The Indian boarding school policy made it law after forcing natives off their land onto reservations. But they don’t teach about those things or the trail of broken treaties that the government made with Native tribes that is still been done to this day. Sad that people want to run from our past instead of just grappling with it and learning from it.
Most people who have heard of George Washington Carver have no idea how remarkably he contributed to life and food the way we know it today, they think he's the guy that invented peanut butter. So sad.
And he's only one of the few whose name was written down. Makes me wonder about all the other names that were lost because they were considered property.
I did a report about him in the third grade. Probably because in my 8-9 year old mind, having two names in common with the first U.S. president was intriguing.
Textbooks and curriculum is absolutely huge business for companies in conjunction with school districts and universities. Companies literally place bids for the privilege to have their textbooks used in schools districts because they know the power of controlling information. A lot of these books are rife with inaccuracies about what really happened because they want it that way.
Can you please cite me some references or sources on the subject so I can educate myself. What is the evidence to support your claim? Claim "Companies literally place bids for the privilege to have their textbooks used in schools districts"
You should go read "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman", specifically the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers" in part 5, for some further enlightenment concerning how books are chosen by various State Curriculum Commissions.
@@paulboulanger5Um, how about something peer reviewed with a more recent publication date? This book is authored by a brilliant physicist but it is full of his opinions and speculations, and NOT one of his professional publications. Furthermore, he is a physicist that has nothing to do with writing curriculums for history or social science for any state in our country. Lastly, what does that have to do with Critical Race Theory which is being implemented into our school's curriculums right now?
Sociology shows that people come to believe they have earned the luck and privilege they have. Once you get yours, you think you deserve it, above others. Then you don't want to be reminded of all that got you there, of the backs you walked on and continue to walk on to succeed.
"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." -- Winston Churchill The political situation in the United States today is starting to look disturbingly like the political situation in 1930's Germany.
Have your vaccination papers ready. Free speech is allowed only if we deem it appropriate etc. Don't like the definition of that word so I'll just go ahead and change it. I'd say you're right
“Yea learning about racism makes you feel bad. Too bad! Try living with its repercussions while white people try to tell you there weren’t any” - a scripture!!!
I was just about to write my local rep on Critical Race Theory, and I was doing some research today. I can believe the serendipity of this coming out the same day. It must be a sign I should write my rep on their backward views.
I want to say so many things in support and agreement and then I realize you said it pretty completely. So I will just say your honesty and authenticity in satirical reporting is just what the world needs more of. Also, your bows get better every time and I am a crafter and I am secretly designing a collection of bows to send you. I read once that a young woman made a bunch of fancy collars for RBG when she was still alive. Amber, you deserve so many snazzy bows and more.
@@datalaforge There's a sewing community on The You Tubes called Cos Tube. They've got an online convention coming up. You'd have an audience for your documentation... - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
There are several contradictions in what she is saying.... most people on the right are against CRT because it uses only the history that supports their political purposes. She correctly points out how southern dems taught their kids that the civil war wasn’t fought over slavery. Now dems are teaching kids that everything that ails them is due to slavery.
I am a white 68 year old woman from Ga. We we taught all about the evils of slavery when I was in school. I am confused when I hear people say that slavery is not taught in the school system.
I'm 65 and from Southern Maryland and we weren't taught about it in school and that's only part of the history. The rest is where laws and race interact and how that's harmed minorities.
5:23 See this is the issue. White people see BIPOC talking about the racism and discrimination they face and think they are bringing it up to make them feel horrible for them being white, when all we are trying to do is get you to understand that, not only should people not (have been) be treated this way, BUT that you should feel an urge to want to make sure that no one is treated like lesser than human. Its not about making YOU personally feel bad, but to attempt to invoke some emotion to want to cause a change and to stand w those people to help bring about said change. Yes you should feel bad, empathetically, not personally attacked.
I'll have to check it out. I've been reading Howard Zinns A People's history of The United States and It's pretty harsh in it's honest account of slavery.
@@patrickragland1032 It explores the history of the US while emphasizing what happened to the colonized, enslaved, exploited, and disenfranchised. In other words, the real history of the US.
Bravo! Brilliantly succinct. Let's all learn the truth about our country's history, warts and all, starting with that mega-lie about Columbus' "heroic" voyage to discover America.
@Benjamin Wulf no actually they the vikings were here far earlier than expected no fake natives were here when the vikings were the were still somewhere near Siberia
One big problem with Critical Race Theory is branding. Maybe it would gain wider acceptance if we just gave it a simpler, more descriptive name, I dunno, maybe something like ACTUAL UNVARNISHED HISTORY.
If we could just get a white person to give Amber's spiel it might sink into more white people's brains. I've seen many videos of white people at their school board meetings commenting on critical race theory, yet you can tell by their words they have NO idea what it actually is. They're proud of their rants and the comments under the video are PRAISING them. They just can't handle the scrutiny of their understanding of history.... P.S. I am also white, but I am embarrassed by people who cannot entertain the concept that it could be THEM that could be wrong, and who refuse to even look at the evidence.
