Denzel Washington breaks down why he thinks the black family unit is so crucial
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- Опубліковано 20 лис 2017
- Denzel Washington stars as an idealistic civil rights lawyer in "Roman J. Israel, Esq."
At a red carpet screening for the film last night in NYC, Washington told theGrio's Natasha Alford whether he thinks change in the criminal justice system for black people is really possible and what a group of Columbia students taught him about hope.
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Denzel grew up with friends who ended up spending years in prison. I think he knows something about it. His mom moved and put him in a private school-which was a tremendous sacrifice-to get him away from the streets.
JuliaWills He has also mentioned his father being in his life, despite his parents being divorced.
@@codymorgan3218 our society hate praising fathers
It starts in the home. This reality is not only true for black people. All people are formatted in their early years.
He is right
He's ignorant!
To a point yes
Keke Jones I agree
Many success stories out of single parent homes as well as tragedies from nuclear family structure. Many dynamics to consider.
You ain’t even black.
Always remember what he said:”it’s not about color, it’s about culture”. He is the most intelligent black man I know. Highest respect !
Bingo. Denzel is a successful person because of his character, his drive and his intelligence…in America that’s all you need…but you need that foundation at home to build those traits.
Coming from a two parent home in any ethnic group helps children. I grew up with both of my parents. We took family trips, went to church together, cooked together and ate together at the table. No exceptions. When I was going through some troubles, they had the option to send me away to some troubled teens camps. They said no. They handled my issues at home and stood united as one. There is something to be said when every black friend I’ve had has never had a father or their parents being married. A family unit with a mother and a father is a powerful thing.
STFU there are children with 2 parents who still get harassed. I hate these Massah is not a fault don't blame Massah. FOH
It's a shame that EVERY black friend of yours comes from a single parent family. Maybe it's time to expand your black friend community? Just saying. You will find that there are also many who come from strong, two parent families.
So did the people who started slavery, they had two parents in the house whole. And slavery along with Jim grow.
danielle d. absolutely, you are 100% correct! My parents didn’t have a perfect marriage but they taught me & my siblings morals, how to be a hard worker. My dad taught me how to carry myself around boys, ex: never call a boy, let him call you ect If s boy is interested in you he will chase you not the other way around. I learned great lessons from both my parents. Kids need both parents, some women give away the milk too soon in a relationship and the men don’t value them. Women need to set the standards so they will be with a committed mate, and have a family. It all starts in the household, people don’t want to be accountable.
Arthur Anderson why would I be jealous. No one chooses to whom and to where you are born and born to. You just have to make the best out of what you were dealt. It when you get you ass in your shoulders thinking you are better than every else or that poor person who doesn’t have two good parent is somehow you are better than they are. Or become a little bitch such as your self p
When the government is your nanny, "the streets become your daddy, and prison becomes your home".
He didn't say anything wrong. Character is built at home. For some of us if you're not getting structure or love or attention or a you don't have a strong male showing you how to be upright and a good person then we get our education from the streets. And when that happens it usually isn't a good thing. Not saying that everyone who is raised by the streets are criminals but that is the perception by some
What he didn't say is that the system was designed to make this possible. And because he has a lack of academic knowledge on how the system works, he, like many others, is speaking from his ignorance.
Blaming the system and Obama for bailing out the bankers and selling out did not resolve my issues. I had to learn to stop being a victim of the establishment that is not just white face, but black face sellouts like Obama and the political agenda of keeping people oppressed and still enslaved. Everything starts at home like victimhood and all negative isms as well. A functional family unit is awesome, but if Dad is a pedophile and Mom is an enabler, then what? Living is a great challenge with survival as the result...
Meechie Smith I agree
So white people stopped you working hard is education, stopped you applying for university or trying to get funding to go university to improve your life?!?! If they did please explain how this is the case. All of my black friends are professional individuals earning good money in good careers. Learn the game, learn it quickly, learnt what will advance your personal position and focus on getting that done. Once its done then you mentor and bring up the next generation or anyone willing to do the work to advance. Most over races don't seem to have a huge issue improving their quality of life so what arent we getting as a community.
