It matters because these big companies and these shall we say iconic brands have a lot of
138. 9:48cultural influence.
139. 9:51And when they go off on these tangents, they sweep a lot of young people up into it with
140. 9:57them.
141. 9:58look, Nike's taking a stand and Nike's great.
142. 10:02And before you know it, you've got a kind of mass psychosis
143. 10:06because you've got all of these very influential
144. 10:09institutions, business, some nonprofit.
145. 10:13We saw the Smithsonian Museum of American History
146. 10:17jump into this nonsense.
147. 10:20And before you know it, people are really being brainwashed.
148. 10:23They're really being indoctrinated
149. 10:24is they're hearing this stuff everywhere they go.
150. 10:28They're hearing it in sports,
151. 10:30they're hearing it in museums,
152. 10:31they're hearing it in entertainment,
153. 10:33they're hearing it in education system,
154. 10:35they're hearing it in the media and on journalism.
155. 10:38And before you know it,
156. 10:39that stuff starts to penetrate the minds
157. 10:42and the hearts of people who aren't very clear
158. 10:45about their convictions.
159. 10:47And before you know it,
160. 10:48they're espousing this propaganda.
161. 10:51And that's why every time one of these institutions
162. 10:56goes this way like Budweiser tried to.
163. 10:58It deserves some commentary.
164. 11:01And then when they hit the pits,
165. 11:04when they pay the price as Budweiser has,
166. 11:08as Nike is doing right now,
167. 11:11that it deserves commentary to say,
168. 11:13this is what happens when you start to go against God,
169. 11:17you start to, and basically all this stuff, folks,
170. 11:20Let's be clear about it.
171. 11:22All this stuff is anti-Christian.
172. 11:24It's anti-American and it's anti-Christian as well because it is it is in direct
173. 11:29opposition to the word of God.
174. 11:31It's in direct opposition to the Bible and many of them know it.
175. 11:36That's why they get so upset when somebody just does it when some football
176. 11:40player or somebody does a display that's biblical.
177. 11:43Oh, that's an old man.
178. 11:44And that's that's a big controversy.
179. 11:46You, you can't do that.
180. 11:48But when somebody wants to promote the whole homosexual activist agenda, well, you know,
181. 11:54we have, we need to understand diversity.
182. 11:58The reaction is entirely different.
183. 12:02So it is worthy of commentary and worthy of our taking note.
184. 12:07That's one of the reasons why I love these companies and I won't do ads for them, but
185. 12:12you can think of some of them, I'm sure, when I say that, who are committed to a biblical
186. 12:17worldview. They're committed to promoting godly values, biblical values within their business.
187. 12:24And I had been privileged to meet a number of business people who are committed to that. And
188. 12:28it is such a blessing because most of the corporate world is completely sold out to the devil.
189. 12:35I didn't say all of it, but most of it is completely sold out to the devil.
190. 12:42I think we ought to be looking for godly companies when we're talking about investing godly
191. 12:47companies when we're talking about shopping for things,
192. 12:51godly companies when we're talking about who to look to
193. 12:53for information. I think I've shared with you all my
194. 12:57my organizations having a big controversy with Google right
195. 13:00now because they're trying to basically block all of our
196. 13:03emails. Now, they did it once before and we said, well,
197. 13:07this time, no, we're not no, no. And we made all the
198. 13:10adjustments to get around it changed our URL and all of that
199. 13:14had spent thousands and tens of thousands of dollars because we had to change all of our literature,
200. 13:20we had to change all of our websites, we went through all of that process, and this time they're
201. 13:25back at it. And we're not putting up with it. And so these companies are major influences in the culture,
202. 13:33and we can't give them a pass when they go on these godless, demonic rants, lecturing everybody else
203. 13:44about how we ought to think about the issues and all of that.
204. 13:47No, we're not putting up with it.
205. 13:49We are not putting up with.
206. 13:50So Nike, you are getting your comeuppance.
207. 13:54They are declining company.
208. 13:56And if they don't get a revelation, which they may or may not get,
209. 14:00they may be or there's something wrong with these people,
210. 14:02nothing wrong with us, their company is likely to collapse.
211. 14:06Because once you start on that downward spiral,
212. 14:09man, it's easy to go into a complete tail spin
213. 14:13until you crash.
214. 14:15This is Bishop E. W. Jackson.
