Marc Lamont Hill, Anchor of Black News Tonight, Explains Concepts Like Race as a Social Construct
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2022
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A great one indeed...with video. Yeah!
Please run for office again Al Franken. You are very much needed.
He is a sexual deviant.
He’ll be back Clara
@Mark Ulis cocaine and orgies. Please note zero individuals have came out and publicly admit they HAVEN'T done either. And Clinton never inhaled,(but sure did get blown, hey oh). Politics man.
Al, please bring Marc back in May so he can talk more about his book! Thanks!
People forget that March Lamont Hill is not only a anchor, on a Black news show, but also a academic who has studied the topics more deeply than must of his quest ..Thanks for having him on your show...!
As a person with Irish and Scottish heritage, I am APPALLED to hear you call my people white! APPALLED, I tell you! We are _not_ "white."
We are translucent.
🤣🤣🤣
What a great conversation! I learned so much! Thank you both!❤️❤️
Thank you, Senator for this important conversation. I will be sure to continue to listen to you AND Mr. Hill.
I am the product of desegregation in Miami, Florida, just as Ketanji Brown Jackson was, and it was the most powerful education I ever received. I think that Marc Lamont Hill is absolutely right that it has to be taught in schools and it must be imposed again so that we can learn not to fear each other and we can empathize. Very good conversation. It went by quickly.
@Mark Ulis, you ask an interesting question. Why would it make sense to require desegregation in a state that has extremely few minorities? Logically, it wouldn't, so imposing it on a state like Montana, where the Black population is at about 1% would seem unnecessary. Whereas, a state like Mississippi with a Black population of about 38% would IF it were seen to be segregated, which given the large Black population would also seem unnecessary. The key point is that desegregation should solve a problem. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. However, history is taught to people, who did not participate in that history, all the time. Primarily, so that we don't repeat the mistakes others have made. Slavery was wrong. We teach about slavery and why it is wrong. Most of us have never owned a slave but we're still taught about it. I know that you have empathy for people who have been wrongly oppressed. It is a sign of a higher understanding to relate to others, even when you have not experienced such trauma yourself. That is why I would like to see more interracial interaction; to increase a higher understanding.
I love all your guests, but this TRULY WAS a great one!
Love the podcast and the video is greatness… I get to enjoy the humor and learning visually. Thank you!
I think the interviews are more effective when you can watch the people involved during the interview. I recommend you do this any time the opportunity presents itself.
When will we focus on getting our education levels competitive again? We’re so bogged down in politics, our children are suffering because of it.
The question that plagues me more in regards to education is "Why isn't critical thinking emphasized in our education system?"
I can spitball a handful of related responses, all depressing as fuck, but the larger, maybe sadder follow-up question I have on the matter, is "Why isn't this question being asked throughout our news?"
@@FakingANerve we are headed for self-destruction in more ways than one. The whole idea of education is to prepare children to cope in the world…it should work in tandem with home training…community involvement…we are definitely dropping the ball on the next generations.
Critical thinking? Basic survival skills? Linear thinking? Doesn’t seem so common anymore.😓
@@FakingANerve our news system is in the toilet…led by corporate greed rather than informing/educating the masses on what is really going on…sad shame😓
As you say, depressing as f@ck
This is so interesting and it reminds me about how I talked to my high school kids differently teaching in south central.LA I would give the kids money to go to the grocery next door to get us juices and snacks and tell them to remember to get the receipt in your hand. And it wasn't that I wanted to know how much they spent, but to get them out the door without being stopped. And sadly, we just all accepted "that's just what it is", rather than taking the next step and asking why. All my kids wanted were just the refreshments for our after school activity and the response from many was the narrative ... Well, unsupervised teens are known to shoplift Fritos.
Love the live podcast here Al; I love watching you in live interview. Thanks.
Run, Franken, run for a change
He’ll be back Warren to Make America America Again
Important to understand history and have difficult conversations to understand own socialization.
Thank you AL & Marc for the great talk :)
So true about the outrage about Ukraine. What about Eritrea?
We might have been attacked FROM Afghanistan, but we were not attacked BY Afghanistan. We were attacked by Saudi Arabia, but we still treat them like best buds, even when they act like murdering, thieving criminals. And now we are leaving everyday Afghani women and children to starve and die, after we murdered at least tens of thousands of them during the war.
I nearly didn't survive your SNL/Tucker Carlson sketch at the beginning because my sides were splitting so hard.😆😅😂🤣 Fortunately (albeit I think I cracked a few ribs), I did survive. I'm glad I did, Al, because you _FINALLY_ had a great show, you know... for a change. Thanks for pain; it's the best medicine.
I do agree that it's understandable that people find it more reflexive to sympathize with those who look most like themselves. that being sed, it's not a big stretch to realize different looking people are human beings. I think some people just don't make that leap and consider others less human/worthy. aren't they usually a certain political party as well?
