He said: “I read the report of the 1919 riot in Chicago, and it is as if I were reading the report of the investigating committee of the Harlem riot of 1935, the report of the investigating committee of the Harlem riot of 1943, the report of the McCone Commission on the Watts riot of 1965. 2017 Season 3. It asks students to choose to be a slave or a slave owner, and then to write a journal entry that describes daily activities before the civil war. There are a lot of suggestions to look at. John Oliver, Wanda Sykes, and Larry David teamed up to help fight reported bias in medical care on Sunday night’s Last Week Tonight. And if this is the first time you’re learning about the only coup on american soil, you’re not alone, because what happened there is usually either not taught at all, or, as the author of a book on that massacre points out, taught very, very misleadingly. John: Wow. But Juneteenth actually means something. In fact, just listen to this woman in Levittown, Pennsylvania, explain her objections to a black family moving to town in 1957 with some real honesty. John: What? I know he looks like he just emerged from a vat of vaseline fully formed as a shiny haunted hate mannequin, but he’s actually from the garden state. That will be 150 bucks. And then there was this case: [Kiro 7 News] A federal appeals court has ruled Seattle police used excessive force when they tasered a pregnant woman during a traffic stop in 2004. We did it, everyone. The Brownsville affair. [Woman] Definitely. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t still try them, but in many cases you’re contending with an entrenched police culture resistant to any effort to compel reform. And it is long past time that the rest of us joined to make sure that their voices are heard and acted upon. Although it at least adds a new dimension to their lyrics, now that “we ain’t ever getting older” could reasonably be followed by “because we contracted a deadly virus at our stupid concert in Southampton.” And to be fair, the event organizers and performers say that they followed all CDC and state guidelines. In fact, remember Bob Kroll? Aired on August 2, 2020. [Gov. It’s not going to serve any of us well. But guys like Bob, rolling his eyes at anything transgender related, is exactly why it is time for our conversation to go beyond “how should the police do their jobs” to “what really do we want the role of the police to be.”. But even I can tell you, if you’re spending a billion dollars on misconduct settlements, you might wanna seriously examine what conduct looks like. And let’s dive straight in with the coronavirus, the reason that we’re all googling “face mask droplets” and then doing it again but with the safe search on. And police unions can also oppose even the most basic common-sense reform. They were big fans of hydroxychloroquine, and I thought she was very impressive in the sense that, from where she came — I don’t know which country she comes from, but she said that she’s had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients. And it might be worth going through some of the history here, because it’s important to understand how deeply policing in this country is entangled with white supremacy. And it’s past time that we start protecting each other and taking this seriously. And that attitude is particularly hard to take, considering that, just six months previously, Tamir Rice had been killed by a Cleveland police officer. And perhaps no one takes that idea further than this guy: [Dave Grossman, from “Conditioned Response” (2017)] “Once you’ve made the decision to take a human life, you’re a transformed creature, you’re a predator. In George W. Bush’s first term, his Justice Department launched twelve such investigations into police departments. I said, “man, what are you talking about?” I said, “I went to school on Greenwood. But it’s actually worth taking a moment to talk about that term. A few years back, the Cleveland Police started being required to file a report every time they unholstered and pointed their gun at someone. It’s called Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas. Daisy, Daniel. I’m sorry to say that we have to tell our police officers “take it a step slower.”. And look, state standards and textbooks are just a baseline here. And look, I’m not saying that it’s been easy, perfect, or even that it would work everywhere, but it should expand our idea of what is possible. John: Now, Laura Ingraham might not seem like someone capable of following anything, apart from black teenagers simply trying to shop at CVS, but I think she has picked up on a theme there, because, seeing as she brought up the constitution, let’s talk about it. last week tonight with john oliver, A list of things Last Week Tonight With John Oliver is not: It’s not The Daily Show With John Oliver, despite the fact that the bulk of its premiere episode features Oliver dissecting the news and the news media from behind a stylish anchor’s desk, just as he did when he temporarily fronted The Daily Show in the summer of 2013. August 4, 2020. There’ll be bad-faith charges that doing so is political — although, I’d argue, no more political than the choices we’ve made to teach history the way we do now. You would be shocked if that happened. Because a whole sub industry of police training has also cropped up to reinforce the message that cops are at war. Then they had a great frolic.” And look, every excuse for slavery is shitty, but “we gave them sandwiches sometimes” has to be one of the shittiest. When the hospital is hit with a cyber attack threatening to shut down life-saving machines, Lea rises to the challenge and looks to outsmart the hackers to prove herself. But, you can never go wrong with Bingo. There’s a great documentary. And while I personally don’t understand the attraction in watching DJ business Bruce Willis hit play on an iPhone, it is clear, recklessness is abounding right now, heightening the need for strong leadership. Very basically, “qualified immunity” means that a public official is immune from lawsuits, unless their exact conduct has already been ruled unconstitutional in a previous case. So only one person was freed immediately after Washington died out of over a hundred. Y’all don’t want to deal with the fucked-up shit that y’all ancestors did. As a reward, here are some human beings to own.”. It allowed them to produce a single sound. Your email address will not be published. Only a killer can hunt a killer. In New York Bill de Blasio has balked at making it illegal for police to use choke holds, despite the fact that a chokehold is precisely what led to the death of Eric Garner. John: Moving on. Here’s one professor, explaining how hard it can be for his students learning the whole truth about Thomas Jefferson. As one Alabama planter said in the wake of emancipation, “We have the power to pass stringent police laws to govern the Negroes—this is a blessing—for they must be controlled in some way or white people cannot live among them.”. All rights reserved. Only a fucking monster wouldn’t want that. Because I think it’s bullshit! So we have to teach it better and continue to learn it, because it’s important for all of us to listen to the voices of history, whether they are a call to action, truly horrific, or a sad mummy orgasm. Medical groups say police violence against black and brown Americans is just one of many physical and psychological factors that make racism a serious public health issue. And that’s just one of hundreds and hundreds of videos. So you say stuff like, uh, “forced busing,” “states’ rights,” and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Only to have to almost immediately walk that statement back saying that there was a process that they were required to go through by law. And I raised my hand, I said, “no, I’m from Tulsa. And we actually did a whole 21-minute piece about what’s wrong with that argument, but this clip explains it significantly quicker. When CBS looked into it this year, it found “seven states do not directly mention slavery in their state standards,” only two mention white supremacy, while 16 list states’ rights as a cause of the civil war. To do anything less would be absolutely unforgivable. 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