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[Music] you're heading south of the mason dixon this is the week in review at the abbeville institute here is your host brian mclennan welcome back to the week in review at the admissible institute this is your host brian mclanahan and this is episode 246. covering the week of january 25th through january 29th 2021 glad to have it back on the program very glad to be here don't forget to follow us on twitter like our facebook page and subscribe to our youtube page you can find all those social media accounts at our webpage abbevilleinstitute.org that's abbe v i l l e institute dot org while you're there give us an email address we'll give you a free ebook exploring the southern tradition it's a great book by twenty abbeyville institute scholars and you get it free of charge just for giving us an email address you'll get our daily dose of dixie money through friday sometimes on saturday sometimes we miss a day but regardless you'll get it five days a week it's a great way to keep up with 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meet with tom de lorenzo question and answer we had a hundred people that attended that we capped those at a hundred the cool thing the great thing about that and i'm gonna announce that here on this podcast the great thing about that is that if you missed that if you weren't able to get in in that hundred slots we do have something new it's called abbeville academy a-b-b-e-v-i-l-l-e academy dot abbevilleacademy.org you can purchase a replay so if you missed those seminars when they were live you can purchase replay we do have to charge a little more because there is some administrative expense of putting them or we do but regardless you can purchase the replay and you can get our december zoom conference you can get our january zoom conference and of course we're going to have another conference in february this one is going to be top-notch fantastic you're going to want it it's marshall derosa on the confederate constitution so these are the things that your donations are doing for us they're they're getting these videos out there we're doing these zoom conferences we're having the structure the infrastructure in place to do some of these things to make these events and material work for uh for the for the future so your donations are doing great things plus is keeping the website going we are doing a website revamp that's working behind the scenes that's something you know we're letting people know we're going to have a new front page look to the front page probably within the next month and a half or two months that's going to be done so all of these things are helping us do what we need to do to make the southern tradition something that people think about and they need to think about this i mean when you look at the 1776 commission well who is the enemy and that will john c calhoun right i mean he's the enemy so we are going to do a conference on john c calhoun i believe in march so that'll be a good one too because we need to push back against this thing with calhoun and it's it's remarkable how john c calhoun has become the american hitler i mean to everybody on the left and the right if you're not a southern conservative you think john c calhoun is the worst american to ever walk the planet of course we know that he had views that were in line with a lot of other americans at the time too and those things aren't said about them even before calvin we know there are found members of the founding generation that share these views and they're not excoriated the way calhoun is so uh we all these things that we do again exist because you help us produce this material and looking at our current climate it's necessary this is necessary stuff we we are facing probably the uh hardest time for the southern tradition since reconstruction i mean you could say maybe the 1960s as the pushback came there but even if you look at the 1776 commission again and you look at the language used a 1960s leftist radical would have written that report it's mild compared to what's happening now on the other side which is you know tear everything down get rid of everything make every southern route to be you know an incarnation of hitler i mean this is exactly what's happening and it's it's stupid it's just frankly stupid southerners this is the ridiculous thing about its descendants of confederate soldiers were fighting against the nazis in germany and yet somehow they are evil incarnate i mean this is this is the most idiotic thing we can do it's not just idiotic it's evil what's happening to people who are who believe in their ancestors is evil this is what you do to a people if you want to be an evil tyrant you make their ancestors seem less valuable less important and you destroy them so that all they can do is cling to you it's evil so that said uh these these videos i mean i i think it's a great video dr dilorenzo did a fantastic job he did a fantastic job at the zoom conference too and i get to host those so i get to be there for all of that and that's that's fun so but you can get all of those replays at abbevilleacademy.org each conference is each of the zoom conferences to buy a replay is fifteen dollars they're not expensive so we have one it's a two-hour seminar on was the war about slavery with three great presenters don livingston phil lee and samuel mitchum and then we have the conference from this last from this week uh with with tom delorenzo just one but and uh next week and next month again it's going to be marshall derosa talking about the confederate constitution the expert the expert in the world on the confederate constitution there's nobody better in talking about that particular topic so we're really excited about that and i think that's something that our core mission is to just educate the public not just the already true believers but to go out and and find new people and