If you have a leftist org that you want to funnel support to, please post their info under this comment. PLEASE ONLY POST INFO FOR ORGS TO SUPPORT. (also please use discernment and wisdom in what you post)

@fernanne08

Жыл бұрын

This might make people uncomfortable but I think everyone could benefit from visiting their local NAAGA chapter...they're open to all types of folks, our safety officer was a grandmother teaching her grandson...it was the first time I was around folks openly sharing leftist sentiments... they have a YT page

@2ClutchGamers

Жыл бұрын

Miami DSA

@shanefoster2132

Жыл бұрын

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) can use donations and also has useful aids for anyone interested in the unionization process (they are a part of DSA). Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) are gearing up for a potential UPS strike (nationwide roughly 350000 workers). Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are running strike campaigns to build solidarity funds for upcoming strikes like UPS. See if you have a local that is going to help with picket lines. Entertainment Community Fund is helping writers guild strikes (although I am admittedly less familiar with them). Community movement builders (that you previously mentioned). Freedom Bloc perhaps (again less familiar)? And so many more. They need money and especially need manpower. This shit is tedious and often mind-numbing in the pace of progress. But hold on to hope cause at the very least there is so much work we can do together.

@shanefoster2132

Жыл бұрын

@@fernanne08 NAAGA being the National African American Gun Association? I'm just trying to clarify. Socialist Rifle Association and the John Brown Gun Club are other leftist gun clubs if you don't have the first one in your area. If that is the most appealing means for someone to get active locally then by all means.

@lauriebertramroberts8990

Жыл бұрын

Mississippi Rising Coalition

The look on my grandparents face when I said "I don't wanna be rich, I just want my people to be comfortable"

@kaydgaming

Жыл бұрын

My parents are grandparents actually, yeah… That’s how it be.

@USSAnimeNCC-

Жыл бұрын

Being rich is not going to free you of all problem infact it can isolate for them look at Kayne man that dude is out of touch with reality

@cow2hug483

Жыл бұрын

​@@USSAnimeNCC-yeah and studies prove richer children face more anixiety and depression.

@sethrinker9944

Жыл бұрын

​@@cow2hug483 I've actually been looking into that and I'm looking for sources. If you can point me toward any I'd really appreciate it.

@freethinkinmelanin6795

Жыл бұрын

@@cow2hug483 I had a coworker who worked full time in wealthy city in northern Virginia, majority white. And part time he worked in another wealthy city but in a low income community. He’s black. He told me he’d rather deal with his black kids in our community (low income) over the white kids he dealt with at his other job. He said with the black kids it was only weed he had to deal with while the white kids were more involved hard drugs. My observation is that there are more people than we’re willing to acknowledge suffering from trauma and therefor perpetuating trauma and that wealthy people are better at hiding their trauma. I think people who chase money have a lot of harmful beliefs and ideologies that absolutely impact the people closest to them so I’m not surprised that the children of wealthy people have more issues. Most of their parents are a-holes.

We got a real pseudo intellectual problem in the US. Too many people fall for the grift as long as you speak with authority and a large vocabulary.

@CarlieGuss

Жыл бұрын

And confirm their bias. That's a huge part. I can speak quite eloquently, but they would say I'm saying big words to confuse them

@ArethaFrankly

Жыл бұрын

@@CarlieGuss This. People love to talk about "word salad" and condemn the use of "big words" when they disagree with you. When they agree with you, your big words are "articulate" and "eloquent." The problem is that it is true that some people disguise BS with cute prose and SAT vocabulary, so it's virtually impossible to respond to these accusations constructively.

@harrycooper5231

Жыл бұрын

Mmmmhmmm. Jordan Peterson comes to mind.

@halcyon6098

Жыл бұрын

Too true. 😏

@ArethaFrankly

Жыл бұрын

@@harrycooper5231 Perfect example. It's infuriating how many people think this man is smart or that he has ever said anything profound or significant.

I love the quote by fred hampton: "you fight fire with water, not fire - we dont fight racism with racism, but with solidarity. We dont fight capitalism with black capitalism, but with socialism." What a great man, crazy he died at 21. Would have been such a great contributer to the unity of the working class. COINTELPRO really was a despicable act.

@thapeloankhamen5976

4 ай бұрын

1. What is your working definition for Racism? 2. How does a black person practice Racism upon white person or persons, on the same scale as a Katrina 2005 or Red Summer 1919? I will start with just those two critically thinking questions which should bring thought into knowing how powerful Racist Propaganda is...

@bedbug6177

4 ай бұрын

George Lincoln Rockwell had solidarity with malcolm x. They both wanted 5 states for black people

@raydavison4288

3 ай бұрын

Many black leaders and potential leaders were flat out murdered, imprisoned, or co-opted. The "War on Drugs" was all about slowing down or halting the "Civil Rights" movement.

@Winter8555

3 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@thapeloankhamen5976racism only contains 1 definition. Secondly, Racism is a sickness, you can’t practice it. A racist can choose/attempt to enact harm on someone due to anger which stems from their racist ideologies. A powerful racist may be able to enact this harm more successfully and extensively but that doesn’t make them any more or less racist than someone who can’t.

@gliiitched

3 ай бұрын

Don't get caught up in how "great" of a man Fred Hampton was. He was still just a man, unable to control much outside of his immediate circle, and that's okay. Also person above I think they meant anti-blackness from the black community, or overturning the system to create new structures of oppression, however laughably impossible it may seem to those who know how it manifests.

I literally am on my third listen of this video today. I am a 25 yo black man with little to no education on African American history, and I’m embarrassed to say that. Seeing this video put a spark in me to study up on these topics spoken of throughout this video. Looking forward to buying another bookshelf to fill up.

@ashrpark5790

6 ай бұрын

Same except I'm 30 and female. All through my schooling I never understood where we went after freedom from slavery and before the civil rights movement. Finally, finally, I know

@CommieApe

5 ай бұрын

Look into Fred Hampton, George Jackson and The Black Panthers you'll not be disappointed

@rcardosanders2885

5 ай бұрын

Back in the day many successful people were high yellow marginal people who were cautiously more acceptable to white folks. Many these individuals had pointed nose, and wavy ,fuzzy ,curly hair.

@Blackindiangang

5 ай бұрын

Don’t none of us really know nothing… We have to unlearn!

@jobondyxpeteronyango

5 ай бұрын

....and relearn faster than we learnt to unlearn.@@Blackindiangang

The greatest trick that capitalism ever pulled, was convincing the world that it was the ONLY thing that exists.

@hyp3ri6n58

Жыл бұрын

its crazy the way that capitalism has given millions, if not billions, of people literal stockholm syndrome

@nw42

Жыл бұрын

And what’s _so_ wild is that capitalism’s only existed for something like four centuries… arguably even less! It’s not something ancient or innate; humanity survived and grew for virtually our entire history without it! Yet somehow, it’s the only “natural” order.

@rickmoss6421

Жыл бұрын

More to the point, Capitalism has tricked people into thinking that it is the BEST system.

@JakeKoenig

Жыл бұрын

Nope, over 1/4 of the world's population is under communist/socialist rule, and another 1/4 is under Islamic rule, which is even more oppressive. Capitalism has never tried to convince anyone that half the world doesn't exist, it just gives people a FAR superior option. All of the highest-ranked nations on the Human Development Index are white and Asian capitalist nations. Chew on that fact, dipshit.

@13e11even11

Жыл бұрын

Capitalism, is not a political system, so use your brain, and realize its policy makers, and not markets that you need to focus on.

Bill saying “these young girls have no BUSINESS having sex” while he himself was r*aping them is the most wild shit I’ve ever heard.

@KatrinaE11

Жыл бұрын

He looked creepy with the sunglasses on while saying it 😮

@billybarnett2846

Жыл бұрын

He didn't grape young girls. Get your stuff right.

@missp498

Жыл бұрын

@@billybarnett2846 have you seen the young black woman who was one of his victims talk, ffs? He ruined her life she was a christian, with a promising athletic career ahead of her. He was a sick individual.

@ccirish4519

Жыл бұрын

@@billybarnett2846 he admitted it

@morenitomoreno1282

Жыл бұрын

It’s always the most moralistic people

The Black Capitalism segment reminds me of the time I almost fell for the "multi-level marketing" pyramid scheme Primerica 10 years ago. They promised Black people could be entrepreneurs, get their own license to sell insurance in just two weeks, gain enough money to travel, and more. You had to pay a fee to earn your license though, and when you sell your insurance, the person at the top who helped you gets the bigger cut while you get the smaller one. It already sounded like a scam, but I decided to attend one meeting. The person who introduced me was a "friend of the family". When I arrived to my first meeting, it was nothing but Black people in the room and a head elderly Black woman everyone called "coach". In this meeting, she began preaching about building wealth in the Black community, keeping it within us. She had two "lackeys" who served as examples, including my friend. She began distributing checks to people who'd done well, and mostly it was to her lackeys. Then, she began asking everyone in the audience what their sales numbers were. When she got to one older woman, the woman shared her numbers, and the Coach's smile wiped off her face. She began berating the woman, telling her those numbers were nothing to be proud of and that if she wasn't going to take this seriously, she should get out. The woman apologized and told the "Coach" she'd do better next time. It felt like a cult to me. I ran out of that place and never looked back. When I did more research, I learned that this company was founded by a White person, propping a Black leader in the Black communities so they can lure them in, and that most of the insurance they offered was fake and didn't cover anything. Most people never made a dime except a few, who did shady things to gain money. Many people had their money stolen. To add, they found out their licenses weren't legit. To me, this is what Black Capitalism means.

@theorderofthebees7308

Ай бұрын

That’s so horrifying.

