It's one of the founding principles of fascism, right? "We're the pinnacle of humanity, but because the left is trying to make everyone equal, yuck, they're pulling us from our rightful place. But one day, one day we're going to take it back, and boy won't they be sorry then!"
My sons, who are black, didn't get black history lessons at their predominantly black schools!! I was so pissed! But not next year. We are going to do something about that.
dude.....I had a co-worker come to me, and tell me about her experience in researching Frederick Douglas. It threw me off because she claimed it was an unknown blackman who had great achievements. first thing popped in my head was robert smalls, but she had no idea who that was,.....when she said Frederick Douglas, I had to laugh. I'm black, so to me frederick douglas is far from an unknown blackman,.....he's up there with malcom and martin. It's a trip to see how much white America is ignorant of "American History"
I grew up being taught that they were different but that there was a lot of overlap, Latinos being people from latin America, and Hispanics being Spanish speakers. Is this true?
Whenever I hear the inevitable "why is there no white history month?", I don't address it directly. I just talk about things I've done. "So last year, me and friends went to Vikingfest and it was freaking awesome. The weekend after, me and my dad went to the local Scottish Highland Games to compete and even won a few competitions. We're talking about getting a hotel to spend the weekend at a local Oktoberfest celebration.". The point I try to drive home is that every month is White Heritage Month and you have no business getting upset that other heritage months exist.
as a black person my history started when my folks were dumped off the boat. it so sad for folks to question this when most non black people can trace back their history thousands of years. i hope these people would stop begrudging us for little history we have. thank you again for being honest, and i am glad i found your videos.
EXACTLY! Most black folks in the US had their history wiped away when their ancestors arrived on the ships. Their history traces only as far back to the founding of this country and BECAUSE of this country. As a young girl, I was shocked to learn of the time my aunt spent helping my uncle (a black man with roots traced to slavery) find his 'most likely' natural last name (my aunt didn't want to take the last name of his ancestors owner). I can trace my history all over the world and I find it fascinating. He can only trace his back to the ships......and a love of Africa in general. Black history mimp. in America is so very significant, above and beyond any other nationalities, imo.
Probably doesn't help, but it's not "most folks". My origins on my mother's side disappear at great-grandparent, her mom was found as a child. She knows that she has half-siblings, but was only ever able to track one down. Her adoptive parents couldn't tell you how their people came to America. A little thinking and you realize there are lots of "found by the roadside" Americans. Probably cold comfort, but knowing your lineage to antiquity is not a universal white superpower. A friend whose family fled Viet Nam during the war with chaos on their heels knows his ancestryback to when generations of his family served in someone's palace. Screw it anyhow. Dogs with papers are inbred and stuck up.
The sad ironic fact is that Black people have contributed so much to the success of a Nation that for most of it's history barely acknowleged their existance...
Please understand not all of us come from slaveships many of our people where already here 93k +/- made that trip but majority was already here Dane Calloway (youtube) gives insight into these things but it's just to bring thought
It's amazing how trolls and haters ask stupid questions to sound smart but have no idea about facts or wth they're talking about. They say bs just to hate
It's insane that to this day I'm still learning about the struggles, massacres, and more stories untold from the history books that brings me sorrow to what has been done and is still going on in the black community. Black History is American history.
Totally agree. My wife has a BA in history and had never heard of the race riot in Tulsa in the summer of 1921 or Ocoee Florida massacre in November of 1920. That's why there's a Black History Month...
Of course it is, but schools make any history so deadly boring that it's beyond the realm of possibility for most people to learn anything from it. I've learned much more out of school. Maybe when we can all go out again, we could have programs in parks. I mean programs: pieces of drama for kids and families to come see. You know, the way war re-enactors do all the time.
@DiZzNasty Exactly! Black history is American history. That's an example of how it seems the south actually won the Civil War. They were allowed to rewrite American history and completely change the reality of slavery and what was done to African Americans and what continues to be done by systemic racism in our government and society. I'm 64 and have been watching videos of college lectures and going back to watch interviews and speeches I saw in the 70s like Muhammad Ali, JFK, Angela Davis, etc. In many ways, we were more open to listening and learning decades ago than we are now. The actual historical events like black Wall Street and many other white riots and murders left out of most student's education and the purposeful changing of the cause of the Civil War and how slaves were treated is all a large part of why America can't get it together and deal with so many different problems that all find their roots in racism and slavery. I sure hope we can do better understanding that black Americans have been there for every part of American history and teaching our history should reflect that fact.
Yes, me too. These things were simply not taught. High time we all wake up, and teach our children of the horrors that founded and sustained our young nation...and the echoes that still linger today.
As a African American Citizen, I am proud to be off a culture who wants justice and not vengeance. We as a culture have contributed to the making of the greatest country.💜
I didn’t know about Juneteenth until I was in Huston in the 80s, in my defense I grew up in the mountains of North Carolina in the 70s and only had 1 black person in my class for 3 years, it wasn’t exactly a priority for them.
Or thinks and talks like her I hope! I hear the term Juneteenth until a few years ago and didn’t know what it was until last year! And I’m in the DC area.
I live in Texas and never heard of Juneteenth until I was in prison in San Antonio at 23. Crazy that I still ask people and they had no idea what it is.
I've seen a disturbing number of propaganda ads featuring her lately. I guess we've finally reached the point where the Republican Party has gotten crazy enough that she's now considered "normal" for them.
Here we go again... I watch a video of yours that's so informative that I physically can't stop myself from sharing it on my social media... and then... bam! My "friends" abandon ship like cockroaches when you flip the light on. Dude, I'm virtually gonna die alone if you don't stop. On a serious note, thank you for giving me useful things to think about while I'm stuck in this damn house.
It coincides with Thanksgiving so we can understand what the Sovereign Nations sacrificed when they saved the pilgrims from starvation. Native American cultures are diverse and beautiful. I'm glad we're purging stereotyped images from sports teams and cars.
When I was in grade school, my teacher was teaching history. When she talked about slavery, there's no history only she pointed to me. The only black kid in the class. I felt humiliation and hurt. I've been called the "N" word. Thank you for all that you do.
