The REAL Faces of Black Conservatism
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00:00 Intro and recap
11:14- The Distraction
43:35- The Double Agent
01:10:13- The Black Capitalist
Further Learning
The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power
imixwhatilike.org/2020/05/25/...
Lil Bill on Black Capitalism - • How Black Elites LIE t...
The missing story on Tulsa
www.leftvoice.org/from-black-...
Orgshttps and Initiatives to support
Stop Cop City stopcop.city/
Atlanta Solidarity Fund atlsolidarity.org/
Community Movement Builders communitymovementbuilders.org/
thegroceryspot.org/
Special Guests-
Paschal Robert @THISISREVOLUTIONpodcast
Briahna Joy Grey @BadFaithPodcast
Dr. Jared Ball @BlackPowerMedia.
Edited by - @foreignmaninaforiegnland, (Opening review)
@needlessNick (The Distraction),
@zatzman (The Double Agent)
@TheStorytellerAJ (The Black Capitalist)
Intro VFX by @NeedlessNick
Feat Vocal Performance by @HirotheKid
If you have a leftist org that you want to funnel support to, please post their info under this comment. PLEASE ONLY POST INFO FOR ORGS TO SUPPORT. (also please use discernment and wisdom in what you post)
This might make people uncomfortable but I think everyone could benefit from visiting their local NAAGA chapter...they're open to all types of folks, our safety officer was a grandmother teaching her grandson...it was the first time I was around folks openly sharing leftist sentiments... they have a YT page
Miami DSA
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) can use donations and also has useful aids for anyone interested in the unionization process (they are a part of DSA).
Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) are gearing up for a potential UPS strike (nationwide roughly 350000 workers).
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are running strike campaigns to build solidarity funds for upcoming strikes like UPS. See if you have a local that is going to help with picket lines.
Entertainment Community Fund is helping writers guild strikes (although I am admittedly less familiar with them).
Community movement builders (that you previously mentioned).
Freedom Bloc perhaps (again less familiar)?
And so many more. They need money and especially need manpower. This shit is tedious and often mind-numbing in the pace of progress. But hold on to hope cause at the very least there is so much work we can do together.
@@fernanne08 NAAGA being the National African American Gun Association? I'm just trying to clarify. Socialist Rifle Association and the John Brown Gun Club are other leftist gun clubs if you don't have the first one in your area. If that is the most appealing means for someone to get active locally then by all means.
Mississippi Rising Coalition
Bill saying “these young girls have no BUSINESS having sex” while he himself was r*aping them is the most wild shit I’ve ever heard.
He looked creepy with the sunglasses on while saying it 😮
He didn't grape young girls. Get your stuff right.
@@billybarnett2846 have you seen the young black woman who was one of his victims talk, ffs? He ruined her life she was a christian, with a promising athletic career ahead of her. He was a sick individual.
@@billybarnett2846 he admitted it
It’s always the most moralistic people
The look on my grandparents face when I said "I don't wanna be rich, I just want my people to be comfortable"
My parents are grandparents actually, yeah…
That’s how it be.
Being rich is not going to free you of all problem infact it can isolate for them look at Kayne man that dude is out of touch with reality
@@USSAnimeNCC-yeah and studies prove richer children face more anixiety and depression.
@@cow2hug483 I've actually been looking into that and I'm looking for sources. If you can point me toward any I'd really appreciate it.
@@cow2hug483 I had a coworker who worked full time in wealthy city in northern Virginia, majority white. And part time he worked in another wealthy city but in a low income community. He’s black. He told me he’d rather deal with his black kids in our community (low income) over the white kids he dealt with at his other job. He said with the black kids it was only weed he had to deal with while the white kids were more involved hard drugs.
My observation is that there are more people than we’re willing to acknowledge suffering from trauma and therefor perpetuating trauma and that wealthy people are better at hiding their trauma. I think people who chase money have a lot of harmful beliefs and ideologies that absolutely impact the people closest to them so I’m not surprised that the children of wealthy people have more issues. Most of their parents are a-holes.
I love the quote by fred hampton: "you fight fire with water, not fire - we dont fight racism with racism, but with solidarity. We dont fight capitalism with black capitalism, but with socialism."
What a great man, crazy he died at 21. Would have been such a great contributer to the unity of the working class. COINTELPRO really was a despicable act.
1. What is your working definition for Racism? 2. How does a black person practice Racism upon white person or persons, on the same scale as a Katrina 2005 or Red Summer 1919? I will start with just those two critically thinking questions which should bring thought into knowing how powerful Racist Propaganda is...
George Lincoln Rockwell had solidarity with malcolm x. They both wanted 5 states for black people
Many black leaders and potential leaders were flat out murdered, imprisoned, or co-opted. The "War on Drugs" was all about slowing down or halting the "Civil Rights" movement.
@@thapeloankhamen5976racism only contains 1 definition. Secondly, Racism is a sickness, you can’t practice it. A racist can choose/attempt to enact harm on someone due to anger which stems from their racist ideologies. A powerful racist may be able to enact this harm more successfully and extensively but that doesn’t make them any more or less racist than someone who can’t.
Don't get caught up in how "great" of a man Fred Hampton was. He was still just a man, unable to control much outside of his immediate circle, and that's okay.
Also person above I think they meant anti-blackness from the black community, or overturning the system to create new structures of oppression, however laughably impossible it may seem to those who know how it manifests.
I literally am on my third listen of this video today. I am a 25 yo black man with little to no education on African American history, and I’m embarrassed to say that. Seeing this video put a spark in me to study up on these topics spoken of throughout this video. Looking forward to buying another bookshelf to fill up.
Same except I'm 30 and female. All through my schooling I never understood where we went after freedom from slavery and before the civil rights movement. Finally, finally, I know
Look into Fred Hampton, George Jackson and The Black Panthers you'll not be disappointed
Back in the day many successful people were high yellow marginal people who were cautiously more acceptable to white folks. Many these individuals had pointed nose, and wavy ,fuzzy ,curly hair.
Don’t none of us really know nothing… We have to unlearn!
....and relearn faster than we learnt to unlearn.@@Blackindiangang
The greatest trick that capitalism ever pulled, was convincing the world that it was the ONLY thing that exists.
its crazy the way that capitalism has given millions, if not billions, of people literal stockholm syndrome
And what’s _so_ wild is that capitalism’s only existed for something like four centuries… arguably even less! It’s not something ancient or innate; humanity survived and grew for virtually our entire history without it! Yet somehow, it’s the only “natural” order.
More to the point, Capitalism has tricked people into thinking that it is the BEST system.
Nope, over 1/4 of the world's population is under communist/socialist rule, and another 1/4 is under Islamic rule, which is even more oppressive. Capitalism has never tried to convince anyone that half the world doesn't exist, it just gives people a FAR superior option. All of the highest-ranked nations on the Human Development Index are white and Asian capitalist nations. Chew on that fact, dipshit.
Capitalism, is not a political system, so use your brain, and realize its policy makers, and not markets that you need to focus on.
We got a real pseudo intellectual problem in the US. Too many people fall for the grift as long as you speak with authority and a large vocabulary.
And confirm their bias. That's a huge part. I can speak quite eloquently, but they would say I'm saying big words to confuse them
@@CarlieGuss This. People love to talk about "word salad" and condemn the use of "big words" when they disagree with you. When they agree with you, your big words are "articulate" and "eloquent." The problem is that it is true that some people disguise BS with cute prose and SAT vocabulary, so it's virtually impossible to respond to these accusations constructively.
Mmmmhmmm. Jordan Peterson comes to mind.
Too true. 😏
@@harrycooper5231 Perfect example. It's infuriating how many people think this man is smart or that he has ever said anything profound or significant.
