Kimi Katiti: What Skateboarding Taught Me About Critical Race Theory
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"Their view of what a black feminist should be, was more oppressive than going to skateparks."
Holy shit that statment hits the nail on the head. This is exactly what I see and I'm grateful that someone had the courage to say it out loud. I don't feel so alone.
I just listened to Vaush and James Lindsey on Mikaela Peterson's podcast of 2 days ago on CRT ... and I wish Vaush would hear this. He comes across as too ideal and completely ignores the damage CRT thought training is giving college kids. The theory is being taught as truth and Kimi had to work really hard to get out of the mindset. I truly admire the work you are doing Kimi. Thank you!
Wow. You summed this “mind projection” phenomenon perfectly.
As a Mexican growing up in a blond-haired blue-eyed socal neighborhood, I used to project onto others what I THOUGHT people thought of me (dirty mexican). Once, I quit that, going through life got so much more crystal clear. Sure, I heard the phrase “dirty mexican” plenty when growing up but at a certain age, I just chalked that up to their own ignorance and quit letting it “victimize” my self-esteem. Instead, I had to deal with the difficult feelings and know that what some mean person or even what some joking person said isn’t going to wreck how I go through my life.
When someone feels existential discomfort with themselves, believing too much that our feelings are the truth, it is so much easier to blame other people than to work on one’s own mind. But once you can do that, you walk through the world with so many more friends, more smiles and open arms.
Thank you again. You just explained it perfectly.
Great Video Kimi. I'm a white guy and in my 40s now, I used to skate back in the 80s/90s. Back then it was mostly white dudes skating but it was not that rare to meet guys from other races skating, in our little group of skaters we had an Indian fellow my friend Rav, who I've still keep in contact with for 30 years. Sadly back then it was rare to meet female skateboarders, but I did meet a couple. What I always liked about skate boarding was the social aspect, we all hung out simply because we loved skating the rest didn't matter and we didn't care, everyone was welcome. I'm so happy to hear about your positive experiences and glad that the skating community is just as laid back and open minded but now more diverse, it really is a positive sport with a great community. I love the work you and FAIR are doing it is very positive and inspiring. Best of Luck! and keep skating!
Very interesting how our own insecurities and baggage can hold us back. I know I've let fear of microagressions hold me back in the past. No more tho!
Kimi, I loved this. Well Done! Discovering FAIR (through a Michael Shermer Skeptic interview with Bari Weiss) has definitely been - for me - the most important event of 2021. Your video confirmed why FAIR is so important in getting a much wiser understanding of how we can all live together in harmony on this crowded planet. Very Special, thank you.
Thank YOU!
Love Kimi. Check out her channel if you haven't, it's great!
I learned about diversity in the 80s by watching WWF wrestling. I loved King Haku, Jimmy Superfly Snooka The BirdMan Koko Bware, Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, Nicolai Volkoff and the Samoan Swat Team. Talk about diversity.
Incredible and important story. Thank you so much for sharing your experience! I had a similar experience when coming out about being gay. I was so afraid of everyone all the time, afraid people would find out and hate me or leave me. The activism that painted the world this way for me was wrong. There have been some difficult times, but the reactions form people about me being gay have been overwhelmingly neutral or positive. The United States is a tolerant, safe, and wonderful place to live.
Themes of CRT as listed in "Critical Race Theory: An Annotated Bibliography", 1993, by Delgado and Stefancic:
1. Critique of liberalism
2. Storytelling/"naming one's own reality" (anti-objectivism)
3. Revisionist interpretations of American civil rights law and progress (1619 project; anti-incrementalism)
4. Greater understanding of the underpinnings of race and racism ("systemic" racism found everywhere they look)
5. Structural Determinism (where anti-meritocracy comes from)
6. Race, sex, class and their intersections ("intersectionality"/queer theory)
7. Essentialism and anti-essentialism (identity politics)
8. Cultural nationalism/separatism (including "black insurrection")
and, now what! you are at the same shallow level as the speaker, neither of you have a clue about CRT. I used its principles in a jet engine repair shop and a telephone manufacturing factory. It is a way of ferreting out the causes of failures, whether it is a Jet Engine, phone screen, Bank, or voting procedure. It is a kind of Kaizen, a way to improve anything. Good grief you folks are missing the trees and the forest looking for the needle without a haystack.
