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Today in the Matt Wall show, as we head00:00:01
into Thanksgiving, we're going to take a00:00:02
closer look at a piece of sophisticated00:00:04
anti-American propaganda just released00:00:06
by PBS and the documentary filmmaker Ken00:00:09
Burns. There is a never-ending effort to00:00:11
make Americans embarrassed of their00:00:13
history to give credit for its00:00:15
achievements to people who don't deserve00:00:16
it. American history has been rewritten00:00:18
for this purpose. Well, today we will00:00:20
debunk the lies. Also, Pennsylvania just00:00:22
passed a law against hair00:00:24
discrimination, which sounds absurd, and00:00:26
it is, but it's even worse and more00:00:27
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Ken Burns is one of the most famous00:01:57
documentary filmmakers in the entire00:01:59
world. You might know him as the creator00:02:00
of a very well done documentary on the00:02:02
US Civil War, which came out back in00:02:04
1990. And over the years, Burns has00:02:06
released several other successful00:02:08
documentaries covering topics from00:02:10
Prohibition to the Vietnam War to00:02:12
baseball. His calling card, other than00:02:14
his undying commitment to historical00:02:16
accuracy, allegedly, is that his00:02:19
documentaries take a very long time to00:02:20
produce. And in turn, they also take a00:02:22
very long time to watch. Several of his00:02:24
films are more than 11 hours in length.00:02:27
And thanks to his deal with PBS, they're00:02:28
often available for free to anyone who00:02:30
wants to watch them. A Ken Burns00:02:32
documentary, in other words, is00:02:34
something of an event in the world of00:02:36
non-fiction filmm. When Ken Burns comes00:02:38
out with something new, a lot of people00:02:40
pay attention. And your tax dollars,00:02:42
which are distributed to Burns via PBS,00:02:44
a public broadcaster, give his films the00:02:47
impromature of a of a legitimate00:02:50
important historical record. But his00:02:53
most recent project, a six episode00:02:55
12-hour marathon called the American00:02:57
Revolution, is not in fact a legitimate00:03:00
or important historical record. It is in00:03:02
many respects a very well prodduced00:03:05
piece of propaganda. Now, online you may00:03:07
have seen some commentators dismiss the00:03:09
production as woke for one reason or00:03:12
another, but it's actually far more00:03:14
insidious than than that. If it was just00:03:16
another woke production, it'd be very00:03:19
easy to dismiss. You know, when you00:03:21
think of a woke production, you think of00:03:22
a, you know, of rampant DEI casting,00:03:27
equity focused writing, making the whole00:03:29
thing unwatchable. You think of a show00:03:31
that you can just write off and forget00:03:33
about entirely. When you when you think00:03:34
of a woke film about the American00:03:36
Revolution in particular, you imagine00:03:39
something where George Washington is00:03:41
portrayed as like a green-haired black00:03:44
bisexual. You know, something over the00:03:45
top and egregious, something that nobody00:03:47
would take seriously. Well, that's not00:03:50
the case with the American Revolution.00:03:51
Most of this documentary, I'd say around00:03:53
70 to 80% of it is actually quite good.00:03:57
Even if you've read a lot of books about00:03:59
the Revolutionary War, you'll probably00:04:00
pick up a thing or two. You get a bird's00:04:03
eyee tactical view of major battles in00:04:06
the war, complete with graphics showing00:04:08
troop movements. You get a lot of00:04:10
primary sources, including quotes from00:04:12
key figures, as well as a few00:04:14
interesting segments on the logistical00:04:15
challenges facing the combatants. You00:04:17
learn about uh battles in the American00:04:19
South during the war, which most people00:04:20
don't know anything about. The visuals00:04:22
and audio are are pleasing enough. So,00:04:25
it's a very solid effort 80% of the00:04:28
time. And that makes the remaining 20%00:04:31
of this film worth talking about. You00:04:35
know, the American Revolution by Ken00:04:36
Burns is a is a masterclass in00:04:38
propaganda because it weaves complete00:04:40
nonsense and I mean total garbage00:04:43
gibberish00:04:45
into a very compelling and factually00:04:47
accurate narrative of the Revolutionary00:04:49
War. So, as best as I can, I'm going to00:04:52
go in order here through some of the00:04:54
more objectionable moments in the00:04:55
series. And we'll start, of course, at00:04:57
the beginning during the introduction of00:04:59
the very first episode. This is the00:05:02
moment that sets the tone and makes it00:05:05
clear what Burns is going to attempt to00:05:08
do with this documentary. Watch. Long00:05:11
before 13 British colonies made00:05:14
themselves into the United States, the00:05:17
six nations of the Irakquay Confederacy,00:05:20
Senica, Kauga, Anandaga, Tuscarora,00:05:24
Onida, and Mohawk had created a union of00:05:28
their own that they called the Hodonosi.00:05:32
A democracy that had flourished for00:05:34
centuries.00:05:36
>> We heartily recommend union.00:05:39
We are a powerful confederacy and by00:05:43
your observing the same methods our wise00:05:45
forefathers [music]00:05:46
have taken, you will acquire fresh00:05:48
strength and power. Therefore, whatever00:05:52
befalls you, never fall out one with00:05:56
another.00:06:00
In the spring of 1754, [music]00:06:03
the celebrated scientist and writer00:06:05
Benjamin Franklin proposed that the00:06:08
British colonies form a similar union.00:06:11
>> So you heard that correctly. The six00:06:13
Indian tribes of the Irakcoy00:06:15
Confederacy, according to the narrator,00:06:17
were a thriving democracy and the00:06:20
founding fathers would go on to create a00:06:23
similar union. So the implication is00:06:25
that Ben Franklin saw what the Ukraoy00:06:27
had achieved and like a typical white00:06:30
colonialist demon he cribbed their work00:06:33
for the Declaration of Independence and00:06:34
the Constitution. Our system of00:06:36
government is based on the appropriation00:06:39
of marginalized people. That's the idea.00:06:42
We owe our democracy to the Indians00:06:44
basically. So this is the opening00:06:47
argument of this documentary. Now never00:06:50
mind the fact that the didn't even have00:06:52
a written language. Never mind the fact00:06:54
that they didn't hold any kind of00:06:56
election at all to choose their leaders.00:06:58
Never mind the fact that clanmothers,00:07:00
the Indian elders who actually selected00:07:01
the leaders, obtained their power00:07:03