The Black Capitalism segment reminds me of the time I almost fell for the "multi-level marketing" pyramid scheme Primerica 10 years ago. They promised Black people could be entrepreneurs, get their own license to sell insurance in just two weeks, gain enough money to travel, and more. You had to pay a fee to earn your license though, and when you sell your insurance, the person at the top who helped you gets the bigger cut while you get the smaller one. It already sounded like a scam, but I decided to attend one meeting. The person who introduced me was a "friend of the family". When I arrived to my first meeting, it was nothing but Black people in the room and a head elderly Black woman everyone called "coach". In this meeting, she began preaching about building wealth in the Black community, keeping it within us. She had two "lackeys" who served as examples, including my friend. She began distributing checks to people who'd done well, and mostly it was to her lackeys. Then, she began asking everyone in the audience what their sales numbers were. When she got to one older woman, the woman shared her numbers, and the Coach's smile wiped off her face. She began berating the woman, telling her those numbers were nothing to be proud of and that if she wasn't going to take this seriously, she should get out. The woman apologized and told the "Coach" she'd do better next time. It felt like a cult to me. I ran out of that place and never looked back. When I did more research, I learned that this company was founded by a White person, propping a Black leader in the Black communities so they can lure them in, and that most of the insurance they offered was fake and didn't cover anything. Most people never made a dime except a few, who did shady things to gain money. Many people had their money stolen. To add, they found out their licenses weren't legit. To me, this is what Black Capitalism means.
That’s so horrifying.
I had the same experience with them Seemed like a scam to me too !
This kinda thing is a real problem within the gay community too.
Because of the silence induced by the AIDS genocide, and the fact that it's a lot harder for us to transmit culture down through generations (most gay kids dont have gay parents), a lot of young folk are unaware of our history and our radical roots. That makes it easy for us to be taken in by respectable, mainstream gay celebrities.
Even when you do have your own community of queer radicals, the system denies you any representation. It's impossible to tell what the views of gay people in the US are actually like, because the faces of homosexuality in America are rich singers and tv show hosts -- not the political activists that gave us the rights we have today, nor the mass of poor, disenfranchised queers that most of my friends fall into.
Not gay, but I had a HUGE amount of respect for ACT-UP in the 80's and 90's as a kid and teenager. Real warriors and revolutionaries.
Define gay culture. I've been gay a long time, there is no gay culture.
Is it not obvious that most gays wouldn't have gay parents?
Trying to explain this to people is like swallowing bleach soaked nails. It’s so frustrating.
I never thought of that thank you for informing me of this
Me seeing Kamala Harris: oh, this is gonna be REAL controversial.
Me seeing Oprah: oh. nevermind, this might be career-ending.
Edit:
Me seeing the Distraction: Oh fuck.
He came for the Nation of Islam as the first example .. sooooo
@@amandadosanjos3994 I mean the NoI is garbage and not even an acknowledged branch of Islam anyway lol
@@TheAutumnNetwork I read about the Yakub story. Funniest shit I’ve ever heard.
Farakah was a racist
Oh, damn. Serious topic but your comment is 😅.
When you mention that respectability politics probably has its roots in slavery, it just became linked in my mind to how during the chattel slavery era, freed black people could be arrested and sentenced to be sold as slaves as a punishment for ridiculously petty crimes. This could happen to them for "loitering or misspending their time", celebrating or partying too loudly or disruptively to nearby white people, etc. They would have to be proactively respectable to avoid a lifetime of bondage. I know this at least happened in Pennsylvania, not sure how widespread the practice was.
I would imagine that was widespread
Definitely wouldn't surprise me. Been awhile since I read the book I'm pulling from but I think other regions had other, equally gross tools in their toolbox to intertwine blackness and slavery under the law.
@@FDSignifire It still is, just not as directly. Black folks have to walk on egg shells to avoid being targeted by the pigs. A group of white kids is a nice gathering. A group of black kids is "loitering."
punishments for petty “crimes” were also adopted in many states during reconstruction; black codes were very prevalent in georgia, mississippi and virginia for example
@@FDSignifire , hey, starting at 10:05, I heard an understandable but worrisome sentiment: "leave the screens and go physically into the community." One big problem: 20-26% of the whole US population is disabled or chronically ill in some way, depending on whose stats we trust. That's gotta be a large number of black people, too. If y'all are going to include black disabled and chronically ill people (as you should), you WILL need BOTH screens and physical spaces / happenings. It's not either-or, it's both-and.
Best of luck!
* waves * in disabled parent of disabled adults, from Finland
"These young girls have no business having sex."
Woof. Especially coming from Cosby that is a truly sickening clip.
He forgot to append ", except with me" to that sentence.
@@KnarfSteinlol when he had young girls like Elvis Presley?
Ad hominem If what he said has no validity, except that HE said it?
Him mocking slang is really telling seeing how his cartoon "Fat Albert" promoted slang in each character he voiced
Fd is right hes always been a double agent
@@jdeniro1844bro, don’t miss the point. it’s about him forcing sex on people while demonizing girls for having sex willingly. it’s hypocrisy at best and disgusting with the full context
Getting paralyzed by the police and living through a trial for crimes I dint commit was a wake up call. I learned more about this country than anything I ever read. As I begin learning more about political theory and Black politics,and American history the more I realized police subjugation is a natural part of white supremacy. The evolution of the Black Lives Matter from a Political movement to a financial one was like watching Che Guevara go from a political icon to a hot topic shirt image in Public discourse. I must admit I found it disturbing. this video broke things down very clearly and show that evolution happens in Black political discourse.
I may not be a black man but I can say I see similar issues with in the hispanic community, where extreme capitalism is constantly glorified through our music that is powered by our war on drugs or our liberal media figueres speaking of immigration rights without being critical of the policies that lead to people needing to leave their homes that have been devastated by American greed.
I completely agree as a Hispanic person. There are a lot of parallels with how our communities, especially looking at it from a capitalism perspective
who you think owns and runs the labels? the same jews who tell us whitey is our enemy. we are tools for the zionist crusade
I appreciate you pointing out the parallels.
@@nezahuatez that maybe right but its often up to the individual to see themselves as such and their are some within the black community that go out of their way to exclude Afro-latinos from the culture.( just re read initial comment i hope i dont sound too confrontational )
@@nezahuatez Thank you so much for saying so. People like Arturo Schomburg, Felipi Luciano, Marta Merena Vega and Rosa Clemente all recognized their Blackness. Some people don't understand the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality.
As a white dude who grew up in a small town and thought I was more educated on left wing ideas and American history. But man your channel has seriously shown me how little I know. This is my first time hearing some of these names. I appreciate you for making this so deep and nuanced videos on the history of your community. It's seriously eye opening, I'll be here everytime you drop
oh just wait until we (hopefully) get into the international black left.......it's such a wealth of knowledge we don't have with our small American lens. even black labor history and black anarchism is much bigger than we realize
refer your friends to fd!!
Same here!! Completely challenging my preconceived ideas and making me reflect on why some new ideas may make me uncomfortable. Thank you F.D!
How come I only came across this channel looking for Bo Burnham material. I spend a lot of time on the left side of UA-cam. This doesn't make sense. Eather way, I'm glad I found it. These are some of the best video essays I've ever come across.
Why do you feel the need to say you are white?
The “things you won’t be taught in Florida these days” thing is interesting to me. Those things being ignored is far, far, far from new. As a white person in Alabama, I couldn’t even tell you what a lynching *was* until I learned about it online at like 13. The most I was taught about the KKK was the cross burnings(Did those actually happen? I’ll have to look it up). Most kids here weren’t taught much about slavery other than the white men who argued about whether we should have it. I don’t even think our curriculums mentioned people like Fredrick Douglass or Sojourner Truth until 10th grade. I think education on this topic is way worse than a lot of people realize.
Edit: the cross burnings did in fact happen
Re your edit: They still do and had a huge resurgence in frequency after 2016 (I'm sure you can guess why). Tragic, but true. This is why education and involvement matters.
This is filling in so many gaps in my understanding of Malcom X and other historical figures from the 60's and how they fit into different ideologies and how they related to each other, and of course how they ended up dead in some cases. I was born in 50's and it took decades for me to begin learning/unlearning the history. I remember the lightbulb going on when someone explained to me that MLKjr was actually a socialist but also in trying to address the immediate crisis of the black community, downplayed that to some extent and that it was a point of contention within his circle. I'm learning so much. Thank you.
