White Mediocrity Explained
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2024
- The term "white mediocrity" isn't meant to offend, it's simply a reality. Michael Harriot explains why average white people can achieve great things because they live in a society that's designed for them to succeed. TheGrio Daily is an original podcast by theGrio Black Podcast Network. #BlackCultureAmplified
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My whole life before becoming an adult every yt person was smart, teachers, doctors landlords office ppl then when I started to work with them almost all of them are dumb even the supervisors and assistant plant managers.
My supervisor admitted that he was the F up in his family but he was our boss.
The illusion fades
Excellent demystifying of the notion of white exceptionalism. "Dollar General white people " will now replace "Great Value white people" in my lexicon.
They all look like swamp people to me
And DEI black folk will always be black mediocrity in my book
This video was spot on with laser precision.
Said no one, EVER
Michael !!!! You broke that down!!!! Excellence at its finest.❤
Love the analogy!
👏🏿👏🏾👏🏿👏🏾👏🏿👏🏾👏🏿👏🏾👏🏿👏🏾👌🏾👍🏿 thank you 😊
Bravo!
Fascinatingly correct sir!
Wow just had an interesting conversation similar to this.
Thank you so much
Regarding using black lawyers, remember , a good lawyer knows the law, a Great lawyer knows the judge. A black lawyer may be competent but he may not be connected enough to get you leeway with the judge trying your case.
But knowing the law, how to wield it, and truly understanding the dynamics of the case, will carry the day. Being Black in a white-is-right society, one sees things that whites do not. Blacks in a sense are freer/more creative in their thinking because the framework was never built for them. I often think this is why Black Americans are so creative -- music, language, fashion, etc.
@loriannrichardson7644 an average lawyer who has an established off the court relationship with the judge will have an advantage over even a better lawyer who doesn't have a relationship with the judge. Don't take my word for it! I heard this from many lawyers
Yessir
@@lhistoireenvideo5877I absolutely believe you are accurate in your assessment, but that is the problem. Then to make matters worse, if black people start establishing these type of good old boy systems, those same people start wanting to talk about ethics and corruption.
Black lawyers don’t work for free anymore than white lawyers do.
I read that thumbnail and thought of Piers Morgan.
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As a teacher of English literature, I always had to work harder because people assume that Black people only know Black works. I had to study English literature from the European perspective, (which was just the core of that study but I needed to study the works of literature from other cultures in order for me to feel like a complete scholar. This is what made me a great teacher. I could choose books that were culturally relevant to my students while reading the “classics.” It helped validate the student experience.
Outstanding Description!!!
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I wish more young black Americans would listen to these type of content/ pod cast.
A lot of Younger Black Americans lack history / facts, so they think other black Americans that present Information like this, are called ( old heads ) ( it's not like that no more), ( we are waking up and getting off the plantation).
Which is the furthest from the truth.
We need our young black people, they are the future. But they need to know history and facts to understand the real dynamics of racism in the USA.
Agreed, a lot of great black content is suppressed sadly. All the major networks have an idea of “black content” which is content that reinforces the worst stereotypes of the community. In music an artist like Sexy Redd, Lil Yatchy and Ice Spice will blow up seemingly overnight and find their way in sprite commercials and even get interviews with presidential candidates (looking at you Biden speaking with Glorilla and Cardi B), but listeners will have to work to discover deep conscious artists like NoName. Similarly in the media, people like Michael Harriot and Dr. Jared Ball will never get the opportunity to present the black agenda on networks like CNN, Fox, MSNBC but they will give Ice Cube hundreds of interviews. It’s really sad when you see how the system works. But also puts the onus on us to spread the message organically
Many black youth don't even believe racism exists in america,even some blacks who have youtube channels think this too. They too believe some blacks are lazy and the whole black community in america are fatherless,trifling,lazy,criminals,etc,etc,..they've fallen for the banana in the tail-pipe schick.
All Truth 🙌
None of it is truth
I appreciate your podcast I once said this to a White colleague who would shoot up the ladder just because he was white. I know he was offended because he turned beet red but I love this fact.
It wasn't a fact. It was you being jealous and finding an excuse to put down his exceptionalism.
Your black fragility is showing 😂
Brilliant!!!
That’s educational and hilarious. So true. The original argument by Thomas Paine in Common Sense was against having King’s because they are silly. Why would somebody be chosen as King just because they have ‘magic blood’ they inherited from their dad and mom? He was arguing against the King-Tyranny of George III but against tyranny in general. The Supremacy Act the King put out in the 1530s announced his Supremacy was announced and he merged the two roles of King and Pope together into one office (not Pope but Supreme Head of the Church of England). That’s when white nationalist supremacy was really born. Those arrogant Anglos jumped in their ships decades later in Jamestown.
brilliant
Awesome sauce!👑❤️👊🏾
Which accounts for the Taylor Swift phenomenon, which is why her weak vocals butt is sitting with the top 14 slots on Spotify etc…
Cope Beyoncé is worse than
Great analysis
Excellent commentary. Liked your analogy. It makes such practical sense. It is truth. I have to listen to this wise commentary a few more times to extract the full knowledge of what you shared. Thank you!!
