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White People Have a Very Very Serious Problem - Toni Morrison on Charlie Rose

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  • Опубликовано: 5 авг 2019
  • RIP Toni Morrison. FANTASTIC clip from the Charlie Rose Show.

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  • @dragonzak
    @dragonzak 4 года назад +548

    If You Can Only Be Tall Because Somebody's On Their Knees Then You Have A Serious Problem.

    • @americanbeauty171
      @americanbeauty171 3 года назад +19

      I love that comment!!

    • @PalomaNegra873
      @PalomaNegra873 2 года назад +12

      Favorite quote!

    • @johnwebb2442
      @johnwebb2442 2 года назад +7

      Exactly

    • @vleaky3430
      @vleaky3430 2 года назад +7

      And if you need to force the other person to get on their knees in order to feel you're equal, instead of just learning to stand up, you're the problem.

    • @dboc2000
      @dboc2000 2 года назад +3

      Except I am not tall because someone is on their knees. For my entire life black men and women have had advantage over me because of their skin color in admissions and jobs. They have advantage over my white children. It has been this way for 40 years. Tell me again, rich and famous black woman, tell me about my white priviledge.

  • @izaiahthomas1939
    @izaiahthomas1939 4 года назад +491

    I’m sorry but I died when she responded to the request for free advice with “they’re all in my books”. She is so accurate, eloquent, and impactful with what she says and how. Modern literature continues to sleep on this American gem 💎

    • @martincelino
      @martincelino 3 года назад +20

      It was the best possible question she could have given to such an ignorant and audacious question.

    • @plasticweapon
      @plasticweapon Год назад

      yeah, it's so classy how she just wants you to buy her books, and you're so intelligent for believing every word she says...

    • @DavidBryant
      @DavidBryant Год назад

      @@plasticweaponwhere is your substance? All I see is another low hanging fruit, pasty simpleton clinging to his ignorance. You’re gonna bust hell wide open when you die!

    • @markbeyerauthor
      @markbeyerauthor 7 месяцев назад

      Actually, she's trying to shill for her own books rather than say something meaningful (though she'll never approach the "profound".).

  • @mycenth22
    @mycenth22 3 года назад +182

    I've very rarely heard an interviewee flip the question on the interviewer with such conviction that is steers the conversation into such clear ground that it is at once enlightening and novel.

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 3 года назад +4

      Socrates said the same thing. True things are eternally true.

    • @ZenGrammy
      @ZenGrammy 2 года назад +8

      Charlie Rose needs flipping more often. ✌️

    • @lalouloune6156
      @lalouloune6156 2 года назад

      Very intelligent lady indeed. Where I live in France she would be dead. Those people are so hateful and racist. At least in America people are capable of having this conversation. In France it's a whole sickening fuckery.

    • @socute9248
      @socute9248 2 года назад

      this.

    • @fluff975
      @fluff975 Год назад

      i mean she was a novelist

  • @republiceviil
    @republiceviil 3 года назад +72

    "I'm not a victim, I refuse to be one."

    • @TheGuest954
      @TheGuest954 2 года назад +6

      Yeah that shit sounds good but if you think you haven't been victimized by this system one or the other then you're sadly mistaken. Everything from predatory lending to paying higher interest rates on home and car loans to having friends and relatives being victims of the double standards in sentencing and how the law is applied. Because you don't want to acknowledge it doesn't mean it didn't happen and doesn't exist.

    • @ThePthinker
      @ThePthinker Год назад +13

      @@TheGuest954 she’s simply saying that she wasn’t going to let them see the pain they inflict(ed). They get off on seeing black folks suffer; why else would they continue to do what they do…they’re narcissistic mentality needs a constant fix, and she wasn’t going to feed it.

    • @plasticweapon
      @plasticweapon Год назад +1

      no, she wanted to be a race hustler instead.

    • @republiceviil
      @republiceviil 11 месяцев назад

      @@plasticweapon what are talking about?

    • @nurhayat81
      @nurhayat81 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@plasticweaponyou are deflecting and don’t want to take responsibility

  • @Maat-obabaa
    @Maat-obabaa 4 года назад +197

    Ms. Morrison was a very powerful woman! May she continue to reign in spiritual power!

    • @HappyMomma412
      @HappyMomma412 3 года назад +5

      Yes. Amen.

    • @Jimmy1982Playlists
      @Jimmy1982Playlists 3 года назад +4

      Beautifully put. ❤

    • @vleaky3430
      @vleaky3430 2 года назад

      Pointing fingers doesn't require much power. Strength comes from facing the man in the mirror.

    • @aayushpatel8304
      @aayushpatel8304 2 года назад

      Powerful because she portrayed white people are bad? That is racist.

