Political commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza blasted liberal activists and politicians for giving the U.S. “their own sanitized narrative of the whole civil rights movement” while demonizing African-American conservatives during an interview Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”

D’Souza, who released the documentary “Hillary’s America,” added his voice to the fray left in the wake of President-Elect Donald Trump’s feud with civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) Lewis made waves over the weekend when he told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that he didn’t view Trump as a “legitimate” president. Noting that liberals look for any opportunity to portray their opponents as “racists,” D’Souza lambasted black Democrats, especially for their willingness to selectively edit out key facts when telling the civil rights movement’s story.

“Don’t sanitize history and rely on people to be gullible to go along with your fairy tales.”

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“What’s going on here is the attempt to enforce a liberal narrative, and the liberal narrative is that Republicans and conservatives need to feel guilty, repentant, and subservient because of what racist Democrats did in the 1960s,” D’Souza told LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham.

“Remember, John Lewis was not beaten up by Republicans. He was beaten up by Bull Connor, the Southern sheriff who was a Democrat,” D’Souza continued. “The whole Southern Establishment … all these guys were racist Democrats. And yet in a beautiful sleight of hand, the progressives are trying to transfer the blame away from their own party and onto the Republican Party.”

Both Ingraham and D’Souza noted that black liberals often are too keen to reject and demonize their conservative counterparts simply because they do not subscribe and conform to their “monolithic” narrative. Conservatives such as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Allen West, and more are often prime targets for antagonism because of their conservatism.

“The broader thing here, Laura, is that the Left has given us their own sanitized narrative of the whole civil rights movement,” D’Souza said. “Don’t sanitize history and rely on people to be gullible to go along with your fairytales.”

D’Souza said it is such a shame that as the country’s historic first black president, Barack Obama, missed his chance to promote and cement racial harmony. After eight years of an Obama administration, D’Souza lamented how polarizing race relations have become.

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“And so, this whole notion that he’s been some sort of a transcendent president … it doesn’t bear any resemblance to reality, as the election result confirms,” D’Souza said. “What a missed opportunity. You know, for Obama to improve race relations in the past two terms, he would have had to do just nothing. Even if he had essentially not addressed the issue, the very symbolism of his presidency would have improved things. So, it took an active aggression on the part of Obama to be the kind of divisive figure that he has been.”

“So no, race relations are clearly worse,” D’Souza added. “We would not have had all this Black Lives Matter, all of these confrontations and the urban violence. All of this has been not only under Obama, but instilled by Obama.”