Toni Morrison on "the nature of oppression"
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- "The truth I happen to be most interested in has to do with the nature of oppression, and how people survive it, or don't," author Toni Morrison told Ed Bradley in this 1998 interview.
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The way she paused and said "No" when he asked "There are no major White characters in your books" said it all
This lady had class and integrity.
I watched docies on Aretha Franklin today. Toni manages to tell the truth without being abrasive, stand-offish and salty.
Since 1619 A true Success/Super woman.!!!
I love that one quote from her that imma butcher now: "the purpose of racism is to waste my time"
Chile it's 2020, I'm not letting foolishness waste *my* time
Same
That’s their issue and they need to figure it out.
Exactly....!!!!!! Israelites... ✊🏾🔥
One of the wise men from the past said three things cannot be healed by a doctor “foolishness” “plague ” & “old age”
You didn’t butcher anything! That quote is da bizness!
“It’s amazing that we are not all dead.” Wow, never thought about this before, n she’s soooo right!!! 🤧🤧🤧
Its true
The death of the heart renders man aimless
@@lawrenceholst3808 n wicked
Agreed! How powerful
What brutal honesty.My career military father felt the same way.He once said that he would do anything to defend Democracy and defend the constitution and hold those accountable to uphold it's principles.Why? Because he realized the hatred for Blacks has bubbled above and below the surface for centuries in America and that any other type of system would lead to our demise.As far as the psychological aspect,my father took every opportunity to take his 3children to different countries around the world to see how other human beings view each other. What an eye opening experience The Good and the bad.What a humbling experience.He realized that developing a world view experience is one effective remedy for American Blacks to better cope in such a race and class conscious society.I love America.America is my home.My father's wish was for his three children to strive to make it better for all it's citizens.
One of the baddest woman to grace the planet
Definitely a Queen.
By saying that, you are ruining her legacy. She ain't bad, she good.
I BEEEEG u sooooo perfectly right !
And amazingly beautiful !
How weak is the seeker and the one who is sought
@@we_still_rise How would any of us know Rather she returned to dirt
Rest in peace, Toni Morrison. She was a genius. I have loved her books since I first read The Bluest Eye in the early '90s.
I love how she sets her glass down and proceeds to say....No! Volumes implied as she explains her answer.
She is the epitome of a cerebral author. Brilliant. Sheer brilliance.
This is so relevant tonight. My heart is with the people of Minnesota. God bless you all for surviving oppression and making it simply alive.
Ase Ase Amen 🇧🇯🇨🇬🇬🇭🇨🇮
I *LOVE* Toni Morrison's Father! A great American Man!!!
Bc he was a bigot? You have a low bar
@@deanasaurs
He refused to accept the judgment of other people who viewed him as an inferior. He instead decided that THEY were the ones who hadn't evolved and probably felt he was protecting his family by not letting them in the sacred place of the home.
@@helenpatterson3858 there's no evidence that every plumber he came into contact with was a burning racist. I'm sure you'd be a hypocrite if the situation was Steven King championing his bigoted mother. I'm not accusing her father of failings, many ppl online have commented about struggling to not be racist after BLm burnt down property last year. I'm accusing you of being more hateful than her father because you live in a society that has bettered itself since those days but you're busy larping oppressed and making Harpo rich.
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@@helenpatterson3858 you are 1000% correct 👏🤝
This world is aching for Toni Morrison right now
Why does the brilliant interviewer, Ed Bradley, play dumb (seems shocked) when Morrison explains that her family's home was set on fire as a way to evict?
Andrea Mendenhall Why do you assume they were renting? Why couldn’t they have owned the house? Do you find it hard to believe that a white neighbor who hated the idea of having black neighbors would stoop to that level of atrocity? Believe it. It happened a lot.
Andrea Mendenhall Actually evict means to expel someone from a property.
Andrea Mendenhall Listen carefully to what she said: PEOPLE set our house on fire. NOT the landlord. The neighbors didn’t want to live near black people so they were forcing them to leave. I hope this clears it up. It illustrates the racism her family endured.
Because it was 60 minutes in America in 1998, and the audience viewing was majority white. He was interviewing for an audience who have been separated from the black experience. White people by in large don't have these experiences yes they might be aware but back then they weren't trying to relate.
