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

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Published on May 5, 2021

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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  • Zu Yure 3 years ago

    I love Native American national Anthem from history lessons

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  • VS. Bayu 3 years ago

    I learnt from YouTube but paid money to the University.

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  • James Rey 3 years ago

    yeah they gon miss that end part fr

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  • Des S 3 years ago

    what makes you think these racists don’t want to repeat it?

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  • Aisha Guthmann 3 years ago

    Probably we should start teaching international history.
    I ‘ve learned a lot about german an european history but clearly failed to be teached about the rich history of all the other parts of the planet. It would change our point of view immensely, if we realise there was civilisations, cultur an religion before white people came to conquer.

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  • azae00 Vids 3 years ago

    yes systematic racism should be taught so that the phrases like “race card” or “racism is over because..” or any other BS can end

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  • Valentín Draghici 3 years ago

    Where you gonne stop talking and show some solutions to stop to hate black people

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  • azae00 Vids 3 years ago

    I see no issues with teaching kids the mistakes of the past so that they are not repeated…. how is this hard to understand.

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  • azae00 Vids 3 years ago

    Funny how those that say they don’t want these things taught are ok with demoralization of ethic cultures

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  • Nci Sept 3 years ago

    The oppressor will never be the right person to tell history of him oppressing. There will always be biasness and watering down of the truth

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  • King Edwarting 3 years ago

    As german.
    This is absurd

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  • Mark G 3 years ago

    In a country that believes that a magical man that lives in the sky created everything in 7 days is it really that much of a stretch to think they might not be teaching history correctly if they don’t teach evolution and the fact that most religions are based on fairy tales do not be surprised that perhaps the reality of America is not being taught.

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  • Piccalilli Pit 3 years ago

    *MANY RIGHT-WING CHANNELS* are now using a manipulation technique I call “Call to authority run on”

    They quote a respected person or book and then in the same intonation say their BS propaganda, implying the original author said it and hence lending credibility to it…
    Jordan Petterson pioneered this technique.

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  • reach communications 3 years ago

    They are the biggest Hippocrates and its because they cant see past their nose. Coming from republicans that want to teach kids Praeger University courses.

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  • Lawless Chemistry 3 years ago

    Guess where else the government and populist waves are trying to rewrite history? In Russian Federation we are now seeing a rise of neo-Stallinism where the younger generation is told that Stalin was a great person who strengthened the Soviet Union instead of directly and indirectly murdering tens of millions of its own citizens.

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  • GaminHasard 3 years ago

    Haha Little Klaus!!!

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  • Captain Lalo 3 years ago

    Can a racist country have Black History month?

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  • BOLDA FIFA 3 years ago

    The devil’s greatest trick is making you believe racists don’t exist. Decent reasonable people stormed the Capitol.

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  • VanYT 3 years ago

    I learn more history from sabaton than I do in school

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  • FOXMSM ISPUREPROPAGANDATRASH 3 years ago

    The biggest positive impacts starts at the home.once parents stop teaching their kids racism itll be less of an issue.I was blessed with beautiful highly intelligent parents who my grandparents tried to teach racism to .but my parents were both tolerant beautiful indivisuals.I was gifted by their sense of truth on my many levels

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  • FOXMSM ISPUREPROPAGANDATRASH 3 years ago

    Must confess I have been a racist towards ” orange ” people since 2016

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  • Timothy Alexzander Carthan II 3 years ago

    The US need to learn a thing or two from other countries about its education (Cuba, Japan, Nigeria (well all of africa)

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  • IeatyellowSNO 3 years ago

    185 Klancestors have disliked this video.

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  • Kamakiri711 3 years ago

    Great video, Trevor. This is an important issue.
    As a (history) teacher myself, I’m getting really annoyed by uneducated people telling me how to do my job. Looking at society through the lens of race is just one of the tools we have. Some others are gender and class. It’s important to deconstruct society based on those principles to explain how it all works, why are things the way they are.

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  • Javier Gonzalez 3 years ago

    First teach native American history

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  • Detric Bell 3 years ago

    Poor white people keep people like that idiot in Louisiana in power

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  • xd master 3 years ago

    We dont want our kids Growing up hating we are starting to hate this country because of the people on fox news

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  • kiki jpg 3 years ago

    As a German with a horribly history, i find this weird. We learn really early on about our history. Without sugarcoating it. How can you except change without knowing what happend. Just because you don’t talk about or don’t like the topic, it doesn’t erase the past.

