Posted on 10/22/2017 7:27:57 AM PDT by rktman
Friday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” filmmaker Ken Burns said many Confederate monuments were “all about the reimposition of white supremacy” after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision causing the desegregation of public schools.
Burns said, “There is a professor — Barbara Fields — from Columbia University, and she says the civil war is still going on. Not only still going on, but it can also still be lost. Regrettably, it can still be lost … We haven’t resolved this the question of race.”
He continued, “So the monuments is a big deal and we have to understand it. First thing is, just check the date that monument went up. If it’s the 1880s and ’90s, take it down. It’s all about the reimposition of white supremacy. When we say the south and my heritage, remember in a 1861, 9 million people in the south. Four million are slaves. They are not interested in monuments to the Confederacy, a disloyal thing. Remember, the Confederacy is responsible for more loyal American deaths than Hitler or Tojo.
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Cut *all* Federal money to PBS and NPR!
What resolution of “the question of race” does he want?
What is the future, vis-a-vis race, that he wants?
And this is the same Ken Burns that produces a documentary implying that the Monitor vs. Merrimac battle was fought in the open ocean.
Apparently Ken does not get a lot of things.
Sounds like Burns is trying to start the U.S. Civil War all over again.
“Cut *all* Federal money to PBS and NPR!”
But do NOT cut funding to PBR! (Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer) ;)
It isn’t white supremacy that built the West. But it was white predominance. Anyone can see it. And though it has had it’s flaws, to deny it is simply to deny history.
Count me tired of paying this guy’s annuity.
Ken Burns is a liberal totally biased hack.
Burns is a leftist propagandist pushing the leftist agenda.
Part of that is erasing/changing US history.
I fail to se the hubbub about white supreamacy. Show me a race or group that has built a better society and I will acquiesce to their supreamacy. Until then, YAY WHITE FOLKS. WE’RE NUMBER ONE!
PBR is the beer for hipsters who want to look like blue collar workers but haven’t lifted anything heavier than a pencil.
PBS makes enough cash without us having to fund it. Same as NPR. If people wanted it they would find companies to advertised on it.
Burns GFY.
Don’t like it go find another country.
Another far left echo chamber. It’s easier than actually thinking.
I’ve come to despise how these people use their media dominance and propaganda to multiculturalize, divide and ultimately destroy the cohesive productive culture we once had as a nation.
He cites a Columbia professor. I bet one can find a professor to support particular view. In the early 19 hundreds a “professor” was a pseudonym for the piano player in a whore house. Seems to be someone burns would know.
Um...it was a joke. A play on words as it were.
I’ve heard the same thing from other vets (I refuse to watch anything of Burns’).
Apparently the only thing wrong with this series is he left out the part about 58,000 of our lives being lost so the demonrats in Congress (along with some Repubs) could betray the South Vietnamese and lose the war we had fought hard to win.
“It’s all about the reimposition of white supremacy.”
So when the left says conservatives are in favor of White supremacy do they mean slavery?
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