ON RACISM
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2020
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I'd like to speak to the manager of racism
I am sorry ma'am but he is hiding in his bunker
I'd like to speak to the CEO of antifa please
why are you
you a line
Karen ?
Hi, I'm Charles Shootblax
Love the “For free” by Kendrick Lamar intro
To pimp a butterfly. .one of the best albums out
@@kdoeone facts.
Nick super facts
kdoeone god bless you’re so right
All of these replies are facts
Loving the frequent uploads man
It’s interesting to see people like you offer outside opinions on things like this. Opinions that aren’t drawn necessarily from your own experience but from other who may have experienced it. And as you go through these ideas to try and help people understand the situation there are still people who say, “All of this is really unnecessary. These protesters should just act more white.” Great video.
Bob Bobbertson I agree, the police should really stop assaulting journalists and murdering people.
Can you define what "acting white" means?
Lol his "outsider perspective" is just brainwashed drone boilerplate. He's just regurgitating the worldview he was taught by public school and the media. He's an unthinking NPC and so are you.
@@adambutt5137 1,200 people are killed by the police every year, of which only about 50 are even questionable cases. You're more likely to be struck by lightning than to be unjustly killed by the police. But the narrative of police brutality is useful to weaponize certain groups against others.
@@adambutt5137 As a complete outsider my take on it is that the crimes committed by the protesters are by all means detestable (the violence and the needless burning of countless innocent people's livelihoods) but it pales in comparison to the inexcusable crimes of the American police. It's not my fight to fight but i truly hope the black people in America finally get some justice. They came a long way 50 years ago but this time i hope they finish the fight! That said i also hope the insurance companies don't turn their backs on the poor people who've lost everything to these protests...
i wish racism would just move out already. It aint even paying rent
@Micheal Ellis that's just preference.
@@Johanisnotreal I'd absolutely disagree. Interracial crime and rape is committed by segregating one person into a categorized group. From there the offender would choose a target based around the categorized group or preference to difference. Say, for instance, that the offender is after women of Asian descent then he is less likely to go after someone of European descent when given the choice of having a victim of European or Asian descent. The categorization itself is racist. By filtering humans into categories based on regional ancestry we give into a concept that two people are different because of the adaptations that their ancestors developed to live in a specific region. This can then be taken into an extreme by stating that one's adaptations, or race in this context, are superior or more attractive than another's. Which was essentially what colonialism became about: colonizing the less superior races and stealing resources from that area.
In the US it has taken a turn for the extreme due to the US being built on the backs of slaves. The white men who owned these slaves truly believed that they were infinitely superior to the black slaves and did skeletal studies, that have been debunked, to justify their claims.
One can claim that racism is simply the lasting effects of colonialism, similar to the echos of Nazism haunting the earth with it's horrific rhetoric.
Amen brother
The day the color of one's skin becomes as important as the color of one's hair, then we will look back at how folly it was judging people on either.
@@Sal1981 read the bell curve. Maybe it can cure your ignorance.
Do a video on anarchism... the political philosophy, not “anarchy” as you state it... I’ll literally help you and give you whatever info you need for the video (off camera, as I’m camera shy)
Mother anarchy loves his children! Mother anarchy cannot be sold!
PLEASE
Do it.
@@johnathonmingle7937 Educated people know to the importance of conversing with someone with genuine beliefs than with someone who repeats what they've heard from someone else doing the same. Even if I often listen to that other person, as they may be more sensible to my standard, it is nearly impossible to glean the whole picture from hearsay and rumor alone.
@@johnathonmingle7937 I say allow the anarchist to compete fairly in the free market place of ideas! Would be less of an echo box as you put it, this way.
There's no 'us' and 'them' when one can accept that we're all human beings that share the same joys and sufferings of a human life. Many have tried to come up with "scientific" experiments, measurements and labels to justify tribalism. To justify systemic discrimination and hate.
No matter how intelligent, strong, rich, beautiful, morally superior or "cultured" one thinks one is, if we can all make a conscious effort (with our oh-so-superior-intelligence) to put ourselves in someone else's shoes, in other words, practise empathy, then there wouldn't be so much hate against members of the same species.
I guess those stores looted themselves then? Or are you going to tell the store owners who's livelihood got looted that they should put themselves into someone else's shoes?
@@dionysos739 I did not say anything specific about the arrest or the subsequent events. Regardless, to answer your question, I wouldn't say it in those words and I know that words (or anything else for that matter) can never change the past, but I would offer them sympathy because to be on the receiving end of looting is no pleasant experience. But I think that's common sense, no?
It's in our blood our, ancestors did kill off other human species
@@influencerrrrrr Absolutely agreed. It hurts doubly after seeing this from the LA riots in 1992. ua-cam.com/video/wxK8VzylOrQ/v-deo.html Almost 30 years passed, the situation has undeniably improved in many ways, but here we are again.