    That doesn’t mean we don’t have racism, but we don’t have status of nazis to glorify. (Or to “learn about history”)

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  • outlawz38 3 years ago

    When we stop dividing American history and black history, nothing will improve in that department.

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  • prettyINpink Quetzalcoatl 3 years ago

    To think that public education is anything but a prison for the mind and design to prepare better wage slaves in the labor market is the true sad crime. Sadly until we can free the education system from the current system it was made into we can only hope to teach our children these important ideals at home. We need a better educated population who pushes a better designed education system and who has a desire to read and educate themselves over watching tiktok and hour long meme YouTube videos. Breaking the chains of the mind start with YOU not your government and there systems made to trap you. I love you all.

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  • Not Convinced 3 years ago

    Why do people get so emotional when they deny being racist in public? No one said you were racist… but you kind of told on yourself with your little show.

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  • Eric Minch 3 years ago

    Learning the history of one’s people should be an honor and privilege earned only by those who have mastered reading, writing, and pre-calculus mathematics. /s [or is it?]

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  • Diego 3 years ago

    According to white right wingers, teaching the real history of the US, that white people aren’t superior, slavery was evil, and that people of color were crucial to building the country, is racists and will destroy the country.

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  • Elly Bananas 3 years ago

    “I will be made to feel guilty” is what someone said about teaching about systemic racism. forgetting that those who don’t learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them. And white privilege let’s people live without constantly seeing the hatred and damage being done to our non white community, making it easier to pretend it’s not happening. We need to teach our kids so they can be better than us.

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  • LIDYAEIL 3 years ago

    SOmeone tell this to Japan as well to not hide the second world war crimes made to Korea and China

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  • Bertram Davis 3 years ago

    The pain is white people have been whitewashed into thinking they are the best people in the world and they are not.

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  • NifflerZ3 3 years ago

    Now Trevor just stole someone’s quote over there!

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  • Ace The Sloth 3 years ago

    I always wanted to learn about Native American religion. Always thought it was neat

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  • Silent Dragon 3 years ago

    I love history or social studies. Online school with Grands and I always add the fluffed over parts so they understand the violence and hatred that created this country. This has made us romanticized our history as heroic and glorious.

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  • jcharth 3 years ago

    strange only 2 states teach racism history and one of them is MA. Yet Boston is in the naughty list.

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  • ballroomboy 3 years ago

    This guy should go back to his country and talk about racism. There is a reason why he moved to America. Must be so bad here.

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  • faarsight 3 years ago

    I think it’s often better to put critique in terms of the actions, i.e. “what you just said was racist” or “what you just did was racist” as opposed to “you are racist”. That is an attack on peoples self image and will usually shut down all hope of a discussion since people will just turn defensive and refuse to acknowledged any wrong on their part.

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  • Calder Wishne 3 years ago

    Wait… only 8% of graduating seniors know slavery was the cause of the Civil War?!! Yikes.

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  • Glenn Welsh 3 years ago

    America likes to teach about freedom and equality, but chooses to overlook the many times the nation didn’t live up to those ideals. Whether it’s the slavery, segregation, and racism toward black people, or the genocide of Native American tribes during Western Expansion, or the Japanese internment camps during World War II, they would prefer to sweep all that under the rug because it flies directly in the face of the Declaration of Independence’s determination that America is a nation where “all men are created equal”. We’ve been taught that acknowledging these injustices is “un-American”, rather than learning from those past mistakes and teaching today’s people to better live up to the ideals of freedom and equality that even the country’s founders who created such ideals couldn’t follow themselves.

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  • boeniman 3 years ago

    the funny thing about the comparison to us germans is that it was actually the AMERICANS who made us “learn from our history” and now they don’t want to do that themselves …

    what?

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  • Lord Dicsic 3 years ago

    How is Critical Race Theory racist & how is the 1619 project inaccurate ? Please give examples evidence and facts.

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  • John Shackelford 3 years ago

    History is like twitter deleted

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  • Dilsad Meraler 3 years ago

    You are sooooo right Trevor. System just wants all poor people hate each other so they just keep power

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  • Marci LK 3 years ago

    I think there should be some time devoted to what might unity look like and how to create it. Now part of that would probably need to be honest about the past and our present situation. But it puts the end goal at helping to solve the problems and create a better world.

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  • Deciding Different 3 years ago

    education is for geeks and losers!

