Learning From Black History – Protecting Freedom For Every Life – with Kevin McGary – [Ep. 247]

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So thank you. And now, speaking of making this nation great, we've had so many leaders in our nation over the course of our history, and right now we are in the midst of Black History Month, and there have been many black leaders who have totally impacted their spears of influence. They have impacted our nation for generations, and in turn, impacted the world.

They've impacted for freedom, for Christ, and just for truth all over. And this is a time we can just say we pause and recognize them, just like we want to pause and recognize other great leaders, because every life matters. Every life matters.

It doesn't matter the color of the skin, does not matter male or female, the color of the skin, every life matters. That is why my guest, Kevin McGary, started as a co-founder with a great organization called Every Black Life Matters. So Kevin, you are a repeat guest, so I'm not going to go into your intro too much, but I just want to say thank you so much for being here.

You're a co-founder of Every Black Life Matters. You just shared with me that in the past, recent history, you've gotten your doctorate in Christian leadership and management from Logos University. You are an author, you're a speaker.

Every time I've seen you, I just see the love of Christ flow through you. I just absolutely love what you bring to the world and to the marketplace. So I'm honored to have you back again today. Thank you. 

Kevin McGary: Wow, Linda, thank you so much for having me. I'm honored to be here again. So thank you for reaching out and asking me to come back on. It's just really an honor and a privilege for me to be here again. Thank you.

Linda J. Hansen: Well, thank you. It's been fun. We've tried to get this scheduled for a while and it finally happened again. So it's great. As we look at this new administration, the new Trump administration and everything that's happening, there's so many companies turning away from diversity, equity, and inclusion. They're turning away from CRT, the critical race theory.

They're turning away from these woke policies. You and I have been fighting for a long time against these things because we feel they're discriminatory. You know, they actually don't tell the whole truth.

They don't treat everyone with the same type of equal respect and treatment that they should be. So can you explain to the listeners, one, tell us a little bit about Every Black Life Matters. I love the story of why you chose that name for the organization, but also your work and how it's making an impact into changing the mindsets of people to see that we just need to look beyond all the skin color and we need to honor every race.

It's just an exciting time to be alive and see how these things are shifting and people's mindsets are shifting. But there's a lot of education that needs to occur. So I'd like you to just start with that. Tell us why you started Every Black Life Matters and more about the mission of the organization. 

Kevin McGary: Yeah, so we started because we saw the BLMers, you know, Black Lives Matter celebrating being revolutionary Marxists and celebrating tearing up and burning down communities and celebrating looting and celebrating having our Caucasian brothers kiss their feet and do all these demeaning things. 

Then we saw that a lot of pastors, especially Black pastors was encouraging their parishioners to go out and actually march and be a part of BLM as they tear up the streets and do what they were doing.

So that was a bridge too far for myself and Neil Momin, who's also an ordained minister. And we said, clearly the people in the body of Christ, people of faith need, they're grief stricken as well. I mean, we see what happened and they want the ability to be able to express themselves.

But going out with BLM, being the organization that they were and are, was a bridge too far for us. So we said, why don't we create an organization that's a righteous and faithful organization, that basically is the exact opposite of what BLM stands for? So we went to Black Lives Matter website and we positioned ourselves exactly the opposite. You know, they're revolutionary Marxists and we believe in free markets and capitalism.

They're anti-father, anti-male. And we believe that we should emphasize fatherhood and all male initiatives, having manhood and fatherhood. It's just very important for the structure of the family.

They are, they're avowed, pro-bortionists, basically. And we said, look, how could you, say that Black Lives Matter when you know that Planned Parenthood and all the abortuaries disproportionately target black life to the tune of 80%, 80-90% of their abortuaries are within walking distance of black and brown communities. How could you want that? I mean, that's racist in and of itself.

So we said, why don't we start it? Why don't we be the exact opposite on them and all these things and then call ourselves Every Black Life Matters because all lives matter. There is but one race. It's the human race. This is what God created. Now, there's multiple ethnicities, but there's one race. It's the human race.

And we should honor each ethnicity equally. None is greater than the other. None is more supreme than the other. That's all foolishness. But the reality is that ethnicities do exist. You know we've got different melanin counts. We've got different languages, culture and all that stuff. And so that's fine. We said, what we want to do is start every black life matters because we want to illuminate the fact that all lives matter.

So because we know that the abortuaries and Planned Parenthood target black life, if we say every black life matters, that will help people refocus on the fact that, since all lives matter, why do any of us put up with the disproportional targeting of black life? It's unfair. It's racist. It's ridiculous, right? But yet you have all these folks, especially those that are leftist, Marxist, progressive, that are on the anti-life brigade.

