Presidential historian and frequent MSNBC and CNN talking head Douglas Brinkley joined former CBS and NBC anchor Katie Couric on her Thursday on her YouTube channel. According to Brinkley, President Trump’s Smithsonian Institute plans are some sort of Russian or Chinese-inspired attempt to rewrite history and bring back the era of “segregation of some kind.” Meanwhile, Couric unwittingly proved Trump’s point by suggesting that institutionalized racism today is as bad as it was in the days of slavery and Jim Crow.
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Later, Brinkley added, “Why constantly be, you know, mocking, belittling Black America? And it's because, you know, he wants to empower this sense of the white fantasy narrative of history.”
He also continued to suggest that The Smithsonian will now not talk about slavery at all:
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