Henry Louis Gates Discusses Ideological Divides Among Black Americans
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- In part two of Harvard Professor and PBS Host Henry Louis Gates's interview with WSJ's Lee Hawkins, Gates discusses the ideological diversity and intra-racial discord within the African-American political sphere.
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Calling him a Tom for speaking the truth is wrong. Things got twisted. Dr. Gates is right on this.
@Bruce Lewis Gates along with All the other so called professors we're and are trators just as the rest of the people who teach is lies,they were trained to deceive All of Us. Please Research,it is People like this that will get you killed. People who believe instead of researching.So Sad You all are going to be chipped and shipped with a card and told that your Reparations is on it to use when you slaves go back home to Africa.
I could listen to Dr. Gates all day long.
This man is speaking the truth!!! He is speaking about our true Black traditional values. As a former teacher I just don’t understand why our kids and community are placing value on actions that hold us down as an African American community!
Because Democrats have steered the black community for the past 50 years, that's why. They have run the black community off the rails for political gaine/votes.
Much RESPECT to you mister Gates!!!!
Professor Gates!!
The truth must be told about the past in order to positively shape the future.
Amen
darkeagle making what stuff up? This man is prejudiced against his own race. Everyone knows that the Africans who did sell some slaves, did not have any idea of the atrocities they were sending them slaves into. Because the African slave system was not in no ways brutal as the American Slave system.
It is recorded in History that the type of slave system that America had was the Most Brutal in all of history. And MOST of the slaves were hunted and captured from Africa by The Caucasians.
Why do Black folk keep insisting on putting the own selves down by listening to untold amount of lies . It's like many Blacks are still mentally enslaved. Always esteeming caucasians better than them selves.
The man on this video is full of lies, he is probably being paid to sell his own people out. So Blacks can grow to hate them ownselves and put down them,own-selves the more..
STOP listening to so much negative about yourselves. And began to encourage one another. Hilary is NOT your friend. She has been recorded as saying wicked stuff about Black folk. All she wants is your vote.
No I am not a Trumpster either. Yes he is doing a lot for our country, and yes Unemployment rates are at an all time low even amongst the Black Population, but I still don't trust No One, but CHRIST.
I do not place my trust in men. But I put all my trust in The Lord.. This wicked world can NOT last much longer! So please, if you haven't done so do according to Acts 2:38 in order to be ready for Christ's Return okay. I am praying for you.
Whose TRUTH? Surely not that prejudice against his own people guy on this video. Please do not be so quick to believe lies and deceit. Listen The Bible says , " he that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the wind." Meaning when you come against your own people, you will lose everything.
It is NOT true that all slaves were sold by Africans to the white man, not even most. But the most slaves were hunted and captured by the white man, and yes there were some Africans who sold their slaves to the white man. But you must remember, those Africans who did this, did not have any idea of the brutality, the inhumane treatment of slaves by the Americans. History has it that The American slave system treatment of slaves were the most BRUTAL of any slave system in the history of the world.
Really, it just seems like the Black people look for more reasons to be against the mow selves. It's like the Blacks may be free physically but they are still enslaved mentally. AN still esteem the white man better than themselves. I see and hear Blacks degrading them own selves and yet bend over backward to please the white man, Love is suppose to be for ALL races. Caring is suppose to be for ALL races. Encourage,ent. Is suppose to be for ALL races.
There is sufficient enough prejudices and bigotry of Blacks in this world, then for Blacks to stomp on their own selves.
JON OLOT Whose TRUTH? Surely not that prejudice against his own people guy on this video. Please do not be so quick to believe lies and deceit. Listen The Bible says , " he that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the wind." Meaning when you come against your own people, you will lose everything.
It is NOT true that all slaves were sold by Africans to the white man, not even most. But the most slaves were hunted and captured by the white man, and yes there were some Africans who sold their slaves to the white man. But you must remember, those Africans who did this, did not have any idea of the brutality, the inhumane treatment of slaves by the Americans. History has it that The American slave system treatment of slaves were the most BRUTAL of any slave system in the history of the world.
Really, it just seems like the Black people look for more reasons to be against the mow selves. It's like the Blacks may be free physically but they are still enslaved mentally. AN still esteem the white man better than themselves. I see and hear Blacks degrading them own selves and yet bend over backward to please the white man, Love is suppose to be for ALL races. Caring is suppose to be for ALL races. Encourage,ent. Is suppose to be for ALL races.
There is sufficient enough prejudices and bigotry of Blacks in this world, then for Blacks to stomp on their own selves.
@@steadfastunmoveable9751 You just lost me with that bull shit "Christ" nonsense.
You wrote all that amazing info then turned around and destroyed yourself with this slave master Jesus Christ bull shit. I think that you should get back on board those "Jesus" slave ships and surrender to your white Slave Massa.
At the end of the day for some or most of us, the chains came off the ankles and rist but stayed on the brain
But in all conditioning exercises the mind/psyche is the most affected. So naturally it will be the last to be unfettered.
This is true, but our brain has to be spiritually awaken. We're not so called black, Afro- American, African-American, colored, etc.......... Remember who we really are, the bondage was prophecy, now it is time for our people to really open their eyes.
Are you capable of making a point without having to refer to the wicked past .
The biggest obstacle that most " human beings " have to conquer , is the image that they see every time they look directly into the mirror !!.
