Teaching our history does not mean telling some kids they’re superior or victims. It’s about teaching history so that we don’t make the same mistakes. Unbelievable!!
**WHAT'S REALLY HORRIFYING,,,, IS THAT TEXTBOOKS FOR THE COUNTRY,,, ARE DECIDED IN TEXAS!!! So we've got morons like these,, Republicans,, making decisions for all of our children!!!**
That would require the truth and most people don't want to hear, read or be told the truth regarding the history of the United States. Monticello, the home/plantation of President Thomas Jefferson, is just now 2021 admitting and embracing the history of Sally Hemmings, a slave and half sister to his wife, her relationship and children with President Thomas Jefferson. I read this book over 40 years ago and asked about their relationship during the tour and was told, "surely, you are incorrect." They didn't, don't want the truth to be discussed or shared.
What is your source? Did he write that in a novel, essay or one of his letters? What was the context? "The most effective way to mislead a person is to confuse and obfuscate their own understanding of their identity, beliefs and history by quoting someone famous in a random manner, without context or source." A Burden
@Rose Moore Wow, you sure didn't learn punctuation in all your 52 years of living!. Try a comma or period. I can't make sense of what you're saying or why. What is the relevance of your weight-("fat")? Why mention sitting at the back of the class? Is that where "fat" people sat, or girls and blacks? What? America...strives for, tries to-improve. A more perfect union is the phrase. Great opportunity there. Please-write again.
@@aburden8580 pet peeve? While you try to sound erudite your self attributed quote is nonsense. In what context was their a misleading and obfuscation of someone's identity by offering a quote that encourages true understanding of history? Boy (or girl) stop.
History has always been taught in class rooms without the division of who's fault it was.....all the ignorant people who participated in enslavement are dead...blacks should be monetized for all the pain and suffering they endured in their unlawful enslavement and their cooperation in what america is today
I grew up during the Cold War. I think it will be more like that, where the truth of what we experienced and how we felt about it will seem incredible and trivialized. Today ‘duck and cover’ is a joke, but it sure wasn’t for those of use who went through nuclear attack drills as children in classrooms.
Never be the same, as when, the 20', 30's, 40's, 50's.... such a selective memory. The united states til this day has never been kind to Africans and Americans(real Americans).
The same as what? Will people never be the same as one another, or will Americans never be the same? And the same as what, exactly? If you’re pining for a day in the past without this racism, that’s the point. There was just a time when white people didn’t have to reckon with its consequences. If you understand racism, you understand the progress made isn’t by hanging on to nostalgia for a time when it was easier to be racist, overtly, or quietly through the existing structures that allowed for it to become endemic.
I'm a 6th and 7th grade social studies/history teacher at a predominantely black school in Oklahoma. Just teach history. That's it. Blemishes and all. Allow students to approach history from different perspectives and approach problematic hisorical curricula with empathy, discussion, and context. It's all about awareness. My students and parents appreciate the difficult class discussions we have. It's not an agenda, it's just history. Edit: I've never once been reprimanded for teaching difficult content because I communicate my lessons to parents and students beforehand.
Thank you for your educative efforts, we need more teachers and mentors like this who understand the idea of critical analysis and the truths and lessons taught from history.
There was no white supremacy class in 1950s. Teaching history of facts is different from teaching a narrative about history. It should be illegal to teach false theories like it should be illegal to teach 2+2=5
@Michael how in the world did public education tell us we were all equal when the actual law didn't say that? The constitution doesn't even give half the population any rights. Sounds like you think public education used to lie to kids to make them feel better and now that they recognize it was all a lie, you have a problem with that and want to go back to lying? Great strategy
@Michael "were once about patriotism, Anglo Saxton views and were all equal? When? When was the country all Anglo Saxton? When they came here and killed the natives? When we forced millions of black people to come here? And when in history were we "all equal?" Again, even the documents that found the country say the exact opposite. Sure it says we are all equal, and then farther down clarifies "all" meant white male land owners. You don't even know history and yet you want your views taught?
11:52 The goal isn’t to make children feel guilty for the actions of others. The goal is to teach our children that mistake have been made, so that they will not repeat those mistakes in the future.
@@babblesandbubbles The biggest lie a Marxist tells is that there is no Marxism. The 1619 project is CRT. Jones herself says the 1619 project is to redefine the narrative.
Yes, and that's the real, underlined issue that one one wants to admit to... That some of these parents believe that slavery was "Good" for the country, they are " Proud" of that history. And would rather go back to that way of life with the belief system that black people are some kind of lesser species of human being.
@@nalignmentwlifehealinglife Finding parents that think slavery was good is a lie that these people want you to believe is a justification for this radical teaching. There are not one single parent at that school who believes that.
History must be thought in schools across the globe. Those who don't want our children to learn the truth are disgraceful, shameful and shallow individuals.
Why did an international court dismiss the doomsday lawsuit against CERN in 2008 when theres been evidence to support the claim of quantum tunneling through the higgs field since 1982?
There were good people on both sides. The Jews, homosexuals and gypsies on one side and the white supremacist nazis on the other. This is the republican view. Lol
I remember being so upset when I went out into the world and found I knew nothing about what my black peers have experienced generationally in this country. My friend had to sit in the balcony section of the theater - why wouldn’t I want to know all this? Would have given me insight into all the interpersonal interactions I’ve had with POC. I would have been a much better teacher had I know so much that has been brushed under the rug for us whites.
Correct, that's how you learn and understand. Do you realize there was a Holocaust museum before these was ever a Native American or Black one in America? Kids in Germany learn about the Holocaust all the time and they aren't running around with guilt SHM.
My daughter attended a French School ,a private school. She also attended the United Nations school with a World view of education. History isnt only American its Worldwide.
We should be teaching our children how we learn from our mistakes and become better people and a stronger Nation because of it. That's what we do right? I think not.
@@shirleyfoggepiazza6984 they should be paid way more...children are in school 6 to 8hrs. Teachers have to pay for supply out of pocket. We don't treat them right and they are with our most valuable resource for 8hrs a day.
@@kathyweis7451 Who is " we" and "they" that don't pay teachers well enough? We and they elect school boards and legislatures to create school taxes and let the board decide how much a teacher is worth. In my district which I pay taxes and dont use the school because i sent my children to private schools raised the taxes to build a new artificial turf baseball diamond, track and football field with lights for Friday night games and bleachers. Maybe THEY should have paid the teachers more instead.
I went to a private school growing up, so my experience may be a little different. History was taught differently and quite frankly the racial divide was glossed over. It is much more controversial today. If it is indeed true that CRT is not taught in the sense of legal jurisprudence, then these conservatives sound ridiculous not knowing what they are talking about. If they choose to redefine history as CRT, then they need to come to terms with the fact that sometimes the truth hurts. Perhaps more clarification from educators needs to be taught, so that these supposed claims of white kids "feeling guilty" or "not loving their country" and black kids "feeling inferior" will not be the wrong lessons learned. Much like masking, I don't hear kids complaining about it - this is a manufactured parent grievance. Perhaps more effort should be made by educators and the school boards to make sure that these lessons are about equality and empowerment to make each subsequent generation more informed and understanding than the last. This is the only way for history to not rhyme or repeat itself. To do otherwise, is to have this radical form of nationalism/populism/conservatism morph into authoritarianism. I can't even believe we are having this discussion, since all of this seems like common sense. The hypocrisy of conservatives is outlandish and can be summarized as, "Freedom for me, but not for thee." - pro-guns but horrified of school shootings? anti-abortion yet against the welfare state to support these children forced to be brought into this world, pro-life but believe in capital punishment? Freedom of speech and railing against cancel culture, yet trying to impose their own moral code into law and firing teachers for doing their jobs? Anti-science, yet "do my own research" (on the internet created by infrastructural investments), and all sorts of ignorance politicizing inflation, supply chains, masking, vaccines, and other culture war BS issues... Much of this is driven by neuroses, paranoia, and projection of their worst selves onto the left and liberals. While there will always be extremists on both ends, I don't think that's where the majority of Americans feel and think. Many are misled or just not well-informed, due to everyday life and work. As an Asian American, I watch all of this controversy as "the other" or 3rd party, having lived on both sides of the divide. I have felt racism very directly when I was younger, but not as overtly and ongoing after growing up, as African Americans have. Yet, I have been treated very well and fairly - yet knowing that things could turn against people like me on a dime. Nonetheless, I feel their pain and did not learn about Asian American history in depth until after college - through a nonprofit civil rights advocacy group. Granted, my fields of study did not get into race relations, so I only took what was required at the time. Much of my love for history happened after majoring in Economics. And certainly working in Wall Street, the economic rivalry with China can certainly fan flames of xenophobia in the medium and long term, much as the previous administration did with COVID or the affect that the forever wars had on Islamophobia in our recent past. Race relations can deteriorate further, not just between black vs. white, but it can turn into a crazy free-for-all, which would literally tear this country apart, which is exactly what our authoritarian adversaries would like to wish upon us through misinformation campaigns via social media. If our multi-racial democracy and change management are not harnessed positively as strengths, then they can become fires that burn out of control, rather than sources of comfort and ingenuity.
Yes to all of that very insightful commenting along with your own experience and education. I couldn't agree more with you. Thanks very much for sharing it all here, every word. I've grown more interested in economics, history, science, and politics after learning more about shadowy American plutocracy, grown so powerfully and not covered much in the media outlets that are also controlled to a certain extent by the plutocrats who can benefit financially from all the divisiveness. Any thoughts about that?
I have to get to bed, but loved what you've said so far and will finish tomorrow. For now i'd like to suggest that us whites have been taught "the zero sum game," for those unaware what that means, its that whatever the government or industry gives to those "others," means taking away for the "us whites." Its a total lie, manufactured by the think tanks of white rich & male -supremacists. But it keeps the working white poor from seeing our losses as same as People of Color - working poor. I am reading a Book now, by Heather McGhee, called: THE SUM OF US - i highly recommend it! To be totally frank: Equality for POC's is not 'just' a 'moral' necessity, but its an economical one, for all of us, whites included, as well!