One of my greatest wishes is that children be exposed to other cultures more often. It's clear from your story that being singled out as the "different" one was destructive for you, and I would guess for the other children there it was destructive in different ways as well. Where bigotry exists, everyone is harmed, especially the bigots themselves in a moral sense. I hope you find healing from such experiences. ^-^
I can't remember the details, but a class of children were asked "If Hitler was alive, how should he be punished?" It was the subject of an essay competition. The youngster who won the prize wrote one sentence. : "Put him in a black skin, and make him live in America."
They continue to ask things like "we well what about *insert other groups*" because as black people, we are not considered deserving or entitled to our own things, our own achievements, memorials, observances, or even our own humanity. I appreciate this channel because you observe all of those things and more, and when you make mistakes, you acknowledge it.
These questions remind me of the ignorant claims of how anti-discrimination laws somehow grant minority groups "special privileges", ignoring that these "special privileges" are the status quo for Majority groups.
Isn't that just the most bizarre thing? It especially kills me when whined about by xtians who hang out every week in giant tax-free auditoriums. Just... no.
I always hated that as well, I would ask what special privileges, you mean the right to rent housing, the right to work, the right to equal protection under the law.
Black History is American History. Always has been. Just never written correctly. Write our history to include black history. Separate but equal never works. Especially in our history.
A good point, I think. When these topics aren't exclusively taught in February will be another step toward equality. Just as them being taught in February was a step forward from not at all. Unfortunately, we still have to drag past generations kicking and screaming into the future.
As a great grandson of a black man who worked, and saved up enough money to buy the truck from the white man he worked for so that he could pick his own cotton and drive it to town to sell and then had 10 kids to help him and eventually bought up all land around his white boss, in the Jim Crow, Strom Thurmond part of Allen Co. South Carolina, went on to Pastor his own church and ended up having 700 acres in total, his and my great grandma's house being deemed a national historic site in SC and being given a plaque in the SC State Capitol building for their civil rights work for voting rights in the south. To only know of my families history 3 generations back, never learning of my great great grandparents lives or what happened to them because my family probably wasn't educated enough to keep and kind records of our families existence of living.... This is why Black History month is important to me. Although I am proud to be an American, I also know the evil America has perpetrated on many black families that didn't fight like my Great Grandpa Richard Johnson did for his family. Who I know was given his last name and not by choice. It matters to us. It matters to me.
Beu, you have the patience of a wiseman/saint for knowing how to time you videos correctly, specifically till AFTER Black History Month was over. There are some people who treat Whataboutism as a valid criticism of a good thing. I'm glad to see you. as usual have a good analysis of the subject
@@jiralishu The House listens to some of the people some of the time. The Senate listens to the rich people, when they're not listening to corporations. The SCOTUS listens to the constitution, when it says what they want. Only the NSA listens to everyone all the time. :X /Wave Hi there G-Man
This slimeball move has defined the last decade of conservative media. "He said 'Obama born in Kenya?' not 'Obama born in Kenya.' Just asking questions."
The worst bad-faith argument I've seen on this subject came from my mother. She cites a Morgan Freeman interview from like 2005 or thereabouts, where Freeman says that there being a black history month just widens the divide between blacks and whites. He doesn't want (or think he needs) a month to celebrate his heritage or the heritage of people with dark skin. Coming from Freeman, I can sort of understand this. But coming from my mother, with a "See? Even black people don't like this!" angle, is disgusting. For context, my mother is sixty, white, right-leaning, a Canadian citizen with a green card in America, married to a conservative white American. My argument to her, or to anyone else using this rhetoric, is pretty simple: okay, if you don't need or want that month, then don't buy into it. Don't pay attention to it. Power to you. But clearly, others do find it useful/necessary/uplifting or whatever, so don't try and take it from them or diminish it. It's bad enough when a black person does it, but uncontionable when a white person does it. We white folks have been doing this, in some guise or other, for centuries, and we need to stop. Yesterday.
There was a lot more to it than him just saying he didn't want it though... She's quoting around the parts she doesn't want to hear. If there was proper history of all the people in the US taught, there would be less need. If there weren't such social inequalities felt between citizens, it wouldn't be needed. He does wish it would not be a thing that people feel is needed, because that would mean that there would be no more inequalities based on skin color. Where was the force against Trump's protestors? Because there was plenty used against the BLM protestors.
Please tell your mom that Morgan Freeman is not the fucking King of Black People. We are individuals; not a monolith. So reading some stupid shit from 16 years ago does not represent what millions of us think and feel. 🙄
Distractions and whataboutisms: the admitted complete and utter failure of ones ability to debate and come up with even an invalid argument, let alone a valid one.
@@rhondamcmiller-diop2996 You're way off base on this one. It's fine to have a *personal* preference to not swear. And for sure, plenty of people of below average intelligence swear. But swearing, in and of itself, is not an indication of lack of intelligence or vocabulary. Maybe a lack of tact if used in certain situations, but nothing else. There are studies that find correlation between swearing and *increased* intelligence as well as an increased tolerance for pain. Do a search with "swearing and intelligence" and you'll see articles from at least 2017 through January this year confirming this. Your bias is based on false assumptions. No big deal. We've all been there. Just have to be rigorous about rooting out the inaccuracies and intellectually honest enough to change them.
No, they realise they don't have a case, hence all their "arguments" boiling down to whataboutisms meant to derail the conversation, and an obvious attempt at depict their opponents as being just as bad. During Black History Month, it's "butwhatabout other ethnic groups?!!".
Our history as taught in schools, omits (or at least did when I was in school) so much history of our country. These heritage months have taught me so much.
@@daisyelmir1289 Did you even read what they said? They said punch in any direction. I was not, even from the start, defending punching down. I was disagreeing with the notion that only insecure people throw punches, which is totally false. You're both wrong, the most secure human beings in the world punch up. Beau literally punches up, WTF?
*Beau walks on film* So this guy wanting a response to his “loaded” questions... He you go... Anything else? You rock Beau. Thank you for Bringing the months to light. If someone can’t understand why Black history is AMERICAN history, they need to go back to school.
The idea of kicking down is pretty easy to understand imo. It's an easy, risk-free way to get a feeling of power even when you don't actually have that much.
@@pisces363 I think this is because they “keep doing what they know”...it’s easier for them... they won’t change until they can discover something better and get support. Of course many will die with their old beliefs, which is why it can take generations to see changes.