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232. 15:40Now I talked about Nike and so we got in that out of the way.
233. 15:44I told you I'm going to talk to you about September 17th and we are going to
234. 15:48talk about that. But there was one issue I wanted to bring up. I don't know whether you
235. 15:51all heard this news. But Nicole Hannah Jones, she is the arts of the 1619 project, you know,
236. 15:58that lying project. Oh, folks, don't get me started on that one. That is one of the biggest,
237. 16:09most despicable lies that has ever been told America was, you know, people came here for
238. 16:17Again, that's not ignorance, folks.
239. 16:22That is just sheer malice because it's very easy.
240. 16:27Look, the fact of the matter is the two first British settlements that we mark as really
241. 16:39the beginning of sort of a permanent residence on the North American continent were the Jamestown
242. 16:45settlement, it was here first, and of course the Mayflower, which landed in Plymouth. And
243. 16:52the Jamestown settlement was landed in what we became to be known as Virginia, named by
244. 17:01the king after, I guess, the Virgin Queen. But at any rate, both those settlements arrived,
245. 17:10And if America was founded, established, settled for slavery, my first question is, well, why
246. 17:19didn't they bring any slaves?
247. 17:21You ever think about that?
248. 17:26Those two settlements didn't bring not a single slave, which is a little weird if that's your
249. 17:33whole purpose.
250. 17:35So okay, well then how did the how did the slaves get here?
251. 17:39Are you aware that the first Africans to arrive on the North American continent who ended up
252. 17:48in labor, not slave labor, but in labor as indentured servants arrived here by accident?
253. 17:56They were, first of all, they were on a ship called the San Juan Batista that was a Portuguese
254. 18:03vessel that left Africa and was headed for Mexico.
255. 18:10vessel was intercepted by British pirates, two pirate ships, the white lion. And I think
256. 18:23the other one was called the treacherous if I'm not mistaken. But the second one was
257. 18:30secondary because it did not arrive at St. John at St. James settlement. The white lion
258. 18:37did. And the reason is that when they attacked the San Juan Batista, they captured 60 of the
259. 18:43slaves that the San Juan Batista had. They had 350 when they started out. They lost 150 in the
260. 18:49in the in the passage across the Atlantic. 150 died, probably starvation and suicide and you know,
261. 18:56a lot of people were lost on that on those passages. So when they got attacked, they lost another 60
262. 19:03slaves, the British, a white lion took 60 of those slaves, but they would, but the ship
263. 19:09was damaged in the process of attacking the San Juan Batista. And the ship needed to somehow
264. 19:18get some repairs done. They needed supplies. And they ended up landing at not near the St.
265. 19:27James settlement. They didn't have any money. And so what they did was they, they needed supplies,
266. 19:35they needed repairs, they traded the Africans that they had, they traded them for labor to fix their
267. 19:44ships and for supplies to resupply their ships or that that to resupply that ship in the singular,
268. 19:52not plural. So they ended up leaving 20 slaves. Forgive me, I
269. 20:03shouldn't use the word slate because they weren't slaves at
270. 20:05that time. Remember, when the settlements arrived, they did
271. 20:09not have any slave system in place. What they did have was
272. 20:12Europeans who came on those early settlements as indentured
273. 20:15servants. And so the Africans were in effect sold as indentured
274. 20:21servants, which meant they were required to serve a seven-year period of labor, and then
275. 20:25they were free.
276. 20:27And the same system that the Jamestown settlement had established for every other indentured servant
277. 20:33was after you serve seven years, you get 50 acres of property and you get to work that
278. 20:38property, that's your own.
279. 20:40And so the most famous of those is a guy named Anthony Johnson Antonio from the region of
280. 20:44Africa, now known as Angola.
281. 20:47And he ended up getting his 50 acres.
282. 20:50He worked that, succeeded at it.
283. 20:52He parlayed that into the 250 acre estate on the eastern shore of Virginia.
284. 20:59And by the way, he was the first American who had assigned the first person, African or
285. 21:08American, technically his American citizenship, because we weren't America at the time, it'd
286. 21:13not been established.
287. 21:14And he was the first person to have an African assigned to him for lifetime labor, which was
288. 21:26slavery.
289. 21:28And that was done by court with a man by the name of Jason, of John K. Soar, who tried
290. 21:33to leave early, Antonio Johnson said, and Anthony Johnson then later became Anthony,
291. 21:40said that, no, you're trying to leave early.
