“I Write Because I thought I Was Ugly, Then I Wrote Myself into Beauty.” - Dr. Daniel Black

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @msjking915
    @msjking915 Год назад +8

    The auction block is the framing of black self worth. 🔥🔥🎤🎤

  • @danahart3082
    @danahart3082 Год назад +17

    Everytime he opens his mouth...jewels, wisdom, facts. Glory! 🥰
    Professor Hunter, thank you for these interviews and asking the right questions. I exalt you both!🥰

  • @janwig9347
    @janwig9347 Год назад +10

    So many speechless comments. Some minds have been bent with this interview. My god! Professor Hunter, I exhalt you.

  • @kellymills8779
    @kellymills8779 Год назад +15

    Exactly, Dr. Black!! I've BEEN saying that about sports for yeaaaars and slavery. They use your body until they are "finished" with you, then discard you like trash. Powerful conversation. 👍🏿👍🏿👏🏿👏🏿

  • @augustusb3501
    @augustusb3501 Год назад +6

    Excellent commentary 👌🏾 He is correct- They wanted to erase our memory, but they lost on that. They tried to make themselves god, how delusional are those mfs still to this day?

  • @marthajackson7537
    @marthajackson7537 Год назад +8

    Dr. Black reveals and heals ❤

  • @DavidETrotman
    @DavidETrotman Год назад +15

    He’s seeing the God in others!! How can we claim to honor God and can’t see the Godliness in our own people? Powerful!!!

  • @ecatheatre86
    @ecatheatre86 Год назад +13

    This spoke to ME. This spoke to ME. And I have to admit it's a foreign feeling to be present and remotely attuned to what truth someone is speaking and yet so removed from it.
    I'm mourning the person I once knew or thought I knew but didn't think that identity could survive or be supported in the world of men.
    This book AND Ms. Karen Hunter, y'all better stop it with all this truth, lol, up in through this here piece.
    These revelations be having me in a flux for real..
    I need to write MYSELF into beautiful with the quickness.

  • @SandraCDavis
    @SandraCDavis Год назад +18

    Power!!! Truly Powerful!!! What a blessing to realize we are/ I am beautiful 😍 🤩!!! This set something free in me that I didn't know was hindering me from living in my fullness and Glory!!! "Everything that the devil stole, God is giving back to me! Can't have my Joy! Can't have my Peace! Can't have my Faith!" --Dorinda Clark Cole

  • @tonymorris5821
    @tonymorris5821 Год назад +8

    I am going to share this clip with my 16yo Crown Prince tomorrow. While I drive him to school in the morning.

  • @gracenembhard4733
    @gracenembhard4733 Год назад +3

    Let me tell you...that word about the auction block? The first time I saw the NFL Scouting Combine and the Draft, my spirit was troubled. (Jamaican, here...I had to learn and teach myself about this heah "American" football, as the rest of the world calls it.) After a bit, the words of a poem I had heard recited back in high school came to me:
    "Ancestor on the auction block
    Across the years your eyes seek mine
    Compelling me to look."
    That's the only part I knew...and everytime I see footage of any draft - NFL, NBA, etc. - these words come to mind. And I have NEVER been able to watch them...these modern day auction blocks.
    Baba Omotosho is on fire! Fiyaaaaahhh!!!

  • @donesecarr3570
    @donesecarr3570 Год назад +6

    Dr Black is reaching into my soul. Got me misty eyed. You blessed me!

  • @viccha4318
    @viccha4318 Год назад +2

    “What up is for the grass”, I loved this entire clip

    • @Nisa1971
      @Nisa1971 Год назад

      I am obsessed and cannot stop rewatching! 👁👁

  • @carolynfrink5569
    @carolynfrink5569 Год назад +3

    I am screaming in my house, listening to Dr. Black breaking down Black value and beauty!! Hallelujah! This IS Freedom!