because of hereditary right, meaning00:07:05
their bloodline. Never mind the fact00:07:07
that there wasn't anything like a00:07:09
western democracy in any Indian tribe00:07:11
anywhere in the hemisphere. Despite all00:07:14
this, we're supposed to conclude that00:07:16
because a bunch of tribes were able to00:07:17
band together and form a primitive00:07:19
confederacy, Ben Franklin was was, you00:07:21
know, sitting there taking notes and00:07:23
ultimately created a similar union based00:07:26
on theirs. Now, notably, Burns does not00:07:29
tell you what he's basing this claim on,00:07:31
which will become a running theme as we00:07:33
go through here, because the claim is00:07:35
obviously ridiculous. So, I'll tell you.00:07:39
I'll give you the one piece of evidence,00:07:41
the only piece of evidence that he's00:07:43
relying on to make this uh absurd and00:07:47
and remarkable argument. I mean, if this00:07:49
was true that our democracy was based on00:07:52
Indian tribes,00:07:54
that's big news.00:07:57
So, you know, extraordinary claim,00:07:59
extraordinary evidence as we're told.00:08:01
So, what's the extraordinary evidence to00:08:03
uh support this claim? Well, it's this00:08:06
letter which was sent by Ben Franklin to00:08:08
a man named James Parker in 1751, more00:08:10
than 24 years before the American00:08:13
Revolution. And here's what the uh what00:08:16
the letter says. quote, "It would be a00:08:18
very strange thing if six nations of00:08:20
ignorant savages should be capable of00:08:22
forming a scheme for such a union and be00:08:24
able to execute it in such a manner as00:08:26
that it has subsisted ages and appears00:08:28
indecisable, and yet that a like union00:08:31
should be impracticable for 10 or a00:08:33
dozen English colonies to whom it is00:08:35
more necessary and must be more00:08:36
advantageous, and who cannot be supposed00:08:38
to want an equal understanding of their00:08:40
interests."00:08:42
Okay, so Franklin is not talking about00:08:45
war with Britain or establishing an00:08:47
independent nation or anything like00:08:48
that. Remember, this is decades before00:08:49
the American Revolution. And Franklin00:08:51
certainly isn't praising any thriving00:08:53
democracy in the Iriccoy Confederacy00:08:55
because there is not one. Instead, he's00:08:58
talking about a straightforward plan to00:09:00
unite the colonies so that they function00:09:02
more like a political unit rather than00:09:03
13 completely separate entities. and00:09:05
he's saying, you know, if these savages00:09:08
can form a confederacy to function as a00:09:10
unit, then obviously we can too. So,00:09:13
it's a bit like coming across a pack of00:09:15
dogs on the street and seeing how00:09:16
they're all very quiet and, you know,00:09:18
well behaved and then you turn to your00:09:21
children and say, "Well, if those dogs00:09:22
can behave, then uh then you can too."00:09:25
And when you say that, you're not00:09:27
telling your children that the dogs00:09:28
invented the concept of good behavior or00:09:31
made you realize what good behavior00:09:32
looks like. You're not modeling your00:09:34
parenting off of the dogs. You're not00:09:36
saying that your that your kids uh, you00:09:38
know, should should model their entire00:09:40
lives after the dogs. You're saying that00:09:42
if extremely primitive creatures can do00:09:44
something right, then we as much more00:09:47
advanced creatures have no excuse for00:09:50
failing in that regard. That that's what00:09:52
he's saying. As Rich Lowry writes in the00:09:55
New York Post, there are other major00:09:56
problems with the logic here as well.00:09:58
Quote, the have no role in our00:10:00
constitutional history. The scholar00:10:01
Robert Nadson has noted the Urkcoy don't00:10:04
show up as a model in the 34 volume00:10:06
journals of the Continental Congress,00:10:07
the three volume collection, the records00:10:09
of the federal convention, in other00:10:10
words, the constitutional convention, or00:10:12
the more than 40 volume documentary00:10:14
history of the ratification of the00:10:15
Constitution. In other words, Burns00:10:18
deliberately left the viewer with the00:10:19
impression that the Indians, despite00:10:21
being illiterate savages, by Ben00:10:24
Franklin's own testimony, had somehow00:10:27
influenced Ben Franklin and the founding00:10:29
fathers and laid the groundwork for our00:10:31
system of government.00:10:34
In in reality, the Urkcoy had created a00:10:36
loose confederacy, which was vaguely00:10:38
similar to many other similar00:10:40
confederies throughout history,00:10:43
including the Confederacy called the00:10:44
Delian League, which the Greeks00:10:46
established to resist the Persian00:10:47
Empire, except the Greeks actually had a00:10:48
written language and great philosophers,00:10:51
which the Ukra obviously didn't. And00:10:54
Franklin, decades before the revolution,00:10:56
was just blowing off steam in a letter00:10:58
to a friend. And and so that's the story00:11:01
here. That's the whole story. But we00:11:03
should move on because the documentary00:11:04
only gets worse from here. But it's bad00:11:07
often in a subtle way. So you have to00:11:10
take a little bit of time to decode the00:11:12
propaganda which which is what makes the00:11:13
propaganda so effective. For example,00:11:16
see if you notice anything odd about00:11:18
this moment from the first episode. This00:11:20
is about 20 minutes in. Watch. Slavery00:11:24
was legal everywhere from New Hampshire00:11:27
to Georgia. Many of the black people00:11:30
living in the colonies had been born00:11:32
there or in the Caribbean,00:11:34
but tens of thousands were from West00:11:37
Africa, captured from what is now Sagal,00:11:40
Gambia, and Gabon, Angola, Congo, and00:11:44
the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, and00:11:48
Ghana.00:11:49
>> Now, when you're trying to sniff out00:11:51
propaganda,00:11:52
what you have to look for is the passive00:11:54
voice. And anytime you hear the passive00:11:56
voice, you should ask yourself, who's00:11:58
the subject of this sentence? Now, think00:12:01
of it this way. If you hear somebody00:12:03
say, "John was stabbed to death." Your00:12:06
first question is going to be, "Well,00:12:08
who did it?" Be a lot more00:12:10
straightforward and clear if the00:12:12
sentence said, "Bob stabbed John to00:12:14
death." Then you wouldn't need to ask00:12:15
the question. Now, Ken Burn knows Ken00:12:18
Burns knows that. He's a he's a good00:12:20
filmmaker.00:12:21
He's an experienced writer. He's00:12:24
intentionally omitting the subject of00:12:26
