Last April, Ron DeSantis signed the Stop Woke Act,
which prohibits education that makes people feel
anguish on the account of race, color,
sex, or national origin.
In other words, it's basically illegal now in Florida
to make white people feel bad about slavery.
And some people love it.
Keith Flaugh is an education advisor to Ron DeSantis
and a supporter of the Stop Woke Act.
We get teachers who are coming
out of these liberal colleges.
They believe our country is evil.
They're teaching young children that it's
about the color of your skin, not your character.
OK, but how do we talk about race
in this country in a way that keeps people
from being so damn sensitive?
I don't know that I have an answer to that.
Because that's the issue.
The proponents of CRT are trying
to say, let's talk about the race part of it
just a little bit.
And then people go, race, it makes me feel bad.
Toughen your ass up.
Do you think that you'd change that by teaching
young kids in kindergarten that because they're white,
they've benefited from white supremacy?
I wasn't yelling at you, by the way.
No, I get it.
I get it.
OK, so do you believe that there is institutional racism
in this country?
I don't know that I--
you just said, do I believe it?
I don't know that--
Well, the idea.
I don't know that my opinion matters in that situation.
I think you have to look at the facts.
And I don't know that I'm--
I guess--
--prepared to state an opinion on that.
ROY WOOD JR (VOICEOVER): So maybe
the real question should be, whose feelings are we
really worried about hurting?
You know what we should do?
When we talk about all the deep,
you know, racism, systemic equality, and then
we have another class that's just
called the good white folk.
Did you ever see 12 Years a Slave?
You probably never seen it.
Three Black men got kidnapped, and then Brad Pitt
helped them get free.
So we have-- like, you learn you learn about Brad Pitt.
You learn about some of Dr. King's white friends.
But that helped me because I think I'm getting
what you're saying now.
But I don't think that helps at all because what you're
doing is you're teaching--
You didn't know about Brad Pitt.
I just educated you.
ROY WOOD JR (VOICEOVER): The idea
of doing a class on good white people in history
is just too good to resist.
Hi, I'm Roy Wood Jr, and welcome to the only history
class dedicated to the many great contributions
of white folks, and, therefore, the only class sanctioned
by the state of Florida because it makes white people
feel good.
Welcome to The Great Whites.
[music playing]
Let's start with the greatest white
of all, George Washington.
Born in 1732, George Washington led the American Revolution
against the British empire, secured the country's freedom,
and then served as the nation's first President.
Washington then retired to his beautiful plantation
in Virginia with his wife and over 300 slaves as part
of an economic system built on the subjugation
of Black people.
George Washington also helped create the tradition
of presidential term limits.
Good work, George Washington.
One of the other great whites in history that we often
don't talk about is a brilliant white man named Thomas Edison.
Working out of his lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey,
Edison is credited with over 1,000 patents in his lifetime.
Among those patents Edison was credited for is
the motion picture camera.
Without his work, we wouldn't have movies, TV shows,
or footage of Black people getting beat up by the police,
like Rodney King.
What's your favorite movie?
Mine is Shrek.
Another great white who doesn't get the credit he deserves
is politician Jack Ryan.
Jack was a successful investment
banker who ran for Senate in Illinois in 2004.
During his campaign, it came out
that Ryan had bravely asked his wife to perform
sexual acts on him in public.
The disgraced Jack was forced to step down from the 2004
race, leading to an easy victory for his opponent,
Barack Obama.
He would go on to become president.
And now, bin Laden is dead and millions of people
have health care, all because of the great Jack Ryan.
What would this country be without
his unquenchable horniness?
Thank you, Jack.
And, finally, the world of sports, which is littered
with great whites, including the greatest coach
who ever lived, Phil Jackson.
With the Chicago Bulls in the '90s,
Jackson employed a groundbreaking
offensive scheme called pass the ball
to the bald-headed Black dude.
Jackson would later find championship
success with other bald-headed Black dudes,
like Shaq and Kobe.
But this ingenious strategy with the Bulls
led to six championships.
Jordan led the league in scoring 10 times,
mainly thanks to great whites who passed him the ball.
They could have easily led the league in scoring themselves,
but out of sheer selflessness, those great whites
let Michael do it instead.
Here's to you, Bill Wennington.
Well, I'm afraid that's all the time we have for today.
Join me next week when we talk about the brilliant Wright
brothers and how their innovations in air travel
led to the firebombing of Black Wall
Street and a Top Gun movie.
I love Top Gun, but not as much as I love Shrek.
They both fun.
[laughter, applause]