If you have a leftist org that you want to funnel support to, please post their info under this comment. PLEASE ONLY POST INFO FOR ORGS TO SUPPORT. (also please use discernment and wisdom in what you post)
This might make people uncomfortable but I think everyone could benefit from visiting their local NAAGA chapter...they're open to all types of folks, our safety officer was a grandmother teaching her grandson...it was the first time I was around folks openly sharing leftist sentiments... they have a YT page
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) can use donations and also has useful aids for anyone interested in the unionization process (they are a part of DSA). Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) are gearing up for a potential UPS strike (nationwide roughly 350000 workers). Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are running strike campaigns to build solidarity funds for upcoming strikes like UPS. See if you have a local that is going to help with picket lines. Entertainment Community Fund is helping writers guild strikes (although I am admittedly less familiar with them). Community movement builders (that you previously mentioned). Freedom Bloc perhaps (again less familiar)? And so many more. They need money and especially need manpower. This shit is tedious and often mind-numbing in the pace of progress. But hold on to hope cause at the very least there is so much work we can do together.
@@fernanne08 NAAGA being the National African American Gun Association? I'm just trying to clarify. Socialist Rifle Association and the John Brown Gun Club are other leftist gun clubs if you don't have the first one in your area. If that is the most appealing means for someone to get active locally then by all means.
@@cow2hug483 I had a coworker who worked full time in wealthy city in northern Virginia, majority white. And part time he worked in another wealthy city but in a low income community. He’s black. He told me he’d rather deal with his black kids in our community (low income) over the white kids he dealt with at his other job. He said with the black kids it was only weed he had to deal with while the white kids were more involved hard drugs. My observation is that there are more people than we’re willing to acknowledge suffering from trauma and therefor perpetuating trauma and that wealthy people are better at hiding their trauma. I think people who chase money have a lot of harmful beliefs and ideologies that absolutely impact the people closest to them so I’m not surprised that the children of wealthy people have more issues. Most of their parents are a-holes.
@@billybarnett2846 have you seen the young black woman who was one of his victims talk, ffs? He ruined her life she was a christian, with a promising athletic career ahead of her. He was a sick individual.
I love the quote by fred hampton: "you fight fire with water, not fire - we dont fight racism with racism, but with solidarity. We dont fight capitalism with black capitalism, but with socialism." What a great man, crazy he died at 21. Would have been such a great contributer to the unity of the working class. COINTELPRO really was a despicable act.
1. What is your working definition for Racism? 2. How does a black person practice Racism upon white person or persons, on the same scale as a Katrina 2005 or Red Summer 1919? I will start with just those two critically thinking questions which should bring thought into knowing how powerful Racist Propaganda is...
Many black leaders and potential leaders were flat out murdered, imprisoned, or co-opted. The "War on Drugs" was all about slowing down or halting the "Civil Rights" movement.
@@thapeloankhamen5976racism only contains 1 definition. Secondly, Racism is a sickness, you can’t practice it. A racist can choose/attempt to enact harm on someone due to anger which stems from their racist ideologies. A powerful racist may be able to enact this harm more successfully and extensively but that doesn’t make them any more or less racist than someone who can’t.
Don't get caught up in how "great" of a man Fred Hampton was. He was still just a man, unable to control much outside of his immediate circle, and that's okay. Also person above I think they meant anti-blackness from the black community, or overturning the system to create new structures of oppression, however laughably impossible it may seem to those who know how it manifests.
The Black Capitalism segment reminds me of the time I almost fell for the "multi-level marketing" pyramid scheme Primerica 10 years ago. They promised Black people could be entrepreneurs, get their own license to sell insurance in just two weeks, gain enough money to travel, and more. You had to pay a fee to earn your license though, and when you sell your insurance, the person at the top who helped you gets the bigger cut while you get the smaller one. It already sounded like a scam, but I decided to attend one meeting. The person who introduced me was a "friend of the family". When I arrived to my first meeting, it was nothing but Black people in the room and a head elderly Black woman everyone called "coach". In this meeting, she began preaching about building wealth in the Black community, keeping it within us. She had two "lackeys" who served as examples, including my friend. She began distributing checks to people who'd done well, and mostly it was to her lackeys. Then, she began asking everyone in the audience what their sales numbers were. When she got to one older woman, the woman shared her numbers, and the Coach's smile wiped off her face. She began berating the woman, telling her those numbers were nothing to be proud of and that if she wasn't going to take this seriously, she should get out. The woman apologized and told the "Coach" she'd do better next time. It felt like a cult to me. I ran out of that place and never looked back. When I did more research, I learned that this company was founded by a White person, propping a Black leader in the Black communities so they can lure them in, and that most of the insurance they offered was fake and didn't cover anything. Most people never made a dime except a few, who did shady things to gain money. Many people had their money stolen. To add, they found out their licenses weren't legit. To me, this is what Black Capitalism means.
And what’s _so_ wild is that capitalism’s only existed for something like four centuries… arguably even less! It’s not something ancient or innate; humanity survived and grew for virtually our entire history without it! Yet somehow, it’s the only “natural” order.
Nope, over 1/4 of the world's population is under communist/socialist rule, and another 1/4 is under Islamic rule, which is even more oppressive. Capitalism has never tried to convince anyone that half the world doesn't exist, it just gives people a FAR superior option. All of the highest-ranked nations on the Human Development Index are white and Asian capitalist nations. Chew on that fact, dipshit.
@@CarlieGuss This. People love to talk about "word salad" and condemn the use of "big words" when they disagree with you. When they agree with you, your big words are "articulate" and "eloquent." The problem is that it is true that some people disguise BS with cute prose and SAT vocabulary, so it's virtually impossible to respond to these accusations constructively.
This kinda thing is a real problem within the gay community too. Because of the silence induced by the AIDS genocide, and the fact that it's a lot harder for us to transmit culture down through generations (most gay kids dont have gay parents), a lot of young folk are unaware of our history and our radical roots. That makes it easy for us to be taken in by respectable, mainstream gay celebrities. Even when you do have your own community of queer radicals, the system denies you any representation. It's impossible to tell what the views of gay people in the US are actually like, because the faces of homosexuality in America are rich singers and tv show hosts -- not the political activists that gave us the rights we have today, nor the mass of poor, disenfranchised queers that most of my friends fall into.
This is filling in so many gaps in my understanding of Malcom X and other historical figures from the 60's and how they fit into different ideologies and how they related to each other, and of course how they ended up dead in some cases. I was born in 50's and it took decades for me to begin learning/unlearning the history. I remember the lightbulb going on when someone explained to me that MLKjr was actually a socialist but also in trying to address the immediate crisis of the black community, downplayed that to some extent and that it was a point of contention within his circle. I'm learning so much. Thank you.
@@standowner6979 The speaking the truth usually includes more detail, lol. I'll guess that you mean to differentiate a social democrat from a democratic socialist, not the more general term "socialism" which includes them both.
Arent Racist Socialists too? Dont we have Public Libraries, public schools, museums, parks, Post office, Military, Police, Fire depts, Telephone, Air Ports, Prisons, Bussing/ Transportation... Colleges... What socialism that Blacks want that is different from what Racist already have?
Me seeing Kamala Harris: oh, this is gonna be REAL controversial. Me seeing Oprah: oh. nevermind, this might be career-ending. Edit: Me seeing the Distraction: Oh fuck.
@@guccidonbuzzflightyear4440 I doubt that. I remember in one of his stand-ups he litterally made fun of the sienfield guy for getting canceled for saying the N-word. Now all of a sudden Dave is acting brand new when it happens to him. Dont even get me started on bitching on the radio because zoomers didn't like his Netflix special then goes to their school to dog them while they cant record for their side of the story. Im sorry but old Dave would have called new Dave a straight bitch lol.
Actual History, Actual Analysis, Actual Clarity - if you don’t accurately diagnose the Problem you can never accurately identify the Solution… Your Thought and Work are needed now more than Ever
Malcom is the shit and will always be the plain saying man that speaks truth to power. May he rest in power and his example inform the generations of how to demand justice and work for peace. A complicated man that found a deeper truth and doesn't get the credit he deserves for it.
When you mention that respectability politics probably has its roots in slavery, it just became linked in my mind to how during the chattel slavery era, freed black people could be arrested and sentenced to be sold as slaves as a punishment for ridiculously petty crimes. This could happen to them for "loitering or misspending their time", celebrating or partying too loudly or disruptively to nearby white people, etc. They would have to be proactively respectable to avoid a lifetime of bondage. I know this at least happened in Pennsylvania, not sure how widespread the practice was.
Definitely wouldn't surprise me. Been awhile since I read the book I'm pulling from but I think other regions had other, equally gross tools in their toolbox to intertwine blackness and slavery under the law.
@@FDSignifire It still is, just not as directly. Black folks have to walk on egg shells to avoid being targeted by the pigs. A group of white kids is a nice gathering. A group of black kids is "loitering."
punishments for petty “crimes” were also adopted in many states during reconstruction; black codes were very prevalent in georgia, mississippi and virginia for example
@@FDSignifire , hey, starting at 10:05, I heard an understandable but worrisome sentiment: "leave the screens and go physically into the community." One big problem: 20-26% of the whole US population is disabled or chronically ill in some way, depending on whose stats we trust. That's gotta be a large number of black people, too. If y'all are going to include black disabled and chronically ill people (as you should), you WILL need BOTH screens and physical spaces / happenings. It's not either-or, it's both-and. Best of luck! * waves * in disabled parent of disabled adults, from Finland
As a white dude who grew up in a small town and thought I was more educated on left wing ideas and American history. But man your channel has seriously shown me how little I know. This is my first time hearing some of these names. I appreciate you for making this so deep and nuanced videos on the history of your community. It's seriously eye opening, I'll be here everytime you drop
oh just wait until we (hopefully) get into the international black left.......it's such a wealth of knowledge we don't have with our small American lens. even black labor history and black anarchism is much bigger than we realize
How come I only came across this channel looking for Bo Burnham material. I spend a lot of time on the left side of TH-cam. This doesn't make sense. Eather way, I'm glad I found it. These are some of the best video essays I've ever come across.
Keep doing what you're doing. Weirdly, I have rarely had a chance to talk politics (safely for all articipants) until I had a stroke and had black rehab therapists, doctors, and nurses. That is also how I learned that I'd been hanging out with the wrong people all my life. You are making it possible for me to continue learning, even though I'm done with therapy. (I know that's a truly odd anecdote, but I'm presenting it to show why I'm grateful that you are willing to talk out what's going through your head. I'm following your lead... just been more afraid.) Yes this encounter is a bit random, but I don't see a better way. Please keep going!!!
It feels like Anti-capitalist May Day over Anti-capitalist Christmas, for me. The history of Christmas [is] as a balm for unrest bred from famine and inequity caused by the theft of generated capital. And that's only its history prior to its immersion in capitalism.
@@pluribus_unum I was kinda waiting for a comment like this, ngl. I see what you mean, I just meant like I feel FD has been giving us a lot of gifts lately.
This is my new favorite TH-cam video Not too long ago, around the time of the Logan Paul controversy through the George Floyd protests - if you so much as put “Black” in a video title - this platform would shadowban it (for being advertiser-unfriendly) and not show it to anybody.
I keep seeing you on videos I watch and I'm just really glad you're with us. You're a great musician. I'm listening to your _16 Tonnes_ right now and wow, you nailed it as usual.
Tay if you ever read this I want to thank you for having one of the first viral videos ever that at the same time discussed societal problems the black community faced. Also musicolio is a catchy song
Listening to this channel while i work is hard because i keep having to stop to take notes about things you mention that i feel like i should look into.
i am native american, and i must say a lot of what you're saying is very relatable for the native american struggle. its interesting for my culture because we try to solve our problems the same way, native capitalisms how every none of the wealth is ever leaked down to the community because the nature of capitalism.
@@marcusburden92try looking up what the status of indigenous peoples regarding poverty levels in this country. We're at the bottom. Acknowledging that another group of people is being oppressed doesn't mean you aren't also oppressed. Are you familiar with the term "paper genocide"?
@@marcusburden92 Have you seen the land Native Americans are forced to live in ? You couldn't grow a bloody potato there How many black politicians can you think of ? Now do the same with Native American politicians
The commenter said "alot is relatable" not that it was the same identical situation. We did not sit through this deeply informed video to get to the comments and start hit dog hollering on emotion.@@marcusburden92
I may not be a black man but I can say I see similar issues with in the hispanic community, where extreme capitalism is constantly glorified through our music that is powered by our war on drugs or our liberal media figueres speaking of immigration rights without being critical of the policies that lead to people needing to leave their homes that have been devastated by American greed.
@@nezahuatez that maybe right but its often up to the individual to see themselves as such and their are some within the black community that go out of their way to exclude Afro-latinos from the culture.( just re read initial comment i hope i dont sound too confrontational )
@@nezahuatez Thank you so much for saying so. People like Arturo Schomburg, Felipi Luciano, Marta Merena Vega and Rosa Clemente all recognized their Blackness. Some people don't understand the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality.
So glad to have found your site. Insightful, knowledgeable, I am taken aback with what I learned today. Though I knew of certain events, I didn't know it from a Black point of view. As a Puerto Rican born, raised in the South Bronx, I came from a leftist father and a very religious mother and a family who's racial profile was so mixed that as a child I never thought about being mixed. I was Puerto Rican that is all I knew. So when I got my first job, someone asked me what was I. I thought it was a ridiculous question and thought she was not too bright. My answer to here was, "I'm a girl"! Her answer, ""No, no I mean where are you from, your religion, who are you! My answer, "I'm Puerto Rican". I was so naive and sheltered that this new world mystified me. I will always be and feel like an alien, living in two different worlds.
My Dad, his mom, and his dad are all legacy HBCU grads. Growing up there was always so much pressure to be the "right" kind of black woman. When my mom moved to rural Ohio I decided to follow her rather than stay with my dad's family, not because I didn't love them---my grandfather was GOD to me, but because I wasn't like them. I didn't want the weight of the black middle class legacy they created on my shoulders. I graduated from WVU with a BA in Literature and Communications and I work making 45k a year caring for people with developmental disabilities. I'm OK with that. I don't NEED to be an HBCU alumni with a Doctorate and a mic. I like to care for people and I just want to find a modicum of peace in this world before I die. Not all generational curses are poverty and domestic violence. Some poisons come from silver platters.
You so right . When you come from uppity black folk your whole life becomes a stifling looking over your shoulder constant state of defining your self . Creating artificial circles and marriage becomes a breeding contract for your elders. Do you be natural and mix with whomever you vibe with
Somehow I've neglected to find how your parents wanting you to go to their Alma mater is on the same page as genetic affinities towards alcoholism or hyperviolence being systemically fed to the youth.
