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ugh. >> woke. >> no, no. don't pay attention. it's all just nonsense. don't get caught up. this too shall pass. >> wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. >> are you even woke? >> woke culture is garbage. >> oh, god. so much yelling. so much fighting. >> this is where woke goes to die. >> getting critical race theory out of our schools is a matter of national survival. >> aren't things bad enough? do we have to fight about this word? >> woke. >> woke. >> woke. >> you are so woke. >> you woke the sleeping giant. >> critical race theory is bigoted. it is a lie. and it is every bit as racist as the klansmen in white sheets. >> okay. i'm going to wade in and try to explain woke.

all right. open my eyes. take a deep breath. oh, no. i'm in arizona. ♪ >> all right. this is where we're at in america, everybody. we have a new enemy and it is woke. not the word. the idea. actually also the word. maybe mostly the word. >> putin ain't woke. he is anti-woke. >> i want florida to be known as the brick wall against all things woke.

>> you heard him. wokeness. wokelash. some actually said wokesters. who says wokesters? the wokerati. the woke-illuminati? actually i just made that one up. >> this is a unique phenomenon. >> let me be clear. woke used to mean something. the phrase stay woke was one in a long line of slang that blacks invented to point to the idea that america as dangerous and we as black folks need to be careful and smart. do you know what woke is? how would you define woke? >> it's a great question in the sense that it's not even like a dictionary definition of things anymore, it's become subject to interpretation. >> i think it's used by people who think they're enlightened to put down people who don't agree with them. >> don't woke, get broke, that's

funny. >> where do i even start wading into this woke storm? oh, wait. the perfect place. arizona. ♪ >> so we have some breaking news for you, we're getting more election results from arizona tonight. >> but in the past few years arizona has changed-ish. >> we've got a key race alert right now. >> for only the second time since 1952, arizona turned blue in 2020, i mean if you believe in numbers and math and stuff. i feel like a nerd. like all blue states, the blue is mostly concentrated in the urban areas. also i wouldn't say that arizona's blue is even a deep blue. it's like a purplish blue. like a bruise blue. and the bruise color is perfect because arizona is a battleground state. heavy on the battle part.

don't take my word for it. ask a local. what is life like in this blue dot in the middle of this occasional blue state? >> i mean, it's a beautiful state. but i've definitely learned to pick and choose who i engage with and what i engage about. >> this is dr. tara armstead, a teacher, gamer, former litchfield elementary school board member and black woman. that last part is key to this story. do you feel that battleground when you're walking around the city? >> oh, definitely, yes. and education just tends to be right now the battleground. >> we know who you are. [ bleep ]. >> if the fight over wokeness is our new civil war then critical race theory or crt is our gettysburg. i think. hold on, let me google gettysburg. yes, crt is gettysburg. >> 37 states have introduced bills or taken other steps that restrict teaching critical race theory. >> and the whole country is

inflamed. look at virginia's gubernatorial race. it was won and lost over crt and woke. >> teaching our children to judge one another based on the color of their skin, yes, that does exist in virginia schools today and that's why i signed the executive order yesterday to make sure we get it out of our schools. >> it's ugly. and arizona is no exception. so in 2021, litchfield elementary school district in the heart of maricopa county was doing what a lot of schools around the country were doing. having a racial reckoning in a microsoft work doc. the ubiquitous post-2020, say it with me, equity statement. >> it was chaos. it was absolute chaos. >> that is inappropriate for a board member to hold up a sign that says "not true" while i am speaking. >> people coming in, screaming and yelling at each other. >> you need to be banned. >> people having to call the cops for assault. >> all right.

let's check this equity statement out. inequitable policies -- that can't be it. let's see further down. equity, racism, diversity, inclusion, seems fine to me. oh, an ex-kendi quote. one either allows racial inequities to continue as a racist or confronts inequities as an antiracist. there's no in between safe space as an antiracist. that's it? i think they're just mad his middle name is "x." around this time is when tara became a member of the litchfield elementary school board. there's going to be a lot of sighing in this episode. >> i got appointed in march. my first meeting was in april. >> april of 2021.

