The War Over Teaching America’s Racist History in Schools | The Daily Show

Most students in America are only taught about a handful of important Black Americans in history class. Here’s a look at why schools should teach students about race and why certain parents are opposed to that shift. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #School
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[@BazzBrother]

They need to stop teaching kids that there is a distinction between American history and Black history. Its ALL american history, and pretending one isnt american and isnt worth teaching is vile.

[@jutau]

Exactly. US history needs to be taught as it really was.

[@perlahurtadoflores2669]

EXACTLY!!!

[@Dayandcounting]

For exceptionalism to work you must first divide. That's why this isn't a simple problem to solve. Culturally speaking American's are raised to believe we a exceptional. Doesn't matter what it is based off of either. It could be because we're American, what state we come from, what school we went to, our color or our individual ability. The belief in exceptionalism is party of our national identity and it would be very difficult to change that.

[@vidmasterK1]

Weird how the anti PC crowd is fighting to keep a PC telling of this country's history. Snowflakes can't handle the inconvenience and uncomfortable bits so it has to be watered down and sanitized.

[@gustavedelior3683]

That's the issue, distinctions are drawn and and it has to be separated for some silly reason. But in this separation the essence of jim crow remains, separate but equal is a statement of ignorance and fear of what one has not even tried to understand.

[@celinad115]

I live in Germany and I'm actually shocked that 8 states don't mention the civil rights movement. We talked about that in English class for 2 months.

[@Jannyl13]

We also talked critically about thanksgiving and the atrocities done to the natives. However, at least in my experience, German history classes were always very focused on the holocaust but we did not really discuss our involvement in colonialism.

[@Elias_Ehler]

@@Jannyl13 It's because we came so late for the party and we started WWI because we were jealous of how successful the other nations were with colonialism.

[@UlshaRS]

I'm sure you can still find schools that don't mention slavery as a cause for the civil war and paint it as farmers versus dem mean ol northern' city folk (gods I wish I was joking)

[@oktopussy9628]

@@Elias_Ehler Got better though at least in my year, because we focused more on the Kaiserreich in Highschool. However the genocide on the Herero and Tutsi remained a side note.

[@solala1312]

I don't understand the concept of choosing the history you want to focus on.

[@pooperscooper6776]

How about just teach history. No fillers and no leave outs. Just teach it the way it happened. Anything else, theories and whatnot is bs. Just. Teach. History. Accurately.

[@khadmallasiam3679]

agreed

[@sillynelson1]

That’s exactly why CRT shouldn’t be taught

[@feedyourmind6713]

Remember, the Dems control the schools. Yet they blame Repubs of censoring history.

[@jerrygu5316]

​@@feedyourmind6713 Your mom is a democrat?!

[@feedyourmind6713]

@@jerrygu5316 Try harder.

[@nehrigen]

Wow, I never realized how incredibly racist Trevor Noah is. It's pretty awful.

[@dickgrayson4325]

What do you expect, he is from South Africa.

[@giannastance9340]

Right? I couldn’t believe it

[@willw3736]

This video teaches you how much he is kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6G5dJSejpesirM

[@rltpalwaysrltpalways2480]

How is he racist???

[@rltpalwaysrltpalways2480]

Telling the truth doesn't make you a racist...

[@janinelubjuhn2006]

I am from Germany and when I went to school 20 years ago, our teachers covered the holocaust extensively. All through highschool we read books, watched movies, visited sites and heared contemporary witnesses at our school. This was all very impressive and all of these things made sure that the majority of my school mates have no acceptance for racism, xenophobia or nationalism whatsoever. It is important to hear victims and their stories. Empathy is a great teacher.

[@nelequincke9099]

I am also from Germany and I must say, yes, we learn a lot about the Holocaust itself but never about how it came about that the Holocaust could happen. And now we are getting closer to making similar mistakes like a hundred years ago. We did not really learn from history (yet). Also, Germany's involvement in colonisation and past and present racism problems in Germany are not being talked about. Most Germans, is my impression, in their awareness of structural racism, and also explicit racism, are similar to Fox News.

[@vier41]

@@nelequincke9099 In the second year of Oberstufe, our history teacher asked wheather we wanted to learn about how the NSDAP rose to power. We said yes. I think it should have been mandatory for every student, not just an option for those that go to Gymnasium.

[@janinelubjuhn2006]

Yeah, unfortunately we still do have a problem with racism. Not everybody gets to spend so much time on the topic, or if they did, some people still wouldn't care. This is exactly why it is so important to teach about these problems at school, when people still have fresh minds.

[@82seno]

@@vier41 this! i remember visiting the KZ flossenbürg in 8th grade and it was a massive eye-opener...just like the dokumentationszentrum in nürnberg. and i agree it should be mandatory for all classes to do such trips. so that phrases like "never forget" are more than just fancy hashtags

[@CoachChef]

By no means am I attacking you but I was wondering where did the "new" "far right" movement in Germany come from

[@raistlinmajere7149]

Native American History should be taught more as well.

[@moredelvalle7928]

Agreed. I liked the disney pocahontas movie as a kid, as an adult i looked up the history (out of curiosity) only to find out that the only accurate line in the movie was "white men are dangerous"

[@ravens6286]

@@bastiantakuya9076 our people didn't have the written stories, they had/have the verbal stories. The elders would tell the stories about their people to the children, that had been passed down generation to generation. There aren't as many elders today that have the stories of their history to tell. There are some, but not nearly enough.

[@nHans]

You mean _true_ Native history, not the White-washed one they currently teach? That'll mean admitting that genocide and land theft did happen. 😱 They don't even teach the _full_ Declaration of Independence in schools. 🙄

[@kenrickeason]

I agree..

[@kenrickeason]

@@nHans Dude, My wife is from a town next to where The Tuskegee Experiments happened and she didn't get taught none of that.. SMH!

[@oldmandan3884]

I just don’t understand how people like Noah can’t see that their view are mirror images of what Jim Crow racists views.

[@GuiltyFaT]

because they cant handle self reflection

[@baller84milw]

I think it's funny how confident he is slavery isn't taught here given the fact he didn't actually attend an American public school from K-12. If he did he'd know that we're taught about slavery starting at like 2nd grade, esp. in a school district with a large black population.

[@mahaffer71]

(Trevor Noah and CRT - DEBUNKED) FreedomToons

[@laylabeck7454]

@@baller84milw are you saying that there is no way of knowing about something if you werent directly involved? the internet is full of knowledge and opportunities for research, he has a whole team who does it. Have you attended every school? or are you only basing your claim on your own experience? you just said, it DOES matter what school district youre in, which is why so many people are ignorant about the history of racism.

[@baller84milw]

@@laylabeck7454 No it's just that he's so patently off that it's comical. At some point he has to realize that it's naive and arrogant to be so confident about something you have no personal experience with. I grew up in the 90's and I never met a kid that wasn't taught about slavery in school. This idea that schools just aren't teaching about slavery is ridiculous and comical. In MPS (Milwaukee Public Schools) we almost learned more about black history than anything else. I have a family member who's a teacher and they've said the same (the guidelines require they do this). They just spread this lie to get their base (people like you) all hyped up so you unwittingly defend a racist curriculum that teaches them only white people can be racist or bad. Ask yourself this: if slavery was abolished in 1865, and most white people immigrated here through Ellis Island which only opened it 1892 (30 years after slavery); then why do they teach kids that all white people had something to do with slavery? If our curriculum is so "pro-white" then why don't they teach that basic fact? Why do they teach young black children that most white people owned slaves when most white people's ancestors were still in Europe at the time? Also, using this same logic of scapegoating entire races, it would logically follow that we would prejudice and stigmatize all black people, based on the small percentage who are currently in street gangs or who commit violent crime. It teaches our youth backwards values and deep-seated resentment under the guise of "enlightenment" or wokeness 🤷‍♂

[@oldmandan3884]

That’s funny , I don’t remember seeing Irish history or Chinese history or any other cultures history or n American history either. It’s almost like history is there to teach us the major events that got us to this point and not a reason to list every bad thing that happened.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

Shhh! They'll hear you! Don't you know facts and logic are "problematic"?

[@jungwonsheart]

EXACTLY

[@bobfrank7339]

So 250 years of slavery followed by another century of inequality and segregation for a 400 hundred year old country isn't important aren't you proud of your white history how white people built the country off the back off minorities (you admit yourself) and continue to suppress with no restitution now trying to delete your proud past

[@hiphopsince81]

Mmm Idk. Slavery seems like a pretty major event in this country’s history to me 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@riaa8689]

Maybe because the Irish and Chinese weren't exploited for 400 years of the free labor that built America.

