Black History Matters | Don John | TEDxSouthampton

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  • Black History should not just be important to Black people but should be important to all peoples for a fuller understanding of the relationship between black & white people socially and politically. Yes, Black History Matters and Black Lives Matter is only the beginning of a process.
    Don John is a film maker, author & DJ as well as a consultant in the field of community cohesion. He has been a pioneer in the development of “Race & Diversity” issues across the southern region for over 30 years and was the founder and coordinator of Black History Month in Southampton over more than 20 years.
    This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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  • @Cybernaut551
    @Cybernaut551 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Human history as a collective goal matters. I agree with this.

  • @CC-cu5we
    @CC-cu5we 6 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Oh man you and your voice are comforting. Know that your maturity and respect are appreciated.

    • @irenedavo3768
      @irenedavo3768 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you watch Afrimax English

  • @carlettagoodrich-mann1377
    @carlettagoodrich-mann1377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Greatness presents itself. This speech is the height of my day. THANK YOU

  • @Uduwerage
    @Uduwerage 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Don John is a true advocate for Race Equality and Southampton is immensely privileged to have someone with such gravitas as a resident and contributor to diversity of belief and thought in this city.

    • @Fidelisjoff
      @Fidelisjoff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The assumption is different races and cultures and beliefs are all equivalent and contribute equally. They do not and that is why so many non Europeans wish to live in Europe

  • @hollydubrasich8276
    @hollydubrasich8276 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Beautiful thank you 🙏

  • @Sophie-bf6zd
    @Sophie-bf6zd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Growing up in Southampton... YES.

  • @adohkno1702
    @adohkno1702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i love it

  • @T8lor
    @T8lor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Why would anyone put a thumb down to such wealth of knowledge?? This is truly inspiring.

  • @serenityvalley3251
    @serenityvalley3251 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This was a great dialogue. I would love to see him with Dr Joy Degroy

    • @knight4395
      @knight4395 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is a monologue, not a dialogue!

  • @nisamae2
    @nisamae2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    White people I just want y'all to understand no one told you to hate yourself. Just accept and acknowledge your history. The good and bad.

    • @eddietrope5291
      @eddietrope5291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think the biggest problem is that most don’t know there own history. Big reason why everything is beginning to look like the 50s 60s.

    • @pamelabean9929
      @pamelabean9929 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very intelligent comment,well done

    • @colinparkerwelsh8418
      @colinparkerwelsh8418 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I will if you will !!!!

    • @FurbyGender
      @FurbyGender 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nisa, the fact you embrace being an “African American” and have no anger towards the Africans who sold and still sell their own people into slavery and human trafficking, shows you have an inability to acknowledge your history.

    • @marius4451
      @marius4451 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You do know that the roman empire enslaved evrey nation they conquered regardless of they're skin colour, ottoman empire did the same, atilla probably did the same.

  • @angelapowell790
    @angelapowell790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you , thank you for this in June 2020, God Bless...……..

  • @rein7015
    @rein7015 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This is so important for a multitude of reasons I can’t articulate. Thank you

  • @pearlbarkley1019
    @pearlbarkley1019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!

  • @sameerahajia4600
    @sameerahajia4600 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Very well he is good😉

  • @shakeenajackson4216
    @shakeenajackson4216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Beside all of the hate comments I love this. It was Beautifully worded !

    • @FurbyGender
      @FurbyGender 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s not hate, just a confusion for why you embrace the people who sold their own people into slavery to begin with and still do it today.

  • @anthonyvaughan4853
    @anthonyvaughan4853 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    BRILLIANT DECONSTRUCTION ON THE TOPIC !!

  • @russells.soehnerii8308
    @russells.soehnerii8308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I will watch Cicely Tyson, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter.

  • @graciebara8280
    @graciebara8280 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow

  • @shariecebrewster5962
    @shariecebrewster5962 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love my history

  • @yogiegemini2053
    @yogiegemini2053 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How can I attend a Tedx meeting live?

  • @anthonyvaughan6470
    @anthonyvaughan6470 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    BIG UP RESPECT !!! SHALOM !

  • @itsmpume5314
    @itsmpume5314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Amandla!

    • @nomthee888
      @nomthee888 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Awethu👊🏾

  • @christenasmalls6118
    @christenasmalls6118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    After 2022 years of common history it is important to understand that there are things in the earth that has become harden.....racial hostility is one of those things. Writing, speaking, preaching about it has a purpose to a degree. But I have lived long enough to recognize that harden beliefs often are impossible to change. Rather each individual must decide how they will approach their life on earth.

  • @Hawk95969
    @Hawk95969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    History Matters
    The statues should not be taken down but the plaque below
    the monument should be rewritten reflecting the truth. If we cover up the past
    the truth becomes lost and then the past is often repeated. Take what has been
    saved from history in Germany
    and what was done to the Jews. History is the window to our salvation through
    learning and not repeating the same mistakes.

