(NOTE: The information below is not exhaustive by any means. If you need clarification on any claim, statement or biblical reference I made in the video or here, please contact me at john@johnclawton.org)

Claim: “Our global society has been stacking the deck against specific ethnic groups for literally thousands of years.”

Sources: Pretty much the entire Old Testament. From the beginning of their existence, the Jews have been singled out as a people to oppress. It started with the Egyptians, but continued through the empires of Babylon, Medio/Persia, Greece and Rome. Until after WW2, the Jews were scattered throughout the world, a people without a land, outcasts virtually everywhere they went. And we all know what Hitler and the Nazi’s did to them.

The Jews are just one example. Arab cultures were taking slaves from Africa as early as the Middle Ages. In the 14^th Century North Africa was one of several sources for slave labor in Europe. Then, in the 15^th Century Africans began selling Africans to European nations. Thus began roughly 400 years of African slave trade that spilled over into the American continent. http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/plaintexthistories.asp?historyid=ac41

Claim: “I have seen facts and statistics from sources I trust, that demonstrate a built-in set of standards that favor white citizens over black citizens.”

Sources:

• Wealth Gap:

“The average black household has 1/10th the wealth of the average white household. Why is that? Because the #1 source of intergenerational wealth in America is home ownership, and from the 1930s to well into the 1960s, the federal gov’t enacted policies to actively encourage white families to own homes, and discourage black families from doing the same.” -Phil Vischer, “Race in America” – Video: https://www.holypost.com/post/let-s-talk-about-race-in-america

“Race in America” video transcript: https://www.holypost.com/post/racism-video-transcript-w-citations (This video and its sources was the springboard for most of my comments on these issues)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christianweller/2020/01/14/getting-serious-about-closing-racial-wealth-gap-means-looking-for-new-large-solutions/#5d2a4be04fbf

• GI Bill: • Blakemore, Erin. “How the GI Bill’s Promise was Denied to a Million Black Veterans.” (https://www.history.com/news/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits) – See also “Race in America” video transcript: https://www.holypost.com/post/racism-video-transcript-w-citations

Claim: “Fatherlessness is a problem, and that problem is overwhelmingly more prevalent in the black community than anywhere else.”

Sources:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FszQelEQ2KY

Scripture References:

2 Pet. 1:3 – According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Romans 12:1-2 – I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4 – But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Romans Chapters 6 & 8

John 10:10 – The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Jeremiah 17:9 – The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

Colossians Chapter 3