dionysos739 As sad as it is stores can be rebuilt, but the hundreds killed by police in recent years can’t be brought back to life. Also, if you were paying attention you might have seen the dozens of videos of the police destroying property, looting, violently assaulting people, and leaving out bricks all to discredit the protests. The police don’t give a fuck about store owners, while protestors are actively fundraising to rebuild and cleaning up after riots. You want to talk about destruction? We the boston tea party was a riot, maybe you should ask yourself why you’re more upset about the destruction of property than the rampant violence and murder committed by police? Here’s evidence of cops violence: twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1268189755143053323?s=21 twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1268424260319449088?s=21 twitter.com/dani_clarke96/status/1268873984633946112?s=21 twitter.com/chaboiimomo/status/1267321501377650688?s=21
Extremely powerful video. The ripple effect of this is extremely profound. I pick up on the 'two societal faces' within other black people and as a young man in my early 20s, I still feel like I'm only truly myself maybe 80 - 90% of the time. The self hatred has *not* left me completely, however, and I see it in others too. It's incredibly tragic and most of the time I feel like we are a lost cause due to the infighting. We project our pain upon each other, and whilst this is something humans do regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, tribe, sex etc, I feel like it is extremely common within the black race and makes it easier for us to be shafted by more imperialist minded countries and tribes. After generations of forced intercourse (to put it gently) by the oppressor class within the white race, we are now being handed over to China to have their turn. Particularly after the formation of BRICS. Although I was born in the UK, my mother was born in the Carribean and My father's parents were born on another island in the Carribean (Dad was born in England) and the Chinese Government are going country to country, building businesses and infrastructure of various forms, often using Carribean labour but Chinese workers and managers to take control. The Carribean governments - out of desperation for money and a meagre offer of a handful of student programs in China for their citizens - sign the deals with glee. Same with African countries right now. After China has their way with us over the next century another country will join in with China or take their place and it will be an endless cycle.
Easy to do when you remember the sheer amount of African American Diaspora, the Black British Diaspora (Of which I am a part) and other lost peoples taken long ago, we now cling to whatever small success they can get for themselves all whilst baring their teeth at any fellow black who gets too close because it's every man for themselves. We often have a crab in a barrel mindset and moments of profound mutual agreement and building are destroyed with a sledgehammer by other blacks who want to tear others down with one rationality or another. We cling to our only successes within the entertainment business but dominating two or three genré within music and sports feels like a hollow victory when there are so few humans representing you in positions of political, financial and social power and the few that are, are either unable to do much due to the structural systems built solely to calibrate to the success of white humans over blacks i.e Obama, or choose to just fall in line and become a passive ally to the system i.e Kwasi Kwarteng and Ben Carson (Two men I feel *no* hostility for as I understand the nuances of this painful life and I too have become the perfect minority to accommodate England's white society that I have in a tragic but darkly humorous way, grown great affection for).
One wonders about the possibilities; if black humans had adopted a more European mindset if we would have been able to create a United States of Africa or a Grand Republic of Caribbean Islands, to lesser the chances of being dominated so brutally. The Carribean one is more likely due to the closeness of our cultures but only marginally as we bicker and "diss" each other constantly in a deep-rooted self hatred mindset which goes so deep that even the "Wise adults" within the community engage with the Japery having no idea that it's rooted in a malevolent but subtle divide and conquer tactic. We would go to our graves before allying on such a grand level, unfortunately and it's even less likely to work in Africa: The sheer number of tribes within Africa with *very* different ideologies, cultures, mindsets, geo-political hostilities, Religions, Hundreds of Languages and societies successfully injected in self hate render that impossible.
I didn't mean for this to be such a depressing and doomer account of my musings but I'm just putting my thoughts out there. Thank you for this video, it's - again - extremely powerful 🤙🏾
@Jessica Buttgereit *Most people who owned slaves were jews though so you are directing your hate at the wrong people , Its sad that you dont see how manipulated you are being*
Who do you think I am directing my hate at? Nowhere in my comment did I direct hate at any group. I criticised what I described as the oppressor class within the white race and also the actions of Chinese imperialism. Which one of these groups do not warrant criticism? By the way, I don't hate entire groups, it's counter productive and unreasonable. There are good individuals in every group on Earth, though many on the extreme left and extreme right would no doubt disagree.
*The owner of BLM himself is a jewish male*
Did I once profess to supporting BLM? Their silence on black on black crime is infuriating to put it mildly. And that's just one gripe I have with them out of a few but I agree with some verbal things they have said. I neither love that group nor despise them.
*Jews were also the ones who convinced you that we were your enemies ; when in fact they are the ones behind sites like BLACKED which basically portrays african -american males as mindless beasts , but you probably wont connect the docts until its too late.*
By we, do you mean white people or Chinese people? It's not entirely clear by your picture and name but I guess you are from one of those two groups I don't want to assume as people often pose as others in their online pictures.
En Vintervell Va Dorno it’s refreshing to see someone walk through their reasoning and not blindly direct emotions anywhere, I appreciated reading your thoughts so thank you :)
@@Max-ok5nd 🤙🏾
I don't live in America, so I haven't had the chance to hang out with African-americans. In Greece (where I'm from) the majority of African population can be found in the countryside, usually immigrants coming for field work. The only African person I met in Athens (the capital) before leaving to study in the UK was a missionary who married a missionary from my own protestant church.
I always thought of him as a very open and hopeful person, yet I never think I could see a "white mask" from him (perhaps as I was a child he didn't feel the need to).
Moving to the UK, I would say that many coursemates of mine (in my uni there is a strong African population) might act referring to the "white mask" when interacting with lecturers, or during job interviews etc. However, I would say that most of them do not necessarily do so in student environments. Someone could say then that it is the same with white students, having a casual and a serious side to their character, however it seems more pressing to African students, and they generally seem to be better dressed, or more careful.
I remember listening to a coursemate of mine and I don't remember the exact wording he used but he essentially didn't want the colour of his skin to make people assume his class or his upbringing, and that is why he would care about the impression everything else about him gave.
This wasn't meant to be a rebuttal, but would rather like to hear your thoughts on this.
@@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive thanks for your insights. I will say however that you probably shouldn't listen to this Jessica person, they're just spreading misinformation and antisemitism. The so-called Owner, or let's say founders of BLM, aren't Jewish or even male. It's a couple of white lesbian Leftist women. I say this not to spread division but to unmask those that do.