To resume: its ironic that Economics was the course in College that cost me a 4.0 GPA, had 2 settle 4 a B. I just couldn't understand it, til i realized that it wasn't ME, but our screwed up economic system. And i've been working on changing THIS, ever since! Also, as Asian-American, i am guessing you have started to feel more hatred the last year, than any time in your life, what with drumpf and his "kung flu" bashing! It has led to beatings and deaths. This country is always looking for scapegoats and finding some race or culture to hate bash on. It is just so tragic, because we would ALL be better off if we were more & fully - INCLUSIVE!
Wrong. The quote is generally attributed to Edmund Burke. The closest quote goes to John Stuart Mill in 1867. In an inaugural address at St Andrews University in Scotland.
Well @@aburden8580i saw it in book of quotes. So maybe the book was wrong. Or maybe you are a troll who don't like me, and you are the one who is wrong. 🤨~ Maybe you are one of the those concervatives memtioned in it who also does not like "Critical Race Theory" and attack's others who helps to shine i light on CRT. 🔦~ Are you racist ? 🤷♂️ And what is your stand on Critical Race Theory ? ✍
@@akymrinkovsky289 Yeah, maybe. What was the title? Publisher? As for rhetorical debate and ability to converse in a productive and intelligent manner: then no. I don't like you, because you fail. Yeah ! Are you trying to act smart and tough like teen movie: Team America World Police? Try another quote.
The reporter asked a teacher, "Do you think you should stick to teaching basic history?" My question.... isn't the facts around what happened to black people, black families, and black communities during and after slavery basic history? The facts can be taught without biased commentary, so students can decide for themselves.
Why can we not be taught in school about African Americans being denied housing, employment, and bank loans just because the color of their skin, Isn't this also apart of our great American History ?
That seems to be the American way. What's uncomfortable just isn't talked about or covered up. I'm from Germany, my children were taught about the Holocaust, something like that should never happen again. My children didn't feel guilty, being German, for things that happened decades before they were born.
It's so wrong in Texas. Texas should exceed from the Uniion as they have always wanted it to. I was not taught this history in 7th grade in MA. A liberal State.
I don't know what else the School accused Whitefield of, but Whitefield marrying a White wife with so much display of love between them; I think he is sending a message of unitedness for all races. Whether Whites or People of color, the question we should ask ourselves and objectively ponder upon is "Are we great with our past and how can we make our future even greater and better for all races by learning and making certain changes from the past such that benefit all races in the here and now as well as in the future?" God bless America!
When I was a K through 12 student, in terms of History, we learned about the American Revolution over and over again. My only education on American Slavery during those years was watching the series ‘Roots.’ Foreign cultures, I watched ‘Shogun’ and David Carradine in ‘Kung Fu.’ All I knew about Africa was that the women were topless and everyone was starving to death, because that’s what popular media taught me. And this is given that I was educated in the upper middle class WASP suburbs of NYC. I say they were the WASP suburbs but in actual fact that wasn’t true. I had friends and neighbors, plenty of them, who were Jews, Italians, Black, Latino, Asian … and we learned absolutely nothing about their heritages in school. Lots of rhetoric, Jewish and Italian jokes, stereotypes of Black people, but most of us couldn’t find China on a map. We sure new where England is, because that’s where our parents went Christmas shopping at Harrod’s. Now as an adult I have a lot of stamps in my passports; I’ve lived ‘overseas;’ my wife is native Japanese and I speak the language fluently. But all that didn’t start until I went to college and made friends with people from all over the world. Then and today, kids are taught a very sterile, white washed version of the world and its history. We shouldn’t be discouraged from fixing that by a minority within a minority who want to keep us undereducated about what made the society we have today. You can not tip toe around the subject of race in History without pretending that it didn’t matter, because obviously it did. We certainly don’t avoid discussing race when we talk about the Holocaust, which is why many don’t want it discussed at all, as if it wasn’t important, as if it didn’t happen.
I agree, well said. What were we taught in the 60's about Native Americans, they ambushed American settlers and cut of there scalps. We don't teach our children about race unless some other countries were the only ones involved on both sides.
I started first grade in 1971. I attended a school in a white neighborhood in Georgia. A few black children were bussed from across town, so that our school could be integrated. I saw and experienced racism and hateful attitudes, words and actions. I understood at a very young age, that black children were not treated fairly by the school. As I grew older, I saw that black people were not being treated fairly by society. Most of the White children I went to elementary school with, were placed in private schools after graduating elementary school. The private schools in our area sprung up after integration, as an alternative to sending white children to school with black children. Things need to change. We may never change some attitudes twords racism and white supremacy. But we can make sure that black people are treated fairly, and have access to the financial opportunities and equity, which would give them the ability to be successful.
Be glad when the democrats are out of power and we can become a nation of pride again instead of a nation obsessed with race, which is all driven by the DNC. The dems policies are failing miserably so all they do is race bait.
@@888strummer well that’s just bass ack backards of anything close to reality. What exactly is the platform of the GQP other than obstruction of anything good for our country? Anything that would fix our roads or bridges or get access to the internet for states like West Virginia? No? What about access to healthcare in states where young pregnant girls have none? No? What about wages being adequate to feed and house your family? No? What about telling young mothers to raise their boys to be monsters? That’s a platform right there. YES! What about telling your young boys to arm up and dangerous? YES!!!! What about calling for holy war against our country? Maddie Cawthorn did that. That’s a platform. It’s fascist as f. Forcing the rule of a white nationalist fascist dictator isn’t racist at all! It’s unimaginable that it looks like that. It’s totally constitutional to try to deny the votes of the majority. I don’t know why anyone would be offended by that. Votes? Let states ignore the majority of votes. Maddie Cawthorn and Lauren Boebert are really good at being smart with their let’s just shoot fellow Americans agenda. It’s great again!
@@rendajones7368 I'm a moderate independent but at least the republicans focus mostly on the economy and defense compared to the democrats who are obsessed with racial issues; as the economy crumbles. $2 gas with an obnoxious president is better $3.50 gas with a president who's half asleep.
@@rendajones7368 👍😎 It's a pity that we're all not in a setting where these things could be debated face to face. I'd love to have this so-called "Moderate Independent" look us in the eye & declare that Republican legislators around the country are (not) obsessed with Race when they're implementing such obviously unfair & restrictive new Voting laws! Some folks in these comment sections are clearly living in another dimension. 😆
born in the 60ies in Germany I had to learn the miserable history of my anchestors- sometimes hard but you have to accept history to have a fresh restart of society.... you have a long way ahead in US- best wishes and good luck
I agree with you regarding the insecurities of some parents. Being a grandmother to children 6-17, I want them to know their/our history. I can’t get over parents of white children thinking the children would get their feelings hurt. I wanted to learn it all! Hard to wrap my head around their thinking. .
🎉 Miss Jones....thank YOU!!! My mother taught elementary for 46 yrs...my sister taught kindergartners for 36! I can guarantee you...neither one ever backed down!!! 💝 I'm an Artist! My father taught me to ALWAYS question authority...always! A Mind....is a Terrible thing to WASTE!!! 📚
Ah-HEM! You DO realize that questioning and standing up to good, uprigheteous, spit-and-polish, pillars-of-the-community authority is *hooliganism*, right? If not, then you need to realize that tradition, especially time-honored values are just plain right! If you do already know this, then merely questioning and challenging the establishment alone puts you dangerously close to juvenile delinquent territory and a third of the way to the state pen besides.
Exactly! It is not avoidable - we are each a part of our shared history, good, bad and ugly. Best we can learn the truths and reasons underlying everything so we can intellectually come to terms and understand our personal and community responses and can be able to choose and work for our course forward.
@@nd6148 Exactly, which is why it’s not taught to children. What is taught to children is under a federal framework, state standards, and local districts decide what textbooks to adopt. Parents who are actually paying attention to what their children are learning, or who are active in their child’s education know this. It’s not a part of teacher education per se, but it is a part of what teachers need to know.
Texas state senator Brian Hughes is intent on preserving his job, and nothing else. He references a "little girl" who might be emotionally harmed if she is taught "CRT." Again this stance is utter nonsense and designed to garner votes from parents who simply do not know what's going on.
Going on where ? And what , for that matter . Maybe you meant parents who don't know that Marvin Gaye classic, What's Goin On ? In which case I withdraw my question I
CRT is just a placeholder for intersectionality or grievance studies. It's not a good way to raise kids, teaching them that they're victims. Include feminism & it would be the same. No need to fight the patriarchy, & at an individual level, in America in 2021, no one is at a disadvantage solely b/c of their skin color. Just listen to this, when the black kid says, "my people" meaning black people. We should be taught we are more alike than different. That we're Americans 1st. Colleges are teaching it wrong, as well.
@@marcusmaddox2176 Going on in the battle for kid's minds and the ability to keep kids from learning realities.. Going on for parents who do not understand social sciences. Going on for propaganda that insists that 5-year-olds are being taught CRT, which is epic nonsense.
@@tysparks598 "Grievance studies"? What are you trying to say? And the notion that nobody is at a "disadvantage" because of skin color is simply ludicrous. I am supposing that you've never taught in college, true?
Finally, someone got it right. CRT is not being taught in lower level schools. However; I remember I protested and questioned the fact that my high school history teacher in the late sixties try to teach us that slaves were happy. Wake Up America!!!
