Many did not go silent and what is good to see about the present protests and actions is how inclusive they are. It was my hope that when it came to the pipeling protests that no factions or turf wars developed, but they appeared to have in some cases. We are learning as we go and the more inclusive these actions are, the stronger and more effective they will be.
Well, like African Americans they erased y’all stories and voices from the history books so it’s very very hard for black people to understand how y’all stories connect to ours. Historically, we have had similar trajectories in the US so we should be fighting on the same side, however, as BLM pushes for change those things positively impact other minorities to stand up and make changes that impact their groups.
@living in a desert Honestly, a lot of us don't know your history because history in general has been sanitized. We really don't much about you and that's by design. As for BLM's stance on Natives, I don't know the exact details.
I know the decade is very young, but this is the quote of the decade: "One of the issues that the U.S. has is that most Americans know American mythology, not American history." That sentence shook me to my core, because we all know it's true, but I have never heard it presented so concisely, so accurately, and so simply. Good on you, Beau...thank you for that!
OK then let's let an actual historian explain to you why Beau is completely off base with this video shall we m.ruclips.net/video/t9ccYylVCs4/видео.html
There's a other thumbnail for one of your videos, the one about someone asking you for training. The thumbnail makes it look like your screaming full of rage at the cam
I honestly found that out through something but i dont remember where. I watch a lot of different content- though I dont watch any cable news content either so it couldn't have been from last week tonight
Friend of mine sent me think to one of his letters where he mentions he feelings on the matter. It's rather short but to the point. leefamilyarchive.org/papers/letters/transcripts-UVA/v076.html
@James Venner I have been tracking articles and stats on guns, voter suppression, and what I call the War on Women i.e.overturning Roe v. Wade, corporate bullshit etc. for 13 years and have over 5,000 articles relating to those topics and others saved on my computer. I have spent literally thousands of hours doing so. I've spent thousands of hours studying ancient history, psychology, archetypal dynamics, mythology, neuro-linguistic programming, etc. Nice try/EPIC FAIL. Mike Enoch is a Neo-Nazi. So, it would appear you are a fan of Alex Jones and Q-Anon. Interested in stats are you? Approximately 16-19% of people are drawn to conspiracy theories and "believe" in shit that makes Stephen King look like an amateur and 30% vibe with Authoritarianism. How about you take your "dog and pony" show to a site with far less informed subscribers than Beau's. We prefer learning from the most intellectual experienced speakers on various subjects. I truly do wish you and those like you the best of luck in your ongoing battle with reality.
@@beverlycastricone6900 👏👏👏 mic. drop. bravo. Hey Jamie, you may wanna put some aloe on that burn. Be careful though, I heard that Obama cultivated Aloe Vera at Area 51 using Chem Trail runoff as a bio weapon that will be activated by 5G frequencies.
I just saw tweet which think is relevant: '"It's our heritage" Pokémon Go has lasted longer than the Confederacy, and with 3 times the number of Americans behind it, you're lucky they only took the statues down instead of replacing them with Pikachus'
Quoting a comedian " the fact that is called an amendment, literally means that you can change it, if you think you can't, you need a thesaurus more than a constitution "
@@d123mahesh2 My neighbor is sitting on a few hundred 'Make America Sane Again' hats from before the 16 election. He says most people he offered them to are afraid to wear them. Just don't look the wrong at someone wearing Trump gear or things get aggressive.
A lot of the people who say the statues should remain, lest we forget our history also suggest black people forget about slavery and Jim Crow because “it was too long ago to matter.”
@TeachAble True, but you are willing to question yourself, which puts you leagues ahead of many. It is a process, be gentle with yourself and I also struggle with it. A physical challenge pales in comparison to a spiritual or psychological challenge. The fact that you are TeachAble says it all.
Thank you! I just pointed out to a former co-worker that the purpose of statues is to "honor" certain people. He said, "Oh, I guess we should demolish Auschwitz then?" I said, "No, because Auschwitz is meant to honor the thousands of Jews who died there, not the Nazis who murdered them." He went back to the "removing statues removes our history" line.....
@@dragonsword7370 I asked him if he'd ever seen a statue of Hitler and he said, "No." I said, "And yet, he hasn't disappeared from the history books, has he? There are thousands of books and movies and documentaries and school courses dedicated to the Civil War - do you really think they're all going to disappear because someone took down a statue?" He didn't really have an answer for that.
As Goethe said, "None are so helplessly enslaved as those who believe they are free, the truth has been kept from the depths of their minds by masters who rule them with lies." Cue Trump coming down the golden escalator.
Plus there aren't statues of Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, and Eichmann there or anywhere in veneration. I'm for the taking down of all those statues. I'm also in favor of preserving the battlefields Civil War. Gettysburg, Antietam etc. It is possible to absorb more information about the Civil War just walking around Gettysburg for 20 minutes then you could looking at any of those statues.
@@nellgwenn I am an artist and I appreciate the effort put into creating them - I don't think they should be destroyed, I think they should be removed from public venues and handed over to any private organizations, like historical societies, that want to preserve them. We know from psychology that our environment affects our behavior and our attitudes, and the idea that the college you attend or the state in which you live and work would publicly promote images of people who thought you were less than human must be incredibly upsetting and degrading to our black citizens and other POC.
Thank you Beau! For your humanity, your good soul as a human being, and for trying to bring humans together instead of keeping America separated. We need more like you!
This is absolutely the most concise articulation of an argument that respects our history, our failures, our progression, and our future. Thank you so much.
@lord of the flys At least the beads had value in the local community... So it's a close second compared to a China made hat for the reputation of you country
These statues were mostly put up in the Jim Crow era to prop up the “Myth of the Lost Cause”. You are right that they were there to send a message. There’s nothing wrong with storing them until we can figure out how to display them in context; a true context that differs from the original intent.
Can you please explain to me how Statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, and now Ulysses S. Grant were put up only to demonstrate "The Myth of the Lost Cause"? Thanks.
@James Venner "...they want to erase white people from the continent..." Kinda like the settlers in the US wanted to erase red people from the continent, and current-day white supremacists and white nationalists want to erase black, brown, and red people from the continent? You mean like that?
Beau. Thank you. You have proven that we are all brothers and sisters. Your skin may be lighter than mine but no one can tell me you are not my brother. The most moronic of us look at the color, the intelligent look and the mind heart and soul of a person. Will always be by your side during any fight, against enemies both foreign and domestic!💪🏽🇺🇸✌🏽🇵🇷
I wonder if the daughters of the Confederacy ever imagine that their work was going to be so successful. Millions of Americans see the rebel flag and confederate statues as their heritage and think that’s its a good thing.
(standing up applauding, cheering, whistling) BRAVO! BRAVO! Finally the essence of our society is explained in a clear, easy to understand way! Thank you, Beau!
Well shit I guess we can just get rid of museums and all other historical monuments (ie the pyramids, coliseums, temples, historical graves etc). Besides most of the things I listed were build by slaves or slave labor, so they must be bad....
