Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith on Identity Politics & Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2020
- We speak with the legendary African-American feminist scholar Barbara Smith. She is a founder of the Combahee River Collective and of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. Barbara Smith recently wrote a column in The Guardian newspaper titled “I helped coin the term 'identity politics'. I’m endorsing Bernie Sanders.” Her latest book is “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith.”
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Go Bernie! He has my support all the way.
"Bernie Boomer" here! 63-years-young and my support for Bernie has never been stronger. Comparing him to Buttigieg, Biden and Bloomberg is a complete and utter joke, yet very revealing. Bloomberg is trying to pay for his own presidency - the people be damned. Buttigieg has more billionaire donors than any other candidate in the race. Biden is a has-been whose past experience reveals a Republican in disguise.
None of these latter three men really gives a damn about average Americans. All three of them DO want to get richer and richer, get more and more power and keep the status quo intact.
Bernie is the only candidate who has a decade's long record of ACTUALLY fighting for average Americans. You know - the 99% who are completely ignored by the top one-percent and its wannabees?
@Kay Omholt Montague\What do you make of this Clyburn gentleman virtually sheepdogging African Americans into supporting Biden, the guy who was proud that the crime bill that imprisoned so many so called Black and Brown people, was based on his ideas!?
@@pulsarstargrave256 It was an abomination! Shame, shame, shame on him!!
Identify politics are a thing of the past. It is now the 99% vs. the 1%.
Yeah, agreed!
And if you're a woman you're almost automatically in the 99 percent. If you're a woman raising children alone there's no way out of the 99 percent.
That's why quality of life for everyone is more important than identity politics.
Rose Stewart true, it’s probably about 1% of the 1% is female.
Nah, you still find democrats pushing identity politics on the news every day.
Just listen to them go on about "the black vote". If that aint identity politics, nothing is
@@berenjervin that's the media and the party. That's not what the people care about.
I read her in high school. Good to see her continuing to represent!
Identity Politics, NOT to be confused with the more recent 'afro-turf' & 'NEOLIBERALIZED' version, which is 'Token-ness'...
Case in point, "Obama is the black mascot for Wall Street"
-Dr Cornel West
You're right. Identity politics had been disingenuously coopted by the liberal establishment to use for political gain... Ironically, to go after any true left candidate. This liberal establishment has never TRULY advocated for people of color but used them.
Intersectionality, simply acknowledging that various identities affect how people experience the world. So glad to hear her explain it. Like toxic masculinity, another academic term mainstreamed without context and inappropriately weaponized by both sides of the aisle.
I hope Mrs Smith schedule is taking her to South Carolina and other Stats thru out the South talking to Black older women and families to get them to support Sanders.. That would do a lot more better for Sanders than anything else she could do for Bernie..
It will be easier to convince younger Black people to vote for Sanders than older Black people.
For me as a 68 y,o. women, the take away is to get her broad view out to other age groups. I hear so much from younger people how they are quick to reject anyone who is not exactly like them. How boring. I couldn't agree with her more. I've never liked hanging out with people in my field. I want to find out what people, not in my field, are doing and hopefully spread some influence there.
I don't understand why any Black American would vote for Bernie Sanders after he said he was against Reparations for Black Americans who are descendants of American chattel slavery. He is just like every other politician, Bernie just want our votes but will do nothiing specifically for us.
Then: Walter Cronkite
Now: Amy Goodman
2 different names,
Both 4 syllables,
Both speak the truth to the public!
In a weird way a Sanders presidency will be more along the lines of MLK’s “dream” than Obama‘s presidency was. Let’s face it, hindsight has revealed that Obama reflected more of a moderate republican when it came to his actual policies, even the ACA is a republican version of the idea. I know this won’t be a popular opinion (btw it’s just my opinion) but when everything is said and done Bernie’s past and his ideas for our future reflect more of what MLK’s message actually was.
Yes, aesthetically MLK would have been proud of Obama’s presidential election but I truly believe he would have been more impressed with Bernie’s ideas for this country’s future... because they were actually his (MLK) own.
Excellent points and I agree. Sanders is talking about how regular people live their lives.
Eddie Perez you’re absolutely right. Obama has called his policies as moderate Republican. Bernie is more aligned with MLK than Obama ever was.
It's not "just your opinion." It's my opinion, too.
@@TheBeatle49 And my opinion too!
Mine too!
America’s dad has our backs.
There is a very good reason to have a dad; especially one with consistency and constant care...no matter what. Love your comment.