I went to a white washed public school who taught me, George Washington was a hero. And when I questioned the chopping of the cherry tree... I was treated like I was anti-American. This was my first lesson in whitewashed history. Needless to say, I didn't learn about Tulsa OK. We only heard about Martin Luther King was a protester. Black Panthers were terrorists, yet I never found a story of one terrorist act. And their was a woman who refused to sit in the back of the bus. But we only heard these stories in February on MLK Day. We also never heard about the Trail of Tears. I live in SD... home of Mt. Rushmore... and history failed to teach us of The Six Grandfathers. FYI... The Six Grandfathers was a natural rock face that was cherished by Native Americans... holy ground... stories of the 6 Grandfathers watching over the people. In a racist anti-Indian act. The US Government ran off Native American land and violated a peace treaty... and the US President defaced (pun intended) the six Grandfathers by hiring an artist to carve the 4 Presidents heads. A message screaming, you are not welcome. This land belongs to the white man.
Thanks for bringing to the forefront these critical race is issues which define America. Truth is usually offensive. We should never be ashamed of our stories. Confronting our demons should be a help not a deterrent to the generations to come.
keep complaining about whos race is more oppressed. Sprm rates are down 60% since 1970, when no ones left alive because of the consequences of the fallout from the nuclear tests... who will be left to argue whos ethnicity is the best?
@Bryson Hall HAHA are you seriously calling me a far right extremist for thinking the nuclear tests have irreparably harmed the northern hemisphere? Lets go brandon i guess LOL Enjoy extinction pal
CRT does not teach that one race is superior OR inferior. It says historically we have some deficiencies that we need to be able to understand to change.
My favorite subject is history we need to teach it on line and have websites that teach racial history and its effects on our society as a whole from Tulsa to the holocaust. We as a society can also be teachers. #beateacher
Its pretty lame banning certain topics in some schools because well kids will find out no matter what....INTERNET!! But having someone to guide them would be helpful.
Have you seen the way RUclips censors comments (you won't unless you keep the comment history window open and refresh a couple minutes afer you post a comment). It is tough to talk about history without google censuring (including even such topics as how WWII started -- e.g. in comparison to placating Putin with Eastern Europe like someone we all know was placated in the 1930s but whose name in your comment can sometimes get your comment auto-deleted by google today). Republicans are putting a lot of pressure on Google to suppress the trueth (listen to the congressional hearings). Someday you may not be able to get true history from the internet!!!
You're not too bright are you Debra.. You do understand how all the kids don't go to graduate school... how else will they get the true version of History and that the fictitious crap that is written in the books of Elementary and high schools
Problem is that the racist Democrats became racist Republicans and they are now the ones that support the traitor flag, the traitor statues, and Texas ceding from the Nation so they can return to slavery. They don't want to learn from the past because they want to REPEAT the past.
I'm Going 2 Pray 4 Principal Whitfield 2 Get His Job Back, I Believe That This Should B In The Curriculum(Our History) In Every School District, State, Country, County, Borough That The Students As Well The Teachers & Principals Should B Educated With All Races of The Many Individuals In This Country & All Other Countries All Around The World! Staten Island, NY USA Dec. 26, 2021 Stay Encouraged.
@@charles-y2z6c yea, we should have a problem with it. you people who CONSTANTLY complain of censorship are actively proving to be more then eager to censor others. also, you should really be concerned that your censorship attempt is nothing more then a FRUITLESS political game... playing that game makes you a gullible tool in a someone else’s shady mechanism.
@@babblesandbubbles Deciding what your children are taught and not taught is not censorship, the child only has so much time and needs the best instructions for what will make them most productive in life.
Hey it worked for Republicans in Virginia. Dems are too stupid to respond. Did they run ads saying that the Republican's ad about CRT in Virginia schools was a lie by liars. Bold statement that should have been made. NO. Did the Dems respond to Republicans lie ads in Miami saying Biden would make the USA like Castro did. NO. So Biden lost Florida causing this entire mess we have now. Don't blame lying Republicans for not accepting the election, blame Biden for picking POOR leaders to run his champaign and not blantantly calling Republicans LIARS!!! He is doing the same thing by not saying Trump caused high gas prices by not filling the national reserves when gas was free. Trump is responsible for the Russian crisis by turning over Afghanistan and their RICH RARE EARTH ELEMENTS supply to the Taliban...making it a major battle that would cost many lives to counter. Not saying that the inflation is due to shortages BECAUSE THE WORLD SHUT DOWN PRODUCTION for a year. Dems are jus too stupid to spend money spreading the TRUTH. BIDEN is INCOMPETENT because he picks the fools that aren't doing their job.
The only thing I got out of that is what one guy said. There is a WAY to accurately TEACH our history WITHOUT making ANY of our kids bear the burden of stigma. And we need to agree on that way, yesterday.
Minute, we are teaching History here. That's pretty much What One Guy Said. Those who Major in History are reading what All Kinds of People Said. Those who are Down with Twisting History are going to tend to Push what only a Few People Say. Now, so as far as TEACHING OUR HISTORY, WITHOUT making ANY of OUR KIDS bearing ANY BURDEN OF STIGMA, you pretty much NEED to Describe YOUR WAY of teaching Pain Free History, to AMERICAN kids, like YESTERDAY, Sir. JS...
@@minutemeditations14All I agree with a lot of what you're saying. But I am truly trying to understand your point of view better on other things, so I'm asking for help. PLEASE lay out an example or link a video of some sort on how a lot of teachers in our country are traumatizing their students teaching American history. WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE TEACHERS SAYING to give the kids nightmares all over the country. Please help
@@damart1974 , the Disclosure that Minute recommends, above, is a Great Place to begin developing Modern American History Curricula around. What our Teacher Contingent is Actually Saying to our Kids (& GrandKids, Nieces, Nephews, Etc...) is, very much, a valid subject for Debate in this country. The Civil War, after all, was based in the concept of Using People, as Goods & Services, All Rolled in to One Transaction, for Outright Sale. For Life. SLAVERY. It used to be you had to get into College Level American History for any kind of Economic Exploration of this topic. Is explaining How Much a Slave Cost Back Then, (in Adjusted Dollars) "Critical Race Theory", or just "Plain Old American History, UnCensored?" Our kids deserve a little more than what they are presently being Taught:"We Americans Used to Enslave Folks. Our Country Split over this practisce, & The Slaves were Freed, after a Long & Bloody War, against Other Americans..." is just about what anyone hears, in High School. One must be in a Collegiate environment before anything like the Basic Economics of American Slavery get exposed to the student. Why not just Let Them Know where American Slavery was based upon: ECONOMIC CONCERNS. PEOPLE AS MONEY, THEMSELVES. A Single Slave cost the Equivalent of $250 000 dollars, back then (about $2000, in 1850 . Enough to buy a house.) Why keep this simple fact a Secret of some kind? If this is what they are Key Wording as "CRITICAL RACE THEORY", I happen to be All For It... Let's just Drop the Labeling & call it "AMERICAN HISTORY", already..
I am white, and when i finally realized what racism was, and is, and how it came to be and all the horrors done because of it, i have still never felt personally 'guilty.' Instead, i have spent the better part of 40 years, actively fighting to end it! I think anybody who actually feels "guilty," does so, because they know they aren't lifting a finger to end it! (And may even 'believe' that they are benefitting from it - NOT)! But frankly, then they should feel even more than guilt! Until they finally take up the struggle themselves. White Silence does ABSOLUTELY = VIOLENCE!!
You speak of the need to “educate” our youth on the horrors of our countries past, such as slavery and racism, yet make no mention of the fact that very little is taught about slavery that is occurring across the globe, STILL TODAY, in countries like N Korea and China, doesn’t seem like that is a very sincere cause, does it?
If the German nation can face and examine the atrocities they committed in WW2 then we should be able to examine and teach all of our history. That includes the good, the bad and the ugly.
White people refuse to admit Americas wrongdoing. It has absolutely positively nothing to do with superiority/inferiority. Jim Crow/Redlining/Slavery HAPPENED!! You cant get past it. You can teach about George Washington/Columbus and all the other lies, but you dont want to tell the truth about laws creating to oppress/depress Foundational Black Americans. You or your children will pay reparations whether you want to or...not.
I knew blacks were brought here to be slaves. I Truly Wish I would of learned the rest of the story! This BS about not teaching it is just nuts! It's our history!
That's the problem right here because you don't know your American history. Not all Africans were slaves in after they arrived in the U.S. some coming from the Caribbean. Many first came as indentured servants working for 7 years the n freedom. There were at least 300,00 free people of color around during times of slavery. There were many "white" abolitionists like Willam Lloyd Garrison, Cassius Clay and John Brown to name a few. During these times many escaped slaves left to educate themselves and started various careers and some became inventors. It just seemed that once a Black community became established and moving forward some less forward thinking and jealous "white" Americans heeded a reason to tear it all down hence numerous massacres. Should we just say no this didn't happen. How do Germans teach their history to their children? Do they say that the holocaust never happened?
CRT is not about teaching White children they are bad, or Black children they are victims. It’s about being honest about negative aspects of our historySounds like a lot of mis-information out there
Some adults do not understand how to deal with discomfort in historical behavior, and don’t understand how to listen, learn, and move forward. Germans don’t feel shame for the Holocaust but DO learn about it to help them understand how to NOT repeat the sins of the past.
“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.” -Kip Brown, Trump Castle employee
Genesis 15:13-14 [13]And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; [14]And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
I like & admire Chuck Todd. He's quite good at what he does. However he's clearly (and understandably) way out of his league when attempting to even properly frame some of his questions regarding the troubled history of race in America. Of course, in all fairness, his guest Nikole Hannah-Jones is (also) an expert in what she does. Personally, as a journalist, I think the lady is (way) ahead of her time. Or perhaps the real issue is that so much of the nation is so far behind when it comes to having the will & the courage to honestly face our nations brutal past. 😎
I dont agree with him about this topic. It's too narrow. We are leaving out the wounds of Japanese as an example in the containment camps after WWII. Why are they not complaining. Its American History.
