@@BrooklynSaintMickell You are nothing but a right-wing propaganda talking head for a think tank on youtube. You are the right wing version of F.D Signifier.
@@BrooklynSaintMickell • Keep up the good work because all of us are not cut from the same cloth. Unfortunately, the truth hurts, and people have to feel it sometimes before they make a change.
@@Mr.Howell-jn5gy you sound angry. It makes perfect sense to me. Especially when you consider that this group of Black people got angry that Tyla won a BET award because she is "coloured," and thought the woman rapping about the color of her "booty hole" should have won best new artist. I will wait for your explanation. They get offended that Somalians in America identify as Somali. They are ok with men identifying as women, but they demand the Somalis identify as Black despite them having a different culture and religion. I'll leave it at that for now b/c I would love to hear your response.
The more I learn the more I realize as a black man, it’s extremely important that I be as educated, kind and ambitious as possible. Let’s turn these stereotypes around guys. We can fix this
the stereotypes do not apply to men like you. Those who it applies to will never change, and their offspring will emulate it forever. There are two very distinctly different types of "black" Americans.... mostly Caucasian DNA and mostly Negro DNA.
We are our own worst enemy. This can not be turned around. The healthy, functional nuclear black family has been eroded in scale to a shell of its former self. Dysfunction and degeneracy are still highly embraced within the culture and promoted.
Motown wasn't exactly the gold standard in moral uprightness. But artists represented by what Motown stood for, in all fairness had far much awareness, clarity of mind. On how to carry themselves in society/public for the role they played. Than the characters in the entertainment industry today.
It’s that garbage in the mainstream. You’ll have to dig for the gold. The media puts the worst music to the forefront to reinforce the social class with us being at the bottom. They tricked me too until I turned off the radio and looked elsewhere.
Neither the old or new bourgeoisie were any good for the whole of the black community. Instead of separation and looking down on other black ppl (blue vein society), there should've went to the Baptist and methodist churches and taught their way of life and moral standards. A new version of class but with flavor. "There's My story, there's your story, but the truth is somewhere in the middle."
@Turshin it's not wrong to separate yourself from the rot in society. You don't have to be mean to them. The people who looked down on me the most were people from the lower class. There are rotten people with and without money. Also, if you're religious, God said he will separate the crops from the weeds. Like I said before, there is nothing wrong with separating yourself from the slave mind, envious, toxic black people in the black community
I saw a 10 year old black girl twerking for her father on Jerry Springer. The father got up and left. The mother was proud of her child's behavior. Black culture is dying.
It's plantation behavior and they don't even know it. The sexualization of they Black body for entertainment is what the slaves were forced to do. Now, BP act like it's our culture when it's not.
Ditty is a abusive, deviant monster, once again looking at materialist wealth and ignoring the evil that lurks which is precisely why we are where we are.
Notice how once JayZ, Diddy, Black athletes and other's of their class choose either a black bourgeois or white women for their mates and mothers of their spawn once they've reached an elite financial level. They actually h8te where they come from and want to breed their seed out of existence.
Everyone should read Thomas Sowell's book: Black Rednecks and White Liberals. In this book professor Sowell explains that the current Ghetto culture didn't come from Africa, but from poor whites who came from England.
It's not really from England, more lowland scotland and higland scotland , and ulster make up a lot of the original southern stock. That's why the confederate flag has a scotish cross in thier flag. Many of those people were forced south by the new England British and Germanic settlers because they were viewed inferior groups. Also, only some elements, if any, of black culture come from these groups.
I don't know what this book is about but ghetto black culture and white redneck conservative culture are exactly the same. They even vote the same. Not sure where white liberals fit in.
Well, media purposely keeps poor white faces off the screen. Instead, it uses black faces as representatives of poor and poverty. This is ironic since social services and entitlements were initially created for poor whites.
Yeah, it's stupid but what should we expect from the privileged? They lose touch with the rest of reality outside of their paradigm. Like the sons of rich parents, they develop their own opinion of poor people and lump them all together despite barely knowing anything about them and what they do, affirms their confirmation bias. America continues to circle jerk the American conscience into believing they are "good" instead of _average & normal_ like everyone else. I blame their parents who taught them and their parents who taught them. Someone has to break the cycle, on both sides.
I had to learn and accept that there are people who love the low life. No matter how you try to lift them to a higher standard they will reject it. I have had to let a lot of people go and when i did, my personal life improved tremendously. Some of them were family members.
@@AngelaBaldwin-b5l Basically coming out of prison gives you credibility?whilst having a degree could mean your abusive while that's possible it's highly not probable how many abusive college graduates do you know to come to such a conclusion
@@Alkebulan590 First of all you didn’t understand the assignment. Question had nothing to do with women it stated respect from jail than college. You made an attack on women to be general like they all do it. I simplified it to one if all possible you might be the one graduate that is mean and nasty to people or a woman.
Who put the money up? Why are the people putting the money up afraid to stand up for themselves and say, not on my platform? The love of money is the root of all evil.
Country music is just as bad these days, not all but a big majority. They got the half dressed girls shaking their behind. They glorify drinking and adultery, just to name a few. If it ain't glorifying God, then you best believe it's promoting some sinful act or desire. You don't even have to believe God to understand and recognize this to be true. And if I'm being honest, I'd admit to you that some Christian music walks a thin line. Just to clarify, I listen to and enjoy all types of music. Not as much as I once did. It hits a little different now that I have a better understanding of what's really going on in the world, but I do indeed still have an appreciation for talented musicians of all kinds.
@@User78813 Don't be naiv. These kind of people are often: Narcissists, Sociopaths & Psychopaths. They have no morals or remorse. They have sadistic desires. They not gonna change. 🥴😉
@@silverreid7030 dude I genuinely wonder the same thing everyday. A lot of my black friends are getting 3.8 gpas in college and working impressive internships. There’s literally entire colleges “hbcus” full of genius black people. I think to myself “why aren’t any of these guys ever talked about on the news?”
Hmm, seeing a naked black girl twerking out of the top of a car on a busy motorway and thinking she is fantastic, said exactly that and lets everyone down.
While I agree, you should understand that shame doesn't exist in the "progressive" mindset. Shame is the feeling of letting yourself or your loved ones down because you've acted in a way which is contrary to the morals or ethos of yourself or your group. If however, you are part of a group for which accepts and normalizes ANY behavior (progressives), then shame has no basis. Instead, those of the progressive mindset attack people who DO have morals and standards. Progressives weaponize morality against those who hold to their ideals by, ironically, "shaming" them - i.e. If you believe in a healthy lifestyle and moderation, progressives will say you're "body shaming" for pointing out that Lizzo is unhealthy. This is the progressive's stock in trade - gaslighting. It's why progressives want create so many victims - it's easy to control someone who feels they need to be rescued.
I don't know how this guy came up in my recommendations, but he hit the nail on the head in so many ways by just reading historical truths. Thumbs up to this video.
@@jynxce I'm not personalizing anything! I come from a community of Black people who were taught manners no matter what their religion. The original premise is bunk!
I am not American, I am Black British, but American culture has a strong influence. This video was absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for educating us! I really appreciate this type of content. Keep it coming!
I live in the UK , London to be precise and have seen to negative changes taking place especially amongst the youths, in the 90s was the yardie /Jamaican culture in fashion, speeches and manners but now it's the AA ghetto culture that I find despicable.
There is only one thing that is wrong with this information. The culture did not come from slavery. It came from poor southern white people that they had to live with after being freed. Look up Thomas Sowell. black rednecks and the origin of redneck culture in britain.
You're not British, just black. Don't disconnect yourself to feel more in place where you are not natural. Can't you conceive even using the English language is evident of your peoples being out of place... the Sans people have been massacred not because Whites in South Africa but because other Negros have shown no appreciation or mercy... all to get into the built environments of the Whiteman
american "black" culture actually came from the honor culture of the eastern england. the people with the honor culture were shipped to the new world and settled in the american south.
@@werqzeleke2815 That's the symptom of a much larger problem 'innit'? The black family is always the same, broken. People do not respect therapy and getting help so they pass trauma on to their children. Fix the trauma, fix the black/jamaican culture.
@@jjdiggs6 yes. it was in 1974. It was part of the curriculum in a sociology course I was taking. In those days there was heightened awareness of the plight of black Americans. I also read "The Pimp" by Iceberg Slim; Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Here's the thing that many of us knew. Being white would always be a barrier to understand the lived experience of black Americans, especially those who lived in the projects. Playing sports back then interaction with blacks, Puerto Ricans, and other ethnicities who had not fully integrated into American society was a commonplace. Black Bourgeoisie left a lasting impact upon me because I had no idea that were many pockets in mostly cities around the country who were upper middle class professionals and who contributed just as much, professionally, the thriving of those cities
One reason is that black people for the most part will not be critical of bad behavior in black people. And they REALLY won't let other people be critical of them. They insist that even the worse among them be praised.
Civil Rights activists and PhDs (Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Lamont Hill) often defended the deplorable behaviors of the lower class. Then attacked the people being critical of them, whether black, white or other. This is even goes back to the Black Panthers, and even the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X often criticized the "black bourgeoise." The Black Panthers were socialists and wanted to eliminate class hierarchies, by eliminating capitalism. The Nation of Islam, despite being conservative and promoting self reliance and discipline. They still believed in W.E.B. Du Bois' Talented Tenth theory. The older generation, black from other musical genres, and middle class blacks who criticized rap music and Hip Hop culture for perverting the image of Black America, got attacked for being squares, sellouts, bougie, and other things. Nowadays, I know many black folk who grew up loving rap music and Hip Hop culture, especially the ghetto aspects of it. Now in their late 30's and over, say that they can't even listen to it anymore. Not even the old school, all that much. Now they are listening to old school pop, R&B, reggae, soul, funk, Latin, freestyle, and even heavy metal. Many of them don't want to watch any ghetto gangbanger movies. Except maybe New Jack City, Boyz In The Hood, South Central, where there is a strong message. I think there is a cultural shift where many black folk are getting fed up with holding their tongues about the lower classes.
Dude ,,, it’s the same for white people and Asian and whatever group It’s not my John to make excuse or apologize for criminals and or assholes who happen to be black
There's also a culture of well-to-do Blacks from New Orleans, who prospered during the days when the French, who got along well with Blacks, ran the town. They passed their heritage on to their descendants over the generations. Many of these elegant, cultured, articulate, and educated black people migrated up the Mississippi Valley to Chicago and gave a brilliant cultural hue to the city. I knew some of their descendants in the 80s when I lived in Chicago, and they were wonderful, singing in the chorus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and prominent in other cultural events around town. (I noticed how you explained this very well as I got deeper into the video). Very interesting video!
Wow! I'm a white male who grew up in the rural American Intermountain West. I was raised with rural self-reliant values. Being from the Intermountain West, I wasn't really exposed to diversity until I moved to the South for employment. I've never had anyone break down the evolution of American Black culture quite like this. This video was emencly enlightening for me. Thank you!!! New level of understanding. ✌️
This is not accurate. Plenty of Africans had and have strong family values AND ARE NOT MULATTOS. The change happened when white kidnappers prohibited Africans from practicing their own culture and spirituality a lot of the ill and violent, sexually lose ways actually was adopted and mimicked from the wht enslavers. Many mulattos took on the poor character of h*tred and false entitlement, superiority of their enslavers, enslavers who abused them as well.
There is only one thing that is wrong with this information. The culture did not come from slavery. It came from poor southern white people that they had to live with after being freed. Look up Thomas Sowell. black rednecks and the origin of redneck culture in britain.
I highly recommend a book titled “Our Kind of People” on the class differences between blacks if you’re interested. I read that book over 20 years ago and was blown away.