@Kurt Kindew You know where else that information is usually recorded? Libraries. Museums. You know, things that keep books and videos. Libraries in particular actually keep newspapers from specific days even! Last I recall, newspapers talk about what happened and why on those days. Imagine that!
We all forgot and need to remember that America is a big pot of gumbo .....flavors from different cultures coming together to make a fantastic dish that is uniquely American ......Make America Gumbo Again....
Love your way of thinking!.. Thank you Mr.!.. You actually helping for free a better understanding. Your words are powerful because they are spoken from your heart. I'm glad you're in this world, because the world NEED to hear what you're saying.
I've seen a will from an ancestor that named the horse that was bequeathed but not the young slave that was also divvied off to next of kin. I used to be one of those "you cant erase history" southerners, but seeing the literal receipts changed everything. Bring the statues down and change the Mississippi state flag dammit!
Oftentimes it's a weird thing that wakes us up. A big one for me was walking into a diner near my hometown with s black co-worker and hearing something that provoked a response from me that wound up getting the cops called.
Every time I hear you out. Your words send me on a reading frenzy. Sometimes deep sometimes in my face and so far from MY line of sight. My reading abilities are limited but I’m loving it and getting better. You inspire me to educate myself. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you so much for taking time to make these videos. It's so wonderful to hear someone with maturity and intelligence, willing break down these important issues. You inspire me to find a better way to communicate.
"Most Americans know American Mythology not American History" So true The blindspot of the US is the lack of appreciating our Actual History, Flaws and all.
To be honest though its the same in almost every country. Id say America is pretty ahead in this particular aspect,as an immigrant from Vietnam I can tell you that every flaws we had throughout history were totally brushed off in the official history books.
@@DUNGSI27 Thank you for your perspective. In the US educational system, the narrative that passes for history is highly edited. However, we do get the benefit of free speech and books.
I agree, the statues should be preserved as is (tagged and beaten) and added to the civil rights museum. It is past due, that this country finally lived up to its high ideals. Together, we can achieve equality and freedom for all.
Well that's true, however it never would have been done, because it should have been done years ago. They had their chance to do the right thing, and they blew it. What would have had to happen in order for all those statues to be taken down professionally, without pomp and ceremony, then preserved in a Civil War museum? And which Civil War museum? There were a lot of statues. Would there be a wing of a Civil War museum called The Daughters of the Confederacy's Effort To Keep Black People in Their Place Thereby Preserving The Superiority Of The White Race After The Confederacy Lost The Civil War wing? There is a very good board game called Freedom: The Underground Railroad The objective is to get as many slaves up north to freedom and away from slave catchers as you can. I submit you can learn more about the Civil War playing that game than you can looking at any statue, in or out of a museum. Here is a link to Game Night playing that game. ruclips.net/video/lIQHfSued_g/видео.html
Hell, leave the Confederate ones there, tagged and broken as a symbol of liberation and rejection of their failed ideology. For as long as they stood to let black people know who was still in charge, let them lie broken on the ground with a plaque on the pedistal they once stood on detailing their real legacy (that of being put up as symbols of terror long after the war dispite Lee wanting no such monuments to be built) as a message to white supremacists that they are _Not_ in charge anymore and never will be again. You want to respect history, you don't create symbols glorifying oppression, you create symbols that (much like the Vietnam memorial) say "this was a blight on our history and we remember it to honor the _victims_ and to remind ourselves _never_ to repeat it" and if a statue is a symbol, so is it's destruction and desecration. Broken statues are cheap and effective memorials to the victims of slavery, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression.
@James Venner I'm somewhat confused by the last part of your comment, "This pursuit of equality will lead to nothing but further bloodshed & ultimately a failed country". Is that meant to be in reference to Brazil's "pursuit of equality"? That sounds off when the people purportedly pursuing "equality" and in the US, but I've seen your comments in multiple threads on this video and your views very much seem to be in alignment with the mobs currently trying to enact a cultural revolution, so hard to reconcile those positions. Beau seems to have selective vision here and wants to pretend it's just confederate monuments, when the day before this video the black bloc mobs were tearing down statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ulysses K. Grant. This isn't really about slavery - that's the excuse given to get well-meaning lefties on board - but the people in those black blocs tearing down statues are predominantly white. They're Communist revolutionaries who think the USA is uniquely evil and must be torn down to make room for the utopia. They say it's about removing monuments to slavery, but when they're tearing down monuments to the people responsible for ending slavery it's obviously not about that. It's about erasing the country's cultural history to create a "blank slate" for the culture they want to bring in. This is what Mao did in China, it's what ISIS did in the territory they controlled, and it's what Winston Smith did in the Ministry of Truth. This is what the term "book burning" means, it's not about literal books, it's about destroying cultural heritage. Down the memory hole, as it were. This isn't a new phenomenon, and we know where it leads. That's why I'm confused by you saying "This pursuit of equality will lead to nothing but further bloodshed & ultimately a failed country" - that statement is directly applicable to the cultural revolutionaries in the US right now, but your other comments appear to be supportive of this 21st century book burning endeavour. Can you help me clarify what your intended meaning was?
I really appreciate you being yourself and the knowledge you have and what you have experienced in life shines through thank you for your RUclips comment's god bless you and stay safe
While at it, they should put them wherever Germany puts their hitler statues. Considering that I was born in Wiesbaden, I find it interesting how I Never saw a hitler statue!
Those statues are a reminder to Black Americans that as long as they stand, so will the beliefs of those that are depicted in the statues. Thank you for reminding me that there are good white folks here in the US. Where I live, that’s easy to forget or think otherwise.
Maybe put a video of Obama's eulogy for robert byrd, grand Kkk member and proud Democrat in there too. Oh yeah, we want to erase from history the truth that Democrats fucking hate black people.
Let us say that a little differently. Every nation and people on Earth would be appalled not only what is in their history but also what is being done in their name in the present.
If they knew their history, they'd know it was a mixed bag like all human history, filled with ideals and hypocrisy. We're at our best when we strive to fulfill those ideals. We're at our worst when we let the fruits of our original sin hold sway over our actions. It's the history that gave us the Bill of Rights and the Declaration that all men are created equal. It's also the history that gave us colonialism, slavery, and Jim Crow. American history is complicated. At no time in human history was this a perfect nation. At no time has it been equally just. It will likely never get there. Not 100%. But when we strive to make it better, it can get better. To move forward we need to be able to recognize what we're moving away from by knowing where we've been. To move forward we need to recognize the injustices of the present and strive to fix them.