Awesome testimony! I'm from Charleston West Virginia, with a special needs child. May the Most High Yah continue to bless you, and enlarge your territory for His Kingdom. Shalom
I literally am on my third listen of this video today. I am a 25 yo black man with little to no education on African American history, and I’m embarrassed to say that. Seeing this video put a spark in me to study up on these topics spoken of throughout this video. Looking forward to buying another bookshelf to fill up.
Same except I'm 30 and female. All through my schooling I never understood where we went after freedom from slavery and before the civil rights movement. Finally, finally, I know
Back in the day many successful people were high yellow marginal people who were cautiously more acceptable to white folks. Many these individuals had pointed nose, and wavy ,fuzzy ,curly hair.
When you said strictly diciplined people, it brought back some sad memories. I remember like it was yesterday a young black girl in highschool in the early 90s getting thrashed about by her hair by an adult black lady. The girl was with her friends and they just stood there watching probably in shock like I was from a distance. Some of those close were laughing. Turned out the adult was her mom and she gave her a public beating because she had shaved. Pretty extreme and sad.
As a young black man (Jamaican immigrant) I've been on a ride lately when it comes to American politics and culture. I had the black inferiority complex growing up in Southern California, then listened to Jordan Peterson (the bootstrap mentality and making my own bed) then the likes of Candace Owens and Thomas Sowell and adopted the idea that the problem is me (black people) and I need to fix it (I have to admit, this did help me pull my shit together) then listening to the Manosphere, before stumbling on F.D Signifier. I do appreciate people like F.D to be a voice of reason and unbiased facts within this media storm. I see problems with the Democrats but also know Republicans aren't the answer. Neither help most Americans (especially black people). You really should have a larger platform my man. Thank you.
Here's my problem with the caveat "I have to admit, this did help me pull my shit together." Well, yeah, if you listen to ANYBODY telling you: work harder, be more disciplined, make your bed, don't get arrested, set a weekly budget, set a daily schedule etc, the normal quotidian sagacity of most educated grandparents, or the kind of material you find in a lot of self-help books, assuming you were inclined to listen, you would have "pulled your shit together" anyways. You didn't NEED them. I had this same discussion with a friend of mine who fell down the Jordan Peterson rabbit hole until i pulled him out of it with lefty psychologists who said the same thing without all the christo-fascist mysticism. I also got him to move left by introducing him to the late, great, genius Michael Brooks (gone way, way too soon). Information is like the electron: it's everywhere and only one place simultaneously. Conservatives LOVE to atomize all problems as a function of INDIVIDUAL willpower and INIDIVIDUAL decision-making. This line of thinking JUST SO HAPPENS to greatly benefit those currently advantaged with PURCHASING POWER and wealth. I strongly recommend watching Michael Brooks (he has a show called the Michael Brooks Show) and the Majority Report with Sam Seder (there are many more, some even better than the Majority Report), those will at least get you in a community of people who understand what you've been through and have the intellectual tools to clarify the complexities that lead people down the right-wing, self-help rabbit hole. AmeriKKKa, and the anglo-saxon west, has done a LOT of damage to Jamaica - all consistent with right-wing, imperialist, christo-fascist ideology - including supporting Manley's opponent (which led to an uptick in violence in Jamaica in the 70s).
@Chad May I ask, how did you get caught up in those 3 names, didn't the Black community provide some kind of buffer? Even Black conservatives don't like Candance all that much, and Peterson is a non factor. Real questions.
Thank you for reminding everyone that watching a video is not activism. As entertaining as a lot of creators are, we can't afford to forget what kind of action really matters
@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 yeah that's a great idea When a protest happens, it has to be targeted, organized, and methodical. People need to know specifically what the protest is about, and the protesters need to provide solutions for the problems they are protesting
Are there any resources I can use to learn how to get involved? I live in a very, very rural area and am working poor, so travel/community organizing is really tough right now. The internet is basically my only avenue to the world at large. But, I still want to help more meaningfully than watching, liking, sharing etc. Edit: also, as it stands right now in the state I live in, I'm not eligible to vote due to a felony conviction a few years back. So, like, that's cool.
One of the biggest mistakes I made playing video games with my nephew was letting him pick the character that I would fight with! Never could beat him! That is the same error of letting your enemies pick your leaders!
@@patjenkins1308we all need a leader. We can’t live this life and maneuver just off our own understanding. When we lean on our own understanding we tend to get ourselves in trouble. Turn to Christ
Every time my little family members wanna get they ass beat in MK they're getting sub zero scorpion smoke or saibot and they get no say in it lmao, they can pick whoever and will catch one of four fades
@fudgepacker you should read properly. he didn't say that the video made him realize, but the deployment in a combat role made him realize how the country works.
i think if americans, white or black, actually leave america and their assumption of how the world works and really look europe, asia, or africa they understand they have been duped
This has been a direct tap in for what I have been observing with in the black community. The same puppets we look at as the motivators or leaders are the mask to the problem. We continue to think they help when the truth is they benefit from our pain and tugging at our emotional traumas.
My mother is a “Black people/creatives have a responsibility to unite us and show that we are capable of coming together instead of shaking ass and twerking on the devil”, of course referring to Lil Nas X. Needless to say, I was so upset by what she was saying that I could barely catch my breath. I can’t understand how my grandmother was apparently a Black Panther, and now my mom thinks that black people need to “keep our heads down” essentially to as to not upset racists and/or white supremacists. Maybe the trauma and fear from American killing our socialist leaders made them adopt this very defeatist mindset, but the difference in me and her is more than a mile wide. It was such a horrible day for me to hear her say those things, really.
A part 2 of this video should be the Black church. The power it wields and the perpetuation of this same bootstrap narrative it peddles. The Black church in general, parades the talented 10 and treats its poorest members as a blight on the congregation. The focuses in my experience has been getting a larger prettier church over affordable childcare or social, and food programs. Being steadfast in conservatism is the root of its problem and the overall detriment to the Black community in my opinion.
My two cents, but I really feel that until religion and the bigotries behind it are addressed, Critical Race Theory really will have little impact on how we move things forward. A part two of this video focusing on the black church would be the least of the critical evaluation needed in this most crucial of regards.
Unfortunately the complex relationship of Black people and Jewish people in America is just not a subject most people from either group are willing to engage in. The few times I've tried to converse about it (being Jewish myself) I've been laughed off by Black people or just straight up ignored by Jewish people. It's really frustrating because the seeds of discord between the two groups were so clearly intentionally sowed by the third party elite to prevent any kind of political camaraderie between us.
Nope. Its none of that shadow cabal nonsense. Its quite simply just antisemitism from African Americans and racism from Ashkenazi jews that lead to the discord. The difference in outcomes certainly doesn't help.
I'm so glad this channel came up on my home page. Educating people on history and how it affects things today is so important. There were too many important individuals and events in this video that I had never even heard of. The topic, and the way the information was presented and organized, made me immediately subscribe and then open about 20 tabs of videos. This sort of education is all the more important now that people are trying (and often succeeding) to keep so called "CRT" from being taught. It's sad that what little education about black history we get in school is somehow considered inappropriate, despite the fact that it already tends to casts people and events in a light that supports the status quo that is harmful to so many people. It's also sad that so many things you discussed are considered radical or extreme in this country despite the fact they are supported by evidence from both research and the examples of other countries. Thank you for the high quality content and the effort that went into it!
“And I hear some of the most anti-black sh*t come out of the mouths of people that purport to be pro-black all the time because they think they are different then their poor counterparts that live in certain parts of the city.” That statement speaks so much volumes.
I know the poet I’m about quote is problematic. But I can’t help but continually be drawn to the poem “the bridge builder.” It’s one of those works of art that changed my life. Because I used to think this way (about my Latino community). If I can make it out the hood why can’t they? When I was in college I was preparing to speak at a seminar for black and brown youth, getting them to college. When I came across this poem and read these word: This chasm that has been as naught to me To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be; He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!” It was a revelation. I literally deleted my whole presentation and started from scratch at the hotel. It completely changed my perspective. I saw the bridge builders in my life. And realized I was only the result of interventions from many people, including my parents. I realized that deep inside I thought I was special, when really I was just lucky. And I made a commitment that I would never stop trying to be a bridge builder. To reach back to my community in support. I can’t say I’ve lived up to that commitment as fully as I would like. But this video has redirected me.
Latinos are people from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean who speak Latin based languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. So, Haitians and Brazilians would be included in Latinos along with all Hispanic countries. All Hispanics are Latinos, but all Latinos are not Hispanics.
@@Rahnotrob Capitalism is the best economic system, he prospers from it, but preaches an alternative message This guy criticizes capitalism and benefits from it. In this same video he talks about how he is financially doing well because of this content which is because of capitalism. The irony. Any artist, athlete, entertainer, business owner, inventor, author, etc. that grew up poor. Literally anyone that grew up poor and has money now has prospered because of capitalism. I’m from south Florida, and ppl like Kodak, Trick Daddy, Ross, etc. are rich because of capitalism. They pour money into where they’re from and give so much game and wisdom. This guy is evil towards his own skin color. He’s being paid buy someone to spread this garbage. He’s a leftist puppet The left has really brainwashed the black community. It’s wild
@@josephreyes3620it’s only dangerous if ur of the perspective any one of the groups. He’s only informing while keeping it clear and concise when his opinion is biased.
Great video as always. It was especially interesting to hear more about Black Wall Street. The first time I ever heard anything about it was a few years ago, and as someone who lives and predominately grew up in Oklahoma, I was shocked that I’d never even heard mention of it in school at all. Loved getting more information about it and seeing another prospective of its inevitable destruction that is often ignored.
I believe Farakkahan had something to do with Malcolm’s Assassination. But to be fair, in that clip he said the words he spoke lead to lose of life. Idk if that’s him sayin he was apart of the hit, I think he was more sayin his words inspired the anger that lead to the hit.
He’s ultimately responsible, since without him and his direct or indirect support Malcolm would not have been assassinated (at least in the way it did happen).
As a Jewish fan, I appreciate you touching on issues of anti-semitism. Jews certainly have a lot of anti-racist work to do in America as well! We need healthy critique as well.
Yup. And thank you for being an ally to the cause. Hasidic Jews in NY have a reputation for being racist but, like most things, generalizations have a funny way of allowing for exceptional exceptions.
@@xMXWLx You assume we all approve of what the Israeli government is doing. Or that there aren't protest happening in Israel right now over it. We ARE talking to "our people," whatever you think that means.
As a former member of the NOI, it’s refreshing to hear someone else acknowledge the fact that it’s a cult. I was a kid when I was in it, and those teachings effect me negatively until this day. Thank you.
Do not feel bad. I’ve known a lot of people that became involved in the NOI nonsense because they were socially and economically vunerable. Thank you for sharing your perspective and speaking out against them.
@@senxauraximili7106 That socioeconomic vulnerability is exactly what keeps their recruitment numbers intact. Some religions attract the fearful. NOI seems to attract the fearful and disgruntled. It’s like a weight off my shoulders to have people like you to express those thoughts to for the first time.
@@DuckiesDad08 no problem. I hope we can continue to push the dicussion further as I feel the NOI and the minister have not been put under enough scrutiny and critque in our community for far too long.
If you and your predecessors were never disenfranchised on that scale you likely wouldn't have been in a position to be vulnerable to horseshit like that.
@@DuckiesDad08 The Nation of Islam....The Mercy of Allah, The Peace Given to Black Men and Women, and from Us...a Gift to the World. Sorry you dropped out and sided with weaker ideas. But you'll never defeat The Teachings with any of your ideas. That is why I place my full confidence in It. Calling The Nation a cult, is like a white person calling a Black person a Negro. It's an insult. It's a undersight, it's violently dismissive of all the remarkable aspects of The Nation. And you two should be ashamed. Peace.
Thank you for the section on the Capitalist. I feel like I've been going insane talking about this idea. You gave me a lot of references to help me have this conversation in the future.
Great video. I was raised heavily in the Black Excellence mindset and it took so long to unlearn. I grew up in the Wealthiest black county in the US (PG Maryland) and was only surrounded by the capitalist success stories. I was told by teachers, neighbors, family, and career advisors to go to college, infiltrated and cahnge the system from the inside. I just got my PhD, but that mindset never sat right with me. It wasn't until the 1619 project that i found ways to explain that logical dissonance. "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" and all that.
The thing running through my mind with all of this is Ta-Nehisi Coates saying (paraphrasing) "the right to be an American is the right to be mediocre." Which, like, should be a unifying concept? Why is the expectation for any discreet group to be excellent just to earn the right to exist? It reminds me of the thing I was told growing up, "if you work super duper hard with terrible pay then eventually you'll be recognized and raised up and do well for yourself." We were all taught that, and that meant that business owners could count on hard docile workers that are there for a hope that was never put in writing.
This is something I still struggle with as a black professional. I see white mediocrity rewarded with money, while I am rewarded by being held up as a standard knowing I’m making less. I’m asked to help my white counterparts…but I am not considered past a tool. When I question this I am told they are a good person, and that is suppose to shut down my critique
@@AbsurdCats I’m sorry to hear that, honestly. I remember awhile back talking with a female coworker, and how often she, in her experience, is made to feel dumb at work, like she’d be part of a conversation where topics are brought up and brushed away without her having a chance to catch up on what’s going on. My first response was that I feel dumb all the time, and that these are positions of growth, but I had to think. I, as a white guy, have an opportunity to prove myself and be recognized every time I face something I can’t do. She doesn’t have the opportunity, just the feeling of being out of her depth. That second step, of realizing that the opportunities aren’t evenly distributed and that I benefit from the opportunities given to me just so dang much, is hard. It’s very hard for me to swallow that mediocrity in my communities default to white supremacy. I don’t try to settle for that, that’s why I’m here. But enough folks are like Homer Simpson going “most days just I try to not hurt until I get to crawl back into bed.” (Another paraphrase). How can we expect more and allow for less? And why is the onus on improving entirely on people who look like you rather than people who look like me?
BINGO! Love, love, love this comment. Comments like this are why i even bother with the Comments Section on TH-cam. Well-said. I've always known and understood this but never articulated it this way. It's reminiscent of Dubois' talented 10th, or the Chris Rock joke that in order to live in the neighborhood he lives in he has to be a world-class, legendary comedian, but his neighbor? A dentist. Not the world's BEST dentist, not even a top 10 dentist in the world, just a regular dentist. Lol. Great joke, but the underlying truth is maddening. If you aren't a WASP, you have to be twice as great to earn half as much, until one day you are "recognized" (hmmm, who's doing the "recognizing?"), after which you will attain (maybe) income parity. It's a sad joke that only ossifies the existing class structure by JUSTIFYING these otherwise fictitious barriers to entry. It's a perversion of what "meritocracy" SHOULD mean rather that what it actually means for all practical purposes in a white-supremacist, crony-capitalist empire.