This comment is so racist, what people can get away with saying these days...
As someone closer to Denzel's age, I can share one key lesson in life that I've learned … Successful people focus their time and energy on the things they can control, and invest little time in things they can't. As a Black man, I can't control whether people like my ethnicity. However, I can control whether I give my 3 children the love, teaching, time and attention they need. Denzel is 100% correct. The home is far more powerful than you can imagine. It all starts there.
100% agree.
Amen brother! I say that as an Asian dude who is wary of any talks about "Asian community" or "Asian hate" or "Asian" this or "Asian" that. Racism and hate will always exist; therefor, the outrage industrial complex will forever find things to be outraged about and profit from. We are living in a really prosperous era and our lack of struggle has led to boredom and seeking ways to create struggle from petty things.
Denzel passionate plea to black america.. don't give up on your family values...
One of the few celebrities worth listening to.
Denzel kept it 100 on what he said and it’s all facts!! Just tired of.us always looking for that butter biscuit but never trying to make one of their own!
stfu......you're like a broken record.
If you were truly "us" youd see the fallacy in your comment.
Btw, you freudian "their" slip up gave you away.
Hisbeautiful Truth probably more
The judge becomes your mother....lord have mercy
The is something the media never tells you, how important families are, mothers and fathers. A way over looked simple truth that no one should get offensive about.
better the father teach discipline than the judge.
The black family is critical it’s starts in the home of the father isn’t home the boy will find a father in the streets, it’s starts at home if the streets raise you the courts be become your mother (disciplinarian hands out your punishments and the prison becomes your home)
Plenty of black men harassed that had fathers in the home, try again.
@@beamersbeamer6514 good father at home*😂
Beamers Beamer who?
I can't help but like the guy.
Real talk Denzel!!!
My family is similar to the Williams /Shakur or the P. Millers , we love each other and others even with all the setbacks and shortcomings . Strong people .
Denzel has faced racism but it didn't stop him from succeeding as an actor. He didn't play the victim.
Yes true....the home is the place of learning
Young black boys need their fathers, especially when they are coming up in their teens although kids need both parents.
So true! Boys need a role model in life. If you look at the men in the prison system the vast vast majority of them had no father figure in their lives. No one to show them how to be a man.
VERY TRUE.
Thankyou for simplicity Denzel
Love this guy, tells the truth.
Agree!
Denzel is a secret conservative, I am amazed he dares to say stuff like this.
How is it daring? Family structure is important.
@Dean Konstantian -tuese false political titles only have the power we give them. The "left" cannot harm free thinkers which I suspect Denzel is. It's a strength that those who cling to those titles dont have.
@Dean Konstantian 1. Its not breaking news-- it was 2 yrs ago and denzel hasn't missed a beat because he doesnt saddle his mind with man made titles.
2. "...leveled by other blacks, mostly conservatives.." That's not the left
Well denzel is the poster-man (guess he's no boy anymore) for all kinds of black history or black empowering movies. Everybody knows by now that he cares about this stuff honestly.
He is simple brutally honest and realist
He called it cause he’s honest and wants to help ; not blame others.
Wow!
Damn right.
we loved all the western movies as far back as I can remember - 84 years
wow well said
He's absolutely right!
I"am team Denzel. 💘 forever.
You have been a GREAT example for our people. 💘 simply THANK YOU.
AMEN.
So right. An American hero.
Thanks Denzel
The show(Good Times)is great example to have a strong black father in the home,but in my opinion our young black boy's and men need to be taught they are special to become successful for greatness.(So many have been put down by society)!!!
A very smart man!!!
I thought they were saying Denzel said somethin wrong!! He specifically said "It starts in the home AND IF there's not a father in the Home he'll find one in the streets! What was wrong???
Whether he knows it or not, Denzel is a hell of an inspiration!!!