we get new people into these conferences because they are not expensive and because we can do this but get new people involved in what we're doing well let's talk about some of the other material this week one of the things that i'm gonna start with the thursday piece and then i'm gonna work back to the other three three of the pieces this week had to do with southern culture and tradition and again one of our core missions is to one of our core parts of our mission i should say is to discuss southern culture and tradition what is it about those things that are important but before we get to that i want to talk about this piece by bill watkins on thursday the bad theology of america's original sin and of course this is about the legacy of slavery in america and how it's been politicized now it's been politicized for a very long period of time but it really is politicized now in a way that one side can capitalize on like never before and i want to read i want to read a lot of this because i think it's just a really good essay and bill watkins of course is a research fellow at the independent institute he's written a lot of great books um and we're happy to have him participate in the abbeyville institute because it's just it's so important to have good writers and good scholars so let's let's look at this he says slavery where we are repeatedly told is america's original sin but unlike the effects of biblical original sin there is no possibility of atonement the left and its racial grievance factory will never let original sin be blotted out or separated from american politics in the worlds of yale historian david blight there exists a living residue connected to african slavery that is ever present and yet ever-changing in our world so i mean blight is really a problem uh his book on reconstruction race and reunion it really is a problem because what he's doing is setting up it's a perpetual revolution there can never be a there can never be an end to this the living residue and ever present yet ever changing in our world it can never go away it doesn't matter how many programs you have how many things you've done how many executive orders joe biden can issue how many things you try to do to change it can never change and that's the point as watkins gets to he says according to research by heartland institute scholar duke pesta students entering american colleges are convinced that slavery was an american problem that more or less ended with the civil war and they are very fuzzy about the history of slavery prior to the colonial era their entire education about slavery was confined to america so there's no other slavery americans created slavery not just them but not americans southerners created slavery you see and so this is the problem this is it it's just the south so watkins says this focus is not by accident or an example of dog and american insistence on national uniqueness by casting slavery as an american sin with an eternal legacy power is exercised over a guilt-ridden citizenry the grievance factory can convince otherwise intelligent people that quote the living residue of slavery is responsible for the death of george floyd and that monuments to heroes some of whom helped end american slavery should be torn down the name of cultural revolution all this despite evidence that floyd was a career criminal had just victimized a store with counterfeit money was non-compliant with the lawful police investigation had imbibed a powerful dose of methamphetamine and fentanyl the grievance factor can also censure that why ensure that white americans continue support affirmative action in university emissions government set-asides minority contractors and diversity programs and private businesses that guarantee favored minority advancement this entrenched shakedown system the envy of la casa nostra pumps dollars and willing puppets back into the advocacy and political arms of the left in the grievance factory the power their power expends exponentially this is the point this is a politicized movement it's there to ensure that that it goes back in a full circle and it keeps producing more money and more efforts to undo something that will never be undone in their mind the goal post keeps moving there's no end in it there's no end in sight but then the core of this article is here slavery of course was not a unique american institution it was universal human institution touching all continents of the globe american book award finalist milton meltzer in his slavery of world history points out that many historians actually considered the institution as a step forward in the development of civilization in as much as primitive people typically killed all warriors from a defeated tribe because they did not have the resources to feed additional mouths as man learned how to domesticate animals and farm captives could be separated and enslaved that's not to say it's a good thing of course but this is what is being pointed out in the ancient world slavery existed in mesopotamia the region's situated between the tigris and euphrates rivers and what is modern-day iraq and the inhabitants of this cradle of civilization produce the first written languages as well as recognizable cities slavery's practice in egypt palestine greece and rome and these cultures a person can be enslaved by being on the losing side of battle selling himself to escape poverty burdening some debt birth in a slave family or kidnapping while many slaves have performed agricultural labor and other domestic chores a number of slaves also served as stewards craftsmen and physicians in athens the police force was comprised of enslaved scythian archers who were empowered to arrest freemen as the case of the archers demonstrates not all slaves were in a private service the state oftentimes was the largest slave holder in the society in rome the success of the legions in battle brought in thousands upon thousands