You would think in a world where everybody on both sides is supposedly so into racial harmony this would have as many views as a military expert vid, but yeeaah no.
@@Cucumber-ej1pm I’m his daughter and I helped do research on these movies for him. It was quite painful to go through and mentally draining for the both of us.
@@Ella-px1xw Seems like it would be difficult to be a historian if reviewing popular history films caused you that much mental distress. I can only imagine what reading primary documents is like.
Because as many things that it got right, it got a number of things wrong as well. Showing certain characters surviving the pogrom that didn't survive in real life (Sylvester Carrier, for example), having a fictional Old West-style gunslinger as the main character who saves several people (who, again, didn't survive in real life) and who pulls himself up a rope while he's being lynched when only one person in American history has ever been known to survive being lynched (James Cameron), and the post-credits text claiming an exaggerated death toll with no evidence to back it up (even survivors' testimonies only went as high as 27 dead).
This was superbly done. This gentleman clearly knows his stuff, and does an awesome job both respecting the films while also providing historical details and context.
Watching this in Colombia, I'm black and I'm colombian, sorry, english is not my mother tongue... but I have to thank you. Thank you Yohuru. What is a life worth? What is a black life worth? What is a colombian life worth? What is a colombian black life worth? We are all the same... the same people.
Lo mismo Hermano, el 21 de mayo pensaba como al menos los afroamericanos en EEUU tienen sus historias y heroes representados a nivel Mundial en el cine, pero nosotros ni ese mínimo 😔
I've watched a lot of these "professional such and such reviews scenes about such and such" and this is the first time I feel like I have actually learned not just the facts about the scenes and the historical context but also leave here with a larger grasp of what movies and scenes should instill in us. A desire to know more. Thank you Yohuru Williams.
All of that stuff that was said around 7:40... that was just a LOT to take in. The corruption within our own government and criminal justice system, especially when it comes to social/racial issues, is truly shocking and a definition of Dystopia. Thank you for telling the stories they will never teach you about about in school.
He's so reasonable, the video would be so much less painful to watch if he was furious whilst explaining all those things...so well bloody played to him.
@@nagygreta5295 1. It usually implies that being well-sponken is an anomaly amoung us. That usually blacks are dumb but that particular person's intellect surprised you. I never see this compliment given to white or east asian people, only children and those with darker skin. 2. And the more typical reason, it undermines AAVE. The reason we are usually not seen as being well spoken is because we have our own dialect. Like anything we do until its appropriated, its been seen as ghetto, unintelligent, or wrong. AAVE is a legitimate dialect with strict grammer and a rich history.
@@dezbiggs6363 i disagree. I myself, and lot of others use this phrase for any race, ethnicity, etc. Its not a phrase used only for black people at all.
This man is absolutely amazing. The way he talks is so informative and it stays with me. I feel as if I can understand what he’s saying a lot better than I would’ve been able to normally.
This guy literally did not say ONE WRONG WORD. Lolol jeeeez racism is so bad that we have to be able to perfectly elucidate on the dynamics, nuances, and ramifications of it with lazer like linguistic precision lolol
Lol I mean he literally calls them the “exonerated 5” and “jack” Robinson cause it’s known that he didn’t really like being called “Jackie” cause it infantilized him in the eyes of the white community
Great video. As a history teacher I can't show all the movies I would like to show and also some of these movies are rated R, but I think I might show this video instead when I cover the civil rights movement.
Thank you for the insight into these painful subjects. Really helpful to have further context for these films on historical moments most of us did not experience first hand.
@@King-Squid-99 there are even more who aren’t, you can tell by the view count, other vids that are similar have over a million while this only has 85k
@@straightface8564 And I personally believe it's because the algorithm isn't recommending it to people because It’s a topic that puts the system on trial
This was incredibly informative. As an African I always want to learn history of fellow black people and this was an amazing lesson. I have a lot topics I want to do more research on because of this clip. Thank you.
why this video doesn't have as many views I don't know... but I loved it and would watch his analysis again and again. Thank you for laboring, grappling, but also sharing well thought out insights with us :)
@Sun Tzu well some people have it engrained in their head that anyone that isn’t white is subhuman and it’s not something that gets out of their head easily
So incredible. So much of this history I never considered, mainly because as a Canadian I never learned any American history in school. And interesting to know that so much of these films were accurate.