There is only one thing that is wrong with this information. The culture did not come from slavery. It came from poor southern white people that they had to live with after being freed. Look up Thomas Sowell. black rednecks and the origin of redneck culture in britain.
Ecclesiastes: Nothing new under the sun. The book is great because it points it out, gives a wake-up call. We need these things like this book and for our time, this video, to hold up a mirror to our crazy lives so we can see where we are now and do better.
This dude spent an hour ranting conspiracy nonsense. I was generous enough to listen, but he just kept calling entertainers bourgeoisie without even knowing that the bourgeoisie is a class with a specific professional and political history.@@richbuddee6121
As a Pole I can see an application of your analysis to my own society, made of descendants of serfs which constituted about 90% of society and the remaining 10% being landowners and city dwellers. The process of serfdom abolition generally lasted between 1791 to 1864, with some small area exeption where it finally ended only in 1930's. Excellent job in explaining the origins of certain cultural tropes, which you see in the USA and I see in Poland. Thank you for your work.
Imagine a 7 year old in 1957 just learning and realizes now, nothing has changed. The people who holds us back look like us. 'Vote for me and I'll set you free. Politicians are entertainers too. Relationships seem more like scripted reality TV shows. Very little authenticity in "Real life".
It is SUPPOSED to feel scripted- that is the evidence that it is a white Eurocentric power structure- this type of family is preferential for THeIR system we are performing to what Whiteness needs to survive.
Malcolm spoke about this in the "Ballot and the Bullet" speech. this is a great starting point for Blacks to understand what has been done to the negro mindset.
Rappers can't actually sing. It is one of the greatest scams ever pulled. I dont mind calling them poets, but not singers. Like, share, & subscribe this man.
Rappers were never intended on being singers lol...poets like you said...some actually could if they wanted to...but they were just relating in freestyle poems from what they knew....plain and simple..and irregardless of what you think...it is an original music form
I am a African American foreign language teacher, speak multiple languages, and am a health and wellness coach. But it saddens me when I see that the work I do in the community is not as valued, if no more, than someone rapping about shooting and killing. I love my people and while this video definitely provides context, I will never understand the logic of this happening.
@@TheNewLifeChannelI'm chaldean ( Aramaic) we have a saying " the same way that you feed and nurture an apple tree so it can bare fruit, so dose a thorn bush" which one should you water ". Its left to the individual which cultural attributes will bare fruit? As an educator and a learned man it's your duty the inform and educate your fellow men. Water your apple tree.
Alot of us are broken, after integration (we lost the ability to negotiate with white america because we intergrated into their system instead of sustaining our own, and schemes like " urban renewal" and the war on drugs successfully broke economic opportunities, housing wealth as well as social opportunities, lastly the media successfully channeled the black image into the ghetto only highlighting these people. Thus in the minds creating a self fulfilling prophecy. we won the battle with civil rights but lost the war.
Italian here (from Italy, I mean). Very good analysis, rings also a bell, as a sociologic tendence, in the glorification of the mafia in some areas of Italy. I.E., this video analogizes perfectly with the neapolitan emergence of neomelodic/rap music and the connection with mafia bosses. Music is low-level quality and revolves around sex and violence, with bosses posing as role models for youths, to aid for recruitment and emulation.
Italians need to stick to Italian business. Next time an Italian feels compelled to speak on American issues they need to think twice and keep a lid on it. Do you understan me boy?
I think that book needs to be updated! My great grandparents came from the enslaved. But my parents taught us morals. And all my sisters finished school without getting pregnant. And that was the norm in my Community in the 1970s. And I went to college for 2 years and I go to church regularly. And I hate those types seen on BET who supposedly represents us! And I’m not into materialism! I don’t buy brand names and I save my money! My friends and I are mischaracterized in that book, or overlooked altogether!
It has been critiqued. One place to start is reading the book, E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie (University of Missouri Press, 2002), edited and with an introduction by CAS Sociology Professor James Teele.
The “new” Black Bourgeoisie formed a strong middle class. Many like your family had solid morals and values. Others conformed to materialism and lacked a solid moral compass
All a numbers game: probability There are 3 of us in my family. My older brother is a drug addict. My sister is an anxious, socially avoidant neurotic and I’m actually pretty normal, if not boring and predictable. All the same parents. Am I the exception of the 3 of us - yes. But I was influenced by books and movies and my teachers and coaches that had a solid hope in me to be better!
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@@BrooklynSaintMickell STOP PROMOTING RUBBISH. Mixed-breed Black people from poor backgrounds behave the same way as non-mixed Black people from poor backgrounds, the same way poor whites behave different from wealthy ones. Ghetto Black people became the face of the Black community because wealthy Black people don't group up to become singers, dancers, athletes etc, they mostly become entrepreneurs, or professional workers.
I am proud of my mixed heritage (Ethiopian, Native Indian, Dutch, Spaniard, Irish, India and Jewish); though, I have brown skin, some people can see I am mixed plus have an accent as I was born in Latin America and English is my 3rd language. Came from poor family that emphasized values such hard work, sacrifice, honor, education and respect. After getting my college degree in biochemistry, later became a math & science HS teacher, before going to med school, becoming a physician, flight surgeon and clinical researcher. I recall my days as a teacher in LA, when I was called an "Oreo" and "Uncle Tom" by other AA students because it appeared that I didnt satisfy some requirements that made me an AA such as not wearing clothes in certain ways (pants were not below my hips, or no sport jackets), or not swearing while speaking, not playing basketball (I was a pre-olympic level swimmer and cyclist in my youth), not liking gangsta rap music but instead, love Jazz, Latin & African music, rock, R&B, country, Irish music, classical, and anything else, but worse, I emphasized getting an education and not blaming others but ourselves for our mistakes or misfortunes. Well, that set me apart, almost like an alien, by my own people. This didn’t affect my life success and profession; but always wanted to know the reasons for this behavior seeing not only in some AA but also in Latino communities towards those who wants to be successful and don’t “behave” in certain ways. This video info appears to answer some of these questions. Very interesting.
There has been a lowering of standards throughout the West, across all major domains, including: - manners; - speech; - dress; - behaviour; - educational attainment. It is seen across race, gender, and socioeconomic class dividing lines. How to combat this? By taking personal responsibility for one's appearance, behaviour, and speech. If you got this far, you are part of the Resistance.
Absolutely! 100% right. Buffoonery and ignorance is now touted in the white community too. I can't stand the fact that Americans are just becoming slobs. Chronic obesity, slothfullness; everything you listed. We all need to fight the good fight.
One of the problems is Corrupt Capitalism, ruined almost every society around the world. The under developed ones got hit the hardest. I am not saying this to find an excuse, nor l am suggesting there is a similarity between the oppression the of Blacks and the oppression of some other culture somewhere... I am just trying to say that Corrupt Capitalism happens to be just one common denominator among deteriorating societies around the world.
I've been saying this for YEARS!!! But the real question is WHY do we keep supporting the ignorance in our community, raising it up, then getting mad we are still the worst community
The black Panther Party had us read this book in the mid- 1960s. Sir I am glad you brought it back to life very good educational information should be in all blk households today.
I’m half white/half Persian, for context. I remember a fascinating discussion I had with a black military buddy of mine years ago in which he described the tension within the Black community between the descendants of the “house slaves” and the “field slaves”. This video provides great context for that tension. I’ve seen a continuation of that separation on Martha’s Vineyard, which has been a vacation retreat for the older bourgeois Black community for a century. The same tension exists within the “White” community as well. The social norms of my mother’s Missouri “lower class” and my wife’s Massachusetts “upper class” backgrounds reflect this same divide.
Poverty leads to crime and/or certain abhorrent behaviors. Always has and always will, all across the world. I don’t know why people act like is rocket science.
@@DeeRue9 Crime creates poverty, lack of morals creates crime. Blacks in the 50's didn't experience much crime they had intact families and their own communities with black businesses. Poor whites throughout the Appalachias which are far poorer than urban blacks by very large margins don't experience no where near the crime level of urban blacks, so if poverty creates crime these areas should be a war zone but yet they aren't even though there is high gun ownership and a destitute poverty where indoor plumbing can be considered a luxury.
That's why it always tickle me that whites are so surprised that upper class communities are everywhere. We are not all from the projects and raised with a father or mother not married to our father.
@@iceprincess825 to be 100% blunt, MOST blks in America are lower class or lower middle class. A large portion of us are “lower class” due to glaringly obvious historical reasons. But I definitely get what you mean. It’s embarrassing
The fact that the Christian faith was embraced because it “offered some level of hope” and “gave meaning to their existence” is not unique to black Americans. These are among the reasons that any Christian of any color would likely give if they were asked the reasons for their faith.
Nigerians & Ghanaians are some of the most fervent Christians. They out Christian most Christians, Nigerian church isn't just 2 hours on a Sunday it starts Friday night and ends Sunday Evening.
@@Sigismund-von-Luxembourg it actually spread at first through the affluent, educated, urban centres; primarily through women; aided by the Roman road network. Btw, the word 'pagan' means 'country' (cognates French paysan, Spanish paisan) referring to the typical persistence of the old religions outside of urban areas.
Materialism is not animal instinct, it is nurtured. Restraint is also taught. Who were and are currently the masters of materialism? Those same people are the teachers.
While this history is important it’s really not the reason. The true reason is who is allowing and putting these particular people in power on purpose!
@@canadianbrotv1303because children, teens and young adults are impressionable. We don’t have a world full of Leaders, it’s filled with followers. They just choose to follow what’s promoted and most popular at the time. The sad part is no other community is being targeted in this way. Has to make you wonder 🤔 what’s so special about black people that make them continue to bagger that specific community.
Thomas Sowell, whom I respect, has presented a different point of view: that blacks, having emigrated to Northern cities, brought with them a "redmecK" culture of the South, common to both blacks and whites. This culture encompassed, according to Sowell, and, if I recall correctly, a distaste for long-term goals, emphasis on "honor", and quickness in resorting to violence. Both Sowell's presentation and Brooklyn Saint Mickell's recounting of Franklin Frazier are intriguing, and I wonder if and how they can be reconciled. (I would add that I also respect Elijah Anderson and have read several of his books, including "Code of the Street", who has another view of this; that a small element in ghetto life dominates and restricts others, and that the lack of jobs and de-industrialization has worsened black opportunities.)
I see an intersection of ideas, mainly due to the overconsumption of religion as the need for survival… this religion was manufactured by the same people enslaving them. Plus we arrived in chains and mainly lived in the south…hence the absorption of the “redneck” ideals. Actually, after rereading your comment, mine was extremely over simplified. Thank you for taking the time to bring another point of view.
This video touched on the lack of African culture being learned and preserved, save some small pockets in n Carolina and Georgia, and that space being filled by the masses with redneck culture.
Programmed by who? This wasn't the case until AFTER Civil Rights movement? Music and entertainment industries are run by the same group of people, the distinct change occurred in the 1990s. People don't do a lick of research and act as if its fact.
Its about time this was said. It's embarrassing how we have lost our self respect and have willingly embraced Low Class backwards values. We need to stand apart and remove ourselves from that energy or anyone that embraces death
We have not done that. Media has trained you to believe this. Yes there are a small number that do. But most do not. Let’s not judge our culture by the acts of a minority.
Indeed, the nadir fallacy. Someone on the outside, evaluates a group based on the performance of it's worst members. With the addendum being black people themselves on the inside also aggressively share the opinion of that evaluation, placing people like 2pac, Minaj and the worst among us, firmly at the top.
Hello! Thank you for sharing this. It's really disheartening to see so many negative things going on in the black community. I was raised in a 2 parent home with morals and values....we're a traditional family who would sit together at dinner time, attend church on Sundays and would take family vacations every summer when we were out of school. My parents have been married 59 years and my husband and I just celebrated 35 years of marriage. If my husband's parents were alive, they would have been married 68 years. We have passed on these same morals and values to our children, who are now young adults. My prayer is that the negative stereotypes will be diminished and finished!
