June 1865 News Today

and this side of the room what they see. and they will be looking at the same exact coin, but describing two very different realities. - calling it insurrection-- it wasnt. it was peaceful protest. - its anarchists. breaking the glass of the united states capitol. - facts are indisputable. - ♪ ive got secrets - i think thats the problem that we have. more people need to be able to stand up and say, "thats crazy. "its a quarter, and we can talk about whats on each side of the quarter,...

[dramatic music] - i can hold a quarter right here, in this room, and ask this side of the room to tell me what they see and this side of the room what they see. and they will be looking at the same exact coin, but describing two very different realities. - calling it insurrection-- it wasnt. it was peaceful protest. - its anarchists. breaking the glass of the united states capitol. - facts are indisputable. - ♪ ive got secrets - i think thats the problem that we have. more people ne...

I can hold a quarter right here, in this room, and ask this side of the room to tell me what they see and this side of the room what they see. And they will be looking at the same exact coin, but describing two very different realities. Calling It Insurrection it wasnt. It was peaceful protest. Its anarchists. Breaking the glass of the United States capitol. Facts are indisputable. Ive got secrets i think thats the problem that we have. More people need to be able to stand up and say, thats craz...

[light music] ♪ [dramatic music] - i can hold a quarter right here, in this room, and ask this side of the room to tell me what they see and this side of the room what they see. and they will be looking at the same exact coin, but describing two very different realities. - calling it insurrection-- it wasnt. it was peaceful protest. - its anarchists. breaking the glass of the united states capitol. - facts are indisputable. - ♪ ive got secrets - i think thats the problem that we ha...

- i can hold a quarter right here, in this room, and ask this side of the room to tell me what they see and this side of the room what they see. and they will be looking at the same exact coin, but describing two very different realities. - calling it insurrection-- it wasnt. it was peaceful protest. - its anarchists. breaking the glass of the united states capitol. - facts are indisputable. - ♪ ive got secrets - i think thats the problem that we have. more people need to be able to ...

and ask this side of the room to tell me what they see and this side of the room what they see. and they will be looking at the same exact coin, but describing two very different realities. - calling it insurrection-- it wasnt. it was peaceful protest. - its anarchists. breaking the glass of the united states capitol. - facts are indisputable. - ♪ ive got secrets - i think thats the problem that we have. more people need to be able to stand up and say, "thats crazy. "its a quarter, a...

Its commitment to democracy and-- - you started hearing irresponsibly exuberant statements like, "were a post-racial society." - the politics of racial grievance died tonight. [crowd cheering] - in the face of that, we started hearing people kind of whispering, "this wont go over well. theres going to be a backlash to this." - theres never been a time when there wasnt a backlash to even the most miniscule of progress. i was working on a story about juneteenth, and upon emancipation of the last p...

WALB’s Jim Wallace sat down with the organizer of the Leesburg event for details about it and the history behind it.

This was in the galveston paper, in june, 1865. thats how swift and how consistent backlash has been. - the moment obama was elected and early in the presidency, you started to see this dynamic which was, in certain subsets, you were finding majorities of white people who you could poll who would tell you that whites were the most disadvantaged group in the united states. - this president, i think, has exposed himself as a guy, over, and over, and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for whi...

About how to control them again and how to set limits on wages. this was in the galveston paper, in june, 1865. thats how swift and how consistent backlash has been. - the moment obama was elected and early in the presidency, you started to see this dynamic which was, in certain subsets, you were finding majorities of white people who you could poll who would tell you that whites were the most disadvantaged group in the united states. - this president, i think, has exposed himself as a guy, over...