[@blowc1612]

what what the white lady actually said: “I don’t want to acknowledge racism because that means I have to acknowledge I’m racist.”

[@misterman2830]

That part.

[@jankyleeSTL]

As a person who lives the next town over from that white lady, we don't agree her discrepancies. She can keep that bs. I hope I run into her at Walmart.

[@MyMusicHarbourage]

Nah, she was like, "I don't wanna acknowledge racism because that means I have to acknowledge I'm a KAREN."

[@belleignacio4503]

that’s exactly it

[@1Reevee]

wow you're evil

[@michaelj.beglinjr.2804]

Our school children deserve the actual truth, because lying to an entire generation has never ended well.

[@unknowntitles3542]

It’s interesting too bc a lot of the adults who are currently against it clearly wasn’t taught the truth. Fact is, a lot of these kids are learning this stuff and more rapidly on tiktok. Now do we want to put an actual curriculum in and teach it correctly and honestly or let anyone with a cellphone teach them whatever even if it is false. Misinformation plagues this time period, I’d hate for it to plague the minds of my and future generations

[@AlexisJoy006]

And the fact that the Fox Anchorwoman tried to use a line from MLK's speech and twist it for her narrative was also disgusting. Like, I almost have a feeling that there were plenty of people watching who didn't know it came from MLK and she knows it.

[@aylanae4797]

@@AlexisJoy006 i peeped had my stomach in knots...but then also forget to mention the government killed him😑

[@michaelsinclair3321]

that's how Christopher Columbus was considering a hero for so long allot of history is based on lies and many don't want to acknowledge the obvious at least not admit the evil

[@ladydeerheart1]

Like any of us have EVER been told the truth.

[@WapajeaWalksOnWater]

This why I homeschooled my children in the 90s, because I saw that the puplic school curriculum left out all information about everyone except European Americans. That's racism by omission, and since I was raised during American Segregation, I had all the 1st hand information to teach my children about their enemies, and subtle mico-aggressions. And I taught them to never let anything slide, and take no prisoners, cause racism is a sin, and damaging to the soul.

[@Daniel24445]

Are you one of the useful idiots in BLM being lead by Prince Harry and his modern day half-black American divorce Wallis Simpson?

[@glorymosbyfloyd3878]

Kudos to you 👏

[@WapajeaWalksOnWater]

@@Daniel24445 Didn't I say, that I homeschooled my children in the 90s. BLM can't teach me anything about racist Apartheid America. I was born in 1949 fool, I lived it

[@WapajeaWalksOnWater]

@@Daniel24445 Didn't I say, that I homeschooled my children in the 90s. BLM can't teach me anything about racist Apartheid America. I was born in 1949 I lived it

[@Daniel24445]

@@WapajeaWalksOnWaterRespect of persons and favoritism is a Sin and so is biting the hand that feeds you. European Communists and atheists is NOT America!

[@yesic7196]

"Those who can't remember the past are doomed to repeat it".

[@sabrenacarter9917]

“You can look at your history critically without believing you are personally to blame for it” 🎯great point

[@slavesforging5361]

i mean, can they though? it's possible certainly. and should be quite common. but seems like people can't do it. it's like "dude, i know you're not Thomas jefferson, relax." It shows that a lot of white americans, whom don't consider themselves racist, can't even fathom being on black people's side... because they're white.

[@myclelo6153]

Beautiful

[@yup_its_ME.512]

for real!! I have seen white women online actually crying because their kids will learn to hate America & white people. What they don't get is that MAYBE their kids will learn to respect and appreciate other races because ummm we are not our only race. There are many many races in the *world* not only in America! Sheesh!

[@yup_its_ME.512]

@Bann me Again nazis what does that even mean??!

[@yup_its_ME.512]

@Bann me Again nazis no but ok, let me rephrase it so your modernized mind can accept it...what is it that YOU mean with that word?...better?

[@swedenishunting8426]

As a German, I can say true point what you said about the German education 👍 We learn about it, we’re not responsible for it, but we’re responsible for not repeating it.

[@sabrinahoward5891]

Well said. US has a serious problem with racism and it is because no one wants the truth to be known.

[@beatricecallan]

So well said! That’s the way it should be!! Grüsse aus der Schweiz

[@somexp12]

The type of system you (and Trevor) describe is (most of the time) not what is being objected to. If you look at NH’s HB544, the prohibited ideas are all items that amount to racial essentialism, yet they are still getting heat for it. It’s as if the bill’s opponents actually favor racial essentialism.

[@j.a5715]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@swedenishunting8426]

@julia 😂😂😂 ... nope, I think you’re missing somethin if you’re serious...

[@stacie1595]

I became a history teacher because I saw the ways I wanted to change my own history education. The only thing is, now that I am on the other side, we need to do some major reform in education in order to make it possible for teachers to teach more history. As it stands, class periods and curriculum is so limited that, even if a teacher worked hard to introduce supplementary materials to fill in gaps, things will still have to be cut for times sake. Like most US history classes can't make it past the 70s. Teachers want to teach more history, but it feels like a constant race against the clock to cover the basics. BTW, I absolutely want history education to be more holistic and include the uncomfortable moments when America was decidedly not great. I think those moments teach more lessons than any victory lap could.

[@stacie1595]

@X X agree to an extent as well. In some ways "history" should maybe be viewed more as a skill and an exercise in research and critical thinking but I'm not sure how educators would approach that with younger students.

[@stacie1595]

@X X what shouldn't be in k-12? Critical thinking? That's a terrifying thought. Not all students can go to university and critical thinking is a fundamental skill of the highest importance. BTW critical thinking is asking questions and having students evaluate the information on their own to come up with answers. It's not inherently biased. Add criculum that encourages students to recognize bias in themselves and in their sources.

[@stacie1595]

@X X did you ever do the Oregon Trail interactive activity? Congratulations, that's critical thinking but for elementary and middle school students. Writing journal entry's "as if you are a ___" is critical thinking. Then expanding the perspectives they learn about helps them understand more of history. Some things should be left to high school when brains are more developed but elementary students can still be deep thinkers who learn multiple perspectives.

[@stacie1595]

@X X critical thinking IS NOT critical race theory. I'm pretty sure I never even mentioned CRT in my comments. And trust me, CRT isn't being taught in primary school AT ALL! this isn't even an issue, it's just a made up moral panic. CRT is an upper level graduate theory taught in law school. What I'm talking about is just plain and simple critical thinking. The basics can be taught in elementary school but by high school, students need to be engaging with history in a more meaningful way that isn't memorizing dates and biographies of famous people. Memorization isn't a skill that will help them be a more informed citizen or a more rounded person.

[@stacie1595]

@X X climate change and the holocaust should 100% be taught in schools. They happened/are happening and students MUST know about them to be able to make important decisions about their personal future and the future of their country and world. Any objection to those topics being taught is either very aware of their ill intentions or is woefully misinformed themselves.

[@agent_277]

Meanwhile my german school: "Every student in this class has to do a 10 minute presentation about a president of the United States of America." No seriously, our history teacher gave us the task to do a 10 minute presentation about an American president and I chose Abraham Lincoln 🙃

[@Lordecai]

Why CRT is Necessary for America!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6rTqHiKlq6ZnMk

[@charlesirby9571]

Abraham Lincoln was no saint. Read the Real Lincoln. He never cared about the slaves. The civil war wasn't about slavery it was about tariffs. The south refuse to pay their taxes they seceded from the union.

[@daphneross2845]

@eric Tell me, in what way are germans horrible?

[@factsdonotlie2u247]

Bad choice if you knew the truth about the Tyrant! It was Karl Marx who instructed Lincoln to make the war about slavery half way through the war. Karl Marx instructed Lincoln in letters and Frederick Engels instructed Gen. Grant.

[@factsdonotlie2u247]

You should do a presentation on The German House of Windsor sometime.

[@mariannemiller3377]

I am German and I must tell you, that is not easy learning about the holocaust without feeling guilty, although I am definitly not responsible. It is a delicate task for the teachers not to get along with the bad stuff, especially if it is still going on.

[@charmedleblanc]

Are you glad you learned about it anyways? I'm really asking not trying to be rude.

[@milanbkl270]

@@charmedleblanc I think the last quote fits very well. I dont know if I can speak for all schools, but in the last two years it is by far the most important topic. We also dont just talk about what happend during WW2 and the Holocaust, we talk about what was leading to those things and what impact it has on our society nowadays. I am very glad that I am learning about this.

