Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
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You know, and all it does is Christians just go around massacring people, and that's what Christianity is.
Well, I mean, if you're very selectively, you could go through and find that, but you'd have to leave a lot out.
I often tell my students that my job is to depress people.
And I'm very well rewarded for always being the downer.
I mean, look, I actually... It is a very depressing topic.
It's not easy to talk about the history of slavery and the slave trade, not only for what it was, but also for its legacies in the modern day are...
wrestling with the legacies in the modern day don't become easier by um refusing to look at the history by avoiding it um or having complacent notions uh about how the world changed you know i think we we need to watch ourselves individually and watch our
the worlds that we live in and the people that we elect, and think about what harms we do or what harms we authorize or permit,
because they just seem basic to the world in which we live.
And I think that's one of the lessons of these histories.
But I also want to come back to something I said a few minutes ago about if you take away the notion of inevitable cultural progress, then what you put in is the necessity of human action, individual and collectively.
That the world gets, to put it crudely, better or worse on the choices we make individually and collectively, not because things are just trending in the right direction.
Um, so a sober look at that history, I think is, um, in some ways a call to get to work in whatever, you know, sphere we inhabit, whatever our resources are to find ways to, you know, identify the things that matter to us and try to leave them better than we found them.
I mean, that's how we got to the, to the extent that things are better now than they were before.
That's how we got here.
And, um,
I think there's, if not a cause for hope, a cause for action that comes out of thinking about these stories.
Thank you, Rob.
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