Took my 16 yr old son to the theater, on a Saturday night, to see a documentary...he protested initially, but left blown away, as I. I’m a 51 yr old man, whose family is from Charleston SC, who graduated from an HBCU and have been studying the subject for 25 years...and yet, Who We Are was a complete two hour education. Excellent work, to say the least.
we as poc need to fight for having our own separate states in the country where we can govern and educate ourselves and let the whites have their own states, they are too dangerous to be around and we will never get ahead with the current situation we are in.
"Whenever the government provides opportunities in privileges for rich people and white people they call it “subsidized” when they do it for poor people and negroes they call it “welfare.” The fact is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit. And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all to often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Great quote! But another way to look at this is the word "investment". The government invested in 'infastructure', and this benefitted a large amount of the population. The issue in recent times has been tax cuts and other benefits to the wealthy has been framed as 'investments'. However they have the option to investment in foreign projects, and such things a labor to increase their profits. Whereas investments from the community level circulate from the bottom up. And the top still benefit through investments in general. So in other words 'welfare' is really an investment that benefits everyone. But coming from the top, they paint it as something negative, because they want it mostly for themselves. And also things like racism are thrown in, to divide the working classes.
Dr. King's words there were not disingenuous, unless that's what you want to be. They were provocative and revolutionary. You're not wrong another first point, but what will it take for you to be right about it instead? Holding a grievance about perceived past wrongs that can never be made right makes you no better than the average Republican today. Natives Americans weren't locked off lands, their ancestors were. These things are related but they're not the same thing. Remember that you are brothers in arms with all the oppressed and repressed people's of the country and the world. What is it that can or should be done for them? Taking away what is today someone else's land to give it back to you won't make up for the past's injustice, it would only create more injustice; and simply acknowledging the past's injustice won't right today's injustices. Be constructive, get creative about what it would take to truly bring justice, repair the damage and heal the wounds and move all of us together into the future and forward. Can subsidies buy your freedom, dispose ancestral grievance, and dispell injustice? Maybe it can help with these things, but understand that retribution can't be bought with money, and nor would retribution absolve the past's woeful mistakes anyway. I'm 15% native American of a people and tribe that no longer exist, they are within me, and I am them, but they are gone. There's no bringing them back or making that 100% whole except for accepting where and what I am today and seeking and creating the future, not focusing on a past that no longer exists. We won't get anywhere by telling every non Native American that they don't belong here, or telling African Americans that THE most prominent African American leader was disingenuous when YOU misunderstood the point. YOU need to look within yourself and find your true cause and no longer internalize the defeated and subjugated fate of Native American ancestors, YOU can begin to liberate your mind NOW for the people that will call you their ancestors. Abandon the hope of the past, you are needed here and now to create the future. Or not, whatever, you can hold onto your grievances and deny wisdom and be "right" about 300 million Americans needing to leave. One of these is a story youve been told and keep telling yourself as ot gets you no where, the other is an emancipating emergent future that involves you. The choice is yours.
@@wavelength7503 Yes, the land was stolen from the indigenous, but there was token welfare given in the form of reservation lands and casinos that act is disingenuous.
@@subcitizen2012 you talk like" The Past" was thousands of years ago, you can go as Faaaaar back as the 70" to today for injustice on the first Nations people. Your rambling may make you feel like you have the ancient past figured out. May I suggest you come back to the this century. As much of what you suggest, no nothing will change.
@@GiveMeLiberty221 Your opinion is yours to keep and for me to reject. Clearly, your comment only reflects your infantile view of the history of the USA.
@@Stop-and-listen America is the only country in the world that respects the most individual rights. But that doesn't mean the white man will respect you. There'll always be white rage. And all this racism will end in catastrophe as long as groups divide by hatred.
While Frederick Douglas had no problem criticizing America for her shortcomings, he also understood the process. He had many great things to say about America too.
@@cassiusdhami9215 if I have to explain to you the meaning of my comment, you have a less than functional grasp of the English language, and I'm afraid no explanation would be of use to you.
@@hughjassle5876 but what was your reason for pointing out he had positive things to say -- it doesn't negate the wrongs. So what was your point . . . exactly???
A better world should be the goal of every decent and 'principled' human being. Without principles to live by, we are doomed. We have lost our way, or maybe we were originally set on the wrong path on purpose. What ever happened to the concept of the common good? We need more education, less indoctrination.
We seem overrepresented & over-governed...It's almost slavery again, two sets of rules & all...I'm all for Law & Order, but let's make the rich pay for their crimes just as the poor do.
Half the country has been misdirected as to what the real issues are for decades maybe even hundreds of years. Their ancestors + the Republican party have stoked their confused view of the nation in order to weaponize them. They created the issue of being run over while protesting (a constitutionally protected right) at the hands of confused and weaponized individuals using their cars as weapons, and when that's not the case, it's their actual weapons of war that they own to decimate deer and shoot randomly at the large properties handed down to them via the Homestead Act. The republican party is radicalizing their base, knowingly, these confused masses think that the very people who are confusing and distorting their humanity are their 'caretakers' and people 'like them', when in fact they've been manipulated by them for decades. Republicans' preferred method of continuing their unchecked wealth and power accumulation has always been inciting civil war.
America is failing to deal with their internal issues This is why this country is going down until you deal with your infrastructure problem nothing will work for America.
Watch "UTOPIA" by John Pilger and "IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS". Great documentaries about Apartheid Australia and how the Stolen Generation is still happening secretly in Australia. Almost 1 million people have watched those videos and companies supporting a Boycott Apartheid Australia campaign. Serbia now boycotted Australian mining Rio Tinto but we need more people to boycott travelling to Australia Penal Colony and staying at Covid Prison (hotel) camps full of insects and bad food as seeing by Novak special treatment in Australia where it was discovered that asylum seekers are still prisioners for almost 10 years without even being able to open the window. Criminal. Take a Stand and Boycott racist Australia.
It's been 2yrs since I first watched this man's talk and I feel like I'm still as angry as I was then. I can't fathom the strength it takes to calmly discuss this subject, but I'm still trying. Thank you Mr Robinson.
Whew yeah!! For me it requires a broad stroke of compassion for my anger, and compassion for the ignorance of those who cause harm. You can’t harm others when you love yourself, when you have compassion for your own traumas. You can still get angry, even rage, and your humanity with all, keeps you from desiring hard. It’s difficult work. I’m committed. My compassion has opened too many hearts to not see - It works!
The really eye-opening, powerful, and painful one keeps getting taken down by RUclips. I wish the ACLU would not only make it freely available, but promote it! I wish everywhere high school student could watch it after getting the basic history course as taught, then follow it with a week long seminar and discussion about how our history is taught, why it is taught, and how to think critically about how it's taught and how it impacts our lives today. To those who think that talking about racism "brings it back", then it never really went away.
I was born in 1963 and I grew up in white suburbia Wisconsin, and since I was old enough to understand, I could see that racism and the inequality were/are huge problems in America, and America needs to do better!
The US Revolutionary war was fought to preserve a white settler colonial project , which involved indigenous Genocide , mass land theft , and expansion of the industry of slavery .
