this country over race? this has lasted 200 years. you have to develop a psychology on the part of the people who were doing this, and involves enormous acts of denial. we haven t even claimed it as a horrific system that it was. she says, slavery is the cause. and so, many white people that we hear say, don t talk to me about slavery. i didn t own slaves. my parents didn t own slaves. the culture of conditioning that began in slavery has continued. the privileges that you see some white people have goes back to more than you, i m better than you. why? why? why? why are they better? oh, i don t believe that. i know, but why do they think they re better. privilege. privilege has told them their better. they don t even know that privilege. and i remember a book i read in
that southerners developed this story for their explanation of their defeat. it came ultimately a victory narrative. victory over reconstruction. and they crushed the very idea of slavery as the central cause, and the very idea of emancipation of 4 million slaves as the central result of the civil war. they began to see white scale, even official efforts, to crush what we might call black memory. if we throw away our confederate flag, we throw away the history of south carolina and of the united states. we are true southerners, i guess. to me, it s a flag that everybody, black and white, represent their heritage, can understand to some degree how they would ve been upset years
states what they should or should not do. ever since the war, no one s property has been secure. there is a lot of talk about reparations for slaves. you now? my great great grandfather, no one paid . abraham lincoln, he did get paid for the war to prevent southern [inaudible] changed our country for the worst. and my opinion. what do you think? do you think the were let qatar change for the worst? for trying to process everything. i do understand that parts of my father is speaking on because i feel that way. the government is too big and has too much power. it is innovation. how long would it take to free the slaves? how long would it have taken for them to realize that slavery is wrong? do you think slavery must
[inaudible] high school family. education first. students [inaudible] the kids that i have here are determined to not fall in the footsteps of what is in the past. i m hoping i can spark something in them to say, i want to know more. i want to learn more. in mississippi, do people talk about slavery is the cause of war? you don t hear the word of slavery or slaves in the city. that was an incidental part of it. i guess a simple term is whitewash, as i told my clients that a lot of time you go into see the good part of the history. especially history that you are part of. you want to minimize the bad part about it. slavery is not easy to tackle for black or four white. how do you tackle the story of slavery? one thing is that the slaves, who are more powerful than we give them credit for.
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 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