CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NPR’s Michele Norris teamed up on the Monday edition of The Late Show to lament, in Colbert’s word’s, the “resistance to diversity programs” and falsely accuse that opposition of not wanting to teach history in schools.
Colbert declared that we are in “a time when there’s a lot of resistance to diversity programs and that’s turned into a bit of a political cudgel and there’s also a resistance to teaching in our schools, American history and American racial history.”
There is not. There’s resistance to teaching politicized and inaccurate far-left narratives pretending to be honest racial history, but Norris tried to explain it as an attempt to not confront the past, “Well, on the teaching of history, I think they get wrong the idea that we can outrun our history. I don’t think we can. I don’t…
