Ken Burns: Confederate statues celebrate a false narrative 

Taking down the statues does nothing. It does not change the hearts of anybody. It does not fix our current problems. It's simply a distraction.

Excellent.

Chris England Unless your a black child who live around one of those statues. Then you might have a different opinion.

@@chrisengland6648 Spoken like a white dude!

Chris England it’s takes a glorifying pos human beings that wanted to keep my people enslaved

"in an interview only one person speaks ever!"

@Tammy Slade No Cuomo loves and craves chocolate people you know that. Plus dude he is Italian.

I think he was trying to speak as a republican would.

Jeff ! I don’t care about Lees private diary. I care about what the South said loud and proud!!! This war was about slavery. You my friend are the brainwashed one

I was thinking the same

Way to get brainwashed. Seriously!

@@ekaterina4280 'brainwashed' now there speaks a true ignoramus! What's your name 'Dwight Shroot'?

What are you talking about? Out of 8 and a half mins, Ken talked 6 and a half mins at least.

@@robertgregory2618 That's what I was thinking. Ken talked a good 80% of this video, and Chris is a reporter - he has questions he was wanting to have out there. I feel he did a pretty good job of achieving balance while still giving Ken time to talk and get his own points in!

I think he is too use to interviewing people who are there to argue. He has lost his interviewer skills.

By 1894, when the DEMOCRATIC Party in the South returned to power, restrictions were reimposed. ( Jim Crow Laws started) A major concern was how to draw the line between black and white in a society in which white men had many children with enslaved black women. On the one hand, a person's reputation as black or white was usually decisive in practical matters. On the other hand, most laws used a "one drop of blood" rule, which meant that one black ancestor made a person black in the view of the law. In 1967, 16 states still retained anti-miscegenation laws, mainly in the American South. Judge who sentenced them Leon M. Bazile. ( a known democrat) In 1935 Bazile won election as a Democrat to represent Hanover and King William counties in the House of Delegates. This is who sentenced the couple Loving vs. The State of Virginia and represented one of the most talked about cases in the US> This is what democrats want to keep pushing on Trump and conservatives, but we know it ISN'T TRUE... They are just trying to hide their racism and remove it from history.

@@briannamacleodespana8625 Yeah - you could probably do a far, far superior job of interviewing someone like Ken Burns with 8.5 minutes to work with. I'm sure of it! Thank God you were here to set everyone straight on what an idiot Chris Cuomo is. Your show, and your interview skills, are probably far superior to Chris Cuomo's. Where can we catch your skillful, fabulous interviews of famous people?

Chris needs to stop interrupting him.

I want to hear everything that he has to say, too.

You cannot cherrypick which statues stay and which goes...either they all stay or all go. Makes absolutely no sense to do otherwise and can't scapegoat the South and ignore everyone else. Makes no sense......

If you don't mind his sickening liberal bias, that is.

I must have watched The West ten times.

Eva Grant no confederate statue should be in any state house or public place in the United States.

Tommy Truth nothing about this documentary is liberal they are historical facts. It’s no wonder that trump supporters are mostly uneducated.

@Hildebeast Clinton BREAKING NEWS: Trump drinks water with only one hand!!!

What are you talking about? Out of 8 and a half mins, Ken talked 6 and a half mins at least.

Watch Chris with his brother Andrew and you realize it's a learned self-defense tactic :P

Cuomo didn’t interrupt him- he was just trying to move the conversation along. Cuomo was trying to make sure that they had time to say all he felt was important to be said. Cuomo does admire Ken Burns; he’s said as much in other interviews.

Only to the intellectually weak because everybody else knows exactly what it means

@@dluvv19761 Then a good portion of white America is, as you put it, "intellectually weak"

@David Hale You're* What movement do you assume I'm following? Marxism...how is this relevant to anything I said??? And Marxism, like any system of political theory, is only as good as the people espousing it. Capitalism is just as flawed as any other political system.

@Cool Hand Mark They all sound the same don't they...

David Hale we believe these statues need to be gone.. all that other shit you’re spewing is not on our agenda

They were abolished. Sorry.....couldn't help myself

Damned good question !

This

@@bct8881 😂😂 Too Soon Friend, too soon😂😂😂

You could start a fund to accomplish that mission if you feel strongly that your town is incomplete without one

Blame the people of Africa. When one tribe over ran another tribe, it was common to kill the babies, take the wives for their own, and put their men into slavery, SELLING them.

SO IT WAS MANDATORY TO PURCHASE HUMANBEINGS; MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS SELLING THEM? IN A SO CALLED CHRISTIAN NATION? AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL. JUST ASKED THE NATIVE POPULATION'S. HISTORY DOESN'T DEMONSTRATE, AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL....WHAT HYPOCRISY!

@@edwardcochran5060 sounds like you hate america?!!! Then why stay??? I'm sure canada,new zealand,china would be more than happy to take your un greatfull ass!!

