#VelshiBannedBookClub

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  • Опубліковано 27 гру 2024

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  • @berthabridges3483
    @berthabridges3483 Рік тому +15

    "Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?"
    ~ Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), American writer and anthropologist

  • @erinmac4750
    @erinmac4750 Рік тому +11

    Thank you for discussing this book, banned or not. I may have read it in high school, it's been awhile. But, I remember being captivated by the characters and the beauty of her writing. Definitely time for a revisit.
    Why people are so fearful and suspect of learning these days, baffles me. How can expanding you horizons do anything but help ground the beliefs/knowledge previously gained, adding to experience and deepening understanding, even if it's, "no, that's not for me." I'm guessing that a lot of this fear us also based in "othering," something we need to stop in this country.
    I grew up in a reading household, where I wasn't limited by author or genre. I was fortunate enough to have enthusiastic teachers who introduced many different authors and types of literature from many backgrounds and periods. This enriched my educational experience, as well as my life. I only want others, students of today, to have the same opportunities. 💜🌎🍀

  • @ianreed9571
    @ianreed9571 Рік тому +12

    "They said I murdered Custer, but it was a lie. He was a fool who rode to his own death."
    Sitting Bull 1877

  • @kateuhler7803
    @kateuhler7803 Рік тому +13

    I have this book! I've owned it for years.

    • @user-xg3uy6hq9g
      @user-xg3uy6hq9g Рік тому +2

      I 've read the book several times and watched the movie

    • @danialhillmann5374
      @danialhillmann5374 Рік тому +1

      How if it's "banned"

    • @aurora_occidentalis2248
      @aurora_occidentalis2248 Рік тому

      Exactly. This book is not banned. It's highly regarded and easily available at libraries, bookstores and Amazon. Why pretend it's banned?

    • @erinmac4750
      @erinmac4750 Рік тому +1

      I have to find my copy, but I can't remember if it's hard copy or digital. Also, about half of my library was lost a number of years ago, so this will be an adventure. However, I believe worth the time. 🍀✌️😎

  • @hawksnestvision
    @hawksnestvision Рік тому +5

    Thanks V! and of course guests! so important!

  • @roxannaweaver2155
    @roxannaweaver2155 Рік тому +3

    One thing I have learned in the 61 years since I turned 10 is this: If you don't love yourself you will never survive the traumas of life and thrive as you.
    Now, today I have learned about something new. An author that I have NEVER heard of in my 71 years that I am going to learn about through her writings. I have just ordered this book. I love books. If I don't have a stack of books waiting to be read I get uneasy. I love books because I am able to step outside of this world and inside the stories, whether fiction or fact, and see what's there, and learn. Both fiction and fact can teach you something if you are willing to see it, hear it, and understand it. Thank you.

  • @ramonaboggio7402
    @ramonaboggio7402 Рік тому +3

    Love, love, love this book!
    I can still see in my mind, eye Janey wearing overalls, walking back into town with her head held high!!

  • @susiepoadster4642
    @susiepoadster4642 Рік тому +6

    Excellent discussion! Love all the books, so inspiring!

    • @Positive_Pronouns
      @Positive_Pronouns Рік тому

      Name one of the books mentioned and what you “loved” about it. (Without reading the description)

    • @thomasdequincey5811
      @thomasdequincey5811 Рік тому

      What "discussion"? This "banned" book nonsense has become nothing more than an advert for Velshi's biases.

    • @Positive_Pronouns
      @Positive_Pronouns Рік тому

      Just as I suspected, Susie is a poser.

  • @RebeccaTreeseed
    @RebeccaTreeseed Рік тому +4

    Today I put an older book on watchlist, because it was mentioned by a UA-cam commenter. I occasionally read books discussed online, and it enriches my life. I recommend that to your audience as well. I appreciate you.

  • @danieljames1852
    @danieljames1852 Рік тому +7

    I think it's time to focus on our commonalities vs anything that may create more division and separateness.. there is much we can learn from our collective humanness 😎 especially from our differences in race and culture. We are all human, in this boat together as one ❤️ yes, acknowledge uniqueness but we are not better or less than anyone

    • @user-xg3uy6hq9g
      @user-xg3uy6hq9g Рік тому +2

      who is that comment for? where does the book say one race is better than another?

    • @reneem3895
      @reneem3895 Рік тому +3

      This is true. There seems to be too many that go out of their way to reject this fact. Wonder why that is?!? The mere term diversity triggers them.

