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To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. The speaker is the civil rights leader and journalist Roger Wilkins. I did this interview with him in 1989. He comes from Kansas City. He was a journalist at the Washington Post and the New York Times for many years and also did work on NPR. In 1973, he won a Pulitzer Prize. I picked him for my TV series because of his clearly outspoken points of view and storytelling style. Please support my efforts. https://www.patreon.com/allinaday. #rogerwilkins #civilrights #kennedy #racism
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A bunch of talking lawn jockeys
Who is the interviewer
Unevolved tribalism
awe i really love this man! he really put in REAL expression, REAL words that any human can understand. no beating around the bush. beautiful is beautiful and beauty comes in so many varieties all throughout the planet! when my biracial daughter and white niece fought as little girls as to who was prettier, i had to explain this to them. how can a beautiful asian woman compare or compete with a beautiful woman of any other race? she is beautiful for the unique features that no other race of woman can possibly attain. but i feel for black women because as a white woman, it's hard enough on us to be bombarded with images of white women that we can't measure up to so i can only imagine being black in a society that holds unattainable standards of beauty for even white women.
100 PERCENT BULLSHIT black power just like white power is about race supremacy.
Most of the leaders of the civil rights movement were super light skin blacks.
"I love your brown skin…" What a wonderful legacy. Also, Rita Hayworth was way better looking than Lena Horne.
It's so very sad that the Black perception of the time was "we and they" or "us against them" and that much of white America, unless they were racists themselves, could be as obliviously unaware or perhaps uncaring about and ignoring the plight of the Negro as they were. I think this tunnel vision was a byproduct of the "Leave it to Beaver – everything is hunky-dory-let's all hide our heads in the sand" attitude that followed a series of seemingly endless wars in a search for emotional security and something to anchor ourselves to and rally around so America chose naivety. It may sound dumb but my Mother, who was far from ignorant and was very well read, was completely unaware of much of what was going on around her outside of her sphere of influence and responsibility. She felt powerless to affect change and wasn't concerned with the world at large beyond her "Black Belt" in worrying which was generally reserved for family matters. I also remember my Mother telling me as a small child, probably about 5, "If you have babies with a "Colored" or Chinese (I think she really meant Asian) person, that's what your babies will be." I remember thinking … "And that would be bad?" This stuff is ingrained in our society unfortunately and is taking generations to be weeded out of our culture. There was no hatred involved on Mom's part just a lack of understanding. "Ward, you'll never guess what the Beaver did today." Peace & Love Everybody! (and 3 cheers for David Hoffman)
I loved hearing this man speak. I hear what he is saying and I see where his feelings are coming from. I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s and I can look back now and say he is speaking the truth. I am white and grew up in an all white rural town in a white state. I remember the minstrel shows and the all white television shows and the news showing all the unrest in the south. It breaks my heart to know how any human being can treat another in such a horrendous way because of the color of their skin. You can never expect one to do well in life if they are constantly condemned and made fun of and told they are worthless or less of a human being than another no matter what the color of their skin. Unfortunately, there are families who treat their children this way regardless of the color of their skin. Prejudices are passed down from generation to generation in many families. It’s sad that people can not treat others as they wish to be treated themselves. I was fortunate to have been raised in a family without these prejudices.
Whites have always been evil.
David, you have the greatest channel on all of YouTube. The untold history and stories of everyday folk is real gold, man. What you got out of these people is really something to be cherished, so well done. We see industry pundits winning awards for making up languages and having blue people save the universe, but all of that is meaningless when one watches real people with real stories. You sir, are a global treasure.
I've been wondering if the choice of the name: "Black lives matter" isn't black people being so despondent that they feel a need to remind other black people of that; For fear that black people would fully integrate into their own mind the infectious notion that black lives don't matter, and just give up.
Just so you don't have to scroll through all the comments below I'll give you a rundown on what is in them. White people in the comment section are upset with this black guy for being upset with the way blacks have been treated in this society. YES!!! White people bitching about black people bitching about white people. Let that sink in. Sooo…. We have two sides. Whites and Blacks.. Both feel aggrieved. We can look at it in this way. What was the treatment that these two different peoples experienced since the inception of the United States and the colonies prior to the revolution. Well for one Black Africans were exclusively treated as chattel for the first couple hundred years. Beaten, raped, forced to labor, killed, bought and sold, and broken apart from their families. During that same period NO white people were treated this way solely based on the color of their skin. Yes there was indentured servitude and whites in some cases were held as "servants". However there was no "white enslavement". After emancipation blacks were continually suppressed through Jim Crow laws that whites have nothing to compare to. Today, as the power structure in this country is still welded by majority white male aristocratic heads of state and corporations, there is a gap in wealth equality (for all races) that hasn't been experienced since the robber Barrons of the early 20th century. Add to that the impending and present climate catastrophes which are contributing greatly to the fear in the populace, and VIOLA! You see nervous white people complaining about black folks complaining about their plight, both past and present. This is why MLK realized that the road to equality has less to do with skin pigmentation and more to do with POVERTY and the fear of Poverty. So unto the white people complaining I say "At long last, stop being the fool and see clearly who and what is oppressing your poor white mind and dissolve the oppression. It will alleviate your guilt and allow all men and women to live in peace and prosperity".
Mixed people tend to be more pathological in 'representing' their non-white side to overcompensate and prove their "blackness". I think it's cruel that they've been deprived of a solid identity and they live conflicted lives as they're never fully accepted by either white/black.
Also usually both of their parents don't look like them so I'm sure that has a psychological effect also.
This a beautiful and important upload. Thank you for this and everything else you put out on this wonderful channel.
I was about to write that this clip is “too vague”. But I realized that I haven’t watched enough of David Hoffman’s clips to confidently make that statement. So I’m going to watch a whole bunch of them, and then I’ll get back to y’all.
I should be finishing my homework lol. Another great video
lol. He lived a comfortable life, pursuing various careers of his choice, going where he wanted to go, living as he wanted to live, enjoying the prestige of working at the nation's most powerful newspaper and teaching history at George Mason. But instead of being grateful for that freedom, public recognition, and professional success, he's still a broken little child, whining that 35 years prior, Rita Hayworth was on a poster instead of Lena Horne. What a miserable, fragile wretch, thankfully no longer here to gripe.
Black Power: The full message by Stokely Carmichael was "Black Empowerment"….It was shorted to "Black Power".
2. Power- Avenues of education, entrepreneurship, political savvy and influence, real estate. Not "get white".
3. As a young black kid in Detroit I studied the hell out of this topic. Marcus Garvey was really the originator of this mindset- That's for another day.
It takes a special person to see outside of themselves and attempt to understand someone else’s perspective. Most people in these comments do not have this trait
I absolutely love this man. In a world where the majority gets to dictate everything (whether it’s right or wrong), resistance to that is absolutely necessary just to validate one’s own existence. As a diverse society, we have to make room for one another or we are talking about the eradication of self esteem and ultimately, of humanity. Bravo to you for continuing to share his commentary.