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  • madb4you 3 years ago

    “Those who can not remember the past , are doomed to repeat it.”.soo True…I guess more than some countries are doomed to repeat it in Europe….Germany is maybe the only one Who learned.

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  • Curtis Brown 3 years ago

    The sound of that woman crying almost made me fall out my chair laughing.

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  • Candace H 3 years ago

    Thank you for highlighting the economic aspects of what is going on.

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  • Mr_ Tinez 3 years ago

    Teaching kids their country is perfect is the reason the US has used human rights violations in other countries to start wars over resources with the excuse that they are “liberating” those countries… and yet simultaneously ignore human right violations in the countries they are allied with.

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  • Nory GT 3 years ago

    Im amazed at the number of people who don’t know about that time the US government made a race ban to keep Asians out or when they took them out of their house and attested them into a concentration camp. I shouldn’t be surprised because we don’t teach that in school. Thousands of people only know about the Tulsa Massacre because of a TV show about a time traveling blue man and cops in masks!
    This is all part of US history and since those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it, I would very much rather Jayden to feel uncomfortable for 5 minutes while finding out that his pop-pop used to commit hate crimes, than to have his kids attacking minorities as an act of rebellion against the “woke regime”

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  • MonkeyJedi99 3 years ago

    Racism is a fact of humanity’s tribalism.
    Humans will always have an “us and them” in their minds.
    The hard part is expanding the “us” to include all (non-criminal) humans, or at least those of the same country.

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  • Nala15 DA-Artist 3 years ago

    DANKE, Trevor, DANKE, DANKE, DANKE!!!

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  • Matthew punmaster 3 years ago

    I hope this travels, we only learn about this stuff during black history month. Mlk, rosa parks, I heard about harriet Tubman from a comedian talking about how he doesn’t know black history. I had to use Google to learn that jazz was created during the Harlem renaissance.

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  • Danny'sDungareeDanceoff 3 years ago

    Conservatives hate critical race theory because it makes people think about it in history and now so they frame it as everything is racist but white people are the baddest
    It’s clearly not tho…even children can understand that

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  • jamal robinson 3 years ago

    It’s just that racism is such a huge part of our history tho

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  • Kira ʔ•̫͡•ʕ 3 years ago

    3:39 you laugh, but I learn the most accurate information on TikTok. And if it was incorrect information, eventually someone else will explain what the correct information actually is and why the inaccurate information is a misconception.

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  • Danny'sDungareeDanceoff 3 years ago

    Oh? Talking about the classes and their relationship to race? Okay Trevor I see tou

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  • Hussein Twabi 3 years ago

    Typical of a Karen to use tears to make her point

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  • Mackenzie Dog 3 years ago

    A Church of England priest gave me brain damage so I have to watch short videos many times to real lies that he makes more than one example. I’d wondered why he was so popular. Beca6a priest doctor private prison jailor with a medal fro6the Queen gave .e brain damage, helped massively by Goldman Sachs, my brain damage file has been rewritten three times that I know of and I’m still the guilty one. The Salvation Army private prison empire and the nuclear navy bases and.. yip, the priest got a medal from the Queen. Capital shows owner ship by the Queen, unless it’s a black human with a white flag

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  • Marcus Jones 3 years ago

    Its because the Confederates gained control of the education system, the police department, and they have gained power in the house and the senate. The civil war never ended the Confederacy/Racism. The civil war only open the door for them to infiltrate our system.

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  • ILoveKimPossibleAlot 3 years ago

    Trevor dropping the facts as usual. 🙂

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  • TheJediAndTheNinja 3 years ago

    I learn more about history from the history channels on YouTube they even bring up obscure topics from history

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  • Adelbert Huggins 3 years ago

    “More or less” “could possibly be”
    Phrases for speculation not FACTS!!!

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  • Tejasvi Dwivedi 3 years ago

    Remember the Fresh Price episode where they talked about Black History? That was almost THIRTY years ago, and we’re still talking about the same thing. #progress

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  • Mark Evan Nañoz 3 years ago

    Dont forget about the asian,,,,,,

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  • Urban Dwellers 3 years ago

    If teaching children the truth about racism causes them to hate this country then the country needs to desperately change.
    Change not the truth into a lie but change how we look at the REAL CULPRITS who continue to perpetuate the lies.
    For four years it was not THE White House but THE House of Mendacity.

