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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 isn't 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. so when they want to get rid of certain textbooks that talk about systemic racism in history, when t...

Morrison, what they're 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 american flag and dragged it on the floor and used the confederate flag to drag it through are the ver...

[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 florida's snowflake in chief governor ron desantis, who has been pushing for the bill, it's white people who needy motional and psychological protection in america. joining me now is tim wise, antiracist e...

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, children's 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 deliver voting rights for americans. >> on this mlk day, the ongoing fight for american democracy....

Black folks don't work hard enough. their values aren't good enough. their culture is broken. they are essentially saying, let's 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, that's going to create pain and shame for black folks and they don't care. that's what this is. >> right. these bills, althoug...