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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 065: Viral Videos and Labels

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Is it ever necessary to label ourselves? Is it ever ok to label anyone else? Not according to internet celebrity and spoken-word poet, Prince Ea, whose viral video entitled "I Am Not Black, You Are Not White" claims that labels are the root of all social ills and that our identity is entirely separate from our physical reality. The video has reached over 100 million views on Facebook and over 11 million views on Youtube with an overwhelming approval rating (300 to 1 like to dislike ratio). The most liked comment on Youtube reads, "They showed this to us in school." In this episode of The Word on Fire Show, Bishop Barron critiques each segment of the argument posed by the young poet and explains the philosophical history behind this radical, yet widely accepted argument. The listener question asks for a book suggestion that encourages teens to return to the Church.

Topics Discussed

  • 0:17  - Introduction, Bishop Barron's recent happenings
  • 1:58 - Segment 1: "Our bodies are just cars", Bishop's response
  • 6:18 - What are some of the dangers of bifurcating our selves and our bodies?
  • 7:40 - Segment 2: "Who we truly are is found inside", Bishop's response
  • 11:50 - What is the difference with the Catholic perspective on bodies and labels?
  • 15:10 - Segment 3: "Every war has started over labels", Bishop's response
  • 18:15 - How are labels used in the book of Genesis?
  • 21:30 - Segment 4: "Until we stop thinking so small we won't be free to see each other as we truly are", Bishop's response
  • 26:39 - Listener Question: What book would Bishop recommend to bring teens back into the Church?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. We're really excited to be here with you. I'm

0:08.4

Brandon Vott, the host and the content director at Word on Fire, and joining us is the founder

0:13.3

of Word on Fire, the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Bishop Robert

0:18.5

Barron. Bishop Barron, welcome.

0:20.1

Hey Brandon, how you doing today?

0:22.0

I'm doing great and I hope you're doing well too because you're fresh off a nice little

0:25.8

vacation. Tell us about that.

0:28.1

I take a few days with my good friend, Father John Muir, who was a former student of mine

0:32.4

at Mundlein. Now he's a priest of the Phoenix diocese. And John's pastor of a big parish

0:38.5

kind of on the western end of the diocese and a western end of Phoenix, rather. And

0:43.9

we had a great time. Just a few days of nonstop golf. So it was good.

0:48.1

Well, listen, today I want to talk about a viral video. In the last episode, we talked

0:53.7

about another viral video, the Stephen Colbert, Ricky Gervais debate about God. But this

0:59.0

video we're going to talk about today has gone even further, even more viral, even more

1:04.4

views. It's titled, I am not black. You are not white, which at first suggests it's

1:10.7

maybe a piece about race, but it's really not. The whole video is about labels and identity

1:17.5

in general. And it raises all sorts of interesting questions. Now before we get to the video, listen

1:21.8

to some of these stats. So the video is about four minutes long. It has 80 million views

1:26.9

on Facebook, 11 million views on YouTube. So that means this video has over 100 million

1:33.3

views total. So I'm guessing a lot of our listeners here have probably seen it pop up

1:38.5

on their Facebook feed. Maybe they've seen it on YouTube. It's produced by a guy named

1:42.9

Prince, Ia, Prince EA. I think that's how you pronounce it, who's an online celebrity

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