Patrisse Cullors and Lowkey | Studio B: Unscripted
In this episode of Studio B: Unscripted, US artist and activist Patrisse Cullors meets British Iraqi rapper and campaigner Lowkey, to talk race, politics, activism and protest.
In 2013, Cullors co-founded the Black Lives Matter activist movement which campaigns against violence and systemic racism. She helped to propagate the cause globally and in 2016 she published her book When They Call You a Terrorist - A Black Lives Matter Memoir - which became a New York Times bestseller.
Lowkey rose to fame in London's underground hip-hop scene, releasing several mixtapes which chronicled the harsh realities of life for many working-class people in the UK. His work also dissects the synergies between the "War on Terror", global imperialism and racism. He is an avid activist as a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Stop the War coalition.
In this discussion, Cullors and Lowkey share their experiences of activism and protest, dissecting the relations between power and politics in constructing definitions and narratives about those challenging the status quo.
The views expressed in this programme are the guests' own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.
Studio B, Unscripted is a free-flow conversation between two guests and a small audience, with no mediation, no MC, no TV presenter - focusing on what brings us all together and how we can tackle and discuss some of the big issues of our time.
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Lowkey is definitely that guy!! super articulate & conscious brotha
@RoyalGuard4619
3 жыл бұрын
Have you listen to his music? It's beautiful stuff
@SaLvAdOriaN127
2 жыл бұрын
@@itzasweater9621 how is he an idiot?
before you become an activist in your community become ACTIVE in your community
@mcruz4571
2 жыл бұрын
This is the same woman who lives in a mansion in a white neighborhood.
unfortunately, lowkey is a freedom fighter genius who is pretty much censored from every platform that we know of, they've trying to silence him for years. all respect
Has Patrisse collectivised those mansions yet? 😂😂
@romanomendez8617
3 ай бұрын
You know the meaning of collectivized?
Much love and respect to this guy! He deserves more publicity
@Extra-dg7uv
3 жыл бұрын
Wait, that's not really you, is it Donald?
@crazymeromervathatem2292
3 жыл бұрын
@@Extra-dg7uv 😂😂😂
Lowkey the modern day Malcolm X. Peace and love.
@Umar_1994_
4 жыл бұрын
@Crow29Darkness Elaborate. Malcolm X was very clear upon his pilgrimage to Makkah, about his faith and beliefs.
@nothanks8594
4 жыл бұрын
Crow29Darkness Looks like you have also been fooled by the false history of Islam Just my view
@nothanks8594
4 жыл бұрын
Hana K I no
@Iammram
4 жыл бұрын
@Crow29Darkness Don't confuse Islam with the Nation of Islam. The Nation Of Islam is the organization that went against him, not the religion. When he left them and made the pilgrimage to Mecca, he changed his name and realized "The Real Islam"
@shacklock01
4 жыл бұрын
@@nothanks8594 Whats to be fooled? It's just christianity but for the arabs (and it was a very sucessfull unifying ideology look what they did, went from being fringe irelevences to the Sassanids and the Romans to being the dominant power. Probably one of the most sucessfull ideologies ever xD). Its as fallible and decieving as any human centric monotheist religion is. But like all faiths, it can give people the strength to go on so hey, dont mock man. Im an athiest but respect for anyone with enough faith to believe in any ideological spirituality.
@al jazeera English Thanks for uploading! Is there an uncut version i can watch?
Love the way lowkey talks most people speak after instead he takes his time for people understand every word he is saying
Being sectioned under the mental health act is undoubtedly traumatising and often retraumatising for people and their families. It is an ethical and legal issue that needs continues examination. It is also worth noting that young males of black and ethnic minority groups are more likely to be sectioned. However unfortunately sometimes its a step that needs to be taken to safe guard peoples lives. The fact that Lowkey didn't believe the police had his bothers best interests at heart shows the damage that has been done by years of institutional discrimination which to often leads to the most tragic of consequences
Only akala (fire in the booth 1) can be used as a comparison to lowkey
I KNOW THIS NOT THE TIME !! But !! low key is sooo handsome ❤ 😍 😅😅😅😅
Absolutely brilliant and wonderful how much we are doing now and we are mobilising. We are taking steps to perpetuate our mission through our public opinion. It’s making a change. Our voices are being heard. Free Palestine liberation for Palestinians, black people and the indigenous people. I hope we all see a better world.
@Al Jazeera English this is the best programme I've seen so far anywhere on tv. The way both communicate- ask and answer to each other whilst keeping the communication flowing its so mind-boggling lol good innovation
She thinks her Jill Scott costume is going to make us believe she's not exploiting her own people for $$. The greed & ego got her by the belt & won't f---king let go. Capitalism ain't done her NO HARM...:))
Amazing to listen to lawkey, a healer
Excellent talk. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Truly appreciate it.
