share at the positives and the negatives of slavery. the positives of slavery? really? and the southern poverty law center actually has studied, recently, we shows the percent seniors wonder student slavery should be a major cause of the civil war. now i ask you, how do we have a rational democratic debate about voting rights in a country that has not been able to confront the fact, not just that we have historically refused to teach our history. because that is the reality. this is not about calling anybody in the presser. this is about understanding who we are. how we got here. and what problems we are still trying to solve. that is not a blame game, that is about problem solving. whatever scott is participating in is a willful political strategy to engender fear in
these are wars over power. it is really about whether in democracy we are all going to have power in it. if you control history, if you control knowledge, if you control information, then you are controlling past power and who doesn t. if you go back to the history of textbooks, here is what is so offensively wrong about what senator scott said. in atlanta, georgia in 2012, the elementary school math book actually had a homework assignment that said frederick gets to beatings a day. how many beatings does frederick get after one week? after two weeks? or in san antonio, texas, where the textbook assignment after the textbook, i m talking 2018 here. after the textbook talked about how some slaves probably were perfectly happy with slavery, how the homework assignment for the children that said, please
but exactly what happens, for example, leading up to world war ii. and one reason was to ensure that it did not happen again. so it is really sad about senator scott s comments is that we have an opportunity here to say look, let s teach our children. let s teach future generations what s not to allow it to happen again. and let s empower these kids. so that when they grow up, they can be a part of the solution. they can help fight against the racism and bigotry that they see. as opposed to cradling them and giving support professionally would be her doing so. but he won t do, that because republicans love a culture war. if they tell the truth about history, it makes it harder to wage culture wars. and the culture wars are strictly emotional wars and that. maya wiley, your thoughts on senator scott? so first, i can say that for me, these are not culture wars.