@joe schmoe The did not sell off black people to slavery. Black folks in Africa had tribes and each tribe was an enemy to another tribe. They had wars just like everyone else. Hence Shaka Zulu era. He decided to befriend some white folks to get what his tribe needed. Each tribe was like a Colony. Each tribe had a King and A Queen Just like America have friends and allies. They aligned themselves with white settlers to get supplies for Their tribe. You know the saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And they allowed the settlers to do whatever they wanted with their enemies. But truth be told. Another dark history in America is that All Black people did not arrive over here on slave ships from Africa. Some black folks were already here on this soil. Black folks Migrated out of Africa several centuries before Eropean settlers made it over here. But they found Copper colored people with fancy head dress or Indian attire. My ancestors The Indigenous people. Trail of tesrs were my people. America paid white people to take over the land owned by Black Indigenous families. They sold Indian land to Europeans for 5 dollars. To keep from paying Black folks reparations from stealing our land here and later for slavery. The Five dollar imposter Indians White Europeans Took over the Indian names and tribes. Some of them had black slaves and started to mix with them or had babies with them And They had multicolored folks in the tribes. They called them Mulato Indians or Mixed breed. Or Red Indians. But Indians were originally Copper colored Indians. So technically America belongs to Black Indigenous people. So this is our land from the beginning of time anyway.
Totally disagree ! It / They ARE a part of our / U. S. history ! Good or Bad. Sorry Beau you or no one else can not change History by calling it something else ( mythology ). Your sounding more and more like a politician. Sorry Beau you or no one else can have it both ways.
@@dennisnagel4422 - Naa-ah. I call BS. Beau IS right; there's a BIG difference - but it's really subtle. The big, bad difference is that fancy word, "Glorious." Those "Wild-eyed Southern Boys" who started the Civil War weren't fighting for a Glorious Cause; they were traitors, and it took the deaths - not even necessary deaths - of millions of good men to get them to stop. You should check out what Ed Bonekemper says in his book, "The Myth of the Lost Cause." He grew up in the South, and now lives in Pennsylvania. He's got many video appearances on RUclips, hours of him; so you can see him crush ANY argument you can think of and you can learn something important, and nobody will be there to make fun of you. Fortune passes everywhere.
I agree that it's more of mythology. However, I don't understand the argument that people who are complaining, should focus on real history an not bother about statues being brought down, when the same logic doesn't seem to apply to people who appear hell bent on destroying mythology.
Beau pretends that the people tearing down statues are not creating myths of their own. He's too smart not to see that. Ergo he's blowing smoke up your ass.
The granite ones should be thrown in the river and lakes for shelters for fish to spawn. Those statues would finally have a good purpose. Stock lakes with trout, bass, catfish, etc, and give low-income folks free or low-cost fishing licences
I'm sorry, but just having "the ability" doesn't cut it. Besides the fact that I think that the US puts far too much importance on "being great". It's not a competition.
Use instead of hating it. Argument for monuments that reminds the dead slaves by name. That is remembering the loss and the pain caused to them. We in Germany have monuments that remember our darkest time. You can find them in every city. Signs like "Here was an synagogue, burned in the pogrom.", "This hospital had a floor designed to kill disabled children in the so called euthanasia program", often followed by "Their names were..." But guess what we don't have? A Hitler monument.
Just suggest they can preserve history and southern pride by putting up statues of black southern abolitionist after the other statues are taken down. If it's not about racism they should be good with that.
What they are really saying is you are erasing white history. We have all been feed a white history since birth.. Some call that a cult . I was lucky I had a white mother and father that were way ahead of their time . She taught us the truth of what the real history was. They march with MLK and at the time they were 40 years old. We were raised in the south, and had few friends because they didn’t allow anyone in our life’s that treated people of any color with disrespect.
Beau, I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed listening to your conversations on RUclips since I ran across your site a few months ago..thank you for sharing your thoughts on this subject and many, many others! Keep up the good work, Brother!
He wasn't lost. He deliberately lied about the length of the journey to gain funding (those who objected had the correct numbers). He was probably surprised as anyone to find a landmass just about where his fudged numbers said there should be land. Whether he thought he was on the far end of India or Cathay is another matter.
@@markpashia7067 - He reached the Americas, but he was hardly the first. Scandinavians definitely got here before him, and there's a Roman galley somewhere in the Caribbean or the Gulf. Maybe Phoenicians reached the Americas. None of them stayed for long.
@James Venner It's formerly District of Columbia was named after Columbus but that doesn't mean he ever landed in the North Americas. Columbus landed in San Salvador and the Bahamas. George Washington named the district of land he was told to map out for the city that would become the capital off the Potomac between Maryland and Virginia. That's historical. And anyone with a Latin last name would have been one of the first to arrive and invade and be granted land grants by the Spanish monarchs. Land grants that can be traced back to 1716. The Spaniards were here longer than British. Also a piece of history, a good portion of the Southwestern Territories from Texas to California belonged to Mexico at one time. The land grants were to encourage settlements in the West and were also offered to the native Americans in the NM area and were used as a buffer between the settlers and the indigenous people.
Love your reflections and ideas, Beau. Gore Vidal, back in the dim old '60s and '70s tried to tell us much the same, but he was always this pedantic, professorial voice that put my then young, spring chicken like self to sleep. But you, from common sense and reason , come so much closer to the simplicity and eloquence of Jefferson and the clauses that describe how laws shall be written so that and average person could understand and make sound decisions on them he wrote into our Constitution. TYVM!
@@darlenegriffith6186 It's like the difference between a novel, a movie, and a meme. A novel has the time and space for the most context and nuance, to sometimes even include the very thoughts of those involved. The movie has to condense this and tries to convey using body language and visual queues, it also causes the movie to strip away some of the context or depth for presentation issues and as is the case it sometimes strips the important parts or the missing context sometimes warps the storyline. A meme now, just cuts all context, all nuance and relies on previous knowledge of the issue or bias of the interpreter to take what they will from the meme.
Speaking from over the pond, I so wish we had someone as wise and with clarity of thought, straightforward presentation as Beau over here. On the plus side, our blonde buffoon is following yours bout 36 hours time lag, so bring it on US, help us!
@@ironlion8363 Thanks for that sentiment, it is a thought that has crossed my mind many times for about a year. Sadly I am struggling to survive and have had that many blows this year that I don't think I have the drive to do it. Maybe once I turn that elusive corner. Respect :-)
@music41533- You can remember history just as well in a museum. These statues represent individuals that didn't think all men were created equal and did everything in their power to maintain the status quo. In museums are where they belong.
Everything is history, but public statues are generally set up to celebrate the life of a historical figure. The question is, is it a life worth celebrating?
@music41533 All around the world, the majority of statues are not actually important historic people, or commemorating important historic actions. More often it's part of the legacy of some rich idiot that wanted a statue, so he donated some of his wealth, or it's actually a response to current affairs - as per the statues of confederate generals erected during the civil rights era. And of course there's a metric shit-ton of statues of dictators - I don't recall anyone responding to the pictures of the toppling of Sadam Hussein's statue by complaining that we were "forgetting everything about the past". Also good luck telling everyone in eastern europe that they should put back all the statues of Stalin!
Big difference between mythology and history, so true Beau, this is why I watch your channel, you open our eyes to what is happening, I always recommend your channel to everyone, wish the red hat people would listen to you, you are a man with moral intelligence, thank you from Orange County, Ca 👍
@James Venner your speech lends itself to a conservative viewpoint. Unless you are Independent and equally critical of both parties, but from your wording I highly doubt that.