@Lisa Benge maybe if you haven't heard the Republican helped end slavery (shhhhhhh!!!! Don't let that get out) and all Confederates where democrats along with the KKK ETC. (SHHHHHHH!!!! please really don't let that get out for sure!!!!!!) But it sounds like you hate america?!!! Then why stay??? I'm sure canada,new zealand,china would be more than happy to take your ungreatfull ass

The OP is simply not true. Calling a slave a slave does not dehumanize the person; being a slave does that. Trying to redefine slaves and slavery with different terms that are easier on modern ears and sensibilities is just revisionist, SJW garbage. It follows the pattern of just altering terms and adding adjectives to make ugly and uncomfortable things more polite and easy to talk about. Some things should stay ugly and uncomfortable to talk about. Some things should always leave a wound inside when they are discussed and investigated. To make slavery and the plight that slaves suffered through something that doesn't make your soul crawl, ruin dinner to speak about and may make your overly woke, SJW, NPR friends pat you on the back for your wokeness but it dishonors and cheapens what the slaves went through.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-epXDysrgAPk.html 💘

So he just said everything that he said in the Civil War series was a lie. YOU S%UMBAG.

His series on the Vietnam war is incredible. I highly recommend it. Should be made available for viewing in high schools for extra credit.

@William L right lol

Yes you can but only when you understand the difference between country and government

@@dluvv19761 RACIST!!!!!!

Good Fella no you can’t; it’s a flag of hate, betrayal, and suppression. The only time to wave a confederate flag is if a confederate is hanging on the other end and then it’s just swaying.

@@timothymccree1854 someone disagrees with me, REEE!

The illegal immigrants wave the Mexican flag...I guess your ok with that...

Too many to count. I have a master's degree in American history and read hundreds of books, articles, and scholarly journals and the volume of systemic, murderous history will shock even the biggest believer of them. America's history is awash in the blood of "other" people. It's so good to see it finally be seriously addressed.

Try over 400yrs worth, and still going!

When youre black you learn these things before you are ten. Thats why you have 23 y/o black men talking to white folks 3 times their age like the like the white person in in 3rd grade. Have you heard of KWANZAA? No is not a "muslim holiday". Think of all the black stuff you dont know about. All you missed out on.

Oh. And watch the movie called ROSEWOOD. True story. Don Cheadle is in it. Just like tulsa but smaller.

Book by Cameron McWhirter "Red Summer" The Summer Of 1919 and The Awakening Of Black America McWhirter details spontaneous white mob antiblack violence during what James Weldon Johnson called "the Red Summer," a lengthy season colored crimson by blood, which characterized the U.S. aftermath of World War I, filled with change and tensions. In addition to well-documented incidents in Chicago and Washington, DC, McWhirter explores the violent actions in cities such as Charleston, Knoxville, and Omaha and smaller communities like Carswell Grove. Elaine, Arkansas white mob murders of Blacks, and 1920 Duluth, Minn lynching of 3 Black circus workers falsely accused of rape by a white teen girl. 1921 another case of false accusation created the burning of Greenwood District of Tulsa, OK that Booker T. Washington noted as "Negro Wall Street" for it being a boomtown for Blacks still dealing with segregation.

A modest man.

By 1894, when the DEMOCRATIC Party in the South returned to power, restrictions were reimposed. ( Jim Crow Laws started) A major concern was how to draw the line between black and white in a society in which white men had many children with enslaved black women. On the one hand, a person's reputation as black or white was usually decisive in practical matters. On the other hand, most laws used a "one drop of blood" rule, which meant that one black ancestor made a person black in the view of the law. In 1967, 16 states still retained anti-miscegenation laws, mainly in the American South. Judge who sentenced them Leon M. Bazile. ( a known democrat) In 1935 Bazile won election as a Democrat to represent Hanover and King William counties in the House of Delegates. This is who sentenced the couple Loving vs. The State of Virginia and represented one of the most talked about cases in the US. This is what democrats want to keep pushing on Trump and conservatives, but we know it ISN'T TRUE... They are just trying to hide their racism and remove it from history.

@@joyphillips1821 Different time, different party. When the Southern Democrats switched to Republicans in the 90's, the two parties started another flip-flop. It happens every few generations. For whatever your apologies are, I don't think either of us would find a modern Democrat picketing to keep Confederate statues up.

seriously, his interruptions were so cringe. shut up and let him talk

It’s not always about you Chris.

Maybe the producers should show more respect for the guest and place them on shows where they are not constantly being interrupted. Chris: This was a very important conversation and your constant interruptions reflected a DISRESPECT of the guest and the topic. We came to listen to Mr. Burns more than your interjections.

OMG you wouldn't say that if he was talking about the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the clean water protests, all you people are Hypocrites.

I kept saying that too! Ken Burns, for gosh sakes....let him teach!

Murderino, agree. So annoying and distracting.

It's a result of the time lag between the 2 men and the fact that Chris needed to do this interview in a small time frame. If I were CNN I'd just let Ken talk until he's done, then cut the interview down the best bits, and then post the whole thing online as well. Stephen Colbert and the Daily Show can do this on a much smaller budget, there's no excuse for CNN.

Really annoying

I mean, he started with, "You have answers?" What a ridiculously rude way to start an interview... And with such a soft-spoken, respectful and intellectual guest. Ugh, how Chris Cuomo has a job has always baffled me.

Yeah, just shut up and listen to a master speak

You nailed that one Bibi.

Whats the difference between Andrew Jackson and Adolph Hitler ? Andrew Jackson had over a 100 slaves and he killed several of his friends over petty arguments so why is he celebrated so much.

@@imstillawakeforever2975 jesus christ was a black man

@ Well...hmmm...let's think...oh yeah, the slaughter of millions of Jews and the creation of slave labor for a war machine that caused millions of deaths.. shall we agree that might be a difference?

@@imstillawakeforever2975 There have not been widespread reports of activists tearing down statues of Jesus. Yet.

holy shit it sucked out his hair color

I thought it was facial hair.

