0:02 okay so this is part two of the review video now if you're watching this you'll notice that I added five questions from last year's test I made a review video last year it was quite a bit which you just watched that was me recording last year well now this is me recording this year and I've added five questions to the test all right so I'm gonna go over them now but I shouldn't spend that long because for this question that you see on the screen right now question 31 was slavery profitable please explain this question in detail discussing the following concepts will help you answer this question Ren seeking public Choice economics and dead
0:48 weight loss now I'm not going to go over this right now reason being is I already have a recording of me going over this in more detail than I possibly could here also you should have already watched a video of me going over this which you had to do for an assignment previously now you might be wondering well where do I get that I don't remember that question 10 about the big questions about slavery was slavery profitable you will see a video right here that's the YouTube version of the video if that's blocked for some strange reason and the school there's no Rhyme or Reason to what they block I also have a Google Drive version of the video right here okay so that is where you go to get information about question 31. I do expect a lot of information for that one
1:33 you will not get the question right unless you give me lots of details specifically from stuff that I said in order that I made in that video about was slavery profitable okay so question 32 is pretty similar to question 31 but it's a little bit different and it's also opinion based and depending on what class you're in so if you're in my non-honors classes the regular US History classes you're only going to have to answer 20 of these questions okay if you're in my honors class and I might make a 15. we'll see we'll see how things go how well behaved the students are and stuff um but anyway uh my honors class you have
2:20 to answer all 35. all right but um so for question 32 uh in my honors classes I have two different groups of students that are going to be teaching a lesson based on the information for question 32. uh in my period four class it's Haley Allen and Matthews uh and in Period one it is Melanie and Justin okay so let me read question 32. in your opinion do you think that black Americans deserve reparations you should address economics in your answer you can answer either way and still get it correct you will not get this question correct unless you answer with a lot of detail now I'll pause it for a moment I will play
3:06 a couple of brief videos and then I will share some comments on it and yes okay one moment okay so I am about to play this video clip and we will not watch the whole thing but this is a guy named tanahisi Coates he is a black activist he's written some stuff from Marvel Comics and you know he writes about other stuff he's written author or you know he's written books he's an author um anyway he actually testified on in our capital Washington DC and he was giving some numbers and statistics and reasons why black Americans deserve reparations so let's watch them
3:55 Nations take the volume on my computer louder Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered a familiar reply America should not be held liable for something that happened 150 years ago since none of us currently alive are responsible this rebuttal profits a strange theory of governance that American accounts are somehow Bound by the lifetime of its Generations but well into this Century the United States was still paying out pensions to The Heirs of Civil War soldiers we honor treaties that date back some 200 years despite no one being alive who signed those treaties many of us would love to be taxed for
4:41 the things we are solely and individually responsible for we are American citizens and thus bound to a collective Enterprise that extends beyond our individual and personal reach it would seem ridiculous to dispute invocations of the founders or the greatest generation on the basis of a lack of membership in either group we recognize our lineage as a generational Trust as inheritance and the real dilemma posed by reparations is just that a dilemma of inheritance it is impossible I'm gonna stop him right there if you want you can watch the whole thing yourself it's on YouTube if you just Googled tanhisi Coast reparations you'd find the same exact video that I just played
5:27 okay uh now let me play another clip this is a woman named Marianne Williamson uh she ran for president of the United States for 2020 um she never made it out of the primaries for the Democrats she ran as a Democrat but anyway she said on numerous occasions as you will see in this video clip it is a um stringing together of several clips of her advocating reparations it was not a one-off type of comment that she made her more so than any other candidate who ran and there were several that might have been sympathetic to the ideas of reparations she was the one who pushed it the most dark underbelly of American society the racism the bigotry and the entire conversation that we're having here
6:13 tonight if you think any of this wonkiness is going to deal with this dark psychic force of the collectivized hatred that this President is bringing up in this country then I'm afraid that the Democrats are going to see some very dark days and the underlying cause has to do with deep deep deep Realms of racial Injustice both in our criminal justice system and in our economic system and the Democratic party should be on the side of reparations for slavery for this very reason you have been at the Forefront of the discussion of reparation we're almost out of time can you just give me a two seconds I want to make a man and a country is like an individual you can't have the future you want until you clean up the past and I also like you because you want to give 100 million dollars in reparations no
6:59 more than that to black people more than that 200 to 500 is the number that I sort of landed on I think that if if you look at the Historical Arc of race relations between whites and blacks in America I think you know I don't believe that the average American is racist I don't but I do think the average American is vastly undereducated or under-informed about the history of race in America for every slave family of four they were to be given 40 acres and a mule politics is usually a conversation that is so disconnected from emotion so disconnected from heart so disconnected from our deeper human reality that given that no wonder it became so easy for that political system