@@AbsurdCats Great screen name btw! The Stranger is a classic. Speaking of Camusian absurdities, as an aside, I find it laughable that arabs in north africa are so emotionally invested in rewriting the actual history of ancient egypt - that black nubians/black egyptians built the pyramids - so much so that they've banned Kevin Hart from visiting Egypt for (accuratre) comments he made on the racial genealogy of the Egyptian empire.
@@AbsurdCats Yupp, that's why "class" is insufficient to break down a WHITE SUPREMACIST system. If a black man were to discover the cure for cancer, they'd kill him and claim his dim-witted red-headed assistant came up with all the ideas. White Americans love to steal and then claim they invented the very thing they stole. They did it with Country, gospel, rock n roll etc. Honestly, black professionals need to organize, unite, and create institutional leverage to combat this culture of racialized income suppression. Also, you should ask them next time, "if they are a good person and they are more handsomely paid than I, doesn't that imply that I'm a bad person?" And then follow up with, "what exactly constitutes a "good" person?" Their heads would explode (actually probably not given how indifferent most white Americans are to racial plight).
The double agent part resonated with me. It was like finally putting my finger on movies like Lean on Me that always rubbed me the wrong way. Probably because after that movie came out, my high school went through successive principals trying to land the next Joe Clark.
Him mocking slang is really telling seeing how his cartoon "Fat Albert" promoted slang in each character he voiced Fd is right hes always been a double agent
@@jdeniro1844bro, don’t miss the point. it’s about him forcing sex on people while demonizing girls for having sex willingly. it’s hypocrisy at best and disgusting with the full context
Thank you for taking on the utter emptiness that is farakhan. Pascal Robert's description of "a perception of radicalism that challenges nothing" perfectly portrays farakhan.
@FDSignifire Thanks a ton man. I'm a white teacher in a predominately black school teaching AP US History and AP US Government & Politics. Your channel has been a huge resource for me in challenging my perspective, blindspots, and biases so that I can properly represent and steel-man the arguments of black intellectual history. Keep up the good work. I'll be supporting your channel financially.
I remember watching that Morgan Freeman movie when I was in high school, and my first thought was, “if these kids are SO bad and dealing drugs and sexually assaulting people and shit, why are they even attending school?” There was already something really off about the whole thing.
i thought that about "gangster rappers" too, when some people would demonize them. like, do you not see them singing for a living? singing. song writing. you scared of that? you need to relax.
The part that confused me the first time I saw the movie was when he chained up the exits. It shocked me and then he gets in trouble for it and he tries to twist it to protect the kids. Chaining up exits was a dangerous game with those kids lives.
@@payasoinfeliz forgive me if I come off as condescending, but imo it's like saying that a cow is not dangerous bc I have never seen it do anything other than eat plants to survive. Sure, it doesn't eat people, but if approached wrong, it isn't harmless either. 'Gangster rappers' have a pretty bad stigma in my experience, for being a bad influence through their lyrics (drugs, abuse, anti-social and criminal perspectives on life) and behaviour off-stage (drugs again, rape, violence etc). I know that it is biased and it's just the few rotten apples who spoil the who thing, but it is in reality, that this is what people are worried about, I think. Also these issues aren't limited to gangster rappers. No one is scared of a singer, they are scared of what ideas a singer can plant into mind of people around them, for example their kids... Especially since in some countries musician are quite influential.
@enot2140 I do think it's important though to still point out the actual issues with how racialized that stigma is. There were at the time and still are plenty of rock and country songs that advocate for what could be argued as much worse then what gangsta rap depicts. But there was no push back when a white rock star sings about his love for underage girls.
@@TheMasterBountakun hm maybe heavy metal cannibal corpse comes to mind, but gangster rappers also have a connection with it, like ice T. im trying to think of popular rock/country artists, like what would be the equivalent to dead wrong with biggie and eminem who probably the arguably best known rappers? polly by nirvana? idk i really cant think of something on the other side like this because heavy metal also demonized.
I saw the news about the Texas mall shooting interviewed by a Black survivor and one thing I took note was how he asked for better and harder policing of the mall to prevent more issues like this. I never wanted to scream at the TV in front of my sleeping father in my life up until then
Ive been watching your videos for the past week or so. I'm proud of you my friend. I would love to sit down with you and have a chat. But I'm in Texas. Wish I could get involved in my state and city. Keep up the great conversations and topics .
Hey New Sub here, Love your vids and the work ya doing keep it up. Chiming it to say that the Lean on Me mention unlocked a HS memory of me watching it during class as well.....in 07. Our class spent the whole lesson riffing on it.
A video explicitly focusing on class conflict in the black community. This has been a long time coming. I remember the first article I read about it and I'm glad that this is out. This feels like a conclusion to a long journey. I'm really glad this video exists.
I live in Atlanta and have seen Killer Mike talk, in person, about raising up working class black people, only to immediately turn around and then see him, in person, publicly support corrupt politicians like Kasim Reed. I feel like Ive tried a lot of times to explain that his personality is almost entirely a selfish, inauthentic, capitalist facade. I also regularly get called racist for those kinds of comments. It’s an ongoing journey of learning for myself, and I appreciate you taking the time to address topics like this which elicit a knee-jerk reaction in people. Keep doing your thing and inspiring people like me. Thank you FD.
That's unfortunate, because I really enjoyed the episode about Christianity within the black community of his show that was on Netflix. Don't get me wrong as a white person no black person needs my approval concerning their religious beliefs, but for as long as I've had a semblance of racial awareness the idea that anyone in this day and age would buy into a religion that was the defacto religion of the culture that oppressed and enslaved your ancestors is perplexing to me. Especially when on a global scale there's another religion that is bigger, that really espouses many of the same moral beliefs, and purportedly originates from the same entomology as that, but without all the generational atrocities, and almost completely eradicate any sense of cultural identity on a generational level, yet for the most part refuse to acknowledge that reality. The concept of not creating or constructing any physical representation of what one might imagine Allah to look like due to the possibility that said representation could be corrupted into a false idol is an idea that I find pretty compelling. Other ideas that I have heard spoke of make more sense too. Yes Ive heard of some misogyny being alluded to, but I've also heard some progressive imams discount that stuff as being informed through societal ideologies of the time period. And you can say the same about Christianity but, I don't think that's quite the same as adopting the defacto religion of your oppressors. Also the episode that brings up the idea of it being common that black people in America don't sleep very well was very enlightening. It makes sense, but it's not something that's ever been brought to my attention prior to that. It was pretty heartbreaking also
i find this especially confusing considering much of the lyrics on RTJ4 seem to hold some radical political content, and having only heard his music i was very confused when i first encountered clips of KM spreading capitalist nonsense propaganda. Also didnt he like campaign with Bernie?
@@emil-cz2vp you can be aware that the system's cruel and harmful, to the point of loudly speaking on it, and still make compromises with it every day when you've claimed enough reward in that system that any major change might tear down what you've built up the Bernie campaign(s) were a great place to witness a lot of people who understood how bad things are on a lot of levels and said a whole lot of the right things, while also having too much of their own worth in this system getting in the way of an uncompromised fight against it
I Fuck with your channel! HARD!! So multi faceted, great attempt at not flattening the conversation, informed, dynamic, complex. Amazing job my brother. Keep up the real work!
Learn to speak and write proper first. MLK and Malcolm X never used foul ugly language. Words are spells and spells have power and should be used carefully.
You're undisputedly the best sociopolitical channel on this platform. It continues to grow too, which is fucking awesome. You are a truthteller to the bullshit.
Absolutely. He does a REALLY good job at encouraging people of all intersections to study an issue, and acknowledge how those other intersections different from your own might interact with the topic at hand. Of course, you can't convince everyone, but he's been more effective than anyone else I've seen. -A queer Asian American man living in Europe
I am glad to have ran across this video. I think we need to have many more conversations like this! Some of us seem to fight those who look like us harder than anyone else, because they think we are hating instead of trying to find common understanding and agreement.
As soon as you brought up Cosby I had a flashback to my white grandmother who would send me chain emails circa 2007 and one of them was nothing but anti-black rhetoric from Cosby about what black people need to do to get respect. Truly insidious shit. Edit: OMG My white dad LOVED Lean on Me! We'd watch it together anytime it came on cable when I was growing up. The anti-blackness my white family had was INSANE. I am biracial (Korean) and had to unlearn so much racism. FUCK.
As a French White man, this was truly instructing. It's rather easy to draw comparisons with other movements, classes, and minorities issues all over the world.
@@assata1367I’m not sure what you mean. Yes, blacks were enslaved, oppressed, dehumanized in the US as a fact and still reeling from it. However, Native Americans were perceived as enemies, thought of as salvages and killed sight seen. Land stolen and put on reservations. Essentially the US committed genocide on the Native American population. Currently we have a romanticized view of Native American history when the fact is the US darn near obliterated from earth.
My family owns an African Centered k-12 Private school. I have a doctorate in Culturally responsive education and we have been operating since 1996. I enjoy your platform and incorporate this information into my curriculum. We are one of those schools that could definitely benefit from community support.
I attended one of the first successful African American private schools in Newark NJ. Chad school. I learned lift every voice and sing in full praise God for that. The African children laughed and mocked us for their observance of that made up tradition that obviously meant nothing to them besides obtaining citizenship. There was no sharing of their dialect, beliefs, nor exploration of similarities. A few anomalies within their social order; a girl named Kenya studying me and learning how to blend in as a negro. And my best friend damilola who chose friendship with me over becoming an outcast within the majority African Americans.
Wow! I am so sorry that you had that experience. Fortunately for us, we are a true diaspora and have been since our beginning in 1996. Our students are from The Caribbean and Africa. This year we had three senior males-one African American, one Ibo and the other was Puerto Rican
This is Beautiful! Having Elders to help teach period is an asset. Being Male is even better as there's a serious need for balance and young men need REAL MEN to follow. The fact you have A Diasporan man, An Igbo man, and an ALKEBULAN/Carib man is ACES!!! I pray your school thrives and grows.
I think a key underlying factor in this discussion is one which exists in almost every “group” or community of people, just about from the beginning of human existence (or at minimum, from before the Middle Ages and forward). It’s organized religion as a whole. Not to imply belief in a higher power or devotion to a set of principles alone results in division or a breakdown in society, not by any means. I’m referring to ambitious human beings who see organized religion as a pathway to personal prosperity under the guise of “awakening society” or whatever term they use in their grift. It’s not about helping people see the world in a meaningful light or giving people outlets to deal with their fear of their own mortality. It’s about money, power and/or influence on as large a scale as possible, and if anyone disagrees with that assertion I challenge you to look in to the history of any faith considered “mainstream”. Look in to the so-called leaders of those faiths and look in to what they’ve done to get to their positions. Doesn’t take long to see humans pollute things in general, and one of those things is the practice of religion as a whole. The fact people rob/rape/kill behind their beliefs in one god vs another is proof of that, and the fact it’s just as bad today as it was 100 years ago in many ways is evidence that there’s no end in sight.
I'm surprised someone finally stepped up and talked about the intricacies of how the our communities are just being led in circles and kept in line. 2nd vid of yours I've watched today, subbing
as a jewish person, i think the difference between antisemitism on its own, and antisemitism as a facet of white supremacy is an important difference to bring up, but it isn’t a lot of the time, so it’s cool that you did that
Isn't it funny how 3 months later the Palestinian struggle and the "world leaders" reaction to it highlighted what you were alluding to and the powers that be still try to make them one thing?
@@tinyiko2311 It's also funny how both conservatism and liberalism under the context of the American government always results in the same outcome: More money for Israel's war.
@@tinyiko2311 tell me abou it... Even when it's not white supremacy, it's clear a lot of people who hate jews because of Israel clearly do not understand how geopolitics work. They're just seeing a poor opressed palestinian, and a tyranical, colonialist jew on the other, which is such a reductive take. Yes, we do need a ceasefire, yes a lot of civilians are dying for no reason, but that occidental narrative of "colonized vs colonizer" ignore the generational traumas on both side which led to this situation. It also ignores the question: "how do we build a lasting peace after the ceasefire?", which is a crucial subject.
I know that I am new to your channel, but your dialogue is pure genius. You brought up names.I haven't heard in a long time.That my father used to tell me about in the 70s and early eighties. He taught Afro-American studies before becoming a principal in Washington D.C.
I just found this TH-cam page, and I absolutely love it! Your scholarly information and opinions, delivered boldly, clearly, with a sense of urgency, and with some humor, gives me hope that those who want to attack the status quo aren't solely looking for clout/money. Thank you, and keep up the Noble work you are doing.
As a caucasian Jew, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the unwavering criticism of Farrakhan. After the lack of visible criticism when Desean Jackson promoted Farrakhan's praise of Hitler, I remember asking a close black friend why it felt like there were more people showing support than denouncing it. He was quick to mention the level of power and influence Farrakhan has and that for celebrities especially there's a real danger in vocally opposing him. Combine that with white conservative elites elevating problematic black voices to delegitimize ALL radical thought that could beneficially challenge the toxic status quo, it makes sense that fringe movements like NOI (which has directly aligned itself with other cults like scientology) are able to be presented as if they're mainstream influences. Not that Jews are always the best allies, I remember a guy I knew in college (upper-middle class Jew) who opposed elevating other suppressed minorities because they'd challenge his job prospects. I had some words about that and hopefully as an adult he found some empathy... On the subject of job searching, the problem is arguably worse now that AI/ML are being used to screen resumes, because they use qualities of successful candidates to decide what will make future candidates successful, which establishes preexisting racial bias in the algorithms. On why black capitalism doesn't work, it shouldn't have to go beyond "capitalism doesn't work for most white people so why the fuck would it help anyone who's starting from less?!" Capitalism creates a small class of elites and leaves most people deprived of resources. Capitalism doesn't just encourage exploitation of underclasses, it requires it. Lastly I just want to mention how much I love FD's videos because the arguments are so well structured and supported. I'm nowhere near as well researched on these issues and I learn so much new info to better substantiate my perspectives in a way I never otherwise could. It's like sitting in lectures with one of the best professors you could ever have. Though I gotta say I'm disappointed that my Patreon $$$ aren't helping him overthrow the state 🤣
Capitalism only works when you have someone to exploit. That's why whites have no problem bringing in loads of undocumented workers to ensure blacks don't get a foothold.
"Not that Jews are always the best allies, I remember a guy I knew in college (upper-middle class Jew) who opposed elevating other suppressed minorities because they'd challenge his job prospects." This is SO deep, SO, SO deep, im tempted to write a whole essay on it. Thanks for a wonderful comment and, again, I'm learning from the comments section. Jewish people are fascinating as a group because you'd think, if ANYBODY, has empathy for the plight of black Americans, it's the Jews. I mean, what other non-melanated group, perhaps the Slavs (ehh, not really), has suffered so much Othering and persecution for being the Other, than the Jews? If any group should be supporting of African-Americans it's Jewish people - I mean, even today, people hate Jews for the sole fact of being Jewish - is that any more rational than hating somebody because they have more melanin on their epidermis? And to be fair, as I like to joke, Jews have probably been more supportive of black causes (at least in America) than any other subset of "white" people. Einstein would famously turn down speaking engagements at white universities and instead give those speaking engagements at HBCUs - he also famously invited and hosted the great singer Mariam Anderson in Princeton when she was performing in NJ but wasn't allowed to stay in any of Princeton's segregated hotels.