the sentence. He's willing to tell the00:12:28
viewers that tens of thousands of blacks00:12:30
were captured as part of the slave00:12:32
trade, but he doesn't tell you who did00:12:34
the capturing.00:12:36
It it's certainly an odd omission when00:12:38
you're talking about the this act of00:12:40
extreme human cruelty.00:12:42
He's completely omitting the identity of00:12:44
the people who captured millions of00:12:46
innocent black men, women, and children00:12:48
and put them in chains and sold them. So00:12:51
why would he do that? The reason is00:12:53
pretty clear actually. Ken Burns knows00:12:56
that these black people were enslaved by00:12:58
other black people. The Africans were00:13:01
enslaved by Africans. That's the dirty00:13:04
little secret you're not supposed to00:13:05
talk about. The white colonists needed00:13:07
labor because they were living in a vast00:13:09
new continent. And um they bought slaves00:13:13
who had been captured by African kings.00:13:15
Now, in some cases, the African kings00:13:17
sent ships as far as away as Iceland and00:13:19
Ireland to capture white slaves, too.00:13:21
But at this particular time period, for00:13:23
the most part, uh they were selling00:13:25
Africans to the colonists. Now, you00:13:28
might be inclined to give Burns the00:13:29
benefit of the doubt here. Maybe he just00:13:31
wrote the sentence poorly for some00:13:32
inexplicable reason. But the problem is00:13:35
that he keeps doing it. He keeps making00:13:37
the same quote mistake. This is another00:13:40
sequence from later on in that same00:13:42
episode about an hour in. Watch.00:13:47
I [music] young in life by seeming cruel00:13:50
fate was snatched from Afric's fancied00:13:54
happy seat. What pings excruciating must00:13:58
molest what sorrows labor in my parents'00:14:02
[music] breast00:14:04
stealed was that soul and by no misery00:14:08
moved that from a father seized his babe00:14:11
beloved.00:14:13
Such such my case and can I then but00:14:19
pray others may never feel tyrannic00:14:22
sway.00:14:24
Phyllis Wheatley.00:14:27
>> Phyllis Wheatley who was stolen from00:14:30
Senagambia in West Africa and taken to00:14:33
Massachusetts as a young girl was00:14:35
renamed for the slave ship the Phyllis00:14:38
that brought her and the Wheatley family00:14:41
that bought her.00:14:43
Well, wait a second. Who stole this00:14:46
woman from West Africa? Why aren't we00:14:48
entitled to that information? Again,00:14:50
it's the passive voice. We're only told00:14:52
that Phyllis Wheatley was stolen from00:14:55
West Africa and sent to Massachusetts.00:14:56
It's as if a ghost just snatched her up00:14:59
out of nowhere.00:15:01
But as it turns out, ghosts did not00:15:03
snatch her up. In fact, African00:15:04
villagers enslaved her. And they00:15:08
enslaved her when she was 7 years old.00:15:11
And then they sold her. And Ken Burns00:15:12
knows that. But Burns also knows that00:15:15
he's not allowed to say that out loud.00:15:17
He's certainly not allowed to say that00:15:18
if she had remained in West Africa with00:15:20
the savages who enslaved her, uh,00:15:23
Phyllis Wheatley would not have become a00:15:25
published poet. She would not have been00:15:27
surrounded by kind-hearted Bostononians00:15:29
who taught her how to read and write and00:15:31
how to read Latin and Greek, how to00:15:34
interpret the most complicated passages00:15:35
in the Holy Bible. And Burns also isn't00:15:38
allowed to say that if she had stayed in00:15:40
West Africa, Phyllis Wheatley would not00:15:41
have received praise from George00:15:43
Washington himself and become a national00:15:45
celebrity. None of that would happen.00:15:46
Put simply, being sold to an American00:15:49
family00:15:51
was by almost every measure the best00:15:53
thing that could have ever happened to00:15:54
Phyllis Wheatley because it separated00:15:56
her from the people who enslaved her and00:15:58
introduced her to civilization and she00:16:01
became a person that she would not she00:16:02
would not have had the opportunity to00:16:04
become.00:16:05
But all of that history is lost in this00:16:08
documentary. Instead, you're simply told00:16:10
that someone, some unidentified person,00:16:12
stole this woman from West Africa. And00:16:14
the only credit the Americans get in00:16:16
this whole story from Ken Burns is that00:16:18
they looked after her education. So,00:16:21
it's a total croc in other words. And00:16:23
now, again, I'm only showing you the00:16:25
worst parts of this documentary. You00:16:26
have to imagine that in between these00:16:27
lies, there's some genuine good history00:16:30
here. But then out of nowhere, I'd say00:16:32
it happens every like 30 minutes or so,00:16:34
you just get hit with a a massive woke00:16:37
bomb out of nowhere. And some of them00:16:39
are so absurd that you can only conclude00:16:41
they were added in post-prouction on a00:16:43
dare or something like that. This is00:16:45
probably the worst moment in that00:16:46
regard. Watch this.00:16:49
>> Crisis changes people [music]00:16:51
and it gave women different ideas about00:16:54
what they should be doing.00:16:57
Women [music] were the main consumers in00:16:58
colonial society and they were the ones00:17:02
who made sure the boycotts worked.00:17:05
Women stopped drinking tea. Women00:17:07
started making their own fabric. Women00:17:09
started making toys for their children.00:17:11
And [music] they didn't just stop buying00:17:14
British things and start making their00:17:16
own things. They publicized it. And00:17:19
reporters would report, "The ladies of00:17:21
Boston, the ladies of New York are00:17:24
[music] the most patriotic. They are at00:17:27
the forefront of this protest movement.00:17:30
If women hadn't done that, the protest00:17:32
movement and eventually the revolution00:17:33
would have gone nowhere."00:17:35
>> So, as you catch that, if women had not00:17:37
stopped buying things constantly as a00:17:39
form of protest, then the American00:17:40
Revolution would would not have gotten00:17:42
off the ground. So, really, the women00:17:45
are the heroes of the American00:17:46
Revolution.00:17:48
Forget the men who, you know, got shot00:17:50
and died.00:17:51
Sure, that's a significant sacrifice by00:17:53
any measure, but it's nothing compared00:17:55
to the pain that colonial women had to00:17:57
endure by not buying things.00:18:00
They bravely put down their Visa credit00:18:02
cards, and in doing so, they00:18:04
single-handedly created America. Now,00:18:07
what's great about this segment is that00:18:08
no one at any point in this 5,000 hour00:18:10
documentary comes back to this claim.00:18:13