>> yes. i had people asking had he, what do you believe about critical race theory, what do you think about equity. are you still a doctor? >> they're still interviewing you. >> exactly. my assumption was i'm going to come here and be so pro black that i can't be anything else. i told them from day one that i was going to make sure the students were getting what they needed. i hear what students are saying. but yet they're not being heard. students need to know the whole history of this country. >> mm-hmm. >> that's what critical race theory is, telling the whole history. it's not specifically about race. >> yeah, yeah. >> they're like, that's not what it is. >> what do they think critical race theory is? >> they believe we're going to teach students that white people are the oppressor, black people, people of colors, are the oppressed. we're not doing that in the classroom. >> okay. let's quickly clear this up and get an exact definition of crt.

this is professor kimberly crenshaw. she and her colleagues invented critical race theory. >> critical race theory is the study of how law has historically facilitated racial projects of subordination like enslavement, like genocide, like colonialism, and how it continues to embed itself in our contemporary world. >> great. well done, professor crenshaw. we'll come back to you a little later. >> so i felt like i was placed on there not because of my credentials but we need someone who looks like you to sit here while we're talking about critical race theory and equity. >> be the black face amongst the white faces? >> right. >> what would you say the racial makeup of that district is? >> ironically, it's 60% minority. >> how many seats on the board? >> five seats.

>> any other minorities on the board? >> no. >> so 20% of the board is minority but 60% of the district is minority. >> right. which is very uncomfortable. i even did a backpack school supply drive with the intentions of showing them what equity is. i got the community together. people donated. we ended up with over 4 or 500 with supplies. and i explained like, this is equity. everybody doesn't need a new backpack. everybody doesn't need supplies. but why not help those that need it? >> did they like the fact that you did that? >> i actually got paid for doing it. >> for doing a backpack drive for schools? >> and i just got to the point where i wasn't sleeping at night. so i penned my resignation letter, gave it to them, and there was a woman who came up to me and was crying, saying i just moved here a couple of months on an and i've seen what you've done over a short amount of time. it's not right.

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♪ it might surprise you that despite the fact that it's basically my job to be woke -- god, i hate that word -- i hadn't given critical race theory much thought until recently, probably because until recently critical race theory was mostly discussed in graduate classes at your better universities and i dropped out of college. >> critical race theory says every white person is a racist. >> i've never figured out what critical race theory is. >> critical race theory says america is fundamentally racist. critical race theory seeks to turn us against each other and if someone has a different color skin, seeks to make us hate that person. >> we're not spending taxpayer dollars to teach kids to hate each other or to hate this

country. >> if we're going to talk about critical race theory then we need to distinguish between this. >> until white people get smart, black people can't get free. so one of our main tasks is doing whatever is possible to try to get whites today to see what they and their predecessors haven't been willing to see for 300 years. >> which is actually crt. and this. >> right now there's arguments about whether we should teach kids a more accurate version of america. >> race theory? >> critical your race theory. what are your thoughts about that? >> you can teach it as an opinion. >> if i teach that slavery is bad, is that okay? >> no. >> no? nazis, not good. >> nothing is bad. >> nothing is bad? >> no. >> if the latter is how you heard about it first, then i'm not surprised you're confused. which is why i grind my teeth when i sleep. >> it's totally manipulation. >> who's manufacturing it? >> the democrats.

the race card. i'm so sick of it. we need to teach children to compete. when the chinese probably know more about american history than we do. >> so we should teach better american history here? >> yes. >> slavery, native american genocide? >> not the whole thing. >> some people say wokeness has gone too far, america's gotten too focused on being woke. >> okay. is that a question? >> i'm sort of afraid to ask it now. it's not my question. they made me do it. i already have my answers to this. has american gotten too soft? >> i'm super high right now. just like blowing my mind. >> that's what i'm here to do, i'm not even here. this is a part of the simulation. enjoy your evening, go have a good night. thank you, thank you, thank you. >> some of the responses that you got about what is critical race theory are insane. they have nothing to do with the work that we are doing. they do, however, have

everything to do with the historic use of racism as a political bank account that a faction of our society can always draw from. >> kimberly crenshaw is academic royalty. a professor at ucla law and columbia law. she has degrees from harvard, cornell, and university of wisconsin. you know that word intersectionality that you like to throw around? she invented it. as we've already covered, she's a pioneering scholar of crt. >> so critical race theory is a prism. it's a way of making sense out of the continuity of racial inequality, but making sense out of it in order to do something about it. it's not an effort to say all white people are bad. >> and as a bonus, because i love you, we're joined by randall kennedy, a rhodes scholar and harvard law professor, known as a small "c"

