Did you enjoy it? This is still one of my favorite projects. I learned so much about Black culture and am still very thankful and still feel honored and humbled to have been asked to write this.
thats how it starts though. fight for the right to share everything, then choose on your own to segregate? the same thing is happening to this day. we will never have peace and acceptance so long as we cant all share as ONE people. no black, no white, just "people" i wish it wasnt "a black man going to church or a white man going to church" i would love is people just said "a man" for either of them. we dont need to constantly self segregate.
cee sco... Thanks so much for your comment. Yes, calling these great Americans African-Americans was controversial even back then (in 1996). In the end it was the consulting professors who hired me who decided on this. Later in the video, I went mostly with Black. It's hard to know what to do to keep from hurting people's feelings. I do feel there is so much to be proud of in this story and I was honoured to be asked to write it. And I was thrilled that they let me start by telling the water intake story at the beginning. Sorry about the quality. The copy the producers gave me wasn't very good. A retelling is definitely overdue! A retelling by a member of your community, not just one of your German-American admirers.
Astrid Julian Not About Feelings When its the Truth... "Black" Americans are the Americans, We are not from Africa We have always been Here, So to Call Us "African Americans" is to Disconnect Us from Our Homeland... We be them Real Cleveland Indians
I would much rather refer to people as humans, but somehow we need to acknowledge that some peoples' ancestors had a harder journey than other peoples'. Kind of irks me that we still label people by the colour of their skin, but how else do you show respect for this extra burden they had to carry through the less tolerant, oppressive decades and centuries.
I get this. I think those professors wanted to put Black Americans on equal footing with Irish-Americans and German-Americans and so on, but I am more inclined to see it your way. It was a fad.
i respectfully thank you for sharing this.
Thank you, Ralph. These people truly inspired me.
They didnt teach us this when i took history of Cleveland at csu!
Did you enjoy it? This is still one of my favorite projects. I learned so much about Black culture and am still very thankful and still feel honored and humbled to have been asked to write this.
Here it is in one piece in case you want to share it with friends or family. czcams.com/video/2ggSpLrnRvY/video.html
Shamica Johnson they don't want to cuz they owe us money and land!
This is the link to the whole 30 minute documentary... czcams.com/video/2ggSpLrnRvY/video.html
thats how it starts though. fight for the right to share everything, then choose on your own to segregate? the same thing is happening to this day. we will never have peace and acceptance so long as we cant all share as ONE people. no black, no white, just "people" i wish it wasnt "a black man going to church or a white man going to church" i would love is people just said "a man" for either of them. we dont need to constantly self segregate.
Nicely said.
Great Video... But We are not "Africans Americans", Sooo its Hard to Like
cee sco... Thanks so much for your comment. Yes, calling these great Americans African-Americans was controversial even back then (in 1996). In the end it was the consulting professors who hired me who decided on this. Later in the video, I went mostly with Black. It's hard to know what to do to keep from hurting people's feelings. I do feel there is so much to be proud of in this story and I was honoured to be asked to write it. And I was thrilled that they let me start by telling the water intake story at the beginning. Sorry about the quality. The copy the producers gave me wasn't very good. A retelling is definitely overdue! A retelling by a member of your community, not just one of your German-American admirers.
Astrid Julian Not About Feelings When its the Truth... "Black" Americans are the Americans, We are not from Africa We have always been Here, So to Call Us "African Americans" is to Disconnect Us from Our Homeland... We be them Real Cleveland Indians
I would much rather refer to people as humans, but somehow we need to acknowledge that some peoples' ancestors had a harder journey than other peoples'. Kind of irks me that we still label people by the colour of their skin, but how else do you show respect for this extra burden they had to carry through the less tolerant, oppressive decades and centuries.
Astrid Julian Never been about Skin Colors... Its About Land, We are not "African Americans" , We are the Americans
I get this. I think those professors wanted to put Black Americans on equal footing with Irish-Americans and German-Americans and so on, but I am more inclined to see it your way. It was a fad.