Totally. It's clear that proponents of CRT have done a lousy job of selling it. All they have to do is tell the facts (the actual history of how minorities have been oppressed in various way) and dare anyone to try and justify or defend it. It would be akin to defending the nazis.
CRT is legal scholarship though. It looks specifically at the role of racism in US jurisprudence and legislation. Its not and was necessarily about history or the teaching of it. Thats why its studied by law students,aspiring lawyers. Not necessarily educators or aspiring educators.
Actually history is written by the survivors. Go a little bit forward and then it's written by people that had no part in the battle. Alexander the Great does write his history. We do.
I hope more constituents in your country would watch this and vote accordingly. It is like if school kids in Germany wouldn't learn anything about the causes of WW I / WWII, what the third reich, and/or concentration camps were 🙄
In Germany, the people took responsibility for their actions (myth of the clean Wehrmacht notwithstanding) so that they wouldn't let it happen again. In America, we re-wrote all the history books and pretended everything was fine so that white folk wouldn't feel bad.
The bills aim to ban it from schools from elementary to high school if I remember correctly. Thing is Critical race theory is only teached in Universities. Before that race relations are visited by some curriculum and the bills passed are taking aim at that by scaring ppl about CRT. Look it up or simply listen to Dr. Rashad Richey, he teaches the subject in Universities :P
@@johnconway9882 I don't want to get into a pointless internet argument over your view that correct conjugation of irregular verbs is more important than fixing history education biases. I just want to point out that you're assuming that Dr. S is a native English speaker. Given that immigrants made up 13.7% of the 2019 US population, and also that TH-cam comments are not part of anyone's writing portfolio, you really shouldn't jump to conclusions about the causes/significance of grammatical mistakes here.
@@kevinhanson6106 When done respectfully, yes. But John Conway's comment was disrespectful. Disrespectful attempts at correcting people tend to just make them defensive.
@@canman5060 -- I don't know where you get your information. A quick Google search showed me that at least 28 other countries ended slavery before the United States.
1) New York Times is a biased publication, so it’s ok to be skeptical 2) No one is denying slavery happened 3) No one should teach their kids to be ashamed of their race
Lincoln's Proclamation did free slaves in places where there was insurrection. It was a war measure. Don't dismiss the importance of Lincoln's political will in this matter.
@@ionlywantfactsblessyourhea6262 I watched because she promised to explain what CRT is. I'm always looking for opportunities to understand both sides. But she never explained what CRT is. Just said it's a "Critical" look at racism. Which tells me she doesn't actually know what it is. I suspect she has a rather rude awakening coming in her future.
@Liz Collinson Thank you, well put. Some of us Americans don't seem to be able to separate the two. I say, "Acknowledge the past bad and do better in the future--but don't run away from knowledge!"
@@bwenluck9812 don't get me wrong there plenty of stuff from 100 years ago we don't teach our kids but in our defense its easy coz we have 1000 years plus of game of thones style stuff to go at. But we should teach our less stellar/less removed stuff better.
I'm almost 40 & went to hughschool in Northern IL & will gladly admit I'm just now learning so much of the truth of our history. The systematic suppression of minorities in our country is a huge part of our history & exactly why the founding fathers wrote the constitution to be amended when needed.
Like everything in our polarized times, critique is strawmanned with the arguments of the worst 10 percent of people on the other side. This is how you know you're dealing with a person who has blue team religion (or red team religion) and has no ability or interest in understanding what is true. This is my first exposure to Amber and it's already unimpressive on this front.
Historians take issue with 1619 over its inaccuracies that are core to its thesis. It argues that one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery - an assertion that is not backed up by any evidence. Dissenting historians take issue with, in their words, "the displacement of historical understanding by ideology."
What does a 1619 document have to do with your county {America} and its people nowadays? That was derived over 300 years ago. I am from Australia so I do not understand what is going on in the USA.
@@TheBroncobeliever I was stating that something like CRT should be debated Live on the internet so everyone can see both sides. Like many things in this Republic, we did not get to vote and choose it to be a part of the hiring policies for government and also implemented into the curriculum at schools, usually under a term called equity.
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”
@@mo.ka.9661 Which is confusing, since it takes thirty seconds to read the summary of it on Wikipedia. But neither side being informed on the subject they're arguing about would be par for the course in modern politics...
What should also be taught in school is human migration. How we migrated for thousands of years..how we are all related ... how we changed.. how we are still changing. It's a very slow process
your kind conflates "migration" with colonization and oppression! yet they ban the migration of certain groups to places they colonized. go read a book!
Yeah, let’s just ignore 400 years of systemic racism. Let’s ignore the fact that without chattel slavery, the most brutal form of slavery, built this country. Let’s make white folks feel better.
That’s so off topic. Human migration is theoretical and can be debated forever. Critical Race Theory is factual. Yes, “theory” is in the name but everything is documented and verifiable.