So did anyone else notice the screen splice edit at :19 where she asked the question about change and then his response? It was not a continuous video. It was like the answer he gave was from another question that was asked.
His answer was just as true in biblical times as it is now. Only a fool would argue otherwise.
Its the father's role to teach the son discipline in the bible. Always has been always will.
Thats one of the things in the BLM mission statement that bothers me. It says "We disrupt the western prescribed nuclear family structure by supporting each other as extended families etc..." I was like.. WHAT?!?!
BLM family systems rarely ever work to point even largest matrilineal societies have nuclear families. their goal is to case social instability so we end up choosing big government to bring order to sexual chaos. Its way for push socialism.
Idiot. Extended family INCLUDES nuclear family + cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.
Extended family is just a way of saying a community.
@@bri3449 You have reading comprehension difficulty.
@@djquiz6425 You’re a narcissist. You’re welcome.
@@bri3449 I know you are but what am I?
He is so right he is dead on I'm his age I was born like that my father in and out and I raised myself on the streets ended up in jail so yeah I believe it starts at the house oh and I'm a white guy
What was your mother doing?
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Change your family first. Then change the world, a little piece at a time!
He's 100% correct. That's why I always had my nephews wt me every chance I cud. I always wanted them 2 know that they didn't have 2 go looking 4 love in the streets bc good ol unc was always there 2 hold em down
Respect🙏 this is refreshing. Take responsibility. The victim role is so easy to take. That's how humans are. Blame the other. Watch the temple topple over
Denzel is top dude.
Maybe they can't see the beauty of my family as well , but that doesn't matter because I do . 🙏
Good point. It starts in the home growing up, if parents dont discipline and guide the kids, the system will, and it certainly doesnt show love.
facts...
III
Denzel speaking facts.
He's right on... but I've seen boys with Good Fathers/Parents choose the Thug Life influenced by the Hip Hop culture or influenced by the trends at school. I've seen nice girls with Good Mothers become Unclassy by trying to fit in with the trending Love & Hip Hop/ Jersey Shore culture... TEACHING starts @ home BUT KIDS WILL STILL HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS AND FIGURE THINGS OUT ON THEIR OWN SOMETIMES...SOME GET IT WRONG EVEN WITH A CHEAT SHEET
Starts and finishes in the home.
AMEN MR WASHINGTON
What’s the name of the movie?
It's common sense.
He’s right.
They have changed in MANY ways. The irony is, The SYSTEM hasn't. They have broken so many barriers. No matter how many strides they make to progress, Navigation is still needed to make it through this broken system.
in African culture, family is paramount. brothers in the USA are the same, they will defend their mother until the end. My Senegalese father always says you mother first and your mother last. The environment in the USA was deliberately focused on destroying the black family, which is what Denzel failed to address. I am all for tough love and yes some of my brothers fails their duties but lets not act like this is happening our of thin air. This country has had racist policies against the black families for a long time. we all need to counsel our boys to be good father but cannot be blind to all the war these streets have brought to my African American brothers and sisters. Bill Clinton for example with his Welfares to Work program creating policy incentives for low income mothers to separate from their man.
The judge is your mother...whew...
He should be an icon for people of color
Structure is something people hate to admit until other's outside of their race identify & point it out plus I know it was pure hell for myself. So I had to make a decision later in life & walk away from some of my own siblings & family because I really wanted change & knew something was awfully wrong surrounding me. Just don't abandon your child or children like their trash...
Great American!
Well said. No father no hope
JJ- I wouldn't go as far as "no hope". Maybe "little hope" or "not much hope". But to suggest a Father is the all or nothing for child development, is a slap in the face to successful single Mothers who managed to raise their children to be decent, law-abiding, happy citizens.
Here’s the thing Denzel... not all fatherless kids look for their fathers in the street. Their are moms that can fill both rolls as needed, believe me! That’s what you should have said and you would have had more women praising you like your roll hungers and thrives on. It’s leadership plain and simple!