  • @wellhelltherefellwhuman4637
    @wellhelltherefellwhuman4637 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I read 'Don John' as 'Josh Dun'😂

  • @reic0002
    @reic0002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ok. i have calmed down now and apologise if I offended anyone,. However, I stand by what I say albeit in slight less inflammatory language!

  • @aaronpresley
    @aaronpresley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Enriching speech

  • @bryanpepple3276
    @bryanpepple3276 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    where can i get his contact details

  • @JonDoeNeace
    @JonDoeNeace 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Because it's not just about slavery it's about the last 150 years since then.

  • @flemingsburgfarmscommunity6390
    @flemingsburgfarmscommunity6390 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    please contact i have matter that needs to be addressed i have history that is about to be lost i have
    the history of john henry and city is trying take the land plow over where john henry and his grandparents are buried
    please help me go to flemingsburg farms & community workshop john henry

  • @tonyfairey7733
    @tonyfairey7733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Basically you've got none ,own it.

  • @albumgenericflipper7110
    @albumgenericflipper7110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One question.. Why didnt it say " National Geographic Presents" at the beginning?

  • @loxodonwizard9867
    @loxodonwizard9867 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember being supposed to take one of two opinions regarding European occupation of India in college. It went something like should Europe have helped them via subjugation or given them an undeniably bad international deal, for their own sake. I was disgusted. I write that the British should have simply shared their knowledge, neither subjugated nor occupied the country. I received an F. All hail the holy liberal publications of history.

    • @nadegefotsing5130
      @nadegefotsing5130 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So sad 😣

    • @Gabby-kb9vv
      @Gabby-kb9vv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When was this???

    • @marius4451
      @marius4451 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      LoL. You don't get it do you. The third option that you chose if you as an adviser to the British empire suggested that to the British empire you would be hanged for high treason( in 2020 its perfectly reasonable but back then not so much).

  • @djacnoc6690
    @djacnoc6690 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ​@​

  • @instagramlive9247
    @instagramlive9247 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    28k views how sad

  • @jakemoran287
    @jakemoran287 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Low-key didn’t know that Egypt was in Africa, wow.

    • @stuartpringle913
      @stuartpringle913 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jake Moran ...or that Algeria was in France!... fire in the booth 🔥

    • @jakemoran287
      @jakemoran287 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Algeria isn’t in France, it’s in Africa too. Although part of the population does speak French!

    • @stuartpringle913
      @stuartpringle913 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jake Moran 😂😂😂 have you been smoking dakka?
      Actually why did you even bring Lowkey into it? Lol

    • @arlethavondell5162
      @arlethavondell5162 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stuartpringle913 lol, too funny!

  • @norahdavid6399
    @norahdavid6399 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is Rotherham a safe place to live?

  • @John-pk9rw
    @John-pk9rw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We wUz Nefertiti n shieeeet

  • @charlesmitchell8982
    @charlesmitchell8982 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The lawn mower was invented by English inventor Edwin Beard Budding in 1830

    • @EvilEmpire1129
      @EvilEmpire1129 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      J A Burr invented the Rotary Lawn Mower. Patent number is #624,749.

  • @anthonygee2441
    @anthonygee2441 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Until the 17th century Britain and her people were under constant attack by barbary pirates. Coastal towns where invaded and people taken as slaves by those barbary pirates who also attacked British merchant ships. This continued Until Britain built a navy powerful enough to defeat the barbary pirates. Rule Brittania was written, later put to music, as a poem of thanksgiving. The barbary pirates came from North Africa

    • @jacquelinewhite3705
      @jacquelinewhite3705 ปีที่แล้ว

      Portuguese who did not consider themselves as people of colour and who were the first biggest enslavers of Africans. There were plenty of white barbarians who relentlessly attacked UK

    • @thewatcher7940
      @thewatcher7940 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Meanwhile the British went and enslaved Africans too. Not sure what you meant by this.

  • @charlesmitchell8982
    @charlesmitchell8982 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The guitar was used in 12th century Europe

    • @tbrown4111
      @tbrown4111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Charles Mitchell your right the Guitar was used in the 12th century in Europe. What Robert Flemming did was make it better. Flemming invented a guitar he called the "Euphonica" that he believed would produce a louder and more resonant sound than a traditional guitar. The U.S. Patent Office granted Flemming a patent (no. 338,727) on March 30, 1886. He also received a Canadian patent (no. 26,398) on April 5, 1887

    • @stuartpringle913
      @stuartpringle913 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      T Brown .....so not the actual original guitar then...

    • @arlethavondell5162
      @arlethavondell5162 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tbrown4111 Well researched and nicely articulated!!

