Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Why Fear Is Driving the Current Era of Racial Backlash

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a renowned historian, author, scholar, filmmaker, and is the Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. This week, Gates joins host Charlotte Alter and reflects on his formative years in the working-class mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, his early education during the pivotal era of school desegregation, and his experiences watching the civil rights movement unfold in America. The pair delve into the power of genealogy, as Gates shares insights from his groundbreaking series "Finding Your Roots," and discusses how uncovering family histories can provide profound understanding of American heritage, individual identity, and the interconnectedness of all people beneath the surface of skin color. In discussing Gates’ latest book, “The Black Box: Writing The Race,” the pair unpack the significance of "checking boxes” in today’s shifting landscape of racial discourse and cultural identity, the history and future of affirmative action, and how the backlash to America’s first Black presidency has impacted how Gates teaches African American studies. Tune in for a deeply informative look into the narratives that shape our understanding of race, history, and ourselves.
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@judit1783 3 месяца назад

What is not to love about Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr?? Perfect.

@deloreswillis9224 2 месяца назад

A perfect loyal dedicated hero 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

@justmyopinion9883 3 месяца назад

I love listening to Dr Gates. He has such humility and wisdom. He is also a great writer.

@Heartcoachtalk 3 месяца назад

Dr. Gates deserves all of the praise and accolades he receives. Thank you for helping us unlock and find our roots. You inspired me to find my 3rd great grandfather, Jack Hutto, born in Africa around 1780 died in South Carolina around 1880. This rich history has been a blessing to me and my family♥️ Thank you Dr. Gates🤴🏾💪🏾❣️

@calebmcgowan2493 3 месяца назад

What part of SC?

@Heartcoachtalk 3 месяца назад

@@calebmcgowan2493 Barnwell & Bamberg counties

@calebmcgowan2493 3 месяца назад

So grateful you found your roots! Keep the faith Queen 😍

@Heartcoachtalk 3 месяца назад

@@calebmcgowan2493 thank you 🫶🏾 I hope the same for you and your family ♥️

@donaldnewman5836 3 месяца назад

All I see him is doing white people ancestors history. I'm sick of hearing about the rich people in his stories . Do they pay for it? I wish he would find some poor people sometimes because we don't have the money and some of us would like to know about our ancestors

@floraaranibar7421 3 месяца назад

Dr Gates is an American treasure! He represents the best in the Academia. 😊

@jamesbrown9553 3 месяца назад

❤️🖤💚 Reparations Money Now......He Is Talking Loud Saying Nothing..... 👁️👁️

@tflg3257 3 месяца назад

@floraaranibar7421 Gates is no more than an establishment pet.

@elizabethcooper9552 3 месяца назад

He’s a world treasure. His argument for diversity in economic class is extremely pertinent to my Canada, for example. The history may be somewhat different but racism and its backlash at present is very apparent here too!

@sallytedesco2192 3 месяца назад

I ❤️ Finding Your Roots. Henry Gares is an excellent host. 👌 His credentials are impressive and he is just a lovely human being. God bless you Professor Gates 🙏

@timnewman1172 3 месяца назад

What a lovely conversation... I have a huge respect for Dr Gates, it ony expanded more after your interview!

@kingleo8422 3 месяца назад

I love the teachings of Professor Henry Louis Gates, jr 💯✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

@user-ql5yb2hs2p 3 месяца назад

Such an inspirational man. Calm, well educated and speaks well. So nice too!

@mayrav1155 3 месяца назад

Thanks for allowing us the honor of hearing from Dr. Henry Louis Gates, a very inspiring, sophisticated, illustrated person! 💖

@bethfinne3260 3 месяца назад

Could listen to him speak all day. Love watching Finding Your Roots. 🎉

@robinboyko2080 3 месяца назад

I was thrilled to find this interview in my RU-vid suggestions this morning! My husband and I watch Finding Your Roots every week. I'm a family historian, and genealogy is my hobby. I'm ashamed to say I never knew of Henry Louis Gates Jr. before Finding Your Roots. He's such an intelligent man, and I enjoyed hearing his thoughts on race and ethnicity. And now I'm off to order a few of his books! Oh, PS, Dr. Gates, watching the regular, non-celebrity people on Finding Your Roots is just as interesting!

