750: Why Does this Black Conservative Support Jason Aldean?

Brian Nichols  
Why does this black conservatives support Jason Aldean? Despite all the recent backlash? Let's talk about that. Instead of focusing on winning arguments, we're teaching the basic fundamentals of sales and marketing and how we can use them to win in the world of politics teaching you how to meet people where they're at on the issues they care about. Welcome to The Brian Nichols Show. Oil Hey there, folks, here on The Brian Nichols Show. And thank you for joining us for another fun filled episode. I am as always your humble host. Don't you live from our B N c Studios here in lovely Eastern Indiana and today joining us here on the program. Yes, to talk about why this black conservative does in fact support Jason ElDeen. Christian Watson, welcome to The Brian Nichols Show.

Christian Watson  
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Christian, thank

Brian Nichols  
you for joining us looking forward to uh, digging into Yes, the controversy that surrounds JSON LD and can I call it a controversial? I don't know. But before we get there, get there Do us a favor Christian, introduce yourself to The Brian Nichols Show audience.

Christian Watson  
I'm Christian Watson. I'm a content creator. I'm the spokesperson for hookah colorist united. We're a nonprofit that believes in fighting for the principles of colorblindness in American society. I'm also someone of an amateur philosopher. I believe that we can elevate political and social discourse by paying attention to first principles and the underlying ideas that constitute many of the political issues that we discussed today. And if we achieve a deeper understanding of these ideas, we'll may be able to work through them in a way that's actually substantial. And not superficial. So that's a lot to say, you know, I'm ready to have the conversation.

Brian Nichols  
I love it. Well, conversation, we shall have Let's kick things off. There's controversy surrounding Jason Aldean in his relatively new song. Well, let's preface this it didn't really become controversy when the song was first released back in May not until July when the music video dropped, right? It's like we're going back to the MTV days when dropping music videos actually mattered for a song. But yes, he is his brand new song, try that in a small town. And it was riddled with controversy, controversy. Why Christian, give us the background?

Christian Watson  
Well, well, the critics of the song. And by the way, the criticism of the song is perhaps some of the most outrageous I've seen, because none of it conforms with reality. But I'll get to that in a second. The critics of this song have essentially called it an anti lynching anthem, they have said that it is a implicit dog whistle to white supremacist tendencies that go all the way back throughout American history that alleged that in small towns, minorities were killed, and they were attacked. And they were driven out by angry white folk that this song is an attempt to satiate their passions. But I believe that this viewpoint, this criticism is more so of a rapid reaction born of passion and emotion, as opposed to being born of a rational sentiment. Very simply, this song is talking about not just what goes down and cities can't go down in small towns, which is what the conservative intelligentsia has been saying, which by the way, is a fine observation. But it's deeper than that. This song is talking about the fact that in communities where you can be tightly knit, when you are in close quarters, where you can actually get to know someone for who they are not an image of them somewhere out there in the ether, not who they're talking about as in the community, but who they are by intimate interaction, you have a stronger value system there, a stronger sense of community and therefore a stronger bond, that makes certain things almost impossible to happen. So for example, in a lot of small towns in America, there are times you can walk to the grocery store. And if you're a local resident there, you'll know everybody in the grocery store, you know, that can seem that can seem pretty intrusive. But there's a very deep sentiment to that the fact that human beings came into society in the first place, as the social contractors told us, because they desired cooperation, we have this social sentiment within ourselves. And that cooperation is not based on ethnicity, not based on race. It's based on shared values. And the entire premise of the sort of enlightenment Natural Law Project was that these values can be elevated to the level of from the community, to the level of politics, and then they can therefore be used to not only govern what is a good society, what also is good government. But in order to have those kinds of conversations, we have to understand the deeper meaning behind things like this song and what it implies. But in a world where we would lose everything to a single worldview that refuses to embrace nuance, which tends to be the sort of social justice worldview that does not recognize nuance and instead relies on an implication and association to make claims as opposed to explicit statements, then you don't have a way to achieve the essence of a society, which is goodwill value sharing amongst its members, you don't have a way to then achieve good government, you don't have a way to then achieve every other thing that you need to understand what's going on. So really, I think the response to this song is just yet another example of what happens when you have a society that embraces ignorance, before it will embrace philosophy. And my entire goal, just generally, as someone who really cares about being an intellectual inheritor of the American tradition, I say that because every American is an intellectual inheritor of our tradition, because unlike what many people in the race school, say, America was built on universal values located within human nature, not built upon superficial ideas, located in particular areas and tied like ethnicity, or lineage, or bloodline. So as someone who takes that very seriously, I like to invoke that very deep historical idea into something that seems as simple as a country singer making a song, which inevitably makes the entire side of the political aisle mad. Because it's more than that. It's deeper than that. And I want us to get to a point in this nation, where we can have discussions about our past, we can have justice about these very important issues. In a way, there's not presumed so many things, so many untested premises, which is not a problem. So many people will say their argument without first considering what does my argument presume? What has to be true? In order for my argument to be true? When you get to that point, you'll be able to strengthen your worldview, because you'll have a deeper understanding of it. But if you don't understand every everything that your argument assumes for that to be true, you don't understand your argument. So I don't want to hold here, but I don't want to go down too far. But those are my that's my overall thinking surrounding this topic. I know it's pretty long winded. But that's just my thinking.

