Jemele Hill Reacts to Akon Saying Slavery Focus Holds Back Black People (Part 4)
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In this clip, Jemele Hill starts out by reacting to Akon's comment about feeling like Black people in America are held back in some ways by their focus on slavery. She explained that the legacy of slavery is so deep in the country because it still exists, and Jemele gives the example of George Floyd being executed in the streets. Jemele also spoke about Germany apologizing for their past and not glorifying Nazis with statues, while the U.S. has monuments and statues for white supremacists. Moving along, Jemele expained what she feels it would take for the U.S. to move past racism, which she thinks can happen with a meaningful apology and undoing of past mistakes. She also addressed reparations, which you can hear more about above.
I’ve always resisted the calls that Vlad is a “culture vulture.” But his answer about his education making him millions left a bad taste. Vlad made millions because he got an education, had ambition AND Black people welcomed you into an industry where you could intimately collaborate with highly talented Black artists to reach your full potential- hence Vlad TV. But here’s the problem, it’s very rare for the flip side to happen; for a Black person with an education, that has ambition, and is actually welcomed into a predominately White industry that allows said Black person to collaborate with talented white counterparts & experts in order that they reach their full potential. That is the double standard. That’s why there isn’t many Black engineers in Fortune 500 companies or Black CEOs of major corporations. White people don’t want to let Black people in the door to reach their full potential writ large. That’s the discrimination and it’s based on the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and racism.
lolololol I see all the comments on here "yo let me get the next interview" thats the potential you're able to achieve, in entertainment and sports? That's pretty lame
Nicely stated
I get what you saying but you missed one step, make your own platform. That’s what vlad essentially did, made his own platform. He doesn’t have to answer to anybody up top cause he is the CEO of his own company. We as black ppl gotta hold ourselves accountable that we don’t start our own shit. We can start our own film companies, we can start our own factories, we can start our own supermarkets. But we have to execute. You see what happened when a nigga tried to have his own platform and put his city on the map (r.i.p Zachary stone aka Zachtv). That hate, jealousy, & envy certain ppl feel when somebody is doing something positive and making a difference kills us fr.
Byron Allen. Oprah Winfrey, The Gumbel Brothers and Ed Bradley.
Always comments like this under vlad's post!
She spoke all facts. Dr. Claud Anderson has been saying a lot of this forever. We need a Dr. Anderson interview on here Vlad. Book it.
Powernomics!!!✊🏿🖤✊🏿❤️✊🏿💚
Facts
That's hopeful wishing with this channel, he gave game on breakfast club
Vlad ain't ready for all that, his going to drop too much game on him🤣😆
@@WattsOnWax Damn yeah,i had to Download the whole interview(Audio form) and re-listen it
Akon is from Senegal who are the exact Africans that sold my people into slavery!
NestaGlobal been telling people this ‼️ his punk ass don’t understand because his people didn’t experience slavery
Shut up, you moron. Senegal is a French and Portugese colony.
You weak af
Exactly 🙌🏽👏👏👏.....His tribes the reason we over here now 🤦🏽♂️😒🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
NestaGlobal everyone sold everyone into slavery. Are you a slave? People have the knowledge of the world in their hands through a phone and don’t even use it.
Akon has no idea what he's talking about, there's still slavery in the continent of Africa today.
Exactly. That's like telling a person of Jewish descent to just get over the holocaust or a person who has been sexually assaulted to just get over the tramatizing act. This isn't something you can just let go. I guess it's easy to say it to a black person but tell that to a Jewish person and see how they look at you. I see where he is sort of going with it but it's not that easy. You can't just tell a soldier who has experienced countless bloodshed in war to just get over his experiences. You have to possess some sort of empathy for the person whose experienced tragedies or have been through them. I get what Akon is saying I just think his wording is poorly constructed. Instead of saying "let go" it may be better to say do the best you can to move on.
I feel for the people of africa...but we live in the U.S....lets worry about home before anyone else...u wouldnt worry more about the neighbors across the streets situation more than your own home would u??
Its just called "indentured servitude" now. Slavery is rampant in Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. Slavery was here a long time before America was, and its still going on. But, I do think America needs to own up to its involvement. I'm for reparations. But, everyone already knows the government isn't gonna just cut a check to every black person here. However it's(hopefully) done though, isn't going to make every black person happy, cuz someone always feels like they are getting screwed. That could lead to more issues in the black community. Those that don't get reparations are gonna be mad at the ones that do. If a reparations act was created, there would be stipulations/requirements that would have to be met to "qualify". Not everyone would meet them all...