@juliusgreen3730

20 күн бұрын

I had the same experience with them Seemed like a scam to me too !

This kinda thing is a real problem within the gay community too. Because of the silence induced by the AIDS genocide, and the fact that it's a lot harder for us to transmit culture down through generations (most gay kids dont have gay parents), a lot of young folk are unaware of our history and our radical roots. That makes it easy for us to be taken in by respectable, mainstream gay celebrities. Even when you do have your own community of queer radicals, the system denies you any representation. It's impossible to tell what the views of gay people in the US are actually like, because the faces of homosexuality in America are rich singers and tv show hosts -- not the political activists that gave us the rights we have today, nor the mass of poor, disenfranchised queers that most of my friends fall into.

@JoaquinTazabi

5 ай бұрын

Not gay, but I had a HUGE amount of respect for ACT-UP in the 80's and 90's as a kid and teenager. Real warriors and revolutionaries.

@yayawawasy

5 ай бұрын

Define gay culture. I've been gay a long time, there is no gay culture.

@eastsidepb8139

5 ай бұрын

Is it not obvious that most gays wouldn't have gay parents?

@pterodactylbull

4 ай бұрын

Trying to explain this to people is like swallowing bleach soaked nails. It’s so frustrating.

@ethangonzales9510

4 ай бұрын

I never thought of that thank you for informing me of this

When you mention that respectability politics probably has its roots in slavery, it just became linked in my mind to how during the chattel slavery era, freed black people could be arrested and sentenced to be sold as slaves as a punishment for ridiculously petty crimes. This could happen to them for "loitering or misspending their time", celebrating or partying too loudly or disruptively to nearby white people, etc. They would have to be proactively respectable to avoid a lifetime of bondage. I know this at least happened in Pennsylvania, not sure how widespread the practice was.

@FDSignifire

Жыл бұрын

I would imagine that was widespread

@SgtWicket

Жыл бұрын

Definitely wouldn't surprise me. Been awhile since I read the book I'm pulling from but I think other regions had other, equally gross tools in their toolbox to intertwine blackness and slavery under the law.

@blackhogarth4049

Жыл бұрын

​@@FDSignifire It still is, just not as directly. Black folks have to walk on egg shells to avoid being targeted by the pigs. A group of white kids is a nice gathering. A group of black kids is "loitering."

@leonascar5800

Жыл бұрын

punishments for petty “crimes” were also adopted in many states during reconstruction; black codes were very prevalent in georgia, mississippi and virginia for example

@ronjaj.addams-ramstedt1023

Жыл бұрын

​@@FDSignifire , hey, starting at 10:05, I heard an understandable but worrisome sentiment: "leave the screens and go physically into the community." One big problem: 20-26% of the whole US population is disabled or chronically ill in some way, depending on whose stats we trust. That's gotta be a large number of black people, too. If y'all are going to include black disabled and chronically ill people (as you should), you WILL need BOTH screens and physical spaces / happenings. It's not either-or, it's both-and. Best of luck! * waves * in disabled parent of disabled adults, from Finland

Me seeing Kamala Harris: oh, this is gonna be REAL controversial. Me seeing Oprah: oh. nevermind, this might be career-ending. Edit: Me seeing the Distraction: Oh fuck.

@amandadosanjos3994

Жыл бұрын

He came for the Nation of Islam as the first example .. sooooo

@TheAutumnNetwork

Жыл бұрын

@@amandadosanjos3994 I mean the NoI is garbage and not even an acknowledged branch of Islam anyway lol

@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAutumnNetwork I read about the Yakub story. Funniest shit I’ve ever heard.

@BlumChoi

Жыл бұрын

Farakah was a racist

@jaex9617

Жыл бұрын

Oh, damn. Serious topic but your comment is 😅.

"These young girls have no business having sex." Woof. Especially coming from Cosby that is a truly sickening clip.

@KnarfStein

3 ай бұрын

He forgot to append ", except with me" to that sentence.

@kevinbuggage9721

3 ай бұрын

@@KnarfSteinlol when he had young girls like Elvis Presley?

@jdeniro1844

3 ай бұрын

Ad hominem If what he said has no validity, except that HE said it?

@thepubknight6144

2 ай бұрын

Him mocking slang is really telling seeing how his cartoon "Fat Albert" promoted slang in each character he voiced Fd is right hes always been a double agent

@notNajimi

2 ай бұрын

@@jdeniro1844bro, don’t miss the point. it’s about him forcing sex on people while demonizing girls for having sex willingly. it’s hypocrisy at best and disgusting with the full context

Getting paralyzed by the police and living through a trial for crimes I dint commit was a wake up call. I learned more about this country than anything I ever read. As I begin learning more about political theory and Black politics,and American history the more I realized police subjugation is a natural part of white supremacy. The evolution of the Black Lives Matter from a Political movement to a financial one was like watching Che Guevara go from a political icon to a hot topic shirt image in Public discourse. I must admit I found it disturbing. this video broke things down very clearly and show that evolution happens in Black political discourse.

As a white dude who grew up in a small town and thought I was more educated on left wing ideas and American history. But man your channel has seriously shown me how little I know. This is my first time hearing some of these names. I appreciate you for making this so deep and nuanced videos on the history of your community. It's seriously eye opening, I'll be here everytime you drop

@juicyparsons

Жыл бұрын

oh just wait until we (hopefully) get into the international black left.......it's such a wealth of knowledge we don't have with our small American lens. even black labor history and black anarchism is much bigger than we realize

@vanillagray3367

Жыл бұрын

refer your friends to fd!!

@Angie753

Жыл бұрын

Same here!! Completely challenging my preconceived ideas and making me reflect on why some new ideas may make me uncomfortable. Thank you F.D!

@thebulky1

Жыл бұрын

How come I only came across this channel looking for Bo Burnham material. I spend a lot of time on the left side of KZread. This doesn't make sense. Eather way, I'm glad I found it. These are some of the best video essays I've ever come across.

@tolldoll1007

Жыл бұрын

Why do you feel the need to say you are white?

I was just re-watching the video on black conservatism the other day and now we get the sequel?! Feels like anti-capitalist Christmas.

@stevonwhite8933

Жыл бұрын

You love to see it 😊

@elkaki123

Жыл бұрын

I was watching it yesterday, like the timing couldn't be any better

@helpanimals-

Жыл бұрын

good. fuck capitalism, it's squeezing us

@pluribus_unum

Жыл бұрын

It feels like Anti-capitalist May Day over Anti-capitalist Christmas, for me. The history of Christmas [is] as a balm for unrest bred from famine and inequity caused by the theft of generated capital. And that's only its history prior to its immersion in capitalism.

@spiraljumper74

Жыл бұрын

@@pluribus_unum I was kinda waiting for a comment like this, ngl. I see what you mean, I just meant like I feel FD has been giving us a lot of gifts lately.

The “things you won’t be taught in Florida these days” thing is interesting to me. Those things being ignored is far, far, far from new. As a white person in Alabama, I couldn’t even tell you what a lynching *was* until I learned about it online at like 13. The most I was taught about the KKK was the cross burnings(Did those actually happen? I’ll have to look it up). Most kids here weren’t taught much about slavery other than the white men who argued about whether we should have it. I don’t even think our curriculums mentioned people like Fredrick Douglass or Sojourner Truth until 10th grade. I think education on this topic is way worse than a lot of people realize. Edit: the cross burnings did in fact happen

@searchingfororion

Ай бұрын

Re your edit: They still do and had a huge resurgence in frequency after 2016 (I'm sure you can guess why). Tragic, but true. This is why education and involvement matters.

"Tyler Perry's entire filmography" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I swear people kept calling me crazy about Dave Chappell. Went from "keeping it real" to calling his fans broke for not liking Elon Musk

@omeeawakened2371

Жыл бұрын

People don’t like Elon because liberal media has made him an enemy for not touting the liberal agenda and talking points.

@guccidonbuzzflightyear4440

Жыл бұрын

Maybe that is keeping it real to him ?

@huneylove5

Жыл бұрын

@@guccidonbuzzflightyear4440 I doubt that. I remember in one of his stand-ups he litterally made fun of the sienfield guy for getting canceled for saying the N-word. Now all of a sudden Dave is acting brand new when it happens to him. Dont even get me started on bitching on the radio because zoomers didn't like his Netflix special then goes to their school to dog them while they cant record for their side of the story. Im sorry but old Dave would have called new Dave a straight bitch lol.

@lilmoe4364

Жыл бұрын

Money, power, mass attention and approval etc can do strange things to people

@mindhunter8772

Жыл бұрын

​@@huneylove5 Do y'all forget "Dave chappelle" is a COMEDIAN.

My Dad, his mom, and his dad are all legacy HBCU grads. Growing up there was always so much pressure to be the "right" kind of black woman. When my mom moved to rural Ohio I decided to follow her rather than stay with my dad's family, not because I didn't love them---my grandfather was GOD to me, but because I wasn't like them. I didn't want the weight of the black middle class legacy they created on my shoulders. I graduated from WVU with a BA in Literature and Communications and I work making 45k a year caring for people with developmental disabilities. I'm OK with that. I don't NEED to be an HBCU alumni with a Doctorate and a mic. I like to care for people and I just want to find a modicum of peace in this world before I die. Not all generational curses are poverty and domestic violence. Some poisons come from silver platters.

@pauobunyon9791

11 ай бұрын

You so right . When you come from uppity black folk your whole life becomes a stifling looking over your shoulder constant state of defining your self . Creating artificial circles and marriage becomes a breeding contract for your elders. Do you be natural and mix with whomever you vibe with

@jshad1074

11 ай бұрын

Y'all are a bunch of sellout Joe Biden voting house 🥷🏾

@roman111117

11 ай бұрын

Somehow I've neglected to find how your parents wanting you to go to their Alma mater is on the same page as genetic affinities towards alcoholism or hyperviolence being systemically fed to the youth.

