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If there was ever a time for “You can’t handle the truth!” this is it.
True
I mean, if they could handle objective reality at all then they wouldn't be republicans in the first place. Ignoring or politicizing objective reality is kinda their whole thing.
@@RevShifty Yet in 5 years of posting empirical evidence to suggest that subjective reality is the basis of reality itself, has been ignored by those educated enough to examine the evidence. In simple terms---- my work has been ignored. Like saying: racism in any form does not exist because science says it doesn't; and we all know science is our God. 😁
apologies in America today for slavery in the past can't have any meaning, much less do any good.
@@RevShifty what is "objective reality"?
Nearly impossible to correct a problem while denying it exists.
Heh. Never mind correcting a problem you think is a virtue!
Which is why people want to deny it.
its sad because many of us are trying to fix things...make this world a better one for all of us.
That’s the point. To gaslight people about the problem so that white cultural, political and economic dominance is never effectively challenged. And maintain the mythology that these racial disparities have a legitimate basis.
This totally crossed my mind too. That in order to solve a problem, you must first admit that there IS a problem.
So slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation…how are we supposed to ignore these topics and teach “history”?
Exactly
Exactly
Exactly 💯
By teaching the good side? I am being facetious of course.
you cant ignore them, and teach his story
"You don't want to teach history, you want to teach mythology". BAM!!!
As the saying goes;
The first step to progress is admitting there is a problem.
And therein lies the problem.
A significant portion of the country refuses to admit the problem. In fact, they will scream about how "the only problem is that YOU think there's a problem. I'm not racist, but I subscribe to this racist belief."
Actually I'll disagree. The first step to progress is removing the problem children from power. Then you admit there is a problem and address it without the problem children running interference and screwing with the solution.
@Veronica A. This quotation made my day! Thanks!
thats the framework for beating addiction, the 12 steps actually make sense if you can scrub the religious aspect of it out and replace it with kind of a zen/buddhist philosophy
@@agny369 The 12 Steps are not religious. It is a spiritual program. In 12 Step program you are encouraged to find your own Higher Power. One of my program friends uses dog because God spelled backwards is dog. There are many atheists in 12 Step programs. If it had been religious, I would never be in program. I was able to decide what did and did not work for me.
Mr. Beau?
From one Black male to a White male?
Thank you, brotha
Leave out the race next time. We're all human, if you truly regard him as a brotha you wouldn't need to state your skin colours
@@humanitysreject5233 did you watch the video, like at all? Let me add to the thread, Beau, as a black woman to a southern, country white man, thank you for your open mindedness, acceptance and education to people who will listen to someone like you.
Back at ya.
@@humanitysreject5233 this is why ee reject you
@@Cocochantelle Thank you, Ma'am!
"The massacre of Native Americans".. That is how history books should start!
Sad but true 😢✌️
I recall watching all those westerns in my youth and even I could spot the shame of it, I always wanted the Red Indians to woop the cavalry. The massacre was being played out in full view in the films.
No. It should start with slavery. The rest came after. Smh
Yep...sad very sad
The Native Americans were hit hard by measles, small pox and a lot of diseases the European settlers had. They also were more susceptible to alcoholism than the Europeans. There are stories where settlers and military gave wool blankets that were contaminated with small pox to Native Americans as biological weapons.
not analyzing the mistakes of your nation is peak narcissism on a grand scale. how can you improve without evaluating your wrongs! society can't move far forward until racism is properly addressed
Appreciate you sis. You've restored my faith in my country. I think in asking is America racist? Is the same as saying does America have any idiots 🤔 . How many racist does America have? Lol well about as many idiots as there are.
those people do not want to stop racial hate because, it is in their very dna
You are 100% correct
@@5103jerry I would agree were dna preceded by the word "political," as in, "It is in their political DNA." Your statement asserts that certain people are born racist. I believe--and prefer to think--that nurture, not nature, deserves the full measure of guilt here.
Cheers
@@kesart8378 Agree completely and glad you pointed that out. Any prejudice, whether racial, class or any other, stems from an insecure person trying to elevate themselves. Babies aren't born that way.
I've lost family members when I insisted that they not make racist comments or tell racist jokes in my house. But you have to call people out when you see it or things will never get better. Racism is everywhere, folks. You have to fight for equality every day.
I admire your consistency. I would counsel a loving rebuke. At least until they become hostile.
I think I remember a video where Beau encourages asking them to explain the joke and why it’s supposed to be funny in front of everybody. He said that it dries up that type of humor pretty quickly.
🙏
Thank you for voicing your convictions and taking action, not paying lip service.
What kills me about these racist deniers is that they will speak or hear explicitly racist comment and still deny that the racism exists.
The truth ain’t in them.
@@lydiaeyork116 I simply told my cousin and his wife that I didn't approve of their words and didn't want to hear them. They're the ones who chose not to return.
America is racist- A 30 year old white American. Teach history honestly.
Yes. And no. My brother is also a history teacher. 30 years older than you.
It’s never been taught honestly.
@@cindylacy That's true. It always has been set up to make the US (and other powers) look as good as possible.
