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like this. >> and when i was governor, when i was running for governor, my slogan was mississippi will never be last again. >> mississippi has been so far down on so many measures. and this is one of the reasons we're trying to look back on something that was truly awful people trying to own other people. and that's the reason the confederate states seceded. all you have to do is read their articles of succession and i did the rapid let me read the first couple of lines from mississippi's justification for its accession. >> this is january 9, 18, 60 one our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery, the greatest material interest of the world. it's labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce on, of the earth. these
the impression that i was doing anything -- >> that last statement there by justice alito is just false. talk about coming close, he's way past the line. just to be clear, no one is even trying to suggest that he'd have to give this all back. the proper course of action, if you took money or things of value from someone with a material interest in a case is to recuse yourself. the case goes on, life goes on, just like the proper thing in many of these instances would be to disclose what they're doing, doesn't even mean they're not allowed to do it. yet, at that very basic minor level, these people who tell you what to do, who rule on your rights, justice alito telling you can't have a right to certain health care and abortion decisions, will go out with a straight face and talk about their standards and what they do. it is hype october see of the highest order, and it's put a cloud over the supreme court. if you bring the news, propublica has been reporting on
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slavery across america. in your book you visit eight places central to the history of slavery in manager. you wrote this in response to the negative messages growing up in your majority of your home town, new orleans, not too far from baton rouge where i'm from. tell me about that and how it affected you. >> yeah. so the origins story of the book, i was watching the statues of several confederate monuments coming do you know. jefferson davis, robert e. lee, and thinking about what it mend that i grew up in a mostly black city that there were more homages of black slaves. my middle school was named after a leader of the confederacy that my parents still live on a street named after someone who owned 150 enslaved people. the thing about symbols, they're be just symbols.
at ingrezza.com today congress passing a bill to make juneteenth a national holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the united states. the holiday only hadding june 19th, 1865, a day that army general rode into texas and told slaves of their emancipation. that was two years after president lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation. next he goes to joe biden to sign which he is expected to do. at the same time on capitol hill, a group of republicans introducing a bill to defund the 1619 project curriculum. joining me now, clint smith, a
president biden returning to washington after his high stakes trip overseas. he is feeling confident about his meeting with vladimir putin, saying he did what he went to do. but back home, he's dealing with a stalled agenda and republicans focus on obstruction, pass passing a bill to make juneteenth a national holiday xhel rating the end of slavery in the u.s. and tucker carlson pushing a deranged conspiracy theory that the fbi was behind the insurrection. really. i want to start now with senior political analyst john avalon and susan glasser. john harwood. excuse me. did i call you john avalon? i guess did i. >> you did. >> like the president today, i apologize. i'm really sorry. especially john avalon, of all
is something that has been happening in this country for a long time. that the name of white supremacy takes empirical statements and turns them into ideological ones. if i say the confederacy was a treasonous territory that raised an army to maintain slavery. in some classes, some people might see that as an ideological statement or a political statement or me attempting to indoctrinate students. when it is just reflective of the historical evidence we have in front of us. you just have to look at what they had in 1861 in a state like mississippi, it says very clearly, our position is thoroughly aligned with slavery, the greatest material interest in the world. they're not unclear about why they're about to fight the civil war. part of why this attempt to attack crt and the 1619 project, slavery and racism, it attempts
staff writer at the atlantic and the author of how the word is passed. a reckoning with the history of slavery across america. clint, i'm so happy to have you on. thank you. i'm going to get to your book. i'll start with the opposition of the critical race theory. senator tom cotton, mitch mcconnell, other republican lawmakers issuing a bill that would prohibit the use of federal funds to teach 1619 project. here's what senator cotton said. he said activists in schools want to teach kids to hate america, hate chut using discredited race theory curriculum like the 1619. they should not indoctrinate our youth. look, this is just not accurate and it really shows how afraid people are to talk about race. how did critical race theory become the new boogie man for the right? >> yeah. i think part of what it reflects