Maybe this is me being European and not knowing how it is in America speaking but what does it even mean to "act black" or "act white?" Can you name behaviors that are "acting black?" Can you do the same for "white acts?" This is the fundamental problem I do not understand here. How can you act according to a race?
It's like such a mindset actually justifies that people of different races SHOULD act differently. Is an African person supposed to act black? Is he not his true self if he doesn't act black? Is he harming himself if he acts white?
Why do some people feel the need to believe in these boxes. Pretending it's never individuals against individuals but always groups against groups.
An individual is responsible for their actions, not the group others say they belong too.
I think what he was talking about when saying acting white are black people suppressing their culture to fit in?
@@theperson5205 Than I believe he should have said that more clearly.
Yeah even as an American I'm not sure what attributes that whites are supposedly preventing blacks from expressing. I can definitely see how racism might exist on an individual level and in the justice system, but not much after that.
One word. Segregation
@@The_Schizoid_Man
What? Care to explain what you mean with that?
Psychoanalysis is in opposition to normative psychology and psychiatry. I doubt Fanon’s narrative could be used to scientifically, or even philosophically, explain the supposed psychological effects of colonialism. It’s also hard to see how associating liberalism as inherently Eurocentric is critical to its usefulness cross cultures. Historically we can see that liberalism isn’t a white man’s idea, and was made as a result of a progression of philosophies stemming from many different cultures.
My comments are going to be viewed as self hating, since I’m not white 🤷♂️. Epistemically, these anti-white and anti liberal ideas offer us nothing. They fail to explain how following their ideals will result in a better society for the oppressed. Furthermore, their followers are so militant and dogmatic, so disagreeing will result in conflict. It’s almost like the liberals were right with their political philosophy and secularism. Left wing and right wing are the new religions.
you sound so ignorant
@@lydiadukes5882 also like a racist and a fascist amirite 🥱
@@PabloGonza69 you are right
@@PabloGonza69 Hook, line, and sinker
lydia dukes
You could have taken the chance to reduce someone's ignorance. You chose instead to just insult
ending racism, one burning building at a time
king, love your shit i’m studying politics and psychology this resonated a whole lot
I understand your hesitation to offer up thoughts on this subject at this time. However, it is important to consider how differently humans think, process and learn. We need as many voices as possible coming at the issue from many different angles - as to reach the maximum number of people and obtain the critical mass needed to affect real change.
It may require some pretentious 😉 young white guys using big words to get certain people to listen.
Loving these past couple of uploads. Thank YOU!
I love how the style of delivery forces you to pay attention and doesn't try to distract you with a lot of stuff because the content is enough on it's own 💕
agree- the content is well written and seems well researched. I love the way it's presented too!
YESSS!!!!!!! I cannot describe the happiness of this video, finally explaining why it’s a struggle being black and why and how and when. This is a extremely useful way of understanding and explaining more in depth about racism
This is a great video. Im not very familiar with a lot of philosophical sorta thought and this video uses familiar concepts to me and takes them a bit further. The video is a bit challenging but at the same time inviting. I feel like im learning something.
I just wanted to say that this video is really thoughtful. I want to thank you for putting so much effort into it! You got yourself a new sub!
Recently found your channel and have been really enjoying your content. Well crafted and balanced, keep it up. Imagine Sisyphus happy :D
So it all comes down to people caring about race weather it's positive or negative. We should just see race as we see people with a small nose or mouth or a bit overweight or not, it's just someone with a different hue?
I've always been in this camp.
We just shouldn’t see race at all, in the wise words of Morgan freeman, the way we end racism is stop talking about race, stop thinking of others as black men and hopefully they will stop thinking of you as white men
"Free to be White..."
Real deep man. Those words resonate with me on a different level. Thanks
Define "being white" please.
If non-whites don't like white countries, they are free to go live in non-white countries. You can go live in Africa and never be oppressed by a white person.
wait till u hear about south africa
Free to be civilized
@Lucalite Why? For the sake of principle? Nobody is happy here. Blacks say America is just as racist now as it was in the 50s. When the world worships them, they still believe everybody hates them. Theres no point to continue to placate a never satisfied group.
I’ve abandoned the concept of “racism”. Racism is a game born out of duality, i.e. us/them, friend/enemy, good/evil. If you are playing the game of racism, you will never prevail over the opponent. The most powerful thing that a person or people group can do is to identify with the opponent, to affirm: “I am this person or persons”. By doing so, the person affirming unity with the opponent has a quantum attractor field that is exponentially more powerful than the person operating in duality. Even the intention of the person operating in duality to commit violence against the person affirming unity will be reflected back at the person operating in duality, in ways they will not be able to handle. This also has the advantage that since the person operating in unity has not used force against the person operating in duality, there is no reason for the person operating in duality to blame the person affirming unity with the opponent of any action against them. The conflict that the person operating in duality will experience will be one sided…
“When two opponents meet, the one without an enemy will surely triumph”…
Tao Te Ching
I agree with you in theory. This is likely a better way to live mentally, as I've found from similarly abandoning the idea of Democrat vs. Republican. I'm definitely more at peace. But this is little comfort for someone oppressed. They aren't vying for philosophical dominance, they want to go to a job interview and not have their color determine if they get the job. By operating under a pretense of unity they are doing the equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears and going "La la la la I can't hear you!" Maybe they aren't likely to experience conflict or violence with this mindset, but neither are they contributing anything of value to their liberation
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 …
The people who I respect the most of “oppressed people” are those who are too busy being free to bother demanding their freedom. i.e. Glenn Greenwald, Jimi Hendrix, and such. The former, acts like there is something more important to the whole of humanity than he being homosexual. Jimi Hendrix was never “black”, he was just Jimi. This pissed off the Black Power Movement. But Jimi without trying tore down the walls between the races, with white kids who identified with him regardlees what their parents thought about such things. That’s what is called in Taoism, Wu Wei, action without action…
My guy, your videos are excellent. I know it's just your take on a subject, but your thoughts really help people open their own mind
Great job again! I vibe with all your educational stuff man. So awesome ty
I've only watched a few of your video, but youre already one of my favorite YTbr
Many hopes to you ,that this chanel will grow and you will reaach more people
Thank you for making this, I didnt have this more academic perspective on it but have drawn most of the dame conclusions through my own experiences as a black man in America
What’s going on is my most listened to quarantine album, hell yeah
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itll be 100k by the end of this week
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great work btw
Sirious questions:
1. If those who were colonized are to develope their own systems, which are to be based on their own cultural belives. Wouldnt it instigate the fragmentation of polycultural excolonized countries?
