Cry Freedom | "Why Do You Call Yourselves White?" 

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😂😂 hate that I never think of them in the damn moment

😭😭😭 you funny man

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Eat this. Hasta la vista, baby!

Steve Biko, actually. But Denzel nailed his character.

Its the stares and shade thrown for me...😂

..other than the likelihood of violence emanating from the angry man in red

God will resurrect him from the dead.

Amen 🙏🏾🤲🏾👏🏾.

Thanks for 3

YESS he will ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿✊🏿

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-luVpsM3YAgw.html Gone, but not forgotten.

Name of movie please

@@zee101231 cry freedom

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@@zee101231 cry freedom

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Citation, please.

@@blankspace178 There's literally not even a single result on google claiming Biko was ever involved in any bombings. Why are you lying?

To be fair, "confrontation" by definition can mean hostile meetings, which is something that shouldn't be advocated. It's a strange thing to be advocating "confrontation" instead of something more specific, because it leaves you safe in being able to lean more towards the "argumentative" side of the definition, while the audience might interpret it towards the "hostile" side. It's a very divisive word.

@@blankspace178 stop lying dude, the ANCs Mk and PAC were the ones that were active in the arms struggle not Biko and the Black consciousness movement.

Tell that BLM

He’s the GOAT

And its not even close

He is actually the best ever; but the motion picture industry will never acknowledge it. But the people know.

Hands down the best

Fact without doubt

As a black African American Biko is a hero

My dear you are not a "black South African" you a South African, it's the minorities in South Africa that should have prefixes not us

Is south africa of today what steve biko wanted? south african spits in the face of steve biko

Also note that the movie was filmed in Zim

The accent! You wouldn't say his an African American

Same!!!!!!!

That and Denzel paid for Chadwick's school.

Dude I can totally see that now. I can't unsee it. Wow that's good

How is it you have permitted your brain to falter so?

I notice that too.. Denzel in 80's was look alike Chadwick

Wow

AMANDLA!!!

@@RunWayUnderground AMANDLA!✊🏽

@@ianstill8575 SQUIRTLE !

Ayibuye Africa ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

@@Izanagioomikami LOL.

What smile? The judge agreed with him.

All he did, was answer questions, with questions. Very intelligent

Nailed it

Amen to that absolutely 😃

But then he says “precisely” I don’t understand what he means by that. I mean he recognizes that white people are more pink than actually white but then he acts as if he’s proven his point with that statement. Makes me feel like I’m missing something in their argument.

@@jeremybrown1437 well said .we are not black there not white .he should of expanded

@@jeremybrown1437 it's got nothing to do with actual skin color. It's about control. It's about simple labels to control the masses. Divide and conquer. Hegelian dialectic.

It’s the pen but I get what you’re saying

There is a limit, almost every great transition in terms of freedoms for all human kind happens through violence it is a part of us. Man can not devoid himself of violence.

I have both. And trust me talking shit while cutting to the point never is a dull moment;)

Like everything, Only to the right ears..

Proper time & place for everything = It's all about gaining + Applying the proper balance.

African apartheid freedom fighter Long Live Stephen Biko and once again another amazing performance by mr. Denzel Washington but these are the things you don't win Oscars for like I said I'm confused?

The people you seek VALIDATION from our the same racist people you fight against every single day!

@@rolandgross3051 well said grasshopper your knowledge knows no bounds.

Sorry I don't know shit about movies and oscars, who won an oscar for playing a dirty cop?

@@DarkLeviathan8 Training day. A pretty average and puerile film compared to this

and he captured the essence of the great Biko.God knows our people are in dire need of leaders like Biko, Malcolm X, Lumumba etc.real leaders that cared more about the people than themselves

he's so amazing in this scene, I didnt even know it was denzil washington. I looked on IMDB and was totally caught off guard.

dont think this is even his best scene in the movie. This one for example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-syv-FHnOoVM.html

@@michaelwilson4621 That's another powerful moment! Thank you for sharing.