  • @zeepickens9049
    @zeepickens9049 Год назад +8

    *#DrDanielBlack** is the WHOLE TRUTH!!!!!*
    *".....THEN I WROTE MYSELF INTO BEAUTY!"*
    *This is **#Barz**!!!!!*
    *A **#Sermon**!!!*
    *A **#TedTalk**!!!*
    *A **#Psalm**!!!*
    *This video BLESSED💕 my SOUL!!! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!*
    💕👑🧱👑💕
    *#PS**: How REVOLUTIONARY is it to define your OWN BEAUTY!!!!!* 💕💝💕

  • @thepeaceologist
    @thepeaceologist Год назад +4

    Speak Dr. Black and Professor Hunter. You are connecting those dots. So important for our HEALING 🙏💛

  • @atumnefer
    @atumnefer Год назад +6

    Pretty privilege we call it. And let's not forget the colorism and hair textureism that comes with it. I survived this because of the voices outside of my family--neighbors grabbing me aside when parents were not looking to tell me that I was indeed beautiful, voices on the radio, commercials on TV and in magazines even though those were somewhat tainted by biases. There were books I got to read by grace. I make it my business to do the same for other young people now. Just as I reacted, there is shock and a pull away from being startled with a compliment at first. Those are the ones you know never heard this before. You get sized up and once you are deemed safe, the softening comes and the shy smile and a "thank you." They skip on with a little more pep in their step and you are bursting with joy for them. To whom much is given... Keep teaching. It promotes good mental health and saves lives. I came up full of myself because of this "teaching" and it still irks some of my elders to this day. But that's not my business. I only wish they come to enlightenment before they transition. Til then, I keep watch over the young, dark ones coming up. Keep teaching. Give thanks.

    • @jgq2881
      @jgq2881 Год назад +2

      This is true. Our words have impact on the youngers.
      I recall elder women in Church telling me to stand tall and walk with poise, since I was 5'3" at 11 years old. I carry that gift with me today, though I have not grown taller.

    • @atumnefer
      @atumnefer Год назад +1

      @@jgq2881 A beautiful gift you were given. May you continue to carry it and pass it on. ❤️🌺🎉

    • @heatherelliott8246
      @heatherelliott8246 Год назад +1

      @Nefer Atum 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾… Keep blessing our future.

  • @pearlyj.7493
    @pearlyj.7493 Год назад +3

    Karen Hunter I had to listen to the brother over again. Thanks.

  • @cathylewis3967
    @cathylewis3967 Год назад +2

    Boy that was good! Karen Please have Dr. Black on your show again very soon!

  • @mssule4331
    @mssule4331 Год назад +3

    NBA draft is the modern-day auction block...that was 🔥

  • @r.e.cooksjr.6076
    @r.e.cooksjr.6076 Год назад +3

    Good and awesome ppl, be BLESSED. Nothing can match this, you and him
    (Dr. Black). I’m m so blessed to be in the space to receive this amazing message. So many answers to so many unknown question 😢. Being given instructions? We all beautifully made. I can go on and on but I must get the book 😢😅.
    SPEAK
    PREACH
    TALK
    TELL THE STORY
    Love you Karen for creating and hold this space. ❤️❤️

  • @rhondagilliam2438
    @rhondagilliam2438 Год назад +8

    This my brother and sister is my first time hearing either of you , Teach me more of self , Because
    I have to be in both of your presents. Please help me to know me and my history. YOU MY BROTHER ARE BRILLIANT.
    I APPRECIATE YOU BOTH.
    LET ME SAY THIS.
    I BLEACHED MY SKIN , AND I BEGAN TO NOTICE THE MORE COMPLIMENTS FROM PEOPLE THAT I HAD NONE ALL MY LIFE,
    AND I STARTED GETTING MORE ATTENTION, FROM THE BUS DRIVERS, MY GOD I SAID TO MYSELF I WANT ME BACK NOT REALIZING THAT IT WAS ALWAYS RHONDA SHE JUST NEVER KNEW WHO RHONDA WAS, HELP ME GOD.

    • @KarenHunterShow
      @KarenHunterShow  Год назад +3

      welcome home...there's plenty here...go down the rabbit holes and find yourself.