The AFRICIANS are also suffering psychological damage. In MOST cases, AFRICIANS are WORST.
@Brother Jake's Konservative Evolution - The biggest obstacle that most human beings have to conquer , is the image that they see every time that they look directly into the mirror .
My Parents always said it's about the rich vs the poor, thank you Dr. Gates for bringing this out......
That's just class. It's class and race in the US.... obviously. A 20 to 1 racial wealth gap is evident of this.
Historical truth....the truth is not always sweet..
It's true but the term "Africans" is misleading. It makes it sounds like NIgerians selling Nigerians, which wasn't the case. There's over 50 countries in Africa, with different languages, religions and cultures. A NIgerian and a Keyan wouldn't consider themselves to be the same. But "Africans selling Africans" insinuates that they are the same. We never say Europeans fighting Europeans. Instead we'd say Ireland fighting Germany for example.
@@waleed3103 Tribes conquered tribes and sold them for profit...it's been going on since man has been on the planet..
@Tubu Ba Duh?
@@roderickshelton1011 The point is there didn't exist Pan Africanism during those times. Same as some Europeans were not considered white until quite recently. Even a country like Nigeria is a recent occurrence as you had various Kingdoms like Benin, Ife and Nri. It's the modern day hypocrisy of lumping all Africans or black people as just one monolithic culture. And not respecting that there is diversity like anywhere else in the world.
@@WilliamGarrow The English done the same to the Irish..
Thank you Dr. Gates. Keep on keeping on.
you are a fool. Read before you believe all Mr Gates is telling you.
cloudsnatcher5015 thanks for what? How does this help ? So what now will you do with this information? Will it better you? Will it changed what the Caucasians did to the slaves they captured or purchased? The FACT remains that the American slave system is recorded as being the MOST BRUTAL slave system in history.
Don't lose your focus, it's just a smokescreen , he's sending up to take the blame off of the real perpitraders. Really the most slaves were not sold by Africans but were hunted and captured by Caucasians. And the Africans that did sell them some slaves, had no idea the type of etrocities that the slaves were about to encounter. Because slavery in Africa was more like an indentured servant. They did not treat the, as animals, as did the Americans.
Please remember what the Bible says " he that troubleth his own house , shall inherit the wind." All this guy in this video is doing is trying to turn the Blacks against the fellow brethren in Africa. This contorted information does NOT help us in Amy way.
darkeagle the Real question is , WHY does he want to lie on his own ancestors? Is he not doing the same thing he claimed that the Africans did? Is NOT he selling the Blacks mentality for money?
@@steadfastunmoveable9751 - Although I have never really sat down and studied the wicked institution , what you are saying seems to make logical sense .
How long did it take the Africans to know about the torture that the Europeans were administering to those slaves ??.
WISHBONEL7 Actually, I am acquainted with a lot of Africans. And until they came to America, them nor their ancestors had no idea, of the Brutality and dehumanization of The American Slave system.
I believe Prof Gates, please keep teaching, the world needs to be told the TRUTH.
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"The truth shall set you free"
I watched his entire documentary and it was fascinating.
Dr Gates is so spot on. Hes a hero.
Just love black people
The most informative argument I have heard in a long time
25 people dislike truth when it's inconvenient.
"Race is not the most important thing that divides us. It is class. It is always about the money."
The guy is the best! It would be an honor to meet him.
I don't think there is an educated person in America who hasn't been called an "Uncle Tom."
cmbsoldja About half of them are though. Education level has nothing to do with who you serve.
There are RUclips commenters who are though... 💁♂
A fantastic discussion. It's now and has been all about economic class! Thanks for your insights! May you be blessed.
First conversation any intelligent man would want to have is why are we continuing to be denationalized by this government
It's not the government. It's the Demoncat Party who you have to sever ties with or it will never stop...
Everything he mentioned is factual. I took a class back in the late 80's where that information was presented. Please read the latest edition "From Slavery to Freedom" by John Hope Franklin. That was the book used for class, it is a must see for any intellectual mind.
The Engineer let's just pretend it is factual, now what? What does it change? It was not the African tribes who brutalized , raped, murdered, hanged, dismembered, dehumanized, and decimated our ancestors. But it was the People of The A,Erica slave system . So now it's okay and you have to help the character in this video to do what? To join in with other races in degrading your own people with lies?
Haat Praat you have been severely deceived. The African who did sell the slaves to the Europeans, had no idea, of the type of slave system they were selling them into. The American Slave system is down in history as the most brutal, in humane type of slavery in the history of the world. Please do your own research before devouring lies from folk who are prejudice against their own kind.
Listen even until today, most African nations still have no idea of the Brutality and in humane treatment the African slaves experienced at the hands of Europeans
. I am acquainted with a lot of Africans from different countries in Africa. And they said they nor their relatives , as well as ancestors, had NO IDEA, of how terrible the slaves were treated. You see the type of slavery in Africa, was not really slavery. It was more of an indentured servant , whereas the people were paid in some form. Today's Africans have said until they came to America and took Black history classes, they had no idea what so ever,
You must remember during the time of the American slavery system, there were no telephones, are airplanes , or internet, or social medias. News only got around by word of mouth, within a certain vicinity. There was no way for the Africans to know.
Great book!
@@steadfastunmoveable9751 You are an idiot of the highest order. To mildly explain African expediency as mere ignorance of understanding the scope of slavery is the most degrading and idiotic notion I have ever heard of. You are an idiot!
