Black History Matters | Don John | TEDxSouthampton

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  • Black History should not just be important to Black people but should be important to all peoples for a fuller understanding of the relationship between black & white people socially and politically. Yes, Black History Matters and Black Lives Matter is only the beginning of a process.
    Don John is a film maker, author & DJ as well as a consultant in the field of community cohesion. He has been a pioneer in the development of “Race & Diversity” issues across the southern region for over 30 years and was the founder and coordinator of Black History Month in Southampton over more than 20 years.
    This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

КОМЕНТАРІ • 172

  • @Cybernaut551
    @Cybernaut551 3 роки тому +18

    Human history as a collective goal matters. I agree with this.

  • @carlettagoodrich-mann1377
    @carlettagoodrich-mann1377 2 роки тому +4

    Greatness presents itself. This speech is the height of my day. THANK YOU

  • @nisamae2
    @nisamae2 4 роки тому +57

    White people I just want y'all to understand no one told you to hate yourself. Just accept and acknowledge your history. The good and bad.

    • @eddietrope5291
      @eddietrope5291 3 роки тому +5

      I think the biggest problem is that most don’t know there own history. Big reason why everything is beginning to look like the 50s 60s.

    • @pamelabean9929
      @pamelabean9929 2 роки тому +1

      Very intelligent comment,well done

    • @colinparkerwelsh8418
      @colinparkerwelsh8418 2 роки тому +6

      I will if you will !!!!

    • @FurbyGender
      @FurbyGender 2 роки тому

      Nisa, the fact you embrace being an “African American” and have no anger towards the Africans who sold and still sell their own people into slavery and human trafficking, shows you have an inability to acknowledge your history.

    • @marius4451
      @marius4451 2 роки тому

      You do know that the roman empire enslaved evrey nation they conquered regardless of they're skin colour, ottoman empire did the same, atilla probably did the same.

  • @CC-cu5we
    @CC-cu5we 6 років тому +48

    Oh man you and your voice are comforting. Know that your maturity and respect are appreciated.

  • @Sophie-bf6zd
    @Sophie-bf6zd 3 роки тому +2

    Growing up in Southampton... YES.

  • @Uduwerage
    @Uduwerage 6 років тому +43

    Don John is a true advocate for Race Equality and Southampton is immensely privileged to have someone with such gravitas as a resident and contributor to diversity of belief and thought in this city.

    • @Fidelisjoff
      @Fidelisjoff 2 роки тому +2

      The assumption is different races and cultures and beliefs are all equivalent and contribute equally. They do not and that is why so many non Europeans wish to live in Europe

  • @T8lor
    @T8lor 4 роки тому +25

    Why would anyone put a thumb down to such wealth of knowledge?? This is truly inspiring.

  • @hollydubrasich8276
    @hollydubrasich8276 3 роки тому +5

    Beautiful thank you 🙏

  • @serenityvalley3251
    @serenityvalley3251 5 років тому +12

    This was a great dialogue. I would love to see him with Dr Joy Degroy

    • @knight4395
      @knight4395 2 роки тому +1

      This is a monologue, not a dialogue!

  • @angelapowell790
    @angelapowell790 4 роки тому +10

    Thank you , thank you for this in June 2020, God Bless...……..

  • @rein7015
    @rein7015 6 років тому +26

    This is so important for a multitude of reasons I can’t articulate. Thank you

  • @pearlbarkley1019
    @pearlbarkley1019 4 роки тому +13

    ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!

  • @adohkno1702
    @adohkno1702 4 роки тому +4

    i love it

  • @russells.soehnerii8308
    @russells.soehnerii8308 3 роки тому +2

    I will watch Cicely Tyson, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter.

  • @shakeenajackson4216
    @shakeenajackson4216 4 роки тому +16

    Beside all of the hate comments I love this. It was Beautifully worded !

    • @FurbyGender
      @FurbyGender 2 роки тому

      It’s not hate, just a confusion for why you embrace the people who sold their own people into slavery to begin with and still do it today.

