This resonates with me. Honestly looking at the history and how this approach turned out, i don't see a future where we are liberated by "leaders". We need to liberate ourselves, nobody can do it for us. To think otherwise is to reject the very principle of power to the people🙏🏽
the leaders are within you- we all have black jesus- Malcolm and black Muhammad- Martin in our collective brain you gotta use them as your yin and yang
The more I see; the more I'm of the mindset that movements will have "leaders" in that some people will find themselves in situations and positions where their actions gain more attention and garner more clout than others, and naturally others will latch on and push that momentum. But those people are still just people and fallible. Additionally, the best ones seem to be the ones that find themselves there organically, simply by way of doing the work they are doing their way. Putting folks on pedestals or intentionally organizing around them or expecting them to Lead(TM) a movement is guaranteed failure.
Where exactly is he checking for black leadership, this guy is EU nationality last I checked, so why does he not cover any minority based in his home nation, why obsess over N American and give an opinion about us and never EU. Also cuz this is the internet I want to point out I don't hate this dude, I'm just confused as to why his vids are almost never about EU and EU figures and their state, I only found maybe 3 vids total.
@UCblPhgrVoRdmOfotxzd3kvw I dunno, but seeing as how us USA folks have absolutely nonrestraint telling other people what we think about their national affairs, maybe you can kindly fuck off with you terrible attempt to hide your reationary bs.
I got kids, I got a job, I work paycheck to paycheck. I still put a BLM sticker on my forklift, I’ve put three because the last two were vandalized by coworkers. I’ll keep putting them on because that’s what I can do right now
Keep doing what you can, even if it may seem like a little. The fact that it's getting vandalized means it's working. These ideas are in their mind, even for just a little while. Keep it up bro.
"What does Malcolm X rejecting what he had to say have to do with *me*?" is such a powerful question, I'm gonna be thinking about that in regards to a lot of leaders, idols, role models etc for a long time
As a black anarchist, the revelation that MOVE turned into a cesspool of abuse hurt me because they were my first exposure to the very possibility that black people could be anarchists and that we really should be. However, it matured me that groups or communities shouldn't be treated as "leaders" either for the same reason why a singular person shouldn't be given such weight or idolization. It also taught me that there needs to be an end to the separation of the individual and the collective because, as it turns out, numbers don't provide safety, strength, or health, but positive, trusting relationships do.
Wherever I hear folks talk this way the first thing that comes in my mind nowdays is "Why?" Why do we need role models? What even qualifies in your mind as a role model? Why should we follow your idea of role models? How and why should we trust these so-called role models? You're going to have to show your work here.
@@james_chatman You are reflexively equating role models with "leaders". No. Kids just need to see people doing the things we want them to emulate, because they're gonna emulate people anyway.
It’s not only black boys, every living creature, maybe except plants, need a role model to learn how to behave and sail in the world. I truly think there is a lack of strong black leader and other race to be honest in this modern days. by that I mean black male who can inspire young boys to be great people greater than UA-camers, Hollywood actors and rappers. Today most black only dream of becoming the next Jay-Z or Drake or Young thug but there is more to that way more to inspire the world
I too was inspired by Huey from the Boondocks when I was just in Middle School. That was my introduction to skepticism about tradition and culture. I think characters have inspired me more than people because characters are the sum of their ideas and themes. Personal hopes can be projected onto them rather than being tied with the goals of the artist too. Currently reading the Dune series and the 2nd book is called Messiah. Heres a quote from the author Frank Herbert: "I wrote the Dune series because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on their forehead: "May be dangerous to your health."
I have watched some synopsis about the books and it's intresting. Dune is in a way a cautionary tale of leadership. The leader is more a concept to rally around as the freeman in the book start a Jihad in their Messiah's name despite him not wanting it. In a way it's reiterate that concepts are more important then the people that represent them.
The focus of "leadership" for non-formal communities has always seemed rather odd to me. How do you determine who a leader is? There's no voting done after all. And just pulling famous celebrities is rather silly, the celebrities are often famous for reasons completely unrelated to leadership skills. And even if there was somehow a vote among every single member of a marginalized community, they certainly wouldn't agree on who the leader should be. There are lots of diverging views among any community, even a group with 10 random people would have a wide range of views, so when the groups reach millions of people in size there's never going to be a consensus. And yet despite this you constantly get people either claiming to be a leader of a community, or people dismissing a community using one of these so-called leaders being bad as a cover for their bigotry. You also see this among other bad faith criticisms about communities not "policing" themselves. But why should one member of a marginalized community be responsible for another to begin with? Because they share the same skin color or sexuality or any other trait that you want to be bigoted over? Nonsense, they owe no such responsibility whatsoever. That's of course not to say that people can't rise into informal leadership roles to some degree. Organizers of protests and other events, popular political writers, and supported activists can certainly be a leader for some portion of a community, but the idea of them as a representative is always going to be lacking to me. Most people aren't out there running background checks on an event organizer taking place in a public square after all. There's also concepts like role models in media that can impact people as well. But these people don't control or guide the community, an event someone organizes is only as big as the amount of people who choose to attend, the writer is only as popular as the amount who choose to read them. They can't issue "attention everyone, you must attend this protest" like the leader of a company or a band or other formal groups are able to do.
_"And even if there was somehow a vote among every single member of a marginalized community, they certainly wouldn't agree on who the leader should be."_ i mean...that's democracy. we're not going to agree on everything, the idea is that we satisfy the needs for the majority of people possible. that means you're going to have to fight and hash out your ideas, but hopefully the end goal is one where as most people are happy with a decision. also we are responsible for one another. i don't really know about the skin color or sexuality argument of this, but if we're at a protest, and someone tries to assault another protestor, i'm going to try and stop them. that's part of community policing and it's important to do.
I really needed to hear what you said about slactivism. I became paralyzed from the shoulders down and I couldn’t get out to protest like i used to. Last year i was kinda forcing myself to go out during the BLM protest and i think i was putting myself in a lot of situations that were too dangerous for someone with my disability, like i cant outrun cops pepper spray like everyone else yknow. and ive seen cops tipping wheelchairs glad “slacktivism” is being validated, cause i feel like ppl never think about disability like that
Love the gx season 3 clips used. Judai's friends saw him as a leader/big brother while Judai never really saw that and Johan/Jesse is the only one that didn't put that pressure on him and treated him like an equal.