    • @aisha48476
      @aisha48476 Год назад

      @@vleaky3430that’s why she was an author lol

  • @starchildofthe90s7
    @starchildofthe90s7 2 года назад +138

    Love that she said how do you feel. Its almost as if they always ask us how we feel about it and in some twisted way they get off on the fact that it hurts you and gets black people angry. They love to know how bad you feel about yourself and how victimized you feel. Its like an ego boost for them they get off on it, like taking a shot of espresso for them when they see victimized black people and then look around and see how different life is for them. White people as a group have a real narcissism about them its sad and disturbing.

    • @Mtrs_Chic
      @Mtrs_Chic 2 года назад +22

      Yep. Like energy vampires...

    • @thecurious926
      @thecurious926 Год назад +3

      So if they don't ask, 'nobody listens to us'. If they ask then it's some sort of sick pleasure.

    • @starchildofthe90s7
      @starchildofthe90s7 Год назад +8

      @@thecurious926 whatever you say 😏

    • @GMacII
      @GMacII Год назад +6

      Took the words out my mouth. Narcissist LOVE feeding off the energy you give them, especially negative energy. It’s sickening and they truly get off on it.

    • @starchildofthe90s7
      @starchildofthe90s7 Год назад

      @@GMacII and thats all that group is a group of narcissist

  • @ZenGrammy
    @ZenGrammy 2 года назад +66

    She hit the nail on the head - racists are “so bereft”. Wonderful woman. 🌹🌹🌹

  • @rosannarivero2863
    @rosannarivero2863 4 года назад +106

    She is so moving and wise. I think I’m in love with her words. She’s life.

  • @robeson1231
    @robeson1231 2 года назад +135

    This is honestly the best 3 minutes on the subject of racism you'll ever find. Absolutely nails it.

    • @markbeyerauthor
      @markbeyerauthor 7 месяцев назад +1

      You want racism? Look out your window at the black community. That is racism.

    • @percyvolnar8010
      @percyvolnar8010 Месяц назад

      Nah, James Baldwin easily takes the piss on this....

  • @JimmytotheJay
    @JimmytotheJay 3 года назад +100

    "I always knew I had the moral highground. All my life."

    • @lalouloune6156
      @lalouloune6156 2 года назад

      Yep, when you are around low lives no matter their position, money and what they are trying to make you feel about yourself, you know when you have love in you those are demons and pos.

    • @socute9248
      @socute9248 2 года назад +3

      I absolutely love her moral clarity and resolution

    • @sassiea36
      @sassiea36 4 месяца назад

      Her Daddy taught her that...

  • @theboogieman4953
    @theboogieman4953 3 года назад +68

    extremely proud to have called her family. Rest In Peace, paradise and prosperity aunt Chloe 🤲🏼❤️

    • @carlosguerra2725
      @carlosguerra2725 Год назад +4

      bro she was your family? come on dont you at least want to follow her path and become an excellent writer and thinker instead of being called boogieman and watching 243525 episodes of One Piece

    • @yesic7196
      @yesic7196 Год назад

      🕯🩷

    • @zorothe9th
      @zorothe9th Год назад +1

      @@carlosguerra2725 💀 lmao

    • @MJ-ye7dd
      @MJ-ye7dd Год назад

      @@carlosguerra2725 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @andrewzulu5101
      @andrewzulu5101 5 месяцев назад

      @@carlosguerra2725😅

  • @chloeratchford4854
    @chloeratchford4854 4 года назад +49

    Ohhhhh my, I can listen to her for ETERNITY. Just so SHARP and INTELLIGENT, WOW!🧡

  • @studiocelestedesign
    @studiocelestedesign 4 года назад +75

    White person here and this is fierce truth. Sharing this wise woman’s words far and wide.

  • @detlefb.8371
    @detlefb.8371 3 года назад +25

    This woman was too amazing for words. Very ironic, since language was her “thing.”

  • @jak9336
    @jak9336 4 года назад +27

    Yes. All of this truth and magnificence.

  • @heizenburr5998
    @heizenburr5998 3 года назад +37

    They’re all in my books...drops mic

    • @kardon4996
      @kardon4996 3 года назад +2

      They are all in my books.......drops d mic .....💓
      Me: start to moonwalk😎😎😎

    • @tree3969
      @tree3969 2 года назад +2

      She said… you gone pay for this advice today. Lol 😂 🤣🤣

  • @lisadokes2655
    @lisadokes2655 Год назад +4

    Absolutely BRILLANT, Absolutely POWERFUL, Thank you Toni!!!

  • @valeriesherman1333
    @valeriesherman1333 2 года назад +9

    She was so amazing! I love to study her work...

  • @coraggio93
    @coraggio93 3 года назад +32

    "What are you without your racism?"

    • @spaceghost8995
      @spaceghost8995 2 года назад +2

      Most are just empty shells of little boys. Like The Proud Boys.

    • @nurhayat81
      @nurhayat81 9 месяцев назад

      Powerful

    • @laronland414
      @laronland414 21 день назад +2

      then followed it up with, “are you any good.”