7:44 to separate us from our wisdom Germany has given 89 billion dollars in reparations to Jewish organizations since the Holocaust and I believe that that 89 billion dollars has gone far towards establishing reconciliation between Germany and the Jews of Germany and the rest of Europe reparations carries an emotional and psychological and even spiritual Force okay so that is Marianne Williamson who by the way I don't think she ever was an actual politician kind of like how Donald Trump was not a politician she um just ran as one I think she established herself in like the self-help world I mean my wife knew about her previously to her ever running
8:30 for president anyway so that's what she said about reparations now she made one I think I think one decent argument the fact that um the German government for what it did to Jewish people right genocide Holocaust you guys all know about it six million or so Jews as they say you know by the way suppose you can't even dispute that number or else you can get banned I heard that they were Banning Social Media accounts that people even dispute the number um six million um Jewish people killed during the Holocaust is the official number but anyway um she said that the the German government since World War II has paid over 89 billion dollars worth of reparations to various Jewish organizations and she believes that that has gone a long way
9:17 in terms of um repairing the relationship um between German people and Jewish people um tanahisi coats to sum up what he said he was saying that you know just because something happened long ago because some people will say Okay slavery happened so long ago right it was abolished in 1865 officially right so there's been no slaves since then so why are we going to um you know why are we gonna uh do something today pay hundreds of millions of dollars in reparation maybe even billions of dollars worth of reparations today if that was so long ago there's no slaves there's no the you know the grandchildren of slaves
10:02 aren't even alive today they're great grandchildren of slaves aren't alive today it's been way way way way too long so he was saying that that's a strange form of governance because we still honor treaties that were signed hundreds of years ago and we pay pensions of soldiers even though they might have you know you know like we'll pay like a a family pension like there was like one really strange story where like like an old Civil War veteran married like a really young woman and they were paying like um they were paying her his pension all the way up until like the 1970s or something like that even though the Civil War was over in 1865 so you're talking like over 100 years later something like that so he was saying that like you know just because a long time has passed doesn't mean that you don't have to do what's
10:48 right so anyway and obviously nobody will dispute I don't care what side of the the political Spectrum you're on nowadays pretty much no rational person with a heart and a brain is going to say that slavery was a good thing right like I even made the argument that slavery wasn't even like profitable right think about the previous question right it was a racist disgusting institution that many people hated and thankfully we've gotten rid of it um so nobody's going to say that slavery was a good thing but is reparations the answer right so I'm going to play something so we just heard from two people that support reparations I want to play you a video clip of some people that are opposed to reparations
11:34 and then we'll talk a little bit more about that okay so I'm about to play this so listen okay or is it a bad idea well here's another genius thing about all of this is that we know that I mean come on real racism real racist how rare is that nowadays I mean we live come out we live in Georgia I mean how when do you ever come on what have you what have you heard someone say something like I'm talking about not outside of a joke I'm talking about something serious I mean when was the last time you heard someone say something racist but the thing is these people need this stuff to to stay alive they need racism to grow and what better way than to attack you know the heroes
12:22 of like tear down Thomas Jefferson or to make a real push for reparations you know Dave Smith says this all the time he's like you won a race war you want to make more racists have a little thing coming out of their check saying oh this is going to black people for representations you have you should listen to the WSB show we did it wasn't about reparations at all the first call that reparations was in the news that week the first call was uh I think it was a chick black chick said reparations like I don't like you I'm a liberal but I just have to say this reparations will make everyone hate us and for three hours I kid you not three hours people every single caller was an African-American from Atlanta called in
13:09 from every stripe every ideological background and said we are against everyone individually was completely against it when we posted it on YouTube someone came in and said uh yeah it was like uh I guess a black activist I don't know who she was but she said it is disgusting that you would pay all those people to call your show and I mean I I was like a deer in the headlights I was like remember I don't know anything about this you know I'm sorry quite say what you want but I don't know what you're talking about well you're white and Rich Monica so you can afford to do that yes and I try to explain like no one in my family was even in this country so did I volunteer yeah what about all the black immigrants who also volunteered to live in this Society yes my earliest my earliest relative came
13:55 here in 1917 escaped Russia in 1917. do you know what was happening in Russia in 1917 pilgrims Okay so anyway um what the hell are they talking about well the one lady who you heard talking her name is Monica Perez and she used to host a radio show in the Atlanta Georgia area and she was saying when they were having like a reparations discussion once a bunch of black Americans called the station and were like Hey listen I'm a Democrat um but reparations is not the solution it's just going to make a lot of people hate us like if you really if you want to create more racists you know more people to have more animosity
14:41 towards black people you would take out a specific part of their paycheck and say oh yeah you don't get any part of the you know this these payments from the government you're not going to get it but only a certain portion of the population is going to get it and they're from a certain racial group and well the thing is is what about you know Asian Americans were they responsible for slavery well they wouldn't be getting reparations but they would have to pay for the reparations what about Hispanic Americans they were not responsible for slavery they wouldn't be getting reparations but they would have to pay for the reparations what if you're a white American such as myself you had nobody in your family who was a slave owner in the Americas right my like you know how the one guy Pete he said that his family came in 1917. my family came from Italy around the same time period