Its crazy how they tried to teach us that Malcom X was a villain.
Absolutely..
MLK Jr wasn't a socialist. He was a social democrat.
I'm not joking or speaking in bad faith. But that's the truth
@@standowner6979 The speaking the truth usually includes more detail, lol. I'll guess that you mean to differentiate a social democrat from a democratic socialist, not the more general term "socialism" which includes them both.
Arent Racist Socialists too? Dont we have Public Libraries, public schools, museums, parks, Post office, Military, Police, Fire depts, Telephone, Air Ports, Prisons, Bussing/ Transportation... Colleges... What socialism that Blacks want that is different from what Racist already have?
I swear people kept calling me crazy about Dave Chappell. Went from "keeping it real" to calling his fans broke for not liking Elon Musk
People don’t like Elon because liberal media has made him an enemy for not touting the liberal agenda and talking points.
Maybe that is keeping it real to him ?
@@guccidonbuzzflightyear4440 I doubt that. I remember in one of his stand-ups he litterally made fun of the sienfield guy for getting canceled for saying the N-word. Now all of a sudden Dave is acting brand new when it happens to him. Dont even get me started on bitching on the radio because zoomers didn't like his Netflix special then goes to their school to dog them while they cant record for their side of the story. Im sorry but old Dave would have called new Dave a straight bitch lol.
Money, power, mass attention and approval etc can do strange things to people
@@huneylove5 Do y'all forget "Dave chappelle" is a COMEDIAN.
I was just re-watching the video on black conservatism the other day and now we get the sequel?! Feels like anti-capitalist Christmas.
You love to see it 😊
I was watching it yesterday, like the timing couldn't be any better
good. fuck capitalism, it's squeezing us
It feels like Anti-capitalist May Day over Anti-capitalist Christmas, for me.
The history of Christmas [is] as a balm for unrest bred from famine and inequity caused by the theft of generated capital. And that's only its history prior to its immersion in capitalism.
@@pluribus_unum I was kinda waiting for a comment like this, ngl. I see what you mean, I just meant like I feel FD has been giving us a lot of gifts lately.
Actual History, Actual Analysis, Actual Clarity - if you don’t accurately diagnose the Problem you can never accurately identify the Solution… Your Thought and Work are needed now more than Ever
"Tyler Perry's entire filmography" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
If I had a dollar for every time F.D. said “but I’ll come back to that later” and actually did, I’d have a significant amount of money
You might even be able to pick yourself up by ur bootstraps and invest in crypto
🤣
I think he said at the beginning of the video that he couldn't cover everything in this video even though it's long
Patience is the virtue of the gods, someone said
An F.D Significant* amount of money 😂
i am native american, and i must say a lot of what you're saying is very relatable for the native american struggle. its interesting for my culture because we try to solve our problems the same way, native capitalisms how every none of the wealth is ever leaked down to the community because the nature of capitalism.
You’re situation isn’t like ours being native Americans got reparations and then some. Actually have land being rented certain tribes. Not even close
@@marcusburden92you aren't uplifting your community by being apathetic to another Communities problems, you just dragging them to your level.
@@marcusburden92try looking up what the status of indigenous peoples regarding poverty levels in this country. We're at the bottom. Acknowledging that another group of people is being oppressed doesn't mean you aren't also oppressed. Are you familiar with the term "paper genocide"?
@@marcusburden92 Have you seen the land Native Americans are forced to live in ? You couldn't grow a bloody potato there
How many black politicians can you think of ? Now do the same with Native American politicians
The commenter said "alot is relatable" not that it was the same identical situation. We did not sit through this deeply informed video to get to the comments and start hit dog hollering on emotion.@@marcusburden92
Keep doing what you're doing. Weirdly, I have rarely had a chance to talk politics (safely for all articipants) until I had a stroke and had black rehab therapists, doctors, and nurses. That is also how I learned that I'd been hanging out with the wrong people all my life. You are making it possible for me to continue learning, even though I'm done with therapy. (I know that's a truly odd anecdote, but I'm presenting it to show why I'm grateful that you are willing to talk out what's going through your head. I'm following your lead... just been more afraid.) Yes this encounter is a bit random, but I don't see a better way. Please keep going!!!
I'm south Asian living in the UK. My parents are immigrants and pmcs and they do talk about immigrants like "the town isn't what it was, there's a lot of people coming from places, you don't know where from" etc 😬
Its so ironic that you’re literally colonising the UK and then complaining that the people who’s culture you want to change to your own don’t like it 😂😂😂😂
And if you had terrorists coming to your country who actively hated the local population and the local religion what would your people say? You answered your own question
I’ve just destroyed your comment with pure facts. UK people are indigenous so you’re replacing indigenous people…..
@@Piqueblinders11 🤡
@@Piqueblinders11and you don't see why these immigrants tend to hate the traditional practises of your country and religion?
My Dad, his mom, and his dad are all legacy HBCU grads. Growing up there was always so much pressure to be the "right" kind of black woman. When my mom moved to rural Ohio I decided to follow her rather than stay with my dad's family, not because I didn't love them---my grandfather was GOD to me, but because I wasn't like them. I didn't want the weight of the black middle class legacy they created on my shoulders. I graduated from WVU with a BA in Literature and Communications and I work making 45k a year caring for people with developmental disabilities. I'm OK with that. I don't NEED to be an HBCU alumni with a Doctorate and a mic. I like to care for people and I just want to find a modicum of peace in this world before I die. Not all generational curses are poverty and domestic violence. Some poisons come from silver platters.
You so right . When you come from uppity black folk your whole life becomes a stifling looking over your shoulder constant state of defining your self . Creating artificial circles and marriage becomes a breeding contract for your elders. Do you be natural and mix with whomever you vibe with
Y'all are a bunch of sellout Joe Biden voting house 🥷🏾
Somehow I've neglected to find how your parents wanting you to go to their Alma mater is on the same page as genetic affinities towards alcoholism or hyperviolence being systemically fed to the youth.
Awesome testimony! I'm from Charleston West Virginia, with a special needs child. May the Most High Yah continue to bless you, and enlarge your territory for His Kingdom. Shalom
You’re silly
As a young black man (Jamaican immigrant) I've been on a ride lately when it comes to American politics and culture. I had the black inferiority complex growing up in Southern California, then listened to Jordan Peterson (the bootstrap mentality and making my own bed) then the likes of Candace Owens and Thomas Sowell and adopted the idea that the problem is me (black people) and I need to fix it (I have to admit, this did help me pull my shit together) then listening to the Manosphere, before stumbling on F.D Signifier.
I do appreciate people like F.D to be a voice of reason and unbiased facts within this media storm. I see problems with the Democrats but also know Republicans aren't the answer. Neither help most Americans (especially black people). You really should have a larger platform my man. Thank you.
So.. Is ur sh*t in disarray now after you stopped watching those ppl?
Thanks for saying Republicans aren't the answer. Democrats aren't either u right
Here's my problem with the caveat "I have to admit, this did help me pull my shit together." Well, yeah, if you listen to ANYBODY telling you: work harder, be more disciplined, make your bed, don't get arrested, set a weekly budget, set a daily schedule etc, the normal quotidian sagacity of most educated grandparents, or the kind of material you find in a lot of self-help books, assuming you were inclined to listen, you would have "pulled your shit together" anyways. You didn't NEED them.
I had this same discussion with a friend of mine who fell down the Jordan Peterson rabbit hole until i pulled him out of it with lefty psychologists who said the same thing without all the christo-fascist mysticism. I also got him to move left by introducing him to the late, great, genius Michael Brooks (gone way, way too soon).
Information is like the electron: it's everywhere and only one place simultaneously.