They try to take away because they don't want black history to be a thing that helps encourage or inspire them that they can reach goals and achievements that everyone else outside their skin tone can obtain because they want to keep them in the dark. They want it to be at the bottom as they've always intended.
I am crying right now. Thank you Beau for this acknowledgment. So over due. We needed to have had this talk along long time ago. I am not even Africa/Black American, I was born African, my daughter is both of African/Black American and me African African residing in America. I am going back soon to mother Africa but I don't want my daughter staying behind and being racially profiled. The laws against black people here is ridiculous! and Unforgivable. And Beau when I am back in motherland, I would like to officially invite you & family to visit, safaris and all on me, my village will love you.
There's nothing stopping them from starting a strait pride parade. Everyone knows why they don't though. They don't want to show people, including themselves what a straight pride parade would really look like. A gay pride parade might be campy and indecent, but it's a celebration of sexualities outside the mainstream. I can't see a straight pride parade as being about anything besides hating and oppressing gays.
@@FuriouslySleepingIde They actually did try a straight pride parade in Boston, and it is what you would expect... a few hundred folks waving Trump flags, confronted by a substantially larger counter protest.
@@danielbrims1911 Which, to be fair, is a whole lot of free entertainment. I'm just not sure they're conscious enough to be as humiliated as they should be.
@@danielbrims1911 I don't know if that's better or worse. It's somewhat better as they couldn't even get behind the hate. It's worse, in that they somehow shifted from their sexuality to Donald Trump and didn't notice. I thought they could at least have landed on traditional marriage, Christianity, and the Bible.
Brother Beau... Thank you so much. I genuinely mean that from the bottom of my heart. I wish others saw the world through your eyes. America would be a much better place. - Your Texas Family.. #WeAreStrongerTogether
This is MY 6th time 👀👀👀👀👀👀 watching this video, Now I'M all choked up 😢😢😢. The level of HUMANITY and EMPATHY Beau, you and ALL the INTERNET PEOPLE display is VERY HEART WARMING.🤗🤗🤗 THANKS EVERYONE, I TRULY APPRECIATE IT!!!
👋🏼😄. Edit: Wonderful explanation for black history month. That makes sense. And I agree we need to address the inequality in our country before it gets worse.
Instead the right wishes to express the outrage over the result of the symptoms of this than face the work of the solution.Beside it is useful to them.
@@miaballester3978 I’m not implying that it hasn’t been bad. I’m merely saying before it gets worse. There is always a “worse” that can happen. Like if t***p has his way, and white supremacy has outward control of the country...
I have come to accept you're not Polish, Beau, and yet I still love you. Not everyone can be Polish. A Polish History Month would make everybody far too sad. So I support Black History Month 100% I was a history major, and it never ceases to amaze me how much history (non-Euro, non-white) I was never taught. In fact, most world history was actively kept from us! Howard Zinn began to open my eyes, and I've been trying to learn everything I missed ever since.
PREACH BEAU... EDUCATE THE DUMB, DUMBER & DUMBEST!!! Yes, it is BEYOND them... Just LEAD to alot of Bullsh*t...PERIOD... Beau, by far one of YOUR BEST VIDS, cuz I heard all the different emotions in your voice & I also see them in 👀 eyes. God Bless YOU, Beau for just being human...🤗🤗🤗👏👏👏👍👍👍👊👊👊
I am from Scotland and i am very interested and watch US politics. I love to hear your take on things. You always seem so calm and clear and very sensible. Hats off to you sir... or what ever way of appreciation that is appropriate and agreeable.
Thank you! Thank you for saying what need to be said. I think about this every February. People have asked me this same question several times and I get upset with the lack of really wanting to know or understand from the people questioning me. Thanks for letting people know.
It's a shame that some people think the only way to build themselves up is by putting others down. The only way to get ahead is by dragging someone else back. It's not a zero sum game. We can all have more.
I've always felt like I gain more by giving more, that helping raise people up makes both me and them stronger. It takes no effort to kick down, to drag others down. It's so easy that many young children do it before they know how to behave. And if your (royal you, not you specifically) emotional strength and quality is the same as an adult as the average 6 year old, it's probably time to seriously rethink your life.
The issue is that many people think the "Pie in the Sky" is of finite size. That is not true it is infinite. The Pie can expand there is plenty for everyone. Some people are just greedy.
There's a book written by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson, called "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents". To read this book, you need to have your emotional chops together, and even that may not be enough. I'm going to share just one paragraph early on in the book for the benefit of those who have a problem with Black History month: "The institution of slavery was, for a quarter of a millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit of their owners, to be worked as long as the owners desired, who had no rights over their bodies or loved ones, who could be mortgaged, bred, won in a bet, given as wedding presents, bequeathed to heirs, sold away from spouses or children to cover an owner's debt or to spite a rival or to settle an estate. They were regularly whipped, raped, and branded, subjected to any whim or distemper of the people who owned them. Some were castrated or endured other tortures too grisly for these pages, tortures that the Geneva Conventions would have banned as war crimes had the conventions applied to people of African descent on this soil." To the white men, whom I assume make up the overwhelming majority of the posers of these questions, and whom I also assume know virtually nothing about real American history, if you don't have the balls to read just this one book, PERMANENTLY SHUT THE HELL UP.
@@sharonmassey2923 In a very real sense he's like a brother from another mother. We met in an multi racial , multi faith organization in 1975. We worked together for a few years and became fast friends. My oldest son is named for him and rightly so.
As an African American I have learned more about Black history on Tik Tok than I ever did in public schools!!!! I like what Morgan Freeman said in an interview that it should not be a month. Yet if it were placed in public school curriculum less than have of what is taught now would be brought up. I'm in college and just learn of the Great Achievements and Contributions Women did during WW1 and WW2 that are looked over and what was denied them.
Beau, Greetings from Ohio! My Husband and I started watching you a couple month ago. how wonderful it is to listen to a man who speaks with honesty and integrity. and most importantly Intelligence ! Thank you so much for your work, it means alot to us.
I wish we DID have a white history month where we actually discussed the history of whiteness in America and how it has been constructed and used to justify all sorts of horrific things.
Here's my question, would it be a white history month, or a deep dive into Europeans? I'm not dismissively asking. As I've gotten older, I realize that when we try to bury parts of history that are bad, we useful lessons and information along with it.
@@nicolelawrence7722 People don't seem to understand that the overwhelming majority of European history exists BEFORE colonialism and that most European countries were not colonizing countries.
