Your content has been eye-opening, well-delivered, and well researched. You give us the facts, man. I really appreciate your content. I'm a white boy from Eastern Kentucky, and this history was never really taught in schools here. I grew up in a very racist family, and it took me awhile to overcome that mindset. Finding out that my Great-Grandpa's Grandmother was a freed black woman lead me to explore blackness and what it means to be black in America today. To be honest, I don't understand it all, and I'll never claim to share in the suffering and hatred that black America has to deal with, but I wish to learn more.
I never understood why we as black Americans felt that we needed to force our way into white establishments for there service unless a business is taxpayer-funded like schools I do not agree. 🧐❓
Because at the same time, the white power structure prevented the growth and thriving of "separate but equal" black establishments. President Calvin Coolidge said, correctly, that "The business of America is business." That has been true since the first 13 colonies were established...every colony was a for-profit business venture. When black people were shut out of big business by white government policies, by white social policies, and often by whit force, it meant that black Americans could never thrive. Segregation was not just a matter of not having access to a white restaurant, but also not having access to a bank loan to build a good black restaurant. Black people paid taxes that supported public services depended on by businesses that excluded them. For instance, back in the day, governments didn't own power companies or do the city plumbing. Those were owned by private companies who were free to deny those services to blacks. Essential services such as transportation and even water might not have been even available to blacks because those were private businesses. In America, the purpose of government is to support business, and business drives government. Business and government in America are so intertwined that you can't draw such a line between them. The problem with the "separate but equal" policy is that whites never allowed black businesses and facilities to achieve equality. The Rosa Parks situation was emblematic of the cruel cynicism of the "separate but equal" policy. Black people were required to sit at the back of the buses in an area marked "Colored." That fateful day, Rosa Parks was sitting in the Colored section "separate but equal" _where she was supposed to be_. When the white section filled up, a white man went into the "Colored" section and demanded that Rosa Parks give him her seat. She refused. That is the perfect example of how "separate but equal" actually worked. We were allowed our separate things until they became desirable to white people, or until they became "too good for the colored people" and the whites either took them by force, forced them out of business, or destroyed them. We can look back in hindsight _without understanding the context of the times_ and think that de-segregation could have been done more strategically. That's only because the public and private sectors _today_ are more clearly defined and separated.
Because it was black Americans that built those establishments through the money made from slavery. If you build a nation, you better dang well make sure you enjoy it just as much as white people. Its not about trying to "be like them" but it is about showing them and the world that we are just as valuable, just as important and just as equal as them. When free black people built their own communities WITHOUT the assistance of white America, those communities were burned to the ground, bought out or had any type commerce cost increased to where businesses could not afford to stock products. So if they would not let black folks have their own, then yes.. they needed to force their way into the white owned ones or end up doing without.
I think one of the issues was simply quality. For an example, i believe that Woolworth stores had decent quality food at lunch counters at a reasonable price. There were many around the country. But they had refused to serve black people.
“What justice means to us is precisely that the world be filled with the storms of our revenge”-thus they speak to each other. “We shall wreak vengeance and abuse on all whose equals we are not”-thus do the tarantula-hearts vow. “And ‘will to equality’ shall henceforth be the name for virtue; and against all that has power we want to raise our clamor!”
Exactly once they started acting like woke was for everything else in the world (lbgtq,women rights,women being sexually liberated,americans fight for work life balance,hollywood satanism (which is real) n the push of blm when they were never a real thing to aid black folks) that's when woke became a joke
AND "TYING" It to EVERY "AGENDA" THEY(YT ones) Needed to Attach to Black American(BREW) Struggles & Plight in America, in order to Seek Sympathy, Funding, or Legislation. 👑💫
People on the right saying "woke" unironically is the most goddamn irritating thing ever. But now that I know the actual history behind the word, the right's usage of it as a buzzword makes me feel even more morose.
It’s certain people who call themselves woke and associate themselves with the movement - who use obsessive political correctness, mandatory pronoun usage, and create mass association with white guilt and micro aggressions. You can’t blame the critics of this type of behavior if they label it “woke” simply because these types people identify with that particular movement.