@James Venner 'Right-Wing' are the nation sad...Guess that means only Southeners are the nation because most are Right wing. However, people in the South are ignorant and poor as fuck, they voted for Trump because he promised to build a wall on the border like that's going to help them in any way, when corporations will move their business to Mexico and China. They also take EBT and as much help as they can get from the gov, that's socialism, yet they say they hate socialism. That is America? A bunch of racist ignorant Southerners? Yes, half is that and the other IS a freaking shopping mall full of zombies, wake up and see the reality around you.
You know.. if there is anything I love about this channel is that Beau teaches me to articulate how to say the things I already knew, felt, and believed but couldn't necessarily explain to others
I was a tour guide in Boston for twenty years. Thank you for addressing these issues. Most often statues, monuments, plaques are highly inaccurate and reflect issues important to people who erected them. Most often the people who the statues etc. represent never intended nor appreciated the reverence given to kings, religious leaders, and mythological figures. Our country has never been great. "Greatness" was never the goal of this experiment. Thank you.
This sounds like what the daughters of the confederate was trying to do which was recreate history in a way that would overshadow the truth.btw beau im dig'n the shirt
Exactly! They are singlehandedly who got the "myth of the lost cause" popularized and stirred up glorification of the confederacy and the mythology. They were the center of it all, including a huge amount of the crazy monuments
I wouldn't say recreate but manipulate would be more appropriate. The Daughters of the Confederacy were the mistresses of propaganda. Genteel in their manner and scrupulous in their intent. The female gender is not the weaker sex. A case study in propaganda.
Same folks go quiet real quick when native people lose sacred sites for a stupid oil pipeline.
Many did not go silent and what is good to see about the present protests and actions is how inclusive they are. It was my hope that when it came to the pipeling protests that no factions or turf wars developed, but they appeared to have in some cases. We are learning as we go and the more inclusive these actions are, the stronger and more effective they will be.
Well, like African Americans they erased y’all stories and voices from the history books so it’s very very hard for black people to understand how y’all stories connect to ours. Historically, we have had similar trajectories in the US so we should be fighting on the same side, however, as BLM pushes for change those things positively impact other minorities to stand up and make changes that impact their groups.
I knew I'd find the voice of reason if I looked long enough. Thanks
@living in a desert Honestly, a lot of us don't know your history because history in general has been sanitized. We really don't much about you and that's by design. As for BLM's stance on Natives, I don't know the exact details.
Wasn’t Mt. Rushmore carved from a mountain SACRED to Native Americans?
I know the decade is very young, but this is the quote of the decade: "One of the issues that the U.S. has is that most Americans know American mythology, not American history." That sentence shook me to my core, because we all know it's true, but I have never heard it presented so concisely, so accurately, and so simply. Good on you, Beau...thank you for that!
Well the new decade don’t start till 2021.
OK then let's let an actual historian explain to you why Beau is completely off base with this video shall we
m.ruclips.net/video/t9ccYylVCs4/видео.html
For the record, I just let RUclips pick the thumbnail. Well, they got me today.
It's definitely not the worst they've ever got you.
Lol
Beau is about to become kratos up in here
Bwahahahaha 👍🏽🖤
There's a other thumbnail for one of your videos, the one about someone asking you for training. The thumbnail makes it look like your screaming full of rage at the cam
Let us also remember that Robert E. Lee *himself* thought that there shouldn't be monuments to the Confederacy.
Last week tonight?
I honestly found that out through something but i dont remember where. I watch a lot of different content- though I dont watch any cable news content either so it couldn't have been from last week tonight
Dude Man I remember that too, can't remember where but think it might have been in Ken Burns doc on the Civil War.
Marlo Stanfield Memorialize me, you statuesque chunk of granite.
Friend of mine sent me think to one of his letters where he mentions he feelings on the matter. It's rather short but to the point.
leefamilyarchive.org/papers/letters/transcripts-UVA/v076.html
“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”
― Oscar Wilde
Great relevant quote for these times. THANK YOU
Absolutely true
@Kris Moodley "YOu ArE qoutiNN DEAd peopLe" last time I posted a quote on a
different site...
Also: "It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek
Southerners: "Confederate statues are part of our history"
Northerners: "Demolishing the Confederacy is part of ours"
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I even saw an Old article of an Union Pittsburgh military company flipping out on a Confederate monument being put on the grounds of Gettysburg.
Beau, you are helping me reach members of my community that weren’t listening before. Thank you.
@Kurt Kindew that said then why watch?
@Kurt Kindew
The Confederacy is an enemy of the US, an enemy of the US constitution. Facts matter.
@Kurt Kindew GO AWAY
@Kurt Kindew why are you under here whispering
Just block the s.o.b. its pointless engaging with intellectual slobs
American Mythology vs American History is equivalent to Perception vs Reality.
Astute point! The RED hats don't live in reality.
That the the thing: Perception can be the most important factor unless it changes.
@James Venner I have been tracking articles and stats on guns, voter suppression, and what I call the War on Women i.e.overturning Roe v. Wade, corporate bullshit etc. for 13 years and have over 5,000 articles relating to those topics and others saved on my computer. I have spent literally thousands of hours doing so.
I've spent thousands of hours studying ancient history, psychology, archetypal dynamics, mythology, neuro-linguistic programming, etc.
Nice try/EPIC FAIL. Mike Enoch is a Neo-Nazi. So, it would appear you are a fan of Alex Jones and Q-Anon. Interested in stats are you? Approximately 16-19% of people are drawn to conspiracy theories and "believe" in shit that makes Stephen King look like an amateur and 30% vibe with Authoritarianism.
How about you take your "dog and pony" show to a site with far less informed subscribers than Beau's. We prefer learning from the most intellectual experienced speakers on various subjects.
I truly do wish you and those like you the best of luck in your ongoing battle with reality.
@@beverlycastricone6900 👏👏👏 mic. drop. bravo. Hey Jamie, you may wanna put some aloe on that burn. Be careful though, I heard that Obama cultivated Aloe Vera at Area 51 using Chem Trail runoff as a bio weapon that will be activated by 5G frequencies.
@@rdean150 Thank You! Unfortunately, I am familiar with most of the conspiracy theories and the 5G thing, it just never ends.
I just saw tweet which think is relevant:
'"It's our heritage"
Pokémon Go has lasted longer than the Confederacy, and with 3 times the number of Americans behind it, you're lucky they only took the statues down instead of replacing them with Pikachus'
LOL. I always use the TV show "Designing Women" for this example.
That would be SO AWESOME!!!
Do It! Picachu, F.T.W!
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@@BeauoftheFifthColumn I have Crocs that have lasted four times as long as the Confederacy.
Quoting a comedian " the fact that is called an amendment, literally means that you can change it, if you think you can't, you need a thesaurus more than a constitution "
"Most of you traded your country for a Red Hat". Amen, Brother.
