The problem: In most urban Black communities an educated successful black person is seen, at best, as an exception rather than an example. At worst he/she is considered a sell out or acting white.
I’m on the west side of Chicago. Lake and N. western to be more specific. I can tell you that between the city being run by Democrats for 80 years ( yes literally run with a Democrat mayor for almost a century). The city also has had a super majority of Democrats in the local government for almost as long. Democrats are not the only problem. Gangster rap destroys black communities also. Money, hoes , bling, etc is held up as gospel. I tell all these young bucks education is the key. Being 62 years old I’ve seen a lot of bs here in Chicago
@@dougyankunas3104 Yes. Being from the west side also. Central and Augustus. I've seen all that you name destroy the Austin Community and keep the minds of the people from taking any form of responsibility.
You nailed it. My best friend in high school ended up getting a full ride scholarship to a fancy well known private college, and he took shit from his own community for being "too white". Even some in his own family were snarky about it.
@@LividImp: When I graduated junior college with an AGS and an AAS no one in my family showed up. When I got my BA only my dad came. When my cousin paroled out of prison, the family threw a party in Garfield park and dozens went. Hell, some of them went to court when he was sentenced and cried for a gang banging armed robber. The media and activist talk about racism and white supremacist. A KKK guy ain't never chased me home from school or stole my car or mugged me on the green line.
@@c20995 That's fucked up. That's not the first time I've heard that either. At least my friend's mom and grandma were there for him. Shit's slowly changing though. I don't see that same rejection of education or "whiteness" that I used to see, or at least it's not as bad as it was. Now you see black folk on skateboards and riding choppers, listening to heavy metal and country. That shit was unheard of in the 80s and 90s. "A KKK guy ain't never chased me home from school or stole my car or mugged me on the green line." Same here. Except in my case it was a Latino gang in my area that would torment me. White bangers were so rare where I grew up I never even gave them a thought. The worst assholes are always whoever is the big dog in the area, it doesn't matter the race. But now with all these mosque and synagogue shootings, I've been teaching my boys to watch out for peckerwoods too. Humans are just pricks, and race has a lot less to do with it than certain people claim.
To some people, this man is like a unicorn: a college professor of humanities talks about the harm done by the de facto censorship imposed on discussions of racism in the US. Look at him. Calm, thoughtful, polite. May he influence his students to be more like him!
Is that really our problem though? That some idiot doesn't have a platform to mask rich scam artists from people and point the blame at someone else? Face it babe, if it isn't the "alt left" and "alt right" it's always something else, as long as it isn't holding people responsible for managing our fucking tax dollars.
@@waleuska BLM is the joke. If they wanted to be something, they would not single out Blacks as mattering. They would be called Our lives matter. Gun control is another joke. You think those inner city kids go to walmart and buy their guns? Ask any of them convicted for shooting someone. They buy their guns from other people and most of them are stolen. What the main difference between the races that I see is that for whatever reason, black men are in general, not great at being dads. You know it's true. Maybe it's because the welfare system will pay if there is no man around to be responsible for his own kids. Maybe it's because he never had a dad around either so he doesn't know what it means to be a man. It's people just like you who mock a successful black man, who sees through the crap, that perpetuate the idea that if you are smart and well spoken, you ain't black enough.
It was a good comparison, but why didn't you/we know it all along? It's the Secular Humanist's version of Catholicism. Maybe you knew it all along, but you never took the time to let it sink in until the words bubbled up and you could express it audibly. People go marching for miles without asking where they are headed.
I don't know if you've heard of Christopher Hitchens but this sort of thing was what Hitchens had in mind when he said that "religion poisons everything". It is the religious way of thinking that is the problem. There are a lot of his videos on RUclips. You should check them out - and I highly recommend his books (Especially, "God is Not Great"). Also, check out anything by Richard Dawkins.
@@mosienko1983 Atheism, as a religion, is also a poison, especially when it doesn't admit its religiosity (as when atheists steal the definition of "agnostic" to get away from the burden of proof when arguing with Christians. They like to say they simply _lack a belief_ rather than they they are making a truth-claim). Atheism provides no basis for objective morality (as in, nothing is actually wrong it's just your opinion and preference that you dislike a certain action e.g. murder). So it's funny that evangelical atheists write books judging God when they have no basis for morality. You can go check out a wide variety of arguments and evidences. See also, that in philosophy there's been a resurgence, and growing sureness, that a God must exist. See also, nature: The creation cannot create itself (yet atheists insist on this). Nothing cannot create something, and you know that idea that "with a law like gravity the universe can and will create itself"? Well the law of gravity also didn't exist because literally nothing existed, not natural laws, not space nor matter nor time nor energy: Something created the universe, and fyi for thousands of years Genesis 1:1 has attested to the beginning of the universe - and that wasn't a common idea; people used to think the world was eternal. There is absolute/objective truth. [The statement "there is no absolute truth" is an absolute statement and thus if true it says it cannot be true, so it self-refutes... and this is post-modernism's main crux, that there are no metanarratives.] So since there is absolute truth, and by the way there is an objective moral law too, I think you should consider the following. Have you ever lied? Have you ever stolen anything? Have you ever looked at someone and lusted after them, committing adultery wit them in your heart? Have you ever blasphemed God or used His name in vain? Have you ever envied what someone else had? Those are all sins, and part of the commandments at Exodus 20. The reason it's brought up is because we look at one another, we say "I'm better than that person there" because we do comparisons rather than pure assessments individually. If you've done another of those things (theft, lying, lusting, swearing, etc.) then you've failed to *love your fellow man to your utmost, to perfection.* Everyone fails on this regard, which is why Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was sent by His Father into our world: Not to condemn us, but to save us, because we ALL stand condemned. (John 3:15-19) If you believe on Him you will be saved, but you should know what you're believing in. The Gospel of John is good reading; Get to know the God of Love, the God who is Moral, the God whose ways are higher than our own; The God of mercy, grace, and goodness. God is glorious, awesome, and good. Only God is good. You are not good, I am not good, because we have the ugly imperfections of sin, and we know what sin is, because God gave us a conscience to know better. Read the Bible for yourself, perhaps even try to pray, but I tell you this: There are atheists who, in trying to disprove the Bible, actually study it, and become Christians. Sin is the disease, salvation is the cure: If you don't know that you are a sinner, you won't want to be saved from your sins, but if you listen to the conscience in your head, which on its own is enough to convict you as guilty of sin, you will realize just how many times you choose to do the wrong thing when you know that the right thing is love. PS: ruclips.net/video/I7_92sjUcOI/видео.html
@@silversilk8438 You know, I used to reply to morons like you but it really is a waste of my time. Open your mind, and read something useful. But don't bother me.
@@mosienko1983 Have a nice day, Annie Mosienko! :) God loves you which is why he gave you a way that you won't have to die for your sins. Believe on His Son and you will be saved. It's not an impossible ask, that he asks that you love your neighbor and love the One who created you. But I must respectfully disagree with your address of me. When God says "you are wonderfully and fearfully made" and says that he has numbered the hairs on our heads, and that we are worth more than many sparrows, then I think that for one pot to say to another pot a judgement not held by the potter is inappropriate behaviour. If God loves me, and God loves you, we should love one another rather than be so bitter. I hope you will have a really lovely and beautiful day, looking at life with fresh eyes and seeing just how perfectly wonderful it is to be in the moment you're living in, because even the bad moments, looking back, made you stronger like iron tempered by fire and ice. I hope for you that God will work in your heart and give you faith, and give you understanding, but more importantly, give you peace unlike the peace this world offers (which is so conditional and fading) and love to love others with which you never knew you could love with. (as opposed to the conditional and self-serving affection that one might have for someone to the extent that the other person is being kind back to them) Oh, and I'd love if it you enjoyed this video: ruclips.net/video/OWjR8C8bKhQ/видео.html Also, this is a really new/fresh channel, with only about five videos on it now, but it's very brilliant and enjoyable too: ruclips.net/channel/UCmIwZDSKSeNboqWKtgX7UrA I hope you come to know our Lord Jesus Christ! _The truth is true even if no one believes it, and a lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it: Truth is objective, but you actually have no basis for objective morality without an external source. There are some brilliant arguments... for instance there's a recent one I'll post link to now_ Much love. Cool argument: ruclips.net/video/ZD92WaNjJF8/видео.html
Nothing complicated about this unfortunately what he's leaving out is the lack of accountability by our elected officials who have failed to reconcile past racial injustices(Black Wall street for instance) which help to foster the current climate of race pandering.
@@ROYALP100 , do you know that so-called black wallstreet was simply a prosperous black neighborhood? It had nothing in common with the real wall street.
Lol. Is it so rare to find an articulate black man that it's so often pointed out when one is well-spoken? Judging by many sports stars and rappers, perhaps so.
It's all well and good calling out anti-racism for being as harmful as it is but when is someone going to publicly denounce racism against white people? Yanno, the only form of racism that is perfectly acceptable and widely peddled by the mainstream media? Or how about the fact that we aren't allowed to stand up for or defend ourselves for fear of being smeared as a racist or white supremacist and how this is widening a divide that many people previously fought to bridge? Anti-racism is 100% a problem, but we cannot turn a blind eye to the normalisation of racism against whites either.
A Skeleton I don’t think we will live long enough to hear racism against whites condemned. You are especially horrible if you are a white man. No matter of your character, you’re just condemned outright with no road to forgiveness. I frankly and outright condemn that attitude and I recognize that there only so far you’re going to push us before we push back.
Yosemite Sam the fact that you can be white, have every form of discrimination against as any black person, but have it shrugged off because your skin tone is just shit
Why do you believe "the current version" of anti-racism is likely to "increase" racism? what is it about the current version that will cause this to happen? Second question: Is there a version of anti-racism that won't lead to an increase in racism? An would that version be acceptable to you an if so, would you be willing to participate in promoting that version? Third question: Do you believe there should be a version of anti-racism? If so, what elements would you want to see included that would speak to your concerns, that's not now included in the conversation about race and racism? What in your opinion is needed to have an effective anti-racism conversation? I know, that's way more than 3 questions...lol. But I would appreciate hearing your thoughts. I do work in the area of racial reconciliation and I'm always interested in finding ways to bring real healing to our racial divide. Thanks!
@@TheDangerous123dan You asked and I consider your questions sincere so I'm going to give you the open honest unfiltered opinions: 1. Because the current version brings out racist thoughts in me. I find myself thinking racially based thoughts and then I have to reason with myself from the collective back to the individual. I start listing the minority people who are precious to me and walk myself back to reason. The beginning of this process goes back to the redefining of racism from a hatred of someone based on their race to requiring power. So someone can (and have) stand up and say the death of every white person on earth would be a good thing but suffer no repercussions whatsoever. Hatred on the base of race, religion or sex is deplorable. 2. Yes, Martin Luther King’s dream that everyone would be judged on the content of the character not the color of their skin is the answer. I was a kid at the time but when I learned of the discrimination, back of the bus, separate water fountains, schools and such like, in my mind I thought, these things are wrong and I applauded the advancements made. 3. Same answer as # 2. Content of character not color of skin. But let me add, to fix anything you have to work at the individual level. There is no “collective” fix for all Blacks, illegal immigrants, poor in other countries. You can’t fix the whole but you can help an individual. Any discussion of anti-racism needs to include whites and as long as we can’t have a discussion on race without whites being labeled racist for engaging in the discussion, it can’t happen. And we have to include behavior in the discussion as well. I relive the following over an over again: A young lady pulled up at our building of worship this past Sunday. She couldn’t have been out of her 20s but maybe early 30s. I’ve seen her a lot. She sends her child into the building to ask for assistance. She’s got no husband but has 5 children from 5 different men and naturally she is in constant need of assistance. What chance does she have for a prosperous life? None. And she isn’t really interested in a spiritual life, she just wants financial help. We give her diapers, formula, money for gas and food for the children. What else can you do? What chance do those five kids have? But even mentioning such things will get me called a racist. This country is in crisis over the lack of strong family units but no one can talk about it. The welfare state has destroyed families. And of course if the discussion is over race, then I’m a racist and if the discussion is over the need for fathers then the feminists scream about the patriarchy. I’m frankly glad that I’m not young. I don’t want to see the results of this mess in another 40 years.
"The dead bodies of black males are circulated shared and memed with little hesitation. Many in our society accept this reality as a norm but what effect does death have on the lives [and] the mental concept of the self that black males formulate in this violent world ? How do black males regard the future in a world which is so limited by the present ? To be a black male is to live in constant fear of being accused of some offence against another. Black males live in a world where any accusation [made] against them is thought to be evidence of their guilt" Tommy J Curry (professor of black studies and Africana philosophy currently based in Scotland, UK - excerpt from his book The Man Not.)
Yes, this is well thought out and articulate. However, it is incomplete and full of fallacies. Like if I were to build a house on an unstable foundation, causing lots of damage to the house, would I keep trying to repair the house or would I repair the foundation first? That’s what’s happening here. He keeps talking about repairing certain outcomes of broken systems, rather than repairing the actual systems that create the inequality and oppression.
Facts? Wow I'm not even 5 mins into this video and this guy has already said a number of inaccurate things. Shaver's shooting was in NO WAY the same as the shooting of Tamir Rice. Shaver, 26, adult, white male, was using a scoped pellet gun from his hotel window. It was seen and cops were called. The entire incident went on for a period of time where his friends were ordered away and he was given instructions by the officers. In the stress of the situation he made movements that he was told not to and then he moved his hand to his waistband and the officer shot him. Bad shooting. He was unarmed. But to say this is the same as Rice? This was a 12 year old in a playground in broad daylight. The officer was called and told rice was an adult and the officer drove up, gave NO WARNING and shot this child in TWO SECONDS from INSIDE his car. How the F is that the same!? What the hell? I couldn't even keep watching this video because that right there sets up how dis ingenious this guy is being. I could be with you if you were arguing that hysteria over race can cloud things and weaken real justice for blacks. But don't pull out these ridiculous comparisons. Shame on this guy and I'm sorry for anyone who watches this and doesn't do the research.
@@yourmom2189 You saved your logical fallacies for the end of your comment...… it would have been better if you listed them first; so I could dismiss your comment and move on to actual reason and rationality sooner.
My father, a white man, was killed by a LAPD officer named Kevin Arnold. He was unarmed and did not deserve to die. It's why the "white privlege" thing hurts so much. I WISH I had some of that. Im below the poverty line and live in the hood. I love my community and life, but everything I have, I fucking EARNED it.
that was classism-prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class. : poor white vs. white elitism. Trust you still have white privilege against minorities.
xoxo unicorn that privilege can get used against you because you are a standout in that environment, be more thoughtful and have a variety of thought instead of just implying “well even though you suffered this and that setback, you’d still have this privilege” everybody is human and situations aren’t always propertied to fit your rational
Privilege is contextual. It does exist but it is much more nuanced than the SJW leftist think. Yes, white privilege does exist, I have seen it. In most asian countries, if you are white you receive a lot of benefits from being white, but in the same vein if you are white and you live in the hood of chicago or detroit your privilege is not very substantial. people will still look at you like you are trash, whether you are black or white. Similarly, if you are a trans colored person on a college campus you possess a near godly level of privilege where you can get away with just about anything and get most scholarships or programs you apply for without having any merit. Privilege does exist, but it is contextual and goes both ways, but it has been simplified and used by a weapon of the left, which only ever hurts the people they try to "protect"
42Nightsyesterday I would sort of put a but on white privilege in Asia. While it is true, but in a lot of countries white.. or at this extent foreigner of almost any origin have no rights as locals do. It’s hard to do business, super hard to buy property, let alone even to settle down there unless u marry a local. Plus you are not taken serious and you always know you are a guest.
@@kat3325 yes you are totally right, but just to make my point simple and clear I didn't want to get too into it since this is a topic that can be talked about at great length. suffice it to say in the short term it is nice to be white in asia, but for long term settling down it is much more difficult, and with a societies in asia being very community based you will never be fully accepted, even if you are fluent and have lived there for years. anyways, what privilege you do receive is based on stereotypes and fetishes of westerners which are beneficial but still annoying. still, its better than the stereotypes they have about black people or other asians I'll say. being an asian foreigner in a place like japan for example is quite harsh.
I adore this man for his intellectual honesty and ability to scrutinize what many consider sacred. He also only uses exactly the right word for what he means.
He makes you feel good about your life....what makes me laugh is I know if a cop stops him on the way home from this talk his heart is beating as hell like he's going to loose his life..
@@mdkvisions You are a fucking troll if you think anybody "feels good" about people getting killed. Yeah. Cops are uniformed goons with guns and that is scary. Living in a high gang and crime neighborhood is verifiably 90 times more dangerous and likely to get killed than by a cop. Why do you not address that fact?
@@craigdamage Wait... do you think that excuse copw behaviour. That you think cops go around thinking. 'Well, this is a bad part of town. Safetys off then. If the bullet happens to lodge in someone's head, nobody will care.' Sure, that's not racist, but it's just about as bad. And, I'll remind you, this is what you're saying
It's the fact that the cops can and will harass you without any repercussion whatsoever, just because they feel like it, that gets to me. On top of that, many of them (most in my experience) can be incredibly rude and disrespectful, they often treat you like you wasted their time by not doing anything wrong or having anything on you. But I guess I deserved that for having the audacity to work a night shift.