Our country was even historically racist / discriminated against european americans. Hopefully we remember how germans and Italians (after world wars) and scottish (during potato famine) irish were treated.
@@hwi1691 Even just newer immigrants to a region were discriminated against by those who may have only settled there a decade earlier. I'm beginning to think that discrimination is an inherently human trait, and only experiential education can break down the tribal barriers we're born with. If you've never experienced a culture in a meaningful way, it's easier to 'other' it and denigrate it.
That is American conservatism in a nutshell: a profound longing to go back to a past that never existed.
Its a longing to go back to a time where we just didnt talk about it and the oppressed groups stayed quiet and werent represented. At least thats what ive seen from certain members of my family anyway
No, they really do want to go back to a past that did exist- specifically before the 1850s and the 13th Amendment. I'm somewhat surprised that Carlson or Ingraham haven't publicly suggested abolishing it yet.
@@rylian21 for them its the 50s. There were no black people in their middle class neighborhood, racism was allowed, but schools and the people around them taught them "no we freed them so we CANT be racist"
Your summary statement is probably the most concise one I've seen.
@@rylian21 …. But what they want to “go back to” is only the glorified version that they have been presented with, or have misremembered. Much of what they want from that period just did not exist, and other parts were a thin veneer that papered over the ugly reality of the situation.
Among other things, the US also supported aparthied in South Africa.
Of course it did in America we called that jim crow.
Hello brothers from other mothers, I know in my heart that not all white people are racist, this is about acknowledging those that are and rooting them out to pave the way for a better future where we can argue about anything but this!!
The US government did. I didn't, nor did anyone I called friend. The US as a nation is just gangsters in suits.
Hitler literally looked at Americas dealings with Natives and black people to create the holocaust.......nahhh America isn't historically racist at all😂
@@patrickyoung2117 that you benefit from every single day just like every American. If you are not actively working against it you are tacitly supporting it. You and your friends...
The answer is YES people, and wanting to ignore it won’t make it not true.
I wish I could upvote that comment a dozen times over......
Are you sure about that? I was told if you don't test for covid then you can't have it. If ignoring covid makes it go away, then why doesn't that work with racism?
@@xenosaga8436 Sadly, with the average IQ of the average Trump supporter, we have to ask in this case, was your statement satire or are you really asking that?
@@Merc_0158E7 Definitely satire. I lose a little more faith in humanity every time I here someone make that type of argument.
@@Merc_0158E7 lets not hide ableism behind the inaccurate measurement of IQ.
YES to all, the sooner the people of this country accept the truth the faster we become BETTER. Until then, we’re spinning in mud! Thanks Beau!
Germany is a good example. Japan not so much.
It’s so hard to even talk to some people about all of this. It’s frustrating
@John Smith your kidding right?
@John Smith please find some business to tend to brother
@@robertmorrison107 The predictive indicators for people’s outcome is based on economic status. Black people and other POC generally are worse off (poorer neighbourhoods etc you get my drift) BECAUSE of the racism they had endured for centuries. Your misunderstanding CRT, what your talking about with a black kid being raised in a white neighbourhood and being just as successful had to do with the fact that that kid clearly had the same economic status as those white people. Generally speaking however POC are worse off, so their outcome is also worse. The why? Years of racism. And no one in Congress is trying to give them reparations so the playing field can finally be evened.
The fact that conservatives are so aggressively fighting against CRT shows how true it actually is. Thanks for speaking about the obvious.
I don’t know enough about CRT but the fact that conservatives are fighting so hard agains it tells me that I should support it. I’ll take some time to educate myself about it.
@@Maddie9185 Beau essentially said it all in a simplified format. CRT is very intellectually worded. It is meant for academics. It should be simplified as Beau teaches.
@@robertmorrison107 - CRT doesn't say that ALL wealth disparity is due to racism. It says that racism and oppression is a large part of the problem, and that is absolutely true. I think you're being intellectually disingenuous if you're saying that CRT doesn't allow room for other issues to be considered. Of course it does. But its primary focus is specifically on race and the impact of race/racism/oppression in America. It has never been presented as a theory that covers every possible aspect of such disparities.
@@robertmorrison107 Objectivity to prove a subjective and human reality only works when you don't deflect with whataboutisms. Please focus on the issue at hand, which is that racism has existed since the founding of our country, and will probably continue to exist, as long as 46.8 % of voters support an openly racist President. How's that for numbers?
@@robertmorrison107 - Spare me the "I don't deal in feelings" garbage. Nothing I said in my post was about feelings. I specifically countered your erroneous claim that CRT implies racism is the sole cause of wealth disparity. You were wrong about that, and since you can't handle being called out you resorted to the "I don't care about feelings" non sequitur that your ilk loves to fall back on. You people are laughably predictable. If you want facts regarding Critical Race Theory, I suggest you do your own research on it, starting in the 1970s and including how scholars have begun engaging in critical quantitative research to leverage data sets to investigate how structures of inequality impact various populations. I am not an academic scholar of the theory nor am I involved in its implementation, so it is not my job to provide you with data. Your command that CRT be implemented in CA and NY to prove it lowers racism is foolish. You're saying this to me as if I personally authored and/or implemented the theory. I couldn't care less where it's implemented, because it will never change the minds of people like you. Furthermore, if you're as smart as you're trying so hard to claim you are, you should be aware that there's an inherent difficulty in the rigid methods of statistical and causal inference to speak to the complexities of structural racism at the core of critical race perspectives.
