Liberty Hangout - Kaitlin Bennett - Americans Don't Know Anything About America
Aired: 2022-07-06
Duration: 11:11


=== Why Freedom Matters (10:26) ===

[00:00:00]  What is the Declaration of Independence?
[00:00:02]  Hell if I know y'all.
[00:00:04]  They ain't teach me none of this.
[00:00:06]  And what month do we vote for the president?
[00:00:11]  You should know that.
[00:00:13]  February.
[00:00:14]  Why did the colonists fight the British?
[00:00:20]  I don't know why y'all looking at me.
[00:00:23]  They wanted freedom?
[00:00:24]  Yes.
[00:00:25]  That's why?
[00:00:25]  Yeah, from who?
[00:00:29]  I don't know.
[00:00:31]  Where do they want freedom from?
[00:00:32]  Boston?
[00:00:33]  I don't know if New Jersey is a state-of-the-art.
[00:00:36]  What is it?
[00:00:37]  Is it a city?
[00:00:38]  Is Canada a state?
[00:00:43]  We're back for another round of pop quiz on the beach, but this time we're in Jacksonville.
[00:00:47]  We're going to see if people can answer the citizenship questions that immigrants have to answer to become a citizen in this country.
[00:00:54]  Let's see how much they know.
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[00:01:13]  This is really easy, I promise.
[00:01:15]  Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
[00:01:18]  Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
[00:01:22]  They don't have 13 stripes.
[00:01:25]  It don't.
[00:01:26]  It don't got 13 stripes.
[00:01:27]  It does.
[00:01:28]  None of these are trick questions.
[00:01:30]  It does.
[00:01:32]  But I don't know.
[00:01:34]  13 states?
[00:01:35]  No.
[00:01:36]  Hell no, man.
[00:01:37]  I've been having you looking dumb with the idea.
[00:01:39]  Why does the flag have 13 stripes?
[00:01:43]  Oh, no.
[00:01:44]  I don't know.
[00:01:45]  I have no idea.
[00:01:47]  I want to say 13 stripes because we started out with 13 colonies.
[00:01:51]  Oh, look at him.
[00:01:53]  Can you name one state that borders Canada?
[00:01:59]  Wyoming?
[00:02:00]  It's Wyoming.
[00:02:02]  Name one state that borders Canada.
[00:02:06]  No clue.
[00:02:07]  Is Canada a state?
[00:02:09]  No.
[00:02:11]  Oh, that's the country.
[00:02:13]  No.
[00:02:14]  Can you name any states that border Canada?
[00:02:15]  I know it, but I just...
[00:02:24]  You can be proud of the passing.
[00:02:25]  Oh, no way.
[00:02:26]  Don't pass it yet, because I at least want to name one.
[00:02:28]  I can't even think of states right now.
[00:02:29]  I feel as hell.
[00:02:31]  Texas?
[00:02:33]  Texas?
[00:02:33]  No.
[00:02:36]  Where's Canada at?
[00:02:43]  Not Mexico.
[00:02:44]  Canada.
[00:02:45]  Canada's up top.
[00:02:46]  What's a state that borders Canada?
[00:02:48]  New Mexico?
[00:02:54]  She said it's New Mexico.
[00:02:55]  You ain't asking that one yet.
[00:02:57]  Puerto Rico?
[00:02:58]  Puerto Rico.
[00:03:01]  What is one thing Benjamin Franklin is famous for?
[00:03:05]  He's on the $5 bill.
[00:03:08]  What is the name of the national anthem?
[00:03:14]  The national anthem?
[00:03:15]  I have no idea.
[00:03:17]  Can you freestyle for me something about how we gained our independence from Great Britain and all that stuff?
[00:03:23]  You want to freestyle something?
[00:03:28]  Just take it.
[00:03:29]  Take it and go.
[00:03:30]  Give me a little something.
[00:03:32]  Shut up that flip.
[00:03:35]  Hey, we got you on the beach, you know what I'm saying?
[00:03:37]  We hanging, hanging, swinging and banging.
[00:03:42]  I don't know what to do.
[00:03:43]  I don't know.
[00:03:44]  All right, that was good enough.
[00:03:45]  Thank you.
[00:03:46]  There were 13 original states, like we just said.
[00:03:49]  Can you name three of them?
[00:03:55]  Florida, Georgia, Alabama.
[00:03:59]  Nope, Georgia's one.
[00:04:01]  Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi.
[00:04:06]  Can you each name one?
[00:04:08]  We'll go down the line.