GX Season 3 is fascinating to me cause it's about toxic relationships and obsession. Judai is pushed as a leader unbeknownst to the responsibility that comes with it. His friends become too reliant on him, and when their rosy image of him is tainted, they reject him and everything he embodies before being killed. Sho is obsessed with Judai. Yubel is obsessed with Judai. Judai is obsessed with Johan. Kaiser is obsessed with his final hurrah. It's a whole season about how toxic relationships, responsibility and agency. And in S4, it's properly reflected in Judai letting his friends solve their own problems and becoming "respectfully" distant to all of them, cause he recognises the danger of it. I really dig it. Judai's arc is about playing the hero, and learning that he isn't actually ready to do that, and finding a new path. Love GX.
the utility of leadership is one that has clear upsides and downsides. on one hand: a leader is a target. the second the king is taken the game is over, and if the leader were to, say, _fall into totalitarian demagoguery and begin exhibiting fascist tendencies_ then the movement is essentially lost unless they're quickly displaced... BUT on the other hand: leadership provides a clear utility in _direction._ see while you idolize the energy of the 2020 summer protests, you also need to remember the issues--people were disorganized. agitators ran freely between peaceful bystanders. we weren't able to properly defend ourselves in unity from hategroups and the feds because we were a loose band of random people with some willing to fight back and some not--i.e we weren't the panthers. we had people demanding labor rights, people demanding indigenous rights (things i all agree with mind you but not particularly relevant to what the protests were about), people demanding blood, people forming weirdo segregated subcommunities, and people demanding police reform all right next to one another. TL;DR, we had no organization. with a leader comes the alleviation of these issues. leaders can have clear direct messages, strategies, and rules of engagement. had we been the panthers, we would have been able to defend ourselves from nazis and cops(also nazis) more effectively. had we a leader there wouldn't have been such a disorganized series of demands, and instead we would have had clearly defined and people backed ideals. potentially there could have been less violence as we could have rooted out agitators from the main group. and this is a problem that extends beyond just 2020. a large issue of the last like 30 years is that we haven't had a strong black movement to focus our abilities on. the best we've had is blm which is a rather milquetoast(though still better than nothing) movement primarily focused on police accountability. we don't have any radical movement or ideals to inspire people. when you go to the hood what are the people doing? just surviving but not thinking about the next step; there is no revolutionary consciousness in the hood because there's no revolutionary consciousness to latch onto. it's like you said: we've taken the next best thing and now we follow celebrities. it's neutered us. how do we resist when most of us are still asleep? _THAT'S_ the utility of leaders. the ability to wake people up and get them to follow to the final point. i'm a leftist libertarian leaning person, so trust when i say i'm mostly skeptical of power, but i also strive to be realistic. the way i see it, the key is a balance. it's like you said: be mindful of their position, and be ready to criticize them and watch from a distance. i think the first things that need to be laid out with a black leader, is the ideals of the movement. "knowing the gospel" and all that. once that's been codified, the role of the leader should be in keeping the movement focused and as democratic as possible, so should the leader be assassinated or turn heel, others can pick up the slack. leadership is simply a natural part of being in a group, but we don't need to have hierarchy. we can do this together, but a arrow with no head will do less damage.
The leader would have to basically be unknown. The leader tells trusted individuals the plan, and those individuals tell everyone else. The only people that know who the leader is are the trusted individuals.
I agree. I think Storyteller is to focused on his anarchist principles to see the larger picture. All successful movements have leadership, because without it the group as a whole is directionless.
Collective leadership (which is probably the closest thing to what you're arguing for in this video) is growing in popularity in a bunch of communities (organizational theory being the one I'm familiar with). I'm not aware of anything that shows the idea is growing in the same way in black communities at large, but I imagine it might be.
The thing is, nobody on the side of virtue's got leaders. It's like that old phrase goes 'you'll never get a good president, because good people don't get that far in politics'.
8:00. This reminds me of something; When the Buddha was still trying to reach Enlightenment (ik this seems weird but trust me there's a point), he at one point was practicing extreme asceticism. His dedication and proficiency was very inspiring to a few fellow ascetics, and they followed him. Well, when the Buddha-to-be nearly starved to death, he realized that the whole asceticism thing wasn't bringing him closer to his goal. So he abandoned the practice. Later, he becomes the Buddha and he encounters his old followers. Turns out they thought of him as a quitter. They thought he had simply given up pursuing Enlightenment at all. So when the Buddha said he had realized his goal, they were confused and skeptical. Of course, in response, the Buddha simply asked them something to the effect of, "Did I ever say to any of you that I was no longer pursuing Enlightenment in general?" They had to admit that, of course, he had not. Then they were taught the Four Noble Truths and yada yada yada. Such is the same with many earnest people who become leaders/idolized...except many followers don't realize their errors and that's how blind dogmatism, gatekeeping, calling people grifters when they change their mind about anything ever, and all that shit like that comment happens.
Just to kind of address all the people pushing back on the idea of building leaderless movements, there is archeological/anthropological evidence, that you can read about in books and hear about in lectures, that shows the idea that we as an entire race were just helpless nomads till "leaders" came along that progressed us forward is very likely a myth. The historical evidence paints a much more complex history of humanity. One that shows that we have been theorizing and, most importantly, practicing different ideas for how to organize and live with each other for basically the entire time we have existed. These aren't recent concepts. They're as old as our species.
No one believes soms stone age messiah lead humans brought forth to all our innovations like Prometheus. People are saying that leadership provides certain qualities which are valuable to a group. First and foremost being organization. A organized group can function more effectively as they can work better together to function as a whole. If for say a Roman army would just break rank and charge at the enemy they would miss out on their general's Tatics that could win them the battle. The concept can be applied to movements as a unifying force allows them to function as a whole rather then disparate groups acting alone.
I remembered these protests i was in back in 2019. the government was unable to disuade the protesters because the movement had no leader, and therefore, was impossible to destroy it from the top down. There is great potential for movements w/o leaders, w/o a hierarchical structure that the system isn't accustomed to dealing with
Wow this was brilliant. Didn't know that stuff about McGruder. All the best for your Food Bank. From my experience for doing food drives that had some challenges because we weren't organised enough.
If people need to put in genuine effort to not huddle around a leader and not to idealise leaders then its never going to become the default. For the people who don't want to put that effort in, they still want and need a leader. If a leader isn't given then they'll huddle around people who are either unqualified or will abuse that power. When you step back because of genuine issues with leadership there will always be people who don't know or care about those issues happy to take your flock. Of course not to even mention the capitalist benefits from having an fan base dedicated to you and who see you as their messiah. Sad fact is that if you cultivated a unhealthy following like that then your Free Huey Food Bank Initiative would get a lot more funding.
I grew up having lots of older black males making promises they'd never make. "Oh! you got potential young buck, you're smart and doing your thing so ill get you in content with (insert bullshit here)" when I was in high school "you're doing good in school I can introduce you to (insert bullshit here) it's about networking and im tryin to reach out to black kids who I know will be successful and just need help", and even in college "OH! you got a degree, man let me contact my friend and he'll help you in getting ready for interviews and push you up the list, ect ect. I learned that theres always someone out there promising to make you promises they can't be bothered to keep or were never capable of successfully doing, I hate that archetype of someone trying to lead me or "help me" to try and big brother or big sister me when in reality they won't. "Leadership" in the modern sense is more about being an example that people wish to follow as opposed to an active source of promotion, never meet your heroes but its ok to look from afar.