conservative voice. he taught at harvard law when dr. crenshaw attended. their back and forth has been going on for years. they don't always agree. but they're always respectful. take note, internet. >> i would add that people who complain that crt and other progressive voices are painting american history in a one-dimensional, tendentious, misleading matter, i didn't hear any of this talk when you had people going to school and learning in their history books that slavery was actually not so bad. when people say critical race theory today, what they're talking about is a bogeyman that has been created by people who want to vilify, besmirch, demonize any sort of thinking that they perceive as

progressive thinking about race. >> so the very fact that this time last year very few people had heard of critical race theory, but suddenly overnight, critical race theory is that thing that you have to come out and protect your children against, it's a great bogeyman. and we think we can make it run. and so far, they've been right. >> yeah, yeah, every now and again certain forces in this country come up with a new bogeyman that has a thing that they use to say your america is being taken away. >> if you actually follow the money, you'll see tens of millions of dollars have been spent to create critical race theory as the bogeyman. >> it's a slogan. it's a category of thought that has been put to polemical and partisan use. and that's actually what critical race theory, in quotation marks, has come to mean today. >> even the history of slavery

is complicated. i'm part irish. we were treated worse than slaves. >> really? worse than slaves? >> we were called dirty irish, we only lived to age 19 versus age 36. >> that's because we were property investment. you treat your tv nice if you want it to work a long time. thank you. .99. give your wallet a break and send it on a summer slamcation. the hottest deals are at denny's, america's value destination. welcome to your world.

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getting critical race theory out of our schools is a matter of national survival. the fate of any nation ultimately depends upon the willingness of its citizens to lay down and they must do this, lay down their very lives to defend their country. >> look, the only time lay down your lives is appropriate to talk about in a school setting is when you're teaching about black kids trying to integrate schools or teaching about school shootings. as we all know, once the debate turns into this -- >> i am disgusted by your bigotry. >> -- productive conversation, over. brenda, a parent with a child in arizona's litchfield school district, had seen enough. my oldest daughters ride horses. >> do they? what kind? >> sometimes brown horses, sometimes black horses.

you've asked too many questions. >> we've got all kinds of colors. >> who's this? >> this is jeremiah, actually the kiddo that's home schooling now because he was part of litchfield district. we just weren't confident this year was going to be a year that offered a lot of stability there. >> okay. brenda's son attended litchfield elementary at the height of the crt battle. so seeing the debate spilling over into mayhem, brenda did what any caring 21st century mom would do. she rolled up her sleeves and went viral. >> in 1923, adolf hitler introduced racism into schools, indoctrinating students for n naziism. >> take note, it's respectful, no yelling, no one got hit with a chair. let's talk about this equity statement. >> we got an email from one of the board members that was

screaming, oh, they're doing this critical race theory. and i had never heard of critical race theory. >> statistically none of us had until recently. >> right. so i saw a social media post and an article about how bad this whole equity statement was. a day or two before going to the meeting, the transformational equity work document fell into my hands. >> the transformational equity work document works toward equity if n five specific areas. discipline, achievement, continued learning, diverse curriculum, and diverse staff. >> this was a document built this this committee that nobody knew about. i thought, anything that's not transparent to the parents was concerning to me. there was a piece in there that they were going to reduce black suspensions by a certain

percentage, they only wanted to reduce black suspensions. then there was a statement about statistics in hiring black teachers. i went to that next meeting and i said at much, that these were the things that concerned me about the document. i really had no idea what kind of shitstorm i had put myself in the middle of. >> and abandoning it and all supporting documentation. thank you. >> people can have different perspectives about the same event or the same activity or the same book. >> absolutely. >> when you say to me the school district wants to lower suspensions of black kids, what i hear from my perspective is there have been studies that say that black kids gets disciplined harsher than white kids. they get suspended more often, they get expelled more often, they get sent to the principal's office more often. it's a national issue. i would imagine, that's one thing we can do is look at that.

>> the biggest issue with the original transformation al document for most parents is it had an ibrahim x. kendi quote. if you're teaching racism as a worldview, maybe you ought to be teaching christianity as a worldview. >> i think this idea that somehow critical race theory is some sort of embedded religion, it's not a thing that black people are dealing with. we're skipping past should american schools do a better job of teaching an accurate age-appropriate version of history to our students. >> well, i think the challenge is the perception on the right side is that it's not about adding to, it's about replacing and getting rid of and ignoring

the past. >> we can talk about thomas jefferson all day long as far as i'm concerned and all the beautiful things he wrote and the declaration of independence. we also have to get into that he also owned slaves and not teach a version of slavery that's about economics and about how every slave had three meals a did i and free room and board, which some schools have done, then leap to the "i have a dream" speech and skip from there to barack obama. how do we get to this place where we can teach accurate histories of this country to students? >> where i'm at is, do we have a problem, yes, i agree there's a problem. do i think this critical race theory is the way to do it? no. i think it impcompounds the problem. >> can you define critical race theory for me? i want to make sure i'm operating on your definition. >> for me it's that core belief and value that white is oppressor, black is a victim. the fact that that core value is in the middle of it is the challenge for me.