292. 21:42He said, no, I've served my seven years.
293. 21:44They argued over it.
294. 21:45It went into court, ultimately.
295. 21:47And Anthony Johnson won and John K.
296. 21:50Soar as punishment for trying to treat
297. 21:52cheat Anthony Johnson, at least so the court said
298. 21:54he was given to Anthony Johnson as a lifetime slave.
299. 22:01That's the first time that a court
300. 22:04had recognized anybody to be a slave for life.
301. 22:09And he was slave to another black man.
302. 22:13Now, I said all that to say, boy,
303. 22:15That was a great, that was a big preamble, but I couldn't help myself.
304. 22:19Nicole Anna Jones is now complaining.
305. 22:22Well, maybe complaining is the wrong word.
306. 22:24She is, she is commiserating.
307. 22:26She is expressing remorse.
308. 22:29The fact that she sent her daughter to inner city schools,
309. 22:32her daughter is now complaining that these inner city schools
310. 22:36did not educate her.
311. 22:38Her mother had to wear with all to send her to better schools.
312. 22:40She didn't send her to better schools because she didn't think
313. 22:42that her daughter should go to a better school
314. 22:44the most black children had a chance to go to.
315. 22:46And her daughter is now saying,
316. 22:48you made a big mistake.
317. 22:49And the mother's saying,
318. 22:50I'm sorry, you're right, I did.
319. 22:53Now good that she's acknowledging that, but folks,
320. 22:56this is what race obsession gets you.
321. 23:01You identify yourself first and foremost
322. 23:03as a quote unquote black person
323. 23:05or a quote unquote African American.
324. 23:07And that's everything.
325. 23:09That's what matters.
326. 23:10That's what you care about.
327. 23:11And you sacrifice your own children
328. 23:13in order to prove your racial bona fides.
329. 23:18When you should be considering yourself first and foremost,
330. 23:20a human being, secondly, a mother in her case,
331. 23:26and your first obligation is to your own family.
332. 23:30And that's not based on any racial classification,
333. 23:33that's where your responsibility lies.
334. 23:36And she transferred that responsibility
335. 23:40to the black community at large.
336. 23:43And guess what?
337. 23:44The schools didn't improve because that's, well, you know, we're going to send,
338. 23:47we got to send our children to these schools because that's how they're going to get better.
339. 23:51The school didn't improve and our daughter was very, very ill served.
340. 23:55Now I said all that simply to say, this is where you all heard me call it,
341. 23:59ROS, racial obsession syndrome.
342. 24:01This is where it gets you.
343. 24:04I've said, you know, and as Christians, we certainly of all people are to know better
344. 24:08because our first and foremost loyalty is to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
345. 24:12and through Him, we know what it means to be loyal to our family, a wife to our husband,
346. 24:17a husband to his wife, a father to his children, a mother to our children. We know what that
347. 24:22loyalty means through Christ Jesus because the Word of God informs us and the Holy Spirit
348. 24:26leads and guides us and we know the love that we're supposed to have and show to them. We
349. 24:32know the responsibility that we have for them. But when you bind to all this Marxist, racial,
350. 24:38Garbage, this is the confusion you get.
351. 24:42So now her daughter's been harmed.
352. 24:43I hope the girl will be okay
353. 24:45and ultimately can make up for educational deficits
354. 24:47because she's complaining now.
355. 24:49She said I would have had a lot better opportunities
356. 24:51if I'd been better educated.
357. 24:53But here her, I don't know how much to call her mother educated
358. 24:56given that she produced the 1619 project,
359. 24:59which is a great big old bowl of lies.
360. 25:02But nevertheless, she had an opportunity
361. 25:05because she made money doing this, telling these lies.
362. 25:07she had an opportunity to better educate her daughter and she squandered it, trying to prove
363. 25:13her racial bona fides. That is so sad. And really on one level, it's it's it's it frankly
364. 25:20folks, it borders on child abuse. Yeah, I could do better for you, but I'm not because
365. 25:25I don't want you to be any better off than any other person who quote unquote looks like
366. 25:30me. I'm like, how stupid can you get when our identity is any is in anything other than
367. 25:41than our relationship with God. It is skewed, it is confusion, it is going to mislead you,
368. 25:50it is going to turn you into a fool." And that's exactly what she did. She became a fool and sacrificed
369. 25:58her own daughter because she thought that this was somehow making some kind of racial statement.