They want to decide which babies live and which babies die. And then disproportionate targeting is OK with them, which means that really they're the racist, supremacist ones because they're the ones that believe that they're supreme enough to be able to decide who lives and who dies. So anyway, that goes into a lot of other stuff.

But basically, we started Every Black Life Matters because we wanted to illuminate the fact that blacks are being disproportionately targeted and therefore harmed. Therefore, our communities are being disproportionately economically harmed and otherwise by as a result of the black genocide that's actually happening here in America to this day. So part of your question, though I think it was the administration. I'm not sure. Maybe you can help me with that. 

Linda J. Hansen: Well, and to this day, that genocide continues, and I'm glad you brought that to light. And this administration has been the most pro-life administration as much as the leftists all claim that he's just so, I don't even know how to describe it, how upset they are because he's putting limits to abortion or that Roe v. Wade was sent back to the states where it belonged anyway. You know, all these things. Yes, we want a culture of life in America. I mean, it's the only way to move forward, really. So we think about this administration, but I'd like to think that's about moving forward.

But we're recording this in February of 2025, and it is Black History Month. You just talked about some history that affects black people and how it affects black people today. And it's about the foundation of Planned Parenthood.

If people only knew what Margaret Sanger's intents were and what's happening with Planned Parenthood now. I would like to just take a moment in this Black History Month. Yes, we'd love to just applaud every black leader that brought great things to our nation, but in an effort to also honor those who never got to be born.

They never got to bring what they had to offer to the world because they were killed before they were born, because of this genocide, this horrible anti-life mentality, this Marxist mentality. So if we think of black history it's not just about slavery. That's a whole different kind of slavery.

Human slavery is going on now in our nation with blacks, whites, and every color. There's human slavery going on all around the world, and it always has been, right? But, this is another whole type of slavery, and I'd really like you to touch on that. And we just take a little bit of a different take on what Black History Month can mean. 

Kevin McGary: Yeah, let's talk about it. I think that it's important that we all understand the roots of where folks like Margaret Sanger and so many on the left today, the roots of their ideology, where it comes from.

So let's go back in history. Let's talk about in the early 1800s, there was a man by the name of Charles Robert Darwin, and Charles Darwin wasn't a brilliant scientist, so to speak.

He was okay. He was mediocre at best. But he got added to a voyage that took him around the world, and he had a chance to sort of work out his thesis about evolution and the classifications of various species, etc., etc.

So during that time, though, because he was sort of mediocre, he wasn't at the upper crust of European living, he really wanted to appeal to the aristocrats. So he put together this theory he called the evolutionary theory. Now, the problem with the theory is this, the problem with the theory is that he positioned himself with the aristocrats in Europe at the time by saying, we white Caucasians, we evolved. There is no God, so we evolved. And guess what? Good news for us.

We evolved first, which means that we're supreme. This is what he documented in his second book, The Descent of Man. He says, now, because there is no God, all other ethnicities evolve in rates and stages over time.

He says in every stage, there's a degradation, a lesser. We Caucasians are the original, the cat's meow, but everything else is a variation of the thing, but they have lesser capacity, right? He says, look at the blacks right now. You see that they're still trying to evolve. They're still trying to climb the evolutionary scale. They're still subhuman. They're tantamount to apes, gorillas, and savages. This is in Darwin's book.

So we have in one book, white supremacy that he enshrines, and racism. In other words, you cannot treat these people the same because they're evolving so far down the scale, you must treat them different. They're tantamount to apes, gorillas, and savages.

So one guy starts supremacy and racism, and to this day, it's being followed by the leftist Marxist progressives. This is a fact of history, folks. I mean, I wish you could say, no, racism always existed. No, it didn't. No, no, it didn't. No one in history until Darwin made his audacious claims believed that anyone was subhuman.

So, did we always have ethnic strife and tribalism? Yeah, of course. It's just,  ancient biblical history tells us that people that wandered off in other people's territory, they got captured and enslaved, but they enslaved them knowing you're a human being. You just happen to be from a different tribe.

You came to our area or territory. We're going to capture and enslave you, right? That's how ethnic strife and tribalism manifested throughout history. It was not until Darwin said, hey, look, no, no, no, there's no God, and this whole evolution, this is how we come to be, and white Caucasians are the best.