Conservatives LOVE to atomize all problems as a function of INDIVIDUAL willpower and INIDIVIDUAL decision-making. This line of thinking JUST SO HAPPENS to greatly benefit those currently advantaged with PURCHASING POWER and wealth.
I strongly recommend watching Michael Brooks (he has a show called the Michael Brooks Show) and the Majority Report with Sam Seder (there are many more, some even better than the Majority Report), those will at least get you in a community of people who understand what you've been through and have the intellectual tools to clarify the complexities that lead people down the right-wing, self-help rabbit hole.
AmeriKKKa, and the anglo-saxon west, has done a LOT of damage to Jamaica - all consistent with right-wing, imperialist, christo-fascist ideology - including supporting Manley's opponent (which led to an uptick in violence in Jamaica in the 70s).
Pull urself by the bootstraps except for the rich and corporate elites. Please spare me!
@Chad May I ask, how did you get caught up in those 3 names, didn't the Black community provide some kind of buffer? Even Black conservatives don't like Candance all that much, and Peterson is a non factor. Real questions.
You are such an under-rated creator and I just discovered this channel today!!! Keep up the great work, brother!!!
Mr. F. D. Signifier, I am not one who joins or subscribes to anything or anyone. But yesterday, after listening to the first part of this, I immediately joined and signed up for Nebula. I have not left the station yet. I've been searching for the truth for many years. Often I have felt that something is missing out here - this is truly something that I can listen and think about. I really enjoy it. Thank you so much for this kind of understanding. Very much appreciated.
A part 2 of this video should be the Black church. The power it wields and the perpetuation of this same bootstrap narrative it peddles. The Black church in general, parades the talented 10 and treats its poorest members as a blight on the congregation. The focuses in my experience has been getting a larger prettier church over affordable childcare or social, and food programs. Being steadfast in conservatism is the root of its problem and the overall detriment to the Black community in my opinion.
When the Pastor has the nicest car in the congregation, and we still need donations for the roof.
Exactly. Lamor Whitehead is a perfect example of this.
YESS
My two cents, but I really feel that until religion and the bigotries behind it are addressed, Critical Race Theory really will have little impact on how we move things forward. A part two of this video focusing on the black church would be the least of the critical evaluation needed in this most crucial of regards.
@@BigBlack81 a valuable two cents.
Unfortunately the complex relationship of Black people and Jewish people in America is just not a subject most people from either group are willing to engage in. The few times I've tried to converse about it (being Jewish myself) I've been laughed off by Black people or just straight up ignored by Jewish people. It's really frustrating because the seeds of discord between the two groups were so clearly intentionally sowed by the third party elite to prevent any kind of political camaraderie between us.
Third party elite would be who?
Nope. Its none of that shadow cabal nonsense. Its quite simply just antisemitism from African Americans and racism from Ashkenazi jews that lead to the discord. The difference in outcomes certainly doesn't help.
Similar to Black and Asian community friction
@@OwnD1 Yes.
@@sepulcher8263 Where did both of these groups pick up these anti-Semitic and racist beliefs from?
The bill cosby with a jason mask on, with future,s mask off playing had me 💀
Malcom is the shit and will always be the plain saying man that speaks truth to power. May he rest in power and his example inform the generations of how to demand justice and work for peace. A complicated man that found a deeper truth and doesn't get the credit he deserves for it.
I remembered tupac track :We should cry if they cried when we buried Malcolm X
Im a black combat veteran. After deploying to iraq in a combat role
I came to the realization of how this country really works.
What you did you do in Iraq?
What made you realize?
@@fudgepacker2858 Sir are you okay.
@fudgepacker you should read properly. he didn't say that the video made him realize, but the deployment in a combat role made him realize how the country works.
i think if americans, white or black, actually leave america and their assumption of how the world works and really look europe, asia, or africa they understand they have been duped
Thank you for reminding everyone that watching a video is not activism.
As entertaining as a lot of creators are, we can't afford to forget what kind of action really matters
The audience got to do the work.
We need to form online coalitions that can organize locally while communicating nationally.
@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 yeah that's a great idea
When a protest happens, it has to be targeted, organized, and methodical.
People need to know specifically what the protest is about, and the protesters need to provide solutions for the problems they are protesting
MAKING a video is activism... watching a video is just preparation
Are there any resources I can use to learn how to get involved? I live in a very, very rural area and am working poor, so travel/community organizing is really tough right now. The internet is basically my only avenue to the world at large. But, I still want to help more meaningfully than watching, liking, sharing etc.
Edit: also, as it stands right now in the state I live in, I'm not eligible to vote due to a felony conviction a few years back. So, like, that's cool.
This is the conversation I’ve been wanting to have. Great job. Damn good job
Listening to this channel while i work is hard because i keep having to stop to take notes about things you mention that i feel like i should look into.
“And I hear some of the most anti-black sh*t come out of the mouths of people that purport to be pro-black all the time because they think they are different then their poor counterparts that live in certain parts of the city.”
That statement speaks so much volumes.
I know the poet I’m about quote is problematic. But I can’t help but continually be drawn to the poem “the bridge builder.” It’s one of those works of art that changed my life. Because I used to think this way (about my Latino community). If I can make it out the hood why can’t they?
When I was in college I was preparing to speak at a seminar for black and brown youth, getting them to college. When I came across this poem and read these word:
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”
It was a revelation. I literally deleted my whole presentation and started from scratch at the hotel. It completely changed my perspective. I saw the bridge builders in my life. And realized I was only the result of interventions from many people, including my parents. I realized that deep inside I thought I was special, when really I was just lucky. And I made a commitment that I would never stop trying to be a bridge builder. To reach back to my community in support. I can’t say I’ve lived up to that commitment as fully as I would like. But this video has redirected me.
It not just about poor. It's character.
Latinos are people from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean who speak Latin based languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. So, Haitians and Brazilians would be included in Latinos along with all Hispanic countries. All Hispanics are Latinos, but all Latinos are not Hispanics.
@@clarity2974 so like...what Cosby said?
@fudgepacker Latinos are from Latin America, Hispanics are people from countries that mainly speak Spanish.
Saw it on Nebula ! Watching it here too! Get your popcorn 🍿 ITS GOOD
Same!!
Okay okay, I’ll get the subscription 😊🤙🏾.
So nebula is legit?
@@timecircle8420 super legit! You’ll love it and this video is much longer on there like an extra 25 mins
@@timecircle8420 I think so! The app is a little buggy sometimes but I have really enjoyed it so far.
bro you have a great channel. I came to listen to a hip hop video, stayed for some wrestling videos, and now am really enjoying this.
So glad to have found your site. Insightful, knowledgeable, I am taken aback with what I learned today. Though I knew of certain events, I didn't know it from a Black point of view. As a Puerto Rican born, raised in the South Bronx, I came from a leftist father and a very religious mother and a family who's racial profile was so mixed that as a child I never thought about being mixed. I was Puerto Rican that is all I knew. So when I got my first job, someone asked me what was I. I thought it was a ridiculous question and thought she was not too bright. My answer to here was, "I'm a girl"! Her answer, ""No, no I mean where are you from, your religion, who are you! My answer, "I'm Puerto Rican". I was so naive and sheltered that this new world mystified me. I will always be and feel like an alien, living in two different worlds.
One of the biggest mistakes I made playing video games with my nephew was letting him pick the character that I would fight with! Never could beat him! That is the same error of letting your enemies pick your leaders!
Why do you need a leader?
@@patjenkins1308To collectively energize the majority toward tangible goals.
@@patjenkins1308we all need a leader. We can’t live this life and maneuver just off our own understanding. When we lean on our own understanding we tend to get ourselves in trouble. Turn to Christ
Every time my little family members wanna get they ass beat in MK they're getting sub zero scorpion smoke or saibot and they get no say in it lmao, they can pick whoever and will catch one of four fades
Indeed ! Haha
This is my new favorite UA-cam video
Not too long ago, around the time of the Logan Paul controversy through the George Floyd protests - if you so much as put “Black” in a video title - this platform would shadowban it (for being advertiser-unfriendly) and not show it to anybody.