  • @yogiegemini2053
    @yogiegemini2053 Рік тому +1

    How can I attend a Tedx meeting live?

  • @anthonyvaughan4853
    @anthonyvaughan4853 4 роки тому +8

    BRILLIANT DECONSTRUCTION ON THE TOPIC !!

  • @sameerahajia4600
    @sameerahajia4600 5 років тому +6

    Very well he is good😉

  • @JonDoeNeace
    @JonDoeNeace 25 днів тому +1

    Because it's not just about slavery it's about the last 150 years since then.

  • @Hawk95969
    @Hawk95969 4 роки тому +6

    History Matters
    The statues should not be taken down but the plaque below
    the monument should be rewritten reflecting the truth. If we cover up the past
    the truth becomes lost and then the past is often repeated. Take what has been
    saved from history in Germany
    and what was done to the Jews. History is the window to our salvation through
    learning and not repeating the same mistakes.

  • @graciebara8280
    @graciebara8280 4 роки тому +4

    Wow

  • @shariecebrewster5962
    @shariecebrewster5962 Рік тому +1

    I love my history

  • @anthonyvaughan6470
    @anthonyvaughan6470 3 роки тому +6

    BIG UP RESPECT !!! SHALOM !

  • @christenasmalls6118
    @christenasmalls6118 2 роки тому +3

    After 2022 years of common history it is important to understand that there are things in the earth that has become harden.....racial hostility is one of those things. Writing, speaking, preaching about it has a purpose to a degree. But I have lived long enough to recognize that harden beliefs often are impossible to change. Rather each individual must decide how they will approach their life on earth.

  • @tonyfairey7733
    @tonyfairey7733 2 роки тому +6

    Basically you've got none ,own it.

  • @itsmpume5314
    @itsmpume5314 4 роки тому +5

    Amandla!

  • @reic0002
    @reic0002 4 роки тому +1

    ok. i have calmed down now and apologise if I offended anyone,. However, I stand by what I say albeit in slight less inflammatory language!

  • @aaronpresley
    @aaronpresley 2 роки тому +1

    Enriching speech

  • @bryanpepple3276
    @bryanpepple3276 5 років тому +5

    where can i get his contact details

  • @albumgenericflipper7110
    @albumgenericflipper7110 4 роки тому +1

    One question.. Why didnt it say " National Geographic Presents" at the beginning?

  • @wellhelltherefellwhuman4637
    @wellhelltherefellwhuman4637 5 років тому +4

    I read 'Don John' as 'Josh Dun'😂

  • @anthonygee2441
    @anthonygee2441 2 роки тому +9

    Until the 17th century Britain and her people were under constant attack by barbary pirates. Coastal towns where invaded and people taken as slaves by those barbary pirates who also attacked British merchant ships. This continued Until Britain built a navy powerful enough to defeat the barbary pirates. Rule Brittania was written, later put to music, as a poem of thanksgiving. The barbary pirates came from North Africa

    • @jacquelinewhite3705
      @jacquelinewhite3705 Рік тому

      Portuguese who did not consider themselves as people of colour and who were the first biggest enslavers of Africans. There were plenty of white barbarians who relentlessly attacked UK

    • @thewatcher7940
      @thewatcher7940 Рік тому +1

      Meanwhile the British went and enslaved Africans too. Not sure what you meant by this.

  • @loxodonwizard9867
    @loxodonwizard9867 4 роки тому +3

    I remember being supposed to take one of two opinions regarding European occupation of India in college. It went something like should Europe have helped them via subjugation or given them an undeniably bad international deal, for their own sake. I was disgusted. I write that the British should have simply shared their knowledge, neither subjugated nor occupied the country. I received an F. All hail the holy liberal publications of history.

    • @nadegefotsing5130
      @nadegefotsing5130 4 роки тому +1

      So sad 😣

    • @Gabby-kb9vv
      @Gabby-kb9vv 3 роки тому +1

      When was this???