Or coke

lol

Put every statue of MLK in a Museum and throw dirt at it.

darpat Fake name coward.

Warren Goss ❄️ it’s melting!

If they don't read MLK will be next

I saw his Vietnam War series, excellent documentary filmmaker. This man knows his craft.

I think it's more to do with the delay.

@Jason Crosby And you are? What do you base your declaration on dare one ask?

like saying Babe Ruth wasn't a baseball player,smh...

@@skepticalsmurf Exactly ;o)

Nope. He is a moron and a product of white supremacist era.

Sorry to break the news, but he's a rare clueless idiot.

@Josey Wales You mean the paranoia peddler who makes up numbers?

Not long enough.

he is talking in sexual code. its a spell. couldnt be more obvious.

@@dapabur1 What?

@@ZenShroud1 Frankly, I find all three of the reply's above your's disturbing. Unless I'm somehow misinterpreting them.

I think of the Irish at that comment. And it was often my people the Scots acting for the English for 400 years. Mind you we acted similarly toward African Americans. Most of the poor whites who fought for the South were Celts. Sickens you.

Chris can be overbearing & overly dramatic at times.

Absolutely

Overdramatic like his fake coming out of the basement episode, classic chris cuomo

Amen, Ken was making so many good points SHUT UP CHRIS

Karen Byrd whatever academic nerd means. Usually applied by people who are less capable than the person they are disparaging.

I find his voice youthful and soothing.

Vote Blue in november!! End the gop swamp’s hate agenda

@Randialena Anderson yes, very fortunate. I'm grateful.

What a lucky student you were.

love how he uses hindsight for his own viewpoints from just 20 years ago but refuses to give the founders of our great country hundreds of years ago the same courtesy. hypocrisy at its best.

@idoj654123 Statues are public property and the citizens and local officials want them down, no debate. Is not the 2nd Amendment hailed as a tool to stand against government tyranny by the citizens? Is this any different under the 1rst Amendment?

@Roy Dunn Ken Burns is authentic and brilliant. If only our politicians had his brilliance and insights.

Brilliant? That depends on who you ask.

Evidently, there are lots of Black people who don't know this or don"t care.

@gold top60 He's talking about EVERYONE obviously.

@gold top60 Not to me!

Amazing book. I read it in the '60s when I was a teenager, & have never forgotten it. Also grew up reading James Baldwin & Angela Davis, & am ashamed that fellow whites, in my country & yours, haven't evolved more over the past 50+ years.

I 've watched most of his documentaries, but they've all disappeared from my Netflix; ( I watched "The Viet Nam War" last Friday, and it was gone on Saturday. I wonder if it's because of the supposed light treatment of white supremacy that Cuomo alluded to.

Ken Burn made a baseball documentary that was separated by 9 parts, known as innings, and I enjoyed the hell out of it in my childhood. He got me interested in documentaries. Kudos for bringing him onboard to give his take on this situation. I would love to see a documentary on this current issue.

@William L Frankly speaking, the majority of our history IS shameful. We should be ashamed of slavery. We should be ashamed of imperialism. We should be ashamed of genocide. We should be ashamed of Jim Crow laws, the war on drugs, systemic racism in law enforcement, and mass incarceration. We can't ignore it, we can't hide it, and we can't rewrite history. We need to actually listen for once and learn from it. We need to do better. As a straight, white, cis American male, I'm not ashamed of myself. I am ashamed of things I've said and believed when I was younger. However, I've owned it and learned from it. I'm proud of myself, as an individual, for doing better. If you want to continue to throw a pity party and complain about things like "white guilt", go right ahead you snowflake. This is America after all, you have the right to do so. But you will get called out on your bullshit.

His Vietnam doc was next level awesome :)

well done, #chriscuomo, you let him speak ...

@Roy Dunn more than you ever will be, that’s for sure

@Roy Dunn Was any of that annoying culty rambling English or what?

@Roy Dunn Guess not. Buddy if you’re gonna ramble at least make it readable. 😂 it’s been fun Coo Coo

Baseball

Same here, Alex.

@Josey Wales spoken like a true scholar.

@@untseac Nobody is promoting violence. You know that.

@@untseac You're talking reason to a bunch of indoctrinated illiterates. It's just not gonna go anywhere. Conversing with a gold fish is typically more stimulating than your average liberal.

Trump put up a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office when he chose the art for the room.

Waaaaahhhh, i want i want i want, you must be a trophy parent or kid.

Jackson was one of US most fearless presidents. He went against Central Banks and won. Only under educated indoctrinated fools would remove his statue.

And take his image off the $20 bill.

@CD Smith why glorify this man?

David Ellis Are the statues anything more than modern day participation, for other people - groups, or individuals, as you assert? Winners and losers is a false dichotomy. Argument by analogy: why do so many folks keep particular objects from their past, as they walk through the present and into the future? Why is it a matter of last resort for Social Workers to remove children (permanently) from their parents? If you stop and think about it, your average person spends more time in the past, and just a bit less in the future, than they do in the present - the only time we really have any control over? To remove the past is to have the ground moved out from under your feet - falling!

Eddy Hanson Yes I do. But you should also know that the Democratic Party of the confederacy is now the republican party of today. So pucker up. I know my white privilege, do you?

@@rocnation1971 Just the opposite. Googly Hillary's and Biden's mentor.

Should the Korean War Memorial, the Vietnam War Wall and The Crazy Hoese carving be destroyed? They also lost.

Ouch!