    • @mikegraham2929
      @mikegraham2929 Рік тому

      I don't believe anything msnbc say's, and just wait until you find out what you was injected with, and may be growing inside you, if you took them.

    • @towardtreatise2348
      @towardtreatise2348 Рік тому

      @@reneem3895 I have an opinion. I speak to radical blacks and radical whites, and both groups don't care that we're creating an illegal slave wage labor crisis with no voting representation through the border. Where browns and whites are profiting on the subjugation of brown people. While blacks stand silent. See Dems don't want to acknowledge the #1 cause of death 18-45 is fentanyl over the border. And for the purpose of illegal slave wages. And many R don't wish to acknowledge slavery affected black culture because of the fact blacks have legal rights today. Illegal immigrants don't have those legal rights though, and it's why we should secure the border. And I'm not even a brown person. 👍 Or pro amnesty.

    • @AngelaShawWestoven
      @AngelaShawWestoven Рік тому +2

      So what you are saying is that if what someone writes in a book offends someone, it should not be published simply to spare someone's feelings? How about not buying the book? What you call division is someone else education. There are enough people in this world walking around with blinders on for fear of getting their feelings hurt.

  • @roundknittles
    @roundknittles Рік тому +14

    I just love that you have a banned books club!

    • @danialhillmann5374
      @danialhillmann5374 Рік тому +3

      I love how banned books are on Amazon 😂

    • @Positive_Pronouns
      @Positive_Pronouns Рік тому +2

      I love banned classified documents even more!

    • @aurora_occidentalis2248
      @aurora_occidentalis2248 Рік тому +3

      No books are banned. Democrats love larping _Fahrenheit 451._ It gives them a sense of purpose.

    • @dmqb9311
      @dmqb9311 Рік тому +1

      @@aurora_occidentalis2248 Perhaps you should be clearer: while no book is banned, some books are banned in some school districts

    • @aurora_occidentalis2248
      @aurora_occidentalis2248 Рік тому

      @@dmqb9311 That's been going on for many years. It's nothing new. Mostly age-inappropriate books removed from school libraries at the request of parents or books where racial slurs are used. These books aren't "banned."
      There isn't a single book banned in the US for adults. This is just juvenile fantasy:
      _No, we played Gilead yesterday. Let's pretend Fahrenheit 451 today!_

  • @ronaldcole7415
    @ronaldcole7415 Рік тому +8

    I understand banning books about how to build a hydrogen bomb and things like it. Making moral decisions on what can be published and what can't is an effort to scratch away at a freedom Americans have had since day one. We've never really seen this before in the US.
    Books are like tv, if you don't want to watch it (read it), change the channel.
    Saying no one else can watch the tv show either because you find it personally offenses is a step into the surreal, not only the most unamerican, unconstitutional thing I've seen yet. Books are no different.
    Come on man. Let's not just give away our God given, Constitutionally protected rights people. Jesus Christ all mighty.

    • @winstonsmith8565
      @winstonsmith8565 Рік тому +1

      I'm guessing you hate cancel culture as much as I do.

    • @danialhillmann5374
      @danialhillmann5374 Рік тому

      Why should any book be banned? Unless it's by a parent because they still should have a say in what their kids are reading

    • @aurora_occidentalis2248
      @aurora_occidentalis2248 Рік тому

      This book is not banned. It's highly regarded and easily available at libraries, bookstores and Amazon. Why pretend it's banned? I mean why would an adult do that?

  • @TheTrinilaw
    @TheTrinilaw Рік тому +5

    My two favorite intellectuals ❤ 😍

    • @towardtreatise2348
      @towardtreatise2348 Рік тому

      Try my "what I wish leftists would hear me out about" playlist.

  • @quentonbell7355
    @quentonbell7355 Рік тому +5

    Thank you for discussing the book. I'm about to purchase it and also I'm excited about reading it.

  • @edv2050
    @edv2050 Рік тому +5

    Truly unfortunate that folks are still afraid of words and writing. This is not a good sign of how far we've come, rather a barometer of things to come

    • @bigdurk7761
      @bigdurk7761 Рік тому +2

      Especially when the University of California has band The word “field“… Because of the supposed connection with slavery…now me how stupid is that

    • @aurora_occidentalis2248
      @aurora_occidentalis2248 Рік тому

      No one is afraid of this book and it's not banned. Just Democrats larping _Fahrenheit 451._ It gives them sense of purpose they find elusive in real life.

  • @badtvbad1
    @badtvbad1 Рік тому +2

    I'm confused. Why would anyone ban this book?