@@manofsteel2211 man, Africa is so fucked up in a lot of countries. They're steady in a state of civil unrest. Mass genocides have happened in several countries. Its not racist, because because everyone looks alike. It's old tribal beefs. Or whoever is in charge at the time is on some Hitler shit..Corrupt governments. Warlords. Boy Soldiers. The gap between the poor and rich in Africa is next level. American poverty doesn't come close to African poverty. But, at the end of the day, we gotta fix our own house before we lend a hand to the family down the street.
@@AnoNymous-ek1wr umm...why again would u give reporation??..no one alive deserves it...slavery was gone in the 1800s...so no we dnt owe anybody anything...people need to wrk for wht they want...too many hand outs now...
It's difficult to forget the past, when the past is still present.
Amen!!
@Little Sones Police brutality may not be as common as you think.
Black mistreatment of non-blacks still happens today.
SMDH.
Anyone forgetting his or her past will repeat it in the future.
Ohhh, shut the fuck up.
“Black people have always exerted their will as much as they can to get out of their circumstances.”
That is part of her response to Akon saying black people in the US would be better off not focusing so much on slavery.
So she’s saying that Black people don’t have enough will to improve our own circumstances to our liking. 🤔🤔🤔
I’m a fan of her sports media, but she needs think a little more critically about what Black people are capable of.
This is why there is a big disconnect between AA and Africans. SMH
Absolutely been saying this for decades
@@WaRich202 Yet people don't believe it
How can you "Move On" from Slavery when its waiting for you when you walk outside. Ride past a Statue, Drive down a Street, walk into a Building, Drive out to a Lake or Park that is memorialized in name and image of those who fought to keep us in Chains.
Too me its a statue and we has black people have bigger things to worry about and if a statue of a dead person moves you in such a way then I just don't know what to say. History is important but what plagues us today isn't a statue.
@gregtubez ooh come onnnnnnn.... you cant blame fucking movies about racism, the distance peopple make excuses for just blaming something else before looking in the mirror is un real!! Statues, "apology"(from peopple who did nothing), movies... in a world where everyone only thinks them selfs these are pretty ridicilous excuses....
@@Trillville43 statue was used as an example not the end all be all solution, relax we know there are way more important and deeper issues pertaining to the black community.
I hear Mars is nice this time of year. No slavery at all there. But on earth, name a nation and/or people that hasn't been enslaved or enslaved others. History happened regardless of statues.
Wallowing in self potty won't help.
She's 100% correct
She is the problem. She is holding black people back. Playing the victim card won’t get anyone anywhere.
@@CurrentlySpinning
How is telling the truth "playing victim" ?
Broken clock is right twice a day
@@CurrentlySpinning no is playing the victim she just speaking facts !
@@youngnixx88788 Exactly.
Reparations cannot be asked for. They have to be demanded.
You’re right, repair your brain at your own cost.... You actually are talking about reparation while watching Vlad who is getting rich of off your ignorant ghetto culture ....SMH🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
@@francoismerieux8770 Ignorant? And how did you get here?
Nobody owes you anything? Try working without pay and see if they don't owe you anything. Try paying taxes and watch your neighborhoods continue to deteriorate and its inhabitants locked into second class citizenship. The Jews, the Native Americans all got what they were owed.
@Arizona Fire Ent Sounds like you're confusing reparations with social programs. Reparations represent a debt that has to be paid. The difference is night and day.
The Pop Bubble I love exposing comments of people dwelling on the past and asking for reparation because they were exploited, while supporting Vlad while he is exploiting them.... Very entertaining, relaxing and reassuring to me.... 😎😎😎 Glad I have never used my Blackness as an excuse for procrastination....
I’m slowly realizing why so many white people love Akon
Good Muzik
@mansa afer THANK YOU!!! fuck im over past shit and whining when clearly there's a much bigger problem in our community that is far worse than all this.
@Little Sones Nah I give it to the ladies that way when they ask me to.. TRUMP 2020!!! I could destroy you right now but not an internet warrior.
I personally never cared for him. But yeah, he do gotta pretty big white fan base. Now that I think about it, I don't know a single mainstream rap artist that doesn't have a mostly white crowd when they perform. White supremacy is a very big problem in this country🙄
Everyone else have been compensated even slave owners 😂😂 how can you take a country like this serious.gods wrath is real
Clown ass no one's getting reparations. Everyone hates on the US but u don't see them trying to go anywhere else...
Ivan Larrea 🍪
@@ivanlarrea9239 only clown here is you
@@FthaHaneys why bc I speak the truth. It's called reality snowflake . No one is getting reparations. Get the fuck over it and chase the fucking bag. Quit playing the victim card. That was 400 yrs ago. Gtfo here
@@ivanlarrea9239 Now,Address the point at hand.The Floor is yours,Good Sir
There is not enough money in the world to wipe away the Sin and make it right.