  • @voteeffevansfinancialfreed190
    @voteeffevansfinancialfreed190 3 года назад +6

    HAPPY soul day grandma Toni, your work stands the test of time,,,
    loads of love from South Africa

  • @taratrivedi2416
    @taratrivedi2416 3 года назад +14

    brilliant. she's so amazing, rest in power Toni Morrison

  • @harsharnkaur2075
    @harsharnkaur2075 4 года назад +61

    May this absolute queen rest in power!!! Love you, Toni.

    • @dumper87
      @dumper87 4 года назад +1

      Harsharn Kaur I’m sure the sow is flying’ around hell with it’s bat wings! Just like the flyin’ gypshuns of ancient times!

    • @yesic7196
      @yesic7196 Год назад

      Still intimidating boys. 🕯

  • @kenitrader9762
    @kenitrader9762 2 года назад +10

    If you need to put someone down, regardless of what definition you give it; be it racism, child abuse, domestic violence, mobbing etc you’ve got a serious problem with your inferior self! Learn to know your personal greatness, and you’ll never ever feel the need to put anyone down! “Only those who are below you will try to pull you down, those who are above you can only pull you up to reach them because they have no other choice, unless they step down below their level!” African proverb.

    • @TheJosephjakob
      @TheJosephjakob 2 года назад

      Damn, that proverb is just brilliant!

  • @UXtatic
    @UXtatic 3 года назад +9

    Put in my favourite playlist.

  • @Sentientmatter8
    @Sentientmatter8 2 года назад +10

    When Charlie said "being black is harder with living with Aids" Toni made a face - I wonder what she was thinking. Maybe she thought, "It's not the who has it worse Olympics," or maybe she thought, "My identity is not a disease". Maybe she thought something else entirely.

    • @jacksoncowsert6964
      @jacksoncowsert6964 4 месяца назад +1

      Did you miss where he was quoting someone else?

  • @AM-yi4dd
    @AM-yi4dd 3 года назад +6

    I love her explanation. And I love her, bravo!!

  • @annawatson5448
    @annawatson5448 3 года назад +15

    Mrs. Morrison should've been more popular!She was ahead of her time &i miss her dearly.She should've also been an highly successful psychologist ,theropist,historist or ethnicity professor!I can listen to her for hours!

    • @DeepScreenAnalysis
      @DeepScreenAnalysis 3 года назад

      Her books can be quite difficult to penetrate. In the sense of accessibility, they are creatively written.

    • @TheProfessor__
      @TheProfessor__ 2 года назад +1

      @@DeepScreenAnalysis huh? Also, WTF?! Some of her books were banned in most “mainstream white spaces.” Black people had access to and comprehended her work the most of everyone. Black folk from ALL walks of life. SMDH.

    • @lalouloune6156
      @lalouloune6156 2 года назад

      Her books are mainly about the effects of the huge traumas that black folks went through and are still going through. They are difficult to read I concede that.

  • @brvndxxxn
    @brvndxxxn 4 года назад +24

    Goddess

  • @lynnmckenna9934
    @lynnmckenna9934 3 месяца назад +1

    She touches my heart…nourishes my spirit…

  • @bhenderson4927
    @bhenderson4927 2 года назад +12

    I was never introduced to Toni Morrison in my youth. I'm 24 now and I've got much catching up to do. I have been having the worst day, but right now I feel very warm and soothed by her voice and just the way she carries herself. Feels like therapy for the soul in a way.

  • @duanetrankin6777
    @duanetrankin6777 2 месяца назад +1

    I love this interview. It's a shame that he didn't get it, that it's about him too. Not "the others."

  • @rudolphbell9338
    @rudolphbell9338 Год назад +2

    Oh honey she drove that home !!!! Amen sister!!

  • @bucy1855
    @bucy1855 3 года назад +7

    Every beautiful word is intentional

  • @deyaa_mc
    @deyaa_mc 4 месяца назад

    Wow, she is so soft spoken/well spoken at the same time. So classy. 👏🏻

  • @sumayashah7412
    @sumayashah7412 3 года назад +7

    I adore her alot

  • @leehines1260
    @leehines1260 5 месяцев назад

    I love hearing her speak. Thank you Toni Morrison.❤

  • @ayyb6789
    @ayyb6789 2 года назад +3

    Wow...her response

  • @kofirey6752
    @kofirey6752 3 года назад +14

    I have never felt inferior in sports the class room in bed in business in life! I have always believed their is No white person better then I. And i lived it as a truth? When I had to compete in sport's i won. In life I've won. I woke up one day to realize i am not on this earth to convince your life at the expense of my happiness & i don't go out of my way to bother you? Hence is the difference between you & i.