15:26 and uh my father's side of the family probably came maybe like a decade or two earlier but not much earlier right so slavery was abolished in 1865. thank you Matthews figarito for for knowing that date even people in my family they came many many decades after slavery was over so nobody in my family even though we're White was a slave owner we would have to pay for the reparations but we would certainly wouldn't be getting them so at what point do you trying to right or wrong from the past could then actually make the problem worse right would that actually create more racism if you think about it like that interesting discussion which reminds me of um you know what I'm not going to play that right now because I'm going to save
16:12 that for another point in time in this year okay um but that's not it there are also some economic arguments to this uh and so I'm not going to talk about this in a ton of detail right now um Melanie and Justin in Period one would have done that in class and um Haley Matthews and Alan in period four are also going to be talking about that um but anyway so I'm almost positive that those students who were teaching the lesson they did a four corners discussion with you guys on this very topic and you probably already knew what reparations were being that we
16:57 had this discussion so let me pull up um let me pull up that exact statement that they had up okay here it is all black Americans deserve operations due to their ancestors being enslaved and now there's no doubt that you can argue and I think it's a very fair argument that black people have been lagging behind economically and a decent reason for that is because their ancestors were enslaved it's easier to make money when you have money to work with right like if you have money it might be much easier for you to start a business especially if you don't have to take out a loan versus if you have to take out a big loan much harder so there's no doubt that that is part of the reason why black people have been hurt economically throughout time
17:43 um but anyway so when the students were teaching this lesson on the 1619 project and reparations um and again I'm kind of letting them teach the lesson a little bit too although I'm guiding them so I don't know exactly what they did and I'm recording this video before they even taught the lesson so I'm also kind of like anticipating what they might do um they might have let you guys read a couple different articles now there's this one Economist named Philip Magnus who he's going to be in our Quizlet as well um he wrote several pieces debunking a lot of these statistical errors so if you read the 1619 project of the the New York Times they mention um several reasons why black people deserve reparations and they're saying that so much of the economy was based
18:29 off of slave labor matter of fact um there's this even this one book called um I will show it to you just give me one moment while I can pull it up okay here's the book right here the half has never been told slavery in the making of American capitalism Edward Baptist now if you know from the previous question question 31 what was slavery profitable I say that slavery should absolutely not in no way shape or form be associated with capitalism not true free market capitalism maybe crony capitalism but a lot of these people that are that either worked for the 1619 project they actually directly wrote for it or they influenced some of the 1619 projects writers they are very
19:15 very anti-capitalism they are very much on the left um politically and especially when it comes to economics now this book even though despite its 1931 ratings is garbage it's absolute garbage and it's been thoroughly debunked and hopefully the students did a good job teaching you a bunch of those things but you know this guy the author of this book Edward Baptist you know he wrote some asinine things in there such as like you know Double Entry bookkeeping and stuff um emerged on slave plantations as if like what are you talking about that emerged like you know like thousands of years ago like even if you're dating back to like you know uh Italians in the banking system like
20:02 you're talking at the very least hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years before um and he Associates uh with with capitalism in other ways his statistics are so bad I can actually you know what I might what I will do is I will put the link to this this is um document that I sent to some students that were teaching this particular lesson I'm going to put this in the description of this particular video this part two of the YouTube review video because I if you notice I have so many links in here um but uh there are so many different articles and stuff about how this guy's this guy Edward Baptist numbers are so wrong and they've been thoroughly debunked and
20:47 people have pointed out his errors to him and eventually he just stopped replying to them because he knew his numbers were bunk so the thing is is there's no doubt that slavery was profitable if you were a slave owner but it was not profitable for the economy as a whole and most people didn't own slaves only about five percent of Southerners on the eve of the Civil War actually owned slaves so if you're a person who doesn't own slaves slaves aren't helping the economy at all they're actually hurting the economy and one of the reasons is slaves didn't really have an incentive to work very very very hard why would they they can't see they can't reap the benefits of their hard work right they would just work hard enough just not to get beat um so his his numbers are very very very
21:34 incorrect but the thing about that guy Edward Baptist who wrote this book the half that has never been told tanihisi coats when he was when he went in front of uh Congress and he was you know uh saying why black people need reparations he quotes that book Matthew Desmond who I have his article linked in um this right here Matthew Desmond's article in order to understand the brutality of American capitalism you have to start on the plantation I read the article right he's got a lot of stuff in there he gets all his information from Edward Baptist all right um but anyway um Philip Magnus who is the economy who debunks a lot of these statistics he wrote an article fully in response to