@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 I think it ultimately comes down to what someone like that would rather be - Jewish or fully 'white.' It's kapo mentality to actively maintain and benefit from systems of oppression for others, and I have nothing but contempt for that Ben Shapiro-grade behavior. The vast majority of us aren't like that, but those who are need to be confronted. And you're right that there should be solidarity between Jewish and Black people due to shared histories of oppression and diaspora. Historically, especially during the civil rights era, there were a lot of prominent Jewish leaders acting in solidarity. It's possible though that as generations passed and systemic oppression of Jews weakened, some Jews as I mentioned earlier chose to align with whiteness. And as antisemitic hate crimes are globally on the rise, I hope enough of them recognize the dangers in choosing that path...because I know where it leads, my grandparents were Holocaust survivors
Race and class are interwoven but NOT interchangeable. Big ups to a fellow Bri for mentioning it. I’ve been arguing this point with a lot of black people recently. Things like Guns and Healthcare in America prove this point EVERY day
Thank you my brother for being brave enough to speak the truth. It was absolutely brilliant how you articulated and broke down the 3 main problems facing our community. The sad fact is that nothing happens without the government’s knowledge and approval. I learned this after my brother, Mark Clark was murdered, along with Fred Hampton in Chicago back in 1969. In doing my research for my book titled,” Mark Clark: Soul of a Black Panther, “I learned that the Black Panther Party had over 40 FBI informants in Chicago: Not one, not two, but over 40. Many of these informants are still living today. The real leaders that were actually trying to help our people were murdered off, and what we have left is charismatic entertaining deceivers. In my opinion, most, if not ALL of our so called black leaders and groups are part of the plan to systematically deceive our people. It’s a hard pill to swallow; but if we take it with a tall glass of pure water, we can see it for what it is.
Martin Luther King Jr was the very first puppet being part of the black boule which had him selected to protest and preach non violence to blacks which was more detrimental than actually fighting back those who were abusing us
This video (and the first one) have been so informative. My mother is half black and she is VERY anti-black. She says so much bullshit that makes me want to pull my hair out and this video gives me some useful points to throw back at her.
The self-hate we receive thru society is so unfortunate... I'm half-Arabic, and I had to see and hear my grandfather whitewash his family from any Arabic culture, stop speaking the language, use white supremacist talking points, refuse to go to my sister's wedding cause she was marrying a black man, etc, in the fear that he'd get the same bigoted treatment his father (who was very dark-skinned) got when he came to this country. He basically became the type of guy that would've been racist towards his own father, in order to be seen as "white".
I am a white 19 yo woman who lives in provo Utah. for years I have gone to BLM protests and challenged my family’s very racist views and language and I have been basically removed from some of my family because of it. But I honestly have the most shallow understanding of what Im trying to stand for. Never have I heard of the NOI until watching this video. I thought I knew so much already but thanks to this video I know there is a lot more for me to learn. I am thankful to have come across this TH-cam video and for your creativity and uniqueness in explaining issues that I would tune out against my will because of my adhd. Thank you!
This guy is a hypocrite and is sending a dangerous message to black people Capitalism is the best economic system, he prospers from it, but preaches an alternative message He’s a leftist puppet
BLM is on the verge of bankruptcy, BLM was takin from the blacks and never helped any black movement, instead pushed lgbtq agenda , bought mansions in LA and again hasn’t done 1 thing for the black community, listen to more Malcolm x like the white elite liberals vs the white conservative. That’s actual real elements of how to help a group of young blacks, and help us thrive. The 36min mark in this video is exactly what happens in America. Me not us, never helps the situation but only themselves. Kwame Ture.
As an Eastern European, all this seems so outlandish, but at the same time, I can find direct points of comparison, because at its root, tyranny and opression is identical all across the map. Much love from Romania!
As a Jewish person, I grew up with the boomers in my community telling me that black people are antisemitic without getting much of an explanation. It always seemed to me that our communities would make natural allies, and I couldn’t understand why the Jewish elders were being so dismissive. We have a shared history of persecution, we have a “stranger in a strange land” thing in common, we have socialist ideologies built into our very culture. So why the animosity. It seems like there are people in positions of power in both our communities that want to keep us at each other’s throats. I have been binging your videos because I really do want to start having this conversation. But like all new things anyone tries, I’m pretty bad at it
gets easier. engage, listen, and embrace being wrong. we are all shaped by the forces around us, and sometimes those forces want us to believe wrong stuff. but stay engaged, listen and learn and you got this.
Dear sir. I am a 55 year old man Jamaican living in Montego Bay. I cannot begin to thank you for your content. I was riveted for the whole video. You had me revisit the history of Garvey...a national hero. Mostly I am encouraged to see young men teaching us older folks history lessons...its like my education put me in a trance that I'm only now waking up from...but better late than never. Thanks again and I look forward to seeing you reaching more people beyond the US as I will be sharing your name and content to anyone willing to hear it.
As a poor white Scot thank you very much for helping me understand black American issues more. I already knew a very small amount about the likes of the NOI, Marcus Garvey and Cosby (before all the awful sex scandals came to light) and I want to thank you so so much for giving me more insight. We don't have many black people in Scotland, most are in England-we have a larger Middle Eastern community. But again, thank you so much
You do have many Mixed-Race (part Black and Part white) Scottish folks and a few Black Scottish folks in Scotland and both face anti-Black racism in Scotland, like their cousins do in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
@@RoderickSpode ok maybe I should have been clearer, apologies-in my area of Scotland I should have said Edit-although looking at the last census I can get full data from this is what it had to say- "Just over 1% of Scottish population identified as African, Caribbean or Black. Under 1% identified as Mixed, Multiple or Other ethnicity, including Arab". Just over 1% really isn't a lot and under 1% Mixed, Multiple or Other, including Arab is barely anything. While in England the last census I can find has 3% as Black British, 2% as British mixed and so while it's only a roughly 2% or so difference there are still more Black or mixed-raced in England like I first stated-which, isn't a lot either way but my point still stands that Scotland is less diverse (overall but especially when it comes to black or mixed-raced Identifying people). I must point out though that the Scottish and English/Welsh census' are done slightly different but the results are still pretty accurate and have a high rate of return. One other thing I meant to mention-i didn't in any way suggest these groups didn't receive discrimination, so why you brought it up in the way you did was strange-i know they do as well as all other minorities and it's disgusting. And as my original comment was pointing out I was thanking him for helping me understand more about black American issues-not UK ones, sadly there isn't enough talk about that
There isn't no identifying Mixed - Race folks in Scotland....... There are mixed-race people in Scotland and they do outnumber Black people in Scotland. I find it strange, in this Internet age, where information is at everyone finger tips, people stlll fringe ignorance in learning factual Black history. Yes, Scotland is very much less diverse compare to England, and Wales.
Frankly it's just really refreshing to watch smart people talk. I was about to swear off the internet until I found this channel, now I'm going to mainline every video.
I see this elitism in my community too. As a hispanic you have to either be "hardworking" or you are the the problem. It breaks my heart when a member of my community "makes it" and take a get away car to a white neighborhood. We should all support our fellow disenfranchised community. Thats how we make change. Supporting each other and voting for policies in the neighborhoods we grew up in.
My Brother you are the Brother to the so called Black Man believe it or not. Yes Mexican are Issachar JACOB who name was change to Israel. This can be found in Genesis 49:14 describe Issachar as crouching down between a burden which is shown today as a Mexican crouched down beside a Donkey. Also Google Israelite symbol you will see the symbol for Issachar is the Donkey.
The Children Of Israel was enslaved by the Egyptians they was made to build,I say this to say just look around you and asked yourself why are Issachar the builders the same was done by Judah who are the so called African American. Also ask yourself why is there a pyrimid in México like those in Egypt.
Where Im from it's actually Latino kids who can be the rich ones who get handed a great paying construction job from their parents and like you said, definitely had that elitist attitude about their less fortunate counterparts.
If you have a leftist org that you want to funnel support to, please post their info under this comment. PLEASE ONLY POST INFO FOR ORGS TO SUPPORT. (also please use discernment and wisdom in what you post)
This might make people uncomfortable but I think everyone could benefit from visiting their local NAAGA chapter...they're open to all types of folks, our safety officer was a grandmother teaching her grandson...it was the first time I was around folks openly sharing leftist sentiments... they have a YT page
Miami DSA
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) can use donations and also has useful aids for anyone interested in the unionization process (they are a part of DSA).
Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) are gearing up for a potential UPS strike (nationwide roughly 350000 workers).
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are running strike campaigns to build solidarity funds for upcoming strikes like UPS. See if you have a local that is going to help with picket lines.
Entertainment Community Fund is helping writers guild strikes (although I am admittedly less familiar with them).
Community movement builders (that you previously mentioned).
Freedom Bloc perhaps (again less familiar)?
And so many more. They need money and especially need manpower. This shit is tedious and often mind-numbing in the pace of progress. But hold on to hope cause at the very least there is so much work we can do together.
@@fernanne08 NAAGA being the National African American Gun Association? I'm just trying to clarify. Socialist Rifle Association and the John Brown Gun Club are other leftist gun clubs if you don't have the first one in your area. If that is the most appealing means for someone to get active locally then by all means.
Mississippi Rising Coalition
The look on my grandparents face when I said "I don't wanna be rich, I just want my people to be comfortable"
My parents are grandparents actually, yeah…
That’s how it be.
Being rich is not going to free you of all problem infact it can isolate for them look at Kayne man that dude is out of touch with reality
@@USSAnimeNCC-yeah and studies prove richer children face more anixiety and depression.
@@cow2hug483 I've actually been looking into that and I'm looking for sources. If you can point me toward any I'd really appreciate it.
@@cow2hug483 I had a coworker who worked full time in wealthy city in northern Virginia, majority white. And part time he worked in another wealthy city but in a low income community. He’s black. He told me he’d rather deal with his black kids in our community (low income) over the white kids he dealt with at his other job. He said with the black kids it was only weed he had to deal with while the white kids were more involved hard drugs.
My observation is that there are more people than we’re willing to acknowledge suffering from trauma and therefor perpetuating trauma and that wealthy people are better at hiding their trauma. I think people who chase money have a lot of harmful beliefs and ideologies that absolutely impact the people closest to them so I’m not surprised that the children of wealthy people have more issues. Most of their parents are a-holes.
Bill saying “these young girls have no BUSINESS having sex” while he himself was r*aping them is the most wild shit I’ve ever heard.
He looked creepy with the sunglasses on while saying it 😮
He didn't grape young girls. Get your stuff right.
@@billybarnett2846 have you seen the young black woman who was one of his victims talk, ffs? He ruined her life she was a christian, with a promising athletic career ahead of her. He was a sick individual.
@@billybarnett2846 he admitted it
It’s always the most moralistic people
I love the quote by fred hampton: "you fight fire with water, not fire - we dont fight racism with racism, but with solidarity. We dont fight capitalism with black capitalism, but with socialism."
What a great man, crazy he died at 21. Would have been such a great contributer to the unity of the working class. COINTELPRO really was a despicable act.
1. What is your working definition for Racism? 2. How does a black person practice Racism upon white person or persons, on the same scale as a Katrina 2005 or Red Summer 1919? I will start with just those two critically thinking questions which should bring thought into knowing how powerful Racist Propaganda is...
George Lincoln Rockwell had solidarity with malcolm x. They both wanted 5 states for black people
Many black leaders and potential leaders were flat out murdered, imprisoned, or co-opted. The "War on Drugs" was all about slowing down or halting the "Civil Rights" movement.
@@thapeloankhamen5976racism only contains 1 definition. Secondly, Racism is a sickness, you can’t practice it. A racist can choose/attempt to enact harm on someone due to anger which stems from their racist ideologies. A powerful racist may be able to enact this harm more successfully and extensively but that doesn’t make them any more or less racist than someone who can’t.
Don't get caught up in how "great" of a man Fred Hampton was. He was still just a man, unable to control much outside of his immediate circle, and that's okay.
Also person above I think they meant anti-blackness from the black community, or overturning the system to create new structures of oppression, however laughably impossible it may seem to those who know how it manifests.
The Black Capitalism segment reminds me of the time I almost fell for the "multi-level marketing" pyramid scheme Primerica 10 years ago. They promised Black people could be entrepreneurs, get their own license to sell insurance in just two weeks, gain enough money to travel, and more. You had to pay a fee to earn your license though, and when you sell your insurance, the person at the top who helped you gets the bigger cut while you get the smaller one. It already sounded like a scam, but I decided to attend one meeting. The person who introduced me was a "friend of the family". When I arrived to my first meeting, it was nothing but Black people in the room and a head elderly Black woman everyone called "coach". In this meeting, she began preaching about building wealth in the Black community, keeping it within us. She had two "lackeys" who served as examples, including my friend. She began distributing checks to people who'd done well, and mostly it was to her lackeys. Then, she began asking everyone in the audience what their sales numbers were. When she got to one older woman, the woman shared her numbers, and the Coach's smile wiped off her face. She began berating the woman, telling her those numbers were nothing to be proud of and that if she wasn't going to take this seriously, she should get out. The woman apologized and told the "Coach" she'd do better next time. It felt like a cult to me. I ran out of that place and never looked back. When I did more research, I learned that this company was founded by a White person, propping a Black leader in the Black communities so they can lure them in, and that most of the insurance they offered was fake and didn't cover anything. Most people never made a dime except a few, who did shady things to gain money. Many people had their money stolen. To add, they found out their licenses weren't legit. To me, this is what Black Capitalism means.
That’s so horrifying.
I had the same experience with them Seemed like a scam to me too !
My cousin & his wife got me into that around 2015/2016. It wasn't a "black branch" but a complete diverse group & everything you said is 100% right.
this needs to be a documentary asap
The greatest trick that capitalism ever pulled, was convincing the world that it was the ONLY thing that exists.
its crazy the way that capitalism has given millions, if not billions, of people literal stockholm syndrome
And what’s _so_ wild is that capitalism’s only existed for something like four centuries… arguably even less! It’s not something ancient or innate; humanity survived and grew for virtually our entire history without it! Yet somehow, it’s the only “natural” order.
More to the point, Capitalism has tricked people into thinking that it is the BEST system.