    • @mygorgeous1of2
      @mygorgeous1of2 Год назад

      Rhonda, you are Beautiful and we love you sister🙏🏽✊🏽!

  • @jacquelinesanders6574
    @jacquelinesanders6574 Год назад +2

    When he speaks its with such a Godly Intention its beautiful its love its life brilliant!!

  • @karenl7786
    @karenl7786 Год назад +3

    We are truly blessed to have Dr. Black with us. I thank all creation for this brother. I've never fully understood or been able to accept our obsession in particular with the sports entertainment industry. I was always told "oh that's just because you're a girl". Lies! This is the truest breakdown.

    • @Nisa1971
      @Nisa1971 Год назад

      You intuitively divined the true meaning!

  • @BlackDiamond-dq7jd
    @BlackDiamond-dq7jd Год назад +2

    Power indeed. I felt that with every fiber of my....being.

  • @janicemcmillan9910
    @janicemcmillan9910 Год назад +1

    Dr. Black YOU are truly BEAUTIFUL and I look forward to being in your presence at 2024 Healthy Wealthy Wise ❤🖤💚🙏🏽

  • @jgq2881
    @jgq2881 Год назад +4

    The generation of my parents did not want to strip us of value or beauty, but did not show favor or acknowledgment of beauty to avoid bringing attention to and risking losing those whom they value.

  • @litcetera
    @litcetera Год назад +3

    "You're the smart one." I have to get this book now.

  • @litcetera
    @litcetera Год назад +2

    Wow! "The framing of Black self-worth"

  • @akaziaj
    @akaziaj Год назад +2

    Look at the Universe aligning the stars.🌟🌟🌟

  • @nta699
    @nta699 Год назад +1

    Did he say: I exalt you, I magnify you, I lift you..., wow!? so powerful we must re-educate ourselves with love, beauty, and peace.

    • @heatherelliott8246
      @heatherelliott8246 Год назад +1

      @Nizam Taleb I am a preacher’s kid (all folks ain’t church folks & may not recognize PK). An old one now. And, I recall a consistent agitation in the church when “BLESSING someone”…maybe the exact controversial phrase was “I will BLESS u”. The hushed but loud question was “how can any man BLESS another man? He ain’t God”. Yes, these questions thought us powerless 2 BLESS each other much less say it, declare it, own it, the power to edify😵‍💫!So Dr. Black would have been burned as a witch doctor (just joking) by my church affiliates back in the late 70s. I was affiliated w/ Baptist (born & raised) w/ strong ties to Church of God in Christ and many Pentecostals via tent revivals. By my early 20s, I was clearing my personal space of people w/ negative speech patterns that reflected clear MISEDUCATION… powerlessness has never been an option.

  • @tacklingtomfoolery7284
    @tacklingtomfoolery7284 Год назад +2

    A conversation I didn't even know I needed to hear. Powerful.

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    3:24 and realizing someone brought you cheaply
    Whew chhhhiillleee it's making make sense of how often I've allowed myself to be "brought" cheaply

  • @bayareaknight3134
    @bayareaknight3134 Год назад +8

    Thoughtful, powerful, meaningful...this is an excellent start to the day.

  • @Joe161964
    @Joe161964 Год назад +3

    There were a lot of pauses in your responses, Karen!! Believe me I share it because I had to walk around my apt listening to what he was saying!

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    4:52 body language ahhhhhhh this is why we are somewhat clairvoyant as a people we can read the unspoken because we had to to survive
    Ahhhhhh I'm getting it
    ** Apologies on taking y'all with me on this journey but these two walked into my life at a time where I can receive the message but it's a lot to take in **

  • @Nisa1971
    @Nisa1971 Год назад +1

    Speak Dr. Black this is everything because some have forgotten the meanings of these Olde English words. Draft (financial definition)- It's a paper document that looks a lot like a regular cheque. The owners, NFL draft, the NBA draft = modern day auction blocks. Thank goodness we are remembering because forgetting is the most dangerous disease! Which is why they are fighting so hard for schools to teach their myth making!

