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It is a Good thing, to be able too, express ourselves without using perfanity!!! The closer people get acquainted with God, the Better life becomes!!!!!!!!
How can you respect a man who, when asked what do "we" do as a people, says .... "The question is, what do white people do?" I legit am NOT interested in anything else this dude has to say. Another con artist using BLACK PAIN for personal gain. Hard stop!
I'm the Only Biomedical Biochemical Researcher and Developer who formulated HydroxyChloroquine Sulfate into a pMDI/ a and Nasal spray against SARs CoVid19 Pandemic in June 2020...and as a Joke labeled it "Trump Juice "and yes I'm Black..it was silenced..
I desperately want to remember every piece of this panel. The perspective, the choice of words, changes everything. Michael reminds us of where we have been, our resilience to get to where we are, and who we have become. We know who we will become. I’m eagerly awaiting this book.
Sometimes I feel the connection from Africa is so strong, I can feel the connection get stronger when learning about the billions of variety of nationalities.
The only reason our History is not known is one White man doesn't know and two of what historian, PhD. John H.Clark, the hay of kingdoms of Africa would be way before the Roman Empire, even way before Egypt. It makes sense when the continent of Africa is the beginning of man.
John Henry is the person I remember the most talked about African American for his building of the railroad track. Till this day, I can't believe that John Henry wasn't a real person.
This brother is obviously choosing to "know" that fallacy and that's perfect for him. It's important to teach the children and those that resonate with our GOLDEN LAGACY . I have come to realize that to know the truth is to live it, rather than convince or defend.
You all to soon overlook the fact that we the terrible white people were also slaves at one time,taken from our ancestral homes. The difference between the american brand of african and anglo saxon peoples is the is the fact that we put aside our primitivr tribalism and chose to move on and evolve and exspand the borders of our confinement beyond a group of small islands. We choose not to remain th victims of our cultural effeseration and enslavements but decided to conquer rather than be conquered again and again. We did that by joining as one and establishing magna carta,rules of law and structure of government and civility and expansion. So do not tell us we dont know history,we made and wrote history. Africans choose to remain seperated,divided and tribal amoung thenlmselves. Just like the native american they choose to remain in primitive tribalism with out knowing or take astute observation of the whole over all big picture of the progressing world . Indigenous peoples lack of ability to bind together as one was the downfall and demise of their countries and continent's. It is to my observation with the statistics of black on black crime and killings of one another and the demise of the black family with out fathers in the home and the adoration of your hip hop culture ,you are your own worst enemy enslaving yourselves in your self made bondage to your self
Reagan named Colin Powell the first African-American National Security Advisor!!! Also black unemployment during the Reagan Era was lower than white unemployment!! Doesn’t sound like slavery to me!
Most of the people in Jamaica and the Bahamas were slaves to British loyalists in America and were slaves to those loyalists until 1834…. Also plenty of African-American fought for the US in the American Revolution and were awarded their freedom….. Prince Estabrook and Prince Whipple are some examples…..
He has some interesting things. He typically forgot about Norsemen sailing and living in North America 986 AD. So 506 years before Columbus and 326 years before the Mailians did. I would like to know his sources? I can tell amazing stories about amazing achievements etc. But if I would sell it as non-fiction people would like to know where I got the knowledge. Anyways I just listened for 10 minutes so I’ll continue…
So he doesn’t tell us his sources. Except that he worked with a historian and read her book. There’s a lot he already knew even though he had a “white” education. It’s vaguely at best but I guess that historian’s book is something. (Now it makes sense he doesn’t know about the Norsemen coming to America) I love the idea of showing how black people read and learn white-history. I’ve read a little on the internet and as a white man it immediately triggered me. So very well done sir! A part of me doesn’t like the whole black power vibe going on around this book. It might and will hold a lot of white people from reading this. Sadly that’s the USA nowadays. Used to be the white bully bullying the black kid. Now it’s black bully vs white bully instead of treating each other like equals.
