Video Thread 2/8/2021

American Bridge has been silent since the Georgia runoffs, but this was too much for them to ignore.

The Lincoln Project – “Brand”

The Lincoln Project – “Convict”

Now This News – Amanda Gorman presents at Super Bowl (forgive me – I know several have seen it)

I gather this is a legitimate commercial, but it works as a parody commercial for QAnon

CNN (CC) – A 10-minute video, with distinguished and knowledgeale guests, which looks at more than just Lou Dobbs – it looks at the implications.

Amber Ruffin, like so many comedians, has an excellent point. The transcript of the introduction – I’ll work on getting the rest.

Transcript of intro – “It’s Black History Month! Yay! Every morning this month, Amber wakes up and looks to see what’s 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—someone saying, “Why do we need a Black History Month? How would you like it if we had a White History Month?” You might be thinking, “every month is White History Month.” But hear Amber out—maybe we *do* need a White History Month, because the American history that’s taught in schools is so whitewashed, we don’t learn the real story.”
Summary provided: “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 “White History Month” is. But according to Amber Ruffin, that might be the best way to address and correct the record on historical agents of “progress.”
On 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’ve been told about the supposedly heroic legacies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the police force. “We learn lies like George Washington chopped down a cherry tree, but not that George had 18 slaves before he turned 18,” 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.
The 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. “It is impossible to understand politics, the black community’s relationship with police, or why even need to say ‘Black Lives Matter’ if we don’t learn the history of this country,” Ruffin concludes.”

The Alt-Right Playbook – You Go High, We Go Low

Beau on Black History Month. No, he doesn’t often judge. But when he does, it’s righteous