African American History and the Culture Wars with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr - S2 Ep 3 

Informative, inspiring , and helpful. I am a Jew( yes, Hebrew school can be improved but the idea of learning history and improving children’s sense of self is admirable.). I identify with the pain and joy of your history and mine. You extend my vision and deepen my understanding of the connections of culture to include all of us. I will look for many of the authors you cite, including Jung. I feel the truth of interconnection. Thank you for giving me hope that we can learn that we are each unique and we are all one.

Great points about the diversity of Blackness throughout the world. Love your own story!!!

You're nailing it!

BLACK AMERICANS ARE THE CULTURE. 1 💪🏾

This is magnificent! Thanks everyone for this important podcast.

I’m sincerely grateful that I found your channel and this particular episode. I’m a huge fan of Dr. Gate’s work over the years and cannot wait to watch this interview. I’m quite busy at the moment so I bookmarked this show and I’l watch later. Blessings! 🙏🏾

Harlem On My Mind, foreword By Henry Louis Gates Jr. “A Remarkable Work” - President Bill Clinton.😊😊😊

Thanks for this interview and truthful history🇺🇲🗽

An Outstanding Presentation!

My ancestry is very diverse and interesting. I did my DNA recently and my genetic makeup is African, Scotish, Irish, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, and Norway as well as Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Congo, Mali, and Benin. Our family lived in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Mississippi, Southeastern Louisiana, Orleans, Terrebonne, Houma, Opelousas, Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena Parishes. I found 2 great grandfathers on the Freedman's Cherokee and Choctaw tribes of Dawes Roll. Surnames are Sturgis, Campbell, Calvin, McGraw, Youngblood, Taylor, Noffley, and Banks.