Only thru reparations
@@SPACEMAN70000 they dont have 600 years worth of reparations they killing us now to make us fall in line
@@SPACEMAN70000 if you took all the money in the world and divided it evenly somehow it would end up in the exact same hands. Reperations wont help your people.
@@abefroman8821 try giving it and lets find out
@@jrock213456 lets start by trying...release the funds and watch us become great again
How does Vlad keep bringing up the issues of race but doesn't know this stuff.
I think he’s just looking for multiple points of views on a particular subject, maybe 🤷🏾♂️
his ignorance is showing, its like making your business off women's stories then turn around and point your finger at them and tell them what they are doing wrong! gtfoh with that bullsh**t!
Clicks + views + comments = RUclips engagement metrics = paychecks.
A decent interviewer will not give their full opinion on the subject, instead they will frame the question in a way to get answers.
EXACTLY! The epitome of ignorance. Glad reminds me of a guy who doesn't read but I think he reads... Never mind.
"If we can't call you slave, we will call you criminal." - I was 13 and watched a documentary on reconstruction. I will NEVER forget that.
So only blacks are called criminals?
How can you let go of the past when the past is still going on til this day...
Africans themselves got over it - Man up & quit crying like a bitch
@Lilya A
It is, just in a different form. The civil rights act passed in 64. Meaning anyone alive today 55 and older lived during a time when they were LEGALLY allowed to discriminate against blacks
Y'all tripping my grandma made shrimp for her entire life. I on the other hand own my own business bringing in sufficient funds to travel to the motherland and back. Stop bitching. Make your own way. Akon has a point
Akon right everybody needs to move on and make history not repeat itself
yo Benisha, I went to Wal-Mart and couldn't buy any slaves.
🤔The song “Locked Up” smacks of slavery
Indeed
That song was created like more than a decade ago
Sounds more like an oppressive government why do u assume it from the perspective of a black man cant we just see akon as a man not a BLACK man
Nigga....tell me about it. Akon is a fucktard.
@@Rememberremember-be1tz because most people locked up are black...because reconstruction was built on the backs of black folks by creating draconian laws(Jim Crow) to lock up black folks for things as little as spitting on the ground in order to create another form of free labor to rebuild the south because the slaves were freed...because the American justice system has shown time and time again that black folks are punished more harshly than their white (and even latino) counterparts. Should I go on because you seem to be oblivious to the facts about American society?
If Akon was a descendant of enslaved Africans, then he would probably understand. Akon can tell people his ancestral name, his ancestral country/land, his ancestral ethnic group(s) and on top of that he can tell all that information to his kin. Most descendants of the slave trade CAN’T do any of that. And even if we can we have to PAY for that shit. So akon had no right to say that....regardless of his intentions behind that statement.
Just curious black people that owned slaves during slavery like William Ellison are you going to ask hes family for reparations too?
He is descendent of enslaved African the Senegal and Gambia are a huge region where alot of trans Atlantic slaves where transported there definitely were sides of his family where caught and shipt into slavery
Please learn history
When they forget about The Civil War, we MIGHT forget about slavery!!
Robby Brown “if i put away the gold chains will yall forget yall put me in chains” ll cool j
@@gigglemaniarunninwild2207 word
Or if they forget about 9/11
Yarapah people from every race died in 7/11
@@gigglemaniarunninwild2207 7/11?
Vlad is that one white friend that prays that his black friends give him the pass to use the n word
Vlad is so concerned about our people who oppose our people & don't say the popular thing. Kanye, Terry & Akon. It's like dude? Say whatever you want to them. Go to them.
Yup I believe that too
Every night (Even though he says he's an atheist) he prays to God : Just lemme say nigga 1 time baby! Amen.
I watch to laugh dude says he's got Muslim brotherhood for bodyguards lol prolly insurance on his chain too
Clout chasing all day
That last part is very crucial for those who don’t understand
Wait a second.. u agree black ppl are more poor now than during the civil rights movement??.. all u have to do is look at the top10 richest rappers and you will have ur answer
J. CashDro 6.20 till the end is what I’m referring to
Oh myfault
Yeah ain’t tht something ....
cAmp ish Something indeed smh.