Baki Hanma might be the area, cops used to absolutely suck where I’m living. Now they aren’t terrible, got keep in mind it’s a hard ass job as well. Because any day could turn into your last fairly easy, plus they are flawed humans just everyone else
My father, born in 1927, was a pioneer in the community college movement in NC; he speaks of how education allowed him to escape poverty and then spent his career striving to give back by promoting education for everyone, black, white, brown. The belief that education is somehow elitist, on both the right and the left, has devastated our country. Heartbreaking.
Never heard this argued so eloquently. This man can stand with the greats that are Thomas Sowell and Larry Elder. Treating modern progressivism as an ideology or political movement isn't going to work. That's abundantly clear. Treating it as a religion might just hold the keys to freedom.
He is a linguist, so eloquently for him comes easy. This was a great debate, and if you have an hour or so to listen to the entire thing, I highly recommend it. He's also written a few articles detailing the similarities between anti-racism as an ideology and religion. Coleman Hughes is a younger man that says similar things. We need more like them, since they are criticizing their own group (the left) and can't be as easily dismissed as "right-wing extremists".
@@laurenlochamybatson8159read over your comment.. this is the way White society mutes the cries coming from the slave quarters out back. Get a Black man who is so desperate for peace and some degree of normalcy in his life, that he will stand on the plantation steps to speak out against his unruly family in favor of his owner. You love him because he disarms his community of the only weapon they have to fight, that is, speaking against that which continues destroys the Black community. You may like to believe that you are not a racist person, but as soon as you side with racist policy, or encourage Black men to condemn his community for voicing, that which may cause you to feel uncomfortable, you have adopted the characteristics of a racist.
ruclips.net/video/NZ2ejORUANQ/видео.html This is where I first found him. He was disagreeing with Jordan Peterson in a QNA about transgender pronoun use. He later stated that he refused to go on a panel with Jordan because he didn’t want to be the “token black man.” I feel like he got a bit wiser about race issues since then... he’s recognized as part of the IDW today.
@@SolDizZo John Has been delivering the same basic message about race since publishing "Losing the Race" in 2000. For a long time, it was assumed by many on the left that he was a Republican, because of his contrarian views on race. He's actually a centrist, and calls himself a "cranky Democrat".
As a Black conservative, this is a breath of fresh air. Of course, racism exists. However, I totally agree that the present scorch-earth approach is delusional and ultimately counterproductive.
Absolutly racism excists. Some white men hate blacks, some asians hate native americans, some japanese wil hate chinese and so on. But the white hate black per definition BLM uses all the time is total and absolute bollocks. If a guy resists arrest or is just being a dumbass towards the police or even do pull a knife or gun on a cop you might get shot.
As a person living in rural Oklahoma I can see you the same sort of consistent and continual anger over things because of the economic instability as well as the seemingly hopelessness of people situations while our communities aren't necessarily as depressed as the inner cities I know what that's like I used to live in the projects in Detroit I can't imagine the degree of trouble that people living in these extreme poverty high crime areas are experiencing but it's not an excuse for their disingenuous argument about racism something has to be to blame and just saying it's the system doesn't cut it.
Damn right it exists, and more of it is being directed at white males than blacks at the moment. Its so hard to find actual racism that people like jesse smalldick have to fake entire hate crimes, then he gets away with it.
@@Mr._Moderate When someone says something that you not only disagree with, but also challenges a belief you hold, you instinctively react with emotion as if you were attacked, and double down on what you believe because you're no longer thinking with reason, but emotion.
@@Kitkat-986 actually I thought he was opening a new perspective because I never heard of the cases he referred to... Then I investigated those cases... And he's a fraud. What did you do? Did to do that? 👂
I can see that: in the same way pre-enlightenment religion advanced human civilization for tens of thousands of years, we now need rational moral systems (like anti-racism, action on AGW etc) if we are to continue that advance for another 10, 20, 50, 100 thousand years - and beyond.
McWhorter definitely has some interesting insights on the matter and I think there has been a shift away from some of the more "religious" aspects of anti-racism that he highlights here. From what I'm seeing, there's this huge push for the sort of policies that are actually going to produce change rather than a simple appeal to the white guilt complex. There is still discussion of white identity and race but the goal seems to be making whites more conscious of internal biases and the ways in which our passive biases actually cause harm instead of just trying to induce some simplistic guilt trip. It may just be bias in what I'm seeing, but I think there's been a real shit away from the less-than-productive neo-liberal policies that have been bogging down actual progress. A lot of the tweets, essays, etc. that I've been seeing recently indicate that there are black communities in this country that are very much preoccupied with addressing violence within their communities because it's a known problem. I have seen voices from some black communities saying there isn't discussion of that issue, so I imagine it varies from one community to the next and that the topic just hasn't reached the level of nation-wide dialogue yet. Police brutality has been an issue for far longer than the gangs that contribute to intra-racial killings so it makes some amount of sense that there's lag. I think right now the biggest reason people are trying to keep that issue out of the main discussion is because it's being used to deflect away from the issue of police brutality.
@@ajchapeliere no its still just as religious. 3 funerals for george floyd( a violent repeat criminal). his death was the 2nd coming of jesus for them, he proved the prophecy"america is racist" true to them. David Dorn(valiant retired policeman) killed in protest/riots. where's his 3 funerals? its still religious: ruclips.net/video/AeaUG2d_GKY/видео.html look at how they react to logical conversation on data. "From what I'm seeing, there's this huge push for the sort of policies that are actually going to produce change rather than a simple appeal to the white guilt complex." This is only happening because so many more people have joined their ideology so the alarm is louder than ever.
@@ajchapeliere If that is true, it would be very hopeful. Can you provide some links to this new paradigm? I have not yet run into any substantial shift, but as you say it may vary by location or community. I need some hope that we can escape from the stalemate, rather than just dig it deeper.
@@zephsmith3499 I'm not sure if there are any documents from the BLM movement itself that outline it but I do see some elements of the shift in think-pieces like this one forge.medium.com/performative-allyship-is-deadly-c900645d9f1f One of the things McWhorton touched on that really struck me was this idea that Anti-Racism was focusing on white guilt in a way that wasn't actually productive. I'm still definitely seeing an emphasis on the idea that white passivity and blindness to certain issues is a key part of the overall problem but that's being accompanied by discussions of what actions we can actually take to tangibly help black communities. I'm seeing a lot more posts about major historical events in the black community on social media than I remember seeing in the past (could be confirmation bias, but even if it is, I'm taking the opportunity to learn). There seems to be a move to educate white people about the policies and events that have created setbacks for black Americans so we can make more informed decisions going forward. I also found an op-ed in which a black author called out his white publishers for stalling on a major pre-publication meeting with him to "take time to reflect on current events" or something along those lines. I'm having trouble finding it but if I track it down, I'll link it. Outside of that, it looks like there's more urgency behind passing legislation in this country than I think we've seen since 9/11. Gov. Cuomo of NY signed legislation today banning the use of choke-holds and other neck restraints. Other cities and states have been making similar moves. Some are moving towards defunding police and/or completely restructuring public safety programs. A lot of that news is available through the NY Times live blog which should be free access: www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/protests-george-floyd-black-lives-matter.html It's still hit and miss I think but the fact that we're actually having conversations about performative allyship and white guilt being unproductive is a good sign.
Donalex Corfgutip 100% agree. America is a breeding ground for victim mentality. Somehow the idea of working hard to succeed got switched out with entitlement. Rich people are entitled when they evade taxes legally and try to manipulate poorer people using their power and reach, and poor people are entitled when they think the NYC metro should be free and rich people should have to give up their hard-earned money. What’s the point of the working hard to achieve the American dream if the government (which has proven to mismanage and waste money time and time again) plans to take half your earned income away? People just seem to think only rich people can be entitled. And that is illogical.
Stable white-respected ownership will happen when enuf antiracist whites stand up with black folk to stop / alter systemic racism. For eg: How whites can admit their racism and take action to REPAIR it WITHOUT GUILT ruclips.net/video/Qx-gUfQx4-Q/видео.html Why being unapologetically Anti-Racist is needed, not just being NON-racist ruclips.net/video/a2EtQdf-cpQ/видео.html How to be an Antiracist ruclips.net/video/TzuOlyyQlug/видео.html ruclips.net/video/mxa43H8m034/видео.html Black man describes how he shed his own racism ruclips.net/video/TzuOlyyQlug/видео.html?t=1069
I would go a little further and say that it is self determination that is lacking, The universities promote a culture where determining the future of your own self is sacrificed in the vain hope that you can embark on a journey of altruism and purge their respective countries of all the wrongs, both present and past, as that delays the long hard look in the mirror to discover who you actually are. Their unspoken mantra being 'The longer that I can fight for other peoples rights, the longer I can delay my childhood.' its the Peter Pan Complex.
@@Mr._Moderate No, people pointing out how your world view is bullshit isn't bothering you at all. That's why you're all over the comment section accusing people you don't know of being racist. Mark of a simpleton to accuse people of bad motives rather than debate the actual points being discussed. Hopefully you'll grow up.
@@klondikebelridge1996 don't debate me debate McWhorter. He's the simpleton that started this video with horrible inaccuracies that you and yours sopped up as truth serum.
Thank you John for clearly articulating what I couldn’t quite put my finger on about the manufactured outrage that is often displayed by race hustlers.
I know what it means depending on context because it is an immoral social construct generated by tribal desires to separate people into groups using arbitrary designations (people pretend "black" is what my skin looks like if i spend time in the sun, otherwise they call it "white" or "tan." Now, I'm not a crayon: What color are puertoricans?) "a person of African descent" = black? I'm from America, all of my ancestors are American born. Let's go with "white" WW1 was fought by a lot of shades of white that would've called themselves a separate race then, yet they don't now. Now all Europeans are "white." XD so many crayons It is simple: If you utilize race to separate humans, you're a racist. I'm not racist: I am American. What are you?
I am terrified about the way things are going in the United States. We are more divided and angry than ever before, and the horrific truth is that the vocal majority of people think that they are making things better.
The divide is done on purpose and the whites in charge of it couldn't care less about black lives. If they did they'd be protesting against the killing fields in Chicago every week. The blacks murdered in Chicago in a year equals the number of people of every color killed yearly by police. Most of the police caused deaths are warranted which is why we don't hear about them.
It’s suppose to. Research Gregg Braden. He explains during this year earths magnetic field is low. Which controls our moods and attitudes . But it will rise after
@Great Lakes I think its more than blacks who don't want brutal cops. One thing that is true is the police kill the powerless in society & that's always been the poor. Also important to remember even if the Taliban were killing more blacks than police - the taliban aren't paid to serve & protect.
That is why I respect John McWhorter so very much -- his willingnes to change his mind in the face of new information. It is the sign of a superior intellect.
I disagree. I think it’s a sign of humility. There’s a lot of brilliant individuals who are frankly too arrogant to change their views. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug. It takes humility to admit you are wrong and change. [+]
I don't understand why men like him who think critically and obviously intelligent are not chosen as country leaders? Why are Clintons and Trumps chosen?
@@MrPokerblot Ding Ding Ding. It's money and popularity of name. Takes Millions and Millions to even run. If you don't got it then you gotta get it through a fund raiser. But no one is gonna give you money just for being honest. You have to promise them results in their favor.
Because every-day folks don't participate early in the process (caucus level). People who attend caucus choose the party platform, choose who will represent them at county, state, & national assembly, and choose who make the ballots. When only the folks who's hobby is politics participate at caucus, you get the extreme right and extreme left choosing who the Regular Joe's get to vote for on election day.
@@Thkaal I hope he remains in a prominent position and continues sticking to the truth. 2019 is a different time for truth tellers than any other point in history. All dissenting voices are being eliminated in a multitude of ways, but mainly algorithmically. Those that are awake, not that fake psyop woke bullshit, need to be vigilant. No one is coming to save us, only we can stave off the dystopian future predicted in just about every other Hollywood movie.
You’re a brilliant man. I’ve enjoyed two of your previous books... Losing the Race which was followed by Winning the Race. Excellent work. I will be reading more of your work. Stay focused, positive and keep your message out there. We need voices like yours now!!
If you like his delivery, his "Lexicon Valley" podcast has it, plus lots of funny bits and interesting trivia about the evolution of language. It almost never has any political content--he keeps his commentary on race issues separate from his career as a (popular) linguist.
John McWhorter just articulated many of the thoughts I’ve had over the past 30 years, that are anathema to speak aloud. I oppose racism and racists, and also oppose the current culture of perpetual victimhood and collective guilt by association.
there isn't much wrong with racism... it's discrimination that's worrisome.... i could care less if some dude dislikes me for my skin, i really truly do not give a fuck... racism is natural, i fully accept it and i'm one of those people that believes everyone is racist because IT IS LITERALLY CODED INTO OUR DNA.... a left over from tribal days... what i do care about is if i can't get a job because of either my skin color or the skin color of the people that need to be hired.... if i don't like you racially, i still would care MOST about what you can do for me if i employ you because MONEY is my number one concern and priority in my business i'll forgive every racism in the world if you can do the job... mine or yours
@@notimportant3686 well you can't have discrimination without racism. And no it's not in our DNA. What a ludicrous idea. It is learned from th culture you are raised in.
@@jeffreyyoungblood7438 You absolutely can have discrimination without racism and it happens all the time. One example: many women won't date short men because they like tall men. That's discriminating on physical height. No racism involved.
It's not, I saw 3 other black people bringing up the same reasoning. Saying the Exact same things, calling the exact same names, of people that died .trying to justify something, what they are talking about is it facts? yes, but they still don't get it. the people who are saying this are ,well dressed and highly educated. Fools, They are not representing the majority of black people, that's why they don't understand, I'm not from United States of america so I can see it, but they can't . But I do understand what he's saying that's logic. Logic and reality is two different things.
Wow, Never heard of this gentleman. Very impressive, please dont be quiet in your message. In these confusing times it is even more important for you to be heard
I just watched a video of a black preacher who led marches against police go through use of force training with the police. He ended up being shot in one scenario and shooting a unarmed man in another. He learned that compliance would stop almost everyone of these shootings.
Huge Respect to this man. He spoke using neutral language. He values truth over fame and is brave enough to face the inevitable name calling that is probably going to come his way for speaking truth. We need more like him
@@AdultThirdCultureKid1971 I first heard some of his great logic and reason about 15 years ago. Lost touch with him. He doesn't fit the lefts narrative although he's a liberal.
@@Mr._Moderate What "facts"? That the black mob drowns out any dissent? That's a fact check true ✔ You can't argue against this. Being an individual with independent thought isn't allowed, lest you get smeared with: "Bed W__ch" for women and "C__n" for the men. And shunned by all. Hive mind mentality: Know your role, stick in your lane, remain on the plantation. Those are the mantras that y'all live by.
@@igorivanov299 Please tell me how any of those case comparisons help his argument? I vote open and freely... You can vote RepubliCrat for eternity however
Acolyte47 John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics. He does lectures on linguistics for The Great Courses and has written a number of books on linguistics as well as at least one book on race relations in America. He also hosts a podcast on language called Lexicon Valley. I agree he is really great.
You've never heard him because he's not out being controversial, the media probably thinks he's uninteresting for a story. We need more coverage on guys like this. Really sucks the truth is so hard to get out there.
His words about "anti-racism" becoming a religion are more true than ever in 2020. Every argument is true, this new religion even has an Inquisition medieval level and style. Shameful shortsighted and anti-moral.
This statement OMG shared it on my FB, man you so on point brother. And this is why racisme only exists as concept cause i am black and to me it even appealed to me what your color is. Evil souls is the problem and evil, it is good vs evil in my opinion as umbrella.
@TrashPanda Raccoon dear sir or madam, i work with all cultures, religions, origines people in Europe. Retailers, foodservice and industry. All my hard working clients tell me that they always worked hard and never had systemic racisme in Europe. Facts and figures tell everybody the true story. Booing and whining is for little kids. I know individual racisme exists, but very small and in every culture and social group.
@TrashPanda Raccoon I think your remark is really undignifying. I dont think you have to be black to be able to sympathise, or at least intelletually understand the problem of raciemand priviledge. I have to agree with John here. It has become a religion. And the danger is that we tend to forget that in the system, other people are suffering too. Not only blacks.
@TrashPanda Raccoon What about the black guy who is the one who said it in the first place... like, wut? If a black guy can say that and you shoot a white guy down for saying the same thing, isn't that him dealing with your prejudice right now? Invalidating your statement?
Sorry, but they are not true. He is straw manning the other side. For example “Despite what you may have heard, no one’s trying to make white men feel guilty for being white men” www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-07/column-no-ones-trying-to-make-white-men-feel-guilty-for-being-white His argument that anti-racism is a religion is predicated on the belief that white people need to feel eternally guilty for being white. But almost no one actually believes that.
Anti racism is basically telling people "change your opinion because we say so!" That rarely changes peoples opinions. Hate is a powerful and comforting thing. It unifies amd strengthens people. Unfortunately hating people based on skin color alone will always exist. I feel bad for people that ignorant. They're missing out on knowing some pretty cool people of all colors and religions etc.
As a white guy who is married to a minority I must be honest the more I hear I am racist by default the more I am less likely to cut minorities slack. Professor McWhorter is 100% spot on.
CJ Fripp I don’t think so and I don’t think it is possible. It is more sublime... they want to do to us what you hear me express. They want to keep a constant distrust in the back of our minds so they can play one against the other and reap the benefits of us being disgruntled.
This. I never was a real racists, but after hearing of "white privileges" for years I am starting to be racist more and more. Still, these ignorant fucks will not ruin my view of my favorite black celebrities for me.
