@John Smith except when all you do is avoid the negative all you will get is a negative result. It’s like telling your child everything they do is right and they grow up with dysfunctionaly high self-esteem. You can’t build up by avoiding all negativity.
@@whysocurious7366 Exactly. And that’s what John seems to be calling for. Low self esteem doesn’t seem to be the nationalistic, exceptionalistic, problem. So please keep them informed as to where they have problems. Either they will walk around in shame or idk maybe work to improve things.
@John Smith so when told what's wrong was there any effort by some folks to change or did folks those same folks double down in their racism? When told what you're doing wrong, you're no longer willfully ignorant. YOU ARE DELIBERATE!
Many ASIANS VOTED FOR TRUMP AND THE GOP EVEN WHEN THEY TALKED ALL THAT BE SBOUT US MEXICANS AND MEXICAN-AMERICANS. NOW KARMA HAS KICKED THEM IN THE BALLS. ENJOY.
I disagree. It is called 'partial progress.' FWIW: America did not invent that playbook - we inherited it. For several thousand years, humans openly thought other people were lesser and approved of slavery. These positions were not that controversial - the main argument was who was better. We are headed in the right direction.
@@jgbeck1000 It doesn't matter if we invented it or what, what matters is if we STOP doing it, only then, can we say that we have gotten rid of this old and disgusting playbook.
We had a young man that came here legally to go to college. After graduation he was granted permission to stay and get a job. We hired him as our controller. He decided to become a US citizen. It took 10 years and +$120,000 to finally make that happen. This is not how this should work. Oh he was from Malaysia.
I've worked with several people who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, more than they spent on very expensive schooling for their professions, just to come to & stay in the US to do very highly skilled jobs. One of them told me once that it would take them an average of 20 years to become a citizen not to mention most of their salaries during that time. I completely agree, this is not how it should work at all.
@@rhodawatkins4516 They know it and count on it. They're the same ones who lie through their teeth when they claim they aren't against all immigration just illegal immigration.
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
That's true of any in group vs it's out group . "give him somebody to look down on and he'll empty is pockets for you". Everyone wants to feel like they're not at the bottom and having someone else to occupy that space it's most effective with whites right now because the system in place is built on white supremacy. I wonder if that'll change now that population demographics are changing and efforts to stop it have failed?
Dreamers were raised here. they were educated here. they work here. their parents may be undocumented but they contributed to our economy and paid their own way. the Dreamers are OUR children. treat them as such.
We will always be having these conversations though. Things don't go away completely. It's just that we can repress the evil instead of repressing the innocent.
What we need is more of these conversations in public, in the media. Not just the towing of news with a side of entertainment value. But honest-to-goodness speak about racism and how it affects the people of America. There's more room on the outside and we have been in the closet over this issue for a millennia.
I am an Asian American and I have always been treated as "less than." More so when the former guy was in the WH, on many occasions I was told to go back to where I came from. We have not come a long way, we have actually regressed.
I'm a natural born US citizen, a child of two immigrants who'd come legally, and I got plenty of "you people" and "go back where you came from" crap when I lived in the US.
My brother in law, who is a second generation Asian immigrant, and left a kidney in Vet Nam, got that. He decided to adjust the guys attitude. He asked the guy when he served, (the guy hadn’t served). And, then he told the guy his background. The guy shut up, and walked away.
@@carolsantangelo6484 Thanks. It sucked, especially since I was a kid who didn't really understand where those attitudes came from at the time, but I'd like to think it helped make me a better person in the long run because I don't want to be part of perpetuating such nonsense. I've also known Americans who are among the most compassionate and tolerant that I've been lucky enough to meet anywhere, so I'm not trying to act like the actions of a particular subset should taint them all.
@John Smith I don’t know what “The Left” is in your mind. Or what it means that they are supposedly judging others solely based on skin color. Is there a specific instance you’re referring to? Are there massive marches in the streets by Leftists in hoods saying “Whites will not replace us”? Are predominantly white places of business and worship being violently targeted by the left? Or did somebody call you Mayo Boy on Twitter and now the tears just won’t stop coming? Sorry for the sarcasm, but your talking point is kind of embarrassing and silly.
I think the "this is not us" idea comes from the images and ideas we were fed as kids - in school in movies, in popular culture (I grew up in the 60's). "We" were always depicted as the "good guys". "We" have the highest morals, values and ethics. "We" always win, "we" treat everyone with kindness and fairness. It was a myth then and it's a myth now.
I got fed that in school in the 60s, too. And I actually believed that racism ended with the civil rights act. I could do this because I wasn't close enough to any black people to hear about the reality of being black in America. As an adult, I got new friends and had my eyes opened. Now, there is video evidence everywhere you look, so anybody who still thinks it's a myth is simply choosing to remain blind.
I love that now our elections match the film strip propaganda description of the old Soviet Union. " The Soviet elections are between candidates chosen by the party so there's no way to effect change. The ruling party maintains control and the people are fed an illusion of choice and self determination
Lindsey Graham just said that he would filibuster until he "fell over" to stop the voting rights act. There is no place in 2021 for a Strom Thurmond analog... but there he is. The words and excuses have changed, but the outcomes and effects are the same as they ever were.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 He's already run out of excuses. He's been caught lying, and completely contradicting himself. Yet he still has people who vote for him, apparently because he's not a Lib and is Trump's bitch.
Its strange that im brown, native and hispanic and of my southern baptist white family, one of which refused to sit in the white section of the bus and stood with the blacks in the back. These people have shown me absolute and unconditional love. If you cant muster positive influence, you should reflect upon yourself. Good luck to you.
In my experience, the GOP wants to treat the unsavory actions of our past like one treats the unsavory racism of their WWII-vet Grandpa: don't bring it up in public, chastise anyone who tries to bring it up as wanting to make a scene and shift the conversation to all the heroic war stories when it is inevitably brought up.
Opinions need to come from an inner compus. Where did ours go? Leave it to the other guy to expose our weakness. He is a dick but at least he was being who he really is.
Do we really say your kids can't go to school with mine? No... We don't send the "other" kids to special schools. We send ours to Charter Schools. Your kids go to Public Schools. Separate but equal under a new name.
Conservatives advocate for what they call "school choice" (thereby depleting the tax base of public schools and using public money to subsidize wealthier families sending their children to private school) but refuse to allow women to control reproductive choices for themselves ---- and part of their strategy is to spread abject lies, complaining that taxpayers are paying for abortions, which is simply not true.
3:32 "The Asians that came in the early 1800's, well they came legally." Yeah, maybe so, but the Europeans who came in the 1500's and 1600's (etc.) did not come legally.
