Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "History Doesn't Change Because It Makes You Uncomfortable

History cannot be erased simply because it makes people uncomfortable. 

 In this hearing, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett pushes back against Republican attacks on the Smithsonian and efforts to sanitize America's past. From the displacement of Indigenous communities and the legacy of slavery to the struggle for civil rights, Crockett argues that telling the full truth about American history is essential—not divisive. 

During the exchange, she challenges claims that museums and educators are "sowing division," questions witnesses about the role of public institutions in preserving history, and warns that efforts to rewrite the past threaten the country's ability to learn from it. 

She also points to the continued threat of violent white supremacy and rejects claims that acknowledging history is itself an act of discrimination. This conversation is about more than museums or textbooks. It's about whether America is willing to confront its history honestly—or allow politics to decide which parts of the truth survive.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKGc-0UWcfU

 

Happy Juneteenth! The Bible says WHAT?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfiLQF9THoc

 

Dillahunty vs Christian: Biblical Slavery/Exodus 21

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7kDYcNvw0pc

Judge orders restoration of national park plaques removed under Trump directive

Officials given 21 days to comply with order after Angel Kelley condemns administration for ‘telling half-truths’…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/judge-national-park-trump-displays

 

LIVE DEBATE [God is in the Epstein Files] 2-20-2026 (Justin at DZ Debates on YouTube)

The abrahamic god is a monster.

TIMESTAMPS

12:47 Balint [Deconstructing] - How to handle addiction recovery programs without religion

22:40 Perfect Masculinity - Bad faith caller and gets dropped

25:43 Los - Not opposition so gets a quick lesson and leaves

42:30 Supernatural Faith - What all does the Old Testament say about slaves? Call turns into a Q&A about Justin and what other religions believe 1:06:35 (Supernatural Faith) - Are exorcisms proof of God?

1:17:30 A traveller [Muslim] - M’s joins; Bad audio; How does Islam feel about child brides?

1:34:10 Conductor - Did God cause SA in 2 Samuel 11 (David’s concubines)? Caller didn’t want to discuss the Bible so gets dropped

1:38:30 Blackwell - Dalton joins; Caller argues about God’s name; 2 Samuel 11; Caller is as disingenuous as last time

2:14:08 (Blackwell) How does the caller feel about the test of the bloody sheet? Caller runs immediately

2:24:08 Leoliguar - Bong rip theology; Light has consciousness and can choose how fast they move

2:35:55 Kreganregan [Friendly] - Christianity and the history of abolition

2:46:40 Superchats and wrap-up
Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/live/bXNMiK98Izs?si=KocS1Voxri-232we

Mike Johnson Says Slavery, Lynching, Segregation Are 'Christian Principles’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suzxHYjpjKU 

 

Tennessee school district bans Alex Haley’s Roots under 2022 state law

With third-highest number of books banned, state removes renowned work about slave trade from library shelves…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/tennessee-book-ban-alex-haley-roots

 

UN calls for reparations to remedy the historical wrongs of trafficking enslaved Africans | PBS News

While the United States opposes the past wrongdoing of the transatlantic slave trade and all other forms of slavery, it "does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred," deputy U.S. ambassador Dan Negrea said before the vote...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/un-calls-for-reparations-to-remedy-the-historical-wrongs-of-trafficking-enslaved-africans 

 

WOTM: Christianity, Society & Slavery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUCniSs-l1M

 

LIVE DEBATE [Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults] 12-19-2025 (DZ Debates on YouTube)

Jesus and Santa Claus are both fictional characters based on a real life person. 