Exactly, this even applies to the broader narrative of black liberation, as if black people hadn't been fighting and organizing up until the 1950s, movements are built off of previous movements, ideas are built off of previous ideas, people do the work. Crystalizing a leader fixes/stagnates potential progress for the broader community.
Ultimately leaders are people and like all people, they are fallable and will make mistakes, even when acting under the best of intentions and influence. Collecting a movements power and momentum behind a single leader or group of leaders is a big reason why so many leaders end up disappointing those who follow them. If we dont want our movements to have their feet swept out from under them, we must move away from putting power behind charismatic leaders and move towards a movement where power and influence are evenly spread out. It might not result in the movement being as popular or easy to follow but it will lead to a movement being much harder to stomp out or assassinate, metaphorically and literally
This video really broke down how I was feeling about this whole idolisation topic. Feel like it’s so easy to fall into the trap of seeing someone as a perfect being cause of how they operate in one aspect of their life, even if they do incredible things for the world in that regard. Gotta keep in mind that like all of us they’re human to and are just as flawed as any of us. Like you said, the idea is what counts.
Leadership is a fluctuate concept. It always intrigued me how we praise and glorify historical figures for doing the bare minimum of moral acts. It shouldn't be an exceptional requirement for a select few people if it's something that anyone and everyone can be capable of doing and at the end of the day leadership is another label society will place on you based off how much of a moral responsibility you uphold. Leadership is not defined off your actions its established from the amount of influence you create in other people. A subjugated inspiration amongst the people that allow them to experience setting expectations by example. Idealistically the standard basis for leadership shouldn't be dependent on one singular person but rather the collective mindsets of a group as a whole. Acting in a sense as one hive mind link that lowers the risks of having brainwashed puppet figures acting as corrupt tokens derail the organizations initial agenda and allows more progressional outcomes and growth.
I know this video wasn't meant for me (I'm a white guy) but it still helped me unlock some sort of creative mental block I had since finding out a creator who inspired me is a scumbag and I wanted to thank you for that.
Love how punchy this is. It feels really focussed, and each section adds something without it going on so long it loses itself or the viewer. Thanks for the thoughts.
ST, you made some valid criticisms. And will admit not everybody is fit to be a leader. Leadership and communities have their own pros and cons. I think it’s inevitable that someone will stand out amongst others, and they can be an example to follow. I believe the people need a motivator.
@@marshunnaclark5829 Not all quote unquote Black leaders were assassinated. Idolization is an because it blinds the whole group and breaks down organizational structures. Another key issue is basing conclusions on partial facts as that is the basis of the movement.
@@marshunnaclark5829 first each struggle is based in your culture. Many of the most socially successful people are a product of the time they are in. So, in many ways we can't say all the leaders ate dead. New leaders will always rise to the forefront. Their lasting affect unknown to us.
It seems like you're arguing against idolization rather than leadership. The problem is that these leaders do become messiah-like figures and we tend to forget that they are human beings with all their faults and all. I feel like a lot of people forget that leadership is a two way relationship. The leader and the people. A good leader must do what they can to help those, but their followers shouldn't just go along blindly. They have to hold them accountable for their actions and both have to learn from each other. It's just most people don't do that and well you end up with not so great leaders.
My sentiment is like... there's no value in the leadership role. Leaders help people? Anyone can do that. They guide? Anyone can do that. To be blunt, leadership (in a lot of ways) is mostly just idolisation. Cause' there's nothing a "leader" does that no-one else can do. Communicators are not leaders. And, there's equal value in what everyone does to contribute. And, until we start valuing our contributions equally, we're gonna continue to feel the need to have these "leaders" who lead the pack.
@@TheStorytellerAJ And I understand your points there and I do agree that everyone does have a part to play. We should value people's contributions equally. But at the same time I don't believe "Anyone" can do all that. Some people do have better skills to guide and communicate better and are able to organize people a lot better. This is probably the misanthrope in me saying this but most people don't want to think on their own and have very low view on themselves. They want someone to tell them what to do and what to think. So they want someone to well for a lack of better term lead them. I understand idolization does come to the play. Again I believe that as people (And this is for humanity as a whole not just black people) we need to hold these leaders accountable for their actions and not just go along with them just because they are on the top of the totem pole.
@@TheStorytellerAJ anyone can do what a leader does because anyone can be a leader. And leaders can be disappointing but unfortunately what they can not be is avoided. Leadership predates class society, predates humanity itself. The most horizontal organisation inevitably attempts to lead others and leaders emerge within it, the most disorganised group inevitability attempts to get organised which naturally causes a leadership to emerge. In other words, leadership is a natural phenomenon. It sucks that that's the case but that's how it is, and so the question of leadership is not whether we should have it or not, it's how to do we keep it in check. In my view, in the political sphere, the best leaders are easily replaceable, which is why the best "follower" is a leader in waiting. I disagree with the last commenters position that most people want someone to tell them what to think, but it is generally true that even the most independent thinkers often look for the leadership of others, even if they're some kind of leader themselves. It's just how organisations works, and getting organised is generally more reliable than being disorganised even if at times more disappointing.
@@TheStorytellerAJ leaders aren't "special" but that's fine. they don't have to be. the fact that anyone can be a leader is a good thing, but it doesn't mean there's no value in it's utility. some people are good at guiding and others feel more comfortable supporting. some people are good at speaking, some are good at punching, some are good at building, but even within all of those practices SOMEONE has to reign in the rest. leadership isn't necessarily about messaiahs, and that's the point i think OP was trying to get at.
Absolutely fantastic video... We all need to embrace more anarchistic thinking... No central power, build up every part of our communities so there are no weak or strong links just people working for common goals on an even playing field (as much as we can, at least)
Great video, surprised to find out that Aaron was behind Season 4. But also glad that this video came out, after watching your last video with a friend the question that came up was do we need black leaders? And I think the answer is no, we need communities that is based around shared values and supporting one another in a system that never supported us... in my opinion of course...
For people to really understand how to move without leaders, and believe in the politics, not on the person, I remember a saying I wish more people understood: Believe in the ideal, no the idol. That issue is something I've seen come about a lot with the religious, and I remember many conversations about Darwin "recanting" his theories when he died, as though evolution wouldn't still be true even if he did recant. I think it's something that tends to extend from belief in Authorities in general. Kswiftly and Malcolm X talking about the people moving on their own can only come about when we start abandoning the desire and need to hear someone else before we act ourselves.
For some reason this reminds me of this quote that popped into my head a while back "All serve the crown, especially the king" I think I was daydreaming/brainstorming a fantasy setting or something and it came up as I was considering how a monarchy would prevent corruption.
Keep it up man, hope to see you immerse yourself further into your interests and passion. What you and other creators of color cover is important. You have my gratitude.
I think its bad to have a leader only for the fact that whenever we do they get killed or thrown in jail.. like if we stand together as one collective strong force then we can get through anything
The worst leader i've seen, and who lead me to mistrust leaders overall, was me. When I saw what it did to me, how an ass I became, I just dropped everything.. And mind you, I was a small time niche leader of some sort. The tinyest amount of power, pedestal and light, just turns you into the worst being.