My wife works for the migrant program. A large percentage of the people that she works with are from South Africa. They're white. They seem to have no problem with the police or the people who live in the surrounding area. I wonder why?
The truth is only tough for those Americans who are not subjected to systemic racism for those of us who are or we know this playbook better than anyone else.
But as inconvenient as the truth may be,it is still however the truth. Some conviniently came up with the idiotic notion of alternative facts. Truth or Not true. If it's not true,it is a lie. Be not deceived. Those who refuse to hear the truth, have decided to continue to live a lie. Knowing the truth is liberating.
I think we've reached the point where the impression that a story is plausible ought to be a red flag. Disinformation that you are fooled by will ALWAYS make sense; reality isn't there to appeal to what pushes your buttons. This is why the manufactured things other people believe are so obvious to us, and why fact checking is counterproductive. Picture a movie set. To the camera everything seems right, but walk around the corner and that building's lack of supporting structure a trivial observation. Anyone who tells you it exists comes across as a troll or someone hopelessly unmoored from reality. In fact, in a system that's exerting constant selection pressure for attention and engagement, it's the stuff that makes the least sense outside a narrow viewing arc that gets reinforced the most. Here's a tough truth: if things other people have fallen for lead you to conclude that they've got the alternative facts problem? Both of you gave whatever process generated it an upvote on that alternative fact. Describing the problem of alternative facts as a character flaw is a lot like translating the civil rights era's central lesson as: racists are bad people.
There's a cartoon picture of a king and his advisors at the top of their tower looking down at a 'peasant' mob, some carrying pitchforks, some carrying torches. An advisor states "Don't worry Sire, you just need to say to those carrying pitchforks that it is those carrying the torches that are to blame"
I had to send a letter to my mother-in-law about her racism. She didn't see it because she's completely okay with black people. But Muslims and immigrants at the border are "those people" I asked her not to say she doesn't see racism anymore. That we can be good as long as I don't have to call her out. It was the best way I could keep a relationship with someone I love.
A lot of black people seem not to get that they are not the primary racist target over the last four years. Priveleged Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens...well wtf they aren't being forcibly sterilized or blamed for a virus.
Poor people aren't a minority but they are treated as such bc most of them vote against their own interests. How do you get someone to do that? Hate for "others". Page 1
I am a "poor person"... and I have a fabulous life because I didn't buy into the social and corporate engineering that I need a lot of crap to be "successful".
Old as the hills? "Divide and conquer..." Modern media controlled by rarified elites, and polarizing the "masses" into separate camps? "Can't have the mob unifying and turning on the Few?" Rome/Roman empire anyone?
@@redmoondesignbeth9119 Okay, but that's a pretty different experience than actually being poor. Till you can't eat for days and you're sleeping in a bus shelter I'm not sure you can compare your experiences. Maybe you are being sincere or maybe you're just virtue signaling to shame others...either way it sounds weird to me.
@@penzotoko6619 I live on $800 a month in Santa Fe. I've never made more than $10,000 a year being a single mom...for about 40 years now. I ride the bus and enjoy chatting with the homeless. Mental health issues seem to be a big problem. Lots of Vets. Of course there are people who are starving and I often buy food for people I meet.
And when they can't find a race, they go with gender. Remember, women have always been looked down on, yet during WWII, it was the women in the factories only be told to go back to the kitchen when the men came home from the war. This country will always find an "other", I hope it doesn't stay that way.
It's less now. It's a long and all too often painful road, but we *are* winning over time. One day our childrens children may know true freedom. Until that day we just need to keep setting the example of how freedom is responsibility for the freedom of everyone else.
Not as long as people are able to listen to Beau and spread the word. Education is a wonderful thing - as long as it's honest and clear - like Beau. There is always hope and you are part of that.
America needs more "e Pluribus Unum" and less "In God We Trust." We can either learn to live together, striving for equality of opportunity, or we shall all truly die alone.
@John Smith How?, "e Pluribus Unum" includes people of faith, hell its closer to the message of Christ than anything else. "In God We Trust" excludes people without faith or people that have multiple gods
No one in their right mind. Ooh I try to avoid using that word when I mean correct. It may be confused with those in the reich. But yeah no person that strives for truth, has compassion,cares for equality & hopes for a government that represents the people of this nation would downvote this channel. Sorry, got carried away, often do.
In my 60+ years I've seen these patterns repeated unfortunately. If real change is ever to come it must happen by learning to treat others the way we would want others to treat us. We can do better, and we must do better! ☝️
I 100% agree with the sentiment, but have a real problem with the saying on a more technical level. Not everyone wants, or should be treated the same way. Instead we should treat others in the way that feels best to them, as long as it causes no serious harm to anyone.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 You may have misunderstood my sentiment. I don't think that everyone should be treated "the same way". When initiating or engaging interactions with others we must be respectful of individual differences and personality nuances (just as we hope that the same thoughtfulness is granted to us) There are people in the world who are happiest when putting others down, or harming animals, or self-harming with drugs, alcohol, or perhaps cutting themselves. This doesn't mean that I should accept those harmful behaviors, not at all. What I was trying to convey was that if the situation were reversed, then I would want to be treated with compassion and understanding just as I would offer that understanding to others, but specific to the individual and situation. 👍
YES! I don't think we will ever have to stop chiipping away at injustice, because the more we learn, the more we realize that things we thought were okay are hurting someone. To me, that is a good thing. To stop looking is to stop growing, is to stop being better.
Hello from beautiful (if cold..) Michigan! I appreciate and use your response-to-comments videos a lot. I have been arguing immigration reform for years, and was even gaining a little, until he-who-shall-no-longer-be-named emerged. Now I have to argue why immigration is good, too. You break down the counter argument concisely into points that can only be answered with ignorance, bigotry or 'but Facebook says!' Thanks!🖖🐢
Immigration is good for all countries. People who want to leave their homes to emigrate to another country want a better life, so will work hard to make it.
@@Martinbeef No argument! I have been smashing my head against the 'freeloaders' and 'rapists' and 'terrorists' comments that I have concussed myself! It is like arguing for justice reform after Willie Horton, which in retrospect, was a sunny stroll to a picnic in comparison.
And not just vote every two or four years for the General Elections. We need to support better candidates and initiatives in the Primaries as well as on every other ballot that comes our way.
This is why I’m getting tired of Glenn greenwald. I get it he wants to present a counter view to everything but giving a white male in america a pass on racism is not a way to help anybody, just to criticize cancel culture. It’s not right cause it’s not the truth.