Well said Tay, great to know your position on this ❤
Yo funny enough I remember you from your chocolate rain video. Lol people kept telling me I look just like you.
hey tay :))
I keep seeing you on videos I watch and I'm just really glad you're with us. You're a great musician. I'm listening to your _16 Tonnes_ right now and wow, you nailed it as usual.
Tay if you ever read this I want to thank you for having one of the first viral videos ever that at the same time discussed societal problems the black community faced.
Also musicolio is a catchy song
I'm so glad this channel came up on my home page. Educating people on history and how it affects things today is so important. There were too many important individuals and events in this video that I had never even heard of. The topic, and the way the information was presented and organized, made me immediately subscribe and then open about 20 tabs of videos.
This sort of education is all the more important now that people are trying (and often succeeding) to keep so called "CRT" from being taught. It's sad that what little education about black history we get in school is somehow considered inappropriate, despite the fact that it already tends to casts people and events in a light that supports the status quo that is harmful to so many people. It's also sad that so many things you discussed are considered radical or extreme in this country despite the fact they are supported by evidence from both research and the examples of other countries.
Thank you for the high quality content and the effort that went into it!
As soon as you brought up Cosby I had a flashback to my white grandmother who would send me chain emails circa 2007 and one of them was nothing but anti-black rhetoric from Cosby about what black people need to do to get respect. Truly insidious shit.
Edit: OMG My white dad LOVED Lean on Me! We'd watch it together anytime it came on cable when I was growing up.
The anti-blackness my white family had was INSANE. I am biracial (Korean) and had to unlearn so much racism. FUCK.
Lmao why was your white family so concerned with Black people? That's crazy. Glad you're not that way! Stay strong.
As a Jewish fan, I appreciate you touching on issues of anti-semitism. Jews certainly have a lot of anti-racist work to do in America as well! We need healthy critique as well.
I second that ❤ there are many of us who want to heal the divides between our communities
Yup. And thank you for being an ally to the cause.
Hasidic Jews in NY have a reputation for being racist but, like most things, generalizations have a funny way of allowing for exceptional exceptions.
What lol? Someone forgot their medicine this morning and so did so many humans on this earth. Holy smokes.
@@xMXWLx define yo people lol? What an absurd statement of pure thought.
@@xMXWLx You assume we all approve of what the Israeli government is doing. Or that there aren't protest happening in Israel right now over it. We ARE talking to "our people," whatever you think that means.
I appreciate this channel poppin up on my time line , very educational
I’ve caught a couple of your videos now but this one takes the cake. Subscribed bro. I can’t wait to catch more of your work 👏
You're undisputedly the best sociopolitical channel on this platform. It continues to grow too, which is fucking awesome.
You are a truthteller to the bullshit.
Absolutely. He does a REALLY good job at encouraging people of all intersections to study an issue, and acknowledge how those other intersections different from your own might interact with the topic at hand. Of course, you can't convince everyone, but he's been more effective than anyone else I've seen.
-A queer Asian American man living in Europe
Agreed.
yeah I watch a ton of different types of YT creators. FD is my all time fav. Pop Culture Detective and Auntee Khadija are up there too
Yeah, he has become one of my list of the top 5 must watch sociopolitical and news youtubers.
Yes yes! 💕💕
A video explicitly focusing on class conflict in the black community. This has been a long time coming. I remember the first article I read about it and I'm glad that this is out. This feels like a conclusion to a long journey.
I'm really glad this video exists.
your videos are so deep and informative 😭 I’ve never subscribed faster to a channel in my life
This has been a direct tap in for what I have been observing with in the black community. The same puppets we look at as the motivators or leaders are the mask to the problem. We continue to think they help when the truth is they benefit from our pain and tugging at our emotional traumas.
The thing running through my mind with all of this is Ta-Nehisi Coates saying (paraphrasing) "the right to be an American is the right to be mediocre."
Which, like, should be a unifying concept? Why is the expectation for any discreet group to be excellent just to earn the right to exist? It reminds me of the thing I was told growing up, "if you work super duper hard with terrible pay then eventually you'll be recognized and raised up and do well for yourself."
We were all taught that, and that meant that business owners could count on hard docile workers that are there for a hope that was never put in writing.
This is something I still struggle with as a black professional. I see white mediocrity rewarded with money, while I am rewarded by being held up as a standard knowing I’m making less. I’m asked to help my white counterparts…but I am not considered past a tool. When I question this I am told they are a good person, and that is suppose to shut down my critique
@@AbsurdCats I’m sorry to hear that, honestly. I remember awhile back talking with a female coworker, and how often she, in her experience, is made to feel dumb at work, like she’d be part of a conversation where topics are brought up and brushed away without her having a chance to catch up on what’s going on. My first response was that I feel dumb all the time, and that these are positions of growth, but I had to think. I, as a white guy, have an opportunity to prove myself and be recognized every time I face something I can’t do. She doesn’t have the opportunity, just the feeling of being out of her depth.
That second step, of realizing that the opportunities aren’t evenly distributed and that I benefit from the opportunities given to me just so dang much, is hard. It’s very hard for me to swallow that mediocrity in my communities default to white supremacy. I don’t try to settle for that, that’s why I’m here. But enough folks are like Homer Simpson going “most days just I try to not hurt until I get to crawl back into bed.” (Another paraphrase). How can we expect more and allow for less? And why is the onus on improving entirely on people who look like you rather than people who look like me?
BINGO! Love, love, love this comment.
Comments like this are why i even bother with the Comments Section on UA-cam.
Well-said. I've always known and understood this but never articulated it this way.
It's reminiscent of Dubois' talented 10th, or the Chris Rock joke that in order to live in the neighborhood he lives in he has to be a world-class, legendary comedian, but his neighbor? A dentist. Not the world's BEST dentist, not even a top 10 dentist in the world, just a regular dentist. Lol. Great joke, but the underlying truth is maddening.
If you aren't a WASP, you have to be twice as great to earn half as much, until one day you are "recognized" (hmmm, who's doing the "recognizing?"), after which you will attain (maybe) income parity. It's a sad joke that only ossifies the existing class structure by JUSTIFYING these otherwise fictitious barriers to entry.
It's a perversion of what "meritocracy" SHOULD mean rather that what it actually means for all practical purposes in a white-supremacist, crony-capitalist empire.
@@AbsurdCats Great screen name btw! The Stranger is a classic.
Speaking of Camusian absurdities, as an aside, I find it laughable that arabs in north africa are so emotionally invested in rewriting the actual history of ancient egypt - that black nubians/black egyptians built the pyramids - so much so that they've banned Kevin Hart from visiting Egypt for (accuratre) comments he made on the racial genealogy of the Egyptian empire.
@@AbsurdCats Yupp, that's why "class" is insufficient to break down a WHITE SUPREMACIST system.
If a black man were to discover the cure for cancer, they'd kill him and claim his dim-witted red-headed assistant came up with all the ideas.
White Americans love to steal and then claim they invented the very thing they stole. They did it with Country, gospel, rock n roll etc.
Honestly, black professionals need to organize, unite, and create institutional leverage to combat this culture of racialized income suppression.
Also, you should ask them next time, "if they are a good person and they are more handsomely paid than I, doesn't that imply that I'm a bad person?" And then follow up with, "what exactly constitutes a "good" person?"
Their heads would explode (actually probably not given how indifferent most white Americans are to racial plight).
Great video. I was raised heavily in the Black Excellence mindset and it took so long to unlearn. I grew up in the Wealthiest black county in the US (PG Maryland) and was only surrounded by the capitalist success stories. I was told by teachers, neighbors, family, and career advisors to go to college, infiltrated and cahnge the system from the inside. I just got my PhD, but that mindset never sat right with me. It wasn't until the 1619 project that i found ways to explain that logical dissonance. "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" and all that.