I want to live long enough to see us teach the Scientific View "there is no such thing as race" in elementary schools. As with gender, the categories are constructed in multiple complex ways.
Another great one! I would really appreciate a show that looked at "race neutral" laws and their actual real world non-race-neutral outcomes!
Excellent show. I listened to this show already on my podcast library. Now I can watch the 2 of you on video. Thanks. 😀😷
Great contribution to the fight against racism. Please Al keep up the pressure on Little Tuck Tuck.
Good question on Aleppo...
Race may play a part
But there are additional issues, it's directly on European soil, meaning it can get pretty bad fast due to arms and such.
It also has ramifications in terms of oil allocation across the planet... Which has other implications
It also gives a certain industry a new lease
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The only thing "race" shows is the relationship between your ancestors and the sun. After that it's all about the people throwing insults.
Another Great One! Outside of universities, the words "theory" and "critical" are highly despised: and "race" doesn't rate too highly unless it is attached to NASCAR. I propose that the Progressives repackage most of the concepts as "American Freedom Celebration," three works we love. Who would demand that we stop teaching AFC in public schools?
HereIGoAgain for DNC Chair!
@@txnmia8613 I'll second that, "American Freedom Celebration"--hell yeah! HereIGoAgain, now that's messaging. If not DNC Chair right off the bat, at least *run for something* !
Thanks Al. This was a good one, you know for a change ~
Love that we can see you Al and the interviewee!)))
Thank you again for Alllll that you have done and are doing to help save our democracy.
Stay safe and virus free
Love Jacqueline
Marc gave a great insight on critical race theory. We can no
longer suppress the truth about
People of color and how they were treated . Our history books
Glorified Anglos as heroes and
people of color as the enemy.
Great podcast!👍
What history books are those specifically. I was educated in southern public schools and never had a history book as you described. I would like to go read them. Do you have the ISBNs?
Al a great discussion with Marc.
Great convo. Thanks
O M G... I've been thinking about Tucker going to Moscow as well. Only in my scenario our government revokes his passport while he is there like they did with Snowden, effectively putting him in exile. Of course, I realize that would come with his own set of problems. But I was desperate for him to be gone when it occurred to me.
Wow, I really enjoyed listening to you two, glad to hear this necessary talk. 💝
I so look forward to having you back in the senate taking the seat of the big mouth do nothing jilly gillabrand . New York awaits with open arms.😍
I love that you are just as old fashioned as I am when it comes to sound.... 😹, Why wear some discreet ear lobe stretching blob, when you can have such a beauty on your head😎. And I'm not telling you how far in stretching it😂
Thank you Mark and Al!
Supremacy is a social construct, race is biological as ethnicity is cultural. Who decides what skin color to be born with? The issue is hating someone because what they are born. In other parts of the he world people are discriminated by their last name or where they're from.
Race is not biological.
@@ShawnStradamus520
(1) A group or population of humans categorized on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics (such as color of skin, eyes, and hair). (2) A descent from a common heritage, ancestor, breed or stock.Jun 24, 2021
Besides, the elite can make up other reasons, other than skin color, to justify their, "supremacy", like where you come from, what your last name is, what your religious beliefs are.
@@bigdog44pc I think we are in agreement here, yours is the broader view which is not being directly discussed here, but is correct. If the power elites are able to divide the masses according to some random arbitrary physical identity characteristics in order to create a social advantage for themselves, that IS a social construct.
Al & Marc allude to your point when they talked about how the Irish, Italian, European Jews, Slavs, etc came to America, they were not considered to be "white". Perhaps the greatest irony of "White Supremacy" is that it always turns on the so called "White" people in the end...
@@ShawnStradamus520 So, we should be focusing the broader, since race is a main way in which America discriminates it is not the only one. Divide and rule is the name of the game and by that I mean create distractions.
Great talk & thanx for going visual!!
Lol. I love how al shouts curses.
Bravo never stop
aren't some of the new voting legislations a good example for critical race theory application, ex: Georgia?
Great enlightening conversation indeed.
Gov. DeSatan makes me uncomfortable, can I sue?
Al, if you promise to run for the Senate again ... I'll rent A trailer in the woods and vote for you!
I'm eighty and a direct descendant of Milledge L. Bonham, the Governor of South Carolina who started the Civil War. I wonder this: Did it ever occur to anyone trying to desegregate the schools by driving all the students out of their districts every day, to JUST EXCHANGE THE TEACHERS ? I think that would have been infinitely more effective. I just put my background in to catch your eye. But I wonder if we should experiment, and try the other way, if they're still doing it? My Southern California nieces and nephews were bussed back and forth. It's not healthy; the air you breathe is foul and there's no exercise. My two siblings bussed to school, somehow I never got to do that, just walk and bike at least a mile away; and now in our eighties, I'm the only one that can still walk. They've had joints frozen or replaced, mine are all fine.