I believe it was Stephen Colbert who referred to those as 'plague hats'. After tonight's rally, I'm sure the term will be well earned.
I love that T shirt but am actually scared of wearing it.
NOT most. Hillary won by 3 million votes.
@@d123mahesh2 My neighbor is sitting on a few hundred 'Make America Sane Again' hats from before the 16 election. He says most people he offered them to are afraid to wear them. Just don't look the wrong at someone wearing Trump gear or things get aggressive.
Red is expensive. Isn't that what the majority/yous are about?
Thank you, Beau. Keep context alive. Love and salute you.
A lot of the people who say the statues should remain, lest we forget our history also suggest black people forget about slavery and Jim Crow because “it was too long ago to matter.”
The human capacity to justify and rationalize is ASTOUNDING.
@@beverlycastricone6900 to bad ends, unfortunately.
Yes and some of those people are on the Supreme Court.
@TeachAble True, but you are willing to question yourself, which puts you leagues ahead of many. It is a process, be gentle with yourself and I also struggle with it. A physical challenge pales in comparison to a spiritual or psychological challenge. The fact that you are TeachAble says it all.
"Don't confuse history with the past. The past is what happened. History is just what somebody wrote down". - A. Whitney Brown
A. Whitney Brown! That's a name I have not heard in a minute. Thank you for reminding me of him.
We are in the middle of "history" right NOW!
It's only history the day after they stop calling it current events.
Who could possibly dislike this talk? Come on people...
Thank you! I just pointed out to a former co-worker that the purpose of statues is to "honor" certain people. He said, "Oh, I guess we should demolish Auschwitz then?" I said, "No, because Auschwitz is meant to honor the thousands of Jews who died there, not the Nazis who murdered them." He went back to the "removing statues removes our history" line.....
Yeah, when we start burning books again is when I get REAL fearful of actual history & narrative rewriting of demolishment.
@@dragonsword7370 I asked him if he'd ever seen a statue of Hitler and he said, "No." I said, "And yet, he hasn't disappeared from the history books, has he? There are thousands of books and movies and documentaries and school courses dedicated to the Civil War - do you really think they're all going to disappear because someone took down a statue?" He didn't really have an answer for that.
As Goethe said, "None are so helplessly enslaved as those who believe they are free, the truth has been kept from the depths of their minds by masters who rule them with lies." Cue Trump coming down the golden escalator.
Plus there aren't statues of Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, and Eichmann there or anywhere in veneration.
I'm for the taking down of all those statues. I'm also in favor of preserving the battlefields Civil War. Gettysburg, Antietam etc.
It is possible to absorb more information about the Civil War just walking around Gettysburg for 20 minutes then you could looking at any of those statues.
@@nellgwenn I am an artist and I appreciate the effort put into creating them - I don't think they should be destroyed, I think they should be removed from public venues and handed over to any private organizations, like historical societies, that want to preserve them. We know from psychology that our environment affects our behavior and our attitudes, and the idea that the college you attend or the state in which you live and work would publicly promote images of people who thought you were less than human must be incredibly upsetting and degrading to our black citizens and other POC.
Thank you Beau! For your humanity, your good soul as a human being, and for trying to bring humans together instead of keeping America separated. We need more like you!
I’ve been waiting for this one. It will be shared relentlessly. Great job as always Beau.
This is absolutely the most concise articulation of an argument that respects our history, our failures, our progression, and our future. Thank you so much.
I cannot fully express how glad I am that you are addressing this subject.
I swear he gives me the ammo to win every argument I’ve had in the last few weeks 💪🏽
Love that you use the word mythology describing this.
*Reads tshirt* "This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever".
Keep on, Beau. Much love.
@lord of the flys At least the beads had value in the local community... So it's a close second compared to a China made hat for the reputation of you country
These statues were mostly put up in the Jim Crow era to prop up the “Myth of the Lost Cause”. You are right that they were there to send a message. There’s nothing wrong with storing them until we can figure out how to display them in context; a true context that differs from the original intent.
Can you please explain to me how Statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, and now Ulysses S. Grant were put up only to demonstrate "The Myth of the Lost Cause"? Thanks.
@@lpsoldin3162 He means the confederate ones!
@James Venner "...they want to erase white people from the continent..." Kinda like the settlers in the US wanted to erase red people from the continent, and current-day white supremacists and white nationalists want to erase black, brown, and red people from the continent? You mean like that?
I love the idea of going to a museum and seeing toppled confederate statues as they were right after they were torn down
Man i learn so much from you. what a teacher. thanks for the education
Not only that we CAN change, but also, that we SHOULD change!! Great video, as always!!
Beau. Thank you. You have proven that we are all brothers and sisters. Your skin may be lighter than mine but no one can tell me you are not my brother. The most moronic of us look at the color, the intelligent look and the mind heart and soul of a person. Will always be by your side during any fight, against enemies both foreign and domestic!💪🏽🇺🇸✌🏽🇵🇷
Love you beau. I recommend you to everyone. Thanks for offering different view of the south. It's very needed these days
The United Daughters of the Confederacy have a lot to answer for.
I wonder if the daughters of the Confederacy ever imagine that their work was going to be so successful. Millions of Americans see the rebel flag and confederate statues as their heritage and think that’s its a good thing.
Like to a pyre.
No they don't if they become workers for equality.
Don't bother it's a Lost Cause.
Sandra u invited to the cookout girl.. that's a nest full of fucking Karen's!!
Beau this was absolutely one of if not my favorite video's of yours. Super powerful message! Absolutely one that all Americans must hear!
Man you are a breathe of fresh air!
(standing up applauding, cheering, whistling) BRAVO! BRAVO! Finally the essence of our society is explained in a clear, easy to understand way! Thank you, Beau!
People don't learn history from statues anyway. They learn from other medium like books and videos.
The picture of the statues in the books that tell their mythology.
Well shit I guess we can just get rid of museums and all other historical monuments (ie the pyramids, coliseums, temples, historical graves etc). Besides most of the things I listed were build by slaves or slave labor, so they must be bad....
@Kurt Kindew You know where else that information is usually recorded? Libraries. Museums. You know, things that keep books and videos. Libraries in particular actually keep newspapers from specific days even! Last I recall, newspapers talk about what happened and why on those days.
Imagine that!
History is written by the Victor not the Vanquished.
Kurt Kindew, the plaques are doing the indoctrination for the unthinking ones.
Thank you for having a voice of reason.
We all forgot and need to remember that America is a big pot of gumbo .....flavors from different cultures coming together to make a fantastic dish that is uniquely American ......Make America Gumbo Again....
Need this on a shirt. Also need some gumbo...
I would definitely wear that shirt or hat.
I always considered our diversity our greatest strength.
Now this is MAGA i can get behind
They landed themselves in a Jam-balaya.
If I were American, I'll be so mighty proud of someone like Beau. He makes me want to be American.
If you thought beau wouldn't be okay with taking down confederate statues you haven't been watching this channel for very long.
Right?
Lol
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn It's just a thought..
Gotta erase history before it catches up with Democrats.