The 'play book' was written by racist aristocrats that invented a friendly new way [constitutional democracy] to talk about governing people and staying in power - we call them the founding fathers. They were not particularly choosy about who they exploited.
Well this just gave me a huge epiphany. People of privilege are so intent on keeping up the "things are different now" narrative because they know deep down The American institution is built this way and if they don't continue to keep people in a lower class than them they know the system they live in may eventually turn around and other them.
Right! I see this in so many groups of hateful, scared people... they are afraid of the minority because they think "the others" will treat them the same way they treated The Others.
Ultimately it boils down to the Conservative mindset of hierarchal thinking. You should always be on top. Always be "better" than someone else. If you can't be at the top then you should at least keep from being on the bottom. And if you're on the bottom well that's just "your place." Oh yes they'll bang on and on about "work ethics" and "free markets" and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and a 1001 other platitudes to make it look like there's a chance for upward mobility. But in practice they'll throw every stone they can in the road to make it as hard as possible. And even if someone they deem unworthy does manage to rise above, does manage jump through the hoops to equal or surpass them they'll come up with every excuse as to why they didn't "deserve" it or claim they "cheated." It's why they love unbridled and unregulated Capitalism so much. It's a secular, "merit based" system that sorts people and allows them claim some form of superiority in the absence of divine right or noble lineage. It's also what feeds into and engenders racism, sexism, ultranationalism, classism, xenophobia, etc... that underpin their efforts to hold on to whatever power or perceived power they have. Or to put it all more simply: to those accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression.
@@steampunker7 All of that^^^. Also, we have to remember that we do not live in anything remotely resembling a free market. Our laws are specifically and purposefully designed to favor corporations over people. It''s revolting.
@@ExkupidsMom Yup. And that's the rub. Listen to any Libertarian or Neo-Liberal talk and they'll make it sound like entire fortunes are just waiting for you to grab if you knuckle down and put in the work. What they always (and I mean always) ignore are the massive corporate and ultrarich tax breaks, the government subsidies and bail outs, generational wealth that keeps the 1%...well, the one 1%, or how many "entrepreneurs" and "garage start ups" were actually already pretty well off to begin with or got help from those who were. In other words: Socialism for the wealthy, capitalism for the rest.
@@steampunker7 Perhaps indentured servitude for the rest might be more accurate. Want an education ... debt, want to have shelter ...debt, want to eat during a pandemic ... debt, want your children to have a better education ... you get the idea.
You are a damn good teacher Beau! You not only have the ability to tell a story but you also have a way of correcting someone without being condescending or smug. I think your videos should be shown in every history/civics class & Ze Frank's should be shown in every science class! 💙💚💜
Sounds like conversations about race come up frequently in your experience. If that's all you ever hear people talking about, you might be the one obsessed or something.
It's been this very same denial that has perpetuated racism all of this time. In fact, anyone who claims systemic racism doesn't exist is either from a different planet, or an incredibly obvious bigot.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 ain't that the truth. So blatant that the blind see it & the deaf hear it, and still people willfully deny that it exists. Must take a gargantuan effort to keep spouting that lie !
It is never "us" and until "we" start excepting that itis us we will never change. America has been entitled to long. it won't change until "us" become 'we" collectively and individually.
Maybe there is an improvement not so much as the playbook not being used but more people speaking out against the playbook's tactics. I just don't know how to help those who fall for the tactics see how it's being used against them. The conservative politicians are so busy convincing people there isn't enough money to go around and that Those People are the ones depriving Them of security. Like, we could skip paying for one jet for the military to help all people in a social program or two regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, etc. Instead, our taxes are going to fund obstructionism instead of anyone offering any actual alternative, workable solutions to the ones they simply cannot abide as they are.
I think - to be accurate - "this isn't the America we're trying to be" but honestly not every American is on the same page, and I am horrified by statements I am hearing coming from the mouths of our elected officials (Rep Roy of TX recently for example) so this isn't the America *some* of us are trying to be?
True. But don't ever believe their lie of being half, or even 40% of America. 74 million is less than 27% of Americans 18 and older. That's barely more than one quarter..
Being embarrassed for bad habits being exposed is not dangerous. Oh, it hurts and its hard work to improve those habits because it costs in effort and (unproportionate/unjustified) pride.
The playbook is the same. I'm a 60 year old AA. I've experienced/recognized racism my entire life. I don't walk around with blinders on or let that mess slow me down. I treat everyone equally and try to maintain a positive attitude. It is what it is.
The United States of America was founded on some pretty great principles, but despite moments of greatness, we have seldom lived up to our potential. We don't need to "Make America Great Again," we need to BECOME the best that we can be.
Good summary. It continues, perhaps evolved, as long as there are those who contribute to not acknowledging history but also present day as well as disagree with the lived experiences of those subjected to the institutions.
We do have a police tax. Some counties have 80% of their funding from civil penalties. Tickets for Jaywalking and not wearing a seatbelt. I’m willing to bet that most of those fines don’t come from the Mayor’s side of the tracks.
I was am an Iranian that came as a 3 year old in the height of the was hostage crisis and I was living in millington Tennessee and was treated so kindly and met life long friends. It’s not the south that’s problem it’s nation there is pockets of them in every state
It's what capitalism based morality is based on. If you think capitalism can do no wrong, you think of everything as a resource, and everything has a price.
@John Smith How many US politicians do you think you could find that think that companies donating unlimited funds to politicians should be illegal and is immoral? Out of those, how many refuse corporate donations, pacs, etc, and vote to get rid of them? Remember, the highest court in this country sees money as speech.
Thank you Beau for bringing the facts out about our country and to the people in our country who may not know . I share your videos and @ the GOP and TheDemocrats all the time. If I didn’t share one it is probably because I was driving. I share it under the #Beauknows. I do have renewed hope for our Country since the one who shall not be named is out of office. Please keep doing what you do.
It happens in the UK too. The people from Caribbean countries in the Commonwealth were encouraged to come to the UK, and many found work building the railways and working for the NHS (national Health Service, which offers a basic level of care for free), So black people were invited living in their windows, saying "No Blacks". So, we have very similar problems with racism, homophobia etc here too. We are not as civilised as some Americans think we are, I am very ashamed to say.
@@puirYorick I did. That man is the worst kind of racist because so many people listen to what he says. Also, Megan turned him down for a date and that’s partly why he’s such an asswipe.
👋🏾Add: If you say that the racism problem doesn’t exist anymore, that it isn’t as bad - you are part of the problem. Also, Am I crazy that I thought that comment sounded like the beginning of a Dr. Seuss book?