There is no such thing as "black history". There is American History and there is the history of foreign countries. Our entire history is American history. We literally have zero to do with anyone else, least of all people on the other side of the planet who don't even think they have anything in common with their neighbors across the river. I refer to "Africans". While I understand to some degree why Carter G Woodson coined the term and the week, he unwittingly cemented the have not, less than, "other", "outsider" Identity and Complex that wht ppl so desperately wanted to create in our minds. Rule #1 of whtness is "the n^gro can NEVER think they are AMERICAN. They must always be labeled as outsiders, other thans, less thans, and they must believe it." Sadly, Woodson got it backwards. If we were fighting in the Revolutionary War how in the hell could we be anything other than American? And if we're somehow NOT American, Classic Americans, then every country created since 1776 cannot possess the Theory of National Identity. There are no two ways about this but we have been blanketed by this irrationality since the late 1600s. Time's up. Peace and blessings.
@@BraveStarEric They would have to leave if you found out that you are the American Indian by Birthright and they are foreign visitors who refuse to leave. Project 2025 and Critical Race Theory make that perfectly clear. Is Barach Obama's achievements listed in your child's text books?
@BraveStarEric...They don't want it taught because the real Truth of who we are will come out. You best believe that that Truth makes no mention of us coming from Africa. There have never been any ship fragments recovered from the alleged trip made from there to the Americas. None of your grandparents never spoke of their ancestors being slaves.
This makes so much sense. Fast Forward to 2024 and the Social Media Influencers & Reality Show actors are the new dominant influence over the masses. Majority of them would not have status if it wasn’t for the technology and the decline in morality and lower standards. And out of those only a small majority actually have real talent when you compare them to the celebrities that came before.
This dude literally merged mulatto bootlicks with upperclass, as if that was one and the same, thus exalting people trying to be like caucasoids the most as the civilized ones.
I am a white, older man, and I found this site quite by accident. This lecture is outstanding, and I find that many of my opinions have been confirmed by your research. Excellent site! I look forward to listening to your other episodes. Keep up your wonderful work.
Very good explanation. As a black teacher, I have seen that culture in majority black schools and it is perpetuated by the black teachers therein. The main motivation taught to their students is being wealthy. They always found me "old fashioned " given that I act more calm and reject most of hip hop culture.
They want people to believe they influence all of us, but they only point the spotlight on the ignorance. They pay them top dollar to uphold a negative perception of their own people.
Firstly get off your high horse, European cultures was late to be civilised and when it finally became civilised, many if it's members were bandits, human traffickers and rapists claimly superiority.
And the disaster called planned parenthood…white liberal devils that convinced black women to destroy the black future..by killing helpless, innocent life.
My grandmas and great grandmas were both very dark and very light and skinned... Both colors of Grandma's were born in the 1800s and early 1900s. All of my grandmother's and grandfather's were dignified and believed in family and respect to elders, God, and to community members. They fed each other, they birthed thier own babies, they fed the hungry, and visited the sick and elderly. They went to prisons and gave hope to those who were caught up the system.... Many of our famil8es had
Thank you. The joke that Black people needed to mimic soulless slave masters to have values is unbelievable. I do agree with him that slavery definitely negatively impacted familial relationships BY DESIGN... but the choice to use this book and its perspective as a vehicle to explain it was a very poor choice. Clearly there's a deeper agenda here targeting spirituality and it fits his narrative
@@yasminm1385spirituality...meaning "religion"? Hmm...religion was/is a form of braintrashing in my opinion when it comes to Black Folks...I see it my own family...but this is my opinion. ✌️
When you go to college, many learn to write in an obscure fashion and typically use unnecessary verb tenses and less precise names. Look at the following examples from "The Black Bourgeoisie" by scholar E. Franklin Frazier and the second a simple edit. (The second has less words and is less pedantic.) 1) Whatever elements of African culture might have survived enslavement became merged with the Negro's experience in the new environment and lost their original meaning. 2) Any African culture that survived enslavement in America merged with the new Negro experience and lost its original meaning. So, when you write something, always make a final edit where you chop out as much as you can.
not at all governed by the same principles. NBA players make millions due to the rarity of their skill set, the virtuosity of that skillset, their height and their athleticism. There's only 500 NBA players at any given time and probably only 50 in the league that are making generational money. On the other hand, in the US, there's over a million doctors and over 12,000,000 skilled tradesman. That ratio is what drives their monetary compensation.
@quirkasaurussaurus2896 sports,entertainment...most cases are nonsense..I used to love and play sports when I was younger...now I couldn't care less.we have more important things to deal with as a people..entertainment same way...still like some stuff that's out...buy definitely not most that's out in these times
@@quirkasaurussaurus2896I think the point is who has more value to society: people that can save lives or people who entertain by shooting balls into hoops.
Thanks TH-cam for suggesting this gem. Your content is top notch, in fact it gives hope that we still have people with some sense of intellectualism in a world filled with mediocrity
I'm in Canada and work with youth in both the inner city and suburbs. Regardless of their race, white, indian, asian, and native they all are obsessed with black american culture because it's just oh so cool and hip. All the young boys want to be a professional athlete or a rapper, gangster, and pimp. The american black subculture has been glorified all over the world and it's a crying same.
It's not all bad - I idolized Michael Jordan, and now I still play basketball, which helps keep me in shape, since I don't really like running or exercising at the gym. Let's not forget the positives. Mind you, I had no chance of making it to the NBA - I can't dunk, and although I'm pretty tall and athletic compared to the norm, I'm a tiny weakling when compared to the average NBA player. I should have focused on baseball, so I at least half-agree with you, because I am athletic enough for pro baseball, but deluded myself into thinking I was athletic enough for pro basketball.
@@karzymimi42 But there are a lot of exceptions. I still like Jimi Hendrix. I also have two black male friends - both of them are fathers who work hard, and are very involved with their children. One is so privileged that it makes it kind of hard for me to relate to him - rich people, y'know? There are over 100,000 black millionaires in the United States. The idea that all black Americans are poor and low-class is a myth.
@@myblacklab7 If an white person (especially an old white person) asks you what you like to do (activities) and you respond through these 2; a. Basketball b. reading Which one do you think might have a chance in getting an interesting reaction from them; a reaction of slight (or perhaps, great shock..)
The black upper class people do not want to help or be associated with the lower class black people. I do not condone ignorant behavior but I understand that after awhile lower class black people get tired of the stigma of being poor and lack of financial opportunities to succeed so they do whatever it takes to get out of their poverty.
Do the majority of Black people, who live at or below the poverty line resort to criminality, especially violent crime, to make a living? Is it really true that "our people sell drugs to survive", as has been often said, over the course of this long ongoing drug addiction and violent drug selling epidemic, that we have been engaged in? Is mere survival really an issue for anyone living in America? Aren't criminals often, if not most often, the exception in their family? Isn't individual choice and the particular strengths/weaknesses and gifts/talent, and the personality that one has or develops, what determines their outcome in life? Siblings in the same household, have different measures of these qualities. How does selling deadly and debilitating drugs, in a deadly manner foster survival? Ex felons come out of prison, after various lengths of stay, and live a law abiding life, in the way most of us do. They could have done this at any time. Criminality and violence have become a culture of their own, in the modern world. They have been normalized by significant numbers of Black people, but that was already done by capitalist, to a certain degree, since the advent of all the modern forms of communication - from the printing press, to radio wave, and motion picture technology, along with the 'Industrial Revolution'. Pop-Culture or what I call youth/adolescent/consumer - pop-culture, came about, during this time. The relatively recent 'digit revolution' has increased the power of these tools of communication and influence exponentially. The parent who has long had to contend with these tools, for the influence of their children, now become supplanted, at a much earlier time, as the major influence on their children. They lose it to these tools, and other children, who have been influenced by these tools. Peer pressure has been a significant problem since the time of the First World War, but it is like being on steroids, in recent decades. For all the talk the woke among us, do about the negative impact of trauma on us, and our general mental emotional state, we have yet to act like we take any of it seriously. The woke speak and act, as if racism in all its forms, are the main cause of our problems - that none of them stem from us. They refuse to acknowledge that we add to the already disadvantaged position and condition we are in. They talk about racism being systemic and structured, but never reason that, if that is true, our response to it, must at the least be highly coordinated. In light of this reality, we as a group have been fracturing even more, as the years go by. KRS-One has said Hip-Hop should be considered an ethnicity within itself. This has at least been a couple of years ago, yet I've heard no talk about this controversial statement - not even last year, in their celebration of the 50th anniversary. How does one explain that?
@@siriuslyspeaking9720 and all so called races have this problem. All races sell drugs, have prostitution, convicted criminals etc. The white supremest system causes a gravitational pull by associating whites with wealth and power only and blacks with the immorality, powerlessness, and poverty only. So why do we still look to them to define us. Stop consuming their media. All media belongs to them. Even the ones that have Black or AA stamped on it. AA culture the entire culture is so amazing. A F’ing Miracle.
@@siriuslyspeaking9720 I think you have to take into consideration the mind of the individual “who is placed in that environment”. I don’t know the statistics of who does well after prison vs who doesn’t. But, I will say from personal family experience and surroundings. Many of them were in and out until death. Those who stay out lived off of their significant others income. A few became entrepreneurs and did well, but they were the successful drug dealers before going into prison…so they already knew numbers and business. Overall, those who do well already had the mental/intellectual smarts. It was used in the wrong direction. The ones who weren’t mentally/intellectually smart had the most trouble afterwards. It’s an educational and discipline issue.
My man. Thank you for the presentation / introduction to this great author. I take a bit of solace when reviewing your outreach. I immediately have shared this on various social media outlets. I myself being of Scottish decent but never enjoyed the bourgeoisie, raised by poor whites that respected their black neighbors, I see what you are getting at and it’s not just you my friend, it’s everyone in the USA. (They) just pit us against each other masterfully. God bless you and all that hear your words of wisdom.
Not really. I'm half korean and values above all matters to Japanese, Korean, and Chinese! You can show up with a baby if you want to. You better find the Father and stay with him because the community will shame you.
Much respect to you sir. excellent presentation. Dr. Franklin's book predates me by two years. It should be required reading in high school. The photo at 18:00 of four men standing in front of Minton's Playhouse includes the Jazz legend Thelonious Monk on the far left. Mr. Monk was a dedicated family man and hard working musician. When most of his fellow jazz musicians "sold out" to commercialism, Monk remained dedicated to developing his trademark style. IMO he was a musical genius and I have the highest regard for him as a composer, musician, and hard working family man. He was only married to one woman and I believe he was loyal to her. My roots are in the blue collar white culture; however, my love for art and music freed me from the ignorance of my own culture and helped me to appreciate those of the African American culture. My closest friends are African Americans. Also, I continue to come across wonderful folks such as yourself who have good minds and are getting your voice out there through TH-cam and the like. We are living in some frightful times but also in one of the greatest of times in human history. Keep up the excellent work.
@pookybuster5740 reggae was seen the same way. It was music of the poor rastafarian. The elites wanted nothing to do with it..until it became Jamaica's most cultural export
THANK YOU BROTHER!!! I’ve been watching this play out for decades but didn’t have a clear understanding of how and why. This should be watched by all Americans
I grew up in Crenshaw and my grandfather was always imploring me to read Frazier's book which he cherished. My grandfather and I often discussed the book.