>> i think there is this thing called critical race theory and some people have used that buzz wo word into what you just said. >> my grandchild is back. i don't want him growing up being told he's a victim. people are fighting enough. why add more fuel to the fire to fight? >> did the equity statement mention critical race theory? >> the equity statement did not. it was all the websites and buzzwords that went with critical race theory. make sure you have your hands flat otherwise it might end up in their mouth. >> there we go. >> all right. still got all of them, all five, jeremiah. there we go. those are my fingers. those are my fingers, yes. you worked hard to save for my future. so now... i want to thank you. i started investing with vanguard to help take care of you, like you took care of me. te quiero, mamá.

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how would you define woke? >> it's like the advanced generation of political correctness. >> do they do woke in canada? >> they absolutely do woke in canada. >> i'm mexican, i think -- it means -- >> it's the mexican way of saying woke. >> to me, mexico is not woke enough. >> this is your first time in phoenix? >> yeah. >> what's the deal with arizona,

though? because it's not really the south. >> no. i've been calling it desert florida, because florida's the same way, it's not really the south like the south. i think there is something about here that people of all sort of political stripes like to move here because the weather. >> like florida. >> yeah, yeah. i get it. even with everybody talking about wokeness, i'm not surprised that most people don't have a working definition of woke. but i know someone who definitely does. michael harriet is yet another writer i've booked on the show who i'm jealous of. he knows exactly how to make it plain while i'm just screaming into the void. >> i thought the idea of woke, it was that black slang we threw around for a while, we go, that was fun, then we put it on the sh sh shelf. >> because people find out about it. >> the fox newss snewses of the

even the left's use of woke. >> there's the word woke and the concept of woke. that concept has been around for years. the interesting thing about it is, the first time we heard the word woke in history was in the 1920s with a blues player named ledbelly ledbetter. he heard about this case of the black boys in alabama who had been falsely accused of raping a white woman. they were imprisoned. he wrote a song about it called "the scottsboro boys." he says, if you're going to alabama, keep your eyes open, you've got to stay woke. >> it became a creative way for

one black person to say to another, be smart, stay aware, america is dangerous, keep your head on a swivel. for decades, woke stayed on the bench of black vernacular, poking its head out here and there, and then came 2014. the killing of michael brown in ferguson, missouri by a police officer heralded the rise of the hashtag stay woke on black twitter. woke eventually became the battle hymn of latte liberals. all of a sudden everything and everybody was woke. yep, woke namaste'd. woke took on a new form. it was a battle cry for general self righteousness and performative social justice campaigns. black people just use it for fun now. >> wokeness is dev devisive,

exclusionary, and hateful. >> even though we tried to bury it, they found the body and frankenwoke was born. now woke is a catchall pejorative for anything and everything america sees as a threat. it's the war on christmas year-round. so there's this idea of wokeness and now the thing it's mostly used to do is to connect it to crt to then attack school boards. we have to stop this woke mob because they want to put crt into schools and that will turn us into marxists. i think it's the flowchart. >> the flowchart, how to get from trans people to communism. regardless of how you feel about america, you should want to perfect it. and that's why i don't understand the demonization of the effort to make this a more perfect union. >> yeah.

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eventually does his 22-part documentary about the crt wars, this is how they'll be remembered. >> you are on the edge of educational malpractice. >> it will look better in sepia tone with that moving camera thing. >> we're not going to finish, your time is up. >> we've lost friends in conversations. we have a friend in the community who is black, people won't talk to him. >> come on, folks, we can do better than this. can five adults with different opinions have a conversation? shawn carter, creator of the barbecue becky hashtag, michael finnegan, a local anti-crt retiree and a voting rights activist from the navajo nation. many things that have come out of these school board meetings have been around the country for the last 18 months.