@@kentlange5338 They've got another republican mess to clean up first.
Love your way of thinking!.. Thank you Mr.!.. You actually helping for free a better understanding. Your words are powerful because they are spoken from your heart. I'm glad you're in this world, because the world NEED to hear what you're saying.
I've seen a will from an ancestor that named the horse that was bequeathed but not the young slave that was also divvied off to next of kin. I used to be one of those "you cant erase history" southerners, but seeing the literal receipts changed everything. Bring the statues down and change the Mississippi state flag dammit!
Oftentimes it's a weird thing that wakes us up. A big one for me was walking into a diner near my hometown with s black co-worker and hearing something that provoked a response from me that wound up getting the cops called.
Amen!! Nobody researches history for themselves anymore!! Thank you for your videos!! You are a wise wise man!!
Why do we keep having the same conversations? Do humans not learn from past
I think I heard around here that history doesn't repeat, it rhymes.
Cognitive dissonance can be as hard to pierce as some science fiction force field.
@@mikelouis9389 ...because many learned history from a movie.
Despsite our technological advances we are still very much primitive/tribal.
Edward Bernays "Propaganda" -- keep people looking at the past and you can lead them around like cattle in the present and future.
I’m always impressed with how often you manage to distill an issue down to its essence. It’s a skill I would like to have. 👍😁
Every time I hear you out. Your words send me on a reading frenzy. Sometimes deep sometimes in my face and so far from MY line of sight. My reading abilities are limited but I’m loving it and getting better. You inspire me to educate myself. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
You are a refreshingly clear thinker...I can’t tell you how much I appreciate that...especially these days.
This isn't simply "Food for thought." This is our entire supply chain. Thank you for what you're doing here.
Teach the truth brother
“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
Thank you so much for taking time to make these videos. It's so wonderful to hear someone with maturity and intelligence, willing break down these important issues. You inspire me to find a better way to communicate.
Pulling statues down is making history
Great point with a positive progressive agenda.
Yep, history is being made at this moment.
Yes.
Yes it IS making history!
I'll be OK with pulling down statues when they start pulling ALL statues, not just the ones of people they don't agree with.
@@papaj3177 OK, so we have established you don't understand. I bet you cheered when they pulled down the statue of Saddam Hussein.
Good stuff. Teaching about change is what a good history course does.
"Most Americans know American Mythology not American History"
So true
The blindspot of the US is the lack of appreciating our Actual History, Flaws and all.
To be honest though its the same in almost every country. Id say America is pretty ahead in this particular aspect,as an immigrant from Vietnam I can tell you that every flaws we had throughout history were totally brushed off in the official history books.
@@DUNGSI27
Thank you for your perspective.
In the US educational system, the narrative that passes for history is highly edited. However, we do get the benefit of free speech and books.
Spoken like an actual student of history.
Thank you.
I agree, the statues should be preserved as is (tagged and beaten) and added to the civil rights museum.
It is past due, that this country finally lived up to its high ideals.
Together, we can achieve equality and freedom for all.
Well that's true, however it never would have been done, because it should have been done years ago. They had their chance to do the right thing, and they blew it.
What would have had to happen in order for all those statues to be taken down professionally, without pomp and ceremony, then preserved in a Civil War museum? And which Civil War museum?
There were a lot of statues. Would there be a wing of a Civil War museum called The Daughters of the Confederacy's Effort To Keep Black People in Their Place Thereby Preserving The Superiority Of The White Race After The Confederacy Lost The Civil War wing?
There is a very good board game called Freedom: The Underground Railroad
The objective is to get as many slaves up north to freedom and away from slave catchers as you can. I submit you can learn more about the Civil War playing that game than you can looking at any statue, in or out of a museum. Here is a link to Game Night playing that game. ruclips.net/video/lIQHfSued_g/видео.html
Hell, leave the Confederate ones there, tagged and broken as a symbol of liberation and rejection of their failed ideology. For as long as they stood to let black people know who was still in charge, let them lie broken on the ground with a plaque on the pedistal they once stood on detailing their real legacy (that of being put up as symbols of terror long after the war dispite Lee wanting no such monuments to be built) as a message to white supremacists that they are _Not_ in charge anymore and never will be again.
You want to respect history, you don't create symbols glorifying oppression, you create symbols that (much like the Vietnam memorial) say "this was a blight on our history and we remember it to honor the _victims_ and to remind ourselves _never_ to repeat it" and if a statue is a symbol, so is it's destruction and desecration.
Broken statues are cheap and effective memorials to the victims of slavery, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression.
@James Venner How is Brazil the "promised land"? I do not know that much about Brazil so Im wondering why you say that
@James Venner I'm somewhat confused by the last part of your comment, "This pursuit of equality will lead to nothing but further bloodshed & ultimately a failed country". Is that meant to be in reference to Brazil's "pursuit of equality"? That sounds off when the people purportedly pursuing "equality" and in the US, but I've seen your comments in multiple threads on this video and your views very much seem to be in alignment with the mobs currently trying to enact a cultural revolution, so hard to reconcile those positions.
Beau seems to have selective vision here and wants to pretend it's just confederate monuments, when the day before this video the black bloc mobs were tearing down statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ulysses K. Grant. This isn't really about slavery - that's the excuse given to get well-meaning lefties on board - but the people in those black blocs tearing down statues are predominantly white. They're Communist revolutionaries who think the USA is uniquely evil and must be torn down to make room for the utopia.
They say it's about removing monuments to slavery, but when they're tearing down monuments to the people responsible for ending slavery it's obviously not about that. It's about erasing the country's cultural history to create a "blank slate" for the culture they want to bring in. This is what Mao did in China, it's what ISIS did in the territory they controlled, and it's what Winston Smith did in the Ministry of Truth. This is what the term "book burning" means, it's not about literal books, it's about destroying cultural heritage. Down the memory hole, as it were.
This isn't a new phenomenon, and we know where it leads. That's why I'm confused by you saying "This pursuit of equality will lead to nothing but further bloodshed & ultimately a failed country" - that statement is directly applicable to the cultural revolutionaries in the US right now, but your other comments appear to be supportive of this 21st century book burning endeavour. Can you help me clarify what your intended meaning was?
I really appreciate you being yourself and the knowledge you have and what you have experienced in life shines through thank you for your RUclips comment's god bless you and stay safe
Put all that Southern History paraphernalia in the Nazi section of a museum. People who want to preserve that history can view them there.
...and be sure to add factually complete narratives of why those statues exist. Maybe then some people will stop being ignorantly pride filled.
While at it, they should put them wherever Germany puts their hitler statues.
Considering that I was born in Wiesbaden, I find it interesting how I Never saw a hitler statue!
Those statues are a reminder to Black Americans that as long as they stand, so will the beliefs of those that are depicted in the statues.
Thank you for reminding me that there are good white folks here in the US. Where I live, that’s easy to forget or think otherwise.
Maybe put a video of Obama's eulogy for robert byrd, grand Kkk member and proud Democrat in there too. Oh yeah, we want to erase from history the truth that Democrats fucking hate black people.
