1 00:00:10,343 --> 00:00:15,682 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:15,749 --> 00:00:21,454 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:21,521 --> 00:00:30,130 ♪ ♪ 4 00:00:30,196 --> 00:00:35,001 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 5 00:00:35,068 --> 00:00:36,770 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME, 6 00:00:36,836 --> 00:00:37,404 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT!" 7 00:00:37,470 --> 00:00:38,772 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANK YOU SO 8 00:00:38,838 --> 00:00:44,544 MUCH FOR JOINING US. 9 00:00:44,611 --> 00:00:46,312 WE ARE BACK, AND SADLY, NO TIME 10 00:00:46,379 --> 00:00:46,880 TO GO INTO EVERYTHING WE'VE 11 00:00:46,946 --> 00:00:47,113 MISSED. 12 00:00:47,180 --> 00:00:47,747 WE DON'T EVEN HAVE TIME TO GET 13 00:00:47,814 --> 00:00:48,348 INTO NEWS FROM THIS WEEK, FROM 14 00:00:48,415 --> 00:00:49,249 THE QUEEN GETTING COVID TO 15 00:00:49,315 --> 00:00:50,683 PUTIN CONTINUING HIS WHOLE 16 00:00:50,750 --> 00:00:52,385 "WILL HE-WON'T HE" ACT ABOUT 17 00:00:52,452 --> 00:00:56,623 INVADING UKRAINE. 18 00:00:56,689 --> 00:00:57,590 INSTEAD, WE'RE GOING TO START IN 19 00:00:57,657 --> 00:01:00,059 CANADA. 20 00:01:00,126 --> 00:01:00,860 IT IS VERY MUCH THE SANTA CLAUS 21 00:01:00,927 --> 00:01:02,195 OF COUNTRIES IN THAT IT'S JOLLY, 22 00:01:02,262 --> 00:01:04,197 NORTHERN, AND ABSOLUTELY FILLED 23 00:01:04,264 --> 00:01:09,235 WITH REINDEER JIZZ. 24 00:01:09,302 --> 00:01:10,403 OH, WE'RE FUCKING BACK. 25 00:01:10,470 --> 00:01:12,772 OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS, 26 00:01:12,839 --> 00:01:13,640 CANADA'S CAPITAL HAS 27 00:01:13,706 --> 00:01:14,340 HAD ITS DOWNTOWN BESIEGED BY 28 00:01:14,407 --> 00:01:15,041 PROTESTORS. 29 00:01:15,108 --> 00:01:16,109 >> OTTAWA BECOMES A GLOBAL FRONT 30 00:01:16,176 --> 00:01:16,843 LINE OF FRUSTRATION OVER VACCINE 31 00:01:16,910 --> 00:01:20,380 RESTRICTIONS. 32 00:01:20,447 --> 00:01:21,481 HUNDREDS OF TRUCKS ARE 33 00:01:21,548 --> 00:01:22,148 BLOCKADING THE AREA AROUND 34 00:01:22,215 --> 00:01:28,788 PARLIAMENT. 35 00:01:28,855 --> 00:01:29,689 >> WE'RE SITTING HERE JUST 36 00:01:29,756 --> 00:01:30,356 BECAUSE WE THINK WE'RE DOING THE 37 00:01:30,423 --> 00:01:30,757 RIGHT THING HERE. 38 00:01:30,824 --> 00:01:31,090 >> John: OKAY. 39 00:01:31,157 --> 00:01:31,758 HERE'S THE THING ABOUT THAT, 40 00:01:31,825 --> 00:01:32,358 SOMETIMES, SITTING IN YOUR CAR 41 00:01:32,425 --> 00:01:33,026 IS "DOING THE RIGHT THING," LIKE 42 00:01:33,092 --> 00:01:33,593 IF YOU'RE WAITING FOR YOUR 43 00:01:33,660 --> 00:01:34,194 McFLURRY, OR DROPPING OFF YOUR 44 00:01:34,260 --> 00:01:34,694 KID'S BASEBALL GLOVE, OR 45 00:01:34,761 --> 00:01:35,261 SCREAMING IN A TRADER JOE'S 46 00:01:35,328 --> 00:01:35,829 PARKING LOT BECAUSE THAT WAS 47 00:01:35,895 --> 00:01:36,429 SUPPOSED TO BE YOUR ONE HOUR 48 00:01:36,496 --> 00:01:37,030 ALONE AND YOU HAD TO SPEND IT 49 00:01:37,096 --> 00:01:37,864 GOING TO GET THAT FUCKING GLOVE 50 00:01:37,931 --> 00:01:42,502 EVEN THOUGH YOU ASKED BRENDAN 51 00:01:42,569 --> 00:01:43,236 THREE TIMES IF HE HAD IT BEFORE 52 00:01:43,303 --> 00:01:43,937 YOU LEFT THE HOUSE AND IF YOU 53 00:01:44,003 --> 00:01:44,471 DON'T JUST SIT HERE FOR A 54 00:01:44,537 --> 00:01:47,240 MINUTE, YOU MIGHT DO A MURDER. 55 00:01:47,307 --> 00:01:48,441 AND I WILL SAY, BROADLY, THERE 56 00:01:48,508 --> 00:01:49,742 IS NOTHING WRONG WITH CIVIL 57 00:01:49,809 --> 00:01:50,410 DISOBEDIENCE. 58 00:01:50,477 --> 00:01:51,578 IT'S OFTEN THE MOST POWERFUL WAY 59 00:01:51,644 --> 00:01:52,345 TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE. 60 00:01:52,412 --> 00:01:54,280 BUT OCCUPYING A CAPITAL CITY 61 00:01:54,347 --> 00:01:55,648 FOR NEARLY A MONTH OVER 62 00:01:55,715 --> 00:01:56,649 OBJECTIONS TO VACCINE MANDATES 63 00:01:56,716 --> 00:01:58,585 FOR TRUCKERS -- ESPECIALLY WHEN 64 00:01:58,651 --> 00:02:00,520 BOTH THE CANADIAN TRUCKING 65 00:02:00,587 --> 00:02:02,422 ALLIANCE AND ONTARIO TRUCKING 66 00:02:02,489 --> 00:02:04,057 ASSOCIATION HAVE DISAVOWED THE 67 00:02:04,123 --> 00:02:06,259 PROTESTS, AND ROUGHLY 90% OF 68 00:02:06,326 --> 00:02:06,993 TRUCK DRIVERS HAVE RECEIVED 69 00:02:07,060 --> 00:02:08,628 THEIR VACCINES -- FEELS AT BEST 70 00:02:08,695 --> 00:02:10,663 AN OVER-RESPONSE. 71 00:02:10,730 --> 00:02:12,098 AND IT SURE SEEMS LIKE THERE'S 72 00:02:12,165 --> 00:02:13,933 MORE GOING ON HERE, BECAUSE THE 73 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:14,567 PROTESTORS ARE NOW DEMANDING AN 74 00:02:14,634 --> 00:02:15,735 END TO ALL COVID RESTRICTIONS 75 00:02:15,802 --> 00:02:16,569 NATIONWIDE AND THE RESIGNATION 76 00:02:16,636 --> 00:02:18,805 OF PRIME MINISTER 77 00:02:18,872 --> 00:02:19,873 JUSTIN TRUDEAU. 78 00:02:19,939 --> 00:02:21,140 AND THEY'VE BEEN CHEERED ON BY 79 00:02:21,207 --> 00:02:22,075 U.S. CONSERVATIVES, WITH FOX 80 00:02:22,141 --> 00:02:23,409 DEVOTING NUMEROUS SEGMENTS TO 81 00:02:23,476 --> 00:02:24,844 APPROVING COVERAGE OF THEM, AND 82 00:02:24,911 --> 00:02:26,212 ONE OF THE CONVOY'S LEADERS, 83 00:02:26,279 --> 00:02:28,314 PAT KING, BEING INTERVIEWED BY 84 00:02:28,381 --> 00:02:35,522 STU VARNEY. 85 00:02:35,588 --> 00:02:36,389 BUT IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT SOME 86 00:02:36,456 --> 00:02:36,956 OF THE ORGANIZERS OF THIS 87 00:02:37,023 --> 00:02:37,924 PROTEST HAVE STRONG VIEWS ABOUT 88 00:02:37,991 --> 00:02:38,424 ISSUES OTHER THAN COVID 89 00:02:38,491 --> 00:02:39,192 MANDATES. 90 00:02:39,259 --> 00:02:39,759 ONE OF THE CONVOY'S DE FACTO 91 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:40,493 SPOKESPEOPLE HAS BEEN 92 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,997 TAMARA LICH, WHO HAS TIES TO 93 00:02:44,063 --> 00:02:45,331 FAR-RIGHT GROUPS IN CANADA AND 94 00:02:45,398 --> 00:02:46,933 HAS BEEN A LEADER WITHIN THE 95 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,402 "WEXIT" MOVEMENT -- WHICH, I 96 00:02:49,469 --> 00:02:50,136 KNOW, SOUNDS LIKE THE OFFICIAL 97 00:02:50,203 --> 00:02:50,870 CAMPAIGN TO HAVE WESTIES REFUSE 98 00:02:50,937 --> 00:02:51,538 TO PARTICIPATE IN 99 00:02:51,604 --> 00:02:52,105 THE NATIONAL DOG SHOW AFTER 100 00:02:52,171 --> 00:02:52,972 YEARS OF BEING UNJUSTLY 101 00:02:53,039 --> 00:02:55,708 OVERLOOKED -- BUT ACTUALLY 102 00:02:55,775 --> 00:02:57,277 IT REFERS TO A WESTERN 103 00:02:57,343 --> 00:02:58,678 SEPARATIST MOVEMENT THAT'S 104 00:02:58,745 --> 00:02:59,879 CALLED FOR CANADA'S PRAIRIE 105 00:02:59,946 --> 00:03:00,547 PROVINCES TO SECEDE. 106 00:03:00,613 --> 00:03:01,548 QUICK FUN SIDE NOTE: LICH ALSO 107 00:03:01,614 --> 00:03:02,115 SINGS WITH A BAND CALLED 108 00:03:02,181 --> 00:03:03,216 BLIND MONDAY. 109 00:03:03,283 --> 00:03:04,017 WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR THEM 110 00:03:04,083 --> 00:03:04,784 PERFORM? 111 00:03:04,851 --> 00:03:05,919 WELL, TOO FUCKING BAD. 112 00:03:05,985 --> 00:03:08,555 YOU'RE GOING TO. 113 00:03:08,621 --> 00:03:09,689 >> ♪ GET UP, COME ON, GET DOWN 114 00:03:09,756 --> 00:03:10,423 WITH THE SICKNESS ♪ 115 00:03:10,490 --> 00:03:12,425 ♪ YOU MOTHER, GET UP, COME ON, 116 00:03:12,492 --> 00:03:13,259 GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS ♪ 117 00:03:13,326 --> 00:03:14,193 ♪ YOU FUCKER, GET UP, COME ON, 118 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:15,895 GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS ♪ 119 00:03:15,962 --> 00:03:17,263 ♪ MADNESS IS THE GIFT, THAT HAS 120 00:03:17,330 --> 00:03:23,169 BEEN GIVEN TO ME ♪ 121 00:03:23,236 --> 00:03:31,110 >> John: COOL. 122 00:03:31,177 --> 00:03:32,245 BUT I WILL SAY THIS, IT'S HARD 123 00:03:32,312 --> 00:03:32,745 TO THINK OF A SONG MORE 124 00:03:32,812 --> 00:03:33,446 THEMATICALLY APPROPRIATE TO HER 125 00:03:33,513 --> 00:03:35,148 CAUSE THAN "GET DOWN WITH THE 126 00:03:35,214 --> 00:03:35,848 SICKNESS," EXCEPT FOR, MAYBE, 127 00:03:35,915 --> 00:03:36,849 "MY HEART WILL GO ON," IN THAT 128 00:03:36,916 --> 00:03:37,617 IT'S BOTH CANADIAN AND 129 00:03:37,684 --> 00:03:38,184 INEXTRICABLY LINKED WITH 130 00:03:38,251 --> 00:03:40,753 COMPLETELY AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY. 131 00:03:40,820 --> 00:03:41,821 NOW, AS FOR PAT KING, THE GUY 132 00:03:41,888 --> 00:03:44,390 WHO FOX EXCITEDLY INTERVIEWED 133 00:03:44,457 --> 00:03:45,858 THIS WEEK, YOU DON'T NEED TO 134 00:03:45,925 --> 00:03:47,327 LOOK DEEP INTO HIS PAST TO FIND 135 00:03:47,393 --> 00:03:49,696 SOME PRETTY INFLAMMATORY VIEWS: 136 00:03:49,762 --> 00:03:50,597 >> WHAT THERE IS IS THERE'S AN 137 00:03:50,663 --> 00:03:52,298 ENDGAME. 138 00:03:52,365 --> 00:03:55,835 IT'S CALLED DEPOPULATION OF THE 139 00:03:55,902 --> 00:03:56,502 CAUCASIAN RACE OR THE 140 00:03:56,569 --> 00:03:58,438 ANGLO-SAXON. 141 00:03:58,504 --> 00:03:59,872 AND THAT'S WHAT THE GOAL IS, IS 142 00:03:59,939 --> 00:04:02,609 TO DEPOPULATE THE ANGLO-SAXON 143 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:06,546 RACE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES 144 00:04:06,613 --> 00:04:09,916 WITH THE STRONGEST BLOODLINES. 145 00:04:09,983 --> 00:04:11,250 AND WE'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT 146 00:04:11,317 --> 00:04:12,251 BECAUSE THEN WE GET INTO A WHOLE 147 00:04:12,318 --> 00:04:15,555 DIFFERENT TOPIC. 148 00:04:15,622 --> 00:04:19,826 >> John: HOLY SHIT. 149 00:04:19,892 --> 00:04:21,094 THERE IS A LOT GOING ON THERE, 150 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,695 NOT LEAST OF WHICH IS THAT 151 00:04:22,762 --> 00:04:23,396 YOU'RE ABOUT TO 152 00:04:23,463 --> 00:04:23,997 BRING THE ANGLO-SAXON NUMBERS 153 00:04:24,063 --> 00:04:24,664 DOWN BY AT LEAST ONE, PAT, IF 154 00:04:24,731 --> 00:04:25,498 YOU DON'T KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE 155 00:04:25,565 --> 00:04:28,534 FUCKING ROAD THERE. 156 00:04:28,601 --> 00:04:30,670 BUT ALSO, LET'S JUST 157 00:04:30,737 --> 00:04:31,537 ACKNOWLEDGE, 158 00:04:31,604 --> 00:04:32,071 "STRONGEST BLOODLINE" IS A 159 00:04:32,138 --> 00:04:32,705 REMARKABLY BOLD CLAIM FROM A MAN 160 00:04:32,772 --> 00:04:33,539 WHO LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE IS SLOWLY 161 00:04:33,606 --> 00:04:34,974 POISONING GUY FIERI. 162 00:04:35,041 --> 00:04:36,876 NOW, IN RECENT DAYS, POLICE HAVE 163 00:04:36,943 --> 00:04:38,277 BEEN ARRESTING PROTESTORS AND 164 00:04:38,344 --> 00:04:39,679 CLEARING BLOCKADES. 165 00:04:39,746 --> 00:04:41,614 SO THE PROTEST MAY ACTUALLY BE 166 00:04:41,681 --> 00:04:41,948 WINDING DOWN. 167 00:04:42,015 --> 00:04:44,150 BUT UNFORTUNATELY, LIKE COVID IN 168 00:04:44,217 --> 00:04:45,284 THE UNVACCINATED, SOME OF THE 169 00:04:45,351 --> 00:04:46,252 IDEAS BEHIND IT ARE MASSIVELY 170 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:49,322 INFECTIOUS. 