The Matt Walsh Show - November 26, 2025


Ep. 1698 - DEBUNKED： Exposing Every Lie In Ken Burns’ New Anti-American Documentary


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54 minutes

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166.07346

Word Count

9,052

Sentence Count

437

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

36


Summary

As we head into Thanksgiving, we re going to take a closer look at a piece of sophisticated anti-American propaganda just released by PBS and the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. There s a never-ending effort to make Americans embarrassed of their history, to give credit for its achievements to people who don t deserve it.


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00:02:20.640 Today on the Matt Wall Show as we head into Thanksgiving, we're going to take a closer look
00:02:23.360 at a piece of sophisticated anti-American propaganda just released by PBS
00:02:27.480 and the documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.
00:02:30.580 There is a never-ending effort to make Americans embarrassed of their history,
00:02:34.240 to give credit for its achievements to people who don't deserve it.
00:02:37.900 American history has been rewritten for this purpose.
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00:04:14.360 Ken Burns is one of the most famous documentary filmmakers in the entire world.
00:04:19.700 You might know him as the creator of a very well-done documentary on the U.S. Civil War,
00:04:23.520 which came out back in 1990.
00:04:25.380 And over the years, Burns has released several other successful documentaries
00:04:29.680 covering topics from Prohibition to the Vietnam War to baseball.
00:04:34.160 His calling card, other than his undying commitment to historical accuracy, allegedly,
00:04:39.020 is that his documentaries take a very long time to produce.
00:04:41.340 And in turn, they also take a very long time to watch.
00:04:44.240 Several of his films are more than 11 hours in length.
00:04:47.320 And thanks to his deal with PBS, they're often available for free to anyone who wants to watch them.
00:04:52.360 A Ken Burns documentary, in other words, is something of an event in the world of nonfiction filmmaking.
00:04:58.180 When Ken Burns comes out with something new, a lot of people pay attention.
00:05:01.680 And your tax dollars, which are distributed to Burns via PBS, a public broadcaster,
00:05:07.020 give his films the imprimatur of a legitimate, important historical record.
00:05:12.920 But his most recent project, a six-episode, 12-hour marathon called The American Revolution,
00:05:18.380 is not, in fact, a legitimate or important historical record.
00:05:22.180 It is, in many respects, a very well-produced piece of propaganda.
00:05:26.480 Now, online, you may have seen some commentators dismiss the production as woke
00:05:31.320 for one reason or another, but it's actually far more insidious than that.
00:05:36.160 If it was just another woke production, it'd be very easy to dismiss.
00:05:41.080 You know, when you think of a woke production, you think of a, you know,
00:05:44.000 of rampant DEI casting, equity-focused writing, making the whole thing unwatchable.
00:05:51.240 You think of a show that you can just write off and forget about entirely.
00:05:54.340 When you think of a woke film about the American Revolution in particular,
00:05:58.480 you imagine something where George Washington is portrayed as, like, a green-haired, black, bisexual.
00:06:05.380 You know, something over-the-top and egregious, something that nobody would take seriously.
00:06:09.840 Well, that's not the case with the American Revolution.
00:06:12.180 Most of this documentary, I'd say around 70% to 80% of it, is actually quite good.
00:06:17.780 Even if you've read a lot of books about the Revolutionary War, you'll probably pick up a thing or two.
00:06:22.440 You get a bird's-eye tactical view of major battles in the war, complete with graphics showing troop movements.
00:06:29.820 You get a lot of primary sources, including quotes from key figures,
00:06:33.360 as well as a few interesting segments on the logistical challenges facing the combatants.
00:06:37.580 You'll learn about battles in the American South during the war, which most people don't know anything about.
00:06:42.400 The visuals and audio are pleasing enough.
00:06:44.980 So, it's a very solid effort, 80% of the time.
00:06:49.460 And that makes the remaining 20% of this film worth talking about.
00:06:55.220 You know, the American Revolution by Ken Burns is a masterclass in propaganda
00:06:59.600 because it weaves complete nonsense, and I mean total garbage, gibberish,
00:07:04.680 into a very compelling and factually accurate narrative of the Revolutionary War.
00:07:10.060 So, as best as I can, I'm going to go in order here through some of the more objectionable moments in the series.
00:07:16.520 And we'll start, of course, at the beginning, during the introduction of the very first episode.
00:07:21.880 This is the moment that sets the tone and makes it clear what Burns is going to attempt to do with this documentary.
00:07:30.300 Watch.
00:07:30.560 Long before 13 British colonies made themselves into the United States,
00:07:37.220 the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy,
00:07:40.760 Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Tuscarora, Oneida, and Mohawk,
00:07:46.640 had created a union of their own that they called the Haudenosaunee,
00:07:52.420 a democracy that had flourished for centuries.
00:07:56.420 We heartily recommend union.
00:07:58.420 We are a powerful confederacy,
00:08:02.460 and by your observing the same methods our wise forefathers have taken,
00:08:07.720 you will acquire fresh strength and power.
00:08:11.480 Therefore, whatever befalls you,
00:08:14.820 never fall out one with another.
00:08:16.920 In the spring of 1754,
00:08:23.680 the celebrated scientist and writer Benjamin Franklin
00:08:27.120 proposed that the British colonies form a similar union.
00:08:31.480 So you heard that correctly.
00:08:32.800 The six Indian tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy,
00:08:36.980 according to the narrator,
00:08:38.120 were a thriving democracy,
00:08:39.960 and the founding fathers would go on to create a similar union.
00:08:45.180 So the implication is that Ben Franklin saw what the Iroquois had achieved,
00:08:48.880 and like a typical white colonialist demon,
00:08:52.480 he cribbed their work for the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
00:08:56.320 Our system of government is based on the appropriation of marginalized people.
00:09:01.440 That's the idea.
00:09:02.440 We owe our democracy to the Indians, basically.
00:09:05.340 So this is the opening argument of this documentary.
00:09:10.160 Now, never mind the fact that the Iroquois didn't even have a written language.
00:09:14.120 Never mind the fact that they didn't hold any kind of election at all to choose their leaders.
00:09:18.740 Never mind the fact that clan mothers,
00:09:20.540 the Indian elders who actually selected the leaders,
00:09:22.720 obtained their power because of hereditary right, meaning their bloodline.
00:09:26.720 Never mind the fact that there wasn't anything like a Western democracy
00:09:30.480 in any Indian tribe anywhere in the hemisphere.
00:09:33.180 Despite all this, we're supposed to conclude that
00:09:36.080 because a bunch of tribes were able to band together and form a primitive confederacy,
00:09:40.560 Ben Franklin was sitting there taking notes
00:09:43.160 and ultimately created a similar union based on theirs.
00:09:48.600 Now, notably, Burns does not tell you what he's basing this claim on,
00:09:52.180 which will become a running theme as we go through here,
00:09:54.480 because the claim is obviously ridiculous.
00:09:57.740 So I'll tell you.
00:10:00.000 I'll give you the one piece of evidence,
00:10:01.560 the only piece of evidence that he's relying on to make this absurd and remarkable argument.
00:10:09.560 I mean, if this was true, that our democracy was based on Indian tribes,
00:10:14.300 that's big news.
00:10:17.540 So, you know, extraordinary claim, extraordinary evidence, as we're told.
00:10:21.940 So what's the extraordinary evidence to support this claim?
00:10:25.100 Well, it's this letter, which was sent by Ben Franklin to a man named James Parker in 1751,
00:10:31.180 more than 24 years before the American Revolution.
00:10:35.200 And here's what the letter says,
00:10:37.120 It would be a very strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such a union
00:10:44.620 and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears indissoluble,
00:10:50.420 and yet that a like union should be impracticable for 10 or a dozen English colonies
00:10:54.580 to whom it is more necessary and must be more advantageous
00:10:57.120 and who cannot be supposed to want an equal understanding of their interests.
00:11:03.060 Okay, so Franklin is not talking about war with Britain or establishing an independent nation or anything like that.
00:11:09.180 Remember, this is decades before the American Revolution.
00:11:11.580 And Franklin certainly isn't praising any thriving democracy in the Iroquois Confederacy,
00:11:15.880 because there is not one.
00:11:18.120 Instead, he's talking about a straightforward plan to unite the colonies
00:11:21.520 so that they function more like a political unit rather than 13 completely separate entities.
00:11:25.540 And he's saying, you know, if these savages can form a confederacy to function as a unit,
00:11:30.980 then obviously we can too.
00:11:33.600 So it's a bit like coming across a pack of dogs on the street
00:11:36.360 and seeing how they're all very quiet and, you know, well-behaved.
00:11:39.940 And then you turn to your children and say,
00:11:42.260 Well, if those dogs can behave, then you can too.
00:11:46.300 And when you say that, you're not telling your children that the dogs invented the concept of good behavior
00:11:51.280 or made you realize what good behavior looks like.
00:11:53.680 You're not modeling your parenting off of the dogs.
00:11:56.280 You're not saying that your kids, you know, should model their entire lives after the dogs.