Brian Nichols  
No, no, this has been a great starting off point, right? Like just just one thing to unpack from that was was talking about, as you're looking at the local, the local environment, right. And anybody who lived in a small town, I think really relates to the scene you painted, right? You're in the grocery store, and mom and dad, you know, you're growing up and all sudden dad sees someone he knows. And that turns into a 25 minute conversation and then you go to the next aisle, and oh, there's you know, your your mom's second grade teacher. And you see this continuously throughout the trip to all sudden what should have been a 20 minute shopping trip turns into two hours. Right. And and that is something that it speaks to that there is this ingrained, not not just culture, right. But also there's this this, this commonality, these common bonds, these common threads that go back in the local communities that really matter. Right. You know, I think that's actually one of my history teachers, I had you he taught my dad, he taught my uncle. So knowing that he got to experience a nickel before me, right. And that kind of history that's there. There. That's something that I think we're losing. Right. And I would love to hear your feedback here. Because as we're losing this, in my opinion, we're seeing what was the idea of a small town kind of go away, right? It's turning into this big gray, a amorphous blob, which by my conspiratorial mind, I guess, Christian is that is it by design, right? It has there been an approach to destroy a lot of those smaller local communities, because at the heart of those local communities, much like a family are a lot of threads that tie not just again, that the similarities but also those shared experiences.

Christian Watson  
So I do think there is a subset of people in the world that are actively trying to undermine strong societal bonds between individuals. That's happening. We're seeing with W E. F. We're seeing it with their attempt to make people into perpetual renters. We're seeing it in their attempt to talk more about the human being in terms of At an editable, sort of amendable thing, as opposed to being a fact of nature, which human beings are. And by the way, when human needs become an editable, amendable thing, we're no longer our system of morals and ethics changes shifts, because our understanding of the human being also shifts, and then he saw more thinking will have an understanding of the human being before it proceeds onto its claims. So that's definitely happening. That's a deeper competition we can get into, that's definitely happened. What is really happening is a few things, a lot of it's organic, actually, I think. So we're seeing the rise of industrialization, and the different in the digital era of industrialization, the rise of new industries, the rise of this powerful, almost alien level communication, behemoth called the Internet that has brought so many people closer by destroying physical connections. And then, of course, this is why we're seeing the push for transhumanism the sort of merger between man and machine. Because we've become so surrounded and fixated upon our digital interfaces, whether it be virtual reality, whether it be smartphones, whether it be our smart TVs, or our watches, whatever. Man in the 21st century, has been more wedded to machines than man in any other previous generation, which has profound implications for how we see the world, or how we see ethics for how we see community. That is absolutely the biggest thing happening here. And you know, I'm a capitalist, I'm a free market capitalist, as you are bright, as a familiar with you. But having said that, I also understand that evolutions of the economy, just like evolutions of society, will have people who get sidelined, and will have concepts and ideas that get sidelined. You know, stage coaches were put out of business by the trains, trains became obsolete, really, when airplanes were going to obsolete, in terms of supplies, really, most people traveled by private inspiration cars, or by airplanes. This is the successive growth of every generation that is necessary, by the way for humans to continue to chase our potential. Because all human potential is is mastering the natural world and applying your creative energy to it to produce something greater than yourself, which is why the Wright brothers, in my opinion, all those kinds of folks, and Nikola Tesla, were talking about virtue, which is not really something much about on the on the right these days, they embody intellectual virtue, because they understood that you mastered the natural world with creativity, that convert that into sustenance for the for everyone else. That's really something very valuable. But again, that comes of drawbacks. And one of the drawbacks is the dissolution of physical bonds. And I'm really, I think, COVID also has a lot to do with that as well, we can talk about what part of COVID whether it was the virus itself, where there was a government, government response, the whole entire affair really dealt a blow to concrete communal interaction as well. So it's organic, it's deliberate, it's a mix of everything. The more important question is, how can we get back. And I think for many people in certain parts of the country, they never lost it. I was in Wyoming for a speech earlier this year, the people in Wyoming did not have the same reaction to COVID, that people in New York City did. They didn't many of them, had a very different worldview of COVID. They prefer dangerous freedom or peaceful slavery. And so, in my opinion, the prerequisite to getting our communities back is by simply emphasizing, yes, the internet, the digital revolution of man all itself is very important. But what's more important is genuine connection, genuine connection that takes place away from the screen. But as the world becomes increasingly increasingly digitized, that principle is going to be ever so harder to carry out. So there's really no way to engineer ourselves out of this problem, other than to what I always say, model an example in your own life. I am very much a family man. I, my family come before you in my career, I'm very much very much devoted to the idea of becoming a public intellectual. My family comes before that ambition. And so I model what I want to see in the world in my own life, and hope to be a beacon of light towards those who are lost in the darkness, so to speak, of our new cultural revolution. But that's not going to satisfy people that want a quicker change. But of course, as we understand, decentralized behavior, oftentimes trickles up to become societal sentiment of the air. Look at Bitcoin, for example, that was Bitcoin 2013, who was really talking about it in a serious sense. Now we have an entire week. Our nation's South America and bracing the thing. So we have to just let the course of human events play themselves out as they may, while modeling the kind of behavior that we want to see in our own lives. To those who are close to us, that's really the only moral solution I can think of.