171 00:04:49,389 --> 00:04:52,325 THERE IS TALK OF A U.S. VERSION 172 00:04:52,392 --> 00:04:53,559 OF IT HAPPENING, AND COPYCAT 173 00:04:53,626 --> 00:04:54,927 PROTESTS HAVE ALREADY TAKEN 174 00:04:54,994 --> 00:04:55,662 PLACE IN FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, AND 175 00:04:55,728 --> 00:04:56,262 NEW ZEALAND, WHERE THEY HAD A 176 00:04:56,329 --> 00:04:57,163 NOVEL WAY OF TRYING TO CLEAR THE 177 00:04:57,230 --> 00:05:00,099 OBSTRUCTION. 178 00:05:00,166 --> 00:05:01,100 >> LINES OF VEHICLES ROLLED INTO 179 00:05:01,167 --> 00:05:02,635 NEW ZEALAND'S CAPITAL CITY LAST 180 00:05:02,702 --> 00:05:03,703 WEEK, BLOCKING STREETS NEAR 181 00:05:03,770 --> 00:05:06,939 PARLIAMENT, SOME PROTESTORS 182 00:05:07,006 --> 00:05:07,640 OFFICIALS IN NEW ZEALAND USING 183 00:05:07,707 --> 00:05:08,441 SOFTER TACTICS TO TRY AND GET 184 00:05:08,508 --> 00:05:09,976 PEOPLE TO MOVE ON, PLAYING SONGS 185 00:05:10,043 --> 00:05:11,377 FROM LOUDSPEAKERS LIKE 186 00:05:11,444 --> 00:05:12,545 "YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL" FROM 187 00:05:12,612 --> 00:05:14,313 JAMES BLUNT AND MUSIC FROM 188 00:05:14,380 --> 00:05:15,448 DISNEY MOVIES, EVEN 189 00:05:15,515 --> 00:05:27,760 BARRY MANILOW. 190 00:05:27,827 --> 00:05:28,294 >> John: OH, COME ON, 191 00:05:28,361 --> 00:05:28,928 NEW ZEALAND, PLAYING JAMES BLUNT 192 00:05:28,995 --> 00:05:29,595 AND BARRY MANILOW ISN'T GOING TO 193 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:30,096 CUT IT. 194 00:05:30,163 --> 00:05:30,830 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MOVE ON 195 00:05:30,897 --> 00:05:31,464 PEOPLE THIS ANGRY WITH THE 196 00:05:31,531 --> 00:05:32,131 ACTIONS OF A BAD WEDDING DJ. 197 00:05:32,198 --> 00:05:32,799 BESIDES, WE ALL NOW KNOW, IF YOU 198 00:05:32,865 --> 00:05:33,700 REALLY WANT TO GET A CROWD TO 199 00:05:33,766 --> 00:05:34,267 DISPERSE, YOU DON'T GO WITH 200 00:05:34,333 --> 00:05:35,635 DISNEY OR JAMES BLUNT. 201 00:05:35,702 --> 00:05:37,236 TAKE IT FROM ME, YOU GO WITH THE 202 00:05:37,303 --> 00:05:39,272 ONLY SONG GUARANTEED TO CLEAR A 203 00:05:39,338 --> 00:05:39,906 ROOM. 204 00:05:39,972 --> 00:05:40,540 AND IT'S THIS. 205 00:05:40,606 --> 00:05:41,207 >> ♪ GET UP, COME ON, GET DOWN 206 00:05:41,274 --> 00:05:43,476 WITH THE SICKNESS ♪ 207 00:05:43,543 --> 00:05:44,343 >> John: EXACTLY. 208 00:05:44,410 --> 00:05:45,211 100% SUCCESSFUL. 209 00:05:45,278 --> 00:05:47,146 AND NOW, THIS. 210 00:05:47,213 --> 00:05:48,581 >> Announcer: AND NOW, 211 00:05:48,648 --> 00:05:50,083 THE EXISTENTIAL DESPAIR OF 212 00:05:50,149 --> 00:05:53,986 ABC3 MORNING NEWS. 213 00:05:54,053 --> 00:05:55,288 >> 4:30 IN THE MORNING. 214 00:05:55,354 --> 00:05:56,289 LET'S GET THIS DAY TOGETHER. 215 00:05:56,355 --> 00:05:57,156 GOOD MORNING, I'M JARED WILLIS. 216 00:05:57,223 --> 00:05:58,458 >> THAT WAS A LOT OF PRESSURE. 217 00:05:58,524 --> 00:05:59,358 "LET'S GET THIS DAY TOGETHER." 218 00:05:59,425 --> 00:05:59,826 >> OKAY. 219 00:05:59,892 --> 00:06:00,993 >> LET'S JUST GET INTO THIS DAY. 220 00:06:01,060 --> 00:06:03,096 >> [SIGHS] 221 00:06:03,162 --> 00:06:07,166 EVERY NOW AND THEN, LAURA, I 222 00:06:07,233 --> 00:06:08,000 WIND UP IN THE ATTIC AND THERE 223 00:06:08,067 --> 00:06:09,802 HANGING ON A POST IS MY 224 00:06:09,869 --> 00:06:14,440 MOTORCYCLE JACKET, 225 00:06:14,507 --> 00:06:15,675 CLASSIC LEATHER, CLASSIC 226 00:06:15,742 --> 00:06:16,375 STYLING, I LOOK AT IT 227 00:06:16,442 --> 00:06:16,676 AND I SIGH. 228 00:06:16,743 --> 00:06:17,143 [SIGHS] 229 00:06:17,210 --> 00:06:17,777 CHRONIC PAIN, MY FRIENDS, IS NO 230 00:06:17,844 --> 00:06:18,611 JOKE. 231 00:06:18,678 --> 00:06:20,780 BUT LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT ME. 232 00:06:20,847 --> 00:06:22,315 >> FORFEITING. 233 00:06:22,381 --> 00:06:26,319 >> FORFEITING. 234 00:06:26,385 --> 00:06:26,953 SOUND FUNNY? 235 00:06:27,019 --> 00:06:27,420 YOU MIGHT FORFEIT. 236 00:06:27,487 --> 00:06:28,187 NOBODY WANTS TO GO THAT ROUTE. 237 00:06:28,254 --> 00:06:29,155 >> NO, NO. 238 00:06:29,222 --> 00:06:30,823 >> NO. 239 00:06:30,890 --> 00:06:32,358 >> [SIGHS] 240 00:06:32,425 --> 00:06:33,092 [SIGHS] 241 00:06:33,159 --> 00:06:34,861 ALL RIGHT. 242 00:06:34,927 --> 00:06:37,130 ALL RIGHT. 243 00:06:37,196 --> 00:06:38,297 YOU OKAY? 244 00:06:38,364 --> 00:06:39,065 >> FINE. 245 00:06:39,132 --> 00:06:41,234 WHAT A LOVELY ENCLOSURE THEY 246 00:06:41,300 --> 00:06:41,834 HAVE, DON'T YOU THINK? 247 00:06:41,901 --> 00:06:42,702 >> YEAH. 248 00:06:42,769 --> 00:06:43,636 OH, YOU KNOW, EVEN A PRETTY CAGE 249 00:06:43,703 --> 00:06:45,238 IS A CAGE, LAURA. 250 00:06:45,304 --> 00:06:46,806 >> LOOK AT THAT FACE. 251 00:06:46,873 --> 00:06:47,874 ALL RIGHT, YOU MAY START YOUR 252 00:06:47,940 --> 00:06:48,808 WEDNESDAY NOW WITH A SMILE. 253 00:06:48,875 --> 00:06:49,609 >> [CHUCKLES] 254 00:06:49,675 --> 00:06:50,443 >> BABY ANIMALS. 255 00:06:50,510 --> 00:06:52,478 >> I'M SMILING. 256 00:06:52,545 --> 00:06:53,546 I ALWAYS LIKE IT WHEN YOU IGNORE 257 00:06:53,613 --> 00:06:54,881 ME, LAURA, THAT'S NICE. 258 00:06:54,947 --> 00:06:57,116 >> THAT IS, ISN'T IT? 259 00:06:57,183 --> 00:06:58,751 >> YEAH, I LIKE IT. 260 00:06:58,818 --> 00:06:59,685 OKAY. 261 00:06:59,752 --> 00:07:02,789 PEOPLE AT HOME LIKE IT AS WELL. 262 00:07:02,855 --> 00:07:04,257 >> John: MOVING ON. 263 00:07:04,323 --> 00:07:05,458 OUR MAIN STORY TONIGHT CONCERNS 264 00:07:05,525 --> 00:07:06,559 SCHOOL. 265 00:07:06,626 --> 00:07:08,194 IT'S THE ONLY SETTING IN WHICH A 266 00:07:08,261 --> 00:07:10,763 CHILD DISSECTING A FROG IS NOT 267 00:07:10,830 --> 00:07:13,599 AN IMMEDIATE RED FLAG. 268 00:07:13,666 --> 00:07:14,600 WE TEACH KIDS A LOT IN SCHOOL, 269 00:07:14,667 --> 00:07:15,701 FROM READING TO LONG DIVISION TO 270 00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:16,636 HOW TO PLAY THE FUCKING RECORDER 271 00:07:16,702 --> 00:07:18,004 FOR SOME REASON. 272 00:07:18,070 --> 00:07:19,172 BUT RECENTLY, THERE'S BEEN A LOT 273 00:07:19,238 --> 00:07:20,273 OF CONCERN OVER ONE PARTICULAR 274 00:07:20,339 --> 00:07:21,274 THING THAT PEOPLE WORRY THAT 275 00:07:21,340 --> 00:07:23,376 KIDS ARE LEARNING. 276 00:07:23,442 --> 00:07:24,243 >> CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS BEING 277 00:07:24,310 --> 00:07:27,346 TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS. 278 00:07:27,413 --> 00:07:28,981 CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS BUNK. 279 00:07:29,048 --> 00:07:30,116 >> CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS A 280 00:07:30,183 --> 00:07:31,784 LIE. 281 00:07:31,851 --> 00:07:32,819 FROM THE FIRST WORD TO THE LAST. 282 00:07:32,885 --> 00:07:33,986 FROM START TO FINISH. 283 00:07:34,053 --> 00:07:35,488 >> RACIST CRITICAL RACE THEORY. 284 00:07:35,555 --> 00:07:36,556 >> CRITICAL RACE THEORY. 285 00:07:36,622 --> 00:07:37,924 >> CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN THE 286 00:07:37,990 --> 00:07:40,092 SCHOOLS AND THE WOKENESS. 287 00:07:40,159 --> 00:07:42,228 >> LET ME TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, 288 00:07:42,295 --> 00:07:44,230 CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS BIGOTED, 289 00:07:44,297 --> 00:07:45,598 IT IS A LIE, AND IT IS EVERY BIT 290 00:07:45,665 --> 00:07:47,567 AS RACIST AS THE KLANSMEN IN 291 00:07:47,633 --> 00:07:49,335 WHITE SHEETS. 292 00:07:49,402 --> 00:07:52,104 >> John: I DO NOT LIKE THAT 293 00:07:52,171 --> 00:07:52,772 TED CRUZ MAN. 294 00:07:52,839 --> 00:07:54,040 I DO NOT LIKE HIM SHOUTING 295 00:07:54,106 --> 00:07:54,807 "KLAN." 296 00:07:54,874 --> 00:07:56,242 I DO NOT LIKE HIM IN A ROOM. 297 00:07:56,309 --> 00:07:59,111 I DO NOT LIKE HIM IN CANCUN. 298 00:07:59,178 --> 00:08:00,746 I DO NOT LIKE HIM PLAYING BALL. 299 00:08:00,813 --> 00:08:03,015 I DO NOT LIKE HIS FACE AT ALL. 300 00:08:03,082 --> 00:08:04,483 I WISH HE'D LOSE HIS CUSHY JOB. 301 00:08:04,550 --> 00:08:07,887 THAT MAN TED CRUZ IS A FUCKING 302 00:08:07,954 --> 00:08:08,988 KNOB. 303 00:08:09,055 --> 00:08:13,392 BUT HERE'S THE THING, IT IS 304 00:08:13,459 --> 00:08:13,993 TRUE, YOU HAVE PROBABLY HEARD 305 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:14,627 PEOPLE YELLING ABOUT CRITICAL 306 00:08:14,694 --> 00:08:15,661 RACE THEORY ON TV FOR MORE THAN 307 00:08:15,728 --> 00:08:16,462 A YEAR NOW. 308 00:08:16,529 --> 00:08:18,064 AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LISTENING 309 00:08:18,130 --> 00:08:18,764 TO THAT NOISE, ESPECIALLY 310 00:08:18,831 --> 00:08:19,599 JUDGING BY WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING 311 00:08:19,665 --> 00:08:20,833 AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS ACROSS 312 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:22,034 THE COUNTRY. 313 00:08:22,101 --> 00:08:26,005 [PEOPLE SHOUTING] 314 00:08:26,072 --> 00:08:28,875 >> THE WESTERN CULTURE THAT 315 00:08:28,941 --> 00:08:29,642 BROUGHT FORTH CHRISTIANITY AND 316 00:08:29,709 --> 00:08:30,543 THE FOUNDING DOCUMENTS ARE BEING 317 00:08:30,610 --> 00:08:32,511 CALLED EVIL AND RACIST. 318 00:08:32,578 --> 00:08:33,779 >> I AM NOT CO-PARENTING WITH 319 00:08:33,846 --> 00:08:34,647 THE GOVERNMENT. 320 00:08:34,714 --> 00:08:36,082 IT IS NOT YOUR JOB TO FORCE 321 00:08:36,148 --> 00:08:38,050 THESE IDEAS ONTO MY CHILD. 322 00:08:38,117 --> 00:08:39,085 >> THE NARRATIVE IN THIS COUNTRY 323 00:08:39,151 --> 00:08:40,286 IS THAT WE'RE ALL INHERENTLY 324 00:08:40,353 --> 00:08:41,287 RACIST, AND I'M ABOUT SICK OF 325 00:08:41,354 --> 00:08:42,255 IT. 326 00:08:42,321 --> 00:08:43,823 >> IT'S A MARXIST IDEOLOGY AND 327 00:08:43,890 --> 00:08:45,224 WE ALL KNOW IT. 328 00:08:45,291 --> 00:08:46,759 >> ALL OF THESE LESSONS HAVE THE 329 00:08:46,826 --> 00:08:47,727 INTENT TO MAKE OUR CHILDREN FEEL 330 00:08:47,793 --> 00:08:49,362 DISGUST TOWARDS OUR NATION. 331 00:08:49,428 --> 00:08:50,296 >> THIS COUNTRY ISN'T EVEN A 332 00:08:50,363 --> 00:08:52,899 RACIST COUNTRY. 333 00:08:52,965 --> 00:08:54,600 WE ELECTED OBAMA FOR TWO TERMS. 334 00:08:54,667 --> 00:08:57,570 >> John: WAIT, HOLD ON, HOLD ON. 335 00:08:57,637 --> 00:08:58,337 AMERICA CAN'T BE RACIST BECAUSE 336 00:08:58,404 --> 00:09:01,607 OF OBAMA? 337 00:09:01,674 --> 00:09:02,742 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THE 338 00:09:02,808 --> 00:09:03,476 2008 ELECTION, BUT THINGS GOT 339 00:09:03,542 --> 00:09:04,377 PRETTY RACIST BACK THEN. 340 00:09:04,443 --> 00:09:05,878 PEOPLE KEPT SAYING HE WAS BORN 341 00:09:05,945 --> 00:09:07,914 IN KENYA, PEOPLE SAID HE WAS A 342 00:09:07,980 --> 00:09:08,514 SECRET MUSLIM, AND THEN A FEW 343 00:09:08,581 --> 00:09:09,749 YEARS LATER, WE ELECTED THAT 344 00:09:09,815 --> 00:09:12,852 PEOPLE PRESIDENT. 