00:12:01.460 You're saying that if extremely primitive creatures can do something right,
00:12:05.980 then we, as much more advanced creatures, have no excuse for failing in that regard.
00:12:12.480 That's what he's saying.
00:12:14.180 As Rich Lowry writes in the New York Post, there are other major problems with the logic here as well.
00:12:18.680 Quote, The Iroquois have no role in our constitutional history.
00:12:21.720 The scholar Robert Nadelson has noted the Iroquois don't show up as a model in the 34-volume journals
00:12:26.800 of the Continental Congress, the three-volume collection, the records of the Federal Convention,
00:12:30.680 in other words, the Constitutional Convention,
00:12:32.300 or the more than 40-volume documentary history of the ratification of the Constitution.
00:12:37.560 In other words, Burns deliberately left the viewer with the impression that the Indians,
00:12:41.120 despite being illiterate savages, by Ben Franklin's own testimony,
00:12:46.800 had somehow influenced Ben Franklin and the Founding Fathers
00:12:49.820 and laid the groundwork for our system of government.
00:12:54.200 In reality, the Iroquois had created a loose confederacy,
00:12:57.980 which was vaguely similar to many other similar confederates throughout history,
00:13:03.440 including the confederacy called the Delian League,
00:13:05.780 which the Greeks established to resist the Persian Empire,
00:13:08.000 except the Greeks actually had a written language and great philosophers,
00:13:11.540 which the Iroquois obviously didn't.
00:13:14.260 And Franklin, decades before the Revolution,
00:13:16.780 was just blowing off steam in a letter to a friend,
00:13:20.220 and so that's the story here.
00:13:21.940 That's the whole story.
00:13:23.400 But we should move on, because the documentary only gets worse from here.
00:13:26.740 But it's bad often in a subtle way.
00:13:30.080 So you have to take a little bit of time to decode the propaganda,
00:13:33.320 which is what makes the propaganda so effective.
00:13:35.260 For example, see if you notice anything odd about this moment from the first episode.
00:13:40.880 This is about 20 minutes in.
00:13:42.700 Watch.
00:13:43.340 Slavery was legal everywhere, from New Hampshire to Georgia.
00:13:49.300 Many of the black people living in the colonies had been born there, or in the Caribbean.
00:13:54.980 But tens of thousands were from West Africa,
00:13:58.600 captured from what is now Senegal, Gambia, and Gabon,
00:14:03.360 Angola, Congo, and the Ivory Coast,
00:14:06.820 Nigeria, Cameroon, and Ghana.
00:14:09.260 Now, when you're trying to sniff out propaganda,
00:14:12.420 what you have to look for is the passive voice.
00:14:16.260 And any time you hear the passive voice, you should ask yourself,
00:14:18.720 who's the subject of this sentence?
00:14:22.080 Now, think of it this way.
00:14:22.680 If you hear somebody say,
00:14:24.020 John was stabbed to death,
00:14:26.480 your first question is going to be,
00:14:28.600 well, who did it?
00:14:30.220 It would be a lot more straightforward and clear
00:14:32.260 if the sentence said, Bob stabbed John to death.
00:14:35.320 Then you wouldn't need to ask the question.
00:14:37.480 Now, Ken Burns knows that.
00:14:39.640 He's a good filmmaker.
00:14:42.120 He's an experienced writer.
00:14:43.940 He's intentionally omitting the subject of the sentence.
00:14:47.860 He's willing to tell the viewers that tens of thousands of blacks were captured
00:14:51.520 as part of the slave trade,
00:14:53.240 but he doesn't tell you who did the capturing.
00:14:56.780 It's certainly an odd omission when you're talking about this act of extreme human cruelty.
00:15:01.660 He's completely omitting the identity of the people
00:15:05.320 who captured millions of innocent black men, women, and children
00:15:07.980 and put them in chains and sold them.
00:15:11.160 Why would he do that?
00:15:12.980 The reason is pretty clear, actually.
00:15:15.020 Ken Burns knows that these black people were enslaved by other black people.
00:15:20.540 The Africans were enslaved by Africans.
00:15:23.780 That's the dirty little secret you're not supposed to talk about.
00:15:26.500 The white colonists needed labor
00:15:28.400 because they were living in a vast new continent
00:15:30.120 and they bought slaves who had been captured by African kings.
00:15:35.480 Now, in some cases, the African kings sent ships as far away as Iceland and Ireland
00:15:40.060 to capture white slaves, too.
00:15:41.740 But at this particular time period, for the most part,
00:15:44.640 they were selling Africans to the colonists.
00:15:48.040 Now, you might be inclined to give Burns the benefit of the doubt here.
00:15:51.020 Maybe he just wrote the sentence poorly for some inexplicable reason.
00:15:55.140 But the problem is that he keeps doing it.
00:15:56.700 He keeps making the same, quote, mistake.
00:16:00.180 This is another sequence from later on in that same episode,
00:16:03.600 about an hour in.
00:16:05.360 Watch.
00:16:07.100 I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate,
00:16:12.220 was snatched from Africa's fancied happy seat.
00:16:16.080 What pangs excruciating must molest?
00:16:20.080 What sorrows labor in my parents' breast?
00:16:23.080 Stealed was that soul and by no misery moved
00:16:29.080 that from a father seized his babe beloved.
00:16:33.880 Such, such my case.
00:16:37.660 And can I then but pray others may never feel tyrannic sway?
00:16:44.740 Phyllis Wheatley
00:16:45.720 Phyllis Wheatley, who was stolen from Senegambia in West Africa
00:16:52.220 and taken to Massachusetts as a young girl,
00:16:55.720 was renamed for the slave ship, the Phyllis, that brought her,
00:17:00.140 and the Wheatley family that bought her.
00:17:03.740 Well, wait a second.
00:17:05.240 Who stole this woman from West Africa?
00:17:07.940 Why aren't we entitled to that information?
00:17:10.280 Again, it's the passive voice.
00:17:12.300 We're only told that Phyllis Wheatley
00:17:14.160 was stolen from West Africa and sent to Massachusetts.
00:17:17.400 It's as if a ghost just snatched her up out of nowhere.
00:17:21.680 But as it turns out, ghosts did not snatch her up.
00:17:24.380 In fact, African villagers enslaved her.
00:17:27.760 And they enslaved her when she was seven years old.
00:17:31.300 And then they sold her.
00:17:32.480 And Ken Burns knows that.
00:17:34.400 But Burns also knows that he's not allowed to say that out loud.
00:17:37.740 He's certainly not allowed to say that
00:17:39.180 if she had remained in West Africa
00:17:40.840 with the savages who enslaved her,
00:17:43.540 Phyllis Wheatley would not have become a published poet.
00:17:47.040 She would not have been surrounded by kind-hearted Bostonians
00:17:49.940 who taught her how to read and write
00:17:51.480 and how to read Latin and Greek,
00:17:53.820 how to interpret the most complicated passages in the Holy Bible.
00:17:57.880 And Burns also isn't allowed to say that
00:17:59.780 if she had stayed in West Africa,
00:18:01.180 Phyllis Wheatley would not have received praise
00:18:02.980 from George Washington himself
00:18:04.440 and become a national celebrity.
00:18:05.740 None of that would have happened.
00:18:07.160 Put simply, being sold to an American family
00:18:09.660 was by almost every measure
00:18:13.600 the best thing that could have ever happened to Phyllis Wheatley
00:18:15.680 because it separated her from the people who enslaved her
00:18:18.540 and introduced her to civilization.
00:18:20.760 And she became a person that she would not have had the opportunity to become.
00:18:26.020 But all of that history is lost in this documentary.
00:18:29.140 Instead, you're simply told that someone,
00:18:31.680 some unidentified person,
00:18:33.020 stole this woman from West Africa
00:18:34.800 and the only credit the Americans get in this whole story from Ken Burns
00:18:37.880 is that they looked after her education.
00:18:41.740 So it's a total crock, in other words.
00:18:43.500 And now again,
00:18:44.040 I'm only showing you the worst parts of this documentary.
00:18:46.700 You have to imagine that in between these lies,
00:18:48.800 there's some genuine good history here.
00:18:50.780 But then out of nowhere,
00:18:52.700 I'd say it happens every like 30 minutes or so,
00:18:54.520 you just get hit with a massive woke bomb out of nowhere.
00:18:59.500 And some of them are so absurd
00:19:00.540 that you can only conclude they were added in post-production
00:19:02.860 on a dare or something like that.
00:19:05.280 This is probably the worst moment in that regard.
00:19:08.040 Watch this.
00:19:09.420 Crisis changes people.
00:19:12.040 And it gave women different ideas about what they should be doing.
00:19:17.140 Women were the main consumers in colonial society.
00:19:20.660 And they were the ones who made sure the boycotts worked.
00:19:25.520 Women stopped drinking tea.
00:19:27.820 Women started making their own fabric.
00:19:29.860 Women started making toys for their children.
00:19:31.980 And they didn't just stop buying British things
00:19:35.360 and start making their own things.
00:19:37.100 They publicized it.