  • @darniusterix5774
    @darniusterix5774 Год назад +2

    Brother brings words to LIFE! Fire from above, knowledge from above!

    • @Nisa1971
      @Nisa1971 Год назад

      Agreed except I would say "from within" which means we can all access this knowledge of self, given the right conditions.

  • @Maria-qh5hr
    @Maria-qh5hr Год назад +1

    RUclipsr Salkis Re speaks on the life of a ugly person. She is super intelligent and honest in her approach of being considered a "Ugly Girl".

  • @lillianvazquez6672
    @lillianvazquez6672 Год назад +2

    Wow sis 😍 👏 Gracias so much. 💓 I'm so nourished and feeling amazed at today's topic.

  • @kissoflove14
    @kissoflove14 Год назад +2

    Im gonna need Dr. Black to TEACH a word!!!

  • @umiiyabode
    @umiiyabode Год назад +4

    You better teach Baba Omotosho!

  • @jrg6284
    @jrg6284 Год назад +1

    Dr. Black 🙌🏽

  • @Bookfiles
    @Bookfiles Год назад +1

    Dr Black 🤗👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    0:57 I'm so incredibly thankful for you both
    Just hitting so so many nerves

  • @startpage717
    @startpage717 Год назад +3

    LOL "Had to put the Book down and Walk."

  • @robinhawkins3801
    @robinhawkins3801 Год назад +4

    Yes,this morning has me stunned listening to this. Had to stop in the middle and digest what was given. Love you,Professor Hunter... didn't know I needed this.

  • @DorothyLJones
    @DorothyLJones Год назад +1

    This is so true.

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    6:10 so I ain't see the Colin Kap documentary but he explores this and though I'm not a sports person it resonated to me
    And it resonated to me in my professional life as the token
    I was a proud pick me, however I do not feel shame for being so - despite many in my community wanting me to - rather I understand the ingrained psychology behind it and have/giving myself grace from it
    Y'all two gonna make me get my degree cause I don't have the education to express what I know to be true
    This is why I honestly have issues with some of our current greats and want to extend cautious grace to the Candace Owens , I understand that pick me and being lost and it's a hell of a drug , but ultimately it will never sit right with you

  • @heatherelliott8246
    @heatherelliott8246 Год назад +1

    This brother is HEAVY. His passion 11:32 reminds me of my beautiful brother! Listen, Karen I ain’t no stretch a “Hollywood Beauty” type but I always KNEW I was NOT ugly even when my weight got waaaay out of control. Pregnant I hit 225 lb…my baby was 9.10 something and 221/2 inches long so that’s a 3 month old that I birthed 😳…with no stitches 🤯 for real, but the 204 was many years later. Met up w/ my sister & cousin @ Bahama Breeze & u could see the WHOA in their faces & a young one told on 1 of them. I sucked it up like air. On our way out, 3 different men @ 3 different tables tried 2 get my attention. Not coy, I asked both of them if they saw the reactions “THE BIG GIRL” got or was I imagining the attention. We ALL 😂 & my sister said what she always said that “I was conceded”. We r now 55 & 57. I always new she was sensitive about her looks. & I always thought SHE was remarkable, beautiful. Lately we got into a heated 🔥 discussion & she is older & went to childhood insecurities. & I let her have 55 years of how much bull crap I thought that was. I’m in a struggle 4 my financial future & I refused the yoke of her insecurities @ that time. We promised to work it out on the other side of my journey BECAUSE I assessed her yoke was (and I stand by this but my approach/address was wrong) a distraction 4 me. & I needed all my strength. &…I needed her to love me from afar. I love her, I crave her…her approval, her encouragement, her every thing. But 4 the 1st time, I’m acknowledging she doesn’t know how 2 give it when it’s most needed. I shared w/ her that she was dangerous to me right now because she doesn’t/won’t/can’t understand the power she wields. Power that I have given her. I’m sharing waaaay 2 much. But on the other side which I pray will be soon, I have 2 see HER vulnerability. I have 2 see HER the way she sees HER to….help her feeling rejected while her sister is going thru & she wants 2 go. I’ve refused 2 give this any space in my 🧠 because I have limited energy & I have focused on what I need 2 execute. I need every one of his books & sis & I will get counseling so our relationship can reflect the love we have 4 each other. 🤯. I love y’all 4 sharing with us, with me. I’m not going 2 read over & try 2 correct any of this. I needed this & I need 2 marinate in it. 🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️