Time to build your own house with your own tools
If you get what I mean, turning imagination into reality. Manifesting the Black WORLD, the black UNIVERSE
I agree most blacks that are successful is because of eating affirmative action for finding a way to exploit their peoples situation
@@Doggin27 a Single Individual can't dismantle oppressive systems by himself, Revolution is a collective effort.
@@TheProletariat321 Then we must build our houses with our tools together
This video is top tier!! The music selections and everything. Such an educational and entertaining watch!! ❤
First time ever seeing a video of this creator. I think I'm in love just listening to you talk. So well explained. I love your perspective. Thank you for sharing ❤
I live in Atlanta and have seen Killer Mike talk, in person, about raising up working class black people, only to immediately turn around and then see him, in person, publicly support corrupt politicians like Kasim Reed. I feel like Ive tried a lot of times to explain that his personality is almost entirely a selfish, inauthentic, capitalist facade. I also regularly get called racist for those kinds of comments. It’s an ongoing journey of learning for myself, and I appreciate you taking the time to address topics like this which elicit a knee-jerk reaction in people. Keep doing your thing and inspiring people like me. Thank you FD.
That's unfortunate, because I really enjoyed the episode about Christianity within the black community of his show that was on Netflix. Don't get me wrong as a white person no black person needs my approval concerning their religious beliefs, but for as long as I've had a semblance of racial awareness the idea that anyone in this day and age would buy into a religion that was the defacto religion of the culture that oppressed and enslaved your ancestors is perplexing to me. Especially when on a global scale there's another religion that is bigger, that really espouses many of the same moral beliefs, and purportedly originates from the same entomology as that, but without all the generational atrocities, and almost completely eradicate any sense of cultural identity on a generational level, yet for the most part refuse to acknowledge that reality.
The concept of not creating or constructing any physical representation of what one might imagine Allah to look like due to the possibility that said representation could be corrupted into a false idol is an idea that I find pretty compelling. Other ideas that I have heard spoke of make more sense too. Yes Ive heard of some misogyny being alluded to, but I've also heard some progressive imams discount that stuff as being informed through societal ideologies of the time period. And you can say the same about Christianity but, I don't think that's quite the same as adopting the defacto religion of your oppressors.
Also the episode that brings up the idea of it being common that black people in America don't sleep very well was very enlightening. It makes sense, but it's not something that's ever been brought to my attention prior to that. It was pretty heartbreaking also
i find this especially confusing considering much of the lyrics on RTJ4 seem to hold some radical political content, and having only heard his music i was very confused when i first encountered clips of KM spreading capitalist nonsense propaganda. Also didnt he like campaign with Bernie?
@@emil-cz2vp you can be aware that the system's cruel and harmful, to the point of loudly speaking on it, and still make compromises with it every day when you've claimed enough reward in that system that any major change might tear down what you've built up
the Bernie campaign(s) were a great place to witness a lot of people who understood how bad things are on a lot of levels and said a whole lot of the right things, while also having too much of their own worth in this system getting in the way of an uncompromised fight against it
@@donnydarko7624 Awesome comment. Thank you.
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This video (and the first one) have been so informative. My mother is half black and she is VERY anti-black. She says so much bullshit that makes me want to pull my hair out and this video gives me some useful points to throw back at her.
The self-hate we receive thru society is so unfortunate... I'm half-Arabic, and I had to see and hear my grandfather whitewash his family from any Arabic culture, stop speaking the language, use white supremacist talking points, refuse to go to my sister's wedding cause she was marrying a black man, etc, in the fear that he'd get the same bigoted treatment his father (who was very dark-skinned) got when he came to this country.
He basically became the type of guy that would've been racist towards his own father, in order to be seen as "white".
lol man I’m living in a sicker society than I thought I was 😂😂😂😂
Wow. I have no words just wow lol
Whew! *snaps*
"A perception of radicalism that challenges NOTHING"
That's a bar.
When you said strictly diciplined people, it brought back some sad memories. I remember like it was yesterday a young black girl in highschool in the early 90s getting thrashed about by her hair by an adult black lady. The girl was with her friends and they just stood there watching probably in shock like I was from a distance. Some of those close were laughing. Turned out the adult was her mom and she gave her a public beating because she had shaved. Pretty extreme and sad.
I'm surprised someone finally stepped up and talked about the intricacies of how the our communities are just being led in circles and kept in line. 2nd vid of yours I've watched today, subbing
Danny: "iPoder a gente!"
As a former member of the NOI, it’s refreshing to hear someone else acknowledge the fact that it’s a cult. I was a kid when I was in it, and those teachings effect me negatively until this day. Thank you.
Do not feel bad. I’ve known a lot of people that became involved in the NOI nonsense because they were socially and economically vunerable. Thank you for sharing your perspective and speaking out against them.
@@senxauraximili7106 That socioeconomic vulnerability is exactly what keeps their recruitment numbers intact. Some religions attract the fearful. NOI seems to attract the fearful and disgruntled. It’s like a weight off my shoulders to have people like you to express those thoughts to for the first time.
@@DuckiesDad08 no problem. I hope we can continue to push the dicussion further as I feel the NOI and the minister have not been put under enough scrutiny and critque in our community for far too long.
If you and your predecessors were never disenfranchised on that scale you likely wouldn't have been in a position to be vulnerable to horseshit like that.
@@DuckiesDad08 The Nation of Islam....The Mercy of Allah, The Peace Given to Black Men and Women, and from Us...a Gift to the World. Sorry you dropped out and sided with weaker ideas. But you'll never defeat The Teachings with any of your ideas. That is why I place my full confidence in It. Calling The Nation a cult, is like a white person calling a Black person a Negro. It's an insult. It's a undersight, it's violently dismissive of all the remarkable aspects of The Nation. And you two should be ashamed. Peace.
Love this video... One of the best informational ones about our people I have come across in awhile. You got a new follower. 💪🏾
The comment about discipline reasonated with me as an asian. asian parents are notorious for putting achievements such as grades, talents, life style above the feelings and wellbeing of their child. most of the time, like when i was young, you cannot sleep over at friends house, you cannot date before college, you cannot have free time because free time is just extra study time. thankfully my parents, though still having some of those similar habits, generally do see my happiness as more important than their disappoint in me. even now though, im still ashamed of getting a few Bs in my final year of high school despite getting straight As the first three years, and for having a less than perfect SAT score to this day. its been five years.
I think this discipline for asian parents are less about the threats of walking around as an asian but moreso the asian culture and competitiveness within the group as a whole. you are competing with any other asian who wants to go to the top schools because it is assumed if youre asian and youre not perfect you will not get in.
I saw the news about the Texas mall shooting interviewed by a Black survivor and one thing I took note was how he asked for better and harder policing of the mall to prevent more issues like this. I never wanted to scream at the TV in front of my sleeping father in my life up until then
Now that just crazy, even after seeing how over-policing doesn't even prevent crime (it emboldens it).
@@juratory8876 Nnoooo, crime goes brrr with no police brutality!! /s
@@stevonwhite8933speak English
People want safety but all they ask and vote for is security theater that makes us less safe :/
@@christopherm202dcfinest2 I think they are saying "if there is no police brutality, crime will be rampant" but sarcastically /s
merch idea: "We'll talk about that later" shirts
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Many of us miss you!
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Miss you Lindsay Ellis!
Nice to see you again!
Great video as always. It was especially interesting to hear more about Black Wall Street. The first time I ever heard anything about it was a few years ago, and as someone who lives and predominately grew up in Oklahoma, I was shocked that I’d never even heard mention of it in school at all. Loved getting more information about it and seeing another prospective of its inevitable destruction that is often ignored.
The fact that you said you were scared and still decided to do this means a lot. Thank you, brother
Bravery, is being scared and doin it anyway. This was inspired.
This guy is a hypocrite and is sending a dangerous message
@@josephreyes3620 How so?
@@Rahnotrob Capitalism is the best economic system, he prospers from it, but preaches an alternative message
This guy criticizes capitalism and benefits from it. In this same video he talks about how he is financially doing well because of this content which is because of capitalism. The irony.