@@SBC581 human migration is actually not a theoretical concept, it's factual. Oh And theory in the academic sense doesn't mean unverifiable. The every day use of the word theory and the use of it in the academic sense are quite different
The problem is that at one point the left and MLK was wanting people to judge others by their character which is how it should be, now the left is pushing schools to teach kids to judge each other on race... the left is taking us back 50 years
One of my biggest frustrations when I worked on books for classrooms was having to tailor history to mollify the Texas school system. I’m very sure the twisting and deleting to mollify (and sell books) is even worse now.
@@dustinwhite8158 It isn't a matter of who wrote them or produced them, it's who they're written *for.* Texas is the largest textbook market in the US, and their awful curricula guidelines puts their thumb on the scale of textbooks nationwide...and they're backwards enough that just trying to keep creationism at bay keeps more than a few people quite busy.
Learned first hand that too many people would rather stay willfully ignorant about actual history. Especially if it encourages them to keep certain ill-founded beliefs a changing world are eroding.
We learn about white america and dance to country music in school but never knew much about how america got finance by using free labor. The truth will set us free
I had to go and look up a whole lot (not about the boating accident). Thank you. In New Zealand we are currently working on refreshing our entire curriculum. In a country-wide meeting on the social sciences my main input was the statement that a change of power takes courage and often comes at a cost. Hopefully that makes it to the final document. The New Zealand Histories draft is causing a great deal of kick-back. Partly it is those who don't want to admit to the racism of our past and present, but also from those who point out that the history of Aotearoa is not just 252 (and counting) years of interaction between two groups of people, but the multitude of interactions between multitudes of peoples.
Wow. I am a bit disappointed that you all, like many media outlets, have continued to link the 1619 project directly to CRT without any real explanation of CRT. This video seems to syncretize CRT and the 1619 project. It's a different kind of misinformation that doesn't really help.
@Stevenson Chambers Are you kidding? After listening to several TH-cam school board rants, parents don't even seem to realize it's related to History (and Law)....
It has the conservatives three scariest words all tied together. Think of that first word for instance. Could you imagine our country full of people who began learning to think critically say in the eighth grade. Conservatives would hold only about two seats in Congress both from Mississippi😂😂😂
5:10 "You shouldn't fix history to make you feel better." Amber Ruffin T-shirt, please! I would wear it into rags. "Learning about slavery feels awful. Too bad. Try living with its repercussions, while white people tell you there weren't any." "It should make you feel so bad that nothing like that ever happens again."
Rewriting gaslighted history isn't rewriting history, it is called healing. Moreover, the problem with slavery was human ownership. Rationalizing slaves were happy doesn't make it better.
And let’s learn also about Native Americans!!
The Indian boarding school policy made it law after forcing natives off their land onto reservations. But they don’t teach about those things or the trail of broken treaties that the government made with Native tribes that is still been done to this day. Sad that people want to run from our past instead of just grappling with it and learning from it.
@@tasha8102 No one is running from the past!! We all know what happened!!
Trust me,even the native Americans are sick of you reminding us
And short people!
THANK YOU!!!!!
Most people who have heard of George Washington Carver have no idea how remarkably he contributed to life and food the way we know it today, they think he's the guy that invented peanut butter. So sad.
And he's only one of the few whose name was written down. Makes me wonder about all the other names that were lost because they were considered property.
The worst part is that he didn't even invent peanut butter :(
@@note9er yeah, how did that "fact" happen?
I did a report about him in the third grade. Probably because in my 8-9 year old mind, having two names in common with the first U.S. president was intriguing.
@@Akilahfoye Okkaayy!!
but all these people had no problem with the lost cause mythology being taught in school by the united daughters of the confederacy
This.
Isn't this what they call these days "whataboutism'? I've learned this word today on that NBC interview with Vladimir Putin.
Do Re stop watching NBC and start watching The Majority Report here on TH-cam and channels like it. PLEASE, I Beg of You.
My district just skipped reconstruction completely. It was like, Yay! Appomattox. Next day was WWI. They refused to touch it.
“United daughters of confederacy”😭 like Dr.Umar said that’s their protective career
Textbooks and curriculum is absolutely huge business for companies in conjunction with school districts and universities. Companies literally place bids for the privilege to have their textbooks used in schools districts because they know the power of controlling information. A lot of these books are rife with inaccuracies about what really happened because they want it that way.
Can you please cite me some references or sources on the subject so I can educate myself. What is the evidence to support your claim? Claim "Companies literally place bids for the privilege to have their textbooks used in schools districts"
@@dustinwhite8158 Look up Texas books, and why they're donated to by the daughter's of the confederacy.
You should go read "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman", specifically the chapter entitled "Judging Books by Their Covers" in part 5, for some further enlightenment concerning how books are chosen by various State Curriculum Commissions.