Nope, over 1/4 of the world's population is under communist/socialist rule, and another 1/4 is under Islamic rule, which is even more oppressive. Capitalism has never tried to convince anyone that half the world doesn't exist, it just gives people a FAR superior option. All of the highest-ranked nations on the Human Development Index are white and Asian capitalist nations. Chew on that fact, dipshit.
Capitalism, is not a political system, so use your brain, and realize its policy makers, and not markets that you need to focus on.
We got a real pseudo intellectual problem in the US. Too many people fall for the grift as long as you speak with authority and a large vocabulary.
And confirm their bias. That's a huge part. I can speak quite eloquently, but they would say I'm saying big words to confuse them
@@CarlieGuss This. People love to talk about "word salad" and condemn the use of "big words" when they disagree with you. When they agree with you, your big words are "articulate" and "eloquent." The problem is that it is true that some people disguise BS with cute prose and SAT vocabulary, so it's virtually impossible to respond to these accusations constructively.
Mmmmhmmm. Jordan Peterson comes to mind.
Too true. 😏
@@harrycooper5231 Perfect example. It's infuriating how many people think this man is smart or that he has ever said anything profound or significant.
This kinda thing is a real problem within the gay community too.
Because of the silence induced by the AIDS genocide, and the fact that it's a lot harder for us to transmit culture down through generations (most gay kids dont have gay parents), a lot of young folk are unaware of our history and our radical roots. That makes it easy for us to be taken in by respectable, mainstream gay celebrities.
Even when you do have your own community of queer radicals, the system denies you any representation. It's impossible to tell what the views of gay people in the US are actually like, because the faces of homosexuality in America are rich singers and tv show hosts -- not the political activists that gave us the rights we have today, nor the mass of poor, disenfranchised queers that most of my friends fall into.
Not gay, but I had a HUGE amount of respect for ACT-UP in the 80's and 90's as a kid and teenager. Real warriors and revolutionaries.
Define gay culture. I've been gay a long time, there is no gay culture.
Is it not obvious that most gays wouldn't have gay parents?
Trying to explain this to people is like swallowing bleach soaked nails. It’s so frustrating.
I never thought of that thank you for informing me of this
This is filling in so many gaps in my understanding of Malcom X and other historical figures from the 60's and how they fit into different ideologies and how they related to each other, and of course how they ended up dead in some cases. I was born in 50's and it took decades for me to begin learning/unlearning the history. I remember the lightbulb going on when someone explained to me that MLKjr was actually a socialist but also in trying to address the immediate crisis of the black community, downplayed that to some extent and that it was a point of contention within his circle. I'm learning so much. Thank you.
Its crazy how they tried to teach us that Malcom X was a villain.
Absolutely..
MLK Jr wasn't a socialist. He was a social democrat.
I'm not joking or speaking in bad faith. But that's the truth
@@standowner6979 The speaking the truth usually includes more detail, lol. I'll guess that you mean to differentiate a social democrat from a democratic socialist, not the more general term "socialism" which includes them both.
Arent Racist Socialists too? Dont we have Public Libraries, public schools, museums, parks, Post office, Military, Police, Fire depts, Telephone, Air Ports, Prisons, Bussing/ Transportation... Colleges... What socialism that Blacks want that is different from what Racist already have?
Me seeing Kamala Harris: oh, this is gonna be REAL controversial.
Me seeing Oprah: oh. nevermind, this might be career-ending.
Edit:
Me seeing the Distraction: Oh fuck.
He came for the Nation of Islam as the first example .. sooooo
@@amandadosanjos3994 I mean the NoI is garbage and not even an acknowledged branch of Islam anyway lol
@@TheAutumnNetwork I read about the Yakub story. Funniest shit I’ve ever heard.
Farakah was a racist
Oh, damn. Serious topic but your comment is 😅.
I swear people kept calling me crazy about Dave Chappell. Went from "keeping it real" to calling his fans broke for not liking Elon Musk
People don’t like Elon because liberal media has made him an enemy for not touting the liberal agenda and talking points.
Maybe that is keeping it real to him ?
@@guccidonbuzzflightyear4440 I doubt that. I remember in one of his stand-ups he litterally made fun of the sienfield guy for getting canceled for saying the N-word. Now all of a sudden Dave is acting brand new when it happens to him. Dont even get me started on bitching on the radio because zoomers didn't like his Netflix special then goes to their school to dog them while they cant record for their side of the story. Im sorry but old Dave would have called new Dave a straight bitch lol.
Money, power, mass attention and approval etc can do strange things to people
@@huneylove5 Do y'all forget "Dave chappelle" is a COMEDIAN.
Actual History, Actual Analysis, Actual Clarity - if you don’t accurately diagnose the Problem you can never accurately identify the Solution… Your Thought and Work are needed now more than Ever
Malcom is the shit and will always be the plain saying man that speaks truth to power. May he rest in power and his example inform the generations of how to demand justice and work for peace. A complicated man that found a deeper truth and doesn't get the credit he deserves for it.
I remembered tupac track :We should cry if they cried when we buried Malcolm X
When you mention that respectability politics probably has its roots in slavery, it just became linked in my mind to how during the chattel slavery era, freed black people could be arrested and sentenced to be sold as slaves as a punishment for ridiculously petty crimes. This could happen to them for "loitering or misspending their time", celebrating or partying too loudly or disruptively to nearby white people, etc. They would have to be proactively respectable to avoid a lifetime of bondage. I know this at least happened in Pennsylvania, not sure how widespread the practice was.
I would imagine that was widespread
Definitely wouldn't surprise me. Been awhile since I read the book I'm pulling from but I think other regions had other, equally gross tools in their toolbox to intertwine blackness and slavery under the law.
@@FDSignifire It still is, just not as directly. Black folks have to walk on egg shells to avoid being targeted by the pigs. A group of white kids is a nice gathering. A group of black kids is "loitering."
punishments for petty “crimes” were also adopted in many states during reconstruction; black codes were very prevalent in georgia, mississippi and virginia for example
@@FDSignifire , hey, starting at 10:05, I heard an understandable but worrisome sentiment: "leave the screens and go physically into the community." One big problem: 20-26% of the whole US population is disabled or chronically ill in some way, depending on whose stats we trust. That's gotta be a large number of black people, too. If y'all are going to include black disabled and chronically ill people (as you should), you WILL need BOTH screens and physical spaces / happenings. It's not either-or, it's both-and.
Best of luck!
* waves * in disabled parent of disabled adults, from Finland
As a white dude who grew up in a small town and thought I was more educated on left wing ideas and American history. But man your channel has seriously shown me how little I know. This is my first time hearing some of these names. I appreciate you for making this so deep and nuanced videos on the history of your community. It's seriously eye opening, I'll be here everytime you drop
oh just wait until we (hopefully) get into the international black left.......it's such a wealth of knowledge we don't have with our small American lens. even black labor history and black anarchism is much bigger than we realize
refer your friends to fd!!
Same here!! Completely challenging my preconceived ideas and making me reflect on why some new ideas may make me uncomfortable. Thank you F.D!
How come I only came across this channel looking for Bo Burnham material. I spend a lot of time on the left side of TH-cam. This doesn't make sense. Eather way, I'm glad I found it. These are some of the best video essays I've ever come across.
Why do you feel the need to say you are white?
Keep doing what you're doing. Weirdly, I have rarely had a chance to talk politics (safely for all articipants) until I had a stroke and had black rehab therapists, doctors, and nurses. That is also how I learned that I'd been hanging out with the wrong people all my life. You are making it possible for me to continue learning, even though I'm done with therapy. (I know that's a truly odd anecdote, but I'm presenting it to show why I'm grateful that you are willing to talk out what's going through your head. I'm following your lead... just been more afraid.) Yes this encounter is a bit random, but I don't see a better way. Please keep going!!!
The bill cosby with a jason mask on, with future,s mask off playing had me 💀
I was just re-watching the video on black conservatism the other day and now we get the sequel?! Feels like anti-capitalist Christmas.
You love to see it 😊
I was watching it yesterday, like the timing couldn't be any better
good. fuck capitalism, it's squeezing us
It feels like Anti-capitalist May Day over Anti-capitalist Christmas, for me.
The history of Christmas [is] as a balm for unrest bred from famine and inequity caused by the theft of generated capital. And that's only its history prior to its immersion in capitalism.
@@pluribus_unum I was kinda waiting for a comment like this, ngl. I see what you mean, I just meant like I feel FD has been giving us a lot of gifts lately.
This is my new favorite TH-cam video
Not too long ago, around the time of the Logan Paul controversy through the George Floyd protests - if you so much as put “Black” in a video title - this platform would shadowban it (for being advertiser-unfriendly) and not show it to anybody.
Well said Tay, great to know your position on this ❤
Yo funny enough I remember you from your chocolate rain video. Lol people kept telling me I look just like you.
hey tay :))
I keep seeing you on videos I watch and I'm just really glad you're with us. You're a great musician. I'm listening to your _16 Tonnes_ right now and wow, you nailed it as usual.
Tay if you ever read this I want to thank you for having one of the first viral videos ever that at the same time discussed societal problems the black community faced.
Also musicolio is a catchy song
You are such an under-rated creator and I just discovered this channel today!!! Keep up the great work, brother!!!
Listening to this channel while i work is hard because i keep having to stop to take notes about things you mention that i feel like i should look into.
i am native american, and i must say a lot of what you're saying is very relatable for the native american struggle. its interesting for my culture because we try to solve our problems the same way, native capitalisms how every none of the wealth is ever leaked down to the community because the nature of capitalism.
You’re situation isn’t like ours being native Americans got reparations and then some. Actually have land being rented certain tribes. Not even close
@@marcusburden92you aren't uplifting your community by being apathetic to another Communities problems, you just dragging them to your level.
@@marcusburden92try looking up what the status of indigenous peoples regarding poverty levels in this country. We're at the bottom. Acknowledging that another group of people is being oppressed doesn't mean you aren't also oppressed. Are you familiar with the term "paper genocide"?
@@marcusburden92 Have you seen the land Native Americans are forced to live in ? You couldn't grow a bloody potato there
How many black politicians can you think of ? Now do the same with Native American politicians
The commenter said "alot is relatable" not that it was the same identical situation. We did not sit through this deeply informed video to get to the comments and start hit dog hollering on emotion.@@marcusburden92
I may not be a black man but I can say I see similar issues with in the hispanic community, where extreme capitalism is constantly glorified through our music that is powered by our war on drugs or our liberal media figueres speaking of immigration rights without being critical of the policies that lead to people needing to leave their homes that have been devastated by American greed.
I completely agree as a Hispanic person. There are a lot of parallels with how our communities, especially looking at it from a capitalism perspective
who you think owns and runs the labels? the same jews who tell us whitey is our enemy. we are tools for the zionist crusade
I appreciate you pointing out the parallels.
@@nezahuatez that maybe right but its often up to the individual to see themselves as such and their are some within the black community that go out of their way to exclude Afro-latinos from the culture.( just re read initial comment i hope i dont sound too confrontational )
@@nezahuatez Thank you so much for saying so. People like Arturo Schomburg, Felipi Luciano, Marta Merena Vega and Rosa Clemente all recognized their Blackness. Some people don't understand the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality.
Whew! *snaps*
"A perception of radicalism that challenges NOTHING"
That's a bar.
So glad to have found your site. Insightful, knowledgeable, I am taken aback with what I learned today. Though I knew of certain events, I didn't know it from a Black point of view. As a Puerto Rican born, raised in the South Bronx, I came from a leftist father and a very religious mother and a family who's racial profile was so mixed that as a child I never thought about being mixed. I was Puerto Rican that is all I knew. So when I got my first job, someone asked me what was I. I thought it was a ridiculous question and thought she was not too bright. My answer to here was, "I'm a girl"! Her answer, ""No, no I mean where are you from, your religion, who are you! My answer, "I'm Puerto Rican". I was so naive and sheltered that this new world mystified me. I will always be and feel like an alien, living in two different worlds.
My Dad, his mom, and his dad are all legacy HBCU grads. Growing up there was always so much pressure to be the "right" kind of black woman. When my mom moved to rural Ohio I decided to follow her rather than stay with my dad's family, not because I didn't love them---my grandfather was GOD to me, but because I wasn't like them. I didn't want the weight of the black middle class legacy they created on my shoulders. I graduated from WVU with a BA in Literature and Communications and I work making 45k a year caring for people with developmental disabilities. I'm OK with that. I don't NEED to be an HBCU alumni with a Doctorate and a mic. I like to care for people and I just want to find a modicum of peace in this world before I die. Not all generational curses are poverty and domestic violence. Some poisons come from silver platters.
You so right . When you come from uppity black folk your whole life becomes a stifling looking over your shoulder constant state of defining your self . Creating artificial circles and marriage becomes a breeding contract for your elders. Do you be natural and mix with whomever you vibe with
Y'all are a bunch of sellout Joe Biden voting house 🥷🏾
Somehow I've neglected to find how your parents wanting you to go to their Alma mater is on the same page as genetic affinities towards alcoholism or hyperviolence being systemically fed to the youth.
Awesome testimony! I'm from Charleston West Virginia, with a special needs child. May the Most High Yah continue to bless you, and enlarge your territory for His Kingdom. Shalom
You’re silly
I literally am on my third listen of this video today. I am a 25 yo black man with little to no education on African American history, and I’m embarrassed to say that. Seeing this video put a spark in me to study up on these topics spoken of throughout this video. Looking forward to buying another bookshelf to fill up.
Same except I'm 30 and female. All through my schooling I never understood where we went after freedom from slavery and before the civil rights movement. Finally, finally, I know
Look into Fred Hampton, George Jackson and The Black Panthers you'll not be disappointed
Back in the day many successful people were high yellow marginal people who were cautiously more acceptable to white folks. Many these individuals had pointed nose, and wavy ,fuzzy ,curly hair.
Don’t none of us really know nothing… We have to unlearn!
....and relearn faster than we learnt to unlearn.@@Blackindiangang
When you said strictly diciplined people, it brought back some sad memories. I remember like it was yesterday a young black girl in highschool in the early 90s getting thrashed about by her hair by an adult black lady. The girl was with her friends and they just stood there watching probably in shock like I was from a distance. Some of those close were laughing. Turned out the adult was her mom and she gave her a public beating because she had shaved. Pretty extreme and sad.
bro you have a great channel. I came to listen to a hip hop video, stayed for some wrestling videos, and now am really enjoying this.
If I had a dollar for every time F.D. said “but I’ll come back to that later” and actually did, I’d have a significant amount of money
You might even be able to pick yourself up by ur bootstraps and invest in crypto
🤣
I think he said at the beginning of the video that he couldn't cover everything in this video even though it's long
Patience is the virtue of the gods, someone said
An F.D Significant* amount of money 😂
As a young black man (Jamaican immigrant) I've been on a ride lately when it comes to American politics and culture. I had the black inferiority complex growing up in Southern California, then listened to Jordan Peterson (the bootstrap mentality and making my own bed) then the likes of Candace Owens and Thomas Sowell and adopted the idea that the problem is me (black people) and I need to fix it (I have to admit, this did help me pull my shit together) then listening to the Manosphere, before stumbling on F.D Signifier.
