Slavery, the Holocaust — and January 6? Sunny Hostin's jaw-dropping Capitol protest comparison



On the anniversary of the “day Democracy almost died,” liberals across the country showed they’re still suffering from severe delusions regarding the January 6 protestors and what really happened that day.

One of those liberals, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, compared the day to Pearl Harbor. “January 6, 2021, is a day that will forever live in infamy,” Jeffries said, somehow with a straight face — but he is not alone in his delusions.

Unsurprisingly, Sunny Hostin of "The View" also took the time to rant about the infamous day.

“I think we need to find moral clarity, you know, in this country. And I just remember after January 6, you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on January 6 where it belonged: squarely on Donald Trump’s shoulders,” Hostin told the rest of "The View" panel.

“And then you started seeing people backtrack and losing their moral center. You had Lisa Rice, I believe on this very show, saying, ‘We need to move on from January 6.’ I say, no. You don’t move on. January 6 was an atrocity,” Hostin continued.


“One of the worst moments in American history. And when you think about the worst moments in American history, you know like World War II, things that happened, like the Holocaust, slavery, we need to never forget,” Hostin added.

Pat Gray of “Pat Gray Unleashed” is horrified.

“American history doesn’t include the Holocaust. Now, the Holocaust is horrific, one of the worst events in world history — didn’t happen in America,” he explains. “And she’s talking about American history. I mean, what a moron.”

Not only is Hostin’s inability to understand the difference between American events and global events unfortunate, but her comparison is absurd, to say the least.

“You’re comparing the Holocaust and slavery to January 6,” Gray says, astonished. “Where no one died except for Ashli Babbitt and one other protester who was trampled and beaten to death.”

“There are no words to express the outrage I feel from these people,” he adds.

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Why trust a Bible that doesn't condemn all forms of slavery? The surprising ethics of scripture



Talk to an atheist about the moral wisdom in scripture, and seconds later, you’ll hear him make a statement about the Bible’s stance on slavery. The appeal to slavery is expected to end all arguments about the obviously bankrupt Iron Age morality of the Bible and to lift up modern moral sensibilities as clearly superior in every way.

As I’ve listened to so many responses to these concerns from Jews and Christians, none have resonated with me. Too many are an attempt to defend the Bible by appealing to an evolving morality that makes it sound like God is becoming increasingly moral throughout human history until he reaches the apex of morality that just so happens to align with the popular morality of our day.

The Bible is the most ethical book ever written.

Besides the self-congratulatory chronological snobbery of these kinds of arguments, I suspect that the opposite is more likely to be true. The Torah, also called “the Law” (the first five books of the Bible), contains some of the most ethically insightful writings in scripture. The rest of the Bible does not evolve past this part of the Bible. On the contrary, it is founded on the bedrock of the Torah.

This brings us back to the slavery question because there’s no way to argue that the Torah denounces all forms of slavery. How can modern Christians and Jews embrace the Torah as the revelation from God when we’ve all agreed that some of the things it accepts we see today as morally evil?

The answer is that the Torah has a more ethical and nuanced vision of slavery than any legal code in human history, including our own.

Far from being embarrassed by the Torah or promoting a movement of “unhitching from the Old Testament,” we need to be more confident than ever that the ethical elements of the Torah are trustworthy and their goodness and perfection point far past the Iron Age author to the inspiration of a transcendent, all-knowing, and perfectly ethical God.

The problem is that events in the recent past have demented our ability to discuss a topic like slavery.

There are three things virtually everyone having this conversation agrees on:

  1. The recent, widespread kidnapping of slaves on an industrial scale based on racial characteristics and then making them property, thus giving their owners the freedom to abuse and work them to death without repercussions, is one of the worst human rights abuses in human history.
  2. That slavery is best understood and defined by the above practice.
  3. Thus, slavery is always evil and should be condemned everywhere and every time it was ever practiced, including in the distant past.

While it seems we’ve all agreed to these three propositions, I’d take serious issue with statement #2. That statement is why we can’t look at examples of slavery in the Bible and understand how it might be seen as ethical. Biblical slavery does not involve kidnapping, is not based on race, was not practiced on an industrial scale, and did not give slave owners the kind of rights they would have over other kinds of physical property.

There is nothing good or ethical about the kind of slavery practiced during the time of the transatlantic slave trade. It was pure evil and would have been condemned by any thoughtful reading of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments.

But it’s only one type of slavery.

What are the other types of slavery? Here are four examples of slavery the Bible would have allowed in ancient Israel. Some of these forms of slavery are unwise to practice today; others are being practiced but are not being categorized as slavery. But all are ethically permissible and perfectly understandable in their native context.