Welcome, tarantula! Your triangle and symbol sits black on your back; and I also know what sits in your soul. Revenge sits in your soul: wherever you bite, black scabs grow; your poison makes the soul whirl with revenge. Thus I speak to you in a parable-you who make souls whirl, you preachers of equality. To me you are tarantulas, and secretly vengeful. But I shall bring your secrets to light; therefore I laugh in your faces with my laughter of the heights. Therefore I tear at your webs, that your rage may lure you out of your lie-holes and your revenge may leap out from behind your word, 'justice'. For that man be delivered from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms.
that's pretty ironic of you to say, considering the people whom that term is meant to describe are some of the most emotionally delicate people in American society today.
@@greyghost2492 and conservatives aren't? On the one side you just have people trying to gain acceptance in the face of growing hate and violence and on the other you have grown ass men having meltdowns because their favorite beer has a rainbow on it, thats "delicate"
@@CrapeCraft and why do you even feel the need to plaster your agitpr0p across everything in the first place? are you trying to satisfy some kind of power trip or are you just compensating for the lack of attention your parents gave you? either way, us normal people would appreciate it if yall found a healthier way to sort out your developmental issues
Woke is used so much, I dislike that word. Wake up is what I've always used. Unfortunately once you wake up you are woke and that term woke is so cliche. Now Look who's saying woke in Congress
I would like to hear about the Devils Punch bowl Natchez, MS, US Navy Carl Brasher, Jesse L Brown US Navy Pilot, BET founder Bob Johnson, Origins of the JET magazine.
Everyone couldn’t participate in the first Great Migration. After the Civil War it was encouraged that former slaves remain in regions to be paid a wage. The Union Army held those ancestors as contraband against their will in Natchez. Some where executed, starved to death, or tortured. That’s the condensed version.
It would not be "woke" if a certain racial demographic of you already knew. Black people know and knew what this place really is and how brutal and Anti-Black it is, and until this changes, never let them forget it! Peace!
"You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality: your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue. Aggrieved conceit, repressed envy-perhaps the conceit and envy of your fathers-erupt from you as a flame and as the frenzy of revenge. What was silent in the father speaks in the son; and often I found the son the unveiled secret of the father. They are like enthusiasts, yet it is not the heart that fires them-but revenge. And when they become elegant and cold, it is not the spirit but envy that makes them elegant and cold. Their jealousy leads them even on the paths of thinkers; and this is the sign of their jealousy: they always go too far, till their weariness must in the end lie down to sleep in the snow. Out of every one of their complaints sounds revenge; in their praise there is always a sting, and to be a judge seems bliss to them. But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangman and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power." - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
It's amazing that they are literally using virtually the exact same tactics RIGHT NOW. But if I wasn't learning accurate history I would never know neither would others. Stay up family and stay aware.
2:18 The word "Hip" originated in Opium Dens to refer to how smokers would lose the muscle ability to even sit upright (ALICE!) and when people wanted to describe someone they suspected was an opium smoker they'd say "He's Hip" This comes from a book whose title i can't recall but it was very scholarly.
Woke is just like BLM. They only know it means something to AA’s, then they try to get ahead of it by stamping their meaning to it. It doesn’t matter if they get it wrong, it doesn’t matter that they don’t know what it means. That is ws logic.
IF YOU REMOVE ANY OF OUR SKIN WE ALL LOOK THE SAME/// WHAT IF YOU WERE BLACK ON THERIGHT SIDE AND WHITE ON THE BLACK ON THE LEFT SIDE WOULD THAT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO YOU
Woke has two meanings: most, including the left, see woke as being aware of social issues, especially in regards to racial injustice. A few, mostly the far-right, see woke as being about policing speech, especially as it comes to hate speech coming from their side. You can probably guess where I stand on this issue, considering the commentary about the definitions. Now lets watch the video.
No, it was the white liberal left that began using "woke" to police speech for their own ends. White conservatives aren't listening to black commentators. They only learn our terms when white liberals start using them.