I'm angry. I'll say it. Biden, with the stroke of a pen, could put forth ALL his policies. If he so chose. The thing we all must recognize is he doesn't WANT too. We NEED more parties and grass roots organization. All must sit at the table. The rural. The urban. The miner. The millennial. Etc...
The same energy we had for trump we need to have even more for Biden he needs to go. he literally told us to go fk ourselves tf is wrong with us? They won’t even stop the Republicans from filibustering just so they can blame the Republicans for the democrats failures to deliver for us.
If Biden did put forth policies in such a way, he would be dooming the future of this country to the GOP. Not only would they use it as a battering ramp for future elections, but the next president could use the pen to undo those policies. Government is for the people by the people and not executive orders.
@@SunnyandNova Who you got if Biden goes. Please tell me who could have done a better job and how when 2 members of your own party is against you as well as the republicans? If ignorant people would stop complaining about every damn thing and get off their ass and try something positive this whole world would be better off.
@@neatneat9088 Lol Biden was told by his very close friend who was a grand wizaard of the kkk that Biden was more racist then he was. So keep waiting on Biden 😂 Pee Wee pervert Herman could do a better job. Good - Night
*I see Indian, Chinese and other communities continuing the hate while not realizing they are on the same craft. They'll feel the pain once we are gone then it's too late* .
I learned about all the deceit/tricks & hidden extreme hate, in my 50's as well 🤯 It was like coming out of the Matrix & you can never go back 😵💫I was more disgusted with myself for being so gullible & easily brainwashed/conditioned into self hate.
This is every old failed black Americans excuse as to why y’all can’t pass any knowledge or anything down to the your children. Y’all old lazy folks have failed your children now we have to figure this all out for ourselves. Just be quiet drink your wine lady 🤓
@@SunnyandNova I don't drink.... but this MJ is Hitting!! 😜I envy you since it seems you came out the womb already knowing how to swerve the trappings & recognizing the devil & all his evolving tricks of evil 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾I don't even think the creator was as smart as you 👀 Unfortunately, my parents thought they were protecting us (the mistake the Anti CRT ppl are making now) & my generation fell for the Just work harder than them bullshyt 😒but believe me... my grandchildren are being well informed by NaNa!
@@SunnyandNova that was rather disrespectful and uncalled for. People like you are such a joke. Save that energy for somebody still tryna slow walk us into the bullshit.
@@freethinkinmelanin6795 The truth hurts these are WORDS but it needs to be said our older generation was on some bullshit after the civil rights era FACTS OVER FEELINGS
Voting rights mean nothing in a place/nation not a nation in which those we are allowed to vote for are not the people's choice, unless you embrace the supreme court inclusion of corporate entities as "people too".
Indeed, you make a critical point. It is my opinion that corporate America as a moral entity will unravel the fabric of the USA, leading to its dissolution.
@@Stop-and-listen Corporate is NOT moral in any sense. In Spanish, it translates to "Anonymous Society." sociedad anonima = corporation = creating a LEGAL entity to protect the human owners.
@@markplimsoll Thank you for your comment. It was my understanding that a moral entity was a physical person. Corporations are not moral entities, as I understood.
@@Stop-and-listen I heard corporations have one goal, to "stay in the black" and give dividends and enhanced stock values to their Capitalist investors. So in 2008, Capitalism failed globally as US banks allowed EVERYONE to buy houses (loans) and in spite of fhe risk, bundled those mortgages as triple-A assets (memory...) to fund managers workdwide.
I met Jeffrey Robinson in person at a seminar he is the man he's so wise, intelligent, intellectual and kind. Lord keep your cloth covering him he's doing a great job for society as a whole.
Too many times, a certain people with a certain mindset, talk to us as if we're beneath them. Saying things like "Get over it, slavery is over." And other callous inserts. I say go read the 13th amendment in its entirety and look at the turbulent history of this country. Then get back to me because we've endured far far more than slavery alone.
Who divides themselves by race? Who created race? Individualism is the least respected value in the world. The elite love to divide by identity. Individuals coming together in resistance is the number one fear of the ruling class.
I was blessed to enjoy seeing a preview screening of this through LACMA in mid December. IT IS A MUST-SEE, MAGNIFICENT, POWERFUL movie!!! As someone raised by Southern parents (with a highly prejudiced father - both race & religion) in the 1950-60s, gratefully transformed by the "flower power" consciousness in the late 60s... embracing equality & color-blindness... this movie took my breath away. Jeffrey Robinson shares a TRUTH that we all need to embrace to move past our ugly past into a future that embraces genuine equality. There is so much work ahead... but, we can do it!
Every year I have been writing some words down for Martin Luther King Jr day Someday we will not have to dream about the truth it will be known in everybody's heart and shared throughout all cultures together at lasts naturally
Together? We don’t need togetherness. That’s a flawed concept. I only want to be respectfully left alone. I’ll live prosperously in tranquility and peace if only I can be left alone!
Martin pushed that “I have a dream” speech to the side. He had many other speeches where he expresses that he may have been wrong about America and what it really is. So he made another speech about reparations and he was working on a final speech (the big one) so they killed him.
Massive respect to Jeffery!!! As a white man, I am ashamed of the racism of the past and present. Shame on all stupid, very primitive bullies of all kind!!!!!!!
I had a similar experience at Dartmouth medical school in 1988 when a white lady student jumped in front of me to use a microscope. She was attempting to provoke me which would have likely led to my expulsion because I would have likely gone for blood if I had not backed down.
Wow so powerful... the truth cuts through the hate, lies and biggitory with such authority. Well done to all for bringing this to the foremost of our social consciousness
And we want not voting rights we want our people to progress and grow business. We want hate laws for us not just the immigrants, Biden gave the Asians hate laws and said f the blacks
Mr. Robinson has always been a person that has gotten my attention. His talks have always spoken to the core of his subject matter. He is great with his presentation. If you need to hear it again then listen to again. Thank you for continuing to give the great information for our listening and understanding.
** you should check out the Baha'i faith.... The core of the Baha'i faith is that we are all one family... Every great prophet came from the same God.... That everyone should treat their neighbor as brothers and sisters..... It's a beautiful faith.**
Exactly! All of these "historical films" and documentaries about anti-black racism, in the form of White Supremacy means nothing, until the United States government, are held to account for their political involvement and complicit in the anti-black policies, racism, violence, discrimination, domestic terrorism, economic deprivation, bigotry, murder, oppression, subjugation, slavery, slander, defamation, medical Apartheid and propaganda.
Genesis 15 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed (Deut.28:15-69) shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs (Deut.28:36), and shall serve them (Deut.28:48-50); and they shall afflict them 400 years. Jeremiah 30 ~ Jacob's trouble 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. (Recompense & Reparations) ~ 2nd Exodus
" … Democrats have been dealt a major blow in their efforts to pass new voting rights' legislation." Correction: Democrats dealt a major blow to new voting rights' legislation.
Because they're mostly right wing "Democrats". The left is now center right. Progressives are left now. Protect capitalism at all costs. I have the right to make money from your misery. Cancer? I got you but I need about a cool mill to make you life end slower than normal? The system is flawed.
No more study groups or sit downs about is America or the government is racist or not!!! So called blk Americans know the answer to that so can we get resources and land, money for the wealth taken from my ancestors??! We don't need whyte Americans to understand racism anymore they know! Blk Americans we need to come together no matter religions or social status and build our communities to be separate like before within the different states like other groups are doing now!
