How to decolonise your mind | Kehinde Andrews
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Kehinde Andrews explores colonialism's lasting impact on society and individuals.
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The long term societal impact of colonial rule is present in the way our institutions operate and how we, as individuals, view the world and other people. In this talk, Kehinde Andrews explores how we counteract these effects, the best way of decolonising our perspective, and how we can all do better when it comes to talking about society, race, and decolonisation.
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Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University's School of Social Sciences. He led leading the development of the Black Studies degree and is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.
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How do you think Drama could be used as a tool for decolonisation?
Wonderful video thank you!
Respect to you Kehinde Andrew's
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worth it tho
Good analysis. West wants to be leader for ever and ever, they were not always a leader, they did not even have a proper religion. It is not a leader in ethics but only in material.
The others (non white) have to reject the white world in toto, build an impressive model as good or better to challenge their world. It is very much possible. It is on way in many parts.
Now for an case study, if the African continent were the first to industrialize, not the europeans, it would then be in a stature to spread its model of success all over, if the other are lacking (This difference of progress of different peoples creates human crises). How an powerful africa goes about doing it is of great importance, does it use cruelty? does it want well being of all or a dependence? Does it sabotage or destabilize systems deliberately in order to feel safe and well? Do other people have the right to resist African industrial model? If Africa were the first industrial power will it be benign? May or may not.
Ethics of human beings is independent of wealth, it however does need science to deliver the best justice. An old world ethic was flawed due to its shaky foundation. Many in the West however claim to be better or best humans, not true. A flawed human wants a flawed system.
A racist hopes others do not catch up. He prevents others from gaining parity.
Lot of bigots in the comment section whining about this video. That's how you know you're on the right track.
So, people who disagree with this man's completely non-falsifiable and non-provable stance are "bigots"? Christ alive, learn how to use words properly.
@@MrBannystar You just got triggered by facts and logic and are mad that he’s not white!
They just have a god complex.
@history8192 says the person who is specifically putting skin colour in front of truth. You absolutely stink of ignorance and projection because really you just desperately want to hate white people
Haiti punished today for defeating colonial west. Respect warriors
Irish people were shipped to Barbados and we have white skin
The Largest phoenix because Irish people weren’t seen as proper white people
And what happern to the Irish once they got there?
when was white as a racial category invented?
White skin, yes. BUT ... you have red hair! Intersectionality - did you forget that? But you cancel these two disabilities if you are bigender, transsexual, and identify as black.
@@tulliusagrippa5752 hahaha.. Good one 👍
I hear people talking about this issue a lot. No one ever seems to say what the end game is. When will it be enough and how do we quantify that?
Suchhhh a good question 🤜🏽♥️🤛🏽 want to know this too...
they have no end game. the idea is to destroy everything and never rebuild it. its bollocks
Precisely. For anyone saying there must be better way, who can’t begin to describe it, they can be ignored summarily
It will be enough when the system stops starving the poor.
The end goal is to stop oppressing people?
As long as you put people into skin color categories, there will be no hope to give human beings equal chances. We cannot make people "equal". We can only give everybody the same opportunities and chances in life.
you can make everybody equal it's called communist authorotarinism lol.
That’s what equal mean 😂🤡
'Science, liberal democracy and industrial production are unequal(sic), illusionary and distorted... but I'm not really saying they're 100% untrue'
He said, running from the Motte towards the Bailey 🙄
What exactly does Isaac Newton have to do with slavery? There is a lot of nonsense in this video
He’s a critical race theorist , what do you expect?
Strange that he would quote Malcolm X describing his indoctrination into the Nation of Islam, the organisation he would later disavow, as if it were a positive kind of enlightenment worth emulating. And what did Malcolm X decide to do afterwards? Advocate for Black Nationalism. Racial politics. Is that what Kehinde Andrews wants? Inverse, voluntary segregation?
Separation* There is a difference & yes it is necessary.
@@Maqqin Well I'd just love to hear the difference. And I'd be interested to hear how it could not rely on racist principles, because right now that's what it looks like.
Since when???
good question. I'm white but apparently my people are evil and are inherintently privileged.
The Largest phoenix by saying that you are not inheritantly privileged then you are basically saying racial hierarchy doesn’t exists and all races are equal.
Stop Division. Equality cannot be achieved by creating division
@J.E.88 Black I'm Irish we were treated to similar treatments.. Then we had to fight against Imperialism for 800 years, as far as I'm aware my family tree contains nobody who owned or dealt in slaves. If your looking for slavery, why don't you hop over to Libya where it's happening as we speak.
Equality is just a dogma which has cost the lives of 100 million people in the last century.
How is he a professor?
Because he worked very hard...................