Speaking as an American, you don't learn too much history here either. At least not very much non-white history outside of tiny tidbits. This is why listening to the voices of Black people and experts on history is much better than relying on a system built by and for white people.
@@iamtheonewhotrulyasked you can tell people failed or didn’t pay attention when they leave comments like yours. I’ve learned plenty of “non-white” history. Almost to much, Europeans advanced civilization and should be the focus of history
this is so interesting. I've seen so many civil rights movies during my life. as a kid, I always wondered how accurate they were. as an teen and later adult, I KNOW how accurate most of them are. 💔 thanks for this analysis.
It is so hard to watch and live in a society where humans are intimate of racism and the system supports and looks the other way what evil exist inside these peopkws souls and those that condone this
Selma is one of my favorite films because it”s about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and the March to Selma Alabama and I seen the movie Malcolm X starring Denzel Washington and Do the Right thing and BlackKlansman directed by Spike Lee and the Hate u give and Green Book. Also 12 years a slave, Lee Daniels the butler and Mandela long to freedom and 42 Jackie Robinson movie and lots more
Very interesting and informative, and I am not even American. Would've been interesting to see him react to movies based on segreation in different parts of the world.
The dark "history" of the great America. Even when it's not authentic, the guy is full of appreciation that the movie tried to tell a story because these things do need to be told in any way that moved people.
This is one of my favorites in this series. Amazing selection of movies, and the discussion brought up was really good and accessible even to a non-US citizen
6:08 for the love of god just say capitalism already. People are always trying to talk around the fact that their heroes like Fred Hampton and MLK were actually opposed to capitalism. The Young Lords and Young Patriots were also anti-capitalist and they built their solidarity around the fact that they were all being abused by capitalism. It doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum, that is what these people believed and the idea was central to their beliefs. Leaving that out is a distortion.
@@karintmz9878 I'm a student where he works. Just tryin to get the school on the map. Also, he shares the same views as the Director of the Racial Justice Initiative.
that was hard to watch as a white man not living in the us .specially the last scene that should not happen in modern society to anyone and that this is almost a daily event sickens me and if you or your family has been the victim of police brutalty my heart goes out you im not gonna say i understnad cuz i dont and i never will. That being said the issue here is we should do more training and better screening before we give someone that much power being a police oficer is rly a hard job and comes with much responsibility and we should treat it as such now dont. and the seccond issue is as long as we keep classing ourself by race we will never se equality we need to start seeing our self as humans not white, black, hispanic or asian we are alll humans and should treat each other with the same respect as we would want to be treated until that happens we will never get equality. SHOW COMPASION NOT HATE
it’s seriously sad this video didn’t get as much attention as it deserves bc it was rlly informative!
it needs more views, comments, engagement, everything
all entertaining movies, all incredibly engaging facts given by this man, bravo 👏🏽
People don't like information. They just want to be entertained by silly things
You would think in a world where everybody on both sides is supposedly so into racial harmony this would have as many views as a military expert vid, but yeeaah no.
It will grow in views. Give it time!
It was only recommended to me today.
This must’ve taken a lot of emotional labor for him. I appreciate your time and insight.
yeah, you can see he really cares and this history affects him. Yohuru Williams, thank you 🙌🏿
Yep. 3 mil subs, and only 60k+ views? Super telling 👀
I mean its his literal job, so it was probably actually quite easy.
@@Cucumber-ej1pm I’m his daughter and I helped do research on these movies for him. It was quite painful to go through and mentally draining for the both of us.
@@Ella-px1xw Seems like it would be difficult to be a historian if reviewing popular history films caused you that much mental distress. I can only imagine what reading primary documents is like.
The extraordinarily powerful movie “ Rosewood “ by John Singleton never gets mentioned
I think it's because it's too extreme for mainstream audiences.
I mean obviously they’re not going to go through every single movie that’s on the topic
@@straightface8564 “Rosewood” is the most powerful movie on the topic
@@GLORYNEVADASMITH ok cool, doesn’t mean they’re going to cover it, or they could do more parts and cover it later on down the line
Because as many things that it got right, it got a number of things wrong as well. Showing certain characters surviving the pogrom that didn't survive in real life (Sylvester Carrier, for example), having a fictional Old West-style gunslinger as the main character who saves several people (who, again, didn't survive in real life) and who pulls himself up a rope while he's being lynched when only one person in American history has ever been known to survive being lynched (James Cameron), and the post-credits text claiming an exaggerated death toll with no evidence to back it up (even survivors' testimonies only went as high as 27 dead).