👋🏼Good morning!☀️. That guy who told Beau he thought the problems are improved needs to poke his head outside, and look around. Was he rhyming? I need coffee, I couldn’t hear it.
I do think it gotten better, lynching happen less often, Jim Crowe laws are no more, slavery is abolished. It is less horrific, but still horrible and wide spread. "We have come a long, long way, but we have a long way to go.” MLK
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas In Kentucky, the public schools were segregated “for safety’s sake”, until the last 7-8 years. It wasn’t called segregation, but that’s what it was. Kentucky schools have one of the lowest test scores in the country. When people finally stood up, and demanded change, it still was like trying to walk through waist deep mud. I don’t live there anymore, so I’m not up to date. And I believe there are many other southern states who are the same.
Reminds me of that line from the old song " Everybody's gotta have some body to look down on". We are all immigrants and are all Americans. Diversity is our strength! It's what makes US great, not hate.
"Yeah, this time is different." This is an abuser's strategy. Someone has to be responsible, be scapegoat, be the repository of anger. Once when I was talking with an ex-husband about his anger and control issues, he implored me to bring it to his attention as he was engaging in the behavior. I said, "I have. And you always say, 'This is different.' You find a way to justify disrespecting me, making me to blame for your anger." Yep. I recognise this strategy, this gaslighting.
Speaking of History: Heather Cox Richardson recently did a podcast on the meaning of the word "conservative", from its first use in America, President Lincoln's usage and the "conservative" party from a historical perspective. It was refreshing to hear about the historical fact instead of the self serving fantasies made up on the spot by Republican Congressmen.
It's easy to be against something that is in the past. There is no cost, to call to action. You can feel superior to someone in the past without actually having to be any different from them. To look at the world now and see problems means that you have a responsibility of action. Yet at the same time it's not hard to see the cracks. I read an article yesterday about a group of kids who had decided that they didn't want to have a segregated prom, this year and while that does give me some hope for those kids, the real story is that there are still segregated proms in 2021. If you really want to see what is happening now in America I'd suggest "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander. A book that examines one part of how we continue to keep your underclass and how easy it is to ignore it if you choose to. The people who are creating the system have every incentive to make it easy to ignore. If you don't have time for that read "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr. This bit seems especially important today "I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"
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How is acknowledging our failures as a country damaging to it? It’s far more damaging to dismiss and or ignore them.
@John Smith Well you don’t prompt self reflection with flattery either. Have a nice day.
@John Smith except when all you do is avoid the negative all you will get is a negative result. It’s like telling your child everything they do is right and they grow up with dysfunctionaly high self-esteem. You can’t build up by avoiding all negativity.
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@@whysocurious7366 Exactly. And that’s what John seems to be calling for. Low self esteem doesn’t seem to be the nationalistic, exceptionalistic, problem. So please keep them informed as to where they have problems. Either they will walk around in shame or idk maybe work to improve things.
@John Smith so when told what's wrong was there any effort by some folks to change or did folks those same folks double down in their racism? When told what you're doing wrong, you're no longer willfully ignorant. YOU ARE DELIBERATE!
Keep speaking the truth no matter how much it hurts. It needs to be told.
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Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya😘
Many ASIANS VOTED FOR TRUMP AND THE GOP EVEN WHEN THEY TALKED ALL THAT BE SBOUT US MEXICANS AND MEXICAN-AMERICANS. NOW KARMA HAS KICKED THEM IN THE BALLS. ENJOY.
When you stab someone in the back, pulling the knife out halfway is hardly "progress".
I disagree. It is called 'partial progress.' FWIW: America did not invent that playbook - we inherited it. For several thousand years, humans openly thought other people were lesser and approved of slavery. These positions were not that controversial - the main argument was who was better.
We are headed in the right direction.
@@jgbeck1000 It doesn't matter if we invented it or what, what matters is if we STOP doing it, only then, can we say that we have gotten rid of this old and disgusting playbook.
We had a young man that came here legally to go to college. After graduation he was granted permission to stay and get a job. We hired him as our controller. He decided to become a US citizen. It took 10 years and +$120,000 to finally make that happen. This is not how this should work. Oh he was from Malaysia.
Try to become a Canadian citizen. Not as difficult but there's road blocks.
I wonder how many people who are screaming "come here legally" realize how difficult, time consuming, and expensive it really is? And do they care?
I've worked with several people who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, more than they spent on very expensive schooling for their professions, just to come to & stay in the US to do very highly skilled jobs. One of them told me once that it would take them an average of 20 years to become a citizen not to mention most of their salaries during that time. I completely agree, this is not how it should work at all.
Bless your heart for demonstrating to him the good heart of America.
@@rhodawatkins4516 They know it and count on it. They're the same ones who lie through their teeth when they claim they aren't against all immigration just illegal immigration.
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Yep, and he said it to Bill Moyers about the racists opposed to Civil Rights reforms.
Such an important quote
He also once said, "See if you can't leave me an inch from where the zipper (burps) ends, round, under my, back to my bunghole." Wise words.
That's true of any in group vs it's out group . "give him somebody to look down on and he'll empty is pockets for you". Everyone wants to feel like they're not at the bottom and having someone else to occupy that space it's most effective with whites right now because the system in place is built on white supremacy. I wonder if that'll change now that population demographics are changing and efforts to stop it have failed?
Well said!!!! :) so true wow
Dreamers were raised here. they were educated here. they work here.
their parents may be undocumented but they contributed to our economy and paid their own way.
the Dreamers are OUR children.
treat them as such.
We haven't come far enough if we're still having these conversations.
We will always be having these conversations though. Things don't go away completely. It's just that we can repress the evil instead of repressing the innocent.
excellent point.
There it is. The truth.
What we need is more of these conversations in public, in the media. Not just the towing of news with a side of entertainment value. But honest-to-goodness speak about racism and how it affects the people of America. There's more room on the outside and we have been in the closet over this issue for a millennia.
@John Smith no Johnny. That's the right. If you haven't figured that out yet then you literally can't think for yourself.
Sorry.
I am an Asian American and I have always been treated as "less than." More so when the former guy was in the WH, on many occasions I was told to go back to where I came from. We have not come a long way, we have actually regressed.
I'm sorry for that bless you.
I'm a natural born US citizen, a child of two immigrants who'd come legally, and I got plenty of "you people" and "go back where you came from" crap when I lived in the US.
@@Ash__Adler I'm sorry for that..
