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"White People" Don't Know Their History Either | Shahid Bolsen

Middle Nation26:38

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it's wellknown it's a well-known issue

uh that African-Americans black people

in America so-called uh don't know their

history that they're cut off uh from the

history of Africa and even the history

of everything that they did and

everything that was done to them in

America that's why you have black

history month right so this is something

that everyone knows about everyone is

aware of this issue but the truth is

that so-called white people don't know

their History either their history in

America or their history in Europe

Americans generally generally Americans

generally don't know history which is

incredibly useful when you consider the

fact that history repeats itself it's

incredibly useful to keep the entire

population in a state of

Amnesia so that the whole country

operates like a uh the main character in

The that film momento you know so you

keep doing the same things that you have

always done and you you never understand

that you're actually doing the things

that history has already judged to be

crimes you understand you can do it as

if there's no context as if there's no

history as as if there's no pattern

that's the whole point of approaching

current events from an ahistorical

perspective you don't want anyone to see

the pattern you want to be able to do

things that have already been condemned

by history but you want to keep doing

them anyway as if you don't know that

they're contempt you don't know that

they are condemned actions just like uh

uh Donald Trump now invoking the alien

enemies act in reference to mass

deportations and so on okay this is the

same Act uh that put tens of thousands

of Japanese Americans into internment

camps in World War II uh and for which

the United States government eventually

had to provide compensation and

eventually had to even apologize for

doing it you see it is something

completely contemptible that you did but

you want to repeat it so you forget your

history you forget history so you can

repeat history Without Blame both

so-called white people and so-called

black people in America don't know their

history both have been told lies about

the past about their respective

pasts and the only reason for that is

for the purpose of maintaining the

continuity of the contemptible reality

of how that Society operates Amnesia and

uh fictional histories serve as a

preventative measure against change

against reform against

Rehabilitation America chooses to live

like it's uh it's in the movie Groundhog

Day you know you pretend that only today

exists over and over and over again and

because of this forced Amnesia because

of this deliberate suppression of

historical

awareness uh the people in America don't

even

recognize uh when they're reliving their

own

past they think that they're facing

something new they think that they're

responding to some unprecedented crisis

every time if you have no recollection

where the road leads that you're on then

you'll keep walking it again and again

never realizing that it has already LED

you uh into disaster after disaster

dozens of times before and this is

exactly the condition that the rulers in

America want that the elite of America

want not just for black people not just

for so-called white people but for

everyone because the most effective way

to ensure that a crime continues is to

make sure that it is never recognized as

a crime to make sure that every time you

commit that crime it feels like the

first time

you know so when Trump talks about uh

invoking the alien enemies act most

Americans don't hear The Echoes of

history from that they don't hear the

voices of the uh Japanese Americans who

were dragged from their homes and put

behind bobbed

wire for years and years they don't

remember that that country had to

apologize for doing exactly what they're

about to do again the American mind

resets every morning and that's the

perfect condition for those in power

because if people really understood

history then they would recognize that

nothing about the American system is

accidental every aspect of it from its

racial hierarchies to its economic

disparities to its uh uh unjust foreign

policies is simply the continuation of

an old script a script that has played

out again and again always leading to

oppression always leading to

exploitation always leading to war

always leading to misery

and this is why in America history isn't

taught fiction is taught Legends are

taught myths are taught but not history

because Real History would be dangerous

Real History would break the illusion

and potentially break the cycle

so-called white people in America know a

version of History they know a story

they know a narrative that has been

carefully crafted uh to shape how they

see themselves how they see their

ancestors how they see their Nations and

their place in the world and how they

see everyone else and this ignorance

this deliberate miseducation that they

have imposed upon their own people

allows the same crimes to continue what

most white people in America and Europe

believe about their history is not