Akon ain't from here so he wouldn't know
@Pharoah Blackgod again.... He ain't from here
You have to be from America to know its history?? You sound dumb
Akon is a man who looks forward
you're a bitch who'd rather cry than progress
@@kingrell116 Yet you called Obama your black president right? Yeah that was convenient at the time, stupid
@@kingrell116 WP did the same thing to Africans that they did to us. Stop with that divisive mindset. Y’all will find anything to nitpick and hate on
I think Akon is the right person to talk about race cus he’s literally 100% African American, he’s lived in both continents, schooled in both continents and speak the languages of both continents, have friends and family in both continents.
I've never heard it put that plain in all my years, that was a perfect example.
The thing about it is, even if we do move past it, they make sure we NEVER FORGET....
THANK GOD FOR THIS INTELLIGENT SISTER ✊🏿🇺🇸💯
Vlad REALLY has to stop comparing himself to ANY Black struggle. Our stories are not the same.
🎯🎯
Concentrating on the differences, and not the similarities, is holding you back.
Ron Hot the same people who parrot your vervige know nothing.
You must know the TRUTH about what happened and how movements were destroyed in order to understand how to beat this present day system.
OUR STORIES ARE NOT THE SAME.
You can shut up, learn and assist or step aside.
@@Drando1989 Sounds like you need to talk less and read more, specifically outside of your own culture.
Reading about other people's cultures and struggles gives a huge amount of perspective and humility.
Perpretuating a victim mentality is not the way forward.
Ron Hot why do people always talk on here like they know people personally?? Lol.
I’m HIGHLY degreed and was raised by college professors in History and theology. I didn’t come into an awakening like most of you in my adulthood. I was raised on truth.
You’re not worthy nor qualified to tell me what I need to learn or what perspective I need to gain.
I’m well informed. More than you. I’m positive of that.
Go and help your fellow white people. They’re losing their shit right now.
Again every black person in America isn’t meant for college. Pay us all reparations and let each black individual choose his own path in life.
Get your lazy ass to work
Ok here's a dollar. Now shut up
The AKON interview was an eye opener. He is a great musician but he has NO INTEGRITY. Why listen to his opinion??
OFFICIAL David Thuggin exactly...
He sold his country out to China..
He from Africa and he has been compromised he works with too many corporate people
Is there any multi millionaire black person that has truly maintained their integrity?
Well said
Straight facts!!! That's why I rock with Jemele!!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Honestly, they're both right... most blacks today never experienced slavery but yet expects or feels entitled to something our ancestors endured... almost every race experienced genocide or some great atrocity... focus on today and bettering yourself
But how long ago you think slavery ended? True slavery didnt end until 1941 after peonage laws have outlawed. Their is documentary on RUclips called Slavery by another name. You will learn that your older family members may have experienced slavery one way or another.
@@cequandoeseverything2191to me the date at this point is irrelevant but ok slavery ended in 1941 .. the point I made is your not entitled to anything in life especially what someone else deserves like our parents or ancestors... in life there are those who point fingers and play the blame game which cripples you because ultimately you're saying i don't have the power that person or entity does.. then there are those who look inward and say hey shit might be fucked up but what can I do which will only empower that person because they would be seizing power and control ..i like to think I'm the latter.... then there are also those who are either being pulled back by the past, pulled from the side and distracted from the present, or looking forward towards the future.. again I like to think I'm the latter.. no one is entitled to anything in life, including life itself..... this universe is impersonal and doesn't know any of us personally and doesn't care if we live or die... the past is gone the future isn't promised all you have is the present moment that should be cherished, appreciated and made the best of..... and on a deeper note everything is a state of mind .... the first law of the universe...
We are in the belly of the beast. We are so far removed from Africa over generations. Akon can fly back to Senegal if he has problems many of us don't feel like we have that option.
Only because you don't want, Ghana opened its doors, the year of return happened last year. Over 5000 Afro-Americans migrated there...
@@xxlaumic its costs money to travel genius. Do you know of the racial wealth gap? Some have more than others...Under 200 were actually granted citizenship, and who knows how that will play out. Stop dismissing our concerns 🦽 have a seat.
The real concern is you feeling like you don’t have that option. Of course you have that option. But leaving this country is not the right move.
@@sandrasteele976 I'm not dismissing anything, you the one dismissing Ghana's noble gesture here. Over 5000 people is a good start, plus it's a win win, since it's gonna give a boost to the local economy.
@@xxlaumic not dismissing the gesture, Americans aren't accustomed to foreign, travel, languages, and cultures. Our stomach's may not adjust, we are comfortable with constant electricity and climate control, and home sickness is real. Dont pretend like we are not different or that America is not our home. Some do not feel connected and its understandable. We are not African and slave port tourism is traumatic (still profiting from the slaves y'all sold). Again, you are dismissive of our concerns.