@@steadfastunmoveable9751 I am a decendant of Slaves that were brought to the Caribbean from Africa. I understand what you are saying but there is no way those people were to take people against their will. That is what was even worse than what the Slave Traders did. Your own is suppose to ride and die for you not join with someone against you no matter how simple you think it would be. We in the Caribbean understand that if it was not for our own being Scouta and showing them how to get to us and capturing us like animals for the Slave Traders, the Slave Trade would have never happened. Slavery is supposedly long gone but even now we still have the same mentality. We are divided and cannot come together compared to other races and to this day the man with the smooth hair and lighter skin still view us as inferior. You know why...because we did not value our own people. No other race has ever done what we did to our own kind so explain to our young children when they ask how we were enslaved and tell them that our own people did not know that we would have been treated so badly. If that was the case should it not have been a choice?
The Engineer No doubt taught by Caucasians, or from Caucasians literature, that’s where John Hope Franklin got his information from. Really, John is not even able to trace his own ancestry, so how will he know what happened over 400 years ago. All these modern day books and classes taught by blacks and written by black authors, ALL get their information from Caucasians. It seems that a lot of Blacks are still enslaved by Caucasians in their mind! The Bible says “ he that trouble the his own house, shall inherit the wind.”
My first time watching this. Thanks Henry L Gates. I watch finding your roots.
Dr. Gates!❤️
Love this man
I was about to write that.
The truth is the truth, learn from it, don’t deny it don’t cover it up LEARN FROM IT.
Henry Louis Gates' approach to black culture needs to be shouted from the rooftops. He talks about black achievement in a way that is not off-putting and downright insulting as what comes out of the mouths of black conservatives like Glenn Loury or John McWhorter. Of course during Prof. Gates' college days there had to be those same competing ideas of blackness. Ultimately, each of these movements desires to better the situation for black americans but, regardless of the era, they seem to keep talking past each other instead of focusing on what they share in common. Such is the way of our species. I mostly agree with progressive politics but I also don't like hearing about "acting white". On these points I'm more in line with how Gates talks about it vs those loud-mouth black conservatives. Thank you Prof. Gates!
we must learn from our history, and reflect on the present to make our futures better.... the mind is the gateway to see ones outlook on its own bondage.
Objection::: Counselor is leading the wittiness . Let Dr Gates... speak. Intervener, stop leading the conversation.
Amen!!!
What y'all don't realize is before Europeans invaded Africa the people on the continent were tribal, so it makes sense when you hear they sold their enemies to Europeans.
Exactly. There was no such thing as "Africans." Either you're from my tribe or you're not. They're trying to apply 21st century ideology to the 17th century.
Who's not “tribal”? Literally every race were divided into groups and engaged in wars. The problem is Europeans are trying to rewrite history and act as if they would've just left black people alone if they asked, and that's not what happened. Europeans were gonna invade Africa anyway whether black people sold pow's or not because they wanted diamonds and gold etc. Same reasons they invaded China and India, and then North America.
@@midnighteye2737 Just look at what King Leopold did to the people in the Congo where he killed over 15 million people so yes you're correct
@@waleed3103 No, they're applying historical facts to an argument between two sides that both accept Enlightenment ideology.
So all.so called black people are from Africa
I don't disagree with everything he says but his disrespect of the Black Panthers is typical of stuck up black professionals. They would never support feeding poor children unless their white bosses told them it was ok.
They didn't support the free clinics that opened every where the Panthers had a chapter. Black professionals right now don't have any belief in black people who are not professional. But a white jew can and does, jew sports agents& jew record company executives. Two huge industries that we produce for but don't control either one.
I'm no fan of Gates because he, like Bill, like Oprah, and so many other Black elites, only cried racism when it knocked directly on his door (pun intended for Gates!). But, I didn't hear him "disrespect" the Panthers. He merely listed them among multiple groups that pushed a distinct ideology. He didn't put them down. As for Jewish sports agents and record exec.s: I wouldn't dare say that they have a greater 'belief' in black athletes or entertainers. They just have more capital. How they got that capital is the other side of the story.
@Shytown Provoked which makes you wonder... why do black panthers or black anybody have to support free clinics? Why cant these various black supremacist/victimization groups support business ownership and black people being responsible for their own health so they dont need the clinic, like stop drinking the grape drink and the fried food (exaggerated example)? Black professionals are the biggest group of folks doing something positive in minority communities, if not in action/donation than in character and aura.
The black panthers that had leaders who were rapists and colorists?
You were listening with your emotions and not your ears. He never disrespected the black Panthers. He simply stated that they were one of many black conscious groups that were insisting that their version of blackness is the only true concept. What he should have pointed thereafter is the hundreds of varieties of blackness that exists in the home of blackness, Mother Africa.
When he said three different groups of black people were suggesting how to be black he added with emphasis that they all had different ways and definition of being black. What I noticed is he had three different groups talking to him about the same thing.
It does not matter who sold who the point is how we were treated as slaves and that was the problem in this country.
And a white man ended slavery a long time ago. And too many ignants act like they were there.
@Snaggle Toothed dumbass, ignant is slang and refers to ignorant blck pple. foh
And white people invented racism, the KKK, and Jim Crow.
@@MsDesiree39 Whites did NOT end slavery.