history at all it's

mythology designed to produce a specific

kind of person a person who does not

feel guilty a person who does not feel

accountable a person who does not feel

responsible for ever changing anything

because they don't think they're doing

anything wrong they're taught that

ancestors were Pioneers their ancestors

were explorers and Builders of

civilization that they've brought

progress and democracy and Enlightenment

to the world they hear about the

Renaissance they hear about the

Industrial Revolution they hear about

the age of Discovery and so forth and so

on and not about enslavement not about

genocide not about the theft not about

the destruction that their people are

responsible for they're not taught that

their prosperity was built on

unimaginable suffering they're not

taught uh that their systems of

government their financial Empires uh

their very uh sense of national identity

are all rooted in exploitation they

don't know about the

crimes they don't know the real Legacy

of their people and so they don't

change they don't have to change because

they don't even realize uh what they

need to

correct you know when we look at

colonialism for example the history

that's taught in Western schools is

usually an abstraction ction

colonization is framed as something that

uh just sort of happened a long time ago

you know something that was maybe

unfortunate but it was inevitable and It

ultimately it was it represented

progress and there were many beneficial

things to come from it never mind the

millions of Africans who died in the

Congo in the Congo Free State under uh

King Leopold most uh uh white Americans

have never heard of

them never mind the Bengal Famine of

1943 when millions of Indians starve to

death due to uh British policies they

don't even know about

it the fact that the American police

forces evolved from slave patrols they

don't know about that either and they're

not any more informed about the ongoing

crimes like the pillage of African

resources today the economic

neocolonialism that keeps entire regions

of the world impoverished the

exploitation of Labor in the global

South these aren't relics of History

that's the present day reality of what

your people are doing but the story that

the uh the white people people are told

does not include those realities or else

it packages those realities deceitfully

and dishonestly uh they they package

them dishonestly and deceitfully in the

past just like they do now the irony is

that when they're confronted with the

truth uh uh many of these people will

react defensively you know I didn't do

that that that was in the past why

should I feel guilty but this reaction

in and of

itself uh reveals how little they really

understanding it's not about guilt it's

about responsibility you know if a

person inherits a stolen house house

they may not have stolen it themselves

but they still live in it and if they

refuse to acknowledge where that house

came from or how it came into their

possession if they insist that that

house is rightfully theirs because the

crime happened a long time ago well then

they're

complicit because the theft is ongoing

the crime never really

stopped so when people don't know their

history they cannot

recognize when history is repeating

itself and when history is actually just

a continuum to the Pres this is why

so-called white people in America uh can

watch their government arm and support

genocide in Gaza bomb Syria Iraq Yemen

and so on and actually believe when they

say it's it's for the purpose of

security they don't see the colonial

mindset at

work that's why they can see

corporations for example Western

corporations strip M Africa for

resources and not connect that to the

centuries of plunder that came before

this is why they can hear about mass

incarceration about police br brutality

and systemic racism in the United States

uh and not understand that these are not

new

problems these are just new forms of an

old system these are old these are new

manifestations of the same system and

this is why they don't resist why they

don't challenge the structures that

continue to exploit and continue to

oppress because they don't even

recognize uh those systems as

continuations of the age-old

exploitation and oppression the truth is

white people have been calling too not

physically not economically but

psychologically they've been conditioned

uh to believe in a history that never

happened a history where they were

always the

heroes a history where they were never

the villains and where their victims

were villains and as long as they live

inside that fiction well they'll

continue to perpetuate the same crimes

of their past even without realizing it

which just means that we're not even

about past crimes we're talking about

ongoing crimes from the past until today

like I said it's a Continuum if there's

ever going to be any real change if

there's ever going to be any hope for

justice then so-called white people have

to actually learn your history not the

history that makes you feel proud and

makes you feel good that makes you uh

feel comfortable but real history the

history that makes you uncomfortable the

history that you've denied all this time

