Emmanuel Acho’s Garbage Book Gave Me a Migraine + Other YA/Childrens Reads |
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- We've got to talk about this Emmanuel Acho Book, and more.
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Books Mentioned In This Video:
- Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho (adapted from Uncomfortable Conversations With A Black Man by Emmanuel Acho)
- Punching The Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam
- Lupe Wong Won't Dance by Donna Barba Higuera
Book Recommendations:
Fiction Suggestions:
- Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi
- Anger Is A Gift by
Non-Fiction Suggestions:
- Our Prisons Obsolete by
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love
- Race Matters by Cornel West
- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga Taylor
Twitter Thread of Me Reading This Book:
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The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
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I really enjoyed this video, as someone who has a degree in history, I felt when you said he wasn’t a historian, sociologist nor is he involved in academia, yet he feels he has the breadth to talk about certain things as if he is an expert. A really great point you make is how can he talk about this when he did not fully identify with blackness in respect to black Americans specifically. All this smells like capitalist gains, but what’s more damaging is buying these books is just a faze for many nonblack people, it’s almost an Aesthetic to put on social media or to brag about reading “anti-racist” work to prove they aren’t racist. I’d also like to point out that many of these anti-racist works are lite because it’s geared to make white folks comfortable, anything of substance is encroaching on critical race theory and people are so up and arms about the full scope of history actually being presented, and it takes away from the fantastical American history we have been taught. Love your channel btw..
For some reason the "he was on the bachelor" made me go "OH I see" lmao
This was a nuanced and important addition to the conversation surrounding these books! When indeed do conversations end and actions begin? 👏🏽
I've been daying these books are dry and center whiteness too. All of the ones Booktube loves I'm like, "meh!" They read alike and the Black chracters have little personality
Thank you! Your insights are always so helpful. (Also I like your lighting without the ring light.) :)
Thank you 😁 I really appreciate it.
Nice discussion! I respect what Acho is trying to do (I haven't read his book), but I mostly agree with you here that it does feel like maybe he should be just part of the conversation instead of someone trying to lead it. For me, I just question whether his "Uncomfortable Conversations" are really all that uncomfortable. I am all for having the uncomfortable conversations, but last year I watched his TH-cam series and I always felt he ended the conversation as soon as things started to actually get uncomfortable, with a sort of "well let's all just be friends and keep having conversations" message that makes things too easy.
As for Kendi's take on anti-white racism, I sometimes wonder if some of the confusion comes from whether everyone is even talking about the same thing? It seems like the conversation often starts with someone who says, "Anti-white racism is such a problem these days, I can't even get a job..." (which I think is pretty much bogus). And then someone else responds, "Anti-white racism isn't even a thing, since white people have never really been oppressed in any sphere of U.S. society." (I pretty much agree). But then someone else who just joined the conversation or is trying to stir things up says, "What do you mean you can't be racist against white people? Prejudice is prejudice no matter who it's directed against." Which I also kind of agree with, but only because now the conversation has shifted from a systemic level to a level of purely personal prejudice. And to me it seems like Kendi's discussion of anti-white racism, or whatever exactly he refers to it as, is referring to personal attitudes rather than systemic ones? I don't know though, I'm just one white guy trying to make sense of these conversations :)
Agreed, I can respect his intentions. I do think he has good intentions, but writing a book when you’re not bringing anything meaningful to the table feels pointless. To your second point, prejudice and racism are simply not the same thing. Racism is systemic, and isn’t simply ‘negative attitudes’- it’s policies and institutions. So there is no “racism” against white folks, when whiteness is protected by policies and institutions.
@@ToBeBlackandLoved Ah yeah that's a nice way of putting it.
This was a great discussion. You brought a lot of things for me to think about.
I’m so glad you’re here to give us the real.
Yesss to all of this!
13:41, Great points.
Your lighting quality looks great even without the ring light.
Re: Acho-- my experience with his content was more about confronting our embarrassment/shyness in order to admit when we’re being shitty or wrong or ignorant. I thought he was just trying to encourage white people to be less defensive and more open to introspection on the topic. I think with the kids’ versions, it’s an extension for adults to have discussions with their kids about it, even if Acho, as you said, is not… um… qualified (to lead)? At all. Lol Honestly, his kid version book seems like a cash grab encouraged by the publishers more than anything. The police parts of the kids book is a big yikes from me… idk it comes off like Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers.
Great review for a unrealistic author Emmanuel shame on you 😒