They don't support this claim in any00:18:15
way. is just hanging there in the middle00:18:16
of the first episode and we're supposed00:18:18
to take it at face value, I guess, even00:18:20
though it makes no sense whatsoever.00:18:23
Again, that's probably the most overt00:18:25
ridiculous moment in the whole series.00:18:27
Most of the propaganda is more subtle.00:18:30
So, take this moment for example from00:18:31
episode two. For the most part, this is00:18:33
a good episode about the Battle of00:18:35
Bunker Hill. It tells the story of uh00:18:37
that battle in a neutral, even-handed,00:18:39
factual way. It also talks about George00:18:41
Washington. And although it keeps00:18:42
mentioning that he owns slaves every now00:18:44
and then, nothing too crazy is going.00:18:46
And then you get this moment. Watch.00:18:49
>> George Washington made his Cambridge00:18:51
headquarters in the handsome home of a00:18:53
loyalist who had fled to England. One00:18:56
morning, not long after he had moved in,00:18:59
he noticed a six-year-old African-Amean00:19:02
named Darby Vassel swinging on the gate.00:19:06
Vassel remembered saying he had been00:19:08
born in the house and his parents had00:19:10
worked there.00:19:12
Washington urged him to come inside and00:19:14
get something to eat. He had plenty of00:19:16
chores for him to do. When Darby asked00:19:20
what sort of wages he could expect,00:19:22
Washington thought the question00:19:24
impertinent and unreasonable.00:19:28
Darby Vassel lived to be a very old man00:19:31
and when asked he liked to say that in00:19:34
his experience George Washington was no00:19:37
gentleman since he'd expected a boy to00:19:41
work for free.00:19:44
Washington was also shocked to [music]00:19:46
see black soldiers encamped alongside00:19:49
their white neighbors. Unconvinced they00:19:52
could ever make good soldiers,00:19:54
Washington persuaded the Massachusetts00:19:56
Provincial Congress to enlist no more of00:19:59
them, though dozens had fought on00:20:01
Breed's Hill.00:20:03
>> Now, when I saw this, admittedly, I had00:20:04
never heard of this story before. Uh,00:20:07
but my first thought was, even if it's00:20:09
true, and it's probably not, this has to00:20:12
be the single lamest attack on George00:20:14
Washington that anyone could possibly00:20:16
make. They're trying to find some way to00:20:18
smear our first president, a founding00:20:20
father, and one of the most00:20:21
consequential men to ever live anywhere00:20:24
in world history. And the best hit they00:20:26
can come up with, apparently, is that a00:20:28
black kid said that George Washington00:20:30
was rude to him.00:20:33
Now, even if it's true that Washington00:20:34
was indeed rude to this random00:20:36
six-year-old black kid in 1775 and00:20:38
suggested that he do some chores without00:20:40
pay, uh, there's no possible way to00:20:42
express in the English language how00:20:44
little any sane person would possibly00:20:46
care. It's like saying that George00:20:48
Washington jaywalked once and then you00:20:51
have the big intimidating voice of God00:20:53
narrator trying to sell it in this super00:20:55
serious voice. Well, actually, no, I00:20:57
don't care if George Washington00:20:59
jay-walked and I don't care if he was00:21:00
rude to a random kid. is like not even00:21:02
worth mentioning in a in a in a00:21:04
documentary on the subject. But just out00:21:07
of curiosity, I decided to look into00:21:08
this particular claim. And it turns out,00:21:11
as you might have guessed, that uh it's00:21:13
complete nonsense. Now, supposedly this00:21:15
incident happened in 1775, but the story00:21:17
didn't appear in print in any form until00:21:20
the 1870s, a century later, and it00:21:24
appeared in some kind of romanticized00:21:26
history of uh the vassel estate. And00:21:29
here's the here's the kicker. The first00:21:31
time it appeared in print, the boy was a00:21:33
guy named Tony Vassel, who was Darby's00:21:36
father. But that didn't make sense00:21:38
because Tony would have been in his 60s00:21:39
in 1775. So, he definitely wasn't a boy00:21:42
swinging on a gate. So, they revised it00:21:44
after the fact and said Darby was00:21:46
swinging on the gate. So, this whole00:21:47
narrative is about as credible as any00:21:49
other modern race host hoax, except00:21:52
there's about a million more reasons to00:21:53
doubt it. But Ken Burns doesn't mention00:21:55
any of those problems with the00:21:56
narrative. He makes it seem like uh it00:21:58
it happened definitively.00:22:00
And the lame hits on Washington did not00:22:02
end there. They kept coming. Watch.00:22:05
>> The first enslaved person to escape00:22:07
Mount Vernon was named Harry Washington.00:22:11
Born somewhere near the Gambia River in00:22:13
West Africa. He was captured, carried00:22:16
across the ocean, and in 176300:22:20
purchased [music] by George Washington.00:22:23
Freedom was never far from his mind. In00:22:26
1771, he had tried to escape but was00:22:30
caught and brought back.00:22:33
Four years later, he saw his chance.00:22:37
>> Now, again, we have the passive voice00:22:38
saying the slave was captured without00:22:40
saying who did it. Uh Burns really00:22:42
doesn't want to use the active voice for00:22:44
some reason. And then we we learn that a00:22:46
black slave fled Washington's estate00:22:48
because George Washington was a horrible00:22:49
person who had slaves like everybody00:22:51
else at that time. across the world,00:22:54
slavery was a an established and00:22:56
accepted institution everywhere,00:22:58
especially in Africa.00:23:01
But what we didn't learn from Ken Burns,00:23:02
strangely enough, is that Washington00:23:04
also employed a lot of white indentured00:23:06
servants, many of whom also ran away.00:23:09
And it's a shame Ken Burns left that out00:23:11
because it's actually a fascinating00:23:13
piece of history that no one ever talks00:23:14
about. This is a paragraph from NPR of00:23:17
all places. It's from a transcript of a00:23:19
2008 interview from historian Michael00:23:21
Walsh. quote, "Just on the week of00:23:23
Lexington at the beginning of your War00:23:25
of Independence, the Revolutionary War,00:23:26
there were ads in the Virginia Gazette00:23:28
for runaways, and I think there were00:23:29
that week there were something like 1100:23:32
for white runaways and three for black00:23:34
runaways. And two of the 11 white00:23:35
runaways were being advertised for by00:23:38
George Washington."00:23:40
So, yes, the week of the Revolutionary00:23:42
War began, uh, that it began, the the00:23:44
newspaper in Virginia had 11 ads seeking00:23:47
the return of white runaways and three00:23:50