 TIMESTAMPS

• 9:20 Dee aka Trophy - Did Jesus give a timetable for his return? Matthew 10:23 and Matthew 16:27; When the Bible says “clouds”, it means metaphorical clouds; Caller runs 
• 33:57 Lavi - Who wrote the Gospel of John? Why are there differences between John and Mark on when Jesus was crucified? How did they keep time back then?
• 1:04:20 (Lavi) - The Gospel of John vs the Synoptics; What was the last words of Jesus? What about who shows up to the tomb first?
• 1:23:40 (Lavi) - Did Jesus fulfill the prophecy in Isaiah 7 (the virgin birth)? 
• 1:45:05 Rev Steve [Friendly] - Wanted to say hi and ask for support for his wife’s YouTube channel that helps dogs (Justin added it to the video description) 
• 1:53:15 Gooner - Caller doesn’t really listen; Jesus is “different different”; Who wrote the Gospels and who are eyewitnesses? The errors in Matthew 1; Is a there a prophecy about the savior coming out of Egypt? 
• 2:21:00 (Gooner) - Matthew 22 and Psalm 110; Why do the children of Christians starve? He turns to No True Scotsman; What does it mean to be a Christian? 
• 2:48:40 (Gooner) - Was hunger fixed in the book of Acts? All of the Haitian Christians with starving children aren’t seeking the Kingdom; Was Jesus a king in Israel? 
• 3:11:35 Hud - Admits he can’t prove Jesus is still alive 
• 3:15:04 Jay - Troll 
• 3:21:20 Warrior’s Witness - Resurrection of Aristeas vs Jesus; Mark 1 misquoting Malachi as Isaiah; What evidence is needed for miraculous claims? 
• 3:47:20 Alfie - Caller is upset over the term mythology; Caller attacks Justin’s motives and then runs 
• 3:58:18 Major Tom - Short call where caller doesn’t really offer opposition 
• 4:08:40 Insomnia Greg - Self-promoter for donkey long tongs 
• 4:10:50 Christian brain rot syndrome levels 
• 4:12:22 Huckleberry [Deconstructing] - Hopes in Jesus but has no evidence; What other stories have dying and rising gods? What about other virgin births? A little on evolution 
• 4:36:37 Joe - Caller pivots non-stop; What did Josephus say about Jesus? Why would people die for a lie? The morals of Jesus; The Big Bang 
• 5:10:30 (Joe) - Do natural disasters prove that God is evil? Were they designed by God? Is Hell a just punishment? 
• 5:34:00 (Joe) - Is God deceiving us by making the universe look old? Is God outside of time?

Interview: 

https://www.youtube.com/live/hzjW0S5Cbb0?si=coH_BhAR6uUoU-b6

Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore slavery exhibit by Friday - POLITICO

A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Friday to reinstate a slavery exhibit torn down from a Philadelphia national park as part of the administration's effort to elevate "uplifting" narratives of U.S. history. 

Following her blistering rebuke of the National Park Service for censoring historic content earlier this week, Senior Judge Cynthia Rufe of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday said the exhibits at Independence National Historical Park must be put back by the end of the week...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/federal-judge-orders-trump-admin-to-restore-slavery-exhibit-by-friday-00788894

 

Trump INSTANTLY BLOCKED by Federal Judge in SCATHING ORDER

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2Flj5T5jOz0

 

Judge orders restoration of Philadelphia slavery exhibits - POLITICO

In a withering opinion Monday, Judge Cynthia Rufe invoked George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984," saying the administration had attacked the concept of truth itself as it sought to erase details of America's legacy of slavery. She said the removal of the exhibits in January papered over Washington's ownership of slaves and the special measures he took to avoid those enslaved persons gaining their liberty while he lived in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/16/judge-orders-restoration-philadelphia-slavery-exhibits-00783293 

 

Philadelphia sues Trump administration over removal of slavery exhibit from public park | PBS News

"It shows that the United States is still unwilling to reckon with the horrors of its past and would rather prefer to sanitize the history that it has and try to present a convenient lie," said Timothy Welbeck, director of the Center for Anti-Racism at Temple University... 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/philadelphia-sues-trump-administration-over-removal-of-slavery-exhibit-from-public-park 

 

History Minute (071): Ulysses S. Grant's election and Black people manifest their independence

In History Minute (070) we learned that Congress passed Constitutional amendments and laws to provide civil rights for Blacks freed from slavery, but Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, thwarted implementation. He was impeached, but the Senate did not vote to convict him. 

Nevertheless, there was a Presidential election that same year, 1868, and Republican Ulysses S. Grant won by 300,000 votes, with 700,000 Blacks having voted. So Johnson was no longer an obstacle, and the will of Congress, on behalf of the people, was now being enforced: Southern states could only come back into the Union if they supported the new Constitutional amendments providing civil rights.