Ah, the old motte and bailey routine. You 'train' the next generation into a mindset of aggrieved conceit and envy, but then claim you only want awareness of racial injustice when confronted.
When we started letting our wmen speak for us out of their entitlement and when their sweet friends, who were raised by those same entitled individuals, ONLY, started feeling more confident because of those few commercials on television… We need to return to the commandments - And a Patriarchy - Headed by god, lead by the man of the house. They can’t speak for us, they shouldn’t and they can’t.
Mzungus have been using our vernacular wrong since day one. Back in the day when they used our slang it became played out and we came out with something new.
Your content has been eye-opening, well-delivered, and well researched. You give us the facts, man. I really appreciate your content. I'm a white boy from Eastern Kentucky, and this history was never really taught in schools here. I grew up in a very racist family, and it took me awhile to overcome that mindset. Finding out that my Great-Grandpa's Grandmother was a freed black woman lead me to explore blackness and what it means to be black in America today. To be honest, I don't understand it all, and I'll never claim to share in the suffering and hatred that black America has to deal with, but I wish to learn more.
Stay peaceful in your journey , I wish you well. 👍🏿
I never understood why we as black Americans felt that we needed to force our way into white establishments for there service unless a business is taxpayer-funded like schools I do not agree. 🧐❓
Because at the same time, the white power structure prevented the growth and thriving of "separate but equal" black establishments. President Calvin Coolidge said, correctly, that "The business of America is business." That has been true since the first 13 colonies were established...every colony was a for-profit business venture. When black people were shut out of big business by white government policies, by white social policies, and often by whit force, it meant that black Americans could never thrive.
Segregation was not just a matter of not having access to a white restaurant, but also not having access to a bank loan to build a good black restaurant. Black people paid taxes that supported public services depended on by businesses that excluded them. For instance, back in the day, governments didn't own power companies or do the city plumbing. Those were owned by private companies who were free to deny those services to blacks. Essential services such as transportation and even water might not have been even available to blacks because those were private businesses. In America, the purpose of government is to support business, and business drives government. Business and government in America are so intertwined that you can't draw such a line between them.
The problem with the "separate but equal" policy is that whites never allowed black businesses and facilities to achieve equality. The Rosa Parks situation was emblematic of the cruel cynicism of the "separate but equal" policy. Black people were required to sit at the back of the buses in an area marked "Colored." That fateful day, Rosa Parks was sitting in the Colored section "separate but equal" _where she was supposed to be_. When the white section filled up, a white man went into the "Colored" section and demanded that Rosa Parks give him her seat. She refused.
That is the perfect example of how "separate but equal" actually worked. We were allowed our separate things until they became desirable to white people, or until they became "too good for the colored people" and the whites either took them by force, forced them out of business, or destroyed them.
We can look back in hindsight _without understanding the context of the times_ and think that de-segregation could have been done more strategically. That's only because the public and private sectors _today_ are more clearly defined and separated.
i bet dollars to dimes this isn't a black person. digital black face is everywhere cause this is a white-ass question if i ever seen one.
@@rdkirk3834 Well said!
Because it was black Americans that built those establishments through the money made from slavery. If you build a nation, you better dang well make sure you enjoy it just as much as white people. Its not about trying to "be like them" but it is about showing them and the world that we are just as valuable, just as important and just as equal as them. When free black people built their own communities WITHOUT the assistance of white America, those communities were burned to the ground, bought out or had any type commerce cost increased to where businesses could not afford to stock products. So if they would not let black folks have their own, then yes.. they needed to force their way into the white owned ones or end up doing without.
I think one of the issues was simply quality. For an example, i believe that Woolworth stores had decent quality food at lunch counters at a reasonable price. There were many around the country. But they had refused to serve black people.
" Power is the ability to define reality and have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own..."
- Dr. Wade Nobles
It became a bad word when YT started using it all fucked up✊🏾
“What justice means to us is precisely that the world be filled with the storms of our revenge”-thus they speak to each other. “We shall wreak vengeance and abuse on all whose equals we are not”-thus do the tarantula-hearts vow. “And ‘will to equality’ shall henceforth be the name for virtue; and against all that has power we want to raise our clamor!”