@neuropsychroberts8922 3 месяца назад

Robin check out his series Many Rivers To Cross. There's so much history we never learned in school. Enjoy!

@lamartinezola8507 3 месяца назад

....and Black Americans are very good at spreading racial propaganda. Hatred

@MonaeMalome-dq6ru 3 месяца назад

I LOVE THIS Gentleman and his beautiful work.

@bobzimmerman1282 3 месяца назад

Thanks for this important interview. I think I’ll go right out and buy “The Black Box”. I love “Finding Your Roots”; I try to never miss an episode. I myself am pigmentally challenged, but applying that 99.99% rule, I’m both proud and humbled to call Dr. Gates my brother. We need to keep these conversations alive.

@newpilgrim 3 месяца назад

A man of reason...thank you, Dr. Gates and thank you TIME for providing a platform for reason and civil discourse.

@robynrains7252 3 месяца назад

On of my favorite episodes of Finding Your Roots was LeVar Burton. Love finding out more about Dr Gates early life 🩷💕

@rtracewell69 3 месяца назад

Great interview. Henry is a great guy and I’m glad I was made aware of him. I hope his new book explodes in popularity. In my opinion, we all need to get that message into our brain once and for all.

@lunarose1066 3 месяца назад

Not fear but greed. They do'nt want to share or be fair. That's it.

@frederickgriffith7004 3 месяца назад

Well said. That about sums it up.And what is scary is if this Democracy no longer benefits them and only them.Then they would prefer to be rid of it.But that could be a miscalculation on their part. Simply because they may believe that their rights and protections will remain in place at the expense of people that they don't like.

@kiloub 3 месяца назад

@@frederickgriffith7004 you're right but I doubt it's a miscalculation. It's probably a 'either my way or let the world burn' type of mentality. I've studied these people and they do not compromise. They don't care if they burned in the process. They're weird like that.

@frederickgriffith7004 3 месяца назад

@@kiloub It funny you say that because I had a late neighbor who was born in Germany.1930.Member of the Hitler Youth.He once warned me."The Flames of Hatred if not stopped,at some point consumes everything in its path.Including those who started the Fire."He also made the observation that it is usually the most marginalized of people who are the ones who saves those who wield the most Institutional power from themselves.If their voices are rendered silent in any society.Then it is a danger to us all.

@kiloub 3 месяца назад

@@frederickgriffith7004 yes, your late neighbor is 100% correct. Basically these people consumed by hate, have a destructive form of mentality shaped by their childhood traumas that they never overcame. It consumes them in a way that blocks any external positivity or help, fearing any emotions that might connect them to lost feelings and a potential second traumatic experience that might completely destroy their fragile constructed new egos. They have power so they try to shape the world in their own internal image which is suppressing connectivity and positivity and destroying what remains in fear of it fighting back what they have become. They'll probably get defeated by a newer more informed generation, but maybe not just yet 😅

@jeanettesdaughter 3 месяца назад

Precisely because the fear has been there from the beginning of our unfortunate encounter. And it is well met. Id be afarid, too had I their reputation in the world! The way forward is not all that mysterious. It takes a political will to enact deep social change. They dont have the will so they dont see the need for change at least not as we do and we are, the entire black abd brown worlds have reached a boiling point and must be dealt with on better terms than in the past. So. We carry on. Time is on our side. So is self determination.

@susanr5546 3 месяца назад

Excellent interview. Dr. Gates is one of my great favorite researchers and just fascinating to me. 99.99% the same. I love Piedmont, West Virginia, like so many of our fellows, hard working people in a town that was a community, carried themselves with dignity, and were well regarded and treated each other with respect. He is one of our national treasures! His humor is also delightful!

@reedykat30 3 месяца назад

👏🏾👏🏾 Bravo!!! This man should be celebrated for being such a scholar and amazing teacher. He brings so much joy to those Finding their Roots. Well deserved, Sir.

@JulieSkinner777 3 месяца назад

Wow! We’re born the same year! I have so much respect for Dr. Gates. I never miss Finding Your Roots and love it immensely, especially since my dear grandfather immigrated from Greece.💙🇬🇷

@elizabethpresleyhazard2348 3 месяца назад

Glad I found this video! I love Henry Louis Gates Jr ~ Good stuff! 🥰

@jodithomas9303 3 месяца назад

Love Dr. Gates! Great interview!

