Dec. 3, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
02:06
| 
| Time | Text |
|---|---|
| We definitely do have a fringe in virtually every institution. | |
| It is correct that we can't forget that. | |
| We shouldn't ignore it. | |
| I also will say that in American society, I talked about this on Twitter today, we tend to focus very heavily on the fringe. | |
| So frothing, blue-haired lunatics become the... | |
| The representative of the left or the craziest tweets from conservatives in a barroom at 3 a.m. | |
| are taken as representative of the right. | |
| At any rate, at K-State, I at least have a pretty reasonable set of colleagues. | |
| When I've traveled around the South speaking and so on, I found that to be pretty standard. | |
| Wokeness tends to be, in my experience, an upper-middle-class Caucasian phenomenon. | |
| If you look at positions on where trans prisoners should be housed or political correctness in speech and so on, I've been lucky enough. | |
| As a black guy in the Upper South to escape a lot of that, which is something I'm fairly glad for in terms of day-to-day life. | |
| Very good. | |
| So now let's go to 1619, the subject of your video. | |
| So the New York Times published this thing, which basically said, tell me if I have it correctly, and I have no issue with being corrected, that America was not really founded in 1776, but in 1619 when the first slaves came to the colonies, And it has been systemically racist ever since. | |
| We fought the American Revolution basically to keep slavery alive. | |
| Is that a fair synopsis? | |
| Yeah, the 1619 Project's declared goal was centering slavery. | |
| I believe their term was the very core of the American experience. | |
| And actually challenging the original founding date of the country. | |
| I mean, their materials very explicitly read, what if we imagine this was 1619? | |
| That's the date the first slaves arrived. | |
| And not 1776. Reality is much more complex, of course, than 1619's interpretations. | |
| Hold it there, please, Professor, because I must hold you there. | |
| Don't forget what we're talking about, the complex reality as opposed to the 1619 project. |
Export Selection