Conversation: Where Do We Go from Here?
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Fifty years ago this month, America lost its moral lodestar when Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. In his final book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967), Dr. King examined the direction of the Civil Rights Movement and the need for social and economic justice, as well as an end to the Vietnam War, and argued that America was at a crossroads. Today, America is at a similar crossroads, with mounting internal divisions, growing economic and educational inequality, an epidemic of black deaths at the hands of police, unprecedented incarceration rates that disproportionately affect people of color, and a resurgence of white supremacy. In this discussion, writers Jelani Cobb, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Gregory Pardlo discuss Dr. King’s legacy and pose the same question of our country that he asked then: “Where do we go from here?”
This event took place at the Brooklyn Museum
on Friday, April 3, 2018.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a truth telling powerhouse! Jelani is brilliant and real. There is no shame in truth!
True power carries an important component of accountability with it. CONTROL ignores and minimizes accountability.
Power and control are conflicted by their own antithesis of each other.
All historical man-made empires fell because of this dynamic.
"Denial" is not just a river in Egypt. It is a mindset that refuses to see its own way out or up.
If in fact, insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result, then where does that leave the current state of human evolution?
I really appreciated this conversation. Thank you Ms. Jones.
Man in the middle should’ve moderated this conversation.. he did not want to step into the fire.. did not want the smoke!
Nikole Hannah Jones is that woman!
Trying so hard to understand the man in the middle.. but I can’t ugh....”why is you here?” *FloMilli voice*
That guy in the middle really went to respectability politics 😳
This would have been a good conversation to have in the 1960s.
I have no idea what the guy in the middle is talking about. Literally. With people like that talking for us it's no wonder we have not progressed anywhere.
Blacks are not free the only way they will there freedom would be by standing together as one ☝🏽 and learn from the pass to have a black future of which will be a peaceful one so read robin walker
This discussion fell to pieces. The Q &A is just cringeworthy. I’m just shaking my head.
What question is this man in the middle even answering? It seems he’s having his own conversation that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic or the panelists’ input. Jelani and Nikole are having laughs at his expense.
UZIMA Dance Fitness He's just another scart' Black man, most probably because he will have to go beck to a job that depends on his responses & he has a family to feed & bills to pay. WS has 98% of the wealth & we Have about 1% & we can't pay those bills or feed his family. When jesus told the young wealthy man to give his money to the poor if he wanted to be a disciple; the SPIRITUAL message was about FREEDOM to live life without other people's strings attached to him, CONTROLLING, ENSLAVING HIM!!!!
The guy in the middle represents knowledge…
While the other two have moved on to wisdom.
So as far as I can tell, the only answer to "where do we go from here", is reparations. I listened hard, but didn't hear anything else
This guy in the middle is the wrong person for this panel. He doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about and neither does anyone else.
23:00 exactly class will not fix it look at Henry Louis gates arrested for breaking into his own house or Jackie Robinson he was rich and famous and could not eat at certain places or buy houses in certain places
It’s because racism is by design.
Not by design?
Can you say?
George Washington’s slave ownership
Thomas Jefferson’s slave ownership
Also his ‘Notes on the State of Virginia’
Slave patrols
Virginia’s Casual Killing Act of 1705
Negro Act of 1740 or the Slave Codes
3/5 clause in the Constitution
Southern institution of slavery
State’s Rights (…freedom to oppress & kill black slaves, without impunity)
Missouri Compromise
Missouri bans Education for Black people
Elizabeth Jennings of 1854 (Rosa Parks of NYC)
Oregon state constitution 1859
Civil Rights Act of 1870
Story of Frederick Douglass
Ida B. Wells
Reconstruction (Not)
Jim Crow era
History of W.E.B. Dubois
‘The Negro Problem'
History of boxer Jack Johnson
Eugenics movement
Ocoee Massacre of 1920
Tulsa Massacre of 1921
Racial Integrity Act of 1924
The New Deal vs the Old Deal (given to Black folks)
The Story of Billie Holiday
The Scottsboro Boys
History of Jackie Robinson
History of Jesse Owens
The Groveland Boys
Desegregation of the U.S. Military 1944
(…but in 2022, 100 yrs later, we are still celebrating ‘Firsts’??)
Athena Davis
History of Hank Aaron
History of Joe Louis “The Brown Bomber”
Thurgood Marshall
Brown vs Education
Story of Emmett Till
Rosa Parks
History of the Civil Rights Movement
New Orleans Four (Ruby Bridges) 1960 Axe Handle Riot of Jacksonville FL 1960
Birmingham Church Bombing
The Freedom Bus Riders
Medgar Evers
Fannie Lou Hamer
Selma March across Pettus Bridge
Zoot Suit Riots in LA 60s
History of Federal Housing
Civil Rights Voting Rights Act 1964
COINTELPRO
Malcom X
Story of Eldridge Cleaver “Soul On Ice”
The Kerner Commission Report (…root recommendations were ignored)
The MLK March in Evanston, IL
Muhammad Ali
Story of Arthur Ashe
Chicago Mayor Harold Washington
History of Black quarterbacks in football
Obama back-to-back election w/Trump
Confirmation of first Black woman to Supreme Court (2022)
State legislation which aims to protect the mythology (fantasy) of the past of U.S. History, by banning discussion of a VIEWPOINT to discover what REALLY happened!
Yes, racism is working because is by design.
I'm so tired of all these bougie Black people in videos saying how far and wide their organizations are. In the next breath they ask for money. 🤔I'm at home! You're the one in a suit standing behind a podium talking. You work for free? That's not my problem! Get a job! Better yet, talk about #ADOS #Reparations. Use your national network to advocate and support Reparations. Something people wouldn't mind supporting financially. Get us ALL summoney !
Agreed.
Reparations are needed, to repair the harm and damage.
But before we even discuss the money, we need to dismantle the American 🇺🇸 mythology of stereotypes (racism) that even allowed this to happen.
Or otherwise, we agreeing to let the oppressors write a check, and then going right back to what they were doing 🤷🏾♂️
Monie in the middle needs to go somewhere else😕
How did they even post this video? He’s in his own world having his own discussion. And the “carry yourself well” at the end? Nikole and Jelani were having trouble keeping it together!
Go along to get along...making no sense!
nikole hanna -jones a true intellectual and conscious human being. the guy in the middle is so opposed to all that she is. he is soft and spineless and comfortable in his achieved status that he has no world view about the #ADOS far less for the #CDOS OR african diaspora. listening to him brings my thoughts back to Samuel Jackson role in Django!!! sad but true. if men are to be the leaders in any black nation whether so by appointment by God or Physiology this brother has failed!!!! may God have mercy on US
ian julien Oh my! This was difficult to watch. He was clearly lost and had little to contribute to this conversation. He answered questions that no one had asked. And sealed this moment with, “we can only be sure we carry ourselves well...” Jelani and Nikole were so uncomfortable and clearly thought he was just ridiculous the whole time.
@@UZIMADanceFitness yes indeed you are right this should be a teaching video for college students as to the things to avoid in intellectual discourse ; and the need for preparation.
Monie in the middle needs to go somewhere else😕
martineli312
Yeah, he just consistently flattened the dialogue.