Kelsey Grammer warns of chilling danger facing Americans who forget nation's founding history

Actor Kelsey Grammer issued a informing astir nan state of American education, arguing that citizens who neglect to study nan nation's founding history consequence being manipulated.

Speaking connected "Planet Tyrus" Tuesday, Grammer called for an overhaul of nan nation's acquisition strategy while pushing backmost against critics who disregard nan Founding Fathers arsenic "old White guys successful wigs."

"If you don't cognize wherever you travel from, you don't cognize who you are. If you don't cognize who you are, you tin beryllium controlled," Grammer warned.

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Kelsey Grammer speaks onstage during a screening of "Frasier" Season 2 astatine Quad Cinema connected Sept. 16, 2024, successful New York City. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Paramount+)

"There's a full bunch of things that conscionable person sewage to extremity pinch our acquisition system, and we sewage to retool it. There's nary question," he said.

Grammer precocious starred successful nan film, "Young Washington," which follows nan Founding Father earlier he became nan nation's first president. Grammer besides hosted nan six-episode Fox Nation series "The Patriot War," narrating cardinal points successful nan American Revolution up of nan nation's 250th anniversary.

The erstwhile "Frasier" and "Cheers" character said America's past serves arsenic a blueprint for its early — 1 he believes galore young group are dismissing.

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"Yeah, I'm beautiful tired of nan aged White feline successful [a] wig thing," Grammer told Tyrus. "I mean Thomas Jefferson was 33 erstwhile he wrote what is arguably nan astir important governmental archive successful nan history of man," he said.

Kelsey Grammer portrays George Washington successful nan 2003 humanities play "Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor." (Entertainment Pictures)

Grammer emphasized that nan American Revolution was fought connected extremist ideas alternatively than personality and called for a stronger push to thatch early American history.

"It ne'er had thing to do pinch nan measurement you looked," Grammer said. "It had everything to do pinch nan measurement you thought and nan measurement you dreamed, and that's each America."

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He based on nan Founding Fathers did not declare America would beryllium cleanable but envisioned an evolving quest for better.

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"The onshore of nan possible. Yeah, absolutely. It's ever [going to] autumn a small short, but that's conscionable it. It's nan world of becoming. We're becoming a much cleanable union, always, alternatively than we conscionable are one," Grammer said.

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Grammer said that astir of nan 56 group who signed nan Declaration of Independence "ended successful ruin" by sacrificing everything for nan nation. He added, "Some of their children were murdered, immoderate of their wives were raped," and said their tone of resilience successful difficult times remains today.

"They paid nan eventual sacrifice, nan eventual one. And they would astir apt do it again. And I deliberation that benignant of characteristic is what still is successful astir of us. I judge successful America that way," Grammer said.