I honestly still can't believe Trump is the US President. I don't know, the world has changed so dramatically in 2 years it doesn't feel like the world is real still because it's taken such a sharp and unexpected turn. It's like, where are we? How did we end up in this timeline? It's pretty crazy.

@kanyaugatiejagwo

5 жыл бұрын

It is a question about choice. Choices humanity makes guided by circumstance. People choose to forget history because it is convenient. What becomes of great inconvenience are the consequences of the choices humanity makes. And that is where the world is at today. At the choice making stage, the consequences of which are yet to be known. But if history is a manual, the handwriting on the wall is its text.

I was born and raised in Hawaii as a Hawaiian Asian. Then I moved with my white father to north eastern Washington, right next to Idaho. I have been on the both sides of racism. Ignorance is what breeds racism.

@MrZBlackneffect

4 жыл бұрын

No, .... the perpetuation and maintainance of white power, white wealth, white influence, and white control is what "breeds racism."

" The fall of the Empire" America has confused money for morality for too long . Time to pay the price , when people are hungry they look for a saviour enter Trump . Pull up the drawbridge only problem is the problem is internal. Other countries should learn from America

@alexc2265

6 жыл бұрын

*applause*

America really need a 'clean up' in their system of government and politics.

@fauxmanchu8094

7 жыл бұрын

Cerii How can you clean up plutocracy? American politics is a plutocracy.

@cabbage4254

7 жыл бұрын

Louella Wilson lots of blood.

@bobsee8226

7 жыл бұрын

Louella Wilson Get rid of parties or have more than 5 parties. absolutely no donation from anyone. . Criminal act or corruption can be persecuted and jailed any any citizen.

@mr12aT

7 жыл бұрын

how?

@dougchapman9138

7 жыл бұрын

Naw. That's what you HAVE TO think, b/c you can't accept, and they can't let you see, that this IS the way of the nation state since at least the Suruk and Ornmo of Sumer, and the Aorkajina of Mesopotamia. These were responses to already massive corruption. Appreciate the sentiment, but better to surrender our naivete.

Al Jazeera great job seriously why does it seem like the issues of the 1950s resonating so well with today. People disliking these necessary piece of journalism is either ignorant, in denial or haven't experienced the negative side of the issues mentioned. Thank you for your continued work.

@globalspiritualrevolutionmedia

6 жыл бұрын

Miami and Merch This is nothing more than Left Wing Communist Propaganda! Time For Black People To Get Off The Plantation of The Democratic Party.

@bcamins

6 жыл бұрын

Aljazeera so-called documentary is as accurate as the Soviet reporting of Israel massing up forces along the border igniting the 6-day war and as honest as Nasser’s reporting of Egypt’s huge successes consequently. When faced with the inevitable confrontation the truth, this kind of documentary is highly predictable as most Arabian documentaries; how do I get to blame U.S. instead?

If Obama is black and Trump is orange, isn't Orange the New Black ;)

@jeremyhall2727

7 жыл бұрын

Joe Bean yes

@kellym5982

7 жыл бұрын

wow and the last time i checked white is still white. talk about ignorant. oh and fyi, yes i said ignorant not stupid. meaning being ignorant can change if you want it to, stupid, well if i have to explain that one? to put a whole group of people into one group is ignorant, there are good and bad in every human. do not try to come back at me with a example of a issue u had with a non white person, thats weak, also ignorant. learn the real history of the USA, not the bullshit force feed to you by schools and social media, if u are a USA citizen there is a good chance that you're raise was thaught of as trouble orca issue. The USA is not a totally free country, government will do whatever they can to control the people living in the USA. the USA government has a huge hand in what is happening in the middle east. but i guess its ok if you live in the USA and are feed with ignorant and false information so you can protest but never really change anything. just like people that were protesting the Vietnam war. so for those of you that liked this persons post on black still being black. yes u are ignorant. a great example of people that did not get the point of this video at all. You have no clue what other's go threw and can not even wrap your mind around the truth. which is why you are ignorant. cuz you only see black and white.

@bobsee8226

7 жыл бұрын

Neoreactionary Saffa Do you hate whites that marry non whites?