of slaves historians estimate that the high the roman power for one for every one freeman there were three or four slaves the roman senate toyed with the idea of requiring slaves to wear a particular style of dress to distinguish them from freeman but the idea was scrapped when senators realized that this would show the slaves their great numbers and the law roman slaves were allowed to earn a a pay a paycheck a small amount of money over their keep for some roman slaves it's a matter to pocket money while it's accumulated enough that they themselves became slave owners while still in bondage toward the end of the imperial era beyond the freeman and slaves saw their lives merge into serfdom where they were permanently bound to the soil the middle ages the serfs did not live in a full state of subjection that we associate with slavery nonetheless depending on memorial custom the limitations imposed were incongruent with what we recognize as freedom full slaver evident did continue to exist in europe records from the from women the conqueror showed that in the 1080s approximately 10 percent of english people were slaves during the age of exploration africa became a source of slaves for europe and his colonies in the new world as melser has observed africans had long known domestic slavery and had traded slaves internally before the europeans came to their continent although some european slavers made coastal raids and captured africans the lion's share of african slaves were supplied by other africans through wars of conquest african leaders allowed europeans to build coastal trading posts to further their commerce both sides one of the business relations with open eyes according to meltzer each side had goods the other side wanted each side new human bondage the medieval europeans sold slaves even of their own faith or nation as did africans neither continent was a stranger to the slave trade both sides had long accepted it and both sides joined in practicing it slavery thrived and thrived in the americas with the plantation system but the institution was not alien to the native inhabitants the maya and aztecs both practice slavery much like the situation an ancient world as discussed above the an indian could be enslaved through wars of conquest to escape poverty or for committing certain crimes in addition to agriculture and domestic service mesoamerican slaves were often used as human sacrifices in religious ceremonies north america slavery was common among the indians of the northwest coast owning slaves was a way for was a way for the great chiefs and prominent families to display their wealth the type of slavery practiced in the region could not be confused with serfdom the master had full power over a slave's life in potlatch ceremonies wealthy indians often displayed the riches by expending assets including the killing of slaves in front of the gathering scholars estimate that between 5 and 30 percent of indians living in this area were held in bondage the tribes of the eastern woodlands also practice slavery to prevent runaways eastern tribes often mutilate the feet of slaves to hinder flight the eastern tribes use slaves to gather firewood carry water and harvest crops while africans are the primary source of slavery in the united states we should not forget that some white europeans can continue to be enslaved for example during the english civil war cromwell sold a number of wireless into slavery these supporters of the king were sent to plantations in the caribbean to toil among the sugarcane moreover indentured servants from across europe are crammed into boats and sent across the atlantic where they were sold to the highest bidder for three to six year periods the conditions of these ships were horrendous much like those of the middle passage with large numbers dying and root these are inconvenient facts for the grievance factory its power depends upon the assertion that among all the peoples of the world the united states bears and especially culpability for institution of slavery this is balderdash the only thing unique about slavery in the united states is that union forces resorted to violence and mass bloodshed to abolish the institution as thomas lorenzo was observed by 1861 there was a long history of peaceful abolition throughout the world including the northern united states from 1813 to 1854 peaceful emancipation occurred in argentina colombia chile central america mexico bolivia uruguay the french and danish colonies ecuador peru and venezuela the western hemisphere violence predominated the abolition of slavery only united states and haiti despite what most americans believe slavery in the world did not end with the passage of the 13th amendment in 1865. slavery still exists in 2020 according to modern ancient slavery advocacy groups between 21 to 45 million people are enslaved in the world this includes forced labor sex trafficking and bonded labor where people are compelled to work to expunge debt and are able to leave until the debt is satisfied most of these modern slaves live in india pakistan bangladesh china and ubekistan if the grievance factory truly believed that slavery was such an evil that its effects are still palpable in the 21st century surely we'll bring its power and resources to bear in freeing the wretches twirling bondage today in truth american race hustlers don't give a farthing about the millions bond's been laboring throughout the world they only care about leveraging power and extracting benefits from a people who believe the united states is unique among the countries of the world for the institution of slavery the true evil of slavery is a largely unchecked dominion a master exerts over his bondsmen such a limited power brings out the worst in fallen creatures but it's exactly this type of untrammeled power that left us elites through a false guilt want to enjoy the thoughts and deeds of the rest of us i really