370. 26:06Now, would you listen to a person like that trying to tell you what history says and means? I wouldn't,
371. 26:13I wouldn't the same thing they've got to say as far as I'm concerned.
372. 26:15That person is an idiot.
373. 26:18I mean, you can't tell me the Bible says, you know, we're supposed to take care of
374. 26:24our own first do good to that.
375. 26:26You know, do good to all, but especially those of the household of faith.
376. 26:29And he does not care for his own, has denied the faith and his worst than an infidel.
377. 26:34You can't even take care of your own family, your own daughter.
378. 26:37And you can tell lecture me about how I ought to view the world.
379. 26:40No, thank you.
380. 26:41I've got the word of God to tell me how to view the world.
381. 26:47And it's very, very clear.
382. 26:50But that's where this stuff goes.
383. 26:52And look, I certainly feel sorry for the child.
384. 26:55I really do.
385. 26:57I really do because there's nothing we can do about the fact that some children have very
386. 27:03foolish parents.
387. 27:04All we can do is pray for them that there's nothing we can do about it.
388. 27:09But I feel sorry for the child because the child didn't make these bad choices the mother
389. 27:13did.
390. 27:15And her apologies now don't do anything.
391. 27:17You know, well, yeah, I did make a mistake.
392. 27:18I should have, I should have put my child's education first.
393. 27:22Yeah.
394. 27:22Well, you think about that when you start telling these lies about history,
395. 27:26trying to, trying to put your racial narrative first before the truth.
396. 27:32You know, folks, I've been doing this truth tour, telling people that,
397. 27:36in Jesus said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
398. 27:40It's not the truth that makes you free.
399. 27:41It's the truth you know that makes you free.
400. 27:45But when you know the truth, it sets you free from the lies, from the bondage of lies.
401. 27:52And that's why Satan tells lies.
402. 27:54Satan tells lies to get you all bound up and tangled up in his web.
403. 27:59That's why he lies to you.
404. 28:01He lies to get you to buy into his vision for what your life ought to be.
405. 28:07I mean, he lied to Eve.
406. 28:08Oh, no, God has God really said that, oh, no, God knows that the day you eat this fruit,
407. 28:15Oh, you're going to be like gods.
408. 28:20I mean, just absolutely lied through his teeth.
409. 28:26And when she bought it and accepted it,
410. 28:27you know what happened?
411. 28:30The downfall of the whole enterprise,
412. 28:34she and her husband went down.
413. 28:36They died that very day, they died.
414. 28:38They didn't die physically,
415. 28:40but they died spiritually immediately.
416. 28:44And that's what the whole Marxism, socialism,
417. 28:49all of this sexual perversion, all this stuff.
418. 28:55This is nothing but the devil's trick
419. 28:58to try to catch people up and get them tied up
420. 29:04and tangled up in his kingdom.
421. 29:08And frankly, to be his slaves.
422. 29:11That's really what he wants.
423. 29:13That's what he's wanted all along.
424. 29:16Say when he rebelled in heaven, why did he rebelled?
425. 29:18He certainly didn't rebel because there was anything wrong in heaven.
426. 29:22Heaven is the perfect environment.
427. 29:24There's nothing wrong there.
428. 29:27He rebelled because he couldn't run it because he wasn't its master, because the angels weren't
429. 29:36his slaves.
430. 29:39And that's what he wants.
431. 29:41He wants slaves.
432. 29:43He wants people that he can control and manipulate, whether it's through ideological lies or through
433. 29:49drugs or through alcohol or through promiscuous sex, whatever it is, it is to get people bound
434. 29:55up in him so that he can say jump and they'll say how high. And he said jump and Nicole had
435. 30:05a Jones, said how high? He said jump. Put your daughter in this terrible school because that's
436. 30:10what you ought to do as a black woman. She said, okay, guarantee it wasn't God telling
437. 30:17to do that. It was the devil because God's plan for each of us is to flourish and to go
438. 30:28to the highest and best place that we can. And there was a time in America, see how far
439. 30:34we've gotten when you've got educated people, this is what they do because they take all
440. 30:38of these blessings for granted, but there was a time in America when every fat, every parent
441. 30:46had as a major goal for their child to see to it that their child got whatever they needed,
442. 30:52the education, the training, the development, the experiences, to be able to build a better
443. 30:59life than they had. And a better life didn't always necessarily mean, you know, a better quality
444. 31:08of life internally, but it certainly meant a better quality of life externally. And for Christian
445. 31:13parents, obviously, we want our children to be, we hope not only to be Christians as we are,
446. 31:18we want them to grow, we want them to develop, to develop, we want them to be better disciples
447. 31:23of the Lord Jesus Christ. We want them to come to Christ earlier, we want them to serve Christ
448. 31:28longer, we want them to be more effective, we want them to achieve things that maybe we
449. 31:32couldn't have achieved. And here you get that turned on his head, where we're in sets
450. 31:39their own daughter back for the cause of social and racial justice.