Professor Gerald Horne, at the University of Houston, book titled “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America” is an excellent resource to understand where we are now.
It's been said on youtube, "they never got rid of slavery, they just upgraded it". "They're not enslaving me. I have a right to right them", "It says it in the Bible".
There are good moral people like Jeffery Robinson and the two filmmakers and I believe in them with all my heart but there are more that are actively abhorrent or who say and do nothing, choosing to ignore what’s going on before their eyes. “I didn’t do anything wrong, I didn’t know what was happening ”, so said the Germans after the war. It’s our responsibility to try to find out. Everyone throws the word existentialism around all the time, it’s ridiculous. Humankind is basic Sartre and Camus, people who choose not to have a moral compass and so ‘the choices we make make define us.’ But there are moments in time when we have the opportunity to wake up and do the right thing. This is a big glaring moment. I hope hope with all my heart we listen to people like Robinson and act.
"...and it's still not a felony." Pretty good summary. Things change, but they also stay the same. Now there's a movement to change the police issue, but they'll find other ways to keep things the same.
I get time restrictions but this video was cut off way too soon. This interview needs extension but thanks for covering. Everybody needs to know about this movie 👏
I would love to see those who were a part of this film get involved with the Minnesota Teen Activists in St.Paul, MN, who are walking out all across their school district today. They are the future of America & are being trolled so ugly I feel shamed from a neighboring state! I won an essay contest when I was in junior high in MN -- the President's Bicentennial Essay Contest, about why each contest entrant was proud to be an American. My essay is buried in a time capsule under the White House, and is supposed to be opened on our Tricentennial. The thing is, I was lied to about "who we are". America broke my heart to pieces, for the mythology fed us under the facade of American History was my THING coming up. Today, the MN Teen Activists gave me hope again, but most days I drop a tear, or fifty, for the figment of imagination I once believed was really who we are, and each of those days I mourn wishing I could take my essay back. Jerome Treadwell of Highland Park Sr High, and Angela Nguyen of Harding High, teen leaders in St. Paul, MN, have done more for America already than most people living in this country have done by their 80s. They deserve the mentorship of Jeffrey Robinson & filmmakers, as well as that of Democracy Now -- if there is to be on this soil, an inclusive democracy ever.
My beloved parents were "unicorns," and I am deeply grateful for them. They were able to insulate my heart from hate for the environment that we were forced to survive and succeed in adverse conditions. Believe me, I continue to carry on their teachings as the matriarch of my family.
"This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it." -Simon Armitage
@@wavelength7503 The meek will never inherit the earth. That quote was put there to pacify slaves. “Just like turn the other cheek” “Love they enemy” All indoctrination
After hearing Mar, Robinson a couple of years ago, now seeing this headed in this direction who all people can have excess it . Especially now! Timing is everything! Thank you film producers assisting Mr. Robinson reach all people.
So we were at literally the end of the fork. They ate or eat us. There is a whole book about it. Human Consumption and Homoeroticism with in U.S Slave culture. Written by Vincent Woodward. Your welcome
This is really good stuff. The momentum of CRT is one of the elements that is leading the change to more fair and balancing America. But the road to that awareness is still fraught with resistance and ignorance. Keep the faith friends because change for the better is coming.
@@fastrecon1 This country owes the black community in this country a lot more then just a check because of slavery AND 100 years of Jim Crow laws and red lining and so much more repressive programs! As a white male I get that until ALL white Americans deal with their white privilege and recognize that they were always treated differently then blacks this country will continue to be stuck in the past. Whitey has got to get their shlt together!! Don't you think??
@@sarahashun1180 Yes, it is a joke, but we Americans like to pretend a lot. You know like going to war with countries like Iraq or Vietnam because we say they pose a threat to us!
@@chrisj984 You are clearly speaking from your own perspective. And in that way misunderstand. Because in the first place this isn't so much about an apology. What about that thing called "empathy" in which we are practice seeing through someone elses eyes to see WHY they feel such injustice has been done to them and still is in many cases. After all living in this world isn't all about you for you about you is it? When you say "Skin color has never meant much in actuality" you are not stating a generally accepted attitude let alone a fact. You are stating YOUR opinion. Where is the empathy in that? Where is the effort to understand another person through better understanding their perspective?
The black alienation psy op is brilliant. It penetrates your psyche deep enough to manifest yourself as a target through fear and anger. This allows the "other" victims of the same group to attack the alienated instead of the culprits.
The Truth is freedom to move forward....in America the truth is hidden and watered down so it can be easily avoided....not understanding that if you don't learn from the past ....you will repeat it
I always want to be open minded because as someone who is more conservative, I've been called a lot of names-racist, bigot, homophobe--none of which are true. I wanted to approach this film with an open heart and an open mind and I'm always willing to hear the truth, especially when it is backed by documented historic facts. I am inclined to agree with most of the points made in this film especially when backed up by historic documents with direct quotes from their source. I even agree that the Star-Spangled Banner, may not have been the most appropriate choice of national anthems. If I'd been asked, I would have chosen America the Beautiful which I believe was written during WWII. There are a couple of sticking points I had with the information and logic used. The three women who funded BLM were supposed to raise and distribute funds to chapters across the nation--the misappropriated those funds to their own benefit. My next sticking point was the professor's defense of those individual black men who recently died at the hands of a police officers. In just about every case, each of those individuals were breaking the law and refused to comply with the officer's requests. While no one deserves to die under those circumstances, if each if those individuals had complied with the police requests, they might be alive today. I would hope that if I were breaking the law and the police approached me that if I complied, I would go to jail, get my lawyer involved and let them sort it out. The public was never allowed to see the body cam footage in its entirety. I do agree that we have to be able to have conversations and debates. I do believe as a nation we are moving forward--perhaps not as quickly as we should, but I believe we are. As far as the confederate flag is concerned, I don't buy into it being about it being a symbol of the south as anything other than a symbol of bigotry. I want to tell anyone flying it, "You lost, get over it." And finally, I disagree with thoughts expressed regarding "white privilege". I grew up extremely poor and white and I can say in all honesty that people gave me the same kinds of looks that they gave people of color. Poor is poor. I've had security follow me in department stores. I've had the police hassle me for "loitering" because I sat down on the curb in front of a store on a hot day to catch my breath. I was poor and I looked it. So, I don't think you can make a blanket statement like that because it doesn't fit everyone.
It occurs to me that far too many of my fellow (Democrats) are so 'hooked' on concepts concerning life's potential for: Amiability, Justice, & Peace that we easily forget that lots of (Other) folks aren't as moved or even fond of those things. People like myself will often 'bend over backwards" to please rather than annoy or (Anger) those around us, even while being subjected to abuse. As far as (Politics) goes, Democrats need to find ways of demonstrating that 'We too' are capable & ready to be as Cold, Calculating, & Sneaky as our Republican counterparts. Apparently, Politics & Darwinism are (Not) mutually exclusive forces ! 😎
That’s because Australia is mostly white, after having wiped out all it’s indigenous black people.White people have no reason to suppress the vote of other white people. The American system is always based on oppressing blacks,In this case it is done by suppressing the black vote.