like this piece i mean this summary of the institution throughout the world and there's there's a number of uh there's a book by a guy named thornwell about the african role in slavery which i mean it essentially lays out that the institute the institution for africa for africans in the new world could not have been conducted without african participation i mean it it couldn't have existed and african nations kingdoms made a lot of money off of this it could not have existed and yet this is forgotten nobody talks about this it's just about the south no one really talks about the influence of new englanders in it i know that some areas are starting to look at this now but these are people without guilt without sin oftentimes and so this is important to look at the south in a world context comparative history and then find that uh there's not really much unique about it in that way so i really like that this is heroic you need to say these things now this is stuff that people would have said 20 years ago without any without questioning yeah i mean this is something that happened all these are things but now to say these things i mean you're you might you might invite uh attacks from the grievance factory as watkins calls them because this is inconvenient history for their narrative as he said it's inconvenient history we're not talking about politically incorrect history anymore we're talking about inconvenient history that undermines their position if we really looked at things this way and i've done this with students i remember i gave a talk uh years ago i was invited to give a talk in february i can't remember the year now but at a black history month celebration in my my talk they asked me to talk about slavery so i did and i brought up this part at the end about slavery in the world and how it still exists and the man who was running it got very irritated with me because i didn't just play the grievance factory thing and uh it was eye-opening for me because essentially they didn't want to hear that at this particular talk and i mean i said look you have all this there's all these horrible things but i've tried to put a positive spin on i mean these are things that have been eradicated in the united states we we don't live in the uh in the same time period even 50 or 60 years ago so this is something that i think needs to be reasserted at all times but one of the other things and talking about this one of the things that you get out of southern history at least if you follow the modern narrative is that white and black southerners never got along there was never any period of time where they actually saw eye to eye and coexisted well i think that tom daniels piece rock and roll has a southern accent i think he's written some really good stuff about this really shows that this is not the case rock and roll is a southern accent he talks about all of the influence but it's not really influence it's just southerners and i want to uh point out a couple of three paragraphs in this he says i don't know how many times i read her and heard that about elvis being the so-called magic bullet that sparked the birth of rock and roll because he was the white boy that sounded black black music in the 1950s was highly favored among white american teenagers but wasn't selling it took a boy with white skin to provide the marketable legitimacy that rock and roll needed to take off and be profitable in other words because elvis was white it was socially acceptable by his music only a yankee could come up with something so utterly ridiculous and try to explain something that don't understand it with something else they don't understand that's a great line only a yankee could come up with this he says i've written about this before but it bears repeating here because this is the true crux of the matter when it comes to the birth of rock and roll the most significant difference between the south and the rest of the country is that in the south although groups of people may not get along with each other and they clash and have their differences frequently the people within the groups get along perfectly fine they know each other they work together go to church together they're neighbors they've built relationships with each other and they've seen add-on a lot of face-to-face issues and they are rightfully happy with the arrangement however outside of the south the situation is exactly reversed although groups of people may be technically cooperative the individuals in the groups don't have anything to do with each other and can't even relate to each other on a personal level they avoid each other in america this phenomenon is most significant when it comes to race for yankees it's all about race but for southerners is all about culture the north black and white are significantly different races in the south our culture no matter if it's black or white is uniformly southern we eat the same foods we talk the same way we sing the same music we grew up sharing the same culture and that is a highly significant concept in the understanding of anything and everything that comes from the south including rock and roll if elvis were truly unique the white boy that sounded black then rock and roll would have died right there the fact is elvis was clearly not unique or he may have been unique to yankees but this unique sound was the sound of the whole south that raunchy black sound that marked elvis style was unquestionably the sound of everybody in the south everybody automatically sounded like elvis without even having to try no matter if they were black or white and you think about that you know carl perkins blue suede shoes sound just like elvis's blue suede shoes i mean this is the thing they sound the same and if you look at uh you know uh hound dog big mama thornton sounds just like elvis's i mean it sounds the same everybody sounded the same so it's not it's not something that is something