6:05 - "So that's why it's really important to destabilise the myths of how great the west *is.*" [Proceeds to talk about the past.] Beyond that, the guy doesn't seem to say much.
He bloviates a bit before talking about how some people were wrong about race. Which ...doesn't matter. Bad ideas are thrown on the trash-heap, then we move on.
The valuable thing about science is not its content, but its method. Observe, hypothesise, *attempt to disprove hypothesis,* repeat. The output is knowledge, until proven otherwise.
And ...needless to say, being wrong about one thing doesn't make you more or less wrong about another thing.
I don’t see how the speaker is saying anything that we don’t know already. We know that slave labor was used for millennia (and still survives to this day in parts of the world). Empires are also one of history’s most unoriginal ideas - if anything, the Europeans were quite late to that game, only gaining significant possessions from around 1500. Prior to that, many European nations, eg. Spain were THEMSELVES colonies. European imperialism pretty much came to a halt after 1945. There’s nothing to stop so called “western ideals” being successfully adopted elsewhere either. In fact, the balance of the world’s wealth and power has shifted east over the years, while the west has stagnated and in some cases gone backwards.
basic
Yep... the communoids don't want to recognize this. They refuse to acknowledge how successful asian people are when they migrate to western societies too. It doesn't fit in with their narrative, so they came up with this retarded idea called "White Adjacency"... It basically states that their success is only attributed to the fact that they align themselves with white people, whatever the hell that means. All these 'ideas' are supposed to be in the name of combating racism btw. Complete bollocks
KA is correct to point out that even some Enlightenment figures had a darker side to their own world view,; likewise he is correct point out that there is a dark side to the way some races (and classes) of people were appallingly oppressed during the Industrial Revolution period and the decades before and after. But he is wrong to say that none if it COULD have happened without colonization, slavery etc. It certainly could, but the tragedy was that it did not. Whenever I listen to kA speak, I always get the sense he is operating from an agenda, simply to trash the West, dump on any apparent progress its societies have apparently made, and paint white people as intrinsically evil.
You make out Africa to be some paradise before it was colonised.
You clearly know nothing about African history. You probably know nothing about the Nigerian empire, ancient Egypt (which included Egypt, Sudan and south Sudan) or Mali or about anything. First get educated about Africa's history and decolonize your history books, then stop making such ignorant comments
it wuz Wakanda an sheeit
But, Rousseau and other Enlightenment philosophers were critical of the Atlantic slave trade.
I've been trying to research which other philosophers and thinkers dissented during that period. Any others you can point to?
We’re all entitled to opinions, but I’ve watched and listened to a lot of what Professor Kehinde Andrews has said over the last year. Digging in and questioning Winston Churchill, even questioning Nelson Mandela at times, the damn busters during the 2nd world war and just being overall negative about everything as he just reads into things so much and is always looking for an error, and he’s very articulate in that way. Just watch all the Good Morning shows he’s been on with Piers Morgan. I’m sorry to say it but he frustrates me because it’s utter BS and he’s looking for a unique argument to make himself stand out. Obviously I’m not saying it’s a popularity contest, but his arguments are ridiculous. He’s an activist and that’s his right. He’s basically trying to alter history and abolishing certain things in a nutshell. Unfortunately today’s society is so fixated on being politically correct and stricken by certain things you can and cannot say.... people will see my comment and will automatically say ‘yep this guys a racist’. It’s pathetic.
Mandela was a sellout. I mean... there was the whole Apartheid thing, but why look at the one "tiny" thing he did and why not focus on other things that Kehinde thinks are important?
@britking - that’s the problem! Yes he said Mandela was as a sellout. But what does that mean when South Africa, a country stricken by huge racial problems and he becomes the prime minister! I mean that gives hope at the end of the day no matter what he did that led him to prison. That doesn’t mean he’s a sellout! Kehinde is focusing on the tiny matters. He’s an activist and I respect that, but his way of thinking is pretty brash and focusing on tiny things which can cause big divided opinions, just like we are all doing in these comments below the video! Pretty ridiculous arguments he causes.
@@britking tiny? Are you serious?
@@leggocrewtv2052 No... obviously. This Kehinde guy has lost his mind.
@@britking Why are you name calling and gaslighting?
Decolonization is simple. Learn the truth without ignoring the facts. Live according to reality. Denounce religion being a standard to live by. Don't kill, abuse and use your own skin color. Most of all, abide by the law.
and yet the two most famous african-american activists of the 20C were devoutly religious
@@startmakingsense2071 Incorrect, can't be both. All activist are not part of the Church.. We go through the indoctrination due to tradition from parents.
@@turavalphacygni6234 Martin Luther King absolutely was religious.