Another great guest. Thank you.
Thanks Al ❤️💛🇺🇦💙
I almost didn't watch. Great speaker. Thank you!
Al, and Marc Lamont Hill, excellent interview. It makes so much more sense now, thankyou you both! 👍🥰💖✌
Great discussion. Thank you both.
“That’s an interesting hobby you have there.”
Lol yeah, I always say something. In love and respect, but I call it out
“I wish white people could lose that speech…It’s like white people who listen to Bob Marley all know, like ‘One Love’”.
Thank you ❤
Please run for office again.
Ukraine/Syria is not a race issue - IT'S NEARER!
Thank you gentlemen.
Please don't stop talking about CRT. Any and all info about race is a good thing
I listened yesterday! What an articulate, thoughtful smart man!! I spread that message about human construct all the time.I also urge listening to Jane Elliott & Leakey foundation’s videos Re pigmentation which bothers so many!
I am buying the book now on Amazon.
Why are they pretending to not understand that conservative people know that they are not talking about Law School CRT. Conservatives have added another definition, to the original term. Words are given additional definitions all the time. Black people did the same or did we, with the word racism, and never made a public pronouncement, as if we had the power to do so. We changed it, or added a definition that requires power to be involved in it, and also expected everyone else to accept it, without a pronouncement. Conservatives never gave a pronouncement, but their definition of CRT holds more sway, than the definition of racism that Black people created. That in itself is a lesson in CRT - both definitions of it. The notion of race as a social construct, to my way of thinking, is pointless. Isn't nearly everything a creation of society - the interaction of people? The main point however is, who would want to get rid of the notion, if it were possible anyway? Black people are likely the last ones who would want to be just like everyone else. That is why so many of us can say things like - "we are the original people", but don't see other people, as the same as us. We make as big a deal out of our uniqueness as any group. So if Whiteness and Blackness is erased from our conscious, what is left - for sure, the have and the have-nots? White Conservatives, back in the days, when Black people started using the term African-American, complained and would say, things like - "they are or should be no hyphenated-Americans - we are all just American". But do you think they object to Italian and Chinese restaurants? What American city hasn't had annual ethnic festivals, for decades, likely centuries? This resistance/objection of Black people's right to designate themselves, to the extent that it is even legitimate, within us as a group, is in itself material for a curriculum course, on race issues. This is an example of how I see CRT can be taught objectively in schools. the specific material must be judged before the public, or judged and the results then, brought before the public and explained. This is just race hustling, being presented as journalism. Both sides have always done it. If anyone of note/prominence, in this country, is serious about what is happening today, or who doesn't have an ulterior motive attached to their involvement, in these issues, I have yet to come across them. I understand getting a respite from the misery, we have to live with, among, and endure, but to mix getting relief from it, with attempts to eliminate or reduce it, is a disservice to both ends, IMO. Just focusing on critical thinking about racial issues, or just plain critical thinking - period, would go a long way, in getting to a place, where the specific issues could be discussed, in a potentially productive manner. I have no clue, as to how to get the crucial ingredient of honesty, into the mix.
Another good one ☝️
"That's an interesting hobby." Nice!
This was the greatest yet Al! Excellent explanation of white privilege. Miss you in the Senate.
Can't learn from the mistakes of the past without studying history, but, you can't learn from history until you can admit all humans are equal. If you think you're entitled to more rights because of your "specialness" then you'll only learn to support your own view.
Liked this. Thank you.
The problem these guys have with CRT is the praise / blame that comes with the behaviorally values we have grown to instill on civilization. So just looking at what the whole Anglo invasion of America and the treatment of the Native Americans as a whole is just not acceptable by today's standards.
We may have come here as refugees, but how we proceeded with the "manifest destiny" which betrayed every diplomatic treaty just has to be uncomfortable to look at. And how much uglier was the slavery issue ! ?
There must be a problem with the guilty conscience of what HAS happened that people fear the repercussions of the behavior of their ancestors so much, that the only possible protection is to somehow vilify the others, and frame THEM as the lesser ones.
My mom was born in Alabama and got it from both sides and was labeled a "breed."
Marcus is the goat. He is such a badass and so smart and a great interviewer. Great show for a change. Al. Now just need to do something about that face of yours and you'll be headed towards something great!
Excellent! Now when are you going to run for the senate. It is obvious it was an partisan Op. You were doing great things. Put you boots back on an let’s go!
Good one Al.
Good guest for the most part, but he was dead wrong on Israel-Palestine. Still a worthwhile interview.
No he wasn't.
Thank you for saying that: how dumb do you have to be not to understand the purpose of Israel?
So "critical" is in the sense of "criticism", in the sense of "discussion".
