"I think the hardest part about American life right now is that we've been, like, deeply atomized," El-Sayed said, arguing that the connections offered through phones and social media are "not community."
During a 2019 University of Michigan School of Public Health commencement address, while discussing racial and economic disparities in Detroit, he said residents had been "directly and purposely marginalized by every level of government" in "a city and a state and a country that has baked racism into its foundation." Later in the speech, while discussing the Flint water crisis and the country's political climate, El-Sayed said he had watched American politics "revert to a strain of White supremacy and racism I never thought we'd go back to."
In recently resurfaced recordings, El-Sayed questioned elements of football culture [American football is actually rugby, but dumb Americans call it football] by linking its ethos to historical narratives of slavery and oppression. In that, he invokes the overly machoistic culture of American sports with its long history of racist exclusion of those who are not white. It took the anti-Hitler achievements of Black African American athletes like Jesse Owen at the Berlin 1936 Olympics, along with Cornelius Johnson, Ralph Metcalfe and John Woodruff for white America to condescendingly begin to shed its racist violence. The National (American) Football League admitted Kenny Washington and Woody Strode (LA Rams) as the first black players in NFL history in 1946, right after WWII.
Indeed, it took the segregated African American units who fought bravely in WWII before the US army began to treat them as human beings of equal standing. Indeed, El-Sayed emphasized that "toxic masculinity" was "at the heart of America's most popular sport."
During an October 2025 podcast interview, El-Sayed recounted how his parents would "ship me off to Egypt in the summers" so he would know his father's language and culture, sometimes spending roughly four months with his working-class extended family in the one-bedroom apartment where his father grew up. A story common to millions of American-born children of immigrants, be they from Egypt, China, Ireland or anywhere else on the planet. He also said that those experiences, which he shares with all immigrants, taught him something about "the human condition" that he believes is harder to encounter in the highly individualistic American life.
"I think in American life sometimes we're not so privy to the lives other people lead," El-Sayed said, adding that in societies like Egypt, "the humanity of it all, like the carnal nature of it all, hits you." He called the experience "euphoric" and said exposure to other people's lives "softens or should soften your heart" to their experiences.
El-Sayed later pointed to weddings in the old country as a "celebration of humanity," contrasting people spending hours together with social media, which he described as an attempt to recreate that experience through "some huge corporation that's monetizing your eyeballs and your eardrums." He said that type of human connection "can't" be replaced and called it "the best of living."
"I think that, like, the essence of our country is that we actually do come together and build things collectively," El-Sayed said, arguing Americans have been "oscillating between that instinct and the instinct to chase money," rightly asserting that the pursuit of wealth by a small number of people is behind problems ranging from the American healthcare system to U.S. military spending abroad.
"And, like, at some point I'd rather live in community where people have the basic things they need than be in a country where a few people get to be billionaires and the rest of us get to suffer."
All theology - Christian, Muslim and Jewish - generally looks down upon money and the pursuit of wealth, if they cause humans to be less humble and generous in their lives. But the American Evangelical criminals of Trump's ilk are racist capitalists who have raised the pursuit of money to the level of a respectable Christian teaching, and distorted Christian teachings to favor their own illicit enrichment over the credulity of dumb Americans who end up funding lavish lifestyles, humongous mega churches that look like pagan temples more than modest Christian churches.
During an October 2025 podcast interview, El-Sayed recounted how his parents would "ship me off to Egypt in the summers" so he would know his father's language and culture, sometimes spending roughly four months with his working-class extended family in the one-bedroom apartment where his father grew up. A story common to millions of American-born children of immigrants, be they from Egypt, China, Ireland or anywhere else on the planet. He also said that those experiences, which he shares with all immigrants, taught him something about "the human condition" that he believes is harder to encounter in the highly individualistic American life.
"I think in American life sometimes we're not so privy to the lives other people lead," El-Sayed said, adding that in societies like Egypt, "the humanity of it all, like the carnal nature of it all, hits you." He called the experience "euphoric" and said exposure to other people's lives "softens or should soften your heart" to their experiences.
El-Sayed later pointed to weddings in the old country as a "celebration of humanity," contrasting people spending hours together with social media, which he described as an attempt to recreate that experience through "some huge corporation that's monetizing your eyeballs and your eardrums." He said that type of human connection "can't" be replaced and called it "the best of living."
"I think that, like, the essence of our country is that we actually do come together and build things collectively," El-Sayed said, arguing Americans have been "oscillating between that instinct and the instinct to chase money," rightly asserting that the pursuit of wealth by a small number of people is behind problems ranging from the American healthcare system to U.S. military spending abroad.
"And, like, at some point I'd rather live in community where people have the basic things they need than be in a country where a few people get to be billionaires and the rest of us get to suffer."
All theology - Christian, Muslim and Jewish - generally looks down upon money and the pursuit of wealth, if they cause humans to be less humble and generous in their lives. But the American Evangelical criminals of Trump's ilk are racist capitalists who have raised the pursuit of money to the level of a respectable Christian teaching, and distorted Christian teachings to favor their own illicit enrichment over the credulity of dumb Americans who end up funding lavish lifestyles, humongous mega churches that look like pagan temples more than modest Christian churches.
Remember Jimmy Swaggart, the Evangelical so-called "preacher" who was caught with prostitutes in New Orleans? Despite a tearful televised confession and being defrocked by the Assemblies of God, he continued his ministry until other similar incidents surfaced in 1991.
Remember Oral Roberts who threatened to die in 1987 unless his dumb American viewers donated $4.5 million? You may not have heard of Tony Alamo who died in federal prison in 2017 after being convicted of child sexual abuse: I personally did several translations for him of his religious garbage writings which he wanted to use in poor foreign countries. Working with him and his associates was very uncomfortable, and the stupid Texan racism that he driveled in these writings made me eventually hang up on him.
Remember Ted Haggard who resigned from the National Association of Evangelicals in 2006 following a scandal involving a male sex worker. Yet he spent his life denouncing homosexuality. All these "reverends", "pastors", "preachers" and "elders" lead double lives of depravity and greed, while pretending to be humble and sage. They really are the Anti-Christ.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus says, “You cannot serve God and Money" (Matthew 6:24).” He also advises an inquiring wealthy man to "sell everything you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven "(Luke 18:22). How can a true Christian be a servant of money, pursuing riches far beyond anything he or she might need on this earth?
What is the point of so much wealth, if not for the pursuit, and abuse, of the power that it might tempt into? Donald Trump is the textbook example of a bigoted corrupt wealthy white American man who cheats and lies his way to wealth and power over the backs of stupid Americans who believe him.
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