@@shirleyfoggepiazza6984 the Japanese wasn't slaves or have gone through the same horrible pain as African Americans. Extremely small in comparison. They didn't focus enough about the struggles of African Americans in this country. They didn't even touch the surface of the problems African Americans are going through. Hate to sound mean, but, what happened to Japanese Americans happened during the second war, you have said this yourself. It's not still happening to Japanese Americans. But, the racism against Asians people are still out there but, black people have been going through this abuse for centuries since the foundation to now and not during one era of history. The institutions in this country was solely designed to work against African Americans and black people in this country and beyond.
@@shirleyfoggepiazza6984 Great point. Imagine classrooms across the country enthusiastically teaching the stories of (all) the diverse groups of Immigrants that make up the United States. Of course if this ever becomes a genuine goal (instead of trying to ban books,) we'd definitely have to hire a lot more teachers, & perhaps..... maybe, just maybe....pay them much better than we do now ! 😎
@@shirleyfoggepiazza6984 Yes, it's true, the same could be said for other racialized groups. Curriculum has to be more inclusive. I teach it this way in college.
We as a Nation have been actively rewriting history and making the curriculum politically correct or fit the desired position states want it to be. The video specifically stated TX now refers to the slave trade as just trade. and slaves as workers. I just shake my head when I see what my kids are taught as compared to what I was taught.
30:48 Their voices are not accurately represented in government, therefore their concerns are not heard… and eventually people stop participating. It’s a vicious cycle.
Sad I'm from Tulsa and to see Oklahoma especially Tulsa wanna keep running from its past smh time to deal with and move forward trying to keep something that happened 100 years ago is freaking ignorant the past will repeat its self if not dealt with properly
I believe tulsa is a microcosm of the underlying issue regarding CRT. There is large number of white policy makers who are in favor of glossing over the ugly parts of our history because they don't want to deal with subject of reperation. I understand that there are still living members of the race riot alive today. Surely their lives and their family's lives have been negatively impacted. Yet the state of Oklahoma does not want to pay reperations to those black families. The goal of many white policy makers is to continue to fight against any movement that seeks tell our real history. The case for reperations would become clearer if the truth was told to the American people.
@Michael with all due respect, I'm sure other races had to deal with racial conflict in America. What always seem to happen when we talk about black people in this country, there always individuals that will bring up other culture's experiences. The subject of this video is dealing with CRT. Clearly, the resistance to CRT is largely based on the unwillingness of many white people to tell the truth about how the mistreatment of it black citizens gave rise to the wealth and prospering many white people enjoy today. I'm not saying that what has happened to the Chinese is not worth noting, I'm simply saying to bring it up in this context only seeks to minimize the trauma that black people went through.
This the comment I been searching for:: people names are attached to the some of these evil events of this history:: they don’t wanna get called out by their loved ones especially if they benefited from it:: some of the white teens now in 2021 ain’t with the racist stuff:: & call they parents out:: banning things in school will not keep them from learning outside in the world
These are the 14 GOP congressional representatives who voted AGAINST the long overdue federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States (lest we forget): Clyde* (GA) Biggs* (AZ) Massie* (KY) Brooks (AL) DesJarlais (TN) Gosar (AZ) Jackson (TZ) LaMalfa (CA) McClintock (CA) Norman (NC) Rogers (AL) Rosendale (MN) Roy (TX) Tiffany (WI)
How absurd.... That it has unpleasantries strewn throughout, does not render HISTORY any less HISTORY. It cannot be undone. What is relevant is that the facts be presented and not misrepresented.
Teachers are there for us to teach, all the truths, not perceptions , biased, or abbreviated portions of our history! If parents want to dictate everything that is taught to their children through a narrow mind, then how are the children to learn the whole picture? Perhaps those dictating parents need to go back to school and become an an educator! Parents have rights to know what is being taught, but why would they question the truths of our history? It is blindfolding our children and giving them a partial education
You're Wrong! Parents are a vital part of the education process and should be included in these discussions. Teachers need to drop their arrogance and be willing to work with parents instead of pushing their own agenda!
Great edition of Meet the Press on a topic that needs to be addressed especially when minorities and people of color still live and experience hate and discrimination to this day. For those who don't want to face these important issues they will either have to face it in the classroom that need to be discussed or eventually in the courtroom where the subject of discrimination (illegal) will be challenged. This problem will not go away by ignoring and not discussing it.
Put a white man in a black community. What happens? Or a black man in a white community. Then have news exasperate racial tensions for views. Our news needs fixing. It’s the single biggest source of fear and agitation available for public consumption. I for one enjoy all people. I have married interracial and have kids biracial. We r more alike then different. We all started out white. Rejoice USA allows all for the melting pot. China or Japan doesn’t have the same issues.
I’ve been in American schools since I was 6 years old and the first time I learned in depth history of African Americans is when I went to college. In middle and high schools they are very very brief on racism and what really happened. Now I know why it was made to be like that since all these parents have a problem with their children knowing what really happened
Teaching our history does not mean telling some kids they’re superior or victims. It’s about teaching history so that we don’t make the same mistakes. Unbelievable!!
History is about facts
Excellent!
**WHAT'S REALLY HORRIFYING,,,, IS THAT TEXTBOOKS FOR THE COUNTRY,,, ARE DECIDED IN TEXAS!!! So we've got morons like these,, Republicans,, making decisions for all of our children!!!**
That would require the truth and most people don't want to hear, read or be told the truth regarding the history of the United States. Monticello, the home/plantation of President Thomas Jefferson, is just now 2021 admitting and embracing the history of Sally Hemmings, a slave and half sister to his wife, her relationship and children with President Thomas Jefferson.
I read this book over 40 years ago and asked about their relationship during the tour and was told, "surely, you are incorrect." They didn't, don't want the truth to be discussed or shared.
Maria Davis 100% agree!!!
History should be taught so the next generation can do better!
Some people choose to be ignorant by stay uneducated and uninformed.
I agree!
So true
And some people use history to make generalizations about entire races of people.
AND MAINTAIN THEIR UNDESERVED RACIAL ADVANTAGE.
@@dominantallele4216 We agree. Both are terrible uses of history.
Teachers must teach the truth, the whole (entire truth), and nothing but the truth. So help you; GOD.
Whose truths? Your truth? My truth? The government truth?
@@markv785 Your bot crazy setting is too high.
@@plusorminusandtime You need to look up the definition of truth.
@@wynetteabc Go ahead and tell the definition of truth. I am sure your truth is different from my truth.
Including the very real possibilty that there is no God.
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” - George Orwell.
What is your source? Did he write that in a novel, essay or one of his letters? What was the context?
"The most effective way to mislead a person is to confuse and obfuscate their own understanding of their identity,
beliefs and history by quoting someone famous in a random manner, without context or source." A Burden
@Rose Moore Wow, you sure didn't learn punctuation in all your 52 years of living!. Try a comma or period.
I can't make sense of what you're saying or why. What is the relevance of your weight-("fat")? Why mention sitting at the back of the class? Is that where "fat" people sat, or girls and blacks? What? America...strives for, tries to-improve. A more perfect union is the phrase. Great opportunity there. Please-write again.
Unless their understanding of history is corrupted by their favored political perspective.
This applies to both right and left.
@@MH-be6hr History was always corrupted by the victors, they told whatever story they liked. Welcome to the real world buddy.
@@aburden8580 pet peeve? While you try to sound erudite your self attributed quote is nonsense. In what context was their a misleading and obfuscation of someone's identity by offering a quote that encourages true understanding of history? Boy (or girl) stop.
So sad to mess up ANY history for our kids. We will NEVER be the same, but we should hear ALL OF the history for all people.
History has always been taught in class rooms without the division of who's fault it was.....all the ignorant people who participated in enslavement are dead...blacks should be monetized for all the pain and suffering they endured in their unlawful enslavement and their cooperation in what america is today
I grew up during the Cold War. I think it will be more like that, where the truth of what we experienced and how we felt about it will seem incredible and trivialized. Today ‘duck and cover’ is a joke, but it sure wasn’t for those of use who went through nuclear attack drills as children in classrooms.
Never be the same, as when, the 20', 30's, 40's, 50's.... such a selective memory. The united states til this day has never been kind to Africans and Americans(real Americans).
The same as what? Will people never be the same as one another, or will Americans never be the same? And the same as what, exactly? If you’re pining for a day in the past without this racism, that’s the point. There was just a time when white people didn’t have to reckon with its consequences. If you understand racism, you understand the progress made isn’t by hanging on to nostalgia for a time when it was easier to be racist, overtly, or quietly through the existing structures that allowed for it to become endemic.
Right on it's many was to present CRT per curriculum
I'm a 6th and 7th grade social studies/history teacher at a predominantely black school in Oklahoma.
Just teach history. That's it. Blemishes and all. Allow students to approach history from different perspectives and approach problematic hisorical curricula with empathy, discussion, and context. It's all about awareness.
My students and parents appreciate the difficult class discussions we have. It's not an agenda, it's just history.
Edit: I've never once been reprimanded for teaching difficult content because I communicate my lessons to parents and students beforehand.
Thank you for your educative efforts, we need more teachers and mentors like this who understand the idea of critical analysis and the truths and lessons taught from history.
There was no white supremacy class in 1950s. Teaching history of facts is different from teaching a narrative about history. It should be illegal to teach false theories like it should be illegal to teach 2+2=5
@Michael how in the world did public education tell us we were all equal when the actual law didn't say that? The constitution doesn't even give half the population any rights. Sounds like you think public education used to lie to kids to make them feel better and now that they recognize it was all a lie, you have a problem with that and want to go back to lying? Great strategy
@Michael "were once about patriotism, Anglo Saxton views and were all equal? When? When was the country all Anglo Saxton? When they came here and killed the natives? When we forced millions of black people to come here? And when in history were we "all equal?" Again, even the documents that found the country say the exact opposite. Sure it says we are all equal, and then farther down clarifies "all" meant white male land owners. You don't even know history and yet you want your views taught?