Beau. I'm a recent watcher of your videos. Thank you so much for your well thought out and insightful thoughts. This video is definitely one of my favorites. The fact that a Black History Month bothers some bad faith actors is precisely why we still need it. There are those people who still seek to minimize the black people in America just because equality for all means oppression to them.
_"The fact that a Black History Month bothers some bad faith actors is precisely why we still need it."_ Very well said. I was just commenting something to that effect, but you put it more succinctly than I did.
@@nfboogaard yeah he may have The Gift of Gab but it's real gab it's true gab. You not boss made up bull that's one thing about Beau if it's fact you can look it up if it's opinion he'll tell you it's just a thought
Happy Irish-American heritage month to you, too, Beau. Thank you for today's lesson. I didn't know about a couple of those months (Jewish, Asian), and I'm delighted to learn they exist.
"so you can continue to play the victim while also pretending to be superior" need it on a t-shirt
The cognizant dissonance is amazing!
Superior Victim
@Cory Stewart : I was listening to that exact part of the video as I read your comment. lols
It's one of the founding principles of fascism, right? "We're the pinnacle of humanity, but because the left is trying to make everyone equal, yuck, they're pulling us from our rightful place. But one day, one day we're going to take it back, and boy won't they be sorry then!"
@dollcrazy300 *cognitive
Black history month will no longer be needed when Frederick Douglass and emancipation are actually frigging covered in "regular" history.
Real shit
Yes Bryan. Don’t know why it’s so hard to understand that...Thank you.
My sons, who are black, didn't get black history lessons at their predominantly black schools!! I was so pissed! But not next year. We are going to do something about that.
Disclaimer: I am Canadian. We are just a few years behind you in the collapse.
dude.....I had a co-worker come to me, and tell me about her experience in researching Frederick Douglas.
It threw me off because she claimed it was an unknown blackman who had great achievements. first thing popped in my head was robert smalls, but she had no idea who that was,.....when she said Frederick Douglas, I had to laugh.
I'm black, so to me frederick douglas is far from an unknown blackman,.....he's up there with malcom and martin.
It's a trip to see how much white America is ignorant of "American History"
Yes,...there really IS a difference between "Latino" and "Hispanic"! Thank you, Beau! 👏👏👏
I grew up being taught that they were different but that there was a lot of overlap, Latinos being people from latin America, and Hispanics being Spanish speakers. Is this true?
My discord mod would skin me alive if I got that wrong.
And apparently neither want to be referred to as " Latin X ".
@@heman5954 Use Latine instead. Makes actual sense in Spanish.
And Chicano/Chicana too. Very different cultures. They're all beautiful, but just like anything else, they are different. ✌️
Whenever I hear the inevitable "why is there no white history month?", I don't address it directly. I just talk about things I've done. "So last year, me and friends went to Vikingfest and it was freaking awesome. The weekend after, me and my dad went to the local Scottish Highland Games to compete and even won a few competitions. We're talking about getting a hotel to spend the weekend at a local Oktoberfest celebration.". The point I try to drive home is that every month is White Heritage Month and you have no business getting upset that other heritage months exist.
LOL. Nice tactic
don't forget that big ol' holiday season with its celebration of European Christian culture.
Fantastic reply! Good on you!
Is it just me or do all these events involve alcohol?
I'll bet that dialog goes right over their heads.
Just for laughs, what's the expression on their faces 🤣
as a black person my history started when my folks were dumped off the boat. it so sad for folks to question this when most non black people can trace back their history thousands of years. i hope these people would stop begrudging us for little history we have. thank you again for being honest, and i am glad i found your videos.
Glad you are here. The world needs your help too. ^-^
EXACTLY! Most black folks in the US had their history wiped away when their ancestors arrived on the ships. Their history traces only as far back to the founding of this country and BECAUSE of this country. As a young girl, I was shocked to learn of the time my aunt spent helping my uncle (a black man with roots traced to slavery) find his 'most likely' natural last name (my aunt didn't want to take the last name of his ancestors owner). I can trace my history all over the world and I find it fascinating. He can only trace his back to the ships......and a love of Africa in general. Black history mimp. in America is so very significant, above and beyond any other nationalities, imo.
Probably doesn't help, but it's not "most folks". My origins on my mother's side disappear at great-grandparent, her mom was found as a child. She knows that she has half-siblings, but was only ever able to track one down. Her adoptive parents couldn't tell you how their people came to America. A little thinking and you realize there are lots of "found by the roadside" Americans. Probably cold comfort, but knowing your lineage to antiquity is not a universal white superpower. A friend whose family fled Viet Nam during the war with chaos on their heels knows his ancestryback to when generations of his family served in someone's palace.
Screw it anyhow. Dogs with papers are inbred and stuck up.
The sad ironic fact is that Black people have contributed so much to the success of a Nation that for most of it's history barely acknowleged their existance...
Please understand not all of us come from slaveships many of our people where already here 93k +/- made that trip but majority was already here Dane Calloway (youtube) gives insight into these things but it's just to bring thought
It's amazing how trolls and haters ask stupid questions to sound smart but have no idea about facts or wth they're talking about. They say bs just to hate
@@speurtighearnamacterik8230 lmao 🤣
@@speurtighearnamacterik8230 🙄I didn't know you proniunce her name like a pop singer... Guess I've been wrong this whole time😂😂😂
@@brandontrammel4581 Lmao is how the French say "The Mao".
@@markhackett2302 lol so to early to judge
Mood swings happen. I feel bad for them. They're the ones tolerating supporting abuse while crying I'm victim! So sad.
It's insane that to this day I'm still learning about the struggles, massacres, and more stories untold from the history books that brings me sorrow to what has been done and is still going on in the black community. Black History is American history.
Totally agree. My wife has a BA in history and had never heard of the race riot in Tulsa in the summer of 1921 or Ocoee Florida massacre in November of 1920. That's why there's a Black History Month...
Of course it is, but schools make any history so deadly boring that it's beyond the realm of possibility for most people to learn anything from it. I've learned much more out of school. Maybe when we can all go out again, we could have programs in parks. I mean programs: pieces of drama for kids and families to come see. You know, the way war re-enactors do all the time.