@rosemarieroberts9168 3 месяца назад

As a West Indian teenager I read Ebony etc which was available in the Public Library during the 1970s . Later I read about Rosa, Martin, Malcolm, Nelson etc that guided me as a Mother of 2 sons who ensured they read about Rosa etc. We have to make the hardships of our Ancestors proud of our accomplishments to date.

@kathydauz9956 3 месяца назад

I laud & applaud all of the comments about Dr. Gates; I love this man! I love his heart, his caring for others, his intelligence, his faith, his humor. I started watching Finding Your Roots a couple of years ago bc my little sister in TX (I am in So CA) has been devoting many hours in trying to solve a maternal family mystery. (My sister discovered that our grandmother’s NYC birth record is incorrect; her birth name was put on the wrong birth certificate. Her mother was Jewish, emigrated from Eastern Europe & was unmarried & had only one child. Our grandmother wouldn’t give our mom any info about her background or bio father). My sister has been working on this mystery for several years, despite her busyness being married & raising/homeschooling 4 children. I help her as I am able (I retired at age 60 in 2014). My own children are 1/2 white, 1/2 Filipino. I enjoyed this podcast immensely & would love to hear Dr. Gates in future podcasts! ❤️

@junemorkin6336 3 месяца назад

Thank you for this interview, it’s been wonderfully interesting learning about Mr. Gate’s life. My husband and I enjoy watching Finding Your Roots very much.

@shakeemwinn3647 2 месяца назад

Humanity is at the tipping point for a major event and when it happens. It wont matter what color we are because we will all feel it in the same ways.

@kshyne 3 месяца назад

I'm 37 I've been watching you for years. I've always been interested. Especially for Jamaican Caribbean history

@OnlyLoveCan38 3 месяца назад

Emmett Till was tortured.

@christienelson1437 3 месяца назад

I have only great respect for Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and all he has gifted to others. His family and foundation have always made him an exceptional,Intelligent, hardworking, honest human. His spirit has always shined through him and I am proud to have learned from him. 🙏💕🙏💕

@sunnymoondog 3 месяца назад

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 I could listen to him all day.

@junebowe8864 Месяц назад

Excellent ! Informative ! Inspiring !

@janicetribueburnette5893 3 месяца назад

I loved the interview. I felt so refreshed inside listening to Dr. Gates ' conversation😂🙂.

@cjfl1962 3 месяца назад

in the deep south in Louisiana where I'm from, we had a lot of hate when we integrated in 1970.

@JernellWells 3 месяца назад

He is absolutely a wonderful teacher and human being

@sunnymoondog 3 месяца назад

I've always wished Dr. Gates was my dad or grandpa.

@Ai-qx9gb 3 месяца назад

Dr. Henry Louis Gates - a National Treasure and a necessary & great American.

@claramitchell746 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for this interview. I cannot wait to read The Black Box.👌🏾🙏🏾🌺

@rhondalight70 3 месяца назад

I never made it to college, but I am so glad Dr. Gates shares his knowledge with all of us. He could always still put a pool table in Ellie's room and teach her how to shoot pool!

@lollolowski8956 3 месяца назад

I love him

@chriswhiteiii 3 месяца назад

Thank you for the carpet ride to the paper mill town Dr. Henry Lewis Gates’ family grew up in. Loved hearing a mentee and mentor have this conversation together. Can definitely relate from how my parents raised me, in an upper middle class area here in Northern New Jersey.

@rosemarieroberts9168 3 месяца назад

Keep up the excellent work

@subobing3551 3 месяца назад

That was great! I love Dr Gates and we watch Finding Your Roots religiously. My partner and I are really into geneology and it is what bright is together again after 40 years! I love learning about Dr Gates and find him a really great man. I live in NO VA and if I’m in the Piedmont area soon I will visit the town.

@barbarabooth4955 3 месяца назад

Thank you for having Mr Gates

@doloreswilliams6826 2 месяца назад

I enjoyed this podcast. I was born 1951 in NYC. I went to school with kids from around the world.

@maxyogi 3 месяца назад

Thank you.