ads for black runaways.00:23:52
Did you know that? Did you have any idea00:23:54
that white indentured servants who were00:23:56
treated worse than slaves in many cases00:23:58
because they weren't permanent00:23:59
investments?00:24:01
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you know, uh, treat their their cars00:24:05
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the interesting history and started00:26:49
looking for the lies that Ken Burns00:26:51
would try to slip in without anyone00:26:52
noticing. Became something of a game.00:26:55
And with that in mind, this moment stuck00:26:57
out to me. Watch. Margaret Corbin, a00:27:00
Pennsylvania artilleryman's wife, was00:27:03
standing near her husband when he was00:27:05
mortally wounded. She stepped in and00:27:08
kept up such deadly fire that her00:27:10
position became a [music] target for00:27:12
Hessen guns. Grapeshot eventually hit00:27:15
her jaw and breast and rendered her left00:27:18
arm useless.00:27:20
3 years later, she would become the00:27:23
first woman to receive a lifetime00:27:25
disability pension, but at half the rate00:27:29
wounded men received.00:27:31
>> This is one of those claims that, as far00:27:33
as I knew, was accurate. I'd never heard00:27:35
of this woman before or her alleged act00:27:37
of heroism or her pension. But the00:27:39
little sassy factoid they add at the end00:27:42
about how the wounded woman only00:27:43
received half a pension, presumably00:27:45
because she's a woman. And you know, the00:27:46
Americans are misogynists who don't00:27:48
believe in equal pay. Uh, that didn't00:27:50
didn't seem right to me. It seemed like00:27:51
a lot like Ken Burns attempt to shoehorn00:27:54
a modern grievance into the narrative,00:27:56
which he does throughout the entire00:27:58
series constantly.00:28:01
Now, if you think about it, it's a00:28:02
strange claim. For one thing, even if00:28:04
they only gave her half a pension for00:28:06
life, it's still quite a generous00:28:07
handout. She was not a member of the00:28:10
military when she was wounded. She was00:28:11
there for the love of the game,00:28:12
essentially. They didn't owe her00:28:14
anything and they voluntarily awarded00:28:16
her a very reasonable wage for the rest00:28:18
of her life. And on top of that, there00:28:20
are reasons to doubt what Ken Burns is00:28:22
saying. Once again, he didn't provide00:28:24
any explanation for why she might00:28:26
receive only half pay, which got me00:28:28
thinking that once again, he was trying00:28:30
to lie by omission. He wanted us to fill00:28:32
in the blanks and conclude that00:28:34
America's founders simply hated women,00:28:36
even women who risked their lives on the00:28:38
battlefield. So, I looked into it and00:28:41
here's what I found. Unsurprisingly00:28:42
enough, this was passed by the00:28:44
Continental Congress in 1776. Quote,00:28:47
"Resolved that every commissioned00:28:49
officer, non-commissioned officer, and00:28:50
private soldier who shall lose a limb in00:28:52
any engagement or be so disabled the00:28:54
service of the United States of America00:28:55
as to render him incapable afterwards of00:28:57
getting a livelihood, shall receive00:28:59
during his life of the continuence of00:29:01
such disability, the one half monthly00:29:04
pay from and after the time that his pay00:29:06
as an officer or soldier ceases.00:29:09
So, in other words, all wounded00:29:11
officers, including the men, received a00:29:14
pension equivalent to 1/ half of their00:29:16
regular pay. And that appears to be what00:29:18
Margaret Corbin received. I checked a00:29:21
variety of sources, including the00:29:22
National Museum of the US Army, the00:29:23
Daughters of the American Revolution,00:29:24
Wikipedia, uh the Lurman Institute of00:29:27
American History. None of them claimed00:29:29
that Margaret Corbin had been snubbed or00:29:32
had her pension cut in half because she00:29:33
was a woman. They didn't mention00:29:35
anything like that. In fact, here's what00:29:37
Congress did in 17779. Uh they issued00:29:41
this resolution. Quote, "Resolved that00:29:44
Margaret Corbin, who was wounded and00:29:45
disabled in the attack on Fort00:29:46
Washington, do receive during her00:29:48
natural life or the continuence of said00:29:50
disability the one half of the monthly00:29:52
pay drawn by a soldier in the service of00:29:54
the states and that she now receive out00:29:56
of public stores one complete suit of00:29:58
clothes."00:30:00
So, in other words, she gets new00:30:01
clothes, plus she gets one half the pay00:30:04
of an active duty soldier, which in turn00:30:06
is the same pay that every disabled00:30:08
soldier gets.00:30:10
Now, as far as I can tell, Ken Burns00:30:12
derived his claim that this woman was00:30:13
given half the pension of a wounded00:30:15
soldier from this throwaway line from00:30:18
the website of the National Women's00:30:19
History Museum, which stated, quote, "In00:30:21
July 6th, 1779, the Continental00:30:23
Congress, in recognition of her brave00:30:25
service, awarded her with a lifelong00:30:26
pension equivalent to half that of male00:30:29
combatants."00:30:31
But that appears to be false. It00:30:33
contradicts the primary source, which is00:30:34
what the Congress actually said, which I00:30:36
just quoted. So, what's going on here?00:30:40
Is Ken Burns just quoting random lines00:30:42
from wedge web pages? Now, what's the00:30:45
support for his claim? He doesn't say.00:30:47
The documentary just moves on. Now, I00:30:51
really cannot emphasize enough how00:30:52
insidious and evil this kind of behavior00:30:54
is. A historian, especially one who's00:30:57
paid with our tax dollars, is not00:31:00
supposed to lie to us when he presents00:31:02
extremely dubious claims. He shouldn't00:31:04
do so with confidence. He shouldn't00:31:07
pretend it's obviously true.00:31:10
He should show his work. And if it's not00:31:13
certain that something is true, then you00:31:14
need to say that. And if you're just00:31:16
giving your theory about something, then00:31:18
you should say that it's your theory.00:31:21
But the reason he doesn't show his work00:31:23
is that he's a propagandist. Ken Burns00:31:24
has become a Trumpobsessed weirdo who's00:31:26
desperate to include racial politics in00:31:28
everything he does, which by the way is00:31:31
how we got interviews like this one in00:31:33
his uh latest documentary. Watch.00:31:36
I think it's easy to underestimate the00:31:39
sheer diversity and variety00:31:42
um in the colonies.00:31:46
Close to the majority of the population00:31:48
in the southern colonies are African.00:31:51