Exactly once they started acting like woke was for everything else in the world (lbgtq,women rights,women being sexually liberated,americans fight for work life balance,hollywood satanism (which is real) n the push of blm when they were never a real thing to aid black folks) that's when woke became a joke
Exactly
AND "TYING" It to EVERY "AGENDA" THEY(YT ones) Needed to Attach to Black American(BREW) Struggles & Plight in America, in order to Seek Sympathy, Funding, or Legislation.
👑💫
People on the right saying "woke" unironically is the most goddamn irritating thing ever. But now that I know the actual history behind the word, the right's usage of it as a buzzword makes me feel even more morose.
It’s certain people who call themselves woke and associate themselves with the movement - who use obsessive political correctness, mandatory pronoun usage, and create mass association with white guilt and micro aggressions.
You can’t blame the critics of this type of behavior if they label it “woke” simply because these types people identify with that particular movement.
We have better wake up and stay woke.
cringe
Agreed 💯
This content hit hard. Keep posting ✊🏿
Woke became a bad word when it became synonymous with WP having to take accountability for their wickedness 😅😂
Welcome, tarantula! Your triangle and symbol sits black on your back; and I also know what sits in your soul. Revenge sits in your soul: wherever you bite, black scabs grow; your poison makes the soul whirl with revenge.
Thus I speak to you in a parable-you who make souls whirl, you preachers of equality. To me you are tarantulas, and secretly vengeful. But I shall bring your secrets to light; therefore I laugh in your faces with my laughter of the heights. Therefore I tear at your webs, that your rage may lure you out of your lie-holes and your revenge may leap out from behind your word, 'justice'. For that man be delivered from revenge, that is for me the bridge to the highest hope, and a rainbow after long storms.
Black Fragility
Which they will never take, but that is what Yah created them for.
Well said 💯🎯
The average white man most likely has done nothing to harm you. I’d believe you if you said white cops though.
Thanks! I would like to hear the origins of the JET magazine! Thanks brah!
Thank you for keeping us informed. Your work is important!
Blessed to have found your channel…
My brain just broke when he said “un-aliving”
Its cuz youtube
RUclips guidelines. You can't directly mention death in videos anymore.
Stay Woke, Y'all.
At this point, anything that hurts their fragile ass feelings is considered "woke".
that's pretty ironic of you to say, considering the people whom that term is meant to describe are some of the most emotionally delicate people in American society today.
Black Fragility
@@greyghost2492 and conservatives aren't? On the one side you just have people trying to gain acceptance in the face of growing hate and violence and on the other you have grown ass men having meltdowns because their favorite beer has a rainbow on it, thats "delicate"
@Grey Ghost Actually I see more of you clowns crying every-fucking-time shit doesn't go y'all way. And my comment just further proves my point.
@@CrapeCraft and why do you even feel the need to plaster your agitpr0p across everything in the first place? are you trying to satisfy some kind of power trip or are you just compensating for the lack of attention your parents gave you? either way, us normal people would appreciate it if yall found a healthier way to sort out your developmental issues
GOOD WORKS!!!!! KEEP THEM UPDATES MOVING , Sir!!!
""" PEACE KING!!!!!!
Woke is used so much, I dislike that word. Wake up is what I've always used. Unfortunately once you wake up you are woke and that term woke is so cliche. Now Look who's saying woke in Congress
Thank you so much for your research and hard work.
I would like to hear about the Devils Punch bowl Natchez, MS, US Navy Carl Brasher, Jesse L Brown US Navy Pilot, BET founder Bob Johnson, Origins of the JET magazine.
Everyone couldn’t participate in the first Great Migration. After the Civil War it was encouraged that former slaves remain in regions to be paid a wage. The Union Army held those ancestors as contraband against their will in Natchez. Some where executed, starved to death, or tortured. That’s the condensed version.