@@MsDesiree39 A white man didn't end slavery because he was concerned about slaves..The abolition movement was a multi racial movement. Their were many factors in the end of slavery.
The Jeffersons dealt with the subject back in the 70s shame on people who are not willing to embrace their past. Preach my brotha
Gates has spent most of his adult life fighting the bigotry of racial profiling, which is a noble endeavor. HOWEVER ... when a policeman WHO WAS RESPONDING TO A POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ALERT ... ORIGINATING FROM A NEIGHBOR'S CALL TO THE POLICE ... CONFRONTED GATES WHO WAS HAVING TROUBLE GETTING INTO HIS OWN HOME LOCATED IN AN EXCLUSIVE GEORGETOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ... Gates went into TOTAL racial profiling mode, was uncooperative with the officer, and became so belligerent that he was ARRESTED for disturbing the peace. In this "perfect storm" of Gates perceiving racial profiling when there was none ... ZERO!!! ... (the officer was responding to a potentially dangerous break-in!), Gates blew a lifetime of good work out the window. The officer was only doing his job but ALL Gates could "see" was his perception of being racially profiled by a white cop in an affluent white neighborhood. Gates' buddy, Barack Obama, was quoted soon afterwards saying "Sometimes the police act stupidly!" (what do you think the nationwide police, both black and white, male and female, thought of Obama's comment on the whole fiasco ... BROUGHT ON ENTIRELY BY GATES!!!!!!!!!!!)
@@sas6561 one as a Jewish man with pale to olive skintone. It's the 21st century and I am sure what angered him more was the situation. As I and any other person would be mad. We shouldn't have to be automatically held in suspicion based on skintone. If you know his history Dr. Gates is from West Virginia. Yet he is profiled in one of the most racist liberal cities in the country. While in what many call a backwards state he didn't experience such ignorance.
@@sas6561 the police are human beings. Guess what that means they aren't God, Jesus, or Mary. So they can make mistakes. They can accuse the wrong people or handle situations poorly. That's reality and when people recognize this on both sides we won't have discussions like this.
@@sas6561 his situation was brought on by his ignorant neighbor.
@@AnniceMichelle ... Gates was not profiled by the police in Georgetown! ... The cop was responding to a possible break in called in by a neighbor. The cop was just doing his job but Gates did not cooperate. From the cop's point of view, the situation was potentially dangerous. Had Gates been compliant in the first place, he would have seen WHY the cop had to confront him at his front door. The cop did NOT profile Gates ... the neighbor who called in the "burglary"is the profiling bigot, but Gates' over the top reaction, and Obama's "sometimes the police act stupidly" comment, are the real idiots in this Shakespeare tragedy!!!
As an African I know that slavery existed among Africans, and that’s because race didn’t exist. Little kingdoms existed throughout the continent and if one kingdom won in a war they considered their rivals as slaves. They made them pay taxes, made them work for free and it was based on ethnicity ( family last names) nothing more. The Europeans too did the same against each other. But they invented race to keep Africans slave for their profits. Early African kings ruled like any European king would, they only cared about themselves so they realized white people saw everyone as slave based on skin color when it was too late. They didn’t treat their slaves as animals, they married the women and the children were legitimate and inherited lands. Even today in Africa people still see themselves as different based on ethnics and joke about being better than other tribes and call each other slaves based on past power.
We Must Become One Tribe, United We Stand, Divided We Always Fall. Europeans and Asians Stick Together.
I love Dr Gates
He speaks so much truth .
I like this professor very much
Nonsense ! both my partner and I are well educated both from the perspectives of formal and informal education. It has never worked for us in this country. I am friends who are similarly endowed with Doctorate degrees who have chosen to take the high road of not bowing down in order to receive. I close my discussion here for now.
Iam older black,who was educated by Roman Catholic Nuns & religious brothers.This catholic education taught me to use my mind to think positively about myself.At my high school MT.ST.JOSEPH'S HIGH i had to fight bigoted white classmates.The vice principal sat me down in his office and talked to me.i said:you have proved to be a good student.use your mind to fight against the racism.
Good values should not be about race or class. Everyone should grow up learning good values.
While I agree with dr. Gates when he talks about Africans selling Africans into slavery I believe it is also true that slavery was a business in the African region before it came to Europe and America it's so what they new slavery to be and what these people they had enslaved will grow to be were two different ideologies
Karyn Kalu Chattel slavery wasn’t even thought of In Saharan Africa until Euro merchants came to trade and slither their way to African political affairs....Now if you’re talking about the Arab slave trade then yeah.
It is unfortunate how some can't deal with the truth, even when it opens old wounds
Fantastic! Magnificent insite to Africa and African American history, thank you Dr. Gates and God bless
Professor Gates is marvelous and wise! To the interviewer, he would never call someone a sell out. Dumb term to demean your race!!! No sir.
As an African in Africa, the slave trade is seen as shameful. It generally viewed as we sold each other into slavery. It's akin to living with an uncle who is a paedophile, with the fact kept a secret and nobody talking about it.
Preach Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. 👏👏👏👏👏
Gates is disingenuous, and his historical integrity is questionable. He been caught changing history for celebrities to exclude their families from being slave owners. He recently made a series about Reconstruction, but isn't it odd he didn't make a series on the Jim Crow era that followed? Most of all this man LOVE telling anyone that will listen to him that he's 50% white. He's full of it.