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461. 33:11When we finally come to September 17th, now that I've gotten those things out of the way,
462. 33:15the September 17th. Well, as you're you're listening to this program, of course, September
463. 33:2117, just four days ago, Constitution Day is the day the Constitution was passed by the
464. 33:27by the the Constitutional Convention. Many of our founding fathers in attendance there, George
465. 33:34Washington presiding, James Madison was there and just a number of other luminaries, I'm sure
466. 33:42you know, we're there and George Mason, obviously, and those two people I want to talk about most
467. 33:49today. But the first thing I want to say is this, I really do believe folks for the sake
468. 33:55of national unity and the sake of educating our people that it is time that we made September
469. 34:0017 of federal holiday, not the Monday after September 17, September 17, whenever it falls,
470. 34:09Because I have actually met people and I've actually met Christians.
471. 34:15Christians who know and love God, I have no doubt about that.
472. 34:18When I start talking about this, it's said to me, I didn't know September 17th was the
473. 34:23day the Constitution was passed.
474. 34:24Well, I mean, I don't look down at a ridicule, look down at a really commidical people for
475. 34:30that because frankly, it's not being taught in our schools.
476. 34:33And by the way, there is a federal law that requires that children be taught about the Constitution
477. 34:41on September 17th.
478. 34:43But I guarantee that's not happening
479. 34:46because I don't remember a single class,
480. 34:50a single day in school that September 17th
481. 34:56as Constitution Day was ever brought up, not ever.
482. 35:02By the way, I don't remember it being brought up
483. 35:05in my school days, elementary school.
484. 35:10We had junior high in Pennsylvania,
485. 35:12where I went to school junior high high school. I don't remember it being
486. 35:16abroad. I've been college and I don't remember it ever being brought up in law
487. 35:21school. In fact, I think I've told you all if you've never heard me say this
488. 35:28because it is somewhat shocking. I was blessed to have attended Harvard Law
489. 35:35School spent three years there and never once was required to read the
490. 35:42Constitution, not once, not in any class. You were required to read cases about the Constitution,
491. 35:54but not the Constitution itself. And it tells you a lot about the nature of the education
492. 36:01that we're giving to not only to lawyers, but to our people in general. So all those years
493. 36:08spent in school, when I graduated from law school, I guarantee you, if somebody said,
494. 36:15September 17th, I would have said, I don't know what is it?
495. 36:22It wasn't until I became a Christian and God began to educate me on the beauty of this country
496. 36:30as a gift from Him that I began to study these things on my own and began to realize, oh,
497. 36:37my goodness gracious, we are not being educated at all in a way that seeks to preserve this
498. 36:45union.
499. 36:47In fact, just the opposite.
500. 36:48We're educating in a way that would seek to destroy it, because we're told all the reasons
501. 36:56we should be divided by race, by gender, by economic circumstance, and all of this, all
502. 37:03of this stuff that tends to slice in DICE's and really very little in our educational system
503. 37:10that promotes the vision of one nation under God.
504. 37:14Because the reality is folks without that will never be indivisible with liberty and justice for all
505. 37:20They can talk about all the social justice they want without God is not going to be any justice because you can't have justice without righteousness
506. 37:27Now you can make up a concept of social justice to make stuff up
507. 37:31But if you realize what I have real justice for people it requires righteousness and righteousness comes from where all mighty God
508. 37:39That's why the Bible says righteousness exulternation
509. 37:41Well, the nation that is righteous is a nation that will be just.
510. 37:46A nation that is unrighteous is a nation that can't be just.