345 00:09:12,919 --> 00:09:13,586 SO LET'S JUST AGREE TO DISAGREE 346 00:09:13,653 --> 00:09:15,755 ON THAT ONE, SHALL WE? 347 00:09:15,821 --> 00:09:17,890 THAT FIRST MEETING WAS IN 348 00:09:17,957 --> 00:09:20,192 LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND 349 00:09:20,259 --> 00:09:21,027 THE MEETING GOT SO OUT OF HAND 350 00:09:21,093 --> 00:09:27,667 THAT IT WAS SHUT DOWN EARLY, AND 351 00:09:27,733 --> 00:09:28,401 AN GUY WAS ARRESTED 352 00:09:28,467 --> 00:09:29,101 FOR TRESPASSING, ONLY TO POP UP 353 00:09:29,168 --> 00:09:29,669 ON "TUCKER CARLSON" THE VERY 354 00:09:29,735 --> 00:09:30,336 NEXT DAY. 355 00:09:30,403 --> 00:09:31,070 SO CLEARLY A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE 356 00:09:31,137 --> 00:09:31,737 VERY MAD ABOUT CRITICAL RACE 357 00:09:31,804 --> 00:09:33,105 THEORY RIGHT NOW. 358 00:09:33,172 --> 00:09:34,373 AND INSTINCTIVELY, YOU PROBABLY 359 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,876 KNOW IT'S A MANUFACTURED PANIC. 360 00:09:36,943 --> 00:09:38,544 BUT THE FACT IS, THE FEAR AROUND 361 00:09:38,611 --> 00:09:41,247 IT IS HAVING REAL EFFECTS. 362 00:09:41,314 --> 00:09:42,882 LAST YEAR, GLENN YOUNGKIN WON 363 00:09:42,949 --> 00:09:44,216 THE GOVERNOR'S RACE IN VIRGINIA 364 00:09:44,283 --> 00:09:45,451 AFTER REPEATEDLY PROMISING THAT 365 00:09:45,518 --> 00:09:46,819 ON HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE HE'D 366 00:09:46,886 --> 00:09:47,820 BAN CRT FROM BEING TAUGHT IN 367 00:09:47,887 --> 00:09:50,022 SCHOOLS. 368 00:09:50,089 --> 00:09:51,324 MULTIPLE STATES HAVE PASSED LAWS 369 00:09:51,390 --> 00:09:52,758 OUTLAWING THE TEACHING OF IT. 370 00:09:52,825 --> 00:09:54,126 AND REPUBLICANS ARE LIKELY TO 371 00:09:54,193 --> 00:09:55,328 MAKE IT A MAJOR FOCUS OF THE 372 00:09:55,394 --> 00:09:57,396 MIDTERMS. 373 00:09:57,463 --> 00:09:58,831 WHEN IT COMES TO CRITICAL RACE 374 00:09:58,898 --> 00:09:59,565 THEORY, THINK OF IT LIKE 375 00:09:59,632 --> 00:10:02,101 RIHANNA'S PREGNANCY. 376 00:10:02,168 --> 00:10:03,636 EVEN IF YOU THINK IT HAS NOTHING 377 00:10:03,703 --> 00:10:05,237 TO DO WITH YOU, BELIEVE ME, 378 00:10:05,304 --> 00:10:06,339 YOU'RE GOING TO BE HEARING ABOUT 379 00:10:06,405 --> 00:10:09,542 IT A LOT THIS YEAR. 380 00:10:09,608 --> 00:10:11,043 SO GIVEN THAT, WE THOUGHT 381 00:10:11,110 --> 00:10:12,044 TONIGHT WE'D TAKE A STEP BACK 382 00:10:12,111 --> 00:10:13,079 AND LOOK AT WHAT CRITICAL RACE 383 00:10:13,145 --> 00:10:14,480 THEORY IS AND ISN'T, WHY THE 384 00:10:14,547 --> 00:10:17,083 PANIC AROUND IT HAS SPREAD, AND 385 00:10:17,149 --> 00:10:20,152 WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MIGHT BE 386 00:10:20,219 --> 00:10:20,853 FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. 387 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:21,554 AND I REALIZE SOME OF YOU MAY 388 00:10:21,620 --> 00:10:23,089 ALREADY KNOW WHAT CRT IS. 389 00:10:23,155 --> 00:10:25,191 AFTER ALL, EXPLAINERS ON IT HAVE 390 00:10:25,257 --> 00:10:26,625 BECOME ONE OF THE MOST COMMON 391 00:10:26,692 --> 00:10:28,060 SIGHTS ON THE INTERNET, ALONG 392 00:10:28,127 --> 00:10:28,828 WITH MEDIOCRE WORDLE SCORES AND 393 00:10:28,894 --> 00:10:31,097 UGLY MONKEY JPEGs SOLD BY AND 394 00:10:31,163 --> 00:10:33,232 FOR DIPSHITS. 395 00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:35,901 BUT MANY ARE STILL VERY 396 00:10:35,968 --> 00:10:37,603 CONFUSED. 397 00:10:37,670 --> 00:10:39,238 A RECENT SURVEY FOUND THAT AN 398 00:10:39,305 --> 00:10:40,406 OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF U.S. 399 00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:41,440 RESIDENTS HAVE A HARD TIME 400 00:10:41,507 --> 00:10:42,508 ARTICULATING EXACTLY WHAT 401 00:10:42,575 --> 00:10:44,977 CRT IS. 402 00:10:45,044 --> 00:10:47,046 AND THAT EVEN GOES FOR SOME OF 403 00:10:47,113 --> 00:10:48,214 THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN YELLING 404 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,384 ABOUT IT THE LOUDEST. 405 00:10:51,450 --> 00:10:52,952 >> I -- I'VE NEVER FIGURED OUT 406 00:10:53,019 --> 00:10:53,753 WHAT CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS, TO 407 00:10:53,819 --> 00:10:54,453 BE TOTALLY HONEST, AFTER A YEAR 408 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:55,388 OF TALKING ABOUT IT. 409 00:10:55,454 --> 00:10:56,055 THEY ARE TEACHING THAT SOME 410 00:10:56,122 --> 00:10:56,655 RACES ARE MORALLY SUPERIOR TO 411 00:10:56,722 --> 00:10:57,390 OTHERS, THAT SOME ARE INHERENTLY 412 00:10:57,456 --> 00:10:58,257 SINFUL AND SOME ARE INHERENTLY 413 00:10:58,324 --> 00:10:59,125 SAINTLY, AND THAT'S IMMORAL TO 414 00:10:59,191 --> 00:11:01,293 TEACH THAT 'CAUSE IT'S WRONG. 415 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:02,094 >> John: WOW. 416 00:11:02,161 --> 00:11:03,229 I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE EVER SEEN A 417 00:11:03,295 --> 00:11:04,630 PERSON CONFIDENTLY COMPLAIN 418 00:11:04,697 --> 00:11:05,631 ABOUT SOMETHING JUST SECONDS 419 00:11:05,698 --> 00:11:07,800 AFTER ADMITTING THEY DIDN'T KNOW 420 00:11:07,867 --> 00:11:09,802 SHIT ABOUT IT. 421 00:11:09,869 --> 00:11:11,103 "LOOK, I'VE NEVER FIGURED OUT 422 00:11:11,170 --> 00:11:12,271 HOW A CAR ENGINE WORKS, TO BE 423 00:11:12,338 --> 00:11:13,272 HONEST, BUT THERE'S A CHIMPANZEE 424 00:11:13,339 --> 00:11:15,241 UNDER THE HOOD TURNING A CRANK, 425 00:11:15,307 --> 00:11:16,575 AND WHEN YOU PRESS THE 426 00:11:16,642 --> 00:11:18,444 ACCELERATOR, IT POKES HIM WITH A 427 00:11:18,511 --> 00:11:19,478 SHARP STICK AND MAKES HIM CRANK 428 00:11:19,545 --> 00:11:20,479 FASTER, AND IT'S IMMORAL TO DO 429 00:11:20,546 --> 00:11:23,082 THAT BECAUSE IT'S WRONG." 430 00:11:23,149 --> 00:11:24,483 BUT OBVIOUSLY, THAT IS NOT WHAT 431 00:11:24,550 --> 00:11:26,419 CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS. 432 00:11:26,485 --> 00:11:27,586 IT'S THE NAME GIVEN TO A BODY OF 433 00:11:27,653 --> 00:11:28,754 LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP THAT BEGAN IN 434 00:11:28,821 --> 00:11:30,089 THE 1970s THAT ATTEMPTED TO 435 00:11:30,156 --> 00:11:33,192 UNDERSTAND WHY RACISM AND 436 00:11:33,259 --> 00:11:35,828 INEQUALITY PERSISTED AFTER THE 437 00:11:35,895 --> 00:11:36,796 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. 438 00:11:36,862 --> 00:11:37,630 THE CORE IDEA IS THAT RACISM IS 439 00:11:37,696 --> 00:11:38,898 NOT MERELY THE PRODUCT OF 440 00:11:38,964 --> 00:11:41,167 INDIVIDUAL BIAS OR PREJUDICE BUT 441 00:11:41,233 --> 00:11:41,967 ALSO SOMETHING THAT IS EMBEDDED 442 00:11:42,034 --> 00:11:44,136 IN LEGAL SYSTEMS AND POLICIES. 443 00:11:44,203 --> 00:11:45,971 AS FOR TUCKER'S NOTION THAT IT 444 00:11:46,038 --> 00:11:48,207 TEACHES THAT SOME RACES ARE 445 00:11:48,274 --> 00:11:50,743 SUPERIOR TO OTHERS -- OR THAT 446 00:11:50,810 --> 00:11:52,011 PARENT'S CLAIM THAT IT TEACHES 447 00:11:52,078 --> 00:11:53,045 KIDS TO HATE AMERICA -- 448 00:11:53,112 --> 00:11:55,181 NONE OF THAT IS REMOTELY TRUE, 449 00:11:55,247 --> 00:11:56,115 AS KIMBERLE CRENSHAW, ONE OF 450 00:11:56,182 --> 00:11:58,317 CRT'S LEADING SCHOLARS POINTS 451 00:11:58,384 --> 00:12:00,953 OUT. 452 00:12:01,020 --> 00:12:02,488 >> CRITICAL RACE THEORY JUST 453 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:03,489 SAYS, LET'S PAY ATTENTION TO 454 00:12:03,556 --> 00:12:05,191 WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THIS 455 00:12:05,257 --> 00:12:06,826 COUNTRY AND HOW WHAT HAS 456 00:12:06,892 --> 00:12:08,394 HAPPENED IN THIS COUNTRY IS 457 00:12:08,461 --> 00:12:09,595 CONTINUING TO CREATE 458 00:12:09,662 --> 00:12:10,796 DIFFERENTIAL OUTCOMES SO WE CAN 459 00:12:10,863 --> 00:12:11,730 BECOME THAT COUNTRY THAT WE SAY 460 00:12:11,797 --> 00:12:13,432 WE ARE. 461 00:12:13,499 --> 00:12:14,834 SO CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS NOT 462 00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:16,302 ANTI-PATRIOTIC. 463 00:12:16,368 --> 00:12:18,637 IN FACT, IT IS MORE PATRIOTIC 464 00:12:18,704 --> 00:12:21,040 THAN THOSE WHO ARE OPPOSED 465 00:12:21,107 --> 00:12:22,108 TO IT. 466 00:12:22,174 --> 00:12:23,109 BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN THE 13TH 467 00:12:23,175 --> 00:12:23,976 AND THE 14TH AND THE 15TH 468 00:12:24,043 --> 00:12:24,977 AMENDMENT. 469 00:12:25,044 --> 00:12:26,745 WE BELIEVE IN THE PROMISES OF 470 00:12:26,812 --> 00:12:28,347 EQUALITY, AND WE KNOW WE CAN'T 471 00:12:28,414 --> 00:12:30,216 GET THERE IF WE CAN'T CONFRONT 472 00:12:30,282 --> 00:12:31,517 AND TALK HONESTLY ABOUT 473 00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:34,320 INEQUALITY. 474 00:12:34,386 --> 00:12:35,521 >> John: YEAH, SHE'S RIGHT. 475 00:12:35,588 --> 00:12:37,456 AND INCIDENTALLY, IF YOU'VE JUST 476 00:12:37,523 --> 00:12:39,325 FOUND YOURSELF THERE WONDERING 477 00:12:39,391 --> 00:12:40,626 WHAT THE 13TH, 14TH, AND 15TH 478 00:12:40,693 --> 00:12:42,161 AMENDMENTS ARE, THAT ALONE MIGHT 479 00:12:42,228 --> 00:12:43,696 BE A GOOD SIGN WE DON'T TALK 480 00:12:43,762 --> 00:12:44,730 ABOUT THIS STUFF IN SCHOOLS 481 00:12:44,797 --> 00:12:47,700 ENOUGH. 482 00:12:47,766 --> 00:12:48,601 AND TO BE CLEAR, CRT IS 483 00:12:48,667 --> 00:12:50,236 GRADUATE-LEVEL LEGAL THEORY, SO 484 00:12:50,302 --> 00:12:51,303 UNLESS YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD IS 485 00:12:51,370 --> 00:12:52,638 CURRENTLY PURSUING A LAW DEGREE, 486 00:12:52,705 --> 00:12:55,708 THEY'RE NOT READING 487 00:12:55,774 --> 00:12:56,509 KIMBERLE CRENSHAW. 488 00:12:56,575 --> 00:12:57,643 BUT CRITICS OF IT ARGUE THAT THE 489 00:12:57,710 --> 00:12:59,245 IDEAS BEHIND CRT ARE BEING 490 00:12:59,311 --> 00:13:00,279 TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS AND OFTEN 491 00:13:00,346 --> 00:13:01,947 PRESENT A HYPERBOLICALLY 492 00:13:02,014 --> 00:13:03,048 DISTORTED VERSION OF WHAT THOSE 493 00:13:03,115 --> 00:13:06,619 IDEAS ARE. 494 00:13:06,685 --> 00:13:07,853 AND A KEY PERSON HERE IS THIS 495 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:08,420 MAN, A CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST 496 00:13:08,487 --> 00:13:09,822 NAMED CHRISTOPHER RUFO. 497 00:13:09,889 --> 00:13:12,224 HE CLAIMS CRT IS ACTUALLY 498 00:13:12,291 --> 00:13:13,159 "A REVOLUTIONARY PROGRAM THAT 499 00:13:13,225 --> 00:13:14,393 WOULD OVERTURN THE PRINCIPLES OF 500 00:13:14,460 --> 00:13:15,327 THE DECLARATION AND DESTROY THE 501 00:13:15,394 --> 00:13:16,562 REMAINING STRUCTURE OF THE 502 00:13:16,629 --> 00:13:18,130 CONSTITUTION." 