For people who love the Lord, our most sacred text is the Bible. Recently, Dr. Venus stumbled upon a Bible rooted in the doctrine of the Confederacy, the King James Version of The Spirit of Liberty Holy Bible. This version has been used since to rewrite history, as well as textbooks, to educate and indoctrinate generations of children about their God-given superiority.
It positions our Presidents as Godly and continues that narrative that Black people are less than and have no authority. This week, Dr. Venus walks this very important and deep teaching real slow, so we can uncover a mind-blowing truth: the indoctrination process of positioning presidents (from Washington to Ford) as God's instruments in the TEACHING of the Bible to the descendants of the forefathers has been GENERATIONS in the making. Let's talk.
Key Takeaways:
[5:18] Dr. Venus was just minding her business, talking to her 76-year-old mom, when the topic of the Confederate Bible came up. She discusses the physical beauty of the King James version of the Bible, and how they added stuff to it instead of deleting what we already know. By them writing "a past to remember, a future to mold" on it, this clearly shows it was created to mold the future generations and shape history a certain way.
[7:40] Dr. Venus opens the Bible and begins to read some text. The Confederate perspective of the Civil War is that it was about states' rights, not slavery. President Abraham Lincoln was trying to unify colonies and in order to do that, they needed a certain representation in Congress. They came up with the ⅗ law, where every 3 of 5 Black Men could be counted as one vote. They positioned us being "less than" a full person as something political, something that White Supremacy still very much believes today.
[11:24] The Confederate Bible took every President from George Washington to Lyndon Johnson, and used colored photos to position them as righteous men that are God's messengers. The irony that while America was founded on the principles of freedom, White ideals don't apply that to slavery.
[15:07] Dr. Venus discusses the Daughters of the Confederacy, women who were mostly teachers dedicated to preserving the legacy of their Confederate War Soldier husbands. They campaigned, developed scholarships, and raised money to have monuments in places like churches and schools that showed these men as Godly humans, patriots and noble citizens. Since every place that a statue erected had civil accountability, these men became infamous and ingrained in the subconscious of future generations.
[18:21] Here is the rub. There are many White people still to this day that believe it wasn't slavery that was the cause of all the trouble, it was the anti-slavery movment and the abolishing of slavery. In their world, they have many different ways to articulate either that slavery never happened, that we liked it, or that we were sitting around happy eating watermelon and fried chicken.
[22:55] When the Daughters of Confederacy wrote the textbooks about slavery, they framed it as a gentle and benign relationship, almost in a parent/child sort of dynamic. This trained everybody to write about it that way after, from movies to the news.
[25:48] We have to remember that they aren't talking to us. They talk to poor White people and lower middle class White people to keep the system running. We spend our focus and energy looking for equality and justice, but that's not how Americais built. It is built to justify and protect Whiteness, rendering Black voices invisible; with no authority.
[26:17] Dr. Venus understands that there are many White people out there doing the work, and she appreciates it. For the extreme White Supremacists, their religious fervor keeps them believing that White is good, and Black is bad.
[28:02] America is founded on puritanism and morality, so when we hear White people focus on the argument that George Floyd deserved to die because he was a bad person, that is indoctrination at its finest.
[31:41] Don't spend your energy trying to argue and get ahead with a group that has no genuine interest in helping you get free. You can speak up without talking down, and there is a high probability that they aren't going to meet you with the logic you are looking for.
[36:00] We have been living under the effect of the indoctrination of White education to keep relating to themselves as better than Black people. Unless we wake up and start to see this, we will continue to be controlled.
[36:51] When the Confederate Bible positions a photo of a former President next to a picture of Jesus, it trains people to see them as Godly and a "good" man.
[38:18] While in the past they have tried to silence every Black Man or Woman who has tried to move the race forward, technology gives a way to reach the world and create a safe space for real conversation. The more we put attention on creating a new infrastructure, the more we can gain tools to help us really win at their own game, capitalism.
[43:43] It may seem far away, but we are close and the times are changing. Generational wealth is very close, and soon teachings like those from the Daughters of the Confederacy will be a little less indoctrinated in future generations.
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