what is going on from your perspective? >> a lot of folks are challenging what we call critical race theory in classrooms and for me as a native american in this country, first peoples of this land, it's hard for me to understand why we wouldn't want to educate our children about all of the history of this country even if it's dark, even if it's hard to comprehend. >> crt is an academic term that came out of harvard. it's a theory. it's not been proven yet. >> like gravity is a theory? >> it used to be. crt i think stands for causes racial tension. i've seen it at sen-- i've seen at board meetings. it's very devisive. it's not unifying and it turns americans upside down. crt uses race because it's

immutable. >> what do you mean, it's immutable? >> you can't change your race. >> isn't it observing how race functions in law throughout american society? >> i don't know. >> something crt might cover is for instance, say, redlining in the '70s and they would say the reason we have huge disparities between black and white home ownership is because of red lining. now, the idea is that teaching that is divisive because what? we should instead just let people assume that it happened by accident? >> those people in the black neighborhood just don't make good financial houses. >> exactly. the idea of crt is to say this is an historical thing that happened covering tens of thousands of people over a long period of time. this is how we got to where we are now. i'm trying to figure out why that's divisive, why that's offensive, who gets hurt? >> critical race theory finds racism in everything. >> so you're saying it finds

racism where racism doesn't exist? >> it can. >> i think there's a lot of definitions, there's a some fuzziness about it, it depends on who you talk to, and what blew up our district was the reference to ibrahim x. kendi's antiracism. people are made to feel they're bad people because they're of a certain color. they're made to feel ashamed. kids are being told they're inherently racist. people have gone to the extreme that this country is horrible, it's terrible, and that's all we have is negative, negative, negative. >> just to be clear, you don't have kids in the school district? >> i get asked that a lot. >> i'm just trying to for the purposes of this -- >> i understand that, but i don't know why that matters. my tribe, the navajo nation, is 27,000 square miles. the majority of the navajo nation is in arizona. i was in a school system that was very strict and traditional, that covered the history of my people in two paragraphs. for me at least, i didn't really

learn the full history of my own people until i was in college. for my future children, i want them to walk in a world where they're not thought of as inferior or savages. >> or only worthy of two paragraphs. >> exactly. maybe we wouldn't be there if we invested in critical race theory. and it was an education that was taught. >> ideas have consequences. your view of history will affect your view of today and your view of tomorrow. so these struggles over curricula, these struggles over so-called divisive ideas, it's not just limited to the seminar room. it's not just limited to what little sally and what little jane and what little johnny write in a paper. this is about the constitution of the united states of america.

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test test if you want a school with more crt and more gender ideology, i think you're nuts. >> what a novel concept, right, to make sure our kids aren't indoctrinated. >> in this show we've been talking about -- oh, god, i hate even saying it, wokeness. but really, that's just a distraction from the actual struggles we always have in this country. it's a fight that black folks,

indigenous folks and people of color know, especially if they're also members of the lgbtq+ community. >> you're teaching children to hate others because of their skin color, and you're forcing them to lie about other kids' gender. >> at the same time that schools are being used to attack crt, they're also being used to attack the lgbtq+ community. you've probably heard about the legislation unaffectionately known as the don't say gay bill in florida. that's just the beginning. heading into the 2022 midterms, republican legislators have proposed at least -- wait for it -- 325 bills that target the lgbtq+ community. oh my god, there is only 50 states. >> when they come after one group and everybody sits back and lets them do it, then they'll come after the next group and the next group and the next group. and as the saying goes, when they came after me, there was nobody left.

>> forget those legislators. i'm going talk to the kids who are actually affected by this. right now in the nation, as you all know, i'm sure, and as you're experiencing in your schools, there is a lot of america's gotten too woke. the woke mob is ruining america. i can talk to grown-ups about it who aren't actually in the classrooms. i can talk to teachers who are in the classrooms, but we really want to use the opportunity to hear from you all. eric mejia, victoria grace monroe, joey glenn, jamie laureano, and raymond duncan are a part of s.a.f.e., the student alliance for equality. also joining is autumn brown, an organizer and theologian who works in reconciliation. i'm going to start taking her everywhere. what is woke? >> i don't know what that means. i can't answer either way. >> i feel old just hearing that word because honestly, i know -- >> did you say "i feel old just hearing that word"? >> yes. >> i know. i'm only 16. yet i don't really understand. like some of the slang terms nowadays. >> so it's not a word that you're using.