@pathfinderwellcare
3 жыл бұрын
@@itzasweater9621 I stated I appreciated the talk, the dialogue - in essence, connecting Black and Palestinian liberty movements. I did not state any opinions about the hosts and their backgrounds. I don't spend my energy running recon on people. Real estate portfolio...seems pretty stalkerish. You have illuminated more about the kind of person you are than her. A bitter, name calling stalker who spends their time comparing and competing, trying to regulate what is not remotely in their power.
Are these comments praising the scam artist serious?
From Bradford Uk Lowkey all the way
incredible conversation! great intellectual chemistry b/t those two. thank you aj for this and this series.
@himwhoisnottobenamed5427
2 жыл бұрын
Intellectual and Patrisse Cullors are opposites.
She purposefully did not add that she is a Marxist! Her words.
Thanks for posting
Victim mentality though.. when black folks, and I'm one btw, advocate this approach, they admit powerlessness. Get into Amos Wilson and Thomas Sowell and accept your own will to change and demand change: yes black lives matter, this program has to operate in every area not just reactionary protest to police brutality. This whole begging and wishing your known enemies, the system and the structure, to change or accommodate you is a pure waste of energy, with no meaningful results.
@LuisPerez-tx5jo
4 жыл бұрын
I think there is a need for both. There is both graft and powerlessness in your approach too as well as what Patrisse advocates.
@xiaomoogle
3 жыл бұрын
Ayishat Akanbi is also a great advocate of this approach. I am not black but I really appreciate her stance on this. I recently recommended her to a black friend of mine as someone to check out and she loved her and totally agreed with her ethos. I think she is better role model than Reni Eddo Lodge. You might like Coleman Hughes and John McWhorter as well.
Evil has a certain sulphuric smell....
Does anyone know when lowkey mentions a James baldwin quote?
@tysonmwamba5220
4 жыл бұрын
samah he mentions the quote at 14:50
@samah2061
4 жыл бұрын
@@tysonmwamba5220 thank u 😊
Con cullers is a millionaire
Absolutely phenomenal. Salutes to these incredible forces of nature
@terrysfreefoodtv
3 жыл бұрын
Wow devils got you!
Lowkey ❤️✌️
Give the money back!
Amazing interview and panel. Thank both of you for your courage and compassion on this topic💚
Thanks Fam
youre a woman?..... noooo... really?
Great show thanks 👍🏽
In India they are called "anti-nationals" rather than terrorists
"an activist" "a leader" "a woman".... Really now? Noooo wayyy thanks for informing us of that
@miles4007
3 жыл бұрын
what a snowflake lmao
@melchoraslez1689
3 жыл бұрын
@@miles4007 snowflake is a word used by sociopaths in an attempt to discredit the notion of empathy- John Cleese
@miles4007
3 жыл бұрын
@@melchoraslez1689 u have a lack of empathy though
@muntasifsusmit
3 жыл бұрын
@@melchoraslez1689 how can u use these words when u self dont have any empathy for blacks. And quoting a person who himself is racist is very interesting movs
@rasheedad3750
3 жыл бұрын
There are like" 34 genders"so she had to lets us know what she wants us to call her......😏😉🤭
Woah I havent seen lowkey in yearssss. Wheres he been
@blaiseoaklands1049
4 жыл бұрын
In Palestine
@63Hash
4 жыл бұрын
Apparently, studying for his PhD at the University of London
@maryamchergui3672
4 жыл бұрын
@@63Hash it was at SOAS actually
Keep up the good fight, much love from Finland
@terrysfreefoodtv
3 жыл бұрын
you dummy they hate your guts they are trained marxists!
@gregrot
3 жыл бұрын
Terry Walker, you're ignorant and brainwashed by the elite owned media. Read something.
intervention and spiritual guidance.[9] International recognition The Ifá divination system was added in 2005 by UNESCO to its list of the "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity".[10] Notable followers 21 Savage, British-American rapper Osunlade, musician, record producer, DJ Wande Abimbola, Nigerian linguist Nisi Shawl, African-American writer, editor, and journalist Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement[11] See also Taken directly from wiki. He is right.
Y'all do that
Buy Large Mansions
We went through history when we had no law and order,in the states it was called the wild west,and the Uk that was a couple hundred years ago,that's why law and order was brought in and has slowly evolved. Playing the victim all the time gets you no freinds.And if your going to break the laws of the land your going to meet the police.
@hwnboy925
3 жыл бұрын
These people that support blm want special privilege to be above and outside of the law. Download the black agenda 2020 pdf, its really sickening. It's even more sickening the amount of dummies blindly supported this communist movement.