Let's be clear. It is more appropriate to learn about the Holocaust, a tragic that occurred in another country, by another nation. But what happened in USA/ Americas should be suppressed, and not be brought to mind. It's about priorities in USA, and who has them working for their agenda.
Our character defines our destiny. It is ironic that all those politicians who get appointed have to be sworn in by laying hand on a Bible but how many do actually behave like there is a God? How many actually behave like one day they will have to answer before God for every cruel acts done against one’s brothers and sisters?
I believe that it is not so much about the existence of God, and more about living by uplifting principles. Some groups of people, say they believe in God. But their focus, seems to be on end of times Revelations. With this, to seem to be delighted by negative events, believing it is signalling Christ's return. But meanwhile the words of Jesus, among other things, should teach us the ways to the Kingdom of Heaven on our own. But primary example of this, is the principle of Forgivingness. So many people carry around other's negative energies, without understanding that Forgivingness is freedom.
As a 'middle' class to 'poor' European, I still cannot grasp why a house (the senate) can block legislation for it seems eternity. If my understanding is right the senate is created to oversee that doesn't 'rape' the constitution. And that was it - THEN. Now the 'senate' seems to have more power then the house. If they would followed the UK system to make the senate like the 'house of lords' now In 1911, in the British Parliament deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation. The act was proposed by a Liberal majority in the House of Commons. Not so still in that 'golden' Union called the USA. If that was to happen (it won't, but one can have a dream), and the senate was rolled back in its original purpose, a lot of laws would have been passed, especially those on racial discrimination. What I always thought was very wrong in the USA, was the enormous amount of money spending to elect a short term 'medieval king' - called 'president' with extreme powers (medieval I said, it's actually worse). Your country is not very well like all over the world, even among so called 'allies', except those with little or no democracy and 'bearing gifts' - sorry to be cynical. (oil, mineral rights etc.) - 1-5% of Americans own 95% + of your assets. Do you really think, as long as the 'senate' and a short lived very powerful 'king' are in power ANYTHING will change for the people ? Especially the denigrated, 1911, in the British Parliament which deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation. The act was proposed by a Liberal majority in the House of Commons.But this seems impossible in the US. How many years were there without a 'war' since the US' inception ? Ask that to the average student, who can't even point out a state in his/her country. And let's hope they don't fall over, because medical care costs are the highest in the world. And yet you call this the 'land of the free and the willing'. I wrote this in fifteen minutes, I hope I'll get a response, and I cannot promise i will be courteous to them if they come up with the usual nonsense.
I have to keep reminding myself every day that this country does not revolve around me just because I'm white, I have to make room and I have to respect all peoples rights and ideas, I have to get used to shareing this great country with other peoples that are not white european. after I had put me first aside and after I opened my mind I found it very easy to understand how racism is bringing this country down. I have since found many of my freinds are now of all race. so please give peace a chance and educate your self about your self.
(9:40) unicorns for parents - what does it mean? I was born in sign of Capricorn. Is American English so different from British English? Is another New Age coming? (15:30) Why there is such animosity when it comes to policing, why there is such concern, it"s in our DNA - each behaviour is in our DNA but in terms of science and biology, colors of skin has not much to with our emotions and we are from the same origin
Took my 16 yr old son to the theater, on a Saturday night, to see a documentary...he protested initially, but left blown away, as I. I’m a 51 yr old man, whose family is from Charleston SC, who graduated from an HBCU and have been studying the subject for 25 years...and yet, Who We Are was a complete two hour education. Excellent work, to say the least.
we as poc need to fight for having our own separate states in the country where we can govern and educate ourselves and let the whites have their own states, they are too dangerous to be around and we will never get ahead with the current situation we are in.
"Whenever the government provides opportunities in privileges for rich people and white people they call it “subsidized” when they do it for poor people and negroes they call it “welfare.” The fact is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit. And highways that take our white brothers out to the suburbs were built with federally subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. Everybody is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we all to often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor. That’s the problem."
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
All takes place on the lands stolen from the indigenous / first Nations people.
To say all are on welfare is disingenuous/ deniiel by some.
Great quote! But another way to look at this is the word "investment". The government invested in 'infastructure', and this benefitted a large amount of the population. The issue in recent times has been tax cuts and other benefits to the wealthy has been framed as 'investments'. However they have the option to investment in foreign projects, and such things a labor to increase their profits. Whereas investments from the community level circulate from the bottom up. And the top still benefit through investments in general. So in other words 'welfare' is really an investment that benefits everyone. But coming from the top, they paint it as something negative, because they want it mostly for themselves. And also things like racism are thrown in, to divide the working classes.
Dr. King's words there were not disingenuous, unless that's what you want to be. They were provocative and revolutionary.
You're not wrong another first point, but what will it take for you to be right about it instead? Holding a grievance about perceived past wrongs that can never be made right makes you no better than the average Republican today. Natives Americans weren't locked off lands, their ancestors were. These things are related but they're not the same thing. Remember that you are brothers in arms with all the oppressed and repressed people's of the country and the world. What is it that can or should be done for them? Taking away what is today someone else's land to give it back to you won't make up for the past's injustice, it would only create more injustice; and simply acknowledging the past's injustice won't right today's injustices. Be constructive, get creative about what it would take to truly bring justice, repair the damage and heal the wounds and move all of us together into the future and forward. Can subsidies buy your freedom, dispose ancestral grievance, and dispell injustice? Maybe it can help with these things, but understand that retribution can't be bought with money, and nor would retribution absolve the past's woeful mistakes anyway.
I'm 15% native American of a people and tribe that no longer exist, they are within me, and I am them, but they are gone. There's no bringing them back or making that 100% whole except for accepting where and what I am today and seeking and creating the future, not focusing on a past that no longer exists.
We won't get anywhere by telling every non Native American that they don't belong here, or telling African Americans that THE most prominent African American leader was disingenuous when YOU misunderstood the point. YOU need to look within yourself and find your true cause and no longer internalize the defeated and subjugated fate of Native American ancestors, YOU can begin to liberate your mind NOW for the people that will call you their ancestors. Abandon the hope of the past, you are needed here and now to create the future.
Or not, whatever, you can hold onto your grievances and deny wisdom and be "right" about 300 million Americans needing to leave. One of these is a story youve been told and keep telling yourself as ot gets you no where, the other is an emancipating emergent future that involves you. The choice is yours.
@@wavelength7503 Yes, the land was stolen from the indigenous, but there was token welfare given in the form of reservation lands and casinos that act is disingenuous.
@@subcitizen2012 you talk like" The Past" was thousands of years ago, you can go as Faaaaar back as the 70" to today for injustice on the first Nations people. Your rambling may make you feel like you have the ancient past figured out. May I suggest you come back to the this century. As much of what you suggest, no nothing will change.
When it comes to principles, time is irrelevant. Be it 1962 or 2022; such human rights principles are timeless and universal.
Surely, you're not comparing then 1962 and now? If so you live in an irrational delusion. Oh and your statement make very little sense.
@@GiveMeLiberty221
Your opinion is yours to keep and for me to reject. Clearly, your comment only reflects your infantile view of the history of the USA.
@@Stop-and-listen America is the only country in the world that respects the most individual rights. But that doesn't mean the white man will respect you. There'll always be white rage. And all this racism will end in catastrophe as long as groups divide by hatred.