    • @marius4451
      @marius4451 2 роки тому

      LoL. You don't get it do you. The third option that you chose if you as an adviser to the British empire suggested that to the British empire you would be hanged for high treason( in 2020 its perfectly reasonable but back then not so much).

  • @flemingsburgfarmscommunity6390
    @flemingsburgfarmscommunity6390 4 роки тому +1

    please contact i have matter that needs to be addressed i have history that is about to be lost i have
    the history of john henry and city is trying take the land plow over where john henry and his grandparents are buried
    please help me go to flemingsburg farms & community workshop john henry

  • @John-pk9rw
    @John-pk9rw 2 роки тому +3

    We wUz Nefertiti n shieeeet

  • @norahdavid6399
    @norahdavid6399 5 років тому +1

    Is Rotherham a safe place to live?

  • @djacnoc6690
    @djacnoc6690 4 роки тому +1

    ​@​

  • @jakemoran287
    @jakemoran287 5 років тому +5

    Low-key didn’t know that Egypt was in Africa, wow.

    • @stuartpringle913
      @stuartpringle913 5 років тому

      Jake Moran ...or that Algeria was in France!... fire in the booth 🔥

    • @jakemoran287
      @jakemoran287 5 років тому +7

      Algeria isn’t in France, it’s in Africa too. Although part of the population does speak French!

    • @stuartpringle913
      @stuartpringle913 5 років тому +3

      Jake Moran 😂😂😂 have you been smoking dakka?
      Actually why did you even bring Lowkey into it? Lol

    • @arlethavondell5162
      @arlethavondell5162 3 роки тому

      @@stuartpringle913 lol, too funny!

  • @charlesmitchell8982
    @charlesmitchell8982 7 років тому +11

    The lawn mower was invented by English inventor Edwin Beard Budding in 1830

    • @EvilEmpire1129
      @EvilEmpire1129 6 років тому +8

      J A Burr invented the Rotary Lawn Mower. Patent number is #624,749.

  • @charlesmitchell8982
    @charlesmitchell8982 7 років тому +4

    The guitar was used in 12th century Europe

    • @tbrown4111
      @tbrown4111 6 років тому +6

      Charles Mitchell your right the Guitar was used in the 12th century in Europe. What Robert Flemming did was make it better. Flemming invented a guitar he called the "Euphonica" that he believed would produce a louder and more resonant sound than a traditional guitar. The U.S. Patent Office granted Flemming a patent (no. 338,727) on March 30, 1886. He also received a Canadian patent (no. 26,398) on April 5, 1887

    • @stuartpringle913
      @stuartpringle913 5 років тому

      T Brown .....so not the actual original guitar then...

    • @arlethavondell5162
      @arlethavondell5162 3 роки тому

      @@tbrown4111 Well researched and nicely articulated!!

  • @instagramlive9247
    @instagramlive9247 5 років тому +4

    28k views how sad

  • @Ambera3407
    @Ambera3407 3 роки тому +1

    Alternate history matters.

  • @deepdesire6967
    @deepdesire6967 4 роки тому +4

    ALL HISTORY MATTERS!!

  • @casperhansen7505
    @casperhansen7505 5 років тому +1

    Where was it he worked?
    I dont understand what he said, sounded along the lines of jermajesty treasury! Some1 help me

  • @joshuawadsworth6417
    @joshuawadsworth6417 4 роки тому +2

    *Laughs in Morgan Freeman*

  • @stuartpringle913
    @stuartpringle913 5 років тому +9

    So much hate in the comments... 👊🏼👊🏾👊🏿

    • @user-is3tn2hp1f
      @user-is3tn2hp1f 4 роки тому +1

      Unfortunately, some are not really understanding

  • @Flashyfinancier
    @Flashyfinancier 3 роки тому

    Morgan Freeman

  • @Itchyback
    @Itchyback 5 років тому +14

    2017 and a victim complex larger than the universe, who would have thought?

    • @JohnSmith-dh3kx
      @JohnSmith-dh3kx 4 роки тому

      @528302 You got it backwards.

