Paul Robeson - KPFA Interview, February 8 1958
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- Paul Robeson, noted actor and political activist, relates his personal history and views in this interview with Elsa Knight Thompson, KPFA, and Harold Winkler, then president of Pacifica Foundation. Discussion of his life as the son of a former slave, his life as an expatriate during the 1930s, his involvement in the civil rights movement, views of socialism, and the problems facing the emerging African nations.
what a great man Paul Robeson was - so under recognised.
Hard to believe that he was speaking in 1958 considering how his words echo what is happening in the world today. An eloquent speaker with a sincere vindication of justice for all people.
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Man, I could listen to Paul forever. The voice and the stories.
Omgoodness I CERTAINLY COULD ALSO ❤ A GIANT IN ALL LEVELS
What an amazing man. He is the greatest American of the 20th Century. Cannot believe that he has all but been forgotten.
not by me
it depends of course on your vision for america. but my recollection from reading a large bio (duberman) was that he clung to dogmatic, old-school left positions even after many many many former true believers hadf come to agree that some of those old beliefs had proven unsustainable…that
illusions had been burst
I had the great fortune to hear Paul Robeson give a transatlantic concert in St. Pancras Town Hall in the Mid fifties. I remember many of the audience were in tears. A couple of years later in 1959 he had got his passport back and I heard him sing in Trafalgar Square at the end of a peace march. He has been a hero of mine ever since. By the way if you want a good biography of Paul the one by his son Paul Robeson jnr is brilliant.
i met robeson jr a couple of times. there is a uk robeson fan/actor who does tours as robeson - tayo aluko
Mischa Goldman I have a few videos of his son giving some fascinating talks about his father's life, which I probably should get around to uploading one day if there's interest. A documentary also.
Such a great man. All he says is still relevant and he had great courage
I could listen to this man's voice all day ✌
After all these years he is still in my Heart and will continue to be so,
Mine also he is very prevelate
Champion! Leader! Warrior! .Brain the size of a planet! Eslanda and Paul LEGENDS !!!
A brilliant man
Wonderful interview thank you!
Thank you for sharing this. A riveting thinker and artist. I will want to explore much more the life and work of this great human being.
A founding father.‼️
TY for the upload, fascinating interview!
NOT FORGOTTEN BY ME WONDERFUL ACTOR SINGER,GROWING UP COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE RACE ISSUE NEVER OCCURED TO ME WAS NEVER TAUGHT THAT I SUPPOSE,BUT ENGLAND AND WALES WHERE MY FAMILY WAS FROM WAS A DIFFERENT TIME,NEVER SAW HIM OTHER THAN A GREAT MAN.
I could listen to Robeson read from the dictionary all day.
Superb orator, and the more I learn of him the more I love him
THANK YOU FOR POSTING
Paul Robeson stood for all the oppressed, not just Afro Americans. He understood how evil capitaliism was and did his best to stop it ! His name will go on as a light of hope for all who are oppressed R I P paul .
i hate it when they interrupt him.
Freedom Fighter
i never met him the coffin was closed-he saved my mother's life
At the beginning of the broadcast Robeson mentions Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis. This is where I saw Pink Floyd on their "Dark Side of the Moon" tour, Led Zeppelin on their "Stairway to Heaven" ("Led Zeppelin IV", that is), and many other rock groups around that time.
oh God my mom is in one of the pictures!
vivascargills1084 say it ain't so
That Joisey accent slipped out on him when he said "foist" lol
R.I.P cousin direct family lineage NC Sabra Griffin.
where did you find these great photos??
Happy Birthday Paul Robeson🎂04-09-2022!
Great American Prophet!
how is the audio so clear
Frederick Douglas identified with the plight of Irish people saying his heart could not go out to his own people without also seeing the injustuices and suffering of other peoples. That Irish lived as slaves in miserable poverty but without the benefits offered by direct employment. In the year and over the years following Frederick Douglas visit in 1845-46 he potatoe crop failed, the potatoe being the staple diet as rice was for the chinese, maize for the African, 2 million Irish died in 5 years, then the population continued to fall as it was clear Irish people in Ireland were the underclass, from 8.2 million in 1841 to 3.9 million in 1911. The english population rose in the same period from 18.5 to 36 million. The Welsh poulations from 1.2 million to 2.4, the scottish from 2.4 to 4.7 million, any during this time were supported with oats, wheat, barley which continued to be exported. Ireland was the bread basket of the British Isles.