There are French hugenos. There [music]00:31:53
are Germans. They're Scots or00:31:55
ScotsIrish.00:31:57
There are native people not just on the00:31:59
frontiers but actually living in the00:32:02
heart of the 13 colonies. You are not00:32:05
going to have an American revolution00:32:07
unless you have [music] Virginia on00:32:09
board. And the leaders of Massachusetts00:32:12
understood this. It was not going to be00:32:15
easy. There were deep prejudices between00:32:18
the [music] two regions because of the00:32:20
differences in their ethnic mix and in00:32:23
the nature of their cultures00:32:26
and they hadn't previously had [music]00:32:28
any kind of trust for one another.00:32:31
Now, it's not hard to see what this00:32:33
historian, quote unquote, is doing here00:32:35
or what Ken Burns is trying to do by00:32:37
featuring this interview. He wants you00:32:39
to think that this nation was founded on00:32:41
diversity, which is a modern buzzword00:32:43
that conotes multiculturalism, open00:32:45
borders, DEI, affirmative action, all00:32:49
that. Uh, and he wants you to think that00:32:51
because the colonists were supposedly00:32:53
diverse. Well, the colonists were not00:32:55
diverse in the sense that modern00:32:57
leftists use the word. And Ken Burns00:32:59
knows that the colonists were00:33:01
overwhelmingly white and British. The00:33:05
fact that Indians were present on the00:33:07
continent or the fact that 3% of slaves00:33:09
from the transatlantic slave trade ended00:33:11
up in this country does not mean that00:33:13
the colonists themselves were diverse in00:33:16
the way that we would say New York City00:33:17
or Minneapolis are diverse today.00:33:20
The colonists, unlike the residents of00:33:22
Minneapolis and New York, spoke the same00:33:24
language,00:33:26
uh, shared similar ancestry.00:33:29
They were almost all the same race. Now,00:33:32
they might not have the same religion or00:33:34
the same country of origin, although00:33:35
most did, but they still had far far00:33:38
more in common with one another than the00:33:40
typical modern-day American has in00:33:41
common with these so-called newcomers00:33:43
that are flooding our cities at the00:33:45
moment.00:33:47
And again, Burns knows that. He knows00:33:50
that a Dutch or German colonist had much00:33:52
more in common with an English-born00:33:55
colonist than a Somali asylum seeker has00:33:57
in common with an American today.00:34:00
But we're supposed to lump all this00:34:02
together using the buzzword of00:34:03
diversity, which in Ken Burns's world is00:34:06
a universal good.00:34:09
Now, we'll end with just one more clip00:34:10
from episode 4. This is one final lie00:34:12
that um all things considered, maybe one00:34:15
of the most egregious. Watch. It does me00:34:18
no injury for my neighbor to say there00:34:20
are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks00:34:24
my pocket nor breaks my leg.00:34:29
Most of the revolutionaries [music]00:34:30
belong to Protestant denominations,00:34:33
but there were Catholics and Jews among00:34:36
them too, as well as Muslims whose faith00:34:39
had [music] crossed the Atlantic on00:34:40
slave ships.00:34:43
Central to the philosophy of some of the00:34:45
most influential creators of the United00:34:47
States was their belief in a supreme00:34:50
being, but one who did not interfere in00:34:53
the affairs of men or distinguish00:34:56
between faiths.00:34:59
They were deists [music]00:35:00
and they believed it was each00:35:02
individual's responsibility to lead a00:35:04
virtuous [music] life which could only00:35:07
come from tolerance and a lifetime of00:35:10
learning.00:35:12
the pursuit of happiness.00:35:14
>> This is one of those claims that you'll00:35:15
hear again and again predominantly from00:35:17
Marxists and agitators who want to00:35:18
undermine undermine our Christian00:35:20
tradition. They'll tell you that the00:35:21
United States was founded by men who00:35:23
believe that God is totally indifferent00:35:25
to America's success or failure and that00:35:28
um you know we should believe the same00:35:29
lie. But in this case, Burns is pretty00:35:31
obvious about his intentions. He starts00:35:33
talking about all the Muslim influence00:35:36
uh on our founding and how tolerance is00:35:39
a foundational virtue almost as if he's00:35:41
you know being extremely lazy and00:35:42
applying 2025 leftist talking points to00:35:45
18th century history which is what he's00:35:46
doing. The problem is that in fact00:35:48
America was not founded by deists. You00:35:52
will not find a single reference to00:35:54
dismal00:35:56
law or charter. What you will find if00:35:58
you do any amount of research, which00:36:00
many organizations, including the00:36:02
Christian Heritage Fellowship, have00:36:03
done, is that the founders explicitly00:36:05
rejected the idea of an absent God again00:36:08
and again. Ben Franklin presided over00:36:10
the state constitutional convention in00:36:12
Pennsylvania in 1776 during which00:36:14
members affirmed that quote, "I do00:36:16
believe in one God, the creator and00:36:18
governor of the universe, the rewarder00:36:20
of the good and the punisher of the00:36:21
wicked, and I do acknowledge the00:36:22
scriptures of the Old and New Testament00:36:24
to be given by divine in inspiration."00:36:28
The Massachusetts Constitution which was00:36:30
drafted by John Adams states that the00:36:32
good order and preservation of civil00:36:34
government essentially depend upon00:36:35
piety, religion and morality and cannot00:36:38
be generally discussed through a00:36:39
community but by the institution of the00:36:41
public worship of God.00:36:43
Then there's the fact that as the00:36:45
Christian Heritage Fellowship found00:36:46
during the Second Continental Congress00:36:48
as well as the Confederation Congress00:36:49
which took place after the war ended,00:36:52
members of Congress issued issued a00:36:53
grand total of 16 spiritual00:36:56
proclamations which quote asks the00:36:58
states to fast, pray, and give thanks to00:37:01
God.00:37:03
That's not dism00:37:05
what Ken Burns and PBS are counting on,00:37:07
of course, is that you won't look into00:37:09
any of these claims. uh his narrator00:37:12
delivers every line from the accurate00:37:15
interesting factoids to the flagrant00:37:17
lies and everything in between with an00:37:19
equal degree of self-confidence. And00:37:21
that is a deliberate tactic.00:37:24
It's how history is taught now in every00:37:26
context. Whether you're talking about00:37:28
public schools or or the media,00:37:31
you know, it's enough to make me think00:37:32
