Chelsea Handler kicked off her week as temp host of The Day by day Present by declaring “That is the place I get to spend a week speaking shit about all of the whack jobs and sizzling messes out there.” Clearly not “all,” as a result of later throughout an interview with Sen. Raphael Warnock, she puzzled “how damaging” it’s that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has banned Important Race Idea.

Thirty minutes after bragging about how she is going to spend the entire week “speaking shit,” Handler lamented to Warnock “the state of politics and the divisiveness of, you already know, the place we’re proper now on this nation.”

She then requested, “I imply, are you hopeful about voting rights? I do know that’s one thing you might be working arduous for, and that you just’re additionally with police brutality, that you just guys had a caucus with the president. How do you see this stuff taking part in out on this time?”

Warnock, who was on to advertise his kids’s e book, replied by declaring, “I used to be disenchanted that we did not get voting rights completed final Congress. However I’m not about to cease combating. The final time we handed voting rights on this nation, it handed beneath a Republican president, it handed the Senate, I assume, 96-0.”

After all, the invoice Democrats needed to go was one thing fully totally different, however Handler was not there to fact-check. As an alternative she transitioned to a brand new subject, “And talking on the topic of books, we now have a, you already know, a governor in Florida, who’s attempting to ban books and attempting to ban Important Race Idea, and let’s simply discuss for a second about how damaging that is for little kids rising up on this nation.”

For his half, Warnock continued the dangerous religion effort of insisting that DeSantis has banned actual historical past, “Oh, I believe it’s fairly unlucky. And we now have to reject the thought that our kids might be so traumatized by the reality of our sophisticated American story that they can not bear it. And all of us should push again towards this concept that schooling is the enemy. All of us, pink, yellow, brown, black, and white. Black historical past is the American story.”

Warnock would go on to say that the story of America contains the truth that his father was compelled to surrender his seat on a bus whilst he wore his Military uniform due to his pores and skin shade, but in addition that he himself has a seat within the Senate. 

That may be a model of historical past that DeSantis or any Republican wouldn’t object to, what they might object to is portraying the Senate as an irredeemably racist establishment that was created to perpetuate racism and slavery, however admitting that may reduce the demand for Warnock’s e book.

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Here’s a transcript of the February 6 present:

Comedy Central The Day by day Present

2/7/2023

11:00 PM ET

CHELSEA HANDLER: Oh, howdy, everyone. Welcome to The Day by day Present, I am Chelsea Handler! That is the place I get to spend a week speaking shit about all of the whack jobs and sizzling messes out there, however I do it sitting behind a desk, as a result of I am a skilled.

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11:30

HANDLER: And contemplating the state of politics and the divisiveness of, you already know, the place we’re proper now on this nation, I imply, are you hopeful about voting rights? I do know that’s one thing you might be working arduous for, and that you just’re additionally with police brutality, that you just guys had a caucus with the president. How do you see this stuff taking part in out on this time? 

RAPHAEL WARNOCK: Look, change is sluggish. It is troublesome. It is available in matches and begins, however we now have to maintain working at it. So I am not about to lose hope. I imply, if the preacher loses hope, then, you already know, we’re in a harmful place. So I am not about to lose hope. And I used to be disenchanted that we did not get voting rights completed final Congress. However I’m not about to cease combating. The final time we handed voting rights on this nation, it handed beneath a Republican president, it handed the Senate, I assume, 96-0. 

A few of these of us are nonetheless in the Congress, and democracy for me isn’t just one situation alongside different points. It’s the framework during which we get to combat for all the pieces we care about. Local weather change. The problems round police brutality. Giving folks entry, inexpensive well being care. All of this stuff are fought for inside the framework of our democracy and so I will maintain combating till we get voting rights completed. 

HANDLER: And talking on the topic of books, we now have a, you already know, a governor in Florida, who’s attempting to ban books and attempting to ban Important Race Idea, and let’s simply discuss for a second about how damaging that is for little kids rising up on this nation. 

WARNOCK: Oh, I believe it’s fairly unlucky. And we now have to reject the thought that our kids might be so traumatized by the reality of our sophisticated American story that they can not bear it. And all of us should push again towards this concept that schooling is the enemy. All of us, pink, yellow, brown, black, and white. Black historical past is the American story. And that’s the reason I wrote this e book. 

I take care of the problem of race in this e book, so I do not know if my e book might be banned or not. However I will let you know, as a dad, I was attempting to determine find out how to discuss to my youngsters about what I know they may encounter. And I believe I take care of it in a means that honors the legacy of my dad, who, as I speak about within the e book, was a– he served within the Military through the World Battle II-era. All stateside. And someday, he was requested to surrender his seat on a public bus whereas sporting his soldier’s uniform. For some, the pores and skin he was sporting was extra vital than the uniform he was sporting, and so he had to surrender his seat. That is part of the American story. However here is the opposite a part of the American story. My dad had to surrender his bus seat. Now I’ve a seat within the United States Senate.