2. Should a culture be allowed to create their own systems, even so when they infringe human rights?
You almost hit the nail on the head. Human rights from this prospective are a social construct of white colonialism and are not universal. The theory would lead to ethnic apartheid, ethnic genocide, and ethno states. That or everyone being oppressed in an attempt at compromise. Look at the argument against empires. Peoples have the right to self governance. How can that right be insured with out one or more of the above.
@Ellisar Atranimus 100% agree with you. I just don't bother with that line of argument. A person who agrees with you would be at little risk of falling for this BS. Also the counter argument to your's is that you are the white supremacists because you are assuming the superiority of the white establishment. A consequentialist argument can get people to reevaluate their axioms by facing the likely outcomes.
@@alexdryver5090 A lot of places had human rights before the colonization Era, just because there weren't any documentation with those words on it doesn't mean they didn't exist.
1) who cares
2) there is no such thing as "human rights"
All of those "movements" are marxist... so fuck the human rights. The collective is more important than the individuals. The enemy is too powerful (the white people imperialism LOL) and inside us (our thoughts), so people need reeducation, a strong goverment, a leader!.
Violence in these cases is OK... hipocrytes
Am I wrong to assume that what some of these philosophers are saying, is that colonized minorities are facing an identity crisis when it comes to integrating into the society that they're in? So, racism is actually about the relationship between different cultures in one society? Or am I getting this out of now where?
Someone is wrong on the internet.
No its more about Not being free to Express their authentic self thats what He means by "free to be white"
It's a culture war where racism is outlawed and the only racists left are the "oppressed". They aren't free to be "themselves" because the rest of society that they live in has already moved past beating each other in the streets and dealing drugs and using broken english. They have the means, they just don't want to let it go, so they use racism as a crutch to hold on to an oppressive past that they've never even seen.
@@dsap4004 fuck off
Not necessarily.
The perceived relationship between ethnicity (your looks, skin colour) and culture is very different in the states. Apparently many Americans think that being of a certain ethnicity (looks, skin colour) means that you belong to and should uphold specific cultural values. That's the reason why it could seem that way, I guess.
In other countries culture and how it's perceived, is more closely related to where you're actually from.
Upholding a norm in society where your identity is so closely tied to how you look is not really a good thing.
I love this
That. Fucking. Opening. Tho.
Perfection, fucking love it homeslice, good job!!!
A transcription of the video would be highly appreciated, I'm enjoying your content a lot. Much love and best regards.
This is something that needs to be circulated around the Internet now more than ever.
Beautifully crafted video.. The ideas and opinions you covered really gave me a new perspective, especially with Michels definition of power
I don’t identify with any cultures, so I’m basically putting on a mask when I’m around 90% of people. There are dicks of all races, of all cultures, and they tend to be the loudest, so why act up when that’s the attention you’re going to attract by being yourself? This goes every which way, cause we don’t all share a culture or common ideas of fun, justice, society, etc. Not that that’s the way it should be; we’re human, biological beings. None of us are perfect or infallible.
Why do you not identify with any culture
@the bed one possibility is that he has many cultures in his family as my self I have Jewish,Korean and some other white cultures such as French,English and so on so some onw who has many cultures within there family he may not want to identify with other cultures and this may be due to people saying "no ur not" or "you don't look like it" I sometimes say I'm Korean because I tend to lean more on that but people just say no ur white. But take this as you want there may be other reasons
the bed he may find identity reductive as it is
@Jacob yt im sorry but isn't that a bit hypocritical to say its rong that I tend to lean towards one culture and im the reason why industrial living sucks but you then say Anglo culture is the best and attempt to choose for me I see why you may choose that as yes they have had very important impact in America and many other places better or for worse but personally i would like to lean more towards my korean side and eat some good ass bulgogi with my grandma
You do actually have a culture in that case, it's called being American. We don't have any culture and we're PROUD of it!
I'm so glad for being able to find you
Demonizing anyone based off of jobs, race, sex, gender, etc. Doesn't get anything done
I wish to be free from initiated aggression. I want the freedom *to be left alone*.
We should live with an agreement to not initiate aggression. A principle of non-aggression. I wonder if anyone has thought of something like that before...
I wish there was a huge continent full of resources and people who looked just like me, where I wouldn't have to worry about racism from da white man any more.
@@blank4227 feels weird man
'being free of initiated aggression' isn't gonna help much if you are the only black dude in a white racist community and nobody wants to sell you food
@@blank4227 : Alas, no such continent exists.
Imagine thinking that the “colonized” (this word makes little sense when talking about african americans) people moving further from their adopted cultures in protest will do any good for society. That will just further divide people. What we need is a cultural marriage and not a cultural divorce.