Wait a second, he's not giving you a free pass to be less sympathetic to be people who suffer from racism, he's saying you shouldn't pointlessly internalise the problem like it's all your fault.There's a heck of a lot of difference between those two things.
James Owen I know you are not talking to me. I empathize with anyone subjected to REAL racism, regardless of color. So not sure where you are misdirecting your comment.
Jonathan McWhorter says it like it is. After watching just a few videos like this I come to realise I need to start following this gentleman. A true intellectual. Excellent presentation.
C P You obviously just a arrogant person who wants feel superior to others just because he watched a 14 Minute RUclips Video. This man wouldn’t say other people have no brain because he treats people with respect and stays humble. It‘s not just about the content you can learn from this man..
@@vinylrichiejr.2416 Lets see. Lately anyone who doesn't cow down to the politically correct story line has been absolutely destroyed publicly. The head football coach at Oklahoma State may lose his job because he wore a Trump t shirt. So you tell me who wants to be superior over others. I would say it s the people who want to destroy anyone who disagrees with them. Not someone who applauds someone for looking at these issues with context and thoughtfulness. Okay snowflake.
@@jamesmendez7575 Oprah may have had a curious show following the OJ Simpson acquittal yet when you review the catalogue of Donahue you have to concede he really pushed for conflicting ideas and alternative views. This channel alongside the history declassified one has much useful material and should be considered alongside Lance Hill's material on the deacons for defence archive.org/details/TheCowsRadioShow archive.org/details/TheCowsRadioShow2 www.talkshoe.com/show/thecows In his introduction to Deacons For Defence [and Justice] he writes: King was acutely aware of these white fears of violence, and in his first and most important book, Stride toward Freedom, published in 1958, he adamantly argued that the civil rights movement had to adopt nonviolence if it wanted to win over northern whites. ‘‘Only through a nonviolent approach can the fears of the white community be mitigated,’’ argued King. ‘‘A guilt-ridden white minority lives in fear that if the Negro should ever attain power, he would act without restraint or pity to revenge the injustices and brutality. . . . Many white men fear retaliation. The job of the Negro is to show them that they have nothing to fear, that the Negro understands and forgives and is ready to forget the past.’’ ‘‘Bomb our homes and threaten our children; send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities and drag us out on some wayside road, beating us half dead, and we will still love you. But we will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer.’’ Minister Malcolm mocked this capacity to love when he spoke of the need to "suffer peacefully" itself provoking reflection on 'The Moral Masochism at the Heart of Christianity' . Maybe this explains why Rodney King called for an end to the violence on May 1, 1992: "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? In April 1963, in his Letter From A Birmignham Jail: "First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait... In his essay “The August 28th March on Washington: The Castrated Giant” (1964), in Duties, Pleasures, Conflicts: Essays in Struggle, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell wrote "This exploitation of so many angry and sincere people, whose indignation was misrepresented as some kind of testimonial for the SYSTEM that had oppressed them, and against which they were protesting, must qualify as one of the greatest and most shameless manipulations of recent years."
@Rob Pashley what truth? 1. Just because he makes you feel less insecure about your racial identity doesn't mean it's the truth 2. Did you research the names of the people he referred to see if they were "exactly the same"? 🤔 I'll wait...
I like that he is willing to re-consider his pre-conceived notions. That is how you develop and grow. There is trancendental ideas that exist outside the domain of our current knowledge.
@@vibes1652 again irony flies past these people. there are a ton of you saying the exact same tired words on this comment section. but somehow think you all are special unique freethinkers when all of your ideas come from 17th century racists.
Thinking 'outside the box' is increasingly rare in today's dystopian hive mind wrought with polar extremes. If you disagree with something out of respective side's groupthink then you become an entity without a group (exaggerated analogy: a wolf pack dismissing a wolf from the collective). McWhorter, while widely respected by academicians, is on the Left and has taken a lot of flak for not embracing the groupthink programming, so in some ways an exile from both major political parties. Of course, intellectuals such as himself are leaders and not followers, having individualism and a great mind to articulate a thought that is their own; Groupthink is for those too lazy or naive to research objectively and sufficiently enough to form their own opinion. I'm not immune to groupthink, but I know it when I see it, because it is the exact same copy/paste message regurgitated in forums of all kinds, high and low.
It seems to me that the media promotes and even invents racism. Headlines such as: "Group of loitering black youths told to leave Starbucks." "Group of loitering youths told to leave Starbucks" is a non-story. There is no interest. Its boring. Add "Black" and you get another controversial article about racism.
Bingo! They’ve been doing this since as far as I can remember. Stopped trusting the media in 1992 when I was 10. The local LA news kept pumping hate, racism, etc and stoked the fires for the LA Riots.
The police was called because they looked suspicious. All they were doing was waiting for a friend there. I don't know if it was racist or not but it doesn't seem normal to call the police because black people are waiting in a Starbucks. It's something white people(or any other group) would do
Comments like this aren’t helping along the situation. Our modern culture gets dopamine hits from “smack downs” when what we need are useful discussions that help move us forward....no?
Haven't you heard? Every word and action has to be calculated according to the catagories ascribed to the person you are interacting with. It's called equality.
What bums me out is that this nuanced, reasonable presentation will either be boiled down to "Racism doesn't exist" or "This man is denying racism exists" by people who want to see it as such.
I suppose that the point is that it's more about class. A stupid number of cops are trained in a culture of fear(I disagree that it's a rogue cop thing, it's a cop culture thing), this leads them to trigger-happy behavior that results in unnecessary killings. Who do they kill? The poor: 4:15 The cops are there to enforce the status quo of the politically powerful, I.E. the rich. If you're poor, Black, White, Native, Whoever. They want to abuse and exploit you all the same, the police are simply one tool of many to do so. "anti-racism hurts black people" is an awful take for this lecture and destroys all nuance. OP describes precisely what this title in a video featuring a black man does to people. Perhaps "identity politics hurt black people" is more accurate, but that's not as clickbaity. The problem with identity politics is that people of all races are convinced to divide themselves along lines of race rather than wealth, splitting unity of the working class. It's extremely detrimental to impoverished people's advancement in society. But it's very useful for a rich person's 'divide and conquer' strategy to have poor white folks align with rich white folks simply for skin color alone, rather than other poor minorities, even though the average poor white person has far more in common with the average poor black person, So rich folk feed the racism narrative, even if they don't genuinely believe in white supremacy, it benefits them to get useful idiots to believe it so they can cut a huge demographic off from itself.
My only issue with this lecture is that things like improving the socioeconomic conditions for black communities is a major component of anti-racism. Why does he only look at the least favorable aspects of anti racism while pretending that the benefits of it aren't actually part of antiracism?
^^^ This is the problem with debate in America right now if you ask me. Politicians and the media tend to pick the worst parts of the opposing viewpoint and strawman the shit out of them instead of finding common ground and enacting measurable change.
That's actually the opposite of reality. Black people are socioeconomically oppressed specifically because of the "anti-racism" progressive agenda. Thomas Sowell has been making this quite clear since the 80s.
@@Gearyco Yeah, Digital Ambition, totally, today's black youth are impoverished because of a legacy of anti-racist, progressive policies. That's what did it. Take a look at an anti-racist, progressive policy like red-lining. Those progressive anti-racists really goofed things up when they denied black Americans access to credit/mortgages, and prevented them from owning property in well into the 1960s. Or, what about the progressive, anti-racist policy to get "tough on crime", and blow up the American prison population? That anti-racist policy that ended up incarcerating huge portions of the black male population, wrecking the convict's economic well-being, tearing their family apart, and consigning them to low pay, unskilled labor for the rest of their life. Don't even get me started on how the progressive, anti-racist policy of segregation set black americans back. I don't get why leftist progressives can't see this?
Digital Ambition you sure it isn’t because of 3 centuries of slavery coupled another century or so with segregation bandaged with welfare?! Followed by a crack/AIDS epidemic? As much as this guy wants to believe all black ppl have the tools to make things happen, there are so many black ppl that suffer from conditions that were caused through a foundation of racism.
I've never considered myself to be conservative (I also live in Europe, so there might be a different definition). But right now I find myself being pushed away from some on the left/liberal side and almost being labeled a rightwing for raising too many questions on these issues. I'm so thankful for at least the online world staying somewhat open to discussion and plurality of opinions.
I'm in the same boat. I've often thought about this whole thing as a new religion: when you're not even allowed to raise any questions about it. It's sad, and it's not going away soon.
It's OK, a lot of people including myself have gone through the same thing the last 5 or 6 years. This woke hysteria and the lefts cynical embrace of it for political benefit has driven a lot of intellectuals out of the Democratic party.
@@Mr._Moderate Thank you for giving a great example of the simple minded binary thinking that I was speaking of. So you either buy into this anti-intellectual woke nonsense or you're far right huh? You are a cult follower. For your sake I hope you're a teenager because having that kind of world view past 25 is the mark of a very immature mindset.
It’s sad that this video has barely any views after a few months, at the time of this post. I wish the national conversation would pivot more to include discourse like this.
Will Morrison whoops. Correct, sir, thanks. Perhaps I mixed this up with another video’s time stamp. At any rate, even with months out, I would have liked to see this one get more attention.
It seems to be trending right now. I hate politics because of the endless bullshit but I kept seeing this guy over and over again so I just finally listened. Turns out to be something really reasonable and even refreshing.
13:17 "An inwardly focused quest for moral absolution, that has at best a diagonal relationship to helping people who've been left behind." Couldn't have said it better myself!
@HKZ P If you've heard it you should research it and find out if it's true or false. There are many things on the internet. Some are true some aren't. You could easily google the issues because he gives you the statistics. It will be pretty easy to find out if he's telling the truth or lying.
HKZ P This is in no way whataboutism. It’s ridiculous to claim that a comparison between statistics and evaluation of data is whataboutism and to claim that any argument that calls someone to reevaluate their own logic and actions is whataboutism. If you blatantly ignore the whole picture presented by the actual statistics then you are the one with fallacious logic, not him.
So what he's saying is yeah racism does exist but not really, because based on numbers you can counter the argument by saying what about blacks killing blacks in Chicago, and more whites are killed by cops... I say he's a complete bull$hi÷÷er!.. Dude! You can't honestly tell me that the percentage of blacks being killed by cops aren't totally lopsided in comparison to whites, when historically since post-slavery, this has been the case without any cellphone footage or bodycam to capture the murders of blacks by the hands of police. And I strongly dis-like when I hear these individuals who love to say, "Well, what about blacks killing blacks in Chicago?" Mumbo jumbo.. Although it holds truth but it's inconclusive, you can't tell me that the violence amongst blacks in these impoverished neighborhoods aren't stemmed from the systemic racism that has been implemented for over decades. This is the results of it today. Chicago is one of the most segregated Northern cities in America, and it's not by mistake it was by design. The Original Gangsters were white men like Al Capone, Frank Nitti and many others. They were the original gang bangers and thugs. Chicago was so divided it was worse than some parts in the South. The predominantly black neighborhoods became broken down by lack of equal opportunities of employment, loans, and other facets of racial discrimination. Study how gangs were created in the inner cities of the predominantly black impoverished. If they wanna use numbers and research, then research deeply and you'll know why our inner cities are filled with so much violence intertwined with survival instincts. Yes, this problem needs to be fixed absolutely, but to fix something that is broken, you must first fixed the minds and prevent the actions of the ones who had broke it in the first place. See it's quite socialpathic for someone to come and tear or burn down your home you have built from ground up, while you were in it. Then leave and come back moments later, to tell you that your house is broken and you need to fix it. REMEMBER TULSA?!! The nerve... This guy is being used as a pawn to undermine the crimes that was committed to blacks in the history of America that has ultimately led to the crimes and the happenings of today. Please John McWhatever.. Save your inconclusive ideology, for the ones who benefit from your undermining of black American plight, and for who you are appeasing to continue on with the mentality that systemic racism is a non factor, while underlining the encouraging of white privilege to proceed. Kudos black man (sarcasm).
Is it not often just brushed aside with "oh they are poor.. and hence they fight over breadcrumbs" ?? Which might be true in some way. yes poor people have it tougher than someone who is rich in modern day society, that goes without saying, but at the same time I think this is a really devaluing though of poor people as most poor people in the world is not murdering one another, they are not stealing from one another or robbing one another.
@@gregorybrian He is addressing that indirectly. He acknowledged earlier that more whites are killed by cops than blacks. One statistic said, but not mentioned here, is that more whites are killed by cops than nearly all other ethnic groups combined. It won't make news on the left controlled media, because it won't stir up the black Democratic voting base. White on white crime doesn't fit the Democratic narrative. Neither does black on black crime. He's long winded, but it is his point nonetheless.
TWOLANELIFE To that point the greater population is Caucasian so there would be an unfortunate higher percentage or actual death rates. And while I do care about black on black crime, in most cases judicial process and justice is served by an arrest being made, being charged and found guilty. The person who committed the crime doesn’t just get fired, or no findings....Whereas in many law enforcement cases or citizens arrest case vs a citizen specifically Black citizen there is not often a charge made without protest and/or arrest being made and/or a finding of guilt vs acquittal despite an obvious wrongdoing. It’s that the judicial process is not always completed in a just way. This is why, I believe people protest the injustice. As you see it is not necessarily because of more deaths but the fact that there are many times consequences are not held to the same standard for taking another citizens life. I hope that all makes sense.
It looks like this was part of a debate. It would be good to post a link to the whole debate so we could hear the other sides point of view and response.
...and what that looks like is the conundrum of the unconscious morality of the white community. "Not in my neighborhood." and "Go along to get along." has been the white status quo throughout much of my life. Sure there are culturally 'woke' moments: Identifying with, say, the excellence of a sports figure (Bob Hayes) or the expertise of a scientist or inventor (George Washington Carver) or the dignity of those arm in arm in the Civil Rights Movement (MLK). But where's the spine of fellow citizenship? Political Correctness is more of an attempt to establish an etiquette repeat with public shaming. But to tolerate voter repression? To turn a blind eye on "extra judicious authorities"? Something lulls us to sleep, to avoid confrontational politics, to seek the picket fence or the tall hedge. I suspect the imbalance lies in the excessive emphasis on competition through the profit motive. Initiative and drive are determined solely by market forces, the pains of want and depredation is the material goad of a healthy society? Where's the deep-seated comittment to cooperation? The existential miseries of old age, illness and death are swept aside in favor of religion's opiate. We don't bond in opposition to schemmers and fools, but rather oppose each other for want and opportunism. So, is confrontational politics the answer in every instance or is patience and transition -- of winning over the hearts and minds -- still in play? I suspect that the subtle contextual structures that are sanctified as normalcy are truly suspect once love, yes, honest heartfelt love is the participatory criteria for social discourse and viable political action. "We the People..." (without America's Jim Crow apartheid) have to make our institutions reflect our common rapport or we are doomed to submerge once more in semi-conscious institutional values that are culture bound rather than naturally vibrant.
In too many black communities your point is correct and in meant other your are not. The fact is I know blacks that fixate in white accountability and others who are balanced and then others who role the other way. Mr. McWhorter, in my perception, failed to acknowledge this continuum.
I hung on after this guy compared the killing of a 12 year old boy to the killing of a 26 year old man, but he totally lost me with the tired, stupid “what about black on black crime” bullshit. Leaving race out of it (I have no problem with that), when private citizens kill one another, it’s already treated as CRIME. When cops do it, it’s not. That’s the problem! The man says this: “If you’re a good anti- racist then you’re thinking about the cops that kill black men...but you’re not supposed to think about the fact that so much murder happens to these men in their own neighborhood.” Who says you can’t think about both, especially since they’re two different topics! When you think about black on black crime you realize that the police are on it - if they know a black guy murdered someone they don’t need you to tell them to arrest the guy, and the criminal justice system will take care of the rest. If you think about the cops killing people you might just realize that unjustified extrajudicial killings by cops are very rarely punished - they’re not even treated as crimes! You might realize that unlike the case of the black killer, the cop who kills (unjustly) most likely won’t even be arrested unless people literally scream bloody murder. Is this guy suggesting that as long as there’s black on black crime, the question of extrajudicial killings by cops shouldn’t be addressed? When you hear about a cop killing a black guy whose unarmed, restrained, and posing no threat, you’re not supposed to think about that, you should instead think “oh well, that guy was probably gonna get killed by some other black guy anyway” and shrug it off? WTF does one have to do with the other??
I disagreed with two things. If his main message is we need to have an educated view of racist systems instead of believing without looking at the facts, then completley agree. But the stats he cited pointed more torwards racism, and yet he used them to argue against racism. He acknowledged the disproportionate percentages and then uses nominal figures to neutralise them? Also, im surprised a professor is taking the "black on black" line seriously. Black on black violence is just like white on white violence...its general crime. But the law and judicial system treating certain people groups differently is it's own subject.
I agree. There's still a racist bias when it comes to the police and criminal justice system, but everything else, especially about religious-like superficial emotional activism versus devising actionable, concrete policy change ideas, was spot on.
I noticed that as well. If half the people killed by police are white, and they make up 62% of the population, and 25% of the people murdered are black, but they only make up 13% of the population, there's a clear racial bias. The bias also unfairly charges, convicts, and sentences black people to longer terms than white people for the same crimes. It's intellectually dishonest to overlook or dismiss this. Anti racism doesn't hurt black people more than racism itself does.