Any artist, athlete, entertainer, business owner, inventor, author, etc. that grew up poor. Literally anyone that grew up poor and has money now has prospered because of capitalism.
I’m from south Florida, and ppl like Kodak, Trick Daddy, Ross, etc. are rich because of capitalism. They pour money into where they’re from and give so much game and wisdom.
This guy is evil towards his own skin color. He’s being paid buy someone to spread this garbage.
He’s a leftist puppet
The left has really brainwashed the black community. It’s wild
@@josephreyes3620it’s only dangerous if ur of the perspective any one of the groups. He’s only informing while keeping it clear and concise when his opinion is biased.
I remember watching that Morgan Freeman movie when I was in high school, and my first thought was, “if these kids are SO bad and dealing drugs and sexually assaulting people and shit, why are they even attending school?” There was already something really off about the whole thing.
i thought that about "gangster rappers" too, when some people would demonize them. like, do you not see them singing for a living? singing. song writing. you scared of that? you need to relax.
The part that confused me the first time I saw the movie was when he chained up the exits. It shocked me and then he gets in trouble for it and he tries to twist it to protect the kids. Chaining up exits was a dangerous game with those kids lives.
@@payasoinfeliz forgive me if I come off as condescending, but imo it's like saying that a cow is not dangerous bc I have never seen it do anything other than eat plants to survive. Sure, it doesn't eat people, but if approached wrong, it isn't harmless either.
'Gangster rappers' have a pretty bad stigma in my experience, for being a bad influence through their lyrics (drugs, abuse, anti-social and criminal perspectives on life) and behaviour off-stage (drugs again, rape, violence etc). I know that it is biased and it's just the few rotten apples who spoil the who thing, but it is in reality, that this is what people are worried about, I think. Also these issues aren't limited to gangster rappers.
No one is scared of a singer, they are scared of what ideas a singer can plant into mind of people around them, for example their kids... Especially since in some countries musician are quite influential.
@enot2140 I do think it's important though to still point out the actual issues with how racialized that stigma is. There were at the time and still are plenty of rock and country songs that advocate for what could be argued as much worse then what gangsta rap depicts. But there was no push back when a white rock star sings about his love for underage girls.
@@TheMasterBountakun hm maybe heavy metal cannibal corpse comes to mind, but gangster rappers also have a connection with it, like ice T. im trying to think of popular rock/country artists, like what would be the equivalent to dead wrong with biggie and eminem who probably the arguably best known rappers? polly by nirvana? idk i really cant think of something on the other side like this because heavy metal also demonized.
I just discovered you and subscribed quickly. You're knowledgeable. The videos are interesting and well done. Thx
I just found this UA-cam page, and I absolutely love it!
Your scholarly information and opinions, delivered boldly, clearly, with a sense of urgency, and with some humor, gives me hope that those who want to attack the status quo aren't solely looking for clout/money.
Thank you, and keep up the Noble work you are doing.
I feel like I should be getting college credits from these videos with how much I learn from all of them
You are absolutely right💥
i love this video. what i dont LIKE, is the last bit saying its not activism. We need more black voices like this. It is necessary. The reality is, this is the hope. I am open to learning, and what i’ve learned is change is only possible through active words, talking, teaching. Socialism is only more popular now because of the accessibility from the internet; in turn youtube. You’re youtube. and as much as that may sound cringe this is what the black community needs to hear. the only voices we have these days is kanye and jayz. you should be promoting this video as fact, instead of entertainment. what you have to share is incredibly more thought out than what bigwigs have to say about how to build structure in community rather than individuality. loved this video, but last bit seems backpettled. Need more vids like this from you ❤️
This guy is a hypocrite and is sending a dangerous message to black people
Capitalism is the best economic system, he prospers from it, but preaches an alternative message
He’s a leftist puppet
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Very balanced view, keep up the good work!👊🏾
Im glad I found this video and your page. Keep it up!
You're the social studies teacher I've always wanted and needed to have, now I strive to be. Excellent video that connects historical movements and media representation to the ongoing survival and fight against ideology that separates us from our own humanity and the humanity of others, wealth and power inequality
The guy is a communist Tulsa riots happened with government planes it was because of that canal being built that would link black Wall Street with the rest of the world for international commerce
@@georgeboehringer5530💥..yep
Had nothing to do with a black kid sexually assaulting a woman and then one of the black citizens shooting at the white population at the jail then? @@georgeboehringer5530
@@georgeboehringer5530punctuation? Never heard of it...
As a French White man, this was truly instructing. It's rather easy to draw comparisons with other movements, classes, and minorities issues all over the world.
Why is France so racist these days? Like oh my god!
This dude is lying about the NOI a doesn’t have a clue about what we believe.
This aint your business, Mr Baguette
@@VGMDK1999 Yoooo 😭😭😭😭 Not Tea n Crumpets
@@VGMDK1999 I think he's just trying to learn? Why are you calling him names
love what you do, keep educating and informing people, you are making a difference.
I am glad to have ran across this video. I think we need to have many more conversations like this! Some of us seem to fight those who look like us harder than anyone else, because they think we are hating instead of trying to find common understanding and agreement.
Race and class are interwoven but NOT interchangeable. Big ups to a fellow Bri for mentioning it. I’ve been arguing this point with a lot of black people recently. Things like Guns and Healthcare in America prove this point EVERY day
Are black people saying race and class are interchangeable? I feel like this is usually a white liberal/leftist argument.
Black Americans are failing to pick up, what the greatest black leaders put down decades ago…
Are you arguing that we shouldn't conflate the two, or that class cannot insulate one completely from the effects of racism?
@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 neither. I’m saying what I said.
You said what you said, but can you clarify a bit. I’m want to understand what you meant.
To open up with the F***** critique is how you know this man’s ultimate goal is to educate and open up the dialogue fr fr. Hats off to you F.D you doing your due dills constantly and with consistent greatness
Ive been watching your videos for the past week or so. I'm proud of you my friend. I would love to sit down with you and have a chat. But I'm in Texas. Wish I could get involved in my state and city. Keep up the great conversations and topics .
you can! black and brown folk in texas have a big activist tradition and theyre still moving. find your people!
great analysis & discussion. bless you & your efforts & gifts!
Just stumbled upon this channel yesterday, and have to say that the content has been really eye opening. While I knew a handful of the facts presented in part 1, I definitely wish that the historical context regarding leftist movements during the civil rights era and how many sentiments underpinning revolutionary movements get co-opted by conservative and establishment rhetoric were better taught and understood.
I can’t remember who posted a meme on May Day honoring Henry Ford for the forty hour work week and the weekend. Saaaaad day -.-
Yeah same. I got history fighting for some of this sh1t and I always learn something with FD.
@@Nortarachanges Jesus that's hilarious. Why are they all so utterly deranged and delusional? MAGAs are staunchly anti-REALITY
Welcome! And I have also learned so much from FD.
Hm, yeah, but that would threaten the white status quo so...
Would be nice, though.
As an Eastern European, all this seems so outlandish, but at the same time, I can find direct points of comparison, because at its root, tyranny and opression is identical all across the map.
Much love from Romania!
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I’ve been making myself watch some of your videos, since I’ve looked at a lot of Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Larry Elder and so forth. I find yours illuminating in some respects and will continue to investigate.
Hey bro this was such a dope and informative video, man thank you
Hey Fiq. I'm really happy to hear that you're making good money from UA-cam, and that it is enough to help your family not only survive, but thrive. You deserve it! Everyone deserves it! I love your videos. Keep up the great work!
That's capitalism! 😂
he is a grifter
@@zatoichi3652 nah actually, he owns the means of production, so....much more like socialism. Good try though
@@nicholasvanstrander852 and what is it that PAYS those means of production genius?
@@zatoichi3652 you mean other individuals paying for a service they find valuable? Genius? oh wait you're like "money exchanged for goods =capitalism."
My family owns an African Centered k-12 Private school. I have a doctorate in Culturally responsive education and we have been operating since 1996. I enjoy your platform and incorporate this information into my curriculum. We are one of those schools that could definitely benefit from community support.