With their newfound freedom and rights, despite lack of land and resources, Southern Blacks made great strides. For example, in the first few years after the war, Blacks in the South began to immediately assert their independence from Whites. They formed their own churches, put forth their own politicians, got elected to state legislatures, endeavored to reunite families and keep them together, and set out to provide for the education of their children, even starting their own schools. Historian Peter Kolchin commented, "As soon as they were free, these supposedly dependent, childlike Negroes began acting like independent men and women."

Read more! 

A People's History of the United States 

Howard Zinn 

Get your copy — Support your local bookstores by shopping Bookshop.org — https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-1492-to-present-revised-and-updated-edition-howard-zinn/7e243f9bc6464a2e?ean=9780062397348&next=t 

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History Minute (070): Andrew Johnson favored White interests to the detriment of Black people.

Andrew Johnson was the Vice President when Lincoln was assassinated, and he then became President. He became an obstacle to fulfilling the intent of Congress to provide for civil rights for Black people. For example:

• He vetoed bills to help Black people.
• He allowed Confederate States to come back into the Union without their guaranteeing equal rights to Blacks.

Consequently, southern states did things like:

• Enact "black codes" that made the freed slaves who continued to work plantations more like serfs.
• Made it illegal for freed people to rent or lease farmland.
• Made it a crime for freed people working under contracts to break them.
• Decreed that orphaned Black children and those whose parents were poor should be put into forced labor -- which were called "apprenticeships" to make them sound beneficial. Girls were forced to stay until age 18; boys until age 21. 
• Children were taken from their families despite family protests. When parents sought to reclaim them, the courts often favored White interests.
• They rarely got the education or skills training (beyond the menial tasks they were performing), medical care, or fair wages that were promised.
• If they fled, they received corporal punishment.
• The very people who formerly enslaved them or their parents often became their masters in the apprenticeships, and used them to rebuild their war-torn plantations.

The House impeached Johnson in 1868, but the Senate failed to convict and remove him from office.

Read more! 

A People's History of the United States 

Howard Zinn 

Get your copy — Support your local bookstores by shopping Bookshop.org — https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-1492-to-present-revised-and-updated-edition-howard-zinn/7e243f9bc6464a2e?ean=9780062397348&next=t 

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find it at Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/id1046889377

History Minute (069): Legal protections for former enslaved people in the 1860s and 1870s

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1868, and it reads as follows:

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Then in 1870, the 15th Amendment was adopted. It reads:  

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

These amendments and other laws passed in the late 1860s and early 1870s limited the rights of states and made it a crime to deprive Black people of their rights. They also provided for Black people to -- without discrimination -- enter into contracts, buy property, and patronize public accommodations such as hotels, theaters, and railroads.

Read more! 

A People's History of the United States 

Howard Zinn 

Get your copy — Support your local bookstores by shopping Bookshop.org — https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-1492-to-present-revised-and-updated-edition-howard-zinn/7e243f9bc6464a2e?ean=9780062397348&next=t 

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find it at Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/id1046889377

The Curse of Ham and the Making of Christian Racism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGTq4y3iYps

 

This guy’s speech sums up a lot of History Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwhjddV1xc

 

History Minute (068): What to do with the land confiscated from Confederate plantations?

As Zinn explains, it was apparent to many that after the Civil War, freed enslaved people would need land. They would need to work their own land rather than that of other people in order to live independently and have status in society. 

One Black person in 1863 wrote that “if the strict law of right and justice is to be observed, the country around me is the entailed inheritance of the Americans of African descent, purchased by the invaluable labor of our ancestors, through a life of tears and groans, under the lash and yoke of tyranny.”

Instead, however, the plantations that were abandoned during the Civil War were leased to the people who used to plant them, and to white men of the North. Rather than being landowners, many found themselves not much better off,  as reported in a Black-owned newspaper that "The slaves were made serfs and chained to the soil. . . . Such was the boasted freedom acquired by the colored man at the hands of the Yankee."

Lincoln and the Congress compounded this problem with their policy that land that had been confiscated under the Confiscation Act of July 1862 would be returned to the heirs of the Confederate owners to compensate them for their financial loss. In response, a Black physician spoke at a meeting in Boston and said: "Why talk about compensating masters? Compensate them for what? What do you owe them? What does the slave owe them? What does society owe them? Compensate the master? . . . It is the slave who ought to be compensated. The property of the South is by right the property of the slave. . . ."

Read more! 

A People's History of the United States 

Howard Zinn 

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find it at Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/id1046889377