John Oliver: Examines Why Is U.S. "History" Varied So Wildly From State to State.

John Oliver embraced the troublesome undertaking of consolidating a very long time of American prejudice into a 28-minute fragment on Last Week Tonight this week.

"George Floyd's homicide has constrained a hard national discussion about this current country's present, which is difficult to do viably without re-evaluating its past," he said at the head of the section. Luckily, Americans are shown precise and nuanced bookkeeping of our nation's history, similar to that slaves had "an extraordinary skip" after their lords tossed them a cookout or that a few slaves were "acceptable labourers" while others were "sluggish and rebellious." Wait, what?! 

Since the U.S. has no national guidelines for social investigations, the adaptation of history that understudies are educated is to a great extent surrendered over to singular state orders. Furthermore, as indicated by a CBS article referred to by Oliver, "seven states don't legitimately make reference to subjugation in their state guidelines, just two notice racial oppression, while 16 rundown states' privileges as a reason for the Civil War."  compensate for the humiliating holes in many Americans' information on our own nation's past. 

To do that, Oliver features three regular mix-ups in showing American history. 

First is our refusal to completely recognize the historical backdrop of racial oppression in America. Second is the relentless and erroneous surrounding of American advancement "as though it was continually and definitely upward," which permits the vast majority to figure they would have upheld the Underground Railroad while at the same time disliking current common rebellion. At long last, Oliver brings up our powerlessness to come to an obvious conclusion from the past to our presence since it as far as anyone knows politicizes history. 

The Last Week Tonight has completely recognized that history must be instructed during a time suitable way, which means third-graders presumably shouldn't hear Lee Atwater's 1981 discourse on the Southern Strategy. However, that doesn't mean overlooking the terrible bits, either. As Oliver says, "Overlooking the history you don't care for is certainly not a harmless demonstration."