I think you are missing the point he was trying to make. Yes it's true black men get killed disproportionately more then white men. It's is also true the most black people in general live is low income 'high risk' areas. Areas where people are more likely to interact with the police Therefore if we pretendes that white people (for some non race related reason) only live in these stereotypically Black areas then they would be killed proportionately more. Simply due to interact with hyper violent police officers more I'm other words correlation doesn't equal causation. Black men being killed more by white doesn't immediately mean all police officers are racist. Though he does underplay the real role race does have.
@@lesedimokgobi7399 IN 2019, the ratio of unarmed white people killed versus unarmed black people killed was 2:1 where white people outnumber black people 5:1. That's the problem being claimed and the same one Mr. McWhorter references, but then does not refute, instead calling it a "debate trick" and then not addressing it at all. Those numbers could still be lying, but this gentleman has not shown us how or why that would be the case.
@@stephaniemitchell8509 The racial bias is not acknowledging that those 13% commit more crime period. We can then look for the social-economic reasons for that (we should, actually) and try to solve it. Most of the time criminality is linked to poverty and single parenthood. Go check the % in each race group in the US and the correlation to the imprisionment, interactions with the police (including people killed by the police) and you will understand better the reasons and how to change things.
This is my first time hearing this man.. I LOVE him.. No idea why it popped up when I was watching Standup Comedy, BUT I DO respect Black Conservatives more than I can express.
Sadly it's not merely an analogy. Modern antiracism and social justice movement in general really are shaping into a religion. I recommend to watch Mike Nayna's channel for more on the subject, it's horrifying.
@Mike Knight Unfortunately, the people who need the most to read what she has to say are the very ones who won't. It's just too threatening to them to have their narrative challenged by facts.
The reason blacks don’t succeed is because their culture is different from white culture and they are in a downwards spiral as liberals continue to perpetuate the unsubstantiated claims that racism is the reason they are not succeeding. Convincing blacks that the racist boogeyman is everywhere makes them hate whites, America, and the idea of being able to “make it” here. I don’t think people like you are malicious by spreading this race baiting bullshit on circumstantial evidence alone, but you are ignorant. I’m not interested in why blacks are doing poorly I’m interested in how to fix the issue. Fix the family, reduce dependency on the government, start businesses in your communities, integrate into the rest of the culture. That’s your fix. We aren’t going to fix the infinitely small number of racists in the country that are contributing to the downfall of blacks. Stop worrying so much about boosting your moral virtue over conservatives and give real fucking solutions you idiot.
Now this is a smart man who has what it takes to be a leader and a role model unlike Farrakhan and others like him that actively search for racism where none exists. We need more critical thinkers in our communities instead of race baiting followers that preach hate and divisiveness instead of love and togetherness.
to have someone bring in so much clear analysis to fine points is almost too pure of conversation, nobody knows what to do with accurate and broad truths.
But unfortunately what is given a loud speaker is occasional police brutality not to mention that these black men don't go down easy , they shoot the cops , fight with them, verbally abuse them. Basically they resist arrest until the cops are fed up and have to restrain them by force and sometimes shoot back. The only way police brutality can end is if black men criminal behaviour ends as well , calling one out and not the other is hypocritical
His point is not that one is not important at face value. It is that one is a statistically larger risk, and should therefor be treated as such. Not the other way around. You listen to him?
I think he's talking about anti-racism today as surface-level activity that focuses only on the psychology and moral absolution, and not the legislative and systematic approach that deals with the socio-economics of racism. AKA people that think becoming a SJW absolves them of looking at the full picture and participating in the processes. I am seeing both happening simultaneously as a collective thing. Inner work is not tangibly recognized and is often thought to be "enough," when it's only a starting point. It is irrelevant and moot in it's effects but it is required for someone to want to begin the work that does have tangible effects. I hear what he's saying, I hope it doesn't get picked up by active racists and then watered down.
That's my problem with this speech. He's merely glossing over the history that lead to the situations he's decrying. I can see white folks now - the black fella said black on black crime is the issue. I find his rhetoric irresponsibly in how it's delivered and it weakens his standing for me.
nope, you're a bit wrong. even at the 10 min mark, he talks about some socio-economic solutions ie. forced diversity in schools etc. and negative effects of them. but again these things are complicated. he does stress some "socio-political" solutions but doesn't state what he believes would work.
Let's say I am from Switzerland or Montana or someplace that I literally have never even met a black person. Then I move to an area or bigger city that has black people. Wouldn't all this white guilt stuff just make me avoid black people altogether, since I don't really have any personal feelings towards them? Wouldn't all this negative attention, and anti free speech just shut down any conversation on my end altogether? How could any of this possibly help black people?
Yeah I'm from Ireland. Until 1980 there was about 8 black people in the country. There's more now, but more of everyone. Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Latvians, Estonians, Croation, Polish, Russians, Africans, Middle Eastern, Turks, South Americans. Not a whole lot of racism, it's there, but it's fairly small fry.
Did you even watch the video? His whole speech revolves around "Racism" and those who view and follow it like a religion. Those who are "anti racists" view facts not dogma and people who look past the fanaticism and zealotry to find the truth and ask questions are heretics and blasphemers.
@@CribNotes miscontexualizing stories, misrepresenting facts, and then having the audacity to tie into "anti-racism is bad". What else is there to get? What does your data flow tell you? 🤔
"What you focus on grows" “The victim mindset dilutes the human potential, by not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them, so rise up and take control of your life.
Your post reveals this: “Whites kick blacks down, then tell them how they should respond to being kicked.” derived from Steve Biko We are done dying, by Cornell West www.pennlive.com/opinion/2020/06/we-are-done-dying-cornell-west.html Richard Pryor: how capitalism begets racism ruclips.net/video/Ylv1LyVWc-c/видео.html White man explains how whites are blind to racism ruclips.net/video/A1EAY0RDDJQ/видео.html White historian reveals similar tactics between nazis and usa racists ruclips.net/video/TgpLuNkZEtk/видео.html This'll get one into the solving it part: How whites can admit their racism and take action to REPAIR it WITHOUT GUILT ruclips.net/video/Qx-gUfQx4-Q/видео.html Why being unapologetically Anti-Racist is needed, not just being NON-racist ruclips.net/video/a2EtQdf-cpQ/видео.html How to be an Antiracist ruclips.net/video/TzuOlyyQlug/видео.html ruclips.net/video/mxa43H8m034/видео.html Black man describes how he shed his own racism ruclips.net/video/TzuOlyyQlug/видео.html?t=1069
@@omalone1169 So, do you think it's black ppl's "fault" for "choosing" to feel victimized which has led to this claimed rights stagnation situation? Or is your position one that more reflects this: Tamika Mallory on causes and symptoms of UPrising ruclips.net/video/XkGC1jdEtKc/видео.html
@@Brianbeesandbikes I actually take the position that since whites are the majority population in America with a majority of the land, wealth, political positions, control and access to resources, and corporate institutions they bear a majority of the responsibility for not ending racism 👍
Thank you for bringing this up. It’s seen as taboo to even talk about this sort of topic. If you’re white, you can hardly utter any of this without being immediately called racist.
When I look at anti racism today and the affirmative action steps taken, I often think about Denzel Washington’s line in Remember the Titans: “You’re not doing him any favors by patronizing him. You’re crippling him. You’re crippling him for life.” Essentially the struggle of lifting yourself out of adversity is like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon; if you help a butterfly by cutting it out of that cocoon it will never fly because the struggle strengthens it and prepares it for its future.
Should people have food? shelter and healthcare? What about children should they be bailed out by society? I personally think people going to the supermarket is a cop out, people have become weaker by not hunting and growing their own food. Nanny state generation!
@@notloz2 people should absolutely have those things. However they should work to earn their own, and if they are fortunate enough to receive charity from others where they're unable they need to be grateful instead of entitled.
In arguments about Affirmative Action I always bring up stories about homeless people who won the lottery and found themselves homeless again within a year. You can't just give a homeless person a million dollars and expect his/her life to be great from there on out. There's a reason why homeless people become homeless in the first place. They don't know how to budget, they don't know how to save money, they don't know how to invest money, they don't know how to earn money to begin with, etc. Giving them money doesn't solve the problem, it just gives them one happy year before they're broke and homeless again. If you want to take someone off the street permanently, you need to teach them how to earn a living and keep that living. It's the same with education. Enrolling someone into a school they're unprepared for isn't going to help them, it's going to make their lives miserable until they lose enough confidence to either drop out or decide not to continue their education at a university they are prepared for. Doesn't matter what color they are.
@@michaelsorensen7567 Pay no attention to the gold plated douchebags behind the curtian, its thr mexicans fault, no wait its the poor people. What about REAL entitlement? The George Bush's, Paris Hiltons, Meghan mcains, Trumps of the world? What bothers you more the poor lazy person or the rich lazy person?
Nietzsche echoes the same sentiment as the original poster mentions, in Nietzsche's case it regards showing pity to someone. The one pitied ultimately will have been pitied enough that he believes that identity more than he does his ability to overcome it. Nietzsche's superman is any person that overcomes obstacles, so the former example of victimhood is the antithesis of his ubermensch (an unevolved human and an evolved human, respectively).
The problem: In most urban Black communities an educated successful black person is seen, at best, as an exception rather than an example. At worst he/she is considered a sell out or acting white.
I’m on the west side of Chicago. Lake and N. western to be more specific. I can tell you that between the city being run by Democrats for 80 years ( yes literally run with a Democrat mayor for almost a century). The city also has had a super majority of Democrats in the local government for almost as long. Democrats are not the only problem. Gangster rap destroys black communities also. Money, hoes , bling, etc is held up as gospel. I tell all these young bucks education is the key. Being 62 years old I’ve seen a lot of bs here in Chicago
@@dougyankunas3104 Yes. Being from the west side also. Central and Augustus. I've seen all that you name destroy the Austin Community and keep the minds of the people from taking any form of responsibility.
You nailed it. My best friend in high school ended up getting a full ride scholarship to a fancy well known private college, and he took shit from his own community for being "too white". Even some in his own family were snarky about it.
@@LividImp: When I graduated junior college with an AGS and an AAS no one in my family showed up. When I got my BA only my dad came. When my cousin paroled out of prison, the family threw a party in Garfield park and dozens went. Hell, some of them went to court when he was sentenced and cried for a gang banging armed robber. The media and activist talk about racism and white supremacist. A KKK guy ain't never chased me home from school or stole my car or mugged me on the green line.
@@c20995 That's fucked up. That's not the first time I've heard that either. At least my friend's mom and grandma were there for him.
Shit's slowly changing though. I don't see that same rejection of education or "whiteness" that I used to see, or at least it's not as bad as it was. Now you see black folk on skateboards and riding choppers, listening to heavy metal and country. That shit was unheard of in the 80s and 90s.
"A KKK guy ain't never chased me home from school or stole my car or mugged me on the green line."
Same here. Except in my case it was a Latino gang in my area that would torment me. White bangers were so rare where I grew up I never even gave them a thought. The worst assholes are always whoever is the big dog in the area, it doesn't matter the race. But now with all these mosque and synagogue shootings, I've been teaching my boys to watch out for peckerwoods too. Humans are just pricks, and race has a lot less to do with it than certain people claim.
As a black man this articulate brilliant gentleman is what I consider to be a thought leader in the black community. Not Sharpton, and not Jackson.
The Sharptons and Jacksons are in power to lead us into chaos
I doubt if you're black. The fact that you bring up sharpton and Jackson is a dead giveaway, liar.
indeed very articulate and brilliant.
John McWhorter is brilliant and clear thinking. But he doesn't fit the Liberal narrative, so he's not well known. But he definitely should be.
@@mjt5576 why? Because he's black and defends killer cops with white supremacist talking points?
To some people, this man is like a unicorn: a college professor of humanities talks about the harm done by the de facto censorship imposed on discussions of racism in the US.
Look at him. Calm, thoughtful, polite. May he influence his students to be more like him!
Is that really our problem though? That some idiot doesn't have a platform to mask rich scam artists from people and point the blame at someone else? Face it babe, if it isn't the "alt left" and "alt right" it's always something else, as long as it isn't holding people responsible for managing our fucking tax dollars.
HAHAHAH THIS DUMBASS HAHAHA
@@waleuska Can you elaborate? Let us in on the joke.
Stéphane, maybe the stereotype of college professors of humanities is a false one.
@@waleuska BLM is the joke. If they wanted to be something, they would not single out Blacks as mattering. They would be called Our lives matter.
Gun control is another joke. You think those inner city kids go to walmart and buy their guns? Ask any of them convicted for shooting someone. They buy their guns from other people and most of them are stolen. What the main difference between the races that I see is that for whatever reason, black men are in general, not great at being dads.
You know it's true. Maybe it's because the welfare system will pay if there is no man around to be responsible for his own kids. Maybe it's because he never had a dad around either so he doesn't know what it means to be a man.
It's people just like you who mock a successful black man, who sees through the crap, that perpetuate the idea that if you are smart and well spoken, you ain't black enough.
Comparing it to a religion was honestly eye opening, I never thought of that comparison.
It was a good comparison, but why didn't you/we know it all along? It's the Secular Humanist's version of Catholicism. Maybe you knew it all along, but you never took the time to let it sink in until the words bubbled up and you could express it audibly. People go marching for miles without asking where they are headed.
I don't know if you've heard of Christopher Hitchens but this sort of thing was what Hitchens had in mind when he said that "religion poisons everything". It is the religious way of thinking that is the problem. There are a lot of his videos on RUclips. You should check them out - and I highly recommend his books (Especially, "God is Not Great"). Also, check out anything by Richard Dawkins.
@@mosienko1983 Atheism, as a religion, is also a poison, especially when it doesn't admit its religiosity (as when atheists steal the definition of "agnostic" to get away from the burden of proof when arguing with Christians. They like to say they simply _lack a belief_ rather than they they are making a truth-claim). Atheism provides no basis for objective morality (as in, nothing is actually wrong it's just your opinion and preference that you dislike a certain action e.g. murder). So it's funny that evangelical atheists write books judging God when they have no basis for morality.
You can go check out a wide variety of arguments and evidences.
See also, that in philosophy there's been a resurgence, and growing sureness, that a God must exist.
See also, nature: The creation cannot create itself (yet atheists insist on this). Nothing cannot create something, and you know that idea that "with a law like gravity the universe can and will create itself"? Well the law of gravity also didn't exist because literally nothing existed, not natural laws, not space nor matter nor time nor energy: Something created the universe, and fyi for thousands of years Genesis 1:1 has attested to the beginning of the universe - and that wasn't a common idea; people used to think the world was eternal.
There is absolute/objective truth.
[The statement "there is no absolute truth" is an absolute statement and thus if true it says it cannot be true, so it self-refutes... and this is post-modernism's main crux, that there are no metanarratives.]
So since there is absolute truth, and by the way there is an objective moral law too, I think you should consider the following.
Have you ever lied? Have you ever stolen anything? Have you ever looked at someone and lusted after them, committing adultery wit them in your heart? Have you ever blasphemed God or used His name in vain? Have you ever envied what someone else had? Those are all sins, and part of the commandments at Exodus 20.
The reason it's brought up is because we look at one another, we say "I'm better than that person there" because we do comparisons rather than pure assessments individually. If you've done another of those things (theft, lying, lusting, swearing, etc.) then you've failed to *love your fellow man to your utmost, to perfection.* Everyone fails on this regard, which is why Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was sent by His Father into our world: Not to condemn us, but to save us, because we ALL stand condemned. (John 3:15-19) If you believe on Him you will be saved, but you should know what you're believing in. The Gospel of John is good reading; Get to know the God of Love, the God who is Moral, the God whose ways are higher than our own; The God of mercy, grace, and goodness. God is glorious, awesome, and good. Only God is good. You are not good, I am not good, because we have the ugly imperfections of sin, and we know what sin is, because God gave us a conscience to know better.
Read the Bible for yourself, perhaps even try to pray, but I tell you this: There are atheists who, in trying to disprove the Bible, actually study it, and become Christians.
Sin is the disease, salvation is the cure: If you don't know that you are a sinner, you won't want to be saved from your sins, but if you listen to the conscience in your head, which on its own is enough to convict you as guilty of sin, you will realize just how many times you choose to do the wrong thing when you know that the right thing is love.
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@@silversilk8438 You know, I used to reply to morons like you but it really is a waste of my time. Open your mind, and read something useful. But don't bother me.
@@mosienko1983 Have a nice day, Annie Mosienko! :) God loves you which is why he gave you a way that you won't have to die for your sins. Believe on His Son and you will be saved. It's not an impossible ask, that he asks that you love your neighbor and love the One who created you.
But I must respectfully disagree with your address of me.
When God says "you are wonderfully and fearfully made" and says that he has numbered the hairs on our heads, and that we are worth more than many sparrows, then I think that for one pot to say to another pot a judgement not held by the potter is inappropriate behaviour.
If God loves me, and God loves you, we should love one another rather than be so bitter.
I hope you will have a really lovely and beautiful day, looking at life with fresh eyes and seeing just how perfectly wonderful it is to be in the moment you're living in, because even the bad moments, looking back, made you stronger like iron tempered by fire and ice.