  • @Ambera3407
    @Ambera3407 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Alternate history matters.

  • @joshuawadsworth6417
    @joshuawadsworth6417 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    *Laughs in Morgan Freeman*

  • @stuartpringle913
    @stuartpringle913 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    So much hate in the comments... 👊🏼👊🏾👊🏿

    • @user-is3tn2hp1f
      @user-is3tn2hp1f 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Unfortunately, some are not really understanding

  • @Flashyfinancier
    @Flashyfinancier 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Morgan Freeman

  • @deepdesire6967
    @deepdesire6967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    ALL HISTORY MATTERS!!

  • @casperhansen7505
    @casperhansen7505 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Where was it he worked?
    I dont understand what he said, sounded along the lines of jermajesty treasury! Some1 help me

  • @Itchyback
    @Itchyback 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    2017 and a victim complex larger than the universe, who would have thought?

    • @JohnSmith-dh3kx
      @JohnSmith-dh3kx 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @528302 You got it backwards.

    • @Michael21870
      @Michael21870 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The oppressors have no heart or human soul.They continue to steal, kill and destroy, denying others of their humanity in this world.And when someone stands up, they think it's a complex.Sad human being you are.

    • @johnnybracciole5490
      @johnnybracciole5490 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup blacks need to stop being lazy and blaming others

  • @Pokemaster_416
    @Pokemaster_416 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can’t get over that name.... don john

  • @raquelvaldez4600
    @raquelvaldez4600 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How does blacks like this message

  • @thomasdequincey5811
    @thomasdequincey5811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He could at least use the Spanish version of his name: Don Juan.
    P.S. Britain is in the centre of maps because of the Greenwich meridian. This talk has a very shoddily laid out argument.

  • @stuartpringle913
    @stuartpringle913 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Can I be proud to be white? I was born white. I refuse to hate myself, so I will love my untrendy being.

    • @TheJeremie247
      @TheJeremie247 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Be proud

    • @user-is3tn2hp1f
      @user-is3tn2hp1f 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Augustus Mars ...our people?

    • @user-is3tn2hp1f
      @user-is3tn2hp1f 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Of course..?? Idg how your skin colour should play in role in being proud?

    • @marius4451
      @marius4451 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Be proud because you are a human beeig , the way you are raised determis how you think and how you act

    • @stuartpringle913
      @stuartpringle913 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marius4451 some of us were raised by animals and still survived to be decent humans.

  • @blazedandconfused477
    @blazedandconfused477 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not to me, bro.

  • @johnnybracciole5490
    @johnnybracciole5490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Whining won't get you anywhere...blacks need to get up and be productive

    • @aniyalogan4532
      @aniyalogan4532 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's not whining and he actually has an impressive job compared to you whos sitting behind a scene being a baby

    • @locdinwithzaza
      @locdinwithzaza 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@aniyalogan4532nah he’s a whining commie

  • @charlesmitchell8982
    @charlesmitchell8982 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Alexander Dumas was only a quarter black by his paternal grandmother

    • @yrretgnortsmra8955
      @yrretgnortsmra8955 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Charles Mitchell a quarter?, are we really going there?

    • @arlethavondell5162
      @arlethavondell5162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yrretgnortsmra8955 You know Charles Mitchell has to discredit the Blackness somehow......

    • @johnnybracciole5490
      @johnnybracciole5490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Truth hurts

  • @grahamt5924
    @grahamt5924 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The only reason that Blacks did not invent as many things, is that they did not need to. Necessity is the mother of invention. Living in very cold climates creates necessity and it forces inventions.

    • @TheSamster1072
      @TheSamster1072 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wow, you're a brain donor.

    • @erinknight5742
      @erinknight5742 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Go watch a Hidden Colors part 1 and hush

    • @asuraazoth7137
      @asuraazoth7137 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cold tough climates sped up evolution. Forced Europeans to become better. Which is why they have come to dominate the earth.

  • @rgfhjfghjk.
    @rgfhjfghjk. ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we wur kangs

  • @eastcoastsaltwaterfishing6744
    @eastcoastsaltwaterfishing6744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No it doesn't

  • @locdinwithzaza
    @locdinwithzaza 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Commie alert

  • @nbarrett259
    @nbarrett259 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Zzzzzzz ..we gave you history..words ..language..everything..shooo go away ..

    • @jassensummogum
      @jassensummogum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      NOT TRUE.

    • @deantokwana9829
      @deantokwana9829 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Go read up on your history please

    • @Africasoil
      @Africasoil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You stoled every thing From us Mr Snow bunnie.

    • @nbarrett259
      @nbarrett259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Africasoil good ha ha

    • @arlethavondell5162
      @arlethavondell5162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Africasoil That is absolutely correct! They had no writing system of their own but the Afrikans did and they inspired the Egyptians with their text.