@dannyarcher5690

7 жыл бұрын

bob See Depends which non whites they marry. Hate? Lol, no just disaprove.

@rickjag4928

7 жыл бұрын

Dude! HaHaHaHaHa!

Every American should watch or know this information.

rich democrat, rich republican.... same difference. In the 21st century it is rich vs poor, dont let them divide us.

@irockuroll60

6 жыл бұрын

DS YAMO Shia labouf is rich. But don't let them divide us

@bad71hd

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

Did this just claim that there was no black middle class? Seriously?

@mirsad96

7 жыл бұрын

Post world war two decade! You reactionary coward.

@H1storyGuyVODS

7 жыл бұрын

Yes there was still a black middle class during that time.

@MrZBlackneffect

7 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Nelson the median household wealth for Black people in America (when you take out depreciating assets) is $1700, for white America it's over $100,000. To be part of the 1% in Black America all you need is $1.4 dollars that's nothing ..... remember America has 540 billionaires and Bill gates is the wealthiest person on the planet @ $80 billion..... The "Black middle class" is largely non-existent. Out of 14 million Black households about 30,000 are worth any real money.

@Gorilder

6 жыл бұрын

MrZLeroy, When? Because neither of those figures are correct You're basically saying that all of white America is filthy rich while all of Black America is starving.. which simply isn't true... Median income nation wide is about 59,000 .. to be in the American middle class you need to be making some 30-100 k Black medium income is around 37 -40 k depending on who's counting (putting ye average black person within the US middle class) White Median income is about 60 -62 grand (again depending on who's counting) both of them are blown out the water by the top racial group, Asians who earn on average 77 -80 grand ----- Long story short, what's your point? a lot of these racial groupings don't take into account a grand number of things such as State, city, town, general environment.. all of those are effected by the various communities that live there regardless of race...

@natel9019

6 жыл бұрын

MrZLeroy92 Bills gates is not even close to the richest guy on the planet. Thanks for the laugh though.

WOW - what a high-quality production, with clear explanations and graphic back-up.

@bad71hd

3 жыл бұрын

Propaganda

Excellent documentary; i loved the contributions of all of your guests; Richard Gizbert is excellent as usual. I cant wait for part 2.

Every American must watch this !!!

Fantastic segment. Thoroughly researched, comprehensive, and easy to digest. The chemistry and knowledge base between the panelists was perfectly balanced as well. Can't wait for part 2!

@nigeh5326

7 жыл бұрын

Ol' Hickory it's working fine in Canada, the UK and Europe, Australia and New Zealand where everyone has healthcare and gun crime is almost unknown for a start.

@s.a.b7617

6 жыл бұрын

I can see you are a black woman choosing to live a life with a closed view. one day you might also get aborted too unless you change

@flyingpirate0456

6 жыл бұрын

S.A. B Thank you for pointing out the obvious

@OgechiObiiiobi

6 жыл бұрын

You don't even know if she's black because that's a picture of Rhianna. She might just be a fan.

@robinsss

6 жыл бұрын

one person said jobs started leaving America after NAFTA in the 90's …………..the next speaker said jobs started leaving America in 1973...………..that's they way I remember ………………...I think 73 came long before NAFTA...…………………..the Clinton democrats didn't sell the party out...…………..they had a vision closer to republicanism from the time they started the DLC

Excellent piece. Sad that our government tells us this type of truthful reporting is "propaganda."

When talking about "freedom", by simply saying America falls short, you're still conceding America's moral superiority. First time in aeons that a war was fought to actually end slavery(regardless of color) and we ended it. THAT'S something.

Really excellent and a must view for any one born from about 1970. Well, make that anyone at all. Thanks for this.

This idea that Southerners are the only racists in the US is ludicrous. Just visit the North and it’s segregated neighborhoods more than anywhere else. These documentaries always forget the “old Democrats”. The young Southerners were the ones who swapped to being Republican. It has spanned a single generation. The “Old Democrats” could never ever vote Republican and never did to the day they died and their children took over. What was also happening in the South at that time? Businesses were moving in. And the young people wanted to hang onto that. And their bosses scared them into believing that all social programs, even the ones implemented by their own states, are bad. Even though the social program of funding excellent public universities so that the Southern youth could get the skills that would attract business worked, they have become scared of the financial burden it has placed on the businesses it attracted in the 70s. Now my parents have attempted to sabotage the bridge they used to cross to prosperity because the South did attract business. And those businesses would rather cut as many corners as they could, even to the point of harming their pool of workers. Did Republicans try to use racism to attract voters? Yes. Did it work? The old racist Democrats actually didn’t switch parties. Their children who were basking in the sudden rise from generations of extreme poverty did.

excellent piece! bravo!

