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War." tim, thank you very, very much for coming to "the sunday show." i mean, this is white fragility -- this bill and the purpose is white fragility personified, is it not? >> right. i mean, these are the people who say white fragility is a made-up concept, and yet they democrat -- demonstrate it, every time they open their mouths. this isnt a debate about history. how we remember the past and how we teach it and talk about it affects how we understand the present and how we shape the future. s...

Morrison, what theyre trying to ban is blackness. they want to use dr. king as the kind of symbol of their attack on blackness. the blackest man in the land to this day. so i think that what will happen, however, it will be effective because the anti-blackness is so deeply entrenched. the ability to use black people as the whipping boys and girls of the collective unconscious and to see us as antithetical to democracy when we know the folk on january 6 who stood in that capitol and used that ame...

[bacon sizzles] ♪ [electronic music plays] ♪ [bacon sizzles] ♪ [electronic music plays] ♪ woo! florida to take anything to the next level. florida senate education committee just passed a bill called individual freedom that would prohibit schools and private businesses from making white people feel uncomfortable when teaching or training about historic racism. because, according to floridas snowflake in chief governor ron desantis, who has been pushing for the bill, its white people who ...

Enough to stand up and admit it rather than to pretend that they are foot soldiers in his legacy. >> indeed. and in some states they are. literally they banned books, childrens books about dr. king and then turn around and quote dr. king and justify that. dr. michael eric dyson and the reverend doctor tim wise, thank you very much. appreciate you both. blessed mlk day. "all in with chris hayes" starts now. tonight on "all in" -- >> if you can deliver an infrastructure bill for bridges, you can...

Black folks dont work hard enough. their values arent good enough. their culture is broken. they are essentially saying, lets remove any type of analysis that looks at the society and the structures so we can just blame the victims of inequality. and the irony is, as they say they want to protect parents and children from feeling shame, they only care about white parents and children because if the only explanation you have for inequality is black people are broken, thats going to create pain an...

And if young people realized that, theyre going to start asking questions of where their parents and grandparents were. and as you said about ruby bridges, all of these folks trying to ban books about birmingham in 63, ruby bridges, rosa parks, what theyre saying, in effect, is that black children were apparently old enough to face those water canons in birmingham. ruby bridges was old enough to face those tomato-throwing bigots in new orleans, but susie suburb in white america is not old enough...

George floyd, where the largest racial justice movement in history, their fear is if you talk about systemic racism and the truth of our history, the young people who have an innate sense of justice are going to want to get involved side by side with black and brown folks to fight for justice. they dont want that, right. if youre really concerned, for instance, about white folks feeling bad about white folks in history, its because youre teaching the wrong white people. if we were to talk about ...

Because he was black. and they said that he had committed a crime, but he hadnt did anything. and i can say removing those three people off the streets of glynn county is big. its huge. >> so you heard from ahmaud arberys mother there hoping for a conviction. all three men already face life in prison but this will send a message to the rest of the world. fred, another important date, closing arguments monday, but wednesday marks two years since the murder of ahmaud arbery. and there will be memo...

Of these men came from, which we wont if were not allowed to talk about that history. if we dont understand that well have more of these incidents take place. this is why the fight against anti-racist education, not critical race theory because thats not what in schools, but anti-racist education. this new censorship that were seeing on the right, this is the danger. if we shut down conversations about where this thinking comes from, well have more people die at the hands of racists like these t...

The Texas senator was roasted on Twitter for this one.