@@jonasrand6818 Was is the key word. Civil Rights Activist can not pastor and be sincere about humanity. I was religious until I learned better. Most people coming out of poverty are religious, it's part of the culture. Don't confuse Church with the individual. Conclusion is we were never religious minded; well, going by the tradition and customs of others.
Kehinde Andrews.... I really wish this guy had listened in school.
My dog just passed wind
This stirs up exactly the reactions he purports to abhor.
Wrong spirit. You cannot moan on about history. The Roman
Empire was probably the most invasive of all but I would never
today take it out on Italian people.
Prof. Andrew's is one the best minds out there today.
😂
He’s speaking the truth. If it’s triggered you, that’s a sign to keep digging for more information instead of rejecting it out of emotionality.
On blast pls !!!
No he isn't. Maybe you agree with it because of emotionality?
He speak a lot, but doesn't actually anything.
DeCOMUNISE your mind.
Big up (accolades) to the professor for taking on this challenge that only melaninated folk can understand. This subject matter is absolutely on target and has precedence in the struggle for a paradign that suits the African born in the West striving for wholeness of themselves. Correct the mind with new education, and the body shall follow.
Facts
Why can only melanated people understand? It sounds dangerous to suggest that you can only understand something that happens to you. I would be careful to walk down that road because it can be very easily used against your argument.
That sounds vaguely condescending of 'non-malenised' people.
"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
Ray Bradbury
A bunch of triggered trolls in the comments haha
it really makes sense when you think about it.
He loves to beat around the bush hu?
I think this is all getting taken to extremes.
He just spouts nonsense. Should have stopped at Science, Industry and Philosophy [politics and ethics]. He is colonised himself with nonsense.
I don't think it is possible, look at how many Asian women with yt husbands
Look this guy up
He’s an insecure mixed kid from the suburbs who learned blackness from books about struggle and believes his interest in white culture was only negative
He hasn’t integrated his numerous identities or dealt with his shame so he aggressively confronts societal issues with the same anger he had towards himself
How do I know this? I’m the same. Grew up middle class in a very dichotomous area and hung out with poor kids. This fucked with my identity and caused me to lash out at the world. Eventually I realized that it’s better to attack institutions over people and that the intent of the person matters.
It allowed me to educate people and have better conversations.
A warning from America, this type of ideology can seem great on the surface but there are much healthier versions of it that help create conversations and dialogue that bring us together
Anger is fine, vitriolic anger stemming from a combination of real issues (racism) and his own insecurities. Are not.
See a therapist Kehinde
Good on you for seeking true enlightenment. We all face trials which can lead us to resentment. Justified as it may be, resentment is not the way forward. Feelings of hate and vitriol only serve to create more destruction. Friedrich Nietzsche explored this idea extensively, he said "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." The story of Cain and Able went over this idea too.
It's the reason thing's turned out so shitty in the soviet union. That movement was not based on love for fellow man, it was seeded in resentment and only aimed to punish the perceived enemies.
Whitey's on the moon!
And?
274 people are uncomfortable. Good job that's the first step👌
Are you uncomfortable about slavery and colonisation in Africa long before the British landed there? Research the trans-Saharan slave trade for a start. If slavery helped establish things like the Industrial Revolution, Africa and the Middle East would have been industrial almost a thousand years before Britain. This is Andrews' logic, his claims are complete nonsense.
You just cant handle it Kehinde
I disagree with the entire thesis on its face. The dark side of western civilization was no where near as impactful as its productive or 'good' side. Much of the industrial and scientific advancement which has elevated all of humanity today can be attributed to a small club of nations in western Europe, their culture produced a lasting method and institutions devoted to creating knowledge and understanding of the natural world. Nothing is done for altruistic reasons but if we are going to carve up the legacy of a civilization into good and bad that alone outdoes any genocide you could lay at the feet of a great power like France or Britain. You could look at the history of nations as a series of genocides if this is what we are to focus on, the expansion of the Bantu people was wave of genocide across the south of Africa, the Turkic peoples desolated central Asia, Persia and Northern India; what did the world get out of all that at the end? If genocide and colonialism were necessary pillars to advance the sciences and industry of the west(false as well) its at least done more lasting good for those that remain than any of the empires 'people of color' created. The Europeans were exceptional, nothing about scientific and technological progress is a given; we could just as easily have stagnated for another 1000 years without a scientific method or laws of motion. Regardless of how they abused their position during their golden age doesn't relegate their achievements to myth.
The fact we have the ability to save ourselves from a pandemic is reason enough to marginalize the narrative western civilization has been a detriment to humanity.
You should check out the agricultural revolution and its link to the colonizing potential of Europe. Nothing inherent to the European people that brought about their success but its worth noting the circumstantial success it had brought to Europe and consequently to the world.
Nah bruh, why decolonize. Most unproductive thing you could do lmao
Sounds disgusting