The main reason this is a issue is because most people like to ignore and look past these problems that are out of there POV. I feel like it requires a sense of empathy to acknowledge theses problems and help better the world. Almost everywhere you go in the world most country's have been colonized and with that the colonizers have placed there standards and forced the people to assimilate with there ideas and ideologies. Which creates issues and self hate among the people. Think of the Indian subcontinent it has been colonized by lighter skinned individuals for years and because of that South Asian countries are extremely colorist and feed into the idea that fair skin is only beautiful and worthy of respect. This is a example of what colonialism has done to people.
Maybe I got it wrong but wouldn't this mean that multiculturalism does not work by nature that multiple groups would instead of mix segregate in search of separate identeties? Also what do you do if a group is completely sperated from its origins? Does it create its own or tries to appropriate others as their own In search of origins to base it self?
Yeah this would mean that. This video is pretty dumb.
No. The clash is not between different "cultures" (I.E. dog-whistling race). The clash is between the two categories of oppressor and oppressed. The reason why this divide is often a racial one can be easily explained by examining the history of racial imperialism and injustice.
@@numisigfusson367 Race and culture are often closely correlated, but they are not the same thing, nor is "culture" used to mean "race" in this context. For example, in Europe there is a lot of cultural tension between people groups that Americans would all label as "white". The example I am most familiar with are Polish immigrants living in the UK, whose experience of discrimination isn't exactly racism in the same way that the discrimination of African American people is (Polish people and British people generally have the same sort of skin tone and appearance), but nonetheless marks a clear imbalance of power and justice across cultural boundaries within society. Differences in culture are what shape our concept of race, which I think is perfectly encapsulated by fact that even Irish and Italians immigrants were not considered to be "white" in America for a very long time. The cultural differences between Europe and Africa was the very thing used to justify the slave trade in the first place, and such differences are really the root of most forms of racism.
Im not a fan of really how vague this video is and seems to operate on preconceived notions of race and culture. What does it mean to "act black" or "act white" as if people hold no self agency in regards to engaging with cultures they choose to and are anchored by their skin color alone? How do you act a physical trait? Or does my white skin imbue me with some kind of psychological attributes?
It refers to westernized and Eurocentric concepts that disregard the problems many minorities face and the vast sea of unique philosophy originating outside of Europe. To "act white" is to force yourself into these Eurocentric constructs and to accept that these are the only "true" ones, that all others are false and that Europeans are the only "correct" lifestyles.
An example of this would be the various systems surrounding gender outside of the binary created by Europeans. Many people that embrace ideas that go against the grain of Europeans, such as Two-Spirit for Native Americans, are subjugated to more open and brutal oppression, whereas those that force themselves to wear a mask and conceal who they are often get ""better"" treatment. Of course, calling it that simplifies the horrendous discrimination that minorities experience in America, but I digress.
@@RaeIsGaee I have to ask this, what about the migrants in Europe?
@@TheSpekkel1
It's a relatively similar scenario for migrants and minorities in Europe as it is for migrants and minorities in European countries, ie states colonized by and controlled by European powers.
Again, it relates the problems that plague colonialism and how that damages so many people in addition to various other problems.
@@RaeIsGaeeYes but, can europeans be blamed for being eurocentric? I mean doesn't everyone want the best for their country and neighbour or something similar. Plus while colonialism was wide spread, not every country particapated, so again can europe be blamed for something like this or just individual countries?
@@TheSpekkel1
Yes, European powers can and should be blamed for many of the problems that they cause across colonial states. Nationalism is a useless concept that inherently hurts innocent people on arbitrary values to prop up the colonialist powers and the systems they govern, such as Capitalism.
And? The countries that anti-colonialists take issue with, ie European powers, the US, China, etc. all participate in and actively fight for colonialism. For example, the US government majorly supports Israel and sees no issue with taking control of other countries for resources.
I really appreciate the video and discussion you inspired your views with! It hit home more than you know.
That Kendrick in the intro was fire
love your content but you need a higher quality mic man!
I think it may be intentional.
It gets the job done
I dig it, its a weird lofi aesthetic for me
Be like GradeA and use a Samsung Galaxy 4
Forte I like it
just wanted to say this video is really well put together man
Very well said, sisyphus. Detailedly researched.
I understand why you're so apprehensive to take a position on this issue. That being said, I felt like that as a result, a lot of the points in the video felt rather arbitrary and hard to utilize in the real world. It is unclear what the exact destinction between 'whiteness' and 'blackness' is. Is it more problematic to adress these destinctions or to ignore them? I guess we just need some more time...
I know this is late but I feel the act of acting white or black has nothing to do with race but rather power structures. Acting black is against the status quo its destructive, it threatens the state. Acting white is docile and "civilized" leaving the status quo and waiting for it to benefit you. It's destructive dichotomy that is self perpetrating. Or at least that's my view of it.
Every image and quote and text is so thoughtful in the message it's trying to convey. This is what it's all about! This is just as good as childish Gambino's this is America for its commentary!!!!!
First off, I thought the video was very well done, it's great to hear a thoughtful commentary about issues like this.
I'm curious as to what it means to be black. As predicated in the video, the colonized are often forced to wear "white masks." I'm curious as to how culture, or a certain way of acting can be related to race, especially in America, where much of the black community's culture (understanding that it's not monolithic) comes from a mix of liberal (which I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, to be white) and traditionally black values that came together over the course of hundreds of years.