00:19:39.240 And reporters would report,
00:19:40.760 the ladies of Boston,
00:19:42.600 the ladies of New York are the most patriotic.
00:19:46.380 They are at the forefront of this protest movement.
00:19:50.660 If women hadn't done that,
00:19:52.280 the protest movement and eventually the revolution
00:19:54.100 would have gone nowhere.
00:19:55.760 So as you catch that,
00:19:56.900 if women had not stopped buying things constantly
00:19:59.660 as a form of protest,
00:20:00.880 the American revolution would not have gotten off the ground.
00:20:04.160 So really, the women are the heroes of the American revolution.
00:20:08.260 Forget the men who, you know, got shot and died.
00:20:10.920 Sure, that's a significant sacrifice by any measure,
00:20:14.440 but it's nothing compared to the pain that colonial women had to endure
00:20:18.180 by not buying things.
00:20:20.800 They bravely put down their visa credit cards.
00:20:23.840 And in doing so,
00:20:24.560 they single-handedly created America.
00:20:27.480 Now, what's great about this segment
00:20:28.520 is that no one at any point in this 5,000-hour documentary
00:20:31.640 comes back to this claim.
00:20:33.920 They don't support this claim in any way.
00:20:35.820 It's just hanging there in the middle of the first episode.
00:20:38.420 And we're supposed to take it at face value, I guess,
00:20:40.640 even though it makes no sense whatsoever.
00:20:43.380 Again, that's probably the most overt, ridiculous moment in the whole series.
00:20:47.440 Most of the propaganda is more subtle.
00:20:50.560 So take this moment, for example, from episode two.
00:20:53.400 For the most part,
00:20:53.960 this is a good episode about the Battle of Bunker Hill.
00:20:56.220 It tells the story of that battle
00:20:58.240 in a neutral, even-handed, factual way.
00:21:00.360 It also talks about George Washington.
00:21:02.220 And although it keeps mentioning that he owned slaves every now and then,
00:21:05.840 nothing too crazy is going on.
00:21:07.240 And then you get this moment.
00:21:08.660 Watch.
00:21:09.520 George Washington made his Cambridge headquarters
00:21:12.240 in the handsome home of a loyalist who had fled to England.
00:21:16.800 One morning, not long after he had moved in,
00:21:19.380 he noticed a six-year-old African-American
00:21:22.480 named Darby Vassal swinging on the gate.
00:21:26.540 Vassal remembered saying he had been born in the house
00:21:29.360 and his parents had worked there.
00:21:32.400 Washington urged him to come inside and get something to eat.
00:21:36.100 He had plenty of chores for him to do.
00:21:39.220 When Darby asked what sort of wages he could expect,
00:21:43.300 Washington thought the question impertinent and unreasonable.
00:21:48.660 Darby Vassal lived to be a very old man
00:21:51.700 and when asked, he liked to say that in his experience,
00:21:56.540 George Washington was no gentleman
00:21:58.640 since he'd expected a boy to work for free.
00:22:04.340 Washington was also shocked to see black soldiers
00:22:07.840 encamped alongside their white neighbors.
00:22:11.440 Unconvinced they could ever make good soldiers,
00:22:14.440 Washington persuaded the Massachusetts Provincial Congress
00:22:17.600 to enlist no more of them,
00:22:20.120 though dozens had fought on Breed's Hill.
00:22:23.320 Now, when I saw this, admittedly,
00:22:24.760 I had never heard of this story before,
00:22:26.840 but my first thought was,
00:22:29.420 even if it's true, and it's probably not,
00:22:32.160 this has to be the single lamest attack
00:22:34.340 on George Washington that anyone could possibly make.
00:22:37.580 They're trying to find some way to smear our first president,
00:22:40.480 a founding father,
00:22:41.440 and one of the most consequential men
00:22:43.040 to ever live anywhere in world history.
00:22:45.920 And the best hit they can come up with,
00:22:47.560 apparently, is that a black kid
00:22:49.300 said that George Washington was rude to him.
00:22:53.340 Now, even if it's true that Washington
00:22:55.000 was indeed rude to this random six-year-old black kid
00:22:57.520 in 1775 and suggested that he do some chores without pay,
00:23:01.200 there's no possible way to express,
00:23:03.820 in the English language,
00:23:04.680 how little any sane person would possibly care.
00:23:08.160 It's like saying that George Washington jaywalked once.
00:23:10.620 And then you have the big, intimidating voice-of-God narrator
00:23:14.100 trying to sell it in this super-serious voice.
00:23:17.460 Well, actually, no, I don't care if George Washington jaywalked,
00:23:19.880 and I don't care if he was rude to a random kid.
00:23:22.400 It's not even worth mentioning
00:23:23.920 in a documentary on the subject.
00:23:27.100 But just out of curiosity,
00:23:28.300 I decided to look into this particular claim,
00:23:31.080 and it turns out, as you might have guessed,
00:23:32.940 that it's complete nonsense.
00:23:35.060 Now, supposedly, this incident happened in 1775,
00:23:37.540 but the story didn't appear in print in any form
00:23:40.100 until the 1870s, a century later.
00:23:44.000 And it appeared in some kind of romanticized history
00:23:46.720 of the Vassal estate.
00:23:48.600 And here's the kicker.
00:23:51.280 The first time it appeared in print,
00:23:52.980 the boy was a guy named Tony Vassal,
00:23:55.600 who was Darby's father.
00:23:57.840 But that didn't make sense
00:23:58.680 because Tony would have been in his 60s in 1775,
00:24:01.080 so he definitely wasn't a boy swinging on a gate.
00:24:03.140 So they revised it after the fact
00:24:05.180 and said Darby was swinging on the gate.
00:24:07.660 So this whole narrative is about as credible
00:24:09.200 as any other modern race hoax,
00:24:11.660 except there's about a million more reasons to doubt it.
00:24:15.200 But Ken Burns doesn't mention
00:24:16.240 any of those problems with the narrative.
00:24:17.700 He makes it seem like it happened definitively.
00:24:21.120 And the lame hits on Washington did not end there.
00:24:23.700 They kept coming.
00:24:24.560 Watch.
00:24:24.820 The first enslaved person to escape Mount Vernon
00:24:28.860 was named Harry Washington.
00:24:31.780 Born somewhere near the Gambia River in West Africa,
00:24:35.300 he was captured, carried across the ocean,
00:24:38.380 and in 1763, purchased by George Washington.
00:24:43.720 Freedom was never far from his mind.
00:24:47.100 In 1771, he had tried to escape,
00:24:50.280 but was caught and brought back.
00:24:52.320 Four years later, he saw his chance.
00:24:57.300 Now, again, we have the passive voice
00:24:59.020 saying the slave was captured
00:25:00.340 without saying who did it.
00:25:02.480 Burns really doesn't want to use the active voice
00:25:04.580 for some reason.
00:25:05.500 And then we learn that a black slave
00:25:07.080 fled Washington's estate
00:25:08.280 because George Washington was a horrible person
00:25:10.460 who had slaves like everybody else at that time.
00:25:13.640 Across the world, slavery was an established
00:25:16.660 and accepted institution everywhere,
00:25:18.840 especially in Africa.
00:25:20.080 But what we didn't learn from Ken Burns,
00:25:23.080 strangely enough,
00:25:23.780 is that Washington also employed
00:25:25.420 a lot of white indentured servants,
00:25:27.940 many of whom also ran away.
00:25:29.780 And it's a shame Ken Burns left that out
00:25:31.600 because it's actually a fascinating piece of history
00:25:34.140 that no one ever talks about.
00:25:35.800 This is a paragraph from NPR of all places.
00:25:38.300 It's from a transcript of a 2008 interview
00:25:40.520 from historian Michael Walsh.
00:25:42.060 Quote,
00:25:42.740 Just on the week of Lexington,
00:25:44.300 the beginning of your War of Independence,
00:25:46.060 the Revolutionary War,
00:25:47.240 there were ads in the Virginia Gazette for runaways.
00:25:49.120 And I think there were that week,
00:25:50.720 there were something like 11 for white runaways
00:25:53.420 and three for black runaways.
00:25:55.120 And two of the 11 white runaways
00:25:56.540 were being advertised for by George Washington.
00:26:00.900 So yes, the week of the Revolutionary War began,
00:26:04.040 that it began,
00:26:04.760 the newspaper in Virginia
00:26:05.800 had 11 ads seeking the return of white runaways
00:26:09.080 and three ads for black runaways.
00:26:12.640 Did you know that?
00:26:13.920 Did you have any idea that white indentured servants
00:26:16.460 who were treated worse than slaves in many cases
00:26:18.800 because they weren't permanent investments?
00:26:22.200 It's a little bit like how people, you know,
00:26:24.000 treat their cars,
00:26:26.560 their rental cars from Enterprise
00:26:28.220 as opposed to ones they buy.
00:26:31.840 But did you know that that was happening?
00:26:33.340 That you have these white indentured servants
00:26:34.820 fleeing George Washington's estate?
00:26:37.460 That's the kind of thing
00:26:38.260 that would be interesting to talk about.