@@paulboulanger5Um, how about something peer reviewed with a more recent publication date? This book is authored by a brilliant physicist but it is full of his opinions and speculations, and NOT one of his professional publications. Furthermore, he is a physicist that has nothing to do with writing curriculums for history or social science for any state in our country. Lastly, what does that have to do with Critical Race Theory which is being implemented into our school's curriculums right now?
just like todays news.
Sociology shows that people come to believe they have earned the luck and privilege they have. Once you get yours, you think you deserve it, above others. Then you don't want to be reminded of all that got you there, of the backs you walked on and continue to walk on to succeed.
So tell me, Suzy, whose back did Amber Ruffin walk on to get a late night gig?
That’s especially true of the most successful people.
Absolutely.
Yes we are all privileged, thanks for your input.
@@commanderyeti3646 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh well of course, everything looks bad if you remember it." 🤦♀️
- Homer Simpson
"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." -- Winston Churchill
The political situation in the United States today is starting to look disturbingly like the political situation in 1930's Germany.
The very same.
Starting? I take it you have been blissfully unaware of the depth of our BS for the last several years.
"...where you can buy Confederate flags at gas stations..." .... Oh!... You've BEEN to Alabama.
Have your vaccination papers ready. Free speech is allowed only if we deem it appropriate etc. Don't like the definition of that word so I'll just go ahead and change it. I'd say you're right
Stunning degeneracy leading to a world shaking military and religious response?
“Yea learning about racism makes you feel bad. Too bad! Try living with its repercussions while white people try to tell you there weren’t any” - a scripture!!!
some Americans only accept the first 5 amendments because why? oh, yeah, they benefit just them!
THANK YOU AMBER!!!!
Lol ok?
What...? What is the argument
@@kryptik9587 no argument. Just a comment.
@@alwaysv okay
Who are them?
I was just about to write my local rep on Critical Race Theory, and I was doing some research today. I can believe the serendipity of this coming out the same day. It must be a sign I should write my rep on their backward views.
By all means 😎
I want to say so many things in support and agreement and then I realize you said it pretty completely. So I will just say your honesty and authenticity in satirical reporting is just what the world needs more of. Also, your bows get better every time and I am a crafter and I am secretly designing a collection of bows to send you. I read once that a young woman made a bunch of fancy collars for RBG when she was still alive. Amber, you deserve so many snazzy bows and more.
Please document your snazzy bow care package. :)
@@datalaforge There's a sewing community on The You Tubes called Cos Tube. They've got an online convention coming up. You'd have an audience for your documentation...
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
no longer a secret
There are several contradictions in what she is saying.... most people on the right are against CRT because it uses only the history that supports their political purposes. She correctly points out how southern dems taught their kids that the civil war wasn’t fought over slavery. Now dems are teaching kids that everything that ails them is due to slavery.
@@usaryry u really tried it huh? Smh...
I am a white 68 year old woman from Ga. We we taught all about the evils of slavery when I was in school. I am confused when I hear people say that slavery is not taught in the school system.
I'm 65 and from Southern Maryland and we weren't taught about it in school and that's only part of the history. The rest is where laws and race interact and how that's harmed minorities.
Because they are just lying.
@@IExpectedBSJustNotThisMuchBS Did they teach the constitution or the civil war? Because you can't teach either without talking about slavery.
Comedians continue to be the very best social and political commentators we have. I love your work, Ms. Ruffin.
Not all comedians.
So how long before they're banned ?
Wait the jokes were supposed to be funny?
I've commented this like a gazillion times. Amber, we NEED a play list of how did we get heres
It has been done
@@natyinthehouse woah! Awesome!
Cold War
Amber will never see anything we wrote here.
Nobody is leaving even though they have ironically the freedom to do so
My brain couldn't handle hearing Lincoln died in a boating accident when I'm watching this at 3am
The thought she said voting accident.
I'm glad she winked because I think some people may have actually believed it.
It’s true, though...That Ford theatre was on a cruise ship; and John Wilkes Booth was a disgruntled deckhand. /s
@@mebeingU2 is that true?
@@Succubusisis wait, didn't she say "horrible boating accident"^^?!?
I love Amber. She's simply brilliant.
Ikr... RESPECT!!! 💯❤️🎯
Yeah great delivery, but let’s not forget respect to all too often uncredited writers.
I swear i just thought this. Her thought provoking pieces are bring so much irony
You have a low threshold for brilliance then
The equivelant exists with the history of the USA vs INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. Never saw such bs in my life.
😆😆
"Never" ?
Truth
People need to understand critical theory and stop saying "but what about...?" Society isn't a vaccum where any situation can be argued in reverse.
5:23 See this is the issue. White people see BIPOC talking about the racism and discrimination they face and think they are bringing it up to make them feel horrible for them being white, when all we are trying to do is get you to understand that, not only should people not (have been) be treated this way, BUT that you should feel an urge to want to make sure that no one is treated like lesser than human. Its not about making YOU personally feel bad, but to attempt to invoke some emotion to want to cause a change and to stand w those people to help bring about said change. Yes you should feel bad, empathetically, not personally attacked.