But all of that is moot, because your multiple comments in this thread have shown that you have no interest in discussing the real purpose of the CRT framework. You're just another person who wants to deny the impact that racism and oppression has had in this country since its very founding. Claiming that you don't care about feelings is hilarious coming from someone who chooses to live in willful ignorance about the reality that racism is the very bedrock foundation of this country, and how that has negatively impacted many of its citizens for generations on end. Seems like your feelings are exactly what keeps you burying your head in the sand. Your intellectual dishonesty in the guise of "I don't deal in feelings" isn't fooling anyone.
Beau, over the years you are consistent in making this black lady proud you exist. I will forever wish I personally knew another like you, I wouldn’t hesitate to try to become friends with them for the intellectual and honest conversations. I appreciate you.
Conservatives: "Don't tear down statues of racists, we need them to learn from history"
Also Conservatives: "We should ban teaching our history of systemic racism in schools"
Ikr, these people?!
@Mary Terwiliger Lol, yeah. It almost seems like they just want to keep up the icons of those they worship while not educating kids about our history in hopes that they'll be able to repeat slavery/segregation because it's something we "haven't tried before"... That whole, "The south will rise again" mantra.
Conservatives: "Don't tear down the statue of confederate generals, they are important saints in our church of america"
"Reality has no obligation to meet your expectations."
Awesome comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wanted: truthful, honest education based on reality.
If you compare comparable people with respect to age, education etc, you get a totally different picture both with respect to blacks and to woman.
If you take black families with a husband and a wife that are both college educated and compare them to white families with a husband and a wife both college educated, the black family earns an average of $15,000 more per year. The problem is very few blacks fall into that category.
You cannot say that numbers collected at the employers place of business reflect simply the employers policies. Those numbers reflect underlying conditions in the whole society. Just as numbers collected at a hospital do not show you that people are sick just because they are in the hospital. Sowell
Unfortunately there are many people who don't want truthful, evidence-based education, they want education that affirms their attitudes and beliefs.
@@rookmaster7502 So you’re saying that people are preferring confirmation over education.
@Patton Moore
Nice shot, Patton! 👍
Answer: Get out of the US - travel the world and you'll get it.
Denying a problem guarantees the problem won’t go away
well, i think that's probably the point-- not wanting to correct the problem. Instead, they insist that people talking ABOUT the problem is the "real problem". Kind of like Trump calling COVID testing the "real problem" since he didn't want to fix it, he wanted to prohibit knowing about it.
Hegel: "The only thing you learn from history is that, sadly, no one ever learns anything from history."
Starts by telling true history and not mythology.
Like how they can't cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years..
You're right. It's too hard to understand people who are different so you should keep on beating others down and defend your race from outsiders.
Well, the others don't learn, the rest of us know what's up.
There was racism when they landed on Plymouth Rock!
You could add the laws that created redlining, a policy that affects property values to this day.
You are absolutely right! Not only does redlining affect property value but that also dictates taxes in that area which also has a lasting effect on education, jobs, civil services like policing, fire departments, etc.
And the removal of Native American children from their families to kill the Indian in them them at abusive boarding schools, which operated until about 1972, the Japanese internment camps of WWII, and the many types of racism that fueled Trump's rise to power and his presidency.
Explain how redlining affects property values today, please..
Saw a news clip where a black female homeowner kept getting very low appraisals. She decided to fill out the form without answering the race question and borrowed a white male friend to host the appraiser. The difference in appraisals was well over $100,000 US. THAT is redlining.
@@SineEyed Isolating certain neighborhoods by making it harder to secure loans for improving property and stabilizing residency speeds up the decay of those properties and neighborhoods. Lenders can also create loans that only apply to non-redlined neighborhoods where there's higher competition for property, usually with higher interest rates, driving home buyers to smaller houses that don't increase in equity as quickly. There are lots of different redlining mechanisms.
Redlined neighborhoods tend to have poorly-funded local schools, due to a long history of using property taxes to fund education in the United States. Because the schools are lower-quality, people looking to buy homes in good school districts don't buy there, keeping property values lower.
If, after the last several years of police brutality and racial discrimination by the general public alone, you still feel the need to ask a question like that, then you have not been paying attention. AT ALL.
The fact he acknowledge a law, still on the books, as being fundamentally racist in the question itself implies it is more a case of willful denial rather then ignorance from inattention.
@@FakeSchrodingersCat it’s a logical fallacy of relative privation and false equivalence all rolled into one bath water argument.
That discrimination is is being perpatrated by the great unwashed, bad enough. What's the excuse for the supposed "democratic " machine? Hollier than though that it is.