[@winzentwinni]

@@charmedleblanc I don't know if I am glad I learned this. I just got it taught and think it's normal to know about such things so I am actually a bit shocked when seeing the numbers of America and how they deal with history class but at the same time I'm somehow not really surprised. So to come back to feeling glad or not... After learning about America I am now glad I learned about our German history. Previously I concidered it as normal. Of course here are people mentioning here and there that you don't learn about certain things but you can't learn everything there is to know just in history class but I think we learn a lot of general knowledge and that's better than nothing

[@rugr82day]

They don't see or care that it is dangerous road to skip over any bad in U.S. or even World History. Next step is to re-write it... Sadly there are people today who believe and teach their children and others that the holocaust didn't happen. Teachings like that just contribute to hatred.

[@davidgolojuch615]

@@rugr82day public deny of the Holocaust is a felony in germany.

[@scoobingtonmcwigglesnatch9985]

I'm a mexican immigrant that grew up in the US school system and this fella 1:46 summed up my elementary education experience. First step of growth is self-awareness. No one is calling anybody racist by teaching this in school. This is education for the next generation so that maybe perhaps the cycle of hate can finally end.

[@avigutierrez8948]

🙏🏻

[@KSealedvsK]

Critical race Theory comes from Marxist ideals. It literally teaches that arguments based on facts, evidence, and logic are a form of white supremacy, and therefore inadmissible. It’s all a ruse, to tell you we’re not being taught enough about our racist past. This mind thought will collapse our western civilization into socialism by the beliefs of the next generation if they continue this. It truly is damaging to its core.

[@dammagrilla]

I'm starting to think they just don't want the cycle to end... I mean, without racism it would be more difficult for the moneyed class to exploit the rest of us...

[@KSealedvsK]

@@dammagrilla they don’t want the cycle to end your absolutely correct.They then come out with these insane ideals that on the front act as tho their against it, all the while promoting it behind the scenes. To say not everyone has the ability to overcome and be prosperous no matter what your skin color, in 2021, is absolutely ridiculous. We should be promoting hard work and determination. Not race theory.

[@Krystalmyth]

@@KSealedvsK Who doesn't want it to end? I think we saw last year precisely the police arm of these entities, so tell me who did they serve when they clashed with protestors? Follow that and I think it's obvious it leads to you far more than it leads to me. Based on what exactly do think that is?

[@danijacob4119]

“You must’ve done something wrong….you’re running away, but you can’t run away from yourself.”- Bob Marley. He said that 30 years ago.

[@Charlie-502]

Everyone has done something wrong.

[@Angela-sv9nw]

It's funny how other countries teach more on American history than America. I try to educate myself on different topics of American history even though it's truly sad but that's because history overall is my favorite subject and I yearn to know more especially the Truth.

[@Kaermorhan]

Same

[@harmonieshepard5931]

History is written by the victor not the victims. If you want truth about a country's history never get it from the country you are trying to learn about.

[@cbskwkdnslwhanznamdm2849]

This is a total myth.

[@eautifuleagle4776]

Exactly. I'm in school right now, and while I was in social studies class the teacher even said that history is whitewashed and what they have us learning isn't completely true, and he's white himself!

[@cbskwkdnslwhanznamdm2849]

@@eautifuleagle4776 it’s impossible to cover hundreds of years of history in one class. Just relax.

[@UNDERSIA]

As an American living almost her entire life abroad with my whole family I was taught from an early age about different topics of American history I was taught the truth behind the civil war, slavery, how native Americans were slaughtered from their land, etc etc of course about all our presidents as well It can be done , and hiding it is beyond me To quote my father “America has never been squeaky clean to everyone”

[@granville7]

where did you get your education? in Europe?

[@AKing69]

@@FlameOnTheBeat I am also from New York. Exactly how much of "that stuff" did you really learn? That's the point of the entire topic.

[@avigutierrez8948]

✊🏻🙏🏻

[@Scoring57]

Mistress of weirdness 84 Of course it can be done. Is that even a question? It's a matter of whether or not racist or biased whyte people won't attempt to get in the way

[@awesomename8955]

@@AKing69 I am also from ny, and my teachers taught us to be very critical about the us. We would always look at history in multiple point of view. Our teacher would always tell us “history is written by the victors”.

[@thedapperdolphin1590]

I had a college friend from Louisiana. He never learned about the civil war in school. They taught him “The war of northern aggression,” where the mean old northerners hated freedom. We got a long way to go.

[@aob6033]

Growing up in South Carolina this is what we learned too.

[@Aeroldoth3]

The "war of northern aggression" is, to my knowledge, taught throughout most of the South. This is relevant today because one of the central themes of right wing media is that the left HATES freedom, and is aggressive and violent. They repeat this meme every day, so when you grow up in school being taught about the violent lefties, their hatred of freedom, and their desire to control everyone, and THEN hear this same thing repeated by right wing pundits like Hannity, it comes across as unquestionably true... it resonates. And at that point these people will NEVER change their minds about the left.

[@tsharabrown3719]

At my school in Florida, in APUSH, we learned that the Civil War was about state's rights... specifically the "right" to keep slaves.

[@cryst2hu]

Wow that's crazy

[@doughnuthead8757]

I notice how certain people abuse keywords like "freedom", "in America", "liberty" just to get their half-assed point across. The irony in "mean old northerners hated freedom" is that they fought to end slavery which is the opposite of freedom.

[@dyannehorton6848]

It's still history and people have the right to know about it.

[@robertoramirez19]

Yeah but not kids though! First teach them how to love America and the revolutionary war and then teach them about slavery and colonization in their preteen age!!

[@jersydvl]

CRT isn't history

[@ambroseavery5229]

Do y’all remember, decades ago, the phrase,: “The Dumbing-Down-of-America,” which was in reference to our Public-Ed system? There was actually a mind-boggling book written about it of that same name Well, it’s secretly still going on stronger than ever today, & I have “empirical” proof of it!

[@DOAN1000]

Come on with it then . Show us

[@kentmorton2872]

Donald Trump voters and worshippers. How else could you explain America having a con man for president.

[@mahaffer71]

(Trevor Noah and CRT - DEBUNKED) FreedomToons

[@someonesomeone3126]

As a fifth grader, I disagree that we only learn 1/2 of black history. We learn much less then that.

[@alberg8]

Learn about TURTLE ISLAND and the real past not just his-story. December 26, 1862 usa was created through Genocide.

[@EpicGamer1.]

This is true.

[@sizweletanta]

Why are you on KZbin?

[@kenrickeason]

I was lucky to go to a School that teach Black History... Fox News, So Learning Black History is wokeness to you?!

[@LawlessChemistry]

To be fair, considering how well they teach mathematics in US schools it won't be till 10th grade till you learn the actual fraction.

[@sadiemcnabb4444]

I learned more about American history during Amber Ruffin's "How did we get here" segment than 12 years of public school and 4 years of university. Sad.

[@mffmoniz2948]

Yep! That segment was super concise and informative.

[@minervaminavera2347]

Ya TN is just saying the same thing we hear all the time about how it’s lacking. AR educates about unknown events and teaches us why it’s important

[@aratosm]

Sounds like you went to a leftist school.

[@aratosm]

@Ed Lopow He does.

[@Mrst3lios89]

Maybe you should have paid more attention and perhaps read the books you were assigned?

[@rosannag.burroughs4563]

Those people don't want true history to be told, because their children will know how evil and wicked they truly are!!!

[@lindauerlauren8041]

Facts!!!!

[@thrawl]

And how do you know what the true history is?

[@lindauerlauren8041]

@@thrawl What a weird question. There are plenty of detailed records that paint a clear image of what exactly went on. From census records & newspapers to individual journals and financial records. The only group of people here that are trying to tell a false narrative are the ones who contributed/committed the atrocities.

[@thrawl]

@@lindauerlauren8041 there are plenty that show both sides though, how do you know which side is right? You have to remember, things were always very politically motivated, that isn't something unique for today... Also, why don't they show these things as proof instead of just saying it was this or it was that

[@jsamc]

@@thrawl you are the definition of fake news. Spin. False Narrative, propaganda. the big lie, etc.

[@user-xi6zd5kt4i]

Love all your work, Trevor Noah. On top of that, I am a public school teacher in NYC & hoping to possibly share this video in a professional development session, or if admin doesn't allow it, then at the very least in the teacher group chat. Lol. Your words are powerful & more people (and people in various positions of power) need to hear them.