A wise friend of mine said, when I asked him how I could help with the struggle that black people face, "Just treat people like people."
I read her articule in The Guardian. Top ❤👀
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@Optimus Phoenix Prime Everything.
what a wonderful woman, thank you for the great interview. Barbara Smith should be speaking on all the channels!
Barbara Smith is sharp...incredible on so many levels its insane!
This Program in General & Specifically is Exceptional in Context & Motivation! Thanks!
Do We Not See Ourselves In Each Other?
Men have a very difficult time doing that.
Amazing great interview thanks democracy Now
Identity politics without class politics is worthless. Class politics without identity politics is also worthless.
Thank you, Barbara, for your whole life's work, but also for giving us this important historical context.
Two amazing, smart, and respectable women.
Real recognizes real.
Identity politics, particularly as it pertains to women, just has turned meaningless. : ( Very interesting interview!!!
Daniea3 Warren has hurt women by preempting the movement. She has shown that one dishonest person can do an incredible amount of damage.
@Dom Trussardi dude, you need to come out of that closet so you can address your misplaced anger Remember THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING GAY no matter how tough people make it!
Dom Trussardi lmao men be mad. put yall asses in the gulag
Love your guests.
Other medias usually bring freaks.
Kudos to Democracy Now for not going the way of the corporate media who are doing everything they can to ignore Bernie (this includes Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert) and giving him the spotlight he needs. We, the youth, want Bernie. The people want Bernie. Because Bernie threatens the status quo. Wouldn't expect any less from Democracy Now of course, but hats off, for being journalists with integrity during this election cycle where there is just a smidge of hope in Sanders
Stop being absurd honey!
Safe place? Please tell me where there is a safe place for a woman who is an activist for any human rights? My experience has been so profoundly heinous for speaking the truth.
"you have to work in coalition "
Its such a fake argument that he doesn’t have the support of black women with the women on his staff who is so wonderful through their bones. I’ve gotta say: Hello Somebody!
I love this woman (and, my wife's okay with that.)
So inspiring.
Her advice at the end really hit me. I haven't started doing political organizing till the past few months and it has changed me for the better so much. I meet my community members and communities outside my own and get to build solidarity and feel actually connected with all kinds of people and like I'm making a difference. We have to get involved in this country to fix what is wrong with it and to escape this crushing alienation weve been thrown into. Through political organizing I've been able to do both.
It is simple for me I love the truth, don't see myself as any better than the man who feeds his family by working in the rice paddies and morality means more to me than money, therefore I no longer have need for the Golden pig as I am happy living even in poverty. Bernie can help our young but only if they vote as we all should know this government will never represent them unless you vote.
CNN and MSNBC report: In the race between Bernie and Buttegieg:
Pete came in second over-all but Bernie only managed to place next to
last.
Feminism and identity politics are the root to alot the problems we find in society today.
Short glossary .... "Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding how aspects of one's social and political identities (e.g., gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, etc.) might combine to create unique modes of discrimination. It aims to broaden the agenda of the first waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of white, middle class women. The broad agenda means that intersectionality is used to find combinations of injustices that are felt by members of society.
Alan Dershowitz, scholar of United States constitutional law and criminal law in answering a question on the criticism of Israel by intersectional movements, he stated that the concept of intersectionality is an oversimplification of reality that makes LGBT activists stand in solidarity with advocates of Sharia, even though Islamic law denies the rights of the former. He feels that identity politics does not evaluate ideas or individuals on the basis of the quality of their character. Dershowitz argues that in academia, intersectionality is taught with a large influence from antisemitism. He states that Jews are actually more liberal and supportive of equal rights than many other religious sects.[83]
Writer and political pro-Israel activist Chloé Valdary considers intersectionality "a rigid system for determining who is virtuous and who is not, based on traits like skin color, gender, and financial status". Valdary also states:
Intersectionality's greatest flaw is in reducing human beings to political abstractions, which is never a tendency that turns out well-in part because it so severely flattens our complex human experience, and therefore fails to adequately describe reality. As it turns out, one can be personally successful and still come from a historically oppressed community-or vice versa. The human experience is complex and multifaceted and deeper than the superficial ways in which intersectionalists describe it.[84]
As zealotry
Conservative political commentator Andrew Sullivan argues that the practice of intersectionality "manifests itself almost as a religion. It posits a classic orthodoxy through which all of human experience is explained-and through which all speech must be filtered."[85] David A. French, writer for the National Review, states that proponents of intersectionality are "zealots of a new religious faith" intending to fill a "religion-shaped hole in the human heart".[86]
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You talk about intersectionality leading to situations were LGBTQ activists are standing with advocates of Sharia law etc. to address discrimination. Well there's something that causes some Black ministers to stand with KKK members against gay rights and some atheists to stand with islamophobic Evangelicals of the religious right to stand against Muslim immigrants. It's called bigotry!
