Every boomer grandparent needs to be reminded of this scene and its message.

“I will owe my son, if I ever have another.” So why doesn’t he own his existing son?

Powerful! Every parent, especially Indian, should hear Poitier's words. 🙏🏼👏🏼

This scene in this movie about generation gap. I have heard the generation gap in America a lot recently especially with political opinions. So good listening to older generations opinions but young people educated me on what they call modern politics. I learn about music and culture I how society has changed

His name is spelled “SIDNEY POITIER” not “SYDNIE PORTIER” 🙄

Great Tribute. For the creator of the video, please reach out to Sam Maxion (Google The DJ Museum). He is opening an exhibition in Las Vegas. Am sure he'll highlight Michael Erickson in it.

His father was worried about him because he knew the dangers of slavery, mixed marriages, and lynching.

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Amazing that there was a time, some script writers had a wonderful grasp of life, and the truth, in general. I do wish, the uploader had'nt cut the last line of this debate. Poitier says to his "father", : "You think of yourself as a colored man, I think of myself...as a man !" Very pertinent, in a day, where so many are "HYPHENATED" individuals, or Americans. Why can't we all just be Amercan ? Citizens of the nation we populate !

This is the most Brilliant speech made by Sidney Poitier. ❤️

This is an incredible speech Sidney Poitier gave to his father as I wished I had given to my mother. It made me realized I felt as Sidney did. However, his father did more than my own mother but expected me to support her for the rest of her life which she wanted a "free ride" which was tough for me with a high school diploma and no further education because I was paying a mortgage with my older sister to help support this parent with, he lazy husband. So how, I made my intentions clear once I turned 28 and moved out to have the life I wanted and got. The sad truth - she resented me for wanting a life of my own.

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Brilliant acting.... however very arrogant and disrespectful especially for a young black man to talk to his father like that, A man who broke his back survivng a Racism , Jim Crow and god knows what else .... and still put a child through years of schooling to become a DOCTOR in the 60's man .... He dismissed him like he was his child... not in real life people.

Love this

2:12 To say that to the "lousy generation" who fought WWII takes some serious delusion.

First time i heard this dialogue, especially the ‘I owe you nothing… because you brought me into this world.. and from that day you owe me…. ‘ i live by this with my son and his 1/2 sister (my god daughter)

Wow. This blew me tf away. Why don't we have movies like this anymore???

"That's the first thing you said that makes any sense." I couldn't help but laugh at that comment. I also love how calmly he said it! 👍

I learned Syndey's speech by heart as a kid, I loved it so much!!!

Dammit! That is good acting!

Such a great scene.

This is still true today. Not so much for race now, although that issue still remains. But the new social issues that are facing America, e.g. LGBTQ+ , reproductive rights. I feel that America is trying to move forward on these issues. And until the whole generation of aged politicians has laid down and died will we ever be free of their dead weight...

My dad could use a watch of this scene. The problem is he's got such a warped view of Christian living from having an abusive evangelical upbringing that he can't see that his ways are not always right. Only that, because he got such a twisted view of what the Bible actually means in regards to his leadership role, anything he says has to be obeyed...PERIOD! And anything less is disobedience against God because God put him in charge. This did answer a question I had for myself. I remembered at one point starting to say that the future generations can't begin to move forward until the older generation dies off so that the rest of us don't get dragged down by their dead weight. I could never remember where I got that until now.

The first time I saw this movie I thought Sidney Poitier was being a little bit disrespectful to his father. Now I understand completely where he was coming from. The son was not a child anymore. The father really did not have a right to force his own beliefs on him.

such a shame that this was truncated just before Poitier's most important words, "I love you, but you think of yourself as a *colored* man. I think of myself as a man."

I find impossible to hold back the tears every single time i watch this unbelievably touching scene ... this movie is really a masterpiece without time ...

This is a Great scene to study for a monologue! I absolutely LOVE this movie, it is a classic & one of favorite movies!

Best actor that ever came through Hollywood, literally

I’ll never understand why there’s no closed captions available on these videos! What is a deaf person to do?😢

Sydney made more money in 1 year with 3 movies than hepburn and tracey did for all their careers, in 1967 he made 3 movies the total was over 100 million nobody had did that before.

hes right, but his name was SIDNEY POITIER. one of the best actors ever, my generation. class of 1973 here.

I want him so much, he’s so handsome

My two Wonderful and successful Sons have yet to have this discussion with me. I'm still struggling to be more than Their "Daddio", (What I called my Father), Baba G, (How my eldest Son often refers to me), and Their "Dad of convenience), a perception I occasionally consider. All of this is a process I've acknowledged as We move through this life. Cool. Still, the three of Us have yet to come together for this sort of conversation. We're getting there - We've agreed to meet more often and I do believe this will eventually happen. We've been together once in over 20 years. Their success and personal journeys keep Them busy. I get that. I'm happy for them. The opportunity to be together has always been available, in my opinion - It appears They understand this. I reinforce this regularly. Mostly online. They know I'm well versed in technology and want more actual face time aka Human interaction. That basic premise is what I think is important - to be present regularly, regardless of all the twists and turns in Our lives. We're getting there. These amazing Young Men and I have a perpetual opportunity that I will always seek. After all, I'm Their Father. They're in Their 30's. I am 70 this year. (Still actively working out like I was 20. Still a working Musician, training for the World Senior Games in 2024. I'll compete in the 100 and 200 meter events then.)

PLEASE SPELL THIS MAN'S NAME CORRECTLY! You can change the caption.

Asian parents should watch this movie

This seems like a scene that got cut from the Black Panther movie (the 1st movie)

Every parent should hear Sidney's speech in this scene!

Denzel said the same thing to his son in Fences. A father is obligated to his children.

In a nut: "Our ancestors were slaves and marginalized by white racist people,but today, our black parents became our "masters"." Bang!Right in the face of the hipocrites.

What a powerful acting.

As Chris Rock said, "'I take care of my kids! ' You're SUPPOSED to take care of your kids!"

His dad wants credit for something he was supposed to do. I guess Chris Rock had it right.

Wow❤

This speech is flawed. His father's generations is not "lousy" or some kind of unaccomplished burden on Poitier's back....his father belongs to America's "Greatest Generation" - they fought with distinction in the Great War, WWI, fought against Nazi's in WWII, persevered thru the global Great Depression, Korean War, and organized and fought against Jim Crow racial segregation and second class citizenship. It is BECAUSE OF HIS FATHER's GENERATION that Poitier can now have the option to marry a white female. His father's generation made that possible...so don't insult him with bullshit lines about his generation being "lousy deadweight." Its an unnecessary insult. Perfect example where a white Hollywood writer needed to run this speech past someone more versed in African-American history, such as one of the many PhD's in history or sociology from the African- American community - writer William Rose could have found several across the American landscape and at a number of historically black colleges and universities.

powerful scene

Today, if a white person told a black person that they don’t see color, the response would be “Then you don’t see me”

I love this scene, so valid even today.

No green screen or outrageous costumes, just incredible acting based on excellent dialogue. Is there anybody alive today under the age of thirty who can "act" like that? Me thinks not.

Beautifully written, beautifully acted by both Poitier and Roy Glenn.

I think some parents look at their kids as a possession, or something that they have dominion over. Yet the most loving thing that you can do for your child is, after you raise them and, hopefully, teach them what you can, let them go. Yes, it will break your heart, and you will still feel like you need to protect them, but you have to let them go. There are things you can’t teach them, that they have to learn on their own. You can’t protect them from everything. All you can do is love them.