We're first, fully evolved. Everything else is sort of variation, trying to evolve. And old blacks are, you can't even take them seriously because they're apes, gorillas, and savages. This is where we get supremacy and racism. So then that's carried forward by his protégé Marx, and Marx and Engels were Darwin's protégés. Then they actually inculcated in something they call eugenics, which means we really need to have the purest, best breed.

Basically saying that whites, since we're the supreme, we need to make sure that everybody else, they don't taint our gene pool. So they start to exterminate people. So Hitler, Mao, Lenin, Stalin, you know, Pol Pot, all of them use Darwin's work and a lot of Marxism to basically inculcate extermination throughout their societies.

Then when it came to America, it was actually deemed Marx and his first cousin, Galton, actually said, look, let's call getting rid of people that are less than, exterminating less than, let's call that eugenics. But basically they enshrined eugenics and then spread it throughout the world. 

When it came to America, Margaret Sanger then was the progenitor of, she was part of the Eugenics Society in America, started with sterilization and then she carried it out and continues to carry it out by virtue of her clinics, which are Planned Parenthood to this very day.

When you talk about black history, the reality is that we have so many blacks that talk about, hey women's right to choose and this and that. The reality is they're literally choosing black genocide, maybe unwittingly or whatever. The bottom line is they're choosing black genocide without even knowing.

So this is a part of black history that we need to understand. Eugenics is something that's really trying to thoroughly change the trajectory of blacks in America. It's being carried out by all of your abortuaries and Planned Parenthoods to this day.

It has been very effective. I mean blacks are not at the reproduction rate, the reproduction rate is 2.1 children per family, and blacks are right now at about 1.6, 1.7. So really within the next 50 years, blacks, African-American blacks won't exist.

Now we'll have people of my melanin count, but it'll be by virtue of mixed race kind of thing. So that's kind of the backdrop of that. Now, what I so much enjoy about this current administration is that President Trump during his first term actually put people in the Supreme Court that then overturned Roe v. Wade and sent it back to the states.

So we see less of the ability to disproportionately harm and exterminate blacks. I also see that this president is sincere about black history to the extent that he calls out people like Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas and Frederick Douglas and all of these during the Black History Month. So he believes that we should celebrate black history and that there's people that are worthy of that.

He's really illuminating that for so many of us to learn so much more about black history in that regard. So this is a time and a season of celebration. His administration is actually bringing back alpha male manhood.

Now, I don't mean this from a toxic perspective. We have been so culturally conditioned that any kind of expressive manhood is toxic, especially during the years of Barack Obama. He was such a simp and a wimp, in my opinion, that he made being male sort of not cool anymore, less than.

So that has carried through up until the times of and especially Trump, but especially in this period where so many men are opening their eyes and saying, look, I've been emasculated for the past 15 years. I've been called all kinds of names. I'm tired of it.

I want to actually, again, be the pillar of my household, the pillar of my community and stand on principles of manhood. Be the structure of security for my house, be the structure of stability, provide for my family these traditional things that we have sort of backed away from because we didn't want to be called names. You're a toxic man.

Really, Trump is not only making America great again, but he's making manhood and fatherhood great again. This is a wonderful thing because this is part of God's ordained order. Right. So God ordained that men have a rightful place, a pillar, a cornerstone of every household. This is God. This is God's plan.

This is the design. So for men then to get back into position and to take responsibility for our families the way that we should, it's a beautiful time. It's a wonderful thing.

And we should all celebrate. Not only about all the great work that DOGE is doing by recovering hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars before it's over, but we should also see that there's a cultural shift and people's eyes are opening. And we can glom on to those things that are important and necessary for building healthy families.

Linda J. Hansen: Well, exactly. When we talk about the history of Blacks, Black history, not only was it abortion clinics that were impacting Black families and the Black community, but the welfare system, the welfare system that enslaved them. We're not going to have time to really dive into that this time.

Kevin McGary: When LBJ, his infamous statement that we put this system in place because we'll have those N-words voting for Democrat for the next 100 years or 200 years. Yeah, I mean.

Linda J. Hansen: It's all tangled together. 

Kevin McGary: Racism and yeah.

Linda J. Hansen: Yes. So listeners, if you're unfamiliar with that aspect of it, I'm sure some of you might be listening now and you're thinking, well, that's not what I thought Planned Parenthood was. So we definitely invite you to research and you can reach out to me or to Kevin and we can help you find the answers that you're looking for.

But also, even about this welfare system, some of the interviews I've done, I know with Raynard Jackson, I remember a conversation with Raynard that we did when we were recording a podcast. He explained it so well.So listeners, you can go to my website, just search Raynard Jackson in the podcast tab, and you will find that interview and learn about the history of welfare when they were really systematically working to get black fathers out of the home.