@born2love144

11 ай бұрын

Awesome testimony! I'm from Charleston West Virginia, with a special needs child. May the Most High Yah continue to bless you, and enlarge your territory for His Kingdom. Shalom

@Saltpeanutss

11 ай бұрын

You’re silly

This is filling in so many gaps in my understanding of Malcom X and other historical figures from the 60's and how they fit into different ideologies and how they related to each other, and of course how they ended up dead in some cases. I was born in 50's and it took decades for me to begin learning/unlearning the history. I remember the lightbulb going on when someone explained to me that MLKjr was actually a socialist but also in trying to address the immediate crisis of the black community, downplayed that to some extent and that it was a point of contention within his circle. I'm learning so much. Thank you.

@BlackmanHD

5 ай бұрын

Its crazy how they tried to teach us that Malcom X was a villain.

@connilady57

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely..

@standowner6979

4 ай бұрын

MLK Jr wasn't a socialist. He was a social democrat. I'm not joking or speaking in bad faith. But that's the truth

@raincadeify

4 ай бұрын

@@standowner6979 The speaking the truth usually includes more detail, lol. I'll guess that you mean to differentiate a social democrat from a democratic socialist, not the more general term "socialism" which includes them both.

@thapeloankhamen5976

4 ай бұрын

Arent Racist Socialists too? Dont we have Public Libraries, public schools, museums, parks, Post office, Military, Police, Fire depts, Telephone, Air Ports, Prisons, Bussing/ Transportation... Colleges... What socialism that Blacks want that is different from what Racist already have?

Actual History, Actual Analysis, Actual Clarity - if you don’t accurately diagnose the Problem you can never accurately identify the Solution… Your Thought and Work are needed now more than Ever

This is my new favorite KZread video Not too long ago, around the time of the Logan Paul controversy through the George Floyd protests - if you so much as put “Black” in a video title - this platform would shadowban it (for being advertiser-unfriendly) and not show it to anybody.

@IngiR08

Жыл бұрын

Well said Tay, great to know your position on this ❤

@Fasa_Lee

Жыл бұрын

Yo funny enough I remember you from your chocolate rain video. Lol people kept telling me I look just like you.

@lando1496

Жыл бұрын

hey tay :))

@Gaff.

Жыл бұрын

I keep seeing you on videos I watch and I'm just really glad you're with us. You're a great musician. I'm listening to your _16 Tonnes_ right now and wow, you nailed it as usual.

@BrandMath-ns5yc

Жыл бұрын

Tay if you ever read this I want to thank you for having one of the first viral videos ever that at the same time discussed societal problems the black community faced. Also musicolio is a catchy song

i am native american, and i must say a lot of what you're saying is very relatable for the native american struggle. its interesting for my culture because we try to solve our problems the same way, native capitalisms how every none of the wealth is ever leaked down to the community because the nature of capitalism.

@marcusburden92

8 ай бұрын

You’re situation isn’t like ours being native Americans got reparations and then some. Actually have land being rented certain tribes. Not even close

@SapphireBurns

8 ай бұрын

​@@marcusburden92you aren't uplifting your community by being apathetic to another Communities problems, you just dragging them to your level.

@WendyDrayke

8 ай бұрын

​@@marcusburden92try looking up what the status of indigenous peoples regarding poverty levels in this country. We're at the bottom. Acknowledging that another group of people is being oppressed doesn't mean you aren't also oppressed. Are you familiar with the term "paper genocide"?

@stunnedmulletblah9714

8 ай бұрын

@@marcusburden92 Have you seen the land Native Americans are forced to live in ? You couldn't grow a bloody potato there How many black politicians can you think of ? Now do the same with Native American politicians

@andreablossom3929

8 ай бұрын

The commenter said "alot is relatable" not that it was the same identical situation. We did not sit through this deeply informed video to get to the comments and start hit dog hollering on emotion.@@marcusburden92

Keep doing what you're doing. Weirdly, I have rarely had a chance to talk politics (safely for all articipants) until I had a stroke and had black rehab therapists, doctors, and nurses. That is also how I learned that I'd been hanging out with the wrong people all my life. You are making it possible for me to continue learning, even though I'm done with therapy. (I know that's a truly odd anecdote, but I'm presenting it to show why I'm grateful that you are willing to talk out what's going through your head. I'm following your lead... just been more afraid.) Yes this encounter is a bit random, but I don't see a better way. Please keep going!!!

You are such an under-rated creator and I just discovered this channel today!!! Keep up the great work, brother!!!

I may not be a black man but I can say I see similar issues with in the hispanic community, where extreme capitalism is constantly glorified through our music that is powered by our war on drugs or our liberal media figueres speaking of immigration rights without being critical of the policies that lead to people needing to leave their homes that have been devastated by American greed.

@sabrinacampodonico1656

Жыл бұрын

I completely agree as a Hispanic person. There are a lot of parallels with how our communities, especially looking at it from a capitalism perspective

@snap8626

Жыл бұрын

who you think owns and runs the labels? the same jews who tell us whitey is our enemy. we are tools for the zionist crusade

@sonja4164

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate you pointing out the parallels.

@darkblader06

Жыл бұрын

@@nezahuatez that maybe right but its often up to the individual to see themselves as such and their are some within the black community that go out of their way to exclude Afro-latinos from the culture.( just re read initial comment i hope i dont sound too confrontational )

@Fahima90

Жыл бұрын

​@@nezahuatez Thank you so much for saying so. People like Arturo Schomburg, Felipi Luciano, Marta Merena Vega and Rosa Clemente all recognized their Blackness. Some people don't understand the difference between race, ethnicity and nationality.

If I had a dollar for every time F.D. said “but I’ll come back to that later” and actually did, I’d have a significant amount of money

@kamkam3457

Жыл бұрын

You might even be able to pick yourself up by ur bootstraps and invest in crypto

@friedkake1876

Жыл бұрын

🤣

@THATBOISHAD

Жыл бұрын

I think he said at the beginning of the video that he couldn't cover everything in this video even though it's long

@franciscoriado1978

Жыл бұрын

Patience is the virtue of the gods, someone said

@starmorpheus

Жыл бұрын

An F.D Significant* amount of money 😂

Mr. F. D. Signifier, I am not one who joins or subscribes to anything or anyone. But yesterday, after listening to the first part of this, I immediately joined and signed up for Nebula. I have not left the station yet. I've been searching for the truth for many years. Often I have felt that something is missing out here - this is truly something that I can listen and think about. I really enjoy it. Thank you so much for this kind of understanding. Very much appreciated.

Listening to this channel while i work is hard because i keep having to stop to take notes about things you mention that i feel like i should look into.

merch idea: "We'll talk about that later" shirts

@oceanwater6887

Жыл бұрын

I miss you!

@TetsuDeinonychus

Жыл бұрын

Many of us miss you!

@notNajimi

Жыл бұрын

Oh that would be so cool

@richjuin9504

Жыл бұрын

Miss you Lindsay Ellis!

@Shinigami13133

Жыл бұрын

Nice to see you again!

Thank you for reminding everyone that watching a video is not activism. As entertaining as a lot of creators are, we can't afford to forget what kind of action really matters

@MeningitisAAA

Жыл бұрын

The audience got to do the work.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

Жыл бұрын

We need to form online coalitions that can organize locally while communicating nationally.

@louisjov

Жыл бұрын

@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 yeah that's a great idea When a protest happens, it has to be targeted, organized, and methodical. People need to know specifically what the protest is about, and the protesters need to provide solutions for the problems they are protesting

@robertstull8759

Жыл бұрын

MAKING a video is activism... watching a video is just preparation

@Snarl_Marx

Жыл бұрын

Are there any resources I can use to learn how to get involved? I live in a very, very rural area and am working poor, so travel/community organizing is really tough right now. The internet is basically my only avenue to the world at large. But, I still want to help more meaningfully than watching, liking, sharing etc. Edit: also, as it stands right now in the state I live in, I'm not eligible to vote due to a felony conviction a few years back. So, like, that's cool.

This is the conversation I’ve been wanting to have. Great job. Damn good job

So glad to have found your site. Insightful, knowledgeable, I am taken aback with what I learned today. Though I knew of certain events, I didn't know it from a Black point of view. As a Puerto Rican born, raised in the South Bronx, I came from a leftist father and a very religious mother and a family who's racial profile was so mixed that as a child I never thought about being mixed. I was Puerto Rican that is all I knew. So when I got my first job, someone asked me what was I. I thought it was a ridiculous question and thought she was not too bright. My answer to here was, "I'm a girl"! Her answer, ""No, no I mean where are you from, your religion, who are you! My answer, "I'm Puerto Rican". I was so naive and sheltered that this new world mystified me. I will always be and feel like an alien, living in two different worlds.

A part 2 of this video should be the Black church. The power it wields and the perpetuation of this same bootstrap narrative it peddles. The Black church in general, parades the talented 10 and treats its poorest members as a blight on the congregation. The focuses in my experience has been getting a larger prettier church over affordable childcare or social, and food programs. Being steadfast in conservatism is the root of its problem and the overall detriment to the Black community in my opinion.

@coreylee9342

Жыл бұрын

When the Pastor has the nicest car in the congregation, and we still need donations for the roof.

@juratory8876

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Lamor Whitehead is a perfect example of this.

@Luckylylac

Жыл бұрын

YESS

@BigBlack81

Жыл бұрын

My two cents, but I really feel that until religion and the bigotries behind it are addressed, Critical Race Theory really will have little impact on how we move things forward. A part two of this video focusing on the black church would be the least of the critical evaluation needed in this most crucial of regards.

