Southern gentlemen and happy slaves. everyone is well taken care of. some people are owned by other people, but everyone is well fed, well clothes, loved and appreciated. and that is not this is why something like this would appeal to white northerners, because that s not the environment that they lived in. it s really a story about the merits of white supremacy. you know, i saw another history, and it said it was really white supremacy that helped the north and the south reunify after the war. isn t that true? i fully believe that when
[applause] political correctness is an incredibly dangerous doctrine. it s anti-intellectual. it s anti-dissent. it demands conformity. do you believe they ll stop at the monument? do you think they ll stopped with a parent and design of the flag? they ridicule our traditions. they mocked us. they laugh at us. you feel like you re losing your country, don t you? you feel marginalized. you re scared. mississippi has to stand. we have nothing else to surrender. we are those lawyers, men and women of the soil, stubborn, courageous. we stand here on the edge of history, ready to push back one more time. help is not coming from california. it s not coming from massachusetts. it has to be you. what are you gonna do about it?
These were all jim crow era statues, meant to emphasize that white people are in control. there is no value in keeping those statues. there is value and remembering with these statues were put up four. what do you say to people across this state, marching with confederate flags? i don t say nothing to them. they are not on my radar. they are unredeemable as far as i know. we prayed a lot for those who are attacking our heritage me for their since. we pray our lord the truth of history would triumph. i feel like the country never really were unified after the war, in a way that included all of its citizens, right? like maybe taking down these statues now could help us reunify. but don t try to take away history, because you don t agree with it. and if you really studied history, you see it was more than just slavery. there was taxation issues. well, then, do you put on a bulletproof vest? probably.
But in order for that story to work, we have to see ourselves as being in the same spot we begin with. yeah. we have to see ourselves as connected to other people. i really agree. so in your class today, how do you tell a story that helps the kids see themselves as connected to all the diverse people that surround them. well, it s important to talk about race and history. and i want gets to understand that where we are today has its roots in the past, but it s really hard to convey the history of this country how it plays out today. and it s really difficult to talk about race. how do you actually help kids be different than our generation, who doesn t really know how to do this very well. the only way to do that is by having them do it. okay, i want to know which went into place after reconstruction. look at integration in schools. they treated by juries.
a horrific scene in charlottesville, virginia. a white mob descended into deadly violence and chaos. since the city voted to remove the robert e. lee statue, there have been protests. and now, violence. tell me, who are you? i am stephanie roth, and i am an assistant professor of history at a college in jackson, mississippi. the images that we are seeing on our computers and our own phones and television, you can t divorce this from the need to return to some sort of innocent pass. what like the old south? yes. what is the old south? after the civil war, the old south myth is this mythologized place of big plantations, houses with currently and and modulus and hoopskirts, and