    • @anima6035
      @anima6035 2 года назад +6

      I'm not 100% sure it's about inferiority, even if feeling inferior may be the end result. I think it's more about fear of the unknown coupled with a societal need to always be winning (keeping up with the Joneses).
      When I look back at my life as a brown woman in an almost entirely white environment, I realise I am seen as a threat. Someone who is inferior is hardly a threat worth worrying about too much... But it's clear to me now that to watch me excel felt like a direct insult to the egos of the (white) people around me.
      Humans are like that anyway, even with race removed from the equation.. if the neighbour is richer, happier, more beautiful etc etc then envy usually ensues.... But if that neighbour is black and or "other" then it becomes easier to express that envy in whatever way - because they are different and "not like me", something other and therefore something I can express disgust towards them more openly.
      Just my opinion, i really feel we need to move away from the concept of inferiority and literally take back the individual internal power that is rightfully ours. I'm at the point now where, should someone say something rascist to me, I would be on the floor laughing at their compete lack of education and culture. My reaction would not have been the same 10 years ago, but I realise now that me being upset is what they want, rascists want to see us do badly and they want to see us angry reactive and downtrodden so they can feel good about themselves in some way. I will not submit.

    • @lalouloune6156
      @lalouloune6156 2 года назад

      @@anima6035 yeah, I agree. I feel they are just taking advantage of the ignorance of most people to create chaos and maintain a savage system of exploiting and hurting. Nobody would do all that shit being superior.
      To the original post, you don't have to win anything, you just can live your life like any human beings. You are enough.

    • @MelanatednNature
      @MelanatednNature 4 месяца назад

      ​@@anima6035👏 👏 👏

  • @davidbarksdale3835
    @davidbarksdale3835 4 года назад +3

    I love it.

  • @ejmasters7145
    @ejmasters7145 3 года назад +13

    Someone spam share this, I can't believe this only has 42k views

    • @wolfgangvonuce9615
      @wolfgangvonuce9615 3 года назад +5

      You notice any vid about racism,low views,low comments,low likes. This is not an accident,the racists KNOW and they are watching,they stay far away because they know it's the truth and that makes them even more furious

    • @l.w.paradis2108
      @l.w.paradis2108 3 года назад

      @@wolfgangvonuce9615 Or ashamed.

  • @pam0626
    @pam0626 Год назад +6

    Toni Morrison’s genius rendered Charlie Rose silent. In all the years I watched his show, never saw that before or since.

  • @Shleiden2000
    @Shleiden2000 3 года назад +7

    Wow a queen

  • @teecarter4900
    @teecarter4900 4 года назад +6

    White and black distinctions are imaginary, and outside of wealth and ownership have no purpose. Learn why "they" called Bantu, Malinka, and Cushite, people "black"? Hint: Economics.

  • @s.j2382
    @s.j2382 4 года назад +5

    Preach!!!!!!!!!

  • @anima6035
    @anima6035 2 года назад +5

    I needed this 🙏❤️

    • @lalouloune6156
      @lalouloune6156 2 года назад

      Me too. She put words in exactly how I feel and about what I am going through. The only difference is that here in France those people are even sneakier. At least with Americans you know and nobody will torture you for years for saying that.

  • @thestarseeker8196
    @thestarseeker8196 2 года назад +1

    Wow, was thinking about Ms. Morrison, came to see her speak, and find the kind of intellect in the comments you’d expect from the daily tabloid sort of uploads. People truly believing they’re on her level….astonishing. I have no regrets about ceasing to call myself American…the rest of the world will leave us behind and we deserve to be.

    • @lalouloune6156
      @lalouloune6156 2 года назад

      It's not only America sadly, there's a whole system put in place to destroy people above all black that dare to have z' opinion or think differently. You have deep pos who are deeply disturbed with huge egos who make it a life mission to destroy others. I live in France and I am living the worse nightmare possible: torture, persecution, sabotaging for years... The thing is those empty vessels need to have a target, a black sheep that's how they think they will feel better about themselves but when you see and hear them you know the level of deep abyss. Anyway I just want help to get away and stay away. I can't anymore.

  • @SomewhereAbove
    @SomewhereAbove 4 года назад +74

    2:59 could never more true especially these days. Rest in power George Floyd✊🏿

    • @eternalyfeful
      @eternalyfeful 4 года назад +1

      We need to get white America in a room and let this play.

    • @omarh229
      @omarh229 4 года назад +6

      @@eternalyfeful I doubt they'll understand her vocabulary since they never read...

    • @joedellaselva1251
      @joedellaselva1251 3 года назад

      Aracely Henriques, Houston, TX

    • @sonofhollywood2648
      @sonofhollywood2648 3 года назад +1

      @@omarh229 lol your so right its true.

    • @sonofhollywood2648
      @sonofhollywood2648 3 года назад

      @Declan Stewart no its the truth

  • @ZackedOut
    @ZackedOut Год назад +2

    That's a great analysis on moral inferiority. What's left of the person when you take away someone's race or change their race? I guess that is also the best examination of racial privilege. Has a person only benefitted in life because of their identity with their race.