How many ways are there to be white, Dd Gates?
now you know what a educated fool sounds like.
Amen and TRUTH!
Respect.
This is the best ever
Gates is a genuine historian. Very honest. Says things that many American blacks don’t want to hear.
Harvard University and Cambridge University speaks for itself. You had millions of people in Africa, and some of them did not care if slavery in the Americas was different than in Africa. Dr. Gates is a Professor at Harvard, and he attended Cambridge University. That means a lot. Even if they knew that there might be different slavery, the African kings wanted compensation, regardless.
I read the article in the New York Times. Excellent. Very true.
Dr John Henrik Clarke said u can never trust A black educator that learns his history then refines it to get accepted by his oppressors. I did agree with some of dr gates studies.i listen with an attentive ear.
Skip the truth Gates (In my Dr. Ben voice)
Read from various sources. Do your own research. Buy books. I used to think similarly. I respect Dr. Ben. The more I bought either, the more I appreciated the University Press.
This was brilliant.
The last few minutes of this interview reveals Professor Gates' brilliance. Classism has been wrapped up in racial and religious discrimination in this nation since the first Europeans set foot on these shores.
I love you Dr. Gates!
Once the African recognize what the white man was up to it started a 200 year war.... tell him to talk about shaka Zulu position on British and the battle of adwa in Ethiopia. Tell the whole truth.
Battle of Adwa was Emperor Menelik 2 vs Italians
@@vincentcheatham1844 correct, my point is you had certain rulers who recognized the white man as the enemy......even before then when the Jesuit priest tried come to Ethiopia change thier theology, they behead the Jesuit priest in the street.
Thank you sir. Bless you.
@Larry Finney True bruh! Shaka butchered alot of zulu needlessly n his quest for ultimate power n the only good thing of his legacy is that atleast the empire he left was able to put up some resistance to European invasion. What u think bruh?
@Larry Finney Shaka was living in 17 century, how do you explain today's BLACK on BLACK bang bang and modified weapons for effective killing in US cities. Seriously today we know more and analyse better, but there's South side.
love love love love love the truth he speaks
I agree,tell it.Peace
There's always been groups of people who have subjugated other groups throughout history. What makes our situation so unique is that we as Blacks attempt to communal with the same group who subjugate us in the hopes that they will one day grow to love us as they do their own. Its a form of insanity unseen anyplace else in the world! We are no doubt a unique group of people.
Girl speak for yourself
@@mic6434 She speaks truth.
7:00 That hits hard.
I agree with Mr. Gates. Respect.
Awesome interview!
Henry Louis Gates is an icon!!!😍
i am fro the uk and i really appreciate the unfo
It’s crazy how much the public debate has changed in the last four years…this would be considered very problematic today
I applaud this HONESTY and Speaking Out on the TRUTH...this gentleman is a True Scholar! As an American Indigenous Woman who has done extensive research on “who” I am. 🤔🙇🏻♀️🙏🏽🔍🔑💪🏽🇺🇸
I certainly agree with the Race Differential as Economic Status has definitely changed the Natives Outlook Politically and Socially. 🏃🏻♀️💎✊🏽🕊👩🏻💻
The only thing is, he should have Stated "some Africans" NOT all. However, the majority was not involved!
I think its obvious not all, however it was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more than folks think
ive been misinformed about gates. he truly has a grip on what it takes to be successful in America, whether white or black.
What was your opinion about him prior to watching this video ? .
This country has to get better not by pointing the finger but by getting the Education necessary to help change things.........
Also Many New England Familes became wealthy as a result of financing the ships that were so crucial to the slave trade. This is a fact. TRUTH IS TRUTH. African made money as did others during the slave trade.
Skip is the first scholar that spoke about Blacks in Mexico. That was years ago. Should have been discussed in my primary school when we taught in our California school that the Spanish were the only culture to mix with the Mexicans and Indians in Mexico.
Blacks in California during the 1950s and '60s knew something was unusual because many of the Mexicans we played with and knew as young people were as dark as we were. Happy that Skip laid the truth out in his PBS specials. I really like and respect the Professor. I hope he continues to do what he does, with educating those of us that want the knowledge, irregardless of stupid a$$ folks. have to say about it
Well said and thank you!
Jeannette Duette Whose TRUTH? Surely not that prejudice against his own people guy on this video. Please do not be so quick to believe lies and deceit. Listen The Bible says , " he that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the wind." Meaning when you come against your own people, you will lose everything.
Now what will it profit us to research and to know whether some Africans made money off of slavery? What will this change? Nothing! It still doesn't make it right for the way the Caucasians brutalized raped, tortured, dismembered, hung, burned, the Blacks.
It is NOT true that all slaves were sold by Africans to the white man, not even most. But the most slaves were hunted and captured by the white man, and yes there were some Africans who sold their slaves to the white man.But you must remember, those Africans who did this, did not have any idea of the brutality, the inhumane treatment of slaves by the Americans. History has it that The American slave system treatment of slaves were the most BRUTAL of any slave system in the history of the world.
Really, it just seems like the Black people look for more reasons to be against the ownselves. It's like the Blacks may be free physically but they are still enslaved mentally. And still esteem the white man better than themselves. That's mental slavery! I see and hear Blacks degrading them own selves and yet bend over backward to please the white man, Love is suppose to be for ALL races. Caring is suppose to be for ALL races. Encourage,ent. Is suppose to be for ALL races.