How???Denzel dont even look african too begin with. He has the typical african american features

@@Dwyanerose What are the typical African American features?

@@Dwyanerose Kind sir, please do give us a description of what Africans look like. It seems you know these distinctions so well.

@@kingimmanuel3411 Do you seriously believe that Denzel looks like a south African lol.. West Africans, South Africans and east Africans don't even look the same.. Africa is the most genetically diverse continent on the planet... Denzel looks like an African Americans...When I think of south Africans I think of Mandela...he has a whole different phenotype than Denzel.. Y'all can call me crazy or whatever but y'all cannot tell me that a Sudanese or Kenyan person looks the same as an African American... Look at somebody like BOL BOL vs another African like Joel Embied then look at an African American like Dwayne Wade..then look at a somailan/Ethiopian east African person like the weekend, amine, ext.. All different phenotypes...I don't see why y'all are getting so bent out of shape and triggered by what I'm saying lol Africans features are more pronounced and wider than afro Americans in alot of case..

@@ayebaremucunguzi8140 Do you seriously believe that Denzel looks like a south African lol.. West Africans, South Africans and east Africans don't even look the same.. Africa is the most genetically diverse continent on the planet... Denzel looks like an African Americans...When I think of south Africans I think of Mandela...he has a whole different phenotype than Denzel.. Y'all can call me crazy or whatever but y'all cannot tell me that a Sudanese or Kenyan person looks the same as an African American... Look at somebody like BOL BOL vs another African like Joel Embied then look at an African American like Dwayne Wade..then look at a somailan/Ethiopian east African person like the weekend, amine, ext.. All different phenotypes...I don't see why y'all are getting so bent out of shape and triggered by what I'm saying lol Africans features are more pronounced and wider than afro Americans in alot of case..

I'm a so called african american ! We love South Africa and all of our africans on the continent..we are one race and one PEOPLE!!! WE will fight and win this war against the pink DEVIL ..AFRICANS WORLD WIDE SHALL RISE!!! WE ARE GOD FIRST and CHOSEN PEOPLE!!!! WE ARE GODS!! We WILL TAKE OUR WORLD BACK THAT WAS RIGHTFULLY GIVING TO US BY THE MOST HIGH GOD!! ASE!!

@@stilliriseDaat I am not phased about being described /labelled white or pink, but a devil!?, really? I haven't nor do I seek to oppress or belittle or allow anyone else to, any other peeps. No hate here fams.

Well, Africans dont have the star power or acting abilility, nor the charisma, or the funding, money, and technology back then to make such a great movie like this..Have you seen african movies before?? They look tacky, and the african actors all look terrible most of the time. You will never have an african filmaker that is the eqivalent to spike lee

@@Dwyanerose Spike Lee never directed this though, it was a white British man called Richard Attenborough. FYI the same africans you say don't have the charisma is the same people who are in this movie . Steve Biko was a African man, do you not see

@@latifahdwight1182 When did I ever say that spike lee directed this lol... I guess y'all can't even read either

@SniperSd Sid have you ever seen a black Person, like purely black!?! I haven’t, and I’ve been to Africa several times. I’ve seen very dark brown almost with a blue hue, but never “black”... -not coming for you, just making an observation.

@SniperSd Sid people with melanin come in all different shades of brown to dark, white people however are melanin deficient.

@Jonathan Norway Everyone has evolved together the same the difference is some people were naturally born with the God given gift of having melanin while others lack it. Europeans are majority pink and red, if they have a tan they have got some melanin.

Damn what an epic argument! Based and Crayola-pilled! Simply ebin my friends, simply ebin! Nah honestly it's pretty hollow and pointless.

precisely

And has the honour to admit that he agrees by saying "Precisely!". What a gem! :)

@@yavor05 Point being that white is a symbol of good, black is a symbol of bad. makes sense to call yourself "white" to make yourself sound good. The script here is just pathetically weak anyway you can tell its only written this way so denzels one liner fits in. The build up alone makes fuck all sense.