511. 37:51So look, I want to say a couple things about September 17th.
512. 37:57And maybe these are things that you're aware of and maybe they're not.
513. 37:59I hope maybe I hit something that you hadn't heard before that will be of interest to you
514. 38:04and then you can follow up and do some of your own study.
515. 38:07For example, did you know that the most ardent anti-slavery delegate at the convention was
516. 38:19Gouverneur Morris?
517. 38:21Now, it's not governor.
518. 38:22That wasn't his title.
519. 38:24He wasn't a governor of anything.
520. 38:26That was his first name, Gouverneur.
521. 38:28His mother's last name was Gouverneur.
522. 38:32And so they named, they gave him the first name after his mother.
523. 38:36So he had basically his mother's last name was his first name and then his father's last
524. 38:41name of course as his surname.
525. 38:44So Gouverneur Morris was his name and Gouverneur Morris was an ardent anti-slavery activist and
526. 38:55he was the one who brought it up more than any other person at the convention.
527. 38:59Now he had some supporters but he was definitely the leader.
528. 39:03He said that slavery is an nefarious institution, and he said it brought the curse of heaven
529. 39:09on any state that practices it.
530. 39:11In fact, he gave one long speech.
531. 39:14I don't have the text of that speech.
532. 39:15I don't know whether it exists, but clearly given, because James Madison took copious notes
533. 39:20and talked about the things that were said, and it might be a reason why the text is
534. 39:26not readily available, although I'm still looking for it.
535. 39:30But apparently he gave a very fiery speech against slavery.
536. 39:34Now we all know that the left's mantra is America's white supremacist and America heads
537. 39:40slavery and this, that and the other.
538. 39:42But you know, they never tell the history that from beginning in 1688, that's almost
539. 39:50200 years, about 170, before the Civil War, 140 almost, before the Civil War, there was
540. 40:01a debate over slavery that was engendered by the Quakers who argued in Pennsylvania
541. 40:08that the colony should not participate in the slave trade or own slaves and they used the
542. 40:14golden rule of the word of God. They said the Bible says, do unto others you would have
543. 40:19them do unto you. If you wouldn't want to be a slave, you wouldn't want to be owned
544. 40:23by anybody. You shouldn't be doing it to anybody else. 1688. The slave codes had just
545. 40:29gone to effect. Remember I told you earlier that when the first Africans arrived here, there
546. 40:33were no slave codes. There was no slave system here. They weren't quite sure what to do so
547. 40:38they just treated them like indentured servants. And that's the way it was for the first 40
548. 40:42years. But then of course the need for labor and the need for because much larger investment
549. 40:50involved in bringing people from Africa and then bringing people from Europe frankly, and
550. 40:55the need for somehow trying to preserve the investment that was made in getting these laborers
551. 41:00here, they started to develop these codes. And by the way, the codes weren't new because
552. 41:06of the same codes that had been used by Muslims in Africa, they had been used by people in
553. 41:13Europe for serfs. And the code was if your mother is a slave, then you are a slave. Now
554. 41:19that wasn't true for the first 40 years, but it became true ultimately. And so once the
555. 41:25The slave system started, the opposition to it began as well.
556. 41:31You don't hear much about that.
557. 41:33But folks, for nearly 200, I said 140, but my math is really off here.
558. 41:41I meant to say about a close to 160 years.
559. 41:47The Civil War began in 1860, so for the subtract,
560. 41:55just so you had about 182 years before the Civil War,
561. 42:01you already had arguments happening over slavery.
562. 42:05And those arguments never stopped.
563. 42:07They never stopped.
564. 42:10It was an ongoing issue of debate.
565. 42:15And here's the interesting thing.
566. 42:17So so the debate can happen in the Constitution.
567. 42:21Here's the interesting thing.
568. 42:23The more the stronger the debate, the stronger the slave codes became, because
569. 42:28it engendered fear in the slave master class, which is a very small portion of
570. 42:32population, only about 5% if you count the patriarchs alone.
571. 42:35And then about 25, 30% if you count the entire families of those who own slaves.
572. 42:40And everybody else did.
573. 42:41But the important thing was to keep Europeans from ever feeling any affinity for the condition
574. 42:51of slaves by drawing a very, very bright distinction between the two.
575. 42:58And that's what the slave codes were all about.
576. 43:00By the way, the slave codes also included punishment for any European people, European
577. 43:06Americans who dared to help or support a slave in any way.