[00:04:09]  Can you name one?
[00:04:09]  Virginia.
[00:04:10]  Yep.
[00:04:11]  Don't know.
[00:04:12]  I don't know.
[00:04:14]  Can you name three states of those original 13 colonies?
[00:04:18]  Is one Washington?
[00:04:20]  Michigan, Minnesota, Florida?
[00:04:25]  Yeah, she said Florida.
[00:04:26]  That was wrong.
[00:04:27]  Nope.
[00:04:28]  Wisconsin, Wyoming, and Texas.
[00:04:30]  I don't know if New Jersey is a state-of-the-art.
[00:04:34]  What is it?
[00:04:34]  Is it a city?
[00:04:36]  He's from New Jersey.
[00:04:38]  What's he look like?
[00:04:39]  He's from, a state or a city?
[00:04:41]  What's he look like?
[00:04:43]  He looks like he from Taliban.
[00:04:47]  Oh!
[00:04:49]  Why?
[00:04:50]  Taliban is a...
[00:04:55]  What territory did the U.S. buy from France in 1803?
[00:05:00]  No clue.
[00:05:01]  What territory did the U.S. buy from France in 1803?
[00:05:09]  What did the U.S. buy from France in 1803?
[00:05:13]  Yeah, it is right.
[00:05:15]  No?
[00:05:16]  No.
[00:05:17]  What territory did the U.S. buy from France in 1803?
[00:05:24]  How do we?
[00:05:25]  I'm going to take a while, I guess, but I don't want to be a stupid guest.
[00:05:28]  Take a guess.
[00:05:28]  France.
[00:05:32]  Ohio?
[00:05:33]  I'm from Ohio.
[00:05:34]  No, they did not.
[00:05:35]  It was the Louisiana.
[00:05:36]  Buy from France?
[00:05:38]  Was it in the U.S.?
[00:05:41]  What it be like up towards New York?
[00:05:44]  I'll find out.
[00:05:45]  Who is the commander-in-chief of the military?
[00:05:48]  Oh, you should know this.
[00:05:49]  You're in the military.
[00:05:50]  Which wait, which branch of the military?
[00:05:52]  Not all the military.
[00:05:54]  Commander.
[00:05:56]  Right now?
[00:05:57]  Anytime.
[00:05:58]  Who is the commander-in-chief?
[00:05:59]  I'll say Donald Trump right now.
[00:06:01]  That's the president.
[00:06:02]  Yeah, he's the commander-in-chief.
[00:06:04]  I don't know this one.
[00:06:05]  He should know.
[00:06:05]  He's in the military.
[00:06:06]  Why did the colonists fight the British?
[00:06:13]  I don't know why y'all looking at me.
[00:06:17]  They fought the British because they were having taxation without representation and they were tired of it.
[00:06:21]  They were being controlled from overseas and they weren't with it.
[00:06:24]  They needed their own democracy.
[00:06:26]  What is the Declaration of Independence?
[00:06:28]  Hella fun now, y'all.
[00:06:30]  They ain't teach me none of this.
[00:06:33]  Where are you from?
[00:06:35]  South Carolina.
[00:06:36]  Okay.
[00:06:37]  But they don't do all that.
[00:06:40]  They don't do all that.
[00:06:41]  South Carolina.
[00:06:41]  What's going on?
[00:06:42]  What is the Declaration of Independence?
[00:06:48]  I guess it's establishing independence for the 13 colonies.
[00:06:55]  From who?
[00:06:56]  From.
[00:07:01]  That's just how long we've been out of school.
[00:07:05]  Do you have any guesses?
[00:07:08]  Why did the colonists fight the British?
[00:07:10]  Because they want to exchange goods on their property or their land.
[00:07:14]  No?
[00:07:15]  That's a good one, though.
[00:07:17]  Close.
[00:07:20]  You want to free them?
[00:07:21]  Yes.
[00:07:22]  That's why?
[00:07:22]  Yeah.
[00:07:23]  From who?
[00:07:26]  I don't know.
[00:07:28]  Where did I want freedom from?
[00:07:29]  Boston?
[00:07:32]  And what month do we vote for the president?
[00:07:36]  Shouldn't know that.
[00:07:38]  February?
[00:07:39]  I was going to say March, but February then.
[00:07:42]  February, March.
[00:07:44]  It's November.
[00:07:47]  I think I knew that.
[00:07:48]  Did you guys vote?
[00:07:50]  In the last election?
[00:07:51]  Yeah, I did.
