This comment shows that you didn’t even listen to what he was saying: he literally explained that he THOUGHT ignorance was the root problem of racism is ignorance instead of policies.
I would highly recommend reading reading a book from the black author Thomas Sowell called "Discrimination and Disparities" for more info about this subject
The fact that you say this to me implies that you are lumping me in with others, most of whom have not read this book. I am offended at your type 1b discrimination and would prefer if you apply type 1a by acknowledging that I have already read the book. Seriously though, if you like that, check out Race and Culture. So good.
I think he's trying to categorise the arguments that can be made. Can you throw another explanation out there that doesn't fall under his two categories?
@@dit4963 well yes thinking there is something inferior with black people is part of the culture, as well as fighting because there is discrimination. You're actually echoing Kendis point, he just divided it into two main arguments after he put in probably months of work to synthesize as such you know, hes just doing his job which is explaining things better than just making a quite vague statement that culture is an explanation of racism. Of course it is, no one is saying it isn't, were just going further than that.
@@MerKabaChannel , you misunderstood which culture I was referring to. And is nothing vague about saying that culture, especially education, is the root cause. It amazes me that people still cannot differentiate between culture and the actual human beings...
@@fartyuio imo. Inequalities exist in everything including humanity since the beginning. It is the nature of life. You can divide "white people" into ethnic groups, French, Dutch, Irish, Slovic, Greek, Italian, German, and so on, and you will find they are all unequal. Furthermore, you can do the same with "blacks" Jamaican, Haitian, Afro Carib, African (almost 50 countries) and find as groups they are not equal ( single Jamaican women outperform most of their counterparts black or white or male). Further, still, you can divide households where some kids become doctors and others sell used cars. To think that EVERYONE should end up in the same place at the same time, well ridiculous to put it kindly. Thanx for the ear
When I told someone historical facts they just said that was one point of view. We don’t want to believe that our socioeconomic situation isn’t because of our hard work alone, but helped majorly by our situation.
"The activism" (and by extension, the sort that Mr. Kendi offers as anti-racism) "is a way for useless people to feel important, even if their activism" (read false gospel) "is counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole." - Thomas Sowell
@The Alternative Observer Bit late to the party, but for myself his shot at John McWhorter is iffy. He states that people will use racist ideas if it benefits them (fair point). I'm a fan of John McWhorter's work and I find the inference being made by comparing a person defending slavery in mid 1800 and a modern thinker extremely problematic. And it is never specified what idea McWhorter supports nor how he benefits from perpetuating the idea. There are a lot of fallacies like this in Kendi's work. The point about a candidate getting into power who was endorsed by the KKK is another example. The KKK can endorse anything and it reminds me of the South Park episode where Jimbo encourages the KKK to support the opposite of what the Klan wants because they reason that people will instinctively vote against the Klan, even if the Klan is supporting a black candidate.
I believe these disparities are not only caused by current discrimination, but by lasting effects of socioeconomic hardship and cultural baggage. We cannot disregard these other factors if we long for the day when we share equal opportunity.
Do you think any of that continued socio-economic hardship might have been prolonged by well-intentioned but misguided social programs? It seems to me like 50 plus years of the war on poverty should have some positive results.
I love Tracy K. Smith and Natasha Trethewey's poems. I'm from the Philippines and have not experienced racism in my own country in any way shape or form but their experiences shared through their poems felt real to me. Both amazing women!
As a white man who used to be ignorant to what extent I benefited from the current system and was scared of policies that seemed to put me at "disadvantage" such as affirmative action, I feel the need to admit that fear lead me to form racist ideas that justified our current system. I worried that I might not get into certain colleges because I was white if these policies were in effect (subliminally behind that worry is the idea that a minority would be"taking my spot" who was less qualified which is absurd as I had no worry about any unfair advantages that I did in fact receive) ... Often times ignorance of what allows us to get where we are leads to us creating a narrative that we could not have gotten an unfair advantage; we just worked hard and were smart. At least it did for me, and I think there are still subconscious tendencies that I have to keep in check, but it is liberating to not feel the need to defend a system that is clearly unjust.
One of the ‘good whites’. You’ve surrendered what is obviously true for what appears virtuous. It’s sad, delusional and cowardly (or you’re just not very bright).
The first issue to deal with is understanding how people develop their identities. Racism is often confused with bias-- that is a dislike of an individual, not a group. Dr. Kendi wrote in his Stamped from the Beginning, "Ibn Khaldun did intend to merely demean African people as inferior. He intended to belittle all the different-looking African and Slavic peoples whom the Muslims were trading as slaves." As a graduate of Near Eastern Studies and a Muslim, this was not only disappointing, but terribly incorrect information because Ibn Khaldun is African. Dark skinned people from Africa and lighter skinned people from the Gulf area had been trading and even fighting together at times against a common enemy, and sometimes against each other for thousands of years before and at the time of Islam. There are many dark skinned famous Muslims, who originate from Africa. Many who are considered heroes in Islam, such as the most famous, and the first caller of the call to prayer -- Bilal Ibn Rabah. Bear in mind that Bilal was among the close companions of the Prophet Muhammad. Sumaya bint Khayyat was an African slave and is among the first Muslims. She is a hero and the first martyr in Islam. Many Muslim women take their name from her. Ghana and Mali in West Africa take their names from Arabic words in the Quran. East Africans and the Arabs from Yemen have been mixing for thousands of years. Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Battuta were both scholars, and would never make such an observation, because they understood the importance of Hadith and farewell where Prophet Muhammad said, "All mankind is from Adama and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black, nor a black has any superiority over a white except by piety (taqwa) and good action." What is an Arab? What is an African? What is white or black? How do people identify themselves. This is the first question. When I was a child, my father had white friends who we called "cousins" and were part of our extended family. I have blood related, White family members. I am also very quick to call out racism. But I know that Whiteness is an ideology and race is a construct. Arab is by language, not geographic region, like Africa. The best example of this is Egypt. Egypt is located in Northern Africa. Are Egyptians Arabs? Sudan was Egypt North until the British divided Egypt into half and created Sudan. Are the Sudanese Egyptians, Africans, or Arabs? Sudanese are Arabs, and they identify as Muslims. Another example are many of the greatest scholars of Hadith (Prophetic traditions) which the majority of Muslim recognize, Imam Muslim and Imam Bukhari. Neither of them were from the land occupied by Arabs, yet they are considered Muslims first, and Arabs. Arabic is their natural language. Prophet Muhammad also described Arab as not from father or mother, or land, but from the tongue. Racism can only exist if one believes in race. Skin color is not always an identifier of race. Scholars, such as Dr. Kendi, have a responsibility to ensure they report facts, not fiction or else they risk exacerbating racist attitudes, and further dividing people, which is a big problem today.
"Racism can only exist if one believes in race. Skin color is not always an identifier of race." So do you believe in race or not? Does choosing not to believe in race prevent racism being used as a motivation for actions taken against or for you?