It would not be "woke" if a certain racial demographic of you already knew. Black people know and knew what this place really is and how brutal and Anti-Black it is, and until this changes, never let them forget it! Peace!
"You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality: your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue. Aggrieved conceit, repressed envy-perhaps the conceit and envy of your fathers-erupt from you as a flame and as the frenzy of revenge.
What was silent in the father speaks in the son; and often I found the son the unveiled secret of the father.
They are like enthusiasts, yet it is not the heart that fires them-but revenge. And when they become elegant and cold, it is not the spirit but envy that makes them elegant and cold. Their jealousy leads them even on the paths of thinkers; and this is the sign of their jealousy: they always go too far, till their weariness must in the end lie down to sleep in the snow. Out of every one of their complaints sounds revenge; in their praise there is always a sting, and to be a judge seems bliss to them.
But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangman and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power." - Thus Spoke Zarathustra
If you confront them you are woke.
Great work. Thank you
It's amazing that they are literally using virtually the exact same tactics RIGHT NOW. But if I wasn't learning accurate history I would never know neither would others. Stay up family and stay aware.
2:18 The word "Hip" originated in Opium Dens to refer to how smokers would lose the muscle ability to even sit upright (ALICE!) and when people wanted to describe someone they suspected was an opium smoker they'd say "He's Hip" This comes from a book whose title i can't recall but it was very scholarly.
Chile, why Erykah Badu tell those folks on MSNBC that she made up 'woke' and they believed her 🤣🤣🤣
Are the typos in the in-video subtitles an intentional inside joke? Like how John Green said that mispronouncing things was his thing on Crash Course?
I think he's using a voice to text program, so he's not writing it himself, hence the errors.
The words we use today are way worse
Audio is panned to left ear
Did you say 20 rounds?
You don't have to like the word.
Blm, woke, never forget. It's just what they do.
Woke is just like BLM. They only know it means something to AA’s, then they try to get ahead of it by stamping their meaning to it. It doesn’t matter if they get it wrong, it doesn’t matter that they don’t know what it means. That is ws logic.
Woke , became a bad word when black folks woke up to all the lies we been spoon fed !!!!!!!!
Better be woke when analyzing the Democratic party.
But not the Republican party who are trying to ban black history, books & women's reproductive rights? Democrats aren't the ones doing that
IF YOU REMOVE ANY OF OUR SKIN WE ALL LOOK THE SAME/// WHAT IF YOU WERE BLACK ON THERIGHT SIDE AND WHITE ON THE BLACK ON THE LEFT SIDE WOULD THAT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE TO YOU
It's not what it used to be
Thanks for the history.
come on bro, woke is not a quote unquote soft n word for crying out loud, thats total bs
Things have changed so dramatically this video provides no good content.
Work isn’t a bad word. SJW isn’t a bad acronym. Racists have problems with both.
Woke has two meanings: most, including the left, see woke as being aware of social issues, especially in regards to racial injustice.
A few, mostly the far-right, see woke as being about policing speech, especially as it comes to hate speech coming from their side.
You can probably guess where I stand on this issue, considering the commentary about the definitions. Now lets watch the video.
No, it was the white liberal left that began using "woke" to police speech for their own ends. White conservatives aren't listening to black commentators. They only learn our terms when white liberals start using them.
We don't have to define anything. Woke is what we believe it to be. You don't need to know everything.
@@brendaturner277 That's how you make what you say irrelevant to anyone else.
Ah, the old motte and bailey routine. You 'train' the next generation into a mindset of aggrieved conceit and envy, but then claim you only want awareness of racial injustice when confronted.
@@EB-jf5oi Sadly, have seen far too many of them. RUclips comments sections tend to be cesspools filled with them.
When we started letting our wmen speak for us out of their entitlement and when their sweet friends, who were raised by those same entitled individuals, ONLY, started feeling more confident because of those few commercials on television… We need to return to the commandments - And a Patriarchy - Headed by god, lead by the man of the house. They can’t speak for us, they shouldn’t and they can’t.
Mzungus have been using our vernacular wrong since day one. Back in the day when they used our slang it became played out and we came out with something new.