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00:29:05.440 In the next episode of this documentary,
00:29:06.800 I'll be honest,
00:29:07.280 I began paying less attention
00:29:08.460 to the interesting history
00:29:09.480 and started looking for the lies
00:29:10.780 that Ken Burns would try to slip in
00:29:12.600 without anyone noticing.
00:29:14.240 It became something of a game.
00:29:15.620 And with that in mind,
00:29:17.040 this moment stuck out to me.
00:29:18.720 Watch.
00:29:19.560 Margaret Corbin,
00:29:20.880 a Pennsylvania artilleryman's wife,
00:29:23.220 was standing near her husband
00:29:24.680 when he was mortally wounded.
00:29:27.000 She stepped in
00:29:27.960 and kept up such deadly fire
00:29:30.100 that her position became a target
00:29:32.440 for Hessian guns.
00:29:34.420 Grapeshot eventually hit her jaw and breast
00:29:37.220 and rendered her left arm useless.
00:29:40.900 Three years later,
00:29:42.540 she would become the first woman
00:29:44.160 to receive a lifetime disability pension,
00:29:48.100 but at half the rate,
00:29:49.880 wounded men received.
00:29:51.080 This is one of those claims
00:29:52.860 that as far as I knew was accurate.
00:29:54.860 I had never heard of this woman before
00:29:56.520 or her alleged act of heroism
00:29:58.200 or her pension,
00:29:59.240 but the little sassy factoid
00:30:01.520 they add at the end
00:30:02.380 about how the wounded woman
00:30:03.800 only received half a pension,
00:30:05.340 presumably because she's a woman
00:30:06.200 and, you know,
00:30:07.120 the Americans are misogynists
00:30:08.380 who don't believe in equal pay,
00:30:10.120 that didn't seem right to me.
00:30:11.500 It seemed a lot like
00:30:12.780 Ken Burns' attempt
00:30:13.560 to shoehorn a modern grievance
00:30:15.760 into the narrative,
00:30:17.060 which he does
00:30:17.620 throughout the entire series.
00:30:20.320 Constantly.
00:30:21.740 Now, if you think about it,
00:30:22.760 it's a strange claim.
00:30:23.680 For one thing,
00:30:24.320 even if they only gave her
00:30:25.460 half a pension for life,
00:30:26.940 it's still quite a generous handout.
00:30:29.260 She was not a member of the military
00:30:30.680 when she was wounded.
00:30:31.620 She was there
00:30:32.200 for the love of the game, essentially.
00:30:34.220 They didn't owe her anything.
00:30:35.780 And they voluntarily awarded her
00:30:37.460 a very reasonable wage
00:30:38.600 for the rest of her life.
00:30:39.460 And on top of that,
00:30:41.020 there are reasons to doubt
00:30:41.900 what Ken Burns is saying.
00:30:42.940 Once again,
00:30:44.140 he didn't provide any explanation
00:30:45.340 for why she might receive
00:30:46.820 only half pay,
00:30:47.840 which got me thinking
00:30:49.200 that once again,
00:30:50.600 he was trying to lie by omission.
00:30:52.440 He wanted us to fill in the blanks
00:30:53.820 and conclude that America's founders
00:30:55.120 simply hated women,
00:30:57.000 even women who risked their lives
00:30:58.280 on the battlefield.
00:30:59.420 So I looked into it.
00:31:01.420 And here's what I found,
00:31:02.600 unsurprisingly enough.
00:31:04.080 This was passed
00:31:04.980 by the Continental Congress
00:31:06.040 in 1776,
00:31:07.120 quote,
00:31:07.920 resolved that every commission
00:31:09.380 non-commissioned officer
00:31:10.860 and private soldier
00:31:11.760 who shall lose a limb
00:31:12.780 in any engagement
00:31:13.500 or be so disabled
00:31:14.480 in the service
00:31:14.900 of the United States of America
00:31:15.840 as to render him incapable
00:31:16.880 afterwards of getting a livelihood
00:31:18.800 shall receive during his life
00:31:20.580 of the continuance
00:31:21.480 of such disability
00:31:22.240 the one half monthly pay
00:31:24.960 from and after the time
00:31:26.200 that his pay as an officer
00:31:27.220 or soldier ceases.
00:31:29.640 So in other words,
00:31:30.900 all wounded officers,
00:31:32.780 including the men,
00:31:33.960 received a pension equivalent
00:31:34.980 to one half
00:31:36.000 of their regular pay.
00:31:36.960 And that appears to be
00:31:38.860 what Margaret Corbyn received.
00:31:40.840 I checked a variety of sources,
00:31:42.300 including the National Museum
00:31:43.180 of the U.S. Army,
00:31:43.920 the Daughters of the American Revolution,
00:31:45.380 Wikipedia,
00:31:47.160 the Lerman Institute
00:31:48.060 of American History.
00:31:49.020 None of them claimed
00:31:49.840 that Margaret Corbyn
00:31:50.600 had been snubbed
00:31:51.980 or had her pension cut in half
00:31:53.680 because she was a woman.
00:31:55.080 They didn't mention
00:31:55.760 anything like that.
00:31:56.480 In fact,
00:31:57.100 here's what Congress
00:31:57.900 did in 1779.
00:32:00.900 They issued this resolution,
00:32:02.440 quote,
00:32:02.620 resolved that Margaret Corbyn,
00:32:05.160 who was wounded and disabled
00:32:06.300 in the attack
00:32:06.760 on Fort Washington,
00:32:07.640 do receive during
00:32:08.340 her natural life
00:32:09.160 or the continuance
00:32:10.200 of said disability
00:32:10.960 the one half
00:32:12.300 of the monthly pay
00:32:13.040 drawn by a soldier
00:32:13.920 in the service
00:32:14.400 of these states
00:32:14.960 and that she now received
00:32:16.160 out of public stores
00:32:17.200 one complete suit
00:32:18.940 of clothes.
00:32:20.940 So in other words,
00:32:21.540 she gets new clothes,
00:32:22.680 plus she gets one half
00:32:24.160 the pay of an active duty soldier,
00:32:25.480 which in turn
00:32:26.020 is the same pay
00:32:27.520 that every disabled soldier gets.
00:32:30.640 Now,
00:32:31.000 as far as I can tell,
00:32:31.860 Ken Burns derived his claim
00:32:33.440 that this woman
00:32:33.940 was given half the pension
00:32:35.080 of a wounded soldier
00:32:36.100 from this throwaway line
00:32:38.320 from the website
00:32:38.800 of the National
00:32:39.540 Women's History Museum,
00:32:40.700 which stated,
00:32:41.360 quote,
00:32:41.960 in July 6, 1779,
00:32:43.420 the Continental Congress
00:32:44.100 in recognition
00:32:44.580 of her brave service
00:32:45.800 awarded her
00:32:46.260 with a lifelong pension
00:32:47.360 equivalent to half
00:32:48.860 that of male combatants.
00:32:51.560 But that appears
00:32:52.360 to be false.
00:32:53.000 It contradicts
00:32:53.840 the primary source,
00:32:54.720 which is what the Congress
00:32:55.520 actually said,
00:32:57.020 which I just quoted.
00:32:58.540 So what's going on here?
00:33:01.100 Is Ken Burns
00:33:01.640 just quoting random lines
00:33:03.100 from web pages now?
00:33:05.280 What's the support
00:33:06.140 for his claim?
00:33:06.720 He doesn't say.
00:33:07.860 The documentary
00:33:08.600 just moves on.
00:33:11.400 Now,
00:33:11.640 I really cannot emphasize
00:33:12.580 enough how insidious
00:33:13.840 and evil
00:33:14.340 this kind of behavior is.
00:33:15.800 A historian,
00:33:17.300 especially one who's paid
00:33:18.220 with our tax dollars,
00:33:19.340 is not supposed
00:33:20.620 to lie to us.
00:33:21.860 When he presents
00:33:22.620 extremely dubious claims,
00:33:24.180 he shouldn't do so
00:33:25.820 with confidence.
00:33:27.260 He shouldn't pretend
00:33:28.300 it's obviously true.
00:33:29.440 He should show his work.
00:33:32.760 And if it's not certain
00:33:33.940 that something is true,
00:33:34.760 then you need to say that.
00:33:36.540 And if you're just giving
00:33:37.540 your theory about something,
00:33:38.860 then you should say
00:33:39.700 that it's your theory.
00:33:42.020 But the reason
00:33:42.700 he doesn't show his work
00:33:43.600 is that he's a propagandist.
00:33:44.700 Ken Burns has become
00:33:45.480 a Trump-obsessed weirdo
00:33:46.840 who's desperate
00:33:47.500 to include racial politics
00:33:48.880 in everything he does,
00:33:50.480 which, by the way,
00:33:51.740 is how we got interviews
00:33:52.640 like this one
00:33:53.480 in his latest documentary.
00:33:55.360 Watch.
00:33:55.620 I think it's easy
00:33:57.720 to underestimate
00:33:59.040 the sheer diversity
00:34:00.900 and variety
00:34:01.820 in the colonies.