@@fartyuio Racism is real. Race is not. In the Middle East and in Africa, some clans and tribes often harbor strong hatred toward one another as was seen in Rwanda between the Hutus and Tutsis. The war in Afghanistan between Pashtuns and Tajiks is another example. We -- as in Americans -- have a bad habit of oversimplifying what is often complex. I think of it as "Hollywood-ism" Lol. In Hollywood, producers attempt to cram years of details into one page, so they oversimplify. I hate racism. I'm in Saudi Arabia right now and Arabs, Africans, Asians and Orientals mix with each other. Some behave as if they are better than others. While most do not. They remind me of some of my people in the South who put on airs and are cliquish. I've dealt with racism all of my life -- it's real. But what is also real is the fact that twins can come into this world - one brown skinned and one pale skinned born to parents with dark brown skin. Is the brown one White? Is the white one Black? My problem with Dr. Ibram X has more to do with an irresponsible reporting of two great scholars, Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Battuta, whom he identified as both being ignorant and racist. And it feeds into the British-produced false narrative that Africans and Arabs are natural enemies and all Arabs are racists who invented slavery.
@@dr.earnest.ujaama very naive comment bro. Just because you haven’t seen something or experienced something doesn’t mean it exist. This book talks about how Europeans looked at Africa. How Arabs , Egyptians, Muslims, looked at Africans doesn’t matter because they didn’t have a monopoly on the slave trade the way the Europeans did. They went from Slavs (white people) to African blacks.
@@Mr.Mustgohard There is nothing naive about pointing out a huge error. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning is factually incorrect. Sudanese are Muslims and Africans, however they are not Europeans. Egypt and Sudan were one inside Africa before it was split in the mid-20th century. At least learn to read the books you discuss in a scholarly work in the language it was originally written in to rule out bias. Dr. Kendi's book is soaked with personal bias. Ibn Batuta and ibn Khaldun were both African and Arab, just like Bilal Ibn Rabah was African and Arab. Their land is Africa, their language is Arabic, and their religion is Islam. The definition of Arab has more to do with language than place or tribe. For example, Imam Bhukari and Imam Muslim, his student were from Uzbekistan (Eastern Europe), yet they are Arab because of their language. This is how the early Arabs understood Arab which was defined by Prophet Muhaamad (peace be upon him) during a famous incident involving Bilal ibn Rabah. Imam Abu Hanifa, who is equally well-know throughout the Muslim world, as was Bilal (the first caller of the prayer) and Bukhari (the most well-read compiler of hadith), was Persian but every Muslim knows him as an Arab. Kendi is a scholar and professor. His work has received high praises, but among who and what cost? I don't believe Kendi intended to cause further divisions and resentment. The only ones praising his book are those who are Orientalists and nationalists. If you want to discuss slavery, that is another topic. Africans also engaged in slavery, as did the Romans, the Greeks, and the Persians. Kendi's work is not about slavery, rather it is about racism against Black people. If you understand the history, there are many great African and Black Muslims who are heroes in Islam. Not all Egyptians, Arabs, or Muslims are the same in color, language, or religion, so this is also problematic when attempting to discuss racism. Please do more reading and investigation, and try to avoid English. Read Frantz Fanon's book, Black skin, White mask published in 1952. His book does a much better job in discussing racism than Dr. Kendi. -- Dr. Ujaama
@@dr.earnest.ujaama he did not divide, in my opinion though. I agree with what your saying, but the books talks very little about Arab influence on the slave trade. To me it sounds like you only read one chapter. He did mention Leo Africanus, a fellow African, who did horrible damage by stating that his own people were beast with no understanding on being civilized. A black man telling other white men his people is dumb is all they needed to hear. Even if he didn’t see all the places he wrote about in his book. Now back to your take I agree there are great black men of Islam or different faiths and nationalities, BUT we are talking about America. This book is written to tell the facts about what some of our “GREAT” Fore fathers thought about a certain group of people in AMERICA. This book is no different than “Lies my teacher told me” & “ A peoples history of the US”. We are having a good convo also no hard feelings, and apologize about naive comment, but I like to hear other peoples opinions about things like this.
Let me just say I am ignorant and feel free to correct me, but do the lasting effects of historic discrimination count as current discrimination? For example, when it comes to schools are in large part funded through property taxes, and communities of color often live in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods which is in large part a product of redlining and mortgage discrimination. Now I am sure racial housing discrimination in loans still occurs, and I have heard reports that it is harder for people of color to get credit, but it seems in a large part the quality of educational funding seems to not be inherently discriminatory but an inequity that is the product of past inequities. I do not think you can explain something like maternal mortality in that way as it affects African American woman of all socioeconomic status. I am curious if the distinction of racial disparities being built-in via systemic past issues that intersect with class issues is a useful distinction? Many conservatives want to claim that we can only fix one type of the issue current discriminatory policies and they deny that any of those exist? I wonder if the way we address the issues is different in some way.
Matthew Palmer *Disclaimer: I’m not speaking from personal experience, but from my background in social science, so grains of salt needed. On the face of it, historic discrimination and current discrimination seem like two different things, but when historic discrimination is as overwhelming as it is in the US, current equality is simply not enough. Using public school as an example: (1) Historical discrimination matters because it causes current inequality. As you know, school quality in the US is largely based on the socioeconomic status of the neighborhood, which is historically affected by race. Regardless of whether or not housing discrimination exist legally (let along social discrimination) this still results in minorities going to worse schools. Current equality cannot fix that, same way that a runner with a late start cannot be expected to catch up to the lead, even if he is as fast. (2) What is considered “current equality” is not equality, but the result of historical, and very much current discriminations. US has one of the largest educational disparity among developed nations. Countries like the UK and Canada, where private schools are of similar performance as private schools in the US, do not have the same scale and level of underfunding problem in its poorer public schools as the US. This is because the US has a history of, as is currently, cutting public school fundings support for those poor neighborhoods. When schools are supposed to be the best tool for social mobility, this effectively traps minorities in their socioeconomic stratum. In summary, it is impossible to separate historic and current discriminations, especially when all forms of current discrimination aims to exacerbate the effects of historic discriminations. What historic discrimination need is current redress. What seems like de jure equality is not only insufficient, it’s not even equality. Finally, I would like to add: the maternal mortality rate of black mothers is very much a result of current discriminations and racial bias. Black mothers are not only more likely to be treated in poor and inadequate hospitals, but there are mountains of studies showing that medical practitioners are less likely to empathize with the pain of black women, and thus more likely to cause malpractice (thus the “regardless of social standing” part). And thus, without a single explicitly discriminatory laws being in the book right now, black and minority citizens remain much more vulnerable than white citizens. History created a gap, the current system preserves it, and people’s racial bias kept making lives worse. Welcome to systemic racism.
Matthew Palmer Pardon the long essay above, on closer reading I’m not even sure if we’re disagreeing. I guess a couple points in your post hit a nerve, and I’d like to leave some response in case of incoming bad faith spins. Your suggestion on adding a class lens is valid, though I’d arguein the US it’s mighty hard to to see where race ends and class begins (see the racialization of Irish and Italian Americans).