I do appreciate people like F.D to be a voice of reason and unbiased facts within this media storm. I see problems with the Democrats but also know Republicans aren't the answer. Neither help most Americans (especially black people). You really should have a larger platform my man. Thank you.
So.. Is ur sh*t in disarray now after you stopped watching those ppl?
Thanks for saying Republicans aren't the answer. Democrats aren't either u right
Here's my problem with the caveat "I have to admit, this did help me pull my shit together." Well, yeah, if you listen to ANYBODY telling you: work harder, be more disciplined, make your bed, don't get arrested, set a weekly budget, set a daily schedule etc, the normal quotidian sagacity of most educated grandparents, or the kind of material you find in a lot of self-help books, assuming you were inclined to listen, you would have "pulled your shit together" anyways. You didn't NEED them.
I had this same discussion with a friend of mine who fell down the Jordan Peterson rabbit hole until i pulled him out of it with lefty psychologists who said the same thing without all the christo-fascist mysticism. I also got him to move left by introducing him to the late, great, genius Michael Brooks (gone way, way too soon).
Information is like the electron: it's everywhere and only one place simultaneously.
Conservatives LOVE to atomize all problems as a function of INDIVIDUAL willpower and INIDIVIDUAL decision-making. This line of thinking JUST SO HAPPENS to greatly benefit those currently advantaged with PURCHASING POWER and wealth.
I strongly recommend watching Michael Brooks (he has a show called the Michael Brooks Show) and the Majority Report with Sam Seder (there are many more, some even better than the Majority Report), those will at least get you in a community of people who understand what you've been through and have the intellectual tools to clarify the complexities that lead people down the right-wing, self-help rabbit hole.
AmeriKKKa, and the anglo-saxon west, has done a LOT of damage to Jamaica - all consistent with right-wing, imperialist, christo-fascist ideology - including supporting Manley's opponent (which led to an uptick in violence in Jamaica in the 70s).
Pull urself by the bootstraps except for the rich and corporate elites. Please spare me!
@Chad May I ask, how did you get caught up in those 3 names, didn't the Black community provide some kind of buffer? Even Black conservatives don't like Candance all that much, and Peterson is a non factor. Real questions.
This is the conversation I’ve been wanting to have. Great job. Damn good job
I appreciate this channel poppin up on my time line , very educational
Thank you for reminding everyone that watching a video is not activism.
As entertaining as a lot of creators are, we can't afford to forget what kind of action really matters
The audience got to do the work.
We need to form online coalitions that can organize locally while communicating nationally.
@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 yeah that's a great idea
When a protest happens, it has to be targeted, organized, and methodical.
People need to know specifically what the protest is about, and the protesters need to provide solutions for the problems they are protesting
MAKING a video is activism... watching a video is just preparation
Are there any resources I can use to learn how to get involved? I live in a very, very rural area and am working poor, so travel/community organizing is really tough right now. The internet is basically my only avenue to the world at large. But, I still want to help more meaningfully than watching, liking, sharing etc.
Edit: also, as it stands right now in the state I live in, I'm not eligible to vote due to a felony conviction a few years back. So, like, that's cool.
merch idea: "We'll talk about that later" shirts
I miss you!
Many of us miss you!
Oh that would be so cool
Miss you Lindsay Ellis!
Nice to see you again!
your videos are so deep and informative 😭 I’ve never subscribed faster to a channel in my life
One of the biggest mistakes I made playing video games with my nephew was letting him pick the character that I would fight with! Never could beat him! That is the same error of letting your enemies pick your leaders!
Why do you need a leader?
@@patjenkins1308To collectively energize the majority toward tangible goals.
@@patjenkins1308we all need a leader. We can’t live this life and maneuver just off our own understanding. When we lean on our own understanding we tend to get ourselves in trouble. Turn to Christ
Every time my little family members wanna get they ass beat in MK they're getting sub zero scorpion smoke or saibot and they get no say in it lmao, they can pick whoever and will catch one of four fades
Indeed ! Haha
Im a black combat veteran. After deploying to iraq in a combat role
I came to the realization of how this country really works.
What you did you do in Iraq?
What made you realize?
@@fudgepacker2858 Sir are you okay.
@fudgepacker you should read properly. he didn't say that the video made him realize, but the deployment in a combat role made him realize how the country works.
i think if americans, white or black, actually leave america and their assumption of how the world works and really look europe, asia, or africa they understand they have been duped
This has been a direct tap in for what I have been observing with in the black community. The same puppets we look at as the motivators or leaders are the mask to the problem. We continue to think they help when the truth is they benefit from our pain and tugging at our emotional traumas.
My mother is a “Black people/creatives have a responsibility to unite us and show that we are capable of coming together instead of shaking ass and twerking on the devil”, of course referring to Lil Nas X. Needless to say, I was so upset by what she was saying that I could barely catch my breath.
I can’t understand how my grandmother was apparently a Black Panther, and now my mom thinks that black people need to “keep our heads down” essentially to as to not upset racists and/or white supremacists. Maybe the trauma and fear from American killing our socialist leaders made them adopt this very defeatist mindset, but the difference in me and her is more than a mile wide. It was such a horrible day for me to hear her say those things, really.
A part 2 of this video should be the Black church. The power it wields and the perpetuation of this same bootstrap narrative it peddles. The Black church in general, parades the talented 10 and treats its poorest members as a blight on the congregation. The focuses in my experience has been getting a larger prettier church over affordable childcare or social, and food programs. Being steadfast in conservatism is the root of its problem and the overall detriment to the Black community in my opinion.
When the Pastor has the nicest car in the congregation, and we still need donations for the roof.
Exactly. Lamor Whitehead is a perfect example of this.
YESS
My two cents, but I really feel that until religion and the bigotries behind it are addressed, Critical Race Theory really will have little impact on how we move things forward. A part two of this video focusing on the black church would be the least of the critical evaluation needed in this most crucial of regards.
@@BigBlack81 a valuable two cents.
Unfortunately the complex relationship of Black people and Jewish people in America is just not a subject most people from either group are willing to engage in. The few times I've tried to converse about it (being Jewish myself) I've been laughed off by Black people or just straight up ignored by Jewish people. It's really frustrating because the seeds of discord between the two groups were so clearly intentionally sowed by the third party elite to prevent any kind of political camaraderie between us.
Third party elite would be who?
Nope. Its none of that shadow cabal nonsense. Its quite simply just antisemitism from African Americans and racism from Ashkenazi jews that lead to the discord. The difference in outcomes certainly doesn't help.
Similar to Black and Asian community friction
@@OwnD1 Yes.
@@sepulcher8263 Where did both of these groups pick up these anti-Semitic and racist beliefs from?
That was the best nearly 2 hours on youtube I've ever spent in one setting. I never sit on social media that long. Great video.
I'm so glad this channel came up on my home page. Educating people on history and how it affects things today is so important. There were too many important individuals and events in this video that I had never even heard of. The topic, and the way the information was presented and organized, made me immediately subscribe and then open about 20 tabs of videos.
This sort of education is all the more important now that people are trying (and often succeeding) to keep so called "CRT" from being taught. It's sad that what little education about black history we get in school is somehow considered inappropriate, despite the fact that it already tends to casts people and events in a light that supports the status quo that is harmful to so many people. It's also sad that so many things you discussed are considered radical or extreme in this country despite the fact they are supported by evidence from both research and the examples of other countries.
Thank you for the high quality content and the effort that went into it!
“And I hear some of the most anti-black sh*t come out of the mouths of people that purport to be pro-black all the time because they think they are different then their poor counterparts that live in certain parts of the city.”
That statement speaks so much volumes.
I know the poet I’m about quote is problematic. But I can’t help but continually be drawn to the poem “the bridge builder.” It’s one of those works of art that changed my life. Because I used to think this way (about my Latino community). If I can make it out the hood why can’t they?
When I was in college I was preparing to speak at a seminar for black and brown youth, getting them to college. When I came across this poem and read these word:
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
It was a revelation. I literally deleted my whole presentation and started from scratch at the hotel. It completely changed my perspective. I saw the bridge builders in my life. And realized I was only the result of interventions from many people, including my parents. I realized that deep inside I thought I was special, when really I was just lucky. And I made a commitment that I would never stop trying to be a bridge builder. To reach back to my community in support. I can’t say I’ve lived up to that commitment as fully as I would like. But this video has redirected me.
It not just about poor. It's character.
Latinos are people from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean who speak Latin based languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. So, Haitians and Brazilians would be included in Latinos along with all Hispanic countries. All Hispanics are Latinos, but all Latinos are not Hispanics.
@@clarity2974 so like...what Cosby said?
@fudgepacker Latinos are from Latin America, Hispanics are people from countries that mainly speak Spanish.
The fact that you said you were scared and still decided to do this means a lot. Thank you, brother
Bravery, is being scared and doin it anyway. This was inspired.
This guy is a hypocrite and is sending a dangerous message
@@josephreyes3620 How so?
@@Rahnotrob Capitalism is the best economic system, he prospers from it, but preaches an alternative message
This guy criticizes capitalism and benefits from it. In this same video he talks about how he is financially doing well because of this content which is because of capitalism. The irony.
Any artist, athlete, entertainer, business owner, inventor, author, etc. that grew up poor. Literally anyone that grew up poor and has money now has prospered because of capitalism.
I’m from south Florida, and ppl like Kodak, Trick Daddy, Ross, etc. are rich because of capitalism. They pour money into where they’re from and give so much game and wisdom.
This guy is evil towards his own skin color. He’s being paid buy someone to spread this garbage.
He’s a leftist puppet
The left has really brainwashed the black community. It’s wild
@@josephreyes3620it’s only dangerous if ur of the perspective any one of the groups. He’s only informing while keeping it clear and concise when his opinion is biased.
Great video as always. It was especially interesting to hear more about Black Wall Street. The first time I ever heard anything about it was a few years ago, and as someone who lives and predominately grew up in Oklahoma, I was shocked that I’d never even heard mention of it in school at all. Loved getting more information about it and seeing another prospective of its inevitable destruction that is often ignored.
I believe Farakkahan had something to do with Malcolm’s Assassination. But to be fair, in that clip he said the words he spoke lead to lose of life. Idk if that’s him sayin he was apart of the hit, I think he was more sayin his words inspired the anger that lead to the hit.
Me and my brother was talking about this and it’s definitely looks like he had him removed to take his spot
He’s ultimately responsible, since without him and his direct or indirect support Malcolm would not have been assassinated (at least in the way it did happen).
As a Jewish fan, I appreciate you touching on issues of anti-semitism. Jews certainly have a lot of anti-racist work to do in America as well! We need healthy critique as well.
I second that ❤ there are many of us who want to heal the divides between our communities
Yup. And thank you for being an ally to the cause.
Hasidic Jews in NY have a reputation for being racist but, like most things, generalizations have a funny way of allowing for exceptional exceptions.
What lol? Someone forgot their medicine this morning and so did so many humans on this earth. Holy smokes.
@@xMXWLx define yo people lol? What an absurd statement of pure thought.
@@xMXWLx You assume we all approve of what the Israeli government is doing. Or that there aren't protest happening in Israel right now over it. We ARE talking to "our people," whatever you think that means.
As a former member of the NOI, it’s refreshing to hear someone else acknowledge the fact that it’s a cult. I was a kid when I was in it, and those teachings effect me negatively until this day. Thank you.
Do not feel bad. I’ve known a lot of people that became involved in the NOI nonsense because they were socially and economically vunerable. Thank you for sharing your perspective and speaking out against them.
@@senxauraximili7106 That socioeconomic vulnerability is exactly what keeps their recruitment numbers intact. Some religions attract the fearful. NOI seems to attract the fearful and disgruntled. It’s like a weight off my shoulders to have people like you to express those thoughts to for the first time.
@@DuckiesDad08 no problem. I hope we can continue to push the dicussion further as I feel the NOI and the minister have not been put under enough scrutiny and critque in our community for far too long.
If you and your predecessors were never disenfranchised on that scale you likely wouldn't have been in a position to be vulnerable to horseshit like that.
@@DuckiesDad08 The Nation of Islam....The Mercy of Allah, The Peace Given to Black Men and Women, and from Us...a Gift to the World. Sorry you dropped out and sided with weaker ideas. But you'll never defeat The Teachings with any of your ideas. That is why I place my full confidence in It. Calling The Nation a cult, is like a white person calling a Black person a Negro. It's an insult. It's a undersight, it's violently dismissive of all the remarkable aspects of The Nation. And you two should be ashamed. Peace.
Thank you for the section on the Capitalist. I feel like I've been going insane talking about this idea. You gave me a lot of references to help me have this conversation in the future.
I’ve caught a couple of your videos now but this one takes the cake. Subscribed bro. I can’t wait to catch more of your work 👏
Great video. I was raised heavily in the Black Excellence mindset and it took so long to unlearn. I grew up in the Wealthiest black county in the US (PG Maryland) and was only surrounded by the capitalist success stories. I was told by teachers, neighbors, family, and career advisors to go to college, infiltrated and cahnge the system from the inside. I just got my PhD, but that mindset never sat right with me. It wasn't until the 1619 project that i found ways to explain that logical dissonance. "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" and all that.
Time to build your own house with your own tools
If you get what I mean, turning imagination into reality. Manifesting the Black WORLD, the black UNIVERSE
I agree most blacks that are successful is because of eating affirmative action for finding a way to exploit their peoples situation
@@Doggin27 a Single Individual can't dismantle oppressive systems by himself, Revolution is a collective effort.
@@TheProletariat321 Then we must build our houses with our tools together
The thing running through my mind with all of this is Ta-Nehisi Coates saying (paraphrasing) "the right to be an American is the right to be mediocre."
Which, like, should be a unifying concept? Why is the expectation for any discreet group to be excellent just to earn the right to exist? It reminds me of the thing I was told growing up, "if you work super duper hard with terrible pay then eventually you'll be recognized and raised up and do well for yourself."
We were all taught that, and that meant that business owners could count on hard docile workers that are there for a hope that was never put in writing.
This is something I still struggle with as a black professional. I see white mediocrity rewarded with money, while I am rewarded by being held up as a standard knowing I’m making less. I’m asked to help my white counterparts…but I am not considered past a tool. When I question this I am told they are a good person, and that is suppose to shut down my critique
@@AbsurdCats I’m sorry to hear that, honestly. I remember awhile back talking with a female coworker, and how often she, in her experience, is made to feel dumb at work, like she’d be part of a conversation where topics are brought up and brushed away without her having a chance to catch up on what’s going on. My first response was that I feel dumb all the time, and that these are positions of growth, but I had to think. I, as a white guy, have an opportunity to prove myself and be recognized every time I face something I can’t do. She doesn’t have the opportunity, just the feeling of being out of her depth.