outside the south people are cognizant of and the south is like okay that sounds like this this is what it sounds like this is what the south sounds like that's what people miss finally the last two pieces that we had this week the wind and from eternity into time these are two personal recollections and i like both of them one is by beau trewick from an eternity at the time it's actually from one of his it's one of his books he asked if we would republish chapter two from that book and it talks about being a young boy growing up in virginia and riding the rails and what that was like the sounds to see the rails the old the southern railway this people forget how important the southern railway was in the new south and um what's interesting the southern railway was born in part from foreign capital when i say foreign capital i'm talking about jp morgan but you had individuals from right around rice live in columbus georgia who were involved in building this southern railway system and the idea was to connect the south now this brought in foreign labor for real foreign labor immigrants and there was a lot of opposition to it as they were building this rail line and for years southerners have been opposed to trains but as the new south kicked into gear trains and rails and all these things became a prominent part of southern life and when i read this piece i thought of charlie daniels writing about this i mean same kind of thing in his song carolina i remember you because he talks about the fire breathing steam puff and locomotives right i mean that came into the into the mountains under the hills and how that you know that was something that he remembered now other people outside of the south of course remember the same things but one of the things that's interesting about treywick's piece is that when he's writing this of course segregation is breaking down you had integrated rail cars now this is just part of life and people just accepted it there was i mean nobody really thought much about it it just was what it was about how he saw dwight eisenhower give a speech on the back of a rail car that was really the last time that was going to happen about how that these things bring up memories of family and place and people grandparents and mothers how important that is for this continuity of generations it's something that tradition has is why tearing down tradition i said is evil because you break that continuity if grandpa is evil if your mom is evil your dad these people are evil you're breaking that continuity that's that's something that's vicious because no other people are subjected to that except people in the south these people are evil except you know maybe there are some other cultures of course you can't you can't be proud of these people because i mean they did these things and understandably i mean you don't want to say that these things they did are something we like but you still be proud of who they were these this is your blood and of course travis holt's wind the wind is a nice piece of tradition and continuity and things that nature takes the wind takes things you can build wood things against the wind but they're eventually going to get blown down i'm reminded when i read this that there was a during the the explosion of pompeii in pompei mount vesuvius somebody scrawled on a wall while this is happening you know even uh if if things that you know god built or you know it must fall then surely things that man built must fall too and that included rome uh that uh you know things that are man-made will fall but because nature will take them out but what we're facing now is not nature taking these things out it's not it's not the ivy growing up around a building or you know the water or the wind taking these downs it's man taking them down it's man taking man apart it's man taking his fellow man apart and tearing him apart and again that's the real problem we're facing with the south that's the real issue with the southern tradition moving forward it's other people it's outside forces telling people in their own place that what they believe in who they are who their people are these people are wrong and bad and they need to go away you get rid of them because they are the enemy of real america people know it's not true people know that uh the 70 plus million people who are called deplorables know that this isn't true it doesn't matter if you're in alabama or if you're in montana or if you're in nor if you're into parts of california or washington or oregon or you know areas of new york western new york i mean there are there are good people western pennsylvania there are good people everywhere that believe in this jeffersonian tradition and continuity and small they believe in these things they believe that their ancestors were right and good people they might have been conservative they may not have been favorable of government or anything else that's going on but and they know something's wrong they don't like you know wall street bankers they don't like uh politicians they don't like these scheissers that run around trying to take things from them they know all that's wrong they still know how to express it all the time and this is where the abbey valencia comes in exploring with true environment southern tradition it's basically jefferson it's jeffersonian america is what we're talking about here a real mature sober understanding not fanatical understanding of american history not ideological understanding of american history which is what we get with the neoconservatives or their leftist counterparts or i should say leftist allies because that's what they are it's an understanding of people it seeks to understand not to condemn and that's where so many of these people are wrong as they level these attacks against the south well i hope you enjoyed this week at the abbeville institute until next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you