By 1894, when the DEMOCRATIC Party in the South returned to power, restrictions were reimposed. ( Jim Crow Laws started) A major concern was how to draw the line between black and white in a society in which white men had many children with enslaved black women. On the one hand, a person's reputation as black or white was usually decisive in practical matters. On the other hand, most laws used a "one drop of blood" rule, which meant that one black ancestor made a person black in the view of the law. In 1967, 16 states still retained anti-miscegenation laws, mainly in the American South. Judge who sentenced them Leon M. Bazile. ( a known democrat) In 1935 Bazile won election as a Democrat to represent Hanover and King William counties in the House of Delegates. This is who sentenced the couple Loving vs. The State of Virginia and represented one of the most talked about cases in the US. This is what democrats want to keep pushing on Trump and conservatives, but we know it ISN'T TRUE... They are just trying to hide their racism and remove it from history.

It will become increasingly more difficult to learn anything from history as it’s being erased, the books will have to go lest someone be offended.

@@joyphillips1821 You use terms like Democrat and Republican to prove if somebody is racist or not, but the term you should be using is conservative. The conservative movement in the US wants to preserve racism. It doesn't matter which party somebody got elected under. What matters are their actions.

@Eric that’s a very judgmental and bigoted perspective. So it’s not okay that they’re racist, but it’s okay for you to be a classist?

isn't ironic? we condemn slavery even as we are forced to "lock down" and wear muzzles?

@@crystalgiddens7276 You dont say the same about clothing.

@@crystalgiddens7276 Could you please expand on that..

@@crystalgiddens7276 False equivalence.

A 20th century cursory knowledge will tell u where tearing down statues go. Socialism fails.

Way to get brainwashed!

Ken won't be coming back anytime soon. Being cut off in every mid sentence is very disrespectful.

For anyone watching this that studies history, let this be a reminder that TV news journalists rarely know much of anything about the topics they discuss. They go off a list of prepared bullet points and buzzwords and that’s about all the substance there is to it. Some are more versed than others, but all hold a typically superficial understanding of the day’s events.

Not impressed with this presenter....ever.

Yep Chris Cuomo is awesome. "President Trump is taking an unproven drug (but I took an even more dangerous drug)!" "You people are bad because you won't stay home! (but I didn't stay home at all)"!! "President Trump made fun of Covid-19 (but I did too)!" Cuomo is about the biggest hypocrite there is in today's media and that's quite an accomplishment.

Someone give Peter Coyote a heads-up.

Hildebeast Clinton You left out the guy who suggested the citizens drink BLEACH to treat COVID! Pres. CHUMP- 1/1024 stable genius

Black lives matter killed more people than the kkk (that was founded by Democrats) this year.

Upper 90 Good. You should be afraid.

@Harold Moore of course you make shit up, that's all you Communist do . Lie and forget the Communist motto.

correct, who else would put up statues dedicated to losers,, a bunch of Karens with more money than sense, they could have donated that $ to help educate freed slaves, that would have done more for their reputations in the long run and we would not be having this convo right now,,

@@niveknanorc7316 Bare w/ me here as we most likely agree on an ultimate goal. The fact that the South lost isn't why the statues should come down (IMO) because after all, we have Vietnam statues/memorials. I wouldn't even say they should come down because the South fought for states' rights and anti-FED. If that's the argument regular/non-racist Americans may disagree with them coming down because it is "our History"! The debate for why they should come down (Statues/Flags) should ONLY be about the fact that organized racist groups praise them for wanting to keep slavery and use them as a way to justify their presence in America today. Taking them down takes away any "justification" these racists have that they belong in this Country!

I think I'd correct that. They didn't wish to relive it, they wished to relive a romanticized version of that time, one where the evils of slavery were subordinated to a sugar-coated version of what it was like for those human beings, to allow them to feel that somehow slavery was "not that bad".

Slavery is against humanity and all natural laws. We all have human rights. If our government turns on us , we can ask United nations to intervene. Trump administration is blocking them right now from investigating.

@Blaise 2067 did you know that these same people rewrote their history books to glorify their so called noble cause? Feeding young minds their version of what happened to cause the civil war, secession from the union and the end of slavery.

Zack - me too.

Me too.

I think he did too.

True, but in order for that to happen they needed to give him the entire show. That would have been cool. He is genius as a documentary film maker. I would like to see a civil rights documentary by him and eventually a series update tying it all together.

Chris coumo is getting upset and so are the cops. They are being held up as theses glorified protectors they are brutal racist

Oh he has so much to do with our history, he is our treasure

I’m with him but it’s ridiculous to say “people of his complexion” can’t speak their mind

@@MurdocIsASaint, I don't see that comment here.

@Jason Crosby whatever rationalizations you need in order to maintain your heartlessness, dude

Burns does not want to lose any prestige as a professor because all the rest of the spineless profs would cry if he said anything else.

It’s not his job to constantly interrupt while Mr. Burns is making his points.

Maybe he was, but you could also see that he had immense admiration for the man. It struck me as being like how some people will try to finish what the other person is saying because they desperately want them to see that they understand what they're saying. I think they just have very different personalities, so that didn't fly quite so well. I felt kinda bad at one point, because Ken looked like he was annoyed at being interrupted.

@@terrycarlin6596 Chris also wants to feel relevant and knowledgeable in this conversation

@@WookieFragger I agree, you've hit the nail on the head, human nature.

