This video presents a heated debate about the role of museums and historical interpretation in American society, where one side argues that museums should focus on the most negative aspects of history while the other side contends that objectivity and historical accuracy are tools of white supremacy. The debate reveals how political actors use historical narratives to advance their agendas, with some arguing that authoritarians target museums to control public consciousness, while others defend the right to focus on America's promise and achievements. The discussion highlights the tension between different approaches to historical memory and how these approaches serve broader political and social purposes.
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Keith Boykin UNLEASHES on Republican Racism Denial in Heated Debate!
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I just don't want you to make us look bad. I just because you made an assumption about me that's not true. So, just continue on. No, I'd like to know if your assumption is accurate.
White supremacy culture. [music] Ma'am, are you a white supremacist?
No, sir. You're not.
Let's see. I think we can all agree that that is facially [music] ridiculous and you think objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?
People on the left believe that we should focus relentlessly on the most negative aspects [music] of our history and they're Do you believe that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?
Well, you said we can all agree on something. I'm just saying we don't all Can we all agree that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?
As to why would this administration [music] target museums, arts and culture? And the the historian said, "Authoritarians, they do [music] this in order to control the mind of the people." And so, hello everybody. Guys, this is one of the most insane segments I've seen. We got Maga Zach Morris not being saved by the bell along with agent double O Pedro, Scott Jennings on a new mission, spits shine.
Let's get into this segment and we'll talk about it. Republican lawmakers in a hearing on Capitol Hill today.
Anthea Harding took issue with the administration's characterization of the museum that cast the American history museum in a negative light. But, Democratic Congressman Kweisi Enfume of Maryland took it a step further. Listen.
We will not let you destroy that museum.
No matter how long it takes, how many battles are required, how much effort is needed, we will not allow that to happen unless you find a way to kill all of us and walk over our bodies to change history. That history is too sacred. It is too precious and it will not be erased.
The tension here is between the Trump administration's insistence on uh in their words trying to correct the overemphasis of slavery in some of these museums uh with their maybe their correct criticism of some of the things that the museum has done in the past.
Let me play for you an exchange between Brandon Gill and Anthea Harding about something that the museum had as it relates to politeness. Listen.
>> Is it important to be polite?
>> Excuse me, sir.
>> Is it important to be polite?
>> Yes, sir.
>> It's also interesting because the same mass action toolkit that you're or >> This is just amazing. Sorry for pausing so early. Guys, you know who this is, right?
Of all people to be talking about getting rid of slave slavery exhibits or racism, a guy who literally got rid of his Indian wife from photos.
Dear lord, the irony is just incredible with these people. This is true comedy.
Ready for how comedic this gets? This is not even close to it. His father-in-law is Dinesh D'Souza.
If you know who that is, he's another right-wing nut job who once dated or married to Laura Ingraham from Fox, actually.
And wait, guys, it gets better. This racist piece of [ __ ] over here, MAGA Clark Kent.
This racist piece of crap called Mom Donny uncivilized for eating with his hands.
"Go back to your third world," he said to him.
Somebody posted a picture of a picture of his own father-in-law, the Indian man Dinesh D'Souza, eating with his hands.
Um I don't know why. Let's think about it. Because he's Indian like your wife.
Guys, this is comedic gold.
It's like he's not racist enough to not marry an Indian person, but racist enough to know this is how you win in Republican elections. And so, F them brown people, right?
Just an amazing sight to see. He's another J.D. Vance. At least J.D.
doesn't hide Usha, but he certainly refused to defend them from racist attacks for being Indian.
I mean, just disgusting things. I wonder why, guys? Why won't these Republicans just push back on clear racism? I mean, against your own wife? The alpha males?
You won't defend your own wife?
Hmm, I wonder why that is.
I wonder why they can't stand these slavery exhibits.
Ay, pobrecito. Guys, these guys make it too easy. Judge, I think court has been adjourned. We all know who these mother efforts are.
>> organization has been promoting references, politeness as a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture.
Ma'am, are you a white supremacist?
>> Hmm, no, sir.
>> You're not?
>> Can you help me square why your organization says that being polite is part of being a white supremacist?
>> I'm not exactly familiar with that passage of the Mass Action Toolkit, which is not one that we developed.