[@duckhuntdynasty6562]

I remember sitting at the dinner table, my Dad asked me "were you taught about how black families were locked out of getting housing in certain areas in the 50's, 60's, and early 70's?" I said "no, that was never taught to us." He said ""Yeah, I just learned about that from my radio show on whyy...not sure why they did not teach me or you that in school...." Prime example. He was genuinely concerned and blindsided.

[@sandal_thong8631]

Same. I stopped calling myself a "New-Dealer" after reading about '30s redlining. Republican bankers could have opposed it and been for civil rights, but they were racist, rich elite by that point.

[@crystalwalker4403]

Yes, Trump and his father were sued in the 70’s or 80’s for exactly that

[@dpeasehead]

Look up racially restrictive housing covenants when you get a chance. They were as common as, rain all over the US and in territories it controlled. Think about it whenever someone tells you that slavery ended 150 years ago, or that jim crow was a southern problem, or that only rich whites benefitted from rigging the real estate and insurance systems...

[@susannam3923]

"but.. but if we teach children about racism, then some of them might hold me accountable for being a racist🥺😓🥺" /s

[@melusidlamini9858]

Trust me they will not. It is important that children learn about the full American history and it will help solve same of the problems faced by society.

[@sheilameyers152]

My classrooms always understood the history behind slavery... they weren’t happy about it! Most of them chose to research it ....there were many things that we learned together! We always discussed some complicated issues... Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings... hot topic!!

[@susannam3923]

@@melusidlamini9858 dude did you think the quotation marks or the sarcastic tone of voice maybe suggested that I wasn't entirely being serious

[@susannam3923]

@GiGi S my dude I'm literally german. I'd like to see you try and convince me that teaching children about oppression is bad

[@nitro6002]

@John Clarke I'd like you to send me some quotes from the curriculum that state that. If that's a fact it would obviously not be acceptable. However, all I've seen so far is people saying that and pointing towards general teaching regarding slavery. Teaching that *some* white people fought to keep slavery doesn't mean *all* white people are racist. Is it possible your see it that way because you were taught to lump entire races together without any understanding that a portion of is not equal to all? Looking forward to your references and a positive exchange of thoughts/ideas.

[@thekadend]

Anyone here after watching FreedomToons?

[@raziismail8230]

Me.

[@edsova5089]

Conservatives on CRT: "ERASE HISTORY!" Conservatives on removing confederate statues: "DON'T ERASE HISTORY!"

[@TormentorRain]

Crt is not history bud

[@politereminder6284]

🤣🤣🤣

[@tonysmith4702]

@@TormentorRain what is is CRT then?

[@TormentorRain]

@@tonysmith4702 go look up the definition buddy, it’s as easy as typing it on google

[@tonysmith4702]

@@TormentorRain CRT brings up American history and its effects in the present. I rephrase my question and ask what do u think it is? It isn't an attack on individual whites or whites as a collective. It simply shows that those in power, who happen to be predominantly white, are part of the reason systems are in place that hinder non whites in America.

[@tedlu2502]

I never knew that 7 states don't mention slavery in their education curricula until this segment. That's crazy, and also f'ed up

[@annejackson9123]

That explains why people argued so much about how black people were treated and constantly denied oppression until the death of George floyd and the surge of racist history went viral. I literally saw a shift in comments after his death went viral and all other things went viral.

[@WhiteCamry]

Guess which states.

[@deadsoulgaming7115]

I don't understand why racism and slavery is this thing that's so synonymous with america's past when it was happening almost everywhere. America wasn't even the last country to stop it.

[@K4R3N]

@@deadsoulgaming7115 because it was our 2nd American Holocaust. Wipeout of the Natives was our first.

[@dpeasehead]

@@K4R3N Genocidal policies towards Native Americans and mass chattel slavery of imported Africans are the starting points of most of the nation states which now exist in the Americas, the just the US. And, in most of these places, the racial hierarchy imposed during colonial times still exists in destructive and dysfunctional modern forms, which have become normalized. The anti CRT people don't want to deal with the scale or duration of this in any meaningful way and offer no counter narrative which explains history or current circumstances. They want to crow about "progress" and point fingers at China and Russia..

[@DennisTjhie]

My history teacher decided to ditch the book. He did follow the curriculum but decided to teach on his method. He actively chose to include african american history in it, despite us not even being US. He found it important for us to know.

[@aratosm]

So he thought you guys how slavery originated in Africa?

[@Trogdor1365]

Unfortunately, there are "teachers" that throw away the book and go the _opposite_ direction. My nephew's 9th grade teacher spent the year trying to turn my baby into an ignorant racist.

[@Trogdor1365]

@@aratosm you cannot be that dumb. First of all, Africa is not a country, and there are many different cultures that exist within that continent. Secondly, slavery has existed everywhere throughout history, but post-enlightenment it becomes especially egregious, for obvious reasons. Lastly, *slavery is not the only horrible thing America has done to black people.* The oppression and destruction of black families continued in many legislative forms, and has directly led to the segragated communities, income disparities, and systemic racism we see today. Why do racism deniers think "black people sold black people" is some kind of ace in the hole?

[@qubingjianshen8210]

@@aratosm I mean, humanity orignated in Africa.

[@DennisTjhie]

@@aratosm nah, but he did go over important civil rights moments in US history. Which is not part of our curriculum but he thought was important for us to know.

[@Dog-ip7uj]

Thank you, I’m so glad a South African immigrant can educate me on my own country’s history. If it wasn’t for him and other non American people I wouldn’t know anything about racism or the wrongs of my American ancestors. :)

[@Daniel24445]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXeqe4qgj6yDrbM

[@patrickvernon2749]

You dont have any authority to teach my children anything.

[@drsingingeagle]

There's your italicized quote: "We learn from history to grow from it, not to wallow in it."

[@rakhalif66]

👏👏👏

[@drsingingeagle]

@Hank Smith - And you know this because ~ ? Not disrespecting you; I just want to understand where you're getting your information.

[@drsingingeagle]

@Hank Smith - Sources?

[@drsingingeagle]

@Hank Smith - Understood. At first, I fully supported the BLM movement until I read their entire charter. Holy smoke! Now I just support the STOP KILLING US spirit of the cause. It seems whenever a brilliant, touching, powerful societal movement rises, lots of "ultra-liberals" come in and pile all their whacked ideologies into it, thus killing it.

[@jjsh9849]

I was taught nothing about slavery in my small town in oregon; then i moved to a city still in Oregon were a great teacher taught me about it and it changed my empathy for sure.

[@livinghamptons3666]

Did you know that Oregon banned Black people, took their land and wealth and exiled them. Oregon was then named “The White state”. Pretty sad history that I just learned myself. That experience is not limited to Oregon.

[@EMANBURNS]

Sympathy*

[@michaelj.beglinjr.2804]

@@EMANBURNS --- What?

[@audreyd3595]

And that’s what republicans don’t want. When kids are more tolerant, more open to diversity, they tend to be Democrats and not conservatives.

[@abqannie5052]

How can a history teacher not teach about slavery when talking about US history?

[@raincandy3]

And can we also teach American history of other minorities like Latino and Asian American? It's like putting 1 black person in the movie is considered diverse.

[@Angela-sv9nw]

So true

[@healmyroots]

Other minorities piggyback off of the civil rights achievements of Black Americans. They need to learn about Black history first and then we can talk about them.

[@kellycole4160]

but you guys do judge people by the color of their school

[@nativeninja9460]

Native American History is also a huge lesson that was missing in most curriculums.

[@shawnhall594]

Where do you guys go to school we learn about them all the time but also i kinda live near a reservation and they own pretty much everything that makes money in my city

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

"When we got here, there were natives. Things were ok for a while. They got mad when we wanted more space, so we made sure to cut them their piece." As a summary of many of my textbooks.

[@shawnhall594]

@@bazzfromthebackground3696 im still in school and my school books say stuff about terrible stuff we did like the trail of tears and stuff natives did that were not the best or how different things would be if they did not fight each other

[@Dayandcounting]

It's just American history and it should start with indigenous American's which are American Indian's those are the preferred names when the tribe name isn't used. That requires correcting nearly as much as history as it does adding those other contributions.

[@2b16p]

I got lucky with my 6th grade history teacher, who taught us about the Dakota-Sioux War 1863 as part of our MN history curriculum. I teach elementary kids now, and as uncomfortable as it is, I tell them why we have a statue of a buffalo outside our local library - to commemorate 38 Native men who were executed during the conflict.