I still have to disagree with the slacktivism argument. It definitely does exist, but the main perpetrators aren't disabled or poor people, it's liberals and white liberals especially. Simply put, liking stuff on social media doesn't help the movement, we need more. You don't have to be on the frontlines at protests or riots either if you can't, I can't due to being a student and health issues. Fund the people who are, help organize or spread awareness through your community and tell them more effective means of supporting the movement. Performative Activism should always be called out though, I don't think it's healthy for the movement otherwise and it definitely isn't right to gaslight black ppl when there is a legit issue with people bit doing much more than giving lip service to the Black Lives Matter movement and other struggles rn
I think lots of people get what you're saying but gatekeeping is not the way to get that argument across which is what the twitter posts often devolved into. I think we need to stay precise with our language, keep it personal or maybe just not make this argument. Cos idk isnt it obvious white liberals will act like liberals?
I love your work so much. I feel a part of a really actually engaging conversation. If I had money/when I get it check that cashapp! Thank you for the vid!
I stopped idolizing Celebrities in *July 1999...* the Day that Barry Sanders *Quit playing Football.* It was a helluva wakeup. I started thinking like a Adult from that point on... 🔥🔥
I feel like I see a cumulation of these recent videos in a possible meditation on Afro Futurism in Anime etc. As a Blerd our immediate goals seem quite sharp, whereas the where we *should* go somewhat divergent. Growing up in the American southeast I enjoyed the ‘Black Church’ video you had, but perhaps as consequence of also being an Atheist and or Sci-Fi nerd, at times I wonder if a prerequisite to where we’re going depends on that extra bit of *theosophical* Hope. The more we talk about the plight of Proletariat in general, the more we have to about Nihilism and what can/should remain as society collapses and possibly restructures. Questions as old as socialism itself to be sure. But Nietzsche never saw the Boondocks or downloaded a mixtape.
I know this doesn’t have a lot to do with the video but it would be awesome if you talked about the themes of Yugioh GX the same way you did Pokémon and Sonic
Over the past year in USA it's more clear to me that there's always a price to pay for putting yourself out there, and the difference between a leader and a shill is fear! I think a "leader" can be a hypocritical without being a hypocrite too,& at the end of the day more people will remember them & not those who may benefit from their affirmations.
How could such a leader exist for any race? People are far too complicated and are more than it's more than just the color on their skin. If you were the leader in such a case, what other morals and or Ideals do you have that would cause people to follow you in such a way.
I believe a leader can be an important part of a movement, they can be focus the anger of the people at a specific cause, which can be very useful. Castro, Malcom X, Fred Hampton, Ho Chi Minh, and Lenin come to mind. But we have to remember, it's the people who create the movement, it's the people who elevate the leader. The moment a leader is ordained into a peoples movement, it stops being a movement for the people.
Not gonna lie I gotta say slacktivism dose exist or maybe not in the way of you’re not doing enough but more in people like influencers and company’s posting a picture and changing there bio to a black fist for the month of February and carrying on. I think the problem with leadership in general is that at the end of the day every leader is still just a person But end of the day Fred Hampton was probably the Messiah not just the black Messiah but for everyone.
I don't think African Americans need a leader just direction. There are so many people who don't know how to move forward in life and even when you do know it's not easy however just saying get a job is the same as the people who aren't have a rough time saying just get a job with insurance when the only people look at your resume is mcdonald's.
The issue is when Black leaders the likes of George Jackson, Du Bois, Audre Lorde are replaced by vague capitalist cultural signifiers (we get Beyoncé and BLM on NBA jerseys) and amorphous liberalism (as White capitalist hegemony as explained by Gramsci salivates over) - then a movement is neutered. Hortense Spillers said Black culture is critical culture - she then went on to warn against losing this to capitalism.
Looking for a single leader is intellectual laziness on the part of most people. Are you looking for I r someone to tell you what to think instead of educating yourself? What can YOU bring to the table? 🤔
This is needlessly harsh and individualistic. We've all received the same indoctrination, which is to say, browbeating. The question is how best to break free of it.
Ngl, I think a lot of you are misunderstanding the term slacktivism. If you're disabled it's obviously different to how you interact with social issues but ylif you're able bodied and capable in more ways than one and you just choose to whine about social issues online rather than organize....you're the problem.
I think our conception of leaders is poor. MLK, Malcom X, and Rosa Parks are tge most lauded, by their voice came from being mad enough about it at the same time. If not for the Red Summer of would many of the Church leaders have been so bold relative to their society. We need to focus on common cause among different melanated people. Also, we need to move past French ideals of revolution and get to ideas of renewal like Piye in Kmt.
Talk to other Asians about anti-Black bigotry and how, rather than elevating Asians above Black/Afrikan people, it merely bolsters white supremacism. This is going to be increasingly important for E./S.E. Asians, as Amerikkka beats the drum for war with China...
This resonates with me. Honestly looking at the history and how this approach turned out, i don't see a future where we are liberated by "leaders". We need to liberate ourselves, nobody can do it for us. To think otherwise is to reject the very principle of power to the people🙏🏽
the leaders are within you- we all have black jesus- Malcolm and black Muhammad- Martin in our collective brain you gotta use them as your yin and yang
The more I see; the more I'm of the mindset that movements will have "leaders" in that some people will find themselves in situations and positions where their actions gain more attention and garner more clout than others, and naturally others will latch on and push that momentum. But those people are still just people and fallible. Additionally, the best ones seem to be the ones that find themselves there organically, simply by way of doing the work they are doing their way.
Putting folks on pedestals or intentionally organizing around them or expecting them to Lead(TM) a movement is guaranteed failure.
So much good stuff bro.
I’m so glad that you watch this channel as well. Both you you have really high quality videos that bring up interesting perspectives.
Where exactly is he checking for black leadership, this guy is EU nationality last I checked, so why does he not cover any minority based in his home nation, why obsess over N American and give an opinion about us and never EU.
Also cuz this is the internet I want to point out I don't hate this dude, I'm just confused as to why his vids are almost never about EU and EU figures and their state, I only found maybe 3 vids total.
@UCblPhgrVoRdmOfotxzd3kvw I dunno, but seeing as how us USA folks have absolutely nonrestraint telling other people what we think about their national affairs, maybe you can kindly fuck off with you terrible attempt to hide your reationary bs.
@@TokenCast are you against his content or just the fact he covers things in America?
I got kids, I got a job, I work paycheck to paycheck. I still put a BLM sticker on my forklift, I’ve put three because the last two were vandalized by coworkers. I’ll keep putting them on because that’s what I can do right now
Doing something >>> doing nothing. Rock on.
Keep doing what you can, even if it may seem like a little. The fact that it's getting vandalized means it's working. These ideas are in their mind, even for just a little while. Keep it up bro.
Weakness and excuses smh....That organization was founded by a white billionaire.