  • @tonymorris5821
    @tonymorris5821 Год назад +5

    🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @thomnixon9596
    @thomnixon9596 Год назад +1

    This scholar just sold a book today........Listen to what he is saying to us! Know your worth! How do we soothe the wounds of the undesireable. Wow, you look like God!

  • @PoeticSpiritualCounseling-LLC
    @PoeticSpiritualCounseling-LLC Год назад +4

    Very thought-provoking!

  • @p.w.7493
    @p.w.7493 Год назад +1

    I'm loving this inspiring and empowering conversation that you're sharing with Dr. Daniel Black, Prof. Hunter!!
    It's all good!!🙏🏿🖤💯

  • @sugashy45
    @sugashy45 Год назад +1

    Mercy ❤❤❤

  • @TheAmberDTaylor
    @TheAmberDTaylor Год назад +7

    Oooh Chile, this was CHURCH in so many ways. The words that aren’t used - how clear was that? There’s just so much bubbling up, ima sit with this for some time. Karen, ima take a walk. 🤯🚶🏾‍♀️

  • @abbassaquee286
    @abbassaquee286 Год назад +1

    Thanks for this inspiration much needed for especially for us of African decent because many of us have been damaged by colonised minds that the standard of beauty is of European standards that of some of our people on the continent of Africa are white obsess I remembered during my sister "s funeral in casket was a fake picture of a white Jesus.

  • @karencoffey-carlton2058
    @karencoffey-carlton2058 Год назад +3

    Wow ❤

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    2:29 the auction block is really the framing of black self worth
    Tell it tell it

  • @ericagd
    @ericagd Год назад +1

    Between your RUclips channel and Knarrative/Knubia, my problem is I can't unsee what I now see (nor do I want to) and I am confused why others don't see it either.

    • @KarenHunterShow
      @KarenHunterShow  Год назад +2

      it's okay...narrow is the road that leads to salvation...few will travel it.

    • @ericagd
      @ericagd Год назад +1

      ​@@KarenHunterShow I get it.

  • @gloriabrisco2810
    @gloriabrisco2810 Год назад +1

    I've been saying for years the price of slavery has gone up...especially for pro sports.

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    7:55 who didn't tell me I wasn't beautiful.........they never announced my beauty
    Damn

  • @msjking915
    @msjking915 Год назад +2

    Is there more of this interview, if so where can I find it?

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    11:27 it's what we do not say
    Mmmmm

  • @quorraquar2677
    @quorraquar2677 Год назад +3

    💜💜💜💜💜💜💜🕯️🕯️🕯️

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    4:02 FffffFFFFFFF IVE NEVER EVER EVER really sat in the space of this experience
    It's something I couldn't bear for most of my life
    Mmmmmmm

  • @dfnsharpe
    @dfnsharpe Год назад +2

    Hmmmm!

    • @CommonSense365
      @CommonSense365 Год назад +2

      I adore the word framing to inspire the upp lifting of the soul of black folks.

  • @jan_phd
    @jan_phd Год назад

    Narcissism requires everyone to pat their backs. Take a laser pointer and fire the beam onto a wall, that's called coherence or 'speckle', it's far prettier than women.

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    1:29 take ownership of it
    ......mmmmmmmm

  • @jetunb
    @jetunb Год назад +1

    BREATHE!!!

  • @makeitmakesense2616
    @makeitmakesense2616 8 месяцев назад

    7:55 who didn't tell me I wasn't beautiful.........they never announced my beauty
    Damn