and only when white people know their

real history really Know It uh then

maybe they can begin to take the first

steps towards repairing the damage that

that history caused the damage that it

cost to Millions upon millions of people

all around the world including

themselves I mean Americans particularly

so-called white Americans you're all

like uh uh the child of the BTK killer

trying to come to terms with the fact

that you were raised by a monster who

you always thought was a good and

upright

man if Americans in general really

understood their history

well they would know that the United

States government has only ever used

fear as a weapon against them and every

war that America has ever been involved

in was only justified by lies and Every

Act of domestic repression has only ever

been framed as being necessary for the

sake of security they would know that

the uh uh anti-immigration movements the

anti-muslim ban and so forth and all

their surveillance programs it's not new

it's the same thing it's just rebranded

versions of old crimes there's absolute

continuity and the only reason that you

don't know that is because you have uh

no actual understanding of your own

history yes if Americans truly

understood their

history uh they would not be so easily

manipulated they would not be so easily

controlled they would not be so quick uh

to repeat the wrongs of the past or

rather to continue the wrongs of the

past but that's exactly why history is

hidden from them

I mean it's TR but true there is nothing

more powerful than knowledge there's

nothing more dangerous to a corrupt

system than a population that

remembers and that's why uh uh our

mission must be to educate people and to

awaken people and to reconnect people

with the reality of their own history

the good and the bad because when you

understand your history then you'll

understand your enemy because they've

been doing the same thing throughout

history and when you understand your

enemy then you'll understand how to

defeat them you'll understand how to

oppose them because you've got an enemy

who keeps you in a state of Amnesia and

a state of fake implanted memories you

know every time you open your eyes your

enemy is right there in front of you

telling you that he's your

friend and because you don't remember

anything you believe him you understand

the whole country is getting their drink

spiked everyone in that country is

getting roofied and the one who SP likes

your drink and the one who abuses you

when you're in your numb and unconscious

State uh is the one sitting next to you

in the morning when you come too holding

your hand your protector oh it's

Insidious Uncle Sam is a serial killer

the son of Sam's got nothing on Uncle

Sam Uncle Sam is the most prolific

Psychopathic diabolical demonic mass

murderer in

history I mean look at that poster again

that Uncle Sam poster that I Want You

poster think about that you would think

that a character who's supposed to

represent the great Democratic America

would actually be asking the people what

do you want not demanding I want you to

go off into the meat grinder of World

War I and World War II over half a

million American soldiers killed in

Europe and and in Asia thousands of

miles from the United

States and then basically some 20

something years later the same message

is

repeated and it's heralded as a great

quote it's heralded as a great statement

from John F

ask not what your country can do for you

ask what you can do for your country why

that's not how this works talk about

gaslighting imagine imagine if someone

said that in a

relationship you know I need you to do

this and that and the other and don't

even ask me about what you need me to do

for you no your government your power

structure hates you but worse than

hating you they don't even respect you

and like I said major reason for that is

that they have perfected the process of

completely wiping out your memory but

the power structure has a memory so you

understand that's what's really meant by

uh history repeating itself people think

that this is some some sort of natural

law no it's not natural law it's just

the unchanged consistent behavior of a

predatory power structure it's the law

of uh if it ain't broke don't fix it

meaning they've been doing the same

thing for a very long time and the

system works for them so they have no

reason to change it and they never will

change it until you

change and that's why they want to make

sure that you never know what's going on

they want to make sure that you never

know what's been going on and why they

keep you basically like a crackhead I'm

serious just like a crackhead the

American population you know is like a

crackhead extreme desperation for

short-term gratification

complete memory

blackouts no recall of past consequences

of their actions you know mood swings

volatile erratic can't cope with reality

and you'll sell your dignity just to get

some relief that's why they don't

respect you the same way that a drug

dealer doesn't respect a

crackhead because they can treat you any

kind of way and you'll accept it you'll

accept it as long as you can get a hit

of propaganda a hit of entertainment a

hit of distraction or what have you and