@@TheKillerEmcee Go listen to more Eminem, clown.
@@fun_ghoul he not lying tho
"What does Malcolm X rejecting what he had to say have to do with *me*?" is such a powerful question, I'm gonna be thinking about that in regards to a lot of leaders, idols, role models etc for a long time
As a black anarchist, the revelation that MOVE turned into a cesspool of abuse hurt me because they were my first exposure to the very possibility that black people could be anarchists and that we really should be. However, it matured me that groups or communities shouldn't be treated as "leaders" either for the same reason why a singular person shouldn't be given such weight or idolization. It also taught me that there needs to be an end to the separation of the individual and the collective because, as it turns out, numbers don't provide safety, strength, or health, but positive, trusting relationships do.
It’s understated how much young black boys need role models growing up- big leaders and big brother figures as well
Emerging technologies need pioneers which means that there are few role models. Pioneers become the role models. Why can't we be FIRST.
Wherever I hear folks talk this way the first thing that comes in my mind nowdays is "Why?" Why do we need role models? What even qualifies in your mind as a role model? Why should we follow your idea of role models? How and why should we trust these so-called role models? You're going to have to show your work here.
@@james_chatman You are reflexively equating role models with "leaders". No. Kids just need to see people doing the things we want them to emulate, because they're gonna emulate people anyway.
The problem is how you find that big brother figure when you are the big brother and your dad’s not it
It’s not only black boys, every living creature, maybe except plants, need a role model to learn how to behave and sail in the world. I truly think there is a lack of strong black leader and other race to be honest in this modern days. by that I mean black male who can inspire young boys to be great people greater than UA-camers, Hollywood actors and rappers. Today most black only dream of becoming the next Jay-Z or Drake or Young thug but there is more to that way more to inspire the world
I too was inspired by Huey from the Boondocks when I was just in Middle School. That was my introduction to skepticism about tradition and culture. I think characters have inspired me more than people because characters are the sum of their ideas and themes. Personal hopes can be projected onto them rather than being tied with the goals of the artist too.
Currently reading the Dune series and the 2nd book is called Messiah.
Heres a quote from the author Frank Herbert:
"I wrote the Dune series because I had this idea that charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on their forehead: "May be dangerous to your health."
I have watched some synopsis about the books and it's intresting. Dune is in a way a cautionary tale of leadership. The leader is more a concept to rally around as the freeman in the book start a Jihad in their Messiah's name despite him not wanting it. In a way it's reiterate that concepts are more important then the people that represent them.
"You're not a person, you're a concept"
"Not a game of idolization, it's about ideas"
This shit hit bro
The focus of "leadership" for non-formal communities has always seemed rather odd to me. How do you determine who a leader is? There's no voting done after all. And just pulling famous celebrities is rather silly, the celebrities are often famous for reasons completely unrelated to leadership skills.
And even if there was somehow a vote among every single member of a marginalized community, they certainly wouldn't agree on who the leader should be. There are lots of diverging views among any community, even a group with 10 random people would have a wide range of views, so when the groups reach millions of people in size there's never going to be a consensus.
And yet despite this you constantly get people either claiming to be a leader of a community, or people dismissing a community using one of these so-called leaders being bad as a cover for their bigotry.
You also see this among other bad faith criticisms about communities not "policing" themselves. But why should one member of a marginalized community be responsible for another to begin with? Because they share the same skin color or sexuality or any other trait that you want to be bigoted over? Nonsense, they owe no such responsibility whatsoever.
That's of course not to say that people can't rise into informal leadership roles to some degree. Organizers of protests and other events, popular political writers, and supported activists can certainly be a leader for some portion of a community, but the idea of them as a representative is always going to be lacking to me. Most people aren't out there running background checks on an event organizer taking place in a public square after all. There's also concepts like role models in media that can impact people as well.
But these people don't control or guide the community, an event someone organizes is only as big as the amount of people who choose to attend, the writer is only as popular as the amount who choose to read them. They can't issue "attention everyone, you must attend this protest" like the leader of a company or a band or other formal groups are able to do.
_"And even if there was somehow a vote among every single member of a marginalized community, they certainly wouldn't agree on who the leader should be."_
i mean...that's democracy. we're not going to agree on everything, the idea is that we satisfy the needs for the majority of people possible. that means you're going to have to fight and hash out your ideas, but hopefully the end goal is one where as most people are happy with a decision.
also we are responsible for one another. i don't really know about the skin color or sexuality argument of this, but if we're at a protest, and someone tries to assault another protestor, i'm going to try and stop them. that's part of community policing and it's important to do.
I really needed to hear what you said about slactivism. I became paralyzed from the shoulders down and I couldn’t get out to protest like i used to. Last year i was kinda forcing myself to go out during the BLM protest and i think i was putting myself in a lot of situations that were too dangerous for someone with my disability, like i cant outrun cops pepper spray like everyone else yknow. and ive seen cops tipping wheelchairs
glad “slacktivism” is being validated, cause i feel like ppl never think about disability like that
Love the gx season 3 clips used. Judai's friends saw him as a leader/big brother while Judai never really saw that and Johan/Jesse is the only one that didn't put that pressure on him and treated him like an equal.
GX Season 3 is fascinating to me cause it's about toxic relationships and obsession. Judai is pushed as a leader unbeknownst to the responsibility that comes with it. His friends become too reliant on him, and when their rosy image of him is tainted, they reject him and everything he embodies before being killed.
Sho is obsessed with Judai. Yubel is obsessed with Judai. Judai is obsessed with Johan. Kaiser is obsessed with his final hurrah. It's a whole season about how toxic relationships, responsibility and agency. And in S4, it's properly reflected in Judai letting his friends solve their own problems and becoming "respectfully" distant to all of them, cause he recognises the danger of it. I really dig it. Judai's arc is about playing the hero, and learning that he isn't actually ready to do that, and finding a new path. Love GX.
the utility of leadership is one that has clear upsides and downsides.
on one hand: a leader is a target. the second the king is taken the game is over, and if the leader were to, say, _fall into totalitarian demagoguery and begin exhibiting fascist tendencies_ then the movement is essentially lost unless they're quickly displaced...