503 00:13:18,197 --> 00:13:19,665 WHICH IT JUST ISN'T. 504 00:13:19,732 --> 00:13:22,701 IT ISN'T THAT. 505 00:13:22,768 --> 00:13:23,936 BUT IN THE WAKE OF THE 506 00:13:24,003 --> 00:13:25,171 GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS, JUST AS 507 00:13:25,237 --> 00:13:26,972 AMERICA WAS BEGINNING TO GRAPPLE 508 00:13:27,039 --> 00:13:28,574 WITH SYSTEMIC RACISM, FOX NEWS 509 00:13:28,641 --> 00:13:30,809 BEGAN FEATURING RUFO ON AIR A 510 00:13:30,876 --> 00:13:31,977 LOT AS PART OF THEIR EFFORTS TO 511 00:13:32,044 --> 00:13:35,314 SWING THAT PENDULUM BACK HARD. 512 00:13:35,381 --> 00:13:37,483 IN ONE APPEARANCE, HE POINTED TO 513 00:13:37,550 --> 00:13:39,118 DIVERSITY TRAININGS IN 514 00:13:39,185 --> 00:13:40,419 GOVERNMENT AS EVIDENCE OF CRT'S 515 00:13:40,486 --> 00:13:43,522 INFLUENCE AND HE SPOKE DIRECTLY 516 00:13:43,589 --> 00:13:45,791 TO PRESIDENT TRUMP THROUGH THE 517 00:13:45,858 --> 00:13:46,625 CAMERA ABOUT WHAT HE WANTED TO 518 00:13:46,692 --> 00:13:47,259 SEE HAPPEN. 519 00:13:47,326 --> 00:13:48,594 >> THE PRESIDENT OF THE 520 00:13:48,661 --> 00:13:49,962 WHITE HOUSE, IT'S WITHIN THEIR 521 00:13:50,029 --> 00:13:52,298 AUTHORITY AND POWER TO 522 00:13:52,364 --> 00:13:55,868 IMMEDIATELY ISSUE AN EXECUTIVE 523 00:13:55,935 --> 00:13:56,769 ORDER ABOLISHING CRITICAL RACE 524 00:13:56,835 --> 00:13:57,736 THEORY TRAININGS FROM THE 525 00:13:57,803 --> 00:13:58,671 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 526 00:13:58,737 --> 00:13:59,471 AND I CALL ON THE PRESIDENT TO 527 00:13:59,538 --> 00:14:00,105 IMMEDIATELY ISSUE THIS EXECUTIVE 528 00:14:00,172 --> 00:14:01,273 ORDER AND -- AND STAMP OUT THIS 529 00:14:01,340 --> 00:14:02,441 DESTRUCTIVE, DIVISIVE, 530 00:14:02,508 --> 00:14:03,542 PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC IDEOLOGY AT ITS 531 00:14:03,609 --> 00:14:06,045 ROOT. 532 00:14:06,111 --> 00:14:07,379 >> John: NOW, DID TRUMP SEE 533 00:14:07,446 --> 00:14:08,647 THAT? 534 00:14:08,714 --> 00:14:11,083 I DUNNO. 535 00:14:11,150 --> 00:14:12,017 IS THE POPE A CATHOLIC? 536 00:14:12,084 --> 00:14:12,985 IS THE REASON BIG DIED THE FACT 537 00:14:13,052 --> 00:14:13,852 THAT CARRIE DIDN'T CALL 911 FAST 538 00:14:13,919 --> 00:14:16,255 ENOUGH? 539 00:14:16,322 --> 00:14:17,590 THE ANSWER TO ALL THOSE 540 00:14:17,656 --> 00:14:18,290 QUESTIONS IS YES, AND ALSO, 541 00:14:18,357 --> 00:14:19,024 SHE WAS RIGHT NOT TO DO IT. 542 00:14:19,091 --> 00:14:20,826 NO BIG LOSS. 543 00:14:20,893 --> 00:14:22,094 BECAUSE MARK MEADOWS, TRUMP'S 544 00:14:22,161 --> 00:14:22,928 CHIEF OF STAFF, HAS SINCE 545 00:14:22,995 --> 00:14:23,696 REVEALED PRESIDENT TRUMP SAW 546 00:14:23,762 --> 00:14:25,130 THAT INTERVIEW, AND WHEN RUFO 547 00:14:25,197 --> 00:14:26,732 SAID, "I CALL ON THE PRESIDENT 548 00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:28,234 TO IMMEDIATELY ISSUE THIS 549 00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:29,168 EXECUTIVE ORDER," QUOTE, 550 00:14:29,235 --> 00:14:30,236 "THAT'S WHAT WE DID." 551 00:14:30,302 --> 00:14:31,237 WHICH IS WEIRD. 552 00:14:31,303 --> 00:14:33,205 THERE SHOULD BE MORE STEPS THAN 553 00:14:33,272 --> 00:14:35,274 THAT. 554 00:14:35,341 --> 00:14:36,875 IT SHOULDN'T JUST GO, ONE, YELL 555 00:14:36,942 --> 00:14:39,511 YOUR WISH AT THE PRESIDENT, 556 00:14:39,578 --> 00:14:40,980 THEN, TWO, IT HAPPENS. 557 00:14:41,046 --> 00:14:42,181 IDEALLY YOU WANT AN EXECUTIVE 558 00:14:42,248 --> 00:14:44,183 BRANCH THAT'S A LITTLE MORE 559 00:14:44,250 --> 00:14:45,484 COMPLICATED THAN FUCKING SIRI. 560 00:14:45,551 --> 00:14:46,652 AND WITH THAT, CRT -- OR, 561 00:14:46,719 --> 00:14:47,620 CRUCIALLY, RUFO'S DEFINITION OF 562 00:14:47,686 --> 00:14:48,954 IT -- WAS SUDDENLY ABSOLUTELY 563 00:14:49,021 --> 00:14:51,423 EVERYWHERE. 564 00:14:51,490 --> 00:14:53,259 FOX NEWS KEPT PUSHING IT, 565 00:14:53,325 --> 00:14:55,594 MENTIONING THE TERM "CRITICAL 566 00:14:55,661 --> 00:15:02,468 RACE THEORY" NEARLY 5,000 TIMES 567 00:15:02,534 --> 00:15:03,168 LAST YEAR ALONE, AND THE NETWORK 568 00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:04,169 ZEROED IN ON ITS SUPPOSED USE IN 569 00:15:04,236 --> 00:15:05,738 SCHOOLS, WITH RUFO TELLING FOX'S 570 00:15:05,804 --> 00:15:07,106 AUDIENCE THAT CRT HAS "REALLY 571 00:15:07,172 --> 00:15:08,374 BECOME THE DEFAULT IDEOLOGY OF 572 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,009 THE PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM." 573 00:15:10,075 --> 00:15:11,176 AND WHAT RUFO HAS BEEN CLEVERLY 574 00:15:11,243 --> 00:15:11,844 DOING IS CHERRY-PICKING THE 575 00:15:11,910 --> 00:15:13,946 WORST EXAMPLES HE CAN FIND OF 576 00:15:14,013 --> 00:15:14,647 LESSONS IN CLASSROOMS OR 577 00:15:14,713 --> 00:15:16,048 TRAINING MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS, 578 00:15:16,115 --> 00:15:17,416 AND SAYING, "THAT IS CRT." 579 00:15:17,483 --> 00:15:18,417 AND HE'S OPENLY ADMITTED THAT 580 00:15:18,484 --> 00:15:20,753 HE'S BEEN ENGAGED IN A 581 00:15:20,819 --> 00:15:23,088 DELIBERATE BRANDING EXERCISE, 582 00:15:23,155 --> 00:15:26,492 TWEETING, "WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY 583 00:15:26,558 --> 00:15:28,961 FROZEN THEIR BRAND -- 'CRITICAL 584 00:15:29,028 --> 00:15:30,729 RACE THEORY' -- INTO THE PUBLIC 585 00:15:30,796 --> 00:15:32,598 CONVERSATION AND ARE STEADILY 586 00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:36,568 DRIVING UP NEGATIVE PERCEPTIONS. 587 00:15:36,635 --> 00:15:37,403 THE GOAL IS TO HAVE THE PUBLIC 588 00:15:37,469 --> 00:15:38,370 READ SOMETHING CRAZY IN THE 589 00:15:38,437 --> 00:15:39,238 NEWSPAPER AND IMMEDIATELY THINK 590 00:15:39,305 --> 00:15:41,206 'CRITICAL RACE THEORY.'" 591 00:15:41,273 --> 00:15:43,642 AND THE THING IS, IT FUCKING 592 00:15:43,709 --> 00:15:45,377 WORKED. 593 00:15:45,444 --> 00:15:46,812 BECAUSE WHENEVER YOU HEAR "CRT" 594 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:48,847 NOW, YOU ARE NOT HEARING ABOUT 595 00:15:48,914 --> 00:15:51,650 THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE. 596 00:15:51,717 --> 00:15:53,452 YOU'RE HEARING ABOUT A CATEGORY 597 00:15:53,519 --> 00:15:54,653 SO BROAD IT ENCOMPASSES BOTH 598 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:55,521 "THE CRAZIEST THING IN THE 599 00:15:55,587 --> 00:15:56,755 NEWSPAPER" AND ALSO, CRUCIALLY, 600 00:15:56,822 --> 00:15:58,557 "ANY CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE 601 00:15:58,624 --> 00:16:01,593 THAT SOMEONE DOES NOT WANT TO 602 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:03,028 HAVE." 603 00:16:03,095 --> 00:16:06,098 AND LOOK, I'M NOT SAYING 604 00:16:06,165 --> 00:16:08,233 DISCUSSING RACE IN A CLASSROOM 605 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:09,201 IS EASY OR EVEN ALWAYS DONE 606 00:16:09,268 --> 00:16:09,902 WELL. 607 00:16:09,968 --> 00:16:11,603 EXPERTS IN THIS FIELD WILL 608 00:16:11,670 --> 00:16:12,371 READILY ADMIT THAT. 609 00:16:12,438 --> 00:16:13,405 >> NOW, HAVE YOU SEEN BAD 610 00:16:13,472 --> 00:16:14,940 IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THIS? 611 00:16:15,007 --> 00:16:17,176 >> OF COURSE, RIGHT? 612 00:16:17,242 --> 00:16:18,243 THAT'S LIKE ASKING, HAVE I SEEN 613 00:16:18,310 --> 00:16:19,511 A BAD MATH LESSON? 614 00:16:19,578 --> 00:16:20,646 [CHUCKLES] 615 00:16:20,713 --> 00:16:22,681 LIKE, YES, TEACHERS ARE HUMANS, 616 00:16:22,748 --> 00:16:24,550 ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE TRYING TO 617 00:16:24,616 --> 00:16:27,086 FIGURE OUT HOW TO TEACH ABOUT 618 00:16:27,152 --> 00:16:29,254 RACE AND RACISM. 619 00:16:29,321 --> 00:16:30,289 >> John: EXACTLY, TEACHERS ARE 620 00:16:30,356 --> 00:16:32,891 HUMAN AND CAN MAKE MISTAKES. 621 00:16:32,958 --> 00:16:34,126 FRANKLY, I'M SURPRISED THEY 622 00:16:34,193 --> 00:16:39,098 DON'T MAKE MORE. 623 00:16:39,164 --> 00:16:40,666 THEY WAKE UP INSANELY EARLY AND 624 00:16:40,733 --> 00:16:41,900 SPEND ALL DAY GETTING LOW-KEY 625 00:16:41,967 --> 00:16:43,035 ROASTED BY TEENAGERS FOR AN 626 00:16:43,102 --> 00:16:43,769 AMOUNT OF MONEY BEST DESCRIBED 627 00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:45,304 AS "COMPLETELY HARROWING." 628 00:16:45,371 --> 00:16:47,906 THE VERY FACT ANY STUDENT IN 629 00:16:47,973 --> 00:16:49,575 AMERICA KNOWS WHAT A COVALENT 630 00:16:49,641 --> 00:16:50,342 BOND IS IS A FUCKING MIRACLE, 631 00:16:50,409 --> 00:16:52,077 AND EVERY ADULT INVOLVED 632 00:16:52,144 --> 00:16:54,113 DESERVES THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL 633 00:16:54,179 --> 00:16:55,647 OF HONOR. 634 00:16:55,714 --> 00:16:56,615 AND THE FACT IS, YOU CAN FIND 635 00:16:56,682 --> 00:17:00,319 EXAMPLES OF CLUMSY, SHITTY 636 00:17:00,386 --> 00:17:03,088 LESSONS. 637 00:17:03,155 --> 00:17:05,190 ONE SCHOOL USED A 638 00:17:05,257 --> 00:17:06,325 "PRIVILEGE BINGO" CARD, WHICH 639 00:17:06,392 --> 00:17:08,293 SURE SEEMS LIKE A GLIB WAY TO 640 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:08,927 HANDLE A VERY SERIOUS SUBJECT. 641 00:17:08,994 --> 00:17:09,661 ANOTHER CLASSIC LESSON OVER THE 642 00:17:09,728 --> 00:17:10,796 YEARS HAS BEEN TO TEACH ABOUT 643 00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:12,164 PREJUDICE METAPHORICALLY BY 644 00:17:12,231 --> 00:17:13,432 DIVIDING A CLASSROOM UP BY 645 00:17:13,499 --> 00:17:14,099 EYE COLOR, WITH BROWN EYES 646 00:17:14,166 --> 00:17:15,000 PEOPLE, FOR INSTANCE, BEING THE 647 00:17:15,067 --> 00:17:15,801 LOWEST TIER, AND THEN BEING 648 00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:17,236 TREATED TERRIBLY. 649 00:17:17,302 --> 00:17:18,737 AND IF YOU DO THAT IN A DIVERSE 650 00:17:18,804 --> 00:17:21,173 CLASSROOM AND THINK FOR A SECOND 651 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:25,310 ABOUT WHO'S MORE LIKELY TO HAVE 652 00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:26,478 BROWN EYES, YOU CAN PROBABLY 653 00:17:26,545 --> 00:17:27,346 IMMEDIATELY SEE JUST HOW BADLY 654 00:17:27,413 --> 00:17:29,848 THAT LESSON COULD GO. 655 00:17:29,915 --> 00:17:31,417 THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN AT 656 00:17:31,483 --> 00:17:33,051 LEAST ONE SCHOOL IN THE CHICAGO 657 00:17:33,118 --> 00:17:33,886 AREA, AND THE REASON I KNOW THAT 658 00:17:33,952 --> 00:17:35,487 IS THAT THIS KID WAS IN THE 659 00:17:35,554 --> 00:17:36,555 CLASS THAT DAY, AND SHE'S ONE OF 660 00:17:36,622 --> 00:17:37,356 OUR WRITERS NOW. 661 00:17:37,423 --> 00:17:38,123 ALI, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THAT 662 00:17:38,190 --> 00:17:39,658 LESSON? 663 00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:41,226 >> IT WAS PRETTY FUCKED UP. 664 00:17:41,293 --> 00:17:43,061 >> John: YEAH! 665 00:17:43,128 --> 00:17:46,832 YEAH, I BET IT WAS! 666 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:48,567 BUT THE FACT IS, MANY EDUCATORS 667 00:17:48,634 --> 00:17:49,501 ARE CURRENTLY WORKING VERY HARD 668 00:17:49,568 --> 00:17:50,803 TO FIND AGE-APPROPRIATE WAYS TO 669 00:17:50,869 --> 00:17:52,337 TALK ABOUT RACE AND RACISM IN 670 00:17:52,404 --> 00:17:55,474 THE CLASSROOM. 