Well said, very well said.
11:52 The goal isn’t to make children feel guilty for the actions of others. The goal is to teach our children that mistake have been made, so that they will not repeat those mistakes in the future.
Teaching children what mistakes were made are taught every day in America,without a need for CRT.
there is no goal. no children are being taught CRT.
@@babblesandbubbles
The biggest lie a Marxist tells is that there is no Marxism. The 1619 project is CRT. Jones herself says the 1619 project is to redefine the narrative.
Yes, and that's the real, underlined issue that one one wants to admit to...
That some of these parents believe that slavery was "Good" for the country, they are " Proud" of that history. And would rather go back to that way of life with the belief system that black people are some kind of lesser species of human being.
@@nalignmentwlifehealinglife
Finding parents that think slavery was good is a lie that these people want you to believe is a justification for this radical teaching. There are not one single parent at that school who believes that.
History must be thought in schools across the globe. Those who don't want our children to learn the truth are disgraceful, shameful and shallow individuals.
These limited ppl, who refuse to see racism going on in US, is the biggest danger to US…..and are carrying fire to a future civil war.
Why did an international court dismiss the doomsday lawsuit against CERN in 2008 when theres been evidence to support the claim of quantum tunneling through the higgs field since 1982?
**. THOSE WHO WANT TO BAN BOOKS,,, AND , CENSOR ,,TEACHING.. SHOULD GO LIVE IN FASCIST COUNTRIES!!!! NOT IN MY AMERICA!!!!**
Same with misinformation with regards to Covid. We need free and open discussion on both sides
We create history as we live and one day our children gonna find out if we did the right thing or wrong thing.
"Balancing books about the Holocaust with an opposing view. "
Dear lord! Help us!!!
I know right? That's that slippery slope. Just tell the truth, so healing can continue.
There were good people on both sides. The Jews, homosexuals and gypsies on one side and the white supremacist nazis on the other. This is the republican view. Lol
I remember being so upset when I went out into the world and found I knew nothing about what my black peers have experienced generationally in this country. My friend had to sit in the balcony section of the theater - why wouldn’t I want to know all this? Would have given me insight into all the interpersonal interactions I’ve had with POC.
I would have been a much better teacher had I know so much that has been brushed under the rug for us whites.
Disgusting
and how old are you.ijs
And that was true even in the 80s and 90s.
Correct, that's how you learn and understand. Do you realize there was a Holocaust museum before these was ever a Native American or Black one in America? Kids in Germany learn about the Holocaust all the time and they aren't running around with guilt SHM.
Image a history so disgusting you don’t even want it taught in school anymore. Regardless to feelings. Facts over feelings.
Exactly
My daughter attended a French School ,a private school. She also attended the United Nations school with a World view of education. History isnt only American its Worldwide.
True! This self centered view could use some serious expanding.
Exactly! The world needs to hear the truth: facts over feelings!
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and french fries. [I mean 'Freedom Fries] As a non-American citizen, I sometimes write Free Dumb fries.
We talking about America history not nation wide
We should be teaching our children how we learn from our mistakes and become better people and a stronger Nation because of it. That's what we do right? I think not.
We dont teach our American children well at all. We need qualified educators.
@@shirleyfoggepiazza6984 Pay them more.
@@shirleyfoggepiazza6984 they should be paid way more...children are in school 6 to 8hrs. Teachers have to pay for supply out of pocket. We don't treat them right and they are with our most valuable resource for 8hrs a day.
The thing is, America still has not learned from their mistakes. God forbid we make the white man feel uncomfortable.
@@kathyweis7451
Who is " we" and "they" that don't pay teachers well enough? We and they elect school boards and legislatures to create school taxes and let the board decide how much a teacher is worth. In my district which I pay taxes and dont use the school because i sent my children to private schools raised the taxes to build a new artificial turf baseball diamond, track and football field with lights for Friday night games and bleachers. Maybe THEY should have paid the teachers more instead.
As a "white" woman I AM FOR teaches America's FULL HISTORY!! To be well rounded young people WE as adults HAVE to TEACH !!!!❤❤❤
Thank you very much may God bless you for your truth.
There is a difference between teaching history, and telling students they are victims NOW.
Did you know when there were black slaves there were white slaves too?
@@Antidragon-nl7by Well Said
I went to a private school growing up, so my experience may be a little different. History was taught differently and quite frankly the racial divide was glossed over. It is much more controversial today. If it is indeed true that CRT is not taught in the sense of legal jurisprudence, then these conservatives sound ridiculous not knowing what they are talking about. If they choose to redefine history as CRT, then they need to come to terms with the fact that sometimes the truth hurts. Perhaps more clarification from educators needs to be taught, so that these supposed claims of white kids "feeling guilty" or "not loving their country" and black kids "feeling inferior" will not be the wrong lessons learned. Much like masking, I don't hear kids complaining about it - this is a manufactured parent grievance. Perhaps more effort should be made by educators and the school boards to make sure that these lessons are about equality and empowerment to make each subsequent generation more informed and understanding than the last. This is the only way for history to not rhyme or repeat itself. To do otherwise, is to have this radical form of nationalism/populism/conservatism morph into authoritarianism. I can't even believe we are having this discussion, since all of this seems like common sense.
The hypocrisy of conservatives is outlandish and can be summarized as, "Freedom for me, but not for thee." - pro-guns but horrified of school shootings? anti-abortion yet against the welfare state to support these children forced to be brought into this world, pro-life but believe in capital punishment? Freedom of speech and railing against cancel culture, yet trying to impose their own moral code into law and firing teachers for doing their jobs? Anti-science, yet "do my own research" (on the internet created by infrastructural investments), and all sorts of ignorance politicizing inflation, supply chains, masking, vaccines, and other culture war BS issues... Much of this is driven by neuroses, paranoia, and projection of their worst selves onto the left and liberals. While there will always be extremists on both ends, I don't think that's where the majority of Americans feel and think. Many are misled or just not well-informed, due to everyday life and work.
As an Asian American, I watch all of this controversy as "the other" or 3rd party, having lived on both sides of the divide. I have felt racism very directly when I was younger, but not as overtly and ongoing after growing up, as African Americans have. Yet, I have been treated very well and fairly - yet knowing that things could turn against people like me on a dime. Nonetheless, I feel their pain and did not learn about Asian American history in depth until after college - through a nonprofit civil rights advocacy group. Granted, my fields of study did not get into race relations, so I only took what was required at the time. Much of my love for history happened after majoring in Economics. And certainly working in Wall Street, the economic rivalry with China can certainly fan flames of xenophobia in the medium and long term, much as the previous administration did with COVID or the affect that the forever wars had on Islamophobia in our recent past. Race relations can deteriorate further, not just between black vs. white, but it can turn into a crazy free-for-all, which would literally tear this country apart, which is exactly what our authoritarian adversaries would like to wish upon us through misinformation campaigns via social media. If our multi-racial democracy and change management are not harnessed positively as strengths, then they can become fires that burn out of control, rather than sources of comfort and ingenuity.
Yes to all of that very insightful commenting along with your own experience and education. I couldn't agree more with you. Thanks very much for sharing it all here, every word. I've grown more interested in economics, history, science, and politics after learning more about shadowy American plutocracy, grown so powerfully and not covered much in the media outlets that are also controlled to a certain extent by the plutocrats who can benefit financially from all the divisiveness. Any thoughts about that?
My God I can't believe it could be said better,💞💞💞🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍
@Michael Lynn ... very well stated.
I have to get to bed, but loved what you've said so far and will finish tomorrow. For now i'd like to suggest that us whites have been taught "the zero sum game," for those unaware what that means, its that whatever the government or industry gives to those "others," means taking away for the "us whites." Its a total lie, manufactured by the think tanks of white rich & male -supremacists. But it keeps the working white poor from seeing our losses as same as People of Color - working poor. I am reading a Book now, by Heather McGhee, called: THE SUM OF US - i highly recommend it! To be totally frank: Equality for POC's is not 'just' a 'moral' necessity, but its an economical one, for all of us, whites included, as well!
To resume: its ironic that Economics was the course in College that cost me a 4.0 GPA, had 2 settle 4 a B. I just couldn't understand it, til i realized that it wasn't ME, but our screwed up economic system. And i've been working on changing THIS, ever since! Also, as Asian-American, i am guessing you have started to feel more hatred the last year, than any time in your life, what with drumpf and his "kung flu" bashing! It has led to beatings and deaths. This country is always looking for scapegoats and finding some race or culture to hate bash on. It is just so tragic, because we would ALL be better off if we were more & fully - INCLUSIVE!
Write that book Dr. Whitfield. Racism in America, is "ALIVE and ( Un)Well".
"The only requisite required for evil to exist is when good men do nothing. "
- Albert Einstein 1943
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Wrong.
The quote is generally attributed to Edmund Burke.
The closest quote goes to John Stuart Mill in 1867.
In an inaugural address at St Andrews University in Scotland.
Well @@aburden8580i saw it in book of quotes. So maybe the book was wrong. Or maybe you are a troll who don't like me, and you are the one who is wrong. 🤨~ Maybe you are one of the those concervatives memtioned in it who also does not like "Critical Race Theory" and attack's others who helps to shine i light on CRT. 🔦~ Are you racist ? 🤷♂️ And what is your stand on Critical Race Theory ? ✍
@@akymrinkovsky289 Yeah, maybe. What was the title? Publisher?
As for rhetorical debate and ability to converse in a productive and intelligent manner: then no.
I don't like you, because you fail. Yeah !
Are you trying to act smart and tough like teen movie: Team America World Police? Try another quote.
The reporter asked a teacher, "Do you think you should stick to teaching basic history?" My question.... isn't the facts around what happened to black people, black families, and black communities during and after slavery basic history? The facts can be taught without biased commentary, so students can decide for themselves.
