The Real History of Civil Rights Part 1: A New Constitution

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**Matt Walsh** (0:48)
If you ask American teenagers basic questions about American history, you'll quickly discover that they don't know much about it. One Gallup poll found that most American teens are unaware that Columbus arrived in 1492, or the two-thirds don't know that states' rights were an issue in the Civil War, and three-quarters are unaware that the United States gained independence in 1776 More interesting is what they do know. In May 2008, two college professors gave 2,000 American high school juniors and seniors a simple prompt. Starting from Columbus to the present day, jot down the names of the most famous Americans in history. The only ground rule is that they cannot be presidents. The top three answers were all black. Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and, in first place, of course, Martin Luther King Jr, who was named by two-thirds of the students. Benjamin Franklin, by comparison, was named by just 29 percent. Thomas Edison made the top ten but was outranked by Oprah Winfrey. A similar survey of college students between 1975 and 1988 had radically different answers. Their top choices, Betsy Ross and Paul Revere, didn't even make the top ten by the mid-2000s. This is because sometime between 1988 and 1995, things radically changed. National heroes like George Washington and Ben Franklin were replaced with a new class of central figures in American history. As the authors of the study put it by the mid-1990s, African Americans and women had moved to the center of American history. Ask any American who went to public schools between 1995 and today. They'll tell you the central feature of their social studies classes, as history became known, were the histories of slavery and the civil rights movement. You'll likely remember watching videos like this one in school.
We wanted to show you a clip of Martin Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream speech there, but it turns out we couldn't. That's because King's family owns the audio from the speech, and they wouldn't let us use it. You might think that's weird. This is America. Surely you can use a short soundbite of an extremely famous speech in an educational video. In most cases, you'd be right, but according to our lawyers, we can. In fact, we can't show quotes or read on air any portions of speeches owned by King's estate. It turns out his family has done all sorts of things to stop people like us, including, amazingly, releasing the speech as an album, so they could secure special music rights.
They published his life's work as a book to secure additional rights and recently blocked OpenAI from allowing users to recreate King's likeness. These gimmicks gave them total control over how King is portrayed in media today. Why would they rig our legal system like that? Well, money is one reason. When CBS broadcast portions of the I Have a Dream speech on air, the family sued and the company settled. King's family has made a lot of money suing media outlets. But another reason is that they want to silence critics like us. They need to protect his legacy and keep making money off it.
What they're doing makes it very difficult to honestly re-evaluate Martin Luther King Jr. And you're about to see why they don't want people to do that. It turns out, the King you've heard of is a carefully curated creation. His estate's efforts perfectly illustrate what the civil rights movement has become. And as we'll show in this episode, what it always was, a gigantic lie. Over the course of this video, we are going to judge Martin Luther King Jr. not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. What you will see will shock you. Some of it isn't suitable for young children. We'll also confront the movement that he spearheaded. Were his true aims a colorblind society or something far more radical? Who bankrolled him? What did other civil rights leaders think of him? What unfolded behind the scenes in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963?