{"id":42741,"date":"2021-02-08T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=42741"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:24:33","slug":"video-thread-2-8-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/video-thread-2-8-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Thread 2\/8\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/video.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/video.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/video-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/video-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>American Bridge has been silent since the Georgia runoffs, but this was too much for them to ignore.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ihMrpAyiuiE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project &#8211; &#8220;Brand&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PyDKqwI7yx0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Project &#8211; &#8220;Convict&#8221;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kXc-iFvzOs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now This News &#8211; Amanda Gorman presents at Super Bowl (forgive me &#8211; I know several have seen it)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ejbSCjg2qo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I gather this is a legitimate commercial, but it works as a parody commercial for QAnon<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dOTxhyOM30g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CNN (CC) &#8211; A 10-minute video, with distinguished and knowledgeale guests, which looks at more than just Lou Dobbs &#8211; it looks at the implications.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rCRU_OjpQYg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amber Ruffin, like so many comedians, has an excellent point. The transcript of the introduction &#8211; I&#8217;ll work on getting the rest.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jdRAuBuZMNQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nTranscript of intro &#8211; &#8220;It\u2019s Black History Month! Yay! Every morning this month, Amber wakes up and looks to see what\u2019s waiting for her under the Tubman Tree. Will it be a white person telling her what Martin Luther King would have wanted? Or, better yet\u2014someone saying, \u201cWhy do we need a Black History Month? How would you like it if we had a White History Month?\u201d You might be thinking, \u201cevery month is White History Month.\u201d But hear Amber out\u2014maybe we *do* need a White History Month, because the American history that\u2019s taught in schools is so whitewashed, we don\u2019t learn the real story.&#8221;<br \/>\nSummary provided: &#8220;Every February, a bundle of snarky white people will inevitably counter the idea of Black History Month with a deadpan and unintentionally ironic call for whatever their idea of \u201cWhite History Month\u201d is. But according to Amber Ruffin, that might be the best way to address and correct the record on historical agents of \u201cprogress.\u201d<br \/>\nOn the latest episode of her namesake Peacock show, the comedian made a helluva case for an inconveniently honest White History Month, taking aim at the stories we\u2019ve been told about the supposedly heroic legacies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the police force. \u201cWe learn lies like George Washington chopped down a cherry tree, but not that George had 18 slaves before he turned 18,\u201d Ruffin sharply notes of the Founding Father. From there, Ruffin proves Lincoln was, in fact, a racist president and then goes on to provide a potent crash course on how The Second Amendment established state-sponsored slave-hunting militias, which gave rise to the KKK and invented policing as we know it.<br \/>\nThe segment closes with a brief profile of the United Daughters of The Confederacy and how southern white women successfully washed honest portrayals of historic figures out of our education systems by appealing to textbook publishers and infiltrating school boards across the country. \u201cIt is impossible to understand politics, the black community\u2019s relationship with police, or why even need to say \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 if we don\u2019t learn the history of this country,\u201d Ruffin concludes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Alt-Right Playbook &#8211; You Go High, We Go Low<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAbab8aP4_A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beau on Black History Month. No, he doesn&#8217;t often judge. But when he does, it&#8217;s righteous<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BPRudrdS3ak\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Bridge has been silent since the Georgia runoffs, but this was too much for them to ignore. The Lincoln Project &#8211; &#8220;Brand&#8221; The Lincoln Project &#8211; &#8220;Convict&#8221; Now This News &#8211; Amanda Gorman presents at Super Bowl (forgive me &#8211; I know several have seen it) I gather this is a legitimate commercial, but <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/video-thread-2-8-2021\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[3712,3751,3709,3722,3748,3714],"class_list":["post-42741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-insanity","tag-humor","tag-impeachment","tag-racism","tag-video","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}