@@GiveMeLiberty221 You fool!!! Nothing has changed but the surface. The core is still just as racist and evil!!!
@@nodoubt3605 I've only been black for 62 years. Show me the tree you're looking under.
"For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy America reigns without a rival."
-Frederick Douglass
While Frederick Douglas had no problem criticizing America for her shortcomings, he also understood the process. He had many great things to say about America too.
Would that mean he didn't see America as barbaric, shameless or hypocritical @@hughjassle5876? 🙄
“Exaggerated patriotism is the most insincere form of self-conceit, it is the virtue of the vicious.”
-Oscar Wilde
@@cassiusdhami9215 if I have to explain to you the meaning of my comment, you have a less than functional grasp of the English language, and I'm afraid no explanation would be of use to you.
@@hughjassle5876 but what was your reason for pointing out he had positive things to say -- it doesn't negate the wrongs. So what was your point . . . exactly???
A better world should be the goal of every decent and 'principled' human being. Without principles to live by, we are doomed. We have lost our way, or maybe we were originally set on the wrong path on purpose. What ever happened to the concept of the common good? We need more education, less indoctrination.
We seem overrepresented & over-governed...It's almost slavery again, two sets of rules & all...I'm all for Law & Order, but let's make the rich pay for their crimes just as the poor do.
Half the country has been misdirected as to what the real issues are for decades maybe even hundreds of years. Their ancestors + the Republican party have stoked their confused view of the nation in order to weaponize them. They created the issue of being run over while protesting (a constitutionally protected right) at the hands of confused and weaponized individuals using their cars as weapons, and when that's not the case, it's their actual weapons of war that they own to decimate deer and shoot randomly at the large properties handed down to them via the Homestead Act. The republican party is radicalizing their base, knowingly, these confused masses think that the very people who are confusing and distorting their humanity are their 'caretakers' and people 'like them', when in fact they've been manipulated by them for decades. Republicans' preferred method of continuing their unchecked wealth and power accumulation has always been inciting civil war.
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I guess the problem is who's principles do we model ourselves after? But I agree with you about the common good and especially about education.
Right on, Bro'. Concise and precise, Sam Santtucci!
America is failing to deal with their internal issues This is why this country is going down until you deal with your infrastructure problem nothing will work for America.
This so deep! I was crying when he told about playing basketball in Mississippi. You could see the pain in his eyes. Thank for doing this interview.
Sad thing is it happens even till this day
Watch "UTOPIA" by John Pilger and "IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS". Great documentaries about Apartheid Australia and how the Stolen Generation is still happening secretly in Australia. Almost 1 million people have watched those videos and companies supporting a Boycott Apartheid Australia campaign. Serbia now boycotted Australian mining Rio Tinto but we need more people to boycott travelling to Australia Penal Colony and staying at Covid Prison (hotel) camps full of insects and bad food as seeing by Novak special treatment in Australia where it was discovered that asylum seekers are still prisioners for almost 10 years without even being able to open the window. Criminal. Take a Stand and Boycott racist Australia.
It's called gas lighting They have laws on the books but they don't stand by them.
It's been 2yrs since I first watched this man's talk and I feel like I'm still as angry as I was then. I can't fathom the strength it takes to calmly discuss this subject, but I'm still trying. Thank you Mr Robinson.
Whew yeah!!
For me it requires a broad stroke of compassion for my anger, and compassion for the ignorance of those who cause harm.
You can’t harm others when you love yourself, when you have compassion for your own traumas. You can still get angry, even rage, and your humanity with all, keeps you from desiring hard.
It’s difficult work. I’m committed.
My compassion has opened too many hearts to not see - It works!
Ur obv NOT a heathen
@@incognitonegress heathen?
@@jamberry8026 HIS name im not calling him a heathen
@@incognitonegress What you talkin 'bout malkina?
Robinsons speeches and talks are on youtube and i highly recommend wstching him. His "naked lunch" moment is pretty astounding.
The really eye-opening, powerful, and painful one keeps getting taken down by RUclips. I wish the ACLU would not only make it freely available, but promote it!
I wish everywhere high school student could watch it after getting the basic history course as taught, then follow it with a week long seminar and discussion about how our history is taught, why it is taught, and how to think critically about how it's taught and how it impacts our lives today.
To those who think that talking about racism "brings it back", then it never really went away.
Absolutely, I will never forget being raised in the South under segregation. It was ugly & hateful.
Yes I remember it as well in the 60's and it's still the same 2022. I don't know who could be or why folks are so damn wicked barbaric like savages
I was born in 1963 and I grew up in white suburbia Wisconsin, and since I was old enough to understand, I could see that racism and the inequality were/are huge problems in America, and America needs to do better!
The US Revolutionary war was fought to preserve a white settler colonial project , which involved indigenous Genocide , mass land theft , and expansion of the industry of slavery .
I'm angry. I'll say it. Biden, with the stroke of a pen, could put forth ALL his policies. If he so chose.
The thing we all must recognize is he doesn't WANT too.
We NEED more parties and grass roots organization. All must sit at the table. The rural. The urban. The miner. The millennial. Etc...
Preach!
The same energy we had for trump we need to have even more for Biden he needs to go. he literally told us to go fk ourselves tf is wrong with us? They won’t even stop the Republicans from filibustering just so they can blame the Republicans for the democrats failures to deliver for us.
If Biden did put forth policies in such a way, he would be dooming the future of this country to the GOP. Not only would they use it as a battering ramp for future elections, but the next president could use the pen to undo those policies. Government is for the people by the people and not executive orders.
@@SunnyandNova Who you got if Biden goes. Please tell me who could have done a better job and how when 2 members of your own party is against you as well as the republicans? If ignorant people would stop complaining about every damn thing and get off their ass and try something positive this whole world would be better off.
@@neatneat9088 Lol Biden was told by his very close friend who was a grand wizaard of the kkk that Biden was more racist then he was. So keep waiting on Biden 😂 Pee Wee pervert Herman could do a better job. Good - Night
*I see Indian, Chinese and other communities continuing the hate while not realizing they are on the same craft. They'll feel the pain once we are gone then it's too late* .
They are “WHITE WASHED”.
Do not trust them.
When will America start to get serious about fixing its racism problem and stop "fixing" the rest of the world. Everyone would benefit.
I learned about all the deceit/tricks & hidden extreme hate, in my 50's as well 🤯 It was like coming out of the Matrix & you can never go back 😵💫I was more disgusted with myself for being so gullible & easily brainwashed/conditioned into self hate.
This is every old failed black Americans excuse as to why y’all can’t pass any knowledge or anything down to the your children. Y’all old lazy folks have failed your children now we have to figure this all out for ourselves. Just be quiet drink your wine lady 🤓
@@SunnyandNova I don't drink.... but this MJ is Hitting!! 😜I envy you since it seems you came out the womb already knowing how to swerve the trappings & recognizing the devil & all his evolving tricks of evil 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾I don't even think the creator was as smart as you 👀 Unfortunately, my parents thought they were protecting us (the mistake the Anti CRT ppl are making now) & my generation fell for the Just work harder than them bullshyt 😒but believe me... my grandchildren are being well informed by NaNa!