There is sufficient enough prejudices and bigotry of Blacks in this world, then for Blacks to stomp on their own selves.
True and there were some mixed race and freed blacks who owned slaves in the diaspora and were cruel (maybe not as evil as whites though) on the plantations. It was (sadly) the times. However, like the early Amerindians(/Native Americans) we didn't realise what European (and Arabian) slavery was when our leaders and soldiers sold people to them. Slaves in Sub-Saharan Africa could become royalty and nobility. We didn't realise they would be dehumanised. Plus the average person suffered from slavery and didn't enjoy it.
Jeannette Duette -and those are the same people that shot down the south.Liberals have always been the same.Sanctimonious ,pompous and totally fake.
Good story and a good man!!!
Wow… I’m Glad I decided to search Mr. Gates today
Education was known an equator, but there are some who would rather be ignorant because that is considered cool
Theory of Relativity, we're all related.
Lee Hawkins is the most handsome man alive. What I wouldn't give for those eyebrows!
these men don't realize that you cannot trace your family lineage calling yourself black or African-American these are not nationalities or family names
It's not about Africans selling other Africans. It's about slavery as a servitude such as a maid or indebted to a tribe for losing a war or being captured, vs the inhumane, sexually perverted, no morality, system of slavery that wars were raged on to keep, laws were made to obstruct justice, brutality was used and still is use to enforce, and morality was denied, in the West ( US, South America, etc..) even Native Americans owed slaves and African American slaves at that, but they had slaves with humanity that they adopted into their tribes, this is the difference between Africans selling African slaves to Europeans. What the Europeans turned slavery into when they reached their destination was not what they experienced as slaves to Africans. I like Mr.Gates, but there must be a complete understanding of the ignorance the majority of African Slave traders or sellers had. They had no idea nor way of knowing what was happening in this country, maybe it wouldn't have mattered if they did, but the fact is they didn't for centuries it's not like many slaves returned back to Africa to tell their stories. Lastly Whites sold Whites into slavery too, it has happened in all races, let's put out the whole truths, and not the obstructed version. I honestly feel when people repeat this stuff it's to appease Whites feelings or lack of accountability about slavery in the West, its an Agenda. The Germans as a country feel remorse about the Holocaust but America can find some consolation that a few Africans sold each other into captivity that didn't understand the severity, and cruelty of it. Foul!
Christal Wings the issue is they sold us.
@@TheJosiahrosette The issue is how they (Caucasians)treated us.
@@christalwings4649 - correct, the issue is they didnt have to buy us and they didnt have to treat them that way for centuries later
@@TheJosiahrosette - if a pimp sells a little girl to you, do you take her? No! Of course not! You dont say, "well, he sold her to me.." This "blame black people because they sold them" argument has been a way to assuage white guilt for years and this guy has been pushing it for racist to use against black people.
EcClair Mayo if they didn’t capture and sell us, we would be over here. No one is absolving Europeans for their role, but as an ADOS I’m not absolving the Africans either. They played a part too and should answer fo it as well.
I never thought I would agree with a Harvard professor but it appears hell has frozen over today as I do here. Well put and well said Dr. Gates! My name comes from England but I do not consider myself an English -American but just an American. I also do not think of myself as a white-man but just a man. I don’t think we will make true social progress until we finally eliminate the hyphens that we identify and separate ourselves by. We also have to come to terms with realizing that just because someone who doesn’t agree with your values, or what you say, isn’t necessarily a “racist” - a term used way too much these days for anyone not seeming to agree with the NAACP. My values stress hard work, honesty, compassion, civility, respect for others, tolerance, love of family and individual responsibility and accountability. I don’t think of these are white, or any other color, values. I think they are American values. As much as it may surprise the NAACP I don’t vote with other whites just because they are white. I vote based on my own personal values and conscience, and I expect others do as well - regardless of skin color. I am a retired U.S. Army senior NCO and I still remember a very senior officer I worked for many years ago, COL Alan R. Jones, who taught me a lot and embodied all the American values I mentioned above. He just happened to be black but to me he was a superlative man and leader who I will never forget. It is time for the NAACP to quit living in the past and stop promoting a culture of the victim. They also need to focus on stopping the destruction of the black family which has led to many problems in our society. Thanks for the great interview and your thoughts!
R.A. Dalton R.A. Dalton he didn’t really say anything that you just said, so I’m curious what part you agree with? He did say that the white working-class has been baited in this country to continue to perpetuate racism, and then elaborated on enduring class struggles and their connection to race. Is that what you agree with?
R.A. Dalton It sounds like you were pleasantly surprised to find that traditional black values are a far cry from what you’ve elsewhere encountered in the media. It may surprise you, though, the degree to which the traditional black family has been excluded from benefits that other Americans have taken for granted for generations. Decent housing, fair lending, and ample school funding have been elusive for Black families due to state and federal laws and policies whose effects are still impactful today. Your pointing a finger at the NAACP (which has lost much of its caché) as promoting victimhood means you really don’t have a grasp of America’s history of avoiding legislation that appears to benefit black people.
To Gates’s point, many poor and middle-class whites have sided with the wealthy in disassembling the social safety net because social welfare programs have become associated with black poverty and entitlement, when the truth is the great majority of social welfare benefits go to poor and middle class whites.