Or paying some attention but only to the bits that confirm their biases and being in denial about the rest.
The fact you had to address this subject says allot about our country.
As it does about virtually all post-Imperial and settler-colonial countries :)
That email is like saying “I’m a doctor, and I’m sick of hearing about heart disease. Let’s eliminate the Cardiovascular System from health classes and medical schools and just teach health ‘objectively’”. This emailer’s logic doesn’t work, and he seems to have a real problem with definitions. 😵💫
Excellent analogy 🎯
Perfect analogy!
What do they say? “A nation built on stolen lands, with stolen hands.” All you need to know.
Bravo.best comment in the thread. When I hear “Patriots “ I know that means Racism. When I hear “Citizens United” I know that means Racism. “The Wigs” past and present means racism . Repubs.
I love how your channel attracts people from all parts of the political spectrum, and that you are willing to respond to them all in the same well-spoken but blunt manner.
he’s telling the truth
and people are hungry for the truth
because the truth will set you free … from all the lies - ALL of them
That's why Europeans love him. He's extremely well jnformed and gives a balanced, nuanced opinion.
Isn’t he grand? ☺️
@@evee8462 Yes! I wish there was more than just a like button!
.. I have discovered a leek!!
(Sorry, had to make the joke..)
(Also, well said Leek Leek..)
Amen! I don't understand why people are so afraid of the truth.
The 'truth' upsets a status quo, which benefits White privilege...I defy you to name one sphere of life that 'race' doesn't impact, yet anybody questions this is labeled a 'race baiter'' or an 'agitator'. 🤔
i know because it is their evil
Read the book of Malichi 1:1-4 and Romans 9:13-22 and learn the creator of heaven and earth created a whole race of people who he hates and they hate the truth. Take one guess who it is.
They are afraid because of their HEATHENOUS & DEVILISH IDEALS....OF HUMAN DOMINION VIA EXTERMINATION!!!!!!!
I think it's one of two reasons: 1) Those individuals are racist and they see racism finally dying slowly in the US, so this scares them. 2) Those individuals want to believe that US history isn't as harsh and racist as it was. Maybe out of pride?
Maybe this should be shared with those parents at the Loudoun County, Virginia School Board meeting who were vehemently against the teaching of Critical Race Theory. It was an appalling display of arrogance, ignorance, and yes, racism, on their parts.
This immediately came to my mind as well. Those parents are truly repulsive. They want their children to wear blinders and live in willful ignorance. One of the women actually told the school board that they won't have her soul nor the souls of her children! All because the board wants to teach the truth about racism in this country. But the parents are whining that they want to teach their kids to become socialists and that they're racist just because they're white. One of them said they don't want their kids becoming social justice warriors. Can you imagine being a parent who wouldn't want your kid to fight for social justice? That alone speaks volumes. Parents like this are the reason racism will never end in this country. They just keep passing it down generation after generation.
I live in Fairfax county which is next door. I’m
Shocked by some of the parents response given the demographics and relatively liberal nature of the residents. I have a feeling it’s a very vocal minority, outing their true selves to the neighbors.
@@flaggrad I truly hope you are right. I’m so disheartened to see the initial poll numbers in the Governor’s race being neck-and-neck. I live in the southwest part of Virginia and Trumpism is alive and well here.
As a history teacher, I am going to do my best to teach the truth. Even to 4th graders.
Thank you, Beau.
Teach them about emmit till.
I used to want to shield children from the brutality of history. Then I realized that the children who lived during that time were not shielded.
As an educator are you going to teach your pupils, About Historic and famous African Americans like Marie Laveau, Anna Kingsley,
Anthony Johnson, Thomas Day, Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, Antoine Dubuclet, Marie Thérèse Metoyer, Richard Edward Dereef, John Carruthers Stanly, Ann Deas, Eufrosina Hinard, Alethia Tanner or 29,000+ other lesser known historically forgotten yet extremely relevant African Americans... Its a SAFE bet that you will NEVER speak of these famous African Americans in a Classroom let alone teach their history to your pupils. Because they all have one narrative breaking thing in common.
@@falkwulf3842 I've gladly made a list of these people and will be checking them out to research and consider, based on the era they lived in.
Thank you. 🙂
@@PhilLesh69 I've put him on the research list, thank you. 🙂
I’d like to know when American history was taught objectively!?! That’s fucking hilarious!
Never but it did happen in reality, there is time now.
That depends on your teachers, and what they assign you to read, or even hint a suggestion about what else you might read.
Is it actually possible to teach history objectively? Events occur,, but how those events are understood and characterized depends upon the perspective of the person telling that story. The saying is that “history is written by the victor.” Schools have taught the single dominant narrative, that of white men (the “winners”). History is like the movie Rashomen. It’s time to learn about those same events from the perspectives of other people as well as to teach about people and events that were erased from the narrative. None of that should be scary. However, when we learn better then we should attempt to do better. Hmmmmm…Maybe that is scary for some people.
@@noam65 shut the HELL up, it's a Lot they left out of the history books!!!