Behind every praise follows envy
She's a true national treasure, an inimitable voice.
Her spoken word is healing and redeemed.
I was just looking into her work , only to realise she passed away .
Gentle , intelligent and deliberate thinker . RIP ❤️
I love how she stood up for her work. She was going to get her point across no matter what. ✊🏽💕
😢 Beautiful soul I wished I would’ve met her. Sad to see that gifts like these are always taken from us R.I.P.
RIP Ed Bradley. Well done Ms. Morrison 🙏🏾
Rest in Power.
How are you going find rest when you don’t even know where you are going to end up you need to learn more And put it into practice
I wonder how many White authors are told, "there are no major Black/Asian/Aboriginal/etc. characters in your stories".
Lindiwe Ngwevela probably not very many
Touché. I was just wondering the same thing.
I’m gonna go with....umm....zero.
@@detlefb.8371 you know a few years ago that would be true, but in this diversity driven 100+ gender society they ask why there are not people to represent their race in movies and later also targeted books too.
Questions are asked to bring out information, allowing the interviewee to expound on something of interest. She certainly has something interesting to say about it, because if you know anything about all of her writing, she strives to eliminate what she calls "the white gaze" in her writing.
The question was very important to, and central to the writer's intent in her work.
I have loved Toni Morrison for many years.
I love the winced "No" between 0:08 and 0:11.
This woman is an icon of our time...so many stars were in perfect alignment the day God created her in her mother's womb. Wow...she leaves me breathless.
One of the greatest writers who ever lived. A legend.
In United States I was nothing but my race. People interacted with me with my ethnicity and race in mind. It is hard when you are nothing but your race. So I left and it was hard, United States was all I knew but the fear is gone now. I no longer worry that I will be hated, shunned, yelled at just for being who I am. I had no control over it, I didn't choose it and it is with this in mind, I am in peace... at last! Thank you. .Toni Morrison..RIP🌹
Well said. I’m a woman of color. I felt looked at in a different way when I was in Paris. I wasn’t with animosity or cruelty. I’ve been looked at and felt this person wants to hit me and rape me but I felt safer in France. Like James Baldwin I see why he and Toni went to live in Europe.
@@PlaceForAnEcho 🌹
Divisions beget divisions. Only Love builds up. The Bible.
It's the honest truth.I doesn't mean she hates America its just an honest truth.I felt the same way when I visited Japan, courtesy of my father when he was stationed in Okinawa in the mid to late 1960s.Man I finally felt comfortable in my own skin.No baggage whatsoever.The Japanese treated me with respect, unless proven otherwise.They afforded me the presumption of innocence goodness and trust,unless proven otherwise.It was an incredible feeling.I felt like i didn't have to justify my existence.My Japanese host once said,that the one issue that intrigues him the most is why some individuals must prove that they are worthy of respect while others must prove they are unworthy of respect.I love America.It is and always will be my home.But I love the experience of traveling the world to see how other human beings treat each other.
As a 68 year old black woman born and raised in the Mississippi delta. i was always comfortable in my skin.And I knew that whoever had a promblem with with the melanin in my skin
She has such an incredible voice. I miss her so much. But, I know that she will live on forever with her magnificent works.
Sweet lovely sister with a gentle soul RIP gone but not forgotten
Dr. Morrison, lady, sista, you ROCK! You are very beloved in the community! Much love, gratitude & respect!
When you know race about a person, yon don't know anything. Well said!
Intangibles are worth more. Love trust loyalty ect.
Aye’ man from the desert came to a man who was wiser than himself he said “I have a black baby”
(I love what the man who said to him) the desert dweller Who inquired the wise man asked “do you have camels” the man said ‘yes’ so the wisemen said do you have a red camel? The man said ‘yes’ do you have a brown camel the wise man said, the man said ‘yes’ so the wisemen said your babies affair is like this Hereditary.
THERES ONLY ONE RACE WHEN IT COMES TO HOMOSAPIANS.EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET SHOULD KNOW THIS.THATS WHY THERE IS SO.MUCH HATE AND CONFLICT.
Toni Morrison is everything.