  • @MzNettyBird
    @MzNettyBird 4 года назад +4

    Truth

  • @pc3productions957
    @pc3productions957 3 года назад +8

    There all in my books. Epic!

  • @akwaabab8504
    @akwaabab8504 4 года назад +43

    I love that!
    Give white people free advice, "they are all in my books."✊🏿

  • @hamiltonfortuna
    @hamiltonfortuna 4 года назад +3

    Wow

  • @DLFfitness1
    @DLFfitness1 2 года назад +3

    Unfortunately the impact of racism is not as easy to dismiss, however it does make for provocative conversation. Never confuse your opinions with reality.

  • @lindsayhengehold5341
    @lindsayhengehold5341 2 года назад +2

    Like her writings a lot

  • @littledaddysgirl6
    @littledaddysgirl6 Год назад +3

    THIS WAS A WHOLE READ!!!!!whewwww🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😊😊😊😍🥰😍

  • @onyeilonyeil9468
    @onyeilonyeil9468 3 года назад +4

    Dats d MOST PROFOUND thing I've eva heard about racism. What r u w/out ur racism? Really, a study must b done on racists, dis desire to discriminate on skin tone is illogical and evil. Men! She spoke from a perspective I've neva heard

    • @gonova8412
      @gonova8412 3 года назад +1

      She assuming that every white prison is racist. And so racist that they’re nothing without their hatred of her? I’m sorry but that’s completely ridiculous and narcissistic. Is she implying that white owe not only their success but everything, their happiness and their entire identity to blacks?

    • @onyeilonyeil9468
      @onyeilonyeil9468 3 года назад +4

      @@gonova8412 Looks like u heard s/thing diff. She didn't say all Caucasians/white people were racists, @ 0:56 she clearly said, " D people who do dis thing - who practice racism." @ d end she did say, "White people have a very very serious problem and dey should look into it." I believe she was calling on dem to look into dis very serious problem of racism dat shaped American history.

  • @paulgillispie867
    @paulgillispie867 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you Toni Morrison.❤

  • @lonepheasant3489
    @lonepheasant3489 Год назад

    💯

  • @c-core9219
    @c-core9219 Год назад

    So how do you feel ?
    Ukwazi xawuthe wavana nomntu , Ubana lanto Iphinde idike ?
    Ziphathe okwenene ngama xesha onke.
    Xandingena Mali / izinto zingasandi hambile kakhuhle , bangaphi abantu abangandibonela entweni ?

  • @socute9248
    @socute9248 2 года назад +10

    Pure Black brilliance. I listen to this all the time to keep myself motivated, as a white person.
    It's also a masterclass on how to handle irresponsible white male interviewers, and always return to moral clarity. "Of course I do, but let me tell you, that's not the right question."
    Btw what a pitiful job interviewing by Rose -- a 45 second question to ask the if she experiences racism as a successful Black person (obviously), talks over her to say that Black people are also racist, talks over her again to say that white people are the real victims of racism, and concludes by asking she her to give free advice. Why did anyone take this guy seriously.

    • @Auntkekebaby
      @Auntkekebaby 2 года назад +4

      Rose was terrible the whole time. It's best for us that his own actions got him out of here. I don't miss the ignorant questions and interruptions.

    • @socute9248
      @socute9248 2 года назад +1

      @@Auntkekebaby so true! I had literally never seen any of him until I saw this clip incidentally while searching for Toni Morrison, so I didn't realize how bad he was.
      Toni Morrison's brilliance and character were out of the league of so many of her white, often male, interviewers.

    • @TheJosephjakob
      @TheJosephjakob 2 года назад +2

      @@socute9248 it‘s like we‘re seeing two totally different men. The first question seemed ignorant to me, too, but he‘s a white person in the 80s or something, how would he know what it‘s like to be black. Ignorance isn’t bad in itself, the unwillingness to be educated is. He‘s asking after all and not making a statement about it. When she told him that it was the wrong question, he didn’t get defensive either. He just asked for the right one. He could also already know the answer but still ask for the interview‘s sake, many interviewers do that. Secondly, when he mentioned her father being racist he added to her statement and she agreed with him. She has always felt morally superior to racists and her parents did, too. He added that she once mentioned her father being racist as a result of feeling that way and she confirmed it and explains that a little further. It‘s clear to me that he didn‘t say or mean to say that black people are racist, too.
      When they talk about the victims of racism, he basically summed up what she was saying. She at first explained how distorted racists‘ worldviews and their perception of themselves and others is. She then asked who a racist person without the construct of race and racism really is, points out how small they really are and that racism effects white people maybe even just as negatively as black people because of that. She also refuses to be seen as a victim, as she should, and he goes on to say that the morally inferior person is the ‚real‘ victim of racism and that they hold on to it for their self esteem. She agrees with him again. He never said white people are the real victims of racism. That’s an important thing to point out because it shows how your opinion about white males impacts your ability to see him for what he is.
      He doesn’t talk over her, he inserted some statements, added to the conversation and guided the overall interview, as an interviewer should. Talking over somebody is meant to shut them up. He clearly didn’t do that. She explained in detail and he just listened for the most part. And when he asked for free advice, he had no malice in his voice or his face. He seemed to want that advice, which would be beneficial for black and white people. She was smart enough to refer to her book, no harm, no foul.
      Sometimes we project things on people who didn’t do anything wrong, I’m certainly guilty of that. But I’m also conscious of it and I accept that sometimes my perception of others is just skewed. Being a white male asking these questions doesn’t make him a bad guy. It makes him a human, trying to understand.
      Actually don’t know why I went out of my way to write all that, I think I hope it just might make you question what you believe to be true and reflect.