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  • john back 3 years ago

    what about the multitude of native Americans that were slaughtered

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  • M S 3 years ago

    If this same thing happened to the KKK, they would scream that their First Amendment Right was being trampled on. If these guys can get licenses to march down any street and spew their hateful beliefs, which are protected under the First Amendment (as they did in Charlottesville)….if THIS is okay with the government of the United States of America, then so should TEACHERS be able to teach all aspects and viewpoints of American Culture and History.

    But no. Keep approving the Klan’s rights to rally in parks, with bullhorns making horrible speeches about other races, and encouraging hatred of blacks and Jews.

    America actually does not ban the teaching of hatred, as long as it’s not against white people in America.

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  • Tricia Zeigler Wallis 3 years ago

    In Utah our history is censored to reflect well on the established religion. We’re taught a bunch of false history in SCHOOL that we find out wasn’t real as an adult. Many adults in Utah don’t really know accurate Utah history.

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  • Kiara Helen 3 years ago

    Really Maine? Really?

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  • door gunner 3 years ago

    Go back where you came from.There,your problem is solved.

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  • RasTomas Stanford 3 years ago

    I love you Brother. Once again you are the champion of The World

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  • Mike Crain 3 years ago

    Nothing says I’m not a racist like having to say I’m not racist

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  • Abhijith P. C. 3 years ago

    Man … U r great!

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  • Turtleproof 3 years ago

    “Less than 10% of class time is devoted to black history.” Uh, so? I presume that is a typo meaning to say that less than 10% of HISTORY CLASS is devoted to black history, which would be shameful, but let’s not forget how little is spent on Native, Asian, and many other cultures.

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  • Fadhil Dewabrata 3 years ago

    Great topics ! Respect to trevor !

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  • Mark Reyes 3 years ago

    This is so racist. If a white person pretended to be black al, you blackies would be upset

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  • Trodden Leper 3 years ago

    How can we overcome something if we don’t learn about it?
    How do we learn about it if we forget it?
    We talk about racism because it never left. Pretending it’s over is racist itself.

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  • Trogdor 3 years ago

    Where’d that crazy mom’s chin go? Is it ashamed of her?

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  • Mountain LWolf 3 years ago

    It’s funny, I was taught the civil war was about slavery, then they changed it to being about, “State’s Rights”.

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  • alexcuetodo 3 years ago

    Great focus of the topic. Thank u #TrevorNoah

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  • John Yen 3 years ago

    fcku

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  • Christopher Hernandez 3 years ago

    Anybody know about schools that practice corporal punishnent and what % bm to wf

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  • Cesar Cabrera 3 years ago

    Hit dogs holler.

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  • garry weinberg 3 years ago

    Eugenics equals war and oppression.

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  • M Good6591 3 years ago

    White American culture can be suffocating. Consider that there are no “Asians” in Asia, the people there think of themselves by their nationality,; they are either Chinese, Indians , Koreans,…The same is true in Africa where people identify themselves by their regional ethnicity , few people would first think of themselves as “Black” but as this or that ethnic group in Nigeria, Ghana,… Or “Latino” which is a laughable overgeneralization to describe people as diverse and unique as Mexicans, Cubans , and Brazilians. Only in America where everything is seen through a racial filter do people call themselves “people of color” or Black or Asian or Latino , which are only useful in indicating that they are not White. Even “Whites” is an artificial classification to force people with backgrounds as diverse as Russians , Italians , and the Irish into one group. In America race is everything.

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  • Justin Eaddy 3 years ago

    A lot of history books are partially paid for by the daughters of the confederacy. Kinda dumb

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  • Steve Freeman 3 years ago

    Democratic Party FOUNDED ON RACISM. DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS SYSTEMIC RACISM. GET OUT of the RACIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY RIGHT NOW! TO-DAY!
    Non-Affiliated Florida Voter

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  • michellejean11 3 years ago

    The public gets more information from Trevor, John, Stephen and other comedians than from schools and the news As of this comment even 473 alt right racist watched Trevor.

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  • michellejean11 3 years ago

    The purpose of history is to learn from the past to correct and avoid the mistakes and evils of the past along with the positive events of history. Racism, bigotry, religious intolerance are not what most of us want for the current and future of the USA.

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  • XDSDDLord 3 years ago

    I’m proud to be from Mass

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  • Gilberto Verdugo 3 years ago

    Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Seems many public schools in many states are determined to keep our students from thinking critically. Ask yourself this, who is indoctrinating who?