Hard work only pays off when there’s no incentive for the person responsible for paying you not to pay you. This, unfortunately, was not the case for most Black Americans for most of American history. Yet, be that as it may, most Black people go to school and have jobs. Sad it takes a Harvard professor to make this point.
I share your values which should be shared by all races, ethnic groups, religious ideologies. It's my pipe dream I realize will never happen, but I will live that way.
This kind of dumb to say you would disagree with someone just because they're a Harvard professor. I would think a Harvard Professor or any Professor will be someone you might want to listen to closely.
We wont make true social progress in america until america makes good on its debt to ADOS
💰 Thank You!
I love H L Gates. He is so intelligent and willing to impart his knowledge in such an interesting manner. He is right up there with MLK. Wish he could be cloned and put in every school, college and university in the U.S.
"I don't have any tolerance for anybody who won't work."
"Yo, gimme a dollar man!"
I hate those worthless individuals who go around
DEMANDING money from
people.
I don't know when black people started saying speaking standard English was talking white. I grew up in the 1950s in the south and never heard that idea. The kids I attended school with worked to be the best they could be and to get the best grades. Being smart was rewarded.
Professor Gates should have included the Jews of the Caribbean Islands and South America who had been expelled from "Christian" and Muslim countries where they were involved in the slave trade and practicing usury as well.
Jews don't want that secret out. They will scream antisemitism, antisemitism! They really don't want to be looked down,so they keep bringing up the holocaust, as if that's the only horrific catastrophe in the story of the world.
@@sc-bj2fs And theseJews keep trying to blame black people for their involved Holocaust. Then they always try to punish you for telling the truth about them and the black slave trade. They will shout you down with this anti - Semite nonsense just to shut you up.
I was called out for blaming-the-victim, especially when I expanded the claim outside the 'African' diaspora .. !
As "the Spaceman" (Bk '72) can affirm, the social dynamics of being black was equally an intra-ethnic issue of expression as it was a social contention in the broader, predominately defined Caucasian environment. How black expression organically existed on campus covered the spectrum than H. 'Skip' Gates stated from the economic, to the political and nationalistic, and cultural, to my own 'Spaceman' iconoclasm.
Mao 's statement of letting 1000 flowers blooming, in contrast to some artificial hybrid of sterile monolithic value, still applies
Why is there 150-200 million blacks in the Americas and Caribbean. Why are ALL of the oldest remains ever found in the Americas those of Black people ?
‘It’s not about race, it’s about class’🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣
It's interesting that this has only received 65,000 views during the 2.5 years after posting.
The work HLG does is useful to deflect from reparations
James Levitt exactly... but some good news, the guy the mentioned in the video, Ronald J. Fryer, just got suspended from Harvard for being too touchy. An enemy of black progress goes down.
Soooo. Comments were turned off about his PBS series on African Civilization. However, when there’s anything denigrating about African History comments are plentiful and open hmmmm
Louis Gates...RAP ON BROTHER!! RAP ON.
For me i don't believe our ancestors sell their own people
I do, however, respect your stand on historical accuracy. I understand that many native Americans believe one of the most racist thing people do is reject the notion that minority persons can do evil or wrong, both personally and as a group or culture.
No one thinks this bonehead.
Truth is tough
I PERSONALLY think a lot BLACK AMERICANS should LISTEN to this and try to UNDERSTAND it . The amongst BLACK AMERICANS and even other AMERICANS for they tried to GIVE the PRECISION there was a BLACK AMERICAN BLOCK VOTE , the TRUTH is it never was there . Most knee and always UNDERSTOOD it . Still though there are those whom always TRIED to SELL this to BLACK AMERICANS and even other AMERICANS . It's TIME to This YOKE off we have WORE it for too many YEARS and there are those who still want BLACK AMERICANS to WEAR it , in my MIND it was more of a DEBTRAMENT they s BENEFIT for led to UNREALISTIC EXSPECTIONS in the POLITICAL PROCESS which could not be in REALITY fore filled though that PROCESS which led in TURN to DISALLUTIMENT with the PROCESS itself. When YOU PROMISE more then YOU can DELIVER with something PEOPLE TURN there BACKS on it and WALK AWAY which is EXACTLY which some want they themselves though do not WALK a at for that GIVES them the CONTROL they want and need those though whom WALKED AWAY have nothing more then LiFE itself . Generally if YOU tell PEOPLE the TRUTH about something the actually REALITY of it they can ACCEPT it and DEAL with it. That's one of the MAJOR REASONS more and VOTER'S IN NATION have TURNED AWAY from the PROCESS. In ESSENSE GIVE Those who know and UNDERSTAND the way PROCESS WORK'S exactly what they want and need ,to use it to there SPECIAL AGENDA over the will of the MAJORITY in this NATION whether they want it or not .
Traditional black values huh?? oh you mean "get a job from the White man, work hard for the white man" they should've been teaching us to work hard for ourselves and open up your own business for yourself and your family... those old traditional values were the problem you ask me
I'm getting tired of talking!
@@funnyman1ization ... Huh???
Henry Louis Gates said: "..there's a stream called anti-semitism, what's that about? religion, (no) class, justified in the name of religion".