李承澤 School quality does not depend on tax money. New York City used to pay more per student than anywhere else in the country and still had very poor results. Charter schools do more with less because they do not have the interference of the teacher’s unions and they are competing with a system that has never had competition. They are responsive and actually adapt to the needs of the student. School choice would force better outcomes and knock the rust off of the ossified public school bureaucracy.
@@elirivera3880 Hm, yeah, true. It's just sobering to hear it called out in your own country. Especially since the US would like to think it's socially evolved (even from the beginning when slavery still existed, we were so proud of our democratic ideals). It's crazy to think of whole groups of people being denied basic human rights simply because other people want to maintain their... comfort. To not lift our white-gloved hands while people are dying? It's disturbing to think of the ambivalence towards human suffering involved in that. And it makes me wonder how much still exists today :-/
Some interesting trivia. ebram ix kkkendy's real name was Raymond Cyst. He changed it because he thought it would be too spot on if people started calling him Ray.
His mention of John McWhorter saying his ideas promulgate racist ideas is straight up lunacy . Compare the two men's body of work . Who is available to debate his ideas , only John . And that is because he is a scholar for real
The scary thing about critical race theory, unlike science where idea's are verified and argued, Kendi's ideas are not put up to debate with any real scholars, for public view that whole process was ignored.
They are basically faith-based assertions. The whole canon behind them is supported, at its core, by such unproven claims. It’s self-referential and protected by the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracies (the campus inquisitors). They’re in a ‘Dutch oven’ smelling their own farts and telling each other how great they are. If these high-minded theories were exposed to the light of free inquiry, they would be falsified so fast their progenitors could sue for whiplash.
You can’t debate critical race theory without being called a racist. It part of their cult like organization. Any dissent in thought is seen as inherently hostile. It’s a very dangerous precedent to set.
Patrick Rubino you hit the nail on the head I think. You can’t logic someone out of an emotional hole. Faith and emotion are so closely linked, especially in this circumstance
Real scholars. Like Samual George Morton, the originator of scientific racism. A man so driven to construct a racial hierarchy of human beings that he collected skulls (who knows how he procured them all but folks don't generally just give racists their skulls) and invented all sorts of measurements and other means of "proving" that whites were better than everyone else. You mean scholars like him?
@@bethsanchezyoga55 whoa, is this a kafka trap question, or do you seriously think that's how scientists are today? Do you know how the scientific method works? Bad science get weeded out. How does bad philosophy get weeded out? For some reason the past is the present for all the people who want to hate, they just look for a reason, and they have to go back a long time. I guess for you we are currently living mid 1800's because it suits the rage you want to have in 2020. Should all of history be in trial, or just the moments that justify your political views.
I don't understand the point he makes at 11:50. He says that many who wrote and enforced these racist ideas loved black people, and goes on to say that they were ignorant was due to the policies set in place (he talks about this later in his point) prior. But can't we also say that those who write and enforce are the same people producing racist policies that enforce ignorance/racism too? That we're just cycling and recycling racist ideologies to enforce ignorance/prejudice?
It's essentially the just world fallicy. The had power and created a world view that justifies that power. Their personal opinion on black people could be hate or love, but their world view accepted a powerstructure build on racisim as just, and they created laws based on that world view so they made racist laws, and then people grow up in a world with laws created in this world view and also fall pray to the just world fallicy. It's a self prepetuating system but it's not just recycling, it's also growing and changing.
Hi! I think the comment he made about how much Thomas Jefferson "loved" black people is a reference to the fact that he had an affair with a black girl called Sally Hemings. Jefferson also called slavery a moral evil while at the same time owning more than 600 slaves. Correct me if you think I'm wrong here, but I think his point with that was that the people who created these racist ideas did not do it because they necessarily hated black people but because these racist ideas were a tool to justify policies that they themselves benefitted from.
5:59. Think its closer to the perpetuation of lower soco enconomic backgrounds. Your parents aren't massively wealthy so you get trapped in a system by decisions your forced to make. The level of support you can access and afford, the schools you can go to etc plus on top the inherit racial biases most carry round with them. I would argue there is less explicit racial bias, i.e general society would look down on your for going round dropping the n word in a prejorative manner or lynching people, however far more implicit racial bias. Can actually observe it even with something as trivial as dating response rates. Black women have some of the lowest response rates from white men. Around 20% iirc. This goes back to the point of whiteness seeming the ideal beauty standard. While definately his underlying points holds, I reckon its more suble than he is making it out to be.
The same holds true the other way. Black people are less likely to choose a white dating partner. Preference for the familiar vs. the novel in terms of attractiveness doesn’t mean racism is at play.
He talks and proposes without any facts, data, examples or evidence. Perhaps, my teachers were bad growing up, but if I turned in a paper without any of these things........F. Sad part is, that millions of "smart" Americans are being taken in by this just because he is articulate and seemingly intelligent.
He is making lots of money with this nonsense. He is totally obsessed with racism. He has definitely overcome racism but yet he keeps teaching people especially black people that they are victims and always will be. Sad he has absolutely no real answers on how to deal with this issue. Whenever other authors and writers who have an opposing view want to debate him on his claims it never happens.
If John McWhorter has a peer group that supports him economically or ideologically, he could use that for his own self-interest to further his ambitions. Some black people will sell out their own for acceptance in the majority world.
Scott Watson that’s pretty dishonest tbh. You either agree with his arguments or you don’t but unless you have a good reason to suspect he’s bought, stating it doesn’t make it so.
Scott Watson Hinting that John McWhorter, a man whose water you could not carry, is a sellout is a dirty move and it doesn’t make you seem intelligent. The character attack is the first refuge of a man with no argument.
I love his description of the explanations for our racist material conditions. It's either we are too racist, or not racists enough. It's the fight between the social left and the social conservatives. Very well-spoken. Wonderful speech.
Homology and Analogy are two different pathways. If the Klan supports a candidate it’s nit because their reasons are same - border control if supported by people who value security via safeguards, as well as actual racists but the reasons are distinctive.
I don’t usually know which authors I read are black because it’s impossible to tell the skin color of someone based upon their words unless they state it. Because it doesn’t have anything to do with the quality or substance of their writing.
Talks a lot. Says little. What he does say is either simplistic or essentialist. This is just pseudo academic, neo-Marxist jibber-jabber. The big problem in the US isn't 'race'. It's class.
I agree voter ID laws disproportionately target the minority population and were designed for that very reason, but seriously, US, get your shi.t together, every developed country i know requires an ID for voting (and most other tasks connected with the government). This specific law is not the main problem. The main problem in this case is you dont have universal IDs for all your citizens...
"Voter Suppression" = Black Boomer Meme. Voter ID laws not only don't suppress the vote, they weren't designed for any such thing. Democrats stuffed ballot boxes since Tammany Hall in the 1830s. Long history, hardly crazy to think it could be happening.
Despite how often you black Americans use the victimhood race-card excuse, I remember one simple fact that erases your argument: Asians (Indians mostly) are the most wealthy demographic in the USA and even Nigerian immigrants end up occupying higher income and wealth positions in the allegedly racist USA. Your victimhood is just your own self-fulfilling prophecy and it will only be so within your own demographic. Keep it up.