@jaelo2314 3 месяца назад

WOW. Thanks for letting me sit in on your conversation

@bethparker1500 3 месяца назад

I love it, treated like a little prince.

@tandt7694 3 месяца назад

Except for eating in the same hangout spot or dating their children...

@sherrellbigbie2291 3 месяца назад

I love all of his programs 💕💕😍

@sjones2088 3 месяца назад

Congratulations Dr. Gates

@deidreshepherd3776 3 месяца назад

This was an amazing conversation.

@brendagrant9382 3 месяца назад

Yes He is!! Congrats!! A fan of his show!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@janellejames8815 3 месяца назад

Loved this!!!

@nj3195 3 месяца назад

Love Dr Gates!

@LilliLamour 3 месяца назад

Well deserved 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@melody84126 20 дней назад

Excellent interview with Dr. Gates.

@christinestangeland7771 3 месяца назад

Love this man, classy and brilliant, what a treasure.

@PhoenixToluwa 3 месяца назад

He is one of my all time black living legends !

@JMoroccoMisterBoy 3 месяца назад

Tks., much appreciative.

@claramitchell746 3 месяца назад

Truly wonderful!!!

@BrandonTWills 3 месяца назад

This guy’s story is amazing, but I’m 10+ minutes in & haven’t heard a thing about “Fear Driving the Current Era…” Very frustrating.

@ganczha 3 месяца назад

My favorite person and show!

@marilynclarke6092 3 месяца назад

The absolute Truth! Fear is doing the driving because we all are aware of what's going to happen "soon and very soon." 🙏🏾♥️🙏🏾

@tammielynn8273 3 месяца назад

Terrific interview.

@ozdaniels2051 3 месяца назад

He should be Man of the Year

@kimberlyross6688 3 месяца назад

I absolutely love Henry Louis "Skip" Gates! He's brilliant and erudite. Anytime Wole Soyinka calls out your gifts and future, you're a force to be reckoned with.

@marilynfoster5279 3 месяца назад

Great, Great, and Greàt❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

@yuriajones 3 месяца назад

I've always liked Dr. Gates and I found this to be an interesting discussion. One thing I didn't agree with though, was his statement about "affirmative action being reparations". I think that's a problematic way to look at access to elites spaces such as college/university campuses. Reparations should be given across the board to all among the harmed party. However, affirmative action doesn't work that way. Minority students still need to achieve grades that make them eligible for those colleges, and for most who come from poor communities, they'll never match up. In fact, the recent SCOTUS case that saw affirmative action struck should be a sign that AA can't be used as a form of reparations.

@orchidpanda2253 3 месяца назад

If people want reparations, then people need to stop voting for politicians who vote to increase military budgets by tenfold b/c we already spend billions and instead spend it on reparations or free health insurance -- that'll benefit millions of black and Latino people who still cannot afford healthcare... and it's only gonna get worse as AI displaces workers.

@yeshiworkgashu3192 3 месяца назад

He is American treasure ❤

@Getouttovote 3 месяца назад

I love him 💕💕🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

@velinabrown2708 Месяц назад

Good interview. Thanks.

@petrifiero-akselsen6290 3 месяца назад

Henry Louis Gates is an inspiring individual. I learn so much whenever I listen to him. Long Live HLG!!!

@medusagorgon8432 3 месяца назад

Yes! That world is gone! Humans must move forward progressively. Looking back and trying to implement life of the past just does not work. A lot of issues we face today were created in the past. We must look forward, and work towards a future that works for everyone.

@marcellacole6132 3 месяца назад

Thank you Mr Louis gates for sharing the truth 😅😅

@robynrains7252 3 месяца назад

Worth listening to 😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@dr.debbiewilliams 2 месяца назад

Congratulations!!!!!!

@ellanina801 3 месяца назад

I appreciate “finding your roots”. It makes it feel more tangible. I’m 38, but i have questions about my ancestry. I know what I’ve been told, and by who…

@user-uh6sr3du8x 3 месяца назад

Why does my taxes pay reparations to Israel and Ukrainian farmers but no one will say blacks Americans should not be compensated

@orchidpanda2253 3 месяца назад

Exactly. If people stopped voting for politicians who send money to Israel and who keep increasing the military budget by billions, there would be money for reparations, free healthcare, education, etc... Americans are so clueless about how much of their taxes go to building more weapons and creating wars to justify building more weapons.

