14 countries outside the uk still have the queen as head of state and the palace simply saying this is a choice for the barbadian people. midnight the island will transition from a royal realm to a republic, and it was the 1620s that the brits first arrived here, made huge fortunes on the sugar trade and the slave trade and this is about breaking that history and renewing the island s independence. we ll wait to see what happens later on with the celebrations. it s going to be something to see. berman? ing it to see is the beach where max is standing. i will say that. max, this is a crucial time for the crown over the next several years. we see a lot of these realms asking these questions, not just barbados. it s jamaica, canada, it s australia, countries that think it might be time to move on. reporter: yes, and you go to australia and jamaica in
lowered for the last time and replaced by the barbados flag. it is a big island. a lot of older people look back on this very dark past and are angry about it and they want to get rid of the british monarchy and they want reparations for what was done by the brits back in the 1620s when they settled here and made huge amounts of money from the sugar trade and slave trade. younger people i think the ones i spoke to today are feeling very positive about this moment and want to move on and look forward to a brighter future. the celebration is just starting. an epic steel band will be playing behind me soon and we ll have the moment at midnight when barbados gets its first president, a barbados president and head of state appointed by the parliament. it is a huge moment in caribbean history. other countries like jamaica
founding is 1619, not 1776 and retract or eliminate both claims while pretending they were never made, there is little more others can add except to acknowledge what is by now plain for all to see, the purpose of the 6019 project is not to teach history but to propagandize. the true american founding is in 1776. there should be no historical dispute about it. the ideas assembled in that singular year were of such a unique combination and importance in human history, you must play contrarian games to insist otherwise. i suggest to you the truth about 1620 amidst a time of constant historical revisionism is that it represents not just a convenient myth about the nation but something that was essential to our founding. we find in the risk-taking character of the people who crossed the wine dark sea of the atlantic, mindful of the courage it would take navigating a new world filled with enormous
not someone else s. from the biden family to yours, happy thanksgiving, god bless you. mike: all in a holiday week here in washington, monday on special report the travel restrictions for the new coronavirus. take effect, thank you for watching special report, i m mike emanuel in washington see you back here 1:00 p.m. eastern on sunday, have a great weekend. good evening and welcome to fox news primetime, i m been dominant 401 years ago this month a group of courageous pilgrims crossed the atlantic, p was the mayflower. bold, daring, foolish, devout, essential to the founding of a new nation that would become the envy of the world. the year was 1620. europe was beginning a 30-year religious war that would raise its cities, starve its citizens,
need to are flekt back and remind people there was a time before 1620 and there was a time before the may flower, and the consequences of that colonizing were really devastating. thank you for that. that wraps up the hour for me. i m chris jansing. happy thanksgiving. jose diaz-balart picks up with more news right now. good morning. happy thanksgiving. it s 11:00 a.m. eastern. 8 p.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. we re covering a lot this thursday morning. we begin this morning in georgia with new questions swirling after three men were found guilty in the shooting death of ahmaud arbery. attorneys for travis mcmichael, his father, gregory, and their neighbor said they plan to appeal. at the same time, the judge did not immediately schedule a date for sentencing.