I'll have to check it out. I've been reading Howard Zinns A People's history of The United States and It's pretty harsh in it's honest account of slavery.
I'm reading that book too! The info in it should be taught in schools.
@@gabbym333 it is in some schools.
What kind of stuff does it talk about? I'm looking for new books to read.
Zinn is essential reading
@@patrickragland1032 It explores the history of the US while emphasizing what happened to the colonized, enslaved, exploited, and disenfranchised. In other words, the real history of the US.
Bravo! Brilliantly succinct. Let's all learn the truth about our country's history, warts and all, starting with that mega-lie about Columbus' "heroic" voyage to discover America.
@ christine r Thank You! 😝
Or him "discovering" America(because it only counted when Europeans knew about it🙄)
yep, the clown was lost🙄 he gets a holiday
Yup Columbus didn't discover America but those pesky vikings were here before the siberians or fake natives
@Benjamin Wulf no actually they the vikings were here far earlier than expected no fake natives were here when the vikings were the were still somewhere near Siberia
Countries that were colonized need the history they teach completely scrapped or at the very least, vastly revised.
I want to upvote you 20 times ... lol. You make so much sense.
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Absolutely!
One big problem with Critical Race Theory is branding. Maybe it would gain wider acceptance if we just gave it a simpler, more descriptive name, I dunno, maybe something like ACTUAL UNVARNISHED HISTORY.
The context is the problem for deniers. Not the title.
If we could just get a white person to give Amber's spiel it might sink into more white people's brains. I've seen many videos of white people at their school board meetings commenting on critical race theory, yet you can tell by their words they have NO idea what it actually is. They're proud of their rants and the comments under the video are PRAISING them. They just can't handle the scrutiny of their understanding of history....
P.S. I am also white, but I am embarrassed by people who cannot entertain the concept that it could be THEM that could be wrong, and who refuse to even look at the evidence.
Totally. It's clear that proponents of CRT have done a lousy job of selling it. All they have to do is tell the facts (the actual history of how minorities have been oppressed in various way) and dare anyone to try and justify or defend it. It would be akin to defending the nazis.
CRT is legal scholarship though. It looks specifically at the role of racism in US jurisprudence and legislation. Its not and was necessarily about history or the teaching of it. Thats why its studied by law students,aspiring lawyers. Not necessarily educators or aspiring educators.
History is written by the victor. To rewrite history, is to tell the truth.
Im 46 and i went through school with false history books
In that case, the truth is lost forever
Actually history is written by the survivors.
Go a little bit forward and then it's written by people that had no part in the battle.
Alexander the Great does write his history. We do.
To rewrite history is either the truth or fiction. In this case, half and half, and that's why it's getting banned.
@@havenbastion So, which part is ficrion, Kaiser?
I hope more constituents in your country would watch this and vote accordingly. It is like if school kids in Germany wouldn't learn anything about the causes of WW I / WWII, what the third reich, and/or concentration camps were 🙄
In Germany, the people took responsibility for their actions (myth of the clean Wehrmacht notwithstanding) so that they wouldn't let it happen again. In America, we re-wrote all the history books and pretended everything was fine so that white folk wouldn't feel bad.
@@carsonm7292 you are absolutely right
The Third Reich was WWII, not WWI.
@@44excalibur i know that. Germany was responsible for both wars 🙄
@@44excalibur
It was a list.
The bills aim to ban it from schools from elementary to high school if I remember correctly. Thing is Critical race theory is only teached in Universities. Before that race relations are visited by some curriculum and the bills passed are taking aim at that by scaring ppl about CRT. Look it up or simply listen to Dr. Rashad Richey, he teaches the subject in Universities :P
Dr. Richey is truly a national treasure! Id love to see him rise in politics but spreading his knowledge teaching is also an invaluable asset too.
"Teached"??? It appears that more important things are being neglected in the schools and in the homes.
@@johnconway9882 I don't want to get into a pointless internet argument over your view that correct conjugation of irregular verbs is more important than fixing history education biases. I just want to point out that you're assuming that Dr. S is a native English speaker. Given that immigrants made up 13.7% of the 2019 US population, and also that TH-cam comments are not part of anyone's writing portfolio, you really shouldn't jump to conclusions about the causes/significance of grammatical mistakes here.
@@MelodiousThunk I agree with your whole summation; however pointing out one's mistakes politely, is how WE all learn and grow.
@@kevinhanson6106 When done respectfully, yes. But John Conway's comment was disrespectful. Disrespectful attempts at correcting people tend to just make them defensive.
well done. Once again getting the point across with solid laughs.
What? Her "jokes" are stale and her delivery is flat. I couldn't even tell she was going for a laugh half the time.
Thurgor Supreme 1K+ likes on the video and 50+ likes on this comment state otherwise. Perhaps, your sense of humor is stale?