They dont wanna hear this
Alcohol and drug addiction is primarily a big problem in the black community but it's very seldom talked about as a social issue. (It just seems like it's one one those things that's acceptable and never questioned)I see far too many Blacks who migrate from the South, stumbling around with open containers, and the urban landscape is cluttered with beer cans and liquor bottles. Daily inebriation in the hood needs to be addressed.
It's not racism, it's the family unit, end of story. We need not just black fathers, but all fathers to remain in the home. Men leave because of their wives, but they love their kids. If we didn't have sex before marriage, people wouldn't be blind as to who they are marrying. The men get addicted to the sex from the woman and don't want to let it go, when instead we should abstain from pre-marital sex in order to see whether or not our SO is for us. Single mothers do the best they can, but they raise the worst kids, look at the stats. A family requires a father and a mother.
Wow, he explains the reason why black and healthy two parent homes have such an important impact on young black people or the absence of that. At least this excellent black man spoke out. MOST Black men are not taught to be providers and protectors what a shame only A FEW know how to be a man and be a husband before a father.
:44-1:28 The leggo mountain that greed, dysfunction and corruption, built/The new generation takes the baton
Denzels a conservative......
Marcellus Robinson so what is that a bad thing? We have to stop coddling our folks and make people more accountable! We know there are obstacles, oppression and racism in America, but we need to stop whining about it and take action to better our living conditions so our children will have a chance to be successful productive law abiding citizens !
I’d like to see Denzel as President and Charles Barkley as VP.
1 John 2:14
I have written unto you, FATHERS, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, YOUNG MEN, because YE ARE STRONG💪, and the word of God📖 abideth in you, and ye have overcome the 🐉wicked one. 🦶✝️
these liberals are driving me conservative
Unlike the grotesquely pathetic media, ever notice how it is never about "race" with Denzel Washington, but rather the importance of the "Family Unit and Home"...?
Child development is a subject matter our nation ignores at its peril.
The only thing he failed to mention was the fact he was in a gang, he was headed down the same route but sum1 throw he a bone. How many of us got that chance.
The better question is how many were thrown a bone but either failed to recognize the opportunity being given in that moment or just outright wasted opportunities.
Most opportunities come in small forms or in ways that don't seem "worth it" at the time they present themselves.
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I didn't hear he say "I don't blame the system" they lie on him.
Amazing that this is controversial to say. Honestly, the truth hurts.
Many of our young black boy's and men have been put down by society that they are nothing,(I also blame it on slavery).Black males are important need encouragement....
Yes, black males need encouragement. They, like all boys, also need a father figure in their life. Sadly, many are missing this and they are lost in how to be a man.
"BLACK LIVES MASTER'S"!!!😭🙏
@@claygilchrist632 May God Continue To Bless You...I will repeat my last statement."BLACK LIVES MASTER'S!!!😭🙏👍
Basic religious values have been under attack and marginalized the last 75 years. These values taught, to raise healthy well adjusted decent human beings, you need both a Father and a Mother there In the Home - and evidence is all around, that proves this works. Yet these values have been increasingly attacked and pushed out - and the result is - at a minimum, nervous unstable and addicted to something- young people who need psychiatrists. And at a maximum you get young people engaging in crime, gangs, drugs. Classic wisdom for health: You need a Father and Mother in the home raising kids - there is no way around this.
He partially correct but the thought is incomplete. We can't pounce on a 2min answer to such a weighted question...but we will..I could never be a celebrity..
Sandra- how is the thought incomplete? It sounds like a he has probably given it a lot of thought based on his own experience growing up. Him being a celebrity is irrelevant to what he says.
@@acm1350 basically, 2 very weighted questions with 1 minute for answering both. It's a clip, not a conversation = incomplete 🤷♀️. Your responding to a 2yr old post😂. Thanks
:13-:43 Inter-generational trauma meets mass incarceration
Sad. We've lost Denzel too. I still have a little hope though; I hope he's not so far gone!
experiment0003 Everything this men said was the truth. How can you not see that?