My brother in law, who is a second generation Asian immigrant, and left a kidney in Vet Nam, got that. He decided to adjust the guys attitude. He asked the guy when he served, (the guy hadn’t served). And, then he told the guy his background. The guy shut up, and walked away.
@@carolsantangelo6484 Thanks. It sucked, especially since I was a kid who didn't really understand where those attitudes came from at the time, but I'd like to think it helped make me a better person in the long run because I don't want to be part of perpetuating such nonsense.
I've also known Americans who are among the most compassionate and tolerant that I've been lucky enough to meet anywhere, so I'm not trying to act like the actions of a particular subset should taint them all.
As MLK said many times:
“We have come a long, long way, but we have a long way to go.”
you took the first steps, but there is still ingrained systemic racism in US
@John Smith Take your Q-Trump Talking Points somewhere else. The rational adults are trying to have a conversation here.
@John Smith I don’t know what “The Left” is in your mind. Or what it means that they are supposedly judging others solely based on skin color. Is there a specific instance you’re referring to?
Are there massive marches in the streets by Leftists in hoods saying “Whites will not replace us”?
Are predominantly white places of business and worship being violently targeted by the left?
Or did somebody call you Mayo Boy on Twitter and now the tears just won’t stop coming? Sorry for the sarcasm, but your talking point is kind of embarrassing and silly.
@John Smith liar you mean the right not the left
He would be disappointed in how little has changed since his passing.
that "vehement disagreement" is as bad as a client of mine saying racism ended with the civil war....
So your client is a very, very old hermit?
@@margaretnicol3423 very possibly...
Or the American Supreme Court invalidating parts of the voting rights act saying there was no longer any racism in the USA. Ahhh hah hah ....cry.
If I find out this information, I raise my prices to those clients.
Free market and all.
I think the "this is not us" idea comes from the images and ideas we were fed as kids - in school in movies, in popular culture (I grew up in the 60's). "We" were always depicted as the "good guys". "We" have the highest morals, values and ethics. "We" always win, "we" treat everyone with kindness and fairness. It was a myth then and it's a myth now.
Yup, some people really do not want see that is a myth.
There is no doubt society has been engineered. 🤨 🇺🇲🐀💰
@@redmoondesignbeth9119 all societies have been.
I got fed that in school in the 60s, too. And I actually believed that racism ended with the civil rights act. I could do this because I wasn't close enough to any black people to hear about the reality of being black in America. As an adult, I got new friends and had my eyes opened. Now, there is video evidence everywhere you look, so anybody who still thinks it's a myth is simply choosing to remain blind.
I love that now our elections match the film strip propaganda description of the old Soviet Union. " The Soviet elections are between candidates chosen by the party so there's no way to effect change. The ruling party maintains control and the people are fed an illusion of choice and self determination
Lindsey Graham just said that he would filibuster until he "fell over" to stop the voting rights act. There is no place in 2021 for a Strom Thurmond analog... but there he is. The words and excuses have changed, but the outcomes and effects are the same as they ever were.
He'd do us all a favor if he fell over and never got back up. Pathetic excuse of a human.
@@deadreckoning6288 : The great thing is what he will start letting slip when he starts running out of excuses. This should be fun. ^-^
@@aylbdrmadison1051 agreed, talking will show their true intentions. Make them actually do some fking work lol.
Yes, he is basically rudderless and depends on others to help him steer. He used to have John McCain as a guide but turned to trump.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 He's already run out of excuses. He's been caught lying, and completely contradicting himself. Yet he still has people who vote for him, apparently because he's not a Lib and is Trump's bitch.
I am a recovering Southern Baptist, but I have to say Amen to all that brother.
Congratulations on your escape to reason! You should be proud. If you ever need some help I hear Recovering from Religion is a good place to start.
Its strange that im brown, native and hispanic and of my southern baptist white family, one of which refused to sit in the white section of the bus and stood with the blacks in the back. These people have shown me absolute and unconditional love. If you cant muster positive influence, you should reflect upon yourself. Good luck to you.
Thanks Beau for keeping it real!
It’s nice when people aren’t afraid to tell the truth :)
In my experience, the GOP wants to treat the unsavory actions of our past like one treats the unsavory racism of their WWII-vet Grandpa: don't bring it up in public, chastise anyone who tries to bring it up as wanting to make a scene and shift the conversation to all the heroic war stories when it is inevitably brought up.
Well said.
Opinions are formed by where we get our information. I wish more people watched Beau.
This is what news should be. Calm, level headed people reporting the facts with no spin or flashy graphics. I'm glad I found this channel.
Opinions need to come from an inner compus. Where did ours go? Leave it to the other guy to expose our weakness. He is a dick but at least he was being who he really is.
This is the honest and painful truth. America really needs to reckon with its own past.
And its present, which is even harder. Still needs to be done.
Yes, the playbook's still in use, and not even hidden--unless one chooses not to see it.
Do we really say your kids can't go to school with mine? No... We don't send the "other" kids to special schools. We send ours to Charter Schools. Your kids go to Public Schools. Separate but equal under a new name.
Conservatives advocate for what they call "school choice" (thereby depleting the tax base of public schools and using public money to subsidize wealthier families sending their children to private school) but refuse to allow women to control reproductive choices for themselves ---- and part of their strategy is to spread abject lies, complaining that taxpayers are paying for abortions, which is simply not true.
Sounds like Boomer-speak. 'WE are SO much better than our parents!" Nah, not really folks. (I am also a Boomer. We're not all lost)
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Me too.
@@dianesawtell7216 boomers are the dumbest 😀
I'm a Boomer who was raised by racists. Integration saved me from being a racist.
The greatest generation built this country and we have watched it crumble!
man..I can't thank you enough for taking the time to post these vids..
Great quote I recently heard someone say: "America isn't really a country anymore, it's just a business".
A Mafia business.
Admitting that there is a problem is igniting the seed of a solution.
Can we ever say we are sorry?
"The future is here already; it's just not very evenly distributed."
Doesn't just apply to technology
The pandemic has been a mirror for our human behaviors and beliefs allowing us to see the effects and toll they have taken.
Beau doesn't talk out of his ass!! He does his research and due diligence.
3:32 "The Asians that came in the early 1800's, well they came legally."
Yeah, maybe so, but the Europeans who came in the 1500's and 1600's (etc.) did not come legally.
My wife works for the migrant program. A large percentage of the people that she works with are from South Africa. They're white. They seem to have no problem with the police or the people who live in the surrounding area. I wonder why?
The truth is unbelievable!