that in the near future I should make my00:37:34
own true history series where I tell you00:37:36
what the Ken Burns types are leaving00:37:38
out.00:37:40
It wouldn't be especially difficult. All00:37:42
I'd have to do in order to destroy Ken00:37:44
Burns's documentary is tell the truth.00:37:47
But there's a clear need for a project00:37:48
like this because obviously no one in00:37:50
the mainstream media is willing to do00:37:52
it. If there's anything we've learned00:37:54
from the past decade or so in American00:37:56
politics, it's that the national media00:37:58
is willing to lie to us about00:37:59
everything. Even things we can observe00:38:02
with our own eyes.00:38:04
They lie to us about Russia gate and00:38:05
climate change and gender ideology and00:38:07
so on and so on and so The list00:38:08
continues. If these lies could be00:38:10
effective in the 21st century, then00:38:11
imagine how many lies they've been00:38:12
telling us about ancient history.00:38:15
Imagine how many lies they've been00:38:16
telling us about slavery, the00:38:18
Revolutionary War.00:38:21
Imagine how many lies they've been00:38:22
telling us about the Civil War or about00:38:25
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anymore. you'll get the truth about our00:38:36
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innuendo of delusional activists like00:38:39
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Ken Burns accomplished one thing with00:38:45
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the American Revolution, he's00:38:48
demonstrated probably more than any00:38:50
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I decided to spend most of the show00:40:38
debunking anti-American propaganda,00:40:40
which seems like a worthy subject00:40:42
anytime, but particular during uh00:40:43
Thanksgiving week. So, with the final00:40:45
few minutes of the show, we're going to00:40:46
skip ahead to the daily cancellation and00:40:48
cover something of uh much less00:40:51
importance, you know, as is customary00:40:53
for this segment. Uh although there is00:40:55
when when you get to the bottom of it,00:40:57
it is there is something important going00:40:58
on which we'll talk about. So, a couple00:41:00
of months ago, a poll of voters in00:41:03
Pennsylvania was conducted to find out00:41:04
how they feel about the general state of00:41:06
affairs in the state. A sizable majority00:41:09
of respondents, 60% said they did not00:41:12
believe Pennsylvania was on the right00:41:13
track. They cited cost of living, the00:41:16
economy, high taxes, crime as their top00:41:19
concerns. 70% said they were00:41:21
dissatisfied with their local school00:41:22
district. 60% said they would give the00:41:24
school system statewide a C, D, or F00:41:27
grade. Uh 70% said their utility00:41:30
electricity prices had gone up. 54% said00:41:33
it was a bad time to find a job in the00:41:35
state. So in other words, the people of00:41:37
Pennsylvania, like the people of every00:41:39
other state, have practical, realworld00:41:41
concerns, and they feel overwhelmingly00:41:44
that the political leadership of the00:41:45
state is failing to address those00:41:47
concerns. So what have the state00:41:50
legislators and the governor, Democrat00:41:52
Josh Shapiro, decided to do? How will00:41:55
they write the ship? Well, as it turns00:41:58
out, they'll address these concerns by00:42:00
not addressing any of them at all.00:42:02
Instead, Shapiro just signed into law a00:42:04
new bill that bans quote unquote hair00:42:09
discrimination. Now, before we talk00:42:12
about the ludicrous concept of hair00:42:14
discrimination, you'll already notice00:42:16
that hair discrimination was not on the00:42:20
list of top concerns among Pennsylvania00:42:22
residents.00:42:23
When they were asked, "What are you most00:42:26
worried about?" Precisely zero of them00:42:29
responded, "Well, my biggest fear is00:42:31
that I'll suffer hair discrimination."00:42:33
No. When the people of Pennsylvania00:42:35
think about what causes them the most00:42:36
anxiety in life, none of them are00:42:38
thinking about their hair or anything to00:42:40
do with it. And yet, Governor Shapiro00:42:44
and the brave legislators of00:42:46
Pennsylvania are thinking about hair.00:42:48
And that's what they that's why they00:42:50
just passed something called the Crown00:42:51
Act. Watch00:42:54
>> today when I sign the Crown Act into00:42:57
law.00:42:58
>> That will BE [cheering]00:43:01
>> that [applause] will be the next step in00:43:03
making good on that promise of bringing00:43:06
about real freedom for all Pennians.00:43:10
This public policy campaign is my00:43:12
brainchild in a nationwide effort I have00:43:15
led since 2018,00:43:19
determining it was necessary to change00:43:22
the law to help redress the longstanding00:43:25
and problematic practice of racial00:43:27
discrimination in the form of hair00:43:30
discrimination. I subsequently developed00:43:33
the national legislative social impact00:43:35
and coalition building strategies for00:43:38
this movement because for too long a00:43:42
myopic notion of professionalism and00:43:45
eurosentric standards of beauty have00:43:47
perpetuated racial inequity and00:43:50
exclusion.00:43:52
Too many black children have been00:43:54
suspended and missed what should be00:43:57
valuable instruction time because their00:44:00
hair worn in ways that are aligned with00:44:03
their racial identity have been deemed a00:44:06
violation of school rules.00:44:08
>> So, the lady with the hoop earrings the00:44:10
size of the Milky Way galaxy says that00:44:12
she's been on a single-minded crusade00:44:15
for eight years to defeat hair00:44:18
discrimination. And Josh Rapiro says00:44:20
that he's making good on his promise to00:44:22
ban hair discrimination, which is a00:44:25
promise that nobody in his state knew he00:44:27
had made or asked him to make. And yet00:44:30
here we are. So what is hair00:44:32
discrimination then? And and and what00:44:34
does this law actually say? Well, I00:44:36
looked up the text of the bill and all I00:44:38
can say is that if you expected this00:44:39
legislation to be completely00:44:42
you were right. Uh it is. So here here's00:44:45
what House Bill 439 says. and to to the00:44:49
to their law banning racial00:44:50
discrimination, which is already on the00:44:52
books, they added an amendment. And the00:44:56
amendment says in part the following00:44:59
quote, "The term race includes traits00:45:02
historically associated with the00:45:04
individual's race, including hair00:45:06
texture and protective hairstyles. The00:45:08