BUT
on the other hand: leadership provides a clear utility in _direction._ see while you idolize the energy of the 2020 summer protests, you also need to remember the issues--people were disorganized. agitators ran freely between peaceful bystanders. we weren't able to properly defend ourselves in unity from hategroups and the feds because we were a loose band of random people with some willing to fight back and some not--i.e we weren't the panthers. we had people demanding labor rights, people demanding indigenous rights (things i all agree with mind you but not particularly relevant to what the protests were about), people demanding blood, people forming weirdo segregated subcommunities, and people demanding police reform all right next to one another. TL;DR, we had no organization. with a leader comes the alleviation of these issues. leaders can have clear direct messages, strategies, and rules of engagement. had we been the panthers, we would have been able to defend ourselves from nazis and cops(also nazis) more effectively. had we a leader there wouldn't have been such a disorganized series of demands, and instead we would have had clearly defined and people backed ideals. potentially there could have been less violence as we could have rooted out agitators from the main group.
and this is a problem that extends beyond just 2020. a large issue of the last like 30 years is that we haven't had a strong black movement to focus our abilities on. the best we've had is blm which is a rather milquetoast(though still better than nothing) movement primarily focused on police accountability. we don't have any radical movement or ideals to inspire people. when you go to the hood what are the people doing? just surviving but not thinking about the next step; there is no revolutionary consciousness in the hood because there's no revolutionary consciousness to latch onto. it's like you said: we've taken the next best thing and now we follow celebrities. it's neutered us. how do we resist when most of us are still asleep? _THAT'S_ the utility of leaders. the ability to wake people up and get them to follow to the final point.
i'm a leftist libertarian leaning person, so trust when i say i'm mostly skeptical of power, but i also strive to be realistic. the way i see it, the key is a balance. it's like you said: be mindful of their position, and be ready to criticize them and watch from a distance. i think the first things that need to be laid out with a black leader, is the ideals of the movement. "knowing the gospel" and all that. once that's been codified, the role of the leader should be in keeping the movement focused and as democratic as possible, so should the leader be assassinated or turn heel, others can pick up the slack. leadership is simply a natural part of being in a group, but we don't need to have hierarchy. we can do this together, but a arrow with no head will do less damage.
The leader would have to basically be unknown. The leader tells trusted individuals the plan, and those individuals tell everyone else.
The only people that know who the leader is are the trusted individuals.
As another left-leaning libertarian, this is something every left-leaning activist should read. It's very helpful
I agree. I think Storyteller is to focused on his anarchist principles to see the larger picture. All successful movements have leadership, because without it the group as a whole is directionless.
Collective leadership (which is probably the closest thing to what you're arguing for in this video) is growing in popularity in a bunch of communities (organizational theory being the one I'm familiar with). I'm not aware of anything that shows the idea is growing in the same way in black communities at large, but I imagine it might be.
The thing is, nobody on the side of virtue's got leaders. It's like that old phrase goes 'you'll never get a good president, because good people don't get that far in politics'.
8:00. This reminds me of something;
When the Buddha was still trying to reach Enlightenment (ik this seems weird but trust me there's a point), he at one point was practicing extreme asceticism. His dedication and proficiency was very inspiring to a few fellow ascetics, and they followed him. Well, when the Buddha-to-be nearly starved to death, he realized that the whole asceticism thing wasn't bringing him closer to his goal. So he abandoned the practice. Later, he becomes the Buddha and he encounters his old followers. Turns out they thought of him as a quitter. They thought he had simply given up pursuing Enlightenment at all. So when the Buddha said he had realized his goal, they were confused and skeptical. Of course, in response, the Buddha simply asked them something to the effect of, "Did I ever say to any of you that I was no longer pursuing Enlightenment in general?"
They had to admit that, of course, he had not. Then they were taught the Four Noble Truths and yada yada yada.
Such is the same with many earnest people who become leaders/idolized...except many followers don't realize their errors and that's how blind dogmatism, gatekeeping, calling people grifters when they change their mind about anything ever, and all that shit like that comment happens.
Bro every fucking video you make moves me. Thank you for existing and all of the effort you put in.
Just to kind of address all the people pushing back on the idea of building leaderless movements, there is archeological/anthropological evidence, that you can read about in books and hear about in lectures, that shows the idea that we as an entire race were just helpless nomads till "leaders" came along that progressed us forward is very likely a myth. The historical evidence paints a much more complex history of humanity. One that shows that we have been theorizing and, most importantly, practicing different ideas for how to organize and live with each other for basically the entire time we have existed. These aren't recent concepts. They're as old as our species.
No one believes soms stone age messiah lead humans brought forth to all our innovations like Prometheus. People are saying that leadership provides certain qualities which are valuable to a group. First and foremost being organization. A organized group can function more effectively as they can work better together to function as a whole. If for say a Roman army would just break rank and charge at the enemy they would miss out on their general's Tatics that could win them the battle. The concept can be applied to movements as a unifying force allows them to function as a whole rather then disparate groups acting alone.
Perhaps the disorganized nature of a revolution is what makes it so effective you can't dissect a formless entity.
I remembered these protests i was in back in 2019. the government was unable to disuade the protesters because the movement had no leader, and therefore, was impossible to destroy it from the top down.
There is great potential for movements w/o leaders, w/o a hierarchical structure that the system isn't accustomed to dealing with
Wow this was brilliant. Didn't know that stuff about McGruder. All the best for your Food Bank. From my experience for doing food drives that had some challenges because we weren't organised enough.
If people need to put in genuine effort to not huddle around a leader and not to idealise leaders then its never going to become the default. For the people who don't want to put that effort in, they still want and need a leader. If a leader isn't given then they'll huddle around people who are either unqualified or will abuse that power. When you step back because of genuine issues with leadership there will always be people who don't know or care about those issues happy to take your flock. Of course not to even mention the capitalist benefits from having an fan base dedicated to you and who see you as their messiah. Sad fact is that if you cultivated a unhealthy following like that then your Free Huey Food Bank Initiative would get a lot more funding.
I grew up having lots of older black males making promises they'd never make.
"Oh! you got potential young buck, you're smart and doing your thing so ill get you in content with (insert bullshit here)" when I was in high school "you're doing good in school I can introduce you to (insert bullshit here) it's about networking and im tryin to reach out to black kids who I know will be successful and just need help", and even in college "OH! you got a degree, man let me contact my friend and he'll help you in getting ready for interviews and push you up the list, ect ect.
I learned that theres always someone out there promising to make you promises they can't be bothered to keep or were never capable of successfully doing, I hate that archetype of someone trying to lead me or "help me" to try and big brother or big sister me when in reality they won't.
"Leadership" in the modern sense is more about being an example that people wish to follow as opposed to an active source of promotion, never meet your heroes but its ok to look from afar.
Exactly, this even applies to the broader narrative of black liberation, as if black people hadn't been fighting and organizing up until the 1950s, movements are built off of previous movements, ideas are built off of previous ideas, people do the work. Crystalizing a leader fixes/stagnates potential progress for the broader community.
"It's not a game of idolization, it's about ideas" very well put
I didn't know the creator of Boondocks is selling NFTS. Those are awful.
Ultimately leaders are people and like all people, they are fallable and will make mistakes, even when acting under the best of intentions and influence. Collecting a movements power and momentum behind a single leader or group of leaders is a big reason why so many leaders end up disappointing those who follow them. If we dont want our movements to have their feet swept out from under them, we must move away from putting power behind charismatic leaders and move towards a movement where power and influence are evenly spread out. It might not result in the movement being as popular or easy to follow but it will lead to a movement being much harder to stomp out or assassinate, metaphorically and literally
This video really broke down how I was feeling about this whole idolisation topic. Feel like it’s so easy to fall into the trap of seeing someone as a perfect being cause of how they operate in one aspect of their life, even if they do incredible things for the world in that regard. Gotta keep in mind that like all of us they’re human to and are just as flawed as any of us. Like you said, the idea is what counts.
