Author Tracy K. Smith thinks with her ancestors in new book

Author and professor Tracy K. Smith joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul'.
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Author Tracy K. Smith thinks with her ancestors in new book
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  • @bartjargengarblbargeler1980
    @bartjargengarblbargeler19809 ай бұрын

    "There are dozens of us! DOZENS!" ~ Darth's sock puppets

  • @relicofthesoul
    @relicofthesoul9 ай бұрын

    What a beautiful sentiment

  • @lovinglight1720
    @lovinglight17209 ай бұрын

    wow beautifully SAID

  • @feffygracie
    @feffygracie9 ай бұрын

    Look at liberal cities. Her ancestors would be ashamed of what they did with all the power they've gained.

  • @yvonneplant9434

    @yvonneplant9434

    9 ай бұрын

    Oh, you mean the liberal cities like Phila which has recovered from the pandemic like others which didn't?

  • @yvonneplant9434

    @yvonneplant9434

    9 ай бұрын

    Her success means she will never be a troll. Something you probably do on a daily basis.

  • @feffygracie

    @feffygracie

    9 ай бұрын

    @@yvonneplant9434 Posting in a public space is not trolling. Something you authoritarian types wouldn't understand.

  • @u2mister17
    @u2mister179 ай бұрын

    America needs roofers.

  • @Goooooo
    @Goooooo9 ай бұрын

    Amazing!! Thank you for this guest!!

  • @tedwright8166
    @tedwright81669 ай бұрын

    Her ancestors were probably members of a tribe warring with another tribe in a most brutal manner

  • @Brandonsniffskids
    @Brandonsniffskids9 ай бұрын

    I love this country that conservative Christian values built. Hopefully the woke liberal communists don’t ruin it

  • @2l84t

    @2l84t

    9 ай бұрын

    🤣

  • @markb.howard1660

    @markb.howard1660

    9 ай бұрын

    Religion poisons everything it touches...

  • @JerseyJulieBlues

    @JerseyJulieBlues

    9 ай бұрын

    You are lost. The point is we imagine together to create the best utopia possible. Your Christian Right "way" is not correct or morally satisfying for a huge percentage of us.

  • @davidcohen7106

    @davidcohen7106

    9 ай бұрын

    @@markb.howard1660 🦆Looks like the Manifesto written by the Trans Nashville Christan School Shooter has been leaked to Crowder,, The Democrats cannot tell Crowder what they cannot report on. Now we will know why the Trans shooter killed those little toddlers... Why the Democrats Banned this story and more on Crowder's show today.. It's real bad

  • @yvonneplant9434

    @yvonneplant9434

    9 ай бұрын

    The Founders, if they went to church, went to the historical protestant churches that still exist in the historical/colonial part of Philadelphia. Or they were Quakers. Nothing like what passes for protestants today.

  • @BLOCKBOI3RD
    @BLOCKBOI3RD9 ай бұрын

    Any educated person that cant stop saying um every 4 seconds needs speech therapy.

  • @qwadratix
    @qwadratix9 ай бұрын

    What about the tax dollars lost because he deliberately UNDER-valued his property to the IRS? He owes the state millions - and by extension, every honest taxpayer in the country.

  • 9 ай бұрын

    It's hypocritical for anyone to tell someone to leave slavery in the past when the whole reason Caucasians have this overwhelming pride in America is because their ancestors were seeking freedom from the British. And they hold on to this through monuments and statues. So it's interesting the double standard of what should be left in the past and what shouldn't.

  • @pc4mlc451

    @pc4mlc451

    9 ай бұрын

    Slavery is over. No need to harp on about it anymore. Our independence was achieved. The only time we bring it up is when it's being threatened through bad policy.

  • @feffygracie

    @feffygracie

    9 ай бұрын

    Don't leave it in the past, just don't let it define you present and future success.

  • @jessd4048

    @jessd4048

    9 ай бұрын

    @@pc4mlc451it’s not in the past, it isn’t even close. Not to mention the injustice of Native American genocide & land theft which isn’t remotely in the past either.

  • @pc4mlc451

    @pc4mlc451

    9 ай бұрын

    @jessd4048 White people have been oppressed and massacred, too. We just don't constantly complain about it.

  • @jessd4048

    @jessd4048

    9 ай бұрын

    @@pc4mlc451 Except they do. Euroamericans are motivated by this trauma which is part of the power hungriness that motivates massacres and resource theft & oppression of other groups and general nastiness. It shows up in the violence, the addictions, the family violence, the higher rates of suicide & war making. There is a story to be told in how un self reflective & deluded people with European heritage are about these histories & their consequences.

  • @markb.howard1660
    @markb.howard16609 ай бұрын

    It always cracks me up that “journalists” think Americans read books. Fewer than 10% of books purchased the owners read past the second chapter. But go ahead a waste the viewer’s time with this.

  • @Brandonsniffskids
    @Brandonsniffskids9 ай бұрын

    Ah yes, the old msnbc race baiting story😂😂😂

  • @ShwiftJustice

    @ShwiftJustice

    9 ай бұрын

    Ah yes the old white fragility

  • @itsbeyondme5560

    @itsbeyondme5560

    9 ай бұрын

    Why white people wont admit that your race harass other people around the world

  • @RawDiscovery

    @RawDiscovery

    9 ай бұрын

    People are allowed to talk about racism

  • @davidcohen7106

    @davidcohen7106

    9 ай бұрын

    "🦆 it's like the Democrats are trying to keep racism alive" - Democrats don't want racism to go away because they NEED it, they WANT it, so many organizations and policies revolve around it and they'd all go bankrupt if racism went away. They will stoke those flames for as long as possible even if it's a total fabrication. They will not allow people to come together so long as they can profit from driving a wedge.

  • @itsbeyondme5560

    @itsbeyondme5560

    9 ай бұрын

    @@RawDiscovery yes When they talk about against thr jews, white people are happy to talk about it but when black people, oh my God. White people are afraid to talk about their wrong doing

  • @t.r.campbell6585
    @t.r.campbell65859 ай бұрын

    She should go back to where slavery began, in Africa. He must understand that slavery today is still alive and well in Africa, in Somalia. The great African nations at the time allowed Europeans to establish porch in western Africa. Some of these African empires include the Ashanti, the Kingdom of the Congo and the Alan Peoples. These great African kingdoms learned that they could sell their captives from intertribal war to the Europeans, and the facilitated the slave trade.

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    @terazakdil75299 ай бұрын

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  • @robertbirch5676
    @robertbirch56769 ай бұрын

    Ask her about slavery in Africa, before, America

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    @satanicscrotumsucker1559 ай бұрын

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