I read this book in the 1980s , and what I remember most was the author quoted that this class of people live in a world of make believe. They spend so much more than they earn because they do have an inferiority complex. This is the same class of people who fought integration because they knew that the same people who they looked down on were their customers, patients, tenant etc. This is the same class of people who are the reason why we are no longer economically in charge of our community. Look around where are our hospitals, cab companies, hotels, resorts etc. Madame Walker, Booker T , Dr. Carver etc came from the working class. These young entertainers are speaking 🔊 their truth artistically, they are not role models. Parents should be their children's role models not people who will say and do almost anything for money. The Catholic Church administered communion to its black parishioners in the church basement. The AME Zion Church fought for our freedom, hence Harriet Tubman a founding member. Give me Fannie Lou Hamer, etc. Many of our elected officials who represent us come from this elite group . How can they fight for you when they have been told that you are not one of them.
The media identifies us by our worst and the other man by their best. I keep telling people that we really don’t have any friends in this country, only people who pretend to be our friends or who openly despise us.
Have you ever thought about how absolutely INSANE it is that a arena can be packed floor to ceiling with people screaming for a man that said "I don't have no love for a slut!" We identify ourselves like that!
Brilliant comment- you should check out Dr Amos Wilson’s work also bell hooks writes about Race and Representation in media and the importance of Toni Morrison’s insistence of the elimination of the White Gaze…
KAN Ahkoti! 😇 WE REALLY & TRULY DON'T, AS WAS TOLD TO US BY HIS MAJESTY FATHER YAHOWAH. WE NEED TO SEPARATE (both physically and mentally) FROM THEM AND TURN BACK TO HIM AS HIS TRUE CHOSEN PEOPLE. 😑 PSALMS 83 : 2 - 5 KJV ECCLESIASTICUS/SIRACH 12 : 10 - 12 KJV II CORINTHIANS 6 : 17 - 18 KJV II CHRONICLES 7 : 14 KJV APHGTTTMHYAH 👑
Actually the people who support this are rarely of European descent. They are almost always of that one specific desert tribe that we aren't allowed to criticize.
Black Americans have decided to break from the Ninjas. It absolutely has to be done to preserve the spiritual, traditional, cultural, and moral pillars of our Community
He said nothing but typical classism the negro male and female desire which was his goal views. This conservation is dumb and stupid white billionaires throw on a cowboy hat for a reason. Elon musk wore a cowboy hate st the Texas border imao this is hilarious. A group of people constantly looking for answers will believe everything. No matter who you are you need a audience.
Thank you. I enjoy all the content on YT. I hear so many different voices and enjoy. As a white woman, I would like to respectfully point out that All of this is true for all “peoples”. As a child my mother was very careful about who and what I was exposed to. What I could and could not watch on television, the music I listened to and the people I spent time with. There were households where I was not allowed. Children I was required to treat with kindness but really not allowed to socialize with. Even teachers she warned me about. There were talks about decorum, dignity and grace. Church was also very important in our life. She protected me from “low class” people. I really did not fit it very well at school. I was not the norm. But I had a still have very good friends, just not the masses. The character of a person mattered in my friend group, not color, to my mother. I lost my mom two years ago. I really miss her. Thank you mom. You set me up for success. My intention is not to offend, but to merely point out that our experiences are the same. I was raised lower to middle middle class and my parents protected me from those that would exploit me and drag me down. There are plenty of bad examples of living in the “white community” also. I see the biggest difference, it is my “privilege”, not to live like trashy whites. I do not have the same pressure to support all white people that I perceive blacks have to support all blacks. I have more freedom to choose who and how I want to be. I pray that all people in the USA realize their God given freedom to live the life God gave them and wants for them. ALL people.
Very true... Education costs in which most blacks don't have the money for higher education. Entertainment and athletics are a way out of poverty for most blacks.
@@cool_cat007smoove3 True , most Blacks Won't make it in entertainment or Sports So we need to teach our people LIFE Skills so they can support themselves and their families And not turn to OTHER avenues that DESTROY our young generations (
This is what we call busting it wide open, nothing is closer to the truth. Good view point and on point and i think hip hop did not help our community development in solving our general progression. Our young have the wrong roll models as to the hip hop, sports and movies celebrity instead of business, technology and power struggles that set other rival communities way ahead of us.
I’m blown away. Excellent commentary presented by a very eloquent young man. We as a people really need to know our history. Thank you for this. At my advanced age, I’m just floored by what I just learned. Excellent. This should be taught in every inner-city classroom.
Thanks!
Thank you for your support Derrick. I really appreciate it.
@@BrooklynSaintMickell You are nothing but a right-wing propaganda talking head for a think tank on youtube. You are the right wing version of F.D Signifier.
Since 90s..
@@BrooklynSaintMickell • Keep up the good work because all of us are not cut from the same cloth. Unfortunately, the truth hurts, and people have to feel it sometimes before they make a change.
@@Mr.Howell-jn5gy you sound angry. It makes perfect sense to me. Especially when you consider that this group of Black people got angry that Tyla won a BET award because she is "coloured," and thought the woman rapping about the color of her "booty hole" should have won best new artist. I will wait for your explanation.
They get offended that Somalians in America identify as Somali. They are ok with men identifying as women, but they demand the Somalis identify as Black despite them having a different culture and religion.
I'll leave it at that for now b/c I would love to hear your response.
The more I learn the more I realize as a black man, it’s extremely important that I be as educated, kind and ambitious as possible. Let’s turn these stereotypes around guys. We can fix this
Dude he basically was putting down black single mothers. It's just more of tbe Kevin Samuels junk.
Weak men blame the women… we don’t get pregnant by ourselves now do we…. Free Vasectomies for Men… 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Y yal want yt acceptance so bad?
the stereotypes do not apply to men like you. Those who it applies to will never change, and their offspring will emulate it forever. There are two very distinctly different types of "black" Americans.... mostly Caucasian DNA and mostly Negro DNA.
We are our own worst enemy. This can not be turned around. The healthy, functional nuclear black family has been eroded in scale to a shell of its former self. Dysfunction and degeneracy are still highly embraced within the culture and promoted.
That’s why I maintain my distance, they say “you think you’re better than us”. No, I’m doing what my moral grandparents taught us, morality!
You’re not alone…. I feel the same way!
Good for you 👍
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I can’t tell you how many time I heard them say “ you think you better” lmao
Never change! You're carrying the light that being black is not to be a criminal.
We went from Motown to Hotown
From Berry Gordy to Sug Knight.
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Sho u right..
Motown wasn't exactly the gold standard in moral uprightness.
But artists represented by what Motown stood for,
in all fairness had far much awareness, clarity of mind. On how to carry themselves in society/public for the role they played. Than the characters in the entertainment industry today.
Sheesh 😂
Within the span of 2 generations we went from the greatest black musicians in history to the worst
You mean Nikki Minaj is not one of the greatest black musician? 😂
Greatest musicians.
It’s that garbage in the mainstream. You’ll have to dig for the gold. The media puts the worst music to the forefront to reinforce the social class with us being at the bottom. They tricked me too until I turned off the radio and looked elsewhere.
@@JohnLee-db9zt nikki aint a magician, get that straight
Look into who runs the media corporations that promotes these lowlifes as representatives of the black community.
Shows you how money doesn't buy class. Its a mindset
Yeah but with enough of it you can redefine what class is. Kind of like the winners of war write the history.
Neither the old or new bourgeoisie were any good for the whole of the black community. Instead of separation and looking down on other black ppl (blue vein society), there should've went to the Baptist and methodist churches and taught their way of life and moral standards. A new version of class but with flavor.
"There's My story, there's your story, but the truth is somewhere in the middle."
@Turshin it's not wrong to separate yourself from the rot in society. You don't have to be mean to them. The people who looked down on me the most were people from the lower class. There are rotten people with and without money. Also, if you're religious, God said he will separate the crops from the weeds. Like I said before, there is nothing wrong with separating yourself from the slave mind, envious, toxic black people in the black community
We don’t move forward as people if keep separating it makes us weaker as a group.
@oladeebiazazi4538 I agree. It seems TH-cam doesn't like my comments, so they deleted my reply to the OP's last comment.
One of the lowest display of low class behavior is the public twerking.. it's unbecoming, adds nothing towards a successful life.
OMG! I can't stand it, lol!
I saw a 10 year old black girl twerking for her father on Jerry Springer. The father got up and left. The mother was proud of her child's behavior. Black culture is dying.
Oversexualizing black women
It's plantation behavior and they don't even know it. The sexualization of they Black body for entertainment is what the slaves were forced to do. Now, BP act like it's our culture when it's not.
They’ve built an association between success and obtuse sexualization. Gyrations on G wagons 🤦🏾♀️
JayZ and Diddy are great examples of the lower classed people moving to the top of the food chain
And most other Black celebrities and entertainers from the New school.
Ditty is a abusive, deviant monster, once again looking at materialist wealth and ignoring the evil that lurks which is precisely why we are where we are.
@@wakandavibranium5053 Diddy is a deviant, abusive thug, don't put these people on a pedestal.
Notice how once JayZ, Diddy, Black athletes and other's of their class choose either a black bourgeois or white women for their mates and mothers of their spawn once they've reached an elite financial level. They actually h8te where they come from and want to breed their seed out of existence.
I think Diddy came from affluent parents.
This is the type of education I wish I got in school. This explains so much of how people are today. Analysis, not blame. You're a great teacher.
This is kept out of school for a reason
@santiinx737 Not really. Why would this be part of the curriculum? Blacks comprise only 10% of the population. Going into such detail is unnecessary.
Everyone should read Thomas Sowell's book: Black Rednecks and White Liberals. In this book professor Sowell explains that the current Ghetto culture didn't come from Africa, but from poor whites who came from England.
So, as usual, it's actually the white man's fault. Prof. Sowell teaches the truth.
Thank you for reminding me about this book!
This one and Thomas Sowell's book are in my personal library. Yes, I did read both.
It's not really from England, more lowland scotland and higland scotland , and ulster make up a lot of the original southern stock. That's why the confederate flag has a scotish cross in thier flag. Many of those people were forced south by the new England British and Germanic settlers because they were viewed inferior groups. Also, only some elements, if any, of black culture come from these groups.
I don't know what this book is about but ghetto black culture and white redneck conservative culture are exactly the same. They even vote the same. Not sure where white liberals fit in.
imagine if white America was judged by the poorest of whites in the country.
Well, media purposely keeps poor white faces off the screen. Instead, it uses black faces as representatives of poor and poverty. This is ironic since social services and entitlements were initially created for poor whites.
Why not?
America wouldn’t be a wealthy country, it would devolve. Warren Buffet types get praise, not Scooter Braun types (the equivalent of a Puffy).
Yeah, it's stupid but what should we expect from the privileged? They lose touch with the rest of reality outside of their paradigm.
Like the sons of rich parents, they develop their own opinion of poor people and lump them all together despite barely knowing anything about them and what they do, affirms their confirmation bias.
America continues to circle jerk the American conscience into believing they are "good" instead of _average & normal_ like everyone else.
I blame their parents who taught them and their parents who taught them.
Someone has to break the cycle, on both sides.
Exactly, black Americans fought among each other just like white Americans, but the entertainer classis is pushed by the small hats.
I had to learn and accept that there are people who love the low life. No matter how you try to lift them to a higher standard they will reject it. I have had to let a lot of people go and when i did, my personal life improved tremendously. Some of them were family members.
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🐝 don’t spend their time telling flies why 🍯 is better than 💩
Yeah it’s tough when you have to do that 😂😂😂
That mindset is irrespective of color, it exists in every community to varying degrees.
You can't people who don't want to be helped
You get more respect coming out of jail than coming out of collage
Some black women even prefer Dating inmates than a brother who is a college graduate 🤦♂
@@Alkebulan590 You can be evil and abusive with a college degree, lol.
@@AngelaBaldwin-b5l Basically coming out of prison gives you credibility?whilst having a degree could mean your abusive while that's possible it's highly not probable how many abusive college graduates do you know to come to such a conclusion
@@Alkebulan590 First of all you didn’t understand the assignment. Question had nothing to do with women it stated respect from jail than college. You made an attack on women to be general like they all do it. I simplified it to one if all possible you might be the one graduate that is mean and nasty to people or a woman.