Agreed
Why can we not be taught in school about African Americans being denied housing, employment, and bank loans just because the color of their skin, Isn't this also apart of our great American History ?
Exactly! They want to keep that hidden so they can keep up the bs idea that black people never tried to get ahead...
That seems to be the American way. What's uncomfortable just isn't talked about or covered up. I'm from Germany, my children were taught about the Holocaust, something like that should never happen again. My children didn't feel guilty, being German, for things that happened decades before they were born.
He’s Black with an attractive white wife. Of course they want him fired. The American way .
It's so wrong in Texas. Texas should exceed from the Uniion as they have always wanted it to. I was not taught this history in 7th grade in MA. A liberal State.
I don't know what else the School accused Whitefield of, but Whitefield marrying a White wife with so much display of love between them; I think he is sending a message of unitedness for all races.
Whether Whites or People of color, the question we should ask ourselves and objectively ponder upon is "Are we great with our past and how can we make our future even greater and better for all races by learning and making certain changes from the past such that benefit all races in the here and now as well as in the future?"
God bless America!
He looks mixed race.
When I was a K through 12 student, in terms of History, we learned about the American Revolution over and over again. My only education on American Slavery during those years was watching the series ‘Roots.’ Foreign cultures, I watched ‘Shogun’ and David Carradine in ‘Kung Fu.’ All I knew about Africa was that the women were topless and everyone was starving to death, because that’s what popular media taught me. And this is given that I was educated in the upper middle class WASP suburbs of NYC.
I say they were the WASP suburbs but in actual fact that wasn’t true. I had friends and neighbors, plenty of them, who were Jews, Italians, Black, Latino, Asian … and we learned absolutely nothing about their heritages in school. Lots of rhetoric, Jewish and Italian jokes, stereotypes of Black people, but most of us couldn’t find China on a map. We sure new where England is, because that’s where our parents went Christmas shopping at Harrod’s.
Now as an adult I have a lot of stamps in my passports; I’ve lived ‘overseas;’ my wife is native Japanese and I speak the language fluently. But all that didn’t start until I went to college and made friends with people from all over the world.
Then and today, kids are taught a very sterile, white washed version of the world and its history. We shouldn’t be discouraged from fixing that by a minority within a minority who want to keep us undereducated about what made the society we have today.
You can not tip toe around the subject of race in History without pretending that it didn’t matter, because obviously it did. We certainly don’t avoid discussing race when we talk about the Holocaust, which is why many don’t want it discussed at all, as if it wasn’t important, as if it didn’t happen.
Well said, sir! Amen 🙏🏽
Race baiting has no place in education! That is why Critical Race Theory is illegal to teach in many states.
@@darrylbradshaw3527 what do you class as "race baiting" ?
I agree, well said. What were we taught in the 60's about Native Americans, they ambushed American settlers and cut of there scalps. We don't teach our children about race unless some other countries were the only ones involved on both sides.
I started first grade in 1971. I attended a school in a white neighborhood in Georgia. A few black children were bussed from across town, so that our school could be integrated. I saw and experienced racism and hateful attitudes, words and actions. I understood at a very young age, that black children were not treated fairly by the school. As I grew older, I saw that black people were not being treated fairly by society. Most of the White children I went to elementary school with, were placed in private schools after graduating elementary school. The private schools in our area sprung up after integration, as an alternative to sending white children to school with black children. Things need to change. We may never change some attitudes twords racism and white supremacy. But we can make sure that black people are treated fairly, and have access to the financial opportunities and equity, which would give them the ability to be successful.
The clarity with which Joshua Johnson makes his points gave me 'goosebumps.' To put it another way, the brother's got skills !
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Be glad when the democrats are out of power and we can become a nation of pride again instead of a nation obsessed with race, which is all driven by the DNC. The dems policies are failing miserably so all they do is race bait.
@@888strummer well that’s just bass ack backards of anything close to reality.
What exactly is the platform of the GQP other than obstruction of anything good for our country?
Anything that would fix our roads or bridges or get access to the internet for states like West Virginia? No? What about access to healthcare in states where young pregnant girls have none?
No? What about wages being adequate to feed and house your family? No?
What about telling young mothers to raise their boys to be monsters? That’s a platform right there.
YES! What about telling your young boys to arm up and dangerous? YES!!!!
What about calling for holy war against our country? Maddie Cawthorn did that. That’s a platform. It’s fascist as f. Forcing the rule of a white nationalist fascist dictator isn’t racist at all!
It’s unimaginable that it looks like that.
It’s totally constitutional to try to deny the votes of the majority.
I don’t know why anyone would be offended by that. Votes?
Let states ignore the majority of votes. Maddie Cawthorn and Lauren Boebert are really good at being smart with their let’s just shoot fellow Americans agenda.
It’s great again!
@@rendajones7368 I'm a moderate independent but at least the republicans focus mostly on the economy and defense compared to the democrats who are obsessed with racial issues; as the economy crumbles. $2 gas with an obnoxious president is better $3.50 gas with a president who's half asleep.
@@rendajones7368 👍😎 It's a pity that we're all not in a setting where these things could be debated face to face. I'd love to have this so-called "Moderate Independent" look us in the eye & declare that Republican legislators around the country are (not) obsessed with Race when they're implementing such obviously unfair & restrictive new Voting laws! Some folks in these comment sections are clearly living in another dimension. 😆
born in the 60ies in Germany I had to learn the miserable history of my anchestors- sometimes hard but you have to accept history to have a fresh restart of society.... you have a long way ahead in US- best wishes and good luck
It says a whole lot about the angry parents and their own insecurities. It’s sad they feel bad about themselves. Makes for bad parenting. Sad.
I agree with you regarding the insecurities of some parents. Being a grandmother to children 6-17, I want them to know their/our history. I can’t get over parents of white children thinking the children would get their feelings hurt. I wanted to learn it all! Hard to wrap my head around their thinking. .
It’s worse than that. Most WASPs don’t feel this way. These people are anti-diversity activists, and they’re on your school board.
There is a difference between education and indoctrination! A classic example of radical indoctrination is Critical Race Theory!
🎉 Miss Jones....thank YOU!!! My mother taught elementary for 46 yrs...my sister taught kindergartners for 36! I can guarantee you...neither one ever backed down!!! 💝 I'm an Artist! My father taught me to ALWAYS question authority...always! A Mind....is a Terrible thing to WASTE!!! 📚
Ah-HEM! You DO realize that questioning and standing up to good, uprigheteous, spit-and-polish, pillars-of-the-community authority is *hooliganism*, right? If not, then you need to realize that tradition, especially time-honored values are just plain right! If you do already know this, then merely questioning and challenging the establishment alone puts you dangerously close to juvenile delinquent territory and a third of the way to the state pen besides.
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Exactly! It is not avoidable - we are each a part of our shared history, good, bad and ugly. Best we can learn the truths and reasons underlying everything so we can intellectually come to terms and understand our personal and community responses and can be able to choose and work for our course forward.
I grew up in Oklahoma City graduated in 1985 and and was never taught about the massacre
Disservice! How can that be justified?
That discomfort is the growth.
No pain no gain...
Nullified history breeds people like this congressman.
Absolutely. But older more mature students who are taught to think critically should engage in this discussion, not CHILDREN.
@@nd6148 Exactly, which is why it’s not taught to children. What is taught to children is under a federal framework, state standards, and local districts decide what textbooks to adopt. Parents who are actually paying attention to what their children are learning, or who are active in their child’s education know this. It’s not a part of teacher education per se, but it is a part of what teachers need to know.
Texas state senator Brian Hughes is intent on preserving his job, and nothing else. He references a "little girl" who might be emotionally harmed if she is taught "CRT." Again this stance is utter nonsense and designed to garner votes from parents who simply do not know what's going on.
Going on where ? And what , for that matter .
Maybe you meant parents who don't know that Marvin Gaye classic, What's Goin On ?
In which case I withdraw my question
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CRT is just a placeholder for intersectionality or grievance studies. It's not a good way to raise kids, teaching them that they're victims. Include feminism & it would be the same. No need to fight the patriarchy, & at an individual level, in America in 2021, no one is at a disadvantage solely b/c of their skin color.
Just listen to this, when the black kid says, "my people" meaning black people. We should be taught we are more alike than different. That we're Americans 1st.
Colleges are teaching it wrong, as well.
@@marcusmaddox2176 Going on in the battle for kid's minds and the ability to keep kids from learning realities.. Going on for parents who do not understand social sciences. Going on for propaganda that insists that 5-year-olds are being taught CRT, which is epic nonsense.
@@tysparks598 "Grievance studies"? What are you trying to say? And the notion that nobody is at a "disadvantage" because of skin color is simply ludicrous. I am supposing that you've never taught in college, true?
Libraries. Would. Unite. America. Not. Divide. Us. We. All. Deserve. Better OMG 😲
Finally, someone got it right. CRT is not being taught in lower level schools. However; I remember I protested and questioned the fact that my high school history teacher in the late sixties try to teach us that slaves were happy. Wake Up America!!!
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I went to a white washed public school who taught me, George Washington was a hero. And when I questioned the chopping of the cherry tree... I was treated like I was anti-American. This was my first lesson in whitewashed history. Needless to say, I didn't learn about Tulsa OK. We only heard about Martin Luther King was a protester. Black Panthers were terrorists, yet I never found a story of one terrorist act. And their was a woman who refused to sit in the back of the bus. But we only heard these stories in February on MLK Day. We also never heard about the Trail of Tears.
I live in SD... home of Mt. Rushmore... and history failed to teach us of The Six Grandfathers.
FYI... The Six Grandfathers was a natural rock face that was cherished by Native Americans... holy ground... stories of the 6 Grandfathers watching over the people.
