K. Carl Smith
K. Carl Smith is a retired U.S. Army officer, author of "Frederick Douglass Republicans: The Movement to Re-ignite America's Passion for Liberty" and "Douglass vs. Marx," and founder of the Frederick Douglass Republicans movement and LibertyMessenger USA.
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K. Carl SmithGUEST
So when I wrote my book, Douglas versus Morris, I made sure that my grandchildren, my nephew, my niece, and my children had a copy of the book, because this is a tactical manual, how to stand strong in this council culture.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
and he'd been reading the book, and one of his, in his history class, excuse me, the professor stood up and said that the Constitution is a pro-slavery document, and the Three-Fifths Clause meant that blacks are three-fifths of a human being.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
But because KJ had been reading one of those dialogues at the base between Douglass and Morris, KJ pushed it back.
Frank GaffneyHOST
Give us a sense, as you see it, what are the historical dynamics at work at the moment and the choice before?
K. Carl SmithGUEST
I think being in Dallas for this convention is a pivotal moment because we have to secure the future of our nation.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
And if we're going to secure the future of our nation, for me, we've got to remember our past.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
It was forged in 1854 on a moral clarity that The single mandate was to abolish slavery and to uphold our God-given rights in our Constitution.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
Now, today we're facing two, well, three challenges primarily, globalists, the Marxists, and Sharia.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
That's why I wrote my fourth book, Douglass vs. Marx: The Battle for America's Soul.
Steve BannonHOST
And what Douglas warns us about, this is essentially another form of slavery, correct?
K. Carl SmithGUEST
So the book puts Frederick Douglass and Karl Marx in a room where they're debating all the claims of Marxism.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
Now keep in mind now, Frederick Douglass and Karl Marx were both born in 1818, but they never met, and Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto 1848, I believe, and Douglass wrote his Auto- First Autobiography 1845.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
But they are, but they had, they were writing about oppression, but they had two different worldviews.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
So we thought about, wait a minute, if Frederick Douglass and Marx was alive today, what would Frederick Douglass have to say to Karl Marx? So we know what they said.
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K. Carl SmithGUEST
Well, there's no history of that, 'cause they never met, so we put together this, uh, 31 dialogues, where they're in a room, they're going at it.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
It's based on what Douglass said, what Douglass wrote, his actual beliefs, and the same thing with Karl Marx, his actual belief.
K. Carl SmithGUEST
So thank God we have a literary legacy where Frederick Douglass wrote about free speech, the role of government, uh, personal responsibility, private property rights.