[@veiyi]

I am out of words. She thinks teaching history in school will teach kids to “judge one another not based on the content of their character, but solely on the color of their skin.”

[@Singingmom320]

As if they don't already? LOL. Does she stick a happy face sticker over her gas level indicator in her car?

[@erichbrough6097]

💯 My response was full AYFKM?? Other people's past actions can teach us both what *to* do and what *NOT* to do, hello?

[@somexp12]

She might not be objecting to any specific historical subject. “Critical Race Theory” was mentioned, and that is a much bigger topic. When that stuff gets packaged up and shipped out by HR departments and school boards it *can* take on a very racial essentialist tone. Thinking people are all just objecting to teaching about redlining and such is to totally misunderstand the situation.

[@kiraburr4493]

And to think she literally used an effing MLK quote to be like “we’re not racist just because we are white” makes me cringe so much

[@jasonbrownjourno]

@@kiraburr4493 that's the new conservative shtick - flipping 'lib' sayings to deny reality - a cheap university debate trick

[@traczebabe]

How did I grow up in the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s in a new neighborhood, new homes. And we had black, Jew, Mexican, & whites in our neighborhood, how did that happen if we are so racist? All of us kids went to school together, we played together. We didn’t even talk about our skin colors. It wasn’t important. How is that possible in a racist country?

[@warrior7350]

The first black people in the U.S. Congress back in 1870-71 were Hiram R. Revels, Benjamin S. Turner, Robert Carlos De Large, Josiah T. Walls, Jefferson F. Long, Joseph H. Rainey, Robert B. Elliot. They were all Republicans. The 13th Amendment- To end slavery vote was Republicans 100% Democrats 23% The 14th Amendment - Right to citizenship for former slaves Republicans 94% Democrats 0% The 15th Amendment- The right to vote for Black men Republicans 100% democrats 0%. In 1866 the democrats founded the KKK and killed black republicans and white republicans.

[@nicolasferreira1146]

The democrats and the republicans are different from that time

[@laalaa99stl]

The Civil War was fought over a disagreement concerning civilian control of the Avengers. Next question.

[@misterman2830]

Captain America freed the slaves.

[@DuranmanX]

Iron Man crossed the Delaware

[@kiaaa7330]

best comment PLS

[@MrSpankee02]

Black widow is a nasty woman. She should smile more.

[@rihannavevoc2168]

😂😂😂😂💯

[@TheArchevil]

Maya Angelou: “You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.”

[@sheilameyers152]

Maya really knew how to choose her words!

[@sheilameyers152]

@Ed Lopow ...Not true!

[@TheArchevil]

@Ed Lopow No, but I can understand that he sees similarities between the white people in South (for whom his parents had to hide their interracial marriage) and the white people in the US. He has experienced racism so when he calls someone racist I believe him over the people who say that racism isn't a big deal.

[@erichbrough6097]

@@TheArchevil Well said - and let's close the trough to trolls, right?

[@earthn1447]

I am sick and tired of being so ignorant - the man next to me was forced to sit in the balcony of our local theater - his grandfather’s house was moved by “urban renewal” it recently sold for $20,000 but would have been worth $250,000 in its original location. I wish I had been educated so I can better relate to my co-workers and neighbors!

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

I’d agree that we need to teach facts in school. Which is exactly why CRT should be banned. Ideology does not belong in the classroom.

[@eyosiasabiot7727]

Is crt being taught? Do you have proof? What is it?

[@KwabenaSackey]

Exactly. Teach facts and not ideologies. CRT a baby only it's far left mothers can love. Keep this stupidity up and you'll completely loose conservative leftists who just wanted trump out.

[@c_n_uh4796]

I go to a great private high school and in english class we research a new term together such as red-lining, colorism, privilege, micro aggressions, cultural appropriation, color-blind racial perspective, code switching, and AAVE just to name a few. I am so grateful to be able to learn about these topics!

[@dividedconquered3784]

That's great and all, but they should teach you what privatizing school does to children! Terms like oppression, disenfranchise, monopoly, capitalism! Human right's, such as every child getting that grade A education, no matter your economic background! 💚🌷

[@dividedconquered3784]

@@stevenbutler5580 That's what a democracy does! America is a PLUTOCRACY run by capitalism and monopolized everything! Housing, education, healthcare! Everything! There shouldn't be any other way! 🌷💚 Have a great night!

[@AnthonyKM]

@@dividedconquered3784 for someone trash talking about capitalism I bet you certainly enjoy the perks of it. Love the hypocrisy

[@dividedconquered3784]

@@AnthonyKM What perk??? Please tell!

[@AnthonyKM]

@damasviews I know what's worse socialism. My wife is from Venezuela recently I promise you and millions of others can't handle that living condition. Take the D rated capitalism with a smile

[@KingKong-xt9fk]

That's the reason America is still repeating itself...she doesn't want to show you who she truly is 😈💀

[@cynclairewoods4225]

@Ed Lopow idk he seems to have a wonderful relationship with his dad.

[@kamilleking4708]

@Ed Lopow just give it a rest, if you don't want to be called a racist, then don't be a racist, simple. Be brave enough to accept your past and embrace your future. This is not going away, no matter what you do.

[@marlkarx3725]

@Ed Lopow um Have you heard of South African apartheid ? His grandma would be justified.

[@jackmac436]

Maybe it's cause I went to school in California, but I was taught about slavery, and the civil rights movement, more in highschool than elementary school though I feel like that's due to age appropriate content. This idea that we can teach every part of American history in one academic year is ridiculous. Isn't that why we have college and why one should read more in there free time, so people can go one deep dives into specific academic subtopics that interest them. But i can only speak to my experience learning history in California.

[@emfairclough]

Yes we learned CRM, Cold War, WW1 WW2, Apartheid over last 3 years of high school in South Africa.

[@jakethetool698]

Well said. Thank you.

[@michaelulbricht9438]

Growing up in the Bay Area during the 60's and my Dad's office was next to the Black Panthers. My Dad & Mom never used a racial slur. It begins in the home!

[@alanai1981]

YAY AREA!!! I live in the Bay And we have no tolerance for any of that mess.

[@HT-pl8du]

@@alanai1981 lol we still have our fair share of racism though

[@Trogdor1365]

Lucky. I heard everything you can imagine and had to come to the realization of how f--king racist we were in my teens. Now my family doesn't like to talk to me because I can't hear it anymore. I *have* to correct it because it's so ignorant, disgusting, and wrong and I realize not saying anything against it is just as bad. It is a bit healing that I have children now and I can raise them right.

[@aishas8994]

@@Trogdor1365I’m so happy for you’re teaching your kids how to respect and honor all kind of difference no matter what color Or religion they are

[@Trogdor1365]

@@aishas8994 thank you, but it's not really any effort on my part. It takes much more energy and work to make your kids hateful and racist, because kids don't care if someone looks different than them. They notice, just like they notice long or short hair, but they don't qualify differences. All I did was move into a diverse neighborhood and treat everyone with the respect and courtesy they deserve. That's literally all. We _will_ have conversations about systemic racism and black history when they are older, but they're 2 and 4 right now.

[@njewellbraun]

"We learn from history to grow from it, not to wallow in it."

[@anthonyharris483]

America hasn't grown from it yet unfortunately.

[@sebasthecrab1345]

@@anthonyharris483 u live in america?

[@carlencharleston8576]

@@anthonyharris483 Those who desire to grow have. The rest will have to catch up at some point. We need to keep moving forward. There's a reason the windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror.

[@Tigresspink]

I am grateful for KZbin creators Extra Credit/History for the their mulipart story of The Irish Potato famine. In my high school, "The Irish Potato Famine" was just 2 paragraphs. My teacher explained that the Irish people had no other crops to plant so they starved.

[@40ozsublime99]

Americans know we have racist history! It's thrown in our faces every day. But we aren't taught about other countries and races doing the same thing. When you're told over and over again what your ancestors did was wrong and are never taught anyone else did anything wrong outside of World Wars, it definitely makes kids think there is something wrong with them. It's not America's job to teach other countries' histories, but it would be nice to give students comparable events from cultures around the world and through time so it doesn't seem like America's racism was an isolated event.

[@AnonymousReader-er4eg]

"8% of seniors can identify slavery as a cause of the civil war" Wow, I'm not even American, but me and many of my classmates know this very well.

[@someonenew439]

It’s a fake study anyway. In fact I e never even heard this stat. But it is easily false. I will try and find the article.