@icantbelieveitsbutt3rs590
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly and when trump loses the election you have to accept it because the government told you to.
Great show...!
She totally blagged the reading question. 😂
A hug,
26:13 - Patrisse stiffling a yawn over the next few seconds.
@christhomas9745
3 жыл бұрын
if the West has to be dismantled then imagine what needs to happen to countries like Iraq or Iran
Her brother was a sad situation
Lowkey and Jeremy Corbyn should be president of Humanity.
Excellent talk We need to all talk together We know the truth
@terrysfreefoodtv
3 жыл бұрын
lol your clearly brainwashed, THEY ARE TRAINED MARXISTS!
18:12 Very True Africans from Africa Needs to Connect with Blacks in Diaspora
@celestebivin1659
3 жыл бұрын
Why? For what reason? They are African and the other people are American, French English, German, Jamaican, Cuban or whatever country they were born in. Just because a person shares a similar color does not mean that they share a culture. Africa is not one big country. If you ask somebody they're going to tell you they are Nigerian, Congolese, South African etc. they're not going to come out and say I'm African. People from Europe don't do that either. They say they're from Germany, France, Italy etc.
Big Luxurious Mansion Bribe Lots of Money
Yes LOWKEY, South Afrikan Apartheid EQUALS the answer to Free Palestine 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Remember Attica!
These 2 in a room together... too powerful
@charlieshaw-pentek6037
3 жыл бұрын
@Who wants to be a millionaire? I'm sorry when did I ask?
Did Lowkey get a mansion too?
I don't like to focus on just Trump. As Low-key rightly mentioned; Trump is just a symptom of what existed lo g before he became President. Preside rd from Reagan to Obama, skipping Carter set the foundation for Trump.
@MrBADMAN2222
4 жыл бұрын
Tee It’s like everyone has forgotten that past presidents like Bush Jr, Reagan and Nixon have done 10x what Trump has but did it with a smile on their face and with a polished tone in their voice. I guess Trump just makes people feel icky even though he’s been a diet Obama on foreign policy.
@tee5634
4 жыл бұрын
@@MrBADMAN2222 Behind all the nastiness, vulgarity, and racist statements Trump has comraderie with the likes of Clinton, Bloomberg, and Guliani. They are part of the ruling elite that did 911 and put us in permanent war in the Mid East.
What does dismantling the system look like?
@adamsmith307
4 жыл бұрын
AM 78 that's no answer
@adamsmith307
4 жыл бұрын
AM 78 so you don’t have one?
@hwnboy925
3 жыл бұрын
Communism. The means is outlined in the black agenda 2020 pdf.
The correction is comming
Lowkey FOR PRIME MINISTER or AKALA!!!! 😭😭😭
Nelson Mandela was once called a terrorist in his younger days of activism...so white fragility is real
Powerful and beautiful.
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS POWER
And now you have been buying houses. Hope that you're not a fraud per the news out there.
@williamdevonish4266
3 жыл бұрын
She can buy as many houses she wants.. she deserves them.. She helped start a greated movement... Queens own castles...
Buy lavish mansion
God bless you lowkey a true legend
Powerful words
14:30 hauntology
No more respect for LOWKEY
More more more ... bravo ❤️
Incredibly well spoken and intelligent, fueled by the passion for truth and justice for the targeted.
@ryannath85
2 жыл бұрын
Who? The guy? Certainly not the scammer...
This didn't age well.
@aishax01
2 жыл бұрын
👀
@katiebee2937
2 жыл бұрын
Yes he’s all for pointing out corruption now oh so quiet 🤐 what a surprise
@muhammadsuleman9328
Жыл бұрын
Europe america belive freedom of speach what about Palestine and kashmir need freedom ❤️🇵🇸☪️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸❤️
@fallenbeforefiona9000
Жыл бұрын
@@muhammadsuleman9328 I'm a black american and that means I believe EVERYONE deserves freedom. I just wonder why people in those places come here and deny US the same freedoms they want for themselves.
@USERNAME46327
6 ай бұрын
@@fallenbeforefiona9000”those” people you do know your ancestors were “those” people your ancestors are turning in their graves
I love your dream worlds, they are so beautiful
would love to hear from Obama and Michelle
It seems BLM is becoming bigger than it originally intended (as far as I understood)... and I'm concerned it's going to become less practically productive... similar to trying to pass a law to solve x problem, then tagging on several other stipulations that are not related, and then the law doesn't get passed... whereas if it just stuck to the one goal, it could be passed and they could work on the other things separately. it hasn't even achieved the original goal yet... has it? I submit it's very possible i misunderstood the original goal. I thought it was supposed to be about addressing systematic (judicial, legislative, and executive) racism against black Americans... I'm not speaking for or against the Palestinian issues, just that seems to be a separate issue, and I'm not sure it was wise to incorporate it... practically.