The following examples constitute the vast majority of instances of slavery as described in scripture:

  1. The forced labor of prisoners of war: During World War 2, the allies engaged in wide-spread forced labor of German and Japanese prisoners of war. They were treated more humanely than any other prisoners of war, and this treatment inspired no popular outcry against this kind of slavery because it’s reasonable to insist prisoners contribute to the cost of their confinement. The majority of slavery in biblical times was this type and especially involved women and children of enemy forces after most of the men were killed when the choice was between extracting labor or starvation.
  1. The forced labor of convicted felons: It takes a large-scale industrial economy to house, feed, and guard a huge population of prisoners. The United States, for example, incarcerates a larger percentage of its population than any country on Earth, and it’s also the world’s largest economy. These two facts are connected. Ancient societies did not have the wealth required for lengthy prison sentences. The death penalty or forced labor were the only two economically viable pathways to deal with felons. But these felons could refuse to work, and forcing labor in this way is why this can be categorized as slavery.
  1. The forced labor of those in debt: Today, the U.S. government provides loans for college students in order to extract the value of their future labor. This forced labor and repayment is inescapable even in bankruptcy court and makes students into debt-slaves for decades. This was the second-most common practice in biblical times. However, this was not a practice aimed primarily at young adults but was more often debt created by a father of a family and was debt he would incur while attempting to acquire family assets.
  1. Voluntary indentured servitude: In the early days of the colonial settlement of the United States, settlers earned their passage across the ocean by agreeing to a contract of many years of labor once they reached the new world. This kind of slavery is the type most written about in the Torah. It involves strict restrictions on the family holding these contracts where slaves were encouraged to get their freedom but could voluntarily pledge themselves for life to a family who would then be responsible for caring for them.

While these kinds of slavery were allowed in scripture, there were additional laws designed to prevent the unjust treatment of slaves:

  1. Kidnapping in order to enslave was forbidden in both the Old and New Testaments (Exodus 21:16; 1 Timothy 1:10)
  2. Mistreating slaves physically earned their freedom (Exodus 21:24-27)
  3. Slaves set free were entitled to some property by their master (Deuteronomy 15:12-18)
  4. Everyone was encouraged to avoid slavery and get out of enslavement (Deuteronomy 15:17; 1 Corinthians 7:21)

The Bible is the most ethical book ever written. Christians and Jews must not allow the thoughtless grandstanding of those who make straw-man arguments and rely on a biblically illiterate public and a simplistic understanding of slavery to take cheap shots at the wisdom of scripture.

Never be embarrassed by the Bible. The Bible would not be a better book if it condemned these four types of slavery. It would be a worse book condemning millions to greater mistreatment and the starvation that would inevitably result from making these options illegal.

This essay was adapted from an article originally published at Jeremy Pryor's Substack.

The Gen Z ‘King’ keeping Georgia boys off the streets



King Randall, founder of the X for Boys in Albany, Georgia, admits that once upon a time, he “hated white people.”

Now, Randall, who is only 25 years old, has not only changed his mind — he is changing the world.

“Our organization was founded in 2019 in January. I was 19 years old when I first started this work with the children. I started out taking them on different field trips, taking them to different history museums, etcetera,” Randall tells Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Podcast.”

Randall was doing one of his free summer camps for the children when he discovered that around 15 out of the 20 children in attendance couldn’t read. And over the years, his program has grown and so have the children’s skills.


“So what we’re trying to do now is get our program to a point where our after school is every single day from at least two o’clock to nine o’clock. When they get out of school until their parents get off of work,” Randall explains.

“These kids are outside, and they’re raising themselves, and social media is aiding their termination, in my opinion. These kids are out killing themselves, and it’s not just because they don’t have well-meaning parents or fathers in the home — they’re working all day,” he continues.

“Social media is poison,” Glenn agrees.

And while children have more opportunity than ever, they also have more excuses than ever.

“Our ancestors, especially African-Americans, they went through actual hell,” Randall tells Glenn. “From the Jim Crow era to slavery, they went through true hell. And they were still successful. They still read better than us. I read Booker T. Washington’s book, ‘Up from Slavery’ with the kids, and I’m like, imagine a former slave having a better vocabulary than you do.”

“He got up every day, had to teach himself how to read,” he continues. “We’ve got Wi-Fi, beds, we ain’t got to worry about waking up in the middle of the night ‘cause the Klu Klux Klan’s come to get your grandad or none of that.”

“So I think it’s a slap in the face to my ancestors to be walking around here with all this access to information, books, school, etcetera, and we running around here talking about, 'We hurt, something’s going on.’ Ain't nothing going on, it’s no work ethic,” he adds.

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NBC leaves out CRITICAL context in Trump interview



Unlike Kamala Harris, President-elect Donald Trump isn’t afraid to sit down for conversation with his opposition — and he gave his first sit-down interview since winning the 2024 election to NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

And of course, picking at Trump’s plan for the immigration crisis was at the top of interviewer Kristen Welker’s mind.

“You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan?” Welker asked, to which Trump promptly responded, “Yeah, absolutely.”

“The 14th Amendment though says that ‘All persons born in the United States are citizens.’ Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?” Welker asked again.


“We have to end it. We’re the only country that has it,” Trump said. “You know, if somebody sets a foot, just a foot. One foot. You don’t need two, on our land, congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America. Yes, we’re going to end that because it's ridiculous.”