Thanks, I'm just trying to get some insight
Well I can't speak for all black men in America but... black Americans handle navigating white american cultures and power spaces in very specific ways and we discuss the techniques for succeeding in white dominated areas frequently. For example "Code Switching" is the phrase we use for some versions of these actions. Using completely different mannerisms and words than you would normally use. A huge one is hair. White Americans "police" black hair in very deep ways. Sure that may seem banal, but remember its a pain in the ass when it costs you a ton of money and literally grows out of your head... all so white people don't feel "uncomfortable" by "wild" or "native" hairstyles at the office... or grocery store... or whatever you're working as. The culture were talking about is not black "pop culture" which has evolved in public and in unison symbiotically with white pop culture although that's controversial and eminently debatable. But actual personal familial heritages and the symbolism and actions that are attempted to be passed down are usually non-starters in white spaces and black people that don't accede to are very quickly "noticed" for it... for worse usually. I don't want to get too much into the weeds but to be black in america is meaningless except what it means in relation to white people. White people defined this racism and denote power based on their own definitions. Eventually, groups are added to whiteness... Italians, Greeks, Indians, now even Latinos and Jews are up to join the "white people" club. A club who's only meaning is in they are NOT BLACK. Black has no meaning except not white and white means power, black does not. I get kinda frustrated every time i see "non hispanic white" "Hispanic white" on documents because its the slow process of pale Latino people being pulled into the white community... Europe is White, Africa is Black, So what is South/Central America? White america needs to know so they can divide the power.
Phew Congrats on earning my longest YT Comment.
amazing videos, always top quality
I have a difficult time understanding DuBois’s concept of double consciousness. Basically, I find that behavior of black people may be suppressed around white people, and this may or may not be good or bad. Whether it is good or bad is contingent on behavior and whether the white person is racist or shows bias, but really I think that there is a fear that reasonably emerges between races when they encounter; we immediately ask how we should act. Black people live through this everyday. That’s just my speculation. Could be way off.
Colin Graham I don’t identify with any cultures, so I’m basically putting on a mask when I’m around 90% of people. There are dicks of all races, and they tend to be the loudest, so why act up when that’s the attention you’re going to attract by being yourself? This goes every which way, cause we don’t all share a culture or common ideas of fun, justice, society, etc. Not that that’s the way it should be; we’re human, biological beings. None of us are perfect or infallible.
Wayyyy off, please read DuBois. It will help you understand way more.
Paul B Black Americans don’t get to choose to ‘identify with a culture,’ subject to continued discrimination and judgement no matter how they act. It’s not enough to not be a dick, the system that criminalizes and abuses Blackness will still exist and produce these results because it is deeply persistent in everything from criminal justice to schooling to economics to the air quality in their neighborhoods.
vdwave what policies and laws do you think should be implemented?
vdwave and are you telling me I'm not subject to discrimination and judgement when I'm in "black" neighborhoods? Cause I got unfortunate news, as soon as you identify as a race, you become racist. You've set up a person who's another, different. So, all races are inherently racist as long as they keep seeing race on any level. Not even just by race, but by groupings of any kind. In fact, the majority of people will be prejudice on some level as long as we aren't a hive mind. Not that I'm saying things shouldn't change, they need to. It's just important to keep in mind that every side is racist when changing things.
Bullets are voice of people businesess burned down by these clowns :)
I appreciate the accuracy in your doodle of Sartre
Your videos are so we'll made and I'd love to talk with you sometime about a wide array of topics, is there any way we could talk?
No
you can expirience discrimination no matter if you are black or white or asian...
When did he claim that white people cant be discriminated. White people can be discriminated I guarantee that it’s not at the same rate. In America racism is built into the culture. Black people and a bustling town was burnt down over a false allegation (Tulsa). Black people were denied good housing (redlining). After being enslaved black people didn’t receive their 30 acres and a mule so most of them ended up working for the same plantation, owned by the same person, just under a contract that made it seem legal but was really just slavery under a different name. They will NEVER have to go through the cultural mutilation that black people went through all because of their skin.
loved this sm
I need therapy and I'm not even from a white country. Just the knowledge of this, all I've read, watched...
Wonderful video! Enjoyed that fresh RTJ
I feel like the whole debate on Racism is focused on the US so much that is hurts other mostly white countries.
For example what does it mean "to act white". Did you just assume that all whites act the same? Not even inside one country but across whole planet? It sounds pretty racist to me. What about suppressed poor white countries? Are they on the same level of "white" as people in the US? They can earn even less than minimum wage in the US and still should be sorry for the unfortunate skin color?
I really feel like this whole debate is just plain social engineering. It is unproductive and in this climate there is no way to resolve this issues. Freedom of speech is abolished at this point and everybody is afraid to say anything because he will get shadow banned on the internet, fired or taken to court for just speaking his thoughts. It is so dangerous I'm not even able to articulate that. We may reach a point of no return.
Simplifying things down to a skin color is really unproductive and hurtful. Violence and censorship is not the way.
The debate IS focused on racism in the US because other white countries probably don’t experience racism and injustice on the same level. Therefore the fact that white people in other countries act different from American white people is irrelevant
No one is telling white people to feel bad about being white. European white people have nothing to worry about when it comes to racial injustice because their country probably doesn’t have as extensive of a history of racial injustice, idk.
Sis, I usually agree with almost all you say. However, I find far too many "vague-ities" in this video. You say that the only freedom that the black man has is the "Freedom to be white." Can you define this for me? What does it mean to be white?
I interpreted it as black people are likely to be ostracized for engaging with their own culture rather than assimilating into the dominant one. They can "act black" with repercussions or "act white" to be accepted in society. This is not true freedom as true freedom would allow you to act how you see fit.
@@TheRealHowligan can you be more specific as to what the differences are between "acting black" and "acting white" are? I still don't get what it means to act "white". Do all whites share a culture that we do not allow others into?
@@TheRealHowligan also if everyone was truly "Free" your rights wouldn't limit mine, nor mine yours. If you or I wanted to murder eachother without legal repercussions, we would be "free" to do so. However that also means that anyone would be free to do anything, and I don't think that makes for a good society.