@@olliemck60 Triggered by a simple list of facts - you have problems.
The last few items could also be caste systems. Like the one still in place in India, Arab countries, or in American black culture where light-skinned are deemed less worthy than dark-skinned. So sad.
Stumbling upon this channel has been the best internet discovery I ever had. Not only are they making sense in their approach to progress, they also feature phenomenal figures I have never heard that are truly remarkable people. I have never seen a RUclips channel accurately living up to its channel name.
I just knew about Kimi and I'm now devouring her RUclips channel for her very insightful content. This sister is amazing. How she approaches racial issues is mind-blowing to me.
Please do not give up in your fight. You you may not have the biggest audience, but what matters is that you are standing for what is objectively right.
What a lovely girl. It gives me hope in a world I'm losing faith in.
Awesome work, Kimi! Very inspiring.
Wow, such a great video. I have witnessed all the same things firsthand. Also, I'm from Ohio. I first moved to California for a brief stint in 2002. Very quickly I started noticing how much "people of color" in California overindulge in this.... I don't know how to put it any other way than "anti-white" dialogue. What I mean is, POC in California, and again this is in 2002, would take every opportunity they could to say something critical or even downright hateful about "white" people in general. To me it was very clearly a strange and somewhat new form of out-group hatred and scapegoating that far far exceeded what is actually appropriate (I don't completely dismiss the grievances of minorities). I think in a way a brand new mythology has evolved in California, the mythology of the evil-white-oppressor.
Cheers for a pro Human future!
Kimi, read the Autobiography of Malcolm X... the most powerful part of his autobiography is at the end--his experience performing the hajj. Malcom X, prior to the hajj, would have embraced Critical Race Theory... after the hajj, he would agree with you... and Nelson Mandela. It's OK, and absolutely necessary to call out racism when you see or hear it.
Love this ❤
Thanks so much Kimi, you are a shining star 🌟
Kimi i am so happy for you that your eyes were opened to the truth. The truth set you free from fear, to do what you enjoy and make new friends that share your passion fore skateboarding. Thats sweet.
What a great video. I'm a white guy and had a somewhat similar experience. I went to a predominantly black university and had been warned by peers I'd be in the minority and would likely suffer some bigotry there. My assumption was that it would be at the hands of fellow students, but I was pleasantly surprised that that never happened. The only bigotry I felt was at the hands of certain members of the faculty and a few of the wealthier black students. They were the only ones unwelcoming. Ironic as it was my state university and I attended on the GI Bill. So not only did I work and pay taxes in my state, but served in the military as a representative of it.
Excellent Video! Love your new outlook and the Nelson Mandela reference.
Kimi you are awesome!!!!
Bravo.
Inspirational. You are awesome
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Powerful stuff!
Superb
WOW This is huge! A huge improvement for all people suppressed by the thoughts of critical race theory and socialism bullshit.
Kimi Katiti? No way! 😃
Yesss!!!!
Thank you
Amazingly inspiring!
Kimi, I really love your story about your journey towards peace. But let me suggest one thing: I wonder if being upwardly mobile helps a lot for people of color. I used to go to a restaurant near where I worked. I am white and in my 60's. At night this was mainly a restaurant patronized by black people working low-wage jobs. I often felt hostility from the men and decided I had to stop going there.
In contrast, when I have gone to places patronized by young black college students, I have never experienced this. I assume because they think they have a chance for a better future. I think when a person feels boxed in with few possibilities, they tend to lash out at others they perceive as at fault.
"People of color" and all the other terms like it are the updated terms of the old racist term "Colored". They're racist terms masqueraded as progressive/non-racist terms.
@@goldenvulture6818 so what do you propose to say instead?
Nice educational video!
Great video. Surely there is respite from racism wherever the focus is on the love of a hobby.
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Your real enemy is not your own resentment, it's not even the people that taught you that resentment, it's the system that taught you that the evidence isn't more important than feelings, and unfortunately, that crosses all social and political lines.
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Woah ...
You ever watch tim pool?
What does he have to do with this?
I have been skating since the 80's and all have always been welcome, our crew spanned all titles.
