Last Week Tonight, John Oliver continued to expand on his coverage of racism in America. After ripping into TV personalities Joy Behar and Tucker Carlson over their televised misunderstandings of history, Oliver did a deep dive into the way slavery and white supremacy are taught (or, in many cases, not taught) in U.S.
history classes. As he said at the top of the segment, "George Floyd's murder has forced a hard national conversation about this nation's present, which is impossible to do effectively without re-examining its past."While he acknowledged that learning the truth about history involves people reckoning with the atrocities committed by their ancestors, Oliver also made note of some pretty startling facts: There are no national.
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