Clint Smith

And they praised him because it was like, oh, that was a really brave thing of you to do.

Our grandparents didn't have to send our moms and dads to the schools that they sent them to.

A lot of people didn't.

Right.

Where it's like, actually, it's a little bit too dangerous to do that.

And similarly, right, my mom was born in 1963 in Alabama.

Right.

You know, four little girls were killed in a church.

You know, the sanctuary, the place where you're supposed to feel safest, right?

This is living history that individuals experience and continue to experience.

And it's the individual actions that people take.

We have seen federal judges push back pretty forcefully against the Trump administration's dictates, their executive orders and maneuvers that they made, right?

Whether that is removing the placards without consulting the city in an effort to sort of

say that the history that they want to say is a true history, right?

The order functionally says, right, this is... It can't just hinge on whether there's a transfer of power, what we actually believe about what we're saying, right?

It is a very Orwellian view of the way we do history, right?

And it is...

I think Americans, people generally think of history in a different way than scholars think of history, right?

Where, yes, there are places and dates and names, but how those things are remembered is sort of subject to your interpretation oftentimes.

But