@@Ms_Kymm True that.
@@SunnyandNova that was rather disrespectful and uncalled for. People like you are such a joke. Save that energy for somebody still tryna slow walk us into the bullshit.
@@freethinkinmelanin6795 The truth hurts these are WORDS but it needs to be said our older generation was on some bullshit after the civil rights era FACTS OVER FEELINGS
Voting rights mean nothing in a place/nation not a nation in which those we are allowed to vote for are not the people's choice, unless you embrace the supreme court inclusion of corporate entities as "people too".
Indeed, you make a critical point. It is my opinion that corporate America as a moral entity will unravel the fabric of the USA, leading to its dissolution.
Exactly, business people own our democracy, and Religions own people's ignorance. Change will happen through education.
@@Stop-and-listen Corporate is NOT moral in any sense. In Spanish, it translates to "Anonymous Society." sociedad anonima = corporation = creating a LEGAL entity to protect the human owners.
@@markplimsoll
Thank you for your comment. It was my understanding that a moral entity was a physical person. Corporations are not moral entities, as I understood.
@@Stop-and-listen I heard corporations have one goal, to "stay in the black" and give dividends and enhanced stock values to their Capitalist investors. So in 2008, Capitalism failed globally as US banks allowed EVERYONE to buy houses (loans) and in spite of fhe risk, bundled those mortgages as triple-A assets (memory...) to fund managers workdwide.
I must see this film! Everyone should see it. For once stand in another man's shoes.
So what about our reparations. Cut the check
A democratic nation should be fair. Especially when that nation was actually a territory belonging to people of color (natives).
I met Jeffrey Robinson in person at a seminar he is the man he's so wise, intelligent, intellectual and kind. Lord keep your cloth covering him he's doing a great job for society as a whole.
Too many times, a certain people with a certain mindset, talk to us as if we're beneath them. Saying things like "Get over it, slavery is over." And other callous inserts.
I say go read the 13th amendment in its entirety and look at the turbulent history of this country. Then get back to me because we've endured far far more than slavery alone.
Resisting a self nominated master, more than a right it's a duty. We owe that to our future generations.
who is this "Self nominated master?"
@@GiveMeLiberty221
Try the Ruling Class, "the 1%".
Who divides themselves by race? Who created race? Individualism is the least respected value in the world. The elite love to divide by identity. Individuals coming together in resistance is the number one fear of the ruling class.
@@rogbrogb5341 Yeah they hate everyone but themselves. They have their minion. B.G. Your favorite MIT professor, etc. etc.
That was so vague and lame. Talking in riddles
Thank you, Jeffery Robinson, I will look into this in my area. Florida has a horrid racist population.
I was blessed to enjoy seeing a preview screening of this through LACMA in mid December. IT IS A MUST-SEE, MAGNIFICENT, POWERFUL movie!!! As someone raised by Southern parents (with a highly prejudiced father - both race & religion) in the 1950-60s, gratefully transformed by the "flower power" consciousness in the late 60s... embracing equality & color-blindness... this movie took my breath away. Jeffrey Robinson shares a TRUTH that we all need to embrace to move past our ugly past into a future that embraces genuine equality. There is so much work ahead... but, we can do it!
Every year I have been writing some words down for Martin Luther King Jr day
Someday we will not have to dream about the truth it will be known in everybody's heart and shared throughout all cultures together at lasts naturally
Let's hope so...
Together? We don’t need togetherness. That’s a flawed concept. I only want to be respectfully left alone. I’ll live prosperously in tranquility and peace if only I can be left alone!
Martin pushed that “I have a dream” speech to the side. He had many other speeches where he expresses that he may have been wrong about America and what it really is. So he made another speech about reparations and he was working on a final speech (the big one) so they killed him.
Speak it, show it, sing out the story of our families and lives, all of our lives.
The messenger is so astute and knows how to present these truths.
Massive respect to Jeffery!!! As a white man, I am ashamed of the racism of the past and present. Shame on all stupid, very primitive bullies of all kind!!!!!!!
@@danialhillmann5374 (((((-: You must be British
I had a similar experience at Dartmouth medical school in 1988 when a white lady student jumped in front of me to use a microscope. She was attempting to provoke me which would have likely led to my expulsion because I would have likely gone for blood if I had not backed down.
"Know you history = Understanding your Future."
When are black people getting legislation we asked for. Voting rights isn't our biggest concern
Wow so powerful... the truth cuts through the hate, lies and biggitory with such authority. Well done to all for bringing this to the foremost of our social consciousness
And we want not voting rights we want our people to progress and grow business. We want hate laws for us not just the immigrants, Biden gave the Asians hate laws and said f the blacks
@@Mocha69A We already have hate laws for us they just don’t enforce them damn whats next
@@SunnyandNova none for black people They passed them for every other people, the snake biden
@@Mocha69A Dude we’ve had laws on the books before you immigrants came here in the 1960s. What the hell are you talking about?
WOW!! VERY INFORMATIVE!!!
We LUV you Amy 💕❤️💙👍🏼👍🏼✌🏼✌🏼
Right on time. Thank you.
Mr. Robinson has always been a person that has gotten my attention. His talks have always spoken to the core of his subject matter. He is great with his presentation. If you need to hear it again then listen to again. Thank you for continuing to give the great information for our listening and understanding.
THERE'S 1 RACE-HUMAN
That’s a lie!
** you should check out the Baha'i faith.... The core of the Baha'i faith is that we are all one family... Every great prophet came from the same God.... That everyone should treat their neighbor as brothers and sisters..... It's a beautiful faith.**
REPARATIONS FOR ADOS
Exactly! All of these "historical films" and documentaries about anti-black racism, in the form of White Supremacy means nothing, until the United States government, are held to account for their political involvement and complicit in the anti-black policies, racism, violence, discrimination, domestic terrorism, economic deprivation, bigotry, murder, oppression, subjugation, slavery, slander, defamation, medical Apartheid and propaganda.
Genesis 15
13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed (Deut.28:15-69) shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs (Deut.28:36), and shall serve them (Deut.28:48-50); and they shall afflict them 400 years. Jeremiah 30 ~ Jacob's trouble
14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. (Recompense & Reparations) ~ 2nd Exodus
I am proud. I will have my 7th grade social studies class watch this film.
Sharing, Justice and Peace for All.
" … Democrats have been dealt a major blow in their efforts to pass new voting rights' legislation."
Correction: Democrats dealt a major blow to new voting rights' legislation.
Because they're mostly right wing "Democrats". The left is now center right. Progressives are left now. Protect capitalism at all costs. I have the right to make money from your misery. Cancer? I got you but I need about a cool mill to make you life end slower than normal? The system is flawed.
@@yasuke9317 Yep.
No more study groups or sit downs about is America or the government is racist or not!!! So called blk Americans know the answer to that so can we get resources and land, money for the wealth taken from my ancestors??! We don't need whyte Americans to understand racism anymore they know! Blk Americans we need to come together no matter religions or social status and build our communities to be separate like before within the different states like other groups are doing now!
@Michael Sprague You aint never lied about that that's so true. Truth + Wisdom = Peace ✌ 🙏.
Professor Gerald Horne, at the University of Houston, book titled “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America” is an excellent resource to understand where we are now.