His "only two explanations" idea is so pathetically shallow and manipulative. Either it's something intrinsically inferior about black people or it's racial discrimination. It's not hard to find others. And this ignores differences in other groups, because he only compares whites and blacks. Look at the "household wealth gap". What happens when you take median age into account? What happens when you take into account levels of two parent households? What happens when you take into account cultural differences in saving and spending habits? The difference goes away. Could there be some tiny degree of racial discrimination involved? Maybe in the past. But he has to demonstrate it, not just claim it. Please read Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell which completely debunks his claims. Look at the argument -- if disparities must be because of discrimination, why are such a disproportionate amount of incarcerated people men? Why are more boys suspended from school than girls? Why are 95% of those killed by the police men? Kendi is a snake oil salesman who gains personal wealth by perpetuating lies on those who can't think critically (other than in the critical theory sense). He refuses to take the risk of actually having his views debated or even discussed by anyone who would give him the slightest pushback, e.g. John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, etc. And his solution is a dictatorship of the anti-racist.
@The Alternative Observer First, thank you for carefully thinking this through and not just flaming me 🙂 What you write makes sense, but the way Kendi seems to break it down is there is something wrong with blackness or being black itself (which I agree would be a racist assumption), not necessarily the culture. Did you see him break it down to culture? "There's only two explanations for racial inequality, for racial disparities, for racial inequities.... either there's something wrong or inferior about black people, a racist idea. Or racial discrimination. Those are the only two explanations for any racial inequities." I don't think he addresses this as a possible cultural issue, or he makes a really bad straw man of the cultural argument. He does go on to say that either blacks are more violent or commit more crime, or there's racism in the criminal justice system. Why can't it be both and a question about degree? Black men, about 7% of the population, are responsible for something like 50% of homicides, for example. You would think that would have an impact on this discussion. The fact of the matter is that most of these "inequities" can be explained by factors other than racism, but if we do so, he loses his cash cow. So even if he does attribute this to culture rather than something genetically inferior, which I don't really see him doing, he does not adequately address that and calls it "racist" out of hand. Furthermore, he refuses to defend this thesis or even have a discussion with someone who thinks differerently, like Coleman Hughes. I do agree that current problems, like lack of fathers in the home, can be traced to systemic issues such as government policy (welfare) and cultural problems. But they cannot be solved by being "anti-racist" or ignoring the problem in favor of virtue signalling. We have to agree that this is a serious problem (lack of black fathers in the home) that leads to higher crime, lower income, etc. and figure out how to address it. The problem is that to admit it is a problem is then called "racist". I have read Sowell's work (a few of them) and what he says makes more sense than what Kendi says. You would have to cite what exactly Sowell is wrong about, because I think he makes a powerful argument refuting most claims of systemic racism. The systemic racism narrative, such as 10x wealth gap between blacks and whites ignores EVERY other ethnicity in which disparities exist and non-racist reasons for the existence of that gap (difference in median age between blacks and whites, difference in spending habits, difference in two parent households, difference in states in which more blacks live than whites, etc.). We need more nuance and less, "It's all racism". That's Kendi's schtick. I'd have more respect for him if he said racism could be a factor as could these other things, and addressing what WE can control in the black community will have a much more powerful impact than you being "anti-racist". Heck, if he came out in favor of fixing inner city schools and promoting charter schools and black parent school choice, that would be a great start. Has he done that?
Seems like this guy established his agenda then research things to support those views. He is obviously educated but bias in his views. Since the beginning of mankind there has been racial inequality. This man has done nothing to bring out the truth of why things are as they are. Slavery isn’t a United States issue. Why black Americans have such a prejudicial position and view on racism is because they listen to guys like this. He’s a victim of his own making. Unfortunately he also influences other blacks to go down his same rabbit hole.
Fun fact: he clearly states that racism is not solely a US issue. Commenting on a talk that you completely misunderstood exhibits your own ignorance, and based on your opinion, your pathetic projection.
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He is right about one thing--"the root of this problem is ignorance." His own.
This comment shows that you didn’t even listen to what he was saying: he literally explained that he THOUGHT ignorance was the root problem of racism is ignorance instead of policies.
@@jacob.forrest_ he's saying white ignorance. The problem is BOTH
I would highly recommend reading reading a book from the black author Thomas Sowell called "Discrimination and Disparities" for more info about this subject
Thomas Sowell is such a great mind.
Excellent suggestion. I doubt anyone who has imbibed the Kendi Kool-aid will take you up on it, at least not intentionally.
The fact that you say this to me implies that you are lumping me in with others, most of whom have not read this book. I am offended at your type 1b discrimination and would prefer if you apply type 1a by acknowledging that I have already read the book.
Seriously though, if you like that, check out Race and Culture. So good.
@The Alternative Observer no data, just more than almost anyone else.
@The Alternative Observer "not born out of data." Just seventy years of data collection but yea, not data.
"There are only two explanations" - only if you stop counting at two....
I think he's trying to categorise the arguments that can be made. Can you throw another explanation out there that doesn't fall under his two categories?
@@fartyuio Yes, the main one: culture. As Obama said it, black people should stop using the notion of "acting white".
@@dit4963 well yes thinking there is something inferior with black people is part of the culture, as well as fighting because there is discrimination. You're actually echoing Kendis point, he just divided it into two main arguments after he put in probably months of work to synthesize as such you know, hes just doing his job which is explaining things better than just making a quite vague statement that culture is an explanation of racism. Of course it is, no one is saying it isn't, were just going further than that.
@@MerKabaChannel , you misunderstood which culture I was referring to. And is nothing vague about saying that culture, especially education, is the root cause. It amazes me that people still cannot differentiate between culture and the actual human beings...
@@fartyuio imo. Inequalities exist in everything including humanity since the beginning. It is the nature of life. You can divide "white people" into ethnic groups, French, Dutch, Irish, Slovic, Greek, Italian, German, and so on, and you will find they are all unequal. Furthermore, you can do the same with "blacks" Jamaican, Haitian, Afro Carib, African (almost 50 countries) and find as groups they are not equal ( single Jamaican women outperform most of their counterparts black or white or male). Further, still, you can divide households where some kids become doctors and others sell used cars. To think that EVERYONE should end up in the same place at the same time, well ridiculous to put it kindly. Thanx for the ear
When I told someone historical facts they just said that was one point of view. We don’t want to believe that our socioeconomic situation isn’t because of our hard work alone, but helped majorly by our situation.
I wonder if this is influenced by culture?
"The activism" (and by extension, the sort that Mr. Kendi offers as anti-racism) "is a way for useless people to feel important, even if their activism" (read false gospel) "is counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole." - Thomas Sowell
@The Alternative Observer Bit late to the party, but for myself his shot at John McWhorter is iffy. He states that people will use racist ideas if it benefits them (fair point). I'm a fan of John McWhorter's work and I find the inference being made by comparing a person defending slavery in mid 1800 and a modern thinker extremely problematic. And it is never specified what idea McWhorter supports nor how he benefits from perpetuating the idea.