@lamasterbatonlll1383

Жыл бұрын

​@@BigBlack81 a valuable two cents.

Unfortunately the complex relationship of Black people and Jewish people in America is just not a subject most people from either group are willing to engage in. The few times I've tried to converse about it (being Jewish myself) I've been laughed off by Black people or just straight up ignored by Jewish people. It's really frustrating because the seeds of discord between the two groups were so clearly intentionally sowed by the third party elite to prevent any kind of political camaraderie between us.

@christopherm202dcfinest2

Жыл бұрын

Third party elite would be who?

@sepulcher8263

Жыл бұрын

Nope. Its none of that shadow cabal nonsense. Its quite simply just antisemitism from African Americans and racism from Ashkenazi jews that lead to the discord. The difference in outcomes certainly doesn't help.

@OwnD1

Жыл бұрын

Similar to Black and Asian community friction

@sepulcher8263

Жыл бұрын

@@OwnD1 Yes.

@pisceanbeauty2503

Жыл бұрын

@@sepulcher8263 Where did both of these groups pick up these anti-Semitic and racist beliefs from?

bro you have a great channel. I came to listen to a hip hop video, stayed for some wrestling videos, and now am really enjoying this.

I appreciate this channel poppin up on my time line , very educational

As a young black man (Jamaican immigrant) I've been on a ride lately when it comes to American politics and culture. I had the black inferiority complex growing up in Southern California, then listened to Jordan Peterson (the bootstrap mentality and making my own bed) then the likes of Candace Owens and Thomas Sowell and adopted the idea that the problem is me (black people) and I need to fix it (I have to admit, this did help me pull my shit together) then listening to the Manosphere, before stumbling on F.D Signifier. I do appreciate people like F.D to be a voice of reason and unbiased facts within this media storm. I see problems with the Democrats but also know Republicans aren't the answer. Neither help most Americans (especially black people). You really should have a larger platform my man. Thank you.

@halcyon6098

Жыл бұрын

So.. Is ur sh*t in disarray now after you stopped watching those ppl?

@ren17x50

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for saying Republicans aren't the answer. Democrats aren't either u right

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

Жыл бұрын

Here's my problem with the caveat "I have to admit, this did help me pull my shit together." Well, yeah, if you listen to ANYBODY telling you: work harder, be more disciplined, make your bed, don't get arrested, set a weekly budget, set a daily schedule etc, the normal quotidian sagacity of most educated grandparents, or the kind of material you find in a lot of self-help books, assuming you were inclined to listen, you would have "pulled your shit together" anyways. You didn't NEED them. I had this same discussion with a friend of mine who fell down the Jordan Peterson rabbit hole until i pulled him out of it with lefty psychologists who said the same thing without all the christo-fascist mysticism. I also got him to move left by introducing him to the late, great, genius Michael Brooks (gone way, way too soon). Information is like the electron: it's everywhere and only one place simultaneously. Conservatives LOVE to atomize all problems as a function of INDIVIDUAL willpower and INIDIVIDUAL decision-making. This line of thinking JUST SO HAPPENS to greatly benefit those currently advantaged with PURCHASING POWER and wealth. I strongly recommend watching Michael Brooks (he has a show called the Michael Brooks Show) and the Majority Report with Sam Seder (there are many more, some even better than the Majority Report), those will at least get you in a community of people who understand what you've been through and have the intellectual tools to clarify the complexities that lead people down the right-wing, self-help rabbit hole. AmeriKKKa, and the anglo-saxon west, has done a LOT of damage to Jamaica - all consistent with right-wing, imperialist, christo-fascist ideology - including supporting Manley's opponent (which led to an uptick in violence in Jamaica in the 70s).

@Beauty4Ashes578

Жыл бұрын

Pull urself by the bootstraps except for the rich and corporate elites. Please spare me!

@godofthisshit

Жыл бұрын

@Chad May I ask, how did you get caught up in those 3 names, didn't the Black community provide some kind of buffer? Even Black conservatives don't like Candance all that much, and Peterson is a non factor. Real questions.

Im a black combat veteran. After deploying to iraq in a combat role I came to the realization of how this country really works.

@josue.ortega

Жыл бұрын

What you did you do in Iraq?

@byronwesley6643

Жыл бұрын

What made you realize?

@warwatcher91

Жыл бұрын

@@fudgepacker2858 Sir are you okay.

@alexrevolution7793

Жыл бұрын

@fudgepacker you should read properly. he didn't say that the video made him realize, but the deployment in a combat role made him realize how the country works.

@deli5194

Жыл бұрын

i think if americans, white or black, actually leave america and their assumption of how the world works and really look europe, asia, or africa they understand they have been duped

Malcom is the shit and will always be the plain saying man that speaks truth to power. May he rest in power and his example inform the generations of how to demand justice and work for peace. A complicated man that found a deeper truth and doesn't get the credit he deserves for it.

@belakhdaryoucef2668

22 күн бұрын

I remembered tupac track :We should cry if they cried when we buried Malcolm X

First time ever seeing a video of this creator. I think I'm in love just listening to you talk. So well explained. I love your perspective. Thank you for sharing ❤

One of the biggest mistakes I made playing video games with my nephew was letting him pick the character that I would fight with! Never could beat him! That is the same error of letting your enemies pick your leaders!

@patjenkins1308

8 ай бұрын

Why do you need a leader?

@EveningGoDs

8 ай бұрын

​@@patjenkins1308To collectively energize the majority toward tangible goals.

@jfitness22

7 ай бұрын

@@patjenkins1308we all need a leader. We can’t live this life and maneuver just off our own understanding. When we lean on our own understanding we tend to get ourselves in trouble. Turn to Christ

@AverageJ03Gaming

7 ай бұрын

Every time my little family members wanna get they ass beat in MK they're getting sub zero scorpion smoke or saibot and they get no say in it lmao, they can pick whoever and will catch one of four fades

@turtleanton6539

6 ай бұрын

Indeed ! Haha

As a Jewish fan, I appreciate you touching on issues of anti-semitism. Jews certainly have a lot of anti-racist work to do in America as well! We need healthy critique as well.

@synesthesia.aesthetic

Жыл бұрын

I second that ❤ there are many of us who want to heal the divides between our communities

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

Жыл бұрын

Yup. And thank you for being an ally to the cause. Hasidic Jews in NY have a reputation for being racist but, like most things, generalizations have a funny way of allowing for exceptional exceptions.

@Woke-CardBoard

Жыл бұрын

What lol? Someone forgot their medicine this morning and so did so many humans on this earth. Holy smokes.

@Woke-CardBoard

Жыл бұрын

@@xMXWLx define yo people lol? What an absurd statement of pure thought.

@Ikine557

Жыл бұрын

@@xMXWLx You assume we all approve of what the Israeli government is doing. Or that there aren't protest happening in Israel right now over it. We ARE talking to "our people," whatever you think that means.

The bill cosby with a jason mask on, with future,s mask off playing had me 💀

This has been a direct tap in for what I have been observing with in the black community. The same puppets we look at as the motivators or leaders are the mask to the problem. We continue to think they help when the truth is they benefit from our pain and tugging at our emotional traumas.

“And I hear some of the most anti-black sh*t come out of the mouths of people that purport to be pro-black all the time because they think they are different then their poor counterparts that live in certain parts of the city.” That statement speaks so much volumes.

@joelman1989

Жыл бұрын

I know the poet I’m about quote is problematic. But I can’t help but continually be drawn to the poem “the bridge builder.” It’s one of those works of art that changed my life. Because I used to think this way (about my Latino community). If I can make it out the hood why can’t they? When I was in college I was preparing to speak at a seminar for black and brown youth, getting them to college. When I came across this poem and read these word: This chasm that has been as naught to me To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be; He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!” It was a revelation. I literally deleted my whole presentation and started from scratch at the hotel. It completely changed my perspective. I saw the bridge builders in my life. And realized I was only the result of interventions from many people, including my parents. I realized that deep inside I thought I was special, when really I was just lucky. And I made a commitment that I would never stop trying to be a bridge builder. To reach back to my community in support. I can’t say I’ve lived up to that commitment as fully as I would like. But this video has redirected me.

@clarity2974

Жыл бұрын

It not just about poor. It's character.

@yugfus

Жыл бұрын

Latinos are people from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean who speak Latin based languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. So, Haitians and Brazilians would be included in Latinos along with all Hispanic countries. All Hispanics are Latinos, but all Latinos are not Hispanics.

@alim.9801

Жыл бұрын

​@@clarity2974 so like...what Cosby said?

@alim.9801

Жыл бұрын

​@fudgepacker Latinos are from Latin America, Hispanics are people from countries that mainly speak Spanish.

The fact that you said you were scared and still decided to do this means a lot. Thank you, brother

@JourneymanObfuscator

11 ай бұрын

Bravery, is being scared and doin it anyway. This was inspired.

@josephreyes3620

11 ай бұрын

This guy is a hypocrite and is sending a dangerous message

@Rahnotrob

11 ай бұрын

@@josephreyes3620 How so?

@josephreyes3620

11 ай бұрын

@@Rahnotrob Capitalism is the best economic system, he prospers from it, but preaches an alternative message This guy criticizes capitalism and benefits from it. In this same video he talks about how he is financially doing well because of this content which is because of capitalism. The irony. Any artist, athlete, entertainer, business owner, inventor, author, etc. that grew up poor. Literally anyone that grew up poor and has money now has prospered because of capitalism. I’m from south Florida, and ppl like Kodak, Trick Daddy, Ross, etc. are rich because of capitalism. They pour money into where they’re from and give so much game and wisdom. This guy is evil towards his own skin color. He’s being paid buy someone to spread this garbage. He’s a leftist puppet The left has really brainwashed the black community. It’s wild

@born_creating2487

11 ай бұрын

@@josephreyes3620it’s only dangerous if ur of the perspective any one of the groups. He’s only informing while keeping it clear and concise when his opinion is biased.