22:20 um to Matthew Desmond's article and I wrote a lot of like different bullet points right here if you look about why his statistics his numbers are so bad so rather than me saying all that stuff here if you really want to get obviously I think you understand the social and the cultural um reasons why reparations might not be a good idea um but then you maybe you still think they're they are a good idea um but anyway if you want to get some more of the economic arguments look through this um document that I have on my screen right now which I'll put the link for this in the description of this video but anyway going back to the point for question 32. it is an opinion based question okay um you can be on either side of the issue but you just have to have really good
23:06 reason to back it up I would say especially if you're on the side that you do still believe that reparations are deserved there's no doubt that slaves helped build the country in some way there's no doubt about that but with slavery as profitable as the 1619 project people say like Matthew Desmond tanahisi Coates and even as someone like Mariam Williamson who didn't work for the project or in any way shape or form but she nevertheless supports her operations is it that beneficial is it that profitable okay um okay so let me go to the next question now all right when you factor in culture where slaves Freer than whites of the time please explain why or why not okay so for this question
23:53 um I don't know if anybody is teaching a lesson on this in Period one I haven't yet decided that nor have I asked any group of students to do that yet however Lewis and Josiah in period four are supposed to be teaching a lesson on it now a lot of this information comes from a very interesting book called A renegade History of the United States and that book makes some very interesting arguments give me one moment and I will pull up that book as well as some other stuff okay I'm an idiot so hopefully I did not make a mistake and I left off exactly where I wanted to um but so I believe that I wanted to pull up a
24:38 renegade History of the United States and I don't think that I talked about it yet I forgot to hit record I started talking and I was talking to nobody it turns out but the basic arguments the basic thesis that is made in this book is that typically the people who are like outcasts in society people who are not very well respected in society he argues that they're actually the true pushers and create people who create culture and by them being themselves and creating this like new culture so to speak they actually give us more freedom that's his basic thesis as far as I understand it of the book um and it's a very interesting book and there is a part in the book where he's got two chapters in the beginning of the book one is called
25:25 um the freedom of slavery and the other is called the slavery of freedom and what he does in those two chapters specifically chapter two is the really good one in my opinion he contrasts slave culture to the culture of Puritans now we spoke a good amount about Puritans all right I'm I know that I touched upon them a good amount earlier in this review video right think about the people the Salem Witch Trials right there were Puritans those were the same the pilgrims who came and destroyed the colony of Marymount same thing right pilgrims Puritans same group of people religiously speaking they were very very religious Christians so much so to the point where they thought that um you know everything they wanted to do in
26:10 life was striving to get God's pleasure or to to please God and um they were so scared of angering God and therefore they wanted to avoid sin um this guy that you see on the screen uh top right that's cotton either he was a very influential Puritan minister and uh he he wrote a book called memorable providences you might remember that book um it was mentioned in that documentary that some of my classes watched uh he took part in the Salem Witch Trials but he also wrote a lot wrote a lot else about other things like the Puritan work ethic and things like that what was his sin what wasn't a sin very influential guy in early colonial
26:55 America specifically the northeastern part the Massachusetts area okay so anyway you see these things that I have on the screen like music dancing uh dressing in fancy ways sex outside of marriage Puritans would look at all these things as like things that are very much could be grave sins even like children playing with toys could be considered a Sim they believed in this thing called the Puritan work ethic also sometimes called the Protestant work ethic where work is inherently good and when you work hard like plowing the field planting crops and things like that um trading being a merchant right working this is what God loved but you sitting around enjoying yourself having a good
27:41 old time um engaging in pleasure whether that be you know sex or a certain kind of dance or listening to certain types of music or dancing in certain types of forbidden ways um that is evil right that is not godly okay so so Puritans very much believed that everything was a sin and and so much so to the point where they wanted to force their religious beliefs onto others um and if you remember the colony of Marymount which was I believe an earlier question in this test I can't remember if I already went over it um the pilgrims AKA Puritans they actually
28:26 arrested a bunch of people at the colony of Marymount deported some of them including the the governor Thomas Morton back to England and they'd like chopped down the May poultry and stuff why because they felt that these people were sinning well guess what the people at Marymount didn't hold the same religious beliefs they weren't Puritans but these Puritans thought that they could you know put their beliefs onto others and this is why I I you don't have to answer this question during this test but this is why I you know asked you guys a question should vices be crimes right because some people think that they should but if you think that you're kind of thinking like a Puritan if you think that you know certain vices things like gambling and drinking alcohol and things like that should be crimes or you know drug usage
29:11 and you believe that you have the right to stop others from doing that at any point in time forget just doing it in public you have the mindset of a Puritan at least in that way okay slaves on the other hand did not believe this the room they very much did it did not believe in this slaves took a lot of pleasure in enjoying various forms of music um slaves even on the plantation very much enjoyed dancing a lot slaves when they you know they got off on the Sabbath day um if they had the means to have a very fancy outfit they would dress in a fancy outfit if they could afford one and you know they had the means to get it sex in terms of now I'm not saying that