Try us
you know that black lives matter started when a teen goon punched a clerk and stoled cigars .. then walked too an officer and resisted arrest ?? , the teen was dangerous .. end of story
@isaacbell2426
4 жыл бұрын
Francois Lauzon lying creep!!!
@kpotter78
3 жыл бұрын
@@isaacbell2426 Great argument. Name calling. You showed him.
Quit blaming everything but yourself of your reality change yourself first not everybody else then your world will change !!!! Take personal responsibility.
@khalifawasiuddinahmed5779
3 жыл бұрын
She has changed herself. She has take a stand. It’s a separate matter that the state has used its machine to control and mold her efforts to become a part of the lesser of two evil choice dual choice.
LOL 😂
Global family?
Marxist
@user-gt2bn5el2f
3 жыл бұрын
And? What about it?
@gregrot
3 жыл бұрын
A Neilson, Fascist
Lets not forget sho funds BLM, Grorge Soros!!!!!!
We must talk about the massive inequality in the US and worldwide that is at the base of so much suffering. Outlawing being a billionaire and having a worldwide guaranteed income that result in outlawing poverty is necessary.
many of the Western Business people who hold all the wealth are not from money. They worked and earned what they have!
if you are interested in the other side of the debate watch Thomas Sowell
Karim can I marry charlotte to save the world please
Fyi people- a very small part of America even knows this ladies name. She's just a thing that will flash away quickly after she has taken as money as she can. We actually make fun of her here.
@MayorSom
3 жыл бұрын
Who are "we"?
I love Lowkey but he didn't ask her the questions that want to be asked.
@aaminahasan6270
4 жыл бұрын
What questions are those?
@fabianallnutt4783
4 жыл бұрын
@@aaminahasan6270 why is BLM funded by George Soros? Why BLM doesn't mention the role of Black males as fathers on their website?
@jwaxmcgeeg9706
3 жыл бұрын
@@fabianallnutt4783 thank you!
@fabianallnutt4783
3 жыл бұрын
@@jwaxmcgeeg9706 no worries bro.
@fabianallnutt4783
3 жыл бұрын
@@jwaxmcgeeg9706 I would also ask why BLM is a Democrat Party fund raiser rather than investing their donations into projects that educate and empower black American communities?
So lowkey is a marxist. 😅 i rated him as a ypung man, now i see his game.
Trump 2020!!!
@gregrot
3 жыл бұрын
Still crying?
Zio keyboard warrior alert
Lowkey Noooooooooooooooooooo
Goto Sudan or North Korea or Cuba
if the West has to be dismantled then imagine what needs to happen to countries like Iraq or Iran
These 2 are heros. Thank you both
@cuprashoe
2 жыл бұрын
Hero? She literally stole millions in donations from stupid people
@guhlobtrekker
2 жыл бұрын
@@cuprashoe thank you for donating then
She’s a real estate mogul now from BLM funds.
You can not go more woke than Qatari tv. How about they make something about anti apostasy laws in Qatar, their homophobia and their mistreatment of foreign workers.
@beamms
4 жыл бұрын
Deflection
@AJ-si9qr
4 жыл бұрын
Can the same not be said for the Americans? Death for treason, homophobia in Texas and the use of cheap labour from prison workers for big corporate companies?
@neilnelson7603
4 жыл бұрын
@@beamms ....yap, this is how people speak nowadays when one tv station tries to point out a problem in America.
@AJ-si9qr
4 жыл бұрын
@Crow29Darkness why don't they get them to help better causes than making crazy profits for companies that don't pay taxes. Gay rights might be legal in all states but that doesn't mean it works and people don't protest about it. Why should every country adhere to what America thinks is right? And are they meant to be an example? They should sort there own backyard first with the crazy amount of mass shootings and racism. Every country has its own rules and who are we to interfere with that, Muslim countries aren't the only ones against LGBT look at countries people go to as holiday destinations such as Jamaica and there treatment. Every TV station will or may have a slight biased approach to what they believe in its just normal.
@nothanks8594
4 жыл бұрын
Crow29Darkness Hi Qatar may be doing what may be wrong but we can’t label thier wrongs as Islamic
We wuz kangs n shiet
Well its 4-13-21 and this BS has not aged well. Two crocks, one a multi million dollar thief. We know what matters, no need to explain.
@wovfm
3 жыл бұрын
@Del Jimmy Steady DJ, they are a Real Estate Agency.
grifters
The U.S. independence proves that
Very dangerous space to hold
Cointelpro was across racial lines.