There are a lot of fallacies like this in Kendi's work. The point about a candidate getting into power who was endorsed by the KKK is another example. The KKK can endorse anything and it reminds me of the South Park episode where Jimbo encourages the KKK to support the opposite of what the Klan wants because they reason that people will instinctively vote against the Klan, even if the Klan is supporting a black candidate.
Noname is an excellent black artist that does not get enough credit for her activism
No White Guilt Forever! 😎
I believe these disparities are not only caused by current discrimination, but by lasting effects of socioeconomic hardship and cultural baggage. We cannot disregard these other factors if we long for the day when we share equal opportunity.
Do you think any of that continued socio-economic hardship might have been prolonged by well-intentioned but misguided social programs? It seems to me like 50 plus years of the war on poverty should have some positive results.
@@Individual_Lives_Matter That might well be the case. More effort should be put to preventative care, i.e. mental health and education.
I'd like to shout out @T1J. He creates a lot of video essays based on media and race relations, along with other interesting topics.
Checkout Thomas Sowell and Larry Elder
I love Tracy K. Smith and Natasha Trethewey's poems. I'm from the Philippines and have not experienced racism in my own country in any way shape or form but their experiences shared through their poems felt real to me. Both amazing women!
Okay. I did experience ethnicism which is similar to racism but that's a story for another day.
This is exactly what I’ve been thinking 😍can’t wait to read this!!!!
As a white man who used to be ignorant to what extent I benefited from the current system and was scared of policies that seemed to put me at "disadvantage" such as affirmative action, I feel the need to admit that fear lead me to form racist ideas that justified our current system. I worried that I might not get into certain colleges because I was white if these policies were in effect (subliminally behind that worry is the idea that a minority would be"taking my spot" who was less qualified which is absurd as I had no worry about any unfair advantages that I did in fact receive) ... Often times ignorance of what allows us to get where we are leads to us creating a narrative that we could not have gotten an unfair advantage; we just worked hard and were smart. At least it did for me, and I think there are still subconscious tendencies that I have to keep in check, but it is liberating to not feel the need to defend a system that is clearly unjust.
I appreciate you 💕 talk to your friends and family 💕
Thanks Matthew for sharing this. Continue this narrative and talk to your friends and family.
why are we woke, I think we've become a to left brained as a culture,
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One of the ‘good whites’. You’ve surrendered what is obviously true for what appears virtuous. It’s sad, delusional and cowardly (or you’re just not very bright).
@@Individual_Lives_Matter I may not be that bright so could you enlighten me on the true
11:22 If you want to critique John McWhorter, sit down and talk to him.
"But the emperor has no clothes on, cried the little boy!"
The first issue to deal with is understanding how people develop their identities. Racism is often confused with bias-- that is a dislike of an individual, not a group. Dr. Kendi wrote in his Stamped from the Beginning, "Ibn Khaldun did intend to merely demean African people as inferior. He intended to belittle all the different-looking African and Slavic peoples whom the Muslims were trading as slaves." As a graduate of Near Eastern Studies and a Muslim, this was not only disappointing, but terribly incorrect information because Ibn Khaldun is African. Dark skinned people from Africa and lighter skinned people from the Gulf area had been trading and even fighting together at times against a common enemy, and sometimes against each other for thousands of years before and at the time of Islam.
There are many dark skinned famous Muslims, who originate from Africa. Many who are considered heroes in Islam, such as the most famous, and the first caller of the call to prayer -- Bilal Ibn Rabah. Bear in mind that Bilal was among the close companions of the Prophet Muhammad. Sumaya bint Khayyat was an African slave and is among the first Muslims. She is a hero and the first martyr in Islam. Many Muslim women take their name from her. Ghana and Mali in West Africa take their names from Arabic words in the Quran. East Africans and the Arabs from Yemen have been mixing for thousands of years.
Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Battuta were both scholars, and would never make such an observation, because they understood the importance of Hadith and farewell where Prophet Muhammad said, "All mankind is from Adama and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over a black, nor a black has any superiority over a white except by piety (taqwa) and good action."
What is an Arab? What is an African? What is white or black? How do people identify themselves. This is the first question. When I was a child, my father had white friends who we called "cousins" and were part of our extended family. I have blood related, White family members. I am also very quick to call out racism. But I know that Whiteness is an ideology and race is a construct.
Arab is by language, not geographic region, like Africa. The best example of this is Egypt. Egypt is located in Northern Africa. Are Egyptians Arabs? Sudan was Egypt North until the British divided Egypt into half and created Sudan. Are the Sudanese Egyptians, Africans, or Arabs? Sudanese are Arabs, and they identify as Muslims. Another example are many of the greatest scholars of Hadith (Prophetic traditions) which the majority of Muslim recognize, Imam Muslim and Imam Bukhari. Neither of them were from the land occupied by Arabs, yet they are considered Muslims first, and Arabs. Arabic is their natural language. Prophet Muhammad also described Arab as not from father or mother, or land, but from the tongue.
Racism can only exist if one believes in race. Skin color is not always an identifier of race. Scholars, such as Dr. Kendi, have a responsibility to ensure they report facts, not fiction or else they risk exacerbating racist attitudes, and further dividing people, which is a big problem today.
"Racism can only exist if one believes in race. Skin color is not always an identifier of race." So do you believe in race or not? Does choosing not to believe in race prevent racism being used as a motivation for actions taken against or for you?
@@fartyuio Racism is real. Race is not. In the Middle East and in Africa, some clans and tribes often harbor strong hatred toward one another as was seen in Rwanda between the Hutus and Tutsis. The war in Afghanistan between Pashtuns and Tajiks is another example. We -- as in Americans -- have a bad habit of oversimplifying what is often complex. I think of it as "Hollywood-ism" Lol. In Hollywood, producers attempt to cram years of details into one page, so they oversimplify. I hate racism. I'm in Saudi Arabia right now and Arabs, Africans, Asians and Orientals mix with each other. Some behave as if they are better than others. While most do not. They remind me of some of my people in the South who put on airs and are cliquish. I've dealt with racism all of my life -- it's real. But what is also real is the fact that twins can come into this world - one brown skinned and one pale skinned born to parents with dark brown skin. Is the brown one White? Is the white one Black? My problem with Dr. Ibram X has more to do with an irresponsible reporting of two great scholars, Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Battuta, whom he identified as both being ignorant and racist. And it feeds into the British-produced false narrative that Africans and Arabs are natural enemies and all Arabs are racists who invented slavery.
@@dr.earnest.ujaama very naive comment bro. Just because you haven’t seen something or experienced something doesn’t mean it exist. This book talks about how Europeans looked at Africa. How Arabs , Egyptians, Muslims, looked at Africans doesn’t matter because they didn’t have a monopoly on the slave trade the way the Europeans did. They went from Slavs (white people) to African blacks.