Fabulous guest. Bravo

I’m not too sure all of them are racists

@Sam Boudreau don't even replace them that way you can take your sarcastic comments elsewhere.

Let us get rid of all the racists in government. Here is a video of Biden praising an Exalted Cyclops in the KKK as his friend, mentor, and guide. Hillary also did so on the same day. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qcBQYApjSa4.html&pp=ygUOYmlkZW4ncyBtZW50b3I%3D

@Jason Crosby Burns earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in film studies and design in 1975. His work has garnered two Oscar nominations, two Grammy Awards and 15 Emmy Awards. He's a producer, not a "glorified RU-vidr" like PewDiePie.

rick gross, presently there are cops literally getting away with murder when their victims are pocs.

Ken Burns 2020 lmao, amirite

Generally I refrain from requiring a degree to be a historian even though I have 2. Burns while a very talented filmmaker takes a lot of liberties in his presentation of "history " in his films, while entertaining they are rife with exaggerations misleading themes and in some cases false statements. Often times in an attempt to sensationalize the event. Let me be very clear the civil war should not be glorified, whe it shaped the nation as we know it today and is probably the most impactful moment in our history. But it was also our greatest tragedy, an entire generation of young men were snuffed out because the American experiment failed. In his film another non historian Shelby Foote mentions a very important detail. Before the war when referring to the US one would say that the United States are. After it became the unitec States is....that may not seem like much but it us extremely important to understand that simple detail if one is to understand the nstion today. It is sad to see the country making the same mistakes, that war was the result of 2 sections of the country becoming so different and not just because of slavery, but so different that they could no longer live as 1. And now what do we see? The nation is polarizing again due to these riged dichotomies of right and wrong. Hopefully we don't get the same result.

Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Red Cloud. Yes. They're our original American's.

They do not want statues. They wanted their land not to be overtaken. Now they would like clean water to drink, their scared sites not to be disturbed, and better conditions on the reservations where they were forced to relocate.

@Jason Crosby If They Lost They Wouldn't Have Sovereign Nations , It was More Of A Draw , Read Up On " The Indian Wars "

Instead of paying for statues, let’s use that money to feed the hungry, or save an abused child.

@@jeffryhammel3035 yeah! and document in stone the numbers of ppl they killed, the women they kidnapped, the scalps they displayed, the human skin they used to decorate their teepees . . .

@Roy Dunn...Since you want to make things personal... I see you are not an expert on the English language... “ant statue”....”base m”👀 держать при себе

@Roy Dunn...to your original message...you are correct that Ken Burns is “not an expert on tearing down” statues or “changing the names of any base”. The interview was about the false narrative they help create. I will say that “tearing them down” is wrong. That’s outright vandalism & folks should be held accountable for destruction of property. You’re also correct that I’m “not Moses or Gandalf”. Maybe you could try reading the books sometime instead of judging them by their cover 🧐

yeah i love how cuomo is like "Destroying inanimate objects: Too far? Doing more harm than good in a country where black people are subject to immediate execution for any offense? Who will think of the statues' children???"

Ken Burns is perpetuating here the false narrative that all these protests are just about George Floyd, BLM. and racial discrimination. As a 70 year old White American, I've never seen White America care much about Black issues beyond just talking about them, and I still don't. All those White Americans aren't on the streets for BLM. They are protesting how the Govt has screwed THEM Over too, starting at least since Clinton let the good paying manufacturing jobs go overseas. That's why it's not just the Confederate statues that are coming down but ALL political statues. What the media (and Burns) is doing is distracting us from the fact that we are on the brink of The Second American Revolution, a People's Revolution this time, that recognizes that America was founded by, and has been governed by Rich White men, and NO One else. It is starting to emerge in the American consciousness that the Rich White Men, of BOTH the North and the Confederacy, have never given a DAMN about ANY Average American of ANY Color. That's what these multi-color nationwide protests are REALLY About, but the Rich White Men Establishment dares not acknowledge the People's Revolution that is underway for fear of spreading it further. Trump's extremely divisive rhetoric also attempts to forestall this inevitable Second American Revolution by pitting Americans against each other so that they don't unify to overthrow the Fed Govt. But it looks like it's too late now that protesters are knocking down even non-Confederate statues. Knock down statues today. Knock down the White House and Wall Street tomorrow. That's what I see happening in America today. God Help Us All !!! ... jkulik919@gmail.com

He constantly wants to be the focus of the interview. His producers are spineless because someone should ask him, "imagine yourself as the audience, would like the interviewer interrupting?"

I think he is pressed for time and needs to hurry his guest on - the next ad break is waiting.... greetings from switzerland, where we have ad free news 😉

Oh, god yes!

You are looking at it through the lense of modern day America...at the time of secession the idea that you were a citizen of a state first was very prevalent not just in the south. Remember as a nation we were very very young....74 years to be exact the states were 200+ years old. Lee chose Virginia because that was his home, he didn't want any of it to happen but once it did Virginia came first in the mind of Robert e lee.

@Natty Bumppo Many Americans at that time believed that slavery was morally wrong, owning slaves was against the word of God. Modern day America would not exist if each state was it's own nation. Ultimately the victors write the history, hence the statues and monuments come down, regardless of any abuse of executive order Trump declares.

You wouldn't have the nation you live in hadn't men turned against their country

Are you kidding? Remember when British subjects turned against their nation and rose up in arms, because of what they felt was unfair taxation?

If you don't like them don't look at them better yet move out of the SOUTH!!!