[@shofisstar]

Same

[@saxking101]

@@someonenew439 any luck? Or were you just instinctively calling something false because you didn’t like how it made you feel?

[@genieglasslamp5028]

@Ed Lopow Trevor hates white people like white people hate Starbucks.

[@Tormod29]

Yeah a lot of schools focus on the issue of state rights and economics. The problem with that thinking is it is the State's Rights of Slavery and the Economy of Slavery. But I am pretty sure some states still fire people for teaching evolution, so I don't have a lot of faith these days.

[@stangroomer8846]

I'm going to school to be a teacher, and one thing I am noticing is a failure to properly communicate school policies and curriculums with parents so that they actually understand.

[@DPowered2]

its not a bug its a feature.

[@StevenStarksjbirdcapitalllc]

So true. So very true.

[@jasonfuentz7681]

@@DPowered2 How does that remotely apply to what the OP said?

[@The.Actual.Rooster]

@@jasonfuentz7681 what he means is that it's inherent in the structure of things; it's something that always will fundamentally happen due to the parameters. It's a bit crass, but it's still spot on in terms of reality if you understand the meaning.

[@The.Actual.Rooster]

Fact is is that if you're noticing it you can change it, especially if you're within the system. It's not that difficult to say what's what to anyone who is smart enough to get it

[@brucelachniet8698]

Being Native American this all saddens me

[@wdouglas041]

The Real Truth Must Be Told, That's History.

[@Vlad_the_Impaler]

Repeat after me: "My country history is not me!" Do it every day 100 times until you actually believe it.

[@sheilameyers152]

“I’m my country’s history “how about that!

[@slavesforging5361]

Amen.

[@myhandlewastaken]

All it takes is once for those types. They then flood comment sections to complain about 'wokeness' and PC culture as if everything that has happened in this country isn't the root cause of it.

[@Withjoyfulsenescence]

Thank you for pointing out Germany, Trevor! I’ve compared these 2 scenarios before, asking why Germans are able to accept that part of their history but Americans cannot. I’m glad my thought process is correct. ☺️

[@hape3862]

It prevents us Germans to get overly proud of our nation (again), which is not the same as to hate one's own country. But I reckon these differences are too subtle for Americans …

[@lucax2300]

Within many American families, any attempt to rationally discuss the very real topic of racism and how bad it was between the "first class citizens" and everyone else.. It always gets shut down by all the weird, biased, patriotic stuff like, "If you don't like it, you can leave it." It's cringe af being a native myself, them not taking in regard the deforestation, introduction of invasive foreign plant and animal species, and the attempt to wipe several native tribes' records out of memory. If it bothers them to have to hear it again and again, I would understand that but I seriously doubt it's why they get so defensive about hearing about it.

[@lilybee7334]

@@hape3862 I’m Dutch, near the German border, and I absolutely love Germany! You still have plenty to be proud of 😉

[@_SpamMe]

It took almost half a century, massive student protests, occupation, tireless campaigning by victims, the evil eye from the entire rest of the world, and, finally, some actual will to get there. Just look at the "other" WW2 power - Japan. And how they teach about their crimes. It'll make those US curriculums look sane.

[@lilybee7334]

@En Lightning exactly!

[@7josette]

I don’t remember learning about race and civil war or anything like that until i took a college course in ethnic studies 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@hansjuker8296]

You took a college course in ethnic studies. 🤦

[@michaelpcoffee]

CRT promotes the notion that the fact that a group is superior is proof that everybody in that group is guilty; and, that a group being inferior is proof that everybody in that group is a victim. Further: this principle projects through time; asserting that what happened to the long dead projects onto the guilt or victimhood of the living; even if the living never experienced it at all...........

[@darylcarr8283]

December 7, 1941: "A day that will live in infamy." September 11, 2001: "Never forget." America LOVES to "remember" the times she was "wronged," but not the times she "wronged" her own. Hmm...

[@Sailaway1030]

I bet that’s how the Koreans felt when Russia and America split their country in half. When America topped the Haitian government and put Papa and Baby Doc in power They set up a corrupt dictator in Iran, I could go on but I won’t

[@Ablestreet]

Excellent comment! Thanks!

[@Victor-gh3ur]

@@Sailaway1030 Iranians would have been better off with that "corrupt dictator" today then they are with those "heathen dictators" who run it now....

[@johnbeecroft9892]

Somebody wants money

[@bobbiemiles-foremaniii8747]

Did you go to an American school? If you think American schools don't teach this stuff then you simply haven't been in an American school. It's all they teach in history

[@wescook1091]

Just imagine what they tell their children.

[@bazzfromthebackground3696]

"You're not racist, you're just better than everyone not like you."

[@availanila]

@@bazzfromthebackground3696 ha! That seems legit.

[@UlshaRS]

We don't need to because they, being the small government party they are, to try legislate at every level and scream oppression on every network that will host them the second they get push back.

[@whizthesugoi]

Probably nothing, racism does not exist if you're not taught about it

[@mattrutkowski5305]

“Shut up and watch the TV; I gotta go down and play my numbers!”

[@triplebbb1484]

Why is a man from S. Africa teaching Americans about racism? Shouldn’t he fix his country first?

[@antoniopena3254]

The like to dislike ratio on this video makes no sense. I'm on KZbin everyday and have been for years now and I've never seen a video with so many likes have so many negative comments, KZbin is clearly manipulating the dislikes on this video.

[@phreak074]

If racism was framed as a societal mental health issue (which it is imo), then lying about racist history and denying current systemic racism is the equivalent of telling depressed people "you are totally fine", "everything is okay", "stop being so sensitive" 🤔 This not only makes the problem much worse, but it removes the capacity at which an individual could be healed . . .

[@ForceOfWill100]

Yeeeaah, hate to break it to you, but most people with this set of beliefs DO take that approach towards mental health.

[@WellBeing999]

Mental health issue is right! I’m convinced that the concept of race was created by and continues to be perpetrated by a set of undiagnosed Egomaniacs at a minimum

[@charmedleblanc]

Never thought of it like that. It completely makes sense.

[@phreak074]

Yes. Race is a social construct and it is a horrible one. there is much scientific evidence to rule it out, but governments are holding onto their own race categories. I only recently learned different governments have different categorizations of race. it's totally nuts! I've been priveleged to be raised in America without my much of my culture. While culture is interesting in some aspects, it is ridiculous in others, don't get me wrong the food is great, but old world traditions and mindsets that don't adapt to society as it changes, to me, is the SOURCE of the problem 🤔

[@ameliadelgado3382]

As a black girl who went to predominantly white schools I will say it was so hard for me to hear about the treatment of my ancestors and people who look like me. I’m thankful the schools I went to did an adequate job but of course I learned more deeply, as I grew older, from family and from my own studies. I didn’t grow up thinking white people were inherently racist. We got to give teachers and students a bit more credit than that. And as hard as it may be for white children to hear imagine what it’s like for the black children. There’s a real sorrow and sadness just thinking about it. I remember being acutely aware that I wouldn’t be able to attend the very school I went to if I had been born many years earlier. I’m not sure it’s easy for anyone but it’s definitely necessary. We canNOT go back… we have to keep trying to improve this nation.

[@deadpoo4707]

🤢🤮

[@majopgalli]

@@deadpoo4707 Any problems with your stomach or just a reaction to becoming aware of your totally lack of critical thinking..??

[@JW-gl4yp]

Nobody is against teaching history, what we're against is teaching white kids that they're oppressors and teaching black kids that they're helpless victims

[@Whistlesonthewind]

@@JW-gl4yp Bwahahahaha

[@erikduvald6703]

We learned about it here in Sweden too. My question is, did they teach you that this was committed by DEMOCRATS? - Or that the KKK was founded by Democrats? - Or that all KKK leaders were Democrat Senators? - Or that every Democrat presidential candidate until the 90's was an outspoken segregationist? - Or that ALL Democrats voted AGAINST black citizenship and voting rights, while all Republicans voted for it? - Or that it was the Democrats that implemented (and practiced) Jim Crow laws? Because we learned those facts in school here as well. (I can make the list a LOT longer, but you get my point).

[@Coccyx69]

What are you talking about? My school taught so much about black history that it caused kids to have do their own research after school to learn the other stuff on the SOLs and they added an extra hour to school at the end of the year when they realized they didnt teach anything else

[@blackdad8564]

Trevor should be teaching about the violence farmers are facing in his own country. Get it together people, this man is trying to divide us Americans.