i'd be shocked if it was. >> yeah. >> but it's not a word y'all are using. >> no. it's a word used against us. it's oh, i'm sorry. i'm not woke enough to know what nonbinary means or any of that means to use your pronouns. i identify as an attack helicopter. i use it/its pronouns. >> you're quoting people, aren't you? >> yes. >> you're not just making that up. >> nope. >> you're quoting people. >> directly. >> yeah. >> i wouldn't say like i use it at all. but i think of woke would be understanding current events and new concepts. >> that's what it was originally meant. but as you say -- >> yeah, it's kind of turned into insult. >> yeah. the people who use it the most are ironically are the people who are least woke. >> yeah. >> critical race theory. i've talked to a lot of adults, some parents, some concerned citizens who don't have kids in schools who say that you all are being indoctrinated with critical race theory. and that wokeness is run amok,

and you're all proof of that. >> i'm curious when kamau asks if you're getting race theory, you laugh in this way the notion is absurd. >> we get taught the on it is. we get textbooks from the early 2000s where they still portray the civil rights movement in black and white, but reagan is in color. >> i bow down. >> i'm learning shakespeare right now. the last book i read was beowulf. ei i haven't read any modern books. the most recent was "i know why the caged bird sings" which is why the only block in english i've read by a black person. everything we're taught is outdated. arizona only hazards. it doesn't have a curriculum. >> so i want to talk specifically to the lgbtq+ issues here that i hear the clubs and the clubs sound great. i also know that many of the politicians in arizona are trying to do things like, for example, if you want to join a gsa type club you, have to get permission from your parents. >> that is a dangerous, dangerous thing because we've

already had a student outed to parents in our pride club. and there was almost a physical altercation. school is sometimes the only safe place for students. at home is dangerous, and they can be out at school with their friends. the book bans that have been happening, the number one banned book in 2020 was "george," a book about a transgendered person. eight of the top ten banned books in 2019 were about lgbtq+ people. it is starting to shift the world around us, and soon enough it's going to come in on us. >> if you could figure out things that i would change this for the next generation so it would be better, what would that be? >> we need to learn a lot about racism and how it's affecting our country since i see people still in school, they are saying slurs. they are being really negative because they don't understand the history behind it. >> i think including more lgbtq+ topics would allow lgbtq+ people to learn where they come from, where their roots come from. not letting them be seen makes

students feel like they're inferior, makes them feel like they don't belong. i think it's important to have a more inclusive curriculum where students feel like they are just themselves. >> wow. >> i think an lgbtq+ curriculum done correctly is automatically diverse. >> oh, yeah. >> yeah. yes. so at the end of the day, is crt the problem? is teaching kids about the broad rainbow of humanity the problem? or is woke just being used to further divide us when we're already divided pretty well? like remember that equity statement in litchfield? in the summer of 2021, the school board approved a revised equity statement. it seems pretty similar to the first one. oh, wait, they took out the kendi quote. of course they did. but folks are still arguing at the school board meetings. >> shut your mouth. you know what? i am talking about our schools.

>> what's the solution? how do we get out of this? what's the path going forward? >> randy, what's the solution? >> there is not going to be one solution. there is no silver bullet. i think that our country is in tremendous peril, and all i can say is wherever you are, whatever you're doing, you're going to have to be attentive. you're going have to be alert. you're going to have to be mobilized, and i would urge everybody to do whatever they can to become active and knowledgeable and speak up and step up. it's all hands on deck. i have never felt more trepidation about the state of america than i have felt in the past few years and that i feel right now. >> i think we are in a political thriller in this country, and we don't know how it's going to end. >> don't let the media confuse you, and i mean all the media. woke is not really a thing. remember those psas that just said "the more you know"? that's all woke is.

it's the more you know. and the more you know, the better you're able to maneuver through this life and understand that the world is not all about you. and when politicians and the media and bad actors and elon musk and the muskettes and tucker carlson and the mother tuckers, when they use "woke," they're just trying to distract us from the fact this country is on fire. and only way we're going to put 80 out is learn how the fire started. the more we learn about the fires, the real ones, the historical ones, the better able we are to put the fires out. shout out, billy joel. and don't let them use kids as a shield. when people say think of the children, i say yeah, i am thinking of the children. my children. i want them to learn all about this country. i want them to learn about slavery, algebra, january 6th, frank sinatra, great trans folks in history, janelle monae,

science and much, much, more. you want your kids to learn much, much, less? yikes. it's a time of enormous turmoil. >> shut up in here! >> the '60s are over, dad. >> here's michael at the foul line. a shot -- good! >> we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won't be signing off until the world ends. >> isn't that special. >> any tool for human expression will bring out both the best and worst in us. and television has been that. >> they don't pay me enough to deal with animals like this. >> people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. >> we have seen the news, and it is us. ♪