So we’re quoting a Nazi now. My god

@@shadopulse5185 Certainly. When their top propagandist would be perfectly at home at cnn.

Jason Crosby [Citation Needed]

He is giving us his opinion, his film is entertaining but is full on inaccuracies, exaggerations and omissions. For example he says that the south lost 1/4 of its white military aged men, this is not true the actual number is 20 to 22%. He also flat out omits that the EP would have let any state that voluntarily returned to the union to keep its slaves. He also doesn't even cover Phil Sheridans targeting of women and children in the Shenandoah Valley. These are easily verifiable with a quick search.

Yes, he made some great documentaries. Love his work!

Complete embarrassment here...his Civil War documentary would not even be shown on PBS today because it was too objective...this looks like the typical hostage video of today where you have to grovel and beg for forgiveness for simply showing factual history.

@@brucesmith1544 the Civil War was about slavery, cope and seethe

No Ken Burns knows how to film and interview people that know history.

Drew Oliver : No, He knows both, it is NOT binary.

He is a film maker not a historian, he filmed interviews of historians and authors. He documented an already widely known narrative that was made for individuals that didn't have much general knowledge. Which by the way contradicts the fought for or against slsvery Dichotomy that is being pushed by the left these days.

Drew Oliver : Again you are taking up a binary view, you have presented no argument as to why he can not be both. I conceder myself to be a multidisciplinarian, and feel most everyone is to some degree. To argue that he didn't learn history while filming and none of what he heard stayed in his brain is just stupid, I have known Ken since 1966.

@@drewdurbin4968 That's a big no from me, dog.

And even some that are! God knows we got a lot of myths masquerading as history, after all.

So would a lot of us! Thanks.

Jean: I agree!! So how do we get rid of the Democrats???? (they're the Fascists in the room)

@@dinolarson6917 Hmmm, I think you're forgetting which party the presidents who supported Latin American dictatorships and the demonization of Mexicans and Blacks using the war on drugs were from. Hint: one of them retired from office.

I like the sign "Yes I am a Republican. I'm not crazy. Biden 2020"

When you don't know what REAL fascism is, you don't get to lecture 'the rest of us' what the country should evolve-to.

What is the meaning of the Army of Northern Virginia?

@@drewdurbin4968 A traitor's flag

@fran bran.. lol..you go fran bran ..theres alot of fiber in what you say.. ..funny shit

isiah waller Chris is always talking over people when he should be listening. Totally agree.

John Brown He does not do that to Kellyanne he lets her tell all kinds of nonsense.

Ken Burns still doesn't even know who i am.

What are you talking about? Out of 8 and a half mins, Ken talked 6 and a half mins at least.

I had the same experience. I realized now that history teacher was indoctrinated into some southern propaganda that still goes on today.

Ah, yes, the "war of northern aggression". It pains me to know that people are still being taught that crap in earnest. I never had to experience it--I live in New England--but the frustration of people who did has been palpable.

I had the descendant of a slave owner explain to me that the whipping and mistreatment of slaves was boloney. "We saw them as livestock. We wouldn't damage our livestock. It wouldn't make economic sense." Alrighty then....

But, that is right. Blacks were not enslaved because a bunch of white people simply wanted to enslave a bunch of black people. The tragedy is that the economic benefits to the South of slave labor were in sharp decline for many years.

I once knew a woman who said that the Civil War was only about 'states rights'. She forgot to add that it was about state's rights to own black people.

Now you understand how Trump supporters feel about Trump when he talks. Scary isn't it?

Yes - Calm and confident. Makes a person want to hear more.

@@MrStringybark Not quite the same... Ken Burns: history, analysis, philosophy... Bunker Boy: hatred, xenophobia, small mindedness, stupidity, greed, narcissism. No, not quite the same. Ken Burns listeners are enlightened, educated by his research and knowledge. Bunker Boy's disciples are angry, fearful, paranoid, abusive - like him.

Burns is not a Historian he is a talented film maker but not a Historian This is what an actual civil war historian with the credentials to back it up has to say on the subject. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t9ccYylVCs4.html

You probably think Cuomo is a “journalist” too. 🤣

untseac These statues are useless at remembering history without reading a book or an article or something that actually gives you information. Statues aren’t to remember history. They’re to honor people. We should really think carefully who we should honor. History is rich with lots of characters to choose from to honor. Let’s pick the good ones, and leave the actual history in the books where it belongs.

@@marcilk7534 Lets be honest here, you don't know history. If you did you would be outraged that an Abolitionist statue was torn down in the name of Civil Rights. Just think about that for a moment before you dismiss all of our 'white' opinions as simply racist.

@@marcilk7534 The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. -George Orwell

labotimy Well, I never called anyone racist, did I? I stayed on the point of my comment, but you clearly didn’t see my comment in another place where I addressed the statue in Madison being pulled down. It does, however, prove my point that statues are useless as a history lesson. Clearly the people who vandalized the statue had no idea who the guy was or that he fought against slavery. Honestly, I had to read about him to know who he was. And I’ve been to Madison many times. Probably never noticed the statue. That being said, vandalism is never the right way to handle it. Is that what you wanted me to say? My original comment is still my perspective on statues.

Putting them in a museum only gives them more legitimization. Crush the statues, use the rubble to pave roads to new monuments. Come on, Americans, I thought you knew how to be spiteful and grand at the same time.