anything to just help you forget the

reality that you live in but Allah said

uh that the condition of a people will

not change until they move to change it

themselves and that's why they've

neutralized you because otherwise

history might not repeat itself because

they're the ones who are making history

repeat itself by just continuing to do

what they've always done you understand

what I'm saying see this isn't cyclical

it's constant uninterrupted the

oppression the violence the exploitation

the

predation this is all static unchanging

you know you say history repeats itself

it makes it sound like you're talking

about a cycle but it's not a cycle it's

not even a loop it's a straight line and

it has never swerved not even once it's

one scene it's the same scene year after

year decade after decade and all they

ever do is maybe change the lighting to

make it look different to make it look

new but nothing has changed

but you won't know that as long as you

have no memory as long as you have no

actual memory not the implanted fake

memories of the past that they put in

your mind but a real memory a real

knowledge of History you'll actually

think that you're looking at something

new because you don't remember you don't

remember that it's always been this way

and that's why they want you to be so

desperate to Forget You know it's like

they say the best predictor of future

behavior is past Behavior so the best

way to be able uh to uh continue

negative and destructive behavior in

into the future is to try to falsify

your history I mean most people don't

even care about history in America

that's the fact they're already just

ignorant but the ones who do have a an

interest in history they're fed a

fictitious history so they're even worse

than someone who's just ignorant they're

even worse than someone who knows

nothing because it's actually better to

just know nothing than to believe

something false the one who doesn't know

anything can at least learn they're at

least empty and and information can be

put in that emptiness where someone who

uh uh already believes something false

thinks he already uh has the knowledge

thinks he already has the information

and that makes him immune to learning

but then of course there's also the fact

that the history is so horrific the

history is so brutal that there's

already a builtin incentive to deny or

to dismiss it because it can be

absolutely so crushing to try to come to

terms with like I said it's like finding

out that your parent is the BTK killer

how do you says that most people would

just reflexively deny horrible

realities because they've already built

their whole life around the assumption

that the reality that they live in is

not horrible you've been drinking blood

your whole life thinking it's Cherry

Kool-Aid you know the torch of the

Statue of Liberty isn't a Guiding Light

it's an arsonist

weapon that's what burned down villages

in Vietnam that's what set fire to Iraq

and to Afghanistan and that's what lit

burning es All Over

America you've been living in an

alternative Universe so-called white

Americans are like Manchurian

candidates committing or uh being

accomplice to heinous crimes decade

after decade after decade insulated by

the hypnotic state of the false version

of history that they believe that's why

I've said so repeatedly your so-called

civilization has betrayed you your

so-called civilization has duped you

they got you to sign off on policies

that they told you were for the

protection of liberty and justice but

were actually uh policies for mass

murder uh crimes against humanity war

crimes savagery and enslavement all for

the profit of others others who view you

as nothing but useful idiots and now

you're incriminated now you're

accomplishes now you're taking the fall

but you've got no one to blame but

yourselves but you know what the biggest

fraud is you know what the big control

strategy is that they use it's not

entertainment it's not drugs it's not

mass distraction it's not pornography

it's not even uh their falsification of

History the biggest strategy that they

use to keep you weak and to keep you

neutralized is teaching you to hate

Islam I mean of course this is couched

in the general atheistic secular

programming that they impose on you in

the west and in America to make you

dismissive about religion overall but

their main tool their main concern their

main focus uh is to keep you away from

Islam and Islam away from you they teach

you that all religions are the same all

religions are nothing but control

mechanisms all religions are man-made

all religions are oppressive and what

have you you know they poison your whole

concept of religion uh so that you'll

just have a default animosity and a

default aversion to

Islam and you can't see what they're

doing to you you can't see uh that this

very calculated very coordinated and

very Relentless anti-religious

propaganda in films in television in

Academia in popular discourse you can't

see how all of that is being done very

deliberately and in an orchestrated

Manner and you can't see uh that this in

and of itself this is a strategy of

control a mechanism of control and then

the absolutely disciplined the