@Gamal Akabani You are absolutely right. As AFRICAN Canadian professor I used this book for undergraduate electives
Buying it right now!!!
Thanks brother Gamal for letting us know about this book. I just book it on eBay at $ 7.40
These women are angels in disguise
Facts
It's been said on youtube, "they never got rid of slavery, they just upgraded it". "They're not enslaving me. I have a right to right them", "It says it in the Bible".
There are good moral people like Jeffery Robinson and the two filmmakers and I believe in them with all my heart but there are more that are actively abhorrent or who say and do nothing, choosing to ignore what’s going on before their eyes. “I didn’t do anything wrong, I didn’t know what was happening ”, so said the Germans after the war. It’s our responsibility to try to find out. Everyone throws the word existentialism around all the time, it’s ridiculous. Humankind is basic Sartre and Camus, people who choose not to have a moral compass and so ‘the choices we make make define us.’
But there are moments in time when we have the opportunity to wake up and do the right thing. This is a big glaring moment. I hope hope with all my heart we listen to people like Robinson and act.
@@danialhillmann5374
What does that have to do with anything?
"...and it's still not a felony." Pretty good summary. Things change, but they also stay the same. Now there's a movement to change the police issue, but they'll find other ways to keep things the same.
That's the way they work.
Where is this film being shown? Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV?
Netflix
WHERE CAN YOU SEE OR BUY THE MOVIE
Netflix right now
I get time restrictions but this video was cut off way too soon. This interview needs extension but thanks for covering. Everybody needs to know about this movie 👏
I would love to see those who were a part of this film get involved with the Minnesota Teen Activists in St.Paul, MN, who are walking out all across their school district today. They are the future of America & are being trolled so ugly I feel shamed from a neighboring state!
I won an essay contest when I was in junior high in MN -- the President's Bicentennial Essay Contest, about why each contest entrant was proud to be an American. My essay is buried in a time capsule under the White House, and is supposed to be opened on our Tricentennial.
The thing is, I was lied to about "who we are". America broke my heart to pieces, for the mythology fed us under the facade of American History was my THING coming up. Today, the MN Teen Activists gave me hope again, but most days I drop a tear, or fifty, for the figment of imagination I once believed was really who we are, and each of those days I mourn wishing I could take my essay back.
Jerome Treadwell of Highland Park Sr High, and Angela Nguyen of Harding High, teen leaders in St. Paul, MN, have done more for America already than most people living in this country have done by their 80s. They deserve the mentorship of Jeffrey Robinson & filmmakers, as well as that of Democracy Now -- if there is to be on this soil, an inclusive democracy ever.
Why can’t we teach everyone that a report of this magnitude, is truthful.
My beloved parents were "unicorns," and I am deeply grateful for them. They were able to insulate my heart from hate for the environment that we were forced to survive and succeed in adverse conditions. Believe me, I continue to carry on their teachings as the matriarch of my family.
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"This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it."
-Simon Armitage
"And the meek shall inherit the earth" say'ith the Bible. When that time comes one will be spitting out worms.
Good quote. Thank you
@@wavelength7503 The meek will never inherit the earth. That quote was put there to pacify slaves. “Just like turn the other cheek” “Love they enemy” All indoctrination
@@SunnyandNova you have a dysfunctional altitude, and perception.
@@wavelength7503 So be it Mr. Morals judge me as you see fit
Corporate Power depends on the the absence of voting rights for people who aren't in the scope of corporate interest.Taxpayers.
After hearing Mar, Robinson a couple of years ago, now seeing this headed in this direction who all people can have excess it . Especially now! Timing is everything! Thank you film producers assisting Mr. Robinson reach all people.
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We are fucking slaves to this system
It seems to me the US is going Backwards in regards to race and race relations, come on America fix up.
Writing from Britain 🇬🇧
So we were at literally the end of the fork. They ate or eat us. There is a whole book about it. Human Consumption and Homoeroticism with in U.S Slave culture. Written by Vincent Woodward. Your welcome
This is really good stuff. The momentum of CRT is one of the elements that is leading the change to more fair and balancing America. But the road to that awareness is still fraught with resistance and ignorance.
Keep the faith friends because change for the better is coming.
We want what this country owe's African people for the years of unpaid labor. CUT THE CHECK!
@@fastrecon1 This country owes the black community in this country a lot more then just a check because of slavery AND 100 years of Jim Crow laws and red lining and so much more repressive programs!
As a white male I get that until ALL white Americans deal with their white privilege and recognize that they were always treated differently then blacks this country will continue to be stuck in the past. Whitey has got to get their shlt together!! Don't you think??
How can you call your country a democracy and the so called “”land of the free.” It’s an absolute joke🤣😂🤣😂
@@sarahashun1180 Yes, it is a joke, but we Americans like to pretend a lot. You know like going to war with countries like Iraq or Vietnam because we say they pose a threat to us!
@@chrisj984 You are clearly speaking from your own perspective. And in that way misunderstand. Because in the first place this isn't so much about an apology. What about that thing called "empathy" in which we are practice seeing through someone elses eyes to see WHY they feel such injustice has been done to them and still is in many cases. After all living in this world isn't all about you for you about you is it?
When you say "Skin color has never meant much in actuality" you are not stating a generally accepted attitude let alone a fact. You are stating YOUR opinion. Where is the empathy in that? Where is the effort to understand another person through better understanding their perspective?
Ok so cut the check.
I hope he puts his documentary on a RUclips channel for free. It would really get to a larger audience.
Netflix
The black alienation psy op is brilliant. It penetrates your psyche deep enough to manifest yourself as a target through fear and anger. This allows the "other" victims of the same group to attack the alienated instead of the culprits.
Your comment stands out and gives me pause to think.
58 f*ing years later! Damn it USA 🤬
Sign me up! "AMERICAN HISTORY 101" now in session.
Will it be possible to secure a link or copy of the film? I’d love to watch in community here in Kalamazoo, MI.
Cut the check
The Truth is freedom to move forward....in America the truth is hidden and watered down so it can be easily avoided....not understanding that if you don't learn from the past ....you will repeat it
He's an AWESOME man!
I always want to be open minded because as someone who is more conservative, I've been called a lot of names-racist, bigot, homophobe--none of which are true. I wanted to approach this film with an open heart and an open mind and I'm always willing to hear the truth, especially when it is backed by documented historic facts. I am inclined to agree with most of the points made in this film especially when backed up by historic documents with direct quotes from their source. I even agree that the Star-Spangled Banner, may not have been the most appropriate choice of national anthems. If I'd been asked, I would have chosen America the Beautiful which I believe was written during WWII. There are a couple of sticking points I had with the information and logic used. The three women who funded BLM were supposed to raise and distribute funds to chapters across the nation--the misappropriated those funds to their own benefit. My next sticking point was the professor's defense of those individual black men who recently died at the hands of a police officers. In just about every case, each of those individuals were breaking the law and refused to comply with the officer's requests. While no one deserves to die under those circumstances, if each if those individuals had complied with the police requests, they might be alive today. I would hope that if I were breaking the law and the police approached me that if I complied, I would go to jail, get my lawyer involved and let them sort it out. The public was never allowed to see the body cam footage in its entirety. I do agree that we have to be able to have conversations and debates. I do believe as a nation we are moving forward--perhaps not as quickly as we should, but I believe we are. As far as the confederate flag is concerned, I don't buy into it being about it being a symbol of the south as anything other than a symbol of bigotry. I want to tell anyone flying it, "You lost, get over it." And finally, I disagree with thoughts expressed regarding "white privilege". I grew up extremely poor and white and I can say in all honesty that people gave me the same kinds of looks that they gave people of color. Poor is poor. I've had security follow me in department stores. I've had the police hassle me for "loitering" because I sat down on the curb in front of a store on a hot day to catch my breath. I was poor and I looked it. So, I don't think you can make a blanket statement like that because it doesn't fit everyone.