This was superbly done. This gentleman clearly knows his stuff, and does an awesome job both respecting the films while also providing historical details and context.
Watching this in Colombia, I'm black and I'm colombian, sorry, english is not my mother tongue... but I have to thank you. Thank you Yohuru. What is a life worth? What is a black life worth? What is a colombian life worth? What is a colombian black life worth? We are all the same... the same people.
Amen
Gracias hermano , que así sea ⛵
I’m also Colombian (bogota) and I pray for you
Lo mismo Hermano, el 21 de mayo pensaba como al menos los afroamericanos en EEUU tienen sus historias y heroes representados a nivel Mundial en el cine, pero nosotros ni ese mínimo 😔
@@LuuCaicedo es muy cierto :/
This guy is awesome-please do a part 2!
I've watched a lot of these "professional such and such reviews scenes about such and such" and this is the first time I feel like I have actually learned not just the facts about the scenes and the historical context but also leave here with a larger grasp of what movies and scenes should instill in us. A desire to know more. Thank you Yohuru Williams.
All of that stuff that was said around 7:40... that was just a LOT to take in. The corruption within our own government and criminal justice system, especially when it comes to social/racial issues, is truly shocking and a definition of Dystopia. Thank you for telling the stories they will never teach you about about in school.
Hes such a wise, well-spoken, and honesty inspiring man
He's so reasonable, the video would be so much less painful to watch if he was furious whilst explaining all those things...so well bloody played to him.
"Well spoken" isn't a compliment. It has racist origins.
@@dezbiggs6363 ??!!
@@nagygreta5295 1. It usually implies that being well-sponken is an anomaly amoung us. That usually blacks are dumb but that particular person's intellect surprised you. I never see this compliment given to white or east asian people, only children and those with darker skin.
2. And the more typical reason, it undermines AAVE. The reason we are usually not seen as being well spoken is because we have our own dialect. Like anything we do until its appropriated, its been seen as ghetto, unintelligent, or wrong. AAVE is a legitimate dialect with strict grammer and a rich history.
@@dezbiggs6363 i disagree. I myself, and lot of others use this phrase for any race, ethnicity, etc. Its not a phrase used only for black people at all.
This man is absolutely amazing. The way he talks is so informative and it stays with me. I feel as if I can understand what he’s saying a lot better than I would’ve been able to normally.
Why is this so underviewed compared against the rest of the expert take series
Cause it's 'not very palatable' to the 'everyday person'
@@donstrong9195 I know exactly what you're meaning, sadly
@@robert-zr1kx yup cuz dey gotta figure dat inta da algorithm 🙄😑
I cannot believe how little circulation this video travelled
I believe it...
Not surprised doe😔
Society...
😔
🤝
Why is this video just now getting recommended to me, over a month after it came out?
Exactly
Appreciate this breakdown. Keep em coming :) Ava and spike are awesome but there’s gotta be some other filmmakers to review too
Yeah.
This one hit hard. Thank you for your eloquent and thoughtful synopsis, it was painful to watch let alone talk about. Thank you 🙏🏽
This guy literally did not say ONE WRONG WORD. Lolol jeeeez racism is so bad that we have to be able to perfectly elucidate on the dynamics, nuances, and ramifications of it with lazer like linguistic precision lolol
Lol I mean he literally calls them the “exonerated 5” and “jack” Robinson cause it’s known that he didn’t really like being called “Jackie” cause it infantilized him in the eyes of the white community
Who are you talking to?
@@luciusoglesby2469 I did not know that Jack Robinson didn’t like “Jackie”
Bro threw every word in the Oxford dictionary in this 😂 🤣
Great video. As a history teacher I can't show all the movies I would like to show and also some of these movies are rated R, but I think I might show this video instead when I cover the civil rights movement.
Movies are what started my passion for history
I love when my teacher would roll in the big TV and pushed the VHS in and rewind
Goes to show how UA-cam works when there is so few upvotes and views.
Thank you for the insight into these painful subjects. Really helpful to have further context for these films on historical moments most of us did not experience first hand.