Truth is so tough for some
people they have to come up with alternative facts because the real ones are too big and scary apparently
The truth is only tough for those Americans who are not subjected to systemic racism for those of us who are or we know this playbook better than anyone else.
Are you trying to blow up your phone with "LIKES", dear one? 🤗. Well said!
But as inconvenient as the truth may be,it is still however the truth. Some conviniently came up with the idiotic notion of alternative facts. Truth or Not true. If it's not true,it is a lie. Be not deceived. Those who refuse to hear the truth, have decided to continue to live a lie. Knowing the truth is liberating.
I think we've reached the point where the impression that a story is plausible ought to be a red flag. Disinformation that you are fooled by will ALWAYS make sense; reality isn't there to appeal to what pushes your buttons.
This is why the manufactured things other people believe are so obvious to us, and why fact checking is counterproductive.
Picture a movie set. To the camera everything seems right, but walk around the corner and that building's lack of supporting structure a trivial observation. Anyone who tells you it exists comes across as a troll or someone hopelessly unmoored from reality.
In fact, in a system that's exerting constant selection pressure for attention and engagement, it's the stuff that makes the least sense outside a narrow viewing arc that gets reinforced the most.
Here's a tough truth: if things other people have fallen for lead you to conclude that they've got the alternative facts problem? Both of you gave whatever process generated it an upvote on that alternative fact.
Describing the problem of alternative facts as a character flaw is a lot like translating the civil rights era's central lesson as: racists are bad people.
There's a cartoon picture of a king and his advisors at the top of their tower looking down at a 'peasant' mob, some carrying pitchforks, some carrying torches. An advisor states "Don't worry Sire, you just need to say to those carrying pitchforks that it is those carrying the torches that are to blame"
I remember that cartoon in a daily newspaper...don't remember the cartoonist...help?
@@howler6490 Alas, I can't remember either, but the cartoon stuck in my memory.
I had to send a letter to my mother-in-law about her racism. She didn't see it because she's completely okay with black people. But Muslims and immigrants at the border are "those people" I asked her not to say she doesn't see racism anymore. That we can be good as long as I don't have to call her out. It was the best way I could keep a relationship with someone I love.
A lot of black people seem not to get that they are not the primary racist target over the last four years. Priveleged Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Thomas Sowell, Candace Owens...well wtf they aren't being forcibly sterilized or blamed for a virus.
Poor people aren't a minority but they are treated as such bc most of them vote against their own interests. How do you get someone to do that? Hate for "others". Page 1
I am a "poor person"... and I have a fabulous life because I didn't buy into the social and corporate engineering that I need a lot of crap to be "successful".
Old as the hills? "Divide and conquer..."
Modern media controlled by rarified elites, and polarizing the "masses" into separate camps? "Can't have the mob unifying and turning on the Few?" Rome/Roman empire anyone?
@@redmoondesignbeth9119 Okay, but that's a pretty different experience than actually being poor. Till you can't eat for days and you're sleeping in a bus shelter I'm not sure you can compare your experiences. Maybe you are being sincere or maybe you're just virtue signaling to shame others...either way it sounds weird to me.
@@penzotoko6619 I live on $800 a month in Santa Fe. I've never made more than $10,000 a year being a single mom...for about 40 years now. I ride the bus and enjoy chatting with the homeless. Mental health issues seem to be a big problem. Lots of Vets. Of course there are people who are starving and I often buy food for people I meet.
@@redmoondesignbeth9119 👏👏👏
It's funny how the people who say racism doesn't exist, and open racists always seem to play for the same team.
They're the same person.
Only a racist would ever have any reason whatsoever to make such an absurd claim. lols
And when they can't find a race, they go with gender. Remember, women have always been looked down on, yet during WWII, it was the women in the factories only be told to go back to the kitchen when the men came home from the war. This country will always find an "other", I hope it doesn't stay that way.
It's less now. It's a long and all too often painful road, but we *are* winning over time.
One day our childrens children may know true freedom. Until that day we just need to keep setting the example of how freedom is responsibility for the freedom of everyone else.
This hit me in the gut. Things feel so hopeless 😞
Not as long as people are able to listen to Beau and spread the word. Education is a wonderful thing - as long as it's honest and clear - like Beau. There is always hope and you are part of that.
The fact that this is able to hit you in the gut is hopeful...maybe others will feel that way too.
America needs more "e Pluribus Unum" and less "In God We Trust." We can either learn to live together, striving for equality of opportunity, or we shall all truly die alone.
@John Smith How?, "e Pluribus Unum" includes people of faith, hell its closer to the message of Christ than anything else. "In God We Trust" excludes people without faith or people that have multiple gods
@John Smith Except you can't. They are literally opposing ideas.
@@waahmed7830 John has obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a shit about his Q-bot Trumpian diatribes.
@John Smith TROLL MUTED!
"In God We Trust" was only added in 1954.
Who in their right mind is downvoting this video? We need these lessons and the information, keep it coming Beau!
No one in their right mind. Ooh I try to avoid using that word when I mean correct. It may be confused with those in the reich. But yeah no person that strives for truth, has compassion,cares for equality & hopes for a government that represents the people of this nation would downvote this channel. Sorry, got carried away, often do.
In my 60+ years I've seen these patterns repeated unfortunately. If real change is ever to come it must happen by learning to treat others the way we would want others to treat us. We can do better, and we must do better! ☝️
I 100% agree with the sentiment, but have a real problem with the saying on a more technical level. Not everyone wants, or should be treated the same way. Instead we should treat others in the way that feels best to them, as long as it causes no serious harm to anyone.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 You may have misunderstood my sentiment. I don't think that everyone should be treated "the same way". When initiating or engaging interactions with others we must be respectful of individual differences and personality nuances (just as we hope that the same thoughtfulness is granted to us) There are people in the world who are happiest when putting others down, or harming animals, or self-harming with drugs, alcohol, or perhaps cutting themselves. This doesn't mean that I should accept those harmful behaviors, not at all. What I was trying to convey was that if the situation were reversed, then I would want to be treated with compassion and understanding just as I would offer that understanding to others, but specific to the individual and situation. 👍
I couldn't agree more with you my Brother!
There are many more hurdles for us to pass.
YES! I don't think we will ever have to stop chiipping away at injustice, because the more we learn, the more we realize that things we thought were okay are hurting someone. To me, that is a good thing. To stop looking is to stop growing, is to stop being better.
I also agree, Beau! You can't fix what you don't or won't acknowledge there is problem!