I agree, they should be housed in museums. I think it's interesting that none of these discussions involve addressing who exactly funded the creation of the given statue. Nonetheless, some of them should be salvaged. What is great to one is not always great to all and this is a prime example. I personally believe in honoring the fight of your enemy, granted that enemy fought for what they believed to be best for their own people. We all have different views and disgracing someone else's views is counterintuitive and counterproductive.

No not in museums either as Marquette McNeal commented above where would you want statues for the people that enslaved, raped and oppressed you to be displayed? It’s about trauma.

If they are taken down then the same people will accuse the United States government of hiding our Nation's history in some sort of conspiracy that denies the evils done in the past by our government. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Yes!

Lol

AMEN!

HA!

@rose dickerson idk what you are saying the🇺🇸🇺🇸 American flag is always on top of every flag pole

Erected by Democrats.

@@jpah8944 Conservative Democrats who switched to Republicans. You know this. You're a dishonest person.

@LIFEis Good69 why

Boy, that's a stupid comment....

Melt them down and turn them into Cracker Barrel toothpicks

Helted and recycled.

@Bob Duncan I agree that putting them in museums is a good idea. Sculptors made those statues and regardless of who they depict, some are works of art. In a museum, they cease to have any other importance than representing a moment along the history timeline of the US and there can be an explanation to go along with their viewing. They can be used to explain what is wrong with the representations as well as what was going on at the time the statues were erected.

Jason Crosby okay! Well take your republican confederate self elsewhere! People are having a peaceful discussion and no one needs your unwanted opinion 😃

source?

@@ohhai6134 Source is Monti Amann, 2020.

@@peter9477 I just looked it up, Peter. You're right.

Thats a false and offensive equivalency...Washington, and Jefferson are a far better comparison. At least when dealing with Lee and Jackson etc....now if you want to tear down statues of Calhoun or Forrest then we may find some common ground.

Nobody from the South calls themselves a Southerner.

@@keybirdthevevo4312 Huh? I and a great many other Southerners I know do just that.

@@paulford9120 Ditto.

@@keybirdthevevo4312 ..what?

hi James... how you today?

That is how neoDems operate. No listening, just speak their own narrative.

@@Pullitsurprize Maybe you're not so much of an "Expert Witness" if you can't see that media often does this, regardless of political affiliation.

@@kate7238 Indeed, well said.

Chris always thinks he’s smarter than his guests.

Go back to the comment board and see how i bitchslapped those other whining snowflakes who claimed an inordinate amount of questions by Cuomo. Dont be a whining snowflake.

Because Andrew isn’t as “woke” as he pretends to be. You could clearly see when Ken was making his best points is when Cuomo gets tired of hearing it. It was so annoying, and someone else at CNN should do a re-do of this interview. I’m disappointed. Glad I got to at least hear what I heard, but it could have been better. Cuomo didn’t want to listen for too long. A shame.

@@ageofaries6185 The argument could be made that Cuomo was more aware of the time that is alloted to the segment ticking away, and how many questions he wants to have answered - which is a format problem that makes a lot of serious interviews pointless. I'm sure Burns could have gone on much much longer on each answer. Still, I agree. Really irritating interview on account of Cuomo's needless interjections and interruptions.

funstuff2006 well, let’s hope that you’re right, that it was a time issue.

I stated the same, its either the producer or cuomo and his ego.

Because his responses were long and slow and time was short.

That's not what an intellectually honest discussion looks like. This is: I don’t do slogans, so to me, “Black Lives Matter” is just as empty as its comeback cousin. Blunt instruments for change are just too ham-handed for my taste. Rather than endlessly debate catch phrases, monuments, and movements-I’m far more interested in considering the underlying merit in a point of view. While everyone else spins their wheels on who’s right, I define what I see by factoring for what’s true (isolating and correlating along the way). When it comes to ascertaining the truth, I don’t care what your cause is, who’s in the White House, who controls Congress or the courts. I learned early on in life that what you want gets in the way of what you see. Does the Democratic Party have a history of manipulating racially-charged incidents? Undeniably! Has the left-leaning side of the cable clans increasingly accommodated Democrats over the years? Without question! Can you conclude what happened to Trayvon and Michael Brown with the same certainty as the death of George Floyd? No way-but ya did, and in lickety-split fashion. Zimmerman’s brother perfectly put it: “He had the greater hand in his own demise.” To an apologist, he had no hand at all-a mindset that violates the rules of reality. If you’re pulled over by the police and you cop an attitude, you’re askin’ for trouble. And right on cue, “He was a wannabe cop and was told not to follow him!” So, you want to skip right over what transpired and go right to “gunned down”-because he was armed and didn’t follow instructions? Wishful thinking is not an argument-not to mention the fact that preforming calcified conclusions is prejudice by definition. The Left seeks to eradicate racism while refusing to recognize how they fuel it. The second they painted Trayvon as a child, they contaminated their judgment. The cops made an honest mistake in calling his watermelon drink “iced tea” (simply because of the brand). That the media advocates reported it the same way at first is understandable. That they never corrected it is unforgivable. To conform to fact, we must agree that it was watermelon and consider what it means: Maybe nothing, maybe everything. But you pollute the debate when you won’t even acknowledge the irrefutable. Worse than that-you poison your purpose. You’d think that a party that prides itself on intellectualism would examine the efficacy of their efforts. Perhaps even try some predictive analysis: ************************ Hmm, we’ve got the first black president in the White House and we’re marching to Black Lives Matter. That might be overplaying our hand and have unintended consequences. Same goes for the removal of monuments-do we really want to infuriate the opposition for fleeting gain? Maybe the awe-inspiring artistry of historical figures will spark a sense of wonder in the youth. Perhaps they’ll read the plaque and probe for more. Whatever their findings, isn’t there great value in that process of discovery? Wouldn’t it be better if we just let people make up their own minds about whether problematic pieces embody hate or heritage? And even if the monuments could magically vanish from the face of the Earth, would that really solve anything? On top of all that, it seems that the more sensitive we try to be, the more hypersensitive our culture has become. That wasn’t our aim. We elected a sophisticated guy-shouldn’t we seek change in a bold and sophisticated manner? After all, wasn’t that the point of his presidency? Wouldn’t we more successful in solving problems if we took an honest look at the different dimensions within them? Instead of putting Kaepernick on a pedestal for telling us what we wanna hear, maybe we should be inspired by Kobe who told us what we don’t: "I won't react to something just because I'm supposed to, because I'm an African-American. That argument doesn't make any sense to me. So we want to advance as a society and a culture, but, say, if something happens to an African-American, we immediately come to his defense? Yet you want to talk about how far we've progressed as a society? Well, then don't jump to somebody's defense just because they're African-American." ************************ For immovable conservatives who find comfort in that quote-take a good look in the mirror, because defending the indefensible is your M.O. What we’re seeing today was partly built on a foundation of manufactured outrage (which applies to most controversial issues in America over the last 30 years). Decades of dishonesty in the Gutter Games of Government is not a nation on a path to greatness. I wrote this piece before I came across the accompanying video. I was blown away by these words: “Anti-racism, as currently configured-has gone a long way from what used to be considered intelligent and sincere civil rights activism. Today it's a religion.” ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mT2rlJe9cuU.html “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.” ― Leo Tolstoy ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p4hMfZfN8WA.html . . .