@@ROGUESPIRIT_ true but that does not define someone truly

@@ROGUESPIRIT_ The thing is, color symbolism comes from basic biology, and blaming it on human society is pretty weak.

Though it is good rhetoric, the reply misses the point though. Denzel was complaining that Black is associated with a negative connotation. Whites would not have to change their label since they are not the ones complaining. So the reply was honestly nonsensical. The fact that whites aren't really pink is not the point. The point is that one does not need to try and change the meaning of the word Black when the label is something one can just change.

Denzil could play the shark from Jaws and it would win an Oscar. He's that good.

There isn’t a role this man can’t pull off

bad accent though

Of course. But he's still responsible for Black Panther.

Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks are the only 2 actors that can play any role.

@Esan F. * YoU aRe cute 😘🤯🥴🥴💔🥀🥀

My whole school had to see this movie for educational purposes. Denzel won the hearts of many of my classmates.😊

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His accent is better than most who've tried it though

@@innocentdlamini672 True.

for an american the accent was surprisingly good.

Yes this was good. Americans think we all sound like Nigerians.

Sad movie, watched this back in the early 90’s!

Me too, you bet!

Prepare for anger and sadness. Bantu Stephen Biko, is one of my favorite human beings.

Me 2 😂😂😂 I’m gnne search it up now

I watched that movie when I was still in primary, it made me sad

It was filmed in Zim?

When was it?

@@felixmuzhingi8684 yep

Been thinking the same thing

Doesn’t sound like Denzel either.

Jesus you're right, I'm getting honestly Chadwick Boseman vibes.

@Chad K Or as someone once tweeted, and the man himself read it, "How can the blackest dude in the world be named Chadwick."

Wow...do you need glasses?

“One of?” 😆

Easily

I thought this was Chiwetel Ejiofor at first

Not so good on accents though!

*of all time

Was your coffee black or a shade of brown?

You can say that again

Not if you enforce the Constitution and Treaties.

agreed

don't just talk about black, asian people got discriminate so badly. even in the NBA itselves black people do not want to recognize asian. always get thrown under the bus.

"But your honor I didn't steal that car, I fell into it and it just took off". Not every court case is about Human rights.

It didn't get much play. I think I watched it on Bravo back when Bravo had decent independent-style films on late at night.

Alot of people never knew of it. I saw it in 87 I was 12 years old. Its a must see.

The major criticism of the film is that it's more the Donald Woods story than the Steve Biko story and this is true, but of course Biko was murdered young. Still an excellent movie with a great cast.

Well, he started in theater in '77 so he did have about 10 years of acting experience when this was made.

@@notthatyouasked6656 Well, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, so that would track with it being more about Woods than Biko.

Same here. I think he played this role before his Oscar winning role in Glory. I was a fan of Denzel after this role. I admire Steven Biko.

@J R The acting here is nothing out of the ordinary, though, although the message is positive.

Agreed 🤝

J R ... “Best actor in a supporting role”... Sean Connery won it that year. And it was Connery’s only Oscar he’s ever won. Morgan Freeman was also in the running... Denzel did go on to win it two years later for Glory. And he eventually won “best actor” with Training Day.

But i think writers are more deserved for for their writting

Absolutely robbed , however won when he played a murderous crooked cop 🤔hmmmm wonder why

He got his Oscar a couple years later for “Glory”

The judge's final reply is precious. :)

@@yavor05 It is :)

@@TeeUrm No one played the superior minded prig better than the late Ian Richardson. A terrific actor who played the lead in the House of Cards long before it was adapted for us tv.

Denzel Washington has made many good films but will never do anything more worthwhile.

You should. Biko has been forgotten by many, but he was an eloquent speaker, a brilliant thinker and a leading proponent of the 'Black consciousness' movement. His murder was a brutal act carried out by brutal men.

You should definitely check it out. The text scrolling up the screen at the end will leave you outraged. Just reading it made me openly cry.

I loved him as Malcom X. A Spike Joint production, really awesome how he just fits in that role. Must see!