I hope for you that God will work in your heart and give you faith, and give you understanding, but more importantly, give you peace unlike the peace this world offers (which is so conditional and fading) and love to love others with which you never knew you could love with. (as opposed to the conditional and self-serving affection that one might have for someone to the extent that the other person is being kind back to them)
Oh, and I'd love if it you enjoyed this video: ruclips.net/video/OWjR8C8bKhQ/видео.html
Also, this is a really new/fresh channel, with only about five videos on it now, but it's very brilliant and enjoyable too:
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I hope you come to know our Lord Jesus Christ! _The truth is true even if no one believes it, and a lie is still a lie even if everyone believes it: Truth is objective, but you actually have no basis for objective morality without an external source. There are some brilliant arguments... for instance there's a recent one I'll post link to now_ Much love.
Cool argument: ruclips.net/video/ZD92WaNjJF8/видео.html
How dare you bring context into a complicated topic.
Nothing complicated about this unfortunately what he's leaving out is the lack of accountability by our elected officials who have failed to reconcile past racial injustices(Black Wall street for instance) which help to foster the current climate of race pandering.
@@ROYALP100He didn't say complex but context. And you obviously didn't get the sarcasm.
:Well so glad you're reading between the lines?
@@ROYALP100 , do you know that so-called black wallstreet was simply a prosperous black neighborhood? It had nothing in common with the real wall street.
Roflmao
Worldgonemad seems mad educated on the subject
Liked both his comments.
Are you a kafka man, i wonder
Articulate and intelligent and not afraid to speak the truth however unpopular.
Articulate??? Thats racist! LMAO
@@rachelholtzman6978 Funny joke.
Lol. Is it so rare to find an articulate black man that it's so often pointed out when one is well-spoken? Judging by many sports stars and rappers, perhaps so.
@@dynamicflashy No. It is so rare to find an articulate English professor that it's so often pointed out when one is well-spoken.
He can speak the truth just because he's black. If he happened to be white he won't be allowed to talk like that.
I couldn't agree more. The current version of anti-racism in my opinion is highly likely to increase racism.
It's all well and good calling out anti-racism for being as harmful as it is but when is someone going to publicly denounce racism against white people?
Yanno, the only form of racism that is perfectly acceptable and widely peddled by the mainstream media?
Or how about the fact that we aren't allowed to stand up for or defend ourselves for fear of being smeared as a racist or white supremacist and how this is widening a divide that many people previously fought to bridge?
Anti-racism is 100% a problem, but we cannot turn a blind eye to the normalisation of racism against whites either.
A Skeleton I don’t think we will live long enough to hear racism against whites condemned. You are especially horrible if you are a white man. No matter of your character, you’re just condemned outright with no road to forgiveness. I frankly and outright condemn that attitude and I recognize that there only so far you’re going to push us before we push back.
Yosemite Sam the fact that you can be white, have every form of discrimination against as any black person, but have it shrugged off because your skin tone is just shit
Why do you believe "the current version" of anti-racism is likely to "increase" racism? what is it about the current version that will cause this to happen?
Second question: Is there a version of anti-racism that won't lead to an increase in racism? An would that version be acceptable to you an if so, would you be willing to participate in promoting that version?
Third question: Do you believe there should be a version of anti-racism? If so, what elements would you want to see included that would speak to your concerns, that's not now included in the conversation about race and racism? What in your opinion is needed to have an effective anti-racism conversation? I know, that's way more than 3 questions...lol. But I would appreciate hearing your thoughts.
I do work in the area of racial reconciliation and I'm always interested in finding ways to bring real healing to our racial divide. Thanks!
@@TheDangerous123dan You asked and I consider your questions sincere so I'm going to give you the open honest unfiltered opinions:
1. Because the current version brings out racist thoughts in me. I find myself thinking racially based thoughts and then I have to reason with myself from the collective back to the individual. I start listing the minority people who are precious to me and walk myself back to reason. The beginning of this process goes back to the redefining of racism from a hatred of someone based on their race to requiring power. So someone can (and have) stand up and say the death of every white person on earth would be a good thing but suffer no repercussions whatsoever. Hatred on the base of race, religion or sex is deplorable.
2. Yes, Martin Luther King’s dream that everyone would be judged on the content of the character not the color of their skin is the answer. I was a kid at the time but when I learned of the discrimination, back of the bus, separate water fountains, schools and such like, in my mind I thought, these things are wrong and I applauded the advancements made.
3. Same answer as # 2. Content of character not color of skin. But let me add, to fix anything you have to work at the individual level. There is no “collective” fix for all Blacks, illegal immigrants, poor in other countries. You can’t fix the whole but you can help an individual. Any discussion of anti-racism needs to include whites and as long as we can’t have a discussion on race without whites being labeled racist for engaging in the discussion, it can’t happen. And we have to include behavior in the discussion as well.
I relive the following over an over again:
A young lady pulled up at our building of worship this past Sunday. She couldn’t have been out of her 20s but maybe early 30s. I’ve seen her a lot. She sends her child into the building to ask for assistance. She’s got no husband but has 5 children from 5 different men and naturally she is in constant need of assistance. What chance does she have for a prosperous life? None. And she isn’t really interested in a spiritual life, she just wants financial help. We give her diapers, formula, money for gas and food for the children. What else can you do? What chance do those five kids have? But even mentioning such things will get me called a racist. This country is in crisis over the lack of strong family units but no one can talk about it. The welfare state has destroyed families. And of course if the discussion is over race, then I’m a racist and if the discussion is over the need for fathers then the feminists scream about the patriarchy. I’m frankly glad that I’m not young. I don’t want to see the results of this mess in another 40 years.
The fact he was able to take a step back and look at the facts and be willing to reevaluate his opinion goes to show what he says is well thought out
"The dead bodies of black males are circulated shared and memed with little hesitation. Many in our society accept this reality as a norm but what effect does death have on the lives [and] the mental concept of the self that black males formulate in this violent world ? How do black males regard the future in a world which is so limited by the present ?
To be a black male is to live in constant fear of being accused of some offence against another. Black males live in a world where any accusation [made] against them is thought to be evidence of their guilt" Tommy J Curry (professor of black studies and Africana philosophy currently based in Scotland, UK - excerpt from his book The Man Not.)
Yes, this is well thought out and articulate. However, it is incomplete and full of fallacies. Like if I were to build a house on an unstable foundation, causing lots of damage to the house, would I keep trying to repair the house or would I repair the foundation first? That’s what’s happening here. He keeps talking about repairing certain outcomes of broken systems, rather than repairing the actual systems that create the inequality and oppression.
Facts? Wow I'm not even 5 mins into this video and this guy has already said a number of inaccurate things. Shaver's shooting was in NO WAY the same as the shooting of Tamir Rice. Shaver, 26, adult, white male, was using a scoped pellet gun from his hotel window. It was seen and cops were called. The entire incident went on for a period of time where his friends were ordered away and he was given instructions by the officers. In the stress of the situation he made movements that he was told not to and then he moved his hand to his waistband and the officer shot him. Bad shooting. He was unarmed. But to say this is the same as Rice? This was a 12 year old in a playground in broad daylight. The officer was called and told rice was an adult and the officer drove up, gave NO WARNING and shot this child in TWO SECONDS from INSIDE his car. How the F is that the same!? What the hell? I couldn't even keep watching this video because that right there sets up how dis ingenious this guy is being. I could be with you if you were arguing that hysteria over race can cloud things and weaken real justice for blacks. But don't pull out these ridiculous comparisons. Shame on this guy and I'm sorry for anyone who watches this and doesn't do the research.
@@yourmom2189 You saved your logical fallacies for the end of your comment...… it would have been better if you listed them first; so I could dismiss your comment and move on to actual reason and rationality sooner.
Laertes Indeed it would have been better if you hadn’t commented to. But here we are 🤷♂️
Joe Rogan needs this guy on his Podcast now.
Joe Rogans a Prick
@@georgechristie9464 No, he's a thumb. 😂
@@keithdenno839 George Christie doesn't know wtf he's talking about.
@@keithdenno839 Not even a debate. He just facilitates good conversations most of the time.
He certainly does.
My father, a white man, was killed by a LAPD officer named Kevin Arnold. He was unarmed and did not deserve to die. It's why the "white privlege" thing hurts so much. I WISH I had some of that. Im below the poverty line and live in the hood. I love my community and life, but everything I have, I fucking EARNED it.
that was classism-prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class. : poor white vs. white elitism. Trust you still have white privilege against minorities.
xoxo unicorn that privilege can get used against you because you are a standout in that environment, be more thoughtful and have a variety of thought instead of just implying “well even though you suffered this and that setback, you’d still have this privilege” everybody is human and situations aren’t always propertied to fit your rational
Privilege is contextual. It does exist but it is much more nuanced than the SJW leftist think. Yes, white privilege does exist, I have seen it. In most asian countries, if you are white you receive a lot of benefits from being white, but in the same vein if you are white and you live in the hood of chicago or detroit your privilege is not very substantial. people will still look at you like you are trash, whether you are black or white. Similarly, if you are a trans colored person on a college campus you possess a near godly level of privilege where you can get away with just about anything and get most scholarships or programs you apply for without having any merit. Privilege does exist, but it is contextual and goes both ways, but it has been simplified and used by a weapon of the left, which only ever hurts the people they try to "protect"
42Nightsyesterday I would sort of put a but on white privilege in Asia. While it is true, but in a lot of countries white.. or at this extent foreigner of almost any origin have no rights as locals do. It’s hard to do business, super hard to buy property, let alone even to settle down there unless u marry a local. Plus you are not taken serious and you always know you are a guest.
@@kat3325 yes you are totally right, but just to make my point simple and clear I didn't want to get too into it since this is a topic that can be talked about at great length. suffice it to say in the short term it is nice to be white in asia, but for long term settling down it is much more difficult, and with a societies in asia being very community based you will never be fully accepted, even if you are fluent and have lived there for years. anyways, what privilege you do receive is based on stereotypes and fetishes of westerners which are beneficial but still annoying. still, its better than the stereotypes they have about black people or other asians I'll say. being an asian foreigner in a place like japan for example is quite harsh.
I adore this man for his intellectual honesty and ability to scrutinize what many consider sacred. He also only uses exactly the right word for what he means.
He makes you feel good about your life....what makes me laugh is I know if a cop stops him on the way home from this talk his heart is beating as hell like he's going to loose his life..
@@mdkvisions You are a fucking troll if you think anybody "feels good" about people getting killed. Yeah. Cops are uniformed goons with guns and that is scary. Living in a high gang and crime neighborhood is verifiably 90 times more dangerous and likely to get killed than by a cop. Why do you not address that fact?
@@craigdamage Wait... do you think that excuse copw behaviour.
That you think cops go around thinking. 'Well, this is a bad part of town. Safetys off then. If the bullet happens to lodge in someone's head, nobody will care.'
Sure, that's not racist, but it's just about as bad. And, I'll remind you, this is what you're saying
It's the fact that the cops can and will harass you without any repercussion whatsoever, just because they feel like it, that gets to me. On top of that, many of them (most in my experience) can be incredibly rude and disrespectful, they often treat you like you wasted their time by not doing anything wrong or having anything on you. But I guess I deserved that for having the audacity to work a night shift.
Baki Hanma might be the area, cops used to absolutely suck where I’m living. Now they aren’t terrible, got keep in mind it’s a hard ass job as well. Because any day could turn into your last fairly easy, plus they are flawed humans just everyone else
My father, born in 1927, was a pioneer in the community college movement in NC; he speaks of how education allowed him to escape poverty and then spent his career striving to give back by promoting education for everyone, black, white, brown. The belief that education is somehow elitist, on both the right and the left, has devastated our country. Heartbreaking.
Never heard this argued so eloquently. This man can stand with the greats that are Thomas Sowell and Larry Elder.
Treating modern progressivism as an ideology or political movement isn't going to work. That's abundantly clear. Treating it as a religion might just hold the keys to freedom.
This is because it's a civilized debate. He's able to make is argument without being shut down.
He is a linguist, so eloquently for him comes easy. This was a great debate, and if you have an hour or so to listen to the entire thing, I highly recommend it. He's also written a few articles detailing the similarities between anti-racism as an ideology and religion. Coleman Hughes is a younger man that says similar things. We need more like them, since they are criticizing their own group (the left) and can't be as easily dismissed as "right-wing extremists".
I love Thomas Sowell. He's my boy.
@@laurenlochamybatson8159read over your comment.. this is the way White society mutes the cries coming from the slave quarters out back. Get a Black man who is so desperate for peace and some degree of normalcy in his life, that he will stand on the plantation steps to speak out against his unruly family in favor of his owner. You love him because he disarms his community of the only weapon they have to fight, that is, speaking against that which continues destroys the Black community. You may like to believe that you are not a racist person, but as soon as you side with racist policy, or encourage Black men to condemn his community for voicing, that which may cause you to feel uncomfortable, you have adopted the characteristics of a racist.
I stumbled here -- I must know more about this man...
Me too. Same here
ruclips.net/video/NZ2ejORUANQ/видео.html
This is where I first found him.
He was disagreeing with Jordan Peterson in a QNA about transgender pronoun use.
He later stated that he refused to go on a panel with Jordan because he didn’t want to be the “token black man.”
I feel like he got a bit wiser about race issues since then... he’s recognized as part of the IDW today.
@@SolDizZo John Has been delivering the same basic message about race since publishing "Losing the Race" in 2000. For a long time, it was assumed by many on the left that he was a Republican, because of his contrarian views on race. He's actually a centrist, and calls himself a "cranky Democrat".
white girls can't resist that intellectual BBC tbh
Me too. A breath of fresh air for sure in a world full of bullshit.
As a Black conservative, this is a breath of fresh air. Of course, racism exists. However, I totally agree that the present scorch-earth approach is delusional and ultimately counterproductive.
Absolutly racism excists. Some white men hate blacks, some asians hate native americans, some japanese wil hate chinese and so on. But the white hate black per definition BLM uses all the time is total and absolute bollocks.
If a guy resists arrest or is just being a dumbass towards the police or even do pull a knife or gun on a cop you might get shot.
9 000 I’m sure he said it to highlight how stupid the whole thing is since he finds them equally silly
As a person living in rural Oklahoma I can see you the same sort of consistent and continual anger over things because of the economic instability as well as the seemingly hopelessness of people situations while our communities aren't necessarily as depressed as the inner cities I know what that's like I used to live in the projects in Detroit I can't imagine the degree of trouble that people living in these extreme poverty high crime areas are experiencing but it's not an excuse for their disingenuous argument about racism something has to be to blame and just saying it's the system doesn't cut it.
Damn right it exists, and more of it is being directed at white males than blacks at the moment. Its so hard to find actual racism that people like jesse smalldick have to fake entire hate crimes, then he gets away with it.
"Anti-Racism" is the new racism
Huh. It's refreshing to hear someone speak logically rather than emotionally.
@josh fritz - and I would argue that it's your emotions that make you think this rubbish is actually logical 👍
@@Mr._Moderate When someone says something that you not only disagree with, but also challenges a belief you hold, you instinctively react with emotion as if you were attacked, and double down on what you believe because you're no longer thinking with reason, but emotion.
@@Kitkat-986 actually I thought he was opening a new perspective because I never heard of the cases he referred to... Then I investigated those cases... And he's a fraud.
What did you do? Did to do that? 👂
@@Mr._Moderate explain how those cases indicate he is a fraud?
@@Mr._Moderate because i believe you are the delusional one here
watching in June 2020. worthwhile discussion of anti-racism as religion, right now.
I can see that: in the same way pre-enlightenment religion advanced human civilization for tens of thousands of years, we now need rational moral systems (like anti-racism, action on AGW etc) if we are to continue that advance for another 10, 20, 50, 100 thousand years - and beyond.
McWhorter definitely has some interesting insights on the matter and I think there has been a shift away from some of the more "religious" aspects of anti-racism that he highlights here. From what I'm seeing, there's this huge push for the sort of policies that are actually going to produce change rather than a simple appeal to the white guilt complex. There is still discussion of white identity and race but the goal seems to be making whites more conscious of internal biases and the ways in which our passive biases actually cause harm instead of just trying to induce some simplistic guilt trip. It may just be bias in what I'm seeing, but I think there's been a real shit away from the less-than-productive neo-liberal policies that have been bogging down actual progress.
A lot of the tweets, essays, etc. that I've been seeing recently indicate that there are black communities in this country that are very much preoccupied with addressing violence within their communities because it's a known problem. I have seen voices from some black communities saying there isn't discussion of that issue, so I imagine it varies from one community to the next and that the topic just hasn't reached the level of nation-wide dialogue yet. Police brutality has been an issue for far longer than the gangs that contribute to intra-racial killings so it makes some amount of sense that there's lag. I think right now the biggest reason people are trying to keep that issue out of the main discussion is because it's being used to deflect away from the issue of police brutality.
@@ajchapeliere no its still just as religious. 3 funerals for george floyd( a violent repeat criminal). his death was the 2nd coming of jesus for them, he proved the prophecy"america is racist" true to them.
David Dorn(valiant retired policeman) killed in protest/riots. where's his 3 funerals?
its still religious: ruclips.net/video/AeaUG2d_GKY/видео.html
look at how they react to logical conversation on data.
"From what I'm seeing, there's this huge push for the sort of policies that are actually going to produce change rather than a simple appeal to the white guilt complex."
This is only happening because so many more people have joined their ideology so the alarm is louder than ever.
@@ajchapeliere If that is true, it would be very hopeful. Can you provide some links to this new paradigm? I have not yet run into any substantial shift, but as you say it may vary by location or community. I need some hope that we can escape from the stalemate, rather than just dig it deeper.