@DiZzNasty Exactly! Black history is American history. That's an example of how it seems the south actually won the Civil War. They were allowed to rewrite American history and completely change the reality of slavery and what was done to African Americans and what continues to be done by systemic racism in our government and society. I'm 64 and have been watching videos of college lectures and going back to watch interviews and speeches I saw in the 70s like Muhammad Ali, JFK, Angela Davis, etc. In many ways, we were more open to listening and learning decades ago than we are now.
The actual historical events like black Wall Street and many other white riots and murders left out of most student's education and the purposeful changing of the cause of the Civil War and how slaves were treated is all a large part of why America can't get it together and deal with so many different problems that all find their roots in racism and slavery. I sure hope we can do better understanding that black Americans have been there for every part of American history and teaching our history should reflect that fact.
Yes, me too. These things were simply not taught. High time we all wake up, and teach our children of the horrors that founded and sustained our young nation...and the echoes that still linger today.
As a African American Citizen, I am proud to be off a culture who wants justice and not vengeance. We as a culture have contributed to the making of the greatest country.💜
Juneteenth is huge in Anchorage. Not everyone who lives there looks like Sarah Palin.
I didn’t know about Juneteenth until I was in Huston in the 80s, in my defense I grew up in the mountains of North Carolina in the 70s and only had 1 black person in my class for 3 years, it wasn’t exactly a priority for them.
Or thinks and talks like her I hope! I hear the term Juneteenth until a few years ago and didn’t know what it was until last year! And I’m in the DC area.
Hey Alaska! I heard u have a couple ofsmall villages with zero virus and really rough quarantine to keep it that way. Congrats
I live in Texas and never heard of Juneteenth until I was in prison in San Antonio at 23. Crazy that I still ask people and they had no idea what it is.
I've seen a disturbing number of propaganda ads featuring her lately. I guess we've finally reached the point where the Republican Party has gotten crazy enough that she's now considered "normal" for them.
Here we go again... I watch a video of yours that's so informative that I physically can't stop myself from sharing it on my social media... and then... bam! My "friends" abandon ship like cockroaches when you flip the light on. Dude, I'm virtually gonna die alone if you don't stop.
On a serious note, thank you for giving me useful things to think about while I'm stuck in this damn house.
They were never worthy of your friendship. Be happy that you found a way to rid yourself of cockroaches.
They were never your friends. Sorry... You will do better.
You're not gonna die alone, you're gonna spend your life hanging out with better people!!! Like us.
Beau. You sir, are a Gentleman, and a Scholar.
Bless you Good Sir.
The people who ask bad faith questions don’t really care.
As a black woman, I just want to say thank you for standing for us and speaking truth.
I think maybe we also need to get past using the terminology of "us" and "them".
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who know better.
"A person is a person no matter how small" plain and simple everyone is the same. Thank you Theodore Geisel (Dr. Suess)
@@NWPaul72 Nice work Paul
So do we have to ban Pink Floyd's song? Just a thought ...
@@NWPaul72 is that a double conundrum?😅😅
Thank you for waiting until after February. You knew the whole point was derailing and didn't participate in that. 👍
Native American Heritage Month is in November. Also happens to be the month for Veterans as well
There's a long, long list of heroic native american vets
@@davidellingson1959 and yet they're still silenced when defending the remnants of land and culture they have left 😔
It coincides with Thanksgiving so we can understand what the Sovereign Nations sacrificed when they saved the pilgrims from starvation.
Native American cultures are diverse and beautiful. I'm glad we're purging stereotyped images from sports teams and cars.
Thank you....our calendars should list these months...so we can all be enticed to learn more.
I@@claireduston5177 Air
When I was in grade school, my teacher was teaching history. When she talked about slavery, there's no history only she pointed to me. The only black kid in the class. I felt humiliation and hurt. I've been called the "N" word. Thank you for all that you do.
Oh my gosh...and I have to believe your teacher actually thought he was being sensitive & encouraging empathy. And that makes it worse in a way.
Sorry you had to go through that as a kid. I can't even imagine how that would feel.
One of my greatest wishes is that children be exposed to other cultures more often. It's clear from your story that being singled out as the "different" one was destructive for you, and I would guess for the other children there it was destructive in different ways as well. Where bigotry exists, everyone is harmed, especially the bigots themselves in a moral sense. I hope you find healing from such experiences. ^-^
I can't remember the details, but a class of children were asked "If Hitler was alive, how should he be punished?" It was the subject of an essay competition. The youngster who won the prize wrote one sentence. : "Put him in a black skin, and make him live in America."
WOW!!!! What a response!!! I want to meet that youngster and shake his/her hand!!!
They continue to ask things like "we well what about *insert other groups*" because as black people, we are not considered deserving or entitled to our own things, our own achievements, memorials, observances, or even our own humanity. I appreciate this channel because you observe all of those things and more, and when you make mistakes, you acknowledge it.
Beau is inspirational...and thanks for hanging in there with us white people who don't always deserve your grace and compassion.
You are a treasure sir! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤩 you are an exemplary researcher and educator whether you mean to be or not.
These questions remind me of the ignorant claims of how anti-discrimination laws somehow grant minority groups "special privileges", ignoring that these "special privileges" are the status quo for Majority groups.
Isn't that just the most bizarre thing? It especially kills me when whined about by xtians who hang out every week in giant tax-free auditoriums. Just... no.
Preach!
I always hated that as well, I would ask what special privileges, you mean the right to rent housing, the right to work, the right to equal protection under the law.
This reminds me of Joe' Morton's monologue in Dinner with American "You stab us and then put a knife in our hands and tell us it's our fault"
Charlie Chaplin has a wonderful monologue in The Great Dictator, if you haven't heard it.
Black History is American History. Always has been. Just never written correctly. Write our history to include black history. Separate but equal never works. Especially in our history.
Who are you telling to do this? Black people?
Are you talking to America, because America as a whole are the ones who "othered" us.
A good point, I think. When these topics aren't exclusively taught in February will be another step toward equality. Just as them being taught in February was a step forward from not at all.
Unfortunately, we still have to drag past generations kicking and screaming into the future.
@@sadievirtue1636 No Ma'am. That's my people. We need to start doing the right thing whether we like it or not.