It was really to eliminate the presence of the fathers in the home and enslave the families by putting them on welfare. If there was a man in the home, they couldn't get any money. So they were just trapped.

They were just trapped. It wasn't a way to get a more prosperous family, a thriving family. It was enslavement.

Then they put abortion clinics there so that they tell people you can't afford this baby. I mean, it's just a horrible, horrible scheme to really eliminate many, many people. And it's just horrible.

It doesn't just happen to blacks. I mean, it's not just blacks, but really, that was a real core of it. Now it's spread throughout so many people in our society. So we really need to adopt a culture of life where every life matters. Every black life matters. But every life matters.

I love how you brought up about bringing back the family and strong families. We need strong men. Part of the reason we've had this whole time of shift in our nation backwards into a really horrible season.

Look at the White House. What was the leadership in the White House the four years? It certainly wasn't a strong man. Now the difference right now is just incredible.

Leadership and courage and bravery and love and compassion and empathy and these things that we all need to show that God shows to us. These are what we need to cultivate in our society. Another thing I love that Trump is doing with this, we're talking about black families and stuff like this administration, it's making children great again.

I mean, making families great again, making children great again. That's just that's just precious. As we look at this, this shift, and we think of these businesses and the federal government moving away from these DEI programs, CRT programs, white fragility is no longer the required reading.

Kevin McGary: That's a beautiful thing. 

Linda J. Hansen: Yes, it's a beautiful thing. 

Kevin McGary: So I started a channel on Locals called The DEI Guy, and I've been doing DEI video posts for the past maybe seven months out there. I also have a YouTube channel called Off the Plantation, The Journey Towards Freedom, and basically, I equate America as a plantation, so to speak.

We have our roles in that on the plantation, and we can talk about, that's a different book. But basically, DEI, I've been asked multiple times about DEI. You know, what do you think about it now that he's gotten rid of it? And I said, it's a beautiful thing.

I said, nobody wants to be looked at as a DEI hire. This is a crazy thing about the leftist progressive friends of ours, right? They say, look, DEI is a wonderful thing. And I say, oh, OK, Kamala Harris was a DEI hire. You liked her. Why are you calling her DEI? I said, well, you said it was a wonderful thing. Why are you outraged that I call her DEI hire? Either it's wonderful or it's not. She was a DEI hire. You said it was wonderful. So why are you taking it offensively, right? So these people, they want it all ways.

They don't want it both ways. They want it every single way they can have it, that would work in their favor. But the bottom line is, who wants to be undignified, undignifiably recognized as, oh, I see you're a diversity hire, you're a DEI hire, you're here because, you know, you don't really have the competency, the capacity, the background, the skill set, but you're there because you're a DEI hire.

That's undignified for anybody and everybody, right? 

Linda J. Hansen: It is.

Kevin McGary: So for him to turn back these programs that would take away the lack of dignity, the lack of personal responsibility, lack of being acknowledged in such a derogatory way, and now making it saying, look, we all, you have innate, we have wonderful skills, competencies, and abilities that the Lord gave us individually to do whatever it is He wants us to do, whatever He created us to do. So why don't we just do that? Why do we have to artificially place people in these positions of power and this kind of thing to try to architect and socially engineer organizations or divisions within our government? So it's a wonderful thing to finally get rid of this because it was infantilizing Blacks.

When people come up with this whole DEI scheme, they basically are borrowing from the Darwinist mindset, which is okay, Blacks are innately inferior. They're not saying the words, but basically what they're saying is Blacks are innately inferior, borrowing from Darwinist mindset, because Blacks evolved later. And so they're innately inferior.

Therefore, we need to bend the excellence curve downward, you know, change our standards and testing and do all this stuff. So we can have more Blacks and Browns participate in our school systems and workplaces. It's like, are you kidding me? What's wrong with you? That's the most racist thing you can say about anything.

Linda J. Hansen: Exactly. Exactly.

Kevin McGary: That look, you don't, you know, we understand you're not capable. So we'll go ahead and we'll ease the curve on the testing. What? What? Are you kidding? 

Linda J. Hansen: It takes away all incentive. So it is not about equal outcomes.

It's about equal opportunity to each grow into really our fullest potential, no matter who we are, no matter what our skill set is, no matter how God has called us, but growing into our fullest potential and one, being allowed to be born. And then that's a big one.

Kevin McGary: That's a big one.