@@zephsmith3499 I'm not sure if there are any documents from the BLM movement itself that outline it but I do see some elements of the shift in think-pieces like this one
forge.medium.com/performative-allyship-is-deadly-c900645d9f1f
One of the things McWhorton touched on that really struck me was this idea that Anti-Racism was focusing on white guilt in a way that wasn't actually productive. I'm still definitely seeing an emphasis on the idea that white passivity and blindness to certain issues is a key part of the overall problem but that's being accompanied by discussions of what actions we can actually take to tangibly help black communities. I'm seeing a lot more posts about major historical events in the black community on social media than I remember seeing in the past (could be confirmation bias, but even if it is, I'm taking the opportunity to learn). There seems to be a move to educate white people about the policies and events that have created setbacks for black Americans so we can make more informed decisions going forward.
I also found an op-ed in which a black author called out his white publishers for stalling on a major pre-publication meeting with him to "take time to reflect on current events" or something along those lines. I'm having trouble finding it but if I track it down, I'll link it.
Outside of that, it looks like there's more urgency behind passing legislation in this country than I think we've seen since 9/11. Gov. Cuomo of NY signed legislation today banning the use of choke-holds and other neck restraints. Other cities and states have been making similar moves. Some are moving towards defunding police and/or completely restructuring public safety programs. A lot of that news is available through the NY Times live blog which should be free access:
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/us/protests-george-floyd-black-lives-matter.html
It's still hit and miss I think but the fact that we're actually having conversations about performative allyship and white guilt being unproductive is a good sign.
Self ownership is what we’re lacking.
Donalex Corfgutip 100% agree. America is a breeding ground for victim mentality. Somehow the idea of working hard to succeed got switched out with entitlement. Rich people are entitled when they evade taxes legally and try to manipulate poorer people using their power and reach, and poor people are entitled when they think the NYC metro should be free and rich people should have to give up their hard-earned money. What’s the point of the working hard to achieve the American dream if the government (which has proven to mismanage and waste money time and time again) plans to take half your earned income away? People just seem to think only rich people can be entitled. And that is illogical.
Stable white-respected ownership will happen when enuf antiracist whites stand up with black folk to stop / alter systemic racism. For eg: How whites can admit their racism and take action to REPAIR it WITHOUT GUILT ruclips.net/video/Qx-gUfQx4-Q/видео.html
Why being unapologetically Anti-Racist is needed, not just being NON-racist ruclips.net/video/a2EtQdf-cpQ/видео.html
How to be an Antiracist ruclips.net/video/TzuOlyyQlug/видео.html ruclips.net/video/mxa43H8m034/видео.html
Black man describes how he shed his own racism ruclips.net/video/TzuOlyyQlug/видео.html?t=1069
thats a fact
I would go a little further and say that it is self determination that is lacking,
The universities promote a culture where determining the future of your own self is sacrificed in the vain hope that you can embark on a journey of altruism and purge their respective countries of all the wrongs, both present and past, as that delays the long hard look in the mirror to discover who you actually are.
Their unspoken mantra being 'The longer that I can fight for other peoples rights, the longer I can delay my childhood.' its the Peter Pan Complex.
Gary Lake a round of applause for you, sir 👏 well said.
This needs to go viral. This perspective needs to be shared. The truth is eye opening.
Thank you so much. As a Latino man I was thinking I was going insane for feeling this way.
Yes, you are insane and probably a little bigoted to boot 💁
@@Mr._Moderate Wow you're all over this comment section. The cognitive dissonance is really getting to you, huh?
@@klondikebelridge1996 actually no its not... Are you depressed now because you've been upended?
@@Mr._Moderate No, people pointing out how your world view is bullshit isn't bothering you at all. That's why you're all over the comment section accusing people you don't know of being racist. Mark of a simpleton to accuse people of bad motives rather than debate the actual points being discussed. Hopefully you'll grow up.
@@klondikebelridge1996 don't debate me debate McWhorter. He's the simpleton that started this video with horrible inaccuracies that you and yours sopped up as truth serum.
Thank you John for clearly articulating what I couldn’t quite put my finger on about the manufactured outrage that is often displayed by race hustlers.
Erick Minor You mean the Reverend Al Sharpton? 🤔 I still remember the article I read about alleged hate crimes against Tawana Brawley in 1989.
just make sure that isnt all you get. Dont just come here for an "Aha!".
Odibex - Asians are wealthier than whites
Now tell me what a "black" person is: People aren't crayons
Are you pretending you don't know what someone means when they say "black person"?
I know what it means depending on context because it is an immoral social construct generated by tribal desires to separate people into groups using arbitrary designations (people pretend "black" is what my skin looks like if i spend time in the sun, otherwise they call it "white" or "tan." Now, I'm not a crayon: What color are puertoricans?)
"a person of African descent" = black?
I'm from America, all of my ancestors are American born.
Let's go with "white"
WW1 was fought by a lot of shades of white that would've called themselves a separate race then, yet they don't now. Now all Europeans are "white." XD so many crayons
It is simple: If you utilize race to separate humans, you're a racist.
I'm not racist: I am American. What are you?
As a black man I 100% agree with this man
TdotJohn As a white man, i 100% agree with Mayonnaise
Paul van Dinther truth
as an internet comment I am 100% pointless
as a person on this world, he makes some pretty good points.
because he has inside perspective and isnt just going with the PC story.
I am terrified about the way things are going in the United States. We are more divided and angry than ever before, and the horrific truth is that the vocal majority of people think that they are making things better.
The divide is done on purpose and the whites in charge of it couldn't care less about black lives. If they did they'd be protesting against the killing fields in Chicago every week. The blacks murdered in Chicago in a year equals the number of people of every color killed yearly by police. Most of the police caused deaths are warranted which is why we don't hear about them.
"We are more divided than ever" just screams "I didn't do any critical thinking before saying this."
It’s suppose to. Research Gregg Braden. He explains during this year earths magnetic field is low. Which controls our moods and attitudes . But it will rise after
I really like this advice
@Great Lakes I think its more than blacks who don't want brutal cops. One thing that is true is the police kill the powerless in society & that's always been the poor. Also important to remember even if the Taliban were killing more blacks than police - the taliban aren't paid to serve & protect.
That is why I respect John McWhorter so very much -- his willingnes to change his mind in the face of new information. It is the sign of a superior intellect.
I disagree. I think it’s a sign of humility. There’s a lot of brilliant individuals who are frankly too arrogant to change their views. Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug. It takes humility to admit you are wrong and change. [+]
I don't understand why men like him who think critically and obviously intelligent are not chosen as country leaders? Why are Clintons and Trumps chosen?
Moments
Money
@@MrPokerblot Ding Ding Ding. It's money and popularity of name. Takes Millions and Millions to even run. If you don't got it then you gotta get it through a fund raiser. But no one is gonna give you money just for being honest. You have to promise them results in their favor.
A guy like this does not have a corrupt bone in his body. THAT is why he could never be chosen
Because every-day folks don't participate early in the process (caucus level). People who attend caucus choose the party platform, choose who will represent them at county, state, & national assembly, and choose who make the ballots. When only the folks who's hobby is politics participate at caucus, you get the extreme right and extreme left choosing who the Regular Joe's get to vote for on election day.
This guy's time is short in acedemia if he is going to go off script like this moving forward. Good for him.
In academia? That's just the first door to close on him if he doesn't get back on the rail.
This man has been off script for nearly 20 years
@@Thkaal I hope he remains in a prominent position and continues sticking to the truth. 2019 is a different time for truth tellers than any other point in history. All dissenting voices are being eliminated in a multitude of ways, but mainly algorithmically. Those that are awake, not that fake psyop woke bullshit, need to be vigilant. No one is coming to save us, only we can stave off the dystopian future predicted in just about every other Hollywood movie.
Tenure. It cuts both ways, but for this man.. it's his shield. :)
Wow. I know him from his linguistics lectures. This just brought my respect for him to a whole new level...
You’re a brilliant man. I’ve enjoyed two of your previous books... Losing the Race which was followed by Winning the Race. Excellent work. I will be reading more of your work. Stay focused, positive and keep your message out there. We need voices like yours now!!
This guy should do voice over work, his cadence is very pleasant
If you like his delivery, his "Lexicon Valley" podcast has it, plus lots of funny bits and interesting trivia about the evolution of language. It almost never has any political content--he keeps his commentary on race issues separate from his career as a (popular) linguist.
@@zenobardot oh I love politics lol
@@badtits8982 I probably love politics more than is healthy.
Just saying McWhorter has more facets to his personality than what we see in this video.
He sounds like a family guy character. Has that sleepiness in his voice.
Yes.
John McWhorter just articulated many of the thoughts I’ve had over the past 30 years, that are anathema to speak aloud.
I oppose racism and racists, and also oppose the current culture of perpetual victimhood and collective guilt by association.
always the victim.......makes me sick
there isn't much wrong with racism... it's discrimination that's worrisome.... i could care less if some dude dislikes me for my skin, i really truly do not give a fuck... racism is natural, i fully accept it and i'm one of those people that believes everyone is racist because IT IS LITERALLY CODED INTO OUR DNA.... a left over from tribal days...
what i do care about is if i can't get a job because of either my skin color or the skin color of the people that need to be hired....
if i don't like you racially, i still would care MOST about what you can do for me if i employ you because MONEY is my number one concern and priority in my business
i'll forgive every racism in the world if you can do the job... mine or yours
@@notimportant3686 well you can't have discrimination without racism. And no it's not in our DNA. What a ludicrous idea. It is learned from th culture you are raised in.
@@jeffreyyoungblood7438 You absolutely can have discrimination without racism and it happens all the time.
One example: many women won't date short men because they like tall men. That's discriminating on physical height. No racism involved.
Jeffrey Youngblood You've seriously never heard of age discrimination? Sex discrimination?
What’s this, logical and rational independent thinking?
Yes
Yep. And I'm sure the dislikes are all people calling him an Uncle Tom.
It's not, I saw 3 other black people bringing up the same reasoning. Saying the Exact same things, calling the exact same names, of people that died .trying to justify something, what they are talking about is it facts? yes, but they still don't get it. the people who are saying this are ,well dressed and highly educated. Fools, They are not representing the majority of black people, that's why they don't understand, I'm not from United States of america so I can see it, but they can't . But I do understand what he's saying that's logic. Logic and reality is two different things.
killerB 187 R.O.D stunna that’s a whole load of meaningless nonsense you just said
@@killerb187r.o.dstunna9 His logic is using the reality. Lol 🤦
Commenting just so the algorithm gets more people to see this
That's very important, so I'm doing the same.
You're a true soldier
Gotta spread the truth
Spreading your white supremacist ideology! - jk jk 🙃
YoungGrasshopper I’m black
In my short life, I have learned that evil comes in all COLORS shapes and sizes
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Evil is formless yet it latches on to all things
@Mr. Freiheit more on point it would be black, white, gray, and/or red, but yes
@Katrina M Evil comes from the heart of people, who also come in all shapes and sizes
Well said. Would you mind me sharing this?
Wow, Never heard of this gentleman. Very impressive, please dont be quiet in your message. In these confusing times it is even more important for you to be heard
Wish more people would listen to voices of reason, thank you for your wisdom.
McWhorter and Loury are both brilliant thinkers that stick to the real facts. People need to hear this. Spread the word.
I just watched a video of a black preacher who led marches against police go through use of force training with the police. He ended up being shot in one scenario and shooting a unarmed man in another. He learned that compliance would stop almost everyone of these shootings.
Huge Respect to this man. He spoke using neutral language. He values truth over fame and is brave enough to face the inevitable name calling that is probably going to come his way for speaking truth. We need more like him
Where has Mr. McWhorter been these past two years to give some reason to all this madness. I had been missing his honesty and intellect for some time.
Shepsu Tera Netchebmaa Ikr? We needed him over a decade ago!
@@AdultThirdCultureKid1971 I first heard some of his great logic and reason about 15 years ago. Lost touch with him. He doesn't fit the lefts narrative although he's a liberal.
This is where I first found him. He disagreed with Jordan Peterson in a QNA about half a year ago.
ruclips.net/video/NZ2ejORUANQ/видео.html
Blexit. Candace.
This man gives me hope
Too few and far between. People like him will inevitably get drowned out by the mob.
Also emotions trump facts in that particular community.
@@igorivanov299 your "facts" are actually severe inconsistencies trending quickly in the direction of Inaccurate 👍
@@Mr._Moderate
What "facts"?
That the black mob drowns out any dissent?
That's a fact check true ✔
You can't argue against this.
Being an individual with independent thought isn't allowed, lest you get smeared with:
"Bed W__ch" for women and "C__n" for the men.
And shunned by all.
Hive mind mentality:
Know your role, stick in your lane, remain on the plantation.
Those are the mantras that y'all live by.
@@Mr._Moderate
Keep voting democrat. 🗳 👍🏻
@@igorivanov299 Please tell me how any of those case comparisons help his argument?
I vote open and freely... You can vote RepubliCrat for eternity however
Who the hell is this guy and why have I never heard of him?? I need more!!
Acolyte47 John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics. He does lectures on linguistics for The Great Courses and has written a number of books on linguistics as well as at least one book on race relations in America. He also hosts a podcast on language called Lexicon Valley. I agree he is really great.
you've probably not heard of him because he doesnt suit more common agendas, as in lies, truth gets you nowhere these days sadly.
He pokes holes in the left’s views with logic. You will never see him on the mainstream propaganda channels that brainwash the masses.
His name is in the title 🤔
You've never heard him because he's not out being controversial, the media probably thinks he's uninteresting for a story. We need more coverage on guys like this. Really sucks the truth is so hard to get out there.
thank you sir. Reason and intellectual honesty are the only road to a sane society.
His words about "anti-racism" becoming a religion are more true than ever in 2020. Every argument is true, this new religion even has an Inquisition medieval level and style. Shameful shortsighted and anti-moral.
This statement OMG shared it on my FB, man you so on point brother. And this is why racisme only exists as concept cause i am black and to me it even appealed to me what your color is. Evil souls is the problem and evil, it is good vs evil in my opinion as umbrella.
@TrashPanda Raccoon dear sir or madam, i work with all cultures, religions, origines people in Europe. Retailers, foodservice and industry. All my hard working clients tell me that they always worked hard and never had systemic racisme in Europe. Facts and figures tell everybody the true story. Booing and whining is for little kids. I know individual racisme exists, but very small and in every culture and social group.
@TrashPanda Raccoon I think your remark is really undignifying. I dont think you have to be black to be able to sympathise, or at least intelletually understand the problem of raciemand priviledge. I have to agree with John here. It has become a religion. And the danger is that we tend to forget that in the system, other people are suffering too. Not only blacks.
@TrashPanda Raccoon What about the black guy who is the one who said it in the first place... like, wut? If a black guy can say that and you shoot a white guy down for saying the same thing, isn't that him dealing with your prejudice right now? Invalidating your statement?
Sorry, but they are not true. He is straw manning the other side. For example “Despite what you may have heard, no one’s trying to make white men feel guilty for being white men” www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-07/column-no-ones-trying-to-make-white-men-feel-guilty-for-being-white
His argument that anti-racism is a religion is predicated on the belief that white people need to feel eternally guilty for being white. But almost no one actually believes that.
Anti racism is basically telling people "change your opinion because we say so!" That rarely changes peoples opinions. Hate is a powerful and comforting thing. It unifies amd strengthens people. Unfortunately hating people based on skin color alone will always exist. I feel bad for people that ignorant. They're missing out on knowing some pretty cool people of all colors and religions etc.
I agree that hatred can unify people for a time but then it becomes a burden much like constant fear or other negative emotions.
As a white guy who is married to a minority I must be honest the more I hear I am racist by default the more I am less likely to cut minorities slack.
Professor McWhorter is 100% spot on.
CJ Fripp I don’t think so and I don’t think it is possible. It is more sublime... they want to do to us what you hear me express. They want to keep a constant distrust in the back of our minds so they can play one against the other and reap the benefits of us being disgruntled.
This. I never was a real racists, but after hearing of "white privileges" for years I am starting to be racist more and more. Still, these ignorant fucks will not ruin my view of my favorite black celebrities for me.
@Snails40 Wow we have an Einstein with us... I live in America, not the cesspool global world.
Wait a second, he's not giving you a free pass to be less sympathetic to be people who suffer from racism, he's saying you shouldn't pointlessly internalise the problem like it's all your fault.There's a heck of a lot of difference between those two things.
James Owen I know you are not talking to me. I empathize with anyone subjected to REAL racism, regardless of color. So not sure where you are misdirecting your comment.
Jonathan McWhorter says it like it is. After watching just a few videos like this I come to realise I need to start following this gentleman. A true intellectual. Excellent presentation.
OMG listening to someone who actually has a brain and can thing these issues through instead pumping a fever pitch of chaos and calamity.
so people who are acting against racism have no brain?
and to be clear, he says that racism still does exist in the US
@@vinylrichiejr.2416 You obviously didn't listen at all.
@@vinylrichiejr.2416 ruclips.net/video/el0A_oO6E7M/видео.html
C P You obviously just a arrogant person who wants feel superior to others just because he watched a 14 Minute RUclips Video.
This man wouldn’t say other people have no brain because he treats people with respect and stays humble. It‘s not just about the content you can learn from this man..
@@vinylrichiejr.2416 Lets see. Lately anyone who doesn't cow down to the politically correct story line has been absolutely destroyed publicly. The head football coach at Oklahoma State may lose his job because he wore a Trump t shirt. So you tell me who wants to be superior over others. I would say it s the people who want to destroy anyone who disagrees with them. Not someone who applauds someone for looking at these issues with context and thoughtfulness. Okay snowflake.