As a great grandson of a black man who worked, and saved up enough money to buy the truck from the white man he worked for so that he could pick his own cotton and drive it to town to sell and then had 10 kids to help him and eventually bought up all land around his white boss, in the Jim Crow, Strom Thurmond part of Allen Co. South Carolina, went on to Pastor his own church and ended up having 700 acres in total, his and my great grandma's house being deemed a national historic site in SC and being given a plaque in the SC State Capitol building for their civil rights work for voting rights in the south. To only know of my families history 3 generations back, never learning of my great great grandparents lives or what happened to them because my family probably wasn't educated enough to keep and kind records of our families existence of living.... This is why Black History month is important to me.
Although I am proud to be an American, I also know the evil America has perpetrated on many black families that didn't fight like my Great Grandpa Richard Johnson did for his family. Who I know was given his last name and not by choice.
It matters to us. It matters to me.
Beu, you have the patience of a wiseman/saint for knowing how to time you videos correctly, specifically till AFTER Black History Month was over. There are some people who treat Whataboutism as a valid criticism of a good thing. I'm glad to see you. as usual have a good analysis of the subject
Yeah - whataboutism is a substitute for genuine critical thinking... either they can’t think or are too lazy to do so.
Well howdy there Beau, it's the Internet people again.
I wish people would stop JAQing off in public.
"I'm Just Asking Questions."
Ask Google the stupid questions, that way when your nsa agent judges you, at least other people won't.
@@jiralishu The House listens to some of the people some of the time.
The Senate listens to the rich people, when they're not listening to corporations.
The SCOTUS listens to the constitution, when it says what they want.
Only the NSA listens to everyone all the time.
:X
/Wave Hi there G-Man
Like that phrase very much - "JAQing" off. I will have to steal that term.😁
This slimeball move has defined the last decade of conservative media. "He said 'Obama born in Kenya?' not 'Obama born in Kenya.' Just asking questions."
Accurate, since it is basically also self fellating and should be embarrassing to do in public
The worst bad-faith argument I've seen on this subject came from my mother.
She cites a Morgan Freeman interview from like 2005 or thereabouts, where Freeman says that there being a black history month just widens the divide between blacks and whites. He doesn't want (or think he needs) a month to celebrate his heritage or the heritage of people with dark skin. Coming from Freeman, I can sort of understand this. But coming from my mother, with a "See? Even black people don't like this!" angle, is disgusting. For context, my mother is sixty, white, right-leaning, a Canadian citizen with a green card in America, married to a conservative white American.
My argument to her, or to anyone else using this rhetoric, is pretty simple: okay, if you don't need or want that month, then don't buy into it. Don't pay attention to it. Power to you. But clearly, others do find it useful/necessary/uplifting or whatever, so don't try and take it from them or diminish it. It's bad enough when a black person does it, but uncontionable when a white person does it. We white folks have been doing this, in some guise or other, for centuries, and we need to stop. Yesterday.
There was a lot more to it than him just saying he didn't want it though... She's quoting around the parts she doesn't want to hear. If there was proper history of all the people in the US taught, there would be less need. If there weren't such social inequalities felt between citizens, it wouldn't be needed. He does wish it would not be a thing that people feel is needed, because that would mean that there would be no more inequalities based on skin color.
Where was the force against Trump's protestors? Because there was plenty used against the BLM protestors.
Please tell your mom that Morgan Freeman is not the fucking King of Black People. We are individuals; not a monolith. So reading some stupid shit from 16 years ago does not represent what millions of us think and feel. 🙄
Distractions and whataboutisms: the admitted complete and utter failure of ones ability to debate and come up with even an invalid argument, let alone a valid one.
Well said!
That continues to be my understanding of people who always use bad language,even when they're not angry; limited vocabulary.
Brilliant, correct, and spot on!! Thank you
@@rhondamcmiller-diop2996 You're way off base on this one. It's fine to have a *personal* preference to not swear. And for sure, plenty of people of below average intelligence swear. But swearing, in and of itself, is not an indication of lack of intelligence or vocabulary. Maybe a lack of tact if used in certain situations, but nothing else. There are studies that find correlation between swearing and *increased* intelligence as well as an increased tolerance for pain. Do a search with "swearing and intelligence" and you'll see articles from at least 2017 through January this year confirming this.
Your bias is based on false assumptions. No big deal. We've all been there. Just have to be rigorous about rooting out the inaccuracies and intellectually honest enough to change them.
@@hulldragon intellectual honesty is _exeedingly_ rare on the internet - js..
Do these people think everyone is as ignorant as them?
Yup... They sure do.
Yes
No. They think their thinking is superior, and everyone who doesn’t think the same is stupid.
It is Dunning-Kruger in full effect.
No, they realise they don't have a case, hence all their "arguments" boiling down to whataboutisms meant to derail the conversation, and an obvious attempt at depict their opponents as being just as bad. During Black History Month, it's "butwhatabout other ethnic groups?!!".
Thanks, Beau, for giving me not just the counter-argument but the reasoning with which to respond to the bad-faith question.
Our history as taught in schools, omits (or at least did when I was in school) so much history of our country. These heritage months have taught me so much.
Those that are secure in themselves never, NEVER, need to punch down or in any other direction.
Idk, Beau punches up pretty well.
Those that are secure in themselves never, NEVER, need to punch up or in any other direction.
@@wirefortyseven8707 Scientists do not deal in absolutes, and neither do I.
@@bndllama9067
Wth???
Wire47 is spot on.
The only people who punch down are extremely unhappy with their own lives.
@@daisyelmir1289 Did you even read what they said? They said punch in any direction. I was not, even from the start, defending punching down. I was disagreeing with the notion that only insecure people throw punches, which is totally false. You're both wrong, the most secure human beings in the world punch up. Beau literally punches up, WTF?
Brilliant. Eloquent. Well played. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Keep up the great work!
Fantastic dressing down of those who ask YOU, of all people, hate filled "gotcha" questions! Well done, Sir! 💗
Will someone please shout AMEN to this one! No one cuts an issue open to the bone like Beau. Thanks.
*Beau walks on film*
So this guy wanting a response to his “loaded” questions...
He you go...
Anything else?
You rock Beau. Thank you for
Bringing the months to light.
If someone can’t understand why Black history is AMERICAN history, they need to go back to school.
Beau I really love to listen to you, you have a calm manner about you and you explain issues very well.
The idea of kicking down is pretty easy to understand imo. It's an easy, risk-free way to get a feeling of power even when you don't actually have that much.
