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>>> MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WOULD
HAVE TURNED 92-YEAR-OLDS OLD
THIS WEEK, SEVEN YEARS YOUNGER
THAN BETTY WHITE TO GET A CLOSE
OF HISTORY.
REMEMBERING MLK 12 DAYS AFTER A
WHITE SUPREMACIST RIOT STORMED
THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL
CARRYING THE FLAG OF DONALD
TRUMP.
IF IT IS STILL UNCLEAR TO YOU
WHAT THE POSITION TRUMP AND HIS
ADMINISTRATION HAVE ON THE
COURSE FOR HISTORY LOOK NO
FURTHER THAN THEIR OFFICIAL
WHITE HOUSE DOCUMENT RELEASED
TODAY ON MLK DAY ENTITLED THE
1776 REPORT.
IT WAS COMMISSIONED LAST FALL AS
AN ATTEMPT TO REBUT THE 1619
PROJECT OF "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
MAGAZINE
MAGAZINE.
THE REPORT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE
READS LIKE, OH, MAN, I DON’T
KNOW, LIKE A SOPHOMORE YEAR TERM
PAPER, MAYBE, BY STEPHEN MILLER,
USING IMAGES OF MARTIN LUTHER
KING JR., FREDERICK DOUGLAS AND
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WHILE DEFENDING
AMERICA’S FOUNDING ON UCLARY,
ALL STAMPED WITH THE WEIGHT OF
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
CHRISTINA GREER IS AN ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY,
AND SHE JOINS A MANY NOW.
THE FIRST THING I WILL SAY HERE
IS THIS IS NOT IN ANY WAY LIKE A
SERIOUS ANYTHING.
IT’S ESSENTIALLY A TROLL.
THAT’S THE FULL CONTENT.
THERE’S NO INTELLECTUAL.
THERE’S INTERESTING TOUGH THE
DEBATE ABOUT THE 1619 PROJECT.
THERE’S REAL ACADEMIC DEBATE ON
THAT.
THIS IS NOT.
>> ABSOLUTELY NOT.
I THINK YOU’RE BEING GENEROUS BY
BEING A SOPHOMORE --
>> HIGH SCHOOL.
I SHOULD HAVE BEEN CLEAR.
SOPHOMORE HIGH SCHOOL.
>> I’LL GIVE YOU THAT.
IT’S MUSINGS AND PICTURE OF MLK,
DR. KING, AND FREDERICK DOUGLAS.
THE FACT THAT THE ARCHITECT OS
THIS HAVE PROJECT HAVE THE
AUDACITY TO PUT IT OUT ON A DAY
LIKE TODAY AFTER WHAT WE
WITNESSED ON JANUARY 6th WHEN WE
KNOW -- THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS
THAT ARE FACTS, CHRIS.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE
FOUNDING FATHER OF THIS NATION,
I CALL THEM THE FRAMERS, THEY
OWNED HUMAN BEINGS.
THEY OWNED AFRICAN -- ENSLAVED
AFRICANS.
THEY FORCIBLY RAPED WOMEN.
THEY SEPARATED FAMILIES.
THEY DEFECATED IN PEOPLE’S
MOUTHS.
THESE ARE ALL DOCUMENTED.
THEY BEAT PEOPLE TO DEATH.
THEY TREATED THEM WORSE THAN
ANIMALS.
AND SO FOR THIS PROJECT TO SAY,
WELSH
WELL, OTHER PEOPLE DID IT TOO,
AND TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT IS
DIVISIVE I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW
WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AS A NATION
IF WE DON’T RECOGNIZE THE
REALITY AND BRUTALITY AND
BLOODTHIRSTY NATURE OF THE WHITE
SUPREMACY THIS NATION IS
PREDICATED ON AND THE ANTI-BLACK
RACISM THIS NATION IS PREDICATED
ON.
>> THAT POINT ABOUT THE CRUELTY
AND THE MONSTROSITY OF THE
INSTITUTION OF AMERICAN SLAVERY
AND ITS DISTINCTNESS -- THE
REPORT MAKES A ARGUMENT LIKE,
SLAVES HAVE BEEN COMMON
THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
AMERICAN CHATLE SLAVERY WAS
DIFFERENT.