671 00:17:55,541 --> 00:17:57,943 AND IF YOU DO IT RIGHT, YOU 672 00:17:58,010 --> 00:17:58,844 DON'T STOP AT THE CIVIL RIGHTS 673 00:17:58,911 --> 00:18:01,180 MOVEMENT, YOU TELL THE STORY ALL 674 00:18:01,246 --> 00:18:03,148 THE WAY TO THE PRESENT DAY, 675 00:18:03,215 --> 00:18:07,753 WHICH KIDS WANT AND NEED. 676 00:18:07,820 --> 00:18:08,887 THEY HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT 677 00:18:08,954 --> 00:18:10,823 THEY CAN SEE WITH THEIR OWN 678 00:18:10,889 --> 00:18:11,957 EYES, AND THEY DESERVE GOOD 679 00:18:12,024 --> 00:18:12,191 ANSWERS. 680 00:18:12,257 --> 00:18:12,858 AND IT IS FRANKLY FAR BETTER FOR 681 00:18:12,925 --> 00:18:13,692 THEM TO HAVE THESE DISCUSSIONS 682 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:14,259 IN A SUPPORTIVE EDUCATIONAL 683 00:18:14,326 --> 00:18:14,827 ENVIRONMENT RATHER THAN THE 684 00:18:14,893 --> 00:18:15,561 POTENTIAL ALTERNATIVE: 685 00:18:15,627 --> 00:18:16,695 DURING A SCREAMING MATCH AT 686 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:18,831 THANKSGIVING. 687 00:18:18,897 --> 00:18:20,732 BUT THE PANIC OVER CRT THREATENS 688 00:18:20,799 --> 00:18:22,167 TO SHUT THOSE CONVERSATIONS 689 00:18:22,234 --> 00:18:22,768 DOWN. 690 00:18:22,835 --> 00:18:24,036 AND THAT IS NOT ALL IT IS LIKELY 691 00:18:24,102 --> 00:18:29,708 TO DO. 692 00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:31,243 BECAUSE SOME PUSHING THIS PANIC 693 00:18:31,310 --> 00:18:32,044 THE HARDEST ARE ACTUALLY USING 694 00:18:32,110 --> 00:18:32,611 IT TO ADVANCE A MUCH BIGGER 695 00:18:32,678 --> 00:18:33,245 AGENDA THAT THEY'VE WANTED FOR A 696 00:18:33,312 --> 00:18:35,514 VERY LONG TIME, AND THAT IS 697 00:18:35,581 --> 00:18:37,416 SCHOOL CHOICE -- BASICALLY, 698 00:18:37,483 --> 00:18:43,489 LETTING PARENTS TAKE TAX DOLLARS 699 00:18:43,555 --> 00:18:44,223 AFFORDED TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLING 700 00:18:44,289 --> 00:18:44,890 OF THEIR KID AND USE THEM AT ANY 701 00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:45,691 SCHOOL THEY LIKE. 702 00:18:45,757 --> 00:18:46,892 HERE IS CHRIS RUFO AGAIN, LAYING 703 00:18:46,959 --> 00:18:48,327 OUT THAT EXACT STRATEGY. 704 00:18:48,393 --> 00:18:49,261 >> FIRST, WE HAVE TO JUST GET IT 705 00:18:49,328 --> 00:18:50,562 OUT OF SCHOOLS. 706 00:18:50,629 --> 00:18:52,331 WE HAVE TO BAN IT AND 707 00:18:52,397 --> 00:18:52,931 ABOLISH IT. 708 00:18:52,998 --> 00:18:54,099 BUT IN THE LONG TERM, WHAT WE 709 00:18:54,166 --> 00:18:55,067 NEED TO DO IS GIVE EVERY PARENT 710 00:18:55,133 --> 00:18:56,201 IN THIS COUNTRY A RIGHT TO EXIT 711 00:18:56,268 --> 00:18:57,903 FAILING INSTITUTIONS. 712 00:18:57,970 --> 00:19:00,138 NO CHILD SHOULD BE TRAPPED IN A 713 00:19:00,205 --> 00:19:01,874 FAILING PUBLIC SCHOOL THAT 714 00:19:01,940 --> 00:19:03,275 VIOLATES HIS SENSE OF 715 00:19:03,342 --> 00:19:04,710 CONSCIENCE, THAT VIOLATES THE 716 00:19:04,776 --> 00:19:07,212 VALUES OF THE PARENTS. 717 00:19:07,279 --> 00:19:08,847 EVERY PARENT SHOULD TAKE THOSE 718 00:19:08,914 --> 00:19:09,648 EDUCATION DOLLARS ANYWHERE THAT 719 00:19:09,715 --> 00:19:10,716 THEY WISH. 720 00:19:10,782 --> 00:19:11,817 >> RIGHT. 721 00:19:11,884 --> 00:19:13,252 >> SCHOOL CHOICE WILL LIBERATE 722 00:19:13,318 --> 00:19:14,286 PEOPLE. 723 00:19:14,353 --> 00:19:15,220 IT WILL EMPOWER PEOPLE AND IT 724 00:19:15,287 --> 00:19:16,221 WILL ACTUALLY DEPOLARIZE SOME OF 725 00:19:16,288 --> 00:19:18,290 THESE NATIONAL FIGHTS THAT WE'VE 726 00:19:18,357 --> 00:19:19,157 SEEN. 727 00:19:19,224 --> 00:19:20,192 >> John: OH, SO YOU'RE DOING ALL 728 00:19:20,259 --> 00:19:21,460 THIS TO TONE DOWN PARTISAN 729 00:19:21,527 --> 00:19:22,694 FIGHTS, ARE YOU, CHRIS? 730 00:19:22,761 --> 00:19:23,729 VERY COOL OF YOU. 731 00:19:23,795 --> 00:19:25,397 YOU'VE PROBABLY NOTICED THAT 732 00:19:25,464 --> 00:19:26,798 GENERAL WAVE OF CALM CHILL VIBES 733 00:19:26,865 --> 00:19:29,067 SWEEPING THE NATION LATELY. 734 00:19:29,134 --> 00:19:30,469 IF THERE IS ONE WORD I WOULD USE 735 00:19:30,536 --> 00:19:33,105 TO DESCRIBE EVERY IMAGE COMING 736 00:19:33,171 --> 00:19:34,673 OUT OF A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING 737 00:19:34,740 --> 00:19:37,809 THESE DAYS, IT IS "DEPOLARIZED." 738 00:19:37,876 --> 00:19:40,412 LOOK, IT IS NOT JUST RUFO. 739 00:19:40,479 --> 00:19:41,980 CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATIONS THAT 740 00:19:42,047 --> 00:19:43,348 HAVE LONG PUSHED FOR SCHOOL 741 00:19:43,415 --> 00:19:44,049 CHOICE, LIKE THE HERITAGE 742 00:19:44,116 --> 00:19:45,050 FOUNDATION AND FREEDOMWORKS, 743 00:19:45,117 --> 00:19:46,919 HAVE POURED MONEY INTO THIS 744 00:19:46,985 --> 00:19:48,620 FIGHT. 745 00:19:48,687 --> 00:19:49,888 AND OF COURSE, NO SCHOOL CHOICE 746 00:19:49,955 --> 00:19:51,256 PUSH WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT 747 00:19:51,323 --> 00:19:54,726 LIFELONG RICH PERSON AND 748 00:19:54,793 --> 00:19:55,661 OCCASIONAL EDUCATION SECRETARY 749 00:19:55,727 --> 00:19:56,662 BETSY DEVOS, WHO WROTE AN OP-ED 750 00:19:56,728 --> 00:19:59,264 TITLED "LET'S LIBERATE KIDS FROM 751 00:19:59,331 --> 00:20:01,300 RACE INDOCTRINATION -- WITH 752 00:20:01,366 --> 00:20:04,536 SCHOOL CHOICE." 753 00:20:04,603 --> 00:20:05,704 AND YOU SHOULD KNOW, THIS IS 754 00:20:05,771 --> 00:20:06,905 JUST NOTHING NEW. 755 00:20:06,972 --> 00:20:08,607 THERE IS A LONG HISTORY OF 756 00:20:08,674 --> 00:20:11,777 RESPONDING TO RACIAL PANIC WITH 757 00:20:11,843 --> 00:20:12,945 A PUSH FOR SCHOOL CHOICE. 758 00:20:13,011 --> 00:20:14,980 IN FACT, THE ROOTS OF THE SCHOOL 759 00:20:15,047 --> 00:20:17,115 CHOICE MOVEMENT TRACE BACK TO 760 00:20:17,182 --> 00:20:18,183 THE BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION 761 00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:18,917 DECISION, WHEN SOUTHERN STATES 762 00:20:18,984 --> 00:20:19,785 ADOPTED VOUCHER PROGRAMS TO 763 00:20:19,851 --> 00:20:21,219 FACILITATE THE CREATION OF 764 00:20:21,286 --> 00:20:22,020 PRIVATE SCHOOLS CALLED 765 00:20:22,087 --> 00:20:23,422 "SEGREGATION ACADEMIES." 766 00:20:23,488 --> 00:20:24,656 AND SOME OF THOSE TAKING 767 00:20:24,723 --> 00:20:26,825 ADVANTAGE OF SCHOOL CHOICE TODAY 768 00:20:26,892 --> 00:20:28,260 SURE SEEM TO BE DOING SOME HEAVY 769 00:20:28,327 --> 00:20:31,029 INDOCTRINATION OF THEIR OWN. 770 00:20:31,096 --> 00:20:32,197 TAKE FLORIDA. 771 00:20:32,264 --> 00:20:33,632 IT'S ONE OF THE STATES THAT 772 00:20:33,699 --> 00:20:34,967 ALLOWS PUBLIC MONEY TO GO TO 773 00:20:35,033 --> 00:20:36,568 VOUCHER SCHOOLS, AND A FEW YEARS 774 00:20:36,635 --> 00:20:38,637 BACK, AN INVESTIGATION INTO SOME 775 00:20:38,704 --> 00:20:40,005 OF THEM FOUND COMMONLY USED 776 00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:42,307 TEXTBOOKS THAT "DOWNPLAYED THE 777 00:20:42,374 --> 00:20:43,175 HORRORS OF SLAVERY." 778 00:20:43,241 --> 00:20:44,443 ONE OF THEM IS THIS ONE, 779 00:20:44,509 --> 00:20:47,179 "AMERICA: LAND I LOVE," WHICH 780 00:20:47,245 --> 00:20:49,915 HAS ALL THE KIND OF BULLSHIT 781 00:20:49,982 --> 00:20:50,882 YOU'D EXPECT -- THAT THE 782 00:20:50,949 --> 00:20:51,917 CIVIL WAR WAS FOUGHT FOR STATES' 783 00:20:51,984 --> 00:20:52,584 RIGHTS -- BUT IT ALSO STATES 784 00:20:52,651 --> 00:20:53,518 THAT, DURING THE ANTEBELLUM 785 00:20:53,585 --> 00:20:54,786 PERIOD, "THE SLAVE WHO KNEW 786 00:20:54,853 --> 00:20:56,088 CHRIST HAD MORE FREEDOM THAN A 787 00:20:56,154 --> 00:20:58,557 FREE PERSON WHO DID NOT KNOW THE 788 00:20:58,624 --> 00:21:01,326 SAVIOR." 789 00:21:01,393 --> 00:21:04,463 WHICH IS NOT JUST OFFENSIVE, 790 00:21:04,529 --> 00:21:06,932 IT IS PROFOUNDLY STUPID. 791 00:21:06,999 --> 00:21:08,100 ANY KID READING THAT ABSOLUTE 792 00:21:08,166 --> 00:21:09,901 TROMBONE SLIDE OF A SENTENCE 793 00:21:09,968 --> 00:21:12,237 WOULD INSTANTLY DROP TWO FULL 794 00:21:12,304 --> 00:21:13,572 GRADES. 795 00:21:13,639 --> 00:21:16,274 IT SOUNDS LESS LIKE SOMETHING 796 00:21:16,341 --> 00:21:17,309 YOU'D FIND IN A TEXTBOOK AND 797 00:21:17,376 --> 00:21:18,377 MORE LIKE SOMETHING YOU'D FIND 798 00:21:18,443 --> 00:21:19,878 CROCHETED ON A THROW PILLOW IN 799 00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:21,346 PAULA DEEN'S LIVING ROOM. 800 00:21:21,413 --> 00:21:23,548 SO IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT 801 00:21:23,615 --> 00:21:24,750 "RACIAL INDOCTRINATION" OF 802 00:21:24,816 --> 00:21:25,517 SCHOOLKIDS, THIS MIGHT BE A 803 00:21:25,584 --> 00:21:27,486 BETTER PLACE TO START. 804 00:21:27,552 --> 00:21:29,488 BUT THE THING IS, EVEN A 805 00:21:29,554 --> 00:21:32,391 MANUFACTURED PANIC IS A PANIC. 806 00:21:32,457 --> 00:21:33,825 THOSE PARENTS AT SCHOOL BOARD 807 00:21:33,892 --> 00:21:35,827 MEETINGS ARE GENUINELY ANGRY. 808 00:21:35,894 --> 00:21:37,929 AND AS ANY LITTLE LEAGUE COACH 809 00:21:37,996 --> 00:21:39,231 KNOWS, ONCE YOU REACH A CRITICAL 810 00:21:39,297 --> 00:21:40,732 MASS OF ANGRY WHITE PARENTS, 811 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:44,903 THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES. 812 00:21:44,970 --> 00:21:45,971 IN TEXAS, THIS HIGH SCHOOL 813 00:21:46,038 --> 00:21:47,839 PRINCIPAL WAS FORCED OUT OF HIS 814 00:21:47,906 --> 00:21:50,108 JOB AFTER BEING ACCUSED AT A 815 00:21:50,175 --> 00:21:51,610 SCHOOL BOARD MEETING OF 816 00:21:51,677 --> 00:21:54,413 PROMOTING CRT BY SOMEONE WHO 817 00:21:54,479 --> 00:21:56,415 WASN'T EVEN A PARENT AT HIS 818 00:21:56,481 --> 00:21:57,382 SCHOOL. 819 00:21:57,449 --> 00:21:59,351 AND IN TENNESSEE, THIS 820 00:21:59,418 --> 00:22:00,852 CURRENT AFFAIRS TEACHER WAS 821 00:22:00,919 --> 00:22:02,554 FIRED FOR NOT GIVING VARYING 822 00:22:02,621 --> 00:22:03,755 POINTS OF VIEW AFTER HE GAVE 823 00:22:03,822 --> 00:22:04,322 STUDENTS A TA-NEHISI COATES 824 00:22:04,389 --> 00:22:04,956 ARTICLE AND SHOWED THEM KYLA 825 00:22:05,023 --> 00:22:05,691 JENEE LACEY'S POEM 826 00:22:05,757 --> 00:22:06,725 "WHITE PRIVILEGE." 827 00:22:06,792 --> 00:22:07,893 AND HE HAD A PRETTY DECENT 828 00:22:07,959 --> 00:22:09,695 RESPONSE TO THAT CRITICISM: 829 00:22:09,761 --> 00:22:13,432 >> I THINK TO ME, THE VARYING 830 00:22:13,498 --> 00:22:16,568 VIEWPOINT IS KYLA JANEE LACEY 831 00:22:16,635 --> 00:22:19,771 AND IT IS TA-NEHISI COATES. 