This man should be an integrated part of the presidential cabinet.
@benji And shoot be booed!
@@jamesmendez7575 Oprah may have had a curious show following the OJ Simpson acquittal yet when you review the catalogue of Donahue you have to concede he really pushed for conflicting ideas and alternative views. This channel alongside the history declassified one has much useful material and should be considered alongside Lance Hill's material on the deacons for defence
archive.org/details/TheCowsRadioShow
archive.org/details/TheCowsRadioShow2
www.talkshoe.com/show/thecows
In his introduction to Deacons For Defence [and Justice] he writes:
King was acutely aware of these white fears of violence, and in his first and most important book, Stride toward Freedom, published in 1958, he adamantly argued that the civil rights movement had to adopt nonviolence if it wanted to win over northern whites. ‘‘Only through a nonviolent approach can the fears of the white community be mitigated,’’ argued King. ‘‘A guilt-ridden white minority lives in fear that if the Negro should ever attain power, he would act without restraint or pity to revenge the injustices and brutality. . . . Many white men fear retaliation. The job of the Negro is to show them that they have nothing to fear, that the Negro understands and forgives and is ready to forget the past.’’
‘‘Bomb our homes and threaten our children; send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our communities and drag us out on some wayside road, beating us half dead, and we will still love you. But we will soon wear you down by our capacity to suffer.’’
Minister Malcolm mocked this capacity to love when he spoke of the need to "suffer peacefully" itself provoking reflection on 'The Moral Masochism at the Heart of Christianity' . Maybe this explains why Rodney King called for an end to the violence on May 1, 1992: "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?
In April 1963, in his Letter From A Birmignham Jail:
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait...
In his essay “The August 28th March on Washington: The Castrated Giant” (1964), in Duties, Pleasures, Conflicts: Essays in Struggle, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell wrote
"This exploitation of so many angry and sincere people, whose indignation was misrepresented as some kind of testimonial for the SYSTEM that had oppressed them, and against which they were protesting, must qualify as one of the greatest and most shameless manipulations of recent years."
@Cary Contreras - you and everyone else on this thread are despicable. 👍
Sorry for raining on your white privilege parade carry on 💁♂️
@Rob Pashley because he's "non-threatening"?
@Rob Pashley what truth?
1. Just because he makes you feel less insecure about your racial identity doesn't mean it's the truth
2. Did you research the names of the people he referred to see if they were "exactly the same"? 🤔
I'll wait...
I like that he is willing to re-consider his pre-conceived notions. That is how you develop and grow. There is trancendental ideas that exist outside the domain of our current knowledge.
isn't this ironic.
@@vibes1652 again irony flies past these people. there are a ton of you saying the exact same tired words on this comment section. but somehow think you all are special unique freethinkers when all of your ideas come from 17th century racists.
@@josephine190 Are you willing to re-consider that all our ideas don't come from 17th century racists. Can you support that claim.
Thinking 'outside the box' is increasingly rare in today's dystopian hive mind wrought with polar extremes. If you disagree with something out of respective side's groupthink then you become an entity without a group (exaggerated analogy: a wolf pack dismissing a wolf from the collective). McWhorter, while widely respected by academicians, is on the Left and has taken a lot of flak for not embracing the groupthink programming, so in some ways an exile from both major political parties. Of course, intellectuals such as himself are leaders and not followers, having individualism and a great mind to articulate a thought that is their own; Groupthink is for those too lazy or naive to research objectively and sufficiently enough to form their own opinion. I'm not immune to groupthink, but I know it when I see it, because it is the exact same copy/paste message regurgitated in forums of all kinds, high and low.
@@josephine190
Another skintellectual runs her fraudulent low IQ mouth and surprise... surprise... stupid comes out.
It seems to me that the media promotes and even invents racism. Headlines such as:
"Group of loitering black youths told to leave Starbucks."
"Group of loitering youths told to leave Starbucks" is a non-story. There is no interest. Its boring.
Add "Black" and you get another controversial article about racism.
Usually they wouldn't include the word "loitering," either.
You are so right! Media is definitely fueling this fire.
Jussie Smoilet had to try and invent some racism because there is so little in this country
Bingo! They’ve been doing this since as far as I can remember. Stopped trusting the media in 1992 when I was 10. The local LA news kept pumping hate, racism, etc and stoked the fires for the LA Riots.
The police was called because they looked suspicious. All they were doing was waiting for a friend there.
I don't know if it was racist or not but it doesn't seem normal to call the police because black people are waiting in a Starbucks. It's something white people(or any other group) would do
it takes a soft speaker like this just to get a couple people to think critically!? god help us all
@SGT NOS no, my point was that we shouldn't just take this guy's word for it; Conservatives have saying this for YEARS.
GalaxyOfReeses KIng mass hysteria... American population is being manipulated through social media.... wake people up
@SGT NOS cops kill people all the time? Like wtf? How many unarmed, innocent people do they kill? Any numbers?
@SGT NOS umm it's not just one black person. Educate yourself. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
@SGT NOS the way you make your point is really unclear. Are you saying cops are killing alot or not?
Ewwww, a free thinker. Let’s shun him and try to get his job taken away.
Lol post his address and murder his family for having a differing opinion!! Disgusting! How dare he!
Comments like this aren’t helping along the situation. Our modern culture gets dopamine hits from “smack downs” when what we need are useful discussions that help move us forward....no?
@@mikexxxmilly Bigot logic :)
@@madimakes Wait are you serious or can you not detect sarcasm?
How dare a person of color say such things. Time to throw racial slurs at him and say he's not really black.
Let's get back to the "content of a person's character".
That's "racist" now. Dumbing down of America is complete. Slogans are easier for most people to digest than nuanced thought like this.
Haven't you heard? Every word and action has to be calculated according to the catagories ascribed to the person you are interacting with. It's called equality.
The last thing that followers of the socialist race theory cult want to be judged by is their content of character.
MLK would be canceled these days. That’s how insane we are
I miss that concept.
What bums me out is that this nuanced, reasonable presentation will either be boiled down to "Racism doesn't exist" or "This man is denying racism exists" by people who want to see it as such.
like McWhorter said... to those people it is a religion, and he is speaking their blasphemy
@Chris As I scrolled down past the comments..... what you say is precisely what happened.
@PickingNamesSux It may be becoming worse nowadays, but people have always been predisposed to this mentality. It's human nature, unfortunately.
Even though near the end he explicitly states that racism exists and is a problem.
But those people won't watch that far.
I suppose that the point is that it's more about class. A stupid number of cops are trained in a culture of fear(I disagree that it's a rogue cop thing, it's a cop culture thing), this leads them to trigger-happy behavior that results in unnecessary killings. Who do they kill? The poor: 4:15
The cops are there to enforce the status quo of the politically powerful, I.E. the rich. If you're poor, Black, White, Native, Whoever. They want to abuse and exploit you all the same, the police are simply one tool of many to do so.
"anti-racism hurts black people" is an awful take for this lecture and destroys all nuance. OP describes precisely what this title in a video featuring a black man does to people. Perhaps "identity politics hurt black people" is more accurate, but that's not as clickbaity.
The problem with identity politics is that people of all races are convinced to divide themselves along lines of race rather than wealth, splitting unity of the working class. It's extremely detrimental to impoverished people's advancement in society.
But it's very useful for a rich person's 'divide and conquer' strategy to have poor white folks align with rich white folks simply for skin color alone, rather than other poor minorities, even though the average poor white person has far more in common with the average poor black person, So rich folk feed the racism narrative, even if they don't genuinely believe in white supremacy, it benefits them to get useful idiots to believe it so they can cut a huge demographic off from itself.
My only issue with this lecture is that things like improving the socioeconomic conditions for black communities is a major component of anti-racism. Why does he only look at the least favorable aspects of anti racism while pretending that the benefits of it aren't actually part of antiracism?
^^^ This is the problem with debate in America right now if you ask me. Politicians and the media tend to pick the worst parts of the opposing viewpoint and strawman the shit out of them instead of finding common ground and enacting measurable change.
There's one thing the harmful religion of anti racism has done, which is give this boob a career
That's actually the opposite of reality. Black people are socioeconomically oppressed specifically because of the "anti-racism" progressive agenda. Thomas Sowell has been making this quite clear since the 80s.
@@Gearyco Yeah, Digital Ambition, totally, today's black youth are impoverished because of a legacy of anti-racist, progressive policies. That's what did it.
Take a look at an anti-racist, progressive policy like red-lining. Those progressive anti-racists really goofed things up when they denied black Americans access to credit/mortgages, and prevented them from owning property in well into the 1960s. Or, what about the progressive, anti-racist policy to get "tough on crime", and blow up the American prison population? That anti-racist policy that ended up incarcerating huge portions of the black male population, wrecking the convict's economic well-being, tearing their family apart, and consigning them to low pay, unskilled labor for the rest of their life. Don't even get me started on how the progressive, anti-racist policy of segregation set black americans back. I don't get why leftist progressives can't see this?
Digital Ambition you sure it isn’t because of 3 centuries of slavery coupled another century or so with segregation bandaged with welfare?! Followed by a crack/AIDS epidemic?
As much as this guy wants to believe all black ppl have the tools to make things happen, there are so many black ppl that suffer from conditions that were caused through a foundation of racism.
I've never considered myself to be conservative (I also live in Europe, so there might be a different definition). But right now I find myself being pushed away from some on the left/liberal side and almost being labeled a rightwing for raising too many questions on these issues. I'm so thankful for at least the online world staying somewhat open to discussion and plurality of opinions.
I'm in the same boat. I've often thought about this whole thing as a new religion: when you're not even allowed to raise any questions about it. It's sad, and it's not going away soon.
You're always allowed to ask questions this isn't North Korea. But if you're stupid people will let you know 👍
It's OK, a lot of people including myself have gone through the same thing the last 5 or 6 years. This woke hysteria and the lefts cynical embrace of it for political benefit has driven a lot of intellectuals out of the Democratic party.
@@klondikebelridge1996...and into the bosom of the far right? 🤔
@@Mr._Moderate Thank you for giving a great example of the simple minded binary thinking that I was speaking of. So you either buy into this anti-intellectual woke nonsense or you're far right huh? You are a cult follower. For your sake I hope you're a teenager because having that kind of world view past 25 is the mark of a very immature mindset.
Oh how I wish more of my people could see this! My mother and I just had a discussion regarding this issue and we are in complete agreement.
You should check out his appearances on The Glenn Show! ruclips.net/p/PLNKMRlDojbRLXTsiamlNOG_2_b2EY_4ki
I must be moving in the wrong circles. I have never heard this man speak. He tells some serious truths!
His focus is normally on linguistics. He wrote a great article a few years back on the strangeness of the English language and how it got that way.
Dr Bvo
So, is it likely we can ever focus on taking deadly force away from cops?
@@b.marieglasgow7680 We can only focus on that if we are honest about the real problems, like for example a fatherless generation of boys.
@@b.marieglasgow7680 Why would you want to take deadly force away from cops? Can't fight criminals with the means of deadly force without it.
Great presentation. Bravo!!
It’s sad that this video has barely any views after a few months, at the time of this post. I wish the national conversation would pivot more to include discourse like this.
AP It is sad. I've shared this video on Twitter.
Over a year? It says published Dec 2nd, 2018...5 months
Will Morrison whoops. Correct, sir, thanks. Perhaps I mixed this up with another video’s time stamp. At any rate, even with months out, I would have liked to see this one get more attention.
It seems to be trending right now. I hate politics because of the endless bullshit but I kept seeing this guy over and over again so I just finally listened. Turns out to be something really reasonable and even refreshing.
Mr. McWhorter,you need a bigger platform. More People need to hear you. Thank God for honest intelligent people like you
13:17 "An inwardly focused quest for moral absolution, that has at best a diagonal relationship to helping people who've been left behind."
Couldn't have said it better myself!
What he is saying is really '*modern* anti-racism hurts..' basically, "you're doing it wrong"
In the talk, he literally said, "modern anti-racism" multiple times.
@@TimothyReeves the title is a bit misleading
So what is right?
I think the context remained in your head and got skipped in the expression. I don't understand your point.
@@alanhopkins1721 you don't understand you're misunderstanding of his point
Brilliant! Thank you for publishing this video.
Thank you. Style and grace.
I am commenting to bump this up given the current situation.
#metoo
Upvoted, replied
@HKZ P If you've heard it you should research it and find out if it's true or false. There are many things on the internet. Some are true some aren't. You could easily google the issues because he gives you the statistics. It will be pretty easy to find out if he's telling the truth or lying.
HKZ P This is in no way whataboutism. It’s ridiculous to claim that a comparison between statistics and evaluation of data is whataboutism and to claim that any argument that calls someone to reevaluate their own logic and actions is whataboutism. If you blatantly ignore the whole picture presented by the actual statistics then you are the one with fallacious logic, not him.
So what he's saying is yeah racism does exist but not really, because based on numbers you can counter the argument by saying what about blacks killing blacks in Chicago, and more whites are killed by cops... I say he's a complete bull$hi÷÷er!.. Dude! You can't honestly tell me that the percentage of blacks being killed by cops aren't totally lopsided in comparison to whites, when historically since post-slavery, this has been the case without any cellphone footage or bodycam to capture the murders of blacks by the hands of police. And I strongly dis-like when I hear these individuals who love to say, "Well, what about blacks killing blacks in Chicago?" Mumbo jumbo.. Although it holds truth but it's inconclusive, you can't tell me that the violence amongst blacks in these impoverished neighborhoods aren't stemmed from the systemic racism that has been implemented for over decades. This is the results of it today. Chicago is one of the most segregated Northern cities in America, and it's not by mistake it was by design. The Original Gangsters were white men like Al Capone, Frank Nitti and many others. They were the original gang bangers and thugs. Chicago was so divided it was worse than some parts in the South. The predominantly black neighborhoods became broken down by lack of equal opportunities of employment, loans, and other facets of racial discrimination. Study how gangs were created in the inner cities of the predominantly black impoverished. If they wanna use numbers and research, then research deeply and you'll know why our inner cities are filled with so much violence intertwined with survival instincts. Yes, this problem needs to be fixed absolutely, but to fix something that is broken, you must first fixed the minds and prevent the actions of the ones who had broke it in the first place. See it's quite socialpathic for someone to come and tear or burn down your home you have built from ground up, while you were in it. Then leave and come back moments later, to tell you that your house is broken and you need to fix it. REMEMBER TULSA?!! The nerve... This guy is being used as a pawn to undermine the crimes that was committed to blacks in the history of America that has ultimately led to the crimes and the happenings of today. Please John McWhatever.. Save your inconclusive ideology, for the ones who benefit from your undermining of black American plight, and for who you are appeasing to continue on with the mentality that systemic racism is a non factor, while underlining the encouraging of white privilege to proceed. Kudos black man (sarcasm).
Literally the only honest voice I've ever heard on this...
Try Candace Owens.
Or Allen West.
@@cristiansantana2704 ok CO too, will check AW
Cristian Santana Larry Elder says this all the time. Also Thomas Sowell.
Not caring about black on black violence is a prime example of "bigotry of low expectations"
Like when everyone treated that Ahmed kid like a rocket scientist for "inventing" a clock
Is it not often just brushed aside with "oh they are poor.. and hence they fight over breadcrumbs" ?? Which might be true in some way. yes poor people have it tougher than someone who is rich in modern day society, that goes without saying, but at the same time I think this is a really devaluing though of poor people as most poor people in the world is not murdering one another, they are not stealing from one another or robbing one another.
Does anyone care about white-on-white crime?
@@gregorybrian He is addressing that indirectly. He acknowledged earlier that more whites are killed by cops than blacks. One statistic said, but not mentioned here, is that more whites are killed by cops than nearly all other ethnic groups combined. It won't make news on the left controlled media, because it won't stir up the black Democratic voting base. White on white crime doesn't fit the Democratic narrative. Neither does black on black crime. He's long winded, but it is his point nonetheless.
TWOLANELIFE To that point the greater population is Caucasian so there would be an unfortunate higher percentage or actual death rates. And while I do care about black on black crime, in most cases judicial process and justice is served by an arrest being made, being charged and found guilty. The person who committed the crime doesn’t just get fired, or no findings....Whereas in many law enforcement cases or citizens arrest case vs a citizen specifically Black citizen there is not often a charge made without protest and/or arrest being made and/or a finding of guilt vs acquittal despite an obvious wrongdoing. It’s that the judicial process is not always completed in a just way. This is why, I believe people protest the injustice. As you see it is not necessarily because of more deaths but the fact that there are many times consequences are not held to the same standard for taking another citizens life. I hope that all makes sense.
It looks like this was part of a debate. It would be good to post a link to the whole debate so we could hear the other sides point of view and response.
ruclips.net/video/mzPKk19t3Kw/видео.html voila
@@sam-cn8tu the hero we asked for, not the hero we deserve. Thank you.
@@sam-cn8tu thank you
Talk about over thinking it!! Anti-racism is just plain old racism with all the endless problems we get when we treat one group of people differently.
Hmmm. I've never heard that to call out the police means not calling out my neighbor. Both need accountability.