In a racist anti-Indian act. The US Government ran off Native American land and violated a peace treaty... and the US President defaced (pun intended) the six Grandfathers by hiring an artist to carve the 4 Presidents heads. A message screaming, you are not welcome. This land belongs to the white man.
Thank you for that history lesson. I wondered about them ugly faces on the side of the mountain . . . . why were they there? Now I know.
Love you Ms. Jones.
Thanks for bringing to the forefront these critical race is issues which define America. Truth is usually offensive. We should never be ashamed of our stories. Confronting our demons should be a help not a deterrent to the generations to come.
Who cares it was like a bazillion years ago.
keep complaining about whos race is more oppressed. Sprm rates are down 60% since 1970, when no ones left alive because of the consequences of the fallout from the nuclear tests... who will be left to argue whos ethnicity is the best?
@Bryson Hall When i think of the future and the inevitable collapse of civilization... for some i weep. For others...
@Bryson Hall HAHA are you seriously calling me a far right extremist for thinking the nuclear tests have irreparably harmed the northern hemisphere? Lets go brandon i guess LOL
Enjoy extinction pal
@Bryson Hall "Falling sperm counts 'threaten human survival', expert warns" this is a headline from the guardian. This must be far right now.
CRT does not teach that one race is superior OR inferior. It says historically we have some deficiencies that we need to be able to understand to change.
My favorite subject is history we need to teach it on line and have websites that teach racial history and its effects on our society as a whole from Tulsa to the holocaust. We as a society can also be teachers. #beateacher
"The truth shall set you free".......🙏😌🙏
Its pretty lame banning certain topics in some schools because well kids will find out no matter what....INTERNET!! But having someone to guide them would be helpful.
Have you seen the way RUclips censors comments (you won't unless you keep the comment history window open and refresh a couple minutes afer you post a comment). It is tough to talk about history without google censuring (including even such topics as how WWII started -- e.g. in comparison to placating Putin with Eastern Europe like someone we all know was placated in the 1930s but whose name in your comment can sometimes get your comment auto-deleted by google today). Republicans are putting a lot of pressure on Google to suppress the trueth (listen to the congressional hearings). Someday you may not be able to get true history from the internet!!!
@@BillsSpamMail your totally off on this one. The republicans are fighting for freedom of speech with regards to covid too
@@BillsSpamMail Correct.
@@skater8352 Republicans aren't fighting for anything besides lining their own pockets.
Nikole Hannah Jones really out “journalismed” Chuck Todd. 😂 poor Chuck.
This is all nonsense: CRT is taught in GRADUATE SCHOOL, not high school or elementary school. Those people who think otherwise are simpletons.
Agreed.
The politicians know better they only exploit it for a wedge issue.
I see CRT in my kid's homework. So you are wrong. They are trying to hide and say it isn't CRT but it is.
You're not too bright are you Debra..
You do understand how all the kids don't go to graduate school... how else will they get the true version of History and that the fictitious crap that is written in the books of Elementary and high schools
@@plusorminusandtime Can you take a scan and show us? You post links now in yt comments
History needs to be taught as the events happened,
Our past as Americans does have their scars, put it is imperative we teach and learn from those scars so that they can never again occur.
Problem is that the racist Democrats became racist Republicans and they are now the ones that support the traitor flag, the traitor statues, and Texas ceding from the Nation so they can return to slavery. They don't want to learn from the past because they want to REPEAT the past.
The truth needs to be told.
As kids we don't know history. It's being taught and remembered.
Teach my children the TRUTH, the good, the bad and the ugly !!!
Just teach the truth. Teach the beautiful the ugly .and all in between. Anything else sounds like North Korea to me.
Exactly! We pick and choose when we are a fair, loving democracy!?!
I love this show. For me, it replaces the nightly news, which i cannot watch because it infects my spirit and makes me depressed.
Lester Holt is 💯xs better!!! 🤭
Byron needs to know it’s not taught in public schools
Of course he knows: he is using this to frighten his constituents and get their votes.
@@debravanausdale1063 Yep. I suppose he’s counting on his constituents not knowing better, which doesn’t say much for them.
I'm Going 2 Pray 4 Principal Whitfield 2 Get His Job Back, I Believe That This Should B In The Curriculum(Our History) In Every School District, State, Country, County, Borough That The Students As Well The Teachers & Principals Should B Educated With All Races of The Many Individuals In This Country & All Other Countries All Around The World! Staten Island, NY USA Dec. 26, 2021 Stay Encouraged.
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States are banning schools from teaching something that is not taught in schools. You gotta luv America!
Then you should have no problem with it.
@@charles-y2z6c yea, we should have a problem with it.
you people who CONSTANTLY complain of censorship are actively proving to be more then eager to censor others.
also, you should really be concerned that your censorship attempt is nothing more then a FRUITLESS political game... playing that game makes you a gullible tool in a
someone else’s shady mechanism.
@@babblesandbubbles
Deciding what your children are taught and not taught is not censorship, the child only has so much time and needs the best instructions for what will make them most productive in life.
Hey it worked for Republicans in Virginia. Dems are too stupid to respond. Did they run ads saying that the Republican's ad about CRT in Virginia schools was a lie by liars. Bold statement that should have been made. NO. Did the Dems respond to Republicans lie ads in Miami saying Biden would make the USA like Castro did. NO. So Biden lost Florida causing this entire mess we have now. Don't blame lying Republicans for not accepting the election, blame Biden for picking POOR leaders to run his champaign and not blantantly calling Republicans LIARS!!! He is doing the same thing by not saying Trump caused high gas prices by not filling the national reserves when gas was free. Trump is responsible for the Russian crisis by turning over Afghanistan and their RICH RARE EARTH ELEMENTS supply to the Taliban...making it a major battle that would cost many lives to counter. Not saying that the inflation is due to shortages BECAUSE THE WORLD SHUT DOWN PRODUCTION for a year.
Dems are jus too stupid to spend money spreading the TRUTH. BIDEN is INCOMPETENT because he picks the fools that aren't doing their job.
The only thing I got out of that is what one guy said. There is a WAY to accurately TEACH our history WITHOUT making ANY of our kids bear the burden of stigma. And we need to agree on that way, yesterday.
Minute, we are teaching History here. That's pretty much What One Guy Said. Those who Major in History are reading what All Kinds of People Said. Those who are Down with Twisting History are going to tend to Push what only a Few People Say. Now, so as far as TEACHING OUR HISTORY, WITHOUT making ANY of OUR KIDS bearing ANY BURDEN OF STIGMA, you pretty much NEED to Describe YOUR WAY of teaching Pain Free History, to AMERICAN kids, like YESTERDAY, Sir. JS...
@@minutemeditations14All I agree with a lot of what you're saying. But I am truly trying to understand your point of view better on other things, so I'm asking for help. PLEASE lay out an example or link a video of some sort on how a lot of teachers in our country are traumatizing their students teaching American history. WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE TEACHERS SAYING to give the kids nightmares all over the country. Please help
That’s not what he said & we need not teach our kids to be weak. They can handle the truth that’s taught responsibly.
@@minutemeditations14AllThat was fair. Thank you for disclosing your Way here. It has a lot of Merit.
@@damart1974 , the Disclosure that Minute recommends, above, is a Great Place to begin developing Modern American History Curricula around. What our Teacher Contingent is Actually Saying to our Kids (& GrandKids, Nieces, Nephews, Etc...) is, very much, a valid subject for Debate in this country. The Civil War, after all, was based in the concept of Using People, as Goods & Services, All Rolled in to One Transaction, for Outright Sale. For Life. SLAVERY. It used to be you had to get into College Level American History for any kind of Economic Exploration of this topic. Is explaining How Much a Slave Cost Back Then, (in Adjusted Dollars) "Critical Race Theory", or just "Plain Old American History, UnCensored?" Our kids deserve a little more than what they are presently being Taught:"We Americans Used to Enslave Folks. Our Country Split over this practisce, & The Slaves were Freed, after a Long & Bloody War, against Other Americans..." is just about what anyone hears, in High School. One must be in a Collegiate environment before anything like the Basic Economics of American Slavery get exposed to the student. Why not just Let Them Know where American Slavery was based upon: ECONOMIC CONCERNS. PEOPLE AS MONEY, THEMSELVES. A Single Slave cost the Equivalent of $250 000 dollars, back then (about $2000, in 1850 . Enough to buy a house.) Why keep this simple fact a Secret of some kind? If this is what they are Key Wording as "CRITICAL RACE THEORY", I happen to be All For It... Let's just Drop the Labeling & call it "AMERICAN HISTORY", already..
Gees no wonder kids are so messed up. Parents are supposed to be an example to children. Teaching them to be stupid is the latest fad
I only learned what I know about black history from attending an HBCU.
How can the truth be a harmful thing
They BUTCHERCH and MURDERED still do to this DAY
I am white, and when i finally realized what racism was, and is, and how it came to be and all the horrors done because of it, i have still never felt personally 'guilty.' Instead, i have spent the better part of 40 years, actively fighting to end it! I think anybody who actually feels "guilty," does so, because they know they aren't lifting a finger to end it! (And may even 'believe' that they are benefitting from it - NOT)! But frankly, then they should feel even more than guilt! Until they finally take up the struggle themselves. White Silence does ABSOLUTELY = VIOLENCE!!
You speak of the need to “educate” our youth on the horrors of our countries past, such as slavery and racism, yet make no mention of the fact that very little is taught about slavery that is occurring across the globe, STILL TODAY, in countries like N Korea and China, doesn’t seem like that is a very sincere cause, does it?
Merry Christmas Chuck to you, your wonderful staff and all your guests who comprise this enlightening and provocative show. Thank You!
Well said Mary!!
Well said Mary!!
If the German nation can face and examine the atrocities they committed in WW2 then we should be able to examine and teach all of our history. That includes the good, the bad and the ugly.