>> I don't Pardon me?
>> I said I I just read you the passage from it.
>> And then your question was, sir?
>> We're going to move on.
>> So, they're conflating these two things.
>> Yeah, you know, I when I hear this conversation, it makes me think of a Baldwin quote that says, "Nothing can be changed until it is faced." And that's the thing about these museums is that it shows the full spectrum of the American history. Parts of it that are really uncomfortable and hard for people to grapple with, but it also does a job of showing the promise of who America can be. And in order for people to get to that promise, you have to be honest in reconciling that history. One part of the hearing that I really loved today was Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley having that conversation with the historian from Yale, and she was asking what and drawing parallels to 1930s Germany as to why would this administration target museums, arts and culture. And the the historian said, "Authoritarians, they do this in order to control the mind of the people." And so, this isn't about this conversation that they're having in Congress. It is about ensuring that there's one conversation or one belief system in the United States and not celebrating the diversity that sure, there's pain in this nation in our founding, but there's also promise. But in order for us to get to that promise, we have to reconcile with the hard, uncomfortable truth that takes a bit of courage to face and move forward.
>> I I I just wonder even if you think that they went too far in some of these uh you know, 2020 era moves, [clears throat] why again, what does that have to do with the administration wanting to remove mentions of slavery from exhibits in the Smithsonian in Philadelphia at George Washington's house?
>> Well, I don't think they have much to do with each other. I think 2020, everybody did get a little too woke, and it's okay to contend with that reality. Uh practically speaking, the earlier portion of that, Brandon Gill clip, who I think, you know, earned some plaudits for today, did a good job. Uh Bethany Mandel had a piece in the Washington Examiner uh profiling him the other day where um clearly that's somebody who is a standout among this freshman class in Congress and is going to do a good job of grilling uh progressive institu- >> He's hiding his Indian wife and making fun of people who eating with their hands, like his own father-in-law who's Indian. He's a stand-up guy, right? Of course, MAGA Zach Morris will say this.
>> tutional bureaucrats uh in many future congressional hearings down the road.
Immediately preceding that clip that you showed though, he was also asking about objectivity. That same toolkit that the Smithsonian was promoting as a document to be upheld around that time period, 2020, 2021, whatever it may have been, suggested that objectivity was a tool of white supremacy. I think we can all agree that that is facially ridiculous and You think objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?
>> I'm not going to interrupt you. I just want to say you you presume things that were not true.
>> Do you believe that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?
>> Well, you said we can all agree on something. I'm just saying we don't all agree.
>> Can we all agree that objectivity is a tool of white supremacy?
So, what is I posed the question here.
Is objectivity a But you interrupted me to make that point.
So, is my No, I'd like to know is your assumption inaccurate?
Well, look, you interrupted me, so I'm giving you the opportunity to weigh in.
I'm giving you the opportunity to weigh in.
>> Cuz we don't have that much time, so I I want to make sure we we stick with what we're talking about here. Uh the reason I asked you initially >> Guys, we all know the reason they care about slavery exhibits is the same reason they do the countless bigotry crap they do.
It's racist red meat for Republican voters. They know who these little piggies are. It's all about that. It's why Brandon Gill hid his wife.
It's why he attacked Mamdani for eating with his hands.
We all know why. It's racist red meat for the little piggies, the little doggies. It's so structural to the Republican Party. It's what brings them together and join hands in matrimony.
They can all agree to be bigoted.
It's pivotal for them guys, too, because they use the bigotry to push policy like their immigration agenda, right? Oh, look, Laken Riley, someone else who's killed by an immigrant. Get them all out.
The Somali fraud, get all the Somalis out.
Or don't tax the rich. Not the rich. No, no, no, don't tax them. Look at all the immigrants. A caravan is coming. Trans people. And just yell trans people because I don't know.
Or Or how about low pay?
Low pay, no promotions?
It's because of DEI. It's all those damn black people getting all the promotions.
Which is just an an amazing effing notion. And guys, I can keep going how they do this for everything. How about voting? It's the illegals are voting. No matter what, the fact is it doesn't matter. It's about using race to push policies and scare easily frightened white people.
It's such a fear for these white people in the Republican party that they are willing to harm other groups of people.