@@WarMastaP LOL, get over yourself. This is obviously an isolated audience circle jerking itself. 100k subscribers is a joke for a "comedy" channel.
Thurgor Supreme Get over myself? You come on a youtube channel that you dont like to complain about it on deaf ears. Get over YOURSELF.
@@WarMastaP TH-cam recommended it when I was watching CRT debunked stuff. Had to see the other side of the story
Still none the wiser on Critical Race Theory. What is the theory? If it is critical race history why don’t they just call it that?
To scare the shxt out of people - knowledge is power.
A rush to ban something, and they have no idea what it is.......🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Those who fail to learn from real history are doomed to ‘Make America Great Again’.”” 😓
I see what you did there🤣👍
The real history is that USA is the second country to free slavery. Does it make America great ?
That's what she wants
@@canman5060 -- I don't know where you get your information. A quick Google search showed me that at least 28 other countries ended slavery before the United States.
Being great is great.
The only thing that makes Republicans sad about the history of slavery is that they were made to stop doing it.
I know what you mean, but of course when Republicans were doing slavery, they were Democrats, historically speaking.
@@TheeGrumpy In name only. ideologically, the parties were flipped.
Didn’t Gomehrt propose changing the moon’s orbit?
@@TheeGrumpy The GOP ended Reconstruction and ushered in Jim Crow, so they get no pass from me.
Democrats where the ones who went to war for its upkeep, though.
Didn't know how awesome the teachers at Ruffner Middle School Norfolk VA were.
So it’s ok to teach false history for over 100 years, but to teach accurate history is a problem and considered critical race theory.
And the stadium rises, in one loud roar, to give Amber the standing ovation she so clearly deserves. Well done.
These are metaphors for children 😂 it's actually sad the imagination you have
1) New York Times is a biased publication, so it’s ok to be skeptical 2) No one is denying slavery happened 3) No one should teach their kids to be ashamed of their race
We don't need a wall ...we need a mirror, so we can see what we've become!
AMEN!
Poignant
No you need a mirror so you can see what you done not what you become
USA needs a wall ... to keep our lunatics from infecting the rest of the world. Love, "need a mirror."
@@hereigoagain5050 So you're a lunatic?
Lincoln's Proclamation did free slaves in places where there was insurrection. It was a war measure. Don't dismiss the importance of Lincoln's political will in this matter.
I fall to understand why there's sympathy for the enslaved Jews that Moses led out of Egypt but none for enslaved Africans
Oh wait, racism
The same reason that there's no sympathy for the eldest children of the Egyptians from the same tale: cultural framing.
Where did you get this information?
I've learned more from this segment than I ever did in school.
You should have been in my class.
Seriously? What school did you attend? I am sorry to hear that.
@Mitchell O'Connor So why did you watch?
@@ionlywantfactsblessyourhea6262 I watched because she promised to explain what CRT is. I'm always looking for opportunities to understand both sides. But she never explained what CRT is. Just said it's a "Critical" look at racism. Which tells me she doesn't actually know what it is. I suspect she has a rather rude awakening coming in her future.
I wonder what you learned with that poor video
You don't have to hate your country because it did some awful stuff, you just have to acknowledge it.
Love from a Brit.
@Liz Collinson Thank you, well put. Some of us Americans don't seem to be able to separate the two. I say, "Acknowledge the past bad and do better in the future--but don't run away from knowledge!"
@@bwenluck9812 don't get me wrong there plenty of stuff from 100 years ago we don't teach our kids but in our defense its easy coz we have 1000 years plus of game of thones style stuff to go at. But we should teach our less stellar/less removed stuff better.
And if I may add, also right the wrongs of it´s continuations. Settle the debt and move on.
I'm almost 40 & went to hughschool in Northern IL & will gladly admit I'm just now learning so much of the truth of our history. The systematic suppression of minorities in our country is a huge part of our history & exactly why the founding fathers wrote the constitution to be amended when needed.
And why garbage like this should not be allowed to spread.
@@achaudhari101 truth to be told. Mental mutants think Columbus discovered America, yet he never set a foot on this land in his entire life.
@@mikemann1960 No that would be the Vikings.
@@achaudhari101 Why is it garbage?
@@JANDERSO5554 what about crt is "bs" to you?
From what I've read it just seems like telling the truth about why/how some laws were put into place?
Strawman. None of this is why most historians oppose 1619, nor why folks oppose CRT
@YogGroove Enlighten us....
Like everything in our polarized times, critique is strawmanned with the arguments of the worst 10 percent of people on the other side. This is how you know you're dealing with a person who has blue team religion (or red team religion) and has no ability or interest in understanding what is true.
This is my first exposure to Amber and it's already unimpressive on this front.
Historians take issue with 1619 over its inaccuracies that are core to its thesis. It argues that one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery - an assertion that is not backed up by any evidence. Dissenting historians take issue with, in their words, "the displacement of historical understanding by ideology."
@@JaredCzaia Thank you.
This country has problems that won’t get solved until we honestly examine our past.