I wasn't referring to this particular clip.
u in that sunken place Exp
experiment0003 then why did you comment it on here
He is definitely right we have to do better black men stop leaving these women to play our role that also works the other way around women raise your daughter's right.
this man Denzel Washington should be teaching a seminar, he is one of the wisest black men, nay one of the wisest men I've ever seen... If all fathers were like him crime would be dwarfed.
in fact any deadbeat case, the deadbeat dad should be sent to Denzel's fatherhood bootcamp.
L Crom , what kills me is the white talking point "having a father in the home" as if that will change the outcome of the racist criminal justice system, while it continues to drive the getaway car of responsibility and tell the victim to be accountable while given him unjust treatment before incarcerating him.
It still starts at home...PERIOD. Check out sister Shahrazad Ali. What she said almost 30 years ago still applies today. Also, what did Willie Lynch say HAD to be done to break us...destroy the family structure.
What I've find amazing is it's easy to over-criminalize and bastardize a population of people. As long, as white society dehumanizes Black people by using Black celebrities to finish the job by taking our humanity and dignity away from us. As a result, no one feel any remorse or feel compassion for Black people because our humanity was taking away this is why people can talk down to us such as, form levels of negative labels like "Black on Black crime" making it look like we are a bad people.
He's going to get Cosbyed in 3,2, . . .
He makes sense. Why do black people generally seem to choose to blame others rather than take responsibility for their own fate? I write this to understand and help.
I put a lot of this on the media. They stoke racial divide in this country. They give a megaphone to those screaming racism and shut out those talking about family and responsibility. We hear about the problems of "institutional racism" everyday. But no one wants to talk about the effects of absent fathers.
Lol he act like poeple take power with being good and have a stabil home situation, this is only true for this time, yes.
He is so right...but most blacks dont want to hear it.. Denzel for president...he got my vote
No denzel, it don't start at home, it starts with the individual. You can have all the home training in the world if your not a decent person than your not going to be a good person.
Hey BLM people, are you paying attention?! Stop blaming everything on others and start looking at your own home. Denzel Washington.
blm is against black fathers
I would say Denzel for President, but it would be a waste of his class and his intelligence.
That's not true, just because your raise with out your father does not mean your going to end up in jail. My two brothers and I was raised by our mother. We have never been in jail or committed a crime. To say if you don't have a father your going to be a criminal is disingenuous.
That might be true for you however statistics and studies have proven a two-parent household is better for the child.
Trump blames the system; "the establishment" for all his problems. the establishment made him say shit hole.
Funky Dope oh god shut up
It starts with Jesus in the home.
So why isn't the father there? Denzel view reflects that of someone who drops out of college. He just doesn't know how the system works. Sad, but true.
Leave the drugs alone dude!
Yeah the welfare state and war on drugs but function to incentivize single motherhood and mass incarceration. It comes down to individual choices and taking personal responsibility too however. If you want to improve yourself and your community, the last thing you want to do is BLAME OTHERS.
I do! Don't you? Read! You're right, "it's easy to spot the idiots."
It doesn't come down to individual choices and taking responsibility, but that is part of the mix. If the policy doesn't matter, then why do we make policy? Remeber when lead was in gasoline and a link between violence and lead was established. When they banned lead in gasoline, violent crime started to decrease. Google it!
I will always love Mr. Washington but no matter how U are raised, weather both parents or one. When U hav a prison system that is Privately owned and has to hav a certain amount of inmates to make money , the judicial system will find a way to lock our kids up. Weather rasied correctly or not. #SystematicRacism still love U Denzel
The problem is not the prison system...the problem is OUR ACTIONS. We are making victims out of EACH OTHER. I live in Detroit...black city, black schoools, black businesses, black police force, black everything..but its changing. We are/have destroyed our city. It is now being bought out at wholesale prices to people that don't care about us. Now, white people are moving back in the downtown area...who was instrumental in the gentrification of our downtown...US. The mystical white fella is not here in Detroit causing our brothers to do the terrible things they are doing. We are doing it to ourselves.