Great documentary.

Nixon's wrong doings pale compared to what the Obama and Clintons have done to my country.

This presentation perfectly illustrates the fact that we don't have a left wing in this country anymore. People look at me like i'm crazy when i say that. I can't blurt out a 2 hour american history lesson every time i need to explain this to someone. We keep getting further and further away from any kind of for the people by the people government that it feels hopeless.

THAT CLICKBAIT PIC IS SO PROPAGANDA, IT HURTS.

This is Ken Burns level stuff here. Very much worth watching.

What is wrong with GI Bill, they earned the right to receive as they have bled and sacrificed for the US. They have put their feet forward to fight for this great nation unlike some who are living in the powerful and richest nation of the world and still complaining if the US still in the 1800s.

Salute to AL Jazeera!!!

Thanks for this documentary, I saw it before (somewhere), but is never too much, very appropriate timing! :-)

Fantastic documentary Al Jazeera, thank you.

Brilliant Al-Jazeera. Sad that Sweden is currently trying to emulate Reagonomics.

Asalaamu Alakekum Al Jazzera, thanks for telling this story.

This is an excellent piece of work. It outlines the racial divide in the United States. I respect the amount of research and the presentation of your documentaries at Al Jazeera. Unfortunately the majority of people that will take the time to watch this (like myself) already know this information. My request is simple ... Can you please make documentaries about your area of the world to help Westerners (like myself) understand why things are the way they are in the Middle East? I honestly would like to get a better understanding of sectarian violence, militant groups, and the reason for so much civil strife in the region.

Where can I find part 2 of this documentary?

@watchtowermaya20

7 жыл бұрын

Moni Mon, seriously I do too, if you find it please let us know. I am going on a search for it too.

@watchtowermaya20

7 жыл бұрын

Yeh, I found it. I Googled, Is there a part two of the Documentary of "The Big Picture: The People vs America. And it comes up with Part Two.

@monmel26

7 жыл бұрын

Sure. Thanks.

@lagseeing8341

6 жыл бұрын

or just let youtube play the next video

This whole thing is so easy to understand: 1) US citizens (i.e. potential voters) feel that the gov't runs off bribes from super-wealthy oligarchs and corporations and does not represent voters. 2) US citizens feel that we do not get to have the candidates that we actually want because the system is rigged (e.g. Bernie Sanders) 3) US citizens feel that the entrenched culture is militantly anti-free speech, anti-white, anti-male, anti-majority. 4) US citizens feel that this gov't and entrenched culture are giving our options for prosperity (and survival) to foreign workers either in foreign countries or imported here. 5) Therefore, it is so easy to see why ANY non-establishment candidate is very attractive no matter how unattractive s/he is. And that's what's going on. Not very complicated. Heck, I am quite welcoming to immigrants (I married an African immigrant), went out of my way to learn four foreign languages, and have an excellent education but I have to compete against huge numbers of H1B visa holders to get a job and we are all too often ordered to train our replacements off in China or India. Where I live (Silicon Valley) we live like paupers. A starter home costs ca. $1.6 million. I literally cannot settle in my home town. Go to Google's, Facebook's, or Apple's parking lots and you'll see engineers earning $150K/year or more living in mobile homes in the parking lot. There is no longer enough pie to share. It is time to bring opportunity back to the common Americans instead of exporting it or concentrating it in the hands of the 1% oligarchs. Nationalism is the right idea for the time being.

Excellent. Thanks for this.

Im Black and I'm setting in the house my father got with the GI bill. We did well during this time like Whites did. What happened?

@juanzorrillo6029

6 жыл бұрын

Charles Griggs wow same to you was just stating your experience and somebody wants you to die that is beyond unfair. It was nice to see a positive comment that did not take anything away from anybody else. I guess some people enjoy or do it for sport just like to hurt people's feelings or try to intimidate them. Thank you for your family service to our nation!