It isn't a coincidence that this doesn't have a lot of views
No, this isn’t the kind of think people wanna watch so they don’t watch it
@@straightface8564 A lot of people are interested in this
@@King-Squid-99 there are even more who aren’t, you can tell by the view count, other vids that are similar have over a million while this only has 85k
@@straightface8564 And I personally believe it's because the algorithm isn't recommending it to people because It’s a topic that puts the system on trial
@@King-Squid-99 the topic doesn’t put anything on trial
A great, thought provoking dissertation on black film/history.
This gentleman is a treasure. Thank you for this excellent breakdown of these movies!!!!
This was incredibly informative. As an African I always want to learn history of fellow black people and this was an amazing lesson. I have a lot topics I want to do more research on because of this clip. Thank you.
Read/Watch as much James Baldwin, Kwame Ture, and Frantz Fanon as you can.
Oh and of course El Hajj Malik El Shabazz ✊🏿
This is the type of content in which I LOVE to indulge. THANK YOU!!!
why this video doesn't have as many views I don't know... but I loved it and would watch his analysis again and again. Thank you for laboring, grappling, but also sharing well thought out insights with us :)
Black people have feelings too and they are humans
@Sun Tzu well some people have it engrained in their head that anyone that isn’t white is subhuman and it’s not something that gets out of their head easily
@@GringoXalapeno And randomly stating that in a comment is going to do *anything* to change their mind?
Would have been interested in comments on 'Detroit'
yeah, that movie was really hard to watch!
Naw we good
Black Panthers, doing dangerous things like… serving breakfast.
All these movies are worth watching, especially Malcolm X, Blackkklansman, and Judas and the Black Messiah
He makes me want to binge watch all these movies this weekend
do the right thing is amazing
More of this, please. Amazing content.
VF, please put his name in the video title with his job title. Do it for all your videos. Thanks!
Pretty sure that they almost never do that...
@@jamestarlos That's why they said to "Do it for all your videos."
@@matxalenc8410 Well, they edited their comment. When I put my reply down, it didn't say that.
It's in the description box
statistic shows that 1/4 of suspects who are innocent but accused of the crime admits in the end just to end the accusation
This video really goes to show how much we owe Spike Lee in particular.
So incredible. So much of this history I never considered, mainly because as a Canadian I never learned any American history in school. And interesting to know that so much of these films were accurate.
and afro canadian is obscure also. you would not know much of it either
Speaking as an American, you don't learn too much history here either. At least not very much non-white history outside of tiny tidbits. This is why listening to the voices of Black people and experts on history is much better than relying on a system built by and for white people.
@@iamtheonewhotrulyasked you can tell people failed or didn’t pay attention when they leave comments like yours. I’ve learned plenty of “non-white” history. Almost to much, Europeans advanced civilization and should be the focus of history
@@kebabkebob7808
It seems the colonizer mentality never dies
@@419waywardkid5 It seems like you fail to understand the basic fact that Europeans are the ones who built modern civilization.
What an incredibly well read , succinct and most importantly a lay man historian .
this is so interesting. I've seen so many civil rights movies during my life. as a kid, I always wondered how accurate they were. as an teen and later adult, I KNOW how accurate most of them are. 💔 thanks for this analysis.
Give this man a podcast or an audio book series
Thank you for taking the time to educate viewers sir. I will be looking forward to reading some of your books :)
This was fantastic and educational. Thank you for making this video as a platform to share his insights and corrections.
I really appreciate this video being free to watch. That must have taken a lot of emotional labor.
This was the best so far. I loved, Judas and the Black Messiah, I wish he would of went into more detail on that.
Thank you for your time and emotional labor for this. This video did not get the attention it deserves
This is powerful! Thank you for this, Yohuru Williams, and Vanity Fair. 💪🏿❤️
wow it’s honestly upsetting how little this video has been viewed. Everyone needs to see this.
thank you for doing this, VF!
It is so hard to watch and live in a society where humans are intimate of racism and the system supports and looks the other way what evil exist inside these peopkws souls and those that condone this
What a great breakdown! This will be a great series as there are many mire movies & shows on civil rights.
Really enjoyed this video, please bring Mr Williams back for more.
Thank you for the narration.
