Posted on 06/24/2020 5:08:46 AM PDT by Stravinsky
On CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time Tuesday night documentarian Ken Burns, who made his name in 1990 with The Civil War, told the show’s host that, in his informed opinion, Confederate monuments across the country “have to go.”
This comes on the same day that President Donald Trump said he will issue an executive order threatening up to 10 years in jail for “anyone who vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such Federal property.”
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“I think we’re in the middle of an enormous reckoning right now in which the anxieties and the pains and the torments of injustice are bubbling up to the surface,” Burns said. “It’s very important for people like me, of my complexion, to it be as quiet as possible and to listen. What I know from my reading of history is that the confederate monuments have to go.”
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Tear down Ken Burns’ works. They miscast history and just dredge up the past. Best to bury it all and start the USSA at Day One.
I have more respect for the historian Shelby Foote.
Can we just get to CWII please!?!
Uber liberal Burns.....STFU, pansy.
His documentaries are just loaded with political correctness so yeah let’s keep him off PBS he’s just another slurper from the public Trough
Imagine a so-called historian that wants to tear down statues that are part of American history
“What I know from my reading of history is that the confederate monuments have to go.”
Hey, Ken: I know from MY reading of history that you are full of sh!t.
CNN is not in charge... the hoodlums are not in charge.. BLM is not in charge.... but THEY ARE FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGING OUR COUNTRY!!!!!!! barry gets his way from afar.. and this gripes me to no end..... for crying out loud... call in the national guard and SHOOT the whole bunch!
this can’t be happening in our nation... what I see is not real.... this is the United States of America....
How in the world is this allowed to go on? to appease the black people???? this is not how to fix this... law in order first.. LAW AND ORDER!!!!!!!!!!
Destroying statues is what the Bolsheviks did. The commies don’t want any historical reminders around. They want to rewrite history without references to history.
Isnt that the mini series with Patrick Swayze ???
malice towards none—Abe Lincoln
“Can we just get to CWII please!?!”
We are already there, but at the nascent stage.
The only testosterone Burns has ever had in his body was bought off the shelf. What a “woman”.
He’s a skilled film maker but a distorter of history.
He’s done even more damage to this country than Howard Zinn.
>>He’s a skilled film maker but a distorter of history.
Same was true of NAZI propagandist Leni Reifenstahl
Howard Zinn taught classes directly to a generation of New England journalists. His impact and harm is even greater than Burns’ influence of latte sipping PBS watchers.
This ain’t no reckoning. It’s a Goddang communist insurrection you moron!
Millions of them who vote.
I can’t stomach any of his stuff, as I see it all with an air of Leftist stink about it.
I will say, the only thing I really appreciate from anything he has ever done is to expose me to the song “Ashokan Farewell” from the Civil War series.
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