    • @socute9248
      @socute9248 2 года назад +1

      ​@@TheJosephjakob
      "The first question seemed ignorant to me, too, but he‘s a white person in the 80s or something, how would he know what it‘s like to be black." -- Dude, it's from 1993. It's not a different era.
      Also, he is not only a random white man -- he is a prominent journalist hosting a news show. His job is to be knowledgeable and ask good questions, and if he asks ignorant questions he is bad at his job.
      I am not asking all white men to be perfect, I am asking a well paid news anchor not be bad at his job.
      Btw this dude sexually harassed at least 35 women.

    • @TheJosephjakob
      @TheJosephjakob 2 года назад +1

      @@socute9248 the 90s are a totally different time, people were much more ignorant in general back then. People were much less educated about other peoples' experiences and his question made perfect sense at the time. Again, it might be obvious to you how racism affects rich and accomplished black people as well but how would white people know without asking and listening. And like I said, these questions can be asked for the interview's sake, so Toni Morrison can talk about it. An interviewers job is not to know all the answers nor to be perfect but to ask the right questions, listen and guide the overall interview in a constructive way. She corrected him and he asked for the right question. Expecting white people or men to already know answers to questions that might be ignorant makes them afraid to even ask nowadays. I don't see a bad interviewer in this clip, you just don't seem to like him.
      And the sexual harassment is fucked up, that's probably why you don't like him. I don't either, doesn't really inform his behaviour here though.

  • @ravenrose5712
    @ravenrose5712 3 года назад +7

    Are there are any audio versions of her books narrated by Toni Morrison herself?

    • @TheReddaredevil223
      @TheReddaredevil223 3 года назад +1

      A lot actually:
      www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Toni+Morrison&source_code=GO1DH13310082090P1&ds_rl=1262685&ds_rl=1263561&ds_rl=1260658&gclid=CjwKCAjwv_iEBhASEiwARoemvNpqULTIiRT9LNyUdLbSMoECvPqquzF5XKn3CzgZC5hISP3yW7wUPxoC3d8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

  • @onedirections1172
    @onedirections1172 3 месяца назад

    Mother love me keep me warm
    Mother loves me, keeps me warm, nurtures me, cares for me, and calms me through the storm. To help me
    mother, help your baby to be strong, nothing more. No Money, is A Mercy, can The Bluest Eye find a Rainbow a
    Home? For Frank and his Sister here's a poem. I love you, Mother, I thank you everyday, love me, keep me
    warm, nurture me, care for me, show me what is right and wrong. Your love has kept me, in the light, words that
    make a man cave bright. And when I go to her at night, she rocks me in my cradle, so I sleep tight. I love you
    Mother. I Thank you everyday. Mother loves me, keeps me warm, nurtures me, cares for me, and calms me
    through the storm. To help me Mother, help your baby, to be strong, nothing more. Thank you Toni, for I've been torn, and my mother left me in the storm. By Eddie Campagnola
    Edward Campagnola, "Directions to the Dumpster" & Pen name "One Directions to Mercy Street"

  • @mccommas2
    @mccommas2 2 месяца назад

    What year do these two think it is?

  • @PlaceForAnEcho
    @PlaceForAnEcho 4 года назад +24

    Give White people some FREE advice.
    They’re all in my books. 😁meaning spend your $, buy my books. Love her reply. Black people were enslaved and forced to do labor and this brilliant woman was promoted for FREE advice. I work in libraries. You can get her books for free there.

  • @SoWhatsNew0
    @SoWhatsNew0 Год назад

    Upon our passing and close to it we all will be judged based on were you harming others like mothers and children. We may be asked how did you treat the poor. Those questions will not be about race rather your own words and intent towards others no matter their race. There are deviant people in all races and there are ok people in all races.

  • @TheBetty8steeles
    @TheBetty8steeles 3 года назад +6

    We do give advice, but many do not want to listen .

  • @jorgeramirez5
    @jorgeramirez5 4 года назад +22

    Very powerful!! She spoke with truth and like a real man supposed too!!!