[@User417_]

Yep this is what we need, teaching people about racism can be a very powerful thing and we should put this in schools and no I’m not being sarcastic

[@emilyrugburn9167]

😆

[@yami9792]

This sounds like sarcasm

[@yami9792]

🤪

[@taylorbug9]

Yeah. School would have you thinking these are very old problems. In reality my not very old Grammy went to segregated schools for almost her entire schooling. Schools weren't forced to START desegregation until my grandma was 13 years old.

[@Scoring57]

CO2000A_A You're not being sarcastic right?

[@shellyadams371]

I’m 54 yrs old and I thought I was adequately educated. The last 5 yrs of our history have proven me wrong. I’ve learned more about black history and systemic racism than I even knew existed and it has changed me, for the better I hope. So why is it so surprising that those in my age group and younger adults are protesting about things they were never taught and still don’t understand. They revel in their ignorance instead of embracing the opportunity to learn what they were never taught. And now they want to pass that ignorance on to their children.

[@bellaluv1070]

Systemic racism isnt real. Youre learning fairy tales.

[@davidmays8974]

@@bellaluv1070 Systemic racism is real, there is no fairytale there.

[@Truthist1776]

This type of video right here is why the Indians and Jews at KZbin eliminated the dislike count.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

This is so full of logical fallacies it's actually impressive. The hypocrisy was also a nice touch.

[@paulaeller8704]

History has to be taught in its entirety. You cant just pick and choose. How can we learn if we dont know the truth

[@billyg.2677]

Exactly, unless they’re accusing the school board of lying then I don’t see the problem

[@DontGoToHell]

If “anti-racists” are so unconcerned with race, how come they only have a problem with White schools, White workplaces, White towns, White Cites and White countries? I’ve never seen any “anti-racist” complain that any place is too Brown and it has to become LESS Brown to combat racism. Who do they think they are kidding? Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.

[@jusme2106]

@@DontGoToHell because white people wrote the history books.. In their image.

[@HJKelley47]

@@jusme2106 : When you do research on who owns the companies who write history books, you might just discover motives for why they whitewash history. That reasoning has also been a part of higher education as well, and ultimately into every strata of society. It then becomes the foundation for white entitlement. White entitlement is a hangover not only from slavery, but from the ideology of Cecil Rhodes' that the English were the master race The belief that the English were the 'master race became one of the justifications for stealing/swindling the Americas from the indigenous peoples and justification for brutal slavery That 'master race' ideology morphed into white supremacy and continues to be, with subtlety, perpetuated through the educational, banking, media, political, police, and other systems in place in the US. I will admit that racism had moved from being overt and in-your-face, to a much more subtle form. We truly began to progress toward equality in our nation, but the pandemic pushed the button and now we see there is still an issue of racism in this nation. As POC, we already knew racism was still around. If anyone doubted before 2020, it is clear as crystal we are still a long way from being 'bigot free.' We can try to hide it by not incorporating that history in our school systems, like we tried to truly hide it from international politics. Now the truth of is out there, and don't think other countries aren't saying "who are they to tell us how we should treat our people? They need to do something in their own home first". Coming face to face with our very dark and shameful history is challenging, but like Germany we need to begin dealing with it without those "white woman tears", so that the future of this nation will become morally, spiritually and psychologically healthier. If we don't truly face it, we will continue to repeat it to our doom. Our children are not born racist, they learn at home. We need to teach children so that they do not carry that racist mess to the next generation.

[@spendsshanks6050]

@@jusme2106 Just not true. That’s implying that only whites are racist when that is extremely far from the truth

[@GWKaname]

It’s easier to add a new slang word in Webster’s dictionary every year then adding true history in schools !

[@doryexplore5481]

The US is a white country and only 1/8 of the country is black. So why tf should we care about their history, it’s unimportant and all you woke people are dumb af for wanting to teach about it

[@mco7478]

@@doryexplore5481 1/8 is pretty much, y'know?

[@GreaterThanGodLike]

@@doryexplore5481 The US is not and has never been a white country, either you learn the full history of our nation and it PEOPLES or remain silent In your ignorance.

[@MrRanch-fc2pe]

“I don’t Want a black history month. Black history is American history.”-Morgan freeman

[@linajurgensen4698]

The best example of „History being written by the winners“ is WW2.

[@matcampbell5]

My high school had diversity day and it was awesome. I loved learning about different cultures and different people's life experiences. It was kind of sad though that a bunch of parents complained about it and tried to have it removed from the curriculum.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

Bunch of screeching Karens and angry Kevins with nothing better to do than blame other people for their slight discomfort over change.

[@pearlboakye-yiadom9716]

Ahh saying it again

[@jasonsabbath6996]

Isn't also sad you had Diversity DAY? Why is it only a day? Why do we have Black History month when it's American history, and why is it the only month with 28 days?

[@avigutierrez8948]

😙😂😂😂😂😂😂🎊. Ah parents nature’s emotional embarrassment sometimes.

[@stellerate]

@@jasonsabbath6996 I personally don't see the point of black history month, I believe that schools should just teach black history along with white history because ultimately history is history! Why limit it to a month? Why even have a month? It should be tought yearly At least that's the way that our homschool group worked

[@charlesstebbins7207]

I wonder how many kids today know who George Washington Carver, Madam C.J. Walker, Lonnie G. Johnson, Garrett Morgan, Patricia Bath, or Percy Julian are, or what they contributed to humanity?

[@debrahelmlinger6256]

I was lucky that in high school African American studies were offered. I learned so much and then went on to become a Librarian helping thousands of kids over my 37 year career with their Black History projects. Broward County Florida was the most Democratic county in the state of Florida, culture shock moving just 2 1/2 hrs north

[@ecliptorcalrissian5014]

I'm black and I had to look up a couple of those names.

[@mazdakmina9493]

Exactly! Better yet, I wonder how many *adults* today know about them! If you asked those names to a child, and then asked those names to a senior citizen (both white), the saddest truth is that I would be more surprised if the *senior citizen* could name them all! My point being, teaching the truth about America's history has clearly *always* been inadequate (hence why we got Trump)! This isn't a new problem at all. It's always been there, and we're *finally* noticing it! But yes, that definitely does not mean we should find it *any less* horrifying if kids today end up learning the same inaccuracies that we, our parents, and our grandparents did!

[@charlesstebbins7207]

George Washington Carver: an American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Madam C.J. Walker: an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. Lonnie G. Johnson: an inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, whose work includes a U.S. Air Force-term of service and a twelve-year stint at NASA, where he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Garrett Morgan: an inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a three-position traffic signal and a smoke hood notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue. Patricia Bath: an American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. She was the inventor of laser cataract surgery. Percy Julian: an American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.

[@kenrickeason]

@@debrahelmlinger6256 I was lucky to go to a Black School when I was growing up and they taught everything they tried to hide from us..

[@traczebabe]

Why did George Washington upon becoming president make an executive order that slavery would be abolished in twenty years??? Why wait twenty years, that’s a long time. He was trying to give the people of the south time to figure out how they would run their plantations without slavery. He was also giving slaves time to learn to read, write, and the skills to live on their own. Gain employment other than working on a plantation.

[@Daniel24445]

Read the Articles of Confederation 1774 and see what caused Revolutionary War.

[@CrowdPleeza]

If you're gonna teach about race in schools it can't be one-sided. Basically you'll need to expose kids to the views of Cornell West and Thomas Sowell and then let kids sort things out after that.

[@davidoliver9805]

I learned more about U.S. history when I lived in Japan than I ever did in the U.S. school system.

[@sandal_thong8631]

Maybe they should teach Japanese history in Japan; Koreans and Chinese hate them, because they're still in denial about WWII.

[@jeffchan67]

I've lived in Japan for the last 20 years & raised two daughters - I'm curious what you learned over here

[@davidoliver9805]

@@jeffchan67 no offense but, there are museums in just about every country. In said museums, they may teach about military history - (WWI, WWII, Spanish American War and the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Philippines, etc.) military history, imperialism, "HAFU" and African and European diaspora dynamics in Asia, art history, trade and economics, U.S. Embassies and consulate operations as it relates to "American interests", differences in American policing/healthcare/justice/education, etc.

[@Llynnyia]

@@davidoliver9805 dude our local muesuem glorifies the gold rush glossing over and whitewashing the asian abuse or native abuse completly. the only mueseum that even mentions it is a single still standing chinese laundry cottage in sutter creek . its BS, in the exstreme.