Like Chris Rock said "Reparations will only make Cadillac the number 1 auto dealer" 🤣🤣
If you read her twitter, then you know she’s about to go off
Ain't nobody use twitter anymore bruh it's not 2009
she looks like she'd go off if she sat at a red light too long with that chip on her shoulder. Typical ABW
@@BangBangBang. You watch too much t.v.
@@BangBangBang.
And THAT comment is why systemic racism continues... before a black woman walks in the door of an interview - you have ALREADY have your mind made up without her saying a word !
Akon needs to stay in his lane. Police brutality and murder is happening to us now in America. It's not our past...it's our 2020 reality.
Way more blacks are killed by gang violence than Police. If you fix the gang violence you will fix the police brutality.
@Little Sones The "dysfunction" seems like a much bigger issue and needs more attention. I think if you really tried to tackle that you would get heaps of support from society in general.
@Little Sones The unfortunate thing is the current unrest has dislodged many black people in high places: police chiefs, mayors etc. These people worked their whole lives to get up there and had their power quickly taken away by activists.
It's black on black oppression in a different way.
@@ronhot3774 police brutality started during slavery...has nothing to do with gang violence. You sound crazy.
@@ronhot3774 when gangs wasn't killing each other they were killing blaccs so what's your point
Vlad sounds like the guy who says "I have many black friends"
Every one he interviews is one of his friends, hearing it from him.
Akon said "let go of" the past he didn't say to "forget" but "let go" and letting go does not mean you won't fight for reparation or your rights or fight against police brutality.....But hanging on to the past can be very dangerous at times it stops you from moving forward and growing in a progressive way.... because i have heard or seen some people who have opportunity on something and mess it up then start blaming it all on the past..... What white America did in the past 400 years is unforgettable and i don't think they have any remorse for that so is good for black people to remember what white america did but don't get stuck in it especially when there is no progress
Say the man who never said, "Breonna Taylor"
L Moua dumb!!
Why are you people discussing African issues on this white man channel or even with him, do you see jews doing the same on Black forums?👌🏿👊🏿👍🏿
So much hate and contempt. We are humans first and always.
CrescentPrince Kronos So much truth and reality👌🏿👊🏿👍🏿
Akon proved why Africans and Caribbean Immigrants and their descendants should let Original Black Americans handle American Issues.
She's 100% right. Generational wealth for black people is ridiculously hard to accrue. I've been blessed in the fact that I can begin building this wealth for my family now. I got lucky with the fact that my grandmother owns the property I currently live at and it's being passed down from my mother to me. I know not everyone get this privilege and one of my goals in life is to be able to provide affordable housing for my people and anyone else for that matter so they can accrue that wealth.
Akon is very right. Why do we choose to carry that hurt that we can’t even began to imagine?
James Jones they won back then but they aren’t winning against us now. They use most of the government assistance and black women are the most educated demographic. I didn’t feel oppressed until someone said that I should be.
James Jones i went to all black school in all black communities with working class and educated black people. We sung the negro national anthem every morning and black history month was bigger than most schools science fairs. They never told us we were oppressed. They instilled in us that with hard work and good decisions we could achieve anything because of those who suffered. That doesn’t mean we have to suffer.
I believe it both ways'we should focus on what's in front of us but I don't think we should get over that's why black people so forgiven now
D d imagine, another black person calling me stupid for not only having a different opinion, but for feeling like white people never really caused more harm to me than my own dang daddy did☕️
Akon is right about one thing, we're wasting time waiting for reparations and all that .... we should either stay in the USA and deal with these problems with a 😃 or ... ✈ ....Just leave! Europeans were flocking to 🇺🇸 for a better life. Why aren't we flocking to another place? 🤔 We have every reason to do it. 🤔
Who’s waitin on it? I’ll never let whitey run me off some land.
Leave to where? They 100% of black Africa. The only people fighting for freedom or any form of self determination is Biafra
I definitely will be buying land when I have saved up enough.
Those who want to leave should but it shouldn’t be mandatory because we have earned the right to be here. We built this damn joint.
@@JakeKoenig That's your job!
If it moves you that much then you can spread it.
Akon is 100% correct. Focussing on the slave trade makes "being victims of the slave trade" our trademark.
Is it just the trade or the overall racist institutions
@@movingon2actionableitems755 which us institution is deliberately racist today?