Welker continued asking if Trump planned to do so through executive action, which he first offered that they would need to “go back to the people.” Finally, he replied again with “if we can.”

Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” can’t help but point out the flaw in Welker’s use of the 14th Amendment. “It was written for slavery. It was written because all citizens could vote.”

“So the Southerners, the Democrats, said, ‘Well, they’re not citizens, they’re from Africa, so they can’t vote,’” he continues. “If you were born here, even if you were born a slave, that’s what that was about. That was not illegal immigration,” Glenn explains.

“We are the only one that has it. And the only reason we do have it is because of slavery. It was a way to make sure the Democrats didn’t just cut blacks out of the vote again. That’s what’s so crazy,” he adds.

Not only does Welker not seem to understand the history behind the 14th Amendment, Stu Burguiere points out that she doesn’t understand what the amendment itself says.

“‘All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and of the state wherein they reside,’” Burguiere reads from the 14th Amendment. “That phrase, ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ means that illegal immigrants are not included.”

“To be subject of that jurisdiction means that you have to have a basis in the country. So it’s not like you just cross the border and, ‘Hey, I’m now a subject of this jurisdiction.’ You’re a visitor,” Burguiere continues.

“Or in this case, a criminal crossing the border. So you would not necessarily get those protections of that 14th Amendment,” he adds.

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Colin Kaepernick desperately wants to be a ‘slave’ again



Colin Kaepernick is a father and a published author, but recent comments suggest that his new phase in life hasn’t stopped him from longing for the good old days back on the NFL’s “plantation.”

The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback turned racial justice activist appeared recently on “CBS Mornings” with his partner, Nessa Diab, to promote their new children’s book, “We Are Free, You and Me.” The couple wrote the book to bring the work they do in their Know Your Rights camp to a younger audience. The book says kids have the right to be free, be healthy, be brilliant, be safe, be loved, be courageous, be alive, be trusted, be educated, and know their rights. The hosts seemed genuinely excited about the project, but the book probably won’t be read as widely as Dr. Seuss or Aesop’s Fables in 30 years.

People should be able to go to a game without overpaid and underinformed athletes lecturing them on whatever topic is trending on X.

Ironically, the most interesting part of the interview had nothing to do with the couple or their new project. At one point, Gayle King noted that Kaepernick is still training every morning, hoping to play pro football again.

It’s normal for an unsigned player to stay in shape in case he gets a call from a team looking to fill a roster spot due to injury. What doesn’t happen every day is watching a former player who compared playing football to slavery beg to be put back on his old “plantation.”

For those who don’t remember, Colin Kaepernickcompared the NFL Scouting Combine to a slave auction, with black players playing the role of slaves and white general managers and coaches functioning like slave owners. Kaepernick also wore a shirt that said “Kunta Kinte” — one of the main characters from the miniseries “Roots” — to an NFL workout.

These comparisons trivialize the brutal reality of slavery, but they also showed how far Kaepernick would go to make a political statement and trash his former employer. He seems to believe the NFL only cares about using black men’s bodies for financial gain but won’t let them speak out against social injustice. That is his right. But I don’t understand why an “emancipated” activist who escaped such oppressive conditions would willingly subject himself to life back on the plantation.

Waking up every morning hoping your old “master” — or one of his friends — would put you back out in the field is a strange use of time for a revolutionary and freedom fighter. What kind of man fights to escape the bondage of a multimillion-dollar contract only to volunteer himself for additional years of servitude? I guess the type of man who wears a “Kunta Kinte” T-shirt.

But then again, Kaepernick is also a man who bashes capitalism one minute and signs a multimillion-dollar deal with Nike the next, earning the company billions along the way. Like the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, Kaepernick realizes that free enterprise is so powerful that even Marxists can find a market for their silly ideas and earn quite a living. It’s clear that BLM ultimately stood for “buying large mansions.” Like many champagne socialists and limousine liberals, professional revolutionaries have enough money to shield themselves from the consequences of their bad ideas.

Ultimately, Kaepernick is far less influential today than he was when he first started protesting police brutality during the national anthem in 2016. Many athletes also started to kneel, not out of deep and principled conviction but because they fell victim to peer pressure. Anyone who doubts my claim probably doesn’t remember that by the time the George Floyd protests took off in 2020, it was controversial for an athlete tostand for the national anthem.

The beauty of sports is that they bring together people from all different walks of life to support a common cause. Injecting partisan politics into the heart of professional athletics is bad for society, especially when players are only allowed to express certain beliefs. The reaction to the pro-family comments from Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker earlier this year is a useful reminder that our cultural tastemakers are only interested in outspoken athletes who share their politics.

Ultimately, people should be able to go to a game without overpaid and underinformed athletes lecturing them on whatever topic is trending on X. Colin Kaepernick is obviously free to continue his fight for “liberation,” whether through his books or his camps. I just find it strange that a self-described abolitionist is so eager to become a “slave” again.

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