Good historical presentation. America is following a predictable course, if human history is a reasonable guide.

@diablo2elitepvpguides405

6 жыл бұрын

Khemistry IBMOR leftist propaganda, KKK founder was a dem

@taq1238

6 жыл бұрын

Diablo 2 Elite pvp guides Another one that hasn't bothered to find out why the political parties platforms of today bares little resemblance to the ones you have in your mind. Do some research and you will find that the political parties switched platforms. The Dems who you charge with starting the KKK are the same kind of people who are now Republicans. Google it. I am not American and I know that. What's your excuse?

@olzt100

6 жыл бұрын

A racists party is insignificant, especially after the racists have switched party. The KKK does not endorse the democratic party winner for a simple reason. Minorities are prevalent in the democratic party, which casts off the dems as the racists, and the majority of racists are now republicans. One can look at the party conventions and see which party is mostly one race. Racists tend to adhere to one race, not several.

@olzt100

6 жыл бұрын

The US will overspend on its military and decay. The formation of the government and what government is supposed to do is in the preamble of the US Constitution. The government has longed left the principle of promoting for the generale welfare of the people (it never had promoted the welfare of blacks and Native Americans and latinos) and used the military to control the economics of world. The ordinary citizens are led to believe that the rich will share with them the wealth of the corporations. The US is the same mess as what the Europeans settlers left. Instead of changing their fate they let their ill follow them to the the great pain of all indigenous and minoriy people.

@theonlyoned6409

5 жыл бұрын

Robert Wiley, Ha!Ha! You need to go educate yourself. You cant even type a complete sentence.

People may acknowledge that government spending will lead to their own destruction, but they can't change that because of their self-interest.

Very insightful. Thank you.

Thanks for this excellent video.

I do not know why they voted for him . It is crazy .

The silent majority is really minority but very powerful...the rest of us have to put a stop to the antagonist....

@dannyarcher5690

7 жыл бұрын

King Chaka Nah the majority voted them in. Perhaps you'll be happier in Africa?

@MiamiandMerch

7 жыл бұрын

I love how people default to "return to Africa" because they lack a valid argument or any evidence because they talk before thinking.

@dannyarcher5690

7 жыл бұрын

I love how people cry like its the end of the world because they lost an election. Cry babies.

@MiamiandMerch

7 жыл бұрын

Do you have an original though or media buzz words are your only rebuttal lol. Your living on this video what is this your 30th comment so far on this video. Get a life for your own good

@dannyarcher5690

7 жыл бұрын

Miami and Merch​ Yet we lesser humans ruled you for centuries in Africa and still do in many places. Why? What does this say about you?

If you have to work. If you have to pay taxes. If you have survive. You are not privileged. Sorry.

The guy in the first interview sounds exactly like NICOLAS CAGE!!!! The resemblance is SHOCKING!!!! :D

Next episode please!

Yesterday met a man who Hated himself for being WHITE, everyday people called him out for racist, bigot, and Islamophobic judging the colour of his skin. I felt awful about that especially when he told me that he has two adopted children from Indonesia. He took them out of the orphan house since they were just babies......

In Russia black is considered anyone who has black hair and brown eyes regardless of your paleness. They discriminate openly there

@raultiangson5666

6 жыл бұрын

DJ Rossi Mossi and what are you a white racist or a white guilty

Good work al

thanks for the show, it gives me great insight...basically there is no such thing as democracy and equality...Great work, it's so insightful and a harsh look at the ugly evil that is corporate America!

@KARENK72886

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry...what do you mean? Cynic or realist or both...I'm both...is that what you mean?

As a European , I never understood why colored Americans where not drafted in W.W 2.( and i believe not even in the Korean war right?) So what changed during the Vietnam war?

Awww...now I see! Great coverage...I am staying way out of this mess.

i like the video, but at around 6:12, the focus on black americans, well what about native americans? while this was all going on , the history of natives was and still is taught as a lie, in so many ways.

@JoyfulJasperJamesCalmClaire

6 жыл бұрын

Kelly M A whole separate, sad, and terrible chapter of US history that probably needs It's own documentary.