From your rambling response, you didn't approach the film with an open mind. You were looking for reasons to critique it.
He has no problem with that ball rolling backwards.
FOR THE DIRECTOR AND PRODUCER, I THANK YOU....LOL.
Born in 1955. Best time ever for a Black woman to be born. Downhill for America ever since.
It occurs to me that far too many of my fellow (Democrats) are so 'hooked' on concepts concerning life's potential for: Amiability, Justice, & Peace that we easily forget that lots of (Other) folks aren't as moved or even fond of those things. People like myself will often 'bend over backwards" to please rather than annoy or (Anger) those around us, even while being subjected to abuse. As far as (Politics) goes, Democrats need to find ways of demonstrating that 'We too' are capable & ready to be as Cold, Calculating, & Sneaky as our Republican counterparts. Apparently, Politics & Darwinism are (Not) mutually exclusive forces ! 😎
Democrats have been the scourge of America, check their history
Where would I be able to watch this?
Thanks Jeffrey for the work you do. I appreciate the way you humanize your words, in explaining the depth of our American tragedy and history.
Voting is compulsory in Australia. And held on Saturdays. There are three polling places within walking distance of my home.
NOT GONNA HAPPEN HERE !
That’s because Australia is mostly white, after having wiped out all it’s indigenous black people.White people have no reason to suppress the vote of other white people. The American system is always based on oppressing blacks,In this case it is done by suppressing the black vote.
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**. I'M EMBARRASSED,,, THAT THESE UNITED STATES,,,, STILL REMAIN RACIST... We still have a lot of work to do,,,, to form a more perfect union....**
@@johnedward3404 Right! And that doesn’t mean we hate America, doesn’t mean we’re black victims, and doesn’t mean we have white guilt. 🇺🇸
Let's be clear. It is more appropriate to learn about the Holocaust, a tragic that occurred in another country, by another nation. But what happened in USA/ Americas should be suppressed, and not be brought to mind. It's about priorities in USA, and who has them working for their agenda.
I HAVE A DREAM, that one day my children will live in a country where their leaders are judged by the content of their character.
It’s all bullshit to most people tho lol, MLK message has been watered down
Our character defines our destiny.
It is ironic that all those politicians who get appointed have to be sworn in by laying hand on a Bible but how many do actually behave like there is a God? How many actually behave like one day they will have to answer before God for every cruel acts done against one’s brothers and sisters?
I believe that it is not so much about the existence of God, and more about living by uplifting principles. Some groups of people, say they believe in God. But their focus, seems to be on end of times Revelations. With this, to seem to be delighted by negative events, believing it is signalling Christ's return. But meanwhile the words of Jesus, among other things, should teach us the ways to the Kingdom of Heaven on our own. But primary example of this, is the principle of Forgivingness. So many people carry around other's negative energies, without understanding that Forgivingness is freedom.
This is a shame …. Biden must push harder and use the 14th Amendment to prosecute Jose against an equilibrium!
Biden push harder? This is who Biden is, everything is supposed to stay the same.
@Michael Sprague
That he is. And yet people wanted him so they can feel better about themselves.
His lecture is on youtube....it will definitely change the way you think about this 'great' country
As a 'middle' class to 'poor' European, I still cannot grasp why a house (the senate) can block legislation for it seems eternity. If my understanding is right the senate is created to oversee that doesn't 'rape' the constitution. And that was it - THEN. Now the 'senate' seems to have more power then the house. If they would followed the UK system to make the senate like the 'house of lords' now In 1911, in the British Parliament deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation. The act was proposed by a Liberal majority in the House of Commons. Not so still in that 'golden' Union called the USA. If that was to happen (it won't, but one can have a dream), and the senate was rolled back in its original purpose, a lot of laws would have been passed, especially those on racial discrimination. What I always thought was very wrong in the USA, was the enormous amount of money spending to elect a short term 'medieval king' - called 'president' with extreme powers (medieval I said, it's actually worse). Your country is not very well like all over the world, even among so called 'allies', except those with little or no democracy and 'bearing gifts' - sorry to be cynical. (oil, mineral rights etc.) - 1-5% of Americans own 95% + of your assets. Do you really think, as long as the 'senate' and a short lived very powerful 'king' are in power ANYTHING will change for the people ? Especially the denigrated, 1911, in the British Parliament which deprived the House of Lords of its absolute power of veto on legislation. The act was proposed by a Liberal majority in the House of Commons.But this seems impossible in the US. How many years were there without a 'war' since the US' inception ? Ask that to the average student, who can't even point out a state in his/her country. And let's hope they don't fall over, because medical care costs are the highest in the world. And yet you call this the 'land of the free and the willing'. I wrote this in fifteen minutes, I hope I'll get a response, and I cannot promise i will be courteous to them if they come up with the usual nonsense.
I have to keep reminding myself every day that this country does not revolve around me just because I'm white, I have to make room and I have to respect all peoples rights and ideas, I have to get used to shareing this great country with other peoples that are not white european. after I had put me first aside and after I opened my mind I found it very easy to understand how racism is bringing this country down. I have since found many of my freinds are now of all race. so please give peace a chance and educate your self about your self.
Very moving. Thank you
V pass.. Much more effective than driver's license or "other" state issued ID. This is an omen window display.
This man inspires me to do more and be better.....
Oh the racist trolls will come out of there holes with this one.
@@danialhillmann5374 And......
@@danialhillmann5374 You proved my point.
@@danialhillmann5374 Racist.
@@danialhillmann5374 Racist trolling 🤣 and learn how to spell before you start trolling that will make your trolling a little more effective.
A prediction. No "vaccine" passport, no vote. Voila!
Everything changes when you have children
Good for your Dad and his wisdom.
Thanks for your help my beautiful people we need help 💪🏾
I can never think well about white people or this great nation again. It's shocking!
Funny how racism always comes up at election time.
Pepper spray and tear gas are both toxic! It causes confusions like gun vs taser
Great video DN. The truth must live. 💟
Congratulations to drugs for winning the war on drugs.
I feel suffering when I watch this.
(9:40) unicorns for parents - what does it mean? I was born in sign of Capricorn. Is American English so different from British English? Is another New Age coming? (15:30) Why there is such animosity when it comes to policing, why there is such concern, it"s in our DNA - each behaviour is in our DNA but in terms of science and biology, colors of skin has not much to with our emotions and we are from the same origin
Please research epigenetics and maybe then you'll have a better understanding of what he means when he says it's in our DNA.
Yo! Go! MLK! MLK for every day! He's quietly spinning in complete dismay!