@johnclay661 3 месяца назад

Exactly!

@victoriavillaleyva4558 2 месяца назад

A person I admired and respect.

@roseneal2392 Месяц назад

His foundation was supported by his environment, an ideology we only dream about. “The Learning Tree.” The honorable Gordon Parks did the cinema of this inspiring movie. Regards

@Peter-oh3hc 3 месяца назад

First time listening and first time I have heard of a school integrating before Brown. What would America look like if that had been the norm?

@marcellacole6132 3 месяца назад

DR,DR GATES BLACK AND PROUD TO BE !!!

@gloriathompson6606 3 месяца назад

I would love Professor Gate to do my family tree. My father never knew who is father was. I was born in Hamilton, Ala. to a land holding grandmother.

@Bklyn112 3 месяца назад

Who wouldn't! However you can do it yourself with the assistance of groups like the Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society. They are national organization and Dr Gates is affiliated with them in someway. They have chapters all over the country.

@tandt7694 3 месяца назад

Go to familysearch. You can do it yourself if you're know names of anyone as recently as 1950. You check those 1950 census records for clues that lead you to previous census. If you already have names of ancestors prior to 1950 you can start with an earlier census. You can also get good clues from death certificate records. You will be amazed at how much of all our family history the Mormons have collected. It's something remarkable when you find new ancestors that you had never really thought about.

@i.am.navkaur 3 месяца назад

"We are 99.99% the same." I need to use this as my mantra when I visit the US next.

@mattrainey7120 3 месяца назад

Why are that not a visual feels like listening to the radio

@seandail1 3 месяца назад

It's a podcast.

@kraykray4446 3 месяца назад

I do not think Dr Gates realizes the effect he has had on American Culture. Maybe his contribution won’t be felt for generations but I feel it now.

@michaelfant4052 3 месяца назад

@kraykray4446 Yes love history of times and now. Roland Martin gives excellent info too.

@JAD73567 Месяц назад

We’ve been in backlash since 1492.

@LKonandupward 3 месяца назад

Hmm, saw this last week and decided to listen today. Thank goodness there are all types in this world. Something is off to me. Seems like prof gates seems to be over the moon with all the whiteness of his heritage and that of his daughter and grandchildren. For the record, date/marry/procreate with whomever you choose.

@shakeemwinn3647 2 месяца назад

Racial backlash is the least thing we need to be worried about as a human species.

@azizabahati7037 Месяц назад

💔 this all makes sense now. Thanks for including the Black community even if you don’t practice Black unity.

@aleathacoleman6413 26 дней назад

@@azizabahati7037 ?

@azizabahati7037 11 дней назад

@@aleathacoleman6413 did you watch the video?

@davanmani556 2 месяца назад

I would like to see if James Taylor would open up to him.

@user-tb1lq2hl9n Месяц назад

It sure have shape you

@terenzo50 3 месяца назад

I'd say an unreasoning fear aka phobia.

@FootPrintsUC 3 месяца назад

Truly fascinating. Why did Mr Gates skip what "faith" he and his family practice that fundamentally inform their values and world-view?

@tracyclark7560 2 месяца назад

Mother and father worked together for the benefit of their boy children. Daddy must have been so proud.

@user-uh6sr3du8x 3 месяца назад

She is right

@user-td1fi6vu2t 3 месяца назад

In the metropolitan Detroit area in the 70's the Lions share of black folks worked in the auto industry and had both dad and mom in the home . I remodeled a lot of their homes. Most said they couldn't find black contractors that new what they were doing or could trust. I had good relations with them as customers and people.

@sfviris5582 3 месяца назад

❤

@nuffsez5625 3 месяца назад

The point @ 27:40

@agoogleuser4356 3 месяца назад

I put down my race as human. As a high school freshman in Biology class I learned that race was a construction and still you could look at skull dimension ratios and faces and see the variety of origins. Later in my life I noticed that in the black community.

@Lavi_407 2 месяца назад

The schools are not preparing the children in the same way they did in the 60s…Affirmative action is grading on a curve that is not benefiting us at all. His example is only applying to Ivy League but not everyone wants to go to those schools anyway.