I spoke yesterday with Gad Saad about my book on Frederick Douglass, as well as the problems of wokeness, and various other issues. You can watch our conversation here:
A couple notes: first, I got Nikole Hannah-Jones's name wrong; I referred to her as Hannah Nikole-Jones. While I have little respect for Nikole-Jones's work, I did not mean this as an insult, it was just faulty memory. Second, I erred when speaking of the Importation (of slaves) Clause of the Constitution; I said it could not be altered until 1800, when the actual date was 1808.
Third, I mentioned a poem by Vatchel Lindsay. The poem is "The Leaden-Eyed." It goes:
Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.
It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull,
Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed.
Not that they starve; but starve so dreamlessly,
Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,
Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve,
Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.
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