@chsnbytmhnyki56

6 жыл бұрын

Carol Chan well said. I would like to add Kelly it may seem to some since "natives" received some land reparation - nothing of "blacks" have received at all - maybe some think the natives got taken care of while blacks still struggling. No land, no money, no claim to anything but poverty.

@madmann1000

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the biggest lie is that blacks and Native americans were allies. NA enslaved or captured blacks and returned them back to plantations for rewards. So yes, lets talk about Native American history.

President Reagan's policies were wonderful.. I lived them and the 1980s were the best and yes I'm a capitalist... This IS AMERICA after all NOT the Soviet Union THANK GOD

Where is your Adam Curtis Al Jazeera?

Excellent piece, Al Jazeera.

@THOMASTHESAILOR

6 жыл бұрын

Do You know who Al Jazeera is, ?

@haxanhex9175

6 жыл бұрын

Probably not.. I cannot believe these delusional people !!!!!

@THOMASTHESAILOR

6 жыл бұрын

Island TV

How can I get a copy to show in our circle?

Positive polarization/Southern strategy interesting !!! Am from the south this documentary is true

WONDERFUL

a good discussion

Did they hire the fallout intro guy for this? Cuz i find this voice equally sexy lmao

The People is America, not its government. The title of your video reflects the misunderstanding many foreigners and anti-american liberals have. America is the people. Not the government. The government is at our service, not the other way around.

It's not that bad. America. There was a reduction in the standard of information allowed for the public in the past few decades, reversing its historic trend as expanding trust in people's abilities to handle affairs in a better way, and that, I can recognize, is the limited nature of some of the "identification" as an ethnic group. It is different. It looks like the way things were going to stay in the past, but for the most part it's more tolerant as a liberal expression than in times when there were less minorities as part of the national dialogue. The important thing to do is to recognize that that is what it is, as a warning sign, that COULD be further exploited to hate, and not a cultural "so what", and to get a clue about all the way someone - maybe racists! - is tormenting this nation! and to intelligently fight for the right of a greater dialogue of who we are, what's going on, and yes, believe me, for not just all minorities, but all good people, even some of the ones who are reacting this way, acknowledge that our common human nature is under severe attack, and human rights violations and abuses are actually going on in America now.

Maybe I haven't listened long enough to the interview. But I am starting to get impatient -again - with the almost obsessive emphasis on race relations. If Americans (white) are still racists in significant number -and they might be, I think you have to ask 'why'. It seems to me that there is a potent strain of almost revolutionary conservatism among -mostly white -Americans, that is linked to racism, but has other facets that are woven in everywhere. I think we need to start asking about the myth of individualism (in what is the most conformist society in the West); philosophical pragmatism; tendency to authoritarianism, militarism and imperialism; love of money and power; consumerism and capitalism; and a corollary disinterest in culture or critical thought. Racism won't disappear until we understand ourselves better from more perspectives, taking into account strains like the above that are culturally imbedded and keep racism in its place. The Trump administration and policies come as no surprise to me. I have seen us heading in this direction for a long time.

Powerful and nothing but facts....

I'm slightly convinced Dr. Johnathan Weiler is Nicholas Cage's long lost brother

Never learned this in school.

Ignorance is bliss, or in some cases a struggle.

Yesteryear, " Land of the free, home of the brave." Today, Land of the big corporations, home of the 1 % percent.

the media is actually looking better than ever. Pew research. 1) College graduates. (Positive view of the media up 23 percent since 2015.) 2) Those with some college education. (Up 6 percent.) 3) People older than 50 (Up 26 percent.)

Let's look at Qatar as an example of multiculturalism where every one is welcome and taken care of.

@ElectronicYouth

7 жыл бұрын

vissern21 I was 100% sarcastic. You can't compare USA with Qatar.

@dannyarcher5690

7 жыл бұрын

Yegor Himself Yes why don't they take in any refugees?

@ElectronicYouth

7 жыл бұрын

Neoreactionary Saffa because they don't want to deal with it. It's easier to stay back and call everyone a racist.

@dannyarcher5690

7 жыл бұрын

Yes and because it's their agenda along with the globalists to turn the west Islam.