You are on a roll lately!
Leadership is a fluctuate concept. It always intrigued me how we praise and glorify historical figures for doing the bare minimum of moral acts. It shouldn't be an exceptional requirement for a select few people if it's something that anyone and everyone can be capable of doing and at the end of the day leadership is another label society will place on you based off how much of a moral responsibility you uphold. Leadership is not defined off your actions its established from the amount of influence you create in other people. A subjugated inspiration amongst the people that allow them to experience setting expectations by example. Idealistically the standard basis for leadership shouldn't be dependent on one singular person but rather the collective mindsets of a group as a whole. Acting in a sense as one hive mind link that lowers the risks of having brainwashed puppet figures acting as corrupt tokens derail the organizations initial agenda and allows more progressional outcomes and growth.
I know this video wasn't meant for me (I'm a white guy) but it still helped me unlock some sort of creative mental block I had since finding out a creator who inspired me is a scumbag and I wanted to thank you for that.
Love how punchy this is. It feels really focussed, and each section adds something without it going on so long it loses itself or the viewer. Thanks for the thoughts.
ST, you made some valid criticisms. And will admit not everybody is fit to be a leader. Leadership and communities have their own pros and cons. I think it’s inevitable that someone will stand out amongst others, and they can be an example to follow. I believe the people need a motivator.
But there in lies a flaw. There have been people to follow, they have been assassinated. So, why aren't people "following" them now?
The people are the motivator
@@marshunnaclark5829 Not all quote unquote Black leaders were assassinated. Idolization is an because it blinds the whole group and breaks down organizational structures. Another key issue is basing conclusions on partial facts as that is the basis of the movement.
@@andysawyer647 your statement didn't answer my question.
@@marshunnaclark5829 first each struggle is based in your culture. Many of the most socially successful people are a product of the time they are in. So, in many ways we can't say all the leaders ate dead. New leaders will always rise to the forefront. Their lasting affect unknown to us.
You sir are putting out too much quality content. You deserve a break, but considering the algorithm...
It seems like you're arguing against idolization rather than leadership. The problem is that these leaders do become messiah-like figures and we tend to forget that they are human beings with all their faults and all. I feel like a lot of people forget that leadership is a two way relationship. The leader and the people. A good leader must do what they can to help those, but their followers shouldn't just go along blindly. They have to hold them accountable for their actions and both have to learn from each other. It's just most people don't do that and well you end up with not so great leaders.
Exactly. There’s pros and cons to leadership and group thinking
My sentiment is like... there's no value in the leadership role. Leaders help people? Anyone can do that. They guide? Anyone can do that. To be blunt, leadership (in a lot of ways) is mostly just idolisation. Cause' there's nothing a "leader" does that no-one else can do. Communicators are not leaders. And, there's equal value in what everyone does to contribute. And, until we start valuing our contributions equally, we're gonna continue to feel the need to have these "leaders" who lead the pack.
@@TheStorytellerAJ And I understand your points there and I do agree that everyone does have a part to play. We should value people's contributions equally. But at the same time I don't believe "Anyone" can do all that. Some people do have better skills to guide and communicate better and are able to organize people a lot better. This is probably the misanthrope in me saying this but most people don't want to think on their own and have very low view on themselves. They want someone to tell them what to do and what to think. So they want someone to well for a lack of better term lead them. I understand idolization does come to the play. Again I believe that as people (And this is for humanity as a whole not just black people) we need to hold these leaders accountable for their actions and not just go along with them just because they are on the top of the totem pole.
@@TheStorytellerAJ anyone can do what a leader does because anyone can be a leader. And leaders can be disappointing but unfortunately what they can not be is avoided. Leadership predates class society, predates humanity itself. The most horizontal organisation inevitably attempts to lead others and leaders emerge within it, the most disorganised group inevitability attempts to get organised which naturally causes a leadership to emerge. In other words, leadership is a natural phenomenon. It sucks that that's the case but that's how it is, and so the question of leadership is not whether we should have it or not, it's how to do we keep it in check. In my view, in the political sphere, the best leaders are easily replaceable, which is why the best "follower" is a leader in waiting. I disagree with the last commenters position that most people want someone to tell them what to think, but it is generally true that even the most independent thinkers often look for the leadership of others, even if they're some kind of leader themselves. It's just how organisations works, and getting organised is generally more reliable than being disorganised even if at times more disappointing.
@@TheStorytellerAJ leaders aren't "special" but that's fine. they don't have to be. the fact that anyone can be a leader is a good thing, but it doesn't mean there's no value in it's utility. some people are good at guiding and others feel more comfortable supporting. some people are good at speaking, some are good at punching, some are good at building, but even within all of those practices SOMEONE has to reign in the rest. leadership isn't necessarily about messaiahs, and that's the point i think OP was trying to get at.
👏 Spectacular. I hope this gets more shares, this is a discussion that needs to be had and had
Absolutely fantastic video... We all need to embrace more anarchistic thinking... No central power, build up every part of our communities so there are no weak or strong links just people working for common goals on an even playing field (as much as we can, at least)
Great video, surprised to find out that Aaron was behind Season 4. But also glad that this video came out, after watching your last video with a friend the question that came up was do we need black leaders? And I think the answer is no, we need communities that is based around shared values and supporting one another in a system that never supported us... in my opinion of course...
This is really good and also unintentionally explains separating art from the artist better than most.
For people to really understand how to move without leaders, and believe in the politics, not on the person, I remember a saying I wish more people understood: Believe in the ideal, no the idol. That issue is something I've seen come about a lot with the religious, and I remember many conversations about Darwin "recanting" his theories when he died, as though evolution wouldn't still be true even if he did recant. I think it's something that tends to extend from belief in Authorities in general. Kswiftly and Malcolm X talking about the people moving on their own can only come about when we start abandoning the desire and need to hear someone else before we act ourselves.
the current evolutionary paradigm is racist. believe what you will. set yourself free.
Actually idols exist precisely because people become ideals. We should raise no man nor idea above us.
That Redundancy joke in the definition section got me good, haha
Yeah, this resonates strongly with me
At the end of the day we gotta think for ourselves.
All your work continues to inspire
For some reason this reminds me of this quote that popped into my head a while back
"All serve the crown, especially the king"
I think I was daydreaming/brainstorming a fantasy setting or something and it came up as I was considering how a monarchy would prevent corruption.
Keep it up man, hope to see you immerse yourself further into your interests and passion. What you and other creators of color cover is important. You have my gratitude.
This is really helpful for me - I think i've retained the ideas from growing up that we need to expect a leader.
U say everything on my mind fr
truly amazing synthesis of so many important things to keep on your sleeve as a liberatory actor in the contemporary world.