What she is talking about is my life in the South Bronx, there were no white people in my world. If they did exist they were racist cops, a racist white teacher here and there or some racist Italian Americans. But they were peripheral to my world, which was culturally rich, Caribbean Latino and African American. If I had to write about my childhood it would be a world where the white gaze did not exist. My world was filled with Afro Latino and African American faces, laughter, pain, music, food, culture and love..
A phenomenal lady Toni Morrison we are better cause she was here.
LOVE HER WAY OF THINKING AND HER FATHER. SPEAKING TRUTHS!!!
This woman is brilliant
I love Toni. I miss her
I miss her. She was truly one of the greatest writers in the world.
What a powerful and awesome woman!
Thank u sooooo much for not forgetting!
U not dead cuz legends don't die !
Such a BRILLIANT and WELL SPOKEN woman 🥇🧡
Another genius
What a wonderful interview. It's a grand expression of when keeping it real is powerful, transparent, logical and respectful of the God Force within all humanity. That reality thrives whether or not others are disdainful of the honor you give yourself and all lovers of truth.
What an Icon!
i could listen to her all day. wish she had a Masterclass.
God Bless her dad
Her books have always been hard for met to read, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved....because of the very real portrayals of hurt in the black community.
It's amazing that we're not all dead
The way his father thought about himself and about race was determinant in his personal history as a very strong and inteligent woman that always knew about her true value.
It is amazing.
Centering yourself 👏🏿 #empowerment
There will never be anyone like her.
Tony Morrison has great understanding about race in America.
love that woman.
Truth.You gotta love it...
"The Song Of Solomon" was the second book I read by Toni Morrison. This book woke me up to the fact, that BLACKS can be the equalizer & the cause for our downfall at the same time.
Sleep In Peace, Sister
Shalom ✡️ ✝️ 🕎 🐟
@Sharon Tate excuse me, but can you elaborate on what you got from my comment? Just understand I was speaking of a certain character in her book & not on what my beloved sister spoke on.
Wake up!
HOUSE!
Shalom ✡️ ✝️ 🕎 🐟
TONI MORRISON IS A BRAVE WOMAN! SHE IS TELLING THE TRUTH! UNTIL NOW THERE ARE MANY RACISTS IN USA, UK, CHINA, EUROPE AND AUSTRALIA! I AGREE WITH HER 100%. IT IS REALLY DIFFICULT TO EXIST IN OUR SOCIETY WHEN SOME PEOPLE JUDGE YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR RACE, PERSONALITY, MONEY AND POWER!
And what does it accomplish?
HOW ABOUT YOU? WHAT DID YOU ACCOMPLISH FOR THE WORLD AND YOUR COUNTRY? LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND ASK YOURSELF!
And yet we are mentally stronger than every race in the world, because any other race of people would have committed suicide or lost their damn minds to find the law, the system and the deck of cards set against them. To come out of that much oppression unscathed is nothing short of a miracle, which other race has done it for that length of time and still dealing with it. Please no alternative facts.
@@michellebyrd9017 Unscathed?! Lol. Huh?
IF THEY WOULD JUDGE US BY THE TINT IN OUR SKIN THEY WOULD EXALT US TO THE HIGHTEST.WE HAVE GIVEN AMERICA EVERY GIFT THAT WE HAD.THERES NO REASON FOR US TO Be HATED.WE'RE MADE AMERICA THE POWER THAT IT IS.WE HAVE PROVEN OURSELVES OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Where's the entire interview?
I luv this lady. I luv her mind. I've her soul.
"NOOO"
WITH SOME OF A BLACK QUEEN ATTITUDE !
OOOH I MISS U !
THANK YOU FOR NOT FORGETTING ,!
That last comment was powerful for all people of color when confronted with whites stereotyping, they should instead get to know that particular person and not generalize.
One must not think one community is inferior and another superior. Equality of intrinsic value.
Her Pops is Gangsta!!!!!😂😂😂
"You don't know anything about that person, just because you know race" - treasure the people in your life who know you as an individual, not because of anything else. These people are rare but do exist.
What do you mean by rare? Don't most people who know you know you as an individual? Of course I'm talking about non-famous people.
love this!