    • @danialhillmann5374
      @danialhillmann5374 Рік тому +3

      Why would they ban huckleberry Finn, or Dr. suess

    • @aurora_occidentalis2248
      @aurora_occidentalis2248 Рік тому +1

      This book is not banned. It's highly regarded and easily available at libraries, bookstores and Amazon. Why pretend it's banned?

    • @danialhillmann5374
      @danialhillmann5374 Рік тому

      @Dumb Lizbraham Lincoln.. Yeah and no one banned the books MSNBC is talking about, except maybe some schools and that's up to parents

  • @cynthiamarie2107
    @cynthiamarie2107 Рік тому

    Every American should read that book. It's beautifully written and profoundly moving -and an important perspective.

  • @eleanor8652
    @eleanor8652 Рік тому +5

    Isn’t *Their Eyes Were Watching God* one of the AP English Lit books?

  • @cathyraneyraney2746
    @cathyraneyraney2746 Рік тому +2

    Exceptional book and movie on of my favorite books 📚 stupid to be banned sickening they people are so afraid of the TRUTH.

  • @Steve-cn9of
    @Steve-cn9of Рік тому +5

    AUDIBLE 👍

  • @radwulfeboraci7504
    @radwulfeboraci7504 Рік тому +1

    Florida ... where everything goes to die.

  • @bobevans9955
    @bobevans9955 Рік тому +7

    FJB

    • @reneem3895
      @reneem3895 Рік тому +1

      Biden derangement syndrome. All because he kicked the one term, twice impeached, traitor out of the WH. Sad.

  • @doricetimko332
    @doricetimko332 Рік тому

    Thank you, Ali and guests, for this very important ongoing segment ❤❤❤

  • @bo2.4u6
    @bo2.4u6 Рік тому +1

    Keep your eyes on him (GOD) every minute, every second, every hour,of every day ❤️💋

  • @berthabridges3483
    @berthabridges3483 Рік тому +2

    "Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
    ~ Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), American writer and anthropologist

    • @Lahng_Blackduke
      @Lahng_Blackduke Рік тому

      @Free Man So you've read it then? Specifically, what about the book has you so vexxed?

  • @scottmic3556
    @scottmic3556 Рік тому +1

    i'm banning my own book !! just to promote it

  • @ecamp6360
    @ecamp6360 Рік тому

    Why has no one made a movie or one-woman-show for Queen Latifah as Zora?

  • @godspeed2939
    @godspeed2939 Рік тому

    👍👍👍

  • @waltermcmain1732
    @waltermcmain1732 Рік тому +2

    Must read FR

  • @winstonsmith8565
    @winstonsmith8565 Рік тому +4

    Remember when Kyrie Irving was suspended for promoting a book? Maybe Velshi should talk about THAT book.

    • @user-xg3uy6hq9g
      @user-xg3uy6hq9g Рік тому +3

      may be you should go on your show or youtube channel and talk about THAT book.

    • @winstonsmith8565
      @winstonsmith8565 Рік тому

      @@user-xg3uy6hq9g It would make a good discussion. There's an argument to be made both for and against censoring that book. Of course, this network is all about making everything into black and white issues...

    • @user-xg3uy6hq9g
      @user-xg3uy6hq9g Рік тому +1

      @@winstonsmith8565 there is no reason to censure the book. name one good reason. and tell me what your impression was when you read it.

    • @winstonsmith8565
      @winstonsmith8565 Рік тому

      @@user-xg3uy6hq9g The reason that book was being censored is that the author was saying 'untrue' things about Jewish people. And no, I didn't read it. I read excerpts.

    • @user-xg3uy6hq9g
      @user-xg3uy6hq9g Рік тому +1

      @@winstonsmith8565 I don't remember jews even being mentioned can you give me the situation in the plot or a chapter number?

  • @cokkiekraaijeveld4617
    @cokkiekraaijeveld4617 Рік тому

    Love The Banned Book Club.. ( who ever wrote the book.. Well.. Still having problems with that Nazi one)

  • @danialhillmann5374
    @danialhillmann5374 Рік тому +3

    Funny how they say banned book when you can pick it up on Amazon 😂🤣

  • @reneekad
    @reneekad Рік тому

    Kara Armijo & butterflies

  • @lillianmatthews8488
    @lillianmatthews8488 Рік тому +2

    Banned yet you can buy it any where. That's far from being BANNED

    • @u2mister17
      @u2mister17 Рік тому

      MSDNC throwing confetti.