By 1894, when the DEMOCRATIC Party in the South returned to power, restrictions were reimposed. ( Jim Crow Laws started) A major concern was how to draw the line between black and white in a society in which white men had many children with enslaved black women. On the one hand, a person's reputation as black or white was usually decisive in practical matters. On the other hand, most laws used a "one drop of blood" rule, which meant that one black ancestor made a person black in the view of the law. In 1967, 16 states still retained anti-miscegenation laws, mainly in the American South. Judge who sentenced them Leon M. Bazile. ( a known democrat) In 1935 Bazile won election as a Democrat to represent Hanover and King William counties in the House of Delegates. This is who sentenced the couple Loving vs. The State of Virginia and represented one of the most talked about cases in the US. This is what democrats want to keep pushing on Trump and conservatives, but we know it ISN'T TRUE... They are just trying to hide their racism and remove it from history.

@@joyphillips1821 And the modern day republicans are trying to honor the democrats by calling the confederates heroes?

Reality has a liberal bias. 😉

Don't u mean all former slave owners?

@Don Hardcastle You will never be able to brainwash people into believing that the confederacy was good for black people. You seem EXTREMELY RACIST!!!

@Don Hardcastle you're so dumb it's embarrassing

And then what? It never stops with you socialist leftists. Burn all the southern states to the ground? Hang everyone that has Confederate ancestry? Where does it stop? It never does with you libtards. You have to be a perpetual victim of something.

@Don Hardcastle Do this: Look up the declarations of secession from all of the Confederate states. They all CLEARLY show that their primary reason was the desire to maintain AND EXPAND slavery in the US.

Fredo being Fredo.

Well, to be fair to Cuomo, he does have about 5 or 6 points to get the interviewee to touch on in the course of an 8 or 9 minute interview and each one could be the subject of a book in its own right, so he has to keep the ball rolling.

I wanted to hear what Burns was saying.

@Mark Hepworth That may be but it is still rather annoying and just ego based.

Historian? Commenter above says he was her art teacher. Which would explain why he has trouble understanding the context of the founding fathers.

@Jason Crosby I take you've never seen his documentary.

Jason Crosby That’s exactly what he is, what rock do you live under?

I would see what Ken Burns films are about anytime of the day. Cuomo not so much. He interjected putting words to interviewee's mouth. So vain. He's not in Mr. Burns' league. Junior varsity. PBS here i come.

No. You have an axe to grind ___ your criticism is way way off!!!

Chris was trying to ask the tough questions like an interviewer should. He didn't know that Ken Burns wouldn't even agree with defending the founding fathers. I love both though.

It's good to see that he's making up for his relatively soft stance on the Confederacy in these ugly, trying times.

Natty Bumppo no, they are not. Don’t be obtuse.

​@@kaymuldoon3575 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rdpIIiBe7Wc.html

I can't breathe with all that crap he's spewing

Nope... Not even close. You think they are mad now? Just wait until their REAL day of reckoning comes.

@Josey Wales lol, get this to ur stupid head! WE STAND WITH BLACKS!!!!!

“The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the black man” ~Also the words of Malcom X

@@rod1514 Please link citation.

Eliud njai not about standing with blacks anymore.

I felt the same way, Kris. I could listen to Ken for hours. I left a comment similar to yours which I felt was necessary.

His Vietnam series was awesome.

yeah as an artist I hate seeing the works destroyed.

Yeah and hopefully going there to see them will carry the same stigma as going to a porn shop to see so called art!

If it is about history, there will be discussions about value or significance of them in history. History has always been written by the rulers.

oh I agree it's more so the location of the statue and not the statue itself.

in a book they don’t need to be glorified with a statue