@@Mr.Mustgohard There is nothing naive about pointing out a huge error. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning is factually incorrect. Sudanese are Muslims and Africans, however they are not Europeans. Egypt and Sudan were one inside Africa before it was split in the mid-20th century. At least learn to read the books you discuss in a scholarly work in the language it was originally written in to rule out bias. Dr. Kendi's book is soaked with personal bias. Ibn Batuta and ibn Khaldun were both African and Arab, just like Bilal Ibn Rabah was African and Arab. Their land is Africa, their language is Arabic, and their religion is Islam. The definition of Arab has more to do with language than place or tribe. For example, Imam Bhukari and Imam Muslim, his student were from Uzbekistan (Eastern Europe), yet they are Arab because of their language. This is how the early Arabs understood Arab which was defined by Prophet Muhaamad (peace be upon him) during a famous incident involving Bilal ibn Rabah. Imam Abu Hanifa, who is equally well-know throughout the Muslim world, as was Bilal (the first caller of the prayer) and Bukhari (the most well-read compiler of hadith), was Persian but every Muslim knows him as an Arab. Kendi is a scholar and professor. His work has received high praises, but among who and what cost? I don't believe Kendi intended to cause further divisions and resentment. The only ones praising his book are those who are Orientalists and nationalists. If you want to discuss slavery, that is another topic. Africans also engaged in slavery, as did the Romans, the Greeks, and the Persians. Kendi's work is not about slavery, rather it is about racism against Black people. If you understand the history, there are many great African and Black Muslims who are heroes in Islam. Not all Egyptians, Arabs, or Muslims are the same in color, language, or religion, so this is also problematic when attempting to discuss racism. Please do more reading and investigation, and try to avoid English. Read Frantz Fanon's book, Black skin, White mask published in 1952. His book does a much better job in discussing racism than Dr. Kendi. -- Dr. Ujaama
@@dr.earnest.ujaama he did not divide, in my opinion though. I agree with what your saying, but the books talks very little about Arab influence on the slave trade. To me it sounds like you only read one chapter. He did mention Leo Africanus, a fellow African, who did horrible damage by stating that his own people were beast with no understanding on being civilized. A black man telling other white men his people is dumb is all they needed to hear. Even if he didn’t see all the places he wrote about in his book. Now back to your take I agree there are great black men of Islam or different faiths and nationalities, BUT we are talking about America. This book is written to tell the facts about what some of our “GREAT” Fore fathers thought about a certain group of people in AMERICA. This book is no different than “Lies my teacher told me” & “ A peoples history of the US”. We are having a good convo also no hard feelings, and apologize about naive comment, but I like to hear other peoples opinions about things like this.
This is a fantastic talk. Thank you for sharing it.
"There are two explanations for racial disparities: racial discrimination or racial inferiority."
Let me just say I am ignorant and feel free to correct me, but do the lasting effects of historic discrimination count as current discrimination? For example, when it comes to schools are in large part funded through property taxes, and communities of color often live in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods which is in large part a product of redlining and mortgage discrimination. Now I am sure racial housing discrimination in loans still occurs, and I have heard reports that it is harder for people of color to get credit, but it seems in a large part the quality of educational funding seems to not be inherently discriminatory but an inequity that is the product of past inequities. I do not think you can explain something like maternal mortality in that way as it affects African American woman of all socioeconomic status. I am curious if the distinction of racial disparities being built-in via systemic past issues that intersect with class issues is a useful distinction? Many conservatives want to claim that we can only fix one type of the issue current discriminatory policies and they deny that any of those exist? I wonder if the way we address the issues is different in some way.
Matthew Palmer *Disclaimer: I’m not speaking from personal experience, but from my background in social science, so grains of salt needed.
On the face of it, historic discrimination and current discrimination seem like two different things, but when historic discrimination is as overwhelming as it is in the US, current equality is simply not enough.
Using public school as an example:
(1) Historical discrimination matters because it causes current inequality. As you know, school quality in the US is largely based on the socioeconomic status of the neighborhood, which is historically affected by race. Regardless of whether or not housing discrimination exist legally (let along social discrimination) this still results in minorities going to worse schools. Current equality cannot fix that, same way that a runner with a late start cannot be expected to catch up to the lead, even if he is as fast.
(2) What is considered “current equality” is not equality, but the result of historical, and very much current discriminations. US has one of the largest educational disparity among developed nations. Countries like the UK and Canada, where private schools are of similar performance as private schools in the US, do not have the same scale and level of underfunding problem in its poorer public schools as the US. This is because the US has a history of, as is currently, cutting public school fundings support for those poor neighborhoods. When schools are supposed to be the best tool for social mobility, this effectively traps minorities in their socioeconomic stratum.
In summary, it is impossible to separate historic and current discriminations, especially when all forms of current discrimination aims to exacerbate the effects of historic discriminations. What historic discrimination need is current redress. What seems like de jure equality is not only insufficient, it’s not even equality.
Finally, I would like to add: the maternal mortality rate of black mothers is very much a result of current discriminations and racial bias. Black mothers are not only more likely to be treated in poor and inadequate hospitals, but there are mountains of studies showing that medical practitioners are less likely to empathize with the pain of black women, and thus more likely to cause malpractice (thus the “regardless of social standing” part).
And thus, without a single explicitly discriminatory laws being in the book right now, black and minority citizens remain much more vulnerable than white citizens. History created a gap, the current system preserves it, and people’s racial bias kept making lives worse. Welcome to systemic racism.
Matthew Palmer Pardon the long essay above, on closer reading I’m not even sure if we’re disagreeing. I guess a couple points in your post hit a nerve, and I’d like to leave some response in case of incoming bad faith spins. Your suggestion on adding a class lens is valid, though I’d arguein the US it’s mighty hard to to see where race ends and class begins (see the racialization of Irish and Italian Americans).
That doesn't seem like a sound conclusion.
李承澤 School quality does not depend on tax money. New York City used to pay more per student than anywhere else in the country and still had very poor results. Charter schools do more with less because they do not have the interference of the teacher’s unions and they are competing with a system that has never had competition. They are responsive and actually adapt to the needs of the student. School choice would force better outcomes and knock the rust off of the ossified public school bureaucracy.
"Not racist" forces have made even greater leaps, my friend... well above racist and anti-racist forces, combined.
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Great movie. What's the name of the last song ? Sounds South African?
watch the film fruitvale station it is eye opening and heart wrenching and so, so important
“...really the roots of racism in this country, historically, have been political, economic, and cultural self interest.” That hit.
That's the case for all countries that have existed for all time, no?
@@elirivera3880 Hm, yeah, true. It's just sobering to hear it called out in your own country. Especially since the US would like to think it's socially evolved (even from the beginning when slavery still existed, we were so proud of our democratic ideals). It's crazy to think of whole groups of people being denied basic human rights simply because other people want to maintain their... comfort. To not lift our white-gloved hands while people are dying? It's disturbing to think of the ambivalence towards human suffering involved in that. And it makes me wonder how much still exists today :-/
@@MadelMachow much exists today? The entire planet besides 1st world countries. There's currently 50 million slaves.