We could really become something special if we did.
Like what? What’s the end game? I love history, but is it really all that?
the 1619 project was really eye opening for me. also, Amber's hair puffs are the most glorious I've ever seen!
What does a 1619 document have to do with your county {America} and its people nowadays? That was derived over 300 years ago. I am from Australia so I do not understand what is going on in the USA.
Critical race theory and social marxism sigh in tandem at rightwingers crying at words they don't understand
Maybe both sides misunderstand each other. We should have "Live" open discussions for all to watch from our experts.
What does that even mean?
Do you understand CRT? Even amber has no idea what they are talking about. Didn’t even try to explain it.
@@5th-Season You claim to be an expert. Please educate me or give me a link so I or anyone else reading this can learn.
@@TheBroncobeliever I was stating that something like CRT should be debated Live on the internet so everyone can see both sides. Like many things in this Republic, we did not get to vote and choose it to be a part of the hiring policies for government and also implemented into the curriculum at schools, usually under a term called equity.
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”
This has only been out for one hour and five dislike. We know who needs some critical race theory.
You need some critical help.
You just want to be right and use CRT to justify
I think it should be mandatory in police training. Because it's the cops that have contributed to keeping racism alive in this country.
@@romaskincare9138 how?
@@OmegaMouse I’m open to your suggestions.
Interesting how when you ask someone if they're against CRT and they say yes, their answer to "Can you tell me what it is?" is no.
The average person does not need to know the chemical components of critical race theory to recognize it's ever-expanding stench.
@@CribNotes So you don’t know, either.
Anti-white race baiting. Pretty simple, and a stain on modern society
And when you ask CRT propenents they always say that it's just too complicated and you wouldn't understand
@@mo.ka.9661 Which is confusing, since it takes thirty seconds to read the summary of it on Wikipedia. But neither side being informed on the subject they're arguing about would be par for the course in modern politics...
What should also be taught in school is human migration. How we migrated for thousands of years..how we are all related ... how we changed.. how we are still changing. It's a very slow process
That information is with a Dr. Spencer Wells.
your kind conflates "migration" with colonization and oppression! yet they ban the migration of certain groups to places they colonized. go read a book!
Yeah, let’s just ignore 400 years of systemic racism. Let’s ignore the fact that without chattel slavery, the most brutal form of slavery, built this country. Let’s make white folks feel better.
That’s so off topic. Human migration is theoretical and can be debated forever. Critical Race Theory is factual. Yes, “theory” is in the name but everything is documented and verifiable.
@@SBC581 human migration is actually not a theoretical concept, it's factual. Oh And theory in the academic sense doesn't mean unverifiable. The every day use of the word theory and the use of it in the academic sense are quite different
How do I define “Critical Race Theory”?
History.
IKR?
@@m.f.hopkins8728 yep
CRT: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of race struggles.
Backtracking of history to be more concise.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 what is history if not backtracking though
This needs to be seen by millions. Great segment 👍🏻
'You're re-writing history!', shrieks the atavist.
'When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do?' -- John Maynard Keynes
Unfortunately, economists are the worst violators of Keynes' observations.
The fact that this is even an issue attests to the huge problems with this country.
You must have not read the project or the core principles of crt.
The problem is that at one point the left and MLK was wanting people to judge others by their character which is how it should be, now the left is pushing schools to teach kids to judge each other on race... the left is taking us back 50 years
@Craig Snyder You clearly don’t know what crt is
Amber Ruffin you are right. My local democrats will not entertain the 1619 project because they “don’t want to scare off republicans”
Textbooks come from only three states, and one of them is Texas.
One of my biggest frustrations when I worked on books for classrooms was having to tailor history to mollify the Texas school system. I’m very sure the twisting and deleting to mollify (and sell books) is even worse now.
If textbooks cost $80-$100, or worse, $200-$300, then those textbooks better have wi-fi.
@@Marijuanifornia Those are college textbook prices. I see what you did there.
If that is true, then are they produced there or are they written there? Production of a textbook is much different then who wrote the contents.
@@dustinwhite8158 It isn't a matter of who wrote them or produced them, it's who they're written *for.* Texas is the largest textbook market in the US, and their awful curricula guidelines puts their thumb on the scale of textbooks nationwide...and they're backwards enough that just trying to keep creationism at bay keeps more than a few people quite busy.
Just call it what it is, HISTORY.
Story
It’s about time we talk about this
I hope you're working with Seth on his Broadway production of "Cicada, Cicada"
😂😂😂
I was hoping Amber would have a crossover mention of Seth’s “Cicada Cicada” Broadway show.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Reserving my front row tickets now!
Learned first hand that too many people would rather stay willfully ignorant about actual history. Especially if it encourages them to keep certain ill-founded beliefs a changing world are eroding.
Amber Ruffin and Irami Osei-Frimpong have done the best job of breaking down CRT so that any non-scholar can understand it.