@@kentlange5338 - by your definition, Strom Thurmond was a Democrat too ... oh, wait ...
History offers no heroes, only humans.
Thanks Beau. Thoughtful as always.
If Americans knew their real history, they would be horrified
Most white European countries would be horrified if they know their history.
Let us say that a little differently.
Every nation and people on Earth would be appalled not only what is in their history but also what is being done in their name in the present.
If they knew their history, they'd know it was a mixed bag like all human history, filled with ideals and hypocrisy. We're at our best when we strive to fulfill those ideals. We're at our worst when we let the fruits of our original sin hold sway over our actions. It's the history that gave us the Bill of Rights and the Declaration that all men are created equal. It's also the history that gave us colonialism, slavery, and Jim Crow. American history is complicated. At no time in human history was this a perfect nation. At no time has it been equally just. It will likely never get there. Not 100%. But when we strive to make it better, it can get better. To move forward we need to be able to recognize what we're moving away from by knowing where we've been. To move forward we need to recognize the injustices of the present and strive to fix them.
If ANYONE knew their real history they would be horrified.
@joe schmoe The did not sell off black people to slavery. Black folks in Africa had tribes and each tribe was an enemy to another tribe. They had wars just like everyone else. Hence Shaka Zulu era. He decided to befriend some white folks to get what his tribe needed. Each tribe was like a Colony. Each tribe had a King and A Queen Just like America have friends and allies. They aligned themselves with white settlers to get supplies for Their tribe. You know the saying the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And they allowed the settlers to do whatever they wanted with their enemies. But truth be told. Another dark history in America is that All Black people did not arrive over here on slave ships from Africa. Some black folks were already here on this soil. Black folks Migrated out of Africa several centuries before Eropean settlers made it over here. But they found Copper colored people with fancy head dress or Indian attire. My ancestors The Indigenous people. Trail of tesrs were my people. America paid white people to take over the land owned by Black Indigenous families. They sold Indian land to Europeans for 5 dollars. To keep from paying Black folks reparations from stealing our land here and later for slavery. The Five dollar imposter Indians White Europeans Took over the Indian names and tribes. Some of them had black slaves and started to mix with them or had babies with them And They had multicolored folks in the tribes. They called them Mulato Indians or Mixed breed. Or Red Indians. But Indians were originally Copper colored Indians. So technically America belongs to Black Indigenous people. So this is our land from the beginning of time anyway.
I always learn something when I watch your videos. Thank you for that. And I love your shirt!
“They are not a part of history. They are there to mythologize.” Exactly right, Beau.
Totally disagree ! It / They ARE a part of our / U. S. history ! Good or Bad. Sorry Beau you or no one else can not change History by calling it something else ( mythology ). Your sounding more and more like a politician. Sorry Beau you or no one else can have it both ways.
@@dennisnagel4422 - Naa-ah. I call BS. Beau IS right; there's a BIG difference - but it's really subtle. The big, bad difference is that fancy word, "Glorious." Those "Wild-eyed Southern Boys" who started the Civil War weren't fighting for a Glorious Cause; they were traitors, and it took the deaths - not even necessary deaths - of millions of good men to get them to stop.
You should check out what Ed Bonekemper says in his book, "The Myth of the Lost Cause." He grew up in the South, and now lives in Pennsylvania. He's got many video appearances on RUclips, hours of him; so you can see him crush ANY argument you can think of and you can learn something important, and nobody will be there to make fun of you. Fortune passes everywhere.
I agree that it's more of mythology. However, I don't understand the argument that people who are complaining, should focus on real history an not bother about statues being brought down, when the same logic doesn't seem to apply to people who appear hell bent on destroying mythology.
Beau pretends that the people tearing down statues are not creating myths of their own. He's too smart not to see that. Ergo he's blowing smoke up your ass.
jvee bklyn, I see that you don’t know the difference between myth and history.
Thank you, Beau
I am so looking forward to moving forward.
I did the sixties and fought the good fight ever since.
Hopefully before I die. 🙏
I hear you my sister!
I’m so grateful for you Mr. Beau ❤️
Awesome channel, brother.
I'm a mixed race woman with mixed race children. My sons are direct decended nephews of Robert E. Lee, that alone brings me joy. Rip them all down!
Statues don't need to be in the middle of towns to be history... they can be thrown in a museum
if they were historically relevant or of artistic merit, most of these are neither.
Throw em into recycling. Get something useful from it. That'd be an appropriate legacy.
The granite ones should be thrown in the river and lakes for shelters for fish to spawn. Those statues would finally have a good purpose.
Stock lakes with trout, bass, catfish, etc, and give low-income folks free or low-cost fishing licences
May we burn George Floyd murals?
Plant then right in the African American museum, and let them explain each statue.
I love how you argue problems logically without bias
Preach Brother
You help me to remember why I love my country. At a time it's very hard not to feel shame. Thank you
Democracy and freedom was never what made America great. The ability to change, grow, and become better than we were yesterday is.
I'm sorry, but just having "the ability" doesn't cut it. Besides the fact that I think that the US puts far too much importance on "being great".
It's not a competition.
@Atheos B. Sapien So, in your opinion, which propaganda would that be?
The one about being great (the greatest)?
When does that last bit start? 😜
Happy Father's day Mr Beau and thankyou always for your truth
I hate the “You are erasing history “ argument.
It's not even an argument. It's just a wrong statement...
The instant the Robert E. Lee statue came down I completely forgot who won the Civil War.
Use instead of hating it. Argument for monuments that reminds the dead slaves by name. That is remembering the loss and the pain caused to them.
We in Germany have monuments that remember our darkest time. You can find them in every city.
Signs like "Here was an synagogue, burned in the pogrom.", "This hospital had a floor designed to kill disabled children in the so called euthanasia program", often followed by "Their names were..."
But guess what we don't have? A Hitler monument.
Just suggest they can preserve history and southern pride by putting up statues of black southern abolitionist after the other statues are taken down. If it's not about racism they should be good with that.
What they are really saying is you are erasing white history. We have all been feed a white history since birth.. Some call that a cult . I was lucky I had a white mother and father that were way ahead of their time . She taught us the truth of what the real history was. They march with MLK and at the time they were 40 years old. We were raised in the south, and had few friends because they didn’t allow anyone in our life’s that treated people of any color with disrespect.
I love the way you explain things. It's remarkable.
Founding Myths and Lies My Teacher Told me are Two of my favorite books.
Beau, I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed listening to your conversations on RUclips since I ran across your site a few months ago..thank you for sharing your thoughts on this subject and many, many others! Keep up the good work, Brother!
They've finally taken down the Christopher Columbus statue here in Houston. I was confused why we ever had a statue of a man that was completely lost.
Worse yet, he never got here!!! He never set foot on the North American continent at all.
He wasn't lost. He deliberately lied about the length of the journey to gain funding (those who objected had the correct numbers). He was probably surprised as anyone to find a landmass just about where his fudged numbers said there should be land. Whether he thought he was on the far end of India or Cathay is another matter.