@@elirivera3880no
@@pete5819 horribly sad, we never learn
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Some interesting trivia. ebram ix kkkendy's real name was Raymond Cyst. He changed it because he thought it would be too spot on if people started calling him Ray.
I guess he is X-Ray KKKendy.
Watch the 13th it’s coming to Netflix! It’s a documentary about the Black community in America!
It about voluntary slavery
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His mention of John McWhorter saying his ideas promulgate racist ideas is straight up lunacy . Compare the two men's body of work . Who is available to debate his ideas , only John . And that is because he is a scholar for real
I will be reading this book now. This was a really good talk
This was really informative, thanks for sharing it 👍🏻😊
You got these haters big mad😅
The scary thing about critical race theory, unlike science where idea's are verified and argued, Kendi's ideas are not put up to debate with any real scholars, for public view that whole process was ignored.
They are basically faith-based assertions. The whole canon behind them is supported, at its core, by such unproven claims. It’s self-referential and protected by the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracies (the campus inquisitors). They’re in a ‘Dutch oven’ smelling their own farts and telling each other how great they are. If these high-minded theories were exposed to the light of free inquiry, they would be falsified so fast their progenitors could sue for whiplash.
You can’t debate critical race theory without being called a racist. It part of their cult like organization. Any dissent in thought is seen as inherently hostile. It’s a very dangerous precedent to set.
Patrick Rubino you hit the nail on the head I think. You can’t logic someone out of an emotional hole. Faith and emotion are so closely linked, especially in this circumstance
Real scholars. Like Samual George Morton, the originator of scientific racism. A man so driven to construct a racial hierarchy of human beings that he collected skulls (who knows how he procured them all but folks don't generally just give racists their skulls) and invented all sorts of measurements and other means of "proving" that whites were better than everyone else. You mean scholars like him?
@@bethsanchezyoga55 whoa, is this a kafka trap question, or do you seriously think that's how scientists are today? Do you know how the scientific method works? Bad science get weeded out. How does bad philosophy get weeded out? For some reason the past is the present for all the people who want to hate, they just look for a reason, and they have to go back a long time. I guess for you we are currently living mid 1800's because it suits the rage you want to have in 2020. Should all of history be in trial, or just the moments that justify your political views.
For being an advocate of anti-racism, this cat Ibram X. Kendi is so damn racist and divisive. It's funny that he doesn't see it, but I do.
Kendi's anti-racism = anti-white racism
I'm so silly to first think this was about stamps we put on letters...
Great talk! Can't wait to read the book
Races are equal. Cultures are not. That’s why the world looks like it does at any point in time.
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I've heard it pays well to divide in half a nation
Coleman Hughes. Thomas Sowell. John McWhorter.
Amazing
Book is an in-depth, well researched analysis of racism.
I don't understand the point he makes at 11:50. He says that many who wrote and enforced these racist ideas loved black people, and goes on to say that they were ignorant was due to the policies set in place (he talks about this later in his point) prior. But can't we also say that those who write and enforce are the same people producing racist policies that enforce ignorance/racism too? That we're just cycling and recycling racist ideologies to enforce ignorance/prejudice?
That confused me too! If those people were aware that they were enabling unjust racism, then how could they love them?
It's essentially the just world fallicy. The had power and created a world view that justifies that power. Their personal opinion on black people could be hate or love, but their world view accepted a powerstructure build on racisim as just, and they created laws based on that world view so they made racist laws, and then people grow up in a world with laws created in this world view and also fall pray to the just world fallicy. It's a self prepetuating system but it's not just recycling, it's also growing and changing.
Hi! I think the comment he made about how much Thomas Jefferson "loved" black people is a reference to the fact that he had an affair with a black girl called Sally Hemings. Jefferson also called slavery a moral evil while at the same time owning more than 600 slaves.
Correct me if you think I'm wrong here, but I think his point with that was that the people who created these racist ideas did not do it because they necessarily hated black people but because these racist ideas were a tool to justify policies that they themselves benefitted from.
Seems to be more along the lines of “They love black culture not black people”.
This was a fantastic talk. Now I'm going to go read this book!
Wow. Had no idea Whoopi Goldberg had lost so much weight.
Lol
how am I a senior at this university and I didn’t even know we had this event?? I could’ve seen this live wow
Don't waste your time.
Inspiring
Ah, the race oil salesman.
Brilliant
5:59. Think its closer to the perpetuation of lower soco enconomic backgrounds. Your parents aren't massively wealthy so you get trapped in a system by decisions your forced to make. The level of support you can access and afford, the schools you can go to etc plus on top the inherit racial biases most carry round with them. I would argue there is less explicit racial bias, i.e general society would look down on your for going round dropping the n word in a prejorative manner or lynching people, however far more implicit racial bias. Can actually observe it even with something as trivial as dating response rates. Black women have some of the lowest response rates from white men. Around 20% iirc. This goes back to the point of whiteness seeming the ideal beauty standard. While definately his underlying points holds, I reckon its more suble than he is making it out to be.
The audience in this instance are white so have to dumb it down to their level
@@nureshmihassim1759 that’s quite racist of you.
The same holds true the other way. Black people are less likely to choose a white dating partner. Preference for the familiar vs. the novel in terms of attractiveness doesn’t mean racism is at play.
Why are there only 2 explanations?
Because all the other explanations that others have suggested don't put huge amounts of money in Kendi's pockets. That's pretty much why.
He talks and proposes without any facts, data, examples or evidence. Perhaps, my teachers were bad growing up, but if I turned in a paper without any of these things........F. Sad part is, that millions of "smart" Americans are being taken in by this just because he is articulate and seemingly intelligent.
its a speech and not a paper, plus he did actually include data
@@user-yn9dz5hs1w really? Such as......
@@user-yn9dz5hs1w never said it was a paper. I was making an analogy.
Not only that, but he is keeping the old racism from dying by reincarnating it into a new modern racism.
Have you read the book?
He is making lots of money with this nonsense. He is totally obsessed with racism. He has definitely overcome racism but yet he keeps teaching people especially black people that they are victims and always will be. Sad he has absolutely no real answers on how to deal with this issue. Whenever other authors and writers who have an opposing view want to debate him on his claims it never happens.
Bruh his voice relaxing though
Listening to this guy's logic is like watching a gerbil on a treadmill...
Advisory: please listen to the entire speech before reading the many misinformed comments of folks who clearly did not. Just sayin’. . .
"literally to the present" I felt like he was looking right at me.
#RaceHustler
there should be more people who should watch this video
...to laugh at it
How does a racist idea help John McWhorter, a black writer?
If John McWhorter has a peer group that supports him economically or ideologically, he could use that for his own self-interest to further his ambitions. Some black people will sell out their own for acceptance in the majority world.
Scott Watson that’s pretty dishonest tbh. You either agree with his arguments or you don’t but unless you have a good reason to suspect he’s bought, stating it doesn’t make it so.