@@rainycascadia5075 no, the fact is the white man always want to be the most dominant one!!!! Never equal or less than!!!!
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This email is adorable: "Beau, can you use critical race theory to show that we don't need to teach critical race theory"
Speaking as a Southerner- bless their heart.
Asking as an ignorant foreigner - "bless their heart" in this context can otherwise be read as "fuck you", yes? :)
@@jonnylumberjack6223 it can also mean the target is "soft" minded, crazy, or stupid. Depends almost entirely on context. In this context, you have it nailed.
To quote William Shakespeare: "Clouds and eclipses stain the moon and the sun, and history reeks of the wrongs we have done."
Another poor sap doesn't get the answer he wanted to hear from Beau. He got the truth instead.
Glad to see The Elephant is still in the room, Beau. 😉
You got that right! LOL
“ The truth is an offense but not a sin” - Bob Marley ....... keep telling the truth, it is the language of God!!!
Well said Beau, you hit a homerun on this one buddy. Getting people to admit it is where the anger comes in.
“You learn history so you don’t repeat the mistakes.” Unless you’re convinced that you’ve never made any mistakes, unlike, you know, all people everywhere.
Sadly, almost all American history textbooks are myths in which America is the Great Hero who has always been right, never, ever wrong. So the history they teach makes no sense-- it's just a series of "resistance" spontaneously "springing up" everywhere, with absolutely no reason, and how America "won" against this inexplicable "opposition". Since the history makes NO sense, it's boring, and the only "lesson" students get out of it is America is the Greatest, We've Always Been Right, and the rest of the world remains a confusing mystery.
It is a fact that apartheid South Africa modelled its homeland policy on the methods that the USA and Canada implemented vis a vis the reserves and reservations set up to remove native Americans for white settlements and resource extraction.
"Never try to destroy someone's character with a lie, when yours can be destroyed with the truth."
Remember whenever you're pointing a finger you've got three pointing right back at you.
Same sentiment as pointing out the splinter in another's eye while ignoring the log in your own eye.
This should be a 10 second video. "Hello internet people. Is America fundamentally racist? Yes. Have a nice day"
Nailed it🤣🤣🤣
Y'll have a good day.
Unlike many others on TH-cam, or in the media, Beau does try to support his opinions with proper arguments and analysis. That's why the additional 420 seconds
@@jjakjjak5231 oh man! you nailed it too…I love Beau! And you are correct but that was a good laugh coming from Modular Curiosity…Why the hell these people cannot see or REFUSE to see what’s right in front of their eyes is baffling… There are books written a mile high on the subject of racism in America but then again…a lot of Americans don’t read or don’t want to know the truth…🤨🧐
Good one!!!
I’m Native American from California, to this day the federal government still doesn’t recognize us.
I'm black and honestly, you might be better off that they don't. They make it a point to recognize us in every way, shape and form and believe me, this sh*t is beyond unacceptable. (We're not seen as human however. Dogs have more rights than we do).
@@Spideera you miss understood me, they still beat and murder us but they say we don’t exist
@@coolbreeze4066 ah gotcha :) I suppose that is the way of the majority in this country. It is certainly time for change. Hopefully, that will come soon as in NOW. I think we are tired of waiting for them to wake up and behave.
I visited the sates. I was shocked by the overt racism. Also, I found most white people to be obnoxious and up tight. Non whites were far more interesting and fun.
Just my casual observation.
Wow. That is horrendous. 🤦♀️
Hitler liked the way America handled Native Peoples. He used it as a example himself. Look it up!
Wow!!! I will have to research this.
That and Jim Crow laws.
They literally found 215 dead indigenous children at a residential school. Those schools continued till 1996.. in canada
@@loriannrichardson7644 Concentration camps came into being and first used by U.S.when stealing the land from the indigenous native. and eventually being released and put on poor desert land that could not sustain them. Look up the long march My word i,m U.K.and know your history.
Hitler got the Jewish Holocaust from America...research
This man is a true American. This is a man l would be happy to stand alongside
in a trench.
Not with him, for him. We need him to survive to spread the truth. He might not want to be a leader, he is a leader we need.
@@SomeReallyUniqueName count me in
Absolutely!!!!
On gawd I fucks with buddy✊🏿
why does it always come back to willingness to commit violence that makes someone "american"?
It's baked into the US Constitution, and party agnostic.
Ouch!
how do we fix this !? love and light to you all
@@The_Unfiltered_Veteran We start "fixing it" by telling the TRUTH.
It ain't about you being white, it ain't about you being black it's about you being honest. Thus you have the foundation of what it means to be a great man Beau.
AMEN!
I totally agree with the truth backed up by facts and documented history!!!
Racism is why trump was elected president....
Every time some group or person tries to ban knowledge they are wrong.
Yeah, that's exactly what the church says about creationism, their version off "knowledge" - shame on people trying to ban creationism from schools! . CRT is not like math, it has a lot of problems from a scientific standpoint. But the worst about it are (like with religion) extreme idiots, which run with it to crazytown. This results in statements like "white people eating meat is racist because black people did not get meat during slavery and now they have a culture of BBQ and eating meat takes away from that culture". For the first time in my life it feels like racism actually increases again because the far left alienates people, makes former allies resentful and amplifies race differences.