Great video as always. It was especially interesting to hear more about Black Wall Street. The first time I ever heard anything about it was a few years ago, and as someone who lives and predominately grew up in Oklahoma, I was shocked that I’d never even heard mention of it in school at all. Loved getting more information about it and seeing another prospective of its inevitable destruction that is often ignored.

your videos are so deep and informative 😭 I’ve never subscribed faster to a channel in my life

Great video. I was raised heavily in the Black Excellence mindset and it took so long to unlearn. I grew up in the Wealthiest black county in the US (PG Maryland) and was only surrounded by the capitalist success stories. I was told by teachers, neighbors, family, and career advisors to go to college, infiltrated and cahnge the system from the inside. I just got my PhD, but that mindset never sat right with me. It wasn't until the 1619 project that i found ways to explain that logical dissonance. "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" and all that.

@Doggin27

10 ай бұрын

Time to build your own house with your own tools

@Doggin27

10 ай бұрын

If you get what I mean, turning imagination into reality. Manifesting the Black WORLD, the black UNIVERSE

@georgeboehringer5530

9 ай бұрын

I agree most blacks that are successful is because of eating affirmative action for finding a way to exploit their peoples situation

@TheProletariat321

9 ай бұрын

​@@Doggin27 a Single Individual can't dismantle oppressive systems by himself, Revolution is a collective effort.

@shadowcween7890

9 ай бұрын

​@@TheProletariat321 Then we must build our houses with our tools together

As a former member of the NOI, it’s refreshing to hear someone else acknowledge the fact that it’s a cult. I was a kid when I was in it, and those teachings effect me negatively until this day. Thank you.

@senxauraximili7106

Жыл бұрын

Do not feel bad. I’ve known a lot of people that became involved in the NOI nonsense because they were socially and economically vunerable. Thank you for sharing your perspective and speaking out against them.

@DuckiesDad08

Жыл бұрын

@@senxauraximili7106 That socioeconomic vulnerability is exactly what keeps their recruitment numbers intact. Some religions attract the fearful. NOI seems to attract the fearful and disgruntled. It’s like a weight off my shoulders to have people like you to express those thoughts to for the first time.

@senxauraximili7106

Жыл бұрын

@@DuckiesDad08 no problem. I hope we can continue to push the dicussion further as I feel the NOI and the minister have not been put under enough scrutiny and critque in our community for far too long.

@asafoetidajones8181

Жыл бұрын

If you and your predecessors were never disenfranchised on that scale you likely wouldn't have been in a position to be vulnerable to horseshit like that.

@theconsciousobserver6829

Жыл бұрын

@@DuckiesDad08 The Nation of Islam....The Mercy of Allah, The Peace Given to Black Men and Women, and from Us...a Gift to the World. Sorry you dropped out and sided with weaker ideas. But you'll never defeat The Teachings with any of your ideas. That is why I place my full confidence in It. Calling The Nation a cult, is like a white person calling a Black person a Negro. It's an insult. It's a undersight, it's violently dismissive of all the remarkable aspects of The Nation. And you two should be ashamed. Peace.

I’ve caught a couple of your videos now but this one takes the cake. Subscribed bro. I can’t wait to catch more of your work 👏

I'm so glad this channel came up on my home page. Educating people on history and how it affects things today is so important. There were too many important individuals and events in this video that I had never even heard of. The topic, and the way the information was presented and organized, made me immediately subscribe and then open about 20 tabs of videos. This sort of education is all the more important now that people are trying (and often succeeding) to keep so called "CRT" from being taught. It's sad that what little education about black history we get in school is somehow considered inappropriate, despite the fact that it already tends to casts people and events in a light that supports the status quo that is harmful to so many people. It's also sad that so many things you discussed are considered radical or extreme in this country despite the fact they are supported by evidence from both research and the examples of other countries. Thank you for the high quality content and the effort that went into it!

You're undisputedly the best sociopolitical channel on this platform. It continues to grow too, which is fucking awesome. You are a truthteller to the bullshit.

@me0101001000

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. He does a REALLY good job at encouraging people of all intersections to study an issue, and acknowledge how those other intersections different from your own might interact with the topic at hand. Of course, you can't convince everyone, but he's been more effective than anyone else I've seen. -A queer Asian American man living in Europe

@tcrijwanachoudhury

Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@lowlowseesee

Жыл бұрын

yeah I watch a ton of different types of YT creators. FD is my all time fav. Pop Culture Detective and Auntee Khadija are up there too

@cliveklg7739

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, he has become one of my list of the top 5 must watch sociopolitical and news youtubers.

@Beauty4Ashes578

Жыл бұрын

Yes yes! 💕💕

Saw it on Nebula ! Watching it here too! Get your popcorn 🍿 ITS GOOD

@thegeneticgee

Жыл бұрын

Same!!

@FinalB055

Жыл бұрын

Okay okay, I’ll get the subscription 😊🤙🏾.

@timecircle8420

Жыл бұрын

So nebula is legit?

@MartyMcNasty

Жыл бұрын

@@timecircle8420 super legit! You’ll love it and this video is much longer on there like an extra 25 mins

@thegeneticgee

Жыл бұрын

@@timecircle8420 I think so! The app is a little buggy sometimes but I have really enjoyed it so far.

Whew! *snaps* "A perception of radicalism that challenges NOTHING" That's a bar.

When you said strictly diciplined people, it brought back some sad memories. I remember like it was yesterday a young black girl in highschool in the early 90s getting thrashed about by her hair by an adult black lady. The girl was with her friends and they just stood there watching probably in shock like I was from a distance. Some of those close were laughing. Turned out the adult was her mom and she gave her a public beating because she had shaved. Pretty extreme and sad.

A video explicitly focusing on class conflict in the black community. This has been a long time coming. I remember the first article I read about it and I'm glad that this is out. This feels like a conclusion to a long journey. I'm really glad this video exists.

I live in Atlanta and have seen Killer Mike talk, in person, about raising up working class black people, only to immediately turn around and then see him, in person, publicly support corrupt politicians like Kasim Reed. I feel like Ive tried a lot of times to explain that his personality is almost entirely a selfish, inauthentic, capitalist facade. I also regularly get called racist for those kinds of comments. It’s an ongoing journey of learning for myself, and I appreciate you taking the time to address topics like this which elicit a knee-jerk reaction in people. Keep doing your thing and inspiring people like me. Thank you FD.

@donnydarko7624

Жыл бұрын

That's unfortunate, because I really enjoyed the episode about Christianity within the black community of his show that was on Netflix. Don't get me wrong as a white person no black person needs my approval concerning their religious beliefs, but for as long as I've had a semblance of racial awareness the idea that anyone in this day and age would buy into a religion that was the defacto religion of the culture that oppressed and enslaved your ancestors is perplexing to me. Especially when on a global scale there's another religion that is bigger, that really espouses many of the same moral beliefs, and purportedly originates from the same entomology as that, but without all the generational atrocities, and almost completely eradicate any sense of cultural identity on a generational level, yet for the most part refuse to acknowledge that reality. The concept of not creating or constructing any physical representation of what one might imagine Allah to look like due to the possibility that said representation could be corrupted into a false idol is an idea that I find pretty compelling. Other ideas that I have heard spoke of make more sense too. Yes Ive heard of some misogyny being alluded to, but I've also heard some progressive imams discount that stuff as being informed through societal ideologies of the time period. And you can say the same about Christianity but, I don't think that's quite the same as adopting the defacto religion of your oppressors. Also the episode that brings up the idea of it being common that black people in America don't sleep very well was very enlightening. It makes sense, but it's not something that's ever been brought to my attention prior to that. It was pretty heartbreaking also

@emil-cz2vp

Жыл бұрын

i find this especially confusing considering much of the lyrics on RTJ4 seem to hold some radical political content, and having only heard his music i was very confused when i first encountered clips of KM spreading capitalist nonsense propaganda. Also didnt he like campaign with Bernie?

@the337th

Жыл бұрын

@@emil-cz2vp you can be aware that the system's cruel and harmful, to the point of loudly speaking on it, and still make compromises with it every day when you've claimed enough reward in that system that any major change might tear down what you've built up the Bernie campaign(s) were a great place to witness a lot of people who understood how bad things are on a lot of levels and said a whole lot of the right things, while also having too much of their own worth in this system getting in the way of an uncompromised fight against it

@MsOrganicBlack

Жыл бұрын

​@@donnydarko7624 Awesome comment. Thank you.

@KahlilEnglish

Жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This video is top tier!! The music selections and everything. Such an educational and entertaining watch!! ❤

The double agent part resonated with me. It was like finally putting my finger on movies like Lean on Me that always rubbed me the wrong way. Probably because after that movie came out, my high school went through successive principals trying to land the next Joe Clark.

As soon as you brought up Cosby I had a flashback to my white grandmother who would send me chain emails circa 2007 and one of them was nothing but anti-black rhetoric from Cosby about what black people need to do to get respect. Truly insidious shit. Edit: OMG My white dad LOVED Lean on Me! We'd watch it together anytime it came on cable when I was growing up. The anti-blackness my white family had was INSANE. I am biracial (Korean) and had to unlearn so much racism. FUCK.

@lolwtfbbq111

Жыл бұрын

Lmao why was your white family so concerned with Black people? That's crazy. Glad you're not that way! Stay strong.