Indeed, I'm South African too LOL

@Adam Sexton Irish people do that too, except we put "hi" at the end of certain sentences... Eg: "That's absolutely awful hi", or "She's some (b/w)itch hi", etc....

How do you think he did with the accent? Some people say it was sketchy, others say it was spot on.

@Nick Rykert How can you say that? How is the acting in this scene so excellent that it deserves an Oscar? The script might be good, but this scene alone has pretty average acting, and there are many more Oscar deserving performances by Denzel, like Training Day.

His american accent is also getting through at some points.

You deserve an Oscar for your comment. True statement. They don't wanna bring that type of attention to a movie like this. Notice they have him one for training day. Bad black cop, good white cop movie

@@TimrodRa I don’t get you guys. His acting was amazing in Training Day, if you make an effort to look past the fact that he played a “bad guy”. His acting is average in this movie.

@@whengrapespop5728 you right his acting was great but the image and elements was unworthy of being his only oscar win or his best. Being a thug cop is nothing for Denzel. Biko, the african accent, Malcolm X, those characters showed his range and greatness. Like Jamie Foxx in Ray. His greatest role I think.

In South Africa it absolutely does.

@@westernlynx396 no

cole chemo I don't think it does.

@@zd5873 sheep go fking look up anything instead of just living in ignorance.

@FranciscoMendez You know what she meant. She simply saying equality more than anything. It doesn't have to be a debate

Why would the judge be African he's white

@@trvpmusic2569 Does a person have to be black to be considered an African, there are whites in Africa, but not by much. For example there are whites in South Africa, who are the biggest minority, but that doesn't mean that there are not white people here

@@kgosimagano8966 That's like asking does a person have to be asian to be considered Chinese or Japanese or does a person need to be white to be considered Russian

@@trvpmusic2569 Or like does a person have to be white to be an American

@@trvpmusic2569 South African is a nationality , u dumb?

They don't come out and say it blatantly (that would not be good scriptwriting), but we use these terms for exactly the reasons being alluded to in this clip. Forget the skin tones for a second - "White" can refer to a simple color nowadays, but throughout human history it has also been a concept ascribed to light, to brightness, to cleanliness. Hard to deny that there is something very crisp and bright about clean white clothes, or an elegant white stork, etc. etc. In the same way, black is now thought of as a color, but for much longer it has been a similarly poetic concept people ascribe to darkness, to the night, to fear, to the unknown, and by extension, to evil. There are different associations in every culture depending on their environment, but the difference between lightness and safety of day and darkness and danger of night are obviously universal. No person in isolation and by their own free thinking would compare the color of their skin (let alone their humanity) with either the chill of pitch black night and the color of filth or the warmth of sunlight and lightness of clouds. Reaching this comparison once suddenly exposed to other people of drastically different race (talking about the ancient world here) seems like it would only arise in minds largely preoccupied with fears of unknown people and dominance heirarchies. The jump from "I'm a lighter color and therefore closer to purity and solar godliness" has everything to do with preconceived ideas about the world. But you do find people doing this sort of comparing of skin tones in every part of the world. The most extreme example comes from Europe of the mid-2nd millenium A.D., where predictable surface racism from centuries of relative cultural isolation in northwest Europe, envy of stories of vast wealth and natural resources in Africa and other parts of the world, and the racial hatred that had arisen in the iberian peninsula because of the Moorish rule there which was in decline, became very self-consciously exploited by political, religious and cultural leaders to construct this bizarre mythology of pure whiteness and impure blackness that does not actually exist in skin tone, in order to legitimize the false concept of european and christian superiority and then to excuse the abuse, destruction and subjugation of entire groups of people for their own gain. It's possibly the most disturbing curse on humanity, this obsession with skin color, and by this point in history we should all know better. But of course, by now so much damage has been done that we have developed all sorts of other associations with different skin colors, and people who have or crave power continue to exploit these ideas for their own ends... and the insanity perpetuates itself. Not to mention that racism is very useful to perpetuating capitalist systems. So that's why.

The structure of society as we know it depends on distinctions. I agree with you. Take a short dive into history. You will learn why? "Black" and "white". It has little to do with skin color and more to do with order.