Brian Nichols  
Well, speaking of talking about moral solutions, in this case, it'd be going towards a race blind America. First, we gotta pay the bills. And that is by introducing you guys to our brand new sponsor here on The Brian Nichols Show and that is cardio miracle. I am a big fan of cardio miracle. As you know, I had their founder of cardio miracle here on the show back a few months ago. And folks if you're looking for something to help fuel your body with nutrients that it needs for peak performance, allowing you to push your limits to reach new heights look no further whether it's your crushing at the gym, conquering the trails or simply chasing your daily goals. Cardio miracle has your back with supported energy and performance and with over 53 Whole Food bioavailable nutrients delivered in one serving plus, you have my own testament I love cardio miracle I've been using it now for about a month and a half. I wanted to try it before I officially endorse it and yes, this is getting the official Brian Nichols endorsement because I'm a big fan of cardio miracle I've noticed that the gym specifically my pump has been absolutely in sane so if you want to go ahead and take part in the cardio miracle experience as well well head to Brian Nichols show.com Go to our sponsors page right there at the very top is cardio miracle or go to cardio miracle cardio miracle.com Either way use code TBS at checkout for 15% off your order and by the way cardio miracle has 100% money back guarantee so you can't go wrong there one more time cardio miracle.com use code TBNS at checkout for 15% off your order all right Christian let's go into C u u which is and talk to us for the yes color color us every minute yeah color us united there we go my computer screen decide to restart of course after I finished my ad read, but advocating for a race blind America. This is your organization. And you guys been doing some great work helping change the conversation when it comes to race relations specifically in a very racially tense world. I lived in Philadelphia for seven years right during the peak of the the Black Lives Matter protests and riots. And yeah, I saw it firsthand. Things got weird. So talk to us, Christian, what what are some of the things you guys are doing? And where are you having success in changing the conversation when it comes to race relations here in America?

Christian Watson  
Yeah, so coloris united, we're a 501 C three nonprofit. And our main goal is to educate American society and institutions on the principles of colorblindness. And so essentially, we believe that America was just foundationally, as Clarence Thomas pointed out dutifully in his brilliant concurrence to the affirmative action case a few weeks ago, but America is internally a colorblind nation. Our Constitution presupposes colorblindness. Our 14th amendment explicitly presupposes, and states colorblindness, and so we believe that our nation should follow that direction. So we go into institutions, and we contest with the support of members of those institutions, the sort of policies that are contrary to colorblindness, they've had a push a message that is actually divisive, and goes against the institution's core values, went to the Salvation Army, for example, where they were trying to push critical race theory onto their members by claiming that it is a matter of racial reconciliation, trying to cause all them to be guilty for the past sins of some members of Salvation Army. And we just had this done, okay. And over 10,000 Salvationist, sign our petition on our website, and we basically compelled the commissioner of all the Salvation Army chapters in the United States of America and a father to withdraw that divisive critical race theory curriculum. We've gone to American Express, and we've challenged their policies in which they tried to make particularly white male employees feel bad for being white and male, and tried to make them subordinate to other minorities in the in the business on the basis of those minorities, being minorities. I mean, we keep going on. We recently recently went into University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the medical school, and we contested the idea that we're going to politicize and racialize medical education, and of course, the Board of Education, the Board of Trustees of the UNC, UNC North Carolina Chapel Hill medical school, they of course voted to ban di in hiring and promotion. So we keep going institutions and speaking a very simple message with the dutiful support of their members. And in doing so, we are preaching the message that basically gave rise to America as it was known as it continues to be perfected in our current era. So We're simply trying to do our part in this sort of battle to reclaim victory over the race narrative, which is monopolized almost entirely by left wing political ideals and interest.

Brian Nichols  
And tell me about the meds framework, what is the meds framework? And how does that look in action.