578. 43:16So when it got to the Constitutional Convention, folks, the
579. 43:19argument just continued and the whole month of August, they
580. 43:22were there four months, realized the whole month of August
581. 43:26was consumed with one issue in the issue of slavery. How do we
582. 43:31end the slave trade? Well, North Carolina, Georgia, and
583. 43:34South Carolina said, we're not ending it. How do we end slavery?
584. 43:37Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina said we're not ending it.
585. 43:43All the other states were prepared to end it because they knew it had to end.
586. 43:48But ultimately in order to hold the union together, they basically caved and they made
587. 43:52two compromises.
588. 43:55One was called the 1808 compromise where they say, okay, slavery can exist until 1808
589. 44:0220 years from now in effect, and then the federal government can ban the slave trade.
590. 44:10Well, even the pro-slavery, avidly pro-slavery states went along with that and accepted that,
591. 44:17and then the three-fifths compromised, which was we will tax three-fifths of the slave population
592. 44:22for the bottom, the tax the masters for three-fifths of their slave population, and we will count
593. 44:29the slaves, only three-fifths of the population for purposes of congressional representation.
594. 44:34And again, that this three-fifths of a man person, nonsense is just a lie. There was never
595. 44:40any indication that anybody was defining black people as three-fifths of a man. They
596. 44:44were talking about how much of the slave population do we count for purposes of giving these slave
597. 44:50masters more power, more influence in Congress. If you counted the entire population, it
598. 44:57It would swell their ranks in Congress and it would make the slave master class that much
599. 45:03more powerful.
600. 45:05That was what the argument was about.
601. 45:07It wasn't about the value of a black person.
602. 45:11Now, I said all that as background to say, Gouverneur Morris was the person selected.
603. 45:18The most avid anti-slavery delegate was the person selected not only to write the preamble
604. 45:23to the Constitution, but he was selected to take all those notes and all those agreements
605. 45:29that have been come to over a four month period
606. 45:33and codified them into a single document.
607. 45:36Why did they choose him?
608. 45:40See, I'm convinced they chose him because they said,
609. 45:42well, you know, we might not be able
610. 45:43to win on the slave issue right now,
611. 45:47but let's turn the drafting of this document
612. 45:49over to someone who is highly sensitive on that issue
613. 45:52and will make sure that the Constitution reflects
614. 45:55that sentiment.
615. 45:57So, Gova-Mars, as Frederick Douglass commented,
616. 46:01the constitutions of anti-slavery document,
617. 46:04Guvina Morris made sure there was never any mention of slave,
618. 46:07never any mention of slavery,
619. 46:09and the slaves are also referred to as persons,
620. 46:14not property, that was Guvina Morris's editorializing,
621. 46:17basically, by refining the document to reflect
622. 46:22what truly were his values,
623. 46:25even though he couldn't change the policies
624. 46:26that had been agreed to,
625. 46:28he subtly massaged the language because this was a sentiment that he later said,
626. 46:34when slavery ends and it will end, he said, I don't want the constitution to have to be rewritten.
627. 46:41So in other words, he wrote the constitution in a way that when slavery was over,
628. 46:46nobody could look at the constitution and say, well, look, the institution says,
629. 46:50you have to do this, that or the other with slavery because it's never going to mention slavery.
630. 46:53And it didn't. It didn't. Did you know that the people talk about the future of slave laws?
631. 47:01that particularly again the most ardent supporters of slavery demanded that if slaves escaped
632. 47:09that they would be caught in return, but did you know that the Constitution never required
633. 47:15the federal government to participate in catching and returning slaves?
634. 47:20All it did was allow the state from which the slave escaped to develop their own mechanism
635. 47:27for finding and returning that slave and other states could not prohibit them from doing so,
636. 47:36but the federal government never did. Folks, we have the most illustrious governing document in
637. 47:43the history of the world and we ought to celebrate it. If you want to join me in that, go to our website
638. 47:49standardamerica.us. I'm saying, Bishop Jackson, I want to support making September 17th a federal
639. 47:55holiday. Well that's going to do it for today folks. As always it's so great to be
640. 47:59with you. God bless each and every one of you. You know what to do. Stand up, step up, speak up
641. 48:04and refuse to back up because we cannot be defeated if we will not quit because we are on God's side.