@@cretaceoussteve3527 Cretaceous Steve, may I call you "Thesis" Steve? Good job. 🙂

@@teecarter4900 Haha, usually no one reads my longwinded youtube comments, so you can call me anything you want! Cheers.

@Sam Pollack Interesting stuff - I hadn't heard about the "white" and "black' legal standings - in what countries, for example, are you saying this happened? How recently are we talking? I'd like to read about it. Thanks for those other book rec's. By the way the period I think is most important here, and the one I'm talking about is the renaissance age leading up to the "age of exploration", not the 3rd century when St. Maurice was alive and the Roman empire was weakening but still in place. But anyway from the history I've read, what you're saying is definitely true - there were the moors, there was the Songhai empire of northwest Africa which interacted with Europe, there was to some extent just general movement of people that happens all the time, and of course what we now think of as "white" Europeans are by no means a racially homogenous group, and the many empires that had cropped up over the centuries had spread various genetics all over the continent, at least to some extent (and as everybody should konw, skin tone has as much to do with diet and UV exposure as it does with genetics). The first thing that was important in western europe to define "others", especially inspain and portugal, leading up to the "age of exploration", was heathenism, and to some extent deference to the crown. It's hard to verify what associations your average european joe had with skin color at that time, but we do know that by the 17th century as the transatlantic slave trade picked up steam, the need for ruling classes to start dividing "whiteness" and "blackness" was developing. So to me, these things are very much flowing from one into the other and had been more or less connected for hundreds of years. The feelings of cultural and religious supremacy in western europe of the 16th and 17th centuries was by no means the only time or place that has happened in history, but the conditions were ripe for the coincidence of seafaring and weapons technology and expanding empire mentalities there to, at first, incorporate/create racial attitudes, and then by the 18th and 19th centuries, to be almost entirely based on those racial attitudes.

appeasing word for agenda

@@7oo282 So when RU-vid recommended me a video of a man in a wet suit dunking himself in a septic tank it was an agenda.

@@kingjamestres Obviously it was, what else could it be

checkmate. Dude had no comeback lol

Yes and no. The film should have been told from Steve Biko's point of view. Not the white journalist's played by Kevin Kline.

Me too

Your getting a like just for your name lol. Commen on point as well.

Yeah, that's called acting... Good acting... LOL!

@@RunWayUnderground Indeed!

i realized this farce with my first crayon box

You know I didn’t know that Denzel is from the US when I was watching this movie growing up. He sounded and looked South African

@Dr Professor I copied the poem exactly exactly as I had read it... including the grammatical quirk.

Sentences start with a capital letter. Go back to school kid.

@Dr Professor What's wrong with that. If someone wrote a poem in Jamaican patwa (their dialect of English) will you still insist on saying, "the word is this stay in school". The poem is written in AAVE (African American Vernacular English) it was done purposefully, it was never a mistake.

@Dr Professor That's not what I said, I was just pointing out that like any other language English has different dialects. That's all, even if you may prefer the universal "proper" English language, it won't always be what you'll encounter when you talk to people, or read something.

@@liamcallaghan7542 There are no full stops at the end of each line. Therefore they are not sentances. They are lineal statements of fact that people use.

How braindead.

@@-scrim that is truth. Caucasians are not pure. They're not white as snow. They're pink

@David Carty I mean, I think its meant to be a little funny. It made the court giggle

@graham moore I think we have more or less went back to 'black'. 'coloured' has a bit too much racism behind it and 'african americans' is kind of a mouth full.

@Malachi the Great This is what it seems a lot of people have missed. He asked Denzel why they called themselves black, and not brown. Denzel proceeded to ask him the question back as if to justify holding on to the term black. But after their exchange, the judge simply responding with "precisely" tells you why he is confused that Denzel, even though seemingly intelligent, still holds on to the label. Basically, if Denzel truly understood the the nature of the situation and wanted to raise them as a people, he'd stop referring to his people as black.

Excellent movie.