"He was an ordinary man and an extraordinary man at the same time"
Lovely Toni....floating with the Angels now. xx
Powerful
I know she was so tired of interviewers asking her why there were no major white characters in her books. When she set that glass down and looked at at him it said everything.
Oh, you heard her put that glass cup down with disgust from that first question
15 April 2024 - Watched once.
Lady Morrison 🔥
Excellent outlook wish I knew her father awesome dad 🦾👍🏿
TONI MORRISON 💜
♠ 🌹
God bless her daddy. He was ummm... a VERY SMART MAN
That is an amazing, beautiful, extremely wise and intelligent WOMAN. Don’t sleep on her.
I could see how her father could feel that way. If someone has all of the power in a situation and chooses to use that power to hurt someone with no power, that person is weak and pathetic. If you have everything and still oppressing me then how could I respect you? I am experiencing this at work with bullies. They are the superiors but you gang up with other employees to hurt someone who is alone. I can’t respect that work place or group of people.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints." ... This calls for endurance and faithfulness from the saints." .!!! REVELATION 13:10 ( KJV) ... Israelites...!!! 🔥 ESAU'S TIME IS UP..!!!
We are the GREATEST people on the face of the earth
(Deuteronomy 7:6)
Who went into slavery for not obeying the laws statues and commandments of OUR God
(Deuteronomy 28:15-68)
(Joel 2:27)
A most amazing amazing woman...peorid..in a class that any Race should look up to be like
No one ever asks white writers about black characters in their books because that also can be misappropriated. Writers write on personal background knowledge.
Well damn!!
The black and white experience has been horrible in this country.
The truth is as black people we have to be very careful around everybody. Jewish, Arabs and even some black people. The level of hatred, audacity and cowardice of those people leave me deeply traumatized. I don't feel hatred like them but a deep sense of disgust, superiority and above all pity.
She is a beautiful artistic person. Also, don't forget that some black and white people have deep loving friendships and marriages together. When people do meaningful work together, they create community and trust and come overcome strife. I am lucky to have this exact experience.
I felt a bulb pop and a weight lifted and my soul free because I don't have feelings about people who feel the need to impose themselves
I wish I could add several likes to this comment. Sooooooooo true.👏🏾
It is all true! I think about everything black people have gone through and we are still here and doing well.
Doing well?? Really.
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This is why I wanna go to France. I want to at least visit
Why? Do you know there? Let me tell you. Oppression in America is in the open and you have some great people who have fought and are still working together against prejudice. In most European countries and France, abuses are swept under the rug. I went and are going through the worse traumas: from work, to my personal escape and my own body violated and it's in France. You have no idea what you are talking about. If you are black stay away from Europe outside of England, that's my honest advice.
Ignorance is oppression.
I was born on Sparkmans plantation in SC, that my family owned and operated through out the antebellum period. I remember my grandmother took me to the playground part of six flags for kids. In Atlanta Georgia, I was running around playing with all these black children. My grandmother said Matthew they are almost like us in some ways. Like they weren't people, so crazy to me even today. Ill never understand the old south, even as a white southerner. I love toni sense of clarity and intelligence on how she can articulate our short comings. That alot of ppl cant see themselves. ❤
Love that she’s not interested in the white gaze. Whiteness is not central to her nor her writing. Love her. She also keeps racism where it belongs, in the hearts and minds of who’re people. They created and it’s their problem. ✌🏾
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"What's going on in our COMMUNITIES'😪
she's right bias is always someones weakness all it produces is abuse how can knowledge be real if its the product of abuse "you cannot solve a problem you cannot see"- Crenshaw
Honestly, what does it matter if there not in our community as long as the systematic system of white supremacy is still embedded as normal practice within society. We don't have a chance, that's Institutional racism that leads to discrimination in criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, and education, among other issues.
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the way most people lived it.
Listen to the interview closely she says her neighbors set our house on fire 🔥 when I was two years old the black man says why ?? if you ask him why did you take That position He can give you no justification do you understand
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She's a bit much but I love it .Love her and Ed Bradley . He looks like my brother. . Toni is right amazing Heace is why we all aren't dead
Being oppressed doesn’t mean you’re right or good.
Why should anyone be concerned over the ethnicity of her lead character ?
It doesn't make sense to me