Bullies tend to be very afraid. A person can be afraid without hurting others.
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Multiple studies show that the driving emotion of conservatism is fear.
Beautifully said. Thank you so much.
When we know better, we DO better... even when it’s about basic stuff.
right-wingers seem to do fine ignoring knowledge....
People know it’s wrong to hate and be racist, but; that doesn’t stop them.
@@DJDocsVideos I don’t think their “fine” if you look at them and get into their heads-they are feeling angry and empty...alone
@@pisces363 I think this is because they “keep doing what they know”...it’s easier for them... they won’t change until they can discover something better and get support. Of course many will die with their old beliefs, which is why it can take generations to see changes.
@@tomasgteskey They have to want to change and that’s too uncomfortable for them.
Thank you for that education, about other heritage months.
They try to take away because they don't want black history to be a thing that helps encourage or inspire them that they can reach goals and achievements that everyone else outside their skin tone can obtain because they want to keep them in the dark. They want it to be at the bottom as they've always intended.
You make people look in the mirror.
My man, you are the voice of true reason!
Thank you!
“...So you can continue to play the victim, while also pretending to be superior.” Excellent summation of modern conservatism.
You are BRILLIANT, BEAUTIFUL BROTHER. I LOVE and THANK YOU for YOUR AMAZING AUTHENTICITY 🎵🎶👍🏿👍🙏💚😇🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟💯‼
That's one of the best explanations I have heard on why there is a Black History Month and why it matter. Thanks Ally from Black Canadian neighbour.
Thank you Beau you are a true blessing may God continue to bless you
Why this man don't have at least 1M followers I'll never know. Brilliance every single time .
I am crying right now. Thank you Beau for this acknowledgment. So over due. We needed to have had this talk along long time ago. I am not even Africa/Black American, I was born African, my daughter is both of African/Black American and me African African residing in America. I am going back soon to mother Africa but I don't want my daughter staying behind and being racially profiled. The laws against black people here is ridiculous! and Unforgivable. And Beau when I am back in motherland, I would like to officially invite you & family to visit, safaris and all on me, my village will love you.
these are the same disingenuous questions that happen every June, when you hear "why is the a Gay Pride Parade, but no Straight Pride Parade"
There's nothing stopping them from starting a strait pride parade. Everyone knows why they don't though. They don't want to show people, including themselves what a straight pride parade would really look like.
A gay pride parade might be campy and indecent, but it's a celebration of sexualities outside the mainstream. I can't see a straight pride parade as being about anything besides hating and oppressing gays.
@@FuriouslySleepingIde They actually did try a straight pride parade in Boston, and it is what you would expect... a few hundred folks waving Trump flags, confronted by a substantially larger counter protest.
@@danielbrims1911 Which, to be fair, is a whole lot of free entertainment. I'm just not sure they're conscious enough to be as humiliated as they should be.
@@danielbrims1911 I don't know if that's better or worse. It's somewhat better as they couldn't even get behind the hate. It's worse, in that they somehow shifted from their sexuality to Donald Trump and didn't notice. I thought they could at least have landed on traditional marriage, Christianity, and the Bible.
SERIOUSLY!!!! Well said!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thanks Beau . Thank God for people who are not afraid to speak Truth and some of those people actually live in the USA . Thank you.
Brother Beau... Thank you so much. I genuinely mean that from the bottom of my heart. I wish others saw the world through your eyes. America would be a much better place. - Your Texas Family.. #WeAreStrongerTogether
This is MY 6th time 👀👀👀👀👀👀 watching this video, Now I'M all choked up 😢😢😢. The level of HUMANITY and EMPATHY Beau, you and ALL the INTERNET PEOPLE display is VERY HEART WARMING.🤗🤗🤗 THANKS EVERYONE, I TRULY APPRECIATE IT!!!
Man beau that ending hit differently than normal. It's just a thought. Be safe brother
I wish I could give you a million thumbs up myself. Thank you Beau for always speaking Truth.
👋🏼😄. Edit: Wonderful explanation for black history month. That makes sense. And I agree we need to address the inequality in our country before it gets worse.
Before it gets worse? Where have been?
Instead the right wishes to express the outrage over the result of the symptoms of this than face the work of the solution.Beside it is useful to them.
Beautiful day here, hope yours was great!
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i agree, Andréa
and hardly anyone better than Beau to lead the way
who do we petition to make that happen?
@@miaballester3978 I’m not implying that it hasn’t been bad. I’m merely saying before it gets worse. There is always a “worse” that can happen. Like if t***p has his way, and white supremacy has outward control of the country...
Thanks for sharing 👍🏽❤️!
That one’s been stewing for awhile. Kinda spicy.
I have come to accept you're not Polish, Beau, and yet I still love you. Not everyone can be Polish. A Polish History Month would make everybody far too sad. So I support Black History Month 100%
I was a history major, and it never ceases to amaze me how much history (non-Euro, non-white) I was never taught. In fact, most world history was actively kept from us! Howard Zinn began to open my eyes, and I've been trying to learn everything I missed ever since.
Bigot is as Bigot does.... Never Forget The "SOUTHERN STRATEGY "....Thank You Beau...
You continue to smack it out of the park, Beau. Always a pleasure.
This is one of your better videos, and that's saying a lot.
PREACH BEAU... EDUCATE THE DUMB, DUMBER & DUMBEST!!! Yes, it is BEYOND them... Just LEAD to alot of Bullsh*t...PERIOD... Beau, by far one of YOUR BEST VIDS, cuz I heard all the different emotions in your voice & I also see them in 👀 eyes. God Bless YOU, Beau for just being human...🤗🤗🤗👏👏👏👍👍👍👊👊👊
I'm of the mind that a month is rather inadequate for a people who, in essence, built this country.
Thank you
Thank you for this...it is important to us. It’s the one thing we hope they can’t /won’t take away...
Not as long as we have breath to speak, and feet to march in protest. We all are diminished by the lack of truth in the history books. 🤗
@@Andrea.1tree Damn straight!
Black Rose, we are working to get you SO much more. Not enough and long overdue, but we are standing with and for you.
I am from Scotland and i am very interested and watch US politics. I love to hear your take on things. You always seem so calm and clear and very sensible. Hats off to you sir... or what ever way of appreciation that is appropriate and agreeable.