I would listen in but the grio is anti-fba soooo I'm good..
I really wish my people here in Africa had the same critical thinking skills as you do. We needmore people like you Mr Harriot
You make a good point, but I would say you can expose more people to these ideas. You can change the situation you don't like, by exposing one person you think would accept our new reality, first. #EachOne . Stay Up, Wutu Family!
It’s kind of hard to work on your critical thinking skills when you’re stuck in multi dimensional poverty.
@@MrStCyrX Having lived through abject poverty where one is forced to prioritise 'the next meal', I agree with you on the former portion of your point. Where I peel off is on the latter part, because there is arguably a healthy proportion of Africans living in relatively healthy QOL standards by any measure to allow for public discourse on social justice issues. Unfortunately this class chooses not to engage in this manner, primarily because their choices are driven OR typically clouded by the harsh realisation of how fragile their hard earned existence is. I belive the general consencus is that one wouldn't want to stick their neck out and shout these things off the rooftops for a number of competing reasons - : It is hard to get attention and if one does -> and get a significant number of eye balls + ears one leaves oneself prone to a well organised political machinery purpose built to weed out any 'new rising stars' -> if one is lucky enough to get caught one could get arrested and accused of contravening some Law and Order Maintainance Act etc... -> jails in most African states are not pleasant and this well known. The point I am making is that there is a class of people who are well off enough to have allocate mental resources to upending the status quo through organisation etc however they fail miserably at this responsibility and more often than not, their economic survival is tied into the success of the black political class - the more wealth one accumulates the more dependant one becomes on the state. It is a sad state of affairs but that is the general norm. How do I know this - because I had to flee my country after sticking my neck out. I wish I could discuss this more and in greater depth but I do not want to bore you with it.
@@357Donnell Yes you could to a certain point but 'State subversion' cannot exist in silo.
@@spikes2023 With a movement, that could happen, but a movement generally doesn't happen overnight. I'm not sure what country you live in and how much my suggestions don't inspire hope 😳, but you seem like a knowledgeable person and willing to change 1 thing in your control. Are you West Coast/Ivory Coast, South Coast, East Coast of the continent or DRC area?
I appreciate Michael bringing another critical subject from the shadows into the light. We need this kind of reality check.
Thank You for educating me. I'm a 35 year old white man in a relationship with a black woman. Reverse racism is absolutely infuriating. Black people deserve so much better!
He is a mess “Dollar General “ brand 😂😂😂 I love Michael Harriet.❤
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Keep teaching📚 brother
I approve this explanation
Black mediocrity is FAR more prevalent nowadays, given DEI.
Stop fooling yourself
And tell me, what is the village going to do with those who won’t try to get stronger?; those who think, Why should I if the strong do it? What should the village do with them? Let them starve? And if those who chose not to be strong have children, how do you think they will turn out? You know their parents will be so pre-occupied with themselves and their drama, they won’t instill the keys to success in them. So the kids will look around and see the children of the strong parents with all the best stuff and think, “That’s not fair. Why shouldn’t I have those things too.”? They won’t know that it was because their parents made the choice not to try to be strong and to just live off the other villagers, will they? They will just see it as unfair and will likely blame the kids of the strong villagers for not deserving the good stuff. The weak parent kid will say they got that good stuff by cheating and they are the reason for deprived situation. Why? Because the child was never encouraged, let alone taught, what is necessary or how to succeed. They will not understand what those things are nor how to get them. This will result in frustration, which will lead to anger, which will lead to hate, which will lead to violence, which will lead to death or the village jail. Imagine that. All that because of a lack of understanding and misplaced blame. And that is why adversarial approaches rarely succeed!
Just finished Michael’s book. ‘Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America’. Essential reading for anyone wondering just where we are as a people and how we got here. Sad. Volatile. Harsh. Astute. Laugh out loud funny and, most importantly, truthful. Buy it. Read it. And tell all your friends to do the same.
FLOP book from a black supremacist
This is hogwash!! To succeed you have to work hard. Period. Unfortunately, the choices you make as a child will greatly affect your future. If parents don’t instill a good work ethic, self-discipline (through disciplining the children), and the pursuit of doing the best they can do, you can’t blame society that once they become adults, they have no opportunities.
Do YOU not understand what is being said… what are you taking about.. 🤦🏾♀️
@@saudiacooper8609 Why do you think the people screaming about opportunity don’t have much opportunity today???
I can’t stand Kavanaugh, but that is a gross oversimplification of him. He did go to Yale undergrad and Yale law.
You’re my baby daddy Michael!!! ❤️ ❤❤
Gross
WYPIPOLOGIST!!! genius!Lol 😆😆😆
Genius? Nope
The Grio is weak.
How weak? Like sickly on it's deathbed weak or COVID-15/influenza weak? Or do you know something about their marketing we don't know?