00:34:06.120 Close to the majority
00:34:07.340 of the population
00:34:08.460 in the southern colonies
00:34:09.980 are African.
00:34:12.260 There are French Huguenots.
00:34:13.520 There are Germans.
00:34:14.740 There are Scots.
00:34:15.800 There are Scots-Irish.
00:34:17.720 There are native people
00:34:19.080 not just on the frontiers,
00:34:21.100 but actually living
00:34:22.020 in the heart
00:34:23.200 of the 13 colonies.
00:34:25.460 You are not going
00:34:26.380 to have an American Revolution
00:34:27.840 unless you have
00:34:28.800 Virginia on board.
00:34:31.160 And the leaders
00:34:31.840 of Massachusetts
00:34:32.620 understood this.
00:34:34.800 It was not going
00:34:35.580 to be easy.
00:34:36.980 There were deep prejudices
00:34:38.540 between the two regions
00:34:39.940 because of the differences
00:34:41.480 in their ethnic mix
00:34:42.900 and in the nature
00:34:44.620 of their cultures.
00:34:46.660 And they hadn't previously
00:34:48.060 had any kind of trust
00:34:49.860 for one another.
00:34:51.980 Now, it's not hard
00:34:52.960 to see what this historian
00:34:54.260 quote-unquote
00:34:55.020 is doing here
00:34:55.860 or what Ken Burns
00:34:57.040 is trying to do
00:34:57.800 by featuring this interview.
00:34:59.340 He wants you to think
00:35:00.220 that this nation
00:35:00.820 was founded on diversity,
00:35:02.080 which is a modern buzzword
00:35:04.160 that connotes multiculturalism,
00:35:06.020 open borders,
00:35:06.800 DEI,
00:35:08.080 affirmative action,
00:35:09.120 all that.
00:35:10.740 And he wants you
00:35:11.660 to think that
00:35:12.000 because the colonists
00:35:12.820 were supposedly diverse.
00:35:14.100 But the colonists
00:35:14.660 were not diverse
00:35:16.160 in the sense that
00:35:17.300 modern leftists
00:35:18.260 used the word,
00:35:19.140 and Ken Burns
00:35:19.640 knows that.
00:35:20.120 The colonists
00:35:21.720 were overwhelmingly
00:35:22.680 white and British.
00:35:25.180 The fact that Indians
00:35:26.360 were present
00:35:27.020 on the continent
00:35:27.640 or the fact that
00:35:28.760 3% of slaves
00:35:29.780 from the transatlantic
00:35:30.540 slave trade
00:35:31.120 ended up in this country
00:35:32.080 does not mean
00:35:33.340 that the colonists
00:35:33.940 themselves were diverse
00:35:35.220 in the way
00:35:36.700 that we would say
00:35:37.180 New York City
00:35:37.860 or Minneapolis
00:35:38.560 are diverse today.
00:35:41.100 The colonists,
00:35:42.100 unlike the residents
00:35:42.680 of Minneapolis and New York,
00:35:44.520 spoke the same language,
00:35:46.920 shared similar ancestry.
00:35:48.620 They were almost
00:35:50.260 all the same race.
00:35:53.240 Now, they might not
00:35:53.740 have the same religion
00:35:54.620 or the same country
00:35:55.560 of origin,
00:35:56.020 although most did,
00:35:56.800 but they still had
00:35:57.860 far, far more
00:35:59.000 in common
00:35:59.400 with one another
00:35:59.960 than the typical
00:36:00.700 modern-day American
00:36:01.580 has in common
00:36:02.180 with the so-called
00:36:02.880 newcomers
00:36:03.560 that are flooding
00:36:04.620 our cities
00:36:05.120 at the moment.
00:36:07.520 And again,
00:36:08.180 Burns knows that.
00:36:09.740 He knows that
00:36:10.560 a Dutch or German
00:36:11.620 colonist
00:36:12.200 had much more
00:36:12.940 in common
00:36:13.380 with an English-born
00:36:15.300 colonist
00:36:15.880 than a Somali
00:36:16.940 asylum-seeker
00:36:17.800 has in common
00:36:18.480 with an American
00:36:19.400 today.
00:36:20.920 But we're supposed
00:36:21.660 to lump all this
00:36:22.440 together using
00:36:23.200 the buzzword
00:36:23.820 of diversity,
00:36:25.300 which in Ken Burns'
00:36:26.540 world is a universal
00:36:27.840 good.
00:36:29.380 Now, we'll end
00:36:30.140 with just one more
00:36:30.880 clip from episode four.
00:36:31.920 This is one final lie
00:36:33.320 that all things
00:36:34.380 considered may be
00:36:35.400 one of the most
00:36:36.040 egregious.
00:36:36.940 Watch.
00:36:37.200 It does me no injury
00:36:39.420 for my neighbor
00:36:40.240 to say there are
00:36:41.080 20 gods
00:36:41.900 or no god.
00:36:43.960 It neither picks
00:36:44.760 my pocket
00:36:45.380 nor breaks my leg.
00:36:49.220 Most of the
00:36:50.100 revolutionaries
00:36:51.020 belonged to
00:36:51.980 Protestant denominations,
00:36:53.740 but there were
00:36:54.820 Catholics and Jews
00:36:56.080 among them too,
00:36:57.540 as well as Muslims
00:36:58.640 whose faith
00:36:59.780 had crossed
00:37:00.300 the Atlantic
00:37:00.900 on slave ships.
00:37:03.660 Central to the
00:37:04.660 philosophy of some
00:37:05.640 of the most influential
00:37:06.880 creators of the
00:37:07.860 United States
00:37:08.720 was their belief
00:37:10.060 in a supreme being,
00:37:11.580 but one who did
00:37:12.920 not interfere
00:37:13.780 in the affairs of men
00:37:15.040 or distinguish
00:37:16.360 between faiths.
00:37:19.420 They were deists,
00:37:21.220 and they believed
00:37:22.160 it was each
00:37:22.840 individual's
00:37:23.660 responsibility
00:37:24.320 to lead a
00:37:25.320 virtuous life,
00:37:26.660 which could only
00:37:27.820 come from tolerance
00:37:29.220 and a lifetime
00:37:30.580 of learning,
00:37:32.600 the pursuit
00:37:33.100 of happiness.
00:37:33.820 This is one of those
00:37:35.700 claims that you'll
00:37:36.200 hear again and again,
00:37:37.080 predominantly from
00:37:37.720 Marxists and agitators
00:37:38.760 who want to undermine
00:37:39.580 our Christian tradition.
00:37:41.300 They'll tell you that
00:37:41.880 the United States
00:37:42.500 was founded by men
00:37:43.460 who believe that God
00:37:44.360 is totally indifferent
00:37:45.560 to America's success
00:37:46.560 or failure,
00:37:47.700 and that we should
00:37:49.260 believe the same lie.
00:37:50.220 But in this case,
00:37:51.400 Burns is pretty obvious
00:37:52.560 about his intentions.
00:37:53.500 He starts talking about
00:37:54.220 all the Muslim influence
00:37:55.700 on our founding
00:37:57.360 and how tolerance
00:37:59.200 is a foundational virtue,
00:38:00.640 almost as if he's
00:38:01.740 being extremely lazy
00:38:02.980 and applying 2025
00:38:04.180 leftist talking points
00:38:05.360 to 18th century history,
00:38:06.700 which is what he's doing.
00:38:08.080 The problem is that,
00:38:08.940 in fact,
00:38:09.340 America was not founded
00:38:10.580 by deists.
00:38:12.700 You will not find
00:38:13.640 a single reference
00:38:14.480 to deism
00:38:15.220 in a single colonial
00:38:16.520 law or charter.
00:38:18.380 What you will find
00:38:19.260 if you do any amount
00:38:20.000 of research,
00:38:21.080 which many organizations,
00:38:22.200 including the Christian
00:38:22.760 Heritage Fellowship,
00:38:23.560 have done,
00:38:24.440 is that the founders
00:38:25.280 explicitly rejected
00:38:26.600 the idea
00:38:27.200 of an absent God
00:38:28.420 again and again.
00:38:30.060 Ben Franklin
00:38:30.600 presided over
00:38:31.240 the state
00:38:31.660 constitutional convention
00:38:32.440 in Pennsylvania
00:38:32.940 in 1776,
00:38:34.160 during which members
00:38:34.840 affirm that,
00:38:35.560 quote,
00:38:36.860 I do believe
00:38:37.480 in one God,
00:38:38.160 the creator
00:38:38.500 and governor
00:38:38.920 of the universe,
00:38:39.860 the rewarder
00:38:40.400 of the good
00:38:40.820 and the punisher
00:38:41.280 of the wicked,
00:38:42.100 and I do acknowledge
00:38:42.860 the scriptures
00:38:43.340 of the Old and New Testament
00:38:44.460 to be given
00:38:45.340 by divine inspiration.