That second step, of realizing that the opportunities aren’t evenly distributed and that I benefit from the opportunities given to me just so dang much, is hard. It’s very hard for me to swallow that mediocrity in my communities default to white supremacy. I don’t try to settle for that, that’s why I’m here. But enough folks are like Homer Simpson going “most days just I try to not hurt until I get to crawl back into bed.” (Another paraphrase). How can we expect more and allow for less? And why is the onus on improving entirely on people who look like you rather than people who look like me?
BINGO! Love, love, love this comment.
Comments like this are why i even bother with the Comments Section on TH-cam.
Well-said. I've always known and understood this but never articulated it this way.
It's reminiscent of Dubois' talented 10th, or the Chris Rock joke that in order to live in the neighborhood he lives in he has to be a world-class, legendary comedian, but his neighbor? A dentist. Not the world's BEST dentist, not even a top 10 dentist in the world, just a regular dentist. Lol. Great joke, but the underlying truth is maddening.
If you aren't a WASP, you have to be twice as great to earn half as much, until one day you are "recognized" (hmmm, who's doing the "recognizing?"), after which you will attain (maybe) income parity. It's a sad joke that only ossifies the existing class structure by JUSTIFYING these otherwise fictitious barriers to entry.
It's a perversion of what "meritocracy" SHOULD mean rather that what it actually means for all practical purposes in a white-supremacist, crony-capitalist empire.
@@AbsurdCats Great screen name btw! The Stranger is a classic.
Speaking of Camusian absurdities, as an aside, I find it laughable that arabs in north africa are so emotionally invested in rewriting the actual history of ancient egypt - that black nubians/black egyptians built the pyramids - so much so that they've banned Kevin Hart from visiting Egypt for (accuratre) comments he made on the racial genealogy of the Egyptian empire.
@@AbsurdCats Yupp, that's why "class" is insufficient to break down a WHITE SUPREMACIST system.
If a black man were to discover the cure for cancer, they'd kill him and claim his dim-witted red-headed assistant came up with all the ideas.
White Americans love to steal and then claim they invented the very thing they stole. They did it with Country, gospel, rock n roll etc.
Honestly, black professionals need to organize, unite, and create institutional leverage to combat this culture of racialized income suppression.
Also, you should ask them next time, "if they are a good person and they are more handsomely paid than I, doesn't that imply that I'm a bad person?" And then follow up with, "what exactly constitutes a "good" person?"
Their heads would explode (actually probably not given how indifferent most white Americans are to racial plight).
The double agent part resonated with me. It was like finally putting my finger on movies like Lean on Me that always rubbed me the wrong way. Probably because after that movie came out, my high school went through successive principals trying to land the next Joe Clark.
This video is top tier!! The music selections and everything. Such an educational and entertaining watch!! ❤
Saw it on Nebula ! Watching it here too! Get your popcorn 🍿 ITS GOOD
Same!!
Okay okay, I’ll get the subscription 😊🤙🏾.
So nebula is legit?
@@timecircle8420 super legit! You’ll love it and this video is much longer on there like an extra 25 mins
@@timecircle8420 I think so! The app is a little buggy sometimes but I have really enjoyed it so far.
"These young girls have no business having sex."
Woof. Especially coming from Cosby that is a truly sickening clip.
He forgot to append ", except with me" to that sentence.
@@KnarfSteinlol when he had young girls like Elvis Presley?
Ad hominem If what he said has no validity, except that HE said it?
Him mocking slang is really telling seeing how his cartoon "Fat Albert" promoted slang in each character he voiced
Fd is right hes always been a double agent
@@jdeniro1844bro, don’t miss the point. it’s about him forcing sex on people while demonizing girls for having sex willingly. it’s hypocrisy at best and disgusting with the full context
Thank you for taking on the utter emptiness that is farakhan. Pascal Robert's description of "a perception of radicalism that challenges nothing" perfectly portrays farakhan.
@FDSignifire
Thanks a ton man. I'm a white teacher in a predominately black school teaching AP US History and AP US Government & Politics. Your channel has been a huge resource for me in challenging my perspective, blindspots, and biases so that I can properly represent and steel-man the arguments of black intellectual history. Keep up the good work. I'll be supporting your channel financially.
I remember watching that Morgan Freeman movie when I was in high school, and my first thought was, “if these kids are SO bad and dealing drugs and sexually assaulting people and shit, why are they even attending school?” There was already something really off about the whole thing.
i thought that about "gangster rappers" too, when some people would demonize them. like, do you not see them singing for a living? singing. song writing. you scared of that? you need to relax.
The part that confused me the first time I saw the movie was when he chained up the exits. It shocked me and then he gets in trouble for it and he tries to twist it to protect the kids. Chaining up exits was a dangerous game with those kids lives.
@@payasoinfeliz forgive me if I come off as condescending, but imo it's like saying that a cow is not dangerous bc I have never seen it do anything other than eat plants to survive. Sure, it doesn't eat people, but if approached wrong, it isn't harmless either.
'Gangster rappers' have a pretty bad stigma in my experience, for being a bad influence through their lyrics (drugs, abuse, anti-social and criminal perspectives on life) and behaviour off-stage (drugs again, rape, violence etc). I know that it is biased and it's just the few rotten apples who spoil the who thing, but it is in reality, that this is what people are worried about, I think. Also these issues aren't limited to gangster rappers.
No one is scared of a singer, they are scared of what ideas a singer can plant into mind of people around them, for example their kids... Especially since in some countries musician are quite influential.
@enot2140 I do think it's important though to still point out the actual issues with how racialized that stigma is. There were at the time and still are plenty of rock and country songs that advocate for what could be argued as much worse then what gangsta rap depicts. But there was no push back when a white rock star sings about his love for underage girls.
@@TheMasterBountakun hm maybe heavy metal cannibal corpse comes to mind, but gangster rappers also have a connection with it, like ice T. im trying to think of popular rock/country artists, like what would be the equivalent to dead wrong with biggie and eminem who probably the arguably best known rappers? polly by nirvana? idk i really cant think of something on the other side like this because heavy metal also demonized.
I saw the news about the Texas mall shooting interviewed by a Black survivor and one thing I took note was how he asked for better and harder policing of the mall to prevent more issues like this. I never wanted to scream at the TV in front of my sleeping father in my life up until then
Now that just crazy, even after seeing how over-policing doesn't even prevent crime (it emboldens it).
@@juratory8876 Nnoooo, crime goes brrr with no police brutality!! /s
@@stevonwhite8933speak English
People want safety but all they ask and vote for is security theater that makes us less safe :/
@@christopherm202dcfinest2 I think they are saying "if there is no police brutality, crime will be rampant" but sarcastically /s
Ive been watching your videos for the past week or so. I'm proud of you my friend. I would love to sit down with you and have a chat. But I'm in Texas. Wish I could get involved in my state and city. Keep up the great conversations and topics .
you can! black and brown folk in texas have a big activist tradition and theyre still moving. find your people!
Hey New Sub here,
Love your vids and the work ya doing keep it up.
Chiming it to say that the Lean on Me mention unlocked a HS memory of me watching it during class as well.....in 07. Our class spent the whole lesson riffing on it.
A video explicitly focusing on class conflict in the black community. This has been a long time coming. I remember the first article I read about it and I'm glad that this is out. This feels like a conclusion to a long journey.
I'm really glad this video exists.
I live in Atlanta and have seen Killer Mike talk, in person, about raising up working class black people, only to immediately turn around and then see him, in person, publicly support corrupt politicians like Kasim Reed. I feel like Ive tried a lot of times to explain that his personality is almost entirely a selfish, inauthentic, capitalist facade. I also regularly get called racist for those kinds of comments. It’s an ongoing journey of learning for myself, and I appreciate you taking the time to address topics like this which elicit a knee-jerk reaction in people. Keep doing your thing and inspiring people like me. Thank you FD.
That's unfortunate, because I really enjoyed the episode about Christianity within the black community of his show that was on Netflix. Don't get me wrong as a white person no black person needs my approval concerning their religious beliefs, but for as long as I've had a semblance of racial awareness the idea that anyone in this day and age would buy into a religion that was the defacto religion of the culture that oppressed and enslaved your ancestors is perplexing to me. Especially when on a global scale there's another religion that is bigger, that really espouses many of the same moral beliefs, and purportedly originates from the same entomology as that, but without all the generational atrocities, and almost completely eradicate any sense of cultural identity on a generational level, yet for the most part refuse to acknowledge that reality.
The concept of not creating or constructing any physical representation of what one might imagine Allah to look like due to the possibility that said representation could be corrupted into a false idol is an idea that I find pretty compelling. Other ideas that I have heard spoke of make more sense too. Yes Ive heard of some misogyny being alluded to, but I've also heard some progressive imams discount that stuff as being informed through societal ideologies of the time period. And you can say the same about Christianity but, I don't think that's quite the same as adopting the defacto religion of your oppressors.
Also the episode that brings up the idea of it being common that black people in America don't sleep very well was very enlightening. It makes sense, but it's not something that's ever been brought to my attention prior to that. It was pretty heartbreaking also
i find this especially confusing considering much of the lyrics on RTJ4 seem to hold some radical political content, and having only heard his music i was very confused when i first encountered clips of KM spreading capitalist nonsense propaganda. Also didnt he like campaign with Bernie?
@@emil-cz2vp you can be aware that the system's cruel and harmful, to the point of loudly speaking on it, and still make compromises with it every day when you've claimed enough reward in that system that any major change might tear down what you've built up
the Bernie campaign(s) were a great place to witness a lot of people who understood how bad things are on a lot of levels and said a whole lot of the right things, while also having too much of their own worth in this system getting in the way of an uncompromised fight against it
@@donnydarko7624 Awesome comment. Thank you.
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I Fuck with your channel! HARD!! So multi faceted, great attempt at not flattening the conversation, informed, dynamic, complex. Amazing job my brother. Keep up the real work!
Learn to speak and write proper first. MLK and Malcolm X never used foul ugly language. Words are spells and spells have power and should be used carefully.
Very balanced view, keep up the good work!👊🏾
You're undisputedly the best sociopolitical channel on this platform. It continues to grow too, which is fucking awesome.
You are a truthteller to the bullshit.
Absolutely. He does a REALLY good job at encouraging people of all intersections to study an issue, and acknowledge how those other intersections different from your own might interact with the topic at hand. Of course, you can't convince everyone, but he's been more effective than anyone else I've seen.
-A queer Asian American man living in Europe
Agreed.
yeah I watch a ton of different types of YT creators. FD is my all time fav. Pop Culture Detective and Auntee Khadija are up there too
Yeah, he has become one of my list of the top 5 must watch sociopolitical and news youtubers.
Yes yes! 💕💕
I feel like I should be getting college credits from these videos with how much I learn from all of them
You are absolutely right💥
I am glad to have ran across this video. I think we need to have many more conversations like this! Some of us seem to fight those who look like us harder than anyone else, because they think we are hating instead of trying to find common understanding and agreement.
I just gotta say that Cosby intro hits way too hard, the editing in this video is spectacular 🔥🔥🔥
As soon as you brought up Cosby I had a flashback to my white grandmother who would send me chain emails circa 2007 and one of them was nothing but anti-black rhetoric from Cosby about what black people need to do to get respect. Truly insidious shit.
Edit: OMG My white dad LOVED Lean on Me! We'd watch it together anytime it came on cable when I was growing up.
The anti-blackness my white family had was INSANE. I am biracial (Korean) and had to unlearn so much racism. FUCK.
Lmao why was your white family so concerned with Black people? That's crazy. Glad you're not that way! Stay strong.
As a French White man, this was truly instructing. It's rather easy to draw comparisons with other movements, classes, and minorities issues all over the world.
Why is France so racist these days? Like oh my god!
This dude is lying about the NOI a doesn’t have a clue about what we believe.
This aint your business, Mr Baguette
@@VGMDK1999 Yoooo 😭😭😭😭 Not Tea n Crumpets
@@VGMDK1999 I think he's just trying to learn? Why are you calling him names
"Why do I like what I like and How do I know what I know" is incredibly useful and I want to keep that internalized forever now.
God damn. This is possibly most well-rounded channel on TH-cam.
As a mixed native, the indigenous and black struggle are VERY similar and I find a lot of this relatable, unfortunately. Thank you for the video!!
Can u expand like in what way?
We love y’all…
No it’s not sorry to burst your bubble
@@assata1367I’m not sure what you mean. Yes, blacks were enslaved, oppressed, dehumanized in the US as a fact and still reeling from it. However, Native Americans were perceived as enemies, thought of as salvages and killed sight seen. Land stolen and put on reservations. Essentially the US committed genocide on the Native American population. Currently we have a romanticized view of Native American history when the fact is the US darn near obliterated from earth.
Right, NA struggle is far worse @@assata1367
My family owns an African Centered k-12 Private school. I have a doctorate in Culturally responsive education and we have been operating since 1996. I enjoy your platform and incorporate this information into my curriculum. We are one of those schools that could definitely benefit from community support.
I attended one of the first successful African American private schools in Newark NJ. Chad school. I learned lift every voice and sing in full praise God for that. The African children laughed and mocked us for their observance of that made up tradition that obviously meant nothing to them besides obtaining citizenship. There was no sharing of their dialect, beliefs, nor exploration of similarities. A few anomalies within their social order; a girl named Kenya studying me and learning how to blend in as a negro. And my best friend damilola who chose friendship with me over becoming an outcast within the majority African Americans.
Wow! I am so sorry that you had that experience. Fortunately for us, we are a true diaspora and have been since our beginning in 1996. Our students are from The Caribbean and Africa. This year we had three senior males-one African American, one Ibo and the other was Puerto Rican
@@st.syaacademy8331 I'm appreciative of the socialization because it made me aware of the true meaning of diaspora.
@@jennaywilliams7664Negro, is it the 60’s?
This is Beautiful! Having Elders to help teach period is an asset. Being Male is even better as there's a serious need for balance and young men need REAL MEN to follow. The fact you have A Diasporan man, An Igbo man, and an ALKEBULAN/Carib man is ACES!!! I pray your school thrives and grows.
I think a key underlying factor in this discussion is one which exists in almost every “group” or community of people, just about from the beginning of human existence (or at minimum, from before the Middle Ages and forward).