832 00:22:19,838 --> 00:22:23,208 THOSE ARE PERSPECTIVES THAT MY 833 00:22:23,275 --> 00:22:24,276 STUDENTS AREN'T EXPOSED TO ON A 834 00:22:24,342 --> 00:22:26,111 DAILY BASIS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, 835 00:22:26,178 --> 00:22:28,046 WE LIVE IN THAT WHITE DOMINANT 836 00:22:28,113 --> 00:22:31,249 EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENT. 837 00:22:31,316 --> 00:22:32,818 >> John: RIGHT, WHEN YOU LIVE IN 838 00:22:32,884 --> 00:22:35,087 A MOSTLY WHITE ENVIRONMENT, THE 839 00:22:35,153 --> 00:22:38,824 VOICES OF BLACK PEOPLE CAN BE 840 00:22:38,890 --> 00:22:40,726 THE VARYING POINT OF VIEW FOR 841 00:22:40,792 --> 00:22:42,894 YOU. 842 00:22:42,961 --> 00:22:45,797 AND NOT JUST ON 843 00:22:45,864 --> 00:22:46,698 CURRENT EVENTS -- ON LOTS OF 844 00:22:46,765 --> 00:22:47,466 THINGS WHITE PEOPLE MIGHT 845 00:22:47,532 --> 00:22:48,266 OTHERWISE ASSUME, EVEN TRIVIAL 846 00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:49,167 ONES, LIKE "IT'S OKAY TO GO OUT 847 00:22:49,234 --> 00:22:50,402 IN A BLIZZARD IN SHORTS," AND 848 00:22:50,469 --> 00:22:51,503 "IF I ARGUE TH THIS COP I CAN 849 00:22:51,570 --> 00:22:54,072 PROBABLY GET OUT OF A TICKET," 850 00:22:54,139 --> 00:22:56,541 AND "TIME TRAVEL WOULD BE A FUN 851 00:22:56,608 --> 00:22:57,909 AND STRESS-FREE ACTIVITY. 852 00:22:57,976 --> 00:22:58,477 "OOH, THE 1930s! 853 00:22:58,543 --> 00:23:00,545 I CAN'T WAIT TO LOOK AROUND!" 854 00:23:00,612 --> 00:23:01,446 UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE SITUATIONS 855 00:23:01,513 --> 00:23:03,448 ARE NOW ONLY LIKELY TO BECOME 856 00:23:03,515 --> 00:23:04,449 MORE COMMON. 857 00:23:04,516 --> 00:23:06,985 SINCE JANUARY OF LAST YEAR, 858 00:23:07,052 --> 00:23:08,186 37 STATES HAVE INTRODUCED BILLS 859 00:23:08,253 --> 00:23:10,455 OR TAKEN OTHER STEPS THAT WOULD 860 00:23:10,522 --> 00:23:11,523 RESTRICT TEACHING "CRITICAL RACE 861 00:23:11,590 --> 00:23:12,758 THEORY," OR LIMIT HOW TEACHERS 862 00:23:12,824 --> 00:23:19,297 CAN DISCUSS RACISM. 863 00:23:19,364 --> 00:23:20,499 AND THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THESE 864 00:23:20,565 --> 00:23:21,032 HAS OFTEN BEEN MORE THAN A 865 00:23:21,099 --> 00:23:21,366 LITTLE FLIMSY. 866 00:23:21,433 --> 00:23:21,967 HERE'S ONE TENNESSEE LAWMAKER 867 00:23:22,033 --> 00:23:22,834 EXPLAINING WHY HE WAS PUSHING 868 00:23:22,901 --> 00:23:25,871 FOR HIS STATE'S BILL. 869 00:23:25,937 --> 00:23:27,239 >> LISTEN TO THE FOLLOWING 870 00:23:27,305 --> 00:23:29,007 QUOTES FROM AN EMAIL FORWARDED 871 00:23:29,074 --> 00:23:29,474 TO ME CONCERNING A 872 00:23:29,541 --> 00:23:30,041 SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL 873 00:23:30,108 --> 00:23:30,609 IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY. 874 00:23:30,675 --> 00:23:32,978 THE LITTLE GIRL TOLD HER MOTHER, 875 00:23:33,044 --> 00:23:34,246 "I'M ASHAMED THAT I'M WHITE." 876 00:23:34,312 --> 00:23:35,580 THE DAUGHTER THEN ASKED HER 877 00:23:35,647 --> 00:23:36,548 MOTHER, "IS THERE SOMETHING 878 00:23:36,615 --> 00:23:38,617 WRONG WITH ME? 879 00:23:38,683 --> 00:23:40,152 WHY AM I HATED SO MUCH?" 880 00:23:40,218 --> 00:23:42,020 >> John: OKAY, BUT THE THING TO 881 00:23:42,087 --> 00:23:44,523 DO IN THAT SITUATION ISN'T TO 882 00:23:44,589 --> 00:23:46,458 PASS A LAW LIMITING THE 883 00:23:46,525 --> 00:23:47,125 DISCUSSION OF RACE IN THE 884 00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:48,460 CLASSROOM. 885 00:23:48,527 --> 00:23:50,295 IT'S TO ASK LITERALLY ONE 886 00:23:50,362 --> 00:23:51,963 FOLLOW-UP QUESTION. 887 00:23:52,030 --> 00:23:52,564 LIKE, "WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO 888 00:23:52,631 --> 00:23:53,165 MAKE YOU THINK THE OTHER KIDS 889 00:23:53,231 --> 00:23:53,632 HATE YOU?" 890 00:23:53,698 --> 00:23:54,800 OR, "DID ANY ADULTS STEP IN WHEN 891 00:23:54,866 --> 00:23:55,400 YOU FELT THIS WAY?" 892 00:23:55,467 --> 00:23:57,369 OR, "DO YOU EVEN EXIST?" 893 00:23:57,435 --> 00:23:58,970 BECAUSE WHEN REPORTERS LOOKED 894 00:23:59,037 --> 00:24:00,071 INTO THIS, YOU SHOULD KNOW THEY 895 00:24:00,138 --> 00:24:03,208 FOUND NO PARENT HAD COME FORWARD 896 00:24:03,275 --> 00:24:06,645 TO THAT SCHOOL'S PRINCIPAL, 897 00:24:06,711 --> 00:24:09,948 TEACHERS, OR DISTRICT OFFICIALS 898 00:24:10,015 --> 00:24:12,617 WITH THAT COMPLAINT, AND 899 00:24:12,684 --> 00:24:13,885 ADMINISTRATORS THERE WEREN'T 900 00:24:13,952 --> 00:24:15,754 ABLE TO PINPOINT ANY STUDENT WHO 901 00:24:15,821 --> 00:24:16,721 MIGHT BE UPSET, OR LESSONS THAT 902 00:24:16,788 --> 00:24:17,355 COULD HAVE BEEN UPSETTING. 903 00:24:17,422 --> 00:24:18,290 AND IF THAT'S HOW WE'RE ARGUING 904 00:24:18,356 --> 00:24:18,924 THINGS NOW, I SHOULD PROBABLY 905 00:24:18,990 --> 00:24:19,691 MENTION: I, TOO, HAPPEN TO HAVE 906 00:24:19,758 --> 00:24:20,926 AN EMAIL FORWARD FROM A 907 00:24:20,992 --> 00:24:22,727 DIFFERENT LITTLE WHITE GIRL -- 908 00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:23,795 WAY CUTER THAN THE FIRST ONE, BY 909 00:24:23,862 --> 00:24:25,197 THE WAY -- WHO SAID THAT FIRST 910 00:24:25,263 --> 00:24:26,798 GIRL'S STORY IS COMPLETE 911 00:24:26,865 --> 00:24:27,699 BULLSHIT. 912 00:24:27,766 --> 00:24:32,571 AND THE THING IS, BY TENNESSEE 913 00:24:32,637 --> 00:24:33,939 LAW, IT SEEMS I SIMPLY HAVE TO 914 00:24:34,005 --> 00:24:34,406 BELIEVE HER. 915 00:24:34,472 --> 00:24:35,307 BUT THAT LAWMAKER ACTUALLY 916 00:24:35,373 --> 00:24:35,974 ILLUSTRATES THE PROBLEM FACING 917 00:24:36,041 --> 00:24:37,776 LEGISLATORS CURRENTLY TRYING TO 918 00:24:37,843 --> 00:24:39,411 OUTLAW SOMETHING THEY CAN'T 919 00:24:39,477 --> 00:24:40,345 DEFINE. 920 00:24:40,412 --> 00:24:41,012 BECAUSE WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO 921 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:41,847 DO? 922 00:24:41,913 --> 00:24:42,914 PASS A LAW SAYING KIDS CAN'T 923 00:24:42,981 --> 00:24:46,985 FEEL BAD? 924 00:24:47,052 --> 00:24:47,485 WELL, IT TURNS OUT YES. 925 00:24:47,552 --> 00:24:48,053 BECAUSE THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT 926 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:48,620 TENNESSEE DID. 927 00:24:48,687 --> 00:24:50,255 THEY PASSED A LAW PROHIBITING 928 00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:52,057 ANY TEACHING THAT WOULD CAUSE 929 00:24:52,123 --> 00:24:53,425 "DISCOMFORT, GUILT, ANGUISH, OR 930 00:24:53,491 --> 00:24:54,492 DISTRESS SOLELY BECAUSE OF THE 931 00:24:54,559 --> 00:24:56,494 INDIVIDUAL'S RACE OR SEX." 932 00:24:56,561 --> 00:24:59,464 WHICH IS VERY BROAD. 933 00:24:59,531 --> 00:25:00,632 AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE 934 00:25:00,699 --> 00:25:02,267 THIS, BUT I JUST RECEIVED 935 00:25:02,334 --> 00:25:05,270 ANOTHER EMAIL THIS SECOND FROM A 936 00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:07,873 THIRD TENNESSEE WHITE GIRL WHO 937 00:25:07,939 --> 00:25:09,708 SAYS, "WHAT FUCKING IDIOTS ARE 938 00:25:09,774 --> 00:25:10,675 WRITING THESE LAWS AND HOW MANY 939 00:25:10,742 --> 00:25:11,243 FICTITIOUS CHILDREN ARE THEY 940 00:25:11,309 --> 00:25:12,177 GOING TO MAKE UP TO JUSTIFY 941 00:25:12,244 --> 00:25:13,078 THEM? 942 00:25:13,144 --> 00:25:14,946 P.S., I HONESTLY PREFERRED THE 943 00:25:15,013 --> 00:25:16,848 NEW ZAZU." 944 00:25:16,915 --> 00:25:19,818 AND, WOW! 945 00:25:19,885 --> 00:25:21,219 WHAT A NICE THING TO SAY FROM A 946 00:25:21,286 --> 00:25:22,387 DEFINITELY REAL CHILD. 947 00:25:22,454 --> 00:25:24,756 AND LOOK, WE'VE TALKED BEFORE ON 948 00:25:24,823 --> 00:25:26,491 THIS SHOW ABOUT THE MULTIPLE 949 00:25:26,558 --> 00:25:27,425 PROBLEMS WITH TEACHING KIDS A 950 00:25:27,492 --> 00:25:29,694 SANITIZED VERSION OF U.S. 951 00:25:29,761 --> 00:25:31,529 HISTORY, AND HOW, AS FAR BACK AS 952 00:25:31,596 --> 00:25:32,597 A CENTURY AGO, GROUPS LIKE THE 953 00:25:32,664 --> 00:25:38,837 UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE 954 00:25:38,904 --> 00:25:39,471 CONFEDERACY WERE RESHAPING 955 00:25:39,537 --> 00:25:40,005 TEXTBOOKS TO DOWNPLAY ITS 956 00:25:40,071 --> 00:25:40,839 HORRORS. 957 00:25:40,906 --> 00:25:41,907 AND IT SEEMS HERE WE GO AGAIN. 958 00:25:41,973 --> 00:25:42,941 BECAUSE LAWMAKERS ARE TRYING TO 959 00:25:43,008 --> 00:25:44,276 MICROMANAGE SCHOOL CURRICULUMS, 960 00:25:44,342 --> 00:25:45,911 SOMETIMES PRETTY INEPTLY. 961 00:25:45,977 --> 00:25:47,479 A BILL PROPOSED IN VIRGINIA 962 00:25:47,545 --> 00:25:48,747 CONTAINS A SECTION LISTING SOME 963 00:25:48,813 --> 00:25:50,448 OF THE "FOUNDING DOCUMENTS" IT'S 964 00:25:50,515 --> 00:25:51,116 OKAY TO TEACH -- A LIST THAT 965 00:25:51,182 --> 00:25:52,284 INCLUDES THE DECLARATION OF 966 00:25:52,350 --> 00:25:54,286 INDEPENDENCE, THE CONSTITUTION, 967 00:25:54,352 --> 00:25:55,820 AND "THE FIRST DEBATE BETWEEN 968 00:25:55,887 --> 00:25:57,088 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND 969 00:25:57,155 --> 00:25:58,156 FREDERICK DOUGLASS" -- 970 00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:00,225 WHICH, I HOPE YOU KNOW, IS NOT A 971 00:26:00,292 --> 00:26:02,294 THING THAT HAPPENED. 972 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:03,461 THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES 973 00:26:03,528 --> 00:26:04,930 WERE, OF COURSE, BETWEEN 974 00:26:04,996 --> 00:26:06,731 SENATOR STEPHEN DOUGLAS 975 00:26:06,798 --> 00:26:08,533 AND HIS OPPONENT, 976 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:13,805 A 2020 LINCOLN NAVIGATOR. 977 00:26:13,872 --> 00:26:15,774 SO READ YOUR HISTORY, EVERYONE. 978 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:16,374 FACTS MATTER HERE. 979 00:26:16,441 --> 00:26:17,375 BUT MAYBE THE MOST INSULTING 980 00:26:17,442 --> 00:26:18,977 DISTORTION OF HISTORY IS IN THE 981 00:26:19,044 --> 00:26:21,413 QUOTE THAT EVERY SINGLE ANTI-CRT 982 00:26:21,479 --> 00:26:22,781 ACTIVIST SEEMS TO LOVE TO 983 00:26:22,847 --> 00:26:23,548 INVOKE. 984 00:26:23,615 --> 00:26:25,951 >> YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT MLK 985 00:26:26,017 --> 00:26:28,386 STOOD FOR, HE SAID HE DIDN'T 986 00:26:28,453 --> 00:26:30,455 WANT PEOPLE JUDGED ON THE COLOR 987 00:26:30,522 --> 00:26:32,390 OF THEIR SKIN BUT ON THE CONTENT 988 00:26:32,457 --> 00:26:33,224 OF THEIR CHARACTER. 989 00:26:33,291 --> 00:26:34,225 >> YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE IT WAS 990 00:26:34,292 --> 00:26:36,594 MARTIN LUTHER KING THAT SAID, 991 00:26:36,661 --> 00:26:37,595 WHEN HE WAS TALKING ABOUT HIS 992 00:26:37,662 --> 00:26:38,029 CHILDREN THAT... 993 00:26:38,096 --> 00:26:38,930 >> HE DIDN'T WANT HIS CHILDREN 994 00:26:38,997 --> 00:26:39,397 TO BE JUDGED... 995 00:26:39,464 --> 00:26:41,232 >> ON THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN... 996 00:26:41,299 --> 00:26:42,467 >> BUT BY THE CONTENT OF THEIR 997 00:26:42,534 --> 00:26:42,834 CHARACTER. 998 00:26:42,901 --> 00:26:44,269 >> CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER, 999 00:26:44,336 --> 00:26:46,438 NOT BY THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. 