@@schneiderwebb2303 it implies that the very foundation of the society that other ethnicities where made compulsory participants of is white. It's values are white. The rules were made by white men.
@@twofacecomix you are implying that there are inherent differences between races? Wow. Do you also believe the Bell Curve?
Ayyyy walking in the snow transition sweet
It's weird, 2 videos of yours for the first time already make me respect you more. Someone educated talking about subjects that interest me and I agree on might make me more inclined to think of them as someone respectable? I don't even know lol I like you're videos though the way you talk can be very complex at times.
Yeah we need a return to ethnostates and then its all settled or is that not what fanon is implying
more like a cultural ethnostate, although not in extremes. kind of like a style that indian reservations allowed cultural movement in indians themselves
@Bob Bobbertson based
kendrick lamar opening, nice.
Black people have been talking about this since the very first time we learned to read and write in this country in a language that wasn't ours. It's just now white people have finally become nice enough to listen and I would even argue to a certain extent even the act of some wanting to listen now is almost done our of selfish desires to make themselves feel like they're Progressive or doing the right thing. Maybe that's just my cynicism but still.
I appreciate this video. Thank you.
Its been a long road i still hate that i cant be me.
Police whites even now its hard to even be me.
“No amount of academic knowledge or discourse on critical race theory can replace the sudden - and violent - loss of a son or daughter, mother, or father.”
Thank you for making this video
Looks like we got ourselves a reader!
Attended the anti racism protests in Sydney today, amazing show of solidarity
@Chinese Corona Virus
Bitch what??
Chinese Corona Virus cope, and if you want to discuss elaborate
@@MarioGomez-kj5bc lol nah, look at that username. No discussion to be found there
I dont take the postmodern view on these issues, and in my years of life have came to denounce almost all ideas based in marxism as inherently flawed and pseudo-intelectual, but I respect your opinion nonetheless. I disagree though with the idea of "whiteness", to say the idea that have worked best for humanity are white and cannot be adopted by other people, while I'm sure well intentioned, in my view only holds people back. Postmodernism and marxist thought will not ever work in my opinion and will only further divide society at best and destroy thousands of years of the scientific method at worst, we must be careful not to, in our efforts to fight injustice, divide people further. The idea that what many would refer to as, for lack of a better term "civilisation" is "whiteness" is wrong, in part because these ideas did not just come from white people but from the middle east, and also as the same process happened, largely independently in east Asia. You seem to, whether consciously or not be implying that non whites are inherently savages, an idea I find abhorrent.
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Do teachers play this in classes?
Thank you for this.
This comment section is the biggest crop field I’ve seen with how many strawmen there are 😭😭😭
fr i am racist
Honestly, it does seem like a war against the identity of American culture. I wish we could just stop caring about our individuality so much and focus on growing a community that respects the collective culture of humanity. Traditions can be shared across cultural boundaries.
Individuality is the key. The left says: “Reject Tribalism” then says “BLM”. It’s a nonsensical message. We are individuals. We are Americans.
Black people are saying Black Lives Matter because the police, schools, courts, local governments, press, etc have continued to act like they don’t. They’re not saying all lives don’t matter, they know all lives matter, BUT BLACK LIVES ARE THE ONES UNDER THREAT. Maybe if you try to listen to Black folks instead of assume you know how race affects their lives your perspective would be a little more nuanced.
Roland Banks the fact that you consider blacks a tribe in the first place is a problem. We ARE Americans, therefore unequal treatment is not justified.
Face.palm!!! These comments are really embarrasing. I expected more from people who watch this channel. If you dont understand the core of the BLM movement then please simply just actually look it up. Watch some james balwin speeches, something. Jeez.
Barkli Clearly, you read it wrong. I don’t consider Black Americans a part of a tribe.
All I got from this video is that you are a Leaf brother
Thank you for being a good channel
Loving the identity politics in this video. Doesn't make the conversation incendiary at all.
Like outrage culture wasn't big enough of a problem already.
Way to gooo
you're not responsible morally for racism of white people being white if you're not racist yourself. there are valuable voices on the issue both among black and white people, even if white experience discrimination not as often. however we've got to let the white people speak and not silence them by saying they're privilaged. otherwise we won't learn which of those voices are actually valuable and won't gain any new perspective on the issue.
none should assume a white person is guilty of racism of people of their skin colour if they aren't racist themselves - and we can't know it until we know them better. that's why there's no point attributing guilt to those whites about whom we don't know anything: that is basically all of them that we don't know personally. the idea that affiliation to a certain group is more important than the content of the character is fundamentally racist. none should judge entire groups, but only the individuals and phenomena causing certain behaviour
One day our star will blink out of existence in one way or another and end all of humanity. Or, it won’t because we will have progressed beyond its reach. We have a moral, biological, and temporal imperative to move in a direction that solves this problem that connects all of humanity. What moral or epistemic value to the forwarding of humanity as a species do cultures that run countercurrent to that undeniable reality have? What then is their championing but a faulty clinging to esotericism that’s will ensure our extermination?
I love these videos, but they would be a lot better if you had a better microphone
That thumbnail bothered me. I was hoping it was like a trick and you were going to explain the whole quote in depth. But you didn't.
We should think of the end-game. What does a black nation state entail? Do you think “White America” and “Black America” would get along? Really? Tribalism will always result in death. Individualism can create economic systems of oppression which result in death (we see it playing out right now), and communalism will consolidate power in the hands of corruptible men and women, who will reap death as well (this seems to me to end in more death).
My contention is tribalism to begin with. I against my brothers, my brothers and I against my cousins, my cousins and brothers and I against my neighbor and so on and so on. In a real way Religion is the antidote. It allows us to reorient our value system to include people who look different than us, and see them as literal brothers and sisters.