But this is a purposely misleading statement. The most outrageous symbol of anti-semitism was Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, and they attacked Jews as a race, not a class or a religion. In fact, the Nazis viewed Poles, Serbs, and Russians as inferior races, because they were not of German lineage. Of course they viewed Blacks and other non-white races as inferior or sub-human as well. Hitler exlicitely expressed these things in Mein Kampf.
Lots of truth here. Even in Africa, our traditions have been scared and some taken. We (Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora)need to come together even if we can get all we lost back to fix the pieces and truly begin to grow and prosper.
You're going to have to give AA some time to get over the fact that you're ancestors sold our ancestors to the tune of 90%.
@@p51424 and a lot of those people were sold too... Most sales came as POWs... What do you think would happen after one side lost a war? The other side came back hard and sold just as much if not more... And the cycle continued for over a millenia (I'm including Trans·saharan slavery as well). Some of your ancestors sold some of your ancestors dear... & I know it's hard to reckon with (I only come from a slave-trade participating tribe on one side and there's still a lot I have to come to terms with too) but I think it's smart to deal with it...
*Plus thank you for making this pop up. I forgot I wrote it and I didn't specify... I mean diaspora that are obviously still connected to the subcontinent and the only people I can think of in North America that fall under that category are Gullah(-Geechee) people... So (sorry) but I don't think it(/my main comment) concerns you...
Africans did play a role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Non-scholars must be educated about how Africans thought of slaves and slavery. It was considered a circumstance of unfortunate events. There is Historical proof of slaves captured in war grew up to be Kings!!!
I wonder if Henry & Bill are distant cousins?!...first watched him when he did ciera's husband's ancestry (forgot his name) & luvv'd it 😁
Start by marrying black, buying black, and supporting black.
Astrong black king displaying culture focus resilience i can keep going love this king Henry Gates jr
We know that the African was involved in his own slave trade. This is a painful fact but what was more painful was the African experience when they were put on those slave ships which the African who were involved in the slave trade didn't know anything about. Today, us African Americans are still suffering from the slave trade and so are our kin folks in Africa. Africans need to come together and work together to forge an unyielding bond to ensure that we become a mighty people again and this time we do not allow any other group of people to break our bond ever again.
I'm a black Jamaican and I want nothing at all to do with Africa. My people are blacks in the Americas and blacks here in Europe who have deep roots in the Americas, not Africans. If the Africans considered us as their people, they would never have sold us into 400 years of slavery.
@@haatpraat2993 Sorry you feel that way. However, your roots are in Africa. Without Africa, there would be no you. Also, most of your family is still in Africa.
Only a few of your family members came over on the slave ships. So to not to have anything to do with "those Africans" mean you destroy your connection to your African roots and therefore to where you come from.
Also, it wasn't those Africans that sold you into slavery. It was a tiny few Africans that sold you into slavery not the whole continent. You can shut off your past if you want but if you do, I feel sorry for you.
@@jesusneverexisted300 It will never be a case of 'destroying' my African roots. I will always be connected to Africa - whether I like it or not. A
DNA test put me at 97% west African heritage and yes even in the birthplace of my parents, Jamaica, people often mistake me for being African. If you go back far enough, every person on earth has more family in Africa or who have lived in Africa than anywhere else on the planet. Africa is the birth place of mankind. So, to me your point of having more family in Africa is completely irrelevant. It is not as if I am going to catch a plane to Ebola and Aids infected
Sierra Leone (where I'm almost 100% sure my family are from) and lookup 'family' we have been separated from for over 200 years, during of course lulls in civil war or some kind
nonsensical outbreak of communal violence involving the almost obligatory and zealous use of machetes. My family are here in the west stretching from The Netherlands where I live, through to Cuba, Haiti, Cayman Islands and course Jamaica, where my parents were born, to New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, North Carolina, to Los Angeles, California and back over to Toronto, Canada. Further, your comment of only a 'few' Africans participated in hunting down and selling their own people and their neighbours for guns, rum, cloth and other worthless whatnots is also quite bizarre, distasteful and mind dumbly irrelevant. Those 'few' came from cultures and societies that gave them the moral compass to sell 20 million plus people into slavery, with estimates suggesting the amount of people who died before being herded on to slave ships as multiples of that. Further, there is no reason for you to feel sorry for me about. I'm happy with my life, a life where I live in arguably the most tolerant society on earth, a life where the quality of my life is light years ahead of anything that I would get in Africa and a life where I see my family all over the west doing well for themselves.
@@haatpraat2993@ I suggest you study the history. Gates is not a historian and is very simplistic in his research. By the way Africa is born in you.
@@bAkra60 Gates could be the man in the moon for all I care. Whether he is an historian or not is irrelevant. He spoke the truth that we, descendants of victims of the Trans Atlantic Slave dare not mention - We were hunted down, captured and sold into generations of inhumanity because Africans liked European guns, Africans liked European rum, whisky and other worthless whatnots. My ancestors were probably herded on to that stinking, smelly slave ship while local Africans watched as they got drunk. I never once denied I was not of African descent. In fact I look African, unlike most US blacks. According to a DNA test I am 97% west African heritage, 3% unknown. My parents are from rural Jamaica. I normally live in The Netherlands, but currently I have an IT contract in London, UK. Two days ago I bought a badge/pin of the Jamaican flag. I wear it all the time because I am sick of Africans in London coming up to me and asking me where I am from, expecting me to African. Another good thing about the badge is that I am getting lots of big ups from Caribbean people here. I like this.