Gates says at 54:48 that we have to tell the truth, and talk about the necessity of taking responsibility for our own actions. He added - everyone knows the causes of poverty are structural and behavioral. There! - he said it! Now what will be the response from all in this social and social media especially, network of people speaking on the situation and condition of Black-Americans? He titled this video aptly by referencing it with the term 'culture war'. There is a distinct ideological, not just divide, but fracturing that has been ongoing among us for decades now - a half century at least, it seems to me. I don't recall Gates using the term woke, if he even talked much about this particular aspect of the waring among us. As a layperson - I'm no scholar or even college educated, but I'd like to present may thoughts, which I think are valid and constructive and generated over my lifetime, to this much needed conversation, that it seems we have been avoiding. I have been charging intellectual dishonesty at none other than Michael Eric Dyson, and anyone else, who like him, has for many years been charging any Black person, who speaks critically of anything some of us do, that is obviously counter-productive, to their individual growth, development, and well doing, and our communities as well, with practicing" respectability politics', and/or seeing ourselves through the "White gaze". They inexplicably say that Black on Black crime is not a thing, because (in so many words) people kill people they live near. They talk of proximity, and their argument basically says that it is the main consideration in crimes of violence Black commit on/against each other. They often add - "no other people talk about them killing one another". Them saying all this basically means to them 'well the s-word happens' - what can you do?'. Proximity is a major consideration if not thee main consideration, but is not the proximity they speak of. The physical closeness of the victim and perpetrator is not the proximity that matters most in this situation. It is the closeness of the relationship between the two. This they inexplicably don't consider. The familiar relationship between the two makes it an even greater wrong/harm, especially in serious crimes like homicides, as this is why the words suicide, fratricide and incest exist as words, that specify crimes. All people see them as greater wrongs/harms. The other major consideration is that we of all people can afford to add to our already bad condition and position in society. Need I mention they don't consider that it is not a rate that is comparable with other groups, but one much higher? I have posted this argument countless time, and have sometimes asked - rescue me if I'm wrong, to borrow a phrase I heard from Maulana Karenga. Show me the error of my ways? I have yet to hear anyone do that. Most times they get no comments at all. Sometimes a like. I have never heard these arguments repeated. If they exist, it may conform the idea that we are dysfunctional as a group. Why do the most non-sensical things spread like weeds, but questions and comments fundamentally pertinent to the issues we discuss, not get picked up, and debated? How can we ever solve the significant problems we have? Why are people allowed to talk publicly as if they represent all or most of us, and say things that most of us obviously don't agree with, and there is no outcry about it, from us? How can some of us talk the way they do about reparations, as if they know what it will do for us? How can they say it would mean a transfer of wealth, since the vast majority of the wealth, is in the hands of a very small percent of the population? None of us can insure that all of us will even make the most of what reparation might offer. It is likely that those who are not taking advantage of the opportunities that already exist, will likely not with reparations either. So what happens if much of the problems still exist? How is going to police all of us, into doing the right things? Are our communities overpoliced party because we ourselves under-police them? Gates is correct, we must first deal with the internal causes of our problems. This makes logical sense, because we have significant control over what we do or don't do, but have little to none over the external causes, which it seems, most believe are racism in all its forms, otherwise commonly referred to as "racism White supremacy'. It is more than ironic that the two individuals who introduced these concept/notion also advocated that we must respond to it, in kind in a systemic and structured manner. Mr. Neeley Fuller Jr. and the late Dr. Francis Cress Welshing advocated we use Mr. Fuller's idea of what he calls his 'The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept'. The basic idea is that we must compensate for our unique disadvantaged situation. It basically spells out basic common sense practices, we must adhere to. It is basically no different than the the attitude expressed in the old adage that use to be common among us, that we had to be twice as good to get ahead. It basically extended that reasoning and said among other things that - if we want a better chance of a comfortable and peaceful life, we must be twice as good to ourselves and each other. This was also the attitude among many of us. The Black Baptist Church Women Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham wrote about in her book 'Righteous Discontent....' . Black Nationalist/Separatists Like Marcus Garvey's movement/organization and the NOI, had/had the same attitude of self-respect and self-reliance/personal initiative. For all the talk of CRT critical thinking about race relations, especially, is more needed. I wonder if there is a connection between Fuller and Welsing and the original CRT? Was Fuller influenced by the prior schools of 'Critical Theory', that CRT came out of? When exactly did this shift first start and become more common among intellectuals and activists, that to expect the basic of personal responsibilities from us, is seen as blaming the victim? This is how I see woke-ism. The attitude that all our problems are external and none internal, is insane. Those who express this attitude were not allowed to have it, nor do they allow it from their children. Again this is the gaslighting that we as a group have been allowing to happen to us. It parallels how we have sat by and watched and engaged in ourselves the systemic decline of our communities by the loss of so many lives, through drug addiction and violence often from drug selling, and a lack of economic development, largely because of the level of violence in them. For many decades, many of us have said "our people sell drugs to survive", when it is not difficult for anyone to survive in any modern society. This has been said, as if people would die, if they missed their next meal, like the starving emaciated Africans, in search of food, water, and shelter, because of drought, famine, or war, older generation use to see on TV. From right-on, being down for the cause, conscious, keeping it real, to woke, it all has been a joke. We have yet to be honest with ourselves. When do we start or will we ever? Will Gate be one brave honest soul crying in the wilderness or we join him and getting us at least turned around and back in the right direct and state of mind to seriously try to first do all we can within our power to make all the positive aspirations we have a possibility as well as a reality for all.

Its nice to know where what youve been to know where youre going, just remember past is past and present is what you make it be

Love you Henry!

Bravo!!👏🏾 👏🏾

We served as captives who were trapped on stolen land...headlocked by Church and Military

Wonderful.

Actually I DID encounter ONE African American from FLORIDA on ancestry who showed ZERO European ethnicity. I was shocked. They were a rarity.

Never straight, always forward.

The enslaved in the North gave us Pinkster, the first African American Festival in the U.S. African American Culture has Northern Roots which begin prior to the Great Migration and continues today.