    • @owenherlin8159
      @owenherlin8159 4 года назад +6

      What the fuck?

    • @teemadarif8243
      @teemadarif8243 3 года назад +1

      You mean like a real man should have but didn't... or you made a typographical error

    • @atifhameen196
      @atifhameen196 3 года назад +1

      Real man?

  • @alyciacooper2
    @alyciacooper2 4 года назад +51

    This is why my ancestors had to be brutalized and denied an education, because if they were allowed to be who they are, brilliance will ensue.

    • @historia9275
      @historia9275 3 года назад +6

      What brilliance did sub-Saharan Africans do for the thousands of years prior to them having any contact with Europeans? Oh right, nothing of note.

    • @alyciacooper2
      @alyciacooper2 3 года назад +5

      @@historia9275 that bs made you feel superior somehow

    • @historia9275
      @historia9275 3 года назад +6

      @@alyciacooper2 Just an honest question. Because you act as though Africans have been subjugated for their entire existence and that is the reason they haven't achieved certain things when Africans were almost completely isolated until the last few hundred years. So clearly other groups were not holding you back. And no I don't think I am superior to you.

    • @alyciacooper2
      @alyciacooper2 3 года назад +2

      @@historia9275 I never said Africans. You did. In a failed effort to gaslight my comment.

    • @historia9275
      @historia9275 3 года назад +5

      @@alyciacooper2 Well you are of African descent...

  • @TheV00d00D011
    @TheV00d00D011 Год назад

    BASED

  • @sabrinae.6361
    @sabrinae.6361 2 года назад +24

    Explaining racism to whites is a waste of time...draining, actually.

    • @craigprice1598
      @craigprice1598 2 года назад +4

      Exactly, that's because the sons and daughters of slave masters have a different perspective on life than the sons and daughters of slaves.

    • @RSClassicAngel
      @RSClassicAngel 2 года назад +1

      Slavery is alive and thriving in the middle east and Africa, yet we're the problem? Muslims are in detainment camps in China. Get your head out of your ass.

    • @jeremiahbrown6288
      @jeremiahbrown6288 Год назад

      I'm white, try to explain racism to me and I'll try my best to understand. Seriously, tell me something that will really change how I look at life. I know your comment was from a long time ago but maybe you will respond.

  • @jaundalynhaywood
    @jaundalynhaywood 4 года назад +3

    I love my Sorors. Same as it every was!

    • @WordWoman111
      @WordWoman111 4 года назад +4

      Interesting. I am not a soror yet I love and honor Toni regardless of what sorority /group she belongs to. Black Sororities/Fraternities feel divisive in this day and time.

    • @jaundalynhaywood
      @jaundalynhaywood 4 года назад +1

      @@WordWoman111 True we can. However, I believe we will put all the divisiveness aside and unite for a greater cause that is bigger than us. I have true faith in that

    • @jdubb4589
      @jdubb4589 3 года назад +1

      Shrineof9 I share the same sentiment.

  • @s.e.turner8079
    @s.e.turner8079 Год назад

    I stand with her not my problem sir.

  • @tangerinepanther1987
    @tangerinepanther1987 2 года назад

    I stan a red lips

  • @KevinBozarth
    @KevinBozarth 9 месяцев назад

    2:59

  • @xMXWLx
    @xMXWLx Год назад

    THIS is what Whoopi was talking about.

  • @amorablaine
    @amorablaine Год назад

    O I thought is from Oprah...the show, I mean.

  • @BittyCryp
    @BittyCryp 3 года назад

    Mother?

  • @johnerolzod7447
    @johnerolzod7447 3 года назад +1

    very true we do people like you ! No white guilt!

  • @bwoodward9564
    @bwoodward9564 4 года назад

    So what would she think of Trump and what do you think?

    • @spaceghost8995
      @spaceghost8995 2 года назад

      Trump is pond scum who would align himself with ANY group if it helped himself.

    • @bwoodward9564
      @bwoodward9564 2 года назад

      @@spaceghost8995 Proof?

    • @spaceghost8995
      @spaceghost8995 2 года назад

      @@bwoodward9564 Don't play dumb.

    • @bwoodward9564
      @bwoodward9564 2 года назад

      @@spaceghost8995 TDS.

    • @spaceghost8995
      @spaceghost8995 2 года назад

      @@bwoodward9564 No. I knew Trump was scum way back in the early 80's. He wasn't even a Republican then but intelligent decent people could plainly see what he was.

  • @greendahlias1429
    @greendahlias1429 Год назад

    1:23

  • @drstevej2527
    @drstevej2527 5 дней назад

    She is an author not a social scientist.