Hello from beautiful (if cold..) Michigan! I appreciate and use your response-to-comments videos a lot. I have been arguing immigration reform for years, and was even gaining a little, until he-who-shall-no-longer-be-named emerged. Now I have to argue why immigration is good, too. You break down the counter argument concisely into points that can only be answered with ignorance, bigotry or 'but Facebook says!' Thanks!🖖🐢
Immigration is good for all countries. People who want to leave their homes to emigrate to another country want a better life, so will work hard to make it.
@@Martinbeef No argument! I have been smashing my head against the 'freeloaders' and 'rapists' and 'terrorists' comments that I have concussed myself! It is like arguing for justice reform after Willie Horton, which in retrospect, was a sunny stroll to a picnic in comparison.
We have to change our legislators. People have to get out and vote, no matter how many laws they make to keep people from voting.
And not just vote every two or four years for the General Elections. We need to support better candidates and initiatives in the Primaries as well as on every other ballot that comes our way.
This is why I’m getting tired of Glenn greenwald. I get it he wants to present a counter view to everything but giving a white male in america a pass on racism is not a way to help anybody, just to criticize cancel culture. It’s not right cause it’s not the truth.
History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme.
Hi Jon Meacham.
Wise words :P
Not acknowledging the problem is what prevents us from fixing it!
truth
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“Make sure it doesn’t happen again”. Thank you Beau. If I can help I will help
Thank you Beau for educating all of us. Hope you are feeling better!
The 'play book' was written by racist aristocrats that invented a friendly new way [constitutional democracy] to talk about governing people and staying in power - we call them the founding fathers. They were not particularly choosy about who they exploited.
Well this just gave me a huge epiphany. People of privilege are so intent on keeping up the "things are different now" narrative because they know deep down The American institution is built this way and if they don't continue to keep people in a lower class than them they know the system they live in may eventually turn around and other them.
Right! I see this in so many groups of hateful, scared people... they are afraid of the minority because they think "the others" will treat them the same way they treated The Others.
Ultimately it boils down to the Conservative mindset of hierarchal thinking. You should always be on top. Always be "better" than someone else. If you can't be at the top then you should at least keep from being on the bottom. And if you're on the bottom well that's just "your place."
Oh yes they'll bang on and on about "work ethics" and "free markets" and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" and a 1001 other platitudes to make it look like there's a chance for upward mobility. But in practice they'll throw every stone they can in the road to make it as hard as possible. And even if someone they deem unworthy does manage to rise above, does manage jump through the hoops to equal or surpass them they'll come up with every excuse as to why they didn't "deserve" it or claim they "cheated."
It's why they love unbridled and unregulated Capitalism so much. It's a secular, "merit based" system that sorts people and allows them claim some form of superiority in the absence of divine right or noble lineage. It's also what feeds into and engenders racism, sexism, ultranationalism, classism, xenophobia, etc... that underpin their efforts to hold on to whatever power or perceived power they have.
Or to put it all more simply: to those accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression.
@@steampunker7 All of that^^^. Also, we have to remember that we do not live in anything remotely resembling a free market. Our laws are specifically and purposefully designed to favor corporations over people. It''s revolting.
@@ExkupidsMom Yup. And that's the rub. Listen to any Libertarian or Neo-Liberal talk and they'll make it sound like entire fortunes are just waiting for you to grab if you knuckle down and put in the work.
What they always (and I mean always) ignore are the massive corporate and ultrarich tax breaks, the government subsidies and bail outs, generational wealth that keeps the 1%...well, the one 1%, or how many "entrepreneurs" and "garage start ups" were actually already pretty well off to begin with or got help from those who were.
In other words: Socialism for the wealthy, capitalism for the rest.
@@steampunker7 Perhaps indentured servitude for the rest might be more accurate. Want an education ... debt, want to have shelter ...debt, want to eat during a pandemic ... debt, want your children to have a better education ... you get the idea.
Howdy Beau, it's the internet people again.
Thanks Beau! Wonderful insight as always.
Howdy Beau! Happy Friday! Have a great weekend!
You are a damn good teacher Beau! You not only have the ability to tell a story but you also have a way of correcting someone without being condescending or smug.
I think your videos should be shown in every history/civics class & Ze Frank's should be shown in every science class! 💙💚💜
our country has been disguising racism for years. I'm trying to get my grand daughters to leave and go where people are respectful of one another.
John, do you have any suggestions of where should they go? I hear about Butahn with their Ministry of Happiness.
@John Smith Oh, fork off, John. It only bothers you because it’s true.
@@lornathorpe1632 Do you mean Bhutan?
I understand your position it is hard to behave in a manner that you almost never have modeled for you.
@@relayniedarcy Yes. Maybe I will remember Bhutan next time.
"Systemic racism doesn't exists, if it exists it's not a big deal, and calling it out hurts the country" is starting to get pretty old.
Sounds like conversations about race come up frequently in your experience. If that's all you ever hear people talking about, you might be the one obsessed or something.
My reply went under the wrong comment. I hope everyone has a happy day!
It's been this very same denial that has perpetuated racism all of this time. In fact, anyone who claims systemic racism doesn't exist is either from a different planet, or an incredibly obvious bigot.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 ain't that the truth. So blatant that the blind see it & the deaf hear it, and still people willfully deny that it exists. Must take a gargantuan effort to keep spouting that lie !
It is never "us" and until "we" start excepting that itis us we will never change. America has been entitled to long. it won't change until "us" become 'we" collectively and individually.
Have we though? 🤨 Exactly.
Maybe there is an improvement not so much as the playbook not being used but more people speaking out against the playbook's tactics. I just don't know how to help those who fall for the tactics see how it's being used against them. The conservative politicians are so busy convincing people there isn't enough money to go around and that Those People are the ones depriving Them of security.
Like, we could skip paying for one jet for the military to help all people in a social program or two regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, etc. Instead, our taxes are going to fund obstructionism instead of anyone offering any actual alternative, workable solutions to the ones they simply cannot abide as they are.
I think - to be accurate - "this isn't the America we're trying to be" but honestly not every American is on the same page, and I am horrified by statements I am hearing coming from the mouths of our elected officials (Rep Roy of TX recently for example) so this isn't the America *some* of us are trying to be?
True. But don't ever believe their lie of being half, or even 40% of America. 74 million is less than 27% of Americans 18 and older. That's barely more than one quarter..
All these patriots need to come to terms with that the country they love is built on.
Keep doing what you do! Thank you!
To be fair the playbook for Asian Americans has changed to include the myth of the model minority
An excellent piece by piece dismantling.