@@markpashia7067 - He reached the Americas, but he was hardly the first. Scandinavians definitely got here before him, and there's a Roman galley somewhere in the Caribbean or the Gulf. Maybe Phoenicians reached the Americas. None of them stayed for long.
Lost on me as well bro
@James Venner It's formerly District of Columbia was named after Columbus but that doesn't mean he ever landed in the North Americas. Columbus landed in San Salvador and the Bahamas. George Washington named the district of land he was told to map out for the city that would become the capital off the Potomac between Maryland and Virginia. That's historical. And anyone with a Latin last name would have been one of the first to arrive and invade and be granted land grants by the Spanish monarchs. Land grants that can be traced back to 1716. The Spaniards were here longer than British. Also a piece of history, a good portion of the Southwestern Territories from Texas to California belonged to Mexico at one time. The land grants were to encourage settlements in the West and were also offered to the native Americans in the NM area and were used as a buffer between the settlers and the indigenous people.
Love your reflections and ideas, Beau. Gore Vidal, back in the dim old '60s and '70s tried to tell us much the same, but he was always this pedantic, professorial voice that put my then young, spring chicken like self to sleep. But you, from common sense and reason , come so much closer to the simplicity and eloquence of Jefferson and the clauses that describe how laws shall be written so that and average person could understand and make sound decisions on them he wrote into our Constitution. TYVM!
Concerned about history while building on literal graves.
I don't deny it, what would you say about this
ruclips.net/p/PLfxoZp23UL8NM6St5740RRU8xAu-UcfJL
Word Up! Keep spiting that fire Beau. God bless.
Statues are never about historical, it's a way glorify certain people and things. You want history pick up a book cause that is actual history.
but don't forget the books are written by the victors of wars and blood shed
True, history can be preserved in books. Sadly, the majority of Americans learned a whitewashed history that ignored the atrocities.
@@darlenegriffith6186 It's like the difference between a novel, a movie, and a meme. A novel has the time and space for the most context and nuance, to sometimes even include the very thoughts of those involved. The movie has to condense this and tries to convey using body language and visual queues, it also causes the movie to strip away some of the context or depth for presentation issues and as is the case it sometimes strips the important parts or the missing context sometimes warps the storyline.
A meme now, just cuts all context, all nuance and relies on previous knowledge of the issue or bias of the interpreter to take what they will from the meme.
All depends on who wrote the book, when the book was written and which revision of history the book focused on.
@@patrickaalfs9584 I mean fair.
But all things considered, I'd rather be on the side of history that calls out Racism for the atrocity it is.
Beau you are a 900 year old man of wisdom...👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
We are evaluating what we publicly Honor.
Always a pleasure listening to your interpretation and rationale. The heritage machine must keep on turning.
Speaking from over the pond, I so wish we had someone as wise and with clarity of thought, straightforward presentation as Beau over here. On the plus side, our blonde buffoon is following yours bout 36 hours time lag, so bring it on US, help us!
That someone you looking for might be you...just a thought. The struggle is real...
@@ironlion8363 Thanks for that sentiment, it is a thought that has crossed my mind many times for about a year. Sadly I am struggling to survive and have had that many blows this year that I don't think I have the drive to do it. Maybe once I turn that elusive corner. Respect :-)
Love you! Keep speaking the truth!
A statue is not history, it is a statue.
@music41533 It's an inanimate object, brent
@music41533- You can remember history just as well in a museum. These statues represent individuals that didn't think all men were created equal and did everything in their power to maintain the status quo.
In museums are where they belong.
Everything is history, but public statues are generally set up to celebrate the life of a historical figure. The question is, is it a life worth celebrating?
@music41533 All around the world, the majority of statues are not actually important historic people, or commemorating important historic actions. More often it's part of the legacy of some rich idiot that wanted a statue, so he donated some of his wealth, or it's actually a response to current affairs - as per the statues of confederate generals erected during the civil rights era. And of course there's a metric shit-ton of statues of dictators - I don't recall anyone responding to the pictures of the toppling of Sadam Hussein's statue by complaining that we were "forgetting everything about the past". Also good luck telling everyone in eastern europe that they should put back all the statues of Stalin!
music41533 I think the audience here is a little more sophisticated.
I can't get enough of your videos man. Great job.
The act of toppling a statue is a more significant historicsl event than the act of erecting one.
Have a very happy and relaxing Father’s Day, Beau! ✌🏻
Funny my friend & I were just talking about how our history is more mythology lol
Big difference between mythology and history, so true Beau, this is why I watch your channel, you open our eyes to what is happening, I always recommend your channel to everyone, wish the red hat people would listen to you, you are a man with moral intelligence, thank you from Orange County, Ca 👍
The participation trophy crowd are having meltdowns proving who the real snowflakes are.
The non-participation trophy croud even.
Thank you for your knowledge and wisdom, God bless you!
"Most of you traded your country for a red hat" Where's the lie?
The entire statement. You're welcome.
Are there blue MAGA hats?
James Venner how do you figure that? With only about a third of adults being Republican?
@James Venner your speech lends itself to a conservative viewpoint. Unless you are Independent and equally critical of both parties, but from your wording I highly doubt that.
@James Venner 'Right-Wing' are the nation sad...Guess that means only Southeners are the nation because most are Right wing. However, people in the South are ignorant and poor as fuck, they voted for Trump because he promised to build a wall on the border like that's going to help them in any way, when corporations will move their business to Mexico and China. They also take EBT and as much help as they can get from the gov, that's socialism, yet they say they hate socialism. That is America? A bunch of racist ignorant Southerners? Yes, half is that and the other IS a freaking shopping mall full of zombies, wake up and see the reality around you.
You know.. if there is anything I love about this channel is that Beau teaches me to articulate how to say the things I already knew, felt, and believed but couldn't necessarily explain to others
"Change waits for NO ONE"........Nuff said.
I was a tour guide in Boston for twenty years. Thank you for addressing these issues. Most often statues, monuments, plaques are highly inaccurate and reflect issues important to people who erected them. Most often the people who the statues etc. represent never intended nor appreciated the reverence given to kings, religious leaders, and mythological figures. Our country has never been great. "Greatness" was never the goal of this experiment. Thank you.
This sounds like what the daughters of the confederate was trying to do which was recreate history in a way that would overshadow the truth.btw beau im dig'n the shirt
Exactly! They are singlehandedly who got the "myth of the lost cause" popularized and stirred up glorification of the confederacy and the mythology. They were the center of it all, including a huge amount of the crazy monuments
Taking these statues and plaques down doesn’t erase history. It just scrubs off the whitewash slathered on by the Daughters.
I wouldn't say recreate but manipulate would be more appropriate. The Daughters of the Confederacy were the mistresses of propaganda. Genteel in their manner and scrupulous in their intent. The female gender is not the weaker sex. A case study in propaganda.
That's what it is. It's called the lost cause myth.
Keep preaching the Truth.