00:38:48.160 The Massachusetts
00:38:49.160 Constitution,
00:38:50.520 which was drafted
00:38:50.980 by John Adams,
00:38:51.980 states that
00:38:52.480 the good order
00:38:53.100 and preservation
00:38:53.540 of civil government
00:38:54.580 essentially depend
00:38:55.800 upon piety,
00:38:56.880 religion,
00:38:57.240 and morality
00:38:57.780 and cannot be
00:38:58.760 generally discussed
00:38:59.500 through a community
00:39:00.460 but by the institution
00:39:01.420 of the public worship
00:39:02.440 of God.
00:39:04.320 Then there's the fact
00:39:05.040 that as the Christian
00:39:05.820 Heritage Fellowship
00:39:06.520 found during the
00:39:07.700 Second Continental Congress
00:39:08.760 as well as the
00:39:09.360 Confederation Congress
00:39:10.260 which took place
00:39:10.980 after the war ended,
00:39:12.760 members of Congress
00:39:13.380 issued a grand total
00:39:14.800 of 16 spiritual proclamations
00:39:17.660 which,
00:39:18.180 quote,
00:39:18.660 ask the states
00:39:19.540 to fast pray
00:39:20.800 and give thanks
00:39:21.720 to God.
00:39:23.640 That's not deism,
00:39:24.800 by the way.
00:39:26.320 What Ken Burns
00:39:27.000 and PBS
00:39:27.400 are counting on
00:39:28.120 of course
00:39:28.480 is that you won't
00:39:29.180 look into
00:39:29.780 any of these claims.
00:39:32.060 His narrator
00:39:32.940 delivers every line
00:39:34.220 from the accurate
00:39:35.440 interesting factoids
00:39:36.780 to the flagrant lies
00:39:38.100 and everything in between
00:39:38.960 with an equal degree
00:39:40.560 of self-confidence
00:39:41.360 and that is a deliberate tactic.
00:39:44.700 It's how history
00:39:45.600 is taught now
00:39:46.220 in every context
00:39:47.060 whether you're talking
00:39:48.380 about public schools
00:39:49.280 or the media.
00:39:51.860 You know,
00:39:52.020 it's enough to make me think
00:39:52.900 that in the near future
00:39:53.820 I should make my own
00:39:55.040 true history series
00:39:56.200 where I tell you
00:39:57.080 what the Ken Burns
00:39:58.020 types are leaving out.
00:40:00.180 It wouldn't be
00:40:00.880 especially difficult.
00:40:02.380 All I'd have to do
00:40:03.340 in order to destroy
00:40:04.120 Ken Burns' documentary
00:40:05.120 is tell the truth.
00:40:07.560 But there's a clear need
00:40:08.740 for a project like this
00:40:09.720 because obviously
00:40:10.540 no one in the mainstream media
00:40:11.920 is willing to do it.
00:40:13.700 If there's anything
00:40:14.660 we've learned
00:40:15.200 from the past decade
00:40:16.000 or so in American politics
00:40:17.120 it's that the national media
00:40:18.400 is willing to lie to us
00:40:19.620 about everything.
00:40:21.420 Even things we can observe
00:40:22.420 with our own eyes.
00:40:23.100 They lie to us
00:40:25.160 about Russiagate
00:40:25.920 and climate change
00:40:26.820 and gender ideology
00:40:27.640 and so on and so on
00:40:28.360 and so on.
00:40:28.680 The list continues.
00:40:29.960 If these lies
00:40:30.680 could be effective
00:40:31.160 in the 21st century
00:40:32.040 then imagine how many lies
00:40:32.920 they've been telling us
00:40:33.460 about ancient history.
00:40:35.720 Imagine how many lies
00:40:36.560 they've been telling us
00:40:37.120 about slavery
00:40:37.800 or the Revolutionary War.
00:40:41.560 Imagine how many lies
00:40:42.340 they've been telling us
00:40:42.860 about the Civil War
00:40:44.400 or about the Indians
00:40:46.420 or about Nixon
00:40:47.600 or about civil rights
00:40:49.500 or anything else.
00:40:51.680 Well, my goal
00:40:52.440 is that very soon
00:40:53.300 you won't have to ask
00:40:54.060 these questions anymore.
00:40:55.160 You'll get the truth
00:40:55.780 about our history
00:40:56.620 not the passive-aggressive
00:40:57.880 innuendo
00:40:58.420 of delusional activists
00:40:59.860 like Ken Burns
00:41:00.620 but the actual truth.
00:41:03.300 And if Ken Burns
00:41:03.860 accomplished one thing
00:41:05.060 with this bloated mess
00:41:06.860 of a documentary
00:41:07.480 in the American Revolution
00:41:08.260 he's demonstrated
00:41:09.540 probably more than
00:41:10.340 any other living person
00:41:11.340 the need for exactly that.
00:41:13.300 So my two-word message
00:41:14.640 for you on the eve
00:41:15.520 of Thanksgiving Day
00:41:16.160 is simply this.
00:41:17.740 Stay tuned.
00:41:19.320 Well, we've reached
00:41:19.820 the middle of November
00:41:20.640 and the holiday season
00:41:21.460 is just around the corner.
00:41:22.700 All the Christmas chaos
00:41:23.640 can mean it's hard
00:41:24.360 to find peace
00:41:25.160 amid the cookies
00:41:26.380 and wrapping paper
00:41:27.100 and half-packed suitcases
00:41:28.180 that litter your front
00:41:29.180 entryway.
00:41:29.700 So this year
00:41:30.580 take a breath
00:41:31.160 and lean into the stillness
00:41:33.060 of the Advent season.
00:41:34.240 Thankfully, my friends
00:41:34.860 at Halo have designed
00:41:36.220 a challenge
00:41:36.720 that's impactful
00:41:37.760 and perfect
00:41:38.320 for a busy holiday schedule.
00:41:40.240 This Advent
00:41:40.720 you'll dive into
00:41:41.420 the real story
00:41:42.520 of Christmas
00:41:42.920 come to understand
00:41:43.820 that it was probably
00:41:44.480 just as chaotic
00:41:45.280 as our own
00:41:45.900 and learn to surrender
00:41:46.760 it all to God anyway
00:41:47.700 and find real peace
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00:41:50.340 Pray 25
00:41:51.380 Be Still
00:41:52.320 you'll have the opportunity
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00:41:54.160 on the words
00:41:54.660 of Psalm 46
00:41:55.640 Be still
00:41:56.280 and know that I am God
00:41:57.300 and hear powerful examples
00:41:58.680 from the reed of God
00:42:00.020 and the ruthless
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00:42:01.620 experience the stillness
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00:42:04.020 amid the chaos
00:42:05.200 and busyness
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00:42:50.320 right now
00:42:51.360 I decided to spend
00:42:58.600 most of the show
00:42:59.280 debunking
00:43:00.080 anti-American propaganda
00:43:01.140 which seems like a
00:43:01.800 worthy subject
00:43:02.400 anytime
00:43:02.780 but particularly
00:43:03.220 during Thanksgiving
00:43:04.420 week
00:43:04.880 so with the final
00:43:05.820 few minutes of the show
00:43:06.480 we're going to skip
00:43:07.560 ahead to the daily
00:43:08.320 cancellation
00:43:08.700 and cover something
00:43:09.860 of much less
00:43:11.500 importance
00:43:12.040 you know
00:43:12.800 as is customary
00:43:13.640 for this segment
00:43:14.260 although there is
00:43:15.840 when you get to
00:43:16.740 the bottom of it
00:43:17.380 it is
00:43:17.980 there is something
00:43:18.600 important going on
00:43:19.520 which we'll talk about
00:43:20.920 so a couple of months
00:43:21.560 ago
00:43:21.760 a poll of voters
00:43:23.260 in Pennsylvania
00:43:23.700 was conducted
00:43:24.360 to find out
00:43:24.920 how they feel
00:43:25.740 about the general
00:43:26.720 state of affairs
00:43:27.580 in the state
00:43:28.520 a sizable majority
00:43:30.180 of respondents
00:43:30.700 60% said
00:43:31.840 they did not believe
00:43:32.900 Pennsylvania
00:43:33.480 was on the right track
00:43:34.600 they cited
00:43:35.160 cost of living
00:43:36.000 the economy
00:43:37.140 high taxes
00:43:37.940 crime
00:43:38.560 as their top concerns
00:43:40.100 70% said
00:43:41.240 they were dissatisfied
00:43:42.180 with their local
00:43:42.840 school districts
00:43:43.520 60% said
00:43:44.360 they would give
00:43:44.980 the school system
00:43:45.780 statewide
00:43:46.420 a C, D, or F grade
00:43:47.980 70% said
00:43:49.700 their utility
00:43:50.520 electricity prices