[00:07:52]  Sure did.
[00:07:52]  Yep.
[00:07:53]  And you remember it being in February?
[00:07:54]  I don't remember what.
[00:07:56]  Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
[00:08:00]  Indians.
[00:08:01]  Native Indians?
[00:08:05]  I don't know.
[00:08:06]  You don't want me to say my answer because I would.
[00:08:09]  I was gonna say no.
[00:08:11]  Are you looking for like a group of people?
[00:08:13]  Same.
[00:08:14]  I was gonna say the Spain.
[00:08:17]  Yeah, the Spaniards are Spanish.
[00:08:19]  What are two rights listed in the Declaration of Independence?
[00:08:25]  Right to bear arms.
[00:08:27]  Right to bear arms?
[00:08:30]  Hello, I guess.
[00:08:32]  I have two rights.
[00:08:38]  So that's the Constitution.
[00:08:39]  Oh.
[00:08:40]  What are two rights listed in the Declaration of Independence?
[00:08:45]  Right to bear arms.
[00:08:47]  Right to free speech.
[00:08:49]  Okay, that's not the Declaration of Independence.
[00:08:52]  Oh, gosh.
[00:08:53]  I guess that's the 10 commands.
[00:08:56]  I don't know.
[00:08:58]  What are two rights listed in the Declaration of Independence?
[00:09:03]  Right to bear arms.
[00:09:06]  Right to bear arms.
[00:09:09]  what?
[00:09:09]  Freedom of speech.
[00:09:10]  And freedom of speech.
[00:09:12]  Those are the Bill of Rights in the Constitution.
[00:09:15]  We were talking about the Declaration of Independence.
[00:09:20]  Who is in charge of the executive branch?
[00:09:25]  It's either love them or hate them.
[00:09:27]  Trump.
[00:09:30]  Do you love him or hate him?
[00:09:32]  I don't know what to say.
[00:09:33]  I hate him.
[00:09:34]  I don't like Trump.
[00:09:35]  Oh, you hate him?
[00:09:38]  Okay, I'm sure he's devastated.
[00:09:39]  I don't hate Trump because I don't want him to see this and come find me.
[00:09:43]  He might.
[00:09:44]  He won't come find you.
[00:09:44]  It's okay.
[00:09:46]  When Dorian came, what he said he was going to do, put up a border or something to keep it from hitting us.
[00:09:51]  Something they said on the news.
[00:09:54]  We already got something that keeps the hurricane.
[00:09:55]  Yeah, but he said he wasn't going to do something until he stopped the Dorian from hitting us.
[00:10:02]  It was on the news.
[00:10:03]  Do you guys think that these questions are fair for immigrants to answer?
[00:10:06]  Yeah, no.
[00:10:08]  Yeah.
[00:10:09]  Okay, we have a disagreement.
[00:10:10]  Do you think these are too hard for immigrants?

=== Why Answer? (00:59) ===

[00:10:12]  It's not too hard if you're taught it, but I mean, why would you need to know that?
[00:10:18]  I don't know why we would need to know the history and know why we got free from the British, right?
[00:10:22]  I don't see why you would have to answer anything to live a better life.
[00:10:25]  This was fun.
[00:10:26]  You guys have been the greatest group so far.
[00:10:29]  I really enjoy talking to you guys.
[00:10:31]  No, you're fun.
[00:10:32]  You're very positive.
[00:10:36]  Yeah, we did beat y'all.
[00:10:38]  We won.
[00:10:40]  Okay, who won?
[00:10:41]  Yeah, who won?
[00:10:42]  We had three.
[00:10:42]  We ended up with three.
[00:10:43]  It was two to one.
[00:10:44]  How is it one?
[00:10:46]  Because I answered that one point.
[00:10:47]  She answered one.
[00:10:48]  First, I answered it.
[00:10:50]  Then she had answered it when I was answering.
[00:10:52]  She said a Star Spangled Banner.
[00:10:54]  Then I said New Hampshire.
[00:10:57]  That wasn't a win.
[00:10:59]  Was it New Hampshire on there?
[00:11:01]  Yes, it was.
[00:11:03]  And Connecticut.
[00:11:04]  That was a win.
[00:11:05]  She was like, she was a woman.
[00:11:05]  I wasn't keeping track.
[00:11:06]  I was keeping watching.
[00:11:07]  But listen, he won.
[00:11:08]  It was tied now.
[00:11:09]  Okay, so what answers did you have?
[00:11:10]  Yeah, you guys tied.