1000 00:26:46,504 --> 00:26:47,605 >> CONTENT OF OUR CHARACTER, NOT 1001 00:26:47,672 --> 00:26:50,008 THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN. 1002 00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:51,676 >> AND THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF 1003 00:26:51,743 --> 00:26:53,511 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING RING IN 1004 00:26:53,578 --> 00:26:54,145 OUR EARS THAT WE MUST... 1005 00:26:54,212 --> 00:26:54,913 >> JUDGE OTHERS NOT BY THE... 1006 00:26:54,980 --> 00:26:55,380 >> COLOR OF THEIR... 1007 00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:55,847 >> SKIN, BUT BY THE.. 1008 00:26:55,914 --> 00:26:56,181 >> CONTENT... 1009 00:26:56,247 --> 00:26:56,715 >> OF THEIR... 1010 00:26:56,781 --> 00:26:58,149 >> THE LEFT WANTS US TO 1011 00:26:58,216 --> 00:26:59,317 CONSTANTLY FOCUS ON SKIN COLOR. 1012 00:26:59,384 --> 00:27:00,385 IT'S DESTRUCTIVE. 1013 00:27:00,452 --> 00:27:01,519 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. IS 1014 00:27:01,586 --> 00:27:06,925 ROLLING OVER IN HIS GRAVE. 1015 00:27:06,992 --> 00:27:10,328 >> John: YEAH, YOU KNOW WHAT, I 1016 00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:11,062 BET HE IS, ACTUALLY. 1017 00:27:11,129 --> 00:27:11,696 IN FACT, I'M PRETTY SURE EVERY 1018 00:27:11,763 --> 00:27:12,330 TIME SOMEONE USES HIS WORDS THAT 1019 00:27:12,397 --> 00:27:12,897 WAY, DR. KING'S ILLUSTRIOUS 1020 00:27:12,964 --> 00:27:15,133 REMAINS SPIN FAST ENOUGH TO 1021 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:15,700 POWER THE EASTERN FUCKING 1022 00:27:15,767 --> 00:27:19,804 SEABOARD. 1023 00:27:19,871 --> 00:27:21,172 HERE'S THE THING THOUGH, THAT 1024 00:27:21,239 --> 00:27:22,007 DREAM SPEECH WAS CLEARLY AN 1025 00:27:22,073 --> 00:27:22,507 ASPIRATIONAL GOAL, NOT A 1026 00:27:22,574 --> 00:27:23,141 DESCRIPTION OF THINGS AS THEY 1027 00:27:23,208 --> 00:27:23,541 STOOD. 1028 00:27:23,608 --> 00:27:24,843 AND IN FACT, KING HIMSELF LATER 1029 00:27:24,909 --> 00:27:25,977 PUT A PRETTY MAJOR ASTERISK ON 1030 00:27:26,044 --> 00:27:27,412 IT. 1031 00:27:27,479 --> 00:27:30,248 >> I MUST CONFESS THAT THAT 1032 00:27:30,315 --> 00:27:32,917 DREAM I HAD THAT DAY HAS AT MANY 1033 00:27:32,984 --> 00:27:34,552 POINTS TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE. 1034 00:27:34,619 --> 00:27:35,387 AND I'VE COME TO SEE THAT WE 1035 00:27:35,453 --> 00:27:37,022 HAVE MANY MORE DIFFICULT DAYS 1036 00:27:37,088 --> 00:27:38,089 AHEAD, AND SOME OF THE OLD 1037 00:27:38,156 --> 00:27:41,693 OPTIMISM WAS A LITTLE 1038 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,161 SUPERFICIAL, AND NOW IT MUST BE 1039 00:27:43,228 --> 00:27:48,967 TEMPERED WITH A SOLID REALISM. 1040 00:27:49,034 --> 00:27:51,202 >> John: YEAH. 1041 00:27:51,269 --> 00:27:52,537 AND IN A BOOK PUBLISHED THAT 1042 00:27:52,604 --> 00:27:54,239 SAME YEAR, HE WROTE THAT, WHILE 1043 00:27:54,305 --> 00:27:56,441 "THE MAJORITY OF WHITE AMERICANS 1044 00:27:56,508 --> 00:27:58,109 CONSIDER THEMSELVES SINCERELY 1045 00:27:58,176 --> 00:27:59,144 COMMITTED TO JUSTICE FOR THE 1046 00:27:59,210 --> 00:28:00,045 NEGRO, AND THEY BELIEVE THAT 1047 00:28:00,111 --> 00:28:00,745 AMERICAN SOCIETY IS ESSENTIALLY 1048 00:28:00,812 --> 00:28:02,147 HOSPITABLE TO FAIR PLAY AND TO 1049 00:28:02,213 --> 00:28:03,348 STEADY GROWTH TOWARD A 1050 00:28:03,415 --> 00:28:04,983 MIDDLE-CLASS UTOPIA EMBODYING 1051 00:28:05,050 --> 00:28:06,051 RACIAL HARMONY, 1052 00:28:06,117 --> 00:28:08,253 UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS A FANTASY 1053 00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:09,287 OF SELF-DECEPTION AND 1054 00:28:09,354 --> 00:28:14,159 COMFORTABLE VANITY." 1055 00:28:14,225 --> 00:28:15,693 SO WHILE IT IS CLEARLY VERY 1056 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,863 APPEALING TO CREATE A VERSION OF 1057 00:28:18,930 --> 00:28:20,598 HISTORY WHERE MLK WAS A KIND 1058 00:28:20,665 --> 00:28:22,167 FIGURE WHO EXISTED SOLELY TO 1059 00:28:22,233 --> 00:28:23,735 HELP WHITE PEOPLE WIN ARGUMENTS, 1060 00:28:23,802 --> 00:28:24,836 THE TRUTH IS, HE LATER REFLECTED 1061 00:28:24,903 --> 00:28:26,538 ON HIS OWN MESSAGE, AND 1062 00:28:26,604 --> 00:28:28,173 CHALLENGED WHITE PEOPLE TO LOOK 1063 00:28:28,239 --> 00:28:28,740 MORE DEEPLY AT THEMSELVES. 1064 00:28:28,807 --> 00:28:29,474 AND THAT IS SOMETHING KIDS 1065 00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:30,075 SHOULD ABSOLUTELY BE LEARNING 1066 00:28:30,141 --> 00:28:31,476 ABOUT IN SCHOOL. 1067 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:32,377 BUT THE PROBLEM IS, THEY WON'T, 1068 00:28:32,444 --> 00:28:35,713 IF THESE LAWS CONTINUE. 1069 00:28:35,780 --> 00:28:36,548 A WHITE PARENT COULD PLAUSIBLY 1070 00:28:36,614 --> 00:28:37,749 CLAIM THAT READING MLK'S 1071 00:28:37,816 --> 00:28:38,917 WRITING MADE THEIR CHILD FEEL 1072 00:28:38,983 --> 00:28:40,185 "DISCOMFORT" ON THE BASIS OF 1073 00:28:40,251 --> 00:28:42,053 THEIR RACE. 1074 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,822 AND SOME OF THESE LAWS SEEM 1075 00:28:43,888 --> 00:28:44,622 DESIGNED TO BEND SCHOOLS' 1076 00:28:44,689 --> 00:28:46,324 CURRICULUMS TO THE SENSIBILITIES 1077 00:28:46,391 --> 00:28:47,559 OF THE MOST CONSERVATIVE, 1078 00:28:47,625 --> 00:28:50,361 ALARMED PARENTS. 1079 00:28:50,428 --> 00:28:52,230 IN FLORIDA, RON DeSANTIS IS 1080 00:28:52,297 --> 00:28:53,531 PUSHING A "STOP WOKE" ACT -- 1081 00:28:53,598 --> 00:28:56,935 THAT WAS HIM UNVEILING IT A 1082 00:28:57,001 --> 00:28:58,736 MINUTE AGO WITH CHRIS RUFO 1083 00:28:58,803 --> 00:29:01,439 RIGHT BEHIND HIM. 1084 00:29:01,506 --> 00:29:02,240 THAT WOULD GIVE PARENTS 1085 00:29:02,307 --> 00:29:03,074 "PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION" TO SUE 1086 00:29:03,141 --> 00:29:04,075 IF THEY THINK THEIR KIDS ARE 1087 00:29:04,142 --> 00:29:05,710 BEING TAUGHT CRT. 1088 00:29:05,777 --> 00:29:08,646 AND ALL OF THESE LAWS ARE 1089 00:29:08,713 --> 00:29:09,647 ALREADY HAVING CHILLING EFFECTS. 1090 00:29:09,714 --> 00:29:10,448 BOOK BANS ARE ON THE RISE AROUND 1091 00:29:10,515 --> 00:29:11,316 THE COUNTRY, AND ONE OKLAHOMA 1092 00:29:11,382 --> 00:29:12,217 SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS EVEN TOLD 1093 00:29:12,283 --> 00:29:13,918 TEACHERS SIMPLY TO AVOID USING 1094 00:29:13,985 --> 00:29:16,454 TERMS LIKE "DIVERSITY" AND 1095 00:29:16,521 --> 00:29:18,022 "WHITE PRIVILEGE." 1096 00:29:18,089 --> 00:29:20,425 AND LOOK -- YOU CAN BAN ALL THE 1097 00:29:20,492 --> 00:29:24,529 BOOKS YOU WANT, YOU CAN TRY AND 1098 00:29:24,596 --> 00:29:27,398 LEGISLATE IT AWAY, BUT AS ANY 1099 00:29:27,465 --> 00:29:28,867 BLACK WOMAN ON "THE BACHELOR" 1100 00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:30,602 CAN TELL YOU, TALKING ABOUT RACE 1101 00:29:30,668 --> 00:29:30,969 IS UNAVOIDABLE. 1102 00:29:31,035 --> 00:29:32,837 AND IT'S NOT JUST UNAVOIDABLE, 1103 00:29:32,904 --> 00:29:33,938 IT'S ESSENTIAL-ESPECIALLY IN THE 1104 00:29:34,005 --> 00:29:35,173 PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE MOST 1105 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,674 PANICKED ABOUT CRT. 1106 00:29:36,741 --> 00:29:37,976 AND THIS BRINGS US ALL THE WAY 1107 00:29:38,042 --> 00:29:40,612 BACK TO WHERE THIS STORY BEGAN, 1108 00:29:40,678 --> 00:29:43,081 IN LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1109 00:29:43,148 --> 00:29:47,018 WHERE THAT SCHOOL BOARD MEETING 1110 00:29:47,085 --> 00:29:49,754 GOT SO VERY FAR OUT OF HAND. 1111 00:29:49,821 --> 00:29:51,055 HERE IS ONE OF THE LEADERS OF 1112 00:29:51,122 --> 00:29:52,557 THE ANTI-CRT PUSH THERE, 1113 00:29:52,624 --> 00:29:53,892 EXPLAINING JUST WHY SHE'S SO 1114 00:29:53,958 --> 00:29:54,492 FIERCELY OPPOSED TO IT BEING 1115 00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:54,726 TAUGHT. 1116 00:29:54,792 --> 00:29:55,760 >> IN LOUDOUN COUNTY, THIS IS 1117 00:29:55,827 --> 00:29:56,327 THE WEALTHIEST COUNTY IN THE 1118 00:29:56,394 --> 00:29:58,930 COUNTRY. 1119 00:29:58,997 --> 00:30:03,001 THERE'S NOT A LOT OF RACISM. 1120 00:30:03,067 --> 00:30:04,636 THERE ARE SILLY PEOPLE THAT SAY 1121 00:30:04,702 --> 00:30:07,872 STUPID THINGS, BUT IF YOU TALK 1122 00:30:07,939 --> 00:30:08,873 ABOUT IT LESS, YOU'RE GOING TO 1123 00:30:08,940 --> 00:30:11,543 NOTICE THAT DIVISION LESS. 1124 00:30:11,609 --> 00:30:12,810 I DON'T LOOK AT THE PERSON BASED 1125 00:30:12,877 --> 00:30:13,611 ON THEIR SKIN COLOR, I LOOK AT 1126 00:30:13,678 --> 00:30:15,613 THEM BASED ON THEIR CHARACTER. 1127 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,684 >> John: OKAY, THERE'S A LOT OF 1128 00:30:19,751 --> 00:30:20,485 OBVIOUS RED FLAGS THERE, FROM 1129 00:30:20,552 --> 00:30:21,319 CONFIDENTLY ASSERTING "THERE'S 1130 00:30:21,386 --> 00:30:22,554 NOT A LOT OF RACISM HERE," TO 1131 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:24,856 THE "I DON'T SEE SKIN COLOR," TO 1132 00:30:24,923 --> 00:30:26,291 THE "YOU WON'T NOTICE DIVISION 1133 00:30:26,357 --> 00:30:26,891 SO MUCH IF YOU JUST DON'T TALK 1134 00:30:26,958 --> 00:30:29,027 ABOUT IT." 1135 00:30:29,093 --> 00:30:30,762 AND HEY, IF THE PROBLEM WITH 1136 00:30:30,828 --> 00:30:31,863 RACISM IN AMERICA WAS ONLY "IT'S 1137 00:30:31,930 --> 00:30:32,664 BUMMING PATTI MENDERS OUT," THEN 1138 00:30:32,730 --> 00:30:33,765 YEAH, SHUTTING UP WOULD PROBABLY 1139 00:30:33,831 --> 00:30:34,399 SOLVE THE ISSUE. 1140 00:30:34,465 --> 00:30:36,301 BUT GUESS HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR 1141 00:30:36,367 --> 00:30:38,970 THAT CONVERSATION TO TAKE A 1142 00:30:39,037 --> 00:30:40,538 REAL TURN. 1143 00:30:40,605 --> 00:30:42,807 >> I THINK THERE ARE A LOT 1144 00:30:42,874 --> 00:30:43,441 OF, THERE -- THERE ARE PROBABLY 1145 00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:44,142 PLENTY OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD 1146 00:30:44,209 --> 00:30:44,642 AGREE WITH EXACTLY THAT. 1147 00:30:44,709 --> 00:30:45,843 BUT JUST TO BE FAIR, ON THE 1148 00:30:45,910 --> 00:30:46,744 OTHER SIDE, THERE ARE PEOPLE, 1149 00:30:46,811 --> 00:30:47,845 ESPECIALLY YOUNG BLACK MEN, FOR 1150 00:30:47,912 --> 00:30:49,714 EXAMPLE, WHO WOULD SAY, "I WOULD 1151 00:30:49,781 --> 00:30:50,615 LOVE TO NOT BE JUDGED ON THE 1152 00:30:50,682 --> 00:30:51,816 COLOR OF MY SKIN. 1153 00:30:51,883 --> 00:30:52,750 >> DO YOU THINK IT'S MORE ON THE 1154 00:30:52,817 --> 00:30:53,751 COLOR OF THEIR SKIN OR THEIR 1155 00:30:53,818 --> 00:30:56,321 ACTIONS? 1156 00:30:56,387 --> 00:30:57,689 HOW THEY'RE DRESSED, HOW THEY 1157 00:30:57,755 --> 00:30:59,791 PERCEIVE, HOW THEY RESPECT 1158 00:30:59,857 --> 00:31:02,026 OTHERS? 