@@crescentprincekronos2518 um Law enforcement idk Housing discrimination...u know there is a Voters act that has to be renewed every 25 years Bank loans..Judge sentences should i continue or do you just deny these things
@@movingon2actionableitems755 how does having to renew voter registration imply blacks cannot? Housing, I live in a republican county and we have blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and yes, your most hated group, whites. Prove law enforcement is racist. I'll give you a hint, you would have to prove the person, cops, are racist because no law on the books targets solely blacks. I could go on. I think your negative perception is clouding your critical reasoning.
@@movingon2actionableitems755 I'm in Texas by the way
Big FACTS💯
That's why Akon is successful and helping other blacks while the blacks in America are crying about victimhood. Let that sink in.
Shaming the victim is weird when something was actually done to them as well.
Akon is successful because of ADOD before you that allowed him to make his “get past racism” comment
It's factual, but not true. Those of white decent keep reminding us, as who we are and where we came from. So, right there is enough for me to say to you AKON mind your own business.
and your people let it hold you down while acting just like this girl being angry at shit generations ago no different from countries with groups fighting for so long they don't even know what they're fighting for other than they were raised to be upset
Who keeps reminding us?? Lol
@@BangBangBang. you don't know what you're talking about.
@@BangBangBang. Dude shut up you don't even know what you are talking about. Clearly you nothing about Black people or our history probably another right wing nut that spends his time listening to nazis radio.
@@BangBangBang. You're an evil sun allergic troglodyte, so you wouldn't understand
Nobody does themselves any favors by being a victim...
Fresh Stacks 👌🏽
So be the abuser?
Benjamin Daniels yeah sounds like more fun
@Little Sones Nobody said they did genius... If they keep that victim mentality, then it IS their choice dumbass
@@freshstacks5043 I said nobody does themselves any favors by being a victim and you reply "except victims".... so victims do themselves favors by being victims? Lmaoo ok guy
History repeats itself AKON!
Akon came here made money took it back to where he is from and building there who is he to tell us how to feel
Well yeah, that’s what the Game is all about.... African Americans have been exploited for years by everybody and keep the same energy.... “We are proud, we are real !!!” , but the reality is y’all ain’t getting anything from your “culture” .... Akon played the Game right and you were a tool as usual.... Just like Vlad is doing ya’ll and ya’ll keep watching....
He’s done more good than anybody hating him that do nothing with there lives
This “Brotherhood” simple minded thinking is something people put in your head.... The truth is COLOR DOESN’T MATTER !!! Only wealth and education !!! EVOLVE SIS !!!!
So keep playing the Victim and not advancing in life.
Read back your own statement and you’ll see why it’s a crutch.
I don't know the people that Akon knows but I've never heard anyone ever in my life say that the weight of the past of slavery was holding them back.
remember when she called straight black men the enemy? Why would you ever listen to her?
Hehehehehehehehehe bird is the word
Roadhouse
I think Akon is basically saying, sometimes some people can't multi-task effectively at once. So some people will put limit on their success worrying about the past of slavery and not worrying about their future success at the same level
She’s speaking facts there’s a memorial where I work at to the founder of the city who was a slave owner and had his slave buried with him with “unnamed slave boy” place led on the slaves tombstone
Vlad thought he had one that was going to go against the GRAIN GTFOH!!!!!!
Akon: let the slavery thing go its holding you back
Me: hey Akon, look on your $1 $5 etc.
Yeah and look at his life vs ur life. Js.
Plus you think Akon fucking with $1s and $5s 😂🤣
@@MrDillon2029 Akon, like you are either scared or in denial of obvious historical content. What is your point? 🤔
@@MrDillon2029 and what about your life?
@@MrDillon2029 the only reason Akon can talk the way he does is because of the same thing you said he ain't messing with. Again what is your point if you have one?
I talked some shit on Akon for supporting a snitch but now I realize he’s thinking beyond the box. He is allowing himself to flourish and overcome. This chick has a point but embodies the very ideal Akon has already overcome.
What Akon said went over a lot of heads!
Yup! And I've noticed that every time this point is mad, it goes over a lot of heads.
All of her answers jus proved akons point.
No it did not . She just proved him wrong , like she says we tried to move on they white washed what actually happened in slavery in classrooms and textbooks . You don’t see Germans in Germany telling holocaust survivors get over it or Jewish people period they paid them reparations. Everything in this country revolves around slavery from past presidents, statues , cops , judges etc so please with that statement Akon is a African that grew up African he doesn’t really understand in Africa they get run by Asians
When we gonna hold africa accountable for selling us in the first place
@Hey, Kody, we can't do that. There's wealth in Africa and, there still abject poverty. China is exploiting it right now. We have enough to concern ourselves with here in America. America never wanted to involve itself in Africas problems. Why? Its obvious. Black people.
