Ben Harper - We Need to Talk About It (Lyric Video) 

Neither was he. Just sayin. It's divisive and not helping our country right now

@@florider7451 This country has ALWAYS been divided. Acknowledging the division is not the problem. Ignore it and see how well that works out. Working out great so far right? What a utopia we live in.

@@angelrenate We ALL acknowledge it so now what? I'm a big fan of Ben and have traveled the country to see him many times, I love his message generally, this seems too political

@@florider7451 do we only have the conversations that are comfortable? There's a difference between revolutionary and political, perhaps you haven't been really listening to Mr Harper's music after all.

The divisiveness has always been there. If not now, when? The change has been put off for far too long. The children demand it. ✊🏾

Cool comment. 🐨👍

What the Buck! Ben may not be main stream "success" but in my humble lowly opinion, he is a musical LEGEND, my man. Been creating some of the best music for thirty years!

@@po-pil-sky9862 agreed.

Very cool, Buck. Small world too…I was down the road working at Some Crust Bakery as a teenager myself back in the late 80’s when Ben was still at CHS. I’ve always enjoyed his music.

@@familyofsix2001 cool story. Ben is such a nice guy. And his music is incredible.

slavely→slavery 😅

FUNKACCIO DA OLD SCHOOL

Middle easterners enslaved Africans for a thousand years before Europeans did and continued till after slavery was abolished in the us. It still happens today. The last slaves in America were all owned by native Americans

check who runs most Industries & u will find the culprits ....the same are behind 9/11 and the PLANDEMIC ......ITS not the Colonialists ....its the BANKSTERS .

Well said. But I wouldn't forget the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Aztecs (whose many subdued/slaved nations helped the Spaniards to fight the Aztecs, since they saw those strange white men as their liberators from the Aztecs tyranny), several African Kingdoms of the XVI century which made business delightfuly capturing inland black slaves to sell them to the Europeans (FYI they already were doing that long before the Europeans came), the XVIIIth and XIXth century Americans who almost completely killed the native population, Rwuanda's mutual genocides Tutsis and Hutus, the XXth century Americans who devastated and/or contributed to the total political, economical and social collapse of countries like Japan, Germany, Irak, Libia, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Corea, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and fostered South American dictatorships in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Chile, post-colonialism, free Brazil, Chile and Argentina, whom in 1882 formed an alliance to devastate Paraguay (then the wealthier state in South America), XIXth century post-colonialism, free Uruguay and Argentina who commited genocide against their native populations, XXth century Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Stalin's Russia, the Japan genocide against Chinese people, the Turks genocide against Armenians, etc etc etc. I'd even say that all of we, today's living Homo Sapiens Sapiens as a whole, should feel guilty and kill ourselves for having caused the Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis extinction. We must keep on talking forever about these things and nothing else, keeep them on the everyday agenda, pretend that we´re still living and suffering all those realities ourselves, in our present lifetimes, at the same time victims and/or responsibles of all what "humanity" has suffered/done in the past, keep the flame of guilt, pain, hate and resentment alive, otherwise, how could politcians and activists (of whatever ideology) keep their jobs ?

I totally agree with you Renee. And his line "Whoever Said Time Heals All Wounds Wasn't A Slave" is pure crap. Neither HIM nor anybody else ALIVE at this point in time WAS EVER A SLAVE. I've always liked Ben Harper's music and supported it in the past . . . But I can't support this. All He is doing is "pointing fingers of blame on White men and women who HAD NOTHING to do with slavery years ago.

If you don’t know where you came from you cannot truly understand where you are going to.

Hi Renee, To me you are not a "white woman", you're Renee a fellow human expressing her feelings and that is what freedom is about. I think however, that you should give it a second listening. The song interogate everyone ("And what does it says about all of us") not just one "side" of the transatlantic slave trade, although I personally think there is only one side that is to say humanity. He talks about those who bought slave but also about those who sold them (the first one to capture and sell slave in Africa where other africans and we all know it) , and when it says "What does it says about Africa" I think he also raises the question about their responsibility, the ligering divisions and conlicts plaging the continent and in large part responsible for their poor development. Regarding the reparation in my opinion (but I might be wrong) he is not talking about the slave descendents as he says "How does a Ghost forgive", he talks about the fact that none of those who been slave never got any reparation, and even those who've been freed continued to leave prety much in the same conditions by lack of education, land, money etc... The only reparation that matter in my opinion as he says in the beggining is the recognition that Black Lives Matter as much as any other, and if we judge by some statistics about poverty, discrimination, prisons, and the risk of being killed by law enforcement in the US in particular it seems that we're not there just yet. To get there you need to address the root cause of this divided country of this hatred and contempt of some against others. Historicaly slavery has been a crucial part of the new world development, not just the USA, and it is a determining factor which explain a lot of the issues we currently see (All these fake religious justification describing africans as Shem's sons to justify their enslavement, all the evolution and racial hygiene theories putting affricans at the bottom of the evolution ladder and fueling white supremacism, of which Nazism has been the pinecule making a further hierachy among europeans with the Aryan on top). So I think as people of good will, we shouldn't feel accused or threatened by a song but reflect on the potential link between history and current issues.

I couldn't agree more, Renee G

or a song about people making stupid comments.

@@bijoubijou93 half of ben harper owes himself reparations

either, that is a solid sarcastic comment or you need a hug and a friend? i hope it's the former

Hahahaha

.....roll on by James.

Have you ever heard a Ben Harper song lmao

Please unsubscribe then, absolutely pathetic.

You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies..but I'll rise.

I agree with..pp

this is a trend with this guy

Why don't you write that song. i think Ben can sing about whatever the fuck he wants. Slavery reparations should have happened long ago

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