Christian Watson  
So meds is a it's a is a contrary alternative to the EI and and it basically stands for marriage, equality of opportunity, diversity of thought and strength. And so all of these planks are being put against diversity, equity, and inclusion. We believe that merit is a measure of true diversity, because everyone has a different level of accomplishment and skill that will be reflected in a marketplace based system. We believe that equality of opportunity is the only moral alternative to equity, because equity by its very nature, is the discriminatory appropriation of resources from one group to another. So it pursues collectivism, and then it also presumed staffed and one single word, and then tries to justify it. And then in benevolence, we say that is fundamentally immoral, that is unAmerican that is bad on so many levels, that is illogical, it is incoherent, and therefore, we want something different. Whereas the idea of moral equality has been around for hundreds of years. And it's been time tested by different philosophers and different schools of thought. And it's actually a stable idea that we can observe in nature, diversity of thought, different people, by virtue of human beings being dynamic creatures have different thoughts, and we all benefit with the clash of ideas. This is the basic premise of American society. This is the basic premise of any free society. And Straight Talk is simply speaking the truth where it may stand, regardless of who gets offended. And regardless of what the correct political, correct, politically correct narrative is of the day. That's the alternative that we post Dei, which as I mentioned, presumes a bunch of bad concepts and does nothing more than pit people against each other, on the basis of an old class warfare, Marxian framework.

Brian Nichols  
All right, Christian, oh, no, unfortunately, just look at the clock, we're already getting hard pressed for today's episode, which means we have to go towards our final thoughts. And if you're cool that I'll kick things off. And I'll turn things over to you to wrap things up here. But I guess my final thought for today, Christian, as you know, we're going through the conversation, you're particularly about race, but also talking about local communities, it kind of dawned on me that relationships are so much more hyper personal and hyper individualized than we really give credit for. I don't make friends with a group of people. I don't make friends with, you know, a race of people or a religion of a certain group of people. I am friends with individuals within respective communities of which they are likely many, you know, and that's something right there, I think speaks to why it is so important, not only to get involved in your local communities, right, actually engage with your neighbors learn what interests them beyond just the fact that they're your neighbor, and you live in the same area, but also, when we're talking about the racial conversation, right. And the difficulty that seems to have really stemmed over the past few years, and being able to navigate that that discussion, you know, being able to understand we're talking to each other as individuals, not as members of a specific group. I mean, back when I was in kindergarten, there was one African American kid in my class named Chris, and he and I were best friends. And great it is in upstate New York, where there, there's not really many folks in any minority status for that matter at all. So the fact that, you know, Chris, being the one black kid in my entire class, and frankly, in my entire kindergarten for that matter, and you know, he was my best friend, I mean, while we were best friends, because we were both the tallest kids in our class. And I think that, you know, speaks to where we see each other when you're talking to each other on an individual basis as the as people versus ICU for what the color of your skin is. And again, that is such a backwards way of thinking to your point, so eloquently explained by Clarence Thomas and his leaning opinion there in the recent Supreme Court striking down affirmative action. I mean, that is the way forward I think, if you look at to the point you're you're pushing over at CU with regards to meritocracy. That's huge, right like that, that shows that you've earned and frankly, is a sense of accomplishment with with knowing you've earned those respective rights, but I could go on and on. That's my final thoughts for today. Christian, what do you have on your end?

Christian Watson  
So individualism is really the only sane social philosophy and I'm talking about ethical individualism, I'll even I'll add independent individualism paired again. As a foundational moral framework, I'd known that them individualism paired against natural law. So many of us default to the individual as our base instinct, which is great, fine. I default to the individual, because in my worldview, I can't begin to make an ethical inquiry, I can't begin to make a Social Inquiry, I can't begin to make a moral inquiry, without first understanding the nature of man. And a very key component of the nature of man is that every person is an individual. But that again, that exists against a very big broader backdrop, metaphysics and a big worldview that man is contained in. But we've, over the past 60 or so years, the School of sociology and other contrary philosophies, have incorporated worldviews which don't only reject the individual, but reject objective truth as a mirror illusion, and try to substitute that for pure materialism and other ideas that don't really give much substance beyond emboldening a particular political movement that may arise at any given point in time. So we have to put our finger on that issue. And we have to deal with that issue as people of all political stripes. And I think that if we deal with that issue, much of our social problems will be can be rectified. But only until we address this crisis of values and crisis of worldviews that are so persistent in our political dialogue.

Brian Nichols  
The website is color us united.org. Christian. Watson, thank you for joining us. If folks want to go ahead and continue the conversation, we're gonna go ahead and reach out to you on social media.

Christian Watson  
They can find me on Twitter at official C Watson, they can find me on YouTube where I try to post every day. I do my best at Christian Watson politics, and they can find me on a lot my website at Christian J. watson.com. Thank you so much for having me.

Brian Nichols  
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