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  • John Christopher 3 years ago

    poor klaus #saveklaus

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  • Someone New 3 years ago

    I love how you sprinkle anti-American, anti capitalist, anti-debate points but always have a way out. Nice not dissecting anything.

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  • Lilith Rogers 3 years ago

    Yes, Trvor and we have repeated our racist past over and over……MUST STOP!! And teaching our true past will help..spoken by a white woman….Me

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  • angelidia 3 years ago

    Thus why I bothered taking Chicano history in high school as an elective class. US history never covered that topic as part of the civil rights movement and just skipped over it.

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  • Fire_Element 3 years ago

    It’s simple, just tell the kids to look to our current republican party.

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  • Tegan Burns 3 years ago

    This man is a muppet.

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  • Cari Waldick 3 years ago

    Thank you for pointing out the way government targets poor people–and black people who are more likely to be poor. A lot of racism is actually class-ism, and part of the ongoing war against the poor (as opposed to poverty.) Not to say plain old racism isn’t alive and well, and living in the US.

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  • Reanetse Moleleki 3 years ago

    It’s pretty simple, if people understand America’s racist past it will make it harder to perpetuate America’s racist present.

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  • Hamza Khan 3 years ago

    If you cut out the abysmal attempts at humor, the gist of your content can actually hold its own.

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  • Felicia Cook 3 years ago

    These ppl don’t want to look in the mirror. And don’t want their kids to see what is in this mirror. BUT THE MIRROR NEVER LIES.

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  • Freshtex Blackman 3 years ago

    @5:33 Professional Karen Alert!

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  • Julian Miranovič Štefanič 3 years ago

    Sure racists don’t want their kids to identify racists. I am white, but one thing I know about America, the most hated white people are poor women and after that it follows as unknown middle class different ethnicity or shade of people, then poor men of the same and finally poor women of other ethnicity’s or shades of skin. All that should be identified and exposed, then maybe you could call America a decent country (still faaaaaaaaaar away from great, and even further from the greatest, on that particular continent, and the furthest from the greatest in the world ).

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  • Ádám Arany 3 years ago

    why would a comedy show defend something as despicably joyless as critical race theory?

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  • Ted Lu 3 years ago

    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

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  • jackie moua 3 years ago

    Ionoe. But i was taught the racist history and nothing awful came from it.

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  • maplecolor1 3 years ago

    The Lost Cause was indoctrination

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  • Andrey Nadeinsberg 3 years ago

    White men can’t jump

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  • Alvar Mansakahn 3 years ago

    I was in college before I had a history class where the textbook actually bothered to mention Tulsa and Black Wall Street. I’m proud to say that unlike most Americans, I didn’t have to watch The Watchmen to learn about it, but I still find that problematic.

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  • RedWeddingNeedsGoodBedding 3 years ago

    When I first came to USA I was a bit shocked how colonialism was presented in school. Everyone was happy and nothing bad happened,was the bottom line…
    Germany (my country) is probably due to our recent history, one of the few countries that actually sees its own history critically.
    USA is extreme, but lacking reflection of the past, is in many countries I guess.

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  • Thomas Ryan 3 years ago

    I was i think 16 or 17 when i learned about Japanesse internment camps, and I only learned about them becuase this kid I knew was reading a book about them. But who cares about that, whats inherantly wrong with US citizens being stripped of all thier property, improsioned without any violations being commited due to thier ethnic background, and then not having anything returned to them post release?

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  • Last Man Films 3 years ago

    I live in Iowa. Every single history class we had skipped over the Civil War because we “didn’t have time for it” and we don’t even acknowledge the war of 1812!

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  • Last Man Films 3 years ago

    6:42 Actually that is happening. Look at the far right in Germany. Looks a little familiar.

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  • Matt Andrews 3 years ago

    We don’t teach US history, we teach nationalism.

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  • John Parnell 3 years ago

    Can parents get ahold that curriculum? I want my children learning from our nation’s history. All of it. But, my children are in FL schools.

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  • Mika Tanaka de Bourdette 3 years ago

    Like the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki was overkill? No way.

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  • Sjorben 3 years ago

    I have rarely seen such a karen

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  • Mediocre Boi 3 years ago

    3:09 speaking of NC we just got new Social Studies Standards and finally it stopped saying “Indians” in place of Native Americans.

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  • Ralph Dratman 3 years ago

    Why we teach history is, like most serious questions, unanswerable. We have no idea why we do things.

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