@@vanivari359 Religion isn't knowledge, it's belief.
They don't want us to think, then we will know the TRUTH, and mess up their only strategy to keep people oppressed😡
I'm African American your white or Caucasian , I've been listening to you about 4 to 5 years and you teach the TRUTH nothing but the truth I want to thank you, I'm surprised "nobody" has stop your videos, why because the TRUTH it's coming from YOU! Apparently your doing something RIGHT because I see the AWARD IN Background! Thank you Sir❤️
The key point is that instead of teaching history, mythology is taught. However lets also acknowledge that a lot is history is written by the victors.
That is why its is mostly mythology. Science does not discriminate they just want to get the the truth and true historians don't care if it hurts peoples fefe, they just want the truth.
All books used by public schools come from conservatives in Texas... They have confined what their Beliefs are in our history books.
Rather than the victor, history is written by whoever is in charge at the moment and may take liberties with reality to fit a narrative favorable to himself.
Confederate "Lost Cause" mythology has taken quite a strong foothold in the United States. Why? Because the line "history is written by the victors" forgets one important part - you have to erase the losers. In our case, the losers just acted like they won and started lying to themselves and anyone else who would listen about why they were even in conflict in the first place.
History is written by the *survivors*, that is why atrocities *are* recorded, even if people might like to overlook the records. It's not like it isn't out there to find. Deniers can often be fact checked pretty easily. They just don't *accept* the facts, and prefer instead to pretend like these facts don't exist.
It's not every day that someone arguing against you provides you the thing that disproves their point within their very question.
Like watching someone throw a soft pitch to a home run hitting champion. Pretty sure he didn’t even have to do a reference check for this one. It is Sunday, you deserve a couple easy ones lol.
There is another elephant in the room: antiintellectualism. The opposition to CRT is all about snubbing those ivory tower academics, and isolating the next generation in a veil of ignorance about our national history, among other subjects.
The veil of ignorance is religion.
@@sarahgupton2552 Poor choice of words on my part. The Veil of Ignorance turns out to be a term of art in the philosophy of ethics, and has an entirely different meaning. So to avoid confusion, I'll instead use "cone of silence".
@@CAPSLOCKPUNDIT There is more than one veil of ignorance at play. IMO, religion is a major hindrance to education, ie., history, critical thinking, reading’, writin’, arithmetic, etc. Oh, and physics.
Ignorant people are easy to control.
You are telling the truth. Will America ever change. I would say half the country remain the same. But we can make a change if people are willing
Change? What the hell does that mean?
@@hggryrdchgc buh bye troll.
@@hggryrdchgc I'm not perfect, but care about all our lives. Especially our children. I am a retired veteran that live and work with other Americans of all parts of our country. I remember when King, Kennedy and Malcolm died. My parents and Grandparents never mentioned race to me growing up. Hate and racism are taught. We was not born with hate. I choose not to hate. But talk about our differences. And learn we might have something in common.
This guy is the most objective and honest person on TH-cam I’ve seen in a long time….He also was cool T-shirts
I'd amend that to "on OR OFF TH-cam."
Let’s make sure we clarify that at least one of the other “super racist” nations that studied/benchmarked America’s institutional racism to figure out how to legalize it was Hitler’s Germany when he wanted a legal way to exterminate the Jews. Not a coincidence… always appreciate the honest dialogue Beau!
"We shouldn't teach subjective things like 'America was racist', we should stick to objective facts!"
"The objective facts say that America was racist."
"Well, not those facts."
They want alternative facts, of course.
Did you say WAS racist? As in past tense.
So teach the kiddos that everything was peach 🍑 and cream 🍦 and all Love 💕 lol 😆
AMERIKKKA IS STILL RACIST & OPERATES ON A CAST SYSTEM BASED ON RACE.
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Anytime someone's question involves "proving liberals wrong", it's quite likely to have been asked in bad faith. Kudos to you (Beau) for tackling these questions with the calm, critical and analytical approach that make it worth taking to heart time and again.
I don't agree.
The problem is that people believe their own propaganda.
The oppressor is more likely to believe their group's propaganda than the oppressed.
That's not bad faith. It's got several labels but I prefer to call it false consciousness.
The antidote to false consciousness is not to raise allegations of bad faith, but to calmly, politely, and respectfully address the question as asked.
This video is a good example of that. A soft answer invites attention and a comprehensive answer can re-direct thinking.
And the beauty is that it can even work when the questioner was insincere...
Umm Liberals are wrong about a shitload of things. Not this one though. This country is unbelievably racist.
Well said. And so true. I'm reminded of the phrase," know the truth and the truth shall set you free, but it's probably going to piss you off first."
My father was born into Jim Crow America, he'll be the first to tell you how racist we can be.
My mother's family got the F**K out of Shaw, Mississippi. Working 12 hour, 7-day shifts in the Chicago steel mills was an improvement!