SOURCES: Bernie to select his VP!
Video has just be uploaded to my channel.
Nina Turner please!
Nina for Chief of Staff. Barbara Smith for VP.
I’d like to see an adult debate Mike Pence.
A African diaspora in Skandinavia for Bernard Sanders
This descendant of West Africans in the Black Diaspora in America is voting for Bernie Sanders. I've issues with him, but is the best now in the race
@@SagesseNoir Not going to be voting for him
@@MichaelScreamMachineEvans That's your decision. But I think Bernie Sanders is the best of those running for office from EITHER party. And that's how I will vote in the primaries.
You may not agree with all of his policies, but here's the thing......
1.) He has integrity
2.)He listens to the people
3.) He's a team player....not a soloist
4.) He doesn't serve multiple masters.......only one...
. the American people
5.) We CAN do this....... Bernie Sanders = an American Renaissance!!!!!!!
5.)
You may not agree with all of his policies, but here's the thing......
1.) He has integrity
2.)He listens to the people
3.) He's a team player....not a soloist
4.) He doesn't serve multiple masters.......only one...
. the American people
5.) We CAN do this....... Bernie Sanders = an American Renaissance!!!!!!!
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All humans have "things" in common. I do not automatically have something in common with another whom has a similar skin "color", simply because of the "color" of skin. Skin pigmentation is a natural variant in the human race. I think we need to leave this false notion of different races (based on skin "color") in the past. The only differences within the human race are based on ethnicity, culture, and nationality. Unless you want to break everything down further to what, states, cities, neighborhoods, eye color, hair color, spleen size, lactose tolerance or intolerance, height, weight, binary gender or omni-gender, finger length, one kidney or two, etc. ...? I don't understand the insistence on using the words "white" and "black" or "brown" to create false categories in humans. It suggests that all individuals of a particular "color" are the same. And will vote the same. Or have the same opinions. Or the exact same needs. That's clearly untrue and misleading.
I agree 100 percent. I would add age and experience to your list. I'm not the same woman I was before I had children. But every woman I've ever met who has a teenage daughter knows exactly what my days are like. It's like we're in a club. And you're right, race is not a factor here.
The problem today is we just don't let people be who they are. We're far too busy putting people into categories.
@Harmony Alexandria You are talking about power, money, and 'class' mixed/structured within nationality... so to frame it all by some false idea of matching skin 'color' is harmful to true progress for all of humanity.
If you keep those blinders on, our world will continue to devolve into negative feedback loops.
We are one species with many variable traits, but our origins are the same. All categories overlap.
The 'landlord' or 'money lender' to fit your analogy isn't a certain skin 'color', it's the falsely entitled, overly rich... it's any group historically that has misused power. Any generational brokers in positions of control and influence... and, guess what, they come in all 'colors'. And all nationalities.
@@rosestewart1606 Yeah, true. Age and experience, especially based on location and amount of world travel, matter a lot. What we see and do over time changes us. Interacting directly with individuals from other cultures is important and healthy.
Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith is a Humble Intellectual, Humanitarian Activists. The original inception of Women Power.
Barney's the best we have Bernie or nothing 2020 🎉🎉🎉
Awesome!
Amy Goodman is a good listener.
Much respect... these ladies have paid their dues. ❤️
Bernie 2020
Gettysburg (1993) the best line in the movie: "The thing is, you cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit. You take men one at a time.
In the context of the movie ....
"Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : [quoting Hamlet] "What a piece of work is man, in form and movement how express and admirable. In action how like an angel."
Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain : Well, if he's an angel, all right then. But he damn well must be a killer angel.
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : Tell me something, Buster... What do you think of Negroes?
Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain : Well, if you mean the race, I don't really know. This is not a thing to be ashamed of. The thing is, you cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit. You take men one at a time.
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : You see to me there was never any difference.
Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain : None at all?
Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain : None at all. Of course, I haven't known that many freed men... But those I knew in Bangor, Portland... You look in the eye, there was a man. There was a "divine spark," as my mother used to call it. That is all there is to it. Races are men. "What a piece of work is man. How infinite in faculties and form, and movement... How express and admirable. In action how like an angel.
Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain : Well, if he's an angel, all right then... But he damn well must be a killer angel. Colonel, darling, you're a lovely man. I see a vast great difference between us, yet I admire you, lad. You're an idealist, praise be. The truth is, Colonel... There is no "divine spark". There's many a man alive no more of value than a dead dog. Believe me. When you've seen them hang each other the way I have back in the Old Country. Equality? What I'm fighting for is to prove I'm a better man than many of them. Where have you seen this "divine spark" in operation, Colonel? Where have you noted this magnificent equality? No two things on Earth are equal or have an equal chance. Not a leaf, not a tree. There's many a man worse than me, and some better... But I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters, Colonel... Is justice. Which is why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve, not as my father deserved. I'm Kilrain... And I damn all gentlemen. There is only one aristocracy... And that is right here.
[points to his head]
Sergeant 'Buster' Kilrain : And that's why we've got to win this war."
I'm 60 years old and I'm voting for Sanders
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"identity politics" is absolutely the most destructive political concept I have seen in my life.
How many times has she given that intro? What’s the point?
Bernie 2020!
The conclusion of "Identity Politics" is either US civil war and/or balkanization. Won't that be quite the accomplishment!
Identity Politics as opposed to what other kind of politics - issues politics? Politics has always been about identity. You can identify a lot of things about a person based on the political stances they take. Conservatism is draped in White identity. How can you use a broad term like 'Identity Politics' and not expect it to be applied broadly? Black Lives Matter' made the same mistake as the Combahee River Collective, in not being precise in their messaging. They should have said 'Black, etc., Identity Politics' and 'Black Lives Matter Too! or Also!' respectively. Ironically, I may have been the first, to coin that phrase. It's sad it seems, no generational insight or wisdom was gained in this matter, over the near 40 years. It is ironic that the belief and criticism of some Blacks, that 'Black Lives Matter' the organization, was created to promote a gay agenda, very well may have been aided by this historic association, or at least the founders having knowledge of this previous group. That is not to say that gay rights are not justified. Obviously, there is no question, that all human rights are justified. What is instructive here is the fundamental mistakes that Black people continue to make in our struggle for our rights, and a better life in this country. Democrats/Liberals/Progressives have done the same, as this non issue that Sanders has made into an issue indicates. One issue (abortion or jobs/economy/taxes - literally the proverbial pocketbook) politics is no different than so-called identity politics. They all have to be caters to and appeased. At least in the case of Blacks, they should be.
Barbara Smith should consider reading the works of prof. Thomas Sowell.
BERNIE IS THE BEST OPTION FOR THE UNDER PRIVILEGED IN AMERICA. VOTE FOR BERNIE.
At the root of identity politics, after all the tribal, self-interested narcissism and paranoia, hatred and contempt... Sanity.
I miss your beautiful face and your good heart
Identity politics is racism rebranded. This woman is a racist.
GO BERNIE, GO BARBARA
MRA for life!
Notice how most feminists are not much feminine?
G&MM, use your words
1846
Beg Michelle Obama to run as vice please
First ladies bomb politically. The skills needed to beat out other potential wives seeking a man with political prowess don't equate with having one's own political prowess, despite a few who come to love her like a mother-figure
@@johntao6822 truly? She is way more qualified to be President than most. She is not just a former president wife, never was about that, she is a lawyer she is a Woman with wisdom kindness and streight, if only you understand how pathetic your chouvinist comments makes you look you would probably evolve faster.
She is a no go. Extension of Wall Street and class oppression is a nonstarter for me. A FDR style democrat (Bernie) and a moderate republican (Obama) is a disaster of a ticket
The word feminism is sooooo gross. That said, i really like what the scholar Barbera Smith has to say about the modern day perversion of Identity politics
Who is she that anyone should care?
Don't pay attention very well, do ya?
Dj Allworld
I read many books, exploring the world and people’s minds with TMH. However, I only endorse TMH, not man. Therefore, if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a hole.
Peace and love.
More than you.
Gwendolyn Williams, that is true, so are you, and she is also. But, TMH is all in all. Peace and love. When TMH gives someone an endorsement, it’s life and truth for all.
Bitter since 1947? Way to keep the hatred alive.
@Gwendolyn Williams like your life🤣
@Gwendolyn Williams 😢
Maybe this lesbian feminist can start by using the word people to replace her sexist use of the word women. Majority of men support her values and her work including myself. Just stop the anti male hate speech. It’s killing men.