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Doc Rivers: “If you don't study history, you repeat it.”

Featuring: Doc Rivers, Head Coach, Milwaukee Bucks | National

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Nicolle Wallace and Doc Rivers Discuss Politics, Sports, and Social Change

Published | Video Starts at 40:25

It's ridiculous. But you look at efforts to erase history, and that seems scary. Like, we've learned If you don't study history, you repeat it. I mean, that's been told to us since we were kids. The two things, though, that came out that I would say with the sterling or one thing for sure is what I learned for the first time is people were judging us. (40:25–40:28)

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Asserts that failing to learn history leads to repeating past mistakes.

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