GET AT EM BEAU! HAPPY IRISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH AND WOMENS HISTORY MONTH!💚💚💚💚🍀☘🚺♀️♀️♀️
Don't come for me unless I call you! get'em Beau! lmfao
Keep up the great work brother Beau !!
Thank You For Explaining that to those who need to hear this
Beau/Justin: you are such an honorable, plain-spoken, genuine and compassionate human; how do you live in this world?
Thank you! Thank you for saying what need to be said. I think about this every February. People have asked me this same question several times and I get upset with the lack of really wanting to know or understand from the people questioning me. Thanks for letting people know.
All of this!!! 👍🏾 Once again... Thank you, thank you!!! Well said...
i love it when Beau gets salty. Thanks for such a great lesson, here's hoping that the ones that need to hear it the most, do.
It's a shame that some people think the only way to build themselves up is by putting others down. The only way to get ahead is by dragging someone else back.
It's not a zero sum game. We can all have more.
I've always felt like I gain more by giving more, that helping raise people up makes both me and them stronger. It takes no effort to kick down, to drag others down. It's so easy that many young children do it before they know how to behave. And if your (royal you, not you specifically) emotional strength and quality is the same as an adult as the average 6 year old, it's probably time to seriously rethink your life.
The issue is that many people think the "Pie in the Sky" is of finite size.
That is not true it is infinite. The Pie can expand there is plenty for everyone.
Some people are just greedy.
"They care enough to know it exists" Got em! Good job, Beau.
This is why you are THE MAN!!!!👌🏾👍🏾🙏🏿
_The Man of Constant Reason._ ^-^
Preach on brother!
There's a book written by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson, called "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents". To read this book, you need to have your emotional chops together, and even that may not be enough. I'm going to share just one paragraph early on in the book for the benefit of those who have a problem with Black History month: "The institution of slavery was, for a quarter of a millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit of their owners, to be worked as long as the owners desired, who had no rights over their bodies or loved ones, who could be mortgaged, bred, won in a bet, given as wedding presents, bequeathed to heirs, sold away from spouses or children to cover an owner's debt or to spite a rival or to settle an estate. They were regularly whipped, raped, and branded, subjected to any whim or distemper of the people who owned them. Some were castrated or endured other tortures too grisly for these pages, tortures that the Geneva Conventions would have banned as war crimes had the conventions applied to people of African descent on this soil."
To the white men, whom I assume make up the overwhelming majority of the posers of these questions, and whom I also assume know virtually nothing about real American history, if you don't have the balls to read just this one book, PERMANENTLY SHUT THE HELL UP.
It's one hell of a book , I loved it. I'm Black and a white friend ( of 42 years) recommend it to me. Another reason he's a friend.
She must have cried every day researching that book.
@@fred5399 I'm really glad to hear that about your friend, and that he is your genuine friend.
@@claireduston5177 Yes. I can't imagine the emotional chops she has.
@@sharonmassey2923 In a very real sense he's like a brother from another mother. We met in an multi racial , multi faith organization in 1975. We worked together for a few years and became fast friends. My oldest son is named for him and rightly so.
Well played sir, well played!
As an African American I have learned more about Black history on Tik Tok than I ever did in public schools!!!! I like what Morgan Freeman said in an interview that it should not be a month. Yet if it were placed in public school curriculum less than have of what is taught now would be brought up. I'm in college and just learn of the Great Achievements and Contributions Women did during WW1 and WW2 that are looked over and what was denied them.
If more people thought like you brother the world would’ve BEEN a Better place RESPECT from a black man from ripley Mississippi ✊🏾
Well said 👏🏾!
Beau, Greetings from Ohio! My Husband and I started watching you a couple month ago. how wonderful it is to listen to a man who speaks with honesty and integrity. and most importantly Intelligence ! Thank you so much for your work, it means alot to us.
I wish we DID have a white history month where we actually discussed the history of whiteness in America and how it has been constructed and used to justify all sorts of horrific things.
Here's my question, would it be a white history month, or a deep dive into Europeans? I'm not dismissively asking. As I've gotten older, I realize that when we try to bury parts of history that are bad, we useful lessons and information along with it.
@@nicolelawrence7722 People don't seem to understand that the overwhelming majority of European history exists BEFORE colonialism and that most European countries were not colonizing countries.
Superior victims! Spend half of
A life time making life a living hell for others. Thanks Beau for Truth! Breath of fresh air!
You're fantastic!!!
Beau. I'm a recent watcher of your videos. Thank you so much for your well thought out and insightful thoughts. This video is definitely one of my favorites. The fact that a Black History Month bothers some bad faith actors is precisely why we still need it. There are those people who still seek to minimize the black people in America just because equality for all means oppression to them.
_"The fact that a Black History Month bothers some bad faith actors is precisely why we still need it."_
Very well said. I was just commenting something to that effect, but you put it more succinctly than I did.
Just take time for people to open their eyes
I like to think we will get there, but damn. We’re in the year 2021 and this shit is still going on? wtf.
Thank you Beau for breaking it down for those that don't GRASP!
November is native American month
Beau is 1/4 native American.
Thank you Beau for your honor and integrity. Keep on thinking and sharing please.
"I will never understand the idea of kicking down"
It's easier than punching up...
That's right. Cowards take the easy road regardless of consequence.
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Beau, you restore my hope and faith in humanity everyday. Thank you. 🙏💕
BEAU, you have the Luck o' the Irishmen...
And the Gift of the Gab, I'd say 😁
@@nfboogaard yeah he may have The Gift of Gab but it's real gab it's true gab. You not boss made up bull that's one thing about Beau if it's fact you can look it up if it's opinion he'll tell you it's just a thought
Given their history, are Irish people really that lucky?
THIS is why I watch your channel, Beau. 🏴 Happy Late St David's Day.
Happy Irish-American heritage month to you, too, Beau. Thank you for today's lesson. I didn't know about a couple of those months (Jewish, Asian), and I'm delighted to learn they exist.
You made me feel humbled thank you for your thoughts. As a black man thank you for your understanding of the world we live in. Peace ☮️
Thank you, for saying BLACK AMERICANS not african Americans... Language Matters...
@Arshell D. El YES!!! We are EUROPEAN-AMERICANS!!!!!!
Give them HELL Beau!! From Retired Mustang Sailor.