00:43:51.580 had gone up
00:43:52.340 54% said
00:43:53.960 it was a bad time
00:43:54.960 to find a job
00:43:55.720 in the state
00:43:56.180 so in other words
00:43:57.620 the people of Pennsylvania
00:43:58.340 like the people
00:43:59.360 of every other state
00:44:00.140 have practical
00:44:01.360 real world concerns
00:44:02.580 and they feel
00:44:03.300 overwhelmingly
00:44:03.840 that the political
00:44:05.280 leadership of the state
00:44:06.220 is failing to address
00:44:07.800 those concerns
00:44:08.560 so what have
00:44:10.180 the state legislators
00:44:11.300 and the governor
00:44:12.160 Democrat Josh Shapiro
00:44:13.580 decided to do
00:44:14.580 how will they
00:44:16.000 right the ship
00:44:16.700 well as it turns out
00:44:18.760 they'll address
00:44:19.400 these concerns
00:44:20.120 by not addressing
00:44:21.920 any of them at all
00:44:22.980 instead Shapiro
00:44:23.880 just signed into law
00:44:24.840 a new bill
00:44:25.460 that bans
00:44:26.980 quote unquote
00:44:28.680 hair discrimination
00:44:30.300 now
00:44:31.480 before we talk
00:44:32.780 about the ludicrous
00:44:33.840 concept of hair
00:44:34.880 discrimination
00:44:35.280 you'll already notice
00:44:37.120 that hair discrimination
00:44:38.860 was not on the list
00:44:40.720 of top concerns
00:44:41.720 among Pennsylvania
00:44:42.520 residents
00:44:43.060 when they were asked
00:44:45.500 what are you most
00:44:46.700 worried about
00:44:47.340 precisely zero
00:44:49.480 of them responded
00:44:50.500 well my biggest fear
00:44:51.520 is that I'll suffer
00:44:52.180 hair discrimination
00:44:53.580 now when the people
00:44:54.960 of Pennsylvania
00:44:55.380 think about what
00:44:56.060 causes them the most
00:44:56.840 anxiety in life
00:44:57.660 none of them
00:44:58.900 are thinking about
00:44:59.660 their hair
00:45:00.400 or anything to do
00:45:01.380 with it
00:45:01.760 and yet Governor Shapiro
00:45:03.980 and the brave
00:45:05.820 legislators of Pennsylvania
00:45:06.900 are thinking about
00:45:08.300 hair
00:45:08.560 and that's what
00:45:09.960 they that's why
00:45:10.520 they just passed
00:45:11.060 something called
00:45:11.660 the Crown Act
00:45:12.760 watch
00:45:13.860 today when I sign
00:45:16.660 the Crown Act
00:45:17.540 into law
00:45:18.240 that will be
00:45:19.560 that will be
00:45:22.260 the next step
00:45:23.840 in making good
00:45:25.060 on that promise
00:45:26.380 of bringing about
00:45:27.320 real freedom
00:45:27.880 for all
00:45:28.780 Pennsylvanians
00:45:29.960 this public policy
00:45:31.720 campaign is my
00:45:32.880 brainchild
00:45:33.620 in a nationwide
00:45:35.040 effort I have
00:45:36.160 led since
00:45:36.920 2018
00:45:38.360 determining it
00:45:40.780 was necessary
00:45:41.440 to change
00:45:42.300 the law
00:45:43.060 to help
00:45:44.080 redress
00:45:44.640 the long-standing
00:45:45.780 and problematic
00:45:46.620 practice
00:45:47.380 of racial
00:45:48.140 discrimination
00:45:48.800 in the form
00:45:50.000 of hair
00:45:50.500 discrimination
00:45:51.080 I subsequently
00:45:52.660 developed the
00:45:53.660 national legislative
00:45:54.720 social impact
00:45:56.160 and coalition
00:45:56.900 building strategies
00:45:57.920 for this movement
00:45:59.500 because for too
00:46:01.100 long
00:46:01.540 a myopic
00:46:02.940 notion of
00:46:03.960 professionalism
00:46:04.960 and Eurocentric
00:46:06.240 standards of
00:46:07.200 beauty
00:46:07.660 have perpetuated
00:46:08.960 racial inequity
00:46:10.040 and exclusion
00:46:11.220 too many
00:46:12.880 black children
00:46:13.740 have been
00:46:14.740 suspended
00:46:15.480 and missed
00:46:16.660 what should be
00:46:17.740 valuable
00:46:18.360 instruction time
00:46:19.800 because their
00:46:20.820 hair
00:46:21.240 worn in ways
00:46:22.800 that are aligned
00:46:23.360 with their
00:46:23.760 racial identity
00:46:24.840 have been deemed
00:46:26.100 a violation
00:46:26.940 of school rules
00:46:28.220 so the lady
00:46:29.540 with the hoop
00:46:30.220 earrings the size
00:46:31.120 of the Milky Way
00:46:31.680 galaxy says
00:46:32.680 that she's been
00:46:33.840 on a single-minded
00:46:34.860 crusade for
00:46:35.980 eight years
00:46:36.760 to defeat
00:46:37.860 hair discrimination
00:46:38.960 and Josh Rapero
00:46:40.480 says that he's
00:46:41.200 making good on
00:46:41.880 his promise
00:46:42.400 to ban
00:46:43.440 hair discrimination
00:46:44.840 which is a promise
00:46:46.320 that nobody in his
00:46:47.120 state knew he had
00:46:47.980 made or asked him
00:46:49.060 to make
00:46:49.500 and yet here we
00:46:50.840 are
00:46:51.040 so what is
00:46:52.600 hair discrimination
00:46:53.340 then
00:46:53.820 and what does
00:46:55.420 this law
00:46:55.820 actually say
00:46:56.360 well I looked
00:46:57.460 up the text
00:46:57.980 of the bill
00:46:58.380 and all I can
00:46:59.000 say is that
00:46:59.440 if you expected
00:46:59.960 this legislation
00:47:00.660 to be completely
00:47:01.400 retarded
00:47:01.900 you were right
00:47:03.500 it is
00:47:04.960 so here's what
00:47:06.320 House Bill
00:47:06.860 439 says
00:47:08.100 to their law
00:47:10.300 banning racial
00:47:11.140 discrimination
00:47:11.680 which is already
00:47:12.960 on the books
00:47:13.440 they added
00:47:14.960 an amendment
00:47:15.480 and the amendment
00:47:16.860 says in part
00:47:17.820 the following
00:47:18.800 quote
00:47:20.540 the term race
00:47:21.960 includes traits
00:47:22.980 historically
00:47:23.520 associated
00:47:24.200 with the
00:47:24.520 individual's race
00:47:25.240 including
00:47:25.700 hair texture
00:47:26.780 and protective
00:47:27.660 hairstyles
00:47:28.500 the term
00:47:29.460 protective
00:47:29.880 hairstyles
00:47:30.440 includes
00:47:30.900 but is not
00:47:31.340 limited to
00:47:31.900 such hairstyles
00:47:33.320 as locks
00:47:34.080 braids
00:47:34.800 twists
00:47:35.300 coils
00:47:36.080 bantu knots
00:47:37.480 afros
00:47:38.300 and extensions
00:47:39.100 so according
00:47:41.540 to this law
00:47:42.420 an institution
00:47:44.160 like a business
00:47:44.960 or a school
00:47:45.500 may not discriminate
00:47:47.220 based on
00:47:48.000 protected characteristics
00:47:49.260 like race
00:47:50.080 which we already
00:47:50.640 knew
00:47:50.880 but the law
00:47:52.360 now stipulates
00:47:53.100 that the term
00:47:53.780 race
00:47:54.200 includes
00:47:55.100 hairstyles
00:47:56.280 if a hairstyle
00:47:58.020 is historically
00:47:59.320 associated
00:48:00.020 with a certain
00:48:00.640 race
00:48:01.120 then the hairstyle
00:48:02.380 is legally
00:48:03.160 protected
00:48:03.640 and an employer
00:48:04.380 may not bar
00:48:05.200 their employees
00:48:05.860 from styling
00:48:06.720 their hair
00:48:07.380 in that way
00:48:08.280 on the job
00:48:08.960 that's what the law
00:48:10.160 says
00:48:10.380 and it is
00:48:11.800 in a word
00:48:12.560 madness
00:48:13.680 absolute madness
00:48:15.640 what does it
00:48:17.220 even mean
00:48:17.760 for a hairstyle
00:48:18.840 to be
00:48:19.420 historically
00:48:20.140 associated
00:48:20.900 with a particular
00:48:22.320 race
00:48:22.720 how far back
00:48:23.460 does the
00:48:23.840 historical
00:48:24.780 association
00:48:25.380 have to go
00:48:26.400 if a rapper
00:48:28.020 wears his hair
00:48:28.800 a certain way
00:48:29.360 in a music video
00:48:30.100 that came out
00:48:30.620 last Tuesday
00:48:31.240 and then now
00:48:32.280 it's popular
00:48:32.760 among black people
00:48:33.560 does that count
00:48:34.920 as in historical
00:48:36.640 association
00:48:37.420 and
00:48:38.900 more importantly
00:48:40.820 what if a hairstyle
00:48:42.200 is historically
00:48:42.940 associated with
00:48:43.800 every race
00:48:44.680 on the planet
00:48:45.420 does that mean
