Take a look at this amazing clip of Louis C.K. from The Tonight Show. Louis gives some great insight - as always - into American history, the legacy of slavery, and our present-day social issues.
My absolute favorite thing about this? The fact that he corrects people's misconception of history and utter lack of time frame. It drives me crazy to hear discussions of modern history as if it were ancient Egypt. This doesn't just apply to slavery and its ugly legacy. No no. Relatively few people truly understand and appreciate that the world of fast cars, telecommunications, and modern medicine in which we now live only came into existence within one human lifetime. One human lifetime before that and - well, Louis said it. You're back at the end of slavery. Need some more perspective? This was the United States and the world only 50 years ago. And for those of you who are young like me, that was only 20ish years before we were born. I guess what I'm saying is this was recent.
The other great thing? The fact that a fellow white guy said it - and without an agenda or a nauseatingly predictable admission of prefabricated guilt. He just laid the truth out there - albeit with a few laughs - and let the public deal with it. Hopefully it will do a little something to bring people closer together and closer to the truth. And thank you Louis for making this white guy feel not so all alone in his view of the world.
Thanks to Deepa Kunapuli at UPWORTHY for finding the Louis C.K. clip.
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