It's why they are obsessed with Trump, why they love him so much. He promised to go after the brown and black monsters under their bed.
Conservatives are a bunch of wimps. How many times have I said it? At the core of who they are, they're effing cowards.
>> really what does that have to do with what the administration is doing is because the administration has used these um so-called, you know, woke you know, policies of the of the 2020 era to justify what they are doing in order to try to rewrite what is in the museums. And and I and I don't understand why they are doing that because the two things don't seem to have anything in common.
>> I don't think they're trying to rewrite American history. I think there's a worldview difference. People on the left believe that we should focus relentlessly on the most negative aspects of our history. And there have been negative aspects of our history.
There's no questioning that. But people on the left in this country want our country to be defined today by the most negative aspects of our history. People on the right, as led by the president today, would like to focus on what you I think correctly called the promise.
>> Focus on depicting the Obamas as apes?
Oh, no, no, sorry, not today. That was a few weeks ago, right?
>> of America. What makes America great?
What we have done to overcome the worst aspects of our history. This example that Brandon Gill pulled is one of the most egregious examples of excess at this museum. I mean, you know, it's like their white supremacy list.
Individualism and self-reliance, nuclear family structures, rational linear thinking, work before you play. It goes on and on and on. Politeness.
>> she, would acknowledge that First of all, that wasn't policy of the museum.
It was done by an individual individuals who worked there. But I but here but to to the point that I made, Scott, I mean, you're saying nobody wants to rewrite history. Literally, earlier this month, the the um the federal government removed a panel about George Washington's uh slave holding and replaced it with one that said that Washington knew and trusted his enslaved house staff enough to buy them tickets for the circus and theater and let them venture out into the city's markets on their own, so on and so forth. So, there's some rewriting happening, for sure.
>> Absolutely is. I was there.
>> Mhm, I wonder why he doesn't care about that kind of rewriting. Mhm, anti-black racism. Why doesn't Scott care? Look how he sits there with no rebuke.
Little prick.
>> at the President's House in Philadelphia just a couple of weeks ago, right before the 4th of July. I was there earlier the year before early in the year before they made the change in the panels. And it is a rewriting of history. The same rewriting that tried to erase Jackie Robinson and erase the Tuskegee Airmen from the Defense Department website. The same rewriting that created the 1776 commission that Trump used to try to whitewash American history about slavery. I know >> it African-American that we cannot allow this erasure to happen. And Quaiser is in full his right to speak up about that.
>> All right, everyone. Thank you very much for watching.
>> Don't worry, Keith. Not on Poppy's watch.
It ain't happening. And guys, the issue with Republicans and conservatives and so-called woke, they don't even know what the hell it means, is that it tells you the truth. And therein lies the problem. That's all it is. Woke is just a truth of something that happened and the truth harms their intentions.
This is important for them because if people understood the history, for instance, of black people in this country and slavery, these attacks on different races is just that much harder to be effective. That's why it's important to stand with black people, even if you're not black. You can be Hispanic, Indian, it doesn't matter, white. I see it almost like a math equation in my head.
You would attack black people, you would attack me as a Hispanic person. If you attack Indian people, you attack me. If you attack Muslims, you attack me because by not standing with these different groups of of of people, for instance, if you're Hispanic, and say, "Well, it's not your fight."
It's just a matter of time before they come for you next and it will be that much easier because you will have no effing allies. And don't cry when there's no one there to stand with you, shoulder to shoulder.
But anyways, guys, I'm going to leave it there.
Let me know I I I thought this was such an insane segment. When I saw Brandon Gill, I did a little bit more research.
These people are comically insane.
I mean, it just it just tells you what they think of their voters. They know exactly who they are. They're not racist enough not to marry an Indian woman, but they know sure enough know who their voters are and that they wouldn't like them being married to an Indian woman.
And so they pedal this bigotry saying that Mom Donny is uncivilized and should go back to his third world country for eating with his hands when your own father-in-law is doing the same effing thing, you racist piece of [ __ ] But anyways, I'm going to leave it there, guys. Let me know what you think about all this in the comments. Please leave a like, subscribe. Really helps the channel. Really helps push the message out there. And I'll catch you in the next one. All right?
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