Thank you for dropping Irami - I've never heard of him - subscribed
YES! Irami is AMAZING.
This was no boating accident.
We learn about white america and dance to country music in school but never knew much about how america got finance by using free labor. The truth will set us free
Yeah Slavery didn't fund America or build it. Skyscrapers aren't made out of cotton.
@@Challerz GOT EM!
FYI not supporting critical race theory isn't partisan. There are liberals including left-wing Democrats who are completely against it.
Racism isn't partisan either, but it's a lot more pronounced in the party of Trump.
@@voiceofreason4113 the democrats are the ones pushing race-based policies not the Republicans
When you judge people by their skin and not by the content of their character is when your CRT falls apart. Am America divided will fall.
I would recommend watching all four parts of "Exterminate the Brutes". It puts in to perspective what we all lost in order to gain what some have now.
And reading Heart of Darkness.
Even that is watered down.
I had to go and look up a whole lot (not about the boating accident). Thank you.
In New Zealand we are currently working on refreshing our entire curriculum. In a country-wide meeting on the social sciences my main input was the statement that a change of power takes courage and often comes at a cost. Hopefully that makes it to the final document.
The New Zealand Histories draft is causing a great deal of kick-back. Partly it is those who don't want to admit to the racism of our past and present, but also from those who point out that the history of Aotearoa is not just 252 (and counting) years of interaction between two groups of people, but the multitude of interactions between multitudes of peoples.
Lady CRT is not history...
Y not?
@@nardo2762 Y is it ?????
Wow. I am a bit disappointed that you all, like many media outlets, have continued to link the 1619 project directly to CRT without any real explanation of CRT. This video seems to syncretize CRT and the 1619 project. It's a different kind of misinformation that doesn't really help.
Until the lion learns to write, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
That's a beautifully tragic, and apropos, saying.
Amen.
Thank you so much Amber for efforts to bring information to many!
Thank you Amber & Company!
Brilliantly done. Growing up in Texas we were taught that Texans won the Alamo. Which is batshit crazy logic.
How Did We Get Here is my favorite segment of all time. I wish Amber was on daily instead of weekly. This is vital information for everyone.
Speak the truth, Amber!!!
I know, I wish she would too.
Those who are bothered by CRT want history to be tailored to not hurt their feelings.
@Stevenson Chambers Are you kidding? After listening to several TH-cam school board rants, parents don't even seem to realize it's related to History (and Law)....
Every time a historian writes a history history is being rewritten.
Stupidity is running Rampant in our Society!
Did you forget to mention that the 1619 project is shoddy scholarship? NHJ didn't even get the year correct.
I was wondering what this was! And another wonderful Amber Ruffin suit…
It has the conservatives three scariest words all tied together. Think of that first word for instance. Could you imagine our country full of people who began learning to think critically say in the eighth grade. Conservatives would hold only about two seats in Congress both from Mississippi😂😂😂
Because liberals believe in such rational things 100% of the time
Crt is a misnomer
I’m not from the US, but this definitively seems like something that can apply to any country that has hurt entire people.
Thanks, Amber. Well said.
Every state sets its own curriculum ,now I see why the country is Soo dysfunctional ...
Amber explains things brilliantly!
Yea, if you're a jarred fetus
Dehumanizing ppl to the colour of their skin and not their character and achievments
And yet schools in America can barely even do this...so
she left out the Marxism behind crt. also left out the huge flaws in the 1619 project. and yes, I know it all the way through
5:10
"You shouldn't fix history to make you feel better." Amber Ruffin
T-shirt, please! I would wear it into rags.
"Learning about slavery feels awful. Too bad. Try living with its repercussions, while white people tell you there weren't any."
"It should make you feel so bad that nothing like that ever happens again."
i love it when amber does pieces like this. because you better listen.
I remain unpersuaded.
Thanks for using your gifts of humor and insight to challenge us all to be part of solving problems rather than perpetuating them.
it should be call Critical Truth
Rewriting gaslighted history isn't rewriting history, it is called healing. Moreover, the problem with slavery was human ownership. Rationalizing slaves were happy doesn't make it better.
Actually that is a bad thing what you’re endorsing.
Germany's stance on the holocaust: Never Again.
America's stance on Slavery & Jim Crow: Fugeddaboudit
Abraham died on the ss John Wilks boat.
From 1619 to 1776 all slaves in the colonies were British and slavery was British policy.
The more people in the US learn about the history of Slavery in this country, the better. Education IS power.
People are afraid of actual history BECAUSE education is power. It empowers people other than them.
Teach kids about tax laws, learning about slavery doesn't achieve anything.
How many people do you know don't know about slavery?
Ty Amber I keep hearing the phrase and know there has been a lot of controversy around it but had no idea what it was. I’m very glad to know now
CRT sounds crazy didn't we go over this already?
The only problem with three project is that is Not History. It's factually inaccurate and more.
@Kaiser Basileus Well, where are the inaccuracies? And what is the "more" part?
I LOVE this woman!