Africa is literally still paying from the colonialism that they "benefited" from.
Well u were African so blame ur self
Don’t put African as a whole. Say west Africa.
Akon was right, there's a reason black immigrants come here and excel because we are hyperfocused on getting ahead despite the hurdles while black Americans blame the white man for their trouble instead of going hard to help their brother
Well said Akon!
So many people saying Akon isn't from the USA, her was born and lived there, he's a US citizen.
Stfu
@@scottthomas2848 just stating pure facts lad.
@@georgedavisisinnocent79 They hate facts. They always love to live in their false bubble.
The whole statue thing is such a distraction from the real issues theirs actual laws in place keeping us down and we worrying about a statue🤦🏽♂️
"Keeping us down" Man, stfu... You are your own worst enemy... *There's*
Okay bro relax😂😂
We can walk and chew gum at the same time
Richard Vining go read what i put and let me know was that a good enough answer lil bro
Richard Vining lil bro ... relax😂
Nobody has said anything about Finical litarcy . So just like giving anyone money, if they don’t know how to make it work for them, they will be back in the same precaution just with more liabilities. Some might make generation wealth from it but the masses will not. That’s what needs to be talked about as well as giving the money .
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I Agree!
*literacy
Believe it or not spelling is not the most important thing here .. but I get what you saying.. there are people with money who get people to spell thing for them... RUclips Rich Dad Poor dad and I invite you to read his books and video... I might had misspelled that but I know the three educations , and most super educated people don’t: Professional, Academic, and Finical Literacy.. the school system will teach you the first two but very little in the third ... or how to make money work for you .... not you work for it
It’s funny people are giving Akon a hard time when he just suggested that maybe, just maybe you should hold yourself accountable for your life.
You should but when the system is set up for you to fail you got to acknowledge that .?
Little Sones you’re in the best place in the world to obtain financial freedom. Afro Caribbean people are one of the most successful immigrant groups in the country so miss me with the holding the black man down bs. It’s no secret, work hard, master what you do, reap rewards. Come to DC and check out the loads of black people getting paid, buying homes and businesses. And I’m talking every walk of life from trades to white collar. FOH yourself. Calling me a lame, I’m sorry you aren’t special like everyone told you your whole life 😂
People like this woman is why racism will never die! She is one of the most racist people on the planet. She talks about the people who fought to keep slavery and NEVER mentions the people who died to end it, and there were more of them.
And she never talks about African slave owners, who sold their own people to white europeans as slaves.
And that in some African country's slavery still happends, by black people themself.
Love her stance..great interview
To forget the past is to relive it.
And in AMERIKKKA we keep seeing this mess every day. White folks would love for us to forget it. Yes I am a white male I'm so tired of how white folks in this country act when it comes to racism.
It's weird that the people commenting on systemic racism, oppression, etc. are always the ones that supposedly made it out of the "system" and have never experienced these issues. To sit and here and say that things are the way they were 50 or 60 years ago is disrespectful to those who lived during those times. For this system to be designed to hold back black people, it sure is failing. Regardless of whether the system exists or not, the system doesn't have to work. Hard work defeats discrimination. I'm a black guy and I know reparations aren't coming. I'm a black man and I know we can do this without reparations. Giving us reparations isn't gonna change ones mindset on how to use money or resources effectively. How are we gonna tear down this "system" when we're unknowingly supplying oil to the engine. Completely ripping out this "system" will not change people's opinions of us, good or bad. We need more stable households, a frickin father around, better schooling, etc. The NBA and NFL could be completely shut down by the players if they refused to play until the owners lobbied to get a bill on the house floor for reparations or reduced college education. But what they doing, playing ball while sending out a video message or skipping one game. At some point we have to look in the mirror and educate ourselves because expecting reparations from this government is like fucking for virginity. Hell they arguing right now over a corona bill that would statistically go to more whites than blacks. Give me concrete evidence of one "system" in place that disallows a black man or woman from becoming great and building generational wealth?
Police falsifying charges on a young black youth. BAM!
I believe in what Akon was saying. Reason being most people believe freedom came from what Lincoln wrote, but history told you revolutions freed people. This is not only true in the Islands, it was also true for France, Russia and other European countries. We won't get respect until we tear up the concept of "the Rabbit Proof Fence ". You can't tell people to respect you when you don't invest in self. Our African Ancestors used animal totems to remind us what we see in nature. The fight is real and it will continue.
As a black american I'm less concerned with slavery and more concerned with everything that happened afterwards like red-lining, jim crow, the prison system, etc etc. People point to slavery as a scape goat. Like just because your ancestors weren't slave owners doesn't mean you're excluded from the conversations about what happened afterward and the systems that your ancestors benefitted from. A lot of race riots involved largely immigrant populations as well.