29:58 this is necessarily um something that I think is the best thing in the world um but I also don't think that people should be punished or like you know if you guys I think you guys read The Scarlet Letter recently or at least went over it in a ronowitz class we're in Miss G's class if you have her The Scarlet Letter I don't think that people should be shunned and stuff if they have have sex outside of marriage um but anyway Puritans believed in that the Puritans were the same group of people that are in that book The Scarlet Letter okay anyway um so if someone had sex outside of marriage and they were a slave it was much less taboo right they weren't considered to be like an evil person so to speak
30:44 um now I actually realized I was talking to nobody before and when I was recording and talking to myself but I think that you still see some of these Trends today and you know what actually let me let me go on the concept of uh dancing if I can for a moment [Music] um okay so let me read this quote for you all right many white observers commented that slaves dance with bent knees and elbows which according to the historian Peter wood was probably the expression of the West African belief that straightened knees hips and elbows which characterize European styles of dance epitomize death and rigidity quote while Flex joints embodied energy and life so
31:30 it is my personal opinion that on average black people are more better dancers and more you know flexible and can move their bodies in certain ways and I'm just saying that I don't know anything about dancing really I mean like I I look at somebody dancing I was like oh I guess that's good but I don't really know much about it I do know a lot about sports especially football and I could say that even though blacks are only 13 of the American population they make up over 80 of the NFL players in basketball again blacks are about 13 of the population but they're probably closer to 90 percent of NBA players and I don't know those statistics with 100 certainty but I feel pretty sure that I'm pretty close on both of them
32:15 black people are good athletes and I think there's a variety of reasons for that but I do think that one reason and albeit it might not be a tremendously major one I think a lot of it is you know biological but I do think that a good amount of it dates back to just uh culturally speaking you know black people ever dating even dating back to the times of Africa as you can see according to this historian Peter wood um when black people danced they would bend their hips elbows and knees um white people on their other hand from Europe did not do this now you might argue well why and I'm not saying all groups of white people and Europeans you know we're kind of speaking in Broad terms but it is true that among some white
33:03 Europeans bending your elbows your knees and your waist in that way was seen as being sinful right it was not acceptable from like a religious speaking and and somebody might argue well why why are certain forms of dancing not okay now when I played that one video that was like an abortion song or whatever I was like I I played it in like this one student I won't put the kid on the spot and say it is he's like oh yeah that that turns me on I was like wow well it was like they're dancing in a certain way and this is like why some people think that dancing in a certain way is unacceptable I don't know if you guys ever seen the movie Forrest Gump but there's a scene in the beginning of the movie where Elvis Presley is dancing in a certain
33:49 way and um Forrest Gump's mother and she tells him not to don't look at that like that man's dancing in an evil way or whatever something like that it's been a while since I've seen that movie anyway um continue with the theme of dancing I'm going to play uh two video clips for you this can be one moment I just want to make sure I was sharing the right thing okay so this is Zach Wilson's first game this year um let's watch the play for six points last week the Pittsburgh defense did not do a good job inside in coverage against the Browns will reverse the pass to the end zone
34:34 caught by Wilson from Braxton Barrios [Applause] okay so he hit the gritty there um and let's watch another guy score a touchdown and then hit the gritty [Applause] his was awful um how do I know it's awful well some people who actually like were some of the first to do the dance have said as much so let me show you what I'm talking about
35:23 okay by the way um Zach Wilson's I guess was okay um so he actually uh put an Instagram post and asked Justin Jefferson who's one of the guys who does it hey Justin what would you rate my gritty and he gave me nine out of the time okay I guess he was being nice um but Jamar chase another person who did the gritty a lot last football season when he was commenting on Mike caseki as he said I ain't gonna lie this ain't it exclamation mark uh and I agree when I saw I was like what is he doing man um foreign I mean I almost feel a little strange talking about this but if I'm just being honest and I mean this in the most praiseworthy way I just don't think that um I don't think us us white guys could move as well if I'm being honest as some black people
36:09 and I think it really dates back to you know a lot of the times when you know listen just like what types of black people from Africa dancing and bending your help your elbows your hips your knees in these types of ways was never looked down upon in Black Culture but for hundreds if not thousands of years in white European culture it was looked as sinful disgusting ungodly like Behavior so I think that's part of the reason why you still see some of this stuff till today black slaves danced on plantations okay they took very much a lot of pleasure in it whereas throughout various parts of
36:58 the United States white people did not partake in that in those forms of pleasure and I think you even still see some of this stuff um in like when you see black churches today right like I know a guy um his name is Jeff Roscoe I won't say too much else about him because I almost was going to say where he has a business I want you going to this business say oh yeah anyway but anyway he told me once that um he started going to a black church some white guy he's a white guy with a bald head I was like oh yeah why he's like yeah it's just a lot more fun man like they singing and they're dancing you know whereas you know Catholic Church I was raised in it's a lot more boring I'm saying okay I guess that makes sense all right so I think that you know again guys