1159 00:31:02,093 --> 00:31:03,127 IF YOU HAVE A KID THAT'S PULLED 1160 00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:03,861 OVER BY A COP, DOES IT REALLY 1161 00:31:03,928 --> 00:31:04,729 MATTER WHAT COLOR THEY ARE, OR 1162 00:31:04,796 --> 00:31:05,863 IS -- IS IT THE RESPECT THAT 1163 00:31:05,930 --> 00:31:08,433 THEY GIVE TO THAT POLICE 1164 00:31:08,499 --> 00:31:09,534 OFFICER? 1165 00:31:09,601 --> 00:31:10,602 >> John: WOW. 1166 00:31:10,668 --> 00:31:11,869 WHEN YOU RESPOND TO SOMEONE 1167 00:31:11,936 --> 00:31:12,704 MENTIONING YOUNG BLACK MEN WOULD 1168 00:31:12,770 --> 00:31:15,340 LIKE TO BE TREATED BETTER BY 1169 00:31:15,406 --> 00:31:17,575 AUTOMATICALLY ENVISIONING THEM 1170 00:31:17,642 --> 00:31:18,610 DRESSED TERRIBLY AND ACTING 1171 00:31:18,676 --> 00:31:20,345 DISRESPECTFULLY, WHILE BEING 1172 00:31:20,411 --> 00:31:21,179 ARRESTED BY THE POLICE, YOU ARE 1173 00:31:21,246 --> 00:31:22,880 TELLING ON YOURSELF, PATTY. 1174 00:31:22,947 --> 00:31:23,581 YOU ARE SNITCHING ON YOUR OWN 1175 00:31:23,648 --> 00:31:28,853 SOUL. 1176 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:29,654 AND AS FOR HER CLAIM THAT 1177 00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:30,288 THERE'S "NOT A LOT OF RACISM" IN 1178 00:31:30,355 --> 00:31:31,589 LOUDOUN COUNTY, YOU PROBABLY 1179 00:31:31,656 --> 00:31:34,058 ALREADY ASSUMED THAT WAS 1180 00:31:34,125 --> 00:31:34,826 BULLSHIT, BUT YOU SHOULD KNOW, 1181 00:31:34,892 --> 00:31:36,494 AN ASSESSMENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS 1182 00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:36,995 THERE FOUND THAT "IT WAS 1183 00:31:37,061 --> 00:31:37,762 SHOCKING THE EXTENT TO WHICH 1184 00:31:37,829 --> 00:31:38,363 STUDENTS REPORT THE USE OF THE 1185 00:31:38,429 --> 00:31:40,798 N-WORD." 1186 00:31:40,865 --> 00:31:42,267 AND I THINK, AS A SOCIETY, WE'VE 1187 00:31:42,333 --> 00:31:44,802 AGREED: WHITE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT 1188 00:31:44,869 --> 00:31:47,739 BE USING THE N-WORD A "SHOCKING 1189 00:31:47,805 --> 00:31:48,439 NUMBER OF TIMES" -- UNLESS, THAT 1190 00:31:48,506 --> 00:31:48,973 IS, THEY HAVE A LUCRATIVE 1191 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,709 PODCAST DEAL WITH SPOTIFY. 1192 00:31:51,776 --> 00:31:52,877 BUT THAT IS ABSOLUTELY IT. 1193 00:31:52,944 --> 00:31:54,345 AND ALL OF THIS BRINGS US TO THE 1194 00:31:54,412 --> 00:31:56,080 MAIN POINT HERE -- THAT FOR ALL 1195 00:31:56,147 --> 00:31:56,981 THE LAWS BEING PASSED TO PREVENT 1196 00:31:57,048 --> 00:31:58,950 DISCOMFORT OR ANGUISH ON ACCOUNT 1197 00:31:59,017 --> 00:31:59,884 OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S RACE, WHOSE 1198 00:31:59,951 --> 00:32:04,622 DISCOMFORT, EXACTLY, ARE WE 1199 00:32:04,689 --> 00:32:06,257 PRIORITIZING HERE? 1200 00:32:06,324 --> 00:32:07,292 BECAUSE KIDS OF COLOR CAN TELL 1201 00:32:07,358 --> 00:32:08,459 YOU, THEY DON'T GET A CHOICE TO 1202 00:32:08,526 --> 00:32:09,494 "NOT TALK ABOUT RACE" AND HAVE 1203 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,530 IT GO AWAY, LIKE THIS GRADUATE 1204 00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:13,998 OF LOUDOUN COUNTY SCHOOLS: 1205 00:32:14,065 --> 00:32:15,033 >> I DO UNDERSTAND THAT MANY 1206 00:32:15,099 --> 00:32:16,334 PARENTS DON'T WANT THEIR 1207 00:32:16,401 --> 00:32:17,835 CHILDREN LEARNING ABOUT RACE AT 1208 00:32:17,902 --> 00:32:18,770 SUCH A YOUNG AGE, BUT I BEG TO 1209 00:32:18,836 --> 00:32:19,871 DIFFER IN THAT SENSE. 1210 00:32:19,937 --> 00:32:21,639 WE LEARN ABOUT RACE EVERY DAY 1211 00:32:21,706 --> 00:32:22,707 WHEN WE'RE THE ONLY COLORED KID 1212 00:32:22,774 --> 00:32:23,941 IN OUR CLASSROOMS, OR WHEN WE'RE 1213 00:32:24,008 --> 00:32:24,809 LEARNING ABOUT SLAVERY AND ALL 1214 00:32:24,876 --> 00:32:27,078 THE HEADS TURN TO US. 1215 00:32:27,145 --> 00:32:28,746 SO ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, ONE GROUP 1216 00:32:28,813 --> 00:32:29,914 OF STUDENTS WILL LEARN ABOUT 1217 00:32:29,981 --> 00:32:31,215 RACE BEFORE ANOTHER. 1218 00:32:31,282 --> 00:32:32,250 SO WE BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD BE 1219 00:32:32,317 --> 00:32:33,985 EQUITABLE IF ALL STUDENTS TO 1220 00:32:34,052 --> 00:32:35,586 LEARN ABOUT RACE IN THE SAME 1221 00:32:35,653 --> 00:32:36,354 CONTEXT SO THAT WE CAN WORK 1222 00:32:36,421 --> 00:32:37,088 TOGETHER ON IT TO IMPROVE OUR 1223 00:32:37,155 --> 00:32:38,823 FUTURE. 1224 00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:39,991 >> John: YEAH, CHILDREN OF COLOR 1225 00:32:40,058 --> 00:32:42,160 LEARN ABOUT RACE FROM A VERY 1226 00:32:42,226 --> 00:32:43,895 YOUNG AGE. 1227 00:32:43,961 --> 00:32:44,929 FROM REALIZING YOU CELEBRATE 1228 00:32:44,996 --> 00:32:45,863 DIFFERENT HOLIDAYS OR GET 1229 00:32:45,930 --> 00:32:46,898 DIFFERENT SAFETY TALKS OR THE 1230 00:32:46,964 --> 00:32:47,765 FIRST TIME YOU GO TO A WHITE 1231 00:32:47,832 --> 00:32:48,900 FRIEND'S HOUSE AND YOU'RE SERVED 1232 00:32:48,966 --> 00:32:50,468 A CASSEROLE. 1233 00:32:50,535 --> 00:32:53,371 YOU REALIZE VERY QUICKLY IN THAT 1234 00:32:53,438 --> 00:32:55,440 MOMENT THAT WE ARE DIFFERENT 1235 00:32:55,506 --> 00:32:57,642 PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES. 1236 00:32:57,709 --> 00:32:58,309 SO, LOOK, BY THIS POINT, IT 1237 00:32:58,376 --> 00:32:59,043 SHOULD BE PRETTY CLEAR THE 1238 00:32:59,110 --> 00:32:59,610 DEBATE AROUND CRITICAL RACE 1239 00:32:59,677 --> 00:33:00,545 THEORY IS BOTH VERY LOUD AND 1240 00:33:00,611 --> 00:33:03,614 VERY, VERY DUMB. 1241 00:33:03,681 --> 00:33:05,650 BUT UNFORTUNATELY, IT IS 1242 00:33:05,717 --> 00:33:06,584 IMPORTANT TO ENGAGE WITH IT. 1243 00:33:06,651 --> 00:33:07,852 BECAUSE IF WE DON'T, THE 1244 00:33:07,919 --> 00:33:08,486 ENDPOINT WE'RE HEADING TOWARD IS 1245 00:33:08,553 --> 00:33:10,521 THAT HONEST DISCUSSIONS OF RACE 1246 00:33:10,588 --> 00:33:11,989 WILL BE SHUT OUT OF PUBLIC 1247 00:33:12,056 --> 00:33:13,524 SCHOOLS, EVEN AS SOME PARENTS 1248 00:33:13,591 --> 00:33:14,992 FUCK OFF TO VOUCHER ACADEMIES 1249 00:33:15,059 --> 00:33:15,727 WHERE THEIR KIDS CAN LEARN A 1250 00:33:15,793 --> 00:33:16,828 VERSION OF HISTORY THAT'S 1251 00:33:16,894 --> 00:33:19,364 BASICALLY ANTEBELLUM 1252 00:33:19,430 --> 00:33:20,131 FAN FICTION. 1253 00:33:20,198 --> 00:33:21,065 AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT 1254 00:33:21,132 --> 00:33:22,200 DISCUSSIONS ON RACE WILL ALWAYS 1255 00:33:22,266 --> 00:33:25,837 BE COMFORTABLE FOR EVERYONE IN 1256 00:33:25,903 --> 00:33:28,673 THE CLASSROOM, BUT THINK ABOUT 1257 00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:29,640 IT LIKE THIS, WHEN WAS LEARNING 1258 00:33:29,707 --> 00:33:30,608 AND GROWING AS A PERSON EVER 1259 00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:31,743 COMFORTABLE? 1260 00:33:31,809 --> 00:33:32,910 THE THING TO DO HERE ISN'T TO 1261 00:33:32,977 --> 00:33:34,479 RUN FROM THOSE DISCUSSIONS OR 1262 00:33:34,545 --> 00:33:36,180 PASS LAWS BANNING THEM. 1263 00:33:36,247 --> 00:33:37,081 IT IS TO LEARN HOW TO HAVE THEM 1264 00:33:37,148 --> 00:33:38,816 BETTER. 1265 00:33:38,883 --> 00:33:40,418 BECAUSE FOR GENERATION AFTER 1266 00:33:40,485 --> 00:33:41,786 GENERATION, WE'VE TOLD 1267 00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:42,687 SCHOOLKIDS FAIRY TALES ABOUT 1268 00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:43,821 RACE IN THIS COUNTRY. 1269 00:33:43,888 --> 00:33:46,157 AND MAYBE IT'S TIME WE STOP 1270 00:33:46,224 --> 00:33:48,459 DOING THAT. 1271 00:33:48,526 --> 00:33:49,293 BECAUSE ALL IT'S DONE SO FAR IS 1272 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,128 GET US TO THE POINT WE'RE AT 1273 00:33:50,194 --> 00:33:51,529 RIGHT NOW, WITH FULL-GROWN 1274 00:33:51,596 --> 00:33:54,031 ADULTS INSISTING AMERICA CAN'T 1275 00:33:54,098 --> 00:33:55,566 BE RACIST BECAUSE WE ELECTED 1276 00:33:55,633 --> 00:33:57,001 OBAMA TWICE, THAT RACISM WILL GO 1277 00:33:57,068 --> 00:33:57,769 AWAY IF WE JUST DON'T MENTION 1278 00:33:57,835 --> 00:33:58,870 IT, AND THAT MARTIN LUTHER 1279 00:33:58,936 --> 00:34:00,905 KING'S "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH 1280 00:34:00,972 --> 00:34:04,275 WASN'T AN ASPIRATION WE HAVE YET 1281 00:34:04,342 --> 00:34:05,343 TO FULFILL, BUT SOME KIND OF 1282 00:34:05,410 --> 00:34:06,110 MAGIC SPELL THAT ENDED PREJUDICE 1283 00:34:06,177 --> 00:34:07,145 THEN AND THERE. 1284 00:34:07,211 --> 00:34:08,146 THAT IS OUR SHOW, THANK YOU SO 1285 00:34:08,212 --> 00:34:09,147 MUCH FOR WATCHING, WE'LL SEE YOU 1286 00:34:09,213 --> 00:34:11,849 NEXT WEEK, GOOD NIGHT. 1287 00:34:11,916 --> 00:34:12,817 >> JOHN, JOHN, I'VE GOT MORE 1288 00:34:12,884 --> 00:34:14,752 STORIES. 1289 00:34:14,819 --> 00:34:15,853 OKAY, IN THIRD GRADE WE DID AN 1290 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,121 "OREGON TRAIL" UNIT AND MY 1291 00:34:17,188 --> 00:34:20,291 TEACHER PUT ME AND THE OTHER 1292 00:34:20,358 --> 00:34:21,025 BLACK KID IN THE CLASS TOGETHER 1293 00:34:21,092 --> 00:34:21,759 AND SAID WE WERE A FAMILY OF 1294 00:34:21,826 --> 00:34:22,493 FREED SLAVES HEADING WEST TO 1295 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,162 MAKE OUR FORTUNE. 1296 00:34:24,228 --> 00:34:24,929 LIKE, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO 1297 00:34:24,996 --> 00:34:26,998 WITH THAT? 1298 00:34:27,064 --> 00:34:28,332 IN SIXTH GRADE, I TOLD MY 1299 00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:29,100 TEACHER THAT READING 1300 00:34:29,167 --> 00:34:30,568 "ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY" 1301 00:34:30,635 --> 00:34:31,669 MADE ME UNCOMFORTABLE, AND SHE 1302 00:34:31,736 --> 00:34:32,403 TOLD ME, IT ALL WORKS OUT IN THE 1303 00:34:32,470 --> 00:34:33,137 END. 1304 00:34:33,204 --> 00:34:34,272 OKAY, IN THE END, ONE OF THE 1305 00:34:34,338 --> 00:34:35,540 CHARACTERS ALMOST GETS LYNCHED. 1306 00:34:35,606 --> 00:34:36,474 HOW IS ALMOST GETS LYNCHED A 1307 00:34:36,541 --> 00:34:38,709 HAPPY ENDING? 1308 00:34:38,776 --> 00:34:40,711 FOR ELLIS ISLAND DAY, I SAID MY 1309 00:34:40,778 --> 00:34:41,712 FAMILY DIDN'T IMMIGRATE AND WE 1310 00:34:41,779 --> 00:34:42,580 DON'T KNOW WHERE IN AFRICA WE 1311 00:34:42,647 --> 00:34:43,681 ARE FROM. 1312 00:34:43,748 --> 00:34:44,549 MY TEACHER SAID, WELL, GUESS. 1313 00:34:44,615 --> 00:34:46,417 AND I WAS LIKE, BITCH, YOU 1314 00:34:46,484 --> 00:34:47,118 GUESS. 1315 00:34:47,185 --> 00:34:47,819 THERE WERE ONLY TWO KIDS IN THE 1316 00:34:47,885 --> 00:34:48,419 WHOLE CLASS, AND WE WERE THE 1317 00:34:48,486 --> 00:34:49,854 FREED SLAVES GOING WEST? 1318 00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:54,759 OKAY.