Also, there are 2 factions of so many…. French, Indian, Black etc…in America one of the biggest misunderstandings of this is those who came in with the revolutions and those who opposed those very revolutions and each one is significant. The French revolution was against the original French connected to the crown who the revolutionist opposed and wanted annihilated. Differences in religion ways of life and people origins etc …the Haitian revolution is an interesting one as they understand Napoleon B. not to be a true frenchmen but a man from Corsica (Italian ancestry) but came under the name “The French” Haitian culture knowing French history understood the usurping of that dude. And here comes the Haitian Revolution as standing for freedom and truth. French and Indian Wars there were 2 different nations of Indians and French in these wars. etc… Seems we need to be more specific on who what when and how especially that there are more than one group within these conflicts and mostly they are opposite of one another in all things but yet have carried the same name in modern times mainly Black, Indian, White Which tribe? What Land? What origin story? This is def a complex topic and could be explain better but just a thought 💭…..

The book 13 ways was how I found Albert.

You should test my cousin. She’s from Alabama. And she’s 100% genetically African DNA.

Thank you for this illustrious tapestry of the culture. I'm curious to hear opinions on why there seems to be a backlash from continental Africans and immigrants alike that African Americans have no cultural contributions to American society.

Ring-shout is surely older than the blues and the spirituals. Gates didn't even mention the field hollers, or did I miss that? Whites had the tradition of the lament song style/form, which is similar to the Blues, in that they both are songs of sorrow. In fact many other cultures have songs of sorrow. So the Blues is seen in some style in much of humanity. I imagine one can hear the "blues note' in the Scottish Bagpipes.

He was with missionaries...... Lolita Express vibes

Many African Americans identify as Indigenous American mostly because of our grandmothers being native to this land, however, Mr. Gates says less than 2% of African Americans have Indian ancestry. This is not true. If he were to truly investigate this matter, he would see that the majority of us have Indigenous roots and not just white blood as falsely portrays on his tv show.

#KaiCenat educate yourself

How can a beat be good, and you not be able to dance to it? That don't make no ki-nah sense!

We are Foundational Black Americans... not African American... I have never been to Africa.... and the Africans have never given us dual citizenship

The top French and Italian designers admits,that they get ideas from black culture.

The European Family Lineage created RACE for Cultural and Generational Development How do you Identify: GEOGRAPHICALLY CULTURALLY GENETICALLY

DR GATES JR have you research and study the Bible about the true day of worship is the 7th Day Saturday. The Catholics are the ones who change the 7th Day Sabbath to Sunday and it was for one purpose that the flock will worship only the Pope.and forgive their sins.

How when n were american culture is world culture ?

Dane Calloway is better than Louis …. Nope, exposed…. He can’t tell me who I am… Running out and going to watch Dane Calloway and y’all should too…. My ancestors already told me… Mann go have you beer.. boooooo

1:40 Very clever feed for the gullible!!!

I never felt or claimed being American. I've seen myself as a New Orleanian or Afro Creole. We have a separate history from the rest of the continental U.S.A. Our culture, traditions and rituals are uniquely exhibited on a daily carried on from our ancestors. Our sequence of oppressors determined the resistance to assimilation. Even the Americans finally succumbed to the cultural ways of the Cresent City. I felt more at home in West Africa than what I thought I could. We fitted in real quick.

Does physics have a culture? Can physics care about culture? Can humans escape from physics? So any, so called, culture that cannot deal with physics is pretty stupid. Can you build a 1400 ft skyscraper without figuring out how to distribute the steel? Can you analyze the straight down collapse of a skyscraper without knowing the distribution of steel? It is really funny that even the scientists and engineers at NASA have not asked about that. But skyscrapers are not rocket science though the Empire State Building was completed 38 years before the Moon landing. The Twin Towers Affair should be more famous than The Galileo Affair. But that involved Christians too. LOL If you are going to tell a lie, tell a Big Lie. What culture is that from? Is there Black physics? Are protons in Africa older than protons anywhere else?

He's right the black church was the center of the black community.I agree 100% .

We ain’t African

So mr gates? Which is the only dna types that doesnt contain Neanderthals and Denisovans dna? African. So why do keep saying its one both together? Your professional