    • @NYC_LIBERAL
      @NYC_LIBERAL Рік тому +1

      Yes,
      Once deplorables *'BAN'* a book, sales go through the roof.
      Lol

  • @danialhillmann5374
    @danialhillmann5374 Рік тому +1

    Was it "banned" because it had God in the title?

  • @reneekad
    @reneekad Рік тому

    This is an amasing adventure but I could have done without a lot of it.

  • @Simo-nk1oq
    @Simo-nk1oq Рік тому +2

    Velshi owns several copies of Mein Kampf.

    • @user-xg3uy6hq9g
      @user-xg3uy6hq9g Рік тому +3

      you need to read their eyes were watching god and mein kampf then do a book report

    • @Simo-nk1oq
      @Simo-nk1oq Рік тому

      @@user-xg3uy6hq9g wassa matta... you no speaky Engrish?🤣

    • @Bob-of-Zoid
      @Bob-of-Zoid Рік тому +4

      No, just one for reference, but Donald Trump tried for years to copy Hitlers persona, but just couldn't pull it of, and so lowered the bar to copying Benito Mussolini. Not that he had it down all that much better, but sufficiently enough to swoon your feeble mind!

    • @Carl_Grissom_Sr
      @Carl_Grissom_Sr Рік тому +2

      @@Bob-of-ZoidNow we have Biden, who’s copying Farquad 😂

    • @Simo-nk1oq
      @Simo-nk1oq Рік тому

      @@Bob-of-Zoid “Persona”? You think every strong, capable leader is copying Hitler? You’re one sick puppy.🐶

  • @tigertiger1699
    @tigertiger1699 Рік тому

    Even after all these years of self desired education & changes .., it’s still interesting to see how racist/ sexist .. I am..
    Well certainly at outset/ pre having met people..
    And what I see.. is that I am holding myself back.. my biases.. have me not be free..

  • @jaygibson5057
    @jaygibson5057 Рік тому +3

    More docs found at Joe's.

  • @aurora_occidentalis2248
    @aurora_occidentalis2248 Рік тому

    No books are banned. Just Democrats larping _Fahrenheit 451._ It gives them that sense of purpose they find so elusive in real life.

  • @werty00
    @werty00 Рік тому

    This is banned? The idiots who banned it need to be banned . I never laughed at this book.

  • @danialhillmann5374
    @danialhillmann5374 Рік тому

    Can you have on Alex Jones to talk about his book "The Great Reset: And the War for the World"
    Or is that banned by MSNBC

  • @Positive_Pronouns
    @Positive_Pronouns Рік тому +1

    “African American Studies Professor” is literally the only job you can get with a degree in “African American Studies”.

  • @aurora_occidentalis2248
    @aurora_occidentalis2248 Рік тому

    _here a doc, there a doc, everywhere a doc, doc..._
    fragment of a children's nursery rhyme, Delaware USA, circa 2023

    • @aurora_occidentalis2248
      @aurora_occidentalis2248 Рік тому

      @Armed Liberal You've repeated the same tired handful of comments multiple times per day for months now. That's Fundlebundle level sad.

  • @robertbirch5676
    @robertbirch5676 Рік тому

    In Baltimore most people can't read

  • @mattyjay8896
    @mattyjay8896 Рік тому

    Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is racist? -The Post Millennial 🤣🤣🤦

  • @christopherhillman3551
    @christopherhillman3551 Рік тому

    Gone with the Wind is the best book about Dixieland.

  • @anewleaf6847
    @anewleaf6847 Рік тому +7

    Ahh I thought it was dragqueen storytime

  • @saddyfrownerton
    @saddyfrownerton Рік тому +3

    You should start an Ignored Book club. Ever read Rankle the Great or This is a Trap Door by Zachariah Bennet Douglas? Of course you haven't..

    • @sharonmassey2923
      @sharonmassey2923 Рік тому

      Start it yourself, and then we can ignore you and your unnecessary snotty attitude. Typically male.

  • @ItTrolls4Thee.
    @ItTrolls4Thee. Рік тому +2

    Additional documents found in Biden’s Delaware home

    • @johngodley256
      @johngodley256 Рік тому

      Strangely, the FBI and Security officials did not have to beg him to give
      them back and then listen to a load of lies about them. Trump denied and
      lied, which is his usual MO, Mr FAKE NEWS.

  • @bigdurk7761
    @bigdurk7761 Рік тому +1

    Hahahahah

    • @bigdurk7761
      @bigdurk7761 Рік тому +1

      @Armed Liberal Just idiotic Democrats I find them very amusing

    • @bigdurk7761
      @bigdurk7761 Рік тому

      @Armed Liberal and?