Linda J. Hansen: Yeah, but, then being allowed to have human flourishing and freedom, which is really guaranteed to us through our Constitution, our founding documents and things that, our God given rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are God given rights that this nation protects through our founding documents. That's why we all work so hard to protect freedom, to expose the truth about these issues. So people understand history and how it applies to today.

We need to close, but what would you say to people and I would actually like you to focus on this, especially on employers, because we talked about how these employers and businesses and the government are going away from woke. I'm always here saying woke to what, and we need to replace that void. So I'll put a plug in for my online course and my book and the things that I provide, which help to provide a different way of educating that that really does promote the values that made America strong and great without promoting a party or a person.

But, what would you say to employers who maybe are getting feedback when they take these woke ideologies out of their companies, maybe they're having people protest the fact that they're removing DEI programs, what would you say to employers so they know what to really respond with to their employees? 

Kevin McGary: Yeah, I think a good comeback for all employers would be look, it seems like we've gotten away from the things that have actually made us successful to this point. In the 1970s, we heard from a black man, and this is Black History Month, who says let's not focus on the color of skin, but let's focus on what's in here. Let's focus on the content of character. Let's focus on capacity, meritocracy. And let's give everybody an equal opportunity to actually excel and succeed. His name was Dr. Martin Luther King.

This organization is going back to those ideas that actually allowed us to have the success that we have today. DEI doesn't work. It's an artificial idea. It's an ideology. And more importantly, it's an ideology that actually degrades blacks and other demographics, because it says, look, they're innately incapable, fundamentally incapable of excelling or advancing or achieving on their own. So we need to artificially then begin to place them in these areas.

It puts us at risk. We've seen instances over the past four months with the DEI people. So DEI people almost got our president killed. DEI people were in charge of New Orleans, FBI and the press there, the spokesperson there. While they were unfurling an ISIS flag in the background, she says, oh, no, this has absolutely nothing to do with terrorism. DEI police chief in New Orleans said, oh, I didn't even know we had barriers that we had spent tens of millions of dollars for. So she was ill prepared. DEI people in the Los Angeles fires actually didn't have water and hydrants. They lacked preparedness, proper preparedness for what was happening with the LA fires.

So DEI does not work. If we want to build a company that's strong, does excellent work, builds excellent products and is innovative, we need to move away from DEI because we have all these data points that prove that it not only doesn't work, but it risks lives. And so that's what a CEO should just get away from the cultural dogma and all of the cultural narratives that would try to force them into a corner and stand on the real principles of workplace excellence and that kind of thing. And you could build a conversation around those talking points that I just said. 

Linda J. Hansen: Absolutely. And so employers too, you can just take those talking points. But also, if you just let your employees know you care about them, that's why you're getting rid of those programs that you believe in them. You know that they have potential. You want to make sure there's equal opportunity for everyone to rise and you care about them.

And that goes a long way. So, Kevin, we need to close right now, but I appreciate those closing comments from you. How can people contact you? And I would also like you to mention the books you've written so they know how to read your books.

Kevin McGary: All right. So I've gotten 8 books out there. One based on this conversation, DEI in 3D. So I actually break down the entire DEI scenario, start to finish historically and all of that to connect all the dots and we help people understand that. 

The other is Free to Be Servant and Slave. That's one that I wrote. And this is biblical theology based. So for all of the people that are more concerned with their spiritual formation and maturity, this is a great book for that. 

The other would be Woked Up. Woked Up deals with the complete history of Charles Darwin and Marx and helps you to connect the dots historically with that. And so those three, if you go to Amazon, just type in my name, Kevin McGary, M-C-G-A-R-Y, you'll get that. Now, the other way you can get in touch with me is you can go to everyblm.com. We'd love to have you as friends and partners and collaborators and sponsors.

So there's all kinds of opportunities on our website where you can see our materials and you could stand by us and stand with us as we try to combat and push back against culture, demonic culture and provide some positive input into that. So you can follow us there. You can reach out to us. You can certainly connect with me there as well. 

Linda J. Hansen: Well, that's great. And I just thank you so much for your time. You are helping to create history. We are making history as we do this, and we want to make sure that history, the future is great. And as people look back 20, 30, 50, 100 years from now, 200 years from now, they can look back at this time and say, there were people who worked hard to promote truth.

They worked hard to help people be free. I'm just thankful that we could do this podcast. It's one step. It's one drop of water in an ocean that helps all the seas to rise, which makes all the boats rise. So I thank you for your contribution for your faithful love of God and country and your fellow citizens. So thank you so much.

Kevin McGary: Thank you again, Linda. Thank you for having me. 

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