Ep. 1 – The Anti-Anti-Racist Rhetorician (Erec Smith)
On this inaugural episode of The Free Black Thought Podcast, host Connie Morgan and FBT President Erec Smith discuss Erec’s origin story, the importance of rhetoric, and what the anti-racist movement gets wrong.
Stuff referenced in this episode:
Erec's Twitter: twitter.com/Rhetors_of_York.
Erec's Books: A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition and The Lure of Disempowerment: Reclaiming Agency in the Age of CRT.
Erec’s communication organization: Mutual Persuasion (website up but still under construction!).
Empowered Humanity Theory: Empowered Pathways.
The Book on Nichiren Buddhism that Erec Mentions: Focus your mind – Light up your life: Nichiren Buddhism 4.0.
Erec's latest for National Review: For DEI Supporters, Perpetuation of Racism is Good Business.
Podcast Theme Music by JoDavi
Ep. 1 – The Anti-Anti-Racist Rhetorician (Erec Smith)
How does language affect thinking? How much does verbal versus literary communication change the effects?
The Tyranny of Words (1938) by Stuart Chase
This is derived from General Semantics by Alfred Korzybski as expressed in his book
Science and Sanity.
Korzybski's ideas attracted the attention of science fiction writers especially Robert Heinlein and A. E. van Vogt.
But is it the possession of superior technology and the power resulting from that technology that convinced many White men that they were superior beings? Are science and technology more important than rhetoric?
Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds
http://sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/2008/08/mack-reynolds-on-africa-islam-utopia-and-progress.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32390/32390-h/32390-h.htm
in Project Gutenberg
I am so excited to see your podcast come out! Thank you so much!!!
I tried to sign up for the mailing list at MutualPersuasion.org, but keep getting rejected. I don't see a way to contact the site as it keeps instructing me to do. Can you help me with this? Sorry to bother you with an admin question, but I see you're associated with the site, which looks terrific, and I seem to be out of options. Thank you.