Being embarrassed for bad habits being exposed is not dangerous. Oh, it hurts and its hard work to improve those habits because it costs in effort and (unproportionate/unjustified) pride.
no police tax, but civil asset forfeiture is cops taking whatever they want. and it for sure affects overpoliced communities more
actually i was thinking cash bond; even for minor offences, they figured it out
Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Germans, Poles, Latinos, always the same playbook, only some of them have forgotten what they once were.
The playbook is the same. I'm a 60 year old AA. I've experienced/recognized racism my entire life. I don't walk around with blinders on or let that mess slow me down. I treat everyone equally and try to maintain a positive attitude. It is what it is.
Love what you do cut and dry bro
Ooh, someone's ears are burning. Thanks Beau.
With every day, we are moving further and further away from our idea of the "ideal America." We can hardly see it in our rear-view mirror.
The United States of America was founded on some pretty great principles, but despite moments of greatness, we have seldom lived up to our potential.
We don't need to "Make America Great Again," we need to BECOME the best that we can be.
Very WELL SAID !
Manifest Destiny, an old idea that perseveres. The not so original playbook.
Good summary. It continues, perhaps evolved, as long as there are those who contribute to not acknowledging history but also present day as well as disagree with the lived experiences of those subjected to the institutions.
We do have a police tax. Some counties have 80% of their funding from civil penalties. Tickets for Jaywalking and not wearing a seatbelt. I’m willing to bet that most of those fines don’t come from the Mayor’s side of the tracks.
I was am an Iranian that came as a 3 year old in the height of the was hostage crisis and I was living in millington Tennessee and was treated so kindly and met life long friends. It’s not the south that’s problem it’s nation there is pockets of them in every state
It's what capitalism based morality is based on. If you think capitalism can do no wrong, you think of everything as a resource, and everything has a price.
@John Smith How many US politicians do you think you could find that think that companies donating unlimited funds to politicians should be illegal and is immoral? Out of those, how many refuse corporate donations, pacs, etc, and vote to get rid of them? Remember, the highest court in this country sees money as speech.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Always speak 🗣️ TRUTH to power.
Thanks Beau!
That message you received was a massive display of privilege and disconnection from the disadvantaged in society. Jesus.
Thank you Beau for bringing the facts out about our country and to the people in our country who may not know . I share your videos and @ the GOP and TheDemocrats all the time. If I didn’t share one it is probably because I was driving. I share it under the #Beauknows. I do have renewed hope for our Country since the one who shall not be named is out of office. Please keep doing what you do.
I hve watched your vdeos time and time and time again and I agree ith pretty much everything you say but this one....SPOT. ON. PERIOD.
It IS America.
Lot of wisdom in that set of thoughts. Thanks for sharing Beau.
I wish They would put you on TV in the Fox News spot. It would be so refreshing to see real researched topics discussed honestly....Just saying.
If only the news were like your podcasts.
I watch Beau first.
By the time the news comes on 90 percent of it sounds stupid so I turn it back off.
"No Irish need apply"... not so very long ago.
Thank you Beau
This was one of your best episodes
It happens in the UK too. The people from Caribbean countries in the Commonwealth were encouraged to come to the UK, and many found work building the railways and working for the NHS (national Health Service, which offers a basic level of care for free), So black people were invited living in their windows, saying "No Blacks".
So, we have very similar problems with racism, homophobia etc here too. We are not as civilised as some Americans think we are, I am very ashamed to say.
Remind Piers Morgan of this please. He seems to think racism is a lie there and doesn't believe a word of it. lol
@@puirYorick I did. That man is the worst kind of racist because so many people listen to what he says. Also, Megan turned him down for a date and that’s partly why he’s such an asswipe.
👋🏾Add: If you say that the racism problem doesn’t exist anymore, that it isn’t as bad - you are part of the problem.
Also, Am I crazy that I thought that comment sounded like the beginning of a Dr. Seuss book?
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Good morning 👋🏼
@@stuckinflorida9685 🙏🏾🙂
👋🏼Good morning!☀️. That guy who told Beau he thought the problems are improved needs to poke his head outside, and look around. Was he rhyming? I need coffee, I couldn’t hear it.
I do think it gotten better, lynching happen less often, Jim Crowe laws are no more, slavery is abolished. It is less horrific, but still horrible and wide spread.
"We have come a long, long way, but we have a long way to go.”
MLK
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas In Kentucky, the public schools were segregated “for safety’s sake”, until the last 7-8 years. It wasn’t called segregation, but that’s what it was. Kentucky schools have one of the lowest test scores in the country. When people finally stood up, and demanded change, it still was like trying to walk through waist deep mud. I don’t live there anymore, so I’m not up to date. And I believe there are many other southern states who are the same.
Reminds me of that line from the old song " Everybody's gotta have some body to look down on". We are all immigrants and are all Americans. Diversity is our strength! It's what makes US great, not hate.
A full watch, comment, like, and share!
Same every day.
Sounds like you hit the nail on the head, that's why it hurts so much. Keep up the good work. Thank you for all you do!
Dude!!! Spend 10min with white rural Americans you’ll find out “we” haven’t changed that much over the years.
Don't forget, white and/or rural Americans are the minority..by a long shot.
"Yeah, this time is different." This is an abuser's strategy. Someone has to be responsible, be scapegoat, be the repository of anger. Once when I was talking with an ex-husband about his anger and control issues, he implored me to bring it to his attention as he was engaging in the behavior. I said, "I have. And you always say, 'This is different.' You find a way to justify disrespecting me, making me to blame for your anger." Yep. I recognise this strategy, this gaslighting.
Well howdy Beau!
Fourth!! 💐👍🏾
Speaking of History: Heather Cox Richardson recently did a podcast on the meaning of the word "conservative", from its first use in America, President Lincoln's usage and the "conservative" party from a historical perspective. It was refreshing to hear about the historical fact instead of the self serving fantasies made up on the spot by Republican Congressmen.
It's easy to be against something that is in the past. There is no cost, to call to action. You can feel superior to someone in the past without actually having to be any different from them. To look at the world now and see problems means that you have a responsibility of action.
Yet at the same time it's not hard to see the cracks. I read an article yesterday about a group of kids who had decided that they didn't want to have a segregated prom, this year and while that does give me some hope for those kids, the real story is that there are still segregated proms in 2021.
If you really want to see what is happening now in America I'd suggest "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander. A book that examines one part of how we continue to keep your underclass and how easy it is to ignore it if you choose to. The people who are creating the system have every incentive to make it easy to ignore.
If you don't have time for that read "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King Jr.
This bit seems especially important today
"I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice"
Howdy teacher beau thanks for sharing your insight nice class today, classic video
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