It’s sad and counterproductive to say “white people could not stop us”, “they cannot stop us.” What he’s saying there is that non of the white people wanted equality. Which just isn’t true, part of “white people could not stop us” is because lots of white people didn’t agree with the made up rules either. If you want hatred to form then yes. Continue like that… I can see through it but it’s just dumb to say it like that. If you really want what’s best for everybody choose your word more carefully.
Black" as a people, like "White," are part of an American caste hierarchy perpetuated by the fallacy of "race." People with their respective cultural mythologies. Strongly believed in by "blacked" people as well as "the whites." Mostly to the detriment of the former. Whites getting believed into this thing called "White Supremacy." Blacks believing there Is such a thing as WS, and struggling to come to terms with it, from a condition of its ideological opposite, "Black Inferiority." "Black" as a people is a self-perpetuating racialized identity. Part of a more nefarious myth made real. Some people are Black, and some are Black AF.
Just happened upon this and am grateful for this accomplished work. But I think the elephant in the room that some of the group's questions stemmed from in regards to 'what do we do from here' is quite clear. But unfortunately, as evidenced by the shade thrown by the moderator (not the author to be clear) re lineage, that we have never truly had or enjoyed as a people in this country is political capital at a federal level.
Why do you black people live in the past? You don't want to get past the "slave" days. You want to constantly play the victim. You have every right today to live a good life. You can work, hold public office, vote, have health care, go where you want, get an education. But you want to live and act like it's still the 1800's. You're wasting today by dwelling on yesterday. You are your own worst enemy.
Generational Trauma. It's the remnants of a culture lost. Trying to piece together their past....I get it.... it's a form of healing, it has to be done....I recently found out about a town - Mound Bayou. We are truly God's children.
Enjoyed this conversation! Only one thing though...is "The Book" the title of the book? Not one mention of the title during the entire conversation. Any reasoning behind that?
"Some of the American whites, moreover, are just as far behind in this respect as are the Negroes who have had less opportunity to learn better." - Carter G. Woodson
Stop teaching the children that all melanated people came here on ships long ago. You are now a weapon in your own home, 98% are in fact The American Indian and any other misnomer or classification such as Black and African American erased you from your Ancestral identity. All by design paper genocide. Before Walter Plecker you were all INDIAN. And this should have been the forefront of this conversation if you aren’t telling the truth you are causing harm. People do your genealogy it’s that simple. The ridiculousness of millions of people coming here on a boat is pure ignorance.
When spice traders were in Africa, they noticed that the native people had slaves to do their work. The slaves were people who were raided from neighboring tribes during altercations and wars. The spice traders were offered slaves by the tribe they were working with. So black colored people were slave owners before America was even a place. Slaves have been "a thing" since humans started. If we can pawn the difficult stuff onto someone or something else, we frequently do it. Every culture in history has had slaves at some time. In early America, black plantation owners had black slaves. So add to that , no person either black or white has owned or been a slave in quite a few generations. None of us personally know any slaves or slave owners, no one around today is a slave. Why is this pounced on as excuse for seeing ourselves as victims of "The Man". I am not a victim, I am not less than anyone, I stand on my own merit and don't rake the past looking for excuses to fail. I think most of the problem in our culture come from having so many 1 parent (or 0 parent!) homes without fathers. Poor parenting is our number one problem. We create little monsters who believe being violent and riotous will resolve our problems. We need to be much better parents to truly honor our children and make sure they become effective grown people.
I agree with Michael Harriot when he says, We (as Black people) have done all that we need to do." And I would add, "...up to this point." An additional addendum to the aforementioned is that, "If white people have mastered the art of thwarting all potential new achievements of Black people, then is it not incumbent upon Blacks to develop mechanisms to disrupt and/or eliminate White thwarting? And might an initial mechanism against White thwarting be to NOT ANNOUNCE EVERY GOD DAMN THING THAT WE PLAN TO DO! Could it be that Black people talk WAY too God Damn much at very critical moments?