    • @Michael21870
      @Michael21870 4 роки тому +13

      The oppressors have no heart or human soul.They continue to steal, kill and destroy, denying others of their humanity in this world.And when someone stands up, they think it's a complex.Sad human being you are.

    • @johnnybracciole5490
      @johnnybracciole5490 Рік тому

      Yup blacks need to stop being lazy and blaming others

  • @Pokemaster_416
    @Pokemaster_416 3 роки тому

    I can’t get over that name.... don john

  • @stuartpringle913
    @stuartpringle913 5 років тому +18

    Can I be proud to be white? I was born white. I refuse to hate myself, so I will love my untrendy being.

    • @TheJeremie247
      @TheJeremie247 5 років тому +5

      Be proud

    • @user-is3tn2hp1f
      @user-is3tn2hp1f 4 роки тому

      Augustus Mars ...our people?

    • @user-is3tn2hp1f
      @user-is3tn2hp1f 4 роки тому +1

      Of course..?? Idg how your skin colour should play in role in being proud?

    • @marius4451
      @marius4451 2 роки тому

      Be proud because you are a human beeig , the way you are raised determis how you think and how you act

    • @stuartpringle913
      @stuartpringle913 2 роки тому

      @@marius4451 some of us were raised by animals and still survived to be decent humans.

  • @raquelvaldez4600
    @raquelvaldez4600 3 роки тому

    How does blacks like this message

  • @thomasdequincey5811
    @thomasdequincey5811 3 роки тому +2

    He could at least use the Spanish version of his name: Don Juan.
    P.S. Britain is in the centre of maps because of the Greenwich meridian. This talk has a very shoddily laid out argument.

  • @charlesmitchell8982
    @charlesmitchell8982 7 років тому +3

    Alexander Dumas was only a quarter black by his paternal grandmother

  • @blazedandconfused477
    @blazedandconfused477 6 років тому +2

    Not to me, bro.

  • @grahamt5924
    @grahamt5924 5 років тому +6

    The only reason that Blacks did not invent as many things, is that they did not need to. Necessity is the mother of invention. Living in very cold climates creates necessity and it forces inventions.

    • @TheSamster1072
      @TheSamster1072 5 років тому +5

      Wow, you're a brain donor.

    • @erinknight5742
      @erinknight5742 5 років тому +7

      Go watch a Hidden Colors part 1 and hush

    • @asuraazoth7137
      @asuraazoth7137 5 років тому +1

      Cold tough climates sped up evolution. Forced Europeans to become better. Which is why they have come to dominate the earth.

  • @johnnybracciole5490
    @johnnybracciole5490 Рік тому +4

    Whining won't get you anywhere...blacks need to get up and be productive

    • @aniyalogan4532
      @aniyalogan4532 8 місяців тому

      He's not whining and he actually has an impressive job compared to you whos sitting behind a scene being a baby

    • @locdinwithzaza
      @locdinwithzaza 4 місяці тому

      @@aniyalogan4532nah he’s a whining commie

  • @eastcoastsaltwaterfishing6744
    @eastcoastsaltwaterfishing6744 4 роки тому +1

    No it doesn't

  • @rgfhjfghjk.
    @rgfhjfghjk. Рік тому +1

    we wur kangs

  • @locdinwithzaza
    @locdinwithzaza 4 місяці тому +1

    Commie alert

  • @nbarrett259
    @nbarrett259 4 роки тому +5

    Zzzzzzz ..we gave you history..words ..language..everything..shooo go away ..

    • @jassensummogum
      @jassensummogum 3 роки тому +3

      NOT TRUE.

    • @deantokwana9829
      @deantokwana9829 3 роки тому +3

      Go read up on your history please

    • @Africasoil
      @Africasoil 3 роки тому +5

      You stoled every thing From us Mr Snow bunnie.

    • @nbarrett259
      @nbarrett259 3 роки тому +1

      @@Africasoil good ha ha

    • @arlethavondell5162
      @arlethavondell5162 3 роки тому +3

      @@Africasoil That is absolutely correct! They had no writing system of their own but the Afrikans did and they inspired the Egyptians with their text.