...and what that looks like is the conundrum of the unconscious morality of the white community. "Not in my neighborhood." and "Go along to get along." has been the white status quo throughout much of my life. Sure there are culturally 'woke' moments: Identifying with, say, the excellence of a sports figure (Bob Hayes) or the expertise of a scientist or inventor (George Washington Carver) or the dignity of those arm in arm in the Civil Rights Movement (MLK). But where's the spine of fellow citizenship? Political Correctness is more of an attempt to establish an etiquette repeat with public shaming. But to tolerate voter repression? To turn a blind eye on "extra judicious authorities"? Something lulls us to sleep, to avoid confrontational politics, to seek the picket fence or the tall hedge. I suspect the imbalance lies in the excessive emphasis on competition through the profit motive. Initiative and drive are determined solely by market forces, the pains of want and depredation is the material goad of a healthy society? Where's the deep-seated comittment to cooperation? The existential miseries of old age, illness and death are swept aside in favor of religion's opiate. We don't bond in opposition to schemmers and fools, but rather oppose each other for want and opportunism. So, is confrontational politics the answer in every instance or is patience and transition -- of winning over the hearts and minds -- still in play? I suspect that the subtle contextual structures that are sanctified as normalcy are truly suspect once love, yes, honest heartfelt love is the participatory criteria for social discourse and viable political action. "We the People..." (without America's Jim Crow apartheid) have to make our institutions reflect our common rapport or we are doomed to submerge once more in semi-conscious institutional values that are culture bound rather than naturally vibrant.
In too many black communities your point is correct and in meant other your are not. The fact is I know blacks that fixate in white accountability and others who are balanced and then others who role the other way. Mr. McWhorter, in my perception, failed to acknowledge this continuum.
We need this right now.
JUST STOP DOING MOST OF THE CRIMES. SO EASY.
@@littleme3597 lol
John I really appreciate your honesty and integrity.
Did anyone else hear the mic drop at the end or did I just imagine it?! *Damn* this guy was on-point!
I hung on after this guy compared the killing of a 12 year old boy to the killing of a 26 year old man, but he totally lost me with the tired, stupid “what about black on black crime” bullshit. Leaving race out of it (I have no problem with that), when private citizens kill one another, it’s already treated as CRIME. When cops do it, it’s not. That’s the problem!
The man says this: “If you’re a good anti- racist then you’re thinking about the cops that kill black men...but you’re not supposed to think about the fact that so much murder happens to these men in their own neighborhood.”
Who says you can’t think about both, especially since they’re two different topics! When you think about black on black crime you realize that the police are on it - if they know a black guy murdered someone they don’t need you to tell them to arrest the guy, and the criminal justice system will take care of the rest.
If you think about the cops killing people you might just realize that unjustified extrajudicial killings by cops are very rarely punished - they’re not even treated as crimes! You might realize that unlike the case of the black killer, the cop who kills (unjustly) most likely won’t even be arrested unless people literally scream bloody murder.
Is this guy suggesting that as long as there’s black on black crime, the question of extrajudicial killings by cops shouldn’t be addressed? When you hear about a cop killing a black guy whose unarmed, restrained, and posing no threat, you’re not supposed to think about that, you should instead think “oh well, that guy was probably gonna get killed by some other black guy anyway” and shrug it off? WTF does one have to do with the other??
I almost gave up but I powered though to the end. Did you catch where he called himself white at about 11:34
@@bobbyologun1517
No he didn't what the fuck are you on about.
@@bobbyologun1517 bruh...you a bot? You trying to start shit for no reason? Or just one of those people that like to hear what they want to hear?
@@but_is_it_really Excuse me?
@@bobbyologun1517 there is no excuse for you.
I disagreed with two things. If his main message is we need to have an educated view of racist systems instead of believing without looking at the facts, then completley agree. But the stats he cited pointed more torwards racism, and yet he used them to argue against racism. He acknowledged the disproportionate percentages and then uses nominal figures to neutralise them? Also, im surprised a professor is taking the "black on black" line seriously. Black on black violence is just like white on white violence...its general crime. But the law and judicial system treating certain people groups differently is it's own subject.
I agree. There's still a racist bias when it comes to the police and criminal justice system, but everything else, especially about religious-like superficial emotional activism versus devising actionable, concrete policy change ideas, was spot on.
I noticed that as well. If half the people killed by police are white, and they make up 62% of the population, and 25% of the people murdered are black, but they only make up 13% of the population, there's a clear racial bias. The bias also unfairly charges, convicts, and sentences black people to longer terms than white people for the same crimes. It's intellectually dishonest to overlook or dismiss this. Anti racism doesn't hurt black people more than racism itself does.
I think you are missing the point he was trying to make. Yes it's true black men get killed disproportionately more then white men. It's is also true the most black people in general live is low income 'high risk' areas. Areas where people are more likely to interact with the police
Therefore if we pretendes that white people (for some non race related reason) only live in these stereotypically Black areas then they would be killed proportionately more. Simply due to interact with hyper violent police officers more
I'm other words correlation doesn't equal causation. Black men being killed more by white doesn't immediately mean all police officers are racist. Though he does underplay the real role race does have.
@@lesedimokgobi7399 IN 2019, the ratio of unarmed white people killed versus unarmed black people killed was 2:1 where white people outnumber black people 5:1. That's the problem being claimed and the same one Mr. McWhorter references, but then does not refute, instead calling it a "debate trick" and then not addressing it at all. Those numbers could still be lying, but this gentleman has not shown us how or why that would be the case.
@@stephaniemitchell8509 The racial bias is not acknowledging that those 13% commit more crime period. We can then look for the social-economic reasons for that (we should, actually) and try to solve it. Most of the time criminality is linked to poverty and single parenthood. Go check the % in each race group in the US and the correlation to the imprisionment, interactions with the police (including people killed by the police) and you will understand better the reasons and how to change things.
This is my first time hearing this man.. I LOVE him.. No idea why it popped up when I was watching Standup Comedy, BUT I DO respect Black Conservatives more than I can express.
This analogy of having blind faith in being an anti-racist is brilliantly articulated by this gentleman.
Yeah, that comparison to original sin really conjured up some vivid truths
Sadly it's not merely an analogy. Modern antiracism and social justice movement in general really are shaping into a religion. I recommend to watch Mike Nayna's channel for more on the subject, it's horrifying.
@@TheUniquePizza35 a scary thought is that many people would contest you on the use of the word "religion", albeit that is exactly what is at hand.
@@ghoulish6125 Too many people hold the simplistic view that a religion needs a god or at least a sacred figure to venerate. But it doesn't.
All you have to do is read Heather Mac Donald's book "The War on Cops," which has all the facts and figures.
@Mike Knight Unfortunately, the people who need the most to read what she has to say are the very ones who won't. It's just too threatening to them to have their narrative challenged by facts.
@Mike Knight Stossel is good, but what I like best about the Reason videos are the ones by Remy. I'm a huge Rush, Mark Steyn and Mark Levin fan, too.
@Mike Knight Here you go: ruclips.net/p/PL02D02B9A144182DB
Enjoy! He's incredibly smart, libertarian and hilariously funny.
@@pashadyne correlation does not imply causation
The reason blacks don’t succeed is because their culture is different from white culture and they are in a downwards spiral as liberals continue to perpetuate the unsubstantiated claims that racism is the reason they are not succeeding. Convincing blacks that the racist boogeyman is everywhere makes them hate whites, America, and the idea of being able to “make it” here. I don’t think people like you are malicious by spreading this race baiting bullshit on circumstantial evidence alone, but you are ignorant.
I’m not interested in why blacks are doing poorly I’m interested in how to fix the issue. Fix the family, reduce dependency on the government, start businesses in your communities, integrate into the rest of the culture. That’s your fix. We aren’t going to fix the infinitely small number of racists in the country that are contributing to the downfall of blacks. Stop worrying so much about boosting your moral virtue over conservatives and give real fucking solutions you idiot.
Now this is a smart man who has what it takes to be a leader and a role model unlike Farrakhan and others like him that actively search for racism where none exists.
We need more critical thinkers in our communities instead of race baiting followers that preach hate and divisiveness instead of love and togetherness.
Mister Man The Muslim community needs a sensible, critical thinking person, too. Actually, we need to think critically about our own behavior.
Jo Jo Lol, more BS
They know the difference between racism and bias but they exploit their 'base' for political gains
@JUST MUSIC A religion isn't a race, dummy.
It's such a rarity to hear anyone discuss race in a calm , rational , unbiased and informed manner.
Bless your heart. The vast majority of people in western nations just want to live together in peace.
Wow. someone tells what facts and statistics show.
Donnie Lang Much respect to Dr. John McWhorter. 👊🏽😎
This negro knows what he's talking about. Very well put and articulated.
He's disgusting.
@spot light
@spot light so basically you simply refuse to address all the verifiable facts he presents here. Way to go, genius. Keep feeding the beast.
Someone that's black does. That is.
I'm glad to see a black guy who's not in the trap man love it
John McWorter is a national treasure. Fearless and rationale. Of course the media never debates his ideas.
to have someone bring in so much clear analysis to fine points is almost too pure of conversation, nobody knows what to do with accurate and broad truths.
We've been inside the hive mind for so long that unique individual thought is a novelty again.
I think it's a fallacious argument to claim that you can either be concerned about police brutality OR black-on-black crime. Both are important.
Luckily, no one ever claimed that. Thanks for beating the shit out of that straw man for us :D
@@tixanthrope I think you missed the video from min 8:55
That requires people like Raymond to actually pay attention, which is expecting too much from them.
But unfortunately what is given a loud speaker is occasional police brutality not to mention that these black men don't go down easy , they shoot the cops , fight with them, verbally abuse them. Basically they resist arrest until the cops are fed up and have to restrain them by force and sometimes shoot back.
The only way police brutality can end is if black men criminal behaviour ends as well , calling one out and not the other is hypocritical
His point is not that one is not important at face value. It is that one is a statistically larger risk, and should therefor be treated as such. Not the other way around. You listen to him?
Not all heroes wear capes. Anti racism is a smokescreen preventing us from fixing real social concerns.
Ladies and Gentlemen, behold a courageous man! And I appreciate him. He argues a reality that so many deny.
I think he's talking about anti-racism today as surface-level activity that focuses only on the psychology and moral absolution, and not the legislative and systematic approach that deals with the socio-economics of racism. AKA people that think becoming a SJW absolves them of looking at the full picture and participating in the processes. I am seeing both happening simultaneously as a collective thing. Inner work is not tangibly recognized and is often thought to be "enough," when it's only a starting point. It is irrelevant and moot in it's effects but it is required for someone to want to begin the work that does have tangible effects. I hear what he's saying, I hope it doesn't get picked up by active racists and then watered down.
That's my problem with this speech. He's merely glossing over the history that lead to the situations he's decrying. I can see white folks now - the black fella said black on black crime is the issue. I find his rhetoric irresponsibly in how it's delivered and it weakens his standing for me.
nope, you're a bit wrong. even at the 10 min mark, he talks about some socio-economic solutions ie. forced diversity in schools etc. and negative effects of them. but again these things are complicated. he does stress some "socio-political" solutions but doesn't state what he believes would work.
Let's say I am from Switzerland or Montana or someplace that I literally have never even met a black person. Then I move to an area or bigger city that has black people. Wouldn't all this white guilt stuff just make me avoid black people altogether, since I don't really have any personal feelings towards them? Wouldn't all this negative attention, and anti free speech just shut down any conversation on my end altogether? How could any of this possibly help black people?
Yeah I'm from Ireland. Until 1980 there was about 8 black people in the country. There's more now, but more of everyone. Indians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Latvians, Estonians, Croation, Polish, Russians, Africans, Middle Eastern, Turks, South Americans. Not a whole lot of racism, it's there, but it's fairly small fry.
@@capnskiddies Don't compare EU immigrants to non EU immigrants, its a whole different dimension.
There is no 'anti-racism'.
Racism is racism.
It is present, or it is not.
If it's present and people are trying to stop it, that's anti-racism, dumbass.
Did you even watch the video? His whole speech revolves around "Racism" and those who view and follow it like a religion. Those who are "anti racists" view facts not dogma and people who look past the fanaticism and zealotry to find the truth and ask questions are heretics and blasphemers.
Watch documentary on Evergreen College, then you will understand ...
Let me guess -Trump is not yr president
Articulate, concise, and still so much relevant today in June 2020.
You forgot "full of bs" 💁♂️
Now it is relevant in the UK too, sadly.
@@Mr._Moderate You don't get it. You're not in the flow of true data.
@@CribNotes miscontexualizing stories, misrepresenting facts, and then having the audacity to tie into "anti-racism is bad".
What else is there to get? What does your data flow tell you? 🤔
Wow so articulate and eye opening. What he is saying is so true. People need to expose themselves to people like this.
leah musunga did you just call a poc ARTICULATE!?
Fucking racist
@leah musunga - actually he fed you dogfood, told you it was caviar and you ate it all up 🤦♂️
@Adam Walker - not smart or funny at all 👎
@@Smallgot83 You need to stop sniffing that glue!
@jay monty then as a white person you need to hold your fellowship accountable 👍
"What you focus on grows"
“The victim mindset dilutes the human potential, by not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them, so rise up and take control of your life.
All the black people who subscribe to this way of thinking are why nothing has changed for the past 40 years since the deaths of mlk and malcolm x
Your post reveals this: “Whites kick blacks down, then tell them how they should respond to being kicked.” derived from Steve Biko
We are done dying, by Cornell West www.pennlive.com/opinion/2020/06/we-are-done-dying-cornell-west.html
Richard Pryor: how capitalism begets racism ruclips.net/video/Ylv1LyVWc-c/видео.html
White man explains how whites are blind to racism ruclips.net/video/A1EAY0RDDJQ/видео.html
White historian reveals similar tactics between nazis and usa racists ruclips.net/video/TgpLuNkZEtk/видео.html
This'll get one into the solving it part: How whites can admit their racism and take action to REPAIR it WITHOUT GUILT ruclips.net/video/Qx-gUfQx4-Q/видео.html
Why being unapologetically Anti-Racist is needed, not just being NON-racist ruclips.net/video/a2EtQdf-cpQ/видео.html
How to be an Antiracist ruclips.net/video/TzuOlyyQlug/видео.html ruclips.net/video/mxa43H8m034/видео.html
Black man describes how he shed his own racism ruclips.net/video/TzuOlyyQlug/видео.html?t=1069
@@Brianbeesandbikes reminds me.of the book
Blaming the victim
@@omalone1169 So, do you think it's black ppl's "fault" for "choosing" to feel victimized which has led to this claimed rights stagnation situation? Or is your position one that more reflects this: Tamika Mallory on causes and symptoms of UPrising
ruclips.net/video/XkGC1jdEtKc/видео.html
@@Brianbeesandbikes I actually take the position that since whites are the majority population in America with a majority of the land, wealth, political positions, control and access to resources, and corporate institutions they bear a majority of the responsibility for not ending racism 👍
To demand affirmative action and preferential treatment, is basically the same thing as saying: _"we're dumb, so you should make it easier for us."_
White people have benefitted from affirmative action and preferential treatment for over 200 years. It's documented history
@@37butterflyprincess Can you provide examples?
He is telling the truth and truth shall set you Free
When people are divided against each other, they are easy to control.
Bingo!
Thank you for bringing this up. It’s seen as taboo to even talk about this sort of topic.
If you’re white, you can hardly utter any of this without being immediately called racist.
When I look at anti racism today and the affirmative action steps taken, I often think about Denzel Washington’s line in Remember the Titans:
“You’re not doing him any favors by patronizing him. You’re crippling him. You’re crippling him for life.”
Essentially the struggle of lifting yourself out of adversity is like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon; if you help a butterfly by cutting it out of that cocoon it will never fly because the struggle strengthens it and prepares it for its future.
Should people have food? shelter and healthcare? What about children should they be bailed out by society? I personally think people going to the supermarket is a cop out, people have become weaker by not hunting and growing their own food. Nanny state generation!
@@notloz2 people should absolutely have those things. However they should work to earn their own, and if they are fortunate enough to receive charity from others where they're unable they need to be grateful instead of entitled.
In arguments about Affirmative Action I always bring up stories about homeless people who won the lottery and found themselves homeless again within a year. You can't just give a homeless person a million dollars and expect his/her life to be great from there on out. There's a reason why homeless people become homeless in the first place. They don't know how to budget, they don't know how to save money, they don't know how to invest money, they don't know how to earn money to begin with, etc. Giving them money doesn't solve the problem, it just gives them one happy year before they're broke and homeless again. If you want to take someone off the street permanently, you need to teach them how to earn a living and keep that living. It's the same with education. Enrolling someone into a school they're unprepared for isn't going to help them, it's going to make their lives miserable until they lose enough confidence to either drop out or decide not to continue their education at a university they are prepared for. Doesn't matter what color they are.
@@michaelsorensen7567 Pay no attention to the gold plated douchebags behind the curtian, its thr mexicans fault, no wait its the poor people. What about REAL entitlement? The George Bush's, Paris Hiltons, Meghan mcains, Trumps of the world? What bothers you more the poor lazy person or the rich lazy person?
Nietzsche echoes the same sentiment as the original poster mentions, in Nietzsche's case it regards showing pity to someone. The one pitied ultimately will have been pitied enough that he believes that identity more than he does his ability to overcome it. Nietzsche's superman is any person that overcomes obstacles, so the former example of victimhood is the antithesis of his ubermensch (an unevolved human and an evolved human, respectively).
I really hope you're not being blocked by RUclips. You're talks are enlightening.