Vlad did not interrupt her at all she had him speechless 💎💎💎 Good job djvlad
He knows she's the type that screams at fast food restaurants because her order was wrong
Why does this dude thinks he understands us? I'll never get it.
Because his wife is black,if he still married & well we know how that is he got comfortable is all i say,but blacks allow it,some of us put vlad in his place when he gets too comfortable..vlad reads the comments. Hi vlad!
Akon, the past still exists due to the slow evolution of systematic racism over time. And today, it's deeply rooted within the culture. We see it in the legal system, political system, educational system, medical system and even inside people's minds in the form of self hate (which many are unaware of it's presence inside of them.) To forget, is to fully accept that we are not human. And that we don't deserve care and healing.
Akon is right tho.
She’s so right. I’m African and I live in diaspora I get the struggle. Akon is just way in over his head
How can we get over something from the past when it’s constantly repeating itself in some form in different ways...
She is absolutely correct on this subject from all angles salute sister
I really love her, she's such a intellect
If Akon knew the 13th amendment then he'd understand slavery never went away. Prison is the new slave plantation.
Akon meant people dwell on it to a level of hampering themselves from moving forward.
And Jemeelle Hill straighten him out and said that's ludicrous. We obviously can move forward as we've always done but its asinine to suggest that we "just forget" it when America has never made amends to African Americans for, what was "hundreds of years" of chattel slavery, that which they are still reaping the benefits of and we are obviously still feeling the affects of.... Get Real
Couldn't have said it better she's a FUCKIN icon!!!! ✝️God bless her SOUL🛐
I believe what Akon is saying. We as blacks need to stop focusing on slavery and all the past. Most of us born post 1965 don't know anything about slavery or Jim Crow. Racism will always be here. We've come a long way as a people and need to stop even looking at the past. We need to focus on living morally, work hard, and have faith that we will be okay. No one will feel sorry for us.
Education does not trumps racism. Giving blacks education does not trumps systematic oppression.
I love her honesty and ability to express her points without offending or make the other individual feel uncomfortable. We need people like this. I’m not black but I am PRO human and PRO RESPECT.
This was a great interview with sister Jemele. Her responses were right on point
I agree with everything she said ❤️❤️
You can try to let go of the past, but the past doesn't always let you go. Especially when many things of the past are still happening in the present.
Akon is right but people just don't want to hear it
She's speaking FACTS!! Black people have ALWAYS been a resilient culture and that's what's hated on but MOST (if not all) other cultures.. Plain and simple
If you still worrying about slavery in 2020 hold this L
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The first question that i like to ask is why are the descendants of Africans(the African Americans)who never experienced slavery, can get a job that pays with money, attend universities, own businesses, become billionaires if they focus and work hard on it like so many African Americans who have done it before may feel they are entitled to reparation when in fact none of them have anything to do with slavery that happened way before they were born? Secondary some of these people need to stop making people feel sorry for them getting angry sometimes hating both Africans and whites of today who were not there. Finally, slavery didn't only happen to Africans but sadly it's how all the empires were built by using some of the people this is why Africa is still strong today. Forgive me for my way of thinking but it's just the truth, so if reparation has to be taking place then it is right to say that the European elite (the British Empire, French Monarchy, Latin) the Kingdoms/Empires of Africa and Jews who funded it all are responsible. Visiting Africa will help a lot from this mentally slavery, ONE LOVE, ONE FAMILY!🙏
🗣 SAY THAT JEMELE!!!
This is why she is one of the few public commenters I'll listen to she actually knows what she is talking about not just spewing bullshit because she feels that way
Love Jemele! Intelligent black woman! Preach it sista!! ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
You spelt ignorant wrong.
@@Derkiesmefpipe says the random troll poking his head out from under the lonely bridge.
@@fizzlewiggle shes not intelligent dude
They do need to get rid of them confederate statues.
Donald Sterling didn't want him at the LA Clippers game because he's too dark skin. Make it make sense Akon. 😯
It's not like I wake up everyday thinking about slavery and blame every issue I experience on slavery .... Akon hold this L
Wallow in your self pity. The rest of the world has moved on. What a joke
I’ll slap you to Africa so u can tell them how you feel about black folks feelings and emotions
Lybia???? Saudi Arabia????
@Arizona Fire Ent
Lybia??? Saudi Arabia???
Arizona Fire Ent you drop location I’ll make an example of you
There's still slavery in Africa. 🤷♂️
Slavery is just like the Dope Game 🎯