term protective hairstyles includes but00:45:10
is not limited to such hairstyles as00:45:13
locks, braids, twists, coils, bent two00:45:16
knots, afro and extensions.00:45:20
So according to this law, an institution00:45:23
like a business or a school may not00:45:26
discriminate based on protected00:45:28
characteristics like race, which we00:45:30
already knew. But the law now stipulates00:45:32
that the term race includes hairstyles.00:45:36
If a hairstyle is historically00:45:39
associated with a certain race, then the00:45:41
hairstyle is legally protected and an00:45:43
employer may not bar their employees00:45:45
from styling their hair in that way on00:45:48
the job. That's what the law says. And00:45:50
it is, in a word, madness.00:45:54
Absolute madness.00:45:56
What does it even mean for a hairstyle00:45:58
to be historically associated with a00:46:01
particular race? How far back does the00:46:03
historical association have to go?00:46:06
If a rapper wears his hair a certain way00:46:08
in a music video that came out last00:46:10
Tuesday and then now it's popular among00:46:12
black people, does that count as in00:46:15
historical association?00:46:18
And00:46:19
more importantly, what if a hairstyle is00:46:22
historically associated with every race00:46:24
on the planet?00:46:26
Does that mean that employers can or00:46:28
can't prevent their employees from00:46:30
wearing it? Or does it mean that only00:46:32
some races can be prevented while others00:46:34
can't?00:46:36
Now, the bill lists braids and00:46:38
dreadlocks as protected because of their00:46:40
historical racial association,00:46:43
but that's a problem because braids have00:46:45
been worn by all races of people for as00:46:48
long as people have existed. As long as00:46:51
there have been people with hair, there00:46:53
have been braids everywhere on the00:46:55
planet.00:46:57
Black people did not invent the concept00:46:59
of wearing braids, nor did they00:47:01
popularize it, nor did they innovate it00:47:03
in any way.00:47:05
at all. As for dreadlocks, uh, Nordic00:47:09
people were wearing their hair in that00:47:11
fashion a thousand years ago. The00:47:12
Vikings wore dreadlocks. Actually, there00:47:14
are depictions of Europeans wearing00:47:15
dreadlocks all the way back in the00:47:17
Bronze Age. So, are dreadlocks protected00:47:20
for white people, too, or just black00:47:23
people? Now, you might think that, well,00:47:26
at least the afro is a hairstyle that we00:47:28
can all agree is historically owned by00:47:31
black people. Well, the problem is that00:47:34
first of all, no style can be owned by00:47:36
anyone, much less any race of people.00:47:39
Styles are not objects that a person or00:47:41
group can claim ownership of. A style is00:47:44
an abstract concept. It's one which is00:47:48
uh by definition shared and spread00:47:50
around and adopted and changed and00:47:52
adapted and so on.00:47:54
Second, actually the afro is not unique00:47:58
to black people historically or00:48:00
originated by them. Now, obviously the00:48:02
name afro has black origins, but the00:48:05
style of hair, very tight curls which00:48:08
form a rounded silhouette, which is what00:48:10
an afro is, well, that was worn by00:48:12
Europeans in the Victorian age. That was00:48:14
worn by Greeks and Romans thousands of00:48:17
years before that.00:48:20
So, as it turns out, none of the00:48:22
protected racial hairstyles are racial.00:48:27
None of them are historically unique to00:48:29
black people. In fact, it's plausible00:48:32
that many of these historic black00:48:33
hairstyles were worn by ancient00:48:35
Europeans before they were worn by00:48:37
ancient Africans. At the very least,00:48:39
it's a tie. It's a wash.00:48:42
Unlike dreadlocks, which cannot be00:48:43
washed, which is why you shouldn't be00:48:45
allowed to wear them if you work in the00:48:47
food industry or the medical industry or00:48:50
any industry that involves food or00:48:52
people.00:48:54
That's why certain hair hairstyles are00:48:56
discriminated against because they're00:48:58
unsanitary or unckempt or unsightly00:49:01
because they look slovenly or00:49:03
ridiculous.00:49:05
The law has not protected anyone from00:49:07
actual00:49:09
racial discrimination which is already00:49:11
illegal, but it has protected them from00:49:13
the most basic standards of hygiene and00:49:16
professionalism.00:49:17
Like I I want you to think about the00:49:19
levels of narcissism and pettiness that00:49:22
are involved here.00:49:24
If you work at a restaurant and your00:49:26
boss says you can't wear dreadlocks,00:49:29
the assumption is that if you're a black00:49:31
person, the rule is specifically00:49:34
targeted at you00:49:36
for no other reason than to cramp your00:49:39
style and persecute you. And this00:49:42
assumption is built on an underlying00:49:43
assumption that your race invented00:49:46
dreadlocks and has unique ownership over00:49:48
them. All of these assumptions right00:49:50
down the line are false. They are all00:49:53
examples of the worst kind of racial00:49:56
main character syndrome.00:49:59
You know, the actual reason you can't00:50:00
wear dreadlocks while you cook my steak00:50:03
is that you haven't washed them since00:50:05
last February. And it's disgusting.00:50:08
And this is the basic concept that the00:50:10
lady with the hoop earrings pretends not00:50:11
to understand. Speaking of which, are00:50:13
hoop earrings protected? I mean, what00:50:16
about jewelry and clothing and other00:50:18
accessories that are historically00:50:20
associated with certain races? Now,00:50:22
black people did not invent hoop00:50:23
earrings, but if we're giving them00:50:25
credit for braids, then I guess we give00:50:28
them credit for earrings, too.00:50:30
So, how far does this go? Now, the00:50:32
answer is that it goes as far as the00:50:34
race hustlers can take it. I mean, if it00:50:37
seems like they're trying to make it so00:50:39
that racial minorities are not required00:50:41
to follow any rules or meet any00:50:44
standards or do anything they don't feel00:50:47
like doing ever. Well, that's because00:50:49
that's exactly what they're trying to00:50:51
do. Which is why although this is the00:50:54
dumbest law ever written in the history00:50:55
of laws, it is also incredibly sinister.00:50:59
And that is why the concept of hair00:51:01
discrimination and anyone who pushes it00:51:04
is today canled. That'll do it for the00:51:07
show today uh and this week. Have a00:51:10
beautiful and blessed Thanksgiving. I'll00:51:11
talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.00:51:17
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