I grew up in a small town in Alabama 70+ years ago; it was lily white then, and it’s lily white now. It was racist then and it’s racist now. It will never change. It’s residents are terrified that they will be treated the same way they’ve treated people of color. And there lies their fear of the future and what makes them attracted to politicians like Trump. There are many politicians like Trump in states like Alabama.
For more, read Howard Zinn's "A Peoples History of the US"
It isn't really a good source because it perpetrates the same errors of historical practice as the tomes it aimed to correct like secondary sources of questionable provenance, omission of exculpatory evidence, leading questions and shaky connections between evidence and conclusions.
I'm always up for a new book, do you recommend anything instead?
Just looked him up at your suggestion
@@maxstrawn3788 Out of Many: A History of the American People. This is a book I read for AP U.S. History class. It teaches both the good and the bad of US history with good sources to back it up. There is no BS involved in it to push an agenda.
I did...at times, it was difficult to accept that Zinn was writing about the same country. That's how much variance exists between this account and the sanitized hagiography (that is, straight up bullshyt!) that's taught K-12.
Start seeing ourselves as one human race. Would be a good start towards ending racism.
Here Here. Climate change don't care what colour you are
It will never happen.
I had an interesting conversation with someone the other day who clearly felt that this way of thinking somehow lessens him. He is opposed to diversity because that makes him "equal" to other, non-white people, and to him that is a step down. Other people being treated just like him is, in his view, taking power and status away from him.
Basically racists by definition refuse this view of the human race because they lose prestige, and they can't figure out how to live without being more important than everyone else in their own eyes. .... so .... cultural narcissism.
We don't have to assume that there is still racism, just look and listen to the media and politicians. From Trump's escalator speech to Tucker Carlson's replacement rant
@Idimin Eldridge capitalist leaders are racist. You can just say capitalists
@@kevinaguilar9454 China.
This should be shown to the wonderful people in Florida.
We can acknowledge history without shame, learn from history and move forward with the lessons learned.
100 percent, we all have bias aka racism is one of those. If you have a bias don't be afraid of the name learn from it and change the way you think.
Without shame is the key part. Apparently some teachers of CRT are having trouble with that part.
Well... I mean... the right to vote, as originally conceived in this nation excluded free blacks and women..
. So...
So, racist and sexist.
... and poor white people who didn't own land.
Well, all over the world was the same. The exceptionalism of America when created was not how they treated other races, including the American natives whose lands were being occupied. The exceptional part was a nation build on values not race and soil, and those principles allowed America to evolve over the years and inspired other countries to do so.
Thank you for this!
I'm a black man and I love Beau! He speaks the unfettered truth whether you're friend or foe! If we could get some of our leaders and conservative platforms to do the same. Then America would begin to be the place that it has always preached itself and strived to be.
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US as a nation has some serious karma to deal with and the longer the wait, more karma and the harder it will get..
People need to read Langston Hughes, and think of what could be, instead of uncritically going to bat for what is.
Well said. A huge problem is the lack of what I call deep education. The read and discuss we had in the 1960s. We need better teacher education and better schools. We don't invest in our kids.
"America is not racist, and here is a racist law that proves my point!"
But yet one of the very old white men that put the law together is the same man that roughly 80 million non racist people by your own party's claims is the man YOU ALL chose to be your leader. Even though as far i know hasn't ONCE admitted fault for that garbage legislation!
@@chrisdupree8382 there wasn't a better choice. Biden is no saint. No one worships him... he's just all there was to work with.
You don’t even know who you is.
@@hamandeggs11 ~ No. Of Course Not!! It Is The “Man” That Could Not Get Along With ANY Other World Leaders, With The Exception Of Those He Greatly Admired.. Tyrants.
get a fucking grip dude, Biden didn't pass that bill by himself. You're a good reason that CRT needs to taught in kindergarten.
As a black man...I must say I'm surprised by this man's objective view. Subbed
I'm right with you brotha he's legit
As I am as a brown woman!
In EVERY encounter, the colonizer shames his invented devil.
It has been argued that this is why the government refuses to admit the existence of extraterrestrials visiting the earth.
Robert Byrd kkk Democratic senator for over 51 years, friends bill Clinton barrack Obama all went to funeral and praised the KKK leader
My man I came here thinking you would not tell the truth but …you DID!!! And I respect you for that very much!! We we could all just start where you came from we could get pass this and be a much better nation!!!!!
Beau is the real deal.
Well the person who sent that message is not going to like this video and I can't wait to see what their response is. I don't know why people are afraid of talking about America being racist. The people who say that America is not fundamentally racist they are the ones trying to rewrite history.
Thank you Bo, as a Native America Dine’, you make a lot of sense- you must have good parents.
Thank you for your videos like this Beau!
❤ from Washington State
It’s a stain on the US. We need to talk about our history so we don’t keep repeating it with grandiose fairytales.
Teaching mythology rather than history is more comforting to too many white people.
Too much like the teaching in Germany from 1935 to 1945.
Well, to many people in general. I have met many people online who supports the myth that only whites are racist, while racism is actually a human trait. It is territorialism.