37:44 culturally speaking you know church it's it's supposed to be a place of respect totally get that but again and black people didn't view these types of behaviors as being sinful they didn't think that God was saying it's wrong whereas some whites did believe that something like certain forms of dance in certain forms of Music were wrong um the book that I just mentioned before Thaddeus Russell Renegade History of the United States the one that I put on the screen um if you read some of what Thaddeus Russell wrote about the music of jazz he was saying that um there's a certain form of structure in the music of jazz like you know the band
38:31 will play together on certain notes and things like that and again I can speak a lot about football I cannot speak a lot about music I'm quite ignorant when it comes to that so there's a certain structure but then there are certain parts of of jazz where certain parts certain parts of the band go off on their own solos and they can kind of just basically ad-lib and go off you know go off and do their own thing and kind of even go off plan like there it's not there is no even a set plan sometimes and according to the historian Thaddeus Russell he says that white people never could have created that type of music because it's unconventional it's not rigid it's created it's creative it's free-spirited so to speak um if you look at this picture in the bottom right I'm not 100 positive
39:16 because it's been years since I made that but that might be somebody named Dan Emmett who was a a famous Minstrel show performer Minstrel shows AKA blackface and there's no doubt about it that a lot of minstrel shows that popped up throughout the country were very racist and mocked black people and even Associated them with like being like um certain forms of apes and gorillas and baboons and things like that there's no doubt about that um and doing blackface actually today is something that will get you canceled um right like there was a Robert Downey Jr movie um Tropical Thunder and I think Ben Stiller's in it as well I've never seen it but uh that wasn't even made that long ago I think it was like 2007 I was in high school at the time
40:02 um like I heard Joe Rogan talking about that he said they would never make a movie like that nowadays it was only made 15 years ago but ever since you know cancel culture in the last 15 years has gone way up like a movie like that would not be allowed to be put on screen because in the movie Robert Downey Jr he does some blackface why am I mentioning blackface why am I mentioning mentioning Minstrel shows the reason I'm mentioning that is because when Minstrel shows first started off a lot of the people who performed in them they actually really liked Black Culture um so they wanted to act like black people because obviously they can't I couldn't change their racial group right and there was various reasons why
40:47 you wouldn't want to be black like if you were a Slave you know who would want to be a Slave like you would you would not want to have your freedom restricted in a certain way but culturally speaking when it came to things like you know dance when it came to things like um listening to music when it came to things like um you know what you thought was a sin you know having sex outside of marriage being free-spirited like that a lot of white people wanted to experience what it was like to be a black person so this guy named Dan Emmett and others like him they performed Minstrel shows out of like an admiration for Black Culture right because again
41:33 there were certain groups of white people that thought a lot of stuff is sin sinful let me give you an example of one person who I'm talking about um this guy in the picture at the top right that is Benjamin Rush he's considered to be a founding father of the United States he was a good personal friend to John Adams the second President of the United States um he's often times considered one of the founders of psychiatry uh and anyway he actually believed that uh masturbation Not only was it a sin but he believed that it caused it could cause death blindness and epilepsy like if he masturbated too much you can go blind um you could have like epileptic seizures and stuff if you masturbated so uh too much um based off of like Puritan beliefs and
42:20 then this later Victorian um era of um the United States uh certain people were putting like asylums for um sexual acts that were like non-marital uh and then there was also certain devices made like uh chastity belts like which you can see a picture of on the screen here as you can see it has like a lock and stuff which was made to restrict um you know a woman's ability to you know do you know what well all this came from White culture again these ideas were not coming from slaves uh and they certainly were not coming from free black people either right so the argument that Thaddeus Russell the historian is making and which I
43:06 definitely tend to agree with in in at least a decent portion with his argument is that yeah sure slaves were not free no one's saying that they were all right um where's that test they were not free they could not come and go wherever they please they could not just move to a different state they could not just um you know go and start a family with whomever they wanted right they could not just go and open their own business or something like that if they were a Slave but culturally speaking were they Freer than some whites of the time and I think that when you factor in like I'm not saying slaves were not religious I'm just saying they're understanding of what was unacceptable in religion
43:54 was you know they had a lot more um that's what I'm looking for tolerance they were less strict right they were less rigid they were less by the book less literal they had a lesson a literal interpretation of the Bible which by the way obviously many slaves couldn't even read the Bible but the way that they understood some of these verses and Commandments in the Bible was different than how many whites did so you could say that slaves had a more freedom of the mind so to speak because you can be somebody who yeah you have freedom but if your mind is telling you no I can't do that thing do you really have freedom
44:42 and even as somebody who you know once lived a very very religious life I mean there was a point in time when I wasn't even listening to certain forms of music because I thought all of some of the lyrics are bad right I remember asking you guys oh do you guys not listen to certain forms of music does your church not allow this and even some of the kids who were pretty religious and go to church quite often we're saying oh no my church doesn't say that that type of type of music is okay I'm wondering if churches nowadays are lowering their standards because certainly when I used to go to church and stuff like not that I really listened to the priests and whatever but they would say that certain types of music are bad and you shouldn't listen to this type of music and certainly you would never play certain types of music in the church right like how are you gonna go to church and then play some music in the