It’s organized religion as a whole. Not to imply belief in a higher power or devotion to a set of principles alone results in division or a breakdown in society, not by any means. I’m referring to ambitious human beings who see organized religion as a pathway to personal prosperity under the guise of “awakening society” or whatever term they use in their grift. It’s not about helping people see the world in a meaningful light or giving people outlets to deal with their fear of their own mortality. It’s about money, power and/or influence on as large a scale as possible, and if anyone disagrees with that assertion I challenge you to look in to the history of any faith considered “mainstream”. Look in to the so-called leaders of those faiths and look in to what they’ve done to get to their positions. Doesn’t take long to see humans pollute things in general, and one of those things is the practice of religion as a whole. The fact people rob/rape/kill behind their beliefs in one god vs another is proof of that, and the fact it’s just as bad today as it was 100 years ago in many ways is evidence that there’s no end in sight.
Love this video... One of the best informational ones about our people I have come across in awhile. You got a new follower. 💪🏾
I'm surprised someone finally stepped up and talked about the intricacies of how the our communities are just being led in circles and kept in line. 2nd vid of yours I've watched today, subbing
Danny: "iPoder a gente!"
as a jewish person, i think the difference between antisemitism on its own, and antisemitism as a facet of white supremacy is an important difference to bring up, but it isn’t a lot of the time, so it’s cool that you did that
Isn't it funny how 3 months later the Palestinian struggle and the "world leaders" reaction to it highlighted what you were alluding to and the powers that be still try to make them one thing?
@@tinyiko2311 It's also funny how both conservatism and liberalism under the context of the American government always results in the same outcome: More money for Israel's war.
You are right, I belong to another group "PeopleForBuckeyes"!
@@tinyiko2311 tell me abou it... Even when it's not white supremacy, it's clear a lot of people who hate jews because of Israel clearly do not understand how geopolitics work. They're just seeing a poor opressed palestinian, and a tyranical, colonialist jew on the other, which is such a reductive take.
Yes, we do need a ceasefire, yes a lot of civilians are dying for no reason, but that occidental narrative of "colonized vs colonizer" ignore the generational traumas on both side which led to this situation. It also ignores the question: "how do we build a lasting peace after the ceasefire?", which is a crucial subject.
@@confaffalatorThat's what happens when you are lobbied by the AIPAC.
I know that I am new to your channel, but your dialogue is pure genius.
You brought up names.I haven't heard in a long time.That my father used to tell me about in the 70s and early eighties.
He taught Afro-American studies before becoming a principal in Washington D.C.
I just found this TH-cam page, and I absolutely love it!
Your scholarly information and opinions, delivered boldly, clearly, with a sense of urgency, and with some humor, gives me hope that those who want to attack the status quo aren't solely looking for clout/money.
Thank you, and keep up the Noble work you are doing.
As a caucasian Jew, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the unwavering criticism of Farrakhan. After the lack of visible criticism when Desean Jackson promoted Farrakhan's praise of Hitler, I remember asking a close black friend why it felt like there were more people showing support than denouncing it. He was quick to mention the level of power and influence Farrakhan has and that for celebrities especially there's a real danger in vocally opposing him. Combine that with white conservative elites elevating problematic black voices to delegitimize ALL radical thought that could beneficially challenge the toxic status quo, it makes sense that fringe movements like NOI (which has directly aligned itself with other cults like scientology) are able to be presented as if they're mainstream influences.
Not that Jews are always the best allies, I remember a guy I knew in college (upper-middle class Jew) who opposed elevating other suppressed minorities because they'd challenge his job prospects. I had some words about that and hopefully as an adult he found some empathy...
On the subject of job searching, the problem is arguably worse now that AI/ML are being used to screen resumes, because they use qualities of successful candidates to decide what will make future candidates successful, which establishes preexisting racial bias in the algorithms.
On why black capitalism doesn't work, it shouldn't have to go beyond "capitalism doesn't work for most white people so why the fuck would it help anyone who's starting from less?!" Capitalism creates a small class of elites and leaves most people deprived of resources. Capitalism doesn't just encourage exploitation of underclasses, it requires it.
Lastly I just want to mention how much I love FD's videos because the arguments are so well structured and supported. I'm nowhere near as well researched on these issues and I learn so much new info to better substantiate my perspectives in a way I never otherwise could. It's like sitting in lectures with one of the best professors you could ever have. Though I gotta say I'm disappointed that my Patreon $$$ aren't helping him overthrow the state 🤣
You don't like that Farrakhan called out some of the un-kosher practices of Jews that are actually true.
Capitalism only works when you have someone to exploit. That's why whites have no problem bringing in loads of undocumented workers to ensure blacks don't get a foothold.
"Not that Jews are always the best allies, I remember a guy I knew in college (upper-middle class Jew) who opposed elevating other suppressed minorities because they'd challenge his job prospects."
This is SO deep, SO, SO deep, im tempted to write a whole essay on it. Thanks for a wonderful comment and, again, I'm learning from the comments section.
Jewish people are fascinating as a group because you'd think, if ANYBODY, has empathy for the plight of black Americans, it's the Jews. I mean, what other non-melanated group, perhaps the Slavs (ehh, not really), has suffered so much Othering and persecution for being the Other, than the Jews?
If any group should be supporting of African-Americans it's Jewish people - I mean, even today, people hate Jews for the sole fact of being Jewish - is that any more rational than hating somebody because they have more melanin on their epidermis?
And to be fair, as I like to joke, Jews have probably been more supportive of black causes (at least in America) than any other subset of "white" people. Einstein would famously turn down speaking engagements at white universities and instead give those speaking engagements at HBCUs - he also famously invited and hosted the great singer Mariam Anderson in Princeton when she was performing in NJ but wasn't allowed to stay in any of Princeton's segregated hotels.
Who cares about what cha have to say, couldn't U watch another video?
@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 I think it ultimately comes down to what someone like that would rather be - Jewish or fully 'white.' It's kapo mentality to actively maintain and benefit from systems of oppression for others, and I have nothing but contempt for that Ben Shapiro-grade behavior. The vast majority of us aren't like that, but those who are need to be confronted.
And you're right that there should be solidarity between Jewish and Black people due to shared histories of oppression and diaspora. Historically, especially during the civil rights era, there were a lot of prominent Jewish leaders acting in solidarity. It's possible though that as generations passed and systemic oppression of Jews weakened, some Jews as I mentioned earlier chose to align with whiteness. And as antisemitic hate crimes are globally on the rise, I hope enough of them recognize the dangers in choosing that path...because I know where it leads, my grandparents were Holocaust survivors
Race and class are interwoven but NOT interchangeable. Big ups to a fellow Bri for mentioning it. I’ve been arguing this point with a lot of black people recently. Things like Guns and Healthcare in America prove this point EVERY day
Are black people saying race and class are interchangeable? I feel like this is usually a white liberal/leftist argument.
Black Americans are failing to pick up, what the greatest black leaders put down decades ago…
Are you arguing that we shouldn't conflate the two, or that class cannot insulate one completely from the effects of racism?
@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 neither. I’m saying what I said.
You said what you said, but can you clarify a bit. I’m want to understand what you meant.
you a real one for adding that tekken 5 sfx at the end
This aged like fine wine ✨
Thank you my brother for being brave enough to speak the truth. It was absolutely brilliant how you articulated and broke down the 3 main problems facing our community. The sad fact is that nothing happens without the government’s knowledge and approval. I learned this after my brother, Mark Clark was murdered, along with Fred Hampton in Chicago back in 1969. In doing my research for my book titled,” Mark Clark: Soul of a Black Panther, “I learned that the Black Panther Party had over 40 FBI informants in Chicago: Not one, not two, but over 40. Many of these informants are still living today. The real leaders that were actually trying to help our people were murdered off, and what we have left is charismatic entertaining deceivers. In my opinion, most, if not ALL of our so called black leaders and groups are part of the plan to systematically deceive our people. It’s a hard pill to swallow; but if we take it with a tall glass of pure water, we can see it for what it is.
ahh...the bitter sweet 100proof truth...
definitely need that tall glass of water to chase it with
"still givin'up cash
to theLeaders
knowin' damn well
they ain't gon'feed us" -2pac
Ohh man, couldn't have said it better.
Martin Luther King Jr was the very first puppet being part of the black boule which had him selected to protest and preach non violence to blacks which was more detrimental than actually fighting back those who were abusing us
Like the white Jewish guys paying rappers to warp young people's brains
This video (and the first one) have been so informative. My mother is half black and she is VERY anti-black. She says so much bullshit that makes me want to pull my hair out and this video gives me some useful points to throw back at her.
The self-hate we receive thru society is so unfortunate... I'm half-Arabic, and I had to see and hear my grandfather whitewash his family from any Arabic culture, stop speaking the language, use white supremacist talking points, refuse to go to my sister's wedding cause she was marrying a black man, etc, in the fear that he'd get the same bigoted treatment his father (who was very dark-skinned) got when he came to this country.
He basically became the type of guy that would've been racist towards his own father, in order to be seen as "white".
lol man I’m living in a sicker society than I thought I was 😂😂😂😂
Wow. I have no words just wow lol
@@Jimmy1982Playlists that is so sad
Im glad I found this video and your page. Keep it up!
love what you do, keep educating and informing people, you are making a difference.
I am a white 19 yo woman who lives in provo Utah. for years I have gone to BLM protests and challenged my family’s very racist views and language and I have been basically removed from some of my family because of it. But I honestly have the most shallow understanding of what Im trying to stand for. Never have I heard of the NOI until watching this video. I thought I knew so much already but thanks to this video I know there is a lot more for me to learn. I am thankful to have come across this TH-cam video and for your creativity and uniqueness in explaining issues that I would tune out against my will because of my adhd. Thank you!
This guy is a hypocrite and is sending a dangerous message to black people
Capitalism is the best economic system, he prospers from it, but preaches an alternative message
He’s a leftist puppet
BLM is on the verge of bankruptcy, BLM was takin from the blacks and never helped any black movement, instead pushed lgbtq agenda , bought mansions in LA and again hasn’t done 1 thing for the black community, listen to more Malcolm x like the white elite liberals vs the white conservative. That’s actual real elements of how to help a group of young blacks, and help us thrive. The 36min mark in this video is exactly what happens in America. Me not us, never helps the situation but only themselves. Kwame Ture.
Crazy that the US education curriculum does not exist. Autobiography of Malcom X was part of my 10th grade English class in MD
All lives matter.
damn i used to live there 😅 good luck bestie
As an Eastern European, all this seems so outlandish, but at the same time, I can find direct points of comparison, because at its root, tyranny and opression is identical all across the map.
Much love from Romania!
Buna ziua!
As a Jewish person, I grew up with the boomers in my community telling me that black people are antisemitic without getting much of an explanation. It always seemed to me that our communities would make natural allies, and I couldn’t understand why the Jewish elders were being so dismissive.
We have a shared history of persecution, we have a “stranger in a strange land” thing in common, we have socialist ideologies built into our very culture. So why the animosity. It seems like there are people in positions of power in both our communities that want to keep us at each other’s throats.
I have been binging your videos because I really do want to start having this conversation. But like all new things anyone tries, I’m pretty bad at it
gets easier. engage, listen, and embrace being wrong. we are all shaped by the forces around us, and sometimes those forces want us to believe wrong stuff. but stay engaged, listen and learn and you got this.
Such an IMPORTANT discussion and so well addressed. Thank you. We need much more of this type of discussion.
Dear sir. I am a 55 year old man Jamaican living in Montego Bay. I cannot begin to thank you for your content. I was riveted for the whole video. You had me revisit the history of Garvey...a national hero. Mostly I am encouraged to see young men teaching us older folks history lessons...its like my education put me in a trance that I'm only now waking up from...but better late than never. Thanks again and I look forward to seeing you reaching more people beyond the US as I will be sharing your name and content to anyone willing to hear it.
I am a Jamaican living in Montego Bay as well. I just came across his content by accident but very much appreciate his reasoning and teaching 🙏
This fellow has no real understanding of Marcus Garvey and his UNIA. His critique is rooted in a superficial knowledge of Garvey and Garveyism
💪 that was well said and I salute you 👑
As a poor white Scot thank you very much for helping me understand black American issues more. I already knew a very small amount about the likes of the NOI, Marcus Garvey and Cosby (before all the awful sex scandals came to light) and I want to thank you so so much for giving me more insight. We don't have many black people in Scotland, most are in England-we have a larger Middle Eastern community. But again, thank you so much
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You do have many Mixed-Race (part Black and Part white) Scottish folks and a few Black Scottish folks in Scotland and both face anti-Black racism in Scotland, like their cousins do in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
@@RoderickSpode ok maybe I should have been clearer, apologies-in my area of Scotland I should have said
Edit-although looking at the last census I can get full data from this is what it had to say-
"Just over 1% of Scottish population identified as African, Caribbean or Black. Under 1% identified as Mixed, Multiple or Other ethnicity, including Arab". Just over 1% really isn't a lot and under 1% Mixed, Multiple or Other, including Arab is barely anything. While in England the last census I can find has 3% as Black British, 2% as British mixed and so while it's only a roughly 2% or so difference there are still more Black or mixed-raced in England like I first stated-which, isn't a lot either way but my point still stands that Scotland is less diverse (overall but especially when it comes to black or mixed-raced Identifying people). I must point out though that the Scottish and English/Welsh census' are done slightly different but the results are still pretty accurate and have a high rate of return.
One other thing I meant to mention-i didn't in any way suggest these groups didn't receive discrimination, so why you brought it up in the way you did was strange-i know they do as well as all other minorities and it's disgusting. And as my original comment was pointing out I was thanking him for helping me understand more about black American issues-not UK ones, sadly there isn't enough talk about that
There isn't no identifying Mixed - Race folks in Scotland....... There are mixed-race people in Scotland and they do outnumber Black people in Scotland.
I find it strange, in this Internet age, where information is at everyone finger tips, people stlll fringe ignorance in learning factual Black history.
Yes, Scotland is very much less diverse compare to England, and Wales.
No wonder lots of countries are saying Europeans are turning into sissies.
Frankly it's just really refreshing to watch smart people talk. I was about to swear off the internet until I found this channel, now I'm going to mainline every video.
I see this elitism in my community too. As a hispanic you have to either be "hardworking" or you are the the problem.
It breaks my heart when a member of my community "makes it" and take a get away car to a white neighborhood. We should all support our fellow disenfranchised community. Thats how we make change. Supporting each other and voting for policies in the neighborhoods we grew up in.
My Brother you are the Brother to the so called Black Man believe it or not. Yes Mexican are Issachar JACOB who name was change to Israel. This can be found in Genesis 49:14 describe Issachar as crouching down between a burden which is shown today as a Mexican crouched down beside a Donkey. Also Google Israelite symbol you will see the symbol for Issachar is the Donkey.
The Children Of Israel was enslaved by the Egyptians they was made to build,I say this to say just look around you and asked yourself why are Issachar the builders the same was done by Judah who are the so called African American. Also ask yourself why is there a pyrimid in México like those in Egypt.
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Where Im from it's actually Latino kids who can be the rich ones who get handed a great paying construction job from their parents and like you said, definitely had that elitist attitude about their less fortunate counterparts.
That's primitive tribalism