  • @chris.kaiser
    @chris.kaiser Год назад

    i think she knew that Charlie was a total POS

  • @niltomega2978
    @niltomega2978 3 месяца назад

    O boo Hoo

  • @SilentMovements305
    @SilentMovements305 2 года назад +4

    We Black People are not inferior we are the opposite we jus need to be in tune wot ourselves n stop worshipping that european god

  • @kipper7059
    @kipper7059 2 года назад

    Go ahead and take my race away and with a resounding
    YES!!!!
    I am still good, and YES...
    I am still strong and YES....
    I am still smart and YES....
    I still like myself!!!!

  • @l.w.paradis2108
    @l.w.paradis2108 3 года назад +2

    She is a Socrates.

    • @coraggio93
      @coraggio93 3 года назад +1

      Rather, Socrates anticipated Toni Morrison.

  • @thomasdequincey5811
    @thomasdequincey5811 4 месяца назад

    This is all too indefinite for me.

  • @famousdagodjohnson6624
    @famousdagodjohnson6624 3 года назад +3

    I too feel superior...

    • @alexanderwalters7657
      @alexanderwalters7657 Год назад

      i do too...white folks aint competing so they are no good... that's why the sports world is so pure... dont matter what you are...

  • @darlenetillman7084
    @darlenetillman7084 4 года назад +3

    White people what you gone do about your racism 💯💯💯2020

    • @firecloud77
      @firecloud77 4 года назад +4

      What you gonna do about yours?

    • @RSClassicAngel
      @RSClassicAngel 2 года назад +1

      Absolutely nothing. Slavery is alive and thriving in the middle east and Africa. Muslims are in detainment camps in China. Get your head out of your ass.

    • @jeremiahbrown6288
      @jeremiahbrown6288 Год назад +1

      Well I'm white, does that mean I'm racist? Alright, then if I'm racist, well, pleas tell me what to do about it, I'm curious.

  • @youtubehatesus2651
    @youtubehatesus2651 2 года назад

    "defensive" racism is OK?????????????? rly?

  • @not-even-german4892
    @not-even-german4892 Год назад

    Such a gangster human being I adore you.

  • @ltsoul9751
    @ltsoul9751 3 года назад +5

    nah gotta disagree, it's not defensive racism its the truth! And it's not insane, they fear genetic annihilation, and know we are more potent, better, and powerful. There is logic to it.

    • @DeepScreenAnalysis
      @DeepScreenAnalysis 3 года назад +2

      ‘They' are not a monolith.

    • @ltsoul9751
      @ltsoul9751 3 года назад +1

      @@DeepScreenAnalysis yes they are actually in this sense, anomalies dont make the rule, you're the delusional one here.

    • @DeepScreenAnalysis
      @DeepScreenAnalysis 3 года назад +1

      @@ltsoul9751 racial essentialism is a mindset which only restricts racial equality.

    • @ltsoul9751
      @ltsoul9751 3 года назад +2

      @@DeepScreenAnalysis you're all emotions and no brain.

    • @DeepScreenAnalysis
      @DeepScreenAnalysis 3 года назад +3

      @@ltsoul9751 no, that's you.

  • @stacyshepherd4705
    @stacyshepherd4705 5 месяцев назад

    I love the way that The Queen Toni Morrison tells white people who they really are,

  • @Hoireabard
    @Hoireabard 2 года назад +5

    She speaks in grossly racist generalizations. She needs to look at herself.

  • @tiffanipowell4123
    @tiffanipowell4123 3 года назад +4

    Here after Trumps attempted coup on 1/6/2021

  • @heavylit1760
    @heavylit1760 3 года назад +5

    She's racist too y'all... a racist minority is still a racist.

  • @luishernandez-hs1ks
    @luishernandez-hs1ks 3 года назад +6

    BOOOOORRRIIING

    • @Newuk124
      @Newuk124 3 года назад +22

      Is it now??? she’s struck a nerve for you on this one, it’s hard looking at yourself and your racist self is like 🙈🙉🙊 and then you’re all bored cause you don’t know who you are outside racism.

    • @jeremiahbrown6288
      @jeremiahbrown6288 Год назад +1

      @@Newuk124 How can you make such an accusation about someone based on a single comment? Please, I would like to know how you arrived to the conclusion that Luis Hernandez is racist.

  • @farrellcityking1
    @farrellcityking1 Год назад +7

    “If you’re only tall because someone else is on their knees..” 🤌🏾 I’ve said this in similar form for so very long.🤦🏾‍♂️ If you’re only good because every aspect of the game has been rigged in your favor, are you any good at all?

    • @keenankhamun
      @keenankhamun Год назад +2

      Most excellently and succinctly said. Its like crowning a boxing champ the best in the world but all their opponents fight blindfolded with one hand tied... but the world saying their the best boxer ever... ridiculous

    • @keenankhamun
      @keenankhamun Год назад

      @farrellcityking1

    • @fwefhwe4232
      @fwefhwe4232 Год назад

      yt ppl dont compare their IQ to Indians and CHinese and d!ck size to blks.

    • @MelanatednNature
      @MelanatednNature 4 месяца назад

      Exactly 👏 👏 👏