@ElectronicYouth

7 жыл бұрын

Neoreactionary Saffa agree, they are playing their part.

I grew up+ lived during these times. Slow disintegration. This video is totally correct.

The southern states were rich before they lost the war .

@therookmatt5979

6 жыл бұрын

Well, it depends what you mean by that. In terms of infrastructure, product, etc, it was very poor. It was wealthy economically in some places because of banking decisions made by large slaveholders. Most places were either self sufficient enough to not worry about wealth, or so poor that you'd eat clay to survive.

a bit biased

Holyshit Christopher Walken's is on here around minute 45 or so 47

That's me in the corner

American the land of the free and the racist ♡ GOD I LOVE AMERICA ;)

@craig6297

7 жыл бұрын

joking btw

This is the drivel that passes as journalism in the 21st century?

Im not ok w anyone being an equal citizen! All for me, none for anyone else. Mike Black 4 KING OF THE UNIVERSE

the issue with the USA is it was a good thaught, just not thaught threw.

George Carlin said it's the American Dream because you've got to be asleep to believe it

I still don't get it what is wrong with with 50's

IMPEACH DONALD TRUMP !!! AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN !

THE DMC IS GREAT AT THIS.....THATS WHAT THEY DO

❤️❤️❤️❤️ this and al jazeera!!

I'm so sad to see this :-(

Elaine Brown comes across as tremendously out of touch.

The legitimate rage of exploited and decimated White workers is not allayed by any supposed status that their “race” bequeaths to them. If that were true, racists would not be angry. Rage isn’t a product of status, it is a product of oppression. This notion that poor, oppressed people have social “status” is the clueless bougie fantasy of people who do have social (class) status. The function of race and racism isn’t to elevate any disenfranchised worker. Rather, the function of race is to redirect the legitimate rage of oppressed White workers onto even more oppressed Black workers in order to con both into believing that the cause of their oppression isn’t Capital, but is each other. Race and racism is the necessity of Capital to prevent worker uprising by dividing and conquering labor. Abolition was abandoned and isn’t complete until all workers unite and collectively own the means of production. The bougie class wants to talk about race as if it were separate from class war (Capital) to avoid and prevent this uprising which makes their position de facto racist because it cements and protects disproportionately Black worker oppression. In effect, bougie anti-racism is the politics of respectability that covets and protects capital and its inherent inequalities, racial and otherwise. The poster child of this bougie capitalist oppression is Obama who foreclosed on Detroit which decimated more black wealth than any other event in modern history.

Thank you President Trump! Thank you for a nice tax cut! Thank you for an increase of over 5 trillion in the stock market and a huge increase in my 401K! Thank you for putting America first! Thank you for getting rid of the Obamacare Mandate. TRUMP 2020

FOR HISTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just wanted it to be so when you scroll down it says cj

Brutal.

The great America!!! Hahahaha

I bet the people in this documentary are too smart for fox news and the rest of US media. Except for Democracy Now.

16:27 apparently white people never cared about black issues: "The civil rights marches began in 1968 when Catholics, who for years had been trying to get some sort of equality under the law as they saw it, decided to try to adopt a different tactic, which was to adopt the policy of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement in the United States." www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/conflict/civil.html White Irish people following the example of African-Americans. Apparently some white people do care. Stereotyping is not the best way to combat racism, believe it or not.

@joelhenry5489

7 жыл бұрын

"Apparently some white people do care." Who said anything different? Some did and some didn't. Ever saw Gangs of New York? Go and Google the New York Draft Riots and see what the Irish did.

@joelhenry5489

7 жыл бұрын

The Irish went through the city killing any black person they could find - man, women and children.

@Itsjustmyselfsoitis

7 жыл бұрын

Terrible craic it was.

21:25 George Fisher

Scroll to 1:50. Is he NICOLAS CAGE?? OMG!!

They hardly talked about kkk and nazis

Or America will continue to go from strength to strength

I watched your documentary and liked it for the most part, but the left leaning view doesn't give good context to the politics of the United States.

Propaganda. And the Sheep love it.

USA should give independence to certain states.

Im a minority and I'm waiting to see the white supremacists ya'll talking about. I am doing fine thank you.