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Too bad, the interviewer flubbed the opening ambience, sad really
That LOW LOW LOW LOW voice 😎
He sounds wonderfully enthusiastic and upbeat while his interviewers sound cynical, feels like they try to undermine him, hs choices regarding responsibilites rearing children for example.
Democratis socialsm is the answer.why should a few people controll all the wealth forever.
Interesting that time goes on but liberals never change. The interviewers kept trying to trip him up and set up "gotcha" questions
yes but the .man himself never fell for it and got his point across! paul robeson i think would have made a brilliant present of the U S A
We missed our chance in america history.bernie sanders was the candiate of this time.joe biden a bad choice.
It seems that black culture has declined markedly since Paul Robeson was around. Now black entertainers seem to make their money by calling their women bitches and whores and using foul language non-stop. Many of them don't seem able to string a coherent sentence together. What a contrast with Paul Robeson. I don't agree with his politics - Socialism is doomed to failure, as proven by Ludwig von Mises in his essay Economic Calculation In The Socialist Commonwealth - but I admire his art, his erudition and his manners.
Yes, look at China, with the single child policy that left millions of single young men who will never have the chance to ever kiss a girl, never mind get married and have a family. That's just one tiny little problem with China. If you can't see the big problems, you need to go and see an optometrist.
I'm sorry, sir, but you are wrong. I have had long arguments with people on CZcams before and I can't be bothered having any more because it never achieves anything. You will never change your mind. You will always remain wrong. Sorry.
I don't think it's just a case of different opinions. There is a right and wrong. I might not be entirely right in my beliefs, but I am certain that you are wrong in your belief that socialism is a good thing. Wherever and whenever socialism has been attempted, it has led to death and destruction. China has only become a modern, wealthy country to the extent that it has given up socialism and allowed people to make their own choices and keep the fruits of their labour. The Chinese government has been going along a Keynesian road by spending untold billions on new infrastructure in places where it is not needed or wanted. There are now gigantic cities around China that are sitting there empty. All the money that went to build them would have been better spent by individual people and businesses. Instead, it was wasted. This waste represents destruction of wealth. This is what happens in a command economy. China's 'comeuppance' has hardly begun.
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"proven by Ludwig von Mises "
HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
You haven't read it, have you? Of course not. Reading or listening to anything that runs counter to your beliefs would be painful for you. I can understand that. It's a bit like when you find out there's no Santa Claus (sorry kids - it's your parents who buy all that stuff for you). There's a feeling of dread when you realise that you have been doing and saying the wrong thing for years. You argued with the other kids who had been telling you for ages that there was no Santa Claus because your mother told you there was and your mother wouldn't lie to you, would she? It's embarrassing to have to admit that you were wrong. Once you do find out the truth, though, you start to realise how much lying there is in the world. The truth does set you free, to an extent, but it also reveals to you that you are living in a prison, a pretty open prison, admittedly, but a prison nonetheless, and that's not a good feeling. Do yourself a favour and read the essay that you laughed at, consider the arguments it puts forward and then decide if you want to continue laughing. Good luck with your life.
He was also a communist....................Yo!
David Smith So what? What do you have to show for the system you embrace when you are at the bottom of it?
yes he was a communist and gave it a human face , took away the myth of communists being bad
No more than Lincoln, Czar Nicholals or FDR.
I think Robeson was a great artist and a great man. But his legacy is forever tainted by his association with and praise for the Soviet Union, which persecuted even more Jews and Christians than American racists lynched blacks.
You're tainted
where did you get that info from ? They discouraged religions but did they kill people for it ? If so then Paul Robeson never supported it
Where did u gets that distorted deranged Comparison . The American So-called Democracy Murdered more than 60 to 100 millions African Americans , during Slavery . I heard paul Robeson said that during his testimony in the Senate .