I think every interrogation should always be recorded
Beautifully articulate. Should be required viewing in American schools.
This is so informative! Thank you so much for this insight, very well said.
I've always thought that the Black Power Movement isn't given enough attention. Thanks for this video!
What an amazing discussion! Loved it! This should be posted all over social media. Dang I wish I could be that poised and articulate.
Amazing and moving 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 i hope more people’s would watch this
Thank you very much for making this video. Sadly, I'm just now discovering it a year later.
This video is amazing. I think it’s so important for everyone to see this.
This video is soooo informative!!! People should watch this!
Rest in Power Chadwick
I’m happy vanity is doing IMPORTANT VIDEOS and not just puff piece.
Such an informative and important video! Thank you Yohuru Willams.
Great job, Dr. Williams!
Selma is one of my favorite films because it”s about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and the March to Selma Alabama and I seen the movie Malcolm X starring Denzel Washington and Do the Right thing and BlackKlansman directed by Spike Lee and the Hate u give and Green Book. Also 12 years a slave, Lee Daniels the butler and Mandela long to freedom and 42 Jackie Robinson movie and lots more
That was unbelievably informative. Thanks!
Very interesting and informative, and I am not even American. Would've been interesting to see him react to movies based on segreation in different parts of the world.
The dark "history" of the great America.
Even when it's not authentic, the guy is full of appreciation that the movie tried to tell a story because these things do need to be told in any way that moved people.
Thank you for this eye-opening analysis and commentary, sir!
This is one of my favorites in this series. Amazing selection of movies, and the discussion brought up was really good and accessible even to a non-US citizen
Wow, I am surprised at what I learned in this video! I had to stop and google every few minutes. Thank you for taking the time to educate us.
Comment for the algorithm. I'd love to see more and I'm eager to catch some docs about my gaps in history now. Thank you!
This video deserves 10x the # of views it has.
Here rewatching this video!!!!! It’s so good!
Thank you for sharing this, very informative and insightful.
6:08 for the love of god just say capitalism already. People are always trying to talk around the fact that their heroes like Fred Hampton and MLK were actually opposed to capitalism. The Young Lords and Young Patriots were also anti-capitalist and they built their solidarity around the fact that they were all being abused by capitalism. It doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum, that is what these people believed and the idea was central to their beliefs. Leaving that out is a distortion.
I love when movies get fact checked, and this was just what I wanted to see! I think Williams put his issues with 42 in a diplomatic way.
Why is he not repping where he works now? Does his current place of employment not support this. That's messed up.
because these are his personal views and he is not speaking of the behalf of his place of employment irrespective of whether they support him or not
@@karintmz9878 I'm a student where he works. Just tryin to get the school on the map. Also, he shares the same views as the Director of the Racial Justice Initiative.
Malcolm X and BlacKkKlansman were fantastic.
The latter starred Denzel Washington son.
He looks like a historian... very intriguing video!
I thought he looked like a salesperson 😂 Lookin sharp though..
throughly enjoyed.
extremely informative.
here to learn..
thank you 🇦🇺
This was really informative. Thank you!
this video should have more views
Much love for sharing the knowledge
That video deserves more views
22:18
Marcelino nooooo!!!
This vid need more views!💯
This was everything
Great video
Very informative.
This needs more views
This is video is great it need more attention
Vanity Fair you need to advertise this better, people need to know about this. The views are sad compared to your other videos.
Thank-you for this
Good video, thanks for this one!
Thank you for this video very very informative thank you
that was hard to watch as a white man not living in the us .specially the last scene that should not happen in modern society to anyone and that this is almost a daily event sickens me and if you or your family has been the victim of police brutalty my heart goes out you im not gonna say i understnad cuz i dont and i never will. That being said the issue here is we should do more training and better screening before we give someone that much power being a police oficer is rly a hard job and comes with much responsibility and we should treat it as such now dont. and the seccond issue is as long as we keep classing ourself by race we will never se equality we need to start seeing our self as humans not white, black, hispanic or asian we are alll humans and should treat each other with the same respect as we would want to be treated until that happens we will never get equality. SHOW COMPASION NOT HATE
It's not
Very well spoken speaker on this video 🙏🏽
THANK YOU 🙏🏾
Am I the only one who thinks this guy looks kinda like a black Steve-O?
omg i can see it
This was awesome