The thing running through my mind with all of this is Ta-Nehisi Coates saying (paraphrasing) "the right to be an American is the right to be mediocre." Which, like, should be a unifying concept? Why is the expectation for any discreet group to be excellent just to earn the right to exist? It reminds me of the thing I was told growing up, "if you work super duper hard with terrible pay then eventually you'll be recognized and raised up and do well for yourself." We were all taught that, and that meant that business owners could count on hard docile workers that are there for a hope that was never put in writing.

@AbsurdCats

Жыл бұрын

This is something I still struggle with as a black professional. I see white mediocrity rewarded with money, while I am rewarded by being held up as a standard knowing I’m making less. I’m asked to help my white counterparts…but I am not considered past a tool. When I question this I am told they are a good person, and that is suppose to shut down my critique

@EmmisonMike

Жыл бұрын

@@AbsurdCats I’m sorry to hear that, honestly. I remember awhile back talking with a female coworker, and how often she, in her experience, is made to feel dumb at work, like she’d be part of a conversation where topics are brought up and brushed away without her having a chance to catch up on what’s going on. My first response was that I feel dumb all the time, and that these are positions of growth, but I had to think. I, as a white guy, have an opportunity to prove myself and be recognized every time I face something I can’t do. She doesn’t have the opportunity, just the feeling of being out of her depth. That second step, of realizing that the opportunities aren’t evenly distributed and that I benefit from the opportunities given to me just so dang much, is hard. It’s very hard for me to swallow that mediocrity in my communities default to white supremacy. I don’t try to settle for that, that’s why I’m here. But enough folks are like Homer Simpson going “most days just I try to not hurt until I get to crawl back into bed.” (Another paraphrase). How can we expect more and allow for less? And why is the onus on improving entirely on people who look like you rather than people who look like me?

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

Жыл бұрын

BINGO! Love, love, love this comment. Comments like this are why i even bother with the Comments Section on KZread. Well-said. I've always known and understood this but never articulated it this way. It's reminiscent of Dubois' talented 10th, or the Chris Rock joke that in order to live in the neighborhood he lives in he has to be a world-class, legendary comedian, but his neighbor? A dentist. Not the world's BEST dentist, not even a top 10 dentist in the world, just a regular dentist. Lol. Great joke, but the underlying truth is maddening. If you aren't a WASP, you have to be twice as great to earn half as much, until one day you are "recognized" (hmmm, who's doing the "recognizing?"), after which you will attain (maybe) income parity. It's a sad joke that only ossifies the existing class structure by JUSTIFYING these otherwise fictitious barriers to entry. It's a perversion of what "meritocracy" SHOULD mean rather that what it actually means for all practical purposes in a white-supremacist, crony-capitalist empire.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

Жыл бұрын

@@AbsurdCats Great screen name btw! The Stranger is a classic. Speaking of Camusian absurdities, as an aside, I find it laughable that arabs in north africa are so emotionally invested in rewriting the actual history of ancient egypt - that black nubians/black egyptians built the pyramids - so much so that they've banned Kevin Hart from visiting Egypt for (accuratre) comments he made on the racial genealogy of the Egyptian empire.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

Жыл бұрын

@@AbsurdCats Yupp, that's why "class" is insufficient to break down a WHITE SUPREMACIST system. If a black man were to discover the cure for cancer, they'd kill him and claim his dim-witted red-headed assistant came up with all the ideas. White Americans love to steal and then claim they invented the very thing they stole. They did it with Country, gospel, rock n roll etc. Honestly, black professionals need to organize, unite, and create institutional leverage to combat this culture of racialized income suppression. Also, you should ask them next time, "if they are a good person and they are more handsomely paid than I, doesn't that imply that I'm a bad person?" And then follow up with, "what exactly constitutes a "good" person?" Their heads would explode (actually probably not given how indifferent most white Americans are to racial plight).

I am glad to have ran across this video. I think we need to have many more conversations like this! Some of us seem to fight those who look like us harder than anyone else, because they think we are hating instead of trying to find common understanding and agreement.

I feel like I should be getting college credits from these videos with how much I learn from all of them

@vee8648

Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right💥

I saw the news about the Texas mall shooting interviewed by a Black survivor and one thing I took note was how he asked for better and harder policing of the mall to prevent more issues like this. I never wanted to scream at the TV in front of my sleeping father in my life up until then

@juratory8876

Жыл бұрын

Now that just crazy, even after seeing how over-policing doesn't even prevent crime (it emboldens it).

@stevonwhite8933

Жыл бұрын

@@juratory8876 Nnoooo, crime goes brrr with no police brutality!! /s

@christopherm202dcfinest2

Жыл бұрын

@@stevonwhite8933speak English

@towelociraptor

Жыл бұрын

People want safety but all they ask and vote for is security theater that makes us less safe :/

@johngibson4874

Жыл бұрын

​@@christopherm202dcfinest2 I think they are saying "if there is no police brutality, crime will be rampant" but sarcastically /s

Ive been watching your videos for the past week or so. I'm proud of you my friend. I would love to sit down with you and have a chat. But I'm in Texas. Wish I could get involved in my state and city. Keep up the great conversations and topics .

@mikey-wl2jt

4 ай бұрын

you can! black and brown folk in texas have a big activist tradition and theyre still moving. find your people!

I think a key underlying factor in this discussion is one which exists in almost every “group” or community of people, just about from the beginning of human existence (or at minimum, from before the Middle Ages and forward). It’s organized religion as a whole. Not to imply belief in a higher power or devotion to a set of principles alone results in division or a breakdown in society, not by any means. I’m referring to ambitious human beings who see organized religion as a pathway to personal prosperity under the guise of “awakening society” or whatever term they use in their grift. It’s not about helping people see the world in a meaningful light or giving people outlets to deal with their fear of their own mortality. It’s about money, power and/or influence on as large a scale as possible, and if anyone disagrees with that assertion I challenge you to look in to the history of any faith considered “mainstream”. Look in to the so-called leaders of those faiths and look in to what they’ve done to get to their positions. Doesn’t take long to see humans pollute things in general, and one of those things is the practice of religion as a whole. The fact people rob/rape/kill behind their beliefs in one god vs another is proof of that, and the fact it’s just as bad today as it was 100 years ago in many ways is evidence that there’s no end in sight.

This video (and the first one) have been so informative. My mother is half black and she is VERY anti-black. She says so much bullshit that makes me want to pull my hair out and this video gives me some useful points to throw back at her.

@Jimmy1982Playlists

Жыл бұрын

The self-hate we receive thru society is so unfortunate... I'm half-Arabic, and I had to see and hear my grandfather whitewash his family from any Arabic culture, stop speaking the language, use white supremacist talking points, refuse to go to my sister's wedding cause she was marrying a black man, etc, in the fear that he'd get the same bigoted treatment his father (who was very dark-skinned) got when he came to this country. He basically became the type of guy that would've been racist towards his own father, in order to be seen as "white".

@JohnFrance-ns5ve

Жыл бұрын

lol man I’m living in a sicker society than I thought I was 😂😂😂😂

@landonlacy1954

Жыл бұрын

Wow. I have no words just wow lol

I'm surprised someone finally stepped up and talked about the intricacies of how the our communities are just being led in circles and kept in line. 2nd vid of yours I've watched today, subbing

@terrytari1891

6 ай бұрын

Danny: "iPoder a gente!"

love what you do, keep educating and informing people, you are making a difference.

I’ve been making myself watch some of your videos, since I’ve looked at a lot of Thomas Sowell, Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Larry Elder and so forth. I find yours illuminating in some respects and will continue to investigate.

I remember watching that Morgan Freeman movie when I was in high school, and my first thought was, “if these kids are SO bad and dealing drugs and sexually assaulting people and shit, why are they even attending school?” There was already something really off about the whole thing.

@payasoinfeliz

Жыл бұрын

i thought that about "gangster rappers" too, when some people would demonize them. like, do you not see them singing for a living? singing. song writing. you scared of that? you need to relax.

@theinvisiblewoman5709

Жыл бұрын

The part that confused me the first time I saw the movie was when he chained up the exits. It shocked me and then he gets in trouble for it and he tries to twist it to protect the kids. Chaining up exits was a dangerous game with those kids lives.

@enot2140

Жыл бұрын

​​@@payasoinfeliz forgive me if I come off as condescending, but imo it's like saying that a cow is not dangerous bc I have never seen it do anything other than eat plants to survive. Sure, it doesn't eat people, but if approached wrong, it isn't harmless either. 'Gangster rappers' have a pretty bad stigma in my experience, for being a bad influence through their lyrics (drugs, abuse, anti-social and criminal perspectives on life) and behaviour off-stage (drugs again, rape, violence etc). I know that it is biased and it's just the few rotten apples who spoil the who thing, but it is in reality, that this is what people are worried about, I think. Also these issues aren't limited to gangster rappers. No one is scared of a singer, they are scared of what ideas a singer can plant into mind of people around them, for example their kids... Especially since in some countries musician are quite influential.

@TheMasterBountakun

Жыл бұрын

​@enot2140 I do think it's important though to still point out the actual issues with how racialized that stigma is. There were at the time and still are plenty of rock and country songs that advocate for what could be argued as much worse then what gangsta rap depicts. But there was no push back when a white rock star sings about his love for underage girls.

@Jack-px8lf

Жыл бұрын

​​​​@@TheMasterBountakun hm maybe heavy metal cannibal corpse comes to mind, but gangster rappers also have a connection with it, like ice T. im trying to think of popular rock/country artists, like what would be the equivalent to dead wrong with biggie and eminem who probably the arguably best known rappers? polly by nirvana? idk i really cant think of something on the other side like this because heavy metal also demonized.