[@kelliethornton7986]

After watching the first 10 min of Watchmen, I walked into my roommates room and asked her if the Tulsa massacre was real. She hadn't heard about it either. We weren't the only ones. I didn't know about Juneteenth until President Cheesepuff. Why am I just hearing about this at 37?!

[@coolidgedollar2154]

I don't know, because they can be found in hundreds if not thousands of books. The fact that millions of Americans only found out about Tulsa from a fictional TV show should tell us something about American literacy and personal reading habits -- and not just our schools -- shouldn't it? (Sound off, comments folks: How many books have you read on your own in the past year?)

[@kelliethornton7986]

@@coolidgedollar2154 how do you go looking for something you don't know happens in the first place? How do you know what you don't know? The point I was trying to make was that its not common curriculum to begin with. At my high school, American History X was the entire lesson on post civil war racism in America. Literally. My opinions have changed drastically in the last 4 years. Not every white person is a racist any more than all black people are criminals. Some people simply don't know.

[@coolidgedollar2154]

@@kelliethornton7986 I understand your point. But to answer your question: You just look. The point of discovery is to simply cast your net as far as you can, and hope to find things you (or others) didn't know before. I don't blame you for the "Watchmen" Tulsa thing either; I realized it long ago, and it's our fault as a society. But it's still a problem that we can't stick onto our schools alone. School was never meant to teach you everything. Education is a lifelong process, and to be honest it requires books before T.V. shows.

[@BD091959]

Because America is a racist country. Define racism...

[@joshmalone4246]

That's really sad, nothing about you, just America is a really sad place!

[@dapv144]

I'm 37. I've got a 16yr old kid. She's learning the same stuff I did. I also have a 12 yr old. She is learning a perspective that is anti-American. It is divisive and dangerous. Ideals are peaceful, history is violent. The teaching of highly influential youth that they are merely a by-product of the color of their skin is not only wrong, it is counter productive to all the morals and dreams of the Civil rights movement. It removes any hope that one can determine their own future and places all accountability for personal failure out of reach and into the hands of someone else. Why try? What is the point? Because I am black I cannot make it in this country. It is built to keep me from reaching to a "more perfect" existence. Critical race theory is not only a lie, it is a poison to the futures of all of our children, and a complete dismantling of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[@7josette]

Trevor can i get a T Shirt of your face with that last quote about remembering history 🤣

[@egalitarius8582]

those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

[@sebasthecrab1345]

Who said that? Sounds like a famous quote

[@controlman7490]

@@sebasthecrab1345 George Santayana I believe.

[@gaoglermail4496]

@@sebasthecrab1345 yuri bezmenov

[@glowindarkness1871]

those who ignore the true history are doomed to repeat it

[@AudranER]

And that is why in 2021 WS are still repeating their history. Acts 7:51 "You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!

[@foreverpython9719]

When tiktok has more information for students on the real history of a country than the school curriculum it becomes a problem

[@zac_k2drio704]

Education SOS

[@trainablemonkey9912]

TikTok is crowd sourced just like Parler and Wikipedia. Which is it more like 🤔

[@foreverpython9719]

@@trainablemonkey9912 depends on the show 🤔

[@Zt3v3]

@Junie Jake I dunno, I can remember saying stuff like this when I was a kid, that I learned more from TV than school. I realize we often experience the same events differently, but school is a two way street, what you put in has an impact on what you get out of it. I didn't really understand that when I was young. That said, and maybe it's because I grew up in California, but 30 years ago I remember learning about slavery, Native Americans, racism, etc. I remember learning about the root of the civil war. Maybe in other states this stuff is glossed over, I dunno. Either way, it can't hurt to spend more time on the topic, there were months of my life spent on the American revolution, honestly too much time since most of that seems like ego stroking.

[@the_gratefulgamer]

@Junie Jake Maybe in your state...

[@oldmandan3884]

They don’t specifically mention kick ball in the curriculum over view either , does that mean the kids never play kick ball ?

[@Suleykwahhi]

Great video trevor noah great video

[@Hello-gx5cs]

I'm currently teaching BLACK HISTORY to my German students. Just found this video and will immediately use it in class today. Looking forward to the discussion. Thanks so much Trevor!

[@Partstim]

I'm very curious as to how that turned out. Can we have a follow-up?

[@aratosm]

You're looking to teach your students, some of which I assume are white, that they are inherently racist? Hope they fire you and bar you from teaching ever again.

[@christelheadington1136]

We covered The Civil Rights events in school, but in the '60's we called it "Current Events".

[@dhtsoaedsdhtnadi9575]

i'm of the old school. i was not taught white history or black history, but AMERICAN history. crispus attucks. harriet tubman. dred scott. george w carver. mlk. they were all taught to us alongside paul revere, abe lincoln, henry ward beecher, edison, and jfk. we didn't have any such thing as black history month. that sort of artificial division was precisely what the majority of americans at the time were trying to end. you think history is kind to to the victorious writers? think again. we were taught that the american government was cruel to the native american indian with "gifts" of blankets infected with smallpox and killing crews that nearly exterminated the buffalo which was so vital to the plains tribes. we were also taught that the federal government essentially stole much of the southwest from mexico. we don't need to write a new history book. we need to go down to the boiler room and drag out the text books my generation was taught from, the same text books written based on interviews of the historical figures themselves. any new text is going to colored by modern interpretation. that is not an improvement. that is distortion. then we WILL lose sight of history and we WILL be doomed to repeat it.

[@beatzis1195]

As an European, I dont understand Americans.... at all.

[@JOHNNYCRAFT79]

“Re-examining your history is not easy to do. Especially when it requires some self criticism.” That part.

[@coolidgedollar2154]

I'm not sure exactly what he means by "your" history, but though I think he's right, personally I don't struggle with that. I appreciate knowing about the flaws in my heroes; it helps me see them as human, and what made them great as attainable to us today. We could not properly appreciate certain American Founders, for example, if we didn't know they owned slaves. (That's one reason why Frederick Douglass both criticized and admired them simultaneously.) ...The problem is the pendulum swinging too far the other way, from seeing such figures as absolute gods to seeing them as absolute demons instead. The truth is somewhere in the middle -- but CRT and 1619 either don't offer it, or don't advertise their intentions very well. So I'm not surprised that some people are suspicious of them. Potential widespread laws should be subject to a little more scrutiny -- but Mr. Noah doesn't seem to think so.

[@ernestinalefebvre5191]

and history burns, treat it carefully when you examine and rewrite it (paraphrased from a race movie from SA: The One)

[@jonlenihan4798]

Black people are naturally righteous, and need no self-criticism.

[@kj7682]

@Xinny The Flu We can tell you don’t care about being racist by your Name and Avatar. I’m sure the whole truth about this country AND yourself is something you avoid at all costs.

[@tinman3586]

Try to post some facts about blacks and crime and they'll censor you lol but these same people want to lecture everyone else about supposed "true" history.

[@annabrenner5995]

Possibly the best segment of Trevor's Daily Show I've ever seen. Peak-thoughtful, maximum clarity. Should be required viewing in every 9th grade history class.

[@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts]

@Crystal Kanashii Obvious troll is obvious.

[@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts]

@Ed Lopow He's half-white.

[@doryexplore5481]

The US is a white country and only 1/8 of the country is black. So why tf should we care about their history, it’s unimportant and all you woke people are dumb af for wanting to teach about it

[@KrasMazovHatesYourGuts]

@@doryexplore5481 Because in spite of your best efforts, black people still exist.

[@chillrell1801]

@@doryexplore5481 gotta love how white people go to the internet to anonymously be racist but in person will plea with about how not racist they are

[@mik7564]

So true! I dated a white Englishman and he came to visit me in the US for a while. He loves history, so we visited a few Revolutionary War historical sites. He was quite intrigued to learn some of the details he did and mentioned to me that in the UK they do not learn much about the Revolutionary War. They understsnd why they're against CRT; they don't want to give up white supremacy.

[@afgone]

You don't know what CRT is.

[@Daniel24445]

That’s funny! The reason they don’t learn much about Revolutionary War is because they never really accept any defeat. Among British elite circles they call Revolutionary War America’s “Temper Tantrum”! They never consented to finish painting depicting signing of Paris Treaty 1783 until Obama’s term and Obama sent them one of original copies of Declaration of Independence. Isaiah 24:21-22 will be fulfilled and their global army of masons will not stop it. The Pantheon invoked in Paris Treaty can’t be enslaved like a genie in a bottle.

[@anjneyachaturvedi4463]

what's crazy is all 6 states who do not teach slavery as a cause of civil war are northern states