Isiah Slade & Yaron Discuss Racism & The First Civil Rights Movement | Yaron Interviews
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 2023-03-23

Isiah Slade is a student of objectivism and intellectual activist in training. He currently is a student in the Ayn Rand University and works as a editor for The Undercurrent, a publication inspired by the philosophy of Objectivism. He is an electrician by trade and is also engaged in training to become a montessori guide while also building the skills of an Intellectual Historian.

As an intellectual activist he is involved in many cultural commentary projects that apply philosophy and history to the social media landscape. On social media he is known as Ibis of Aporia and is associated with the Tiktok/Youtube group Aporia. 

Twitter : @IbisofAporia 
Instagram: @Mr.aibis

00:00 Intro
00:52 Isiah Slade
03:46 Journey, TikTok
08:40 The First Civil Rights Movement
10:12 Slavery
15:02 Individual Rights
17:13 Frederick Douglass and Others
23:18 Today's Hatred of The Founders
24:40 Civil Rights vs Social Rights
27:39 They Were Businessmen
29:14 What Makes America Different
31:35 Civil War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mercer_Langston
34:15 Their Intellectual Contribution
36:33 Racist Laws In The North
40:25 Movie Amistad https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/
41:07 What Happened After Civil War
44:48 What Went Wrong
48:30 Confusion
51:22 Reconstruction 
53:20 Civil Rights Movement At The Turn Of 20th Century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Reconstruction_in_America
58:18 Migration Caused By Jim Crow Laws
1:01:35 Civil Rights Movement Of 1950s And 1960s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Do_We_Go_from_Here:_Chaos_or_Community%3F, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._R._M._Howard, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sumner
1:10:05 Rand's Opposition To Civil Rights Act https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/government-and-business/individual-rights/
1:13:21 Systemic Racism

Live Questions:
1:20:53 Did the Founding Fathers ever explicitly use the phrase "individual rights"? It seems to be only implicit in their writings. Was Rand the only thinker to explicitly use and place individual rights as the standard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker
1:23:26 The thinkers prior to Douglass are new to me. I could use a repeat of their names to aid further research.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Forten, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_(bishop), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Purvis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lenox_Remond, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walker_(abolitionist), https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/walker.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jenkins_(abolitionist),
1:28:09 Very interesting and informative. I’m curious if you find your interactions with modern day civil rights activists are positive or if they are less willing to engage in discussing this history.
1:30:17 Could you comment on the influence of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, founder of the Corps of Engineers and the Military Academies, and his Black student Agrippa Hull, the pioneer of US technology (in his case, iron works) startups? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_Hull, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Freeman
1:34:39 Very interesting history that I didn't know very well. I hope that in addition to TikTok and YouTube, Ibis writes some essays and books at some point. Would love to read more from him. https://theundercurrent.org/about/
1:35:24 Isiah, have you read or have you tried to read Ibram Kendi? If so, what's your opinion?
1:36:38 Can you articulate the distinction between what objectivists mean by “systemic” and what leftists mean by “systemic”. (In the phrase systemic racism, ie. the rational vs irrational use of the term)
1:40:48 I wonder if slavery left a residue of institutional dependence that manifests as reparations today, for example,. Have your studies found historical examples of exploitation of black dependence?
1:43:04 What do you see in the US today that gives you hope for the future? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_H4fzF1m30
1:45:32 See pinned comment for timestamps of additional questions

2:05:42 Outro

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