Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Reacts To Kamala's 2023 Columbus Day Remarks
Aired: 2024-10-15
Duration: 05:16


=== Confronting the Past Honestly (05:16) ===

[00:00:00]  Now, you guys have told me that Kamilaris last year issued a statement on Columbus Day, is that correct?
[00:00:07]  So, let's hear it.
[00:00:09]  I have not heard this, so I'm taking your word for it that it's worth hearing.
[00:00:13]  It is an honor, of course, to be with you this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we speak truth about our nation's history.
[00:00:25]  Since 1934, every October...
[00:00:29]  The United States has recognized the voyage of the European explorers who first landed on the shores of the Americas.
[00:00:38]  But that is not the whole story.
[00:00:41]  That has never been the whole story.
[00:00:45]  Those explorers ushered in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land, and spreading disease.
[00:00:57]  We must not shy away from this shameful past.
[00:01:02]  And we must shed light on it and do everything we can to address the impact of the past on Native communities today.
[00:01:14]  Okay.
[00:01:17]  There are two issues here, if you want to be intellectually and morally earnest.
[00:01:24]  One issue is the devastation.
[00:01:28]  Visited upon the native peoples to the Americas by Europeans coming.
[00:01:34]  And the other is that Western civilization, the highest moral form of civilization ever devised, made its way to the Western Hemisphere.
[00:01:51]  She wants us to be honest about the past?
[00:01:54]  Okay, that's honest.
[00:01:58]  With truly meant, with great respect, the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, whether in North or South America or Central America, did not develop medicine, did not develop math,
[00:02:14]  did not produce Shakespeare, did not create women's rights, equality, a constitution, or even a written language.
[00:02:29]  When Saul Bellow, the great author who Didn't he win a Nobel Prize for Literature?
[00:02:39]  Saul Bellow said that about Western civilization.
[00:02:43]  He said, where is the Camus of Central Africa or something to that effect?
[00:02:48]  He was called a racist then.
[00:02:50]  That was probably the 1970s.
[00:02:55]  That's right.
[00:02:56]  You see, the squelching of honest dialogue is one of the...
[00:03:01]  Most important characteristics of all leftism.
[00:03:04]  So it's a gigantic lie.
[00:03:07]  Oh, let's confront the past honestly.
[00:03:10]  Then confront the past honestly.
[00:03:12]  What was done to Native Americans must be honestly addressed.
[00:03:16]  And the superiority of Western civilization needs to be honestly addressed.
[00:03:23]  But you would never do that.
[00:03:25]  The whole left is a lie.
[00:03:27]  It's gigantic.
[00:03:28]  It's an enormous lie.
[00:03:30]  This is just another example of it.
[00:03:32]  They don't want to address the honesty of the past.
[00:03:34]  If you're honest, you're called a racist, sexist, and all the other names.
[00:03:44]  So all they know is colonialism is bad.
[00:03:47]  That's all they know.
[00:03:48]  That is what they know.
[00:03:49]  In other words, it's not even a mixed bag, but it is a mixed bag.
[00:03:55]  India suffered colonialism.
[00:03:58]  And India benefited immensely from colonialism.
[00:04:01]  The only reason people in India can talk to each other across this gigantic subcontinent, as it is called, is thanks to the Brits bringing English.
[00:04:14]  That's how somebody in West Bengal can speak to somebody in Trivandrum.
[00:04:24]  That's the way it works.
[00:04:28]  They have a judicial system.
[00:04:29]  They ended settee.
[00:04:32]  Widows throwing themselves into the funeral fires.
[00:04:40]  No, I don't know if they were thrown.
[00:04:41]  I think they jumped...
[00:04:43]  The society expected them to do it, but I don't think they were actually thrown into the fire.
[00:04:51]  They jumped into the fire, I believe.
[00:04:56]  Yeah.
[00:04:58]  The last thing that the left wants is an honest appraisal of the past.
[00:05:05]  The last thing.
[00:05:07]  What they want is an appraisal of the past that presents the West as despicable.
[00:05:14]  Including America.