Why should anyone care that your a black woman who likes to skateboard? Why can't everyone respect each other for who they are without getting political or satisfying some form of ideology? Just be yourself.
Im so confused with the world
This woman clearly doesn't know anything about critical race theory.
I feel like this video misrepresents the information that I have seen about Critical Race Theory. This theory is not designed to make you focus on how others will racially target you. It is about how society continues to function in usually very subtle ways that give social advantages to people in power (whites) while disadvantaging minorities (other races). While many people may interpret this as supporting a paranoid worldview, I have not seen much academia that really supports this idea. It is not designed to encourage bigotry either. It is supposed to reject the legacies of racism by analyzing how much harm racism has done. The next step is getting past racism and the idea of race in general. That way you can be pro-human (as FAIR likes to say) instead of only supporting certain racial groups.
A lot of CRT praxis in schools and HR through jobs actually solely focus on race and the oppressive hierarchy. It’s one thing to talk about it in the work place with adults and differing views. Another to have kids focus on it without having more differing views and ability of dissent.
I mean even in your comment: “it is how society continues to function to give advantages to people in power (whites)…”
That will absolutely frame it as whites are doing what they can to keep whites in power, and keep minorities out of power. How would that not make you focus on being a victim (racially targeted) if you are not white?
I feel like this is not so much misrepresentation as misdirection. She is talking about how she as an individual was treated by other individuals. From what I've read CRT is about examining ways in which institutions or societal structures may be act in a way that promotes or reinforces bigotry, inadvertently (or sometimes overtly) giving a specific group an advantage. By focusing on her individual story, of finding unexpected bias among her friends but telling us that CRT was the sole cause of this blinkered worldview, her message is that CRT is bad, because her friends found it difficult to believe that the white people at the skate park could not be racist. But this isn't necessarily so. Again, these are individual cases. She could have gone to another skate park somewhere else and meet violence and bigotry. Would that mean her prior experiences were invalid? Of course not. But she probably would not be speaking out against CRT right now. It just means that statistics or larger theories mean little at the scale of individuals.
Opponents of CRT and other recent attempts to discuss race in America tend to push this line. They want the discussion to stay at the level of the individual for just this reason - when dealing with individuals, larger concepts and ideas can be disputed or dismissed by saying " that's not what I experienced". Thereby squashing the conversation about issues at a larger scale. Like I said, misdirection.
@@gemmeldrakes2758 What exact recent attempts have actually been made to try stop discussions about race in America?
booo that has nothing to do with CRT.
Complete muddled mess until approx 4 mins when she spells it out
So as a Black Skater, who studied racism, including CRT, you have a lot of misconceptions about CRT. CRT is not about how people treat each other at skate parks. It's not about possible bad treatment between individuals. It's about why/how racism persists in institutions after the Civil Rights Movement.
Your skepticism about how you would be treated at skate parks was not because of CRT. You were nervous, and you probably had your own stereotypes about white people, which assuredly did not come from a study of CRT which teaches about anti-racist White people.
The other issue with this virtue signaling is that skateboarders are usually more progressive than the broad society. So your stereotypes were based merely on skin color.
If you would do people a favor and quote which CRT books you get your stereotypes from, and post the quoted text, that would be more intellectually honest.
Classic straw man fallacy. The notions discussed in this video have nothing to do with Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory is not about whether bigotry (incorrectly referred to as "racism") infuses quotidian lived experiences. It focuses specifically on legal structures that have produced markedly racially imbalanced outcomes -- most particularly the colossal failure often known as the "war on drugs" -- to determine whether the underpinnings of the legal structure itself may have been intentionally created in ways that would drive these racially imbalanced outcomes.
Segregate skateboarding NOW, that’s RAD!
Not a good argument against CRT. In fact, I found it extremely shallow, and lacking an overall assessment of the subject. I agree that CRT has it's flaws. However, I will say this a million times, individual experiences does not apply to everyone! Race is a factor for everyone, including white people, to imply otherwise is disingenuous. If humanity was founded upon a tribal nature, it will carry the consequences of such origins. The US will always bare the burden of slavery. Placing black people on RUclips to serve your agenda helps no one! There are legitimate arguments to race in our society, and downplaying these arguments, prolongs the burden.