45:28 church that talks about getting with the prostitute right like that doesn't make much sense but um not just that too also I I believed religiously speaking that certain types of instruments couldn't even be played because you know God doesn't want you to play certain types of instruments that was my thinking um I wouldn't even watch certain types of movies that maybe if they had a you know a scene that was like a little bit revealing by the way and you watched so many movies if they're just a rated R movie like you might see like uh like a brief scene of nudity or something like that or oh if a movie has too many curse words I might not listen to it right or I might not even curse right because oh this is this is evil this is forbidden language God isn't going to like this so what I'm the
46:15 argument that I'm trying to make is that as a person who's lived uh on both a non-religious life for a good portion of my life and a a very religious life for a portion of my life I definitely can understand and vibe with the argument that Thaddeus Russell is making that in terms of a mindset like it is possible that you put yourself in a slave mindset right where even though you have the freedom to do something you tell yourself that you can't so the argument the I am Thaddeus Russell are making is that culturally speaking because slaves did not have these very religious rigid understanding of things they did have
47:02 more freedom than some whites of the time especially the Puritans all right and um I could talk more about the Puritan work ethic but I don't think that's necessary okay uh question 34 why did the Proclamation of 1763 anger American colonists please list and explain in detail okay so let me pull up that and I better not forget to hit resume recording okay so the proclamation of 1763. so basically this was a Royal Proclamation by the British government that was passed after the
47:48 Seven Years War was over the seven years wars also a war called the French and Indian War if you look at this map you will see a red line okay which is west of the 13 original colonies and um the red line obviously we have the colonies on the eastern part of it but anyway um after the war was over um well actually you know what at the beginning of the war uh American colonists fought on the side of the British because they were I mean the almost all American colonists were British descents so it would make sense that they would fight on the side of the British during the war it was a war against uh France and the British
48:34 and obviously Native Americans fought in as well that's why it's also called the French Indian War that was actually the British name for the war because they were fighting against the French and the Indians because most Indians when I say Indians I'm talking about Native Americans they actually fought on the side of um the French for various reasons they had a long fur trade with each other I guess you could say the French treated them a little bit better um but I guess part of that probably too is because there was just less French to get in the way of the Native Americans I think if there was more French here they would have treated them just as badly but whatever anyway um so the British government promised American colonists Hey listen if you fight on our side during this war
49:22 we're going to get all this land west of the mountains see this red line is called the Appalachian Mountains all right so we're going to open up a whole bunch of new territory out there and then you guys can go and you can settle on that land you can go Homestead make a good old life for yourself out there this is what the British government promised to American colonists fight on our side we'll win we'll kick those damn French out and you guys can settle on the land that's what they were saying at the beginning of the war end of the war comes they change their mind and they say actually you can't settle on the land we changed our mind actually I always gave this analogy in past years to students and I guess it seemed to work pretty well with them I said
50:08 imagine your mom says okay I'm gonna buy you the latest iPhone I'm gonna buy the version of it that has the most gigs possible I don't know my phone has like what 264 gigs I don't know if there's one that goes higher than that is there a 512 I don't know let's say there's one that has 512 gigs um plus version of it so you get the big old screen considering that's what you want and your mom says you're going to get unlimited data with it too um as long as you get straight A's in your classes for the marketing period all right so you work hard you bother your teachers you turn in every assignment on time you study for your tests you do everything that's that's needed in order to get straight A's and then your mom buys the phone but you actually you know let's just say she she keeps it for herself doesn't let you use it
50:55 you'd feel pretty pissed right you'd feel pissed because number one right like is the phone even going to be put to good use but mostly you'd feel like you were lied to that's how American colonists felt about this Proclamation it was one thing in a long train of reasons that made American colonists no longer have respect for the British government and no longer think that the British government was necessary in order to protect them all right it was one of the reasons that led to the eventual separation so this happened in 1763 which is about 13 years before the Declaration of Independence um other things stamp-act roots of assistance act Navigation Acts sugar acts various tea acts and things like
51:42 that coercive Acts all these things were eventually British policies that they passed on the American colonists a to try to get tax revenue um but also be to further control the American colonists the reason why they passed the British government passed the Proclamation of 1763 saying it's illegal you can't settle out west it's illegal if you were an American colonist you could not go and settle out west um they wanted to keep the Americans closer so they can keep closer observation of them so it would make it easier to tax them right if you have American colonists moving out west it's going to be harder to get that tax revenue from them um now you might be wondering well um
