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We're in a southern state. we're talking about the civil war. i'm going to have students that are pulling for the confederacy. i was that student. i pulled for the confederacy. they are southern. i'm southern, right? it's not about slavery in your mind. it's just like it's the cowboys versus the redskins. you want the cowboys to win the football game, right? it is what it is in their head. so, when you throw slavery in there, it complicates it. it is not a football game. this was real. most history classes we teach that the winners rwrite history. the history, the winners -- the southerners, h...

>> semantics in the language, but let's focus on the reality. what we're dealing with is we have students who i always tell my students it has to be both, electro politics and protest politics, that's the only way faerns have ever gotten anything in this country. i think we need to encourage students to actually, one, take more political science courses hopefully to understand also the history of this nation to help contextualize the moment that we are in right now. >> amen. more history classes, more civics classes. >> tom rodgers, christina greer, thank you both. that does it for us this mor...

Thinking for this is my of what they see on six sockets two lines of bernie sanders might say who never gets any critical coverage because the media thanks he doesn't matter. but i think he may be read in the country right now. so it is about wish fantasies. it's about belonging to the club. look, when i was younger i was on the left and there is a reason because americans want things to be better for everyone. and when you were lied to by educators, when your mentors are making things up, with what we saw with the last election it is easy for young people to think oh, things could be better. ...

For southern state. we're talking about the civil war. i'm going to have students that are pulling for the confederacy. i was that student. i pulled with the confederacy. they are southern. i'm southern, right? it's not about slavery in your mind. it's just like it's the cowboys versus the redskins. you want the football to win the football game, right? it is what it is in their head. so, when you throw slavery in there, it complicates it. it is not a football game. this was real. most history classes we teach at the winners right history. the history, the winners -- the southerners, how they ...

War. and i'm going to have students who are pulling for the confederacy. i was that student. i pulled for the confederacy, because they're southern. i'm southern, right? and it's not about slavery in your mind. it's just like it's the cowboys versus the redskins and you want the cowboys to win the football game, right? that's what it is in their head. so when you throw slavery in there, it complicates it. it's not a football game. this was real. most history classes we teach that the winners write history. the civil war, the losers end up writing the history. when we look at southerners and ho...