@AngelaBaldwin-b5l but why even bring up that what if? You knew what you were doing
Every music awards show other than Country music has become a black strip club show.
Who put the money up? Why are the people putting the money up afraid to stand up for themselves and say, not on my platform? The love of money is the root of all evil.
Country music is just as bad these days, not all but a big majority. They got the half dressed girls shaking their behind. They glorify drinking and adultery, just to name a few. If it ain't glorifying God, then you best believe it's promoting some sinful act or desire. You don't even have to believe God to understand and recognize this to be true. And if I'm being honest, I'd admit to you that some Christian music walks a thin line. Just to clarify, I listen to and enjoy all types of music. Not as much as I once did. It hits a little different now that I have a better understanding of what's really going on in the world, but I do indeed still have an appreciation for talented musicians of all kinds.
They recently put sexy red on some country music singer stage, so they're starting to go downhill as well.
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Don't be naiv. These kind of people are often: Narcissists, Sociopaths & Psychopaths. They have no morals or remorse. They have sadistic desires. They not gonna change. 🥴😉
Google the Masonic Chair Dance. There's your answer.
This was really eye opening. I always wondered why the most ignorant black people are portrayed as black culture.
and they keep you in check if you try to do and be better
Because white liberals own the media where these “most ignorant black people” are overly represented.
@@thornyback I've noticed this very thing among my coworkers.
@@silverreid7030 dude I genuinely wonder the same thing everyday. A lot of my black friends are getting 3.8 gpas in college and working impressive internships.
There’s literally entire colleges “hbcus” full of genius black people. I think to myself “why aren’t any of these guys ever talked about on the news?”
White media greenlights it fit a reason. Anything that leads to the empowerment of blacks is rarely greenlit by it.
Shame is an important aspect that I think has been lost.
100% true.
Shaming is now the actual sin.
Hmm, seeing a naked black girl twerking out of the top of a car on a busy motorway and thinking she is fantastic, said exactly that and lets everyone down.
shame is a white mans thang , the hood has no shame
While I agree, you should understand that shame doesn't exist in the "progressive" mindset.
Shame is the feeling of letting yourself or your loved ones down because you've acted in a way which is contrary to the morals or ethos of yourself or your group.
If however, you are part of a group for which accepts and normalizes ANY behavior (progressives), then shame has no basis.
Instead, those of the progressive mindset attack people who DO have morals and standards.
Progressives weaponize morality against those who hold to their ideals by, ironically, "shaming" them - i.e. If you believe in a healthy lifestyle and moderation, progressives will say you're "body shaming" for pointing out that Lizzo is unhealthy.
This is the progressive's stock in trade - gaslighting.
It's why progressives want create so many victims - it's easy to control someone who feels they need to be rescued.
I don't know how this guy came up in my recommendations, but he hit the nail on the head in so many ways by just reading historical truths. Thumbs up to this video.
As evidenced in the BET Awards, we all saw this. The confluence of Media combined w/ what is presented as "representation" is how we got here.
Amen on that
The media wouldn't be able to present low class blacks if low class blacks didn't exist.
@@mattmullins7369 Hollywood scripted and acted out Poli-tricks.
THE Boondocks showed it's truth about BET and Tyler Perry...and Black Dynamite
Sad
Son of a Black Catholic and a Black Presbyterian. We are not mulatto and our community was raised with manners.
Don't personalize, but focus on the overall picture that he's expressed as it relates to the black community's overall condition.
Macro vs micro
@@jynxceThe OP is speaking from their own perspective regarding their family. They are sharing their opinion just as you and I are doing as well.
im Catholic Too! so rare to find black people in the church
@@jynxce I'm not personalizing anything! I come from a community of Black people who were taught manners no matter what their religion. The original premise is bunk!
i really thought this was gonna be a video essay rant, i’m so glad you opened up a *BOOK*
Me too!! I learned info I’ve never even heard of before and was fully captivated
I am not American, I am Black British, but American culture has a strong influence. This video was absolutely amazing. Thank you so much for educating us! I really appreciate this type of content. Keep it coming!
I live in the UK , London to be precise and have seen to negative changes taking place especially amongst the youths, in the 90s was the yardie /Jamaican culture in fashion, speeches and manners but now it's the AA ghetto culture that I find despicable.
There is only one thing that is wrong with this information. The culture did not come from slavery. It came from poor southern white people that they had to live with after being freed. Look up Thomas Sowell. black rednecks and the origin of redneck culture in britain.
You're not British, just black. Don't disconnect yourself to feel more in place where you are not natural. Can't you conceive even using the English language is evident of your peoples being out of place... the Sans people have been massacred not because Whites in South Africa but because other Negros have shown no appreciation or mercy... all to get into the built environments of the Whiteman
american "black" culture actually came from the honor culture of the eastern england. the people with the honor culture were shipped to the new world and settled in the american south.
@@werqzeleke2815 That's the symptom of a much larger problem 'innit'? The black family is always the same, broken. People do not respect therapy and getting help so they pass trauma on to their children. Fix the trauma, fix the black/jamaican culture.
it's a great book. i read it in college in the early 70's. you're the first you tube pundit to bring this much-needed read to young adult learners.
Mark...🤫🙄
@Lux_8 Have you read Black Bourgeoisie?
@@jjdiggs6 yes. it was in 1974. It was part of the curriculum in a sociology course I was taking. In those days there was heightened awareness of the plight of black Americans. I also read "The Pimp" by Iceberg Slim; Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Here's the thing that many of us knew. Being white would always be a barrier to understand the lived experience of black Americans, especially those who lived in the projects. Playing sports back then interaction with blacks, Puerto Ricans, and other ethnicities who had not fully integrated into American society was a commonplace. Black Bourgeoisie left a lasting impact upon me because I had no idea that were many pockets in mostly cities around the country who were upper middle class professionals and who contributed just as much, professionally, the thriving of those cities
@@LUX_8, you probably don't even Read Books
No he's not.
One reason is that black people for the most part will not be critical of bad behavior in black people.
And they REALLY won't let other people be critical of them.
They insist that even the worse among them be praised.
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Civil Rights activists and PhDs (Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Lamont Hill) often defended the deplorable behaviors of the lower class. Then attacked the people being critical of them, whether black, white or other. This is even goes back to the Black Panthers, and even the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X often criticized the "black bourgeoise." The Black Panthers were socialists and wanted to eliminate class hierarchies, by eliminating capitalism. The Nation of Islam, despite being conservative and promoting self reliance and discipline. They still believed in W.E.B. Du Bois' Talented Tenth theory.
The older generation, black from other musical genres, and middle class blacks who criticized rap music and Hip Hop culture for perverting the image of Black America, got attacked for being squares, sellouts, bougie, and other things.
Nowadays, I know many black folk who grew up loving rap music and Hip Hop culture, especially the ghetto aspects of it. Now in their late 30's and over, say that they can't even listen to it anymore. Not even the old school, all that much. Now they are listening to old school pop, R&B, reggae, soul, funk, Latin, freestyle, and even heavy metal. Many of them don't want to watch any ghetto gangbanger movies. Except maybe New Jack City, Boyz In The Hood, South Central, where there is a strong message.
I think there is a cultural shift where many black folk are getting fed up with holding their tongues about the lower classes.
The good ones even laugh it off a lot I noticed. It’s not cool not funny. Check them.
Dude ,,, it’s the same for white people and Asian and whatever group
It’s not my John to make excuse or apologize for criminals and or assholes who happen to be black
@@HappyRoach1 that’s the older ones? The younger ones are full send tho. That has to change.
There's also a culture of well-to-do Blacks from New Orleans, who prospered during the days when the French, who got along well with Blacks, ran the town. They passed their heritage on to their descendants over the generations. Many of these elegant, cultured, articulate, and educated black people migrated up the Mississippi Valley to Chicago and gave a brilliant cultural hue to the city. I knew some of their descendants in the 80s when I lived in Chicago, and they were wonderful, singing in the chorus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and prominent in other cultural events around town. (I noticed how you explained this very well as I got deeper into the video). Very interesting video!
Wow! I'm a white male who grew up in the rural American Intermountain West. I was raised with rural self-reliant values. Being from the Intermountain West, I wasn't really exposed to diversity until I moved to the South for employment. I've never had anyone break down the evolution of American Black culture quite like this. This video was emencly enlightening for me. Thank you!!! New level of understanding. ✌️
This is not accurate. Plenty of Africans had and have strong family values AND ARE NOT MULATTOS. The change happened when white kidnappers prohibited Africans from practicing their own culture and spirituality a lot of the ill and violent, sexually lose ways actually was adopted and mimicked from the wht enslavers. Many mulattos took on the poor character of h*tred and false entitlement, superiority of their enslavers, enslavers who abused them as well.
There is only one thing that is wrong with this information. The culture did not come from slavery. It came from poor southern white people that they had to live with after being freed. Look up Thomas Sowell. black rednecks and the origin of redneck culture in britain.
I highly recommend a book titled “Our Kind of People” on the class differences between blacks if you’re interested. I read that book over 20 years ago and was blown away.
As a Southern raised black elder, I feel the same.
It’s remarkable that these observations were apparent as far back as the 1950’s.
Shouldn't be,though..goes back further than the 1950s.
There is only one thing that is wrong with this information. The culture did not come from slavery. It came from poor southern white people that they had to live with after being freed. Look up Thomas Sowell. black rednecks and the origin of redneck culture in britain.
Ecclesiastes: Nothing new under the sun.
The book is great because it points it out, gives a wake-up call. We need these things like this book and for our time, this video, to hold up a mirror to our crazy lives so we can see where we are now and do better.
Its remarkable you think this “began” in the 1950s. Its almost like you believe everything in this book without question.
@@antcantcook960What part seemed to be dishonest or questionable to you?
Just curious because I never read the book before
The break down of the evolution of black families was pure gold!
So you agree the ones with the caucasoid blood didnt have the slave mindset. Nonsense
@@richbuddee6121some of them do as well
This dude spent an hour ranting conspiracy nonsense. I was generous enough to listen, but he just kept calling entertainers bourgeoisie without even knowing that the bourgeoisie is a class with a specific professional and political history.@@richbuddee6121
We were intentionally lead away from dignity, class and morals. Do you know by who?
@@richbuddee6121 Is that what you got from this video?
As a Pole I can see an application of your analysis to my own society, made of descendants of serfs which constituted about 90% of society and the remaining 10% being landowners and city dwellers. The process of serfdom abolition generally lasted between 1791 to 1864, with some small area exeption where it finally ended only in 1930's. Excellent job in explaining the origins of certain cultural tropes, which you see in the USA and I see in Poland. Thank you for your work.
Imagine a 7 year old in 1957 just learning and realizes now, nothing has changed. The people who holds us back look like us. 'Vote for me and I'll set you free. Politicians are entertainers too. Relationships
seem more like scripted reality TV shows. Very little authenticity in "Real life".
It is SUPPOSED to feel scripted- that is the evidence that it is a white Eurocentric power structure- this type of family is preferential for THeIR system we are performing to what Whiteness needs to survive.
Great point.
Extremely Valid Point!
Right
Malcolm spoke about this in the "Ballot and the Bullet" speech. this is a great starting point for Blacks to understand what has been done to the negro mindset.
Rappers can't actually sing. It is one of the greatest scams ever pulled. I dont mind calling them poets, but not singers.
Like, share, & subscribe this man.
They were never meant to be singers lol...like you said ...poets
Rappers were never intended on being singers lol...poets like you said...some actually could if they wanted to...but they were just relating in freestyle poems from what they knew....plain and simple..and irregardless of what you think...it is an original music form
The word your looking for is rapping
They're not singers at all
And some are not even good poets.