I see this elitism in my community too. As a hispanic you have to either be "hardworking" or you are the the problem. It breaks my heart when a member of my community "makes it" and take a get away car to a white neighborhood. We should all support our fellow disenfranchised community. Thats how we make change. Supporting each other and voting for policies in the neighborhoods we grew up in.

@yamashalisrael3300

9 ай бұрын

My Brother you are the Brother to the so called Black Man believe it or not. Yes Mexican are Issachar JACOB who name was change to Israel. This can be found in Genesis 49:14 describe Issachar as crouching down between a burden which is shown today as a Mexican crouched down beside a Donkey. Also Google Israelite symbol you will see the symbol for Issachar is the Donkey.

@yamashalisrael3300

9 ай бұрын

The Children Of Israel was enslaved by the Egyptians they was made to build,I say this to say just look around you and asked yourself why are Issachar the builders the same was done by Judah who are the so called African American. Also ask yourself why is there a pyrimid in México like those in Egypt.

@thenotoriousmichaeljackson8938

9 ай бұрын

W

@dboy4034

9 ай бұрын

Where Im from it's actually Latino kids who can be the rich ones who get handed a great paying construction job from their parents and like you said, definitely had that elitist attitude about their less fortunate counterparts.

@matrixgaming3906

9 ай бұрын

That's primitive tribalism

I believe Farakkahan had something to do with Malcolm’s Assassination. But to be fair, in that clip he said the words he spoke lead to lose of life. Idk if that’s him sayin he was apart of the hit, I think he was more sayin his words inspired the anger that lead to the hit.

@dariuswright6027

3 ай бұрын

Me and my brother was talking about this and it’s definitely looks like he had him removed to take his spot

@warlordofbritannia

4 күн бұрын

He’s ultimately responsible, since without him and his direct or indirect support Malcolm would not have been assassinated (at least in the way it did happen).

Thank you for taking on the utter emptiness that is farakhan. Pascal Robert's description of "a perception of radicalism that challenges nothing" perfectly portrays farakhan.

As a French White man, this was truly instructing. It's rather easy to draw comparisons with other movements, classes, and minorities issues all over the world.

@vertigo2894

Жыл бұрын

Why is France so racist these days? Like oh my god!

@drumccray8153

Жыл бұрын

This dude is lying about the NOI a doesn’t have a clue about what we believe.

@VGMDK1999

Жыл бұрын

This aint your business, Mr Baguette

@agissendanner83

Жыл бұрын

@@VGMDK1999 Yoooo 😭😭😭😭 Not Tea n Crumpets

@alim.9801

Жыл бұрын

​@@VGMDK1999 I think he's just trying to learn? Why are you calling him names

As a mixed native, the indigenous and black struggle are VERY similar and I find a lot of this relatable, unfortunately. Thank you for the video!!

@noranjoku7651

7 ай бұрын

Can u expand like in what way?

@byronmcgee4118

6 ай бұрын

We love y’all…

@assata1367

5 ай бұрын

No it’s not sorry to burst your bubble

@troylynnbrewster7315

5 ай бұрын

@@assata1367I’m not sure what you mean. Yes, blacks were enslaved, oppressed, dehumanized in the US as a fact and still reeling from it. However, Native Americans were perceived as enemies, thought of as salvages and killed sight seen. Land stolen and put on reservations. Essentially the US committed genocide on the Native American population. Currently we have a romanticized view of Native American history when the fact is the US darn near obliterated from earth.

@SM-nz9ff

5 ай бұрын

Right, NA struggle is far worse @@assata1367

Love this video... One of the best informational ones about our people I have come across in awhile. You got a new follower. 💪🏾

I just found this KZread page, and I absolutely love it! Your scholarly information and opinions, delivered boldly, clearly, with a sense of urgency, and with some humor, gives me hope that those who want to attack the status quo aren't solely looking for clout/money. Thank you, and keep up the Noble work you are doing.

Race and class are interwoven but NOT interchangeable. Big ups to a fellow Bri for mentioning it. I’ve been arguing this point with a lot of black people recently. Things like Guns and Healthcare in America prove this point EVERY day

@pisceanbeauty2503

Жыл бұрын

Are black people saying race and class are interchangeable? I feel like this is usually a white liberal/leftist argument.

@stevonwhite8933

Жыл бұрын

Black Americans are failing to pick up, what the greatest black leaders put down decades ago…

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

Жыл бұрын

Are you arguing that we shouldn't conflate the two, or that class cannot insulate one completely from the effects of racism?

@theamazingdoubleA

Жыл бұрын

@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 neither. I’m saying what I said.

@bai-ingabangura6388

Жыл бұрын

You said what you said, but can you clarify a bit. I’m want to understand what you meant.

I am a white 19 yo woman who lives in provo Utah. for years I have gone to BLM protests and challenged my family’s very racist views and language and I have been basically removed from some of my family because of it. But I honestly have the most shallow understanding of what Im trying to stand for. Never have I heard of the NOI until watching this video. I thought I knew so much already but thanks to this video I know there is a lot more for me to learn. I am thankful to have come across this KZread video and for your creativity and uniqueness in explaining issues that I would tune out against my will because of my adhd. Thank you!

@josephreyes3620

11 ай бұрын

This guy is a hypocrite and is sending a dangerous message to black people Capitalism is the best economic system, he prospers from it, but preaches an alternative message He’s a leftist puppet

@rgncal4872

10 ай бұрын

BLM is on the verge of bankruptcy, BLM was takin from the blacks and never helped any black movement, instead pushed lgbtq agenda , bought mansions in LA and again hasn’t done 1 thing for the black community, listen to more Malcolm x like the white elite liberals vs the white conservative. That’s actual real elements of how to help a group of young blacks, and help us thrive. The 36min mark in this video is exactly what happens in America. Me not us, never helps the situation but only themselves. Kwame Ture.

@lichtsprecher

10 ай бұрын

Crazy that the US education curriculum does not exist. Autobiography of Malcom X was part of my 10th grade English class in MD

@simonrodgers2375

10 ай бұрын

All lives matter.

@salemsmith7085

10 ай бұрын

damn i used to live there 😅 good luck bestie

Very balanced view, keep up the good work!👊🏾

Waited months to watch this video & now digesting it piece by piece. I’m 20 min in and while I appreciate the attempt I think the analysis is all over the place… but I’ll remain patient!

@winstonwwright

6 ай бұрын

So another 20min in & I can say this. Being from Philly, a lot of my perspective aligns with yours. I grew up around the NOI, 5%ers, Hebrew Israelites, the list goes on. I dont think post 2010 Farrakhan is as influential as your video suggests… he may get more attention than others, but I’ve lived in the south for a while now and interact with black people on a daily basis who have no idea who any of the leaders you referenced are. A Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, Kwame Toure, etc. Unfortunately many of these individuals are forgotten. Bringing up Umar Johnson to reinforce your point during the Farrakhan segment was also kinda interesting to me. You said Umar is a meme, and you referenced how the “hotep” figure is constantly made fun of in black media. Unfortunately, i believe that black people conflate hotep ideology and pan-Africanism (which is something I know you spoke to) but… My point is that average black people now a days will reject *any* pan-African ideology because it has been turned into a joke for so long (ie don’t be a menace). My wife and I were at a dinner, bunch of bougie black academics, on person asks if anyone takes Umar seriously, I responded that he says some stuff worth listening to and everyone broke out laughing. The people who laughed, are hard core Obama Stans & are the type to follow Van Jones religiously. Could Farrakhan be a distraction? Absolutely. Was the NOI and many other groups / movements co-opted by the US govt? Only a fool would say no. But at the origin of it all, is the intention of advancing our people forward. BLM started as this pure “liberal / progressive” org and then became what it became, because that’s the algorithm in this Neoliberal world and it has been since the 60s. While it was good, this vid does indeed come across as analysis of leftism in Black America and a list of who is “progressive enough”.

You're the social studies teacher I've always wanted and needed to have, now I strive to be. Excellent video that connects historical movements and media representation to the ongoing survival and fight against ideology that separates us from our own humanity and the humanity of others, wealth and power inequality

@georgeboehringer5530

9 ай бұрын

The guy is a communist Tulsa riots happened with government planes it was because of that canal being built that would link black Wall Street with the rest of the world for international commerce

@CarlosBlancas-hg4eh

8 ай бұрын

​@@georgeboehringer5530💥..yep

@Notflix_TV_

7 ай бұрын

Had nothing to do with a black kid sexually assaulting a woman and then one of the black citizens shooting at the white population at the jail then? @@georgeboehringer5530

@Sir_Bucket

5 ай бұрын

​@@georgeboehringer5530punctuation? Never heard of it...

as a jewish person, i think the difference between antisemitism on its own, and antisemitism as a facet of white supremacy is an important difference to bring up, but it isn’t a lot of the time, so it’s cool that you did that

@tinyiko2311

7 ай бұрын

Isn't it funny how 3 months later the Palestinian struggle and the "world leaders" reaction to it highlighted what you were alluding to and the powers that be still try to make them one thing?

@confaffalator

7 ай бұрын

@@tinyiko2311 It's also funny how both conservatism and liberalism under the context of the American government always results in the same outcome: More money for Israel's war.

@terrytari1891

6 ай бұрын

You are right, I belong to another group "PeopleForBuckeyes"!

@Sir_Bucket

5 ай бұрын

​@@tinyiko2311 tell me abou it... Even when it's not white supremacy, it's clear a lot of people who hate jews because of Israel clearly do not understand how geopolitics work. They're just seeing a poor opressed palestinian, and a tyranical, colonialist jew on the other, which is such a reductive take. Yes, we do need a ceasefire, yes a lot of civilians are dying for no reason, but that occidental narrative of "colonized vs colonizer" ignore the generational traumas on both side which led to this situation. It also ignores the question: "how do we build a lasting peace after the ceasefire?", which is a crucial subject.