IT WAS LIKE WHAT HAPPENED IN THE
CARIBBEAN AS WELL.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT BLEW MY
MIND -- BECAUSE THE HISTORY THAT
ISN’T TAUGHT IS WHEN YOU GO BACK
TO THE CONTEMPORARY OBSERVERS AT
THE TIME, TON OF ENGLISH WERE
LEAK, BOY
LIKE, THESE AMERICANS TALK A LOT
ABOUT FREEDOM, BUT WHIP THE HELL
OUT OF HUMAN SLAVES THEY OWN.
THEY REALIZE AT THE TIME -- YOU
CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH.
THE HINGE THE 1619 PROJECT AIMED
TO DO WAS RESET THE
UNDERSTANDING.
THE HISTORY A LOT OF US LEARNED
WAS, THEY DIDN’T KNOW ANY
BETTER.
THIS WAS TRYING TO REASSERT THIS
IDEA.
>> KEEP IN MINE, TOKEVILLE IS
RECOGNIZES THIS IS A CERTAIN
TYPE OF BRUTALITY HE WAS JUST
UNUSED TO.
WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE IT’S A
FOUR-LEGGED TABLE OF NOT JUST
WHITE SUPREMACY AND ANTI-BLACK
PATRIOTISM BUT RACIALIZED
CAPITALISM.
THE RACIALIZED CAPITALISM IS
WHAT THREW OFF SO MANY EUROPEAN
OBSERVERS WHEN THEY REALIZED THE
ECONOMIC VITALITY OF THIS NATION
WAS PREDICATED ON SELLING HUMAN
BEINGS AND SELLING THEM
THROUGHOUT THE NATION.
AS WE TRY TO PRESENT -- AMERICA
AS A BRO SURE IS PHENOMENAL.
IT’S A FIVE-STAR RITZ
CARLTON RIGHT?
IT’S A FOUR SEASONS.
AMERICA IN PRACTICE, THE FACT
THAT WE STAY AT WAR, THE FACT
THAT WE CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF
SUBJUGATING OTHER GROUPS OF
PEOPLE -- BASED ON EXCLUSION OF
BLACK AMERICANS THE A CERTAIN
DEGREE.
THIS IS WHO WE ARE.
WE STILL HAVE IN THE YEAR OF OUR
LORD 2021 AMERICANS SCRATCHING
THEIR HEADS SAY, THIS ISN’T US.
IT ABSOLUTELY IS.
JAMES BALDWIN SAYS, WHAT YOU
HAVE TO DO TO TELL YOU THIS
ISN’T YOU DOES MORE DAMAGE TO
YOU THAN ANYONE ELSE.
WE REACH THIS POINT WHERE WE NOW
HAVE PEOPLE STORMING THE CAPITOL
WITH THE CONFEDERATE FLAG WITH
SWASTIKAS CLAIMING IT’S THEIR
NATION BECAUSE WE NEVER HAD
HONEST CONVERSATIONS.
WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT
GEORGE WASHINGTON HAD WOODEN
TEETH.
WE TALK ABOUT HOW HE RIPPED THE
TEETH OUT OF HIS -- AND PUT THEM
IN HIS OWN MOUTH.
>> WE DEBATE THE STUFF, WE FIGHT
ABOUT IT.
THAT’S WHAT GOOD OPEN DEMOCRATIC
CULTURE IS.
THIS IDEA THERE’S SOME GREAT
PATRIOTIC EDUCATION THAT
EVERYONE NEEDS TO TAKE IN
UNIFORM IS SO OFFENSIVE TO THE
VERY DEMOCRATIC UNDERPINS OF THE
ENTIRENTER ENTERPRISE.
>> IF WE WANT TO HAVE A BASIC
EDUCATION, WE HAVE TO BASE IT IN
FACT.
I’M NOT AGAINST HAVING A
UNIVERSAL UNDERSTANDING BUT THAT
HAS TO BE BASED IN THE FACT THAT
WE ARE A NATION THAT PRACTICED