Example: "Single as a Pringle. " 😂😂😂
I am a African American foreign language teacher, speak multiple languages, and am a health and wellness coach. But it saddens me when I see that the work I do in the community is not as valued, if no more, than someone rapping about shooting and killing. I love my people and while this video definitely provides context, I will never understand the logic of this happening.
You are appreciated keep going bro DO NOT stop We need you.
@@RIZZYFLOURS Thank you so very much for your words. You are right! I must not stop and will continue to serve for our People. ✊🏾🌹
@@TheNewLifeChannelI'm chaldean ( Aramaic) we have a saying " the same way that you feed and nurture an apple tree so it can bare fruit, so dose a thorn bush" which one should you water ". Its left to the individual which cultural attributes will bare fruit?
As an educator and a learned man it's your duty the inform and educate your fellow men. Water your apple tree.
Alot of us are broken, after integration (we lost the ability to negotiate with white america because we intergrated into their system instead of sustaining our own, and schemes like " urban renewal" and the war on drugs successfully broke economic opportunities, housing wealth as well as social opportunities, lastly the media successfully channeled the black image into the ghetto only highlighting these people. Thus in the minds creating a self fulfilling prophecy. we won the battle with civil rights but lost the war.
Great comment
Italian here (from Italy, I mean).
Very good analysis, rings also a bell, as a sociologic tendence, in the glorification of the mafia in some areas of Italy. I.E., this video analogizes perfectly with the neapolitan emergence of neomelodic/rap music and the connection with mafia bosses.
Music is low-level quality and revolves around sex and violence, with bosses posing as role models for youths, to aid for recruitment and emulation.
Italians need to stick to Italian business. Next time an Italian feels compelled to speak on American issues they need to think twice and keep a lid on it. Do you understan me boy?
I think that book needs to be updated! My great grandparents came from the enslaved. But my parents taught us morals. And all my sisters finished school without getting pregnant. And that was the norm in my Community in the 1970s. And I went to college for 2 years and I go to church regularly. And I hate those types seen on BET who supposedly represents us! And I’m not into materialism! I don’t buy brand names and I save my money! My friends and I are mischaracterized in that book, or overlooked altogether!
It has been critiqued. One place to start is reading the book, E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie (University of Missouri Press, 2002), edited and with an introduction by CAS Sociology Professor James Teele.
Exactly!! So many people are speaking as if this small subset represents the whole. Disgusting narrative!!
In general, in general. Yours were exceptions to the rule. White elite treated the white poor especially immigrants the same.
The “new” Black Bourgeoisie formed a strong middle class. Many like your family had solid morals and values. Others conformed to materialism and lacked a solid moral compass
All a numbers game: probability
There are 3 of us in my family.
My older brother is a drug addict. My sister is an anxious, socially avoidant neurotic and I’m actually pretty normal, if not boring and predictable. All the same parents. Am I the exception of the 3 of us - yes.
But I was influenced by books and movies and my teachers and coaches that had a solid hope in me to be better!
Dads matter most in the family, back bone. Until fatherlessness is addressed problems will only increase.
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If the fathers are also lower class (which many are), it won't make a difference.
@@readyornot27 💯
@@readyornot27 Low class fathers tend to not stay in the home… 🏡
Gotta put the kaibash on the sexual impurity for that to stop. Too many accidents.
I’ve never seen any of your videos before. Also, I’ve never donated anything on TH-cam but within 10 minutes of listening I decided that your content is definitely worth the investment.
And your donation is much appreciated. Thanks for listening and hopefully you have found something from the video that will make a positive impact in your life.
@@BrooklynSaintMickell STOP PROMOTING RUBBISH. Mixed-breed Black people from poor backgrounds behave the same way as non-mixed Black people from poor backgrounds, the same way poor whites behave different from wealthy ones. Ghetto Black people became the face of the Black community because wealthy Black people don't group up to become singers, dancers, athletes etc, they mostly become entrepreneurs, or professional workers.
I am proud of my mixed heritage (Ethiopian, Native Indian, Dutch, Spaniard, Irish, India and Jewish); though, I have brown skin, some people can see I am mixed plus have an accent as I was born in Latin America and English is my 3rd language. Came from poor family that emphasized values such hard work, sacrifice, honor, education and respect.
After getting my college degree in biochemistry, later became a math & science HS teacher, before going to med school, becoming a physician, flight surgeon and clinical researcher. I recall my days as a teacher in LA, when I was called an "Oreo" and "Uncle Tom" by other AA students because it appeared that I didnt satisfy some requirements that made me an AA such as not wearing clothes in certain ways (pants were not below my hips, or no sport jackets), or not swearing while speaking, not playing basketball (I was a pre-olympic level swimmer and cyclist in my youth), not liking gangsta rap music but instead, love Jazz, Latin & African music, rock, R&B, country, Irish music, classical, and anything else, but worse, I emphasized getting an education and not blaming others but ourselves for our mistakes or misfortunes.
Well, that set me apart, almost like an alien, by my own people. This didn’t affect my life success and profession; but always wanted to know the reasons for this behavior seeing not only in some AA but also in Latino communities towards those who wants to be successful and don’t “behave” in certain ways. This video info appears to answer some of these questions. Very interesting.
Lol. No one proud of their humanity breaks it down like a recipe for a cake. Are you a person or a red velvet?
There has been a lowering of standards throughout the West, across all major domains, including:
- manners;
- speech;
- dress;
- behaviour;
- educational attainment.
It is seen across race, gender, and socioeconomic class dividing lines.
How to combat this? By taking personal responsibility for one's appearance, behaviour, and speech.
If you got this far, you are part of the Resistance.
Yes!!!!!
Absolutely! 100% right. Buffoonery and ignorance is now touted in the white community too. I can't stand the fact that Americans are just becoming slobs. Chronic obesity, slothfullness; everything you listed.
We all need to fight the good fight.
Good comments.
May I add intolerance immoral lifestyle and behavior.
One of the problems is Corrupt Capitalism, ruined almost every society around the world. The under developed ones got hit the hardest. I am not saying this to find an excuse, nor l am suggesting there is a similarity between the oppression the of Blacks and the oppression of some other culture somewhere...
I am just trying to say that Corrupt Capitalism happens to be just one common denominator among deteriorating societies around the world.
I've been saying this for YEARS!!! But the real question is WHY do we keep supporting the ignorance in our community, raising it up, then getting mad we are still the worst community
Most don't go along with the bs
Low iq, pack mentality
Stop having kids with black gals it's simple let the white boy deal it he's built to deal with a masculine gal
🥷🏿's largely outnumber black people,are louder & less meek,& also have much more "screen time" than black people ex. Social media,news outlets.
Who is we? Don’t let media perception overstate reality. Most Black people do not act low class. Most do not live in ghettos or even in cities.
Every since we turned "er" into "a" we have been attempting to make Ls look like Ws
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Amen 🙏
truth for real .
Facts
IF I CAN CONTROL WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR, I CAN CONTROL YOUR MIND!!!
The black Panther Party had us read this book in the mid- 1960s. Sir I am glad you brought it back to life very good educational information should be in all blk households today.
What’s the name of the book?
@@theintellekt3284 did you watch the video at all?!
@@diversetribe231 So, you rather be mean vs providing the answer. SMH.
@@theintellekt3284
"Black Bourgeoisie" by Dr. E. Franklin Frazier
@@AN-fg4cd shuddup bot
I’m half white/half Persian, for context. I remember a fascinating discussion I had with a black military buddy of mine years ago in which he described the tension within the Black community between the descendants of the “house slaves” and the “field slaves”. This video provides great context for that tension. I’ve seen a continuation of that separation on Martha’s Vineyard, which has been a vacation retreat for the older bourgeois Black community for a century. The same tension exists within the “White” community as well. The social norms of my mother’s Missouri “lower class” and my wife’s Massachusetts “upper class” backgrounds reflect this same divide.
Poverty leads to crime and/or certain abhorrent behaviors. Always has and always will, all across the world. I don’t know why people act like is rocket science.
@@DeeRue9 Crime creates poverty, lack of morals creates crime. Blacks in the 50's didn't experience much crime they had intact families and their own communities with black businesses. Poor whites throughout the Appalachias which are far poorer than urban blacks by very large margins don't experience no where near the crime level of urban blacks, so if poverty creates crime these areas should be a war zone but yet they aren't even though there is high gun ownership and a destitute poverty where indoor plumbing can be considered a luxury.
That's why it always tickle me that whites are so surprised that upper class communities are everywhere. We are not all from the projects and raised with a father or mother not married to our father.
But in other communities the lower class are not pushed to the forefront.
@@iceprincess825 to be 100% blunt, MOST blks in America are lower class or lower middle class. A large portion of us are “lower class” due to glaringly obvious historical reasons. But I definitely get what you mean. It’s embarrassing
The fact that the Christian faith was embraced because it “offered some level of hope” and “gave meaning to their existence” is not unique to black Americans. These are among the reasons that any Christian of any color would likely give if they were asked the reasons for their faith.
Nigerians & Ghanaians are some of the most fervent Christians. They out Christian most Christians, Nigerian church isn't just 2 hours on a Sunday it starts Friday night and ends Sunday Evening.
@@Jay-Kay-Buwembo good grief! So glad to be neither Nigerian nor Ghanian. Very glad to be none of the above.
Free at last from that bit of tyranny.
These are the reasons why anyone embraces any religion, duh
Christianity spread because it was popular among slaves and the poor in the Roman Empire for the same reason.
@@Sigismund-von-Luxembourg it actually spread at first through the affluent, educated, urban centres; primarily through women; aided by the Roman road network. Btw, the word 'pagan' means 'country' (cognates French paysan, Spanish paisan) referring to the typical persistence of the old religions outside of urban areas.
It's not even about the lower class that's the problem. It's the degenerate behavior.
Which generates where? Mostly from the lower class
Materialism is not animal instinct, it is nurtured. Restraint is also taught. Who were and are currently the masters of materialism? Those same people are the teachers.
THAT right thuuuur!🎯🎯
Booyah
Why would the student follow a slave master teacher?
materialism is animal instinct. materialism is the worship of resources. it is human instinct to go after resources
@@ertfgghhhh yes, but instinct is not universally applied to all cultures and people when it comes to hoarding those resources.
While this history is important it’s really not the reason. The true reason is who is allowing and putting these particular people in power on purpose!
Exactly
What also matters is why do we have to follow made up examples seen on TV, and not our own brains
@@canadianbrotv1303because as humans we are influenced by what we see
Corporations use sophisticated marketing techniques and psychological research to shape beliefs and sell more products.
@@canadianbrotv1303because children, teens and young adults are impressionable. We don’t have a world full of Leaders, it’s filled with followers. They just choose to follow what’s promoted and most popular at the time. The sad part is no other community is being targeted in this way. Has to make you wonder 🤔 what’s so special about black people that make them continue to bagger that specific community.
Thomas Sowell, whom I respect, has presented a different point of view: that blacks, having emigrated to Northern cities, brought with them a "redmecK" culture of the South, common to both blacks and whites. This culture encompassed, according to Sowell, and, if I recall correctly, a distaste for long-term goals, emphasis on "honor", and quickness in resorting to violence. Both Sowell's presentation and Brooklyn Saint Mickell's recounting of Franklin Frazier are intriguing, and I wonder if and how they can be reconciled. (I would add that I also respect Elijah Anderson and have read several of his books, including "Code of the Street", who has another view of this; that a small element in ghetto life dominates and restricts others, and that the lack of jobs and de-industrialization has worsened black opportunities.)
Sowell is a white supremacy apologist.