When will we come together and LEARN FROM THE PAST not make these kids or little people bear the same burden that keeps on generation to generation
White people refuse to admit Americas wrongdoing. It has absolutely positively nothing to do with superiority/inferiority. Jim Crow/Redlining/Slavery HAPPENED!! You cant get past it. You can teach about George Washington/Columbus and all the other lies, but you dont want to tell the truth about laws creating to oppress/depress Foundational Black Americans. You or your children will pay reparations whether you want to or...not.
@@kunchuzking3527 Americans want history to say: Lincoln freed the slaves ~ MLK did a speech ~ Obama became president.
The truth will set us free .
I knew blacks were brought here to be slaves. I Truly Wish I would of learned the rest of the story! This BS about not teaching it is just nuts! It's our history!
What for? So you can further denigrate them.
That's the problem right here because you don't know your American history. Not all Africans were slaves in after they arrived in the U.S. some coming from the Caribbean. Many first came as indentured servants working for 7 years the n freedom. There were at least 300,00 free people of color around during times of slavery. There were many "white" abolitionists like Willam Lloyd Garrison, Cassius Clay and John Brown to name a few. During these times many escaped slaves left to educate themselves and started various careers and some became inventors. It just seemed that once a Black community became established and moving forward some less forward thinking and jealous "white" Americans heeded a reason to tear it all down hence numerous massacres. Should we just say no this didn't happen. How do Germans teach their history to their children? Do they say that the holocaust never happened?
CRT is not about teaching White children they are bad, or Black children they are victims. It’s about being honest about negative aspects of our historySounds like a lot of mis-information out there
Hate is not the answer. We need to 💘 one another.we need to help each other.
Teaching the truth is not hate... it's transparency and acknowledgement.
Where did you see anyone saying hate was the answer in this video?
Well Said
Some adults do not understand how to deal with discomfort in historical behavior, and don’t understand how to listen, learn, and move forward.
Germans don’t feel shame for the Holocaust but DO learn about it to help them understand how to NOT repeat the sins of the past.
“Basic History” DOES include the Oklahoma massacre, and our laws DO favor whiteness.
“When Donald and Ivana came to the casino, the bosses would order all the black people off the floor. It was the eighties, I was a teenager, but I remember it: They put us all in the back.” -Kip Brown, Trump Castle employee
^TDS the personality
Get over it! Educate history!!!! My God! Love each other!!
In high school most of my teachers were people of color and I have noticed my education was profoundly better
I have no doubt you believe that
Genesis 15:13-14
[13]And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
[14]And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
I like & admire Chuck Todd. He's quite good at what he does. However he's clearly (and understandably) way out of his league when attempting to even properly frame some of his questions regarding the troubled history of race in America. Of course, in all fairness, his guest Nikole Hannah-Jones is (also) an expert in what she does. Personally, as a journalist, I think the lady is (way) ahead of her time. Or perhaps the real issue is that so much of the nation is so far behind when it comes to having the will & the courage to honestly face our nations brutal past. 😎
I dont agree with him about this topic. It's too narrow. We are leaving out the wounds of Japanese as an example in the containment camps after WWII. Why are they not complaining. Its American History.
@@shirleyfoggepiazza6984 the Japanese wasn't slaves or have gone through the same horrible pain as African Americans. Extremely small in comparison. They didn't focus enough about the struggles of African Americans in this country. They didn't even touch the surface of the problems African Americans are going through. Hate to sound mean, but, what happened to Japanese Americans happened during the second war, you have said this yourself. It's not still happening to Japanese Americans. But, the racism against Asians people are still out there but, black people have been going through this abuse for centuries since the foundation to now and not during one era of history. The institutions in this country was solely designed to work against African Americans and black people in this country and beyond.
@@shirleyfoggepiazza6984 Great point. Imagine classrooms across the country enthusiastically teaching the stories of (all) the diverse groups of Immigrants that make up the United States. Of course if this ever becomes a genuine goal (instead of trying to ban books,) we'd definitely have to hire a lot more teachers, & perhaps..... maybe, just maybe....pay them much better than we do now ! 😎
Exactly. He is out of his league.
@@shirleyfoggepiazza6984 Yes, it's true, the same could be said for other racialized groups. Curriculum has to be more inclusive. I teach it this way in college.
America should be more concerned about what kids learn in their own homes.
We as a Nation have been actively rewriting history and making the curriculum politically correct or fit the desired position states want it to be. The video specifically stated TX now refers to the slave trade as just trade. and slaves as workers.
I just shake my head when I see what my kids are taught as compared to what I was taught.
Racism is the pride of America.
Teach that to your kids.
Until you bring in actual black intellectuals such as Thomas Sowell or Glen Loury I won’t take these debates seriously but one sided gaslighting.
Germany doesn't forbid the teachings of the Holocaust no matter how horrific the past was.
30:48 Their voices are not accurately represented in government, therefore their concerns are not heard… and eventually people stop participating. It’s a vicious cycle.
Students need to know where racism evolved from in history.
A much needed show. I hope this will help parents who have questions on CRT being taught in local school systems. Thank you.
Shortage teachers huh? Why don't those parents who are threatening them go in and teach?
Sad I'm from Tulsa and to see Oklahoma especially Tulsa wanna keep running from its past smh time to deal with and move forward trying to keep something that happened 100 years ago is freaking ignorant the past will repeat its self if not dealt with properly
I believe tulsa is a microcosm of the underlying issue regarding CRT.
There is large number of white policy makers who are in favor of glossing over the ugly parts of our history because they don't want to deal with subject of reperation.
I understand that there are still living members of the race riot alive today. Surely their lives and their family's lives have been negatively impacted. Yet the state of Oklahoma does not want to pay reperations to those black families.
The goal of many white policy makers is to continue to fight against any movement that seeks tell our real history. The case for reperations would become clearer if the truth was told to the American people.
@Michael with all due respect, I'm sure other races had to deal with racial conflict in America. What always seem to happen when we talk about black people in this country, there always individuals that will bring up other culture's experiences. The subject of this video is dealing with CRT. Clearly, the resistance to CRT is largely based on the unwillingness of many white people to tell the truth about how the mistreatment of it black citizens gave rise to the wealth and prospering many white people enjoy today.
I'm not saying that what has happened to the Chinese is not worth noting, I'm simply saying to bring it up in this context only seeks to minimize the trauma that black people went through.
Perhaps is the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery would have a less prejudiced view if they learnt this in school . Travis would not have used the N word.
CRT IS American 🇺🇸 history like it or not.
I'm wondering if people are afraid their grandchildren may look at them as monsters.
This the comment I been searching for:: people names are attached to the some of these evil events of this history:: they don’t wanna get called out by their loved ones especially if they benefited from it:: some of the white teens now in 2021 ain’t with the racist stuff:: & call they parents out:: banning things in school will not keep them from learning outside in the world
These are the 14 GOP congressional representatives who voted AGAINST the long
overdue federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States
(lest we forget):
Clyde* (GA) Biggs* (AZ) Massie* (KY)
Brooks (AL) DesJarlais (TN) Gosar (AZ)
Jackson (TZ) LaMalfa (CA) McClintock (CA)
Norman (NC) Rogers (AL) Rosendale (MN)
Roy (TX) Tiffany (WI)
Imagine fighting this hard to keep history inaccurate and sanitized going into 2022...
To the person reading this: Even tho I dont know you, I wish you the best of what life has to offer💯💫💫
And the very best to you.
That was so kind and unexpected!
Cheers✨🥂✨
Very nice, thank you. Blessings to you 🙌
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All of this to make us forget about Poverty and the main problems in our country. GREAT THEATER.
CRT is collegiate level study, but that said, teaching the true acts that happen shouldn't be a debate it should just be. The good, bad, and ugly.
“They” mad he got that white woman in his house 😂😂😂😂
Mr Johnson. THANK YOU💕💕👏👏👏👏👏YES! The more you try to hide the more the teens will seek out.
We black people can not ignore crt we have to teach our blacks kids what happen to our ancestors
How absurd.... That it has unpleasantries strewn throughout, does not render HISTORY any less HISTORY. It cannot be undone. What is relevant is that the facts be presented and not misrepresented.
If we don't want to teach CRT, why not just remove all the false teachings, books and any writings that promote the false history taught in schools?
Teachers are there for us to teach, all the truths, not perceptions , biased, or abbreviated portions of our history! If parents want to dictate everything that is taught to their children through a narrow mind, then how are the children to learn the whole picture? Perhaps those dictating parents need to go back to school and become an an educator! Parents have rights to know what is being taught, but why would they question the truths of our history? It is blindfolding our children and giving them a partial education
You're Wrong! Parents are a vital part of the education process and should be included in these discussions. Teachers need to drop their arrogance and be willing to work with parents instead of pushing their own agenda!
if education is so important than why do the red states have far less college graduates than blue states?
If you are in charge would you want to have UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATION
Only the truth shall set the new generation free.
Great edition of Meet the Press on a topic that needs to be addressed especially when minorities and people of color still live and experience hate and discrimination to this day. For those who don't want to face these important issues they will either have to face it in the classroom that need to be discussed or eventually in the courtroom where the subject of discrimination (illegal) will be challenged. This problem will not go away by ignoring and not discussing it.
Put a white man in a black community. What happens?
Or a black man in a white community.
Then have news exasperate racial tensions for views. Our news needs fixing. It’s the single biggest source of fear and agitation available for public consumption.
I for one enjoy all people. I have married interracial and have kids biracial. We r more alike then different. We all started out white. Rejoice USA allows all for the melting pot. China or Japan doesn’t have the same issues.
I’ve been in American schools since I was 6 years old and the first time I learned in depth history of African Americans is when I went to college. In middle and high schools they are very very brief on racism and what really happened. Now I know why it was made to be like that since all these parents have a problem with their children knowing what really happened