00:48:47.760 that employers
00:48:48.300 can or can't
00:48:49.400 prevent their
00:48:49.920 employees
00:48:50.320 from wearing it
00:48:51.000 or does it mean
00:48:52.620 that only some
00:48:53.280 races can be
00:48:54.060 prevented
00:48:54.380 while others
00:48:54.980 can't
00:48:55.540 now the bill
00:48:57.520 lists braids
00:48:58.400 and dreadlocks
00:48:59.200 as protected
00:48:59.940 because of their
00:49:00.760 historical
00:49:01.420 racial association
00:49:02.660 but that's a
00:49:04.860 problem because
00:49:05.580 braids have been
00:49:06.380 worn by all
00:49:07.460 races of people
00:49:08.380 for as long
00:49:09.300 as people
00:49:09.940 have existed
00:49:10.620 as long as
00:49:11.580 there have been
00:49:11.880 people with hair
00:49:13.000 there have been
00:49:14.040 braids
00:49:14.600 everywhere
00:49:15.680 on the planet
00:49:16.520 black people
00:49:18.500 did not invent
00:49:19.380 the concept
00:49:19.960 of wearing
00:49:20.640 braids
00:49:21.180 nor did they
00:49:21.660 popularize it
00:49:22.620 nor did they
00:49:23.440 innovate it
00:49:24.140 in any way
00:49:25.000 at all
00:49:26.560 as for dreadlocks
00:49:28.560 Nordic people
00:49:29.840 were wearing
00:49:30.480 their hair
00:49:31.100 in that fashion
00:49:31.760 a thousand years
00:49:32.600 ago
00:49:32.800 the Vikings
00:49:33.340 wore dreadlocks
00:49:33.980 actually there are
00:49:34.940 depictions of
00:49:35.460 Europeans wearing
00:49:36.200 dreadlocks
00:49:36.680 all the way back
00:49:37.180 in the Bronze Age
00:49:38.080 so are dreadlocks
00:49:40.420 protected for white
00:49:41.340 people too
00:49:41.880 or just black
00:49:43.480 people
00:49:44.600 now you might
00:49:45.420 think that
00:49:46.040 well at least
00:49:46.800 the Afro
00:49:47.480 is a hairstyle
00:49:48.100 that we can
00:49:48.600 all agree
00:49:49.120 is historically
00:49:50.720 owned by black
00:49:52.320 people
00:49:52.740 but the problem
00:49:54.180 is that first
00:49:54.720 of all no
00:49:55.480 style can be
00:49:56.520 owned by anyone
00:49:57.500 much less any
00:49:58.080 race of people
00:49:59.100 styles are not
00:50:00.520 objects that a
00:50:01.460 person or group
00:50:02.140 can claim ownership
00:50:03.260 of
00:50:03.720 a style is an
00:50:05.360 abstract concept
00:50:06.600 it's one which
00:50:08.080 is by definition
00:50:09.260 shared and spread
00:50:10.460 around and adopted
00:50:11.620 and changed and
00:50:12.500 adapted and so on
00:50:13.660 second
00:50:15.260 actually the
00:50:16.540 Afro is not
00:50:18.240 unique to black
00:50:19.620 people historically
00:50:20.380 or originated by
00:50:21.580 them
00:50:21.780 now obviously the
00:50:23.180 name Afro has
00:50:24.240 black origins but
00:50:25.100 the style of hair
00:50:26.260 very tight curls
00:50:28.320 which form a
00:50:29.240 rounded silhouette
00:50:30.020 which is what an
00:50:30.760 Afro is
00:50:31.180 well that was
00:50:31.960 worn by Europeans
00:50:32.840 in the Victorian
00:50:33.500 age
00:50:33.860 that was worn
00:50:35.480 by Greeks and
00:50:36.220 Romans
00:50:36.600 thousands of
00:50:37.960 years before that
00:50:38.800 so as it turns
00:50:41.000 out none of the
00:50:43.040 protected racial
00:50:44.280 hairstyles are
00:50:45.900 racial none of
00:50:48.120 them are
00:50:49.020 historically unique
00:50:50.060 to black people
00:50:50.740 in fact it's
00:50:52.160 plausible that many
00:50:53.020 of these historic
00:50:53.640 black hairstyles were
00:50:55.080 worn by ancient
00:50:56.000 Europeans before they
00:50:57.640 were worn by
00:50:58.240 ancient Africans at
00:50:59.160 the very least it's
00:50:59.880 a tie it's a wash
00:51:01.240 unlike dreadlocks
00:51:03.340 which cannot be
00:51:04.060 washed which is why
00:51:05.760 you shouldn't be
00:51:06.280 allowed to wear them
00:51:07.040 if you work in the
00:51:07.720 food industry or
00:51:08.620 the medical industry
00:51:09.500 or any industry
00:51:11.300 that involves food
00:51:12.440 or people
00:51:13.280 that's why certain
00:51:15.600 hairstyles are
00:51:16.620 discriminated against
00:51:17.780 because they're
00:51:18.540 unsanitary or
00:51:19.560 unkempt or
00:51:20.360 unsightly because
00:51:22.060 they look slovenly
00:51:23.120 or ridiculous
00:51:24.040 the law has not
00:51:26.820 protected anyone
00:51:27.540 from actual
00:51:28.860 racial discrimination
00:51:30.600 which is already
00:51:31.460 illegal but it
00:51:33.220 has protected them
00:51:34.120 from the most basic
00:51:35.040 standards of hygiene
00:51:36.160 and professionalism
00:51:37.200 like I want you to
00:51:38.960 think about the
00:51:39.500 levels of narcissism
00:51:40.700 and pettiness
00:51:41.360 that are involved
00:51:43.040 here
00:51:43.320 if you work at a
00:51:45.460 restaurant
00:51:45.820 and your boss says
00:51:47.760 you can't wear
00:51:48.260 dreadlocks
00:51:48.860 the assumption is
00:51:50.920 that if you're a
00:51:51.520 black person
00:51:52.060 the rule is
00:51:53.940 specifically targeted
00:51:55.060 at you
00:51:55.920 for no other
00:51:57.880 reason than to
00:51:59.240 cramp your style
00:52:00.280 and persecute you
00:52:01.260 and this assumption
00:52:02.860 is built on an
00:52:03.640 underlying assumption
00:52:04.440 that your race
00:52:05.980 invented dreadlocks
00:52:07.360 and has unique
00:52:08.140 ownership over them
00:52:09.180 all of these
00:52:10.260 assumptions right
00:52:11.140 down the line
00:52:11.900 are false
00:52:12.680 they are all
00:52:14.140 examples of the
00:52:15.060 worst kind of
00:52:16.140 racial main
00:52:16.960 character syndrome
00:52:17.820 you know the
00:52:20.060 actual reason you
00:52:20.900 can't wear dreadlocks
00:52:21.780 while you cook my
00:52:22.520 steak
00:52:22.900 is that you
00:52:24.260 haven't washed
00:52:24.880 them since last
00:52:25.700 February
00:52:26.220 and it's disgusting
00:52:27.480 and this is the
00:52:29.300 basic concept that
00:52:30.220 the lady with the
00:52:30.760 hoop earrings
00:52:31.280 pretends not to
00:52:32.120 understand speaking
00:52:32.860 of which are
00:52:34.040 hoop earrings
00:52:34.680 protected I
00:52:36.400 mean what about
00:52:36.880 jewelry and
00:52:37.520 clothing and other
00:52:38.340 accessories that
00:52:39.120 are historically
00:52:40.220 associated with
00:52:41.160 certain races
00:52:41.920 now black people
00:52:43.300 did not invent
00:52:43.900 hoop earrings but
00:52:44.820 if we're giving
00:52:45.700 them credit for
00:52:46.520 braids then I
00:52:48.120 guess we give
00:52:48.500 them credit for
00:52:48.980 earrings too
00:52:49.620 so how far does
00:52:51.720 this go now the
00:52:53.020 answer is that it
00:52:53.800 goes as far as the
00:52:54.920 race hustlers can
00:52:56.720 take it I mean if
00:52:57.480 it seems like they're
00:52:58.200 trying to make it
00:52:59.500 so that racial
00:53:00.280 minorities are not
00:53:01.640 required to follow
00:53:03.660 any rules or meet
00:53:04.940 any standards or
00:53:06.180 do anything they
00:53:07.300 don't feel like
00:53:08.040 doing ever well
00:53:09.100 that's because that's
00:53:10.500 exactly what they're
00:53:11.260 trying to do which
00:53:12.920 is why although this
00:53:13.740 is the dumbest law
00:53:15.100 ever written in the
00:53:16.080 history of laws it
00:53:17.160 is also incredibly
00:53:18.840 sinister and that is
00:53:20.740 why the concept of
00:53:21.860 hair discrimination
00:53:22.600 and anyone who
00:53:23.680 pushes it is today
00:53:25.240 canceled that'll do
00:53:27.100 it for the show
00:53:27.480 today and this
00:53:28.760 week have a
00:53:29.900 beautiful and
00:53:31.340 blessed Thanksgiving
00:53:32.060 I'll talk to you
00:53:32.600 on Monday
00:53:33.040 Godspeed
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