I attended one of the first successful African American private schools in Newark NJ. Chad school. I learned lift every voice and sing in full praise God for that. The African children laughed and mocked us for their observance of that made up tradition that obviously meant nothing to them besides obtaining citizenship. There was no sharing of their dialect, beliefs, nor exploration of similarities. A few anomalies within their social order; a girl named Kenya studying me and learning how to blend in as a negro. And my best friend damilola who chose friendship with me over becoming an outcast within the majority African Americans.
Wow! I am so sorry that you had that experience. Fortunately for us, we are a true diaspora and have been since our beginning in 1996. Our students are from The Caribbean and Africa. This year we had three senior males-one African American, one Ibo and the other was Puerto Rican
@@st.syaacademy8331 I'm appreciative of the socialization because it made me aware of the true meaning of diaspora.
@@jennaywilliams7664Negro, is it the 60’s?
This is Beautiful! Having Elders to help teach period is an asset. Being Male is even better as there's a serious need for balance and young men need REAL MEN to follow. The fact you have A Diasporan man, An Igbo man, and an ALKEBULAN/Carib man is ACES!!! I pray your school thrives and grows.
🤯 wow, really thought provoking content. Not at all what I was expecting. Keep it coming.
Thank you for taking on the utter emptiness that is farakhan. Pascal Robert's description of "a perception of radicalism that challenges nothing" perfectly portrays farakhan.
I was very much a talented 10th negro. Coming back to South Carolina to live in between my dad's military assignments kept me grounded in a way, but I definitely had some deep seated anti-Blackness that I didn't truly begin to unpack until my mid-late 20s. Working in corrections and education for most of my adult life has motivated me to look beyond the surface and really get at the systemic core of these issues.
As a mixed native, the indigenous and black struggle are VERY similar and I find a lot of this relatable, unfortunately. Thank you for the video!!
Can u expand like in what way?
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No it’s not sorry to burst your bubble
@@assata1367I’m not sure what you mean. Yes, blacks were enslaved, oppressed, dehumanized in the US as a fact and still reeling from it. However, Native Americans were perceived as enemies, thought of as salvages and killed sight seen. Land stolen and put on reservations. Essentially the US committed genocide on the Native American population. Currently we have a romanticized view of Native American history when the fact is the US darn near obliterated from earth.
Right, NA struggle is far worse @@assata1367
I think a key underlying factor in this discussion is one which exists in almost every “group” or community of people, just about from the beginning of human existence (or at minimum, from before the Middle Ages and forward).
It’s organized religion as a whole. Not to imply belief in a higher power or devotion to a set of principles alone results in division or a breakdown in society, not by any means. I’m referring to ambitious human beings who see organized religion as a pathway to personal prosperity under the guise of “awakening society” or whatever term they use in their grift. It’s not about helping people see the world in a meaningful light or giving people outlets to deal with their fear of their own mortality. It’s about money, power and/or influence on as large a scale as possible, and if anyone disagrees with that assertion I challenge you to look in to the history of any faith considered “mainstream”. Look in to the so-called leaders of those faiths and look in to what they’ve done to get to their positions. Doesn’t take long to see humans pollute things in general, and one of those things is the practice of religion as a whole. The fact people rob/rape/kill behind their beliefs in one god vs another is proof of that, and the fact it’s just as bad today as it was 100 years ago in many ways is evidence that there’s no end in sight.
great video i learnt a lot thanks you my brother keep up the good work
This is THE video I've been waiting for for as long as I've been a subscriber. As a white person who grew up in a Mennonite community, I was sheltered not only from Black politics but also the basic politics from any group outside my group. I'd heard you talk about hoteps in other videos and I'm pretty sure my first comments were asking you to cover this subject. I can literally feel the historical pieces clicking together in my mind while watching this.
As always, excellent video.
I grew up under the NOI umbrella and while I do feel like it gave me a very positive cultural identity with myself as a black man in the aggregate, when I learned about the Mother Wheel on Savior's Day around my Jr year of HS, that was sort of the beginning of the end when I checked out. I can appreciate it from a distance or in doses, or the highlight reel but that's about it. And the whole anti-Jew thing, I just have never really been able to buy, it always seemed like a reach even as a teen lol
Waited months to watch this video & now digesting it piece by piece. I’m 20 min in and while I appreciate the attempt I think the analysis is all over the place… but I’ll remain patient!
So another 20min in & I can say this. Being from Philly, a lot of my perspective aligns with yours. I grew up around the NOI, 5%ers, Hebrew Israelites, the list goes on. I dont think post 2010 Farrakhan is as influential as your video suggests… he may get more attention than others, but I’ve lived in the south for a while now and interact with black people on a daily basis who have no idea who any of the leaders you referenced are. A Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Kwame Toure, etc. Unfortunately many of these individuals are forgotten. Bringing up Umar Johnson to reinforce your point during the Farrakhan segment was also kinda interesting to me. You said Umar is a meme, and you referenced how the “hotep” figure is constantly made fun of in black media. Unfortunately, i believe that black people conflate hotep ideology and pan-Africanism (which is something I know you spoke to) but… My point is that average black people now a days will reject *any* pan-African ideology because it has been turned into a joke for so long (ie don’t be a menace). My wife and I were at a dinner, bunch of bougie black academics, on person asks if anyone takes Umar seriously, I responded that he says some stuff worth listening to and everyone broke out laughing. The people who laughed, are hard core Obama Stans & are the type to follow Van Jones religiously. Could Farrakhan be a distraction? Absolutely. Was the NOI and many other groups / movements co-opted by the US govt? Only a fool would say no. But at the origin of it all, is the intention of advancing our people forward. BLM started as this pure “liberal / progressive” org and then became what it became, because that’s the algorithm in this Neoliberal world and it has been since the 60s. While it was good, this vid does indeed come across as analysis of leftism in Black America and a list of who is “progressive enough”.
Great video!! Very glad for finding your channel 🎉
As a poor white Scot thank you very much for helping me understand black American issues more. I already knew a very small amount about the likes of the NOI, Marcus Garvey and Cosby (before all the awful sex scandals came to light) and I want to thank you so so much for giving me more insight. We don't have many black people in Scotland, most are in England-we have a larger Middle Eastern community. But again, thank you so much
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You do have many Mixed-Race (part Black and Part white) Scottish folks and a few Black Scottish folks in Scotland and both face anti-Black racism in Scotland, like their cousins do in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
@@RoderickSpode ok maybe I should have been clearer, apologies-in my area of Scotland I should have said
Edit-although looking at the last census I can get full data from this is what it had to say-
"Just over 1% of Scottish population identified as African, Caribbean or Black. Under 1% identified as Mixed, Multiple or Other ethnicity, including Arab". Just over 1% really isn't a lot and under 1% Mixed, Multiple or Other, including Arab is barely anything. While in England the last census I can find has 3% as Black British, 2% as British mixed and so while it's only a roughly 2% or so difference there are still more Black or mixed-raced in England like I first stated-which, isn't a lot either way but my point still stands that Scotland is less diverse (overall but especially when it comes to black or mixed-raced Identifying people). I must point out though that the Scottish and English/Welsh census' are done slightly different but the results are still pretty accurate and have a high rate of return.
One other thing I meant to mention-i didn't in any way suggest these groups didn't receive discrimination, so why you brought it up in the way you did was strange-i know they do as well as all other minorities and it's disgusting. And as my original comment was pointing out I was thanking him for helping me understand more about black American issues-not UK ones, sadly there isn't enough talk about that
There isn't no identifying Mixed - Race folks in Scotland....... There are mixed-race people in Scotland and they do outnumber Black people in Scotland.
I find it strange, in this Internet age, where information is at everyone finger tips, people stlll fringe ignorance in learning factual Black history.
Yes, Scotland is very much less diverse compare to England, and Wales.
No wonder lots of countries are saying Europeans are turning into sissies.