"Let's talk about it and evaluate from a number of different viewpoints"
Actually no, they were referring to the word "critical" as it pertains to "critical theory" as a Marxist dog whistle. I looked it up because I wanted to know more about it:
in wikipedia under Critical Theory: "A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on reflective assessment and critique of society and culture in order to reveal and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from social structures and cultural assumptions than from individuals. It argues that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation."
"Critical Theory has a narrow and a broad meaning in philosophy and in the history of the social sciences. “Critical Theory” in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European Marxist tradition known as the Frankfurt School. According to these theorists, a “critical” theory may be distinguished from a “traditional” theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human “emancipation from slavery”, acts as a “liberating … influence”, and works “to create a world which satisfies the needs and powers of” human beings (Horkheimer 1972b [1992, 246]). Because such theories aim to explain and transform all the circumstances that enslave human beings, many “critical theories” in the broader sense have been developed. They have emerged in connection with the many social movements that identify varied dimensions of the domination of human beings in modern societies. In both the broad and the narrow senses, however, a critical theory provides the descriptive and normative bases for social inquiry aimed at decreasing domination and increasing freedom in all their forms." plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/
@@scrubjay93 So Critical Race Theory is a descendant of Immanuel Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft". Interesting...
It may be hard to say but we ALSO relate differently to Ukraine in comparison to Yemen and Sudan because the Ukrainian WOMEN are visible to us, and for the most part are multilingual and free.
yea! we can see you!!!
There is no genetic marker for race.
hmmmm since the term became so popular (for whatever reason) i thought it was jus a re-phrasing of "american history" which is pretty dang critical in terms of race.
but jzzzzsss after seeing this, and i gotta thank you guys, i come away with a much broader point of view.
The sound quality is horrible this week Al, please skip the headset.
Temple Owls are everywhere!
It’s always amazing to me how self pity is such a powerful force in human behavior why remaining so self-destructive
Al Franken is a bad arse.
Sadly, I do not feel that anyone wants good honest debate. It were eradicated 6 years ago to a minority, but a large minority, on both sides. I love my colored brothers and sisters, black, brown, red ,yellow or translucent. We are the same. All of us. Take down the injustice. Hit the restart on all of it...everyone
To myself, this guy is 100 on point.
excellent.you both get atta boys.
That vote was totally on bRand though
just to hear al saying "fucking" is cool
What about red misery?
Interesting that Al Franken confesses to not having a clear idea of what is meant by structural racism, (probably still doesn't) while Hill references a children's book for five year olds that explores the issue. So which is it, is the concept of structural racism truly age inappropriate for 5 year olds or is the former congressman and celebrity comedian just a bit dimwitted?
4:30
A good one, for a change.
*Addressing Mothers of Russian soldiers, President Zulensky (Ukraine) said,*
_"We did not want this war. All we want is 'peace,' and for you to love your children more than you are afraid of your government."_
03/17/2022
there is a def a racial aspect. but there is something different to me about seeing a place with more infrastructure and what appears to be long-standing areas without conflict/war/battles, it just hits closer to home...even if they were all asian or African or whatever. there is a sense of strife in the Mid East that I have not perceived in other areas...so it's just not what my consciousness already has in mind.
Very informative podcast with Marc Lamont Hill and his clarifying observations, and skillful explanation about critical race theory, including how some Republicans are distorting it for their own power grabbing political gain.
I want the next person Marc Lamont Hill asks his pet gotcha question …
Name something positive about being white” to look him in the eye and say truthfully”
“no one can accuse me of being an unqualified diversity hire for something like a University Professor.”
Lol: you need someone to tell you something positive about being white? How badly did your high school fail you?
I'm white I keep my receipt in my hand too but I grew up poor. Poorer white don't identify with some of the constructs Marc places on "all" whites.
Al, look at logo of pubs and see a rocked star look at triangle frame behind you. That needs to be changed. Don’t rock the star!
Let’s have Trump do what Al thinks Tucker should do
Much nicer in person 😜🤪😉👍
I'm going to walk around with my phone in my pocket most of the time anyway as I listen, but it's nice to have options. 😆
you are leading this conversation, you snicker inappropriately
5 stars! This would be a great instructional video for high-schoolers (except where banned by law).
Melts or dissolves… c’mon man!!
Sorry Al, this is a symptom, not the disease.. fix the money - fix the world
How does a blue collar, (High school educated) Black man or woman, grow their money above 7% inflation rate, to get their family out of a bad neighborhood..
You need to look into CRT, segregated schools lead to poor educational and therefore economic outcomes which result from racially biased legal and social structures. That is why the school voucher initiatives are so dangerous and inherently racist, they pull money away from public schools and to privileged private schools, which happen to have more white students.
Money is a problem. The structure is how it became a huge issue