52:27 was there another reason why they why they um why they did it and yes there was another reason another reason is is because they they knew that there was still American and even though they kicked a French out of that territory there were still American Indians out there Native Americans and that um if American colonists were to get into fight with those Native Americans it might mean that um the British government would need to send more soldiers and then get into more Wars and the Seven Years War the French and Indian War was way too expensive they're like we cannot be fighting any more Wars we're already in a lot of debt so we got to pay that debt off so we have to avoid getting into future Wars so these are reasons why the British government passed the Proclamation of 1763 but as an American colonist you're going to be pissed because you were
53:12 feeling you feel that you were given a false promise and you also feel restricted you want to go settle out in that land you want to go make a better life for yourself you might not owned any land or if you do maybe you own very little land on the eastern coast right the eastern coast is already some of that land is already gobbled up it's already settled by certain Europeans so you want to go get that land so again why did anger American colonists I think I explained why okay and the final question what is salutary benign neglect have the removal of this policy contribute to the uh American Revolution okay salutary and benign neglect was basically the British policy of letting
53:59 the American colonists govern themselves so yes technically speaking American colonists belong to England if the English passed a law it was binding on the American colonies meaning they had to follow it and they did for a long time respect English laws however um over a period of about 150 years especially yeah I would say over a period of 150 years a lot of these laws weren't really enforced that much um and I wouldn't even say that there was a huge portion of them that were passed a lot of a lot of the American colonists
54:44 had their own constitutions they had their own laws however once the 1760s rolled around and like I said the British government was in so much debt from that French and Indian war that Seven Years War the British government started passing a bunch of these laws now you guys doing these skits you should have some idea of um oh wait that's a good part this is the skip part I did go over some of this stuff and big questions about slavery too see everything I teach it's all it's all connected um so things like the Sugar Act Proclamation of 1763 Stamp Act written bits of assistance act no taxation
55:30 without representation right um controlling Americans gun rights a bunch of these were laws that were passed on the American colonists and you know there's things called the Townshend Acts the coercive acts the Tea Act Right you guys have heard about some of these things before this was the British government all of a sudden starting to step in and basically put their put the boot on the neck of the American citizens like oh we're gonna pass more laws and you're going to follow the laws and you're going to like following the laws and you're going to pay your taxes and you're going to shut the [ __ ] up and do what we say we don't care if we let you you know do your own thing in the past now you got to pay money to us
56:16 and the thing about some of these laws like the Stamp Act for example like the Stamp Act British people in Britain didn't even have to pay they did not even have to pay the tax on the stamp that Americans did so number so Americans felt pissed for a variety of reasons like for example there's a question on this test about no taxation without representation I believe right um Americans are like well hold on you're passing all these laws against us and we don't even have the right to vote for the people that are making these laws but the idea of salutary and benign neglect American citizens were like well wait a minute for 150 or so years we were able to govern ourselves since the early 1600s the British government didn't really step in right they didn't really interfere too
57:02 much with us and now all of a sudden they really want to get involved in the way that we govern ourselves and the way that we make our own laws that's messed up let me try to give you an analogy imagine that you're a child right you grow up your whole life your father's not involved in your life your father's in prison for whatever maybe your father was dealing drugs let's just say hard stuff and let's say you're I don't know 21 years old you just finished college right let's say you did I T information technology you did really good in college you got straight honors you got internship when you were in college you worked your whole time while you were in college making money on the side and then as
57:49 soon as you graduated you're already making six figures out of out of college right you've already paid off all your loans let's say you went to free you went to college for free because you had such good grades in high school you got scholarships your life is going good you making six figures and you're making it legit you're not doing any criminal activity okay your father gets out of prison basically never heard from him he barely ever wrote to you right sent one letter once every five years while he was in prison all right you don't even know the guy and then he gets out of prison and he starts telling you how to run your life oh you know what that girlfriend that you're dating I don't like her she's bad for you right she's ugly all right she's not going anywhere
58:34 oh this job that you got you could do much better than that this job sucks you should do this right this is this house your house sucks man your father he basically starts you don't even know the guy you're doing well for yourself you've been doing well your whole life and then this guy comes in and starts telling you what's best for you that's how many American columns felt like the British government let them do their thing for such a long time and now all of a sudden they want to get involved and tell them how to run their life so that made American colonists pissed all right so that's question 35 hopefully I didn't mess anything up and I went over every the last of these five questions again in the description of
59:20 this particular part of the review video I am going to put um the link to that document that has information about the 1619 projects economic arguments being stupid I will also put a link to Thaddeus Russell's a renegade History of the United States in there as well because I don't think that I've ever linked that to the entire class before either um and I'm also going to put this video in a playlist with the other video so that they're in one location and again remember it doesn't really make much sense for me to say this at the end of the video but I will anyway transcript watching the transcript of the video or opening the transcript could be quite helpful anyway if you watch the whole thing um I'm
1:00:05 pretty sure you're gonna do pretty well in the test and uh I do appreciate it always appreciate students that actually care