Scott Watson Hinting that John McWhorter, a man whose water you could not carry, is a sellout is a dirty move and it doesn’t make you seem intelligent. The character attack is the first refuge of a man with no argument.
I love his description of the explanations for our racist material conditions. It's either we are too racist, or not racists enough. It's the fight between the social left and the social conservatives. Very well-spoken. Wonderful speech.
Fraud.
Homology and Analogy are two different pathways. If the Klan supports a candidate it’s nit because their reasons are same - border control if supported by people who value security via safeguards, as well as actual racists but the reasons are distinctive.
Wow, such well thought out research!
Ok Nerdfightaria, who are your favorite black authors? Mine are Angie Thomas and Patricia McKissack. Because black stories matter, too.
And I am mortified that I forgot to mention Mildred D. Taylor.
N. K. Jemisin wrote a fantastic fantasy series. By far one of the best books I read last year.
I don’t usually know which authors I read are black because it’s impossible to tell the skin color of someone based upon their words unless they state it. Because it doesn’t have anything to do with the quality or substance of their writing.
@@imagineitagain558 cool story
Ibram Fallacy Kendi is a joke. It's like his entire life is dedicated to make fallacious arguments
Talks a lot. Says little. What he does say is either simplistic or essentialist. This is just pseudo academic, neo-Marxist jibber-jabber. The big problem in the US isn't 'race'. It's class.
@@rosalea1426 Yes. Seen it. Thanks.
I am really trying hard to understand this guy. Not having much success.
I agree voter ID laws disproportionately target the minority population
and were designed for that very reason,
but seriously, US, get your shi.t together,
every developed country i know requires an ID for voting (and most other tasks connected with the government).
This specific law is not the main problem.
The main problem in this case is you dont have universal IDs for all your citizens...
"Voter Suppression" = Black Boomer Meme.
Voter ID laws not only don't suppress the vote, they weren't designed for any such thing.
Democrats stuffed ballot boxes since Tammany Hall in the 1830s. Long history, hardly crazy to think it could be happening.
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"There's only 2 explanations."
Yeah, probably not.
That's a pretty limiting attitude. You won't discover anything new, that way, for sure.
This is extremely one sided. Just statements without evidence. A prime example of ideological thinking.
Oh look it's that racist guy who won't make arguments to support his views.
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Despite how often you black Americans use the victimhood race-card excuse, I remember one simple fact that erases your argument: Asians (Indians mostly) are the most wealthy demographic in the USA and even Nigerian immigrants end up occupying higher income and wealth positions in the allegedly racist USA. Your victimhood is just your own self-fulfilling prophecy and it will only be so within your own demographic. Keep it up.
His "only two explanations" idea is so pathetically shallow and manipulative. Either it's something intrinsically inferior about black people or it's racial discrimination. It's not hard to find others. And this ignores differences in other groups, because he only compares whites and blacks. Look at the "household wealth gap". What happens when you take median age into account? What happens when you take into account levels of two parent households? What happens when you take into account cultural differences in saving and spending habits? The difference goes away. Could there be some tiny degree of racial discrimination involved? Maybe in the past. But he has to demonstrate it, not just claim it. Please read Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell which completely debunks his claims.
Look at the argument -- if disparities must be because of discrimination, why are such a disproportionate amount of incarcerated people men? Why are more boys suspended from school than girls? Why are 95% of those killed by the police men?
Kendi is a snake oil salesman who gains personal wealth by perpetuating lies on those who can't think critically (other than in the critical theory sense). He refuses to take the risk of actually having his views debated or even discussed by anyone who would give him the slightest pushback, e.g. John McWhorter, Coleman Hughes, etc. And his solution is a dictatorship of the anti-racist.
@The Alternative Observer First, thank you for carefully thinking this through and not just flaming me 🙂
What you write makes sense, but the way Kendi seems to break it down is there is something wrong with blackness or being black itself (which I agree would be a racist assumption), not necessarily the culture. Did you see him break it down to culture?
"There's only two explanations for racial inequality, for racial disparities, for racial inequities.... either there's something wrong or inferior about black people, a racist idea. Or racial discrimination. Those are the only two explanations for any racial inequities."
I don't think he addresses this as a possible cultural issue, or he makes a really bad straw man of the cultural argument.
He does go on to say that either blacks are more violent or commit more crime, or there's racism in the criminal justice system. Why can't it be both and a question about degree? Black men, about 7% of the population, are responsible for something like 50% of homicides, for example. You would think that would have an impact on this discussion. The fact of the matter is that most of these "inequities" can be explained by factors other than racism, but if we do so, he loses his cash cow.
So even if he does attribute this to culture rather than something genetically inferior, which I don't really see him doing, he does not adequately address that and calls it "racist" out of hand.
Furthermore, he refuses to defend this thesis or even have a discussion with someone who thinks differerently, like Coleman Hughes.
I do agree that current problems, like lack of fathers in the home, can be traced to systemic issues such as government policy (welfare) and cultural problems. But they cannot be solved by being "anti-racist" or ignoring the problem in favor of virtue signalling.
We have to agree that this is a serious problem (lack of black fathers in the home) that leads to higher crime, lower income, etc. and figure out how to address it. The problem is that to admit it is a problem is then called "racist".
I have read Sowell's work (a few of them) and what he says makes more sense than what Kendi says. You would have to cite what exactly Sowell is wrong about, because I think he makes a powerful argument refuting most claims of systemic racism.
The systemic racism narrative, such as 10x wealth gap between blacks and whites ignores EVERY other ethnicity in which disparities exist and non-racist reasons for the existence of that gap (difference in median age between blacks and whites, difference in spending habits, difference in two parent households, difference in states in which more blacks live than whites, etc.).
We need more nuance and less, "It's all racism". That's Kendi's schtick. I'd have more respect for him if he said racism could be a factor as could these other things, and addressing what WE can control in the black community will have a much more powerful impact than you being "anti-racist". Heck, if he came out in favor of fixing inner city schools and promoting charter schools and black parent school choice, that would be a great start. Has he done that?
This guy is a total joke!!
I'm so sick of black racists getting a pass for their hatred. The problem in the black community is not racism, but narcissism.
So black people are more narcissistic that people of other races. Got it. Totally “not racist.”
You have not walked in a black person's shoes.
That's an illegitimate assertion. Black people don't get to be racists either.
A professional racist.
Stamped for what, book deals and tenure?
😆 grifter
Cringe.
Simple explanations of complex phenomena from one overrated simpleton. This is NOT rigorous analysis.
Seems like this guy established his agenda then research things to support those views. He is obviously educated but bias in his views. Since the beginning of mankind there has been racial inequality. This man has done nothing to bring out the truth of why things are as they are. Slavery isn’t a United States issue. Why black Americans have such a prejudicial position and view on racism is because they listen to guys like this. He’s a victim of his own making. Unfortunately he also influences other blacks to go down his same rabbit hole.
Fun fact: he clearly states that racism is not solely a US issue. Commenting on a talk that you completely misunderstood exhibits your own ignorance, and based on your opinion, your pathetic projection.
Grifter
You would think with a 5head like that he would have a clue.