Stumbling around in You Tube, watching this and that, some animal rescue videos for intance, which I sometimes watch to rescue ME, from the effects of our hideous political situation. Hope for Paws in Los Angeles always has feel-good stories about some poor miserable animal that was abandoned and living in sad circumstances that they rescue into a happy life with people who love them. Gives me some kind of strength to go on to the next assault from the current insanity.
Tonight, well by now this morning, I heard some of Todd Friel's Wretched Radio which is usually about the state of Christianity in America, sometimes as sad as the political mess. I stumbled on one where he is discussing Critical Race Theory, which is a major element in the political insanity that can make me have to flee to something uplifting as an antidote, but he provided the antidote himself in this one.
Critical Race Theory is one of the academic assaults on all reason that comes out of Cultural Marxism and took over the universities particularly since the Sixties. Critical Theory itself is Marxist but Critical Race Theory is the idea that everythinjg in American life can be reduced to systemic racism and the white race is evil. Everything the white race has ever done is evil and that means everything, all the great thinkers of Western Civilization are evil, all the great artists, all the scientists, the works. I think that pretty much sums it up, sorry if I'm missing anything. But you can go hear Todd Friel's account of it anyway at the link I'm posting below this.
His theme is how this CRT is ruining our culture as well as getting into the churches, but ruining the culture for sure. He'd done his own stumbling around on You Tube and came across a young black man reacting to hearing opera music for the first time, specifically Luciano Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma, from Puccini's opera Turandot, and he plays an excerpt from it. You understand of course that Puccin was one of those evil white men who wrote his operas only for the purpose of expressing his white supremacy and oppressing black people, and Pavarotti was another evil white man singing with the same purpose.
This is ruining our country, and it will ruin your church | WRETCHED RADIO - YouTube
The young man's reacton is very touching, like hearing angels he said, heavenly he said. Friel is angry that this idiotic racist "theory" wants to deprive him of such an experience. I managed to find the video Friel played, so you can hear the whole thing:
FIRST TIME HEARING Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun dorma" REACTION (IM SHOOK !!!) - Bing video
Where's the racism? The young man isn't feeling oppressed by a systemically racist culture, he's encountering the human soul of Puccini;s music and the human soul of Pavarotti's singling as it touches his own human soul. Art transcends such soulshrinking stuff as racism and racist theory.
So I went and found many other videos of young blacks reacting for the first time to this music, all of it touching and illuminating. I gather this is a trend on You Tube, videos about people's first-time reactions to all sorts of music and maybe other things, I've only watched some of the reactions to this particular Pavarotti performance. Very much an antidote for me to the idiotic instane Criticial Race Theory. All that Marxist stuff that's overtaking the country and the world kills humanity in a million ways. Bible prophecy has it ruling the world pretty soon I think, but it's SO nice to see how some humanity can still find its way through its wall of hatred and death.
Here are a few more of those reaction videos, and there are many more at You Tube.
Black Reactors listening to Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma for the first time. original video by GGT - YouTube
FIRST TIME HEARING LUCIANO PAVAROTTI NESSUN DORMA REACTION - YouTube
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI CARUSO REACTION - YouTube
I also grew up in a culturally deprived family, this isn't unique to blacks. Working class, popular music all I ever heard, but I did have an aunt who was, you might say, sort of "arty" -- I had ten aunts and five uncles betwen both sides of the family and she was the only one who marchedto a different drummer. When I was about ten she sent me a 45 RPM recording made for children, of Haydn's Clock Symphony with the Surprise Symphony on the other side. I was utterly enraptured by the sound of classical music, the sound of the orchestra, and I played it over and over and over. It was the only classical music I heard until I moved to a big city high school at fifteen and my best friend came from a culturally educated family, played the cello and took me to hear her in an orchestra rehearsal, which also enraptured me. I loved being surrounded by such wonderful sounds, the blending of all those instruments..
So what do the Critical Race Theory people want to do, confine us to rap music and hip hop?