No gods, no kings
no false prophets
I think its bad to have a leader only for the fact that whenever we do they get killed or thrown in jail.. like if we stand together as one collective strong force then we can get through anything
The worst leader i've seen, and who lead me to mistrust leaders overall, was me. When I saw what it did to me, how an ass I became, I just dropped everything.. And mind you, I was a small time niche leader of some sort. The tinyest amount of power, pedestal and light, just turns you into the worst being.
I still have to disagree with the slacktivism argument. It definitely does exist, but the main perpetrators aren't disabled or poor people, it's liberals and white liberals especially. Simply put, liking stuff on social media doesn't help the movement, we need more. You don't have to be on the frontlines at protests or riots either if you can't, I can't due to being a student and health issues. Fund the people who are, help organize or spread awareness through your community and tell them more effective means of supporting the movement. Performative Activism should always be called out though, I don't think it's healthy for the movement otherwise and it definitely isn't right to gaslight black ppl when there is a legit issue with people bit doing much more than giving lip service to the Black Lives Matter movement and other struggles rn
I think lots of people get what you're saying but gatekeeping is not the way to get that argument across which is what the twitter posts often devolved into. I think we need to stay precise with our language, keep it personal or maybe just not make this argument. Cos idk isnt it obvious white liberals will act like liberals?
You pray tomorrow will be better then today? I pray I see tomorrow . Dope vid homie. Ps Gil scoot been told us the revolution won't be televised
I love your work so much. I feel a part of a really actually engaging conversation. If I had money/when I get it check that cashapp! Thank you for the vid!
As a society, I believe it would be more effective to idolize actions than people. Actions are reproducible.
This is one of the most important videos I’ve seen in years.
I stopped idolizing Celebrities in *July 1999...*
the Day that Barry Sanders *Quit playing Football.*
It was a helluva wakeup.
I started thinking like a Adult from that point on...
🔥🔥
Awesome video. Love this side of youtube.
I feel like I see a cumulation of these recent videos in a possible meditation on Afro Futurism in Anime etc. As a Blerd our immediate goals seem quite sharp, whereas the where we *should* go somewhat divergent. Growing up in the American southeast I enjoyed the ‘Black Church’ video you had, but perhaps as consequence of also being an Atheist and or Sci-Fi nerd, at times I wonder if a prerequisite to where we’re going depends on that extra bit of *theosophical* Hope. The more we talk about the plight of Proletariat in general, the more we have to about Nihilism and what can/should remain as society collapses and possibly restructures. Questions as old as socialism itself to be sure. But Nietzsche never saw the Boondocks or downloaded a mixtape.
I know this doesn’t have a lot to do with the video but it would be awesome if you talked about the themes of Yugioh GX the same way you did Pokémon and Sonic
Maybe. One Piece first though.
Over the past year in USA it's more clear to me that there's always a price to pay for putting yourself out there, and the difference between a leader and a shill is fear! I think a "leader" can be a hypocritical without being a hypocrite too,& at the end of the day more people will remember them & not those who may benefit from their affirmations.
I don't have anything to say that correlates to the topic, just have a nice day.
Literally listen to this vids better than I listen in school.
Freedom isn’t given
How could such a leader exist for any race? People are far too complicated and are more than it's more than just the color on their skin. If you were the leader in such a case, what other morals and or Ideals do you have that would cause people to follow you in such a way.
3 Great Videos all in one month Sick
Bruh pls drop the music u use in ur vids their really good.
I believe a leader can be an important part of a movement, they can be focus the anger of the people at a specific cause, which can be very useful. Castro, Malcom X, Fred Hampton, Ho Chi Minh, and Lenin come to mind. But we have to remember, it's the people who create the movement, it's the people who elevate the leader. The moment a leader is ordained into a peoples movement, it stops being a movement for the people.
Of course we don't. We need solidarity and a code of conduct. That how everyone else is doing despite racist barriers.
I think Jpegmafia's All My Heroes Are Cornballs is this idea brought to an album concept.
So much good info here, thanks!
Not gonna lie I gotta say slacktivism dose exist or maybe not in the way of you’re not doing enough but more in people like influencers and company’s posting a picture and changing there bio to a black fist for the month of February and carrying on.
I think the problem with leadership in general is that at the end of the day every leader is still just a person
But end of the day Fred Hampton was probably the Messiah not just the black Messiah but for everyone.
Truth.
I don't think African Americans need a leader just direction. There are so many people who don't know how to move forward in life and even when you do know it's not easy however just saying get a job is the same as the people who aren't have a rough time saying just get a job with insurance when the only people look at your resume is mcdonald's.
Correct. Every man has so be his own moral economic leader n build his household. Thats the lesson
The issue is when Black leaders the likes of George Jackson, Du Bois, Audre Lorde are replaced by vague capitalist cultural signifiers (we get Beyoncé and BLM on NBA jerseys) and amorphous liberalism (as White capitalist hegemony as explained by Gramsci salivates over) - then a movement is neutered. Hortense Spillers said Black culture is critical culture - she then went on to warn against losing this to capitalism.
This is a great video, I really like your content keep it up!!
Dude I bet this guy always has the aux 🔥🔥🔥
Looking for a single leader is intellectual laziness on the part of most people. Are you looking for I r someone to tell you what to think instead of educating yourself? What can YOU bring to the table? 🤔
This is needlessly harsh and individualistic. We've all received the same indoctrination, which is to say, browbeating. The question is how best to break free of it.
Ultimately all we can do is teach others to be their own leaders you can only lean on ourselves
Can someone educate me more on X denouncing his beliefs at the end of his life?
That cudi montage in the background
Thanks
09:43 What campaign is that?
this video really hit me hard
Ngl, I think a lot of you are misunderstanding the term slacktivism. If you're disabled it's obviously different to how you interact with social issues but ylif you're able bodied and capable in more ways than one and you just choose to whine about social issues online rather than organize....you're the problem.
Man was either watching YuGiOh gx while making this video or the show is his fav
Storyteller NFTs when? 🤔
Aaron mcgruber destroy season four?
I think our conception of leaders is poor. MLK, Malcom X, and Rosa Parks are tge most lauded, by their voice came from being mad enough about it at the same time. If not for the Red Summer of would many of the Church leaders have been so bold relative to their society. We need to focus on common cause among different melanated people. Also, we need to move past French ideals of revolution and get to ideas of renewal like Piye in Kmt.
Also, what are your thoughts on Yugioh GX
Great video
Second. Fck it. 🤷🏿♂️🤣
Another good video sir
10:00 Never meet your heroes, and stuff like that.
What's that song at 2:10?
How should Asians go about becoming allies?
Talk to other Asians about anti-Black bigotry and how, rather than elevating Asians above Black/Afrikan people, it merely bolsters white supremacism. This is going to be increasingly important for E./S.E. Asians, as Amerikkka beats the drum for war with China...
thomas sowell, jesse lee peterson, Larry Elder vs lebron james, kayne, obama
Is the movement destined to be a failure if people look to a leader for what to do?
for the algorythm