“What about the cultural attachments that Christianity has picked up?” You might ask. Not a factor. It’s not Christianity’s fault that it has been used as a weapon. For the greedy and/or those on the defensive, everything is a weapon. Christianity’s context is the Middle East, not white America.
And I think the founding fathers understood this. This is why they formed a union, but one with very limited power. However, with the advent of the internet, the landscape is very much different than it was back then. How should we advance? I don’t fully know, but I know that I don’t want cultural states. I don’t want tribalism or polarization. I want unity. I want justice. I want peace. I want understanding. It just seems all too impossible.
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excellent video, please make captions
Ah yes, true anti-racism. Judging what your cultural association _should_ be based off your skin tone.
I can respect your intelligence but I think this ignores a lot of the damage done by the current movement as well as ulterior motives by interested parties. A lot of what we see happening doesn’t seem to have any real clear indication as to how it works towards the issue of ending racial tensions. Furthermore, issues involving police and privilege I would say have less it due with race and more to do with your level of wealth and power. I’m white, yet I’ve been arrested and denied my Miranda Rights by abusive officers over nonviolent offenses during a period of time where I was addicted to drugs. My race didn’t help me at all. Not to say racism doesn’t exist, but I think usually it’s an issue of historically blacks have had less wealth and are thus more commonly in the group of people being fucked with. As time has passed, I think it has become more equal and we can now see it affecting people beyond the boundaries of race yet it doesn’t seem that people recognize that.
The most underated channel
love the kendrick lamar audio
This was beautiful man. Certainly not bad for a white Canadian college kid, in my opinion at least :)
After watching the evidence, you can see the cop is enjoying the moment, is taking pleasure from it. He was truly free.
He was enjoying it, bullies and people who want power are drawn to being police officers. Did he want to kill him? I bet not, I bet that he feels bad right now, not just for his situation, but for the life he took. This in no way, makes him innocent. He should be sentenced as any other killer would be. In any case, Floyd and the cop were just a martyr and a scapegoat, to start these riots.
@@nikolavideomaker He feels bad due to the repercussions of the incident,if he could've gotten away with it,could he have enjoyed the incident? perhaps,but we can only speculate.
Bob Bobbertson So you’re saying he deserved to be murdered in the street, yeah?
@Bob Bobbertson You are clearly very misinformed on the subject, please watch this video who addressed drugs that were in his system before making idiotic claims: ua-cam.com/video/xRoqSyIi-98/v-deo.html
@Bob Bobbertson You seem to willingly ignoring what I said,watch the video first,then we can speak.
One time I was in a minecraft Server that turned racist agenst people that had diamond armor and all the others, the collored they would call us since we wore all other times of armor
@@abdulwahabjagcan you please just naturally go hunt for food and naturally not understand bacteria and naturally die of an infection from said bacteria? Also this human nature argument doesn't work because racism is a very new concept, it wasn't invented until chattel slavery because before it was religious differences but they didn't want slaves to convert to get out of slavery so they made it tied to something more "concrete" (and even then, the definition of whiteness has changed)
"When we march on Washington, we'll be marching to get our checks."
-Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King explicitly referred to "checks" in his 'I Have a Dream' speech, as the rights and liberties ordained to a certain recipient.
"America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds"...
but we refuse to believe the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity in this nation, and we have come to cash this check, a check that will soon give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice."
Unsurprisingly, fascists tend to operate in narratives which omit context and objectivity to justify their hatred.
Lmao. Understand the context before you quote something
@@gasaidjohn3499 This quote I'm directly referring to is from the speech "The Two Nations of Black America", where King is explicitly decrying the aid congress had in the past given to white people and then moved on to shaking his fists and literally demanding forty acres and a mule.
But please, keep misusing the word Fascist while being blissfully unaware that MLK Jr and his racial advocacy makes him a literal Fascist under Gentile's definition.
"It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else...
... Except for the relatively small number of Fascist sympathizers, almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘Fascist’. That is about as near to a definition as this much-abused word has come. "
-George Orwell
@@honest_bishop5905 What a coincidence, you should have taken your own advice
@@chrisporter9397 From what I've seen, "Two Nations of Black America" was an episode of a PBS program, in which your referenced speech was contained, which is generally refered to as the "40 Acres and a Mule" speech. Regardless, MLK simply stated the disparity in systematic treatment between the white and black man, and the "forty acres and a mule" phrase is ostensibly figurative, and refers to the insufficient funds provided to the black man, which generally held a far lower socio-economic position than the white farmer.
No information you've provided has contradicted the concept of the "bad check", provided in the "I have a Dream" speech. Anyways, the concept of the "brown infiltration of white neighborhoods" which was explicitly in your other comment, signifies the emphasis of racial identity and preservation, a pervasive theme in the alt-right, although I apologise for being too eager to presume and label you as such.
The Bail Fund was a fraud my dude
I'm not sure what's with this idea that skin ought have an effect on what culture/rights/personalities are right for a person. There might be value in those suppressed cultures coming back but i see no reason to connect that to one's race. There are problems with our society but, except where people are discriminating based on race, those problems equally apply to all races. If it sucks for a black man to have to conform to societal norms them it equally sucks for a white man to have to conform the same amount, though i can see how a higher level of conformity might be a strategy a black man might need to avoid racism.
Of course that all assumes that people are roughly mentally the same regardless of race. But if that's not the case then it'll still be the case that some white people by generic lottery will end up mentally more similar to a black person and vice versa. And so given that you can't predict one's mind by their skin colour i think the preceding paragraph holds.
It also helps when you're not packed up on fentanyl your entire life. Sometimes, however caused, whence come is wiped from the streets it's always a good thing
And sometimes fascist dog whistle
Great video, important and interesting