And as a historian I have listed empirical evidence for non-whites being racist before they met whites, but said people ignore that. There are fanatic myth-believers everywhere. In general most seem to be Right Wing Americans or Russians, or Chinese nationalist communists.
That comment sounds racist
Not just White people...
@John Smith If talking about how white people are skittish about this sort of thing gets an instant evaluation from you that I "sound racist", please define racism.
I am under the impression that racism is not so much a dislike of people who are ethnically different from one as it is a system of power that can determine who is worthy of societal approval and who is not.
There are people out there that after racism and gynecide was explained, their response would be... So what's the problem?
Exactly!!! I have neighbors who are overly racist. Use the N word even!!!! I live in OKC, amidst a sea of trump humpers.
I hear that all the time
@@kimthomas781 ~ Good Lord, @kim thomas!! The “Other Side’s” Numbers Count Is Too High To Even
Comprehend!! IT Truly IS Very Tragic, Unacceptable, Distressing, Depressing, Etc.
I had to do a report on the Trail of Tears, twice.
Again, quoting Churchill , “ Americans end up doing the right thing after they have tried everything else, and as a black man, I firmly believe that
Well said. Now let's see how many Disagree STILL.
Brilliantly said Beau. Thank you.
Thank you for touching on the plight of the original, and mostly invisible, Americans-the Indigenous peoples who inhabited this nation for 1000’s of years before the Vikings and the wrong-way mercenary Clodumbass ran his flagship aground in the Bahamas. I would love to see future segments on MMIW, Native poverty and desperation, the land back initiative, and turning the national parks over to Native stewardship once again. Speak your truth to power Beau! ✊🏽
“And just teach real American history…”
That includes slavery, the subjugation of women, the “othering” of the poor and any race other than white.
Sounds like America has been and still is fundamentally racist.
Edit: This’ll teach me to comment before watching the whole video, since Beau covered everything I said.
Honestly, it cannot be said enough! Poverty needs to be addressed. Human rights need to be upheld. HUMAN. Enslaving anyone is embracing enslavement of your self and loved ones. It baffles me that people cannot see that raising others up is the answer.
"White" isn't even a real scientific term. Carleton Coon of the U of P even argued that the term "race" had no real meaning, in that there is continuous variation in the human species across its entire range, analogous to the variations in the range of the American wisteria from Louisiana to Virginia without there being actual named varieties.
I don't think anyone I work with could handle hearing this.
I know exactly what you mean!
That is exactly why you should share it with every one of them.
I can remember a woman who worked at the Public Library. Some years ago, she was not that old. She told me when she was in high school, she got arrested for trying to check out a book in the very Library she works presently. She said they told her Blacks were not allowed to check books out of the library. And she brought 3 more students with her the next day they got all got arrested.
We need to teach our history, racist parts and all. That is the only way to learn from our past . Then hopefully we can learn to change for the better. We need to treat everyone the way we ourselves want to be treated. ✌️
great comment, some people refuse to hear the truth...some being cult 45
*nods in German*
We are working on that since the last war and still a long way ahead of us.
🌻👋🏼 Objective reality , history, truth… Native Americans are living it every day. Those who still live. Everyone who has a little tan to rich ebony knows this. Feels the weight every day. Those racist who ask those questions should walk a mile in our shoes.
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good morning
@@briansmutti 👋🏼🌻 Good morning B! 😄 It’s going to be a scorcher today, and this upcoming week. I’m not going to be walking a mile anywhere. Lol.
@@Andrea.1tree
i’ve had a very rough three days
so i don’t feel like doing anything either
but i have to force myself
@@briansmutti Why? (Said the totally prepared to do absolutely nothing one!)
@@briansmutti I’m sorry B. 🤗 Keep your chin up, drink lots of water, and take enough breaks.
Thank you, again, for putting into words what I thought without the language to verbalize!
Another great history lesson. Also I love that behind Beau, 45 is GONE and the GOP is down for the count.
I love how people like to link Biden's past to his present, as though people can't change. Those same people like to prop up Lincoln like he was a lifelong republican abolishionist when in fact, it took Fredrick Douglas and Uncle Tom's Cabin to give him the perspective that is his legacy.
I learn so much from him everytime I listen to his channel and I'm a black woman.
If it feels bad inside when you realize that racism is fundamental, then good! It’s most likely empathy and not shame.
Ty
One of the most blunt factual videos I’ve seen on this channel. 🏆
Chances are, if you have a proble with CRT being taught, you're the reason it needs to be.
Amen.
He just gave a calm, rational and truthful breakdown of American History
No he didn’t.
That's one message sender that was fated to be disappointed, if he thought he would get confirmation that american history would show America as not racist.
And with all that is to mention about most states, no-one mentions what happened to the natives in Hawaii when it got taken over by the US....
Hawaii had a royal family that was imprisoned and the islands were just claimed by the US. Somewhere in there is pie chart with some amount being racism and some being imperialism. I do not know enough to say what those percentages are.
Thank you Beau. The Indigenous were the first casualties and they seem to get left out of this discussion of fundamental racism most of the time