“So we have this issue in this country, that we keep essentially trying to rewrite the past, to make it seem like it wasn't what it was,” says Sam Jean Esq., who returns for another episode of Cuckoo 4 Politics: Raw & Uncut. He references Skip Gates who said that countries that confront their histories of racism do better than countries that don’t. Yet, people in positions of power are literally rewriting history to make certain segments of the population feel more comfortable. The hypocrisy of certain Conservatives to promote free speech but to want to censor students' curriculum, or want to decide whether drag shows are fit for other peoples’ children to see based on a false equivalency between a style of theater and criminal activity. They believe in free speech as it pertains to their own world view, under the guise of simply “asking questions,” while opposing points of view are forms of indoctrination that needs to be stopped.
People aren’t willing to have conversations about the way that slave labor boosted the economy of the South such that it could compete with the industrial North in the Civil War. Africa, the second largest continent in the world is rendered the same size as other continents on the map, is reflective of how much Africa is still not valued beyond the resources it can provide for other parts of the world.
In his closing, Michael cites the 25 states across the country that are bidding to ban any curriculum that mentions critical race theory or sexual orientation, reproduction or gender identity. Anyone who opposes this is only allowed to comment on the voting procedure and not the content of the bill itself. Michael agrees with historian Jim Ross at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock that these measures are the same taken by the Old Confederacy and would only serve to resegregate schools.
Quotes
“This is the Republican Party that says, individual freedom, they strive for freedom. The people must decide. Yet they're enacting laws that will dictate what you must learn. Are they becoming like North Korea? I mean, is this what's going on?” (22:50-23:09 | Michael)
“It is clear that there are people who believe that the only way that the world could have moved in the way that it moves is if things happened exactly like they happened. They believe that the only way that the West could advance was to be colonizers. And so what they do is they don't see colonization as something that is bad, that is evil, that strips the dignity of peoples who are being colonized. If they do see that, they think, ‘Well, that's a necessary evil for the benefits of what colonization brings.’” (34:47-35:27 | Sam)
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