I see an intersection of ideas, mainly due to the overconsumption of religion as the need for survival… this religion was manufactured by the same people enslaving them. Plus we arrived in chains and mainly lived in the south…hence the absorption of the “redneck” ideals.
Actually, after rereading your comment, mine was extremely over simplified. Thank you for taking the time to bring another point of view.
Thank you for this addition!
@@josephfreedman9422 Thomas Sowell is a white supremacy apologist.
This video touched on the lack of African culture being learned and preserved, save some small pockets in n Carolina and Georgia, and that space being filled by the masses with redneck culture.
I should start with... "all due respect. I disagree on some points". Appreciate the upliftment you are seeking to bring about through your channel.
Everything starts in the home and who you surround yourself with. The community is also programed by design to enjoy dysfunction and mayhem.
We are colonized. It is what it is.
Yes thats why i couldn't wait to turn 18 and leave
Programmed by who? This wasn't the case until AFTER Civil Rights movement? Music and entertainment industries are run by the same group of people, the distinct change occurred in the 1990s. People don't do a lick of research and act as if its fact.
@@MindfulMoments1444 You people don't have a clue . Keep cosigning ignorance at your own demise. Have a blessed day!
@@MindfulMoments1444Yea you have a point
Its about time this was said. It's embarrassing how we have lost our self respect and have willingly embraced Low Class backwards values. We need to stand apart and remove ourselves from that energy or anyone that embraces death
We have not done that. Media has trained you to believe this. Yes there are a small number that do. But most do not. Let’s not judge our culture by the acts of a minority.
This can be explained by nadir fallacy (blacks are defined by the worst among them) vs apex fallacy (Whites are defined by the best among them).
Well said. The black community need to reverse immediately.
Indeed, the nadir fallacy. Someone on the outside, evaluates a group based on the performance of it's worst members. With the addendum being black people themselves on the inside also aggressively share the opinion of that evaluation, placing people like 2pac, Minaj and the worst among us, firmly at the top.
Surely Trump and most of Congress bucks this trend?
This explains hip hop culture very well.
Hello! Thank you for sharing this. It's really disheartening to see so many negative things going on in the black community. I was raised in a 2 parent home with morals and values....we're a traditional family who would sit together at dinner time, attend church on Sundays and would take family vacations every summer when we were out of school. My parents have been married 59 years and my husband and I just celebrated 35 years of marriage. If my husband's parents were alive, they would have been married 68 years. We have passed on these same morals and values to our children, who are now young adults. My prayer is that the negative stereotypes will be diminished and finished!
This is why they still don’t want black history taught in schools
There is no such thing as "black history". There is American History and there is the history of foreign countries. Our entire history is American history. We literally have zero to do with anyone else, least of all people on the other side of the planet who don't even think they have anything in common with their neighbors across the river. I refer to "Africans". While I understand to some degree why Carter G Woodson coined the term and the week, he unwittingly cemented the have not, less than, "other", "outsider" Identity and Complex that wht ppl so desperately wanted to create in our minds. Rule #1 of whtness is "the n^gro can NEVER think they are AMERICAN. They must always be labeled as outsiders, other thans, less thans, and they must believe it." Sadly, Woodson got it backwards. If we were fighting in the Revolutionary War how in the hell could we be anything other than American? And if we're somehow NOT American, Classic Americans, then every country created since 1776 cannot possess the Theory of National Identity. There are no two ways about this but we have been blanketed by this irrationality since the late 1600s. Time's up. Peace and blessings.
Have you read The Underground Railroad (Colin Whitehead)?
@@BraveStarEric They would have to leave if you found out that you are the American Indian by Birthright and they are foreign visitors who refuse to leave. Project 2025 and Critical Race Theory make that perfectly clear. Is Barach Obama's achievements listed in your child's text books?
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Critical Race Theory. Is Obama in your child's textbook. Read it!
@BraveStarEric...They don't want it taught because the real Truth of who we are will come out. You best believe that that Truth makes no mention of us coming from Africa. There have never been any ship fragments recovered from the alleged trip made from there to the Americas. None of your grandparents never spoke of their ancestors being slaves.
Every American citizen should be required to watch this presentation. Stellar. Incredibly informative.
Agree completely.
Or just read the actual book.
@@Remember-Death thank you lol. People need to rediscover literature… or maybe first literacy.
Why? This is a blk problem.
This makes so much sense. Fast Forward to 2024 and the Social Media Influencers & Reality Show actors are the new dominant influence over the masses. Majority of them would not have status if it wasn’t for the technology and the decline in morality and lower standards. And out of those only a small majority actually have real talent when you compare them to the celebrities that came before.
Facts
Facts!
This dude literally merged mulatto bootlicks with upperclass, as if that was one and the same, thus exalting people trying to be like caucasoids the most as the civilized ones.
The lesson is Money trumps Morals. And ignorance is bliss. My people. So sad.
We spoke about this yesterday.
Didn't realize I'd wake up this morning and learn something.
You should learn something everyday. If you’re not learning you’re not improving.
You need to get a library card my friend. Learn something new daily. ❤
This sir, was absolutely MAGNIFICENT
..... Yeah it was. 👍🏾
It became more about the money a doctor would get than the actual help a doctor would give. That's powerful stuff.
WHEW!
As your 67yr. elder, this was very enlightening it explained a lot of my thoughts on our people Delima face today.
If you are 67 and didn’t know this book, you are more than likely an “older”, not an elder.
@@diversetribe231 And you are uncouth. Who raised you? Talking to a 67 year old like that is crazy. An elder is listed as 65 and older. SMH.
@@AN-fg4cd whatever boomer
@@diversetribe231you kids of nowadays.. 😮
@@diversetribe231 Perhaps you should look up the definition of elder before attempting to insult someone.
I am a white, older man, and I found this site quite by accident. This lecture is outstanding, and I find that many of my opinions have been confirmed by your research. Excellent site! I look forward to listening to your other episodes. Keep up your wonderful work.
If the usual suspects agree with this man is am out
Very good explanation. As a black teacher, I have seen that culture in majority black schools and it is perpetuated by the black teachers therein. The main motivation taught to their students is being wealthy. They always found me "old fashioned " given that I act more calm and reject most of hip hop culture.
They want people to believe they influence all of us, but they only point the spotlight on the ignorance. They pay them top dollar to uphold a negative perception of their own people.
Exactly, like he said, they want to suppress people in those areas
European here. Wow, that does seem to explain why modern black culture has become so abhorrent.
and copied worldwide. the slavemasters are turning in their graves
Please read the Thomas Sowell book "Black Rednecks White Liberals" There are some 15 minute videos about the book on TH-cam here.
Firstly get off your high horse, European cultures was late to be civilised and when it finally became civilised, many if it's members were bandits, human traffickers and rapists claimly superiority.
And the disastrous child-bearing culture
And the disaster called planned parenthood…white liberal devils that convinced black women to destroy the black future..by killing helpless, innocent life.
This is first time when someone actually explain what is happening w black community in US to me and I live in US since 98. Excellent video
This is so true. Thanks for spreading this truth.
My grandmas and great grandmas were both very dark and very light and skinned... Both colors of Grandma's were born in the 1800s and early 1900s. All of my grandmother's and grandfather's were dignified and believed in family and respect to elders, God, and to community members. They fed each other, they birthed thier own babies, they fed the hungry, and visited the sick and elderly. They went to prisons and gave hope to those who were caught up the system.... Many of our famil8es had
This is because God's words were written on their hearts and minds.
Thank you. The joke that Black people needed to mimic soulless slave masters to have values is unbelievable. I do agree with him that slavery definitely negatively impacted familial relationships BY DESIGN... but the choice to use this book and its perspective as a vehicle to explain it was a very poor choice. Clearly there's a deeper agenda here targeting spirituality and it fits his narrative
@@yasminm1385I def felt a bit of targeting in that area as well. Good points.
@@yasminm1385spirituality...meaning "religion"? Hmm...religion was/is a form of braintrashing in my opinion when it comes to Black Folks...I see it my own family...but this is my opinion. ✌️
@@daxterclark5092only when they keep the same ones as their old masters instead of looking around
Brother, this is an excellent post. Great summary!
When you go to college, many learn to write in an obscure fashion and typically use unnecessary verb tenses and less precise names. Look at the following examples from "The Black Bourgeoisie" by scholar E. Franklin Frazier and the second a simple edit. (The second has less words and is less pedantic.)
1) Whatever elements of African culture might have survived enslavement became merged with the Negro's experience in the new environment and lost their original meaning.
2) Any African culture that survived enslavement in America merged with the new Negro experience and lost its original meaning.
So, when you write something, always make a final edit where you chop out as much as you can.
@@danilopompey754 Maybe he was looking to up the page count to sell books.
I think we see this with nba/nfl players making MILLIONS while doctors and skilled tradesmen aren’t scratching the surface of that
That's bread and circuses.
That though has nothing to do with skin colour and is a global phenomenon
not at all governed by the same principles. NBA players make millions due to the rarity of their skill set, the virtuosity of that skillset, their height and their athleticism. There's only 500 NBA players at any given time and probably only 50 in the league that are making generational money. On the other hand, in the US, there's over a million doctors and over 12,000,000 skilled tradesman. That ratio is what drives their monetary compensation.
@quirkasaurussaurus2896 sports,entertainment...most cases are nonsense..I used to love and play sports when I was younger...now I couldn't care less.we have more important things to deal with as a people..entertainment same way...still like some stuff that's out...buy definitely not most that's out in these times
@@quirkasaurussaurus2896I think the point is who has more value to society: people that can save lives or people who entertain by shooting balls into hoops.
Thanks TH-cam for suggesting this gem. Your content is top notch, in fact it gives hope that we still have people with some sense of intellectualism in a world filled with mediocrity
Which is why I stand firm on separation. I don’t claim these ideologues and they absolutely do not represent me 💅🏾
I'm in Canada and work with youth in both the inner city and suburbs. Regardless of their race, white, indian, asian, and native they all are obsessed with black american culture because it's just oh so cool and hip. All the young boys want to be a professional athlete or a rapper, gangster, and pimp. The american black subculture has been glorified all over the world and it's a crying same.
It's not all bad - I idolized Michael Jordan, and now I still play basketball, which helps keep me in shape, since I don't really like running or exercising at the gym.
Let's not forget the positives.
Mind you, I had no chance of making it to the NBA - I can't dunk, and although I'm pretty tall and athletic compared to the norm, I'm a tiny weakling when compared to the average NBA player. I should have focused on baseball, so I at least half-agree with you, because I am athletic enough for pro baseball, but deluded myself into thinking I was athletic enough for pro basketball.
@@myblacklab7Exceptions don’t make the rule.
@@karzymimi42 But there are a lot of exceptions. I still like Jimi Hendrix.
I also have two black male friends - both of them are fathers who work hard, and are very involved with their children. One is so privileged that it makes it kind of hard for me to relate to him - rich people, y'know?
There are over 100,000 black millionaires in the United States. The idea that all black Americans are poor and low-class is a myth.
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@@myblacklab7 If an white person (especially an old white person) asks you what you like to do (activities)
and you respond through these 2;
a. Basketball
b. reading
Which one do you think might have a chance in getting an interesting reaction from them; a reaction of slight (or perhaps, great shock..)
The black upper class people do not want to help or be associated with the lower class black people. I do not condone ignorant behavior but I understand that after awhile lower class black people get tired of the stigma of being poor and lack of financial opportunities to succeed so they do whatever it takes to get out of their poverty.