absolutely systematic and forceful

demonization of Islam across all

sections of the

media you think they're telling you the

truth you think that they're doing that

to help you not to make sure that you

never will get any help and not and not

to make sure that you'll never help

yourself this is why they're doing it

all they ever do is lie to you but

somehow for some reason in the case of

Islam what you think that they're being

honest with you you know they pushed

this idea on their people on the on the

public that

atheism huh is the most rational and the

most realist the most reasonable the

most scientific the most logical and the

most intellectual position that anyone

can take they pushed that narrative and

they pushed it hard to where people are

embarrassed to admit that they're

religious whatever religion it is

doesn't matter when the truth is that

atheists are the most objectively

ludicrous people on the face of the

Earth but no one wants to say it no one

wants to point out this obvious reality

because it goes against the official

narrative it goes against the official

narrative of what smart means no this is

all being pushed on you just to keep you

foolish it's being pushed on you to keep

you neutralized just like everything

else that they popularize I mean think

about it atheists only believe in what

they can see or hear or touch or

measure but human senses are weak we

just see a fraction of the light

spectrum we hear only a small range of

sound we can't detect most of what's of

what exists around us your so-called

empiricism is absurd

the ocean covers 70% of the Earth but

80% 80% of its life is undiscovered you

know 85% of the universe they say is

dark matter scientists know it's there

but they can't see it so how can any

atheist claim certainty about what

exists and what doesn't exist it's like

asking Stevie Wonder If you're wearing a

nice color scheme and you know they tell

you that you don't have to believe in

God in order to be a moral person in

order to be a good person and so on but

you need the government don't you you

need the government to tell you don't

you they'll tell you that all religion

are man-made but by the way you better

follow all of these man-made laws that

we just wrote down or it will put you in

jail okay you can be moral without

religion where's the proof the 20th

century was the most atheistic Century

in human history and it was also the

most viciously violent and inhumane and

immoral Century in history yeah okay you

can still walk when it's pitch dark but

you can walk a whole lot better in the

daylight you can walk a lot better and

you can walk a lot more safely honestly

they're making fools of you and like I

said it's glaringly obvious what

religion is the one religion that they

most want you to stay away from and it's

not Christianity and it's not Judaism

and it's not Buddhism and it's not

Hinduism it's not new age spiritualism

no the most vilified the most reviled

the most slandered and the most

systematically relentlessly demonized

religion is Islam slandered and

demonized by the power structure that is

absolutely committed to keeping you in

the dark about everything about your

history and about your present why it

couldn't be more obvious you know this

is where a lot of people hit a wall they

hit a wall in their ability to reason

when it comes to Islam there's people

that like to believe that they have

successfully uh uh extricated themselves

from the indoctrination and the

programming right up until you start

talking about Islam then the

indoctrination and the programming kick

in with a fury you know there's people

who will say yes the government lies yes

they lied about history uh yes it's

miseducation yes they lie about this and

they lie about that and all the popular

narratives and all the discourse are

just

controlled except for the lies that you

taught me that I still believe in when

it comes to religion when it comes to

Islam it's uncanny you know you can

actually find that rare American that

rare Westerner who can have a

conversation where they express thoughts

that actually harvested in their own

minds it's rare but it can happen with

they're not just regurgitating talking

points and prepackaged arguments that

were spoonfed to them by the media

you can do that right up until you start

to talk about Islam and then suddenly

you find that you're talking to a robot

suddenly they're just reciting from a

script you know this programming goes

deeper than anything else and it's

glaring and that tells you uh that the

single most important priority uh for

American control and domination and

neutralization of the population is to

keep them away from

Islam which should tell you if you're a

thinking person if you're an intelligent

person that should tell you that they

know that Islam is the single most

important key to your Liberation you can

reject what I'm saying that's fine

that's up to you but just know that this

is you wanting for yourself the same

thing that the power structure wants for

you and they have never wanted anything

for you except for subjugation uh

marginalization and neutralization

so you can keep drinking that cherry

Kool-Aid if you want but just don't

forget what it really is