Good thing this wasn't intended to be an exhaustive argument against CRT or maybe your assessment would be accurate. The fact that individual experiences cannot be generalized to everyone is exactly one important point against lived experience arguments common in CRT and the policies it intends to build upon it. No one denies the variable of race in experience; one point is that as an immutable characteristic (and an elusive one at that) it shouldn't play the formative role CRT claims it should. Our tribal nature is why we should downplay its importance and focus on our essential humanity. Collectively baring a burden of past generations can't even be specified enough to rectify it. The FAIR agenda was famously made popular by a black person (MLKJr.) so not sure what is meant by black people "serving" the agenda. If America really will "always" bare the burden then there is nothing to prevent "prolonging" it. The permanence of racism thesis is morbid and irrational. In my opinion it's just a smokescreen for an unnecessary revolution grounded in resentment.
As the other nice gentleman mentioned below this is an anecdotal story of one person's experience with CRT and not a detailed argument against CRT. I think the title of the video was pretty clear and not "clickbait". Unlike much of what you can find on RUclips these days. People like Kimi Katiti are a minority voice against CRT against a much louder radical minority. Sharing individual's stories should be complementary to sharing data/evidence on how CRT negatively affects our society. Both are needed to help people to understand the big picture. A single person's story is just one tool in our toolbox of understanding. You're absolutely right that one person's experience doesn't apply to everyone but we know most humans act upon their emotions first and logic secondly, if at all. Individual stories will elicit more emotion and action than any robust statistical data ever could. If Kimi's story is true than I don't see how that is being disingenuous. If you follow her on social media you will see she is delivering this message by choice and not simply being "placed" in front of cameras as a tool. I think many would also agree with you that legitimate arguments around race need to be had. If you're looking for more fact based arguments related to CRT I recommend looking into the work some individuals listed here: Coleman Hughes, Roland G. Fryer, Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, Wilfred Reilly, Jason Riley, John McWhorter, Glenn Loury, Adolf Reid Jr., Ayishat Akanbi, Brittany Talissa King, Erec Smith and many more. The economist are especially good at analyzing these sociological issues over the many decades. The important conversations are being had and a lot of the work has been done to find root causes to these issues of race in society. You just have to know where to look. Sadly you won't find most of these important conversation in the mainstream media. I hope you find something useful here. Sorry for the rant and I appreciate the convo! Have a wonderful day Gunny. I appreciate your service.
@@BrandonsCommentary Your statement regarding individual experiences being leveraged to support the argument for CRT, is exactly the point I'm making. Nothing applies to all should be assumed to work for, and against an argument. To make the statement that race is an immutable factor (and elusive), is futile. Race being a factor is a societal defect, based on a condition created by those who benefited from such conditions. I find it intriguing how some people pass their inaccurate assessment of race relations in this country, from a position of inexperience. A white man stating the permanence of the racism thesis, is irrational and morbid, is the perfect argument for the discussion of race to always be a factor. Your stance against the topic, demonstrates your lack of consideration, and compassion required to engage in such an important discussion. In fact, people with your opinions tend to perpetuate an irrational world view, of how race has impacted the black community. The indirect, passive, invisible, undetectable, elusive, and subtle ways racism lives within the norms of our society, can be detected best by those who live through it. Your opinion of race being a smokescreen for a revolution grounded in resentment, goes back to my point; your opinion does not apply to everyone. Resentment is definitely warranted and applicable for some, not all. Once again, racism has impacted some, more than others.
@@BrandonsCommentary What is amazing about all these "theorists" is that they will absolutely refuse to acknowledge that their theories need to be 1) checked against reality 2) can actually have an effect where they encourage people to see things that aren't there and to feel obligated to affirm that something is true regardless of whether that thing is actually present and 3) open to falsifiability in general, that their theories could, in fact, be wrong.
Overall, people who emphasize identity-based group grievances above all else would lose the excuses they currently have to browbeat people and to indulge in out-group hatred, so it's almost impossible to convince them otherwise.
Gunny, May I respectfully suggest you watch her RUclips channel and then decide if she is letting herself be placed on RUclips to serve someone else's agenda or if she is an intelligent adult who came to her own conclusions, despite being attacked by friends and on-line. Whether you agree with her or not she is obviously good hearted, smart and courageous. Voices like hers should not be silenced.
Traitor.
How so?