Do the majority of Black people, who live at or below the poverty line resort to criminality, especially violent crime, to make a living? Is it really true that "our people sell drugs to survive", as has been often said, over the course of this long ongoing drug addiction and violent drug selling epidemic, that we have been engaged in? Is mere survival really an issue for anyone living in America? Aren't criminals often, if not most often, the exception in their family? Isn't individual choice and the particular strengths/weaknesses and gifts/talent, and the personality that one has or develops, what determines their outcome in life? Siblings in the same household, have different measures of these qualities. How does selling deadly and debilitating drugs, in a deadly manner foster survival? Ex felons come out of prison, after various lengths of stay, and live a law abiding life, in the way most of us do. They could have done this at any time. Criminality and violence have become a culture of their own, in the modern world. They have been normalized by significant numbers of Black people, but that was already done by capitalist, to a certain degree, since the advent of all the modern forms of communication - from the printing press, to radio wave, and motion picture technology, along with the 'Industrial Revolution'. Pop-Culture or what I call youth/adolescent/consumer - pop-culture, came about, during this time. The relatively recent 'digit revolution' has increased the power of these tools of communication and influence exponentially. The parent who has long had to contend with these tools, for the influence of their children, now become supplanted, at a much earlier time, as the major influence on their children. They lose it to these tools, and other children, who have been influenced by these tools. Peer pressure has been a significant problem since the time of the First World War, but it is like being on steroids, in recent decades. For all the talk the woke among us, do about the negative impact of trauma on us, and our general mental emotional state, we have yet to act like we take any of it seriously. The woke speak and act, as if racism in all its forms, are the main cause of our problems - that none of them stem from us. They refuse to acknowledge that we add to the already disadvantaged position and condition we are in. They talk about racism being systemic and structured, but never reason that, if that is true, our response to it, must at the least be highly coordinated. In light of this reality, we as a group have been fracturing even more, as the years go by. KRS-One has said Hip-Hop should be considered an ethnicity within itself. This has at least been a couple of years ago, yet I've heard no talk about this controversial statement - not even last year, in their celebration of the 50th anniversary. How does one explain that?
Excellent video! Thank you!
Sure, but the influential sway of the lower class and its suspect morales overrides the quest for economic opportunity.
@@siriuslyspeaking9720 and all so called races have this problem. All races sell drugs, have prostitution, convicted criminals etc. The white supremest system causes a gravitational pull by associating whites with wealth and power only and blacks with the immorality, powerlessness, and poverty only. So why do we still look to them to define us. Stop consuming their media. All media belongs to them. Even the ones that have Black or AA stamped on it. AA culture the entire culture is so amazing. A F’ing Miracle.
@@siriuslyspeaking9720 I think you have to take into consideration the mind of the individual “who is placed in that environment”.
I don’t know the statistics of who does well after prison vs who doesn’t. But, I will say from personal family experience and surroundings. Many of them were in and out until death. Those who stay out lived off of their significant others income.
A few became entrepreneurs and did well, but they were the successful drug dealers before going into prison…so they already knew numbers and business.
Overall, those who do well already had the mental/intellectual smarts. It was used in the wrong direction. The ones who weren’t mentally/intellectually smart had the most trouble afterwards. It’s an educational and discipline issue.
My man. Thank you for the presentation / introduction to this great author. I take a bit of solace when reviewing your outreach. I immediately have shared this on various social media outlets. I myself being of Scottish decent but never enjoyed the bourgeoisie, raised by poor whites that respected their black neighbors, I see what you are getting at and it’s not just you my friend, it’s everyone in the USA. (They) just pit us against each other masterfully. God bless you and all that hear your words of wisdom.
Know Thy Self. The first step towards awakening and developing a different state of consciousness. Well done brother
These are the conversations that need toto be be HAD…
Especially in these TH-cam Streets.. Thanks My Brother KEEP GOING 💪🏾
I agree this brother did a great job here
Money has become the chief requirement for social acceptance in EVERY race, not just Blacks.
If blacks could buy social acceptance Bill Cosby would have brought it. So would LeBron.
Not really. I'm half korean and values above all matters to Japanese, Korean, and Chinese! You can show up with a baby if you want to. You better find the Father and stay with him because the community will shame you.
@@1polymath That applies to every race here in America.
Applies to my people as well were Aborigine American @@1polymath
@@1polymath cap - asian folks do all the same crap as the rest of us. money rules most of our groups - evidence seems to show this
Great analysis and thanks for highlighting the important parts of the book. It’s interesting how the book remains relevant, if not more so today.
Sir, you did a wonderful job explaining this topic.
Much respect to you sir. excellent presentation. Dr. Franklin's book predates me by two years. It should be required reading in high school. The photo at 18:00 of four men standing in front of Minton's Playhouse includes the Jazz legend Thelonious Monk on the far left. Mr. Monk was a dedicated family man and hard working musician. When most of his fellow jazz musicians "sold out" to commercialism, Monk remained dedicated to developing his trademark style. IMO he was a musical genius and I have the highest regard for him as a composer, musician, and hard working family man. He was only married to one woman and I believe he was loyal to her. My roots are in the blue collar white culture; however, my love for art and music freed me from the ignorance of my own culture and helped me to appreciate those of the African American culture. My closest friends are African Americans. Also, I continue to come across wonderful folks such as yourself who have good minds and are getting your voice out there through TH-cam and the like. We are living in some frightful times but also in one of the greatest of times in human history. Keep up the excellent work.
It’s like that in Jamaican and in the diaspora the lower elements of the culture is the face of the culture
Same with us Dominicans🇩🇴
Reggae is great if that's what you mean.
@@Maruman_man I’m taking about modern dancehall culture and carnival
@pookybuster5740 reggae was seen the same way. It was music of the poor rastafarian. The elites wanted nothing to do with it..until it became Jamaica's most cultural export
I highly commend you on this presentation sir, truly educational and enlightening. FANTASTIC WORK!
THANK YOU BROTHER!!! I’ve been watching this play out for decades but didn’t have a clear understanding of how and why. This should be watched by all Americans
Watched by all Black Americans.
Our family structure is being torn down!!!
The Ratchet are taken us completely down.
gangsta rap is the problem. black men and the killing and the image is the problem.
I grew up in Crenshaw and my grandfather was always imploring me to read Frazier's book which he cherished. My grandfather and I often discussed the book.
Bro I just wanna say shoutout to you and this message.
Listening because I have been wondering this myself.
Me too. I have been wondering this all my life
I read this book in the 1980s , and what I remember most was the author quoted that this class of people live in a world of make believe. They spend so much more than they earn because they do have an inferiority complex. This is the same class of people who fought integration because they knew that the same people who they looked down on were their customers, patients, tenant etc. This is the same class of people who are the reason why we are no longer economically in charge of our community. Look around where are our hospitals, cab companies, hotels, resorts etc. Madame Walker, Booker T , Dr. Carver etc came from the working class. These young entertainers are speaking 🔊 their truth artistically, they are not role models. Parents should be their children's role models not people who will say and do almost anything for money. The Catholic Church administered communion to its black parishioners in the church basement. The AME Zion Church fought for our freedom, hence Harriet Tubman a founding member. Give me Fannie Lou Hamer, etc. Many of our elected officials who represent us come from this elite group . How can they fight for you when they have been told that you are not one of them.
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You spoke the truth.
Even the late great comedian George Carlin, has a whole comedy skit about the stupidity of role models
Thank you man. I learned sooo much. This is desperately needed in this world
I found this insightful. I am a minority but not black American. Thank you for opening my eyes.
The media identifies us by our worst and the other man by their best. I keep telling people that we really don’t have any friends in this country, only people who pretend to be our friends or who openly despise us.
Have you ever thought about how absolutely INSANE it is that a arena can be packed floor to ceiling with people screaming for a man that said "I don't have no love for a slut!"
We identify ourselves like that!
Aka Latinos of all types.
Brilliant comment- you should check out Dr Amos Wilson’s work also bell hooks writes about Race and Representation in media and the importance of Toni Morrison’s insistence of the elimination of the White Gaze…
KAN Ahkoti! 😇
WE REALLY & TRULY DON'T, AS WAS TOLD TO US BY HIS MAJESTY FATHER YAHOWAH. WE NEED TO SEPARATE (both physically and mentally) FROM THEM AND TURN BACK TO HIM AS HIS TRUE CHOSEN PEOPLE. 😑
PSALMS 83 : 2 - 5 KJV
ECCLESIASTICUS/SIRACH 12 : 10 - 12 KJV
II CORINTHIANS 6 : 17 - 18 KJV
II CHRONICLES 7 : 14 KJV
APHGTTTMHYAH 👑
@@happygucci5094 The same Toni Morrison who said Bill Clinton was the first Black President? Who's eyes were she seeing through when she said that?
I one of the ones who was “drawn back” and my eyes were opened so the Bible was unlocked. I appreciate you immensely.
Actually the people who support this are rarely of European descent. They are almost always of that one specific desert tribe that we aren't allowed to criticize.
Your video has taught me more about black history than all my years of school. Thank you.
Black Americans have decided to break from the Ninjas. It absolutely has to be done to preserve the spiritual, traditional, cultural, and moral pillars of our Community
Too late 😂
So the mulatto is better so right back too white ppl
@@marcuscole1994For you, maybe.
Amen
@@leonfrancis3418 it’s ingrain in us since the slave breeding farm
Very good video, with great breakdown and provided even greater perspective. Thank you for sharing the info of Mr. Frazier.
He said nothing but typical classism the negro male and female desire which was his goal views. This conservation is dumb and stupid white billionaires throw on a cowboy hat for a reason. Elon musk wore a cowboy hate st the Texas border imao this is hilarious. A group of people constantly looking for answers will believe everything. No matter who you are you need a audience.
Thank you. I enjoy all the content on YT. I hear so many different voices and enjoy. As a white woman, I would like to respectfully point out that All of this is true for all “peoples”. As a child my mother was very careful about who and what I was exposed to. What I could and could not watch on television, the music I listened to and the people I spent time with. There were households where I was not allowed. Children I was required to treat with kindness but really not allowed to socialize with. Even teachers she warned me about. There were talks about decorum, dignity and grace. Church was also very important in our life. She protected me from “low class” people. I really did not fit it very well at school. I was not the norm. But I had a still have very good friends, just not the masses.
The character of a person mattered in my friend group, not color, to my mother.
I lost my mom two years ago. I really miss her. Thank you mom. You set me up for success.
My intention is not to offend, but to merely point out that our experiences are the same. I was raised lower to middle middle class and my parents protected me from those that would exploit me and drag me down. There are plenty of bad examples of living in the “white community” also.
I see the biggest difference, it is my “privilege”, not to live like trashy whites. I do not have the same pressure to support all white people that I perceive blacks have to support all blacks. I have more freedom to choose who and how I want to be. I pray that all people in the USA realize their God given freedom to live the life God gave them and wants for them. ALL people.
We were middle class but my parents didn't care about who we associate it with and it didn't turn out well
If we want to Compete,We have to EDUCATE the Masses who aren't entertainers or athletes...
Very true... Education costs in which most blacks don't have the money for higher education. Entertainment and athletics are a way out of poverty for most blacks.
@@cool_cat007smoove3 True , most Blacks Won't make it in entertainment or Sports So we need to teach our people LIFE Skills so they can support themselves and their families And not turn to OTHER avenues that DESTROY our young generations (
@@cool_cat007smoove3business is also a way out.
The Slave Mind... didn't Malcolm talk about this...
That's why I am never delighted when blk children keep wanting to be entertainers and not be educated
This is what we call busting it wide open, nothing is closer to the truth. Good view point and on point and i think hip hop did not help our community development in solving our general progression. Our young have the wrong roll models as to the hip hop, sports and movies celebrity instead of business, technology and power struggles that set other rival communities way ahead of us.
The parents are supposed to be role models, not a bunch of strangers
I’m blown away. Excellent commentary presented by a very eloquent young man. We as a people really need to know our history. Thank you for this. At my advanced age, I’m just floored by what I just learned. Excellent. This should be taught in every inner-city classroom.