@ayubnor0

5 ай бұрын

@@confaffalatorThat's what happens when you are lobbied by the AIPAC.

Such an IMPORTANT discussion and so well addressed. Thank you. We need much more of this type of discussion.

Im glad I found this video and your page. Keep it up!

As an Eastern European, all this seems so outlandish, but at the same time, I can find direct points of comparison, because at its root, tyranny and opression is identical all across the map. Much love from Romania!

@damarisbenzar3706

Жыл бұрын

Buna ziua!

My family owns an African Centered k-12 Private school. I have a doctorate in Culturally responsive education and we have been operating since 1996. I enjoy your platform and incorporate this information into my curriculum. We are one of those schools that could definitely benefit from community support.

@jennaywilliams7664

Жыл бұрын

I attended one of the first successful African American private schools in Newark NJ. Chad school. I learned lift every voice and sing in full praise God for that. The African children laughed and mocked us for their observance of that made up tradition that obviously meant nothing to them besides obtaining citizenship. There was no sharing of their dialect, beliefs, nor exploration of similarities. A few anomalies within their social order; a girl named Kenya studying me and learning how to blend in as a negro. And my best friend damilola who chose friendship with me over becoming an outcast within the majority African Americans.

@st.syaacademy8331

Жыл бұрын

Wow! I am so sorry that you had that experience. Fortunately for us, we are a true diaspora and have been since our beginning in 1996. Our students are from The Caribbean and Africa. This year we had three senior males-one African American, one Ibo and the other was Puerto Rican

@jennaywilliams7664

Жыл бұрын

@@st.syaacademy8331 I'm appreciative of the socialization because it made me aware of the true meaning of diaspora.

@thereisonlycis3566

Жыл бұрын

@@jennaywilliams7664Negro, is it the 60’s?

@CareAndCuddlesNursery

Жыл бұрын

​​ This is Beautiful! Having Elders to help teach period is an asset. Being Male is even better as there's a serious need for balance and young men need REAL MEN to follow. The fact you have A Diasporan man, An Igbo man, and an ALKEBULAN/Carib man is ACES!!! I pray your school thrives and grows.

I learned something today. I usually don’t like getting involved with politics cause it’s kind of confusing for me but I enjoyed this video and it taught me about some people I didn’t know exist and long with some things about myself.

I LOVE THIS!!!!! As someone , along with his family, who ticks all the options of minted 'Black Bougie" although I'm a poor public servant still rings true with the inner tension I have regrading this subject.

To open up with the F***** critique is how you know this man’s ultimate goal is to educate and open up the dialogue fr fr. Hats off to you F.D you doing your due dills constantly and with consistent greatness

As a caucasian Jew, I can't tell you how much I appreciate the unwavering criticism of Farrakhan. After the lack of visible criticism when Desean Jackson promoted Farrakhan's praise of Hitler, I remember asking a close black friend why it felt like there were more people showing support than denouncing it. He was quick to mention the level of power and influence Farrakhan has and that for celebrities especially there's a real danger in vocally opposing him. Combine that with white conservative elites elevating problematic black voices to delegitimize ALL radical thought that could beneficially challenge the toxic status quo, it makes sense that fringe movements like NOI (which has directly aligned itself with other cults like scientology) are able to be presented as if they're mainstream influences. Not that Jews are always the best allies, I remember a guy I knew in college (upper-middle class Jew) who opposed elevating other suppressed minorities because they'd challenge his job prospects. I had some words about that and hopefully as an adult he found some empathy... On the subject of job searching, the problem is arguably worse now that AI/ML are being used to screen resumes, because they use qualities of successful candidates to decide what will make future candidates successful, which establishes preexisting racial bias in the algorithms. On why black capitalism doesn't work, it shouldn't have to go beyond "capitalism doesn't work for most white people so why the fuck would it help anyone who's starting from less?!" Capitalism creates a small class of elites and leaves most people deprived of resources. Capitalism doesn't just encourage exploitation of underclasses, it requires it. Lastly I just want to mention how much I love FD's videos because the arguments are so well structured and supported. I'm nowhere near as well researched on these issues and I learn so much new info to better substantiate my perspectives in a way I never otherwise could. It's like sitting in lectures with one of the best professors you could ever have. Though I gotta say I'm disappointed that my Patreon $$$ aren't helping him overthrow the state 🤣

@rasheed7934

Жыл бұрын

You don't like that Farrakhan called out some of the un-kosher practices of Jews that are actually true.

@namelesintelect4016

Жыл бұрын

Capitalism only works when you have someone to exploit. That's why whites have no problem bringing in loads of undocumented workers to ensure blacks don't get a foothold.

@feynmanschwingere_mc2270

Жыл бұрын

"Not that Jews are always the best allies, I remember a guy I knew in college (upper-middle class Jew) who opposed elevating other suppressed minorities because they'd challenge his job prospects." This is SO deep, SO, SO deep, im tempted to write a whole essay on it. Thanks for a wonderful comment and, again, I'm learning from the comments section. Jewish people are fascinating as a group because you'd think, if ANYBODY, has empathy for the plight of black Americans, it's the Jews. I mean, what other non-melanated group, perhaps the Slavs (ehh, not really), has suffered so much Othering and persecution for being the Other, than the Jews? If any group should be supporting of African-Americans it's Jewish people - I mean, even today, people hate Jews for the sole fact of being Jewish - is that any more rational than hating somebody because they have more melanin on their epidermis? And to be fair, as I like to joke, Jews have probably been more supportive of black causes (at least in America) than any other subset of "white" people. Einstein would famously turn down speaking engagements at white universities and instead give those speaking engagements at HBCUs - he also famously invited and hosted the great singer Mariam Anderson in Princeton when she was performing in NJ but wasn't allowed to stay in any of Princeton's segregated hotels.

@fonzarelly3154

Жыл бұрын

Who cares about what cha have to say, couldn't U watch another video?

@towelociraptor

Жыл бұрын

@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 I think it ultimately comes down to what someone like that would rather be - Jewish or fully 'white.' It's kapo mentality to actively maintain and benefit from systems of oppression for others, and I have nothing but contempt for that Ben Shapiro-grade behavior. The vast majority of us aren't like that, but those who are need to be confronted. And you're right that there should be solidarity between Jewish and Black people due to shared histories of oppression and diaspora. Historically, especially during the civil rights era, there were a lot of prominent Jewish leaders acting in solidarity. It's possible though that as generations passed and systemic oppression of Jews weakened, some Jews as I mentioned earlier chose to align with whiteness. And as antisemitic hate crimes are globally on the rise, I hope enough of them recognize the dangers in choosing that path...because I know where it leads, my grandparents were Holocaust survivors

You have certainly changed my mind about movies like Lean on Me! I never looked at it that way. I am certainly not anti black, but I can see how this type of programming has affected me throughout my life. Great video.

As I'm listening to this post for the first time(Fitst time your channel came across my feed)... I am encouraged to hear some of the answers to my issues, thoughts, concerns, and feelings articulated in a way multiple levels of my community can understand and/or consume.

Just stumbled upon this channel yesterday, and have to say that the content has been really eye opening. While I knew a handful of the facts presented in part 1, I definitely wish that the historical context regarding leftist movements during the civil rights era and how many sentiments underpinning revolutionary movements get co-opted by conservative and establishment rhetoric were better taught and understood.

@Nortarachanges

Жыл бұрын

I can’t remember who posted a meme on May Day honoring Henry Ford for the forty hour work week and the weekend. Saaaaad day -.-

@adrianguinn3331

Жыл бұрын

Yeah same. I got history fighting for some of this sh1t and I always learn something with FD.

@shaftomite007

Жыл бұрын

​@@Nortarachanges Jesus that's hilarious. Why are they all so utterly deranged and delusional? MAGAs are staunchly anti-REALITY

@thenaiam

Жыл бұрын

Welcome! And I have also learned so much from FD.

@ChristopherSadlowski

Жыл бұрын

Hm, yeah, but that would threaten the white status quo so... Would be nice, though.

Thought we were going to be dragging black conservatives but you’ve brought nuance, empathy and caused some self reflection. You’re an amazing teacher!

@THATBOISHAD

Жыл бұрын

Black conservatism is a grift. I'm not in love with black liberalism either. But liberalism isn't trying to convince me that everyone will be able to achieve financial success by sheer will power.

@cachestache2485

Жыл бұрын

@@THATBOISHAD You act like our ancestors waited around for the White man to give us 40 acres and mule, you're so brainwashed, a perpetual victim, it's sad to see Black folks never taking accountability.

@jewulo

Жыл бұрын

@@THATBOISHAD How can Black Conservatism be a grift? Are you suggesting that Blacks have a cognitive and psychological uniformity with respect to there philosophical and political views? Blacks can only be liberals or socialist is the underlying tread of your argument. I think you are putting if not shackling black people into a cognitive box - if not even a cognitive ghetto.

@Rotwold

Жыл бұрын

@@THATBOISHAD isn't that one of the core ideas of liberalism as well? I'm from Europe and our view on liberalism differs a lot from the US. But it strike me as odd if the core beliefs would differ that much.

@raw8814

Жыл бұрын

@@Rotwold liberalism (here in america) mainly preaches that u can fix the system by sitting on ur ass and just wanting change bad enough will achieve it, aswell as a lot of performative activism, so yeah it does kinda enable the system but i dont think i could provide enough nuance in a comment like this

I just discovered you and subscribed quickly. You're knowledgeable. The videos are interesting and well done. Thx

you a real one for adding that tekken 5 sfx at the end